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The mother and daughter, both wearing hoop skirts, enjoyed the repartee with soldiers, who arrested two of their cohorts for refusing to relinquish their sidearms.
"They searched us but they didn't find this," said Karina, 18, fishing a black vial bearing a skull and crossbones out of her petticoat.
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Her younger brother Douglas, 13, has been taking part in re-enactments for five years, even though he is only 12. Dressed in a Confederate cavalry uniform, he has a business card that identifies him as a Pvt. Mendoza, Civil War Re-enactor.
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Charles Tripp
Cambridge University Press
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To understand Iraq, Charles Tripp's history is the book to read. Since its first appearance in 2000, it has become a classic in the field of Middle East studies, read and admired by students, soldiers, policymakers and journalists. The book is now updated to include the recent American invasion, the fall and capture of Saddam Hussein and the subsequent descent into civil strife. What is clear is that much that has happened since 2003 was ...
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Harper Perennial
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The Dramatic History of Iraq in One Concise Volume The destinies of Iraq and America will be tightly intertwined into the foreseeable future due to the U.S. incursion into this complex, perplexing desert nation -- the latest in a long history of violent outside interventions. A country sitting atop the world's largest supply of crude oil, Iraq will continue to play an essential role in global economics and in Middle Eastern politics for many ...
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Many Westerners have offered interpretations of Iraq's nation-building progress in the wake of the 2003 war and the eventual withdrawal of American troops from the country, but little has been written by Iraqis themselves. This forthright book fills in the gap. Zaid Al-Ali, an Iraqi lawyer with direct ties to the people of his homeland, to government circles, and to the international community, provides a uniquely insightful and up-to-date ...
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Thomas E. Ricks
Penguin Books
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The Iraq Study Group Report
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The Forever War
Dexter Filkins
, 2009
National Bestseller One of the Best Books of the Year: New York Times , Washington Post , Los Angeles Times , USA Today , Boston Globe , and Time An instant classic of war reporting, The Forever War is the definitive account of America's conflict with Islamic fundamentalism and a searing exploration of its human costs. Through the eyes of Filkins, a foreign correspondent for the New York Times, we witness the rise of ...
The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria: The History of ISIS/ISIL
Charles River Editors
CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
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*Includes pictures *Explains the formation, influences, ideology, and goals of the group *Includes footnotes and a bibliography for further reading Also known as ISIS, Da'esh, al-Qaeda in Iraq (AQI), and a host of other names, the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) has increasingly gained attention over the years for its brutal tactics and seemingly blatant disregard for human rights, but it has recently dominated the ...
The Iraq Lie: How the White House Sold the War
Joseph M Hoeffel
Progressive Press
, 2014
* First account by any Congressman to divulge the truth about what really happened in briefings with key Bush Administration figures. * Praise from Minority Leader and former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, and many other distinguished members of Congress. * The full story of how war hawks deceived the public, media and Congress; same people still pushing for US troops in Iraq again. * Tells how war and occupation destroyed Iraqi institutions, ...
Iraq after America: Strongmen, Sectarians, Resistance (The Great Unraveling: the Remaking of the Middle East: ...
Joel Rayburn
Hoover Institution Press
, 2014
More than a decade after the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, most studies of the Iraq conflict focus on the twin questions of whether the United States should have entered Iraq in 2003 and whether it should have exited in 2011, but few have examined the new Iraqi state and society on its own merits. Iraq after America examines the government and the sectarian and secular factions that have emerged in Iraq since the U.S. invasion of 2003, presenting ...
The Endgame: The Inside Story of the Struggle for Iraq, from George W. Bush to Barack Obama
Michael R. Gordon
Bernard E. Trainor
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A Wall Street Journal Best Nonfiction Book of 2012 In this follow-up to their national bestseller Cobra II , Michael Gordon and General Bernard E. Trainor deftly piece together the story of the most widely reported but least understood war in American history. This stunning account of the political and military struggle between American, Iraqi, and Iranian forces brings together vivid reporting of diplomatic intrigue and gripping accounts ...
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Ali A. Allawi
Yale University Press
, 2014
Born in 1883, King Faisal I of Iraq was a seminal figure not only in the founding of the state of Iraq but also in the making of the modern Middle East. In all the tumult leading to the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire and the establishment of new Arab states, Faisal was a central player. His life traversed each of the important political, military, and intellectual developments of his times. This comprehensive biography is the first to ...
IRAQ WAR 2003: What Really Happened Behind The Scenes: The Story Of The Greatest Blunder In American History ...
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Newly Released BESTSELLER With more than 600 citations, from insider memoirs to the accounts of journalists, former government officials, policy wonks, military leaders, and news broadcasters, the 'Iraq War 2003: What Really Happened Behind The Scenes' develops a thorough analysis of why the Bush administration used the 'War on Terror' to attack Iraq. With links to important references , the book provides the BACKGROUND FOR ...
Leaving the Wire: An Infantryman's Iraq
BookBaby, 2013
This book paints an intense, graphic portrait of the emotional and physical realities of the counter-insurgency campaign in Iraq. Gain insight into the murky characteristics that defined the war from a grunt who lived through it; the drudgery, filth, confusion, fear, and frustration. If you've ever wondered what it was like to be there, this book is for you.
The Modern History of Iraq
Phebe Marr
Westview Press
, 2011
The Modern History of Iraq places in historical perspective the crises and upheavals that continue to afflict the country. The book focuses on several important themes: the search for national identity in a multiethnic, multireligious state; the struggle to achieve economic development and modernity in a traditional society; and the political dynamics that have led to the current situation. Phebe Marr draws on published sources in Arabic and ...
Iraq - From War to a New Authoritarianism (Adelphi series)
Toby Dodge
, 2013
Iraq recovered its full sovereignty at the end of 2011, with the departure of all US military forces. The 2003 invasion was undertaken to dismantle a regime that had long threatened its own population and regional peace, as well as to establish a stable, democratic state in the heart of the Middle East. This Adelphi looks at the legacy of that intervention and subsequent state-building efforts. It analyses the evolution of the insurgency, the ...
Black Hearts: One Platoon's Descent into Madness in Iraq's Triangle of Death
Jim Frederick
, 2010
This is the story of a small group of soldiers from the 101st Airborne Division's fabled 502nd Infantry Regiment—a unit known as "the Black Heart Brigade." Deployed in late 2005 to Iraq's so-called Triangle of Death, a veritable meat grinder just south of Baghdad, the Black Hearts found themselves in arguably the country's most dangerous location at its most dangerous time. Hit by near-daily mortars, gunfire, and roadside bomb ...
Combat and Other Shenanigans: Tales of the Absurd from a Deployment to Iraq
Piers Platt
CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
, 2014
War is hell…but sometimes it's also funny as hell. Combat and Other Shenanigans is Lieutenant Piers Platt's firsthand account of his year as a cavalry platoon leader in Iraq. Wry, action-packed, and poignant, Combat and Other Shenanigans is the absurd-but-true story of the antics the world's finest soldiers get up to when no one high-ranking is watching.
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Progressive Management, 2014
Twenty-four authoritative reports and documents in this unique ebook provide a comprehensive review from renowned experts and government sources of all aspects of the current Iraq crisis involving the al-Qaeda related terrorist organization Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), variously known as Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS), and AQI. The group - headed by terrorist Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi ...
On the Hunt in Baghdad
Belmont Estate Books, 2011
In this classic riveting dispatch from Iraq, award-winning foreign correspondent Michael J. Totten embeds with a unit of battle-hardened American soldiers as they hunt the elusive terrorist commander Haji Jawad—who wore a suicide vest wherever he went—in the fetid slums of Sadr City, Baghdad, at midnight. Michael J. Totten is a foreign correspondent and foreign policy analyst who has reported from the Middle East, the Balkans, and the ...
The Iran-Iraq War: A Military and Strategic History
Williamson Murray
Kevin Woods
Cambridge University Press
, 2014
The Iran-Iraq War is one of the largest, yet least documented conflicts in the history of the Middle East. Drawing from an extensive cache of captured Iraqi government records, this book is the first comprehensive military and strategic account of the war through the lens of the Iraqi regime and its senior military commanders. It explores the rationale and decision-making processes that drove the Iraqis as they grappled with challenges that, at ...
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A Savannah Hopper shuttle driver wasticketed for driving one of the company's motorized carts on Bay StreetChristmas Eve.
Since then, Savannah Hopper has notbeen running their shuttle service.
The city gave them a license tooperate in late 2012, and now they want a judge to give them an oral cease anddesist.
Of all the designated stops on theBrewer's shuttle service, the Chatham County Courthouse is not one of them, butfor two days they fought to keep their shuttles moving in the city of Savannah.
Lester Johnson III, Assistant CityAttorney for Savannah, openly admitted Savannah made a mistake.
"If they want an apology from us,judge, they got it, and get on the mountain tops," said Johnson, III. "We'resorry we misinterpreted it."
Charlie Brewer and his wife, Sandra,have argued all along they did everything Savannah asked of them, and were upfront that their motorized shuttles, or golf carts, could not have a tag sincethere was no VIN number on them.
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Hines, who was at Reading before joining United in January, has started every game for Oxford and feels a derby win would kick-start her new side's faltering league campaign.
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"I don't think anyone's lacked motivation to play this season, but it's always good when it's a local derby and such a competitive fixture.
"I don't think Oxford have had the chance to play Reading competitively at this level before, so it's a big one."
The U's, who are yet to win this season, face a month-long lay-off after this weekend due to international fixtures and defender Rosie Lane said that they were determined not to go into the break pointless.
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This motel in Westbury is a 20-minute drive from New York City. It features free Wi-Fi, free on-site parking and rooms with a flat-screen TV. John F.
Score from 82 reviews Good
La Quinta Inn & Suites Garden CityJust a 2 minute drive from Hofstra University, this La Quinta hotel in Garden City, New York is 2 miles from the Carle Place train to Manhattan.
Score from 27 reviews Good
Friendly staff.
Location Convienent staffs are courteous and polite
Wifi unstable
Pool Food Staff Location Room
Hallways were very warm no a/c and needed to be vaccumed
I liked that there was a restaurant right in the hotel. That was convenient
It would have been great if there were a mini fridge in our room., we were in from out of town and when we went out to eat we could not bring left offers back cause we didn't want them to go bad. Also the room we were in was very cramped.. It was a double bed room and 3 of us..the table in the room so close to the bed made the room very small and we had to use most of the front of the room in the open closet to put most of our things.
Staff was very friendly & helpful. They were helpful giving us directions. When we needed to extend our stay, their computers for making reservations were down, but they confirmed us anyway. In the morning we double checked & the room was ours for the additional night.
A staff member made a remark which was inappropriate because it had something to do with a medical condition I have. I discussed it with the Director of Operations & he had the staff member meet with me. She expressed her genuine regret & our frank conversation met with my satisfaction. I felt it was important for someone in charge to be aware as well as the staff person that off the cuff comments can easily hurt a person. It would not keep me from staying there again.
The location is very close to shopping malls and train station to Mahattan.
Inner courtyard is pretty and good but nat available to customer from Booking.com.
The sports bar makes it excellent and a car rental in the basement. Also well located for shopping
Love the staff they are so sweet and helpful.
The price of the hotel was expensive. Should look into prices to fit everyones needs
Welcomed the warm cookies presented at check in... Very friendly front desk staff. Breakfast in the Sports Bar Restaurant was very nice With hot food and excellent service.
Toilet flushing sound throughout the night and the heater was set for only 1 speed. In order to turn heat down needed to shut the unit on and off.
Breakfast, which was partially included was good sized and tasted quite good. Housekeeping did a great job.
Tuesday and Friday morning at 6am the trash pickup was loud, with the dumpster banging several times waking us up. This "Bookings" e-mail request, which alerts me on my cell phone, came through before 7am on a Sunday. Unacceptable.
The location and parking.
I didn't like the fact that after the first night, my key card didn't work causing us to be lockedout of the room. It took the staff awhile to let us know what happened, especially when they asked us for ID cards. The excuse was a faulty key card which was hard for us to accept!
Front desk staff, location.
Only 3 plastic cups in the room. No bubble bath and no plastic liner for ice bucket.
Overpriced for what you get. Parking a problem due to Sports bar and drinking in the parking lot.
The staff
The shower head fell off the room stunk like smoke & then some sort of spray to cover it up
Location. Swimming pool was nice.
Free breakfast, is not completely free. There is a 20 dollar limit , but with 4 ppl to feed, thats hardly enough. After complaining About it at booking.com we got partly refunded. Complaining tache front desk, only got us appoligies. No fridge, but icecubes, so not a real big deal.
Staff so friendly & helpful. No problem from changing us from the dingy room you booked for us into a much better room with pool view - at no extra charge! Supplied fridge & microwave for new room at no extra charge.
The room Booking.com booked us into. Ground floor beside car park with people moving cars right outside our window. Dark & grubby.
+ pool is very nice + restaurant is good + just 20 mn from the beach
- Queenies /double beds too small for two persons, after one night we got an extra bed - very loud music on the terrace at the pool - no safe in the room, only behind the reception desk
the door n the backward was broken and always open ,so any body can enter the hotel anytime and having access to the rooms ,no secure ,the breakfeast is poor and u have to pay extra to get enough ,no fridge nor microwave in rooms and u have to pay to get these,even the price for one night room was not competetif
- very nice and customer-oriented staff especially at the front desk - large and delicious american breakfast - nice swimming pool - nice shopping-mall and fast-food-restaurants nearby
- noisy air condition - stains on bed coatings - big rooms that should be modernized - noise from corridor because of thin roomdoor
Good location, great shopping right outside the hotel and some nice restaurants only a few minutes walk away. Free wifi in the rooms was a welcome touch and was a surprisingly good connection.
Hotel is a little old so quite a bit of noise from corridor. Wasn't a fan of the food.
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Jon Wiener: The Gore Vidal FBI Filetags: Jon Wiener, The Nation, Gore Vidal, FBI file
Jon Wiener teaches US history at UC Irvine.
The first page of Gore Vidal's FBI file, released by the bureau after his death a year ago on July 31, is not about his political activism, his critique of the National Security State or even about his homosexuality. The first page, from 1960, says he made disparaging remarks about FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover.
The problem: Vidal's play The Best Man (a satire of Washington politics with characters loosely based on real political figures) had just opened on Broadway, and the assistant special agent in charge of the New York City office sent a memo to Cartha DeLoach, Hoover's right-hand man, informing him that the play contained "an unnecessary, quite unfunny and certainly unfair jibe [sic] at J. Edgar Hoover"—according to a show-biz columnist for a daily newspaper.
The bureau snapped to, informing DeLoach that "a Special Agent will attend this performance tonight" and that his report would be transmitted promptly. Indeed it was the supervisor of the New York FBI Office who was sent out on this mission. After seeing the play and taking notes, he filed his report: "The only reference to the Director [always capitalized] is when one play character—presumably Vice President Nixon—says to another—presumably Harry Truman, 'J. Edgar Hoover considers you to be one of the most moral and religious men ever to be in the White House.' The man replies with a sarcastic inflection, 'I'll reserve my opinion of J. Edgar Hoover for a posthumous memoir.'"...
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- NYT interviews Rick Perlstein about his book
- OAH issues a statement in support of the AP standards
- Daniel Pipes says in interview that the absence of anti-Israel protests in Muslim countries is highly significant
- A historian who studies China has discovered an overlooked angle in the debate about the Middle East. Could he have figured out a key reason for Iraq's failure to defeat ISIS?


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Dozens of young Palestinian rioters, many with their faces covered, confronted the police by throwing stones. Security forces on the scene have responded with riot dispersal means.
Meanwhile, police and security forces stepped up their presence in all of Jerusalem ahead of the funeral for Muhammad Abu Khdeir, the teenager found dead in the Jerusalem Forest Wednesday morning. Reportedly, thousands of additional security personnel have been called into the capital to maintain order.
Extra officers have been placed at potential points of conflict, such as on roadways and at hitchhiking spots.


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not with nat gas over 4 bux in summer and heading into heating season. this is a nat gas stock and gas could hit 5 bux
by jan 2015. the arbs are the ones selling. good support over 10.
This is BS. The stock is only a few points higher than it was 4 years ago during BPs worst moment. Now the company has sales over 400 billion dollars. This price is BS.
BMW has a P/E of 9.95 yield of 2.23%. Plus they make electric cars too. Yes BMWs aren't as reliable
as Tesla's but that's a good thing since that is more $ to the BMW shareholders while Tesla shareholders
have to fork over $ to non Tesla repair shops for warranty repairs and won't make much money off of Tesla
part replacements. PS I'm taking my Telsa cap gains and buying an electric beemer.
Tesla is making Chinese Unicom pay for electricity so we know its not solar. With 88% of China's electricity generated by coal now more coal will be burned. SO much for environmental friendly electric cars.
You mean someone sold 100k shares (probably to a broker who needs their business but will just unload shares on perhaps another BS upgrade)
Too much resistance at 270. Going back to 200-220. Too many electric cars hitting the road.
Especially when you have to pay a third party who probably don't even know what they are doing.
Most of the longs are protecting their positions with shorts. To close out a short trade is mostly
a wash for them. That's why the longs can dump this stock and not get hurt much.
Does anything think with Teslas increasing from 35,000 cars to 100,000 cars will increase reliability? I doubt it will.
With the warranty Tesla owners will now more readily sell their cars plagued by workmanship issue. With used cars no longer getting a premium this will cut down on sales. A downgrade is coming. Warranty is desperate attempt by musk to save company. people now realizing cars built by former chevy workers lol
It will hit non earnings since they have no real earnings!
Will hit earnings by lowering them. I mean come on, instrument panels going on the blink. Costly
to repair because they own no dealerships. Will cost $1,000s per car.
There will be numerous 200+ mile range battery cars. All but Tesla will have dealerships.
I've made money buying a few months before Christmas. t hink trade will work in the 90s.
They don't own any dealership repair shops. They will have to pay for repairs and the stock has a PE of 200.
Investors can only make money here by hoping others buy stock at a higher price. not happening today.
may unload the rest of my shares here. 260 looks like a double top. Other auto makers better value.
That's why auto makers eventually sell for pe of 6-10
ChineseTesla's run on electricity. 84% of electricity in China come from coal. Telsa's in China run on 84% coal power. Any who denys this is in denial of Aristotelian logic and is wrong.
This is probably a double top. I've been wanting to sell out since we sold off to 180.. All I see in the Telsa car mall showroom is kids. No serious buyers. They are probably in Car showrooms looking at other manufacturer
Just selling after x-dividend date. The greedy SOBs will be buying Exxom before they go x div. They will be back here in early November and stock will be higher. The yield here is just too good but that's all some want.


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The Calcasieu Parish Sheriff's Office is investigating a possible threat made an Oak Park Middle School student, officials said.
Calcasieu Parish School Board Public Information Officer Kirby Smith told KPLC that the investigation is ongoing and the school system "feels confident that the safety of our students and faculty was never in question."
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Atlanta Braves (11-10)@
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Thursday, March 14
Roger Dean Stadium - Jupiter, FL
Attendance: 7,089
Game Leaders
L: Wood
(0-1) 1.29 era
W: Wacha
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Jupiter, FL (Sports Network) - Matt Adams doubled in the winning run in the bottom of the eighth inning as St. Louis got past Atlanta, 5-4, in exhibition play.
Matt Carpenter finished with a double, triple and two RBI for the Cards, with Allen Craig adding an RBI.
Michael Wacha got the win after tossing two scoreless frames to end the contest.
Blake DeWitt drove in a pair and Jordan Schafer knocked one home for the Braves.
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The California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) is advising motorists of scheduled ramp and lane closures this week on U.S. Highway 50 in Pollock Pines due to construction.
Beginning tonight, on-ramp and off-ramp closures have been approved at Sly Park Road from 7 p.m. to 4 p.m. the next day. All ramps won't be closed concurrently, nor will they be closed the entire window of time approved. When the ramps are closed, highway message signs will be used to alert motorists in advance.
A contractor is scheduled to install K-rail, do water blasting and restripe lanes in preparation for the bridge over Sly Park Road to be replaced. The $7.67 million project also includes building new curbs, ramps and sidewalks. The work is scheduled to be complete by the end of this year.
Eastbound motorists can also expect alternating lane closures from Sly Park Road to Bullion Bend Road from 6 a.m. to 8 p.m. Monday through Friday for median work. Westbound motorists can expect alternating lane closures from Bullion Bend Road to Sly Park Road Monday and Tuesday from 7 a.m. to midnight and the #1 lane closed from 6 a.m. Wednesday to 5 p.m. Friday.
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Just as the cruise industry was sailing into calmer waters following a difficult year, highly publicized reports of stomach illnesses on a handful of ships delivered a setback, according to results of a poll released this week.
The Harris Poll of 2,059 adults was conducted between Feb. 10 and 14, shortly after norovirus outbreaks on three different ships sickened hundreds of passengers and crew members. The largest of those outbreaks, which sickened nearly 700 people on Royal Caribbean International's Explorer of the Seas, drew widespread media attention.
Public perception of major cruise brands dropped in February compared to Harris Poll EquiTrend data collected the previous month, which showed that the perception was improving compared to polls conducted in February and May of 2013, after fire disabled the Carnival Triumph at sea in a highly publicized debacle. The most recent scores were significantly lower than results in January of 2013, before the Triumph incident.
With scores averaged across seven brands — including Miami-based Carnival Cruise Lines, Royal Caribbean International and Norwegian Cruise Line — perceived quality, trust and purchase intent dropped 5 percent compared to January of this year. Compared to January of 2013, perceived quality dropped 11 percent, trust was down 12 percent and purchase intent dropped 13 percent averaged across the seven brands.
The results did not sit well with industry players, including the Cruise Lines International Association and Carnival Corp., the world's largest cruise ship company and owner of Carnival Cruise Lines, Princess Cruises, Holland America Line and seven other brands.
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For its part, Carnival pointed out that another measure — the YouGov BrandIndex — showed that Carnival recovered to previous perception levels earlier this year and that purchase consideration levels were also up.
"Carnival Corporation has continued to see improvements in all our company's brands over the past several months based on independent brand tracking data," said Roger Frizzell, the company's chief communications officer. "The recent launch of a number of unique initiatives, along with advertising campaigns launched by several of our brands, are helping generate positive traction among consumers."


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Directory Layout opinions needed
Ok, Internet. I have two options, both of which have their upside/downsides, and I need your feedback. I'm working on the new directory layout for LibraryBox, and need to break long names, especially those without spaces in them, because it does crazy things with the layout. Here's an example of what the layout looks like without the hard-break behavior:
And here's the same directory listing, WITH the hard-break CSS behavior in place:
Better, right? Except then you get weird things like this:
Text that DOES have spaces, and would normally break across them, instead breaks at the arbitrary point where it hits the wall of the container.
So what's your vote: With or Without the hard break CSS? The text in question will be all over the place, as it's whatever filenames people use for the files they put on a LibraryBox…could literally be any text in the world. So I can't predict…and it's in CSS, so I don't really have a way to detect spaces and do an if/then with it. Anyone have any ideas?
Creative Commons NC clause and 3D printing
I was browsing through some 3D printing files today, STLs that both I produced and were produced by others. For example, I designed and uploaded a 3D case for a LibraryBox that others have downloaded and printed. It is CC licensed, specifically CC BY-NC. I was looking at other STL files that had a CC NC license applied to them, and it made me think what that NC is really protecting.
Obviously, at the very least, the license prevents others from selling the STL files. Does it, however, prevent someone from using the files to create the physical object (that is, using a 3D printer to print the box itself out) and then selling the object? My instinct says yes, as the physical object is an instantiation of the digital file. But let's scale the example up…what if someone built a house based on CC NC licensed plans? Could they ever legally sell the house?
This is purely theoretical. To my knowledge, no one is selling my designs, and I'm not planning to sell anyone else's. But I am curious where the line between licensing a digital file and the resultant legal implications of the physical instantiation of that file might be.
The only case and real discussion I can find online is this case that was written up by Make, US Legal Lessons from Canada's First STL IP Infringement Case. The discussion there indicates that Make's author, Michael Weinberg, doesn't believe that, once printed, there is any protection for a utilitarian object under copyright law (and since that's what underpins Creative Commons, nothing there either).
Anyone want to weigh in on this?
Code4LibDC Unconference Workshop
Monday and Tuesday of this week I had the opportunity to attend the 2014 Code4LibDC Unconference, where I had been invited to lead an introduction to hardware hacking workshop. Thanks in large part to the generosity of SparkFun Electronics, whose Education arm let me borrow the hardware necessary to run the workshop (15 sets of the Sparkfun Redboard Arduino clone, breadboards, wiring, LEDs, and sensors).
I decided that I wanted to try and reverse the normal order of pretty much every "Learn Arduino" workshop that I'd seen, so rather than start with a blank slate and have the students build a circuit to blink an LED, I decided that I wanted them to start with a working circuit that was a bit more complicated and then deconstruct it. As a result, I spent most of a day late the week before building out a dozen or so circuits that would light a series of 4 LEDs dependent on the value of a potentiometer, and then packing them up and hoping the TSA didn't find them "interesting". The idea was that the participants would immediately have a working thing, and then could break it, alter it, change it, and they would have something that was immediately useful rather than struggle to make it work from the outset. Judging from the reactions I got, I think that was a good call…the participants seemed to have a grand time deconstructing why the circuit did what it did. It also provided an example of how something very simple could be useful in a library…you could, with very little change, basically replace the potentiometer with a thermistor and have a temperature gauge, or with a microphone and have a noise indicator for "too loud" rooms.
'This is why everyone loves hardware' @Griffey #c4ldc pic.twitter.com/LTaCgWSohU— Christina Harlow (@cm_harlow) August 12, 2014
We weren't without problems (no hardware session ever is) but overall I felt like it went well, and I can't wait to work on making this particular workshop even better. I really want to teach more and more librarians how to hack on hardware to benefit their libraries. A few of the participants really had a field day, with one group altering the simple 4 LED series to instead be a 4-bit binary counter, and another working out an algorithm that allowed for soft fades instead of simple on/off of the lights.
If anyone is interested, below you will find my slides from the workshop. They need work before I try to give this again, but I think they are a good start.
Month One
Today marks the one month anniversary of leaving my position at the University of TN at Chattanooga, walking away from a tenured professorship, and trying to build a business on my reputation and skills.
So how's it going?
Right now, it's mostly proposal limbo. I have something like 8 different consulting proposals that I've either put together or been attached to over the course of the month. Of those 8, 2 are definite no-gos, 2 need revisions and resubmittal, and 4 are still floating in the ether of uncertainty. I've got a handful of speaking engagements (but am always happy to come and speak with librarians about technology) and over the next few months will be:
- Doing an Arduino workshop in DC
- Attending three different Maker Faires (Nashville, Atlanta, and Chattanooga)
- Attending the Knight Foundation Demo Day for my Prototype Grant for LibraryBox
- Prepping for 2 different conference presentations: DLF Forum and LITA Forum
Those are all in roughly the next 12 weeks!
Which is a lot of words to basically say: Things are uncertain, but good, and I'm keeping busy.
I'd love to hear from anyone who needs technology planning at their library, though…I would love to turn a few proposals into contracts. What can I do to help your library?
3D Printers for Libraries
I spent yesterday hanging out at the GigTank Demo Day, listening to 3D printing startups pitch their ideas and companies at investors. It was a fantastic event, as is normal for things that the Company Lab is running, and I had a good time listening to the excitement around 3D printing as a technology.
It made me want to look back and see how long I've been following this technology, and I was dumbfounded to discover that the first mention of 3D printing on this very blog was in 2006. In October of 2006 I posted about a company called Fabjectory that was way ahead of the curve in providing 3D printing as a service for people. Then, not quite a year later I held the first 3D printed object that I'd ever touched, and it happened to be a print of myself as a Nintendo Mii. That was in August of 2007!
In 2011 I was asked to record a video by the LITA Top Tech Trends committee as an experiment for doing some information updates on technology between ALA Annual and Midwinter, and the trend I pointed to was 3D printing.
There's a lot more that I've written over the years, ranging from my interviews with Bre Pettis (CEO of Makerbot Industries) about libraries and 3D printing to reporting last year for American Libraries on the 3D printing news from CES 2014.
All this time and interest in the technology is coming to head in the publication of a new Library Technology Report that I have written on 3D printing, called 3D Printers for Libraries. In it I explain all of the varieties of 3D printing and 3D printers, from the inexpensive fused-deposition printers that most libraries are installing to the highest end Electron Beam Melting printers that are used to produce medical-grade implants. I go through the pros and cons of a variety of manufacturers, and make suggestions for libraries who are just getting started in offering 3D printing as a service.
If your library is looking at starting to offer 3D printing, this is a good reference work to help you make some decisions about types of printers and pitfalls and problems you may see with them. If your library would like some help in making decisions like this, or in figuring out how to offer 3D printing to your patrons, feel free to contact me (griffey at gmail.com or @griffey on Twitter). I'd love to help you get to a place where your staff is confident in offering 3D printing as a new technology offering from your library.
Honoring Orwell
I am continually amazed, every day, at the reach and spread of the LibraryBox Project. This tweet from today took my breath away:
This year the grave is equipped with 5 solar panels and 2wifi hotspots. (One linked to a #librarybox) #1984Symposium pic.twitter.com/M6BgZ6iUcL— Christian Payne (@Documentally) June 25, 2014
It refers to the 1984 Symposium, a group of people who gather every year on the anniversary of Orwell's death, to honor him and discuss the ideas contained within 1984 by picnicking at his gravesite. That there is a small piece of me there in the form of a box that helps to make information that much more open and free…I'm so very, very pleased by this.
SparkFun @ ALA Annual 2014 – Hardware and Coding!
ALA Annual 2014 in Las Vegas is going to be a fantastic conference for a ton of reasons, but at least one of those reasons is that there is a new exhibitor that anyone interested in technology, coding, and general hardware hackery should get to know: SparkFun Electronics.
SparkFun is a company that not only makes awesome hardware and hardware kits, they have an amazing educational wing that works with schools and libraries to teach Maker skills to people across the country. I had the opportunity back in February to visit and learn from Sparkfun along with a handful of other Chattanooga librarians you may have heard of. Their educational materials are top-notch, and they are happy to work with libraries who want to teach Arduino, coding, soft circuits, and a few dozen other projects.
At ALA Annual they will be in the exhibit hall, Booth 1870, and will have a ton of interesting stuff to look at and play with. Sparkfun's Jeff Branson along with Nate Hill from the Chattanooga Public Library will also be taking part in the LITA Library Code Year Interest Group Technology Speed Dating event on Saturday, June 28, in the Las Vegas Convention Center Room N119. That looks like an incredible lineup of presenters, and will be a great program.
In addition to all of that, they will be hosting a number of short classes in the Networking Uncommons if you want to get a quick 1/2 hour introduction to Arduino, AruBlock, Scratch, or Processing…or if you want to stick around for the whole shebang and have a 2 hour block of technology awesomeness. They will be doing two classes of each:
Saturday, June 28 – Networking Uncommons
3-3:30 Ardublock
3:30-4:00 Arduino
4:00-4:30 Scratch
4:30-5:00 Processing
Monday, June 30 – Networking Uncommons
10-10:30 Ardublock
10:30-11:00 Arduino
11:30-12:00- Processing
If you have any interest at all in Maker technologies, I recommend showing up for one of these…Jeff from Sparkfun is a great instructor, and I guarantee it'll be a good time. I hope to see you all there!
LibraryBox Installfest @ ALA Annual 2014
Are you going to be at ALA Annual 2014 in Las Vegas? Would you like to build your own LibraryBox for yourself or your library, but aren't sure how to make that happen? Well step right up, I've got your answer!
On Saturday, June 28th from 11:15am until 12 Noon in the Networking Uncommons in the Las Vegas Convention Center, I will be holding the fist ever LibraryBox Installfest! What does that mean? It means that you buy the hardware and bring it with you, and I will walk you through the install process, show you some tips and tricks for customizing, and generally answer any questions about the LibraryBox Project that you might have. I'll be there helping anyone who shows up, so just drop by anytime during that 45 minutes.
What you DEFINITELY need to bring with you
- Either a TP-Link MR3020 or a TP-Link MR3040 router (both are about $35). Choose one, both work great for a LibraryBox.
- A USB Thumb Drive that you will attach to the router above.
- A laptop computer
The install process, from beginning to end, will take about 10-15 minutes. If you show up with the equipment listed, I will make sure that you leave with a working LibraryBox.
Join me in the Networking Uncommons for the first ever LibraryBox Installfest, and learn how to build your own LibraryBox. Or just swing by and ask questions. Or heck, just come say hello and grab a LibraryBox sticker.
See you in Vegas!
Maker Spaces in Libraries & The White House Maker Faire
As some of you may have heard, the White House is hosting a Maker Faire in the very near future. See this release for more details: http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2014/02/03/announcing-first-white-house-maker-faire
Maker spaces in libraries allow everyone to develop critical thinking and problem solving skills and facilitate opportunity for collaboration and community engagement that will aid in the next generation of STEM jobs. They provide access to tools (from books to 3D printers) and, most importantly, 'access to each other'. Library maker spaces are powerful informal learning spaces that give local community members the ability to create, hack, and make their future.
A number of organizations are working together to show library support for making in our communities. If you and your institution support President Obama's call for, "an all-hands-on-deck approach to science, technology, engineering, and math…to make sure that all of us as a country are lifting up these subjects for the respect that they deserve," please email Lauren at firstname.lastname@example.com to sign up as a supporter. Time is running out, and having as many names as possible on the list will help show the White House that libraries are a vital part of the Maker movement, and integral to supporting their communities.
The Case for Open Hardware in Libraries
Over a year ago, I was approached by Ken Varnum to write a chapter for a book he was editing, at the time called Top Ten Technologies for 2017. He was persuasive, and I had this crazy idea that had been bouncing around in my head for some time about libraries and open hardware. I told him my idea, and described the argument I wanted to make, and he told me to go for it.
So I did.
The book ended up being called The Top Technologies Every Librarian Needs to Know: A LITA Guide and my chapter in it The Case for Open Hardware in Libraries. I'm pretty proud of it, as it's as close as I've been able to come, after a couple of years worth of thinking and speaking and writing, to distilling why I think this is an important thing for libraries to be doing.
Click the above link to download a copy for your very own, or take a look below for a quick skim. Either way, I hope that it starts or continues some conversations on this front in libraries. As always, if there are libraries out there that want to do this sort of thing, build their own hardware, create their own measurement tools, I'd love to hear from you. I'd love to help you. Just let me know.
I'm Jason Griffey, a librarian, technologist, writer and speaker. This is my personal/professional blog, but I also write Release Candidate (focusing on future tech) and for the ALA TechSource blog. Visit my homepage for more.


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Bovada didn't waste any time putting out Super Bowl odds for next season. As you would expect, the Washington Redskins' odds aren't good -- but it's not as if anyone else in the NFC East is considered a safe pick to reach the NFL's ultimate game. ...Blog | February 03, 2014
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