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A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERThis September, DC Entertainment is making history by launching 52 #1 DC Comics issues starring the World’s Greatest Super-Heroes. To commemorate this milestone occasion, DC Entertainment will be releasing DC COMICS: THE NEW 52, a massive hardcover collection that collects every single one of these debut issues...

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Another in DCs high-quality Archives series, this hardcover reprints the original stories of the Flash! Jay Garrick was just a normal Joe until an accident turned him into the Flash! This reprint of 1940s-era classics follows the success of the All Star Comics Archives series, and is the first to feature the solo adventures of this iconic character.

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The Flash races into adventure in this new volume featuring some of his greatest foes!Originally published in the early 1960s, these stories pit The Fastest Man Alive against members of his infamous Rogues Gallery including Captain Cold, Abra-Kadabra, Mirror Master, Pied Piper, Heat Wave and the Reverse Flash!

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Following the murder of The Flash’s wife, Iris, by his greatest foe, The Reverse-Flash, the two costumed characters are locked in a round-the-world race and battle – one that ended in the death of the evildoer...

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The 'event' storyline that started it all - collected for the first time! Back in 1985, when huge multi-part crossovers and 'event' storylines were unheard of, Crisis on Infinite Earths rocked comicdom with a literally Earth-shattering epic that impacted on every character in the DC Universe and beyond...

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In 1935, popular culture was forever transformed when DC Comics published the first book of “all new, all original” comic material. To the delight of millions of readers everywhere, the modern comic book was born, and from its pages came leaping an exhilarating cast of characters...

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The original super-speedster returns in this long awaited second colllection of his Golden Age adventures.Thrill to the electrifying exploits of Jay Garrick, the Fastest Man Alive, as he faces off against the Monocle, the Super-Mobster, the Racket King and a host of other menaces!

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The Flash battles the greatest foes from his infamous Rogues Gallery in this new collection of tales from the 1960s. Villains include Captain Cold, Mirror Master, Gorilla Grodd, the Weather Wizard, Captain Boomerang and Heat Wave.


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The general Apple iPad in Producing

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The iPad serves as essentially an iPhone 'in the week steroids'. Weighing inchat 1.5lb (0.68kg) it's a 9.7" multi-bit separate, speaker, microphone, compass, accelerometer, (thus it knows if it's becoming tilted and rotates the screen out accordingly), Wi-Fi (the speedier 802.11n commonplace) and Bluetooth. It comes allowing for 3 storage capacities built in - 16GB, 32GB and 64GB, and is also available with 3G, allowing since internet get admission to by the point outside of a Wi-Fi environment. Or not it's powered by Apple's own A4 processor which is having been namely built because the iPad/iPhone operating development and provides 10 hours of runtime plus a month standby. Most importantly, it's downwardly compatible with just about them all up of the general iPhone's a hundred and forty,000+ apps, that means which if you already have an iPhone, as presently even as you purchase an iPad plus plug it in them all of those apps can be available in the week there at the same time as well. While it's an on-screen out keyboard which might no longer attractiveness to many, it's not high bumped off inchsize to a laptop keyboard, and there's an external keyboard accessory for use by the point desk-based.

Let's start by covering no matter what the general iPad will't do. It be now not a PC or a Mac and does not run Windows or Mac OS, or supply multi-not easy (even though the rumour mill show that the overall latter would possibly be restricted in long run updates). In the week the overall iPhone the general OS serves as locked all the way down to the purpose that each third birthday party application will only reserves knowledge in.their own 'sealed' house, not like a PC where 'My Documents' can lodge each file type and be accessed by them all applications. It be likely that the iPad can continue this custom, allowing for Apple in the beginning confirming which it can rely on iTunes for the reason that syncing allowing for a PC. Conjointly, because of an extended running spat between Apple plus Adobe, the general iPhone/iPad does now not psychoanalysis Flash, which rules out access to further internet sites that depend this week it. Apple is having been criticised plus applauded inchequal live for the reason that ring-fencing get right of entry to to his or her hardware plus software. While it considerably restricts third birthday party procedure flexibility, it does offer an extremely stable user enjoy that, not like a Windows mechanical device, does not degrade over the wherewithal while additional software is installed.

During Apple's launch it was clear that Apple's own 1GHz silicon was once redeeming over a punch. Applications commenced straight away plus graphically extensive errands ran smoothly. Couple a speedy processor with a large rotatable touch sort plus you have a merchandise that lowers the general technical knowledge usage barrier and can supply an intuitive user interface which 75m iPhone users in the past understand the way to use. As an example, already I reverted shy to my previous smartphone - employing the general menu course used to be like wading through treacle and it used to be missing several from the overall additional apps that I'd come to depend on. The overall greatest difference used to be speed from knowledge retrieval. For frequently performed everyday jobs such as retrieving a appearance, checking email or a fast web look there is no comparison. Tasks which I achieve with the overall iPhone within fifteen-20 seconds I wouldn't have noted modification out from a very small, if now not additional on the second phone, plus this is probably going to improve this week the general iPad.

No matter what tasks might the overall iPad perform?

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The key here serves as to spot anything it will even as well, or indeed higher compared to to be had technologies. Inchtheir launch event Apple shows me iPad versions from iWork, their office suite (covering word processing, spreadsheets and presentations), allowing for each application becoming available for simply back from 10 dollars. Whilst you almost certainly would possibly not request all of the general extra templates, clipart and additional bloat that projects with ancient Office suites you could advises which most of the people don't exploit several more options in comparison to font sizing or fundamental formulae. The iPad ships allowing for the identical elementary PIM apps as the overall iPhone e.g. List, Contacts, Email (which included MS Exchange treatment) plus Money, all of them from that will sync allowing for a PC or Mac through iTunes. The general iPhone configuration utility lets in undertaking deployment, providing straightforward configuration for person business settings like email plus VPN access. Therefore as the majority from users it will tick the overall elementary office requirements.

Even as a presentation tool the overall iPad excels. It will be connected to an external show, less than could equally be suited to 1-to-1 shows, favored since sales workers or board meetings. Data retrieval serves as conjointly a strong admit; it provides quick right to use to piece of writing, symbol, audio or video libraries, doing away allowing for the need since storing huge amounts up of paper. Expect to figure out estate agents with iPads under his or her arms up of April onwards! It'd be equally at house incha manufacturing design workplace, offering a fast means up of envisioning products pictures or technical information.

The overall iPad supports the favored ePub electronic essay format. Publishers will briefly switched over books, mags plus newspapers over to the overall format, so people can presently was accustomed to perusing through this week the device as opposed to ancient paper-based media. This will provide companies with an straightforward way of creating massive catalogues in.a format which users will digest incha traditional manner. Corporations that produce catalogues (like electronic parts or manufacturing consumables) can doubtless heat to the present as revealed versions are terribly pricey to supply, and while they can have already got thorough e-commerce in the week his or her internet sites, there is a reason they continue to manufacture revealed version - several individuals continue to like to read knowledge in.a book-taste format. This is able to additionally lend itself well to stockpile management, giving stores staff with a plain tick list interface when performing supply on hand checks.

Them all versions from the iPad have the accelerometer plus compass facilities, plus the 3G version opens in the air additional possibilities, as it contains assisted GPS. Many of us recently choose the likes from Google maps on our mobiles without any consideration, less than when GPS is embedded back to a tool put in place at endeavor level the current stretches the general boundaries further. Imagine an application that provides relevant knowledge to a user after they arrive at a specific location; maybe a salesman visiting a chance/client, or branch knowledge by the point HQ employees visit. Devices which 'recognize where they will be' may conjointly be utilised to direct the overall user to pieces up of interest/relevance as regards to themselves, although the aversion serves as no longer smart enough since the present to find items in the week a shelf, as an example, plus GPS will no longer always fit within buildings.

Integrating the overall iPad to way of life needs

If you walk via the overall stages of production at intervals a producing organisation plus analyse the overall role up of software at additional given part, so much from these relate to the availability of knowledge; either to or of the general user. Whether it's in the shop area, by a computer tool, booking merchandise out or back in of subcontractors, despatch plus via to accounts. This information can either be fed back into an undertaking procedure (MRP, ERP) or to a more localised route (stockpile control database, robot tool management software, order management etc), plus this is often where the overall fit wishes to be realized if the overall iPad serves as to be of more genuine use. Several software firms are going to be employing Apple's software process kit (SDK) to get older apps to interface allowing for his or her products. While these apps will be regularly lightweight versions up of his or her PC cousins and optimised because the overall iPhone it serves as probably going which these will be transformed to take advantage up of the iPad's display. We have a tendency to will be expecting apps covering all mainstream software applications, nonetheless more niche merchandise are not likely to own iPhone/iPad sibling product, even as the general opt for rising rate wouldn't ought to have the general development costs.

No matter what if you can't grow up or seek an app to attach to an available software system? There is a third choice; we have recently ascertained that the overall iPad serves as a felt web customer (if Flash isn't required). Invariably the method you want to connect to will suffer from a database, which in turn will suffer from ways of purchasing knowledge in and out (usually employing common connectors like ODBC), thus a relatively undeniable answer could be to build an intranet which communicates allowing for the application. Windows Server comes with IIS (Internet Data Services), plus more up of the general web centric languages (PHP, Cold Fusion,.NET/ASP etc) will be in a position to attach to a database easily. The general iPad (or further second device) might afterward have interaction with the overall software employing a web browser. While the current continue to requires a considerable level of technical skill, or not it's likely to be a way up easier plus additional value-effective ability decided to supply than turning out an iPad-particular app and will end in a more versatile solution which second devices can opt for advantage of. It would also be less complicated to regulate up of a security facet, when the general network directors be sure up of user right to use control to more supplied with knowledge resource on the general native network.

If Apple serves as heavy regarding the general trade attitude up of the general iPad they can wish to have to supply companies allowing for additional knowledge this week controlling user right to use, tracking usage and locking trailing options in the week it (that, to be truthful they have done with the iPhone), in a different way without doubt the general big variety up of to be had games will find his or her method onto it plus eat back into productivity. Some other major worry serves as which they will be a focus on because theft. Or not it's probably going which you will be ready to password defend it and, like the overall MobileMe service in the week the general iPhone, locate it if stolen (3G solely) or remotely wipe it, less than which's little consolation.

In contemporary years Apple products be afflicted by became über chic and this can be one thing many businesses can would like to harness. It's a lot of probably going that iPads will locate houses in the general boardroom than this week the store floor, because of environmental factors lonesome, less than because facilities which formerly keep his or her production spaces spotless this would be noticed while the device that makes self look just which little or no touch a lot of leading edge in comparison to his or her competitors.

Summary

The dialogue serves as raging fiercely in the blogosphere on whether or not the iPad is a 'game changer' or now not, but inchmy opinion it is. Apple mentioned which they would not unharness anything such as a tablet or a netbook until they might deliver something that finished all well. Given what is earlier referred to now regarding the general iPhone and whatever we tend to now understand concerning the general iPad, affordable assumptions can be wealthy regarding the iPad's suitability for a supplied with task. Available can be from course many everyday jobs that will always be more rapidly or really solely possible in the week a desktop/pc in comparison to the general iPad, but at the same time as a high speed, highly transportable (plus highly desirable) 'media consumption device' the overall Apple iPad will decided the general benchmark by that all others will be measured.

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/* Calculate the position, lower right hand corner by default */ var position=new LeoHighlightsPosition(0,0); position.x=scrolledPos.x+centerDim.width-iFrameDim.width-LEO_HIGHLIGHTS_ADJUSTMENT.x; position.y=scrolledPos.y+centerDim.height-iFrameDim.height-LEO_HIGHLIGHTS_ADJUSTMENT.y; if(anchor!=null) { //centerDim in relation to the anchor element if available var topOrBottom = false; var anchorPos=_leoHighlightsGetLocation(document.body, anchor); var anchorScreenPos = new LeoHighlightsPosition(anchorPos.x-scrolledPos.x,anchorPos.y-scrolledPos.y); var anchorDim=new LeoHighlightsDimension(anchor.offsetWidth,anchor.offsetHeight) if (anchorDim.width <= 0) anchorDim.width = anchor.style.width.substring(0, anchor.style.width.indexOf('px')); if (anchorDim.height <= 0) anchorDim.height = anchor.style.height.substring(0, anchor.style.height.indexOf('px')); // Check if the popup can be shown above or below the element if (centerDim.height - anchorDim.height - iFrameDim.height - anchorScreenPos.y > 0) { // Show below, formula above calculates space below open iFrame position.y = anchorPos.y + anchorDim.height; topOrBottom = true; } else if (anchorScreenPos.y - anchorDim.height - iFrameDim.height > 0) { // Show above, formula above calculates space above open iFrame position.y = anchorPos.y - iFrameDim.height - anchorDim.height; topOrBottom = true; } _leoHighlightsDebugLog("_leoHighlightsUpdatePopupPos() - topOrBottom: "+topOrBottom); if (topOrBottom) { // We attempt top attach the window to the element position.x = anchorPos.x - iFrameDim.width / 2; if (position.x < 0) position.x = 0; else if (position.x + iFrameDim.width > scrolledPos.x + centerDim.width) position.x = scrolledPos.x + centerDim.width - iFrameDim.width; _leoHighlightsDebugLog("_leoHighlightsUpdatePopupPos() - topOrBottom: "+position); } else { // Attempt to align on the right or left hand side if (centerDim.width - anchorDim.width - iFrameDim.width - anchorScreenPos.x > 0) position.x = anchorPos.x + anchorDim.width; else if (anchorScreenPos.x - anchorDim.width - iFrameDim.width > 0) position.x = anchorPos.x - anchorDim.width; else // default to below position.y = anchorPos.y + anchorDim.height; _leoHighlightsDebugLog("_leoHighlightsUpdatePopupPos() - sideBottom: "+position); } } /* Make sure that we don't go passed the right hand border */ if(position.x+iFrameDim.width>centerDim.width-20) position.x=centerDim.width-(iFrameDim.width+20); // Make sure that we didn't go passed the start if(position.x<0) position.x=0; if(position.y<0) position.y=0; _leoHighlightsDebugLog("Popup info id: " +iFrame.id+" - "+anchor.id + "nscrolled " + scrolledPos + "ncenter/visible " + centerDim + "nanchor (absolute) " + anchorPos + "nanchor (screen) " + anchorScreenPos + "nSize (anchor) " + anchorDim + "nSize (popup) " + iFrameDim + "nResult pos " + position); // Set the popup location iFrame.style.left = position.x + "px"; iFrame.style.top = position.y + "px"; } catch(e) { _leoHighlightsReportExeception("_leoHighlightsUpdatePopupPos()",e); }
} /** * This will show the passed in element as a popup * * @param anchorId * @param size * * @return */
function _leoHighlightsShowPopup(anchorId,size)
{ try { if(_leoHighlightsSnoozed) return false; var popup=new LeoHighlightsPopup(anchorId,size); popup.show(); } catch(e) { _leoHighlightsReportExeception("_leoHighlightsShowPopup()",e); } } /** * This will transform the passed in url to a rover url * * @param url * @return */
function _leoHighlightsGetRoverUrl(url)
{ var rover=LEO_HIGHLIGHTS_ROVER_TAG; var roverUrl="http://rover.ebay.com/rover/1/"+rover+"/4?&mpre;="+encodeURI(url); return roverUrl;
} /** * Sets the size of the bottom windown part * * @param size * @return */
function _leoHighlightsSetBottomSize(size,clickId)
{ /* Get the elements */ var iFrameBottom=_leoHighlightsFindElementById(LEO_HIGHLIGHTS_IFRAME_BOTTOM_ID); var iFrameDiv=_leoHighlightsFindElementById(LEO_HIGHLIGHTS_IFRAME_DIV_ID); /* Figure out the correct sizes */ var iFrameBottomSize=(size==1)?LEO_HIGHLIGHTS_IFRAME_BOTTOM_CLICK_SIZE:LEO_HIGHLIGHTS_IFRAME_BOTTOM_HOVER_SIZE; var divSize=(size==1)?LEO_HIGHLIGHTS_DIV_CLICK_SIZE:LEO_HIGHLIGHTS_DIV_HOVER_SIZE; /* Refresh the iFrame's url, by removing the size arg and adding it again */ leoHighlightsUpdateUrl(iFrameBottom,size,clickId); /* Clear the hover flag, if the user shows this at full size */ _leoHighlightsPrevElem.hover=size==1?false:true; _leoHighlightsSetSize(iFrameBottom,iFrameBottomSize); _leoHighlightsSetSize(iFrameDiv,divSize);
} /** * Class for a Popup * * @param anchorId * @param size * * @return */
function LeoHighlightsPopup(anchorId,size)
{ try { _leoHighlightsDebugLog("LeoHighlightsPopup() "); this.anchorId=anchorId; this.anchor=_leoHighlightsFindElementById(this.anchorId); this.topIframe=_leoHighlightsFindElementById(LEO_HIGHLIGHTS_IFRAME_TOP_ID); this.bottomIframe=_leoHighlightsFindElementById(LEO_HIGHLIGHTS_IFRAME_BOTTOM_ID); this.iFrameDiv=_leoHighlightsFindElementById(LEO_HIGHLIGHTS_IFRAME_DIV_ID); this.topIframe.src=unescape(this.anchor.getAttribute('leoHighlights_url_top'));; this.bottomIframe.src=unescape(this.anchor.getAttribute('leoHighlights_url_bottom'));; _leoHighlightsDebugLog("1) LeoHighlightsPopup() ("+this.topIframe.style.top+", "+this.topIframe.style.left+")"); _leoHighlightsDebugLog("2) LeoHighlightsPopup() ("+this.bottomIframe.style.top+", "+this.bottomIframe.style.left+")"); leoHighlightsSetSize(size); this.updatePos=function() { _leoHighlightsUpdatePopupPos(this.iFrameDiv,this.anchor);}; this.show=function() { this.updatePos(); this.iFrameDiv.style.visibility = "visible"; this.iFrameDiv.style.display = "block"; this.updatePos(); _leoHighlightsDebugLog("3) LeoHighlightsPopup() ("+this.topIframe.style.top+", "+this.topIframe.style.left+")"); _leoHighlightsDebugLog("4) LeoHighlightsPopup() ("+this.bottomIframe.style.top+", "+this.bottomIframe.style.left+")"); }; this.scroll=function() { this.updatePos();}; } catch(e) { _leoHighlightsReportExeception("new LeoHighlightsPopup()",e); }
} /** * updates the url for the iFrame * * @param iFrame * @param size * @param clickId * @return */
function leoHighlightsUpdateUrl(iFrame,size,clickId,destUrl)
{ try { _leoHighlightsDebugLog("leoHighlightsUpdateUrl() "+destUrl); var url=iFrame.src; var idx=url.indexOf("&size;="); if(idx>=0) url=url.substring(0,idx); // size=1; _leoHighlightsDebugLog("leoHighlightsUpdateUrl() size="+size+" "+url); if(size!=null) url+=("&size;="+size); if(clickId!=null) url+=("&clickId;="+clickId); if(destUrl!=null) url+=("&url;="+destUrl); _leoHighlightsDebugLog("leoHighlightsUpdateUrl() "+url); iFrame.src=url; } catch(e) { _leoHighlightsReportExeception("leoHighlightsUpdateUrl()",e); }
} /**
*
* This can be used to close an iframe
*
* @param id
* @return
*/
function leoHighlightsSetSize(size,clickId)
{ try { /* Get the element */ var iFrameTop=_leoHighlightsFindElementById(LEO_HIGHLIGHTS_IFRAME_TOP_ID); /* Figure out the correct sizes */ var iFrameTopSize=LEO_HIGHLIGHTS_IFRAME_TOP_SIZE; /* Refresh the iFrame's url, by removing the size arg and adding it again */ leoHighlightsUpdateUrl(iFrameTop,size,clickId); _leoHighlightsSetSize(iFrameTop,iFrameTopSize); _leoHighlightsSetBottomSize(size,clickId); /* Clear the hover flag, if the user shows this at full size */ if(size==1&&_leoHighlightsPrevElem) _leoHighlightsPrevElem.hover=false; } catch(e) { _leoHighlightsReportExeception("leoHighlightsSetSize()",e); }
} /** * Start the popup a little bit delayed. * Somehow IE needs some time to find the element by id. * * @param anchorId * @param size * * @return */
function leoHighlightsShowPopup(anchorId,size)
{ try { if(_leoHighlightsSnoozed) return false; var elem=_leoHighlightsFindElementById(anchorId); if(_leoHighlightsPrevElem&&(_leoHighlightsPrevElem!=elem)) _leoHighlightsPrevElem.shown=false; elem.shown=true; _leoHighlightsPrevElem=elem; _leoHighlightsDebugLog("leoHighlightsShowPopup() "+_leoHighlightsPrevElem); /* FF needs to find the element first */ _leoHighlightsFindElementById(anchorId); setTimeout("_leoHighlightsShowPopup('"+anchorId+"','"+size+"');",10); } catch(e) { _leoHighlightsReportExeception("leoHighlightsShowPopup()",e); } } /**
*
* This can be used to close an iframe
*
* @param id
* @return
*/
function leoHighlightsHideElem(id)
{ try { /* Get the appropriate sizes */ var elem=_leoHighlightsFindElementById(id); if(elem) elem.style.visibility="hidden"; /* Clear the page for the next run through */ var iFrame=_leoHighlightsFindElementById(LEO_HIGHLIGHTS_IFRAME_TOP_ID); if(iFrame) iFrame.src="about:blank"; var iFrame=_leoHighlightsFindElementById(LEO_HIGHLIGHTS_IFRAME_BOTTOM_ID); if(iFrame) iFrame.src="about:blank"; if(_leoHighlightsPrevElem) { _leoHighlightsPrevElem.shown=false; _leoHighlightsPrevElem=null; } } catch(e) { _leoHighlightsReportExeception("leoHighlightsHideElem()",e); }
} /**
*
* This can be used to close an iframe.
* Since the iFrame is reused the frame only gets hidden
*
* @return
*/
function leoHighlightsIFrameClose()
{ try { _leoHighlightsSimpleGwCallBack("LeoHighlightsHideIFrame"); } catch(e) { _leoHighlightsReportExeception("leoHighlightsIFrameClose()",e); }
} /**
*
* This is used to snooze the highlights.
*
* @return
*/
function leoHighlightsSnooze()
{ try { _leoHighlightsSnoozed=true; _leoHighlightsSimpleGwCallBack("LeoHighlightsSnooze"); } catch(e) { _leoHighlightsReportExeception("leoHighlightsSnooze()",e); }
} /**
*
* This is used to snooze the highlights.
* This gets fired into the top frame.
*
* @return
*/
function leoHighlightsSnoozeTop(id)
{ try { _leoHighlightsSnoozed=true; leoHighlightsHideElem(id); } catch(e) { _leoHighlightsReportExeception("leoHighlightsSnoozeTop()",e); }
} /** * This should handle the click events * * @param anchorId * @return */
function leoHighlightsHandleClick(anchorId)
{ try { if(_leoHighlightsSnoozed) return false; if(_leoHighlightsIsFrame()) return false; var anchor=_leoHighlightsFindElementById(anchorId); anchor.hover=false; if(anchor.startTimer) clearTimeout(anchor.startTimer); /* Report the click event */ leoHighlightsReportEvent("clicked", window.document.domain, _leoHighlightsGetAttrib(anchor,'leohighlights_keywords'),null, _leoHighlightsGetAttrib(anchor,'leohighlights_accept'), _leoHighlightsGetAttrib(anchor,'leohighlights_reject')); leoHighlightsShowPopup(anchorId,1); return false; } catch(e) { _leoHighlightsReportExeception("leoHighlightsHandleClick()",e); } } /** * This should handle the hover events * * @param anchorId * @return */
function leoHighlightsHandleHover(anchorId)
{ try { if(_leoHighlightsSnoozed) return false; if(_leoHighlightsIsFrame()) return false; var anchor=_leoHighlightsFindElementById(anchorId); anchor.hover=true; /* Report the hover event */ leoHighlightsReportEvent("hovered", window.document.domain, _leoHighlightsGetAttrib(anchor,'leohighlights_keywords'),null, _leoHighlightsGetAttrib(anchor,'leohighlights_accept'), _leoHighlightsGetAttrib(anchor,'leohighlights_reject')); leoHighlightsShowPopup(anchorId,0); return false; } catch(e) { _leoHighlightsReportExeception("leoHighlightsHandleHover()",e); } } /** * This will handle the mouse over setup timers for the appropriate timers * * @param id * @return */
function leoHighlightsHandleMouseOver(id)
{ try { if(_leoHighlightsSnoozed) return; if(_leoHighlightsIsFrame()) return; var anchor=_leoHighlightsFindElementById(id); /* Clear the end timer if required */ if(anchor.endTimer) clearTimeout(anchor.endTimer); anchor.endTimer=null; anchor.style.background=LEO_HIGHLIGHTS_BACKGROUND_STYLE_HOVER; var underline=_leoHighlightsGetAttrib(anchor,"leohighlights_underline")=='true'; /* The element is already showing we are done */ if(anchor.shown) return; /* Setup the start timer if required */ anchor.startTimer=setTimeout(function(){ leoHighlightsHandleHover(anchor.id); anchor.hover=true; },underline?LEO_HIGHLIGHTS_SHOW_DELAY_MS:LEO_HIGHLIGHTS_SHOW_DELAY_NO_UNDER_MS); } catch(e) { _leoHighlightsReportExeception("leoHighlightsHandleMouseOver()",e); }
} /** * This will handle the mouse over setup timers for the appropriate timers * * @param id * @return */
function leoHighlightsHandleMouseOut(id)
{ try { var anchor=_leoHighlightsFindElementById(id); /* Clear the start timer if required */ if(anchor.startTimer) clearTimeout(anchor.startTimer); anchor.startTimer=null; anchor.style.background=LEO_HIGHLIGHTS_BACKGROUND_STYLE_DEFAULT; if(!anchor.shown||!anchor.hover) return; /* Setup the start timer if required */ anchor.endTimer=setTimeout(function(){ leoHighlightsHideElem(LEO_HIGHLIGHTS_IFRAME_DIV_ID); anchor.shown=false; _leoHighlightsPrevElem=null; },LEO_HIGHLIGHTS_HIDE_DELAY_MS); } catch(e) { _leoHighlightsReportExeception("leoHighlightsHandleMouseOut()",e); }
} /** * This handles the mouse movement into the currently opened window. * Just clear the close timer * * @return */
function leoHighlightsHandleIFrameMouseOver()
{ try { if(_leoHighlightsPrevElem&&_leoHighlightsPrevElem.endTimer) clearTimeout(_leoHighlightsPrevElem.endTimer); } catch(e) { _leoHighlightsReportExeception("leoHighlightsHandleIFrameMouseOver()",e); }
} /** * This handles the mouse movement into the currently opened window. * Just clear the close timer * * @param id * @return */
function leoHighlightsHandleIFrameMouseOut()
{ try { if(_leoHighlightsPrevElem) leoHighlightsHandleMouseOut(_leoHighlightsPrevElem.id); } catch(e) { _leoHighlightsReportExeception("leoHighlightsHandleIFrameMouseOut()",e); }
}
/** * This is a method is used to make the javascript within IE runnable */
var leoHighlightsRanUpdateDivs=false;
function leoHighlightsUpdateDivs()
{ try { /* Check if this is an IE browser and if divs have been updated already */ if(document.all&&!leoHighlightsRanUpdateDivs&&!_leoHighlightsIsFrame()) { leoHighlightsRanUpdateDivs=true; // Set early to prevent running twice for(var i=0;i0) url=url.substring(0,idx); /* Append the text to the end */ url+="#"+encodeURI(txt); /* Set the iframe with the new url that contains the hash tag */ topIFrame.src=url; } catch(e) { _leoHighlightsReportExeception("leoHighlightsSetExpandTxt()",e); }
} /*----------------------------------------------------------------------*/
/* Methods provided to the highlight providers... */
/*----------------------------------------------------------------------*/ /** * This will set the expand text for the Top window */
function leoHL_SetExpandTxt(txt)
{ try { _leoHighlightsDebugLog("leoHL_SetExpandTxt() "+txt); _leoHighlightsSimpleGwCallBack("LeoHighlightsSetExpandTxt","expandTxt",txt); } catch(e) { _leoHighlightsReportExeception("leoHL_SetExpandTxt()",e); }
} /** * This will redirect the top window to the passed in url * * @param url * @param parentId * @return */
function leoHL_RedirectTop(url,parentId)
{ try { try{ var domain=_leoHighlightsGetUrlArg(window.document.URL,"domain") var keywords=_leoHighlightsGetUrlArg(window.document.URL,"keywords") var vendorId=_leoHighlightsGetUrlArg(window.document.URL,"vendorId") leoHighlightsReportEvent("clickthrough", domain,keywords, vendorId); }catch(e){ _leoHighlightsReportExeception("leoHL_RedirectTop()",e); } _leoHighlightsRedirectTop(url); } catch(e) { _leoHighlightsReportExeception("leoHL_RedirectTop()",e); }
} /** * This will redirect the top window to the passed in url * * @param url * @param parentId * @return */
function LeoHL_RedirectTop(url,parentId)
{ leoHL_RedirectTop(url,parentId);
} /** * This will redirect the top window to the passed in url * * @param url * @param parentId * @return */
function leoHL_RedirectTopAd(url,parentId)
{ try { try{ var domain=_leoHighlightsGetUrlArg(window.document.URL,"domain") var keywords=_leoHighlightsGetUrlArg(window.document.URL,"keywords") var vendorId=_leoHighlightsGetUrlArg(window.document.URL,"vendorId") leoHighlightsReportEvent("advertisement.click", domain,keywords, vendorId); }catch(e){ _leoHighlightsReportExeception("leoHL_RedirectTopAd()",e); } _leoHighlightsRedirectTop(url); } catch(e) { _leoHighlightsReportExeception("leoHL_RedirectTopAd()",e); }
} /** * This will set the size of the iframe * * @param url * @param parentId * * @return */
function leoHl_setSize(size,url)
{ try { /* Get the clickId */ var clickId=_leoHighlightsGetUrlArg( url,"clickId") var gwObj = new Gateway(); gwObj.addParam("size",size); if(clickId) gwObj.addParam("clickId",clickId+"_blah"); gwObj.callName("LeoHighlightsSetSize"); } catch(e) { _leoHighlightsReportExeception("leoHl_setSize()",e); }
} /** * This will toggle the size of the window * * @return */
function leoHl_ToggleSize()
{ try { var gwObj = new Gateway(); gwObj.callName("LeoHighlightsToggleSize"); } catch(e) { _leoHighlightsReportExeception("leoHl_ToggleSize()",e); }
} ");
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Navajo people

Housing

The Navajo traditionally live in octagonal houses known as hogans. Hogans are houses of forked poles and brush covered with earth. According to Kehoe, this style of housing is distinctive to the Navajo, even going as far as saying that, "even today, a solidly constructed, log walled Hogan is preferred by many Navajo families." However, the Navajo have another style of housing. Around the 17th century, the Navajo built rectangular stone homes known as pueblitos. These pueblitos are believed to have been adopted by the Navajos from Pueblo culture, and resemble small Pueblo houses.

Subsistence

Until they came into contact with the Spanish and Pueblos, the Navajo were hunters and gatherers. They adopted farming techniques and crops from the Pueblo people, growing mainly corn, beans, and squash. As a result of Spanish influence, they began herding sheep and goats, depending on them for their use in trade and food. (Kehoe, 133) They turned harvested wool into blankets and clothing which could be used for trading or personal use. They also depended on their flocks of sheep for meat. Their lives depended on sheep so much that, to the Navajo, sheep were in a sense currency and a mark of social status.

History

Early history

The Navajo/Din speak dialects of the language family referred to as Athabaskan. These people were once a single ethnic group that probably came from near the Great Slave Lake, in the modern Northwest Territories of Canada, having crossed the Bering land bridge thousands of years previously. In addition to language speakers residing in Utah, Colorado, New Mexico, and Arizona, Athabaskan speakers are also found living today in Alaska and parts of northern Canada. An aboriginal people known as Dene live in an area centered around Great Slave Lake and have communities in the far north of adjacent provinces. The Apache, living in the American Southwest and other nearby areas, are also Southern Athabaskan speakers and are closely related to the Navajo/Din. Despite the time elapsed, these people reportedly can still understand the language of their long-lost cousins, the Navajo.[citation needed]

Archaeological and historical evidence suggests that the Athabaskan ancestors of the Navajo and Apache entered the Southwest after 1000 AD, with substantial population increases occurring in the 13th century. Navajo oral traditions are said to retain references of this migration.

Navajo oral history also seems to indicate a long relationship with Pueblo people and a willingness to adapt foreign ideas into their own culture. Trade between the long-established Pueblo peoples and the Athabaskans was important to both groups. The Spanish records say by the mid 16th century, the Pueblos exchanged maize and woven cotton goods for bison meat, hides and material for stone tools from Athabaskans who either traveled to them or lived around them. In the 18th century, the Spanish reported that the Navajo had large numbers of livestock and large areas of crops. The Navajo probably adapted many Pueblo ideas into their own very different culture.

The Spanish first use the word Navajo ("Apachu de Nabajo") specifically in the 1620s, referring to the people in the Chama valley region east of the San Juan River and northwest of Santa Fe. By the 1640s, the term Navajo was applied to these same people. The Spanish recorded in 1670s they were living in a region called Dinetah, which was about sixty miles (100 km) west of the Rio Chama valley region. In the 1780s, the Spanish were sending military expeditions against the Navajo in the southwest and west of that area, in the Mount Taylor and Chuska Mountain regions of New Mexico.

In the last 1,000 years, Navajos have a history of expanding their range and refining their self-identity and their significance to other groups. This probably resulted from a cultural combination of endemic warfare (raids) and commerce with the Pueblo, Apache, Ute, Comanche and Spanish peoples, set in the changing natural environment of the Southwest.

Conflict with Europeans

The Spanish started to establish a military force along the Rio Grande in the 17th century to the east of Dinetah (the Navajo homeland). Spanish records indicate that Apachean groups (which might include Navajo) allied themselves with the Pueblos over the next 21 years, successfully pushing the Spaniards out of this area following the Pueblo Revolt of 1680. Raiding and trading were part of traditional Apache and Navajo culture, and these activities increased following the introduction of the horse by the Spaniards, which increased the efficiency and frequency of raiding expeditions. The Spanish established a series of forts that protected new Spanish settlements and also separated the Pueblos from the Apaches. The Spaniards and later Mexicans recorded what are called punitive expeditions among the Navajo that also took livestock and human captives. The Navajo in turn raided settlements far away in a similar manner. This pattern continued, with the Athabaskan groups apparently growing to be more formidable foes through the 1840s until the United States Army arrived in the area.

New Mexico Territory

Manuelito, Navajo chief

Officially, the Navajos first came in contact with forces of the United States of America in 1846, when General Stephen W. Kearny invaded Santa Fe with 1,600 men during the Mexican American War. The Navajo did not recognize the change of government as legitimate. In September, Kearny sent two detachments to raid and subdue the Navajo. Kearny later took 300 men on an expedition to California from Santa Fe. As they traveled past Navajo homelands, his force lost livestock. He ordered another expedition against the Navajo, and this resulted in the first treaty with the United States government in November at Canyon de Chelly.

In the next 10 years, the U.S. established forts in traditional Navajo territory. Military records state this was to protect citizens and Navajo from each other. However, the old Spanish/Mexican-Navajo pattern of raids and expeditions against one another continued. New Mexican (citizen and militia) raids increased rapidly in 186061 earning it the Navajo name Naahondzood, "the fearing time."

In 1861 Brigadier-General James H. Carleton, the new commander of the Federal District of New Mexico, initiated a series of military actions against the Navajo. Colonel Kit Carson was ordered by Carleton to conduct expedition into Navajoland and receive their surrender on July 20, 1863. A few Navajo surrendered. Carson was joined by a large group of New Mexican militia volunteer citizens and these forces moved through Navajo land killing Navajos and destroying any Navajo crops, livestock or dwellings they came across. Facing starvation, Navajos groups started to surrender in what is known as The Long Walk.

Long Walk

Main article: Long Walk of the Navajo

Starting in the spring of 1864, around 9,000 Navajo men, women and children were forced on The Long Walk of over 300 miles (480 km) to Fort Sumner, New Mexico. This was the largest reservation (called Bosque Redondo)[citation needed] attempted by the U.S. government. It was a failure for a combination of reasons. It was designed to supply water, wood, supplies, and livestock for 4,0005,000 people, it had one kind of crop failure after another, other tribes and civilians were able to raid the Navajo, and a small group of Mescalero Apaches had been moved there. In 1868, a treaty was negotiated that allowed the surviving Navajos to return to a reservation that was a portion of their former nation.

Conflict on the Reservation

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The United States military continued to maintain the forts. Some Navajo were employed by the military as ndian Scouts through 1895. A Navajo Tribal Police operated between 1872 and 1875 and was used by the Navajo themselves to stop raiders from their tribe; it was created by Manuelito.

By treaty, the Navajo people were allowed to leave the reservation with permission to trade. Raiding by the Navajo essentially stopped, because they were able to increase the size of their livestock and crops, and not have to risk losing them to others. However, while the initial reservation increased from 3.5 million acres (14,000 km) to the 16 million acres (65,000 km) of today, economic conflicts with the non-Navajo continued. Civilians and companies raided resources that had been assigned to the Navajo. Livestock grazing leases, land for railroads, and mining permits are a few examples of actions taken by agencies of the U.S. government who could and did do such things on a regular basis.

Navajo woman & child

Regional newspapers have many accounts of Navajo and non-Navajo conflicts in this period. These conflicts were often embellished, for political purposes, by regional politicians. In some of these accounts, every Navajo was just about to leave the reservation and pillage the countryside or worse. While it is probably true that some Navajo strayed, it is equally true that some white citizens clearly strayed from the laws of the land themselves. In their reports, the U.S. Military never seemed to be that alarmed about a Navajo uprising, and they clearly did not want the Navajo stirred up by their neighbors.

In 1883, Lt. Parker went up to the San Juan River to separate Navajos and citizens who encroached on Navajo land with 10 enlisted men and two scouts. In the same year, Lt. Lockett, with the aid of 42 enlisted soldiers, was joined by Lt. Holomon at Navajo Springs. Evidently, citizens of the surname(s) Houck and/or Owens had murdered a Navajo chief's son and 100 armed Navajos were consequently looking for them.

In 1887, citizens Palmer, Lockhart, and King fabricate a charge of horse stealing and attack a random home on the reservation. Two Navajo men and all three whites died, but a woman and a child survived. Capt Kerr (with two Navajo scouts) examined the ground and then met with several hundred Navajo at Houcks Tank. Rancher Bennett, whose horse was allegedly stolen, pointed out to Kerr that his horses were stolen by the three whites to catch a horse thief. In the same year, Lt. Scott went to the San Juan River with two scouts and 21 enlisted men. The Navajo believed Lt. Scott was there to drive off the whites who have settled on the reservation and have fenced off the river from the Navajo. Scott tells them to wait, and he finds evidence of many non-Navajo ranches. However, only three are active, and the owners refuse to leave, wanting payment for their improvements. Scott ejected them.

In 1890, a local rancher refuses to pay the Navajo a fine of livestock. The Navajos try to collect it, and whites in southern Colorado and Utah claim that 9,000 of the Navajo people are on a warpath. A small military detachment out of Fort Wingate restores white citizens to order.

In 1913, an Indian agent orders a Navajo and his three wives to come in, and then arrests them for having a plural marriage. A small group of Navajo use force to free the women and retreat to Beautiful Mountain with 30 or 40 sympathizers. They refuse to surrender to the agent, and local law enforcement and military refuse the agent's request for an armed engagement. General Scott arrives, and with the help of Chee Dodge, defuses the situation.

In the 1930s, the United States government took action against the Navajo that was as culturally and economically devastating as the Long Walk. The United States government claimed the Navajos livestock was overgrazing the land. In another experiment, it decided to immediately kill over 80% of their livestock in what is known as the Navajo Livestock Reduction and start a permit system.

There were people who were sympathetic to the plight of the Navajo. In 1937, Mary Cabot Wheelright and Hastiin Klah, an esteemed and influential Navajo singer, or medicine man, founded The Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian as a repository for sound recordings, manuscripts, paintings, and sandpainting tapestries of the Navajo people and a place to sense the beauty, dignity, and profound logic of Navajo religion. When he met Cabot in 1921, Klah had witnessed decades of relentless efforts by the United States government and by missionaries to assimilate the Navajo people into mainstream society. Children were removed from their homes and placed in boarding schools, where they were punished for speaking their language and forced to adopt Christianity. The museum was founded to preserve the religion and traditions of the Navajo people, which Klah was sure would soon be lost forever.

In the 1940s, during World War II, the United States denied the Navajos relief because of the Navajos communal society. Eventually, in December 1947, the Navajos were provided relief in the post war period to relieve the hunger that they had to endure for many years.

Culture

A Navajo boy on horseback, in 2007, in Monument Valley, Arizona

Sheep remain an important aspect in Navajo Tradition and Culture.

The name avajo comes from the late 18th century via the Spanish (Apaches de) Navaj "(Apaches of) Navaj", which was derived from the Tewa navah "fields adjoining a ravine". The Navajo call themselves Din, which means "the people". Nonetheless, most Navajo now acquiesce to being called "Navajo."

Traditionally, like other Apacheans, the Navajo were semi-nomadic from the 16th through the 20th centuries. Their extended kinship groups would have seasonal dwelling areas to accommodate livestock, agriculture and gathering practices. As part of their traditional economy, Navajo groups may have formed trading or raiding parties, traveling relatively long distances.

A Navajo man working as a tourist guide, in 2007, in Monument Valley, Arizona

Historically, the structure of the Navajo society is largely a matrilocal system in which only women were allowed to own livestock and land. Once married, a Navajo man would move into his bride's dwelling and clan since daughters (or, if necessary, other female relatives) were traditionally the ones who received the generational inheritance. Any children are said to belong to the mother's clan and be "born for" the father's clan. The clan system is exogamous, meaning it was, and mostly still is, considered a form of incest to marry or date anyone from any of a person's four grandparents clans.

Navajo hogan

A hogan is the traditional Navajo home. These eight-sided houses are made of wood and covered in mud, with the door always facing east to welcome the sun each morning.

For those who practice the Navajo religion the hogan is considered sacred. The religious song "The Blessingway" describes the first hogan as being built by Coyote with help from beavers to be a house for First Man, First Woman, and Talking God. The Beaver People gave Coyote logs and instructions on how to build the first hogan. Navajos made their hogans in the traditional fashion until the 1900s, when they started to make them in hexagonal and octagonal shapes. Today they are rarely used as actual dwellings, but are maintained primarily for ceremonial purposes.

The Navajo people traditionally hold the four sacred mountains as the boundaries of the homeland they should never leave: Blanca Peak (Tsisnaasjini' Dawn or White Shell Mountain) in Colorado, Mount Taylor (Tsoodzil Blue Bead or Turquoise Mountain) in New Mexico, the San Francisco Peaks (Doko'oosliid Abalone Shell Mountain) in Arizona, and Hesperus Mountain (Dib Nitsaa Big Mountain Sheep) in Colorado.

Arts and crafts

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Silver Work

19th Century Navajo jewelry with the popular concho and dragonfly designs.

Silversmithing is said to have been introduced to the Navajo while they were in captivity at Fort Sumner in eastern New Mexico in 1864. At that time Atsidi Sani learned silversmithing and began teaching others the craft as well. By 1880 Navajo silversmiths were creating handmade jewelry including bracelets, tobacco flasks, necklaces, bow guards. Later smiths also made earrings, buckles, bolos, hair ornaments and pins. Turquoise has been used with jewelry by the Navajo for hundreds of years, but they did not use turquoise inlay, in silver, until the past century.

Weaving

Navajo weaver with sheep

Though some people say the Navajo learned the art of weaving from the Pueblo people, the origins of Navajo weaving may never be known. The first Spaniards to visit the region wrote about seeing Navajo blankets. By the 18th century the Navajo had begun to import yarn with their favorite color, Bayeta red. Using an upright loom the Navajos made almost exclusively utilitarian blankets. Little patterning and few colors on almost all blankets, except for the much sought after Chief's Blanket, which evolved from the 1st Phase, few wide bands, to the 2nd phase, wide bands with squares on the corners, to the 3rd Phase, which made more and more use of patterns and colors. Around the same time the Navajo people, who had long started traded for commercial wool, often from the uniforms of soldiers, rewove these into intricate multicolored blankets called Germantown.

Navajo art

Some early American settlers moved in and set up trading posts, often buying Navajo Rugs by the pound and selling them back east by the bale. Still these traders encouraged the locals to weave blankets and rugs into distinct styles. They included "Two Gray Hills" (predominantly black and white, with traditional patterns), "Teec Nos Pos" (colorful, with very extensive patterns), "Ganado" (founded by Don Lorenzo Hubbell), red dominated patterns with black and white, "Crystal" (founded by J. B. Moore), oriental and Persian styles (almost always with natural dyes), "Wide Ruins", "Chinlee", banded geometric patterns, "Klagetoh", diamond type patterns, "Red Mesa" and bold diamond patterns. Many of these patterns exhibit a fourfold symmetry, which is thought by Gary Witherspoon to embody traditional ideas about harmony or hzh.

Notable Navajo artists, dancers, and musicians

Ryan Singer, Navajo painter

Orville Tsinnie, silversmith/goldsmith

Atsidi Sani, silversmith

Raven Chacon, composer

Hosteen Klah, weaver

R.C. Gorman, painter

Yazzie Johnson, jeweler

Gerald Nailor, Sr., painter

R. Carlos Nakai, musician

Clara Sherman, weaver

Tommy Singer, silversmith

Jock Soto, ballet dancer

Douglas Spotted Eagle, musician

Emmi Whitehorse, painter

Melanie Yazzie, printmaker

Blackfire, rock band

James and Ernie, comic duo

Reggie Mitchell, martial artist

James Bilagody, Comedian, Song Writer, Recording Artist

Healing and spiritual practices

Navajo man in ceremonial dress with mask and body paint, c. 1904.

Navajo spiritual practice is about restoring health, balance, and harmony to a person's life. One exception to the concept of healing is the Beauty Way ceremony: the Kinaald, or a female puberty ceremony. Others include the Hooghan Blessing Ceremony and the "Baby's First Laugh Ceremony." Otherwise, ceremonies are used to heal illnesses, strengthen weakness, and give vitality to the patient. Ceremonies restore Hozh, or beauty, harmony, balance, and health.

When suffering from illness or injury, Navajos will traditionally seek out a certified, credible Hataii (medicine man) for healing, before turning to Western medicine (e.g., hospitals). The medicine man will use several methods to diagnose the patient's ailments. This may include using special tools such as crystal rocks, and abilities such as hand-trembling and Hata (chanting prayer). The medicine man will then select a specific healing chant for that type of ailment. Short prayers for protection may only take a few hours, and in some cases, the patient is expected to do a follow-up afterwards. This may include the avoidance of sexual relations, personal contact, animals, certain foods, and certain activities; it is not unlike a doctor's advice.

Possible causes of ailments could be the result of violating taboos. Contact with lightning-struck objects, exposure to taboo animals such as snakes, and contact with the dead are some of reasons for healing. Protection ceremonies, especially the Blessing Way Ceremony, are used for Navajos that leave the boundaries of the four sacred mountains, and is used extensively for Navajo warriors or soldiers going to war. Upon re-entry, there is an Enemy Way Ceremony, or Nid', performed on the person, to get rid of the evil things in his/her body, and to restore balance in his/her life. This is also important for Navajo warriors/soldiers returning from battle. Warriors or soldiers often suffer spiritual or psychological damage from participating in warfare, and the Enemy Way Ceremony helps restore harmony to the person, mentally and emotionally.

There are also ceremonies used for curing people from curses. Many people often complain of witches and skin-walkers that do harm to their minds, bodies, and even families. Ailments aren't necessarily physical. It can take any form it wishes. The medicine man is often able to break the curses that witches and skin-walkers put on families. Mild cases do not take very long, but for extreme cases, special ceremonies are needed to drive away the evil spirits. In these cases, the medicine man may find curse objects implanted inside the victim's body. These objects are used to cause the person pain and illness. Examples of such objects include bone fragments, rocks and pebbles, bits of string, snake teeth, owl feathers, and even turquoise jewelry.

There are said to be approximately fifty-eight to sixty sacred ceremonies. Most of them last four days or more; to be most effective, they require that relatives and friends attend and help out. Outsiders are often discouraged from participating in case they become a burden to others or violate a taboo. This could affect the turnout of the ceremony. The ceremony must be done in precisely the correct manner to heal the patient. This includes everyone that is involved.

Medicine men must be able to correctly perform a ceremony from beginning to end. If he does not, the ceremony will not work. Training a Hataii to perform ceremonies is extensive, arduous, and takes many years, and is not unlike priesthood, with the governing body or hierarchy omitted. The apprentice learns everything by watching his teacher, and memorizes the words to all the chants. Many times, a medicine man cannot learn all sixty of the ceremonies, so he will opt to specialize in a select few.

The origin of spiritual healing ceremonies dates back to Navajo mythology. It is said the first Enemy Way ceremony was performed for Changing Woman's twin sons (Monster Slayer and Born-For-the-Water) after slaying the Giants (the Y'ii) and restoring Hozh to the world and people. The patient identifies with Monster Slayer through the chants, prayers, sandpaintings, herbal medicine and dance.

Another Navajo healing, the Night Chant ceremony, is administered as a cure for most types of head ailments, including mental disturbances. The ceremony, conducted over several days, involves purification, evocation of the gods, identification between the patient and the gods, and the transformation of the patient. Each day entails the performance of certain rites and the creation of detailed sand paintings. On the ninth evening a final all-night ceremony occurs, in which the dark male thunderbird god is evoked in a song that starts by describing his home:

In Tsegihi [White House],

In the house made of the dawn,

In the house made of the evening light

(Sandner, p. 88)

The medicine man proceeds by asking the Holy People to be present, then identifying the patient with the power of the god and describing the patient's transformation to renewed health with lines such as "Happily I recover." (Sandner, p. 90). The same dance is repeated throughout the night, about forty eight times. Altogether the Night Chant ceremony takes about ten hours to perform, and ends at dawn.

In the media

In 2000 the documentary The Return of Navajo Boy was shown at the Sundance Film Festival. It was written in response to an earlier film, The Navajo Boy which was somewhat exploitative of the Navajo People involved. The Return of Navajo Boy allowed the Navajo People to be more involved in the depicting of their own people.

See also

Shonto Begay, Din painter

Blackfire

Navajo (disambiguation)

Navajo-Churro sheep

Navajo Code Talker

Navajo language

Navajo-language films

Navajo Nation

Navajo mythology

Navajo pueblitos

Notes

^ "The American Indian and Alaska Native Population: 2000". Census 2000 Brief. 2002-02-01. http://www.census.gov/prod/2002pubs/c2kbr01-15.pdf. Retrieved 2007-03-10. 

^ a b Kehoe, 133

^ For example, the Great Canadian Parks website suggests that the Navajo may be descendants the lost Naha tribe, a Slavey tribe from the Nahanni region west of Great Slave Lake. "Nahanni National Park Reserve". Great Canadian Parks. http://canadianparks.com/northwest/nahninp/page2.htm. Retrieved 2007-07-02. 

^ Hosteen Klah page 102 and others

^ Nash, Gary B., Julie Roy Jeffrey, John R. Howe, Peter J. Frederick, Allen F. Davis, Allan M. Winkler, Charlene Mires, and Carla Gardina Pestana. The American People, Concise Edition Creating a Nation and a Society, Combined Volume (6th Edition), 847. New York: Longman, 2007.

^ Bernstein, Alison R. American Indians and World War II Toward a New Era in Indian Affairs. New York: University of Oklahoma P, 1999.

^ "Synopsis". navajoboy.com. http://www.navajoboy.com/press.htm. Retrieved 2009-02-26. 

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External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Navajo

Middle Ground Project of Northern Colorado University with images of U.S. documents of treaties and reports 18461931

Navajo People information by State of Utah

A Brief Overview of the Navajo People (as of October 18, 2004)

Navajo Silversmiths, by Washington Matthews, 1883 from Project Gutenberg

Navajo Institute for Social Justice

Navajo Jewelry Information

Navajo Artcrafts Website created by students of GreyHills Academy High School in Tuba City AZ.

Navajo weaving

Historic photos of Navajo people, Timothy H. O'Sullivan, photographer

Spanish-Navajo dictionary on line AULEX

Navajo Tourism Website for the Navajo Tourism Department

Non-Profit Navajo Arts & Crafts Enterprise

 "Navajo Indians". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company. 1913. http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Catholic_Encyclopedia_(1913)/Navajo_Indians. 

The Long Trail, by Jessa Gamble, Up Here magazine (Yellowknife, NT). Archaeological ties between Dene and Dineh.

archive.org search for archive collections about the navajo

The Return of Navajo Boy, a documentary showing how Navajos have been depicted historically

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Image Comics is an American comic book publisher. It was founded in 1992 by seven highprofile illustrators as a venue where creators could publish their material without giving up the copyrights to the characters they created, as creatorowned properties. Along with DC, Marvel and Dark Horse, Image Comics is one of the four largest comic book publishers in America. Its bestknown series include Spawn, Pitt, The Savage Dragon, Shadowhawk, Youngblood, Supreme, WildC.A.T.s, Gen, Wetworks, Cyberforce, Witchblade, The Darkness, Invincible, the third volume of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and The Walking Dead. Author: Miller, Frederic P./ Vandome, Agnes F./ McBrewster, John Binding Type: Paperback Number of Pages: 212 Publication Date: 2010/04/21 Language: English Dimensions: 5.98 x 9.01 x 0.48 inches

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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Spencer Bridges is a fictional comic book superhero, a member of the superhero team Dynamo 5, which appears in the monthly series of the same name from Image Comics. Created by writer Jay Faerber and artist Mahmud A. Asrar, He first appeared in Dynamo 5 #1 (January 2007). Myriad is a half human, half extraterrestrial hybrid, the child of an alien woman and the Earth superhero, Captain Dynamo, from whom he inherited superhuman abilities. For the first 24 issues of the series, the character possessed shapeshifting abilities and went by the codename Myriad, though for a brief time he masqueraded as a female masked vigilante called Vigil, who exhibited superhuman strength, speed, and expertise in martial arts and acrobatics. It was later revealed that for some time, he had been taking an illegal drug called Flex, that granted him his elevated strength and speed, powers that remained permanently bonded to his halfalien physiology after he ceased taking the drug. Author: Surhone, Lambert M./ Tennoe, Mariam T./ Henssonow, Susan F. Binding Type: Paperback Number of Pages: 156 Publication Date: 2011/08/05 Language: English Dimensions: 9.02 x 5.98 x 0.36 inches

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles Rorschach is a fictional comic book superhero featured in the acclaimed 1986 DC Comics miniseries Watchmen. Rorschach was created by Watchmen writer Alan Moore with artist Dave Gibbons, but as with most of the central characters in the series, he was an analog for a Charlton Comics character, in this case Steve Ditkos The Question, and Ditkos small press character Mr A. His mask displays a constantly morphing inkblot that is based on the ambiguous designs used in Rorschach inkblot tests. Rorschach considers the mask his true face. He continues his oneman battle against crime long after superheroes have become both detested and illegal. Moore depicted Rorschach as being extremely rightwing, and morally uncompromising, a viewpoint that has alienated him from the rest of society. Politically, he is both anticommunist and antiliberal. He is described as being mentally ill by several characters. Author: Surhone, Lambert M./ Timpledon, Miriam T./ Marseken, Susan F. Binding Type: Paperback Number of Pages: 180 Publication Date: 2010/07/28 Language: English Dimensions: 6.00 x 9.00 x 0.41 inches

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From Gary Larsons The Far Side to George Herrimans Krazy Kat, comic strips have two obvious defining features. They are visual narratives, using both words and pictures to tell stories, and they use word balloons to represent the speech and thought of depicted characters. Art historians have studied visual artifacts from every culture; cultural historians have recently paid close attention to movies. Yet the comic strip, an art form known to everyone, has not yet been much studied by aestheticians or art historians. This is the first full-length philosophical account of the comic strip.Distinguished philosopher David Carrier looks at popular American and Japanese comic strips to identify and solve the aesthetic problems posed by comic strips and to explain the relationship of this artistic genre to other forms of visual art. He traces the use of speech and thought balloons to early Renaissance art and claims that the speech balloon defines comics as neither a purely visual nor a strictly verbal art form, but as something radically new. Comics, he claims, are essentially a composite art that, when successful, seamlessly combine verbal and visual elements.Carrier looks at the way an audience interprets comics and contrasts the interpretation of comics and other mass-culture images to that of Old Master visual art. The meaning behind the comic can be immediately grasped by the average reader, whereas a piece of museum art can only be fully interpreted by scholars familiar with the history and the background behind the painting. Finally, Carrier relates comics to art history. Ultimately, Carriers analysis of comics shows why this popular art is worthy of philosophical study and proves thata better understanding of comics will help us better understand the history of art.

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The System of Comics by Thierry Groensteen translated by Bart Beaty and Nick Nguyen. This edition of Thierry Groensteen's The System of Comics makes available in English a groundbreaking work on comics by one of the medium's foremost scholars. In this book, originally published in France in 1999, Groensteen ranges broadly through the history of comics to explain clearly the subtle, complex workings of the medium and its unique way of combining visual, verbal, spatial, and chronological expressions. The System of Comics uses examples from a wide variety of countries including the United States, England, Japan, France, and Argentina. It describes and analyzes the properties and functions of speech and thought balloons, panels, strips, and pages to examine methodically and insightfully the medium's fundamental processes. From this, Groensteen develops his own coherent, overarching theory of comics, a &quot;system&quot; that he builds on existing studies of the &quot;word and image&quot; paradigm while adding innovative approaches of his own. Examining both meaning and appreciation, the book provides a wealth of ideas that will challenge the way scholars approach the study of comics. By emphasizing not simply &quot;storytelling techniques&quot; but also the qualities of the printed page and the reader's engagement, the book's approach is broadly applicable to all forms of interpreting this evolving art. Thierry Groensteen is a comics scholar born in Brussels, Belgium, the founding publisher of Editions de l'An 2, and the curator of the Angouleme Comics Museum in Angouleme, France. Bart Beaty is associate professor of communication and culture at the University of Calgary. Nick Nguyen is an archivist at Library andArchives Canada in Ottawa, Ontario.

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Batman 1989 Movie - Micheal Keaton
Batman Returns - Micheal Keaton
Batman Forever - Val Kilmer
Batman & Robin - George Clooney
Batman Begins - Christopher Nolan
Batman The Dark Knight - Christopher Nolan

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The New Batman Adventures, Batman:Mystery of Batwoman
Batman Beyond, Batman Beyond:Return of the Joker - Kevin Conroy(voiced in all of these)
The Batman - Rino Ramano

I am partial to Michael Keaton slightly over Christian Bale because he did the role before it just got stupid with the last two movies under Kilmer (though I did like the plot, the direction was wrong), and Clooney (words cannot describe that movie). Bale is a close second because the plot of his series is how was Batman created and shed some light on his training. Kevin Conroy, I felt provided a great voice to him in the cartoons. My favorite was The Animated Series and Batman Beyond.

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