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Your Lost Gadgets Will Find Each Other
Sometimes when one of my remotes is missing, I interrogate the others: "Where's your friend? I know you know something!" In the future, with wireless positioning systems, a version of that method might actually almost work.
Researchers at MIT's Wireless Communications and Network Sciences Group think networks of devices that communicate their positions to each other will work better than all of the devices transmitting to a single receiver. The latter is how GPS works, and if you've used it, you know it isn't always very precise. In the lab, MIT's robots can spot a wireless transmitter within a millimeter.
This seems almost intuitive: the more "eyes" you have on an object, the easier it is to triangulate — the robot version of "the wisdom of crowds." But the key conceptual breakthrough here isn't actually the number of transmitters or their network arrangement, but what they're transmitting. MIT News's Larry Hardesty writes:
Among [the research group's] insights is that networks of wireless devices can improve the precision of their location estimates if they share information about their imprecision. Traditionally, a device broadcasting information about its location would simply offer up its best guess. But if, instead, it sent a probability distribution — a range of possible positions and their likelihood — the entire network would perform better as a whole. The problem is that sending the probability distribution requires more power and causes more interference than simply sending a guess, so it degrades the network's performance. [The] group is currently working to understand the trade-off between broadcasting full-blown distributions and broadcasting sparser information about distributions.
Much of this research is still theoretical, or has only been deployed in lab settings. But Princeton's H. Vincent Poor is optimistic about the MIT group's approach: "I don't see any major obstacles for transferring their basic research to practical applications. In fact, their research was motivated by the real-world need for high-accuracy location-awareness.†Like precisely which cushion my remote control is underneath.
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Review: The Joy of Geocaching
We at GeekDad are not new to geocaching. We've covered geocaching as a great family activity, Letterboxing – the no-tech geocaching alternative, and geoocaching without a GPS. But if you're still interested in getting in to the sport, but don't know how to start or what to expect, there's a book that has what you need. And it's more than just a how-to.
Paul and Dana Gillin's book, The Joy of Geocaching, was not what I was expecting when offered a review copy. Being a fan of geocaching myself, but not as active in the sport as I'd like, I began reading what I thought would be a primer on how to get started, what equipment to get, and how to build your own cache. I've certainly read plenty of backyard astronomy books that while providing an equipment guide, viewing tips and star charts, usually don't do much to get you excited about your new hobby. I wasn't sure what an author could bring to the subject of geocaching that would really break the mold. With this book, I was pleasantly surprised.
Geocaching, for those who might not know, is an outdoor activity best described as a treasure hunt. The website, geocaching.com, hosts an index of locations all over the world of hidden caches that can be found by putting the coordinates into a handheld GPS receiver and following clues to locate the cache once you're in the vicinity. These caches are maintained by people who live in the area and are usually located in interested places. Caches in your own neighborhood will likely take you to locations you didn't know existed. And they can certainly make vacations or travel a little more interesting.
If this sounds like fun, it is. And The Joy of Geocaching ratchets up the excitement even more. Because the book isn't so much a primer about how to do geocaching; It's a book about why you should take up the sport. The book opens with anecdotes about the people who go out, GPS receiver in hand looking for adventure. Peppered throughout the book are anecdotes about some of the best caches people have created, and some of the dangerous. There are descriptions by the people who have located them, and profiles of others who are masters of the sport. Reading about them and their finds make it easy to get the itch to go out yourself to see what adventure awaits in your own back yard. Maybe it's a walk in the park. Or maybe you'll be scooting down an abandoned railroad trestle bridge 50 feet up in the air looking for a magnetic container with it's precious log book inside.
But this is not to say the book is all about the people. You will find plenty of information on how to get started, including how to select equipment that's right for you and your budget. There's also information detailing now only how to navigate the geocaching website, but also how to create an account and be an involved and active member. There's also in-depth chapters that goes beyond the equipment itself including how to plan for an outing and how to navigate when you're out in the field.
The book is well written, and does a great job at demystifying the jargon and explaining the tools and technology that made geocaching possible. They also provide plenty of reasons to get outside looking for and hopefully making your own caches. If you're interested in getting started with geocaching, look no further than The Joy of Geocaching.
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Eight Great Tips for Traveling with the iPad
Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg works on an iPad in a lounge at Newark airport, Wednesday April 14, 2010, before his flight to Oslo from the United States was diverted to Spain because of the cloud of dust from a volcanic eruption in Iceland hanging over northern European air space. (AP Photo/The Prime Minister's Office, ho)
The iPad is an almost perfect travel computer. It's easy to carry, works as a guide, a map, a book and it's crazy-long battery life will let you sit back and watch another movie while your laptop-toting companions search for a power outlet. But as convenient as it is, a little preparation will make things even smoother. Here are some things you should do before you leave the house.
Go Offline
A 3G iPad is a wonderfully useful machine, but outside of your home country, unless you're willing to pay extra for roaming or a new, local micro-SIM, you'll be back on Wi-Fi. Get ready for this by preparing a few apps.
OffMaps is an iPad (and iPhone) app which lets you download city maps for offline use. This lets you use the GPS (or Wi-Fi triangulation) on your iPad without an internet connection. City-specific versions of OffMaps are free, but a master version costs just $2 and lets you grab any map, for free, from within the app.
Maps are organized by country and then city, and are sourced from OpenStreetMaps, the crowd-sourced map project. There are also city guides which can be downloaded, and these not only give tourist hints and tips, but add a user-built database of restaurant, hotels, tourist-spots and so on. This makes searching the map double-useful. The guides cost around 30-cents each, and are paid for by buying tokens from within the app. Three free guides are included with the purchase.
A Wi-Fi Hotspot Directory
One way to get online in a foreign city is to find some free Wi-Fi. But if you don't have an internet connection, you can't download a hotspot database. Do this before you leave. There are several free and paid apps in the store, although I couldn't find anything good for the iPad, so I just picked the free Wi-Fi Finder for iPhone and use it pixel-doubled.
If you're spending your days outside, a weather app is pretty essential. You'll need a connection to use it, but a once-a-day update should be enough. I use Weather Pro for iPad, which costs $5. It's uncannily accurate and easy to read, and yet offers an embarrassment of detail, from animated weather-radar charts to an hour-by-hour breakdown of rainfall predictions. It also works worldwide, unlike some rather short-sighted U.S-only apps.
Language Guides
Which one you choose depends on where you are going, and quality is astonishingly variable. For vacations, though, you should opt for a travel-guide app rather than a full-on dictionary, as these will have useful phrases grouped together. Try learning the numbers one to ten by looking them up individually in a dictionary instead of together on a page and you'll see why.
Why bother? Because if you are like most native English-speakers, you are an arrogant traveler, and you assume that you can just start talking English at somebody and they'll understand. They probably will, as these foreigners are smart enough to learn another language, but they'll hate you. You'd be amazed how far the local words for "hello", "please", "thank you", and "do you speak English?" will get you. I tried it in jaw-crunching Polish this past weekend and the helpful, warm smiles I got betrayed just how few people bother. This happened despite my truly dreadful pronunciation.
Wherever you store them, you should put your useful travel information in PDF-format for your travels. Well known guides are available as apps for some cities, but some of you may have illegitimate copies of the paper versions, or even saved Wikipedia articles. Convert to PDF and store on the iPad for fast, offline retrieval.
Technical Tips
Stealth and Cases
You don't want to stand out as a tourist, and in some areas you won't even want to pull out your iPad. To help, you'll need a case. It should be quick-access, as you'll likely be consulting the various guides and maps pretty often. The best kind is probably the flip-open type which makes your iPad look like a book. Failing this, a slim slip-cover will work, although you'll have to hold it as you read. Avoid anything big or bulky, and above all don't use something that looks like a computer bag.
If you're really not comfortable pulling out your iPad, or you just must consult the paper guide-book, cover that book in something. Do not wander the streets with a Lonely Planet book in hand. It screams "mug me" and makes you look like a dork. Best of all, try the little Moleskine City Guides, the most covert maps you can buy.
As you won't be using 3G, you should switch it off. The same goes for Wi-Fi, most of the time. The iPad has a great battery life, but you can extend it further by switching off unnecessary radios, especially if you are in an area with no 3G coverage (the constant search for a network will drain juice double-quick).
Don't do it right away, though: The GPS will grab its initial location much faster if it can use local cell-towers and Wi-Fi signals to give it a rough idea first. After initial acquisition, you can turn them off. Don't use airplane mode, though, as this also kills the GPS.
Plan to Share
You can load the iPad up with the Lord of the Rings trilogy (books and movies) and the latest RPGs from Square, but won't you please think about the children? Or at least consider your non-nerd fellow travelers. Before you leave, download some multi-player and family-friendly games (Labyrinth 2 HD is a great choice, and has a free lite version). Also, consider short, throwaway TV-shows that everyone will like, and that can be watched in half-hour chunks. Think less "The Wire" and more "30 Rock". And don;t forget a cheap, two-way headphone splitter for shared movie-watching.
And if you're sharing, there will come a point when you're left staring out the train window, bored to death. This is where you pull out your secret weapon: Your iPhone or iPod Touch, loaded up with all the same goodies. And one more thing: Put all the above apps on your first home screen. You'll thank me for it.
There must be plenty more great ways you can use your iPad when traveling, especially the online services I haven't covered here. Got any apps, accessories or general tips? Leave them, as ever, in the comments.
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Canon's 7D SV With Parental Controls, Barcode-Scanning
This is the oddest camera announcement you'll see for a while: the Canon 7D Studio Version is, more or lass, a standard 7D with parental controls. It's not to stop the kids messing with your DSLR, but to help busy pro-photographers to manage their workflow. I know: try to stay awake.
The 7D SV lets the master photographer set up the camera just how he likes and then send lackeys out to, say, shoot school-portraits without messing things up. There are, according to the press release, four-levels of locking so you can let the less stupid assistants do some things for themselves.
This has some utility. You could make sure all your images come back with precisely matched white balance, within the correct ISO-range, for example.
Also included, if you opt for a kit, is a version on Canon's remote wireless transfer unit, the WFT-E5A. Normally this works like a $700 Eye-Fi card, sending GPS-stamped pics to your computer. With custom firmware the WFT-E5A loses the GPS but gains the ability to ready barcodes, adding their info to a picture's metadata. Again, this is about speeding up large-volume workflows (stop yawning at the back). You can also scan codes direct to the camera.
The price for these patronizing products is $1,830 body-only (the normal 7D is $1,700) and $2,600 for the kit. Availability to be announced.
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Man Scrawls World's Biggest Message With GPS 'Pen'
One man drove 12,238 miles across 30 states to scrawl a message that can only be viewed using Google Earth. His big shoutout: "Read Ayn Rand."
Nick Newcomen did a road trip over 30 days that covered stretches from the Pacific to the Atlantic Ocean. First, he identified on a map the route he would need to drive to spell out the message. He put a GPS device in his car to trace the route he would follow. Then, he hit the road.
"The main reason I did it is because I am an Ayn Rand fan," he says. "In my opinion if more people would read her books and take her ideas seriously, the country and world would be a better place — freer, more prosperous and we would have a more optimistic view of the future."
Newcomen, unlike previous GPS artists, actually traveled the lines he traced on the map. He used a GPS logger (Qstarz BT-Q1000X) to "ink" the message. Starting his trip in Marshall, Texas, he turned on the device when he wanted to write a letter and turned off the device between letters. The recorded GPS data was loaded into Google Earth to produce the image above.
"The first word I wrote actually was the word 'Rand', then I went up North to do the word 'Read' and finished it with 'Ayn,'" says Newcomen.
And for those who don't know, Ayn Rand is a Russian-American writer whose books Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead are among the world's best-selling novels.
Newcomen's venture sounds pretty crazy, though he gets points for ambition.
What message would you write using a GPS?
Photo: Nick Newcomen
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Amateurs Fling Their Gadgets to Edge of Space
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A ride to the stratosphere and back has now become a rite of passage for smartphones.
Space enthusiasts are attaching devices such as the Motorola Droid, G1, HTC Evo and Nexus One — not to mention an array of digital cameras — to weather balloons or rockets, then sending them high into the stratosphere and beyond.
With integrated GPS systems, cameras and fast processors, smartphones are computing devices available to all. That's why space enthusiasts are turning to them to do things that would have otherwise required custom components or a number of specialized devices.
"What you are seeing is a grass-roots initiative to reach for the stars,†says Bobby Russell, founder of Quest for Stars, a nonprofit organization that works with high school students to promote science and technology.
Driving the interest of hobbyists are the latest crop of smartphones and even digital cameras because the devices are cheap and fairly rugged.
"Now, it's all there off-the-shelf for the taking,†says Russell. "So why reinvent the wheel?â€
Photo: A Google G1 phone gets ready to head into the atmosphere, surrounded by members of the Noisebridge hacker space. Photo courtesy: Mikolaj Horbyn, Andrew Gerrand, Christie Dudley.
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Droid Eris Phone is Reborn as a Disney Tour Guide
HTC's Droid Eris phone is getting a second lease on life as a tour guide in a Disney amusement park. Disney has taken the smartphone, added a frame around it to turn it into a device running an app that shows wait times for rides, offers discounts and indicates show times at the park.
The repurposed Eris also gives out tips and tricks and coupons for use in the park.
HTC launched the Droid Eris in November as a $100 smartphone (with a two-year contract) on Verizon Wireless. The Droid Eris had a 3.2-inch display, a 5-megapixel camera, Wi-Fi and GPS capability. It also used HTC's Sense custom skin for Android. In June, Verizon said it has retired the Droid Eris.
Meanwhile, last year Disney also launched its Mobile Magic app for mostly feature phones and non-Android smartphones. The app gives users detailed information about the different Disney theme parks in the U.S. Now with the Android version of the app running on the Eris, Disney hopes to connect with those users who are already at the park.
Check out the video to see the Mobile Magic app on the Droid Eris
Ultimately, the Eris phone running the app may be offered as a free or "low cost add-on" for visitors on the trip, says the MickeyUpdates site.
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Apple Files Patent For a Smart Bike
If we saw a patent for an iPod Touch with a camcorder, we wouldn't bat an eyelash. A Mac with a touchscreen? Unremarkable. But we did a double take when we read that Apple filed a patent for a smart bike.
The company, known more for its must-have consumer gadgets than any niche products, has imagined a smart bicycle system that would let users communicate electronically with other cyclists, sharing such data as speed, distance, time, altitude, elevation, incline, decline, heart rate, power, derailleur setting, cadence, wind speed, path completed, expected future path, heart rate, power, and pace.
If that sounds totally un-Apple, it's worth noting that this system would require an iPhone or iPod Touch, so it's not a complete departure from the kinds of products Apple usually makes. In fact, it's not unlike Nike + iPod, which combines Nike sneakers and an app installed on iPod Nanos and Touches to monitor runners' distance, time, heart rate, and other key stats.
To bicyclists, this idea might not seem novel; they can buy attachable computers now. But they also have to pretty serious about the sport: high-end models can cost upwards of $200. Even the LiveRider iPhone bike computer kit costs $100.
However, it's unclear how tricked-out a smart bike would be, much less how much it might cost. Part of the mystery is that any number of sensors could be attached to the bike itself, to monitor how it's moving, and in what direction. For instance, it could come loaded with GPS, an accelerometer, or a magnetic sensor, to name just three types. The patent does indicate, though, that regardless of the combination of sensors, the general concept of a smart bike would apply to any kind of bicycle, whether it be a mountain bike or BMX.
Then there's the question of display. The patent indicates that an iPhone or iPod Touch, coupled with an armband, is possible, but so is a display (either fixed or removable) that's attached to the handlebars. (We think a cradle for the iPhone sounds like the most elegant solution, allowing users to easily view data without having to spring for an additional piece of hardware.)
In terms of how intrusive such a system could potentially be, the patent suggests that users could also set a threshold (say, for speed) after which the system alerts the bicyclist to changes in their stats. It might even be possible for users to use voice commands to communicate with the app, which we'd prefer too if we were riding on a fast-moving bike.
We're still stumped as to how a smart bike, applicable to far fewer customers than, say, an iPad, fits into Apple's broader strategy. But if this is going to be the bicyclists' version of Nike + iPod, we sure are intrigued.
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Video: Rolling Robot Ball Controlled by Android Phone
This amazing robotic ball is called the Smart Ball. Built into a small plastic sphere, the robot inside is controlled via your Bluetooth cellphone (Android only right now, but any phone could do it) and rolls in the direction you tell it. The control interface is the phone itself: You tilt it and the accelerometers pass on the info to the ball, controlling speed and directions. Imaging playing Super Monkey Ball in real life and you pretty much have it.
The balls are actually prototypes for a real commercial product, and were made by hacker group Gearbox. The Gearbox folks have already opened up the APIs (the parts that let programmers create apps to control the balls) and have been running hack weekends where people can come along and try them out.
Controlling a ball's roll is pretty cool, but other uses are even cooler. For instance, one commenter suggests having a GPS app control the Smart Ball: input your destination and the ball would roll away, guiding you to your goal like a benign willow-the-wisp.
The Gearbox people are aiming for a price of around $25, and already have games planned or written. Sumo, for instance pits one ball against the other, with two people trying to knock each others' ball off a table. The phone would keep track of things and offer stats and league tables. Neat.
We'll be keeping an eye on the Gearbox blog to see when these are available to buy.
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Steel shipments up 5.1 percent
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The American Iron and Steel Institute (AISI) reported on March 19 that for the month of January 2012, U.S. steel mills shipped 8,497,932 net tons, a 5.1-percent increase from the 8,085,761 net tons shipped in the previous month, December 2011, and a 12.9-percent increase from the 7,528,655 net tons shipped in January 2011. 2012 shipments for January would annualize at 102 million tons.
A month-to-month comparison of shipments shows the following changes: cold rolled sheet, up 24 percent, hot dipped galvanized sheets and strip, up 19 percent and hot rolled sheet, down 9 percent.
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Saint Peter's tomb
Saint Peter's tomb is a site under St. Peter's Basilica that includes several graves and a structure said by Vatican authorities to have been built to memorialize the location of St. Peter's grave. St. Peter's tomb is near the west end of a complex of mausoleums that date between about AD 130 and AD 300.[1][2] The complex was partially torn down and filled with earth to provide a foundation for the building of the first St. Peter's Basilica during the reign of Constantine I in about AD 330.[3] Though many bones have been found at the site of the 2nd-century shrine, as the result of two campaigns of archaeological excavation, Pope Pius XII stated in December 1950 that none could be confirmed to be Saint Peter's with absolute certainty.[4] However, following the discovery of further bones and an inscription, on June 26, 1968 Pope Paul VI announced that the relics of St. Peter had been identified.
The grave claimed by the Church to be that of St. Peter lies at the foot of the aedicula beneath the floor. The remains of four individuals and several farm animals were found in this grave.[5] In 1953, after the initial archeological efforts had been completed, another set of bones were found that were said to have been removed without the archeologists' knowledge from a niche (loculus) in the north side of a wall (the graffiti wall) that abuts the red wall on the right of the aedicula. Subsequent testing indicated that these were the bones of a 60-70 year old man.[6] Margherita Guarducci argued that these were the remains of St. Peter and that they had been moved into a niche in the graffiti wall from the grave under the aedicula "at the time of Constantine, after the peace of the church" (313).[7] Antonio Ferrua, the archaeologist who headed the excavation that uncovered what is known as the St. Peter's Tomb, said that he wasn't convinced that the bones that were found were those of St. Peter.[8]
The upper image shows the area of the lower floor of St. Peter's Basilica that lies above the site of St. Peter's tomb. A portion of the aedicula that was part of St. Peter's tomb rose above level of this floor and was made into the Niche of the Pallium[9] which can be seen in the center of the image.
Death of Peter at Vatican Hill[edit]
The earliest reference to Peter's death (outside the New Testament: see John 21:15-19) is 1 Clement (a.k.a. Letter to the Corinthians), written c. 96 AD. In that letter, Clement, the bishop of Rome, says (chapter 5), "Let us take the noble examples of our own generation. Through jealousy and envy the greatest and most just pillars of the Church were persecuted, and came even unto death … Peter, through unjust envy, endured not one or two but many labours, and at last, having delivered his testimony, departed unto the place of glory due to him."
St. Peter's martyrdom is traditionally depicted in religious iconography as crucifixion with his head pointed downward.
The historian Eusebius, a contemporary of Constantine, wrote that St. Peter "came to Rome, and was crucified with his head downwards,"[10] though he attributes this information to the much earlier theologian Origen, who died c. 254 AD
Peter's place and manner of death are also mentioned by Tertullian (c. 160-220) in Scorpiace,[11] where the death is said to take place during the Christian persecutions by Nero. Tacitus (56-117) describes the persecution of Christians in his Annals, though he does not specifically mention Peter.[12] "They were torn by dogs and perished, or were nailed to crosses, or were doomed to the flames and burnt." Furthermore, Tertullian says these events took place in the imperial gardens near the Circus of Nero. No other area would have been available for public persecutions after the Great Fire of Rome destroyed the Circus Maximus and most of the rest of the city in the year 64 AD
This account is supported by other sources. In The Passion of Peter and Paul, dating to the fifth century, the crucifixion of Peter is recounted. Then it adds, "Holy men ... took down his body secretly and put it under the terebinth tree near the Naumachia, in the place which is called the Vatican."[13] The place called Naumachia would be an artificial lake within the Circus of Nero where naval battles were reenacted for an audience. The place called Vatican was at the time a hill next to the complex and also next to the Tiber River, featuring a cemetery of both Christian and pagan tombs.
Tracing the original tombs[edit]
Dionysius of Corinth mentions the burial place of Peter as Rome when he wrote to the Church of Rome in the time of the Pope Soter (died 174), thanking the Romans for their financial help. "You have thus by such an admonition bound together the planting of Peter and of Paul at Rome and Corinth. For both of them planted and likewise taught us in our Corinth. And they taught together in like manner in Italy, and suffered martyrdom at the same time."[14]
Catholic tradition holds that the bereaved Christians followed their usual custom in burying him as near as possible to the scene of his suffering. According to Catholic lore, he was laid in ground that belonged to Christian proprietors, by the side of a well-known road leading out of the city, the Via Cornelia (site of a known pagan and Christian cemetery) on the hill called Vaticanus. The actual tomb was an underground vault, approached from the road by a descending staircase, and the body reposed in a sarcophagus of stone in the center of this vault.
The Book of Popes mentions that Pope Anacletus built a "sepulchral monument" over the underground tomb of St. Peter shortly after his death.[15] This was a small chamber or oratory over the tomb, where three or four persons could kneel and pray over the grave. The pagan Roman Emperor, Julian the Apostate, mentions in 363 A.D. in his work Three Books Against the Galileans that the tomb of St. Peter was a place of worship, albeit secretly.[16]
There is evidence of the existence of the tomb (trophoea, i.e., trophies, as signs or memorials of victory) at the beginning of the 3rd century, in the words of the presbyter Caius refuting the Montanist traditions of a certain Proclus: "But I can show the trophies of the Apostles. For if you will go to the Vatican, or to the Ostian way, you will find the trophies of those who laid the foundations of this church."[14]
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These tombs were the objects of pilgrimage during the ages of persecution, and it will be found recorded in certain Acts of the Martyrs that they were seized while praying at the tombs of the Apostles.[17]
During the reign of the Roman Emperor Valerian, Christian persecution was particularly severe. The remains of the dead, and particularly the Christian dead, had lost their usual protections under Roman law. The remains of Peter and Paul may have been removed temporarily from their original tombs in order to preserve them from desecration by the Romans. They may have been removed secretly by night and hidden in the Catacombs of S. Sebastiano in 258 AD, being returned to their original tombs in 260 when Valerian's reign ended.[17]
Constantine's basilica[edit]
When the Church was once more at peace under Constantine the Great, Christians were able at last to build edifices suitable for the celebration of Mass. The resting places of the relics of the Apostles were naturally among the first to be selected as the sites of great basilicas. The emperor supplied the funds for these buildings, in his desire to honor the memories of the two Apostles.
Much of the Vatican Hill was leveled to provide a firm foundation for the first St. Peter's Basilica. The altar of the Basilica was planned to be located directly over the tomb. The matter was complicated by the upper chamber or memoria above the vault. This upper chamber had become endeared to the Romans during the ages of persecution, and they were unwilling that it should be destroyed.[17] The memoria was turned into the Chapel of the Confession. Above that was the main floor of the Basilica, with the raised altar directly over the Chapel of the Confession. The reverence in which the place has always been held has resulted in these arrangements remaining almost unchanged to the present time.
The Book of Popes details certain adornments that Constantine apparently added to St. Peter's tomb at this time.[15] The sarcophagus itself is said to have been enclosed on all sides with bronze, measuring 5 feet in each dimension. On top of that was laid a gold cross weighing 150 pounds and featuring an inscription, which translates from Latin as "Constantine Augustus and Helena Augusta This House Shining with Like Royal Splendor a Court Surrounds." However, any treasures that may have been present at the tomb are presumed to have been taken by the Saracens during their Sack of Rome in 846.[18]
The skull of St. Peter is claimed to reside in the Basilica of St. John Lateran since at least the ninth century, alongside the skull of St. Paul.[19]
Modern excavation[edit]
Between 1939 and 1949, the Vatican-led archaeological team overseen by Monsignor Ludwig Kaas, who had overall authority over the project,[20] had uncovered a complex of pagan mausoleums under the foundations of St. Peter's Basilica (the so-called Vatican Necropolis), dating to the 2nd and 3rd centuries.[21] Construction of Constantine's Old St. Peter's Basilica and of foundations for Bernini's Baldacchino destroyed most of the vaulting of these semi-subterranean burial chambers. Among them was the so-called "Tomb of the Julii" with mosaics that appeared to be Christian. No mausoleum had ever been built directly beneath the present high altar of St Peter's, which did however contain shallow burials, one dated by an impressed tile to the reign of Vespasian; subsequently they had been attended with care, as later burials clustered round but did not encroach upon the space.[22] There was a small niched monument built into a wall ca. 160. The discoveries made the pages of Life magazine.[23]
Bones transferred in 1942[edit]
In 1942, the Administrator of St. Peter's, Monsignor Ludwig Kaas, found remains in a second tomb in the monument. Being concerned that these presumed relics of a saint would not be accorded the respect they deserved, and having little understanding of correct archeological procedures, he secretly ordered these remains stored elsewhere for safe-keeping.
After Kaas's death, Professor Margherita Guarducci discovered these relics by chance. She informed Pope Paul VI of her belief that these remains were those of St. Peter. Bone testing revealed that the remains belonged to a man in his sixties[citation needed]. On June 26, 1968, Pope Paul VI announced that the relics of St. Peter had been discovered. On November 24 2013, these relics were held by Pope Francis and displayed publicly for the first time after celebrating closing 'Year of Faith' Mass.[24]
Possible ossuary of Peter in Jerusalem[edit]
In 1953, two Franciscan friars discovered hundreds of 1st century ossuaries stored in a cave on the Mount of Olives near Jerusalem. The archaeologists claimed to have discovered the earliest physical evidence of a Christian community in Jerusalem, including some very familiar Biblical names. The name inscribed on one ossuary read: "Shimon Bar Yonah" - Simon, the Son of Jonah, the original Biblical name of the Disciple Peter.[25] However, several scholars, both Protestant and Catholic, disputed that the tomb belonged to Peter, one of the reasons being that there was no inscription referring to him as "Cefa" or "Peter".[26]
The 43 inscriptions discovered in the Dominus Flevit cemetery between May 1953 and June 1955 were published with photographs by P. B. Bagatti and J. T. Milik in 1958.[27] The inscriptions on the ossuaries also included the names Jesus, Joseph, Judas, Mathew, Martha, Mary and Mariame - with the inscriptions of the latter two names being written in Greek.
Nearby papal tombs[edit]
Very little is known about the burial of Peter's immediate successors, prior to the period when popes are known with relative certainty to have been buried in the various Catacombs of Rome. Burial near Peter, on Vatican Hill, is attributed to: Pope Linus, Pope Anacletus, Pope Evaristus, Pope Telesphorus, Pope Hyginus, Pope Pius I, Pope Anicetus (later transferred to the Catacomb of Callixtus), Pope Victor I.[28] Epigraphic evidence exists only for Linus, with the discovery of a burial slab marked "Linus" in 1615; however, the slab is broken such that it could have once read "Aquilinius" or "Anullinus".[28]
With three exceptions, each pope prior to Anicetus, the first pope known to have been entombed in the Catacombs, is traditionally regarded as having been buried near Peter. A notable exception is Pope Clement I, who was traditionally regarded as having been martyred in the Black Sea near Crimea.[28] Similarly, the original tombs of Pope Alexander I and Pope Sixtus I are unknown, although there are several churches positing mutually contradictory claims of translation.[28]
See also[edit]
- Church of Domine Quo Vadis
- Papal tombs
- Papal tombs in Old St. Peter's Basilica
- San Pietro in Vincoli
- Index of Vatican City-related articles
- ^ The location of the tomb with respect to the entire mausoleum complex is shown in this map. The tomb area is marked with the letter "P". The details of the tomb area are shown in this drawing.
- ^ Guarducci, Margherita. "THE TOMB OF ST. PETER". Hawthorn Books. Retrieved 2009-05-27. The age of these small buildings seems to vary from about AD 130 to about AD 300.
- ^ Walsh, John Evangelist. "The Bones of St. Peter". Doubleday & Co. Retrieved 2009-05-27.
- ^ Of the coins found with the bones, in a hollow beneath the niche of the earliest shrine on the site "one was of the Emperor Antoninus Pius (138-161), six were from the years 168-185, and more than forty were from the years 285-325," noted Roger T. O'Callaghan, "Vatican Excavations and the Tomb of Peter", The Biblical Archaeologist 16.4 (December 1953) p. 71. No mention of these discoveries was made in the official publication.
- ^ Walsh, John (1982). The Bones of St. Peter The First Full Account of the Search for the Apostle's Body. Doubleday. p. chapter9. Retrieved 2012-02-18.
- ^ Walsh, John Evangelist. "The Bones of St. Peter". Doubleday & Co. Retrieved 2009-05-27.
- ^ Guarducci, Margherita. "The Remains of Peter". Retrieved 2009-05-28.
- ^ "Antonio Ferrua, 102; Archeologist Credited as Finding St. Peter's Tom". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2012-02-13.
- ^ Webb, Matilda (2001). The churches and catacombs of early Christian Rome: a comprehensive guide. Sussex Academic Press. p. 17. ISBN 1-902210-57-3. Retrieved 2012-02-18.
- ^ Eusebius (1999). Eusebius: The Church History. Kregel Academic.
- ^ Tertullian. Scorpiace, Antidote for the Scorpion's Sting. OrthodoxEbooks.
- ^ Cornelius Tacitus (1895). Annals of Tacitus. Macmillan and Co.
- ^ Barnes, Arthur (2006). St. Peter in Rome and His Tomb on the Vatican Hill. Kessinger Publishing.
- ^ a b Schaff, Philip (1904). A select library of Nicene and post-Nicene fathers of the Christian church. The Christian literature company..
- ^ a b The book of the popes (Liber pontificalis). Columbia University Press. 1916.
- ^ Julian (Emperor of Rome) (2004). Julian's against the Galileans. Prometheus Books.
- ^ a b c "Tomb of St. Peter". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company. 1913.
- ^ Lanciani, Rodolfo Amedeo (1899). The destruction of ancient Rome. Macmillan company.
- ^ Cuming, H. Syer (December 1870). "Notes on a group of reliquaries". J. British Archeological Association.
- ^ St. Peter's Basilica, Rome - Archaeology and the Great Churches of the World
- ^ Officially published as Esplorazioni sotto la Confessione de San Pietro in Vaticano, B.M. Apollonj,, A. Ferrua SJ, E. Josi, E. Kirschbaum SJ, eds., 2 vols. (Vatican City) 1951; the results were assessed in Roger T. O'Callaghan, "Recent Excavations underneath the Vatican Crypts", in The Biblical Archaeologist 12 (1949:1-23) and "Vatican Excavations and the Tomb of Peter", The Biblical Archaeologist 16.4 (December 1953:70-87).
- ^ This is the "open area P'. (O'Callaghan 1953:76).
- ^ Life Magazine, March 27, 1950:65-79, 82, 85 (noted by O'Callaghan 1953, note 1); the niche shrine described in O'Callaghan 1953:77ff.
- ^ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j99AhFGnils&feature=youtu.be
- ^ The Secrets of the 12 Disciples, Channel 4, transmitted on 23 March 2008.
- ^ P. B. Bagatti, J. T. Milik, Gli Scavi del "Dominus Flevit" - Parte I - La necropoli del periodo romano (Gerusalemme: Tipografia dei PP. Francescani, 1958).
- ^ P. B. Bagatti, J. T. Milik, Gli Scavi del "Dominus Flevit" - Parte I - La necropoli del periodo romano (Gerusalemme: Tipografia dei PP. Francescani, 1958).
- ^ a b c d Reardon, Wendy J. (2004). The Deaths of the Popes. Macfarland & Company, Inc. ISBN 0-7864-1527-4.
External links[edit]
- Margherita Guarducci, The Tomb of St. Peter Guarducci worked on the tomb
- The Bones of St Peter by John Evangelist Walsh The First Full Account of the Search for the Apostle's Body
- Map of the Vatican Necropolis- Interactive Map of the Tombs
- "Tomb of St. Peter". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company. 1913.
- The Vatican: spirit and art of Christian Rome, a book from The Metropolitan Museum of Art Libraries (fully available online as PDF), which contains material on this tomb (p. 51-54)
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "Tomb of St. Peter". Catholic Encyclopedia. Robert Appleton Company.
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From A Compendium of Irish Biography, 1878
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134. Four Masters, Annals of Ireland by the: Translated and Edited by John O'Donovan. 7 vols. Dublin, 1856.
264. O'Dubhagain and O'Huidhrin: Topographical Poems: Edited by John O'Donovan, LL.D. (I.A.S.) Dublin, 1862.
O'Donovan, John, see Nos. 134, 264.
O'Halloran, Sylvester, see No. 173c.
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The new baseline forecasts the average cost of the F-35 fighter, including research and development (R&D) and inflation, will be $135 million per plane, plus an additional $26 million for the F135 engine built by Pratt & Whitney, a unit of United Technologies Corp.
In 2012 dollars, the average cost of each single-seat, single-engine plane, including R&D, would be $112.5 million, plus $22 million for the engine.
This is the first year that the government has separated out the cost of the plane and the engine, and comparison figures were not immediately available.
Bloomberg reports this:
Which when you look up the latest USAF budget figures (PDF) for "fly-away" costs, there is a disagreement.
All of this assumes DOD will order the original number of F-35s dreamed about years ago. Economies of scale--imagined or otherwise. If the Bloomberg article is accurate, full rate production will never happen.
And, there are all those lost orders which have killed the original business plan.
A review of some of the F-35 challenges can be viewed here.
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Kolstad played 25 games for the North Stars in 1988-89 and scored six points while providing physical presence on blueline. Kolstad scored 50 points in 1989-90 for Kalamazoo and was voted on to the IHL's second all-star team. He joined the North Stars at the pre-season Friendship Tour in September 1990 and was called up for five games later that season. Minnesota had too many defencemen so Kolstad spent most of the year with the Kalamazoo Wings and Kansas City Blades in the IHL.
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The Afghan government continued with the implementation of the Afghanistan Compact, agreed in 2006 with its international partners, relating to development, security and governance. The number of international military forces, including both OEF and ISAF troops, increased to at least 49,000.
Levels of insurgency intensified, with the Taleban and other armed groups gaining temporary control of a number of districts, particularly in the south, and clashing repeatedly with Afghan and international military forces.
Taleban demands for the withdrawal of international forces were rejected by the Afghan government. There were increasing attempts to facilitate dialogue between parties to the conflict. In addition, efforts to encourage a regional resolution to the conflict led to a peace jirga (informal tribal council) being held in August 2007 with participants from both Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Abuses by the Afghan government
Justice system
In June an international conference highlighted serious and systematic flaws in Afghanistan's administration of justice, including the Ministry of Justice, courts, prisons, the police, the army and the Afghan intelligence service, the National Directorate of Security (NDS), despite several years of international support to reform these institutions.
The NDS mandate continued to be opaque as the presidential decree that outlines its powers remained classified. In practice, the NDS appeared to continue to exercise extensive powers including detaining, interrogating, investigating, prosecuting and sentencing people alleged to have committed crimes against national security. The lack of separation of these functions violated the right of suspects to a fair trial, contributed to impunity for perpetrators of human rights violations and undermined the rule of law. There were consistent reports of torture and other ill-treatment of detainees held by the NDS.
Other serious failings that continued to undermine the effective administration of justice included: a judiciary hampered by some unqualified judicial personnel; a poorly trained and paid police force; the threat to judicial independence through pressure from armed groups; and unfair trial procedures, including violations of the right to call and examine witnesses, and the denial of defendants' rights to legal defence and access to information. The lack of confidence in or access to the formal justice system resulted in reliance on informal justice systems, especially in rural areas where up to 80 per cent of cases were reportedly resolved using informal justice mechanisms.
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International military forces reportedly caused the deaths of several hundred civilians. Some may have been victims of indiscriminate attacks in aerial bombardments and other operations that may have violated international humanitarian law. After several high-profile incidents in mid-2007 involving civilian deaths caused by international military forces, ISAF forces instituted new rules of engagement. It remained unclear what impact this had, although there were regular reports of disproportionate civilian casualties as a result of international military operations.
- On 4 March, following a suicide attack on a US convoy on the Jalalabad highway in Nangarhar province, US troops opened fire indiscriminately along a 12km stretch of road killing at least 12 civilians and injuring 35 people. Investigations by the Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission (AIHRC) found that US forces had used indiscriminate and excessive force. The US military referred the case to its Naval Criminal Investigative Service citing the need for further investigation.
Torture and other ill-treatment
ISAF forces continued to transfer detainees to the NDS, despite allegations of torture and other ill-treatment by the NDS. Attempts by international forces to monitor transferred detainees were inconsistently applied.
In addition, forces involved in the US-led OEF continued to transfer people to the NDS and to US-run detention facilities, including at Bagram airbase near Kabul. US authorities transferred more than 100 detainees from Bagram and Guantánamo to the newly refurbished D-Block of the high security Pol-e Charkhi prison outside Kabul. It was not clear who had oversight of the D-Block. About 600 detainees were believed to remain in Bagram at the end of the year.
Abuses by armed groups
Abductions and killings
Armed groups, including the Taleban, Hizb-e Islami and al-Qa'ida, deliberately targeted civilians as part of their ongoing struggle with the Afghan government and international military forces. This included killing people perceived to be working or co-operating with the Afghan government or international military forces. Mullah Dadullah, a Taleban commander, commented that kidnapping was a "good tactic"and encouraged Taleban fighters to use it more. There was a sharp rise in kidnappings across southern and south-eastern Afghanistan.
- Four Afghan provincial court employees were abducted by the Taleban while travelling in Andar district, Ghazni, on 24 July. Their bodies were found later by Afghan authorities.
- Taleban forces abducted 23 Korean nationals on 19 July while they were travelling through Ghazni. Two of the hostages were killed; the rest were released after six weeks' captivity.
- Taleban forces abducted five Afghan and two German nationals on 18 July in Wardak province.One of the Afghans escaped and one of the Germans died in captivity. The remaining hostages were released in October.
Suicide attacks
Armed groups carried out some 140 suicide attacks against military and civilian targets, killing around 300 civilians.
- Up to 80 people were killed during a suicide bomb attack on 6 November at a ceremony in Baghlan province. Scores of people were injured. Some of the deaths and injuries may have been caused by guards of members of parliament present at the ceremony who apparently opened fire after the initial bomb attack.
- On 17 June, 24 people were killed and 35 injured by a suicide bomber aboard a bus transporting Afghan police trainees.
Killings following quasi-judicial processes
The Taleban and other groups unlawfully killed people following quasi-judicial processes.
- On 30 September, Taleban fighters seized Zainullah, a 15-year-old key maker, from the bazaar where he worked in Sangin district, Helmand province in southern Afghanistan. They accused him of being a spy and hanged him from an electricity pole with a note warning that others caught spying would suffer the same fate.
Freedom of expression
Severe restrictions on freedom of expression remained in place. Several journalists were arrested or intimidated and killed. Members of the AIHRC and representatives of national human rights organizations also faced threats.
The Journalists' Independent Union of Afghanistan registered 53 cases of violence against journalists in 2007 by the Afghan government and Taleban insurgents. In six of the cases a journalist was killed.
- Zakia Zaki, who ran the private Peace Radio, was killed by gunmen in her home in the central province of Parwan on 5 June.
- Kamran Mir Hazar, a journalist for Radio Salaam Watandar and editor of the internet news service Kabul Press, was arrested twice, apparently for criticizing the government, and subsequently released without charge.
Violence against women and girls
Women's rights continued to be eroded in many areas. Women working for the government faced threats and several survived attempted assassinations.
- Massoma Anwary, head of the Department of Women's Affairs in Ghor province, survived an assassination attempt in November.
A decrease in the number of attacks against schools allowed some schools in insecure areas to reopen and there was an overall rise in the number of children attending school. However, fears about safety meant many girls could not go to school. According to the AIHRC's second report on economic and social rights, published in August, 36.1 per cent of school-aged girls were not attending schools due to issues of accessibility, including security.
Amnesty International reports
- Afghanistan: Detainees transferred to torture – ISAF complicity? (ASA 11/011/2007)
- Amnesty International dismayed by execution of 15 in Afghanistan (ASA 11/014/2007)
- Afghanistan: Amnesty International condemns the unlawful killing of 15-year-old boy by Taleban (ASA 11/013/2007)
- Afghanistan: Amnesty International demands immediate release of all hostages (ASA 11/010/2007)
- Afghanistan: Justice and rule of law key to Afghanistan's future prosperity (ASA 11/007/2007)
- Afghanistan: Mounting civilian death toll – all sides must do more to protect civilians (ASA 11/006/2007)
- Afghanistan: Taleban attacks against civilians increasing and systematic (ASA 11/002/2007)
- Afghanistan: All who are not friends, are enemies – Taleban abuses against civilians (ASA 11/001/2007)


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Four years after sinking Venetian Night to save $300,000, City Hall has set aside $1 million for a "Great Chicago Fire Festival" along the Chicago River that will culminate in floats being set on fire.
Testifying Wednesday at City Council budget hearings, Cultural Affairs and Special Events Commissioner Michelle Boone also disclosed that her budget includes an extra $3.6 million because the city is "accelerating the payment of debt" issued to build $475 million Millennium Park.
Plagued by cost overruns and add-ons that more than tripled its original budget, Millennium Park will turn 10 in 2014. The city is in the process of planning a celebration for the showcase park that has emerged as one of Chicago's most popular tourist attractions.
The Great Chicago Fire Festival is a partnership with the Redmoon Theater company that is scheduled to be held next fall.
It will feature acrobatics and live music and culminate in a "procession of illuminated fiberglass sculptures" on the main branch of the Chicago River.
Redmoon plans to work with artists and community groups to "imagine the thing they most want to be rid of in their lives" and create floating sculptures symbolizing those impediments that will be torched in a "huge public ritual" with "cathartic" power.
On Wednesday, Boone disclosed that the city has a "working budget" of $1 million for the spectacular event commemorating the Great Chicago Fire of 1871.
"It will be a pretty dynamic event….It will begin with placing artists-in-residence in a number of communities….Communities will be invited to nominate artists who will work with community members to create art pieces that will be part of a major procession along the river that will culminate with an event that brings some programming to the riverfront," Boone said.
In 2009, Venetian Night, the annual parade of illuminated boat floats, was sunk by then-Mayor Richard M. Daley, ending a 52-year-old summer tradition. City Hall said it could no longer afford to spend $100,000 for fireworks and $200,000 for security.
The decision to spend more than three times that amount for a new festival with danger built in — with floats set on fire by a "floating mechanical crane" — ignited skeptical questions from Budget Committee Chairman Carrie Austin (34th).
When Austin asked how much revenue the new festival might generate, Boone said none was anticipated because the event will be free.
"You don't see it generating any money — at all?... For us to put out money to have an event and then don't have anything coming back means we're just putting money out," Austin said.
Boone pointed to the fact that Taste of Chicago finally turned a $272,000 profit this year and generated an estimated $106 million in economic activity.
"Hotel stays. People who come downtown for the event also will go to restaurants and do some other shopping. So, these things don't just kind of happen in isolation with money going out" and nothing coming back in, Boone said.
Boone left the budget hearing without answering reporters' questions. Five hours later, her spokesperson claimed the $1 million is the "working budget for the festival" and that only $250,000 of it would come from the city to bankroll "community engagement."
The rest will be recovered from the private sector after a fundraising campaign spearheaded by Redmoon, the spokesperson said.
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Leave critiquing art....to "The Art Critic"
Leave choosing 4 finalist of artwork for a front page public newspaper....to "The Public"
Leave me alone....to choose none of the 4 finalists
Leave this new "tradition" to die peacefully this year
An online journal about visual art, the urban landscape and design. Mary Louise Schumacher, the Journal Sentinel's art and architecture critic, leads the discussion and a community of writers contribute to the dialogue.
The Journal Sentinel started a tradition last year of running a work of art on the front page for Christmas Day. Publisher Elizabeth Brenner, editor Martin Kaiser and art critic Mary Louise Schumacher considered more than 100 artworks and narrowed the field to four finalists.
We left the final choice up to you. We let readers vote for which artwork should be published. The voting was closed Dec. 23. But you can still click "comment" below to tell us why you picked what you did.
"Cedar Forest" by Stacey Williams-Ng »Read Full Blog Post
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