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Dear Nia Vardalos, about those columns

A moviegoer hopes that in Nia Vardalos's latest film, she will correct a mistake about the Parthenon's columns.

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    Doric columns: The Parthenon, a temple to the Greek goddess Athena, was built in the 5th century BC.
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For a long time, I have been fascinated with ancient Greece – its history, its playwrights and poets, its mythology, its architecture.

So in the 2002 movie, "My Big Fat Greek Wedding," when Toula Portokalos (played by Nia Vardalos) describes her family's house as being like the Parthenon, complete with Corinthian columns, I was taken aback. Yes, the house did have Corinthian columns on the first level and Ionic ones on the upper story, but the Parthenon has neither. Its columns are Doric.

Maybe nobody else who has seen this romantic comedy noticed the mistake, but it distracted me from fully enjoying the delightful film. As a retired teacher, I have strong feelings about the importance of presenting accurate facts.

And I'm not the only one. For example, when publications give wrong information, they quickly print a correction.

But is there anything to do about mistakes in movies?

Well, I felt I had to write to Ms. Vardalos, who wrote the script for the movie, in a matter-of-fact way and mention the columns. Perhaps not surprisingly, I never received a reply. Maybe she thought I was being petty or that my concern about historical accuracy wasn't all that important in her film.

But last fall in Athens, I was atop the Acropolis at the same time as she was. An American film studio was shooting a new movie there., ("My Life in Ruins" will open Aug. 28.).

Vardalos wore large gold hoop earrings; a turquoise, knee-length dress; and open-toed, high-wedge shoes. Slung over her shoulder was a huge brown purse with a long strap. From my vantage point, her makeup looked perfect. She was slim, and her curly hair reached below her shoulders.

After the cameramen had filmed several takes, the movie star smiled and hugged cast members.

Not far away, three huge cranes were poised to begin work transferring the massive, priceless contents of the Acropolis Museum to a new museum down in the city the following day. Elsewhere, this scheduled move had made the world news, but the filming atop Athena's hill diverted the tourists' attention.

The filmmakers used huge reflectors to shoot the scene, and some of the local crew had a special assignment: Keep the tourists moving around the roped-off area near the set so that they would not get in the way – or take photos of Nia.

I was somewhat compliant, kept out of the crew's way, and did not interfere with their shooting, but I disagreed about their right to restrict my movements. After all, it was normal public hours to visit the temple, and I had paid full-price admission to climb up the hill. So I didn't resist the urge to use my digital camera with its wonderful zoom lens.

Afterward, I was tempted to walk casually past the movie crew's guards and in a polite and friendly manner, introduce myself to Vardalos as her "column" correspondent.

Then, I thought, to prove my point in situ, I would point to the Parthenon's columns.

But I didn't do it.

I decided that in her new film, Vardalos has a unique opportunity to correct the misinformation for moviegoers (including me). In it, she plays the part of a tour guide, a profession that in the real world takes pride in sharing accurate information.

In that role, I hope she will correctly identify the columns in Pericles's 5th-century masterpiece.

Either way, I plan to write her another letter.

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~~~~~ Chapter 3: Exercise ~~~~~

Many would-be equestrians fail to realize that it is not enough to see that the horse receives regular exercise. The physical conditioning of the rider is also important, and must not be neglected... disturbances in the rider's mental and emotional state often affect the attitude of the mount, sometimes in surprising ways.

The Taming of the Horse: An Equestrian's Guide

Akane was walking home from school by herself for the first time in weeks. Ranma had been detained by some silly plot Principal Kuno and Miss Hinako had cooked up, and Akane had gotten impatient and started for home without him. She watched the fence pass the setting sun and tried not to think about the boy who wasn't there.

"Tendo Akane."

Akane turned around and there was Shampoo. The Chinese girl set her box on the ground and stepped forward. "Nobody around. Feel like little challenge?"

Akane didn't, but she couldn't make herself decline it. It didn't occur to her how many times she'd berated Ranma for the same reflex as she tossed her bag clear, set her feet, and cocked her fists. "Any time you're ready."

Shampoo smiled briefly and darted in. Akane saw the strike of Shampoo's open hand, blocked it, and countered, but Shampoo was already airborne and her heels were rising out of Akane's reach. She spun and ducked the strikes she knew were coming from above, but her arm was seized and twisted and then the world was revolving sideways.

Akane slid to a stop and rolled to her feet, spitting dust. Shampoo was standing well out of reach, looking amused. "You out of practice." She examined the fingernails on one hand. "Ranma need stronger wife. Why you not just give up now, before you hurt?"

"Why don't you give up?" Akane spat before she could stop herself. "Why do you want Ranma so much, anyway?"

Shampoo's gaze turned serious. "You know Joketsuzoku law, so you asking other question, eh?" She paused and started circling Akane. Akane turned to keep facing her. "What not to want? Ranma fast, strong, brave, smart— oh yes, you laugh, but he smart."

She gazed over Akane's head. "Ranma beautiful. Ranma most beautiful boy I ever see. See him, want him," her eyes swung down to pin Akane, "take him." She smiled at Akane's inarticulate response and resumed her slow circling. "Could be nicer, but if I want nice husband, plenty of nice men at home. No want them. Want Ranma."

She stopped again and regarded Akane thoughtfully. "Tell you thing no-charge, thing you should know long time, but I think you not know. Ranma not so grown-up in head as body look. Not really like girls yet. Soon. Very soon, he want woman. Shampoo waiting." She favored Akane with a wicked smile and drew her hands down her sides. "Ranma not resist this body then, eh?"

Akane was dimly aware of a grinding noise coming from her teeth. Her aura burst out around her as she charged Shampoo. "KYAAAA!" Shampoo didn't leap into the air this time. She swirled around Akane's wild swing and struck. Fists and feet slammed into Akane's body with astonishing force, and Akane realized too late that she'd let Shampoo goad her into attacking into the setting sun, and that Shampoo's taunts had made her too mad to think, too mad to see, too mad to hit... too mad to win. She lashed out on instinct, scored a glancing blow against something, and struggled to get clear long enough to rebuild her defense. Shampoo wasn't letting her. Fingertips hit her head in dull flashes of pain. Shampoo was too fast, too strong, too skilled for her to beat... too pretty, too bold, too sexy. She could never beat Shampoo. Not in a fight, not for a boy's heart. Never, never, never....

Just before she blacked out, there was a sudden wave of intense cold, a pulse of weight, and then she was falling. Funny, it wasn't like this the last time I died....

Akane woke up on her own bed, looking up at Kasumi's worried face. "Akane? Are you all right?"

Akane thought about it. "I think so. Ow. I feel like I got run over by a herd of Chinese elephants, though."

Kasumi smiled in relief and adjusted the ice-pack on Akane's head. "Do you remember what happened?" Akane became aware that it was one of several ice packs strategically deployed around her body.

"Um, I think so." I remember being awfully stupid. Please, please let that part be Chinese mind-control.... "The last part is a little fuzzy, though. How did I get home?"

"Oh, the way you'd suppose."

"Ranma," Akane snorted disgustedly. "Eep!"

"Oh, dear, I must have missed that one.... Yes, Ranma-kun came bouncing over the wall a couple of hours ago, carrying you in his arms and calling for help." Kasumi sat back and fanned herself with a booklet. "Goodness, things were quite exciting for a few minutes, until we saw that you were only bruised and scraped."

"I was?"

"Oh, yes. No broken bones, no deep cuts, no..." Kasumi paused to peer doubtfully at her sister, "...apparent concussion. Shampoo must have been quite careful."

"Careful? Why would she be careful? Ow! She tried to kill me!"

"Now, now, don't get excited." Kasumi retrieved and replaced an icepack. "No, I don't think so. If she had, you'd be hurt worse, and differently. As to why... well, perhaps she remembers what happened to Saffron."

The thought sent a chill through Akane. Saffron. Ranma would die for me. Ranma would kill for me. If he thought I was dead, he might do anything. Shampoo was there; she has to know that. The notion that Shampoo had been going easy on her because Shampoo feared what Ranma might do made her feel even worse.

"There! All done." Kasumi closed the first-aid kit, stood up, and turned to go.

"Kasumi? Where is he?"

Kasumi turned back, smiled, and pointed up. "Where else? He got tired of being shouted at by Father and Saotome-no-ojisama about an hour ago and has been up there ever since. I think he's sulking because I wouldn't let him stay here while I had your clothes off to dress your scrapes. He even offered to turn into a girl, but I didn't think you'd like that."

"Just like that pervert," Akane began, but then Shampoo's "free advice" resurfaced. 'Ranma not really like girls yet.' "Would you call him for me, please?"

"Of course." Kasumi went to the window and slid it open. "Oh, Ranma-kun! You can come in now!" She stepped back to avoid Ranma's customary swing from the eaves and through the window. His eyes traced quickly over Akane's sheet-covered form, examined her face, swung to check Kasumi's unworried expression, and returned to her face. He blew out a breath and relaxed.

"I'll just leave you two alone, shall I?" Kasumi said, picking up the first aid kit again.

Ranma waited for the door to close behind Kasumi before speaking. "Are you all right? You remember me this time?"

"Of course, baka."

Ranma relaxed a little more. "So what the hell happened?" His voice was challenging.

"Shampoo and I had a little match. I, um, lost."

"Well, of course ya lost! Moron! Shampoo's better'n you! On your best day—"

"I know that." Her flat voice was clearly not what Ranma was expecting, because it cut him off in mid-rant. "She told me that several different ways, and she was obviously right."

Ranma started looking concerned again. "You sure you're all right?"

"I'll be fine in a couple of days." She turned her face away from him. "Just go away." She heard him sigh. The window slid shut. The light went out. The door opened and closed quietly. As usual, she couldn't hear his footsteps. As usual, he couldn't hear her tears.

Akane didn't come to school with Ranma the next day.

"Saotome, thou accursed villain! What nefarious means hast thou employed to sequester the fair Tendo Akane?!"

"Aw, put a sock in it, Kuno."

Ranma hung from the eaves outside Akane's window and peered in. He could see Akane curled up in bed, but she didn't move when he tapped on the glass. He frowned and dropped to the ground, then went inside.

"Hello, Kasumi."

Kasumi turned. "Oh, Ranma-kun! I wasn't expecting you until this afternoon."

Ranma shuffled his feet. "Well, they give us an hour for lunch, and it only takes a few minutes ta get here..."

...if you run like the wind, Kasumi thought. "I'm sure Akane will be glad to see you," she said.

"I, um, knocked on the window, but I guess she was asleep or somethin'." Ranma fidgeted, then blurted, "Are you sure she's all right? This ain't like her."

Kasumi's smile faded. "Her bruises and scrapes are healing well," she said. "She's not her usual self, though. She seems unusually depressed."

Ranma's fist smacked into his palm. "I knew it," he hissed. "Shampoo did somethin' to her mind again." He looked sharply at Kasumi. "Didja notice any herbal smells on her head?" Kasumi shook her head. "Little bruises around the head or neck?"

Kasumi's eyes widened. "Oh! Now that you mention it...."

"Damn." Ranma paced a quick circle and stopped. "I wish Tofu-sensei was still around."

"So do I," Kasumi said. Their eyes met and dropped.

Ranma thumped himself on the forehead. "Gaah. I didn't mean...."

"I know," Kasumi said, and sighed. "So, about Akane?"

"I dunno." Ranma looked troubled. "It's not like her to give up like that, though. Last night she didn't come back at me like always, either."

"Hmm. She wasn't this bad last night, before she talked to you...." Kasumi trailed off and looked at Ranma. "Just what did you say to her, Ranma-kun?"

Ranma paled. 'Well, of course ya lost! Moron! Shampoo's better'n you!' "Uh...."

Kasumi read his expression, put her hand over her eyes, and shook her head. "Oh, Ranma. You didn't."

"I was... I was worried," Ranma muttered. "I didn't mean ta...."

"Well, Akane's not the most confident girl in the world, you know, Ranma-kun." Kasumi's gaze held his.

"I guess." Ranma fidgeted. "Ya got any ideas?"

"Well, since you mention it, there is something you might do. She really cares what you think of her. You could help make her feel good about herself again. Just be nice to her."

Ranma looked horrified. "Hey, I'm a martial artist, not a shrink," he said defensively. He cringed at Kasumi's tiny frown. "Look! Even when I try to do that, she just thinks I'm bein' weird! I never get that right with her!"

Kasumi relented. "All right, Ranma-kun. I'll give her sympathy, of course. But you know that it will mean more coming from you, don't you?"

Ranma nodded rapidly. "I'll go to the Nekohanten after school and see what I can wring out of Shampoo."

"All right. I'll expect you this evening, then."

Ranma sketched a salute and departed hastily. Jeez, I hate it when Kasumi goes all fearsome.

The first person Ranma saw when he trotted into the Nekohanten was Mousse. Mousse didn't see him, of course. "Hey, Mousse!"

"Saotome." Mousse addressed a potted plant with a disgusted expression. "Aren't the bowls of ramen Shampoo delivers to you enough to satisfy your appetite? Must you plague me by coming here for more? Argh! Get off!"

"Cool it, duck-face," Ranma advised from his perch atop Mousse's head. "I'm here to see Shampoo or Cologne. There ain't nothin' you can do for me."

"Curse you! Why won't you just marry Akane and get out of my life?!" Mousse produced a poleaxe from his sleeve and swiped half-heartedly at Ranma as Ranma hopped off his head.

"You talking silly, Mousse. Airen no marry Akane. Airen marry Shampoo!" Shampoo came out of the kitchen carrying three steaming bowls, set them before customers, and turned to smile dazzlingly at Ranma.

Ranma looked uncomfortable and changed the subject. "What'd ya do to Akane?"

Shampoo's eyes flashed. "Forget other girl. You in my place now, you think about me." She skipped to Ranma's side and twirled. "You like new dress?" The customers sure do, they're coming in just to get a good look... when will you?

Ranma carefully kept his eyes out of Shampoo's spectacular cleavage and persisted. "I wanna know what ya did to Akane!"

Shampoo sighed and shook her head. "Fine, we talk, but not here. Come kitchen." She grabbed his arm and led him to the doorway, sticking close. Even if he doesn't want my body yet, I can still enjoy his....

"Hello, son-in-law," Cologne said from her perch by the cauldrons. "Hungry?"

In fact, the smell of the Nekohanten had been making Ranma salivate since before he'd walked in, but the question made him mad. "No! I don't want your ramen, and I don't want your great- grand-daughter!"

Shampoo promptly hit him over the head with a ladle. Clong! "You walk in, you want thing, you insult, you stupid!" Clong!

"Gah!" Ranma felt the lumps and glared at Shampoo. "Cut it out!"

"So, if it's not food or Shampoo, it must be Amazon lore. Those are the only things you kids ever come in here for," Cologne cackled. "'Tell me the ancient secret, Cologne!' 'Teach me the fighting art, Cologne!' 'Give me the antidote, Cologne!' Hahahah!" She grinned and deftly scooped noodles into bowls. Her hands blurred and toppings fell into place. "Mousse! Order up!" she called over the counter. "Make yourself useful, boy, and be quick about it."

Cologne turned back to Ranma. "What was it you wanted?"

Ranma gritted his teeth. "Shampoo attacked Akane."

"So?" Cologne shrugged and looked at Shampoo.

"I bored," Shampoo explained. "No fight, get soft. I see Akane, I challenge. No kiss-of-death, just little match."

"Which you won, of course," Cologne completed. She looked at Ranma. "I fail to see the problem."

"She shouldn't do that! Akane might get hurt!"

Shampoo frowned. "You, Ranma, stop thinking woman break like china." She shattered a plate over his head to illustrate her point, ignored his yelp, and continued. "Akane all time say she martial artist, so I treat like martial artist. Is respect. She strong girl. See?" Shampoo hiked her dress up and displayed a fine bruise on a finer thigh.

Ranma was too angry to be distracted by the view. "Ya did something to her head! She's all depressed now, and I just know ya did some kinda Chinese tsubo thing to make her that way!"

Shampoo smoothed her dress back into place and huffed. "I not put anything in Akane mind that not there before. She fine. Just know place now."

Ranma turned to Cologne. "Is there a tsubo technique that makes people depressed, Granny?"

Cologne put on her best inscrutable look. "Could be." Her eyes twinkled suddenly. "What's the answer worth to you, son-in- law?"

"Old bat," Ranma growled, and left.

Cologne glanced at Shampoo. "I told you he'd figure it out." Shampoo looked worried.

Ranma's first thought when he entered the Tendo main room was that Akane had been replaced by Gosunkugi pretending to be Akane. "Jeez, Akane, ya look like ya got trampled," he said, sitting just around the corner of the table from her. "Thanks, Kasumi." He took a cracker from the bowl Kasumi offered.

Akane's eyes dropped. "Thanks so much." She paused. "I hear you went to the Nekohanten."

"Hm? Oh, yeah," Ranma said casually.

"You should have just stayed there. The food's better, and I'm sure the company's better." Akane's voice wasn't angry at all.

"Now, now, Akane, if Ranma-kun wanted to be at the Nekohanten, I'm sure he would be," Kasumi said soothingly. "But he's here, instead. Doesn't that say something?"

"I guess," Akane said, looking at her lap.

Ranma couldn't stand it any more. "Dammit, Akane, snap out of it!" he said forcefully. "This isn't you! Shampoo used a tsubo technique to beat you in your own head!"

Akane's head lifted slowly. "She said that?"

"Not exactly." Ranma fidgeted. "They said she didn't, sorta, but I know she did."

"Oh." Akane's head lowered again. "Well, it doesn't really matter. Shampoo's better than I am anyway."

"Dammit, Akane!" Ranma started to reach for her, stopped, made a helpless gesture, and looked at Kasumi. Kasumi looked disappointed.

"Say, Kasumi, last time she snapped out of it when I insul— ah, commented about her. D'ya suppose...."

Kasumi shook her head. "No, I'm quite sure that that wouldn't be appropriate at all, this time." She considered. "Would you mind staying for supper, though?"

"Huh? Uh, yeah... I mean no... I mean, sure, I'll stay."

"Oh, good. I'll just go call your mother and tell her, shall I?" Kasumi got up and left the room.

Ranma eyed Akane, gulped, and reached for her hand. Akane looked down at his hand. Her gaze followed Ranma's arm up to his eyes. He shifted his grip to her forearm and slapped himself across the cheek with her hand.

Akane tore her arm out of his hand and stared at him. "Why did you do that?"

"Hell, I'd rather ya hit me than sit around mopin'," Ranma said. "You can hit me some more if ya like...."

Akane shook her head, but she seemed a bit less down.

Ranma frowned impatiently. "Listen, Akane, just because Shampoo got ya once doesn't mean you should just quit. You're not a quitter. You can beat Shampoo if ya train hard enough. Besides," he continued, "she cheated. That mind-control stuff is just nasty."

"But you cheat to win all the time, Ranma," Akane pointed out.

"I don't cheat! I just fight so's ta make the other guy's strengths useless and hit his weak spots! That ain't cheatin', that's just good sense!"

Akane shook her head. "Well, I guess Shampoo found my weak spot." She touched her temple.

Ranma snorted. "Yeah, you're weak in the head, all right." For a moment, Akane seemed about to hit him, but she didn't— so he seized her arm again and slapped himself with it.

Akane stared at him, and a giggle escaped her. Ranma smiled in relief. Akane started laughing— and then suddenly she fell against him and grabbed handfuls of his shirt and was crying. Ranma froze. Kasumi came back in and stopped. Ranma looked at her desperately, but Kasumi just smiled and nodded at him, then left silently. Dammit. What the hell am I supposed to do now?

Soun and Genma came up the steps to the veranda and stopped. Soun's demon-head apparition burst forth. "Ranma-kun!" it hissed. "What have you done now to make my little girl cry?!"

Ranma jerked, but Akane was still firmly attached to him. "Nothin'! It ain't my fault!" His eyes rolled, seeking escape. Kasumi came back in, took in the situation, then produced something from her apron pocket and poked Soun's demon-head with it. POP! Soun looked stunned.

Kasumi put the thing back in her pocket. "Now, Father, be nice," she admonished. "Just this once, it's not Ranma-kun's fault. I'll call you when supper's ready." She slid the screens to the veranda shut, cutting off the astonished fathers, and sat across from Ranma and Akane. "Honestly, sometimes those two just...." She saw Ranma and Akane staring at her. "'Oh, my.' There, is that better?" She smiled.

Akane and Ranma decided independently and simultaneously not to press the issue. Then Ranma noticed that Akane had stopped crying. "Hey, ya feelin' better?" he asked cautiously.

Akane noticed that she was clamped onto Ranma's shirt, blushed, and hastily popped back to her side of the table corner. "I guess I am, a little," she admitted, surprised. "Not much, though."

Ranma nodded, disappointed. "Well, I'm sure whatever tsubo technique Shampoo used, the price for the cure is gonna be steeper than we wanna pay," he said. "I got that real clear at the Nekohanten. They want ya like this." His fist clenched. "Well, you're just gonna have to fight it."

Akane nodded. "I'll try."

Ranma reached out hesitantly and patted her on the shoulder. "That's my Akane." Both Akane and Kasumi looked at him in astonishment and he backpedaled instinctively: "Not that I'm implyin'—" He stopped just in time. "Oh, hell." He looked away. "Thing is, I don't know what ta do about your problem. I always know that if somethin' beats me, I can train a little harder, or get a little more serious, or come up with a new strategy, and come back and beat it. Not that I ever get beat," he added hastily.

"Of course not," Akane and Kasumi agreed in unison.

"Yeah... anyway." He gazed into Akane's eyes. "Just remember when ya feel beat, it ain't you, it's an enemy in your head. Believe me even if ya don't believe yourself."

Akane nodded and smiled a little. "Okay. Thanks, Ranma."

"And Nabiki and I may be able to come up with something that will help, too, since tomorrow is Sunday," Kasumi said, rising. She opened the screens, revealing Genma and Soun crouched outside. "Now you just leave them be," she told the two men in tones that anyone who didn't know Kasumi would have thought were sweet and gentle. "I'll just go get supper ready."

Ranma ran up to the Tendos' front gate, dressed in his best. He could still hear his mother's voice: "Kasumi called and said to make sure you're clean, neat, male, and well-dressed, and to send you to their house at noon. She said this is part of Akane's confidence cure, whatever that means. You will cooperate, won't you, Ranma?"

Ranma swallowed nervously. Damn right I'll cooperate. Between Kasumi and Momma.... He went in the gate and up to the front door. It opened as he approached, making him even more nervous. Kasumi was there. She inspected him carefully, then nodded.

"You'll do fine," Kasumi told Ranma as she led him up the stairs. She stopped him outside Akane's room. "Remember, Ranma- kun, this is very important. You must be nice to Akane." She waited for his nod, then indicated the door and retreated down the hall.

Ranma gulped and knocked on the door. It was unlatched and swung open at his knock. Akane was standing there. She was wearing a new dress, a very attractive one of soft blue and green fabric that hugged her torso but fell in folds from her hips to just past her knees. Her hair had been done with great care. Her makeup was invisible; Ranma only knew it was there because she looked even more like Akane than she usually did. Even... perfume? She smells just like she did before... before the wedding. She looked up at him hopefully and smiled. His brain froze, his jaw dropped slightly, and his cheeks reddened.

Akane read his reaction. She straightened slightly, her chin came up, and her eyes brightened. "How do I look?" she asked softly.

Ranma started. "Uh, you look, uh, pretty." He tried to pull his eyes away and couldn't.

Akane noticed that too, and blushed. She lowered her eyes. "Prettier than Shampoo?"

Ranma became aware that Kasumi had returned and was standing behind him. He didn't dare turn. "Uh, sure, yeah." The faint sense of impending doom eased.

Akane looked up again with a different smile. "Good. Because we're going to the Nekohanten for lunch."

Ranma's jaw dropped for real. "WHAT?! Are you nuts?!"

"Think about it, Ranma-kun," Kasumi's voice came from behind him.

Akane stepped in. "You said to treat this like a battle. Well, I'm changing the rules. We're fighting on my terms now. We're going, and if you're nice to me I win, and if you're nice to her... she wins. Understand? Kasumi and Nabiki are coming along to make sure the battle stays on my terms."

Ranma was petrified by Akane's determination. Her fire's burning again... gods, she's past pretty. She's... magnificent. I wish I could tell her.

Akane reached out and closed his mouth. Her hand lingered on his chin, then dropped. "Well? I can't force you to come, but... don't you want me to win?"

Ranma sagged. "Yeah." I think you won already. I wish I could tell ya that too, but I don't think you'd believe me.

Mousse was near the door when Ranma and Akane walked into the Nekohanten, followed closely by Nabiki and Kasumi. He slid his glasses down from his forehead and looked Akane up and down. Akane blushed. Mousse smiled slightly. "Table for four, yes?" he said. He looked at Ranma and lowered his voice. "You're a lucky man, Saotome. Be an honorable one and do the right thing for a change."

Ranma glared at Mousse, but Akane's tug at his elbow compelled him to move. She was still holding his arm when the crash sounded from the direction of the kitchen. He looked that way and saw Shampoo, standing over a mess of broken bowls and wasted noodles, locking gazes with Akane. Jeez, I can almost see the lightning bolts....

Perfect. Akane smiled grimly at her rival. Look, Shampoo. He's mine. Choke on it. Then the line-of-sight was broken as Mousse seated them at their table.

Mousse produced filled water glasses from his sleeve and set them on the table. "Are you ready to order?"

They'd chatted about the menu on the walk over. "Four specials, please," Nabiki told him. Mousse nodded and left. Ranma carefully moved his glass of water away a little, and the Tendo sisters exchanged amused smiles.

Shampoo arrived with the ramen, setting four steaming bowls down with her usual grace, except for Akane's, which spilled a little. Shampoo ignored Akane and rubbed her side against Ranma's shoulder. "Why you with ugly girl, airen? Come on date with Shampoo instead."

"You got it all wrong!" Ranma protested. "This ain't a date, not with Kasumi and Nabiki along!"

"Good!" Shampoo purred. "You come with me, then. I show you much better time." She tugged on his arm.

Ranma took in Kasumi's expectant look, Nabiki's disgusted look, and Akane's breathless look, and remembered: '...if you're nice to me I win, and if you're nice to her, she wins... don't you want me to win?' It was enough.

"Quit it, Shampoo. I came with Akane, and I'm leavin' with Akane."

Akane gasped in delight. Shampoo's eyes narrowed. Her hand flicked out to Ranma's water glass. Splash!

"What the hell ya do that for!" Ranma screeched.

"Ha, now you no enjoy not-date so much, eh?" Shampoo turned to flounce back to the kitchen. Splash!

"Miyaarl!" Shampoo crawled out of her dress and shook water off her paws.

Akane put her empty water glass down with a satisfied expression, then blinked. Ranma was balancing atop the back of her chair, terrified. "Ca-cat!" she stuttered. Shampoo was waving her soggy tail and preparing to leap for the seat of Ranma's chair.

"Oh, I'm sorry, Ranma! I forgot!" Akane jumped up and carefully punted Shampoo into the kitchen. Some of the other patrons applauded. Akane waved to them, then sat down. Ranma dropped into her own chair, still looking frazzled. Her good clothes were now wet and baggy.

"Hell," Ranma remarked, then brightened. Her ramen had survived the encounter unscathed. She started slurping her lunch.

Akane called Mousse over. "Could we get some hot water, please?"

Mousse glanced warily in the direction of the kitchen. "I regret that I am unable to provide hot water at the moment," he said, sounding like he meant the regret part.

Akane nodded. Of course he's not going to oppose Shampoo directly. "That's all right, Mousse. I understand."

Mousse leaned down, whispered in Akane's ear, and moved on. Akane blushed. "What?" Ranma asked suspiciously.

"Oh, nothing," Akane said, smiling. "I'll tell you later."

Kasumi and Nabiki started eating. "Good," Nabiki pronounced. "Free, too." The others stared at her. "Well, if they think we're going to pay for this after that performance, they can think again!"

"Sorry about the disaster," Ranma said to Akane on the way home. Ranma was still wet and female. Kasumi and Nabiki had dropped well back.

"That's all right," Akane said. "I got what I went for."

Ranma eyed her sidelong. Akane looked happy. "You figure you won, then?"

"Oh, yes. Between dropping the bowls, resorting to dirty tricks, and being kicked into the kitchen, she was way behind on points. But you telling her off clinched it. Thank you, Ranma. I could still have lost if you'd gone with her."

"Aw, I couldn't of done that," Ranma said uncomfortably.

Akane studied her. "Yes, you could have. And I was a little afraid you would. But you didn't, and I'm glad." I just hope I'm right about why.

"So, what'd Mousse tell ya?" Ranma asked, hoping to change the subject.

Akane laughed. "He said 'Good hunting.'"

"Stupid Akane," Shampoo griped, upstairs at the Nekohanten and dressing after her hot-water treatment.

Cologne cackled. "I warned you that your plan might backfire. The Tendo girl's got her hooks into Son-in-law now, and he's not wiggling much. She's tougher than you thought. Maybe I'll adopt her."

Shampoo stopped. "Great-grandmother! You wouldn't!"

Cologne turned an ancient gaze on her. "Child, you know very well that I'm not here to guarantee your success." She puffed on her pipe. "If I were, this would have been over long ago."

"He's mine," Shampoo said stubbornly. "I'll win him yet."

"Perhaps, perhaps not. It's good training either way," Cologne said comfortably. "Don't do anything stupid, though. And try to enjoy life in the meantime. As I do."

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'Two Marriages: Novellas' by Phillip Lopate

Two Marriages

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THE publication of new fictions -- the first in more than 20 years -- by one of our most reliable men of letters is an occasion worth marking and measuring. Phillip Lopate is best known as an essayist. The celebrated author of half a dozen collections of literary nonfictions, including "Bachelorhood," "Portrait of My Body" and the recent "Waterfront: A Journey Around Manhattan," he is also the editor of the form's definitive anthology, "The Art of the Personal Essay" -- a truly serviceable enterprise that connects the work of Augustine and Montaigne to Hubert Butler and H.L. Mencken, thence to Joan Didion and Annie Dillard.

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Lopate has also published poetry and film studies, his reviews and commentaries turn up in all the best journals and magazines, and he holds a chair at Hofstra and conducts workshops at Columbia, the New School and Bennington. In short, he is a bookish man working in a variety of available forms on a free range of subjects. But not since "The Rug Merchant" (1987) in which he conjured the lot of Cyrus Irani -- an intellectual melancholic and hapless bachelor -- has Lopate turned to the alchemy of fiction.

"Two Marriages" is full of binaries: two stories about two couples, to wit -- Gordo and Rita, Frank and Eleanor. Both husbands are 48, both wives in their 30s. Both love nests are in Brooklyn -- one in an 11-room "mansion" in Dyker Heights, the other in a brownstone in Cobble Hill. The first and longer novella covers two years, in two parts, of "The Stoic's Marriage," while the second -- "Eleanor, or The Second Marriage" -- involves a pair of divorcées, two years into their second attempts, whose weekend plans include a pair of dinners, Saturday nights out, Sunday nights in and the litter of friends, children, past histories and new hopes that surround the reconstructed spouses. And, of course, each of these novellas involves two stories: the "his" and "hers" versions, often at odds, that form the core of most consortia. Studies in deceit and intimacy -- Lopate's fictions deftly deconstruct the fictions married people build to house their marriages.

There's this echo in "The Stoic's Marriage" of the voice we are accustomed to in Lopate's essaying: a monkish, introspective, finely schooled and mildly beleaguered man in the habit of talking to himself, alone, in search of what it is that rings true in his experience ("A cat examining its fur," as Lopate has written elsewhere of Montaigne). That is how his earnest diarist opens "The Stoic's Marriage":

"May 14

"I would like to record here, in this brand-new notebook of twenty-two lines per page, with my new Rollerball pen, the story of my marriage as it unfolds. Why? Because a good marriage deserves to be examined as well as commemorated, it requires alertness, vigilance. All unhappy marriages are actually alike (pace Tolstoy), the two partners endlessly miserable because they fail to communicate, and the wellsprings of mutual affection dried up, replaced by petty malice. But each happy marriage is at once a miracle and a complex mechanism, like a Swiss clock whose successful inner workings, once analyzed, could conceivably offer hope to conjugal sufferers everywhere."

This willingness to open the clockworks, pull out the innards and have a look is Lopate's signature ante, his gambit, the pawn pushed forward with the come-hither look to announce that this is a game he wants the reader in on. And he does. Lopate's stoic is feckless and hopeful, a devotee of Epictetus, the product of nuns and Jesuits, self-doubting, self-editing, self-deluding, given to fits of generosity, introspection and connivance; an idler, an adjunct, a man apart. He is, in short, in love. His paramour is an illegal alien with breasts he can't help but admire and a sexual liberty that frees him to consider the dynamics of love beyond a marriage of convenience. Their little ship of love sets forth, as every marriage must, in search of the truth about one another -- an epic quest of such invention that we are both tickled and a little traumatized by the ship's log:

"April 22

"We can live out our fantasies, it seems, for a while at least, and perhaps the wall between fantasy and reality is more permeable than we suspected, provided we relinquish, going into the game, any hope for understanding what is going on or what is just ahead, in other words, the whole concept of foresight. So the question 'What did you expect?' becomes moot."

If this sounds like an essayist wrestling with the fictionist, the reader is willing to forgive. We are, like his characters, happily adrift in the narrative. Events shape Lopate's heroes more than the reverse. They rarely make things happen. They are bystanders, passersby, not altogether unreliable witnesses, not entirely innocent victims, men to whom things happen, often at the hands of women. Will they run aground as comedy or tragedy? Ever the contrarian, Lopate leaves us multiple choices: maybe neither, maybe both, maybe we will never know.

In his essay, "Against Joie de Vivre," Lopate considers the math of dinner parties: "Much thought has gone into the ideal size for a dinner party -- usually with the hostess arriving at the figure eight. Six would give each personality too much weight; ten would lead to splintering side discussions; eight is the largest number still able to force everyone into the same compulsively congenial conversation." But in the second of these "Two Marriages," Frank and Eleanor end up with nine -- three couples, three variously unattached free agents, and nine Cornish game hens in two pans in the oven. Frank fears age and death. Eleanor fears the further loss of beauty. The deal they've made is for safe harbor:

"He was in love with Eleanor's sex. And yet he knew that there was nothing extraordinary about her vagina in terms of its shape or the texture of pubic hair. He was a grown man, he had never felt that a woman's sexual organ had to have such-and-such configuration, narrowness or tightness of fit, or feel like cashmere mittens. Well, why then this infatuation? In some uncanny way he felt his penis belonged there. It was his nesting place, his cove; it made him think of Sailor's Snug Harbor on Staten Island. . . ."

There's magic in the way, in Lopate's prose, the sublime beds down with the ridiculous, the sigh gives way to the hoot, the grin becomes, alas, a wince. He is a master of the sentence and the scene-set, which lend to these brief novels the widescreen, cinematic thrill not often available in the close quarters of intimate dialogue. And it is after the party, Sunday night giving way to Monday morning, that Frank and Eleanor abandon their "compulsively congenial conversation," in trade for real communion. In the give and take of their painful, graceful, hurtful, half-hearted talk, we hear ourselves.

"You've gotten to where you just make things up," my wife once said to me. Whether praise or complaint, I couldn't say, but reading Lopate, I hope it's so.

As with marriages, so with the best of fictions: Things happen that can never be predicted. The nuptial pacts are ever being renegotiated. The mail-order bride comes with complications. The best of men must often disappoint. A second marriage comes with no guarantees. Every expectation is undone. For Gordo, the dispassion prescribed by Epictetus (who counseled that we cannot control events, only our reactions to them) leaves him cuckolded, dispossessed, a little wary of women, but stoic nonetheless and, in odd ways, more alive for all that has befallen him. It is much the same for Frank and Eleanor. It is impossible to separate the dream from the dull facts of the matter. These are contracts, for better and worse, public bargains cut between private parts -- checkbooks and genitals, home and hearts, fidelities and trusts. We cannot know the truth, but we can have the stories.

Thomas Lynch is a poet and essayist whose books include "Bodies in Motion and at Rest" and a forthcoming book of fictions from W.W. Norton.

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Here's an experiment: Try to remember the last time you purposely left the house without your smartphone.

If you're having trouble coming up with an answer, you're not alone — and you're exactly the type of person the makers of the Light Phone are targeting.

The Light Phone is the anti-smartphone. It does two things and two things only: It sends calls and receives them.

It doesn't text, it doesn't connect to Twitter, and it doesn't have a camera. All you're able to do with the Light Phone is have your calls sent to it via call forwarding and program in 10 speed dials. Light's founders actually say the phone is designed to be used "as little as possible."

So why would a company build a product it doesn't really want you to use? Easy: To help cure smartphone addiction.

I tested the Light Phone — which costs $150 — to see if I could leave my phone at home and "go Light." It was a lot harder than I thought.

Productivity...but at the cost of connectivity

I decided to begin testing the Light Phone during a work day to see if it made me more productive.

That was a huge mistake.

For starters, I write about tech for a living and half my job is to cover apps. So testing out a phone during work where you physically can't download an app was extremely stupid of me.

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Here's a sampling of my notes during the first few hours I spent using the phone:

10:46 a.m. So far so good. It's way less distracting to have this little guy on my desk instead of having my phone light up constantly with emails, alerts, doubled up Slack messages, etc.

11:17 a.m. OK except now I need to look up something in the App Store aaaaand I can’t

11:27 a.m. The smartwatch I’m trying to review isn’t working, and I need my phone to reconnect the Bluetooth. I’m officially useless at work.

Clearly, my first day didn't go very well.

It quickly became apparent that the Light Phone isn't necessarily designed to be used during the work day, at least for people who have a job like mine.

Still, there's something to be said about minimizing your distractions during the day. If I'd been working on something else the day I tested it, like writing a long feature story, the Light Phone would have been the perfect tool for keeping me focused.

Before the know-it-alls get all worked up: Yes, I know you can use the "Do Not Disturb" setting on your iPhone. I'm fully aware you can also put your phone out of your line of sight, or in your bag, or in a drawer. But having a tool that keeps you connected but isn't constantly lighting up, ringing, vibrating, or otherwise pulling your focus is much more effective.

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While in the past, creativity and well-founded know-how were sufficient for the perfect start to a successful career, today – from my view – it is necessary to also compete on an international stage and to have experts assess the quality of your work. Design competitions offer the kind of international confirmation that young designers need to exist and establish themselves in these fast-changing markets. Winning a design competition increases their self-esteem and reflects strong conceptual skills.

Winning an award can guarantee worldwide visibility and strong media attention. The biggest and most prestigious design awards offer young talent a great chance to present themselves and their work in competition with established designers and prepares them for professional challenges. They know: when they win, they win at the highest possible level.

The participation in a competition is a great chance to strengthen the trust of potential clients in their creative potential. Like in sports, taking part is always better than just watching the others being honoured and fulfilling one’s own dreams. Through their success, they can validate whether they are following the right path or not.

There are unlimited possibilities in the world of design. As creativity knows no boundaries, the next generation of talent should look beyond the horizon, stay cross-culturally inspired and break new ground. This requires a lot of courage and intellectual flexibility: to think in new directions, not to conform to general opinion, but to create their own distinctive style. At the end of the day, as a young person, you need a strong backbone to achieve these aims.

Innovative ideas for the future need creative minds.
In order to enable the next design generation to participate successfully, the program ‘red dot young professionals’, by which red dot especially wants to support young new and upcoming designers, was brought into being. Young designers with academic degrees dating back no longer than five years, can register for one of 50 free applications. We have many hundreds of young designers applying each year.

To find out where you stand, the ‘red dot: junior prize’, for instance, honours the most outstanding work of
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In particular, in the world of communication design, young designers have to adapt to ever-changing conditions. The increasing media coverage in our everyday world reveals a huge range of information
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Regarding the keywords ‘globalisation’ as well as
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Representative-elect Joseph P. Kennedy III wed fiancée Lauren Anne Birchfield on Saturday afternoon in Corona del Mar, California, surrounded by family and friends, according to spokeswoman Emily Browne.

Birchfield’s father, the Rev. Jim Birchfield, officiated at the ceremony at Community Church, Browne said in a statement.

Kennedy, the 32-year-old son of Joseph P. Kennedy II, former US representative, and the grandson of US Senator Robert F. Kennedy, beat Republican Sean Bielat last month to win the Congressional seat left vacant by the retirement of U.S. Representative Barney Frank.

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Newlyweds: RFK's grandson and Ms Birchfield, now Ms Kennedy, were married in a stunning seaside church

New Kennedy: Lauren Anne Birchfield and Joe Kennedy hold hands outside a fundraiser at the John F. Kennedy Library in Boston, Massachusetts

Birchfield’s parents announced Kennedy and Birchfield’s engagement in January.

Community Church, where Mr and Ms. Kennedy were married, is set in this quiet residential neighborhood near the Pacific Ocean and holds about 200 people.

Corona del Mar (Spanish for 'Crown of the Sea') is a well-heeled neighborhood in Newport Beach, California.

The new bride grew up in Southern California.

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Aitor Karanka has left his post as Middlesbrough head coach following the club's slide into the Premier League relegation zone.

The 43-year-old Spaniard departed on Thursday morning with Boro 19th in the table having not won in 10 league outings since December 17, and scoring only three goals in the process.

His exit was announced in statement on the club's website, which read: "Middlesbrough Football Club can today confirm the departure of head coach Aitor Karanka. Following discussions, both parties have agreed that it is in the best interests of the club to make this change."

The statement continued: "The club would like to thank Aitor for all his hard work over the past three-and-a-half years and for the success we've had during that time. We wish him all the best for the future."

Karanka had remained confident of easing promoted Boro back above the safety line in the remaining 11 games of the season and was encouraged by his team's display in Saturday's 2-0 FA Cup quarter-final defeat by Manchester City.

However, he did not get the chance as his reign came to an end after three years and four months.

Karanka said: "I'd like to thank Middlesbrough for a wonderful opportunity and the players, staff and all the people at the club who I have worked with. I'd also like to thank the fans for their support.

"This club will always hold a special place for me and I wish everyone connected with Middlesbrough Football Club the very best for the future."

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JIHADIS may be happy torturing prisoners, but when these lads were faced with a real battle they turned tail, donned a dress, and ran.

The trio of ISIS fighters were captured by US-backed Syrian Democratic forces while attempting to escape from the city of Manbij in Syria.

Instead of standing to fight for their beloved caliphate, these wimps dressed up in full length black hijab veils and joined civilians fleeing the city.

Daesh fighters were given an ultimatum by the SDF to leave the city of be destroyed, but majority stayed behind.

DRAG-HDIS: They insisted they were women

The jihadi trio's cross-dressing plan backfired and they were spotted by the eagle-eyed soldiers who posted a video of the miserable looking jihadis being forced to lose their disguises.

In the clip the men are sat in from the of opposition fighters, with their faces covered before they end up stripping down to their underwear.

One of the fighters reportedly claimed to be an ISIS sniper, but the ultimate fate of the men after their capture is unknown.

This is not the first time jihadis have dressed up as women, with reports of them shaving their beards and wearing make up in February in Iraq.

Manbij is a key supply route to the ISIS stronghold of Raqqa and is considered a key strategic location for the jihadis.

But the caliphate is being repeatedly smashed and consistently losing ground as they are pounded by coalition airstrikes.

Despite their military defeats on the ground, the caliphate is continuing to torture – unveiling a spine-cracking tool called the flying carpet – and experts have warned they are trying to step up their lone wolf attacks abroad.

This week, ISIS celebrated and attempted to claim the massacre in Munich as their own before it was revealed as being the work of a lone deranged teenage psychopath.

Vladimir Putin crushed two bases with a long range airstrike as he called on the world to fightback against the terrorists after last week’s lorry rampage in Nice.

The death cult however managed to detonate a bomb in Iraq, killing 80 people, and warned London’s Covent Garden could be next on their hit list.


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Breaking his silence after the Congress’ drubbing in Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand assembly polls, Gandhi also said his party needed structural and organisational changes.

“We have an ideological fight with the Bharatiya Janata Party and we will continue to do that. What BJP has done in Manipur and Goa, is basically what their ideology is and which is what we are fighting,” Gandhi told the media.

Asked to comment on allegations that the Congress’ central leadership did not act soon enough in Goa, Gandhi replied: “It’s not a question of soon enough, it’s a question of how much money the BJP has thrown to steal the mandate in Manipur and Goa. That’s the question.”

Gandhi said the Congress’ performance in the assembly polls was not bad.

“We are in the opposition, you have ups and downs. We had a little down in Uttar Pradesh, that’s fine we accept it.

“We had five elections, we formed the government in Punjab and won in Manipur and Goa. That is not a bad result. It is true that we lost in Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand.

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2017 campaign to Dayr al-Barsha: student diary

On 9 March 2017 the new archaeological campaign to Dayr al-Barsha started. Among our team of specialists, we also have 3 students and 2 recently graduated students. In a weekly diary, we want to make you experience life on the excavation through their eyes. We start with the first week, written by Maarten Praet.

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B. Vanthuyne, “Early Old Kingdom rock circle cemeteries in Deir el-Bersha and Deir Abu Hinnis”, in: M.D. Adams, B. Midant-Reynes, E.M. Ryan and Y. Tristant (Eds.), Egypt at its Origins 4. Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference “Origin of the State. Predynastic and Early Dynastic Egypt", New York, 26th-30th July 2011, Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta 252 (Leuven, 2016), 427-459.

New article by Harco Willems

A new article by Harco Willems has just appeared:

Willems, H., 'Die Grabkammer des Djehutinakht (I.?) in Dayr al-Barshā – methodologische Aspekte der Rekonstruktion des Ablaufs des Bestattungsrituals anhand eines neuentdeckten Beispiels.' in: A.H. Pries (ed.) Die Variation der Tradition. Modalitäten der Ritualadaption im Alten Ägypten. Akten des Internationalen Symposions vom 25.-28. November 2012 in Heidelberg (Orientalia lovaniensia analecta 240: Leuven, 2016), 133-170.

GoFundMe campaign for the antiquities guards of Dayr al-Barsha

On Saturday 20 February, in the middle of the night, the antiquities guards of Dayr al-Barsha (Middle Egypt) were confronted with a gang of tomb robbers who were looting one of the tombs at the site. In an ensuing exchange of fire, one of the guards, Ashrawy, was killed, while two others were injured. Yesterday we were informed that the second guard, Mustafa Ali, who was badly injured, also passed away. Both men did not deserve such a fate, and our thoughts and prayers are with their families.

Ghafir Ashrawy

We were shocked to be informed today of the death of our ghafir Ashrawy. As far as our information goes, some antiquities looters were apprehended by Ashrawy and two other guards. In an ensuing exchange of fire, Ashrawy got killed, the two others were injured. Ashrawy has been with us as a guard since the start of the KU Leuven mission to Dayr al-Barsha. He was a very loyal and gentle man (and, in fact, a gentleman). He would have deserved a better fate. Our thoughts are with his family.

PhD defense Athena Van der Perre

On Thursday 25 November Athena Van der Perre succesfully defended her PhD dissertation "Stone for Amarna. The Use of ancient limestone quarries in the Greater Dayr al-Barsha Region". Congratulations, dr. Van der Perre!

Study day: Djehutihotep. 100 years of excavating in Egypt

In 1915, the American archaeologist George Reisner began excavations in the Egyptian village of Dayr al-Barsha. A hundred years later, a KU Leuven team carries on the excavations. This centennial is the occasion for an exhibition about how archaeology was pursued in Egypt a hundred years ago, and how this work continues to impact on modern research.

Exhibit: Djehutihotep. 100 Years of Excavating in Egypt

On 5 November 2015 an exhibit about the research history at the site of Dayr al-Barsha will open in the Royal Museum of Art and History in Brussels, titled 'Djehoetihotep. 100 jaar opgravingen in Egypte'. This exhibit is organised by the Egyptology department of the KU Leuven and its students. More info can be found at (in Dutch).

Looting of the tomb of Djehutihotep

Two weeks ago, the Egyptological world was shocked by tweets by Monica Hanna about the looting and extensive destruction of the tomb of Djehutihotep at Dayr al-Barsha. According to some reports, entire walls with relief decoration would have been removed, and one report even suggested the dig house had been looted.

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Dayr Abu Hinnis

 Dayr Abu Hinnis is located on the east bank of the Nile, a few kilometres north of Dayr al-Barsha and to the south of the well-known archaeological site of Antinoopolis (Shaykh ‘Ibada). The extensive archaeological site of Dayr Abu Hinnis, located east and south-east of the village, is divided into three wadis, which contain more than two hundred limestone quarries. The first exploitation phase started in the New Kingdom, but then, apparently after having fallen in disuse for a long time, new quarries were opened in the Late Period. Both subterranean galleries and open air quarries are present in the area. The gallery quarries were re-used by monks and hermits in the Early Christian Period as living- and working quarters. Dayr Abu Hinnis is mostly known for the rock church dedicated to Saint John the Baptist, which is installed in one of the old quarries.

The objectives of the project are twofold. The first goal is to document the New Kingdom exploitation of the quarry complex in all its aspects (inscriptions, exploitation techniques, social structures). Secondly, the material remains of the Early Christian Period in this area will be documented and studied.

The Amarna Period (ca. 1353-1336 B.C.)

 Thousands of unpublished hieratic inscriptions can be found on the ceilings of these quarries: names, graffiti, dates, and quarry marks. Moreover, many ceilings are covered with yellow or red ochre lines. In conjunction with quarry marks and dates, these lines give information on quarrying techniques, work progress and -organization. The names and graffiti add a personal touch by telling about the people who worked here.

 Some of these lines mark a rather small rectangular space, matching blocks with dimensions of approximately 55-60cm x 25-30cm that can be found in situ. These are so-called talatat blocks that were used during the Amarna Period. These blocks, with inscriptions referring to Akhenaten and the Amarna temples, and the vicinity of the city of Amarna, strongly suggest that the main exploitation phase can be narrowed down to this period and that limestone from Dayr Abu Hinnis was used to build Egypt's new capital at Amarna.

The Early Christian Period

 From ca. the fourth century onwards, monks and hermits converted the gallery quarries into working and living quarters and also for liturgical purposes. Doorways, windows or cupboards were cut or carved, stone walls were built to divide spaces into smaller units, and outside structures were added. Plaster fragments show that most of the living spaces were well finished and that there was a certain degree of comfort. Paintings and sculptures preserved show care and attention to detail.

 In the south-western corner of one of the largest quarries (DAH 12) a church is located that is dedicated to Saint John the Baptist. The unique wall paintings in the church and the adjacent baptistery depict saints and scenes from the Life of Saint John the Baptist (sixth-eighth century). Apart from church and living quarters, a communal centre (DAH 33) and a weaving workshop (DAH 16) could be identified.

Hundreds of inscriptions, incised, engraved, or painted, mainly in Greek and Coptic but also in Syriac, testify to monks and their function in the monastic community, to visitors, to prayers and memorials.

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DELATTRE, A. (2003), 'L'apophtegme de Grégoire de Nysse au Deir Abou Hennis', Aegyptus 83, p. 223-227.

VAN DER PERRE, A. (2011), 'De vergeten steengroeven van Achnaton', Ta-mery 4, p. 112-121.

VAN LOON, G.J.M. and DELATTRE, A. (2004), 'La frise des saints de l'église rupestre de Deir Abou Hennis', Eastern Christian Art 1, p. 89-112.

VAN LOON, G.J.M. and DELATTRE, A. (2005), 'La frise des saints de l'église rupestre de Deir Abou Hennis. Correction et addition', Eastern Christian Art 2, p. 167.

VAN LOON, G.J.M. (2011), 'Priest and Father, Prophet and Martyr: Zacharias, parent of Saint John the Baptist, in: EATON-KRAUSS, M., FLUCK, C. and VAN LOON, G.J.M. (eds.), Egypt 1350 BC AD 1800. Art Historical and Archaeological Studies for Gawdat Gabra, Sprachen und Kulturen des christlichen Orients 20 (Wiesbaden), p. 87-108.

VAN LOON, G.J.M. and DELATTRE, A. (2006), 'Le cycle de l'enfance du Christ dans l'église rupestre de saint Jean Baptiste à Deir Abou Hennis', in : BOUD'HORS, A., GASCOU, J. and VAILLANCOURT, D. (eds.), Études Coptes IX. Onzième journée d'études (Strasbourg 12-14 juin 2003), Cahiers de la bibliothèque copte 14 (Paris), p. 119-134.

WILLEMS, H. and DEMARÉE, R. (2009), 'A Visitor's Graffito in Dayr Abu Hinnis. Remarks on the Source of Limestone Used in the Construction of al-Amarna', Revue d'Egyptologie 60, p. 222-226. (DOI: 10.2143/RE.60.0.2049286; link Peeters Online Journals)


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Here's what I'm doing:

HEXAGON: create a BOX, export in *.obj
STUDIO4: import, set surface, SAVE AS SCENE (as I do not find any options to save as PROP or CLOTHES or etc.)

STUDIO4: BOX is listed, but labeled as SCENE

Is this just the way or is there something I'm missing.

Also, provided the BOX was of high enough quality, would this be all that is needed to SELL it (if I were a PA) or are there other steps to take?

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  • kitakoredazkitakoredaz Posts: 3,045
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    check again top menu :coolsmile:

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  • winberrywinberry Posts: 19
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    Great, thanks!

    I saw that but didn't understand what it meant.

  • ghastlycomicghastlycomic Posts: 2,170
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    But how do you load it then? It doesn't show up in the Smart Content menu.

  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 32,403
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    As long as you saved to a mapped directory it should be available in the Content Library, under DAZ Studio Formats>folder you saved to. When it shows in Smart Content will depend on the options for content type and compatibility that you set when saving.

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    I've found that saving a scene file in DS4.5 doesn't automagically add it to the Content Library. It only shows up next time I search for content.

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  • Donald Trump cannot unite the Republican Party

    Donald Trump cannot unite the republican party, nor should he. The current Republican Party is really nothing short of democrats in sheep's clothing. There is no discernible difference between mainstream Republicans and Democrats. Donald Trump represents a new order for the Republican Party; One that will actually do what it says when they are elected, As opposed to pandering for votes.

  • Trump is not a uniter

    Donald Trump will not be able to unite the Republican Party. The Colorado delegates took the unusual step of walking out of the RNC. Trump does not seem interested in making conciliatory statements and reaching out to the party. He has a combative personality and many do not seem eager to associate with him.

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    Donald Trump is like the obnoxious uncle we all just 'put up with.' Sure, he tells it like it is but with the aplomb of 5-ton wrecking ball in a china shop. In order for the Republican party to unite, many strong and competent leaders are going to need to step forward and reign Mr. Trump in or they can kiss the presidency goodbye.

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Luscious Lemon and Strawberry Mousse Cake

This delicious and nice-looking strawberry mousse cake recipe is made in two layers. First, there is the cake layer, which is a fluffy sponge cake. Second, there is a creamy, strawberry-flavored mousse layer, which is flavored with brandy, lemon juice and strawberry gelatin, as well as fresh strawberries. This gelatin dessert recipes is perfect for fans of strawberries and if they are in season or if you like to grow strawberries yourself, this is one of the tastiest gelatin recipes to use them in.

There are quite a few different strawberry gelatin recipes to choose from, so whether you prefer a fluffy gelatin dessert, a gelatin cheesecake or a layered gelatin mold recipe, it might be worth growing some strawberries yourself. They are really easy to grow and it works out a lot cheaper than buying them every time.

You can use vinegar in the cake recipe if you prefer, rather than lemon juice. The cake batter needs an acidic ingredient so you can use either of those. You will not be able to taste the vinegar in the finished cake but the lemon perhaps goes better with the strawberry flavor in this strawberry mousse cake.

Strawberry Mousse Cake with Fresh Strawberries
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For the Cake:
  • 3 eggs
  • 1 tablespoon lemon juice
  • ¾ oz cake flour
  • 1 ¾ oz cornstarch
  • ½ teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 7 tablespoons white sugar
  • 4 crushed vanilla cookies
For the Mousse:
  • 1 cup heavy cream
  • ¼ cup milk
  • ¼ cup boiling water
  • 2 tablespoons lemon juice
  • 2 egg yolks
  • 3 oz package strawberry gelatin
  • 1 tablespoon brandy
  • 6 tablespoons white sugar
  • 1 lb fresh strawberries
  1. Separate the egg yolks and whites. Beat the yolks with the sugar until the mixture is fluffy and pale, and then add the vanilla extract. Mix well.
  2. Preheat the oven to 300 degrees F.
  3. Beat the egg whites with the lemon juice in a clean, grease-free mixing bowl.
  4. Keep beating the mixture until it forms soft peaks.
  5. Add the yolk mixture to the egg white mixture and stir.
  6. Sift the cornstarch and cake flour into the egg mixture and stir gently.
  7. Pour this batter into a 12 inch round cake pan and bake it for about 35 minutes.
  8. Take the cake out of the oven and let it cool while you make the mousse.
  9. Take the stems out of the strawberries and rinse them.
  10. Blend half to make a puree and cut the rest into halves.
  11. Dissolve the gelatin in the water in a big bowl, and then stir in the milk.
  12. Add the sugar to the gelatin mixture, and then add the brandy, egg yolks, and lemon juice.
  13. Whip the cream until it is thick, then pour the gelatin mixture and the pureed strawberries into the cream, and mix well.
  14. Arrange some of the strawberry halves around the outside of the cake and smooth the mousse mixture over the top.
  15. Decorate the gelatin mousse cake with strawberry halves and cookie crumbs.
  16. Chill for 3 hours before serving.

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Strawberry desserts always look beautiful. There are few things more attractive than the sight of plump, juicy strawberries decorating a cake, pie or other gelatin dessert. This strawberry mousse cake makes a deliciously light and fruity spring or summer dessert recipe and its attractive appearance makes it appealing to adults and kids alike. If you are making this for kids, you might want to omit the brandy! The strawberry gelatin in this recipe is to enhance the overall strawberry flavor and to give the mousse a thick enough texture not to slide off the cake layer.

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Cosmetic Dentist in Brock (North Rhine-Westphalia) Other Cities in North Rhine-Westphalia > North Rhine-Westphalia > Germany

There can be Cosmetic Dentist in Brock (North Rhine-Westphalia) which you can actually come across on DentalBy and contact to set up a time for a consultation so you could get your teeth worked on and get the smile which you have always dreamed of.

With so many Cosmetic dentistry offices to choose from how do you select? You'll be able to start by searching on DentalBy and choosing a few in your area and contacting them to set up and appointment. Cosmetic dentistry in Brock could be any number of services which assist to correct unwanted and unsightly dental anomalies. A fantastic dentist might help a patient restore a new smile to normal and create new degree of confidence.

Cosmetic dentistry is among the most common practices folks use to change their physical appearance. The clinics listed below are all well knowledgeable in helping patients get back the smiles of their youth. You can actually find numerous Cosmetic dentists in Brock who are exceptional in their craft. They're like artist and can help you to restore your smile and any teeth related challenges which are affecting your appearance.

Cosmetic dentistry is one of the most selective fields in dentistry and the clinics below are the perfect place for you to start your search and discover a dental office in your region that may allow you to inside your troubles.

Nearest Cosmetic Dentist in Brock, found 2,584

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Endodontist in Droschka (Thuringia) Other Cities in Thuringia > Thuringia > Germany

All of the Endodontist in Droschka (Thuringia) are specialized to help you, and if you are possessing a problem obtaining a specialist you can start looking on DentalBy and you might be able to find one sooner than you believe.

DentalBy is one of the very best sites you can use to find these doctors who can perform the essential surgery on you. Check the web site out and you will be able to find a specialist in your area who can help you out. Tooth discomfort is one of the most painful experiences that a patient can go through. They are able to also be very dangerous and result in other severe well being risk, it's important to get any tooth pain taken care of quick, especially if there is nerve pain related.

Root canals are certainly one of the most feared operations that any individual can go through. The name makes most people squirm, but the reality is that if you have a great Endodontist you will not have an issue with the pain. You can find several Endodontist in Droschka (Thuringia) who can help you accomplish a new wholesome smile. If you are in need to have of a root canal this is the very best way to get the situation fixed so you can move on with your life.

There are several Endodontics in Droschka; you can find the best ones on the website DentalBy. On the internet site it is possible to effortlessly get a great quality office that helps you to get your teeth fixed and taken care of.

Nearest Endodontist in Droschka, found 1,059

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Orthodontist in Harle (Hesse) Other Cities in Hesse > Hesse > Germany

The most effective orthodontics offices will be experienced in dealing with all problems which might be brought to them as well as serving and operating with patients of all age groups. They are going to also be equipped to deal with any scenario which arises.

Orthodontist in Harle (Hesse) is highly specialized doctors in the field of dental perform. They carry out the more tricky activity and are specialized in areas that dentist aren't even though they are typically referred by dentist. It's a good idea to get your youngsters looked at early on by Orthodontics in Harle if you think they may have crooked or misshaped teeth. The sooner it's caught the greater it is for the children.

A retainer is a way to help right the upper set of teeth without the use of braces, Orthodontics may be the specialized skill of installing these different forms of corrective devices. When selecting an Orthodontist in Harle (Hesse) for your children, you will need to make sure that its one who is tremendously friendly and experienced in dealing with children. It may make all of the difference for you and your children.

There are numerous orthodontics offices that can help to restore the teeth back to their desired position via the use of braces and with other corrective measures. By looking by means of the list of dentist below you can begin your search for a qualified medical doctor to help you correct any problems you will be facing.

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How much does it cost?

One of the repeated questions I am asked is, how much does it cost to remove amalgam fillings?

Hopefully you will appreciate that I am unable to assess how much it would cost to remove a mercury filling without seeing it, as it all depends on the size of the filling and where it is positioned; and then what method of repair you choose.

This requires me to view your mouth and to discuss.

Please feel free to call The Dentists on 06 8442718 to arrange an appointment.

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