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|"…stunning reinterpretation of a calendar is a masterful example of how a designer can completely flip a genre signifier on its head. Geisler reimagines calendars in order to change the way we visualize time, and in turn, redefines what it means to save the date."
— Mike McGregor, Kickstarter, NYC
|"The more I look at this poster, the more in awe of it I am… it's a complete revision of the way we construct time, month by month, day by day. To see a year laid that way is somehow frightening and optimistic."
— Elizabeth Kiefer, Editor at Fab, NYC
|"…my heart went all a-flutter."
— Blair Pfander, Sundance Channel, Brooklyn
— Armin Vit, Quipsologies (former Speak Up) Vol.47 No.60, Austin TX
|"…simple, effective, straightforward, yet dizzying…"
— Xiaoli Li, Formatmag
"…unique DIY…"
— Abby Jenkins, Apartment Therapy Unpluggd, US
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|The Typographic Wall Calendar is a project I am working on since 2009.
Every year the calendar is made of exactly the number of used keyboard keys (2000 and 15) that represent the year.
This is the 6th edition of the calendar.
Typographic Wall Calendar
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Is it a real calendar? How do you read it?
Yes! It is a real, usable calendar. This typography calendar makes finding dates a fun and creative process. If you read the keys from left to right, they show each day of the year in sequence: JANUARY TUE 01 WED 02 THUR 03 etc. You can think of it like a string of all dates in the year. To make things easier, every month is marked by two arrow keys. After a bit of practice, you can orient yourself quickly within the grid. It is also possible to write directly onto the calendar.
How is it made?
The calendar is made of two-thousand and fourteen used keyboard keys. The keys are arranged manually in a grid ( 38 x 53 + 1 = 2015 keys) to write out all days of the year 2015. Then the composition is photographed with a special macro lens to avoid distortion. The print of the calendar reproduces the keys in original size (1:1)
The colors of the 2015 Calendar follow a simple pattern that refers to counting. One black key is placed in the first row, two black keys in the second row, three keys in the third and so forth. When a line is set entirely in black keys the principle switches. Then one beige key is added the next row, followed by two in the second row, three in the following line and so forth…
Do the colors of the keys follow a system?
The initial idea for the Typographic Wall Calendar came from a daydream. In this dream I imagined a person in a random office typing in front of a computer. The person writes letters, for example to customers. On every letter the person writes the date, a repetitive part of the job. I imagined that as the person types, the pressed keys would (somehow) sum up or accumulate. Not only would the keys be counted but also collected, ordered and stored. Over days and weeks it would become a mountain of keys. This "mountain of keys" then became the Typographic Wall Calendar.The project began in 2009 as a (very oversized) New Years card for my studio in Frankfurt, Germany. The response from friends and clients was overwhelming. People called up to say that they wanted to buy more or already framed it.
An oversized New Years Card…
In the beginning I was focusing on the idea of writing the year from beginning to end as a continuos text and to break up the common tabular structure of a calendar which divides the year in columns (months) and rows (days). I still find this a major point of the work. It shows clearly how dependent our imagination of time is to a tabular display and order. I wanted to focus on the act of writing rather than the outcome, which would be rendered text. To show the act of writing I choose to present all the keys necessary to write the year in front of you.After starting to work with a typewriter philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche said: "Das Schreibzeug arbeitet mit an unseren Gedanken" …the writing things collaborate on our thoughts. I like the term collaborate, because it implies that we do not use the pen as a lifeless tool to express our thoughts. The pen itself is working actively on our thoughts. The computer keyboard on screen or physically in front of us is the contemporary writing implement. If and how our writing tools work on our thoughts I leave to your imagination. With this collection and vast amount of keys in front of me different thoughts arise. All around me people complain about the loss of handwriting, filled with nostalgia a friend buys a $500 Montblanc pen. But I also noticed that other people are talking with nostalgia of old keyboards. This article on Ars Technica is about the IBM Model M that was build in the 80s, in another article from PC World the same device is praised as the world greatest keyboard. As a typographer I noticed typographic aspects that I would like to draw your attention to.
After producing the first edition in 2009 for 2010 on my own, in 2010 the project became a Kickstarter campaign to upfront production costs. The response was very positive. After a successful campaign with 205% funding, over 90 calendars were shipped to people all over the globe.In 2011 the 3rd Edition of the Typographic Wall Calendar received an overwhelming funding of $18,089 from 428 international Backers. In 2012 (4th Ed.) and 2013 (5th Edition) the Typographic Wall Calendar was also successfully funded through Kickstarter.
The Typographic Wall Calendar was an 'Editors Pick' at GQ Germany, featured on Fab.com and reviewed in 'DESIGNER' an Art/Design magazine from Tel Aviv! The project was printed in NOVUM – World of Graphic Design (Issue 02/12) and featured two times on page-online.de
I always wanted my work to be featured in the Italian Vogue. I never thought of being featured in a feminist and social justice magazine from Chicago! In Broad #70 "Tech Cell-fie" (p.38) between articles on the Future is Queer, Medicine and Gender, Cyborgs, GMOs, Fahrenheit 451 and quotes from Einstein (really!). Who wouldn't want that? And does this say something about me?
Typotopografie is a kind of German Lonely Planet for typographers. Each issue focuses on one city and features typographic places and people in that area. The editors from Berlin and Munich contacted me and especially wanted to write about the Typographic Wall Calendar project. I am very happy to see the final piece printed:
In January 2012 the Typographic Wall Calendar won the Gregor International Calendar Award in Stuttgart. Yes, there are awards especially for calendars in Stuttgart. The Typographic Wall Calendar on display at the Gregor Award in Stuttgart(picture right). In the catalogue the Jury wrote: "In an intelligent and charming manner, this one-page calendar shows us how to get used to the new year. This is daily fodder for the gray cells and simultaneously poster-like and attractive"
"Tipp" — Fontblog.de, Jürgen Siebert, Berlin"Empfehlung der Redaktion" — GQ (Germany), Munich"…pretty weird…" Smashing Magazine @smashingmag, Freiburg, Germany "Typographic Wall Calendar by Harald Geisler doesn't scream calendar but is a fun print for your wall with a gentle nod to the year." — Caroline Williamson, Design Milk, The Best 2013 Modern Calendars, US"Creative of the week" — Gerrie Smits, The RAAKonteur #20, London"…der minutiöse Wahnsinn, …(der) eher an J. Johns oder einen sehr disziplinierten J. Pollock erinnert als an deinen normalen Wandkalender." — Hans Schumacher, slanted.de, Berlin"…unique DIY…" — Abby Jenkins, Apartment Therapy Unpluggd, US"…staggering image…" — Erik Brandt, geotypografika.com, Minneapolis"…thought intrigued…" — Idealog Weekly, idealog.co.nz, New Zealand"…This is calendar ART. This is art that is a CALENDAR…" —km, Clerk & unwell, Chicago"…ambitiøse…" — Thomas Arendt, blog.makeyourmark.dk, Denmark "…perfekte Tastenkombination für das kommende Jahr." — Publique, itspublique.de, Germany
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Residence Facilities Summer Student Assistant (2 positions available)
Position Description
The Summer Assistant will be a part of the Residence Facilities Team, learning the day to day, as well as, the short & long term planning functions required in order to maintain our 6 student residences.
Under the direction of the Residence Facilities Management Team, the Residence Facilities Summer Student Assistant will:
- participate in unit by unit building inspections and inventory checks at end of term
- assist in compiling residence year end damage billings
- create an asset database of residence equipment and furnishings
- research and develop resources which support residence-based educational programming initiatives relating to the residence facilities (ie recycling programme, energy reduction promotions)
- assist in the organization and coordination of residence registration day
- review, provide feedback, and assist in editing the service desk procedures manual
- aid in performing checks of safety & security equipment such as card swipe units and battery operated detectors
- assist in organizing, archiving, and storing files and resources
- participate in unit by unit building and inventory checks at end of summer to ensure units/rooms are ready for the arrival of students for fall terms
- assist in editing existing documents and brochures used to provide residence students with required "residence living" information and setting those up in a user friendly way on the website
Job Duties and Skills
During the term of the position will receive training on:
- Residence system processes and procedures; especially in regards to maintenance and repair planning
- Inventory and inspection process
- Required legislation in regards to fire alarm system testing
- Various computer programs including
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Listed below are some of the skills the student will gain in this position:
- Extensive communications skills, both written and verbal
- Participation in planning & scheduling that will help the student enhance skills in accuracy, prioritization, attention to detail and organization
- Customer Service
- Database Management
- Property Management
Rate of pay: $12.00/hour
Anticipated start and end dates
- 35 hours per week - April 26 through to September 6, 2015
- currently enrolled Brock student; preference will be given to those with residence and/or Service Desk experience
- strong verbal and written communication skills
- resourceful; skilled in researching; proficient computer user
- ability to work both independently and in a team environment
- highly organized and attentive to detail
- demonstrated ability to meet deadlines
- knowledge of Brock University residences, Service Desks, and their facilities is an asset
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Recently, the Australian Government rejected a proposed R18+ rating for violent video games, thereby prohibiting such games from being sold in country. A major policy reason for this rejection was that these games inspire violent crimes; in particular, trigger-happy campus massacres are often linked to violent video games. This reasoning, causality issues aside, raises an interesting question: are there really that many campus crimes, and if so, how serious are they? This article presents the chilling answers to these questions.
Where relevant, the death tolls below include the deaths of the perpetrators (either due to police action or suicide).
North America
The Columbine High School Massacre (Colorado, 1999; 15 dead, 23 injured)
Perhaps the best known campus massacre is the 1999 Columbine High School Massacre, so well known in fact that "Columbine" is now synonymous with "campus shooting". What makes the Columbine atrocity so gripping is that it forced America to swallow the bitter truth: the inviolable sanctuary of the schoolyard was a mere illusion.
On April 20, 1999 (Adolph Hitler's 110th birthday) Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris implement a year-long plan to besiege their school – a plan that would result in 15 deaths, 23 injuries and a complete rethinking of the school system. Wearing trenchcoats to conceal their shotguns, handguns and ammunition, the pair walk into the school's cafeteria, and deposit two propane bombs (with enough explosive power to kill all 500 students therein). The initial plan is to execute anyone fleeing from the cafeteria, but when the bombs fail to detonate, the pair embark on a trigger-happy rampage through the school's corridors, cafeteria and library. After a brief shootout with police, Klebold and Harris commit suicide in the library, just 49 minutes after they began their spree: the 4th worst campus crime (by death toll) in America's history. With no explicit motive for the massacre, academics have postulated several reasons for their actions, ranging from frustration at their inferiority in the social hierarchy, to the influence of violent video games (e.g. Doom), movies (e.g. Natural Born Killers) and music (e.g. Marilyn Manson), to Goth subculture, family instability, and mental illness.
For those wanting further information this webpage gives an incredibly detailed account of the massacre, including the Jefferson County CO report, videos from the school's surveillance tapes, coroner's photos, extracts from Harris and Klebold's journals and balanced considerations of possible motives.
Red Lake High School Massacre (Minnesota, 2005; 10 dead, 12 injured)
2005 bore witness to the worst high school shooting after Columbine when 16 year old Jeff Weise went on a similar shooting rampage. On March 22, Weise killed his grandfather and his grandfather's girlfriend, then, equipping himself with his grandfather's police issue ammunition belt and bulletproof armor, drove to his former school where he shot a security guard, a teacher and five fellow students in little under 9 minutes. He then committed suicide. Weise's unknown motives saw commentators jumping to draw parallels with Klebold and Harris, suggesting fractured parental relationships, violent movies (Elephant), the Goth subculture and his alignment with Neo-Nazis ideologies as potential motivating factors. However, Weise's own family attribute an over prescription of the anti-depressant Prozac for his actions, further fanning the flames of the medication of minors debate.
The University of Texas Tower Sniper (Texas, 1966; 17 dead, 30+injured)
The University of Texas Tower Sniping is another incident where the actions of the shooter have been attributable to mental illness. The perpetrator, Charles Whitman, was an exceptionally intelligent and talented man: he had an IQ of 138 at age 6, was the world's youngest Eagle Scout, an All-American athlete, and a scholarship recipient at the University of Texas. However, at some point in serving with the Marine Corps he developed violent impulses and reported serious anger management difficulties to his psychiatrist. These were later found to be caused by an aggressive brain tumor, but the discovery came too late: the tumor was found during the autopsy.
The standoff, which resulted in the deaths of 16 victims and injuries to over 30 more (some sources state 38, others 31, and others yet state 32) began on August 1, when he brutally stabbed his mother and wife to death, allegedly to prevent them from the embarrassment of his intended actions. The next day, he barricaded himself in the University of Texas belltower with ample weaponry, ammunition, sandwiches, and water. He then proceeded to shoot indiscriminately at people below, preventing police access to the wounded and to the tower itself. Police were finally able to end the standoff by sneaking into the tower through an underground access tunnel and shooting Whitman, but until that point they were unable to stop the rampage. Because of their inability to deal with such an unprecedented situation, the Texas Tower Sniper shooting is attributed as the catalyst for the creation of the SWAT team.
Virginia Tech Shooting (Virginia, 2007; 33 dead, 17 injured)
For almost 45 years, Whitman's tower sniping remained America's worst mass shooting incident until that ignominious crown was passed onto Seung-Hui Cho, the notorious Virginia Tech gunman. On April 16, Cho shot 32 people in two separate incidents: the first was a double homicide at the West Ambler Johnston residential college at 7:15am. Cho shot Emily Hirscher in her college room, and then proceeded to shoot the RA who presumably came to investigate the noise. He then returned to his own dormitory, changed clothes and prepared for the second incident, which has become America's worst shooting incident by a single gunman during peacetime. At approximately 9:30am, Cho entered the Norris Hall building and chained the three major doorways shut. He then embarked on an astonishingly short 11 minute shooting spree that left 30 dead and 17 injured. At 9:51 am, the spree came to an end when Cho shot himself in the head. Apart from a general mental condition and unchecked anger issues, there is no clear motive for why Cho struck when and where he did. The sheer rate of killing overshadows most of the other shooting incidents in this article, but also throws into light the problems with a system that failed to prevent so egregious a crime. In particular, a report by the Virginian governor found that there were serious issues with the state of mental health treatment and sharing of information: Cho (who had been ordered to a psychiatric outpatients' ward for fear of self-harm) should not have been able to purchase the firearms, but managed to pass the background check as the treatment centre, unclear of its privacy obligations, did not release this crucial information.
Bath School Disaster (Michigan, USA, 1927; 45 dead, 58 injured)
Although the Virginia Tech Massacre may be the worst instance of a shooting in America, the Bath School Disaster is by far the worst mass murder involving an American school. The Bath Disaster was wrought by Andrew P. Kehoe, a frugal and disgruntled farmer. "Disgruntled by what?", the reader may ask. The answer is taxes, the easing of which would gruntle many. The Bath School was but 3 years old, and in order to fund it, the Bath community increased levies, much to the chagrin of Kehoe. Kehoe joined the School Board and attempted to reduce the taxes, but was unsuccessful. This failure, coupled with increased medical expenses from his wife's deteriorating health, resulted in foreclosure of his farm. Seeking an avenue for revenge, Kehoe offered his electrical expertise to the School Board, which eagerly accepted the opportunity to cut costs. And indeed, Kehoe gave them a whole lot more than they bargained for — 500 pounds of dynamite more. On May 18th the dynamite was detonated; scores perished, including 38 children. Kehoe himself died at the scene when he blew up his pickup truck after inviting the police superintendent inside. As horrific as the crime may seem, many more could have died: a short circuit prevented much of the dynamite from detonating, and many of the older children had not arrived due to exams.
École Polytechnique Massacre (Quebec, 1989; 15 dead, 14 injured)
Unlike Kehoe, Marc Lépine, the perpetrator of Canada's worst mass murder, was not motivated by economic factors, as he declares in the opening to his suicide note:
"Would you note that if I commit suicide today 89-12-06 it is not for economic reasons (for I have waited until I exhausted all my financial means, even refusing jobs) but for political reasons. Because I have decided to send the feminists, who have always ruined my life, to their Maker."
Attached to this note was a list of 19 prominent Canadian women, whom Lépine intended to kill, but, feeling that he had "started too late", he instead turned his attention to females at Université de Montréal École Polytechnique (in English: the University of Montreal School of Engineering). Lépine had previously and unsuccessfully applied to this school, and believed his rejection was an example of affirmative action. On December 6th 1989, Lépine decided to take a-firearm-ative action when he strode into the school with a concealed semi-automatic rifle. In an act later termed "gendercide", Lépine hunted women, lining up female victims and executing them, whilst expelling the males. When, 20 minutes later, he finally turned his gun upon himself, he had killed 14 women and injured 10 more; only 4 men had been injured (NB: many sources, including the one above, cite 13 injuries, however the Coroner's report lists 14). Out of respect for the victims' families and for fear of similar anti-feminist attacks, the police restricted the release of many details including his suicide diatribe, and a public inquiry was never held. Lépine's suicide note was only made public when it was leaked to journalist Francine Pelletier, who was one of the 19 prominent women proscribed in it.
Dunblane Massacre (Scotland, 1996; 18 dead, 15 injured)
The massacre of 16 school-children in the Scottish city of Dunblane marks the worst school-related attack in British history. The facts are rather straightforward: on the 13th of March 1996, Thomas Hamilton, a 43 year old Scoutmaster, entered a school gymnasium and began shooting. Killing many children, a teacher and ultimately himself, it's therefore unsurprising that the controversy surrounding the incident is far more interesting than its morbid chronology. The first controversy stems from Hamilton's seeming lack of motive. However, he was a suspected pedophile, due to complaints made about inappropriate behavior with his charges. One commentator has argued that Hamilton was a member of a high-level pedophile ring containing members occupying the highest ranks of British Government, and the massacre was a means to silence any victims. This theory was strengthened by Government's suppression of the Lord Cullen Report (the "public inquiry" into the massacre); as well as the then shadow Secretary of State, Lord Robertson, sanctioning a gun license for Hamilton, which had been previously refused on grounds of mental illness. Conspiracy theories aside, the second controversy is much more tangible: that of the legal state of handguns. The Snowdrop Campaign, a lobby group set up in response to the tragedy, successfully lobbied the Labour Government to ban privately owned handguns in the United Kingdom.
Cologne School Massacre (Cologne, 1964; 11 dead, 28 injured)
Germany has had many campus attacks. Of them, the Cologne School Massacre is peculiar: not for its death toll (the 3rd worst school-related attack in German history) but for the attacker's choice of weapons. On June 11th 1964, Walter Seifert attacked a Catholic high school with a homemade flamethrower and lance. The 42 year old schizophrenic WWII veteran lost control when he found out that his tuberculosis was worsening, and went on a rampage. He entered the school shouting, "I am Adolph Hitler the Second!" and set about igniting and stabbing indiscriminately, as any man compensating for the size of their small moustache does. Eight children and two teachers perished in the atrocity; Seifert tried to commit suicide by swallowing insecticide, but did not die until a few days later in hospital.
Erfurt Massacre (Erfurt, 2002; 17-18 dead, 7 injured)
The Erfurt Massacre is Germany's worst campus shooting incident, which, depending on the source, resulted in either 17 or 18 deaths. The perpetrator was 19 year-old Robert Steinhäuser, a student who had been expelled from the Gutenberg-Gymnasium several months prior, thus disallowing him from sitting university entrance exams. On the 26th of April he realized his bloody revenge: clad as a ninja, he stormed the school, specifically targeting teachers (13 or 14 of the 17 or 18 dead were teachers). He shot one police officer in the subsequent standoff, and eventually took his own life. His last words, "enough for today", were directed at a teacher who managed to distract and lock Steinhäuser in an empty classroom by offering himself as a sacrifice. It is an ironic coincidence that on the very day of the massacre, the German government was debating whether or not to change the legal age for ownership of firearms from 18 to 21.
Winnenden School Massacre (Winnenden, 2009; 16 dead, 9 injured)
The silver lining in the thundershock that was Efurt was the implementation of a system to prevent future attacks. This system, although it did not prevent the Winnenden bloodbath, certainly reduced the death toll. On the 11th of March, the Albertville School went into lockdown after the rather chilling coded message, "Mrs. Koma is coming" was broadcast by the principal after he learned of the approach of an armed gunman. The perpetrator, Tim Kretschmer, entered his former high school and opened fire, shooting several teachers and students. When police descended upon the school, he hijacked a car, and after shooting several bystanders, escaped. Police chased him and engaged him in shooting standoff, until Kretschmer shot himself in the head when it became apparent that he would be apprehended. This is another case where the motives of the perpetrator were unknown, but it is suggested that, given the female death toll (11 of 15 were female), his actions were misogynistic. The Winnenden School Massacre is terrifying not only because of its significant death toll but also because the country was hit by a wave of copycat school shootings shortly after the incident.
Azerbaijan State Oil Academy shooting (Baku, 2009; 13 dead, 10)
2009 was a bad year for campus shootings. In addition to the Winnenden massacre and the following crimson tide of copycat shootings, the Azerbaijan State Oil Academy was subject to an armed attack. On the 30th of April, 2 buses of Azerbaijani SWAT-counterparts assembled outside the ASOA in response to a shooting alert. Inside, a Georgian gunman, Farda Gadirov (spelled ფარდაგადიროვი in Georgian) was shooting academy members with a Makarov pistol, killing 12. The rampage ended when გადიროვი committed suicide. However, given the surprising precision of the shooting (surprising given that Gadirov had no military training), and the difficulty of procuring firearms in Azerbaijan, it was suspected that Gadirov was not acting independently. Soon after, the Azerbaijani government declared the involvement of another Georgian national, Mardun Gumashyan, in the shooting – he is still the subject of an international manhunt.
Kauhajoki school shooting (Kauhajoki, 2008; 11 dead, 2 injured)
The carnage at the polytechnic school at Kauhajoki was certainly no joki. On the 23rd of September, the perpetrator (unnamed in the official government report but Wikipedia names him as Matti Juhani Saari, a culinary student) entered the school and began shooting other students. He managed to kill 10 students, but the majority managed to escape due to a warning given by another student who glimpsed Saari. He then prowled the halls for victims and set fire to the school. Just shy of two hours after he began, Saari committed suicide after seeing the police taking control of the school. The official report cites depression, deaths of close family members, high school bullying and potential relationship breakdowns as motives. It also suggests that he had become obsessed with the Jokela Massacre (see below) and adopted the hairstyle, dress and weapons of Pekka-Eric Auvinen.
Jokela School Massacre (Jokela, 2007; 9 dead, 12 injured)
The Jokela Massacre occurred a year before Saari's rampage, and was both the second and second-worst campus shooting in Finnish history (the first ever school shooting, and least severe, was a double homicide in 1989). The perpetrator, Pekka-Eric Auvinen, was an excellent but violently misanthropic student. On the 7th of November he implemented what he hoped would be the "revolution of the small minority of strong-minded and intelligent individuals against the idiocracy of the weak-minded masses". The "revolution" lasted a mere 34 minutes, when, faced with a 100-strong police response, Auvinen (you guessed it!) committed suicide. He had succeeded in slaying 8 victims, one of which was the school principal, who he executed in front of the entire school.
Kyanguli Secondary School Attack (Machakos, 2001; 58+ dead; 19+ injured)
The death toll in the Kyanguli Secondary School attack overshoots any of the campus attacks mentioned thusfar in this article – but unlike these other attacks, this attack was arson, not shooting. Two teenagers, who were failed for cheating on an exam, tried to organize a strike against the administration of the remote boarding school. When their classmates did not support them, they opted for a vicious fiery revenge, pouring gasoline through the sleeping dormitory and intending to set it ablaze. On their first attempt, the gasoline failed to light, rousing the suspicions of students who smelled the pungent fumes, but the school did not act on their complaints. The pair succeeded in their second attempt on the following night. Many awoke and tried to escape, but to no avail: for the "safety" of students, the school locked the external doors and windows. Because they knowingly allowed overcrowding of the boarding house, had installed subpar fire protection, and failed to respond to the complaints of the first arson attempt, the headmaster and deputy headmaster were also arrested and charged with negligence for failing to prevent a felony.
The very worst…
Russian Federation
Beslan School Massacre (North Ossetia, 2004; 385+ dead, approx. 783 injured)
The Beslan School Massacre is by far the biggest school-related attack: it was a 3 day hostage crisis that resulted in more deaths than all the other massacres in this article summed together. On the 1st of September, the first day of the Russian school calendar, several dozen Chechen insurgents armed to the teeth with explosives and guns took over 1,100 people at a Beslan School hostage. The hostages were herded into the school's gymnasium. The strongest looking, who represented the greatest threat, were executed immediately; several others (and some of their captors) died in accidental explosions. At first, Russian Armed Forces surrounded the school, but opted for negotiation rather than force to rescue the hostages. After unsuccessful negotiation attempts, the Chechen militants refused the hostages food and water on the second day, resulting in many deaths; the uncomfortably hot temperatures led to children stripping – which raised allegations of possible sexual abuse. However, negotiations started to progress and some hostages were released. These were cut short when a series of explosions erupted in the gymnasium on the 3rd of September. Fearing attack, the militants began to execute the hostages and the Russian Armed Forces decided to storm the building. It was at this point that the greatest casualties resulted: a haphazard battle ensued, with gunfire, explosions, and even thermobaric rockets being traded. Finally, three days after the hostages had been taken, the Russian security cordon managed to secure the gymnasium, but not before the deaths of hundreds. Today, 200 people still remain missing.


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Berry Tramel: Revenue-sharing inequity helps keep Texas in Big 12
The Big Ten and the Southeastern Conference share revenues equally among their schools. The Big 12 does not. Some Big 12 members think it's unfair. But now we see the policy paying off for the conference. The inequity helps keep Texas in the league.
As conference realignment again bubbles, with talk of the Pac-10 and Big Ten wanting the Longhorns, the Big 12's policy of rewarding the more popular schools will remind UT of how it has prospered in the Big 12. Oklahoma athletic director Joe Castiglione said the Big 12's system is a recognition of "what schools that have success have meant to the league." Basically, the Big 12's formula for distributing its football television revenue is: 50 percent divided equally among the schools, the other 50 percent based on appearances. Which means Texas, OU and Nebraska will reap more than Baylor or Iowa State. In 2008, the difference between the largest payout (Texas) and the smallest payout (Baylor) was approximately $2.7 million. That might seem grievous, considering the economic prosperity of leagues that share media revenues equally (SEC, Big Ten, National Football League). But the current system was necessary to formation of the Big 12 in the mid-'90s. "It's the foundation upon which the conference was formed," said UT athletic director DeLoss Dodds. "It's not something going to be changed easily." Changing would require a vote of 9-3, and while the topic pops up every few years, a Big 12 school would be foolish to vote for change and risk losing Texas to another conference. Change it now, and the Longhorns might scram before sundown. When the Big 12 was formed, "Texas had options," said then-OU athletic director Donnie Duncan, who with Dodds put the league together. "Those options haven't changed." Three athletic directors remain from the Big 12's original list of leadership, and only Dodds is at the same school. Castiglione has jumped from Missouri to OU, and Bill Byrne has gone from Nebraska to Texas A&M. Some of the newer ADs — Missouri's Mike Alden and Oklahoma State's Mike Holder among them — favor equal shares. Alden said that with the rise of Mizzou football, his school actually has benefitted from the current policy the last three or four years.


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Notebook: Teddy Bridgewater on target during practice under the lights
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MANKATO, Minn. - Teddy Bridgewater stepped up, avoided the pressure and delivered a dart to tight end AC Leonard during Monday night's practice at Blakeslee Stadium.
You could not have asked for better weather on a July night, and Bridgewater probably couldn't have asked for a better performance than his 12-for-13 outing with the second-team offense. His only incompletion came after Leonard whiffed on the leaping grab along the hash marks.
Matt Cassel assumed first-team reps and completed 5-for-9 in team drills, while Christian Ponder saw just two throws and finished 1-for-2. Ponder's lone incompletion was a drop by receiver Andy Cruse, who now has two drops in as many practices. Jennings also had a drop to go along with a deep catch over Audie Cole, which you can watch here.
Peterson's preseason role
The annual question came up on Monday as Adrian Peterson was crowded by at least 20 media members after the team's morning walkthrough.
Are you going to play in the preseason?
"There's nothing like live," Peterson said. "But as you know I practice like it's live. So I don't know. When that time comes around, we'll talk. And hey, if they want me to go out there and play...I'll be ready to go."
Despite conveniently-worded headlines that suggested otherwise, coach Mike Zimmer didn't rule out Peterson's role in a preseason game - but the first-year head coach knows his star rusher has nothing to prove.
"He won't get many in the preseason," Zimmer said. "He won't get any in the goal-line [Monday]. I don't need to see him."
Priefer's fill-in announced soon
Special teams coordinator Mike Priefer is suspended for the first three games of the regular season, with the possibility of getting that trimmed to two games at the team's discretion.
The Vikings have been discussing Priefer's replacement, which will be needed during the suspension as he won't be allowed at team facilities.
"I talked to Rick [Spielman] about it [Sunday night]," Zimmer said. "I think it's pretty close, but we will wait a few days until we announce it."
One option is assistant special teams coach Ryan Ficken, who enters his second year under Priefer and his eighth with the Vikings. Spielman also said Thursday the team is looking at a possible outside, interim hire.
"Ryan has been integrated in from day one," Priefer said. "I'm going to probably let him make more decisions in the preseason games. I still don't know what we are going to do, that's up to coach Zimmer and Rick Spielman."
Cordarrelle sits out
Cordarrelle Patterson did not participate in any team or 1-on-1 contact drills, as Mike Zimmer said on Monday morning.
Patterson continues to rehab a strained foot he suffered, which he said happened while 'over training' in Los Angeles during the off period.
Late hits
• Several defensive backs had pass deflections in 1-on-1 and in team drills on Monday night: Derek Cox swatted a Cassel pass to the turf targeted for Jarius Wright; Marcus Sherels leapt over the back of Kamar Jorden for a PD in the endzone and Antone Exum got the best of Jennings in 1-on-1's by knocking Ponder's ball away.
• On the flip side, Adam Thielen made a couple diving catches - one while guarded by Xavier Rhodes and another off Cox.
• Kain Colter made a one-handed grab in the back of the end zone that got a cheer from the crowd to start off practice.
• Safety Robert Blanton forced an early whistle to start off one of Cassel's team drills with a would-be sack off the edge.
• Kicker Blair Walsh converted 7-of-8 field goals from a range of 30 to 52 yards, with his lone miss coming from 44 yards out. Walsh converted from both 50 and 52 yards.
• Among the kick returners from the Jugs machine were Josh Robinson, Erik Lora, Jerick McKinnon, Adam Thielen, Jarius Wright, Marcus Sherels and Kain Colter. Patterson also fielded a few during warm-ups.
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Amy Adams isn't hustling to walk down the aisle. The 39-year-old American Hustle actress covers the January issue of Vanity Fair, and opens up a little about her relationship with longtime fiance Darren Le Gallo.
Setting the record straight, Adams told the magazine, "I'm not pregnant. I'm not getting married anytime soon." The Oscar-nominated star has been engaged to artist Le Gallo since 2008, and the two have been dating for eleven and a half years. They are parents to 3-year-old daughter Aviana. "I know he's completely capable and lovely, and beautiful, and offers something I could never hope to offer just in the nature of his being," Adams said of Le Gallo.
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Indeed, Adams has been very busy with her career. She stars alongside Christian Bale, Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence in the David O. Russell drama America Hustle, in theaters Dec. 18. For her role, Adams told Vanity Fair she lost weight to look "hungry and tan" for the '70s-era film, which required skimpy, braless costumes and a "sort of a laissez-faire attitude about what your breasts are doing." Adams explained to the magazine, "It's amazing what a tan can do. Because I'm not tan, so that was fun to play with."
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Newly discovered evidence shows the radical advocacy group ACORN has a man in the Obama White House. This power behind the throne is longtime ACORN operative Patrick Gaspard. He holds the title of White House political affairs director, the same title Karl Rove held in President Bush's White House. Evidence shows that years before he joined the Obama administration, Gaspard was ACORN boss Bertha Lewis's political director in New York. more…..
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…failure to report what appeared to be a case of statuatory rape of a child may be the least of Jennings' worries. Lori Roman of Regular Folks United points to statements by Jennings a decade or more ago when he praised Harry Hay of the North American Association for Man-Boy Love Association (NAMBLA), which promotes the legalization of sexual abuse of young boys by older men.
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SYRACUSE Syracuse coach Jim Boeheim paid freshman point guard Tyler Ennis the ultimate compliment with only six words.
I dont even think about him, Boeheim said Friday night after No. 8 Syracuses 79-41 exhibition victory over Division II Holy Family.
Ennis, replacing NBA lottery pick Michael Carter-Williams, started with Trevor Cooney in the backcourt and finished with 12 points and three assists. C.J. Fair, Rakeem Christmas, and Dajuan Coleman started up front for the Orange as the frontcourt from last years Final Four team remained intact.
Syracuse scored the first 10 points and steadily pulled away as Holy Family missed its first five shots and struggled to find any open space. Ennis, one offour freshmen for the Orange, was 3 for 3 from the floor and had a team-high 10 points in the opening half as the Orange limited Holy Family to 6 of 30 shooting, 1 of 16 on 3-pointers, and led 38-13 at the break.
I felt great out there, Ennis said. We have a lot of veterans on this years team. Theyve gotten me comfortable and helped me learn the ropes of the offense.
Fair and Jerami Grant each had 13 points to pace the Orange and freshman Ron Patterson had 11.
Isaiah Gans led Holy Family with 10 points.
Despite the lopsided win, Syracuse played in fits and spurts, committed 18 turnovers, and the smaller Tigers even managed five blocks.
I think as a team we can take a lot from this game, said Fair, who also had nine rebounds and five assists with four turnovers. Its definitely a learning game. We had some ups and downs and lack of effort, stuff like that. We got it going a little bit the first half, a little bit the second half. But we need to learn to keep our rhythm throughout the game.
Patterson was 4 of 7 overall and 3 of 5 from behind the arc, but freshmen Tyler Roberson (2 of 7) and B.J. Johnson (1 of 6) didnt fare so well. And Michael Gbinije, who sat out last season after transferring from Duke, was 1 of 6 from the field and missed all four long-range shots he attempted.
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I have a few games that have missing game pieces or we just don't play anymore. I would like to take the game pieces and make something out of them, but I am not sure what I can make out of them. Does anyone have any ideas?
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1. Glue assorted pieces to the edges of a wide wooden frame which u have painted to make a one of a kind frame for someone's favourite board game.
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If they are flat, you can make magnets out of them. If they are three dimensional, you can possibly find a great laminated book mark or make your own, then put a hole punch in it and string some pretty ribbon into the hole and attach the item to the end. Some can be strung onto necklaces or made into earring. Good luck!
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Go to Crafty Uses for Game Pieces lot of info there, good luck.
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I have 3 tickets in my hot hand to give away to the Laneway Festival (the one that we have been advertising for months). It is at Silo Park down at the waterfront in Auckland on the Monday the 28th of January. I'll hand out tickets for those who request them (e-mail to me) in the usual order – authors, commentators, and readers and then on order of request. So tell me who you are on the site.
The forecast looks good, so hopefully it will be like the image on the right (flogged from scoop).
The schedule is here. It runs from 11:30am to 10:30pm over 4 stages. The list of the artists is here. I had fun listening to their clips in bed the other night on the pad. Even to my ancient ears most of them sound pretty good.
While I did rather like the idea of going to a music festival in the city. But unfortunately the vagaries of my workload and Lyn's precluded me from snaffling some tickets myself. But I suspect that armed with suitable levels of sunscreen and liquids, it will wind up as being a pleasant day.
See, this would never happen on Red Alert.
Why would I waste time on trademe? Frigging hell I barely have enough time to swallow pills every day – and they keep me alive ! Every time I have been on Trademe it has a return value that I could get flipping burgers. And that was when I was doing well – which was seldom.
My grandparents used to work at Crown Lynn doing quality control and experiments. My parents selling their household was the only time I have ever seen ANYONE make a decent return on trademe… And that taught me that the only way to make real money of trademe was to sell crap.
"And that taught me that the only way to make real money of trademe was to sell crap."
And here's me, been sitting on a fortune all these years without knowing it 😆
Fabulous time…a great event


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20th Anniversary ADA Justice & Equality Gala July 24, 2010
The Arizona Disability Advocacy Coalition (AzDAC) has announced the recipients of the 2010 Americans with Disabilities Act Awards. The winners were honored at the 20th Anniversary ADA Gala, held recently at the Tempe Mission Palms hotel. The individuals and organizations that received awards were honored for their work on behalf of the disability community.
The "ADA Title I – Justice and Equality Employment Liberty Award," honored a community member or organization that has made a positive, proactive impact in ensuring justice and equality in the workplace. The two awardees in this category were the Arizona Humane Society on Eugie Ave. in Phoenix and Cottonwood Safeway.
The "ADA Title II – Justice and Equality Public Entities (State and Local Government) Liberty Award" honored a state or local government entity that demonstrates facility or program accessibility, or that has made a positive, proactive impact in ensuring justice and equality for people with disabilities. The two honorees in this category were the Town of Chino Valley and the City of Scottsdale. The Town of Chino Valley was recognized for its paratransit system for seniors and residents with disabilities, while the City of Scottsdale was honored in partnership with the McDowell Sonoran Conservancy for the Bajada Nature Trail.
The "ADA Title III – Justice and Equality Private Entities/Public Accommodations Liberty Award" recognized a private business or organization that is a good example of facility or program accessibility for Arizonans with disabilities or that has made a positive, proactive impact in ensuring justice and equality for Arizonans with disabilities. The honoree in this category was AJ's Fine Foods of Mesa for the location's conscious efforts to make the store layout, displays and products accessible for persons with disabilities.
The "ADA Title IV – Justice and Equality Telecommunications Liberty Award" was given to a community member and/or organization that demonstrates full accessibility for Arizonans with disabilities or that has made a positive, proactive impact in ensuring justice and equality in the area of telecommunications. The winner in this category was Arizona Relay Service.
The "2010 ADA Community Advocate Liberty Award" honored a community member that has been a dedicated advocate for the justice and equality of Arizonans with disabilities. The winner was Pam Allan, a community advocate and resident of Phoenix.
The "2010 ADA Copper Canyon Public Policy Maker Liberty Award," was given to a public policy maker or policy makers that have taken action to protect or improve the justice and equality of Arizonans with disabilities. The recipient of this award was Sen. Meg Burton Cahill of District 17.
The "2010 ADA Justice and Equality Pioneer Liberty Award" honored a community member, organization or public policy maker (or makers) that has broken
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"Each year we honor individuals and organizations for their work on behalf of people with disabilities, whether that be improving accessibility in public accommodations, working on legislation to ensure disability rights or helping others advocate for themselves," said Sherri Collins, AzDAC chair and executive director of Arizona Commission for the Deaf and the Hard of Hearing. "This year's awards were particularly special because we were – and still are – celebrating the 20th anniversary of the ADA. All the recipients were very deserving, and we are grateful for their work in the disability community."
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Cherokee is an Iroquoian language. The lower towns spoke the Elati dialect; the middle towns spoke the Kituhwa dialect; the upper (overhill and valley) towns spoke the Atali dialect. The dialects were mutually intelligible with difficulty.
The tribe's chief deity was the sun, which may have had a feminine identity. The people conceived of the cosmos as being divided into three parts: an upper world, this world, and a lower world. Each contained numerous spiritual beings that resided in specific places. The four cardinal directions were replete with social significance. Tribal mythology, symbols, and beliefs were complex, and there were also various associated taboos, customs, and social and personal rules.
Many ceremonies revolved around subsistence activities as well as healing. The primary one was the annual Green Corn ceremony (Busk), observed when the last corn crop ripened. Medicine people (men and women) could, by magical means, influence events and the lives and fortunes of people. Witches, when discovered, were summarily killed. Learning sorcery took a lifetime. Medicine powers could be used for good or evil, and the associated beads, crystals, and formulas were a regular part of many people's lives.
The various Cherokee villages formed a loose confederacy. There were two chiefs per village: a red, or war, chief, and a white chief (Most Beloved Man or Woman), who was associated with civil, economic, religious, and juridical functions. Chiefs could be male or female, and there was little or no hereditary component. There was also a village council, in which women sat, although usually only as observers. The Cherokee were not a cohesive political entity until the late 18th century at the earliest.
There were seven matrilineal clans in the early historic period. The Cherokee regularly engaged in ceremonial purification, and they paid careful attention to their dreams. Both men and women, married and single, enjoyed a high degree of sexual freedom. Divorce was possible; men who were thrown out returned to their mothers. Children were treated gently, and they behaved with decorum. In general, the Cherokee, valuing harmony as well as generosity, tried to avoid conflict.
Intraclan, but not interclan, murder was a capital offense. Names were changed or added to frequently. As with chiefs, towns may also have been considered red and white. Women owned the houses and their contents; this custom, along with matrilineal descent and the clan system, weakened with increasing exposure to non-Native society. People did not address each other directly. In place of public sanctions, Cherokee used ostracism and public scorn to enforce social norms.
Towns were located along rivers and streams. They contained a central ceremonial place and in the early historic period were often surrounded by palisades. People built rectangular summer houses of pole frames and wattle, walls of cane matting and clay plaster, and gabled bark or thatch roofs. The houses, about 60 or 70 feet by 15 feet, were often divided into three parts: a kitchen, a dining area, and bedrooms. Some were two stories high, with the upper walls open for ventilation. There was probably one door. Beds were made of rush mats over wood splints, and animal skins served as bedding.
Cherokee were primarily farmers. Women grew corn (three kinds), beans, squash, sunflowers, and tobacco, the latter used ceremonially. Wild foods included roots, crab apples, persimmons, plums, cherries, grapes, hickory nuts, walnuts, chestnuts, and berries. Men hunted various animals, including deer, bear, raccoon, rabbit, squirrel, turkey, and rattlesnake. They fished occasionally, and they collected maple sap in earthen pots and boiled it into syrup. Hunting gear included the bow and arrow, stone hatchet, and flint knife. Smaller animals and birds were shot with darts blown out of hollow nine- to ten-foot-long cane stems; these blowguns were accurate up to sixty feet.
Cherokee pipes were widely admired and easily exported. The people also traded maple sugar and syrup. They imported shell wampum that was used as money. Their plaited cane baskets, pottery, and masks carved of wood and gourds were especially fine.
Men built 30- to 40-foot-long canoes of fire-hollowed pine or poplar logs. Each canoe could hold between 15 and 20 people. Women made most clothing of buckskin and other skins and furs as well as of mulberry-bark fibers. Men wore breechclouts; women wore skirts. In the winter, both wore bear or buffalo robes. Men also wore shirts and leggings, and women wore capes. Both sexes wore moccasins as well as nose ornaments, bracelets, and body paint.
Each village had a red (war) chief as well as a War Woman, who accompanied war parties. She fed the men, gave advice, and determined the fate of prisoners. Women also distinguished themselves in combat and often tortured prisoners of war. The people often painted themselves, as well as their canoes and paddles, for war. The party carried an ark or medicine chest to war, and it left a war club engraved with its exploits in enemy territory.
The Cherokee probably originated in the upper Ohio Valley, the Great Lakes region, or someplace else in the north. They may also have been related to the Mound Builders. The town of Echota, on the Little Tennessee River, may have been the ancient capital of the Cherokee Nation.
They encountered Hernando de Soto about 1540, probably not long after they arrived in their historic homeland. Spanish attacks against the Indians commenced shortly thereafter, although new diseases probably weakened the people even before Spanish soldiers began killing them. There were also contacts with the French and especially the British in the early 17th century. Traders brought guns around 1700, along with debilitating alcohol.
The Cherokee fought a series of wars with Tuscarora, Shawnee, Catawba, Creek, and Chickasaw Indians early in the 18th century. In 1760 the Cherokee, led by Chief Oconostota, fought the British as a protest against unfair trade practices and violence practiced against them as a group. Cherokee raided settlements and captured a British fort but were defeated after two years of fighting by the British scorched-earth policy. The peace treaty cost the Cherokee much of their eastern land, and, in fact, they never fully recovered their prominence after that time.
Significant depopulation resulted from several mid-18th century epidemics. Cherokee support for Britain during the American Revolution encouraged attacks by North Carolina militia. Finally, some Cherokee who lived near Chattanooga relocated in 1794 to Arkansas and Texas and in 1831 to Indian Territory (Oklahoma). These people eventually became known as the western Cherokee.
After the American Revolution, Cherokee adopted British-style farming, cattle ranching, business, and government, becoming relatively cohesive and prosperous. They also owned slaves. They sided with the United States in the 1813 Creek War, during which a Cherokee saved Andrew Jackson's life. The tribe enjoyed a cultural renaissance between about 1800 and 1830, although they were under constant pressure for land cession and riven by internal political factionalism.
The Cherokee Nation was founded in 1827 with "Western" democratic institutions and a written constitution (which specifically disenfranchised African Americans and women). By then, Cherokee were intermarrying regularly with non-Natives and were receiving increased missionary activity, especially in education. Sequoyah (also known as George Gist) is credited with devising a Cherokee syllabary in 1821 and thus providing his people with a written language. During the late 1820s, the people began publishing a newspaper, the Cherokee Phoenix.
The discovery of gold in their territory led in part to the Indian Removal Act (1830), requiring the Cherokee (among other tribes) to relocate west of the Mississippi River. When a small minority of Cherokee signed the Treaty of New Echota (1835), ceding the tribe's last remaining eastern lands, local non-Natives immediately began appropriating the Indians' land and plundering their homes and possessions. The Native Americans were forced into internment camps, where many died, although over 1,000 escaped to the mountains of North Carolina, where they became the progenitors of what came to be called the eastern band of Cherokees.
The removal, known as the Trail of Tears, began in 1838. Native Americans were forced to walk 1,000 miles through severe weather without adequate food and clothing. About 4,000 Cherokee, almost a quarter of the total, died during the removal, and more died once the people reached the Indian Territory, where they joined—and largely absorbed—the group already there. Following their arrival in Indian Territory, the Cherokee quickly adopted another constitution and reestablished their institutions and facilities, including newspapers and schools. Under Chief John Ross, most Cherokee supported slavery and also supported the Confederate cause in the Civil War.
The huge "permanent" Indian Territory was often reduced in size. When the northern region was removed to create the states of Kansas and Nebraska, Natives living there were again forcibly resettled. One result of the Dawes Act (late 1880s) was the "sale" (the virtual appropriation) of roughly 2 million acres of Indian land in Oklahoma. Oklahoma became a territory in 1890 and a state in 1907. Although the Cherokee and other tribes resisted allotment, Congress forced them to acquiesce in 1898. Their land was individually allotted in 1902, at about the same time their Native governments were officially "terminated."
Ten years after the Cherokee removal, the U.S. Congress ceased efforts to round up the eastern Cherokee. They received North Carolina state citizenship in 1866 and incorporated as the eastern band of Cherokee Indians in 1889. In the early 20th century, many eastern Cherokee were engaged in subsistence farming and in the local timber industry. Having resisted allotment, the tribe took steps to ensure that it would always own its land. Although the Cherokee suffered greatly during the Depression, the Great Smoky Mountain National Park (1930s) served as the center of a growing tourist industry.
In the 1930s, the United Keetoowah Band (UKB), a group of full-bloods opposed to assimilation, formally separated from the Oklahoma Cherokee. (The name "Keetoowah" derives from an ancient town in western North Carolina.) The group originated in the antiallotment battles at the end of the 19th century. In the early 20th century the UKB reconstructed several traditional political structures, such as the seven clans and white towns, as well as some ancient cultural practices that did not survive the move west. They received federal recognition in 1946.
Barry M. Pritzker
Further Reading
Debo, Angie. A History of the Indians of the United States. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1970; Iverson, Peter. "We Are Still Here": American Indians in the Twentieth Century. Arlington Heights, IL: Davidson, 1998; Power, Susan C. Early Art of the Southeastern Indians: Feathered Serpents and Winged Beings. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2004; Rawls, James. Chief Red Fox is Dead: A History of Native Americans in the Twentieth Century. Fort Worth, TX: Harcourt Brace College Publishing, 1996; Conley, Robert J. The Cherokee Nation: A History. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2005.


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Rochard, a game built on the Unity engine by Recall Games, and perfectly compatible with the Linux platform, has been officially launched on Steam for Linux, and it even received a new patch.
Rochard was created long before Unity Technologies announced that their engine would also be Linux-compatible, but the developers had to make some modifications in order to port it to Steam.
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Washington, DC (Februay 7, 2007) --
The National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers will file a lawsuit tomorrow against the Chicago police and other Illinois police departments that participated in a controversial study of eyewitness and police lineups. The police refused to provide the underlying data and protocols supporting the report's controversial conclusion that current eyewitness procedures—those that use traditional line ups where all suspects stand in a room together—are more effective than new procedures in which witnesses view one suspect at a time under the supervision of an officer who does not know who the suspect is in the line up.
The report astounded many people in the legal community because previous research has shown that these updated identification procedures can significantly reduce the rate of erroneous eyewitness identifications.
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In Illinois alone, 54 innocent people have spent a total of 601 years behind bars because of erroneous eyewitness convictions, according a new analysis by Center on Wrongful Convictions. In an effort to reduce false convictions, experts have found and tested new methods for eyewitness identification that have been proven to work. Because the Illinois report, released in 2006, finds that traditional lineups are more effective than these new methods and contradicts all previous research on eyewitness identification, many legal experts and professionals suspect the research is flawed.
As a result, MacArthur Justice Center, on behalf of National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, requested the data on which the report's findings were based but the request was refused or ignored by all police departments involved.
They will file a lawsuit tomorrow in state court seeking a court order directing the police departments involved—Chicago, Joliet, Evanston and Illinois—to turn over the underlying data from the taxpayer funded report.
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Area residents shed pounds
ANDERSON COUNTY - Michael Straup was on his way Friday evening to reaching a goal — to be in better shape.
"I had a bad doctor's appointment a few weeks ago," he said. "I needed something like this to kind of get motivated."
Mr. Straup, 30, of Anderson joined thousands of Anderson County residents Friday by visiting an Anderson Area Shrinkdown weigh-in site. Mr. Straup, who weighed in at the Anderson Area YMCA, had lost two pounds since Monday.
"The tough part is to see how long I can make it last," he said.
As of Friday evening, the Anderson Area Shrinkdown had the most participants in the South Carolina Shrinkdown out of the 12 participating YMCAs, according to organizers. As of 7:30 p.m. Friday, there were about 4,377 people participating from Anderson County and more than 4,000 pounds had been lost by Anderson County participants since Monday.
As of 7:30 p.m. Friday, about 1,500 people had weighed in during the day at four of the more than 10 weigh-in sites in Anderson County, according to organizers. Numbers weren't available Friday night for the other sites.
"We are just blown away," said Joe Drennon, CEO of the Anderson Area YMCA. "The community has been so receptive to this wellness initiative."
But the success of the free eight-week program can't truly be measured until it's over.
"The success of this program lies in the fact of how many folks stay with it the entire eight weeks," Mr. Drennon said.
John and Betty Gurrad of Belton were also at the Anderson Area YMCA Friday evening to weigh in. Mr. Gurrad, 63, said his lifestyle has changed since retirement. He said he and his wife, who is 59 years old, go out to eat more.
"I put on over 20 pounds in two years," he said. "I'm hoping maybe I can learn something … and eventually get it back down."
Although Mr. Gurrad didn't lose weight during the first week of the program, he said he hopes that changes next week.
"We hope to do better," he said.
Visit www.andersonareashrinkdown.com or call (864) 716-6809 for more information about the Anderson Area Shrinkdown. The Pickens County YMCA is also participating in the South Carolina Shrinkdown.
Weigh-in dates and sites
Weigh in every Friday from Jan. 12 to March 2
Anderson Area YMCA 6 to 9 a.m., 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., 4 to 7 p.m.
Anderson County Health Department 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.
AnMed Health Iva Family Medicine 9 a.m. to noon
AnMed Health Obesity Care/Surgical Consultants 10 to 11:30 a.m., 2 to 4:30 p.m.
AnMed health Westside Community Center 9 to 11:30 a.m., 2 to 4:30 p.m.
AnMed Health Williamston Pharmacy 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Belton Middle School 3:30 to 5:20 p.m.
City of Anderson Recreation Center 7 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Tri-County Technical College 8:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.
Watkins School Community Center — Honea Path 9 a.m. to noon
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Week 1 — "S.M.A.R.T. — setting realistic goals"
Week 2 — "Walking for wellness — step to good health"
Week 3 — "The Shape of a healthy diet"
Week 4 — "How to build a strong future"
Week 5 — "Navigating the supermarket"
Week 6 — "The ins and outs of eating"
Week 7 — "Weight management that works"
Week 8 — "Foods that fight disease"
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6:30 to 7:30 p.m. at Anderson University, Watkins Building, room 100
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