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After spending over 25 years putting down roots in a state-owned building on South Dickinson Street, the UW's Tandem Press received word that its digs were being sold. This was a few months ago, which meant moving approximately 8,000 prints in a very short time period.
Director Paula Panczenko was daunted but didn't wilt under pressure.
"I imagined myself on the crest of a wave," she says, "with the entire university behind me offering help."
The UW helped Panczenko's team find a new home for the press on Commercial Avenue. At more than 9,000 square feet, it has enough room for printing, art displays, offices and classrooms.
Last weekend, Tandem hosted a moving sale to lighten their load and raise money for the trip. Hundreds of people lined up on Saturday morning to scope out prints from Richard Bosman, Robert Cottingham, David Lynch, Judy Pfaff and other notable artists.
The move is the beginning of an exciting trajectory for the press.
"We are planning to move onto campus in three years, which will be huge for us," Panczenko says. "Being on campus will enable us to reach out to the existing Madison community while attracting more students and visiting alumni to our programming."
The three-year layover on Commercial Avenue shouldn't slow Tandem down. With artists such as T.L. Solien, Cameron Martin, Jos Lerma, Sam Gilliam and Suzanne Caporael hard at work, and a team of dedicated students observing them, the press is poised to make a mark.
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Pachucas Hector Herrera has given his word to Porto that he will join the club next season, according to an article in Portuguese publication O Jogo.
Herrera was believed to be close to signing in January as the transfer window slammed shut, but the deal appears to be back on.
Ive given my word to Porto, midfielder Herrera, 23, is quoted as saying.
I know that they compare me to Moutinho, he added in part of the interview.
Reports in the Mexican press suggest that a few loose ends still need to be tied up between the clubs for the player to officially make the move.
If El Zorrillo (The Skunk) does sign for the Portuguese giants, he will join fellow Olympic and national team player Diego Reyes, who announced his transfer from Club America to Porto over the past winter.
The Portuguese club is well known for buying Latin American talents, having signed Radamel Falcao, Jackson Martinez, Hulk, James Rodriguez and Nicolas Otamendi in recent years.
Herrera has had a mixed season this Clausura, opening up with a stunning solo goal in the first round of matches against Atlante, but not having the impact he wouldve like through the season, with Pachuca slipping from the playoff reckoning.
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The Boston marathon bombing has focused attention on the word "jihad."
Vice President Biden characterized the alleged bombers as knockoff jihadis." The Associated Press reported that the elder brother had "vaguely discussed jihad" with his mother over the phone in 2011.
"Jihad" is derived from the Arabic word juhd (meaning effort, exertion, or power) and literally translates to "struggle" or "resistance" for the sake of a goal. Used 30 times and in multiple contexts in the Koran, jihad most often denotes a struggle against external enemies, the devil, or one's self. One example from the Koran (49.15) is: "The believers are those who believe in Allah and His Messenger and jahadu (do jihad) with their properties and selves in the way of Allah."
Mark Wilks, an early 19th-century British author, introduced jihad into the English lexicon, defining it as a Muslim "holy war," in his Historical Sketches of the South of India. It's retained that meaning in English; the Oxford English Dictionary defines jihad as "a religious war of Muslims against unbelievers."
Because of its roots and context in the Koran, jihad has a positive meaning to Muslims. Whatever form jihad may take, the struggle is always noble. When the term is evoked against external enemies, it can be used only during just or defensive wars.
During the 20th century, certain Islamic thinkers expanded the concept, says Mary Habeck of the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, and began speaking of jihad as a revolutionary movement, a response to colonial occupation, or an effort to defeat all ideologies opposed to Islamic belief. The most radical definition came in 1980s Afghanistan: Abdullah Azzam preached that it was the duty of all Muslims to take up arms and fight non-Muslims invading or occupying Muslim lands. Islamic militants seized on this interpretation.
By claiming the title mujahid (the Arabic equivalent of the Anglicized "jihadist"), militants and terrorists asserted the legitimacy of their violent actions, even if they involved the killing of innocents, which is explicitly forbidden by the Koran.
Over the last 40 years, Westerners have come to see the term "jihad" as virtually synonymous with terrorist. Many Islamic scholars and activists have argued against Westerners using the term as a shorthand for Islamic militancy. "They are legitimizing the terrorists by calling them jihadis," said Nihad Awad, executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations. "The concept has been hijacked."
In February the Council on American-Islamic Relations launched a media campaign to "reclaim" the original meaning of the word and educate the public via bus-side ads in Chicago and San Francisco. But the misapplication of the term is confined to Westerners and Islamic fundamentalists alone, according to Awad and Habeck. The adoption of the term by Islamic militants has not added negative connotations to the concept within Muslim communities because, Awad noted, Muslim scholars and leaders have been able to push back against the word's corruption. "They will not allow jihad [to be tainted]. This will not fly in the Muslim world."
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo., April 30, 2013 /PRNewswire/ --Love word games? Tired of waiting on your friends? String Theory: a Word Game challenges players to spell as many words as they can before time runs out. String Theory: a Word Game, created by Gecko, LLC, is available worldwide in the App Store starting today for all iOS devices.
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Players spell words on the game board using letters in order from the letter deck. Each time the string makes a complete pass across the board, all the words spelled during that pass get scored and cleared from the board. Players get a limited number of passes of the string with which to spell words, but can earn more during game play by activating specials.
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