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The Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Naval Architecture (FAMENA) has an almost century-old tradition – it is the successor to the Royal Technical College founded in 1919. Since then FAMENA has been one of the Croatian leading institutions in education, science and expertise in the fields of mechanical engineering and naval architecture, and for the last two decades in the field of aeronautical engineering too.
Generations of engineers have been taught effectively by the Faculty's teaching staff, who are also responsible for carrying out lifelong learning programmes for experts who are in the forefront of the development of economy and can generate ideas for further development. The staff, who collaborate with numerous academic institutions in Croatia and abroad and with the industry, have undoubtedly contributed to a high standing the Faculty has in the international academic community and in the industry. With the aim of maintaining this good reputation and of achieving the best possible results in teaching, research and professional activities the Faculty has adopted its Development Strategy 2014-2025.
The teaching, research and professional activities include our recent achievements in the well-established fields (engineering design, naval architecture, aeronautical engineering, energy engineering, thermal and process engineering, IC engines and motor vehicles, manufacturing technologies, industrial engineering, materials engineering), and in the new and emerging fields of science and technology (computer engineering and simulations, mechatronics and robotics, medical engineering, nanotechnologies, military engineering, metrology, quality assurance and management).
Many Faculty's activities are carried out in the laboratories that are specialized for various fields. After years of continuous improvement six well-equipped laboratories are accredited to EN ISO and are holders of the Croatian national standards. About ten student associations are the Faculty's valuable asset. Numerous extracurricular activities and projects offer the students the opportunity to apply theoretical fundamentals and academic skills acquired in the classroom in a real-world context. The Faculty supports and encourages students to participate in sports too, in particular within the sports association "Omega".
We firmly believe that "Mens sana in corpore sano", as the Latin saying goes, means that participating in sports can help academic performance; at the same time, the spirit of competition in sports creates a sense of belonging to the Faculty. The Faculty is continuously improving the quality of teaching and learning. To keep abreast of the research and education processes in modern Europe and the world academic community we are going to secure improvement in all the areas by monitoring the implemented quality assurance system.
Dubravko Majetić


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We live in a world of sh-ttalking sh-ttalkers. And if you don't know what I'm talking about, I'm actually not sure why you're reading this on my sh-ttalking blog.
Almost anyone can find almost anything to sh-ttalk about any given person, especially celebrities. I have my favourites, you have your favourites, and between us, no one is sh-ttalk free with few exceptions. Exception: Cate Blanchett?
I mean, the most sh-ttalking you might do about Cate Blanchett is when you can't get down with the high fashion-ness of some of her dresses, and even then it's usually – omg, I normally love her style, this one isn't for me, and you leave it at that.
Because Cate Blanchett is straight up awesome. That's it.
Here she is in Australia, her home, where she is when she isn't shooting or promoting, staying far away from the f-ckery of Hollywood and LA when she can, at an event yesterday to launch The OASIS: Homeless Short Film Competition at Oasis Youth Support Network in Sydney. It's a national competition with $25K in prize money for secondary school students to raise awareness about homelessness. There are over 30,000 young people who are homeless in Australia and this project aims to address the rise of youth homelessness in the country.
And if you're in Vancouver, and you would like to work with Covenant House, supporting at risk youth trying to build better lives, please click here to learn about how you can volunteer with us. Just 3 hours!
Back to Cate…
She can be seen in Hanna this weekend – junket interview below. The reviews are generally quite favourable. Are you going??? Look at this trailer. You're totally going.
Photos from Wenn.com

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toast winnerThursday, December 19, 2013
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- Amy12/20/2013
Love this picture…and especially love that all 3 have dirty cuffs on their pants…must have just been playing outside together! ; )ReplyDelete
- Maureen12/20/2013
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I've loved seeing the younger pictures of your children and the beautiful Christmas sweaters you knit for them - what great memories for all of you!
Thanks so much for your generous Christmas gifts to your internet friends - you're too generous!
Merry Christmas - wishing all of you abundant blessings in the new year ahead!
I am lovong all of the old Christmas pics of the kids in their handknits.
I've ready our blog for ages and remember some of them being knit.
But the older ones are all new to me.
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by Paul Armentano NORML | NORML Foundation | Updated May 2, 2007
Warning published in the United Kingdom and in America suggesting that cannabis' primary psychoactive compound THC may trigger mental illness, including psychosis and schizophrenia, warrant a serious reply.
According to news from the Associated Press and others, investigators at London's Kings College reported that the administration of doses of synthetic THC temporarily interfered with activity in the inferior frontal cortex, a region of the brain associated with paranoia, while administration of the non-psychoactive compound cannabidiol (CBD) stimulated relaxation. The reports go on to suggest that chronic use of cannabis may precipitate various types of mental illness and cite a separate unpublished study indicating that cannabis use may exacerbate symptoms of schizophrenia.
Such clinical findings and suggestions are not new. Scientists have known for decades that THC is psychoactive and that peak blood levels of its primary active metabolite 11-OH-THC are occasionally associated with temporary feelings of dysphoria, paranoia, and even panic attacks. (These events, when documented, typically occur in cannabis naïve users.)
Conversely, scientists have also been long aware of CBD's anxiolytic and anti-psychotic effects. In fact, many experts speculate that it is the lack of CBD in Marinol (the synthetic THC oral prescription pill) that is responsible for the drug's enhanced psychoactivity. By contrast, CBD occurs naturally in whole-plant cannabis, and is believed to modify and/or diminish some of the psychoactivity associated with THC when cannabis is inhaled.
Fears that chronic cannabis use may be positively associated with various mental illnesses, particularly schizophrenia, are also long-standing. However, a recent meta-analysis investigating the use of cannabis use and its impact on mental health reported that those who use cannabis in moderation, even long-term "will not suffer any lasting physical or mental harm. … Overall, by comparison with other drugs used mainly for 'recreational' purposes, cannabis could be rated to be a relatively safe drug." 1
Cannabis In Context
The phrase "relatively safe" is appropriate in any discussion regarding cannabis and mental health. No substance is harmless and in many cases, the relative dangers of a drug may be increased or decreased depending on set and setting. Cannabis is no different.
There is limited data suggesting an association, albiet a minor one, 2-3 between chronic cannabis (primarily among adolescents and/or those predisposed to mental illness) and increased symptoms of depression, psychotic symptoms, and/or schizophrenia. 4-6 However, interpretation of this data is troublesome and, to date, this observation association is not well understood. 7-9 Identified as well as unidentified confounding factors (such as poverty, family history, polydrug use, etc.) make it difficult, if not impossible, for researchers to adequately determine whether any cause-and-effect relationship exists between cannabis use and mental illness. Also, many experts point out that this association may be due to patients' self-medicating with cannabis, 10 as survey data and anecdotal reports of individuals finding therapeutic relief from both clinical depression and schizotypal behavior are common within medical lore, and clinical testing on the use of cannabinoids to treat certain symptoms of mental illness has been recommended. 11
Most recently, a large-scale study by investigators at London's Institute of Psychiatry reported that those patients diagnosed with schizophrenia who had previously used cannabis did not demonstrate exacerbated symptoms of the illness compared to age-adjusted controls who had not used cannabis. "This [finding] argues against a distinct schizophrenia-like psychosis caused by cannabis," they concluded. 12
Investigators in the study did not address whether cannabis consumers had greater odds of contracting schizophrenia when compared to otherwise matched controls who did not have a history of cannabis use. However, a 2006 review by Britain's Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs (ACMD) previously concluded, "For individuals, the current evidence suggests, at worst, that using cannabis increases lifetime risk of developing schizophrenia by one percent." 13
Nevertheless, until this association is better understood, there may be some merit to various government warnings that adolescents (particularly pre and early teens) and/or adults with pre-existing symptoms of mental illness refrain from using cannabis (and/or other psychoactive substances), particularly in large quantities. This statement, however, is hardly an indictment of cannabis' relative safety when used in moderation by adults or an endorsement of the federal government's efforts to criminally prohibit its use for all Americans. If anything, just the opposite is true.
Health Risks Call For Regulation, Not Prohibition
Health risks connected with drug use — when scientifically documented — should not be seen as legitimate reasons for criminal prohibition, but instead, as reasons for legal regulation. Specific to cannabis, if studies demonstrate that those "who first used marijuana before age 12 [are] twice as likely as adults who first used marijuana at age 18 or older to be classified as having serious mental illness,"14 then this is an argument in favor of legally regulating cannabis in a manner similar to alcohol, so that better safeguards may be enacted restricting adolescents from legal access to it. 15 These concerns, however, do not support criminally prohibiting the responsible use of the cannabis by adults any more than fears regarding the abuse of alcohol by a minority of teenagers support a blanket prohibition on the use of beer by adults.
In addition, if as some suggest, "as many as one in four people may have a genetic profile that makes marijuana five times more likely to trigger psychotic disorders," 16 this claim is yet another argument in favor of regulation. If there does exist a minority population of citizens who may be genetically prone to potential harms from cannabis (such as, possibly, those predisposed to schizophrenia), then a regulated system would best identify and educate this sub-population to pot's potential risks so that they may refrain from its use, if they so choose.
To draw a real world comparison, millions of Americans safely use ibuprofen as an effective pain reliever. However, among a minority of the population who suffer from liver and kidney problems, ibuprofen presents a legitimate and substantial health risk. However, this fact no more calls for the criminalization of ibuprofen among adults than do these latest allegations, even if true, call for the current prohibition of cannabis.
Finally, there lies the fact that cannabis prohibition has forever undermined the federal government's ability to educate its citizens, particularly young people, to the potential risks of marijuana when and where they present themselves. Ending prohibition and enacting a legal, regulated cannabis market would likely restore this lost credibility, as evidenced by the fact that science-based, federal education campaigns regarding the health risks of tobacco and drunk driving have greatly reduced smoking and driving under the influence among teenagers. Conversely, similar rhetorically-based campaigns regarding teen pot use have fostered increased levels of illicit drug use among their target audience. 17-18
As concluded by the Netherlands Drug Policy Foundation, cannabis' "health risks are remarkably limited, but cannabis is not completely harmless." As a result, the Foundation determined: "There ought to be a special legal regulatory system for cannabis because its use definitely does entail health risks. If cannabis was completely harmless, the same rules could be applied as to tea. Cannabis should not be made freely available, but the rules on cannabis can be very general and lenient." Placed in this context, the administration's latest anti-pot campaign does little to advance the government's position in favor of tightening prohibition, and provides ample ammunition to wage for its repeal.


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The event that reignited the kiteboarding community's imagination in 2013, Red Bull King of the Air, will be back in Cape Town, South Africa in 2014!
Off the back of a successful event in early 2013, the world's best kiters will again descend on Cape Town's Big Bay to compete in their big air competition and will have to prove their mettle in a spectacular new format for the contest. Spectators are bound to be treated to radically high jumps, various tricks and kite-loops combined with style, height, and speed in the one-day showcase of big air prowess.
Cape Town is known for its prime kitesurfing conditions during January and February – with the south easterly wind, dubbed 'Cape Doctor', almost guaranteeing big airs and even bigger moves.
Twelve of the best from 2013 will return and 12 wildcards, selected from online entries at www.redbullkingoftheair.co.za, will round up the 24 participant line up.
Video: Red Bull King of the Air Teaser
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Defending champion, Jesse Richman (USA) is already training hard in the lead up to the event:
"Big Bay in Cape Town is possibly the best kiteboarding arena I have ever seen, the place is made to send us flying. The Red Bull King of the Air is kiteboarding at its highest level of extreme! I am really pumped to come back this year and see how far we can push it past the limits."
Invited Riders
Jesse Richman (USA), Nick Jacobsen (DEN), Sam Light (GBR), Gianni Aragno (ESP), Ruben Lenten (NED), Lewis Crathern (GBR), Oswald Smith (RSA), Shawn Richman (USA), Billy Parker (USA), Kevin de Smidt (NED), Kevin Langeree (NED), Andries Fourie (RSA).
Judges William Bogaards (NED), Greg Thijsse (RSA), Arek Jerzelkowski (POL), Reinier Korstanje (NED), Ralf Bachschuster (GER) and Jim Gaunt (GBR) are bound to have a tough time in the judge's tower adjudicating the aerial masters.
In order to ensure the best wind conditions possible for Red Bull King of the Air to take place, the event window period extends from 25 January 2014 to 9 February 2014.


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Kansas agriculture officials say a new law taking effect in July will help a growing number of farmers' markets across the state.
The measure approved by legislators and signed by Gov. Sam Brownback earlier this month sets up a central registry for farmers' markets in the state Department of Agriculture. Registering with the state will limit the legal liability of farmers' markets if accidents occur.
Agriculture Secretary Dale Rodman said Wednesday that registering also will give farmers' markets access to promotional help from the state.
The department said that from 1987 to 2012, the number of farmers' markets in Kansas increase more than four times, from 26 to 118.
Rodman said farmers' markets give consumers fresh food and connect them with the farmers growing it.


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New images of Titan sent back by NASA's Cassini spacecraft show a large mountain range, extending about 150 km (93 miles) long. The mountains were seen on Cassini's most recently flyby on October 25, 2006, where the spacecraft captured the highest resolution infrared views of Saturn's largest moon. They reach about 1.5 km (almost 1 mile) high, and they're probably made of icy material, and coated with many layers of organic material.
The tallest mountains ever seen on Titan — coated with layers of organic material and blanketed by clouds — have been imaged by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
"We see a massive mountain range that kind of reminds me of the Sierra Nevada mountains in the western United States. This mountain range is continuous and is nearly 100 miles long," said Dr. Bob Brown, team leader of the Cassini visual and infrared mapping spectrometer at the University of Arizona, Tucson.
During an Oct. 25 flyby designed to obtain the highest resolution infrared views of Titan yet, Cassini resolved surface features as small as 400 meters (1,300 feet). The images reveal a large mountain range, dunes, and a deposit of material that resembles a volcanic flow. These data, together with radar data from previous flybys, provide new information on the height and composition of geologic features on Titan.
If Titan were Earth, these mountains would lie south of the equator, somewhere in New Zealand. The range is about 150 kilometers long (93 miles) and 30 kilometers (19 miles) wide and about 1.5 kilometers (nearly a mile) high. Deposits of bright, white material, which may be methane "snow" or exposures of some other organic material, lie at the top of the mountain ridges.
"These mountains are probably as hard as rock, made of icy materials, and are coated with different layers of organics," said Dr. Larry Soderblom, Cassini interdisciplinary scientist at the U.S. Geological Survey, Flagstaff, Ariz.
He added, "There seem to be layers and layers of various coats of organic 'paint' on top of each other on these mountain tops, almost like a painter laying the background on a canvas. Some of this organic gunk falls out of the atmosphere as rain, dust, or smog onto the valley floors and mountain tops, which are coated with dark spots that appear to be brushed, washed, scoured and moved around the surface."
The mountains probably formed when material welled up from below to fill the gaps opened when tectonic plates pull apart, similar to the way mid-ocean ridges are formed on Earth.
Separately, the radar and infrared data are difficult to interpret, but together they are a powerful combination. In the infrared images, one can see the shadows of the mountains, and in radar, one can see their shape. But when combined, scientists begin to see variations on the mountains, which is essential to unraveling the mysteries of the geologic processes on Titan.
A fan-shaped feature, possibly a remnant of a volcanic flow, is also visible in the infrared images. The radar instrument imaged this flow and a circular feature from which the flow seems to emanate on a previous flyby, but not in this level of detail.
"The evidence is mounting that this circular feature is a volcano," said Dr. Rosaly Lopes, Cassini radar team member at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. "With radar data alone, we identified it as a possible volcano, but the combination of radar and infrared makes it much clearer."
Near the wrinkled, mountainous terrain are clouds in Titan's southern mid latitudes whose source continues to elude scientists. These clouds are probably methane droplets that may form when the atmosphere on Titan cools as it is pushed over the mountains by winds.
The composition of dunes that run across much of Titan is also much clearer. "The dunes seem to consist of sand grains made of organics, built on water-ice bedrock, and there may also be some snow and bright deposits," Brown said.
Titan is a complex place and scientists are uncovering the secrets of the surface, one flyby at a time. Scientists hope to get more clues from the next Titan flyby, on Dec. 12.
For the new infrared images of the mountains visit: http://www.nasa.gov/cassini and http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov and http://wwwvims.lpl.arizona.edu . Additional information on NASA news from the American Geophysical Union conference is at http://www.nasa.gov/agu .
The Cassini-Huygens mission is a cooperative project of NASA, the European Space Agency and the Italian Space Agency. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, manages the Cassini-Huygens mission for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington. The Cassini orbiter was designed, developed and assembled at JPL. The Visual and Infrared Mapping Spectrometer team is based at the University of Arizona where this image was produced. The radar instrument team is based at JPL, working with team members from the United States and several European countries.
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Thursday, June 24, 2010
Kim Severson, What Are You Reading?
I am reading Hog and Hominy: Soul Food From Africa to America by Frederick Douglass Opie. It's a terrific examination of the history of soul food in America. I wrote a story for The New York Times about food in the Bronx, and one of my editors suggested it. The book starts with folk traditions and cooking in West Africa and takes you all the way through Malcolm X and bean pies and the healthy soul food revolution in the 1980s.
I am also re-reading For You, Mom, Finally by Ruth Reichl. It came out in paperback with a different title, which was Not Becoming My Mother. Ruth really hated that title. It's a very sweet book, full of insight and angst both from a daughter's perspective and a writer's perspective.
Last, I have a copy of Great Recipes from The New York Times on the pile. The women who run Omnivore Books in San Francisco gave it to me recently. Raymond Sokolov, who was the food editor at the Times in the 1970s, put it together. It's really kind of a fun, fussy history lesson, what with all those recipes for pheasant and vegetable charlotte.
Thank you for participating, Kim! Check back to see who answers the question next time and what other books are recommended.
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Both books must be very interesting!ReplyDelete
Sounds like n interesting books, especially the Hog and Homini.ReplyDelete
Hog and Hominy sounds fascinating as a way to learn about how the culinary traditions of Africa inform that of America. As for the tidbit about the tile of Ruth Reichl's book, I agree that the new header is much more appealing.ReplyDelete
Thank you Kim (and Lisa) for telling us about these titles!
Great recs! I've been needing to add a few more titles to my summer reading list, and both of these look perfect. Hog & Hominy sounds like a great read -- and I'll bet it contains all sorts of interesting tidbits.ReplyDelete
I really enjoy your series of what are you reading! It's always a bit of a surprise! :)ReplyDelete
I always discover a new book (that I want to read =)) through your series. Ruth Reichl - I hate her titles but LOVE her memoirs...and they are so worth the re-read.ReplyDelete
I love these, Lisa! Almost every time, I find a book I'd like to read! This one is no different...I'm going to get the Ruth Reichl book!ReplyDelete
Ruth Reichl's book is one of my favorites. I even bought a copy for my mom after I read it. So touching. Loving this series of posts!ReplyDelete
Books sound very interesting.ReplyDelete
I remember that Ruth Reichl book well. It's the smallest of all her books, but boy, is it a great read.ReplyDelete
Hogs and Hominy is a great book. I love these lists you're offering up, keeps me informed of some great ideas.ReplyDelete
Thanks for giving new ideas. Great!ReplyDelete
I read two of Ruth Reichl's other books - this one will be next on my list.ReplyDelete


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Homework For You
OK, campers, once again it's time to put the old Cauldron on simmer for a couple days. Because I will be otherwise occupied, any comments you fire at me will be slow in appearing, but I will eventually get to them. I know, I know - that delays the snappy repartee and the back-and-forth banter... such is life. In the meantime, here's something you can contemplate until I post again.
First, your assignment for the weekend is to go to the City of Costa Mesa web site, HERE, and download the 2011-2012 Preliminary Budget, (237 pages) the Preliminary Budget Summaries (67 pages) and Tom Hatch's memo on the budget. They are all easy to find - they're near the top of The Latest Headlines section of the home page. Take some time to review some of the numbers - start with Hatch's memo first. The "Summaries" are just the first section of the whole budget and might be easier to begin with. There are some handy definitions right at the beginning that will help you as you navigate through the subsequent pages.
You'll be able to see, in easy-to-understand graphics, where our money comes from and where it's going. Hatch's memo will tell you that the preliminary budget at this point is $117,705,201, up 7.5% from the fiscal year ending June 30, 2011. In that memo you'll also learn that the Capital Budget being proposed (the big mantra for some on the City Council) is pegged at $10,449,122 - which represents a whopping 173.63% increase from the current year.
On page 51 of the budget you'll find that the authorized staffing numbers dropped from 611 in the FY 09-10 budget to 489 in this proposed budget. However, it's my understanding that our ACTUAL staff at this point is hovering just under 475, with more departures pending.
There's lots of good information available to you in these documents if you actually care to plow through them. The charts and graphs are great for us "image driven" folks... love those purty pitchurs! :-)
Next Tuesday, May 24th, there will be a Study Session in Council Chambers beginning at 4:30. Normally, a study session is expected to last a couple hours. Hatch, at the last council meeting, anticipated this meeting will last at least 3. That session will be the first of several necessary to hammer out the final product that must be balanced and approved before July 1st. Meetings are tentatively scheduled ever Tuesday from now until the end of June.
There will be a pop quiz when I post again.
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Who is Amazon's biggest competitor in the Cloud?
The go-to answer for many may be companies like Rackspace with its OpenStack platform, perhaps Google with its Compute Engine, Microsoft Azure, VMware or one of the up-and-coming Cloud computing companies like Joyent.
But Mikhail Malamud, founder of cloud consultancy startup CloudAware, says another Cloud company could pose the biggest challenge to Amazon's cloud plans: Salesforce.com.
These two companies, Amazon Web Services and Salesforce.com, are two of the leading Cloud providers in their respective markets of infrastructure as a service (IaaS) for AWS and software as a service (SaaS) for Salesforce.com. But Malamud believes there is one reason why Salesforce.com could be a formidable foe for Amazon in the Cloud moving forward: data.
[ CLOUD SHOWDOWN: Amazon vs. Rackspace (OpenStack) vs. Microsoft vs. Google ]
Salesforce.com's data stash
"Data is the kingmaker in the Cloud," says Malamud, whose firm, CloudAware, provides a platform to access AWS resources.
Salesforce.com has an enormous cache of customer data, and not just any data, but some of enterprises' most valuable data -- customer information. Salesforce.com has data about who its users' customers are, what interactions they have with those customers, and increasingly it's been attempting to collect even more data, from human resource management to social data.
And Salesforce is building an ecosystem of products and services around that data. While the company may be best known as a SaaS-based customer relationship management (CRM) application, it also has a robust platform that allows customers to build new applications on its cloud.
Force.com and Heroku, the latter of which Salesforce acquired in 2010, are platform as a service (PaaS) tools allowing customers to leverage CRM data already in Salesforce's cloud and build related applications that are customized to individual users' needs. It's where Malamud built his company's app. A Salesforce CRM customer, for example, could build an application on Force.com that integrates with the CRM application to analyze the sales data. And Malamud says every new application that's built in Salesforce.com's environment is one less app that's running in Amazon's cloud.
Amazon: We've got data too
Amazon is responding in turn, though. In the past year AWS has made a concerted effort to manage more of its customers' data. Announcements like Red Shift -- the company's headline announcement at its first-annual users conference, named re: Invent -- is a new data warehousing service, meant to be a low-cost alternative to expensive on-premises database storage systems. Amazon Glacier is a "cold storage" service for storing a company's long-term data, while Data Pipeline is a relatively new service that makes it easier to transfer all that data between various applications within Amazon's cloud. "They're clearly trying to get as much of your data as possible," Malamud says.
Malamud says Salesforce will be the place where next-generation apps will be built, providing a legitimate threat to Amazon moving forward.
"It's a legitimate theory, but it's more of a longer term play," says David Vellante, chief analyst at research firm The Wikibon Project, about the Salesforce.com-Amazon rivalry. The two companies are not really direct competitors right now, he says. They're both cloud-based, but AWS at its core is about providing fast, easy and cheap access to virtual machines, storage and hosted applications in its IaaS cloud. Salesforce.com is a SaaS that is attempting to build up its accompanying PaaS.
Amazon's bigger near-term competitors are the growing cavalry of IaaS providers looking to steal business from the company, he says. Google, Microsoft and Rackspace (with its OpenStack platform), as well as VMware, HP, Dell, Joyent, Terremark and Savvis, are just some of the whole range of IaaS providers looking to bite into Amazon's market share that pose a more immediate threat to AWS.
[ RELATED: Up-and-comers pushing cloud stalwarts to diversify ]
Robert Mahowald, research vice president at IDC who leads the software as a service (SaaS) and cloud services practice, agrees with Vellante. "It's not necessarily where the companies are today, but it's certainly an aspiration of Salesforce," he says. But he's also on board with Malamud's core premise of "follow the data."
Applications that run in the cloud are fundamentally more important than the infrastructure they run on, so in that sense Salesforce has an advantage in being able to offer customers products, services and platforms that leverage data already in its cloud.
But AWS is a heavy-hitter in the cloud, too. Through partnerships with big enterprise software giants like SAP, Oracle and Microsoft, AWS allows customers to migrate their existing enterprise software licenses to Amazon's cloud and let AWS worry about all the underlying infrastructure.
Salesforce.com has a different business model: The company isn't pushing customers to migrate their SAP, Oracle and Microsoft apps into its cloud; they want customers to be all-in with its own cloud. So far, the company has done an extraordinary job capturing the CRM market, but existing business apps aren't being migrated into Salesforce's cloud.
To Mahowald, that means the Amazon vs. Salesforce debate comes down to a new vs. existing apps debate. Amazon has everything in place to give customers the opportunity to outsource their packaged software onto its cloud, something enterprises are becoming more and more comfortable with. Salesforce wants to be the place where the enterprises' next-generation business apps are built and stored.
The problem for AWS is that there are increasingly more and more competitors offering similar IaaS services. To date, Amazon has simply done it better than its competitors, Vellante says -- it out-innovates competitors, has a broader range of services and continually lowers its prices. It's tough for competitors to keep up, but a crop of providers are trying.
Some providers are carving out niches in vertical markets, offering healthcare-, government- or financial services-focused clouds, for example. Others are banking on the hybrid cloud -- which combines both on-premises and public cloud resources -- as being the future the industry. VMware, sensing an opportunity in the market, recently announced plans to create a hybrid cloud offering.
Salesforce isn't competing with those offerings, though, Vellante says. Salesforce has found a niche in its ecosystem of customers and is nurturing and growing it. But Salesforce.com is not the be all and end all of cloud service providers now or into the future. "If you're running a big data app and you need a 10-node cluster spun up today to host your analytics app, you're not going to Salesforce," Vellante says. "You're going to Amazon or another IaaS." It's a different play for each of the providers, which is why Vellante says both of these companies -- AWS and Salesforce.com -- will be around for a long time, and they both likely will make a lot of money in the cloud.
Network World senior writer Brandon Butler covers cloud computing and social collaboration. He can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com and found on Twitter at @BButlerNWW.


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Moose has shown this image to generations of students slogging their way through the often torturously slow process of researching and writing a dissertation. It's an image that pops into her head every time she hears some pin-headed administrator shriek about the urgency of reducing time to degree, as if doctoral programs were assembly lines that could crank out PhDs as efficiently as Detroit once cranked out cars. It's an image that also seems relevant to the story that has rocked public higher education over the past couple of weeks, the ouster of Teresa A. Sullivan as president of the University of Virginia just two years after being unanimously elected to the post by the university's Board of Visitors. Though details of what led to Sullivan's forced resignation remain murky, Board Rector Helen Dragas and (now former) Vice Rector Mark Kington, who spearheaded the move to dump Sullivan, clearly felt the new president wasn't moving quickly enough to make changes they felt were needed, particularly with regard to online education. When Sullivan addressed the Board eight days after her resignation was announced, she offered a full-throated defense of her record and leadership style:
I have been described as an incrementalist. It is true. Sweeping action may be gratifying and may create the aura of strong leadership, but its unintended consequences may lead to costs that are too high to bear. There has been substantial change on Grounds in the past two years, and this change is laying the groundwork for greater change. But it has all been carefully planned and executed in collaboration with Vice Presidents and Deans and representatives of the faculty. This is the best, most constructive, most long lasting, and beneficial way to change a university. Until the last ten days, the change at UVA has not been disruptive change, and it has not been high-risk change.
Corporate-style, top-down leadership does not work in a great university. Sustained change with buy-in does work. UVA is one of the world's greatest universities.
Being an incrementalist does not mean that I lack vision. My vision was clearly outlined in my strategic vision statement. It encompasses the thoughts developed by me and my team as to what UVA can become in the 21st century and parts of it were incorporated into the budget narrative that you adopted last month.Sullivan may yet end up retaining her position, which, in our humble opinion, would be about the coolest thing to happen in higher ed since the invention of the three-ring binder (in 1886). However it resolves, this kerfuffle is well worth the amount of time, attention, and brilliant. satirical. energy it has taken up lately. (The Chronicle of Higher Education has an excellent archive of coverage of Sullivan's ouster and the aftermath, just in case you've been under a rock and need to get caught up. To its credit, UVA also has an archive of official university responses and news coverage.)
The intensity of the reaction on Grounds, as they
Our blog boyfriend Chris Newfield argues, in an otherwise flawless analysis of the UVA debacle, that Sullivan erred in "describing her collaborative method as incremental and conservative. This kind of rhetoric allows the Board to define her as slow and inadequate in a time of rapid change, and to justify executive authority as that which is bold and decisive." Newfield is right that we "cannot afford any longer to allow academic work and administration to fall into the innovation trap, which casts as anti-innovation anyone who appears to oppose innovation as defined largely by information technology corporations in their equally turbulent and oligarchic markets." He's also right that we should "concede nothing" to management twits and should make the case that "forms of reciprocal and relatively egalitarian collaboration generate richer, deeper knowledge and more creative and robust solutions than does the thin knowledge and compulsive changes of tack of externally-focused managers who respond to the influence that seems most powerful at a given moment."
All true, but there is still joy in Roxie's World over Sullivan's unapologetic embrace of the term incrementalist. Our own campus is filled these days with ear-piercing calls for innovation and entrepreneurship. We've had a number of conversations recently about the importance of laying claim to those terms and making sure that the work we do and the values we cherish don't get lost in the race to prove that universities are all about what is new and cool and innovative and revenue-generating. In our view, the tougher yet deeply important challenge is to insist that incrementalism and innovation are not necessarily opposing terms. We need both on campus, and we shouldn't be shy about saying so. Universities are and always have been engines of innovation. All that hoo-ha about what goes on in our laboratories, hospitals, and performance studios isn't just hoo-ha. It's an accurate description of the incredibly bold, original, world-transforming work that goes on at research universities every day. At the same time, incrementalism is a deeply ingrained aspect of academic culture, perhaps because it is a deeply ingrained habit of the academic mind. We may be innovators, but we are also scholars. We tend to be deliberate and studious, not reluctant to change but not impulsive about it either. We are accustomed to working through mechanisms of review that can take months and even years to conclude.
Miranda Priestly's sardonic, "By all means move at a glacial pace. You know how that thrills me," because the wheels of university bureaucracies do grind slowly and can be an impediment to needed change. On balance, though, incrementalism works, both to subject ideas to rigorous examination and to include more rather than fewer voices in a collaborative process of change. Such processes may move relatively slowly, but they reduce the risk of an outcome as devastating to morale and reputation as, for example, the impetuous move engineered and approved by too few members of UVA's Board of Visitors a couple of weeks ago. Rector Helen Dragas's declaration that "the days of incremental decision-making in higher education are over, or should be" sounds hollow, self-interested, and just plain wrong-headed in light of the damage done to the institution by her callous, hasty judgment and corner-cutting maneuvering. Whatever happens to President Sullivan or Rector Dragas, Mr. Jefferson's university will be years recovering from the wholly avoidable catastrophe of the past two weeks.
In some sense, supporters of public higher education should be grateful for what has transpired in Charlottesville in recent days. It has been extraordinary to watch as faculty, students, alumni, and the campus senate rose in defense of their leader, their institution, and a "community of trust" that they see as having been violated. We can all learn from these powerful examples of passionate yet mostly respectful dissent. It has also been fascinating to watch the various players make their claims to UVA's illustrious founder as the drama has unfolded. Few institutions are as vitally connected to a founder and his legacy as UVA is. You believe it when a news story gushes that "students refer to . . . Thomas Jefferson as if the third U.S. president were a close friend." You feel a pang of envy and try to imagine who, in a similar crisis, members of your own campus community might turn to for inspiration and advice. The segregationist football coach/president for whom the stadium in the middle of campus is named? Probably not. The famous alum whose most significant recent accomplishment appears to be having served as a judge for the Miss Universe pageant? Tempting, but no. Then it hits you: If you need a defender of incrementalism, then you're lucky to be on a campus covered with turtles. Slow but steady wins the race, dudes.
Paws up to all our pals in Charlottesville, who have worked so hard and righteously to marshall support for the cause and share the local angle on the story. Your teachable moment has taught all of us who care about higher ed a lot about how to organize and communicate in the midst of totally unexpected turmoil. We stand with you and wish you well in your struggle. Peace out.
(From WaPo: 6/18/12. University of Virginia President Teresa Sullivan makes her way up the steps of the Rotunda to address the Board of Visitors closed meeting. Norm Shafer, Washington Post)


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Check out the other girls Artsy Wednesday mani's:
Michelle - Lab Muffin
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Ameerah - Valiantly Varnished - not this week
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Nail art and polish blog - freehand nail art and swatches! Neglelak blog, frihånds neglekunst og neglelak swatches!
what an awesome effect!SvarSlet
I'm so glad you like my spicy nails ;)Slet
This is so original and creative, love how it looks on your nails!SvarSlet
Aww, thanks a lot, I'm glad you think so :)Slet
Hahaha :D Cool!SvarSlet
I had a lot of fun doing this :)Slet
lol i think the art perfectly fits the 1st of April theme! :)SvarSlet
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Ahaha... good idea... So, if I need something "extra" I should take it directly from my nail! :-)SvarSlet
Yes, exactly - it's very discrete, just tap your nail a little ;)Slet
Curry and paprika....you're a hot girl ;o)
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I am very hot indeed :DSlet
It may be April Fools' Day manicure, but it looks quite attractive.SvarSlet
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So fun and different!SvarSlet
YAY you are back - thanks a lot Meredith Anne!Slet
Super creative and very funny! The nails look really good too!!SvarSlet
Thank you so much Haylee - I'm so glad you like it :)Slet
wow! creative and awesome <3 <3 <3SvarSlet
Thank you so much Karo!Slet
Very funny :)SvarSlet
I'm glad you like it Irmak :)Slet
This looks pretty amazing, actually.
Awesome idea!
Thank you so much Sarah, I'm happy you think so :)Slet
en god griner :-) Bar man ikke kommer chilipulver i neglene og senere glemmer at man har chili på neglene og rører ved øjet.. puhaa for en oplevelse man aldrig vil glemme ;-)SvarSlet
Haha, nej det er slemt nok at have skåret chili og så røre ved øjenen uden at man først lgie har vasket fingre :DSlet
Oh! I'm dazzled! This is fantastic mani!SvarSlet
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Really amazing!SvarSlet
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Ha ha! Spicy collection! :)SvarSlet
Indeed it is ;)Slet
I actually like the look of the oregano!SvarSlet
LOL, so do it, it was so fun to see on the nail like that :)Slet
Bahahaha! These are too awesome!!SvarSlet
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Haha! What a creative idea!!SvarSlet
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Those are awesome. What a creative idea!SvarSlet
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What a great idea :) First time i saw it.SvarSlet
I'm glad you like it - I also haven't seen it before :)Slet
Vilken bra idé! Och faktiskt snyggt också:)SvarSlet
Ja, det är faktisk inte helt dumt :)
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LOL, here it is!
I thought you've posted something like that on the 1st XD
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haha this is actually pretty awesome! I love how the spices look on the nails! It reminds me of the dried flowers concept :DSvarSlet
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Your nails look lovely!
You're so talented, I'm looking forward to discover your next nail art creation <3
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And why are we in Afghanistan? Officially, we are there to fight the Taliban, whom we propped up in the first place. Democratic Jimmy Carter and Republican Ronald Reagan armed, financed and trained these freedom fighters or Islamofascists. In the 1980's, America poured gasoline onto the flames of Islamic fanaticism to burn down the Soviets. Now, we are the Soviets.
America goes into Iraq and Afghanistan, turns these countries upside down, then explains that it would be irresponsible to leave them topsy-turvy, but as long as America stays there, these countries will remain messed up. America causes bombs to explode, then insists that it has to stay put until these bombs stop exploding, but America is the bomb! Time and time again, America has set the fire, then shows up as a volunteer firefighter. Such is the burden of being a world leader in freedom, democracy and weapon sales.
America, you are a sentimental mass murderer. You wage war after war, then pretend to mourn for some of the victims. (The "us" victims, not the "them" victims.) As Barack sends America's sons and daughters into these needless carnages, Michelle urges us to value their pointless sacrifices.
As the husband kills, the wife comforts, but often, this janus trick is performed by the selfsame joker. It has become an annual rite for Colin Powell to give a solemn speech on the Capitol lawn on Memorial Day. This year, he again paid tribute to Americans "fighting the global war against terrorism, serving and sacrificing in Afghanistan and Iraq and at other outposts on the front lines of freedom. The life of each and every one of them is precious to their loved ones and to our nation. And each life given in the name of liberty is a life that has not been lost in vain."
Though Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11 and had no weapons of mass destruction, Powell can claim, even now and with a straight face, that it is a front line of the war against terrorism. Done with his unctuous and hypocritical verbiage, Powell went into the crowd to hug a dozen vets and their loved ones. He patted the baby of a brain-damaged and blind man. Why no one, but no one, stood up and shouted, "Hey, Powell, wasn't it you who helped to lie us into war? Didn't you stand in front of the whole world and pointed to bogus satellite photos of "mobile laboratories for making biological weapons'?" In contemporary America, an architect of war can play at consoling its victims, and no one will bat an eye.
We are also led to believe that the people we bomb, shoot and rape are our beneficiaries. According to Yahoo! News, the withdrawal of American troops brings "a mix of joy and concern [among Afghans] as the nation struggles with the idea of less assistance," so to invade a country is to assist it, but such is the logic of empire. Next time someone shoots you, know that you're being assisted.
The empire is going broke, however, so our victims should voluntarily send us loads of cash. Visiting Baghdad, congressman Rohrabacher (CA) declared, "Once Iraq becomes a very rich and prosperous country... we would hope that some consideration be given to repaying the United States some of the mega-dollars that we have spent here in the last eight years. We were hoping that there would be a consideration of a payback because the United States right now is in close to a very serious economic crisis and we could certainly use some people to care about our situation as we have cared about theirs." Bombed by Obama, Libyans should feel a similar gratitude, "If the Libyans for example are willing to help pay, compensate the United States, for what we would spend in helping them through this rough period, that's one way to do it."
With one hand, Uncle Sam will shoot you. With the other, he'll jiggle the tin cup. Give it up already, all you bloody ingrates! America's in deep, deep trouble. With our media the way they are, our leaders will continue to speak nonsense and there's nothing we can do about it.
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Yarn Requirements: Choose a worsted weight yarn that will felt easily and firmly and a thick "fur-like" synthetic novelty yarn.
Yardage: Approximately 165 yards (151m) main wool; 100 yards (91m) of the novelty yarn; 10 yards (9m) of darker wool for paws.
Needles: US size 10.5 (6.5 mm) and size 11 (8 mm) 24" circular needles. Hedgehog is knit in rows. Circular needle is used when knitting the back to accommodate shaping.
Shown in Naturally Tussock 10 ply #161 (main yarn), Perendale #90 (paws) and Temptation #912 for the "fur".
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SNOW HILL — Worcester County entered into a non-exclusive service agreement with Chesapeake Utilities for natural gas Tuesday.
Chesapeake joins Eastern Shore Gas (ESG) as the two franchises so far that have taken advantage of a general intention to bring natural gas to Worcester by next year.
"Natural gas will benefit Worcester County," said Steve Thompson, Senior Vice-President of Chesapeake Utilities and President of its subsidiary, Eastern Shore Natural Gas (ESNG).
Thompson gave a brief presentation highlighting the benefits of using natural gas as opposed to propane, touching on many of the same points ESG representatives highlighted two weeks prior, including the lower cost and less negative environmental impact of natural gas.
According to Thompson, natural gas customers saved about $50.5 million in 2010, averaging out to approximately $1,060 per customer. He also mentioned that using natural gas creates a smaller carbon footprint than most other fuel sources, even electricity.
While most of the selling points of natural gas were already touched upon by ESG weeks before, Thompson did outline several reasons why the commission should specifically extend a non-exclusive service agreement to ESNG: mainly, its solid safety record and dedicated timetable for construction.
"It's a tight timetable today," he said.
The plan so far is to spend April through July obtaining all necessary permits and licenses that would be needed for the project. Construction of pipeline facilities is slated to begin in August and should be completed and operational by December of next year.
After the presentation, the commission only had a few comments. Commissioner Merrill Lockfaw suggested that ESNG encourage the use of local contractors when it reaches the point where homes are being converted for natural gas. Thompson agreed that it was a good idea, though individual homeowners may wind up choosing contractors themselves.
The commission decided to grant Chesapeake a non-exclusive service agreement. Even though ESG already has the same kind of deal, the commissioners ruled that, since they were both non-exclusive agreements, there shouldn't be any issues having identical contracts.


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'Fra Diavolo' (Quebec newspaper Le Petit Journal, 15 March 1953).
Auguste Liquois was born as the eldest son in the Liquois family in Angers. When his father was called to battle in World War I, he had to take care of his family. Somehow he managed to study Fine Arts on the side. In 1926 he moved to Paris, where he started his illustration career. He did fashion sketches, posters and humorous illustrations for magazines like Le Rire, Ric et Rac, and Gai Paris. In 1937 he drew his first comic, 'Coco de la Lune', from a scenario by Ferraz, in Boum!. From then on, Liquois collaborated with several comic magazines, such as Pierrot (several stories), Lisette ('La Cage Dorée', 'La Larme d'Allah') and L'Épatant ('G. Man 25').
'Ramy aux-Champs' (Pierrot, 1940).
During World War II, when the American comics couldn't reach the European mainland, Liquois finished one of Burne Hogarth's 'Tarzan' stories in Pierrot, and also drew 'Le Signe du Jaguar'. During the War he was present with several comics in Cahiers d'Ulysse and Le Téméraire ('Vers les Mondes Inconnus', 'Oulaa le Chevelu'), the latter being under Nazi supervision. For the satirical magazine Le Mérinos, he drew 'Zoubinette' under the pseudonym Robert Ducte, a comic that ridiculed the Resistance.
'Fra Diavolo' (Quebec newspaper Le Petit Journal, 15 March 1953).
In spite of his activities during the War, Liquois was present in the first issues of the socialist magazine Vaillant with the patriotic series 'Fifi Gars du Maquis' (text by Roger Lécureux). From then on, he multiplied his activities for the Collection Globe-Trotter, Collection À Travers le Monde, Cadet Journal ('L'Empire des Hommes Rouges'), the Collection Vaillance ('Jerry l'Infaillible') and Robinson l'Écureuil ('Héros de la Liberté').
Comic strip by Auguste Liquois.
In Coq Hardi, Liquois drew the first episode of the science fiction comic 'Guerre de la Terre', from a script by Marijac, later continued by Pierre Duteurtre (Dut). He also took on superhero series like 'Satanax' (in Satanax), 'Atomas' and 'Salvator' (in Tarzan). From the late 1940s and throughout the 1950s, he worked for Collection Sans Peur, Collection Hurrah ('Tom Mix'), and Les Classiques en Images (comic adaptations of playwrights Pierre Corneille and Molière) and for the magazines Pierrot ('L'Appel du Bouddha'), Ardan ('Kromagoul'), Fugor ('Marc du Réseau Marianne'), Ima ('Canard et la Vallée Perdue', 'Ric Limar'), Le Trident ('Le Fils du Far West').
In addition to his work for magazines, Liquois was active for the press since 1949. He has worked on several daily text strips for L'Humanité, such as 'Fra Diavolo', 'Quentin Durward', 'La Duchesse de Langeais', 'Les Trois Amours de Jean Cavalier'. He also made vertical strips for Femmes d'Aujourd'hui. His final creations appeared in Sonic ('L'Enfant de l'Oregon'), Les Loups ('Les Fils du Sergent') and Yphon ('Capitaine Fracasse') throughout the 1960s.


text: In the Mystical Realm of Color As a photographer who shoots exclusively in color, I always knew my path would one day lead me to India. At last, in 2010, I arrived in Rajasthan, where women's saris come in tangerine and saffron, where villages are tinted candy-coated hues and destinations like Jodhpur and Jaipur are known as the Pink City and the Blue City. Throughout my travels in this ancient land, it was the intoxicating power of color that marked the way—luring me down a rabbit hole to a magical world of intense beauty and wonder. But unlike the Technicolor rainbow I'd seen in books on India, the palette I discovered there was surprisingly subtle. These were the distressed, sunwashed color bursts of a parched desert region—though no less saturated for their timeworn patina. Like jewels in the crown of their dusty, earthen backdrops, they dazzled all the more. With this series, I invite you to enter a mystical realm of color, where every day moments are painted in shades of spectacle and delight.


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Comedy Central's 'Drunk History': Watch the First Episode Two Weeks Early!
For as much as we've enjoyed the original web incarnation of 'Drunk History,' we're eager to get a look at Comedy Central's longer take on the series before its July 9 debut. Thankfully, our impatient drunk sensibilities won't need to wait that long, as Comedy Central has released the first full episode online to view two weeks ahead of schedule!
The first episode of Comedy Central's adaptation of the popular FunnyOrDie series features 'Breaking Bad' star Bob Odenkirk as Richard Nixon, Fred Willard as Mark "Deep Throat" Felt, Nathan Fielder as Robert Woodward, 'Parks and Recreation' star Adam Scott as John Wilkes Booth, Jack Black as Elvis, and Foo Fighters lead singer Dave Grohl.
Like the web series, Comedy Central's 'Drunk History' will feature historical reenactments with A-list talent serving as the titular storytellers and drunk narration from comedians Kyle Kinane, Jen Kirkman, Natasha Leggero and Jenny Slate. "Will (Ferrell) and I have always believed booze brings out truth," said Ferrell's creative partner Adam McKay of the project. "Sometimes that truth involves hitting on airport bar janitors or eating cheese fries at 4 a.m. But in this case, we hope that truth will shine on our nation's history."
Reenacting 'Drunk History' over the eight-episode run across American locales will also include Lisa Bonet, Connie Britton, Michael Cera, Terry Crews, Andy Daly, Will Forte, Bill Hader, Tony Hale, Ben Hoffman, Jake Johnson, Jack McBrayer, Stephen Merchant, Kevin Nealon, Chris Parnell, Aubrey Plaza, Rob Riggle, Jason Ritter, Winona Ryder, Horatio Sanz, Will Sasso, Jason Schwartzman, Bradley Whitford, Kristen Wiig, Luke Wilson and Owen Wilson.
You can check out the full episode via the link below, and tell us what you think of Comedy Central's 'Drunk History' in the comments!