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Now that Adam lives in Ithaca, the only time we see each other in person is at January's Macworld Expo in San Francisco. When we met up for the last show, at a small gathering at Joe Kissell's apartment, one of the first things he said was, "Man, you've ruined it for the rest of us!"

What had I done? He pointed to Joe's mantelpiece, which had a copy of the beautiful, professionally printed Christmas card that he and Tonya sent out. And then I knew: my family's holiday "card" this year was a DVD containing video, music, and still photos from the previous year. I had raised the geek bar.

What Adam didn't know was that the DVD almost didn't happen. I started later than I should have, and even though I've made several videos and DVDs while writing three editions of my book on iMovie and iDVD, I made the classic mistake of thinking, "I've done this before... it'll go quickly!" The truth, of course, is that no multimedia project (or home repair project, or writing assignment, for that matter) ever goes as fast as you think it will. I didn't keep track of my time, but I estimate the project took 30 to 40 hours of work over a three-week period, compressed to try to finish it before Christmas.

Whether you're creating a holiday DVD, a movie chronicling your most recent vacation, or the highlights of a child's birthday party, the following chronicle of my experience should help you create your own DVD project more easily and effectively.

Gather Material -- Even though we were assembling a project packed with multimedia elements, my wife Kim and I started by writing a traditional letter that touched on the year's highlights (my sister's wedding, a trip to Arizona, etc.). From that basic script I created an outline in Microsoft Word listing the highlights and noting any corresponding video or still photos I already possessed, and whether I needed to shoot any new footage.

For example, I ended up shooting some new video of Kim building a ceramic bowl (a new hobby of hers). Also, I wanted to summarize some of my work accomplishments, so I used Boinx Software's iStopMotion to create a movie of me working at the computer while books and lots of coffee cups magically appear around me. (You can view the clip at the second URL below.)

<http://www.tidbits.com/resources/774/jeffworks_ stopmotion.mov>

The video footage taken throughout the year, such as from our Arizona vacation, already existed in iMovie. I assumed that our viewers didn't want to sit through a holiday DVD that lasted several hours, so I chose a few representative scenes and exported them from iMovie as DV-formatted QuickTime files. (Here's a tip: You don't have to export an entire movie in iMovie 4 or iMovie HD. Command-click the clips you want to export, and then chose Share from the File menu. Make sure you mark the checkbox labeled "Share selected clips only," then click the QuickTime icon, and choose Full Quality DV - or a different format, but Full Quality DV is good for importing into Final Cut Express - from the "Compress movie for" popup menu.)

For still pictures, I launched iPhoto and built a new photo album containing the photos I wanted to include. I also knew I wanted to create some background music in GarageBand, but since the music would depend on the length of the scenes in the video, I saved the composing part of my project for later.

Managing Assets and Planning -- With the raw materials assembled, I was ready to edit. My original plan was to use iMovie, but I quickly realized that iMovie didn't offer the flexibility I'd need: I was pulling together a growing number of assets (video clips, digital still photos, background music, a voiceover narration), and I wanted to create a few simple special effects (photos overlaid on the video). Although iMovie could have handled the job - with the help of one of GeeThree's Slick volumes of iMovie plug-ins for the special effects - I decided to edit the movie in Final Cut Express instead for that and a number of other reasons.

The big advantage of using Final Cut Express was that I wouldn't be limited by iMovie's one video track and two audio tracks. Final Cut Express offers up to 99 video and 99 audio tracks, which let me arrange layers on top of one another. For example, in the scene from the completed movie where books and coffee cups appear, I added two magazine covers that pop up, complete with drop shadows.

<http://www.tidbits.com/resources/774/fce_ timeline.jpg>

I also chose Final Cut Express because I would be dealing with lots of still photos. I wanted the camera to appear to be moving slowing across them, an effect called "pan and zoom" but more commonly referred to by Apple as the Ken Burns Effect. Unfortunately, although the Ken Burns Effect is easy to implement in iMovie, its output is erratic (even in the current iMovie HD). There's no way to control how fast the effect happens, so you frequently end up with a pan that starts quickly and then slows down, or vice-versa. Implementing a pan and zoom effect in Final Cut Express is slightly more involved, but the results are consistent. If I had stuck with iMovie, I probably would have used a third-party utility such as LQ Graphic's Photo to Movie ($50) or Granted Software's Still Life ($25) to create my pans, which could be imported into iMovie as DV-formatted QuickTime files.

Since Final Cut Express doesn't enjoy the inter-application integration shared between iMovie and iPhoto, switching to Final Cut Express required me to go back into iPhoto and export my images as JPEG files. In fact, I ended up going back to iPhoto several times for more photos as the project progressed, requiring more exporting. Fortunately, Final Cut Express makes it easy to keep track of your assets by creating bins in the Browser window. iMovie's counterpart, the Shelf, stores only video files. (Actually, it can also store photos, but because the Shelf uses the same work area as the Photos pane, you must drag photos first to the Timeline, not directly to the Shelf). I created several bins for differently themed photos in Final Cut Express, which could be collapsed in a list view and put out of sight when I didn't need them.

Remember that by this point I hadn't begun editing clips at all; I had only pulled together the assets. So, the first lesson is to think ahead: gather your materials and anticipate what you'll need, so you don't end up with a half-finished project and the realization that you need to switch back into collection mode. In this case, I had my outline as a guide and a rough idea in my head of what might prove challenging. You might find it equally helpful to create rough storyboards highlighting each scene. If I had jumped headlong into editing the movie before thinking through what would come up later, I might still be working on the project.

Building the Movie -- Before editing a frame of video, I had to perform a final edit on the script and make sure it was done - a concept that's often alien to Hollywood, but terribly important when our "letter" served as the foundation of the video. Using a MacMice MicFlex USB microphone, Kim and I recorded the narration directly into Final Cut Express using the Voice Over tool. You'd think that reading from prepared text into a microphone would be easy, but it actually took us a couple of hours to get it right. Having never done an extended voiceover, I was surprised how speed, inflection, and enunciation can vary so much while recording.

The narration also dictated how much video and photography to include. Playing it back a few times also gave us a chance to see if our movie would be too long; how much time would someone want to spend with it? 15 minutes? 10? The initial reading turned out to be a bit less than 6 minutes, which seemed reasonable.

Finally, it was time to add the visuals. As I'd learned from experience, I just tossed the footage and still photos in without messing with timing, titles, or transitions. It's easy to get sidetracked making the opening sequence just right, but resist that urge.

Based on the narration, it was easy to tailor the video to the different thematic sections (introduction, working lives, friends and family, and best wishes for 2005). The time-lapse movie created with iStopMotion, for example, was about 12 seconds in duration, which in context seemed to be plodding. Speeding up the footage 50 percent (since it was time-lapse, the speed change didn't look awkward as normal footage would) maintained a more active pace, and freed up some time in that section to create the superimposed the magazine covers. Though I had to choose which clips to use in the end, having the framework of the narration made the initial editing process feel like a fill-in-the-blanks exercise.

That's also where my choice of Final Cut Express came in handy. In a section where I needed exactly 10 seconds of video, say, I could set the In and Out points (which define the section of the video clip that's used) and then "roll" through the clip to find the best 10 seconds. In iMovie, I would have had to adjust the beginning and end points of the clip separately to find the sequence I wanted and then make sure it occupied 10 seconds. Final Cut Express, on the other hand, offers a Roll tool that keeps the 10 second window constant and, in essence, plays the footage behind it.

With the rough cut nailed down, I then went back through and fine-tuned the movie: adding transitions where needed, applying pan and zoom to the still photos, and creating titles for each section. Titles, especially, are better handled in Final Cut Express, where there are more controls for setting type size and placing the words on the screen.

Finally, I turned toward background music, most of which I built in GarageBand using Apple Loops (I'm not sufficiently adept with real-world instruments to record my own playing). Again, knowing the lengths of each section helped define the duration of the music and where to bring in other virtual instruments to highlight what was happening onscreen.

The only frustration I had with GarageBand was that you can only export your compositions by sending them to iTunes first, and then locating the AIFF-formatted audio file on the hard disk before dragging it into my movie. Final Cut Express HD, the current version, now includes Apple's Soundtrack application for working with background music; I was using Final Cut Express 2.0. I haven't had a chance to use Soundtrack, but it looks as if it would have made my music process easier.

<http://www.apple.com/finalcutexpress/ soundtrack.html>

(To see the final version of the Jeff Works section of the video, click the URL below, a 4.3 MB QuickTime movie. And remember that this was made with far-flung relatives in mind, who don't keep up with my work life on a regular basis, so I apologize if it sounds like I'm gloating.)

<http://www.tidbits.com/resources/774/ jeffworks.mov>

Creating the DVD -- With the movie completed, it was time to turn to the DVD. One advantage of using iMovie in this case would have been its great Create iDVD Project button, which packages everything up nicely, launches iDVD, and creates a new project all ready for tweaking. Instead, coming from Final Cut Express, I exported the movie by choosing QuickTime Movie from the Export submenu of the File menu. Then I launched iDVD and saved the project with a custom name.

iDVD offers plenty of beautiful templates to choose from, but I had created my own background image, so I chose a simple theme without any motion elements. To add my movie, I simply dragged it from the Finder to iDVD's editing screen.

To change the background image, I opened the Customize drawer, switched to the Settings pane, and then dragged my JPEG image file from the Finder to the Background well. The rest of my time in iDVD was spent twiddling with the screen's title font and color, choosing a border for the button one clicked to play the movie, and positioning those elements.

I also created a slideshow in iDVD by clicking the Slideshow button, and then dragging the collection of digital still photos from the Finder to the Slideshow editing screen. Since several people receiving the disc own computers, I made a point to enable the checkbox labeled Add files to DVD-ROM in case they wanted high-resolution versions to add to their own photo libraries. A DVD disc holds roughly 4.7 GB of data, and my little 6 minute movie only took up a little over 1 GB, so I had plenty of room for dozens of photos.

Burning the project to a DVD-R disc took only about an hour, since it didn't contain much data. Then I tested the disc on as many DVD players as I could find: every DVD-equipped computer in the house and the DVD player connected to our television.

Duplication and Distribution -- The last steps were to make several copies of the first disc, package them up, and mail them out. I connected an external LaCie d2 DVD+/-RW burner to my PowerBook and used Roxio's Toast 6 Titanium to create duplicates. Having the added drive sped up the process slightly by keeping the original in the PowerBook's SuperDrive, so I didn't have to keep swapping it out for a new blank disc for each copy. The 16x speed of the LaCie drive was also a plus. If you have only one drive, you can use Toast or Disk Utility to create a disc image from the original and use that as the source for burning duplicates. iDVD 5 now includes the capability to create a disc image directly from iDVD without burning a physical disc (choose Save As Disc Image from the File menu).

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As the discs came out of the burner, I affixed custom-designed labels created with Smile On My Mac's disclabel software. Normally I'm hesitant about disc labels; if one comes off in a slot-loading computer drive, you could be in for a hefty repair bill. However, these DVDs were more than likely all destined for tray-loading DVD players. Besides, have you seen my handwriting? Making something using disclabel was definitely the wise choice.

The last task was to buy cardboard disc envelopes that could be mailed without using a jewel case, which would have added weight and bulk and postage costs.

Speaking of price, this last push revealed a detail I failed to account for at the beginning of the process. Discs, labels, mailers, and postage add up (as did the two ink cartridges I need to buy for my inkjet printer - boy are those things expensive!). I estimate it cost me about $4 per disc (largely due to the emergency ink refill, so around $2 per disc without that expense). If price had been a major factor, I may not have embarked on the DVD project in favor of a nicely printed postcard.

But this project wasn't one based on price. We were able to send a more vivid greeting to family members as far away as South Africa, and got some good feedback in return. In fact, while talking with Adam in January, he told me that his son Tristan ended up watching the video several times. Who would have thought that a holiday card would be a repeat experience?

Now, it's time to start planning for next year's DVD. Starting the project in April just might give me enough lead time.

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As I spent time last week updating my Callisto library for Windows 8.1 I realized it was a long time between the last release.  Well, I’ve finally updated it for Windows 8.1 release which is now available.  This is a major, yet minor release…allow me to explain.

Windows 8 Support

As of the Callisto 1.4.0 release, Windows 8 support ends.  Support in the non-commercial Open Source world is a bit of a funny term as the support has always been provided by myself and Morten.  I wrestled for a few days trying to keep a source code base, NuGet packages and Extension SDKs in sync with minimal impact.  After that exercise I realized this was just not going to be worth it.  Windows 8.1 developer platform has way more to offer and I just want to move forward.  I’ve locked the Windows 8 release at 1.3.1 (last one) and kept archives of the NuGet/Extension SDK bits on my GitHub project.  The latest code and packages are for Windows 8.1 only.  If you are working on a Windows 8 app and see a notification of a NuGet/SDK update, you should NOT update to 1.4.0.  The tools should block you here, but in case it doesn’t you will be broken in some cases.  I realize this may be an inconvenience to some, but I just couldn’t justify the extra support time for me in this regard.

Windows 8.1 version – first release

So what’s new in the Windows 8.1 version of Callisto?  Well, to be honest, not much.  This primarily is a release to get it on the platform, produce supported bits for Windows 8.1 and .NET Framework 4.5.1 for apps moving forward.  There actually are no new controls in this release but it does bring some minor updates.

Morten was able to check-in our first iteration of Designer support for the controls.  You’ll see all custom properties represented in property panes, have a better drag-and-drop experience, and be able to re-template using Edit Template.  I’ll have a principle moving forward that new controls should have this as the minimum bar for designer support.  Unni has been a tremendous help in motivating Callisto to do this as well as rapid-response help in working through some kinks.  The designer support is only provided in the Extension SDK installation as designer metadata and toolbox usage is not supported in NuGet.

As a new feature in Windows 8.1, XAML now compiles to XAML Binary Format (XBF).  XBF brings performance gains to startup of your application.  As a result of this I’ve prioritized your apps’ performance over developer convenience in some areas.  What this means is that the SDKs ship the XBF version of the toolkit’s generic.xaml.  This gets packaged in your application and helps app startup performance.  For NuGet, what this means is that you don’t get “Edit Template” support in Visual Studio.  If you are using the NuGet package and want to re-template one of the controls, you’d need to grab the template from source and copy it into your project.  This may be an inconvenience but few people re-template Callisto controls and the performance benefits of XBF are prioritized here.  There may be a time in Visual Studio’s release where they will support generating the XBF from the NuGet package, but that is not currently supported.  For the Extension SDK version, I ship the design-time generic.xaml for the control so this is not a problem…and you still get the XBF benefits when your package is built.

In addition to this designer goodness and basic platform support, the 1.4.0 release deprecates a few controls.

Yes, as a part of Windows 8.1, new controls were provided in the base XAML platform and Callisto versions aren’t necessary.  The list of deprecated Callisto controls include:

  • Flyout – now provided in Windows.UI.Xaml.Controls.Flyout
  • Menu – now provided in Windows.UI.Xaml.Controls.MenuFlyout
  • SettingsFlyout – now provided in Windows.UI.Xaml.Controls.SettingsFlyout
  • DynamicTextBlock – now provided by the TextTrimming=”CharacterEllipsis” in Windows 8.1
  • WatermarkTextBox – now provided by the PlaceholderText property provided in Windows 8.1 on input controls

It is a sad day when some of your most-used and proud controls aren’t used anymore, but this is a good thing for developers.  The XAML team worked hard to address the feedback and close the gap in these areas.  As a part of this, some of the planned work around Date/Time pickers was stopped as those are also now provided in Windows 8.1 (and global calendars supported!).  The bugs that exist in the deprecated controls won’t be addressed.

How do I migrate from the Callisto deprecated controls?

Great question!  In a follow-up series of blog posts I’ll show how to migrate off of these Callisto controls to the included ones for Windows 8.1.  Please subscribe to this blog or follow me on Twitter for notification of when I send out the migration articles.  Here are the migration guides for the deprecated controls:

Please help me and others by posting comments if you find more migration gotchas that people should know about!

What is Callisto’s future then Tim?

It is bright.  I love development and I love helping people.  In my view there are still some compelling needs that I see app developers having that are higher level than what the platform provides.  I’ll be still driving forward with Pivot and DataGrid (under testing right now) as well as looking at some other interesting helpers to existing controls by way of some clever attached properties.  If you have suggestions, please log a suggestion on the GitHub site for consideration!

I have a lot of fun doing community/Open Source development and will continue to do so.  I hope this post helps understand the Callisto roadmap!

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11/1/2013 10:59 AM | # re: Callisto Update for Windows 8.1
When I upgrade my Windows 8 into 8.1 and installed 2013 Express for Windows, I got a error that "CAN NOT FIND Callisto"
First I think maybe it is because I upgrade Callisto into 1.4.0, however, even I uninstall 1.4.0 and re-install 1.3.1, this error can not be solved.

What should I do?
11/1/2013 11:01 PM | # re: Callisto Update for Windows 8.1
@WildDagger - Did you re-install the Extension SDK or the NuGet package? When upgrading to 8.1, the new release Extension SDK would be needed as it installs into the 8.1 SDK locations.
1/31/2014 4:15 AM | # re: Callisto Update for Windows 8.1
Hi Tim,

Thank you for your work on these controls. I've been using them ("Menu" mainly) on a project for months and it works great although not very customizable (but maybe windows 8 Menu is not either).
It's a shame that you deprecate it in this release, because the windows Menu that already existed in windows 8 has a limit to 5 items ! That's why i chose yours for my project. I guess i will have to find another kind of UI.

Thanks anyway for the hard work.
1/31/2014 7:46 AM | # re: Callisto Update for Windows 8.1
@Jerome: MenuFlyout is in XAML as a control in Windows 8.1 -- see my migration post on that topic: timheuer.com/... which should suit your needs.
2/5/2014 7:27 AM | # re: Callisto Update for Windows 8.1
hello tim i installed windows 8.1 and vs 2013 pro , i tried to install callisto version 1.40 but it fails
it gives me the next message :
Installation de « Callisto 1.4.0 ».
Installation de « Callisto 1.4.0 » terminée.
Ajout de « Callisto 1.4.0 » à ContosoCookbook.
Désinstallation de « Callisto 1.4.0 ».
Désinstallation de « Callisto 1.4.0 » terminée.
Échec de l’installation. Restauration...
Impossible d’installer le package « Callisto 1.4.0 ». Vous essayez d’installer ce package dans un projet ciblant « .NETCore,Version=v4.5 », mais le package ne contient aucun fichier de contenu ou référence d’assembly compatible avec cette infrastructure. Pour plus d’informations, contactez le créateur du package.

it means impossible to install callisto, instalation failed :/

i just wan to use it for the exemple of contosocookbook help pleas
2/5/2014 9:07 AM | # re: Callisto Update for Windows 8.1
@Hadjer - please see the beginning of this post noting that this is only supported on Windows 8.1 now. It is likely the version of the Contoso Cookbook example is Windows 8. If you retarget that to Windows 8.1, then this will work.
2/9/2014 1:34 AM | # re: Callisto Update for Windows 8.1
Actually I am developing a windows metro app for windows 8.0 sdk and I have to create a setting pane,So I want to know if I can use callisto or not for SDK 8.0.
I am using Visual Studio 2012 Ultimate trial Version.
Please tell me option other than Callisto.
2/16/2014 9:07 AM | # re: Callisto Update for Windows 8.1
@pk - yes you can but you will need the version for win8 only.
6/12/2015 10:24 PM | # re: Callisto Update for Windows 8.1
Hello am new at window phone app development.
when am using callisto its show an error message ie.
Error 'Flyout' is an ambiguous reference between 'Windows.UI.Xaml.Controls.Flyout' and 'Callisto.Controls.Flyout' How can solve it?

6/21/2015 9:01 AM | # re: Callisto Update for Windows 8.1
@SADIK - you just need to use one or the other and use the full namespace name. The C# compiler is basically just telling you it doesn't know which Type you really want.

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Fetzer Shiraz 2009

Ages ago I heard somewhere that this wine was good. I can't remember where, and I have been meaning to try it ever since. It's not a 'great' wine, but a potential bargain.

I find it very difficult to enjoy red wine in this hot weather (it's 25C in my house at the moment), so it's not in optimal conditions that I try this. But try it I did.

It's OK. Very strong nose of red berries, plus hot alcohol (although that might have something to so with the heat). Interesting chocolate notes too. All in all not bad for the money.

For those that are interested, Fetzer is an organic winery (the largest in California), they power their operation with 100% green energy and they employ a number of other 'green' practices.

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Tuesday, November 15, 2011

Publisher Power

After frequenting videogame websites for the best part of my adult life, there is always one overriding criticism of journalists and website alike that remains prevalent: the question of bias. Despite the claims of journalists and admin to the contrary, the question of whether publisher power hinders free and honest debate amongst the videogame press, and/or defines a site’s corporate direction, crops up time and time again.

However, having worked and experienced the industry from the inside, I often feel that these, albeit sometimes overly aggressive and whiny, criticisms aren’t given a fair hearing. I mean, we all know how businesses are run, right? We all know that there’s no such thing as a free lunch. So why should we simply trust journalists and websites whose existence is primarily controlled by the corporations they report on?
Is not fair to say that without a good relationship with a publisher a website would get any exclusive content and therefore eventually fail to exist as a business? Is it not fair to surmise that if a publisher throws a games website a huge exclusive-interview sized bone, it, as a business, expects a return of some sort?

Is it not fair to ask whether EA and BioWare now expect something in return after announcing the release date of the most expensive videogame of all time at their in-house trade show?
The simple fact is, that without videogame advertising, gaming sites cannot exist. Site admin know this, publishers more than know this.
As I stated earlier, I have worked in the industry and below are a couple stories that clearly underline the power publishers have over a large section of the videogame website industry:

I remember when a brand new trailer was being released for a highly anticipated RPG at a certain date, and a certain time – nothing out of the ordinary. We were all waiting to be allowed to publish it, fingers at the ready. Not only would this new trailer encourage traffic to our site, it of course, would also generate masses of new hype for this much sort-after sequel. However, about an hour before we could push the red button we received an email informing us that the video was intended for US audiences only.

Surely as soon as something is in the public domain, it’s public, right? Wrong. We put it live. We were immediately sent an email asking us to take it down or the publisher would never work with the site again. Our hands were tied.

There’s more: “Here’s some screenshots that we’ll allow you to publish so you can promote our game for us. But wait, you can only do it after a bigger site goes with them first,” or, “Here’s some review code, however if the score is less an ‘8’ please hold it back until the day after everyone else goes live or else we’ll never send you code again and thus strangle your traffic.” Better still, “We thought your review was unfair, we’re never going to talk to you again.” It happens every day. No-one does anything about it. It’s all part of ‘the game,’ apparently.

Now, sites such as Kotaku, IGN, CVG and Eurogamer can roll with the punches as their user base and following is such that they can continue to generate publisher funded ad revenue regardless of the threat of a refusal to do future business. However, if you’re starting out, such a rapport is unfortunately fundamental to success. Publishers throwing their weight around like playground bullies, while larger sites look on perhaps disapprovingly but essentially not doing anything, helps no-one. It’s the classic case of “I’m all right (financially), Jack.” However, what it won’t do is improve the major sites’ status as wholly independent and free from bias; ones that are free to publish exactly what they want, when they want, without having to toe the publisher party line. It also sends out the signal that you have to play ball in order to succeed; you have to make concessions; you have to control your content.

In my opinion, sites should start looking out for each other. I.e. next time the industry gets wind of a publisher punishing a site for whatever reason, the whole journalistic community should take a stand. Not in the name of fair business (no such thing), but to fly the flag for fair and unfettered journalism. If a site is poorly written and/or poorly presented, it’ll die of its own accord no matter if it plays by publisher PR’s rules or not. However, the fact remains that many a small site’s demise is decided by the very corporation(s) it’s helping to generate money for. A site should live and die by the quality of its content, not whether it does what it’s told.

So, let’s ask the question again, but let’s ask it as a community that wants video game journalism to be free of constraint and playing the game. Most of all, let’s hope for a straight answer:

What video game website publishes what it wants, when it wants, without fear of repercussion? And, more importantly, if not, what are you all going to do about it?

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CSU to host symposium on Climate Change and the Built Environment April 27

April 19, 2012

CSU will host a spring symposium on Climate Change and the Built Environment Industry on April 27 at the Lory Student Center.

The event is organized by the Carbon Footprint Metric for the Built Environment Working Group through the university's School of Global Environmental Sustainability. Discussion will focus on the notion that only a profound collaboration between science, design and construction will generate the social change to move America to carbon neutral buildings.

Registration required

Registration is required for this event. The price for students is $20. Details including a complete agenda and registration form can be found online.

The symposium will feature keynote addresses by some of the built environment’s leading practitioners, including Ed Mazria, founder of Architecture 2030, and a leader in the global conversation on solutions to climate change through transforming the built environment.

Scott Denning, CSU Monfort Professor and Director for Education and Diversity of NSF's Center on Multiscale Modeling of Atmospheric Processes, and Victor Olgyay, Principal, Rocky Mountain Institute will also speak.

Participants will also explore, through breakout groups, three key areas of potential collaboration between the construction industry and the large research university: Developing and harnessing standards, methods of assessments, measurement tools and concrete collaborative models to harness the strengths and skills of both communities in developing a carbon neutral future.

Sponsors of the event:

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  • Institute for the Built Environment
  • Center for Multiscale Modeling of Atmospheric Processes
  • U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC), Colorado Chapter, Northern Colorado (NOCO) Branch
  • American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), Colorado Section
  • Clean Energy Supercluster


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Riders of Rohan
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DeveloperBeam Software and Papyrus Design Group
PublisherKonami and Mirrorsoft
Release date1990
GenreStrategy game with action elements

Riders of Rohan is an out of print video game, which was commercially distributed and licensed by the Tolkien Estate. The game was written and designed by Hank Howie, Phil Redmond, et al. The story centered around the war between the Rohirrim and Saruman. In addition to controlling the movement of the good forces, the player was able to, among other things, shoot orcs with bow and fight enemy leaders with sword.[1]

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Is Tarkil Westron, as it says here, or Quenya as it reads under tarkil?

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Tarkil is both Quenya and Westron. -- Ederchil (Talk/Contribs/Edits) 18:48, 21 May 2009 (UTC)
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Elephant Cemetery

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To feel a sense of loss is our next assignment. We zoom in on an elephant graveyard. The red baked earth of the plains, the dry, withered foliage. The great beasts are taking turns paying last respects, pawing with heavy gravity maybe just to stir up a little ceremonial dust. A kind of halting inquiry, tentatively caressing the remains of the loved one with a tenderly lingering trunk. Gentleness perhaps masks the quality of interrogation in this process. Ah, dear gone one, what do you know now, is there any of it you can tell us?

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Scott said...

Love the contrast between the tone (setup by the first sentences) and the imagery. A clinical tenderness? Especially love the closing: "dear gone one, what do you know now, is there any of it you can tell us?"

- - -

Here's to feeling less of it.

Simon said...

Interrogating the shades. What a beautiful awesome (respectful) tone (as if they can really tell us anything we don't already know - or will find out anyway in time - been meditating (always) with your poems, Tom

Melissa said...

the mask of gentleness to begin my day-
As always, thank you Tom

Mariana Soffer said...

Beautifull. Lately I was talking about elephant cementeries, cause it is amazing the rituals they have and also the way they mourn their loved ones. What a coincicence tom.

Stu said...

Mariana, I agree, this is beautiful.

I love the 'clinical' framing of those first two sentences though.

TC said...

Thank you sweet people all.

Re. The clinical framing of the first two sentences -- I wanted it to be clear we are viewing a scene we are not of. Always at our distance.

By the penultimate sentence "we" (I) have moved in perhaps too close, so there entered the motive to stiffen things a bit, again, by admitting we're never dispassionate in our poking around in anthropomorphic projections from what may finally be inexplicable conduct on the part of other species.

Theirs is what it is and what it means we may never know. Would that ours were half so tender, though.

With these evidently and maybe interrogatively grieving elephants it's perhaps best to watch and interpret for yourself without the sound track which explains things to you:

Elephants Mourning

And here, for a bit of cheering up, are a couple of elephants engaged in what can only be regarded as amicable water play:

Pinkerbell said...

Tom, this poem works very well indeed in framing the writer/reader as merely an observer, but a empathetic observer trying to understand the feelings of the elephant. All animals feel the loss of their companions, they must do, but these creatures have different rituals.

This poem makes me sad. For some reason elephants showing emotions makes me sad, I think they are very close to us humans somehow.

TC said...

Yes, it's hard not to feel sad.

However feeling is a sign of life.

And I'm always grateful to you Pinkerbell for sharing your feelings. I am never tempted to forget you are a human being.

And that is more than I can say for the proliferating swarms of bots from all across India, Indonesia and Malaysia who are currently doing their best (bottest?) to turn this blog into an Elephant Cemetery.

(What they want of it remains to be seen, as there is not much flesh left to be picked over on this rotting old pile of bones; but hey, maybe all it takes to sustain a bot is a shred or two of electronic gristle.)

Pinkerbell said...

Someone else told me yesterday that feeling is a sign of life, funnily enough. Do you ever find that several people in your life are suddenly on the same new wavelength at the same time?

This affected me greatly in a way I needed to be affected. Seeing animals grieving shows that we too should allow ourselves to grieve. Being stiff-upper-lipped is a purely human quality which is a barrier to healing after loss.

Sorry for being maudlin though...

Zephirine said...

Parents of a young soldier recently killed in Afghanistan, interviewed on TV yesterday:

Father: You get used to crying, though.

Mother: Yes, you don't think anything of it.

Pinkerbell said...

Zeph - I guess some tragedies are so great that they just bust that stiff-upper-lip so much that it gives way. Once you let it give way it's hard to get it back.

Things seem to have gone mad in Afghanistan, just as one of my young friends is training up in the para regiment to go there. I do hope that some peace can be found soon and they didn't die for nothing.

Lucy in the Sky said...

The elephant ritual of death will continue to be mysterious for us humans, even though we keep observing, and drawing conclusions and shooting documentaries. It is just amazing.


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Norton Boilergate

I left this here as a placeholder so that details/facts about the Norton Boiler project can be shared as they're made available. I think Anonymous has legitimate questions:

"I read a recent letter to the editor in the WRA, where the head of the original bidding company Combustion responded to that paper's recent article about the Norton boiler project.

He mentioned several safety-related issues there. Does anyone know what is going on at Norton for real? If the State was/is involved from a safety point of view, what is really going on over there? Has the town really paid extra, and how can we find out?"

I'm certain that between the TC and BOE we can get the facts posted here. Stay tuned.

Tim White said...

Tony, there were multiple problems with hotWatergate...

One thing sticks out in my mind though...

Have there been any consequences / accountability for the town staff involved in this mess?

Has the Council settled the lawsuit?

If so, then I presume there must have been some accountability / consequences for the voters who got stuck with all the unnecessary spending in excess of $100,000.

Obviously it wouldn't make any sense to settle a lawsuit, stick the taxpayers with a huge bill... and not hold anyone accountable. Right?

Tim White said...

Come to think of it, there must of been some consequences for this mess. After all, it wouldn't make any sense to spend time on the turf, track, trail and pool... if the waste & mismanagement in government hadn't been addressed. Right?

If not, then Cheshire would be as bad as Washington.

So what were the consequences for this screwup? The taxpayers got stuck with a huge bill. I think we deserve to know... and no, spending more money (on new purchasing software) and increasing the size of government is not an acceptable answer IMO.

Anonymous said...

Wow! look at all the details that have been shared since this "placeholder" went up... can anyone tell who is involved? GIVE ME A 'B'....


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Chronology of Coverage

  1. Jul. 1, 2015

    Two new Ebola cases are discovered in Libera less than two months after World Health Organization declared country to be free of virus. MORE

  2. Jun. 30, 2015

    Liberia's deputy health minister reports that body of unidentified teenager tests positive for Ebola; announcement comes after weeks after World Health Organization declared Liberia Ebola-free. MORE

  3. May. 29, 2015

    New York Blood Center, after 30 years of using colony of chimpanzees in Liberia for biomedical research, withdraws funding for them; animal welfare groups urge center to reconsider. MORE

  4. May. 28, 2015

    St Barnabas Medical Center in Livingston, NJ, identifies itself as hospital that released man who later died of Lassa fever, rare disease he may have contracted in Liberia; says man delayed disclosing his travel history, lapse that may have contributed to his death; situation exposed shortcomings of a surveillance system set up to monitor dangerous diseases. MORE

  5. May. 27, 2015

    New Jersey man who had recently traveled to Liberia and was under watch by local health authorities for Ebola, dies of Lassa fever after being sent home from hospital where he had been examined for fever and tiredness; incident sheds light on shortcomings of system designed to identify cases of infectious diseases entering United States. MORE

  6. May. 27, 2015

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  7. May. 26, 2015

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  8. May. 13, 2015

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  9. May. 10, 2015

    World Health Organization announces Ebola outbreak has officially ended in Liberia, as at least 42 days have passed since last victim died; country is engaged in task of rebuilding health and educational infrastructure and rehabilitating economy, but churches face challenge of rebuilding their flocks; many lost congregants when church leaders denied that disease was real, or called it a divine punishment. MORE

  10. May. 10, 2015

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  11. May. 9, 2015

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  12. Apr. 20, 2015

    Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says survivors of Ebola should abstain from sex or use condoms indefinitely until more is known, rather than three months previously recommended; statement is revision of CDC's guidelines on transmission of virus, prompted by case of woman who may have contracted disease from having sex with Liberian man who had recovered from infection many months earlier. MORE

  13. Apr. 16, 2015

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  14. Apr. 12, 2015

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  15. Mar. 29, 2015

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  16. Mar. 27, 2015

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  17. Mar. 25, 2015

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  18. Mar. 23, 2015

    Governments and relief organizations around world take of stock of mistakes made in responding to Ebola outbreak in Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea; lessons learned may help limit future epidemics. MORE

  19. Mar. 21, 2015

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  20. Mar. 14, 2015

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  21. Mar. 13, 2015

    Monrovia Journal; many bodies of Ebola victims have been cremated instead of buried because of highly contagious nature of corpses, making somber affair of Liberia's Decoration Day, one of nation's most important holidays in which Liberians clean, paint and decorate graves of their relatives to honor lost loved ones. MORE

  22. Mar. 12, 2015

    Liberian Pres Ellen Johnson Sirleaf admits mistakes in her early response to Ebola, when she deployed military personnel and police and sealed off neighborhood in Monrovia in effort to contain disease, moves that created distrust and unrest; Sirleaf says fear of 'unknown enemy' prompted her response; Liberia's Ebola rates have since declined drastically. MORE

  23. Mar. 10, 2015

    Report from Save the Children concludes that it would have cost $1.6 billion to bring health care systems to minimum standard in Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea, preventative measure that may have averted much of Ebola outbreak's $4 billion price tag. MORE

  24. Mar. 6, 2015

    Beatrice Yardolo, Liberia's last known Ebola patient, is released from treatment center; if no new cases emerge, epidemic in Liberia will be declared over officially on April 4, 42 days after last known infection. MORE

  25. Mar. 5, 2015

    Schools in Liberia are beginning to reopen after months-long shutdown as Ebola cases continue to decline into single digits, but many are struggling with low attendance and lack of resources; families, still fearful of contracting disease, are reluctant to bring their children in; challenges highlight lingering effects of Ebola, which has depressed Liberia's economy and ravaged its health care system. MORE

  26. Feb. 28, 2015

    Liberian Pres Ellen Johnson Sirleaf calls on United States to maintain assistance against continuing Ebola crisis. MORE

  27. Feb. 23, 2015

    Liberia lifts its curfew but its border with Sierra Leone remains closed, due to Ebola fears; outbreak has diminished, with only a few cases reported in recent weeks. MORE

  28. Feb. 2, 2015

    Clinical drug trial in Liberia to treat Ebola virus is stopped due to big decline in number of people infected; drug developer Chimerix drops out of study; studies of other potential treatments in West Africa are also having trouble finding patients. MORE

  29. Feb. 1, 2015

    Residents of Monrovia, Liberia, are slowly returning their focus to the business of living after deadliest Ebola outbreak in history; looking back on disease's progress, experts are surprised by how quickly it appears to be extinguishing itself, which they attribute in large part to changes in habits of citizens, like avoiding bodily contact. MORE

  30. Dec. 31, 2014

    Sierra Leone Journal; Ebola outbreak in West African countries of Sierra Leone, Guinea and Liberia continues to affect all forms of business; efforts to check progress of disease are proving costly and it remains unclear how and when countries' economies will bounce back; in Freetown, Sierra Leone, damage the outbreak has wrought on local businesses is particularly apparent. MORE

  31. Dec. 30, 2014

    Ebola epidemic in Africa, which has caused 7,800 deaths since it began, appeared to be drawing to close in spring of 2014 and may have been brought to halt then, were it not for series of response missteps and complicating factors; doctors and experts failed to adequately track disease and to appreciate that 2014 outbreak would differ from previous strains in catastrophic ways; in addition, lack of infrastructure and resources, local distrust of government and movement of tribal people across borders contributed to disease's spread. MORE

  32. Dec. 23, 2014

    Provisional results show that former soccer star George Weah has won landslide victory in Senate race in Liberia; had been running against the president’s son, Robert Sirleaf. MORE

  33. Dec. 21, 2014

    Family and lawyer of Joseph Hunter, former Army sergeant accused of being contract killer and conspiring to kill federal agent and informant in Liberia, contend that Hunter was entrapped; say his former boss, arms dealer Paul Le Roux, led authorities to Hunter in attempt to get lighter sentence after his own arrest; Hunter was arrested in 2013 and faces life in prison. MORE

  34. Dec. 21, 2014

    Few Liberians turn out to vote in Senate elections that were delayed by Ebola outbreak; special precautions are taken at polling places to minimize risk of voters contracting the disease, which has claimed lives of more than 3,200 people in Liberia alone. MORE

  35. Dec. 19, 2014

    Liberia will finally hold Senate elections delayed because of Ebola epidemic, legal challenges and ban on large political gatherings; elections must be held, otherwise the nine-year terms of half the members in 30-seat Senate will expire with no successors. MORE

  36. Dec. 18, 2014

    World Food Program and Food and Agriculture Organization reports Ebola outbreak in West Africa could double people facing hunger in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, to more than one million, by March. MORE

  37. Dec. 17, 2014

    United Nations Sec Gen Ban Ki-moon is set to announce his visit to Ebola-stricken countries of Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone; virus has tested Ban's leadership, as organization has been accused of inadequate response to the outbreak. MORE

  38. Dec. 14, 2014

    United Nations Children's Fund says there may be 10,000 orphans who have lost parents to Ebola virus in Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea, many of whom are stigmatized or shunned by their own communities; extended families have been reluctant to absorb children from Ebola-stricken households because of worries that these children may be carriers and might sicken their own. MORE

  39. Dec. 9, 2014

    World Health Organization reports steep declines in malaria cases and deaths compared with 2000, but says it could worsen again in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, where public health systems have been overwhelmed by Ebola virus. MORE

  40. Dec. 8, 2014

    Anger builds over decree by Liberian Pres Ellen Johnson Sirleaf banning all political rallies in Monrovia in attempt to prevent further spread of Ebola; critics allege that true motive was to promote victory for Sirleaf's son Robert in hotly contested Senate race. MORE

  41. Dec. 5, 2014

    Liberian Pres Ellen Johnson Sirleaf prohibits all rallies and other mass gatherings before scheduled senatorial election, insisting that they risk increasing spread of Ebola outbreak; order comes as country is making progress in slowing disease. MORE

  42. Dec. 3, 2014

    Doctors Without Borders warns slow and uneven international response to Ebola crisis in West Africa could lead to further setbacks; group's international president Dr Joanne Liu acknowledges outpouring of help but says most of the work has fallen to Guinea, Liberia and Sierra, poor countries at heart of outbreak; concerns are in contrast to more optimistic appraisal by World Health Organization. MORE

  43. Nov. 28, 2014

    Ebola virus continues to rage in Sierra Leone, despite big international aid effort, with more than 1,800 new cases reported in November; citizens, faced with slow response times, are taking matters into their own hands, creating dangerous situation by monitoring sick themselves in makeshift isolation centers; health officials say progress is being made in neighboring Liberia. MORE

  44. Nov. 27, 2014

    World Health Organization warns that Sierra Leone is set to eclipse Liberia as worst-hit of West African nations ravaged by Ebola; reports 600 new cases in Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea in past week, suggesting that countries will miss December target for achieving important progress benchmarks. MORE

  45. Nov. 21, 2014

    Dr Thomas R Frieden, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention director, reports good progress in fighting Ebola in Nigeria thanks to international and local efforts; suggests that international aid could similarly reduce infections in hard-hit countries of Guinea and Sierra Leone, where current infection rate is uncertain. MORE

  46. Nov. 14, 2014

    Seven members of the extended Doryen family in Monrovia, Liberia, tenacious survivors of country's 14-year civil war, have died in matter of months from the Ebola virus; destruction of families is central tragedy of deadliest Ebola outbreak in history, and effects on region could be long-term and far-reaching. MORE

  47. Nov. 13, 2014

    American and Liberian officials, noting slowed rate of Ebola infections in Liberia, are debating whether to build all 17 planned Ebola treatment centers there or to shift money from Obama administration into other programs to combat future outbreaks. MORE

  48. Nov. 10, 2014

    Doctors in Liberia are perturbed by divergent paths of Ebola patients whose cases appear similar at first but can have opposite outcomes; study published in journal Emerging Infectious Diseases shows that children who survived previous outbreak tended to have higher blood levels of immune system activators, while those who died had higher levels of substances that indicated dysfunction of cells lining blood vessels (Series: The Ebola Ward). MORE

  49. Nov. 6, 2014

    Dedicated field hospital for health workers is scheduled to open outside of Monrovia, Liberia, as part of effort to encourage international medical workers to come and help fight Ebola; hospital is meant to assure health care providers that they will be cared for if they fall ill. MORE

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General Information on Liberia

Official Name: Republic of Liberia
Capital: Monrovia (Current local time)
Government Type: Republic
Population: 3.196 million
Area: 43,000 square miles; slightly larger than Ohio
Languages: English (official), some 20 ethnic group languages
GDP Per Capita: $900
Year of Independence: 1847

Liberia Reports New Cases of Ebola

Three cases have emerged in the country since it was declared free of the virus on May 9, highlighting the continuing threat of viral outbreaks in West Africa.

July 3, 2015, Friday

New Cases of Ebola Put an End to Liberia’s Status as Virus-Free

The body of a teenager tested positive for the virus, ending Liberia’s Ebola-free status, said the deputy minister for health, and raising fresh concerns.

July 1, 2015, Wednesday

Liberia: New Ebola Death Is Reported

The country’s deputy health minister said the body of a 17-year-old man had tested positive for the disease.

June 30, 2015, Tuesday

Genome Studies Show How Ebola Spread Initially

Scientists have developed a fuller picture of how the virus spread and evolved by tracking mutations in its genome.

June 20, 2015, Saturday

Chimpanzees in Liberia, Used in New York Blood Center Research, Face Uncertain Future

After years of using a colony of chimpanzees in Liberia for biomedical research, the New York Blood Center has withdrawn funding for them, prompting outrage from animal welfare groups.

May 29, 2015, Friday

Hospital Says Man Who Died of Lassa Fever Initially Didn’t Disclose Trip to Africa

Such information, if provided sooner, could have helped health officials save the life of the man, first treated at St. Barnabas Medical Center in Livingston, N.J.

May 28, 2015, Thursday

New Jersey Lassa Fever Death Prompts C.D.C. Action

The patient had recently returned from Liberia, where the disease is common. It is similar to Ebola, but less deadly.

May 27, 2015, Wednesday

Lassa Fever Carries Little Risk to Public, Experts Say

The viral illness killed a man who had traveled to New Jersey from Liberia, where it is common, but it does not carry the threat of Ebola or spread easily from person to person.

May 27, 2015, Wednesday

Man in New Jersey Dies of Rare Viral Disease After Returning From Liberia

Lassa fever, rarely seen in the United States, can have symptoms similar to Ebola but is less infectious and far less likely to be fatal. About 1 percent of Lassa patients die.

May 26, 2015, Tuesday

Peace Activists Cross Demilitarized Zone Separating Koreas

Gloria Steinem was among a group of 30 female peace activists who crossed by bus on Sunday from North Korea to South Korea, calling for an end to unresolved hostility.

May 25, 2015, Monday

Liberia Navigator

A list of Web sites about Liberia as selected by editors of The New York Times.

C.I.A. World Factbook country profile

State Department -- history and overview

BBC country profile

News and online media

Talking Points: For Liberia a New Leader, and a Ray of Hope

Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, Africa's first woman president, survived her country's troubled and violent past. Now she intends to set a new course for its future.

Liberia Confirms New Ebola Case

Dr. Bernice Dahn, Liberia’s new minister of health, said on Tuesday that the country had confirmed its first case of Ebola since it was declared free of the virus more than a month ago.

Obama Hosts West African Leaders

The president met with the leaders of the Ebola-affected nations of Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea on Wednesday to discuss how the United States could help them as they rebuild after the outbreak.

Obama Hosts Liberian President Sirleaf

President Obama praised Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, the Liberian president, for her leadership during the Ebola epidemic. Ms. Sirleaf thanked Mr. Obama for his response to the crisis.

A Photographer Documents Ebola’s Deadly Spread

A collection of work by the photographer Daniel Berehulak, who has been capturing lives touched by the Ebola virus across West Africa since August.

How the Speed of Response Defined the Ebola Crisis

How did the timing of the large-scale intervention in the Ebola outbreak affect the number of reported cases today?

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News about Malaysia, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times.

Chronology of Coverage

  1. Jun. 18, 2015

    Malaysia's former Prime Min Mahathir Mohamad creates furor in his own ruling party by calling for ouster of onetime-protege Prime Min Najib Razak and accusing him of abusing power, allegations Najib denies. MORE

  2. Jun. 13, 2015

    Four Westerners plead guilty to public obscenity in Malaysian court for removing their clothes on Mount Kinabalu, which is considered sacred; four were fined around $1,300 apiece and will be deported. MORE

  3. Jun. 11, 2015

    Malaysian authorities detain four Western tourists accused of taking nude photos of themselves on sacred peak of Mount Kinabalu, an offense local officials attribute to cause of June's magnitude 6 earthquake. MORE

  4. Jun. 7, 2015

    Rescuers recover bodies of 11 more climbers from Mount Kinabalu, Malaysia’s highest peak, after it was struck by a magnitude 5.9 earthquake; 13 deaths have been attributed to quake. MORE

  5. Jun. 4, 2015

    Rohingya migrants who have recently fled persecution in Myanmar and safely joined some 75,000 fellow Rohingya in Malaysia continue to struggle under their status as refugees and unregistered migrants; barred from sending their children to government schools and unable to hold jobs legally, they face a long resettlement process and a bleak future. MORE

  6. May. 31, 2015

    New style of pulp fiction books is catching on among young, disaffected Malaysian Muslims looking for escapism as their country becomes more socially conservative; tales of crime, sex and horror, often tinged with social criticism, are published by independent publishing industry and sold in pop-up stores. MORE

  7. May. 30, 2015

    Hong Kong legislator and activist Leung Kwok-hung is denied entry to Malaysia, three days after country put Hong Kong student protest leader Joshua Wong on blacklist; nation fears men's anti-China sentiments will harm Malaysia's relations with that country. MORE

  8. May. 27, 2015

    Malaysian police reveal evidence of graves holding scores of bodies of migrants near border with Thailand, believed to have been victims of human smuggling rings; crackdown on human trafficking is thought to have set off crisis in which thousands of migrants were abandoned by smugglers and stranded at sea. MORE

  9. May. 27, 2015

    Malaysia denies entry to Joshua Wong, prominent democracy activist from Hong Kong, who was scheduled to speak at forums hosted by Malaysian youth activist groups; critics decry move as political censorship. MORE

  10. May. 26, 2015

    More than 3,000 migrants from Bangladesh and Myanmar who were adrift at sea are now waiting in bureaucratic limbo in Indonesia and Malaysia that could continue indefinitely; few countries want to take migrants and there is huge logjam of applicants seeking resettlement. MORE

  11. May. 26, 2015

    Malaysian police discover more than 139 mass graves thought to contain bodies of Rohingya migrants from Myanmar who died in smugglers' camps near border with Thailand. MORE

  12. May. 21, 2015

    Indonesia and Malaysia agree to provide temporary shelter for thousands of migrants who have been abandoned at sea by human smugglers; agreement asks for assistance from international community in resettling and repatriating the refugees within one year. MORE

  13. May. 15, 2015

    Boat carrying hundreds of migrants from Myanmar is seen drifting in Andaman Sea off Malaysia after authorities turn them away, part of exodus of thousands of people in past weeks; migrants, most of them Rohingya, have little food or water and were abandoned by boat's captain and crew; no country has been willing to take them in. MORE

  14. May. 12, 2015

    Refugees from Myanmar and Bangladesh numbering over 1,000 have infiltrated Malaysia and Indonesia, many of whom are of Muslim Rohingya ethnic minority who were persecuted and denied citizenship in home countries. MORE

  15. May. 9, 2015

    Thai Prime Min Prayuth Chan-ocha requests three-way meeting with Myanmar and Malaysia about human trafficking in region in wake of discovery of mass grave in southern Thailand containing 33 bodies. MORE

  16. Apr. 17, 2015

    Malaysia, Australia and China will expand their search for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 that went missing over Indian Ocean more than year ago if it is not found before June 2015. MORE

  17. Apr. 8, 2015

    Malaysian government reinstates practice of detention without trial, three years after abolishing it, with passage of Prevention of Terrorism Act; contentious antiterrorism bill has raised concerns of authoritarianism and human rights violations. MORE

  18. Apr. 1, 2015

    Malaysian police arrest three editors and two executives of news website The Malaysian Insider after reporting that sultans rejected a proposal for strict enforcement of Islamic law. MORE

  19. Mar. 17, 2015

    Nurul Izzah Anwar, member of Malaysian Parliament and daughter of jailed opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim, is arrested after criticizing judiciary about her father's case in a Parliament speech; incident raises question is country's sedition laws are being used to quiet dissent. MORE

  20. Mar. 9, 2015

    Malaysian government releases most comprehensive report to date on disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370; report, which includes minute-by-minute account of events, is notable in that it indicates no signs of distress on part of pilot and co-pilot, undercutting 'rogue pilot' theory. MORE

  21. Feb. 22, 2015

    Ian Urbina travel article on taking Coral Explorer daylong adventure tour of four Malaysian islands in South China Sea. MORE

  22. Feb. 15, 2015

    Ian Urbina travel article highlights Borneo, where locals recommend best way of seeing exotic city of Kota Kinabalu in Malaysian state of Sabah is by simply walking around. MORE

  23. Feb. 12, 2015

    Malaysia's crackdown on dissent is playing out on Twitter, as country's highest police officer Khalid Abu Bakar has issued warnings against insubordination on his Twitter account; authorities detain cartoonist Zulkiflee Anwar Ulhaque after he posts cartoons critical of government to his account, and Twitter posts of opposition leaders Rafizi Ramli and Ngua Kor Ming are being investigated. MORE

  24. Feb. 10, 2015

    Malaysian court unanimously upholds sodomy conviction and five-year sentence for opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim, who accuses judges of political conspiracy; conviction amounts to culmination of 17-year power struggle between Anwar and the governing United Malays National Organization. MORE

  25. Feb. 9, 2015

    Jho Low, Malaysian financier who has close ties to country's political elite, purchased five luxury properties in United States for some $140 million between 2010 and 2012, including several in New York City; Low has particularly close relationship with Prime Min Najib Razak's son Riza, and sold him two of US properties; exemplifies type of operative that is essential to shadow economy of global superrich, finding them real estate and business opportunities while maintaining their anonymity (Series: Towers of Secrecy). MORE

  26. Jan. 30, 2015

    Malaysian government declares that disappearance of Malaysia Air Flight 370 in March 2014 was an accident under terms of international agreement and that all 239 passengers and crew members are officially presumed dead; move clears way for death certificates to be issued and for family members to be compensated. MORE

  27. Jan. 16, 2015

    Malaysian ship-supply contractor Leonard Glenn Francis pleads guilty to bribery and conspiracy charges as part of decade-long bribery case; plea follows admission by Navy Capt Daniel Dusek that he accepted prostitutes, trips and other gifts while assisting Francis in his scheme; Dusek becomes the fourth Navy official to admit to bribery in case, and the highest-ranking. MORE

  28. Dec. 30, 2014

    Malaysians are shaken by loss of third jet in 2014 and skeptical over many unanswered questions about aviation disasters; search continues for traces of AirAsia Flight 8501, which disappeared over Java Sea. MORE

  29. Dec. 19, 2014

    Malacca Journal; Malacca, Malaysia, once base for Chinese explorer Zheng He, is celebrating his contributions to Malaysian culture and architecture. MORE

  30. Dec. 12, 2014

    Malaysia is emerging as major player in solar energy industry after European Union and United States curtailed imports of solar panels from China; is increasingly attracting multinationals, and is third-largest producer of solar equipment. MORE

  31. Nov. 28, 2014

    Malaysia’s Prime Min Najib Razak retreats from his promise to abolish country's Sedition Act that has been used against government opponents; says law will instead be reinforced with new provisions. MORE

  32. Nov. 20, 2014

    Chinese-controlled CAA Resources reopened dormant iron mine in Bukit Besi, Malaysia, early in 2014 and has rapidly ramped up production, despite ore's falling price; price decline is due to double blow of slowing Chinese economy and fact that many commodity companies have ramped up production to meet earlier pace of demand. MORE

  33. Nov. 19, 2014

    Faulty airbags from Japanese supplier Takata are problem that is taking on widening proportions, moving beyond American borders and involving drivers and regulators in multiple countries; one fatality has occurred in Malaysia, in addition to four previous deaths in United States; company's executives have shied away from addressing crisis. MORE

  34. Nov. 11, 2014

    Rare and virulent form of malaria caused by parasite Plasmodium knowlesi is becoming so common in Malaysia that it accounts for most hospitalizations there; deadly version of disease is commonly found in monkeys, but as loggers and palm oil producers have pushed deeper into Malaysia’s forests, more humans have been bitten by mosquitoes carrying it. MORE

  35. Nov. 4, 2014

    Malaysia Memo; Malaysian government orders and rulings by country's Islamic council have made Allah, word for God in Malay language, reserved for use by Muslims; country's religious minorities have bristled at government's ban on non-Muslims using word Allah. MORE

  36. Oct. 27, 2014

    Backlash by conservative Muslims in Malaysia over an attempt to widen appreciation of dogs has underlined the polarization between Muslims and other groups in country; conservative Muslims regard dogs as unclean, and in recent years have pushed back against what they describe as libidinous and ungodly Western influences. MORE

  37. Oct. 10, 2014

    Grenade is tossed outside nightclub in a tourist area in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, killing one man and wounding 12 others, including foreigners from Singapore, Thailand and China. MORE

  38. Sep. 17, 2014

    Report by monitoring group Verite finds that nearly one in three migrant workers in Malaysia's electronics industry work under forced labor conditions; two-year investigation found that 32 percent of industry's nearly 200,000 migrant workers have had their passports taken away or are struggling to pay back illegally high recruitment fees, essentially trapping them at their jobs. MORE

  39. Sep. 14, 2014

    Military analysts say that Malaysia will risk intensifying China's anger if it follows through on offer to allow United States to fly spy planes from within its territory; agreement would give the US greater proximity to the South China Sea. MORE

  40. Sep. 7, 2014

    Malaysian government plans to send a search team to the Ukrainian crash site of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 to gather physical evidence to prove that the plane was shot down. MORE

  41. Aug. 30, 2014

    Malaysia Airlines announces restructuring plan that will cut 6,000 jobs, about 30 percent of its workforce; airline will receive bailout from Malaysian government amounting to nearly $2 billion. MORE

  42. Aug. 20, 2014

    N Surendran, lawyer for Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim, is charged with sedition; Anwar denounces move as part of a conspiracy to weaken his appeal of a sodomy conviction and orchestrate his return to prison. MORE

  43. Aug. 9, 2014

    Malaysian government says it will take full control of embattled Malaysia Airlines through stock buyback and restructure in its operation in attempt to restore confidence in the flagging business; company was struggling with growing losses, debt and troubled business model well before loss of two of its airplanes in 2014. MORE

  44. Jul. 24, 2014

    Malaysian Prime Min Najib Razak takes personal role in trying to get pro-Russian rebels to relinquish bodies and black boxes from wreckage of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, conducing series of telephone conversations with rebel leader and coaching Malaysian colonel on what to say as he passed through checkpoints on way to crash scene; effort has seemingly restored leader's reputation at home, where government has been accused of incompetence following disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370. MORE

  45. Jul. 21, 2014

    Malaysian anger is rising after reports that bodies of 43 Malaysian citizens are still lying uncollected, or have been mishandled, near crash site of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 in eastern Ukraine; Malaysian government continues to be reluctant to assign blame for the disaster. MORE

  46. Jul. 19, 2014

    Malaysians are confronted with improbable loss of another passenger jet with downing of Malaysian Airlines Flight 17 in Ukraine, only months after disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370; anger over Malaysia Airlines decision to fly route over Ukraine could prove new challenge for government, which was heavily criticized for handling of disappearance of Flight 370. MORE

  47. Jul. 7, 2014

    Malaysian government sends more ships to search the southern Indian Ocean for Malaysia Airlines’ missing Flight 370, and vows to keep searching until the jetliner is found. MORE

  48. Jun. 21, 2014

    State Dept report finds that Thailand and Malaysia are among two dozen countries doing the least to fight human trafficking; finding could lead to economic and diplomatic penalties. MORE

  49. Jun. 18, 2014

    Boat carrying 97 people from Indonesia sinks off the western coast of Malaysia, and 61 of the passengers are missing. MORE

  50. May. 31, 2014

    Malaysian Prime Min Najib Razak says that Chinese tourist and Filipino worker have been rescued nearly two months after they were abducted from a resort off Borneo. MORE

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General Information on Malaysia

Official Name: Malaysia
Capital: Kuala Lumpur (Current local time)
Government Type: Constitutional monarchy
Population: 24.82 million
Area: 127,316 square miles; roughly the size of New Mexico
Languages: Bahasa Malaysia (official), English, Chinese, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Panjabi, Thai
Literacy: Total Population: [89%] Male: [92%]; Female: [85%]
GDP Per Capita: $12,900
Year of Independence: 1957
Web site: In Bahasa Malaysia

AirAsia Faces Red Tape and Tough Competition in India

AirAsia has exported its low-cost model to India, hoping to catch its hundreds of millions in first-time fliers. The move has proven harder than expected.

June 23, 2015, Tuesday

Power Struggle in Malaysia Pits Former Premier Against a Protégé

A battle between Mahathir Mohamad, a former premier, and the man he helped put into office, Prime Minister Najib Razak, has transfixed the nation.

June 18, 2015, Thursday

Malaysian Ex-Prime Minister Unleashes Criticism

Mahathir Mohamad is forcing his way back into the center of Malaysian politics with comments against the current premier, whom he helped install.

June 18, 2015, Thursday

4 Tourists Plead Guilty to Obscenity for Posing Naked on Malaysian Peak

The Westerners, whose actions were blamed for causing an earthquake, were fined about $1,300 apiece, and were set to be deported.

June 13, 2015, Saturday

Myanmar’s Missing Rohingya

Some 140,000 Rohingya Muslims, a persecuted ethnic group in Myanmar, are confined to a squalid government encampment in Sittwe. Tens of thousands have fled, setting out on a risky sea voyage. Many are still missing.

June 13, 2015, Saturday

Malaysia Detains 4 Westerners Accused of Taking Nude Photos on Mountain

Some local officials have been quoted as suspecting a connection between the trekkers’ behavior and an earthquake weeks later that killed 18 people.

June 11, 2015, Thursday

13 Climbers Dead After Earthquake Strikes Malaysian Peak

Rescuers recovered the bodies of 11 more climbers from Mount Kinabalu, Malaysia’s highest peak, on Saturday, a day after it was struck by a magnitude 5.9 earthquake.

June 7, 2015, Sunday

Rohingya Refugees: Stateless in Southeast Asia

A Bangladeshi photographer has dedicated himself to covering the plight of Rohingya refugees who fled Myanmar only to find themselves stateless.

June 4, 2015, Thursday

Even in Safety of Malaysia, Rohingya Migrants Face Bleak Prospects

The arrivals who landed last month joined 75,000 others already there, but their marginalization in the region has muted their voice in the debate over their future.

June 4, 2015, Thursday

Malaysians Seek Escape in Pulp Fiction as Government’s Grip Tightens

A new-style pulp fiction in Malaysia has tapped into a desire for escapism among younger Malaysians as their country has become more socially conservative.

May 31, 2015, Sunday

The Global Struggle to Respond to the Worst Refugee Crisis in Generations

Eleven million people were uprooted by violence last year. Photos and maps show the international response to what has become the worst migration crisis since World War II.

Decomposed Remains Found in Malaysia

Forensic experts collected bags of human remains on Monday that were found at the site of mass graves in northern Malaysia.

Malaysia Police Chief Comments on Graves

Malaysia’s police chief says 139 graves believed to contain the remains of migrants have been found near the country’s border with Thailand.

Malaysian Official Discusses Migrant Aid

The foreign minister of Malaysia, Anifah Aman, said Wednesday that his country would provide humanitarian assistance to 7,000 migrants still at sea.

Joint Statement on the Asian Migrant Crisis

A statement issued by the foreign ministers of Malaysia, Indonesia and Thailand on the thousands of migrants from Myanmar and Bangladesh who have been stranded at sea.

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