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BTIG's Dan Greenhaus sends out a mid-day note titled:
Has the President Already Sewn Up Reelection? Looking at the Electoral Map Favors His Odds.
The note makes the point -- which is now traveling through much of the media -- that Obama has a big built-in lead in the electoral college that will be hard for Romney to overcome.
If you'll recall, Greenhaus raised eyebrows several days ago when he said he had only met one person who was predicting a Romney victory. And Greenhaus rolls with a Wall Street crowd (his clients) so when he says something like that, it's pretty noteworthy.
We've seen a lot of analysis that discusses the election, but most of the time the analyst just punts to something like InTrade or the Pollster.com average, showing that Obama is in the lead. So far we haven't seen any folks actually predicting an outcome one way or another.
However with conventional wisdom going the way it is, it will be interesting to see if Wall Street soon starts to vocally assume that Obama will win again.
As for Obama's electoral map dominance, Greenhaus points to this RealClearPolitics electoral map, showing that even with several big stats declared "toss ups", Obama is almost to 270.
Locking down just a couple of the grey states (or just one if it's Florida) would clinch the election.
One last point, which is that if investors are worried about Obama winning (because of fiscal cliff stuff and so forth) they're certainly not expressing it, as this pro-Obama conventional wisdom emerges as stocks are near their highs of the year.


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The White House isn't taking Weekly Standard founder and conservative pundit Bill Kristol's advice when it comes to battling the Islamic State forces in the Middle East.
Kristol argued in a radio interview on Monday that President Barack Obama should consider "bombing them at least for a few weeks and seeing what happens," according to audio posted by Mediaite.
During a Friday afternoon media briefing, however, White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest mocked the proposal. After one reporter grilled Earnest over why Obama lacks a concrete strategy for combating the jihadist group in Syria, Earnest, unprompted, pointed to Kristol's remarks as an example of what's "not ... a smart approach" towards the Islamic State, also known as ISIS or ISIL.
"The Pentagon is still developing military options for the president, for the commander-in-chief, to use against ISIL in Syria. There are some who probably would make the case that it's okay to not have a formulated, comprehensive strategy. But, just as one pundit I know recently suggested, that we can just go drop some bombs and see what happens. That is not what the president believes is a smart approach," Earnest said.
Kristol did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Business Insider. But in an editorial set to be published in the Sept. 8 edition of the Weekly Standard, Kristol sharply criticized Obama's foreign policy vision in the region.
"[A]n American president who was serious about marshaling and mobilizing the elements of national power behind a strategy for victory could, we suspect, defeat the Islamic State more quickly and more easily than President Obama thinks. But President Obama doesn't have such a war strategy because he still doesn't want to accept that we're at war," Kristol wrote.


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Design NotesJune 10, 2008
Time to dive back in to the Bright Creative redesign I wrote about last week, and focus on some of the good stuff that came out of it.
Most people got it; but for anyone who misinterpreted my laundry list of rants from last time, that was just some healthy critiquing of my own work. It's a good idea to step back every now and then and judge what you do with a critical eye. The truth is I'm very pleased with the way this redesign came off. Here's why.
- jQuery
I'd like to thank the star of our show, John Resig's fabulous jQuery library. No doubt you noticed the portfolio page effects, with sliding and zooming and fading and the like. Yep, that's Javascript. No Flash here. I've only been playing with jQuery for a few months now, but it's already one of those "how did I live without it?" tools.
With this design I wanted to see what kind of useful user interaction effects I could pull off with some jQuery magic. I had a vague idea in mind to use sliding portfolio pages, echoing something I did with the previous design's thumbnails. But I also wanted to treat the slideable area as real content with enlarged previews and live text. I looked at a few canned scripts that seemed to do what I wanted, including some jQuery plugins like Coda Slider and various lightboxes, but ended up needing a bit more flexibility. So I rolled my own.
There's nothing particularly new or clever about my implementation, but it came together nicely. I have a bunch of
divs in the page source that are assigned the class
Then on page load, the script does a bit of work to change that default and get the page ready for interaction, things like adding new classes and then re-positioning the
divs based on those classes. The resulting style of the elements updated by the script is still handled in the CSS file as a new set of classes, triggered by that scripted changing of the class. That's the ideal, but I did need to script some of the positions, so there are a few spots where hard-coded pixel values ended up in Javascript. I'm sure there's a way to make it more elegant, but that's as far as I got.
The actual slide effect happens by giving each individual item in the portfolio a sequential position within a horizontal series of items, and then updating the
leftvalue of each based on which item the user is currently viewing. The current frame has a
leftvalue of 0, the next is 750, the one after that is 1500, and so on. Frames prior to current are negative values, ie. -750, -1500 and so on. And then by declaring
overflow: hiddenon the parent frame I'm hiding the inactive items and only showing the active item so you never see more than one at a time. This allow lets me slide things in and out of the frame without more tedious clipping calculations, something I'd far rather let the browser handle.
That was the quick easy way to do it, but it also led to the expandability problem I wrote about in the previous post; I can't use
overflow: autoin the portfolio area to allow for a scrollbar when the user resizes the text, because the
divs intended to be hidden by the overflow end up forcing scrollbars and making a mess of the page. The unscripted version allows this, but the scripted version doesn't. Oh, sweet irony.
The larger previews triggered on click are also added with script; in an unscripted state these are simple links to images that open in the same window, a fairly clumsy way of doing it, but at least the unscripted state is functional. Again by manipulating the classes in script, I change those links into positioned target areas that have an
onclickevent which pulls in the target image of the link as the contents of the pop-up area. There's a nice jQuery fade effect too, though the first image load usually takes longer than the fade so the effect looks more like a vertical slide-down than a fade. But once that baby is cached after that first click, watch out. Fades for everyone.
Something a little more subtle than the portfolio effects is the logo and primary nav hover glowing animation. This is a trick I demoed at An Event Apart last month, and I'm about 2/3rds of the way through formally writing it up. I'm using jQuery to take your basic CSS Sprites setup and add animation effects to produce a smoother transition between off and on states. It's a tiny bit more involved than that, as you'll see if you dig into the source. But keep your eyes peeled for the article, there will likely be a pre-built function that abstracts anything remotely difficult about it. Oh, and yes, it gracefully degrades to plain old CSS Sprites.
- Copywriting
Updating the copy was a big reason for redesigning the site. The previous version was built at a time when I didn't have a clear idea of what the business would be in one, two, or five years. Since that time I've figured out what it is I want to do and how I do it, but the site didn't reflect that. I'd been handing out an intro PDF to new clients for a while to fill that gap, but it's the sort of information that really needed to be directly on the site.
I ended up scrapping almost everything that existed before, and changing the voice from an impersonal royal "we" to a much more direct "I". This didn't come easily; it was hard to adjust to talking about myself in the informal first person on an ostensibly professional site. But I often get email starting out with "I'm looking to contact Dave Shea", or "do you guys offer such and such a service?", so I realized it was time to kill the ambiguity.
There were two items I felt a bit conflicted about putting out there. In my previously private PDF I had included details about pricing and process that would be helpful for prospective clients, but it's the kind of information that people in our industry don't generally publish on public-facing sites. I have some theories why this is, and they're not all to do with competition, but the result is the same in any case. I decided to go ahead anyway, a decision which I don't know will prove to be a good or bad idea long term; we'll know for sure if it ends up going away one day.
- Design
The visual design was actually one of the least important things I needed to accomplish this time around. When I began planning this redesign, I tackled the scripting and copywriting first, and only opened Photoshop after I had a pretty clear idea of what the content was going to be. You know, the same sort of expectations you'd have of a client; I believe the phrase we're looking for here is "eating your own dog food".
Somehow I ended up building a colour scheme derived from primaries, though the red, yellow and blue are not exactly full saturation, and the brown of the content area serves as more of a neutral in this case. Previously I'd been using brighter shades of red and yellow, so there's some consistency with the past, but the blue was a new addition this time for the sake of more interesting colour contrast. The overall tone is a lot darker than last time, but that feels like a good change.
This visual design isn't a huge departure either; the previous one had a bit of a gritty, non-pristine feel to it that I wanted to continue using. I went for broke on the texture and detail work, but that ended up causing some fun layering challenges. After the Photoshop work was done, I spent some time looking at the design wondering how in the world I'd build it out into something that would work in a browser. In the last post I mentioned that transparent PNGs would have spared me some headaches, but I don't feel like I can yet thanks to IE6. So I went with GIF images instead, which caused a lot of tedious matching of foreground and background images. Saving a transparent GIF to sit on top of a solid colour is easy; saving one with texture that must precisely align with a second background texture while fading out into transparent areas is… not so much.
For example, the portfolio's white stage area sits on top of the page's background texture. Its drop shadow and frilly decorative bits have varying levels of opacity, something GIF obviously can't do. To simulate this I had to save the background texture into the image itself, which forced precise alignment of the foreground and background images. I could have gotten away with simply flattening my Photoshop file and saving out the background with the image as a big non-transparent rectangle, but that would have made the site's already-large image profile even larger. So I dropped what background I could by first hiding the background in Photoshop and saving a preliminary transparent 1-bit GIF to basically create an outline of the foreground area, then loading that GIF back into Photoshop and using it to create a mask for the background, then saving the combined foreground + background combo out together into the final GIF. It looks like this.
There are also some extra little details I added to try and elevate the HTML-based text to something a bit more interesting. I applied
text-shadowto the various headers and links for Safari's benefit. Primary
h2s on the site have a very faint PNG absolutely positioned over top that fades in the background texture a little, resulting in a semi-transparent almost gradient-like look. Getting the PNG gamma to display consistently was a challenge; my first attempt worked well in Safari, while the overlay was too obvious in other browsers. So I had to tinker with various colour output settings and finally got something that seems like a good enough compromise. The PNG is still somewhat visible in all browsers, but faint enough that I can live with it. (and I did a lot of Googling for workarounds; what you're thinking of suggesting? I tried it.)
- Contact Form
Finally, one of my favourite bits from the site, the contact form's Stress-o-meter. This was a fun little idea I had in mind from the beginning, but it was the last thing I built because I wasn't quite sure how to make it go. Design-wise, there are three levels: Low, Medium, and High. The higher it gets, the more distressed the meter looks.
Luckily it ended up being easier to build than I expected. There's a simple text file sitting on the server with a date in it. Every time the contact form is viewed, I have a PHP script that opens that file and reads the date. If today's date is within a certain number of days from the previous date it will display Low, and if it's above that range it shows Medium. There's a second range it checks that will show High. I'm still working on precise values, right now Medium is 5 days and High is 10.
That's it for the viewing part, the updating part was pretty basic too. I've created a cron job on the server to run a second script every couple of days. That script sends me an email asking me whether I want to update the meter, which is just a link to a third script that replaces the contents of the text file with today's date. If I don't hit the link, nothing changes, and the previous range checking script will compensate. That's it. Simple. I'm still wondering if various spiders are going to find the update script or not, but a permanent Low status on the meter would be the only real side effect so I'm not terribly worried.
Thanks for the info on the Bright Creative work. I especially enjoyed your elaboration on the jQuery stuff since I've recently been playing with that myself.
P.S. Long time reader, first time poster. Originally discovered you long ago through CSS Zen Garden. Made me seriously evaluate my approach to web design. Many thanks.
I love the Stress-o-meter!
Very nice job and superb notes!
U make really amazing stuff!
I've been becoming a fan of jQuery in recent months too. I first started using it for form validation but since then have been finding more and more uses for it and now if I ever need a script to produce a particular effect that I've used in the past, I'll try and find a jQuery plugin alternative.
Hey Dave,
Great work. Love the site. I'm most impressed with the copy. I think that it reads really well and people will get a feel for who you are. It's also very inspiring… I've come to the conclusion this year, that I won't be growing, so I should look at my own content.
See you around.
It's interesting what you're saying about the copywriting. I've made many design mockups (to be honest, I'm too lazy lately, especially because of the lack of tools in my location atm, to really work on any websites lately), I have to write about myself. Like you said, the change from the formal "we" to the informal "I" is a big change. To at the same time be professional but personal is a hard change to accomplish without sounding too arrogant.
The rest of it, interesting to read your approach, especially the part about code first, design later, which 37signals brought up a few days ago as well.
@Jesse Dijkstra – "To at the same time be professional but personal is a hard change to accomplish without sounding too arrogant."
Definitely. I had that same problem; you want to say "look at all this cool stuff I've done" without making it sound like your ego has expanded to fill an entire city block. There's a balance there, and it's hard to find.
"code first, design later, which 37signals brought up a few days ago as well."
Well, it's fair to say we have different perspectives on that one. My own code-first was just working out the Javascript interaction, it wasn't doing actual design work like the HTML/CSS approach they suggest. If you want my take on that whole conversation, I think Greg Storey sums it up as well as any: http://www.airbagindustries.com/archives/airbag/drucker.php
I just inadvertently sent you some spam. Perhaps some basic email address validation in the contact form wouldn't go astray? I didn't even put an @ in there.
Anyway, nice work, and I agree with most of your critiques/observations. I also have to agree that jQuery is particularly good for us CSSy types to jump into Javascript. I started messing with it more than a year ago now and haven't looked back since.
Oh and I also meant to add my 2c about text resizing. I too always test my stuff for resizing, but since FF3, IE7 and Opera all support full page zooming now (and IE6 effectively able to locked down should you wish, by px sizing) I feel that it I can let it slide on occasion now-days without feeling to bad about it. I think an easy to read standard size/contrast and good semantics etc for screen readers is far more important. The small few people that I know with serious vision impairment all have there OS set to 640x480 with extra large font, and use a screen reader regardless.
Anyway, I can't remember EVER coming across a non-geek client/friend/earthling who was even aware that their browser could re-size text. People still using IE6 are somehow even less aware of it, if that is possible.
Being able to zoom FF3, Opera/IE7 style now is so great for couch-computer usage! Much better than the old text-only method.
I am excited you redesigned BC, I was wondering when that was going to happen. You know all those fans of yours out there, heh. I have been really into jQuery and find it's easy for a css coder like myslef to pick it up. jQuery is really gaining momentum right now. I'm very pleased to know you have taken advantage of it. Bright creative is amazing and very inspiring. You took some of the best jquery and new css techniques to push web design up another notch. Excellent job. I'll be interested in reading your write-up on the css rollover fades. I have been looking for way to avoid using img tags for that.
The stress-o-meter is brilliant!
For what it's worth, the text-shadow property is also visible in Opera 9.5. I didn't even know Opera supported text-shadow until I visited the BC redesign.
In any case, it looks great!
Rudimentary user verification for your scripts might be in order. Nothing fancy, just something that will keep spiders from resetting your counter inadvertently. Maybe just have the script do nothing if you don't call it with a particular set of arguments. Or something. Since it isn't a critical system I wouldn't waste too much time on it, but by Murphy's law the spiders will find it. :)
That Stress-o-Meter is pretty cool.
jQuery is something i've come accross a fre imes in the past, it is hard to find a framework that 'works' in each browser, one example of this not working is mootools, this a lot of the time has that annoying 'error on page' in the bottom left hand corner ….
also to agree with dave holland CSS Zen Garden inspried me and im sure a lot of people to the real power of CSS.
Hi Dave,
I was thinking about your notes on the jquery slide effect and I've put together something you might find useful as part of a CSS technique I was experimenting with. It's using the dimensions plugin which is now a part of the jquery core (v1.2+).
Take a look at the second example using floats on http://www.sanchothefat.com/dev/layouts/window-panes.html . All the code is inline.
Wow, you just proved that it's possible to make modern webdesign work in IE6, without png. I can see that would have taken, well, pretty much forever.
But I can't get your portfolio fade to work properly, I get the blind scrolling down like you described, and only get the fade-in when I click the same thumb over again. Which means most of the time I get the vertical-blind-down, since I'm more likely to not click the same preview consecutively.
Still, love the design.
I've got to throw in some CSS questions too.
I noticed you're being very specific in your line-heights and font-sizes. Does browsers really accept 4 decimals specificy on ems? And what does the opacity: 0.99999 do? I have a hunch it's got something to do with Firefox, but please elaborate.
The Bright Creative site is simply beautiful. I love everything about it. The best thing about it in my opinion, is the logo and navigation on hover state. I've been trying to figure out how to do that for a long time now, and I fail every time! Hahaha.
Great work!
@Eystein Alnæs - "But I can't get your portfolio fade to work properly"
Sounds like it does work for you, but only after the image loads. Which is pretty much how I described it. It's not ideal, but I'm not a fan of lightbox-like spinning wheel graphics and the brief delay between when you click and when the image is displayed.
"Does browsers really accept 4 decimals specificy on ems?"
The values are derived from careful calculations of the font size. The main body font size is 62.5% which ends up being equivalent to 10px, so if I set font-size to 1.2em then I get 12px text (that remains scalable). Then to get, for example, 14px line-height I have to do a bit of math to find out what multiplier I need to apply; 14 / 12 = 1.16666666… so I (arbitrarily) round to 4 decimal places and get a line-height of 1.1667. Whether a browser applies that exact value or not doesn't really matter, what's important is that the proportions remain the same if the user scales up the text size.
"what does the opacity: 0.99999 do?"
Forces anti-aliasing to get around a bug in the browser's font rendering. More here:
Dave, though it's an expensive fix, CS3 (at least for Mac) no longer embeds gamma data in PNG's when using save for web. I've dev'd probably ~30-50 sites and have yet to see any color shift in any browser/platform combo, including IE6 on Windows. Prior to CS3 I was running my PNG files through Gamma Slamma and the results were the same. Perhaps you already tried both of these things but I have yet to run into a discrepancy in color.
Whoops, link failed. Link for Gamma Slamma http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/23359
I love the Bright Creative design. It works even in IE6.
Great job with the redesign, a couple comments:
On the design: Love that you went with a grittier/worn look for such a professinal site. I've been toying with a photoshop file for my own redesign, and had been a little worried the 'wicked worn' style wasn't professional enough. You've inspired me though, and I'm going forward with it now!
On the logo/menu effect: I'm at the edge of my seat waiting to see the write up on the fade effect. I've spent all morning looking for a way to implement something similar on my site, and can't think of a better designer to learn it from.
@Christopher Scott - Thanks. Keep your eyes on A List Apart, it's in the publishing queue for later this month or possibly early August.
I want a stress-o-meter! That's cool!
Your subtle jQuery effects are incredible - I really think these are what takes a nice design to an amazing webpage. Always inspired by your work Dave, you're one very talented guy.
I just wanted to tell you, that brightcreative.com kind of halts my system. Opening as a tab in the backround is no problem, but once I display the tab I have to wait about a minute until it is displayed (and my OS reacts again). Everything works flawless then until I open an other page of your site: Same issue there.
I'm using Firefox 3 on Ubuntu 8.04.
I think I'll fill a bug report if I have time.
Best regards, Jakob.
I love the Bright Creative design. It works even in IE6.
what are your thoughts on using javascript?
Great lookin' site! I'd say it's a great use of CSS!
On the topic of CSS, why do so many people make this program so complicated? Every time I try to learn a new CSS technique, I feel like I'm reading something out of a physics book. CSS is like this new language that is only spoken in certain countries….why can't it be explained in a simple manner?
Ughhh…just my rant about CSS layout
You tried superpng then? Free replacement file format plugin for photoshop?Save with meta data unchecked.
Excellent post, I really like your thoughts on jquery! I have to agree with you, they have taken the hardest parts out which offer a lot more flexibility to someone who isn't a scripter.
An excellent post here. I've heard about jquery but never had a chance to look at it properly but I've seen a few sites that use it and they look really good. I can only write css and html but something like jquery would be ideal for me to make a fancy site with side scrolling pages without much knowledge of javascript.
I will have to download jquery and have a play with it to see what I can come up with.


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Lily Collins and Jamie Campbell Bower put their rumored love split behind them on Monday by reuniting at the premiere of their new movie.
The stars began dating last year after they were cast together in upcoming fantasy blockbuster "The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones," but reportedly parted ways earlier this month.
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We've already seen Microsoft's Xbox Kinect used as the eyes for a robot, but here it is again, in a device offered commercially.
Say hello to the TurtleBot, a robotic assistant that can be customised to perform a whole array of tasks.
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The kit comes with an SDK that integrates the hardware drivers with developer tools and capabilities such as autonomous navigation. Users can develop apps and share them with one another online.
Personal-robotics wizard Willow Garage is now accepting pre-orders for the TurtleBot, which comes with a Kinect, an Asus Eee laptop and all the necessary software and hardware. The full kit will set you back $1200 (£725). Bakery food will cost extra. ®


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It is not necessary for the applicant to have followed an undergraduate Creative Writing major; however, applicants should have a strong background in literary study and critical essay writing. Students in our program take both creative writing courses and graduate-level literature seminars.
A baccalaureate degree is required, although it need not be in Creative Writing. An applicant must, however, display evidence of talent as a fiction writer or poet.
The Statement of Goals should be a page or two in length. It should identify the influences and models you have used in your thinking about creative work and the projects you have already undertaken. If you have a particular interest in studying with a member of Temple's faculty, you should indicate this in this document.
The GRE general test is required. Applicants must score in the 50th percentile or above to be considered for admission.
Minimum TOEFL score needed to be accepted:
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Applicants need to choose one genre in which to apply. For poetry submissions, a minimum of six pages is required, with only one poem presented per page. For fiction, a minimum of 20 pages is required. Your best work should be submitted.
Number of Didactic Credits Required Beyond the Baccalaureate: 30
Required Courses:
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When you walk into one of our locations, you can expect a heartfelt greeting from one of our friendly representatives. Time will be spent listening to you tell them about your loved one and finding out how to best serve your memorial needs. Once all options have been discussed, our representatives are trained to assist you in creating a one-of-a-kind monument. Each of our outlet locations are equipped to produce a computer generated proof of your memorial. This proof will be a scaled version of your custom memorial and is key in our mistake proof guarantee. Our representatives and artists specialize in creating all different types of memorials; from general sandblast designs, to laser etchings, to fully sculpted memorials.
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14 comments:
- Amber said...
Gloat away! It's easy to do here in this setting.
- 10:11
- Goddess in Progress said...
I'm breathing a vacation-y sigh just reading this. Happy, peaceful. A good place to be. Glad you were able to have this getaway and recharge, and glad you have a lot of good to go home to.
- 10:52
appreciating the good in life is not gloating. it is being thankful.
so pleased for you
- 11:56
- Betsy said...
So happy to read this. Revel in the happiness!
- 12:41
- Christie said...
Already looking forward to next year! You forgot to mention being thankful none of those grumpy golfers tagged you in the head with their out-of-control golf balls.
- 14:43
- E said...
You deserve some gloating - and I could use a reminder to be grateful. I'm cleaning out my house to put it on the market this week, a fairly miserable task for me, but I am trying to remember that it is a move onward and upward. Perspective, perspective! Glad to hear you had a great vacation!
- 17:41
- comebacknikki said...
I'm so happy to hear this! Happiness rocks! :-)
- 18:19
Your contentment has been a long time coming and I'm profoundly grateful that you are in a place where you can enjoy your life. You are an amazing and strong woman and I'm thrilled that you enjoyed some "you" time with good friends. Someday soon I hope to be where you are now, in this moment, with things feeling settled and on a upward trajectory.
- 19:10
- OTRgirl said...
Grateful and content is a wonderful thing. It is funny how it feels so deep and rich and good, but there's little drama for blogging (speaking from my own place of contentment)! It makes me happy to hear about all that is going well in your life. It's not gloating, you're reveling in a wonderful phase of your life.
- 20:17
- Mizasiwa said...
I say revel away - its so great to hear you talk like this. and im so happy for you
- 02:23
- amyunicorn said...
You're not gloating. You are happy, and you deserve to be happy!
- 07:19
- Tiffanie said...
Haha. I love that you said "I hate that word ACK" That pretty much describes how I feel when I say I have a wonderful boyfriend. At my age, it seems more appropriate to say husband or fiance. Ha! However, it's nice to have a wonderful man in my life, regardless of what I call him.
- 09:46
Ok first of all: FIVE YEARS! Impossible. Secondly, you sure deserve all the happiness you can find. I'm so glad you can feel all this joy. Does my heart good. I miss "talking" to you.
- 19:21
- Jen said...
Don't stop! Revel in it! Live in and embrace everything you are grateful for -- don't worry about us thinking you're gloating. We're celebrating right there with you.
- 22:29


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newsletter: month twenty-four
Dear Nico,
You haven't noticed this, because you don't read my blog yet, but this is the first newsletter I'm writing in three months. It's also the last public one for a while.
You're growing so quickly, and I want to write to you a ton. But you're a much more autonomous person now than you were even just three months ago. I've already been shaping your online presence with these newsletters. Maybe it's time to back off and let you craft your own when the time comes. Up until now, I've been justifying these letters to myself as being really about me and my perceptions of you. But it's getting harder to write amusing trivialities without revealing the person you're becoming. I want to leave that to you.
Twoddlerhood is in full swing. This appears to be the first age of deafness to my questions, but I can hardly stay grumpy at you for that: it's mostly because of your total absorption in what you're doing.
I'm slightly miffed to report that one of your favorite activities is rejecting people. "No Sierra!," you shout. "No Rio! No Romy. No Mary. No Luke. No… mama. Yes mama." Well, at least you grudgingly acknowledge the hand that feeds you most often.
You need feeding, for all of those major, major growth spurts over the last few months. Feelings are the biggest every time. You're sucking down milk like nobody's business, building bones I would think. You're moody and have strong preferences. In other words, you're two.
Some of your newest mad skills:
- You know how to pet the cats so that at least half the time they stick around for it. You also attempt to cuddle the cats and beep them on the nose. Nochka will disdainfully have none of that; Aki is theatrically tolerant.
- You're semi pro at spoon and fork wielding for anything that's not liquid. Super purposeful at experimenting with the "wrong" side of the spoon, which gets you more guacamole than it does soup
- You zip and unzip your coat with the best of them. Woe unto anyone who attempts to do it for you, whether intentionally or absentmindedly. (Ask me how I know.)
- Despite all the big feelings, sometimes you ride the emotional wave pretty well. For example, these days you agree to wear scarves and mittens when weather-appropriate without freaking out about it.
- Huge climbing and balancing improvements.
- You know all the letters, and all the numbers 0-10.
- Last week, you "read" (repeated after me while looking at the words, which totally counts) your first two words: FINE and MINE. As in, ooooh, snuggle puppy of mine, everything about you is especially fine.
- You remember names more or less immediately.
- You're all language all the time. Five word sentences.
- Drawing!
- This has now happened more than once: adventure walks where you push the stroller (or just walk) farther than reasonable to expect. I can't wait for the forest to get warm and beautiful again.
In the "notable lack of mad skills" department: first and second person pronouns are hard to learn when there are just the two of us. Our conversations are sometimes like Who's On First.
Your current favorites:
- Foods: flavor-wise, most of them, including spicy and minty. In practice, favorites are anything you can eat by yourself. My heartwarming little omnivore.
- Legos. Just wait till they open that Legoland right near us.
- Music: what you'll actually request — MIKA OMG MIKA, Jack Johnson, Bob Dylan. Trucks song. Piano song. Dog song. Whoa oh oh song. Rainbow song, at bedtime. Other stuff you will happily listen to — any of Sandra Boynton's CDs, Elizabeth Mitchell, Patty Larkin, Ella Fitzgerald, Michael Franti, Miles Davis, Jason Mraz.
- You've been asking to have your ears pierced. "Nico eenning. Peas."
- Speaking of language! Akalilalo means at least a few things: radiator, avocado, alligator. You've accidentally figured out that "mixer say whaaaaaa" makes me laugh, and say it a lot now. You slay me with that look of intense concentration while absorbing language from lyrics. Is that why kids like listening to the same song over and over in a row?
- Words: baloom. Row bot cup (which is an actual cup, not sippy or anything, with robots on it). Row bot juice (juice when served in that cup). Ohgoosus (oh goodness). Tolly (totally). Psyche. Pinano (piano). Kidlee (kitty).
- Holy wow, are routines awesome. We have a bedtime routine, a coffee making routine (where you are the one pressing the grinder button), and a routine around getting you to do stuff. You know, the one that goes, "I'm going to count to three, and if X doesn't happen, Y will," and variations on it. If you don't choose a shirt to wear, I'm going to choose one for you. If you zip up your coat, then we can go outside to the car.
- Love is all. You sign "I love you" and triumphantly declare I LOFF OO! You regularly request snuggles. There are spontaneous hugs, transcendent little moments.
The other day we held your second birthday party, themed Trucks and Fans. A smashing success. We colored and assembled "DIY" (pre-cut) pinwheels, we colored little unfinished wood cars with markers made especially for wood (who knew those existed?), we played with Legos. The house was a bustle of joy. The store-bought cake was unexpectedly delicious. Everyone had a good time, and then they were all gone, and you and I giggled our way to bedtime.
I love you so much, Nico. Happy second birthday — and many, many more.
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When Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan accepted the resignations of his four most senior military officers on July 29, he savored a victory unprecedented in Turkey's modern history: Whenever the government and army had squared off before, politicians had been the ones to go.
But amid celebration of the military's defeat as a waymark of democracy, little scrutiny has been given to allegations that fabricated evidence and the framing of suspects played a role in its downfall.
The military's chief of general staff, Isik Kosaner, said in his parting statement that it was "impossible" to continue serving due to his inability to protect the legal rights of some 250 officers detained for a range of alleged antigovernment plots.
Many of them have been held for more than a year without trial, and publicly available papers relating to the plots reveal significant inconsistencies.
The main document detailing an alleged 2003 coup plot code-named "Sledgehammer," included in an indictment leaked by both prosecution and defense, refers to an organization that was not founded until two years later.
And the timing of many of the arrest warrants and charges has fueled claims that the probes are politically motivated. They are often filed in the lead-up to Supreme Military Council meetings such as this week's, meetings at which the government and army have clashed over military promotions.
Separately, scores of journalists, academics, and others are involved in mass trials for involvement in an alleged deep state network. Hundreds of Kurdish politicians and activists have also been detained as part of a sprawling antiterror investigation.
"This is not about whether you're pro-military or antimilitary, it's about the rule of law," says Asli Aydintasbas, a columnist at the daily Milliyet newspaper. "Do we want to live in a country where political opponents are eliminated by trials that are unconvincing? I find it very disturbing."
But many Turks have scant sympathy for a military that for decades brutalized its own people and overthrew four governments as self-appointed guardian of the secular state forged by Mustafa Kemal Ataturk.
"I'm not going to say that the deficiencies in due process is the main aspect in [the Sledgehammer] case," says Sahin Alpay, a columnist for Today's Zaman newspaper. "It's helping to put an end to the political role of the armed forces."
Confrontation between AKP, military
Turkey's long history of military intervention in civilian rule began in 1960, when the army overthrew Prime Minister Adnan Menderes, who was then tried before a kangaroo court and executed.
After seizing power again in 1971, it staged a third coup in 1980, detaining 650,000 people. Of them, 230,000 were tried, 14,000 stripped of citizenship, 50 executed, and 171 killed in custody.
The military displayed its dominance again in 1997, when it forced Islamist Prime Minister Necmettin Erbakan to resign. When Mr. Erdogan's Islam-rooted Justice and Development Party (AKP) came to power in 2002, a confrontation seemed all but inevitable.
The arrests of military officers started in March 2010, triggered by a sensational scoop in the daily Taraf newspaper, which had been handed a suitcase containing documents, tape recordings, and CDs.
The paper detailed the Sledgehammer plot, allegedly hatched in 2003 by a cabal of top soldiers aiming to overthrow the AKP by staging terrorist attacks and assassinations, thus fomenting chaos as a pretext for seizing power.
The scandal dealt a body blow to the military's prestige, and led to the arrest of scores of officers, including generals and admirals.
Inconsistencies in evidence
But families and lawyers of defendants claim that scores of inconsistencies exist in the evidence amassed against them. These include references to hospitals, military installations, and other institutions that either did not exist in 2003, or had different names.
Some of the accused also claim documents, CDs, and computer drives were planted at their homes or workplaces.
In one bizarre case, police acting on a tip that an officer named Emrah Karaca was involved in a military espionage and blackmail case, instead reportedly raided the home of another officer named Emrah Kucukakca, who was not at home but was later arrested and held in prison for nine months.
He was finally released in June after the court acknowledged that none of the evidence was related to him.
"Nowhere was my name found in any of this," Kucukakca had told the court, "so why was I arrested?"
Fear about investigating judicial misdeeds
But for some, any doubt about the authenticity of some documents in the trial have been laid to rest by the words of the suspects themselves.
In one recording of a military seminar from March 2003 that forms the core of the Sledgehammer case, officers are heard discussing detailed plans to seize power in the event of an Islamist uprising. Defendants acknowledge the recordings are genuine, but describe them as a "war game scenario."
Earlier this week, another imprisoned colonel admitted the authenticity of a military memo in which generals authorized the setting up of websites to disseminate propaganda against the AKP, as well as minorities including Kurds, Greeks, and Armenians.
"What's revealed is that [coup-plotting] is their normal, routine work, and in those seminars they really planned a coup without even calling it one," says Etyen Mahcupyan, an adviser at the liberal Turkish Economic and Social Studies Foundation think tank.
Others disagree, but are afraid to investigate further. In March, two respected investigative journalists – Nedim Sener and Ahmet Sik – who had been researching sensitive topics, including judicial malpractice, were arrested for alleged involvement in a terrorist conspiracy.
"It's sad that we now have a media environment in which no one wants to touch this stuff," says Ms. Aydintasbas. "I don't want to touch it anymore, because who knows that I won't be included in the next roundup?"


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|Here she is marking the beginning of the hike
|It was raining when we drove out. The sky cleared up as the day went on.
|We will definitely come back here again.
|One of my favorite parts of the hike? Watching Daddy show his little girl around.
|Makapu'u Lighthouse
|She did it! Walked the whole two miles. AND she wants to do it again!


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Anti-Alistair: Darkspawn Chronicles Is Out
The next big chunk of Dragon Age DLC is now out, and (as John mentioned a couple of weeks back) it's a devious little concept. It's only a module rather than another Awakenings-size mega-chunk, but it's a chance to step inside the festering skin of a Darkspawn hurlock and lay vicious siege to the puny human city of Denerim. The idea is 'your' Dragon Age hero didn't survive the opening fight in the original DA, so it's Darkspawn vs Alistair instead. Won't end well for our boisterous, blonde-haired holy warrior, I suspect. If you complete it, you unlock a new item in the main DA/Awakenings campaign, which will presumably just pop magically into your inventory like so many of the other DLC items. Honestly, why must latter-day RPGs do that? It removes the striving and the triumph from finding or buying cool loot. Especially when the story is "your character was born an orphan and a pauper. Oh, apart from that impossibly priceless high-level Blood Dragon armour he happens to have in his bag."
Yours for $5, anyway. Or '400 Bioware points', if you're into the whole made-up proprietary currency thing.


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May in Christian County, KY
attention to him, he flew over to the highest point
So frolic, so gay, and so green, so green, so green..."
Love the barn/rainbow photo on the right. Hope you didn't have to work on Mother's Day.
I did work both Saturday and Sunday, but it's OK. I had Mother's Day weekend off last year, so it was my turn. I have some fun events scheduled with my kids that are coming up soon.
We recently moved to Clarksville TN and I have enjoyed riding the KY countryside. I found your blog while searching about the amish. Very beautiful country in KY:)
I love your photos!
There is so much beauty in Kentucky. Thanks for sharing your little spot with all of us. :)
Blessings always
CONTENTMENT: Keep your heart free from hate, your mind from worry, live simply, expect little, give much, sing often, pray always, forget self, think of others and their feelings, fill your heart with love, scatter sunshine. These are the tried links in the golden chain of contentment.
(Author unknown)
IT IS STILL BEST to be honest and truthful; to make the most of what we have; to be happy with simple pleasure; and to be cheerful and have courage when things go wrong.
(Laura Ingalls Wilder, 1867-1957)
Thanks for reading.


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Royal welcome home for 11 Light Brigade
Members of the British Army's 11 Light Brigade marched through Westminster recently, in front of HRH the Duchess of Cornwall. The Brigade recently returned from a 6 month tour of Afghanistan, where 64 soldiers were killed in action. The march through Winchester was followed by a service at the Cathedral.
The Altmark Incident
Richard Noyce of the National Museum of the Royal Navy tells us about the Altmark incident, and shows us an artefact from the Museum's collections.
Muse featuring The Edge – Where the Streets Have No Name
I'm not normally a fan of the whole Glastonbury thing – more performers off the stage than there are on it – but this clip is amazing. Even though U2 couldn't headline the Friday as planned, The Edge still turned up and joined Muse to play Where The Streets Have No Name, one of U2's most epic songs.


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|Applicants to this School of Public Health program should apply through SOPHAS, a centralized application service for accredited schools and programs in public health. The application opens in mid-August each year.
The Master's program in Clinical and Translational Research employs an interdisciplinary approach to create connections between disciplines, and encourage creative, innovative approaches to tackle complex medical questions. The goal of clinical and translational research is to extend basic scientific research in the physical, biologic and behavioral sciences into the clinical arena, including studies that will develop and evaluate clinical interventions and will ultimately improve individual and population health. By translating basic research into improved clinical outcomes, clinical and translation research enables researchers to provide new treatments to patients more efficiently and quickly.
Additional Resources: Brown is home to ten active, nationally renowned public health research centers. Collaboration with these centers provides students the opportunity to learn how to conduct quality health research and to participate in effective community service initiatives.
Completion Requirements
Students are required to successfully complete nine courses, attend mandatory seminar sessions throughout the program, and complete a thesis. Coursework done for credit as a non-degree student, such as during the Clinical and Translational Research Summer Institute, may be counted toward the Master's in CTR degree with the approval of the CTR Master's Program Director. In addition to Master's in CTR core course requirements, students will choose two electives, and work with their academic advisor to design an educational plan that reflects their interests and career goals. Students are required to develop an academic portfolio, in which they should explore a topic of interest in clinical and translational research. Full-time students generally take 4.5 courses per year over two years.
The program is open to students with previous doctoral-level training. Basic scientists, medical students and physicians in post-graduate or post-doctoral training programs are eligible to apply to the ScM in clinical and translational research.
Admission Information
Applicants to this School of Public Health program should apply through SOPHAS, a centralized application service for accredited schools and programs in public health. The application opens in mid-August each year.
Admission requirements:
GRE general test is required except for medical school graduates who may substitute the MCAT. GRE subject scores will be considered if submitted. Brown University School of Public Health GRE reporting code: 7765.
Personal statement of understanding of clinical and translational science and commitment to pursuing a career that utilizes the skill set. Statement should explain the relevance of education and/or experience to pursue a career in public health.
GRE General: Required
GRE Subject: Not required
Application deadline: May 1


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(Phoenix, Ariz. – May 25, 2005) The State Grand Jury today issued a felony indictment against Apache County Sheriff Brian Hounshell. He is charged with two counts of misuse of public monies, one count of fraudulent schemes and artifices and one count of theft.
The charges stem from an investigation by the Arizona Attorney General's Office into allegations that Hounshell misappropriated from Apache County more than $8,000 in public monies and equipment for his own personal use or benefit between 2000 and 2004.
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date with jill is another way of saying masturbateing. if you hold up your right hand and outline your fingers you can make it to spell out jill. Its something to tell your friends your doing when your really going just to rub one off.
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'The Minor Adjustment Beauty Salon' by Alexander McCall Smith
Nobody would ever call Alexander McCall Smith's Precious Ramotswe mysteries dark. But the popular and essentially sweet series, which kicked off with "The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency" in 1998, has always dealt with harsh reality. "The Minor Adjustment Beauty Salon" continues down this path, and if this book, the 14th in the series, dwells a bit more on life's losses than those that came before it, that doesn't negate its gentle nature.
Like its predecessors, this mystery, set in Botswana, ostensibly focuses on new cases for detective Ramotswe and her two-person agency to solve. This time out, these include a question about the inheritance of a farm and the defamation of the beauty salon of the title. In reality, as regular readers will expect, the book revolves more around the everyday personal issues of the invariably decent central characters than it does around either of these investigations.
By this point in the series, this is like catching up with old friends. Ramotswe and her husband, J. L. B. Matekoni, and their two foster children are doing well, and the agency's associate detective, Grace Makutsi, and her husband are expecting a first baby. As the book opens, this latest development has raised the question of maternity leave and how the agency will function in Makutsi's absence. In addition, the closeness of the longtime colleagues is threatened when a troublesome relative comes to stay. Still, in general, life is running along the lines of Ramotswe's practice of "Optimistic Accounting," in which blessings are often tallied.
That those blessings have been hard won is no secret to series fans. Before Ramotswe's current marriage, long before the first book's time frame, she was briefly married to an abusive jazz musician whose violence led to the death of their premature baby. Matekoni has in the course of the books suffered from disabling depression, and their foster daughter is wheelchair-bound because of an unspecified illness. These issues and others echo through the series, and they come to prominence several times in the new book.
The arrival of Makutsi's baby is particularly bittersweet for Ramotswe, raising memories of her own lost child. Nor is she unaware of the sadness that may yet come. In one of the many asides that flesh out this quiet book, Ramotswe reveals an awareness that her foster daughter's illness may shorten her life: "She did not like to spell it out, and anyway, the doctors had said that they could not tell."
These specific thoughts are joined by a pervasive melancholy. Ramotswe has often reminisced about her late father, but death seems to be more on her mind these days. When she stops for a rest, for example, she notes: "You did not have to sit for long; even a few minutes was enough to remind you that . . . the years would slip through your fingers without your really noticing it until suddenly they were gone and you were old and before long it would be that moment that comes to everybody."
Despite these grim musings, McCall Smith has not abandoned jollity. The simple style of these books is still peppered with amusing characterizations, as when Ramotswe views a car as having "small, mean-spirited windows," and cake — "a large fruit cake rich in sultanas" — is frequently considered and enjoyed.
Nor has McCall Smith or his "traditionally built" heroine given up trying to set the world right despite the world's seeming indifference. "You had to try to sort things out for others," she decides, "and point them in the direction of the truth."
Forgiveness and generosity, she ultimately concludes, are the answer to most of life's ills. Which may explain the longevity of this series. Precious Ramotswe's adventures, as inconsequential as they may seem, do not so much offer an escape from life's woes as a suggestion for how to make the whole deal more palatable — fragility, fruit cake, and all.
Clea Simon is the author of 13 crime novels. She can be reached at email@example.com.


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Blue Jackets Edge Wild In Shootout 3-2
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — While Columbus Blue Jackets coach Todd Richards lamented his team's play after a big win at Minnesota, Mike Yeo tried to focus on the positives in the Wild's third straight loss.
Both teams need to get their offenses going as the playoff race tightens.
Sergei Bobrovsky stopped 39 shots, Vinny Prospal and Fedor Tyutin scored in regulation, and Mark Letestu and Cam Atkinson scored in a shootout to lift the Blue Jackets over the Wild 3-2 on Saturday.
The Blue Jackets won their third straight and pulled even with Detroit and Dallas for the eighth and final playoff spot in the Western Conference with 45 points.
The Wild dropped their third straight and were left clinging to a two-point lead over the Red Wings, Stars and Blue Jackets with 47 points.
"You aren't going to complain about a win or anything like that, but we've got to be a lot better," Richards said after watching his Blue Jackets spend most of the night in their own zone while Minnesota dictated the pace.
But the Wild couldn't solve Bobrovsky, and the Columbus offense needed only a six-minute stretch in the second period to take the lead.
In the shootout, Bobrovsky stopped Wild stars Zach Parise and Mikko Koivu.
"Our goalie was better than their goalie, by a wide margin," Richards said. "He earned us the two points tonight."
Pierre-Marc Bouchard and Jason Pominville scored for Minnesota, and Niklas Backstrom had 20 saves.
Still, Yeo tried to keep an upbeat tone, lauding his team's resolve.
"The bottom line is that's a big point for us," Yeo said. "When you're down and their goalie is playing like that, to tie it up late, that's a big point."
Pominville's third-period goal made it 2-all after the Wild offense had controlled most of the game. It was a far cry for Columbus from the previous night, when the Blue Jackets snapped St. Louis' six-game winning streak.
"I think they definitely had a little bit more jump than we did tonight," Blue Jackets defenseman Jack Johnson said. "I think we played better last night than we did tonight. Sometimes you got to win games that you shouldn't."
The Wild broke a 137-minute scoring drought late in the first period when Bouchard tipped the puck after Brett Clark sent it toward the net from the left circle.
The puck went off Johnson's skate past Bobrovsky, and Bouchard was credited with his fifth goal of the season to put Minnesota up 1-0 at 15:59.
Prospal tied it nearly four minutes into the second off a pretty backhand pass from Brandon Dubinsky from behind the net.
Two minutes later, Tyutin put Columbus up 2-1 with a slap shot from the left circle at 6:18.
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Smoke pours from Kenya mall as forces 'close in'
All hostages have been evacuated from a Nairobi shopping mall and Kenyan special forces are not encountering any resistance, a government spokesman said late on Monday. Indian shot for failing to answer query on Islam | Shebab militant group: who are they, what they wantworld Updated: Sep 24, 2013 07:32 IST
All hostages are believed to have been evacuated from a Nairobi shopping mall and Kenyan special forces are not encountering any resistance, a government spokesman told AFP late Monday.
He said the three-day-long siege by Islamist gunmen, which has left at least 62 dead and up to 200 wounded, was nearing the end.
"Our special forces are inside the building checking the rooms. Obviously it's a very, very big building," said government spokesman Manoah Esipisu.
"We think that everyone, the hostages, have been evacuated, but we don't want to take any chances," he said. "The special forces are doing their job and yes, I think we are near the end."
"The special forces call this sanitising. It's a very complex and very delicate operation," he said, but said no resistance was being encountered.
"At the moment they have not met any resistance, but of course we are not ruling out the possibility that there are a couple of them hiding in a remote room or corner," he told AFP.
Earlier on Monday, four thunderous explosions rattled Nairobi's upscale mall, part of a battle between Kenyan troops and al Qaeda-linked terrorists. Top Kenyan officials said two hostage takers, part of "a multinational collection from all over the world," had been killed.
Kenya's interior minister said the evacuation of hostages went "very, very well".
Kenya chief of defense forces Gen Julius Karangi had said fighters from an array of nations participated in the attack claimed by al Shabab, a Somali group allied with al Qaeda.
"We have an idea who these people are and they are clearly a multinational collection from all over the world," he said.
Timeline: al Shabab attacks in Somalia, other nations
Earlier, Kenya's interior minister Joseph Ole Lenku also revised the death toll to 62, seven lower than previously reported.
Kenyan officials had said 59 people have died since the siege on Westgate Mall began on Saturday, while the Red Cross had put the toll at 68, then in a tweet lowered it to 62, saying some bodies had been counted twice.
Death Toll is 62, figures we posted earlier was as a result of double counted bodies moved from morgue to morgue ^PO— Kenya Red Cross (@KenyaRedCross) September 23, 2013
Dark plumes of smoke rose from the mall for more than an hour after four large explosions rocked the upscale Westlands neighborhood.
A person with knowledge of the rescue operation earlier told The Associated Press that the smoke was rising up and out of a large skylight inside the mall's main department and grocery store, Nakumatt, where goods like mattresses may have been lit on fire.
General Karangi said Kenyan forces were in charge of all floors inside the mall, though terrorists could still be hiding inside.
Earlier witness reports had indicated that a woman was among the estimated 10 to 15 attackers. Lenku said that instead some male attackers had dressed up like women.
Read: Security footage shows how gunmen stormed Nairobi mall: report
The four explosions were followed by volleys of gunfire, then a thick, dark column of smoke that burned for roughly 90 minutes. Military and police helicopters and one plane circled over the Nairobi mall, giving the upscale neighborhood the feel of a war zone.
On Sunday Kenyan officials announced that "most" hostages had been rescued. But no numbers were given. Kenyan officials have never said how many hostages they thought the attackers had, but have said preserving the hostages' lives was a top priority, greatly complicating the final fight against the attackers.
From neighboring Somalia, spokesman Sheik Ali Mohamud Rage for al Shabab - the militant group that claimed responsibility for the attack - said in an audio file posted on a website that the hostage takers had been ordered to "take punitive action against the hostages" if force was used to try to rescue them.
At the Oshwal Centre next to the mall, the Red Cross was using a squat concrete structure that houses a Hindu temple as a triage center. Medical workers attended to at least two wounded Kenyan soldiers there on Monday.
Al- Shabab said on a Twitter feed, an account that unlike some others appears to be genuine, that the attackers had lots of ammunition. The feed said that Kenya's government would be responsible for any loss of hostages' lives.
Read: Shabab Twitter account suspended after attack claims
A large military assault began on the mall shortly before sundown on Sunday, with one helicopter skimming very close to the roof of the shopping complex as a loud explosion rang out, far larger than any previous grenade blast or gunfire volley. Officials said the siege would soon end and said "most" hostages had been rescued and that officials controlled "most" of the mall. But on Monday the standoff remained.
As the crisis surpassed the 48-hour mark, video taken by someone inside the mall's main department store when the assault began emerged. The video showed frightened and unsure shoppers crouching as long and loud volleys of gunfire could be heard.
Read: Victims of the Kenya mall attack
The al Shabab extremists stormed the mall on Saturday from two sides, throwing grenades and firing on civilians.
Kenyan authorities said they would do their utmost to save hostages' lives, but no officials could say precisely how many people were being held captive.
Kenya's Red Cross said in a statement, citing police, that 49 people had been reported missing. Officials did not make an explicit link but that number could give an indication of the number of people held captive.
Al Shabab said the attack, targeting non-Muslims, was in retribution for Kenyan forces' 2011 push into neighboring Somalia.
"If you want Kenya in peace, it will not happen as long as your boys are in our lands," Rage said.
The group also issued a string of statements via Twitter, one of them claiming that Muslims in the centre had been "escorted out by the Mujahideen before beginning the attack".
Read: UN leader Ban Ki-moon condemns Kenya mall attack
Early developments on Monday
As the stand-off entered its third day, sustained bursts of rapid gunfire broke out at dawn, and soldiers posted around the complex ducked for cover. This was followed by three big explosions and more sporadic weapons fire, AFP correspondents at the scene said.
The Kenyan army said it had secured most of the upmarket, part Israeli-owned complex, while a security source said a final assault was underway against the al Qaeda-linked Somali Shabab rebels, believed to be pinned down in a part of the mall but using hostages as human shields.
"Our concern is to rescue all hostages alive and that is why the operation is delicate," the Kenya Defence Forces said in a statement overnight, adding that it was trying to bring a "speedy conclusion" to the drama.
It did not say how many people were being held by the dozen-or-so attackers, who marched into the sprawling four-storey complex at midday Saturday, spraying shoppers with machine gun fire and tossing grenades.
In an address to the nation on Sunday, Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta had vowed the attackers will "not get away with their despicable and beastly acts."
A Kenyan security source and a Western intelligence official added Israeli forces were involved in the operation, along with British and US agents.
Read: US promises support to Kenya to bring attackers to justice
Indians killed, injured
Two Indians, including an 8-year-old boy, were among 43 killed and four other Indian nationals injured in the attack by armed terrorists in the mall.
While one of the victims 40-year-old Sridhar Natarajan was working with a pharma firm, the boy Paramshu Jain was the son of a manager of the local Bank of Baroda branch, Syed Akbaruddin, spokesperson in the ministry of external affairs (Government of India) said.
Four Indians, including two women and a girl, were injured in the attack and are receiving medical treatment, the spokesperson said.
India's mission in Nairboi is in touch with the families of the deceased, the spokesperson said.
Read: PM Manmohan Singh condemns Nairobi terror attack
Syed Akbaruddin tweeted: "Update on Nairobi attack: 4 Indians including 2 women, male adult and girl injured. Two others - employee of pharma firm and a boy sadly died."
@AkbarMEA tweeted: "Indians injured in Nairobi attack: Smt Manjula Sridhar; Smt Mukta Jain; Kumari Poorvi Jain; Shri Natarajan Ramachandran."
Update on Nairobi attack :4 Indians incl 2 women, male adult & girl injured. 2 others - employee of pharma firm & boy sadly died.— Syed Akbaruddin (@AkbarMEA) September 22, 2013
"#India's Mission in Nairobi in touch with families of - Sridhar Natarajan 40 years and Paramshu Jain, 8 years who tragically died in attack," he also tweeted.
Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi also on Sunday expressed his condolences for the people who died in the 'terrorist' attack in Kenya and said that "the time has come to take steps to wipe out terrorism from the world."
Exclusive: Indian living 2 minutes away from Westgate Mall speaks to HT
Bodies still in mall unaccounted for
Terrified witnesses told of scenes of horror and panic as the masked gunmen stormed in. Officials estimated some 200 people have been wounded, and the Red Cross made a nationwide appeal for blood donors.
Police sources who had entered the building on Sunday evening said they feared that death toll "could be much, much higher... judging from the bodies sighted inside."
A number of witnesses have been quoted as saying that the gunmen were trying to weed out non-Muslims for execution by interrogating people on their faith or asking them to say the Shahada, or Islamic creed.
The dead included three Britons, two French women, two Canadians including a diplomat, a Chinese woman, two Indians, a South Korean, a South African and a Dutch woman, according to their governments. The UK Foreign Office said on Monday it had confirmed the deaths of four British nationals. Also killed was Ghanaian poet and former UN envoy Kofi Awoonor, 78, while his son was injured.
'People sprayed with bullets'
In the hours after the attack began, shocked people of all ages and races could be seen running from the mall, some clutching babies, while others crawled along walls to avoid stray bullets.
Mall worker Zipporah Wanjiru, who emerged from the ordeal alive but in a state of shock, said she hid under a table with five other colleagues.
"They were shooting indiscriminately, it was like a movie seeing people sprayed with bullets like that," she said, bursting into tears.
Security camera footage seen by Kenya's The Standard newspaper shows gunmen raking toilet cubicles with a barrage of gunfire, apparently after learning that several people were hidden inside.
Fighters later holed up in a cinema on the top floor and a security room of a supermarket, it added.
Cafe waiter Titus Alede, who risked his life and leapt from the first floor of the mall, said it was a "miracle from God" that he managed to escape the approaching gunmen.
"I remember them saying 'you killed our people in Somalia, it is our time to pay you back'," he said.
Other survivors said they played dead to avoid being killed.
Read: Teenager 'played dead' to survive attack
Kenyan president says nephew killed
Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta said on Sunday a nephew and his fiancee were among the 68 people confirmed killed in an ongoing siege in an upmarket shopping mall by Somali militants.
"I feel the pain of every life we have lost, and share your grief at our nation's loss," Kenyatta said, calling his killed relatives "young, lovely people I personally knew and loved."
"They shall not get away with their despicable and beastly acts," Kenyatta said in an emotional speech to the nation.
"We will punish the masterminds swiftly and indeed very painfully."
Al Shabab behind attack
Al Shabab, on its Twitter feed, said that it has many times warned Kenya's government that failure to remove its forces from Somalia "would have severe consequences." The group claimed that its gunmen had killed 100 people, but its assertions are often exaggerated.
"The attack at #WestgateMall is just a very tiny fraction of what Muslims in Somalia experience at the hands of Kenyan invaders," al-Shabab said.
Another tweet said: "For long we have waged war against the Kenyans in our land, now it's time to shift the battleground and take the war to their land #Westgate."
Al Shabab's Twitter account was suspended shortly after its claim of responsibility and threats against Kenya. Twitter's terms of service forbids making threats.
Al Shabab threatened in late 2011 to unleash a large-scale attack in Nairobi. Kenya has seen a regular spate of grenade attacks since then but never such a large terrorist assault.
The gunmen told hostages that non-Muslims would be targeted, said Elijah Kamau, who was at the mall at the time of the midday attack.
"The gunmen told Muslims to stand up and leave. They were safe, and non-Muslims would be targeted," he said.
Jay Patel, who sought cover on an upper floor in the mall when shooting began, said that when he looked out of a window onto the upper parking deck of the mall he saw the gunmen with a group of people. Patel said that as the attackers were talking, some of the people stood up and left and the others were shot.
The attack was carried out by terrorists, said police chief Benson Kibue. He did not specify a group. He said it was likely that no more than 10 attackers were involved.
Somalia's president - the leader of a neighboring country familiar with terrorist attacks - said his nation knows "only too well the human costs of violence like this" as he extended prayers to those in Kenya.
"These heartless acts against defenseless civilians, including innocent children, are beyond the pale and cannot be tolerated. We stand shoulder to shoulder with Kenya in its time of grief for these lives lost and the many injured," President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud said.
The gunmen carried AK-47s and wore vests with hand grenades on them, said Manish Turohit, 18, who hid in a parking garage for two hours.
"They just came in and threw a grenade. We were running and they opened fire. They were shouting and firing," he said after marching out of the mall in a line of 15 people who all held their hands in the air.
Rumours swirled that non-Somalis were among the fighters, but the Shabab said they had released no information about the identies of any of the insurgents.
The build up
Israeli interests in Kenya have come under attack before, and the Westgate mall has long been seen as a potential target.
World powers condemned the attack, which is the worst in Nairobi since an al Qaeda bombing at the US embassy killed more than 200 people in 1998.
US President Barack Obama called Kenyatta offering support "to bring the perpetrators of the attack to justice", while UN chief Ban Ki-moon said the violence was "totally reprehensible".
(With AFP and AP and Reuters inputs)
First Published: Sep 23, 2013 08:06 IST


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California Department of Transportation
Date: March 5, 2013
District: 8 – San Bernardino
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SAN BERNADINO - The California Transportation Commission today allocated $333 million in new funding to 91 projects that will improve the state's transportation system and strengthen California's economic recovery.
"Investing in our transportation infrastructure creates a better future for all Californians," said Caltrans Director Malcolm Dougherty.
The allocations include $233 million from Proposition 1B, a transportation bond approved by voters in 2006. In total, nearly $15 billion in Proposition 1B funds have been distributed statewide.
The remaining allocations ($100 million) came from assorted transportation accounts funded by state and federal dollars.
Notable local projects that received funding allocations are:
- San Bernardino Associated Governments(Sanbag)/County of San Bernardino – Construct a grade separation on Glen Helen Parkway at Union Pacific Railroad (UPRR) and Burlington Northern Santa Fe (BNSF) lines ($7.17 million).
- San Bernardino Associated Governments(Sanbag)/City of San Bernardino – Construct a grade separation at Palm Avenue near the City of San Bernardino for Burlington Northern Santa Fe (BNSF) and Union Pacific Railroad (UPRR)
($4.56 million).
- Riverside County Transportation Commission (RCTC)/City of Corona – Construct a 4-lane roadway including landscaped medians, new traffic signals and landscaping from 600 feet west of Skyline Drive to Green River Road ($7 million).
- San Bernardino Associated Governments(Sanbag)/Community of Sugarloaf
(Prop 1B) – On Maple Lane from 0.27 mile north of Baldwin Road to State Route 38, drainage improvements to protect the roadway and existing utilities. Outcome/Output: This project will allow Maple Lane to continue as an emergency evacuation route for the mountain communities of Sugarloaf and Moonridge ($1.3 million).
- San Bernardino Associated Governments(Sanbag)/Town of Yucca Valley
(Prop 1B) – On State Route 62 between Apache Trail and Palm Avenue, construct traffic and pedestrian safety improvements. Outcome/Output: Install traffic signal at Church Street, construct raised landscaped medians at three locations and construct ADA compliant ramps ($773,000).
- San Bernardino Associated Governments(Sanbag)/City of Highland (Prop 1B) – On State Route 210 at Greenspot Road and on Greenspot Road from State Route 210 to Boulder Avenue, widen ramps on northbound State Route 210 and widen Greenspot Road from 4 lanes to 6 lanes. Outcome/Output: Modify existing on-off ramps and widen Greenspot Road within the project limits ($577,000).
- Riverside County Transportation Commission (RCTC) (Prop 1B) – On State Route 91, construct one mixed flow lane in each direction from State Route 241 to Pierce Street, collector distributor system from Lincoln Avenue to Interstate 15, one new HOT lane/convert existing HOV lane from County Line (Design/Build Project). Outcome/Output: Construct one mixed-flow lane, construct/convert one HOT lane and construct other elements of the collector system ($39.1 million).
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My gripe has nothing to do with choosing where I will attend.If you are going to go through the motions of creating a quantifiable evaluative system, why not trust it and rank the schools accordingly?The fact that they are tied in the 8-9-10 slot has nothing to do with them all being great schools (which they are). It has to do with placing at least three PUBLIC schools in the top 10!
I prefer a system that eliminates the tie. Breaking a really close tie may be MORE arbitrary, but if there is a justification, it's not meaningless. Give me the number along with the ranking. They're not all 78's. One is a 77.9, one is a 78.2, etc.The reason they won't take us out to the next decimal place is that the Dean of 77.6 wants his "top public" tagline.If I'm going to attend UPenn's 79 over UVA's 78, maybe I would attend Michigan's 78.4 over Boalt's 77.6.