Use FREE, locally donated seeds from the library to grow your own vegetables and flowers. Then, let some go to seed and return some of the next generation seeds for others to borrow. Everyone will be able to borrow seeds whenever the library is open, year-round, whether or not they have library cards. The Seed Library is located just outside the Imaginarium on the library's second floor.
What is the Mead Seed Library?
Mead Seed Library is a collection of open-pollinated and heirloom seeds that you can borrow to plant and grow at home. Our seed collection depends on donations. You'll see different seeds available at different times, so check in frequently to see what's available.
What seeds are in the library?
It changes all the time, as more seeds are donated, and as seeds are checked out. A mostly current list is here.
There are roughly enough seeds for 3-5 plants in each packet. Because not all seeds germinate, this equals about 10-15 seeds. If the seeds are small, there may be even more in the packet. All seeds are donated, and are "buyer beware." We accept all kinds of seeds.
What information is included on a seed packet?
The first line is common name, including type and variety.
The next line shows where the seed came from, for example the name of the commercial packer, or the local grower. Date harvested or originally packed is included when available.
The last line shows the date the seeds were repackaged for the Mead Seed Library.
The round sticker indicates the difficulty level of saving the seeds.
How are the seeds organized?
The small set of drawers contains flowers. They are arranged alphabetically by the common name and then variety.
The larger set of drawers contains vegetables. They are also arranged alphabetically by the common name and then by variety.
How do I check out the seeds?
Choose the seeds you would like to take home to grow. Fill out the form next to the catalog with your name, contact information, and the common name and variety of each seed packet you are taking home. Hand in the form at the second floor help desk. Please only take up to 6 packets of seeds.
Are there directions for growing the seeds?
Sometimes. Most of the vegetable and herb seeds have an information page in the binder next to the seed library. Feel free to make a photocopy of the page or copy down pertinent information. The same information can also be found here. Information can be found at the beginning of each section of flowers in the card catalog. Check out some of the resources below for further help.
Are there any fines if I don't save and return seeds?
How can I help the seed library grow?
Donate seeds. We prefer heirloom or open-pollinated varieties, but will take any seeds. Visit the help desk on second floor for more information.
Donate time. We need volunteers to do tasks such as sort and package seeds.
Donate expertise. If you're an expert gardener or seed saver, and you're interested in teaching a workshop or being a gardening mentor, email us.
Talk it up! Tell your friends, tell your enemies, tell your mothers, fathers, uncles, aunts, cousins, and general acquaintances.
Please print and complete the volunteer form found here and bring or mail it to the library.
You don't need to repackage your seeds for the library; you can bring them in a paper bag, for example, or in the original commercial seed packet. Seed should be dry and clean of chaff.
Bring them to the Help Desk on Second Floor.
Fill out an information slip, available at the help desk or online here. The contact information you provide is for internal library use, for tracking and in case we have questions about your seeds.
We will accept any seeds, however we prefer those that are open-pollinated or heirloom, because seeds from these plants will be viable in the next year. If you do not know if your seeds are open-pollinated, please note that on the information card.
Do I need to donate seeds in order to use the library?
Nope! This is not an exchange. If you don't have any seeds to share, you can still take seeds.
The seeds that make up our collection have come to us through donations of local and national seed companies. We'd especially like to acknowledge Seed Savers Exchange and Winter Sown. Many thanks to the other businesses and individuals who have contributed time and seeds to this endeavor. We will continue to accept donations of open-pollinated and heirloom seeds in any quantity, from anyone in the community who is willing to share.
We also want to acknowledge the seed library trailblazers that inspired us and helped us pave the way for the Mead Seed Library, most notably the Seven Hills Seed Library in Port Washington, Mountain View Public Library, and Richmond Grows.


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Islam's significance in Germany has largely increased after the labour migration in the 1960s and several waves of political refugees since the 1970s.

According to a representative survey, it is estimated that in 2019, there were 5.3–5.6 million Muslims with a migrant background in Germany (6.4–6.7% of the population), in addition to an unknown number of Muslims without a migrant background. A similar survey in 2016 estimated a number of 4.4–4.7 million Muslims with a migrant background (5.4–5.7% of the population) at that time. An older survey in 2009 estimated a total number of up to 4.3 Muslims in Germany at that time. There are also higher estimates: according to the German Islam Conference, Muslims represented 7% of the population in Germany in 2012.

In a 2014 academic publication it was estimated that some 100,000 Germans converted to Islam, numbers which are comparable to that in France and in the United Kingdom.

Demographics

Islam is the largest minority religion in the country, with the Protestant and Roman Catholic confessions being the majority religions.
Most Muslims in Germany have roots in Turkey, followed by Arab countries, former Yugoslavia (mostly of Kosovo-Albanian or Bosnian origin), Afghanistan and Iran. There are also a significant minority originated from Sub-Saharan Africa (mostly East Africa) and South Asia (mostly Pakistan). The large majority of Muslims live in former West Germany, including West Berlin. However, unlike in most other European countries, sizeable Muslim communities exist in some rural regions of Germany, especially Baden-Württemberg, Hesse and parts of Bavaria and North Rhine-Westphalia. Owing to the lack of labour immigration before 1989, there are only very few Muslims in the former East Germany. Among the German districts with the highest share of Muslim migrants are Groß-Gerau (district) and Offenbach (district) according to migrants data from the census 2011. The majority of Muslims in Germany are Sunnis, at 75%. There are Shia Muslims (7%) and mostly from Iran. The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community organization comprise a minority of Germany's Muslims, numbering some 35,000 members or a little over 1% of the Muslim population, and are found in 244 communities as of 2013.

From the mid-2000s to 2016 there has been a surge migrants to Germany from outside Europe. Of the 680,000 regular migrants, 270,000 were Muslim. Additionally, of the 1,210,000 asylum seekers, 900,000 were Muslim (around 74%). Of the asylum seekers, 580,000 applicants were approved and 320,000 were denied or expected to be denied. According to the Pew Research Center, similar patterns of Muslim migration to Germany should be expected in the future and the Muslim population share is expected to grow.

Prison population
According to the Huffington Post in February 2018 which quired each of the 15 state justice ministries, 12,300 Muslims are in prison and constitute about 20% of the total 65,000 prison population in Germany which constitutes an over-representation. The highest shares are in city states of Bremen (29%), Hamburg (28%) but the share is high also in large states such as Hessen (26%) Baden-Württemberg (26%). The share is lower in the former East Germany.

History

Early history
Muslims first moved to Germany as part of the diplomatic, military and economic relations between Germany and the Ottoman Empire in the eighteenth century.  Twenty Muslim soldiers served under Frederick William I of Prussia, at the beginning of the eighteenth century.  In 1745, Frederick II of Prussia established a unit of Muslims in the Prussian army called the "Muslim Riders" and consisting mainly of Bosniaks, Albanians and Tatars. In 1760 a Bosnian Muslim corps was established with about 1,000 men. In 1798 a Muslim cemetery was established in Berlin.  The cemetery, which moved in 1866, still exists today. A number of German philosophers expressed sympathy for Islam, including Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (who particularly admired the Sufi poetry of Hafez) and later Friedrich Nietzsche (in The Antichrist, he claimed that the Germanic spirit was closer to the Moors of Al-Andalus than that of Greece, Rome and Christianity).

The German Empire had over two million Muslim subjects, mostly Sunnis, in overseas colonies. The Majority lived in German East Africa. Several Muslim revolts against German colonial rule occurred, including the Adamawa Campaign, Maji Maji Rebellion and Abushiri revolt.

1920s to the 1940s

The Islamic Institut Ma'ahad-ul-Islam was founded in 1927 and is now known under the name "Zentralinstitut Islam-Archiv-Deutschland" (Central Islamic Archive Institute) and is the oldest such institution in Germany. Shortly after its founding the Nazi Party came to power the archive was forced to suspend all further work, until after the war.
During World War II Grand Mufti of Jerusalem Haj Amin al-Husseini energetically recruited Muslims from occupied territories into several divisions of the Waffen SS (primarily the 13th Waffen Mountain Division of the SS Handschar (1st Croatian) and 21st Waffen Mountain Division of the SS Skanderbeg) and some other units.

Post-war Germany
After the West German Government invited foreign workers ("Gastarbeiter") in 1961, the figure sharply rose to currently 4.3 million (most of them Turkish from the rural region of Anatolia in southeast Turkey). They are sometimes called a parallel society within ethnic Germans.

According to the German statistical office 9.1% of all newborns in Germany had Muslim parents in 2005.

In 2017, Muslims and Islamic institutions were targeted by attacks 950 times, where houses are painted with Nazi symbols, hijab-wearing women are harassed, threatening letters are sent and 33 people were injured. In nearly all cases, the perpetrators were right-wing extremists.

In May 2018 a court in Berlin upheld the right to the state's neutrality principle by barring a primary school teacher from wearing a headscarf during classes, where the court spokesman stated that children should be free of the influence that can be exerted by religious symbols.

According to a study in 2018 by Leipzig University, 56% of Germans sometimes thought the many Muslims made them feel like strangers in their own country, up from 43% in 2014. In 2018, 44% thought immigration by Muslims should be banned, up from 37% in 2014.

In December 2018, the government of Germany strengthened the control of Saudi, Kuwaiti and Qatari funding for radical mosque congregations. The measure was recommended by an anti-terrorist agency in Berlin (German: Terrorismus-Abwehrzentrum) which since 2015 had started to monitor Safalist proselytizing funding in the wake of the European migrant crisis to prevent refugees from becoming radicalized. Henceforth Gulf authorities are required to report payments and funding to the German Federal Foreign Office (German: Auswärtiges Amt).

In December 2018, there were no official statistics on how much funding mosques in Germany received from abroad.

In July 2020, federal state Baden-Württemberg banned face-covering veils for school pupils as an extension of the ban which was already in force for staff.

Denominations

Muslims in Germany belong to several different branches of Islam (approximate data):

Sunnis 2,640,000
Alevis 500,000
Twelvers Shi'as 225,500
Alawites 70,000
Ahmadiyya 35,000-45,000
Salafis 10,300
Sufis 10,000
Ismailis 1,900
Zaydis 800
Ibadis 270

Islamic organisations
Only a minority of the Muslims residing in Germany are members of religious associations.

Sunni
Diyanet İşleri Türk İslam Birliği (DİTİB): German branch of the Turkish Presidency for Religious Affairs, Cologne. As of 2016, the Turkish government funds and provides staff for 900 of Germany's roughly 3000 mosques run by DİTİB.
Islamische Gemeinschaft Milli Görüş: close to the Islamist Saadet Partisi in Turkey, Kerpen near Cologne
Islamische Gemeinschaft Jamaat un-Nur (de): German branch of the Risale-i Nur Society (Said Nursi)
Islamische Gemeinschaft in Deutschland organization of Arab Muslims close to the Muslim Brotherhood, Frankfurt

In addition there are numerous local associations without affiliation to any of these organisations. Two organisations have been banned in 2002 because their programme was judged as contrary to the constitution: The "Hizb ut-Tahrir" and the so-called "Caliphate State" founded by Cemalettin Kaplan and later led by his son Metin Kaplan.

Shia
Islamische Gemeinschaft der schiitischen Gemeinden Deutschlands (IGS): Head organization that unite all Shiite mosques and associations in Germany, with being the Islamic Centre Hamburg the most important Shia mosque in Germany.
Al-Mustafa Institut Berlin: A branch of the Al-Mustafa International University in Qum, Iran to Islamic theology to students in Germany and Europe.

Ahmadiyya
 Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat Deutschland K.d.ö.R.: German branch of the worldwide Ahmadiyya  Community. There is no ethnicity or race associated with this community although most of the members of the community residing in Germany are of Pakistani origin.  The Ahmadiyya  Community was established in Germany in 1923 in Berlin and is one of the largest in Europe.  Communities exist in Baden-Württemberg, Lower Saxony, North Rhine-Westphalia, Hesse and Bremen.
 Lahore Ahmadiyya Movement: German branch of the worldwide Lahore Ahmadiyya Movement.

Liberal Islam
 Ibn Ruschd-Goethe mosque in Berlin was founded by Seyran Ateş. The liberal mosque has been condemned by the Turkish religious authority and the Egyptian Fatwa Council at the Al-Azhar University.
Ibn Rushd Prize for Freedom of Thought

Wahhabism
 King Fahd Academy, sponsored by Saudi Arabia. The school was closed at the end of the 2016/2017 school year, after long-running criticism that it was attracting Islamists to Germany.
 According to the FFGI at Goethe University Frankfurt, wahhabist ideology is spread in Germany as in other European country mostly by an array of informal, personal and organisational networks, where organisations closely associated with the government of Saudi Arabia such as the Muslim World League (WML) and the World Association of Muslim Youth are actively participating.

Others
 Verband der islamischen Kulturzentren: German branch of the conservative Süleymancı sect in Turkey, Cologne
 Verband der Islamischen Gemeinden der Bosniaken: Bosnian Muslims, Kamp-Lintfort near Duisburg
 Zentralinstitut Islam-Archiv-Deutschland e.V. : Documentary of Islamic Foundation-writings since 1739. The Islamic Institute was founded in 1942 (Sooner called Ma'ahad-ul-Islam Institut).

Umbrella organisations
Furthermore, there are the following umbrella organisations:
 Central Council of Muslims in Germany (Zentralrat der Muslime in Deutschland)
 Islamic Council in Germany (Islamrat in Deutschland)

Education
 The A-Nur-Kita preschool was closed in February 2019 due to its parent organisation, the mosque association Arab Nil Rhein in Mainz propagated material from the Muslim Brotherhood and salafist ideology. Therefore, the parent association was incompatible with the constitution of Germany. This was the first time authorities closed any preschool in Rhineland-Palatinate (German: Rheinland-Pfalz). A-Nur-Kita was the first and only Muslim preschool in Rhineland-Palatinate.

Controversies
As elsewhere in Western Europe, the rapid growth of the Muslim community in Germany has led to social tensions and political controversy, partly connected to Islamic extremism, and more generally due to the perceived difficulties of multiculturalism and fears of Überfremdung.

Antisemitism

A 2012 poll showed that 18% of the Turks in Germany think of Jews as inferior human beings. A similar study found that most of Germany's native born Muslim youth and children of immigrants have antisemitic views.

A 2017 study on Jewish perspectives on antisemitism in Germany by Bielefeld University found that individuals and groups belonging to the extreme right and extreme left were equally represented as perpetrators of antisemitic harassment and assault, while the largest part of the attacks were committed by Muslim assailants. The study also found that 70% of the participants feared a rise in antisemitism due to immigration citing the antisemitic views of the refugees. Many of this started in 2015 when a large quantity of islamic refugees entered Germany.

According to the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution, the majority of Islamist organizations in Germany cultivate antisemitic propaganda and distribute it in various ways.

In the education system

One such issue concerns the wearing of the head-scarf by teachers in schools and universities. The right to practice one's religion, stated by the teachers in question, contradicts in the view of many the neutral stance of the state towards religion. As of 2006, many of the German federal states have introduced legislation banning head-scarves for teachers. However, such a ban in North-Rhein Westphalia was declared as unconstitutional in 2015 by the Federal Constitutional Court.

In the German federal states with the exception of Bremen, Berlin and Brandenburg, lessons of religious education overseen by the respective religious communities are taught as an elective subject in state schools. It is being discussed whether apart from the Catholic and Protestant (and in a few schools, Jewish) religious education that currently exists, a comparable subject of Islamic religious education should be introduced as a regular part of the curricula. In several states, trials for Islamic religious education are being conducted, while in the states of Hessen, Lower-Saxony and Northrhine-Westphalia, Islamic religious education already is integrated as a regular class. The problem that the cooperation with Islamic organisations is hampered by the fact that none of them can be considered as representative of the whole Muslim community.

The discussion of religious (Islamic) education in German schools started in the 1970s, and also symmetrically with issues of Qur'anic classes as well as its deterrent effects on the integration of Turkish students into the country.

Construction of mosques and other projects
The construction of mosques is occasionally resisted by anti Muslim reactions in the neighborhoods concerned. For example, in 2007 an attempt by Muslims to build a large mosque in Cologne sparked a controversy.

Similarly with the Sendlinger Mosque Controversy, and the proposed construction of a training academy in Munich, originally called the "Centre for Islam in Europe, Munich" (ZIE-M), and later the "Munich Forum for Islam".

There are now 18 official mosques in the country that have been established as mosques since time immemorial. Muslim places of worship (such as mosques and other places of worship) are estimated at between 1,000 and 1,200. Most of these mosques are temporarily built and are mostly located in rented places, factories or warehouses. According to the archives of the Central Institute of Islam, the most important mosques in Germany are located in cities such as Hamburg, Berlin, Mannheim, Marl, Dortmund, Cologne, Frankfurt, Wesling, Bonn, Zingen, Fortsheim, as well as mosques. The cities of Aachen and Munich are important mosques in Germany. These mosques are far from the city center and are often located in industrial areas.

Islamic Theological Studies
In 2010, the German Ministry of Education and Research established Islamic Theological Studies as an academic discipline at public universities in order to train teachers for Islamic religious education and Muslim theologians. Since then, Islamic theological departments have been established at several universities, conducting research and teaching on Islam from a theological perspective.

Islamic fundamentalism
Concerns of Islamic fundamentalism came to the fore after 11 September 2001, especially with respect to Islamic fundamentalism among second- and third-generation Muslims in Germany - the Hamburg cell, which included Mohamed Atta, was prominent in the planning and execution of 11 September attacks. Also the various confrontations between Islamic religious law (Sharia) and the norms of German Grundgesetz and culture are the subject of intense debate. German critics include both liberals and Christian groups. The former claim that Islamic fundamentalism violates basic fundamental rights whereas the latter maintain that Germany is a state and society grounded in the Christian tradition.

According to a 2007 Federal Ministry of the Interior report almost half of all young Muslims in Germany support fundamentalist views. About 12% of Muslims in Germany identified with moral-religious criticism against Western societal values in combination with corporal punishment up to and including the death penalty.

According to a 2012 poll, 72% of the Turks in Germany believe that Islam is the only true religion and 46% wish that one day more Muslims live in Germany than Christians. According to a 10-year survey by the University of Bielefeld, which dealt with different aspects of attitudes to Islam, "distrust" of Islam is widespread in Germany with only 19 percent of Germans believing that Islam is compatible with German culture.

According to 2013 study by Social Science Research Center Berlin, two thirds of the Muslims interviewed say that religious rules are more important to them than the laws of the country in which they live, almost 60 percent of the Muslim respondents reject homosexuals as friends; 45 percent think that Jews cannot be trusted; and an equally large group believes that the West is out to destroy Islam (Christian respondents' answers for comparison: As many as 9 percent are openly anti-Semitic; 13 percent do not want to have homosexuals as friends; and 23 percent think that Muslims aim to destroy Western culture).

According to a 2012 poll, 25% of the Turks in Germany believe atheists are inferior human beings.

Salafism

Salafism is a part of the Sunni branch of Islam which is a revival of original Islamic ideals. Salafists strive to live exclusively according to the Quran. According to German authorities, Salafism is incompatible with the principles codified in the Constitution of Germany, in particular democracy, the rule of law and a political order based on human rights. According to the German security service, the Salafist movement attracts rising numbers. In 2011 there were an estimated 3800 Salafists in Germany, which rose to 10300 in September 2017. According to head of security office Hans-Georg Maaßen, the Salafist scene in Germany is not dominated by any one single individual, but instead a great many persons have to be monitored.

According to German Federal Agency for Civic Education, the Salafist movement in Germany is centered in the Frankfurt Rhine-Main metropolitan area, North Rhine-Westphalia and Berlin. In these areas, mosques and charismatic imams are the driving factors behind recruitment to the Salafist movement.

In 2016, the interior ministry of North Rhine-Westphalia reported that the number of mosques with a Salafist influence had risen from 30 to 55, which indicated both an actual increase and improved reporting.

In February 2017, the German Salafist mosque organisation Berliner Fussilet-Moscheeverein was banned by authorities. Anis Amri, the perpetrator of the 2016 Berlin truck attack, was said to be among its visitors. In March 2017, the German Muslim community organisation Deutschsprachige Islamkreis Hildesheim was also banned after investigators found that its members were preparing to travel to the conflict zone in Syria to fight for the Islamic State. According to the Federal Agency for Civic Education, these examples show that Salafist mosques not only concern themselves with religious matters, but also prepare serious crimes and terrorist activities.

Islamist scene in Germany
Turkish and Kurdish Islamist groups are also active in Germany, and Turkish and Kurdish Islamists have co-operated in Germany as in the case of the Sauerland terror cell. Political scientist Guido Steinberg stated that many top leaders of Islamist organizations in Turkey fled to Germany in the 2000s, and that the Turkish (Kurdish) Hizbullah has also "left an imprint on Turkish Kurds in Germany." Also many Kurds from Iraq (there are about 50,000 to 80,000 Iraqi Kurds in Germany) financially supported Kurdish-Islamist groups like  Ansar al Islam.  Many Islamists in Germany are ethnic Kurds (Iraqi and Turkish Kurds) or Turks. Before 2006, the German Islamist scene was dominated by Iraqi Kurds and Palestinians, but since 2006 Kurds and Turks from Turkey are dominant.

In 2016, the German security service estimated that about 24 000 Muslims were part of Islamists movements in Germany, of which 10 000 belonged to the Salafist scene.

In 2016, 90 mosques were monitored by the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution for their islamist ideology. These were mostly Arabic-language "backyard mosques" where self-appointed imams exhorted their followers to wage jihad.

Since the start of 2017 until April 2018, 80 Islamist extremists without German citizenship were deported to their home countries.

In March 2018, there were 760 islamists in Germany classified as dangerous by police authorities, of which more than half were on German territory and 153 of the latter were in prison.

In recent years, Mosques in Germany have been receiving larger quantities of hate mail as well as threats.

Sharia police trial
A group of men were walking the streets of Wuppertal carrying vests labelled "Sharia Police". They wanted to talk to young Muslims and discourage them from visiting betting halls, brothels and stop them from drinking alcohol. They were charged with breaching the regulation against carrying political uniforms but were acquitted by the district court in Wuppertal. The prosecutor appealed the decision to the German Federal Court of Justice, which annulled the acquittal in January 2018. In the retrial, the men were convicted and sentenced to pay fines as their garments suggested militancy due to the violent nature of similarly named organisations in the Middle East.

Banning of IHH Germany
In July 2010, Germany outlawed the Internationale Humanitäre Hilfsorganisation e.V. (IHH Germany), saying it had used donations to support Hamas, which is considered by the European Union and Germany to be a terrorist organization, while presenting their activities to donors as humanitarian help. German Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere said, "Donations to so-called social welfare groups belonging to Hamas, such as the millions given by IHH, actually support the terror organization Hamas as a whole." IHH e.V. was believed by the German Authorities to have collected money in mosques and to have sent $8.3 million to organizations related to Hamas.

Religiosity of young Muslims
Studies show that while not all Muslims are religious, Muslim youths are markedly more religious than non-Muslim youths. A study comparing Turkish Muslim youths living in Germany and German youth found that the former were more likely to attend religious services regularly (35% versus 14%).

41% of young Turkish Muslim boys and 52% of the girls said they prayed "sometimes or regularly"; 64% of boys and 74% of girls said they wanted to teach their children religion.

Notable Germans immigrants

Categories
 List of Turkish Germans
 List of German people of Kurdish descent
 List of German people of Moroccan descent
 List of German people of Lebanese descent
 List of German people of Iranian descent
 List of German people of Palestinian descent

Rest

Vaneeza Ahmad, Pakistani-German model
Laith Al-Deen, German singer
Mehmed Ali Pasha (marshal) was a German-born Ottoman soldier
Nadiem Amiri, German professional footballer
Azet, German rapper
Kristiane Backer, German television presenter, television journalist and author
Danny Blum, German Soccer player
Bushido, German rapper
Denis Cuspert, German militant Islamist and former rapper
Mahmoud Dahoud, football player
Ibrahim El-Zayat, European Muslim activist in Germany and has been a functionary in many important Islamic organizations in Germany, Europe, and Saudi Arabia.
Cemile Giousouf, German politician and a member of the German parliament Bundestag
Fritz Grobba was a German diplomat during the interwar period and World War II
Karim Guédé, football player
Kollegah, German rapper
Murad Wilfried Hofmann, prominent German diplomat and author
Hadayatullah Hübsch German writer and journalist
Lamya Kaddor German writer and known for introducing Islamic education in German in public schools in Germany
Jawed Karim, German-American Internet entrepreneur
Elsa Kazi was a German writer of one-act plays, short stories, novels and history, and a poet
Hasnain Kazim, author and journalist, correspondent of the German news magazine Der Spiegel and Spiegel Online
Rani Khedira, football player
Sami Khedira, German Soccer player
Sead Kolašinac, Bosnian professional footballer
Mojib Latif, Professor, meteorologist and oceanographer
Johann von Leers was a member of the Waffen SS in Nazi Germany, where he was also a professor known for his anti-Jewish polemics
Jamal Malik, Professor of Islamic Studies and chair of Religious Studies, University of Erfurt, Germany
Shkodran Mustafi, German professional footballer
Nash, German rapper
Adam Neuser was a popular pastor and theologian
Morsal Obeidi, murder victim, of Afghan origin
Nura Habib Omer, German rapper
Susanne Osthoff, German archaeologist
Leroy Sané, German football player
Annemarie Schimmel
Adel Tawil, German singer
Bassam Tibi, political scientist and Professor of International Relations
Pierre Vogel (born 1978), also known as Abu Hamza (), German Salafi Islamist preacher and former professional boxer
 Linda Wenzel, German schoolgirl who went missing in 2016 after converting to Islam and joining Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant

See also

Islamic Centre Hamburg
Islamic dress in Europe
List of mosques in Germany
Religion in Germany
Turks in Germany
Demographics of Germany

Footnotes

References

Further reading

External links
 Ahmadiyya Muslim Community Deutschland
Links: Islam in Germany
Germany: European Muslim Union with its offices in Granada, Spain, Bonn, Istanbul and Sarajevo
A German Initiative to Bridge the Gap

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Northwest Jazz Festival Announces Lineup For 2017
Posted on April 3, 2017 by Tony Zambito
Northwest Jazz Festival introduces Friday and Saturday night headliners and 30 live performances over a two-day period
Buffalo (4/3/17): The 16th annual Northwest Jazz Festival in Lewiston, NY (formerly known as the Lewiston Jazz Festival), scheduled for August 25 and 26 of 2017, announced its jazz artist line-up at the Taste of Jazz Fundraiser on April 2nd. 30 live performances are scheduled for the 2-day festival across 5 stages throughout the heart of Lewiston, NY. Including headliners on Friday and Saturday nights and the introduction of a thematic approach to various stages.
The two headliners announced are the Dave Stryker Quintet with Eric Alexander on Friday night, August 25 and The Hot Sardines on Saturday night, August 26. Dave Stryker, the former sideman guitarist for Stanley Turrentine, was recently voted once again into the 2016 Downbeat Readers and Critics Polls. His latest CD "Eight Track II", in which Eight Track I and II take hits of the 1970's 8-Track era and arrange into organ-based jazz tunes, has spent 20 weeks on the JazzWeek radio chart and was voted a Top CD of 2016 (4 Stars) in Downbeat. Eric Alexander is also voted into the 2016 Downbeat Readers and Critics Poll and is considered one of the top tenor saxophonist in the jazz scene today. The quintet will also feature Hammond B3 jazz artist Jared Gold and Steve Nelson on vibraphone. Both in the top 5 in their categories of the 2016 Downbeat Readers and Critics Poll. Here are two clips featuring the Dave Stryker 8 Track project performing Marvin Gaye's Trouble Man and a tribute to Stanley Turrentine with Eric Alexander:
The Hot Sardines are an ensemble determined to make early 20th-century music in the style of Fats Waller and Louis Armstrong modern again. Highly praised throughout festivals such as the Newport Jazz Festival and the Montreal Jazz Festival, they bring an entertaining style to vintage jazz. Vocalist Elizabeth Bougeral is the frontwoman for the band and the ensemble features a total of 8 members. Here are the Hot Sardines performing one of their classic tunes:
Artist Line-Up
The Northwest Jazz Festival is pleased to present its 2017 line-up, which will include the introduction of new themes for two of its 5 stages and a diverse presentation of various jazz styles. The line-up by stage are:
The Main Stage
Opening the festival on the Main Stage will be the Buffalo Jazz Octet, led by the notable composer, arranger, and jazz pianist Michael McNeil. An ensemble called "…a veritable who's who list of killer regional jazz players…" by the Buffalo News, will perform at 5 pm on Friday, August 25. The Friday Headliner, Dave Stryker Quintet with Eric Alexander, will follow at 8:30 pm.
On Saturday, the Main Stage will feature 3 performances preceding the Saturday, Headliner, The Hot Sardines, who will perform at 8:30 pm. Performances will include:
The Ernie Krivda Quartet, which will feature the legendary Cleveland-based saxophonist, whose latest CD Requiem For A Jazz Lady, has been widely heralded. In 2009 Ernie Krivda received the Cleveland Arts Prize award for lifetime achievement in music. Krivda has appeared in the Detroit jazz Festival and the Chicago Jazz Festival multiple times. Krivda will appear with George Caldwell, Danny Ziemann, and John Bacon, Jr.
The afternoon will also feature the international jazz trio, the Philippe Lemm Trio. The trio has toured extensively in the Netherlands, Belgium, Italy, and in New York City, performing original compositions from their new CD, New Amsterdam. The trio will feature the rising stars pianist Angelo Di Loreto and bassist Jeff Koch. The prolific drummer Philippe Lemm has appeared at Carnegie Hall, Kennedy Center DC, Concert Gebouw, Bimhuis in Amsterdam, and the North Sea Jazz Festival.
Performing later in the afternoon will be the New York City-based composer, arranger, and trumpeter Wayne Tucker and his quartet, which will also feature Israeli jazz pianist Hila Kulik, who has performed with Donald Harrison and Bria Skonberg. The quartet will also feature notable New York City jazz artists Tamir Shmerling on bass and Jonathan Pinson on drums. The jazz trumpeter's most recent CD, When I Was A Child, has been widely acclaimed. Tucker has played with many of today's current Jazz stars including Kurt Elling, Dee Dee Bridgewater and Cyrille Aimee, and Pop stars like Taylor Swift and Elvis Costello.
Clips follow for Ernie Krivda, the Philippe Lemm Trio, and from Wayne Tucker's acclaimed When I Was A Child project:
The Rising Stars Stage
The Rising Stars Stage will feature a collection of youth and up and coming jazz attractions to include:
The locally popular band, The TRUTH will feature a youthful collective of jazz/funk/fusion music performers.
Coming from New York City will be the Young Lions of New York led by trumpeter John Hasselback, III and feature a quintet of rising stars in the New York City straight-ahead jazz scene
The Jacob Jay Quintet featuring trumpeter Jacob Jay and vocalist Shaun Doyle will perform a collection of original compositions and tunes from the Great American Songbook
The Buffalo Brass Machine, an 8-piece ensemble with roots to the University of Buffalo and performing regionally in Toronto, Rochester, Cleveland, Saratoga, and Detroit, will perform their unique brand of traditional New Orleans style street jazz
Pianist, vocalist, composer, arranger, and former Be Arthur band leader Mark Marinaccio, will lead an 8-piece ensemble performing contemporary original jazz
The BluJazz label artists, Walter Kemp 3oh!, will take the stage in the evening and perform music from their widely-acclaimed CD, Dark Continent. The CD is receiving airplay nationally and the group has performed in Toronto, New York City, and Philadelphia.
Here is a tune from the Walter Kemp 3oh! BluJazz Dark Continent project:
The DiCamillo Courtyard Stage – Women In Jazz
The courtyard stage will introduce a Women in Jazz theme this year and feature a collection of local female jazz vocalists with a range of styles to include the Great American Songbook, R&B, and Indie Jazz. The Women in Jazz line-up will present some of the area's finest female jazz vocalists to include:
Barbara Levy Daniels
Einat Agmon
Katy Miner
Sharon Bailey
Janice Mitchell
Here is Becky Davis with a beautiful rendition of It Was Just One Of Those Things:
The Frontier House Stage – Groove Station
The Frontier House porch, located in the middle of Center Street, will present a line-up of jazz in the "organ groove" style consisting of organ-based, guitar, and sax jazz made popular by the likes of Jack McDuff, Jimmy Smith, and Dr. Lonnie Smith. Scheduled to perform are:
Fronstreet Men Organ Trio, led by Dave Pinchoff, will perform music from their debut CD
The local jazz gospel artist and icon Brotha Perry Trio
Ron Davis Combo featuring 2 Buffalo Music Hall of Fame inductees Ron Davis and Doug Morgano
The Doug Gaston Quartet featuring the highly-admired jazz pianist Doug "Trigger" Gaston (performed with Frank Foster and Clifford Jordan) and saxophonist Bilal Abdullah
The popular organ trio and Rochester-based Paradigm Shift featuring Melvin Henderson (guitarist with Jack McDuff and Dr. Lonnie Smith) and organist Gerry Youngman
Devin Kelly Organ Trio featuring top jazz organist Dino Losito (Blue Note and Birdland performances) on organ and Eastman Professor Bob Schneider on guitar led by drummer Devin Kelly (performed with Clark Terry and at The Blue Note in NYC) as they perform music from their first CD and a new CD to be released this year.
Here is a clip from the Devin Kelly Organ Trio's First Things First CD project:
The Peace Garden Stage
The Peace Garden will feature unique jazz befitting the name of this stage. Performers will include:
The Frank Gerard/ Ray Chamberlain Quartet with Buffalo Music Hall of Fame inductee Ray Chamberlain and long-time "teacher" of Buffalo area guitarists, Frank Gerard
The Joe Brancato/Dave Schiavone Quartet performing music from their acclaimed CD, Hidden Treasure
trioPayazzo featuring unique horns and guitar arrangements with Andy Peruzzini, Bernard Kunz, and Harry Fackleman
The improvisational jazz group Why Not? led by pianist Kevin Doyle and featuring trumpeter Tim Clarke
The popular jazz noir trio, in the tradition of Les Paul and Mary Ford, Carina and the Six String Preacher featuring jazz vocalist Carina Mastrantonio
The area's premier gypsy jazz band – The Hot Club of Buffalo – who will perform music from their upcoming CD release in April.
Here are two clips featuring Carina and the Six String Preacher and a tune from the Joe Brancato/Dave Schiavone Quartet:
The festival kicks off on Friday, August 25th at 5 pm rain or shine. An exciting 2-day event as one of the area's best regional festival of its kind. For more information and to follow the festival developments, please visit the Northwest Jazz Festival website at www.lewistonjazz.com
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Singapore: Ofo and Mobike Price Increases Leave Users Shocked
Mobike and Ofo, two of the biggest bike sharing companies in Singapore, have raised prices in the country, shocking users who believed the prices would remain the same as when the services launched.
Ofo announced last Monday through its official Facebook page that it would be bringing fresh prices. Mobike's prices have also increased in the last few months and Channel NewsAsia contacted the company. Mobike's Singapore Manager Sharon Meng explained that the Mobike Pass was introduced in November 2017 as a discounted introductory price. She added that they received extremely positive feedback during the promotional period, adding that the promotion ended in early March.
The price changes have shocked users, who now have to pay a lot more to continue using the service. One user told Channel NewsAsia that instead of using Mobike for another six months, she would rather use the money to buy a used bicycle. She purchased a six month pass in November for S$5 ($3.80) but recently learned that it will cost her S$50 ($37.99) to buy the same pass now. She regularly uses the service but the price increase has her thinking of other transportation options when the pass runs out.
She is one of many users who have complained about the increase in prices from the bike sharing companies. Ofo told Channel NewsAsia through an emailed statement that with the new Ofo pass pricing, they will be able to continue maintaining and expanding their fleet size to meet the demand.
An Ofo user who spoke to the news site said that she paid S$1.50 ($1.14) for a two month pass. The new prices now have the same pass at S$15 ($11.40). Some complain that the services never notified them about the price changes and that they only found out when they opened the app.
Ofo and Mobike provide a different way of transportation but the price changes now have some thinking about walking when their passes run out. Some do say they are okay with the increase since they regularly use the service. Singapore also has one of the highest car prices in the world, leaving bike sharing apps as one of the most affordable transportation options.
Mobike launched in Singapore back in March 2017, joining other bike sharing companies such as oBike and Ofo. In July 2017, the company launched bicycles with new features in the country. Ofo launched its service in Singapore in February 2017, bringing about 1,000 bikes to a few cities.
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Why debates over culinary 'authenticity' may miss the point
The 'A' word
By Serena Maria Daniels on Wed, Dec 14, 2016 at 1:00 am
Photo by Chris Miele.
For many of us, the word "authentic" conjures up memories of Grandma's cooking. It's personal: from the type of sauerkraut she used to fill her pierogi, or season that sopa de pollo, or the lengths she took to make chili soybean paste. Whatever your family's roots, you've come to judge anything that falls outside of what you grew up with as inauthentic.
That right there sets us up for disappointment. After all, no one makes anything quite like Grandma.
But while you may never find that generations-old family recipe for lamb korma in any restaurant, we in southeast Michigan do enjoy a dining scene that pays respect to something more fundamental and attainable: tradition.
We've come a long way from the days of Americanized versions of Mexican or Greek.
Metro Detroit is home to countless variations of Middle Eastern cuisine, like the James Beard Foundation America's Classic winner Al Ameer. It also has a sizeable pocket of delicious pho shops in Madison Heights, an eclectic number of interesting Mexican restaurants in Southwest Detroit and Downriver, and to the west, toward Ann Arbor, an array of restaurants that specialize in Chinese, Korean, Indian, and other global cuisines.
This year, we've welcomed a number of inspired new eateries that have proven capable of following time-honored tradition, while making only minor tweaks to account for local ingredients and tastes.
There's the sensuality of northern Thai from Katoi, the nostalgia-inducing Chinese-American menu at the Peterboro, the careful study of Southeast Asian cooking at Flowers of Vietnam.
Among the up-and-coming dining destinations aspiring to offer just the right balance of authenticity and approachability is Ji Hye Kim, who was, as of press time, prepping to open Miss Kim, a Korean restaurant, in Ann Arbor's Kerrytown neighborhood.
The eatery is the evolution of the South Korean native's San Street Food cart and subsequent pop-up that featured a variety of Korean street food like pork buns and spring rolls. With buy-in from the Zingerman's family of companies, Kim wants to give diners more of a sit-down experience, reminiscent of the tastes of her home country.
Previously an insurance executive, Kim tells us she found herself yearning for something more visceral, more straightforward, and honest in her profession. Food, she reasoned, was just that.
"Food is simple, it's either good or it's bad," said Kim, who relocated from New Jersey to Michigan to get married. It was when she arrived that she began transitioning toward a career in restaurants.
Kim's cooking is inspired by her mother, who stood by her traditional methods of cooking, even long after the family had immigrated to urban New Jersey.
"I was blessed that way," Kim says. "She wouldn't let me cook, the reasoning being she was going to do it better, but she taught me how to eat, which would prove to be valuable because I knew the standard I was going for."
Kim honed her skills at the cheese counter at Zingerman's, studied cooking in Tuscany and Rome, and has traveled numerous times to Korea, Taiwan, New York, and Hong Kong.
What she learned through her travels were a number of similarities in cooking. There's the braising of beef and vegetables, the way that both Korean noodles and Italian pasta are rolled out and cut in a similar way.
"I started seeing all these connections, when food is made homemade with the simplest of techniques, it's all very similar," she says.
It's a story that resembles Katoi chef Brad Greenhill's start in cooking Thai food. Before partnering with the restaurant's co-owners, Courtney Henriette and Phil Kafka, he spent several years specializing in Italian cuisine. After learning about Thai cooking, he made that connection too.
Greenhill was also able to find a link between northern Thailand and Detroit dining. Both have an affinity for pork and deep-frying.
Combining ingredients unique to each locale also seemed an organic fit, such as in its crispy spare ribs, in which fish sauce, pickled papaya, and Thai basil (Thailand) are blended with caramel and apples (Michigan) – creating finger-licking ribs with an Asian twist.
For Peterboro chef Brion Wong, who grew up in New York to Chinese parents, his menu draws from the duality of his upbringing. There, you'll find a marriage of fine dining as with his scallop crudo, American influence in the cheeseburger spring rolls, and his mom's uniquely Chinese-New York comfort foods, such as his take on her roast pork.
As Korean-American Los Angeles restaurateur Roy Choi explains the concept of authenticity in a recent interview with Eater: "For me, it's just about representing more of a micro-authenticity of where you're from ... I grew up around a lot of different people, and I'm Korean, but I don't speak Korean and I'm Asian but when I look in the mirror I think I see a Latino dude. I don't know — I'm all mixed up."
It's a sentiment that chef George Azar, owner of Flowers of Vietnam, identifies with.
The Palestinian-American grew up in Southwest Detroit, where English and Spanish and Arabic all intermingle. He left his hometown for a spell to work for a number of restaurants across the country, where he developed a love for Vietnamese food.
It's that multicultural existence that has given Azar a perspective he applied when he decided to teach himself to cook Vietnamese cuisine.
The result is a flavorful menu that enlightens the senses all set inside Vernor Coney Island. His food balances sweet, crunchy, spicy, and bitter with dishes like the sườn ram mặn — caramelized rib tips, with broke rice, sesame, and scallion.
Of course, there remains a faction of foodies who insist that truly authentic cuisine can only be found in ethnic enclaves and is only prepared by chefs of that ethnic or racial background (as well as the common implication that it must be inexpensive as well).
Kim, the Korean restaurateur in Ann Arbor, is a friend of Azar's and hears about the criticism he sometimes gets because he's not Vietnamese. It's the same criticism she hears from fellow Koreans when they dismiss restaurants trying different approaches to Korean food.
"Having respect and taking the time and effort to dig deep is what's really important," she says.
As Detroit's dining scene continues to evolve, the rise of this kind of restaurant will continue to challenge and elevate our understanding of authenticity. n
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How Buildings Sound
Gillian Darley
Derek Sugden, the dean of acoustic engineers, who has died at the age of 91, remained perpetually surprised that architects could be so concerned with every aspect of the building they were designing 'but not really with what it sounded like'. According to Sugden, 'the sound is as important as the surface and the feel. It's important because our ears define for me the nature of space.'
That realisation first came to him as a boy, out on a family walk. As they entered a long brick tunnel, the children asked their father to whistle (he was an expert performer). Sugden noticed the way the sound was transformed once they were fully encased by the curving walls.
Sugden's first job at Arup was engineering elegant steel-framed factory buildings, but in 1966 he started work on the conversion of Snape Maltings to a world standard concert hall. When it burned down a couple of years after opening ('I had a cry,' Sugden said), Benjamin Britten wanted it built just as before, with the fullest possible volume, which Sugden had achieved by raising the outer shell walls by a metre.
Arup Acoustics was the specialist division of Ove Arup's empire which he asked Sugden to form and head in 1980. They were specialists in concert halls, necessarily the most demanding building type for an acoustician, but there are many others in which sound is all important to their use, both in terms of pleasure and practicality. Take libraries. The great atria favoured in the newest generation of city libraries may be bright and cheerful but they contribute to a cacophonous effect, a clattering void at the centre. So exceptions are all the more welcome, such as Canada Water library in the London Borough of Southwark, designed by CZWG. Design attention has been given to absorbent materials and irregular forms, even if their efficacy can be challenged by free ranging small children.
Most confident institutions, commercial or cultural, pride themselves on immense echoing entrance spaces, hard surfaced and highly polished, in which the tap of a pair of heels is enough to shatter glass. The Great Court at the British Museum, by Foster Associates, is a horror. Sitting on the stone benches in the 'outdoor' café, your physical discomfort is matched only by the auditory impression, an incoherent clatter and buzz from every side that makes conversation difficult.
The more recent transformation of the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam by Cruz y Ortiz takes its responsibilities to an immense visiting public seriously. Enormous frame-form baffles hang from the Gothic Revival roof of the original atrium, while several interior windows are blanked out with fabric 'shutters' to keep resonance at a minimum. Thousands of people come and go (the café is in a separate space beyond) and the experience remains convivial and pleasurable, sound levels no higher than a gentle hum. Yet nothing is made of this achievement in features on the renovated museum in the architectural press: Sugden was right, architects don't hear.
In a short film from 2011, Sugden talks of the essential qualities of giving time to sitting, thinking or reading, or, better still, sleeping in a chair – a daily ritual for him. It is the perfect coda to a working life that was devoted to ensuring comfortable sound levels, decent audibility and, where required, acoustic perfection for anybody who is listening.
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19 January 2016 at 11:40pm
Simon Wood says:
I went back to my hometown, Peterborough, last week, which has an ambition of being the greenest city in Britain. My brother told me of visiting new showhomes, flats, which costs only £100 a year to heat and were triple-glazed: you could hear nothing from outside, not a dicky bird.
peterstewart says:
Sugden was also an architectural patron - in the 1950s he and his wife commissioned a house designed by Alison and Peter Smithson. A inspiration for those architects today who promote the bricky 'new boring' architecture seen on recent housing schemes everywhere, the Sugdens' house was listed in 2015.
20 January 2016 at 3:55pm
Michael Carley says:
Sugden is a sad loss, but we still have Leo Beranek who in a very full life has found time to design a number of opera houses and concert halls:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_Beranek
JohnMcKean says:
Beranek is a most odd comparison with Sudgen. If you look at the Wikipedia reference given by Michael Carley you might think all he did was write about acoustics. No, he was employed on real halls, most notably - and most disastrously - at the Lincoln Center which basically had to be rebuilt it was so bad. (To be fair, Beranek did claw his way back, decades later, and is praised for his work at Tokyo Opera City.) There is nothing at all comparable in the career of the most wise and much missed Derek Sugden.
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NEW YORK (AP) ? Wall Street is pointing higher before the bell, with investors awaiting the latest data on jobs and home sales.
The Labor Department releases weekly unemployment claims at 8:30 a.m. Eastern time Thursday. While economists expect a modest uptick, applications in the previous report fell to the lowest level since April, and a modest increase likely won't dampen that trend.
Also, the National Association of Realtors reports on the number of contracts for new homes signed in November. October contracts were at the highest level in a year, albeit a terrible one. And a report Tuesday showed that prices for homes fell in most major cities.
Dow futures rose 0.24 percent to 12,110 and S&P 500 futures added 0.3 percent to 1,248.20. The Nasdaq composite rose 0.27 percent to 2,265.50.
Most European markets are higher, although investors are still uneasy about riskier assets. In France the CAC-40 rose 0.3 percent to 3,082, while Germany's DAX was 0.4 percent higher at 5,795. The FTSE 100 index of leading U.K. shares rose 0.2 percent to 5,516.
The euro slid to $1.2880, not far from $1.2860, its lowest level of the year. The euro, however, did hit a 10-year low against the yen.
Borrowing rates fell for a second day in Italy, although the country's premier warned that much more had to be done to convince financial markets that Italy could bring down its huge debt load.
Banks are still parking large amounts of cash overnight at the European Central Bank, suggesting they are afraid to lend to each other despite low interest rates.
Asian stock markets finished mixed in light trading. Japan's Nikkei 225 index fell 0.3 percent to close at 8,398.89. Hong Kong's Hang Seng Index closed 0.7 percent lower at 18,397.92. Australia's S&P ASX 200 fell 0.4 percent to end 4,071.10. Benchmarks in India and Singapore were also lower.
Other Asian markets posted small gains. South Korea's Kospi reversed earlier losses and closed 0.3 percent higher at 1,825.74. China's benchmark Shanghai Composite Index gained 0.2 percent to end at 2,173.56, while the smaller Shenzhen Composite Index added 0.1 percent to finish at 890.45.
Benchmark crude rose 34 cents to $99.70 in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange.


Tara Fredriksson was born in London in 1952. She grew up by-lingual with English and German and visited schools in London, Hamburg and Austria.
In 1971 she studied to become a pediatric nurse in Hamburg Germany, and in 1977 her first son was born. Three more boys followed and during these years she changed her attitude towards life in many ways. Her children all went to Steiner school and she was a very active parent in the school for 15 years.Tara became very interested in holistic medicine and an ecological way of life. Healthy food preparation has always been of great value to her.
In 1990 she decided to go on an intense spiritual journey and became involved in energy healing work and personal growth seminars. This led her to travel many countries, meeting amazing people who were on the same path of awareness.
In 1998 she returned to a more normal way of living and begun taking care of children and adults with special needs by supporting these people in a workshop situation to enhance their creative potential.
In 2003 she met up with Dr.Robert O. Young (www.pHmiracleliving.com) from the US who shared his teachings about an alkalarian lifestyle with her. This new and very basic knowledge had a great impact on her life. She learnt about the delicate pH balance in our bodies and how to maintain it through food and drink and what we think!
This opened up a whole new approach to health and well being. Dr. Young visited Germany twice and Tara had the pleasure of travelling with him and translating his lectures into German. When he left for home he entrusted Tara to continue his work in Germany. So she held lectures on healthy food and gave cooking classes.
In 2008 Tara decided to go on another adventure, leaving Germany once more to go to the Spanish island of Ibiza to live in the Greenheart ecological centre and offer her skills.
Since then she is living and working in "Casita Verde" as a holistic cook and is the vice president of the Association Ibiza Ecologic.
Just recently Tara had the wonderful opportunity to take part in a Transition Town training course in London which has paved the way for the Ibiza Transition Island project to be launched.
Her main interest has always been to raise awareness in herself and others, living with an open heart and encouraging her fellow beings to feel. This is because she believes that this is the most important part of transitioning into a new state of being on this beautiful planet.
fellow humans and Mother nature in all her diversity."


From 2006-2013, The Cooler Bandits followed the journey of four friends in four stages of incarceration who were struggling to confront their future after two decades in prison. The film screens at the 2014 Lone Star Film Festival in Sundance Square on Saturday, November 8.
In advance of that, Lone Star Film Festival organizers spoke with director John Lucas about the genesis of the documentary, the length of production and some of the deeper themes in the film.
Lone Star Film Festival: Who are the "Cooler Bandits"?
John Lucas: Charlie Kelly, Richard "Poochie" Roderick, Donovan Harris and Frankie Porter, who as teens in 1991 committed a series of restaurant robberies in Akron, Ohio. They are men who made mistakes as teens, felt the long arm and heavy hand of the law, served collectively to date three-fourths of a century incarcerated, paid the price for their mistakes, and simply want a chance to reenter society and live productive lives.
LSFF: How did you get involved with this story?
JL: In 1985, through a mentoring program, I became the "big brother" to Richard's cousin Charles. I met Donovan and Charlie as well, as they were all friends of Richard's.
LSFF: You were able to capture very personal moments between your subjects. Did it take a long time for you to develop a relationship with your subjects, or were they open to you and your cameras from the start?
JL: Since I knew Charlie, Donovan and Richard long before 1991 and have been involved in their lives ever since, we had a connection, a history and a friendship that enabled us to be comfortable and familiar around each other. Frankie I met in 2007 when I began filming.
LSFF: This story covers such a large time span. Can you talk about the complete production process and the challenges in seeing it through?
JL: We were in production filming from 2006-2013. Honestly it didn't seem like seven years. We worked on a very lean budget for the first three to four years. I think that was a good thing. Since we had little funding, I would concentrate on making sure I was there for pivotal moments in the men's lives — parole hearings, funerals (unfortunately), reunions, etc.
I think if I had a budget in place prior to production, I would have shot more early on and would have run out of money when I really needed it toward the end of production when much more was happening, visually and emotionally. I would have been tempted to use funds earmarked for post-production.
In 2011, we received a documentary film grant from the MacArthur Foundation. This took us through the end of production and through most of post. We scrambled for finishing funds (music rights, a composer and our online edit). Since the production through post took eight years, some folks came and went, so it was critical that I kept my vision throughout. I never gave too much control over the production to anyone else.
It was difficult at times to keep going. All along the way I would be advised to end production and start post, but I wanted that arc in the men's lives to come across in the film. The sense of time, a sort of waiting as the men incarcerated were waiting. So it's slow and quiet through the first half and then a lot happens in a rather short period of time.
As far as the production itself, it's a deeply personal film, and it was difficult to know if I was doing the right thing by filming some very personal moments, tragic moments. I decided to shoot first and ask the questions in post.
LSFF: Deeper than a criminal justice film, The Cooler Bandits is heavily about friendship. Is this theme something you expected from the beginning, or did it develop with production?
JL: It developed early on in my choices during production. I always felt I was making a film about friends. We had a friendship, but there was this intensely deep bond that the men had forged through the fires of decades of incarceration. Three of the men served the bulk of their time in the same institution.
For decades, I watched them grow up in prison and evolve into the men they are today. At the same time I felt society hadn't evolved as much as the men have. The dominant narrative was/is still that black males are either criminals or predestined to become one.
They are looked at as a collective. America has always feared the black male body, has been at war with it. As the bodies continued to fall — Trayvon Martin, James Byrd, Amadou Diallo, Sean Bell — I felt I was in the position to make a film that didn't fit this narrative.
Folks love the story of the guy who did 20 years for a crime he didn't commit. That's an easy one to wrap your head around and get behind. But our prisons are not predominantly filled with innocent people. So why not make a film about what America fears most: young black males who stuck guns in people's faces and robbed them? And let these same men make the argument for themselves by the lives they have led. They deserve to be judged as individuals, not a collective predestined for incarceration.
I grew up understanding that "you did the crime, you did the time," and that you are not the sum total of your worst choices. That being said and as you noted, it isn't really a social justice or criminal justice film. It's a film about friendship. All the other stuff is there but just not front and center. I hope the film peels back the layers of statistics and brings forth the complex humanities that we all can connect to.
LSFF: How did the subjects react to the film once it was finished?
JL: Well, we are still friends. As for anyone who watched a film about his or her life, it was a bit surreal. It's a difficult film for Frankie's family to watch since they are still looking at decades before his first parole hearing. There are tragic moments in the film that I think for someone personally connected to the moment they never truly get used to watching.


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By Curtis Houck | June 29, 2017 10:25 PM EDT
Go ahead and criticize President Trump's Mika tweet, but there's no denying this was disturbing. On Thursday's Hardball, MSNBC pundit Chris Matthews compared the President to not only communist Ethiopian dictator Mengistu Haile Mariam and a modern-day Romanov but also channel Benito Mussolini having son-in-law Jared Kushner murdered.
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Showing that he's somewhat incapable of shame, MSNBC's Hardball host Chris Matthews re-upped and defended on Tuesday night his comparisons of the Trump family to the ultimately-slaughtered Romanovs and Saddam Hussein's murderous sons Uday and Qusay.
MSNBC's Chris Matthews Compares Ivanka & Husband to Saddam Hussein's Vicious Sons
By Melissa Mullins | March 31, 2017 11:46 AM EDT
MSNBC's Chris Matthews was at it again on Monday with his wacky comments, this time comparing President Donald Trump's daughter Ivanka and son-in-law Jared Kushner to Uday and Qusay Hussein —the murderous adult children working for their ruthless father and Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein.
Maxim Editor Compares 'Crazy' Bachmann to Hitler, Hussein, Bin Laden
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Michele Bachmann has been all over the news lately because this week's Newsweek magazine cover features a sexist and unflattering photograph of the presidential candidate, sparking outrage and questions about bias against conservative women. But on last night's broadcast of The Joy Behar show on HLN, her guests took the attacks on Bachmann to a whole new level.
After a three-minute segment about the Newsweek controversy, in which all three guests mocked the Tea Party favorite and three term House member, Behar then focused the discussion on rapper Kanye West's recent comments comparing himself to Hitler.


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Wyomia Tyus (ur. 29 sierpnia 1945 w Griffin) – amerykańska lekkoatletka (sprinterka).

Dwukrotna mistrzyni olimpijska w biegu na 100 m (Tokio 1964, Meksyk 1968), złota (1968) i srebrna (1964) medalistka olimpijska w sztafecie 4 x 100 m. 9-krotna rekordzistka świata: 4 razy na 100 m (do 11.08 w 1968), 3 razy na 4 x 100 m (do 42.8 w 1968) i 2 razy na dystansach jardowych. Złota medalistka igrzysk panamerykańskich z Winnipeg.

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Amerykańscy sprinterzy
Amerykańscy medaliści olimpijscy
Medaliści Letnich Igrzysk Olimpijskich 1964
Medaliści Letnich Igrzysk Olimpijskich 1968
Medaliści Igrzysk Panamerykańskich 1967
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Electro-optics leaders confer at Draper Lab
The academic, industry, and government experts gathered at the Charles Stark Draper Laboratory (Cambridge, MA) on April 23-24 for the Symposium on Electro-Optics: Present and Future were more accustomed to presiding over sessions than presenting at them. Nevertheless, at the request of Vincent Vitto, president and CEO of Draper Lab, and Hermann Haus, Institute Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT; Cambridge, MA), they were making presentations to and conversing with collea
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The academic, industry, and government experts gathered at the Charles Stark Draper Laboratory (Cambridge, MA) on April 23-24 for the Symposium on Electro-Optics: Present and Future were more accustomed to presiding over sessions than presenting at them. Nevertheless, at the request of Vincent Vitto, president and CEO of Draper Lab, and Hermann Haus, Institute Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT; Cambridge, MA), they were making presentations to and conversing with colleagues outside of their special fields. To encourage an informal exchange of ideas, attendance at the by-invitation-only meeting was limited to less than one hundred.
The symposium was billed as a chance to explore possible interactions among research areas in optics, electro-optics, micro-optics, and sensors. Haus, credited by Vitto as being the "brains and brawn behind the symposium," led off by reflecting on the origins of optoelectronic technology in microwave research, observing that the laser changed everything, bringing about the eventual dominance of optical fiber for communications.
Rod Alferness, chief technical officer for the optical networking group at Lucent Technologies (Holmdel, NJ), gave the communications theme more commercial impact by addressing the complications to come for wavelength-division multiplexing (WDM) component manufacturers. As one of the largest such manufacturers, Lucent is well acquainted with the challenges, especially the pressure for advances in modulators, attenuators, add/drop multiplexers, optical cross-connects, and multifrequency lasers.
Alferness identified the key short-term issue as the need to build these technologies for the largest number of wavelengths, adding that the current move toward 100 channels and 50-GHz spacing is just the beginning. Lowering the cost of these components is crucial to installing new systems. In the long term, semiconductor optical amplifiers, wavelength converters, switches, and ultra wideband optical amplifiers are among key components.
Erich Ippen from MIT expanded on some of the next-generation fiber devices for ultrahigh-speed optoelectronics, including research on a soliton fiber laser, optical memories, and a stretched-pulse laser. He described a high-power stretched-pulse laser built at MIT that could be a femtosecond source using only one modulator. It has been tested by Lucent as a broadband source to demonstrate 206 channels.
Materials are the future
Material research will provide the fundamental building blocks for future advances, and MIT`s John Joannopoulos enthusiastically described his team`s work on photonic bandgap crystals, which are analogous to electronic bandgap materials used to control the properties of electrons in semiconductor devices. In this material, photons cannot exist in some areas, and these gaps acts as a localization mechanism. Joannopoulos showed results of work on devices such as a channel add/drop microfilter with resonator cavity and a waveguide microcavity (see figure on p. 29).
His vision of recent materials history is noteworthy: the 1940s saw an understanding of natural materials leading to development of the transistor, the 1980s saw the mastery of artificial materials with electronic properties leading to development of the semiconductor laser, and the 1990s is witnessing the development of artificially engineered materials with photonic properties, opening up new realms such as development of a laser.
Technology leaders at the symposium also included Mara Prentiss from Harvard University (Cambridge, MA) discussing ultrahigh-resolution techniques for lithography and imaging, Ming Wu from the University of California, Los Angeles, discussing microptics; Larry Coldren from the University of California, Santa Barbara, discussing advances in vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers; and Kristina Johnson from the University of Colorado (Boulder, CO) describing microdisplays and optical-processing systems that take advantage of liquid crystals on silicon smart-pixel devices.
Reflecting on the symposium, Draper`s Vitto says, "Since I came here from Lincoln Laboratory (Lexington, MA) nine months ago, I`ve been talking to people such as Hermann Haus about new directions. We had this conference for three reasons. We want to know what is going on in electro-optics. We want to expose people to Draper and its technologies. And we want to establish in people`s mind that Draper is interested in this technology."
Draper Laboratory has a storied past based on precision instruments and control systems for manned space flight, deep-sea technology, and strategic missile guidance. Like many laboratories with close ties to the government, Vitto says, Draper must change direction with the end of the Cold War and new priorities at NASA. Technologies such as micro-optical electromechanical devices could logically extend Draper`s capabilities in precision instrumentation. Vitto concludes, "We have a fundamental perception of optics as the future."
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Theory predicts 100% transmission of light traveling around a shar¥bend through a waveguide carved out of a photonic crystal consisting of a square lattice of dielectric rods in air (top). Photonic crystal made of alumina rods of 0.2 mm diameter spaced about 1 mm apart in a square lattice pattern--designed to operate in the microwave regime--demonstrates 100% transmission of light (bottom). Transmission measurements around the shar¥bend are from Shawn Lin of Sandia National Laboratories.
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