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In this expansion, yes definitely. Maybe not the crafting, but picking up the magical weapons and armor feat on one of your cohorts is a must IMO. You don't need essences, gems or spells any more to enchant things, just money and that feat. It's only like 4000gp to add 1d6 elemental damage to a weapon.
I've not even found that many actual crafting recipes (lots of wonderous items, but hardly any armor or weapon patterns), but I don't think they are worth making. You might want the skills anyway though since you can use them to find items or add new options to dialog. Like I find a lot of bushes on the overland map with my craft alchemy skill (IIRC) and they give a handful of potions every time. I've never actually made a potion or grenade or anything in the craft areas though.
Is it absolutely necessary to have a wizard in the party to craft magical weapons/armor? I didn't accept that gnome in the Black Market, not knowing he was a wizard, so I don't have the spells required now. Is it possible to craft magical weapons with a fighter for example?
distantwind79 8 years ago#4
You have to have a mage type class to enchant. You need the magic arms feat to create enchantment. Clerics may be able to do this as well though.
"You have to have a mage type class to enchant."
Anyone who can cast any spells at all can pick up the craft magic weapons and armor feat at level 5 and you'll be able to use all enchants. This even includes rangers and paladins.
"Is it absolutely necessary to have a wizard in the party to craft magical weapons/armor?"
No. Since there's no spells needed to enchant items there's no advantage to having a wizard at all. You can have the druid or ranger you find in the first town, or any caster cohort (there's a bunch) pick up the feat, and you need only have them in the party to enchant.
You might want a wizard if you plan to craft wondrous items though. I think you can probably find her in the inn still and get another chance to recruit her there.
Ah thanks, I just looked in the guestbook and didn't see the gnome there. I'll check the inn.
I have a cleric in the party, and yes he has some of the spells. So if I understand correctly, I don't craft with one character? So if my fighter has a high craft weapon/armor skill and my cleric has the required spell and the magic arms feat I can just craft a weapon?
And how does enchanting work exactly? Do I need a recipe for that too?
I've only tried enchanting, everything else seems like a waste of money so far to me. How it's worked though, is I have one cohort with craft magic weapons and armor, but I do the actual crafting with my party leader, since she has the recipe books and i don't feel like moving them. So it does appear to be looking at the whole party to see if requirements are met.
Yes enchanting requires recipes, but you get some good ones very early on.
Grampy_Bone 8 years ago#8
You DO need spells for enchanting, just not for all items. You will need a wizard, cleric, and a druid if you want to make all items.
The way it works is you get a recipe for each item, go to an area with the crafting stations, and activate the recipe from your recipe books. The game runs through all the skills, feats, and currently memorized spells of ALL CHARACTERS, as well as everyone's inventories, to make sure you have the requirements, and if you do the item is created.
So you can have one person with Craft Wonderous, a second person memorize the required spells, and a third person with the needed items. If you want to make an Amulet of Natural armor, which requires the spell Barkskin, you don't need the person with the feat to have the spell, just someone in your party. Note that this is how item crafting works in the pen and paper game, which is awesome.
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blue_devil_99 8 years ago#9
Actually I'm pretty sure you do NOT need any of the spells, just someone with the appropriate feat (Craft Magic Arms/Armor or Wondrous Item) of the appropriate caster level. I say this because my only casters are a bard and warlock and I've been able to make any recipe I've found so far. This may be due to the Warlock's imbue item feat but I seem to remember being able to craft basically anything even before getting that.
Warlocks can craft without the spells...
It states in many recipes that you need certain spells and items (And now I'm wandering the world trying to find that Aventurine I sold half way through so I can make a Headband of intellect +6 ¬_¬)
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Pete Cimarello: There's a space carved out for birdwatchers and agribusiness. And, yes, there's some sportsmen conservation that are principles in this. Without question are again, they fund the great majority of the program's budget. 70%. Those are department numbers and norm and I have had discussions about that. And he has questions about his own agency's numbers. I don't. These are the number given us. You have the constituents represented without question. Very few people apply for this job. It's a handful. Sometimes it's only four or five. Other times roughly a dozen. We do not feel that the current system where a governor may choose anyone works. Not enough people apply. I'm going to call it a search committee, will be able to go out and actually look for individuals to sit on the commission, true they're going to interview them and vet them and probably pick from the best. But right now, and Norman went through there process, a commission possible candidate may be known to the governor, may not be not. May be known to her staff or may not and may get appointed, not necessarily the best qualified out of a large group. Never. It's always a small group. This will allow a broader expansion of that group and ensure that political favorites are not going to be there. Somebody who is rewarded or a Maricopa County or PIMA county commissioner. We always have them on the board. It's tradition, so to speak. There are counties that have not had commissioners in decades. Why? Because of politics and numbers.
Norm Freeman: Thanks. Pete talked about more applicants for the position and I agree with that. I agree there should be more applicants for the commission. I don't see any reason, Pete's organizations or any organization no matter how they feel about Arizona wildlife shouldn't be out looking and recruiting folks to apply in the open process we have now. Where the public is involved. Where I disagree with Pete is on the political side. I feel this squarely injects politic into our North American model of wildlife management. Politics should not play a role in wildlife management. And to that point, no more than three commissioners can be from any one political party and what concerns me what Pete is saying, they're going to apply a filter process to those candidates that will tie the hands of the governor. This is not a recommendation board. This is a board that a governor must appoint a candidate from. So it limits the authority of the executive branch and indirectly of the legislative branch.
Ted Simons: Talk about that limiting process there. Because a lot of former commissioners have come out against this particular idea. What you see as a broken system, they say it ain't broken and doesn't need to be fixed. Is limiting the process a good idea?
Pete Cimarello: I don't know that it's limiting the process. I don't see it that way. I see it as broadening the process. They talk about it focuses down to this board. Yeah, it does. But at the same time, the board is going to be focused on a job that's currently not done and I realize we've upset the good old boys' club, the commissioners, because there's a tradition there and stepping on that tradition. In actuality, we're not. We strongly support the commission system. We're going to work as hard as we can to ensure that this process is broadened. Any change, you know, is a threat and that's what is being perceived here. But there's nothing that this sportsmen group, have ever done that works against the Arizona game and fish commission. We're the backbone of these industries. They know that. Why there's so much distrust on their side and our side is a disconnect. That's the problem.
Ted Simons: Norm, I want to get back to the crux over here. The hunters and fishermen, pay a lot of money and -- 60%, 70%, whatever numbers you want to use -- and don't feel their disproportionate share is being recognized. Is that a valid concern?
Norm Freeman: No, for a couple of reasons. If that's the concern, if financial considerations are the concern for an asset that's held in the public trust, then this is the wrong bill. That should be a bill that takes wildlife and its habitat out the public trust and given it specifically to the consumptive users. The other side of the argument, yes, these contribute a lot to the department but understand they consume that resource. Last year we issued hunting licenses and fishing licenses at a two-to-one ratio. Two fishing licenses approximately for every one hunting license. There's not two seats specifically dedicated to anglers but there's two for every one hunter. If Pete goes out and buys an antelope tag and a hunting license and harvests an antelope, which is a great way to get natural meat for your family, he's going to spend $120, $130 to do the paperwork to legally harvest that animal. If any other citizen of the state went out and harvested that animal without being licensed and paying into the system like Pete talked about, they'd be assessed a civil assessment of about $2,500 and face criminal liability as well. These folks that pay in, they're getting a heck of a discount on the resource that's being taken away from the rest of the public.
Ted Simons: I see that as being a concern of yours. This disproportionate share of the money. I see a concern over here that diversity on the commission is threatened and one voice will be very loud and the others not heard at all or way back in the distance. First, is diversity important for the commission, the board and secondly, does this hurt the concept of diversity?
Pete Cimarello: Maybe in someone's mind. Not in ours. We've been labeled as not caring about anything that we can't hunt or fish for. That's not true. The projects we do for wildlife benefit almost all wildlife in the state. If we manage well and Mother Nature is generous, then we do sometimes get to harvest the bounty. I have a real difference with norm. We're getting a bargain with the prices we pay versus the guy who poaches. There's a disconnect with that analogy. We pay reasonable fees but when you look at the other states in the west, we pay some of the highest also. We're willing to do that, in fact, twice we went to the legislature and raised the fees on ourselves. When the game and fish department could not get the fee bill through, we picked it up. I'm one of them who worked on that twice to get it done. We've raised the bar so high and raised hundreds of millions of dollars for this agency, we do want some direction this how that money is spent.
Ted Simons: Is there a compromise here or does the bill have to go through as is?
Pete Cimarello: No.
Ted Simons: What do you think? Is there a compromise?
Norm Freeman: If you want to allocate on the basis, it could be redone a different way.
Ted Simons: Ok. And we'll have to stop it right there. Thank you for joining us tonight on "Horizon."
Norm Freeman: Pete Cimarello: Thank you.
Ted Simons: Thank you for joining us, you have a great evening.


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Paint by Numbers: A Charles Bloom Murder Mystery was recently featured in the Fall 2012 issue of the Smithsonian magazine, National Museum of the American Indian.Read More
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By David Steinberg / Journal Staff Writer on Sun, Aug 12, 2012
AT BOOKWORKS: The store at 4022 Rio Grande NW hosts these events this week. … Mark Sublette chats about his new novel, "Paint By Numbers: A Charles Bloom Mystery," at 3 p.m. today. Sublette is owner of Santa Fe's Medicine Man Gallery.Read More
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August 10, 2012
Blood on the Gallery Floor: A Murder Mystery Leads to Canyon Road
by Craig Smith for the New Mexican
Great art has great power, but it sometimes seems to bring out the worst in people – from greed, envy, and swindling to forgery, false reputations, and horrible obsession. A seminal painting, powerful sculpture, or stored piece of pottery may have sprung from pure ideals, but more than a few have wound up with figurative blood splattered on them.
Fortunately, even the most fought-over pieces of art seldom have real deaths attributed to them. So you can imagine the shock for Santa Fe art dealer Charles Bloom when the best and most promising of his artists, Willard Yellowhorse, dies under particularly macabre and revolting circumstances in New York. His attempts to unravel the mystery lead him to the Navajo Nation, where he meets Willard's sister, Rachael – and all hell breaks loose, in more ways than one.
Paint by Numbers is Mark Sublette's first published novel. The book, from Just Me Publishing, draws deeply on Sublette's own experiences. Like Bloom, he is a gallerist, owner of Medicine Man Gallery in Santa Fe and Tucson. He primarily sells Western art, works by contemporary artists, and Native American art, including black-on-black pottery.
"I've always loved murder mysteries and always loved thrillers as well," said Sublette, who gives three signings of the new book this week – at El Museo Cultural de Santa Fe (during the Santa Fe Show art fair), at Bookworks in Albuquerque, and at his Santa Fe gallery. "I first put pen to paper – and at that time it really was pen to paper, now it's keyboard to computer – probably about 10 years ago.
"This particular book is the second murder mystery I've written, but the first in a series about Charles Bloom and his life as an art dealer. I've written five books in the series, but this is the first one to come out."
A New Mexico native, born and raised in Portales, Sublette was exposed to Native American art and loved it from an early age. He remembers buying his first piece of pottery under Santa Fe's Palace of the Governors portal when he was about 7. But later, his life took a different path.
"I was a medical doctor before I was an art dealer, and it's given me insight into different types of humanity. I can delve into areas of the human psyche that other people can't." His specialty is sports and preventative medicine, although "I worked in a lot of emergency rooms, and as a naval doctor I used to have to do the brig. Some of (the prisoners) were really bad-ass people.
"I was practicing for six years and realized where I wanted to be was art. The basic ways to put it is, I stopped dreaming about medicine and started dreaming about art. I got an offer from a professional medical group that worked with the Phoenix Suns. I had an epiphany at that moment that if I took that job, I'd be a doctor for the rest of my life.
"I was already selling art on the side, and I thought I had to go with what my gut and heart said. I have a great wife, and she was kind of my Rachael Yellowhorse. She supported me in every way – she was in medicine too. Eleven years ago she got out and now is in the gallery business."
Sublette doesn't regret his years in medicine, and he maintains his medical license. "Being a doctor was good training for a lot of things. People say being a gallery owner is high stress. I figure my worst day as an art dealer is always better than an average day as a physician."
Did Sublette find Charles Bloom from the moment he began to write Paint by Numbers, or did the character develop over time? He said introspection and his own experiences played a big part in it, but Bloom eventually began to move and react as his own character, and not always as Sublette had planned.
"The thing is, when you write an involved character, you find yourself examining your own world and your own morality. It's an introspective look. I don't care who the character might be, male or female. I think there's part of you that shares some of their beliefs." That includes villains, he said – though he hopes that what one has in common with a depraved personality are things one despises in real life.
Santa Fe and parts of the Navajo Nation, including the Toadlene Trading Post near Newcomb, New Mexico, play big parts in Paint by Numbers. "All the little nuances of Santa Fe are things I experienced," Sublette said. "I can't help walk down the street or go down to the Plaza or smell the piñon smoke without thinking, Wow, this would be great for my book. There is very much an awareness of 'around town' – the different environments. Looking down on the Plaza from an upper-deck gallery of a friend of Charles' – that's a real window I've looked out of. I know where it is. I used one restaurant no longer here" – Café Dominic, formerly on Guadalupe Street.
"The Toadlena Trading Post is a real post. The guy who runs it is a friend of mine. I've spent a lot of time out there. What inspired me there was that you see daily lives unfolding in the trading post.
Sublette believes that philosophical and moral ideas belong in books (including thrillers) as much as plot and character development do. "I think all my books have that. Usually it's a moral statement that you make choices in your life. Those choices have consequences for you, for others. You can live your life trying to be a good person or you can spend your life on the dark side. It's a thin line."
As a result, the book "also shows the underbelly of the art world. There are things that happen – you get the sense of a little feel of the things in the art world that are going on. Charles Bloom… tries to be a good human being, but like all people he has his flaws. Good people have to deal with the issues that make us what we are."
Despite the complex and often gruesome ins and outs in Sublette's plot, in the end there is a degree of "justice and clarification" for Charles Bloom and Rachael Yellowhorse. "I like my books to end that way. I like it when you can walk away and feel good. It doesn't mean that everything has to happen that you like. But I think overall, when you walk away, you should have a smile."Read More
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"From the gripping prologue to the twist-upon-twist conclusion, Mark Sublette's PAINT BY NUMBERS will keep you up nights… unable to stop turning the page!" – – Sandi Ault, best-selling author of the WILD Mystery Series
"Mark Sublette's first novel is… marvelous. The white art dealer Charles Bloom lives in New Mexico with Indians. His impressive work is constantly taken away by those who go for nothing but money in New York. But Charles Bloom never stops in following great creativity… neither should we." – – Michael Blake, Dances with Wolves
"A deadly mystery about art and ambition, stretching from Navajoland to New York." – – Wolf Schneider, abqARTS
"This riveting art mystery, in the tradition of the late Tony Hillerman, successfully develops an intriguing tale that captures the essence of the creative spirit of the Navajo from the Toadlena region." – – Mark Winter, The Master Weavers and owner of the Historic Toadlena Trading Post
Book Description:
Bloom's on Canyon Road, specializing in contemporary Native American art, once was a powerhouse gallery in Santa Fe. Then it lost its best-known artist, Willard Yellowhorse. Worse yet was Yellowhorse's premature death soon after arriving in New York City under very suspicious circumstances.
With Yellowhorse's final painting STRUGGLE, about to be sold at auction, gallery owner Charles Bloom's inner voice keeps asking two unrelenting questions: how did Willard Yellowhorse really die, and who if anyone killed him? The answers for Charles lay somewhere deep inside the Navajo nation, Yellowhorse's ancestral home. Charles will need the help of Yellowhorse's sister, Rachael, and her grandfather, the nearly 100-year-old medicine man Hastiin Sherman, to unlock the key to Yellowhorse's death. What Charles Bloom doesn't realize is the evil coyote spirit that tracked down Yellowhorse is still watching and Charles could be next, if he isn't careful….
A Charles Bloom murder mystery set in Santa Fe and Indian Country. Perfect for fans of Tony Hillerman.
A conversation with Mark Sublette, author of PAINT BY NUMBERS: A CHARLES BLOOM MURDER MYSTERY
Q: Since you are an art gallery owner in Santa Fe, and so is Charles Bloom, how is he like you and how is he not like you?
A: Bloom deals in strictly contemporary Native material, all modern works. I handle primarily antique Native artifacts and western art. From a dealer standpoint, I'm sure I have felt many of the same emotions working in the art profession.
Q: How much of what you write about in this book is true?
A: I use a few deceased artists and historic facts to help bring scenes to life, but all the events surrounding these characters are fictitious. The geographic locations and timelines are accurate, and the Toadlena Trading Post is real. This is one of the reasons I include my photos–so you know what's real.
Q: Is Bloom's much like your Medicine Man Gallery?
A: We're both located on the 600 Block of Canyon Road! The feel of Bloom's is similar to many historic galleries on Canyon Road.
Q: How many times have you been to Navajoland, and does it still have hogans without electricity?
A: I love to visit the Navajo Reservation. The land has a starkness that is palatable and in some ways it's just like it was 100 years ago. There are still hogans and houses without electricity or water. Having said that, young men in hoodies listening to rap are also a part of today's rez.
Q: Does Canyon de Chelly really have all those old crypts?
A: There are crypts in Canyon de Chelly, but you won't be able to see them as they are well hidden and not something that would be shared with outsiders.
Q: Is the character of Willard Yellowhorse modeled on any real-life Native painter, like maybe TC Cannon?
A: Willard is no one and everyone. He is the creative power that can be found in all artists. He and his sister Rachael Yellowhorse in my mind embody people I would meet not only on the reservation but at a university. Well educated, yet respecting their culture.
Q: Have you ever met the famous people appearing in this book, like Andy Warhol, Donald Judd, and Jean-Michel Basquiat?
A: They were before my time, but captured my imagination in books and films. Since all the scenes I place them in are figments of my imagination, I sort of turn them into fictional characters, respecting how I would expect them to behave, and bringing some cachet of their times.
Q: Have you ever known an art dealer as unscrupulous as Bernard?
A: Thankfully no…though it's possible they're out there.
Q: Have you ever been to an auction at Sotheby's in New York?
A: Many times.
Q: Do you believe in coyote spirits and evil chindi?
A: Surprisingly I do. There are some places and things we don't understand, especially when it comes to Native American beliefs, and I don't take those beliefs lightly.
Q: Did you take all the 22 photos in this book, and which ones are of Navajoland?
A: They are all my images, and mostly of Navajoland. There's one of New York City, and one is a drawing by Maynard Dixon of Canyon de Muerto done in 1923. The images were mostly taken around the Toadlena Trading Post, Gallup, and Canyon de Chelly.
Q: When is the next Charles Bloom book coming out?
A: The next book comes out summer 2013 and is titled Kayenta Crossing. That book is more focused on the Navajo Reservation, with a new character who's a young medical doctor, and of course Charles Bloom is back. The story for that particular book has been rolling around in my head for over a decade!Read More


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To the Editor: Factor et al. recently reported the results of a population-based, case-control study regarding risk factors for pediatric invasive group A streptococcal (GAS) infection (1), noting that the "new" use of nonsteroidal antiinflammatory drugs (NSAIDs), defined as NSAID use <2 weeks before diagnosis, was associated with invasive GAS infection, whereas self-defined "regular" NSAID use was not. The control population consisted of nonhospitalized, age-matched children contacted by telephone (1). Although we endorse the authors' conclusion that, "…the measurements of new use and regular use [of NSAIDs] are too crude to clearly identify their role as a risk factor," a more detailed discussion of their findings and conclusions is warranted.
Because of their antiinflammatory effects, NSAIDs have been suspected of suppressing host immunity during infection, particularly GAS infection (2). However, determining a causal association between NSAID use and infectious diseases has been problematic, especially when using retrospective studies (3). The results of such observational studies often suffer from protopathic bias, in which drugs are applied to treat symptoms that are actually early manifestations of the outcome of interest (4). Consequently, rather than being a direct determinant (i.e., causative risk factor) for invasive GAS infection, NSAID use could mark the onset of disease symptoms (fever, localized pain, and inflammation). Therefore, because of protopathic bias, the study by Factor et al. had a substantial chance of identifying an association between NSAID use and invasive GAS infection a priori.
Neither the fact that patients in the study by Factor et al. received NSAIDs any time during the 2 weeks before the diagnosis of invasive GAS infection nor the finding that nonhospitalized children (controls) were unlikely to have received NSAIDs in the 2 weeks before their interview should be surprising. A more informative case-control study would have matched case-patients with similar-aged children who had febrile infections not caused by GAS infection; both groups of children would have been equally likely to have received analgesic and antipyretic medications. Furthermore, population-based data suggest that most patients with invasive GAS infection are hospitalized (5), so hospital-based controls, rather than population controls, might have provided a more appropriate comparison group.
Prospective studies have failed to define a causal link between NSAIDs and invasive GAS infections (3), though such studies were not specifically designed to investigate this relationship. To best test the hypothesis that NSAIDs increase the risk for invasive GAS infection, a randomized, prospective trial should be done. Such a trial is unlikely to take place, however, because of questionable ethics and because the sample necessary to detect a significant difference would be prohibitively large.
Although NSAIDs may neither alter the risk of developing an invasive GAS infection nor accelerate an established infection, these drugs can mollify the signs and symptoms of streptococcal infection, possibly delaying appropriate management and treatment (3). However, the potential adverse consequences of suppressing clinical indicators of disease severity (e.g., fever, pain, and inflammation) with NSAIDs apply to myriad infectious and inflammatory conditions, not just invasive streptococcal disease.
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Hedge fund manager John Paulson has sold about a third of his holdings in the SPDR Gold Trust exchange traded fund, which tracks the price of gold. The move, which was reported in Mr. Paulson's regulatory filings for the third quarter on Monday, confirms what some had suspected: Faced with a dismal performance in the first half of 2011, Mr. Paulson has been making some big adjustments to his portfolio. But what does the move mean for gold?
Edel Tully, a strategist at UBS, noted that the exodus from the ETF was strongest during several days of trading in the latter half of August, a period that coincided with a correction in the price of gold. At the time, the gold's slide was largely pegged to shifting expectations in how the Federal Reserve was going to respond to a slowing economic recovery.
Now, though, Mr. Paulson's gold-fund downsizing gets some of the blame. Ms. Tully doesn't actually mention Mr. Paulson by name, but noted that the sale does make some sense. Before its August selloff, gold was trading close to $1,900 (U.S.) an ounce, making it awfully tempting to bank some profits at record-high prices. She also believes that gold might have been a victim of its own success: Investors cashed out to cover losses elsewhere.
What's more, redemptions in the gold fund – the biggest and most visible of its kind – don't necessarily mean that investors are exiting gold positions. They could simply be shifting into other gold-related investments that are less transparent.
Indeed, a Wall Street Journal article suggested that Mr. Paulson had done just that: "The move doesn't mean that Paulson is moving away from its bullish view on gold, a person familiar with the matter said. Rather, Paulson has found other more efficient ways to get the gold exposure through futures or other products that don't necessarily show up in a filing, the person said."
As for Ms. Tully, she remains upbeat, noting that investors have exited gold ETFs in the past without any lasting impact on the price of gold. In the third quarter, there were more buyers than sellers of the SPDR Gold Trust ETF, and holdings rose by 840,000 ounces.
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Croatia, Welcome Aboard the EU!
Croatia, Welcome Aboard the EU!
On Monday 1 July, Croatia became the 28th Member State of the European Union. Croatia's accession marks another milestone in the construction of a united Europe. It also provides fresh evidence of the transformative power of the European Union: torn by conflict only two decades ago, Croatia is now a stable democracy, capable of adhering to EU standards and taking on the obligations of EU membership.
Over the last decade, Croatia has accomplished all the reforms needed to bring it in line with EU laws and standards to enable it to join the European Union in 2013. The country has taken decisive steps to strengthen democracy, the rule of law, human rights and protection of minorities. The judiciary is now more independent, accountable and professional. It has a functioning market economy, which will offer new opportunities for European business and industry as part of a single EU market, with easier mobility for all.
Croatia's accession reaffirms that European integration is open to all aspiring countries which are able to prove their respect for European values and implement the required political and economic reforms. Croatia's participation in the European Union will benefit not only the country itself, but also the Western Balkans region, as well as the whole of the European Union.
Speech by President Herman Van Rompuy on the occasion of the entry of Croatia into the European Union
President Schulz on Croatia's accession to the EU
Speech by H.E. David Daly, Ambassador and Head of Delegation of the European Union to Australia and New Zealand
Speech by H.E. Vicencijie Biuk, Croatian
Ambassador to New Zealand
Croatia in the EU, growing together
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An oil field right off Colorado Blvd and E-470.
1. Bike it up. This trip will be record setting for me. Northernmost location I've biked to--practically to the NE graticule--and I will be utilizing trails in Thronton I've never been on. Tallyho!
Awesome ride. Ended up being about 45 miles round trip. The first couple miles were along the South Platte River, which was pleasant enough. Saw a flock of turkeys that have been hanging out around Northside Park for the last couple weeks. There is still construction being done to the river bed for some reason at the Platte River/Sand Creek junction that requires a very short detour along some packed soil. No big deal.
Mile 12 brought me to Platte & 104th, where the trail ends. (The paved trail ends. A dirt trail continues ahead to who know where. Adventure for another day.) So leaving the river trail, the next mile and a half were along a busy highway with a wide shoulder, on to which I settled.
At about mile 13.5 I found the Riverdale Trail/Prairie Dog Habitat. Omg prairie dogs! Hundreds of them! All barking and scurrying around, dodging, ducking, dipping, diving, and dodging! It was a veritable orgy of prairie dogs. One ran right in front of me and I thought I would hit it! I took a quick, lousy picture and continued on.
The next couple miles took me through the Thornton Recreation Center, which is a huge friggin complex sitting in the middle of it's own huge friggin park.
On through some residential streets, and then around East Lake Shores Park, which was a packed gravel trail through a wildlife preserve. A lady was walking two greyhounds through it. She was standing smack in the middle of the trail, one dog was testing the limits of its retractable leash by nosing around well off to the left of the trail, while the second dog was doing the same thing on the other side, looking like a mirror image of the first. All told, this dog and lady combo was sprawled out over about 12 feet across the foot path. I hollered a good morning at them = "Get outta the way you nutter!" and she collected her canines and stepped aside.
By now I'm at mile 18.5 and Lake Village Park connects me to the Signal Ditch Trail which is a pretty little thing that wraps through some residential areas and past this one improbably large house, slightly out of place in the middle of an apartment complex, but well secluded by the trail itself as the outermost barrier, then what honest to god looked like a moat but which was probably the actual Signal Ditch, and then a huge friggin lake, on one bank of which the residents had created a large sandy beach, complete with a tall blue twisting water slide. It had spires and wings. I think a royalty lives there. A minor royalty. One that can only afford estates in suburban Denver, Colorado.
Signal Ditch takes me through mile 20, where it spits me out back on the road by a large elementary school. Here, I'm pretty close to Colorado Blvd, which I get on and follow past the "Now Leaving the City of Thornton" sign, past which the boulevard turns small and two-laned, and I'm riding on the shoulder.
At mile 22.5, I arrive at the site, just south of Colorado and E-470. I had some food and drink, snapped a photo or two, tried to tweet my location [1] and otherwise get a GPS reading, but I guess my signal was poor because I got a different reading each time I tried!
Shortly, I turned around and did the whole thing in reverse. I kind of hated the last 12 miles or so. I was tired and hungry. Fortunately, I got a flat tire around mile 33. During the time it took to patch the tube, I was able to recharge my mental batteries enough to carry me the rest of the way home.
All in all, this is the kind of adventure that, for me, geohashing is all about. I ventured into new areas, down new trails. I got a little unsure of my bearings once or twice which added to the thrill of exploration. There were adversities to overcome, and I felt very satisfied by the end of it all.


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Drone Victim Families in Pakistan File Petitions against CIA Killing of Civilians
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Drone Protest in Pakistan
Victims of a Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) drone attack in Pakistan have filed two lawsuits in a Pakistani court demanding that their government seek criminal prosecution for those responsible for killing 50 civilians.
The lawsuits (known as constitutional petitions) were submitted on behalf of nine individuals who either were wounded survivors or family members of those who died in the drone strike that occurred on March 17, 2011, in Datta Khel, in Northern Waziristan near the border with Afghanistan. A few days after the strike, the Pakistani government offered compensation to the victims: 300,000 Rupees ($3,300) for the families of each person killed and 100,000 rupees for ($1,100) for those who were wounded.
However, the victims want the Peshawar High Court to initiate criminal proceedings against Pakistanis or CIA officials involved in the drone attacks.
They also demand the Pakistani government raise the drones issue before the United Nations Security Council, the International Court of Justice, and the U.N. Human Rights Council.
Finally, the plaintiffs want an independent commission established "to investigate the true extent of Pakistani civilian deaths in U.S. drone attacks."
According to the U.K.-based Bureau of Investigative Journalism, between 480 and 820 Pakistani civilians, including 174 children, have died in CIA drone strikes since 2004.
Drone strikes have increased significantly under President Barack Obama, whose administration has ordered at least 270. President George W. Bush was responsible for 52.
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CIA Increases Drone Killings of Pakistanis Who "Might be Militants" (by Noel Brinkerhoff, AllGov)
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The world of musical theatre is gossipy enough. And then Strictly Ballroom: the Musical entered stage right.
A review of the upcoming show, directed by film luminary
"The reason we have defied convention (and no doubt committed an act of direst evil in the eyes of the production) is really quite simple. There has never – quite literally never! – been a new show open in previews in Oz in worse shape than Strictly Ballroom the musical," wrote Allen, adding that the show has problems "on almost every level".
Carmen Pavlovic, chief executive of production house Global Creatures, which is behind the show and majority owned by Rich lister and Jayco caravan founder
After successfully managing four-storey-tall dinosaurs in the hit show Walking with Dinosaurs, she now has her hands full with trolls. Pavlovic blames the "Baz-factor", saying "it's no secret that Baz polarises people".
"You can't help but observe, no matter what Baz has done, there's always some controversy around it," she says. "There's always a camp that like to be the haters."
In show business you can work magic, and Luhrmann has brushed off the haters before. His film The Great Gatsby was plagued by delays and was bagged when the trailer was revealed. But once on screen Gatsby won some critical acclaim and pulled in crowds.
Fine tuning
Staging Strictly Ballroom, the much-loved film, was always destined to court strong opinions. Pavlovic says having Luhrmann and wife
Pavlovic says some fine tuning is in train, but there have been audience members dancing in the aisles – as the team had hoped –in previews she has seen.
But she says the idea that the musical is "make or break" for Global Creatures is rubbish. "It's a very important piece of work . . . and obviously it's a great opportunity, but we have significant diversity in the portfolio of shows we've got."
Global Creatures first began wowing audiences with its signature animatronics. Its arena-sized adaptation of the BBC show Walking with Dinosaurs has been seen by 8 million people globally and at its peak in 2010 earned about $140 million in annual revenue.
Walking with Dinosaurs – the "cash cow" – will return to the US for the first time in seven years in 2014. The company will also begin its first Beijing shows of Dreamworks' How to Train Your Dragon in the city's Olympic Bird's Nest Stadium later this year.
But plans for the musical King Kong to be on Broadway by December, following its nine-month world premiere run in Melbourne that ended in February, are on hold. The company learned lessons from its first musical, Pavlovic says. Kong is being reworked before trying to crack New York again. "I didn't want to rush it, frankly . . . There's a good shot that we'll get it there next year. "
One snag for Strictly Ballroom could be the collapse of tour operator Showbiz, which sells tickets to musicals and called in voluntary administrators on Thursday. The company has laid off 30 staff, but a spokesman from administrators PKF Lawler said it looks like current ticket-holders will be safe.
Ryan, the man stumping up the cash, is not worried. He says sales are strong and "of course" the show will make money. "It's Baz," he says. "There's always going to be critics."
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Nokia Public Transport for Symbian updated to v2.1
Nokia has provided a long list in the change log. All builds of the touchscreen Symbian platform are supported (with a few differences between firmware versions). There is more coverage for the US and China. The app is also integrated with Nokia Maps.
You can download Nokia Public Transport from Nokia Beta Labs or the Ovi Store.
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I've been contemplating on getting the 701 but am unable to decide since WP8 is launching soon, HTC planning major cost cuts, Symbian being phased out,
I have a wp7 wth a puny 8gb which is totally restricting, now there seems to be some support for Symbian,... man this is difficult.
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get the 701? better buy 808... yes its symbian but its really good.. even nokia is rumored to release a pureview lumia on nokia world.. but 808 pureview is one worthy of money... and it might be updated to belle fp2 which is one step closer to ICS of android... symbian is still worth a money... not a battery hog if you love listening to music and etc......


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You know, it wasn't that long ago (last year?) when it seemed as if the Chicago Auto Show, already North America's largest, was poised to also overtake Detroit as the continent's most important industry display.
Of course, things are just a tad different today, both for the show and the industry at large. As a result, things in Chicago are rather a mixed bag this year, and, for now, I'm going to whip through a few Krome-selected 'highlights' in one article. So there.
Ford is showing off the 2010 Transit Connect, kind of a European mini-minivan primarily aimed at commercial customers. It's a nice package with a lot of versatility and storage room, and it does achieve 20 mpg in the city. And the Blue Oval is working toward launching an electric version by 2011. That's all great, but sales will be limited unless/until the company commits to a true passenger version.
The reborn Taurus SHO is also making its debut, and the exciting news here is that Ford didn't try to fit a V8 in under the hood. The company really will use its high-tech, high-performance, relatively high-efficiency V6 to power the top Taurus. Now Ford just needs a hybrid here, too, or at least a four-cylinder version tuned specifically for fuel efficiency.
With Nissan a no-show in Detroit, Chicago also marks the first time most U.S. customers can see the Cube. Essentially Nissan's take on the original Scion xB, the cube is small, gets pretty good mileage and, yes, is shaped like a cube. I imagine it will now be just a matter of weeks before someone does the Cube, xB and Kia Soul comparo3 (cubed, get it?).
Kia is introducing its Forte sedan, which replaces the outgoing Spectra in the automaker's lineup. It does look a bit like someone glued the back half of a Pontiac G6 to the front half of a Subaru Impreza, but I mean this in a good way. And while Kia boasts about the Forte's power numbers, the automaker is also keeping its eye on the auto zeitgeist by offering an optional Fuel Economy Package that moves the Forte to the top of the class in terms of highway mpg.
Hyundai is attempting to buildup its motorsports cred with a sporty variant of its Hyundai Genesis coupe and an actual racing version from Rhys Millen, but this doesn't seem to make much economic sense to me. And frankly, the Genesis coupe looks a lot less impressive in person than it does in photos.
I've also got to say something about GM's presence in Chicago. Seeing what's on stage for the General in the Windy City has me feeling as if the company shot its bolt in Detroit and is now just waiting for the end '" or bankruptcy.
It's looking less and less likely that GM will have a viable viability plan to show Congress next week, and that means more and more time will go by before the company is able to focus on actual business instead of mere survival.
But I'm sure all the Transformers fanboys loved that new Corvette concept.
Chicago Auto Show: Maybe Size Doesn't Matter
Chicago Auto Show: Maybe Size Doesn't Matter
You know, it wasn't that long ago (last year?) when it seemed as if the Chicago Auto Show, already North America's largest, was poised to also overtake Detroit as the continent's most important industry display.


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Mundell Revisited: a Simple Approach to the Costs and Benefits of a Single Currency Area
The paper evaluates the costs and benefits of a single currency area within a unified framework. Conventionally, it is argued that a single currency area carries a welfare loss owing to the sacrifice of exchange rate adjustment in the presence of country-specific shocks. But in 1973 Mundell argued that a single currency area offers risk-sharing benefits when capital markets are limited in their ability to facilitate consumption insurance. The authors construct a simple model and compare a system of independent national currencies to a single currency area. The presence of country-specific shocks may either reduce or enhance the benefits of a single currency area, depending on the importance of exchange rate adjustment relative to risk-sharing. In a simple quantitative analysis, we find that either regime may dominate, although the utility differences between the two regimes are very small. Copyright Blackwell Publishing Ltd 2003.
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Sticky Fingaz a 'Luce Cannon,' Shoots Friend in the Leg
Rapper/actor Sticky Fingaz learned the hard way that if you play with a gun, chances are it might go off. Last week, the 36-year-old accidentally shot his friend, Luce Cannon, in the leg while showing off his new Desert Eagle pistol. (There's a 'Throw Ya Gunz' joke somewhere in this story.)
Although he is doing fine now, the bullet shattered Luce's bone which required surgery to fix. "It was an accident," the rapper, born Kirk Jones, said. "S— happens. He's good. He's alive." The gun was registered to Jones, no charges were filed and the two also remain friends.
This incident's outcome however is a far cry from the Queen, NY, native's 2005 gun charge arrest. Jones surrendered to police after leaving an unregistered firearm in a New York City hotel room. He was later arraigned on one count of criminal weapons possession.
As one third of the rap group Onyx, Jones made a name for himself in the music industry before delving into acting. He has appeared in dozens of television and film projects including the movie 'Next Friday' with rapper Ice Cube.


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The Roseanne of Literature
By Alexis Jetter
Published: December 17, 1995
Dorothy Allison WRITES EVERYTHING down: dialogue she overhears on buses, the stories of her dead aunts, fragments from old June Carter songs. She takes notes even while talking to friends on the telephone, typing bits of their conversation into her computer. "I have a terrible memory," she explains, a little defensively, when caught.
She arches one eyebrow and smiles wickedly, her bad eye squinting to see if I believe her. I don't. Her closet is lined with red, black and gray notebooks full of journal entries that became poems, then short stories and eventually, novels. "Watch out," she tells people, "or I'm liable to put you in a story."
Allison, author of the acclaimed semiautobiographical novel "Bastard Out of Carolina" and a new memoir, "Two or Three Things I Know for Sure," has been spinning tales out of overheard conversations and her own bitter experience for more than 20 years. Until recently, that work was published primarily by small lesbian presses and alternative magazines.
But today, Allison -- who calls herself a "cross-eyed, working-class lesbian addicted to violence, language and hope" -- has hit the big time: "Bastard," a finalist for the 1992 National Book Award, is being made into a Hollywood movie starring Jennifer Jason Leigh and directed by Anjelica Houston. Allison has appeared on CBS's "Sunday Morning" and the Charlie Rose show, and shared top billing with Hillary Clinton and Colin Powell at this year's American Booksellers Association convention.
Even the post-punk group Sonic Youth has taken note: its song "Bone" pays homage to Bastard's heroine, Bone Boatwright, a young girl who is sexually abused by her stepfather.
Other lesbian authors have received national attention -- Audre Lorde, the late black poet; Jeanette Winterson, the British writer, and Lisa Alther, the comic Southern novelist, among others. But Allison appeals to an unusually broad spectrum -- from readers of Southern fiction to incest survivors and lesbian sex radicals.
Allison takes great pride in her "white trash" roots; for her the ultimate tribute is that her books are on sale at Costco, the giant of warehouse clubs. "I think it's wonderful that people in pickup trucks are buying two flats of dog food and a copy of 'Bastard,' " she exults in her Carolina accent. "I want my view of the world to be right up there next to gallon boxes of Tide." Allison has made a career out of offending literary sensibilities. Even her titles assault: "The Women Who Hate Me," "Trash" and "Bastard Out of Carolina." Yet she writes with unparalleled tenderness toward those she says we are trained to despise. "She has an all-encompassing knowledge of what it's like to be the other, the outsider," says Studs Terkel. Critics have compared Allison to William Faulkner, Flannery O'Connor and Harper Lee, calling her the first writer of her generation to capture the lives and language of poor whites in the deep South. "It's as if the people in Dorothea Lange photographs, in the work of Margaret Bourke-White and Walker Evans, were able to speak," says the author and critic George Garrett.
But Allison is more comfortable being compared to Roseanne. "We are both willing to be fools in public, to be despised," she says, hemming a pair of pants at the kitchen table of the small house in Guerneville, Calif., that she shares with her female partner, Alix Layman, a trombone player, and their 3-year-old son, Wolf. "Being an out-front, almost obnoxious working-class person gives you cachet. You've got that Roseanne pose: Don't mess with me, honey. I'm liable to pour gravy on you."
And then there's revenge, "the thing that no one ever talks about," she says, with mock conspiracy and very real class rage. "Give us a little, and we're just like sharks. We want more. And we want you to bleed while we're eating it." She lays down her needle, reaches for a glass of Diet Coke and roars with laughter.
At 46, Allison is a plump woman with long, gleaming red hair, a velvety voice and an aura of raw pain that lingers even when she laughs. Part country preacher, part Janis Joplin, she defies easy categorization -- and she likes it that way. She has a closet full of rhinestone-studded black leather jackets and a desktop full of baby pictures. Legally blind in one eye, she can't even step off a sidewalk with much confidence. Yet she's a mean shot with a rifle, and her language is always dead-on: spare, beautiful and brutal. "For someone who has no eyesight," says Jewelle Gomez, a black lesbian novelist and poet, "Dorothy sees everything." She's warm, funny, astonishingly candid -- and at the same time wary, as if remembering at all times where her guns are locked. "Scare me," she tells students in her writing courses. "Tell me the forbidden story." But even she can't always tell where the truth ends and the story begins.
Where I was born -- Greenville, South Carolina -- smelled like nowhere else I've ever been. Cut wet grass, split green apples, baby [expletive] and beer bottles, cheap makeup and motor oil. Everything was ripe, everything was rotting. Hound dogs butted my calves. People shouted in the distance; crickets boomed in my ears. That country was beautiful, I swear to you, the most beautiful place I've ever been. Beautiful and terrible. -- From "Two or Three Things I Know for Sure."


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From empty hallways to clean panes of glass, German photographer Marian Beck captures the landscape and architecture of Munich in a way that puts its inhabitants almost secondary. Separating the living from the unliving, the man from the manmade, Beck puts the city on display in a series of cinematic, structural images.
All images courtesy of Marian Beck.