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TEL AVIV, Israel, July 18 (UPI) -- Russian President Vladimir Putin's June visit to Israel is a measure of how the country's discovery of major gas fields under the eastern Mediterranean has intensified the volatile region's geopolitical dynamics.
Russian energy giant Gazprom is interested in cutting a deal with Israel, possibly injecting significant funds to bolster further exploration, in part to ensure its lucrative gas exports to Western Europe are not jeopardized.
Moscow is also wooing Cyprus, or to be more accurate, the Greek Cypriot majority who rules the southern part of the war-divided island that's 260 miles west of Israel and on the cusp of its own gas boom.
Cyprus has been divided since Turkey invaded in 1974 and seized the northern part of the island.
Putin has offered the Nicosia government a $3.5 billion loan to bolster its banking sector, which has suffered major losses because of the economic meltdown in Greece. Moscow gave Nicosia a three-year loan of $3.14 billion in 2010 at a below-market rate of 4.5 percent to help service its debt.
Russia has close ties with Cyprus, which sits on the periphery of the Middle East and has long been a hotbed of intrigue in the region's many conflicts.
Both countries follow the Orthodox faith and Russian companies have major interests in Cyprus.
The gas discoveries have transformed Cyprus from a Mediterranean backwater and energy importer to a potential regional energy power, like Israel. Analysts say Cyprus sits on enough natural gas to last it for two centuries at its current consumption rate.
Like Israel, Cyprus plans to become a gas exporter, primarily to Europe.
That's bad news for Russia, which doesn't want to see its stranglehold on gas supplies to Europe weakened.
Israel has identified gas reserves of 30 trillion cubic feet and some 4 billion barrels of oil.
Israel's maritime zone abuts that of Cyprus, and Israel's biggest field, Leviathan, with some 35 tcf of gas, apparently extends into Cyprus' southern waters.
Houston's Nobel Energy, which made the Israeli strikes, is also spearheading exploration off Cyprus and reported an initial strike of 7 tcf in the Aphrodite field 25 miles west of Leviathan.
Israel and Cyprus plan to pool their efforts to ship gas exports to Europe via Greece.
This is where the Middle East's conflict politics intersect with global energy strategies.
Israel would like the Russians to help it pressure Iran top halt its nuclear program and curb Moscow's arms sales to Tehran.
It also hopes Russia, which has been backing embattled Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, will move behind Western diplomatic efforts to find a settlement to end the 17-month uprising that threatens to destabilize the region to Israel's disadvantage.
Moscow, driving to restore its Cold War influence in the region, "wants a stake in the development of ... gas reserves in the Mediterranean Sea," observed analyst Simon Henderson of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy.
"Russia has the largest gas reserves in the world and is Europe's main supplier.
"Yet Israel's relatively small production levels will be boosted next year when a new field comes onstream and again in 2017 when gas begins to flow from another field partially designated for export."
Israel doesn't want its export opportunities limited by Russia, even in return for a capital infusion from Gazprom, which is determined to hold onto its market share despite Europe's efforts to break loose.
"The energy dimension of Putin's visit should not be understated: Russia's economy is heavily dependent on oil and gas exports and has been hit hard by recent price drops," Henderson noted.
The fate of Syria's another key issue. Israel argues that Moscow's support for the embattled Syrian regime "only increases the chances of a bad outcome following the inevitable transition of power from Bashar al-Assad," Henderson noted.
"Israel has some leverage in this regard: it will reject an expected Russian request for new drone aircraft."
Turkey, Israel's strategic ally until mid-2010, doesn't want to see the Jewish state or Cyprus become energy powers.
Turkey's threatened to use military force to stop the drilling off southern Cyprus and also wants to curb Russia's energy exports so it can become the main energy hub between east and west.


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Axis2 source repository commits
TODOs and Futures
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Apache Axis2 Web Services- by Deepal Jayasinghe and Afkham Azeez
Developing Web Services with Apache Axis2- By Kent Tong. The first 46 pages are freely available.
Quickstart Apache Axis, by Deepal Jayasinghe Chapter 2 freely available as a PDF download.
External Articles, Tutorials and Presentations
Java Web Services, Part 2: Digging into Axis2: AXIOM- By Dennis Sosnoski
Axis2 - The Future of Web Services- By Srinath Perera, Ajith Ranabahu
Introducing Axis2, the Next Generation of the Apache Web Service Stack- By Srinath Perera
Web Services Messaging with Apache Axis2: Concepts and Techniques- By Srinath Perera, Ajith Ranabahu (27 July 2005)
Understanding Axis2 Deployment Architecture- By Deepal Jayasinghe
Utilizing a Non-Java Web Service with Axis2- By Deepal Jayasinghe
Migrating Apache Axis apps to Axis2 using Apache Geronimo- By Tyler Anderson (07 Mar 2006)
Writing an Apache Axis2 Service from Scratch- By Deepal Jayasinghe (20 June 2006)
Writing an Email WebService with Axis 2 - by Arnaud Blandin (04 July 2006)
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The U.S. soldier kidnapped by Taliban forces in Afghanistan may have been taken across the border to Pakistan, complicating efforts to obtain his release, according to two people involved in U.S. and Afghan military efforts to locate him, and three Afghan soldiers captured with him.
The soldier, Pfc. Bowe R. Bergdahl, 23, of Idaho, is the first serviceman captured since the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in 2001. According to a person actively involved in the search, a top Afghan insurgent commander has taken credit for capturing the soldier and has now moved the soldier to South Waziristan, Pakistan. U.S. armed forces are not permitted to operate inside Pakistan except under extreme circumstances.
The insurgent leader, Mullah Sangeen, has reportedly demanded the U.S. halt air raids as a condition for the return of the soldier.
Lt. Col. Patrick Ryder, a Pentagon spokesman, said that "the efforts continue to locate the soldier, but we're not going to provide any details." The Pentagon yesterday announced that it took two days to determine that Bergdahl had been captured by enemy forces.
Officials at the Pentagon said they still believe Bergdahl is in Afghanistan.
Bergdahl was taken by Mullah Sangeen's men from village near the U.S. military post in Paktika, where he was stationed, according to a senior Afghan Army official in the province. The captors "punched and hit the soldier after some resistance. But than they were able to take the soldier and left all of his things: weapon, body armor and radios." The Afghan official says Bergdahl and the three Afghan National Army soldiers were moved from the near-by village and quickly vanished.
"We have an entire Afghan National Army platoon searching the area," says the Afghan official, who is searching for his soldiers as well. "But I suspect they might have moved him in to Pakistan already."
Yesterday, Bergdahl's captors released a video showing the soldier eating and sitting on a carpet. After Bergdahl is prompted by one of his captors, he is heard saying that the date is July 14th, nearly two weeks after he was captured, and that he is scared.
U.S. Military Distributes Leaflet in Afghanistan
Bergdahl's family released a statement yesterday asking for privacy and that Americans "please continue to keep Bowe in your thoughts and prayers."
Bergdahl, who is assigned to 1st Battalion, 501st Parachute Infantry Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division, Fort Richardson, Alaska, went missing from his post with three Afghan National Army soldiers in Eastern Afghanistan on or around July 1st under circumstances that remain unclear.
The U.S. military began distributing a leaflet in eastern Afghanistan last week that warns, "If you do not release the U.S. soldier, then You will be hunted." A picture of an American soldier kicking in the door of an Afghan home covers the leaflet. A Pentagon official tells ABC News that the leaflets were distributed in the areas inside Afghanistan that the military believes Bergdahl is being held.
War in Afghanistan
Paktika province is largely under Haqqani control. Two Taliban spokesman have denied holding or capturing the soldier, suggesting that Sangeen acted alone or in concert with Haqqani. Siraj Haqqani is believed to be responsible for the kidnap of New York Times reporter David Rohde, who escaped last month from Pakistan after seven months of captivity.
The war in Afghanistan has escalated in recent months, as the U.S. has surged troops and conducted more operations. July has already become the deadliest month for U.S. forces since the war began in 2001.


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I love your art style; I'm really enjoying this web comic. And y'know, I'm really enjoying the sketches you've put up recently also. I think I like them just as well as the more finished stuff, just in a different way.
Hope the dental ordeal is over soon. That stuff is never any fun.


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One of the historical judgments about the Supreme Court striking down many of FDR's early New Deal measures—especially the National Recovery Act and the Agricultural Adjustment Act (in an opinion written by a Justice named Roberts!)—is that these Court rulings actually helped FDR because it gave him a quick escape hatch from semi-socialist economic policies that had no hope of working. At the time the Court struck down the NRA in 1934, James MacGregor Burns noted in The Lion and the Fox, the NRA "was near administrative and political collapse" because of its "insuperable problems." Kinda sounds like Obamacare, doesn't it?
The National Recovery Act essentially tried to cartelize the economy, with government-administered price codes and production controls to keep wages and prices up. The Schechter case that brought down the NRA showed the full absurdity of the NRA with its peculiar facts that produced open laughter in the Supreme Court during oral argument. To prevent wholesalers of chickens from having to discount smaller chickens, the NRA codes prohibited people from selecting which chickens they wanted to buy; instead, if you wanted 10 chickens, you had to take ten more or less randomly grouped chickens in a coop. This was known as "straight-killing."
Here's how the transcript from the oral argument reads—see if this doesn't remind you of the quality of thought behind the entire Obamacare enterprise:
Mr. Justice McReynolds: I want to see whether I understand [the arrangement] correctly. . . These chickens are brought into New York by the carload, and then they are taken out and put in coops? [Mr.Heller, arguing for the Schechters, says yes, and he further informs the Justice that there are thirty to forty chickens in a coop.] And if he undertakes to sell them [from the coop] he must have straight-killing?
Mr. Heller: He must have straight-killing. In other words, the customer is not permitted to select the ones he wants. He must put his hand into the coop when he buys from the slaughterhouse and take the first chicken that comes to hand. He has to take that.
[Laughter—recorded in the chamber.]
Mr. Justice McReynolds: Irrespective of the quality of the chicken?
[More laughter in the courtroom.]
Suppose it is a sick chicken? [He is told a buyer was free to reject a sick chicken.] Now can he break up those coops and sell them, half a dozen chickens to one man, and half a dozen to another man?
Mr. Heller: He cannot. He can sell a whole coop, or one-half of a coop. . . That is all. And when he sells five, or six, or two, or three, he cannot permit the purchaser any selection of the chickens in the coop.
Mr. Justice Stone: Do you mean there can be a selection if he buys one-half the coop?
Mr. Heller: No. You just break the box into two halves.
[Laughter in the courtroom.]
Mr. Justice Sutherland: Well, suppose, however, that all the chickens have gone over to one end of the coop?
[More laughter in the courtroom.]
It was Justice Sutherland's question at the end of this passage that was the coup de grace for this cooped up nonsense. Schechter was decided against FDR by a 9 – 0 vote, so among the justices FDR attacked for their "horse and buggy" constitutional views was Louis Brandeis, the acme of Progressive liberalism. As Hadley Arkes notes in his splendid book on Justice Sutherland, "One thing I never learned in my reading about the New Deal was that when the clever young lawyers for the government sought to expound, in open court, the theories they were wrapping into the law, their account of the law elicited the giggling of the urbane."
Which brings us to today, and the laugh-out-loud absurdity of the claims on behalf of Obamacare ("keep your insurance if you like it," "bring down health care costs," and other howlers). Like FDR and the early New Deal catastrophes, one common theme is that a Supreme Court decision against Obamacare ironically helps Obama, both politically and substantively, by giving him an escape hatch from this unpopular and unworkable law. Perhaps so, but if it follows the FDR precedent, it will also ensure that Obama lurches even further to the Left in a second term.
Obamacare and FDR's National Recovery Act have many things in common, and one of the important similarities is that both attempted to buy off big business. Big business in 1933 generally liked the NRA; it was small business and competitive entrepreneurs—like the Schechters (loyal Democrats, as it happened)—who resisted the NRA. Obama took great care to buy off the health insurance industry and the pharmaceutical industry, though at the expense of medical device manufacturers (a more entrepreneurial and therefore more inherently competitive sector). One group that will join the Left in not liking a Supreme Court verdict against the individual mandate: Health insurers.
In the aftermath of the two Supreme Court decisions against the NRA and the AAA, James MacGregor Burns notes, FDR moved steadily to the Left: "Viewed in retrospect, Roosevelt's course seemed to many a sudden and massive shift leftward, away from the via media of the first two years to a commanding position on the left. . . The Court's decision made impossible the resurrection of the code features that had been the NRA's attraction for certain business and industrial groups. The result of this situation was that merely carrying on the prolabor elements of the NRA meant a leftward shift."
If the Supreme Court strikes down Obamacare, I expect Obama will follow in FDR's grooves.


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I had just moved to NYC – friends were few and my new apartment didn't lend well to my favorite hobby, oil painting. The need to take steps to fulfill my social and creative needs was evident. I began doing a little online research, attempting to find an affordable painting and/or sewing class in Brooklyn. This is when I stumbled upon 3rd Ward. Before I knew it I was touring the facility, seeing everything 3rd Ward had to offer, from woodworking to graphic design to fashion. Because I was looking for a painting class more advanced than the ones offered at 3rd Ward, it was clear I was meant to take their Sewing: Level I class instead.
To call me a novice sewer would be generous so a beginner sewing class was just what I needed, especially since I was now working at BurdaStyle. I made up my mind when I learned I would be sewing the BurdaStyle Charlie Bag in Sewing Level I – this class was going to be perfect!
On the first day of class the instructor, Tracey Toole, gave us a rundown of some important sewing basics: how to thread a machine, what was in our starter kit, where to purchase supplies in the city, etc. I found all the information particularly useful and she even made handouts for us for reference. Once we understood the very basics it was time to sew. We started off by sewing a small zipper bag for our starter-kit. My zipper was a little wonky but all in all I felt pretty proud of the outcome. Baby steps.
Tracey had transferred the Charlie Bag pattern pieces onto poster board for durable classroom use and we got down to tracing the pattern pieces onto our fabric at the start of day two.
I really wanted to make my bag reversible and Tracey was more than willing to walk us through the steps. I'm so glad she did. Now I have two different looks to choose from depending on my mood. Matching up my straps was my biggest challenge but perfection doesn't happen on the first try. I'll do better on my next bag. I'll definitely be making another.
Even though everyone used the same pattern, each bag looked so different from the next. Greg, on the left, was the fastest learner and Ramell, on the right, was the most adventurous with his variation. It was so much fun learning from Tracey and my classmates. I'm looking forward to Sewing Level II.


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Doris Day's 96th Birthday
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Doris Day 91st Birthday in Carmel
90th Birthday Celebration
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60th Anniversary of "It Happened to Jane"
A Letter to an American Icon
What Singers Can Learn from Doris Day
Meeting My Idol
Doris Paved the Way for Women through Her Roles
Uptown Pluck
Not the Girl Next Door: Doris Day Reconsidered
Blonde and Blameless: Why I Love Doris Day Movies
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No More Que Será Será: Give Day Her Due
90+ Years of Sunshine
Doris Day Photo Gallery
Doris and Pets (It's Her Passion)
Music - Early Years
The Peak Years for Doris Music and Hits
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The Studio Albums
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Doris and Les "Those Were the Good Old Days"
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PESCADERO — An experimental project to prevent steelhead trout from dying by the hundreds in Pescadero Marsh was so successful it will likely be tried again next year, federal officials said.
In the fall, volunteers dug a channel through a sandbar that forms every year at Pescadero State Beach on the southern San Mateo County coast, trapping water in the lagoon to the east. The trough improved water quality in the marsh, officials said, preventing the "fish kills" of the federal threatened species that for nearly 20 years have occurred when winter storms arrive.
"It was an unequivocal success," said Patrick Rutten, regional supervisor for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. "We had no kill and the lagoon responded exactly like we expected it to."
The pilot project, the result of long-sought cooperation between state and federal wildlife agencies, was hatched after years of stalemate.
Steve Simms, president of the Coastal Alliance for Species Enhancement, said he is pleased by the success of the project and cautiously optimistic that further action will be taken to fix ecological problems at the marsh, which the alliance claims began when California State Parks botched some restoration work there in the 1990s. The alliance has for now retracted a lawsuit it filed against the agency over the fish deaths.
"I do think we have some momentum now," said Simms. "What is really good about all this is that the agencies are all working together."
The purpose of digging the channel this fall was to alleviate the buildup of oxygen-depleted water and hydrogen sulfide that in recent years has surged throughout the lagoon when the rainy season comes and the heavy flow of water cuts through the sandbar.
Last year, observers counted 235 dead steelhead after the sandbar breached; Simms said the actual number of fish that died was much higher. So far this year, no fish deaths have been reported following the breach Nov. 30.
Contact Aaron Kinney at 650-348-4357. Follow him at Twitter.com/kinneytimes.


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The fashionable fire hose
Fashion label Elvis & Kresse has built its business model on reclaiming industrial waste products such as decommissioned fire hoses, auction banners and military-grade parachute silk and upcycling them into luxury accessories such as belts, bags and wallets. The company works with institutions such as the fire brigade as well as manufacturers and retailers to take their waste—which is a free source of raw material—and in return, donates 50% of its profits to charity.
Repurposing, or upcycling as it is technically known, is a recycling process in which waste products are converted into new materials or products or higher quality and environmental value.
Most materials are cleaned before being prepared and handcrafted into new products. The fire hoses for instance are polished, exposing a bright red rubber with a nylon core that can be cut, riveted and stitched into belts. Elvis & Kresse's determination to find a use for niche materials that are not currently recycled has seen it divert around 250 tons of industrial waste material from landfill since it launched in 2007.
The company is now planning to scale up its operations and enter new markets such as home wares. It is also working to minimise waste even further by incorporating the offcuts from its upcycling processes into new products.
Tomato-based car parts
Ford and Heinz are investigating the feasibility of using waste tomato skins as the basis of new composite materials for vehicle parts. Researchers at Ford are testing the durability of tomato fibre to see if it can act as a bio-plastic, which could potentially be used for vehicle wiring brackets and storage bins.
The collaboration could solve an ongoing problem for Heinz as it looks for novel ways to upcycle and repurpose the peels, stems and seeds that are left over from the 2m tonnes of tomatoes used annually to produce its tomato ketchup brand. Although the research is at an early stage, the technology conversion process has been validated.
The experiment forms part of a wider initiative at Ford to develop sustainable, lightweight plant-based plastic composites to reduce the use of petrochemicals in its manufacturing process. Its bio-based material profile now includes rice hull-filled electrical cowl brackets, soy foam seat cushions and cellulose fibre-reinforced console components.
From fishing nets to flooring
Discarded fishing nets are being transformed into carpet tiles under a scheme called Net-Works, a collaboration between the Zoological Society of London, Project Seahorse Foundation for Marine Conservation, yarn producer Aquafil and carpet manufacturer Interface. The initiative is not only reducing marine waste, but also providing new sources of income for fisheries in some of the world's poorest coastal communities.
As fishing nets are made from nylon, they are an ideal material for producing carpet yarn. By salvaging this waste stream, Interface saw an opportunity to create a closed-loop, inclusive business model. It has developed an upcycling process with its yarn supplier Aquafil to take waste nylon—not just from fishing nets, but from used carpet fluff and industrial offcuts—and repurpose it into 100% recycled nylon fibre with the same quality and performance as virgin fibre.
The Net-Works scheme began as an initial pilot in 2012 with four fisheries near Danajon Bank in the Philippines. In the first month, one tonne of nets were collected for reprocessing. It has since been expanded to involve more local communities and hopes to scale up further to other regions such as India and West Africa.
The circular economy places an emphasis on the sharing of physical resources through a more collaborative form of consumption where customers pay for the benefit of using a product, rather than owning it outright. Companies will sell usage of their products through leasing or access arrangements allowing them to retain ownership of these goods through the entire lifecycle, extending their performance through maintenance, repair and reuse.


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Victory Achieved
I'm a bit tired and typed out for today, but I'd be remissed if I didn't post an update now and say thanks for not only all of your generous donations, but your kind words of encouragement as well. Funding has been an overwhelming success, more than I ever imagined would be possible.
I set out to make a game like this because it was the type of game *I* wanted to play, but few like it seem to exist. I suspected other people would share my sentiment, and boy was I right.
Soon it'll be time to move forward and make this beast, and believe me when I say I take your faith and support seriously, and I consider delivering an awesome game to be my solemn obligation.
Quick house cleaning:
1: People keep asking me if there's a Paypal option. Scroll down a couple inches, it's right there. :) Or just click here. I'm leaving it open and all the rewards the same, at least for now, in case more people want to get in on this and support us. (This means you can still get all the tier rewards, including the Dizzy bonus for all backers)
2: To those who may be lamenting about the Wii U goal -- I'm working to make this happen anyway. That's not official, but it's a desire of mine and I hope to have that out at some point, if not at release, then following release.
Thank you all!!
Robert smith on
Columbus has the 16Bit Bar and Arcade now. Awesome place for a launch party!
Jesus Antonio Rivera Muñoz on
i would totally love to see this on the Wii U, i hope the goal is reached through paypal :)
Sean Davis Nelson on
Congratulations on the funding! I'm proud to be a backer. I think we will make it to $60,000 with the paypal purchases!
Jacob Chambliss on
@RPRezo, he's already said that is the idea, numerous times. The complete game comes first, the Wii U port after. Which is why he set the initial goal for it so high, so that he would definitely have enough to do both without gimping anything.
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Congratulations. I believe the reason this is possible is because when you do something you want to do (a game you want to play) then you're able to convey those emotions to the rest of us. Looking forward to see this game. Now take the time you need to deliver what you really want to create.
E. Magid on
Congratulations! This looks like one of the most exciting Kickstarters I've ever seen. Can't wait to play it, but I REALLY hope it comes to Wii U. I don't know exactly what the cost of porting it to Wii U would be, but I know that Unity is free for Wii U isn't it? Whatever the case, I hope I get to play this on the GamePad eventually!
Peter Coffin on
One more big congrats from me. Really happy this worked out. Hoping to see it on the Wii U regardless. Will be watching the Ghost Song site.
dennis fuchs on
Wow, the late comers brought in quite a few more dollars. When I went to sleep it was still 10k away with 3 hours to go and then you made another 4k in that time. Really nice. Bummer it didn't make the Wii U goal though.
So many Kickstarters these days! Now I'm eagerly awaiting the game. All the best, Matt!
RPRezo on
I just hope your dream won't hinder of hurt the development of your game itself. You know, making ports is not all that easy. So yeah, you should probably start by creating what you promised and making it as good as possible, and only then moving to realizing your other dreams - like porting to Wii U.
Rain-Dancer on
congrats!! :)
Shiru XIII on
Congratulations !!!!!
Sander Harrewijnen on
Congratulations on the funding! Can't to hear more about the plans you have for the game.
Lorenz Jugel on
I hope the team had a tiny (and well-deserved!) victory party. Now the interesting part begins. Good luck, and I hope you have at least as much fun making the game as I plan on having while playing it.
Also, while I may not have a WiiU, I wish you all the best that you can release the game on the console as well.
Stegalosaurus Game Company on
We clap mightily for you, sir!
John Remington Berdeaux on
Excited for the game :)
KevinSensei on
Good to hear that the Wii U version could still happen. That was my main goal in supporting this KS. This type of game would be perfect on the system.
Matthew Snyder on
Glad to see this got a good amount! Love seeing good stuff out of Ohio and especially nearby in the state no less.
Kyle Reese on
I can't say I'm not gutted about being so close to reaching the Wii U goal though.
This game would most likely sell the best on a Nintendo console too, I think.
Well now that the goal wasn't reached for Wii U($6,000...), all I can do is hope and pray...
Ian Chamberlin on
Well that's cool...I'd like a game like this on WiiU. It's too bad it didn't quite make it. Very glad that all the other goals were realized though. :) They were some pretty good ones. Looking forward to seeing more of this game as development goes on.
VulgarUnderoos on
Sad to see we didn't hit that last bit, but still super excited for how far it went! Congrats Matt and good luck with all the work ahead! If you do ever get around to porting it to the Wii U, I'll be buying that for sure. Awesome job everyone!
Jamie Dutton on
Congrats and I look forward to see where you take this game! Now go get some sleep and eat something, ok! :)
Francis Marier on
Oops, I didn't consider the US-CAN $ difference. Mmm... It probably won't work, it's good the paypal method still works for now.
Matt White Creator on
oh, and jacob, like I said, I still want to do the wii u, but it's not official or guaranteed at the moment.
Matt White Creator on
jacob: the funds will be used to make the game as good as it can be. more dime, more time, more... I'm outta rhyme. anyway, I have many ideas. I think you guys will be pleased.
Gianni Rosheuvel on
Good luck with the project. Please be sure to keep us updated. Look forward to the end product.
Jacob Chambliss on
Just a thought, could that extar 15,000 be appropriated towards something else? (if it's not going towards making the Wii U goal a reality?)
Matt White Creator on
thanks guys :) @tyrone about $800 in total, I think
Tyrone WestedSuperbackeron
how much has paypal added to the pot so far?
Isaiah on
I know some projects don't talk about it, but since it's a personal hope for you, I presume Paypal stuff actually brings it closer to the 60k goal over what just Kickstarter shows. I have high hopes for that. Not that I'm personally invested in a Wii U edition, but it's always good to spread the love of a game to multiple systems where more people can enjoy them :3 good luck, and congratulations!
Joseph Huckleberry on
You are a true inspiration Matt. Thank you for following your dream!
David WagamanSuperbackeron
Grats! I'm glad that you get to make this game with some of the nifty extras from the stretch goals. When this makes its way to the Wii U you can count on my money.
François Potvin Naud on
You are the one with enough guts to start a project like this. :P Without you, we would all be richer, but sadder and gameless. ;)


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Last week was a strange one for veteran quarterback Matthew Hasselbeck. Cut by the Titans before being scooped by the Colts, Hasselbeck essentially swapped shades of blue in the AFC South.
"I'm still in shock a little bit. It happened so fast," Hasselbeck tells Jim Wyatt of the Tennessean. "But there's no reason for anyone to feel bad for me; I've sort of sensed that at times when I've talked to friends and teammates. It's unfortunate it went down the way it did, and it's hard on the kids. But you have to move on and I have to focus on all the good that came from the experience here in Nashville."
Hasselbeck explained that he would be willing t0 make a "significant" reduction to his $5.5 million salary, but that after positive talks the Titans dug in at a number to which Hasselbeck wasn't willing to drop. That number apparently was $2.75 million.
"There's no ill will," Hasselbeck said. "The only 'Hmmm' thing I ever had really is when [Ryan] Fitzpatrick's deal, hours later, was a half-million more than I was ever offered. Maybe that just meant they had more wiggle room and we never got to that point, I don't know."
Still, Hasselbeck will earn $5 million this year to play for a team that made it to the postseason in 2012, and that has an arrow pointing straight up. That's money well spent for the Colts, given what Hasselbeck can do to help Luck develop — and given what Hasselbeck learned over the last two years about Titans quarterback Jake Locker.


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WORCESTER — This dark, disturbing painting is not, on reflection, dark — it's very brightly colored — and it's only disturbing if you want it to be. It's by Hyman Bloom (1913-2009), one of the most compelling artists to have emerged from Boston in the 20th century, and it hangs in the Worcester Art Museum.
Painted in 1952, it shows a human body with its viscera exposed. We see a knee, an arm, a face, and a rib cage (which also resembles the skeleton of a ship's hull — hence, one assumes, the title). And then, too, we notice the hands of whoever is performing this grisly operation — an autopsy, most likely. One of them grips a knife, its edge limned by blood.
All this points to a real situation, observed and later recalled by the artist. Bloom, a tremendously talented draughtsman, used to visit morgues and saw autopsies being performed in the 1940s and '50s. In one sense, then, he was continuing a tradition taken up in the Renaissance, when artists were permitted to dissect cadavers in order to learn more about the workings of the human body.
Yet, of course, many passages in this picture are in fact very hard to make sense of. And as you peer at them, the suspicion quickly grows on you that this is not just because of your slender grasp of anatomy.
It's because a lot of what is on this canvas is not intended to be descriptive. It is instead about paint. Paint in streaming, iridescent colors — crimson, orange, pink, turquoise, white, purple, and green. The paint is so freely handled, so wristily brushed on, that it has a delirious, almost ecstatic quality.
It can make you think of Francis Bacon's stated wish to paint the human scream in the same way Monet painted water lilies, or of countless other 20th-century conflations of horror and beauty. But Bloom was a one-man movement: All comparisons feel awkward.
A Latvian Jew, he came to America when he was 7. As a young man, he became interested in the occult theories of Madame Blavatsky. And when, in 1939, a close friend of his, the artist Elizabeth Chase, committed suicide, and he saw her body in the morgue, the experience affected him profoundly.
Not, however, in the way one might have expected. He was overwhelmed by a sense that "everything is beautiful. . . . Everything in the world has an aura of just rightness and beauty."
Part of one shudders to think of a thought like this occurring to a Jewish man, in a morgue, in 1939, on the very cusp of the Holocaust. And indeed, Bloom was surely shaken by what happened over the next six years. Nor, in his art, did he shy from it. But he also pursued his own spiritualist course. He seemed to perceive that it is only at the level of spirituality that death and life can begin to cohere in the human mind, and that what makes them cohere appears to us as beauty.Sebastian Smee can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Brenda Priddy, the femme fatale of car spy photography, got us one heck of a scoop today — real, live and non-blurry photos of the new Volkswagen pickup truck tester. We've been told this mid-size hauler will be called the 2010 VW Robust in certain markets, but that's speculation as of now. What's also speculation is whether we'll end up seeing it here in the United States and of course whether the new four-door pickup from the brand all about "Fahrvergnügen" will end up hitting showrooms as a 2010 model year product. What we do know is current plans are for it to be built in Hanover, Germany as well as Argentina. Full spy report from Brenda Priddy below the jump.
VW's All-New Pickup Truck Caught!
You've seen test mules, and blurry pictures from what seems like miles away - but here's a running prototype - and we're as close as one can possible get (at highway speeds) to the all-new pickup from Volkswagen.
The mid-size truck - this one sporting a quad-cab - will be built in Hannover, Germany, as well Argentina, and has been referred to as the Robust. Sources say two-wheel-drive and "off-road capable" 4x4 versions will both be offered!
The 2010 Robust will be a global product - but VW is still mum on their plans for U.S. sales.


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The Delta Aquarid meteor shower – which always happens in late July and early August – is going on now, but bright moonlight is interfering. Click here for more about the Delta Aquarids. This shower overlaps with the famous Perseid meteor shower, which will peak on the mornings of August 11, 12 and 13. It's going to be a wonderful year for the Perseids! The moon is out of the way. Click here for more about the Perseids. And follow the links below to learn what to expect for meteor showers during the rest of 2015.
July 28-29, 2015 Delta Aquarids
November 4-5, 2015 South Taurids
November 12-13, 2015 North Taurids
Where to go to watch a meteor shower
January 4, 2015 before dawn, the Quadrantids
Although the Quadrantids can produce over 100 meteors per hour, the sharp peak of this shower tends to last only a few hours, and doesn't always come at an opportune time. In other words, you have to be in the right spot on Earth to view this meteor shower in all its splendor. The radiant point is in the part of the sky that used to be considered the constellation Quadrans Muralis the Mural Quadrant. You'll find this radiant near the famous Big Dipper asterism (chart here), in the north-northeastern sky after midnight and highest up before dawn. Because the radiant is fairly far to the north on the sky's dome, meteor numbers will be greater in the Northern Hemisphere. In 2015, watch in the wee hours – after midnight and before dawn – on January 4. Unfortunately, the almost-fullwaxing gibbous moon is out almost all night long, sitting low in the west in the dark hour before dawn.Click here to find out your moonset time..
Everything you need to know: Quadrantid meteor shower
Around the March equinox … fireball season. A fireball is just an especially bright meteor. Northern spring and southern autumn – for a few weeks around the March equinox – is a good time to see one. It's fireball season — a time of year when bright meteors appear in greater numbers than usual. In fact, in the weeks around the equinox, the appearance rate of fireballs can increase by as much as 30 percent, says NASA.
April 22 and 23, 2015 before dawn, the Lyrids
The Lyrid meteor shower – April's shooting stars – lasts from about April 16 to 25. Lyrid meteors tend to be bright and often leave trails. About 10-20 meteors per hour can be expected at their peak. Plus, the Lyrids are known for uncommon surges that can sometimes bring the rate up to 100 per hour. Those rare outbursts are not easy to predict, but they're one of the reasons the tantalizing Lyrids are worth checking out around their peak morning. The radiant for this shower is near the bright star Vega in the constellation Lyra (chart here), which rises in the northeast at about 10 p.m. on April evenings.In 2015, the peak morning is April 23. Watch also on the morning of April 22. And you might also see Lyrid meteors before and after that date. The waxing crescent moon will set in the evening, leaving a dark for watching this year's Lyrid shower.
Everything you need to know: Lyrid meteor shower
May 6, 2015 before dawn, the Eta Aquarids
This meteor shower has a relatively broad maximum – meaning you can watch it for several days around the predicted peak. However, in 2015, the bright waning gibbous moon is sure to diminish the numbers. The radiant is near the star Eta in the constellation Aquarius the Water Bearer (click here for chart). The radiant comes over the eastern horizon at about 4 a.m. local time; that is the time at all locations across the globe. For that reason, the hour or two before dawn tends to offer the most Eta Aquarid meteors, no matter where you are on Earth. At northerly latitudes – like those in the northern U.S. and Canada, or northern Europe, for example – the meteor numbers are typically lower for this shower. In the southern half of the U.S., 10 to 20 meteors per hour might be visible in a dark sky. Farther south – for example, at latitudes in the Southern Hemisphere – the meteor numbers may increase dramatically, with perhaps two to three times more Eta Aquarid meteors streaking the southern skies. For the most part, the Eta Aquarids is a predawn shower. In 2015, the bright waning gibbous moon will obscure this year's production. The most meteors will probably rain down on May 6, in the dark hours before dawn. But watch on May 5 and 7 as well! The broad peak to this shower means that some meteors may fly in the dark hour before dawn for a few days before and after the predicted optimal date.
Everything you need to know: Eta Aquarid meteor shower
Late July and early August, 2015, the Delta Aquarids
Like the Eta Aquarids in May, the Delta Aquarid meteor shower in July favors the Southern Hemisphere and tropical latitudes in the Northern Hemisphere. The meteors appear to radiate from near the star Skat or Delta in the constellation Aquarius the Water Bearer. The maximum hourly rate can reach 15-20 meteors in a dark sky. The nominal peak is around July 27-30, but, unlike many meteor showers, the Delta Aquarids lack a very definite peak. Instead, these medium-speed meteors ramble along fairly steadily throughout late July and early August. An hour or two before dawn usually presents the most favorable view of the Delta Aquarids. At the shower's peak in late July, 2015, the rather faint Delta Aquarid meteors will have to contend with moonlight. The waxing gibbous moon will be out until the wee hours after midnight. Try watching in late July predawn sky, after moonset.
Everything you need to know: Delta Aquarid shower
August 12-13, 2015 before dawn, the Perseids
The Perseid meteor shower is perhaps the most beloved meteor shower of the year for the Northern Hemisphere. Fortunately, the slender waning crescent moon rising at or near dawn will not obtrude on this year's shower. The Perseid shower builds gradually to a peak, often produces 50 to 100 meteors per hour in a dark sky at the peak, and, for us in the Northern Hemisphere, this shower comes when the weather is warm. The Perseids tend to strengthen in number as late night deepens into midnight, and typically produce the most meteors in the wee hours before dawn. They radiate from a point in the constellation Perseus the Hero, but, as with all meteor shower radiant points, you don't need to know Perseus to watch the shower; instead, the meteors appear in all parts of the sky. They are typically fast and bright meteors. They frequently leave persistent trains. Every year, you can look for the Perseids to peak around August 10-13. Predicted peak mornings in 2015: August 11, 12 and 13. The Perseids combine with the Delta Aquarid shower (above) to produce a dazzling display of shooting stars on what are, for us in the N. Hemisphere, warm summer nights. In 2015, as always, the Perseid meteors will be building to a peak from early August until the peak nights; afterwards, they drop off fairly rapidly. With little or no moon to ruin the show, this is a great year for watching the Perseid meteor shower.
Everything you need to know: Perseid meteor shower
October 8, 2015, the Draconids
The radiant point for the Draconid meteor shower almost coincides with the head of the constellation Draco the Dragon in the northern sky. That's why the Draconids are best viewed from the Northern Hemisphere. The Draconid shower is a real oddity, in that the radiant point stands highest in the sky as darkness falls. That means that, unlike many meteor showers, more Draconids are likely to fly in the evening hours than in the morning hours after midnight. This shower is usually a sleeper, producing only a handful of languid meteors per hour in most years. But watch out if the Dragon awakes! In rare instances, fiery Draco has been known to spew forth many hundreds of meteors in a single hour. In 2015, the waning crescent moon rises at late night and will not intrude on this year's Draconid shower. Try watching at nightfall and early evening on October 8 and 9.
Everything you need to know: Draconid Meteor shower
October 22, 2015 before dawn, the Orionids
On a dark, moonless night, the Orionids exhibit a maximum of about 10 to 20 meteors per hour. The waxing gibbous moon will be out the during the evening hours, but it'll set before the prime time viewing hours, providing deliciously dark skies for this year's Orionid shower. More meteors tend to fly after midnight, and the Orionids are typically at their best in the wee hours before dawn. These fast-moving meteors occasionally leave persistent trains. They sometimes produce bright fireballs, so watch for them to flame in the sky. If you trace these meteors backward, they seem to come from the Club of the famous constellation Orion the Hunter. You might know Orion's bright, ruddy star Betelgeuse. The radiant is north of Betelgeuse. The Orionids have a broad and irregular peak that isn't easy to predict. This year, 2015, presents a fine year for watching the Orionid meteor shower. The best viewing for the Orionids in 2015 will probably be before dawn on October 22. Try the days before and after that, too, sticking to the midnight-to-dawn hours..
Everything you need to know: Orionid meteor shower
Late night November 4 until dawn November 5, 2015, the South Taurids
Fortunately, the full moon will wash away all but the brightest South Taurid meteors. The meteoroid streams that feed the South (and North) Taurids are very spread out and diffuse. That means the Taurids are extremely long-lasting (September 25 to November 25) but usually don't offer more than about 7 meteors per hour. That is true even on the South Taurids' expected peak night. The Taurids are, however, well known for having a high percentage of fireballs, or exceptionally bright meteors. Plus, the other Taurid shower – the North Taurids – always adds a few more meteors to the mix during the South Taurids' peak night. In 2015, the slim waning crescent moon coming up before dawn will not seriously obtrude on this year's South Taurid meteor shower. The South Taurids should produce their greatest number of meteors in the wee hours – between midnight and dawn – on November 5. Remember, it'll be possible to catch a fireball or two!
Late night November 12 until dawn November 13, 2015, the North Taurids
Like the South Taurids, the North Taurids meteor shower is long-lasting (October 12 – December 2) but modest, and the peak number is forecast at about 7 meteors per hour. The North and South Taurids combine, however, to provide a nice sprinkling of meteors throughout October and November. Typically, you see the maximum numbers at around midnight, when Taurus the Bull is highest in the sky. Taurid meteors tend to be slow-moving, but sometimes very bright. In 2015, the new moon comes only one day before the predicted peak, providing a dark sky for the 2015 North Taurid shower.
Late night November 17 until dawn November 18, 2015, the Leonids
Radiating from the constellation Leo the Lion, the famous Leonid meteor shower has produced some of the greatest meteor storms in history – at least one in living memory, 1966 – with rates as high as thousands of meteors per minute during a span of 15 minutes on the morning of November 17, 1966. Indeed, on that beautiful night in 1966, the meteors did, briefly, fall like rain. Some who witnessed the 1966 Leonid meteor storm said they felt as if they needed to grip the ground, so strong was the impression of Earth plowing along through space, fording the meteoroid stream. The meteors, after all, were all streaming from a single point in the sky – the radiant point – in this case in the constellation Leo the Lion. Leonid meteor storms sometimes recur in cycles of 33 to 34 years, but the Leonids around the turn of the century – while wonderful for many observers – did not match the shower of 1966. And, in most years, the Lion whimpers rather than roars, producing a maximum of perhaps 10-15 meteors per hour on a dark night. Like many meteor showers, the Leonids ordinarily pick up steam after midnight and display the greatest meteor numbers just before dawn. In 2015, the rather wide waxing crescent moon sets in the evening and won't interfere with this year's Leonid meteor shower. The peak morning will probably be November 18 – but try November 17, too.
Everything you need to know: Leonid meteor shower
December 13-14, 2015, mid-evening until dawn, Geminids
Radiating from near the bright stars Castor and Pollux in the constellation Gemini the Twins, the Geminid meteor shower is one of the finest meteors showers visible in either the Northern or the Southern Hemisphere. Best yet, there is no moon to obscure the 2015 Geminid shower. The meteors are plentiful, rivaling the August Perseids, with perhaps 50 to 100 meteors per hour visible at the peak. Plus Geminid meteors are often bright. These meteors are often about as good in the evening as in the hours between midnight and dawn. In 2015, the slender waxing crescent moon will set soon after the sun, providing a wonderful cover of darkness for the Geminid meteor shower. Your best bet is to watch on December 12-13 and 13-14, from mid-evening (9 to 10 p.m.) until dawn.
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A word about moonlight. In 2015, moonlight will not pose much of a problem for the April Lyrids, August Perseids, October Draconids, October Orionids, November South Taurids, November North Taurids, November Leonids and December Geminids. There's some moon-free viewing time for the July Delta Aquarids. The nearly full moon gets in the way of the January Quadrantids and May Eta Aquarids. Our almanac page provides links for access to the moonrise and moonset times in your sky.
Most important: a dark sky. Here's the first thing – the main thing – you need to know to become as proficient as the experts at watching meteors. That is, to watch meteors, you need a dark sky. It's possible to catch a meteor or two or even more from the suburbs. But, to experience a true meteor shower – where you might see several meteor each minute – avoid city lights.
Know your dates and times. You also need to be looking on the right date, at the right time of night. Meteor showers occur over a range of dates, because they stem from Earth's own movement through space. As we orbit the sun, we cross "meteor streams." These streams of icy particles in space come from comets moving in orbit around the sun. Comets are fragile icy bodies that litter their orbits with debris. When this cometary debris enters our atmosphere, it vaporizes due to friction with the air. If moonlight or city lights don't obscure the view, we on Earth see the falling, vaporizing particles as meteors. The Lyrids take place between about April 16 and 25. The peak morning in 2015 should be April 22, but you might catch Lyrid meteors on the nights around that date as well.
Where to go to watch a meteor shower. You can comfortably watch meteors from many places, assuming you have a dark sky: a rural back yard or deck, the hood of your car, the side of a road. State parks and national parks are good bets, but be sure they have a wide open viewing area, like a field; you don't want to be stuck in the midst of a forest on meteor night. An EarthSky friend and veteran meteor-watcher and astrophotographer Sergio Garcia Rill also offers this specific advice:
… you might want to give it a try but don't know where to go. Well, in planning my night photoshoots I use a variety of apps and web pages to know how dark the sky is in a certain location, the weather forecast, and how the night sky will look. Here's the link toDark Sky Finder. It's a website that shows the light pollution in and around cities in North America which has been fundamental for finding dark sites to setup shots. Dark Sky finder also has an app for iPhone and iPad which as of this writting is only 99 cents so you might want to look into that as well. For people not in North America, the Blue Marble Navigator might be able to help to see how bright are the lights near you.
The other tool I can suggest is the Clear Sky Chart. I've learned the hard way that, now matter how perfectly dark the sky is at your location, it won't matter if there's a layer of clouds between you an the stars. This page is a little hard to read, but it shows a time chart, with each column being an hour, and each row being one of the conditions like cloud coverage and darkness. Alternatively, you could try to see the regular weather forecast at the weather channel or your favorite weather app.
What to bring with you. You don't need special equipment to watch a meteor shower. If you want to bring along equipment to make yourself more comfortable, consider a blanket or reclining lawn chair, a thermos with a hot drink, binoculars for gazing at the stars. Be sure to dress warmly enough, even in spring or summer, especially in the hours before dawn. Binoculars are fun to have, too. You won't need them for watching the meteor shower, but, especially if you have a dark sky, you might not be able to resist pointing them at the starry sky.
Are the predictions reliable? Although astronomers have tried to publish exact predictions in recent years, meteor showers remain notoriously unpredictable. Your best bet is to go outside at the times we suggest, and plan to spend at least an hour, if not a whole night, reclining comfortably while looking up at the sky. Also remember that meteor showers typically don't just happen on one night. They span a range of dates. So the morning before or after a shower's peak might be good, too.
Remember … meteor showers are like fishing. You go, you enjoy nature … and sometimes you catch something.
Peak dates are derived from data published in the Observer's Handbook by the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada and Guy Ottewell's Astronomical Calendar.
Bottom line: The Lyrid meteor shower is next on the mornings of April 22 and 23. April 23 will probably have more meteors. Details on how to watch, plus listings of all major meteor showers in 2015.
EarthSky's top 10 tips for meteor-watchers


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Mesa Verde is best known for a large number of well preserved cliff dwellings, houses built in shallow caves and under rock overhangs along the canyon walls in Southwestern Colorado. Around 14 centuries ago, the nomadic Anasazi -- or Ancestral Puebloan -- people chose to settle down and build permanent homes near their planted crops. As the tribe prospered, members migrated outward to build "cliff dwellings" in a variety of locations-Mesa Verde chief among them. From this network of cities, Anasazi culture flourished for hundreds of years. Then, according to the US National Park Service, they migrated south to New Mexico and Arizona, and by 1300, the Ancestral Puebloan occupation of Mesa Verde ended.
The structures contained within these alcoves were mostly blocks of hard sandstone, held together and plastered with adobe mortar. Specific constructions had many similarities, but were generally unique in form due to the individual topography of different alcoves along the canyon walls. In marked contrast to earlier constructions and villages on top of the mesas, the cliff dwellings of Mesa Verde reflected a region-wide trend towards the aggregation of growing regional populations into close, highly defensible quarters during the 1200s.
While much of the construction in these sites conforms to common Pueblo architectural forms, including Kivas, towers, and pit-houses, the space constrictions of these alcoves necessitated what seems to have been a far denser concentration of their populations. Mug House, a typical cliff dwelling of the period, was home to around 100 people who shared 94 small rooms and eight kivas built right up against each other and sharing many of their walls; builders in these areas maximized space in any way they could and no areas were considered off-limits to construction.
Not all of the people in the region lived in cliff dwellings; many colonized the canyon rims and slopes in multi-family structures that grew to unprecedented size as populations swelled. Decorative motifs for these sandstone/mortar constructions, both cliff dwellings and non-, included T-shaped windows and doors. This has been taken by some archaeologists, such as Stephen Lekson (1999), as evidence of the continuing reach of the Chaco Canyon elite system, which had seemingly collapsed around a century before. Other researchers see these motifs as part of a more generalized Puebloan style and/or spiritual significance, rather than evidence of a continuing specific elite socioeconomic system.
Mesa Verde enjoys a fairly moderate climate for its elevation but is generally colder than most areas of the deserts. Winters are mostly sunny but cold. Average midwinter (January) highs are about 40 degrees F. with lows of about 15 degrees F. Cold-snaps do occasionally occur but are short-lived. Winter snowfall averages about 90 inches a year causing closure of most of the park. The park re-opens in the spring as the weather warms and occasional rains bring wildflowers to high country meadows and mesa tops. During the summer, temperatures seldom reach more than 85 degrees F. July's mean daily maximum is 82 degrees F.; its mean daily minimum is 45 degrees F..
Mesa Verde National Park is located in the high plateau country of southwestern Colorado. The park lies atop a high mesa that rises from the canyon of the Mancos River, a tributary of the San Juan River. The Mancos has cut a deep, broad valley along the eastern and southern edge of Mesa Verde, which in turn is dissected by 15 canyons formed by smaller streams. This erosional action has thus created many smaller mesas. Two of these, Wetherill and Chapin mesas, provide the primary access to most of the park's public archeological sites. Mesa Verde National Park encompasses 52,122 acres, about 81 square miles. It runs about 9 miles both east-to-west and north-to-south. Elevation on Mesa Verde varies between 6,000 and 8,500 feet.
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by Joe Zentner
The Anasazi (a Navajo word meaning 'ancestors of our enemies', also preferably known as Ancestral Puebloans) cultural traditions began to emerge early in the first millennium, presumably from nomadic bands who hunted the game and gathered the wild plants of the Four Corners area. The early Anasazi lived as pithouse village farmers along stream bottoms and mesa tops.
They occupied lodges built of mud-plastered timber and brush constructed over shallow excavations in the ground. They raised corn, beans and squash--crops that originated well down in Mexico. They supplemented their farm produce with game (especially rabbits) and wild plants. They made pottery, following a technology that originated in Mexico. About 500 A. D., they replaced traditional spears and throwing sticks (sometimes called "atlatls") with the bow and arrow, a much more efficient weapon that evidently originated somewhere to the north.
They distinguished themselves by producing elaborate and finely woven basketry. The later Anasazi, in the second half of the first millennium, began building their lodges and other structures, not over pits, but as contiguous rooms on the surface of the ground. In some instances, they built jacal-style walls, that is, walls of adjoining upright poles plastered with mud or adobe. They sometimes built pithouses that may have served, not as housing, but as chambers for clan social gatherings, crafts and ritual prototypes for the ceremonial chambers called kivas.
Late in the first millennium, the Anasazi began to build small cities - pueblos of finely crafted walls of masonry. They would leave well-planned communities, innovative architecture, superb masonry and large circular semisubterranean - great kivas - as their collective signature. At the peak, as many as 100,000 Anasazi may have occupied the Four Corners region.
The Mesa Verdan Anasazi
Anasazi pithouse village farmers moved into Mesa Verde about the middle of the first millennium, settling primarily on the mesa tops. Typically, they built their lodges over roughly square- or rectangular-shaped pits. They used crude wooden tools to excavate the pits and woven baskets to haul away excess soil. They set four main ponderosa pine timbers, one at each corner, to anchor the walls and support the roof.
They divided the interior into a living room with a fire pit and an air deflector and an antechamber with storage bins. They farmed the mesa tops, hunted rabbits and deer, gathered wild plants, crafted pottery, used the bow and arrow and wove fine baskets.
About the middle of the 8th century, the Mesa Verdans, their population prospering and growing, began to give up their pithouses in favor of surface structures, building long rows of contiguous rooms with the jacal-style walls. Within another one to two centuries, they had become masters of masonry, building two- to three-story pueblos with 50 or more rooms.
They cleared more of the mesa tops to open up new fields for their crops. They began to produce a more elaborately designed pottery. A century into the second millennium, the Mesa Verdans, now with a population of perhaps 5000, did a strange thing. For some mysterious reason, they began to abandon their pueblos on the mesa tops and construct new pueblos in the great canyon alcoves.
Calling on all their skills for community planning, architecture and masonry, they built compact and defensible stone cities with many small rooms that were used for living, cooking, working and storage. In the midst of their new villages, they built, for the first time, multistory stone towers.
In the natural courtyards of their communities, they built large underground kivas. They continued farming, hunting and gathering. They raised their craftsmanship to the level of art. The reason for the move from the mesa tops into the canyons? Possibly for defense. But against whom? No one knows. It is one of the great mysteries of Mesa Verde.
Two to three centuries into the second millennium, the Mesa Verdans did another strange thing. Like Anasazi across the region, they began to abandon their ancestral homeland. Family units, clans or possibly entire villages migrated to the southeast or south, where they built new pueblos or joined other Puebloan peoples, sometimes in very large and populous communities. What were the reasons for the migration?
Possibly the threat of raiders, the onset of prolonged drought, the depletion of timber and other resources, the exhaustion of arable soil, the collapse of their religious and political infrastructure, the lure of other pueblos, different religious concepts, the promise of greater resources and a better life, or some combination of reasons, but no one knows for sure. The abandonment is perhaps the greatest mystery of Mesa Verde.
Following is an additional Article
by Kelly Hart
I visited Mesa Verde in Colorado near the Four Corners. This was my first encounter with the "ruins" of the Ancestral Puebloan people, progenitors of the Pueblo and Hopi nations. I had heard about Mesa Verde since I was a kid, but nothing could prepare me for the awesome reality. Despite the influx of tourists, there is a peaceful and spiritual quality that persists. The most famous aspect of what was left behind there are the cliff dwellings, which are certainly magnificent.
These finely crafted rock structures emerge from huge alcoves within the cliff faces, and from a distance resemble swallows' nests, fitting into the surrounding rock just as naturally. Actually the cliff houses represent the culmination of about seven centuries of habitation at Mesa Verde.
Then around 1300 AD the people abruptly abandoned their homes and moved south and southeast to establish other communities. There is much speculation about why they moved, but the most likely cause was a prolonged period of at least 12 years of drought.
The cliffs were only occupied for the last two centuries at Mesa Verde; before that, all habitation was on the mesa above. At first the people made rectangular pit houses that were dug partially into the ground and then built up with poles and sticks plastered with mud.
The entrance was via a hole in the roof with a ladder descending to the floor below. Archeologists believe that from this simple pit house both the freestanding masonry pueblo and the underground circular kiva evolved. The cliff dwellings combined both interconnected pueblo "apartments" and kivas, which were used for ceremonial and community functions. Some of the larger cliff dwellings may have housed over a hundred people.
Most of the Mesa Verdeans lived in this communal way, but there were also many smaller housing units scattered throughout the area. It is obvious that they were a very cooperative society. Little did they know that their style of architecture would become so enormously popular many centuries later. Pueblo or Santa Fe style building can be linked directly to them.
The Spanish introduced modular adobe blocks that make the construction go faster, but the simple stacked rectangular shapes with protruding vigas is native American. These people were primarily farmers, growing squash, corn and beans in terraced garden plots on the mesa tops. They carefully guided water to their gardens. The mesa itself slopes gently toward the south, which improves the solar gain for gardening, and the colder air slides down the canyons and off the mesa, which increases the growing season.
There is a lot of speculation about why they decided to start building communities within the cliff faces. Some think it was for defensive purposes, although there is little evidence of violence to support this. My sense is that they moved to the cliffs for comfort. Some enterprising individual or family probably tried building a stone house on one of the many cliff ledges that faces south and soon realized that there were many advantages, which were pointed out to the others. Sealing off a cave or cliff alcove with rock walls effectively makes the room a part of the cliff itself. It's like digging into the ground to take advantage of the cool in the summer and the warmth in the winter, but under the rock ledge they were also protected from the rain and snow and had much more thermal mass to buffer temperature extremes. Facing south, or southwest, as many of the cliff dwellings do, would allow the sun to enter the openings into the interior and also warm the stones, which would give off heat at night. During the summer, when the sun is high in the sky, much less sun would reach the buildings and they would remain cooler.
I got an indication of how well solid rock can modulate temperatures at another stop. On the outskirts of Moab, Utah is a 5,000 square foot dwelling blasted out of solid monolithic rock, called Hole-in-the-Rock. It is open for tours, so I checked it out and was informed that the temperature stays about 65 degrees F. all year round. Moab is at about 4,000 feet elevation, so it is a warmer climate than Mesa Verde, but even so the cliff dwellings must have been fairly comfortable most of the time.
I couldn't help but compare what the ancestral Puebloans have achieved with what I have been advocating about sustainable architecture. They score remarkably high! The rooms are very compact, often sharing walls with each other (which makes for less transportation of building materials and the adjacent rooms help keep each other warm.)
The rooms are often stacked on top of each other (I saw as many as four stories), which again conserves space, materials, and heating energy. There is very little wasted space; even the tops of the pueblos and kivas were used for community activity. Most of the cliff dwellings were oriented to collect solar energy. Even though they didn't have glass to keep the rooms cozy, they compensated by using quite small entrances and ventilation holes, which could be sealed with slabs of rock or hides when they wanted. Being built into the cliff face, they did not overheat in the summer.
Because of these factors they were relatively energy efficient, requiring less wood for heating. The materials they used to build with were definitely local and natural, being just the sandstone and adobe found in the area. Very little wood was used, just small vigas to support the floors of the various stories or the kiva roofs. What wood they did use was obviously not milled. Deforestation was likely an issue for these people, as it is for us.
I'm sure they recycled building materials as there is much evidence of remodeling over time. They most certainly built to last, as much of their work has survived some seven centuries without any maintenance. The Park Service has stabilized some of the structures, but they say only about 10% of what is there now has been done since the natives left. In fact you can usually tell which work was done in modern times because it is much cruder than the original work, which was carefully carved with stone tools and then plastered to make very smooth, colorful walls.
Most of the original colored plasters have not lasted. They did not have enclosed greenhouses, for obvious reasons, but they did grow all of their food nearby, basically on the mesa top that was their roof. They also had domesticated turkeys (the feathers were used for making blankets) and dogs (which provided hair that was woven into belts, etc.)
With all of this sustainability, why were they unable to sustain their culture at Mesa Verde? As I mentioned earlier, the likely cause was a prolonged drought that made it very difficult to provide food for the thousands of people living there.
This could be the final message from these ancestors: ultimately we live at the mercy of mother nature. They were able to move on to other places where streams provided water for their gardens. Where could we move if our climate becomes inhospitable or we have polluted the waters or poisoned the air or our great machines cease to run?
Relevant books:
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"Get real" about your connections
We're hearing all the time how no one really talks anymore because we'd rather look at our screens than each other. MIT professor Sherry Turkle says some kids are trying to do both and learning how to maintain eye contact with someone while texting someone else.
"The Flight from Conversation", The New York Times, April 21st
Turkle's book "Alone Together: Why We expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other"
A recent study says more young people are even giving up a drivers license when they turn 16 because why should they drive to see friends when they can Facebook or Skype them? In 1983, 69% of 17 year olds had a drivers license but in 2008, it fell to 50%. Among 20-24 year olds, it went from 92% to 83% 25 years later.
"Driving is becoming so last century." The Associated Press, April 6th
Why's this important? Because being connected doesn't always provide us with the human connections we crave. In a USA Today piece, the authors of a new book called "The Face-toFace Book: Why Real Relationships Rule in a Digital Marketplace" say 75% of conversations (in the US) still happen face to face, and that the rise of social media has led to a reduction in mostly" email conversations". They say we talk about what's 'cool' online and about real life experiences when we're physically together.
This doesn't mean it has to be all or nothing! Put those online connections to work. Try a tweet up, Meetup or something really new.
Are you into food? The Meetup equivalent is grubwithus.com where you join groups and see what "social meals" are scheduled at your local restaurants. Culturekitchen.com features underprivileged women who are master chefs of a particular ethnic cuisine. You go into their home and learn to cook the real thing (from Ukranian to Thai).
Travel and activities
Find something new to do with others on Vayable and give "drinking whiskey on wheels" a try. It's a way for locals to share their expertise (and get paid for it) which means your guide of the Farmers Market is someone who actually goes to it. Airbnb is similar but where people share their home (boat or castle) for a price.
Want to go international?
Wander is an iPhone app that connects you with 'pen pals' by using Instagram (30 million users worldwide). You post a picture of the Caltrain in Palo Alto, California and your pen pal posts a picture of a train in Korea. After a week learning one person's culture, you move on to a new friend.
More mobile platforms
If you're open about your whereabouts, Arrived notifies friends when you've arrived at a meeting or a ball game. (No checkins required.) And Highlight notifies YOU if another Highlight user is within a football field or so of your location. The closer a person is, and the more interests, friends or history you have in common, the more likely you'll be notified.
Remember, life is all about balance. We either use our time online to enrich our lives or it's time spent just looking at a screen. I'll be trying out grubwithus and Vayable soon and will write about my experiences. I appreciate all your comments!
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Guests are permitted to attend twice before becoming a member.
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New York Magazine's Daily Intel has run a revealing character sketch of New York City office assistant "Claire," based on an exclusive WikiLeak of her personal emails and gchats. What does this mean for America's national security and diplomatic relations?
Hopefully not much: Claire doesn't seem to have been involved in any major international affairs biz. However, our allies might be shocked by the banality of her lifestyle. "Intel's data team, who received the raw files a month ago for perusal, found that a portrait of distinct character emerges—a person of general decency and good humor who not infrequently succumbs to the bouts of pettiness, bitchiness, insecurity and Schadenfreude common to middle-class residents of New York City in the year 2010," report Jessica Pressler and Nitasha Tiku.
How will this great reveal of Claire's personal info affect her national security interests and diplomatic relations? Well, she might have to explain a few things to some dudes, but SRSLY, fuck those guys. She's sooo much better off without them, anyway.


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South Dakota Politician's Controversial Post Compares Animal Behavior to Welfare. Not Surprisingly, People a Little Uppity
Dr. Annette Bosworth, who is running for the open South Dakota Senate seat, has struck a chord on her Facebook page with a post which likens food stamp recipients to animal behavior.
Needless to say, the post has received quite a bit of attention. At the time of this posting, the pic below has garnered nearly 10,000 "likes", has been shared nearly 70,000 times, and has drawn thousands of comments.
While it is important to note she is not the author but rather shared the viral image.
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Trying to make sense of the Christian life – A whistle stop tour of the book of Revelation.
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We ventured into cyberspace with the introduction of hope.edu in 1995. Last year our primary web address was visited an estimated 1.2 million times, a figure that doesn't include the hundreds of thousands of other visits directly to special-interest areas such as admissions, alumni, athletics, the arts, etc. This is the fourth major and most extensive remake of the Hope College website since its inception. It continues to be a work in progress, so you will find a blend of old and new.
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In an effort to slash costs, media and entertainment behemoth Walt Disney (NYSE:DIS) is reportedly exploring cutting jobs at its studio and interactive unit.
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Shares of the parent of ABC and ESPN were down about 2% late Monday morning.
According to Reuters, Disney embarked on an internal cost-cutting review several weeks ago that may result in layoffs at its studio and other units.
Disney is mulling cutting jobs that are no longer needed due to improvements in technology or because of recent acquisitions, Reuters reported.
"We are constantly looking at eliminating redundancies and creating greater efficiencies, especially with the rapid rise in new technology," a Disney spokeswoman told the wire service.
The report comes after the blue-chip company revealed record earnings and hiked its dividend by 25% in November, capping off a record year for Disney in terms of revenue and net income.
Disney cost jobs at its publishing business last year and also at its studio and interactive group in 2011.
The company's ongoing review has identified areas to change in its travel policy and is exploring a hiring freeze instead of layoffs, Reuters reported.
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So, Megan Fox will be replacing David Walliams's missus, Lara Stone as the face of Armani Cosmetics and replacing Victoria Beckham as she fronts their underwear campaign.
Megan is set to star in Armani adverts starting in October.
I personally think that Megan Fox will sell make up by the bucket loads because she has one of those faces, like Kim Kardashian that wears glamourous make up well.
The only thing for me, is that she was a naturally beautiful girl but these days she's look a bit…plastic. I'm not sure, if someone was trying to sell me Armani make up and saying it would make me look like Megan, I'd be thinking…but….make up can't give me a super tight face, can it?
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