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Name: JAMBOX by Jawbone
What it is: A rechargeable Bluetooth wireless smart speaker that packs a big sound into a box that's less than 6 inches long, 2 inches tall and about 11/2 inches deep. It includes a built-in microphone for phone calls, and features proprietary acoustic stereo drivers and a passive bass radiator. Jawbone says JAMBOX gets better over time because its MyTALK feature allows users to personalize their JAMBOX with a signature voice and add audio apps and software updates. The speaker is available in red dot, gray hex, blue wave and black diamond designs, and comes with two micro-USB charging cables (60-inch and 12.5-inch), a wall charger, sleek black carrying case and a 36-inch, 3.5-mm stereo cable for laptops or devices without Bluetooth connectivity.
The good: The JAMBOX pairs easily with my iMac and my iPhone 4S; the simple, intuitive settings make it easy to use straight out of the box with barely a glance at its operating guide. I preferred the Real Audio setting, which delivers a more acoustic sound without any pounding bass. I downloaded "The Rogue" from MyTALK to my JAMBOX, so it speaks with a sexy quasi-Italian accent, and when the Bluetooth connects, JAMBOX makes a kissing sound. Voices include a bombshell and a mobster. Used with my iPhone, the speaker's battery life is displayed on my phone screen. Pressing and releasing the "on" button also displays the charge.
The bad: The volume can be cranked only about half as high on the Real Audio setting, so I sometimes switch to the default setting when I want to boost volume. I wish the speaker cost a bit less. (At last check, Amazon was selling JAMBOX as low as $170.)
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Derek Sanderson recalls mixing cocktails in a salad spinner and consuming four bottles of Soave Bolla wine before noon "just to get square." Then there were the pills and drugs and the women the former Boston Bruins star partied with. Sanderson tells it all in a new book, "Crossing the Line: The Outrageous Story of a Hockey Original."
TORONTO — Derek Sanderson recalls mixing cocktails in a salad spinner and consuming four bottles of Soave Bolla wine before noon "just to get square."
Then there were the pills and drugs and the women the former Boston Bruins star partied with.
Sanderson tells it all in a new book, "Crossing the Line: The Outrageous Story of a Hockey Original."
"I'm different," Sanderson said. "I have found that I really am different. There's nobody like me. And not that it's good or bad."
Written with Kevin Shea, the book goes from a spur-of-the-moment cash purchase of a Rolls-Royce to sleeping under a bridge and stealing bottles of booze.
Known as the Turk, Sanderson won the Calder Memorial Trophy as the NHL's top rookie in 1967-68. He won two Stanley Cups with the Bruins before jumping to the Philadelphia Blazers of the newly formed World Hockey Association in 1972, but before his first season in the rival league had ended he was back with the Bruins. Subsequent NHL stints included stops with the New York Rangers, St. Louis Blues, Vancouver Canucks and Pittsburgh Penguins. He ended his playing career in Pittsburgh in 1977-78, finishing with 202 goals, 250 assists and 911 penalty minutes in 598 NHL games.
In his heyday, he was half of Boston's top penalty-killing tandem with regular linemate Ed Westfall. A stalwart faceoff man, Sanderson was master of the sweep check and could also produce a clutch goal. And he fit right in with the Big, Bad Bruins, always willing to drop his gloves and stand toe to toe. Sanderson may have only been the Bruins' third-line center, but he was arguably their third biggest star after Bobby Orr and Phil Esposito.
Away from the ice, the flamboyant Sanderson partnered with Joe Namath and Red Sox right fielder Ken Harrelson in a bar called The Bachelors 3 before starting his own string of restaurants. He would not bat an eye at gathering a group of friends — including three actresses and two Playboy Bunnies — and flying them to Hawaii on the spot.
The conditions were they had to leave with nothing more than the clothes on their back and they couldn't phone anybody.
Sanderson put everything on his American Express card.
Sanderson once fell asleep on the beach and woke up with a nasty sunburn on the left side of his face and back.
"I had a line starting on my forehead, running right down the middle of my nose," he wrote.
Recovered to the point he could golf, he bought two sets of clubs and everything else needed to play. He ended up giving his clubs to his caddy as a tip.
"I did that a few times," he wrote. "I had a bunch of money and I hate carrying clubs to the airport. It was the easy way out."
Perhaps it's no surprise a movie on his life is in the works.
The book details the 66-year-old Sanderson's long list of injuries and eventual decline, both on and off the ice.
A fear of flying triggered his drinking. Pain in his hips prompted him to take barbiturates to help him sleep, paving the way for a laundry list of drugs.
Sanderson is not shy with his hockey opinions — Ken Dryden, for example, "wasn't that good. He was just different." The sentiment could be a volley back at the Montreal Hall of Fame goaltender for his own low opinion of Sanderson expressed in his 1979 book "The Game."
Sanderson uses his book to thank many friends and former teammates, Orr foremost among them, for helping him emerge from the shadows.
Today, he is married with two sons. He has remade his life, serving first as NESN's analyst for Bruins games and then learning the investment business.
Having lost much of his hockey earnings — he refuses in the book to even name the now-deceased lawyer who handled his affairs — Sanderson now helps athletes manage their money as vice president of Baystate Wealth Management. Orr was his first client, followed by Cam Neely, Joe Juneau and Glen Wesley. His goal is to prevent today's players from going through what happened to him.
"It's an ugly day when they tell you you're broke," he said.
After 10 hip surgeries, he walks with a limp. He is a survivor of prostate cancer and two heart attacks.
Sanderson concludes his book is about conquering fear, which he sees as "God's way of keeping you tentative about something that can harm you."
"We avoid fear at all costs," he writes. "Your career path is defined by your fears ... Courage is the ability to deal with fear. It took a lot of courage for me to face my demons."
In an interview, he confesses a more basic motivation behind the book.
"College costs $58,000," he said.

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Wednesday, February 06, 2008
Sept Guerrieres Update
Hey folks haven't updated in a while. I thought I'd give an update on Sept Guerrieres, my upcoming graphic novel from French publisher Editions-Delcourt. It's in the coloring stages right now and they are expecting to have the book published around May. I don't have the exact date but as soon as I do I'll make sure to post it. In the mean time here are some penciled previews, and if you're fluent in French you can check out a recent TV special on the Sept books here: http://www.publicsenat.fr/cms/video-a-la-demande/vod.html?idE=56567
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- massacremike said...
Heya Francis,
Thanks for responding to my question about the alien world from your last set of posted pages. I now realize it's the ski resort world from Legion - just read the issue.
Also wanted to say thanks for the Batman sketch and the chat at the con on the weekend. A pleasure hearing your stories and advice.
These new pages you've posted are awesome. Is the first one a smaller, thumbnail version? Or is the second page the exact same page as the first one, just rendered and tidied up? Oh, and what's up with the word balloons? Did you just draw them in for composition purposes - I've always thought they are put in digitally, afterwords.
Thanks man!
- fjm said...
Thanks Mike! and no problem, you should have introduced yourself as a blog watcher..heh. As for the french page actually the layout page is full size I then lightboxed it onto another art board. The reason for such a big layout is that well, these type of graphic novels have lots of panels and I need all the room I can get. The layout has the balloons with the text in it so that my editor knows how it reads. he often edits it afterwards by either taking some away or adding. On the finished page I just draw the balloons for them to fit in the text afterwards. I'm used to the american way of just having a letterer do it digitally but the french is kinda oldschool in that sense I suppose. Initially they even wanted me to letter it by hand which if they ever saw my hand writing would just be a disaster. So I convinced them to just let me letter the layouts and get someone to copy and paste in the test on the final image scan. It's quite a process but it works.
- massacremike said...
Hey Francis,
Thanks for the detailed explanation of the process - very interesting indeed. As for being a blog watcher, wellll, I didn't really know you had a blog before we met last weekend. I think I'd seen your livejournal site/blog before but that was about it. I just got into the blogging thing myself so after meeting at the show I came home and looked for you main site and also found your blog. I think you can probably link to my blog from my posts here, yeah? Anway, I have some better design ideas and am just working on setting up a new, different blog today actually. I'll link you to it once I have it up and you can take a peak at some of my art if you've got a spare moment.
Cheers for now, Mike
- Sebs said...
Ooooh nice :D Can't wait to read it. Also, as I'm french, I've seen that show on the TV and I appreciated to learn more about "7 Guerrières" ;)
Also, I don't know if you heard about that but here, in France, "the Necromancer" had a pretty good success.
Actually, so much that Delcourt is now planning to re-edit your run on Witchblade. Which is a great news for all the fans, because we never get it entirely with the past editor who had the rights for the translation...
So, we're gonna have a lots of FJM stuff in France on this year :)
- Blaz!! said...
Very impressive! These pages are awesome and count on me to buy it when it releases in France!
Congrats! :)


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"U.S. equities have recouped their Spring swoon as a litany of Fed governors' pronouncements have on balance calmed fears QE tapering might begin before the U.S. recovery is strong enough to handle it," according to Alec Young, global equity strategist at S&P Capital IQ. "This more dovish Fed perception, coupled with a recent softening in economic news flow has hit bond yields and the greenback, while emerging market stocks have finally caught a bid—outperforming the S&P by 2.6 percent since July 10—as carry trade unwinding has eased. Turning back to the U.S., second-quarter beats will now need to take the lead in fueling stocks, as we think a more dovish Fed is now priced into a very overbought market."


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FORT MEADE, Md. – A military judge says she expects to announce a verdict Tuesday in the court-martial of an Army private charged with aiding the enemy for giving U.S. secrets to WikiLeaks.
Col. Denise Lind gave the heads-up notice Monday, her third day of deliberations in the trial of Pfc. Bradley Manning at Fort Meade. Manning faces a possible life sentence if convicted of the charge.
The 25-year-old also faces 20 other counts, including espionage, computer fraud and theft for admittedly sending hundreds of thousands of classified documents and some battlefield video to the anti-secrecy website while working as an intelligence analyst in Iraq.
In closing arguments last week, the defense portrayed Manning as a naive whistleblower who wanted to expose war crimes. Prosecutors call him an anarchist hacker and a traitor.


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WiiMC - Using Wii Media Centre with the LinkStation
Wii Media Centre (WiiMC)
WiiMC[1][2] (Wii Media Centre) is is a free and open source media player for the Wii home video game console. WiiMC uses MPlayer to play media files, and is considered Wii homebrew. [3]
- Many Audio and Video codecs are supported.
- DVD playback is possible with DVD menu support, however newer Wiis have incompatible drives.
- Picture viewing is supported
WiiMC allows media to be read locally from the device itself through FAT32/NTFS from SD and USB 2.0 or via local Network playback via Samba, HTTP, and FTP. On-line media support, including SHOUTcast, YouTube, and Navi-X is also supported.
The Wii hardware provides limitations as to the media playback capabilities of WiiMC. The console is not capable of Audio CD playback. Video playback is limited by the Wii's hardware to 480p or 576i. Multichannel sound (5.1) is not possible as the Wii hardware has only two analogue audio output channels (2.0)
Install WiiMC
Setup The Homebrew Channel
This is a step-by-step guide of how to install the Homebrew Channel on your Wii console[4]:
Install the Homebrew Browser
Use this guide to install the Homebrew Browser[5]:
Setup WiiMC
You can then use the Homebrew Browser to install the WiiMC application[2]
Once you've set it up, you can nose around and see what it can do, this is a pretty good video guide to setting up the WiiMC.
On the Wii
Setting up a Samba Share:
- For this you need to know your Linkstation's ip address
- Make sure you know the name of the samba share you setup
- Open WiiMC and go to "Settings"...Its to the right of the screen. Click "Network" down the bottom. Click "Add SMB Share"
- Using the details you grabbed before enter the name of the folder you are sharing (e.g., movies, music) and give it a "display name". They can be the same. Add your ipaddress, username and password.
On the Linkstation
For some reason the newest version doesn't work well with older versions of Samba, this probably has something to do with UTF-8 support[6]. WiiMC uses a purpose built Samba implementation called Tinysmb[7] which was originally designed for the GameCube.
You can use an older version of WiiMC with the default older version of samba, or you can upgrade Samba using debian backports to use with the newest version of WiiMC.
With Samba 3.2.5 and WiiMC v1.04
Samba 3.2.5 is now Debian Lenny's included package, use this with WiiMC v1.04[8]. There is still some instability with Samba shares that have directories with alot of files/directories, it just seems to cause the whole system to crash. Also USB media doesn't work in this version well at all.
With Samba 3.4.8 and WiiMC v1.09+
Samba 3.4.8 is now in Debian Lenny's backports repository, you can use this with the newest version of WiiMC. [8]. This has pretty good stability for large directories, and of course USB media works well in this release. To enable backports you need to do the following:
- 1. Add this line:
deb http://www.backports.org/debian lenny-backports main contrib non-free
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|2012-05-08, 13:24
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Unless by last time, you mean the berserk form, that Tsukune has changed into, when his powers went out of control during the human modification ritual - so, if that's the form you have in mind, then sorry to disappoint you but the possibility that Tsukune is going to transform into that form is pretty small.
I assume the form Tsukune is going to take, is going to be the same one, that Tsukune had during his second fight with Kuyou.
|2012-05-08, 14:39
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Although I doubt that Tsukune's powers is at a similar level as it has been in Tsukune's berserk form, since it most likely depends on how much of the seal on the Holy Lock have been removed earlier.
So, I would say that Tsukune's power level would be equal to his berserk form if he completely removed every layer of the seal contained in the Holy Lock, but at the current moment I don't think that Tsukune's human sanity can withstand that for a longer period of time, since I believe that with each layer of the Holy Lock being removed, the corruptive influence of the Shinso blood becomes stronger, and at the current moment I would say that Tsukune can still manage to resist the corruptive influence of the Holy Lock, only when at least two layers of the Holy Lock have been removed, and a higher number of layers of the Holy Lock being removed would pretty much cause the corruptive influence of the Shinso blood becoming too strong leading to, well... the birth of a "second Alucard".
In other words, I doubt that Tsukune is capable of consciously using such a huge amount of his Shinso abilities.
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|2012-05-08, 16:27
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Since I believe the code we go by is that once the scanlation's out, spoiler tags don't have to be used...
First off, we don't have confirmation of corpses yet, so there's still a lot of hope for Kurumu and Mizore. Actually, I gotta give credit to Akua- she's getting into the villain level where as much as it would be a Bad End, I sorta just want to see the red button pressed and everything go to hell, namely with Tsukune coming in and going into Kill Mode, which would probably also awaken Alucard and then boom goes the dynamite. Unfortunately, it's probably going to take until the August issue (i.e., the one released in July) for Tsukune to show up and deliver Akua's long-awaited beatdown.
On a very bad side note, although I have hope for Kurumu and Mizore, this again may be Ikeda-sensei's way of cropping the harem...
|2012-05-08, 20:49
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Many great, long-running series have ended prematurely because the mangaka didn't want the publisher usurping their work. All we can do now is cross our fingers and hope that's not the case with R+V II.
|2012-05-08, 21:18
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Ohh that's bad news indeed. :worried:
On the manga with Omote Mok's. I think there will be a similar plot here like in the anime Issa having another cross to bring back Omote Moka when she turns to Ura Mok's.
|2012-05-08, 23:01
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Well, we can only hope that won't cause R+V to end prematurely, which would be a pretty damn shame. Anyway it's pretty old news, since that post came from the end of march, which was already some time ago, and I might be a little behind, but I haven't heard of that many popular manga ending prematurely, due to this law, besides Negima of course.
On topic:
Well, Kenji's proposition has a chance of happening, but to me that solution sounds a little too convenient to be actually used in the story. Not to mention that, I would like Ikeda to use his own original idea's, rather then reuse something that the anime of R+V has done.
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|2012-05-09, 00:31
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|2012-05-09, 01:17
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Still, I think that we won't see Tsukune using a huge extent of his Shinso vampire abilities, due to the threat of Alucard's revival, but he will most likely compensate that disadvantage by using youjutsu techniques, which should be pretty interesting as well, since Ikeda hasn't revealed much about youjutsu techniques so far.
|2012-05-09, 02:11
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|2012-05-09, 02:23
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And while I agree that the fight between Tsukune and Akua is going to be quite interesting, what I can't wait to see is how Inner Moka's and Tsukune's reunion is going to look like, as well as, how Inner Moka is going to react to the current "new" Tsukune, who's completely different then the "boy" she left behind one month - at least when it comes to the stage of Tsukune's vampire transformation, since his personality hasn't changed much.
|2012-05-09, 02:51
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But that giant monster Alucrad whos goning to control it if it's awake.
|2012-05-09, 03:40
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Not to mention the fact that something strange is happening to him, as Kurumu and Mizore mentioned in chapter 52, so Alucard's revival might not actually be what Fairy Tale is aiming to do - after all Miyabi's intentions and the reason why he is "helping" Tsukune and his friends, in their mission to save Moka, haven't been revealed yet.
On a different topic, I think that we are getting pretty close to the moment, when volume 11 is going to be released, so anyone has a guess on who is going to be on the cover of volume 11, since I believe that the person put on the cover is going to be either Outer or Inner Moka, or maybe both of Moka's personalities are going to be put on the cover together
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|2012-05-09, 05:45
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@Chris38 agreed it will be a damn shame if it ends now when it's getting better. Let's just hope and pray it won't end.
On topic:
it would be convenient indeed, but I see no other thing that can bring Omote back if the cross breaks.
|2012-05-09, 07:01
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I was just tinkling..if the Masked man can be able to control Alucard...
and Yeah..for the vol 11 cover..both of Moka's personality can be good.
|2012-05-09, 07:41
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As for the Masked King, maybe he doesn't care about controlling Alucard at all, and WANTS to see everyone at Fairy Tale HQ becoming lunch. After all, it's been done before. "Final boss" villain secretly unleashes horrific "unstoppable" evil, people get killed, panic ensues and then steps forward and promises to save everyone IF he gets put in charge. Once put in charge, crisis is solved, but he never steps down, and too late reveals his true character.
That's the scenario I see for Alucard awakening. The Masked King has ALREADY been shown to eliminate "loyal" followers when they become inconvenient by fabricating an excuse.
|2012-05-09, 07:57
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Heh, I already raged about that particular bit of news before so it doesn't faze me now. But let it be known - if they should succeed in passing that law, (which it should be an option open to the manga-ka if they want to 'sell' their character(s) rights to anyone), if they EVER should try to make our lovely (manga) Moka-san into what they did to her for the anime... well, the rage against Twilight would be as nothing...
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I wonder how will the B team fare in getting through to everyone. It's too bad that San isn't there...I would think that of all things, her singing could disrupted Gyokuro's GodEye ability.
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Recently, I've started looking again at my Jackson line. Years ago, I traced it back from my grandpa to John Jackson, born around 1838 in Huddersfield, pretty easily. But as it turns out, finding more information about John Jackson, son of William Jackson, is no easy task. There are a LOT of John Jacksons in West Yorkshire!
Therefore, I've joined the new One Name Studies project on WikiTree. I've started a one name study of all Jacksons in and around Huddersfield. I know focusing on such a small area is a far cry from a full one name study, but even this is no small undertaking.
Basically what I'm doing is creating WikiTree profiles for all the Jacksons I find records for, whether or not I'm related to them. My hope is that this will help me to sort out all the different families. To give you an example of how important this detangling is, right now I'm looking at the records for Joseph Jackson and his wife Martha. I've tried to find their marriage record, and I've discovered that there were three couples named Joseph and Martha Jackson who got married in the 1830s in West Yorkshire. Seriously! So, I think this Martha might be Martha Scargill, based on the location, but she could also theoretically be Martha Moor or Martha Holdroyd, because they weren't too far away.
So wish me luck with this! And if you have Jackson ancestors in the Huddersfield area, let me know! Maybe we can work together to sort them out. Also, I ordered a yDNA test for my grandpa, so soon I might have another source of leads!


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The Linda-Hop Skirt
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I found myself being more and more drawn to making a skirt that didn't require a lot of fitting and was easy to wear. Not to mention with cold weather just around the corner, I was ready for something warm and Fall looking. And plaid. Mustard-y plaid.
So it is with giddy excitement and pleasure I present, The Linda-Hop Skirt. Made from the Linda pattern here on Burda Style no less. Easy peasy pattern with loads of potential for fun details. Since this was such an easy pattern, I decided to tackle this plaid double faced wool. It was simply dreamy to work with. And this stuff is extra thick and extra beautiful. And I matched up the plaids rather well I think considering this is my first time working with plaids. The plaid at the zipper just wouldn't work for some reason, but its only off a slight bit in that one area, so there. I'll live, I guess. Sigh….
The skirt went together quite smoothly. Easy fit, easy sew. I let the thing hang for about 3 weeks. I hemmed up the hem with horsehair braid. I follow Gertie's advice and tutorial for this as she is an expert circle skirt maker. I didn't have access to the type of horsehair braid that she uses. Mine was not as wide and I had to run a gathering stitch along one edge. I just bought mine at Hancock's. I love the finished product though. Oh my goodness! The hem looks so professional. And it gives the hem weight. I love it!
I gave it a lapped handpicked zipper with a vintage metal zipper. Could not be happier with the metal zipper. The skirt lining is finished with my favorite detail, lace. You might also be wondering why I'm wearing it with the seam in the front and back, as traditionally the pattern says it should be worn on the side. I had been looking at a lot of mags for the inspiration for this skirt. The ones I liked best were plaid and had the plaids matched up perfectly and to show that off the seam was in the front. I loved this. Yeah. I can match my plaids. Thanks.
For more on this beauty, visit my blog post here.
Material Notes
Double Faced Wool, Silk Charmeuse, vintage metal zipper, button, thread, lace
- Season
- Fall
- For
- Women
- Garment Type
- Skirt
- Style
- Casual, Classic, Romantic, Vintage
- Material
- Silk, Wool
- Horsehair Braid Tutorial
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Nov 7, 2010, 05.52 AMby 5294sandras
Very nice – well done!! I saw a plaid skirt at the mall and I was thinking about making one. It had front seams and the plaids matched like your skirt. I thought it was very stylish and seeing your great work inspires me.
Nov 3, 2010, 01.16 PMby skeeler
Nov 2, 2010, 02.17 PMby libra-s
Soo pretty! Love it!
Nov 2, 2010, 01.14 PMby erica-penton
This is exactly what I want to wear this fall. Great job!
Nov 2, 2010, 06.18 AMby Ralf Schmitz
plaid maching A plus, hemm A plus, lining with lace A plus!!! this is just lovely!
Nov 2, 2010, 04.35 AMby loversandhaters
Also…I love the yellow lining and lace hem! So lovely.
Nov 2, 2010, 04.33 AMby loversandhaters
Nov 2, 2010, 02.23 AMby wzrdreams
Good job on the plaid matching! I love that look as well this season.
Nov 1, 2010, 08.13 PMby strawberrypancakesbykim
Too cute!
Nov 1, 2010, 06.17 PMby anajan
Very very cute!
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Nov 3, 2010, 03.08 PMby anajan
And it's featured by the site – congrats!
Nov 1, 2010, 02.56 PMby seedling
Love it! Where did you get that gorgeous fabric?!? Excellent job with the plaid – I'm looking at my first plaid project but haven't had the confidence to start cutting!
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Nov 2, 2010, 05.52 PMby sunnilj9
Thank you! The fabric is from the online shop, Trim Fabrics. They have a rather nice selection of gorgeous wools. This one was rather pricey, however considering it doesn't itch one bit, it was worth it. I'm so in love with the plaid too. Be still my heart!
Nov 1, 2010, 01.49 PMby corduroycoat
I am in love with that fabric! It looks so dreamy falling in those soft, wide folds. It's such a beautiful skirt., the horsehair braid gives it such a ncie shape.
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Once a upon a time a hacker his Xpresso machine broke down. After investigation it seems to be the logic board broke down.
To fix his caffeine needs this is the plan:
- Remove the logic board and document
- Find out all the functions and settings by TMP fix the logic board
- Design a new logic board based on Arduino
- Ceate the new logic board & install it
- Write code, test and finetune
- Document the details
Decompile the machine and document
Type: ECM botticelli Functions:
- Power on/off
- Temperature controll for espresso & steam
- Steam on/off
- Warm water on/off
- Espresso on/off
- Steam pipe valve
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Find art, fashion and food on Melbourne's Soho strip.
Boredom isn't an option on Brunswick Street, the vibrant Melbourne strip where people from all walks of life go to shop, eat, drink, meet and dance.
Here in Fitzroy, the city's bohemian heart, you'll see long-haired urban nomads sipping lattes next to the clean-cut businesspeople and second-hand stores next to high-fashion boutiques. It will take you a good day to trawl all the stores, a colourful lineup of pop and alternative cultures that stretch between Victoria and Alexandria Parade. Have your tarot cards read or your nails done, buy an esoteric book or a best-seller, bag a retro clothing bargain or a designer dress. Try on fetish clothing, browse fringe art galleries or listen to live music in an old-style pub. This is a street where anything goes, as long as it's in a vaguely artistic spirit.
Stop at a cute, colourful cafe when the shopping bags get too heavy or you want to discuss the artworks and hairstyles you've seen. Or lunch at one of Melbourne's best gastro pubs or cheap ethnic eateries, an eclectic mix of Malaysian, Vietnamese and Thai. You'll also find organic vegetarian restaurants, hamburger joints, souvlaki cafes and tapas bars. After dark, the party continues in the restaurants and legions of lively nightspots. As well as clubs, pubs and hip wine bar bars, you'll find venues for jazz and salsa. From September to October, Brunswick Street also comes alive with circus, cabaret, music, dance and comedy acts during the Melbourne Fringe Festival.
Expect to feel excited, alive and curious. About only thing you won't notice on Brunswick Street is boredom.


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Most analog cellular to fade away on Monday
- 15 February, 2008 08:01
You may think of sunsets as something nice to look at, but if you have an older cell phone or a home alarm system, there's one coming up on Monday that may not be so pretty.
That day, the U.S. Federal Communications Commission will let mobile operators shut down their analog networks. It's called the "analog sunset" because those AMPS (Advanced Mobile Phone System) networks, which were first deployed in the 1980s and brought cellular service to millions of Americans, will finally disappear behind the digital networks that serve almost all mobile phones in use today.
The biggest U.S. mobile operators, AT&T Wireless and Verizon Wireless, will close down their analog networks that day. At the same time, AT&T will turn off its first digital network, which uses TDMA (Time-Division Multiple Access) technology. (Sprint Nextel and T-Mobile USA don't have analog networks.) Calls to some small, rural mobile operators indicated that most of them plan to shut down AMPS, too.
There aren't many mobile phones out there that will go dark after the analog sunset, according to the big carriers, which have been warning subscribers about the change for months and offering them incentives to switch over.
"We're talking about a very, very small number of customers here," said AT&T spokesman Mark Siegel. He estimated that 99.9 percent of AT&T's traffic is carried on GSM (Global System for Mobile Communications). Verizon spokeswoman Debra Lewis estimated that less than 1 percent of that carrier's subscribers were on analog even before it started a big effort to reach them last year. Neither gave exact numbers of subscribers. But given that those operators have about 60 million subscribers each, the number might still be in the hundreds of thousands.
However, AMPS isn't only used for cell phones. Many alarm companies use the system to alert police or fire departments to emergencies at homes or businesses. About three years ago, the Alarm Industry Communications Committee (AICC) industry group took a survey which revealed that just under 1 million of the approximately 30 million monitored home and business alarm systems used an analog cellular network, said AICC chairman Louis Fiore. About 850,000 of them used the system only as a backup in case the phone line was cut, he said.
Alarm manufacturers are now replacing many of those analog systems with digital ones, Fiore said. About six months ago, the manufacturers believed there were about 400,000 AMPS systems still in the field, he said.
"There are some small companies out there that probably have not made the conversion yet," Fiore said.
One problem is that, except for a few high-end CDMA (Code Division Multiple Access) monitoring systems, all digital cellular alarms today rely on GSM, Fiore said. That creates a problem in areas that have good CDMA coverage but poor GSM, and Fiore has heard from at least one alarm company in Colorado that has customers outside of GSM's reach. Until now, they have been relying on analog cellular.
Some users of wireless roadside assistance have also been left behind in the transition. General Motors launched its OnStar system in 1996 on AMPS and later switched to CDMA. The automaker didn't wait for the Feb. 18 deadline but instead shut down its analog service on Jan. 1. In a statement on the transition last year, GM said about 90 percent of its subscribers' cars had CDMA or could be converted to use it. Others would lose their OnStar service. The wholly owned subsidiary of GM said last October it had about 5 million subscribers.
Last March, two OnStar customers in Pennsylvania, Robert and Sarah Gordon, sued GM for leaving analog subscribers behind. They are seeking damages and an injunction to force OnStar and GM to provide repairs or upgrades, and they want to turn the suit into a class action. It has been consolidated with a handful of other actions in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan.
Among cell-phone subscribers, the analog sunset is most likely to hurt so-called "glovebox users," said IDC analyst Scott Ellison. These are users, often elderly, who just keep a cell phone in the glovebox in case their cars break down. They usually don't feel a need to update their handsets.
"If you know that you have some kind of wireless link or wireless communications device and you're unsure whether you are affected, call your service provider," Ellison advised. A tip about phones: "If it has a color screen, you should be fine," he said.
AICC's Fiore gave similar advice. Some consumers have ignored potential problems with alarms because they confused the analog cellular shutdown with the end of analog TV, which won't happen until next January, he said. If you notify your alarm provider and they are prepared to go digital, all a repair person will have to do is come into your home and replace the radio, possibly moving it to another part of the house with better GSM coverage, Fiore said.
The perils of the analog shutdown point to a mismatch between technology lifecycles, IDC's Ellison said. Cars and home appliances often stick around for many years, while wireless technology changes more quickly. In fact, Illinois Valley Cellular, in rural Marseilles, Illinois, serves few analog phone users but plans to keep its analog network running after Feb. 18. That's because wind turbines that generate electricity in its service area still use AMPS radios to exchange operating data, according to Data Routing Manager Pam Craig. Replacing those radios would be difficult and expensive.
But as new technology comes along, such as cellular networks that use scarce radio spectrum more efficiently, the old often has to give way, Ellison said. As technology rapidly advances, will it happen again to wireless networks we take for granted now? "It probably will," he said.


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Operator's changing role requires better tools, faster
As businesses strive to gain a competitive advantage from their operations, the way operators perform their work has evolved. Shifting from being purely functional to highly analytical, operators have become an increasingly critical part of today's business processes—significantly changing the way businesses operate and adding more value than ever before.
While operators of the past were trained to function in their roles with in-depth linear knowledge and to continually follow the process within established guidelines, their role has evolved significantly with advancements in technology. Operators are increasingly required to engage beyond their traditional functional boundaries and to collaborate within a cross-functional role for increased business agility.
To advance operator effectiveness, the latest software solutions enable operators to better leverage information in both routine and critical conditions for optimal decision making. There is a growing need for tools that enable them to collect, connect, analyze, and act upon vast amounts of real-time operations data, supporting a more engaged and intelligent workforce.
The operator of the past
The manual demands of yesterday's operator required an in-depth knowledge of process and machine operations, as well as of the systems that enable the process. These operators often learned from previous operators, sometimes through trial and error, and worked within a predefined set of parameters. They made decisions based on the way they were trained and strived to comply with established guidelines and procedures to maintain status quo.
There was a great deal of linear knowledge within these operators' specific functions, where the boundary of much of their work would occur. In many cases, the more operators an employer hired, the better a system ran because each operator would focus on a specific machine and/or part of the process that made him or her an expert.
Many employers today utilize a streamlined team-based approach whereby workers are cycled through many jobs to not only enable knowledge sharing and continued professional growth, but also cover the lack of company funding for expert operators for each step of the process. This has been effective for many companies, yet the adoption of advanced software is key to further evolve their teams with greater efficiency.
Today's operator
The modern operator has evolved into a multifaceted employee, which has drastically increased the role's responsibilities as a "generalist," solving problems in real time and not specifically being an expert in merely one section of the process. Today, the operator is one of the key members of the team, and enhancing the efficiency of this role through improved operator response provides a critical advantage.
Operators need the ability to reason, plan, and solve problems quickly, and to use a wide set of software tools to present data, collaborate, and automate advanced intelligent analysis. The right tools can provide quick, easy-to-use, and effective decision support needed to understand and troubleshoot both routine and upset conditions. Advanced features such as alarms, historical trending, and predictive analysis are helping operators drive higher value of events and process information, increasing productivity for businesses. The adoption of software technology can drive operational excellence by enabling operators to: leverage analyzed data from many sources; make objective decisions based on complex, real-time information; and understand the system to solve problems quickly and effectively.
With the introduction of decision-making software about 30 years ago, more tasks became automated, and the focus of operators shifted to performing tasks across different systems.
Massive adoption of software tools such as HMI (human machine interface), SCADA (supervisory control and data acquisition), MES (manufacturing execution systems), and MI (manufacturing intelligence) has resulted in significant volumes of data, with more alarms and warnings being produced than ever before—making operators increasingly critical to the team as they provide the first level of interpretation.
Software systems have evolved to provide reliable visualization and control of devices, although there is a significant gap in software tools in terms of the level of intelligence added to the data. Solutions that provide informational and analytical tools offer a key advantage because they can reduce the need for operators to interpret raw data, enabling them to be more intelligent problem solvers.
Driving operator effectiveness and intelligence
Operators need tools that help them engage so they can leverage powerful analytics and intelligence for critical decision making; automated analytics are equivalent to encapsulating the process engineer's knowledge into the software to enhance operators' ability to respond to real-time data. They also need the ability to respond to real-time data made available through mobile computing, instant connectivity, and knowledge-sharing software for faster, more focused reactions.
With operators increasingly becoming generalists, the digitization of work processes to encapsulate specific knowledge, as well as to ensure safe and repeatable operations, is key to driving effectiveness. Highly advanced software solutions can help businesses leverage their operators, collectively share vital information, and automatically transform data into information.
Advanced software solutions and platforms contain the features and functionality to drive operator effectiveness and are specifically developed with a focus on how operators interact with the system, enabling more informed decision making.
A look into the future
Systems are now being deployed with heavy input from the operator, moving away from being purely functional data solutions to intelligent, analytical systems. IT and engineering groups are increasingly looking for operator feedback on initiatives and software purchases, and how the system provides value-added information to users—not just data for visibility. There is also increasing importance on collaboration platforms and software that analyze and provide information based on real-life data.
The need to transform data into information is essential as many operators and technicians are nearing retirement age, and consequently, companies are losing "operator knowledge" as these retirees exit the workforce. Capturing this knowledge will help existing operators leverage institutionalized knowledge, decrease the need for training, and ease the learning curve for new operators who will have little to no guidance as they move into roles that require the ability to reason and solve problems through objective decision making.
Future capabilities could include real-time chat, which would enable operators to connect with remote engineering experts on demand and allow them to view what they see on their screens, much like a global social networking site within a corporation. By enabling operators to access experts directly through their consoles, they would be able to leverage the knowledge outside their local operations to quickly solve problems and understand data with ease.
Lastly, the implementation of interoperability standards within software suites is critical to achieving faster rollouts while providing companies with greater flexibility on module selection across vendors. Software vendors no longer require custom coding to play well with others, as standards are continuously being adopted to drive a point-and-click configuration that significantly increases time to value and flexibility for customers. As a result, companies can reduce rollout costs and have the ability to choose the best modules available, regardless of the vendor.
Holistic, scalable software solutions are garnering much attention by businesses because they can add true value to all levels of the organization with specific modules that can be implemented over time—delivering quick, easy-to-use, and effective decision support needed by operators to troubleshoot issues and routine conditions.
Forward-looking businesses that recognize the value of today's operator have begun adopting advanced software tools to support them as more intelligent problem solvers, significantly increasing productivity and efficiency to gain a competitive advantage.
Bernardo is general manager, automation software for GE Intelligent Platforms.


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As outrageous nail art starts to look more crazy than cool, polishes in barely-there shades are making a welcome return. Lauren Sherman explains the trend on Lunch Break. Photo: Getty Images.
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And another popular Linux distribution pushes a new release out the door. This time around, it's openSUSE, as they just released version 12.1. Other than the usual latest and greatest version of all the open source desktops and associated tools, there's a few other interesting tidbits in this release as well.
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disappointed by all distros
by Jason Bourne on Sat 19th Nov 2011 01:25 UTC
Today I just bit the bullet.
Installed ARCH and carefully installed Xorg, gnome-shell and I have spent 2 hours tweaking the system. From today, I expect no longer to make another installation again unless someone distro takes the lead on stability.
Both Kubuntu with KDE and Fedora with gnome-shell sported major huge crashes on me. So far ARCH is doing fast.
PackageKit works really well under GNOME 3.
My wife will life with fallback mode from now on.
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IMF tells Italy: press reforms, create youth jobs
ROME (AP) — The International Monetary Fund pressed Italy on Thursday to do more about "unacceptably high" unemployment, especially among young people and women, and urged it to bring back an unpopular property tax whose return could threaten the survival of Premier Enrico Letta's coalition government.
Former premier Silvio Berlusconi made suspension of the tax on primary residences a condition of his conservative forces vital support for Letta's government. Letta reluctantly agreed to let property owners skip paying the tax in June, and has said his government would decide later in the year whether to revive the tax, which brings in some 4 billion euros ($5.2 billion) in revenue annually.
In a report at the end of its annual visit to the country, the IMF told Italy the tax "should be maintained." Berlusconi's lawmakers immediately countered with a vow that the tax would be abolished, raising tensions in the already uneasy coalition.
Berlusconi's center-right People of Freedom party, "reiterates that it is absolutely necessary" to abolish the tax, said Anna Maria Bernini, a senator in the party. While expressing "maximum respect" for the IMF's analysis, Bernini said the backing for the government "came from our lawmakers in Parliament and not the IMF."
Berlusconi had made abolishing the tax the main plank of his populist campaign for election earlier this year. His forces came in second, and their backing was needed to secure Letta's center-left bloc enough support in Parliament to govern.
Mario Monti, who succeeded Berlusconi in late 2011 when financial markets lost faith in the media mogul's handling of Italy's debt crisis, promptly brought the tax back. But Letta was forced to suspend it right after taking office as the price for Berlusconi's support. Monti paid his own high price for his severe austerity measures, including reviving the tax, when Berlusconi yanked support for Monti's government late last year.
"All countries have property taxes," said Kenneth Kang, an IMF official, when asked about whether it was worth reviving the tax if its return meant jeopardizing the government's stability. Italian Economy Minister Fabrizio Saccomanni, at the same news conference, tried for a diplomatic answer.
"It's a question we are evaluating," Saccomanni said. "Certainly we'll take into consideration the IMF's opinion."
Still, he said, "the aim is to find consensus within the coalition."
That could be a daunting task, since Berlusconi's credibility with his voters will be at stake. But the alternative — possible fresh elections as Italians grow impatient over stubborn recession and soaring unemployment — could be unnerving enough to keep the uneasy coalition together.
While praising Italy for having taken "bold steps" to heal its finances, the IMF's report card gave Italy poor grades over unemployment. Italy's unemployment rate was 12.2 percent in May, though its youth unemployment rate was 38.5 percent, far higher than the 23.1 percent rate across the European Union.
EU leaders have agreed to put aside 8 billion euros ($10.4 billion) starting next year, on top of funding from other European funds and institutions, to ease unemployment among the under-25s.
Another IMF official who worked on the review, Aasim Husain, recommended more flexible contracts to young people with protection gradually increasing as one way to reduce youth unemployment. Many employers are reluctant to hire for fear Italy's worker protection laws will make it hard to cut staff should business sour.
The IMF estimated growth this year would be a negative 1.8 percent, before recovering to 0.7 percent next year. The IMF report said the recovery is expected to begin in late 2013. But it warned that "policy slippages, including at the European level" could undermine market confidence in sovereign debt, and lead to a tightening of credit.
Italy's competitiveness is hurt by factors including regulatory hurdles, a cost of electricity that is as much as 40 percent greater than in France and Germany, and an inefficient justice system, the IMF concluded.


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Benjamin Rau of West Fargo was driving a 2001 Kenworth truck east on Interstate 94 when the front right tire of the vehicle blew, causing Rau to lose control of the vehicle. He was wearing a seatbelt.
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TORONTO (AP) — Two men were arrested and charged with plotting a terrorist attack against a Canadian passenger train with support from al-Qaida, police said Monday.
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police said Monday that Chiheb Esseghaier and Raed Jaser, who live in Montreal and Toronto areas, were conspiring to carry out an attack against Via Rail, but posed no immediate threat.
''It was definitely in the planning stage but not imminent,'' RCMP chief superintendent Jennifer Strachan told reporters.
Charges against the two men include conspiring to carry out an attack and murder people in association with a terrorist group. Police said the men are not Canadian citizens, but declined to say where they were from. Police said the men had ''direction and guidance'' from members of al-Qaida.
The investigation was part of a cross-border operation involving Canadian law enforcement agencies, the FBI and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.
There is no connection between the Canadian terrorist plot and the Boston Marathon bombings, said a U.S. Justice Department official in Washington, speaking on condition of anonymity because the source was not permitted to speak on the record about the matter.
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BOSTON � The Massachusetts Legislature, bowing to a chorus of opposition from the state's technology sector, has overwhelmingly voted to repeal a new technology tax that has been in place less than two months.
The Senate voted 38-0 Thursday to undo the tax, which applied the state's 6.25 percent sales tax to computer and software services. The vote came a day after the House backed the repeal by a 156-1 vote. The repeal is retroactive to when the tax first took effect.
Gov. Deval Patrick has said he's open to repealing the tax, which was part of a larger transportation financing measure, but would wait to see what ideas House and Senate leaders have to make up for the lost revenue. Officials had estimated the tax would generate $161 million in its first year.
Senate Ways and Means Committee Chairman Stephen Brewer, D-Barre, said during Thursday's debate that he expects greater-than-anticipated revenue growth will close the budget hole.
Patrick has said the state has been running a surplus, but it's still early in Fiscal 2014, which ends June 30, and there are no guarantees that trend will continue. Asked for a comment Thursday after the Senate vote, his office referred to the governor's response Wednesday. He was asked then if he would veto the repeal if it didn't include additional revenues. Patrick answered, ''That's not where I am ... We've done what we can do and the Legislature has done what they believe they can do for right now. But the fact is we're going to have to come back to this.''
The tax was widely criticized by technology companies, which said it could stifle the growth of the innovation sector and cost jobs in Massachusetts.
Senate President Therese Murray said she was proud the Senate decided to undo the tech tax.
''Through ongoing conversations with industry experts, it became clear that this sales tax was having an unanticipated negative effect on our technology industry,'' Murray, D-Plymouth, said in a statement.
Republicans, who had pressed for the repeal, hailed the about-face by Democrats.
''Today is corrections day,'' said Senate GOP Leader Bruce Tarr, R-Gloucester. ''We can correct this mistake of trying to impose a tax on our innovation economy, trying to impose a tax on one of our most promising sectors as we try to recover from a recession.''
During Thursday's debate, senators shot down other proposed changes to the state's tax code. They rejected both an attempt to raise the gas tax by 5 cents and a second amendment that would have eliminated part of Massachusetts' new transportation finance law that automatically links future hikes in the gas tax to increases in the rate of inflation.
The same transportation finance bill that included the technology tax also included a 3 cent-per-gallon hike in the gas tax and a $1 per pack increase in the cigarette tax.


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Keyboard artist/synthesizer wizard Uwe Gronau sure does love his Hammond B3 organ. No surprise there since he also loves to make progressive fusion music, which he does aplenty on his latest CD,
Paradise Painting
. Gronau is seriously prolific. My mailbox seems to contain a new release from him on a regular basis. More and more, his music tends to reveal his affinity for prog and prog rock, with occasional forays into a kind of quasi-ambient/new age arena as well. However, if you, like me, experienced the heyday of prog during the height of popularity for bands like Yes, Greenslade, Genesis, King Crimson, and ELP, then you will undoubtedly have many flashbacks as Gronau pounds out an assortment of chugging organ riffs, spirited synthesizer melodies, and infectiously chunky rhythms on drums and percussion.
An all-instrumental recording,
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Every now and then, Gronau slows down a tad, such as on "Sounds Like a Smell," but most of what's on the album is either out and out proggish ("Two Worlds") or closer to the kind of music heard on the soundtracks to the first two Mind's Eye soundtracks (the title track sounds a lot like some of the slower tempo stuff Jan Hammer composed for
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So, take a trip down memory lane (but with solid contemporary engineering and production) and rock on with Uwe Gronau and your own bad self. The highway awaits you (but please, take that drive on the Pacific Coast Highway during the day – I don't want to lose of you devoted readers of my reviews!).
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text: Global Politics Colombia's FARC rebels face history in considering return to politics PRI's The World September 03, 2013 Colombia and the leftist FARC rebels are in the midst of months of negotiations to end the struggle between the two sides. And as the negotiations wear on, some are beginning to consider what it might look like if FARC turns to politics, instead of violence. But in doing so, they must face history.