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I'm expanding my series featuring fantastic authors to include fantastically creative people across the different mediums, which is why I've invited the talented Queenie Chan to drop by.
There are links to give-aways sprinkled throughout the interview.
Q: In the Eighties I lived in Melbourne and knew a bunch of comic artists. One of the things I noticed was that they would be obsessed with art work, the look, the over-all layout of the page, but story would fall by the wayside. On your website you say: 'After all, the essence of manga is not so much the art, but the story-telling, themes and pacing. These three are what you should concentrate on when trying to tell a story — any story, not just manga.' Have you always been fascinated by story? Did your parents read to you? When you saw a movie, did you imagine what happened to the characters afterwards?
Oh, that sounds real interesting! You sound like you met a lot of interesting people when you lived in Melbourne (I must say, I did too when I lived there for a year). Anyway, you're right about the many different camps of people who read graphic novels – some are all about the art, others are all about the story, while yet more believe in a combination of both. Personally, I've always felt that story is more important than art – a story can't be expressed properly if the art is inadequate, but I also have seen a lot of well-drawn manga/comics that are dull and boring despite beautiful, realistic renderings. I still feel that to work in any storytelling medium (which comics is), your first duty is to engage the reader's attention in whatever the purpose of the medium is for, so if it's comics, it should be story.
So yes, I've always been more fascinated by story, and as you said, I like to imagine the continuation of stories after they've "officially" finished. My parents encouraged me to read as a child, but they never read to me much (neither read fiction, to be honest), and so I got my fix from a variety of different sources – books, movies, TV series, cartoons, manga and video games. Even as a child, I was always writing fan-fiction in my head based on my favourite TV shows.
Q: You say you plot the story, concentrating on the beginning and end and often let the middle take care of itself. And that: 'In longer stories … there is time to set the characters free in the world you've created, and watching them interact with each other and with the environment. If your characters are well-constructed, then they would behave accordingly, and sometimes in ways completely unexpected to you.' At this stage are you still brainstorming the story flow in a sentence or two, or do you actually start to draw and find the characters doing unexpected things?
Since I'm a comic book writer/artist, the way I work is quite different to prose authors. I'm not saying I'm representative of comic book writers or artists in general, but most people who work in the comic medium are often constrained by the number of pages available. So in my case, the first thing I do when brainstorming is to figure out how many pages a story can be, because if a story becomes too long, it may be impossible to draw (since it will be impossible to finish).
With prose, you can always add paragraphs or sentences and rewrite things if you want, but unfortunately with comics, once you've set something down on paper, it can be very hard to change. You can't add an extra two panels to page 26 of your page 170 book (so far) if you want to – it will mess up the panel flows for the rest of the book. Because of this, my brainstorming usually involves writing down what happens on page 1, then what happens on page 2, and continuing by making a page-by-page summary of what happens on each page.
This part isn't hard, but sticking to it isn't always easy. Things always change when you go from prose to images, so you have to accommodate having to insert extra pages in when you start drawing the comic. Other times you'll have to shorten scenes or extend them, so these days, I always make sure I have a good "feel" of the story in my head before I draw anything. As I said, the longer your story, the more freedom you have in letting your characters have their character moments. You may find a scene play out different as you draw it than you originally imagined, but the overall arc of the story shouldn't deviate from the plan too much.
Q: You say you consider yourself: '… a Citizen of The World.' You were born in Hong Kong and came to Australia when you were six. Did you live in a multicultural suburb where you mixed with people from a lot of different backgrounds or was this interest in other societies just something that you uncovered as you came across books and movies from other cultures?
I grew up in a very multi-cultural suburb alright – I went to school with all sorts of interesting people and it was always lovely to learn about other cultures! I was always very interested in travelling, and not necessarily to other Anglophone cultures. As a child, I wanted to go to Africa, to the Middle East and to India, because I thought of these places as exotic, and with a long history.
I think being a history buff helps a lot too. I read a fair amount about Ancient History, and it's always been a kind of dream for me to visit those historic places that I've read so much about.
Q: You say: 'The reason why I'm so interested in interlocking story threads has a lot to do with my interest in human nature, sociology and anthropology. One of the things I find infinitely fascinating about genre-based story-telling in general is the environment the story is set in, and how that influences the character's morals, values and actions.' This is where I come from when writing my own books. I like to put my characters in situations that make them confront what they believe. You've made me want to run out and buy some of your books now. Was there a particular writer/movie director/artist whose mastery of character and setting made you think, Wow, that is what I'd like to do, but in my own way?
Ah, nice to know we share that point-of-view in common! I think fantasy can get a bad rep amongst some circles, because people tend to think they know what fantasy is without having read any of it (D&D, girls in metal bikinis swinging swords at orcs). The truth is, fantasy is just anything that isn't set in this world, but set in a different world; a world which has social conventions similar to our own. What better way is there to explore human nature, without all the political, racial, cultural and historical baggage that each one of us accumulates in this world, just by virtue of living in it? As you said, putting your characters in situations that make them confront their beliefs is what people in this world do every day, just as they do in the worlds you create in your novels.
As for people who have inspired me… there's been far too many to list. I can point out one man in particular who set me on my path – Tezuka Osamu, the creator of Astro Boy. He was a thoroughly-entertaining manga artist, but also a great humanist, and I encountered his series Black Jack at a particular time in my life (I was 15) which left a deep impression on me. Black Jack is about a rogue doctor who charges exorbitant fees for his services, but he's also a very good doctor who understands that some people have illnesses that have nothing to do with the physical. The ethical questions that crop up in that manga is quite interesting.
Q: From reading the blurb about The Dreaming it seems to have the feel of the movie Picnic at Hanging Rock, which had a lyrical dreamlike quality about it, and to also be a modern take on the Gothic Romance Literature. Are these two sources which might have influenced you subconsciously as you were creating this story?
Picnic at Hanging Rock was definitely the biggest inspiration for The Dreaming, and you're right about the gothic literature influences. Rebecca by Daphne DuMaurier was the other big influence, as were movies like Rosemary's Baby. The visual aspect was quite important for me (namely the way the school looked), but I think I wanted to create a more modern, "haunted-school" take on the whole Picnic at Hanging Rock mythos, so the story ended up bearing hardly any resemblance to any of these three books/movies. Which is a good thing. Even if you can name all your influences, it's a pleasure to know that what you created is unique in its own way.
By the way, I have the first 2 volumes (of 3) of The Dreaming online as a free webcomic.
Q: Your chapter dividers in The Dreaming remind me a little of the black & white work of Arthur Rackham and perhaps Art Nouveau (Mucha). Do you have heaps of books on art?
Actually, I don't have many artbooks, especially compared to other comic book artists. I'm not really big on art at all. As I mentioned before, I'm more interested in story-telling than I am in art, so people are often aghast when it turns out that I haven't heard of [insert name of famous illustrator here]. It's assumed that all people who draw must be big fans of the art world, but unfortunately… I'm not.
I really do like Mucha's art style, though it wasn't something I've discovered until recently. And while I love what I've seen of Arthur Rackham's artwork (google images, yay!), I actually think that the chapter divider art for "The Dreaming" looks more like some of Gustav Klimt's line artwork (that I randomly saw in a book somewhere). I must say that I wasn't influenced by any particular artist when I drew those chapter dividers – Klimt's work was something I encountered afterwards.
Q: With the Odd Thomas Series (stories originally by Dean Koontz), did Koontz see your work and ask you to illustrate his stories, or were the pair of you matched up by his/your publisher? (Reading your blog post about it, I see it was a little bit of both). So I'll come up with another question. How is the movie project going?
I believe we were matched up by our publisher Del Rey, though ofcourse, Dean has to like my work to begin with. I'm not sure what work he has seen of mine before we started working together, but we've had a good working relationship thus far, and it would be an honour if we did more books together. As of now, there's three Odd Thomas books (In Odd We Trust, Odd Is On Our Side, and House of Odd), and I'm happy with how things are.
I believe the movie for Odd Thomas has been completed, and is looking for distribution. I don't really know much about it, I'm afraid, since this is a project that is driven mostly by Dean. When it comes out, I'm sure all the Odd Thomas fans will run out to see it!
Q: A while ago at Supanova Kylie Chan pulled out some of your artwork and showed me. She's so proud of the work you're doing on Small Shen. Were you already one of Kylie's readers? How did the two of you connect?
(Update Small Shen isi finished!)
Kylie approached me at GenCon a few years ago, and introduced herself and her novels. I didn't really know of her or her work beforehand, but it was rare to see Chinese Fantasy be so successful, so I took an interest in her work. When I contacted Kylie, it turns out that she had a prequel to her series called Small Shen, and wanted to do something "graphic-novelly" with it. Since I relish the chance to draw some Chinese-style fantasy artwork, I decided to take on the project. That was how it all got off the ground!
It's been fun working on this project, and I'm nearing the end. This has been a special book, because this is a book that mixes prose with comics, and is not a straight-forward graphic novel. It's experimental, but so far it's working out quite well, so I look forward to it coming out in Xmas 2012 from Harper Collins.
Here's an interview Oz Comic Con did with Queenie about her Small Shen project with fantasy author, Kylie Chan (no relation), among other things.
Q: I was prompted to start this series of interviews because there seems to be a perception in the US and the UK that fantasy (in books) is a bit of a boy's club. I've come across quite a bit of talk on the blogs recently about female comic artists and writers, and their lack of representation in large companies like DC. Have you come across this in your professional life?
I think this perception exists throughout a lot of pop culture. Even when talking about books, there's a perception that sci-fi, horror, crime, thriller, literary, etc are all male-dominated. The only thing that is seen as exclusively female is probably chic-lit or romance – but even then, these books are packaged in such a female-oriented way that any chance of them appealing to a male audience is pretty much dead due to the deluge of pink covers. Meanwhile, there are a large number of successful female authors working across the genres, and there always has been.
Things are pretty much the same in the comics industry. While it's true that companies like DC and Marvel dominate (and they are largely male-oriented), there are many female comic book artists out there who don't work in superheroes, and are just doing their own thing. I'm one of them.
It's true that there are a lot of assumptions being made by people outside the industry, though, and even inside the industry. Many comics industry blogs tend to cover only superheroes, and hardly any other kind of comic. If you're going to focus on one small part of the comics industry, then yes, you're going to get a skewed perception of gender.
Q: Following on from that, does the gender of the writer/artist change your expectations when you approach their work?
No, it doesn't. I think a good writer is a good writer, and I don't think the gender of the writer has any effect on the final work. Male and female writers may be interested in different things, or approach things from other angles, but a good story told well is exactly that, and all that's left is accounting for differing tastes.
I think things are a little different for artists though. If you're talking about artists who are paired up with writers, then it rests on the skill of the artist to tell the writer's story effectively, and sometimes they don't do that. However, that's got nothing to do with gender though – it's more to do with what genre that artist is used to working in. If an artist is flexible, they ought to know how to adapt themselves to different genres. If they don't, and they believe that one-art-style-fits-all… then it can get a little awkward.
Q: And here's the fun question. If you could book a trip on a time machine, where and when would you go, and why?
Ah, that's a hard question. My answer can change each time someone asks me that question, depending on what I'm into at that particular point in time. Previously I said just after the meteor that destroyed the dinosaurs hit, so I can see the terrible global destruction that it must have caused (but I would probably die very quickly from it). But as of now, I may just take the easy route and travel to Ancient Egypt to watch them build the Pyramids and raise the Obelisk. I have a theory as to how they raised the Obelisk, and am wondering whether it checks out with history.
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Tyson Fury recovered from a second round knockdown to knock out Steve Cunningham in the seventh round of their heavyweight clash at Madison Square Garden.
It was only the second time in the Briton's career he had had to pick himself up off the canvas, but he recovered strongly to go 21-0 and set up a final eliminator against Kubrat Pulev - with the winner of that contest to face Wladimir Klitschko.
This fight was billed as Fury's toughest test with Cunningham a two-time world champion at cruiserweight, with eight world title fights behind him.
And it all looked to be a step too far after an uppercut put him on the canvas in the second before his own uppercut followed by a sickening right hook two minutes, 55 seconds into the seventh round ended the contest.
Fury had a considerable seven-inch height advantage and used that to full effect early on as the American struggled to get close in the opening round, although Fury's lack of discipline showed as he pushed Cunningham after the bell, with the referee issuing a warning.
Seconds into the second and the Manchester fighter was put on the ground for just the second time in his career.
Cunningham caught Fury with a swinging right hand over the top which although failed to make full contact was enough to put the Briton on the floor.
Fury dusted away the cobwebs and straight jabs kept his opponent at bay, but in the third Cunningham had better success inside, while a blow in the fourth had Fury again in trouble.
Fury's antics were starting to annoy the referee and he took a point off the 24-year-old for going in with his head in the fifth.
A right uppercut put Cunningham under pressure as Fury began to assert his authority on the contest.
In the seventh a bodyshot and an uppercut clearly had the 36-year-old in trouble before a right hook landed plumb on Cunningham's chin and the American had no chance of beating the count.
It was the first time in the American's career that he had been stopped and Fury was keen to praise his opponents before turning the attention to his own performance.
"It's one of those things, you can't go swimming and not get wet h- e put on a good fight," Fury said.
"I got caught with a big swinging right. You have to get up, this is a learning experience.
"That was a good hook to the side of the jaw, it was a matter of time until I got hold of him and when I caught him it was curtains."
Rarely lacking in confidence, Fury proceeded to sing for the audience and although he proved he can mix it with international class fighters, the blow which put him on the floor shows there is plenty of improving left to do if he is to seriously challenge a Klitschko.


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Those of you old enough might remember the short period in the early 90's when everyone went crazy over virtual reality. It was the future! Only the future was very heavy, uncomfortable, had terrible lag and eventually fizzled out like so many other futuristic technologies that were supposed to "change the game." But everything old is new again, and the Oculus Rift is a renewed attempt at bringing virtual reality back. This time around however the technology is nowhere near where it was in the 90's; processors are faster, screens' resolutions higher, materials cheaper and lighter. So maybe the Rift stands a chance. It's a 220g (about 0.5lbs) visor with an immersive, stereoscopic 110 degree diagonal display. This means that you don't actually see the screen: you're immersed in the image. Also the sensors for head tracking are advanced enough that latency is ultra low, allowing you to move your head in all six axes and have the image follow in front of your eyes, and not slightly behind.
What's perhaps better is that this isn't a quirky project by some dude in his basement. Palmer Luckey, the creator of the Rift, has the backing of several industry big wigs like John Carmak from IdSoftware, Gabe Newell from Valve, Cliff Blezinksi from Epic games and higher ups at Gaikai and Unity. They've all tried the prototype and they all got excited and will develop for it. So right now you can pre-order your own Oculus Rift from Kickstarter for $300. It comes with a copy of Doom 3 BFG, the first game developed for it and should ship in December of this year.
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This is actually the small fisherman port of Ahtopol. The town is 20km away from border with Turkey. The spot starts working only after 2,3 days of good NE,E wind (min 5 beaufort). September and October are the best months. November is good as well, but pretty cold and the place gets looking dramatic.
DistanceIn the city
WalkInstant access (< 5min)
Easy to find?Easy to find
Public access?Public access
Special accessDon't know
Alternative name Ahtopol
Wave qualityRegional Classic
ExperienceExperienced surfers
FrequencySometimes break
BottomReef (coral, sharp rocks etc..)
PowerFast, Fun
Normal lengthShort (< 50m)
Good day lengthNormal (50 to 150m)
Good swell directionEast, NorthEast
Good wind directionEast, NorthEast
Swell sizeStarts working at 1.0m-1.5m / 3ft-5ft and holds up to 3m+ / 10ft+
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For all goofy riders this is the best spot in Bulgaria. Please bear in mind that in the Black Sea we don't get as many waves as in the Ocean and sometimes we don't see waves for months.. but when they come they really come fast and powerful...at least at this spot..
The spot is amazing..best spot in the whole of Bulgaria. It needs good wind to start working but once there's a forecast..it is worth the trip. Around 70km from Burgas and 450km from Sofia. My man Tony Gogov discovered this spot and we all decided to name it after him. Respect to all those who ride in the Black Sea.
Really good spot to surf when there is persistent wind for about 3,4 days.The local town is very quiet in September and this is the best time to come. For the regular riders it is good fun too. Very shallow at some places..watch out for them rocks..
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Månedlige Oppdateringer fra 2016
In the last week of June 2016, Matthieu from France started volunteering on the Building Project at Barangay Poblacion in San Remigio, Cebu. Matthieu and the local tradesmen helped restore the old Gabaldon school building. The project was supported by one of our partners, the Rotary Club of Mactan.
In March 2016, there were nine volunteers working in the Disaster Rehabilitation Project located in Barangay Argawanon, San Remegio. Volunteers were given separate tasks and guidance from one of the local tradesman. Some volunteers were assigned to paint, guided by the local tradesman (Dante), while the other volunteers were assigned masonry work, guided by the local tradesman (Amid).
During the third week of February 2016, a volunteer started working in the School Building Project at Brgy. Argawanon, San Remegio. Projects Abroad's local tradesmen were deployed to the project site two-weeksprior to the volunteer's arrival, to assist the local workers on the school building construction.
In January 2016 our volunteer was assigned to assist the local tradesman on tough carpentry work. The volunteer was just observing at first because he was instructed to do so before doing the actual task. He was so curious while observing the local tradesman.
Månedlige Oppdateringer fra 2015
In December 2015 the volunteers and the local tradesmen continued reconstructing the school building. They installed the metal roof sheets with the insulation foam underneath to block or stop the heat that penetrates inside the building, which makes the room temperature higher. Before the volunteers worked on the roofing, they underwent a short briefing and were assessed for acrophobia (fear of heights).
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To illustrate the problems of simplifying original texts, we can look at examples from Shakespeare and the Bible. I came across a site that seeks to make Shakespeare's plays easier to understand by re-writing them:
Here is the original text from HAMLET Act III, Scene i, lines 57-91
To be, or not to be? That is the question—
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,
And, by opposing, end them?
Thus conscience does make cowards of us all,
And thus the native hue of resolution
Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought,
And enterprises of great pith and moment
With this regard their currents turn awry,
And lose the name of action.
Here is the simplified text:
The question is: is it better to be alive or dead? Is it nobler to put up with all the nasty things that luck throws your way, or to fight against all those troubles by simply putting an end to them once and for all?
Fear of death makes us all cowards, and our natural boldness becomes weak with too much thinking. Actions that should be carried out at once get misdirected, and stop being actions at all.
Do the two passages have the same meaning? They convey different senses to me.
Or take the famous passage from Ecclesiastes 9:11 of the Bible. Here is the familiar King James Version:
I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all.
And here is the simplified modern language of the New Living Translation:
I have observed something else in this world of ours. The fastest runner doesn't always win the race, and the strongest warrior doesn't always win the battle. The wise are often poor, and the skillful are not necessarily wealthy. And those who are educated don't always lead successful lives. It is all decided by chance, by being at the right place at the right time.
Again, does the simplified passage capture the meaning of the original?
I am not criticizing the quality of the simplifications, although there may be better ones around. If you asked me what Shakespeare's passages mean, I probably would have come out with a more confused meaning than what was given above. But the point is that it is in the process of struggling to understand the author's original meaning that we make individual sense of the passage. I think that the best we can hope for is a shared consensus of the meaning, and we can never hope to exactly enter into the author's mind.
This problem is always present when the US Supreme Court tries to rule on the constitutionality of present day issues using a document written over two hundred years ago. People who call themselves "strict constructionists" say that the constitution should be interpreted according to the text and the intent of the frames. But how can you glean intent? The text of the document, by itself, is not sufficient, because words can never capture exact meanings. Literary theorist and legal scholar Stanley Fish has an interesting article that is worth reading. In it he says:
It follows that any conclusion you reach about the intention behind a text can always be challenged by someone else who marshals different evidence for an alternative intention. Thus interpretations of the Constitution, no matter how well established or long settled, are inherently susceptible to correction and can always (but not inevitably) be upset by new arguments persuasively made in the right venues by skilled advocates.
This does not mean, however, that interpreting the Constitution is a free-form activity in which anything goes. The activism that cannot be eliminated from interpretation is not an activism without constraint. It is constrained by the knowledge of what its object is – the specifying of authorial intention. An activism that abandons that constraint and just works the text over until it yields a meaning chosen in advance is not a form of interpretation at all, but a form of rewriting.
This is why I am so much a fan of collaborative learning and discussions to tease out meaning. I think you get more out of having a group of people reading the original, (difficult) text, and then arguing about what it means, than by reading a simplified text alone, however 'clear' the latter might be.
Here is a Zen koan:
Hyakujo wished to send a monk to open a new monastery. He told his pupils that whoever answered a question most ably would be appointed. Placing a water vase on the ground, he asked: "Who can say what this is without calling its name?"
The chief monk said: "No one can call it a wooden shoe."
Isan, the cooking monk, tipped over the vase with his foot and went out.
Hyakujo smiled and said: "The chief monk loses." And Isan became the master of the new monastery.
What is the message this koan is trying to convey? The words are simple but the ideas are deep and captured succinctly. I think that it illustrates the point I am making here and I can try and tell you what it means to me, using a lot more words than in the original. But what does it mean to you?


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Indian Citizenship Act, President Coolidge and Osage Indians Photograph, 1924
President Calvin Coolidge signed the Indian Citizenship Act (also known as the Snyder Act, after the bill's sponsor, Representative Homer P. Snyder, of New York) into law on June 2, 1924. This significant step in the battle for civil rights for American Indians is highlighted in this photograph of President Calvin Coolidge flanked by four Osage Indians, outside of the White House in 1925. The photograph was taken in a commemoration of the passage and signing of the Snyder Act. The Osage formerly inhabited the area between the Missouri and Arkansas Rivers, and were a part of the Sioux Nation.
The Indian Citizenship Act granted full citizenship to all of the approximately 125,000 of 300,000 indigenous people living in the United States. The text reads:
BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That all noncitizen Indians born within the territorial limits of the United States be, and they are hereby, declared to be citizens of the United States: Provided, That the granting of such citizenship shall not in any manner impair or otherwise affect the right of any Indian to tribal or other property.
The Constitution of the United States had not recognized American Indians as citizens, and the guarantees of rights to African Americans contained in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth amendments did not extend to American Indians. The federal government and some of the states allowed individual Indians to enjoy the rights of citizenship following service in the armed forces, marriage to white citizens, or abandonment of tribal affiliations in order to own private property and pay taxes.
Many government officials believed that American Indians should be assimilated into mainstream American culture prior to being granted full citizenship. The Dawes Act of 1887 permitted American Indian tribes to be dissolved as legal entities with distribution of tribal lands among the individual members, who would then become federal and state taxpayers. The remaining tribal lands were then considered surplus and were distributed to homesteaders. These changes did not affect Virginia Indians because there were no federally recognized reservations in Virginia. Other provisions of the Dawes Act established American Indian schools where children were taught reading and writing, as well as the customs of white America. The Dawes Act did not foster the assimilation desired but instead forced American Indians to choose between their heritage and the opportunity to become United States citizens.
The Snyder Act was far more inclusive than other policies that dealt with citizenship, but it was not until the Nationality Act of 1940 that all people who were born on United States soil were automatically considered citizens. The Snyder Act created national citizenship for indigenous people in the United States, but the qualifications for state citizenship were determined by each individual state. The final state to grant full citizenship to American Indians was New Mexico in 1962.
1. What did the Snyder Act do for American Indians?
2. How was the Snyder Act different from other legislation designed to help American Indians?
Further Discussion
1. This legislation passed without vocal support from American Indians groups. Why would white Americans pursue legislation for American Indians citizenship? What reasons would an American Indian have to oppose this legislation?
This photograph is a part of the National Photo Company Collection at the Library of Congress. The collection documents virtually all aspects of Washington, D.C., life. During the administrations of Presidents Wilson, Harding, Coolidge, and Hoover, the National Photo Company supplied photographs of current news events in Washington, D.C., as a daily service to its subscribers. It also prepared sets of pictures on popular subjects and undertook special photographic assignments for local businesses and government agencies. The images date between ca. 1850 and 1945; the bulk of the images were created between 1909 and 1932. The photographic files of the National Photo Company, including an estimated 80,000 images (photographic prints and corresponding glass negatives), were acquired by the Library from its proprietor Herbert E. French in 1947.
Library of Congress Bibliographic Information-Coolidge Photograph
Suggested Reading
Haas, Theodore H. "The Legal Aspects of Indian Affairs from 1887 to 957." Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science:"American Indians and American Life" 311 (May 1957): 12–22.
Peterson, Helen L. "American Indian Political Participation." Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science,: "American Indians and American Life" 311 (May 1957): 116–126.
Bruyneel, Kevin. "Challenging American Boundaries: Indigenous People and the 'Gift' of U.S. Citizenship." Studies in American Political Development 18 (Spring 2004): 30–43.
Haney-LÓpez, Ian. White by Law: The Legal Construction of Race. New York: New York University Press, 2006.


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Best Alternative — Paramore
Best Spanish Singer — Enrique Iglesias
Best Video — Katy Perry for "California Gurls"
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Ryan and Kelly are coming back to Scranton for a farewell tour. At TCAs yesterday, Office executive producer Greg Daniels confirmed that Mindy Kaling, B.J. Novak, and Zach Woods would all be making appearances on the show's final few episodes. Not Steve Carell, though. "At the moment, we don't have any plans for him to come back," Daniels said, which … come on. How does The Office end without even a cameo from Michael Scott? Of course Steve Carell should come back for the finale, even if it's with a two-second cameo that goes totally unacknowledged by other characters.
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There are ultra runs and then there's the Race Across America. Kicking off on January 16, the race will see dozens of athletes attempt to run across the US, a total distance of 5,000km. Among them will be the 36-year-old Suunto supported runner Patrick Sweeney. We asked him why.
A few years ago I wanted to run across the country by myself but had an injury. Then this opportunity came up. I'm excited to see the country and I've always been up for an adventure.
I'm also raising money for a non-profit that's getting kids to run 100 miles in a school year, so that's a big motivating factor. I've seen it change lives.
The details?
It's 120 marathons over 140 days, mostly on the road.
Ouch! Is it do-able?
I'll find out! My best marathon time is 2:37 – on a hilly course – but we'll have eight hours to do the daily stages.
Race strategy?
My plan is to try and run in four hours and just find my groove. I don't know what my comfort level will be. The course is unmarked so having the Ambit will be very helpful.
I'm vegan so that's going to be even more difficult but I'll eat lots of oils and high protein meals and plenty of veggie tacos. I'll also be eating 2-3 avocados a day.
Biggest challenge?
It's winter! We cross the Colorado Plateau which is 7,500 ft (2,286 m) and we could encounter blizzards. I'm more of a hot weather person.
You ready?
You can wait your whole life to be healthy but I'm in good shape. I've done a lot of ultras in California, including Leadville the last couple of years.
You run in barefoot sandals, why?
It's really all I need and works best with the running form of my body. I don't get blisters. But I'm also packing a pair of shoes with max cushioning just in case something goes wrong.


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When my mom and her siblings would talk to or about their mother they would often refer to her as Tere (short for her nickname, Teresa). Their cousins also called their mothers by their (nick)names. Weird that they didn't just call their moms some version of "Mom," right?
Nonetheless, there was someone else that my mother, her siblings, and their cousins called Mamá: their grandmother, Catherine "Edelanive" Mondesi. Though Catherine's actual children were Julio (a.k.a. Papa Gil), Clemintina (a.k.a. Clemina), Fide (real name: Maria Sebastiana), Tere (real name: Maria Anastasia), and Isa (real name: Elizabeth Juana) it was Catherine's grandchildren that knew her so affectionately as Mamá.
I never quite understood this and would periodically ask my mom why she called her mother Tere and called her grandmother Mamá. For my own self-interested reasons I would often follow that up with an inquiry as to why I was not allowed to call my mother by her name. I can't say I ever got a clear answer to either of those questions but I'm sure it's some West Indian cultural thing that faded out with my generation.
No matter what you call Catherine, it's always been clear that she was an important person – perhaps the most important person – in the lives and memories of my mother and everyone else who called her Mamá. I don't know a lot about her other than that she was from St. Lucia, she was the matriarch of the family, she always covered her long hair with a kerchief tied in the style of women from her island, and that her last name was always known in the family to be Mondesi. As far as her first name is concerned, she's been referred to as Catherine, Catarina, Catalina, and Edelanive. Since we don't have much information about her life before she came to Panama this serves as something of a dilemma when trying to track down birth certificates and other records. Nonetheless, I finally gave it a try.
In March I found an email contact for the National Archives of St. Lucia and wrote to request a search for records pertaining to a Catherine-or-Catarina-or-Catalina-or-Edelanive Mondesi born on or around January 1, 1877. People in the family were confident her birthday was January 1st as they had celebrated her on that day until she passed away in the 1960s. I wasn't as confident about the year; I lifted it from a document my mother had, the exact origin of which she does not remember. This document also listed my great-grandfather's name, birthdate, and island of origin (Joseph Louis Colomb, 8 Oct 1857, also from St. Lucia).
After several emails back and forth the lovely people at the National Archives of St. Lucia reported that they did not have much luck in finding records that matched the information I had for my great-grandfather. However, they did find a baptism record for "a Catherine born Jan 1, 1877 child of Clementine Jules." The archive research assistant asked, "Do you think that's her?" I really couldn't be sure. I excitedly wrote back, "Could be her! We don't know anything about her parents names so I can't say Clementine is or isn't the right name for the mother. So the last name is Jules, not Mondesi? Was this Catherine born in or near Soufriere?" The research assistant responded by explaining that this was the only Catherine on record to have been born in Soufriere on that date and it was possible that she had taken the name Mondesi (she wrote "Mondesir," actually) from her father, who was not identified on the baptism record, later on. I asked for a copy of the record to be sent to me, mailed out my little check for $25, and waited for it to come in the mail.
Finally, an envelope from the National Archives of St. Lucia arrived last week. I opened it carefully and tried to use my intermediate knowledge of Spanish to understand the original French. Of course I tapped into additional resources with the help of Google Translate and my wonderful French friend Sylvine. We arrived at the following translation:
The year eighteen hundred and seventy seven, on January 28, we the undersigned court have baptised the child Catherine, natural child of Clementine Jules, in Zenien, born on January 1st of this year – Simon Joseph Godfather, Godmother Catherine Jean Jacques, who did not sign.
As I wrote to Sylvine when I thanked her for correcting the Google translation, "We don't have anything concrete to say that it's definitely my great-grandmother, but there's nothing to rule it out either!" There are a couple of pieces of information that allow me to be hopeful that this just might be Mamá. Keeping in mind the mother's name on the baptism record is Clementine Jules, is it a coincidence that our Catherine named her first son Julio and her first daughter Clemintina? I hope that interviewing my great-aunt Isa, Catherine's last living child, next month will help to connect more of these dots.


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"Study to show thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth." — II Timothy, Chapter 2, Verse 15
Les Feldick is an Oklahoma rancher and has enjoyed that lifestyle for many years.
Les and his wife, Iris, have been married since 1953. They have three grown children and eight grandchildren.
What Les really likes is teaching the Bible. He has been teaching home-style Bible classes for over 30 years. His teaching is non-denominational, and his students come from diverse denominations and backgrounds. It was through one of these classes that a student helped open the door for his "Through the Bible" television program.
Les has never had any formal Bible training. It is through the Holy Spirit that he is able to teach night after night, never using lesson plans or notes, and seemingly, never growing tired. Les teaches in four different cities on a regular basis.
Les starts his classes in Genesis 1:1 and works all the way through the Bible. All the Scriptures quoted are referenced from the King James Version. Les comments that "Once a class has been 'Through the Bible' with me, we generally start over and do it again."
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A person familiar with the situation tells The Associated Press that ESPN will air a one-on-one interview with Tiger Woods on Sunday night.
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A New York Street-Food Vendor: I used to get a lot of big names at my cart. Calvin Klein, Tommy Hilfiger—Richard Simmons even stopped by once. He saw the big line out front, so he came around to the back of my cart and asked if he could buy from me there. I told him the line was in the front. He asked, "Don't you know who I am?" I said, "Of course! But you still gotta wait in line."
A Vegas Massage Therapist: I'll skip the graphic details, but suffice it to say guests have done things in the showers and the whirlpool that are so unsanitary it's necessary to shut them down. A classy spa doesn't guarantee classy clients.
A Casino Pit Boss: Casinos spend millions studying psychology and what motivates us to take risks. That's why you see so much red, especially on slot machines--red supposedly attracts players and gets them to think of victory. I'll never forget the loser who ran up to one of my tables, lost $100, and then asked me, "What's the name of this game again?"
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Daniel Pipes's judgment about the Middle East is as good as anyone's, so I was interested to see what he thought about Mitt Romney's Jerusalem speech. In a word, he was impressed. Pipes writes on Romney's Remarkable Speech in Jerusalem:
Mitt Romney, the all-but-official Republican presidential candidate, delivered a stem-winder of a speech to the Jerusalem Foundation today, packing emotional support with frank policy statements. The contrast with Obama could hardly be more dramatic. Indeed, one could go through the speech and note the many refutations of Obama. For example, the opening comment that "To step foot into Israel is to step foot into a nation that began with an ancient promise made in this land" directly contrasts with Obama's crabbed statement in Cairo about "the aspiration for a Jewish homeland [being] rooted in a tragic history."
Also, in contrast to the nonsensical Obama administration stance on Jerusalem – sneaking in changes to captions that identified it as such and going through verbal gymnastics to avoid calling it that – Romney came out and plainly called Jerusalem "the capital of Israel."
Pipes quotes some of the more powerful passages in Romney's speech, emphasizing the close ties between the U.S. and Israel. He concludes:
Comments: (1) Obama and Romney stand as far apart on Israel as they do on the sources of economic growth. (2) Over and over again, Romney returned to the moral bonds between the two countries; yes, there are mutual benefits from our connection, but ultimately it reflects something higher and greater than any of us. (3) Were he elected, it will be fascinating to watch to what extent the outlook expressed today will convey to the workaday policy issues. I expect it will substantially convey.
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text: Exactly 16 months ago today, a crew of intrepid sailors and alternative energy proponents set sail on a solar-powered luxury yacht, intent on making theirs the first ship to circumnavigate the globe on solar power alone. Today, they've almost reached their goal. We first told you about the PlanetSolar team back in 2009, when the boat was little more than blueprints and a dream. The boat was built in just 14 months and set sail from Monaco on September 27, 2010, heading west. Named Tûranor, which Tolkien fans will note is an Elvish word for "power of the sun," it's the largest solar-powered boat ever built at 101 feet by 49 feet. That footprint only grows as additional solar panels are unfurled. It's also certain to draw a crowd when it docks at any marina, and that's intentional. At each stop, the PlanetSolar crew talks with government officials, scientists, journalists and the general public, preaching their gospel of solar power. The boat just left Abu Dhabi where it was a featured exhibit at the World Future Energy Summit. After a stop in Doha, it's headed around the Horn of Africa and back to Monaco, hopefully by May. In anticipation of a successful circumnavigation, we bring you a gallery of the Tûranor's accomplishments. Photos: PlanetSolarWelcome To Miami Crossing from Las Palmas to Miami, the Tûranor broke the record for a Transatlantic crossing by boat that's solely solar powered. That feat took 26 days, 19 hours and 10 minutes, but didn't use a drop of fossil fuel. To put it in perspective, however, similar boats with sails instead of solar have done the same crossing in less than half the time.Climate Summit in Cancun From Miami, the Tûranor headed to the UN's World Climate Change Summit in Cancun. After the conference, the ship went through the Panama Canal and crossed the Pacific, stopping at islands along the way until reaching Australia.A Look Inside The Tûranor can hold 40 passengers and crew in luxurious surroundings. After its circumnavigation is complete, the solar catamaran is destined to become a luxury yacht. That's why it features high-end finishes.Teachable Moments The PlanetSolar team made sure to extol the virtues of solar power in every port they visited. "We've done a lot of stop-overs to show the boat, collaborate with universities and showcase the biggest solar boat ever built," said project spokesperson Rachel Bros de Puechredon. "At each stopover, the boat generated a lot of enthusiasm around the world." Here they are in Phuket, Thailand, talking to a crowd of locals and media.Hong Kong Harbor After six days of monsoons and rough weather in the South China Sea, the Tûranor made it from the Philippines to Hong Kong, where it stayed for six days of presentations.Electric Power Electric motors are located in each hull of the catamaran. They received some service while the ship was docked in Singapore, but otherwise provided reliable service. "The whole expedition is a big challenge. But we did not face any major technical problems so far," said Bros de Puechredon. "Of course bad weather sometimes played a role on our schedule but we are happy that the technologies, navigation systems and itinerary were so far the right one and that we are proving that solar energy is reliable, safe and efficient."A Gift of Water More than 300 miles off the coast of Sri Lanka, the PlanetSolar team was flagged down by a group of fishermen in need. "They had no freshwater left so we gave them twenty of our bottles of water," said project founder and expedition leader Raphael Domjan, who said it may have been the first ever rescue mission launched from a solar-powered boat. "I cannot recall a time when someone thanked us in such a sincere way. For the whole crew, this really was a strong emotional moment that will remain engraved in our memories."Solar Cells With additional panels that fold out, the Tûranor has over 5,780 square feet of photovoltaic cells with 18.8 percent efficiency. Combined, those cells can put out over 93.5 kW into the ship's lithium ion batteries.Leaving Mumbai The PlanetSolar team sailed all the way from Phuket, Thailand to Mumbai, India using not a drop of fossil fuels. Due to Navy Week celebrations, the Tûranor had to cut short its visit to Mumbai. But the crew still had the chance to host a presentation. Then, it was off to Abu Dhabi to be a featured guest at the World Future Energy Summit. Abu Dhabi was the Tûranor 's second to last stop before returning to Monaco and completing the circumnavigation. Next up is Doha, then back to Europe. "We have made more than 48,000km [29,825 miles]," said Bros de Puechredon. "We should be back in Monaco in May 2012"


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The Martinos Center has played a major role in the development of diffuse optical imaging (DOI). DOI takes advantage of the optical properties of light to image inside the body. If you shine a flashlight on your hand, you'll see that light can travel through centimeters of tissue and still be detected. Based on our understandings of light migration through tissue we can use this detected light to measure changes in hemodynamics - changes in blood volume or blood oxygenation, for example - which can tell us a great deal about what's going on in the body.
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Researchers are exploring the potential of DOI for optical breast imaging. Here, the technique can reveal changes in blood volume and oxygen saturation that are specific to early stages of cancer. Because it focuses on these functional changes, it can - in theory - identify cancers before they are structurally evident (that is, before they are visible on X-ray or discernable by palpation). In addition to potential detection of cancers, DOI offers a means to explore the physiology of the breast. The literature includes, for example, studies on changes in the optical properties associated with age, exogenous hormone levels and menopausal status.
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I'am reading John Taylor's Classical Mechanics chapter 1 page 20 where he proves the principle of conservation of momentum which states "If the net external force $F^{ext}$ on an $N$-particle system is zero,the system's total momentum $P$ is constant.
I'am not sure if i'am having trouble understanding the usage of summation notation or the entire derivation (which includes the concept) itself.Anyways here it is.A five particle system labelled by $\alpha$ or $\beta = 1,2,...,5$. The particle $\alpha$ is subject to four internal forces,shown by small arrows and denoted $F_{\alpha \beta}$ and the net external force shown by the large arrow and denoted by $F^{ext}_{\alpha}$.
Thus the net force on particle $\alpha$ is $$F_{\alpha} = \sum_{\beta \neq \alpha}F_{\alpha \beta}+F^{ext}_{\alpha}$$
According to Newton's second law,this is the same as the rate of change of $P_{\alpha}$:$$\dot{P}_{\alpha} = \sum_{\beta\neq\alpha}F_{\alpha\beta}+F^{ext}_{\alpha}$$
Then he considers the total momentum of the $N$-particle system,$$P=\sum_{\alpha}P_{\alpha}$$ Differentiating wrt time we get $$\dot{P}=\sum_{\alpha}\dot{P}_{\alpha}$$ or,substituting for $\dot{P}_{\alpha}$,$$\dot{P}=\sum_{\alpha}\sum_{\beta\neq\alpha}F_{\alpha\beta}+\sum_{\alpha}F^{ext}_{\alpha}$$ .The above expression is what is bothering me .I need someone to give me an intuition behind the double summation sign. How come it's $\dot{P}=\sum_{\alpha}\sum_{\beta\neq\alpha}F_{\alpha\beta}+\sum_{\alpha}F^{ext}_{\alpha}$ and not just $\dot{P}=\sum_{\alpha}\sum_{\beta\neq\alpha}F_{\alpha\beta}+F^{ext}_{\alpha}$. He eventually concludes that $$\dot{P}=\sum_{\alpha}F^{ext}_{\alpha}\equiv F^{ext}$$.


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Actress Julianne Moore snubbed an invitation to attend a party for British royals Prince William and Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge to head for Disneyland and celebrate her newly-won British citizenship instead.
Moore's mother was Scottish and the actress was granted dual British/U.S. nationality in 2011, and she was shocked when the development prompted an invitation to party with the royal couple.
Moore was flattered to be asked along after she was previously told U.S. citizens were ineligible for the event – but she eventually snubbed the invite and enjoyed a fun evening at a theme park in California instead.
She tells U.K. talk show host Graham Norton, "That was the day there was a garden party for William and Kate. As an American I couldn't go, but as soon as I was sworn in (as a British citizen) I had an invitation. Being an American at heart, I thanked them for the invite but went to Disneyland instead!"


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Good afternoon,
Guys I'm trying to finish a project that simulates a queue through graphical interface. I have a project of someone who did AVL tree that way. At first, I thought it would be easy to make the adjustment because as an AVL tree had all ready (most difficult), this would make a queue pretty easy. Well, I was wrong. Is ready my linked queue, it works perfectly, furthermore, most of the Applet is already mounted with the events of the operating knobs and so forth. But the applet's drawing methods are impossible to understand. I'm several weeks trying to figure out what this guy did, but no progress yet. Soon there's no way I build my queue, if not before understand how the methods of the original painting. Someone experienced can teach me the business rules involved in these methods?
public void paint(Graphics g) { try { for (int i = 1; i < showTree.length; i++) g.drawLine(showTree[i][2], showTree[i][1]+50, showTree[showTree[i][4]][2], showTree[showTree[i][4]][1]+50); for (int i = 0; i < showTree.length; i++) { int margin=-13; if(showTree[i][0]<-99) margin = -13; else if(showTree[i][0]<-9) margin = -10; else if(showTree[i][0]<0) margin = -5; else if(showTree[i][0]<10) margin = -2; else if(showTree[i][0]<100) margin = -7; else if(showTree[i][0]<1000) margin = -10; if((char)showTree[i][3] == 'L') g.setColor(Color.RED); else if((char)showTree[i][3] == 'R') g.setColor(Color.GREEN); else g.setColor(Color.YELLOW); g.fillOval(showTree[i][2]-12, showTree[i][1]+38,25,25); g.setColor(Color.BLACK); g.drawString(Integer.toString(showTree[i][0]), showTree[i][2]+margin, showTree[i][1]+54); } }catch(NullPointerException e) { } }public synchronized void pause(String process) { showTree = tree.toCoordinates(25, getWidth(),true); showStatus(process); update(getGraphics()); try { wait(delay); } catch (InterruptedException e) { } }Of course it is not 100% object-oriented and organized as it should, for example, the method public int[][] toCoordinates (int h, int w, boolean fixH) it uses an array of 5 columns of information for guard positions X and Y that the lines should be drawn. Well if I understand the business rules, the logic of functioning of this tree, I can certainly mount a queue, which I believe is much easier to do. Attached is the Eclipse project these methods, you can see that the original project it works perfectly even when you increase the screen size gets better visualization of the tree. In the package modificado is my attempt to make such a row, yet fail because of this graphical interface..public int[][] toCoordinates(int h, int w, boolean fixH) { int c[][] = new int[size][5]; int i[] = { 0 }; int hStep = (height > 1) ? h / (height - 1) : 0; hStep = fixH ? h : hStep; traverseToCoordinates(root, i, c, 0, w / 2, hStep, w / 4, -1); return c; } private void traverseToCoordinates( TreeEntry e, int i[], int c[][], int y, int x, int h, int w, int p) { int curI = i[0]; if (e == null) return; if (e.element instanceof ElementObject) { c[i[0]][0] = ((ElementObject) (e.element)).val; // integer value c[i[0]][1] = y; // vertical position c[i[0]][2] = x; // horizontal position c[i[0]][3] = (int) e.balanceFactor; // balance factor c[i[0]][4] = p; // index of parent in c[][] i[0]++; } traverseToCoordinates(e.left, i, c, y + h, x - w, h, w / 2, curI); traverseToCoordinates(e.right, i, c, y + h, x + w, h, w / 2, curI); }
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Re: undo too greedy
There's a change in behavior that I don't particularly like and would consider a bug, (but I don't know if it was done to faithfully mimic vim.)
Basically, the undo buffer isn't breaking when i use non-vi controls to move around the file. So if I do some editing in insert mode, then use the mouse (or arrow keys, I think,) and then go type something else some where else, (still in insert mode,) then an "undo" undoes both of these inserts. I'm pretty sure it didn't used to do that and I am certain that it confuses the hell out me now.
I remember reading on here that you were intentionally going to make the undo group stuff up to get rid of the one-character-at-a-time undo, but I think that this goes too far.
So would this be a bug or intended and if it is intended, can I have an option to turn it off and make an undo step stop at movement of the cursor through non-vi controls? To be honest, I find the one-character stuff more reasonable.
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We're pleased to announce that Adobe's acquisition of Nitobi closed yesterday. We're very excited for the team at Nitobi to join Adobe and continue their work simplifying cross-platform mobile development via the PhoneGap project. That includes both stewardship of the open source project as well as bringing PhoneGap Build to a much broader set of customers than use PhoneGap today.
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What does Nitobi do?
Nitobi is the creator and primary contributor to the open source PhoneGap framework, which allows developers to create device native mobile applications using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. You can find out more at the Nitobiand PhoneGap sites.
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Adobe is committed to enabling efficient, expressive design and development across devices. PhoneGap is a leading solution for cross-platform mobile development using web standards, and we're excited to support PhoneGap's growth by committing resources to the development of the open source project. We integrated support for PhoneGap in Dreamweaver CS5.5, and with this acquisition we will also be bringing PhoneGap's capabilities to a much broader range of customers though a paid hosted service, PhoneGap Build, which is currently in open beta.
This investment also reinforces Adobe's commitment to helping its customers be more expressive, regardless of underlying technology. Recent innovative product releases such as Adobe Edge and Adobe Muse, as well as contributions to the jQuery mobile UI framework and Webkit for layout and typography functionality, are all evidence of Adobe's strong belief in moving the web forward.
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