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Dispatchers get earful of Maplewood burglars' plans
There's a new rule for would-be burglars: don't dial 911 while you're casing the joint.
With today's smartphones able to dial 911 with a touch of the screen, emergency dispatchers spend a lot of time picking up calls from toddlers and "pocket dialers." They generally try to call the number back to check on the caller's safety.
But in this case, after hearing a few words of conversation, dispatchers kept listening -- and alerted Maplewood police there might be trouble.
'If it goes off...'
Ramsey County dispatchers received a 911 call at 4:44 a.m. April 1 and heard a voice say "If it goes off they are right across the street" before the call was cut off.
Theorizing the voice might have talking about a security alarm and locating the phone signal as coming from the 1900 block of County Road D in Maplewood -- mainly a strip of businesses -- dispatchers contacted police to have officers check out the situation.
The first officers on the scene reported two men wearing dark clothing were seen coming out of the Larsen's Auto/Meineke Car Care Center building; one was carrying a television set and the other had a box.
Told by officers to stop, the pair reportedly dropped the items and ran east, into the fenced area around an apartment building.
Police dogs were sent in to apprehend the men.
Todd Joseph Weiss, 32, of Minnetonka and Justin Grant Evans, 38, of Savage were each charged with third-degree burglary, a felony, by the Ramsey County Attorney's Office April 8.
The charge carries a maximum sentence of five years in prison, a $10,000 fine or both.
Following his apprehension, Weiss was taken to Regions Hospital for injuries to his left arm; he reportedly refused to make a statement after being read his rights.
Evans was also taken to Regions, so medical personnel could look at injuries to his upper left back and investigate his claim that he'd taken 15 Xanax. He reportedly denied being in the car-care building, instead insisting he was behind the apartment building having sex with his girlfriend.
At Larsen Auto, police found a door had been pried open and the owner identified the items dropped outside as belonging to the business, as well as an Apple computer that had not been located.
In the charging documents, the county attorney states that both men have "substantial criminal histories including numerous convictions for burglary."
— Holly Wenzel


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Using an augmented reality app and a 3D rendering of the TARDIS's interior (as it appeared between 2005 and 2010), tech writer Greg Kumparak took an already-impressive model of The Doctor's time&spacecraft and endowed it with perhaps its most commented-upon feature: an impossibly spacious interior.
I've spent the last few months tinkering with all sorts of little projects in an effort to learn to build awesome things. Most of the projects were intended to be scrapped from the get-go, meant primarily to help me wrap my head around some concept – brain fodder, if you will. With others, I was testing the water with ideas I might want to flesh out into proper ventures down the road.
With a few of'em, I was just putting things I'd learned together for the sake of just making something cool, viability be damned. This is one of those.
I built a TARDIS. With the help of some augmented reality trickery, it's bigger on the inside (as any proper TARDIS should be.)
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Motorola's divide-to-conquer strategy, announced Wednesday by CEO Greg Brown, may give the beleaguered handset maker the opportunity to right its leaking ship.
What it doesn't do is change the fundamentals the iconic Schaumburg, Ill., communications company faces in an increasingly globalized and competitive mobile-device market. And it leaves the door open for up-and-coming handset makers to make their move.
"Motorola today is in the same situation it was in yesterday," said Carmi Levy, senior VP for strategic consulting at AR Communications. "It lacks a viable product map and continues to lose market share to competing vendors that are consistently bringing better products to market."
Having not produced a hit mobile phone since the Razr, introduced in 2004, Motorola has seen its share price decline 45% in the last 12 months. Brown, who took over after Ed Zander resigned early this year, is splitting the company into two divisions: the struggling mobile phone business and its broadband and mobility solutions unit, which includes enterprise wireless networks, connected home systems, and broadband network gear, including WiMax technology. While the handset division has faltered, slipping behind Samsung to fall to No. 3 worldwide in terms of sales, the broadband and mobility unit has enjoyed strong growth in recent quarters.
Revenue from Motorola's enterprise mobility solutions division, which sells wireless networking gear to businesses, jumped 43% to $7.7 billion in the most recent quarter, and its operating profit reached $1.2 billion.
One of the benefits of creating an independent, publicly traded handset company is that the enterprise business will no longer be tied to the flailing beast of the mobile phone unit, said Ellen Daley, a senior analyst at Forrester Research.
"The attention that the mobile devices business commands both in company attention and financials does not allow their broadband and mobility solutions units to grow fully and get the corporate attention they deserve," Daley said in an e-mail. "And it's a very different business than making phones that consumers buy."
For Motorola's competitors, the news of the split probably looks like chum in the water. Nokia, which now has a dominant 40% market share in global mobile phones, "is in an ideal position to dictate the direction of the market as it continues its transition away from commodity voice-focused handsets toward more feature-rich converged devices," said Levy.
And Samsung, whose recent growth has come at the expense of Motorola, can focus on its product strategy of bringing to market a stream of fashion-forward devices -- a niche that Motorola once occupied. Samsung previewed its new ultrathin G810 slider phone at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, in February.
"What a celebration if you are a competitor," added Daley. "I think if you are Nokia and Samsung, you put your sights on the North American market and grab as much as you can."
In fact, one of the ripple effects of the Motorola announcement likely will be the continued ascendance of Asian device makers, some of which began life as OEMs for better-known Western brands. Along with Samsung, Chinese device-makers HTC and UTStarcom are expected to show off ambitious new mobile phone lineups at the CTIA Wireless show in Las Vegas next week.


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A Simple Example
The code in Listing One is serial code. It is simple and has no traps: Given one array of
BusStops and one of
Houses (both containing coordinates), we want to determine the closest bus stop to each house. If there are many houses and bus stops: Depending on the implementation of
FindNearestBusStop, the runtime of this function can take up to several hours or more.
Listing One
// Global bus stop data typedef struct { float x, y; // ... }oneBusStop; oneBusStop *BusStops; int BusStopCount; // Global house data typedef struct { float x, y; int BusStop; // ... }oneHouse; oneHouse *Houses; int houseCount; int FindNearestBusStop(oneHouse *theHouse) { int i = 0; // Find nearest of all entries in BusStops // ... return i; // index in BusStops array } void FindBusStopsForAllHouses() { int i; for(i = 0; i < houseCount; i++) Houses[i].BusStop = FindNearestBusStop(&Houses[i]); }
If we make sure that
FindNearestBusStop does not modify any input data, parallelization of the loop is straightforward: We just divide the array of houses into four slices and assign each of those slices to a thread (Listing Two), using the Windows threading API. This kind of parallelized partition of work will scale very well with the number of processors.
Listing Two
DWORD WINAPI FindBusStops(void * threadData) { int i; startData *data = (startData*) threadData; for(i = data->first; i <= data->last; i++) Houses[i].BusStop = FindNearestBusStop(&Houses[i]); return 0; } #define THREAD_COUNT 4 //normally not hard-coded, but detected at run time int noOfThreads = THREAD_COUNT; void FindBusStopsForAllHouses() { int slizeCount, x; HANDLE handles[THREAD_COUNT]; startData data[THREAD_COUNT]; sliceCount = houseCount / noOfThreads; for(x = 0; x < noOfThreads; x++) { data[x].first = sliceCount * x; if(x == noOfThreads - 1) data[x].last = houseCount - 1; else data[x].last = sliceCount * (x + 1) - 1; handles[x] = CreateThread(NULL, 0, FindBusStops, &data[x], 0, NULL); } WaitForMultipleObjects(THREAD_COUNT, handles, TRUE, INFINITE); }
Solution using OpenMP
The same results can be achieved using OpenMP. All parallelism is introduced by simply inserting the line
#pragma omp parallel for before the for loop (Listing Three).
Listing 3
void FindBusStopsForAllHouses() { int i; #pragma omp parallel for for(i = 0; i < houseCount; i++) Houses[i].BusStop = FindNearestBusStop(&Houses[i]); }
As can be seen, OpenMP makes the change virtually trivial.
Not all cases will be as easy to solve as this example, but it does illustrate that not all multithreading is difficult. Locking mechanisms and the question of thread contention for access to code and data are left to other tutorials.
Practical Tips
To distinguish multithreading-specific failures from other problems, it is helpful to create a command-line switch to disable all multithreading (frequently done by allowing a specification that the maximum number of threads = 1). This allows you to determine whether a given defect is the result of multithreading or a bug in the serial code.
How many threads to use
Typically it's best to determine the number of execution pipelines (on x86 systems, this is the number of processors multiplied by the number of cores multiplied by 2 if HyperThreading is in use; see Using concurrency for scalability, an MSDN article by Joe Duffy, for further discussion). If all cores operate without blocking due to inter-thread interference as described earlier, the performance can scale almost linearly by the number of execution pipelines. In programs where much of the processed data fits into a processor cache, the performance gain may be much higher (super linear parallelization is described in Using OpenMP, by Barbara Chapman, Gabriele Jost, and Ruud van der pas).
Testing and Validation
Test the code on multiple multiprocessor machines; this way, any contention problems between threads that might be masked on one machine might become visible on another.
When debugging multithreaded applications, be aware of an additional possible problem: If you hit a breakpoint, all threads of your application are suspended. But if you step through your code in many systems, all threads are resumed until the next line is fully executed. This may lead to a different thread hitting the first-mentioned breakpoint again before the stepped thread has reached the next line which can be rather confusing. This situation can be avoided by freezing all other threads in the debugger when hitting a breakpoint.
Multithreading is becoming the standard for desktop applications. It will become increasingly difficult to avoid this transition. If done carefully and step by step, the migration of a mature application can be done successfully. Start with the easy things and progress from there.
Using concurrency for scalability by Joe Duffy. MSDN Magazine, September 2006.
Using OpenMP, Barbara Chapman, Gabriele Jost, Ruud van der pas. MIT Press 2008, p. 186.
Multithreaded File I/O by Stefan Wörthmüller. Dr. Dobb's, 2009.
Eliminate False Sharing, by Herb Sutter. Dr. Dobb's, 2009.
Modern Multithreading, Richard H. Carver, Kuo-Chung Tai. Wiley-Intersience 2006.
Stefan Wörthmüller lives in Berlin where he develops mostly in C++.


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A reader recently sent me an email in which they said:
i know you have always had clear boundaries with yourself (at least how you have described yourself)
I guess I've had a pretty good sense of my boundaries, historically, but there have been times when I have not set them well. This is hard to write about, because it happened years ago, and the memories aren't fun, and I don't like writing negative things about people I know unless I think there's a good reason for it. But there are few people in my life, now, who are likely to identify the person I'm discussing. And I've asserted before that we should be more willing to write about our screwups; I was writing about BDSM at the time, but I think it's true of all kinds of relationships.
There was a gentleman in my life, lots of years ago, who I was extremely in love with. We had an on-again, off-again relationship that lasted a very long time. We had an extraordinary mental and emotional and creative connection. We understood each other very well. There is zero doubt in my head that he loved me too.
Our sex life was really terrible, though. (It was not a BDSM relationship. I hadn't yet come into that part of my sexual identity.) And there were some emotional boundaries he simply wouldn't respect. At first I was too inexperienced to really recognize how bad it was, though I knew some things were messed up — then, as I got older (and dated other people in the interstices of our relationship), the problems became clearer and clearer to me. Want some examples? Here's a blatant one: he never went down on me, though I regularly went down on him; he never even offered to try and figure out something else I might enjoy equally. Oh, I knew that was messed up from the start, but I didn't have the vocabulary or the self-esteem to negotiate something different.
I tried — believe me, I tried to discuss our sex life, in a hesitant and confused way — but he found ways to shut me down, every time. Sometimes the shut-downs were blatant and aggressive and involved shouting. Sometimes they were very subtle, like the time he told me sadly, "You know, occasionally I get worried that you don't really like having sex with me, but I know that's just insecurity on my part and I need to get over it." What a masterful way to say: "Part of me knows you're not getting what you need, but please don't bring it up, because that would make me feel bad."
Today, I would reply: "Sorry if it brings up insecurities. I'm here to talk about those if you like. But it's also true, and we need to address it." Back then, I accepted what he'd said, and felt roiling confusion and pain, and stayed silent.
I've got sexual-emotional baggage from that relationship to this day. And yes, I do resent it. Still. Despite knowing that he loved me, and despite valuing many memories from that relationship — when I look back on my time with him, it feels clouded and toxic. I remember that one night, years after I broke up with him, I had one of the worst nightmares of my life: merely a dream that he and I were back together. I woke up shaking, almost in tears.
During an argument, he once said to me, in a voice both angry and wounded: "I just want to feel that you love me more than you love yourself." And my reaction was not to walk away. My reaction was not to laugh incredulously. My reaction was not to dump him on the spot. My reaction was to cry, and tell him how hurt I was. Hurt: because how could he think I didn't love him more than I loved myself? Of course I did. What did I have to do to prove it?
For the record — just in case it needs to be said — that is ridiculous. Anyone who demands that you love them more than you love yourself does not have your best interests at heart. My reaction was just as ridiculous. I should not have been looking for ways to prove that I loved him more than I loved myself. I should have been out the fucking door already.
Towards the end, we went through a period where we were living together, but we weren't "officially dating" and we weren't having sex. I'd finally put down a hard boundary: I had told him flatly that I couldn't have sex with him anymore. This was partly because I had realized that I just had no idea how to make our sexual connection better, but it was also partly because I'd recently come into my BDSM identity, I was hurting badly, I had no idea how to deal with my sexuality. I didn't even want to think about having sex. With anyone. So I didn't.
One night we had a terrible fight. It was a complicated, wide-ranging fight, but a main theme was this: he couldn't deal with us not having sex. He made this very clear. He said, "You think I'm okay with living together and not having sex with you?" I told him I could leave if it was really that bad. That I could give him my share of the rent, and leave. I think part of me was hoping that he'd say, "Fine, leave!" But he insisted that he would be crushed if I left, he insisted that I had to stay. He did nothing to alleviate the sexual pressure on me.
So I had sex with him. Of course. It took me a few weeks, but I did it. I did it because I was in love with him. I did it because I felt guilty, as if having a strong emotional connection with a man is wrong if you don't "pay" him with sex. (Hey, "everyone knows" chicks have sex in exchange for relationships, right?) I did it because I thought it was "worth it", I thought it "wasn't that bad", even though I hated every minute of it.
When we started having sex again — I remember that it was dark, afterwards, and he said: "I've been wanting to do this for months," and he kissed me. I kissed him back enough to convince him that I liked it, and then I turned my head away, and I cried. I kept my body still and I didn't make a sound. I cried because I felt so trapped, because I felt so sick with myself, and I didn't let him see it because somehow — somehow — I'd convinced myself that this, too, was just a cost I had to pay for this relationship. I can't understand it now, but I guess I actually believed that I not only owed him sex, but that I owed him the illusion that I enjoyed it.
It's hard for me to put myself back in my head, back then, but I think my BDSM identity was playing a role, too: I think part of me had concluded I could never have a "healthy" sex life. I craved BDSM — which meant I was a fucked-up pervert; sex I really liked with someone I loved was not for me. (Don't believe their lies, kids! BDSM can be love sex too!)
(I have always related so strongly to this quotation from the submissive writer violetwhite: It's ironic that the most perverse manipulations of power in my life occurred in a past vanilla [i.e. non-BDSM] relationship, where I tolerated tyranny because the normative structure of our relationship obscured the fact that that is what it was.)
Luckily, luckily, I had another reason to move out later. And I had the privilege of being financially independent. So I moved out. And as I got into social networks that had nothing to do with him, as I had more and more time apart from him, it was like blinders came off. I walked away. I fell in love with someone else, which helped — I can't deny that it helped, it gave me more strength — but I was already on my way out. By the time I broke up with him, I was so disgusted with him and with myself that I barely felt a twinge — even though there were so many ways we understood each other, cared about each other, and so many things we shared. It was too toxic. I was Done with a capital D, and I didn't even care.
Understand me: I don't think I was perfect in this relationship. I, too, did things I shouldn't have done. This does not change the ways he manipulated me, and the ways I failed to set boundaries.
Here is the strange part, for me, in remembering him: I don't think he consciously wanted me to hurt myself like that. If he had been deliberately abusive, if he had really wanted to tear me apart, if he'd been physically abusive — I can't imagine what he could have done to me. It could have been beyond terrible. Maybe then I would never have gotten involved? Maybe then I would have walked away sooner? But maybe not.
Can I teach other people to set boundaries in situations like that? I don't know. The feminist ideas and gender analysis I was exposed to as a kid didn't prevent that experience (although, again, maybe those things would have helped if the situation had been more obvious: if he'd been physically abusive, for example, or more overtly controlling). Maybe it was a lesson I had to learn, maybe I needed to be put in that situation, maybe it's good for me to have that example in my past. Maybe everyone needs personal experiences like that and we can't figure ourselves out without them. I don't know.
I don't know. But I walked away from that, and it was great. I had lots of sex I really liked and I set lots of boundaries and now here I am. Oh, yes, there have been other times I failed to adequately set boundaries — and in fact, I am less likely to set boundaries properly when I'm in situations that remind me of that relationship, even if it's a very tangential reminder. Too bad. Still, compared to that relationship, other times I've failed to set boundaries were drops in a bucket — probably mostly because all the other relationships I've had have been dramatically more pressure-free.
I don't know. I'm not sure I can write about him in a useful way. Is it helpful to know that Clarisse's life has not always been Happy Fun Boundaries Are Perfect Land? You tell me.


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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - An earthquake that killed nine people in Spain last year may have been triggered by decades of pumping water from a nearby natural underground reservoir, suggesting human activities played a role in moving Earth's crust, scientists reported on Sunday.
The study published in the journal Nature Geoscience centered on the May 11, 2011, quake in the southern Spanish town of Lorca. In addition to the nine deaths, this relatively modest earthquake of magnitude 5.1 damaged numerous buildings in Lorca, an agricultural center.
The study's lead author, Pablo Gonzalez of the University of Western Ontario, said he and his colleagues reckoned that the quake was related to a drop in the level of groundwater in a local aquifer, which can create pressure at the Earth's surface.
To test that theory, they used satellite data to see how the terrain was deformed by the earthquake, and found that it correlated to changes in the Earth's crust caused by a 273-yard (250-metre) drop in the natural groundwater level over the last five decades due to groundwater extraction.
Their findings suggest that human-induced stress on faults like the one near Lorca, known as the Alhama de Murcia Fault, can not only cause an earthquake but also influence how far the fault will slip as a result.
The groundwater was tapped by deeper and deeper wells to irrigate fruits and vegetables and provide water for livestock.
While this research does not automatically relate to other earthquakes, it could offer clues about quakes that occur near water in the future, Gonzalez said by telephone.
"We cannot set up a rule just by studying a single particular case, but the evidence that we have collected in this study could be necessary to expand research in other future events that occur near ... dams, aquifers and melting glaciers, where you have tectonic faults close to these sources," Gonzalez said.
He said this was different from a rash of minor earthquakes seen in Texas over the last two years, some of which occurred near wells where wastewater was injected deep underground.
In an accompanying article, Jean-Philippe Avouac of the California Institute of Technology said the implications could be far-reaching "if ever the effect of human-induced stress perturbations on seismicity is fully understood."
"For now, we should remain cautious ... We know how to start earthquakes, but we are still far from being able to keep them under control," Avouac wrote.
(Reporting By Deborah Zabarenko)


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Tell the Reverend Harris to pray for me, Lord
I ain't gonna live
I don't believe I'm gonna live to get much older
[Verse 1: Tonedeff]
Lights out, so peaceful, stressless
Things used to seem so restless
Forgive me please, see I need to address this
Just haven't been this breathless since I met this
Woman who lept into my life when I was reckless
Mothered my blessed kid, but was destined to exit early
Guess you can say I've been blessed with the best gifts
Reminiscing, holding her necklace in my clenched fist
Ha, it's funny how we move in sudden directions
Dedicated my life to the public's protection
Never remarried cause love's an investment
Besides, I had a baby girl to worry about
That would struggle to blend in
Now as I think, a weightlessness is interrupting my senses
A pulsing tension carries my very frame
I rise up in ascension - WAIT!
I try to escape, but I arrive at these gates
I see a figure standing guard who invites me to pray
I tried it on
At the gates of Hell
I'm going to lay
Down, down
[Verse 2: Tonedeff]
I walk towards the figure that's extending its hand
I move to enter past the gates yet I'm met with its grasp
Slow down son, there's things to discuss such as family
But first, let us talk about vanity
Vanity?? Man, you're sadly mistaken
Either that or your sanity's shaken
If you'd examine me patiently
You'd retract on your statement
I haven't sinned flagrantly, I've acted as faithfully
As any other single father
Who raised a baby girl graciously
Nakedly, she was at your door after her mother's death
Ignorant to racial anger and other stress
Later had a mixed baby at her sweet sixteen
How did that fit within your picnic scene?
Sometimes it's too late to fix these things
The pristine dream was over
Had to face the fact she split these genes with his sick seed
With skin the darkest pigment seen
And so I kicked and screamed
Until we found the peace that distance brings
A mixed raced queen, that was your thoughts about her mama
Up yonder went her soul, your hate growed from ponders
On life, being less trife with a white wife
So any instance of y'alls differences it was slice-slice
Oh my, it's not her race, my daughter's love flies blind
I couldn't take her making the same mistakes that crushed my life
I'm dumbstruck by these baseless allegations
I've saved too many lives of all creeds
For you to paint me as a racist
I've endangered my own safety to save babies from blazes
Black, white, latino, even asian on occasion
But why so?
How dare you question my motivation!
No need to second guess, your only aim was to be famous
Lord knows, you've left behind scorched souls
Black children left chilling, later found burnt whole
So sadly, your glory's to come urgently
Sentenced to fight fires for eternity
Track #11 from CunninLynguists 2006 masterpiece A Piece Of Strange.
The track is produced by Kno and features fellow QN5 label-mate Tonedeff.
Tonedeff finds himself a place he does not recognize, but after some time he realizes that he stands before the gates of heaven, where he faces Saint Peter (Deacon The Villain). Saint Peter confronts Tonedeff with his horrible doings, and at the end sends him to hell.
This track ties in with the story from "Never Know Why", in which we meet the same character. In this song though, he's dead.


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We are unabashed fans of Brad Keselowski, because he gave this awesome, boozy victory speech on SportsCenter after winning the Sprint Cup. Keselowski is a good driver and a great interview, but as you can see in the video above, he is a horrendous basketball player.
This atrocity happened almost two years ago at a Charlotte Bobcats game and had something to do with raising money for charity. It's tough to decide what the best part of the whole ordeal is, but it's hard to argue against the four free-throws that Keselowski airballs at the halfway point of the skills course. Who says NASCAR drivers aren't athletes?


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Giants pitchers being stingy with free passes
SAN FRANCISCO -- The primary sources of the Giants' vastly improved control are as plain as the ink on a statistics sheet.
San Francisco's pitchers entered Wednesday with a National League-low 26 walks, or 1.9 per game. That average contrasted sharply with the rate of 3.2 they maintained last year, when they finished with 521 walks, the league's fourth-highest figure.
Starters Tim Hudson and Tim Lincecum are directly responsible for the turnaround. Hudson has established a franchise record by pitching 23 season-opening innings without issuing a walk. Lincecum, whose average of walks per nine innings ranged from 3.2 to 4.4 in the previous four seasons, has issued one free pass in 15 innings.
Nobody else has been scatter-armed, either. Right-hander Sergio Romo attributed the Giants' accuracy to following the game's basics.
"It's less an emphasis on not walking guys and more on making quality pitches," Romo said. "We're not crafty. What you see is what you get. We don't have time to beat around the bush."
The change in Lincecum reflects his increasing reliance on precision instead of power -- though, with 17 strikeouts, he still averages more than one per inning.
"He's not a thrower anymore," Romo said. "He's a guy who goes out there and pitches."


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Kazari + Ziguzagu stock a very broad and ecelectic range of artwork from 17th century Japanese paintings, screens and scrolls through to contemporary Japanese and Chinese prints, contemporary works on canvas and artworks by local artists, such as John Bartlett, Shin Koyama and Lou Xiang. Artists show their work at KAZARI+ Ziguzagu because of a connection either in technique, form, subject matter or philosophy with the aesthetics, cultures, and social issues related to the Asian Pacific region often with an emphasis on cross cultural referencing. Whether they are rich in colours, or more subtle monochromes - they are usually unique in the world of art for bold designs and compositions.
A pair of Japanese 6 panel screens. Cranes and pine tree design.
Dimensions: H 173cm x W 378cm
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A pair of Japanese 6 panel screens. Cranes and pine tree design.
Dimensions: H 173cm x W 378cm
A/F damage on back panels and the hinge edges of the lacquer frame as pictured
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We can ship orders worldwide. Kazari + Ziguzagu uses competitive and reliable shipping services including but not limited to Auspost, DHL and local couriers and carriers, as well as art and antique specific interstate and international carriers.
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Task force arrests 21 gang members, seizes $680K in drugs
Months-long investigation also uncovers $118K in cash, 2 cars, gun
A wiretap investigation in Harford County led to the arrest of 21 gang members who authorities say moved multiple pounds of heroin and cocaine through the Baltimore area each week.
Investigators said they believe the gang going by the name "World's Most Dangerous" is also responsible for street robberies and other violence in Harford County. In the words of one task force member, the wiretap investigation has had a huge impact on stemming the flow of drugs.
Edgewater Village sits near the epicenter of operations for World's Most Dangerous, according to the Harford County Sheriff's Office.
Neighbors, fearing for their lives, declined to discuss what they have witnessed, which includes shootings, people smoking crack on their front porches and a drug-related slaying still under investigation. The WBAL-TV 11 News I-Team spotted a young man who appeared to have a gun hidden in his waistband.
This is the world a Harford County task force infiltrated, with the help of federal and state resources, to dismantle the World's Most Dangerous gang.
"The message we want to send to those gang members who deal in violence and drugs, and those thugs who bring drugs into our county to poison and kill our children, we are looking for you. And, sooner or later, we will find you," Harford County Sheriff Jesse Bane said.
In December, a spike in street robberies caught the attention of the task force. Two months later, officials wiretapped several members, which authorities said helped to build a case and reveal a drug trail.
"The wholesale suppliers we've identified, at this point, are located in Atlanta, Ga. They were transporting the drugs up to Baltimore City, and from Baltimore City, they were supplying these gang members and drug dealers here in the Edgewood community," Harford County Sheriff's Office Lt. Lee Dunbar said. (continued, next page)
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The Sheriff's Office rounded up the suspects without incident in May. Eight of them face federal charges. The others face various state drug and conspiracy charges. Those charged include:
Ronald Bates, 22, of Aberdeen
Shalon Coleman, 30, of Havre de Grace
Jamie Dixon, 32, of Edgewood
Lawrence Sterling Fox, 27, of Edgewood
Conrad Gaylord, 19, of Edgewood
Andrea Griffin, 22, of Edgewood
Mercede C. Jacobson, 20, of Edgewood
Dashawn Robinson, 22 of Edgewood
Willie McKie, 25, of Churchville
Alexander Manuel, 20, of Edgewood
Melissa Marie Ryan, 20, of Edgewood
Coty Wilson, 21, of Fallston
Authorities seized a combined $680,000 worth of heroin (2 kg), cocaine (4.5 kg) and marijuana (2.4 pounds), in addition to a handgun, two vehicles and $118,000 in cash.
The mission of the task force is to target violent offenders, get convictions and put offenders in jail for a long, long time.
"Most of these folks -- especially repeat offenders -- will get 10 (years without) parole, 25 with no parole sentences," Harford County State's Attorney Joe Cassilly said.
In a separate matter, this investigation also led to two other arrests: the first of which was of Isaiah Sibert, 20, one of Harford County's most-wanted criminals.
A second arrest involved Waymond Harrison, a 30-year-old fugitive drug dealer whose territory, authorities said, included Harford and Baltimore counties. Authorities said Harrison was arrested in California on charges stemming from a previous task force investigation.
Authorities also said Jermale Bolling, 34, was arrested in Texas on cocaine distribution charges in Maryland.


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Activision plans on more Hero titles in 2010
In probably the most obvious news of the day, Activision's Guitar Hero CEO Dan Rosensweig has told MCV that the "next iterations" of Band Hero, DJ Hero and Guitar Hero are in the works. Keep breathing. You don't want to go into shock, there, kiddos. "We're working on our 2010 slate now," he told the […]
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30% of Guitar Hero players are women, says Rosensweig
Here's a shock for you – almost a third of all Guitar Hero players are female. "A very large group really wants great guitar music, and they don't want us to confuse that," Guitar Hero CEO Dan Rosensweig told Gamepro. "And there's another group of people who love that, but also love to have more […]
Guitar Hero boss: Music hasn't peaked, 80% of console owners still don't have a rhythm game
Guitar Hero CEO Dan Rosensweig is a silver lining kineaguy. Sales in the music games sector may be down nearly 50 percent this year, but all he sees is the fact that four fifths of games consoles don't have a music title attached to them. "We're focused on providing value to the consumer, so I […]
Former Yahoo COO takes on Guitar Hero for Activision
According to this All Things D story, former Yahoo COO Dan Rosensweig has now been placed as CEO and president of the entire Guitar Hero franchise. Rosensweig previously worked at CNET and Ziff-Davis before Yahoo. There's no confirmation of this at the moment, but there's plenty of background through the link.


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For centuries the town hall was the beating heart of the free imperial city of Regensburg.
This was the workplace of councillors and administrators and it was here that the courts – complete with jail and torture chamber – were located. Between 1663 and 1806 the town hall also served as a meeting place for the Perpetual Imperial Diet, which brought major players in German and European politics to Regensburg. The atmosphere of the Diet still pervades the Imperial Hall and the meeting rooms – one of the main reasons that Regensburg was listed as a UNESCO World Heritage site.
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For a premium car company, Audi has devoted much attention to proving the practical side of their vehicles. From the Audi Ur-Quattro rally that dominated world rally during the 1980s to the technology-laden R18 e-tron quattro currently rolling to victory in sports car's World Endurance Championship, Audi has demonstrated the extremes of quattro all-wheel drive and TDI diesel engines. However, like other automotive brands, Audi vehicles have enjoyed time to bask in the limelight of showbiz.
This week, the highly anticipated North American release of Iron Man 3 will place Audi in the product placement spotlight. Audisite.com is taking an opportunity to rediscover some of the most famous Audi appearances on the big screen and silver screen.
Audi S8 Sedan
TV/Movie Appearance: Ronin
A 1998 action/crime film, Ronin starred Robert De Niro and was directed by John Frankenheimer. In the world of motorsports, Frankenheimer is known as a cinematic legend for the 1966 Formula 1 racing movie Grand Prix. Showing off a flair for shooting vehicles at speed in Grand Prix, Ronin proved to be another gem from the direction of Frankenheimer. In a typical John Frankenheimer fashion, chase scenes embodied an extra special realism. Insisting high-speed scenes be performed without the many special effects Hollywood typically uses, the Frankenheimer treatment required skilled driving. One of the many vehicles involved in Ronin was an Audi S8 quattro.
Featured in two scenes driven by the character Larry (portrayed by Skipp Sudduth), the 360-horsepower S8 sedan first hustled around dark Paris streets. Later, the Audi S8 appeared in the climax scene where De Niro and his team of mercenaries pursue a man with a valuable suitcase. The combination of brawn and performance eventually proved too much for the Citroen XM. Though the movie used a crew of stunt drivers, actor Skipp Sudduth performed most of the live driving scenes himself in the Audi S8.
Audi RSQ
TV/Movie Appearance: I, Robot
In a future where sophisticated robots walk the streets, Audi appears to have become the United States' top-selling automotive brand. Part of the 2004 blockbuster film I, Robot, Audi contributed its four-ring badge to multiple cars featured in-screen. Taxi cabs, police cars and the vehicle driven by Will Smith's character Detective Del Spooner. In the Chicago of 2035, Spooner drives a two-passenger sport coupe called the Audi RSQ.
Creating an interpretation of where motoring would be in 30 years, Audi contributed The RSQ movie vehicle resembled the Audi TT as well as the yet-to-be released R8 supercar. Riding on spherical wheels, the Audi RSQ was once depicted spinning multiple times around while still maintaining some form of control. While only a prop vehicle, the I, Robot Audi RSQ is associated with a number of advanced technologies. In the construction of the film RSQ, it was reported rapid prototyping robots were used to assemble the cutting-edge design in real life. In the futuristic world, the Audi RSQ featured autonomous driving capability on the freeway system (though Detective Spooner would regularly disengage the program). Audi's research into Piloted Driving technology could result in a 2035 similar to that in I, Robot.
Audi 200 Sedan and 200 Avant
TV/Movie Appearance: The Living Daylights
James Bond is most famous for his association with the Aston Martin brand. However, agent 007 is known to rely on the vehicles of other automakers. Handling a Lotus Esprit in two movies, Bond has also driven vehicles from BMW, Ford and AMC in some of his high-profile chases. In 1987's The Living Daylights, a Q Branch modified Aston Martin V8 would have a lead automotive role as 007 rushes away from Russian patrol officers. Through two parts of that same James Bond adventure, Audi vehicles contributed in a strong supporting role.
Two variants of Audi products were involved in 'The Living Daylights' At the beginning of the movie, an Audi 200 sedan was driven by James Bond through a border crossing between Czechoslovakia and Austria. Later in the film, James Bond is seen waiting in an Audi 200 Avant model surveying General Pushkin's arrival to a hotel. Unlike the Aston Martin star car in The Living Daylights, the Audis survived unscathed.
In the 2012 James Bond movie Skyfall, Audi once again appeared prominently at the opening scene. An Audi A5 coupe served as a getaway car for a bad guy.
Audi R8
TV/Movie Appearance: Iron Man Film Series
For what has proven to be the Audi brand's most recognized product placement, Marvel's Iron Man franchise adaptation to the big screen has involved the participation of their German engineered luxury cars. The presence of an Audi A8 or most recently a S7 Sportback resides briefly in numerous scenes throughout the trilogy. For all three films, when the fictional billionaire is not wearing his newest Iron Man suit, Tony Stark would be seen driving the Audi R8 supercar.
In the first film, Tony Stark drove the R8 coupe (wearing a 'Stark 4' vanity plate) to a charity benefit. The first appearance was little more than a cameo spot in the 2008 film. In Iron Man 2, a white Audi R8 Spyder received a greater screen time. The supercar was featured at the beginning and during a scene where Tony Stark was hauling items needed for his work in creating a new element. For Iron Man 3, Stark has acquired an all-electric e-tron model of the Audi R8. An impressive feat on the basis Audi is not even selling that particular vehicle.
Audi Ur-Quattro
TV/Movie Appearance: Ashes to Ashes
Running for three seasons on BBC, North Americans may not be entirely familiar with the television show Ashes to Ashes. A previous show called 'Life on Mars' depicted a present day male police officer suffering injuries and awaking in 1973. The follow-up series 'Ashes to Ashes' was a story set with a similar experience occurring to a policewoman shot in the present day world and transported to 1981. Both series names were titles of David Bowie songs. In Ashes to Ashes, an Ur-Quattro, one of Audi's most defining vehicles, is part of this supernatural world.
Wheeled by the brash detective chief inspector Gene Hunt (portrayed by Philip Glenister), the red Audi Ur-Quattro was a memorable part in the 24-episode Ashes to Ashes television show. A relatively new vehicle at the time the show was set, Audi's first quattro all-wheel drive vehicle propelled by a turbocharged five-cylinder-engine was depicted as tearing up the streets of London with as much grace as the rally car courses during the early 1980s. Along with the physical appearance of the Audi Ur-Quattro on the show, the vehicle became immortalized with Hunt's catchphrase, "Fire up the Quattro".
Enjoying newfound fame with the BBC show, the Audi Ur-Quattro played an inadvertent role in the 2010 British election. First, the Labour Party used the Ur-Quattro in an attack message against Conservative candidate David Cameron. However, the Conservative party turned around and used the image with the adapted phrase "Fire up the Quattro, it's time for change".
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Web Standards
Installing the W3C Markup Validator on Mac OS X
How to install the W3C Markup Validator on Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard.
X-UA-Compatible and HTML5
If you for some reason have to use the non-standard X-UA-Compatible header to force standards mode in IE, be aware that it is invalid HTML5. Fortunately it is easy to fix.
Validation matters
Many kinds of validation errors do not effect the end result at all. But in almost all cases neither does correcting those errors, so there is no point in not doing so.
What characters are allowed unencoded in query strings?
Trying to bring clarity to exactly what characters can be used in URL query strings without first percent encoding them.
Be careful with non-ascii characters in URLs
Unless you have really strong internationalisation requirements, consider sticking to the following characters in URLs: a-z, A-Z, 0-9, -, ., _, and ~.
The Web is a web of content, not an application framework
The Web excels at enabling people to find and share information, but it is not a particularly good platform for creating and delivering "desktop-class applications".
A call for consistent display of alt text across browsers
How browsers display alt text for missing images varies, so it would be nice to see this standardised by specifying the recommended behaviour in HTML 5.
New W3C website launched
The new W3C website was launched on October 13, 2009. It sports a new design, new content, new information architecture, and a bit of invalid CSS (which has caused some debate).
Professional front-end engineering explained
An excellent presentation of what it means to work as a front-end developer, and how important our work is to the overall health of the web.
Character encoding
Character encoding can be very tricky to get right all the way from your keyboard to the end user's browser, but reading these two articles may increase your chances of getting it right.
Google to webmasters: Write clean HTML and consider accessibility
Google encourages webmasters to make sure their websites work in all browsers by writing valid HTML and considering accessibility.
Opera Web Standards Curriculum: A "do things the right way" learning resource
A free, creative commons licensed course for anyone who needs a thorough introduction to the web and how to create standards-based and accessible websites.
What does Acid3 mean to you and me?
Opera and Apple have announced that their web browsers pass the Acid3 Browser Test, but how will that help web designers and developers?
Surprise of the year: IE8 will use Standards mode by default
Microsoft has reversed its position on how standards mode will be triggered in IE8, and has chosen to make interoperability more important that pandering to broken intranets.
Standards mode is the new quirks mode
Because of their immense fear of making broken websites that should be fixed look broken in Internet Explorer, Microsoft will make standards-aware developers jump through hoops.
The Email Standards Project launches
A project that will work with email client developers and web designers to improve web standards support and accessibility in HTML email has been launched.
The W3C process may be slow, but browser vendors are slower
Don't blame the W3C for being slow when the real problem is browser vendors not implementing existing specifications fully and properly.
Help improve support for Web Standards in HTML email
HTML email sucks, but it isn't going away. So instead of complaining we should do what we can to help improve support for Web Standards in email clients.
Business case for Web standards Wiki
A place to collect arguments for using Web standards, as well as counterarguments and success stories.
Lame excuses for not being a Web professional
Excuses that may be valid in some circumstances are too often used to cover up somebody's lack of knowledge about modern Web design or development.
Google, meet Web Standards
The Google Search Appliance user interface can now use well-formed, valid, accessible, and semantic markup.
Google valid and strict
Making Google's home page use valid HTML 4.01 Strict and CSS for layout reduces file size by 21 percent.
@media 2006:after
A summary of my impressions and experiences from the @media 2006 web conference in London.
A letter from WASP-EduTF to Skolverket
An attempt to influence the Swedish National Agency for Education to update the web development methods being taught in Swedish schools.
Microsoft and Internet Explorer vs. web standards
Microsoft's new Internet Explorer 7 web browser is much improved, but many web professionals are far from enthusiastic about it. Here's why.
Ten reasons to learn and use web standards
Some of the most important reasons for spending the time to learn all about using web standards to design and develop websites.
Reveal your old school web development hacks
A collection of old school web design and development hacks that were widely used before developers started abandoning table based layouts and adopting web standards.
A web professional can never stop learning
Web professionals who refuse to update their skills and insist on using outdated methods can no longer be called web professionals.
Impressions from @media 2005
My impressions from the @media 2005 web standards and accessiblity conference.
Web standards elitism
Forcing ASP.Net towards standards
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Opening Convocation and Rotunda Passage
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All new first-year and transfer students are invited and encouraged to attend SMU's 105th Opening Convocation. At this event, students are formally welcomed to the SMU community in a ceremony dating back to 1915, in the very first days of the University. Highlights of the ceremony include faculty in full academic regalia and the presentation of the new class of students to the President, SMU administrators and professors. Our convocation speaker will offer enriching words to set students on their new path of academic discovery.
An important part of Opening Convocation is the Rotunda Passage. Marching to Opening Convocation, students pass through the Rotunda of Dallas Hall, SMU's first building and a historic landmark. Recognizing that every undergraduate student at SMU has crossed through the Dallas Hall rotunda, students have an opportunity to reflect on their passage to college and their intellectual and personal growth for their time at SMU.
Graduating students confirm year after year that the full impact of Rotunda Passage is not felt until their graduation and the Rotunda Recessional, another SMU tradition when seniors walk through the rotunda of Dallas Hall in reverse and their thoughts turn back to the beginning of their SMU experiences.
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It's a special event you will not want to miss!
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philipsim brauchte ein neues Website Design und hat einen Wettbewerb auf 99designs gestartet.
Aus 28 Designs von 5 Designern wurde eine Gewinner gewählt.
We want to consider additional designs for a new wire services
We are preparing to launch a new wire service with Digg-style social media features. We have a pre-release design we're rolling with at the moment but wanted to see if we could improve on this.
We're struggling to find the right balance between looking professional and clean but having a bit of a Web 2.0 edge. We'd also like to keep some continuity with our present design (please see http://www.mediaconnect.com.au - current site and gashful.com - next iteration in progress)
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Blog of Dr. Miland Brown that features different aspects of world history. Not everything can be covered but sites dealing with any historical issue or topic are possible future posts. Also includes sites which discuss teaching history. Dr. Brown is an academic in North America.
Wednesday, April 12, 2006
The Famine of 1770 in Bengal
In this chapter, Fiske provides his explanations for the catastrophic famine resulting from British rule in the previous century. The Bengal famine of 1770 was a disaster that between 1769 and 1773 affected the lower Gangetic plain of India. The famine caused the deaths of an estimated 10 million people, approximately one-third of the population at the time.
From the site:
Throughout the entire course of recorded European history, from the remote times of which the Homeric poems preserve the dim tradition down to the present moment, there has occurred no calamity at once so sudden and of such appalling magnitude as the famine which in the spring and summer of 1770 nearly exterminated the ancient civilization of Bengal. It presents that aspect of preternatural vastness which characterizes the continent of Asia and all that concerns it. The Black Death of the fourteenth century was, perhaps, the most fearful visitation which has ever afflicted the Western world. But in the concentrated misery which it occasioned the Bengal famine surpassed it, even as the Himalayas dwarf by comparison the highest peaks of Switzerland. It is, moreover, the key to the history of Bengal during the next forty years; and as such, merits, from an economical point of view, closer attention than it has hitherto received.
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- Shree said...
This is an amazing blog. I'm pretty glad to find this. I am a student of history (now doing my graduation). I live in India. I am writing a paper on 1770 Bengal Famine at present and suddenly came across this blog. Thank you sir for the information you have provided. I'll be a regular reader of your blog from now.
It sounds like this text is the latest attempt for Anglo or pro-Anglo scholars to mitigate what was nothing less than a massive fascist genocide. As recent as ten years ago, similar scholarship unequivocally blamed inept Indian administrators. The latest deception is to claim mismanagement though not malevolence by British officials. The reality is, and not particularly controversial, that this land had a more complex and productive economy than anything else previously witnessed by Europeans, and within ten years of British rule, was devastated into abject poverty, never to rise out of poverty again. To discuss this famine and not focus on the militarized and systematic extraction of taxes from a people rapidly descending into poverty and famine is disingenuous classic western self-deception. Even in ancient times, famine was a political economic event....not a matter as simple as weather, crop yields, Bligh, etc.
How does an entity - in this case a monopolistic band of merchants, the East India Company - extract taxes from starving people? If a man cant or wont pay his taxes, you take his virgin daughter and publicly gang rape her before cutting her breasts off. This was the true nature of the British presence in India. Is it rational to think the British were benevolent toward Indians while concurrently amongst the main players in the transatlantic slave trade and genocide of American Indians? India had a complex economy - the goal was to get rich from it, not to clear the land of people.
What needs to also be discussed is the impact this had on British society...the Bengal economy was more complex than the British economy and of 30 million rather than the British 5 million (perhaps 10 times the economic size). Bengal was rapidly taxed into a catastrophic famine in 10 years since the Battle of Plassey. The effect was transformational for England, and it is no coincidence that the early innovations of the industrial revolution occurred soon after Indias loot hit British shores.
Any critical reader of such literature should recognize that these topics are dynamic, dramatically so, and will read different in 10 years. One should ask themselves exactly where the truth lies, and what will be the mainstream scholarship in 100 years. I would argue that it will read that this is amongst the most heinous crimes in human history and that the loot sparked the industrial revolution.
- Honest John said...
Honest John
Wow Anonymous spouts a political opinion rather than look at the facts. The proponents of the theory that this was a British Genocide have some grounds for complaint based on some truly stupid business decisions at the time but the picture is always bigger and more complex than a simple but politically attractive nationalist argument.
The nationalist political commentator never mentions comparable famines such as the Deccan famine of 1630-32 which killed 2 million because it does not fit their anti British tainted view. LIke most famines it was a result of consecutive crop failures and was one of the worst in Indian history.
The nationalist political commentator never mentions that British taxes during the overall period of British administation were lower than the Moghul predecessors. The hard facts are that Taxes in India decreased during the colonial period for most of India's population; with the land tax revenue claiming 15% of India's national income during Mogul times compared with 1% at the end of the colonial period. The percentage of national income for the village economy increased from 44% during Mogul times to 54% by the end of colonial period.
The famine of 1770 was a perfect storm of crop failure and management ineptitude by a new administation that had been in power for less 6 years and corrupt locals who chose theirown profitover the lives of their fellow man . The consequences were truly awful but cannot all be laid at the feet of the East India Company which was still facing financial difficulty despite profit improvement. It is ludicrous that anyone would suggest that the British Industrial Revolution was funded by Indian Rupees.


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Remember this Atlantic Monthly cover from the mid-movie montage in Ghostbusters? The Awl's Matthew Phelan does, and he's written an entire essay as it might have appeared in the magazine circa late 1984. The results are period accurate, and amazing. (Found via boingboing.)
"Frankly, there's no accepted case law on the undead at the moment," Dr. Spengler added, "but taking into account the inter-dimensional nature of these entities, I would argue that this is largely an immigration issue or a contraband issue depending on the sentience. Technically, INS should be deporting spirits of the deceased, as well as the other apparitions, the demons. We submitted a contract proposal, actually, but they haven't responded."
When this topic arose, I finally summoned the courage to ask the Ghostbusters about their containment unit, which Stantz, Spengler and Venkman led me downstairs to see. The ultimate spooky basement, the bottom floor of the firm's TriBeCa headquaters is an ever-increasing summation of every other haunted basement in the world. Behind a phalanx of cautionary industrial signage, a red-painted steel casing, and an energy-intensive magnetic field, lies every spook, specter, apparition, ghoul and ghost captured by the Ghostbusters. Again: allegedly. Listening to the unnerving hum of the containment unit, I asked again about the ethical dimensions of corralling these seemingly conscious beings indefinitely within the company's high-tech purgatory.
"We all feel kinda bad about the Sedgwick slimer," Stantz told me. "After some of the hauntings we've witnessed in the past month, there's definitely something endearing about a ghost whose only crime is maniacally pigging out."
"He also smelled like onions," according to Venkman. "I'm not letting him out of there."


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By Stijn Mitzer
Jaish al-Islam has once again secured its place in the spotlight after firing at least two Iranian Zelzal-2 artillery rockets against regime positions in Syria on the 6th of March 2017. Jaish al-Islam had previously deployed one of its Zelzal-2s in retaliation for the continued airstrikes on Jaish al-Islam held Eastern Ghouta on the 31th of August 2015, and although the target and results of the underreported attack remain unknown, the strike confirmed that the threat of a non-state party firing off long-range rockets was very real. A video of the March 2017 launches can be seen here.
The current deployment of Zelzal-2s, dubbed 'Islam-5' by Jaish al-Islam, likely serves the same goals of deterrent and revenge as it did back in August 2015. Indeed, shortly before the launch of the first Zelzal-2 a member of Jaish al-Islam reads the following statement:
''In response to attacks by regime forces on civilians in the districts of Qaboun and Tishreen in Eastern Damascus as well as on Eastern Ghouta, we Rocket and Artillery regiments of Jaish al-Islam in the Qalamoun area, declare the launch of missile shelling campaign on regime positions.''
The first deployment of the Zelzal-2 came as a surprise to many as Jaish al-Islam was previously unknown to be in the possession of such sophisticated weaponry. Indeed, the capture of these missiles was not featured in any of the rebel's press releases or videos. Although the exact story on how Jaish al-Islam acquired Iranian Zelzal-2s remains unclear, these artillery rockets were believed to have been captured in Syria's Qalamoun region by elements of the Free Syrian Army in 2013, which subsequently sold the Zelzal-2s (thought to total at least five in number) to Jaish al-Islam. As no launcher was believed to have been captured, Jaish al-Islam subsequently engineered its own launch platform.
The one-and-a-half year gap between the two launches confirms a pattern that has been typical of the usage of Jaish al-Islam's military assets throughout the course of the Syrian Civil War. Instead of utilising its assets to their full potential in the Civil War as they become available, Jaish al-Islam is deploying them mainly as a deterrent, threatening their use to force the regime to reconsider its military actions against Jaish al-Islam and Eastern Ghouta.
This strategy first became apparent with Jaish al-Islam's usage of its three 9K33 mobile surface-to-air missile (SAM) systems, which have only been used on several occassions in the past several years despite the fact that plenty of missiles are available to Jaish al-Islam. With no missiles confirmed to have been fired for more than two years in between the last two launches despite an abundance of targets, it appears Jaish al-Islam is indeed unwilling to constantly operate these systems in a conventional role.
The Zelzal-2 is a 610mm unguided artillery rocket originally developed by Iran during the 1990s, which became the subject of controversy after it was reported that Hizbullah was in possession of the system, thereby putting large parts of Israel in its range. Although it remains unknown if Hizbullah ever did possess the Zelzal-2s, their presence in Lebanon is unlikely. In the meantime, Iran was in the process of setting up an assembly line for Zelzal-2 artillery rockets and Fateh 110 ballistic missiles in Syria. The missiles were first seen in 2011's rocket and missile exercises, which were held in an effort to project Syria's strength to the outside world amidst the increasingly deteriorating security situation in the country.
Although often confused for a ballistic missile, the Zelzal-2 is in fact an unguided artillery rocket. Although the CEP (circular error probable) of the Zelzal-2 is currently unknown, the spin-stabilized projectile is anything but a precise weapon, and is best aimed at larger targets such as airbases. The Zelzal-2's 600 kilogram heavy warhead is capable of striking targets up to an impressive range of 200 kilometers, and possibly even beyond.
Interestingly, in Syria artillery rockets and missiles are seen as weapons of revenge and thus purposely named after military defeats suffered at the hands of foreign powers. Accordingly, the Zelzal-2 became the 'Maysalun', referring to the Battle of Maysalun, where the Arab Kingdom suffered a defeat at the hands of the French Army in 1920. The Fateh 110 became known as the 'Tishreen', which in turn refers to the October War. Along the same lines, the Scud is referred to as 'Joulan', in reference to the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights.
Only a limited number of Iranian Zelzal-2s and Fateh 110s are believed to have been fired against rebel targets throughout the course of the Syrian Civil War. Instead, regime forces have made heavy use of Soviet R-17 'Scud' and 9M79(-1/M) 'Tochka-U' missiles against rebel held villages, almost exclusively resulting in civilian casualties. Russia is reported to have delivered additional missiles for these systems as Syria is believed to have run out of its original stock of 9M79M missiles. The Maysalun (left) and the Tishreen (right) can be seen in the images below.
Despite their significance, the introduction of the Zelzal-2 'Maysalun' and the Fateh 110 'Tishreen' into Syrian service and the setting up of a production line for these weapons was especially notable due to the fact that they were but a part of a much larger Iranian-Syrian agreement to turn Syria into a weapons depot for Hizbullah. In this role, a large portion of the heavy weaponry destined for Hizbullah would be held back in Syria awaiting a future potential conflict with Israel. This included and still includes multiple rocket launchers, artillery rockets and ballistic missiles, but also anti-ship missiles.
The reason for this peculiar deal has to do with the inability to safely store and defend larger weapons systems in Lebanon. Buildings containing such high value targets are extremely vulnerable without an integrated network of surface-to-air missile systems (SAMs), something which Hizbullah lacks. Syria could be said to perform much better in this department with the planned acquisition of S-300PMU-2s, Buk-M2s, Pechora-2Ms and Pantsir-S1s, although the delivery of the first has been postponed and is ultimately believed to have been cancelled. This dense network of surface-to-air missiles should have deterred the Israeli Air Force from targeting these weapons depots, yet it has so far proved unable to counter the continued aerial intrusions and airstrikes by the Israelis.
This agreement was first put to the test in 2006, when Syrian 220mm and 302mm Khaibar-1 multiple rocket launchers (MRLs) crossed the border with Lebanon and positioned themselves throughout the country in preparation of striking targets in Israel. While Hizbullah was responsible for the covert transportation and operations of these MRLs in Lebanon, Syria's 158th Missile Regiment is believed to have operated the Khaibar-1s in close cooperation with Hizbullah. At least one Khaibar-1 was destroyed by the Israeli Air Force during the course of the war. A large-scale possible deployment of Syrian MRLs and ballistic missiles vehicles in Lebanon is also the reason why all vehicles are based on brightly coloured civilian trucks, which can move through Lebanon relatively unnoticed and quickly be reconfigured to a more civilian look shortly after launching their deadly payload.
Yet Syria's participation is believed to have gone much further than supplying Hizbullah with arms and ammunition (including 9M133 Kornets) and operating multiple rocket launchers on behalf of Hizbullah. Similar to its involvement in operating these systems, it is also believed to have been the primary culprit behind the attack on the INS Hanit, an Israeli Sa'ar 5 class corvette, which killed four crew members. This ship was hit by a Chinese C-802 or its Iranian derivative; the launcher and personnel employed were likely supplied by Syria.
Similarly, it remains the only rebel faction to operate weapons in the Zelzal-2's class, even if it is uncertain how many missiles are in their arsenal. Despite the fact that the inaccuracy of this weapon makes it unlikely it actually managed to destroy anything, Jaish al-Islam's warning of a continued shelling campaigns should not be taken lightly, and only the future will tell if they are capable and willing of following through on it.
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To my mind, Ian Carandang is the foremost artisan ice cream maker in the country.
He started his ice cream business, Sebastian's, at roughly the same time I started Dessert Comes First. And in the six years since, I've chronicled his rise and contributed my input along the way. Ian is one of DCF's most loyal, ardent fans, and I paid him homage last March when I wrote the cover story about him for F&B World magazine. He makes some of my favorite ice cream flavors and I'm proud to have him as a food purveyor at the Dessert Comes First Christmas Gift List.
Ian is serving an extra special line-up at the event: five different flavors that are a holiday mix of seasonal favorites, his most popular flavors – what he calls "my greatest hits", this year's shining stars, and most exciting of all, a new flavor making its debut at the event.
Queso de Bola (QDB) was released two Christmases ago and it's something people start looking for as the holidays approach. It's cheese ice cream lavished with shards and shreds of queso de bola, the sharp ball-cheese that no Filipino Christmas is without. Ian tells me that this is a knock-out flavor to christen the top of a hot bibingka. Putting that now on my Christmas to-eat list.
"They can't see the blue cheese, Lori! A closer shot, please." Here it is, Ian.
Many people consider Ian's blue cheese ice cream, Once In A Blue Moon, his bold breakout flavor. Inspired by a savory Gorgonzola cheesecake that he saw on an episode of Top Chef, creating a savory flavor to make a dessert appealed to the artist in him. Chunks of blue cheese crumble and tumble into cheese ice cream and are anointed with Palawan honey and a smattering of roasted and chopped walnuts. This is a love-it-or-hate-it flavor (I love it) and the reception to this flavor has been nothing less than phenomenal.
You might say that Ian's Sapin-Sapin ice cream looks like the result of a mad scientist gone wild in his lab but it's really the proud culmination of what Ian describes as "…years of trial and error [in] trying to make a rice-based ice cream that pays tribute to kakanins, one of our few truly indigenous desserts." Ian is fiercely nationalistic and his line of native flavors
pays tribute to that.
This motley of four flavors is made with coconut cream, pandan, langka, and ube kakanin ice creams twirled together and scattered with homemade latik, freshly-grated coconut that's been squeezed and fried. So off-the-wall in looks and taste that Philippine Daily Inquirer columnist-chef Reggie Aspiras wrote about it in her column recently, further precipitating demand for this proud Filipino flavor.
"I should take a picture of you eating that," Ian says, much amused. He's watching me scoop up and spoon up my first taste of Snack Attack, a flavor that's been flying out of the freezers this year. My eyes are closed and I'm making involuntary little sighs. Wretched excess is embodied here where everything but the kitchen sink seems to have been thrown into it, and in such a wickedly addicting way.
Vanilla ice cream, is the rather benign bed at which a series of ingredients rush headlong into and all homemade too: chocolate-covered potato chips, peanut butter-coated pretzels, and honey-roasted peanuts — a riot wrapped in a salted butter caramel swirl. Oy.
The NYC Special (also see cover photo) has the distinction of debuting at the Dessert Comes First Christmas Gift List. Ian's paean to a similar ice cream he tried while on a trip to New York, this flavor requires faith and an adventurous spirit. Consider vanilla bean ice cream speckled with (vanilla) seeds, sprinkled with sea salt and yes, drizzled with a carefully chosen, fruity olive oil. Ian explains how all the components work. "The olive oil provides the richness in the same way a chocolate sauce would and the salt acts as a beautiful counterbalance to counteract cloy."
Sebastian's Ice Cream
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Other posts on Sebastian's Ice Cream:
Ian The Ice Cream Man
Chillin' With A Chilly Burger
12 Desserts, 2 Hours, 1 Massive Sugar Rush
Sebastian's Dive Bars
Sebastian's Latik Ice Cream


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Dan Jansen
Campus Involvement
- Majors: Physics and Mathematics
- Resident Assistant
Hometown? Eldersburg, MD
Favorite thing about Washington College? Small class sizes.
What would you never leave at home for college? Computer because I would be unable to survive without it.
What not to bring to college? A lot of unnecessary items at least at first because you run out of room fast.
Why are you an RA? I want to help the newer students with their transition from high school/home life to college/dorm life.
What is one thing you believe the freshmen should know before coming? Time management, you have a ton of free time at college and no one to push you to do what you need to. There is plenty of time to have fun but make sure you don't forget to do your work.


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Chrysalis Vineyards is one of the easier vineyards to get to in Northern Virginia, just off Route 50 in Loudoun County. Set on 412 acres in the rolling hills of the Piedmont region, the vineyard specializes in unusual Spanish and French varietals and Norton, a native Virginia grape, as well as traditional grapes, a total of over 20 varieties. The tasting room is open daily from 10 to 5:30, and the friendly folks there will be glad to set up a tasting for you.
My first visit to Chrysalis Vineyards was in late November before the Thanksgiving holiday. The harvest was over and the grapevines were mostly empty, save for some clusters of mostly dry grapes and a few dead leaves still clinging in the wind. A vineyard looks very different in cold weather, like it's resting, waiting. Michael and I did a tasting, a mix of reds and whites, and I ended the day with three favorites.
The first favorite is the 2009 Norton Locksley Reserve, a big red wine with peppery chocolate notes, one that I would savor with an elegant dinner of prime rib or lamb. My second favorite was the 2008 Papillon, a blend of Petit Verdot and Tannat, which yields a fruity red with touches of cedar and coffee and a hint of pepper. This is one that would age nicely and go very well with venison. And finally, one that I instantly thought of for summer pitchers of sangria, the 2010 Sarah's Patio Red, a light semi-sweet wine that just needs some fruit and it's ready to go.
The winery is open year round, and I look forward to another visit this winter.
- 750-ml bottle Chrysalis Vineyards' Sarah's Patio Red wine (semi-sweet light red, 100% Virginia Norton grape)
- 3 green cardamom pods
- 6 whole cloves
- 2 cinnamon sticks
- 1 orange peel, in wide strips, without the pith
- Pour the wine into the saucepan and stir in the spices and orange peel. Warm over medium low heat until the wine is infused with the flavors, about 10 to 15 minutes. Just warm the wine, do not allow it to boil. Strain the spices and pour the wine it into mugs and serve. Garnish with cinnamon sticks or orange slices.
2-quart heavy bottom saucepan
Recipe Notes
I found that the Sara's Patio Red wine, which is a 100% Norton, worked well for mulled wine. It's semi-sweet and needed no added sugar, I just added spices to taste.