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Daily Lives of Ancient Egyptians Translated in New Dictionary
A 37-year project to compile a dictionary of an ancient Egyptian script used for daily communication has been completed, offering an unprecedented look at the words of ordinary ancient Egyptians.
The Chicago Demotic Dictionary, so named because it was created by University of Chicago researchers, translates Demotic Egyptian, the tongue of common Egyptians from about 500 B.C. to A.D. 500.
Demotic was used in everyday Egyptian documents and letters, said Janet Johnson, a University of Chicago Egyptologist. The researchers compiled the words in the dictionary from Demotic on stone carvings, papyrus and broken fragments of pottery.
"Personal documents (letters, tax receipts, accounts, legal texts, etc.), administrative documents, and literary, scientific and religious texts were all written in Demotic and provide a wealth of information about the Egyptian-speaking population in Egypt," Johnson told LiveScience in an email.
The language was a prominent one during Greek and Roman occupation of Egypt in this period. Along with hieroglyphs and Greek, Demotic is one of the three languages on the famous Rosetta Stone, which helped early Egyptologists first decipher the formal hieroglyphic script.
The hardest parts about compiling a Demotic-to-English dictionary included reading the script itself, which is derived from picturelike hieroglyphs but is in cursive, Johnson said. As in English, Demotic words can also have multiple meanings, so the researchers had to differentiate between primary and secondary definitions.
"One of the major challenges has been that, through time, we have decided to include more and more information, meaning that the project has taken much longer than originally anticipated," Johnson said.
The dictionary is available online. The idea, Johnson said, is that scholars can use the dictionary to translate and publish unpublished Demotic texts, as well as to do work on contemporary languages.
"The dictionary will be very useful, as there are more unpublished documents in Demotic than any other phase of ancient Egypt," James Allen, a Brown University Egyptologist, said in a statement.
Demotic survives today in a few English words, including "adobe," the Demotic word for brick, which was picked up by Arabic speakers and later became part of the Spanish language. The word "ebony" also has Demotic roots.
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Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor (1578-1637)
Ferdinand II, Archduke of Styria (Inner Austria) 1590-1637, King of Bohemia 1617-1619 and 1620-1637, King of Hungary 1618-1625, and Holy Roman Emperor 1619-1637, was born 9 July 1578 in Graz, Austria, the son of Charles II (1540-1590), Archduke of Austria and Maria Anna of Bavaria (1551-1608), and grandson of Emperor Ferdinand I. Ferdinand succeeded his cousin Matthias as Holy Roman Emperor in 1619 and reigned during the first part of the Thirty Years' War. It is his sad reputation to have almost completely destroyed Protestantism (Lutheranism) in Austria. He died 15 February 1637 and was succeeded by his son Ferdinand III.
Educated by the Jesuits of Ingolstadt, Ferdinand soon became the very symbol of the inexorable Counter-Reformation. Prior to his becoming emperor, he had already begun this trend as ruler of "Inner-Austria" (i.e., Styria, Carinthia, Carniola), with mandates of 1598 ff. With the tremendous victory of the Imperial army over the Protestants under King Friedrich I of Bohemia at the Weissenberg (outside Prague) on 8 November 1620, the fate of all non-Catholics in the Hapsburg realm was sealed. While up to this point the "Kingdom of Bohemia" (part of that realm) still could enjoy a certain (though restricted) liberty of religion, this old privilege was now wiped out altogether, and no opposition by the Protestant nobility was any longer even remotely possible. Thousands of Lutheran nobles, city people, and peasants immigrated to other parts of Germany, thus seriously injuring the economy of Bohemia and Moravia.
In Moravia, the erstwhile refuge of the Hutterites and other sectarian groups, the activities of Cardinal Franz von Dietrichstein had made it harder and harder for the Brethren to carry on, and the number of Bruderhofs was reduced every year after the turn of the century (1600). Only a shift to nearby Slovakia could save the remnants of the Brethren. But now the imperial edicts of 8 and 17 September 1622 made even a precarious foothold in Moravia impossible. All Hutterites without exception were expelled; it was the end of a period of 90 years of sojourn in this country. All their property was lost (valued at more than 300,000 florins), and no Protestant lord could extend any help. (For bibliography see Ferdinand I.)
|Grete Mecenseffy
|Richard D. Thiessen
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Mecenseffy, Grete and Richard D. Thiessen. (October 2007). Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor (1578-1637). Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. Retrieved 28 September 2023, from https://gameo.org/index.php?title=Ferdinand_II,_Holy_Roman_Emperor_(1578-1637)&oldid=140959.
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MADISON, Wis. – Wisconsin's Keaton Nankivil has impressive shooting range for a big man.
And that's a good thing, because slam dunks aren't exactly his specialty.
The 6-foot-8 senior forward nailed three 3-pointers in the second half of No. 20 Wisconsin's 76-66 victory over No. 16 Illinois on Saturday. And while Nankivil is emerging as a steady No. 3 scoring option to complement Jon Leuer and Jordan Taylor, it might be a while before he stops hearing about the slam dunk he missed in spectacular fashion down the stretch.
Badgers coach Bo Ryan noted that it wasn't the first time Nankivil has had a potential slam dunk bounce out of the basket this season.
"I'm hoping he doesn't do it three times," Ryan said.
Nankivil's missed dunk with 4:27 left was just one aesthetically displeasing aspect of a game that was hard-fought and physical but not exactly pretty.
Leuer scored 26 points and hit a critical 3-pointer down the stretch and Taylor added 22 for the Badgers (13-4, 3-2 Big Ten), who rebounded from an overtime loss at Michigan State.
Demetri McCamey scored 23 — going 17 for 21 from the free throw line — for the Illini (13-5, 3-2), who have lost two straight on the road after beginning conference play 3-0.
Taylor was 16 for 18 from the free throw line for the Badgers in a game that was marred by frequent foul calls.
Asked if his team had trouble getting into a rhythm because of all the fouls, Ryan joked that if the game was a dance, they would have called it off. Then he tried to one-up himself in the one-liner department.
"If that was the Gong Show, they would have hooked us all," Ryan said.
Ryan then felt compelled to explain to younger members of his media audience that the Gong Show was an early version of reality television, saying it was kind of like American Idol.
"Google it," Ryan said.
But aside from a few displays of disgust during the game, Ryan didn't fault the officials.
"How would you like to have to officiate that?" Ryan said.
Illinois came into Saturday's game as one of the nation's top shooting teams, especially from 3-point range.
But coming off a lukewarm shooting night in a loss at Penn State, Illinois shot a season-low 30.2 percent from the field Saturday.
"When people take things away, now you've got to be a little more patient," Illinois coach Bruce Weber said.
McCamey said he expects the Illini to respond well against Michigan State at home Tuesday.
"We had a tough week here on the road, so now we've got to regroup and come home and get ready for Michigan state and win home games," McCamey said. "As long as you win your home games and try to steal some on the road, you'll be in good shape."
Illinois guard D.J. Richardson continued to struggle, shooting 0 for 4 from the field Saturday. Richardson also was 0 for 4 in the loss at Penn State.
"D.J., really, he's lost a little confidence," Weber said. "Struggled, really, on both ends of the court. I think he's let his offense affect it."
Illinois also played without highly regarded freshman Jereme Richmond, whom Weber said did not play because of "personal issues" that caused him to miss practice. Weber expects him back for Tuesday night.
Brandon Paul added 15 for the Illini.
Weber said Leuer was the difference.
"He was the key to the game," Weber said. "Every time they needed a basket, they were able to go to him, and he was able to respond."
Wisconsin evened the season series with the Illini, who beat the Badgers 69-61 on Jan. 2.
Leading by 2 at halftime, Wisconsin took control of the game with a 10-0 run to begin the second half.
Nankivil hit a pair of early 3-pointers, helping the Badgers recover from their ugly 1-for-12 shooting performance from 3-point range in the first half.
McCamey's ability to drive and draw fouls kept Illinois in the game, and Wisconsin's lead didn't truly seem safe until Leuer nailed a 3-pointer with 5:10 left.
Nankivil scored 14 points, but that's not what most people will remember.
He found himself with a wide-open path to the basket and drove the lane — something Ryan wants him to do more frequently — but somehow his forceful attempt at a slam dunk rattled off the rim for a miss with less than five minutes left in the game.
Taylor said the spectacular miss was "kind of funny" — only because it didn't come back to bite the Badgers.
"I kind of felt bad for him," Taylor said. "This was the second time that happened to him this year. I've never heard of getting yelled at for dunking the ball too hard. That's just bad luck. He knows he's got to put it through, that's just one of those things."


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Theater In Dialogue
The Personal Historical: ROGER GUENVEUR SMITH
Roger Guenveur Smith is a man who knows his history. But the writer-performer doesn't just know it, he lets it under his skin, manipulates it, re-imagines it, and embodies it in shows that are as much about the here-and-now as they are about where we came from. Whether he's taking on Frederick Douglass or Huey P. Newton—conjuring a Creole social club during Mardi Gras, or the Watts Towers in his native Los Angeles—Smith is a showman before a historian (at Yale, he left his graduate studies in History for the Drama School), often interweaving his riveting, electric solo performances with music by frequent collaborator Marc Anthony Thompson of Chocolate Genius.
Now, Smith is in the throws of creation with Juan and John, playing through December 20 in the Public Theater's LAB Series, for which all tickets are $10. The show's named for baseball's most famous fight: when Dominican pitcher Juan Marichal of the San Francisco Giants used his bat to club Los Angeles Dodger John Roseboro on the side of the head during a 1965 battle for the pennant at Candlestick Park. As Smith and I ride the elevator to the Public's LuEsther Hall (where he performed his Obie-winning A Huey P. Newton Story in 1997), he takes a vintage Juan Marichal baseball card out of his wallet. "That's where this show began," he says, handing me the piece of history. But this time, it's personal. "That's a replacement. The first one, I burned."
Kathryn Walat (Rail): What drew you to the Juan Marichal vs. John Roseboro incident?
Roger Guenveur Smith: I was watching it on television, live. I was 10 years old, and a Dodgers fan, and I was so traumatized by Marichal hitting my hero Johnny Roseboro in the head with a bat that I performed a very rash act of my own [laughs]. I destroyed Mr. Marichal's baseball card in the same way that I had seen my neighborhood being destroyed a couple of weeks previously during the Watts riot.
The great story about Marichal and Roseboro is that after not talking to each other, understandably, for about ten years, they became great friends. Roseboro actually worked in the Dominican Republic as a manager of a team, and when he died in 2002, Juan Marichal was an honorary pallbearer and gave a beautiful eulogy.
Rail: How do you think that happened?
Smith: I think the decency of both men emerged. They were able to transcend baseball as a war experience, and emerge from it as real people, who by all accounts are and were tremendous individuals.
Rail: After your immediate rage, watching that as a boy, how did you make sense of it?
Smith: It was particularly traumatic for me to witness that kind of violence, because John Roseboro was someone that I had known not only as a Dodger, but had also met at a community event, where he had given me an autograph. So that was something that I was trying to make sense of, but couldn't articulate until the year 2009, I suppose.
Rail: Why has it surfaced in your life now?
Smith: Therapeutically, we always go back to crises of childhood to try to understand who we are in the current moment. And this piece is not simply an exercise in nostalgia; none of my pieces could be called that. I'm trying to talk to ancient themes—forgiveness, rage, retribution, redemption—in very personal ways, as I negotiate who I am as a man and a father, who's trying to tell these stories on stage. My own daughter told me—she's 16 now—she doesn't know anything about me unless she sees me on stage.
Rail: How does that make you feel?
Smith: A very therapeutic question [laughs]; it's actually in the play. Well, I think my daughter and I are both negotiating how to reveal to each other how we feel. That's the challenge probably of every parent and child. And with my work, the challenge is, how do I emerge as a person out of these historical characters?
I'm biographically obsessed. I read the Encyclopedia Britannica, for fun, as a child. But unlike other soloists who have a penchant for self-revelation—like Spalding Gray and Charlayne Woodard, who we feel we know as people through their work—my memoir has been couched in history and biography. I think for the first time an iceberg of self-consciousness is emerging with this piece. It's a great challenge for me.
Rail: Do you write the text down as you're creating it?
Smith: The process of creation has been different for each piece. Sometimes it's an adaptation of archival material, such as with Frederick Douglass Now, which is book-ended by pre-scripted original writing. Inside the Creole Mafia, created and performed with Mark Broyard, is a structured improvisation on intra-racial conflict. A Huey P. Newton Story was developed with Marc Anthony Thompson, who describes it as a song cycle in which we sing the same songs every night, but in a different way. It was never scripted until I adapted it into a film, and had to have something for Spike Lee and his crew.
Rail: How similar was the show, from night to night?
Smith: They're similar only in that we sang the same songs. I tell people that I think I've learned more by listening to musicians than I have in any acting workshop. It's the great jazz musicians like Branford Marsalis who can go to the Village Vanguard and play "April in Paris," every night, two sets a night, for five nights, but never play it the same way. I think that as actors, and actor-writers, we're still trying to catch up to what the great musicians have been doing for a long time.
Juan and John is a structured improvisation, and we're developing that structure now. I'm working with an associate director, Patricia McGregor, who is a very talented young woman out of Yale School of Drama, and with Marc Anthony, who is doing not only sound design but also visual design. We've divided the play into innings, since this is baseball themed. So we have nine innings, including the seventh inning stretch.
Rail: What role does Marc Anthony Thompson play in terms of your process?
Smith: We are Juan and John, the two-head Hydra [laughs], and we've been doing it since 1992. We started off right in this building with Christopher Columbus 1992, in which I played Columbus as a lounge entertainer who has political aspirations and runs a travel agency on the side. Marc Anthony did live sound design, and he also played a homeless DJ, who ultimately transforms Columbus into a black man by administering the 56 blows that Rodney King got.
Rail: One thing that really struck me while watching A Huey P. Newton Story was the way the audience responded vocally during the piece—which is rare in the theater—and how you as a performer made that part of the show.
Smith: I've always enjoyed acknowledging the real moment, not only in the theater, but also outside. When we were doing Huey—right here in this room where we are now—Biggie Smalls, Christopher Wallace, was murdered in Los Angeles, and there was a tremendous outpouring of affection, particularly in Brooklyn where he grew up.
I had to somehow incorporate that into the show, because that was what was reverberating in everyone's mind, and it had a lot to do with Huey, because here was a young poet who was cut down in his prime. So I imagined that Huey had perhaps seen Biggie Smalls as a child, on some sort of PBS documentary on the youth of Brooklyn, and they ask him what does he want to be when he grows up, and he says he wants to be either a gangster or a rapper.
With this show, yes, there will be opportunities for the audience to function voyeuristically, but there will also be opportunities for the audience to participate in unexpected ways, as always [laughs]. I enjoy tearing down the wall, and building it back up, and putting a little hole in it, and peeking through it.
Rail: In this show, do you embody the characters of Juan and John, or are you appearing as yourself?
Smith: I have done plenty of different "characters" within the context of my pieces, but that's not really what I'm known for. Anna Deveare Smith of course is brilliant at that. Danny Hoch. Sarah Jones. But I'm really trying to find the multiple voices within the solitary character, to find a refraction of not only these two gentlemen, who as very decent individuals had this one moment of madness.
It's an experiment in the psyche. How do we reconcile the good and the bad? My mother told me: Son, there's always a guardian angel on one shoulder, and a devil on the other one, which way are you going to turn?
It's interesting that the protagonists are named Juan and John; essentially, the same name. And it's a war, yes, on the baseball diamond, and it's a war in Vietnam, and it's a war in the Dominican Republic, it's a war in Watts. But it's also a war being waged within the head. It's the head of John Roseboro, it's the head of Juan Marichal—and it's in Roger Guenveur Smith's head as well. That's the great battle being fought here.
Rail: Anything else you'd like to add?
Smith: Just remind people that it's ten bucks, and that's one of the great bargains in this city. You can hardly see a movie for that. It will hopefully allow a lot of people to come and support this work, and to have an evening in the theater, which is one of civilization's great opportunities for communal experience.
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John and Juan runs through December 20th at the Public Theater, Manhattan. Tix: $10; visit www.publictheater.org or call (212) 967-7555.


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BRANDPOL GROUP in Indonesia
The BRANDPOL system is aimed at maximum automatic process of searching websites and other e-platforms in Indonesia, where the infringed or counterfeit goods are distributed or another violation of the IP right holder is revealed.
The BRANDPOL platform analyzes such websites, detects suspicious content and removes this information, violating the right holder rights (the infringed or counterfeit products, pirate (cracked) software, author text, audio and video content).
BRANDPOL provides you with continuous security of your rights 24/7/365.


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Planning for role-based access control in Lync Server 2013
Topic Last Modified: 2015-01-27
To enable you to delegate administrative tasks while maintaining high standards for security, Lync Server 2013 offers role-based access control (RBAC). With RBAC, administrative privilege is granted by assigning users to administrative roles. Lync Server 2013 includes a rich set of built-in administrative roles, and also enables you to create new roles and specify a custom list of cmdlets for each new role. You can also add scripts of cmdlets to the allowed tasks of both predefined and custom RBAC roles.
Better Server Security and Centralization
With RBAC, access and authorization is based precisely on a user's Lync Server role. This enables use of the security practice of "least privilege," granting administrators and users only the rights that are necessary for their job.
RBAC restrictions work only on administrators working remotely, using either the Lync Server Control Panel or Lync Server Management Shell. A user sitting at a server running Lync Server is not restricted by RBAC. Therefore, physical security of your Lync Server is important to preserve RBAC restrictions.
Roles and Scope
In RBAC, a role is enabled to use a list of cmdlets, designed to be useful for a certain type of administrator or technician. A scope is the set of objects which the cmdlets defined in a role can operate on. The objects that scope affects can be either user accounts (grouped by organizational unit) or servers (grouped by site).
The following table lists the predefined roles in Lync Server, and gives a general overview of the types of tasks each can do. The fourth column shows the similar Microsoft Exchange Server role for each Lync Server role, if there is one.
Predefined Administrative Roles
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Can perform all administrative tasks and modify all settings, including creating roles and assigning users to roles. Can expand a deployment by adding new sites, pools, and services.
Organization Management
Can enable and disable users for Lync Server, move users and assign existing policies to users. Cannot modify policies.
Mail Recipients
Can create, configure, and manage voice-related settings and policies.
Not applicable
Can manage, monitor, and troubleshoot servers and services. Can prevent new connections to servers, stop and start services, and apply software updates. Cannot make changes with global configuration impact.
Server Management
Can view the deployment, including user and server information, in order to monitor deployment health.
View-Only Organization Management
Can view the deployment, including user's properties and policies. Can run specific troubleshooting tasks. Cannot change user properties or policies, server configuration, or services.
Can modify archiving configuration and policies.
Retention Management, Legal Hold
Can manage the configuration of the Response Group application within a site.
Not applicable
Lowest level of rights for Enhanced 9-1-1 (E9-1-1) management, including creating E9-1-1 locations and network identifiers, and associating these with each other. This role is always assigned with a global scope.
Not applicable
Can manage specific response groups.
Not applicable
Can manage the Persistent Chat feature and specific Persistent Chat rooms.
Not applicable
All predefined roles shipped in Lync Server have a global scope. To follow least privilege practices, you should not assign users to roles with global scope if they are going to administer only a limited set of servers or users. To accomplish this, you can create roles which are based on an existing role, but with a more limited scope.
Creating a Scoped Role
When you create a role with limited scope (a scoped role), you specify the scope, along with the existing role it is based on and the Active Directory group to be assigned the role. The Active Directory group you specify must already be created. The following cmdlet is an example of a creating a role which has the privileges of one of the pre-defined administrative roles, but with limited scope. It creates a new role called
Site01 Server Administrators. The role has the abilities of the predefined CsServerAdministrator role, but only for the servers located in the Site01 site. For this cmdlet to work, the Site01 site must already be defined, and a universal security group named
Site01 Server Administrators must already exist.
New-CsAdminRole -Identity "Site01 Server Administrators" -Template CsServerAdministrator -ConfigScopes "site:Site01"
After this cmdlet runs, all users who are members of the
Site01 Server Administrators group will have server administrator privileges for the servers in Site01. Additionally, any users who are later added to this universal security group also gain the privileges of this role. Note that both the role itself, and the universal security group it is assigned to are called
Site01 Server Administrators.
The following example limits user scope instead of server scope. It creates a
Sales Users Administrator role to administer the user accounts in the Sales organizational unit. The SalesUsersAdministrator universal security group must already be created for this cmdlet to work.
New-CsAdminRole -Identity "Sales Users Administrator " -Template CsUserAdministrator -UserScopes "OU:OU=Sales, OU=Lync Tenants, DC=Domain, DC=com"
Creating a New Role
To create a role that has access to a set of cmdlets not in one of the predefined roles, or to a set of scripts or modules, you again start by using one of the predefined roles as a template. Note that scripts and modules that roles are to be able to run must be stored in the following locations:
The Lync module path, which is by default C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Lync Server 2013\Modules\Lync
The user script path, which is by default C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Lync Server 2013\AdminScripts
To make a new role, you use the New-CsAdminRole cmdlet. Before running New-CsAdminRole, you must first create the underlying universal security group that will be associated with this role.
The following cmdlets serve as an example of a creating a new role. They create a new role type called
MyHelpDeskScriptRole. The new role has the abilities of the predefined CsHelpDesk role, and can additionally run the functions in a script named "testscript".
New-CsAdminRole -Identity "MyHelpDeskScriptRole" -Template CsHelpDesk -ScriptModules @{Add="testScript.ps1"}
For this cmdlet to work, you must have first created the universal security group MyHelpDeskScriptRole.
After this cmdlet runs, you can assign users directly to this role (in which case they have global scope), or create a scoped role based on this role, as explained in Creating a Scoped Role, previously in this document.
Assigning Roles to Users
Each Lync Server role is associated with an underlying Active Directory universal security group. Any users who you add to the underlying group gain the abilities of that role.
The examples in the preceding sections both created a new role and assigned an existing universal security group to the new role. To assign an existing role to one or more users, add those users to the group associated with the role. You can add both individual users and universal security groups to these groups.
For example, the CsAdministrator role is automatically granted to the CS Administrators universal security group in Active Directory. This universal security group is created in Active Directory when you deploy Lync Server. To grant a user or group this privilege, you can simply add them to the CS Administrators group.
A user can be given multiple RBAC roles by being added to the underlying Active Directory groups that correspond to each role.
Note that when you create a role, users who are later added to the underlying Active Directory group gain the abilities of that role.
Modifying the Abilities of a Role
You can modify the list of cmdlets and scripts that a role can run. You can modify both the cmdlets and scripts that custom roles can run, but you can modify only the scripts for predefined roles. Each cmdlet you type can add, remove, or replace cmdlets or scripts.
To modify a role, use the Set-CsAdminRole cmdlet. The following cmdlet removes one script from the role.
Set-CsAdminRole -Identity "MyHelpDeskScriptRole" -ScriptModules @{Remove="testScript.ps1"}
Planning for RBAC
For each person who is to be given any kind of administrative rights for your Lync Server deployment, consider exactly which tasks they need to perform, then assign them to roles with the least privilege and scope necessary for their job. If necessary, you can use the Set-CsAdminRole cmdlet to create a new role with only the cmdlets necessary for this person's tasks.
Users who have the CsAdministrator role can create all types of roles, including roles based on CsAdministrator, and assign users to them. The best practice is to assign the CsAdministrator role to a very small set of trusted users.


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"Muscling in on the media" – a Reporters Without Borders look at organized crime
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A total of 141 journalists were killed during the decade of the 2000s for daring to denounce the influence of criminal gangs and their parallel economy. Since the end of the Cold War, the media's leading predators have been mafias, drug cartels and paramilitary groups that have turned to large-scale smuggling. Mafias of the traditional Costa Nostra kind are no longer the only form that this transnational phenomenon takes, one that is deadlier for journalists than the world's remaining oppressive regimes and dictatorships. No continent is spared.
There is more to organized crime than the toll of dead and injured from its operations. It is a complex geopolitical and economic reality that the media have the utmost difficulty in portraying. Financial networks, money-laundering, legal fronts and tax paradises constitute an invisible but ubiquitous parallel world that will not be brought down by the arrest of any godfather or drug lord.
Organized crime not only poses a physical danger to journalists, it also defies the media's investigative ability. At the same time, the media and public relations constitute a strategic objective for criminal groups. Far from wanting to overthrow the social order, they want to infiltrate it and use it.
With the help of its local correspondents and by interviewing journalists and media observers in every continent, Reporters Without Borders has tried to describe the obstacles and challenges that organized crime poses to the media, which are often reduced to covering this complex issue in terms of shootouts and bloodshed, or to just counting the dead in their own ranks.
It is clear from this report that the media are not united against organized crime, their correspondents are isolated and lack resources, and their capacity for investigative reporting is eclipsed by the race for breaking news. Without claiming to offer definitive solutions to this enormous problem, Reporters Without Borders recommends pooling information and sources, and calls for the creation of journalists' associations that can help to guarantee the independence of their media and prevent murky financial interests from influencing editorial choices.
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Dwight Yoakam To Release '3 Pears,' First Studio Album in Seven Years
On September 18th, 2012, Grammy-Award winner Dwight Yoakam will release his first all new studio album in seven years, 3 Pears (Warner Bros. Records). The 12-track release, his 26th, is produced by Yoakam, along with two songs co-produced with Beck; "A Heart Like Mine" and "Missing Heart" (full track listing below). Fans can hear a teaser of the track, "Trying," now on Yoakam's newly launched website www.DwightYoakam.com.
3 Pears exemplifies Yoakam's ability to incorporate multiple, competing influences into a piece of cohesive art. It balances his country core with a fiercely independent embrace of rock, Americana, pop and soul and builds on his trademark edginess with a notable, growing positivity. 3 Pears contains heartfelt love songs, which showcase Yoakam's authentic country vocals while maintaining his unmistakable classic sound.
One of the most respected singer-songwriters in music, Yoakam has sold more than 25 million albums, has 12 gold albums and nine platinum or multi-platinum albums, including the triple platinum "This Time". Five of his albums have topped Billboard's Country Albums chart with another fourteen landing in the Top 10. More than 30 singles have charted, with 22 Top 20 hits, which include "Honky Tonk Man," "Please Please Baby," "Little Ways," "I Sang Dixie," "It Only Hurts When I Cry," "Fast as You" and "Thousand Miles from Nowhere." Yoakam has won two GRAMMY Awards and earned an impressive 21 nominations.
Yoakam will be honored by the Academy of Country Music with the Cliffie Stone Pioneer Award at the 6th Annual ACM Honors event on September 24th in Nashville. The prestigious Award honors individuals who are pioneers in the country music genre. Past recipients include Johnny Cash, Garth Brooks, Dolly Parton, Willie Nelson, Hank Williams, Sr. and Hank Williams, Jr. Yoakam also recently narrated the current exhibit at The Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum; The Bakersfield Sound: Buck Owens, Merle Haggard, and California County, showing through the end of next year. The exhibit explores the roots, heyday and impact of the Bakersfield Sound, the loud, stripped-down and radio-ready music most closely identified with the careers of Country Music Hall of Fame members Buck Owens and Merle Haggard.
Dwight Yoakam's 3 Pears Track Listing:
1. Take Hold Of My Hand
2. Waterfall
3. Dim Lights, Thick Smoke
4. Trying
5. Nothing But Love
6. It's Never Alright
7. A Heart Like Mine
8. Long Way To Go
9. Missing Heart
10. 3 Pears
11. Rock It All Away
12. Long Way To Go (Reprise)


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It's Super Bowl Sunday. A day for football. And, for a good number of fans around the Kitsap peninsula, it's a day of drinking.
Unfortunately, while most enjoy the day peacefully with family and friends, Super Bowl Sunday is also typically a busy day for law enforcement.
The Kitsap Sun will take the opportunity to witness the law enforcement stress levels first hand Sunday night. I'll head out with deputies from the Kitsap County Sheriff's Office starting at 6 p.m.
This page will have live updates via Twitter of what we see along the way. Please feel free to ask me questions through Twitter and I'll respond whenever I can.


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Nomura CEO Quits as Insider Trading Scandal Widens
Nomura Holdings Inc CEO Kenichi Watanabe resigned on Thursday over a widening insider trading scandal and will be replaced by company veteran Koji Nagai, as Japan's top investment bank warned additional cases could come to light.
The management shake-up was confirmed in a news conference at the end of a dramatic day in Tokyo that also saw Watanabe's top lieutenant, Takumi Shibata, resign over leaks of insider information to clients of its securities unit in 2010.
Watanabe is the second global bank boss to resign this month - Barclays (NYSE:BCS) chief Bob Diamond stood down over the Libor rate-rigging scandal on July 3 - as the industry finds itself under huge political and regulatory pressure.
The departure of Watanabe and Shibata, the architects of Nomura's takeover of the Asian and European assets of Lehman Brothers, raises questions about the future of the global expansion strategy they pursued.
Nagai, a three-decade company veteran who took over as head of the Nomura's domestic securities unit in April as part of a management reshuffle, said he would map out a "new global strategy". He said he had no intention of dropping Nomura's ambition of being a global investment bank centered in Asia, but suggested he may pursue further restructuring overseas.
"We will make bold choices of what we will focus on. We will not simply stick to how we did things in the past," he said.
In an update on its own investigation into the scandal, Nomura said there was a "high possibility" that it leaked inside information on additional share offerings to clients beyond the three cases already unearthed by Japanese regulators.
The resignations of Watanabe and Shibata, Nomura's chief operating officer, and their replacement by Nagai and Atsushi Yoshikawa, the head of its U.S. operations, would take effect on August 1, the bank said.
Nomura's shake-up comes a month after the bank cut pay for both of its top executives in response to the third insider trading scandal since Watanabe, who joined the bank in 1975, took the helm four years ago.
"When you look at their history, the number of scandals, this was the last straw," said Jim Sinegal, an analyst with Morningstar research house.
Investors reacted positively, bidding Nomura shares up nearly 6 percent ahead of its fiscal first quarter earnings, which saw the bank report a net profit of 1.89 billion yen ($24.2 million), against a profit of 17.7 billion yen in the same period last year. The consensus of eight analysts was for a profit of 500 million yen. Earnings were hit by slumping mutual fund sales and stock trading commissions.
At the start of a news briefing on the results, CFO Junko Nakagawa apologized for the scandal and promised to bolster internal controls.
"I can't say that there is no impact on our earnings," she said. "It is difficult at this stage to numerically estimate the possible damage. All we want to do is make efforts to regain trust."
Nagai joined Nomura in 1981 after graduating from the law department of Chuo University, gaining experience in both retail and corporate banking as he rose up the ranks.
The resignation of Watanabe, 59, had been expected by many inside Nomura since signs emerged that the bank's leadership was at loggerheads with Japan's financial regulators, which accused Nomura of being slow to respond to an investigation into insider trading practices that had grown rampant in the Tokyo market.
The global investment banking sector has been battered in recent months by falling trading and advisory income as clients pull back from markets due to the euro zone crisis, and by political calls for a change of culture after a string of scandals.
Watanabe and Shibata oversaw the troubled 2008 attempt to absorb assets of failed U.S. bank Lehman Brothers and a key question for their successors will be whether to follow their ambitious plans for worldwide expansion.
That strategy was dealt a blow earlier this year with the abrupt departure of Jasjit Bhattal, Lehman's former Asia Pacific CEO who helped broker the deal.
Global rivals Goldman Sachs <GS.N> and Credit Suisse Group <CSGN.VX> twinned their quarterly reports with additional restructuring, but CFO Nakagawa said Nomura had no plans for additional cost cuts on top of the $1.2 billion savings drive launched last year.
Moody's Investors Service cut its debt rating on Nomura to one notch above speculative or "junk" grade in March, citing concerns about the long-term profitability of its overseas operations.
Nomura booked a pretax loss of 12.1 billion yen in the latest quarter overseas, but that was about half the loss in the previous quarter - suggesting the cost-cutting plan is starting to bear some fruit.
The scandal that brought down the bank's leaders dates back to 2010. Nomura has confirmed it was the source of leaks on planned share offerings by energy firm Inpex <1605.T>, Mizuho Financial Group <8411.T> and Tokyo Electric Power <9501.T>.
In all three cases, employees in its institutional sales department provided the tip-offs.
A panel of attorneys brought in by Nomura to investigate the insider trading cases said it found equity sales staff would regularly pump colleagues for inside information about upcoming stock offerings and then share tips with investors.
Nomura is awaiting possible sanctions from Japan's Financial Services Agency but the scandal has already cost it clients.
Some asset managers have stopped trading with the firm to meet their own compliance rules and it has lost underwriting business, including being left off the government's sale of $6 billion worth of Japan Tobacco <2914.T> shares.
Shares of Nomura have fallen in value by more than a third since the first insider trading case emerged in March. That compares with a 10 percent fall in the Japanese securities sub-index <.IFINS.T> during the same period.
Scandals have forced Nomura to change executive leadership twice since the collapse of Japan's asset bubble. In 1991, then-President Yoshihisa Tabuchi resigned after the brokerage admitted to compensating favored clients for stock losses.
In 1997, President Hideo Sakamaki stepped down after the bank was found to have channeled more than $3 million to a gangster in order to keep him from raising trouble at its 1995 shareholder meeting.
(Additional reporting by Mayumi Negishi and Jochelle Mendonca; Writing by Kevin Krolicki in Tokyo and Alex Richardson in Singapore; Editing by Dean Yates)


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Is it getting hard to breathe in here?
According to a new survey, Indonesian men smoke more than anyone else in the world. Nearly 70% of of all Indonesian males over age 15 light up cigarettes, a slight increase from 67% last year and a big jump from roughly 54% in 1995. Meanwhile, the overall rate of tobacco use among Indonesia's adult population hit 35% — right behind Russia, which has the world's highest overall smoking rate of 39%.
(MORE: Largest-Ever Survey on Global Tobacco Use Issues Dire Warnings)
More than 8,000 people were questioned for the "Global Adult Tobacco Survey (GATS): Indonesia Report 2011", part of a series of surveys taken in 15 countries with heavy tobacco use. Indonesian Health Minister Nafsiah Mboi reportedly said the government was embarrassed to hear of the findings. "We have failed in protecting our people," she said. "We have been defeated by the tobacco industry… we don't want this, we cannot accept this because our job is to protect people from cigarettes."
(PHOTOS: A Profile of Cigarette Warnings Around the World)
Cigarettes are relatively cheap in Indonesia, and tobacco taxes run less than 40%, according to the Associated Press — about average for the region. Thanks to the powerful tobacco lobby, giant outdoor cigarette advertisements — banned in many other countries — still remain prevalent throughout Indonesia. The Southeast Asian nation, also the world's fifth-largest cigarette-producing market, is among a handful of countries that have failed to sign the World Health Organization's 2005 tobacco treaty.
(MORE: Cigarette Smokers Switch to Cigars and Pipes to Save Money)


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As the exhibition by women photographers celebrating International
Women's Day, ends at the Drik Gallery, an Iranian woman explores the
everyday lives of women. Shadi Ghadirian was one of the photographers
featured in the recent Chobi Mela III.
I am a woman and I live in Iran. I am a photographer and this is the
only thing I know how to do. I began work after completing my studies.
Quite by accident, the subjects of my first two series were 'women'.
However, every time I think about a new series, in a way it still
relates to women.
Perhaps the only idea outsiders have of Iranian women is a black chador.
I try to portray all our aspects. And this completely depends on my own
situation. When I did this series of photographs, I had just graduated.
The duality of life at that time provided the motive: one cannot say to
what time the woman belongs; a photograph from two eras; a woman who is
dazed; a woman who is not connected to the objects in her possession.
After marriage it was natural that vacuum cleaners and pots and pans
found their way into my photographs; a woman with a different look; a
woman who, no matter in what part of the world she is living, still has
these kinds of apprehensions. At this moment a woman is consigned to a
daily repetitive routine. For this reason I named the series Like Every
Now I know what I wish to say with my photographs. Many of them have
shown women as second-class citizens or the censorship of women. I wish
to continue speaking about women because I still have a lot to say.
These are my words as a woman and the words of all the other women who
live in Iran, where being a woman imposes its own unique system. The
photographs are not authentic documentation. I take them in my studio,
but they deal with current social issues all the same.
Shadi Ghadirian, Iran
Like Every Day
As the exhibition by women photographers celebrating International


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Justin Bieber wins 4 American Music Awards, including artist of year
Justin Bieber was the night's biggest winner with four awards and the youngest performer ever to capture the entertainer award.
Usher was in tears after losing two awards at the American Music Awards to Justin Bieber, including favorite entertainer of the year, the top AMA honor.
But Usher wasn't upset about his loss — far from it. Instead, he was welling with pride over the success of his young protege, Justin Bieber, who was the night's biggest winner with four awards and the youngest performer ever to capture the entertainer award.
"To see Justin take the award — having received that award before — it was like an out of body experience, you understand?" Usher said backstage. "It was emotional. I don't cry that often, but I did. Hopefully it gives an indication of how hard we worked to build a career that hopefully will flourish and blossom over the years."
Bieber, who is signed to Usher's label, had a perfect debut at the American Music Awards, winning all four awards he was nominated for: entertainer of the year, breakthrough artist of the year, favorite pop/rock male and favorite pop/rock album for "My World 2.0."
Bieber's debut album is one of the year's top-sellers, with almost 2 million sold, and he's got a new CD, "My Worlds Acoustic," out this week at Walmart. His ascension marks a phenomenal rise since first garnering attention via homemade videos on YouTube about three years ago.
"This means the world to me," said Bieber after winning breakthrough artist. "I come from the smallest town in the world, of like 30,000 people; I never thought this was possible."
Bieber bested mentor Usher and Eminem for two of his wins. Eminem, whose "Recovery" was a critical and commercial triumph, was nominated for five awards on the evening, tying him with Lady Antebellum, who also had a breakthrough year with their near triple-platinum album "Need You Now."
Neither were the night's big winners, but they came away from the night with something: Eminem got two awards, while the country trio won favorite country band, duo or group.
"Thanks for inviting us to the party," said Lady A's Charles Kelley after the win.
Other winners included Black Eyed Peas and Taylor Swift. But Sunday's ceremony at the Nokia Theatre in Los Angeles was as much a showcase for acts with new albums as it was a celebration of the biggest achievers of 2010. While some of the night's winners will likely be nominees when next week's Grammys are announced, the American Music Awards aren't so much a predictor of the Grammys is it is a party for the industry's mainstream acts.
Rihanna, with her hair dyed a ruby red, gave the show a colorful and sexy start, performing a medley of songs from her just released album "Loud," including the No. 1 hit "What's My Name," wearing a bustier and what seemed like a scarf wrapped around her backside.
"This is amazing!" said an exuberant Rihanna, who danced onstage later to receive her award — favorite soul/R&B female.
The Black Eyed Peas, winners for favorite pop/rock band, gave a levitating performance, singing from boxes atop the stage during part of their performance of their new single, "The Time." Kid Rock gave a stirring, acoustic performance of "Times Like These," his song lifting up his hometown of Detroit during its recent economic struggles, from his new CD, "Born Free."
A pregnant Pink was among the evening's performance highlights. Unlike recent performances marked by a high-wire act, she stayed close to the ground to perform her latest song, "Raise Your Glass," with a tightly choreographed, high-energy dance number.
Swift, last year's artist of the year, took home favorite country female. Sporting sleek blonde hair instead of her usual cascading curls, Swift said simply: "I just want to thank the fans."
Swift later performed her new single "Back to December," a song she also performed on the CMA Awards earlier in the month, but mixed things up by incorporating some of OneRepublic's "Apologize."
Ke$ha, perhaps trying to make up for the absent Lady Gaga, had the night's most bizarre performance: She performed her heavily Auto-Tuned hit "Take It Off" looking like something out of space, with beams of light for eyes and sporting a motorcycle helmet. She then stripped down to a mirrored outfit, segueing into the next song with a pack of male dancers dressed like her, complete with blond wigs and fishnet stockings.


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Gary J. Gorbsky, Ph.D., a scientist with the Oklahoma Medical Research
Foundation, has found a way to reverse the process of cell division.
The discovery could have important implications for the treatment
of cancer, birth defects and numerous other diseases and disorders.
Gorbsky's findings appear in the April 13 issue of the journal Nature.
"No one has gotten the cell cycle to go backwards before now,"
said Gorbsky, who holds the W.H. and Betty Phelps Chair in
Developmental Biology at OMRF. "This shows that certain events in the
cell cycle that have long been assumed irreversible may, in fact, be
Cell division occurs millions of times each day in the human
body and is essential to life itself. In the lab, Gorbsky and his OMRF
colleagues were able to control the protein responsible for the
division process, interrupt and reverse the event, sending duplicate
chromosomes back to the center of the original cell, an event once
thought impossible.
"Our studies indicate that the factors pointing cells toward
division can be turned and even reversed," Gorbsky said. "If we wait
too long, however, it doesn't work, so we know that there are multiple
regulators in the cell division cycle. Now we will begin to study the
triggers that set these events in motion."
The findings may prove important to controlling the development
and metastasis of certain cancers. It also holds promise for the
prevention and treatment of birth defects and a wide variety of other
"Dr. Gorbsky's results provide elegant proof that the cell
cycle must be precisely controlled," said Dr. Rodger McEver, OMRF vice
president of research. "Now he and his lab can work toward developing
innovative methods to probe and better understand the complex process
of cell division."
Gorbsky heads the Molecular, Cell and Developmental Biology
Research Program at OMRF and holds both an M.A. and a Ph.D. in biology
from Princeton University. He is also adjunct professor of Cell Biology
at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center and a member of
the OU Cancer Institute. His research focuses on mitosis and
cytokinesis, the processes involved in cell division, and he has earned
international recognition for his work in the area of chromosomal
movement and cell cycle control.
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Tuesday, August 23, 2005
Wishing for double ovens…
Dinner tonight was interesting.Bowties with Broccoli Pesto(Culinary Cafe) was on tap. I have enjoyed playing with pesto but this was somewhat different as you blended in 1 lb(!) of crisp-tender broccoli into the mix of parmesan, garlic and olive oil. An added bit of flavor came from a little toasted sesame oil. I really didn't know if this was going to work as I was putting it together, as it seemed like a LOT of pesto for 4 servings. The intense broccoli flavor goes perfect with the al dente bowties. This mix suprised me as I thought it might be a tad overpowering but I think it came out much better than I expected. I did thin out the pesto with a little pasta water. Would make again and also think it might be good to bring for a picnic.
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- Anonymous8/23/2005 11:18:00 PM
Oooh! Broccoli Pesto sounds excellent. I will definitely be trying this in the future. Thank you for the idea!ReplyDelete
The muffins look delicous as did yesterday's orange bran version.ReplyDelete
Funny coincident, tonight we had penne with a variety of mushrooms and a basil pesto sauce. I'll be posting the recipe tomorrow.
Your pictures look so yummy!ReplyDelete
This all sounds great. The broccoli pesto sounds like a good way to fit vegies in for those low on the greens sort of days. I haven't been to Culinary Cafe before and headed over to check out the recipe.ReplyDelete
I have a trusted co-worker who keeps on raving about the combination of cashews with broccoli. He had them together in a sushi roll. I wonder how a pesto would serve those flavors...
Chinese restaurants often offer a cashew/broc vegetarian option. It's out there...ReplyDelete
I desperately want a second oven. Holidays are murder on me, trying to time so many different things to come out at the same time.
- Anonymous8/24/2005 04:26:00 AM
The pictures look fantastic! Also, I never thought you could use broccoli for pesto. The flavor must've been wonderfully nutty, I imagine.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous8/24/2005 06:23:00 AM
Hi Joe - your muffins and pesto both look yummy! (I love adding potatoes when I make pesto pasta...) I think you should get double (or triple) ovens, I've got double one and it's really handy (one for cake, one for chicken at the same time ;)ReplyDelete
another yummy looking post. I used kraft sun-dried tomato dressing. Normally, when im not strapped for time, I would make a marinade of evoo, lemon, rosemary and garlic. I have to drive an hour to and from work and I didnt have a lot of time. They were really good though.ReplyDelete
Can you share the recipe for the Banana Muffins? They look great and I have some bananas to use up...ReplyDelete
Everything looks great. I love broccoli so I will have to try that pesto, what a great idea.ReplyDelete
It all looks so good! I can't wait to try the pesto sauce!ReplyDelete
- Anonymous8/24/2005 12:10:00 PM
I love broccoli and never knew you could make it into pesto...what a wonderful idea! Thanks! :-) And the muffins look great!ReplyDelete
- Anonymous8/24/2005 12:11:00 PM
Hmmm, blogger tagged me as anon: I love broccoli and never knew you could make it into pesto...what a wonderful idea! Thanks! :-) And the muffins look great!ReplyDelete
I see your second oven and raise you an outdoor kitchen built for serious work (canning) not just lightweight entertaining. We moved last year and I lost my pantry; the kitchen is MUCH better, but I miss the ability to close the door on the disaster.ReplyDelete
Oh, my. I just made a batch of the Banana-Walnut muffins. The scent was so persuasive, I ended up having one for dessert. Really a great recipe. Thanks.ReplyDelete
S'kat - I'm so glad to hear you liked them!ReplyDelete
Mmm... all of your recent muffin recipes sound fantastic! I'm always looking for new ones.ReplyDelete
Have you tried using a disher (an ice cream scoop with a sweeper bar) to divide your muffin batter into your tins? I can't imagine doing it any other way! =)


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Tuesday, November 18, 2014
Sad Stewart
I trid to explain to them that it's for their own good, but those faces tell me they don't understand.
HOW CAN YOU DO THIS TO US? Baths make us very sad!
I'm sorry, Stewart, but it had to be done. Hopefully we'll never have to subject you to that again. But now that it's over, doesn't it feel good to be so clean?
And before I go this morning, I wanted to say thanks to all who pre-odered their cards sets yesterday. They were flying out the door! We've sold 2/3 of the sets, and if we sell out soon, I'll have time to order more. SO, if you're thinking about picking up a set, it's so helpful if you do it soon!
I offer quantity discounts, so if you're interested in ordering six sets or more, shoot me an email, and we'll work out a deal.
To check out the cards and other new IBKC products, please pop over to our shop. Thanks!
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Oh no that face! Poor baby!ReplyDelete
Oh, poor little Stewart! Your human's right though: it has to be done, she'll get it over with ASAP, and I'm sure there's some post-bath snuggles and grooming on the way.ReplyDelete
- TeughcatsNovember 18, 2014 at 8:36 AM
"You haz betwayed my tiny twust."ReplyDelete
So adorable even when wet and unhappy though!
Looks like they got in a few scratches on your hand.Replies
I almost snorted coffee through my nose when I read your comment! Poor Widdle Stewart! Those eyes! GAH!!!Delete
You took the thought right out of my head, Teughcats. She haz betwayed tiny twusts. Mean Laurie, subjecting itty bitties to such a horrible torture! Will they ever fully recover from such a traumatic trauma?Delete
Oh the indignity of this! And on CAMERA! Sorry, Stewart, but no one likes poo on one's shoes.ReplyDelete
Ordered my cards, can't wait!
Its only when you wash a kitty that you discover most of them is floooof and they are tiny little things! Jo xReplyDelete
- JasonInIllinoisNovember 18, 2014 at 8:47 AM
Don't worry little one, once you get dried off and groomed you'll look and feel much better.ReplyDelete
Highly indignant kitten!ReplyDelete
Bean baths are so much better than water... Hang in there, Lumpkins! And I bet you do feel better being clean.ReplyDelete
Adorably insulted expression....ReplyDelete
As children everywhere have been told "It is for your own good"
When I had to bathe Zoubi once (note I said ONCE) she acted like I had set her on fire. The screaming. I couldn't bathe her fast enough! Of course, India thought of it as a bizarre time to bond and lick my hand. There's no telling how a cat will respond. I guess Stewart was pretty surprised at that point. He is so adorable. And all that fur ought to floof up really well now. I can hardly wait for the after pictures!ReplyDelete
I can just picture that little bottom lip trembling.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousNovember 18, 2014 at 11:59 AM
Such a darling boy!ReplyDelete
Hugs for you Stewie.
Why My Cat Is Sad: My cat is sad because he has been forcibly baptized.ReplyDeleteReplies
I love that Twitter feed! "Forcibly baptized", indeed.Delete
Awww, precious little Stewart! I am sure you got post-bath snuggles, though and so did your sisters!ReplyDelete
I also snorted out loud when I saw the adorable picture of little Stewart!ReplyDelete
Many years ago, I made a deal with Sammy and Coco that if they kept themselves clean, then no baths. I made the same deal with Buddy and Tiger. Unfortunately for Tiger, he has long pantaloons which sometime get a little dirty from the litter box. So, sadly for him, he has to get 1/2 baths. Not a happy cat!
Buddy and Tiger's mom
I love him!ReplyDelete


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Costs Of Irene Add Up As FEMA Runs Out Of Cash
From washed-away roads in North Carolina to historic bridges flooded out in Vermont, Hurricane Irene took its toll up and down the Eastern Seaboard.
But the East is not the only region to suffer from natural disasters this year. There was a string of deadly tornadoes in the South this spring, floods along the Mississippi and in the Upper Midwest, and last May's devastating tornado in Joplin, Mo.
So FEMA administrator Craig Fugate says his agency will postpone work on some of the repair and restoration projects resulting from the earlier storms to pay for the immediate needs resulting from Irene.
Fugate, speaking to reporters in the White House briefing room Monday, said his decision has already been misinterpreted: "A lot of people thought, well, the people that have been impacted by the tornadoes and floods — we're going to take that money away from them."
But Fugate stressed that is not the case.
"The survivors that are eligible for assistance are still getting funds. Individual assistance programs were not affected by this, nor was any protective measures, or any debris clearance, or any project that had already been approved," he said.
In places like Joplin, Fugate said, the only projects that will be suspended are those still in the planning stages. Both of Missouri's senators are urging the White House to make sure FEMA funds continue to flow into their state.
A New Confrontation Looms
FEMA's role in a disaster is multilayered. It provides immediate assistance, helping victims pay for shelter and food and medical needs. Later on, it pays to rebuild schools, bridges and water treatment plants.
For instance, FEMA is still paying for rebuilding related to Hurricane Katrina, which struck six years ago this week.
Dan Kaniewski, who worked at FEMA during the George W. Bush administration and now teaches at George Washington University, says Fugate is making the right decision.
"He's got to deal with the cards he's been dealt," says Kaniewski. "He has a limited amount of money, and he realizes, rightly so, that money has to be allocated for the most pressing needs. And right now, it's those individuals who have been impacted by Hurricane Irene — they need to be provided the assistance to make sure they have a roof over their heads."
All told, there have been 10 storms that cost at least a billion dollars each this year, if you include Irene's expected costs. And FEMA says its disaster relief fund is below the billion dollars it likes to keep on hand.
So the administration will be forced to go to Congress for more aid, setting up a potential fight with House Republicans. In the past, emergency aid funds have been treated as, well, emergencies, and the money spent was added to the deficit. No more, says House Majority Leader Eric Cantor.
Speaking on Fox on Monday, Cantor said the money to pay for disaster aid will have to be offset with cuts elsewhere in the budget.
"In instances like this, yes, there is a federal role. Yes, we're going to find the money. We're just going to need to make sure that there are savings elsewhere to continue to do so," Cantor said.
In fact, the House has already approved a measure to put an additional $1 billion in the disaster relief fund for this year, and some $2.65 billion for next year.
The Senate has yet to act, but the top Democrats on the Appropriations Committee vow to take up a FEMA funding measure as soon as lawmakers return to the Capitol next week. The Senate bill, however, is unlikely to contain the offsets demanded by House Republicans.
That's likely to mean yet another confrontation between the two parties and the two chambers of Congress.


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Washington, DC (June 26, 2014) — Risk factors for chronic kidney disease (CKD) are present and identifiable 30 years before diagnosis, according to a study appearing in an upcoming issue of the Journal of the American Society of Nephrology (JASN). The findings suggest avenues for future research to determine whether certain early interventions can prevent future kidney disease.
Approximately 60 million people globally have CKD. Caroline S. Fox, MD MPH, Gearoid McMahon, MB, BCh (National Heart Lung and Blood Institute's Framingham Heart Study and the Center for Population Studies), and their colleagues investigated whether CKD risk factors might be present decades before the diagnosis of CKD. "One of the benefits of the Framingham Heart Study is that we have a very long duration of follow-up. As a result, we are able to look far back in time prior to when individuals develop a disease to examine their risk factors," said Dr. Fox.
The researchers identified 441 new cases of CKD among participants of the Framingham Heart Study, and they matched them with 882 controls who did not develop CKD. Those who ultimately developed CKD were 76% more likely to have had hypertension, 71% more likely to have been obese, and 43% more likely to have had higher triglycerides 30 years before CKD diagnosis. They were also 38% more likely to have had hypertension, 35% more likely to have had higher triglyceride levels, and nearly 3-times more likely to have had diabetes 20 years before CKD diagnosis. The more risk factors an individual had in the past, the more likely they were to develop CKD.
"This research shows that these risk factors are present long before the disease is diagnosed. This is important because it suggests that we should be addressing these risk factors earlier in life to potentially prevent future disease," said Dr. McMahon.
Source: American Society of Nephrology


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Saturday, September 30, 2006
This is the very first time I do this but, I felt I had to.
Many of you know of the Ghostbot guys, but a lot more actually don't.
These guys, Alan , Roque , Brad and Corrine, are the most brilliant flash animators I have had the honor to meet( they literally work five blocks away from where I live!)
Not ony are they the nicest people in the world, their work ethics are just formidable, and theirwork for the Esurance commercials is ground breaking in terms of flash animation for tv spots.
But, enough said.
Just go and check them out HERE
and see their latest Esurance spot HERE
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Friday, September 29, 2006
Who let the pumkin's out?
This one is HArry Potter meets Konami and the world of sidescroller video games!
That's the theme for Drawer geeks next week, and , since I didn't particularly wanted to do a flying broomstick, I'd figure i'd have some fun with it.
on a side note.
This is the last drawing untill I come back from my trip.
So... Good weekend, and good week to you all( whoever that would be!)
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Thursday, September 28, 2006
one thursday morning
pulling some really late nights these days...i'm super sleepy sleepy sleepy right now...
oh boy.. anyhow..
for a change, this is all photoshop( and a pencil drawing below... believe it or not, i drew out the whole jungle below.. you just can't see the details!!)
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Wednesday, September 27, 2006
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Tuesday, September 26, 2006
A little research for a COOL idea that Adam Henry came up with.
after I'm done on the current projects i'm working on right now, I'll be diving into this fun wolrd.
so..expect to see more of these guys, and expect them to change quite a bit as well!
meanwhile, hope you like it.
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Monday, September 25, 2006
It's a great day
Not because it's monday though.
That kinda sucks actually.
allthough this sketch might not be that exciting, it's neverthelles a bench mark fro me.
It's the 400th sketch in my" sketch of the day" practice!
I started this in june of last year, and have tried to be fairly consistent.
Sometimes doing more than one or two a day, sometimes less.
And, now, I've hit four hundred.
Im happy.
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Thursday, September 21, 2006
Friday...no sketch
Sadly, i won't be able to post tomorrow , because I will be out of town
So.. instead, I wish you all a GREAT weekend.
So.. instead, I wish you all a GREAT weekend.
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the kodak moment
When I was little, there used to be a series of commercials featuring three little kids wearing some stripped red and white bathing suits that would be going from one world to another in a click of an instant( the kodak instant).
I'm not sure why I thought of those this morning.. but.
it made for a nice simple drawing!
still sleepy though.. worked late this morning
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Wednesday, September 20, 2006
Flight 4
I'm working on a little story for flight.
this page turned out pretty well I thought.
So.. here it is( it may change for the final.. that's why I want to show it before it changes!)
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Tuesday, September 19, 2006
Tuesday is smile day
Who said I couldn't do simple?
The truth though, is that I'm running late for a bunch of stuff, so, I don't have time( hungh..it hurts to say it) to do a real sketch.
This one will do though!
oh... and for people who've never seen me before, yeah, it looks a bit like me!( not the yellow part though!)
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Monday, September 18, 2006
Monday sketch...animated
"just thought I'd change a bit the "dauly sketch!"
I'd lie if I said I did all of it this morning though.
I was going to try and do it for friday, but caught up in other work.
I just "ended it" this morning.
happy monday
( oh , it's a one meg file, and has music.
If there are any animators looking at this.. remember .. SKETCH of the day, right Alan?
for those who can't view the quicktime, try this link
I'd lie if I said I did all of it this morning though.
I was going to try and do it for friday, but caught up in other work.
I just "ended it" this morning.
happy monday
( oh , it's a one meg file, and has music.
If there are any animators looking at this.. remember .. SKETCH of the day, right Alan?
for those who can't view the quicktime, try this link
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Friday, September 15, 2006
Mister Monster, are you Here?
This is an old one from my sketchbook.
But I thoughtit was a nice one.
I usually don't go through my sketchbooks at all, but I just did last night , and found some pretty funny ones.
DO you guys ever have that thing where you remember the day you did the actual drawing?
I seemed to remember every day on a whole section of my sketchbook.
it's very interesting.
have a great weekend
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Thursday, September 14, 2006
a dream that may come true
In a few weeks, Katrina and I are joining the rest of my family to go to St Thomas,, in the virgin Islands for a week.
We're going there on a family matter type of trip, but we're also planning on enjoying it a lot!
here's a little wishfull thinking
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Wednesday, September 13, 2006
going down
less is more sometimes.
It's funny how, when I try to go fast , it seems to turn out better than some other longer, more complex ones.
There's something to be said about simplicity!
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Tuesday, September 12, 2006
late night
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Monday, September 11, 2006
for he's a jolly good fellow
I did a little research on vikings for a new theme coming up at drawer geeks, and discovered that they were actually a bunch of jolly good fellows who liked bards flowers, and dancing, among the other usual looting, pillaging and burning..
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Friday, September 08, 2006
sergeant Rock
I'm now participating in Drawer geeks, a litl forum that has a themed drawing every other week.
This week is Sergeant Rock.
I thought I'd explore the subject a bit since I barely knew that character!
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Thursday, September 07, 2006
knock out
for this one , I thought I'd change it up a bit....
here's a few boxers very inspired by Mike D actually!
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Wednesday, September 06, 2006
these curious little elephants are back at it again it seems. for this one, I tried a different way of coloring.. I did a sketch on paper, and colored in photoshop using different overlay and multiply layers. I'm only partial to the results, but, it's an interesting attempt.
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Tuesday, September 05, 2006
the call
A little late sketch... 'cause I needed to resally wake up today.I've used these guys before, but I thought today was such a great oportunity to use them again..couldn't think of anything else anyhow...so.. here it is!
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Friday, September 01, 2006
elephant on a branch part three
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Guess who's back? Kony2012: Part 11 — Beyond Famous (which sounds like a title Kanye would come up with) is live. The nearly 20-minute-long sequel by nonprofit Invisible Children is less incendiary than its predecessor and will almost certainly get less pageviews, but critics will have a harder time arguing with its message — which, we assume, was Invisible Children's goal.
The first part of the video briefly addresses the criticism the movement has received, and reasserts the importance of awareness, which the campaign believes leads directly to action. "We have seen that stories change lives," says Ben Keesey, the video's narrator and Invisible Children's CEO.
Then, we learn what's happened since the first Kony2012 video went live: Invisible Children headquarters received (at least at one point) 200 calls every two minutes from eager supporters, two bipartisan resolutions supporting the effort to disarm the LRA were introduced into the House and Senate, and the African Union agreed to step up its commitment to hunt Joseph Kony down; its Peace and Security Council even assigned a 5,000 strong force to track him down. The LRA, which this video makes sure to acknowledge is no longer in Uganda, has reportedly abducted 57 people since the video launched.
Next, the video lays out the campaign's 4-step action plan: civilian protection, peaceful surrender (which involves sending fliers to members of the LRA about how to escape once the "5,000 strong force" finds him), rehabilitation and reconstruction, and — highlighted in bold — arrest of top LRA leadership.
So, what's up with this "Cover The Night" event we're all supposed to get excited for on April 20th? Invisible Children wants to "turn this digital revolution into something more," and "something more" is basically the biggest, vaguely philanthropically-inclined flashmob you could imagine. Of course, there's a four-step action plan for this, too: form a team with your friends, contact your policy makers, serve your community (by picking up trash and helping your dad load stuff into his pickup truck, apparently), and promote justice for Joseph Kony by postering the shit out of your neighborhood with Invisible Children's fliers. "Wherever your story leads you, go there," the video beseeches. "We can all do our part, where we are, with what we have. We are a new generation of justice."
We don't know about you, but we're not planning to don Kony2012 t-shirts on April 20th — or anytime, for that matter. So we put together a guide to effective giving for those of you who are similarly uninspired by the Kony2012 campaign but want to get more involved with philanthropy. Check it out here.


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Article Index
Ezekiel 38-39 foretells a massive future invasion of Israel by the armed forces of six nations. Five of those nations are identified in Ezekiel 38:5-6 with the names they bore in Ezekiel's time.
The first nation, Persia, is now the modern state of Iran. It is currently ruled by an Islamic fundamentalist government that is building significant military power, including the development of nuclear weapons. It has openly declared its commitment to the annihilation of the Jewish state of Israel.
The second nation, Ethiopia, was not the same as modern Ethiopia. Instead, it occupied the area later known as Nubia. Today it is known as Sudan and is dominated by an Islamic fundamentalist government that is using brutal means, including crucifixion of Christians, to attempt to establish a pure, Islamic state.
The third nation, Libya, the western neighbor of Egypt, is also an Islamic nation today. It is strongly anti-West and anti-Israel, and Western intelligence has been informed that Libya has hired Eastern European and former Soviet military scientists to aid its development of military power.
The people of the fourth nation, Gomer, were also known as the Cimmerians. They originally lived north of the Caucasus Mountains in the southern part of what is modern Russia. In Ezekiel's time, they had settled in what is now central Turkey.
The people of the fifth nation, Togarmah, were identified by Josephus as the Phrygians (Antiquities, I. 6, 1 [126]), who settled in Cappadocia, now eastern Turkey.
Considering the location of the fourth and fifth nations in Turkey, it should be noted that the present secular government of Turkey is being threatened by Islamic fundamentalists. As a result, some leaders fear that Turkey could become another Iran. If that happens, all the nations named in Ezekiel 38:5-6 will be characterized by a militant Islamic hatred of Israel.
The Identity of the Leader of the Invasion
The five nations of Ezekiel 38:5–6 will be led by a sixth in the future attack against Israel. God gave three identifying marks for that leader.
The Leader's Name
The leader will be "Gog, of the land of Magog" (see Ezek. 38:2). Jerome, a prominent church leader (345-420 A.D.), declared that Magog was located north of the Caucasus Mountains, near the Caspian Sea. Josephus (Antiquities, I. 6, 1 [123]) and Greek writers associated the name " Magog " with the Scythians. According to the revised International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, the major group of Scythians lived near the Black Sea "from the Caucasus around to the Danube." It appears, then, that the land of Magog was located near the Black and Caspian Seas north of the Caucasus Mountains, in the southern part of 20th-century Russia.
The Leader's Political Position
The leader is identified as "the chief prince" or ruler "of Meshech and Tubal" (see Ezek. 38:2; 39:1). Classical Greek writers called the people of Meshech the "Moschoi," and Assyrian records referred to them as the "Muski." This group settled in the area of Armenia, "where the borders of Russia, Iran and Turkey converge."
The people of Tubal were located in the central part of Turkey immediately west of Togarmah.
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Type study: Techniques for using novelty fonts
Type study is an ongoing series of guest posts about typography on the web. In this article, Meagan Fisher dishes up advice on novelty fonts.
Ah, novelty fonts. They make up the majority of free fonts available on the web; usually they are pre-grunged-up and have exciting names like "fallen angel" or "cowboy whisper." You used them liberally on your LiveJournal, but now that you're a real designer you avoid them like the plague. Right?
Maybe not. When used well, decorative, display, or handwritten fonts can make the difference in a design. We'll take a look at a blog design, and examine techniques for swapping standard fonts and novelty fonts to make the design more…well, novel.
The case study
I have a confession to make: I am a huge fan of dribbble. Whenever I have a spare second, am stuck for inspiration, or just need a little beauty in my life, I turn to the dribbble everyone feed. I'm amazed how many designers I've discovered who I wouldn't have known about otherwise. For some time now I've wanted to create a blog that catalogues my favorites. Hence, bbballer.
I whipped up this mockup rather quickly, and felt pretty good about it as an early design. However it's relatively sparse in terms of imagery (with the exception of the winsome mascot), and I'd like to give it more personality.
Technique 1: A logo that isn't really a logo
There have been plenty of times when I've wanted to give the title of a site a little added flair, while also ensuring that the text remained dynamic. If you're crafting a theme or template, you can't use static images for the blog name, but that doesn't mean it can't have style. Using a typeface with a little flamboyance sets the site name apart in situations where you can't incorporate an actual logo. For bbballer, I decided to set the site title in the delightful FF Prater Script, a nod at dribbble's scripty logo.
You'll notice the site title has a subtle embossed effect; this detail is added using CSS3's
text-shadow property. The CSS reads as follows:
#header h1 { text-shadow: 0 -1px 2px rgba(0,0,0,.2); }
Let's break down that syntax, since
text-shadow is used throughout this design in a variety of ways:
- The first value, set to 0, represents the horizontal offset of the shadow.
- The second value, shown here at
-1px, represents the vertical offset. In this example I decided to set the shadow above the text, so it appears to be pressed into the page.
- The third value, shown here at
2px, determines the amount of blur. Since I want the effect to be subtle, I chose to make the shadow fairly soft.
- The fourth value determines the color of the shadow. I've used CSS3's
rgbaproperty to set the color to a transparent black, so that the background shade will blend through.
Now that our site title is looking lovely, let's give our headlines a little character as well.
Technique 2: Let your headlines do the talking
I love crafting interfaces that call for gorgeous photography, whimsical illustrations, or engaging videos, but sometimes media-rich designs can distract from the content. One way to maintain a minimal approach, while still injecting personality into the design, is to selectively use fonts with lots of character. Here I chose a font that fits the vintage athletic theme of the design: LTC Squareface.
Display fonts are meant to be on display; cramming them into body text or tiny headlines will create an illegible mess. So be selective, and use ornate fonts at larger sizes. The striking slab serif used in bbballer gives a nod to varsity letter jackets, but it's only used once in the design to avoid overpowering the content. It's also set at a large enough size for the reader to enjoy all those thick serifs.
You'll notice that we're using
text-shadow once again; in this case we have a light shadow coming from the bottom of the headline. Again, this detail creates the illusion that the text is letter pressed, and adds an extra layer of visual interest. Here's the markup for the
text-shadow applied to headlines:
#masthead h2 { text-shadow: 0 1px 0 rgba(255,255,255,.5); }
As you can see, here we're using a sharp
1px vertical shadow, set in a transparent shade of white. It's a simple addition that makes our headlines just a bit more interesting.
Technique 3: Amped up ampersands
One of my first assignments as Deputy Designer at SimpleBits back in 2008 was to help Dan Cederholm with a post about using the best available ampersand on the web. The goal of the article was to highlight the ampersands available with web-safe fonts. If I were given that assignment today, four years later, it would be a completely different undertaking. Today there are hundreds (if not thousands) of ampersands available via
Even with the explosion of fonts available for use on the web, Robert Bringhurst's guideline still applies:
Since the ampersand is more often used in display work than in ordinary text, the more creative versions are often the more useful.
While researching this article I found many fonts which would rarely have an appropriate use in everyday contexts, but contain gorgeous, attention-worthy ampersands. These can be sprinkled throughout headlines to add elegance or playfulness to a design.
I've marked up my lovely ampersand using the technique recommended by Dan back in 2008. The ampersand is wrapped in a
which is given a class of
amp. Then this
is styled by our CSS. Here are the styles from the example shown above:
#masthead h2 .amp { font-family: "bello-caps"; font-size: 2em; color: #ae5076; }
Our ampersand is displayed in the lovely Bello Caps font, at a slightly larger size than the rest of the headline. It's also rendered with bbballer's signature pink, for a little extra pizzazz.
A note about semantics
After taking an informal Twitter poll, I've found that there's some debate amongst web developers about the most semantically correct way to mark up an ampersand. It may be that there is no absolutely right answer, but here are a few approaches you might consider:
- Jeremy Keith made the case for using
instead of
for markup, since some consider the ampersand to be an abbreviation. Ethan Marcotte concurs.
- Mat Marquis suggests we use the
tag, since it is used for content that is "stylistically offset from surrounding text," according to the W3C.
- Jonathan Snook wrote an article for 24ways suggesting that we embed only a single character (in this case, the ampersand), rather than the entire font.
- Drew McLellan also wrote a 24ways post about styling ampersands. His approach uses the
unicode-rangedescriptor to style ampersands, thus negating the need for additional markup.
Whichever approach you settle on, be sure to choose an ampersand that fits the tone of your design. To help with the search for the best possible ampersand, I've used my Deputy Designer training and assembled over 200 of my favorite ampersands on Typekit. There's a preview below, and you can view the full page as well.
Technique 4: Notable notations
Handwriting fonts are one of the trickier novelty fonts to utilize successfully. When overused they can be illegible and ugly. However, when incorporated selectively, handwriting fonts can make a design more usable, playful, and engaging.
One technique that's been emerging in app and web design is the use of coach marks. These phrases, usually set in a handwritten font and paired with an arrow, can help guide a user through the setup process of an app, or draw attention to key content in a site. (Note: it's important to consider how and why to use coach marks in a design; Khoi Vinh wrote an interesting post discussing the pitfalls of coach marks, which is worth checking out.)
One recent redesign which employs this technique is the Basecamp marketing site.
Basecamp is using images to achieve this affect, but with font-face friendly handwriting and a few hand-drawn arrows, we can create coach marks that use dynamic text.
In the bbballer design I'm using this technique at smaller sizes, so I want to choose a typeface that's clear and legible. At larger sizes a handwriting font that's more stylized may be appropriate, but here we'll use the simple Felt Tip Woman.
Along with the typeface, we'll adorn these elements with hand drawn arrows. You can draw and scan your own, or use one of the many sets that are available freely. Here we see bbballer with coach marks added:
For a last little detail to reinforce the handwritten feel, we can use CSS3's
transform property to rotate these little notes a bit. It's an understated way to set these elements apart, and adds to the slightly quirky feel.
The syntax for rotate transform reads as follows:
.notation { -ms-transform: rotate(2deg); /* IE 9 */ -moz-transform: rotate(2deg); /* Firefox */ -webkit-transform: rotate(2deg); /* Safari and Chrome */ -o-transform: rotate(2deg); /* Opera */ transform: rotate(2deg); }
As you can see, we're using vendor-prefixes to ensure that this effect appears in as many cases as possible. The syntax is fairly straightforward; simply use CSS3's
transform property, along with the type of transform you'd like to apply. There are a number of transform functions available, including scale, rotate, and skew. In this case, rotate is the most appropriate. After the
transform value, state the number of degrees the element should rotate. Here we're using a subtle two degree rotation. With this technique in place, your design has an added level of personality and warmth.
Technique 5: Fun forms
Oftentimes forms on the web can feel impersonal; handwritten fonts are a great way to bring some character to a simple contact form. By applying a handwritten web font to our form's input and textarea fields, we remind users of the good ol' days when people still wrote each other notes. Perhaps using this technique will remind the author of their humanity, and discreetly encourage them to be polite in their message.
I first noticed this technique on the gorgeous Foundation Six web site:
Adapting this style for bbballer, our form might look something like this:
You'll notice that in both cases the input font size is set to be fairly large, which is important for legibility. This technique may also be too difficult to sustain for long forms, so I'd recommend reserving this style for quick interactions.
So there you have it! Five techniques for using once cringe-inducing novelty fonts. Perhaps you are now inspired to broaden your range of go-to typefaces; at the very least you've found a great excuse to spend the afternoon browsing type. Now if only we could find a way to use Comic Sans unironically.
Meagan Fisher is a web designer living in Brooklyn. In her seven year career, she has partnered with legendary design firms such as SimpleBits, Happy Cog West, Hoefler & Frere-Jones, and MetaLab. She writes about web design at Owltastic.
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Great showcase of how to add subtle personality with web Typography. My issue would be loading all these different fonts add a significant kilobytes to the page… most of what you designed could be best included as an nicely compressed image…
Indeed. You may not want to use all of these techniques on one page. But one or two of them (especially if the fonts are also used in other elements) could be very effective.
Great article, less is more.
Great article, but how about a link to the actual site? Or did I miss it?
Answering my own question: seems the site is not live yet. Can't wait to see those fonts in action!
Great tips and interesting read. Love the tips regarding the ampersands &&
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