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DETROIT >> The good news is Pavel Datsyuk has begun skating.
The bad news is he's still not able to skate hard in order to test his ailing left knee.
"Nobody knows," Datsyuk said if the time off will ultimately heal his knee. "We are just hoping and hoping and (praying) too."
The Wings announced they were shutting Datsyuk down for three weeks at the trade deadline.
Friday marks that three-week timeframe.
"It feels OK, but I'm still not skating hard enough to check how I feel," Datsyuk said.
Datsyuk didn't skate Thursday morning.
He had just returned to the ice on Monday and plans to skate again Friday, but it more than likely will be on his own, before the team practices.
"I (didn't) skate for two weeks, now I'm skating," said Datsyuk, who tweeted on Monday that he had just started skating and hopes to play soon. "It's big for me and I want to be positive."
Datsyuk played for Russia at the Olympics, but has only been able to play in two games with the Wings since returning. He last played on Feb. 27.
"I (felt) really great, I could just do what I could do," Datsyuk said about participating at the Olympics. "It was like, play a simple game, save my knee.
"I don't know if I'll make it back 100 percent but I have better chance, better percentage, to come back to be Pavel," Datsyuk added. "We have (a) plan to be better. So it's the beginning and it's not very good. Now we're planning maybe not being 100 percent but close to something."
If Datsyuk returns he would like to do so before the playoffs.
"It's not easy when you miss lots of games and you have to pick up pace in the playoffs, it's a different level, different hockey," Datsyuk said.
As for a return date, Datsyuk said, "Two thousand fourteen. Every day I hope it's better and better and I can say anything like tomorrow can be the deadline."
Datsyuk doesn't know if offseason surgery will be required to get it right.
"We'll see what happens," Datsyuk said. "Hard to say now, (we're doing) everything to not do surgery."
Datsyuk has 15 goals and 18 assists in 39 games this season.
"(Trainer) Piet (Van Zant) told me that he looks like he could play, but I've heard that lots," Wings coach Mike Babcock said Wednesday. "When I see him in the lineup I'll believe it."
Wings general manager Ken Holland still is waiting to see what the next step is for getting Datsyuk back in the lineup.
"He's a superstar," Holland said. "Pav at 80 percent is pretty good."
Despite missing Datsyuk and Henrik Zetterberg for a bulk of the season, the Wings have been able to stay in the playoff race due in large part to the young players from Grand Rapids.
"I see what they have done and I'm happy with what they did, the whole team is sticking together and playing like a team," Datsyuk said. "It's fun to watch, but not fun to watch for me. They've done a great job and I'm very happy for this one."
Quote of the day
"I've coached teams where Boston is right now, where you can rest guys, this is our playoff opportunity right now," Babcock said. "If we want to be in the playoffs, this is a playoff game (Thursday). That's real good for our group. It's important we're dialed in and we play that hard and compete that hard and stay patient. When you get to the next round, which is the playoffs, it's a whole new level, but for us right now this is our opportunity."
Asked if this experience will payoff in the end for the team Babcock added, "I don't know about that. Lots of the experience we have here is sitting in the clinic."
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Thomas Imhof, Acoustic Designer for our reference Brugg Cables, Brugg/Switzerland
How do you design the best possible acoustics for a room?
First you have to decide what a room is going to be used for. There are different acoustic requirements for a classroom than for a restaurant, and you don't want a church to sound the same as a multipurpose room. The size, shape and use of a room determine the level of sound absorption that is required.
And how do you ensure a perfect result?
We have intensive discussions about the ideal properties for the surfaces of the floor, walls and ceilings, and we keep making calculations until the result is satisfactory to the owner of the building, the architects and the acoustic experts. The results in Brugg were so impressive that we did not even need to carry out the technical measurement of the reverberation time.
What do you particularly like about fabrics from Création Baumann?
Création Baumann has every new fabric tested in an echo chamber and makes the results available to the construction company. Acousticians need the data about frequency-dependent sound absorption and flow resistance in order to work out the acoustics for the room. Fabrics with no acoustic test information are very risky for the planner.
Thomas Imhof is a qualified member of the Swiss Acoustical Society SGA (www.imhof-akustik.ch).
We are happy to provide you with information or personal advice.

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Bloodshed, flooding, people fleeing persecution, the fodder of biblical stories from the Holy Land. Only sadly they're not ancient stories trotted out for the Christmas season. They are present day Christmastime in the birthplace of Christmas. But Noel in its current incarnation is supposed to be about fun. And really, why shouldn't it be? A virgin birth isn't a downer, after all. But this season's headlines from Palestine, Israel, Lebanon, Syria, and Egypt, those places that fill up religious texts, are hardly the stuff that make you want to decorate cookies and write a letter to Santa Claus asking for a new Xbox One. You can understand why Christmas-celebrating people around the world choose to tune out the modern day Holy Land stories. They are not fun.
But there is a part of the Middle East that didn't make it into the holy books, where not only is it peaceful enough for one celebrate the holiday season, one is encouraged to do so. By shopping. I love Christmastime in Dubai. The weather is the usual sunny stuff but the heat is pleasantly mild, and the humidity is usually on holiday somewhere else.
If you're more hardcore about needing a Christmas TV special atmosphere, there are the heavily air conditioned malls, which year round feel like a blizzard is just around the corner. Plus, the malls are festooned with some of the best Christmas decorations south of the North Pole, including the finest fake snow and ice on earth. Certainly enough that Santa Claus feels at home at Dubai's Christmas parties. And if you insist on real manmade snow, there is the indoor ski slope, transformed into an Alpine Christmas village. (Normally, it's just an Alpine village where the snow never melts.) Forget Moses crossing the desert—in Dubai, he'd do it in style and without breaking a sweat.
Best of all, not far from the ski slope, there is stollen day at the Mall of the Emirates, when tables as far as the eye can see from Harvey Nichols down past Tiffany's and beyond, are lined with stollen. People in elf hats even offer us free stollen samples, this sweet roll that is the greatest invention of Germany after cars and gummy bears. Dubai Christmas follows the city's principle of do it big or don't do it at all. It can't be a little fun. It should be a lot of fun. It can't be 100 stollen but rather hundreds. Dubai does birthday parties big, no matter whose birthday we've decided to celebrate.
The religious has been deleted from Christmas—there is no devout imagery, no crèches, no wise men. Just wise shoppers. And some reckless ones, too. No pretense of anything else but keeping Christmas commercially honest. Competition between the blinding number of sales signs and billboards and the Christmas decorations is friendly and beneficial to both.
This isn't to say that Christmas doesn't bring out the best in Dubai. Profits from the stollens are for charity. And the festive season builds some multicultural community fun for everyone, including for those who can't afford most of the items the malls, which in reality is the majority of the population. Including the workers who built the malls and the team making the stollens, who are Filipinos not Germans. No one talks about the floods in the Philippines or other troubles in the rest of the world and we all get along. Indeed, in this country where 100% of the native population is Muslim but every religion invented has people living here, the absence of religious depictions works out great. Without the religious icons on display, everyone joins in the true spirit of fun and oblivion without feeling left out on faith grounds.
I heard a story once that the shape of a stollen represents the hump on the camel caravans that carried presents to Jesus when he was born. The dried fruit and raisins represent the jewels and gifts. Who knows if there is any truth to that stollen story, but if you need a gift, there are plenty of places to get one here. And if you're looking for a camel, better to exit the mall and go to the Al Dhafra Camel Festival, which at this time is gearing up for the camel beauty pageant. And for a while you can forget about camels and people elsewhere who 2,000 years later still need a caravan to bring them good news. Now that's a holiday season everyone can hope for.


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"No, I know; you *did* send me back to the future. But I'm back – I'm back *from* the future." Marty McFly
It will be the largest public offering in U.S. history. A total of $23.1 billion was raised, including $4.35 billion in preferred stock. That was no small accomplishment, given the recent sell-off in world markets. General Motors is back.
What a difference two years make. Over that time, I had written several columns at first advocating letting GM go bankrupt (which it ultimately did). It was either that or a merger, if they could find an auto company that was willing to step up to the plate and buy it. There were no takers. When the government announced its last resort of a $49.5 billion bail out last year, I had mixed feelings.
After the huge bank bail-outs, I wasn't happy about rescuing GM. I believed that the auto company deserved its fate. Its management had guided the company downhill ever since the mid-90s with the help of the labor unions. It was their arrogant "we know best" attitude in the face of obvious changes in the global automotive marketplace (such as the move toward smaller, more fuel efficient cars) that really bothered me.
On the other hand, I also knew that we didn't need another avalanche of lay-offs in the face of an unemployment rate that was climbing at 400,000 lost jobs per month. And GM employees were only the tip of the iceberg when it came to lost jobs. The ripple effect on auto suppliers would have to be added to the GM jobs. Then there were the dealerships across the nation. Car dealers provide enormous benefits to just about every local community in America in the form of jobs, taxes, charitable giving, while providing increased shopping traffic to the community they reside in.
By the time I took account of the enormous blow back GM and Chrysler's demise would cause, I reluctantly agreed that the bail out was better than the alternative although my stance was not very popular among readers.
In September, 2009 in "Why Americans should become Detroit's long term investors," I wrote the following about the billions in taxpayer money we were investing:
"Now, as we like to say in the money management business, the past is no guarantee of future performance, yet there is a chance if we have a little patience here we too could walk away with a big return. Besides, what do we the taxpayers have to lose? Sure, I know there will be some that say the government has no business becoming the major shareholder in American auto companies and should exit this investment at the earliest possible time. Some will even say it is un-American if we don't. I say it's a little too late for those attitudes. The horse is already out of the barn. So go ahead and call me a socialist. I say we took a huge risk when no one else would, and we deserve a commensurate return on this investment".
"Now that presumes I have some faith in the future of the American auto industry, and I do. All I have read concerning the on-going restructuring taking place in research and development, in manufacturing processes, and management structures indicate to me that the Big Three are getting their act together. Ford is clearly on the right path and so are GM and Chrysler. After all, none of them have lost their main competitive edge—American labor and ingenuity. I'll bet on that. So let's hang in there. I believe a little patience will pay off for all of us down the road."
So far GM has returned $9.5 billion of that loan. With this offering, another $13 billion will flow back to the government, leaving tax payer ownership at roughly 26%, down from 61%. It is a shame that the government does not have the patience to hold on to their shares because overtime I think taxpayers could have made a substantial profit.
I guess removing the "government motors" stigma from the company outweighed the profit motive. Over the next few years, the government will continue to sell down their position in the same manner that they are now reducing their ownership of Citibank (at a profit). It looks like most of our investment will be recouped and at a far faster than I imagined.


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Forget the Future, Bucs Want to Win Now
CHARLOTTE | There's a different mind-set with this Tampa Bay Buccaneer team.
It is a team that is not playing for the future. This is a club that wants to win now.
It was evident following the team's 27-21 come-from-behind overtime victory against the Carolina Panthers on Sunday.
While happy with the victory, the club wasn't happy with its overall performance.
"It's a huge win because one, we get away with learning a lesson," veteran tight end Dallas Clark said. "And we better learn the lesson that we're not just going to show up and win games. And I think it's evident and I think guys will get it. We're lucky where it's not a loss and guys just didn't have it and go through the list where we lost it. I hope we show the true maturity that needs to be seen where we go back (today), look at the film and say, 'Wow, we didn't play well' because we didn't play well."
Clark, who won a Super Bowl with Indianapolis, knows what he's talking about.
That doesn't sound like anyone is settling on just being a better team than last year's team (which Tampa Bay already is). It sounds like this club has playoffs in mind.
And while many of you do your Jim Mora impersonation, the Bucs, who are now on a four-game win streak, are right in the thick of the playoff race.
In order for the team to accomplish that goal, however, it can't put on performances like it did Sunday.
The Bucs should not have won this game.
They made too many mistakes.
Josh Freeman, who had the best five-game stretch of his young career, threw an awful interception that changed the entire complexion of the game; rookie Doug Martin, who was becoming the doll of the league, fumbled at the goal line. The Bucs had a 10-point lead turn into a 21-10 deficit.
Last year, that 21-10 deficit would have turned into a 41-10 laugher. We saw so many of those last year.
But not this year.
The mind-set of this squad is stronger and they deal with adversity better.
Instead of wilting away, Freeman led the Bucs 80 yards in 50 seconds with no time outs. When he could have gone and sulked, Martin had 48 yards rushing in overtime.
No matter what the situation, this team doesn't believe the game is over.
Still, Clark, who caught the game-winning touchdown in overtime, was right. The Bucs should never have been in that situation.
"I mean that's the bottom line, we played well enough to make some plays at the end to win the game but bottom line, where we want to go, that's not good football," Clark said. "So hopefully, we learned that lesson. But to come together, rally like that, you can't do that throughout the week. That needs to be seen on Sunday and for our guys to not just bat an eye and to stay focused, that was special."
See, there comes a time when a team has to win a game that it has no business winning.
When we look back at the season, will this be the game that defines it?
Time will tell, but all of the characteristics of a successful franchise were there.
[ Rick Brown may be reached at email@example.com. Follow his Bucs coverage at BucsScene.blogs.theledger.com and on Twitter: @LedgeronBucs. ]


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Street Art Cookbook
by knittap
Dokument Press, out of Sweden, just released this book by Benke Carlsson and Hop Louie. It covers a huge array of street artists: Urban tape sculpturist Mark Jenkins, NYC's Swoon, the UK artist Slinkachu who graffitis snails' shells, Brazilian stencilist Alexandre Orion, our very own Knitta Please and more.
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The shortlist for the 2012 IMPAC Dublin literary prize was revealed today, highlighting ten authors with notable novels released in English in 2010. Among the finalists for the international honor, which annually awards one hundred thousand euros, are three Americans, Jennifer Egan, Karl Marlantes, and Willy Vlautin.
Egan is named a finalist for A Visit From the Goon Squad, which took both the National Book Critics Circle and the Pulitzer Prize last year. Marlantes makes the shortlist with his much-lauded debut, Matterhorn (Atlantic Monthly Press/El León Literary Arts) which won the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize in 2010. Vlautin joins the ranks with his third novel, Lean on Pete (Harper Perennial).
Among the international novels up for the award are Rocks in the Belly, the debut of British author Jon Bauer; The Matter With Morris by Canadian David Bergen; The Memory of Love by British and Sierra Leonean author Aminatta Forna; Even the Dogs by British author Jon McGregor; and Landed by British author Tim Pears. Two translations also made the list, Limassol by Yishai Sarid, translated from the Hebrew by Barbara Harshav, and The Eternal Son by Cristovão Tezza, translated from the Portuguese by Alison Entrekin.
The finalists were culled from a longlist of 147 titles nominated by libraries in twelve countries. The winner of this year's prize will be announced on June 13.
In the video below, Vlautin discusses the obsession behind his shortlisted novel—and sings a song about it.


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Most business are used to offering just a few payments options: Cash is always acceptable. Checks are usually good. Credit cards are more common than they used to be, and are just about the only option if you want to accept payments by phone. But not all businesses have added an online payment option. With more and more of the purchasing process taking place online, though, it's becoming an important consideration.
Online payment options can make a difference in the number of sales you can make, according to Fred Neff, the president of the Internet Merchants Association:
"The more payment options a customer has, the more likely they will complete their purchase. Many members of the Internet Merchant Association use alternative online payment methods such as Google Checkout and Amazon Payments in addition to the more mainstream choices like PayPal and online merchant accounts. Giving the buyers a choice makes it easier for them to pay."
Adopting An Online Payment Option
The number of customers who research their purchases online is continuing to increase. Offering an online payment option is a matter of making a purchase more convenient for your customers: if they're already browsing your site, you're more likely to convert their interest into a sale if you have an easy to use solution already in place on your site. There are a variety of different payment processors, such as PayPal and Google Checkout, that have become just as recognizable as the credit cards your customers may use to make a purchase.
Depending on which payment processing tool you choose, it can be easy to add to your website. Most offer a snippet of HTML code that you or your web designer can simply paste into the code that makes up your website. Alternatively, there are many shopping cart packages now available. Depending on how your website is built, you can integrate shopping cart software that handles everything from listing new products to managing the payment process for your customers. Cathy Aggelopoulos, the owner of Snorkeling Online, started out with a website that was geared towards offering information, rather than helping customers to buy:
"Being a retail store with an online informational website, we felt that we needed to take the next step. We added a shopping cart that offered payment options that were familiar and trusted by the consumer and found that our presence online was important to our business. Of our total sales, 85% are now completed on our websites with online payment methods."
The technical requirements vary depending on what tool you choose and how your website was originally built. Because of the security concerns, some older websites may need updating in order to work well with a newer tool. No matter what type of business you operate, however, online payment is an option. Many payment processors offer you the ability to charge for services online just as easy as for products. Some are built with shipping products in mind — for instance, PayPal offers you the ability to print out shipping labels automatically. There is no universal best choice for a payment process, however. It's important to look at what your business needs and choose from there.
The most important considerations when choosing an online payment processor or a shopping cart are security and cost. While features are a good guide, a more secure payment processor with fewer features is always a better choice than a less secure tool with more features, since both you and your customers' finances are at stake.
The Concerns for Online Payments
The cost for using a payment processor is typically a percentage of the total purchase, just as a credit card processor takes a fee from the money you earn. That cut of your income can be a key drawback to accepting payments online. While it is comparable to credit card payments, some business' margins are built around cash or checks. Your prices do need to be set to allow for those fees if you plan to make sales online. The only alternative is to not offer your customers the ability to buy online; instead, require them to come into your store for any purchases. If most of your business is local, that may not be out of the question. However, for most businesses, operating online is becoming necessary.
The security for any system used to handle money is crucial. You need to review the security offered to you as a seller and to your customer as a buyer. Both you and your customer must be comfortable trusting your payment processor's security. Even if the fees are higher, it can be useful to use a well-known payment processor so that your customers are more comfortable sharing sensitive information like their credit card account number. Use of a trusted payment processor can even make your website look more reliable.
Michael Jansma is the president of GemAffair, a jewelry store operating online. He had a particularly positive customer response when he added online payments to the site:
"Adding online payments was like turning on the lights. All of sudden customers trusted us more. They not only purchased from us more often, but made larger purchases. We have also found that once a purchase was made with us and it was successful (and safe), they would return more often and conversions rates on those returning visitors was significantly higher. We did find for a while that people would call and verify that we were a real business and then they would make the purchase online."
Some businesses do choose to create their own shopping carts from scratch or ask customers to handle purchasing via email. While such approaches can work for some companies, they can also lead to a customer experience that leads customers to do business with someone else down the road. Such methods are often more vulnerable to attack. Established online payment processors already have experience in not only securing payments but handling problems that may occur.
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It's been thrilling to finally release Bespin to the world. There's nothing quite like seeing feedback start pouring in via IRC, blog comments, Twitter, and email within minutes of pushing "Post" on the first announcement blog entry. I'm very grateful to everyone who has taken some time to engage with us in any of the various media out there. We've also seen some interesting community efforts at extending Bespin; check out our blog post on the Labs website for details.
Culling through everything, it's clear that a few aspects of the project are controversial. I'd like to address one of them: our choice of canvas as the rendering engine for the editor.
Bespin and Canvas
// all drawing performed via the context var ctx = document.getElementById("canvasId").getContext("2d"); ctx.fillStyle = "black"; // accepts same values as CSS "background" property ctx.fillRect(0, 0, 50, 50); // draws a black 50x50 rectange in the canvas
Canvas is available in the currently released versions of Safari, Opera, Firefox, and Chrome; it has been a part of the HTML 5 draft specification for a long time. It is not available in Internet Explorer.
Bespin builds on this API to recreate a text editor from scratch. That's right; rather than use the native facilities of every modern operating system that give you word processing features for free, Bespin rolls them from scratch, including such basic constructs as a blinking cursor and text selection.
One of the the features we didn't have to re-implement is text rendering; the HTML 5 specification includes an API to render text on a canvas. Unfortunately, this portion of the canvas API has only been implemented by Firefox, though it's already in WebKit nightly builds (and thus will very likely be in a future version of Safari) and Chromium nightlies (from which Chrome versions are derived). We expect Opera will soon as well.
But Does It Scale?
To be sure, for some users, the performance does indeed suck–we're looking into exactly why (it appears that certain video drivers cause performance problems on Linux; Google Chrome's multi-process architecture appears to slow down performance on that browser). The interesting thing is that for large classes of users, performance is really, really good. There's a lot to say about topic; we'll touch on that more in a future blog post.
The first time we demoed Bespin to someone who understand these implementation details, the reaction was "Wow, you're crazy!" followed by "That's really cool." Pretty much everyone else I've spoken with has the same first reaction (the crazy bit) but the follow-up is not always positive (ranging from the aforementioned to "WTF!?").
Surely there's a higher-level abstraction we could have built on? Something above pixel painting?
Well, let's get one thing out of the way first-up: there may very well be a more effective way to do what we've done than with canvas. I'm not saying this is the best way to do it; I just want to explain why we did it.
Control, Control, We Must Have Control
One of our goals with Bespin is to be able to (at some point in the future) deliver a fantastically compelling user experience for editing code on the Web. We don't want Bespin to be the editor you use when you can't get to your desktop; we want it to be your editor of choice in any context.
It turns out that's a tall order. Some users like word-wrapping; some don't. Some users actually like column selection modes while other (more sane) users like line-oriented selection (I kid, I kid). Developers are notoriously finicky with their tools–especially their code editor–and we didn't want to re-educate the world on how our editor worked; we want to make Bespin adaptable to as wide an audience as we could.
We felt that if we built Bespin on something like <textarea> or the "content editable" feature of HTML, we'd have a built-in set of limitations over which we'd have very little or no control.
The Alternatives
To build on the last paragraph, we considered three different alternatives to canvas:
- textarea
- contentEditable
- "line blocks"
The "control" argument above is one reason we dismissed textarea and contentEditable; further, we've seen a large number of other web editor implementations based on these approaches and based on playing with those and by the many horror stories floating around the Web from their authors, we were concerned that we couldn't overcome performance and compatibility problems, especially when editing large files.
"Line blocks" are a different story. What if we had a bunch of <div> elements stacked vertically and treated each one as a rendering surface for a line of text in the document being edited? We played with that approach a bit but couldn't get as much performance out of it as we could with canvas, especially for wide files (>80 columns).
We've taken some flak for claiming that Bespin is based on "Open Web technologies" but only supporting Firefox and WebKit nightly. Earlier in this post, I explained the state of canvas support in the browsers and how we're hopeful that our canvas approach will work in future versions of Chrome, Safari, and Opera.
However, we have a plan in case browsers don't implement the proper text rendering APIs: bitmap font rendering. By pre-rendering fonts into images, we can then render the images on the canvas. There are a number of proof-of-concept implementations floating around that demonstrate this concept (though unlike some, we wouldn't render the fonts as vectors–there's no way it would perform to our needs).
What about Internet Explorer? It's hard to say what the future of canvas support is for IE; it certainly isn't coming in IE8. However, there are a number of projects that emulate canvas by mapping it to VML (an abandoned IE proprietary rendering technology), Flash, and Silverlight. So far, none of these bridges offers adequate performance for us to seriously considering supporting it. We're aware of promising developments in this area and we'll experiment with IE support as these technologies evolve.
Mobile Support: iPhone, Android, Fennec, and More
We're also very excited to get Bespin working on mobile devices with fully-featured browsers. The iPhone's browser–"mobile Safari"–does support canvas, but does not yet have the text rendering APIs. We may implement the aforementioned bitmap font rendering just to get on the iPhone. We are also looking at other mobile platforms, such as Android, Fennec, Palm, and so forth.
How cool would it be to change your code and redeploy it from the beach?
Obviously, it will take some interface changes for Bespin to be usable on a mobile device. We have some ideas here and we look forward to working with the community on developing the concepts further.
What do you think?
What do you think of our use of canvas in Bespin's editor?
Note: I realized the morning after that I had omitted some of what I meant to include in this post; I've retroactively renamed this post "Part 1" and added a "Part 2".


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Today's Albuquerque Journal has an article, originally published in the Gallup Independent, about the Chaco preservation crew and their work maintaining the various sites in the park. The article focuses specifically on recent work they've done at Pueblo Pintado. I don't have a whole lot to add, but it's an interesting account that addresses some of the complications of doing this sort of work for traditional Navajos, who have a strong taboo against even visiting Anasazi sites. The article says that the crew deals with this in part by conducting prophylactic ceremonies before starting work on the sites, which I hadn't known. These ceremonies are apparently led by Harold Suina, a member of the crew who is from Cochiti Pueblo and is not Navajo (although I believe his wife is, and they live near Chaco in an area inhabited almost entirely by Navajos). The article doesn't say this, but I suspect that Harold's role is particularly important since Pueblos like Cochiti have different attitudes toward the sites at Chaco than Navajos do, so he may not feel as uncomfortable dealing with them as the other members of the crew, all of whom are Navajo, do. Not all of the Navajo members of the crew are traditional, however; some are Christian, as are many Navajos in the Chaco area, and they may not have the same qualms about their work that their more traditional colleagues have.
Anyway, it's an interesting article, and it's nice to see the preservation crew getting some media attention. They do crucial work for the park, but it rarely gets noticed by either visitors or the many people who have written books and articles about Chaco over the years. When I was doing tours I would usually do a fairly detailed description of the preservation work early on in the tour, both because people often want to know how much of what they see at the sites is reconstructed (at Chaco, very little, unlike at many other parks) and because I wanted them to appreciate how much work it is to maintain the sites and why it is therefore important for them as visitors to treat them respectfully and minimize the amount of damage they cause. Hopefully this article will serve a similar function for a wider audience.


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Catherine the II of Russia was born Sophie Aguasta Fredericka on April 21, 1729. German by birth. "Catherine the Great" by Henry Troyat starts off with Catherine's birth and skims over her early childhood years by naming events such as Adolphus Frederick of Helstein-Gottop (the future King of Sweden) in 1739 and other important events. The book gets into "the meat of things" so to speak in chapters two or three, when Sophie/Catherine and her mother me...


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Last year, I complained about the drought of new Microsoft product releases. Each week, I had to search the corners of the digital universe to come up with something unique and interesting to say for this column. But this year (and next) is bubbling over with new releases from Microsoft, so there will be plenty to discuss.
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Microsoft's 2012-2013 lineup
Starting at the top, what major releases are coming our way and when can we expect them?
- Windows 8: The rumors are that we'll have a summer launch of this before the kids start buying computers for school in the fall. Others are saying it will need more time to bake.
- Windows Server 8: This is looking like a Q3 or Q4 release, and from what I've seen, it's a solid next step in the server lineup. One reason it's very compelling is the set of Hyper-V improvements.
- Exchange 15, SharePoint 15, and next-gen Lync: These are all anticipated for Q4 2012 and might well be released on the same day.
- Office 15: Also anticipated (according to Redmond Magazine) for Q4 of 2012; from the buzz on the wire, the next flavor of Office is more tightly integrated with the Office servers (Exchange and SharePoint) and sports a new Metro skin to match the new Windows 8 OS.
- SQL Server 2012: It looks like this one will be coming in Q2 2012.
- System Center 2012: Also slated for Q2 2012, the upgrades to the System Center family have been gaining a good deal of praise, especially the Configuration Manager and Data Protection Manager tools. I'll dive into these soon enough, and I'm looking forward to the sessions coming up at Microsoft's TechEd conference in Orlando this year.
There are other new releases to look forward to as well: a Windows Phone upgrade ("Apollo"), a new Visual Studio, and Windows Azure enhancements.
Microsoft is hoping you'll upgrade across the board -- but should you?
Why is everything being released in such a short period? If you're getting a new PC with Windows 8, you probably want the latest Office on it too. And if you're rolling out new desktops with the latest version of Office, you may want to give your people the latest enhancements in SharePoint as well. These are no longer separate products but instead rely on each other to create a singular -- and awesome -- experience.


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For some reason I am having a very difficult time trying to initialize and store values in arrays within a constructor. When I use the debugger to check the arrays values, the Boolean all default to false and my other double array all default to 0s.
Pretend I have this:
public class shank { double h; double m; boolean t1; boolean t2; boolean t3; boolean t4; int peeps; double [] huy = new double [3]; boolean [] rup = new boolean [3]; shank(int popes, boolean r1; boolean r2; boolean r3; boolean r4) // two of these are true and 2 are false (boolean) { peeps = popes; t1 = r1; t2 = r2; t3 = r3; t4 = r4; double [] huy = {586.1, 429.3, 392.3, 3492.3}; //this defaults to all 0s. boolean [] rup = {t1, t2, t3, t4}; //this defaults to all false. } }
I figured the arrays default because I declare them twice, but if I don't, then I just get an error...Can someone direct me the correct way of getting my arrays correctly initialized. I should mention that I have two classes, one is the tester and this is the class that is called with the methods. I prefer that no more parameters be added to the constructor.


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AP IMPACT: New proof of Ivory Coast vote killings
ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast – The entrance to the morgue is like a mouth through which comes an awful smell. It hits you as far back as the parking lot and makes your eyes water. From a dozen yards away, it's strong enough to make you throw up.
What lies inside is proof of mass killings in this once-tranquil country of 21 million, where the sitting president is refusing to give way to his successor. Nearly every day since Laurent Gbagbo was declared the loser of the Nov. 28 election, the bodies of people who voted for his opponent have been showing up on the sides of highways.
Their distraught families have gone from police station to police station looking for them, but the bodies are hidden in plain sight in morgues turned into mass graves. Records obtained by The Associated Press from four of the city's nine morgues show that at least 113 bullet-ridden bodies have been brought in since the election. The number is likely much higher because the AP was refused access to the five other morgues, including one where the United Nations believes as many as 80 bodies were taken.
The bodies are being held hostage and not released to families. Morgue workers say government minders are stationed outside to monitor what goes in or out.
A list of the dead that the AP was allowed to see on the laptop of a company that manages three downtown morgues shows the bodies began arriving Dec. 1, the night the country's electoral commission was due to announce that opposition leader Alassane Ouattara had won. The AP also saw legal documents from authorities instructing funeral homes to pick up bodies found on public roads, and the paperwork handed to families.
The names of the dead indicate they are largely Muslim and from the country's north, the demographic that voted in largest numbers for Ouattara, himself a Muslim from the north.
"The overwhelming number of victims of political violence in Abidjan were either real or perceived supporters of Ouattara," said Human Rights Watch senior researcher Corinne Dufka, the author of a report on the post-election violence. "Many were picked up and killed simply on the basis of their family name."
Families have been allowed inside the morgues only long enough to identify their relatives, if at all. They cannot take their loved ones for burial because the government, still controlled by Gbagbo, has not given the go-ahead for autopsies on bodies with bullet wounds. Funeral home directors say the procedure is normally approved within 48 hours.
Diaby Madoussou, 40, has been waiting for two months. She found her husband lying face down on the pavement where he had taken part in a march to support Ouattara, recognized internationally as the winner of the vote. Ouattara now lives in a hotel under 24-hour United Nations protection, its lobby crowded with supporters taking refuge.
Madoussou turned over her husband's body. He had been shot twice in the ribs.
She took off her pagne and used the wraparound skirt to cover him. She waited beside him wearing only her underclothes until the morgue sent a car to pick up the body. They handed her a 'fiche d'entree,' or entry sheet stating that his body would be stored in vault No. 50 in a morgue in the outlying suburb of Anyama.
"They told me that I need to leave the body there. At the morgue. They say I need to wait ... I don't understand. Why won't they let me take him?" said Madoussou, who has five children. She now spends her days on the floor, her back against the concrete wall of her living room, her eyes staring at the other wall.
Many families have only this piece of paper to prove that their loved ones were killed, because police stations are refusing to file police reports. Dozens of victims were seen dragged from their homes and forced into official vehicles.
Gbagbo's government has denied committing any abuses. However, assistant state prosecutor Jean-Claude Aboya conceded that autopsies have not been conducted.
"We're aware of these bodies in the morgues," said Aboya. "The chief prosecutor has told us that there will be an investigation, but he's holding off until things are calmer before proceeding."
Bodies have also been found on highways, freeway medians and trash heaps, and in the lagoons coursing through this palm-lined commercial capital that was once considered among the most stable in Africa.
It has been anything but that since Gbagbo came to power 10 years ago. He signed an alphabet soup of treaties named after the numerous capitals from Lome to Pretoria to Ouagadougou where mediators tried to coax Gbagbo to hold an election. He succeeded in pushing back the election for five years until it was finally held last fall.
In the meantime, a civil war broke out and the country's lagoon-side cafes emptied out. The fighting pitted northerners who wanted Gbagbo out against southerners who supported him.
Now the shores of the glassy lagoon lap up trash. The few cafe clients left are nearly all men, because those who could sent their wives abroad to shield them from the waves of political violence that crash down on this Italy-sized country every time Gbagbo feels cornered.
A confidential 2004 United Nations report obtained by the AP detailed the rise of government death squads that in 2002 started carrying out 'disappearances' of people seen as threats to Gbagbo. The United Nations obtained a video cassette showing as many as 200 cadavers strewn across the road in one locality.
There was a ripple of hope when the election finally went ahead, especially after Gbagbo promised to abide by results issued by the electoral commission. As soon as results began trickling in, however, foreign TV stations were ordered off the air, and the head of the commission began receiving death threats.
The first bodies to be registered at one downtown morgue were unidentified. They all appear in the morgue's records as 'Mr. X.'
Thirty-eight-year-old Abdoulaye Coulibaly, who worked for a political nonprofit aligned with Ouattara, was in an open-air restaurant when soldiers surrounded it.
"They started to shoot and people started running," said his cousin, who pieced together what happened from other clients. Coulibaly was grabbed along with a colleague and put in the truck. "To this day, there is no trace of him ... We searched everywhere," said the cousin, Moussa Coulibaly.
The death squads made repeated trips to Abobo, a majority Muslim suburb that voted in large numbers for Ouattara. Gbagbo is an evangelical Christian who is accused of having purged Muslims from the armed forces.
The men came to Amidou Ouattara's house early in the morning.
"It was on the 13th of December. At 5:30 a.m. He was coming back from having done his morning prayer, and there were already two cars parked in front. A 4-by-4. And a Mercedes," said relative Mouriba Ouattara. "They surrounded him and put him in the Mercedes. It was gray. No plates.'"
"We looked everywhere. I went to the morgue at Yopougon. To the one in Anyama. Treichville. We turned over all the bodies," he said. "But we did not see his."
The United Nations estimates that more than 100 people have disappeared and at least 296 have been killed, based on calls to a U.N. hotline from family members. They cannot investigate because Gbagbo ordered the U.N. to leave the country after it certified Ouattara's victory.
The hotline also received reports of a mass grave containing between 60 to 80 bodies in the suburb of Ndottre. The U.N. twice tried to get to the site but was blocked by the army, and at one point military trucks chased the U.N. convoy at high speed. Witnesses later called to say they saw the bodies being moved to the morgue of Anyama, which the U.N. was not allowed to enter.
"The fact that we have been prevented twice from conducting a fact-finding mission in Ndottre and Anyama suggests that there may be some truth in the alleged existence of a mass grave in that area and/or deposit of 60 to 80 corpses at a mortuary in Anyama," wrote the head of the U.N.'s human rights division in an internal report leaked to the AP.
The AP attempted multiple times to gain access to the principal morgues, only to be refused entry. On one attempt, the reporter was told she would need an 'authorization letter,' but nobody could say from whom.
Workers at the morgues who agreed to speak were visibly panicked and would only do so away from their place of work. They said the bodies are quickly deteriorating because they have not yet been embalmed, a procedure done after the autopsy. One morgue director said so many corpses are arriving that they have created a 'salle de catastrophe,' or catastrophe room, to hold the overflow.
At one funeral home, a man in plainclothes interrupted a reporter's conversation with an employee to ask why she was there. He loitered until she left, appearing to confirm reports that the facilities are under government surveillance.
With hardly anybody allowed in and no bodies allowed out of the morgue, families are left to grieve however they can.
When the morgue took her husband's body away, Madoussou kept his blood-splattered sneakers. Unable to wash her husband's body, as is the custom before burial here, the widow washes and re-washes his shoes instead.
She has washed them so many times that they are as white as snow.
Associated Press writer Marco Chown Oved contributed to this report.


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Wow… it's been a little while since I've done a 'favourites' post. I tend not to make monthly favourites, purely because I'm poor, and man can't afford enough new stuff to write about every month! Also because at this current moment, I'm making two blog posts and two YouTube videos (check out my YouTube channel here!) per month. Which may not seem like much in terms of content, but I'm happy with it.
So, to wrap up the November on this blog I thought it would be fitting to wrap up a few of the things I've been loving these past few months as the weather's gotten colder (yessss), days have gotten shorter (double yessss) and the great C-word approaches (Christmas, I mean Christmas). So here they are!
Mustard Jumper – H&M
Ah yes, this is where I give myself away as the absolute epitome of a female blogger: the mustard knitted jumper. But damn, do I love it. It was super cheap (like £6???) and I've gotten so much wear out of it already. I must admit, I was worried I wouldn't suit the mustard, but I think I get away with it. Definitely #worthit.
Tan Leather Rucksack – Accessorize
This was one of my more extravagant purchases of autumn 2017, which sounds a bit weird considering it's a rucksack. And it's not one of those weird super-expensive Swedish ones either. But for me, buying a bag from Accessorize is pushing it a bit. But I figured I need a good quality backpack to last me a few years of uni, and I use this every day. For uni, going to Connor's house, and even taking to work. I'm mega-fussy when it comes to bags and purses, etc. so this was perfect. Even if it did slightly break the bank at the time.
Fragrance Free Lip Balm – Superdrug
Ah, Winter. Thou art a heartless bitch on the lips and skin. Which is why I needed to find a new solution when my trusty lip balm ran out. And yes, I did actually go for the simplest, cheapest option out there, it was a good choice. A cheeky pack of two means I'm never without a quick fix for dry lips (try saying that five times fast), and they do the job.
Neutrogena Visibly Clear Facial Wash
Speaking of winter and its effects on the skin, boy oh boy does my skin HATE the change in seasons. But this has seriously helped. A combination of a good face wash every day, moisturizer and drinking lots of water helps keep the breakouts mostly under control. Also, this one smells super good.
The Shadowhunter Chronicles by Cassandra Clare
Okay so… I've read QUITE A LOT these past few months. Might have something to do with the fact that I have a BookTube channel all about the books I read. (and I'm almost at 50 subscribers so!!!) but yes, I've read a lot. However, as university work has gotten more prevalent in my life, reading has unfortunately gone on the back burner. So at the moment I'm slowly making my way through The Mortal Instruments (yes, I know I'm ten years late).
I started off not loving the world of the shadowhunters too much, mainly due to personal dislike for Cassandra Clare's writing style, however the series and characters have definitely grown on me and I can see this series staying with me for a long time! If you want to find out about my opinions on this series as I continue reading (I'm currently on the fourth book), then make sure to subscribe to my channel!
Listening To
Harry Styles by Harry Styles
Okay so I was never ever ever a 1D fan. Nothing against them, I just was slightly too old to love them, and slightly too young to hate them. But out of a need for new music recently (after listening to the same 4 bands for the past like 5 years), I decided to give Harry's album a go. Even though I didn't like Sign of the Times when I first heard it, I LOVE this album. I think Harry is by far the most talented out of the group, and his personal style truly shines through in this album. It has hints of classic rock, ballads, and even country at times, and I absolutely love it. Every song makes me want to sit staring out a train window and leave my old life behind in a turn-around montage, you know? It's that kind of music.
Stranger Things
Come on. We all know this would be on here. If this isn't on everyone's Autumn favourites then they are LYING. I have not met one single person who hasn't loved this show, and season two that blasted into my life at the end of October was everything I could have hoped for for my Hawkins children and more. I love each and every one of the characters and storylines so much, and this season truly did just expand on the Strange World and the characters I loved the first time around. It's one of the best pieces of cinematic artwork I've ever seen, and I even used it as inspiration for one of my university presentations. That's how much I love it.
The Vampire Diaries
It may have taken me eight years (this show first aired in 2009. 2009?!?!), but last night I finally finished The Vampire Diaries. And I full-on sobbed for the last five minutes of the last episode (sorry, Connor). I've been through many ups and downs with this show, and I can easily say it is not the best show I've ever seen. At times, it actually felt like I was physically being thrown into a fantasy writer's worst nightmare, what with the plot holes and convoluted storylines, but I did feel an attachment to many of the characters, and I'm so glad it ended in the way it did. But if I think about it too much, I'll never shut up. So let's move on.
I know I've spoken about this multiple times in this post alone and I'm SORRY (but I'm also not sorry), but I've started a YouTube channel! I'm currently posting one video a fortnight, and trying to get motivated to do more (maybe over Christmas?) but I basically just talk about books! Books I've read, my opinions on books, and I even have a series on book recommendations for each of the Hogwarts houses!
I'm loving the whole feel of creating videos for my YouTube channel, and coming up with ideas for the future is just as exciting as seeing people commenting and enjoying them, and I can't wait to put more effort into my channel into the future, since I'm finally doing something I've always wanted to do (make YT videos) while making it about something I've always had a passion for!
University Life
And finally, I've been loving uni life. While I've not been the typical fresher, what with living at home (check out why I decided to this here), and with not being really into the whole alcohol culture that comes with uni, I've been loving learning again.
I wasn't sure I wanted to get a degree for a long time, but after deciding on what I wanted to do in the future, I knew it was a step I had to take to get where I wanted to go, and I'm going to embrace every second of it. Starting uni has given me the opportunity to keep my innocence and act like a teenager for a bit longer, something I won't be taking for granted. I get to live at home with my family, I get to learn every day, and have spare time to spend on hobbies that I love. I'm loving university life, and I'm so lucky that this is a part of life I'm able to take part in.
So there you have it, a few of my favourite things from this Autumn. Much like everyone else in this world, I can't believe we're nearly over with 2017, but honestly I'm so excited for what's coming up in 2018 as some pretty exciting things are in place already.
If you've got a favourites post, link it down below so I can check it out, and if you've been loving the same things as me then let me know, I'd love to hear about it, and also let me know if there's any Christmas-y/Winter-y or other content you'd like to see from this blog!
'Til next time,
Jess x
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Fabrication specialists at Commerce's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) are joining forces with conservators at the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) to protect and display a document that influenced our nation's foundation, the 1297 Magna Carta. Only four originals of the 1297 Magna Carta survive, and the one at the Archives is the only original on display in the United States.
The famous charter is on exhibit in the West Rotunda Gallery in the National Archives Building on Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, D.C.
The Magna Carta harkens back to 1215 when King John of England was forced by an assembly of barons to write down the traditional rights of the country's free persons. By so doing, he bound himself and his heirs to grant "to all freemen of our kingdom" the rights and liberties described in the great charter, or Magna Carta. Each subsequent ruler did the same. The 1297 Magna Carta represents the transition from a brokered agreement to the foundation of English law, upon which U.S. law is based. Read more | NARA release
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The site specification is the planning team's concise statement of core goals, values, and intent, to provide the ultimate policy direction for everything that comes next. Designing a substantial Web site is a costly and time-consuming process. When you're up to your neck in the daily challenges of building the site, it can be surprisingly easy to forget why you are doing what you are, to lose sight of your original priorities, and to not know on any given day whether the detailed decisions you are making actually support those overall goals and objectives. A well-written site specification is a powerful daily tool for judging the effectiveness of a development effort. It provides the team with a compass to keep the development process focused on the ultimate purposes of the site. As such, it quickly becomes a daily reference point to settle disputes, to judge the potential utility of new ideas as they arise, to measure progress, and to keep the development team focused on the ultimate goals.
At minimum, a good site specification should define the content scope, budget, schedule, and technical aspects of the Web site. The best site specifications are very short and to the point, and are often just outlines or bullet lists of the major design or technical features planned. The finished site specification should contain the goals statement from the planning phase, as well as the structural details of the site.
These are big questions, and the broad conceptual issues are too often dismissed as committees push toward starting the "real work" of designing and building a Web site. However, if you cannot confidently answer all of these questions, then no amount of design or production effort can guarantee a useful result.
The site specification defines the scope of your project that is, what and how much you need to do, the budget, and the development schedule. "Scope creep" is the most prevalent cause of Web project failures. In badly planned projects, scope creep is the gradual but inexorable process by which previously unplanned "features" are added, content and features are padded to mollify each stakeholder group, major changes in content or site structure during site construction are made, and more content or interactive functionality than you originally agreed to create is stuffed in. No single overcommitment is fatal, but the slow, steady accumulation of additions and changes is often enough to blow budgets, ruin schedules, and bury what might have been an elegant original plan under megabytes of muddle and confusion.
Don't leap into building a Web site before you understand what you want to accomplish and before you have developed a solid and realistic site specification for creating your Web site. The more carefully you plan, the better off you will be when you begin to build your site.
One excellent way to keep a tight rein on the overall scope of the site content is to specify a maximum page count in the site specification. Although a page count is hardly infallible as a guide (after all, Web pages can be arbitrarily long), it serves as a constant reminder to everyone involved of the project's intended scope. If the page count goes up, make it a rule to revisit the budget implications automatically the cold realities of budgets and schedules will often cool the enthusiasm to stuff in "just one more page." A good way to keep a lid on scope creep is to treat the page count as a "zero sum game." If someone wants to add pages, it's up to them to nominate other pages to remove or to obtain a corresponding increase in the budget and schedule to account for the increased work involved.
Changes and refinements can be a good thing, as long as everyone is realistic about the impact of potential changes on the budget and schedule of a project. Any substantial change to the planned content, design, or technical aspects of a site must be tightly coupled with a revision of the budget and schedule of the project. People are often reluctant to discuss budgets or deadlines frankly and will often agree to substantial changes or additions to a development plan rather than face an awkward conversation with a client or fellow team member. But this acquiescence merely postpones the inevitable damage of not dealing with scope changes rationally.
The firm integration of schedule, budget, and scope is the only way to keep a Web project from becoming unhinged from the real constraints of time, money, and the ultimate quality of the result. A little bravery and honesty up front can save you much grief later. Make the plan carefully, and then stick to it.
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When Budweiser changed its iconic all American beer can to accentuate the bow tie logo of the so called King of Beers, I was not happy. Even though I don't really care what the outside of the beer can looks like as long as my words start slurring. Even though I don't drink Budweiser. It was a telegraphed move by an old company trying to fake cool. Whatever. I'm over it now. But now Budweiser is introducing a bow tie-shaped can to match their bow tie logo. It kind of looks like the dented cans you see littered around a frat house. It kind of looks like the redesigned Xbox. It's a beer can without the beer belly. Which makes sense because it also has less beer.
The difference is mostly insignificant: the new bow tie can carries 11.3 ounces of beer flavored water while the typical can (which will still be sold) houses 12 ounces of the same beer flavored water. But the design is no small change, the can requires a 16-step process—10 steps to shape the bottom half, six steps to twist the top portion. Also, the bow tie design has been in development since 2010. Budweiser really wanted this to happen. But who wants less beer?
The special bow tie edition beer will come in 8 packs starting this Spring (Spring is coming this year, right?). Anyways. I can imagine my thought process now:
I'd walk into the liquor store and immediately pass by all the hurdles of crappy beer and get two 6-packs of something tasty. I'd pay, get drunk and never think about Budweiser's dainty can at any point of the night. Hell, I wouldn't even remember the new bow tie can unless I invented a time machine to go back to a house party in 2004 when I start drinking Budweiser and then re-fast forward myself to the moment where I was hurdling passed crappy beers and stop myself. Then I would buy the 8-pack of Bud as a gag gift. But the night would grow old and my buzz would grow desperate and I'd crack open the new cold Bud and I'd think, hey this kind of feels good in my hand. I like the curves. I like the thoughtfulness. I LIKE BUDWEISER NOW?
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Leaders Unite Against Boko Haram
ABUJA: Leaders from across Nigeria appealed for a united front against Boko Haram on Thursday, saying the Islamist insurgents were waging war on Christian and Muslim Nigerians alike.
President Goodluck Jonathan held a security meeting with governors of 36 states straddling Nigeria's largely Christian south and mostly Muslim north to seek ways of ending the Islamists' five-year-old insurgency.
"We agreed that the Boko Haram war is not a religious war and therefore it's a war against all Nigerians and should be treated as such," a statement said after the meeting.
The insurgents abducted 230 schoolgirls on April 14 and most are still missing. On the same day, a bomb in a bus station on the edge of the capital Abuja killed 75 people, an attack for which Boko Haram claimed responsibility.
The two attacks showed the inability of the Nigerian security forces to protect civilians against Boko Haram, seen as the biggest security threat to Africa's top oil producer. The insurgency by the group, whose name means "Western education is sinful" in the northern Hausa language, has killed thousands in the past two years.
Officials have long feared that Boko Haram, which wants to carve a breakaway Islamic state out of Nigeria, will harden religious divisions.
But while the group has repeatedly targeted Christians — blowing up churches or killing minority Christian ethnic groups in the north — the majority of their victims have been Muslims. The Islamists destroy churches, but also mosques.
"Both Muslims and Christians are being killed. Boko Haram doesn't discriminate against any person," Theodor Orji, governor of the southern Abia state, said after the emergency meeting. "Boko Haram is not a religious war and people should not misrepresent it to be," Orji said.
Heightened Boko Haram attacks coincide with rising communal violence in the Middle Belt, where north and south meet, that has killed hundreds. Officials fear the Islamist insurgency will merge with this so far distinct conflict.
The military said on Thursday it had arrested gunmen who killed 40 people in two attacks on villagers in the east in the past week and they had confessed to being Boko Haram militants. The attack initially looked like Muslim Fulani herdsmen attacking ethnic Tiv Christian farmers.
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The Night Watch by Sarah Waters
That probably makes the The Night Watch sound a lot less interesting than it actually is. It's a tough book to summarize, as there are several characters are storylines, all of which are equally complex and interesting. One of my favourite things about this novel (and believe me, it's hard to pick) was its structure. It moves backwards in time – we go from 1947 to 1944 and 1941. This actually adds to its sadness, to its intensity. We move from the years after the war to its heart; we get to know the characters, and by the time we grow to love them we already know that things didn't work out all that well for them. And suddenly it all begins to matter, and it breaks our hearts.
The Night Watch made me want to read more novels about women's lives during World War II, about life in London during the blitz, about what things were like for those who couldn't or didn't want to fight. I've read quite a few books about the Second World War, but never from this perspective—which is funny, because war's impact on ordinary lives is actually something that really interests me. Wars ruin lives is more ways than those that are usually recognized.
During the first third or so of the novel, set in 1947, we get the feeling that despite all the fear and danger and death, some of the characters actually miss the war years. This is a very human reaction, I think, though one that is seldom acknowledged. The women in particular went from being essential to being cast aside as redundant, and so they miss the clear direction their lives had back then. This is especially true of Kay. And this isn't of course about war being necessary or anything silly like that. It's about being or not being allowed to do things that matter to you. It's about being told you matter, and then being told you don't.
The story that affected me the most was probably Duncan's. It's only very near the end of The Night Watch that we find out exactly what happened to him and Alec; exactly why he was arrested. What struck me the most about that scene was how very young they sounded, how very young they were. They were boys, teenage boys, who had always being told they had to fit into a pre-made mould of manhood, or else they were worthless. I won't tell you what happens, of course, but I will say that I had to put the book aside, I was crying so hard.
Once again, Sarah Waters shows how good she is at creating atmosphere – the bombings, the blackouts, the fear mixed with just a hint of excitement, the small and the big tragedies: it's all so perfect you feel you're there. There's a scene with Julia and Helen out in the night during a blackout that has to be one of the most intense scenes I've read in a very long time.
And then there are the characters, all of whom I grew to love, and there are their feelings and relationships, which are captured so perfectly. She's a master at implying: I don't know how she does it, but subtle emotional changes, complex feelings, unspoken things, invisible connections, they all come across so perfectly in her work. This is an intense, dark, and heartbreaking novel. Sarah Waters, I love you with all my heart.
A few of my favourite passages:
'Get over it. What a funny phrase that is! As if one's grief is a fallen house, and one has to pick one's way over the rubble to the ground on the other side…I've got lost in my rubble, Mickey. I can't seem to find my way across it. I don't think I want to cross it, that's the thing. The rubble has all my life in it still—'This last one made me smile, as it's an image she also uses in both Fingersmith and Affinity. She must like it, and I do, too. It's such a good way of describing not only the pull of attraction, but also the sudden awareness of the other's presence, of their every movement, that you develop when you're falling in love.
She smoothed Helen's hair away from her brow, watching for the stilling of her eyelids: feeling the rising of emotion in her own breast; and made almost afraid, for a moment, by the fierceness of it. For she thought of the little bits of bodies she and Cole had had to collect, tonight, from the garden on Sutherland Street, and felt the ghastliness of them, suddenly, as she had not felt it then—the awful softness of human flesh, the vulnerability of bone, the appalling slightness of necks and wrists and finger-joints…it seemed a sort of miracle to her that she should come back, from so much mayhem, to so much that was quick and warm and beautiful and unmarked.
That was all they had done; and yet it seemed to Helen that with those slight encounters the world had been subtly transformed. She felt connected to Julia now, as if by a slender, quivering thread. She could have closed her eyes and, with a fingertip, touched the exact small point on her breast at which the thread ran delicately into her heart and tugged at it.
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I've got to do some work for a client this afternoon so I decided to take a walk this morning. It was breezy and bright and surprisingly cool today. Interesting that all the shadows come from the other side when you walk in the morning instead of the afternoon. Things look different.
I took along the camera that doesn't require me to make additional inventory decisions. Just the RX10 with its fixed lens. I added a cheap polarizer to the mix and polarized the hell out of everything I saw. Mostly just for fun. I could tell that the polarizer very subtly eroded the sharpness of the lens.
When I got back to the studio I played around with some video files I shot riding up the escalators at the Hilton Hotel. Then I erased them. I looked at the bucket of images I shot and kept ten or so.


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The Exploited are a Scottish punk band from the second wave of UK punk, formed in 1979.
They started out as an Oi! band, before transforming into a faster street punk and hardcore punk band, only with a heavy political influence. From about 1987 on (around the time of Death Before Dishonour) they changed into a crossover thrash band. Formed in Edinburgh by ex-soldier Wattie Buchan, they signed to Secret Records in March 1981 and released their debut EP Army Life. The album Punks Not Dead followed in the same year. Despite many lineup changes, the band continued into the 2000s and has developed a worldwide following. The band are currently writing material for a new album.
Early career
The band formed in 1979 in Edinburgh. One of the first lineups consisted of Big John Duncan on guitar, (Reeba) Alan Martin on drums, Gary McCormack on bass and Terry Buchan on vocals. After a very short time, however, Terry was removed from the band and his youngest brother, Walter 'Wattie' Buchan whom then took over. Inspired by the first wave of punk rock (Sex Pistols, The Clash, The Damned), the quartet created a simple, no-frills sound characterized by speed and aggression. In 1980, the group founded its own independent record label, Exploited Record Company, and immediately released their debut EP Army Life, which was #6 in the independent charts for eight weeks, then was in the top 20 for 18 months. They then released another single, "Barmy Army", which immediately jumped into the independent charts and remained there for 53 weeks, peaking at #4.
In 1981 the band signed to Secret Records and released the single "Dogs of War", which peaked at #2 in the independent charts and #63 in the national charts. The band then released their first live album, On Stage, recorded during a concert in Edinburgh. Thereafter, the band performed, along with Discharge, Anti-Nowhere League, Anti-Pasti and Chron Gen on a tour called Apocalypse Now.
Current lineup
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* Irish Rob - Bass
* Willie Buchan - drums
* Gav - Guitar
Studio albums
* Punk's Not Dead - 1981 (About this sound sample - "Punks Not Dead" (help·info))
* Troops of Tomorrow - 1982
* Let's Start a War (Said Maggie One Day) - 1983
* Horror Epics - 1985
* Death Before Dishonour - 1987
* The Massacre - 1990
* Beat the Bastards - 1996


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Trial opens over firing of Ohio pregnant lesbian teacher
By LISA CORNWELL
A Roman Catholic archdiocese and two of its schools violated the civil rights of a teacher who was fired after she became pregnant through artificial insemination, her attorney told jurors Tuesday.
Christa Dias was terminated simply for being pregnant and unmarried, and it's illegal to fire an employee for being pregnant, her attorney Robert Klingler told federal jurors during opening statements of the trial over Dias' lawsuit against the Archdiocese of Cincinnati and the schools.
Klingler started his statement by showing jurors a photo of Dias' daughter, who is now 2 years old.
He said Dias had always wanted a child even after realizing she was gay and decided on artificial insemination to become pregnant. She also loved her job teaching computer classes at the schools and believed herself to be "a good teacher and a good moral person," he said. Dias, who is not Catholic, did not know that artificial insemination would be considered a violation of her contract and Catholic doctrine, he said.
But Steven Goodin, representing the archdiocese and the schools, said there was no discrimination. He says Dias was fired "for intentionally violating a contract."
Goodin pointed out to jurors a clause in the employment contract saying employees must "comply with and act consistently in accordance with the stated philosophy and teachings" of the Catholic church and the schools' policies and directives.
The archdiocese has said that artificial insemination violates that doctrine and is immoral.
Goodin noted that Dias is gay and therefore "shouldn't have signed a contract knowing that she was violating" church doctrine.
While the lawsuit does not claim Dias was fired because of her sexual orientation, Goodin said she kept the fact that she was gay a secret, because she knew the church doesn't approve of homosexual acts.
"That all goes to her credibility," he said.
Goodin said the lawsuit is "about money, plain and simple." Even if jurors should find his clients did something wrong, "the evidence will show that Ms. Dias is not entitled to any damages," he said.
Dias is seeking unspecified damages to cover lost wages and "for the pain and emotional stress," Klingler said.
The archdiocese also has argued that Dias was a ministerial employee and the Supreme Court has said religious groups can dismiss those employees, but Klingler insists Dias had no such duties.
The case, viewed as a barometer on the degree to which religious organizations can regulate employees' lives, is the second lawsuit that's been filed in the last two years against the archdiocese over the firing of an unmarried pregnant teacher.
Kathleen Quinlan, who taught first grade at Ascension Catholic School in Kettering in suburban Dayton, said she was told to resign or she would be fired, on the same day she told the school's principal in December 2011 that she was expecting.
Dias' lawsuit alleges that church policy isn't equally enforced against men and women.


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From one of my favorite blogs, DART by Peggy Roalf:
Thursday Night in NYC: Chelsea Art Walk
By Peggy Roalf Wednesday, July 28, 2010
Tomorrow night, 25 Chelsea galleries will celebrate the hottest summer on record with extended hours and special events as they host the first annual Chelsea Art Walk. In addition, local sponsors will offer food and drink specials throughout the evening. Wanting to find out more, I contacted art dealer Brian Clamp, who offered these details by email.
"The event was organized by Alyssa Menegat, who is the Gallery Manager at Jenkins Johnson Gallery, and Catherine Wyatt, who is the Gallery Manager at ClampArt," he said. "Their idea was to try to draw people to Chelsea during the hot summer days when foot traffic typically slows down. Many galleries have excellent shows on view in July, and it's a shame that they might be missed by people who assume the art market is in low gear for the summer."
Left to right: Flood Street View; Gregory on Ladder; Blue Room. Copyright Dave Anderson, courtesy ClampArt Gallery.
I asked Brian how the idea of his gallery hosting a crepe-making evening with Les Gamins came about. "The idea," he replied, "was also Catherine's. Our current exhibition features photographs of New Orleans by Dave Anderson, so she thought the French tie-in made sense. Also," he concluded, "the point was to involve other local businesses beyond the art world!"
Left to right: Michal Ronnen Safdie, Installation at Andrea Meislin Gallery; Soo Kim, Untitled (Gold woods) 2008, at Julie Saul Gallery; Daniel Hesidence, Untitled (Autumn Buffalo) 2009 (left); Louise Fishman, Violets for My Furs, 2010 (right) at Cheim & Read Gallery. Artwork copyright the artists, courtesy the galleries.
Here's the lineup as of today: B.E.S. (559 West 22nd Street at 11th Avenue) who will be hosting an after party to cap off the evening with drink specials from 8-10 pm, Le Gamin Cafe/Creperie serving crepes all night at ClampArt (521-531 West 25th Street), Three Tarts Bakery offering 15% off homemade lemonade and ice cream sandwiches and 10% off of giftware, and Tia Pol (205 10th Avenue at 22nd Street) is offering half priced pitchers of Sangria when two people come in for dinner. Also keep an eye out for Cupcake Stop Truck parked on 27th Street and the Van Leeuwen Ice Cream Truck parked on 24th Street.
Participating galleries: Andrea Meislin Gallery, AC Institute [Direct Chapel], Axelle Fine Arts Galerie, Barry Friedman Ltd., Benrimon Contemporary, BravinLee Programs LLC, Bruce Silverstein, Cheim & Read, ClampArt, Hasted Hunt Kraeutler, J. Cacciola Gallery, Jenkins Johnson Gallery, Joshua Liner Gallery, Julie Saul Gallery, Magnan Metz Gallery, Marlborough Chelsea, Michael Mazzeo Gallery, Mike Weiss Gallery, Morgan Lehman, Noho Gallery, P.P.O.W., Rick Wester Fine Art, Robert Mann Gallery, Sputnik Gallery, Stux Gallery, Sundaram Tagore Gallery, Witzenhausen Gallery, Yancey Richardson Gallery, and Yossi Milo Gallery.


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Confederate flag back at Ga. fort after 148 years
RICHMOND HILL, Ga. - As Fort McAllister fell to the Union Army of Gen. William T. Sherman days before Christmas in 1864, one of his artillery officers seized the Confederate flag of a vanquished company of Georgia riflemen. The officer carried the silk banner home to Maine as a souvenir, and it stayed in his family for three generations in a box along with a handwritten note: "To be return to Savannah or Atlanta sometime."
Nobody knows for sure why the late Maj. William Zoron Clayton wanted his Civil War trophy flag returned to the South. But after 148 years, his wish has been honored.
The Union officer's great-grandson, Robert Clayton, donated the flag to be displayed at Fort McAllister State Historic Park in coastal Georgia, where a dedication is planned next month just before Confederate Memorial Day. Clayton suspects his ancestor wanted to pay back his former enemies after a Bible taken from him by Confederate troops during the war was returned to him by mail 63 years later.
"I think he had a little sympathy for the plight of the Confederates," said Clayton, a homebuilder who lives in Islesboro, Maine. "They returned his Bible, so he wanted to return their flag. One good turn deserves another."
With its canons pointed out over the Ogeechee River a few miles south of Savannah, Fort McAllister was where Sherman won the final battle of his devastating march to the sea that followed the burning of Atlanta. The Union general knew that taking the fort would clear the way for him to capture Savannah. On Dec. 13, 1864, he sent about 4,000 troops to overwhelm Fort McAllister's small contingent of 230 Confederate defenders.
Among the Confederate units defeated at the fort was 2nd Company B of the 1st Georgia Regulars, a Savannah-based outfit otherwise known as the Emmett Rifles. The company's commander, Maj. George Anderson, surrendered his unit's ceremonial flag after Fort McAllister fell.
Decades later, the flag's capture was no secret to Daniel Brown, the park manager at Fort McAllister, who kept research files on the Emmett Rifles banner and four others known to have been taken by Union troops under Sherman. He called the flag a "once in a lifetime" find, especially considering that Civil War sites nationwide are still marking the 150th anniversaries of the war's battles and events.
"You can't put a price on it," said Brown, who put the flag on display last month. "Everybody has drooled over the thing."
Brown was well-versed in the flag's history during the war, but clueless as to what had become of it since.
That changed when Robert Clayton paid a visit to the Georgia state park during a vacation in October 2010. He struck up a casual conversation with Brown about the Emmett Rifles.
"I said, 'What would you say if I told you I had the Emmett Rifles flag hanging on my living room wall?'" Clayton recalled.
Clayton had found the flag, and its note with his great-grandfather's wish, about 20 years earlier stashed in a closet. He said he didn't know why older family members had never returned it, but also admits he wasn't at first eager to part with the flag himself. Instead he framed the banner and displayed it in his home.
Clayton said his visit to Fort McAllister made him change his mind. Before he left Georgia, he had agreed to donate the flag and follow through on his great-grandfather's written request. But it took months to make the final exchange - mostly, Clayton says, because he couldn't work up the nerve to mail the flag 1,230 miles from Maine to Georgia. When he finally shipped it for overnight delivery last summer, he stayed up tracking the package online until it arrived.
Once the flag arrived in Georgia, park rangers turned it over to conservation experts who mounted and sealed it in a protective frame. Park staffers finally hung it above a display at Fort McAllister's museum last month.
Brown said he had some doubts when he first heard Clayton's story, but once he saw the flag he could quickly tell it was authentic. The dates of two prior battles in which the Emmett Rifles fought at Fort McAllister - Feb. 1 and March 3, 1863 - were also painted on the silk. Brown had records of the military orders authorizing the unit to add those specific dates as honors to its flag.
His files also confirmed that historians had identified the Union officer who captured the flag in 1864 as Maj. Clayton, the donor's great-grandfather.
Civil War flag experts say the Confederate banner is a remarkable specimen that was hand-sewn from pieces of silk with a fancy golden fringe.
There's one small tear and the red field has faded almost to pink, but its blue "X'' and white stars remain crisp. So do the hand-painted words - "Emmett Rifles" and "Fort McAllister" - and battle honors.
"It's a terrific find," said Cathy Wright, a curator and flag expert at the Museum of the Confederacy in Richmond, Va., which has a collection of about 550 Civil War flags. "It's not one-of-a-kind, but it's a relatively rare example of this kind of flag."
Despite orders after the Civil War to turn all captured flags over to the federal War Department, many Union troops kept them as souvenirs.
Many other unit flags were destroyed during the war, either by capturing units cutting them into pieces to divide the spoils or by units burning their own flags to stop them from falling into enemy hands, said Bryan Guerrisi, education coordinator at the National Civil War Museum in Harrisburg, Penn.
"A lot of them get lost or are in somebody's attic and they think it's a blanket or something," Guerrisi said.
In 1905, under orders from Congress, the federal government began returning its stash of captured Confederate flags to the Southern states - a move aimed at reconciliation that provided museums with many of the flags in their collections.
Clayton is planning to travel back to Fort McAllister to see his great-grandfather's flag officially unveiled to the public April 21, two days before Georgia celebrates Confederate Memorial Day.
"It was my great-grandfather's wish," Clayton said. "I looked at it for 20 years, but it needed to go back where it belongs."


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Isles use goal from Cizikas to edge Panthers
Sunrise, FL – Casey Cizikas scored the winner with 7:05 to play as the New York Islanders held off the Florida Panthers, 4-3, on Saturday.
Radek Martinek, Kyle Okposo and Brad Boyes all scored while Evgeni Nabokov made 27 stops for the Islanders, who have won their past two.
Mike Santorelli, T.J. Brennan and Marcel Goc scored in the third period for the Panthers, who are on a six-game slide. Scott Clemmensen gave up all four goals on 25 shots.
"We threw a lot of energy out there and got some production," said Florida head coach Kevin Dineen. "But we have to play a more complete game and stop this one-period stuff we've been doing a lot of lately."
Florida had scored three times in the third period to tie the game, but the Islanders went back on top with 7:05 to play in the game.
Keith Aucoin left the puck along the boards to the left of the net for Cizikas, who then pushed it further along to Colin McDonald, who then sent it back to Cizikas and he caught Clemmensen looking the other way for his fourth goal of the season.
"We were just working the puck deep and I was able to get into a position to get it on net," said Cizikas. "We certainly don't want to blow leads like that every night because it's not a way to build success, but it's nice that we got the win."
The Panthers skated the final 90 seconds with an extra player after pulling Clemmensen, but were unable to net the equalizer.
The Islanders took a 1-0 lead at the 15:26 mark of the first period when Frans Nielsen's pass from behind the right side of the net to the front was one- timed home by Okposo.
About 2 1/2 minutes later it was a 2-0 game as Martinek's one-timer from the high slot went through traffic for his second goal of the year.
The Islanders made it a 3-0 game 33 seconds into the second period as Boyes' shot from the right side went off the skate of Tomas Kopecky and snuck in.
It stayed 3-0 until a furious rally from the Panthers that saw the team score three times in a span of 1:43 to tie the game.
The first goal came at the 5:09 mark when Brennan was able to jam the puck in during a scrum in front, and 34 seconds later it was a one-goal game when Goc scored his third of the year.
Florida capped the comeback at the 6:52 mark as Jack Skille flew in the zone down the left wing and had his first shot stopped, but got the rebound and centered it where Santorelli tapped it in to tie the game.
Game Notes
The Panthers lost in regulation against the Islanders for the first time since Nov. 18, 2006, going 9-0-2 until Saturday ... Florida hits the road for its next five games starting in Carolina on Tuesday ... The Islanders, who went 2-1-0 on a three-game road trip, return home to face Ottawa on Tuesday ... Florida went 0-for-1 on the power play while New York didn't have an advantage during the game.


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New stuff.
June 21, 2012
Here's a panel I did with other Denver cartoonists. I'm wearing my white trash hunter's hat.
More random sketchbook junk:
I have a two page comic in this week's Westword called "12 Types of Denver Musicians." If you live in my city then you should pick it up.
If you live elsewhere, here is a link to the comic on Westword.com
I also did a comic about visiting the Denver Zoo
The link to this comic is here here here here here
And finally, I was recently in NYC promoting The Hypo with Fantagraphics editor Eric Reynolds. Heres a link to an interview I did with MTV about the book which will be out in a couple months Here here here here here
I'm that awkward one on the end of this panel. I'm pretty impaired at putting my thoughts into words. I should work on that I think. Maybe I'm too shy.
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Ford recalls about 3,000 vehicles
(Reuters) — Ford Motor Co is recalling about 3,000 cargo vans and luxury SUVs in North America in three separate actions to address potential brake hose, sliding door and windshield issues, the No. 2 U.S. automaker said.
Ford is recalling 1,319 Transit cargo vans from model year 2015 for potential brake fluid leak at the joint between the rear brake hose and brake caliper. Any leak could lead to extended stopping distances resulting in an accident.
The company said there have been no injuries linked to the issue, but one low-speed accident occurred while vehicles were being moved at the assembly plant.
Dealers will replace the sealing washers on both rear brake caliper to brake hose joints at no cost, Ford said.
About 1,279 vans sold in the United States, 29 in Canada and 11 in U.S. territories are affected.
Ford also said it is recalling 610 of the 2015 Transit cargo vans because the windowless sliding doors were assembled without an epoxy reinforcement that could increase the possibility of the doors becoming unlatched during side impacts. No accidents or injuries have been reported related to this issue, Ford said.
Dealers will install a reinforcement plate in the door assemblies at no cost, the company said.
About 585 vans sold in the United States, 18 in Canada and seven in U.S. territories are affected.
A Ford spokeswoman said 145 of the vans were being recalled for both issues.
Ford said it is recalling 1,274 Lincoln MKC SUVs from model year 2015 because there may be bubbles or other defects in the windshields. Air may have become trapped between the layers of glass during the windshield supplier's manufacturing process, which could lead to bubbles developing that could affect driver visibility, Ford said.
Ford said it is not aware of any accidents or injuries related to the issue. It will replace the windshield at no cost.
Affected are about 1,139 SUVs sold in the United States, 117 in Canada and 18 in Mexico.