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The unlikely partnership of hip-hop gods The Roots and romantic crooner John Legend begins to make sense when one thinks of their paths up to this point. As the night-in-night-out house band for "Late Night with Jimmy Fallon," The Roots have become a crisp, accomplished live band. John Legend, out to prove he is more than a cheesy hit-maker, hoped this partnership would stretch his chops. Indeed, the pair has created a powerful, if not at times simple, soul album.
"Wake Up!," plainly put, is a cover album. Roots co-founder and drummer Amir "?uestlove" Thompson has said they wanted to find lesser-known soul songs from greats such as Marvin Gaye, Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes and Bill Withers; so they did. And recorded them.
On the album, Legend does, as many other reviews of this record point out, get down and dirty with the songs. We hear Legend at his grittiest, especially in the psychedelic-soul throwback "Hang On in There." He drops his voice an octave or two and belts out his words over harmonious strings and bells, reminiscent of a song we might have heard on the "Superfly" soundtrack. There are times where Legend's vocal capabilities work to great effect like on "Hang on in There" and the opening track "Hard Times," a Sly Stone-like track that gives listeners a feeling of building to something great, smartly leading us to the rest of the CD, while other times Legend falls short of the original songs. An example of the latter is the cover of Marvin Gaye's "Wholy Holy," in which Legend seems to fail to reach the emotion needed to carry a song of this caliber (although, who can really live up to any Marvin Gaye song?).
The Roots have chosen to stick close instrumentally to the originals, with ?uestlove sounding particularly subdued throughout the album. For the hip-hop lovers out there, never fear; there is the occasional appearance by Roots emcee Black Thought, as well as guest appearances by CL Smooth on "Our Generation (The Hope of the World)" and Common on "Wake Up Everybody," the stand-out track of the bunch. On "Wake Up Everybody," Legend trades off vocal responsibilities with Canadian singer Melanie Fiona to beautiful payoff, reminding us that "the world won't get no better/if we just let it be," as per Harold Melvin's original lyrics. Common caps the stellar song with a solid verse of his own.
Closing track "Shine" is the lone new song on the album, written by Legend. It is standard fare for Legend fans—a piano driven ballad of sorts that gives way to a chorus of voices and a logical denouement as a trickle of piano ends the record.
Don't expect anything groundbreaking from this album, but do expect 12 solid soul songs with the occasional moment of brilliance. What started as a side project for The Roots and Legend has fleshed itself out to an LP worth your time and worth a few listens.


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I'm A Celebrity… contestants Edwina Currie and Kendra Wilkinson were teamed up for a Bush Tucker trial only days after they had a bad-tempered rumble in the jungle.
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ROSWELL — A Roswell man was arrested Monday in connection with a shooting incident late Sunday night outside the Allsup's store at the corner of West Second Street and Lea Avenue.
Based on police investigation, including witness statements, a male subject, later identified as David Clements, 27, of Roswell, allegedly shot once at the victim, a 50-year-old Roswell man, at approximately 10:30 p.m. Sunday while the victim was standing outside the front doors of the Allsup's. The victim and a female friend had parked to the west of the store and were walking to the front entrance when Clements drove his pickup into the parking lot and stopped by the front doors.
The victim walked toward the pickup after recognizing Clements. The two men had reportedly had previous altercations, usually sparked in some way by their previous or current relationships with different women. Clements told police the victim had previously threatened him and he felt threatened when the victim approached him during Sunday night's encounter.
The victim told police Clements, while remaining in the pickup, produced a "shotgun-type" weapon and fired at him.
Multiple witnesses reported hearing a sound like a gunshot.
One of the two women in Clements' pickup also heard the shot, but both women told police they could not describe anything that occurred because they were not paying attention. Clements refused to talk to investigators in reference to a gun. No gun has been located at this point in the investigation.
The victim suffered a single gunshot wound to his left leg.
He was treated by emergency personnel at the scene, then taken to Eastern New Mexico Medical Center, where he was further treated and released.
Police quickly located and detained Clements shortly after the shooting. A Roswell Police Department officer stopped Clements' vehicle – occupied by Clements, his girlfriend, and his girlfriend's mother – at the intersection of Alameda Street and Union Avenue, about nine blocks away from the Allsup's.
The vehicle, a Ford F-150 pickup with a lawnmower in the bed, had been described to police by the shooting victim and other witnesses in the Allsup's parking lot.
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Commissioners approve fireworks permit for Red, White and Tahoe Blue
Media Release
For Immediate Release
Contact: Joshua Andreasen
Reno, Nev. June 26, 2018. The following report highlights several important agenda items from the Washoe County Board of Commissioners meeting:
1. Red, White and Tahoe Blue 2018 Outdoor Festival Application. Commissioners gave Washoe County Manager John Slaughter the authority to sign-off on a business license for a fireworks show at Incline Village hosted by Red, White and Tahoe Blue. The approval is contingent upon all required permits and contracts to be submitted to Washoe County, including required permits from the U.S. Coast Guard and the North Lake Tahoe Fire Protection District.
The annual event will be held in Incline Village Wednesday, July 4, at Incline Beach in North Lake Tahoe. Organizers were unable to meet the 103 conditions required to be complete for issuance of a license by June 11 for the four day festival. The applicant appealed for a reduced component of the original application that limited the appeal to the fireworks show. The legacy annual event in Incline Village typically begins several days before the 4th of July holiday, and includes multiple activities.
Chair Marsha Berkbigler said, "I just want to say that I appreciate all the staff time that has been put in to getting this amended approval through for the firework display. You should know that we permit many, many events. I don't think that our staff has spent as much time on the Air Races or Balloon Races, as they have working on the amended permits for this event. I can tell you that next year, this event will not take place unless you start working on planning for next summer's event beginning July 5th."
Beginning June 29, traffic control measures will be in place in Incline Village to support the large crowds expected for the holiday.
2. Commissioners approve medical service contract for jail inmates. Commissioners approved NaphCare, Inc. as the Washoe Health Services provider for inmate medical services at the Washoe County Regional Detention Facility.
Commissioners heard a presentation regarding the extensive proposal process, which includes additional mental health services and organizational changes. Other improvements include:
- Enhanced communication Washoe County Sheriff's Office (WCSO) staff will meet with NaphCare on a weekly basis.
- Enhanced training WCSO has enhanced the training and briefing of detention personnel as it relates to mental health issues, opioid abuse and other current trends, joint training and de-briefing with NaphCare personnel and deputies.
- Modified discharge schedules WCSO works closely with NaphCare's discharge nurse to ensure inmates classified with mental health needs are discharged early in the day to ensure sufficient time to be able to get other services throughout the community.
- Increased mental health care Currently the NaphCare psychiatrist meets with over half the inmates in custody.
- Staffing changes NaphCare has changed the Health Services Administrator, and the Medical Director since the last contract as well as changes to other staff nurses.
- Increased minimum staffing levels Contract now includes 10 additional full-time medical staff members, adding additional mental health professionals, and psychiatry nursing coverage.
Washoe County Manager John Slaughter recognized Captain Jeff Clark from the Washoe County Sheriff's Office, and Pamela Mann, the County's Purchasing and Contracts Manager. "Many of the changes that we are seeing and continue to see are because of their hard work. Thanks to all of the staff who put in so much effort to get us to where we are today."
The annual estimated budget for the inmate medical services contract is 7.05-million dollars. There were four prospective bidders for the contract which begins July 1, 2018, and goes through July 2020.
3. Funds approved for youth programming at Jan Evans. Through a partnership with the Washoe County School District (WCSD) and the national school lunch program, youth residing at Jan Evans Detention Center are provided healthy meals that meet national school lunch standards.
Jan Evans Director Frank Cervantes says, "Not only do our residents at Wittenberg Hall receive quality education through our partnership with WCSD, but this agreement allows us to get reimbursements through this program."
The Board also accepted a $318,000 dollar grant to fund mental health assessment and treatment; community-based programming, and group home placement for juvenile justice involved youth.
4. Grants accepted to feed seniors and expand educational program for youth in foster care.
Commissioners accepted a $220,000 grant on behalf of the Washoe County Human Services Agency (HSA) from the Walter S. Johnson Foundation to streamline and expand a successful educational program for transitional aged youth in Nevada known as Achievements Unlocked. Developed by HSA, Achievements Unlocked is a multidisciplinary model, which provides advocacy, tutoring, mentoring and case management to foster care youth. This grant will be used to improve educational outcomes among foster youth in high school.
Numbers to Know
- Only 50 percent of foster youth in the U.S. graduate by the age of 18.
- Since the inception of the grant, 70 percent of students (19 of 27 seniors) in the Achievements Unlocked Program graduated.
- Of the remaining eight seniors, two graduated during their 5th year, two obtained a GED and four were still working on their diplomas.
Commissioners also accepted a $155,201 grant from the State Aging and Disability Services Division for the HSA Senior Services Division. The grant money will be used to support food costs to prepare meals for seniors at 10 senior centers and the Meals on Wheels program. HSA Senior Services provides 376,254 meals to seniors every year. Funding is based on the number of meals served to Washoe County seniors annually.
5. Commissioners approve appointment to Truckee Meadows Regional Planning Commission. The Board approved the reappointment of James Barnes to the Regional Planning Commission for a three year term, beginning July 1, 2018.
6. Board adjusts meeting calendar for July and August. Commissioners approved the following regularly schedule meetings to be canceled in July and August 2018: July 17, Aug. 7 and Aug. 14.


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Friedman in the New York Times Goes After Donald Trump: Hey, Massive Bombing Was MY Idea!
Thomas Friedman doesn't like threats of massive bombing when they're made by someone else.
Thomas Friedman has some harsh words in his New York Times column (12/9/15) for Donald Trump and his unsophisticated grasp of the complexities of foreign policy:
As for Trump, well, he may be a deal maker, but he's no poker player ready for the Middle East five-card stud sharks. His xenophobic rhetoric and unrealistic, infantile threats of massive bombing make up the kind of simplistic hand you'd play in "Go Fish" — not in this high-stakes game.
Where could Trump have gotten the idea that his "infantile threats of massive bombing" would be taken seriously as foreign policy proposals? Well, as a resident of New York City, maybe he reads the New York Times:
There is only Option 2 — bombing Iraq (pictured right), over and over and over again, until either Saddam says uncle, and agrees to let the UN back in on US terms, or the Iraqi people eliminate him…. Given the problems with the other options, we may have no choice but to go down this road. Once we do, however, we better have the stomach to stay the course.
–Thomas Friedman (New York Times, 1/31/98)
Blow up a different power station in Iraq every week, so no one knows when the lights will go off or who's in charge."
–Friedman (New York Times, 1/19/99)
Let's at least have a real air war. The idea that people are still holding rock concerts in Belgrade, or going out for Sunday merry-go-round rides, while their fellow Serbs are 'cleansing' Kosovo, is outrageous. It should be lights out in Belgrade: Every power grid, water pipe, bridge, road and war-related factory has to be targeted…. (pictured left)
Every week you ravage Kosovo is another decade we will set your country back by pulverizing you. You want 1950? We can do 1950. You want 1389? We can do 1389 too.
–Thomas Friedman (New York Times, 4/23/99) on Serbia
People tend to change their minds and adjust their goals as they see the price they are paying mount. Twelve days of surgical bombing was never going to turn Serbia around. Let's see what 12 weeks of less than surgical bombing does. Give war a chance.
–Thomasa Friedman (New York Times, 4/6/99)
My motto is very simple: Give war a chance.
–Thomas Friedman (ABC News, 10/29/01) on Afghanistan
Let's all take a deep breath and repeat after me: Give war a chance. This is Afghanistan we're talking about. (pictured right)
–Thomas Friedman (New York Times, 11/2/01)
I was a critic of [Defense Secretary Donald] Rumsfeld before, but there's one thing…that I do like about Rumsfeld. He's just a little bit crazy, OK? He's just a little bit crazy, and in this kind of war, they always count on being able to out-crazy us, and I'm glad we got some guy on our bench that our quarterback — who's just a little bit crazy, not totally, but you never know what that guy's going to do, and I say that's my guy."
–Thomas Friedman (CNBC, 10/13/01)
There is a lot about the Bush team's foreign policy I don't like, but their willingness to restore our deterrence, and to be as crazy as some of our enemies, is one thing they have right.
–Thomas Friedman (New York Times, 2/13/02)
We needed to go over there, basically, and take out a very big stick… and there was only one way to do it…. What they needed to see was American boys and girls going house to house, from Basra to Baghdad, and basically saying: "Which part of this sentence don't you understand?
You don't think, you know, we care about our open society? You think this bubble fantasy, we're just gonna to let it grow? Well: Suck. On. This." That, Charlie, is what this war was about. We could have hit Saudi Arabia; it was part of that bubble. Could have hit Pakistan. We hit Iraq because we could.
–Thomas Friedman (Charlie Rose, 5/30/03)
Israel's counterstrategy was to use its air force to pummel Hezbollah and, while not directly targeting the Lebanese civilians with whom Hezbollah was intertwined, to inflict substantial property damage and collateral casualties on Lebanon at large. It was not pretty, but it was logical. Israel basically said that when dealing with a nonstate actor, Hezbollah, nested among civilians, the only long-term source of deterrence was to exact enough pain on the civilians–the families and employers of the militants–to restrain Hezbollah in the future."
—New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman (1/13/09) on why Israel needed to kill civilians in Gaza
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Holtham's Venison Jerky
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- You will need 3 pounds of lean venison meat, sliced thin
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Music lovers' delight as first-ever busking festival comes to Saffron Walden
PUBLISHED: 17:12 06 June 2017 | UPDATED: 17:12 06 June 2017
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Saffron Walden was filled with music over the weekend as some 20 performers took to the streets for a day's busking – the first event of its kind in the town.
The Festival of Buskers saw 11 locations marked up for June 3, with the likes of Darren Stammers, Djuology, Elisha and Fantasy Faces wowing crowds visiting the town on Saturday.
Nancy May, Pete Isaacs and Poly Docs were among the other artists on the bill, as well as Rebel Without a Cause, Saffron Walden County High School's Senior Jazz Band and Ted Jevans.
Jacqui Portway and Peter Riding, organisers, said: "It was an amazing day in the sunshine hosting some of the finest local talents.
"Everyone did a great job and music reaches into the soul of people's lives and cheers them up. We would like to thank all the entertainers for their professionalism and dedication and also thank residents and visitors for their generous donations."
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Nationwide Protests Against Budget
The Left parties – CPI(M), CPI, CPI(ML), AIFB and RSP - have issued the following statement:
Nationwide Protests Against Anti-People Budget
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The Left parties – CPI(M), CPI, CPI(ML), AIFB and RSP - have issued the following statement:
Nationwide Protests Against Anti-People Budget
February 12 to 18
The Himachal Pradesh state secretariat of the Communist Party of India Marxist has termed the budget placed by the state government as a routine affair which has no strategy for the induced growth in the state
Rail is a public transport. Public transport must have public characteristics. Public transport cannot be sustained without budgetary allocation and support. That has been the world wide experience. Paradigm shift from the fundamental conception of Indian railways being a public transport has taken place in this budget. Looking at railways as essentially commercial entity is fundamentally wrong.
Despite delivering probably the longest railway budget speech the budgetary proposals do not evoke any sense of well being in the Indian railways.
Four Left Parties of Punjab – CPI, CPI(M), CPM Punjab & CPI(ML) Liberation will hold a massive march to assembly during the budget session on 28th March, 2016 to focus the realization of 15 points agenda programme for democratic development of Punjab. It was decided in a meeting of the State Coordination Committee of the Four Left Parties held here today at Chandigarh on January 11.
The UDF government unleashed unprecedented storm of violence inside and outside the Kerala Legislative Assembly, injuring hundreds of people including MLAs, in a shameful attempt to get the Budget for financial year 2015-2016 placed in the Assembly by tainted finance minister K M Mani. Throwing all legislative norms and decorum to the winds, K M Mani, who is accused of various corruption allegations, read out the first page of the Budget when the Speaker was not present on the dais. Mani was standing in the fourth row of treasury bench, guarded by UDF legislators and a large number watch and ward staff.
Scheduled Castes Sub-Plan (SCSP) is a crucial initiative in closing the development gap between the Scheduled Castes and the others. Therefore, the government must provide statutory backing to the SCSP by enacting a suitable legislation to ensure its effective implementation.
The CPI(M) considers that the Union Budget 2012-2013 is a regressive budget which will result in pushing up prices and imposing greater burdens on the working people. The bias towards the corporates and the rich in this budget is seen from the fact that while the direct taxes being levied from the rich will result in a loss of 4500 crores rupees, that from indirect taxes, that is through the increase in across the board service and excise duties, is expected to yield a gain of 45,940 crores. While the CPI(M) welcomes taxes on luxury items, it strongly opposes the reliance on indirect taxes for revenue mobilization as this will lead to a cascading impact pushing up prices across the board.
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This a gluten and dairy free, Paleo friendly (not vegan as it contains eggs) recipe for a very satiating nut loaf that is nice hot or cold.
Serves- 13 x 75 g portions
Prep time- 2/3 hours plus 8 hours prior for soaking
543 g Almonds (soaked for 8 hours)
116 g Macadamia nuts
116 g Pine nuts
100g coconut cream
4 eggs
4 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil
1 tablespoon cinnamon
1 tablespoon nutmeg
1 tablespoon ground black pepper
Honey to serve
-Put the oil and eggs in a food processor powerful enough to grind nuts and begin to blend whilst adding the other ingredients.
-Grease a cake tin and pour in mixture
-Bake in a preheated oven on middle shelf at 180 degrees Celsius (adjust for fan assisted). Check after 90 minutes, if the centre is still runny, bake for another 30 minutes.
-Remove from oven and leave to rest under a clean tea towel for at least half an hour.
-Serve warm with honey or refrigerate


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Cain & Abel
"He who kills, kills his brother."
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It's longer than an A8. Longer. Than. An A8.
German luxury carmaker Audi have released another China-specific model, this time coming in the form of the extended-wheelbase Audi A6. Dubbed officially as the A6L, this elongated machine boasts a 100mm increase in wheelbase, making it the longest limousine Audi sells in the world. That's right, it's even longer than their flagship A8.
The Chinese market prioritises comfort & legroom, so the A6L will duke it out against other China-only extended-wheelbase vehicles like the BMW 5-Series LWB, and the Mercedes-Benz E-Class LWB. It'll be offered there with either a 140kW or 165kW turbocharged 2.0-litre, though it's understood that there'll be a 3.0-litre V6 later on in the lifecycle.
Also coming later is the plug-in hybrid model, which will carry the e-tron badge and likely win favour among Chinese customers who might otherwise pay heftily in emissions tax. Either way, the A6L will once again go into a long-list of China-only oddities, so don't go cancelling your A8.
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(It is a public holiday in the UK today - back with more procurement insight and news tomorrow).
At 1pm yesterday, one of my favourite rock bands, The Joy Formidable, who have been low-profile for a few years made their big return, to the Main Stage at Reading Festival, no less.
In front of them – well, maybe 150 people? Enthusiastic, but restricted somewhat in their responses by the layers of wet weather gear we were all wearing… it is the first time I have literally just walked up to the front barrier, right in the middle of the stage, while a band was playing (see the picture above). I felt sorry for the band, but they're playing Canada and US arenas with the Foo Fighters soon so that will be a bit of a contrast in audience size!
Goodness, it rained. We saw many kids off home even as we arrived at noon, not surprisingly really. There must have been a few cases of hypothermia – waterproof overtrousers now get added to the "essentials" list for Reading. However, in the end we had an excellent day. The rain stopped around 6pm, and I didn't do quite as much moving between tents and stages as usual, but the music was perhaps the best (for me anyway) of the three days.
A theme in the Festival Republic tent was British male singer-songwriters, with Isaac Gracie, Tom Grennan, Lewis Capaldi, and Sam Fender. They were all clearly very talented, quite different, I enjoyed them all, and all should have successful careers.
Gracie is a natural introvert but is becoming more confident, and got pretty rowdy with his band, although there were some lovely emotional moments too. Fender is from Newcastle but can sound quite retro, with an almost US West Coast feel at times (late Eagles maybe) to his socially conscious songwriting. Capaldi has a huge, classic rock voice and a lovely self-depreciating sense of humour – "if you don't like chubby Scotsman singing f****g depressing songs, you better go now" he told us early on! The songs are generally about his bad romantic experiences but a number already sound like classics (and are huge on streaming, so he may be the biggest of these artists eventually). Grennan is more bluesy and again writes strong pop-rock songs.
But an older British singer-songwriter was one of the pleasant surprises of the day. Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly (real name Sam Duckworth) has been quiet for the last four years or so. He often used to perform on his own, but yesterday he turned up with an excellent ten-piece band – horns, strings, the lot. And his songs sounded great with the wide-screen treatment; a British Springsteen in the making maybe? He is only 32, even though he has been around the industry for years.
I saw a bit more of the headliners, Kings of Leon, than I did of Kendrick Lamar the previous night, but still only about half an hour of their set. They seemed … fine. I like their earlier work in particular, but I'm not convinced they are a festival headline band. However, I could be wrong – they drew a big crowd and certainly got some sing-alongs going.
I was very excited about Let's Eat Grandma, loving both their albums. While I very much enjoyed the set, it was received politely rather than rapturously, and the two young woman who are LEG need to think about their choice of songs and the set scheduling, I would humbly suggest. When you only have 30 minutes, finishing with Donnie Darko doesn't work. It is brilliant on the album, but at 11 minutes, including 2 minutes of just backing track while the girls sat on the floor, is perhaps not the best way of driving audience emotion and engagement.
If LEG was a marginal disappointment given high expectations, young US band Hippo Campus lived up to my hopes. I just love this band, even if I don't fully understand why songs like South so engage me emotionally. They make performing look effortless, even with pretty complex arrangements and harmonies, and got a great reception from an almost-full tent.
In the same Festival Republic tent, perhaps the most vibrant set of the day came from Welshly Arms. Blues-rock with gospel influences (and two wonderful gospel-type backing vocalists), from Ohio, with a lead singer who sounds like Paul Rogers, and tuneful, brawny songs. This was one of those brilliant half-hours that makes Reading so worthwhile – I would never have come across this band, but I'm off now to buy their album, and look up their next tour …
A mention too for strong sets too from Spector (good to see them back), Marsicans (a bigger sound then when we last saw them, Maccabees fans should check them out) and Coin (intelligent, tuneful US indie).
Some of the bigger UK rock bands enjoyed themselves and got good crowd reactions - the Vaccines (who seemed to be having an absolute ball on the main stage), Don Broco and Slaves in particular. I first saw Slaves with about 50 other folk on the BBC Introducing stage at Reading in 2013 and in my review then said this – "Absolutely brilliant! And the hilarious "Girl fight" is undoubtedly my song so far of the Festival". However, I never expected them to pack 15,000 people into the Radio 1 tent and virtually top the bill 5 years later!
That's one of the wonderful things about the Festival, spotting the future stars. So who might make the same leap in the next five years? Well, we didn't spend much time at the (outdoor) BBC Introducing stage yesterday but despite the rain we did very much enjoy Only the Poets, a local Reading indie band. Perhaps they will have that trajectory too … but in any case, we'll be back next year to find out, health permitting.


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Phillies baffled by Dickey in 8-2 loss to Jays
Our Phillies have been one of the best teams in baseball since the All-Star break, but they seemed to revert to their early-season form on Wednesday night in Toronto.
Defensive miscues hurt the Phillies throughout the game, and Toronto starter R.A. Dickey (5-10, 4.27 ERA) vastly outpitched Jerome Williams (3-8, 6.36 ERA) in an easy Jays win that ended the Phillies five game winning streak.
Shortstop Troy Tulowitzki had a huge game in his Toronto debut, opening the scoring in the third inning with a two-run homer deep into the second deck. He added two more doubles and another RBI in the 6th to cap off an impressive game.
Williams struggled throughout the night for the Phillies, scattering 10 hits while striking out only one batter before being pulled in the 5th inning. After posting a 6+ ERA as a starter so far this season, the future for the 33-year-old Williams in baseball appears to be in serious jeopardy.
Meanwhile, Dickey had one of his best starts of the season, pitching eight innings while giving up two runs, both unearned.
The Phillies were down 7-0 before Domonic Brown finally scored on a play that consisted of a wild pitch by Dickey, followed by a throwing error by Jays catcher Russell Martin.
Ryan Howard notched the Phillies only RBI of the night on a single in the 8th inning,
Jeff Francoeur was our only player with multiple hits, knocking a single and a double to raise his average to a solid .270.
The Phillies will kick off a four-game series against the Braves on Thursday night at Citizens Bank Park. Aaron Harang (4-11, 4.08 ERA) returns to the mound for Philadelphia, opposed by Braves starter Shelby Miller (5-7, 2.28 ERA). First pitch is set for 7:05 p.m.


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Everyone working in development knows the importance of using reliable data. Organizations use it to measure their impact, raise funds, and chart their own progress.
There has never been so many readily available data sources to explore, and the volume of data will only continue to grow. By 2020, there will be 50 times more data as there was in 2011, and 75 times more information sources, according to an International Data Corporation study.
Working with data, however, can be overwhelming. That's why Seattle-based Tableau Software developed a visual analytics tool to help people see and understand their data. With Tableau, companies can tell stories with their data and share their insights.
Devex spoke with Ben Jones, director of product marketing at Tableau Software, about the evolution of data storytelling, and why development professionals should embrace the practice.
Here are some highlights from that conversation:
What exactly is data storytelling, and why is it important?
It's a hot topic now, but people have been telling stories with data for centuries. As early as the 1700s, William Playfair, a Scottish inventor and business owner, used statistical charts and graphs to analyze the balance of trade data between England and the surrounding countries.
Florence Nightingale, the founder of modern-day nursing, used statistical charts and graphs to convince Queen Victoria to institute sweeping sanitation reform in the field hospitals that the British Army use during Crimean War. The changes dramatically reduce the number of deaths by communicable diseases.
What's happening now, though, is that so many tools and so much more data have become readily available. While Nightingale had to collect and record the mortality figures by hand, we can now get reliable data from a number of sources. Then we can use tools such as Tableau or Plotly, another free tool web-based tool, to analyze the data.
There is also growing data literacy, particularly among professionals, and a whole variety of disciplines are learning to use and work with data on a more regular basis.
How is data storytelling different from data visualization?
Sometimes when people refer to "data storytelling," they're simply referring to the findings and insights they have gleaned from data.
Take, for example, the famous hockey-stick chart showing global temperatures increasing. That was a single view, a single chart. There's an explanation mark at the end of it, and people are impacted when they see it.
By comparison, "data storytelling" can be understood as a narrative. By this interpretation, data visualizations are to data storytelling as ingredients are to a meal. Data visualizations are the individual elements, and data storytelling is the combination of multiple such elements into a cohesive narrative. That's a much more specific way to think of this communication technique.
Why is data storytelling an important tool for global development organizations?
"Do people understand charts and graphs? The answer is: not as much as we would like. We should invest in helping people become more data-literate so that we can all better understand our world and ourselves."— Ben Jones, director of product marketing at Tableau Software
I think it's helpful for two reasons in global development. First, organizations can use the tool to explain the problems they are trying to solve, raise awareness for their causes and build a base of support.
Second, it can be useful in the communities themselves. Data has the potential to be a universal language because it's made up of images and numbers. So organizations can use it to reach the very communities they are trying to help.
How is it currently being used by the global development community to drive change?
There are many ways to use it. Data storytelling can help us understand the core issues that global-development practitioners are trying to solve. It can also help communicate those issues to others who can help, and to educate the communities being served.
Data storytelling is a very impactful way to communicate. Reports can be overwhelming in the sense that they can dump a lot of data on people. Videos can be impactful, but oftentimes they only tell anecdotal stories. Data stories can be helpful because they can walk people through the significant findings step by step.
Data storytelling is also useful for a variety of actors. At the leadership level, for example, you have people trying to shape policy and raise funds. They can use data storytelling to accomplish both of those things — to help people understand the nature of the problem and to show what can fix it in an efficient and effective way.
Data storytellers can walk people through a narrative that builds to a powerful and impactful message. There is inherent credibility to what they are showing because it relies on the authority of the data.
On the second level, you have people who are on the ground in communities, working to make real changes on a daily basis. Data storytelling can help them effect the changes they seek.
What are some of the biggest challenges in data storytelling?
I think there is always a question about the reliability of the data. We've seen improvements, but there is still a long way to go. This is especially true in some developing areas where ease of recording data is still not where it needs to be.
How has data storytelling been used effectively by development professionals?
One great example of effective data storytelling comes from RJ Andrews of InfoWeTrust. He approaches the issue of endangered gazelles in two ways. First, he presents a data short — a sequential narrative that walks you through the data story and gives you a deeper understanding of the issue. Second, he uses a dashboard to provide a bird's-eye view of the entire data set in one shot. Together, they are very powerful. These approaches are complementary and accomplish different communication objectives.
We saw an example of this during the Ebola outbreak in West Africa. Even sophisticated and capable organizations such as the World Health Organization had to adjust the mortality figures on a fairly regular basis due to the inaccuracies produced at field hospitals.
There are also challenges in data literacy. Do people understand charts and graphs? The answer is: not as much as we would like. We should invest in helping people become more data-literate so that we can all better understand our world and ourselves.
A third challenge is that we are very biased and we tend to jump to conclusions. There are some very typical problems that we run into such as assuming causation when all we can really speak to is correlation. But those are problems that are built into this process of data storytelling: We are imperfect and so is the data. So we are looking at the world through a lens and communicating it imperfectly to others, who may then also understand it imperfectly.
How can these types of challenges be overcome in practice?
With regard to the cleanliness of data, software such as Tableau lets you easily explore the contours of your data. And because you can look at your data from a variety of angles, you can quickly and easily identify issues in the data. The outliers pop out, and you can investigate potential problem areas in the data.
For example, if you look at data of cars towed in Baltimore, you'll see lots of "Foeds" — a misspelling of the word "Ford." But you likely wouldn't know that the word Ford is spelled many different ways in that data set because it's typed in. First, the person doing the towing fills it out on a piece of paper, then another person transcribes it. Unless you are able to visualize it, it's difficult to know the problems with the data set and how to clean it.
As for how to improve data literacy, I think we can do that by presenting the data, then explaining what we are showing and how they can interpret it. It's not about issuing a report or publishing a chart or graph on the web and walking away. It's about being there and having a dialogue.
Annotating charts and graphs can also help. That's what Playfair had to do when he created the very first timelines, explaining to his readers what he meant to place time on the horizontal axis from left to right in the way that we now take for granted. And today, creative data-design studio Accurat does essentially the same thing, adding a section called "How to Read the Visualization" to its phenomenal work such as this piece called "The Life Cycle of Ideas."
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The CSS3 matrix() Transform for the Mathematically Challenged
- This article was not rendering correctly in Firefox 4.x due to a change in how that browser handles MathML. This issue has now been fixed as of May 1, 2011.
- If you are not familar with 2D-Transforms, take a look at my other article Cross Browser CSS Transforms – even in IE
The Matrix Construction Set allows you to make a pixel perfect transformation by just dragging and dropping objects around.
The CSS3 transform property can do some really cool things - with it, web designers can rotate, scale, skew and flip objects quite easily. However, in order for deisgners to have fine-grained, pixel level control over their transforms, it would be really helpful to understand how the matrix() function works. With the matrix() function, designers can position and shape their transformations exactly where they want to.
The problem is, not many people actually understand what the numbers in the matrix filter actually mean. To solve this issue, I have created a tool, which I call the CSS3 Matrix Construction Set that can take any block-element, positioned anywhere on the page, transform it anywhere else on the page using the matrix() filter, and reveal the correct CSS code for this operation. Look at the tool now and if that is all you are interested in, you can stop there. However, if you what to know what the numbers in the matrix() function actually mean, and why you want such knowledge in the first place, read on. I'll try to explain this as simply as possible (and please feel free to use the feedback form if you have any opinions on how to make this article better).
Take a Look at the CSS3 Matrix Construction Set
Note: This tool works in all modern versions of Firefox, Sarari and Chrome. Although it is not usable in Opera (due to its lack of support for HTML5 drag and drop) the CSS code it produces in other browsers is usable in that browser. The tool also does not work in IE since neither that browser, nor my CSS3 polyfill library, cssSandpaper, support the transform-origin property. I hope to fix cssSandpaper to implement this in a future release, but in the meantime, please read the note at the end of this article for a workaround for this issue.
Matrices: Why Should I Care?
Matrices are to transforms like RGB hex codes are to colors: they are representations that are easy for computers to understand, but not human beings. Sure, web designers can use the rotate(), skew(), scale() and translate() functions to fulfill their transformation needs ... why should we bother with matrix() at all? There are a few cases when you may want to:
Using matrices, it is possible to represent a complex string of 2D transforms like this:
#object { transform-origin: 0 0; transform: rotate(15deg) translateX(230px) scale(1.5, 2.6) skew(220deg, -150deg) translateX(230px) }
using one matrix() rule like this:
#object { transform-origin: 0 0; transform: matrix(1.06, 1.84, 0.54, 2.8, 466px, 482px) }
(Note: I have ignored the vendor-specific variants (e.g. moz-transform, etc.) for the sake of brevity).
If you know exactly how you want your transformation to look, it'll take a bit of fiddling around to get it to look how you want using the other transform functions, and it may not be pixel perfect if you lack patience (like I do). However, using a tool like the Matrix Construction Set, you can place the transform exactly where you want (This is analogous to using a color wheel to choose RGB colors for you, instead of using keywords like red, green or peachpuff).
But if you get the object's computed style, that will reveal that internally it stores a matrix() function.
Ok, What Does The Markup Look Like?
The matrix() function takes 6 parameters in order for it to work:
#transformedObject { -moz-transform: matrix(1.4488, -0.3882, 0.3882, 1.4489, 400px, -100px); -webkit-transform: matrix(1.4488, -0.3882, 0.3882, 1.4489, 400, -100); -o-transform: matrix(1.4488, -0.3882, 0.3882, 1.4489, 400, -100); transform: matrix(1.4488, -0.3882, 0.3882, 1.4489, 400, -100); }
Note the difference with the Firefox implementation of matrix() — the last two elements need the px units after it. For now, think of it is a difference in notation, but we'll explain why this is later.
But What Do The Numbers Mean?
In order to explain what they mean, I will have to define a few math-concepts here. Don't panic if you are mathematically challenged. These concepts are not that hard to understand, but there is a bit of explanation needed. Why should you torture yourself if you hate math?
If you are a designer:
Think of the stuff below as informational. If you use the Matrix Construction Set you won't need to calculate anything by hand (but wouldn't you want to have an idea what the numbers mean anyway?)
If you are a JavaScript developer:
This information will be invaluable when optimizing scripts that rely on transformation effects. Just try to understand the basic concepts here, and if you still need help, use the Sylvester JavaScript library to do the heavy lifting for you.
If you want to be an über-geek:
All those matrix jokes you hear at parties will suddenly start to make sense!
Finally you'll be able to understand why all the geeks at work find this XKCD comic so funny.
The easiest way to think of a matrix is as a group of numbers written in a rectangle or square. For our purposes, we will be dealing with 3x3 matrices, such as this one below:
That's nine numbers! So how come the CSS3 matrix() function only has six?
#transformedObject { transform: matrix(1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6); }
For CSS3 2D transforms, we only deal with 3x3 matrices that have the two bottom-left numbers that are equal to zero, and the bottom-right value equal to 1. As a result, these two notations are equal:
Dot Product
Next we are going to explain what a dot product is. At first, this may not seem like this is related to matrices at all, but I promise it does ... just read on and you'll understand why in no time. Trust me. :-)
Let's say you have two (x, y) points, ( 1 2 ) and ( 4 5 ) . The dot product of these two points (written ( 1 2 ) · ( 4 5 ) ) is what you get when you multiply the two x-coordinates, multiply the two y-coordinates, and then add them together:
This doesn't only work for 2-dimensional coordinates, but also in 3-dimensions and higher:
Got it? It's pretty simple, right? Note that when we write (x, y) co-ordinates like ( x y ) , we call ( x y ) a vector. Vector notation can be written horizontally, (e.g. ( x y ) ) or vertically (e.g. ). When using them in 2D transforms, we always add an extra co-ordinate with a number 1 at the end. So (20, 90) would be written ( 20 90 1 ) or like in vector notation.
Multiplicatying a Matrix with a Vector
So, what does the dot product have to do with matrices? Well the idea of the dot product can also be extended to matrices. Let's say you need to multiply the following together:
To do this, you need to produce the dot product of each of the matrix's rows with the vector like this:
A little bit more complicated that the dot product, but not too bad.
So, How Does This Relate To CSS3 Transforms?
A transformation of an block using the matrix() function is done by multiplying the matrix with each of the corner-coordinates of the block which will give the corners of the new object when the transform-origin is set to 0 0. For example let's say you have an HTML element styled like this:
#transformedObject { position: absolute; left: 0px; top: 0px; width: 200px; height: 80px; transform: matrix(0.9, -0.05, -0.375, 1.375, 220, 20); transform-origin: 0 0; }
What is the end result? Well, first let's take a look at the object without the transform CSS:
When the browser applies the transform to this block, it takes the matrix and multiplies it to each of the corner coordinates. For example, taking the bottom-right corner, (200, 80) or , we get:
Let's look at the results for the other three coordinates. For (200, 0):
For (0, 80) test:
And finally, for (0, 0):
Here is the result:
I don't expect anyone to calculate these by hand on a regular basis (I personally don't). But now you know what these numbers mean. :-)
What About Internet Explorer?
Although transform-origin doesn't work with IE, it is possible to generate the matrix in another browser and use cssSandpaper to generate the shape of the transform in that browser. In order to fix the positioning, one can use Paul Irish's conditional stylesheet fix to position that block manually in IE only (it is what I used on this page so that the matrix transform in my example above appeared correctly in IE). I hope to have transform-origin working in cssSandpaper soon so that it will be unnecessary to do this.
Other Interesting Facts About Matrices
All the other CSS3 transform functions have equivalent matrix notation:
A list of transforms in CSS3 like this:
#o1 { transform-origin: 0px 0px; transform: rotate(15deg) translateX(230px) scale(1.5); }
is the same as multiplying the equivalent matrices together:
(I know, I didn't tell you how to multiply matrices together. Stephan Waner has written a good tutorial for matrix multiplication if you are interested.)
CSS3 2D-Transforms can only transform blocks into parallelograms. For example, it is impossible to transform a block into this shape:
In order to do this, one must use CSS3 3D Transforms. This is why the Matrix Construction Set only has three control points to drag around, not four. If you would like to see a version of the Matrix Construction Set to use matrix3d(), please let me know by leaving a comment below.
In Conclusion
I don't expect anyone to be an expert in matrix artithmetic after reading this article. But at least you know what those pesky numbers mean, and this information may become useful in the future.
- The MathML markup used to display the mathematical equations in this article were rendered by MathJax, an excellent open-source JavaScript library
- The equations on this Physics Forum post was quite helpful in the creation of the Matrix Construction Set.
- A blog post that has a bunch of math equations on it may be scary for web designers. My apologies


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Scott Collection pb 33 pgs. 1969 also includes Gambers Armour made in the Royal Workshops at Greenwich: Style and Construction. $25 PARK-BERNET GALLERIES catalogue 1950 including Arms & Armour $10 THE MAKING OF ARMOUR by Stephen N. Fliegel. publication by The Cleveland Museum of Art. Pb. 11pgs. C.1995? very basic introduction $15 PARK-BERNET GALLERIES cataogue 1943 including Arms & Armour from the Bashford Dean collection $22 REAL ARMERIA booklet of 20 post cards (b/w photos of armour and weapons) n.d. (best guess and only a guess c.1950) $15 GUIDA UFFICIALE DELLA REALE ARMERIA DI TORINO small, pb. 1905 line drawings and renderings only no photos $22 THE JOHN WOODMAN HIGGINS ARMOUR WORCESTER, MASSACHUESETTS CATALOGUE OF ARMOUR by Stephen Grancsay hb. 1961 ~127 pgs. Many b/w photos $60 ARMI IN OCCIDENTE by Arturo Puricelli-Guerra. 1966 softback (cover is like a heavy plastic) (5 x 7 inch format) ~150pgs. text in ITALIAN ~70 colour plates $30 ARMS AND ARMOR by Stephen Grancsay small hb~40 pgs. Many photos . .. introductory work $15 FIREARMS IN ENGLAND IN THE 14TH CENTURY by Tout. 1968 (first published in 1911) 57pg. 9 b/w plates $18 LE MUSEE DE LARMEE by Hardy 2005 (first published in 1911 a lot going on in 1911!) 68 pg text in FRENCH ~43 b/w plates fuzzy due to reproduction $20 THE ARMS OF THE STIBBERT MUSEUM THE EUROPEAN AND ISLAMIC COLLECTIONS 2000 small catalogue text in ITALIAN and supplemented in ENGLISH small book, but some really fine color photography $22 LE ARMIS BIANCHE LARMERIA REALE DI TORINO small catalogue ~48 pg text in ITALIAN small color photos of edged weapons $16 MUSEO BARDINI LE ARMI small catalogue ~47 pg. Text in ITALIAN and ENGLISH a few color plates, some b/w photos $18 A HISTORY OF THE ART OF WAR IN THE 16TH CENTURY by Sir Charles Oman . 1937 hb ~780 pg. a few maps though Omans political discussion is said to be somewhat dated, his descriptions of the battles are still said to remain some of the most sound $50 A HISTORY OF THE ART OF WAR IN THE MIDDLE AGES (2 volumes) by Sir Charles Oman 2nd edition, enlarged and revised (NOT the heavily abridged reprint of this work) 1924 over 900 pgs total $75 APOLLO ANNUAL 1948 hb includes a small series of Arms and Armour articles $15 PHILIADELPHIA MUSEUM BULLETIN Autumn 1956 pb includes Grancsays A Jousting Harness $12 JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL ARCHAEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE offprint 1915 of Viscount Dillons The Chesterfield Armour in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY $10 ARCHAEOLOGIA offprint 1930 of Manns The sanactuary of the Maadonna delle Grazie with noes on the evolution of Italiain armour during the 15th Century $40 THE CONNISSEUR hb of vol 25 1909 including Ffoulkes The Armours of Italy Parts I and II. $22 THE CONNISSEUR hb of vol 8 (some loose pages) 1904 including Montgomery-Cambellss The Armour of Schloss Ambras Parts I and II $18 ARMS AND ARMOUR OF THE WESTERN WORLD by Thomas, Gamber, and Schedelmann 1965 hb . oversized book (most of pre-title page cut out for some obscure reason) ~250 pages ~90 plates (many colour) $80 PRUNKWAFFEN by Schobel? hbo versized book ~250 pages text in GERMAN over 140 photos crisp b/w and color $75 THE MEDIEVAL ARMOUR FROM RHODES Karcheski and Richardson 2002 hb160 pgs b/w photos of armour elements $85 ARMS AND ARMOUR IN THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO Karcheski 1995 hb ~ 125 pages, well illustrated, most color $30 ARMS AND ARMOR THE CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART Fliegel 1998 hb 179 pgs well illustrated, most color $30 STUDIES IN EUROPEAN ARMS AND ARMOR Blair, Boccia, Nickekl Fahy, Norman, Phyrr, La Rocca 1992 pb. ~200 pgs. Many illus some color $40 ARMS AND ARMOR IN COLONIAL AMIERICA 1526-1783 Peterson 1956 hb ~325 pgs. Many b/w illus. Seminal work on this topic. $50 JOURNAL OF THE ARMOUR RESEARCH SOCIETY VOL.I 2005 pb ~100 pgs. illus w b/w photos $ 18 SET OF THREE (3) PHOTOCOPIED NON-ENGLISH BOOKS (photocopied for personal research since I could not find the originals for sale although they show up on rare ocassion) All are spiral bound. #1 GUERRE E ASSOLDATI IN TOSCANA 1260-1364 text in ITALIAN fascinating interpretations of armour in seldom illustrated 13/14th century Italian effigies #2 RITTERTUM UND RITTERSCHAFT text in GERMAN #3 I GUERRIERI DI AVIO (by Boccia) text in ITALIANmination of wonderful early 14th Century wall paintings of infantry and knights at war . SET OF THREE FOR . $45 ROYAL ARMOURIES YEARBOOK VOLUME 1 1996 pb 122 pgs. includes articles like Richardsons The Barendyne Helmet (jousting helms preserved as funerary elements) $20 ROYAL ARMOURIES YEARBOOK VOLUME 2 1997 pb 195 pgs. includes articles like de Reucks The Armourers Dilemma: Hard or Tough $25 WARFARE IN RENAISSANCE EUROPE Bert Hall 1997 pb. 300 pgs a few illustrations $18 UCCELLO SAN ROMANO THE ART OF WAR Christopher Dobson pb. 2001 59pgs very well illustrated interesting interpretation of arms and armour and their political significance in these panels of early 15th Century Italian Warfare $25 THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART BULLITIN Summer 1991 64 pgs. Most illus. In color devoted to Arms and Armour text by Helmut Nickel $15 THE SWORD IN ANGLO-SAXON ENGLAND Davidson 1962 hb. .. 230 pgs 16 plates some b/w photos , mostly line drawings $30 MONUMENTAL EFFIGIES IN SOMERSET: CHAIN MAIL KNIGHTS reprint of 1916 article by Fryer 47 pages b/w photos a little fuzzy due to reprint $15 THE BOOK OF CHIVALRY OF GEOFFROI DE CHANY Kauper and Kennedy pb. 220 pgs. $15 EUROPEAN WEAPONS AND ARMOUR FROM THE RENINASSANCE TO THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION by Ewart Oakeshott 2000 hb. 288 pgs well illustrated this picks up where Oakeshotts Archaeology of Weapons left off personally I enjoyed his attempt to classify armour styles $50 THE ARMOURER AND HIS CRAFT Ffoulkes 1967 reprint of 1912 original this is the conventional 1967 blue hb repro. $35 CATALOGUE OF EUROPEAN ARMOUR AT THE FITZWILLAM MUSUEM byh Ian Eaves 2002 hb 255 pgs. B/w illus $50 THE SWORD IN THE AGE OF CHIVALRY Ewart Oakeshott 1994 hb classic presentation of Oakeshotts sword typologies $35 THE MEDIEVAL MILITARY REVOLUTION Ayton and Price, editors 1998 hb anthology of articles $15 WAR AND CHIVALRY Malcolm Vale 1981 hb some b/w illus $25 ULLSTEIN WAFFENBUCH by Helmet Nickel text in GERMAN hb. Overview of history of arms and armour many line drawings some color plates $35 THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF WEAPONS Ewart Oakeshott 1994 hb reprint of 1960 classic $15 almost always the last entry if you alphabetize your library listing OF HIS ARRAY TELL I NO LENGER TALE ASPECTS OF COSTUME, ARMS AND ARMOUR IN WESTERN EUROPE 1200-1400 by H. M. Zylstra-Zweens 1985 pb 140 pgs. Well illustrated articles in MIXED languages about 1/3 of text in ENGLISH $30 ARMIES, CHIVALRY, AND WARFARE IN MEDIEVAL BRITIAN AND FRANCE anthology edited by Matthew Strickland hb 360 pgs. 53 b/w illus $35 THREE VOLUME SET: ANCIENT ARMOUR AND WEAPONS IN EUROPE by John Hewitt modern pb REPRINT of c.1860-65 original over 1,000 pgs of text in the 3 vols many line drawings somewhat dated, but contains a lot of source references $65 for all three volumes ARMS AND ARMOUR ..Howard Blackmore sm pb 1965 160 pgs well illus $15 Reprint of CATALOGUE OF THE EXHIBITION OF ANCIENT HELMETS AND EXAMPLES OF MAIL by Baron de Cosson and William Burgess 1985 reprint of catalogue of 1881 pb 139 pgs some plates of line drawings $15 WESTERN WARFARE IN THE AGE OF THE CRUSADES 1000-1300 John France 1999 hb 300+ pages $25 THE BATTLE OF THE GOLDEN SPURS COURTRAI, 11 JULY 1302 by J.F. 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Smail 1956 hb 230 + pgs $18 ARMIES AND WARFARE IN THE MIDDLE AGES THE ENGLISH EXPERIENCE Michael Prestwich 1996 hb 360+ pages b/w illus $25 THE ROUTLEDGE COMPANION TO MEDIEVAL WARFARE Jim Bradbury 2004 hb 370+ pgs a few b/w illus $18 Bound PHOTOCOPY of Wendelin Boeheims MEISTER DER WAFFENSCHMIEDEKUNST VOM XIV. BIS INS XVIII JAHRHUNDERT Berlin: 1897. over 200 pgs. 20+ b/w plates THIS IS A PHOTOCOPY. Text in GERMAN. $20 Modern 2005 REPRINT of Charles Ffoulkes EUROPEAN ARMS AND ARMOUR IN THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD 1911. pbk ~70 pgs. 15+ b/w plates $18 HARNISCHUND UND HELM / LANDESZEUGHAUS GRAZ by Dr. Peter Krenn Text in ENGLISH and GERMAN. 1987. pbk ~60 pgs ~20+ nice color plates $15 SCHWERT UND SPIESS / LANDESZEUGHAUS GRAZ by Dr. Peter Krenn Text in ENGLISH and GERMAN. 1997. pbk ~60pgs ~20+ nice color plates $15 J. G. Scotts EUROPEAN ARMS AND ARMOUR AT KELVINGGROVE 1980 pbk 40pg well illus b/w & color $15 CATALOGUE DE LA COLLECTION DARMES ANCIENNES EUROPEENNES ET ORIENTALES DE CHARLES BUTTIN MODERN (1996) PAPERBACK REPRINT of 1933 catalogue 280+pgs many small illustrations TEXT in FRENCH $20 NICELY HARDBOUND (c.1958) articles by James Mann THE LOST ARMOURY OF THE GONZAGAS .. (Parts I and II) c. 1948 originally? ~200 +pgs 35+ b/w plates and other illustrations many period inventory notes, etc. Essential study for the serious student for armor $100 Phyrr, LaRocca, and Breiding THE ARMOURED HOURSE IN EUROPE 1480-1620 pbk from the MET 2005 ~80 pgs. Well illus many in color $18 ARMI ANTICHE No. 1 1966 Italian journal articles in ITALIAN pbk ~240 pgs. B/w illus articles on Japanese swords , in ENGLISH Lindsays Gunpowder or How it All Didnt Start etc. $12 OFF PRINT SUMMARY OF ARTICLES BY Joseph- Frederic Fino ARMES ET ARMEES DU MOYEN AGE in FRENCH 1979 pbk articles originally printed in various issues of GLADIUS ~100 pgs. B/w illus of so-so quality $12 Stephen V. Grancsay (Introduction) and others MADE OF IRON 1967 ppbk 200 pgs, many b/w illustrations exhibition of iron objects including arms and armour $20 SPECIAL EDITION of ANTIQUES AND OBJECTS OF ARTS . Claude Blair and Lionello G. Boccia ARMES ET ARMURES text in FRENCH 1990 ppbk 75+ pgs. Very nice illus most color $18 Maurizio Mauros ARMERIA DELLA ROCCA MOSTRA DI ARMI ANTICHE 1989 140 pgs b/w illus TEXT in ITALIAN great trivia have you been fascinated by those chopper type weapons that appear in the 13th C. 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Well illustrated the advertisements in these catalogues are great resources for illustrations of rare arms before they are lost to private collections $20 MUESO STIBBERT FIRENZE LA CAVALCATA with ENGLISH and ITALIAN text ppbk 2004 78 pgs. some excellent b/w and color photography $20 EISEN-KLEIDER PLATTNERARBEITEN AUS DREI JAHRHUNDERTEN ppbk 1992 120 pgs b/w illus of arms and armour text in GERMAN $18 Esther Camerons SHEATHS AND ACABBARDS IN ENGLAND AD400-1100 BAR British Series 301 ppbk 2000 233 pgs. Line drawings, b/w photos $20 Luciano Rebuffos ITALIENISCHE RUSTUNGEN text in GERMAN hardback 1959 ~ 50 pgs (not numbered) about ½ nice full page b/w plates $25 John Waldmans HAFTED WEAPONS IN MEDIEVAL AND REANISSANCE EUROPE (History of Warfare #31) hardback 2005 200+ pgs well illus $160 Pyhrr, LaRocca, & Ogawa ARMS AND ARMOR NOTABLE ACQUISITIONS 1991-2002 (at the MET) ~60 pgs wonderful illus many color $ 18 MODERN (2003) HARDBOUND REPRINT of James Manns series of STUDIES OF EUROPEAN ARMOUR (most date from the 1930s) Italian Wars, Sanctuary of the Madonna & more notes on the same, Spanish Armour German Armour hdbk 145+ pgs b/w photo illus $80 Sims Roman Chain-Mail: Experiments to Reproduce the Techniques of Manufacuture (from BRITANNIA 28) ppbk 1997 ~10 pgs line drawings $10 David A. Counts Birmingham, AL David A. 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