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layout: shared/narrow
title: "Edit Styles"
description: "CSS defines the presentation layer of your page. View and modify any CSS declaration that affects an element on the current page using the Chrome DevTools Styles pane."
published_on: 2015-04-14
updated_on: 2015-04-14
order: 2
authors:
  - megginkearney
translation_priority: 0
key-takeaways:
  edit-styles:
    - "The styles pane lets you change your CSS in as many ways as possible, locally, including editing existing styles, adding new styles, adding rules for styles."
    - "If you want styles to persist (so they don't go away on a reload), you need to persist them to your development workspace."
notes:
  navigation:
    - "Use the shortcut Ctrl + Click(or Cmd + Click on Mac) on CSS properties or property values from the styles pane to navigate to their position in the source code within the Sources panel."
  enable-style:
    - "To enable or disable a style declaration, check or uncheck the checkbox next to it."
  new-rule:
    - "When you create a new rule, the new rule doesn't belong to an existing stylesheet. DevTools adds it to a special inspector stylesheet. The inspector stylesheet can be edited in the Sources panel, like other files."
  setup-preprocessor:
    - "This section assumes that you've got source maps working already. Read here how setup your preprocessor."
---

  CSS defines the presentation layer of your page. View and modify any CSS declaration that affects an element on the current page using the Chrome DevTools Styles pane.

If you haven't already, familiarize yourself on the [basics of inspecting and tweaking your pages](/web/tools/chrome-devtools/iterate/inspect-styles/basics). This guide dives deeper into editing and creating styles, including working with css preprocessor source files.

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You can add or edit styles within the **Styles pane** in the Elements panel in the following ways:

* Edit an existing property name or value.
* Add a new property declaration.
* Add a new CSS rule.

## Edit an existing property name or value

Click on a CSS property name or property value to edit; press Tab or Enter to change the name or value (see also [How to live-edit a style](/web/tools/chrome-devtools/iterate/inspect-styles/basics#how-to-live-edit-a-style)).

When editing a numeric CSS property value, increment and decrement numeric CSS property values using the following shortcuts:

* Press Up or Down to increment or decrement the value by 1 (or by .1 if the current value is between -1 and 1).
* Press Alt + Up or Alt + Down to increment or decrement the value by 0.1.
* Press Shift + Up/Down or PageUp/PageDown to increment or decrement the value by 10.
* Press Shift + PageUp/PageDown to increment or decrement the value by 100.

## Add a new property declaration

Click an empty space within an editable CSS rule to create a new style. Edit mode now applies to the CSS property field, where you can enter a new property.

To add a new property and view code hints in the CSS property field, follow these steps:

1. Begin typing into the CSS property field. Suggestions display in a drop down box.
2. Press Up or Down arrows to focus on a suggestion.
3. Accept a suggestion using Tab, Right arrow or Enter.

After you select a valid CSS property, bring up suggestions for applicable CSS values by moving focus to the CSS property value field. For example, the property `display` suggests values such as `block, flex, none,` and others.

Paste CSS into the Styles pane using Ctrl + V (or Cmd + V on Mac). Properties and their values are parsed and entered into the correct fields.

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## Add a style rule

You may find it preferable to add styles along with a **new selector**.
Click **New Style Rule** within the styles pane header bar to generate a new CSS rule.

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## Add dynamic styles to page elements

You can provide dynamic styling for your UI elements using pseudo-class selectors such as `:hover`. However, these dynamic states can be hard to debug, so DevTools lets you manually set pseudo-classes on individual elements.

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Trigger any combination of the following four pseudo-classes:

      Pseudo-class
      Description

      :active
      Applies to a link in the process of activation (for example, upon click).

      :hover
      Applies to an element while a mouse cursor is over it.

      :focus
      Applies to an element which gains focus (for example, through pressing Tab).

      :visited
      Applies to a link previously visited in the browser.

To set an element's state:

1. Click **Toggle Element State**![attributes](imgs/attributes-icon.png){:.inline} next to **New Style Rule** ![plus](imgs/plus.png){:.inline} within the styles pane header.
2. Right-click a DOM node in the Elements panel and select **Force Element State**.

## Edit Sass, Less or Stylus

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If you are using Sass, Less, Stylus or any other CSS preprocessor, editing the generated CSS output files in the Styles editor won't help as they don't map to your original source.

With CSS source maps, DevTools can automatically map the generated files to the original source files, which lets you live-edit these in the Sources panel and view the results without having to leave DevTools or refresh the page.

### The preprocessor workflow

When you inspect an element whose styles are provided by a generated CSS file, the Elements panel displays a link to the original source file, not the generated CSS file.

![Elements panel showing .scss stylesheet](imgs/sass-debugging.png)

To jump to the source file:

1. Click the link to open the (editable) source file in the Sources panel.
2. Ctrl + **Click** (or Cmd + **click**) on any CSS property name or value to open the source file and jump to the appropriate line.

![Sources panel showing .scss file](imgs/sass-sources.png)

When you save changes to a CSS preprocessor file in DevTools, the CSS preprocessor should re-generate the CSS files. Then DevTools then reloads the newly-generated CSS file.

### Enable/Disable CSS source maps & auto-reloading

**CSS source maps are enabled by default**. You can choose to enable automatic reloading of generated CSS files. To enable CSS source maps and CSS reload:

1. Open DevTools Settings and click **General**.
2. Turn on **Enable CSS source maps** and **Auto-reload generated CSS**.

### Use the Colorpicker's palettes

The Colorpicker now helps you select and maintain a consistent color palette for your site. Access the palettes by clicking the spinner at the bottom right of the Colorpicker window.

![spinner.png](imgs/spinner.png)

This version of the Colorpicker has three distinct palettes.

####Page colors
This palette is automatically generated from the colors found in your CSS, making it a great option if you're extending an existing site. Use this palette when you are adding or changing colors, to keep your site's color scheme consistent.

####Material Design
The [Material Design](https://www.google.com/design/spec/style/color.html) palette offers a selection of beautiful colors out of the box and is an ideal choice when starting a new project. This palette will expand as Material Design continues to evolve.

####Custom
This palette is your own playground, made up of any colors you choose. The Custom palette is maintained when the palette pane is closed, so if the palette pane is open, click the "Return to color picker" button to close it.

![closepalettesx.png](imgs/closepalettesx.png)

To add a new color, choose one in the main color box, then click the "Add to palette" button next to the lower spinner.

![addtopalette.png](imgs/addtopalette.png)

You can add as many colors as you like, to keep them handy as you work. You can reorder the custom colors by dragging them, and you can right-click a color to reveal more options, including "Remove color", "Remove all to the right", and "Clear palette".

### Requirements & Gotchas

- **Changes made in an external editor** are not detected by DevTools until the Sources tab containing the associated source file regains focus.
- **Manual editing of a CSS file** generated by the Sass/LESS/other compiler will break the source map association until the page is reloaded.
- **Using Workspaces?** Make sure the generated CSS file is also mapped into the workspace. You can verify this by looking in Sources panel right-side tree, and seeing the CSS is served from your local folder.
- **For DevTools to automatically reload styles** when you change the source file, your preprocessor must be set up to regenerate CSS files whenever a source file changes. Otherwise, you must regenerate CSS files manually and reload the page to see your changes.
- **You must be accessing your site or app from a web server** (not a **file://** URL), and the server must serve the CSS files as well as the source maps (.css.map) and source files (.scss, etc.).
- If you are _not_ using the Workspaces feature, the web server must also supply the `Last-Modified` header.

Learn how to setup source maps in [Setup CSS & JS Preprocessors](/web/tools/setup/setup-preprocessors).


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The clergy housing allowance (sometimes called a parsonage allowance or a rental allowance) is an allowance paid to ordained ministers and rabbis in Canada and the United States.

United States
In the United States, the rental value of a home furnished to, or the rental allowance paid to, a minister of the gospel or rabbi is not included in his or her taxable income if certain conditions are met.

Qualifications
In order to qualify, the clergy must be duly ordained, commissioned, or licensed by a religious body constituting a church or church denomination or synagogue, and the clergy must be given the authority to conduct religious worship according to the prescribed tenets and practices of that religious organization.

The allowance must be for the minister's or rabbi's services performed:

 as sacerdotal functions;
 conducting religious worship;
 in the exercise of the ministry;
 in the exercise of duties as required by the religious order;
 writing religious books or articles;
 the administration, maintenance, direction, management, or promotion of religious organizations and their integral agencies under the authority of a religious body constituting a church or church denomination or synagogue;
 in the exercise of the minister's profession as a Christian Science practitioner or reader;
 teaching and administrative duties at theological seminaries;
 duties of clergy performed as an employee of the United States (other than as a chaplain in the Armed Forces), a state, possession, political subdivision, or the District of Columbia.

In order to qualify, the service must be performed for a church or synagogue or an integral agency of a religious organization. An integral agency of a religious organization is generally one where several of the following apply.
 The integral agency is incorporated by the church or synagogue;
 The integral agency has an incorporated name indicating a church or synagogue relationship;
 The integral agency is continuously controlled, managed, and maintained by a church or synagogue;
 The integral agency has trustees or directors that are approved by, and may be removed by, the church or synagogue;
 The integral agency is required to report its finances and general operations to the church or synagogue;
 The integral agency is supported by the church or synagogue; and
 The integral agency in the event of its dissolution, would turn over its assets to the church or synagogue.

The following services do not qualify:
 Services performed as an employee of the United States, the District of Columbia, a foreign government, or any of their political subdivisions, even if performing sacerdotal functions or conducting religious worship.
 Services performed as an employee of a public hospital.

The home must actually be used as a home by the clergy. The allowance cannot exceed the fair rental value of the home, furnishings, appurtenances, and utilities. Clergy may legitimately include housing costs such as cost of buying or renting a home, real estate taxes, mortgage interest, heat, electricity, basic telephone service, water, sewage, furniture, appliances, dishes, cookware, rugs, pictures, curtains, bedspreads, sheets, towels, insurance on the home and its contents, home improvements, home repairs, home cleaning, snow removal, and lawn mowing. The minister's or rabbi's total compensation, including salary, fringe benefits, and clergy housing allowing, cannot exceed reasonable compensation for the services performed.p. 22

Retired clergy are also eligible to claim the exclusion for the housing allowance because the Internal Revenue Service deems clergy housing allowance as compensation for past services as clergy. Clergy housing allowance is generally subject to self-employment tax except for retired clergy.p. 23 After year-end, the church or religious organization must provide a written notice indicating the total amount of clergy housing allowance for the year; using box 14 of a Form W-2 is an example of such a written notice.

Legal challenges to tax-free status
In November 2013, the clergy housing allowance faced judicial opposition. In Freedom From Religion Foundation, Inc. v. Lew, the Federal District Court of the Western District of Wisconsin issued a decision holding that the allowance violated the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment. However, the Justice Department appealed to the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals. The Court reversed the decision, ruling that the plaintiff did not have standing; therefore the tax-free status remained unchanged.

Because the reversal pertained to standing of the plaintiff and not to the merits of the case, the same case, with minor revision, was reinstituted by the Freedom From Religion Foundation in the same federal district court in 2017.

On October 6, 2017, the federal judge struck down the clergy housing allowance, ruling that the law is an unconstitutional violation of the First Amendment's establishment clause, "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion", because the law "does not have a secular purpose or effect and because a reasonable observer would view the statute as an endorsement of religion".

The ruling only affects tax-free compensation paid to clergy, which the clergy uses to pay for the clergy's own home. The ruling does not affect housing actually owned by, or leased by, a church.

On December 13, 2017, the federal judge ordered that any injunction should be stayed for 180 days pending resolution of any appeals, so the effect of the decision was not yet in effect.

On March 15, 2019, the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit ruled on the law exempting clergy housing allowances from income tax, saying that its effect was to "neither to endorse nor to inhibit religion". The Court of Appeals affirmed that Congress has the power to provide federal tax exemptions for religious organizations and that Congress has done so since at least 1802. The Court of Appeals stated that while any sort of financial interaction between a religious entity and the government may be considered a degree of entanglement, but the Establishment Clause of the United States Constitution is violated only with excessive entanglement.

After retirement
The tax-exclusion for clergy housing allowance also applies to retired clergy. A retired minister or rabbi who receives compensation for past services, such as withdrawals from an employer-sponsored retirement plan, may designate a portion of the compensation as a clergy housing allowance, and this amount is excluded from taxable income to the extent it is used for expenses directly related to providing a home.

In the case of a widow of a deceased minister or rabbi, the tax-exclusion applies only if the housing allowance is designated with respect to a retirement plan representing compensation earned by the widow for the widow's past services that were in the exercise of ministry.

See also
 Clergy house

References

Taxation in Canada
Taxation in the United States
Housing in the United States
Housing in Canada

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The Secret of the Caves
by Simon Winchester
Twelve hundred years ago along the Silk Road, the Diamond Sutra, the oldest printed volume in the world, was buried deep within a remote cavern in Dunhuang, China. Simon Winchester explores the mysterious Caves of the Thousand Buddhas, where he unravels the riddle of how Buddhism was brought to the Middle Kingdom and how the sutra ended up in London's British Library.
It is commonly believed by most Westerners that the world's earliest printed book was produced either by Herr Gutenberg in Mainz (a Bible) or by Mr. Caxton in London (a French novel), and that the revolutionary invention of the movable type with which it was printed came about in the fourteenth or fifteenth century. Westerners often get such things badly wrong. In fact, the world's oldest printed volume is a sixteen-foot-long scroll of religious instruction called the Diamond Sutra. It dates from the ninth century, and was created using woodblock printing. A Chinese copy of early Buddhist Sanskrit text, the scroll now lives in a perpetually guarded case in London's British Library. And it was found 101 years ago in a remote Silk Road cave in a northwestern Chinese desert between Mongolia and Tibet.
Its discoverer—and the discoverer of a great deal else besides—was a diminutive and heroic Hungarian-born British knight named Aurel Stein, a man of extraordinary austerity, courage, and self-reliance who preferred the company of dogs (he had seven in his lifetime, all of whom he named Dash) to that of mankind. He arrived at the immense and then little-known cave system of Dunhuang after a journey involving weeks of privation, by way of an endless caravan of camels and donkeys. The importance of his finds, and the cultural and historical legacy of what is now known as the Caves of a Thousand Buddhas, extend far beyond imagination, and few who manage to visit them today fail to undergo a mystical transformation, as Sir Aurel most certainly did.
Getting there can be tricky, at least if you come by land. I almost didn't arrive—and the fact that I eventually did get to see the very cave from which the Diamond Sutra came has much to do with the present-day magic of Chinese technology. It also has much to do with the Chinese government's flair for the planning (if I may be allowed so prosaic a thought while speaking of such a treasure house of antiquity) of the present-day infrastructure.
I had already been driving westward up the Silk Road for two full days. I was in a sturdy Shanghai-built Volkswagen Passat—newish, with good all-weather tires. It was soon after I passed the Ming dynasty fort at Jiayuguan, built as a customs post and a gate at the western end of the Great Wall, that disaster struck. Suddenly there was a bang! from somewhere beneath the car, and all the warning lights on the dash started to flash red.
I leaped out, fearing the worst. It was getting dark, and cold, and there was a gritty north wind. A flashlight confirmed my fears: I had hit a rock in the road, and a pool of thick black engine oil was forming on the sand. A warm stream of it was pouring from a deep crack in the cast-iron engine base. Within a few moments the car was undrivable—the pistons and crankshaft unlubricated, ready to seize in a screeching instant. My interpreter and I sat in the dark, helpless. The nearest village, a small place called Anxi, was forty miles ahead. Dunhuang was a further one hundred miles, at least. There was no traffic. It was nighttime. And it was now very cold. We were, to put it as bluntly as I can write here, well and truly buggered.
Except, it turned out, China Mobile has built towers everywhere in the country—towers, moreover, that put out the signal which allows my BlackBerry to work. I have owned one of these outlandish, life-changing, infuriatingly addictive CrackBerry devices for a year now; I had packed it when I was leaving New York; I had it in my hands at that very moment, and I was turning its knurled wheel and pressing its buttons idly, just wondering, wondering.
And yes, it worked. As I turned it on, it sprang effortlessly into cyber-connected life, and within a few moments of two-thumb typing, I had its tiny colored screen alive and performing a Google search for "hotels, Dunhuang, China." Moments later I was speaking to the receptionist in one of them, a young woman whom I remember most as having a delightfully smiling voice.
I was broken down, I told her, a little breathlessly. I was stranded. I was a hundred or so miles from the hotel, somewhere west of the Jiayuguan Fort. So I needed help. In fact, I needed cars. Two cars, one to rescue me and one to bring home the broken Volkswagen. And although my Chinese was execrable, my interpreter was in quiet hysterics, and my plaint most unusual, the receptionist—who when I finally met her turned out to be called Merry, a name I thought wonderfully appropriate—got it immediately. Hold on, she said cheerfully. Calm down. Yes, we can arrange that; wait in the back of the car; get some sleep; we'll be there in . . . let's see . . . five hours. Leave your flashing lights on.
Sure enough, a little before 3 a.m., out of the night came two sets of headlights. One belonged to a tow truck and the other to a giant Toyota Land Cruiser with two young men aboard, along with boxes of noodles and beer and a bowl of chicken soup. We turned around, set off—and were in the Dunhuang oasis by dawn. We probably felt, at that moment of arrival, no less astonished and delighted than did Aurel Stein, a little more than a century before.
This doughty, implacable, imperturbable, case-hardened explorer, already legendary at age forty-five and an acknowledged expert on the wild deserts of western China, had by the early 1900s become obsessed with one story: how Buddhism was transported from its birthplace high in the Himalayas of India, across the ranges and into the vast and protectively xenophobic empire of China. That it had been brought there was no doubt: The White Horse Temple, outside the eastern Chinese city of Luoyang, had been built by the emperor Ming in the first century a.d. and was an unequivocal celebration of the Noble Eightfold Path of Buddhism. But how had something so very Indian become, in short order, transported, transformed, and transmuted into something so very naturally Chinese? Aurel Stein, plodding patiently through the deserts just north of the mountain ranges, was determined to discover the answer.
His research, and that of other scholars in France and Germany, showed that it was all the work of a number of determined monks. Some were Indian, some Chinese, and in the first decades of the first millennium they carried the word of the Buddha, in oral teachings only, across the snowy passes between the two great empires and onto the trade route between central Asia and China that would in time become known as the Silk Road.
The Chinese court, when it was told of the Buddha and when its mandarins were shown images of golden statues of his calming presence, was officially impressed: The religion swiftly took hold. Once it had become fairly well established, Chinese pilgrims began to make the long and dangerous journey to the religion's source, to see for themselves the fountainhead of their faith. Groups of translator-monks also began to travel, and they began to collect, translate, and disseminate among the Chinese the Buddhist texts, the sutras.
Four of these great translator-monks are remembered today in particular. One, an eastern Chinese scholar's son named Xuan Zang, is revered: His seventh-century adventures along the Silk Road, and to places in Nepal and India and what is now Pakistan and Afghanistan, inspired novels. His stories have found their way, even today, into Japanese manga and a 1980s cult TV series called Monkey. It was Xuan Zang who essentially inspired Stein's most ambitious journeying, and it was the monk's memory and the accounts of him that led Stein, inevitably, to the city which is the subject of this story. Marco Polo went to the desert, and Stein studied his writings, too; but Xuan Zang, who wrote with priestly precision, was his truest guide.
For the monk surely went to Dunhuang. Everyone did. The city is an oasis where palm trees and melon bushes rise out of the sand dunes, thanks to a river called the Daquan and a tiny body of water called Crescent Lake. My first sight of Dunhuang was much like Stein's, and quite deliberately contrived to be so.
I was well awake, after five bone-shaking hours in the Land Cruiser, and I decided to walk the last half mile. I got the driver to drop me at the base of a particularly fine-looking dune, and I climbed, slipping and sliding in the wind-carved sand, for a good thirty minutes, until I reached a summit maybe eight hundred feet high. My boots had made a squealing sound, a high, whistling note that followed me wherever I stepped: small wonder these have been called for centuries the Mingsha Shan, the Singing Sand Dunes.
The view from the top was unforgettable. The sky was clear, the eggshell blue of dawn. The dunes rose and fell and glittered, immense sharp-sculpted waves of pale yellow crystal, as far as it was possible to see. In the east, the huge brass ball of the sun was rising fast over a white-hot horizon. To the west, toward the Taklamakan Desert, all was still dark, and the summits of the distant dunes were edged with gold as the sun caught them.
In between was what Aurel Stein must have seen, with weary thanksgiving and relief. Rising between the dunes, their vertical spires contrasting dramatically with the desert realm of the horizontal, were trees—green trees, thousands of them. There was water somewhere nearby. This truly was an oasis, a place of refuge and settlement. I could see plenty of evidence of that as I clambered to a higher point: buildings, scores of them—the upswept eaves of a nest of pagodas, the minarets of a mosque or two, a cluster of hotels.
I slid down the dune and made my way through a defile and toward a hedge and an irrigation canal, beyond which were fields and orchards and grassy meadows, already being worked by men with the broad, flat faces of the Uighurs, whose country this was. Camels were grazing, hobbled and bad-tempered, and were being rounded up to take visitors on caravans into the sand and over to the caves. After all those miles of stillness and sand, Dunhuang was lively, bustling—and green.
It is also the Silk Road's most important junction, a place where the merchants and pilgrims of centuries ago had to decide whether to pass to the north or to the south of that most fearsome stretch of Chinese desert known as the Taklamakan. If they were heading toward India and Arabia, the southern route was better; if bound for Antioch and the Mediterranean, they would strike out to the north. It was at Dunhuang that, on the outbound journey, travelers would rest and decide; it was at Dunhuang that, on the way home, they would rest and give thanks for having survived.
Buddhists in particular offered thanks. They did so at three specific sites near Dunhuang, in gorges where the cliffs were tall enough and wide enough to allow the creation of what Indian Buddhists had long before shown a liking for: scores upon scores of intricately decorated caves, designed specifically for their mendicants and meditations. Of the three sites, by far the largest and most important was the mile-long cliff at a place called Mogao. Wandering monks began incising caves into the soft sandstone cliffs of Mogao in the fourth century, and by the time the last cave was dug in the fourteenth, more than a thousand of them had been created—some as tiny as coffins and made for sleep and shelter, some many stories high and used for worship and salutation. It is this that Aurel Stein reached in the spring of 1907.
He had left his base in Kashmir the previous year, and he had prepared well: books in tin-lined cases to protect them from ants, surveying instruments, ropes, leather-repair kits, bamboo poles for the tents, plenty of guns and ammunition, telescopes, elastic bands and paper clips, bandages, needles, safety pins, and a morning coat and pin-striped pants so that he might impress any mandarins he encountered. He left behind birthday presents for all the friends he would miss while away, and he packed plenty of food for Dash. He was a scrupulous man.
It took him half a year to reach the interior of China, and for most of the winter of 1907 he negotiated the harsh deserts of Turkistan. During February and March, Stein pushed eastward across the immensity of the Lop Desert (where in more recent times China tested its atom bombs), with his men on donkeys and camels and with ice blocks carried in straw baskets in lieu of water. One day in late March, an icy storm known in Turkistan as a buran was blowing a full gale, chilling everyone to the bone. The donkeys had died, the water was almost gone. And then suddenly he reached the oasis, and a few miles farther on—for he was headed for the cliffs before everything else, and wanted to waste no time for idle refreshment—he came to Mogao and the caves.
To reach them a century later, I drove out of town some ten miles—past the modern airport, down a long and dusty road between melon patches, across a small stream—and came to where a low cliff began to rise beside the roadway. Before long, the cliff was a hundred feet and quite sheer, and there were holes incised in its face. Then I came to a fence and a guard, and had to pass through barriers and tollgates and pay a fee. It had been recommended that I hire an English-speaking guide, and I found one named Jessie. With her leading the way, I passed through another security check and then came to the face of the now almighty cliff.
There, incised into its sheer face, were the doors and openings of the caves that Stein had seen—cave after cave after man-made cave. Some were at ground level; others were up on terraces, accessible now by stairs; some were linked by ladders. Some were adorned with pagodalike frontages; some were swathed in fresh stucco with nasty modern iron doors; some sported prettier fretworked wooden doorways. Jessie had collected the keys to ten of them—if she carried keys to all five hundred, she joked, she'd collapse under the weight. "We'll visit eight today, perhaps ten," she told me. "And if you like, another ten tomorrow."
She turned the key in the lock on one unremarkable-looking door. Beyond the threshold it was dark, and then she opened the door wide, letting in the afternoon sunlight. I was quite unprepared: What spread before me was astonishing, overwhelming, the stuff of dreams. The walls were covered with hundreds, maybe thousands, of brilliantly colored images of the Buddha—all of them identical, all hand-painted or block-printed onto the wall no less than thirteen hundred years ago, and all so fresh that they looked as though they were completed yesterday. And then the roof: Every square inch was similarly covered with illustrations, all scenes—eighty-six of them, it turned out, and each different—showing the various stages in the life of the Buddha. Jessie explained that these were from the Northern Zhou dynasty, which flourished from A.D. 557 until 581—meaning that the painters who achieved such magnificence were working, so intricately and carefully, when Englishmen were still daubed in woad and America wasn't even a glint in a Genoese eye.
We spent the day going from cave to cave, fascinated. We never made it to cave 465, where there are said to be some wildly sexy tantric murals. But we went to others with enormous white-limed and colored statues of women and horses and Buddhas, and with images of men and women who looked distinctly Indian (and which had been created by artists so long ago that they saw Buddhism as a theology coming from below the Himalayas, and having little that was Chinese about it). In two of the more enormous caves, there were stupendous hundred-foot-tall Buddhas, so huge and splendid that one was bound to recall the great Buddha of Bamiyan in Afghanistan, which was shelled into oblivion by the Taliban seven years ago.
China may be notionally an irreligious tyranny run by Communist dictators, but they preserve their heritage, no matter how keenly it reeks of religion. I asked Jessie about the Cultural Revolution, and whether anyone had harmed this vast store of cultural treasures. "They tried to come here," she said, speaking of the icon-destroying Red Guards, "but the desert kept them away. It was just too far. They didn't bother. And how thankful we all must be!"
The afternoon was all but over, and my head was spinning from the magnificence of what I had seen. I said so to Jessie. But it wasn't over yet, she said. The best was still to come. We walked north for two or three minutes, the cliff on our left, and came to a cave that seemed to attract more visitors than most. We eased past the throng and into cave 16. It was full of carvings and paintings as spectacular as the others I had seen. Then Jessie pointed me toward an opening in the wall by the main doorway. Unlike all the other chambers, this one, curiously, was empty. Just a ladder and a bucket, nothing else. "This," said Jessie, "is the most important of all. It is where the real treasures once lay. This is where the Diamond Sutra was found."
The story of what befell this cavern, now known around the world as Dunhuang's cave 17, began at the start of the last century, when a monk named Wang Yuan Lu decided that he would appoint himself guardian of the caves. He thought that he would try to do a little restoration of the crumbling statues and the peeling paint, and began with all the gusto of an enthusiastic amateur. It was while he was working in cave 16 that he discovered what appeared to be a hidden doorway, covered with stucco and painted over. He ordered the door broken open—and inside found an immense trove of documents, hundreds of silk banners, tens of thousands of ancient paper volumes, and yard upon yard of textiles.
Word of the find quickly leaked out. Officials in the Chinese capital ordered the treasures to be sent to a nearby city for safekeeping, but no transport could be found, so Wang was told to reseal the cave and await further instructions. This he did—for a while. But his great mistake, for which he has since been vilified by generations of Chinese, came in May 1907, 101 years ago, when he reopened the cave to satisfy the wickedly persuasive Aurel Stein, who had happened by on what he quite candidly admitted was a collecting expedition for the faraway British Museum.
"Heaped up in layers," Stein wrote of the contents that would come to be world famous, "but without any order, there appeared in the dim light of the little priest's lamp a solid mass of manuscript bundles rising to a height of nearly ten feet, and filling, as subsequent measurement showed, close on 500 cubic feet. Not in the driest soil could relics of a ruined site have so completely escaped injury as they had here in a carefully selected rock chamber where, hidden behind a brick wall . . . these masses of manuscripts had lain undisturbed for centuries."
He wanted them. He wanted them badly—more than anything else he had seen. Scholarship needed them, he argued, so that once and for all the world could know how the Buddha came to China. And so, by dint of a minuet of bargaining of great elegance and subtlety, and by shelling out the miserable amount of just 130 English taxpayers' pounds (a sum known well by all Chinese schoolchildren to this day), Stein managed to persuade poor, grinning, stupid Wang to part with them—to sell to a foreigner, in other words, virtually the entire contents of the cave. By the time the orgy of pillage was finished, the monk had handed over what would be fully twenty-four wagonloads of papers. Thousands upon thousands of objects of ancient treasure, comprising, all now agree, one of the richest finds in archaeological history. Most important of all were the scrolls—scrolls carried by wandering monks hundreds of years before, written in languages as different as Sanskrit, Manichean Turkish, Runic Turkic, Uighur, Tibetan, Sogdian, Central Asian Brahmi, and classical Chinese. There too was the primus inter pares: the sixteen-foot-long scroll—with a colophon suggesting, incredibly, that it be given away free to anyone who, back in A.D. 868, wanted a copy—now known as the Diamond Sutra.
All of these splendors went into Stein's tin-lined, ant-proof expedition boxes. Then, by way of camel caravan, on porters' backs, by railway, and eventually by steamship, they wound their way back to London's Tilbury docks, and then to Bloomsbury, and finally to the British Library.
In consequence of his finds, Aurel Stein won himself a knighthood, the lasting respect of archaeologists and scholars around the world, the gratitude of a Britain at the apogee of empire—and a deep, cold loathing from the people and the successive governments of China. Other expeditions would come and take more from cave 17, and there would in time be Dunhuang manuscript troves in St. Petersburg, Paris, Buenos Aires, and Berlin—before 1909, when the Chinese government stepped in and ordered the rest of the documents brought to Beijing and lodged in the vaults of the Ministry of Education.
That these documents were eventually stolen rather proved the point made by outsiders: that foreigners often take better care of treasures than do the original custodians, who let them go in the first place. The artifacts in London and elsewhere have been guarded jealously ever since, and scholars can be sure that Aurel Stein's magnificent memorial to plunder remains intact. It is currently in the long process of being digitized, in fact, and made available for all the world to see, to read, and to study.
For many years after the Silk Road explorers went away, Dunhuang's caves were closed, so terrified were successive Chinese governments that more foreign plunderers and pillagers would take away the treasures they enclosed. But in 1980, after the caves had been off-limits for six decades, fences were built, guards were hired, exorbitant charges were levied on visitors, and they opened again. The United Nations was persuaded—easily, as it turned out—to declare the Mogao caves a World Heritage Site, so that along with the Great Wall and the Terracotta Army in Xi'an, they are deemed a vital part not just of China's cultural legacy but of humankind's.
As with the Wall and the Army, the sheer scale and magnificence of the site stuns one into silence. When Langdon Warner, the great American art historian (and, it is commonly believed, Steven Spielberg's model for Indiana Jones), visited Mogao in the 1920s, he said quite simply that "there was nothing to do but gasp." The contents of the hundreds of caves at Dunhuang—the statues, the paintings, the stupas, the altars, the scattering of such manuscripts as remain—just takes your breath away.
To look upon the art that the Buddhists of a thousand years ago created here is a mystical experience. You see, you gaze in awe, and when you finally stumble out into the dazzling heat and sunlight and dust, you are transformed. Indiana Jones was right: There truly is nothing to do but gasp.

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Q: Returning top timestamp for a name in a ID I'm stuck writing the SQL query for this table:
TABLE (
  "BUILDING_ID" NUMBER,
  "NAME" VARCHAR,
  "ENTERED_TIME" TIMESTAMP,
  "COL1" VARCHAR
  PRIMARY KEY(BUILDING_ID, NAME, ENTERED_TIME)
);

I want to only return rows of (BUILDING_ID, NAME, ENTERED_TIME) for when NAME="FRED" was the last one (Highest Timestamp) entering the building.
For example if there are these rows:
(1,"FRED","4/12/2020","value")
(2,"TOM","4/14/2020","value")
(3,"FRED","4/12/2020","value")
(3,"BOB","4/13/2020","value")
(5,"FRED","4/12/2020","value")
(6,"TIM","4/12/2020","value")

it will return these rows:
(1,"FRED","4/12/2020","value")
(5,"FRED","4/12/2020","value")

A: You can use rank():
select t.*
from (select t.*, rank() over (order by entered_time desc) as seqnum
      from t
      where name = 'FRED'
     ) t
where seqnum = 1;

A: Indeed, RANK() is the answer:
WITH ranked_entries AS (
    SELECT
        building_id,
        name,
        entered_time,
        col1,
        RANK() OVER (PARTITION BY building_id ORDER BY entered_time DESC) AS rnk
    FROM
        entries
)
SELECT
    building_id,
    name,
    entered_time,
    col1
FROM
    ranked_entries
WHERE
    name = 'FRED' AND
    rnk = 1;

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Emirates carried about 260,000 passengers & 10,000 tons of cargo in the first year of its service.
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This policy guarantees that you get the best fares for the same itinerary on Emirates only. Wherever you find the symbol of "Best Price" by Emirates, you can rest assured that you won't find a better price anywhere else on the web. You can book your flight without doubt. In case you find a better price anywhere on the web, you can claim the same on Emirates website and the difference shall be refunded to you provided it is of five pounds at-least. So you should avail the opportunity forthwith where ever you spot the Best Price symbol by Emirates.
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var TIMEOUT = 90000;
var DEBUG = true;

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  'templates-app',
  'templates-common',
  'App.list',
  'App.about',
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Jena 6 defendant out on bail
By Sue SturgisSeptember 28, 2007
Mychal Bell was released from prison today on $45,000 bail after the district attorney said he would no longer seek an adult trial for the youth, who was 16 years old when he was charged as an adult with attempted second-degree murder in the beating of a fellow high school student following escalating racial tensions in the town of Jena, La.
Bell's release comes one week after tens of thousands of people descended on the town for a protest against unequal justice in the case, which began after white students hung nooses from a tree in a public schoolyard after black students sat under it (the white students apparently considered it their own. The students who hung the nooses faced only a brief suspension from school, sparking anger among the town's black residents. That led to a number of other confrontations between whites and blacks, with blacks consistently facing harsher punishment for their actions.
The incident that led to the charges against Bell involved the beating by Bell and five other black defendants of a white classmate, Justin Barker, who reportedly taunted the blacks about an earlier incident in which the black youths were threatened by an armed white man; when one of the black youths wrestled the gun away, the black youth was charged by local authorities with theft of a firearm. Barker was knocked unconscious and suffered bruises and a swollen and bloodied eye in the beating incident, but later the same day he attended a school event, raising questions about the appropriateness of the second-degree murder charges eventually brought by District Attorney Reed Walters.
Walters has faced other criticism for his actions in the case. Following a series of interracial fights sparked by the noose incident, the school held an assembly at which Walters urged students to stop "fussing" over an "innocent prank," and reportedly threatened them that "with one stroke of my pen, I could make your lives disappear." The National Lawyers Guild has called for an investigation of Walters as well as the judge in the case.
At a news conference today, Walters said that last week's demonstration had no influence on his decision to drop the adult charges against Bell. He also said that only God kept the protest peaceful, the Associated Press reports:
"The only way -- let me stress that -- the only way that I believe that me or this community has been able to endure the trauma that has been thrust upon us is through the prayers of the Christian people who have sent them up in this community," Walters said.
"I firmly believe and am confident of the fact that had it not been for the direct intervention of the Lord Jesus Christ last Thursday, a disaster would have happened. You can quote me on that."
Bell will now face a new trial under the juvenile justice system.
Race and Civil Rights
Sue Sturgis
@sue_sturgis
Sue is the editorial director of Facing South and the Institute for Southern Studies.
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Neurophenomenology refers to a scientific research program aimed to address the hard problem of consciousness in a pragmatic way. It combines neuroscience with phenomenology in order to study experience, mind, and consciousness with an emphasis on the embodied condition of the human mind. The field is very much linked to fields such as neuropsychology, neuroanthropology and behavioral neuroscience (also known as biopsychology) and the study of phenomenology in psychology.

Overview
The label was coined by C. Laughlin, J. McManus and E. d'Aquili in 1990. However, the term was appropriated and given a distinctive understanding by the cognitive neuroscientist Francisco Varela in the mid-1990s, whose work has inspired many philosophers and neuroscientists to continue with this new direction of research.

Phenomenology is a philosophical method of inquiry of everyday experience. The focus in phenomenology is on the examination of different phenomena (from Greek, phainomenon, "that which shows itself") as they appear to consciousness, i.e. in a first-person perspective. Thus, phenomenology is a discipline particularly useful to understand how is it that appearances present themselves to us, and how is it that we attribute meaning to them.

Neuroscience is the scientific study of the brain, and deals with the third-person aspects of consciousness. Some scientists studying consciousness believe that the exclusive utilization of either first- or third-person methods will not provide answers to the difficult questions of consciousness.

Historically, Edmund Husserl is regarded as the philosopher whose work made phenomenology a coherent philosophical discipline with a concrete methodology in the study of consciousness, namely the epoche. Husserl, who was a former student of Franz Brentano, thought that in the study of mind it was extremely important to acknowledge that consciousness is characterized by intentionality, a concept often explained as "aboutness"; consciousness is always consciousness of something. A particular emphasis on the phenomenology of embodiment was developed by philosopher Maurice Merleau-Ponty in the mid-20th century.

Naturally, phenomenology and neuroscience find a convergence of common interests. However, primarily because of ontological disagreements between phenomenology and philosophy of mind, the dialogue between these two disciplines is still a very controversial subject. Husserl himself was very critical towards any attempt to "naturalizing" philosophy, and his phenomenology was founded upon a criticism of empiricism, "psychologism", and "anthropologism" as contradictory standpoints in philosophy and logic. The influential critique of the ontological assumptions of computationalist and representationalist cognitive science, as well as artificial intelligence, made by philosopher Hubert Dreyfus has marked new directions for integration of neurosciences with an embodied ontology. The work of Dreyfus has influenced cognitive scientists and neuroscientists to study phenomenology and embodied cognitive science and/or enactivism. One such case is neuroscientist Walter Freeman, whose neurodynamical analysis has a marked Merleau-Pontyian approach.

See also
 Antonio Damasio
 Autopoiesis
 Biogenetic structuralism
 Biosemiotics
 Embodied cognition
 Francisco Varela
 Hubert Dreyfus
 Walter Freeman

References

Further reading

External links

 Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Phenomenology
 Francisco Varela's Articles on Neurophenomenology and First-person Methods

 http://www.neurophenomenology.com
 Hubert Dreyfus 'Intelligence Without Representation: Merleau-Ponty's Critique of Mental Representation'
 Debate Between D. Chalmers and D. Dennett: The Fantasy of First-Person Science

Consciousness studies
Neurophilosophy
Neuropsychology
Phenomenology


A Christmas fair is taking place at Stalybridge Congregational Church this weekend.
The church on Baker Street will open its doors on Saturday between 11am and 2pm and everyone is welcome.
There will be lots of stalls including: tombolas, Bric-a-Brac, costume jewellery, homemade cakes, chocolates, crafts, cosmetics, toiletries, refreshments, grand raffle and, not forgetting, Father Christmas!
Meanwhile, on Sunday, Willow Wood Hospice are holding a Choir Concert at St George's Church in the town from 7pm.
Tickets are £4, including refreshments, and can be purchased on the door, with all proceeds going to the hospice.


My name is Emma Benson and I am delighted to be bringing the holo to the Bump & Baby Expo.
The holo has been trialled by the ACPWH and midwives, osteopaths, yoga teachers, physiotherapists, obstetricians, all who have seen the holo approve of its use and are amazed nothing like this has been developed before.
So if you are pregnant at the expo, then please do come along and say hello. It would be lovely to meet you and of course you can have a little lie down and take the weight off.
I will also be offering a discount on the day!


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The Fascination of Archeology
© Radek Brunecky
The redesign of the permanent archaeological exhibition in the Museum of History and Ethnology provides an effective platform for the Canton of St. Gallen's archaeology department. The extensive collection of finds is presented thematically in the historic rooms, while workstations offer visitors an insight into the working methods of modern-day archaeologists.
How and why did the objects on display come to be buried, and why did they reappear? "Faszination Archäologie" – The Fascination of Archaeology – looks at archaeological finds and the places where they were unearthed, and places them in the context of ancient and early history. The finds are presented on two levels: as a timeline of history and pre-history; and with an in-depth analysis of selected archaeological sites in theme-based areas.
The exhibition considers the finds in both their chronological and their scientific context. Two concepts guide visitors through the displays: The find in its (pre-)historic context: creation, use and disposal, and the find in the context of its rediscovery. The objects are explained using stories. The accompanying "laboratory areas" are an opportunity to participate interactively in research, and are designed for varying ages and levels of knowledge. Text, graphic elements, media and spatial design blend perfectly with the historic museum building to convey the fascination of archaeology.
Kanton St. Gallen, Historisches und Völkerkundemuseum
Jonas Kissling
Historisches und Völkerkundemuseum
Collections Gallery & History of Switzerland
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A Respectable Actress by Dorothy Love
When India Hartley is accused of murder, she has to uncover the deceptions of others to save herself.
India, the famous and beautiful actress, is now alone after her father's death and embarks upon a tour of theaters across the South. Her first stop is Savannah's Southern Palace. On the eve of the second night's performance, something goes horribly wrong. Her co-star, Arthur Sterling, is shot dead on stage in front of a packed house, and India is arrested and accused of the crime.
A benefactor hires Philip Sinclair, the best – and handsomest – lawyer in Savannah to defend India. A widower, Philip is struggling to reinvent his worn-out plantation on St. Simons Island. He needs to increase his income from his law practice in order to restore Indigo Point, and hardly anything will bring him more new clients than successfully defending a famous actress on a murder charge.
Because India can't go anywhere in town without being mobbed, Philip persuades the judge handling her case to let him take her to Indigo Point until her trial date. India is charmed by the beauty of the Georgia low country and is increasingly drawn to Philip. But a locked room that appears to be a shrine to Philip's dead wife and the unsolved disappearance of a former slave girl raise troubling questions. Piecing together clues in an abandoned boat and a burned-out chapel, India discovers a trail of dark secrets that lead back to Philip, secrets that ultimately may hold the key to her freedom. If only he will believe her.
Once again, Dorothy Love crafts a vivid and intriguing historical novel, and I thoroughly enjoyed it. A Respectable Actress follows India Hartley, adrift in the wake of her father's death and falsely accused of murder. With consistent suspense and a delightful touch of romance, India's story unfolds against the historic backdrop of cultured Savannah and the struggling, secret-laden Indigo Point, and with the help of Philip Sinclair, she slowly determines how to overcome the obstacles set before her and find her place in society. An entirely fascinating novel with a steady pace and a variety of characters, A Respectable Actress offers fans of historical fiction a great read. I would certainly recommend it to interested readers.
Thanks to LitFuse Publicity Group, I received a copy of A Respectable Actress and the opportunity to provide an honest review. I was not required to write a positive review, and all the opinions I have expressed are my own. To read other opinions, be sure to check out what other reviewers think here, and purchase a copy of the book here.
A former journalist, freelance writer, and college professor, Dorothy Love explores the intersection of history and human relationships to create novels that speak to the hearts of women everywhere. She is the author of the acclaimed Hickory Ridge novels set in her native state of Tennessee. After earning a master's degree and Ph.D, she authored dozens of magazine articles before breaking into book publishing with a number of award-winning novels for preteens and young adults. The Hickory Ridge series marked her adult fiction debut. When she isn't busy writing or researching her next book, Love enjoys hiking, traveling, and hanging out with her husband, Ron, and their rambunctious golden retriever. The Loves make their home in the Texas hill country.
Find Dorothy online at her website, Facebook, and Twitter.
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A series of round table events took place across the world, as the Manifesto was being drafted. The discussions helped to inform the writing of the Manifesto. Video, audio and reports from the round tables were featured in the Multimedia Manifesto. This section features all the reports, media and other information from the events.
Melissa Leach, Andy Stirling and Adrian Ely will be presenting the New Manifesto in Paris on the afternoon of 6 January.
The discussion (in French) will invite responses from French government and non-governmental stakeholders, and will focus on domestic implications of the manifesto as well as international opportunities.
Ilse Oosterlaken at the TU Delft / 3TU.Centre for Ethics and Technology in the Netherlands hosted a Manifesto project round table event in The Hague on November 24 2009.


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Saturday was a true day of success in Classic Cottage. As I've previously mentioned, I began my vintage booth in June of 2016. (You c an read more of my story HERE) My very first check for June was around $700. I was so pleased. 😊 In fact, the day I brought my first check home I called each one of my family members to tell them I had actually made money and the future was looking bright.😁Looking back, I realize even then I had a strong passion for this industry.
Well, Saturday I was only $45 away from selling in one day the amount I sold my entire first month. This is the highest day of sales in the history of my booth.
I've been told you can't judge the success of a business without proving it for a year or more. I have found this statement to be true. It's been a year of sweat, tears, mistakes and success.
Thank you! Thanks for reading and sharing my blog!!
I feel and share your joy and excitement in what you do! Love your booth, home and style.
Yay! Cheers to you. I would love to start a thrift booth and love following your posts for input, etc. It's clear it requires a lot of hours (and unique ones at that). My Mom and I have an Etsy shop and do a few craft booths during the Fall. I hope to start compiling some goodies to sell at those and see how they do.
Hi! Thanks for reading!! Selling vintage treasures at craft booths is a great idea!


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Weapons of mass destruction - Helen's journal and online home
06:17 pm April 22nd, 2017
Thankfully Britain never used poison gas during WWII, but we had a huge stockpile on hand in case we needed it. My husband actually made a visit to these secret tunnels some years ago whilst making a radio documentary on Underground Wales, but now they're going to be opened to the public. It is said that when the Allies finally entered Berlin and found all the Nazi's records, they discovered that most of our "secret" establishments were known to the Germans, but not Rhydymwyn. It's a small place and would, at the time, have been Welsh speaking. Not only would a spy have been unable to understand what the people who worked there were talking about, any stranger would have stuck out and everyone would have clammed up.
Here's the link to the article on the BBC page about Rhydymwyn.
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From: dinahprincedaly Date: April 22nd, 2017 06:12 pm (UTC) (Link)
welsh secret code!
interesting that enough time has passed that the tunnels can open to the public... I assume it has something to do with that, or perhaps its just time to remind people
From: heleninwales Date: April 24th, 2017 02:53 pm (UTC) (Link)
Official secrets expire eventually, so places that were once top secret can be revealed. But I think one reason for opening it is that apparently there was a persistent rumour that the mustard gas was still there! In 2006 the place was inspected and declared free of poison gas, but I think there's a mixture of public relations and a desire to educate about the Second World War involved in the decision to open it up to visitors.


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9Kansas 76 - 70 Missouri
Kansas tops Missouri to remain unbeaten
Jan 20, 2008 - 5:49 AM COLUMBIA, Missouri (Ticker) -- Kansas refused to let Missouri spoil its undefeated season in two different sports.
Mario Chalmers scored 18 points and Darrell Arthur had 10 points and 10 rebounds as the third-ranked Jayhawks posted their 19th consecutive victory, a 76-70 triumph over the Tigers on Saturday night in a Big 12 Conference matchup.
Darnell Jackson and Brandon Rush each added 13 points for Kansas (18-0, 3-0 Big 12), which is off to its best start since the 1996-97 club started 22-0. It marks just the fifth time in school history that the Jayhawks have won their first 18 games to begin a season.
"I think Mizzou had us sped up to the point where we didn't execute very well," Kansas coach Bill Self said. "I really think our guards are as good as any guards out there and I think they got sped up and we tried to make some great plays as opposed to letting the ball make the plays for us."
Last November, Missouri's football team ruined Kansas' undefeated season with a 36-28 win in the regular-season finale.
Despite a great effort, the Tigers (11-7, 1-2) were not able to do the same Saturday on the hardwood.
"I thought that our defense got out there and scrapped and clawed and got after the loose balls and really helped us a lot out there tonight," Missouri coach Mike Anderson said. "I think they really left it on the floor tonight."
Chalmers' reverse layup gave the Jayhawks a 63-56 lead with 7:40 remaining in the contest, but it would be the last field goal they would make for the remainder of the game. A couple critical defensive stops and some clutch free-throw shooting, however, allowed Kansas to hang on for the win.
"That's a little misleading, considering the amount of free throws we attempted," Self said of the team's failure to make a field goal late in the game. "Our goal late, even though we never really executed what we wanted to do, was to use the clock and hopefully create an inside scoring opportunity."
"We drove it pretty good a few times and came away empty, but we didn't take very many shots in the last seven minutes."
After Jason Horton's layup cut Missouri's deficit to 66-63 with 3:50 left, Chalmers committed a foul away from the play to give the Tigers back the ball. Kansas responded with an excellent defensive effort, not allowing Missouri to score for nearly three minutes.
After Chalmers knocked down a pair of free throws to take a 68-63 advantage, Stefhon Hannah missed a 3-point attempt. On the ensuing possessions, the Tigers had a shot-clock violation and Hannah and Keon Lawrence both missed jump shots before Lawrence committed a critical turnover.
Chalmers stole the ball from Lawrence and made an outlet pass to Rush, who was fouled and hit both his free throws to take a 70-63 lead with 64 seconds left.
Hannah led the way for the Tigers, scoring 23 points. Leo Lyons had 10 points before fouled out with just under five minutes to play and Demarre Carroll grabbed nine rebounds.
"I think he's a really good player, and I think we got lucky tonight as he missed some shots he would normally make," Self said of Carroll. "I thought we defended him fine for the most part. I think we got a break because he didn't shoot a real good percentage."
It was the first home loss of the season for Missouri, which had beaten then-No. 12 Texas last Saturday.
"I thought we played with good energy defensively and that's the key," Anderson said. "Whether it be at home or on the road our defense is the key area where we need to be consistent. We control that energy-level and need to come with that every night out in this league."
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Visibly touched, Taylor took the document and gazed at its photo of the iconic on-campus Old Well rotunda.
Asked where he'll hang it, Taylor said he'd probably put it up in his studio back home.
Turning back to Weiss, Taylor shook his hand again.
"It's a very select group," Weiss said.
Weiss, 67, has co-taught a class in arts entrepreneurship at UNC since 2010. Before moving to Chapel Hill in 2007, he worked for four decades in the music industry, most notably handling the publishing affairs of Stephen Stills – the middle name and heartbeat of the Hall of Fame folk-rock trio Crosby, Stills & Nash.
The proclamation program started two years ago. Inspired by the urge to "honor people while they're still around," Weiss came up with the idea of presenting these certificates to Hall of Fame-caliber acts passing through the area. So far, it's the work of a selection committee of one.
The first recipient was Crosby Stills & Nash, which was easy enough for Weiss to arrange when they played the Durham Performing Arts Center. Chris Hillman, a founding member of folk-rock icons the Byrds, also wasn't uncomplicated to set up. But the other recipients have been a bit more difficult to pull off: Taylor, the Beatles and Bob Dylan.
Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr each received proclamations before their shows at Greensboro Coliseum and DPAC, respectively. Weiss will present the late George Harrison's to his widow, Olivia Harrison, and he's already gone to New York to cover John Lennon with Yoko Ono (while the idea is to focus on the living, Weiss decided to make an exception for the deceased Beatles).
As for Dylan, he had agreed to accept his award while in the area to play DPAC this past April. But he bowed out at the last minute.
Although these presentations take all of five minutes, getting even that much face-time with stars of this magnitude can involve the sort of delicate negotiations you might expect for an audience with the president. Every platinum-level star has an army of gatekeepers whose job is to say no to pretty much everything.
Fortuitously, Weiss has connections he can work. He didn't know McCartney but did know people in business with him. Setting up that proclamation ceremony took about three months.
Given Taylor's ties to Chapel Hill from having grown up there, you might expect that to be another simple one. But Taylor actually took the longest of all to arrange, about a year.
These are proclamations rather than honorary degrees, and Mark Katz (who was head of the music department when Weiss started the program) admits he was skeptical at first. But Weiss persuaded Katz to go along with it, and what finally brought him around was seeing the artists' reactions to receiving something with the cachet of academia.
For Weiss, it's about the photograph of the presentation as much as the award itself. Eventually, the photographs and proclamations will go on display in UNC's Hill Hall after it reopens next year. Weiss envisions it as a Wall of Fame, with scores of artists.
True, but the ones in so far do represent a pretty narrow demographic of mainstream older-white-guy rock – very much like the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Might someone like, say, Kanye West qualify someday?


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Upbeat, Clientele, Wilson Pickett, Cutout Bin, Friskies
Friday, April 02, 2010 - 08:00 AM
Posted by: Karl
THE WEEKEND STARTS HERE:
... with UPBEAT! Syndicated out of Cleveland, Upbeat never achieved the status of American Bandstand, but attracted any number of major acts from 1964-71, including Otis Redding on the day before he died in that plane crash. Today's selections include Stevie Wonder with "For Once In My Life," Joe South with "Games People Play," Joe Tex with "Skinny Legs and All," Archie Bell and the Drells with "Tighten Up" (which just might be my favorite) Jerry Butler with "Only the Strong Survive," and the O'Kaysions with "I'm a Girl Watcher."
THE CLIENTELE stopped by Oregon Public Broadcasting for a chat and mini-set in audio and video.
FIELD MUSIC stopped by Morning Becomes Eclectic for a chat and mini-set.
WILL STRATTON stopped by WNYC for a chat and mini-set. BONUS: There's a downloadable EP at the link, too.
WILSON PICKETT is profiled on Fresh Air in connection with a new box set of his Atlantic output.
THE MUPPETS: "Stand By Me."
YOUR BIRTH DATE SONG: What does it say about you?
FANFARLO talks to Donewaiting about touring the Midwest for the first time. There's a link to a downloadable EP, too.
LISSIE is profiled by the BBC and interviewed by Aquarium Drunkard (Thx, Chromewaves.)
THE XX: Oliver Sim talks to Greg Kot about the evolution of the band's sound, and transitioning to festival gigs.
THE CUTOUT BIN: From Steve Miller to Soft Cell, from Elvis Costello to Ray Charles, from Jason & the Scorchers to Hall & Oates, from Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings to Echo & the Bunnymen, plus the Kinks, Arab Strap, Marvin Gaye, Beau Brummells, Rick James and more -- is streaming from the Pate page at the ol' HM.
NOW SHOWING: This weekend's wide releases include Clash of the Titans, which is currently scoring 33 percent on the ol' Tomatometer; The Last Song, currently scoring 12 percent; and Tyler Perry's Why Did I Get Married Too, which (per usual for Perry) was not screened for critics.
SANDRA BULLOCK and JESSE JAMES: Bullock is reconsidering her divorce options and believes she can save their marriage, a friend of the star tells PopEater. Other accounts say definitely decided to file for divorce and mention nasty phone fights between the couple. Maybe that's when James admitted to seven affairs. Allegedly. James' lawyer denies James is a neo-Nazi.
TIGER WOODS may have settled with mistress Rachel Uchitel for as much as ten million dollars.
CHARLIE SHEEN is leaving Two and Half Men? More like a negotiation.
ANNA PAQUIN of True Blood is publicly revealing she's bisexual. There's video.
ANGELINA JOLIE's former bodyguard describes what he claims to be a woman whose erratic behavior, yelling fits and unreasonable demands deeply hurt not only staff members - but especially Brad Pitt and their six children.
JENNIFER ANISTON: People are strting to notice that her career isn't going much better than her private life.
SUSAN SARANDON talks about life since splitting with her partner of two decades, Tim Robbins.
DENNIS HOPPER's wife tried to kill him, allegedly.
KATE HUDSON is putting her ex Alex Rodriguez to shame when it comes to playing the field.
FANTASTIC VOYAGE is headed back to the big screen in 3-D.
THE EXPENDABLES trailer is online.
WHY IS THIS SATURDAY DIFFERENT FROM ALL OTHER DAYS? Because ABC has its annual showing of The Ten Commandments, a grand spectacle featuring acting from Edward G. Robinson and Anne Baxter that is so over-the-top that Yul Brenner starts to look good by comparison. And while Robinson's Dathan never actually spoke the line "Where's your Messiah now?" in the movie, it -- like "Play It Again, Sam" (not spoken in Casablanca) -- has become part of a part of our culture. The line actually comes from Billy Crystal (sample), originally a bit from the Oscars, iirc. It later turned up on The Simpsons, with Chief Wiggum playing Dathan to Ned Flanders' Moses.
IRAN: China agreed to make steps toward supporting new sanctions on Iran? Not really. And both stories ran in the NYT, whose editors aren't paying attention. Tehran sent its chief nuclear negotiator to Beijing to discuss the threat of new sanctions.
AFGHANISTAN: Members of parliament rejected President Karzai's plan to appoint all five members of the Electoral Complaints Commission. Karzai warned that "the insurgency will change to a national resistance" if foreign countries interfered with his appointments to the ECC.
FRISKIES: One of their psychedelic ads gets a proper remix.
TOADS are able to detect pre-seismic cues such as the release of gases and charged particles, and use these as a form of earthquake early warning system.
DENTED FISH falls from the sky, now swims at sushi restaurant.
ASTRO-MICE are scheduled to fly on the space shuttle Discovery on Monday to spend 13 days aboard the international space station in an experiment to study the effects of life in zero gravity on their immune systems.
COCKROACH OF THE SEA: An enormous crustacean that attached itself to a submarine scouring the depths of the Gulf of Mexico is eliciting shock, awe and a touch of skepticism among Web readers -- but scientists say the critter is just an impressive example of a supersized species.
PEEPS SHOW: The Washington Post's traditional contest.
Fruit Bats, BRMC, Local Natives, Titus Andronicus, Dog vs Tortoise
Thursday, April 01, 2010 - 08:00 AM
FRUIT BATS cover H & O's "One On One" for The A.V. Club Undercover.
BLACK REBEL MOTORCYCLE CLUB stopped by The Current for a chat and mini-set streaming via MPR.
LOCAL NATIVES stopped by Morning Becomes Eclectic for a chat and mini-set streaming via KCRW.
BLACK PRAIRIE, boasting two Decemberists, is advance streaming Feast of the Hunters via NPR.
ALL SONGS CONSIDERED Guest DJ Jonsi spins tracks from Iron Maiden, Audrey Hepburn, Bille Holiday and more...
TITUS ANDRONICUS forms "A More Perfect Union." Plus, Patrick Stickles names a few of his favorite things for Pitchfork's Guest List.
SPOON frontman Britt Daniel is interviewed by Kinks frontman Ray Davies at SPIN.
SHEARWATER: Jonathan Meiburg talks to the Montreal Gazette about islands, the future and more... (Thx, Chromewaves.)
THE COOLEST CONCEPT ALBUMS, according to Wired readers.
SURFER BLOOD: J.P. Pitts talks to SF Weekly about dropping out to chase a dream.
TIGER WOODS: Speaking to four of the women Woods turned to in order to fuel his sex addiction, Woods's former adviser and lawyer, and other insiders, Vanity Fair paints a picture of the superstar at his most profligate, and explores how he got to that point.
SANDRA BULLOCK and JESSE JAMES: A year before wedding Bullock, James posed as Adolf Hitler, wearing a German soldier's cap, miming the evil dictator's mustache and giving a "Heil, Hitler" salute. And there's a story about a Jesse James foursome (sans Bullock) out there. Yet Bullock blames herself.
STEVEN SPIELBERG is so paranoid about security at his office, he keeps a never-used motorcycle permanently parked outside in case he needs to make a getaway, a new book about DreamWorks claims.
MATT. DAMON. is headed to 30 Rock.
PRIVATE BENJAMIN is recalled to duty as a starring vehicle for Anna Faris.
STARK EXPO 2010: Be There!
THE 160 GREATEST SCHWARZENEGGER QUOTES: A bit NSFW video.
IRAN: An award-winning nuclear scientist has defected to the CIA and been resettled in the United States, according to people briefed on the operation by intelligence officials. And I'm guessing the mullahs noticed that the US test-fired a submarine-launched ballistic missile capable of carrying nuclear warheads during a joint military exercise Wednesday with Saudi Arabia. President Obama demanded a new sanctions deadline of "weeks, not months" for Iran. A US official said that "Iran is not leaving China much room to stand on."
IRAQ: Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki said on Wednesday that his party had formally appealed the results from the country's tight parliamentary elections, a move that could further delay the formation of a new government.
DOG vs TORTOISE: Who you got? Not so fast! This one has a twist!
RANGER the CAT lit himself on fire for Earth Hour.
ABNER the three-legged sled dog gets his turn on the race trail.
ROBOT JOCKEYS ride camels at the Sharqeya Camel Race Festival in Egypt.
David Byrne + Fatboy Slim, Wye Oak, Blind Boys of Alabama, Trololo Cat
Wednesday, March 31, 2010 - 08:00 AM
MGMT premieres their video for "Flash Delirium."
DAVID BYRNE & FATBOY SLIM are advance streaming Here Lies Love via NPR.
WYE OAK played a Tiny Desk Concert at the offices of NPR.
THE BLIND BOYS OF ALABAMA did the four free songs thing for Daytrotter.
ROKY ERICKSON & OKKERVIL RIVER drop a new version of "Be and Bring Me Home" from their collaboration.
BIG STAR drummer Jody Stephens and Ardent studio owner John Fry talked to indie musician John Davis for the (for now) defunct WOXY in February. A good excuse to watch Alex Chilton "Make a Little Love" on French TV.
SLEIGH BELLS are profiled by BBC1, with embedded audio. Described there as for fans of MIA and MGMT, but it's at least as distorted as early JAMC to boot.
PEARL JAM: Stone Gossard talks to Reuters about reducing the band's carbon footprint.
50 AWESOME MUSIC MOVIES, compiled by NME.
LADY GAGA: The self-invented, manufactured, accidental, totally on-purpose New York creation of the world's biggest pop star.
SANDRA BULLOCK & JESSE JAMES: Sandra has decided to divorce Jesse, according to RadarOnline. So it makes sense that Bullock isn't aiming to become a legal parent to her husband's three kids. Mistress No. 4 won't go public, but we have high hopes for Mistress No.5. Maybe that's the number that sends James to rehab.
TIGER WOODS: Former mistress Joslyn James plans to be at The Masters next month, to, you know "get the truth out there."
LINDSAY LOHAN responded to being snapped with clouds of white powder pumping out of her high-heels by attacking George Lopez.
HEATHER MILLS's former nanny has told an employment tribunal she was made to work long hours without extra pay. Mills claims she's the victim.
HEIDI MONTAG & SPENCER PRATT deny rumors that she had moved out of their home that popped up just in time for the final season of The Hills.
MISCHA BARTON had a rough night over the weekend in Hollywood.
HANGOVER 2 deals are lcoked in for Zach Galifianakis, Bradley Cooper, Ed Helms and director Todd Phillips.
INDEPENDENCE DAY sequels may shoot in 2011.
IRAN is poised to begin producing nuclear weapons after its uranium program expansion in 2009, even though it has had problems with thousands of its centrifuges, according to a newly released CIA report.
AFGHANISTAN: The coming US campaign in Kandahar will focus on reforming the city's predatory, corrupt government.
IRAQ: Iyad Allawi, the man who won Iraq's parliamentary elections, has accused Iran of trying to prevent him from becoming prime minister. The Justice and Accountability Commission said a number of Allawi's bloc should have been barred from running due to alleged ties to Saddam Hussein's Baath party.
TROLOLO CAT: Let's go to the video.
A CAT has been appointed an unofficial police officer in a Chinese city where it joins officers on patrol.
ELEPHANTS walk like Land Rovers, according to scientists.
POODLE nurses orphan SQUIRRELS... Mass hysteria!
New Releases, Sharon Jones, Dr. Dog, Hold Steady, NPs, Chatty Cats
Tuesday, March 30, 2010 - 08:00 AM
BECK is joined by Liars, St. Vincent and Os Mutantes' Sergio Dias on "Guns in the Sky," the first track of his cover of INXS's Kick LP.
NEW RELEASES: Dum Dum Girls, Holly Golightly and the Brokeoffs, the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion and more are streaming this week via Spinner.
SHARON JONES & THE DAP-KINGS are advance streaming I Learned the Hard Way via NPR. Plus, Ms. Jones is profiled by New York magazine.
DR. DOG is advance streaming Shame, Shame via NPR.
THE HOLD STEADY dropped "Rock Problems" as another advance track to Heaven is Everywhere.
NEW PORNOGRAPHERS dropped "Crash Years" as an advance track in their Facebook music player.
JONSI, the singer for Sigur Ros, is advance streaming Go via NPR.
THE FOUNDATIONS: "Build Me Up, Buttercup" and "Baby, Now That I Found You" are your Twofer Tuesday.
THE WORST "BEST" CLASSIC ROCK SONGS,according to Michele Catalano.
SPOON: Britt Daniel and Jim Eno talk to The Quietus about whether they read their own press cuttings and if they're too American for British audiences.
JULIAN CASABLANCAS talks to the Globe and Mail about his first solo effort, <i itxtvisited="1">Phrazes for the Young.
THE LIBERTINES are reuniting for Reading and Leeds festivals in August, according to several media reports in the UK.
SANDRA BULLOCK and JESSE JAMES: America's sweetheart is back in California -- but not at home -- in order to figure out the legal end of her split from the allegedly infidelious bike builder.
LINDSAY LOHAN was leaving a friends house in Los Angeles on Saturday when a generous amount of unidentified white powder started puffing out of her shoes. Some police officers who routinely come in contact with Lindsay tell TMZ they have thought seriously about forcing her to get help.
TIGER WOODS: Oddly enough, Elin Nordegren isn't keen on the idea of attending the Masters.
KATE WINSLET sounds desperate to escape the "house-of-horrors" Manhattan apartment she shared with Sam Mendes.
MATT DAMON was roasted in Beverly Hills for the 24th American Cinematheque Award. But none of the jokes seem to have mentioned his latest movie, which the public is avoiding like a toxic waste dump.
MARIA CONCHITA ALONSO writes an open letter to Sean Penn about his support for Hugo Chavez. BTW, last week, Chavez arrested the owner of Venezuela's only remaining anti-Chavez TV channel. The State Department has said harassment and intimidation of the opposition and the media are on the rise in Venezuela.
GODZILLA is stomping back to the big screen, with help from Legendary Pictures ("The Dark Knight," "300" and "The Hangover").
THE TUDORS: Episode 401 is online.
TERROR in RUSSIA: Female suicide bombers set off huge explosions in two subway stations in central Moscow during the Monday morning rush hour, Russian officials said, killing more than three dozen people and raising fears that the Muslim insurgency in southern Russia was once again being brought to the country's heart.
OUR FRIENDS, THE SAUDIS are pouring hundreds of millions of pounds into Islamist groups in the Balkans, some of which spread hatred of the West and recruit fighters for jihad in Afghanistan.
IRAN's nuclear program is of "critical concern" and will top the agenda when foreign ministers from the G-8 nations meet Monday to discuss global security.
CHATTERING CATS: Let's go to the video. And the translation.
A ROYAL PYTHON is giving massages to visitors at a British theme park.
PIT BULLS and POLICE CARS: A pit bull mix in Tennessee has been sentenced to obedience training after his dogged attack on a local police car. A New Jersey pit bull is on probation after ripping the bumper off a police car and chewing the tires on three other cars flat as two other dogs barked and wagged their tails.
AND NOW FOR SOMETHING COMPLETELY DIFFERENT: Two cats with six toes on each paw.
Laura Marling, Tegan & Sara, Sloan, Koko + Kitteh
Monday, March 29, 2010 - 08:00 AM
LAURA MARLING released "Rambing Man" as a video from her I Speak Because I Can album.
TEGAN & SARA stopped by Minnesota Public Radio's UBS Forum for a live performance in front of a studio audience.
SLOAN stopped by Oregon Public Broadcasting for a chat and mini-set in audio and video.
FYFE DANGERFIELD of the Guillemots stopped by The Current for a chat and mini-set streaming via MPR.
THE LOW ANTHEM stopped by Morning Becomes Eclectic for a chat and mini-set.
METALLICA: "Enter Sandman," the soft jazz version. Derek Smalls wrote this.
COMMANDER CODY is profiled by NPR's Weekend Edition Sunday.
SPOON: Britt Daniel tlaks to Backbeat Online about everything from how producing the disc without outside producers affected the sound to the odd experience of being named Metacritic's Artist of the Decade. (Thx, LHB.)
HALL & OATES: The Boston Globe surveys the duo's commercial and critical renaissance.
ABBA reunion rumors get rolling.
WEEKEND BOX OFFICE: How To Train Your Dragon is No. 1 this weekend with 43.3 million -- but I think the gurus tended to project this as making over 60 million (roughly where Monsters vs Aliens opened), so this may be disappointing. Alice in Wonderland placed with 17.3 million -- another 49 percent drop, but perhaps helped by the Dragon weakness. Hot Tub Time Machine -- which many thought would be No.2 -- showed with 13.7 million. That's probably disappinting, but a 36 million budget plaus DVD sales will likely end this story with a smile. The Bounty Hunter drops to fourth place and has almost recouped its production budget (though the studio likely sees only 55 percent of that). Diary of a Wimpy Kid tumbles from second to fifth with 10 million, but has already made 35.8 million on a 15 million budget. Below the fold, Green Zone continues to flop spectacularly (30.4 million so far with a 100 illion budget).
LINDSAY LOHAN: "If she doesn't get help soon, she's going to die."
24: Time's Up.
MALEFICENT may be played by Angelina Jolie, which would be exactly right.
LIZ HURLEY: The model has gone from arm candy to fruit-bar manufacturer. Enter her terribly cut-throat countryside business empire.
ORSON WELLES is headed back to the big screen, through the magic of technology.
CHLOE SEVIGNY apologizes for calling the last season of her show, Big Love, "awful."
KATY PERRY was hosed with the Nicolodeon's signature bright green slime at the Kids' Choice Awards.
TOY STORY 3: Meet 6 new characters.
AFGHANISTAN: Pres. Obama pressed Afghan Pres. Karzai to take serious steps against corruption and drug trafficking on Sunday, in an unannounced trip-his first as commander in chief-to the site of the war he inherited and has stamped as his own.
IRAN: Six months after the revelation of a secret nuclear enrichment site in Iran, international inspectors and Western intelligence agencies say they suspect that Tehran is preparing to build more sites in defiance of UN demands.
IRAQ: The secular party of Ayad Allawi, a former interim prime minister once derided as an American puppet, won a wafer-thin victory in Iraq's election, setting the stage for a protracted period of political uncertainty and possible violence that could threaten plans to withdraw American troops. At least four Sunni Muslim candidates who appear to have won parliamentary seats on the winning ticket of secular leader Ayad Allawi have become targets of investigation by security forces reporting to the narrowly defeated Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al Maliki, according to interviews Saturday with relatives, Iraqi security forces and the US military. Either way, the election was a stunning defeat for Iran and its spymaster, Qassem Soleimani, who commands the Quds Force of the Revolutionary Guard Corps. Soleimiani had spent millions trying to stop an Allawi victory.
KOKO the GORILLA gets visited by kittehs... Mass hysteria!
OPOSSUM not playing opossum confused a drunken Samaritan.
RUNAWAY COYOTE corralled in NYC's TriBeCa neighborhood.
GRIFFY the GRAFFE likes to get his head petted... until he doesn't.
THE FLAT-HEADED CAT, the world's least known feline, is now endangered, too.
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