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Microsoft to Push Silverlight via Redesigned Website
Last updated August 26, 2013 by NeoSmart Technologies
Several months ago, Microsoft inserted themselves into the RIA framework business – years too late and against pretty scary odds – with the initial release of the Silverlight framework. Microsoft Silverlight is the online counterpart to the Microsoft .NET 3.0 Framework and a direct Adobe Flash/Flex competitor.
Microsoft isn't new to the whole "virtual" monopoly business (where a single company holds the entire market thanks to "superior technology" and "better business sense") – it's just not too often that they're on the wrong side of this particular proverbial fence.
When Silverlight was first announced and PopFly, Microsoft's social network built to demonstrate and hopefully kickoff Silverlight, were simultaneously launched; we were quick to appreciate the technical aspects of .NET and WPF taken online, but were careful to make it clear that we didn't think it stood much of a chance.
But things might be on the verge of a big change. Large portions Microsoft's website are in the middle of a redesign that will feature a fully Silverlight-powered interface – doing away with HTML and everything else. We've had a chance to test the new interface (currently in beta), and here's what we think:
According to Compete, Microsoft.com is the 8th most popular site on the internet, with around 60 million unique visitors a month. Put another way, if Microsoft successfully pulls this off, that's 60 million new Silverlight users in the first month alone!
The new, Silverlight-powered interface is a pretty big step up from the old design, making it easy to access information about individual downloads and view overall info and lists.
The Silverlight part of the interface is almost wholly unnecessary. It's really nice to use, it's smooth, it's easy, and it's beautiful – but it's nothing that requires a RIA in the first place. Microsoft could have easily implemented the same user experience (give or take) with HTML + JavaScript/AJAX; with a lot less effort and greater compatibility.
At the moment, very few non-Microsoft-owned sites are using Silverlight at all; let alone for the entire UI. And of those that do, none have anywhere the amount of exposure that Microsoft.com gets.
Keeping these facts in mind, there's only one logical conclusion to be drawn: Microsoft realizes (as has the rest of the geek community) that Silverlight is on the verge of being forgotten. Claims of superiority aside (true or otherwise), Microsoft has realized that if Silverlight is to stand a chance, it's going to take more than a failed attempt at making a Silverlight-powered social community to get developers and consumers alike to adopt Silverlight.
It's a desperate move, there's no doubt about it. While Microsoft will no doubt be making an alternative HTML interface available for a mixture of legal and practical purposes, switching Microsoft.com over to Silverlight is a sure-fire way to get that attention…. and depending on how it's both marketed and carried out, it could be what it takes to make developers start taking Silverlight seriously.
Whether this'll work out or not, only time can tell. We don't know when the new Silverlight-interface will be going mainstream, but it's probably not for a couple more months at the very least. The current interface still links to many as-of-yet not updated pages, and portions of the Silverlight section still appear to be missing some features here and there. Overall, the new interface is very user-friendly and well-developed, though.
You can either view NeoSmart Technologies screenshot gallery of the upcoming Microsoft.com re-design or attempt to access the beta link directly (working as of 01/03/08); but still pictures don't really do the interface justice. Where the new UI really shines is the overall grace and fluidity of the interface, with gentle hover effects and fade in/out transitions that are done just right.
Editor's Note: This article has been updated to clear up some references to a full-site redesign of Microsoft.com. We do not have any evidence that all of Microsoft.com is being redesigned to take advantage of Silverlight, just large portions of it. Sorry for any confusion.
This entry was tagged with .net framework, adobe, design, flash, flex, microsoft, silverlight by NeoSmart Technologies.
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94 thoughts on "Microsoft to Push Silverlight via Redesigned Website"
Rebecca on January 3, 2008 at 8:03 pm said:
/no comment on the M$ thing.
what would be clever and witty is a joke about lights out for MS silverlight or something…. j/k 😀
anon on January 3, 2008 at 8:12 pm said:
I'm not going to download invasive, proprietary crap like silverlight just because the Microsoft.com site requires it. This is bundling all over again.
If Microsoft does (foolishly) go live with a silverlight-only site, I'll demand a non-silverlight version.
Chris on January 3, 2008 at 8:13 pm said:
First of all, in regards to this talk about "I haven't seen this" or "I haven't seen that". There is some raging hatred out there for "all" Flash sites, which thankfully, most experienced Flash developers have heeded. RIA is a different matter entirely. The Nature of a "properly" deployed RIA app is to be a value added feature of a site, not the site itself.
There are hundreds (perhaps thousands) of Flash and Flex based applications on the public internet that are hidden from sight because they aren't pushed as the Interface for an entire site. Many of those RIA's are behind registration systems. They have an actaul useful function. Building an entire site with an RIA platform is rediculous and will only anger users.
As far as the argument about proprietary software goes, just how much technology has Adobe released in the last year as open source compared to Microsoft?
m00ner on January 3, 2008 at 8:13 pm said:
I personally haven't a problem installing plugins or activeX or whatever on Windows or Linux, Firefox or Internet Explorer. It doesn't take much time, effort, or cost; and most are developed decently-enough so as not to crash every ten minutes.
But, and I swear to it, I haven't come across a single site requiring Silverlight for anything since its release. In all those of months of heavy web-browsing and downloads, I was never asked to install Silverlight because absolutely no one is using it.
So now Microsoft wants to require it for their site. Fine by me, I just installed it a minute ago.
I too like the new interface, but you are right, it does not need to be done in Silverlight. But I don't care, Silverlight or HTML, they are both the same for me (but you cannot search for text in a Silverlight document!).
Microsoft shouldn't replace HTML with Silverlight because it is not designed to be a HTML replacement.
But I see the point of the article.. that this is a new ingredient in the RIA wars and it is worth some pondering over. I don't see the controversy at all, it's just a fact for fsck's sake, not an argument….
I don't give a grain of salt's worth if MS is using Flash or HTML or Silverlight but I am wondering if it wouldn't have been wiser for MS to ship Silverlight with Vista RTM in the first place and avoid this whole PITA in the first place?
Does anyone with any legal background or familiarity know if shipping Silverlight with Windows would be a breach of the antitrust laws?
Mahmoud Al-Qudsi on January 3, 2008 at 8:19 pm said:
Chris, I'm not sure if that last line was intended to be a rhetorical question or not, but I'll go ahead and answer it:
Microsoft has released lots of open source material, Adobe hasn't. But it depends on how you define "open source." The problem is that Microsoft's open-source license (Microsoft Shared Source) isn't really open. It's "here's the source so you can see what it does and how it works, but you can't use this source anywhere else."
It's no more open source than a proprietary PHP or Perl script. You can see the source, but you can't use it. Which really isn't a problem. They're doing 50% of reverse-engineers' work for them.
But it does beg the question: if you're going to release the source, and you know that someone will create a true open-source version of this, why not release it as free software in the first place? (Answer: MS just doesn't want to officially support anything other than Windows, and wants to be sure that it can still market superior compatibility with software xxxx as a reason to use Windows in the business)
@m00ner:
IANAL, but Microsoft ships .NET 2.0 and 3.0 with Vista, so I don't think it would be any different for them to ship Silverlight with it either. But you have to understand, Vista was already years behind schedule and Silverlight 1.0 RTM was months off.
Gary Haran on January 3, 2008 at 8:21 pm said:
I don't think Unique visits means much here unless we know that it is 60 million unique IP addresses.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unique_visitor
Thanks CG. IANAL either, but that seems to be sound logic to me.
Gary: Interesting! But doesn't really matter much, does it? 60 million or 55 million or 65 million… big numbers all the same xD
No open source from Adobe? Have you not been paying attention? Large portions of Flex are being opened up, PDF is now an ISO standard, Mozilla is now working with the Tamarin scripting engine for the next generation of Javascript, Adobe released the Spry Javascript library the swf file format has been open for a while now. I'm sure I'm missing something, but that is far from nothing and much more than Steve Balmer (considering his public comments on the matter) would ever allow MS to release into the wild.
HC on January 3, 2008 at 8:47 pm said:
I agree that Adobe is doing a lot more now that it is facing some real competition. Its not enough, but it will get there. Remember when they skipped a whole version of the Flash player for Linux.
But, I guess its time to break out the scotch, take a seat and watch the fireworks.
I'm sure MS would be thrilled to get the ISO standards out, if only they would let them 😀
I didn't know about the Tamarin scripting engine, thanks for sharing that. Believe me, I'm not defending Microsoft's "open source," but if it's a question of quantity, there is a lot of it.
Well I think it's not necessarily a safe assumption to make that they are opening things up solely because of pressure from competition. Flash for instance has evolved from a tool for designers to an RIA tool and the Flex spinoff is in response to that. All of it driven by development trends and feature demands from developers. Focus has changed, the average bandwidth going into homes has changed, and the use of video has changed. All of it interconnected and not connected to any one company or organization.
"I'm sure MS would be thrilled to get the ISO standards out, if only they would let them :D"
@Computer_Guru ??? You mean they aren't letting them bribe member countries for votes anymore? That's terrible!!!
RT on January 3, 2008 at 10:08 pm said:
Wow. This reminds me of the days when you saw funky web sites that told you to "set your browser to this size for best viewing". I usually found those sites a pain to go to what with having to resize my browser window all the time.
At least for now it's only Microsoft's site but if this catches on, I can see once again departing web sites (like I did before) as soon as I see some lame notice that I need to "click her" if I'm not using a Silverlight-enabled browser.
hk on January 3, 2008 at 11:10 pm said:
I'd love to use silverlight!
It seems like a really good system. Well deasigned, innovative, exactly the competition Flash needs (I'm no fan of Adobe).
I'll learn it, develop in it, and publish in it with joy.
As soon as it's under GPL, so I know Microsoft can't play any "games" with it in the future. That's what I'm really worried about. The technology looks great. But because of MS's history of nasty behaviour (Windows Media on Mac particularly affected me) I want to see it in a true, strong, free software licnese.
Even the MIT license isn't enough for this. It *has* to be GPL – the whole thing – or I won't touch it with a 10-foot pole.
So MS – if you're serious about SilverLight, that's what everyone is waiting for.
Mahmoud Al-Qudsi on January 3, 2008 at 11:11 pm said:
Why GPL? Not even Google is going with the GPL for Android. Apache, BSD, etc. are much better.
MIT is way more relaxed (read: more free) than the GPL anyway.
anonymous on January 4, 2008 at 2:14 am said:
Why can't MS just get IE6 and IE7 working properly so developers can design websites that will work across browsers. If MS wants developers to take them seriously, instead of trying to find ways to lock users in, they need to start at least getting this part right. It has taken years to upgrade IE6 because their IE6 was pretty much on every computer. Not until Firefox start showing some real challenge before MS got off their AS* and start working on their browser again. If IE6 and IE7 is any indication, silverlight and .NET will follow the same path.
Having said that, I'm all for competition. Good clean competition that is.Not one of MS doing one of its dirty tactics.
rarchimedes on January 4, 2008 at 3:25 am said:
Yes, Computer Guru, those wide open licenses like BSD will allow Microsoft to use those technologies in the same way that they used some of the security stuff recently for XP. They took it, modified it just enough to make it incompatible with the existing standard, and then did not open up the modified part of the code, because the more open license did not require them to. Maybe you can get a fix on just how nasty that is. Microsoft taketh whatever they can get, but they give back nothing that they are not forced to by law or market conditions. Anything that Microsoft gives away, they usually bury in the cost of their monopoly products, taking away income from legitimate and independent vendors while requiring us all to contribute when we buy Windows. You may have noted the pricing on Vista. XP Pro can be had quite cheaply, while Vista Ultimate costs about 21% more for nothing but a bit of eye candy.
Beginner Developer for NGOs on January 4, 2008 at 5:29 am said:
Weighing in from an outside perspective as I develop web sites for community organizations and small businesses.
I think the comment about American companies not really having it together in this area is dead-on : both Flash and Silverlight are trying to become *commercial, relatively exclusive* standards for RIA.
Why should we have to debate between the two at all? Part of the reason HTML succeeded so brilliantly is because it is open – and if the net is headed towards an intensive use of RIA's, then it is terribly inefficient to rely on commercial interests to develop and maintain competing separate standards. We've all been down that road before.
That approaches creates the well-documented design/political/efficiency flaws already discussed above in *both* Flash and Silverlight. We can do better..
Foo on January 4, 2008 at 1:06 pm said:
When I see the gathering storm that is Silverlight 2.0 I have to ask my self: Self, what does this mean for all the Macintosh and Linux users who will be denied the ability to use some of the most powerful and wonderful sites on the internet? It means that anyone who seriously wants to use the internet will have to use Microsoft Silverlight, that's what it means. This is the end of non-windows internet. It is the beginning of a golden age of interoperability where all users know that all software will work well together because they will all be united under the banner of Microsoft.
ibrahim on January 4, 2008 at 1:17 pm said:
anonymous (jan 4, 2:14am), you speak as if the future of .net is in question. but it isn't…. for the past several years, .net has held its own and gained ground – quite marvelously in fact.
.net, since v2, has been very well received by almost all windows developers which is a big part of the dev market. only on linux has .net struggled.
the difference with silverlight is that it is intended to be deployed on the web, and the web is a universal non-platform-specific environment where both windows and non-windows users alike count..
"Why can't MS just get IE6 and IE7 working properly so developers can design websites that will work across browsers."
Up until the announcement that IE8 had passed the ACID2 test, it was speculated by some that MS was abandoning the browser for the Silverlight platform. I don't buy that they can pull this off. It will not be a Windows only internet. I do think MS has tried it's best to derail ECMA 4, because a fully standards compliant browser with ECMA 4 and HTML 5 would be serious competition for Silverlight. I also don't buy into all this anti-corporate rhetoric. Give me a break.
pinner on January 4, 2008 at 2:11 pm said:
Tried the beta in latest Firefox on Windows XP. Immediately got multiple pop-ups advising that the plug-in was performing illegal operations, and I had to crash Firefox to get out. Okay its "beta", but this tends to confirm my suspicion that when MS says "multi-platform" they are not to be trusted.
tobozo on January 4, 2008 at 3:20 pm said:
Firefox support anyone ?
Or is it yet another trick to suck people into m$ monoculture ?
firefox is supporterd. as is mac. but linux isn't.
HC on January 4, 2008 at 10:02 pm said:
I swear the next guy that brings up Mono, I am gonna smack him with a rotting fish.
ibrahim on January 4, 2008 at 10:05 pm said:
tuna or sardine? 😀
Michael Kariv on January 6, 2008 at 10:53 am said:
My $0.02 – microsoft was always late in the game. And have always won. So far. Windows mobile knocked PalmOS, IE killed Netscape and the list is going on and on. MS taking its time to do it right. And they never give up. So my bets are on SL. I liked what I tried in SL2.0 (aka SL1.1 Alfa). All the core ideas are solid. XAML sharing between WPF and SL is a smart move. a lot of 3rd party controls is to be expected. Integration with VS2008 is working well.
Not all is rosy, of cause, but it is an alfa.
I don't worry about availability or market share. SL2 is 4.5 meg, which on broadband is almost instant. MS can always make it part of the update. Making thier site based on SL is even smarter. They put themselves in the corner on purpose – they'll have to make it work smooth.
I am a gamer. I went to MS's website to take a look at their CES stuff. Guess what? Please install Silverlight.
Can the mod here tell me if swearing is ok, coz I will come back and swear my heart out.
Yes, Mr. Kariv, Microsoft is the 900 pound gorilla that sleeps wherever it wishes. They wait until it is clear which direction the technology is going, and then move in and co-opt the process, modifying it just enough to make as much of it as possible proprietary. You would think that anything that qualified as XML would be open by definition, but Microsoft manages to build into OOXML, various dependencies on Microsoft products and interfaces, dependencies not fully speciified and since they basically own ECMA, they can push a standard through there in record time. But, so far, the other standards bodies are not quite so susceptible. So far, it appears that SL will be accessible from most platforms, but not necessarily able to be created or managed from anything but MS products. We shall see. I am sure that linux will have some level of difficulties, even if they promise compatibility. Probably, it will lag a few versions, of course because MS doesn't have the resources to maintain in parallel on all platforms.
I'll give you my description of Microsoft on the internet. Remember, non-internet MSN was supposed to be all that was needed. Then, MS made a fast 180 and suddenly the internet was THE most important thing. They bought a copy of the old Mosaic from which the first Netscape came, and then turned it into the first IE, which was a total piece of junk, but it was "free", and bundled with the OS, which robbed Netscape of a revenue stream, while leaving them to compete with the resources of a monopoly. Well, we all know the results of that. We also know that until IE7, IE was a total joke except where it used non-compatible stuff to trap users into having to have it for whichever sites they could coerce or convince to use their proprietary stuff. MS is really a lot more like an elephant than a gorilla. It takes an elephant a while to get going, but when they do get going, they can move awful fast, with the unfortunate side effect of trampling any who get in the way on their way to the head of the herd. Then, when they get to the head of the herd, they trumpet the idea that they really were always the leader…yup, dontcha know.
"microsoft was always late in the game. And have always won."
Not entirely true. In fact less and less. It isn't the same world today. The XBox for instance hasn't done too bad, but it's not number one. Zune is pretty much a bomb. Now you may say "well that's hardware, not software", but the market share numbers for Windows are on the slide as well. I wouldn't say they "own" ECMA either, because they could very well lose the battle on ES 4. The PR damage done by the hyjinks in the ISO standards process for OOXML, I think is more profound than some may be thinking as well.
Michael Kariv on January 7, 2008 at 2:58 pm said:
I am glad Chris brough up those examples, because they are part of the reasons I chose Silverlight over Flash for my mashup. Fair disclosure, I am writing something in SL after evaluating DHTML/Flash+Flex/SL.
XBox example. True. It is not #1. It is in its second version now and it reached parity with the ex market leader Sony. Sony PS3 is not doing good. XBOX is at the same point now when IE was when it reached parity with NN, I think.
Zune is not a bomb as a direction. Zune currently is just a version 1. It was supposed to be a bomb. MS version 1 always is. Its goal is to get into the game and start learning. version 2 is to become a real contender. version 3 is to match the leader. version 4 is to become the leader. More or less. This is one thing I found MS perfecting. They never give up on strategically important things.
I see SL as strategic to them. I might be wrong. But if I am not, I count on SL being progressively better. Just like MS media player was in the battle with RealPlayer. Who remembers RP now?
So I chose SL for my RIA. Only time will tell if I chose wrong. Because if I did, and SL does not reach mass market status, my application will be useless.
Oh, once again, I am not praising Microsoft, please don't get me wrong. The only thing I care is to make right choices for myself as an independent software developer. For that I have to understand the terrain, so everything I speculate here is of that nature. So am not agains MS or pro MS. I simply watch them and other forces and adapt. So please don't flame me :))
Well, you certainly won't get any flame for here: like you said, the most important thing for independant software developers is to make the right choice.
I can't see Silverlight going the way of the dodo simply because it is Microsoft we're talking about and they are very heavily invested in this. For your users, the worst case scenario is the initial problem of having to install Silverlight if they don't already have it.
The most important thing to keep in mind is that neither Flash nor Silverlight are mutually exclusive. You can have both co-existing on the same system/browser/webpage without a problem.
It's not like a site that requires IE or a program that requires OS X: it's a much more of a subtle distinction than it is a detour or roadblock for most run-of-the-mill PC users.
The problem only arises on non-officially-supported platforms which happen to also have a certain bias against MS, as is expected (and tbh mostly deserved).
@Kariv
"The only thing I care is to make right choices for myself as an independent software developer."
Could you point out some of the benefits that you saw for your end users when you made the decision to go with SL.
k.s.reddy on January 11, 2008 at 1:13 pm said:
I read all the comments on this topic. Some are knowledgeble comments.
rarchimedes on January 13, 2008 at 9:44 pm said:
Computer Guru and Kariv,
Experienced developers should have a little longer view of the market and the internet. If MS is allowed to dominate, progress will slow and expenses will increase for all of us and for our customers. Large enterprises have understood this for years. Most of them buy enough of competitive products to existing monopolies to keep the competition alive. If they do not, then they know that they will be subject to predatory pricing at some point along the curve. At a smaller level, looking at products that do not attract such large corporate support, only small developers and companies are able to support and sustain these products. Many are superior to and cost competitive to the larger products. Yes, it means taking a few risks, but so does the "stick with the monopoly" strategy. Do you want to bleed to death slowly or take a chance and possibly win. I've been in this business long enough to remember the old slogan, "nobody was ever fired for buying IBM", and largely, it was true, but it wasn't right then, and it isn't right now. Those who stuck with IBM to the bitter end, often drowned their companies along with themselves. No, IBM did not die, but it does not even resemble the dominant monopolist that it once was, nor does it cover nearly so much of the marketplace as it once did. If a company did not have a balanced purchasing policy in place, it's competitors left it behind, by reducing costs and changing strategies. Monopolies eventually break down, vision is lost, technology makes drastic changes, leaving the monopolist's huge investments as sunk cost against newer companies with far less overhead. The weakness of Vista is obvious to any with a little bit of technical knowledge. With Silver..anything, they are not ready to face a commoditized computing market being lead by the OLPC(One Laptop Per Child) movement. Really, neither is Intel. The duopoly is about to break down. The world does not need something with shinier pictures, it needs ubiquitous computing and communication. Yes, there will always be a market for the newer and the shinier, but it will be a niche compared to the absolutely tremendous market represented by the rest of the world that has little or nothing of computing and communications. It's the spammers market mode, with only one response for millions of attempts. Profits will commoditize as they have with the cell phone market. In fact, the two will somewhat merge. Computing will achieve a utility status like water, power, gas, and sewer in the first world. As people learn how to do these other utilities through the internet and ubiquitous computing, they will never allow themselves to again be isolated. How can you keep them down on the farm when they've seen Paris.
So, look ahead a little past the toes of your shoes, or you're likely to step over a really big cliff without ever having seen it. And, you'll take your customers with you.
Sascha/germany on January 26, 2008 at 9:34 am said:
Also mention that the new Visual Studio 2008 Express ( free ) edition has been released
only days ago and guess what it contains for the Visual Web Suite other than WPF driven app-development ?
Popfly for making websites.. powered by silverlight,including ready to compile Starter templates for full blown websites that are incredible .
now count one and one :
it is free and so will spread around within months 🙂
Steve Chamberlin on December 18, 2008 at 8:11 pm said:
Silverlight is obviously a way for Microsoft to take over the web along with its monopoly.
Even a blind fool could see this.
It's the same identical thing that brought to Netsacpe death.
If they take over the web, it will be the death of hundred thousands small to mid companies all over the world that design websites. It will be the death also of Google (that is a more fair bigger player).
We can only hope the US Antitrust does its job properly this time.
Some judge tried to split Microsoft long ago, but he was teared apart. Maybe now that US has got a new YOUNG President (that uses more a PC and the web), Justice can draw his sword.
Guess what happens if Obama's website can't be viewed anymore with IE9 unless you install Silverlight. Luckily the Obama's website is made in PHP, good Xmas sign for all of us!
Master Baiter on April 6, 2010 at 3:49 am said:
Microsoft SilverFish. The whole thing really stinks.
Steve Chamberlin on August 21, 2010 at 11:24 pm said:
@Master Baiter: what's SilverFish?
Gladly things seem to have start changing and getting on to the right path since my last comment to this article in 2008.
Thanks to the iPhone/iPad Apple magic power the useless slow Flash engine won't probably reach 2012.
And maybe also Silverlight (just another attempt to get over the WWW in a monopolistic way) won't see the 2012 too.
Good: there are already many excellent and free technologies like PHP, Javascript, HTML5, CSS3. Why should we use SilverLight?!
Diseño Web on October 21, 2010 at 4:07 pm said:
too bad M$ doesn't feel a need to make it universally compatible. Running linux + ff = unusable silverlight .. I think I'll go back to watching my flash based videos now …
Cesar Millan el encantador de perros on October 26, 2010 at 7:00 am said:
valeria - abogado cordoba on October 26, 2010 at 4:06 pm said:
I read all the comments on this topic. firefox is supporterd. as is mac. but linux isn't.
paisajista on December 11, 2010 at 11:35 pm said:


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By Mike Ford
I am appalled (but not surprised) at the reaction of the left, led by President Obama and former secretary Clinton, to the Saturday-Sunday terrorist attacks on U.S. soil. It appears that both of those luminaries did whatever they could to avoid using precise, plain language to describe the attacks and their perpetrators, cautioning against Islamophobia and racial profiling.
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The trailer of Feroz's directorial debut, Pandigai, suggested that the film is about underground illegal fighting. But he denies it's based on Fight Club. "People automatically assume that and they try to show off that they've seen that film," he laughs. "No one can remake a film like Fight Club and Pandigai has nothing to do with it." He says that the film starring Krishna and Anandhi, is about a person who has grown up believing that he can get anything he wants with a display of brute force and violence. "Eventually, he gets how wrong he is and tries to turn over a new leaf. But then, he gets pulled into it by the greed of some other people. How he overcomes it is what the story is about," says Feroz, who previously worked as an assistant to director Arivazhagan who has made Vallinam and Eeram.
The trailer of the film also shows a lot of street slang being used, which indicates that a lot of work has gone into research. "All illegal trades use code names. In this film, Pandigai is the word used for street-fighting while Bommai refers to the fighter." The film has an ensemble cast that includes Paruthiveeran-fame Saravanan, Nithin Sathya, Karunas, Madhusudhan Rao and Aruldoss. Feroz is convinced that the film will be a milestone in Saravanan's career. "Other actors like Nithin Sathya, who plays a 50-year-old Marwari character, and Aruldoss, who plays a loan shark with multiple personality disorder, have great roles too. There are quite a few villains in the film."
The director heaps praise on his actress-wife Vijayalakshmi (Chennai 600028 fame) who has turned producer with this film. "Every director should get a producer like Vijayalakshmi. She has helped me with the script as well. Being an actress, she knows the importance of each scene, and as a producer, she has made sure that the money spent on each scene is worth it. Some of my fellow directors compromise on their scenes sometimes as they are worried that the producer may be annoyed about overspending, but not Vijayalakshmi," says the director, who for one particular scene, rented an entire theatre, and removed all the seats for a fight sequence.
The film has been a while coming. Feroz blames the censor procedures. "Many scenes were chopped off when we first sent the film to them. It takes quite a while for them to certify it. The film now has a U/A certification with minimal cuts," he says. Being an action film, Krishna supposedly suffered quite a bit. "He took quite a few hits, and by the end of each day, he would either be limping or bleeding," he says. "I hope all his work gets acknowledged when the film releases on July 7."
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Amale, Hakalla
Kale Heywet Church
Hakalla Amale was the first woman to be converted in the Kambatta Hadiya area. She is remembered for her strength in enduring persecution in the early days of the church.
She was born in Kaburbaya, Ballessa, Hosanna Shoa, Ethiopia, to Amale Kassamo (father) and Faysse Lamonko (mother) and spoke the Hadiya language. She became the third wife of Ato Jate Malegu who kidnapped her and forced her to marry him. His first two wives had given him only daughters and he trusted that Hakalla would give him sons. In fact, she bore him three sons, Assefa, Estefanos, and Eshetu.
Hakalla first heard the gospel from her uncle's son, Shigute Dadda, and came to faith in Christ at the age of eighteen, the same year she gave birth to her first son. She learned to read the Bible,–a very rare achievement even for men at that time. Her family on both sides tried to force her husband to divorce her because of her faith, but he refused because she had given him a son. Hakalla was beaten with hippopotamus leather and forced to chew that same leather as a sign that she would deny the faith. But she would not deny Christ. In the late evenings, her brother and Shigute visited her to pray and strengthen her faith.
While Hakalla was pregnant with her second son, the persecution increased. The village elders came to her home, forced her outside, and demanded that she deny Christ, threatening to curse her if she refused. On that particular day she was preparing a traditional medicine which people believed made labour and delivery easier. In their presence, she drank the medicine in the name of Christ. The men then cursed her. Hakalla was willing to die rather than deny Christ. Later that day, she gave birth to a healthy second son and the people saw that the power of Christ had overcome the curse. Hakalla was then ordered not to communicate with her neighbors at all. In spite of this the number of believers kept growing. When her relative, Ato Aba Gole believed, his conversion eased the persecution. Later, her husband believed. Hakalla witnessed in her own village and often walked or traveled by horseback to distant villages to witness and preach.
Hakalla is known for her strong witness in her family which led her husband, children, and grandchildren to Christ. She was the first woman to serve when the Dubancho church was established. A strong advocate of women's literacy, Hakalla traveled to Lemu, Kambatta, Shone, Sike, Wolayta, and visited many congregations even as far away as Ambo and Addis Ababa to teach women to read. She was a strong support when the women's group was organized and she was invited to join the Women's General Assembly at the national level to give her testimony. She was also the only woman with strong enough faith and determination to be allowed to enter prisons. She served Christian prisoners by traveling long distances to take them fresh food. She was also a model of hospitality and entertained many Christian guests and students, as well as some of her persecutors. Even in her old age she led the women's prayer group in the local church. She wrote a song: "Lord Jesus, my heart is longing to be with you" ("Wedante Yesus hoi libey yinafkal").
In her eighty-fifth year, she told her children one day that she felt ill. Two days later she passed away.
Belaynesh Dindamo
Interview by author with Hakalla Amale.
Eyewitness accounts by Assefa Jate (KHC church leader and son of Hakalla Amale) and Ato Kedamo Mechato (KHC pastor).
This article, submitted in 2002, was researched and written by Belaynesh Dindamo of the Kale Heywet Church Women's Office. This article also appeared in the June 2016 issue of the Journal of African Christian Biography. Click here to read the Journal.


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Q: Pivot Rows to Column By Group in SQL Server I am looking for a code which can transpose row to column using the group by in the SQL Server 2008.
This is my table :
Name   |  Stdy   |  Val
-------+---------+-------
Kunjan | Technic |  80
Kunjan | Sains   |  90
Kunjan | Sport   |  60
Shone  | Technic |  60
Shone  | Sains   |  80
Shone  | Sport   |  70
Peudd  | Technic |  85
Peudd  | Sains   |  75
Peudd  | Sport   |  90

What I want to eventually display is something like this (for the data above):
Stdy    | Kunjan | Shone | Peudd
--------+--------+-------+-------
Technic |  80    |  60   |  85
Sains   |  90    |  80   |  75
Sport   |  60    |  70   |  90

Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks in advance.

A: this can be done using PIVOT operator
select  *
from    yourtable
        pivot
        (
            max(Val)
            for Name in ([Kunjan], [Shone], [Peudd])
        ) p

or conditional CASE statement. There are lots of example, just do a search on it
EDIT : for dynamic case
declare @sql    nvarchar(max),
        @col    nvarchar(max)

select  @col    = isnull(@col + ',', '') + Name
from    yourtable
group by Name

print   @col

select  @sql    =
'
select  *
from    youtable
        pivot
        (
            max(Val)
            for Name in (' + @col + ')
        ) p
'

print   @sql
exec    sp_executesql @sql

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"With virtually no publicity whatsoever, the Department of Infrastructure quietly launched a mere three week consultation on proposals that would have the potential to transform the status of public transport in Belfast. Aside from a copy of the legal changes involved, the Department's website provides virtually no documentation on what is being promoted as an 'experimental' and temporary proposal but one very likely to become permanent if it proceeds. They have offered no studies on the dramatic impact that this will have on bus services, there is no pro-forma to encourage members of the public to engage with the consultation and no public meetings to engage those who will be most affected.
"For decades, locally accountable Ministers have adopted consistent policies to promote public transport and the transition to a healthier and environmentally-sustainable transport system but now unelected officials in the Department of Infrastructure are seeking to overturn that and offer virtually no opportunity for members of the public to find out about their plans, let alone raise any opposition.
"As well as bus drivers and those who are reliant on bus services, there is strong opposition to these proposals from the growing numbers who use the lanes freely to cycle around the city. It is hard to see how this can be anything other than a sop to powerful, vested interests. Opening bus lanes to an estimated four thousand five hundred taxis has the potential to wreak havoc on bus schedules and to reverse the progress made in encouraging drivers to leave their cars behind. As every full bus means fifty less cars on our roads – this proposal is likely to led to a rise in traffic congestion.
"We cannot allow unelected civil servants, at the behest of wealthy private taxi owners, to undermine public transport in our city. Given the fast approaching deadline of Friday July 6th, we are urging members of the public to bombard the email – the only means of response offered by the Department today – to raise their concerns: transportlegislationbranch@infrastructure-ni.gov.uk", Mr Thompson concluded.
For further information or an interview contact Davy Thompson, Unite Regional Coordinating Officer, tel. 07979 244952; or Donal O'Cofaigh, Unite Campaigns & Communications, tel. 07810 15792.
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Q: Unknown producer for value SingletonPCollectionView In the interest of providing a minimal example of my problem, I'm trying to implement a simple Beam job that takes in a String as a side input and applies it to a PCollection which is read from a csv file in Cloud Storage. The result is then output to a .txt file in Cloud Storage.
So far, I have tried: Experimenting with PipelineResult.waitUntilFinish (as in (p.run().waitUntilFinish()), altering the placement of the two p.run() commands, and simplifying as much as possible by just using a string as my side input, always with the same result. Searching on Stack and Google just led me to the PR on the Beam repo which implemented the error message.
SideInputTest.java:
public class SideInputTest {

    public static void main(String[] arg) throws IOException {

        // Build a pipeline to read in string
        DataflowPipelineOptions options1 = PipelineOptionsFactory.as(DataflowPipelineOptions.class);
        options1.setRunner(DataflowRunner.class);
        Pipeline p = Pipeline.create(options1);

        // Build really simple side input
        PCollectionView<String> sideInputView = p.apply(Create.of("foo"))
            .apply(View.<String>asSingleton());

        // Run p
        p.run();

        // Build main pipeline to read csv data
        DataflowPipelineOptions options2 = PipelineOptionsFactory.as(DataflowPipelineOptions.class);
        options2.setProject(PROJECT_NAME);
        options2.setStagingLocation(STAGING_LOCATION);
        options2.setRunner(DataflowRunner.class);
        Pipeline p2 = Pipeline.create(options2);

        p2.apply(TextIO.Read.from(INPUT_DATA))
            .apply(ParDo.withSideInputs(sideInputView).of(new DoFn<String, String>() {
                @ProcessElement
                public void processElement(ProcessContext c) {
                    String[] rowData = c.element().split(",");
                    String sideInput = c.sideInput(sideInputView);

                    c.output(rowData[0] + sideInput);
                }
            }))
            .apply(TextIO.Write
                .to(OUTPUT_DATA));

        p2.run();

    }
}

Full stack trace:
Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException: Unknown producer for value SingletonPCollectionView{tag=Tag<org.apache.beam.sdk.util.PCollectionViews$SimplePCollectionView.<init>:435#3d93cb799b3970be>} while translating step ParDo(Anonymous)
    at org.apache.beam.runners.dataflow.repackaged.com.google.common.base.Preconditions.checkNotNull(Preconditions.java:1079)
    at org.apache.beam.runners.dataflow.DataflowPipelineTranslator$Translator.getProducer(DataflowPipelineTranslator.java:508)
    at org.apache.beam.runners.dataflow.DataflowPipelineTranslator.translateSideInputs(DataflowPipelineTranslator.java:926)
    at org.apache.beam.runners.dataflow.DataflowPipelineTranslator.translateInputs(DataflowPipelineTranslator.java:913)
    at org.apache.beam.runners.dataflow.DataflowPipelineTranslator.access$1100(DataflowPipelineTranslator.java:112)
    at org.apache.beam.runners.dataflow.DataflowPipelineTranslator$7.translateSingleHelper(DataflowPipelineTranslator.java:863)
    at org.apache.beam.runners.dataflow.DataflowPipelineTranslator$7.translate(DataflowPipelineTranslator.java:856)
    at org.apache.beam.runners.dataflow.DataflowPipelineTranslator$7.translate(DataflowPipelineTranslator.java:853)
    at org.apache.beam.runners.dataflow.DataflowPipelineTranslator$Translator.visitPrimitiveTransform(DataflowPipelineTranslator.java:415)
    at org.apache.beam.sdk.runners.TransformHierarchy$Node.visit(TransformHierarchy.java:486)
    at org.apache.beam.sdk.runners.TransformHierarchy$Node.visit(TransformHierarchy.java:481)
    at org.apache.beam.sdk.runners.TransformHierarchy$Node.access$400(TransformHierarchy.java:231)
    at org.apache.beam.sdk.runners.TransformHierarchy.visit(TransformHierarchy.java:206)
    at org.apache.beam.sdk.Pipeline.traverseTopologically(Pipeline.java:321)
    at org.apache.beam.runners.dataflow.DataflowPipelineTranslator$Translator.translate(DataflowPipelineTranslator.java:365)
    at org.apache.beam.runners.dataflow.DataflowPipelineTranslator.translate(DataflowPipelineTranslator.java:154)
    at org.apache.beam.runners.dataflow.DataflowRunner.run(DataflowRunner.java:514)
    at org.apache.beam.runners.dataflow.DataflowRunner.run(DataflowRunner.java:151)
    at org.apache.beam.sdk.Pipeline.run(Pipeline.java:210)
    at com.xpw.SideInputTest.main(SideInputTest.java:63)

Currently using org.apache.beam packages @0.6.0

A: This code is taking a PCollectionView created in one pipeline (p.apply(Create.of("foo")).apply(View.<String>asSingleton());) and using it in another pipeline (p2).
PCollection's and PCollectionView's belong to a particular pipeline and reuse of them in a different pipeline is not supported.
You can create an analogous PCollectionView in p2.
I'm also confused as to what your pipeline p is trying to accomplish: the only transform it has is creating the view?.. so there's no data being processed in it. I think you should get rid of p entirely and just use p2.


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A new three-dimensional (3D) nonlinear micromechanical analysis is proposed to predict the overall mechanical response to damage evolution of the vertebral trabecular bone (VTB) highly porous microstructure. Towards that goal, a nonlinear micromechanical model, based on the 3D parametric high fidelity generalized method of cells (HFGMC) micromechanics, is extended to include progressive damage. The damage is initiated at the local subcell and its evolution is carried out using a strain-softening method. The nonlinear HFGMC behavior including damage evolution is first verified by examining its ability to predict the experimental nonlinear compression stress-strain response of printed polymeric VTB highly porous microstructure. Next, predicted HFGMC pre- and postultimate failure for native VTB representative unit cells (RUCs) harvested from different vertebrae of human cadavers (n = 10) are carried out. Some of the latter predictions were compared to reported values found in the literature. The proposed nonlinear HFGMC micromechanical model with evolving damage can predict the overall nonlinear behavior, including postultimate range.


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Today at Flavorpill, we wanted to know when Courtney Love started dressing like Queen Elizabeth. We said farewell to Shepard Fairey's May Day mural. We felt rather inspired by this list of the greatest accidental inventions of all time. We wanted to make it rich like these people did on YouTube. We wondered if it's too late to have a summer fling — just like in the movies. We learned how not to write a DJ bio. We discovered that men who hate vegetables die earlier in New York City. We watched Wavves' new video for "Post Acid" — complete with a cameo by John Norris. We wanted to buy the print version of David Schwen's illustration of a woodchuck wearing Chucks. We made a modest donation to 826NYC that will hopefully help get pencils into the hands of the next generation of writers. And finally, we were glad that someone finally picked up on how annoyingly inscrutable the Mad Men promos are —and decided to parody it!


To tell you the truth when I first thought about respect and why it's so important to my husband…I didn't get it. I mean sure, who doesn't like to be respected and valued, but it is integral in making your husband feel loved. It's what makes him feel like he's the man, your mate…your hero.
Over the next few weeks my plan is to talk about respect and how to respect your husband. It starts in your heart, your home and in public. So first let's talk about what respect is and why it's important.
By definition respect means to hold someone in esteem, defer to them, to show regard or honor for someone or something. I don't know about you but I winced just a little when I read that. I know that I certainly haven't always deferred to my husband or shown him the highest esteem. Ouch.
But why does the Bible command us to respect our husbands? He's supposed to love us, but we're to respect him. A lot of women are going to say, "but they're one and the same…I can't feel loved unless I'm respected" But they are different.
To esteem your husband means you hold him in high regard. In some ways respect can also be tied to admiration and appreciation of your husband. Kerry (my husband) tells me that in a way respect is the outward expression of our inward submission to him. I'll get to the submission posts after this series, because I know that's a tough pill for a lot of women to swallow.
Respect speaks to the heart of a man. Respect lets him know that he is valued and he is admired by someone else. In showing respect to our husbands we are also showing that we believe they are the head of our household and we believe they are totally capable in this role. Respect doesn't just mean that we hold him in high esteem, but that we care about his thoughts and his feelings.
If a man doesn't feel he is worthy (or getting) his wife's respect, he will be dejected, depressed and may seek that respect elsewhere. It doesn't make it right, but it does make it easier.
I challenge you this week to think about how you can show more esteem and respect for your husband. Ask him what makes him feel respected or honored. You might be surprised to hear the answers.
A good place to start would be pay attention to how you talk about and to your husband. How do you represent him to others? How do you talk about him in front of your children or your co-workers?


In this TAUS interview, we ask Smith Yewell, CEO of Welocalize, the single biggest thing he has learned.
"What is the single biggest lesson that you have learnt about the translation industry?
Smith Yewell: The biggest thing I've learnt is the surprising depth and breadth of the complexity in our industry. Like many in their first experience with translation (I didn't come from the industry) – I thought how hard could it be? Boy, did I learn how hard it can be! It is a vast business, unexpectedly complex, but because of that - full of enormous potential.
I say this as someone whose first job after starting my company twenty years ago was to translate a single word – "pathfinder," an oil drilling term - into six languages! Mm, I thought, as I collected my hundred bucks, this isn't likely to be too complicated a business. Little did I know.
Contrast that with what we had to contend with in 2016, when we acquired the London multilingual digital marketing agency Adapt. Here was a huge opportunity to converge and build on four rich domains – global digital marketing, localization, customer voice and branding. But this convergence involves far more complexity than people usually suspect.
Multilingual digital marketing, for example, involves deploying multiple content types, through various technologies to achieve strategic business objectives. And it's not just a question of translation. Ten different languages multiplied by ten different content pipes, using ten different resources and a variety of toolsets creates hundreds of permutations. This exponential compounding of complexity cries out for new ways to manage the strategic challenge, which is still ultimately about a positive multilingual user experience.
That's what I mean by grasping the breadth and depth of this industry.
The good news is that I believe that we can now tackle this kind complexity in the areas of quality, technology, and interoperability more quickly than I thought three to five years ago. Breakthroughs are happening.
TAUS: How far is technology driving this change?
Smith Yewell: The real issue in discussions of technology is where or how you're going to add value. For a long time, the industry has thought that technology could lead in value creation. From GlobalSight, through Idiom to Trados, people thought the value-add would be in the technology – instead of in the strength of the service.
Going forward, technology such as Neural MT, TMS, TMs and Translation Proxy will remain key parts of a globalization program, but they are not the value creators. They are critical of course, but they are tools. First and foremost, there should be a conversation on business strategy and how to achieve it for the huge variety of content types, quality evaluations, and work flows; that discussion is strategic to understanding how to add value. Technology is an enabler not the leader of this story.
Until very recently, the whole process of quantifying the necessary investment in translation technology, getting it approved, and realizing that there was no immediate return on that investment led to a much slower pace of change related to interoperability in our industry than what we are seeing today. Then, little by little momentum began to grow as increased choice and competition forced the issue.
I can see this happening now around interoperability and quality standards. Interoperability between all kinds of tool sets such as authoring, content creation and management, TMS, TM and MT, and very importantly within a construct of industry-shared metrics such as the TAUS DQF. TM providers, for example, need interoperability to move customers from legacy products to their own product to prevent loss of leverage and enable users to connect to their preferred MT supplier. They must make this easy in order to compete.
TAUS: Where is value created today in the localization process?
Smith Yewell: Things have radically evolved. Back when we started, that one word project was also only one stop on the customer's global journey: translation. Customers focused their expectations of our industry on this area.
Now, customers' expectations of our industry have greatly expanded across many stops on the global journey. It is at the interdependencies along the way – the stops on the journey– where the strategic value is added. These stops include such actions as protecting IP globally, rolling out a digital transformation strategy, marrying a multilingual requirement to an AI challenge, deploying video, audio and multimedia, small and large screen delivery challenges, brand quality assurance and user experience validation. In our case, we were doing less than half of today's manifold business activities five years ago. Yet at the core of what we all do is the common requirement for global, multilingual user experience.
Today we don't simply have a single translation quality evaluation step - we have 500 people in labs validating not just quality but the whole user experience. And for this we need to use any variety of interoperable tools. Which brings me back to my original big lesson: We create value by embracing the full depth, breadth and complexity of the customer's global journey. And if we can make it easier, then we have satisfied customers.
TAUS: Could this pursuit of value-add services for customers lead to a break-up of the industry?
Smith Yewell: Some other industries have reached a point of fission as the companies involved have moved into different sub-sectors. The trend towards consolidation in our industry has been similar to many others - to use the analogy of building a house – large and capable general contractors evolve with depth and breadth to manage the complexity. And in this scenario many specialized players co-exist with the larger ones in partnership arrangements.
Where there is a total transformation of our business, however, is in the way people are utilized. The largest issue for us is talent management - matching the right person to the right task in the right timeframe using predictive analytics. For example, take DQF results for "acceptable/not acceptable" translations, and then try to predict and then optimize resource alignment to create more "good" results. It all comes down to the effectiveness of the original person-task match.
In our industry, now, we need to go beyond translation technologies and look deeper into predictive analytics across multiple stops in the customers' global journey to more efficiently match the talent to the job at hand at scale. That is how we become more efficient and add value – not by paying translators a penny less. That wasn't something we thought about when we began our own corporate journey all those years ago!


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Blog RMI reports sound the alarm on stranded asset risk for new gas power
RMI reports sound the alarm on stranded asset risk for new gas power
By Coalition for Green Capital|Sep 11, 2019
This post originally appeared on the site of CGC's campaign for a federal Green Bank.
When it comes to the addition of new power generation, renewables have been rapidly gaining ground on fossil fuels. EIA has reported that wind and solar account for 64% of new planned capacity additions in 2019. This is a positive trend, but a pair of new reports from the Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI) shine a critical light on the other 34% of this pie: the continuing addition of new natural gas generation.
RMI's reports find that economics now favor clean energy over nearly all new natural gas generation. This means that not only will consumers be paying higher-than-necessary power prices from day one of these projects' operation, but investors in these projects face significant risks. By the 2030s, RMI estimates that even existing gas plants will have difficulty competing with new renewables. For plants being built today, that means that they'll be in economic trouble well before they're fully paid for. Investors in these facilities could stand to lose tens of billions.
To reach this conclusion, RMI didn't just compare the costs of building a natural gas plant vs. a wind or solar farm. They did something more interesting: they created location-specific "portfolios" of clean energy technologies that represented the most cost-effective mix for that area. These portfolios included wind and solar, but also energy storage, energy efficiency, and demand flexibility resources.
In studying this mix of technologies, RMI makes a realistic projection based on trends that are already happening. The report cites recent examples, including this one where construction plans were changed:
In North Carolina, Duke Energy has effectively canceled a previously planned gas-fired power plant, in part because the utility was able to procure significant battery storage, EE, and demand flexibility resources to obviate the need for the gas plant through the end of its planning horizon.
Green Banks are already helping expand investment in these technologies at the state level. For example, energy storage has been a focus for new investment from the New York Green Bank; the state has announced that it "seeks to invest at least $200 million in storage related-investments, which will help drive down costs for the strategic deployment of energy storage at scale. Continued flows of capital, including from a National Climate Bank, will be important in spurring the growth of these clean energy portfolios and strengthening their ability to compete with fossil fuels.


My leg is still in a splint, so my participation in things is limited, so I'll show you a little of what I have been able to do, and some of what I've missed.
There are 30+ RVs parked in a lot behind the park 'n ride for the bus stop. The bus service is good here, and this makes it very convenient for many of our activities.
About 2 blocks away is where we have been congregating in the late afternoons for happy hour. Besides the $1 drinks, they have great food.
Our group sort of takes over the place, but we sure have lots of fun.
One day the group visited Maroon Bells, said to be one of the most photographed mountains in Colorado.
The Maroon Bells are in the background, as is Maroon Lake.
About 20+ came up for the trip, and just about everyone hiked either back to the source of Maroon Lake, which was a waterfall, or they hiked up to Crater Lake, about 1.5 miles further up the mountain. I brought a book and sat down by the lake and read and enjoyed the wonderful scenery.
The Maroon Bells without us cluttering up the scenery.
You can easily identify the avalanche areas.
The only way to get to Maroon Bells is by bus. You can drive to Aspen Highlands, but even from there it is an 8 mile bus ride. The drivers provide a narrative of the history of the area, along with much geographical information. I thought the bus ride was well worth the trip, the scenery was just the icing on the cake.
Yellow-bellied marmots are quite common in the area, and this young one even posed for me.
On the bus ride back we have the "hear no evil, speak no evil and see no evil".
Now for some of what I didn't get to do, kayaking down the Roaring Fork River.
There were about 24 kayaks that started, but 2 flipped over immediately, and one of those decided not to kayak on this particular day.
The outfitters and locals had indicated the river was low and would probably not be real exciting, and there would be lots of portaging over the rocks. Well, that wasn't what the group found. It was six miles of fast water, with only about 100 feet of slow moving water, and many class 2, and someone was told later, even a class 3 rapid along the route.
Out of the 20+ who started only 6 made it down the entire trip without ending up like this. And some ended up like this several times.
Even if you kept the right side up, the waves splashed into the kayaks and everyone had to stop and bail water. Usually our water guns are for water fights on the river, but they also do double duty for bailing the water out of the kayaks.
And a note, 7 of the ladies decided about half-way down, they were ready to quit. So they hauled their kayaks up the bank and left them there to be picked up later. Marvin had taken gps coordinates, so he knew where to return for them. The ladies then walked about a mile to the Walmart and the bus stop, where they caught the bus and arrived back at camp only about 30 minutes before the rest of the kayakers.
The group who kayaked the entire 6 miles.
Later in the evening was a concert at the base of Snowmass Mountain.
Firefall was the band. Originally from the Boulder area back in the 1970s, their biggest hit was "You are the Woman". It was too bad it got rained out and had to end early, it was a great concert.
My next blog will be on Marble and the Crystal Mill.
Peggy held a photo contest and I won in the landscape category. It was my picture of the Lower Calf Creek Falls, taken back while I was staying at Torrey, UT.
Getting ready for the ride.
They have a wonderful bike trail on both side of the river.
This is my favorite part of the ride. It is about 4 miles through this shaded forest area along the river.
For the past month I have been hobbling around with a gimpy leg. How did it get this way? Well, first, while visiting my grandson, I stepped out of his jeep (which has a lift kit on it making it way high) and ended up doing the splits with one leg on the ground and the other still in the jeep. Ouch. It was sore but didn't hurt much when I walked, so I continued my morning walks with Fancy, and when I arrived at Capitol Reef National Park, I did several hikes.
But then I went dancing. What a mistake. Those spins and twirls on an already sore leg, wasn't a good thing. Next morning I headed towards the nearest clinic. They x-rayed both hips and knee, and thankfully there was no fracture. I was told to be careful, use some crutches, and they gave me some medicine. So I went back and borrowed a crutch and used it for maybe 2 days, then went back to my regular routine.
Well, it's been 2 weeks since I visited the doctor and I'm not much better. Some days I can barely walk. So yesterday I purchased some crutches and I'm finally doing what the doctor told me several weeks ago. If I'm not better by next week, then it's back to the doctor again. If nothing else, this has given me a new compassion for people with chronic knee and back problems.
My grandson's jeep, which I fell out of.
And while I was here in Grand Junction I decided to have the tires on my car rotated. I mean, it's only been 2 years since it was last done. Well, the inside of the front tires were worn down to the steel belts. Not good. So 4 new tires. But the good news was I got a pro-rated price on the tires because of the warranty. So on I go to have the front end alignment, which I thought was going to be a simple job, but that was not the case. A nut had come loose and wallowed out something under there and now I require a new ball joint and several other pieces. So, even though it's been an expensive week with car repairs, it's nothing to what it would have cost me if the front end had fallen apart or if my front tires had blown out while towing.
I sure hope next week gets better. I can take only so much drama.
I had never been on the Grand Mesa, so we took a day trip to see the sights. Grand Mesa is the largest mesa in the U.S., over 500 miles at 10,000 feet. When we left Grand Junction it was in the high 90s and was supposed to get to 100 degrees today. Here on the Mesa it was in the 60s.
Raber Cow Camp was located on the Grand Mesa. In 1861, homesteaders rushed into the Colorado territory. For the next 70 years, cattle was herded to the mesa during the summer, then brought back down for the winter. Cow Camps, like this, were provided for the cow hands and sometimes even their families, while they were watching the cattle.
The Mesa has hundreds of small ponds and lakes. Moose have been relocated to Grand Mesa and there is now a herd of about 350. But, we didn't see any.
There is a prominence on the Grand Mesa called Lands End. It overlooks Grand Junction and the entire valley. We are hoping to come back later in the week and take the squiggly road you see. It is 18 miles down to the valley, instead of the 50+ miles it took to get up by highway.
At Lands End the chipmunks are friendly and curious. Here, Fancy is just as curious as the chipmunk.
In nearby Fruita they have a rodeo every Tuesday night during the summer months. They always start with the mutton busting. Here the little tykes get to get some experience riding the wild sheep.
The official start is the grand parade, where all participants come out for a presentation of the flags, prayers and the National Anthem.
Only 2 riders made it the entire 8 seconds tonight.
They weren't having much luck with calf roping either.
It was a fun evening. Many of the participants were young, in their teens, getting experience and points for gaining entrance into the pro rodeo circuit.
On the way to Moab from Capital Reef, we stopped at the Hanksville-Burbee Dinosaur Quarry. It was an 8 mile 4-wheel drive road into the quarry. I felt like I was in the beginning scene of Jurassic Park.
This is the quarry location. Some are staff from the Burbee Museum of Natural History in Rockford, IL. Others are interns on their first dig.
They use some air tools, but lots of hard work and sweat too.
They haven't really started to work on this specimen yet. Once a specimen is ready to be removed, they cover it with plaster, then remove it. The plaster helps keep it from crumbling or breaking during removal.
The staff stay in town, driving the long 10 miles each way daily out to the site. The dinosaur remains are taken out and shipped back to the Burbee Museum for restoration and study. Brushy Basin in the Morrison Formation is a large site, comparable to the largest site in the Morrison Formation. It has the fossilized bones of multiple Late Jurrasic dinosaurs.
On our way out we spotted this building. It looks like some sort of biosphere,complete with air locks. It is the Mars Desert Research Station. Click on the link for more info, but in short, this is the second of four habitats built for simulating Mars surface exploration.
Moab was hot and we were boondocking with no hookups right on the Colorado River. Because it was so hot, we didn't do as much hiking as normal. Some did hike in Arches National Park, but we found other ways to keep cool.
In Moab, we had the opportunity to kayak. Our first kayak was from our campground down to Potash, about 10 miles downstream. The water was very low and it was flat water.
The scenery was great though. Since it was so hot, we had lots of water fights, too.
Some of us did a 4-wheel drive trip from Moab to Canyonlands National Park. This is one of my favorite views.
The 4-wheel group. Actually, no one really needed 4-wheel, but it was definitely high clearance.
It's always fun to drive through a hole left by a fallen boulder.
This is Gemini Bridges, a double arch.
From Canyonlands, we took this winding road 7 miles down to the valley. The drop was over 2400 feet in less than 3 miles. Pretty steep, but lots of fun.
We took a 2nd kayak on the upper stretch of the Colorado River which was supposed to have 9 Class I/Class 2+ rapids in about 10 miles.
We were not disappointed. Everyone had a great time.
Even those who didn't keep the open side up.
We also had time for water gun fights.
But we also spent lots of time bailing the water out of our kayaks after each set of rapids.
This was me going through Rocky Rapids. Luckily I managed to keep the open side up at all times.
Lower Calf Creek Falls is in the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, about 47 miles south of where we were staying. But the drive on Highway 12 was great.
I found this window to peek through at the start of the hike. The hike was 3 miles one way, but it ended at a 126 ft waterfall.
There was lots of cactus blooming. In the early morning the blooms were not completely open.
Calf Creek ran along the bottom of the canyon. With the water there were lots of trees and grass. At one time, people settled in this area and grew watermelons and kept their calves in the canyon. Hence the name, calf creek.
Not the largest waterfall I've been to, but still very beautiful. And the water was cold. Too cold for me to get wet.
The mist from the waterfall keeps the surrounding canyon walls wet, allowing the ferns to grow, seemingly, right out of the canyon walls.
On the way back the cactus had opened its blooms.
We spotted several beaver dams like this one, but never caught sight of the beavers.
These are pictographs, not petroglyphs. The difference is pictographs are painted images on the rocks, while petroglyphs are etched into the stone. They say these are from the Fremont Indian duration, thousands of years ago.
Between Capitol Reef and Grand Staircase-Escalante is the Dixie National Forest. The way some of the trees stick up higher makes me think of the African Savannah.
I always love forests, but I think the contrast of the forest and the surrounding rock canyons made me appreciate the forest even more.
Heading south on Hwy 12 we saw signs for 14% grades, and coming back the highest was 10%. Regardless, I don't plan on taking my RV on that stretch of highway.


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