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In Kabul, the children are everywhere. You see them scrounging through trash. You see them doing manual labor in the auto body shops, the butchers, and the construction sites. They carry teapots and glasses from shop to shop. You see them moving through the snarled traffic swirling small pots of pungent incense, warding off evil spirits and trying to collect small change. They can be found sleeping in doorways or in the rubble of destroyed buildings. It is estimated that 70,000 children live on the streets of Kabul.
The big news story on CNN this morning is the excitement generated as hundreds of people line up to buy the newest iphone. I can't stop thinking of the children sitting in the dirt of the refugee camp, or running down the path pushing old bicycle tires, or the young boy sitting next to his overflowing sacks of collected detritus. He has a deep infection on the corner of his mouth that looks terribly infected. These images contrast with an image of an old grandfather, dressed in a spotless all white shalwar kameez squatting on the sidewalk outside a huge iron gate, embracing his beautiful young grand daughter in a huge hug, each smiling broadly, one of the few moments of joy I have witnessed on the streets of Kabul.
In Afghanistan, one in five children die before their 5th birthday, (41% of the deaths occur in the first month of life). For the children who make it past the first month, many perish due to preventable and highly treatable conditions including diarrhea and pneumonia. Malnourishment affects 39% of the children, compared to 25% at the start of the U.S. invasion. 52% don't have access to clean water. 94% of births are not registered. The children are afforded very little legal protection, especially girls, who are stilled banned from schools in many regions, used as collateral to settle debts, and married through arranged marriages as young as 10 years old. Though not currently an issue, HIV/AIDS looms as a catastrophic possibility as drug addiction increases significantly, even among women and children. Only 16% of women use modern contraception, and children on the streets are vulnerable to sexual exploitation. This is why the "State of the World's Mothers" report issued in May 2011 by Save the Children ranked Afghanistan last, with only Somalia providing worse outcomes for their children.
Retired Army Col. John Agoglia said, "A key to America's long-term national security and one of the best ways for our nation to make friends around the world is by promoting the health of women and children in fragile and emerging nations"–in Afghanistan, this strategy is failing. Not a single public hospital has been built since the invasion. It is not an impossibility; it is a matter of will. Emergency, an Italian NGO, runs 3 hospitals and 30 clinics throughout Afghanistan on a budget of 7 million dollars per year. This is ISAF's (NATO's International Security Assistance Force) monthly budget for air-conditioning.
Polls have consistently shown that over 90 percent of Americans believe saving children should be a national priority. Children comprise 65% of the Afghan population. Afghanistan was named the worst place on earth to be a child. In Afghanistan children have been sacrificed by the United States, collateral damage in our "war on terror".
The mothers of these at risk children are not faring any better. Most are illiterate. Most are chronically malnourished. 1 woman in 11 dies in pregnancy or childbirth, this compares to 1 in 2,100 in the US (the highest of any industrialized nation). In Italy and Ireland, the risk of maternal death is less than 1 in 15,000 and in Greece it's 1 in 31,800. Skilled health professionals attend only 14% of childbirths. A woman's life expectancy is barely 45 years of age.
Women are still viewed as property. A law has been passed by the Karzai regime that legalizes marital rape, and requires a woman to get the permission of her husband to leave the house. Domestic violence is a chronic problem. A women who runs away from home (even if escaping violence) is imprisoned. Upon completion of her sentence she is returned to the husband. Self-immolation is still common as desperate women try to get out of impossible situations.
When Malalai Joya addressed the Peace Loya Jirga convened in December, 2003, she boldly asked, "Why are we allowing criminals to be present here?" She was thrown out of the assembly. Undeterred, she ran for Parliament, winning in a landslide. She began her maiden speech in Parliament by saying, "My condolences to the people of Afghanistan..." As she continued speaking, the warlord sitting behind her threatened to rape and kill her. The MP's voted her out of Parliament and Karzai upheld her ouster. In hiding, she continues to champion women's rights. She has stated that the only people who can liberate Afghan women are the women themselves. When we spoke briefly to her by phone, she stated that she was surprised to still be alive, and needed to cancel our meeting, as it was too dangerous in the current security situation. The Red Cross states that the security situation is the worst it has been in 30 years.
Dear reader, I hesitate to bother you with so many statistics, I eliminated the pie charts and graphs, and this report is still dull. After all, the new iphone has Siri, a personal assistant that understands you when you speak. You can verbally instruct it to send a text message, and it does! Now that's excitement! CNN states there is no need to panic; the Atlanta store has plenty of phones to fill the demand.
Looking only at numbers it is easy to avoid the truth of the enormous amount of human suffering they envelop. Drive through the streets of any American city and these statistics come alive in the swollen ranks of the homeless. Drive through the streets of Kabul and these statistics come alive in the forms of hungry children begging for change.
It is difficult to ascertain what benefit America is deriving from our continued military presence in Afghanistan, though exploitation of natural resources certainly plays a role. Hundreds of billions of dollars are being spent in a military strategy that is failing by all indicators. Yet the politicians in this country continue to back this strategy. Arms dealers and contractors, like G.E. and Boeing, all with lobbyists on Capitol Hill, continue to reap big financial rewards and in turn reward politicians with financial support. Our politicians claim to be "tough on terror" and profess we are "winning". But by what measure do they ascertain this? The only Afghan people benefiting from our presence are the people supporting the occupation forces, the warlords, and the drug lords. As the poppy fields produce record yields "poppy palaces" are springing up all over Kabul, ostentatious signs that someone is benefiting from our interference.
One measure to judge the success of a nation is its ability to protect its most vulnerable populations. America is not succeeding. The plight of women and children in Afghanistan is still a matter of deliberate human cruelty, carried out by those who seek to intimidate and control. When will our politicians hear the desperate cry of the street children of Afghanistan, who, with all the incense in the world, simply can't ward off the evil of our occupation?
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Four endangered monkeys stolen from a zoo in what police said appeared to be a "planned and pre-meditated" break-in have been found, the zoo has said.
Raiders cut a hole in the perimeter fence of Blackpool Zoo in Lancashire and removed the locks from two separate monkey enclosures on Tuesday.
They took two female and one baby cotton-top tamarin, which are a critically endangered species, and two male emperor tamarins.
But the zoo said four of the five had been recovered in Yorkshire and were now safely back at the zoo.
In a statement posted on its Facebook page, it said: "We are absolutely delighted to confirm that four of the stolen tamarins are safely back at the zoo.
"Sadly, the baby was not found. They were recovered by police in Yorkshire late last night and their keeper drove over to collect them.
"We should like to thank everyone involved with the media and social media for spreading the word so far and wide yesterday and to the police and Wildlife Crime Unit for all their hard work and support."
Lancashire Police said the monkeys were found safe and well after the force was inundated with calls.
A spokesman said no one had yet been arrested in connection with the theft.
Pc Steve Higgs said: "We were inundated with calls from members of the public and I would like to thank everyone for their support.
"This is still a live inquiry as we continue to investigate who was responsible for the thefts.
"I would appeal to anyone who has information or any witnesses who saw anything suspicious on Tuesday evening or Wednesday morning to get in touch. "
Charlotte Pennie, head of primates at the zoo, collected the monkeys from Yorkshire.
She said: "We are extremely relieved that four of the monkeys have been found safe and well, although we are also saddened that the baby cotton-top Tamarin has not been found.
"We would like to thank everyone for their support in helping us find the monkeys which were all born here at Blackpool Zoo and are very much part of our family.
"The monkeys have all been checked and have been reintroduced back into their group."
After they were stolen, Lancashire Police said it believed the monkeys were targeted specifically and their details were circulated to all ports and airports in case the thieves tried to take them abroad.
The National Wildlife Crime Unit was also brought in to try to trace them.
The cotton-top tamarin is considered one of the world's most endangered primates.
There are said to be about 6,000 such monkeys left in the wild in their native Colombia, with numbers largely reduced through deforestation.
Earlier this week, police issued a warning after 21 wild boars were released from their pen during a burglary in Maesteg, South Wales.

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Hidden Jewels: Roman Forum
One of the great things about living in Rome is that you frequently discover something new in a nook or cranny of the city that you think you know inside and out. A good example is the Roman Forum, a place I've visited dozens of times over the past 20 years. I first started visiting the Forum before the fencing was erected around all of the monuments. You could walk all over the Basilica Julia, pound the Augustan pavement of the square, and admire the blobs of melted bronze on the floor of the Basilica Aemilia, possibly the remains of coins knocked to the ground during Alaric's sack of Rome in AD 410. There was also that golden period, between 1998 and 2008, when the Forum was open to the public for free all day long, acting as just another way to get from Via dei Fori Imperiali to the Colosseum valley.
So I thought I'd seen everything, including—thanks to my position at AIRC—many special structures and ongoing excavations closed to the public. A couple of weeks ago I was surprised to learn, while reading a recent book about the Forum, that the church of San Lorenzo in Miranda, which occupies the Temple of the Deified Antoninus and Faustina, is open to the public, but for only two hours a week (Thursdays 9-11). After kicking myself for never having thought to investigate that possibility, I visited the church on the next Thursday and was received by a very formal but friendly gentleman from a bygone era who gave me a rapid tour of the artistic treasures housed in the church (as well as an earful about its increasing isolation in the archaeological zone) and then turned me loose at the old doorway facing out onto the Forum, now a balcony floating about 25 feet above the ancient levels. Although the view is obscured by the columns of the porch, the experience is nevertheless a feast for the eyes, offering a fresh and fascinating perspective on the temple itself, the Forum, and the Palatine hill. In Rome, fortune really does favor the bold. And the curious.
~Hidden Jewels is a monthly series by Albert Prieto, AIRC Associate Director of Archaeology, as he investigates the hidden secrets of Rome that are right in front of us. albert[at]romanculture.org
Coffee Talk
Well, first of all, let me tell you that most of my spare time is spent at cafes around Rome. I sit and drink, and then creativity fills up my glass (after having finished work of course….say what!?). And most of the time, I always meet people who have something to interesting to share. The other day I was hanging out at one of my favorite bars in Rome- Bar del Fico– where I met a couple from France. The woman, Nadia, was a professor of medieval philosophy but I prefer to call her my new French-Algerian encyclopedia. She was modest and didn't reveal her academic credentials until well into the evening and when she did, oh my goodness, did she know everything about, well…many things! What stood out the most though was the mannerism in which she spoke about the country of her forefathers: Algeria.
Nadia's eyes almost filled up with tears when she described to me how, unfortunately, many Algerians do not know the history of their country, their nation, and their identity. As history is very important to me, I was nostalgic but yet not surprised to learn that there is a huge lack of awareness of historical identity in Algeria. Nadia continued to tell me that the preservation of archeological sites and monuments is in absolute miserable condition in Algeria. Ancient Roman columns are used as ashtrays, marble statues are covered with graffiti, historically significant sites are in disarray, and in general, citizens are not aware of the rich cultures that make up Algeria's dense and mosaicked history. In fact, those casually castaway artifacts represent millennia of Algerian culture: Carthaginian, Roman, Vandal, Byzantine, Caspian and Arab Umayyad cultures.
My conversation with Nadia that evening made me realize that though I am working to promote preservation of archeological sites in Rome and trying my best to emphasize the importance of cultural heritage, there is so much work to be done around the world. Rome is the eternal city but not the only one in need of dedicated people who try to teach history for sake of understanding our contemporary society.
~Saman Tehrani, AIRC intern, Summer/Fall 2013
Mortar and Murder: Looking Back at the 2013 Dig #archaeology
As we seek relief from Rome's sweltering triple-digit (F) temperatures, it's a good time to look back at six weeks of fun, hard work, and intensive learning. Here are a few things that struck me, in my capacity as Project Coordinator, about the experience.
Low injury rate. During the course of a typical season we see a handful of cuts or scrapes that require on-site medical attention, as well as a lot of first-week blisters that exhaust the supply of band-aids in no time. This year we had only one cut, thankfully, and not even one band-aid was used.
Plot twists. We started out assuming that the Roman mausoleum in Area B was, at some point after the end of antiquity, transformed into a baptistery, which was subsequently re-worked to accommodate six tombs in the Middle Ages; two bodies were duly found in one of these tombs in the fall exploratory campaign. In the summer not even one additional burial was found in the tombs, while a series of burials was revealed just below the ground surface around the edge of the mausoleum. Proof that, in archaeology, assumptions are made to be modified and abandoned.
Gastronomic adventures. This year everyone looked forward to lunch, which was prepared and served at La Fraschetta del Borgo in Ostia Antica, a stone's throw from the site. Solideo and the staff served up 23 tasty and abundant lunches, catering to all dietary needs, including prosciutto with cantaloupe, cold cuts and cheese, rigatoni all'ammatriciana, frittata (omelette), pizza, sausage with chicory, and chicken cacciatore with potatoes. The daily dose of gelato was especially popular.
Language lessons. Every edition of AIRC's Summer Archaeological Field School involves bilingual staff, so you can always hear both Italian and English spoken on-site. This year's Babel had a particular feel to it. There was the lilting British accent of our Welsh topography intern, Tim Penn. There was archaeologist Larisa ("Larry") Criscenti's elegant and studied English. There were the participants' gung-ho attempts to learn Italian from field director Michele Raddi's colorful diction. My favorite moment was the attempt to explain to our Italian colleagues the subtle acoustic distinction between "mortar" and "murder." Two very different concepts, but both very useful in a Roman archaeology field school.
Life in the Trenches: Week 5 at the Dig
The last week of excavation at Parco dei Ravennati was a bipolar mix of calm instruction and frenzied activity: though it was declared that we were officially finished with the actual digging, many tasks still remained to be done. After a lecture on different types of pottery and marble, we assisted Julia Elsey in the monumental task of cleaning, labeling, and recording every shard we had found this past season. Additionally, the guest lecturer Alessandra Ghelli came to give an enlightening talk on a field we all have little experience with – Marine Archaeology. (more…)
Ostia Antica Press Conference/Invito Stampa
La Soprintendenza speciale per i beni archeologici di Roma, con l'American Institute for Roman Culture, presenta i risultati delle più recenti ricerche effettuate nel Suburbium di Ostia antica. L'appuntamento con gli archeologi e con gli studenti di archeologia di 14 università del Nord America è fissato per venerdì 19, alle ore 10.00, all'angolo fra via dei Romagnoli e via della Stazione di Ostia antica (v. mappa).
Please join the Superintendency, along with the American Institute for Roman Culture, in the presentation of the findings of the most recent research of the Suburbium of Ostia Antica on Friday July 19 at 10 am. The conference will be held at our dig Parco dei Ravennati in Ostia Antica, via dei Romagnoli and via della Stazione di Ostia antica, see maps below. (more…)
Life in the Trenches: Week 4, 11 Things I've learned on the Dig
- Count the buckets: When brushing away a mound of dirt with the equivalent of a glorified toothbrush and an oversized spork, it can be discouraging to look at your area after several hours of work and feel you haven't made a dint in it. In order to prevent dismay, learn to count the buckets of dirt that you fill instead. Nothing says progress more than being able to climb up a pile of dirt and say, "Look, Ma! I spent 5 weeks moving all this dirt from over there to over here!"
- Remember all your hard work will eventually pay off* : Excavation needs to be a slow process
Life in the Trenches: Week 3 at the Dig
Though this past week was only four days to accommodate a (well-deserved) three-day weekend, we jumped into work, comfortable with our designated roles and team coordination. We also welcomed a new team member, Julia Elsey, AIRC archaeology field school veteran and an unofficial Finds Coordinator. As an artifact intern, I work with Julia to clean, document, and organize our finds from this and the past dig seasons. Julia provided our team with a valuable lesson on marble types, (more…)


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Named an ACWPC and CWPA "Superior" Scholar Athlete ... Finished the year tied for the team lead in goals with 38, second in assists with 24 and tied for second in steals with 32 ... Notched two scores, dished an assist and grabbed three steals versus Cal Lutheran in the MIT Invitational Sept. 5 ... Tallied three goals and had one assist versus Cal Baptist in the Princeton Invitational Sept. 11 ... Had three scores and one steal versus MIT in the ECAC Championship Sept. 17 ... Posted two goals, two assists and a takeaway against Washington & Jefferson in the ECAC Championship Sept. 19 ... Notched three goals, dished three helpers and grabbed a steal versus Occidental in the Claremont Convergence Tournament Oct. 8 ... Found the back of the net three times, handed out a season-high seven assists and had two takeaways at Connecticut College Oct. 17 ... Tallied two scores and grabbed three steals versus Iona in the CWPA Northern Division Championship Nov. 7.
2009 (Junior):
Tallied 21 goals ... Named to the "Superior" list on the ACWPC All-Academic and CWPA Scholar-Athlete Teams ... Scored against Claremont and No. 13 Pacific at MIT Invitational (Sept. 5) ... Netted another goal the following afternoon against Redlands at MIT Invitational (Sept. 6) ... Tallied two goals in win over George Washington at Princeton Invitational (Sept. 12) ... Scored a goal against No. 16 Santa Clara and another against Fordham at Princeton Invitational (Sept. 13) ... Had a goal in win over MIT (Sept. 16) ... Found the back of the net against Fordham at ECAC Championships (Sept. 19) ... Netted two goals against Chapman and added another against Pomona-Pitzer at Claremont Convergence (Oct. 2) ... Recorded a hat trick in win over Connecticut College (Oct. 8) ... Tallied a goal against Iona (Oct. 11) ... Had a hat trick, two assists and one steal in win over Connecticut College at Northern Division Championships (Nov. 7) ... Netted two goals in victory against Queens (N.Y.) at Northerns (Nov. 8).
2008 (Sophomore):
ACWPC All-Academic Team ... CWPA Scholar-Athlete Team ... Had a hat trick in 17-8 victory over Washington & Jefferson at Cambridge Invitational (Sept. 13); scored again following afternoon against Cal Baptist (Sept. 14) ... Tallied a late goal in fourth quarter in victory against MIT (Sept. 18) ... Scored at No. 4 Pepperdine (Oct. 4) and at No. 6 Loyola Marymount (Oct. 6) ... Tallied a score at Queens (Oct. 18) ... Had four goals in win at Connecticut College (Oct. 23) ... Had a hat trick against Connecticut College at Northern Division Championships (Nov. 8); followed that up with a goal against Fordham (Nov. 9).
2007 (Freshman):
Scored five tallies and assisted on three other markers ... Made three steals and had two kickouts drawn and one block ... Had a goal in victory over Washington & Jefferson ... Added a goal in win against St. Francis (N.Y.) ... Had to markers in victory against Connecticut College.
High School:
Two-year letterwinner in water polo at Corona Del Mar High School ... Also earned three letters in swimming in the 200 meter individual medley and the 100M freestyle ... Earned the swim team's Team Workhorse Award in 2006 ... Member of two-time Pacific Coast League champions in water polo as well as the Pan Pacific Tournament Plate champions ... School valedictorian ... AP Scholar with distinction ... Mock trial captain ... Enjoys body boarding and traveling ... Son of Ted and Vicki ... Father was a member of the varsity crew team at Hanyang University (South Korea) ... Sister, Jennifer, was captain of Yale's Taekwondo Club and graduated from Yale in 2004 ... Brother-in-law, Nathan, played squash at Williams.


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The San Antonio Symphony will be in the pit at the Municipal Auditorium for Arts San Antonio's production of The Nutcracker. For information click here.
I think this might be Tchaikovsky's great work. We all love his symphonies and, since we hear the ballet every holiday season, we sometimes forget what a great composition it is. Here a few of my favorite moments:
Here is an impressive version of the overture for guitar quartet! It's played by the Los Angeles Guitar Quartet, who gave the world premiere of a new work with the San Antonio Symphony last season.
The Nutcracker is at the Municipal Auditorium and the schedule is:
Friday, November 27, 2009 at 7:30 p.m.
Saturday, November 28 at 2:00 p.m.
Saturday, November 28 at 7:30 p.m.
Sunday, November 29 at 2:00 p.m.
Friday, December 4 at 7:30 p.m.
Saturday, December 5 at 2:00 p.m.
Saturday, December 5 at 7:30 p.m.
Sunday, December 6 at 2:00 p.m.
For tickets call (210) 226-2891 or visit http://www.artssanantonio.com/.
Tickets are also available from Ticketmaster at www.ticketmaster.com.
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Indians vs Tigers postponed by rain
DETROIT (AP) The game between the Cleveland Indians and Detroit Tigers has been postponed because of bad weather.
The Tigers said the Central division rivals' first meeting of the season will be rescheduled – but not during this series.
Snowfall from an overnight storm was sticking to the grass in the area, and temperatures in the low 20s were predicted for Tuesday evening.
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Detroit beat the Indians in 15 of 19 matchups last year and won their third straight division title.


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Northumberland Cottages
Are you after a holiday in the outdoors? Fancy getting immersed in all kinds of rural delights - quiet hamlets, medieval sites and exclusive flora and fauna? Or are you looking for a family break by the sea along a breathtaking well preserved coastline? A Northumberland cottage holiday can offer all of this and so much more! Web Cottages has the widest selection of Northumberland cottages on the web so we will surely have the perfect self catering holiday cottage for you. Northumberland is a wonderfully remote region of England, situated in the far north of the country, sharing a border with Scotland. Holiday cottages in Northumberland offer a superb escape from the hustle of the cities of Britain, with glorious stretches of deserted waterfronts, imposing citadels and some terrific areas of natural beauty. Stride out from your Northumberland holiday cottage at night for unforgettable stargazing.
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The Hall
- Bedrooms: 10
- Sleeps: 24
- Changeover day: Friday
The Red Barn
- Bedrooms: 3
- Sleeps: 6
- Changeover day: Saturday
Horsley Head Holidays
- Bedrooms: 6
- Sleeps: 12
- Changeover day: Friday
Sawmill Cottage
- Bedrooms: 3
- Sleeps: 6
- Changeover day: Saturday
Fern Cottage
- Bedrooms: 2
- Sleeps: 4
- Changeover day: Friday
Gardener's Cottage
- Bedrooms: 3
- Sleeps: 6
- Changeover day: Saturday
Home Stead Cottage
- Bedrooms: 2
- Sleeps: 4
- Changeover day: Friday
- Bedrooms: 2
- Sleeps: 4
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Bay View
- Bedrooms: 3
- Sleeps: 6
- Changeover day: Saturday
Craster Reach
- Bedrooms: 3
- Sleeps: 6
- Changeover day: Friday
Bridge House
- Bedrooms: 3
- Sleeps: 6
- Changeover day: Saturday
Old Hall Cottage
- Bedrooms: 3
- Sleeps: 5
- Changeover day: Saturday
This section helps you plan your holiday cottage break in Northumberland and offers some great suggestions of things to do and the best places to stay in the area. WebCottages has such a great selection of holiday homes in Northumberland that we're sure you'll find that perfect property. Our Northumberland cottages are bookable at all times of the year for short breaks and full week stays. Click on the button above to see the full selection or refine your search by using the purple search panel on the left hand side of the page.
Self catering in Northumberland will give you a memorable experience that can be surprisingly light on the pocket. Eat in, eat out, unwind and get out and about - the choice is yours. Northumberland properties bestow you with the freedom to investigate the region either in the outdoors or by the coastline.
The broad open landscapes have been voted as 'the quietest in the UK', and upon arrival at an agricultural rental holiday accommodation in Northumberland, it is clear to see why. There are two different Areas of Outstanding Beauty in Northumberland, one encompassing stretches of the castle-strewn, wild coast and the other in the green mounds of the North Pennines. The Northumberland National Park is additionally well worth an investigation from any self catering Northumberland accommodation, incorporating of a patchwork of moorland, rivers and woodlands.
Although it has been the scene of a fair amount of battles through the ages, the environment of Northumberland gives a serene tranquillity at odds with its troubled history. To go on a vacation property escape in Northumberland is to discover historic forts, undulating green pasture and sea-side paths exploring miles of intact coast with impressive cliffs and ocean fronts.
Northumberland is a land of great historical significance; over the centuries numerous wars and battles have affected its sovereignty and its boundaries with Scotland and the ownership of the land has swapped ownership plenty of times throughout the Middle Ages. Northumberland is a region of forts, fortresses and gives outstanding interest to customers. Renting a Northumberland cottage, or even a flat in the annex of a bygone barn conversion or grander home in the region, can bestow a family break with a difference and allow holidaymakers to get a cultural feel and association with the locale that no hotel or guesthouse could afford.
Choosing the perfect location for your visit could not be easier than arranging one of the scores of Northumberland cottages that exist aplenty in the region. The self catering properties are often very old in design and in structure, possessing their very own history, yet still afford homely and functional accommodation for adults and children of all ages.
Whether you want a sea side area to enjoy the exquisite coastline sights, or prefer a moorland setting for your Northumbria cottage with greater solitude to put you more in touch with the land, the area is an ideal place to get away to.
The stunning Northumberland coastline, an area of outstanding natural beauty, gives mile after mile of uncrowded sandy shorelines, scattered with magnificent sea side communities such as Craster, well known for its kippers, and Alnmouth sitting in between the sea and the mouth of the River Aln. From Seahouses boats trips leave for the Farne Islands, a group of low-lying, uninhabited islands are home to millions of seabirds consisting of puffins, shags and guillemots as well as colonies of seals. And do pop over to the Holy Island of Lindisfarne for waterfronts, nature, locally brewed mead and more.
Positioned along this attractive coast are the marvellous forts of Warkworth, Bamburgh and Holy Island plus the incredible Dunstanburgh Castle and not far inland Alnwick Castle. Indeed, Northumbria has more forts than any other part of Britain - testimony to the turbulent history of the region which was the scene of frequent armed conflict over a number of centuries.
The castle at Alnwick is definitely worth a visit. Known as 'the Windsor Castle of the North', it is home to one of the most magnificent gardens in the country. Now a major tourist attraction, Alnwick Gardens hosts the UK's largest, and most lavish, water feature surrounded by acres of opulent greenery while Chillingham is home to the barely remaining herd of wild cattle which now roam serene parkland. It is placed in the middle of the community and dates back to historic times. The castle itself doubled for the exterior of Hogwarts in a number of the Harry Potter films so is always a great day out for the kids. Although Alnwick Castle has been relatively unchanged over the years, the grounds have seen spectacular renovation in recent times.
The amazing medieval history doesn't stop there. There is additionally medieval beauty to be found on the Northumberland coastline, in particular at Bamburgh castle or at Dunstanburgh castle - the Duke of Lancaster's fantastic break accommodation! Dunstanburgh castle used to be one of the largest forts in the north of the country.
Not to forget Durham Cathedral which broods over the community and with multiple memorials there, it makes for a sombre mood. Chillingham Castle is another massive fortress and restored in the 1930s, is now an interesting tour.
Hadrian's Wall is one of the most iconic of Northumberland's things to do, which is in all likelihood why it's one of the UK's most in demand tourist destinations. Visitors can investigate the remains of the eighty miles of fortified natural stone that spans the Northumberland moorland and marvel at the incredible display of Roman craftsmanship and engineering on display. Due to the unrivaled panorama on offer, there is a thirty mile central stretch of the wall which seems to be the most in demand. Roman remains abound along the World Heritage site of Hadrian's Wall. Now a shadow of its bygone self, it still attracts a considerable amount of guests to Northumberland thanks to its magnificent setting on the exquisite coast - a view that inspired Turner to return with his paintbrush many times over the months of the year. The search panel on the left hand side allows you to search for cottages near to Hadrian's Wall.
Morpeth is the region vicinity of Northumberland with its own historical appeal and no visitor to the region can afford to ignore the Holy Island attraction of Lindisfarne which is a monastic middle, castle and environment of the first recorded Viking attack on England.
The rivers that cross the region are sublime for angling, ambling and equestrianism, with guests flocking from miles around to make the most of a Northumberland fly angling or hiking holiday. Fly angling is sublime from a break property in Northumberland, as the rivers are among the purest in Britain. Many of our cottages in Northumbria have fishing available. Northumberland fly angling on the rivers of the River Tweed, Till and Aln are all grand salmon and trout rivers, but it is the River Tyne, considered to be the best salmon angling waterway in the country that really attracts persons to go fly angling in Northumberland. Nature lovers will be right at home in a self catering Northumberland property rental. There are more than sixty nature reserves in the region, home to an enormous range of rare and unusual animals with puffins, golden eagle and Atlantic grey seals.
And after an extensive day in the outdoors, there are easily enough inns in Northumberland to be able to have a refreshing pint and plate of hearty food. There is even a rage of spas in Northumberland if merely quiet in a Northumberland public house with a drink is not enough! There are an enormous number of rivers crossing Northumberland. There are a range of terrific eateries in Northumberland, providing the best nearby produce. The Northumberland Cheese Company in Blagdon make a range of delicious, award-winning cheeses, which they supply to lots of bordering retailers. And if you want something to wash it down with then the Northumberland Brewery in Bedlington brews lots of real ales, gives visitor tours and has an onsite bar.
The superb environment for a vacation based in one of our vacation self catering properties Northumberland features medieval sites aplenty, spanning the history of England. If you are looking for break holiday homes Northumberland is a grand setting for a get-together with family or friends, with heaps to do for everyone such as the Baltic Centre where there's continually new artwork to admire, Kielder Forest where you can spot squirrels, taking the tram round the Beamish Open Air Museum, taking time out for a bit of retail therapy at the Metro Centre and gazing at the wonder that is the Angel of the North.
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Emile Zola, Au Bonheur Des Dames (The Ladies' Paradise)
by Elaine Showalter
Among male novelists, Zola was exceptional in his understanding of the department store as an emblem of modernity and optimism. In 1881, while he was researching Au Bonheur des Dames, he spent five or six hours a day at the Paris stores Bon Marche, Louvre, and Place Clichy. He represents the old-style shop, Baudu's drapery store Vieil Elbeuf, as moribund; a sour, icy, dank, ugly and lifeless environment, and satirizes its business formula: "not to sell a lot but to sell it dear". In contrast, the new paradise of the department store is a beacon of life: "It was like a riot of colour, a joy of the street bursting out here, in this wide open shopping corner where everyone could go and feast their eyes." Octave Mouret, the owner of Bonheur "belonged to his age…when the whole century was thrusting forward into the future."
But at the same time as Zola sensed and celebrated the vitality of modern marketing and the shopping bazaar, he feared its power to tap and release the power of women, a fear that he expresses in Darwinian metaphors of survival of the fittest, but it seems to be fundamentally a sexual-anxiety about women's sensuality and desire. Sometimes he describes the store as "a commercial cathedral," the site of a new feminine religion:
"While the churches were gradually emptied by the wavering of faith, they were replaced in souls that were now empty by his emporium. Women came to him to spend their hours of idleness, the uneasy, trembling hours that they would once have spent in chapel: it was a necessary outlet for nervous passion, the revived struggle of a god against the husband, a constantly renewed cult of the body, with the divine afterlife of beauty. If he had closed his doors, there would have been a riot outside, the frantic cry of pious women denied the confessional and the altar."
The department store is a place where women can find sanctuary and distraction, where they can develop professionally and meet prospective lovers, where they can find freedom in the city and express their needs. Yet Zola also denounces the department store as a seductive machine to exploit women's sexuality:
"Woman was what the shops were fighting over when they competed, it was woman whom they ensnared with the constant trap of their bargains, after stunning her with their displays. They had aroused new desires in her flesh, they were a huge temptation to which she must fatally succumb, first of all giving in to the purchases of a good housewife, then seduced by vanity and finally consumed."
Women were both "defenceless" victims, unable to resist; and rapacious predators, ruthless at finding bargains and pillaging sales:
"In this final hour, in the midst of this overheated air, women ruled. They had taken the shops by storm and were encamped as in conquered territory, like an invading horde settled in, surrounded by the ravaged merchandise . . . All of them, heads held high, gesturing curtly, felt fully at home, with no consideration for one another, exploiting the place to the uttermost, carrying off the very dust from the walls."
These conflicting views - the idea that shopping is somehow a shameful female pastime, narcissistic and erotic; and that retailing is an art of the modern city, meant for women's necessity and pleasure - go back to the mid-19th century and persist in the 21st. Zola was writing in the early 1880s, looking back to the founding of the great department stores in Europe and the United States, and their efforts to bring women comfort, convenience, and competition in their shopping experience. These techniques, plus the floor plan, window displays, sales, returns policies, and advertising, the tycoons reasoned, would encourage women to spend. In Paris, Aristide Boucicaut rearranged all the departments at the Bon Marche just before it opened in 1852:
"What's necessary …is that they walk around for hours, that they get lost. First of all, they will seem more numerous. Secondly…the store will seem larger to them. And lastly, it would really be too much if, as they wander around in this organized disorder, lost, driven, crazy, they don't set foot in some departments where they had no intention of going, and if they don't succumb at the sight of things which grab them on the way."
At Chicago's Marshall Field, Potter Palmer installed full-length mirrors from Paris, and new-style phosgene lamps; he allowed some customers to take home goods on approval and to return unsatisfactory wares. A uniformed official greeter bowed and held the door; customers were greeted by name as Miss or Mr. By the 1880s, American women were believed to have a "national love of shopping", according to one trade journal.
In London, the American merchant Harry Gordon Selfridge, trained at Marshall Field, had done careful research on women's clubs to find out what women wanted; he presented himself as a friend to women's emancipation and saw the department store as a resting place where women could be pleased and indulged. Selfridge boosted shopping as play rather than work, as amusement rather than duty, as a visual culture of "colour, glass, and light." "I was lonely," says a housewife in an ad, "so I went to Selfridge's...one of the biggest and brightest places I could think of." In the original Selfridge's, there were elegant restaurants with modest prices, a library, and reading and writing rooms, special reception rooms for French, German, American, and "Colonial" customers, a First Aid Room, and a Silence Room, with soft lights, deep chairs, and double-glazing. The first law of marketing success was to keep the shoppers in the store as long as possible.
Some feminists encouraged shopping because they hoped it would draw women into participation in politics, social work, and employment. Journalists described the London shops as an art form in themselves, a kind of interactive museum. British magazines began to publish shopping guides that stressed skill and expertise; in 1888, "Shopping in London," in The Lady, told women "where and how to shop," and warns against bringing one's spouse along. The same year, the Lady Guide Association forms, to provide professional guides "Certificated for Shopping." Zola's heroine, Denise, who becomes a buyer at Bonheur, is a reformer who establishes a staff orchestra, a games room, evening classes in English and German, a free library, medical care, and even maternity care. But while the stores flourished and offered new opportunities to women, many social observers condemned the activity of shopping as vain and self-indulgent, and believed that women were the dupes of the marketing tycoons.
Zola's store owner Mouret is another marketing genius. Like Boucicaut, he is "an unparalleled master was in the internal layout of the shops. He made an absolute rule that no corner of Au Bonheur des Dames should remain empty; everywhere, he demanded noise, people, life … because life, he said, attracts life, breeds and multiplies. All sort of practical consequences derived from this rule. First of all, there must be a crush at the entrance; from the street it should look like a riot; and he achieved this crush putting cut-price articles at the door, … After that, along the galleries, he knew the art of disguising lines that were not going fast, ... If he had known how, he would have made the street run through his shop."
He is an innovator when it comes to the latest marketing techniques: the loss-leader, fixed prices, mail order, seasonal sales, employee benefits. "In addition to that, he had just opened a buffet, where biscuits and syrups were served free, and a reading room, a monumental gallery, over-extravagantly decorated, in which he was even venturing to hold exhibitions of painting. But his most subtle idea, directed at women without any idle vanity, was to reach the mother through the child. He used every strength and exploited every feeling, setting up departments for little boys and girls and stopping the mothers as they walked by to offer their babies pictures and balloons."
Most of all, he is an artist, "a revolutionary indeed," who has "introduced the brutal and the colossal into the science of window dressing." Zola both condemns Mouret as a shrewd and manipulative exploiter of women's base instincts, and admires his flair and talent. The descriptions of the window displays are among the most original in the book, as if Zola himself identified with Mouret as a new kind of creative spirit of the age. His designs are spectacular and modern: "He wanted landslides of cloth tumbling as though it had been accidentally emptied out of the boxes, blazing with the most intense colours, each striking a spark from its neighbours." And of course such art is dangerous for women:
"And below, as in a basin, slumbered the heavy fabrics, the special weaves, the damasks, the brocades, the beaded and lame silks, amidst a deep bed of velvet, all the velvets, black, white, coloured, interwoven with silk or satin, scooping out with their shifting marks a motionless lake on which reflections of sky and landscape seemed to dance. Women, pale with desire, leaned over as if to see themselves. All of them, confronted by this discharged waterfall, remained standing, secretly fearing they would be captivated by such overwhelming luxury, and unable to resist the longing to throw themselves in and be lost in it. "
The culminating scene of the novel is the February Great White Sale, Zola's Great White Whale, in which the entire store is transformed into a glittering "song of white," in which the centerpiece is "a tent of white curtains descending from the skylight…suggesting something between a bedroom and a temple. It looked like a great white bed, vast and virginal, awaiting the white princess of the fairy tales, the one destined to come at last, all-powerful, wearing her white bridal veil." The bedroom and the temple-these are the two forms the department store occupied in Zola's imagination, and in Au Bonheur des Dames, he brought them together to dramatize the woman of his dreams, powerful and pure; and portray her marriage to the forces of the new.
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Sarabeth's Wine Dinner – New York City
One of our favorite cities where you can find Labor Wines is New York City. There are so many reasons why this is the case but for me personally, I spent my childhood years growing up in New Jersey, always going to the 'City' for dinners, events and gatherings. Even more so, we have had the pleasure of having our wines there since the initial 2009 vintage and each month we're getting a better presence in NYC through our distributor, RAD Grapes. When the opportunity was presented for me to host a wine dinner at Sarabeth's Restaurant in Tribeca, I jumped at the chance!
One of my dear friends, Angela 'Mini' Caudle, serves as general manager and has been a very loyal supporter of Labor Wines since the beginning. She was thrilled to have us come to NYC for this occasion and visit her restaurant. In working together, we were able to pair three of our wines with 4 courses from Sarabeth's culinary team. The evening's menu is below, but I can tell you not only was it delicious, but the wines were a perfect pairing for each course. We were able to feature our 2011 Pinot Blanc, the 2012 Riesling and our 2011 Pinot Noir. We held the dinner on Tuesday, June 4; traditionally a quieter evening for the restaurant, but with our event, it definitely brought a buzz in that night.
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President Barack Obama told Americans Tuesday that heavy demand for access to his signature health insurance exchanges was to blame for snags in signing up online — even as he asked uninsured consumers, five times in one statement, to add to the traffic by visiting www.healthcare.gov to buy coverage.
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The mixed message, delivered in the Rose Garden Tuesday afternoon, reflected twin needs. Obama had to fight the quickly gathering narrative that Opening Day for Obamacare looked like a bust, and he wanted to make sure that consumers who are eligible know how they can enroll over the next six months.
"Like every new law, every new product roll out, there are going to be some glitches in the signup process along the way that we will fix," he said.
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By mid-afternoon, the Department of Health and Human Services reported that 2.8 million unique visitors had been to the Website, though there were no statistics available for how many were actually able to enroll. Some users experienced long waiting periods, and others ran into impediments that likely had little to do with the volume of traffic. For example, the drop-down boxes on the federal Website weren't working for much of the day, preventing users from answering security questions and establishing accounts.
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It may have been a rough first day, but like a vaunted baseball club losing a hotly contested first game of the season, Team Obama has plenty of time to show that its exchanges will work.
Whatever the reason — failure to build good technology or failure to account for the number of website visitors — the rollout was full of kinks.


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==Tracking reviki development
====[2008-08-03] Changes to URL space / cookie bug
Various existing reviki deployments are using apache2 in front of tomcat running reviki to (amongst other reasons) improve the URL space presented.
Unfortunately using modrewrite/proxy to link //inside// a tomcat context isn't working well, because tomcat issues session cookies for the wrong paths. This results in jsessionid URLs even in browsers with cookies enabled. This is unfortunate for URLs that are often copied for emailing etc.
In revision:958 I've introduced a dependency on the promising [[http://urlrewritefilter.googlecode.com|Url Rewrite Filter]].
This lets me eliminate the '/pages' URL prefix - an ugliness introduced because the servlet url-mappings are horrible and make it impossible (without using a filter) to send everything to a dispatcher/front-controller but use the default resource serving behaviour for certain paths.
URLs now look like
rather than
I've introduced a permanent redirect for now from /pages/(.*) => /$1. The special pages /list and the more-or-less-internal /jump now overlap with the wiki namespace pending a good idea - perhaps /special/... as the only reserved name.
====[2008-07-06] Macro rendering fixed in revision:954
The {{{<<incomingLinks:PageHere>>}}} and {{{<<outgoingLinks:PageHere>>}}} macros output wiki markup which is subsequently rendered. Until revision:954 these were not rendering properly because the renderer was matching them as inline macros meaning the list tags they use in their output weren't available.
It now works great (links to this page):
This feature can be pretty useful... incomingLinks can be used for displaying particular category tags on a status page for a project using pages such as StoriesAwaitingSignOff, OpenQuestions.
====[2008-06-29] New "limit" parameter for RecentChanges in revision:946.
Now documented on AboutRecentChanges.
====[2008-06-29] Unlock support in revision:943, bugfix for error pages in revision:944
Locks can now be broken. In keeping with the aims of the 1.0 release (see TodoList) the locks can be broken by anyone at any time.
Also fixed a bug where error pages would fail to display.
====[2008-06-17] Different approach to printing in revision:930
ctype=printable is gone, now the default ConfigCss includes a @media print section that hides the menus. This allows for more flexibility. To see the effect go to print-preview. It does mean if you've changed the standard stylesheet you'll need to
# Blank it to replace it with the default (yes this should be more obvious!)
# Make your changes again
The new stylesheet also includes prettier tables.
====[2008-06-15] Printable view in revision:928
ctype=printable on the URL now gives a menu free page, with a link in the menu.
Brings up the need for a drop-down menu or similar to add these more rarely used options to - I've called it 'Print' which is misleading just to save the four characters!
====[2008-06-15] ViewCvs up and running
Can now link to e.g. revision:917.
I've stuck with the debian viewcvs package for now so it isn't as pretty as some. The URLs could do with some modrewrite love too but all the linking will be via the wiki links so nevermind.
====[2008-06-15] Misc bug fixes in revisions to revision:917
I've been working through a few issues encountered deploying reviki at work.
* Timezone is now configurable, see TomcatContextXmlConfiguration.
* wiki-content CSS class so ConfigCSS changes need not affect reviki's own layout (changing tables to have borders affected RecentChanges and similar which looked ugly - ok, well, uglier!).
* Show date/time since page was locked as well as lock owner.
More minor improvements to come including proper ability to break locks and better feedback when creating wikis.
I'm hoping to get round to installing [[http://www.viewvc.org|viewvc]] on the reviki SVN server. That way I can point at revisions with an inter-wiki-type link. I've been doing revision:1234 at work and that seems pretty neat - just as easy to type and a step saved for anyone wanting to review.
====[2008-05-11] Configuration improvements (revision:862)
You can now configure the data directory via the {{{reviki-data-dir}}} context parameter. See SetupGuide/TomcatContextXmlConfiguration.
There's also improvements to configuring wiki base URLs - a {{{base-url}}} property. If many of the wikis run in a reviki instance are mapped to the same area of URL-space, differing only in the final path segment (the wiki name) then this saves adding a base-url for each one. Documented on ConfigFile.
====[2008-05-08] Extracted XPathContext to own project revision:846
Documented on XPathContext. No doubt this will come in handy elsewhere - for me if no-one else.
====[2008-05-05] Atom feed improvements and URL change revision:828
For consistency with the alternate format for search the atom feed is now at {{{RecentChanges?ctype=atom}}}.
I hope to introduce the ability to view more of the wiki as atom feeds and entries over time.
I've also added '?revision=NNNN' to the atom:id of the entries. It seems that bloglines (and probably others) gets really confused by multiple entries with the same id (though the specification permits this).
I've also started to write [[http://svn.reviki.org/svn/reviki/trunk/src/net/hillsdon/reviki/wiki/feeds/XPathAccess.java|code]] to make it bearable to write tests against XML output in XPath. Seems like something that could be generally useful, might be worth tidying up and pulling out of reviki.
====[2008-05-05] ConfigCss regression fixed revision:823
In revision:785 ConfigCss was ignored - the default styling always used. I found a better home for the code that set the default CSS URL (now in the view) but failed to notice I'd moved it after the code setting the wiki specific CSS URL.
The default now takes care not to overwrite anything previously set and I've added some tests.
Perhaps I should brighten up reviki.org to make doubly sure but CSS just isn't my thing.
**Update:** I've made the page titles (slightly) more colourful.
====[2008-05-05] HtmlUnit functional tests now run in ant (revision:814)
It will download tomcat, built and deploy a war, start tomcat, wait for it to come up, run the tests against it and clean up. Magic. I was particularly impressed with
<waitfor maxwait="30" maxwaitunit="second" checkevery="500">
<http url="http://localhost:8080/reviki/"/>
...I was expecting to have to do something horrible like take a guess and sleep.
Unfortunately some manual setup of the test wiki is still required (documented in the [[trunk:build.xml|ant file]]). If we supported file repositories perhaps ant could do this too. Another possible enhancement is XSLT or similar to munge the tomcat port to something less likely to clash.
====[2008-04-28] Configurable base URL revision:789
As noted on ConfigFile you can now set a property that determines the base URL for the wiki. Now when the reviki tomcat instance is behind something like Apache there is much more freedom as to what the URL space looks like. You can easily have http://www.example.com/wiki/FrontPage and http://microsite.example.com/team/FrontPage both being served from the same tomcat.
If you don't set the base URL it will continue to be based on the request and the '/pages/wikiName/PageName' structure.
**Update (revision:807)**: Missed the resource URL for the search suggest feature's CSS. That's fixed in revision:807.
====[2008-04-20] Atom feed fixes revision:755
The atom feed [[http://feedvalidator.org/check.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Freviki.org%2Fpages%2Freviki%2FRecentChanges%2Fatom.xml|is now valid]]. Issues were:
* Missing author element
* Missing id element (now set to URI of feed)
* Date format issues
The validator now gives warnings about update times (due to a move, so expected) and multiple entries with the same id (which are valid as they are changes to the same page).
====[2008-04-20] XHTML validator now works properly and is in SVN
The (trivial) XHTML validator - XHTMLValidate - is now somewhat packaged up and is in SVN. I switched from using a catalog resolver to using a custom entity resolver as it still seemed to be going to the web when access was available, explaining why the tests were sometimes very slow.
====[2008-04-17] NightlyBuilds now available
Erm that's it really.
====[2008-04-15] ConfigAutoProperties
I'm working on addressing one of the attachment related stories for the 1.0 release.
The plan is to add ConfigAutoProperties which will be a text page containing the contents of the [auto-props] section of the svn config file. These will be used for new attachments.
This ought to make browsing the SVN repository directly more pleasing. The common practical problem is that the PDF files are incorrectly added as to SVN as text (as they often are for the first few bytes until you hit a compressed stream).
I'll also address using these mime types at attachment download time too (I think we currently always set application/octet-stream).
**Update revision:720:** We now have ConfigAutoProperties with some default content to be documented on AboutConfigAutoProperties. Decided there's no point setting mime-type on download because the current behaviour results in the browser / OS mime-type mappings being used which is probably more comprehensive. Will gladly revisit if anyone has a use case.
====[2008-03-31] XHTML validation
So it turns out this page is --horribly, horribly invalid-- finally [[http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Freviki.org%2Fpages%2Freviki%2FDevLog&charset=%28detect+automatically%29&doctype=Inline&group=0|valid]] as of revision:682.
Time to find a validator I can hook into the HtmlUnit functional tests and the unit tests for the renderer.
**Update (revision:660)**:
* We have XHTML DTD validation hooked into the functional tests. Surprisingly slow though, even with catalog remappings for the W3C DTDs.
* This page is valid except for an issue with ul elements generated by the renderer.
**Update revision:675**:
* Search result highlighting is now valid XHTML.
* Diffs now valid XHTML.
# --Attachments page invalid when no previous revisions (empty {{{
}}}).--
# --Duplicate form input ids on attachments page.--
# --Still need to hook the validation up to the markup renderer.--
# --Fix renderer output (block elements inside p mostly).--
# --Fix new rendering glitch above (the {{{**}}}).--
# --Figure out why the validation is so slow.--
# Add at least the WikiCreole page text as a more substantial functional test. The existing tests mostly test one element or the interaction between two elements.
====[2008-03-30] A favicon revision:650
Sites without a favicon look dull, something the current reviki design needs no help with! I'm no graphics wizard but on the basis that something's better than nothing:
That'll do for a while. Cheers to the folks at dynamicdrive for making this easy (heh, perhaps too easy...)

====[2008-03-30] Title revision now last changed revision revision:637
The title revision is the last changed revision, rather than the accessed revision. As it was it just wasn't useful information, now you can get some idea of how old a page is. One problem common to all forms of documentation is parts inevitably get stale. It's good to have a visual indication of how recently the page has been updated. Perhaps for that reason the last changed date / user should be more visible...
====[2008-03-30] Atomic commit for adding attachment and link revision:629
For a while now we've had uploading an attachment split across two commits, one creating the {{{PageName-attachments}}} directory (if requried) and the other committing the attachment file. As of revision:619 it got worse - we now automatically add a link to the attachment to the associated page.
Time to tidy SVNPageStore/BasicSVNOperations to make it easy to create the directory and the file in the same commit. This will be needed for RefactorRename too.
**Update revision:629:** The mutator methods on BasicSVNRepository now do less to give the SVNPageStore more control over combining modifications. All the operations needed to upload an attachment are now a single commit. Having to assemble all the actions up-front - because SVNRepository isn't re-entrant - leads to a clumsy separation of figuring out if something needs to be done and doing it - suspect we could pull out a prepare / perform interface. Revisit for RefactorRename.
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Well, this didn't turn out the way The Seattle Police Department had hoped. Speaking at the Garfield Community Center Thursday night about a new unmanned aerial vehicle program, Assistant Chief Paul McDonagh was continuously interrupted by angry protesters who called the department "murderers," "fascists" and questioned whether it should have the authority to operate drones in emergency situations over the skies of Seattle.
You can get a look at the action in the video above, with the protest starting in minute 11.
"I'm sorry, I just want to say this is frickin' ridiculous," yelled the lead protestor. "Seattle police do not have the authority to surveil on people. This is the same police department that shot a 70-year-old black man in his home."
Another one says the UAV program is "bullshit." Chants included: "No Drones. We say no to drones" and "Shame."
Comparisons were also made to George Orwell's "1984," the landmark book which described a government-controlled state. One protestor called it the militarization of the "air above us," while plenty of boos, F-bombs and birds are yelled and flipped.
The police department said in an operations manual that the UAVs "can be utilized in circumstances which would save life and property, as well as being able to detect possible dangers that could not otherwise be seen." (Previously on GeekWire: Drones over Seattle? Police to discuss unmanned aerial vehicle plan with residents)
The Seattle Times has more details on the protest, noting that Assistant Chief McDonagh was drowned out by the protestors for about half of the 2-hour meeting.
Here's some additional reading on the matter:


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The Dash – Wireless Smart In Ear Headphones
Electronics should be discrete enablers of delightful and magical experiences. Our aim is for you to achieve a better understanding of your skills, abilities and health while doing the things you love. We think that with your support in this campaign, The Dash could become a truly remarkable addition to our lives.
Music is a part of everyone's life. It brings joy, excitement and motivation. However it is not always a pleasure listening to music with headphones. Cables tangle, pull at the headphones and ultimately break. In addition, accessing online content from a smartphone is awesome but needing to carry a smartphone all the time can be a real pain.
The Dash consists of a pair of discrete and completely wireless stereo earphones.They will playback music through a Bluetooth connection or use the embedded 4GB/1000 song music player. Everything about the design is focused on delivering freedom of movement, incredible sound and comfort. The Dash is awesome for sports and great for everything else.
The Dash works in sympathy with the wearer. Movements like pace, steps, cadence and distance are tracked. Heart rate, oxygen saturation and energy spent are measured, all the while real time acoustic feedback is provided. It even works without an attached smartphone.
Safety and the ability to communicate with others are important. In addition to being earphones, the Dash will double as a Bluetooth Headset delivering clear voice quality through the embedded ear bone microphone. The ear bone microphone is not sensitive to background noise, since it picks up mechanical vibration generated by your voice from the ear bone.
Even though The Dash provides impressive noise isolation, the wearer can choose to channel ambient sound into the headphone with the transparent audio feature. A swipe on the capacitive touch surface of The Dash will enable or disable ambient sound to pass through.
Your pledge will help us deliver a friendly and discrete assistant that will enhance real life experiences. Buying devices that would equal the functions of The Dash will set you back at least 500$.
We've done three dimensional scans of hundreds of ears and tested different shapes. Finally three shapes developed that would provide comfort and fit for a broad range of ears. Silicone sleeves matching the three sizes (S/M/L) are delivered with The Dash package.
Why The Dash will fit perfectly:
- Three different sized silicone sleeves to fit your ear
- No cables pulling on the headphones
- Lightweight — a Dash ear phone weighs less than 13,8 grams
- Ergonomic design
- Three Point Secure Fit
- General: Volume, audio transparency, pair devices
- Music controls: Play, pause, next, back
- Only embedded playback: Shuffle, select playlist
- Communication controls: Answer, end, reject, hold
- Tracking controls: Start/stop, 3 upon demand feedback macros, forced feedback on minimum, maximum and time goals
- Sync music via USB 2.0 and sensor data via USB and Bluetooth
"The Dash is a discrete device that delivers clear sound without blocking out what is going on around us. The Dash's ability to tell us how long we have exercised for, how far we have travelled and how fast we are moving, whilst also delivering heart rate readings and oxygen saturation level, suddenly puts this device as one of the most innovative, yet necessary pieces of audio technology in modern times."
Helle Frederiksen, FEB 2014
In developer mode The Dash provides access to processed or unprocessed data and audio feeds. Integrate The Dash with your application and entirely new opportunities emerge.
- Imagine The Dash protecting you. A sound or sensor trigger could alert emergency services, all the while transmitting your vital readings and position.
- Imagine The Dash being used by firefighters to monitor their health and improve communications.
- Imagine being able to identify infections or injuries in combination with 3rd party sensors by using sensor fusions.
- Imagine being able to talk with a foreigner by having the conversation translated on the fly.
See the developer pledge on the right, if you wish to integrate The Dash with your app. For the latest information on the SDK and how to develop for The Dash, please sign up for our Developer Newsletter here: www.bragi.com/developer
The Dash is still in development and we have learned from previous development projects that unforeseen challenges might change the specifications. These are our current preliminary specifications:
- Lightweight, shock resistant, waterproof and water resistant to 1m
- Smartphone sensors and GPS data provide additional functions if your phone is with you
- iOS / Android / Windows Phone App controls audio, sensor and tracking settings as well as a Lost Device Tracker
- Type: In-Ear Style, double barrier passive noise isolation (20-30 dB)
- Response bandwidth 20-20000 Hz
- Impedance 16 Ohm
- Output 10 mW RMS (with level limit)
- Total harmonic distortion <2% (1 KHz, 1 mW)
- Audio format: 16 bit stereo
- Custom Bragi Ear Bone MEMS microphone
- Ambient microphone: MEMS omnidirectional, Sensitivity -43 dB +3/-3 dB (1 KHz, 0 dB = 1 V/Pa)
- Dual Mode Bluetooth 4.0
- Audio compatibility with classic Bluetooth devices (A2DP profile, CSR aptX® audio codec)
- Full compatibility with Apple: iPhone® >= 4S, iPod® Touch 5th generation and later, iPad® 3rd generation and later
- Full compatibility with: Android: any device with Bluetooth LE hardware running under Android version 4.3 Jelly Bean (API Level 18) or later
- Full compatibility with: Windows Phone: any device with Bluetooth LE hardware support running under Windows Phone 8.1
- True Wireless Audio
- CSR aptX® audio codec
- Up to six paired devices (One at a time)
- Bluetooth sound overrules embedded playback
- Embedded music player: 4GB data storage. MP3, AAC (No DRM)
Battery (expected)
- Play & track time 3 hours
- Play time 4 hours
- Track time 7 hours
- Standby time 250 hours
- Charging time less than 1 hour
- Charging: Micro USB (power plug not included)
- Type: 100 mAh Lithium Polymer
Compatibility (needs Bluetooth LE for full functionality)
- iPhone® 4S, 5, 5C, 5S
- iPad® (3rd generation and later)
- Android phones with Bluetooth 4.0 LE support (See detailed description »Bluetooth« above)
- Limited support for Windows Phone and Blackberry (See detailed description »Bluetooth« above)
- FOR AUDIO SUPPORT: Any Bluetooth A2DP or aptX® compatible device
1 year limited warranty
Nikolaj Hviid created the concept for The Dash after having been CEO of a design agency and Head of Design at Harman.
Together with Josef Scheider, former Head of Mechanical Design at AKG, Arne Loermann, designer, and Toby Martin, embedded software developer, we brought the project to life.
A year later our international team consists of 20 people, with an average of 20,9 years of experience. The combined number of patents and awards far exceed 200. Together we have brought more than 400 products to market, gaining experience in the fields of expertise needed to bring The Dash to life. We love what we do, and we love The Dash.
The Dash has a great user experience, and it is easy to use. It is a beautifully designed product that will enable you to do amazing things.
If you feel you can contribute with something we did not consider or anything else of value, do contact us at email@example.com. We are openminded!
Now we need you to get The Dash in the hands of users and developers everywhere. We need your support to overcome the initial costs for tooling and materials. Support the world's first smart in ear headphones; support The Dash. Thank you very much!
Risks and challenges
Due to the incredible small size of The Dash, we use miniature components. For some of these we only have a single supplier. Even though we have a close dialog with our suppliers, we are not in control of their actions. Every component is highly integrated into and optimized within the design, and an unforeseen component alteration can delay our launch.
The Dash has a complex Bluetooth setup that we have tested vigorously in our labs. We might encounter real life applications, where we cannot guarantee for the quality of operations. We will continue to improve our software throughout the launch to improve functionality.
The team has a very strong background in design for manufacturing. We have manufacturing flow, testing procedures and sourcing of parts well defined. Even if we encounter high demand, we will be able to scale production and logistics accordingly.
We believe that we will start shipping The Dash to our supporters in November 2014.
Funding period
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Create custom promotion codes
You can create custom promotion codes in the Reseller Control Center. Custom promo codes let you offer your customers discounts they can apply to their orders, which is a great way to promote your storefront.
Note: When you use custom promo codes in marketing campaigns, you must display the message, "See Cart for details."
- Log in to your Reseller Control Center. (Need help opening your product?)
- Click Promotions.
- Click Create Promotion.
- For Promo code, enter the name of the code. You can enter up to 10 alphanumeric characters. For example, type Save10.
Note: Promo codes must be unique. Two resellers cannot create the same promo code. Once you create a promo code, you cannot change its name.
- For Description, enter a description of the promo code for your reference. You can enter up to 250 alphanumeric characters.
- For Discount, select Amount or Percent, and then enter a number for the discount amount you want to offer. For example, to offer a 10 percent discount, select Percent and then type 10.
Note: Your discount amount must be in USD and cannot exceed 15 percent. For example, if you enter a discount amount of $15 here, then you must enter at least $100 in the next field.
- For Minimum order amount, enter the minimum amount in USD that a customer must spend to use this promo code.
Note: The amount you enter must be high enough so that the discount amount does not exceed 15 percent. For example, if you chose a discount amount of $15 in the previous step, then you must enter at least $100 here.
- Enter a Start date and End date for the promo code. The date range cannot exceed one year.
- Click Save.
Note: You cannot delete a promo code or change its name, but you can inactivate it or edit its details.


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The 14th annual SF Sketchfest takes over San Francisco January 22th through February 8th with shows featuring major comedy stars and the best up-and-coming comedians from around the world.
Amoeba is delighted to sponsor the following amazing nights full of comedy and music:
SF Sketchfest Tribute to "Weird Al" Yankovic in conversation with Chris Hardwick, with guests Garfunkel and Oates, Hard 'n Phirm, and Jonah Ray
February 6, 7PM, Castro Theatre
This tribute to the king of comedy rock "Weird Al" Yankovic includes clips; musical tributes by Garfunkel & Oates, Hard 'n' Phirm, and more; and audience Q&A! Special bonus awesome: it's all moderated by Chris Hardwick!
Bring the Rock with Greg Behrendt and the Reigning Monarchs with guests Garfunkel and Oates, Chris Hardwick, Natasha Leggero, Joe Sib, and Brendon Small
February 7, 10:30PM, Cobb's Comedy Club
Greg Behrendt brings his wildly popular Bring The Rock show back to SF Sketchfest. A staple of LA's Largo theater, comedians tell a story about a song from their past - sometimes embarrassing, sometimes sentimental, always funny - and then Greg's fantastic band The Reigning Monarchs covers the song, often led by the comedian in question. It's what karaoke should be.
Check out the complete and impressive schedule for SF Sketchfest 2015 at www.sfsketchfest.com.


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Winter Milky Way
The lights of our galactic home, the Milky Way, arch high overhead on February evenings. As the sky gets dark, the Milky Way stretches from southeast to northwest, through the point directly overhead. It's quite faint, though, so you need dark skies to see it — city lights will wash it from view.
The glowing band that we see as the Milky Way is actually the disk of the Milky Way galaxy seen from the inside. When we view it in winter, we're looking away from the galaxy's crowded center and toward its less-populated suburbs. As a result, the winter Milky Way is a good bit fainter than the summer Milky Way; more about that tomorrow.
The galaxy's disk spans about a hundred thousand light-years, but it's only a few thousand light-years thick. As a result, the Milky Way isn't very wide as it stretches across the sky.
Even so, that narrow band is showing us the glow of countless stars. They're all so faint and far away that we can't see them as individual stars. If you look into the Milky Way with binoculars, though, you'll see hundreds of separate pinpoints of light. And with a telescope, the numbers climb into the thousands or even millions.
To follow the path of the Milky Way, look southeast in early evening for Sirius, the brightest star in the night sky. The Milky Way stretches from that region of the sky to Taurus, the bull, high overhead, to W-shaped Cassiopeia in the northwest — a sky-spanning vista of our galactic home.
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