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Came across a forum for the discussion of archaeometrics, quantitative studies, informatics and so on in archaeology, which lives here; it might be of interest to others, though when I clicked through on some links they were dead. I found it from the Nabonidus Archaeology Home Page ("The Future of Archaeology"). I'll be examining what Nabonidus has to offer and I'll let you know what I find…
Monthly Archives: December 2007
Machine translation
Not so long ago, I wrote the Government of Canada's official bilingualism test for anglophones, as part of the process of winnowing out candidates for a job. First, a multiple choice test of my reading comprehension, then a multiple choice test of my knowledge of the intricacies of French grammar, and then (if the first two tests went well) an oral test of my actual ability to communicate in French. It's worth noting that all of the test questions were framed in bureaucratese. Interestingly, I scored a perfect on my reading comprehension, but utterly flunked the grammar – which meant I never even got a chance to try my spoken French. My question to the examiners was this: if I understand someone's written French perfectly, and they understand my written English perfectly, then why can't we work together?
That question was never answered, but it got me to thinking about machine translation, and context-specific vocabularies. I once really wanted to read an article written in Russian, but could not find any one to translate it for me. Are there any machine translation services – a la Babel Fish or Google Translate – that can handle archaeological texts? I can read Italian reasonably well, so I tested Babel Fish and Google Translate with the following text from the 'Portale di Archeologia Medievale' s computer laboratory:
"Gli archeologi devono sapere gestire in proprio i processi di catastazione, gestione e processamento dei dati. Per la mole enorme di record che producono il calcolatore è ormai uno strumento insostituibile."
My quick-and-nasty translation would read something like this: "Archaeologists need to know how to manage and process their information. Given the enormous amounts of records that they produce, the computer has become an indispensable piece of kit".
Here is what Babel Fish suggested:
"The archeologi they must know to manage in just the processes of catastazione, management and processamento of the data. For the enormous size of record that they produce the calculating is by now one irreplaceable instrument."
And here is what Google Translate suggested:
"Archaeologists need to know to manage their own processes catastazione, management and processing of data. The enormous amount of records that produce the computer has become an indispensable tool. "
So Google Translate seems to be the better translation…. but is it the best? What else is out there? It would be interesting to know which services archaeologists find most useful for reading works outside their own palette of languages. I wonder also if there are any machine translation projects going on for reading things like cuneiform etc?
What does Civilization Stand For? Modding Contest from Firaxis!
One last post before the holidays (thanks Jan for bringing this to my attention!), and one which might be of interest to any academic/educational modders out there; nb it's only for US residents, so my 'Year of the Four Emperors' won't be in the mix:
What Does Your Civilization Stand For?
Official Rules
Entry Form
The holidays are upon us and we're certain many of you are wondering what to do while sitting in the comfort of your homes, staying as far away from the nasty weather and shopping crowds as possible. Sure, you could spend time with family, play with the kids, or figure out how to turn on your shiny new iPod. But, we have a better idea. Why not show the world what you can do to customize the greatest strategy game ever made?
And to give you an even bigger incentive Dell has sent us some brand new XPS machines (four desktops and a laptop to be more specific) and we will give them to the winners of this contest. What we are looking for is simple: we want to see your best work, in any of the following four categories:
- Best In-Game Asset (art, including units, buildings and/or wonders)
- Best World-Builder Scenario (just a single .wbs file)
- Best Map Script (just a single .py file)
- Best Educational Mod (only educators and schools can submit entries for this one)
The creator of the winning entry in each category will receive a Dell XPS desktop computer to show off to your friends. In addition, the best over-all mod from the submissions above will receive the grand prize of a Dell XPS laptop. Can you say Happy Holidays?
Here are some things to remember. The prizes are awarded to individuals only, so if your mod is a team effort, the prizes will only be awarded to the designated team leader. You can use existing mods that you've already created, or you can create something from scratch using Civ IV or any of its expansions. Finally, please do not submit mods that are not yours. This not only makes our job harder, but also makes children cry.
The contest begins December 23, 2007, and will run through February 18, 2008, so crack your knuckles and crank out something fabulous. As an aside, this contest is U.S. only, and our lawyers have drafted up a lovely set of rules for you to follow, so be sure to check them out before starting. If you have any further questions, send them in, we're all ears!
By the way, The Ancient Mediterranean Mod version 2.01 FINAL has been released for the 'vanilla' version of Civilization IV. I know what I'm going to be doing over the holiday!
"Burial Passage" – Remixing Catalhoyuk
I've finally resolved my graphics issues, and can now float about in Second Life without fear of crashing my poor old computer. I teleported over to Okapi Island to see what I'd missed during the Remixing Catalhoyuk day. One of the first things I came across was Sebastian Heath's entry for the remixing contest, 'Burial Passage'. He writes:
"'Burial Passage' intends to immerse users in images related to the excavation of the multiple burials below the NW platform of building 3. You can walk through it in either direction. I sort of like going uphill. The images at the two entrances are bookends. The central image showing excavation mediates between the two surrounding images." <more>
It's an interesting approach – as you move through the passage that he has created, you pass through images of the successive layers of the excavation, hung like curtains. It's strangely tactile… and if you type in the chat box, '/1 start excavation', the panels automatically re-arrange themselves in sequence. So bravo to Sebastian for creating one of the first demonstrations of the potential of SL for archaeological publication!
And of course to the Berkeley Catalhoyuk folks, for providing the data in such a way that remixing it is even possible!
The pic is me – Canadensis Yellowjacket – after having clicked on 'Burial Passage', in search of more information. This demonstrates one of the nice things about SL, the ability to pull 'outside' information – like the blog posting – into Second Life.
"Making Dead History Come Alive Through Mobile Game Play"
In an earlier post, I mused on the possibilities for enhancing the experience at an archaeological site by mashing-up the physical and the virtual, and in a subsquent post I presented a lesson plan for doing that in a group setting. A related post concerns the use of Mediascapes to play games at the Tower of London. Seems I'm not the only one thinking along these lines – a paper presented at the Computer/Human Interaction Conference 2007 by researchers at the University of Bari explicitly details an augmented-reality game at a Roman site in Italy (full paper):
"Abstract: This work in progress presents a design approach to digitally enhancing an existing paper-based game to support young students learning history at an archaeological site, by making use of recent advantages provided by mobile technology. It requires minimal investments and changes to the existing site exhibition because it runs on the visitors' own cellular phones. It is expected that game-play will trigger a desire to learn more about ancient history and to make archaeological visits more effective and exciting. "
Interestingly, they propose to use memory-cards with cellphones, rather than to try and transmit and download information on the fly. Their game ('Gais' day in Egnathia'; Egnathia is a Roman city in Apulia) started life as a paper-based game played on the site. With the addition of the cellphones and the memory cards, the designers of the game hope to be able to collect data on the actual game-play data which will assist them in improving the learning experience.
Blogging Archaeology
William Caraher has been writing about the history of blogging, especially in the archaeological world (it is also posted here). It's a fascinating discussion, and it brought to my attention a number of blogs – and student blogs written whilst on-site at excavations – that I hadn't encountered before. It was nice, too, to see Electric Archaeology get a mention amongst all this fantastic work – thanks!
Many people write blogs with the hope of making a bit of coin from them too somehow. I wonder if academic blogs are considered in awarding tenure? I reach more people writing this blog than a lot of my more *academic* writing. My thesis isn't climbing the ranks of Amazon, that's for sure!
From the original post:
"…These specialized blogs will not be of interest to everyone, but they have tapped into the rich potential of digital media to communicate, inspire, and promote collaborative scholarship. Shawn Graham's innovative Electric Archaeologist shows how a whole range of digital media can assist an archaeologist in research and teaching. Sebastian Heath's blog Mediterranean Ceramics explores the intersection of the study of Mediterranean ceramics and the resources available on the internet. Tom Elliot, the director of the Pleiades Project which brings together geographic and historical information for ancient places across the Mediterranean, makes occasional posts at his horothesia blog. His main interest is developing innovative and open methods to disseminate archaeological and historical data. Scott Moore's Ancient History Ramblings has developed a serious focus on archaeology in the virtual world of Second Life. Charles Watkinson, the director of publications at the American School of Classical Studies maintains an occasional blog on "communication in the humanities and social sciences." Digging Digitially provides some great info on digital archaeology as the "Semi-offical" news source for the SAA's Digital Data Interest Group. The Okapi Project's blog from the University of California at Berkeley includes regular reports on their innovative efforts to disseminate academic research through digital media – including their work with the Çatalhöyük excavations…."
Archaeology Island in Second Life
Scott Moore is detailing his archaeological projects in Second Life over on his blog. Yesterday, he and his colleagues made a presentation to his university trustees about what they are doing, which include a virtual Parthenon, Mayan temple, and a shipwreck. Sounds fantastic, and I can't wait to come visit! Robert Welch University is also planning a small presence in Second Life, which will be more to bring our distance students together than to do any large-scale simulation, although I'm planning a tetris-style immersive game to help with the Latin teaching.
Establishing Virtual Learning Worlds (for Archaeology too!)
A blog worth examining, if you are interested in the educational aspect of immersive learning in online worlds, is the aptly named 'Virtual Learning Worlds' Blog. There's a white paper there by Barton Pursel and Keith Bailey that I'm about to read, abstract below:
Video games in today's society have moved from a cult phenomenon to a mainstream leisure activity. One reason for this is the emergence of online gaming, where people interact, socialize, and learn in online environments. While online game populations rapidly increase, the attrition in online courses remains to be an issue. Based on the needs of today's students, along with the level of interactivity and other traits of online game worlds, educators need to look into incorporating elements of online gaming into online learning environments, creating Virtual Learning Worlds (VLW).
And since it seems an appropriate moment to introduce, below follows the draft of an essay that I'm writing (sorry that there are no click-throughs in the text):
Why should archaeologists care about online worlds?
Something to think about:
- Archaeology is "the science that studies human cultures through the recovery, documentation and analysis of material remains and environmental data, including architecture, artifacts, features, biofacts, and landscapes"[i]
- Students learn to become archaeologists through a combination of lectures and hands-on training;
- To excavate something is to destroy it.
This last consideration guides how we teach archaeology to undergraduates (and I confine my comments for the most part to the undergraduate experience). We are loath to allow students to really get their hands on real archaeology because it is a limited resource and there isn't the time, money, or resource to allow our students to make mistakes. There is of course more to archaeology than simply field work, but even in those cases, there is a reluctance to allow students to actually work with the materials, to make mistakes. We compensate for that by adding ever more lecture hours to a student's course load. In some institutions, it is entirely possible to graduate with a degree in archaeology without ever having spent more than two weeks doing field work. Yet, by some estimations, the typical student only ever takes in about 10% of a lecture – a 5000 word lecture distills in the student's notes to a mere 500 words (Oblinger and Maruyama 1996; Johnstone and Su 1994). This kind of teaching/learning has been disparaged as "One tape recorder talking to another" (Foreman et al. 2004: 53)
So: we have a subject, about the human past, especially its material culture, that we teach not by letting our students work with that material, but by giving lectures, of which only a tiny fraction may actually sink in. This despite the broader changes in educational practice that have been taking place over the last decade or so, from what might be called 'teacher-centric' to 'learner-centric' approaches. Broadly, a learner-centred approach recognises that students learn in different styles. Some may learn perfectly well by listening to a lecture; others might find that the discipline of writing a paper makes for a better learning experience, while others again find that they need to actually be working with the material culture in question, to achieve a successful learning outcome. A learner-centred approach does not aim to transfer knowledge from the teacher to the student, but to give the student the appropriate tools to create knowledge themselves (Barr and Tagg 1995). In a Roman history class, this might translate to, instead of lecturing about the political scheming of the late Republic, to showing students how to actively criticise the source materials and construct their own interpretations of that period's political turmoil.
There is another significant problem that now faces us, as educators of the next generation of archaeologists. Essentially, our students think in fundamentally different pathways than previous generations. Any student under 25 years of age today can be considered a 'digital native', one who has grown up surrounded by, and bombarded by, computers, video games, and digital media. We their teachers on the other hand are 'digital immigrants', who grew up in a different land, surrounded by books (Prensky 2001a). A book requires sustained patience and attention; an argument can be built slowly on the assumption that the reader has the ability to maintain the thread. If we want to create good archaeologists, we need to recognise that how we have taught in the past might not be good enough any more simply because our students learn differently than we did (Prensky 2001b).
In recognising that our students are 'digital natives' there is an enormous opportunity for us as educators to deal with one of the perennial difficulties of teaching archaeology: to excavate, and/or to handle inexpertly, is to destroy our subject matter. Our digital natives that we hope to turn into archaeologists are at home in online, multi-user simulations, virtual worlds like Second Life, The Croquet Project, Multiverse Project, There, Ancient Spaces. Therein lays our opportunity. Online worlds for us 'digital immigrants' are for immersing our students in the material. I mean that literally. These worlds can be used to simulate ancient architecture, material culture, and/or the methodologies of field archaeology. We can use these worlds to provide immersive and engaging learning experiences that will prepare the students to be professional when they do encounter the real-world materials. The user or visitor to these worlds is embodied in an avatar, which can be fully customised to reflect the user's persona. More importantly, being embodied in the world makes for a richer learning experience. Players of these games never say, 'My character made it all the way to level 33!' They say, 'I made it to level 33'. These are rich 3D worlds, and they provide an extremely strong sensation of 'being there' in a way that 'flat' modes of educational delivery cannot match (cf Castronova 2005).
Educators using these worlds for teaching are using them to create simulations of places (replicating real-world geography, literary places, interior places like the structure of DNA, and extra-terrestrial geography as on Mars), for prototyping (urban designers and architects are early adopters here), for understanding disease (one simulation drops the user –medical students- into the world of a schizophrenic, Yellowlees and Burrage 2005) . Artists are using the media to explore new forms of expression. Users tend to identify with their avatar to a high degree; one humanities professor has used this phenomenon to explore human-animal relationships by having her students adopt animal avatars and then see what happens to them as they wander through the world (Jeremy Kemp, Second Life Educators List April 2006).
Part of the educational value of online worlds is that they are very game-like, and games are excellent vehicles for creating rich learning experiences.
"Games are… the most ancient and time-honored vehicle for education. They are the original educational technology, the natural one, having received the seal of approval of natural selection. We don't see mother lions lecturing cubs at the chalkboard; we don't see senior lions writing their memoirs for posterity. In light of this, the question, 'Can games have educational value?' becomes absurd… Game-playing is a vital educational function for any creature capable of learning" (Crawford 1982).
In the field, an archaeologist continuously has to be re-thinking her approach to the problem at hand. New laws, new stakeholders, a changing environment or changing finances continually re-make the 'rules of the game'. An approach that was working one day may suddenly be inappropriate because the time-line for the road scheme has been accelerated. Archaeologists have to be adaptable, they have to reformulate their knowledge to adapt to circumstance: they have to be able to problematize their knowledge. This is something that games are very good at teaching. Students are often afraid to fail because a new exercise, a new problem, carries penalties for failure. Games encourage failure and learning from failure as part of a cyclical process of hypothesis ("what happens if…?") testing ("…I'll try this…") and revision ("…well, that didn't work, so…"). This cognitive disequilibrium is the process where the learners readjust their expectations in light of new information (resolution). Feedback in a game world is often immediate, allowing the cycle to begin again. "Games thrive as teaching tools when they create a continuous cycle of cognitive disequilibrium and resolution…while also allowing the player to be successful" (Van Eck 2006:20).
Online worlds and the way games are played in them are also good models for project management, a skill that archaeologists need but are seldom formally trained in. In online games, ad-hoc teams come together for very specific purposes, with different players assuming the mantle of leadership depending on their skill sets, for the duration of the episode. Management schools in the US are beginning to see in this a model for distributed decision making and for allowing leadership to emerge to suit the task, a very different model than traditional hierarchical models (Reeves and Malone 2007:31)
Online multi-user archaeological simulations do exist. The University of North Dakota has created a simulation of the village of Like-a-fishhook; this simulation is currently entirely text-based. In perhaps the most popular online world for educational simulations, Second Life, there are currently no explicitly archaeological simulations; but that is not to say that there are no simulations with archaeological content (Graham 2007). Of all the online worlds currently in existence, Second Life is probably the easiest one to visit and to build in, for every user has the ability to create using simple building tools, based on 'primitives' or simple geometric shapes. Perhaps the best example of a use that could have archaeological implications is Vassar College's recreation of the Sistine Chapel (Taylor 2007). As it happens, users can fly in Second Life, and so a visitor to the Chapel can float up to the ceiling to study the paintings nose-to-Adam's-nose, a point of view not really possible since Michelangelo tore down his scaffolding. There is a 'mining' game in Second Life that sends players into a simulated 1849 California after gold (Nugget Gulch 2007); the mechanics of this game could be adopted to develop a simulated excavation. The Pyla-Koutsopetria Archaeological Project (Caraher, Moore, and Pettegrew 2007) uses Second Life as a place to organise the logistics of their excavations, while the 'Remixing Çatalhöyük' project (Wei 2007) uses it to understand the architectural layout of that city. And finally, I have argued elsewhere that online virtual worlds exist as the latest in a long line of virtual worlds that have been created by humans, from the Hanging Gardens to Disneyland, and so ought to be considered subjects of archaeological study in their own right (Graham 2007b, 2007c).
The point, then, of online worlds is that they provide us with the opportunity to transform our teaching and learning to better serve our students and ultimately our profession.
Ancient Spaces http://www.ancientspaces.com
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CARAHER, W., R.S. Moore, and D. Pettegrew. 2007. "The Pyla-Koutsopetria Archaeological Project Internet Edition – Multimedia" http://www.chss.iup.edu/pkap/multimedia.htm
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GRAHAM, S. 2007. 'Electric Archaeology: Digital Media for Learning and Research' http://electricarchaeologist.wordpress.com/category/archaeology
GRAHAM, S. 2007b. 'Of Second Lives and Past Lives: Archaeological Thoughts on the Metaverse' http://electricarchaeologist.wordpress.com/2007/06/22/immersive-worlds-conference-at-brock/
GRAHAM, S. 2007c. 'Archaeological Clutter and Dumpster Diving' http://electricarchaeologist.wordpress.com/2007/07/06/archaeological-clutter-dumpster-diving/
JOHNSTONE, A. H. and W. Y. Su. 1994. 'Lectures: A Learning Experience?' Education in Chemistry, vol. 31, no. 3: 75–79.
KEMP, J. transcript of Wednesday April 12 'Teacher's Lounge, Jen Doolittle's The Human Animal' https://lists.secondlife.com/pipermail/educators/2006-April/000672.html
Nugget Gulch http://www.nugget-gulch.com/
OBLINGER, D., and Mark K. Maruyama.1996. 'Distributed Learning', CAUSE Professional Paper Series, #14
PRENSKY, M. 2001a 'Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants. On the Horizon. 9.5 October 2001. online at http://www.marcprensky.com/writing/Prensky – Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants – Part1.pdf
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TAYLOR, S. 'Sistine Chapel' http://www.vassar.edu/headlines/2007/sistine-chapel.html SLURL: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Vassar/200/85/27
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VAN ECK, R. 'Digital Game-Based Learning: It's Not Just the Digital Natives Who Are Restless'. EDUCAUSE Review, vol. 41, no. 2 (March/April 2006): 16–30.
WEI, Daniel 2007. 'Constructing Knowledge & Virtual Places'. http://okapi.wordpress.com/2007/04/07/constructing-knowledge-virtual-places/
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[i] Wikipedia definition, as it stood on November 14th 2007. Since online worlds depend so much on user-created content, it seemed only fitting to begin with a definition posted on one of the most famous sites of user-created content.
Writing Archaeology and Writing Fiction
The title of this post comes from an article written by David Wilkinson, of Oxford Archaeology, published in the Autumn 2007 edition of 'The Archaeologist' (the journal of the Institute of Field Archaeologists). Wilkinson is not only a top-flight archaeologist, he is also an accomplished writer of fiction. In his article, he contrasts the writing of fiction with the writing of archaeology. His first example, the description of a clay, is instructive:
Slabs like the squared off clots
Of a blue cream. Sunk
for centuries under grass [Seamus Heany, Door into the Dark 1969]
Until I found Bann clay. Like wet daylight
or viscous satin under the felt and frieze
Of humus layers. The true diatomite
Discovered in a little sucky hole,
Grey-blue, dull-shining, scentless, touchable –
Like the earth's old ointment box, sticky and cool. [Seamus Heany, To a Dutch Potter in Ireland, 1996]
And now, the archaeological version:
'Very compact, Blue-ish grey to white, 10YR/8/1, pliable, clay 90% silt 10%, 35-17 cm, probably natural.'
In his paper, Wilkinson discusses how such bloodless, pseudo-objective writing is slowly being replaced by 'true' archaeological voices again, and he cites the recent paper by John Barratt concerning Framework Archaeology's excavations for Terminal 5 ('Academic aim and approach, in Framework Archaeology', Landscape Evolution in the Middle Thames Valley, Heathrow Terminal 5 Excavations Volum 1, Perry Oaks, Framework Archaeology Monograph No.1 pp15-17. 2006.) But he asks, 'what of characters in archaeological writing?' Wilkinson's paper is really making a plea for archaeologists to remember that they themselves are characters in the story of the site or landscape that they are studying, and that they should put themselves into it:
"We all sit in portacavins, in offices, in vans, in pubs or round fires, and we tell stories… we have a great time and drink too much and what do we do the next morning? We get up and go to our offices and we rite, 'In Phase 1 ditch 761 was recut (794) along part of its length.' Surely, we can do better".
A similar argument was made in the SAA Archaeological Record last May, by Cornelius Holtorf , in an article called 'Learning from Las Vegas: Archaeology in the Experience Economy". Holtorf argued:
"Learning from Las Vegas means learning to embrace and build upon the amazing fact that archaeologists can connect so well with some of the most widespread fantasies, dreams, and desires that people have today.[…] I am suggesting that the greatest value of archaeology in society lies in providing people with what they most desire from archaeology: great stories both about the past and about archaeological research."
Archaeology – the doing of archaeology! – is a fantastic experience. You learn so much more about the past when you are at the coal-face itself, when you stand in 35 degree C heat, with the dust on your face so thick you almost choke, debating with the site supervisor the meaning of a complicated series of walls, or sitting at the bar afterwards with a cool beer, still debating the situation, laughing, chatting. Reading 'Three shards of Vernice-Nera ware found in-situ below 342 indicate…' sucks the fun out of archaeology. It certainly has no romance which puts the practice of archaeology – as published to the public – far down the list of priorities in this modern Experience Economy. The serious face of archaeology we present to the public is so lifeless : how can we expect government and the public to be excited about our work if we ourselves give every indication of not being excited either?
I'm not arguing that we turn every site monograph into a graphic novel (though that's an interesting idea, and has been done for teaching archaeology). But with the internet being the way it is these days: couldn't a project website contain blogs and twitters ('tweets', actually) from the people working on it? Can't we make the stories of the excavation at least as important as the story of the site? The Remixing Çatalhöyük project is a fantastic step in that direction. I hope to see more like it soon. Maybe we should be talking also with the folks at the Centre for Digital Storytelling…
Who's On Second – podcasts about nonprofits and educators in Second Life
Does what it says on the tin – check it out
Of particular relevance to archaeologists (at least those of us concerned with space):
Episode Nineteen – Building in Space – Chad Oberg
March 27, 2007 | 37 Mb| 36 Min.
A design consultant and intern architect discusses the effects of space, both virtual and real
Also of interest to art historians:
Episode Ten – Dancing With the Graces
January 23, 2007 | 22 Mb| 21 Min.
Catherine and Alan Petersen discuss bringing art history and curation into Second Life


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press release
A prominent headline in Le Patriote (p. 1) quotes the Interior Minister, Hamed Bakayoko, as saying that "supporters of the former president, Laurent Gbagbo, were behind the series of attacks on an army base and police stations in Abidjan and the eastern region of Abengourou" over the last weekend.
"I think this has been planned from Ghana by former defense and security forces loyal to Gbagbo," the paper quotes the interior minister as saying during an interview with French International Broadcaster RFI.
"Attacks on Akouedo, Yopougon and Abengourou: The FPI kills 12 within 24 hours," reads a front-page banner headline in Le Nouveau Reveil. The paper (p. 5) also quotes the interior minister as saying that "militias and soldiers loyal to former Ivorian president Laurent Gbagbo were behind a series of attacks that killed 10 soldiers since the weekend in Abidjan."
In the wake of the series of attacks that L'Inter (p. 1) blames on "an invisible commando," the paper carries a front-page headline suggesting that "Ouattara's regime is threatened." The paper (p. 2) claims that this commando is yet to be identified and questions whether the gunmen who raided a military base and a police station in Abidjan were "militias, pro-Gbagbo mercenaries, disgruntled government forces or former security forces." The paper also quotes eyewitness reports saying that there were approximately "100 gunmen" who were able to make away with "200 guns."
A front-page headline in Notre Voie states that a man calling himself "General Timothe Sekongo" has claimed responsibility for the attack on the Akouedo military base. The paper (p. 7) carries a statement issued by the opposition FPI party "condemning the attacks on the Akouedo military base and the police station in Yopougon by unidentified gunmen." According to the paper, the statement continued: "The FPI exhorts the government to identify those responsible for these crimes and bring them to justice."
Another article in Notre Voie (p. 6) however denounces the government's "premature accusations" against supporters of the former president, adding that by doing so the minister of interior is exposing supporters of Laurent Gbagbo to "any sort of abuses." In a related development, the paper (p. 7) reports that one of the lawyers of the former president was briefly detained shortly after the weekend's attacks. Another report on the same page claims that Mr. Mady Bouabre, a former MP believed to be close to the former first lady, has been arrested and detained by the police.
Le Nouveau Courrier carries a prominent front-page headline describing the series of attacks that killed 10 soldiers since the weekend in Abidjan as "a humiliation" for the authorities in Cote d'Ivoire
A front-page headline in Nord-Sud Quotidien says that "the brains behind the attack on the Akouedo army base have been arrested," while a front-page headline in Fraternite Matin says that "25 militia members have been arrested in connection with the Sunday attacks." According to the paper, government forces are still searching for other gunmen.
According to a report in Fraternite Matin (p. 7), President Alassane Ouattara met on Monday with Minister of Security Hamed Bakayoko, Minister in Charge of Defense Paul Koffi Koffi, and the army commanders to discuss the recent attacks in Abidjan. Speaking after the meeting, the interior minister reportedly said that "the president has given instructions to remain firm with people who are trying to disrupt the peace of the Ivorian people." This "urgent meeting" was summoned by the president in order "to assess the situation after the recent events," Mr. Bakayoko reportedly said.
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Meeting the champions was a thrill for child and adult alike throughout England this week, and led to television commentators declaring that "the spirit that made the Olympics such a success two years ago is still very much alive today in Britain"...
I spent the three days 'tour chasing' and I am confident that this triumphant spectacle can leave a lasting legacy if we let it... until now the next generation of cyclists has been "let down" by a lack of safe roads... now we just need to see the representative Government investment to ensure this passion has a deep and lasting impact.
For many though, whatever the scale of Wiggo, Cav and Froome's achievements as British cyclists, the long shadow of the sport's drug problems remains so impenetrable as to cast such successes in doubt.
A sixth cyclist has died in London in only two weeks. Cycling's popularity is propelled by British Tour de France winners - Chris Froome and Bradly Wiggins. It will only continue to get more popular as more people cycle to work, to get healthy and combat costs. Cycle safety is now paramount.
Sir Bradley Wiggins' efforts in winning the Tour de France last summer, followed by Olympic gold, Sports Personality of the Year and rocking out with his guitar at the after party - combined with the rise and success of British Cycling at both the Beijing and London Olympics - have made cycling not only more popular as a spectator sport, but enormously popular as a participation sport.
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Since taking up cycling to work, I have been shocked on a number of issues.
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By Kristen Laise, 1248 E St. NE
We (Jim and Kristen Laise) are recent subscribers of the Corner Forum and have appreciated the newsletter and what we have been learning about our neighbors and neighborhood. Thank you!
Thought I'd follow up with your request for information about the Lovejoy Lofts and potential park project. I am not at all involved with the project, but did just read a report about it in the January issue of Voice of the Hill (bottom right corner of page 36).
Maybe you saw it too, or have since learned the details, but to summarize: The condo developers have agreed to donate $20,000 in labor and supplies toward creating a park, and the community needs to raise an additional $10,000. Sharon Ambrose has begun the fund-raising with a $1,000 donation from her constituent fund.
On Thursday, January 16, from 7 to 9:30 p.m., there will be a kick-off fundraising party hosted by Tony Hardy and Sean Conley at 1021 E St. NE. They will have food and live jazz, and they will be collecting ideas and donations for the park. To RSVP, call ANC 6A05 Commissioner Michael Musante, at 548-2542.
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Taye Diggs is not just a pretty face! Nor are his amazing muscles just for show either, as he proved on Sunday night, when the Private Practice star and his wife, Idina Menzel, came home from the SAG Awards to find an intruder at their Los Angeles home.
Taye and Idina had just finished tearing it up on the dance floor at a SAG after-party when they came home to find a burglar in their garage. Taye ran down the intruder, and — get this — single-handedly detained the 20-year-old man until the police arrived, according to TMZ.
The LAPD tells People, "At this time, I don't know exactly what he did to the suspect to detail him." We'd never personally do anything to disturb the power couple, but we wouldn't mind getting, eh, detained, by Taye — anytime!
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CAIRO: Muslim and Arab leaders on Wednesday denounced cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad in a French magazine as another insult to their faith but urged people to shun a violent reaction and to protest peacefully.
The cartoons, featured in the French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo, showed an Orthodox Jew pushing a turbaned figure in a wheelchair on its cover. Several caricatures of the Prophet were included on its inside pages, including some of him naked.
Their publication follows widespread outrage and violent anti-Western protests in many Muslim countries in Africa and Asia in the past week over an anti-Muslim film posted on the Internet.
The Arab League called the cartoons "provocative and outrageous". It said in a statement that they could increase the volatile situation in the Arab and Islamic worlds since the release of the film.
The League appealed to Muslims offended by the cartoons to "use peaceful means to express their firm rejection."
The acting head of Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood's Freedom and Justice Party, Essam Erian, said the French judiciary should deal with the issue as firmly as it had handled the case against the magazine which published topless pictures of Britain's Duchess of Cambridge, the wife of Prince William.
"If the case of Kate (the duchess) is a matter of privacy, then the cartoons are an insult to a whole people. The beliefs of others must be respected," he said.
Erian also spoke out against any violent reaction from Muslims but said peaceful protests were justified.
Mahmoud Ghozlan, spokesman for the Muslim Brotherhood, welcomed French government criticism of the cartoons but said that French law should deal with insults against Islam in the same way as it deals with Holocaust denial.
"If anyone doubts the Holocaust happened, they are imprisoned, yet if anyone insults the Prophet, his companions or Islam, the most (France) does is to apologise in two words. It is not fair or logical," he said.
In Lebanon, leading Salafist cleric Sheikh Nabil Rahim said the cartoons could lead to more violence.
"Of course it will anger people further. It will raise tensions that were already dangerously high."
He accused those involved of trying provoke a clash of civilizations, not dialogue.
"We will try to keep things managed and peaceful, but these things easily get out of hand. I fear there could more targetting of foreigners, and this is why I wish they would not persist with these provocations."
Egypt's prestigious Al-Azhar institution for Islamic denounced the cartoons as "spiteful trivialities which promote hatred in the name of freedom".
In Tunisia, Ennahda, a moderate Islamist movement leading the first elected government in the birthplace of the Arab Spring, condemned the cartoons as an "agression" against Prophet Mohammad.
It urged Muslims to avoid falling into a trap designed by "suspicious parties to derail the Arab Spring and turn it into a conflict with the West" and a conflict amongst Muslims.
In 2005, Danish cartoons of the Prophet caused a wave of violent protests across the Muslim world in which at least 50 people were killed.
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Water Bottles & CanteensWhen you go away from home, you can usually count upon finding a water source wherever you park. Campgrounds let you hook up to the local water supply and even a hose will top off your clean water tank. When you head outside, though, it isn't always practical to get a drink in your RV. That is why Camping World offers you several different options for carrying water, or other drinks, wherever you are heading.
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First up is the fantastic "Shine Like Me," a measured, sauntering track that highlights the aforementioned changes in the band's musical make-up which stem from a shift in instrumentation, production, and vocal delivery. I've always felt Ernest's voice was a stand-out, but you can sense that comfortableness here with a lower tone to the vocals. This filters through, with the space and feel appearing in the form of some suitably drifting, smokey keys and marching percussion -- leaving the vocals to sink in perfectly. The first comparisons you might come to are slightly eclectic acts like Eels or Beck, but there's something a bit Broken Bells to it too.
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Who doesn't like Monkey Bread? Nobody, that's who. We have never met anyone able to resist its warm, gooey charms. It takes us straight back to childhood, in a good way.
This recipe, which is baked in muffin tins for individual portions, comes from the blog The Little White Kitchen. All the critical steps — as well as some heartwarming anecdotes — are shown in detail, so you don't need to worry if you don't possess perfect baking technique (and really, who does?).
Your little monkeys will be asking for seconds, so better make a double batch!
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It's potentially a big year for comic fans, with the much-anticipated big screen releases of a new Ghost Rider film, The Avengers, The Dark Knight Rises, and even a new Dredd in the offing.
For those who grew up reading these stories, it's an exciting time. For those who didn't, it might be time to bone up on your superheroes and get some reading done. That way you'll understand what all the fuss is about. Especially if the movie-makers get it wrong in the eyes of the diehard fans.
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For the classic titles, you'll need more than a few pennies, but even if you don't want to spend too much you'll find a wide range of titles that will give you enough of a taster for the genre.
Comics are becoming more and more collectable, with some rarities changing hands for astronomical sums, so you could treat this as a serious creative investment.
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The BA (Hons) in Mission and Ministry (BAMM) is a-two year, part-time undergraduate course which aims to further extend the training of children's, youth, third age workers and creative artists by building on the Children Mission and Ministry (CMM), Youth Mission and Ministry (YMM), Third Age Mission and Ministry (TAMM) and Creative Arts Mission and Ministry (CAMM) diploma courses. This allows students to achieve a BA honours degree through a four-year part-time programme, an increasingly attractive route to academic achievement for students whilst being rooted in local life and ministry. Partnerships with Scripture Union, Youth for Christ, Urban Saints, Methodist Homes for the Aged and the Outlook Trust all contribute to the students' training and experience.
As with the CMM, YMM, TAMM and CAMM diplomas, the BAMM is a part-taught, part-researched course, with teaching delivered via five individual residential teaching weeks (Mon–Fri) spread over the two years (three in year 1, two in year 2). Students are supported in supervised distance learning by their personal tutor, as well as being locally supported via their Placement Supervisor and Ministry Mentor. The course is assessed via a variety of assignments and ends with a dissertation (8,000 words) of the student's own choosing.
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The Programme Leader is Ian White MA PGDip, who manages the part-time vocational ministry courses in children's, youth, and third age at Cliff College. Teachers are drawn from the Cliff College teaching staff, and from Diploma Mission and Ministry guest lecturers. Other specialists in the field are also drawn on throughout the course.
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The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga athletics department was well represented in the Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure today. The Mocs were active participants in the event and helped with the administration of the race.
Headquartered at the McKenzie Arena, this was the 10th annual Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure in Chattanooga. Over 8,000 participants, spectators and volunteers visited the UTC campus for today's race.
Four of the Mocs teams, including men's basketball, women's basketball, softball and wrestling, participated in the 5K run. Coincidentally, all four of those squads won SoCon Championships last season.
Fresh off their inspiring 38-9 win over No. 17 Wofford last night, the football team was out on the course working as race volunteers. The Mocs were cheering on the runners as they passed by on Amnicola Highway and received as much applause for their win last night as they gave to the race participants.
The cross country and track and field squads were also heavily involved with the administration and coordination of the event. The Mocs runners have played a large role in the production of the race each year.
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There are two common story lines regarding the consumerization of IT in the enterprise. The first features a bottom-up invasion of personal devices into the workplace by employees who insist on using the best tools to do their jobs, tech staff be damned.
The second is a top-down affair in which some high-ranking executive falls in love with his or her personal device and insists to IT that the enterprise must embrace this cutting-edge technology.
The tale of how medical technology and services vendor St. Jude Medical ended up distributing more than 3,000 iPads to its sales force and other employees falls into the latter category, according to Mark Kreitz, mobility manager for the St. Paul, Minn.-based company.
"What happened was about a year and a half or almost two years ago, our then president of sales got an iPad and absolutely fell in love with it," Kreitz tells CITEworld. "And he said, 'You know what? My sales guys need to be able to do what they're doing with their laptop on their iPad.' So he contacted IT and we said, 'We'll make it happen.'"
Make it happen they did.
"We've rolled out more than 3,000 iPads," Kreitz says. "Not only to the sales team, which consists of 2,300 to 2,400 people across the world, but also to support staff, development staff on-site, internal apps developers, as well as our marketing team and all the people that help our sales out."
These sales pros generate a lot of revenue for the company: $5.61 billion in fiscal year 2011 alone. St. Jude is a major player in the medical technology industry, a publicly traded company (NYSE: STJ) with a market capitalization of $12.47 billion and competitors such as Medtronic, Boston Scientific and Edwards Lifesciences.
Among the sophisticated medical products developed and sold by St. Jude are heart valves and valve repair products, artificial pacemakers, electrophysiology catheters, and vascular closure devices. In other words, life and death stuff.
Now, instead of "lugging around a 9-pound Dell laptop," Kreitz says, St. Jude sales pros can "take this tiny 1-pound or 2-pound device, go into a doctor's office and give whatever presentation they need to give, show all of our marketing collateral, our catalogs and our products in 3D in real time -- how it works, the whole nine yards, standing right there in the doctor's office."
St. Jude Medical's iPad program wouldn't work, however, without another important element of the consumerization of IT – the cloud.
Even though St. Jude has opted for the iPad with the largest storage capacity – the 64GB model – Kreitz says even that is insufficient.
"We've got movies alone that are 5GB and 6GB," he says. "You get a couple of them out there with good-sized apps and the iPad's full."
So the company embarked on a search for a cloud-based storage solution.
"We looked at a couple of options, some kind of internal storage box, DropBox, Google Docs, and Box just won hands down," Kreitz says. "It was everything we needed it to be. It was secure, it was simple, there was no learning curve. It qualified not only for our legal parameters, but for the beginning stages of HIPAA compliance as well."
The combination of the iPads and Box has enabled St. Jude to streamline processes, starting from the field. Explains Kreitz:
"What Box allows us to do in conjunction with the iPad is create a document, like a proposal for a contract or something of that nature, and the doctor could actually find it digitally, right then and there. It gets shot back up to a Box folder, so legal can grab it, our security team can grab it, whoever needs to see it grabs it, it gets approved within minutes or whatever the case may be. There's no data transfer time anymore, and immediately the doctor has feedback and says, 'Yep, this is good,' and everybody's happy. In regards to things like contractual obligations, we've cut that workflow down better than half."
"The other thing that iPad and Box has allowed us to do is to just about get rid of our large file transfer system," he says. "Why use this cumbersome FTP based system when I can just throw it into Box and the user instantly has it? So our iPads have allowed us to get data to the user and back to corporate office, and data and information in front of the person we're trying to sell to faster and easier."
Kreitz, who works in the company's Austin, Texas-based office, says St. Jude eventually plans to completely pull its laptops from the field once its developers create applications that allow sales people to enter and track orders from the iPad.
Getting each 64GB iPad into the hands of each St. Jude employee costs about $1,000, according to Kreitz. But St. Jude remains committed.
"We're at 3,000 now and I can see doubling that by the end of the year," he says. Beyond that, Kreitz says he can envision up to 85% of St. Jude Medical's global workforce of more than 25,000 being given iPads for their jobs.
Sounds like a potential nightmare for IT, but based on his experiences so far, Kreitz sees no real problems.
"I'm the senior administrator for (mobile device management) Airwatch and Box," he says. "I'm the one maintaining all the iPads in the field. I'm the only one doing it for 3,000 people. When you think about five years ago or 10 years ago, a good ratio for computer support was 100 to 1 for PCs and maybe 250 to 1 if you had Macs. I'm doing 3,000 to 1 and I don't have too many people complaining. Between Airwatch management and Box management and ease of the iPad, the IT cost is cut down considerably."
While Kreitz can't put a specific dollar figure on how much St. Jude is saving from the iPad/Box/Airwatch combination, he cites several areas of improved efficiency and lower costs.
"We've cut down our data transfer rates by 50%," he says. "In regards to data storage, we no longer have to purchase servers and drives to house internally because Box is housing all that for us. We don't have to worry about capital expense any more for storage, which is huge. We've probably cut down our workflows by at least 50% just by using Box and the iPads to get data to the proper people as quickly as possible."


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WINONA –– The funeral for Jeff Cheek Doler will be Monday at 11 a.m. at Oliver Funeral Home Chapel with burial following in Oakwood Cemetery in Winona.
Dr. Ken Cheek and the Revs. John L. Walker and Rev. T. R. Darsey will officiate the services. A visitation will be Monday from 9 a.m. until service time at Oliver Funeral Home, which is in charge of arrangements.
Mr. Doler, 49, died on Monday, December 20, 2010 at his home.
He was a 1979 graduate of Winona High School and a graduate of Mississippi State University with a master's degree in agricultural business. He was engaged in the agricultural and farming business. He was a member of First Methodist Church in Starkville.
Mr. Doler is survived by his son, Jacob Cheek Doler of Starkville; his parents, Morris and JeNell Doler of Winona; brother, Keith Doler of Minden, La.; two nieces and one nephew.
Pallbearers will be Donald Robertson, Ronald Robertson, Harry Neal, Bobby Stigler, Barry Eskridge and Chuck Nail.
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Project to merge Furness General Hospital baby and maternity units
Last updated at 17:01, Thursday, 28 February 2013
NEARLY a quarter of a million pounds will be spent to merge a life-saving children's unit into the maternity ward at Furness General Hospital.
Work began on the £225,497 project to move Barrow's Special Care Baby Unit into a newly-refurbished area earlier this month, and is due to finish on April 19.
It comes following an announcement by FGH bosses last year to merge SCBU with maternity to solve a staffing crisis caused by sickness and a difficulty in recruiting.
Yesterday, executives at the University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust, which runs FGH, approved the choice of contractor for the work to create the unit.
A document circulated to the board explained a contractor who has previously done work at the hospital had been chosen due to the tight timescale within which the work needs to be done.
Speaking following the trust's decision to make the changes in December, UHMBT interim chairman, Sir David Henshaw, said the move would mean seriously ill babies will be closer to their mothers.
He added: "A challenge of any small unit on the edge of a large geographical area, such as Barrow, is the ability to ensure it is safely staffed at all times.
"The department has tried to recruit suitably qualified staff, including seeking assistance from a specialist hospital, however this has been unsuccessful.
"Let's be absolutely clear – this move is about the safety of babies in our care. This is our priority. It is not about reducing staff."
SCBU can look after up to six babies at once and, on average, cares for three a day.
The new set-up will mean that, if the unit is hit by sickness, maternity staff will be able to offer support to their colleagues.
Of the changes, UHMBT chief executive, Jackie Daniel, said: "Most women will not notice any change in the service we provide."
First published at 16:36, Thursday, 28 February 2013
Published by http://www.nwemail.co.uk
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The only difficulty in recruiting was that you would not pay for the staff. There are the staff locally but you won't pay for SCUBU nurses only MORE AND MORE MANAGERS. Get your priorities in order!!!!!!!
Everyone get to the publc meeting at the Forum28 on 7th March and ask these questions. Remember these are not the only services being cut or changed. Maternity , bed reductions, catering being put onto a bought in frozen meal sytem , portering being merged with domestics, this massive cross contamination risks. This trust board really do not have a clue about how stuff works at shop floor level and are making changes whilst sat in warm offices eating complimentary buffets.
Im not saying you will get any TRUE or HONEST answers though. Or even if the board will turn up.
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Former Nigeria's captain, Nwankwo Kanu has stated that the Super Eagles will only win the 2013 Nations Cup if they have the belief.
Kanu, now a Nigerian football ambassador said he believes Nigeria is going there to win the cup.
"We should all believe in this, the players should believe that we can achieve it but if there thinking is to go there and say well we will be fine if we can reach the semifinal then, they don't believe in theirselves.
"They should see themselves as a winning team and don't put their mind in some players that are not in the team said the two-time African Footballer of the year."
The former Ajax star added that Nigerians should allow Stephen Keshi to concentrate by ending the arguments generated by the list of players invited for the camping.
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Thank, you, Jeff and Brian, for helpful advice and questions.
Jeff Newmiller wrote:
> I haven't been modeming in the last several years, but your
> description is remarkably similar to the symptoms exhibited by ethe
> rnet hubs and wireless access points when they fail. I recommend
> replacement, and cable modem or DSL will have a longer effecti ve
> life than another plain old telephone modem.
Your experience and advice make me lean to DSL, and at Calweb this
will involve setting up DHCP, for which I'm taking a look at the DHCP
How-To. Freeing up my telephone for voice calls while I'm online is
probably enough of an advantage in itself!
Brian Lavender wrote:
> Did you try using minicom and dial in using a shell account? Does
> calweb still have shell accounts?
To your first question, or maybe both at once, I should answer by
explaining that calweb still has shell accounts, but since 2004 has
permitted connections only through ssh after ppp is established.
Before that, I did dial in using ProComm Plus for DOS (that was my
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information in the manpage applied to ppp debugging. However, I've now
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