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Nowadays when I think back to how Lucille and I were with each other, I think that she was in many ways my poetry mama.
EDITOR'S NOTE: One morning in May 2012, tweets from Afaa Michael Weaver lit up my screen:
"Lucille Clifton taught me—in the psychic space of literary influence—the elegant craft of weaving formal and vernacular language."
"Lucille Clifton introduced me to spirituality in poetry when the younger poets who later claimed her were hardly 10 years old. Amen."
I wanted to know more about how Lucille Clifton inspired Afaa Michael Weaver, as she has inspired so many others. Weaver's essay that follows responds to this inquiry with candor, insight, and humor. He also shares a letter he wrote for her memorial here. The Collected Poems of Lucille Clifton edited by Kevin Young and Michael S. Glaser was released in September from BOA Editions.
-Gina Barnard, Senior Editor
"Two Puffy Afros Going Down the Road"
—by Afaa Michael Weaver
In her inimitable way, Lucille Clifton wrote about the cartography of her interior, mapping the interior of the American consciousness in ways that will take the passing of at least another generation to fully understand. The confluence of her life experience with mine made for a deep wellspring of influence on me, but it would take years for me to understand this confluence. As poets we study the works of other poets and perhaps mimic them in the way student painters take their easels to the Louvre and copy masterpieces. We form friendships and mentoring relationships with one another, and those relationships develop according to the mysteries of bonding. Whether at a distance, in a bookish way or in a close mentoring friendship, we grow as poets in the company of poets.
Black was brilliant and brilliant was black.
I met Lucille for the first time in the winter of 1974-75, when a mutual friend took me to meet her at a reading she was giving at a branch of Baltimore's Enoch Pratt Library. Her presence impressed me immediately. A tall woman with expressive eyes, she was stately. Her voice sparkled in a regal way. Her work was, as her voice, going from a formal eloquence to a genuine vernacular. She was black and brilliant, and she was without the angst of determining how much of one was the other. Black was brilliant and brilliant was black.
As for me, my life was a fragile assembly of failure. My first wife and I married when we were nineteen. My wife was a young lady from the neighborhood, and we were an East Baltimore version of Romeo and Juliet. I had begun to write poetry before I married, and had formed my belief in myself as a poet as a fundamental faith. A year after losing our first child to Down Syndrome, the grief and untreated issues of my own childhood sexual abuse led to a nervous breakdown. My story was that of some military veterans today. In 1970, after leaving the university, I took a job at Bethlehem Steel and joined the Army Reserves and married, thinking I had formed the foundation of my future happiness. It all fell apart. When I met Lucille, I was trying to climb out from under the wreckage of broken dreams. Although never deployed to Vietnam, my life was a shambles. After my breakdown, my wife left me to my books and my poetry. When I met Lucille, I was working on a manuscript called Frenzy. Ten years later, that manuscript would become Water Song, my first collection of poetry and part of my manumission after fifteen years of factory life.
She was teaching me to be a mentor, although neither one of us thought of it that way.
Lucille was generous from the start, letting me call her to read new poems over the the phone. In the spring of 1975, right after we met that first time, I had tried to take two courses at Morgan State University while working in the liquid detergent packing floors at Procter & Gamble (P&G)—a job I landed after a year in the steel mill. Taking courses while working was too much. The packing floor was a dizzying swirl of bottles being filled with Ivory and Joy, a sometimes dangerous place where I almost lost my right hand trying to clear a jam in the packing machine. I gave up on school and decided to write my way out of the factory. I was twenty-four.
"Michael, you just keep on writing, don't worry about finishing that degree." She comforted me after I read her a poem I had just written. Now that I am sixty years old and have to be more mindful of many things, I realize the depth of her generosity and kindness. She was teaching me to be a mentor, although neither one of us thought of it that way.
Perhaps my fondest image of myself with Lucille is driving her to a reading at the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library in the winter of 1976-77. As from a camera's eye, filming us from the rear window, we were two puffy afros heading down the new I-95 highway to a Washington D.C. poetry reading.
I was driving my father's green 1973 Chevrolet Impala that he bought from Charlie Irish Chevrolet on Eastern Avenue in Baltimore, near North Point Road, the main drag to the Sparrows Point Bethlehem steel plant. He worked at Bethlehem Steel for over three decades, and I spent a year there before moving on to P&G in Locust Point, where I spent fourteen years as a laborer. The Impala had air conditioning and power windows, worlds above my Ford Maverick.
As Lucille knew, I was struggling with depression and trying to fight the shame attached to the stigma heaped on people who struggled with mental health issues, she decided to cheer me up and surprised me when she spoke:
"Michael, you're twenty-five now. It's time I told you some grown-up stories."
In the poise of generations of black raconteurs, she proceeded to tell me a hilarious story about the misdoings of an infamous womanizer in Buffalo, where she grew up. I laughed but kept a close eye on the road, mindful of the fact that I had a precious passenger as well as taking great pride in the fact that I knew her well enough to be a private audience.
I had been at P&G for six years and had two manuscripts in the works. I was already taking cues from Lucille about the process of writing. Her children were very young at the time, and she told me how she sometimes wrote while minding them at the same time. In the kitchen they would be at various mischievous projects, opening cabinets and doors, while she sat in the midst of them, writing. She wrote in what I would call a stream, taking whatever came to her imagination first and following with successive poems, pulling them from the dream state of her imagination. She had that kind of fluency. It is the solid evidence of the gift. Later she explained something I had read about while studying the Surrealists, the process of automatic writing.
"Just sit at the typewriter and let your hands rest lightly over the keyboard. When the words come, start writing."
I had remarried by then, and my wife and I were renting a house near Morgan. Working at a roll-top desk in the third bedroom I used as my study, I had a Remington manual that I rented from an office supply store. On a quiet day, I sat and did as she had suggested. The most successful poem that came that way was "Water Song," the title poem from my first book. The poem is an elegy for the southern sharecropping way of life in which my father and his siblings were raised, a culture that was inscribed in my consciousness in the indirect teaching we call parental influence. Just growing up with a father who knew what it was to be called "little nigger" by white people rather than one's proper name had an effect on me that I am still unraveling as I enter my seventh decade.
Rooted in that vernacular consciousness and endowed with an encompassing intelligence and supremely keen intuition, Lucille was also as originally American as the blues and jazz.
When I met Lucille she had published An Ordinary Woman, a book that affirmed black culture for me. There was a working class consanguinity between us that I took for granted. What I did not take for granted was the succinct eloquence she gave to the intensity of vernacular culture in the black working class. I think it is what made her voice so unique among her contemporaries, many of whom were trying to know the world from which Lucille emerged, a world much like my own. I was imbibing the poetics of her similar poetic consciousness in the way I took in parental influence, although Lucille was too young to be my mother. She was my elder by fifteen years and more firmly in that Depression era generation of poets we both belong to—poets born between the early to mid-thirties and the early fifties. Born in 1951, I am one of the babies of that group.
Rooted in that vernacular consciousness and endowed with an encompassing intelligence and supremely keen intuition, Lucille was also as originally American as the blues and jazz. She resisted the homage to western tradition with its Athenian origins. In her work, antiquity is African but not Afro-centric. In the distinctness of her poetic project she gave us a black woman's confessional lyric that is as celestial as it is earthbound. She wrote openly of the female body, openly and defiantly, and she wrote about the pressurized space of a black woman as a survivor of childhood trauma. In doing so she gave me a model that would take me two decades to know, and the process of "knowing" is the key to that pressurized space. Lucille was aware of her childhood trauma when we first met. She was thirty-eight at the time.
In her forty-fourth year, her book two-headed woman was published, and she talked with me about her fears. The book had won the Juniper Prize, and the subject was her spirituality, a deeply personal aspect we had discussed many times. We talked about "light" and the voices of the imagination. Early on in our friendship, I had called her once when the shame of being treated like a crazy person had driven me to the depths of depression. Lucille supported me in a conversation I will never forget. She told me stories of friends she knew who shared my struggle, and she told me that I had to persevere, that I would grow and be stronger and wiser one day, stronger and wiser than most people. I still hold to that as faith. When I read her revelations about her own interior in two-headed woman I was amazed and strengthened.
Lucille was conscious of the source of her pain, but it would take years for me to discover mine and come to know deeper dimensions of the importance of knowing her in a mentoring friendship, although neither of us spoke of ourselves that way. When I discovered the root of my pain while in my forties, I often thought back to our Juniper Prize conversation.
Spirituality for her was not about religion. It was about a definite confidence in one's own imagination and consciousness, filled as hers was with a singular intuition.
My own poetry and a tempestuous relationship with a woman from Liberia brought my childhood trauma to my conscious awareness. I was forty-six years old when half memories of being sexually abused as a child and young teenager came into full focus. It was the spring of 1998, and the revelations came from poetry and love, that fundamental faith in life I formed when I was a teenager. I was living with the woman from Liberia. Our intimate life was already filling in the memories when I opened the box of my author's copies of my book Talisman. I began to reexamine my life, including out of body experiences. My childhood began to speak to me in the way Lucille described the voices in her own light, and it was not quite a coincidence that the epigraph that forms the frontispiece of Talisman is from the book of Matthew 6:22-23:
The lamp of the body is the eye. It follows that if your eye
is clear, your whole body will be filled with light. But if your
eye is diseased, your whole body will be darkness. If then,
the light inside you is darkened, what darkness that will be!
In two-headed woman, Lucille's poem about her father comes before the poems about light and knowing. As my revelations about my childhood came to me, I remembered how I had marked two-headed woman as my favorite book of hers. Now that I have her Collected Poems, it is difficult to say which of hers is my favorite book because I hold her entire project as precious. As much as I have included religion in my work, Lucille had helped me to an open and inclusive recovery from the piety of my childhood when she explained spirituality for her was not about religion. It was about a definite confidence in one's own imagination and consciousness, filled as hers was with a singular intuition. So when I employed that epigraph as a frontispiece, I did it in the secular gestures of a poet who had taken Taijiquan as a spiritual strategy, part of my growth away from the repressive aspects of my Baptist upbringing to something more inclusive, an embrace of the Spirit that would, over the years, allow me to have that largeness in my internal container to handle recovery from incest. In my relationship with the woman from Liberia and the publication of Talisman, I would come to understand that my story was that of a favorite maternal uncle, the man who gave me the Appaloosa that appeared in My Father's Geography. However, he was also the uncle who bragged of his sexual exploits with a few hundred women and who has confessed on more than one occasion his misdeeds with children.
When I started practicing Taijiquan in 1978, I told Lucille it helped me feel whole. She gave me a talk that goes right up there on the star list with the grown up tale of a womanizer and the Juniper Prize conversation. We were talking over the phone one day when I gave her the news.
"Michael, I think that is wonderful. All these other people out here are acting crazy, but you are studying Kung fu. I think that is very intelligent."
I was so happy, as happy as a twelve-year-old who got approving remarks for having made the track and field team, which I had failed to do in real time. Nowadays when I think back to how Lucille and I were with each other, I think that she was in many ways my poetry mama. As a poet, she filled a mentoring space my mother did not have the resources to fill, and as a woman, she shared a space a few women mentors occupied for me over the years, not the least of whom was Dr. Valerie Sedlak, my professor in British literature at Morgan for that semester when I tried to finish my degree while working on the packing floors.
Lucille suggested books to me too—most importantly the second edition of An Introduction to Poetry, edited by X.J. Kennedy. She gave me a copy of How Does a Poem Mean by John Ciardi, and that book helped me form a vision of the writing process as being both deliberate and intuitive. I thought of the deliberate as working in stone, and the intuitive as the water, further associations of which took me to Alan Watts' book Tao the Watercourse Way, one of two Daoist texts I was influenced by at the time. The other was a translation of Laozi by Gua Fu Feng with photographs by Jane English. I had already engaged Chinese culture as a way of sustaining my work, of ensuring a way to find my path to my creative process in the midst of all the contradictions in my life as a poet developing in the world of factory work.
Like Lucille, I was both in and out of step with my black poet contemporaries whose origins were in the middle class, and Lucille and I were more rooted, in that way, in the core of the African-American vernacular culture.
In January 1985, I received an NEA and was able to quit my job in the P&G factory. I had managed to write my way out of factory life and become Baltimore's working class hero poet, being featured in the Sunpapers and wined and dined around the city. I did not know the magnitude of my accomplishment, just as I did not know competitiveness as the public face of ambition. I had justified my ambition as my way of handling my disappointment in life, and I was in denial of how a faith in my poetry as gift and the drive to be known appears to other people. When I landed on the board of the Maryland Arts Council serving alongside Lucille, I was unaware of her challenges accepting the laurels that were being heaped on me. My rise seemed meteoric. It arose, as it did, out of the alignment with the aspirational white working class that my upbringing and formal education had created. I studied alongside white working class students and shared their ideas of the possibilities for success in life at Baltimore Polytechnic, a rigorous public high school, and I spent two years at the University of Maryland before dropping out to begin my life as a factory worker. But I did not have their white privilege—I had to work harder. Like Lucille, I was both in and out of step with my black poet contemporaries whose origins were in the middle class, and Lucille and I were more rooted, in that way, in the core of the African-American vernacular culture.
In the years after serving on the Maryland State Arts Council with Lucille, I would learn that generosity and kindness are disciplines that live in the core of my spiritual studies.
After being made the first Elder of Cave Canem in 1998, I occupied the letterhead for a couple of years. Finally, I spoke with Carolyn Micklem, the organization's director at the time. I wanted to maintain my Elder status, but I wanted some company, so I asked if she would invite Lucille to be an Elder, which she did. There we were, the two puffy afros that rode down to the Martin Luther King Jr. Library some twenty years earlier, now occupying the space in a letterhead that had become too lonely for me.
In later years I called her once in awhile, but we had not spoken in over a year. Nonetheless, she was making her transition. About thirty-six hours before she passed away, an idea came to me to post a tribute to her on Facebook, which I did. I had no idea that she was deathly ill. When I got the news I was stunned at first, but that gave way to recognizing that it was the knowing, the communication of imagination and intuition poets sometimes have and which is heightened, I believe, by childhood trauma. The knowing I refer to here is the knowing as she presented it in two-headed woman as she wrote, "my knowing / flutters to the ground." It was the knowing of a cultivated intuition.
Alone, as I drifted into sleep that night after hearing that Lucille had passed, I felt the distinct affirmation of her gift to me, her stately presence embodying that magnificent voice. It was as if she were there, talking to me once again, from the light.
Afaa Michael Weaver is a poet, playwright, and translator born in Baltimore, Maryland. His twelfth collection of poetry, The Government of Nature is forthcoming from University of Pittsburgh Press in 2013. His previous collections include Like the Wind, a translation of his work into Arabic by Wissal Al-Allaq and The Plum Flower Dance (University of Pittsburge Press 2007). His newest play is Berea. He is currently writing his memoir and is a Professor of English at Simmons College in Boston, Massachusetts.
More Afaa Michael Weaver:
Weaver's poems and profile at The Academy of American Poets
Weaver's conversation with Billy Burgos on Clifton's work and life
Find Weaver's books at Powell's
More Lucille Clifton:
Lucille Clifton at the Poetry Foundation
New York Times Obituary for Clifton by Elizabeth Alexander
Carrie Moniz discusses Clifton's "poem to my uterus"
Find Clifton's books at Powell's


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Four health-care reform sessions planned this month
UPDATE: Another, recently scheduled session at City Hall added to this list, bringing total to four. STW
Experts on the Affordable Care Act's provisions will explain the effects of federal health-care reform in four events over the next couple of weeks here that are open to the public.
The educational forums are hosted by separate organizations but all have the goal of providing more details on the sweeping changes included in the Affordable Care Act as its key provisions go into effect next year.
The free events include:
- An informational seminar hosted by the Evans Agency and featuring speakers from Evans and the Harris Beach law firm. The session runs from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. Wednesday in Templeton Landing, 2 Templeton Terrace, Buffalo. Registration is recommended. Contact Pam Sikorski at firstname.lastname@example.com or at 780-8068.
- "ABCs of Health Care," a town-hall meeting sponsored by the Buffalo Common Council and Majority Leader Demone A. Smith, will be held at 5:30 p.m. Thursday in the council chambers, on the 13th floor of City Hall, 65 Niagara Square. Representatives from BlueCross BlueShield of Western New York, Independent Health, Univera Healthcare and Kaleida Health will attend. No registration required. Contact council staff at 851-5105 for further information.
- "Health Care Reform: What does it mean to you?" is the subject of a session hosted by the Buffalo Niagara Partnership from 8 a.m. to 10 a.m. Sept. 17 in its offices, 665 Main St., Suite 200. Panelists include representatives from BlueCross BlueShield, Independent Health, Univera and the Lumsden & McCormick accounting firm. Registration is requested and can be done through this page or by calling Charlene Janiga at 541-1770.
- "The Road Ahead: Launching New York's Health Benefit Exchange" will be held from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. Sept. 17 in the WNED Studios, 140 Lower Terrace, Buffalo. Kyle Kotary, director of
external affairs, outreach and marketing for New York State of Health, and
Elisabeth R. Benjamin, vice president of health initiatives at the Community
Service Society of New York, will speak. Registration is required and can be done by visiting the website of the Health Foundation for Western & Central New York.
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On page 13 of today's Daily Mail there is a story headlined Escort girl linked to Tory donor drops claims of assault. It may not be the concluding episode in this odd saga, because the police are supposedly continuing with their inquiries (why?), but it must surely rank as one of the greatest non-stories of all time.
It all began on 20 December, when this blog was enjoying a short Christmas hibernation, with a baffling Mail on Sunday story, Mystery of a top Tory donor, Lithuanian woman, and 5.30am Belgravia 'assault'.
I was intrigued because I couldn't make head nor tail of it. It told us that police had been called the previous Friday to the home of David Ross, the co-founder of Carphone Warehouse and a Tory party donor.
Outside, they found the Lithuanian, who was not identified. Inside was Ross with his partner, Emma Pilkington. We also learned that they had returned earlier from a party thrown by Matthew Freud, which had been attended by Tory leader David Cameron and Rupert Murdoch.
There was a very formal piece of police jargon... "called to outside an address in London SWl, at approximately 5.30am on December 18, following an allegation of assault by a female victim. Kensington and Chelsea CID are investigating the allegation. There have been no arrests and enquiries continue."
There was some material about neighbours disagreeing over the precise nature of the commotion and a good deal of stuff about Ross's financial affairs and his links to the Conservatives.
But I kept saying to myself as I read through the article: "So what?" No arrests. No evidence of a genuine fracas, despite an intro suggesting the opposite. Lots of innuendo but, surely, no real story.
Then again, I imagined the Mail must know something that, for legal reasons possibly, it could not publish. So I awaited developments.
On 22 December, the Mail carried a front page teaser "Lithuanian blonde WAS an escort girl - and police WILL question Cameron's tycoon pal" and two pages inside under the headline "The sleazy mystery deepens."
No name for the woman but a certainty that she was an escort with poor English who, we learned, was furious at not being paid for her services. By whom? We were not told, but the implication was clear enough because the fracas - now described as "a scuffle" - took place outside Ross's home and he, we were told, was to face a police quiz.
Just as intriguing was an accompanying piece by Stephen Glover, which took Cameron to task for attending Freud's party and even, apparently, for knowing Freud.
Well, I'm not on Freud's Christmas card list, let alone his party invitation list (and he didn't return a phone call I made to him yesterday), so I don't think we can be said to be friends (as we were, briefly, in the 1980s) but I can't see why Cameron should be traduced for turning up to his party. Nor, incidentally, do I share the Mail's obsessive loathing for Freud, but that's a different matter.
Anyway, back to the plot. By now, the Mail's story had woken up two other papers. On Christmas Eve, both the Daily Telegraph and The Times named the woman "at the centre of allegations surrounding an alleged assault at the home of David Ross" as Sniezana Kobeniak.
On Boxing Day, the Mail carried a fuzzy picture of Kobeniak, High life of escort girl who claims she was assaulted at Tory donor David Ross's home.
We were told again about the parties. There were pictures of Ross with Cameron. There was some puzzlement about whether Kobeniak was Lithuanian or Russian. But I kept asking myself: "What's the point? Where's the story?"
It seemed like a double smear, on Ross and on Cameron, without much, if any foundation. Had there really been an assault? If so, by whom? And why? Where was the smoking gun?
But the Mail clearly thought it had the mother and father of a political story. Next day, in the Mail on Sunday, came a piece about Kobeniak's background (married, with a child) plus a run over the old ground about a mysterious fracas.
On 3 January, the Mail carried Kobeniak's tale - told, as tradition demands, though "friends" - about what happened the night of the alleged assault. Said to work under the escort name of Karina Storm, she claimed to have been "booked" by a woman who called her agency, promised £250 and turned up at Ross's house, spending some 20 minutes inside.
She said she was told to leave, offered £50 and, in a following "altercation" (aka fracas), her £500 Burberry coat was torn. Then, yet again, we were informed about the Freud party and the following Ross party, and the fact that Cameron attended the first... blah, blah, blah.
Even in accepting the woman's word, I was still baffled by the story's import. What was the justification for the pages devoted to it?
Reading between the lines, we imagine that in a moment of high-spirited silliness, an escort girl was summoned to a party and then asked to leave. She, naturally enough, didn't share the joke and there was a row in which (again, accepting her word) her coat was torn. So what?
In what way does that reflect badly on Cameron (who wasn't there)? And even if Ross and his friends did something foolish during a prte-Christmas party, where's the real harm?
But perhaps the Mail (and, possibly, the police) knew something altogether more sinister. Along with The Times and the Telegraph, it ran a story on 5 January about Ross being questioned by police.
Kobeniak disappeared from view for a couple of days until a provocative picture of her popped up in this weekend's News of the World. And then came today's news of Kobeniak withdrawing her assault claim, faithfully reported also in The Times and the Telegraph.
Where, then, did all this flammed-up nonsense get us? Answer: nowhere. I'm not certain who the real target was - Ross or Cameron, possibly both. But there appears to be no point whatsoever in having run the story in the first place.
Of course, the police might conceivably charge Ross, though the withdrawal of the assault complaint is a rather large hole in their case (if there is any case anyway). What a waste of time and space.


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I like Bennett's talent. He had arguably (alone with McClemore) the most upside in the draft. He wasn't a great fit, but I can never fault a team for going for the home run. This Cavs team has a lot of talent. Going to be interesting to see how they build it. As for the Wolves, they got a nice team and all. But their upside is a one and done playoff team. I just don't Love as someone that can take a team all that far. But if someone like Shabazz or D. Williams steps up, I guess you never know.
What they need is somebody in the perimeter who can make his own shot under pressure, and some long range shooting. Shabazz has the tools for that role, but we don't know if he's a star in the making or somebody who will just look for his own shot at the cost of chemistry.
The Timberwolves, the Cavs, and The Wizards are the most interesting borderline-playoffs for next year, i will keep tabs on them.
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SAN FRANCISCO Analog Devices Inc. (ADI) said Wednesday (Dec. 20) it has filed a patent infringement suit against Silicon Laboratories Inc. in U.S. District Court in Boston.
ADI's suit alleges that Silicon Labs' Si84xx family of products infringe multiple U.S. patents addressing physical construction and signaling techniques related to ADI's iCoupler digital isolation products. ADI further alleges that Silicon Labs' product datasheets infringe the copyright on ADI datasheets for the iCoupler products. The complaint seeks unspecified damages and a court-ordered injunction against future infringement by Silicon Labs.
In a statement, Margaret Seif, ADI vice president and general counsel, said the company has been awarded more than 10 patents in the area of isolation components. "We started investing in this technology in 1997 and began selling products based upon it in 2001," Seif said. "We are taking this action today to protect our intellectual property and our investment."
ADI (Norwood, Mass.) said it has corresponding patent applications related to its digital isolation products pending in several other countries.


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The resort stands out nicely with its African theme and has constantly added new attractions throughout the past decade, from bigger thrills in water park rides to its newer indoor theme park. The indoor water park is Kalahari's claim to fame and a top draw in an area so dense with resorts, theme parks and entertainment.
What else makes Kalahari stand out? For one, size. There are 752 rooms and suites to accommodate families of all sizes. For kids, ... more it's all about the fun, including the 125,000-square-foot indoor water park, the 77,000-square-foot outdoor water park, and the 110,000-square-foot indoor theme park that opened in 2008. There are enough activities and things to see that the resort can feel like a dry-land cruise ship. African music spills out from the lobby where staff members dressed in safari gear and pith helmets assist guests and real tiger or lion cubs may be on display in a glass enclosure.
There is a paint-your-own-pottery shop, gift stores and seven dining options including a restaurant overlooking the water park. You don't have to go outdoors either to access the 15-screen Desert Star Cinema. All these amenities make Kalahari an ideal resort for kids 6 and older. Little ones would have plenty to do, but older children can better appreciate the African atmosphere and artwork, can navigate longer halls without "Carry me!" tirades, and enjoy the bigger thrills of the water park and theme park.
If you're on a budget, be wary. There are countless ways to blow it with photo purchases available at every thrill ride, booths with fanciful hair braids and tattoos, arcade games throughout the theme park, pay-per-view movies (and no ability to hook your own DVD player to the TV). There also are plenty of edible temptations such as picture-perfect caramel apples and creative, unique treats at The Sweet Hut. Keep in mind additional fees, too, such as indoor theme park passes, the daily resort fee for general amenities and additional fees for crib or rollaway rentals.
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Page France and the Family Telephone
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While I was instantly hooked by Hello, Dear Wind, Page France's newest album took me a little time to warm up to. …and the Family Telephone is just as catchy but in a bizarre kind of way and not like the simple, immediate tunes of the previous album. Now that I've had it for a few weeks though, I can easily see it as another indie pop masterpiece. The instrumentation here is improved (the days where an acoustic guitar and bells will do the trick have gone), now we're getting piano, synths, trumpets, and glockenspiels which all add to the warm sunshiney sound that exhibits all the qualities of a spring day. Whitney McGraw's harmonies are used much more and that's definitely a good thing.
Honestly, the Christian symbolism is one of the things I liked about Hello, Dear Wind and at first listen it seemed that the pressure had gotten to the band and they dropped that aspect. Now, after closer examination, I can see that it's there, it's just not as blatant (which is for the better I suppose). Wheareas, in "Chariot", Nau was looking forward to the Rapture it seems now that at least some of the songs focus on the past, as in Garden of Eden. As the story goes, Adam and Eve live in a garden with a bunch of animals and then they eat an apple they're not suppose to, lie about it, and this brings sin into the world. On the album, the story is referenced to highlight Nau's own imperfections (often referred to as being "crooked") as well as how bad habits are passed down the family tree (see "Belly in the Fish").
The story is brought to it's fullest light on the song Mr. Violin and Dancing Bear which happens to be my favorite on the album. The song starts off which a free-spirited, joyful protagonist who laughs and plays with a violin and a dancing bear ("I was sore from all the laughing"), but hints that the fun might not last. Eventually the character, realizes that he has a crooked tooth that keeps his lips from truth which makes him even crooked-er. As the song picks up to an over-exuberant bounce, Nau relates this to himself with the chorus, " But the rings in-between the old family tree / Are crooked for you as they are crooked for me / You get what you get when you bite from the tree / A crooked-er you and a crooked-er me".
Much of the album seems like Nau is taking the opportunity to take the halo off his head, in Ruby Ring Man he states he would "kiss the devil's cheek to get this halo off of me" obviously trying to get away from the good Christian boy stereotype. I say don't be so hard on yourself, as you make so clear on the album, nobody's perfect.
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I fixed this on my computer by booting from the Windows CD and choosing Repair and restoring to an earlier time. Choosing any safe mode would just cause the computer to reboot. I had an error the restore didn't work but upon reboot it infact did work. I then used other programs to delete any leftover files. There were alot in the Temp file.
I was on google looking at pictures of Toyota Tacoma's and I got this (I think it had to do with Java so I no longer have it installed).
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After great wailing and gnashing of teeth I managed to get my guest profile changed to an admin profile. then went to another pc and downloaded malware of different types. not sure which one got it but I'm now on my pc and it is seeming to be ok. I will take it to a friend who has more voodoo than I do and have him ops check everything
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Which country is Barack Obama President of again? I'm a little confused on this. I mean, a U.S. President is, after all, tasked with protecting the rights of Americans. How does a guy who blames Americans for violent actions of another country and calls for limitations on American rights actually upholding his oath to office?
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"Most of the guns used to commit violence here in Mexico come from the United States," President Obama said during a speech at Mexico's Anthropology Museum. "I think many of you know that in America, our Constitution guarantees our individual right to bear arms. And as president, I swore an oath to uphold that right, and I always will."
"But at the same time, as I've said in the United States, I will continue to do everything in my power to pass common-sense reforms that keep guns out of the hands of criminals and dangerous people. That can save lives here in Mexico and back home in the United States. It's the right thing to do," Obama added.
It's also interesting that Obama is in Mexico calling for immigration reform.
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Has any one had experience of AJP motorcycles.?
THERE are made in portugal and use great suspensions and low maintice air cooled engine
great for weekend enduro riders
Thank you i think their going water cooled for 2013.?
You can check this test that is in english. Most of the articles I found are in portuguese.
i try to short ride a AJP PR4 200 (and love it)


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I don't think it was Westerners who taught Taiwanese to put factories beside rice fields, no siree. Nor is anything stopping Taiwanese changing the law but no, 2012, its still acceptable.
Not all Westerners have the same background , for instance we completely by-passed the industrial revolution where I am from. These types of comparisons are not of any use.
In fact Chinese have their own types of industrial production going back 100s of years , for example the porcelain industry that exported to Europe.


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…Susan Brink, writing in the LA Times (Feb 4, 2008), says Heath Ledger's tragic death has brought up the subject of keeping sleeping pills too handy.
…Just because you see drugs on TV, doesn't mean they are safe, according to one spokesperson.
…Unintentional poisonings—pharmaceuticals, over the counters, herbals, and alcohol all combining--can put you out! Any single one may seem OK—but you can't "layer."
…"There is no absolutely safe medicine!" one authority said.
…It's easy to make mistakes at night when you are half asleep. Did you take one or not?
…Never, ever take a prescription sleep aid and then later, an over-the-counter one. This is especially dangerous.
…Everything you take can boost the effects of everything else. Sleeping pills, antidepressants, and alcohol all depress the central nervous system—do that enough and you stop breathing. Game over.
…Or if you are on an antihistamine and drink a glass of wine, and you may not be fit to drive.
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Lazying around in sweats has a certain homebody-appeal, but hitting the streets requires a little more polish — even if it is Winter. If you fear it can't be done, these 15 street stylers are a testament to the contrary. This inspiring set proves that with the right layers, slick bottoms, and cool toppers, your style needn't suffer — no matter how low the temperature dips. Click on for the worthy inspiration and the stylish know-how we've garnered from each.
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Makhachkala, RUSSIA, 2012 - Election day for the Russian presidential elections in Makhachkala, the capital of Dagestan in the North Caucasus. During our tour of the city, only polling station #1093 refused to let us in. Otherwise, we were welcomed everywhere with open arms (after we had wrestled our way through a cordon of heavily armed police officers at every entrance). All the polling stations had a similar layout: a place for the head and the secretary, a row of tables for the administrators and a row of tables for the monitors. There was often also a canteen stocked with an enormous number of sandwiches, which to our surprise no one ate. Over the course of the day we visited 16 polling stations..


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An Andover public school teacher was arrested and charged with sexually assaulting a new Hampshire child, according to several news outlets.
Stratham, N.H. police told CBS Boston that Darrell Keene, 40, of Haverhill, was arrested in Andover on Monday. He's being held without bail until a June 19 court appearance, according to CBS Boston.
Keene is a teacher at West Middle School in Andover. According to the Andover Townsman, School Superintendent Marinel McGrath emailed a statement to West parents Tuesday morning.
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"I am writing to tell you that yesterday afternoon, at approximately 3:40 pm, after school had ended, a West Middle School employee was arrested by police on school property based on a warrant issued in New Hampshire on allegations involving a child. The employee was immediately placed on administrative leave."
McGrath stressed that no Andover students were involved in the allegations, and that the school system is cooperating with the Stratham Police Department during the investigation, wrote the Statesman.
In a statement reported by Seacoast Online, Stratham Police said the initial contact between Keene and the juvenile occurred on the internet.
In a statement released on Tuesday, Stratham police say that based on a complaint they recently "began an investigation into an incident where it is alleged that a local New Hampshire juvenile was contacted by an adult over the Internet. Subsequent to that contact, it is alleged that the adult perpetrated a sexual assault against the juvenile in New Hampshire."


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Sitting at Sue Truluck's dining room table on any given day, a person is likely to hear a grandchild dribbling a basketball or giggling in the backyard while the smell of pecan pie fills the room with an appetizing aroma.
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Guests can see the refrigerator door covered from top to bottom with pictures of Truluck's husband, Don, her three children, Scott, 38, Suzanne, 35 and Michael, 33, and her eight grandchildren, Gracy, 5, Jonathan, 7, Chase, 9, Luke, 6, Ana, 3, Jacqueline, 7, Lauren Grey, 4, and LeAnna, 3.
''My dream has always been to be a homemaker and a mother. That's all I ever wanted to do. I'm blessed now to have three wonderful children and eight beautiful grandchildren,'' she said.
Truluck was born and raised in Jackson County. When she was 12, little did she know the day her elder brother brought home one of his friends he would become the person she would marry.
''We'd known each other for six years, but I never thought I'd end up with him,'' she said. Apparently, she always had a crush on Don Truluck, but since he was six years older, she didn't think she had a chance to be his girlfriend.
However, after he graduated from high school, he went into the U.S. Air Force. By the time he returned, she was a senior in high school. The pair met again in May and by August, they were married.
''It helped, of course, that we'd known one another when we were growing up,'' Truluck explained. Otherwise, Truluck explained, she would have taken more time to get to know him. In August, they will celebrate their 40th wedding anniversary.
After her husband finished his engineering degree at the University of Georgia and Gainesville College, they moved from Jefferson to Atlanta in 1963 where he took an engineering job at Southern Bell, now BellSouth. They stayed only a year.
Truluck was transferred to the Athens branch of Southern Bell. He retired in 1995.
''We moved to Oconee County because - if you can believe it - at that time, the property was cheaper than (property) was in Athens,'' she said.
The Trulucks moved into the first subdivision to be built in Oconee County, Lake Forrest, which has been extensively developed since they moved there in the 1970s.
Now, the subdivision has grown into what seems to be a large horseshoe, with more than 150 houses, four major streets, and three cul-de-sacs. During the year she lived in Atlanta, Truluck yearned for the small-town feeling in which she was raised.
''Oconee County also just (had) a homey feeling. We (got) to know people so much better. It's like having one big family. Also, the traffic in Atlanta is horrible.''
However, Truluck mentioned Butler's Crossing is beginning to remind her of Atlanta traffic. Truluck remembers when the Butler family used to own the little white house on the corner where the Butler's Crossing Shopping Center is today.
''That corner used to be a four-way stop, where all you had to do was slow down,'' she said.
As their kids grew into school-aged children, Truluck decided to become a paraprofessional so she could be closer to her children.
''I had taken a secretarial course from Gainesville College while my husband was attending the school,'' she explained. She worked as a paraprofessional and as an office secretary from 1980 through 1997, and then retired.
''I enjoyed working with all of the children,'' she said.
Truluck's hobbies include crafting, cooking and reading the Bible.
''I love quilting, but I've done everything as a crafter from china painting, crocheting and I hope to get more into water color and acrylics during my next endeavor. I have a very good life, and I'm very blessed. I wouldn't change it,'' she said.
Truluck was generous enough to share with the Athens Banner-Herald a recipe her mother-in-law gave her. However, over the years, Truluck tweaked the recipe in the baking part of the process a bit to satisfy her own taste buds. The recipe is for pecan pie, and apparently, her family loves the pie. They ask her to make it every time they're visiting.
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2 cups finely chopped pecans
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Whipped cream, maraschino cherries and vanilla ice cream for topping are optional.
Place eggs, syrup, vanilla, salt, pecans and margarine in big bowl and stir until mixed thoroughly. Divide and place mixed ingredients evenly in the two pie crusts. Bake at 400 degrees for 10 minutes, and then reduce the heat to 250 degrees, and let bake for 3 hours. Cool, and enjoy with toppings such as whipped cream, maraschino cherries or vanilla ice cream.
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University of Toronto Mississauga, Dept. of Anthropology
How did the lives of people and rice become intertwined and combined with other organisms such as peach, water chestnut, pig, and dog to develop one of the most important agricultural traditions in the world? We'll travel to a region just south of Shanghai to explore archaeological discoveries of villages and towns whose people made extraordinary technological and ecological innovations beginning about 11,000 years ago and learn what these innovations were and why they may have developed where and when they did. Can we learn anything from these societies relevant to our lives today?
Gary W. Crawford, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, is a Professor of Anthropology at the University of Toronto Mississauga, Canada. His interests lie in ancient human ecology and span two continents: North America and East Asia. He pioneered research on the relationships between plants and people (palaeoethnobotany) in Ontario and Japan in the 1970s and early 1980s and helped start palaeoethnobotanical research in China in the late 1990s. His current research focuses on agricultural origins and development in Ontario and China and the extent to which ancient people changed the environment in which they lived. He has published two textbooks, hosted a television series on archaeology for TVOntario, and has published widely in journals such as Antiquity, PLOS One, PNAS, Nature, Current Anthropology, American Antiquity, and The Holocene. He currently has a federally funded research grant to investigate the earliest agricultural society in the Yangtze basin, China.
Dr. Julie Thorpe
University of Ontario Institute of Technology
Passwords are a bane to our online existence: they protect our most sensitive information, but we are so overwhelmed with the sheer number of them that many of us resort to insecure practices. This talk will raise awareness of the threats to passwords, strategies you can use to help protect yourself, and our research at UOIT to improve password security and usability.
Dr. Julie Thorpe is an Associate Professor at the University of Ontario Institute of Technology (UOIT). Prior to joining UOIT, she worked in the field of IT security for 8 years. She has served on the program committee for various international computer security conferences including ACM CCS, USENIX Security, ACSAC, PST, ACM SPSM, and NSPW. Her research interests include authentication, biometrics, human factors, usability, security policy, software security, and operating system security. Her research has been featured in various media outlets, including Wired magazine, Popular Science, Slashdot, BBC World News, The New York Times, CBC's Ottawa Morning Show, and the Toronto Star.
2016 Fleming Medal and Citation
Join us Tuesday, November 15th for an evening celebrating excellence in science communication as we honour IvanSemeniuk, with the 2016 Fleming Medal and Citation from the Royal Canadian Institute for Science (RCIScience). The award recognizes Ivan's outstanding contributions to the public understanding of science.
The ceremony will be followed with a talk by Ivan entitled A Canary in the Cathedral, where Ivan reveals his favourite stories as a science communicator, broadcaster and journalist and considers the future of the profession in Canada.
Ivan has been an instructor/researcher at the Ontario Science Centre, Producer/columnist at Discovery Channel Canada, senior correspondent with two of the highest-impact science publications in the world (Nature and New Scientist), writer/host of the TV series Cosmic Vistas, for the last three years as science reporter for the Globe and Mail, "Canada's national newspaper", through numerous freelance articles, conference presentations, workshops, and public lectures, and through his on-line presence.
Doors open at 7pm. Ceremony beings at 7:30. Reception to follow the talk.
The OSIRIS REx spacecraft has an ambitious mission – to travel to an asteroid, land, grab some samples and return. How difficult was it to plan a mission like this? What can we hope to learn about our own past by studying these ancient citizens of the solar system?
Dr. Michael Daly, Lassonde School of Engineering, contributed to the OSIRIS REx Mission and will give us an overview of what it hopes to achieve, as well as the Canadian angle. York University Research Chair in Planetary Science, Dr. Daly's research interests focus on answering a variety of planetary science questions using custom instrumentation in the laboratory or in-situ. Dr. Daly is currently leading the science contribution of Canada's OSIRIS-REx Laser Altimeter that was launched in September. He also works in the area of deep-UV Raman spectroscopy and is currently building a multi-million dollar planetary surface simulation facility. Mike is also the Undergraduate Program Director for York's unique Space Engineering Program. Prior to joining York University, he led the engineering of Canada's first instruments to operate on Mars and the design of the cameras in the International Space Station's Dextre robot's end-effectors.
Dr. Jonathan D Schertzer
McMaster University
What are the underlying mechanisms controlling metabolism and how do these contribute to the link between Obesity and Type 2 Diabetes? Hear how research has uncovered a role for stress and inflammation in metabolic diseases, and how exercise and commonly used medications for type 2 diabetes create glucose lowering effects. Hear about a newly-discovered role for bacteria and the "microbiome" relates to obesity and blood sugar levels.
Dr. Jonathan Schertzer is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biochemistry and Biomedical Sciences at McMaster University. He completed a BSc and MSc at the University of Waterloo. He completed his PhD in 2007 at The University of Melbourne (Australia). He then did postdoctoral work in the Cell Biology Program with Dr. Amira Klip at The Hospital for Sick Children (Toronto). He holds Canadian Diabetes Association Scholar and Canadian Institutes of Health Research New Investigator awards. His research is focussed on how nutrients, bacteria and drugs trigger inflammation and changes in blood glucose during obesity.
Dr. Stephen Morris & Pueblo Science
Icicles are harmless and picturesque winter phenomena, familiar to anyone who lives in a cold climate. The shape of an icicle emerges from a subtle "chicken and egg" feedback. Ice formation is controlled by how the water flows over the shape of the icicle. But the shape that the ice grows depends on how the water flows. Ideal icicles are predicted to have a universal "platonic" shape, independent of growing conditions. In addition, many natural icicles exhibit a ripply shape. The wavelength of the ripples is also remarkably independent of the growing conditions. Similar shape and ripple phenomena are also observed on stalactites in caves, although certain details of their formation differ. Dr. Stephen Morris from the University of Toronto Physics Department built a laboratory icicle growing machine to explore icicle physics and learned what it takes to make a platonic icicle and the surprising origin of the ripples.
Make this Sunday a family affair and bring children of all ages as Pueblo Science will simultaneously be providing chilly hands-on winter activities outside.
Pueblo Science is a Toronto-based registered charity working to advance science education in low-resource communities. By sparking an interest in science at an early age, Pueblo Science aims to jump-start fundamental changes in social attitudes about science and to help young students understand the impact of human activity on environment, health, and communities.
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We have a spare bedroom with a queen size bed in a family home in the resort town of Shediac NB, only minutes away to the most popular beaches in Atlantic Canada. Also close to the city of Moncton where shopping, restos and public transport. Confederation bridge to Prince Edward Island is less than 45 minutes away and the port city of Halifax is 2 1/2 hours away. The highest tides in the world are an hour away at Hopewell Rocks. Feel free to use the kitchen while you are here and you would have your own full bathroom with shower.
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Lets not beat about the bush here, Playstation All-Stars Battle Royale is Super Smash Bros, just instead of a Nintendo line-up, it's all about Sony's heroes. Those smart enough to subscribe to PS+ have now been given access to the game's Beta. This gives players the option to play online, with or without local co-op, and allows you to sample six of the All-Stars and a couple of arenas.
If you have played Super Smash Bros, or seen any of the All-Star gameplay videos, then you will know what this game is all about. You take four All-Stars, throw them together in a Sony-themed arena and let them duke it out. Each character has three attack buttons, and depending on which way you are holding the left stick, each will perform a different action. For example, hold up on the left stick while pressing one of the buttons will cause your hero to perform an uppercut style of attack.
You can also jump and perform attack moves as well, along with using the right stick to perform throws. It means that this really does feel like a brawl, as there are over 15 attack actions for each All-Star. It also means that any novice can pick this game up and have a blast, but those who wish to master the game will find enough depth to make this a keeper. The Beta does have a tutorial section, to let you get to grips with the combat.
There are also special moves for all of the All-Stars. As you perform attacks you fill up a bar at the bottom of the screen. There are three tiers of special moves, you can activate tier one once you have filled the bar once (R2), which unleashes a mild special move. Or, you can save it until you fill the meter up a second or third time to even more powerful moves. If you save up to unlock the third tier, you will be greeted with a cut scene which shows your All-Star powering up.
Then it really is clobbering time. So, if you level up Kratos to third tier and then activate the special move, Kratos grows to his 'God of War' giant size and then proceeds to lay waste to anyone in his path. After a set period of time, the battle ends and the winning team is revealed. I can only guess that the scoring is done behind the scenes, as there are no visual indicators during the game that show you which team is winning.
The six characters available at the moment are Parappa The Rapper, Sly Cooper, Sweet Tooth, Kratos, Fat Princess and Radec. However, it very much seems that Kratos is incredibly over powered. Most of his moves are fast and have good range, and I guess out of all of the Beta All-Stars, he is the one that is most suited to melee combat. This means that nearly everyone online is using him. Quite a few of the matches I played ended up having both of the opponents on the other team using Kratos. If either myself or my co-op partner picked Kratos as well, there would be three of them on screen. That can then become rather difficult. Still, each All-Star has the player's PSN ID below them, so that does help a little to clear up any confusion.
The Arenas also make things interesting. Each level is designed around different Playstation games and will change during the course of the battle. One of the levels in the Beta is the God of War Stage. This starts with Hades in the background, causing havoc to the players by either destroying parts of the arena, or by slinging his Chains of Death at them. However, after a little time the stage starts to change and introduces other PS stars. It really is funny when, after Hades has been throwing his weight around, the Patapon guys start to invade the stage and you can hear the familiar "Pata Pata Pon" sounds.
As I mentioned at the top of this article, this game is a Super Smash Bros clone. But don't take that as a bad thing, those games were popular for a reason. With the stars that Sony have in their stable and the arena design, this game could well become just as popular. The combat is fast and fun, and by allowing both online and co-op mixed action, this game will be great for playing when you have friends 'round, because it doesn't matter if you have never played before. But as usual with Sony, this game could live or die by how they choose to market it. Coming out in an already busy period of the year, Sony would do well by making this game their "must have" this Winter.


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Google Currents has a fair share of competition in terms of similar apps. And one thing that Google can say for Currents is that is has been updated as of today. Google Currents version 2.0 has recently found its way into Google Play. The app remains as it has — available for free and with support for devices running Android 2.2 or later.
More important here, Currents 2.0 has brought some new and improved features. For one, the app now has support for some gestures. You will be able to swipe vertically or horizontally. Google is referring to these as a "fast scan." Rather simply, the vertical swipe will allow you to scan an edition and a horizontal swipe will advance to the next edition.
Another notable addition is the editions sidebar. This gives access to your editions, but does so within categories. This will mean easier access to categories such as World, Entertainment, Sports and Science. And nicely done, these come customized based on your country and language. You can also filter out sections with the "customize" option.
Otherwise, Currents 2.0 has added a new catalog design, a new widget, the ability to star stories for later reading, the ability to have already read stories hidden and breaking stories which are ranked by Google News with links to the full story. All said and done, this appears to be a worthwhile update.
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My history with Transcending CSS
In 2006/early 2007 I read this amazing book. I was half way through my first year studying Digital Design, and I'd only been experimenting with standards-based web design for about six months after reading Web Standards Solutions.
I was already well on my way to being a standards fiend, but Transcending CSS by Andy Clarke did, literally, transcend the standards and made me utterly mad about pushing the boundaries of CSS.
Transcending CSS covered properties I'd never heard of before, like z-index, and Andy Clarke wrote it with such complete conviction that you couldn't argue with his points for progressive enhancement. I read it twice over and kept it on my desk for about two years. My only issue was that there wasn't any index, so I wrote my own contents for the frequently-referenced pages in the front of the book in pencil.
Anticipating Hardboiled Web Design
In the early days of Transcending CSS, I wasn't on Twitter and I didn't much follow the 'industry' around web design. I wasn't really sure who Andy Clarke was, I just knew that he wrote this book I really liked.
Three years later and I'm a full time freelance designer, always on Twitter, and always trying to keep up with the latest and greatest in the most practical way possible. When Hardboiled Web Design was announced by Five Simple Steps, I'll admit I was pretty excited. I loved A Practical Guide to Designing For The Web (also by Five Simple Steps) which only made me keener.
I followed all of Andy's tweets about #hardboiledwebdesign so I knew what to expect from the book. As I'm now following the goings-on of HTML5 and CSS3 a lot closer, I knew it probably wouldn't have the same appeal as my wow-this-is-what-the-web-can-really-do awe of Transcending CSS, but it still didn't disappoint.
Hardboiled Web Design
The book is predictably well-written. It's not too formal, not overly-instructional and very friendly. That's already an improvement on the majority of books about web development. Sometimes the tone is a bit scary-in-a-good-way, you can really tell how much Andy cares about pushing the web forward.
The book is themed around detective stories. I found the detective novel references a bit much at times, but that's because I've never read any (not that I wouldn't, I just haven't!) It started to feel a bit like an in-joke I wasn't a part of, but did make for lovely illustrations and content examples.
Worth it for the inspiration alone
The first quarter of the book is dedicated to telling you why you bother with new innovations in web development. You're loaded with ways to persuade your clients or bosses to go along with it too. If you've been um-ing and ah-ing about using HTML5 or CSS3 then this chapter is for you. Even if you haven't, like I hadn't, it's really valuable to have someone else put forward the arguments in an easy-to-understand way.
HTML5, CSS3 and the rest
The HTML5 and CSS3 examples are great. I found some of the CSS a bit hard to follow through reading alone, as not every code example had an accompanying image to illustrate it, but it was great to read in front of a text editor. As soon as you try out the examples in the book yourself, it all becomes much clearer.
What really was the big thing for me was the inclusion of microformats. I've been working with microformats for a couple of years and I'm smitten. Anything that helps me write better, more semantic, more useful markup is my thing. It's really good to see microformats getting the attention and explanation they deserve. Andy does them justice and gives some really useful examples, especially on combining different specifications.
Different formats
I bought the bundle package from Five Simple Steps that included the book itself, a PDF version (available for instant download) and a poster.
I liked the idea of having the PDF for reading using iBooks on my iPhone and iPad. This was a bit of an issue, as the PDF has the same layout as the book itself, including very wide margins. This made for easy reading at full size on my mac, slightly eye-straining use on my iPad and a right nightmare on the iPhone. To read the text on iPhone, you have to zoom about a lot. Alongside constant scrolling to read the full width in the page, it's not the most comfortable reading experience.
I don't necessarily think it should have been designed for these small devices! I'm just saying that I wouldn't buy the PDF if iPhone usage (or even iPad, really) was what you had in mind.
No index again!
Again, the biggest issue for me was the absence of an index. With a book so full of useful examples, I'm constantly flicking through trying to find the example I remembered from the first read. Having the PDF is useful, as you can use a search function to find what you're looking for, but fiddling about opening PDF files isn't really for me when I could just grab the book from next to my desk. So, I've gone back to the old-school and have started sticking postits in as bookmarks. I like the idea that it looks like a much-loved textbook!
Should you buy Hardboiled Web Design?
Absolutely, without a doubt, yes.
Alongside HTML5 For Web Designers, I think that Hardboiled Web Design would go a very long way to prepare a web designer (designer-developer) for all these amazing new technologies.
Not only do you get the low-down on how to use it, you get the most important arguments of why and when that seem to be holding so many designers back.


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