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On 6 February, UNECE confirmed its commitment to its work on forests in partnership with FAO in the region, with the Executive Committee's decision to approve the UNECE-FAO Integrated Programme of Work on forests for the period 2014-17. The UNECE-FAO Integrated Programme of Work is a very comprehensive plan to monitor, promote, support, implement and communicate about sustainable forest management in the Caucasus, Central Asia, Europe and North America.
Eight teams of international experts and specialists were approved at the same time as the programme of work. Through these teams, experts will cover issues such as wood energy, sustainable forest products, forest policy, statistics, monitoring of forests, outlook on the forest sector, communication on forests and green jobs. Experts will work to provide the forest sector with the best available and up-to-date information and knowledge in the region to ensure that the forest will be one of the main contributors to the transition towards a green economy.
UNECE and FAO, through the Committee on Forests and the Forest Industry and the European Forestry Commission respectively, as well as their joint Working Party on Forest Statistics, Economics and Management will guide the implementation of the programme of work. These UNECE and FAO bodies, with their networks of experts, form the backbone of the forest institutional architecture in the region. The Committee, the Commission and Working Party are intergovernmental bodies, at the same time, through their expert groups and open meetings their work actively engages with and includes civil society, and the private sector.
For instance, the Rovaniemi Action Plan for the Forest Sector in a Green economy, adopted in December 2013 by UNECE and FAO, is a tool for the entire forest sector to use for initiating actions to make forests a sustainable source of a wide range of renewable products while, at the same time, maintaining their health and vitality. Its implementation is a collective task, which will require the commitment of all forest actors in the region.
The calendar of meetings for the coming year is intense, with a series of events covering topics such as indicators for forests and the green economy, green building, forests fibers, sustainable development goals, forest monitoring and assessment and policy dialogues. The year will culminate with the seventy-second session of the Committee on Forests and the Forest Industry, to take place in Kazan, Russian Federation, in late fall 2014.
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It had a very industrial client base in male-dominated industries. After one presentation to a board, I recall the client in charge saying, "I guess you have to run home now and make dinner." The funny thing is, I don't cook.Granoff goes on to describe how speaking up advanced her opportunities and furthered her career, leading to the CEO position she holds today--great inspiration for women speakers, whether you're addressing a major audience or just piping up in a meeting.
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Hurricanes win streak snapped vs. Canadiens
MONTREAL (AP) -- Michel Therrien's lessons about finishing off games appear to be paying off for the Canadiens.
Tomas Plekanec and Max Pacioretty scored 18 seconds apart in the third period to seal Montreal's fourth straight win, a 3-0 victory over the Carolina Hurricanes on Monday night.
Pacioretty added an assist and Brandon Prust also scored for Montreal in the third. For the second straight game, the Canadiens held their opposition below 20 shots on goal.
"You have to learn how to win and this part of that process. We've had two games like this where it's tied 0-0 heading into the third and we find a way to win," said Therrien, the Canadiens' coach.
"We're starting to feel more and more comfortable about playing those tight games. It's a great sign," he added. "It's good for the confidence of the team, of the players. Good teams start to feel comfortable in those games. I don't see any panic. Guys are sticking to the plan."
Cam Ward stopped 23 shots for Carolina, which had its three-game winning streak snapped.
Peter Budaj made 19 saves for his second win of the season and 10th career shutout -- his first in a Canadiens uniform. He made his second consecutive start for Montreal (10-4-1) while No. 1 goalie Carey Price recovers from the flu.
Budaj has allowed only one goal in the two games.
"The guys knew that they had to perform better in front of Peter -- he's always there for them. He always has a good attitude, never complains about anything, and I really liked the way that our team played in the last two games in front of him," Therrien said of his goalie, who gave up nine goals in his first two starts, both losses.
While not often tested, Budaj came through when his team needed it, including some key stops in the late stages of the second as the Hurricanes pressed.
"It's tough but as I said last time, you've got to be ready," Budaj said about facing few shots. "They've got a very good team. They're a hardworking team that has a lot of offensive power, even though they have a few guys hurt."
The Hurricanes (8-5-1) were without forward Jeff Skinner (upper body) as well as injured defensemen Joni Pitkanen and Tim Gleason. But they weren't about to use that as an excuse.
"We're missing some key guys, yeah, but you're going to have injuries and everyone's going to go through it," Carolina coach Kirk Muller said. "We didn't have that same killer instinct. We didn't have that shooting mentality and we weren't attacking like we normally do. We just didn't have our best game tonight."
The Canadiens had the better opportunities through a fairly uneventful opening 40 minutes, forcing Ward to make big stops on David Desharnais in close and Plekanec on a 2-on-1 with P.K. Subban coming out of the penalty box.
Prust finally broke the scoreless deadlock 2:06 into the third period. Lars Eller led the rush through the neutral zone before dishing off to Alex Galchenyuk. The Canadiens' rookie evaded Hurricanes defenseman Bobby Sanguinetti with some slick moves before finding Prust driving to the net.
"When he's going and dangling like that, sometimes you've got to make sure you don't just stop and watch," Prust said of his 19-year-old linemate. "I've learned to keep my stick on the ice when he's got the puck because he'll find you, sometimes when you don't think he's going to get it to you."
The Canadiens doubled their lead when Plekanec took a pass from Pacioretty and tossed a shot from inside the left circle at 12:03. The puck bounced on to Ward's back and into the net, giving the Canadiens' center his eighth goal of the year.
Pacioretty finally scored his first of the season at 12:21 when his innocent-looking shot from the red line trickled past Ward.
"That's what we talked about in the intermission -- we wanted to get off to a good start and start putting the pressure on them right away," Prust said. "They kind of took it to us a little bit at the end of the second, so we wanted to come out and change that momentum."
NOTES: Price dressed as Budaj's backup after missing Saturday's game with the stomach flu. ... The Canadiens were without rookie wing Brendan Gallagher (concussion), while Yannick Weber and Tomas Kaberle were healthy scratches. ... Gallagher's absence put forward Ryan White back into the lineup for the first time since Feb. 7 in Buffalo.


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Pullip is a collectible fashion doll created by Cheonsang Cheonha of South Korea in 2003. Pullip has an oversized head on a jointed plastic body, with eyes that can change positions and wink. Pullip was first marketed by Jun Planning of Japan, but since early 2009, it has been marketed by Groove of Korea. Pullip (풀잎) means 'blade of grass/leaf' in Korean. Since the release of the original female doll, other lines of dolls have been added: male companion dolls Namu (나무, tree) and Taeyang (태양, sun), his younger sister doll Dal (달, moon), and Dal's best friend Byul (별, star). Since 2011 the doll series gained a new member Isul (dew), who is supposedly Pullip's little brother. There is also a miniature line of Little Pullip and Little Dal. (Now called Little Pullip/Dal and Docolla)
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Saturday Book Pick: William E. May on the theology of the body.
Among the still fully-to-be-appreciated gifts of Pope John Paul II's teaching legacy is undoubtedly his "theology of the body." The Pope's highly creative and original insights, expressed in the addresses he gave at 129 Wednesday general audiences from 1979-84, provided biblical, anthropological and moral foundations for a Catholic understanding of sex.
While several authors have sought to apply the theology to contemporary situations, it is fair to say that the radical significance of these insights has only begun to be tapped and applied. The fact that otherwise serious people, for example, can actually believe that two men or two women can constitute a marriage is just one example of how basic is the need for the theology of the body.
Moral theologian William May shows the profound continuity in the thought of Karol Wojtyla/John Paul II on sexual issues. He uses five sources in this book to demonstrate that continuity: the pre-pontifical book Love and Responsibility; the papal documents Familiaris Consortio, Mulieris Dignitatem and the "Letter to Families"; and, of course, the theology of the body texts.
May notes that Wojtyla's engagement with sexual ethics stemmed from his pastoral work as a priest-professor: "[I]n his pastoral work a priest often encounters the problems facing men and women seeking to live good lives, and spouses who are doing their best to be good husbands and wives. [Wojtyla] then says that is how the book came about, as a constant confrontation of doctrine, i.e., Catholic teaching on sexual morality and marriage, and life. His purpose is to show why this teaching is true and rooted in the truth about the human person and the goods that fulfill them." That same spirit drove John Paul's persistence in defending marriage, sexuality and family life: "Theology of the body has a twofold purpose. The first is to defend the reality of the human body, a truth crucial to an adequate anthropology or understanding of the human person as a creature whose body is integral to his being as a person. The second ... is to defend the teaching of Humanae Vitae."
May traces numerous themes — the meaning of love, the antitheses of love and use as ways of relating to another, the significance of chastity and shame, the relationship of marriage and parenthood, the meaning of "vocation" — as they developed consistently in the 35 years between Love and Responsibility and the "Letter to Families."
For at least 45 years May has been defending orthodox Catholic sexual ethics. This book is a masterful presentation of just how consistent and integrated John Paul's thought in this sphere has been. May's book might not be the best starting point for those who want to learn about the theology of the body; it might be better to delve into the texts themselves, guided by good commentaries. But once one gets a good handle on them, May's work will help to expand the reader's horizons beyond theology of the body to the amazing breadth and profundity of John Paul's thought.
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It was billed 'The Fight of the Century'. The date was March 8, 1971, the venue Madison Square Garden in New York City. Two undefeated champions, Joe Frazier and Muhammad Ali, meeting for the first time.
On the other side of the rope, an unlikely line-up of stars were on media duty. Burt Lancaster was commentating, and he was joined by LIFE magazine's reporter/photographer duo: Norman Mailer and Frank Sinatra.
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Sizing up a possible photograph (and being photographed at the same time) at Madison Square Garden, March 8, 1971, is film star Frank Sinatra, center. The movie star was photographing ringside for Life Magazine at the Muhammad Ali - Joe Frazier heavyweight title bout.
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The cover of Life Magazine with photo taken by Frank Sinatra
"I got some good pictures that night, but I kept watching Frazier putting his head too far out for Ali to punch it," Sinatra later recalled in a conversation with Bill Gallo, a sportswriter with The New York Daily News. "He was defying Ali, and I said to the newspaper guy next to me: 'He may win, but if he keeps that up, he's going to the hospital, taking all those punches.' "
Frazier defeated Ali in 15 rounds.
As pointed out by the blogger Tim O'Shea, Sinatra's skills as a photographer were not universally appreciated. LIFE's letters page of April 9, 1971 contained a critical missive from Robert W. Kelley of Seattle, Wash.:
Sirs: I'm so mad I could chew nails and spit tacks. I've been a professional news photographer 34 years (about 18 on LIFE's staff) and what irks me is your cover .. It was obviously selected because Frank Sinatra took it, rather for any photographic excellence. In fact, it was a bad picture. What millions of LIFE readers wanted to see was Frazier's fist firmly implanted against Muhammad Ali's mouth.
What do you think? Would Sinatra have been better off sticking to the day job?
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- More photos of the Ali-Frazier fight from LIFE Magazine.
- More photos of Joe Frazier's life in our slideshow and on PhotoBlog.


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State Dessert: Peach Pie
On July 30, 2009, peach pie was designated as Delaware's official State dessert. Peach farming is an important part of Delaware's agricultural heritage, as the peach was introduced to Delaware in Colonial times and expanded as an industry in the nineteenth century. Delaware was the country's leading producer of peaches for part of the nineteenth century, at its peak, shipping 6 million baskets to market in 1875. The fifth and sixth grade students of St. John's Lutheran School in Dover, with the support of the entire student body, suggested that peach pie be adopted as this State's official dessert because of the historical and agricultural significance of Delaware's peach farming industry.
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For some strange reason that I can't seem to figure out, I get kernel panics on the battered Thinkpad with the latest Arch installation ISO. I won't bother reproducing the error text here, mostly because there's too much of it, but also because the screen is shattered and I can't quite see everything. 😉
The puzzle is compounded by the fact that it doesn't seem to happen on the smaller Thinkpad. Both machines are Celerons, with reasonably similar guts, but for whatever reason the kernel panic doesn't happen on the slower one.
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One of the things I've learned in dealing with hypoglycemia (low blood sugar), is that I can't rely on spur-of-the-moment snacking decisions to keep me healthy.
Really, how many of us start feeling a bit lightheaded because we've skipped a meal – hey, we're busy parents! It's easy to get distracted by rambunctious small children and let our own need for food go by the wayside. Or maybe the kiddos actually cleaned their plate for once and the deliberately small portion we chose for ourself won't be supplemented by our children's leftovers.
And there we are, in the midst of our busy schedule and we need something FAST! So we make a grab for whatever is closest – or make a pit stop at a convenience store or fast food joint – and hurriedly stuff our face with junk that's overloaded with carbs, fat, sugar, chemicals and barely any redeeming nutritional value whatsoever. The short-term sugar-high may feel good for a few minutes before you inevitably crash and burn, feeling a little ill and regret all the empty calories you ingested.
In my car, my purse, my workbag, my work area and my kitchen, I've got a stash of tasty healthy snacks that I can grab on the go. (Sometimes I feel a little like a squirrel hiding its stash in all these places!)
Here's what I have in my basic Snack-Aid Kit:
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If my budget allows, I'll even get those DIY Tuna Salad mini-kits and add that.
You can even combine the nuts and dried fruit in a tasty trail mix!
Try out this recipe for Choo Choo Cherry's Easy Pumpkin Seed Trail Mix from the Funny Face Cranberries Recipe Page!
Besides being a change-up from same-old same-old raisins, let's do a nutritional comparison between the two:
famous brand of raisins Funny Face Choo-Choo Cherry flavored Cranberries
There's a heckuva lot more sugar and a lot less fiber in the raisins compared to Funny Face Cranberries! Wow! Half my daily requirement of fiber in just one serving of the cranberries! Half the sugar per serving, too! And that's with the raisins' serving being a miserly 1/4 cup, while Funny Face treats me nice and serves me 1/3 cup of tasty goodness! (It means I get to stuff my face with a lot less guilt :D)
Funny Face Cranberries are also a great substitute for any recipe that calls for raisins – bread pudding, muffins, oatmeal, etc.
The little snack-sized boxes are the perfect size to slip into your children's lunchboxes, too!
And with Thanksgiving coming up, here's a useful tip: nibble on some of your healthy snacks prior to sitting down for the Big Meal. You can still enjoy all your favorites, but it'll be easier to keep to smaller portions if you're not going into the meal while suffering from hunger pangs!
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Family Circle seems one of the most unlikely homes for JDM fiction. Begun in 1932 as a giveaway periodical in then-newly emerging supermarkets such as Safeway and Piggly Wiggly's, the magazine was aimed squarely at housewives, with features on cooking, cleaning, sewing and childrearing. There were also the seemingly mandatory features on Hollywood stars, although these articles contained nothing that would be considered gossip or innuendo. Indeed the premier issue featured Joan Crawford and Bing Crosby on the cover. And, like almost every other magazine of the era, Family Circle contained fiction -- usually two original short stories per issue -- written by third-rung mainstays of the industry of the time, authors like George Sumner Albee, Dana Burnet and Nelia Gardiner White, people whose work is virtually unknown today to all but a handful of readers.The artwork that accompanied these stories was illustrated by some of the great names of the era, artists like Peter Stevens, Richard Hook and Ernest Chiriaka, and their artwork in Family Circle is indistinguishable from their work in the higher-class slicks.
John D. MacDonald came to Family Circle relatively late in the game, at a point where his short story writing had taken a back seat to his novels. "That Strangest Month of All" appeared in the October 1959 issue of the magazine and was one of only two shorter works he would have published that year. Coming in at a tidy 5,000 words, the author employed an oft-used premise that bears a close resemblance to Stanley Ralph Ross' 1952 short story "You Got To Have Luck" (and probably dozens of other tales), where a housewife, living in a remote location, is home alone and terrorized by an escaped bad guy. In Ross's tale it is a convict, in MacDonald's, an escaped mental patient. And MacDonald, as he often did when featuring a female protagonist, uses the plot to tell a morality tale, where wishing for more, or simple unhappiness seems to be the causation of the events that follow. Not a very progressive notion, especially in a male writer (see his "Jail Bait" and "Pickup") but I think here the author was attempting something a little deeper than simply a story about a woman in peril. Much of the writing deals with the mental process of fear, as the heroine (in third person limited narrative) is suddenly confronted and then held captive by a powerful lunatic.
"She was a wife named Susan, a slim tanned woman with a soft cap of black hair, a lively face, but with a brooding inward look, an air of containment. She was called Susan. Not Sue. Not Suzy."
Susan and family (MacDonald's typical four-member family unit) live on an old farm, fourteen miles from an "industrial city" and barely within visual distance from their nearest neighbor. Husband Paul has left for work and the school bus has left, carrying her two children to morning classes. It is a day of "incomparable stillness and clarity," with the sun shining in a cloudless sky and warm enough for Susan to put on her "treasured and threadbare yellow sun suit" so she can finish sanding an old drop-leaf table out in the large backyard.
"Autumn had always been for her a time of haunting nostalgia, a longing for something she could not even identify. A time for what Paul called her 'gypsy' mood. It left the children uncertain and Paul troubled. They seemed to sense she was off in some place where they could not reach her."
As she works on her project Susan is surprised to see a helicopter flying low over her farm, and then the sound of sirens in the distance. A fire, perhaps? Children gone missing?
"As she worked, she became aware of a curious feeling of restlessness, a tiny threshold of irritation. She turned suddenly and looked behind her and found herself staring into the eyes of a man who stood a dozen feet away. She looked at him and knew the meaning then of the helicopter and the sirens."
And not just any man.
"He was big, as big and hard and solid as the trunk of one of the old oaks. He wore gray denim coveralls that seemed to be some sort of uniform... She looked into the man's face and saw an animal emptiness that stopped her breath. The shaved head and the hard high cheekbones and the flattened cartilage of the nose gave him almost a cartoonist's version of brutality. But what horrified her was the slackness of the lower part of his face and the pale uncomprehending opacity of his eyes... She remembered a long-ago time when she had been cornered by a vicious dog. She had stood very still then, a small frightened girl, sensing that any attempt to run would be the necessary trigger."
Susan attempts to smile and holds her hands out so he can see she is carrying nothing. He has trouble speaking when he asks if anyone is in the house. When the sirens sound again he "raised his head sharply, the flattened nostrils widening," grabs her by the arm and drags her inside. As the sirens fade she "stood there in her terror [and] one part of her mind thought quite calmly, saying 'This is the way it happens.'"
After giving him a drink of water, she notices that the man has been shot through the hand.
"He stood for a moment with his eyes shut, and her sudden pity was as keen and unexpected as a knife. He was exhausted. His hurt hand was horrid. Dumb creature in pain. And what of all the tales of the thorn in the pad of the lion? Were they true? ... She thought, 'And for you there is no place. No place in this world.'"
After bandaging his hand she gets him to sit calmly in a kitchen chair. But suddenly the phone rings and all thoughts of paws and lions are thrown out the window as he leaps up threateningly. Susan quickly convinces the man that the call is probably from her husband, and to ignore it would bring the police here. She picks up the receiver and Paul tells her that there is an escapee from the local lunatic asylum loose, one who has already killed three people, and for her to lock herself in the house and to keep the kids inside when they return from school. The thought of the school bus returning and her children coming home awakens a realization within her.
"You must think, she told herself. This is an almost mindless thing. You can't run from him, even when the school bus stops. You can't save everything. So it comes to a choice. At any cost to you, Susan, you must warn them. Before the school bus comes."
She quickly devises a plan to lure the man upstairs under the pretext of hiding him in the attic. Once there she will break a jar of turpentine onto the floor, light it and jump out onto the roof, with the belief that the flames will prevent the man from following her. The plan almost works, but Susan is unable to light a match quickly enough and darts out of the window. Unable to follow her because of the heavy boots he is wearing, he grabs the nearest object -- a can of orange paint -- and hurls it at her, hitting the standpipe she is holding onto and splattering the paint all over her and onto the roof. Then she sees him emerging from the window, boots now off, climbing out with little difficulty and toward her...
The basic plot and resolution of this story are fairly predictable, and I recall that the first time I read this back in 1982 I was thoroughly unimpressed by it, thinking that MacDonald surely could have done better by this point in his career. "That Strangest Month of All" was, after all, written only one year before he published two of his finest novels, The End of the Night and Slam the Big Door. But re-reading it nearly thirty years later reveals an interesting subtext that was lost on me in my younger years: the process the protagonist goes through in a moment of real peril. The ending of this short story -- which I won't reveal other than to state the obvious, that Susan does indeed survive -- contains several interesting touches that never would have been articulated in earlier JDM work, including some poignant revelations about the escapee's past and Susan's processing of her ordeal moments after it is resolved. MacDonald had come a long way from "Jail Bait," where a similar situation seems almost like divine retribution for wanting something different in life than marriage and children. JDM's short story output had been reduced to a relative trickle by this point in his life, but the quality of the product was far and away superior to his early pulp work. This should have come as no surprise to me, but writing this blog has become a learning experience.
In 1982 Family Circle celebrated its 50th Anniversary, and its September issue of that year contained loads of retrospectives and histories of the various departments and features of the magazine over the years. To celebrate all of the fiction the magazine had brought to newsstands over five decades, the editors chose only one story to reprint, and that story was "That Strangest Month of All." It appeared with a brief introduction and a smaller reprinting of the original story art, a meticulously accurate illustration by Dick Hook. It was, perhaps, an easy editorial decision to choose an author who, in 1982, was at the height of his bookselling power, but the story itself is good enough to have left no doubt as to the wisdom of its selection.


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Photo from Ralph Covert's website.
One sure way to kick off this action-packed Chicago weekend in style is to check out International Pop Overthrow tomorrow night (Friday, April 19th) at the Red Line Tap The second night of the festival's 10-day stay features some tried-and-true veterans and a few new faces. The IPO website has links to all the performers, and is a great resource for discovering new music, even if you can't make it to the fest.
Here's Friday night's lineup. All of these acts are currently from the Chicago area.
Matt Pingel: Originally from Idaho, the singer-songwriter recently put out his debut EP, Smaller Miracles.
Liam Davis & Steve Frisbie: These two musicians previously led the critically-acclaimed band, Frisbie. Davis is a singer-songwriter, as well as a Grammy-nominated producer and composer. He occasionally works with a neo-folk band called The Contestants. Frisbie has an extensive power pop background, and works with the popular tribute band Tributosaurus. Davis and Frisbie are known for their harmony vocals.
The Velvet Cadillacs: This local quintet mixes punk and pop music.
Too Much Saturn: A five-piece power pop band that specializes in tight harmonies.
Ralph Covert: As lead vocalist-guitarist for The Bad Examples, Covert excels at writing catchy pop songs, such as the FM radio staple, "Not Dead Yet." His compositions on the band's 2011 Smash Record showed a definite Squeeze influence, particularly on "Pictures Of A Masquerade." Covert is also known for his highly popular Ralph's World CDs for kids. At the IPO gig tomorrow night, he told me via email for an article I did for the Illinois Entertainer that he'll be doing a mix of new material, some solo stuff, and possibly a Bad Examples song or two. He'll be backed by musicians Michael Hartigan, Miguel Gonzalez, and Eli Bennett, from his monthly Acoustic Army shows at FitzGerald's.
Gooey: Five guys who describe their power pop music as "meow meow rock!" Their live performances are a blend of originals and covers.
Frosting: Mark "Spiv" Grzelak is a touring musician and veteran of various groups. He formed Frosting so he could be the frontman, and the result has been two impressive CDs.


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This video was filmed when I was teaching in Kansas, USA in October 2011. It covers a bunkai drill from Kushanku / Kanku-Dai for the sequence commonly labelled as "Shuto, front kick, back fist, 'outer-block', double punch".
The sequence controls both of the enemy's arms and opens them up for a shuto to the base of the skull (or a palm-heel to the kidneys). The initial motion also disrupts the enemy's posture and opens them up for a kick to the inner thigh and a hand strike to the head. If the enemy is still functioning, the kata tells us that we can drop back to lock their arm and locate their head for a double strike.
The key to this sequence is keeping continuous control of the enemy's arm in order to ensure that the path for the strikes is kept open. This control also ensures that the karateka has a tactile awareness of the enemy's movements and hence is best placed to quickly adapt while maintaining a position of advantage. A few examples of how this sequence can flow into other methods found in Kushanku / Kanku-Dai are also given in the video.
I also briefly compare the sequence as it appears in Pinan / Heian Yodan and discuss how the kata shows a right side bias (i.e. encourages people to predominately strike with what is likely to be their naturally strongest hand).
I really enjoyed this event and I have a few more clips that I'll share soon. I hope you enjoy this video!
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OllyDbg 2.x Plugin Writing - Creating the OLLYDBG.LIB file
by, August 25th, 2012 at 21:06 (35005 Views)
While the current version of OllyDbg (2.01e as of writing) is still in development, it now has full plugin API support.
Compiling a plugin requires linking with an ollydbg.lib file describing the imports defined in the plugin.h header file.
For Borland compilers this is a straight forward procedure and the LIB file should be fully compatible with the plugin declarations.
For MSVC compilers (Visual Studio, Visual C++) the situation is a bit more complicated.
I will describe what worked for me and how to go about producing an MSVC compatible ollydbg.lib file.
For MSVC you first need to create a DEF file in the proper format and then create the LIB file with the LIB /DEF: command. In OllyDbg 2.x the plugin exports are a mixture of _cdecl and _stdcall.
Cdecl functions can be declared in the DEF file as FunctionName @Ordinal.
Stdcall functions must be declared in the DEF file in the decorated format FunctionName@<number of parameter bytes> @Ordinal.
The attachment contains an MSVC suitable ollydbg.lib file (tested in VC6++ and VS 2010), the DEF file, and the python script I wrote to extract the number of parameter bytes from each _stdcall function in plugin.h and create the required DEF file format. Since the plugin.h function declarations may change in future versions as OllyDbg 2.x is developed, the python script may come in useful to create an updated ollydbg.lib file.
Stop reading now if you don't need the details.
For Borland compilers one can simply use IMPLIB.exe to create a LIB file in the following manner, and you're ready to go.
implib ollydbg.lib ollydbg.exe
For MSVC, well, here's the MS definition of the steps:
Given a .DLL (in our case OLLYDBG.EXE) with functions exported via a C interface, you can create an import library by following these steps:
- Use DUMPBIN /EXPORTS <.DLL file name> to obtain the list of exported symbols for the .DLL in question. The symbols appear in the "name" column of the table whose headings are "ordinal hint name."
- Create a .DEF file that contains an EXPORTS section with the names of the functions listed in the "name" column of the DUMPBIN output.
- For _cdecl functions, the symbol appears just as it would when used in the calling program. Just place this symbol in the EXPORTS section of the .DEF file.
- Use LIB /DEF:<.DEF file name> to generate the import library and exports file. The base name of the import library will be the base name of the .DEF file. Use /OUT: to control the output library name.
For OllyDbg 1.x all export functions were in _cdecl format and the above instructions were suitable. Modified PDK's and explanations were provided in the following links:
OllyDbg 2.x now has a mixture of _stdcall and _cdecl exported functions in plugin.h. If you try to link with an ollydbg.lib produced in the previous way you'll get compiler errors such as this when trying to compile the bookmark.c plugin example:
error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol _Commentaddress@16 referenced in function _Bookmarkdraw
I found that is was required to declare the stdcall function in the DEF file as follows:
Commentaddress@16 @278
Here is a useful article which sums up some of the differences in calling conventions for _stdcall and _cdecl for various compilers:
I guess the rest of the details are in the python script below. For those who are interested in that kind of thing you might read it easier from the zip file copy with syntax highlighting.
There is one further modification of plugin.h for MSVC, two of the exported functions (Heapsort/Heapsortex) use the Borland _USERENTRY type in their parameter list which generates a compiler error. The solution is provided by the Borland defs.h file:
You simply need to add #define _USERENTRY __cdecl to the plugin.h file._USERENTRY Specifies the calling convention the RTL expects user
compiled functions to use (for callbacks)
#define _USERENTRY __cdecl
All that's left is for the RE community to start updating old 1.x version plugins or creating new ones and adding them to the CRCETL here:
Code:# makedef.py # Generates a correct EXPORTS .DEF file for OllyDbg 2.x in MSVC format in order to # create the OLLYDBG.LIB file required for writing OllyDbg plugins # Instructions: # 1. Create a DUMPBIN.EXE /EXPORTS file for Ollydbg.exe, i.e.: # C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\VC>dumpbin /exports ollydbg.exe > olly_exports.txt # 2. Create a DEF file by running this python script on the file, # making sure the Ollydbg plugin.h file is in the same directory # > python makedef.py olly_exports.txt # 3. Create a LIB file by running LIB.EXE /DEF on the output file from this script (ollydbg.def) # C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\VC>lib /def:ollydbg.def /OUT:ollydbg.lib # 4. Compile your Ollydbg plugin linked to the lib file # In OllyDbg 2.x the plugin exports are a mixture of _cdecl and _stdcall. # Cdecl functions can be declared in the DEF file as # FunctionName @Ordinal # Stdcall functions must be declared in the DEF file in the decorated format # FunctionName@<number of parameter bytes> @Ordinal # There is one further modification of plugin.h for MSVC, two of the exported functions (Heapsort/Heapsortex) # use the Borland _USERENTRY type in their parameter list which generates a compiler error. # The solution is provided by the Borland defs.h file: # _USERENTRY Specifies the calling convention the RTL expects user # compiled functions to use (for callbacks) # #define _USERENTRY __cdecl # You simply need to add #define _USERENTRY __cdecl to the plugin.h file. ################################################################################################### import string, re, sys, os def main(): if len(sys.argv) < 2: sys.stderr.write("USAGE: %s <DUMPBIN /EXPORTS output filename>" % (sys.argv[0],)) return 1 if not os.path.exists(sys.argv[1]): sys.stderr.write("ERROR: File %r was not found!" % (sys.argv[1],)) return 1 if not os.path.exists("plugin.h"): sys.stderr.write("ERROR: Ollydbg plugin.h file must be in same directory!") return 1 ################################################################################################### # PART 1: # Extract all __stdcall ("stdapi") functions from plugin.h, determine the number of parameters for each, # and create a list of them in the decorated format # FunctionName@<number of parameter bytes>, i.e. Absolutizepath@4 # # This list will be merged later with the rest of the undecorated __cdecl functions # and exported variables to create a DEF file ######################################################### # # Parse plugin.h to isolate STDAPI functions # ######################################################### # List to hold original complete function declaration string list_fx = [] # List to hold decorated 'function@parameters' export name string for __stdcall functions list_decorated = [] # Regex pattern to match Type portion of function string for removal, i.e. "stdapi (int) " # pattern_stdapi = re.compile(r"(?i)^stdapi.+?\)\s*") # RegexBuddy is my buddy ;) # (?i)^stdapi.+?\)\s* # Options: case insensitive; ^ and $ match at line breaks pattern_stdapi = re.compile(r""" (?i) # Match the remainder of the regex with the options: case insensitive (i) <?i> ^ # Assert position at the beginning of a line (at beginning of the string or after a line break character) <^> stdapi # Match the characters "stdapi" literally <stdapi> .+? # Match any single character that is not a line break character <.+?> # Between one and unlimited times, as few times as possible, expanding as needed (lazy) <+?> \) # Match the character ")" literally <\)> \s* # Match a single character that is a "whitespace character" (spaces, tabs, line breaks, etc.) <\s*> # Between zero and unlimited times, as many times as possible, giving back as needed (greedy) <*> """, re.VERBOSE) # Regex pattern to split function into separate Name and (Parameters) strings pattern_fx = re.compile(r"(?i)^(.*)(\(.*\))") # (?i)^(.*)(\(.*\)) # # Match the remainder of the regex with the options: case insensitive (i) <(?i)> # Assert position at the beginning of a line (at beginning of the string or after a line break character) <^> # Match the regular expression below and capture its match into backreference number 1 <(.*)> # Match any single character that is not a line break character <.*> # Between zero and unlimited times, as many times as possible, giving back as needed (greedy) <*> # Match the regular expression below and capture its match into backreference number 2 <(\(.*\))> # Match the character "(" literally <\(> # Match any single character that is not a line break character <.*> # Between zero and unlimited times, as many times as possible, giving back as needed (greedy) <*> # Match the character ")" literally <\)> # Open plugin.h for reading f = open("plugin.h", "r") # Read each line for line in f: # Remove any leading/trailing whitespace characters fx = line.strip() if fx.startswith('stdapi'): while True: # Some functions are split over 2 or more lines, find ending ";" if not fx.endswith(';'): # Concatenate with next line until complete function is found fx = fx + f.next().strip() if fx.endswith(';'): # Found complete function break # Confirm string begins with "stdapi (type)" m = pattern_stdapi.match(fx) if m: # Pattern match found # print 'Match found: ', m.group() ### Match found: stdapi (int) # Remove "stdapi (type)" pattern from function, leaving raw function definition fx = pattern_stdapi.sub("", fx) # Store remaining portion of function string in a List list_fx.append(fx) else: print 'No match' # We have the complete functions, cleaned up and temporarily stored, close plugin.h f.close() ######################################################### # # Determine number of parameters for each function # ######################################################### # Sort list alphabetically list_fx.sort() num_params = 0 num_param_bytes = 0 num_doubles = 0 for item in list_fx: # print item ### Absolutizepath(wchar_t *path); m = pattern_fx.match(item) if m: # print 'Match found: ', m.group(0) ## Absolutizepath(wchar_t *path) # print 'Match found: ', m.group(1) ## Absolutizepath # print 'Match found: ', m.group(2) ## (wchar_t *path) # Copy capturing group to regular string fxname = m.group(1) # Add function name + @parameter count to List if m.group(2) == "(void)": # print m.group(0) + " has " + str(num_params) + " parameters" ### Checkfordebugevent(void) has 0 parameters num_params = 0 # There are two special situations where our regex pattern doesn't match, # Heapsort and Heapsortex both have non-standard parameter strings # Rather than trying to come up with a protocol to deal with it, just handle it manually # # Note that these two functions also require the following to be added to the plugin.h file (from Borland defs.h): # #define _USERENTRY __cdecl elif fxname.startswith("Heapsort("): # Heapsort(void *data,const int count,const int size,int (_USERENTRY *compare)(const void *,const void *)); # borked match # print m.group(1) ### Heapsort(void *data,const int count,const int size,int (_USERENTRY *compare) fxname = "Heapsort" num_params = 4 elif fxname.startswith("Heapsortex("): # Heapsortex(void *data,const int count,const int size,int (_USERENTRY *compareex)(const void *,const void *,ulong),ulong lp); fxname = "Heapsortex" num_params = 5 else: # Number of DWORD size parameters can be determined by counting the number of commas and adding 1 num_params = m.group(2).count(",") + 1 # print m.group(0) + " has " + str(num_params) + " parameters" ### Absolutizepath(wchar_t *path) has 1 parameters # For DOUBLEWORD size parameters we need to add 4 bytes num_doubles = m.group(2).count("double") if num_doubles: num_params = num_params + num_doubles # print m.group(0) + " has " + str(num_doubles) + " DOUBLEWORD parameters" ### Printfloat10(wchar_t *s,long double ext) has 1 DOUBLEWORD parameters # Convert number of parameters to bytes num_param_bytes = num_params * 4 # Write function name + parameter bytes decoration to List list_decorated.append(string.ljust(fxname + "@" + str(num_param_bytes), 40)) else: print 'No match' # We should now have a list of the __stdcall function definitions (327 of them!) # ready for merging with the rest of the exports # for idx, item in enumerate(list_decorated): # print idx, item ### 0 Absolutizepath@4 ### 1 Activatetablewindow@4 ################################################################################################### # PART 2: # Extract list of all export functions from DUMPBIN /EXPORTS output file that we haven't already dealt with, # in preparation for producing a properly formatted DEF file ######################################################### # # Extract export functions from DUMPBIN /EXPORTS output # ######################################################### # List to hold undecorated export strings (__cdecl functions and exported variables) list_undecorated = [] # Regex pattern to find "header" for list of EXPORTS in dumpbin output in order to find starting line for further processing # ordinal hint RVA name # # 34 0 00005D0C Absolutizepath pattern = re.compile(r"(?i)\bordinal.*\bhint.*\bRVA.*name") # pattern = re.compile(r""" # (?i) # Match the remainder of the regex with the options: case insensitive (i) <?i> # \bordinal # Assert position at a word boundary <\b> # # Match the characters "ordinal" literally <ordinal> # .* # Match any single character that is not a line break character <.> # # Between zero and unlimited times, as many times as possible, giving back as needed (greedy) <*> # \bhint.*\bRVA.*name # repeat # """, re.VERBOSE) # Open DUMPBIN /EXPORTS output file f = open(sys.argv[1], "r") # Read the whole file into memory lines = f.readlines() f.close() # Find starting line of exports listing for i, line in enumerate(lines): if pattern.search(line): startpos = i + 2 for i in xrange(startpos, len(lines)): # Read line line = lines[i] # Check for empty line and stop if not line.strip(): break else: x = line.split() # print x ### ['34', '0', '00005D0C', 'Absolutizepath'] # print x[0] ### 34 # print x[1] ### 0 # print x[2] ### 00005D0C # print x[3] ### Absolutizepath # Check if this function has already been handled above # i.e. it's a __stdcall function we've already decorated with the @parameter qualifier and stored in List list_decorated[] NEWFUNCTION = True # Iterate both the index and the item for idx, entry in enumerate(list_decorated): # Test if this string exists if x[3] in entry: # print "Function exists at index " + str(idx) + " as " + list_decorated[idx] ### Function exists at index 0 as Absolutizepath@4 # Add the ordinal value to the function@parameters string we already have list_decorated[idx] = list_decorated[idx] + "@" + x[0] NEWFUNCTION = False break if NEWFUNCTION == True: # print x[3] + " is a new export" ### Addtolist is a new export # Ollydbg exported variables preceded by an underscore ("oddata") also generate an MSVC compiler error # Remove underscores on these functions - they begin with small caps # This "slice" of string x[3] will return true for underscored small cap functions if str.islower(x[3][:2]): # print x[3] ### _aqueue # Remove underscore x[3] = x[3].lstrip("_") # Add function and ordinal value to a new list list_undecorated.append(string.ljust(x[3], 40) + "@" + x[0]) # Now merge the 2 unique lists together and we should have the full list in proper DEF format li_def = list_decorated + list_undecorated li_def.sort() for item in li_def: print item ################################################################################################### # PART 3: Create the DEF file # Open output file for writing output = open("ollydbg.def", "w") print >> output, "NAME OllyDbg" print >> output, "EXPORTS" for item in li_def: print >> output, " " + item # Close ollydbg.def output.close() ################################################################################################### if __name__ == '__main__': main()


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Bryan is correct that the job market doesn't provide a lot of partial credit for higher education. But in saying so, he seems to accept Murray's blanket contention that people don't graduate from college because they're not smart enough to handle college-level work. This just isn't true. Researchers have been studying the dropout problem for decades. (I would point to Vince Tinto's work at Syracuse, among others.) Of course some students aren't college material. But most drop out because they can't afford to pay tuition, or they received a terrible high school education, or work and family demands intrude, or the college itself does a poor job of providing an engaging, high-quality education. To say that all students who didn't finish college couldn't have finished college, and thus shouldn't have gone in the first place, is simply wrong.
In an earlier post, Bryan asserted that the present system of large public subsidies for higher education is a "massive waste of time and resources." By this I assume he means that society would, on the whole, be better off without such subsidies. The United States has historically been a leader among most nations in adopting policies designed to induce large numbers of people to pursue college degrees and to reduce the price of doing so. And the United States has the most productive, well-educated workforce in the world. In recent decades, many of our biggest economic competitors have adopted policies designed to cut into our lead in college education and produce more graduates and degree holders. As near as I can tell, none of our competitors are adopting the opposite strategy. Are all of these nations, including ours, just massively wrong about all of this? Why hasn't anyone adopted the cut-public-subsidies-for-higher-ed strategy and reaped (what I assume you believe would be) the huge benefits in return?


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CatholicTV.com: Catholic video on the internet. I haven't watched any so I can't tell you anything about it. Have fun.
Friday, July 31, 2009
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Saturday, July 25, 2009
We were at a wedding this afternoon. Very nice folks. We certainly wish them the best. We knew the bride since she was just a little toddler. Or maybe I should say we knew the family since she was just a little toddler. I don't think I have my mind wrapped around this thing known as the "passing of time" yet. Kids growing up and getting married. hmm.
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Since I was rather late getting up and we had a function this afternoon, there wasn't much time this morning to do much. So I let doggie play. I put down the kiddie pool, which actually is a plastic sandbox shaped like a turtle. I put water in it and let doggie splash around. He loved it. Several times he was in there aggressively "digging," making lots of noise and fantastic splashes. I had to refill the pool several times since his splashes would almost empty the kiddie pool. He had such fun all by himself. Maybe next time I'll attempt photos.
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celebrating moon landing
Friday evening we were at a celebration for the 40th anniversary of the first landing on the moon. We had two toddlers and two teenagers. The kids didn't enjoy the presentation, but they enjoyed all the fun afterwards. There were free moon pies for all (ha ha). It was late when we got back and everyone was whipped. I didn't wake up this morning until 9:30 a.m.
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muzzle review
Tuesday, July 21, 2009
This is the Jafco muzzle. It is plastic with rubber straps--meaning that there will be no qualms about getting it wet. It comes in white, black, and clear.
The fastening hardware is smooth inside and out. The plastic is glassy smooth on the inside and bead-blasted for a matte finish on the outside. The felt nosepad is fastened in two places. I don't know felt weights but would estimate this to be medium to heavy felt. Photo 3 is to give you an idea of the thickness of the plastic; a nickel is there for reference. Photo 3 also shows that the holes are beveled - this makes cleaning easier.
Photo 4 shows the size 4S on our Labrador Retriever. It's been adjusted so that it doesn't smush his nose. Also, he is able to open his mouth, can pant and drink. However, I might try a larger diameter muzzle next time so that he can open his mouth more.
When dogs drink, their tongue roll under, so I wonder if that seam on the inside might bother him. He has given the muzzle a pretty good work-out since these photos were taken. The muzzle is a bit scuffed up now and there is mud and grass trapped in the seams, but that isn't a problem to me. He can't get out of the muzzle himself, but it is pretty easy to pull that neck strap right over his head and pop that muzzle off. That isn't a feature; just letting you know that it can happen.
He can now accompany me when I work outside. With the muzzle on, he can no longer run off with my tools (or otherwise hurt himself by putting them in his mouth). However, I discovered that I can't paint with him outside. The other night I was painting and he went around me to get to the can of paint and started to drink the paint. Did I already say that he can drink with the muzzle on? Other possible mishaps include him getting into wet paint or knocking over the paint can.
I like the idea of the clear one, but it's softer material than the white or black one. I thought I needed tough plastic for this dog, so I got the white. I thought the white would be cooler (temperature-wise) than the black. Also, I can see better if anything odd is happening in that muzzle. I might get the clear one for use in the car. He had chewed off a piece of something the last time he was in the car. A softer one would be less likely to scuff up the car or scratch the glass windows.
Leerburg has the largest selection of sizes and also offers all three colors.
Yes I would recommend this muzzle to prevent the dog from eating things he shouldn't. Of, course, the best thing is to train the dog away from the undesired behavior. But if you're like me and can't seem to accomplish that, the muzzle is better than not doing anything at all. All muzzled dogs should be supervised since they won't be able to use their number one defense mechanism. I'm not sure about using one of these to prevent them chewing on post-surgery stitches. Seems like they can still use the hard edges of the plastic to scratch at the stitches.
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kudos to NASA
Monday, July 20, 2009
Wow. Really amazing when I stop to take it in: NASA got people to the moon and back, not once but several times. And that was way back then. Forty years ago to be exact. Recent photos show shadows of the lunar landers that were left on the moon. More information on NASA's celebration of the 40th anniversary are found on their website. Somewhere there was a list of fun facts but I can't find it now. One of the facts was that the moon was so hard that they were barely able to get flag but a few inches into the surface and then had to be careful not to knock it over. Also the lander legs didn't compress as much as it should and Neil had to take a jump to get onto the moon surface. It's pretty amazing that they were able to get live video from the spacecraft and from the moon back to earth. And all those buttons and switches! In any case the complexities of the whole affair is mind-boggling.
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ready for church
Sunday, July 19, 2009
All showered up and ready for church. I'm up for one of my volunteer gigs this morning. That means that I'll be at my parish. Sometimes we visit other parishes when we can (which we did last week). Gumby attends a different parish than I and sometimes I'm expected there. Happy Sunday to all.
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Saturday, July 11, 2009
Busy. Hence not here.
Sick cat, but cat ok now. Cat now shares my bathroom; might be a permanent arrangement. Gumby wants me to go get second covered litter box. There is one in there but it's small and uncovered.
Dog gets muzzle; two words: Jafco, Leerburg. I hope to eventually give a review of the muzzle.
Putting a VHS tape video onto DVD: complicated, exasperating. First it was cabling: composite video (RCA connectors) to S-Video on the computer card. Running around store to store for 3 hours yielded nothing. Mail-ordered the adapters. Then it was getting the computer to recognize the S-video input and having the software to capture the video. Then finding out the recorded format is not DVD format ... so need converting software. I finally got it done but I don't exactly know how.
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The largest telescope mirror ever put into space
The largest telescope mirror ever put into space will be launched into space on ESA's Herschel observatory mission in 2007 and will be used to study the Universe by gathering infrared radiation.
The manufacture of the shaped blank that will be used to create the flight model primary mirror for Herschel's telescope was completed late last year at the Boostec facility in Tarbes, France.
Unlike conventional reflecting telescopes, Herschel's telescope mirror is being made from a novel ceramic material called silicon carbide. This will make it lighter than if it was made of metal or glass.
In addition to weight savings, this material also has excellent structural stability and thermal properties which are also very important for the accuracy of the telescope.
The mirror blank, at 3.5 metres across, is the biggest silicon carbide structure in the world and, when completed, the mirror will be the largest single-component telescope reflector ever made for use in space. Larger mirrors are planned for future missions but they will be composed of multiple, deployable sections.
The next step is to machine the mirror to reduce its mass. Its internal stiffeners, used to provide stability during manufacture, will be taken out and the mirror's thickness reduced to 2.5 millimetres.
After that it will be taken to Finland where it will be polished to produce a parabolic surface with a roughness of less than 30 millionths of a millimetre.
Following this, the polished mirror will be coated by vacuum deposition at the Calar Alto Observatory in Spain, first with microscopically thin adhesive layer of nickel-chrome and then with a reflective layer of aluminium. It will then be shipped to Friedrichshafen, Germany, for final assembly of the spacecraft.
The Herschel mission will study the molecular chemistry of the Universe, in particular the formation of stars and galaxies and their interaction with interstellar clouds of dust and gas.


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The Domaine typeface family descends directly from the Hardys logotype and typeface, which I designed under direction from Adelaide-based design consultancy Parallax.
Parallax approached me in 2007 to draw a logotype and typeface for Hardys, one of Australia's largest wine companies. Established in 1853, Hardys has a long history. Parallax noted the following on the Hardys identity:
Through years of discounting, the brand found itself a low-cost proposition, and Parallax was commissioned to reposition Hardys as a premium wine brand, in line with a comprehensive portfolio overhaul.
During their research, Parallax dug through the Hardys company archives and unearthed some fascinating typographic gems. We tried several directions, but in the end we derived the final Hardys logotype from the 'Walter Reynell' lettering (above).
The design process for developing the logotype was refreshingly straightforward; however, things got trickier when we needed to make a matching typeface. At this point, the only concrete stylistic cues I had were a few capital letters with sharp, bracketed Latin serifs.
The Latin genre isn't very popular. There are still — at best — only a fistful of good, contemporary Latin typefaces that are usable without looking twee, ugly or dated. At the time, I was quite unfamiliar with the genre, which to me was typified by the dreaded ATF Americana. With its ungainly proportions, shrill serifs and overly tight spacing, ATF Americana provided very little inspiration. This was not a typeface that said 'premium wine brand', so I dug a little deeper.
Further exploration yielded some fascinating finds—a veritable menagerie of typographic fauna. It seems like the old type founders really went to town with the Latin genre. They almost make the Antiques and Fat Faces of the same era look tame by comparison.
The Latin genre can be overwhelming, sharp and chaotic when considered en masse. To manage the visual overload I focussed on particular details: I retained parts I thought were beautiful, and edited out anything overly flowery or anachronistic. There are two dominant serif styles in the Latin genre: triangular wedges or brackets, both ending in sharp points. The bracketed serifs are particularly elegant; some of the hooked terminals are wonderfully bizarre. The process of taming those terminals, while retaining the sharp points, helped to harmonise the bracketing and to smooth the stem-to-branch connections — this brought the typeface design closer to the elegance required for Hardys, and would later inform the development of Domaine.
The horizontal head-serifs present in most Latins help create a calm, even texture on the page. The historical Latins provide little consensus, however, on proportion, width and spacing, so I looked towards the more serviceable Scotch Romans in consideration for Domaine. Tricky to classify, they sit near Moderns and Transitionals in most typographic taxonomy. They're not as stiff and brittle as Moderns, but still have some necessary elegance. (Matthew Carter's Miller typeface is one of the best digital Scotches available.)
Hardys only needed two styles: a Regular and a Bold. Because they had to work across various platforms, media and sizes, certain details were suppressed. When the exclusivity for Hardys lapsed, I reassessed all aspects of the design — the typeface was completely redrawn to create Domaine. To properly flourish, Domaine needed two optical sizes: Text and Display. For Domaine Text, the contrast was decreased, terminals were simplified and all details were made more robust. The Domaine Display styles, conversely, were made sharper, the spacing tighter, and the hook terminals were emphasised.
In running text, the default lining numerals for Domaine Text were serviceable but not particularly elegant. Proper Old-Style numerals were too showy, so the ¾ numeral style was adopted from the Scotch Romans.
Matching Italics were obviously also required for all Roman styles. There aren't many viable historical precedents for Latin Italics; and Scotch Italics tend towards fussiness. Due to the amount of detail already present in the Domaine Romans, I didn't want to go overboard. The Italics from Deberny & Peignot's Labeurs Ordinaires Série Nº 17 provided the perfect starting point. I've long admired the practical Romans from this series, but unlike their Scotch cousins, they have plainer and more robust Italics. This is notable in such details as the descender of the f — it doesn't have the usual sweeping tail of other Moderns.
The Domaine Italic structure has been kept fairly plain. The 14° slope isn't too zealous, head serifs remain horizontal, and the exit stroke is sharp, low and restrained. Like the Text Roman styles, Text Italics are normalised for service at smaller sizes, particularly the g, v, w, and z. Inspired by the simplicity of the truncated f descender from Série Nº 17, the p and q descenders are serifless — somewhat unusual for a seriffed Italic. This all affirms the Italics as reliable, unobtrusive companions to the Romans. Peppered throughout the Display Italic charset are a few notable letterforms: k, v, w, x and — my personal favourite — the z.
The offbeat E and F alternates for the Display Italics were drawn on a whim; I simply couldn't help myself. When I happened across these quirky details in No. 18 Italique (included in the same specimen as Série Nº 17), I laughed out loud! As the amusement subsided, I noticed that the swash terminals of the E were almost Latin; they were so beautifully unusual they simply had to be included in Domaine.
Domaine is the largest family I've made to date, comprising 46 styles. I learned a great deal through the development of this typeface. I realised that it's important never to dismiss a genre. If I had ignored what I was unfamiliar with, or considered not to my taste, I might have missed out on the hidden magic in those old Latin serifs. Experience has shown me that often there is much to draw from a typeface or style I don't initially find endearing. With Domaine, I wanted to design outside of my usual style and comfort zone, and to create full and elegant curves. To sum up Domaine's style: contemporary, curvaceous Latin detailing on a Scotch skeleton.
Version History
V1.0—Initial release version; 2013.10