IndyTV #4: Interview with Filmmaker Mara Ahmed
On Sunday June 8th, 2008, Rochester area Filmmaker Mara Ahmed will premiere her film, The Muslims I know at the Dryden Theater in Rochester, NY. Her film takes the form of a conversation between Pakistani-Americans in the Rochester area who come from her own subculture and vox pop interviews with random Rochesterians who are encouraged to ask candid questions about Islam, Middle Eastern culture, and the realities of being an Muslim Immigrant inside the post- 911 United States. Mara Ahmed joins us this week on Indy TV #4, to discuss this honest and important documentary. In the Interview Mara explains that she is seeking to deconstruct the monolithic view of Muslims that the media tends to put forward. As a stating point, to address the negative stereotypes that are attached to Muslims in the US, Mara suggests; First of all, don't believe everything you read in the media, and see on TV. The best way to know what real Muslims are like is just to know a couple of Muslims. If you know a few people who are Muslims, take the time or trouble to know them, I think your views will change completely.
Rochester, New York | Wikipedia audio article
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00:02:29 1 History
00:11:03 2 Geography
00:15:12 2.1 Climate
00:16:10 3 Demographics
00:20:28 3.1 Religion
00:21:41 4 Crime
00:22:54 5 Economy
00:24:00 5.1 High technology
00:25:49 5.2 Food and beverage
00:27:47 5.2.1 Breweries
00:28:19 5.3 Major shopping centers
00:28:35 5.3.1 Former shopping centers
00:29:11 5.4 Tallest buildings
00:29:27 5.5 Companies
00:31:06 6 Government
00:32:00 6.1 Neighborhood Service Centers
00:33:33 6.2 Representation at other levels of government
00:33:44 6.2.1 Representation at the federal level
00:34:20 6.2.2 Representation at the state level
00:34:30 6.2.2.1 New York State Senate
00:34:48 6.2.2.2 New York State Assembly
00:35:08 6.2.2.3 Courts
00:35:29 6.2.3 Representation at the county level
00:35:50 7 Fire department
00:37:22 8 Cityscape
00:37:32 8.1 Principal suburbs
00:38:09 8.2 Neighborhoods
00:39:14 8.2.1 Browncroft
00:39:51 8.2.2 14621 community
00:41:32 8.2.3 Lyell-Otis
00:42:32 8.2.4 19th Ward
00:45:47 8.2.5 Charlotte
00:46:57 8.2.6 Corn Hill
00:48:17 8.2.7 Upper Monroe
00:49:36 8.2.8 East End
00:50:11 8.2.9 Maplewood
00:50:59 8.2.10 North Winton Village
00:53:17 8.2.11 Park Avenue and the Neighborhood of the Arts
00:54:12 8.2.12 Plymouth-Exchange
00:54:43 8.2.13 South Wedge
00:55:51 8.2.14 Susan B. Anthony Neighborhood
00:57:13 8.2.15 Swillburg
00:57:59 8.2.16 Marketview Heights
00:58:29 8.2.17 Homestead Heights
00:59:16 9 Education
01:00:23 9.1 Colleges and universities
01:01:20 9.1.1 University of Rochester
01:02:24 9.1.2 Former colleges
01:03:43 9.2 Secondary education
01:05:03 10 Culture and recreation
01:06:09 10.1 Nightlife
01:08:42 10.2 Park lands
01:10:01 10.3 Festivals
01:12:03 10.4 Media
01:12:57 10.5 Points of interest
01:15:15 10.6 Sports
01:15:42 10.6.1 Professional sports
01:16:38 10.6.2 College sports
01:18:13 11 Transportation
01:18:23 11.1 Maritime transport
01:20:58 11.2 Air transport
01:22:23 11.3 Rails and mass transit
01:27:27 11.4 Major highways and roads
01:29:40 11.5 Later expressway proposals
01:35:36 12 Notable people
01:36:37 13 Sister cities
01:37:08 14 See also
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Rochester () is a city on the southern shore of Lake Ontario in western New York. With a population of 208,046 residents, Rochester is the seat of Monroe County and the third most populous city in New York state, after New York City and Buffalo. The metropolitan area has a population of just over 1 million people. It is about 73 miles (117 km) east of Buffalo and 87 miles (140 km) west of Syracuse.
Rochester was one of America's first boomtowns, initially due to the fertile Genesee River Valley, which gave rise to numerous flour mills, and then as a manufacturing hub. Several of the region's universities (notably the University of Rochester and Rochester Institute of Technology) have renowned research programs. Rochester is the site of many important inventions and innovations in consumer products. The Rochester area has been the birthplace to Kodak, Western Union, French's, Bausch & Lomb, Gleason and Xerox, which conduct extensive research and manufacturing of industrial and consumer products. Until 2010, the Rochester metropolitan area was the second-largest regional economy in New York State, after the New York City metropolitan area. Rochester's GMP has since ranked just below Buffalo, New York, while exceeding it in per-capita income.The 25th edition of the Places Rated Almanac rated Rochester as the most livable city in 2007, among 379 U.S. metropolitan areas. In 2010, Forbes rated Rochester as the third-best place to raise a family in the United States. In 2012, Kiplinger rated Rochester as the fifth-best city in the United States for families, citing low cost of living, top public schools, and a low jobless rate.Rochester is a Globa ...
Ithaca, New York | Wikipedia audio article
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00:01:48 1 History
00:01:56 1.1 Early history
00:05:02 1.2 Partition of the Military Tract
00:06:21 1.3 Growth
00:11:45 1.4 Recent history
00:13:17 2 Geography and climate
00:13:27 2.1 Geography
00:14:52 2.2 Climate
00:16:54 3 Demographics
00:20:07 3.1 Greater Ithaca
00:20:30 4 Local government
00:22:40 4.1 Politics
00:23:34 4.2 Sister city
00:23:45 5 Education
00:24:32 5.1 Colleges
00:25:07 5.2 Public schools
00:26:13 5.3 Library
00:26:42 6 Economy
00:29:05 6.1 Agriculture
00:29:42 7 Media
00:30:52 8 Culture
00:34:21 8.1 Music
00:36:57 9 Transportation
00:37:36 9.1 Roads
00:41:04 9.2 Bus
00:43:21 9.3 Airports
00:44:41 9.4 Railways
00:46:27 10 Points of interest
00:46:36 11 Notable people
00:46:45 12 Reputation
00:48:58 13 See also
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Ithaca is a city in the Finger Lakes region of New York. It is the seat of Tompkins County, as well as the largest community in the Ithaca–Tompkins County metropolitan area. This area contains the municipalities of the Town of Ithaca, the village of Cayuga Heights, and other towns and villages in Tompkins County. The city of Ithaca is located on the southern shore of Cayuga Lake, in Central New York, about 45 miles (72 km) south-west of Syracuse. It is named after the Greek island of Ithaca. Additionally, Ithaca is located 247 miles (398 km) southeast of Toronto, and 223 miles (359 km) northwest of New York City.
Ithaca is home to Cornell University, an Ivy League school of over 20,000 students, most of whom study at its local campus. In addition, Ithaca College is a private, nonsectarian, liberal arts college of over 7,000 students, located just south of the city in the Town of Ithaca, adding to the area's college town atmosphere. Nearby is Tompkins Cortland Community College (TC3). These three colleges bring tens of thousands of students, who increase Ithaca's seasonal population during the school year. The city's voters are notably more liberal than those in the remainder of Tompkins County or in upstate New York, generally voting for Democratic Party candidates.
As of 2010, the city's population was 30,014. A 2017 census estimate stated the population was 31,006.
Namgyal Monastery in Ithaca is the North American seat of Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama.
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John Milton (9 December 1608 – 8 November 1674) was an English poet, polemicist, man of letters, and civil servant for the Commonwealth of England under its Council of State and later under Oliver Cromwell. He wrote at a time of religious flux and political upheaval, and is best known for his epic poem Paradise Lost (1667), written in blank verse.
Writing in English, Latin, Greek, and Italian, he achieved international renown within his lifetime, and his celebrated Areopagitica (1644), written in condemnation of pre-publication censorship, is among history's most influential and impassioned defences of free speech and freedom of the press. His desire for freedom extended into his style: he introduced new words (coined from Latin) to the English language, and was the first modern writer to employ non-rhymed verse outside of the theatre or translations.
William Hayley's 1796 biography called him the greatest English author, and he remains generally regarded as one of the preeminent writers in the English language, though critical reception has oscillated in the centuries since his death (often on account of his republicanism). Samuel Johnson praised Paradise Lost as a poem which...with respect to design may claim the first place, and with respect to performance, the second, among the productions of the human mind, though he (a Tory and recipient of royal patronage) described Milton's politics as those of an acrimonious and surly republican. Poets such as William Blake, William Wordsworth and Thomas Hardy revered him.