Technology Review commissioned a review of Michelle Delio's work. Appendix D is Delio's responses to questions that arose during the vetting process.
Click here to see the report findings. What follows below is Delio's responses to questions raised during the course fo the interview. Click here to read Appendix A: The Investigation Findings. Click here to read Appendix B: The Future Shock and here to read Appendix C: The Invisible Fighter.
This correspondence was conducted via email. Included is Delio's introduction.
Hope you had a good weekend. Attached is a word document with my replies to your questions below.
As I've explained to the absolute horror of others who have been reviewing my stories, I don't retain emails from sources that I don't intend to call on again for comments. And the vast majority of my interviews are done by email.
In retrospect, especially given my current situation, I realize that I should have simply dumped every single email pertaining in any way to every story onto some dark corner of my hard drive or – as one reporter I checked with suggested – pasted them into the copy document and burned them onto a CD. But until now I've been a pretty ruthless pruner of documents and data.
I typically get a lot of emails in response to my wired news stories, and if the mail comes from someone who is offering to be a source, or who has made an interesting comment about the story I move those messages over into a temporary 'holding' file which is futher subdivided. When I need a quick comment I check this file.
Unless a new-to-me source gives me some great insights I tend to use them once (like any reporter I also have my 'usual' sources who I count on) and I don't retain the emails past the point where I assume any questions that might be raised regarding a story would have already been asked. I never, even in my worst nightmares, thought that I'd need to go back and 'resurrect' sources from stories that had run months ago.
Obviously, if I'm allowed to continue on as a journalist, I'll keep a file on everyone who is quoted in any of my stories. On the other hand, I'm having a hard time in some cases finding sources who I did keep records on – people change their email address, switch from landline phones to wireless or VOIP, change their physical locations, and it becomes difficult to find them months or years down the road.
Please let me know if you need further info on the attached or anything else. The quickest way to reach me is always email – I don't check voice messages as often.
1. Can you tell us the names and contact information for the two unnamed sources in the HP Carly's Gone story?2. What is the contact information for Keith Abrams, the engineer in the HP Carly's Gone story?
Brad King was specifically told that those sources needed to remain anonymous when he first discussed doing the story with me. If that was a problem – or if Brad needed to know their names and get contact info to vet them – the time to discuss it was prior to publication, when sources had a chance to opt out of being quoted. But now, given the problems surrounding that piece, the attention its gotten, and the fact that MIT Tech Review is known to have worked with HP in an attempt to track G.S down, my sources would prefer to remain anonymous. While it puts me in a very awkward and embarrassing position, I don't blame them. I will not provide further information on that piece.
4. We are having difficulty locating Adam Shapiro from Patently Open Source. You describe his as a New York attorney, but we have no way to contact him. He has not responded to the jet email address. The primary source in the story does not know who he is. What law firm does he work for? Do you have other contact info? How did you find him?
I've sent him an email, marked urgent, asking him to please get in touch with me ASAP, or to reply to your message. He had contacted me originally, in response to stories I'd written on the SCO/IBM lawsuit and IDed himself as an attorney with an interest in open source, IP, and tech issues who would be willing to comment on these subjects.
5. For the Future Shock story, when did you interview Joe Korsmo? Mr. Korsmo says you didn't interview him for the article. He says he didn't speak with you until after your article was published when he contacted you. Do you want to comment?
I made a stupid mistake here. I roughed out a quote based on a sheaf of material I read on Joe's art project. It was basically a placeholder that I could write around. I called and emailed his gallery several times to get his contact info and never got a reply. I evidently didn't take out the quote or during the edit process maybe I hit 'accept change' rather than 'reject change' in MS word. I was sure I'd pulled it.
6. For the Carly's Way story, when and how did you meet G.S.?, Is there any way we can contact him, or verify that he spoke to you. Anything we could ask HP to help pin down his detail, since they are the ones who keep saying he doesn't exist.
I met G.S at a party held at the Harley Davidson cafe during Comdex '97. I believe I was introduced to him by someone from Waggener Edstrom (Microsoft's PR firm) – a woman – but I can't remember her name. It was a total non-event at the time, I was introduced to a lot of people, and I didn't keep notes on who introduced me to whom. I was working for Portable Computing Magazine (now defunct) at the time. I gave him my card – I don't recall if I got one of his. I've looked and if I did have a card I don't have one now. We spoke for maybe 20 minutes or a half-hour.
After that, I'd periodically get emails from him, usually commenting on a story I'd written. As far as I recall they always came through a yahoo address, but don't have the original emails and vaguely recall him using a rocketmail address at one point. All I can say for sure is that the yahoo address is the one I have listed in my contact file. The file contains an email – which I dragged over to set up the file – dating 9/13/01 – a note about 9/11. His yahoo email address could not have been created recently, unless he cancelled it and then re-subbed.
I remember him as tall (maybe 6 foot, give or take an inch) kind of long brown hair (below his ears) swept back from his forehead, longish face. Thin. But this is a vague memory from eight years ago, I would recognize him if I saw him again.
Note: I've tried to reach Elliot Borin, who as my editor at Portable and who I believe may have been with me when I met G.S. The email address I have for him (CONTACT INFORMATION REMOVED) is dead. Ditto the last phone number, which is for a phone in woodland Hills, Ca. I've googled his name with no luck. If you can help me get an email address or phone number for him using your resources that'd be great.
7. How did you verify G.S's story? Or confirm he worked at HP? Are you willing to have him contact us, so we can verify him?
At the time I met him I didn't really question it, why would anyone say they worked for HP when they didn't? Plus that particular party was (in theory) difficult to get into without industry connections. And over the years his emails displayed accurate tech knowledge. When I contacted him for the HP story, everything he told me (via email) fit perfectly with what was being said by other people within the company. My best guess now is that he has a relation or friend who works/worked for HP. That's just a guess – he may also just follow HP news and gossip for reasons I can't even begin to guess.
I assume you know that G.S. provided a bio, at Jason Pontin's specific request, which I forwarded to Pontin when I submitted the story on 2/14. I was told that the bio would be vetted – Pontin made a point of telling me that. I can forward the email to you if you need it.
The bio listed G.S's education and current professional affiliations. I found out the bio hadn't been verified only after the story ran two weeks later and HP questioned it. I don't always do backgrounder on sources, but in a single-source, anonymous source piece attacking a prominent company and businessperson, I certainly would have done a quick check of the bio info had I thought Tech Review didn't plan to do so.
I had told G.S. the bio would be vetted, so he may have assumed we would have figured out it was a scam before publishing. Again, that's only (and obviously) a guess – I have no idea what he was thinking.
8. In Rage Against the Machines, how and when did you contact Manhattan graphic designer Jim Heedles about computer rage? Does he live in Manhattan? Does he work for a firm or independently? Do you have his contact information?
I sent an email to about a dozen friends asking for stories about computer 'abuse' and requesting they forward the email along to their friends if they wanted to. I got maybe a couple of dozen replies, opted to use Heedles for no particular reason, there were several similar tales among the emails. I did not retain these emails, as I thought I wouldn't need them after the story ran. Given that it was a light-hearted supporting quote in the midst of an obviously humorous story I didn't ask Heedles where he worked or lived. I did vet the professor whose comments are central to the story.
9. In Race for the Ultimate Car Hacks, how and when did you contact Mark Simnon? Is this spelled correctly, or should it be Simon? What kind of law does he practice and where is he practicing and where does he live? Do you have his contact information?
I didn't retain emails from Simnon – or from any of the sources used in the car hacks piece. I no longer have his contact info. I believe he contacted me after reading stories I'd done for Wired News, but I'm not certain. I've sent emails to two PR firms who I sometimes get legal contacts from to ask if I might have made initial contact through them.
10. Also in Car Hacks, how and when did you contact Staten Island mechanic Steve Ferrello about car hacking? What is the name of his business or the business where he works? Where does he live? Do you have his contact information?
Ferrello has worked on several of my friends cars. I called to check and see if he was okay with me passing contact info along to you and was told by his wife that they had separated and he was living elsewhere. She said she'd give him a message, but didn't want to pass along his contact info without his ok. I left your office phone number with her, as well as a brief explanation. Please let me know if you don't hear from him over the next few days.
11. In same story, "Hobbit" says he doesn't want to talk to us, so we've been unable to verify quotes and content with him. Can you help us here?
If you can point me to ways I can help I'd be happy to do so. Did he say why he didn't want to speak with you? Several of my sources have told me they have been contacted by numerous reporters and bloggers questioning them about whether they'd actually spoken with me and I think people are just tired of the barrage of questions that may be why Hobbit doesn't want to speak with you.
Or he may just not want to be involved in this whole mess. I'm sorry you're getting flack that shouldn't rightfully be directed at you. How would you suggest we proceed? As noted above, I didn't keep emails from sources used in this piece.
12. In the The Invisible Fighter, can you explain the circumstances in which you spoke to Col. Rowan and Michael Logue about the military developing camouflage technology for urban environments?
During a 'geek road trip' down the Mississippi river for wired news last fall, we spent the day at the Corps' Vicksburg headquarters. (Oct. 21). We primarily discussed tele-engineering and the corps efforts to control the Mississippi. But we also had a very brief discussion of emerging military technology, including the urban camo tech. I told Michael Logue when I left that I had enough material for three or four stories.
13. Who is Frank Kennedy, the retired optical engineer, you quote in the article? How did you find him and how can we get in touch with him?
I met Kennedy at Andy Antipass' art gallery in New Orleans and interviewed him during the last week of October 2004 (I don't recall the specific date). I had discussed the story on urban camo with Antipass – just reviewing the stories we'd done and discovered during the road trip – and as I discussed the idea of making soldiers invisible to onlookers he mentioned that he had a regular gallery visitor who was an engineer and had done work with optics who might be able to add something to the story.
I attempted to email Kennedy via a hotmail address but got no reply. Called Antipass on Saturday the 17th and asked him if he had a phone number or could get a message to Kennedy. He said he hadn't seen him for a few months and was concerned since Kennedy had been ill. You can confirm this via Antipass at (CONTACT INFORMATION REMOVED). He asked that you put my name in the subject line to distinguish it from junkmail.
14. Both Michael Logue and Col. Rowan said in interviews we had with them last week that they did not speak with you about the camouflage technology. Do you have notes or tapes? How would you respond?
On 1/18, Bobbie Galford from the Corps, who sat in on the interview with rowan, called me to say that Col. Rowan wasn't sure if we discussed urban camo, as that is not part of the Corps mission (they aren't involved in developing it). I told her that I was sure he did, recounted the part of the conversation that led up to the brief discussion on urban camo, but said that if they were uncomfortable with the quote I would have Brad remove it and issue a correction. She told me no, it was fine, she was primarily calling to get info on what military agency was developing the technology. Bobbie's phone number is (CONTACT INFORMATION REMOVED).
Recently Logue also told a blogger that I'd misquoted him in a Wired News story. When I contacted him to ask for details, again offering to correct the quote, he told me it was a very small issue, that the info in the quote was correct but he didn't think he said it – he thought perhaps someone else who was there did or I'd gotten it from the PR stuff he'd given me, but that there was no need to fix it, he loved the stories and had been 'bragging about them.' I'll forward that email to you.
Frankly, I'm at a loss here, I offered to correct the quotes even though I was confident I'd gotten them right, assuming the source should be given the benefit of the doubt, but each time was told it wasn't necessary. Additionally see above – I was discussing the story back in October when I got to New Orleans right after leaving Vicksburg.


you have to change line 23 of /etc/proftpd/proftpd.conf to set this value.
really relevant to my original usecase.
after ten minutes of uploading a exception was raised.
'Implementation notes' of class FTPHost would be written to the documentation.
421 during a running download is quite crazy.
a workaround is included in the function upload_exception, but not activated.
I wasn't aware that there are FTP servers that make a distinction between an idle timeout and a data transfer timeout. For me, it always was just a "timeout", an idle timeout implied. Hence, the keep_alive method assumes that retrieving the current directory will prevent the "main" connection from timing out if the method is used in time before the timeout happens.
As you say, a workaround might be to get a directory listing. I'm quite hesitant to add this to keep_alive by default because for large directories this might take a relatively long time. When reading your report, I thought for a moment about getting a directory listing when the user passes an additional flag to keep_alive, but this doesn't feel right to me. With this, keep_alive becomes too low-level and server-specific in my opinion. Keeping all connections of an FTPHost instance alive has always been a challenge; actually despite a lot of experimenting I didn't find a way that works in all cases. In hindsight I wonder if adding keep_alive was a good idea after all since the feature is bound to cause subtle problems, at least in special cases. To sum this up, I think you should use your workaround to keep the connection alive. You may consider inheriting from FTPHost and overwrite keep_alive to get the directory listing if you always want to do this.
I plan to do a documentation change sometime in June and release a new ftputil version, together with fixes for some previous tickets.
i will implement the workaround in my application, so my personal problem is solved. but it would be nice to find a general solution for the problem.
i had the exactly same thought about the parameter for keep_alive. perhaps it could be a solution to keep the function, but remove the implementation (as it is dependent of the ftp-server configuration), so the user would have to provide a ftp-command/callback that keeps his connection alive.
i'm not familiar enough with the implementation details of ftputil, but upload_exception could technically work with only one ftp connection?
perhaps it would be possible to add a parameter for a maximum connection count. this way the user would be aware that there are multiple ftp connections in the background and i could set the value to one. if the code really needs to many connections, ftputil would raise an exception, suggesting to raise the maximum connection count.
i wonder if ftputil works fine with ftp server that limit the number of concurrent connections?
why not simple reopen the connection? if it fails to reopen the connection we have a real problem (= exception), otherwise we have a short delay. keep_alive could be removed.
ps: the leaky abstraction was a interesting read, thanks!
I can imagine two ways to interpret "remove the implementation": Do you mean that the implementation should be pass or should the method raise a NotImplementedError? I'm not comfortable with the first approach because it might cause existing ftputil client code to (subtly) fail that used to work. Granted, the current implementation isn't guaranteed to work, but I believe it works in most cases. I wouldn't want to raise an exception either because that would obviously change the API and break client code.
That said, changing APIs isn't taboo, but there were already some significant changes from ftputil 2.8 to 3.0, and I wouldn't want to change more now unless to fix a "real" bug or an otherwise really awkward problem.
I'm not sure what you mean by "work with only one FTP connection". My problem with upload_exception is not that it wouldn't work but that it might be costly if the directory has lots of directories or files in it. It also crosses my mind now that listing the current directory will fail if you changed to it, but don't have read permission. I admit that's a strange case, but in the old days of ftputil actually a bug was filed that happened to come from an unreadable login directory.
I have the impression that would be more trouble than it's worth. ftputil needs additional connections to support remote file-like objects. If I limit the number of background connections, I also limit one of the core functionalities of ftputil. Maybe it's just not clear how ftputil works - every open remote file requires another FTP connection because of the way FTP works. The purpose of the additional connections for remote files is not to speed things up, for example.
A very good point. I hadn't thought about this. If the FTP server allows only n connections from a client IP, you could open at most n-1 remote files at the same time. The FTPHost instance needs one connection, and each opened remote file needs one more connection.
Which connection should be re-opened? ;-) I guess you mean the "main" connection of the FTPHost instance? The other connections aren't affected by FTPHost.keep_alive anyway, as stated in the documentation. I haven't found a way to provide keep-alive functionality for the open remote file connections.
Honestly, I don't want to re-open a connection silently, without the user knowing. One reason is that the server uses timeouts to protect itself from overload, so I believe if a user wants to prevent a timeout, he/she should do it consciously (by calling keep_alive). Another reason to avoid re-connections behind the scenes is that ftputil would need to maintain some connection state. At the moment, I can only think of the current directory, but there may be more.
uh. i did not really think about existing code. you are right, this is not really a option.
i wanted to propose to open the new connection only when it's really needed, and not with opening a remote file-like object, but i think i miss some aspect that prohibits this.
one could set the default value to 0, so there is no maximum connection limitation. but you are right, this does not solve the original problem.
uh. did not think about the connection state. but the reconnection does not have to be silent. there could be a callback that is called before a timeout error and the user may then return a new connection. but there is still the connection state problem.
FTP connections have an associated state, not only from the point of view of ftputil, but also from the point of view of the server. If one connection is used to send a command like mkdir, you can't use it at the same time for a file transfer. It's a bit like sending a messenger to a city in the North, and when he's half there, tell this same messenger to immediately take another message to a city in the South. For FTP connections it's actually worse. Re-using the connection won't just delay the first task, but cause a server error (like the messenger quitting his job because you gave him stupid orders ;-) ).
You'll need a new FTP connection particularly for each remote file open at the same time.
An FTP client can notice the timeout only after it has happened. Only when the client tries to use the connection again after the timeout, the client will get an error message from the server.
and the user may then return a new connection. but there is still the connection state problem.
Again, I think it doesn't reduce the complexity compared with having the client code re-establish a connection itself.
I decided not to change the keep_alive method, but I added a documentation section to explain why timeouts can still happen if there are open remote files (changeset [9218cbe591b0]).
You see, this can get complicated easily. :-) I won't do this I think. Hence I mark the ticket as "wontfix".


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posted by John V. / Oct 28, 2014, 11:51 AM
It's hard to imagine that it's been already 5 years since the original Motorola DROID popularized Android to new heights, thus, giving the Motorola notoriety once again in the process as well. In that time, we've seen the DROID family branched like no other, with notables such as the Motorola DROID X and DROID RAZR easily coming to mind, but Moto seemingly steered towards a new direction in the last couple of years. You can say, they decided to start fresh with the Moto X – a venture that aimed for broader availability, whereas with the DROID line, it's a Verizon exclusive.
Well folks, the tides may be turning yet again with the upcoming Motorola DROID Turbo, which is shaping to be one of the beefiest, baddest, and long lasting smartphones out there. Even without touching the phone, the specs sheet already have us drooling with its 5.2-inch quad-HD screen, 21-megapixel camera, Snapdragon 805 chip, and a 3900 mAh battery. Charged up to for a shocking introduction, the Motorola DROID Turbo is going zero to 60 in less than a few short seconds – let's see what it's all about!
From a close inspection, the DROID Turbo exhibits some of the familiar design characteristics of DROIDs past. For one, we're pretty amused that it's able to trim off a lot of fat – where its skinny bezels make this 5.2-incher feel pretty easy in the hand. A common implementation with today's high-end smartphones, the DROID Turbo, much like the 2014 Moto X (and many more), sports a metal trim bezel outlining the sides of the phone. Interestingly, though, the DROID Turbo is available in two bodied options: metalized glass fiber (MGF) and nylon fiber. With the former, it's similar in texture to the materials used by past DROIDs, which exhibits a rubbery feel. Meanwhile, the new nylon fiber one has an attractive look of its own, just because it has a more natural, fabric feel to it.
In typical fashion, the rear casing features ultra-strong Kevlar fiber, even with the nylon fiber one – while a water repellant coating helps to keep the phone safeguarded from minor splashes. However, it's not water resistant, so don't think for a second it'll survive a dunk. Nevertheless, its design is distinct enough to separate it from what Motorola is doing with the Moto X. In any event, it looks good, feels good, and has that quality sturdiness we've come to expect from the DROID name.
A visual feat no doubt, the DROID Turbo impresses with its 5.2-inch quad-HD 2560 x 1440 AMOLED display, which gives it that future proof quality. In fact, it's in an elite club, as there are still very few smartphones with quad-HD displays. Not surprisingly, details are super crisp and clear – thanks in part to its number crushing pixel density count of 565 ppi. Undoubtedly, it's one of the most detailed screens out there!
At the same time, the AMOLED screen emits that iridescent glow that easily catches out attention in a dark room. We can talk about how AMOLED screens produce over-saturated colors, and how they're not realistic, but when it comes to attractiveness, it surely has a profound look to it. Of course, it bears all of the qualities of the technology – like its wide viewing angles and pure black color.
Quickly previewing the software running in the DROID Turbo, it's apparent that it's running pretty much the same mostly stock Android 4.4.4 KitKat experience we've seen already in the latest Moto X smartphone. Therefore, it reaps the benefits as its distant family member. We've always been fond of the software features that Motorola has included with its experience in the Moto X, mainly because they prove to be useful – as opposed to overwhelming or redundant. In particular, the listing includes Moto Voice, Moto Actions, Moto Assist, and Moto Display.
Motorola DROID Turbo screenshots
Interestingly, though, it bears its own set of software features different form the Moto X, that gear to sharing content between other sevices. Going with the "Zap" tagline, these features seem to be more social, where handset owners share content between one another. It's actually a standalone app, which can be downloaded on other Android phones. For starters, there's "Zap Zone," which automates sharing between friends by creating a "zap zone" – where invitees to the zone can share photos within the group with the flick of a finger. And with the aid of a Chromecast connected to a television set, we zap content and create a slideshow. And finally, there's an option that allows us to zap screenshots automatically too.
Overall, these exclusive features are more secondary things we'd probably use infrequently – just because they don't seem as important to use day in, day out for most consumers. And of course, it's proven by the fact that they're more social centric features than anything else.
Processor and Memory
Like its display, the processor in the DROID Turbo is meant to be relevant for a good, long time. To be exact, it's lugging around Qualcomm's latest piece of silicon – a quad-core 2.7GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 805 SoC with a beefy 3GB of RAM. Not surprisingly, the phone flies with every flick, swipe, and press, so there are no worries about the performance with this one.
Just like the Moto X, the Motorola DROID Turbo lacks expandable memory via microSD card slot, but its saving grace is that it boasts a spacious 32GB, with an additional option of 64GB for those who need the extra space.
One of the most underwhelming parts of the Moto X is its camera, a 13-megapixel camera that fails to rival its contemporaries. Well, it seems as though the DROID Turbo is intent in squashing those concerns, since it packs along an impressive 21-megapixel auto-focus camera, which features an f/2.0 aperture lens, dual-LED flash, and up to 4K video recording. Indeed, we're anxious to see its quality!
The latest version of the Moto X had nearly all the elements in making it a wonderful phone, but it lacks the impressive specs sheet of the DROID Turbo. With this latest offering, which of course is a Verizon exclusive, it's jumping straight to the top of the leader boards with its future proof hardware – with a built-like-a-tank construction to match it. In addition, it's especially comforting to know that it's stuffed with a beefy 3900 mAh, a capacity that should give it considerable longevity. As we've said, the specs are drool worthy, the design looks stunning, and the beefy battery is making this a formidable beast this upcoming holiday season. Let's just cross our fingers and hope that it delivers quality results – as in taking good photos, having a really long battery life, and much more.
Priced at $199.99 with a contract through Verizon, for the 32GB red/black metalized glass fiber versions, it's undoubtedly an aggressive point made by Big Red and Verizon, so we're really wowed by the decision. For a mere $50 more, you can snag the 64GB version of the nylon fiber for $249.99 with a 2-year contract.
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Camera 20.7 MP / 2 MP front
Storage 64 GB
1. bucky
Well done moto. What would have made it perfect for me is if they managed to put this all in a 4.7" package.
16. SupermanayrB
It's called, get last years DROID Mini, Moto X or iPhone or, OR..... adjust to a larger phone. 4.7" displays are as in style as physical keyboards.
18. g2a5b0e unregistered
Sounds like a comment I would make. +1
Awesome phone, the big question is - is it a Verizon exclusive? Will there be an international version??
43. bwhiting
I think the Droid Turbo will be the exclusive for Verizon as most of the Droid brands are. It might make a seperate one that offers close to the same specs for other carriers. Verizon has a bind on the Droid name and doubt they would let other carriers use it for real.
2. SuperAndroidEvo
Yeah it's sexy! My only issue is that it's too small. Then Motorola Nexus 6 for me all the way, also the front facing stereo speakers are an awesome feature missing from the Motorola Droid Turbo.
Thanks for not complaining that this should be smaller.
Since when is a 5.2" display considered too small? It has a QHD display to boot. Its awesome.
Not everyone has the same preferences. I've had phones that are least 5.5" for 2 years now. I couldn't go back to 5.2".
3. CanYouSeeTheLight
"It should be noted, however, that this hardware is based on 64-bit architecture." Typo? Shouldn't it be isn't instead of is?
12. milesboy5
The RAM is based on 64-bit architecture http://www.motorola.com/us/droid-turbo-pdp.html#specs-droid-turbo-us
4. Hyperreal
Amazing phone. definitely will get one! True beast in every aspect!
5. dmh0284
I actually like the look of the black 64gb one in the hands on pics.
6. Sakeem
The phone doesn't look nearly as bad as i thought in the pics that came out last week. I think its 64GB for me. In need of an upgrade. Nice Moto. Very nice.
7. Anterv
Even OnePlus One is more available than this..
8. Bondurant
Decent specs, back looks cool, front looks ugly, and UI looks fugly.
15. orphant
I'm really considering getting this phone, but the front really does look awful. Going from a G2 with no bezels to this just doesn't feel right...
20. DocOc
Decent specs? This phone has no equal in specs...
9. Spedez
Nice phone. QHD display is just a gimmick in that screen size. FullHD is enough for 5".
19. dmh0284
I was going to agree until I saw that it's an amoled screen. I honestly think QHD does make a difference in this case because of how amoled uses subpixels. If it were IPS like my G2, I'd rather it be 1080P, because the resolution is perfect for the G2, which is a 5.2" screen like this.
10. rbuljo
jebus i want one!! please make a gsm version so we poor and forgotten people overseas can get one!
11. CreeDiddy
Man nothing impressive, but battery life. Nexus 6 is still the one to get. KitKat is old. Why no Lollipop? The OS is still the same as last years.
14. Berzerk000
Posts: 4275; Member since: Jun 26, 2011
Lollipop just got announced 2 weeks ago, did you really expect them to have a build ready for release? I wouldn't expect any updates from Motorola until at least mid-November.
Um..not impressive? It has the best screen, top-notch camera, and the best process out there. Not to mention the best battery. How is that not impressive?
23. nathan.carter
Because its exclusive to verizon only. Thats why its not impressive. I'll passon verizon and wait for sony's next release.
24. VZWuser76
FCC filings point to a non Verizon version of this phone. Around a week after this went through the FCC, an almost identical phone went through, but carrying GSM bands. BTW, good call on the HTC Nexus phone ;) Sorry, had to do it.
13. terabyteRouser
phone for football fans?
22. JakeH
any GSM variant possible?
See post 24.
26. Af1rPA
Killer specs. Cool backing material. Ugly phone :( I would have liked it to have the curve of the Moto X with the new materials and old dimple = perfect Motorola (minus the ugly chin)

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McGuire Gibson is a professor of Mesopotamian archaeology at the University of Chicago.
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Diary: the Theft of Iraq's Antiquities
McGuire Gibson, 1 January 2009
Midway through the 2003 invasion, an American officer was shown on TV directing tank crews away from the site of Babylon, explaining to them that it was an important part of Iraq's heritage. This led me to assume that the army had acted on information that I, among others, had given them about the significance of the ancient region of Mesopotamia. I imagined that when the army reached...
Midway through the 2003 invasion, an American officer was shown on TV directing tank crews away from the site of Babylon, explaining to them that it was an important part of Iraq's...


Date 1992 Phys. Desc. xv, 590 p. : ill., maps ; 26 cm.
Mark Borthwick with contributions by selected scholars.
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1. Dynasties, Empires, and Ages of Commerce: Pacific Asia to the Nineteenth Century -- 2. Seaborne Barbarians: Incursions by the West -- 3. Meiji: Japan in the Age of Imperialism -- 4. The Rise of Nationalism and Communism -- 5. Maelstrom: The Pacific War and its Aftermath -- 6. Miracle by Design: The Postwar Resurgence of Japan -- 7. The New Asian Capitalists -- 8. Power, Authority, and the Advent of Democracy -- 9. Sentimental Imperialists: America in Asia -- 10. China's Long March Toward Modernization -- 11. Beyond the Revolution: Indonesia and Vietnam -- 12. Siberian Salient: Russia in Pacific Asia -- 13. Pacific Century: the Regional Perspective.


Did Eric B. And Rakim Endorse Donald Trump Then Change Their Minds?
Strange things are happening. Election Day is only two days away, and as most of hip hop, continues to rally behind the Democratic presidential candidate, Hillary Clinton, legendary duo Eric B and Rakim might have announced they're leaning towards another candidate. The group recently shared a message endorsing Donald Trump on Twitter on Nov. 5.
"Hillary ain't speaking the truth. Trump is a business man," they posted in a now deleted tweet (the announcement was deleted shortly after 9:00a.m.) The possible endorsement was also attached to an image that resembled Trump's campaign poster. But instead of its usual wording it read: "The Hood for Trump Pence." They also suggested Eric should take a political position in the White House if Trump is elected. "What America needs is @EricB in the Presidential Cabinet as the Secretary of," they continued.
The questionable endorsement comes only a short while after the group announced that they would be returning to the spotlight with an epic reunion tour. During that Twitter announcement, the men commented on the election, but suggested they felt neither candidate was qualified to be elected as president. "Forget about @realDonaldTrump and @HillaryClinton. Vote Eric B for President again," they tweeted on Oct. 15.
Since the tweet has been stripped from their social account, it's possible the endorsement was just a hoax. But joke or not, fans are not here for the games and have expressed their disappointment, anger, and confusion on Twitter.
Eric B and Rakim endorsing Trump has to be the worst news I've seen today and it's barely 6 a.m.
Eric B and Rakim just lost so much of my respect. Really? Y'all out of all people are voting for trump?
Eric B and Rakim cant be endorsing Trump... That has to be a hack. They trolling us so hard. Say it aint so?


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Home Headlines & Breaking News PM's Scheduled Address to US House of Representative Sparks Political Row
PM's Scheduled Address to US House of Representative Sparks Political Row
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has accepted the invitation sent by Speaker John Boehner, on behalf of the bipartisan leadership of the House of Representatives and the Senate, to address a joint meeting of Congress. The Prime Minister is expected to arrive in the USA at the beginning of March and will also participate in the AIPAC Policy Conference. The address will provide an opportunity for the Prime Minister to thank President Obama, the US Congress and the American people for their support of Israel.
Prime Minister Netanyahu:
"I am honored by this invitation, which reflects the special friendship shared by Israel and the United States as well as the strong bipartisan support for Israel across America.
"Just last week I discussed with President Obama the common challenges we face from Islamist extremism, including resurgent terrorism and Iran's pursuit of nuclear weapons.
"I look forward to being able to share with the joint session Israel's vision for working together to address these threats and to reiterate Israel's commitment to the bond that unites our two democracies."
This would appear on the surface as an opportunity for the prime minister of Israel to open some eyes among elected American officials regarding threats facing the State of Israel, particularly the Iranian threat. However, amid strained relations between Jerusalem and the White House, and the prime minister's Republican leanings, the prime minister's planned address in the house is causing a measure of turmoil on the already strained political relationship between the two leaders.
Not wishing to miss the opportunity, the Israeli left-wing is accusing the prime minister of sabotaging that which remains of relations between Israel and her strongest ally, the US, as clearly President Barak Obama, Secretary of State Johan Kerry and other senior administration officials are not pleased with the upcoming Netanyahu address.
At best it will be perceived as another Republican Party slap in the face to the president, whose Mideast policies to date have been a dismal failure at best. The presence of the prime minister in the House will further highlight the White House's lack of understanding of Mideast events at best, and expose to some degree his personal anti-Israel and pro-Muslim agenda at worst. Whatever the case, the Labor Party in Israel and others left of center are sounding the warning bell, fearful the address will further compromise Israel's tenuous position in the international community today.
Numerous reports state that the White House is "outraged" over Mr. Netanyahu accepting the invitation, which is views as circumventing the Oval Office to address the House of Representative. Remaining true to its anti-Israel position, the New York Times was quick to support opponents of the prime minister and highlight how the visit is a slap in the face to the White House. The article points out that the prime minister and the US president will not meet, but the latter will shun Mr. Netanyahu by quoting long-standing minhag, that such a high-level meeting so close to Israeli elections may be viewed as interfering in Israeli domestic politics. In his appearance on the motzei Shabbos Israel version of Meet the Press, Yesh Atid MK and a former ISA (Israel Security Agency – Shin Bet) director Yaakov Peri was furious over the prime minister's planned address, accusing him of bypassing the White House and grossly interfering in internal American politics, a place all leaders of the state have avoided treading in the past.
Haaretz reported that President Obama had demanded that Netanyahu tone down his pro-sanctions rhetoric during a call between the leaders. The Washington Post focused more on Secretary Kerry, citing the upcoming appearance of the prime minister before the House is particularly offensive to the secretary. The post quotes a close source to Kerry warning "The secretary's patience is not infinite", hinting a retaliatory move can or perhaps should be expected. However the Post fails to cite that during the past two years of the outgoing Israeli administration, Kerry's blunders in shuttle diplomacy and peace-making efforts between Israel and the PA (Palestinian Authority) have been his own, a clear reflection of his one-sided policy against Israel and an inability to think out of box accompanied by his unwillingness to pressure PA Chairman Abu Mazen into taking a realistic bold step to peace. Kerry's criticism has for the most party been directed at Israel and Israel alone.
Strained relations aside many feel the invitation to the prime minister at this time was a major error as national elections for the 20th Knesset will take place on March 17th, giving the prime minister a prime forum some two weeks before Israelis go to the polls.
Supporters of the move explain the House is simply fed up with Obama's lack of progress in the Mideast and his worrisome befriending of the Iranian administration over recent months. Israel continues to warn against the growing threats surrounding Iran's nuclear program and the gap between Jerusalem's interpretation of intelligence data and that of the US is widening.
Much will be heard in the coming weeks regarding the prime minister's planned appearance before the House in the coming weeks, both locally in Israel and on Capitol Hill.
(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)
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147 January 25, 2015 10:52 am at 10:52 am
That is week of Purim and IY'H can only bode well for Am Yisroel and only bode bad for Obama & like minded people.
Yaapchik January 25, 2015 3:59 pm at 3:59 pm
הלכה היא בידוע שעשו שונא את יעקב: end of story!


In a little change of pace, I photographed a wedding last Sunday for The New York Times.
The article, featured in today's Style pages in the Weddings/Celebration section, gave me a chance to get back to my journalistic roots. But I didn't do anything differently than I normally do at weddings with the exception of not photographing formal and couple portraits.
The images ran in the print edition as well as the online edition, which included a nice slide show of the images. Mary and John live in Brooklyn, NY, but Mary is from the Rock Hill, SC, area and the wedding was held there. The story about how they met makes for a fun read.
I just saw this piece, Christopher, and it's wonderful! As soon as I saw your photo credit I had to jump online to give you a shout-out. Lovely images, and what a great story. Bravo!
Congratulations! Great work! Great story and beautiful images… as always!


When you think about it, the Internet hasn't been around all that long. But it is so intertwined in our lives that it's hard to imagine it ever not being here.
Long gone are the days when you'd be watching a television show, see a familiar face on the screen, and find yourself futilely trying to remember that actor's name. ("Oh, it's that guy. He's been in tons of stuff, but I can't think of his name or where else I've seen him before!") Now, while you're sitting on your sofa, you can just pull up the show's IMDB page on your smartphone and find information about "that guy"—as well as about every other cast and crew member involved with the show!
Can you imagine seeing that much content in one minute, much less actually comprehending it? Even over the course of an entire year, a single person couldn't begin to process that much data!
People see a lot of stuff on their screens every day—and most of what someone encounters isn't relevant to his or her interests. As more and more information is produced on an ever-increasing number of channels, it becomes increasingly difficult for signals (useful information) to cut through the noise (useless information).
In order to make it more likely that users see the posts that are most relevant to their interests, Facebook employs some fairly sophisticated computer algorithms. Rather than see everything that's produced by their friends and by the companies and pages they like, users see a curated selection of that content.
Unlike Facebook, though, most of us don't have an army of programmers at our beck and call. So the challenge for marketers who want to reach their audiences via social media is to find other ways to help their signals stand out from all the noise.
Volume is one way to accomplish this: if you put your content out there in a large enough quantity, it's bound to get seen, right? Perhaps. But it's also very likely to be ignored, especially if your competitors have the same idea and also increase their output. Also, there's a fine line between saturating your market and oversaturating it—and once you cross that line, you run the risk of annoying your audience to the point of alienating them. Some marketers who realize that have turned to a "new" media that's actually been around for a long time: print.
Print magazines in particular have a proven effectiveness in helping companies cut through the noise. By their novelty (in comparison to digital media), print magazines stand out and can therefore make a lasting impression with their audiences. Their format enables more targeted communication, and the staying power they have as physical objects increases both the reach and the duration of that messaging.
Rather than jump on the Internet marketing bandwagon with everyone else, why not forge a different path and give print a try?
The numbers are in and the main media outlets agree with us: print is back, baby!
In short, even as pundits were busily crowing about the demise of print media, it has remained very much alive and kicking.
I've covered this territory here before, explaining how print communications are more memorable than digital ones, not least because of the ability of words on paper to connect with and engage readers more than blips on a screen.
But don't just take my word for it (or put all of your faith in what scholars have said on the subject). Think about your own relationship with print. Even if you are a diehard e-book reader, I bet you still have some paper media around that means something to you.
Your marriage certificate, a birthday card your kid made for you, the handwritten notes your dad packed in your school lunches during your childhood, ticket stubs from a concert by your favorite band, newspaper clippings about when your team won the championship game—those are the kinds of things you keep and treasure. But how often do you dig through your e-mail to find the link to the online e-card someone sent you a couple of years ago? When is the last time you found a digital communication to be deeply meaningful to you?
Containers matter. They shape stories and the experience of stories. Choose the right binding, cloth, trim size, texture of paper, margins, and ink, and you will strengthen the bond between reader and text. Choose badly and the object becomes a wedge between reader and text.
Digital media has been amazingly effective at reaching large numbers of people quickly, easily, and inexpensively. But what good is that reach if it has no lasting effect and endures only briefly? Or if it never meets its target at all but rather gets drowned out in an electronic cacophony of countless other messages competing for attention?
If you're taking the time to craft a message, then make the effort to communicate it effectively. Before you send your words out into the world, be sure to choose the best container for them.
People may not remember what you did or said, but they will always remember how you made them feel.
Humans have been writing letters to each other for millennia. Handwritten correspondence occupies a special place in our hearts and in our culture at large. Not only do we write letters, but we save them, too. The oldest existing letters we know of, for example, are the Amarna clay tablet archives, which were written by Egyptians during the 13th century BC. We also treat our handwritten notes as treasures, even devoting museum exhibits to them, for example. And we fill empty shoeboxes with handwritten love letters, holiday cards, and postcards from far-off places.
Does anyone do that with e-mail? Not really. We don't call up an e-mail years later and read it with the same tenderness we feel toward handwritten notes. In fact, we often permanently delete e-mail after dealing with it (especially as more and more people aspire to achieve "inbox zero"). So I think it's safe to say that no, e-mail doesn't have the same attraction and endurance as handwritten correspondence.
True, e-mail hasn't been around for very long yet. So I suppose you could say that the jury is still out on its long-term appeal. It is possible that one day e-mail could surpass handwritten notes in popularity—once it's been around for a few thousand years, perhaps.
Honestly, though, I don't see that happening. Why? Because e-mail can't hold a candle to handwritten correspondence in terms of emotional impact and sentimental value.
The other reason is that people appreciate handwritten letters, and that appreciation can translate into connection. When Douglas Conant took over as CEO of the then-beleaguered Campbell Soup Company, he realized that the company's success depended on improving the company culture. So he set out to do that—by hand writing notes of encouragement to every single employee. Over the course of ten years, he wrote about 30,000 letters. Those letters resonated with the employees so much that now, decades later, many of them count their letters from Conant among their prized possessions. The fact that the CEO cared enough not just to write a letter but to take a fair amount of time to write it by hand had an unforgettable emotional impact on those employees.
So what does this mean? Because a handwritten letter can carry far more impact beyond its content, consider breaking out a pen and a piece of paper the next time you want to communicate with someone in a manner that builds an emotional connection. Instead of dashing off quick e-mails to clients after meeting with them, take the time to handwrite thoughtful notes to thank them for their time. Your effort to connect with them in this meaningful and personal way definitely won't go unnoticed.
My daughter, who is a huge fan of pickles, wrote that two years ago, and I still smile every time I see it.
She now knows how to spell pickles correctly. She still writes me cute notes every once in a while, but now she sends them as texts via an app on her Kindle. Seeing that Post-it this morning make me realize that I haven't printed or saved any of them—not even the ones loaded with emoticons. What does this say about the relative value of analogue connections?
Even though the Internet and digital media enable us to connect more easily with friends, family, and customers anywhere in the world, those connections have a different "feel" than those with a physical component, such as face-to-face meetings, handwritten letters, and high-quality printed marketing pieces that arrive via snail mail.
The theory of haptics goes a long way toward explaining why we interact with print differently from how we interact with digital media. We pay attention to and engage with print more than we do with digital, too. And when compared with digital media, physical items have unrivaled staying power in our lives. We cherish the Post-its and birthday cards but often delete texts without a second thought.
That's why, two years after my daughter wrote it, I still have the little square of yellow paper with her handwritten comparison of me and "Pickls" on it. That's why people have shoeboxes full of old love letters. That's why, even in this age of quick and easy photo sharing through Instagram and Facebook, people still love to send—and receive—printed vacation postcards.
True, branded magazines rarely include heartfelt sentiments about parents and preserved vegetables. But they do contain information that's of value to your customers and prospects—and it's delivered in a format that's appealing, engaging, and memorable. If you give branded magazines a try, you may find that you like them just as much as (or even more than) you like "Pickls"!
With e-mail, e-books, and e-everything dominating the communications landscape, many pundits have gone so far as to announce "Print is dead." Such a declaration, however, is not only premature but downright wrong.
Sumerian cuneiform, Chinese calligraphy, Irish illuminated manuscripts, movable type, web presses—for centuries, people have used hard-copy formats to document their lives and communicate their ideas. Over the past couple of decades, though, digital formats have been in ascendance. "Thanks to the Internet and its medium of digital text accessed via personal computing devices," points out Barry W. Cull, "most people are reading very differently today than they were in the very recent past" (2011).
Two main factors have motivated the trend toward digital: cost and ease. With their low up-front costs and simple-to-use distribution modes (particularly in this era of user-authored social media, blogs, and e-mail lists), digital formats have very wide appeal. Small companies consider them a "first step" marketing tool, and larger companies incorporate them into big-budget, multipronged outreach campaigns.
Companies that neglect print do so at their peril, however. Print continues to have a reach and accessibility unparalleled by digital efforts—a topic that researchers in many fields have been investigating for several years.
Ziming Liu is one of many researchers who have extensively studied how people use documents. In his recent book on the subject, he offers a detailed comparison of how people interact with print media versus how they interact with digital media. "Electronic media tend to be more useful for searching," he writes, "while paper-based media are preferred for actual consumption of information" (2008: 54). In their work, he and many other researchers have highlighted several areas of difference between the two forms.
Unlike digital media, printed works have a tactile element and thus are conduits for communication through touch, known as haptic communication. People hold printed material in their hands, turn pages to move through the content, and physically interact with printed works in numerous ways.
In his seminal review of the differences between print and digital media, Andrew Dillon writes that "paper is an information carrier par excellence and possesses an intimacy of interaction that can never be obtained in a medium that by definition imposes a microchip interface between the reader and the text" (1992: 1298). Although technological advances keep improving the functionality of digital media, that format still lacks the physical intimacy of paper—a shortcoming that explains, in part, why print is still a major player in the communications field.
Even though many newspapers and magazines have online versions of their publications, printed copies continue to be in high demand—despite the fact that hard copies cost money and digital copies either have reduced fees or are completely free to readers. The former editor-at-large of Slate, Jack Shafer, wrote an article about his print-to-digital-then-back-to-print conversion that echoes the experiences of many media consumers. One reason for his return to the print edition of his favorite newspaper: haptics. He writes, "I started missing the blue Times bag on my lawn and the glossy goodness of the Sunday magazine" (Shafer 2011).
Numerous studies demonstrate that people respond differently to text on screens than to text on paper, and that these responses are subsconscious—maybe even "hard-wired" into our brains—and not simply a matter of age-based opposition to new and different things. In a Scientific American article titled "The Reading Brain in the Digital Age: The Science of Paper versus Screens," Ferris Jabr highlights recent research in information science, neuroscience, psychology, computer science, and other fields on how people process information they read on paper versus how they process information they read on screen. He points out that "such navigational differences may subtly inhibit reading comprehension," adding that "compared with paper, screens may also drain more of our mental resources while we are reading and make it a little harder to remember what we read when we are done" (2013).
Although not all scientists are in agreement on this subject, most studies indicate that people retain paper-based information better than what they read on screen.
The "chunked" layout of onscreen text often makes it easier to parse, but its lack of physical "landmarks" makes overall comprehension more difficult. Consider how often a reader comes across a long article posted online somewhere and prints it out to read it because he or she feels that onscreen reading would limit understanding or remembering of the content. Being able to flip back and forth between pages, to hold a physical item that changes appearance as one moves through it (e.g., early in a book or magazine there are more pages on the right, and as the reader nears the end his or her progress is marked by a stack of pages on the left), and to refer to the printed item's topography to find information in it are all print features that onscreen media lack.
Joel Geske and Saras Bellur, too, found that the "flicker" effect of electronic screens affects readers' attention much more than print media, writing that "subjects had to in effect, 'work harder'" to read onscreen text than to read print material (2008: 418). This greater effort can make engagement difficult to achieve—and make readers less likely to try to achieve it.
The hypertext that gives digital media users immediate access to vast quantities of information makes it more difficult for users to remain engaged with a primary message. The nonlinear aspect of digital media "may also affect sustained attention and contributes to more fragmented reading, since each page has to compete with many other pages for a user's attention" (Liu 2008: 60). The nonlinearity of digital media as well as the ease with which its readers can move quickly and repeatedly among several electronic elements leads to a reading experience characterized by "online multitasking and lack of cognitive focus" (Cull 2011). Similarly, surveys by Ipso MediaCT found that "while initial access [to digital media] is considered 'easy,' finding [one's] way around is more 'confusing'" (2011). And literacy researchers have found that the scrolling and clicking required to negotiate a digital text actually distance readers from the content (Mangen 2008).
Ultimately, It's all about engagement. No messaging is effective unless it engages—and sticks—with its audience. By most measures, print has a leg up on digital media in this regard.
Following up on Geske and Bellur's findings on print's ability to establish attention better than computer screens, Schijns and Smit conducted their own study that examined how people engaged the same content that was delivered in print and on a digital screen and found that readers in their own surveys spent about twice the time with content in print form than they spent with the same content in digital form (2008). Increased attention is linked to better recall, and researchers in the School of Communication and Journalism at the University of Oregon, in their study of how readers interact with the same material in print and digital forms, found that those who read print versions remember the content much better than those who read digital versions (Santana et al. 2011).
And when people read texts—particularly those they want to remember—they often annotate or highlight them. Liu's research finds that those two practices, which are mainstays of interactions with printed texts, don't have real analogues in the digital setting (2008: 61). "It seems that many people search or browse digital documents," he writes, "but when they need to have in-depth reading of some documents, they will print out and then annotate printed documents" (2008: 62). Although some digital annotation is possible, it still has a fairly low adoption rate. The inability to annotate easily (or even at all, in some cases) decreases some readers' absorption—and retention—of content.
According to Gerlach and Buxmann, cognitive dissonance theory explains why many people fail to fully adopt—or even engage with—digital media over print: because they can't engage haptically with digital media in the same ways they're accustomed to engaging with print media, many people fail to achieve optimal efficiency and connection with digital media (Gerlach and Buxmann 2011). And where engagement is lacking, it's much more difficult for messaging to get through.
Clearly, there are tremendous advantages to using print media—both as a consumer or customer of marketing and as a marketer. But for some reason it remains the neglected cousin of digital media. What can be done to change this?
First, marketers must educate the public about the better engagement afforded by print than by digital media. According to the 2013/2014 MPA Magazine Media Factbook, for example, "the average [magazine] reader spends 40 minutes reading each print issue" (2013: 13)—an attention rate far better than interactions than that obtained by Internet- and television-based media.
Second, marketers must increase awareness of the customization options available for print. A strong misconception prevails that the only cost-effective customization possible comes via digital methods. But print can have content, format, and distribution that are just as customizable as what's possible with digital media.
Thanks to technological advancements that continue to drive down costs, custom printing is become a more affordable option in the direct marketer's toolkit (Schijns 2008). When both production costs and return on investment are factored, print can be just as cost effective (or even more so) than digital.
As digital media increasingly pervade peoples' lives, their effectiveness as communication tools is increasingly compromised: flooded daily with digital content, people are ignoring much of it. When content providers ask themselves, "How much digital content do people even notice? How much do they remember?" they're finding that often the answer to both questions is "not enough." During Shafer's year-long relationship with the digital-only version of The New York Times, for example, his discovery that "going electronic had punished my powers of retention" (2011) compelled him to return to print.
Ziming Liu points out, "In the information-abundant world, attention becomes a scarce resource. People tend to be more selective when they face an overwhelming amount of information" (2008: 60). Organizations that understand how difficult it is to catch (and keep) attention—and choose solutions that best mitigate those difficulties—will be most successful at reader engagement. The more attention readers pay to content, the more they engage with it and remember it. And the best way to engage those readers? Put it in print!
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We have a wonderful lineup of artists for our Christmas in Miniature show that opens on Saturday, December 1st, 10am-5pm. You won't want to miss our "meet the artist" reception from 3:00-5:00 on the 1st. You'll recognize some "big name" artists in the northwest as well as some emerging artists.
Each artist was told that they must keep their paintings to no more than 12" by 16", or 160 square inches. You'll be delighted to view their original small and affordable paintings.
Lydia Crouch is most often referred to as "the one who paints the dresses," as her heart toward the emotional recovery of human trafficking victims is a passion that comes through in her work. She also loves painting simple moments from her world at home on Camano Island. She is married to Rich Crouch and has two grown children. She more than grateful to be adopted into Dorsey Studios where she paints live on Thursdays at the Gallery in Camano Commons.
Ann Cory is the granddaughter of nationally famous illustrator/cartoonist/artist Fanny Y. Cory. She is the wife of Northwest artist, Jack Dorsey, and the mother of artists Jason Dorsey, April Nelson, and Jed Dorsey. She has been a on again, off again artist throughout her adult life during her life seasons. Now, after a bout with cancer in 2015, she is on again and enjoying it very much.
As a plein-air watercolorist, Marilyn Crandall's free and loose strokes uniquely capture landscape images and country scenes with an emphasis on strong patterns of light and dark.
This artist grew up in several western states as her engineer dad worked on the large hydroelectric dam projects from Arizona to Oregon, California to Washington, Utah to Montana. She graduated with honors from Parsons, The New School for Design in New York City where she majored in Environmental Design. Prior to that she attended the University of Washington, College of Architecture, where she was introduced to watercoloring as a way to render her designs. Her profession has been as a registered architect; her passion is watercolor.
She feels privileged to have taken workshops with Eric Weigardt, Tony Van Hasselt, Kathy Collins, and Diane Hill, among others. All have been mentors. She is a member of the Washington Watercolor Society, the Roaming Artists, and CAA, Camano Arts Association.
She has painted abroad in Guatemala, China, Korea and Mexico as well as in the USA in Maine, Virginia, Georgia, Washington DC and now can paint the coastal scenes and rural landscapes of Washington State, particularly the amazing Salish Sea area.
Jack Dorsey is a lifelong resident of Washington State and is a graduate of Seattle Pacific College. He has to his credit two one-man shows at the Frye Art Museum in Seattle and a one-man show in Tokyo, Japan. Jack Dorsey's art has been collected by the Frye Art Museum and the LaConner Historical Museum along with numerous corporations and private collectors throughout the U.S.A. and internationally.
Jack Dorsey is a former president of the Northwest Watercolor Society and a past member of the Puget Sound Group of Painters. Currently he is a life member of the Northwest Watercolor Society and an associate member of Oil Painters of North America.
Jack Dorsey's emergence back into the art world came in 1997 after retirement from the Boeing Company after sixteen years as a production illustrator in Everett. In the past few years collectors started to find Jack Dorsey's fine art during the annual Mother's Day Studio Tour on Camano Island where he makes his home. Jack Dorsey is known for his watercolors which can be described as impressionistic realism.
It is interesting to note that all of Jack's family are artists also. His wife, Ann Cory paints in acrylics; the youngest son, Jed Dorsey paints in acrylics and oils; while April and Jason Dorsey have achieved painting success also.
As a long established Northwest artist, Jack Dorsey cordially invites inquiries and visits to his home if anyone is interested in collecting his fine art.
Jacqueline was born in Seattle, Washington in March of 2002. She grew up in Indiana and loved exploring the beauty of the Midwest and the Northwest as a child.
Jackie always enjoyed doing and watching family members do art. She decided she wanted to learn how to do watercolor and joined the Dorsey Art Show at The Harrison Gallery in Indianapolis. She sold her first painting, and soon after that, was asked to do her first commission. Jackie has been painting and learning ever since, showcasing a few paintings at the Mother's day shows here on Camano each year.
She is currently taking a watercolor class as a Running Start Student at Bellevue College. Along with her family, she has been working on creating an extension of the Sunnyshore Studio by building a tiny house. The tiny house will serve as a place to create, showcase her art as well as others, will serve as her own place to spend time with the people she loves, and as a place to share the beauty of Camano with the world. Jackie is also partnering with her dad, Jason Dorsey, on a two year project, Discover Beautiful Camano Island, to aid in the creation of a book, documentary, and art show.
Jason Dorsey a pastor of Redeemer, a Presbyterian church in Redmond, WA. On the side, he is the Artistic Director of Sunnyshore Studio, serves as president of the Camano Arts Association, and chairs the Stanwood-Camano Arts Advocacy Commission. Jason grew up in a family of artists and enjoys teaming up with them now in the "family business". As a watercolor artist, Jason enjoys integrating watercolor and writing in books.
John Ebner began a unique, life long journey of discovery while growing up on his family's farm in Sublimity, Oregon. His enthusiasm for life and never ending curiosity were energized through freedom on the farm and the adventures with three brothers, one sister and loving parents. Little did he realize that one day he would give artistic expression to all he was discovering and more.
In the seventh grade, John submitted a collection of his drawings of birds and flowers to his grade school teacher and was surprised his work received so much praise. He continued drawing and painting and eventually enrolled in art school. As an adult and needing to earn a living. John was engaged as a manufacturer's representative, covering the Northwest and continued to explore painting in his spare time.
With his love of art and his creative spirit, John's path of discovery took an interesting turn. What once was a hobby turned into a passionate dedication and his talent flourished. Continuing to support his family he began developing his artistic skills, produced an assortment of paintings and delivered them to a local gallery. To his surprise, the gallery contacted him a short time later saying all paintings have been sold and requested he create more. Further sales and requests brought John the realization he just might be able to support his family by painting full time and presented the idea to Paula. She wholeheartedly agreed and from that point forward he devoted his life entirely to his art.
The next step in John's journey of discovery answered that question and served as a critical turn in the road. From the beginning of their marriage, John's wife Paula, had served as his main source of encouragement and inspiration. Perhaps sensing that John was ready for a major change, she signed his up for a watercolor course, leading to his dramatic transformation.
Over the next few years John's popularity grew, the demand for his paintings increased and he is now considered on of the Pacific Northwest's most admired and collected artists.
Many of the captivating qualities of John's work are apparent. His life-long love of the Pacific Northwest is revealed through the countless compelling vistas he has captured. His curiosity always drawing him to the next step, newest technique and desire to see beyond the obvious. Although reluctant to define his own work, preferring that it speak for itself, he admits that the magic of water has served as an element continually engaging his imagination. He frequently returns to explore the serenity and essence of waterfalls, rivers, seascapes, and beaches that invite him to look beyond the mist. His unique and recognizable motif of rain People huddled under umbrellas, strolling on an ocean beach or lingering on a city street add a timeless and etherial dimension to his work.
John's artistic journey continues as he experiments and explores new forms, subjects and techniques. He is forever grateful for the many emotional rewards his art provides him as well as the gratification and joy voiced by others who see or own his work. Ever humble, ever curious, John is still looking to discover what lies on the other side of the mountain or beyond the mist.
John is a past president of the Northwest Watercolor Society and a life member of the Puget sound group of Northwest Artists.
mulberry paper-making in Fiji, wood engraving and block printing in Singapore and haiku poetry in Japan. She lives on beautiful Camano Island.
Amy Martin is a graduate of Edinboro University of Pennsylvania with a BA in Creative Writing and a minor in Painting. Her eclectic oil and acrylic paintings are inspired by the beauty all around her–the color of coffee in a cup, a blooming poppy, the angular white of a ski slope, or an airplane swooping to land on a river. Amy's former professions include Army Blackhawk helicopter pilot and Boeing Change Specialist which fuel her passion for aviation and birds-eye-view paintings. Currently, she lives and works from her home studio on Camano Island in Washington where she shows annually in the juried Camano Arts Association Studio Tour. She is enrolled in Goddard College's MFA Creative Writing Program and is working on a book length flight memoir. She can be found on FB @juniperbeachstudio and Instagram at Amy_martin_artist.
April enjoys sharing the natural beauty of the world through art. Whether she is capturing the rich colors of dusk on a slough in the Skagit Valley or the thundering rise of a flock of snow geese, creating art is about seeing and thinking together. She appreciates the beautiful world that God created and she hopes that her art will communicate this to the viewer.
John was President of NWWS in 1964–1965, and has fifty years of impressive credentials; teaching numerous classes and workshops at college and adult levels, commercial illustrating, and judging a variety of festivals, exhibitions and open shows primarily throughout the Northwest. He has an enviable list of exhibition awards.
John attended the University of Washington on an athletic scholarship though he "wasn't much for athletics." After marrying Vicky, he joined Boeing when children came into their world. His strong inspiration to pursue art was fueled by two things: the only thing he ever got an A on in school was art, and his uncle, a commercial artist, always supplied him with whatever art materials he needed.
John works on up to fourteen paintings at once. He loves to paint anything that has to do with Northwest scenery and landscapes. His loose, impressionistic painting style has earned him frequent accolades and awards.
Regarding himself as an artist who records his visual impressions and feelings, he is a "reaction painter." John enthusiastically proclaims that there is nothing quite as exciting, challenging and rewarding as attacking a crisp white sheet of watercolor paper.
Being avid volunteers both Melanie and Randy like being involved in their community. Here are some of her volunteer and art related activities and accomplishments: Stanwood Camano Art Guild/SCAF Road Banner Project and Auctions; Stanwood Camano Arts Spring Show – First Place Award; Snow Goose Poster Winner in 2006; Snow Goose Festival Committee Volunteer – Snow Goose Festival Family Activities Program and Bird Art Show at Four Springs House and Lake Preserve; Stanwood Chamber of Commerce Office – Volunteer and Art walk; Gallery and Gallery Shows – Seagrass on Camano; Stanwood Camano Art Guild – Art In Public Places; Five Camano Arts Association Studio Tours; Camano Community Center Gala Auction Volunteer.
Travel, visiting friends and family, and spending time with her 3 young Grandchildren fill in her calendar. Trips to Las Vegas, Victoria BC, Disneyland, International Kite Festival and a 2,250 mile road trip down the West Coast inspired her minds eye this year. Trips to Alaska and Disneyland with her youngest granddaughter are already booked for 2019.
The Christmas in Miniature show opens on Saturday, December 1st. It runs through Saturday, December 8th. Sunnyshore Studio will be open both Saturdays 10:00am-5:00pm.


Global Ayurvedic Market is accounted for $3,428.0 million in 2015 and is expected to reach $9,791.0 million by 2022 growing at a CAGR of 16.2% from 2015 to 2022. Some of the key factors favoring the market growth include, increasing demand for natural and organic products, expanding medical tourism across the globe, rising consumer awareness and growing demand for ayurvedic cosmetics products. Organic skincare products are achieving fast grip and the market is anticipated to expand even further. In addition to expanding consumer base, anti-ageing and anti-wrinkle creams are anticipated to fuel the market growth. However, lack of a killer instinct in ayurvedic industry, lack of optimum therapeutics and stringent regulations are some of the key barrier which is limiting the market size. Moreover, practical developments in ayurvedic medicines will offer great investment opportunities for players in the market.
By products, personal care products segment commanded the largest market revenue owing to rising awareness of personal care products, changes in consumption patterns and lifestyles, and improved purchasing power of women, promises exciting times for the personal care industry. Asia Pacific is estimated to dominate the global market due to the presence of established ayurvedic manufacturing units. In India, Dabur, Baidyanath, and Zandu, together have about 80% of domestic market share.
Some of the key vendors in this market include Amrutanjan Healthcare Limited, Zandu Pharmaceuticals Works Ltd., WELEX Laboratories Pvt. Ltd , Lotus Herbals, Khadi Natural, Surya Herbal Limited , Maxcure Nutracedics Ltd., Shree Dhootapapeshwar Ltd., AVA Products & Services, Vicco Laboratories, Shree Baidyanath Ayurved Bhawan Pvt. Ltd., Kerala Ayurveda Ltd., Forest Essentials, Dabur India Ltd., The Himalaya Drug Company, Patanjali Ayurved Limited, Hamdard Laboratories, Emami Ltd., Charak Pharma Pvt. Ltd., BACFO Pharmaceuticals Ltd., Charak Pharma and Ayurvedic LifeStyles Inc.
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The Independence State Bank opened on April 3, 1897 in Independence, WI as the Bank of Independence. At the end of that day deposits totaled $57. The first depositor was Father Babinski. Anton Senty and John Sprecher were the owners of the Bank with initial capital of $10,000. Deposits are now in excess of $57 million and capital is $5.1 million. The late Lester Senty, son of Anton, was the last family member to be the Bank's President. His spouse, Emogene Senty, owned the Bank until her passing in January 2007. The Senty family remains the Bank's owner and its independent ownership will remain in the future.
The Independence State Bank opened its Elk Mound site in January, 1999. Jean Tworek, Vice President, is the Elk Mound Branch Manager.
The Independence State Bank expanded its Elk Mound facility in December 2004. On October 30, 2006, the main office in Independence moved into a new building on the old Independence High School land. The Lake Hallie office was opened in November 2006. Theresa Dean, Vice President, is the Lake Hallie Branch Manager.
At Independence State Bank, we value volunteerism, being stewards in the communities we serve, and giving back (both financially and otherwise) to help communities remain viable and sustain a sense of community pride that has existed for over 120 years.


Highway location, 4 rooms 2 Bedroom house. Property zoned I-1, many permitted uses including office. Ideal for at home business, City water & septic. Gas & Sewer is available. Property could be purchased with bk-10 lot-3. Total combined acreage would be .7acres.


According to the Cryptocurrency Anti-Money Laundering Reportfrom Ciphertrace some $927 million had been stolen from cryptocurrency exchanges in the first three quarters of 2018 alone. That total will almost certainly have hit, if not smashed straight through, the $1 billion mark by now. So, who were the hackers behind the heists and how did they get away with it?
So, there's a 21 year old opportunist criminal who managed to steal $1 million from the Coinbase and Gemini accounts of San Francisco resident Robert Ross after convincing the victims mobile network provider to assign that phone number to his own device. Once he had succeeded in this SIM-swapping endeavor, an increasingly common method used to compromise otherwise secure accounts by gaining access to two-factor authentication codes sent via SMS, the criminal was able to access the crypto accounts with relative ease.
Then there are the state-sponsored actors.
North Korea remains firmly in the cross-hairs for anyone investigating cryptocurrency theft, especially at the bigger end of the attack scale. One group in particular, the Lazarus Group, is thought to have been involved in a number of attacks. Often launching their attacks out of China, possibly in order to try and obfuscate accurate geo-political attribution, the Lazarus actors are widely thought to be nation-state players tasked with cyber heists to help boost the beleaguered North Korean economy. In this regard, Lazarus is thought to have been spectacularly successful: more than $571 million in cryptocurrency is reported to have been stolen by the Lazarus Group since the start of 2017 and it is thought that 65% of stolen cryptocurrency ends up in North Korea.


Just great! Now, because of that helmet, the gene pool is denied.
Can we encourage certain people not to wear a helmet???
I'm fairly certain that helmet didn't really do much. He's very likely dead from that level of trauma. The tire barely moved, buddies head got squashed bad.
I cant believe he stood up after that, much less walked around.
I wasn't serious. I hope he's alright. Aside from that, if you look close that same tire did lift up over his helmet and it also went over his shoulder so not all the weight was on his helmet. People have survived worse.


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Tomorrow Belongs to Me
By: Mark Roberts
Narrated by: Colin Moody
A few months short of his 16th birthday, Danny runs away from home after a huge row with his Mom. After only four hours, everything he owns is stolen at a motorway service station. He is approached by Luke, a 19-year-old on a road trip, supposedly making a video diary. Luke has a huge car and plenty of money, and Danny likes him instantly. But Luke is not what he seems, and everywhere they go a mysterious trail of death follows them.
Really Wild Animal Stories
By: Robert Howes, Lene Lovitch, Les Chappell, and others
Narrated by: Terry Nutkins
Terry Nutkins narrates the funny and thought-provoking Really Wild Animal Stories. He sheds some light on the detrimental effects of human activity in 'The Enviroment Under Threat' and clarifies the importance of respect towards mother earth in 'Wild Animals to the Rescue'.
By: Robert Howes, Lene Lovitch, Les Chappell, Rachel Aston, Mark Robson
Wild Animals to the Rescue
Delight in this vocal performance by Terry Nutkins, chronicling the fictitious escapades of King Wantalot as he discovers the beauty of nature, befriends animals, and achieves a newfound respect for mother earth. The late Terry Nutkins was an English naturalist, television presenter and author, best known for his appearances in various UK children's programmes including Animal Magic, The Really Wild Show, Brilliant Creatures and Growing Up Wild.


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Stantec says thanks with gift to University of Lethbridge
By adminMarch 21, 2017Community, Construction
The University of Lethbridge was given a glimpse into the near future recently thanks to Stantec Architecture.
Dr. Mike Mahon with Stantec's Mark Bellamy, Michael Moxam and Justin Saly with Dr. Andrew Hakin .
University President and Vice-Chancellor Dr. Mike Mahon accepted a framed rendering of the new science and academic building from Stantec Architecture on the University's behalf, along with Vice-Provost and VP Academic, Dr. Andrew Hakin and VP Finance and Administration, Nancy Walker (BMgt '82). The rendering of the Destination Project will hang in the University's offices and is an exciting reminder of the world-class facility that is currently under construction on campus.
The future hub of science in southern Alberta has already created buzz near and far with its sustainable design and focus on fostering collaboration between faculties, regardless of discipline. The Destination Project is scheduled to open for classes in the fall of 2019.


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Hippeastreae is a tribe of plants belonging to the subfamily Amaryllidoideae of the Amaryllis family (Amaryllidaceae). Species in this tribe are distributed in South America. Flowers are large and showy, zygomorphic, with the stamens in varying lengths, inflorescence bracts are often fused basally (along one side). The seeds are flattened, winged or D-shaped. Reported basic chromosome numbers are x= 8-13, 17, and higher. All the species in this tribe present a remarkable aesthetic interest and horticultural value.

Taxonomy
Meerow et al. (1999) provide a history of the treatment of the genera of Amaryllidaceae, including Hippeastreae, from the mid-twentieth century. While morphological phylogeny has been frustrated by the perversive homoplasy typical of the Amaryllidaceae, application of molecular phylogenetics to the Amaryllidaceae did not indicate clear tribal divisions but rather broad biogeographical clades. However the American clade resolved the tribe Hippeastreae. A later examination of the deeper relationships of the American genera suggested the two subclades, Andean and hippeastroid and within the latter separated the Brazilian Griffineae as sister to the remaining hippeastroids. The larger and more diverse grouping of hippeastroids formed two smaller monophyletic groups. The smaller contained Hippeastrum (with the exception of Hippeastrum blumenavium), but also a Rhodophiala. With the exception of Rodophilia (Brazil) all specimens were from Chile and Argentina. The second group corresponded to those genera variously included in tribe Zephyrantheae (Traub) or subtribe Zephyranthinae (Müller-Doblies), but only including some Zephyranthes species. The hippeastroid clade is predominantly diploid and extra-Andean by comparison to the Andean clade which is predominantly tetraploid, and contain those genera traditionally included in Hippeastreae. The precise position of Griffineae remained unresolved since its sister status to Hippeastrae was weak, leaving the possibility that it could be sister to the whole American clade. The tribe consists of 10–13 genera and about 180 species.

Phylogeny
The placement of Hippeastreae within subfamily Amaryllidoideae is shown in the
following cladogram, where this tribe is shown as a sister group to the Griffineae, forming the Hippeastroid subclade, of two American clades:

Subdivision

The genera of the tribe Hippeastreae have been treated in a number of different ways over the years. Traub (1963) in his monograph on the Amaryllidacea distributed those genera now considered in this tribe over a number of other tribes (see Table, below), while Dahlgren et al. included them all under Hippeastrae for the first time. The concept of subtribes came from the Müller-Doblies' (1996), who had three subtribes, Griffinineae, Hippeastrinae and Zephyranthinae.

Consequently, it has been customary to describe the tribe Hippeastreae as consisting of two subtribes:
 subtribe Hippeastrinae - includes species of medium height and often with many flowers in each inflorescence and inflorescence bracts are different in size and fused basally. Genera that have been placed in this subtribe include Placea, Hippeastrum, Phycella (includes Famatina), Eithea (=Griffiniopsis), Rhodophiala, and  Traubia. (Some authors use the spelling Hippeastrineae)
 subtribe Zephyranthinae - includes species of small height with solitary flowers. Inflorescence bracts are fused forming a tube  surrounding the pedicel of the flower. Genera in this subtribe are Sprekelia, Habranthus, Cooperia, and Zephyranthes. (Some authors use the spelling Zephyranthinea)

In the study of Meerow et al. (2000) based on molecular markers Zephyranthinae (Zephyranthae of Traub) were clearly polyphyletic, largely due to the polyphyly of Zephyranthes itself. This subgroup has been broadly characterised as having a chromosome number, x=6, but with considerable variation. Other polyphyletic genera included Rodophiala and Habranthus. Hippeastreae also include Haylockia, Rhodolirion and Tocantinia.

A more focused study of Hippeastreae alone in 2014, resolved two major clades:
 Clade A: Traubia, Placea, Phycella, Rhodolirium, and Famatina maulensis (now Phycella maulensis)
 Clade B: Rhodophiala, Habranthus, Haylockia, Hippeastrum, Sprekelia, Zephyranthes, and the remainder of Famatina.

However it also showed that of the 13 genera, two are monotypic (Haylockia and Traubia). Of the remaining 11 genera, based on Internal transcribed spacer (ITS) sequences the only monophyletic non-monotypic genera were Hippeastrum (about 60 species) and Sprekelia (2 species). But on  chloroplast DNA (cpDNA) analysis, not even these genera were monophyletic. This brings into question the existing generic classification within Hippeastreae.
Consequently, the authors proposed the following nomenclature:
 Subtribe Traubiinae (Clade A) D.Müll.-Doblies & U.Müll.-Doblies
 Subtribe Hippeastrinae (Clade B)

A major generic recircumscription was published in 2019, although the basic subdivision into the two above subtribes remained unchanged.

Subtribes

Subtribe Traubiinae  D. & U. Müll.-Doblies (Clade A) includes about 20 endemic Chilean taxa, but only about 10% of the species within tribe Hippeastreae. Characterisation includes a haploid chromosome number, x=8, lack of polyploidy and a capitate stigma. 4 genera.

Subtribe Hippeastrinae Walp. (Clade B), by contrast has a variable chromosome number, x=6–11, with frequent aneuploidy and polyploidy. Although there are no unique synapomorphies, most taxa exhibit a trifid or trilobed stigma, although in a few it is capitate. 2 genera.

Historical circumscription

Tribe Hippeastreae has included various numbers of genera over the years, some of which were monotypic.

Genera
, the Angiosperm Phylogeny Website (APweb) accepted only six genera in the tribe Hippeastrae: shown here as amended by Garcia et al 2019.
 Subtribe Traubiinae:
 Eremolirion Nic.Garcia (now Paposoa)
 Phycella Lindlley
 Pyrolirion Herbert (now part of a separate tribe, Eustephieae)
 Rhodolirium s.str. Phil.
 Traubia Moldenke

 Subtribe Hippeastrinae
 Hippeastrum Herbert
 Zephyranthes Herbert

Genera that have been synonymized with other genera in the tribe according to APweb include:
Cooperia Herbert = Zephyranthes
Famatina Ravenna = Zephyranthes
Habranthus Herbert = Zephyranthes
Haylockia Herbert = Zephyranthes
Placea Miers = Phycella
Rhodolirium Philippi = Phycella
Rhodophiala C. Presl = Phycella
Sprekelia Heister = Zephyranthes
Tocantina Ravenna = Hippeastrum

Distribution and habitat

Hippeastreae have a major center of diversification in central Chile and western (Andean) Argentina, together with minor centres in eastern Brazil, the north east of Argentina and with more distant centers in Mexico, the Greater Antilles and southern United States (Habranthus, Zephyranthes).

Uses
The economic significance of the tribe lies in its horticultural usage.

Notes

References

Bibliography

Books

 Volume 1: Monocotyledonae (1926)
 Volume 2: Dicotyledonae (1934)

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Articles

Websites

External links
 Amaryllidaceae project at eMonocot

Amaryllidoideae
Asparagales tribes

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