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On Fridays, my husband and I are usually writing or researching or doing school visits, but this week we were at home working on our website. We co-write and illustrate a Maya-themed adventure series for 9-14 year-olds called The Jaguar Stones. Eight years ago, we gave up our jobs in a London advertising agency to become writers in rural Vermont. At that point, I knew nothing about the Maya and never dreamed that one day my life would revolve around them – to the extent that we've now explored nearly forty sites in Guatemala, Mexico and Belize, got to know many leading Mayanists, presented at the AIA Archaeology Fair, and visited countless schools around the United States.
It all started when we decided to write a children's book set in the jungles of Central America. My husband Jon had grown up there and the book grew out of his memories of a wild childhood. So at first, the Maya pyramids were just a cool background for our story. But the more we researched the Maya, the more we realized that truth was more fascinating than fiction. It soon became apparent that most textbooks were out-of-date and did not reflect the latest archaeological findings. Since then we've made it our mission to bridge that gap.
Everything we write is checked by Harvard professor, archaeologist and epigrapher, Dr Marc Zender, who keeps us up-to-date with the latest thinking. For example, one of our main characters was a Maya king nicknamed Lord Six Rabbit, a name we loved. Six Rabbit was supposed to be his birthday in the Maya calendar, but Dr Zender advised us that the Rabbit interpretation of that day glyph is now seen as Aztec. (The Maya reading now being star, as in Venus the morning star.) Given the amount of misinformation that's already out there about the Maya, we wanted our books to be as accurate as possible. So, with a sigh, we changed our king's nickname (and his birthday) to Six Dog.
When we visit schools, we often wear pith helmets in a tribute to one of my personal heroes, Sylvanus Griswold Morley – the dashing, daredevil director of the Chichen Itza project and WW1 secret agent. (I even gave the hero of the Jaguar Stones the middle name of Sylvanus.) Or sometimes we wear leather hats like the most famous archaeologist of them all, Indiana Jones. But one of our greatest pleasures is meeting and talking to real life Mayanists. We're trying to film as many of them as possible for our website and today Jon was editing an interview with Dr Mark Van Stone, Professor of Art History at Southwestern, leading expert on 2012 and author of one of the best books on the subject. When it's up, you can view the interview here, along with all the others. Link to archaeologist videos
In the clip, Dr Van Stone is talking about how the myth of the world ending in 2012 arose and why it's complete nonsense. If kids google 2012, they find literally thousands of websites proclaiming doom and gloom and blaming it on the Maya. Many children are terrified, but it's virtually impossible for them to access the truth. So when we visit schools, we try to empower the students to question everything they read on the Internet and give them a much broader understanding of the Maya world. We also try to convey something of an archaeologist's life with a video mash-up of archaeologists and anthropologists talking about their hairiest experiences – usually involving skulls, snakes, scorpions, giant centipedes, cave spiders, killer bees and, in one case, a cockroach sandwich.
While Jon was editing videos, I was scanning in some amazing projects presented to us by students on our last book tour. I'm trying to create some new teacher pages to go along with our lesson plan CD. Sometimes we'll walk into schools and find ourselves surrounded by Jaguar Stones projects on every wall. Other times, they'll decorate the school like a jungle in our honor. One school even had a fog machine to generate an appropriately spooky atmosphere. Recently, a student wrote to us and said: "I used to want to be a doctor and save lives, but now I want to be an archaeologist." Not sure how I feel about that one.
If we get the website sorted before the end of the day, I'm also hoping that we'll get around to packing up the Maya king costume that's currently adorning a mannequin in our dining room. We originally made it to take to schools, and we set it up last week for some passing tourists, but now it's scaring our dinner guests! I think it's the taxidermy eyes in the jaguar mask that freak people out. Of course, no actual Maya king costumes survived the jungle and the Spanish conquest, but we based our design on wall paintings and sculptures. I spent many long hours on eBay bidding for the feathers and found a Las Vegas showgirl headdress that we deconstructed to form the base. The whole thing was made and put together by our niece who'd had experience making circus costumes at university. When we take the costume to schools, it's usually modeled by a teacher, much to the students' delight. We had it with us for school visits in Florida when we went to the Maya at the Playa conference last year. Predictably a late-night reveler insisted on trying it on and wore it back down to the bar where the eminent archaeologist speakers were still, ahem, gathered. We thought they might be horrified at the liberties we'd taken in our design but they all loved it and many of them posed for photos with it!
As soon as we've got the website updated and the costume packed away, it's back to work revising, editing and illustrating The Jaguar Stones book three."


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Check Out SXSW 2014 Accelerator's 6 Music Tech Finalists
By Eliot Van Buskirk of Evolver.fm.
Before each year's SXSW, experts from various fields anoints a new generation of SXSW Accelerator winners out of a pool of finalists chosen from the crop of startups looking to make a big impression to the music and technology industries.
Over 500 web startups applied this year, according to SXSW, and those were winnowed down to 48 finalists. On March 8, a panel of experts will pick the 18 best startups. The next day, those 18 startups will present their stuff to a whole different panel of judges, with both events taking place in front of a live audience of SXSW attendees.
Emcees include former Apple CEO John Sculley, my Wired.com digital-music-reporting predecessor Brad King, and Laurie Segall from CNN, while many of the judges hail from the venture capitalism community, making it likelier that finalists and winners get enough fund to become something you might use — maybe even before SXSW 2015.
Given SXSW's origin as a music festival, we were a bit surprised that only six of the 48 finalists directly or indirectly have something to do with the music scene.
We figured we'd take a look. Here are the at-least-somewhat-music-related finalists from the SXSW Accelerator 2014:
Artiphon [see our preview], Nashville, Tennessee
"Artiphon is a music hardware startup combining advanced sensor technology, iOS, and traditional craftsmanship. Designed in Nashville, Artiphon's first product is an ergonomic multi-instrument, playable in a variety of positions and configurable for any style."
Music applications: performance, recording, fun
sonarDesign, Austin, Texas
"Sonar enables creative professionals to easily create, share, publish, monetize, promote and support immersive micro-apps using only a modern browser. Our integrated user engagement engine provides detailed analytics surpassing third party solutions commonly used with native apps."
Music applications: distributed storefronts, promotion
Plantiga, North Vancouver, Canada
"Plantiga has hacked your shoe, designing the most advanced footwear platform on the planet. The patented technology is smart, personalized and focused on performance. It generates robust real-time movement data; made for apps in health, sports, analytics, biometrics and location."
Music applications: exercise synchronization, motivation, less UI
OP3Nvoice, Austin, Texas
"OP3Nvoice makes sense of the spoken word. It's a set of APIs, SDKs and plugins that enables developers, entrepreneurs and corporate problem solvers to add audio and video search to any application with just a few lines of code."
Music application: hands-free music requests in the car and via wearable technology
Bionym, Toronto, Canada
"In September 2013, Bionym launched its inaugural product, the Nymi. The Nymi is a wearable device that authenticates users through their unique cardiac rhythm, and communicates identity wirelessly for seamless and dynamic interaction with technology."
Music application: heartbeat music interfaces like this
Kiwi Wearable Technologies, Toronto, Canada
"Toronto-based Kiwi Wearable Technologies builds products which help wearers enjoy happier and healthier lives. At SXSW Kiwi will showcase the fashionable, multi-functional 'Kiwi Move' which enables wearers to seamlessly interact with their environments, elegantly simplifying and optimizing their daily lives."
Music applications: Among other things, the Kiwi Move will let its wearers draw musical notes in the air to identify songs around them, like this:


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DENVER — My sister in Denver urged me to exchange an adventurous day in the Rockies for a trip downtown, to the Clyfford Still Museum, and I will be forever grateful. Still was one of the most highly regarded American abstract expressionists of the 20th century, hanging out with luminaries Robert Motherwell, Mark Rothko, Jackson Pollock and Barnett Newman.
He is less well-known due to his decision to avoid the art game. He spent his 60-year career (1920 to 1980) painting and teaching in relative obscurity. But in 1979 the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York honored him with its first-ever retrospective of an individual artist, an exhibit he curated.
After his death in 1980, his estate offered the entire collection, including 800 paintings, 2,000 drawings and many personal items, to any city that would build a museum dedicated exclusively to his art. Denver won the prize, though his only connection to the area was teaching one summer at the University of Colorado in Boulder. We are now able study his life in a new two-story concrete pillbox opened in 2011 next to the Denver Art Museum.
Its grated ceiling allows diffused natural light to illuminate the high-ceilinged galleries of abstract art on the top floor, where Still's early and smaller paintings are shown. The early art shows Depression-era farmworkers with oversize hands and feet, based on his experiences growing up in Washington state and Alberta, Canada.
Massive canvasses are common to abstract expressionists, enabling viewers to almost feel that they are inside the paintings. Whereas for most art there is a focus point, abstract art generally offers no such respite. Our eyes travel from color splash to puzzle piece, searching for a resting place or enlightenment, while relishing the journey. And like a hike though the Rockies, viewers are engulfed by these interlocking pieces of color. To further discourage us from intellectualizing his work, Still did not use titles.
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The basic premise is that the FAA is trying to come up with (and essentially has already issued) a method for determining when an aircraft is damaged to a certain degree that the aircraft can no longer be repaired and the data tag must be surrendered to the FAA or sent back to the original manufacturer for rebuild (which in our case, most of these original manufacturers either no longer exist, or no longer support the models in question). In many cases for super-cub type aircraft, this would result in permanent deregistration of the aircraft in question. These permanent casualties to such a small pool of registered aircraft will no doubt have negative implications long-term in Alaska.
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Kenji as a Burger King: "I needed a costume. I had an orange shirt, I bought some felt and a crown... that's it."
Ed as an Oreo: "It was all homemade —I used a pillowcase as the filling and then wrapped two old pairs of black pants around it as the cookies, and somehow fit the whole thing over my head. Not my finest work, but I was desperate."
Jamie as French Toast: "I made a square frame out of wire hangers and spray-painted the edges of a yellow sheet (toast) brown (crust). Then I wore a striped shirt and black beret to complete the pun. This actually wasn't my first food costume: in first grade, I was a silver Hershey's Kiss."
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Carrie the Fridge: "My mom helped me build a refrigerator costume when I was in middle school. It was basically a giant box but it had an opening door and we filled the shelves with food."
Max's fantasy costumes: "Were money no object I'd go as a stack of pancakes and get in everyone's way. Or be the Kool Aid man with some friends to act as a brick wall I can jump through. WAIT. No. I want to go as Cup Noodles."
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The design for a transit hub that would link ferries, commuter trains and 14 subway lines to the World Trade Center site will shine natural light 60 feet underground, move people on mechanical walkways and make some connection to the 2001 terrorist attacks, officials familiar with the design said.
Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava was to present final drawings Thursday for the $2 billion transit station that New York and New Jersey officials say will be comparable to city landmarks like Grand Central Terminal.
Calatrava, who has designed buildings around the world including the stadium for the Athens Olympics this summer, is adding his design to several visions introduced in recent weeks for the 16-acre site.
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A temporary terminal opened in November, and is now taking more than 24,000 daily riders between New Jersey and downtown and midtown Manhattan, said Port Authority of New York and New Jersey spokesman Greg Trevor.
The station had served 67,000 daily passengers before the attacks; the agency said the permanent hub should begin operating in 2006 and could handle more than 80,000 passengers by 2020.
Calatrava's design will feature a huge, glass-and-steel entrance and will let daylight shine down 60 feet below ground to its four train platforms, according to the Port Authority, which is in charge of the rebuilding.
It will have a huge open plaza, several shops and restaurants and mechanical walkways that connect passengers to ferry service at the World Financial Center and other walkways that link the terminal to 14 downtown subway lines.
The design will also restore a mass transit network in lower Manhattan "in a manner that recognizes the horror and heroism of Sept. 11, 2001," said Trevor. He did not elaborate, but said besides improving downtown mass transit, "the World Trade Center transportation hub must be an architectural icon that will inspire generations to come."
Construction could begin on the new hub by the end of the year, and it should be finished in 2009, the same year the 1,776-foot Freedom Tower is scheduled for completion.
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Have you ever noticed that we all look more attractive when we're smiling? Now with Forever Bright Toothgel #028, you can feel confident that you're putting your best teeth forward.
If you walk into your local discount drugstore, you'll see the market for dental care is jammed with products claiming to whiten and brighten your teeth. But most of those products contain fluoride. You can give your family the gift of a healthy, high-quality toothgel that instead takes advantage of the natural properties in two key ingredients:
- Aloe Vera gel and bee propolis.
Aloe vera has long been known for its healthful qualities, but in 2009 the Academy of General Dentistry released a study stating that toothgels containing aloe vera not only perform as well as regular toothpastes do, they also smooth the gums and teeth. Why not tap into the same aloe benefits you use for the rest of your body to keep your mouth feeling healthy and clean?
Forever Bright also contains bee propolis, which bees use to line the walls of their hives, keeping the interior of the hive safer and sterile than most operating rooms.
Just these benefits alone might be enough to convince you to switch to Forever Bright. But even more convincing evidence comes from a recent announcement from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services that recommends lowering the amount of fluoride in US drinking water.
One reason for the switch is the increased rate of fluorosis, which results in a splotchy (white or brown) pattern on the teeth caused by too much fluoride. The Environmental Protection Agency also recently stated that prolonged high intake of fluoride can cause bone brittleness.
Since Forever Bright contains no fluoride, you can rest assured that you are making the best choice for your family.
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Michelle Moore, Carroll ISD School Board Trustee, joined 34 other school board members from across Texas February 16-18 at the third session of the Leadership TASB class of 2017. Selected by the Texas Association of School Boards (TASB), the group is participating in a yearlong education leadership study program. These trustees represent school districts of all sizes, with student populations of 1,000 to 159,000, and reflect a similar range of property wealth.
Participants who complete all required elements of the study will graduate by earning Master Trustee status. This is the highest designation recognized by TASB.
Meeting in Austin, the trustees began their session by hearing featured speaker Mark Elberfeld, president of the Gabriel Center for Servant-Leadership in Atlanta, Georgia. Elberfeld is a recognized authority on leadership training and focused on characteristics of leaders as servants. Other speakers included Kelly McDonald and Harvey Kronberg. McDonald spoke on critical interpretations from the census data and how they impact school decisions, and Kronberg addressed happenings from the 85th Legislature. The class also visited KIPP Austin and learned about one of the state's largest charter schools.
Other Leadership TASB sessions are scheduled for McAllen, April 20-22 and Fort Worth, June 22-24. Each session has a unique theme that builds on the previous session and features nationally recognized experts in the fields of leadership development and education. Teams also work throughout the year on extended learning assignments between meetings. Created in 1993, Leadership TASB has more than 800 graduates to date.
TASB is a voluntary, nonprofit association established in 1949 to serve local Texas school boards. School board members are the largest group of publicly elected officials in the state. The districts they represent serve more than 5.3 million public school students.


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Real Food is for Real People...
We've put together this collection of recipes to show you how we eat around here. It's not really a coincidence that our food is a lot like our wine: authentic, approachable, and as unpretentious as we can possibly make it.
We'll keep adding to this library over the seasons, to give you loads of choice whatever the occasion you're cooking for.
Chris Wotton
Kitchen Genius
Chris is the main man behind the real food here. Chris' laidback style covers an impressive core of proper, tried-and-tested food wisdom. This guy seriously knows his stuff in the kitchen.
The cooking photos you see here on oxfordlanding.com are shot at his place - an amazing old homestead which is so textbook rustic-perfect, you'd almost think he was doing it on purpose (don't worry, he isn't!).


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Austin, Texas 1 course · 18 holes Driving directions
Course reviews
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+1 votes Jonny T › June 30, 2015
This course is built in an industrial drainage ditch. It requires very little technical skill other than being able to throw a disc far.
+0 votes Jason Youngblood › September 2, 2013
+0 votes Patrick Plaze › January 10, 2013
Closest course to my home in austin, this is a John Houck design. Hole 1 is by far the most difficult starting hole i ahve ever played, a good 4 or 5, can easily end up an 8. this course is a little more open than the other courses in the area and is realyl long, allowing the big bombers to let loose. I love playing here.
+0 votes andrew barger › August 14, 2011
+0 votes Ryan "Tex" Kimbro › June 4, 2012
Mushy sloppy fairways throughout. Plays very long; a couple of fun holes, and short ace looks.
Not a favorite course, or location. Be careful of the electric fence!
Not a favorite course, or location. Be careful of the electric fence!
+0 votes Kirkoman L › April 10, 2013
Nothing to this course but throwing now that too many trees have been carved out. Good course to practice big throws with wind----and little to no trees. Little creek brings water into play (when it does rain)
+0 votes Erik Lukehart › September 3, 2015
Awesome course. Park like setting. Nice and long
+0 votes Matthew Londos › March 16, 2016
Lots of shrubbery. Good for skill building. Has plenty of space to practice hyzers and flicks yet has tight spots to use more advanced techniques.


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EDITORIAL: 26 reasons to act: Lauren Rousseau
Lauren Rousseau invested in an education at UConn and a master's degree from the University of Bridgeport in her pursuit of a career in teaching.
When she finally got a "permanent" substitute teaching job at Sandy Hook Elementary School, she was working part-time at Starbucks and living with her mother, Terri Rousseau, and stepfather, Bill Leukhardt.
Terri and Bill are part of our small family of Connecticut journalists - Terri a copy editor at the News-Times in Danbury, Bill a reporter at the Hartford Courant. The gaping hole in their lives, this profound, unspeakable loss and heartache, is felt inside newsrooms across the state.
Contrary to what some "gun rights" advocates would have you believe, Lauren Rousseau's death on Dec. 14 was not a freak accident or a random, isolated, unavoidable incident.
She was murdered at work with five other adult school employees and 20 of the children they were teaching and attempting to protect.
The number of innocent people killed that day was higher because their murderer had access to a very powerful gun - the Bushmaster AR-15 - and high-capacity ammunition magazines.
As they consider restrictions on the ease of obtaining such instruments of mass murder, we urge Connecticut's state legislators and members of Congress to pause and consider the life of Lauren Rousseau and those who must cope with her loss.


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BGC Partners Announces the Acquisition of the Business of Sterling International Brokers Limited
25 Feb, 2013, 07:30 GMT
LONDON, Feb. 25, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- BGC Brokers L.P., an entity within the BGC Partners, Inc. group (NASDAQ: BGCP) today announced it has acquired the business and certain assets of Sterling International Brokers Limited, a London-based broking firm specializing in Sterling and other major currency transactions.
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"We are excited to acquire the business of Sterling International Brokers which has a strong reputation, talented team of brokers, excellent suite of products and a broad client base," commented Mark Webster, Executive Managing Director and General Manager, at BGC. He continued: "The firm's focus on Sterling and other major currency transactions complements the products we offer clients and we look forward to adding this excellent business into our firm imminently."
Previously owned by the Skipton Building Society, Sterling International Brokers' clients include banks, building societies, the public sector and commercial participants in the Sterling and Currency markets. It is regulated by the Financial Services Authority.
About BGC Partners, Inc.
BGC Partners is a leading global brokerage company primarily servicing the wholesale financial and real estate markets. Products include fixed income securities, interest rate swaps, foreign exchange, equities, equity derivatives, credit derivatives, commercial real estate, commodities, futures, and structured products. BGC also provides a wide range of services, including trade execution, broker-dealer services, clearing, processing, information, and other back-office services to a broad range of financial and non-financial institutions.
Through its eSpeed, BGC Trader, and BGC Market Data brands, BGC offers financial technology solutions, market data, and analytics related to select financial instruments and markets. Through the Newmark Grubb Knight Frank brand, the Company offers a wide range of services including leasing and corporate advisory, investment sales and financial services, consulting, project and development management, and property and facilities management. BGC's customers include many of the world's largest banks, broker-dealers, investment banks, trading firms, hedge funds, governments, corporations, property owners, real estate developers, and investment firms. For more information, please visit www.bgcpartners.com.
Discussion of Forward-Looking Statements by BGC Partners
Statements in this press release regarding BGC Partners' business that are not historical facts are "forward-looking statements" that involve risks and uncertainties. For a discussion of additional risks and uncertainties, which could cause actual results to differ from those contained in the forward-looking statements, see BGC Partners' Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filings, including, but not limited to, the risk factors set forth in our public filings, including our most recent Form 10-K and any updates to such risk factors contained in subsequent Form 10-Q or Form 8-K filings.
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FORT MEADE — Secret threat assessments of Guantanamo Bay detainees that Pfc. Bradley Manning gave to WikiLeaks did not harm national security, a former chief prosecutor at the U.S. detention facility in Cuba testified Tuesday.
Retired Air Force Col. Morris Davis described the briefs as summaries of investigative and intelligence reports meant to be seen by senior military and executive branch officials. They included information about the detainees' known or suspected terrorist ties but the briefs were often inaccurate, he said.
"You don't know if what you're looking at is right or wrong or overstated or understated," he said.
Manning is charged with aiding the enemy and other offenses for leaking hundreds of thousands of battlefield records, State Department diplomatic cables, other classified documents and several battlefield videos to WikiLeaks.
Manning has acknowledged sending nearly 800 classified Gitmo detainee assessment briefs to the anti-secrecy group in March 2010. WikiLeaks published most of the documents on its website starting in April 2011. Five of the leaked documents are the basis of an espionage charge, and all underlie a theft charge.
Davis said four of the men named in the briefs had been released from Guantanamo at least four years before Manning leaked them. The fifth is on a list to be transferred out, Davis said.
He said the still-classified assessments contain little information that hasn't been publicly revealed, including in the 2006 movie "The Road to Guantanamo" and the 2007 book, "The Guantanamo Files."
And he said an enemy would learn nothing of value by reading them.
"If they're trying to gain some kind of strategic tactical advantage, the detainee assessment brief is not the place to get it," Davis said.
He acknowledged on cross-examination that just because a detainee has been released doesn't mean the person is no longer considered a threat. In some cases, U.S. authorities feel they can manage or reduce the threat through law enforcement and intelligence.
A former Guantanamo commander, Navy Rear Adm. David Woods, has testified for the prosecution that the assessments revealed sources of U.S. intelligence and other types of information that could cause serious damage to U.S. national security if publicly released.
Manning, 25, a native of Crescent, Okla., has acknowledged leaking material he downloaded from a classified government computer network while working as an intelligence analyst in Iraq in late 2009 and early 2010.
He faces 21 contested charges. They include aiding the enemy, which carries a possible life sentence, for causing intelligence to be published online, knowing it would be seen by al-Qaida members. Prosecutors produced evidence that al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden obtained digital copies of some of the leaked documents published by WikiLeaks.
Manning has said he leaked the material to provoke public discussion about what he considered wrongdoing by American troops and diplomats. The material included video of a 2007 U.S. Apache helicopter attack in Baghdad that killed 11 men, including a Reuters news photographer and his driver. A military investigation concluded the troops reasonably mistook the photography equipment for weapons.


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Eva Longoria Parker appears to be as surprised as everyone else with the news that Nicollette Sheridan has filed a lawsuit against "Desperate Housewives" creator Marc Cherry – and the actress hopes the suit doesn't hurt the show's image.
"It's a big lawsuit, it's a big deal, I love the show so much, that I would hate for anything to really tarnish the reputation of the show," she said during an interview with Ryan Seacrest on "On Air with Ryan Seacrest" on Wednesday. "I really would like all of it to go away."
Eva said she was not on set when the alleged incident occurred in September 2008, but said it is hard for her to imagine Marc being violent.
(Listen to the interview, HERE!)
"He's funny and sweet… and probably could not harm a fly. He's just so sweet. I do know they had a thing on set, I guess it was a couple of years ago," Eva said, referring to Nicollette's claims that her former boss struck her "across the head and face" on the set – and once she complained, she was fired from the show.
Eva also said that her former co-star was a joy to work with, adding, "Nicolette's a sweet girl too, I'm really confused about this whole thing."
Eva explained that she's had no contact with Nicolette since the blonde bombshell left the ABC series.
"I haven't talked to her since she left the show… we used to be really friendly when she was here, but she was kind of on vacation for awhile, so I haven't seen her around in LA," Eva said. "I would love to see her to find out if everything is OK."
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Smile! Can Crest cure marital decay?
Make sure you have you have your kitchen chores done before you watch The Secret Lives of Dentists. A drama set in a TDTD family (two dentists, three daughters), it has countless scenes involving food preparation, eating, and clean-up. I'd hate to have a sink full of dishes waiting for me afterward.
With some of the most grueling dental scenes since Marathon Man, in addition to all the housework and a lot of vomiting (sounds like a hard sell), Dentists tends to go off-topic for long periods.
The topic is what happens to a marriage after 10 years and three kids. David (Campbell Scott) doesn't realize he takes Dana (Hope Davis) for granted until he sees another man kissing her in a way that arouses his suspicion and makes him start watching his watch whenever they're not together.
David's first response is to run over the good times in his mind, starting when they met in college. Later, those thoughts are replaced by fantasies of his wife in the arms of everyone they know, including his assistant, Laura (Robin Tunney). But he takes no action.
His reasoning is that if he confronts Dana about her suspected infidelity they'll "have to do something about it," while if he lets the affair run its course, "maybe we can save our marriage."
But David has a dark side, and here's where The Secret Lives of Dentists gets cinematic. A truculent patient, Mr. Slater (Denis Leary), who was recently thrown out by his own wife, becomes an ever-present fantasy figure, encouraging David toward confrontation, desertion, murder– whatever.
In the office the real Slater, a horny trumpeter, tries to hit on Laura, who blows him off with, "I'm waiting for a man who takes really good care of his teeth, which I can tell you don't."
About halfway through, the film takes a detour that's interesting at first, showing how even a major crisis can be sidelined by a bout of the flu. In the five days the illness takes to run through the whole family, the movie becomes a comedy. Even Slater's irritating sarcasm turns funny.
When things finally get back on track it's like you're watching television and it's hard to get interested in the show again because there was too long a commercial break (brought to you by children's Advil, in this case) or pledge break. Things are wrapped up rather quickly before the story has time to regain its former momentum.
The Secret Lives of Dentists was adapted by playwright Craig Lucas from the novella The Age of Grief by Jane Smiley.
Director Alan Rudolph gets excellent performances from Scott and Davis and uses Leary well in his customary persona. He also makes excellent music choices, with opera, jazz, rock, folk and classical mixing to good effect with an original score by Gary DeMichele.
Although the family problems in The Secret Lives of Dentists could happen to anyone, the film makes the point that dentists don't just inflict pain, they feel it too. The way the mini-comedy interrupts the maxi-drama keeps this from being Rudolph's crowning achievement, but it still beats a real trip to the dentist.


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Volunteers Lend a Hand at the Burlington Community Garden
As winter approaches the Burlington Community Garden needs to be prepared for the end of the season. Recently a group of volunteers got down in the dirt to do just that. BNEWS Reporter Cory McNeil has more.
This Week's Sports Report with Phil Arcaro
The fall sports season has entered the playoff portion of gameplay. Check out this week's BNEWS Sports Report with Phil Arcaro to see how the Red Devils are faring.
Weekly Sports Report - Season Wrapping Up
The fall sports season is wrapping up. To get the latest check out this week's Sports Report with BNEWS Sports Reporter Phil Arcaro.
BHS Music Boosters' Annual Gala and Silent Auction
The Burlington High School Music Boosters Association is holding its annual Gala. BNEWS Director Rich Hosford went down to the music department to find out more about it and has this report.
Month of Kindness Bill Discussed at Francis Wyman Elementary
State representatives held a committee meeting at a Burlington Elementary School this week to give students a look into the work of government and to have them participate in supporting a bill. BNEWS Director Rich Hosford went to check it out and has this report.
This Week's BHS Sports Report with Phil Arcaro
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BHS Lady's Hockey Honors Former Teammate Killed in Tragic Accident
There was an emotional gathering at the Burlington Ice Palace this past Saturday as the Burlington High Schools girls varsity took to the ice in memory of a former teammate who died tragically at a young age. BNEWS Reporter Cory McNeil has this report.
American Legion Riders 273 Hold Chili Cook-Off
Each year the Legion Riders of Millican-McKenzie Post 273 kick off their fundraising for the year with their annual Chili Cook Off. BNEWS Anchor Phil Gallagher dropped in for a small taste of the action.
College Planning Night 2016
On February 4, 2016, the counselors of the Burlington High School Guidance Department held a college planning informational seminar for parents of BHS students. Below, you can watch the seminar in its entirety if you weren't able to make it that night.
BCAT's Own Mike Duval Buzzing In On Jeopardy
Recently one of the Production Coordinators here at BCAT appeared on the long-running game show Jeopardy. BNEWS reporter, Madi Shipka, attended the screening of the episode he appeared on at BCAT, interviewed people in attendance, and caught up with the trivia master himself. . .


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I checked both my '67 L35's and they have the stamped clamp.
I just had a friend check his '69 427 Corvette he is restoring and it has the wire type clamp. Go figure?


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Newbery Medal Books With Notable Illustrators
> Within the book collecting hobby, in general, the first edition Newbery Medal books have higher collector interest than the Caldecott Medal books. This is especially evident over the past thirty years, where market values of first edition Newbery books have increased dramatically.
The Newbery winners as a whole, being chapter books, have not been included in the Children's Picturebook Price Guide. However, many of the Newbery books include artwork by illustrators covered by the Price Guide, so for the sake of biblographic completeness, the books have been included in the artist's titles.
The Newbery has been awarded by the American Library Association since 1922:
Newbery Award Books, With Illustrations!
We've documented eighty-one Newbery books with pictures and/or cover art by illustrators listed in the Price Guide. Twenty-eight of the books won the Newbery Medal. Twenty-four of the books were both written and illustrated by a single individual, including Robert Lawson and Wanda Gag.
A Visit To William Blake's Inn is the only book to win both a Newbery and Caldecott award. In 1982, Nancy Willard was awarded the Newbery Medal for the story, while Alice and Martin Provenson won a Caldecott Honor for the illustrations.
Two of Wanda Gag's picturebooks, Millions Of Cats (1929) and ABC Bunny (1933), along with another picturebook, Honk The Moose (1936), won Newbery Honor awards in the years prior to the inception of the Caldecott awards. The only other picturebook to win a Newbery awards for writing was William Steig's Dr. DeSoto (1982).
Caldecott Medal winner Maurice Sendak's artwork can be found in six of the Newbery books.
The table lists values for first edition books, with dust jackets!
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text: People Will Talk by truespock A comfortable silence reigned in the captain's softly lighted quarters. It was just passed the start of the third shift, but the two men seated at the utilitarian desk, having long ago set aside the rapidly cooling remnants of their uninteresting dinners, were completely oblivious of the late hour--nor would they have cared if they had realized. Between them towered a massive, intricately carved glass 3-D chess set, one of the captain's most prized possessions as it had been given to him by the other man in the room, in commemoration of their having served together on the ship for twenty-five legendary years. A small, tight smile was beginning to play around the captain's mouth as he contemplated the multi-tiered board, causing the Vulcan across the table from him to cringe inwardly. Surak help us all, thought the not quite visibly worried science officer. He's having another one of his 'human inspirations'. As expected, the captain's next move was sudden, dramatic and game-changing. When he had completed his unorthodox disruption of his friend's meticulously planned strategy, he sat back in his chair, grinning openly now, to savor the unique mixture of ill-concealed surprise and vexation which was quickly spreading over the Vulcan's normally impassive visage. "Captain…", the taller man began hesitantly, his apparent dread of the forthcoming discussion more than evident in his tone. "Spock, we're off duty. Call me Jim", said the captain, pointlessly engaging in the same rote response he had so often used since the 'ancient' beginnings of their friendship. "Jim", Spock, looking uncomfortable, began again. "I feel it is my duty to report some frankly disturbing rumors which are circulating among a small segment of the crew." "Rumors? Such as…?", prompted the captain, tensing slightly at the sight of Spock's obvious concern. "Rumors such as that you and I, and in some cases, Dr. McCoy, are…gay lovers.", Spock blurted, vainly trying not to look as if he had just regurgitated a mouthful of fresh, warm Klingon gagh. "How many crewmen are participating in this rumor/", asked the captain, relaxing now that the subject of Spock's report had been revealed. "Two percent of the crew is actively propagating this rumor, and another four to six percent are showing varying degrees of interest in it.", offered the Vulcan, apparently somewhat reassured by the equanimity with which Jim was receiving the news. "And would these be gay crewmen by any chance?", Jim speculated aloud, knowing that his friend would have an immediate and accurate answer. "Surprisingly, no.", continued Spock, now in his most clinical voice. "Seemingly, the overwhelming majority of this group is composed of heterosexual females." "Well, it must certainly take an outrageously non-traditional mindset to imagine that either of US is gay!", and a fair amount of willful perversion too, the captain finished silently. "What would you suggest?" "Do you wish me to take disciplinary action against the offending crew members?", was the Vulcan's noncommittal response. After a few moments consideration, Jim chose his next words carefully. "Spock, there are four-hundred and fifty men and women aboard this ship…representing every possible outlook on life that can have been thought of. We can't just begin punishing them for having ideas we aren't necessarily comfortable with, or even for discussing those ideas openly among themselves." "We are the commanders of the finest ship in the fleet.", Jim went on, "larger than life. People are going to speculate about us, and some of those speculations are going to be downright weird." "But don't you find it illogical to allow these wanton misperceptions about people in our positions to persist among our subordinates?", protested Spock weakly, poking one last time at the dying embers of an argument he knew he could not win. "Trying to stop these stories is bound to make us look worse than simply ignoring them will, Spock. Nothing they can make up will ever have any real bearing on who we actually are." The Vulcan nodded his understanding as Jim finished with a flourish, "Bottom line, my friend: It's the nature of the beast; people will talk!" Further rumination on the subject was abandoned as the door chime sounded softly and the portal hissed open to reveal a pleasantly smiling Dr. McCoy, carrying a tray bearing a large crystal decanter of Saurian brandy and three shimmering goblets. "Evening, gents." the newcomer spoke with an affable southern drawl. "Play the winner?"


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We're just a couple weeks away from our D: Dive into Media conference, but there's always time to add an icon to the lineup: We're very pleased to announce that music kingpin Jimmy Iovine will be joining us onstage.
Iovine is the studio engineer turned producer turned label executive turned headphone impressario, and he's worked with everyone from Bruce Springsteen to U2 to Eminem to Lady Gaga. Current titles: Chairman, Interscope Records, and co-founder, Beats By Dre.
Those credentials alone would make him a fascinating interview, but now he has added another line to his resume: He's trying to create a digital music subscription service with mass market appeal.
Lots of folks have tried this, but only Spotify seems to have had some success so far. Iovine thinks he can do much better, with a secret sauce that has something to do with a lot of curation and hand-holding.
That kind of confidence in your own taste-making ability runs counter to a lot of today's digital ethos, which holds that people will figure out what they want to hear (or watch, or whatever) on their own, or with the help of friends, or with code. And Iovine thinks that's bunk. So this should be a fun conversation!
And we'll have a bunch of them next month. Here's the lineup of speakers for Dive, which we're holding Feb. 11 and 12 at the Ritz-Carlton in Laguna Niguel, Calif: Sony Entertainment CEO Michael Lynton, Hearst Magazines president David Carey, Google chief business officer Nikesh Arora, Facebook partnership vice president Dan Rose, HBO co-President Eric Kessler, Live Nation CEO Michael Rapino, CollegeHumor co-founder Ricky Van Veen, Vice Media co-founder Shane Smith, Intel media head Erik Huggers and Samsung media head David Eun, Netflix content chief Ted Sarandos (and guests), New Republic owner Chris Hughes, USA Today publisher Larry Kramer, Dish Network founder Charlie Ergen, and Microsoft Xbox executives Yusuf Mehdi and Nancy Tellem.
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2nd state chemist accused of drug tampering in court
Farak stole drugs for personal use from lab, prosecutors say
A state crime lab chemist accused of tampering with drug evidence has been ordered held on bail in a western Massachusetts courtroom on Tuesday.
Sonja Farak, of Northampton, was charged with possession of heroin and cocaine.
Farak, who works at a lab in Amherst, is also accused of removing and tempering with and removing drug evidence from the lab.
According to court documents, Farak's supervisor found: "In a sandwich bag was a substance that appeared to be crack cocaine."
The substance tested positive for cocaine.
Police also found drugs in Farak's Volkswagen Golf, according to court documents.
"Numerous items of packaging used by the drug lab to store analyzed controlled substances were located throughout the vehicle," according to court documents. "In a storage bin inside the driver's door, a clear plastic baggie containing a white powder that appeared to be cocaine, and a brownish substance, consistent with a substance laced with heroin, was located."
Farak was ordered held on $5,000 bail.
Attorney General Martha Coakley said it was not believed Farak's tampering will undermine evidence or cases.
Last month, the other chemist, Annie Dookhan, was indicted on 27 charges in a case that threatens to unravel thousands of drug convictions. Dookhan, of Franklin, resigned in March during an internal investigation by the state Department of Public Health. She has pleaded not guilty.
State police said they closed the Boston lab where she worked in August after taking over its operation and discovering the extent of her misconduct.
The accusations against Farak, unlike those against Dookhan, don't involve falsification of tests or dry labbing, visually identifying samples instead of performing required chemical testing, the attorney general said.
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- no unit testing. WinMerge development started (and was most active) when nobody really know/talked about unit testing. I thought we could add them later on. But it seems people simply are not interested in that if it is just additional work they need to do.
Unit tests must be part of the required implementation (and patch) not something that can be added later on.
- diff integration through (whole files loaded to) buffers. This causes lots of trouble. It limits file size, causes all kinds of complexity and bugs.
Not sure yet how to really do this - and this will be important decision. Possibly we should at least try to handle files as streams when interfacing with diff. Unicode conversion might make this interesting though.
- interfacing / implementing other diff methods. It is simple fact we need different methods for different needs. Currently we allow switching method for folder compare. But file compare is always diff. Which causes weird results when file compare and folder compare give different results. This must be clarified. Of course it does not make sense to try to compare by date or size in file compare. But what about byte per byte compare for file compare? Perhaps diffs line-based results should be just one special case? In some cases the byte compare is more useful than line compare.
- update the GUI. Current GUI is from Win 95/98 era. Does really not fit to Vista/Windows 7 world.
- less frameworks and libraries to use. QT provides replacements to some of libraries we use. Use QT whenever possible.
- re-think folder- and filecompare relation. Does folder-compare really own filecompare windows opened from it?
- filtering is very central feature not something added above other things. Filtering can dramatically reduce compare times and help users to see the important changes. For users it is very important to see two important changes instead of hundreds of uninteresting ones. Filtering must be easy, fast and obvious to use.


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Sweet Mustard Eggs Bento
I got tired of sausages after yesterday's deluxe bento, so today I decided to have some eggs with lunch. I put some sweet mustard over the cooked yolk to have them pack some punch and they were really interesting!
I prepared also hand-made furikake (rice sprinkles) with ingredients I like, which made my rice extra tasty today!
Deluxe bento idea
This idea mixes the basic sausage bento idea with previously mentioned teriyaki smoked salmon don for a more premium feel of the bento, without adding any more trouble while making the bento.
Teriyaki sausages and rice bento
Sausages are a huge part of my bento making — they are easy to prepare, ridiculously delicious and so straightforward to store that I just like to toss some of them into any of my bento!
This particular recipe has a teriyaki twist, thanks to cooking the sausages in water with teriyaki sauce. Yum!
Sausage salad bento idea
Bento is not only rice, and you can eat a delicious meal with other ingredients like potatoes, green beans and... cornichons! This is my bento idea for days when I literally cannot look at rice, e.g. the day after sushi day. And, because most of the ingredients are pre-made in jars, you can quickly assemble this set when you're short on time. What's not to love about this bento idea?!


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Nine staff from a Yorkshire residential sales and letting agency pedalled off on a 70-mile fund-raising bike ride to celebrate the county's hosting of the start of this year's Tour de France.
The team from Linley & Simpson completed their route from York to Ripon to Harrogate to Ilkley to Leeds in just one day, raising money for Martin House Children's Hospice at Boston Spa – the company's inaugural charity of the year.
In doing so, the saddle-sore but successful riders propelled the amount of money collected for the charity through the £25,000 mark – smashing its original target of £20,000.
Their journey was planned to take in most of the independent agency's ten Yorkshire offices, including York, Ripon, Harrogate, Ilkley, Horsforth and Leeds city centre.
Among those who completed the gruelling trip were founding director Will Linley and colleagues Martin Elliott, Danny Tasker, Derryn Ward, Kim Smith, Dan Bond, Paul Bridgeman, Greg Smallwood and Ross Harding.
Gary Verity, chief executive of Welcome to Yorkshire, said:
"It is great to see them celebrating Yorkshire's Grand Départ in such an innovative way and culminating their charity efforts by saddling up and cycling.
"This money will, I am sure, help this fantastic charity to continue their vital work, which makes a real difference to so many people."
The company has already shown its own entente cordiale by launching a limited edition of 'For Sale' and 'To Let' boards across the county, featuring an eye-catching cut-out of the iconic yellow jersey.
Director Will Linley said:
"With our strong Yorkshire roots, this is a great opportunity to mark the biggest sporting occasion many of us will experience right on our doorstep, as well as raising money for children with life-limiting illnesses and their families from across the county."
Brenda Peel, corporate fundraiser of Martin House Children's Hospice was on hand at the company's Leeds city centre office on Swinegate as the cyclists completed the final leg of their ride – and picked up a cheque for £25,000.
She said:
"Thank you so much to everyone at Linley & Simpson who have supported us for a year and raised a fantastic amount of money.
"Their enthusiasm has been amazing. Heartfelt thanks again from the children and families at Martin House."


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More than 200,000 people in Denmark get their heat and power from the 400 MW North Jutland district heating plant run by Elsam.
Elsam A/S focuses strongly on optimizing energy
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Two water treatment systems ensure that the water circulated in the district heating mains is of consistently high quality. Grundfos CRN pumps are key players in the systems due to their reliability and efficiency.
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The North Jutland plant had an efficiency problem; the local customers paid some of the highest prices in the world for their heating. The pumps at the plant were corroded and unreliable.
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Two separate water treatment systems were installed: an off-line purification system and a reverse osmosis system. The combination mechanically filters suspended matter and demineralises the circulating water.
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The water quality is so high that corrosion is no longer a problem. The North Jutland plant is now the most efficient in the world; the folks in north Denmark have a lot more money in their pockets!
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'With beefy chipset, ample amount of RAM, as well as an easy update to Windows Phone 8.1, the smartphone is sufficiently future-proof too - it will not fall behind the update curve for some time to come.
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Looking to replace existing desktops with 1200 laptops worldwide, Export Development Canada (EDC), Canada's export credit agency, understood that it had to find a stronger encryption solution to ensure all data on the portable devices was protected at all times.
University of Guelph Selects WinMagic's Cost-Effective SecureDoc IT Managed Security/Software-as-a-Service Full-Disk Encryption to Protect All Data on Faculty and Staff Laptop.
Looking to provide true, "Point of Care," healthcare, Bayshore Home Health, Canada's largest provider of home and community health care services, wanted to ensure its 137 Clinical Managers could complete patient assessments on site to expedite patient care.
Looking to increase efficiency the company began researching methods that could provide staff with simpler and more efficient remote access to its internal network without compromising system security. "Before our security was based on a 'two separate network' topology in which one network was open to internet, but did not enable access to our applications and internal mail system, and the second one was completely closed and secure,"
In recent years, Swiss organizations have taken proactive steps to ensure that stolen or lost laptops do not provide unauthorized access to sensitive data. One such company is Suva, the accident insurance company, which approached Swiss IT security experts, insinova ag, to help them integrate encryption technology within its existing security architecture.
"We have a small team so we were looking for a solution which was easy to manage and allowed us to resolve issues remotely," explained Simon Painter, Senior IT Analyst, Money Partners Holding Ltd. "We also wanted something which required minimal user training."
As a healthcare provider, The Children's Hospital understood that this trust is not just based on its dedication to providing the best medical attention for the children in its care, but also on its dedication to ensuring all patient records and other sensitive medical information is protected at all times.
Wanting to take every possible precaution to protect all data on the laptops and removable media utilized by its medical, research and administrative staff, the Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids), Canada's most research-intensive hospital and the largest centre dedicated to improving children's health, began researching full-disk encryption solutions.
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News Release 2011-1 | January 14, 2011
Office of the Comptroller of the Currency Hosts Workshops throughout the Country in 2011
WASHINGTON—The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency today announced its 2011 schedule of workshops to be held around the country for directors of nationally chartered community banks and federal savings associations.
"The workshops provide directors of national banks and federal savings associations an important opportunity to sharpen their skills and to better understand their responsibilities and the risks facing their institutions," said acting Comptroller of the Currency John Walsh.
The OCC offers four different workshops: "A Director's Challenge: Mastering the Basics" ($100), "Directors: Where is the Risk in Your Bank" ($65), "Compliance Risk: What Directors Need to Know" ($65), and "Credit Risk: A Director's Focus" ($65).
Offered throughout the country, the workshops are targeted to outside directors of nationally chartered community banks and federal savings associations with assets of less than $1 billion. Management directors may also find the workshops beneficial. Workshops are limited to 35 participants each. Attendees receive pre-course reading and course materials, an OCC telephone seminar CD, other supervisory material, a continental breakfast, and lunch.
To view the complete schedule of workshops and register online, visit https://www.occ.gov/about/occ-for-you/bankers/bankers-education/index-bankers-education.html.
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Welcome to the Archaeology Data Service (ADS) Day of Archaeology blog. Before we start looking at some of the nitty-gritty of our busy day it might be useful to give a little bit of background on what we do, especially for those of you who maybe don't know anything about us at all.
It's not all trowels, beards and woolly jumpers: In lots of the other Day of Archaeology blogs you will be reading about archaeologists out in the field excavating, surveying, recording and so on. You'll also read about the careful cleaning and analysis of artefacts that have been recovered the pots, metal work, skeletons and so on. This is often exciting and stimulating work, but it raises an important question, why is it being done? There are lots of good answers to this question that range from the very philosophical to the very practical. However, almost all the answers rely on the fact that the information that archaeologists create, the data they gather, will be around for everybody to reuse in the future. This can be said to apply to many disciplines, but it is especially important for archaeology because the process of excavating a site is of course the process of destroying it too! What remains after the site is excavated are the memories of the experience, the impressions of those affected by the site and the ideas about the past that those involved in the work – and those watching it happen – have created through direct contact and through consideration of the material that has been recovered. After the project is over the main connection back to the site apart from memories and the physical remains considered important enough to keep in a museum are the records that are generated throughout the archaeological process (sometimes called primary data) and the ideas about people in the past that these records have helped to inform (often called interpretation).
So it is important for archaeologists and all those with an interest in the past that these records are kept safe for the long term, especially because they can't be recreated. At first glance this might seem like a straightforward problem, but it is a surprisingly complex one and has become more so in the last 25 years. This is because almost all archaeological information is created in digital form and now covers a huge range of data generation and recording techniques, databases, text documents, images, videos, sound recording, aerial photographs, satellite images, laser scanning, digital mapping, sonar data, three-dimensional models etc. etc. It is often very surprising to discover that even with all this new technology, and sometimes because of it, the data created is really quite fragile and requires a lot of looking after. This is where the ADS comes in. The ADS are a digital archive with two main objectives: 1) to provide a safe place for those interested in keeping the results of their archaeological work available to others in the long term; 2) exploring new ways of making all these exciting results available, findable and usable to anyone and everyone over the internet.
There is lots more about the ADS and it's history here.
So that's the headlines, what does it mean in practice? Apart from these main objectives there are lots of other activities we undertake to support them, such as giving advice and creating guides to good practice, but you'll read more about these activities in the sections below. Different people do different things at the ADS so the sections below will detail a number of activities on or around the 29th July.
Stuart Jeffrey – Deputy Director (Access)
A busy day for me, right now I'm concentrating on various European projects that the ADS are involved with, it's important to remember that the national boundaries we work within today are a relatively new invention and people in the past wouldn't recognise them, so to help people study human activity in the past it's crucial to work with colleagues in other countries. Information on all the ADS research projects can be found under the 'OUR RESEARCH' pages on the main ADS website.
First things first though, a good big cup of coffee is in order to get me ready for the day! I also like to check activity on twitter and see if we have any big collections coming up for release. My colleague Jen Mitcham and I normally have a check to see if her ADS facebook page has more new followers or if the ADS_Update twitter account which I run has more, twitter is winning so far, but it can be a close run thing.
It almost goes without saying that after the coffee and a short gloat over twitter's success most of the morning will be spent on the computer dealing with emails, lots of emails. The ADS are involved in quite a number of projects with partners all over Europe and also in the USA, keeping in touch with these colleagues is a very important part of my job. Today I have been writing a progress report for the CARARE project which is about getting ADS 3D data into a big Europe wide heritage search mechanism called Europeana.
Coffee break time! – then onto arranging exhibition space for a photographic exhibition on the diversity of archaeological practice as part of a project called the Archaeology of Contemporary Europe (ACE). A couple of weeks ago I was escorting the photographer round the sites of York including stone masons at the famous York Minster, the Jorvik center and the Hungate excavations by YAT.
After sandwiches for lunch and a quick walk round town, York is lovely in the summertime, my afternoon is split into two tasks. Firstly I'm looking at progress on the development of some new features on the ADS website, if you are a regular user you will know it has been recently updated with a new design and also lots of new features. We are working hard on trying to integrate the Imagebank (a free to use collection of archaeological images for teaching and learning) into our main search – ArchSearch. This means that when someone searches on, for example, Stonehenge, they get a series of good pictures to use in their results set as well as monument inventory records and archives relating to the site. Progress on this is good thanks to the hard work of the development team and others. Secondly I have meetings with the ADS development team in the afternoon to discuss our plans for services –this means that as well as the various ways of discovering data held by the ADS via our website we are working to publish data as 'services' that can be consumed by other search mechanisms. This is quite a technical discussion, but it's also quite exciting because we can see lots of potential for making our holdings more easily discoverable to wider and wider audiences, and in my job that's what makes me really happy.
So after a long day I've got no dirt under my fingernails, and discovered no new sites, but I feel that it's been a good and satisfying day working on ways to both keep archaeological data safe and to get it out to people who need it to continue their work or simply have an interest in our shared past.
Jenny Mitcham (Curatorial Officer)
I work for the Archaeology Data Service as a digital archivist. I have an archaeology degree and did a couple of years digging in the UK before I decided that an office job was more my style. I am engaged in the very useful task of preserving the digital data that archaeologists create in the field (and the office).
At the ADS we know that in order to keep files safe and accessible long into the future, we need to migrate or refresh them to create newer versions to replace the old obsolete files (which will soon not be readable by modern software). To this end, I am currently working on one of the first large collections that was entrusted to us back in the very early days of the ADS. The resource I'm looking at is an archive of Council for British Archaeology (CBA) Research Reports. A run of reports dating back to 1955 which were no longer in print so were scanned and given to us in digital form to make more widely available on-line. The collection consists of some 100 reports and covers many different topics and themes within British Archaeology. This has remained one of our most popular and well-used resources ever since we started making it available on-line in 2000.
The year 2000 was a long time ago in computer terms. The internet was quite different to how it is now and many people relied on very slow dial up speeds. The decision was made at the time that people would not be able to download the CBA Research Reports in one go and would prefer to access them in small chunks of 3 or 4 pages per pdf file. This was all well and good at the time but things have moved on since then and the majority of our users now have access to faster broadband speeds and would actually prefer to download the whole report as a single file.
The other issue with these original CBA Research Reports is that the files are quite an early version of the PDF standard (1.2) and though they are not yet obsolete, some of them are throwing up error messages and they would all benefit from being refreshed.
The exciting job in store for me today is to turn all of these CBA Research Report chunks into full and complete pdf files (one file per report), to refresh them into a more up-to-date file format (the archival version of pdf) and also to update the web interface which people use to access these reports.
OK, so I know this isn't the most exciting of posts (or exciting of days for me!) but it just highlights some of the essential and ongoing work that we have to carry out in order to make archaeological data available to anyone who wishes to access it, both now and into the future.
Kieron Niven (Curatorial Officer)
As with other members of the ADS curatorial team, my day can be quite varied ranging from archiving datasets and creating web pages right through to dealing with helpdesk queries coming in through our website or providing guidance and support to potential data depositors. Although I'm currently posted to helpdesk (we rotate this on a weekly basis and it's been satisfyingly quiet this week!) my main activity today has revolved around the finishing up of major chapters of our new Guides to Good Practice. This has mostly been focussed on completing outstanding sections in the guide for marine survey data (looking at data from bathymetry, single and multibeam sonar, etc.) but I've also had a brief 'catch up' skype call with the guides project partners in the U.S. at Digital Antiquity /Arizona State University. As a minor break to my predominantly 'guides focussed' day I've also done some tweaking to the introduction and overview pages of a large laser scan project archive that we will be imminently releasing. The archive has come to us as part of the LEAPII project (a collaboration with Internet Archaeology to showcase projects featuring linked digital publications and archives) and contains laser scans of a number of objects from Amarna (Egypt). The really interesting thing – for me, at least – is that we have data for each object at a number of different points in the laser scan lifecycle e.g. individual point clouds from the scans, registered scans, meshes and – my favourite – 3D PDF files. This variety, I hope, will make it a really useful dataset for those interested in the process of laser scanning.