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New Inscribed Properties
Cultural properties
Ancient Thebes with its Necropolis
Criteria: (i)(iii)(vi)
Thebes, the city of the god Amon, was the capital of Egypt during the period of the Middle and New Kingdoms. With the temples and palaces at Karnak and Luxor, and the necropolises of the Valley of the Kings and the Valley of the Queens, Thebes is a striking testimony to Egyptian civilization at its height.
Antigua Guatemala
Criteria: (ii)(iii)(iv)
Antigua, the capital of the Captaincy-General of Guatemala, was founded in the early 16th century. Built 1,500 m above sea-level, in an earthquake-prone region, it was largely destroyed by an earthquake in 1773 but its principal monuments are still preserved as ruins. In the space of under three centuries the city, which was built on a grid pattern inspired by the Italian Renaissance, acquired a number of superb monuments.
Archaeological Site of Carthage
Criteria: (ii)(iii)(vi)
Carthage was founded in the 9th century B.C. on the Gulf of Tunis. From the 6th century onwards, it developed into a great trading empire covering much of the Mediterranean and was home to a brilliant civilization. In the course of the long Punic wars, Carthage occupied territories belonging to Rome, which finally destroyed its rival in 146 B.C. A second – Roman – Carthage was then established on the ruins of the first.
Auschwitz Birkenau
German Nazi Concentration and Extermination Camp (1940-1945)
Criteria: (vi)
The fortified walls, barbed wire, platforms, barracks, gallows, gas chambers and cremation ovens show the conditions within which the Nazi genocide took place in the former concentration and extermination camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau, the largest in the Third Reich. According to historical investigations, 1.5 million people, among them a great number of Jews, were systematically starved, tortured and murdered in this camp, the symbol of humanity's cruelty to its fellow human beings in the 20th century.
Boyana Church
Criteria: (ii)(iii)
Located on the outskirts of Sofia, Boyana Church consists of three buildings. The eastern church was built in the 10th century, then enlarged at the beginning of the 13th century by Sebastocrator Kaloyan, who ordered a second two storey building to be erected next to it. The frescoes in this second church, painted in 1259, make it one of the most important collections of medieval paintings. The ensemble is completed by a third church, built at the beginning of the 19th century. This site is one of the most complete and perfectly preserved monuments of east European medieval art.
Criteria: (iii)
Bryggen, the old wharf of Bergen, is a reminder of the town's importance as part of the Hanseatic League's trading empire from the 14th to the mid-16th century. Many fires, the last in 1955, have ravaged the characteristic wooden houses of Bryggen. Its rebuilding has traditionally followed old patterns and methods, thus leaving its main structure preserved, which is a relic of an ancient wooden urban structure once common in Northern Europe. Today, some 62 buildings remain of this former townscape.
Fasil Ghebbi, Gondar Region
Criteria: (ii)(iii)
In the 16th and 17th centuries, the fortress-city of Fasil Ghebbi was the residence of the Ethiopian emperor Fasilides and his successors. Surrounded by a 900-m-long wall, the city contains palaces, churches, monasteries and unique public and private buildings marked by Hindu and Arab influences, subsequently transformed by the Baroque style brought to Gondar by the Jesuit missionaries.
Forts and Castles, Volta, Greater Accra, Central and Western Regions
Criteria: (vi)
The remains of fortified trading-posts, erected between 1482 and 1786, can still be seen along the coast of Ghana between Keta and Beyin. They were links in the trade routes established by the Portuguese in many areas of the world during their era of great maritime exploration.
Historic Cairo
Criteria: (i)(v)(vi)
Tucked away amid the modern urban area of Cairo lies one of the world's oldest Islamic cities, with its famous mosques, madrasas, hammams and fountains. Founded in the 10th century, it became the new centre of the Islamic world, reaching its golden age in the 14th century.
Historical Complex of Split with the Palace of Diocletian
Criteria: (ii)(iii)(iv)
The ruins of Diocletian's Palace, built between the late 3rd and the early 4th centuries A.D., can be found throughout the city. The cathedral was built in the Middle Ages, reusing materials from the ancient mausoleum. Twelfth- and 13th-century Romanesque churches, medieval fortifications, 15th-century Gothic palaces and other palaces in Renaissance and Baroque style make up the rest of the protected area.
Independence Hall
United States of America
Criteria: (vi)
The Declaration of Independence (1776) and the Constitution of the United States (1787) were both signed in this building in Philadelphia. The universal principles of freedom and democracy set forth in these documents are of fundamental importance to American history and have also had a profound impact on law-makers around the world.
Madara Rider
Criteria: (i)(iii)
The Madara Rider, representing the figure of a knight triumphing over a lion, is carved into a 100-m-high cliff near the village of Madara in north-east Bulgaria. Madara was the principal sacred place of the First Bulgarian Empire before Bulgaria's conversion to Christianity in the 9th century. The inscriptions beside the sculpture tell of events that occurred between AD 705 and 801.
Meidan Emam, Esfahan
Iran (Islamic Republic of)
Criteria: (i)(v)(vi)
Built by Shah Abbas I the Great at the beginning of the 17th century, and bordered on all sides by monumental buildings linked by a series of two-storeyed arcades, the site is known for the Royal Mosque, the Mosque of Sheykh Lotfollah, the magnificent Portico of Qaysariyyeh and the 15th-century Timurid palace. They are an impressive testimony to the level of social and cultural life in Persia during the Safavid era.
Memphis and its Necropolis – the Pyramid Fields from Giza to Dahshur
Criteria: (i)(iii)(vi)
The capital of the Old Kingdom of Egypt has some extraordinary funerary monuments, including rock tombs, ornate mastabas, temples and pyramids. In ancient times, the site was considered one of the Seven Wonders of the World.
Nubian Monuments from Abu Simbel to Philae
Criteria: (i)(iii)(vi)
This outstanding archaeological area contains such magnificent monuments as the Temples of Ramses II at Abu Simbel and the Sanctuary of Isis at Philae, which were saved from the rising waters of the Nile thanks to the International Campaign launched by UNESCO, in 1960 to 1980.
Iran (Islamic Republic of)
Criteria: (i)(iii)(vi)
Founded by Darius I in 518 B.C., Persepolis was the capital of the Achaemenid Empire. It was built on an immense half-artificial, half-natural terrace, where the king of kings created an impressive palace complex inspired by Mesopotamian models. The importance and quality of the monumental ruins make it a unique archaeological site.
Prehistoric Sites and Decorated Caves of the Vézère Valley
Criteria: (i)(iii)
The Vézère valley contains 147 prehistoric sites dating from the Palaeolithic and 25 decorated caves. It is particularly interesting from an ethnological and anthropological, as well as an aesthetic point of view because of its cave paintings, especially those of the Lascaux Cave, whose discovery in 1940 was of great importance for the history of prehistoric art. The hunting scenes show some 100 animal figures, which are remarkable for their detail, rich colours and lifelike quality.
Rock Drawings in Valcamonica
Criteria: (iii)(vi)
Valcamonica, situated in the Lombardy plain, has one of the world's greatest collections of prehistoric petroglyphs – more than 140,000 symbols and figures carved in the rock over a period of 8,000 years and depicting themes connected with agriculture, navigation, war and magic.
Rock-Hewn Churches of Ivanovo
Criteria: (ii)(iii)
In the valley of the Roussenski Lom River, in north east Bulgaria, a complex of rock-hewn churches, chapels, monasteries and cells developed in the vicinity of the village of Ivanovo. This is where the first hermits had dug out their cells and churches during the 12th century. The 14th-century murals testify to the exceptional skill of the artists belonging to the Tarnovo School of painting.
Stari Ras and Sopoćani
Criteria: (i)(iii)
On the outskirts of Stari Ras, the first capital of Serbia, there is an impressive group of medieval monuments consisting of fortresses, churches and monasteries. The monastery at Sopoćani is a reminder of the contacts between Western civilization and the Byzantine world.
Tchogha Zanbil
Iran (Islamic Republic of)
Criteria: (iii)(iv)
The ruins of the holy city of the Kingdom of Elam, surrounded by three huge concentric walls, are found at Tchogha Zanbil. Founded c. 1250 B.C., the city remained unfinished after it was invaded by Ashurbanipal, as shown by the thousands of unused bricks left at the site.
Thracian Tomb of Kazanlak
Criteria: (i)(iii)(iv)
Discovered in 1944, this tomb dates from the Hellenistic period, around the end of the 4th century BC. It is located near Seutopolis, the capital city of the Thracian king Seutes III, and is part of a large Thracian necropolis. The tholos has a narrow corridor and a round burial chamber, both decorated with murals representing Thracian burial rituals and culture. These paintings are Bulgaria's best-preserved artistic masterpieces from the Hellenistic period.
Urnes Stave Church
Criteria: (i)(ii)(iii)
The wooden church of Urnes (the stavkirke) stands in the natural setting of Sogn og Fjordane. It was built in the 12th and 13th centuries and is an outstanding example of traditional Scandinavian wooden architecture. It brings together traces of Celtic art, Viking traditions and Romanesque spatial structures.
New Inscribed Properties
Natural properties
Dinosaur Provincial Park
Criteria: (vii)(viii)
In addition to its particularly beautiful scenery, Dinosaur Provincial Park – located at the heart of the province of Alberta's badlands – contains some of the most important fossil discoveries ever made from the 'Age of Reptiles', in particular about 35 species of dinosaur, dating back some 75 million years.
Everglades National Park
United States of America
Criteria: (viii)(ix)(x)
This site at the southern tip of Florida has been called 'a river of grass flowing imperceptibly from the hinterland into the sea'. The exceptional variety of its water habitats has made it a sanctuary for a large number of birds and reptiles, as well as for threatened species such as the manatee.
Grand Canyon National Park
United States of America
Criteria: (vii)(viii)(ix)(x)
Carved out by the Colorado River, the Grand Canyon (nearly 1,500 m deep) is the most spectacular gorge in the world. Located in the state of Arizona, it cuts across the Grand Canyon National Park. Its horizontal strata retrace the geological history of the past 2 billion years. There are also prehistoric traces of human adaptation to a particularly harsh environment.
Sagarmatha National Park
Criteria: (vii)
Sagarmatha is an exceptional area with dramatic mountains, glaciers and deep valleys, dominated by Mount Everest, the highest peak in the world (8,848 m). Several rare species, such as the snow leopard and the lesser panda, are found in the park. The presence of the Sherpas, with their unique culture, adds further interest to this site.
Virunga National Park
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Criteria: (vii)(viii)(x)
Virunga National Park (covering an area of 790,000 ha) comprises an outstanding diversity of habitats, ranging from swamps and steppes to the snowfields of Rwenzori at an altitude of over 5,000 m, and from lava plains to the savannahs on the slopes of volcanoes. Mountain gorillas are found in the park, some 20,000 hippopotamuses live in the rivers and birds from Siberia spend the winter there.
New Inscribed Properties
Mixed property
Tikal National Park
Criteria: (i)(iii)(iv)(ix)(x)
In the heart of the jungle, surrounded by lush vegetation, lies one of the major sites of Mayan civilization, inhabited from the 6th century B.C. to the 10th century A.D. The ceremonial centre contains superb temples and palaces, and public squares accessed by means of ramps. Remains of dwellings are scattered throughout the surrounding countryside.
Significant modifications to the boundaries
Natural properties
Białowieża Forest
, Poland
Criteria: (ix)(x)
The Białowieża Forest World Heritage site, on the border between Poland and Belarus, is an immense range of primary forest including both conifers and broadleaved trees covering a total area of 141,885 hectares. Situated on the watershed of the Baltic Sea and Black Sea, this transboundary property is exceptional for the opportunities it offers for biodiversity conservation. It is home to the largest population of the property's iconic species, the European bison.
Kluane / Wrangell-St. Elias / Glacier Bay / Tatshenshini-Alsek
, United States of America
Criteria: (vii)(viii)(ix)(x)
These parks comprise an impressive complex of glaciers and high peaks on both sides of the border between Canada (Yukon Territory and British Columbia) and the United States (Alaska). The spectacular natural landscapes are home to many grizzly bears, caribou and Dall's sheep. The site contains the largest non-polar icefield in the world.
Plitvice Lakes National Park
Criteria: (vii)(viii)(ix)
The waters flowing over the limestone and chalk have, over thousands of years, deposited travertine barriers, creating natural dams which in turn have created a series of beautiful lakes, caves and waterfalls. These geological processes continue today. The forests in the park are home to bears, wolves and many rare bird species.
Significant modifications to the boundaries
Mixed property
Natural and Cultural Heritage of the Ohrid region
, North Macedonia
Criteria: (i)(iii)(iv)(vii)
A superlative natural phenomenon, Lake Ohrid provides a refuge for numerous endemic species of freshwater fauna and flora dating from the Tertiary period. Situated on the shores of the lake, the town of Ohrid is one of the oldest human settlements in Europe. Built mainly between the 7th and 19th centuries, it has the oldest Slav monastery (St Pantelejmon) and more than 800 Byzantine-style icons dating from the 11th to the end of the 14th century. In the shallow waters near the shores of the lake, three sites testify to the presence of prehistoric pile dwellings, and the small Lin Peninsula is the site of the remains of an Early Christian church founded in the middle of the 6th century.
Ngorongoro Conservation Area
United Republic of Tanzania
Criteria: (iv)(vii)(viii)(ix)(x)
The Ngorongoro Conservation Area spans vast expanses of highland plains, savanna, savanna woodlands and forests. Established in 1959 as a multiple land use area, with wildlife coexisting with semi-nomadic Maasai pastoralists practicing traditional livestock grazing, it includes the spectacular Ngorongoro Crater, the world's largest caldera. The property has global importance for biodiversity conservation due to the presence of globally threatened species, the density of wildlife inhabiting the area, and the annual migration of wildebeest, zebra, gazelles and other animals into the northern plains. Extensive archaeological research has also yielded a long sequence of evidence of human evolution and human-environment dynamics, including early hominid footprints dating back 3.6 million years.
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- Two cultural sites added to UNESCO's World Heritage List 07-Jul-2019
- Six cultural sites added to UNESCO's World Heritage List 07-Jul-2019
- Seven cultural sites inscribed on UNESCO's World Heritage List 06-Jul-2019
- Five sites inscribed on UNESCO's World Heritage List 05-Jul-2019
- World Heritage Committee to meet in Baku (Azerbaijan) to examine inscription of new sites on World Heritage List 21-Jun-2019


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Any kind of sex can spread the Zika virus, federal health officials said Monday in updated guidance for pregnant women.
And doctors need to ask all pregnant women about any chance they could have been infected with Zika, either through sex, travel or via mosquito bite, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said in updated Zika guidelines.
Several recent new cases show that just about any kind of sexual contact can spread the virus, the CDC said. "Sexual exposure includes vaginal sex, anal sex, oral sex, or other activities that might expose a sex partner to genital secretions," it says in the new guidance.
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Republican presidential hopefuls Gov. Rick Perry and Mitt Romney will be in San Antonio this week for the Veterans of Foreign Wars national convention, but for the first time in its 112-year history, no one from the White House has committed to making an appearance.
Officials with the nation's largest combat veterans association said they have about 8,000 registrants, many of whom are battling airport cancellations from Hurricane Irene to make it to the downtown Convention Center for Monday's kickoff.
That's when Perry is scheduled to take the stage. By custom, he was invited as governor of the host state. Conference leaders said they have asked him to appear as state governor — not as a presidential candidate — because his invitation went out before he announced he was seeking the GOP nomination.
On Tuesday, Romney is set to speak. Several months ago, when invitations went out for speakers, the former governor of Massachusetts was at the time the lone presidential candidate to have announced, VFW officials said. The group's policy is to invite only announced presidential candidates.
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Adding to the frustration is not having Obama or any of his representatives accept the group's invitation. The organization is noted for its advocacy of veterans' rights, especially health care and military benefits, both of which are on the chopping block in talks about reducing the federal budget.
"When the President is unable to attend, it has always been customary for the White House to choose a high-level administration official as an alternative speaker," wrote Richard Eubank, the group's national commander, in a statement.
"It is an insult of the highest magnitude that for the first time in the history of the VFW, the White House has apparently decided that this great and iconic organization of combat veterans and all of its members are not worthy of its notice by not at least offering a first-tier speaker from the administration."
Obama is scheduled to speak to another veterans organization, the American Legion, on Aug. 30 in Minneapolis for its annual national convention. It has an estimated 2.4 million members and is made up of both combat and noncombat veterans.
The VFW's national gathering will last four days, concluding Thursday after a series of seminars and business meetings designed to prioritize issues for its estimated 2 million members.
The convention will include free health screenings, the election of new officers and appearances by Mayor Julián Castro; W. Scott Gould, the deputy secretary of Veterans Affairs; and former U.S. Marine Commandant Gen. James Conway.
Still, their chief concern is that the federal budget will cut benefits that veterans have relied on. And they're leery about reports that the military retirement program is under review for an overhaul, including the idea of offering a 401(k) plan instead of the well-established guarantee of a salary after 20 years of service.
"Those discussions could very well impact the health and welfare of our veterans and military families and their future," Newberry said. "Can veterans be assured their entitlements are going to be there for them? Can our military members at war for such a long time be reassured that they're going to be taken care of?"


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And now that its been 1 month and 9 pages later... when do you think people will finally stop asking you questions?
Why is Cinephile so jealous of you?
slowest trainwreck ever.
I was sorta thinking the same thing. But it's cool.
Is GT circumsized?
Am I circumcized?


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James Fusco, who lives one block away, said construction has been going on for months, but that he couldn't find out what was going to replace what is now a vacant church.
"Who are these people?" Fusco asked at the WRBA's monthly meeting Saturday, where board members addressed the issue.
The Circle Academy Charter School is in talks to lease the property at 85-27 91st St. in hopes of opening a charter school. Michael Estep, spokesman for Circle Academy, said the property owner, Kings Point Heights, is making the improvements to the building.
"We have not been involved in any of the construction or any decisions about any of that, other than meeting our needs," Estep said.
Circle Academy has filed a letter of intent with the New York State Board of Regents to open the school in District 27. It must submit a full application to the state Education Department by March 28.
The 91st Street building would only be used for the 2015-2016 school year, until another property at 75-14 Jamaica Ave. is ready for long-term use in the 2016-2017 school year, Estep said.
Circle Academy would lease both properties, and those leases are contingent on approval by the state.
"We were seeking a smaller space that we could handle financially and then move into the building at Jamaica, and even then we will only be using portions of the building," Estep said. "We will not be using the whole building until we grow into it."
If approved, Circle Academy would serve kindergarten and first grade in 2015-2016 at 91st Street, with an estimated enrollment of 154 students. When it moves to Jamaica Avenue, it would then add one grade level for each of the following four school years and ultimately serve kindergarten through fifth grade, with an estimated enrollment of 506 students in 2019-2020, according to the letter of intent.
Vincent Amabile, Jr., another Woodhaven resident, questioned the need for a third elementary school in the neighborhood.
"Charter schools are public schools that cost a lot of money to operate," he said, suggesting any public education money should be used to enhance the existing schools. "Charter schools are just a large expense. Who knows what children they're going to put into it?"
Who goes would be determined by a lottery held in April 2015, if approved. Estep said waiting lists for charter schools are usually two to three times their capacity. There are 185 in New York City, with 12 in Queens, according to the New York City Department of Education website.
Maria Thomson, who served on the WRBA for 40 years, said she supports the proposal because it wouldn't take up space in an existing public school building and that Circle Academy is investing a lot of money into the project.
"I look at it as an excellent investment in the community," she said. "They'll bring money in, they'll employ people here, the children will benefit by it; an additional level of education that they wouldn't get in the public school."
Each classroom would have about 24 students and two teachers, and will employ the workshop model, which clusters four-to-six students at table.
Circle Academy was scheduled to speak at the WRBA meeting Saturday, but backed out at last minute, Martin Colberg, president of WRBA, said. In their place, Thomson addressed the issue, sparking concern from some as to why they had not yet heard about it.


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A remarkable coalition of business, government and environmental groups is trying to prevent a disastrous leap into faith-based policymaking by a headstrong state agency.
After hearings set for Wednesday and Thursday, the San Diego Regional Water Quality Control Board may move to keep stormwater and dry-weather runoff from carrying pollution into the waterways of San Diego, south Orange and southwest Riverside counties. So far, so good; it's hard to imagine a Californian who doesn't want clean beaches and rivers.
However, the proposed regulations impose standards that are effectively impossible to meet, even after the expenditure of billions of dollars. And there is scant scientific evidence that the standards will improve the health of humans or wildlife.
It is important to note society's historic achievements over the 41 years since Congress passed the Clean Water Act. We no longer pump chemicals and raw human sewage into the ocean, and fish aren't covered with tumors.
By focusing on sewage treatment plants and other big industrial sources, the region has cut water pollution by 95 percent even as Southern California's population has doubled. But now officials want to pursue that remaining 5 percent, despite a long list of unknowns.
To give just one example, the proposal would limit bacteria from animal waste in the water to a level observed in a central California watershed that is completely undeveloped. In the urban environment, storms flush the excrement of millions of dogs, cats and birds into the watershed. Rolling back such pollution to the days before Columbus sailed is technically impossible.
And nobody is sure whether doing so would help. Scientists have known for a century or more that swimming in oceans of human waste makes people sick. Yet a 2009 report by the U.S. EPA noted the evidence is scant and conflicting about whether trace levels of animal waste cause even slight increases in illness.
City and county officials estimate that striving to meet the standard will cost up to $4.2 billion over 18 years. And the draft regulations would require them to set up an enforcement regime. A March 27 revision did little to reduce the potential for legal chaos.
After a period of public education, people could get tickets for any irrigation overspray. Homeowners may be required to capture rainwater from rooftops and ensure that traces of dog poop never leave the property. Even firefighters must curb runoff.
Under federal law, civil penalties range to $34,700 a day. In theory, serial offenders could face jail time and fines of $100,000 a day.
In a stunning collaboration, the environmental group Coastkeeper joined with the San Diego Building Industry Association in January to ask the state agency to slow down, develop alternatives and lean heavily on expert advisory panels.
The message is loud and clear. The water quality board must delay this proceeding and start over.


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An irritable micromanager disliked by even the organization's most loyal foot soldiers – it's not the sort of description you'd expect to hear of the mastermind of a global terrorist network.
But that is precisely the description that intelligence analysts tend to give of Ayman al-Zawahiri, the new head of Al Qaeda.
Not only is he widely believed to be a less-than-effective manager, US officials say, Mr. Zawahiri does not have the sort of "peculiar charisma" that Osama bin Laden did, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates told reporters last week.
And that's not all: Mr. bin Laden "was much more operationally engaged than we have the sense Zawahiri has been," Mr. Gates noted.
Such comments seem to give the impression that US defense officials were privately high-fiving each other after hearing of Zawahiri's ascension last week to Al Qaeda's helm.
So, just how much does the Pentagon have to worry about the former Egyptian physician, now the de facto No. 1 archnemesis of the US military? Pentagon officials have made it clear they still take the threat of Zawahiri seriously.
"I think we should be mindful that this announcement by Al Qaeda reminds us that despite having suffered a huge loss with the killing of bin Laden and a number of others," Gates said, "Al Qaeda seeks to perpetuate itself, seeks to find replacements for those who have been killed, and remains committed to the agenda that bin Laden put before them."
The Pentagon has also emphasized that the new leader of Al Qaeda, believed (for what it's worth, considering where bin Laden was found) to be hiding in the ungoverned tribal areas of Pakistan, should expect to be the target of a robust and ongoing manhunt.
"I'm not sure it's a position anybody should aspire to, under the circumstances," Gates said.
The conventional wisdom, however, is that it's a position that the ambitious Zawahiri has long coveted.
"He has been sort of a climber, not only within Al Qaeda but in the larger jihadist movement," says Brian Fishman, terrorism research fellow at the New American Foundation. "He's attached himself to a rising star within the organization – bin Laden – and that's how he's seen, as somebody who isn't always piously committed, but brings with him a sense of personal aggrandizement."
That kind of mercenary approach, however, can have practical advantages, Mr. Fishman says. In the internal debate about whether Al Qaeda should maintain a strict ideological litmus test for members, or "get as many people into the tent as possible," Zawahiri is a member of the latter camp, Fishman says, which could translate into more Al Qaeda followers.
"He's still very ideologically rigid – I don't want to give the impression that he's some out-of-the-box thinker," Fishman says, "but he's always been most concerned about creating political effect on the ground."
Yet Zawahiri's desire to create these political effects could also cause a rift with the Taliban, analysts say. The interim commander of Al Qaeda, Saif al-Adel – who, like Zawahiri, is Egyptian – was viewed as having close ties to the Afghan Taliban. Zawahiri, on the other hand, has been interested in having Al Qaeda "step to the forefront and seize political power," Fishman says, and this could involve bypassing the Taliban.
One quality that has made Al Qaeda particularly resilient in the past, however, has been its willingness to cede political authority to the groups on the ground in Afghanistan and Pakistan "that have a much more organic social base," Fishman says.
The widely heralded defeat that the US military handed Al Qaeda in Iraq's Anbar Province came about when the terrorist group "overreached" and got too ideological, he adds. Zawahiri for his part had argued that for political reasons, Al Qaeda would have been better off not enforcing its strict ideology and making accommodations with locals in the name of political harmony.
Any savvy leader will not want to make a similar mistake in Afghanistan. "My gut says that Zawahiri wouldn't really be stupid enough to challenge the Afghan Taliban directly in a place like Afghanistan or Pakistan," Fishman says.
But tensions between the two US enemies remain. The Afghan Taliban has long held that it is valid to fight the US in Afghanistan and Pakistan, "but they didn't approve of 9/11, and they don't want to take steps that might cause a political reaction in the United States" that might inspire US leaders to push to extend its presence in Afghanistan longer than it already plans to, Fishman says.
The Taliban's publicity shop, for its part, has played down any tensions, says Jeffrey Dressler, an analyst at the Institute for the Study of War. "If you're going to be seen as an authentic Islamic extremist organization, you can't break with a group like Al Qaeda," he adds.
Other defense analysts agree. "Everybody is quick to comment on how Zawahiri's a polarizing figure, uncharismatic, disagreeable – people can't stand him," Mr. Dressler says. "If all of that was going to be an obstacle, however, he never would have been approved. He's a very skilled military tactician and planner," he adds. Al Qaeda leaders "discussed this – and appointed him anyway."


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If the economic situation in this country makes you "mad as hell," you're "not going to take it anymore" and you've found yourself poised — black sharpie and white poster board in hand — to join the Occupy protesters, you might want to make a quick pitstop at NextSpace first. It' a Culver City business that serves as home base for a disparate group of entrepreneurs and small business owners who are making a go of it in a rough economy. There's hope in the air and it's contagious.
Dozens of freelancers, small business owners and entrepreneurs come to work at NextSpace instead of their home office or the local coffee shop. For a fee they have access to a conference room, WiFi, lots of coffee and other like-minded entrepreneurs to bounce ideas off of. It's called "coworking," and people have been doing it officially since 2005.
NextSpace employee Sara Vainer shows KPCC's Shereen Meraji around and stops at a wall of photos with pictures of NextSpace members next to descriptions of what they do. There are illustrators, Web designers, entrepreneurs of various kinds, furniture makers, app designers and writers.
Fresh faced 20-something Mike Kai has a photo up, with "entrepreneur" written next to it and the name of his company, "Lifeyo." Kai said he learned a lot about entrepreneurship at Yale, where he was part of a team working on a social media site called Scape at the same time Mark Zuckerberg was developing Facebook. "Mark Zuckerberg beat us by about four weeks," Kai said with a shrug, "and ever since then, I definitely recognize how fast the world can change and that opportunity is right around the corner."
Kai found a glimmer of opportunity in these dark economic times. He knew job seekers and small business owners with little capital needed websites to showcase talent or products. So he and a partner created Lifeyo to help normal people, not tech geeks, make websites.
A basic one is free. You want a slicker one, you pony up for the upgrades. So far, he's not making money off Lifeyo. But the site has more than 20,000 users and Kai says ideas like this are what venture capitalists are ready to fund.
"There's less people going after the really big ideas, trying to create the billion-dollar business," Kai said, "and more people who are trying to create the business that can employ 10 to 20 people. When you have young entrepreneurs who are focused on creating sustainable businesses, then that can push our economy forward."
Richard Janes is another NextSpace member with an office off the main cafe area where his six employees are busy managing celebrities' "digital footprints." His company, Artist Web Management (AWM), launched eight months ago and is making money by helping famous people build and maintain a strong Web presence. Janes is confident his company will have 300 employees in two years time and says his investors are "very happy at the moment."
Without NextSpace cofounder, CEO and entrepreneur Jeremy Neuner, Kai and Janes might not be sharing office space and talents. Before becoming a small business owner, Neuner used to work on economic development for the city of Santa Cruz in 2008. He says it was a difficult job, "when the economy is crappy and you don't have a lot of the incentives to give to businesses in the forms of tax breaks or tax credits."
So Neuner thought of another way to stimulate economic growth in Santa Cruz: Open a coworking space and get entrepreneurs to share resources, inspire one another and maybe even work together.
"The way we think about is that instead of trying to recruit one 200-person business, we're recruiting 200 one-person businesses. If we can get those 200 one-person businesses to each add one employee and all become two-person businesses and two-person business become three-person businesses — that's real economic growth, that's real job creation," Neuner said.
There are about a dozen coworking businesses in Southern California, including Jeremy Neuner's NextSpace. Across the country, about 450 coworking spots are up and running.


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Objective: Metastasis-associated in colon cancer-1 (MACC1) was found to be upregulated in colon cancer tissue compared to normal tissues and has been established as an independent prognostic indicator of metastasis formation and metastasis-free survival for colon cancer patients. It has also been reported to be upregulated in gastric, lung and hepatocellular carcinomas. However, no data are available concerning MACC1 expression in human astrocytic tumors. Glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) are the most prevalent brain tumors of adults and due to their invasive and rapid growth patients have a very low prognosis. GBM may appear de novo without known precursor-lesion (primary GBM) or progress from low grade astrocytomas (secondary GBM). Although these tumors rarely metastasize, their invasive and migratory behavior is similar to those of metastatic cells of tumors with different origin. Thus, we hypothesized that MACC1 may be involved in progression of human gliomas.
Methods: Expression of MACC1 has been analysed by semiquantitative and quantitative RT-PCR in a panel of 8 astrocytoma WHO grade II (LGA), 15 GBM and 3 normal brain biopsies. Immunohistochemistry was performed with matched samples of 24 LGA and 14 GBM (10 primary and 4 secondary GBM). MACC1 expression correlated with tumor grade, recurrence of disease and patients survival. Finally, real-time measurements (xCELLigence) of migration and proliferation were performed in MACC1-overexpressing U138 cells.
Results: MACC1 expression increased concomitantly with increasing WHO grading on mRNA- and protein-level. Analysis of MACC1 expression strength by immunohistochemistry allowed discrimination of dormant and recurrent LGA and of primary and secondary GBM. Strong MACC1 expression was associated with a reduced median patients survival. Finally, we found that MACC1 overexpression promoted proliferation and migration of U138 GBM cells.
Conclusions: MACC1 may be a new progression marker for human gliomas and a new therapeutic target for inhibition of their proliferation and migration.


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A 6-year-old boy's day off from school Friday left him with a vivid story to tell his classmates, after he was seized — and eventually released — by an alligator in South Florida. The attack occurred at a wildlife refuge near Boynton Beach, Fla., where Joseph Welch had taken his son, Joey, for a canoe ride.
As Welch, a native of Rhode Island who now lives in Pompano Beach, says in a Morning Edition interview airing Tuesday, his idea had been to do "something new and different."
As they waited in line to rent canoes near the headquarters of the Loxahatchee National Wildlife Refuge, Joey was attracted by the water at the bottom of a boat ramp. Thinking he was looking at solid ground, Joey put his foot down on plants floating in the water — and fell in.
An 8-foot-long alligator had been lurking in the shallows; it clamped onto the boy's right arm. Joey began screaming.
Seeing his son in the grip of a gator's jaws, Joseph Welch rushed over and began punching the animal — something he later compared to hitting a cinder block. And crucially, he resisted the urge to try to pull his son away.
"I didn't want to get into a tug-of-war with the gator," he told The Sun Sentinel Monday. "I didn't want my son's arm ripped off."
Bystanders also ran to help Joey. And standing in waist-deep water, Welch managed to maneuver his son and the animal up and around so that one man, who had been in the same line to rent a canoe, could kick the alligator's underside. Eventually, the animal let go of the boy's arm.
Joey escaped the ordeal with scrapes and bruises on his arm and torso. He went to a Fort Lauderdale hospital, where he received antibiotics. His father was unharmed, except for a bruised right hand.
As for the alligator, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission says that in keeping with its standard policy, trappers were sent to the boat ramp, where they captured and killed the reptile.
"We are extremely relieved the child made it out of this potentially deadly incident with only minor injuries," said Rolf Olson, acting project leader of Loxahatchee and Hobe Sound NWR. "This really could have ended very badly. We thank the members of the public who saw this happening and selflessly rushed in to do the right thing."
Olsen also reminded the public to be very careful when visiting areas where alligators live.
OK. Our next guest wanted to do something new and different when his six year old son had a day off school last week. And they certainly did something different. Joe Welch took Joey to the Everglades to canoeing where Joey was attacked by an alligator. Mr. Welch is in Pompano Beach, Florida. He's on the line to tell us the rest of the story. Welcome to the program, sir.
JOE WELCH: Good morning.
INSKEEP: OK. So you're at a concession stand. You're next to a canal your six-year-old son goes over the water. He falls in. That happens. But what did you see when you looked over to see your son falling into the water?
WELCH: Well, I heard the splash and then I heard this screaming and so I immediately ran over to the water's edge to see what was happening and I could that see this gator had his right arm completely in his mouth. And, you know, it was very hard to even process it but I just immediately ran into the water. It was about waist deep.
INSKEEP: Mm-hmm.
WELCH: And I stood behind my son and with my left arm, I wrapped my arm around his chest and with my right hand I was banging as hard as I could on the head of this alligator because, you know, I knew that the gator wanted to pull him into the deeper water.
INSKEEP: Yeah.
WELCH: But the gator, he was not releasing. And when I was hitting him on the head, you know, it was as if I was hitting a cinder block because the gator didn't even - he didn't even flinch at all.
INSKEEP: Well, let's talk about that. You may have tried to pull - you could've tried to pull your son away into the shallower water but I guess you don't want to get in tug-of-war with an alligator with your son's arm in the middle.
WELCH: Right. And that was my concern, the gator - that if I do that, the gator's going to rip my son's arm right off.
INSKEEP: So you beat on the alligator. You're in a boxing match now. How did you get the alligator to back down?
WELCH: Well, finally what happened is, you know, I almost broke my hand hitting this thing. And there was another customer there who was there to rent a canoe. And when he saw what happening, he ran over and he was, you know, screaming at me to try to pull my son out of the water. And so I did. And as I was doing that, the gator - as I was pulling away from the gator, the gator was still attached to my son's arm. So he was coming up out of the water...
INSKEEP: Mm-hmm.
WELCH: ...at the same time, which exposed the underbelly of the gator such that this guy was able to kick as hard as he could three or four really good shots in the underbelly of the gator while I'm punching him it the head. And then finally the gator released.
INSKEEP: Oh, that's amazing. So it got to the soft underbelly of the creature.
WELCH: Yeah.
INSKEEP: And that did the job.
WELCH: Exactly.
INSKEEP: So that gator got away, I trust.
WELCH: Well, no. He was trapped.
INSKEEP: OK. All right.
WELCH: He was trapped and he was caught and he was measured at eight feet in length.
INSKEEP: Eight feet in length. Now, how is your son?
WELCH: He is fine. You know, the kid is so resilient. I mean you would never even know that anything happened. And that's one of the many miracles that occurred that day.
INSKEEP: Wait, wait, wait. You're saying he doesn't even have a bite mark?
WELCH: Oh, no. He does have - oh, yeah. No, he does. I thought you meant emotionally.
WELCH: No, he does have cuts and scrapes and bruises all the way from his shoulder blade down to his wrist.
INSKEEP: Oh. And what a story to tell at school, I guess.
WELCH: Yeah. He's a little bit of a celebrity at school right now.
INSKEEP: Well, Mr. Welch, congratulations on the successful end of that.
WELCH: Thank you. Thank you very much.
INSKEEP: Joe Welch is in Pompano Beach, Florida, and he and another man wrestled an alligator in order to save Mr. Welch's six-year-old son while they were canoeing in the Everglades.
INSKEEP: This is NPR News. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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This is a continuation of my series of photos for historic Lowell, Massachusetts.
Lowell High School, on both sides of the canal.
This past week, I've seen 12 large mills, numerous gate houses (not all shown above) and many canals. Unfortunately, I've taken too photos to post here. A large number of the mills have been converted into business space and housing. I used to work in one of the mills, at the Boott Mills complex twice. The first job was a part-time one for Christmas, and it was before the mill was renovated. The second job was after the renovation.
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