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Flamenco dancing is a great way to express your feelings and emotions, it involves sharp sudden movements and has a range of different moves.
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Get suitable clothing on. Try and wear a long skirt and small heels, if you have any.
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Start by finding some Spanish music that has a nice easy rhythm to it. Try clapping along to the beat.
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Try your first position. The most basic position in flamenco is standing with your fists on your hips try this now followed by stamping your right foot and clapping twice.
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Now try some footwork. Stamp your right foot then your left heel, then lift up the heel of your right foot and stamp it down.(this will take some practice) Once you can do that try it the other way round starting with your left foot.
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Put your hands on your hips. Next, stamp your right foot, but holding your skirt out with your right hand at the same time. Repeat this again.
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Next do it again but with less of a stamp. Leave your foot and start making waving actions with your arm whilst pivoting around to the left with your foot once. After that, do the same but with your left side.
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Put your left fist on your hip, then reach your right hand up as if you were picking an apple. Then turn your hand in the air.
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Next, put your hand to your mouth as if you were eating the apple and turn it a few times.
9. The traditional Flamenco costume
Then, put your hand down as if you were throwing the apple away and turn your hands a few times. Do this on your left side afterwards for the full step.
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Once you have learnt these first few moves start progressing your technique and the overall performance, impression and emotion that you are giving through your dancing.
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• Keep practicing
• Make sure that you have plenty of space to dance in.(you don't want to knock anything over!)
• Watch some videos of some basic steps to show you the different types of moves
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Best practices for using server virtualization in your storage environment
Server virtualization can lower costs and increase capacity on physical servers by sharing them among several virtual machines. However, there are a number of best practices to consider when using or thinking
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When using virtualization systems from VMware Inc. and other vendors, it's important to remember that there's a physical server with physical storage underneath the virtualization layer. This means that you still can't exceed the capacity of your basic hardware, and virtualization will give you less total capacity because of the overhead of the system. So while you can balance your load by putting applications with different peak loads on different virtual machines (VMs), you must still respect the limits of your hardware.
Because of this, server virtualization software requires a slightly different set of best practices when there are problems with your storage subsystem.
Poor I/O can impact the system
The most critical factor in a VMware installation is generally bandwidth. The I/O performance of your physical system will have more to do with the overall performance of the system than the storage capacity.
Anything that degrades I/O, such as a failed disk in a RAID array, will have a major impact on the performance of your virtualized system. If you're having performance issues, one of the first things you should check is I/O. For example, RAID arrays should continue to work even with a bad disk, but they will slow down considerably and likely affect your virtual machines as well.
Monitor virtual machine performance
Virtualization introduces a whole new level of performance statistics. In addition to being concerned with the performance of the underlying physical hardware, you now need to pay attention to the performance of individual virtual machines.
Fortunately, VMware can monitor a number of statistics to measure the performance of your virtual machines. For tuning and troubleshooting purposes, you should be familiar with these numbers, particularly disk command aborts and memory swap-in and memory swap-out.
Disk command aborts are requests that have timed out because the disk is taking too long to respond. This indicates a problem such as an I/O bottleneck or a poorly configured disk.
Memory swap-in and memory swap-out each measure activity in the virtual machine's virtual memory. A large number of memory swaps indicate that the VM doesn't have enough memory and its parameters need to be adjusted. It's important to note that this refers to memory assigned to the VM, not necessarily physical memory.
VMware's vCenter Server can help you make the most of server virtualization statistics. With this tool, you can maintain logs going back five years as opposed to the one hour maximum that the VMware ESX and VMware ESXi platforms provide.
Eliminate single points of failure
The failure of a single piece of hardware can take down a dozen or more virtual servers. To correct this, storage managers should carefully plan their storage infrastructure and eliminate single points of failure in their physical infrastructure. This includes such features as redundant data paths between the physical server and storage system, multiple host bus adapters (HBAs) on both ends of the storage-area network (SAN), and RAID or even mirrored RAID on your storage.
Ensure the write cache works properly
Because I/O is so important to virtualized systems, you need to ensure that the write cache on your RAID controller is working properly. For example, a dead or missing battery on the controller card can disable the card's write cache, which will lead to problems with the RAID controller.
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The story focuses around two lovers: one a secretly aspirational songwriter and the other, a wage slave. The pair try to nurture individual ambitions without destroying their romance.
They have this new thing now called adulthood, and nobody much likes it. Certainly not Max and Anna, the lovers in Lucas Kavner’s surprisingly mature “Fish Eye.” He’s a secretly aspirational songwriter and wage slave, and she wants to make movies but isn’t sure where to begin. In helmer Adrienne Campbell-Holt’s tight production, the pair try to nurture individual ambitions without destroying their romance, and while the play covers well-trod imploding-relationship territory, it does so gently and with enough humor and grace to merit attention.
Kavner’s well-observed script gets a lot right in a short span of time: Max (Joe Tippett, who does a good job keeping his borderline-loser character lovable) and Anna (a lovely Betty Gilpin) both harbor a crushing embarrassment about their artistic ambitions; Anna’s spectacularly obnoxious ex Jay (Ato Essandoh, who must have practiced the annoying throw-back-the-head guffaw) is so environmentally friendly you could just murder him in his sleep. Max’s questionably platonic buddy Avery (a nicely uncrazy Katya Campbell), too, keeps leaving her pal elliptical voicemails that never quite blossom into declarations of love.
Despite the title, “Fish Eye” never feels distorted. It’s not simply that the play is marbled with well-observed details; it’s that they make up most of the dialogue. Jay just barely oversteps with Anna. Max doesn’t quite discourage Avery. The words “I love you” first appear on page 74 of the script. Instead, like real people, Kavner’s characters say the words just to the left of the words they’d like to be saying; conscience, or vanity, or simple fear make cowards of them all.
Structurally, the play resembles something by Christopher Shinn, with stop-start overlapping dialogue and scenes that takes place out of chronological order, so that the audience is slightly disoriented and comes to know the central relationship as a catalog of small gestures and in-jokes, rather than as a list of plot points. It’s an effective device, with Max and Anna meeting cute in the play’s last scene and performing their romantic postmortem in the first.
Tech aspects are very good, especially given the small budget. John McDermott’s set finds some unexpected touchstones — one playing area is full of cardboard boxes that scream “cruddy job” without any further explanation needed. Daniel Kluger’s standout sound design should be circulated among his Off Broadway colleagues as proof that a fire engine is worth a thousand indie bands.
Fish Eye
Here Arts Center; 70 seats; $18 top
A Colt Coeur presentation of a play in one act by Lucas Kavner. Directed by Adrienne Campbell-Holt.
Set, John McDermott; costumes, Jessica Pabst; lighting, Grant Yeager; sound, Daniel Kluger; production stage manager, Trisha Henson. Reviewed June 1, 2011. Opened June 2. Running time: 1 HOUR, 20 MIN.
Avery - Katya Campbell
Jay - Ato Essandoh
Anna - Betty Gilpin
Max - Joe Tippett
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Air Receivers
Description and Overview
An air receiver is probably the most common type of unfired pressure vessel. However, due to minimum size inspection thresholds employed by the vast majority of jurisdictions, many of the smaller air receivers will not qualify for a mandatory inservice inspection. The typical inspection threshold sizes referenced in jurisdictional regulations are 5 cubic feet or 15 cubic feet in volume as long as the maximum allowable working pressure (MAWP) does not exceed 250 psi, or 1-½ cubic feet in volume as long as the MAWP does not exceed 600 psi. The inspector must review the jurisdiction's inspection requirements to ensure compliance with the appropriate size and pressure limitations.
Air receivers are typically constructed in accordance with ASME Section VIII, Div. 1, and stamped with either the ASME "U" or "UM" symbol. Manufacturers who specialize in air receivers will construct a large number of these vessels in an assembly line process. The Manufacturer's Data Report, for "U" stamped vessels, and the Manufacturer's Certificate of Compliance, for "UM" stamped vessels, may include multiple vessels. This practice is described in ASME Section VIII, Div. 1, paragraph UG-120(a).
While most air receivers are of simple design consisting of a shell and two dished heads, some are designed to incorporate a filter or separator element within the vessel. These vessels may be "T" shaped with one bolted flat head which provides access to the filter or separator element. These uniquely shaped vessels are commonly found in use with large industrial air compressors.
Air receivers will be installed in any facility requiring a reservoir of compressed air. Compressed air uses include:
• Tire Inflation
• Air-Powered Tools
• Pneumatic Cylinders or Pistons
• Sand- or Shot-Blasting
• Painting
• Cleaning
• Air Motors
• Conveying Systems
• Pneumatic Controls
• Breathing Air
The design of a compressed air system is dictated in part by the pressure, volume, and air quality (including cleanliness and dryness) needed in any given industry or process. The size of the air receiver in the system is normally based on the volume of air produced by the compressor and the user's desire for a stated capacity in cubic feet per minute (cfm) at a specified pressure. The air receiver helps in maintaining a constant pressure in the system by minimizing the fluctuations of a compressor cycling on and off.
Appurtenances, Settings, and Piping
An air receiver must be protected from over-pressure. This is usually accomplished by means of a spring-loaded pressure relief device. The set pressure of the pressure relief device must not exceed the MAWP marked on the air receiver. The minimum relieving capacity of the pressure relief device must meet the requirements of ASME Section VIII, Div. 1, paragraph UG-125. Under most circumstances this would require a pressure relief device with enough relieving capacity to prevent the pressure in the air receiver from rising more than 10% or 3 psi, whichever is greater, above the MAWP marked on the air receiver. For an inspector familiar with boiler nameplates which indicate either the maximum generating capacity of the boiler or the minimum required relief valve capacity, verifying the capacity of a pressure relief device on an air receiver will be more of a challenge. The inspector needs to obtain the output of the compressor(s) supplying the air receiver. This information may be on a label or nameplate on the compressor or it may have to be obtained from the compressor manufacturer's published specifications.
Since air receivers are typically constructed out of carbon steel, they are subject to internal corrosion from water which has condensed from the compressed air. ASME Section VIII, Div. 1, paragraph UG-25(f), requires a suitable drain opening in such vessels.
Air receivers with integrally mounted compressors and motors should be installed as recommended by the manufacturer. Since there is usually some vibration produced by a reciprocating-type compressor/motor unit, many manufacturers provide spring-loaded or elastic compound dampers to mount between the floor and the air receiver base.
Clearance measurements, if any, must comply with all jurisdictional and manufacturer requirements.
Most jurisdictions do not require inspection of any piping associated with an air receiver.
Part 1 of the National Board Inspection Code addresses installation requirements and must be followed when mandated by the applicable jurisdiction.
Common Observations and Problems
Internal corrosion, vibration, and external impact damage are the most common problem areas for air receivers.
Unless the air compressor is operating in the driest desert, water vapor in the compressed air will condense to liquid water as the temperature of the compressed air falls. In the simplest system, this happens in the air receiver. In more elaborate systems, the air is conditioned to extract part or almost all of the moisture before entering the air receiver. One compressor manufacturer's informational literature claims the water vapor content at 100°F of saturated compressed air equals about two gallons per hour for each 100 cfm of compressor capacity. Some air receivers are fitted with automatic condensate drains while others rely on a manually operated drain valve. If condensate is allowed to collect in the air receiver, its volume is decreased which can lead to increased cycling by the compressor. The condensate can also carryover through the air distribution lines and cause problems with air powered tools. The most detrimental effect of the condensate is internal corrosion of the air receiver. Since it is internal, it is never seen by the vessel owner and its effects are often discounted or ignored. In severe cases of corrosion, the vessel thickness may have decreased below the minimum wall thickness necessary for the MAWP stamped on the vessel. Under those circumstances, the MAWP can be decreased to a point that is supported by the remaining wall thickness, but in most cases the vessel is removed from service until it is repaired or replaced.
Vibration caused by an integrally mounted compressor/motor unit can cause cracking in the welds attaching the compressor/motor mount to the air receiver or in the welds attaching the base to the bottom of the air receiver. If they occur, the cracks will often "run" or propagate into the vessel material. Vibration damage can also occur where rigid piping is connected to the air receiver.
External impact damage can be caused by vehicles, machinery, or objects hitting the air receiver. One inspector observed a large dent in an external air receiver mounted on a portable air compressor used in a quarry. He was told it was caused by a limestone boulder which fell on the compressor from an upper rock ledge. Hazards can exist almost anywhere.
Most air receivers will show a minimum design metal temperature (MDMT) of -20°F on the nameplate. This should be acceptable under most conditions. However, if the air receiver is installed outside or in an unheated structure in very cold climates, it could be susceptible to brittle fracture.
Upon entering the area where the air receiver is operating, the inspector should perform a general assessment of the air receiver, piping, and associated systems. The inspector should then:
• review the current operating certificate (if one was issued in the past) and compare the information to the associated air receiver and its nameplate;
• compare the pressure relief device data (set pressure and relieving capacity) with the air receiver nameplate and compressor output data to ensure the pressure relief device is adequate for this installation;
• inspect the pressure relief device operation as described in the National Board Inspector Guide for Pressure Relief Devices;
• check all support and mounting bracket attachment welds and the affected vessel walls for evidence of cracking;
• check for external damage such as dents or gouges;
• ask the owner or owner's representative to verify the operation of the automatic condensate drain if applicable, or open the manual drain valve;
• check connected piping to ensure it is properly supported and not imparting excessive loadings on the air receiver.
The inspector should perform an internal inspection of the air receiver as required by the jurisdiction. Some air receivers have dedicated inspection openings while others (especially smaller ones) use the inspection openings for the attachment of piping, instruments or similar attachments as allowed by ASME Section VIII, Div. 1, paragraph UG-46(f)(7). If an internal inspection is impractical, the jurisdiction may accept thickness readings obtained with an ultrasonic tester compared with original thickness values. The original thickness values can be found on the Manufacturer's Data Report or Manufacturer's Certificate of Compliance. Although the practice is not required by ASME Code, some air receiver manufacturers include the shell and head thicknesses on the nameplate.
Miscellaneous Information
Additional information to aid inspectors of air receivers can be found in the following publications and sources:
• National Board Inspection Code
• ASME Section VIII, Div. 1
• Manufacturer's Installation, Operation, and Maintenance Documentation
• Jurisdictional Laws, Rules, and Directives
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[–]totmurGnex, N7 | ElementalX 4.2.2 1 point2 points ago
SlideIT only offers a 15 day trial, where all of the other popular ones offer an unlimited free version with some features removed. The punctuation is rather tedious to access. Most of the themes I saw look like they were designed for Jersey Shore fans or a Middle Eastern oil tycoon. It seems like they focused more on being able to theme it, rather than better typing; plus the themes can't change the key placement.
There are other random things that bugged me about it, but I don't want to turn this into a flame the heck out of SlideIT comment. It is a nice keyboard and really just comes down to your typing style and having a robust selection of themes.
I have tried most of the popular keyboards offered on the Play store, and I keep coming back to Swiftkey or the standard JB keyboard.
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I recently switched to hosting all of my own websites. While it is liberating to have much more control over my web host, it begs for more maintenance time and better tools to help you monitor your server.
While browsing my GitHub account I came across Mark Sanborn’s site monitoring script and thought: “Hey this is a good idea, let’s see what I can make of it”. I have been meaning to post more Python here so I updated his code a bit and thought I’d share it with you. I hope you have ideas for improvements.
Checking site availability with Python
I didn’t feel that this script was big enough to go full OO with it, but if you want to add to it, fork the gist on GitHub and provide a link in the comments. You know what’d really be cool is if someone used timeit to get the response time and set thresholds for when the site is too slow.
#!/usr/bin/env python import pickle, os, sys, logging from httplib import HTTPConnection, socket from smtplib import SMTP def email_alert(message, status): fromaddr = 'you@gmail.com' toaddrs = 'yourphone@txt.att.net' server = SMTP('smtp.gmail.com:587') server.starttls() server.login('you', 'password') server.sendmail(fromaddr, toaddrs, 'Subject: %s\r\n%s' % (status, message)) server.quit() def get_site_status(url): response = get_response(url) try: if getattr(response, 'status') == 200: return 'up' except AttributeError: pass return 'down' def get_response(url): '''Return response object from URL''' try: conn = HTTPConnection(url) conn.request('HEAD', '/') return conn.getresponse() except socket.error: return None except: logging.error('Bad URL:', url) exit(1) def get_headers(url): '''Gets all headers from URL request and returns''' response = get_response(url) try: return getattr(response, 'getheaders')() except AttributeError: return 'Headers unavailable' def compare_site_status(prev_results): '''Report changed status based on previous results''' def is_status_changed(url): status = get_site_status(url) friendly_status = '%s is %s' % (url, status) print friendly_status if url in prev_results and prev_results[url] != status: logging.warning(status) # Email status messages email_alert(str(get_headers(url)), friendly_status) prev_results[url] = status return is_status_changed def is_internet_reachable(): '''Checks Google then Yahoo just in case one is down''' if get_site_status('www.google.com') == 'down' and get_site_status('www.yahoo.com') == 'down': return False return True def load_old_results(file_path): '''Attempts to load most recent results''' pickledata = {} if os.path.isfile(file_path): picklefile = open(file_path, 'rb') pickledata = pickle.load(picklefile) picklefile.close() return pickledata def store_results(file_path, data): '''Pickles results to compare on next run''' output = open(file_path, 'wb') pickle.dump(data, output) output.close() def main(urls): # Setup logging to store time logging.basicConfig(level=logging.WARNING, filename='checksites.log', format='%(asctime)s %(levelname)s: %(message)s', datefmt='%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S') # Load previous data pickle_file = 'data.pkl' pickledata = load_old_results(pickle_file) # Check sites only if Internet is_available if is_internet_reachable(): status_checker = compare_site_status(pickledata) map(status_checker, urls) else: logging.error('Either the world ended or we are not connected to the net.') # Store results in pickle file store_results(pickle_file, pickledata) if __name__ == '__main__': # First arg is script name, skip it main(sys.argv[1:]) Basically, this script just checks if the internet is available, then checks each site. If the previous result is available and is different, it sends an email with the headers received so you might get a good idea what’s going on. Even cooler, you can use the email specific to your cell phone carrier to get text messages when your sites’ availability changes.
NOTE: You must have some sort of mailer daemon installed. See How to setup Gmail with sSMTP. You can try it out by editing the appropriate parts of the script and then doing:
chmod +x checksites.py ./checksites.py eriwen.com yoursite.com Scheduling it up with cron
I’ve already showed you the ins and outs of basic cron scheduling. We can have this run every 5 minutes by typing crontab -e and then adding:
0-59/5 * * * * ./path/to/checksites.py yourwebsite.com othersite.org What do you think? Tell me how you’d make it more “pythonic” or otherwise improve it in the comments.
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I'd be concerned. A few million? What if the internet runs out of words?
I really am digging this Smashwords thing because once you are in with your purchase, even with the 100% discount code, you get to download it for your Kindle, your iWhatever, the desktop to print out all nice and you get to do it as many times as you want.
There were also these settings for if you want to impose the stupid DCRM on your stuff (like H E DOUBLE TOOTH PICKS) which I guess is self-publishing's way of saying this is your proprietary material but you aren't invoking dudes with guns to come enforce it. Fact is what is now the "companion website" has given away the core info for over a year. All the really important stuff like determining moisture content and some of the figures for daily caloric content, well, we didn't see anybody else covering these bases. Some of the tables emphasising what temps do, well we hope that drives it home. It's almost like you wanna store your food like you store gold. You always wanna be thinking about it but taking the basic precautions you can sleep at night.
Word up: who cares what I sell, the important thing is you guys have the info so I'm really counting on you all to assimilate this and pass it on. If we are endowed by Creator with certain inalienable rights, one of them is surely chomping on food which sustains us and this is a pretty tangible way of recognising that food is holy because we are. And feeding people is therefore a sacred activity.
I have often felt that maybe the only way we an truly honour God is to try and take care of his people. Feeding them is so simple but absolutely necessary. They can't go long without food and even less without water which is why I kinda went into water with this one. Freeze dried and dehydrated stuff saves weight, mass and longevity but it requires water. Store bought canned vegetables have lots of water in the can but they are heavy. Not good bugout stuff.
Did I mention that prepper tuna is tuna packed in oil? Oil is a major nutritional component to dry goods survival food, our body needs oils and fats. And also you can use fish oil or vegetable oil for fuel for a lamp. Or to waterproof fabric or paper. Or to heal flesh wounds and moisturise your skin or to smell-bait a snare.
Fact is this book is like an invitation to each and every one of you to write your own book on any sub-topic. Canning is great and people do it on youtube but candying and stuff like freeze-fermentation? Wanna make some applejack next winter? What we need is a guy or gal with an apple orchard and then we need a cider press.
And I kinda see where this is going. We just start to group up deals: buy our books in a bunch for a discount. let's do it, what the heck? Group up and do give-aways of our books to benefit DP or whatever or whomever. It occurs to me that as soon as I got a book I can do "special editions" for fundraisings. I guess the advantage there is unlike a post on the site, a published material kinda has an archival quality. Once it's out there it doesn't have an edit button. You have to publish a new edition.
And I gotta say it's fun so far. It's interacting with people on a whole new level. Giving somebody a book is like giving them your thoughts with a rain check, they don't have to or probably won't read it right then. But you never know when they will show up to cash it in.
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was Aisha a fiddly person interms of hadeeth saying she doesn't like certain customs and habits and rightly recording the fiddly manners she found in the prophet saws what I am trying to say is she the most mannerised wife of the prophet saws bringing out what femininity really is in islam and not liking certain men what actually happened to ali and hasan as I am sure it would be interesting
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what is under the pillow is often closer to the back door hence we all must pray
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Aisha probably wrote the letter to the Ethiopian king for Muhammad saws
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has anyone heard that the money from the man's side in marriage can help a little bit for the lifestyle
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Islamic law fiqh does it discuss beauty like swift dark horses and oasis with palm trees and houris with dark green eyes and markets of gold
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Brother you have very interesting character. :) Salam
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Woman hears clearly for the first time in this touching video
About nine weeks ago, a 29-year-old deaf woman heard her voice for the first time. She broke into tears—"I don't want to hear myself cry"—before laughing at her husband, who filmed her.
“My laughter sounds loud.”
Since the video's upload onto YouTube on September 26, Sarah Churman's first experience with her Esteem hearing aid from Envoy Medical has gone viral, with over 5 million people worldwide sharing in her happiness. Many Internet commenters admitted they cried too. Others were skeptical.
Just before the weekend (and before the video was linked on the front page of social news site reddit), "29 years old and hearing myself for the 1st time!" sat at a couple hundred thousand views.
But on Friday, the video was picked up by numerous blogs, featured on the Huffington Post, and the husband and wife were even interviewed by NBC's Matt Lauer on the Today Show on Monday. When speaking of his hesitation to put the video online, Sloan Churman, Sarah's husband, told Lauer:
“I wouldn’t have done it, because this was intimate for us; this was like getting married or having a child. I mean, seriously.”
Sarah Churman went on to comment on her happiness at being able to hear her daughters, and "the fear of the unknown" that awaited her once the device was turned on.
All a very touching story. Except reddit, being the skeptical group of Internet users that they are, couldn't let Churman’s video rest as the miracle it was described as without a healthy debate.
Redditors took to aim at the video's description -- “I was born deaf” -- which they found to be misleading. Churman said in the Today Show interview that she was able to hear before she was fitted with an Esteem hearing implant from Envoy Medical. (Churman had hearing aids since she was a child.) But her hearing was very muffled and murky. Redditors also maintained if she truly could not hear herself, she wouldn't be able to talk as smoothly, linking to another video of a deaf woman hearing for the first time.
"She's not actually completely deaf as the video title and description implies; she has a hearing (not cochlear) implant which provides improved auditory input compared to a hearing aid... It's extremely likely that she could hear herself and others without hearing aids, and probably did fairly well with hearing aids considering how easily she can understand her audiologist. If she were truly completely deaf and hearing her voice for the first time, she would have absolutely no clue what she was listening to" wrote swinejihad on a reddit thread about the video.
Redditor jellyfishjosh defended Churman against redditors similar to swinejihad in the more popular thread on the video:
"Deaf people are taught to speak by reproducing the sounds with their mouths based on the vibrations, air, and articulations of the mouth, tongue, and teeth rather than simply by listening. Most deaf people can speak, but their voices have a distinct "muffled" quality about them."
Is it all a case of semantics? Does it really matter if she only heard a little bit, as opposed to not at all?
In the accompanying article with the Good Morning America interview video, Churman's hearing ability was described as if she "were under water." The same article closes with an assessment from the Today Show's medical correspondent, Dr. Nancy Snyderman. Snyderman is paraphrased as saying "the fact that Sarah has an accent and can enunciate words fairly clearly shows she has had some hearing ability."
(Churman is from Texas, and has a bit of a Texan accent.)
Churman has taken to answering similar questions through YouTube comments on her video.
"My whole life I've been complimented on how well I speak. I don't really have an answer for you other than I have always had a passion for reading, grammar, and English.”
“My hearing loss was/is considered severe to profound. I've worked very hard to be able to interact and blend in... only thing I can say is 'God is good.""
Churman was not available for comment.
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Excited to form a strategic alliance with Greenopia to usher in sustainable living practices for now and the future! Two big green passion projects: 1) I started and publish www.bodiesinspace.com -- your brain fitness e-zine for living well and green in 21C. Being brain fit includes living in concert with nature, recognizing a stress free, healthy brain necessitates a stress free, healthy environment. "The Green Body Project" is the lead "green" blog column on the site. The Green Beacon is one of our leading bloggers sharing invaluable chunks of "how to" and "where to" tips for developing sustainable home living practices. 2) I'm passionate about coaching young entrepreneurs to developing green and sustainable design businesses. I've learned it takes embedding healthy, whole-brain self-management practices to grow healthy green business practices -- a natural pairing, for sure!
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Started back at UCLA, sophomore year. I've always lived in ocean states near forests and feel a natural, uncanny affinity to clear night skies and a sighting of Earth's moon. P.S. I was raised with holistic ethical values.
docgee's favorite books, movies, TV Shows, environmental organizations, or local community groups.
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Forum Post: Biotech Industry Ups Propaganda Efforts with Undercover Ambassadors?
Posted 9 months ago on Feb. 17, 2013, 8:45 a.m. EST by john32 (-272) from Pittsburgh, PA
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Washington has enough signatures to take a stand on GMO labeling - don't drop the ball like Cali.....
A recent article in the Wall Street Journal titled, “Monsanto: Battered, Bruised, and Still Growing”1 sets the stage for the discussion that follows. The dark heart of Monsanto has been exposed in recent years, and they’re in dire need of an image makeover.
“I'd be up for the dialogue around labeling. Maybe we'll look back and say [Prop 37] was the start of a more reasonable debate. But it was a confusing proposition,” Monsanto Chief Executive Hugh Grant tells the Wall Street Journal.
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Monsanto dumped a ton of money into "Prop 37 Hurts Farmers" with TV commercials.
It got turned into a partisan issue as always. Divide and conquer baby.
The TV commercials and the divisive nature of the campaign worked, as it always does. Whoever runs more TV commercials wins. Its that easy.
Depressing....so close to shifting agriculture in this country and they just dropped the ball.
[-] 1 points by shooz (25199) 9 months ago
Not to worry, I'm sure it's all tax deductible, meaning we the people pay to have ourselves lied to..........Again.
Here's how it works.
Did I see DeVos's name in there?
Lol yes shooz...we know your thoughts on the kochs....i dont' care for them much either...so we can agree on that.
[-] 2 points by shooz (25199) 9 months ago
Spoken like man that didn't read a word of it, just looked at the picture.
Care to expound on why YOU don't care for them?
Because they throw their support behind neocons.
They're libe(R)tarians.
Why would they do that, and how would they be using marketing/PR to accomplish it?
[-] -1 points by john32 (-272) from Pittsburgh, PA 9 months ago
I don't care who they are...throw your support behind neocons and i don't support you.
Why does any big company or billionaire throw support behind somebody? Why did goldman sachs throw it's support behind obama? Obviously they expect to get something once that person is elected.
They use marketing like anybody else....spew a bunch of money into the system to get the name out there. Similar to how monsanto and others crushed labeling for GMOs in cali.
Deflection is not expounding.
You did however manage to use the name Obama, so kudos to the PR department?
I'm just trying to get you to see that it is done on the other side......yeah, i can openly admit i don't like the kochs and their sphere of influence...but you can't admit it happens on the other side...that's what bothers me.
You can't can't expound and you don't even pretend to have read the article, and you think you're going to do WHAT for me?
What "other" side?
I'm still waiting for a list from you....faults with the democratic party and the shady shit they've done...i've already listed republicans....lets hear it shooz
You haven't provided much john.
You're real fear lies in admitting the Koch's are the founders of modern libe(R)tarianism. along with your fear of admitting that it's the philosophy that's put the World in it's current predicament.
Looking back, I don't see a single word from you critiquing rampant (R)epelicantism.
How about a comment on the extremely conse(R)vative SCOTUS that constantly upholds whatever Monsanto wants it to?
Lol...shooz i'm not going to talk to you. Have fun campaigning for the democrats.
Please show me where I have used "campaigning" in the proceeding exchange..............Are you denying what SCOTUS does or that it is and has had a conse(R)vative bent for very long time now.
Or are you just avoiding my original question? Or the one where you just commented on the picture and not the subject of the link?
I can never be sure with you john.
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JAT Flight 367
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JAT Airways Flight 367
Occurrence summary
Date 26 January 1972
Summary Bombing
Site Srbská Kamenice, Czechoslovakia
Passengers 23
Crew 5
Injuries (non-fatal) 1
Fatalities 27
Survivors 1 (Vesna Vulović)
Aircraft type McDonnell Douglas DC-9-32
Operator JAT Yugoslav Airlines
Registration YU-AHT
Flight origin Stockholm-Arlanda Airport
Stockholm, Sweden
Last stopover Copenhagen Airport
Copenhagen, Denmark
Destination Belgrade Airport
Belgrade, Yugoslavia
Sister ship opf the accident aircraft
JAT Yugoslav Airlines Flight 367 was a McDonnell Douglas DC-9-32 aircraft (registration YU-AHT) which exploded shortly after overflying NDB Hermsdorf, East Germany, while en route from Stockholm to Belgrade on 26 January 1972. The aircraft, piloted by captain Ludvig Razdrih, broke into two pieces and spun out of control, crashing near the village of Srbská Kamenice in Czechoslovakia (now the Czech Republic). 27 of 28 of those on board were killed upon ground impact; but one crew member, Vesna Vulović, survived.[1]
Last 20 min of the flight
McDonnell Douglas DC-9-32 was destroyed in flight by Émigré Croatian terrorists (Ustaše) who had placed a bomb on board. Vesna Vulović was near the rear of the aircraft at the time of the explosion. The empennage of the aircraft was torn away from the main fuselage and both fell from 10,160 meters (33,000 feet) before impact with the ground.[citation needed] A food cart pinned her to the back of the plane during her fall, acting as a seat belt, thus preventing her from being sucked out of the plane during de-compression or the ensuing fall.[citation needed] Some reports[which?] stated she was at the back when the explosion occurred, but she has said she was told that she had been found in the middle section of the plane.[2]
Vulović was in a coma for 27 days and was temporarily paralyzed from the waist down, but survived.[3] She continued working for the airline, holding a desk job.[4]
In popular culture[edit]
Vesna Vulović holds the official record in the Guinness Book of Records for the highest fall survived without a parachute.[2] Vulović received the Guinness prize from Paul McCartney.[2]
A major celebrity in SFRY, Vesna Vulović was a frequent guest at major Yugoslav TV shows such as Maksovizija by Milovan Ilić Minimaks, up until the 1990s. Vulović attended annual commemorations at the crash site, until they were stopped in 2002. The daughter of the firefighter that saved her bears her name, as well as the local hotel in Czech Republic, near the site of the crash.
The plane crash was a subject of MythBusters. Episode 37, "Escape Slide Parachute (Story of Vesna Vulović)" was devoted to her case.[5] The MythBusters concluded it was possible to survive the fall depending on how the wreckage someone was sitting in landed. Discovery Channel in their programme Against all Odds also profiled Vulović's fall to earth.
Challenges to the official cause[edit]
The officially stated cause of the crash was challenged on numerous occasions over the years.
The discussion about different aspects of the crash was reopened on 8 January 2009, when German news magazine Tagesschau featured a report by investigative journalists Peter Hornung and Pavel Theiner.[6][7] Based on newly obtained documents mainly from the Czech Civil Aviation Authority, they concluded that it was extremely likely that the plane had been mistakenly shot down only a few hundred meters above the ground by a MiG fighter of the Czechoslovak Air Force, having been mistaken for an enemy aircraft while attempting a forced landing.[4][8]
As evidence that the DC-9 had broken up at a lower altitude, the report cited eyewitnesses from Srbská Kamenice, who had seen the plane burning but still intact below the low-hanging clouds, and confirmation of a Serbian aviation expert (who had been present at the crash site) that the debris area had been much too small for a crash from high altitude; it also referred to sightings of a second plane.[4][7] According to Hornung, flight 367 got into difficulties, "went into a steep descent and found itself over a sensitive military area", close to a nuclear weapons facility.[4] The Czech Civilian Aviation Authority dismissed the claims as media sensationalism, that occurs from time to time, while Vesna Vulović (who has no memory of the crash or the flight after boarding[4]) referred to the claims that the plane attempted a forced landing or descended to such low altitude as a "nebulous nonsense".[9] A representative of Guinness World Records stated that "it seems that at the time Guinness was duped by this swindle just like the rest of the media."[4]
However, one source[10] does not support such conspiracy theories and quotes Czech army expert:
In case of violation of the air space, the incident would not be solved by anti-air missiles, but by fighter planes. Also it would not be possible to conceal such incident, as there would approximately 150–200 people knowing about the incident. They would not have any reason to not tell about incident today.
Additionally, the Czechoslovak Air Defense soldier who operated the radar the very day stated in a 2009 interview[10] that any Czechoslovak jet fighters would be noticed by the West German Air Defense:
Even if the Czechoslovak authorities would conceal it, the West would not be silent.
The official from the Czech Civil Aviation Authority claims[10] that findings of the official investigation are being questioned mostly because of the media attractiveness of the story.
Investigative report shows that the explosion on board was 'from the inside out'.
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Hackers attack those seen as opponents of WikiLeaks
MasterCard, Visa, banks, prosecutors targeted online
By Raphael G. Satter and Jill Lawless
Associated Press / December 9, 2010
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LONDON — Hackers rushed to the defense of WikiLeaks yesterday, launching attacks on MasterCard, Visa, Swedish prosecutors, a Swiss bank, and others who have acted against the site and its jailed founder Julian Assange.
In a Twitter message, Internet “hacktivists’’ operating under the label “Operation Payback’’ claimed responsibility for causing severe technological problems at the website for MasterCard, which pulled the plug on its relationship with WikiLeaks a day earlier.
MasterCard acknowledged “a service disruption’’ involving its Secure Code system for verifying online payments, but spokesman James Issokson said consumers could still use their credit cards for secure transactions. Later yesterday, Visa’s website was inaccessible.
The online attacks are part of a wave of support for WikiLeaks. Twitter was choked with messages of solidarity for the group, while the site’s Facebook page hit 1 million fans.
MasterCard is the latest in a string of US-based companies — including Visa,, PayPal Inc., and EveryDNS — to cut ties to WikiLeaks in recent days amid intense US government pressure. PayPal was not having problems yesterday, but the company said it faced “a dedicated denial-of-service attack’’ on Monday.
WikiLeaks’ extensive releases of secret US diplomatic cables have embarrassed allies, angered rivals, and reopened old wounds across the world. Officials in Washington said other countries have curtailed their dealings with the US government because of WikiLeaks’ actions.
Osama Bedier, PayPal’s vice president, said the company froze WikiLeaks’ account after seeing a letter from the State Department to WikiLeaks saying that the group’s activities “were deemed illegal in the United States.’’
Offline, WikiLeaks was under pressure on many fronts. Assange is in a British prison fighting extradition to Sweden over a sex crimes case. Recent moves by Swiss Postfinance, MasterCard, PayPal, and others that cut the flow of donations to the group have impaired its ability to raise money.
Neither WikiLeaks nor Assange has been charged with any offense in the United States, but the US government is investigating whether Assange can be prosecuted for espionage or other offenses. Assange has not been charged with any offenses in Sweden either, but authorities there want to question him about the allegations of sex crimes.
Undeterred, WikiLeaks released more confidential US cables yesterday. The latest batch showed the British government feared a furious Libyan reaction if the convicted Lockerbie bomber wasn’t set free and expressed relief when they learned he would be released in 2009 on compassionate grounds.
Another US memo described German leader Angela Merkel as the “Teflon’’ chancellor, but she brushed it off as mere chatter at a party. American officials were also shown to be lobbying the Russian government to amend a financial bill they felt would disadvantage US companies Visa and MasterCard.
WikiLeaks angered the US government earlier this year when it posted a video showing US troops on a helicopter gunning down two Reuters journalists in Iraq. Since then, the organization has leaked some 400,000 classified US war files from Iraq and 76,000 from Afghanistan, which US military officials said could put people’s lives at risk.
In the past few weeks, the group has begun leaking a massive trove of secret US diplomatic cables. top stories on Twitter
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Murder suspect summoned for jury pool
Man accused of gunning down rival tells judge he'd be fair and impartial
PAUL NELSON Staff write, Times Union
Updated 11:59 pm, Tuesday, September 13, 2011
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SCHENECTADY -- A man charged with murder got an unexpected note in the mail -- a jury duty summons for his own trial in Schenectady County Court.
Smith, who was seated in court with his defense attorney, Mark Gaylord, when Giardino mentioned the matter, nodded and cracked a smile when the judge mentioned the matter. Gaylord confirmed his client had received the jury letter.
Commissioner of Jurors Hope Splittgerber said that in her 28 years on the job no defendant had ever receive a summons to be a juror at his own trial. Smith was Juror 171.
"I have never had this happen," said Splittgerber.
She said Smith had received the jury summons at his home in late August after he failed to respond to a juror questionnaire sent to him under a policy designed to save the court from the need to mail out multiple questionnaires.
"When people do not send (the questionnaire) back, we automatically qualify them," Spittlgerber said, "and when they come in, they have to tell us why they didn't send it back."
It was a moment of levity in an otherwise grim case of Smith and Charles Louviere, who are accused of killing Michael Deveaux Jr. after fight at a city bar in the early hours of June 27, 2010.
In the trial's opening arguments, the prosecutor told jurors that as Deveaux lay dying on a city street, Smith stood over him at and pumped two more shots into his chest.
"Michael Deveaux is the man Derrick Smith robbed of his life," Assistant District Attorney Peter Willis.
He said Smith, "finished the job" after Deveaux was shot three times in the chest by Smith's friend, Charles Louviere, inside the El Dorado bar on Crane Street.
The pair, reputed members of the Bloods street gang, had targeted Deveaux, 21, and used the same .22 caliber revolver to slay him.
"The proof will show that Charles Louviere fled to an area where he gave Derrick Smith the gun, and he finished the job," Willis said.
Deveaux, managed to draw his weapon, and return fire, before stumbling outside the bar where his two cousins attempted to get him into a car and to the hospital when Smith shot him, according to Willis.
Deveaux was driven to Ellis Hospital's McClellan Street campus in a car that crashed through the sliding doors of the ambulance entrance. He was pronounced dead at the hospital.
Gaylord did not present an opening argument for his client who faces 25 years to life in prison if convicted of second-degree murder and two weapons offenses.
Earlier Tuesday during a pretrial hearing, the judge heard arguments from Gaylord and Willis on whether the grand jury testimony of a witness should be allowed into the trial because the witness, Lafanetta Bethea, subsequently refused to take the testify at the trial for the prosecution. At issue was whether, Smith sought to intimidate her.
To prove that he did, Willis himself took the stand and was questioned by Chief Assistant District Attorney Philip Mueller about his efforts to find Bethea and how over time she went from being a willing witness to an obstinate one.
Additionally, the prosecution played recorded phone calls between the incarcerated Smith and his girlfriend. In one, he boldly proclaimed that "if Lafanetta don't come, I go home."
Willis said that in the aftermath of the killing, Bethea had identified Smith, whom she knew through her sister, as one shooter and later picked Louviere from a photo array and surveillance footage as the other gunman. Willis said she later told relatives she didn't want to testify because she feared for her safety and that of her 3-year-old son, and efforts in the days leading up to the trial by prosecutors with the help of other law enforcement and social service agencies to find her proved futile.
Gaylord, Smith's attorney, dismissed the prosecution's assertions that his client was the reason Bethea was now refusing to testify and had disappeared. He countered that the threat by the District Attorney's Office that she would be thrown in jail for a year, the stigma of being labeled as a snitch and talk about a contract on her life were the real reasons she changed her mind about taking the stand for the prosecution at the trial.
"They have not met their burden of proof and have not presented any evidence that Mr. Smith was the motivating factor behind the girl's fears," Gaylord argued. "It was all generalized that she felt threatened."
Giardino sided with the prosecution and ruled that jurors could hear Bethea's grand jury testimony, saying Smith had the "motive and the opportunity" to intimidate Bethea.
That decision prompted Fred Rench, the defense attorney for Smith's alleged accomplice, Charles Louviere to, ask that his client be tried separately, a request that was granted.
Testimony will continue Wednesday in Smith's trial, and when it's done, Louviere's trial will be scheduled.
Reach Paul Nelson at 454-5347 or by email at pnelson@timesunion.com
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[Openmcl-devel] GCC4-based interface translator available for testing
Gary Byers gb at clozure.com
Fri Apr 8 03:28:10 MDT 2005
There's a preliminary version of a GCC4-based interface translator
available in ftp://clozure.com/pub/testing/:
INSTALL-FFIGEN-darwinppc-gcc-4.0-20050326.txt contains terse installation
ffigen-bin-darwinppc-gcc-4.0-20050326.tar.gz binaries for Darwin; Linux
binaries should be available
ffigen4-src-050408.tar.gz "sources" (i.e., diffs and
a Makefile.)
GCC-4.0 hasn't been officially released yet; this is based on a fairly
recent (March 26) snapshot. "snapshot" archives are available from
gcc.gnu.org and its mirror sites. I'll try to keep this fairly current
(at least until the final GCC-4.0 release.)
In the past, Apple has made sources to their own modified versions of
GCC available on www.opensource.apple.com. I don't know whether the
"final" Apple GCC 4.0 release will differ from the final GNU release
in any significant way; if so, this should probably be synched with
that release as well.
The binaries will only run on OSX 10.3 or later; it's not clear to
me whether GCC 4 can be built on 10.2, and I didn't try.
There -may- be some issues related to internationalization of error
messages; that may also change when GCC 4 becomes a "final" release.
I've tested this -some-, and have found a few quirks and oddities but
(so far) no major problems. Some of the quirks/oddities:
- some previous Apple GCC releases recognized __private_extern__ as
a C storage class (or something triggered a C macro definition of
that symbol.) This construct is used in a few Apple header files;
shell> h-to-ffi.sh -D__private_extern__=extern /path/to/header.h
seems like a reasonable workaround (assuming that whatever the
differences between "__private_extern__" and "extern" are, they're
- there seems to be some confusion in one of the files included by
<math.h> about the correct prototype of the 'scalb' function.
"scalb" is an intrinsic function in GCC 4.0, and the Panther
header files provide a conflicting declaration.
- GCC 4.0 may have a different notion of how the "long double"
type is implemented than previous versions did.
- this is based on the GCC ObjC frontend, so vanilla C files that
reference type names like "Class" and "id" (and possibly the
structure names "objc_class" and "objc_object") may confuse it.
(Since most C system header files are intended to be included
in ObjC headers/source, it's presumably rare for C headers to
contain ObjC keywords.)
Except for the last quirk, these all seem to be issues that
C programmers might have to face.
One of the other goals in (finally!) starting to update this
translator is to write ObjC class and method information for ObjC
header files. (Historically, about all that was incorporated into the
.ffi files produced from ObjC headers were the C types, records,
constants, and functions declared in those headers and a "template"
that described instances of each class as a C structure.)
For each ObjC class that this version of the translator sees, it produces
a form in the .ffi file that looks like:
(objc-class ("SOURCE-FILE" LINE-NUMBER) ; the source info isn't maintained
(superclass "SUPERCLASS-NAME") ; a string naming the superclass, or
; the literal VOID if the class has no
; superclass
(template "TEMPLATE-NAME") ; the structure tag of the "template"
(IVAR*)) ; 0 or more field definitions for
; each instance variable
For each ObjC instance method, the translator produces:
(objc-instance-method ("SOURCE-FILE" LINE-NUMBER) ; Real info this time!
"METHOD-NAME" ; the selector string, may contain colons
"CLASS-NAME" ; The class of the specialized argument
; ("self")
("CATEGORY-NAME") | () ; A list containing the name of the
; category that defines this method, or
; an empty list
(ARG*) ; Descriptions of the types of each
; argument (other than SELF/_CMD)
RESULT-TYPE) ; the method's result type
and likewise for ObjC class methods.
It's -possible- that this will need to be augmented some to deal with
methods defined via ObjC "protocols" (I'm not sure whether or not
those methods have been associated with classes by the time the translator
sees the class definition; if not, it may need to know what methods are
defined by what protocols and what protocols are adopted by what classes.)
Except for all of the stuff that I've forgotten about or never thought
of (that stuff is always a problem ...), this seems to basically work.
I haven't done much with Carbon yet (could be issues related to packed
legacy structures) and the ObjC info may need to be tweaked some, but
things seem to basically work.
So far, I haven't seen anything in the .ffi files that the FFI parser
in 0.14.3 doesn't understand. (That may change when we start dealing
with 64-bit longs/pointers via the -m64 switch ...)
The "sources" (Makefile and patches) are also available via CVS, as
the module "ffigen4" in the repository "clozure.com:/usr/local/publiccvs".
That'd be:
shell> cvs -d :pserver:cvs at clozure.com:/usr/local/publiccvs login
(the anonymous CVS password is "cvs")
shell> cvs -d :pserver:cvs at clozure.com:/usr/local/publiccvs get ffigen4
If you want to work on this and want CVS write access, please let me know.
If you're able to test it and find bugs and problems other than those
mentioned above, please let me know that as well.
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An F1 for the road
What do two engineers do once they quit working for McLaren? Make their own street legal F1 cars, of course. The Freestream T1 is an ultra high performance 2-seater that will hit the streets later this year. Carbon fiber construction makes it incredibly light (1,025 pounds) and highly resolved aerodynamics and chassis make it safe, or at least as safe as a car can be at 200 miles per hour. A 2.4L V8 supercharged engine offers 500bhp at 10,500 rpm. It’ll go 0-60 mph in less than 2.5 seconds and pass 100 mph in under 5 seconds. That’s acceleration that you can’t get in many street legal vehicles. It has 3g cornering and braking so that it can handle the speeds it can push.
The first prototype of the T1 is almost ready. Freestream will only make 25 of the vehicles per year, so owning one will be very prestigious. The price matches the prestige. Each of the British made vehicles will cost about $265,000.
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UltimateNYG answers Vic Carucci's questions
Written by Andy Furman on .
Carucci (2/9/11): "The Giants also were wildly inconsistent, and there was no mistaking that Coughlin got them to play better against weaker teams but usually couldn't get them to perform as well against stronger opponents."
UltimateNYG (1/20/11): "Without overgeneralizing, the Giants lost to good QBs >90 and beat weaker QBs <90. Which ones do you expect to find in the playoffs?"
Vic Carucci brings up 5 questions... our answers follow.
1. What to do with key free agents? There will be a land rush after the labor dispute is eventually settled, but Jerry Reese will have ~ 3 key players he needs to bring back and the rest of the list will be manageable thereafter. As an example of "manageable," I am a Bradshawlic and if Reese lost him to free agency it would not cripple us to lose 6 turnovers. Given that Bradshaw appears to be higher on Reese's list of priorities, do not be overly concerned about this question.
3. Can Manning reduce interceptions? Coughlin didn't fire the Wide Receivers coach, er I mean Quarterbacks coach. So Eli is going to get help from...whom???
5. Will Giants tighten up secondary? This is not about the Giants secondary. It is about Fewell's schemes, and perhaps a little bit more help from a cover LBer. The only question here is how well Phillips can do in the offseason to get healthier and improve his speed/range. Given that Chad Jones imploded at roadside, the Giants WILL draft another Safety this offseason.
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If comedian Ian Bagg looks a bit like a hockey player, there's very good reason. He grew up in British Columbia with aspirations of playing the sport professionally. However, a few brutal hockey camps knocked him in the direction of comedy. He still loves the game, though, and occasionally plays in monthlong tournaments in Canada. "I'm a huge hockey fan," he states. "I'm a Vancouver Canucks fan through and through. My parents still send me, every Christmas, a boat load of stickers, key chains, the little bobble heads, and a Canucks calendar from Shippers Drug Mart, which is a Canadian drugstore. Every year since I was kid my parents got that for me." A true offspring of the English-speaking world, Bagg has a Canadian father and an Australian mother, and he currently lives in Los Angeles. Onstage he talks a lot about current events. "I like to have a conversation with the audience, more than I do a monologue, so you don't know where the show's going to end up. Basically my show is a road rally and I have to hit certain... More >>>
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Masonic Lodge Secrets
Masonic Lodge secrets are much sought after by those who are not members of the fraternity.
Masonic Lodge Secrets
However, the Freemason secret is much easier to decipher than most people would believe.
Masonic Secrets in the Masonic Lodge
If you see a man who is wearing a Masonic lapel pin, a set of Masonic cufflinks or Masonic jewelry...he is most probably a Mason and belongs to one of the thousands of Masonic lodges across the world.
Does this mean he knows the Masonic secrets? Yes....most probably he does.
Q: Why won't he divulge these Masonic signs, the Masonic handshake and the Masonic Passwords?
A: He is an honorable man. He promised upon his word to keep them secret.
Q: How can I find out these Masonic secrets?
A: If you are an honorable man; you might want to learn about how to become a Freemason.
Masonic Passwords
While many people falsely believe that possessing the Masonic passwords are the keys that will unlock all of the Masonic secrets,... however, in truth, these Masonic passwords can be likened more to an ancient formality which the Freemason fraternity strives to maintain.
Q: If I am not a Freemason, but possess the Masonic passwords, will I be able to get into a Masonic lodge and learn their Masonic secrets?
A: It is highly doubtful. The reason is that Freemasonry is a brotherhood of men, most of whom have long term ties to their lodge and their lodge brothers.
Think of it this way,... if you have a football uniform and show up at the door to the locker room of one of the National football teams, the security guard...(we call him a Tiler),... would ask for your credentials, (your Masonic password) for admittance.
If you know the password, you might gain entrance, but once inside, if you are unknown to the Coach,...(we call him the Worshipful Master); he is going to test you to determine your authenticity.
In other words, if you knock on the door, are somehow able to prove your false authenticity, and do gain admittance, should be ready and able to play football. If you are not ready, the Coach will not let you suit up.
The true "key to the lock" of Masonic lodge secrets is when a man becomes a Freemason.
Masonic Ritual
Q: I have heard that Masonic Ritual is one of the Masonic lodge secrets. Is it?
A: Yes.
Q: What happens during Masonic ritual?
A: Much of Masonic ritual is based upon the Holy Scriptures. Once the Holy Scriptures become more meaningful to you, you will see that Masonic ritual is a method of inculcating (teaching) their values.
Freemasonry is not a part of any specific religion. In fact, believing in a Supreme Being is one of its qualifications in most jurisdictions around the world. Freemasonry is about spiritual enlightenment, brotherly love, relief and charity to those who are misfortunate.
It is a group of men who wish to give back to others, as God intended us to do.
Once a man becomes a member and understands its true purposes, the few Masonic lodge secrets are not as important to Freemasons as the spirituality felt during the Masonic ritual and the emotional and social benefits of having "brothers" who believe in your worth.
Freemason Degree Ritual
Q: Is Freemason degree ritual a secret,...and, what exactly is degree ritual?
A: Freemason degree ritual, is, indeed, a secret.
There are 3 degrees within Freemasonry, Entered Apprentice, Fellowcraft and Master Mason.
Masonic degree ritual is about bringing a new candidate from darkness (their old ways which may not be pleasing to the Creator) to light (walking in harmony with other men who attempt to please God by their actions in life). The actual ritual is performed in play form and as such, is quite dramatic.
In the ritual, with the help of other men, a man turns away from his grievous past ways and is reborn to seek the light which our Creator desires for us.
Freemason Code Books
Q: Are Freemason Code Books part of the Masonic lodge secrets?
A: Yes.
Q: What is in these code books?
A: They contain parts of the ritual which is several hundred years old. However, even if you could read the code book,... without going through the physical ceremonial ritual of rebirth to become a Master Mason, the words within the book can be very confusing and not very helpful toward understanding the meaning of each degree in its entirety.
This might best be likened to viewing the musical notes of a song sheet compared to hearing the song sung.
Masonic Secret handshakes
(also called Freemason grips)
Q: Why are these Freemason handshakes part of their Masonic lodge secrets?
A: See below.
Freemasonry is an ancient fraternity of men, whose lodge symbolically represents King Solomon's Temple in biblical times. Like Solomon's Temple, only those who are pure of heart and who seek enlightenment in the principles our Creator has set down for us in the Holy Scriptures are allowed to enter the Masonic Temple.
Secrets of Freemasons
For a deeper understanding of Masonic lodge secrets, you may wish to read more about the secrets of Freemasons. You may be very surprised at what underlies their rituals.
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LucidSW - 2:52 pm on Jun 17, 2011 (gmt 0)
Interesting test and I see positives and negatives depending on which side of the tracks you're on.
Would this not be some sort of extension to the +1 button but for the PPC side?
Google is really an advertising company. Just like all other media like radio, TV, newspaper. Their product is not the entertainment or the news. Their product is advertising. So anything they can do to increase that, the better for them. Google is no different.
So potential positive for Google in getting more people to click those ads and getting more advertisers.
But as Tropical Island points out, do we want competitors to know? Maybe a small price to pay to increase our own clicks.
While I agree that many are not aware that those are ads, there are those who know and refrain from clicking them at all. Others I've talked to don't click the side ads, only those above the SERPs.
Also, seems this might affect newer advertisers negatively. If I just started a campaign and a competitor started a year ago, he'd have more clicks. Would searchers be more inclined to click on his ad than mine, even with a better offer? Maybe a better system would be "x% of people liked this ad". I doubt Google would do that since they don't want advertisers to know how individual competitors are doing.
Another thing, too, is that clicks from search or including the content network?
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Population- Part 3: Net Migration
Part 3: Net Migration
Figure 2: Net Population Migration in NCThe most dynamic element of population change is net migration, the difference between the number of people moving into the state and the number who left. As Figure 2 indicates, in the past the state tended to lose more people this way than it gained. The heaviest losses were experienced in the 1950s but by the 1970s, for the first time in modern history, a substantial net in-migration was recorded. This continued to increase rapidly in more recent years. reaching nearly 1.4 million between 1990 and 2005.
The implications of this flood of new residents are profound. Historically, most North Carolina residents were natives, almost entirely either white or black. Now, thousands of new residents are from various parts of the country and from over seas. They bring with them different names, languages, ideologies, skin colors and cuisines.
The US Census shows that North Carolina ranked third nationally in terms of net domestic migration between 1995 and 2000 for the population that was 5 years or older in 2000. Only Florida and Georgia exceeded the state’s net influx of 337,883 people during the five-year period. These data do not include migration to or from international sites. These numbers are based on Census reports of changes in residence between 1995 and 2000 for the population that was alive in 1995. They do not compare with the preceding data, which include all people and a longer time period. The primary insight that they offer is that they include information on the state-to-state movements of people during the five-year period. The net in-migration of 337,883 people into North Carolina is the difference between the total domestic in-migration of 919,336 (5th largest among US states) and the out-migration of 581,453 (11th largest among US states) to other states.
New York was the leading source of in-migrants to North Carolina, with a net influx of 80,465 people. It was followed by Florida, with a net in-migration of 38,691. Six other states each contributed 10,000 or more: California, Maryland, New Jersey, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Virginia. Of these eight stares, only Florida and Virginia recorded overall net in-migration flows while the other six lost more than they gained. These data make it apparent that North Carolina has become a magnet for people from many parts of the country.
The Census migration data also showed that North Carolina ranked first nationally in terms of the rate of increase in its foreign-born population, with a 274 percent jump between 1995 and 2000. All told, a net of 139,381 foreign-born people moved into the state from abroad and another 44,358 moved in from a different state. These domestic foreign-born in-migrants came mostly from the major "Gateway" states, California, New York, Florida, and Texas, led by the influx of over 16,000 from California. Most of these in-migrants came from Mexico, followed by a smaller number of Asians. Only a little more than a quarter of these new foreign-born residents have become US citizens, the lowest proportion among all of the states. Apparently this low proportion is a reflection of the recency of their arrival in North Carolina, coupled with the length of time that the naturalization process takes.
The 1995-2000 values show that 196,337 people 5 years or older moved into North Carolina from overseas, the ninth largest total among US states. Over one-quarter of the statewide total arrived in Mecklenburg and Wake counties while most of the rest went to other metro areas, especially Cumberland, Durham, and Guilford counties.
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NTSB Identification: LAX07FA219.
Accident occurred Friday, July 13, 2007 in El Cajon, CA
Probable Cause Approval Date: 03/31/2008
Aircraft: Piper PA-28-181, registration: N38137
Injuries: 2 Fatal.
Radar data disclosed that the pilot flew the airplane from the departure airport toward the accident site, with the last recorded target at 610 feet above ground level (agl) over rising mountainous terrain. The floor of the radar coverage in the area was about 200 feet agl. The accident site was located at an elevation of about 2,293 feet mean sea level (msl) on the slope of a bowl-shaped box canyon about 25 nautical miles (nm) from the departure airport. In character, the canyon and surrounding hills were steeply sloped, averaging between 60 to 80 degrees, with the tops of the canyon terrain about 700 feet higher than the accident site elevation and 1,000 feet laterally in front of the wreckage. An analysis of the airplane's climb performance capability found that a lateral distance of 2 miles would be required to climb 700 feet. Ground scar analysis, impact signatures, and wreckage fragmentation patterns disclosed that the airplane impacted in a descending steep vertical nose down attitude traveling downslope. The impact geometry was consistent with the airplane encountering an accelerated stall while attempting a course reversal in the canyon. The width of the canyon immediately surrounding the wreckage measured about 1,250 feet. With a turn radius of 637.5 feet, and airspeed of 99 knots (maneuvering speed), the bank angle required for the airplane to complete a 180-degree turn was a minimum of 55 degrees. According to stall speed versus angle of bank data, the stall speed would be 55 knots at 55 degrees of bank. No evidence of mechanical malfunction or failure was found during a post accident examination of the airplane and engine. The pilot had accumulated 75 hours total flight experience, of which about 2 hours was in the same make and model as the accident airplane and acquired in the location of the departure airport.
the pilot's inadequate in-flight decision to attempt low altitude flight operations into a box canyon in mountainous terrain, and his failure to maintain an adequate airspeed while maneuvering to reverse direction, which led to an accelerated stall and spin.
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Source: Reader's Digest, May 1995, pp. 33,36-37,39,41.
When Richard Simms of Conyers, Ga., began experiencing fatigue, irritability and blurred vision, he couldn't understand why. The normally affable 23-year-old grew even more concerned when he started having fits of anger, followed by a steep drop in energy.
Then one day he collapsed in convulsions. Rushed to Emory University Hospital in Atlanta, he lapsed into a coma. Doctors diagnosed encephalitis, a brain inflammation that resulted from a cat scratch - apparently by Simms's cat Max.
An estimated 60 percent of Americans share a home with an animal. We keep more than 57 million cats, 53 million dogs and 12 million birds. Unusual animals, such as rodents, reptiles and miniature pigs, are being adopted as pets. Reptiles can now be found in more than 450,000 households.
Having a pet is a wonderful experience - but epidemiologist Dr. Peter Schantz of the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) in Atlanta warns that owners should be aware that "approximately four million Americans are infected annually by a "zoonotic" disease [one contracted from an animal]." At least a dozen diseases can be passed along by household pets. Usually only the most serious, like rabies or plague, create headlines.
While rabies in humans is rare, health officials are monitoring the disease because there has been a 95-percent increase in reported cases among animals from 1990 to 1993. Most cases involve wild creatures such as raccoons, skunks, bats and foxes, but the CDC also reports a 54-percent jump in cat rabies, to 391 cases in 1993. In Texas, coyotes have carried a strain that is easily transmitted to unvaccinated dogs.
Plague, rare today, is the "Black Death" that killed 25 million Europeans in the 14th century. Since 1991 there have been about 11 reported cases per year in the United States, mostly involving fleas from wild animals in the West and Southwest. Plague is transmitted by infected fleas - usually on rodents but, says Schantz, sometimes on pets. Both cats and dogs may become infected, but dogs can't transmit plague to humans. Cats have given the disease to 16 people since 1977. Two died. If diagnosed quickly, however, plague is routinely cured by antibiotics.
The vast majority of pet-transmitted diseases are not frightening, fatal disorders. Many are preventable and readily cured - if you know about them. Here are the main hazards to your health - and what you can do about them:
Cat-Scratch Disease. This ailment affects some 22,000 people yearly. It's a bacterial infection often transmitten by a cat's scratch, though sometimes by a bite or a lick. Watch for tender, swollen lymph nodes, brief redness at the scratch site and occassionally fever. Although symptoms may last from two to six months, most patients do not require treatment.
For one or two percent of patients like Richard Simms, however, cat-scratch can be devastating. Simms eventually recovered from his coma. Yet, "even six months later, I was in a haze, feeling like I was living in a dream," he says. Does he still have Max? "Sure - he's my pal. But I'm more careful these days."
Hookworm, Roundworm. You know that dogs and cats can have worms - you may not know that Fido and, to a lesser extent, Fluffy can share them with their owners. Humans are infected through contact with soil containing traces of dog feces, then touching their hands to their mouth without washing them.
Hookworm is a parasite found in some dogs, commonly in humid areas of the country. Eggs pass in dogs' stools and hatch in the soil to produce tiny larvae capable of migrating through human skin. Once under the skin, they cause an intensely itchy rash. Sometimes the illness goes away in a week; other times prescription medicine is needed.
Dr. Lawrence Raymond, associate professor of ophthalmology at the University of Cincinnati, has seen many worm-related eye disorders, especially in younsters. One case involved a ten-year-old infected with a roundworm that traveled through his system and settled in his retina. The worm had already caused some permanent damage to the retina before Raymond destroyed it with a laser.
"There are an estimated 10,000 cases of human roundworm infection each year," says Dr. Schantz. "Of these, more than 700 result in vision impairment."
Ringworm. This is actually a fungus that infects the hair of a dog or cat. The fungi can be transmitted back and forth between humans and pets by direct contact, and in humans can cause such problems and athlete's foot.
Toxoplasmosis. Ironically, this pet-related disease is often overlooked because it's so common. It comes from a parasite found in the feces of infected cats, which pick it up from small rodents. The parasite can survive in a litter box, or in garden soil for up to a year before being brought home by a human - possibly in the dirt under fingernails.
According to Dr. Benjamin Luft, chairman of the Department of Infectious Diseases at the University Medical Center at Stony Brook, N.Y., ten to 40 percent of Americans are infected with toxoplasmosis. Nine out of ten have no symptoms or ill effects. The unlucky ones may experience fever, headache, swollen glands or skin rashes. Tragically, "if a woman acquires it during pregnancy," says Luft, "it can severely damage the fetus." Estimates are that over 3000 babies are born each year with birth defects, including brain damage, because of toxoplasmosis.
A blood test can detect the disease, and anti-parasitic drugs can reduce the chances of transmission to the fetus by 60 percent. But the best course is prevention. If you're pregnant, have someone else clean the litter box, if possible.
Bites. Over 500,000 animal bites occur each year. Even a nip can transmit Pasteurella multocida, a bacterium passed along in one- fourth of all dog and cat bites. The typical sign is swelling where the bite occurred, sometimes accompanied by fever. "It doesn't matter if it was the family pet that bit you," says pediatrician Andrew Margileth of the University of Virginia. "Get the bite checked out." When a strange dog has broken your skin and the animal can't be found and tested, you must get rabies shots.
Psittacosis. Several species of birds, including parrots and parakeets, can transmit this disease to humans through feces and dust from feathers. Symptoms are cough and chest pain, possibly accompanied by fever, chills, muscle aches and vomiting. Certain antibiotics can cure the problem.
Lyme Disease. Infected deer ticks travel into the house on the fur of pets. Typical symptoms are a round bull's-eye-like red spot at the site of the tick bite, weakness, fever, headache, and pain in muscles and joints. If caught early, the disease can be treated with antibiotics. As with toxoplasmosis, if a pregnant woman contracts Lyme, the organism can cause birth defects.
Salmonella. Twenty years ago, pet turtles became a concern when nearly 15 percent of all reported salmonella infections (mostly in chilren) were traced to the tiny creatures. Government restrictions on turtles under four inches in diameter cut down on the disease. But with the popularity of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, turtle ownership has surged, and the risk has risen again. Children should be reminded to wash their hands after handling the pets.
Five-year-old Jonathan Drews woke one night with cramps, diarrhea and vomiting. The symptoms became so severe he was hospitalized for five days. Finally doctors diagnosed salmonella. Several months earlier, the family had bought a turtle carrying the bacteria. One day, their son dropped a plastic block into the turtle's tank - and after retrieving it, Jonathan put the block in his mouth.
Iguanas can also carry salmonella. The New York State Department of Public Health recently warned 1300 pet stores of the potential danger.
Only a small percentage of people contact a disease from a pet. The risk can be diminished by following a few simple precautions:
*Always vaccinate your animal against rabies. If you adopt a stray, take it to the vet for shots.
*Have your dogs and cats checked annually for worms and routinely dewormed as puppies and kittens. And since worm-infested droppings can mix in soil handled by playing children, stress the importance of hand-washing and keeping hands away from the mouth.
*However much you or your children adore your pet, kissing it on the snout is a bad idea. Never allow a dog or cat to eat from your plate.
*Watch birds for decreased appetite and droopy feathers - signs of psittacosis. Wear rubber gloves and - if you suspect a problem - a dust mask when you scour the cage.
*Clean your cat's litter box every day. Rubber gloves protect against contact with parasites. Washing hands and rinsing the litte box with near-boiling water further reduce the risk of contracting toxoplasmosis.
*Check your pet for ticks at least once daily if it roams free.
*Get your dog or cat to the vet for checkups. "If you maintain a pet in good health," says Dr. Leonard Marcus, a Newton, Mass., physician and veterinarian, "it's less likely to have a disease that could be transmitted to the family."
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Wednesday, December 11, 2013
Turkish Warplanes Strike Kurdish Rebels In Iraq
Turkey's military says Turkish warplanes have carried out air strikes on suspected Kurdish rebel hideouts in northern Iraq.
The army's general staff said on its website that the air strikes had hit "nine targets" belonging to the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK).
It said the raids began on June 22.
The raids are the second Turkish air campaign against rebel hideouts in northern Iran within a week following the killing of eight Turkish soldiers along the border with Iraq on June 19.
The military said more than 30 rebels have been killed following the June 19 attack.
Kurdish rebels have used northern Iraq as a springboard for attacks on Turkish targets in their decades-long fight for automony in Turkey's Kurdish-majority southeast.
The conflict has claimed the lives of some 45,000 people since 1984.
Based on reporting by AFP, AP, and Reuters
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by: Jack from: US
June 24, 2012 14:43
Kurdish people are fighting for their freedom against centuries-old Turkish oppression. US government supports Sunni Turk tyranny and murderous Turkish regime which killed hundreds of thousand Kurdish civilians. Turks banned Kurdish language. But US government and its minion Turkey are going to lose. Kurds will eventually gain freedom and independence from Turk.
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by: Rick from: US
June 25, 2012 05:38
Jack, Kurdish people have freedom in Turkey. They have freedom to speak their own languges and they are able to do what every other people can do in Turkey. What is if Spanish speaking people ask for independence from US? Thats the same.
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by: Jack from: US
June 25, 2012 14:36
You are wrong Rick. Kurds do not have rights to teach their own language in schools in Turkey, they do not have rights to have TV and radio programs in their own language. Just speaking Kurdish language in Istanbul can get you arrested by Turks. Comparing Kurdish issue with Spanish-speaking people in US is absurd. Latinos have their own country - Mexico, and even more, they have many Spanish-speaking countries, from Spain to Argentina. Kurds are denied the rights to have their own country. Turks occupied their land of Kurdistan and robbed Kurds of everything. US government supports Turkish oppression of Kurdish population, because it considers Turkey a faithful NATO minion.
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by: Punk
June 25, 2012 15:49
Jak is either totally ignorant of the situation in Turkey or is deliberately misleading others. Kurdish language is taught in state and private universities and in private courses. They can and do have their TV and radio programming, including an entire state funded channel - TRT 6, which broadcast in Kurdish. Speaking Kurdish will not get you into trouble anywhere, in Istanbul the Kurdish party actually campaigns in Kurdish. On the other hand, speaking Turkish in some parts of Turkey would actually get you into trouble.
About the second part, IF as you claim Kurds have the right to independence from Turkey then the Spanish speaking people in US have even more right, as their situation is not better than in Turkey. Besides, this has nothing to do with there being other Spanish speaking countries, first of all by saying that Jak contradicts himself, if there was no need for more Spanish countries if there were already some, then why do we have this many? If we have this many then why can't we have one more? As you see that argument does not hold. Or why would U.S. recognize Kosovo independence when there already is an Albanian state? Or, how about Native peoples in U.S.? unlike the Spanish they have no state, do they have a right to declare independence or carry our attacks against American military?
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by: GeneralSherman from: US
June 28, 2012 02:54
Jack, why don't you tell us your real name? It's clearly not "Jack". Which US state are you deriving welfare from? The kurds already have freedom. There is no Turkish "oppression". The US government doesn't support jack. Turkiye isn't even given approval to carry out operations in Northern Iraq that were critical in destroying the PKK in the late 90's. Their is no "regime" in Turkiye. It is a secular democracy, something the kurds with their inferior genetics and backward brains couldn't make in a million years. There is no Turk "tyranny". The kurds are mostly Sunni Muslims too, you idiot. LOL, Turkiye hasn't killed "hundreds of thousands of kurdish civilians". All the kurds sent to hell by Turkiye were PKK terrorists (30,000 of them) with 40,000 kurdish civilians killed by the PKK for refusing to support the PKK. Turkiye didn't ban anything. By that logic all foreigin languages are "banned'. The reality is that taxpayer-funded public institutions are required to use Turkish language as it should be as it is in every country in the world. Turkiye will not be the one exception to this in the world. Stop grouping us with the US. They have been very unhelpful and they and the kurdish terrorist group in Northern Iraq are helping the PKK terrorists by giving them shelter. "going to lose"? LOL, how is that? More than 30,000 PKK terrorists have been sent to hell, tens of thousands more have been captured, and more than 40,000 kurds have been murdered by the PKK? Do you know what Turkish casualties are in all of this? Less than 5,000. Kurds are already have freedom (more than they do in any country in the world and too much of it in fact) and they will not get "independence" because they have no right to it. The "kurdish" ethnic group and kurdish nationalism are the inventions of 19th century european imperialists. Read christopher dickey's "Don't Redraw Middle East Map". The "kurds" in Turkiye, iraq, syria, and iran are all genetically dissimiliar and liguistically incoherent. The reality is that they are iranic offshouts from india who have always lived on other people's land. Even then the kurds in northen iraq have haplogroup J in frequencies of higher than 40 % making them more Arab than some Arabs. The kurds in Turkiye didn't even inhabit Eastern Anatolia until the Ottoman sultan defeated the Persian shah and gave a large amount of land to a kurdish servant of his. Historically, the "kurds" defined their allegiance by tribe, faith, or the nation to which they were stealing the culture from. Even kurdish nationalists admit that one-hundred years ago "kurdish" was mostly Turkish, Persian, and Arabic.
by: Vakhtang from: Moscow
June 25, 2012 15:12
As you know my dears, on the orders of Putin was occupied Georgian territory- Abkhazia, the local Georgian population wiped out and there were settled аpsua (abkhaz) wild primitive tribes to their homes.
Putin then recognized abkhaz bandits, and said that it is an independent racist apartheid formation...
Of course the Kurds also want their own state...and is seen that there are options...
In Iraq, there is a territory which is mostly inhabited by Kurds.Therefore, the world's leaders and the UN must recognize this part of Iraq as independent Kurdish state.
Thus, all questions are removed--the fighting stops in Turkey and all interested persons are well...
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cojef wrote:
Never owned a smart-phone, only a cell on a pre-paid plan of $100. After the 1C is used, it stops operating, until additional funds are added.
on May 4,2013 | 12:43PM
mikethenovice wrote:
Disable the phone? Yeah. Just call the phone company to have them cut off the signal. Who needs that automatic kick in solution? Don't be lazy, make the call yourself.
on May 4,2013 | 06:13PM
mrluke wrote:
You're missing the point. The idea is to make it so convenient that somebody else does it for you. :-)
on May 4,2013 | 06:34PM
mikethenovice wrote:
What's the difference between convenient and lazy?
on May 5,2013 | 08:06AM
harley1 wrote:
Not a good idea. What if uncle Sam decides to kill all cell phones at once as a means of quelling dissent?
on May 4,2013 | 08:21PM
st1d wrote:
why kill it?
activate the gps signal instead and home in on the phone. send the police and when they are near have the phone ring. the police can then arrest the suspect.
stop the thieves and less thefts of phones will occur.
on May 4,2013 | 10:20PM
localguy wrote:
st1d - Hello. GPS can be turned off. You do know that right? You have looked at your phone's settings, GPS, Off or On? Posting rookies.
on May 4,2013 | 11:18PM
st1d wrote:
i'll try to keep it simple for you:
as soon as your phone is turned on, it pings the nearest towers and your location is triagulated.
the cell phone company constantly tracks your location, even if you've toggled the gps to the privacy mode.
by turning the phone's gps location toggle on, you allow a third party (google, navigation, maps) to collect and share your location data..
the cell carriers are constantly pinging your phone as you move around their networks. that's what makes the signal bars fluctuate as the phone displays strength of signal, at the same time the pinging reveals your phone's location to the carrier regardless of your gps toggle setting.
you also give up gps location privacy when you dial 911, and, the police can retrieve your location from cell carriers in emergencies with a warrant or with your permission.
on May 5,2013 | 03:20AM
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on May 5,2013 | 08:56AM
nodaddynotthebelt wrote:
I think you miss the whole point. Many phones do have gps but a lot of criminals know how to hack these phones. If it were as simple as locating the phone through gps then the whole point of a database would have been moot. The point is, to deter thieves from stealing phones, they should have a kill switch built in so that any unauthorized use will render the phone so useless that even an experienced thief with hacking ability will find it pointless. This whole feature should be built into phones to discourage widespread phone thieves who make a lot of money off of them on the black market.
on May 5,2013 | 12:11AM
st1d wrote:
if you read my response to the previous poster, you will see that it is a simple thing for the phone carriers to track any of their phones by gps.
the point of the data base is to allow cell phone carriers to share the locations of stolen cell phones with law enforcement absent warrants and owner permission. in other words, as soon as a user reports to law enforcement that the phone was taken in a robbery, the phone company can share the phone's gps location with law enforcement.
however, the cell phone companies will demand liability protection before they move forward with the development of the national data base. that's what the negotiations with attorney generals and local prosecutors are mainly concerned with, cell phone company liability protection and immunity from law suits.
and, hacking still leaves the phone gps feature active and pinging as soon as the phone is turned on, otherwise, there would be no point in developing the national data base.
on May 5,2013 | 03:46AM
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The cell phone companies can only track the phone to a certain tower, beyond that they are blind. If a tower serves an area that is within 1 mile of the tower, then that's a lot of terrirtory the stolen phone could be in. I used a radius of 1 mile but I think it's probably a bigger area, so it becomes even less likely the location can be pinpointed.
on May 5,2013 | 05:45AM
al_kiqaeda wrote:
Bottomline: police departments are not going to spend the man hours to track down a $200 phone. Just not going to happen.
on May 5,2013 | 09:01AM
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on May 5,2013 | 01:02PM
bender wrote:
It would seem to be simple for the cell phone manufacturer's to build in the "kill switch" feature. I think those who get on the bandwagon early will enjoy better sales. If 175 million phones were stolen last year, then there's a lot of upset people who would love to retaliate against the thieves and that could translate to better sales for those who provide the "kill switch".
on May 5,2013 | 05:48AM
al_kiqaeda wrote:
Same technique would work against drug cartels. Make pot legal, tax it (and use the tax money for drug abuse education) and watch the cartels shrink and the violence slow rapidly.
on May 5,2013 | 08:59AM
hawn wrote:
Half the robberies in San Francisco were cell phones, what is the total number nation wide? Just think, everyone who's cell phone is stolen has to buy a new one, $$$ why would the big companies Apple, Google, Samsung make something hat would curb sales, not a good business decision.
on May 5,2013 | 07:00AM
UhhDuhh wrote:
Exactly. Theft = more business for these manufacturers. The responsibility for protecting the phone is on the phone owners. Nobody would leave a couple hundred dollar bills lying around in a public place. Keep it in your pocket or your wife's purse and nobody would steal it! Hellooooo?
on May 5,2013 | 07:57AM
mikethenovice wrote:
You should still call and contact the cell company just to be sure. They can always play stupid and continue to charge you if you don't make the call. And that would stand in the court of law that no attempt to correspond was ever made. Credit card companies do it and get away with it.
on May 5,2013 | 08:10AM
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Deubt Dagger: Will I or Won't I?
My writing group took a look at my synopsis for a possible Debut Dagger entry last night and voted it about a C+ I'd say. I showed them the sample one the website emailed me first and they didn't much like that one either. My entry didn't pop. I agree. But how can I pop for 750 wrds. Don't I eventually have to give some of the more mundane details or should there be none?
I guess I don't understand synopses yet, which is probably why none of the 11 agents who read it took my novel in stories. I know I should read Ms. Snark, but damn she is a sassy, sarcastic lady.
How can I make every line pop? And do I basically spill all my beans in the synopsis? Don't the 3000 wrds count for more? Back to my computer/ Oh, here it is right here.
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Oy... what's at "stake" and "much different than you and I would read". Sorry. Sleepy.
Sandra Ruttan said...
What I've noticed about the Debut Dagger from the past few years is that it isn't about making every word pop, really. In my opinion, anyone. Some of the synopses and openings of the winners haven't been gripping either, in my opinion.
But what they shared in common seemed to be sticking in one person's head for the balance of the space. Be it third or first person narrative, what was told was almost always told exclusively from one point of view. My feeling was that character connection ranked high in their assessments.
I do remember one, that didn't even use the full 3000 words. I believe they cut off around 2400. My thinking was that the confidence of going with less and the fact that the author kept it to one solitary perspective helped.
Not sure what more I can say about that, because end of the day a big chunk of this is subjective, and it's down to opinions. Who remembers who won the debut dagger in 2004? I've got to tell you I have no idea - but I know who the runner up was - Louise Penny. And two years later she took the dagger for the best debut.
So... persevere, do your best, and don't give up, no matter what.
pattinase (abbott) said...
Sandra-Thanks for the dissenting view here which really makes me think again because synopsis they sent didn't pop.
They may have a different criteria than an agent. IS there access to the past submissions somewhere?
Maria said...
"They may have a different criteria than an agent."
Makes alot of sense. And it makes alot of sense to follow what's worked to win them over in the past. I'll butt out. Good luck, Patti. Follow your gut.
pattinase (abbott) said...
maria-Did I show you the one that won a few years ago? If not, remind me Monday or so. Not at all what you'd expect. I'll have to run it by the other group.
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ok, so when is it better to use :include and better not to?
I have a very complex page that queries many tables. I tried :include-ing all the data (14 associations), and it generated a 4096 character long query, and the page took 2 full minutes to process at 100%cpu and 600M ram usage! D: Ok, bad idea.
I've read that it's better to use :include so that rails doesn't have to do so many queries, which supposedly helps a lot with overhead. Obviously not the case here. So when is it not better to use :include?
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Re: :include slows down large queries?
It is only better to a point. It uses SQL Joins to join the data together, so if you've got 14 associations then that's a lot of joining which will end up taking much more time than a normal query.
I'd only ever use :include for max of 4 or 5 associations.
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Here is the specifics: I am designing a website where the client wants to feature different services they offer in rotating images on the front page. There will be categories on the side of the image display so the user can jump to ahead if they see what they are looking for before the images rotate. The complication is that some of the services are part of a main package but another service is a smaller special service. I want to know if there is a good way to differeniate between the special service and the main services within the context of the rotating image display.
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Yeah, please clarify by giving an example (wireframe, screenshot, website URL) so we can check it out. – Rahul Sep 15 '10 at 14:58
It might also be helpful if you think up a fictional business to stand in for your real client so you can describe it in more concrete terms (e.g. ACME Gardening has lawn care package and also a pest control service) – Patrick McElhaney Sep 15 '10 at 15:18
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I don't think you need to differentiate between main packages and special services for two reasons:
1. If the client thinks the service is important enough to be featured in this (I'm assuming) highly-visible display, then it can probably stand on its own without needing to be branded as a "main package" or "special service"
2. When users visit the site and are looking at this image display, they won't care weather a service is part of a main package or a special service. Likely they'll see the picture for the service, say, "hey, that's exactly what I'm looking for!" and click on it. At that point the user can be taken to additional information about the service, including whether the service is a main package or a special service.
In other words, don't clutter the display with information about whether it's a main package or special service; it's better to focus on the service itself (what it does, why users would want it) and save the "main vs. special" differentiation for the service's detail page.
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I hope I misunderstood your problem, but really - a "Rotating Image Display" that is supposed to convey content? If I found my way to a site like that I'd run screaming down the hall (figuratively) to a competitor. I'd explain to the client why this is a Bad Idea, and start over. Again, perhaps I misunderstood...?
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Maybe I'm using incorrect terminology. I'm referring to something such as Dell's website uses: dell.com – greyongray Sep 15 '10 at 14:40
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I'm with mickeyf.
I too may be misunderstanding the intention of the brief you're trying to work to, but this would appear to be one of those classic client situations where asking "Why?" a few more times would do all concerned the world of good. I'm going to assume that the services offered lend themselves to visual representation (perhaps a hotel showing facilities or something along those lines?). That's all well and good if the only intention is to convey a generalised sense of the service - an air of luxury or style or comfort perhaps - but you really should be resisting the notion that more complex characteristics about the services can sensibly conveyed in this way.
You can use the fact that there are thematic differences between the different services as a good basis for having the discussion that starts with "Why do you want to use an image carousel to tell people about different levels of service?"
In your shoes, I would try to illustrate a representative use case to show that a user who wants to look at pictures of services will be using the intended website differently to a user who wants to inform themselves about specific differences between offered services.
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The hashdir command calculates the hash for the specified string. With the hashdir command, you can identify the directory that contains the message store for a particular account. This utility reports the relative path to the message store. The path is relative to the directory level just before the one based on the user ID. hashdir sends the path information to standard output.
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Brightstone Mysteries: Paranormal Hotel
A case of a missing necklace turns into a discovery of ancient conspiracies involving the Knights Templar and an Egyptian cult bent on ruling the world. Does this sort of adventure fit for the iOS platform?
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Adventure games on the iPad and iPhone are an easy way to escape from reality just for a few minutes (or an hour or two). The games range from platformers, hidden objects, to the traditional third-person point-and-click (or should it be called point-and-touch?). Adventure games are growing on these portable platforms, and we managed to snag Brightstone Mysteries: Paranormal Hotel by G5 Entertainment.
Brightstone Mysteries: Paranormal Hotel (here on out referred to as Brightstone Mysteries) starts out with Bridget Brightstone trying to enjoy her vacation when she is suddenly and rudely interrupted by her boss to check out a necklace robbery at a French castle-turned-hotel. After receiving a rather cold introduction to Detective Matisse, Bridget finally settles in to get to the bottom of things. After a short period of time, it’s apparent that the missing necklace case is no longer the main subject of the story as Bridget begins to uncover clues that involve ghosts, resurrecting the dead, the Knights Templar, and crazy Egyptian cultists. It’s this kind of storyline that can keep you hooked but it does end up getting fantastical.
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There are quite a few minigames that are used to further your exploration of the castle and surrounding land, all which are challenging and fun. These can be skipped if you’re having trouble figuring them out, but I suggest keeping at it as they’re not incredibly annoying to play.
On your adventure if you ever become stuck, there is a handy diary you can check out to see what your current objectives are, with helpful hints as to what to do. These hints are never too revealing, allowing you to still have a genuine “aha!” moment, and if you’re truly stuck, there is an even more helpful hint system that will assist you even further. There is a time period where you can’t use the hint system after using it, so make sure you’ll be using it when it counts. I myself had to resort to this hint button a few times as Brightstone Mysteries can get confusing as to where to go next, even with the diary.
The touch screen interactivity works really well in Brightstone Mysteries. There’s always the worry about how precise you have to really be in some adventure games in searching for clues and items, but it’s pretty lenient in this game. There was only one time where I found the item menu getting in the way of finding a clue, but aside from that, no other issues. While selectable items aren’t exactly highlighted, they do stand out enough or are made obvious enough to know that they’re an item you’ll need. Kudos to that, because randomly tapping about on a screen is not a fun way to extend gameplay.
Depending on how you like your adventure games, Brightstone Mysteries’ length can be an issue. While an experienced player can see themselves beating this within two hours if kept at it actively, with less experienced players seeing possibly between 3-5 hours. There are in-game achievements to reward additional replays, but once you’ve beaten Brightstone Mysteries, you’ve seen it all. The length is perfect if you’re looking for something to change up your iOS game line up or you’re on a flight or road trip, but for the longer run it feels shorter than it should be. The story really quickens up near the end to get your adrenaline pumping though, and I found it pretty engrossing.
The graphics are pleasant and sharp enough to pick out details for clues. An added feature that helped out a lot was the ability to pinch and zoom in on the scenery to aid in finding items. This feature is something that all developers should take note, because it is incredibly helpful and useful. There are a few animations between characters and with objects on the screen, but it’s nothing too extravagant. Pre-rendered movies do intersperse from time to time to aid in the storyline and the situation and add a nice touch.
Sound does feel a bit subdued, but functional. Since you’ll mainly be inspecting scenes for clues and items, sound isn’t a necessary feature. Although there are times where sound might be important, but on-screen text will indicate what’s been heard. An example would be the puzzle with unlocking a safe using a stethoscope. While you can listen in for when the tumblers click, there are prompts that indicate when it happened. This is great for players that need to play on silent since sometimes having sound isn’t a possibility.
Overall Brightstone Mysteries is a fun little adventure game to play. The gameplay is fun and challenging, the storyline is a bit fantastical, and there are options and difficulties to cater to all kinds of adventure gamers. However the shadow over its head is the length of the gameplay itself. There is a free play option for those that want to feel it out, but a full purchase is $6.99 which may be a bit steep for such short gameplay. Newcomers to the genre may find themselves playing a bit longer, but it might be tough to come back once you’ve beaten it.
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In the literature of the quantum eraser experiment it is argued that the change in statistics of the system from non-interference to interference is due to the erasing of "distinguishing information". The preparation of the experiment almost always introduces and then erases this information via a pair of unitary actions on the system. In the specific case that the interference effect is a second order effect of single photon interference, by destroying/creating the interference one is causing a physical disturbance to the system in that it changes the measurable statistics of the system, it destroys/creates the interference pattern that is collected at a single detector/screen. If it is distinguishing information that causes this physical change, if this physical change happens in the absence of a physical cause, is it not the case that this is a violation of the law of conservation of energy? There is no "driving force". It might only be the configuration of the statistics of the system that changes (from interference to non-interference or vica versa), but certainly this is a physical change that is measurable, so it should require energy and momentum to "push" the statistics in the right direction(away from or towards constructive interference). Distinguishing information does not provide this driving force.
And I know the generalized set of rules as to why quantum mechanics is suppose to be energy and momentum conserving, it has to do with the invariance of H under dislacements. This does not explain the specific case of quantum erasure which seemingly defies conservation.
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In the quantum eraser experiment, the interference is re-created logically, not physically. It is re-created by conditioning on some observable which is measured after the interference pattern has failed to appear on the detector. This doesn't require any energy.
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There is a misunderstanding here.
If the beam(s) are not changed at the origin, they deliver the same energy on the screen whether one sees interference or not. It just has a different spatial distribution.
Conservation of energy says that the energy of the beam(s) should equal the energy absorbed by the screen in total plus the energy reflected. It has nothing to do with the patterns of deposition.
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My problem concerns how the beam changes its spatial distribution, without energy. Obviously, to change the distribution (from non-interference to interference) so that the particles are detected in bands of constructive interference would require a push away from the destructive interference positions. There must be a driving force behind this change. However, in the quantum eraser it is claimed that only the "in principle knowability of distinguishing information" is accountable for this change in statistics. There is no "driving force". This is a violation of conservation. – Thomas Leibniz May 2 '13 at 13:06
You have a wrong understanding of conservation of energy and of the interference phenomenon. As I say in my answer the distribution of energy on the screen, as long as the input and ouput are equal is irrelevant. Conservation means the energy budget, in-out=0. . spatial distribution just might make difficult integrating the out, but a calorimeter could take care of that. Nothing is moving, in the sense of a horizontal force, when interference appears. – anna v May 2 '13 at 20:00
lets take the one photon at a time double slit experiment en.wikipedia.org/wiki/… . The interference builds up slowly, but the energy of the electron is the same, and conserved if the absorption of the screen is measured. The same energy electrons through only one slit would not show interference, but would deliver the same energy. what has happened is that the boundary conditions are different, no energy is necessary to produce the effect:a different solution for the same energy content is picked for each case by nature. – anna v May 2 '13 at 20:08
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Initially, it seems that opportunity abounds because stocks can easily be overvalued or undervalued. But, before thinking that every stock is underpriced or overpriced, remember the sheer volume of activities that position the stock where it is. You may be smarter than a handful of investors on an individual basis, but it would be tough to outsmart the entire group.
Larger stocks, such as Wal-Mart and Coca-Cola, are followed by many people and analysts. This results in the availability of more information to more people, which helps them make informed decisions and helps find a balance in the stock market. In smaller companies, there may be less coverage or public knowledge, but you may be in the hornet’s nest with other investors that have a far superior knowledge than you when it comes to the particular stock or the industry it is in. New investors get into trouble when they feel they are smarter than everyone else. Even professional money managers have problems with this; over the course of several years, only about 5% of all mutual funds and money managers do better than the stock market in general.
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For starters, do your homework. To know more than the next guy, you’ll have to learn about the industry and study the trends so that you can formulate an idea on where the industry is going. Learn about the company’s competitors and its dependencies, such as oil if the company needs it to make the product. You’ll also want to consider the price fluctuations of resources such as oil.
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eTLP: Digitizing Wittgenstein’s Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
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Ludwig Wittgenstein s (1889-1951) Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus is arguably the most important text of twentieth-century philosophy. It shook analytic philosophy to its foundations when published in German in 1921 and in English the following year. The work concerns the relation between the logical structure of our statements and thoughts about the world and the world itself, and it argues that philosophy’s traditional problems only arise from misunderstanding that relation. The Tractatus’ most striking textual feature is its complex decimal-numbering system (See Appendix A for samples from the text): Wittgenstein assigned to each proposition a unique number–sometimes extending several decimal places (e.g., 1, 2.1, or 5.47321)–and he ordered them so as to indicate their relative logical importance and interrelations. As he explained, “The propositions n.1, n.2, n.3, etc. are comments on proposition no. n; the propositions n.m1, n.m2, etc. are comments on proposition no. n.m; and so on” (1922: p. 5, f.n.). While the decimal numbering system plays an important role in expressing Wittgenstein s thought, it often makes reading the work difficult: A reader must flip through multiple pages to only partially perceive the work s remarkable structure. My project, eTLP, aims to digitize Wittgenstein’s Tractatus in order to show users that complex, intricate, and beautiful structure. The result will be an interactive, searchable, dynamic, socially embedded, and aesthetically valuable online, electronic version of the text. Users will encounter seven nodes, each representing one of the seven primary propositions of the work. When a user hovers over a given node, its associated text will appear on the screen. By clicking on a node–e.g., proposition 1– the associated nodes–e.g., 1.1, 1.2, 1.3–will appear by branching out or expanding to another level of nodes (See Appendix A for illustrations). Users can enable any of three versions: the original German text, the English translation by C.K. Ogden (1922), and the English translations by Pears and McGuinness (1961) (See Appendix C for bibliographic information). eTLP will also provide a platform for a user-maintained database of node specific commentary, cross-propositional references, and bibliographic information on relevant secondary literature. eTLP will thus be a new and valuable tool for Wittgenstein scholars all over the world, and it will likely introduce the text to a whole new generation of readers. As a real experiment in the art of information visualization, interface design, and the application of digital technology to work in the humanities, eTLP will be a twenty-first century expression of the previous century s most important philosophical work.
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Bernard Cornwell: You're right—fantasy and historical novels are twins—and I've never been fond of the label "fantasy" which is too broad a brush and has a fey quality. It seems to me you write historical novels in an invented world which is grounded in historical reality (if the books are set in the future then "fantasy" magically becomes sci-fi). So I've been influenced by all three: fantasy, sci-fi and historical novels, though the largest influence has to be C.S. Forester's Hornblower books. I read them as a teenager, was consumed by them, ran out of reading material after the last one of the series and so began to read the non-fiction histories of the Napoleonic period. That led to an obsession with Wellington and his army, which led directly to Sharpe. Maybe if I had read Tolkien before Forester then I'd have taken that route (and it tempts me!), but we all write what we want to read and I was always an avid consumer of historical novels…and, of course, of STORIES! I devoured all the classic sci-fi writers, Asimov, Heinlein etc., and they taught me how important story is, but the big debt is still to C.S. Forester (another master-storyteller.)
BC: Oh yes, you can and do! I still haven't forgiven you for Ned Stark's execution, but I'm learning to live with it! I never think it matters if the reader knows the outcome of the story before they reach the end—we all, as children, wanted the same stories told to us over and over even though we knew the wolf didn't get to gnaw on Little Red Riding Hood. I always think of an historical novel as having two stories—the big one and the little one—and the writer flips them. The big story in Gone with the Wind is whether the South can survive the Civil War and we all know how that went, but the little story is whether Scarlett can save Tara, and that little story is put in the foreground while the big story goes into the background. I suppose the suspense is the little story—will Sharpe survive Badajoz (well, the reader knows he will, I suppose!). And I think readers find a fascination with the unfolding of a story. Most English folk know the Battle of Agincourt—it's deep in the nation's consciousness—but hardly any know what really happened there. History rapidly turns into myth (the myth of Agincourt being that the arrows won the day, which they decidedly did not, though God knows Henry would have lost without them) and perhaps one of the pleasures of reading an historical novel is to discover the truth behind the myth.
GRRM: Historical fiction is not history. You're blending real events and actual historical personages with characters of your own creation, like Uhtred and Richard Sharpe. How much "poetic license" should a novelist have when dealing with the events of history? How accurate is he obliged to be? Where do you draw the line?
BC: I can't change history (if only), but I can play with it. The answer slightly depends on what I'm writing. I did a trilogy on "King" Arthur and there's almost no real history to rely on, so I could do more or less what I wanted. With the Saxon books I have a skeleton history thanks to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle and few other sources, but there's not much meat on those bones so I have a lot of freedom. If I'm writing about the American Revolution then I have almost no freedom because I'm trespassing on the high ground of American legend and I must stick to the real history if the book is going to persuade the reader of the story's viability—so in Redcoat I changed only one event by bringing it forward 24 hours. And then I confess my sins in an historical note at the book's end. Occasionally I change more drastically; Sharpe's Company tells the story of the dreadful attack on Badajoz and, in brief, a feint attack that was only intended to draw French defenders away from the breaches succeeded in capturing the city while the main attacks, on the breaches, failed disastrously. It seemed to me that the drama of that night was in the breaches, so Sharpe had to attack one of them, and if Richard Sharpe attacks, he wins (he's a hero!). So in the novel I allow the attackers to get through a brach (which didn't happen) because otherwise the story wouldn't work. But again, I confessed the sin at the book's end.
GRRM: I've written as much science fiction as I have fantasy over the years. An increasingly popular subgenre in SF is the alternate world novel—sometimes called "counterfactuals" by historians, and "what if" stories by fans. For want of a nail, the kingdom was lost…but what if the nail wasn't lost? What if Napoleon won at Waterloo? What if the South won the Civil War? What if the Roman Empire never fell? What do you think of such stories? Have you ever been tempted to write one yourself?
BC: Never! Maybe it's just me, but alternative history has no appeal. I remember a crazy movie from way back in which F-16s of the USAF suddenly appeared over Pearl Harbor. Yeah right. We began by agreeing that 'fantasy' novels and historical novels are twins and it seems to me that mixing the two is incestuous and, unlike Jaime and Cersei Lannister, I'm not a fan.
BC: I do have one huge advantage over you, which is that my battles were all fought and the survivors left accounts, and some have been comprehensively described by military historians, so I'm given a framework that you have to invent. I also hate reading a military history and getting confused, usually by Roman numerals ("XV Corps moved to the west while the XIV Brigade was redeployed southwards" and so on) which means you're constantly having to refer to a map, or maps, and try to remember who XV Corps are…so I try to give the reader a framework before the battle begins—where are they fighting? What are the salient landmarks? Which units are important? I don't want the reader to stop and refer to a map…though I'm sure I fail. That done I do try and switch the point of view, just as you do, between the close-up and nasty and the more distant overview of the fighting. John Keegan's The Face of Battle is a marvelous book to read and discover just how men experience battle, and that was a great influence. I have invented battles from scratch—and the one I'm proudest of is Mount Badon in the Arthur books. The battle did happen, but we know nothing of what happened (or even where it happened), so I used Wellington's tactics from the battle of Salamanca and they worked perfectly! And of all the battles? Probably Salamanca in Sharpe's Sword.
BC: Maybe all our heroes are reflections of ourselves? I'm not claiming to be Richard Sharpe (God forbid), but I'm sure parts of my personality leaked into him (he's very grumpy in the morning). I once wrote a series of forewords for the Hornblower books and had to deal with the perennial question of who was Hornblower based on? Some said Cochrane, others suggested Edward Pellew (both outstanding frigate captains of the Napoleonic Wars), but it was obvious that Hornblower was the person Forester himself wanted to be. Hornblower was Forester, without some of Forester's less attractive traits. Most of my heroes are outsiders…maybe because I felt that way growing up (long story, let's not tell it here), and which is why my favorite characters of yours are Arya and Jon Snow. And perhaps flawed characters are more interesting because they are forced to make a choice . . . a conventionally good character will always do the moral, right thing. Boring. Sharpe often does the right thing, but usually for the wrong reasons, and that's much more interesting!
BC: I've found my fans to be terrific. There's a miniscule handful who want to nitpick over details (and yes, of course there are mistakes) and once, on my website, I begged one such reader to please find another author to read. But the vast majority are fun to meet and it's vitally important to listen to them. I did a book tour once and three people separately told me it was time Sharpe had some high-class totty! I hadn't realised he'd been consorting with rough trade for so many books, so I responded by giving him Lady Grace in Sharpe's Trafalgar and she remains my favorite heroine. She'd never have existed without the fans!
BC: I thought the Sharpe TV series was great! Of course they changed the books, they had no choice. You and I can wheel on 100,000 men and it costs us nothing, but every extra is a drain on a TV budget, but they dealt very well with that constraint and Sean, of course, was a marvellous Sharpe and a great Ned Stark (who should have lived, damn you). So far as I know there aren't any plans for another series. There's talk of making Agincourt into a film (I'm not holding my breath) and a TV series about Uhtred (which would be nice, but again I'm still breathing). I want nothing to do with any such production, other than being a cheerleader. I worked in television for eleven year and learned enough to know I know nothing about producing TV drama, so I'm happy to leave it to the experts. And I doubt I could write a script - I've never tried and would rather write a novel.
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BC: There's one period I'm desperate to write about (forgive me if I don't say which because I don't want someone else muscling in on it first!). But next is another novel about Thomas of Hookton in the Hundred Years War, then it's back to Uhtred and the Saxons.
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Regarding "Newton was a devout Christian who said his discoveries were inspired by God"
I am not changing anything yet, but my (christian) science book says that Newton had a firm belief in God, but denied the Trinity, and the Deity of Christ. Not exactly the beliefs of a "devout Christian" --TimSvendsen 20:41, 6 March 2007 (EST)
That's a big surprise to me. My understanding is that Newton was a Christian who relied on the Bible daily.--Aschlafly 21:05, 6 March 2007 (EST)
Relied on the Bible daily? yes. Accepted the Trinity? Definitely not. Whether that makes him a "devout Christian" is presumably therefore very much a defintional issue of how you define Christian. JoshuaZ 21:08, 6 March 2007 (EST)
Well, we don't need to take sides on that matter. We can just report his beliefs and leave it at that; readers can decide for themselves whether he's Christian by their own standards. Tsumetai 21:11, 6 March 2007 (EST)
Newton and Falsification
I’ve added the following paragraph (or a version of it) at the end of this article a number of times:
Newton’s Laws stood as “laws” for years after his death, but in 1816 the discovery of Mercury’s anomalous perihelion provided evidence that Newton’s laws did not always correctly predict behavior in the observed, external, world. [1] It was not until 1919, however, that a series of experiments designed to test General Relativity provided the scientific community with enough evidence to replace those laws. [2] Once a theory could better predict the external world than Newton’s Laws, they were fully falsified and replaced as the dominant theory in physics. [3]
The first time it was deleted because I had not sourced it correctly, which is fine. So I sourced it properly and it stood for awhile. Then part of it was deleted because it was to quote the editing comment “Heresy” and “unintelligible”. Since I figured heresy was a bad reason to delete information, especially when properly sourced, I tried to make my comments more intelligible and replaced them. Then part of it was deleted—I am informed because the 1919 experiments have been discredited. But, after researching the matter, I can find no evidence to support this claim (That, of course, doesn’t mean that the evidence doesn’t exist—just that I can’t find it). Even if, however, the 1919 experiments have been discredited that is not, especially relevant to this article, as the 1919 experiments are only important as a turning point in scientific opinion about Newton’s Laws—in particular it marks the date a theory was better able to predict new information than Newton’s Laws could—since then numerous experiments have supported general relativity (though if past is prologue it will soon be on the way out in favor of a better theory itself) but here the only important thing is that it seems to predict better than Newton’s Laws predict and I think it belongs here. However, before I could post this discussion a third contributor deleted the remainder of my paragraph, with only the comment “1816 observation did not falsify Newton”. I’ve linked to two reputable sources for this point, including Dr. Hilary Putnam—second only to Popper himself in the field of philosophy of science—on this point. Whereas the person who deleted the 1816 claim did not provide any evidence to support this deletion—nor can I find any (again, it may be out there, but I can’t find it).
For those reasons, I believe this information belongs in the article—but since it has been repeatedly deleted I’ve chosen to put it on the talk page for now. Can anyone cite a reason to believe this paragraph is false, or explain why it does not belong here? Or can anyone cite to more reputable sources to bolster this paragraph? Or can anyone offer suggested changes that would make it palatable to all parties to this debate?
I do think that it is pretty absurd to say that some 1816 observation of Mercury falsified Newton. It is true that there was no good explanation for Mercury’s anomalous perihelion, but there were possible explanations that did not involve changing Newton's law of gravity.
I also don't think that a 20th century philosopher is a reliable source on this point. If an 1816 observation really falsified Newton, then there should have been physicists in 1817 saying that the observation proves that they should all stop relying on Newton's laws. There weren't then, and there aren't now. Newton's laws are still useful and have not been "fully falsified".
Yes, General Relativity has superceded Newtonian gravitation, but the 1919 observations did not provide the necessary evidence. The 1919 observation was sold as proof to the public at the time, but was actually inconclusive.
On another topic, why is Newton called "Sir"? I wouldn't think that a conservative American encyclopedia would respect some silly British nobility title. RSchlafly 16:21, 11 March 2007 (EDT)
If you read the Putnam (who I find to be an incredibly reliable source when it comes to the history of science, as his job is to study the history of science and draw well reasoned conclusions based on that history, and as he is highly regarded in his field –which he would not be if he made basic errors)article you will see that you are making the exact same point he is—only he draws a different, and, I think, better grounded conclusion. Science is not a monolithic beast, and it does not move quickly. That is why, though the 1816 observations falsified Newton’s Laws (and remember one wrong prediction means the whole theory is falsified and a new theory must be sought to replace it), science was slow to react. Further, Newton’s Laws still were better predictors than any other theory (until relativity hit the scene in 1919) so they were still used—and in fact are still used as they generate the right result for the objects big enough to see on the surface of the earth moving at a speed we can see them—but that does not mean that the laws were not falsified, just that they are still useful.
Of course if you have a better date for when relativity superseded Newton’s laws that is what you ought to add to the article rather than deleting information and replacing it with nothing (For if Newton’s laws were superseded, then they were falsified, and that information belongs in the article). I still have seen no evidence, however, offered that the 1919 experiments were flawed (again, I’m open to the idea that they may be flawed, but would like some evidence of that—especially since I have evidence to the contrary).--Reginod 22:40, 11 March 2007 (EDT)
Putnam is entitled to his opinions, but I just don't see how an 1816 anomaly could have falsified Newtonian gravity. There were other possible explanations for that anomaly, such as an unknown asteroid or an oblateness of the Sun. Those explanations might not have required any change to Newtonian gravity.
Here is a good account of the 1919 eclipse. [4] It says of Eddington's announcement:
The reaction from scientists at this special meeting was ambivalent. Some questioned the reliability of statistical evidence from such a small number of stars. This skepticism seems in retrospect to be entirely justified. Although the results from Sobral were consistent with Einstein’s prediction, Eddington had been careful to remove from the analysis all measurements taken with the main equipment, the astrographic telescope and used only the results from the 4-inch. As I have explained, there were good grounds for this because of problems with the focus of the larger instrument. On the other hand, these plates yielded a value for the deflection of 0.93 seconds of arc, very close to the Newtonian prediction. Some suspected Eddington of cooking the books by leaving these measurements out.
At any rate, this is an article on Newton, not relativity or philosophy. The exact date in which physicists became convinced of a non-Newtonian explanation for Mercury's precession doesn't seem very relevant to me. RSchlafly 02:34, 12 March 2007 (EDT)
Thank you for the link, it is most informative (I've not had a chance to read it fully but so far quite informative) but your second point is, I think spot on, I hadn't really realized that that was your objection. I thought the objection was to the claim that Newton's laws had been falsified, not that the exact date was off.--Reginod 11:21, 13 March 2007 (EDT)
Well, here in the USA he's respected for scientific treatments, and we're awfully glad he's been knighted but it doesn't get him called Sir Isaac in American English. --Ed Poor 20:51, 1 April 2007 (EDT)
Newton was never falsified. That is nonsense. His laws of motion work perfectly well for slow stuff. They work great for planets in orbit.
Einstein's work simply refined an excellent theory into a brilliant one. We can't aim a spaceship well enough to care whether we use Newton's (simple) laws or Einstein's. The matter crosses the line from engineering into theoretical physics.
Einstein's work led to atomic bomb theory and helped defeat the Japanese in WW2 - which saved a lot of Japanese lives, by the way. Let's try to get all this in perspective. --Ed Poor 20:55, 1 April 2007 (EDT)
1. Newton’s Laws Falsified 1816[1]
2. Newton’s Laws in 1919 [2]
3. Putnam, Dr. Hilary. Mathematics, Matter, and Method. Cambridge University Press. 1980. Page 257 [3]
Inspired Kant
The article says:
Newton is often seen as one of the greatest scientists of all time due to his contributions, which inspired Kant to create the philosophical concepts of the categorical imperative and the synthetic a priori.
Is this a joke? What does Kant have to do with anything? Newton inspired some great science -- who cares about whatever mediocre philosophy he might have inspired? RSchlafly 02:26, 15 March 2007 (EDT)
Harsh! Not sure where you got educated, but Kant's work is a pillar of western philosophy. Argue whether it should be in the article, but you're gonna be by yourself if you want to discredit Kant's enormous contributions to philosophy. Teji 13:38, 8 June 2007 (EDT)
To "Sir" or not to "Sir"
I have copied the following conversation from RSchlafly's talk page, as I think it makes sense to have a record of it here.--Hsmom 07:50, 31 March 2007 (EDT)
• George Bush
• Ronald Reagan
• Colin Powell
• General Norman Schwarzkopf
• Bob Hope
I see that someone put "Sir" back in. I disagree with this. In the USA, he is primarily known as Isaac Newton, not Sir Isaac Newton. Even assuming that he was knighted based on the merits of his scientific work, it is no more significant that an honorary degree or receiving some academic prize. No more significant to anyone outside of England, anyway. You wouldn't call someone "doctor" just because he got an honorary degree, and no American would call someone "sir" just because some king gave him some sort of honor. RSchlafly 20:38, 1 April 2007 (EDT)
My my, you disagree with a lot of things. Also, knighthoods are different, and especially back then. I call Isaac Newton Sir Isaac Newton, because he earned it, and he would have wanted himself called that, and we should defer to that as a means of respect-AmesGyo! 20:43, 1 April 2007 (EDT)
I've always refered to him and known him as Sir Isaac Newton, but silly me, I got that from all my physics text books here in America. Jrssr5 11:18, 30 April 2007 (EDT)
I note that we call Margaret Thatcher 'Lady' Thatcher in more than one article. Does the 'American's aren't interested in British nobility' rule not apply to the good Baroness then? Newton provided every bit as much service to science as Thatcher did to politics, and arguably had a longer-lasting influence. I say give him his 'Sir'.--Britinme 22:02, 7 May 2007 (EDT)
Having not read this discussion (until now), I changed it to "Sir Isaac Newton" in the first sentence, only to have RSchafly revert it without explanation. However, I continue to believe that the first reference should be to "Sir Isaac Newton". What weight Americans give to British titles is irrelevant, if only because Conservapedia is not (any longer) as exclusively American as it was, such as dropping the requirement for American spelling. And this is a similar issue. If articles on British/Australia/etc. topics are appropriately spelt using British/Australian/etc. spelling, then articles on British people should use their British titles.
Unless someone offers a good rebuttal to that, I will reinstate the knighthood title.
Philip J. Rayment 22:08, 5 July 2007 (EDT)
The article already says Newton got knighted. The title is meaningless to anyone outside England. Newton is in CP for his scientific and mathematical accomplishments, not for holding some silly title. To put "Sir" on his name would be like putting "Herr Doctor Professor" on the names of German scientists. Actually it would be worse. Please don't put "Sir" back in. You can boldface the name if you wish. RSchlafly 22:28, 5 July 2007 (EDT)
The title is meaningless to anyone outside England. I disagree; lots of educated people around the world understand such titles. Newton is in CP for his scientific and mathematical accomplishments, not for holding some silly title. Why is the title silly? If I had done the work he did, I'd be quite happy to be honored in that way, especially if no one before me had been honored for scientific/mathematical work. It must have been a huge honor for him. --Hsmom 23:03, 5 July 2007 (EDT)
I'm outside England, and it's not meaningless to me. It's not like putting "Herr Doctor Professor" on a name; it's like putting "Dr." or "Rev." on a name. Philip J. Rayment 00:09, 6 July 2007 (EDT)
Thomas Jefferson referred to Sir Isaac Newton by his title, in a letter written on February 25, 1809 to the French author Monsieur Gregoire (The Writings of Thomas Jefferson (H. A. Worthington, ed.), Volume V, p. 429), where he writes: Because Sir Isaac Newton was superior to others in understanding, he was not therefore lord of the person or property of others. If it was good enough for Jefferson, it's surely good enough for Conservapedia.--Britinme 09:45, 6 July 2007 (EDT)
I think that "Sir" is a lot less meaningful and relevant than "Dr" or "Rev". Most readers have no idea what would qualify someone to acquire the title of "Sir". But even if I agreed with you, CP and other encyclopedias do not even usually use "Dr" and "Rev". RSchlafly
On the contrary, "Sir" is a lot more meaningful and relevant that "Dr." or "Rev.". The latter can be "bought" (by plenty of hard study, etc.) by anybody will sufficient will to achieve them, and there are literally thousands of them in any one country. But "Sir" is a title that is reserved for someone who has achieved a lot more than just studying a few years—often it's bestowed for a lifetime (almost) of effort. It is a much higher honour than "Dr.".
If most readers have no idea, we educate them with an article. That issue is easily solved.
Other encyclopedias:
• My World Book encyclopedia on disk has its article titled "Newton, Sir Isaac".
• Wikipedia refers to him in the first line as "Sir Isaac Newton".
• Britannica Online has it's article on him titled "Sir Isaac Newton"
• Columbia Encyclopedia has it's article titled "Newton, Sir Isaac".
• Encarta is the only exception that I found, not using that title at all.
If we follow the norm for other encyclopedias, we should change the name of the page to include "Sir", but I'm not proposing going that far.
Philip J. Rayment 20:13, 6 July 2007 (EDT)
Yes, I'd expect the Encyclopedia Britannica to use "Sir" as it pretends to be a British encyclopedia. This example should be added to the list of biases in Wikipedia. I tried another name in the Columbia Encyclopedia, Elton John, [10] and it does not use "Sir". It only says, "He was knighted in 1997."
Sir may be a higher title than Dr, but how do you know it hasn't been bought? I don't know much about British titles, but I would assume that many or most of those titles were given out for political and other reasons. RSchlafly 21:03, 6 July 2007 (EDT)
If anything Britannica is a British Encyclopedia pretending to be an American encyclopedia. And what is biased about Wikipedia showing Newton by his correct title?
Most of your arguments have been shown to be wrong, so you now resort to a "how do you know" type of argument and state an assumption about the subject, whilst in the same sentence acknowledging your ignorance of the subject!
You've failed to provide an adequate arguments, so I'm putting his title back in.
Philip J. Rayment 00:38, 7 July 2007 (EDT)
What argument was shown to be wrong? Show me one person outside of England who even knows what the title means. I looked up the Jefferson letter. It seems to be part of some sort of sarcastic put-down of negro literature. It doesn't make a good argument in this case. Why do you want to put the title in? It is redundant, at best. RSchlafly 02:43, 7 July 2007 (EDT)
RSchlafly - you've missed the point of why I quoted the Jefferson letter. I quoted it to show that an American, closer in time to Newton than we are now, routinely used the title when he referred to Newton. The subject of the letter is irrelevant. The use of the title is relevant. The fact that you don't know what it means is an acknowledgement of the limits of your understanding rather than Jefferson's, unless you claim that your understanding of these issues is superior to his.--Britinme 10:36, 11 July 2007 (EDT)
What arguments were shown to be wrong? These:
• The title is meaningless to anyone outside England
• I think that "Sir" is a lot less meaningful and relevant than "Dr" or "Rev". (Not actually an argument, but a personal opinion.)
• CP and other encyclopedias do not even usually use "Dr" and "Rev". (Not directly shown to be wrong, but the implication that other encyclopedias do not show the "sir" title was shown to be wrong.)
I've already answered the one about people outside England. And why to people inside England not count?
Why do I want to put it in? Because it is the proper thing to do; it is like part of his name. And how is it redundant if it hasn't been used already? Perhaps a later use of it might be made redundant by this, but this use is not. Why do you want it out, other than a personal opinion about its relevance?
Now what arguments of yours have I missed, other than arguments from personal opinion?
And why do you revert before making an attempt at getting agreement, given that we've had three editors here in the last few days (and others earlier) arguing for including the title, and only you arguing against it. Why can't the majority view be applied?
Philip J. Rayment 03:01, 7 July 2007 (EDT)
Philip, your edits are dishonest here. You labeled one, "Revert to consensus view as per talk page", when in fact there is no consensus here. You say I was shown to be wrong on four points, but the only contradictions to what I said was that I said "The title is meaningless to anyone outside England" and you said "I'm outside England, and it's not meaningless to me." But all you've said about what it means is "often it's bestowed for a lifetime (almost) of effort". If you really know what it means, then write an article about it. RSchlafly 14:52, 7 July 2007 (EDT)
Further to the above list of Americans accepting honorary knighthoods:
• General Tommy Franks KBE 2004
• Reverend Billy Graham KBE 2001
• General Wesley Clark KBE 2000
• Bob Hope KBE 1998
• George Bush GCB 1993
• General Colin Powell KCB 1993
• General Norman Schwarzkopf KCB 1993
• Lt. Gen. Brent Scowcroft KBE 1993
• Ronald Reagan GCB 1989
• J. Edgar Hoover KBE 1950
• Dwight D. Eisenhower GCB 1945
• General George C. Marshall GCB 1945
• General George S. Patton GCB 1945
• Fleet Admiral Chester Nimitiz GCB 1945
• General Alexander Vandegrift KBE 1942
--Marshall 16:22, 7 July 2007 (EDT)
Let us know whether any encyclopedias call these folks "sir" in the first sentence. I say that CP should not call any of them "sir". RSchlafly 19:32, 7 July 2007 (EDT)
As discussed above, it is not appropriate for American citizens who have been knighted to use the title "Sir". It is only appropriate for British citizens who have been knighted to use the title "Sir". Thus "Sir Elton John" and "Sir Paul McCartney" are correct, but "Sir Bob Hope" or "Sir George Bush" would not be correct. No encyclopedia should call an American citizen "Sir". --Hsmom 10:00, 8 July 2007 (EDT)
In any case, a person's rank is not generally considered part of their name: the article is on Billy Graham, not Reverend Billy Graham. Only royalty (and some Catholic officials) have their rank mixed in with their name: Pope Gregory XIII, Richard Cardinal Cushing. But Sir Paul McCartney? No! --Ed Poor Talk 22:27, 7 July 2007 (EDT)
With the Pope, it is not just a title. It is also his job description, and what makes him a notable person. In the case of Newton, it is just an honorary title that is meaningless to most people. RSchlafly 23:47, 7 July 2007 (EDT)
RSchlafly, I don't appreciate people calling me "dishonest" when there is another possible, explanation, that being that I am simply incorrect, in this case, about the meaning of the word "consensus". However, I'm not even incorrect. "Consensus" does not mean, or at the very least does not have to mean, "unanimous agreement", it means "general agreement" or "majority of opinion". So my edit comment was not only not dishonest, it was correct.
That a knighthood was not meaningless to me was not the only refutation of your claim. Hsmom also answered your claim. And the other four points I listed were also answered, including showing that four out of five other encyclopedias refer to Newton as "Sir". And remember that it was you who raised "other encyclopedias" as a comparison. In return, you've left a number of my questions unanswered (such as why you want it omitted).
What relevance does a list of Americans with honorary knighthoods have to a debate about a non-American with a "real" knighthood? People with honorary knighthoods are not entitled to use the title "sir".
Ed, I don't consider a person's title part of their name, yet I've often seen others refer to them that way, saying things like "his name is Rev. Smith" and the like. So often, in fact, that I've sometimes wondered if I am right to make the distinction. Philip J. Rayment 09:48, 8 July 2007 (EDT)
Philip, I suggest looking up "consensus" in a dictionary. What is your position now, that "sir" should always be used with men who got real knighthoods, but not with those who got honorary knighthoods? How about Elton John and Paul McCartney? My position is that the title is inappropriate for an encyclopedia based outside of England. RSchlafly 12:10, 8 July 2007 (EDT)
I did look "consensus" up in a dictionary. Several in fact. That's why I said what I did—I do my research before making claims like that.
Yes, "sir" should always be used with men who got real knighthoods (obviously not for honorary knighthoods, for reasons explained above), but perhaps allowing an exception in special cases, such as where they did not use it themselves.
Your US-centric position is inappropriate for an encyclopedia that is trying to be more than just an American encyclopedia, and continues to fail to recognise that knighthoods apply in more than just England. And your position is not even merely US-centric, as even US-based encyclopedias mostly recognise knighthoods.
Philip J. Rayment 12:59, 8 July 2007 (EDT)
I think there is a bit of confusion here. The appropriate distinction is not between honorary and "real" knighthoods. I think that all of the knighthoods we are discussing here are honorary. Knighthoods should not be confused with hereditary titles, which is a completely different thing. As discussed above, it is not appropriate for American citizens who have been knighted to use the title "Sir". It is only appropriate for British citizens who have been knighted to use the title "Sir". This is why "Sir Elton John" and "Sir Paul McCartney" are correct, but "Sir Bob Hope" or "Sir George Bush" would not be correct, even though Bob Hope and George Bush have been knighted. This is why no encyclopedia should call an American citizen "Sir". I think a sensible approach for us would be to call the article "Isaac Newton", with a redirect (or whatever the proper term is) from "Sir Isaac Newton", and to leave the "Sir" in the first sentence. --Hsmom 10:00, 8 July 2007 (EDT)
This confusion is just more evidence that the title is meaningless to most people. Philip claims to be outside England, but he is obviously some sort of anglophile who wants to draw attention to the British monarchy. He even uses British spellings. Newton's accomplishments stand on their own merit, and do need a sign of approval from some long-dead queen. RSchlafly 00:00, 9 July 2007 (EDT)
On the contrary, this is more evidence of your apparently-blinkered US-centric views. As can easily be seen from my user page, I am Australian, and I use Australian spelling. I don't just "claim" to be outside England, I am outside England, I've never been to England, and I have to go back about six generations to find ancestors (at least on the paternal line) who emigrated from England.
Americans are not "most people"; just because it is meaningless to you and to who knows how many other Americans (but clearly not all; most others debating this point are American) doesn't mean that it is meaningless to "most people".
If you are at liberty to claim that I am some sort of Anglophile, then I guess that I am at liberty to claim that you are an Anglophobe who wants to denigrate the British monarchy.
Now, the majority of editors debating this are clearly on the side of including the title, and you have not advanced much in the way of a reason to oppose it, other than subjective claims such as it being "meaningless", so can we just let this issue go and accept that the majority have spoken?
Philip J. Rayment 02:17, 9 July 2007 (EDT)
I see, you're not an Anglophile, you just like Australian spelling! You're funny. Well, you live in a country that puts the British queen on its money, and you go out of your way to credit the British monarchy. You're welcome to your opinions, but I really think that they don't belong on the Isaac Newton page.
The "sir" title is not just meaningless to me and most Americans; it is apparent that you don't know what it means either, as evidenced by your bogus distinction between real knighthoods and honorary knighthoods. RSchlafly 14:43, 9 July 2007 (EDT)
How do you go from me using Australian spellings (because I am Australian) to liking Australian spellings? And how does that make me "funny"? Your ignorance of non-American matters continues to show. Australia does not put the British queen on its money. It puts the Australian queen on its money. Yes, it is the same individual, but she is on the money because she is the Australian queen, not because she is the British queen.
Just because I'm not an expert on all the fine details of knighthoods does not mean that I don't know what a knighthood means. And I don't agree that my distinction was bogus. I think that Hsmom's description was not entirely accurate. As I understand it, it's not true that Americans cannot use the title simply because they are Americans. What I believe to be the case is that people who are not citizens of a country that adopts the British honours system (which Australia no longer does, but used to) can only be given honorary knighthoods, and honorary knighthoods are not entitled to use the title "sir". So the effect of Hsmom's comments were basically correct, even though technically she didn't have it exactly correct, I believe.
Philip J. Rayment 21:45, 9 July 2007 (EDT)
Mr. Rayment, I fear my above contribution may have derailed your discussion somewhat. I shall attempt to rectify matters below:
Results obtained by searching "sir" on (first two pages only):
If Fox News sees fit to accord these figures (both historical and contemporary) their full title, I see no reason why Conservapedia should be so churlish as to deny Newton his. --Marshall 16:13, 9 July 2007 (EDT)
Thanks for that. I wasn't being critical of your earlier list, so much as RSchlafly's (invalid) use of it to make his point. Philip J. Rayment 21:45, 9 July 2007 (EDT)
What has Fox News got to do with anything? I thought that Fox News was owned by some Australian! He could be some friend of Philip's for all I know, and have the British queen's image on his money. RSchlafly 01:21, 10 July 2007 (EDT)
Now THAT was funny! Actually Rupert Murdoch was born here but is now an American citizen, I'm pretty sure. Philip J. Rayment 01:43, 10 July 2007 (EDT)
Changed Leibniz calculus dispute statement
in order to agree with the cited material
'Newton formulated the classical theories of mechanics and optics and invented calculus Eric Weisstein's World of Math years before Leibniz. However, he did not publish his work on calculus Eric Weisstein's World of Math until afterward Leibniz had published his. This led to a bitter priority dispute between English and continental mathematicians which persisted for decades, to the detriment of all concerned.'[[11]]
Newton’s theory invalid
Reginod, I notice that you now say that Newtonian has been "falsified" and is "no longer scientifically valid", based on some opinion of some philosopher. It appears that you justify this based on me citing a philosopher saying that Freud's work was unscientific.
I don't agree with this. First, Freud's work really was unscientific. Newton's work was scientific, and continues to be used successfully by scientists today. Second, Putnam was presumably making some point about how one theory was more accurate than another, but your sentence is very misleading. Third, I cited Popper to show that Freud was never scientific, not that it was superceded by another theory. RSchlafly 19:31, 28 April 2007 (EDT)
This is why I asked you about this issue, because we have been over this before. If philosophers of science are valid on what is science then my support for a claim which is well enough known to be true that it doesn’t really need a reference is a valid one. I think the reference is as valid as you use of Popper (If not more so, since Putnam builds on Popper’s wok and is, probably, closer to the truth than Popper was).
Let me respond point by point.
To your first point: Putnam is clear Newton has been falsified, his theories are no longer good science—it is irrelevant that they were good science—Aristotle’s claims about biology were good science when he made them, and to some extent they can still be used successfully today but we would not say they are good science. Successful use is not the same as good science. Newton’s claims do (and did) not accurately predict the new data that they should have been able to predict if the theory was correct, they are no longer valid science—sure they work and sure they still predict some behaviors, but they do not predict all motion as he clamed they did.
To your second point: that is not Putnam’s point at all. Putnam is describing the process by which formerly valid scientific theories are replaced—Newton’s theory is an excellent case study of this. First a theory is formulated, it describes the available data. If successful it predicts new data. Then, data begins to be collected that falsifies the theory. But, the theory is too well entrenched to be replaced immediately—more data has to be collected before the scientific community accepts that the theory that has worked so well for them is falsified. So, step three is that more data is collected—in small pockets—and the dominant theory is repeatedly modified to account for the new data (think about how complex planetary motion had become before Newton). Finally, a new theory is proposed. It is first rejected because it goes against the old theory and the old theory is too cherished to be easily replaced, then it is discovered that the new theory not only accounts for all the available data (which the old theory couldn’t quite do), it predicts, accurately, new data. So the new theory finally comes to replace the old one as good science.
Additionally, I take your claim that I have misleadingly quoted Putnam very seriously. You have accused me of academic dishonesty and yet given the language of the sentence (“presumably”) you have not even bothered to check the source I have given. I have clearly explained why my sentence is not misleading, what the source was saying, and that shows why my sentence was a reasonable (concise) statement of the source. I expect, therefore, a public retraction of the false attack against my character.
To your third point: “X is not scientific” or “X is not science” is a claim that can be supported by experts in the field of philosophy of science according to what you said on the Freud talk page. The reason the philosopher of science rejects a thing as science seems irrelevant. If they know what is and is not science/scientific, it hardly matters whether or not the thing was science we are taking about what is not what was.--Reginod 09:36, 29 April 2007 (EDT)
I still don't agree. Why don't you also say that relativity is invalid, because of dark energy or quantization? Maybe the reader could read Putnam's book and figure out what he meant, but to just declare that Newtonian gravity is invalid is very misleading. RSchlafly 15:34, 29 April 2007 (EDT)
I refuse to continue any discussion with you until you apologize for your baseless accusations and personal attacks against me.--Reginod 15:43, 29 April 2007 (EDT)
I did not make baseless accusations and personal attacks against you. I did not say that you "misleadingly quoted Putnam"; you didn't even quote him at all as far as I can see. I did not accuse you of academic dishonesty. I did say that "your sentence is very misleading", and that is still my opinion. RSchlafly 16:20, 29 April 2007 (EDT)
You are quite right, I should have said you have accused me of misstating Putnam’s position, as opposed to misquoting (I was loose in my usage there, and if that confusion is all that is keeping you from retracting your attack, I hope I have cleared it up).
However, it is quite clear that you have accused me of academic dishonesty, even if that was not your intent. If I misleadingly referenced a source I am guilty of academic dishonesty, if you are saying that my reference does not support my claim you are attacking my integrity. You have not shown any evidence that you have so much as looked at the source I gave, and yet you say I am misleadingly referencing it. That is a personal attack, and it is unjustified. Please apologize, retract the claim, or support your position.--Reginod 16:33, 29 April 2007 (EDT)
Take a chill pill, Reginod. The critique here is over one sentence - it is not about you as a person.
The idea concerns the role of truth and its relation to the scientific method, as well as to how science corrects itself or refines theories.
Let us take a step back and look at the matter at hand:
Are Newton's laws of motion "valid"? Were they invalidated or "disproved" by the Lorentz equations, Einstein's new theories, or Quantum physics?
Can we say that Newton's Laws apply only to "slow-moving" objects (say, less than 10% of the speed of light)?
There is a philosophical question, as well (perhaps in Epistemology or Methodology, if you want to get technical). How well do we actually know anything? --Ed Poor 10:46, 30 April 2007 (EDT)
Ed, if the criticism were not about me as a person, RSchlafly could have easily said, “I’m sorry, you took that as an attack against your person, I did not intend it as such” and then reprased the offending sentence. Instead he chose to repeat the attack verbatim, KNOWING that I found it personally offensive. I think it is highly reasonable to take offense at the repetition of a charge that the person making the charge knows is offensive. If it were not intended to be offensive, he would not have repeated it.
As to your deeper questions, I had, at one point, detailed answers to those questions in the article and was told that they were not relevant to the subject of the article.--Reginod 11:03, 30 April 2007 (EDT)
Then write about Scientific method; History of science (or physics or astronomy); Epistemology; or Methodology. The matter you are addressing here might be beyond the scope of the present article. --Ed Poor 11:09, 30 April 2007 (EDT)
I’m not really interested in those fields, but I appreciate the offer. When I first got here this article was badly deficient, and I had some knowledge on the subject so I added what I knew and tried to move on (this particular example was a stock example when I was teaching and was pared with one about Darwin and I’m not touching Evolution with a 10-foot pole). What I added was deleted (I seem to recall the reason given was that it was heresy), I restored it. It was deleted again, I added more and better references and restored it. And then it was deleted because philosophers of science aren’t good sources for the sorts of claim I was using them to support. So, I moved on, no need to engage in an edit war. Then it turns out (see Freud) that philosophers of science ARE good sources for the types of claim I was using them to support, so I restored the claim—in a good faith attempt to make this article more closely reflect reality (and I hasten to add that throughout all this not a singe reference has been given for the claim contrary to the one I was making). And for my efforts to improve the site I get attacked. --Reginod 11:34, 30 April 2007 (EDT)
Missing items
Why is there nothing in this article about light or about Newton's laws of motion? Why on earth is it locked? --Britinme 17:38, 2 May 2007 (EDT)
Regarding Newton's supposed Arianism
I have been reading Newton's writings lately and believe the case for Newton's supposed Arianism to be weak. The greatest supposed evidence for his Arianism seems to be because of his association with William Whiston. "Artic. 9. We need not pray to Christ to intercede for us. If we pray the father aright he will intercede."
Isaac Newton probably held to an Eastern Orthodox view of the trinity.
"To us there is but one God the father of whom are all things and we of him, and one Lord Jesus Christ by whom are all things and we by him. That is, we are to worship the father alone as God Almighty and Jesus alone as the Lord the Messiah the great King the Lamb of God who was slain and hath redeemed us with his blood and made us kings and Priests."
RichardT 11:38, 4 September 2007 (EDT)
You may be right. Thanks for your insights. I've unlocked the content page and you can improve with your supported statements. Godspeed.--Aschlafly 12:01, 4 September 2007 (EDT)
Principa Mathematica
Perhaps his most well known work is Principa Mathematica and the invention of Calculus, why is this not in? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Lonewolf1313 (talk)
Because nobody's thought to add it? That gives you the opportunity! Philip J. Rayment 20:15, 18 November 2007 (EST)
Reversion explained
The wholesale deletion of persuasive evidence that Newton was a Christian was unjustified. At Conservapedia, we do not simply repeat the consensus of modern atheists, who obviously have bias against Newton being a Christian.--Aschlafly 22:05, 16 September 2008 (EDT)
Newton certainly was a Christian--the problem was that he believed in the Arian version, which orthodox Christians considered a heresy. Newton thought the Arians were the true Christians. He would lose his job if he published that idea so he kept it to his notebooks, which were unavailable to scholars until the 20th century. (They had been owned by a private family who stored them in a vault.) RJJensen 22:27, 16 September 2008 (EDT)
I'm happy to reconsider the evidence, but let's not delete evidence while considering it. Thanks and Godspeed.--Aschlafly 22:28, 16 September 2008 (EDT)
I note that you (RJJensen) quote Pfizenmaier saying, "Among contemporary scholars, the consensus is that Newton was an Arian". His paper is apparently not available on-line without a subscription, so I can't check it for myself, but I do note that another source also cites Pfizenmaier in support of the claim that "Some have accused him of Arianism, but it’s likely he held to the Eastern Orthodox view of the Trinity rather than the Western one held by Roman Catholics, Anglicans and most Protestants.". Philip J. Rayment 05:02, 17 September 2008 (EDT)
I added some new references--there has been a lot of work in the last 15 years. The issue is exactly how Newton's theology influenced his science and where his alchemy fits in. The scholars all agree he was a devout Christian but did not believe in the Trinity. Pfizenmaier never mentions the Eastern Orthodox church. Anyone interested can email me for copies of the articles, RJJensen 08:39, 17 September 2008 (EDT)
new material by RJJensen
I added a lot of new material on his biography and his physics, as well as a bibliography. I wrote it all, and previously posted it to Citizendium. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by RJJensen (talk)
It looked like it was copied, but I didn't know where from. I suggest that you use the {{Copied from}} template at the top of this talk page. Philip J. Rayment 04:41, 17 September 2008 (EDT)
The calculus section had some conceptual errors in it: the binomial theorem doesn't express an area; it re-expresses a function (such as a square root) as an infinite series of polynomial terms. The integration of this series is what gives the area. Also, it is worthwhile to mention Fermat's contributions for "integrating" polynomial curves -- Newton would have never considered re-expressing a square root as an infinite polynomial if there wasn't already an easy way to compute areas under polynomial curves. I've rewritten the mathematics of this section appropriately. -Foxtrot 04:16, 3 November 2008 (EST)
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ETSU women's tennis falls to Jacksonville, 5-2
Friday, March 28, 2008
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (March 28, 2008) - The ETSU women's tennis team fell in a hard-fought match to Jacksonville, 5-2 on Friday afternoon at the Keith Watson Tennis Complex. The Lady Bucs fall to 10-7 overall and 6-1 in A-Sun action while the Dolphins improve to 12-4, 5-0.
In doubles Jacksonville claimed the point as the duo of Lena Willi and Fernanda Carrero defeated Tara Byrne (Johnson City, Tenn.) and Elena Volobueva (Barcelona, Spain), 8-6 in the No. 2 slot while Vita Moskaliova (Minsk, Belarus) and Andra Voinea (Brasov, Romania) fell to Lina Xu and Juliana Umeki, 8-3. In the top position Yevgeniya Stupak (Kyiv, Ukraine) and Olya Batsula (Minsk, Belarus) defeated Iva Jaresova and Tatiana Soldatova, 8-4
In the top position Stupak fell to Lina Xu, 6-4, 7-5 after injuring her knee in the doubles competition, while Tara Byrne fell to Lena Willi, 7-5, 2-6, 11-9 in the No. 2 slot. In the fourth position Elena Volobueva fell to Juliana Umeki, 6-4, 6-1 while Vita Moskaliova fell to Fernanda Carrero in the sixth slot, 6-4, 6-1.
The Lady Bucs earned their two points as Olya Batsula defeated Tatiana Soldatova in the No. 3 position, 1-6, 6-3, 6-2 and Andra Voinea dropped Iva Jaresova, 7-5, 6-1 in the fifth slot.
"We just didn't play well today. Jacksonville is a very good team but we really didn't play well. Yevgeniya hurt her knee during the doubles but I was unable to substitute anyone for her. Injuries are just killing us this year. She played very well despite barely being able to move and I'm very proud of her for being a team player," said head coach Steve Brooks. "Olya played really great today. She faced the girl she lost to twice last year so her winning gives me a lot of hope for the conference tournament. She and Andra really played very well today and I'm extremely proud of them."
The Lady Bucs will face the North Florida Ospreys tomorrow March 29. The match is set to begin at 11 a.m. Follow all ETSU women's tennis action at
JU 5, ETSU 2
No. 1- Lina Xu (JU) def. #92 Yevgeniya Stupak (ETSU) 6-4, 7-5
No. 2- Lena Willi (JU) def. Tara Byrne (ETSU) 7-5, 2-6, 11-9
No. 3- Olya Batsula (ETSU) def. Tatiana Soldatova (JU) 1-6, 6-3, 6-2
No. 4- Juliana Umeki (JU) def. Elena Volobueva (ETSU) 6-4, 6-1
No. 5- Andra Voinea (ETSU) def. Iva Jaresova (JU) 7-5, 6-1
No. 6- Fernanda Carrero (JU) def. Vita Moskaliova (ETSU) 6-4, 6-1
No. 1- Batsula/Stupak (ETSU) def. Jaresova/Soldatova (JU) 8-4
No. 2- Willi/Carrero (JU) def. Byrne/Volobueva (ETSU) 8-6
No. 3- Xu/Umeki (JU) def. Moskaliova/Voinea (ETSU) 8-3
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The formula is over-used, but it's still good - 75%
TrooperOfSteel, May 4th, 2012
Our hats must be taken off to Morten Veland, after all he is a musical extraordinaire. Veland not only sings vocals, but also plays numerous instruments including guitar, bass, keyboards and drums. Veland is also a songwriter, producer and engineer - the guy just does it all. His band Sirenia is entirely his creation and aside from a female vocalist and a few added musicians to help out with either drums or guitars, Morten Veland basically does it all on his own. We saw his impressive one-man band Mortemia with the release of ‘Misere Mortem’ back in 2010 and now in early 2011, we get to hear the 5th full-length release by Sirenia, entitled ‘The Enigma of Life’.
Where Morten Veland falls short amongst his musical prowess, however, is that he has continued to write the same song, using the same riffs and the same structure on almost everything he’s released since 2007’s ‘Nine Destines and a Downfall’ (a breakthrough album for both Sirenia and Veland). Moving away from the more traditional gothic metal sound that was heard on Sirenia’s first 2 albums, and also back when Veland was a part of Tristania, ‘Nine Destines’ was a slab of “commercial” gothic metal brilliance. The chunky low end guitar riffs, the atmospheric and emotional choirs, plus the combined vocals between Veland and Monika Pedersen (who left the band shortly after the release) was fantastic. Over the following three years, Veland continued this formula for the next Sirenia album ‘The 13th Floor’ and for Veland’s side project Mortemia. While it was no surprise to hear it on ‘The 13th Floor’, the formula eventually ran a little dry on ‘Misere Mortem’.
Hearing the same thing for two more albums shows that Veland has either run out of ideas because he’s so busy doing everything else himself, or that this is the peak of his song-writing brilliance. While ‘The 13th Floor’ was a solid album, new vocalist Pilar Giménez García, aka Ailyn, I felt did not grab me as much as Pedersen did. Whether it was the lack of spice or conviction in her vocals, Ailyn to her defence is a young singer and will most definitely improve with experience.
So on to the new album, ‘The Enigma of Life’ and surprise surprise, the disc yet again continues the same song structures and riffs we’ve already heard before. Yes, even the choirs make it back for their mandatory appearance in the middle of most tracks. Talk about a lack of diversity. This repetitive issue is a double-edged sword – a new listener of Sirenia would find this album to be quite refreshing, interesting and vastly entertaining, while the Sirenia fan who has been there from the start would roll their eyes at realising that the latest cd is pretty much ‘Nine Destines and a Downfall’ rehashed yet again. That might sound like a harsh comment, but in reality I feel it is quite true. We as fans don’t want to hear the same formula repeated over and over on following releases (even if it did work like a treat the first time round), as eventually it becomes stale and boring and loses interest very quickly.
However, taking the album on its merits, ‘The Enigma of Life’ still has a lot going for it. Ailyn’s vocals have improved a fair amount (maybe a tad too high-pitched in areas) and the majority of tracks (despite the severe case of déjà-vu) are done very well. Veland has tried his best to re-shape the song structures so they sound and feel different, but the best part of the album is that there are, in fact, a bunch of kick ass tracks. The atmospheric and orchestral elements throughout each track add depth, while I don’t think anyone can ever get sick of hearing Veland’s ferocious growing tones.
Veland’s guitar-work is also worth another tick, with some top-notch solos thrown in here and there. The tracks on the cd range from the popish side of gothic metal, to the harder-edged and more powerful gothic metal roaring tracks. Highlights include the memorable “All My Dreams”, the groove infused and melodic “This Darkness”, “Darkened Days to Come”, which features Morten Veland on clean lead vocals, “This Lonely Lake” and “The Enigma of Life”, both softer sounding and slower-paced tracks which shows off Ailyn’s ever-improving vocals, and lastly the cd opener “The End Of It All”.
While Morten Veland can still create kick ass and memorable tracks, he’s needs to realise that the identical formula used for each track and also used for the past 3 albums he’s been a part of, will eventually work against him. Fans want change, fans want diversity and fans want their favourite bands to evolve just as they do. Veland’s a creative guy, but for Sirenia I really think he needs to obtain some outside input rather than his rule, his way, 100% of the time. ‘The Enigma of Life’ is quite good (marginally better than ‘The 13th Floor’), but if only it contained material that we haven’t already heard before. For Sirenia newbie’s however, this release will definitely be a highlight in your gothic metal journey.
Originally written for www.themetalforge.com
The enigma here is "What were they thinking?" - 31%
TommyA, June 5th, 2011
The first few minutes of the album made me think this was Sirenia following on the sound of "The 13th Floor". The first track here sounds quite similar to (yet not as memorable as) "The Path to Decay", so I figured Sirenia are headed towards that direction. This was not the case. "The Enigma of Life" is nothing but disappointing. Catchy? Sure. Good? Not at all.
The main reason for this being a huge disappointment is simple: it's incredibly boring and repetitive. Everything is the same throughout the album. Ailyn sounds as though she did not know the meaning of the phrase "change of tone". Unlike on "The 13th Floor", her voice is super bland and gets boring quickly. The same applies to everything really, not just the female vocals. The guitar work sounds identical on most tracks, and there is lack of musical variety overall. Choirs appear less often, which isn't such a good thing, since the vocals tend to annoy you after a while, and that frequent break wouldn't have been a bad idea. Also, the increased frequency of clean male vocals does not help.
It's not all horrible though. Some parts of the album cannot go uncredited. First and foremost, the choirs are always pleasant, and they sound more or less the same as the previous album. Another interesting thing about the album is how some tracks have a really cool opening music, even though this isn't exactly what one should look for in a gothic metal album. My personal favourite is the intro music of "All My Dreams".
As for highlights, there aren't that many. If I had to mention them, I would have to say that the aforementioned "All My Dreams" is decent (especially since it happens to be in between of two of the really bad tracks). "Fading Star" and "Coming Down" are two of the few tracks here in which I felt music was on par with the previous album. "The Enigma of Life" is undoubtedly the strongest track here. Ailyn sounds pretty good here, and the track overall sounds like a Veland track. Sadly, the rest of the album is below average, at best.
Lazy - 25%
null99, February 15th, 2011
I generally avoid writing reviews for music based on its subjective nature, preferring to listen for myself. My experience with this album reinforces that, as well as "try before you buy". I've been a loyal listener of Sirenia since An Elixir For Existence, and though I was a little disappointed with the following album, I understood it is better that the band move in a different direction than to stagnate and become stale. The 13th Floor was the first Sirenia album that was actually an improvement over its predecessor; The Enigma Of Life is a carbon copy of that album, but stripped of everything that made The 13th Floor better than Nine Destinies And A Downfall.
This album follows the same formula as the last two Sirenia albums as well as Mortemia: There's the symphonic metal base, female pop singer, the choir who takes turns with the frontwoman. and the guitar solos that mimic the chorus, then does its own thing for a brief moment before the song goes back into the chorus. There is no variation to be found. There are these "intros" pasted in front of nearly every song that just sound like the beginning riff played into a microphone before the actual song starts. Nothing new.
Aiylin (or whatever her name is) is very prominent on the album, and it seems very unbalanced. Perhaps it wouldn't be so if her voice wasn't a sort of cheery monotone with no variation. It worked in the last album when there was a sort of contrast between her and Morten (as in "The Lucid Door", "Sirens Of The Seven Seas"). Morten makes a couple of short appearances, as expected, but his clean vocals are far superior to his weakening (or just lazy) growls. The choirs are there, with that unchanging monotone that was not present in the first two albums. The guitars have no punch - they are pristine, over-produced, and in the background. One song (I can't be bothered to listen to remember) had that half-recycled riff from Sundown; I believe there was a song like that on the 13th Floor as well. I suppose that's about what makes up the meat of the music. To sum it up, the entire album sounds like "Lost In Life".
Once again the lyrics are juvenile and melodramatic. There were a few points when I accurately predicted the next couple of words. There are very few words or phrases that make up a modern Sirenia lyric (in addition to common words as "the", "and", etc...): "darkness", "falling", "demons" "set me free" "drowning", so there is about a 20% chance that one will correctly guess this.
Overall, I suppose what it comes down to is laziness. I'm sure Morten is an intelligent man, and knows very well that there is NOTHING Beyond The Veil-like about Mortemia - it's about as watered down as this album. But go on any website (or youtube) and you will see people fawning over what great works of art these are. So he knows he doesn't have to try very hard. He just throws around a few key words (and growls) as bait for the ASAS-lovers. Though, I've lost interest in Sirenia and won't be buying another album until they (he) start(s) to show some effort. Its not about the sharp turn in style, its that he could do better but instead chooses to shovel out albums of watered-down "dark-pop" in which every song sounds exactly the same. It is not "fresh" as he says; the synths on ASAS and AEFE were not predominately symphonic, and that's what made them different and interesting. Tristania realized this years ago, and they still make an effort to produce albums which sound different in and of themselves and succeed, no matter how far away from their roots they are. Its no wonder they gave him the boot.
How the mastermind behind Beyond The Veil has come to push out this half-assed teeny-bopper-money-machine garbage sure is one hell of an enigma to me.
Highlights: I don't know, just skip over "Fallen Angel".
How the gothic have fallen - 30%
Tymell, February 12th, 2011
What on earth happened to Sirenia? I hadn't listened to the band since their first two albums, but then I come back and find -this-? You're telling me the same band that crafted those two masterworks of gothic metal has now been reduced to little more than a Nightwish clone?
Not that I even have a problem with Nightwish. Their latest was somewhat lacking, but even the much-derided (by some) Once was chock full of catchy songs that kept me coming back for more. It showed that with some simple-yet-effective riffs, a talented vocalist and good sense of song-writing you can really turn out something special, so there's nothing wrong in adopting that style if you do it well. The Enigma of Life certainly does not however, coming out much more like a very uninspiring mess of lifeless components.
The riffs are really just a chug-along-in-the-background affair that never manage to assert themselves for any length of time. Of course many metal bands have shown us the riffs can be a part of something greater, taking a backseat for the greater good. But alas, there's little else to take their place in leading the music to heights of elegant darkness as was heard in the band's early days. The vocals are utterly generic female croonings with none of the captivating power of the genre's better frontladies, more often so sugary that the listener's face scrunches up in a painful wince. A nice voice is of no use if you don't do anything with it.
The albums one saving grace (of sorts) lies in it's symphonc aspects. These are still not great, a far cry from masters like Therion or Epica, but they have their moments at least. Many of the symphony compositions would work well if only they had more substance behind them from the rest of the band. As it is, they can't carry an album on their own.
Several sections of the album had me outright cringing in the sheer cliche limpness, the pervading feel that the band isn't even trying, and most of it was completely forgetable. Gone is the gothic majesty of At Sixes and Sevens or An Elixir For Existence, replaced instead with a poorly executed attempt at emulating the commercial appeal of bands like Nightwish or Within Temptation, but without either band's passionate vocals, song-writing skills or ability to seamlessly entwine grand symphonics and driving guitars together. Sirenia will have to try a lot harder if they want to show they're still capable of the old magic.
The 13th Floor - Extended Edition - 40%
h_clairvoyant, February 5th, 2011
Sirenia is a band that could easily have been defined as a band of constant change (be it growth or regression, that is a discussion for another time and place...). The Enigma Of Life seems to have shattered that view of Sirenia. Having had more than its fair share of frontwomen, perhaps holding onto Ailyn for another album warrants the lack of growth found here; however, there is little to be found here that hasn't already been heard on The 13th Floor.
With regards to the steadfast leading-lady, Spain's Ailyn, all is performed well and without any outstanding flaw. Every now and then she can sound whiny, mainly in choruses. For the most part though, her voice is unarguably sweet, delicate, and wholly pleasing. But compared with some of the hard-hitters found elsewhere in the genre, or even in previous Sirenia releases, there is much to be desired. Seldom comes a time when the listener is awe-struck or fast-forwarding to hear her again. The majority of what she does sounds rather uniform, without highlights or climax. She is safe, far from the best and even farther from the worst. Yet, more than once throughout the album, I was hoping for a Vibeke Stene or even a Henriette Bordvik to come soaring in (listen especially to 'Darkened Days To Come' from like :30 to 1:00, that transfer from Veland's dark, soothing voice to Ailyn's more poppish style is a bit disappointing).
After having written some of the most powerful, most endearing, most beautiful music to grace the gothic metal scene, it is elementary to expect the best of the best from Morten Veland, Sirenia's mastermind and songewriter. Of course, after the recent releases of Sirenia and his side-project, Mortemia, fans seemingly cannot expect 'Beyond The Veil'-caliber masterpieces anymore. As with The 13th Floor, you'll feel the tiniest memories of Morten's Golden Era for a few seconds on a random track here and there, but the bulk of the music is what us fans have come to expect. It is shortened, shallowed, and less enveloping than Veland's earlier works (It will be so difficult to get over the change, though it has in effect for years now.) This is far from bad music, in fact it is pretty good, despite the obvious blemishes.
Each individual track seems to follow the same 'template' of sorts; there is the nice intro, the nice verse, the nice chorus, rinse, repeat. Before three tracks have finished, the listener already knows what to expect from the next ten on the album. And really, if you've heard The 13th Floor, you probably will know what to expect before the first track has come to a close.
The everlasting trademark of Veland and his projects is the choirs, which, as expected and welcomed, are indeed present. Yet again, we are blessed with the strength and perfection of Sirenia's enigmatic choirs. They are commonplace now, and some may argue overused throughout Veland's career, though doubtly from the majority. The Enigma of Life's choral stretches are not the best we have heard, nor do any in particular stand out, but they are well-placed within the music, perfectly executed, and only enhance the pieces they grace.
Occasionally, the guitar-work will be permitted to shine, and those moments are among the highlights of the album. Most of the instrumental segments are executed via keyboarding though, which could be an upside or a downside, depending on who you ask. However, it is safe to say there still needs to be more 'music' and less of the repetitive vocal passages (and why do song lengths continue to shrink?); it is almost impossible to differentiate any sort of identity within each song, as they all sound so close to one another.
In the end, it is a listenable and at times enjoyable album by Norway's Sirenia. But compared with what they have released in the past, it is a dud. It's very similar to their 2009 release, The 13th Floor, only watered down quite a bit more, with less shining moments. Though less progressive of a step than it's predecessors, it is just another step down the path of the mundane.
Nothing here resembles an "enigma" - 60%
Twistedeyes, February 1st, 2011
Sirenia for most of the time are the pure definition of an enigma, it is quite puzzling and unexplainable how Morten Veland and company released two magnificent gothic metal albums, drastically changing to releasing an average symphonic metal and then the release of The 13th Floor showed definite signs of improvement over it's predecessor. The Enigma of Life breaks the pattern of those reoccurring enigmas and attempts to play it safe by sticking closely in style to The 13th Floor which is not necessarily bad as that album definitely had some very enjoyable moments. Comparisons aside for most of the time there just isn't anything quite entertaining, emotionally gripping or overzealous enough to fully grab your attention.
Quality wise this album is all over the place, ranging from the two abysmal pop/symphonic metal opening tracks to some quite enjoyable moment in much later tracks of the album e.g Morten's clean vocals in Darkened Days to Come. Similar to its predecessor album the quality of songs do pick up after the two terrible opening tracks, not by a huge and substantial amount you would be led to believe though but notable improvements never the less.
The main glaring problems here are lack of identity, having to fight off a sea of symphonic/gothic metal bands to be recognized is hard enough but it doesn't help Sirenia also that this album sounds essentially the exact same as the last one except not as entertaining. Lead female vocalist Ailyn can evidently sing quite well when given the opportunity can and perform most of the verses spot on but during the choruses it's a completely different story. During the choruses Ailyn sounds way too high pitched for my liking turning any momentum the song might have built up completely on its head!
The guitar riffs/solos and growls on this album are not entirely in the background or excluded but are lacking a certain punch, the elements that would make them impactful and stay with you long after you listen are absent. The programmed drumming and synthesizers are adequate for what they are meant to do. Lyrical wise like all other Sirenia albums deals with themes such as human decline and the general dark side of humanity, there is lots to work with inside this theme but it is impossible to take most of the songs seriously as it sounds like Ailyn is happy singing them and Morten's growls are restricted to certain parts of the songs!
Almost every song on the album follows the same boring and predictable verse chorus verse structure, that doesn't entirely mean that the songs are automatically unenjoyable and there are noteworthy parts during most of the bridges. The exception to this painfully predictable song structure rule is the title track, the only track I find decent and a bit out of the norm, Ailyn fully proves she can sing here and it feels like that The Enigma of Life is the only song that there was a certain degree of emotional investment put into.
For most of the part it feels like The Enigma of Life is just a worse version of The 13th Floor, offering little new material to the Sirenia discography or the symphonic/gothic metal genre. It may seem a bit drastic but the quality of most the songs are honestly on par with Sirenia's Nine Destinies and a Downfall album, one decent title track doesn't save the entire album from mediocrity. There are enjoyable parts to salvage from a majority of songs here, it's just a bit hard to justify listening through mostly mediocre songs to find them.
Music lovers trying to get into Sirenia's music are better off with any of their other albums excluding Nine Destinies and a Downfall which The Enigma of Life is sadly on par with. I would recommend that if you're a current Sirenia fan to at least check this out to see what it sounds like but you're most likely going to be disappointed.
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graeme_p - 5:15 am on Mar 5, 2010 (gmt 0)
I know my PC at home is infected with something, so it's turned into a streaming / downloading machine only. I don't even use it access emails. I switch to Linux for anything remotely personal.
You are part of the problem, and demonstrate exactly why we need measures like this. You protect yourself by limiting use of the infected PC, but it is still sending spam to the rest of us, taking part in DDOS attacks, or whatever.
If Microsoft could be trusted with such power it would be a great idea. But how long before they use that power to shut down a suspect terrorist, then to shut down a parking offender, then someone whos windows licence isn't up to date, then someone who doesn't like the latest special offer.
Rather like the British government using investigatory powers it took to "fight terrorism" to gather evidence in cases of failure of clear up after dogs?
If you're an egregious polluter, either on the road or the internet, and can't afford to fix the problem then you don't get to come out and play.
Exactly, and,as I said on the thread on who should pay for it, fine them, or allow the victims to sue them (if the victim of a DDOS attack could sue any owner of a participating machine for statuary damages of , say a few thousand dollars, it would create a good incentive to keep your PC secure)
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One candidate doesn’t fit all businesses
Published: Thursday, October 11, 2012 at 9:13 a.m.
Last Modified: Thursday, October 11, 2012 at 9:13 a.m.
During election season, everyone loves small business.
President Barack Obama loves small business. GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney loves small business.
During the first debate, they mentioned the words “small business” 25 times. But where do the candidates stand on small-business issues?
Of course, small businesses care about a range of concerns. If you think the deficit is the most important issue, you’ll probably lean toward Republicans. If, on the other hand, you believe that supporting the middle class is vital, you’ll probably support Democrats.
If you’re not sure who to vote for Nov. 6, I’ve devised a fact sheet to help:
1. Your company’s legal structure is a ” C” corporation.
2. You are in a health-related industry.
3. You make more than $1 million in taxable income, i.e. income after expenses and deductions, and are a sole proprietor, “S” corporation, LLC, or partnership.
4. You have more than 50 full-time employees and do not provide health insurance.
5. You want to start a business, are older than 40 years or have a medical condition
6. You are in the coal, gas, or oil industries.
7. You’re in an environment-related industry.
8. You are in residential real estate, construction, home remodeling, or design.
9. Your business is incorporated and pays part or all of your health insurance, or you are an employee of a business that pays at least part of your health insurance.
10. You expect to inherit more than $5 million or leave more than $5 million to your heirs.
Who’s your small-business presidential pick?
1. Romney. Romney’s tax plan includes reducing the corporate federal tax rate to a maximum of 25 percent, instead of the current top rate of 35 percent, and eliminating the corporate Alternative Minimum Tax. Obama proposed lowering the top corporate rate to 28 percent with a maximum of 25 percent on manufacturers.
2. Obama. Under the Affordable Care Act, what detractors call Obamacare, an estimated 14 million more Americans will have health insurance by 2014; 29 million more by 2019. That means a huge number of new patients and opportunities for health-related small businesses and providers.
3. Romney. Both Obama and Romney propose continuing Bush-era tax cuts for most Americans. However, Obama would let the tax rates for the wealthiest return to Clinton-era levels to help reduce the deficit. Romney would keep those cuts, and someone with $1 million in taxable income would save more than $390,000.
4. Romney. Romney is committed to repealing the Affordable Care Act, which requires businesses with more than 50 full- time employees to provide a minimum level of health coverage or pay a fine.
5. Obama. Many would-be entrepreneurs can’t start a business because they can’t afford — or get — health insurance, especially those older than 40 or with health problems. The Affordable Care Act requires insurance companies to cover people with pre-existing conditions, creates competitive health care exchanges, and provides tax credits on health insurance premiums for those with incomes up to 400 percent of the poverty level. In 2010, that’s $88,000 for a family of four.
6. Romney. Romney’s plan calls for reduced regulation of energy production, which should help those in extraction industries such as coal, gas, natural gas, and hydraulic fracturing, also called fracking.
7. Obama. Because his energy policies contrast with Romney’s plan, above.
8. Obama. Romney says he will offset his tax breaks by eliminating other deductions. A likely target:home mortgage interest. In early October, the Republican nominee suggested that deduction might instead be part of a “bucket” of all deductions with a combined maximum total of $17,000. Many small businesses are in home-related industries, and it’s likely those businesses would suffer with the elimination of tax incentives for home ownership.
9. Obama. Another likely deduction to be eliminated to offset Romney’s tax breaks would be the exemption of taxes on employer-provided health insurance. If your employer pays all or part of your health insurance, that could easily become taxable income under Romney — even if your own small business is your employer.
10. Romney. Romney proposes eliminating the estate tax. Currently, estates worth $5 million or less are exempted from taxes, and estates worth $5 million or more are taxed at a maximum of 35 percent.
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Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands - Xbox 360 review
3.5 out of 5
Great gameplay, magic elements are refreshing, looks spectacular
Lacks personality, storyline doesn't really pull you along
Say what you like about the last Prince of Persia - at least it was a genuine attempt to take the series somewhere new. Sadly, for every one of us who loved the gorgeous cartoon graphics, the fast-paced, frustration-free platforming, the epic set-pieces, the imaginative storyline, there was some miserable grump who wished Prince of Persia would go back to the way it was.
Well, be careful what you wish for. This new Prince of Persia, released to tie-in with the new Jake Gyllenhaal movie, is a return to the Prince, style and setting of the Sands of Time trilogy, but - in true Arabian Nights fashion - that turns out to be both a blessing and a curse.
As we're feeling nice, let's kick off with the good stuff. Firstly, the old prince is back, and while it's a bit off that he only has a passing resemblance to his earlier self - or indeed Jake Gyllenhaal - the Persian palace setting and the basic gameplay are straight from The Sands of Time guide book. There's none of that vaguely automated platforming the doubters hated from the 2008 reboot, and the controls pick up pretty much where 2005's The Two Thrones left off, with just the odd tweak here and there.
The emphasis is predominantly on wall-running, leaping, pole-swinging, column-climbing and banner knifing acrobatics, with plenty of switch and lever puzzles, mostly involving huge, trundling mechanisms, in for good measure. If you liked this sort of thing in The Sands of Time, the last couple of Tomb Raiders and Uncharted and its sequel, then there's a very good chance you'll like it here. And if you're new to the Prince - maybe drawn in by the movie - then you'll find the basic action very satisfying.
Of course, it wouldn't be Prince of Persia without a little magic. The plot this time revolves around a mythical army of demons imprisoned by the wise King Solomon and foolishly let loose by your elder brother in the defence of his kingdom from aggressors. Luckily help is on hand from some friendly Djinn who imbue you with magic powers. First you'll get the sands of time, enabling you, when things go wrong, to reset your progress to a point before your demise.
Later on you get the ability to solidify water, turning water jets into poles or columns and waterfalls into walls you can climb. Later still you get the ability to restore chunks of scenery to their rightful place. The game makes the most of these abilities, with some thoughtful puzzles that rely on you freezing and unfreezing the H20 in a heartbeat or combine your powers, and these are arguably the freshest element in the game.
Most importantly, The Forgotten Sands hasn't entirely jettisoned the less hardcore approach of the 2008 Prince. The stealth kills of The Two Thrones are nowhere to be found, generous checkpoints combined with time-control make catastrophic failure a rare event, and even the combat - now focused on trashing hordes of dumb monsters rather than single, smart opponents - is easy going. While you have additional and upgradable magical abilities to help you beat back the evil army, you'll find you don't even really need to use them most of the time.
For much of its running time, The Forgotten Sands is a slick, enjoyable romp that's hard to dislike. Ubisoft never stints on production values, either, so it's no surprise to find yourself staring at graphics that give the old Prince's visual style a spectacular HD spin, or hear a sweeping orchestral score fit for a movie.
The problem is the old "seen that, done that" phenomenon. For all its new features, and for all that it boasts glorious HD graphics, it's hard not to feel that you've played this game before, and that last time it had something a little more special up its sleeve. The more the game goes on, the more the grand chambers of the palace blur, the more the fights grow tiresome, and the more you start wishing for some big flourish of imagination.
We suspect this is going to be a bigger issue for those who played the Sands of Time trilogy than it is for any newcomers, but this doesn't really feel as much like Prince of Persia 2010 as it does a reskin of The Sands of Time with the combat tidied up and a few new features bolted on. What's worse, it hasn't got the charm or personality of that first Prince of Persia remake. The storyline has just enough oomph to keep things moving, but this isn't a game that you would have bet on inspiring a Hollywood blockbuster.
In many ways The Forgotten Sands combines great things from both the classic Sands of Time and the 2008 reboot; it's fun, good-looking and plays like the old ones, but has the pace, polish and less hardcore approach of the last Prince of Persia. Sadly, it hasn't got the invention or the magic of either game, making it a decent game for fans of the old games or the new movie, but not a defining new chapter for the series.
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kitchen table math, the sequel: Is this true?
Friday, October 5, 2012
Is this true?
Why School Should Focus on Engagement Instead of Lectures by Salman Khan
I'm trying to think how long I talk at a stretch, with no word from my students.
Five minutes? (For passersby, I teach freshman composition in the context of an English class.)
I'll have to time myself.
It strikes me as unlikely in the extreme that "millions of students" are spending entire school days listening to 50- to 90-minute lectures 6 hours a day.
In fact, it strikes me as being at least somewhat unlikely you could force millions of students to listen to 50- to 90-minute lectures 6 hours a day even if you tried. But I could be wrong.
My impression (and again, I don't know) is that the only teachers using straight lecture as their predominant or exclusive method of conveying knowledge to students are college professors teaching lecture courses. And lecture courses in my experience typically have "recitation" or "discussion" sections where the content of the lecture is elaborated and questions answered.
Plus college students take four courses, or thereabouts, each of which meets typically 2 to 3 times a week, so college students aren't spending 6 hours a day listening to lecture even when they're taking 4 lecture courses.
Besides which, I object to the blanket assumption that lecture is somehow an intrinsically bad form. The lecture is a time-honored, efficient, and often inspiring means of organizing and communicating material from an expert to a novice -- or from an expert to a colleague.....
And with that, I see I've veered off-topic.
A school would play heck getting me to pay attention to 6 hours of lecture a day, that's for sure. I don't have the focus.
Good thing no school I attended ever tried it.
Back to K-12. My intended topic is not to ask: Do students listen to lecture? I'm sure they do.
My intended topic is to ask: Do students in K-12 spend 6 hours a day moving in unison from classroom to classroom where they listen to 50-to 90-minute lectures?
(And, if they do, my follow-up question is: how is that possible?)
People seem to think "explicit instruction" means lecture, which is not remotely the case.
See, e.g.:
Barak Rosenshine, Five Meanings of Direct Instruction and Principles of Instruction; and Doug Lemov, Teach Like a Champion.
Not only does "explicit instruction" not mean "lecture," it means almost the opposite. I recall watching a professional development video on direct instruction a few years back (no longer available online, it appears) in which the presenter gave teachers an explicit figure for the number of questions they were advised to ask per each 20 minute segment of class time.
It was a lot.
OK, here we go. The Use of Questions in Teaching, 1970:
Certainly teachers ask many questions during an average school day. A half-century ago, Stevens (1912) estimated that four-fifths of school time was occupied with question-and-answer recitations. Stevens found that a sample of high-school teachers asked a mean number of 395 questions per day. High frequencies of question use by teachers were also found in recent investigations: 10 primary-grade teachers asked an average of 348 questions each during a school day (Floyd, 1960); 12 elementary-school teachers asked an average of 180 questions each in a science lesson (Moyer, 1965); and 14 fifth-grade teachers asked an average of 64 questions each in a 30-minute social studies lesson (Schreiber, 1967). Furthermore, students are exposed to many questions in their textbooks and on examinations. [emphasis added]
This is what everyone on the planet (our current planet, I mean) seems to have forgotten: old-time teaching wasn't about teachers standing on a stage delivering a lecture for 50 or 90 minutes.
How could it have been?
How would that work in a one-room schoolhouse?
Old-time teaching, as far as I can tell, was highly interactive and fundamentally social. Probably most effective teaching is fundamentally social; at least, I wouldn't be surprised to learn that it is.
And that's the problem with trying to learn math from a math video. It's lonely!
I'm pretty sure that reforms whose purpose is to topple straw men are the wrong reforms.
Anonymous said...
I think the position that you and Khan are coming from are different. Khan came from a Computer Science/Math background. In these subjects (at least at the college level) 50-90 nonstop lectures for hours a day are actually the norm. I experienced this in college science courses too. But my college humanities courses (my second major was in philosophy) was somewhat different. While I noticed that lecturing was also common in the humanities, questioning and discussion were MUCH more frequent in the liberal arts courses. I hope I'm not overgeneralizing here, but I think this experience applies broadly to technical and liberal arts subjects. To an extent, literature courses are flipped, hence your confusion from the TIME article. In fact, I've read Khan mention humanities seminars and case study pedagogy from Harvard Business School as models for instruction. This video from his collaboration with Stanford Medical School may help -
A related (Stanford) article from a journal here -
kcab said...
Like Anon above, I've found lectures to be common in technical subjects, though my experience was that classes were/are typically lectures + recitation, or lecture + labs.
Both my high school and middle school kids have math classes with a lot of lecturing this year. Doesn't work that well for either child, unfortunately. The middle schooler also has lectures in social studies, but not for the full class period and not every day.
Catherine Johnson said...
Right -- I was thinking that's probably the case in college-level science.
Is it the case in K-12?
That's what he's talking about.
Catherine Johnson said...
kcab - thanks -- interesting.
I have to say, part of me wonders whether Powerpoint and Smartboards actually encourage straight lecture ---- although a student last spring told me that the Smartboard in his high school had software for cold calling!
I would love that.
I use Pick Sticks for cold calling, and my **sense** is that students like it. It's funny, it's different, and it really does keep them on their toes --- everyone knows there's no hiding.
I recommend it.
Catherine Johnson said...
ence your confusion from the TIME article.
I don't believe I'm confused.
He's talking about K-12, right?
Catherine Johnson said...
Khan is overgeneralizing, it sounds like .....
Catherine Johnson said...
Straight math lecture to kids is crazy.
How does the teacher know if the kids are following?
Actually, I know the answer to that. The math chair here once told me, apropos of a teacher from whom C. was learning very, very little, a fact she acknowledged, that she knew the teacher in question was good because she herself, meaning the chair, could "see from students' faces that they understood."
I actually agree that you can get a lot of information from students' faces .... but it's certainly not enough, and it's not all that easy to get information about every student in a class when you're also delivering a lecture.
kcab said...
Well, in the case of my kids & math lectures at school, they aren't following. One feels that in order to keep up she has to write fast and not think, the other can't see the board (smallest child in the class, seated in the back...sigh) and ends up with misunderstandings as a result.
kcab said...
Since I'm commenting today...Catherine, did you ever end up posting about handwriting improvement using timed short periods writing x's and 0's or tally marks? I can't find it and would like to try to do something to help my 10 yo write faster and with greater legibility. I don't think he's horribly behind by age standards, but his math is with older kids and I have some concern that his writing speed/neatness is going to end up affecting his math grade.
James said...
It's a bit much for Khan to criticize teachers in classrooms for lack of interactivity, given that his prerecorded videos are, by definition, non-interactive.
allison said...
that implies at least 2.
That's just false. Just the idea that there were large classrooms of kids being taught the same material for 2 centuries is false, never mind the claims about lecture.
If you speak this inexactlty when edited, how badly do you speak in your own videos?
Still, I'm flabbergasted at a guy who became a rock star with his NONENGAGING LECTURES is complaining about this.
Short answer: Khan Academy made waves because it had a guy sounding authoritative that THIS is how you should teach math. The thirst is so big and deep that anyone claiming confidently they have an answer is immediately an expert.
what i don't get is how he got co opted so easily. i get why the educationists want him to tell their sob story, but was their flattery enough? does he really think the parents using Khan had kids begging to watch because of his engaging videos?
quencing is any good.
Anonymous said...
Catherine Johnson said...
[h]ence your confusion from the TIME article.
I don't believe I'm confused.
He's talking about K-12, right?
Sort of. But from what I've read/watched of Khan, he talks about higher education as much as K-12. I'd say that (and I again feel like I'm simplifying matters somewhat) as students move from grade to grade during K-12, classes in general become less interactive. This is especially true in technical subjects. Perhaps this is due to larger class sizes. If that's the case, then it helps explain the even more passive lessons in colleges (characterized by very large classes with near total lecturing). This is why I linked to the video and article about Stanford Medical School's collaboration with Khan. Now, I don't want to sound as if I'm necessarily advocating a pro-KA position. More research is clearly needed, but Eric Mazur's flipped class experiments at Harvard are promising. See -
Anonymous said...
Lecture-only is pretty common in math, the sciences, and economics. At the college-level, if it's a "small lecture" (35-70 students) it won't necessarily have a discussion section. A large lecture (say, 140+ students) will have a weekly section where a TA does the homework problems.
You ask, "how does the teacher know if the kids are following?" With many subjects, it is very rare for anyone to understand the material in real time -- it takes a while to sink in. Thus, the teacher will usually assign homework due the next class period or will give weekly quizzes to determine whether the students are keeping up with the material -- after they've had some time to think about it.
Typically it takes about 120-170 hours of engagement to learn a semester's worth of material in a typical quantitative class. Some of that time happens inside the classroom and some of that time happens outside the classroom. Some of the time in the classroom is devoted to making it clear which parts of the current topic are the most important and to what extent the students are responsible for understanding the most sophisticated material.
It's hard to know what students are doing outside the classroom unless it involves producing some sort of artifact (like the responses to a homework assignment) or using classtime to perform an assessment.
SteveH said...
This says that the issue is the length of the lecture, not the fact that lecturing is ineffective. So, instead of 90 minutes of lecture, the student will have to separate and pace up to six 15 minute online videos at home.
What happened to the regular homework? He is not talking about rearranging the chairs or flipping. He is talking about adding more homework.
These are classes set up specifically for that purpose. They are known to be a lot of work. Other business classes are not set up that way.
Once again, he is ignoring what happened to the homework sets that ensure that students know how to do things like find the moment of inertia of a complex cross-section. OK, so students now have to get the lecture online and have to learn to do the problems on their own, but when do they get to ask questions about those basic skills? When do they go over homework? My engineering and math classes were anything but passive.
Engineering schools already have special projects classes. They have collaborative projects, like the Baja Racer and the concrete canoe competitions. Why would one want all classes to be follow a hands-on or Socratic teaching model? One can opt for a college that is geared that way, but why would anyone impose that philosophy on K-12 as some sort of "best practice"?
Flipping a classroom is usually a solution to the fact that may students don't do any kind of homework. Teachers can now pretend that the students actually watch the online video, but then try to make more progress by having students do supervised homework in class. However, flipping is being sold as something more, not something less. At worst, it eliminates traditional problem set homework in place of having few watch the videos at home and having ineffective "active learning" in class.
"The main point is that when humans get together to learn, we should replace passivity with interactivity."
Of course, the solution is not to have effective, non-passive lectures. There is a lot of money to be made in telling educators what they want to hear - that there is some magic way for them to have active learning environments, off-load all of the dirty work, and have it all magically work.
I don't think he is co-opted. I think he has a product that he is adapting to what the customer wants.
lgm said...
Lecturing only in math is what my sons rec'd in a few K-5 classes. Frankly those teachers didn't know what they were talking about and from what my kids were made to copy in their composition books, that fact was obvious. The rest of the teachers, who understood math, go with a 'Do Now' activity if the students have switched classrooms, check and discussion of hw problems (gr 3-12), app 10 min of explanation of new concept, worked examples, then class time to begin hw. They circulate and fix obvious errors. I have one child that struggles with this as he is not a strong auditory learner and he uses so much energy in copying that he can't focus on learning. He does much better with reading the explanations than with a worked example on the board & auditory explanations. He does fine in a tutoring situation, which is what his placement this year is...basically 40 kids who have a lot of holes, with a setup of very little new material and a lot of time for the teacher to circulate and patch. My son that succeeds in the "Do Now" etc setup does it by not following the teacher direction. He attends to the instruction, then works the first example on his own, compares his sol'n to the teachers, then copies the examples that he missed while working on the first one. He works those himself, compares soln's again, then asks any questions. He usually has the entire hw set done before he leaves and spends his time helping others that didn't 'get it' from the presentation and examples. He uses the 'go over the hw' time for hw in other classes. AoPS style works for him, because he can go off on the side, think through, then read and join back in with the class.
Effective teaching of math to me is AoPS style, but live. But, that requires students who want to engage, which is not what is going to happen in a Regent's classroom without changing the atmosphere and school culture. It also requires teachers who are math competent, and don't present the courses as a series of skills to memorize.
Re: 1 room school house. I went to a 4 room school house, about 15 students for each classroom which consisted of 2 grade levels. The teacher used small group instruction for math and LA; groups that weren't with teacher did seatwork. In 8th, they went to independent study for math as kids transferring in were all over the place and no group of more than 2 could be formed. That worked well - we all learned to read a text and ask intelligent questions of the teacher. The downside was that those who wanted to do the minimum couldn't be pushed to step up the pace.
Anonymous said...
Also it is easier for a student to get away with cutting corners in a humanities seminar. If you haven't read all the assigned reading, you skim until you find a particularly discussion-worthy section (ideally dealing with something controversial) and read it closely. Extra-good if this relates to an earlier reading in the class that you actually did. Closely related: the highly focused essay.
A similar technique is unlikely to garner a passing grade in a quantitative course.
kcab said...
The best math teachers my kids have had organize their class time much as Igm describes (starting with "Do Now" problem, etc). One difference is that their worked examples *are* done much like AOPS, by soliciting student input and making it clear which approaches are correct and which are not. Also, the short explanation of concepts generally followed the jointly worked problems. Class time was usually spent working problems on the board rather than starting on homework.
Thinking back oh-so-many years, the best teachers I had in quantitative subjects in college also solicited student input, whether in large lecture halls or 5-10 person classes, even if the class was primarily lecture.
ATechie said...
Thinking back to college in the 1980's, where I majored in math. I don't think I EVER was asked or answered a question in any class outside of French class in my 4 years at my university (a large, good, research oriented university). In fact, if a professor had ever cold called on me in class, I think I would have dropped the class immediately. It just wasn't DONE. We did have recitations, but those consisted of a TA dutifully working out solutions to homework at the board while we copied down the solutions. I never heard of questions being asked by students; in fact, most of the TAs didn't speak enough English to understand questions. Later, as a grad student, I TA'ed myself, and did pretty much the same thing in my recitation sections.
Crimson Wife said...
The middle and high school I attended had mostly lectures in math & science. 6th grade English when we did the semester on grammar was mostly lecture too. Sometimes a student would be asked to come up to the chalkboard to solve an equation in front of the class. But it definitely wasn't the kind of back-and-forth discussions we had in humanities classes.
Anonymous said...
It might be worth considering two things:
1. Khan's focus is global. He presents his website to a global audience, and he may be talking here about global rather than American education. The lecture format, in my limited experience (I've studied in three countries besides the US) is overwhelmingly favored overseas.
2. Khan is not suggesting that children sit in class and watch his videos. He is suggesting that class time be used for interactive work. He states this explicitly: "We could then consider having multiple teachers in the same room working with students of multiple skill levels and age groups. A bell would no longer need to be rung to artificially stop one subject and to start the next. Ironically, by removing lecture from class time, we can make classrooms more engaging and human."
It seems clear that some folks here have such an animus against Khan they can't even read straight.
SteveH said...
"may be"?
Khan is clearly going to conferences in the US and pushing his ideas. They are treating him as a rock star. His videos are not very good.
"Khan is not suggesting that children sit in class and watch his videos."
Nobody thinks this. He is clearly pushing flipping.
Flipping the classroom usually implies different things to different educators. In one scenario, class time is used for mixed ability, hands-on group projects. In another scenario, kids work individually at their own skill level as a way to get differentiated instruction to work. However, few address the problems of effective curricula and acceleration past grade level. And they gloss over the problem of permanently grouping equal ability kids. Another scenario is to use the class time to get everyone to do supervised homework because many just don't do homework. Unfortunately, these are the kids who won't watch the videos at home.
Animus can be an effect, not a cause, and Anonymous needs to read more carefully.
Khan is clearly adaptng his message to US educator market demand.
"... by removing lecture from class time, we can make classrooms more engaging and human."
Lectures are not engaging and human? Than what? Individual work at your own level? Group work where a few students dominate the discussion? Mixed ability group work where nobody gets what they need?
When the teacher comes around to an indivudual group in class, does she/he lecture or facilitate a discovery process. If a facilitate approach is used, how much time does she/he have for each group?
The general problem is that many educators want to get something for nothing. It doesn't happen. I questioned above what happens to the regular math problem sets that are usually done as homework. Do students have to watch the videos and do the problem sets as homework? If they now do the regular homework sets in class individually (at their own level of acceleration?), then how is this more "engaging and human"? If students at the same ability level do homework problems in class as a group, then what keeps individual students from just going along for the ride?
My animus stems from the inability to get past general ideas to the details of assumptions, teaching methods and curriculum.
Anonymous said...
Although targeted at university students, this may be of interest: "Our analysis showed that teachers think that their students feel more positive about their classroom learning experience if there are more interactive, discussion-oriented activities. In reality, engaging and stimulating lectures, regardless of how technologies are used, are what really predict students' appreciation of a given course."
(Researchers Venkatesh and Fusaro about their study on how learners and instructors perceive the effectiveness of ICT in the classroom, cited in Science Daily, Oct 5.)
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Working on this stack overflow question led me to ask another, related question (here) .
This first attempt was shown unsuccessful in the answer to it, so I try a rather different approach here. Let $D=\bigg\lbrace \frac{i}{2^j}\bigg | j \geq 1, 0 < i < 2^j \bigg\rbrace$ be the set of all dyadic numbers in $]0,1[$.
Let us say that a (finite or infinite) sequence $u=(u_n)$ of elements in $D^2$ is rectangular if all the vectors $\overrightarrow{u_{k}u_{k+1}}$ are horizontal or vertical.
When $u$ is finite of length $n$, we have a polygonal path $p_u: [0,1] \to ]0,1[^2$ such that $p_u$ induces a bijection between $[\frac{k-1}{n},\frac{k}{n}]$ and the segment $[u_ku_{k+1}]$, for each $k$. When $u$ is infinite, $u=(u_k)_{k \geq 1}$, we have an “infinite” polygonal path $p_u$ such that $p_u$ induces a bijection between $[k,k+1]$ and the segment $[u_ku_{k+1}]$, for each $k \geq 1$.
It is easily seen for any $\varepsilon >0$, any finite rectangular sequence $u$ such that $p_u$ is injective (let us call these good finite sequences for short) can be extended to form a larger good finite sequence that’s $\varepsilon$-dense (formally, this means that if $(u_1,u_2,u_3, \ldots ,u_p)$ is a good finite sequence, then there is a $q>p$ and values $u_{p+1},u_{p+2}, \ldots ,u_q$ in $D^2$ such that the sequence $(u_1,u_2,u_3, \ldots ,u_q)$ is again a good finite sequence, and for any $x\in [0,1]^2$ there is an index $i$ between $1$ and $q$ such that $||x-u_i|| \lt \varepsilon$ ). We deduce that there exist countably infinite, rectangular sequences $u$ that are dense in $[0,1]^2$ and such that $p_u$ is injective (let us call these good infinite sequences).
Let $(u_k)_{k\geq 1}$ be a good infinite sequence. Let $P$ be the path followed by the sequence, i.e. the union of all the segments $[u_ku_{k+1}]$ for $k\geq 1$. Is $Z=]0,1[^2 \setminus P$ path connected ? A related question : is it true that for any $z\in Z$, there is an open segment containing $z$ and contained in $Z$ ?
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I don't really understand the part where you say that any finite rectangular sequence whose path is injective can be extended to form a larger sequence. What exactly do you mean by "extended"? Also, in the next sentence, what is the "associated polygonal path" for an infinite sequence? – Dan Shved Dec 4 '12 at 12:27
@DanShved : I edited the post, hope it is clearer now. – Ewan Delanoy Dec 4 '12 at 15:20
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$Z$ may not be path-connected, and the number of its path-connected components may even be uncountable.
Instead of working with dyadics, I find it easier to use triadic numbers to work out an explicit example (and it makes no real difference : just use any order preserving bijection between the two to recover your original context) Let $T_n = \{(a/3^n, b/3^n), 0 < a,b < 3^n \}$.
First, pick $u_0, \ldots u_3$ in $T_1$ so that they make a U shape. Then, pick $u_4, \ldots u_{16}$ in $T_2$ by extending the line $u_2 u_3$ by $1/9$, then go back inside the U and "follow the walls" until you've passed on every point in $T_2$ and are back at a corner of $T_2$. Then pick $u_{17} \ldots u_{53}$ in $T_3$ using the same procedure, etc.
You will notice that there are big areas of the square where you are always moving along the same axis : the intersection of $P$ with those areas consist of a bunch of horizontal (or vertical) lines. Thus the path-connected components of $Z$ in those areas must also be made of horizontal (or vertical lines).
There is a half $H$ of the square where every path-connected component of $Z \cap H$ or $P \cap H$ have the same U shape. You can parametrize those components by a real number in $(0;1/2]$. As you look progressively into the other (more complicated) half of the square, what happens is that you're extending those components, twisting them, and connecting some of them. Those connections are of the form "if $x$ is in some interval $I_n$, connect component $x$ with component $r_n \pm x$" where $r_n$ is a rational (triadic) number and $I_n$ an interval with rational (halves of triadic numbers, I think) endpoints.
Then the path-connected components of $Z$, together with $P$, correspond to the quotient of $(0;1/2]$ modulo those connections. $P$ corresponds to the class of $1/3$ and has an endpoint ($u_0$). The path-connected component corresponding to the class of $1/2$ will have countably many endpoints and nodes. And all the other path-connected components will have no endpoint and no node (they can't form a loop since that would disconnect the square, so there is a continuous bijection from $\Bbb R$ into them). Since each equivalence class is countably infinite and $(0;1/2]$ is uncountable, the number of equivalence classes (and thus of path-connected components) has the same cardinality as $(0;1/2]$. Also, every one of them is dense in the square, and so choosing to remove any one of them instead of $P$ will give you the same partition of the square into path-connected subsets.
Assuming you start at $u_0 = (1/3,2/3)$ and go down to form the first U shape, we get $u_3 = (2/3,2/3), u_4 = (2/3,7/9), u_5 = (5/9,7/9), \ldots u_{16} = (8/9,8/9), u_{17} = (8/9,25/27), \ldots u_{53} = (26/27,26/27) \ldots$
Note $\overline{x}$ the component of the point $(x,1/2)$, looking at the bottom half of the square you have the equivalence $\overline{x} \sim_0 \overline{1-x}$. This makes an endpoint at $(1/2,1/2)$.
The other reflections take place on the upper half and they have pairwise disjoint support, so from almost any point at $(x,1/2)$ you can travel through the top half to get to a unique $(y,1/2)$ or travel through the bottom half to get to $(1-x,1/2)$.
Next you have $\overline x \sim_1 \overline{2/3 - x}$ for $x \in [1/6 ; 1/2]$, making the endpoint at $u_0$; and $\overline x \sim_2 \overline{11/9 - x}$ for $x \in [1/2 ; 13/18]$, making an endpoint at $(11/18,13/18)$ and a T node at $(1/2,5/6)$.
Since $11/18 \sim_0 7/18 \sim_1 5/18 \sim_0 13/18 \sim_2 1/2$, these are all on the same component (1/2's) (and this chain of equivalences describe an actual path from $(11/18,13/18)$ to the T node which is directly tied to the other endpoint $(1/2,1/2)$).
On the next step, you have $\overline x \sim_3 \overline{8/9 - x}$ for $x \in [1/18 ; 1/6] \cup [13/18 ; 5/6]$ and $\overline x \sim_4 \overline{47/27 - x}$ for $x \in [5/6 ; 49/54]$, making an endpoint at $x=47/54$ and a T node at $x=5/6$.
And so on : $\overline x \sim_{2n+1} \overline{1-3^{-n-1} - x}$ for $x \in [\frac 1 2 3^{-n-1} ; \frac 1 2 3^{-n}] \cup [1- \frac 5 2 3^{-n-1} ; 1- \frac 1 2 3^{-n}]$ and $\overline x \sim_{2n+2} \overline{2-7.3^{-n-2} - x}$ for $x \in [1- \frac 1 2 3^{-n}; 1- \frac 5 2 3^{-n-2}]$, making an endpoint at $x = 1- \frac 7 2 3^{-n-2}$ and a T node at $x = 1- \frac 1 2 3^{-n}$.
So hopefully, this will help to draw the picture.
I would like to say that $\overline{x} = \overline{y}$ if and only if $x-y$ or $x+y$ is a triadic number, but that would require more analysis on what those reflections do in terms of the base 3 expansion of $x$.
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So my answer looks like a version of this answer : math.stackexchange.com/a/234999/17445 – mercio Dec 4 '12 at 16:41
That’s a good synthesis of a lot of things that would be awkward to write out formally. I certainly need to check and work out the details before accepting this as an answer. – Ewan Delanoy Dec 4 '12 at 20:33
Why does the equivalence class of $\frac{1}{2}$ have countably many endpoints and nodes ? All I see is that it has an endpoint at $(\frac{1}{2},\frac{4}{3})$, the middle of $[u_8u_9]$. – Ewan Delanoy Dec 5 '12 at 6:08
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Sunday, November 18, 2012
Drudge Smacks Christie
The truth is governments are useless in emergencies. The "leaders" are posers. Christie, Bloomberg, Cuomo et al.
They only make matters worse, e.g., enforcement of anti-gouging laws, rationing and interference in privately written property damage insurance contracts.
These characters would have fit in nicely under Khrushchev. He looked ready for emergencies also.
1. Drudge leans Neocon at times...part of me thinks is payback for fatboy parading around with the Black Jesus before the election like his lapdog.
The other part of me says it is payback for not running on the GOP ticket as VP.
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2. Agreed. His supplication towards Bush the Lesser after 9/11 made me drop him from my daily reading. He was replaced by so it was a net positive!
Judas' appearance on SNL will go down in infamy. What a sick MFer.
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CFP: Medieval Disability (UK) (9/20/05; Leeds, 7/10/06-7/13/06)
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Cory Rushton
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Medieval Disability: The body beyond the margins (Leeds, July 10-13th 2006).
Disability Studies, a field of inquiry rooted in disciplines as diverse as archaeology, history, literary studies and queer theory, has increasingly called for an intensified exanination of the history of disability: how it was perceived, what constituted "able-bodiedness" in different eras, the moral ramifications of disability, the growth of the culture of pity, etc. Medievalists have been slow to answer this call, despite the period's centrality in the formation of modern identities.
The organizers of this session are calling for papers examining the topic of medieval disability as manifested in historical, literary and theological texts from roughly 500-1500 AD. Possible topics include disabled characters in literary texts; archaeological evidences for disabled persons; the marginalization (or acceptance) of traditional disabled categories in the period; the contrast or continuities between the medieval period and our own; the relationship between physical and moral wholeness; theoretical approaches to Disability and Medieval Studies; etc. Approaches can be based in any academic field.
The deadline for proposals (300 words and title) is September 22nd, 2005, with the final panel being submitted to the Leeds organizers by September 30th, 2005.
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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- Mandarin High School senior soccer player Rijad Kobiljar is our athlete of the week.
He was nominated by his teammate and long-time friend Aldin Coralic. When asked why he thought Kobiljar deserves this award, Coralic cited his work ethic and willingness to help teammates on and off the field.
Kobiljar is a four-year starter for the Mustangs, and he's earned an athletic scholarship to play soccer at Jacksonville University.
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What is up, generations of bemused and confused observers have asked, with Donald Trump's hair? The television clown and serially bankrupt business mogul sports a peculiar, swirling spun-sugar-colored confection on top of his head. It is clearly an elaborate work of artifice, designed to confound the eye. » 5/08/13 6:05pm 5/08/13 6:05pm
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User avatar #24 - messerauditore ONLINE (05/26/2013) [-]
A greatsword on a light armored thief? ...wat?
User avatar #25 to #24 - uhidk ONLINE (05/26/2013) [-]
***** swords and armor just look so ****** in this game.
User avatar #27 to #25 - messerauditore ONLINE (05/26/2013) [-]
I agree, but that's quite the odd combo.
Than again, my college roommate last year had a (and bear with me here) "sneak-heavy armored-marksman-mage-khajiit who also dual wielded daggers. His skills and perks were so far spread that regular bandits could kill him (and typically did). It was so painful to watch him play.
User avatar #28 to #27 - uhidk ONLINE (05/26/2013) [-]
i always wanted to do a heavy armor/greatsword ******** .
it was never easy and i lost interest every time.
#29 to #28 - messerauditore ONLINE (05/26/2013) [-]
Yeah I only ever play ******** (it's an obsession, my username probably doesnt help that fact).
I have a mage character and an axe/shield character, but an archer/onehanded sneaking character is always my favorite. Plus i have the master of death mod which is ******* awesome armor.
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User avatar #31 to #29 - uhidk ONLINE (05/26/2013) [-]
********* are fun. for a while.
i like playing as a necromancer, but the necromancy in skyrim is a bit...lacking. the only undead things you can summon are skeletons, and even then you can't get the cool mage ones with the hoods. i'm sure the DLC adds cooler summons, but i haven't gotten around to those.
User avatar #33 to #31 - messerauditore ONLINE (05/26/2013) [-]
I don't know about undead summons, as I've never played a necromancer, but Dawnguard would probably have something along those lines.
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yeah, the DLCs add a lot of really cool **** .
i kinda miss skyrim now.
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cigar guy as muhammad ali
Yesterday, we explained how Cigar Guy, the turbaned, mustachioed cigar-smoking man standing behind Tiger Woods at the Ryder Cup, became a meme. Well, today, Cigar Guy has become even bigger, facebombing not just the Ryder Cup, but all kinds of historic sports events.
Cigar Guy's head has now been photoshopped over such sports greats as Larry Bird and Muhammad Ali, and into all kinds of iconic moments in professional sports. He's even replaced the entire USA hockey team. A bona fide internet trend is born!
Check out the various adventures of the now-famous man with the cigar after the jump.
UPDATE: Of course there's a Cigar Guy tumblr. And check out the Cigar Guy news we found after writing this post.
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Thursday, December 8, 2011
Menus and freezers and budgets, oh my! (Part 2)
Okay, so in part 1 I said that next time I would talk about how I shop. But I also said I'm not good at sticking to a plan. So today instead, I'm going to talk about how I cook to freeze. There are three main strategies I use, and they work well for different things.
1. Freezer Day
The idea here is to block out a day (usually a weekend) and to just make a whole lot of food to put in your freezer. Some people call this Once a Month Cooking, and actually make 30 different meals in one day, but I have never managed to do anything like that. Usually I just choose one thing to make a lot of, or a few things that have common ingredients.
For example, this past weekend, my husband and I made 15 pans of lasagna. This honestly isn't much harder than making one or two pans of lasagna. Mixing a ton of filling isn't any harder than mixing a little. We just made the sauce, cooked some ground beef, then assembly lined the lasagna in disposable foil loaf pans. We had extra sauce so I froze that in Tupperware containers for easy spaghetti nights.
I find that this method works really well for me for most casseroles, where cooking the ingredients is really the most time consuming part, and having them pre-assembled means a super easy dinner. I don't pre-bake them; I just bake them on the day I plan to eat.
The problem with this method is that it takes a huge time commitment. Especially with a toddler running around, it's hard to block out that much time. My husband and I ended up doing the bulk of the prep after bedtime, and were up until 11:30 cleaning up. Boo.
2. Just make extra
This is actually the method I prefer. Instead of trying to make a month or a year's worth of something, I just make a little extra. Since it's just the two (and a half) of us, and most of my recipes are for four, I usually have extra anyway. Sometimes I go one step further and double it. Then after dinner, I pack up the extra and freeze it.
This is so easy because it doesn't take any extra time at all in my dinner prep, and gives me fully cooked, microwavable dinners for nights when I don't have time to cook. I like to do this with chili, sausage and peppers, shredded meat for tacos or sandwiches, stews, or anything that might require a long cooking time the first night.
3. Prep and freeze
Some things are just better if you make them the night of, but you can make your life easier and save money by doing the prep work ahead of time. For example, I keep a bag of diced carrots, onions, and celery in my freezer. I can dice it during naptime and then just grab a handful when I need it. I also buy bell peppers when they are on sale (because holy crap they get expensive), cut them into strips, and freeze them in freezer bags. You can even cook your meat ahead of time for recipes that use cooked meat. Browning an entire 3 pound package of ground beef doesn't take any longer than browning a single pound, and then you have some options for fast cooking dinners. Baking a whole bunch of chicken breasts ahead makes life easier too - just defrost as many as you need to make quick enchiladas, salads, or sandwiches.
Some people will even prepare and measure the ingredients for a specific recipe into a freezer bag. For instance, you could freeze sliced peppers and onions along with a chicken breast in a bag for quick, no prep, fajitas. Just dump the whole bag into a pan and sautee it up. I don't have much experience with this, but it's something I'd like to try more of.
Rach (DonutsMama) said...
Thanks for these tips. I always forget to use my freezer.
Sarah said...
I seriously cannot wait to get a stand alone freezer. We have a side by side fridge freezer right now.
Top shelf is milk, second shelf is ice and microwave meals for dh lunch if needed. First basket is breads, odds and ends, leftovers, second basket is raw meats, third basket is veg, fruits, and big meats like turkey or whole chicken.
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PSC Asks Supreme Court to Hear Battlefield Contracting Case
Arlington, Va., February 11, 2014—The Professional Services Council yesterday filed a “friend of the court” (amicus) brief in the United States Supreme Court recommending that the court hear an appeal involving KBR.
Last August, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit ruled that a suit against KBR over federal contract work could go forward despite prohibitions on suing the government and contractors performing government work. In its brief, PSC addresses how a specific Federal Acquisition Regulation clause, FAR 52.228-7 titled “Insurance – Liability to Third Persons,” included in those battlefield cost-reimbursement contracts, controls the relationship between the government and its prime contractors and between the prime contractor and third parties.
“The FAR clause enshrines the well-settled position that the government is generally liable for injuries or death arising out of the prime contractor’s performance of the cost-reimbursement contract,” said PSC Executive Vice President and Counsel Alan Chvotkin.
The case involves a soldier who died in a tragic accident when he was electrocuted while showering in a building at a forward operating base near Baghdad, Iraq. Since the law prohibits soldiers or their estates from suing the federal government, the soldier’s estate brought state-law tort claims against KBR, which provided facilities maintenance and other essential combat support services to the Army in the Iraq war zone. KBR, which is a PSC member company, filed its petition for review with the Supreme Court on January 8, 2014.
The text of the PSC brief is available here.
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What Would George Say Now?
George Orwell has been dead for more than 50 years, but his work and ideas continue to reverberate in political debates on both the right and the left. With the centenary of Orwell's birth this month, we asked several experts to explain his enduring significance.
Scott Lucas, a professor of American studies at the University of Birmingham, in England, and author of George Orwell and the Betrayal of Dissent (Pluto Press, forthcoming):
I'm very sympathetic to the viewpoint that
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Cities, states sell naming rights to plug budget holes
BP bridgeLooking to plug their gaping budget holes, cities and states around the nation are selling off the naming rights at schools, parks, government buildings and even boat launches, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal.
Major sports complexes, hospitals and universities have long put the names of big sponsors in front of television cameras, but now corporations are adding their names to more public places. These deals don’t offer the sponsors the same widespread media exposure they can find in a television camera lens, but they do boost their local presence, the report said.
Hundreds of naming rights are up for sale, according to the Journal, and mass-transit stations are especially popular. New York has sold the naming rights to the Atlantic Avenue-Pacific Street subway stop in Brooklyn to Barclays, and AT&T recently paid Philadelphia about $3 million to rename the city’s Pattison Avenue terminus (named for a 19th-century Pennsylvania) AT&T Station, the report said.
Chicago is currently soliciting bids for naming rights to bus routes and train lines, and the Frank Gehry designed BP Bridge (image above) is one of several parts of Chicago’s new Millennium Park that has been renamed for corporate sponsors. Elsewhere, the “North Face” logo can be found on trail markers in public parks in Virginia and Maryland, while Nestle is building playgrounds in several New York state parks and displaying the name of its Juicy Juice brand, the Journal said.
Critics say putting a corporate name on a city’s subway station dishonors historic citizens and causes geographic confusion, the report said, while parents living in districts where schools are accepting corporate sponsorships argue that the deals reinforce the idea that everything is for sale.
But municipalities say they are simply trying to balance purism with pragmatism, noting that in the current economic climate it makes good economic sense to accept multimillion-dollar payments.
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AudioQuest Defends HDMI Marketing
AudioQuest CEO Bill Low agrees with HD Guru that TV refresh rates have nothing to do with HDMI cable, but says company must match the competition with messaging.
AudioQuest CEO Bill Low: “I chose the words very carefully ... Delivers 100% of the data required for 120Hz, 240Hz and 600Hz displays.”
August 26, 2010 by Julie Jacobson
AudioQuest CEO Bill Low Responds
Posted by William Low on 08/15 at 01:46 PM
Mr. Merson’s HD Guru article about HDMI Cable Makers and Ms. Jacobson’s passing-on & packaging of that piece in CE Pro ... make me smile and make me wince.
The smile part is that I’m delighted to see deception and purposefully confusing claims taken to task, and I’m proud of how carefully I balanced responding to market pressure by only telling the truth. And, I wince at the less than perfect muckraking which is unfairly tarnishing AudioQuest.
In the real world, people are confused. The world of this month’s video buzz word comes from the hardware side. “LED” is being used to describe LCD monitors with LED backlighting. These are not LED TVs! LCD monitor manufacturers are shouting about their 120Hz, 240Hz and 480Hz refresh rates, often implying frame rates of 120, 240 and 480 ... it’s downright difficult to figure out if a given TV with a 240Hz refresh rate is displaying a frame rate of 24, 30, 60, 120 or 240. “Refresh rate” and “frame rate” are being purposefully jumbled up by some hardware suppliers.
As HD Guru points out, there are no monitors which need to be fed more than a 60p signal for 2D video, though 3D does require the equivalent of 120p (60p x 2), no matter what the monitor’s refresh rate, and no matter whether the set includes the computational ability to create (through interpolation) frame rates of 120 or 240. As for the 480Hz or 600Hz “refresh” rate of a plasma set, that’s usually only a claim equivalent to an amplifier’s or a cable modem’s bandwidth. It’s a type of possibility and not necessarily a claim that any signal direction is taking place at that rate. Plasmas have vastly superior response time (ability to change quickly) compared to LCD, but how often the picture is refreshed by the combination of electronics and display is not necessarily the same number.
When a 24fps film is displayed in a movie theater, the same frame is flashed 2 or 3 times. This makes the refresh rate 48 or 72, while the frame rate is still 24. A Pioneer plasma display with a 72Hz refresh rate “flashes” the same frame 3 times per 1/24 of a second. An LCD display with a 120Hz refresh rate, flashes each frame 5 times per 1/24 of a second. While LCDs are improving fast, in the past it was remarkably obvious that a refresh rate of 72Hz on a fast-response plasma, yielded much smoother motion than 120Hz in a slower response time LCD.
There is a particular relevance in the 600Hz claim for some plasma displays; the lowest response-per-second time which would accurately display 24fps film, 25fps PAL/SECAM video, 30fps NTSC video, and 30 and 60Hz HD video is 24Hz x 25Hz = 600Hz.
So, there are really 3 levels of rating to the display-speed issue: response time, refresh rate, and frame rate ... and HDMI cable has next to nothing to do with any of them.
Because of the confusion in the general market about refresh rates and frame rates, because salespeople are also sometimes confused, because no warrior wants to go into battle unarmed ... AudioQuest received great pressure to put 120/240/600Hz on our boxes, or risk losing business. Being who I am, my first reaction was “no way!” Then, with more pressure, and more time to think about how to balance the need and the truth, I came up with the line quoted in the article, and shown on the photo of the AQ Cinnamon HDMI box in the HD Guru piece. I chose the words very very carefully:
“Delivers 100% of the data required for 120Hz, 240Hz and 600Hz displays”
Who can read that and call it a lie? I carefully use the refresh rates as adjectives modifying “displays.” The cable “delivers 100% of the data required” totally true, not a shred of BS. If someone thinks this is misleading advertising, rather than simply harmless self-defense, then take a look at laundry soap commercials, much less diet plans.
And, every model of AudioQuest HDMI cable, starting at $25/1m carries the same statement. We don’t down-rate some models in order to make a more expensive model falsely appear to be more desirable. AQ makes 8 quality levels of HDMI cable, and all carry the same phrase about supplying data to a monitor.
We also don’t play a numbers game. All AQ HDMI models up to 8m are High-Speed ... and that’s all that anyone needs to know. However, there is a major flaw in HDMI LLC’s Standard-Speed rating because Standard-Speed only guarantees a 1080i performance level, whereas much of the world is actually in-between. For example a 16m AQ cable carries 1080p and Deep Color, and yet because of HDMI LLC’s guidelines (which AQ follows to the letter), the customer is actually misled into believing that the cable is less capable than is actually the case. Wanna hit me for under-claiming the cable’s ability?
It’s easy to make ... well, it’s easy for a really good high-speed data cable manufacturer to make a 10m High-Speed HDMI cable (of HDMI’s many conductors, the 4 pair used for audio and video are essentially standard data cables). AQ doesn’t make 10m HDMI cables, we jump from 8m to 12m ... and because 12m doesn’t pass the eye-pattern test for High-Speed, we rate it as Standard-Speed, even though it’s good for Blu-Ray 3D (broadcast 3D is only the equivalent of 1080i).
There’s another numbers game which HD Guru refers to; the shenanigans about data rate or “speed rating.” I’m mocking the game, but I would also defend that there’s no lie in claiming a particular data rate for a particular cable of a particular length. Because length is the enemy of data rate, 1m cable and 2m cable using the same construction have different data rates, when you see 1m and 2m cables with the same construction having the same rating, you know there’s a game going on. So, what’s to be gained from bragging that a cable exceeds the bandwidth required in order to qualify as a High-Speed or Standard-Speed HDMI cable?
For exceeding HDMI’s High-Speed rating, there’s the implication that more capability will result in better performance within the bandwidth required. This is often true for other products; the faster response time of a plasma display is an advantage, driving a car in the same manner with more horsepower on-hand is a different experience, and amplifiers should have bandwidth way beyond the 20-20,000Hz that is consider the audio band. Our experience at AQ is that past a point, past not much more than HDMI’s High-Speed requirement, higher bandwidth has no effect on audio or video performance ... but it’s not criminal for others to believe differently.
I would also defend other cable manufacturers’ claims about 4K. The HDMI LLC 1.4 specification includes 4K. Yes, I agree that 4K doesn’t exist in the consumer marketplace ... but whether it ever will or not isn’t the point, the spec exists and all High-Speed HDMI cables meet the 4K spec.
However, we disagree a lot more strongly with other cable brands about scaring people into thinking that higher data rates are necessary in order to future-proof their system. We don’t know, but for now we do believe, that if and when data rates greater than the current HDMI spec are required, the plug and cable will change. Higher bandwidth dual-link HDMI already exists, with a different plug for the additional pins required, but this isn’t used in the consumer marketplace. In a parallel example, USB 3.0 is a dual-link system (as is 9-pin FireWire 800), which even manages to use a backwards compatible plug, but it has to have more conductors and more pins that a USB 2.0 cable. A probably impossible magical faster USB 2.0 cable wouldn’t make any difference because the hardware will require USB 3.0 connections.
I’ve waited until far down in this too long piece, after most people would got bored and move on, to bring up something more self-serving ... justifying multiple models, who’s prices go up to $895 for an AQ 1m Diamond HDMI cable. AudioQuest makes no claim, in our sales material or on the box, to differences in video performance between our $25 cable and $895 cable. I am very respectful of the physical and physics reality that HDMI video is quite robust. The combination of minimal signal degradation and error-correction circuitry, is that AQ “accepts” the baseline that all HDMI cables make the same picture. On the other hand, we marvel at how often there is a real difference in video performance ... I don’t mean the “sparklies” that show up when pixels are lost, or the black screen which is usually the result of lack of copy-code authorization. I mean what is most often seen as a lack of contrast, perceived color density, and of black-black. Considering that there’s a pretty narrow window between works-perfectly and doesn’t-work, it is surprising that any cable should fall in the small band of over-the-cliff, but hasn’t-crashed ... and given that thanks to error-correction, the HDMI system can make 100K errors per second look “perfect,” it is surprising that a cable with zero errors can be better or worse than another cable with zero errors. There’s always more going on than humans yet understand, though I suspect that deep in the labs, there are people who know perfectly well that nothing is “perfect,” that it’s a matter of presumed thresholds of perception, etc.
So, I’m essentially agreeing with the closing paragraph in the HD Guru article, to not pay more for an HDMI cable because one expects a better picture. However, depending on the particular hardware (source drive capability, input circuit capability, error correction ability) and the particular cable, it’s an area worth investigating for those so inclined. I’m pleased that this buyer-beware statement is about picture quality, because ...
Audio quality, good old fashioned audio quality is why AudioQuest makes so many models of HDMI cable. The very same added-expense ingredients which create higher performance in AQ’s digital coax, balanced digital, and USB cables, are used to great effect in the HDMI series: better metal (increasing use of silver up to pure PSS silver), and AQ’s patented Dielectric-Bias System (DBS), make the some wonderful obvious slap-in-the-ears differences with HDMI audio as with the other also surprisingly fragile methods of moving audio around. Video requires a lot more pieces of data, but audio’s lower data rate is vulnerable in many ways that video is not. The point here is that cables which cost more to build, and which sell for higher prices, offer very real improvement in performance, in audio performance.
Those of a certain mindset find it difficult to believe that digital audio isn’t all perfect. While I can describe some of the ways in which a wire cable or a fiber-optic cable introduces jitter, the “argument” is not won in the intellectual domain. The fact is that when people listen, they hear. If they care, they buy at the level that makes sense for them, just like choosing the quality of loudspeaker or car that makes sense for the individual.
It’s an interesting irony that after decades of controversy about whether all amplifiers sound the same, all cables sound the same, whatever, that the “subjective” claim that one piece of audio is or is not better than another, is less onerous than misleading with actual numbers. Hmmm, maybe that $119 shelf-system with hundreds of watts and 30-20KHz performance, and LCD TVs claiming to be LED TVs (I have an OLED set, a entirely different class of product), and cables claiming to pass 480fps are all manifestations of a permanent phenomenon ... death taxes and deception will always be with us.
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No charm in Sharm
Terror | Sinai attacks undermine economy and may create an election rumble
Seven days a week the taxi drivers congregate at the downtown bus station to ferry tourists and Egyptian workers about to disgorge from crowded buses after a six-hour ride from Cairo. The journey crosses the Egyptian desert, the Suez Canal, and traces the length of the Sinai Peninsula, a barren highway where bus drivers hog both lanes, unmindful of the docile Red Sea on the right or rocky scarps to the left leading up to Mt. Sinai. Riders pass the time enduring B movies on old videotape complete with cheap anti-American jokes.
Now the taxi drivers wait for tourists who will not come. The resort area's bus station was near one of three sites bombed in the pre-dawn hours of July 23 by terrorists driving pickup trucks, their explosives buried under vegetables. The bombs went off in quick succession, first detonating in the middle of a street lined with stores, restaurants, and cafés near the bus station, then ripping through the luxury Ghazala Gardens hotel before a third blast near the Moevenpick Hotel and other stores. The attacks killed at least 88-Egyptians and foreigners (including one American)-and sent vacationers to what has been a booming idyll crowding into lobbies with their suitcases.
Sharm el-Sheik has been an oasis not only for tourists but for an ailing Egyptian economy. The resort draws elite scuba divers to what is reportedly some of the most beautiful coral reef in the world. Increasingly wealthy tourists from Europe and Arab countries, along with Russian and Turkish tour groups, arrive by jet at a sleek airport within sight of a Moorish-styled Four Seasons and other posh complexes dotting the coast. With a construction boom and growing tourist demand, Sharm el-Sheik could pull a ready labor market from Cairo's vast unemployed workers.
Many fear that is over. "I've seen everything I built destroyed in 15 minutes," a civil engineer named Shugaa told The Washington Post after the bombings. Egyptians remember the 1997 bombings at Luxor that killed 34 foreigners and began a long slide in a once-dependable tourist economy that stretches at least as far back as Napoleon. MyTravel, a British tour group with over 1,100 clients in Sharm el-Sheik at the time of the bombing-220 staying at Ghazala Gardens-saw its stock shares fall 3 percent, a multimillion-dollar loss, in the days just following the attacks.
Egypt's economic erosion has repercussions outside the country, too. Cairo's extreme unemployment and unyielding poverty is often cited as one cause behind the rise of Islamic extremists like 9/11 lead attacker Mohammed Atta, who grew up in a Cairo slum.
The rise of terrorism in Egypt also upsets the domestic political equation, coming six weeks before hotly debated presidential elections and two weeks after the kidnapping and murder of Ihab Al-Cherif, head of Egypt's diplomatic mission in Iraq.
President Hosni Mubarak, who took office 24 years ago after the assassination of Anwar Sadat and has held three single-candidate elections cementing his presidency, is under increasing pressure to allow multiparty elections. While agreeing to them in theory, he has opposed them in fact. Mr. Mubarak recently pushed through a law blocking dual-citizenship candidates from standing in the Sept. 7 elections. Two leading rivals hold dual citizenship, Nobel laureate Ahmed Zewail and longtime opposition leader and human-rights activist Saad Ibrahim.
"We will try to make as strong a challenge as possible," Mr. Ibrahim told WORLD, but the terrorist attacks appear to strengthen Mr. Mubarak's chance of victory. In a speech July 28 he promised new laws to "besiege terrorism, uproot it and drain its resources." Opposition leaders say Mr. Mubarak must first abolish emergency laws in place since Sadat's assassination-measures that amount to martial law.
Mr. Ibrahim contends that most Egyptians, lacking economic security in any case, are looking at underlying issues of democracy in the coming election. "There is anger and grief but not the kind of fear you saw in the United States after 9/11, the kind that could be used to get Mubarak elected. If anything, we are more determined to look for alternatives."
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Anjou v. Boston Elevated Railway Co.
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court of94 N.E. 386 (Mass. 1911)
Helen Anjou (plaintiff) slipped on a banana peel on a platform operated by Boston Elevated Railway Co. (BERC) (defendant). The banana peel was black, dirty, and “flattened down,” and thus had presumably been there for a while. It was the duty of one of BERC’s employees to keep the platform clear. Anjou brought a negligence suit and the trial awarded a directed verdict to BERC. Anjou appealed.
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Unassisted childbirth
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A woman delivers her child unassisted at home.
Unassisted childbirth (UC) refers to the process of intentionally giving birth without the assistance of a medical or professional birth attendant.[1] It is also known as freebirth,[2] DIY (do-it-yourself) birth,[3] unhindered birth,[4] and unassisted home birth.[5]
Unassisted childbirth is by definition a planned process, and is thus distinct from unassisted birth due to reasons of emergency, lack of access to a skilled birth attendant, or other. It is also different from homebirth: while most UCs do happen within the home, planned homebirth usually includes the presence of a midwife or other birth attendant.
The UC movement grew out of, and is an extension of the natural childbirth movement, pioneers of which include Grantly Dick-Read, Robert A. Bradley, and Fernand Lamaze. Influential proponents of UC include Marilyn A. Moran, Jeannine Parvati Baker, and Laura K. Shanley.
Jeannine Parvati-Baker, unassisted childbirth proponent
Moran, who wrote several books advocating UC, was motivated primarily by a strong belief that childbirth is a private, deeply sexual experience that should be shared only between intimates. This belief led her in 1972, after nine conventional births, to give birth to her tenth and final child with only her husband in attendance at their home.[6]
Parvati Baker, a yogini, writer, poet, herbalist, and "spiritual midwife", coined the term freebirth to describe UC. Following the birth of her first three children, and at the prompting of Moran,[7] she began to both practice and advocate UC, speaking at conferences, giving interviews in various media, and writing extensively on the subject. Her subsequent three children were delivered with only her partner in attendance.[8][9]
Shanley, a writer, poet, and self-styled birth consultant, is the author of the book Unassisted Childbirth (1993), which helped popularize the practice. Inspired by the writings of Dick-Read, Shanley, who has no formal training in gynecology or obstetrics,[10] gave birth to all five of her own children unassisted and with no prenatal care.[11] Four of them survived; Shanley's fourth child, born four weeks premature in her bathroom, died a few hours later of a heart defect, pneumonia, and sepsis.[3]
In response to the recent growth in interest over unassisted childbirth, several national medical societies, including the Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada,[12] the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists,[10] and the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists,[13] have issued strongly worded public statements warning against the practice. Professional midwives' associations, including the Royal College of Midwives[14] and the American College of Nurse-Midwives[3] also caution against UC.
Common reasons and motivations[edit]
Reasons and motivations for choosing to give birth unassisted range greatly from mother to mother; those most frequently cited in unassisted childbirth literature and advocacy sites include[citation needed] the belief that birth is a normal function of the female body and therefore not a medical emergency.[15] Other beliefs are that most interventions commonly used by the medical profession during birth cause more harm than good in a normal birth, that the mother will be more apt to follow the natural flow of her individual birth in an undisturbed birth setting, thus enabling her to find the optimum positions or techniques to birth her child safely and the view that birth is an intimate, sexual, and potentially orgasmic experience,[16] and the belief that privacy is essential for enabling this erotic dimension.
Advocates believe that unassisted birth gives rise to a significant increase in maternal feelings and the mother's ability to bond with and take responsibility for the welfare of her child. Some followers are unable to find a birth practitioner willing to attend their desired home birth. In many areas of the United States, there are no midwives or physicians available to assist at home births. Likewise, the woman may find her specific case presents difficulty in finding a willing practitioner, as is usually the case with a vaginal birth after caesarean section.
Unassisted with friends and/or family: While unassisted childbirth does not include the use of medical personnel or birth attendants in a professional capacity, the birthing woman may still wish to have other people present at her birth. This might include her partner, close friends of the mother, the grandparents-to-be, or other family members. These people may take on various roles such as minding the other children in the family, preparing food, making sure the mother remains undisturbed by phone calls, etc.[citation needed]
Couple's Birth: A woman giving birth and her partner may wish to be alone together for the birth of their child. Some couples who choose unassisted childbirth consider the birth to be a consummation or extension of their married life.[17] In terms of wanting to have an ecstatic or orgasmic birth, a high degree of privacy is desired. Others may simply consider birth to be an intimate bonding time between the spouses and their newborn child.[citation needed]
Solo Birth: Some women choose to give birth completely alone. They may retreat to a room alone at the time of the birth and then bring their partner in afterward; or they may remain entirely alone in their home or another location. Women who choose a solo unassisted birth may see birthing as an intensely private process, or may feel they have all the resources they need through their intuition.[citation needed]
Birth preparation and prenatal care[edit]
Doctor giving woman a prenatal exam
With respect to medical prenatal care, two broad categories are recognized by unassisted childbirth proponents:
Assisted: Many women who are planning an unassisted birth choose to have professional prenatal care as part of their birth preparation. This may include regular prenatal visits with a doctor or monitoring by a midwife. Seeking the assistance of a doctor or midwife may allow for discovering risk factors that might make an unassisted birth inadvisable, such as placenta praevia. Professional prenatal care may also help identify risk factors that could be managed so that the unassisted birth can continue as planned. Rather than keep to a traditional prenatal care schedule, some women may also selectively choose prenatal care.
Unassisted: Some women who choose UC also choose to have a medically unassisted pregnancy; i.e. they do not visit a doctor or other birth professional for prenatal care. There are potentially life-threatening consequences of having no medical follow-up in case there are complications.[18]
United States: The National Center for Health Statistics reports that of the 4.1 million babies born in the United States in 2004, more than 7,000 were born at home without a midwife or physician attending.[3] It is unknown what portion of these births, roughly equivalent to a sixth of 1% of the nation's annual total, occurred by choice.
Australia: It is not currently known how many women in Australia give birth at home by choice without medical assistance. Home births in Australia represent just 0.25 percent of all births, with the majority of these done with the assistance of a midwife.[19]
Umbilical cord prolapse, an obstetric emergency that imminently endangers the life of the fetus.
Obstructed labor due to malposition and malpresentation of fetus
Unassisted childbirth has been linked to substantially elevated rates of both maternal and neonatal mortality. One of the few, and perhaps the only, formal investigation of the mortality rates associated with the practice was conducted by the Indiana State Board of Health in 1984, among members of a religious community in Indiana. The investigation found a perinatal mortality rate 2.7 times higher, and a maternal mortality rate 97 times higher than the state average. In this community, pregnant women receive no prenatal medical care and deliver at home without medical assistance. This community avoids not only prenatal medical care but all medical care.[20]
According to the president of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, Dr. Thomas Purdon, twenty percent of all previously normal pregnancies turn into complications and high-risk situations during the course of labor that could result in serious adverse outcome to mother and baby, including death.[21]
Controversy over the practice of UC has largely centered over whether it is, as claimed by proponents, a safe method of childbirth. Critics of UC, such as the Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada (SOGC), claim that unassisted childbirth is quite unsafe,[18] and that those who engage in it are "courting danger".[12] A spokesperson for the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists issued a one-word assessment of freebirth: "dangerous".[10] The SOGC notes that more than 500,000 women worldwide die annually from complications during childbirth,[12] and that even in developed countries, in which expectant mothers generally receive complete prenatal care, as many as 15% of all births involve potentially fatal complications.[12] In poor countries in which there are conditions of malnutrition and taboos surrounding childbirth or there is a lack of qualified birth attendants, rates of maternal[22] and infant mortality[23] and complications such as fistula are much higher, with disparities in death rates from childbirth between developed and developing countries approaching two orders of magnitude.[24] Critics also point out the high rates of complication and death arising from childbirth that existed before the development of modern medicine: between 10 and 15 deaths per 1000 births.[25]
UC proponents have responded to these criticisms by emphasizing that childbirth is not a disease, but rather a natural, physiological process requiring proper nutrition, hygiene, prenatal self-care, and psychological preparation.[1] They claim that both throughout history and in the impoverished regions of today's world it has not been the lack of medical assistance, but rather conditions of poverty and nutritional ignorance which cause maternal mortality to be a major health issue.[citation needed] Rickets, for example, is prevalent in daughters of malnourished women, resulting in deformation of the pelvis and an increased chance of hemorrhage in scenarios of anemia.[26] Proponents assert that the women who plan unassisted childbirth today (many of whom are giving birth to their second or third child, with a 'proven' pelvis), do so with a wealth of information and self-care, and are better prepared than most women who depend on care providers to deliver their child.
Some proponents have also claimed that modern maternal mortality rates in American hospitals are often obscured by being statistically tracked under 'anesthesiology'.[citation needed] However, evidence suggests that if this is in fact the case, the practice is unlikely to account for more than a small fraction of maternal deaths: one study of maternal mortality records lists the 'total' share of maternal mortality deaths recorded as stemming from anesthesia-related complications as just 5.2%.[27] A study of anesthesia-related maternal mortality in the United States between 1979 and 2002 found the share of maternal mortality deaths caused by anesthesia to be just 1.6%, and that the share had dropped 59% between the time periods examined.[28]
Other aspects of this response have also been called into question by scientific research. First, an analysis of historical data from Europe and the United States concluded that in developed countries, the main determinant of maternal mortality before 1937, and its decline since the 1930s, was not levels of poverty and associated malnutrition, but rather the overall standard of maternal care provided by birth attendants.[29]
Second, with respect to UC proponents' claim that unassisted childbirth is a natural process, researchers in the field of paleoanthropology have asserted that assisted childbirth is, in fact, a central evolutionary aspect of humanity, and may date back as far as five million years to when humanity's ancestors first began walking upright.[30]
Joyous Birth incident[edit]
On 27 March 2009, Janet Fraser, a leading advocate of UC and national convener of the highly popular Joyous Birth website, lost her child[31] during a birth assisted only by her partner and a female friend.[32] In an interview five days earlier with The Sunday Age, Fraser, in the early stages of labor at the time, stated that she had at no point during her pregnancy consulted with a health professional, and that she intended to deliver the baby at her home without an attending midwife.[31] The cause of death was reported to be cardiac arrest.[31][33] A coronial inquest concluded in 2012 that Roisin Fraser's death was the result of a complication resulting from cord entanglement, was almost certainly preventable if the birth had proceeded in a maternity unit, and was probably preventable if the birth at home had been attended by a registered midwife. It also found that Fraser's claim of "birthrape" during her first birth followed a planned homebirth attended by a midwife, where Fraser herself requested transfer to a hospital for epidural anaesthesia, and then subsequently requested a caesarean birth without medical indications and against medical advice.[34]
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Succulent Success: 5 reasons to welcome succulents into your garden
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Sedums. Sempervivum. Echeverias. Why are succulents like these so delightful to grow? There are countless reasons, and here are five excellent ones:
1. They are gorgeous. If you want to incorporate a kaleidoscope of geometric patterns, unexpected colors, and cool architectural shapes into your garden, succulents are a standout choice. With a myriad of interesting leaf textures and growth habits—from bold and showy to delicate and diminutive—succulents possess a striking beauty all their own.
2. They don’t ask for much. Forget to water your garden regularly? Succulents won’t hold it against you. Plant them in well-draining soil in an area that gets plenty of light, and you need only give them a good soak once a week. You want the roots of the plant to dry out completely between waterings, which is why well-draining soil is a must and clay soils should be avoided. Note: Succulents store up water in their leaves. So the thicker a succulent’s leaves, the less water it requires.
3. They’re versatile problem-solvers. Succulents can be planted indoors and out, in rockeries, container gardens and borders. You can even find varieties like Sedum ‘Ogon,’ that fill the spaces around stepping stones, and bounce back into shape even with heavy foot traffic. Succulents are also easy to divide and replant, so you can experiment with where you place them, and move them as you see fit.
4. Their beauty multiplies. One of the best things about succulents is how easily they propagate. Simply pluck off leaves from your plants, put them out on damp soil, and they’ll sprout roots and begin to grow on their own. It’s simple and fascinating to watch, and it’s a low cost way to bring additional beauty to your garden. Also, as your supply of succulents grows, you can share extras with friends and neighbors.
5. They let you know if something’s wrong. With enough light and well-drained soil, succulents are easy to grow. And when something’s not quite right, these low-maintenance plants will give you a sign. For example, if the roots/stem turn black, it means your plant is getting too much water. Water less, and amend your soil with perlite so that is drains better. If you notice brown/black spots on your plant’s leaves, it’s getting sunburned. Move your plant to a location where the light is less intense. If your plant starts "stretching" – getting really tall with a lot of space between leaves – it’s searching for light, and needs to be moved to a brighter location.
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Reviews by Andrea Leistra
Math-BigInt-Named (0.03) ***
This is a generally useful package with some minor and easily-fixed issues; fixing these would make it very useful.
The package tries to use itself, so any code using it needs to explicitly require the base package Math::BigInt as well as Math::BigInt::Named.
There are a couple typos in the number names in the English version ("twelve" (twelf) and "forty" (fourty) were the ones I noticed in a glance at the source code).
Spacing is handled strangely in the English version ("onehundred" instead of "one hundred"; presumably the equivalent is correct in German).
The package uses the old-style British names for numbers >= 10^9 (milliard, etc.) Not a problem per se but probably not what most users would expect, and ideally a future version would split the English package to milliard and non-milliard versions.
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If seeing is believing, the new Jean Paul Gaultier collection was unbelievable. The majority of the crowd couldn't see it. Since abandoning the formal runway show a few seasons back, Team JPG has experimented with left-field exhibition tactics. This season, it was a neon-trimmed row of cubbies cordoned off behind a velvet rope. With the three-deep scrum of photographers that crowded every inch along the rope to shoot, most of the audience was left taking in an ambient neon glow and a solid wall of backs.
It proved, actually, to be a gloss of sorts on the collection, which riffed on hide-and-seek. Eventually seen from above—the only visible vantage—the curtained, neon-lit frames called to mind the windows of Amsterdam's red-light district. When the models emerged from behind the drapes and began stripping, piece by piecemeal piece (many were partial items in the old favorite Gaultier sense: half jackets, shirts cropped to the rib cage, turtleneck dickeys, and so on), the scene was set.
The sense of vintage hung heavy over the whole. There were sharp bits of tailoring among the pinstripe-on-pinstripe looks; detach the jacket-tail skirts, and you actually had JPG in a more straight-faced mode than he's been in for seasons. But that the man can cut a suit doesn't add much to the current conversation, and the layers of half jacket on half top with half sweater felt like a rehashed quip. But then, the thing about stripteases is, they're rarely about the clothes.
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What do the Pirates have in Brock Holt?
Written by Pat Lackey on .
With his four hits last night, Brock Holt quickly ascended to the top of every single Pirate fan's "Please tell me this guy can be better than Clint Barmes when Neil Walker comes back" list. Because of the Pirates' utter lack of shortstop depth in the minors before Alen Hanson's emergence this year (and maybe again after Hanson makes what seems like an inevitable move to second base) I've been keeping an eye on Holt since he was drafted in the 9th round of the 2009 draft in the same way that I tried to keep tabs on Jordy Mercer and Chase d'Arnaud before him; I don't always write about prospects here but he's definitely one of the few guys I tried to keep an eye on beyond the obvious top prospects.
Let's get a Brock Holt career history out of the way here. He signed quickly after being drafted in 2009 and went to State College, just like you'd expect a college draftee to do. He performed pretty well there, hitting .299/.361/.449 with six homers (more than half of his career minor league total) over 66 games. That was enough for the Pirates to skip him to Bradenton in 2010, where he hit .351/.410/.438 in 47 games before suffering a season-ending knee injury. He finally played a full season for Altoona in 2011, as a 23-year old. He was decent if unspectacular there, hitting .288/.357/.387 over the season with 30 doubles, nine triples, and a homer. He started 2012 out in Altoona again, though that may have had more to do with Jordy Mercer and Chase d'Arnaud starting the season in Indianapolis. As you'd expect with a decent hitting prospect repeating Double-A at the age of 24, Holt was much better with the Curve than he was last year, going .322/.389/.432 with 24 doubles, six triples, and two homers in 102 games before his promotion to Indy. He killed the ball there, hitting .432/.444/.537 with seven doubles and a homer in 24 games. That lead directly to his call-up, where he's now played four games for the Pirates in place of the injured Neil Walker.
The Pirates' options at shortstop at the big league level right now are not great. I don't think anyone would try to argue that point. Clint Barmes has been an offensive black hole that has made him a barely-above-replacement shortstop, even though both DRS and UZR rate him as one of the best defensive shortstops in either league. Great glove or not, barely-above-replacement is unacceptable. Josh Harrison isn't quite a big league hitter and his glove doesn't really work at shortstop for anything more than a spot-start. Jordy Mercer is the kind of player you try to talk yourself into when Clint Barmes is your starting shortstop; his glove his decent and he can hit with some pop, but it seems pretty unlikely that that pop will make up for his low batting average and OBP, especially at the big league level. Maybe if he was given a regular job at short he'd be better than Barmes, but it's not a slam dunk or anything. Chances are pretty good that it'd be a wash.
So what about Holt? Since he was drafted, there have been plenty of questions about his defense. His arm isn't supposed to be terribly strong and anecdotally, I haven't been impressed with his range at second base in his (admittedly super-short) stint with the Pirates. His line in the minor leagues has always been very batting-average driven; over four seasons he drew 144 walks in 1,620 plate appearances, which is a rate of 8.9%. That means, of course, that his line in the minor leagues (.317/.381/.427) was very batting-average driven. Without much power, that's a red flag.
The refrain this morning when I asked where all the Brock Holt love suddenly came from overnight is that the Pirates current options at shortstop are crap and that he's got to be better than that. I'm just not honestly sure I see it; Barmes' glove is very good, and Holt's isn't. Mercer's glove is decent and he has some pop. Holt might be a better utility guy than Josh Harrison, but then, his minor league line (.317/.381/.427 in 1,620 plate appearances) and Harrison's (.306/.355/.424) aren't hugely different beyond Mercer having a bit more patience than Harrison (this is also true of a hummingbird and so not really all that much of a compliment).
Really, what I see Holt as is a slightly different version of Harrison. Harrison can occasionally drive balls into gaps, Holt will probably be better a hitting for a decent average and occasionally walking. Should the Pirates play him at second base every day while Walker's hurt? Of course they should. Should they find him at-bats at short or to occasionally spell Walker if he's still scorching hot when Walker returns? Again, yes. I'm just not sure how likely this hot streak is to carry forward; his minor league line strikes me as more flash than substance and literally two days ago, Edgar Gonzalez was making him look dumb at the plate.
All of that being said, the Pirates are in a playoff race right now and so if Brock Holt can give them one scorching hot week at the plate in September, he'll be enormously valuable to that effort no matter where his career takes him from here. Given that he came to the team scorching hot, that it'll take some time before big league teams really get a book on him, and that the Pirates are playing the Cubs and Astros right now, that doesn't seem impossible. Let's keep our fingers crossed for this scenario and cross the other bridges when we get to them.
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Alen Hanson 'inevitably moving to 2B' is a tad presumptuous, unless you are basing your analysis on counting errors. KLAW thinks he can stick at SS, and, while others have expressed doubts, those doubts are not based on lack of range/athleticism/hands, but his arm-strength (or lack there of). Considering he is still rather young and presumably hasn't filled out yet, I don't think saying he will 'inevitably move to 2B' is all that accurate.
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I was at the Marauders game in 2010 when Holt got hurt; he and the 2nd baseman ran into each other. What really sucks is that he was hitting around .350 at the time.
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Tracking your project costs
Applies to
Microsoft Office Project 2003
How can you tell if your project is on budget? Through cost tracking in Project. Use Project to compare original cost estimates, actual costs, projected costs, and see the variances between costs at any time and at any level of detail.
What is the cost tracking process?
Where can I view cost information?
Can you give me an example of cost tracking?
What is the cost tracking process?
To best track costs, you should first create a budget (budget: The estimated cost of a project that you establish in Project with your baseline plan.) by entering pay rates (pay rate: Resource cost per hour. Project includes two types of pay rates: standard rates and overtime rates.), per-use (per-use cost: A set fee for the use of a resource that can be in place of, or in addition to, a variable. For work resources, a per-use cost accrues each time that the resource is used. For material resources, a per-use cost is accrued only once.) and fixed (fixed cost: A set cost for a task that remains constant regardless of the task duration or the work performed by a resource.) costs for tasks (task: An activity that has a beginning and an end. Project plans are made up of tasks.), resources (resources: The people, equipment, and material that are used to complete tasks in a project.), and if necessary, assignments (assignment: A specific resource that is assigned to a particular task.). Then, specify the estimated work (work: For tasks, the total labor required to complete a task. For assignments, the amount of work to which a resource is assigned. For resources, the total amount of work to which a resource is assigned for all tasks. Work is different from task duration.) or duration (duration: The total span of active working time that is required to complete a task. This is generally the amount of working time from the start to finish of a task, as defined by the project and resource calendar.) for tasks and assign resources to the tasks. Only when all of these steps are complete can Project calculate the total estimated costs for the project. You may then want to refine your estimates. When you're done, you save a baseline plan, thereby establishing a budget for the project.
After the project begins, you update task progress—the amount of work done on tasks or the percentage of the tasks that are complete. Project calculates costs for you based on task progress.
Note You can also choose to turn off automatic calculation of costs and enter actual costs (actual cost: The cost that has actually been incurred to date for a task, resource, or assignment. For example, if the only resource assigned to a task gets paid $20 per hour and has worked for two hours, the actual cost to date for the task is $40.) yourself, in addition to task progress.
By combining the actual costs of completed work with the estimated costs for remaining work (remaining work: The amount of work, in terms of a time unit such as hours or days, that is left to be completed on a task. This is calculated as follows: Remaining Work = Work - Actual Work.), Project calculates scheduled (scheduled or current cost: The latest cost of tasks, resources, assignments, and the entire project, which is displayed in the cost field as cost or total cost. It is kept up to date with cost adjustments that you make and with the project's progress.) (projected) costs. More importantly, it calculates the difference between the scheduled and baseline costs. It's this difference, or cost variance (CV: The difference between the budgeted cost of work performed [BCWP] on a task and the actual cost of work performed [ACWP]. If the CV is positive, the cost is currently under the budgeted amount; if the CV is negative, the task is currently over budget.), that tells you whether your project is on budget or not.
You can do simple cost tracking by viewing the actual and scheduled (projected) costs for tasks, resources, assignments, and the project.
If you've created a budget through a baseline, you can do more extensive tracking by comparing the actual and scheduled costs against the baseline costs.
To determine whether you're on budget or not, you can view the cost variances between scheduled costs and baseline costs. For example, if a task is budgeted to cost $50, but the task is half-way done and already costs $35, the scheduled cost is $60 (the $35 actual costs to date, plus the $25 expected costs for the remaining work on the task). The cost variance is $10 ($60 of actual cost minus the $50 of budget cost).
By monitoring cost variances regularly, you can take steps to ensure that your project stays close to its budget.
Note You can only view cost variances if you've entered initial costs and saved a baseline. For instance, if you didn't enter pay rates for a resource before you saved the baseline, you won't be able to view cost variances for that resource.
Where can I view cost information?
In Project, you can see costs for tasks, resources, and assignments. You can also see the project cost, which is generally based on these more detailed costs. You can view both total costs and timephased (timephased: Task, resource, or assignment information that is distributed over time. You can review timephased information in any available time period in the fields on the right side of the Task Usage and Resource Usage views.) costs, which are costs distributed over time.
There are many different ways to view cost information in Project:
You can see cost details in some views by selecting Costs from the Details item on the Format menu. You can also add specific cost fields to any sheet view by inserting a cost column. And you can display cost fields next to bars in the Gantt Chart by formatting the bars using Bar Styles from the Format menu.
Can you give me an example of cost tracking?
You can enter the task called "Test the program" into your Project plan and assign a contract tester to the task at $40 per hour (assume that the tester's pay is the only contribution to the task cost). You enter a duration of 10 days (at 8 hours per day), and then save a baseline.
At the end of 5 days, you determine that the task is half finished, and you mark the task in Project as 50 percent complete. On the Task Sheet view, you apply the Cost table and see the following:
• In the Baseline field, Project displays the baseline cost of the task, $3,200, which it calculated by multiplying your original duration estimate of 10 days (or 80 hours) by the tester's standard rate of $40 per hour.
• Because the task didn't incur any unplanned costs in the first 5 days, the Actual field accurately displays the actual cost incurred to date. In this case, actual work is calculated by the formula Actual Work * Standard Rate = Actual Cost, or 40 hours * $40 per hour = $1,600. (Overtime, per-use costs, and fixed costs are not included in this example, but can be included in an actual cost.)
• The remaining cost is calculated by the formula Remaining Work * Standard Rate = Remaining Cost, or 40 hours * $40 per hour = $1,600.
• In the Total Cost field, Project displays the scheduled cost, which it calculates according to the formula Actual Cost + Remaining Cost = Scheduled Cost, or $1,600 + $1,600 = $3,200. Because the scheduled cost equals the baseline cost, the Variance field displays a cost variance (CV) of $0, which means that the task is exactly on budget.
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Why do people hate Final Fantasy XIII so much?
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#101 Edited by snakebite6x6x6 (3 posts) -
Personally, I feel the FF franchise has been steadily accelerating downhill after the release of IX.
FFX: While I liked the combat (standard turn-based for those of you who have not played it). I hated the linearity...and the whole Sin story...well...sucked. But most of all, I really REALLY hate Tidus...and his incessant whining. Every time he opened his mouth I felt like punting puppies.
FFXII: Eh, what to say. This whole game was kinda meh, not terrible...just meh. The lead character wasn't as annoying as Tidus, although that's not saying a lot. Combat felt like an playing an MMO with a pet class that could have more than one pet out.
FFXIII: I hated the linearity, and the story is crap. The combat system is the crappiest out all the FF games that I have played (all of the main series up to XIII). Either give me a turn based combat system, or an all action based system....but this hybrid crap sucks. It's like playing whack-a-mole in that you are constantly flipping through different pre-made "builds" through out the course of the battle depending on which skills/spells you need at any given moment. This makes pretty much every fight in the game tedius. Oh, and they cant take Snow, Hope, and Vanelle (spelling?) and flush them down an industrial strength toilet.
I don't know, since the release of X...Final Fantasy games just haven't felt like Final Fantasy games. X seems to be where they decided down the path of graphics over gameplay, and the series has suffered for it. To me FF games were always about an epic story (though usually pretty standard JRPG epicness). Turnbased or ATB battles. A large world to explore, not just a map with "pins" in it to land on, and lot's of secrets to find.
I know there are lots of fans of the newer style FF games, and good for them...if they enjoy it by all means play the hell out of them. They are just no longer the games that I fell in love with starting with the first one on the NES. They introduced me to jrpgs and I am grateful for that...but long gone are the days when I would wait for a new FF release with gleeful anticipation.
#102 Posted by NaveedLife (17172 posts) -
Probably for the same reason people don't like the latest Zelda; they're just not up to standard with previous entries.
Don't even get me started on Skyward Sword. Assuming that is the one you meant, because most people seem to love A Link Between Worlds. I cant wait to get it one of these days.
#103 Posted by DJ-Lafleur (33774 posts) -
All the complaints toward the game that I can think:
-linearity (never agreed with this TBH. Linearity is not a game design flaw in any way as far as I am concerned; even in an RPG)
-no towns (Eh, there are technically a few towns in the game and there are moments where you interact with NPCs, albeit not as much as previous FFs. That and any functions a town served (buying stuff and restoring health) were still addressed in FFXIII. That being said, the few towns the game DID have also had monsters and did not really differ from any other non-town area in the game, so the towns did not really serve to offer a different type of location for the game's pacing. Overall I partially agree to this complaint I guess)
-TOO EASY, ONLY NEED TO PRESS X TO WIN (honestly find this complaint irksome because it could literally be applied to most other FF games, where you can pretty much manage perfectly fine 90% of the time just using the attack command, maybe occasionally only use group magic attacks just to speed up battles and save time. In nno way are games likes FFVI or FFVII harder than FFXIII, or require more strategy than FFXIII. I mean, FFXIII isn't that hard of a game outside a small handful of boss battles or certain few enemies, I just find the hypocrisy kind of annoying)
-bad story (agree with this)
-terrible characters (agree with this for the most part)
-Bad pacing/long tutorial (can agree with this, albeit it doesn't really bother me THAT much)
-lack of content (definitely agree with this)
Personally, while FFXII was overall pretty mediocre and disappointing, I do think the game does get a bit more s*** than it deserves. I did find a few things about the game to be enjoyable (notably, the combat system, music, and graphics/visuals), it's just a shame the game was flawed and lacking outside of that.
#104 Posted by i-rock-socks (3041 posts) -
i didnt give 2 S***s about the fact the game was linear, the fact that every character was a bad joke ruined it for me. hated every single one of the characters except for the end boss guy; i played it at launch so my memory on the matter isnt too specific but he was the least cartoonish. i honestly cant fathom why they made two (F****in 2!!!) sequels. final fantasy games have had some great and some horrible characters but ff13 was all "horrible". we get no ff6/7 remake or sequel, no final fantasy 15, and 3 garbage cans
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Murphy’s Laws of Family Vacations
1. The night before departure, your child will come down with a cough, cold or broken limb.
2. They will have to pee three seconds after take off, despite having gone to the bathroom directly before boarding.
3. They will refuse to eat the very same six dollar macaroni and cheese that they inhale at home, when presented with it at an overpriced restaurant.
4. You will forget to pack at least one of the following: enough diapers or Pull-Ups, your cell phone charger, toothpaste other than Sponge Bob Square Pants gel or that most special teddy bear.
5. You will be completely unable to capture a smiling picture of your children in the adorable outfits you packed for that very purpose. Ever.
6. They will be up at the crack of dawn, ready for immediate entertainment, while they sleep soundly until seven at home.
7. You will spend an hour packing everything you can think of for the beach, only to be told twenty minutes in that your child is bored and wants to leave.
8. They will miss the toys they never play with at home and the rooms they never want to spend time in. Upon returning home, they won’t have any interest in either.
9. The souvenirs you purchase will break or be lost before you even make it back home.
10. You will come back from vacation in dire need of a vacation. Without the kids.
• Trisha Mckee
This is always happening to my kids. I think this is true.
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Reading this reminds me how much I need a vacation with my husband sans child.
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Nutrition tips: Let's look at hydration
Nutrition tips: Let's look at hydration
As an athlete in training, consider dehydration to be enemy No. 1.
Photograph by: Handout , Swerve
Building on our series to Sun Run victory, the next step to take a close look at is hydration. Are you doing as good of a job as you could?
Water is life. While you could survive for weeks without food if you had too (I don’t recommend it), it would only be a matter of days if you avoided all fluids that you’d get severely dehydrated. As an athlete in training, consider dehydration to be enemy No. 1. Once dehydrated, you immediately experience a reduction in energy. This can be followed by light-headedness, dizziness, a headache or muscle cramps. You might feel hungry, too, when really it’s thirst. Water helps nutrients travel through the body, lubricating joints, making it easier to move and helping keep an exercising body at a safe temperature. Good hydration is also critical for healthy blood pressure.
There is much debate about how much water to drink. We hear everything from six to ten cups of water suggested as a daily goal. I recommend drinking enough water that your urine is pale in colour and you have to urinate every two hours or so. For many people, this works out to around six, eight-ounce cups per day. The taller you are and the more you train and sweat, the more you need to replace fluids. Like everything in nutrition, balance with hydration matters. Consuming more water than needed is not ideal. Excess water during exercise without adequate electrolytes included can create a dangerous fluid imbalance known as hyponatremia.
While some people prefer to drink water with meals, others don’t. In either case, ensure you get enough each day. Evenly distributing the water makes more sense for staying hydrated and energized than going for long periods without and then downing 24 ounces or more all at once. Served cold or warm, the best and calorie-free fluid for hydration is water. Other hydrating fluids include milk, unsweetened soy, almond or other milk, real fruit juices, tea and even coffee if not heavy on sugar. Watery fruits and vegetables like celery, lettuce, tomatoes and melons provide meaningful hydration, as do soups that are not excessively salty. Pop and alcohol do NOT qualify. Make staying hydrated routine by drinking four to eight ounces (half to one cup) of hydrating fluids every time you eat a meal or snack.
Arrive at training sessions and race day well-hydrated. Drink about one to two cups of hydrating fluids in the two-hour period before starting. This allows time for your kidneys to process the water. If you jump out of bed and head straight out to run, drink a sip or two of water. During exercise, stay hydrated by drinking a sip of water (about a quarter-cup portion) every 15 to 20 minutes. Although very important for electrolyte replacement in exercise lasting more than 90 minutes, sports drinks are not required in shorter sessions. After exercise, hydrate with at least one cup of quality fluid.
Other habits that promote optimal hydration include drinking a little extra water if eating foods that are excessively sweet or salty and interspersing a glass of water between each alcoholic beverage you might drink. Because each can of pop supplies about ten teaspoons of sugar, don’t count pop as a hydrating fluid. Make water easy to access by keeping a water bottle with you at work, bringing it to the gym or carrying some in a hip pack with you while running.
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Pockie Ninja Guide: Bag Slot and Synthesis Dilemma
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"What should I do with this items? My bag full of useful yet useless items now.. lol"
Sometimes we see someone or maybe ourself thinking or talking like this on in-game chat in Pockie Ninja. At least, there're two basic problem of this issue. Maybe it's because we don't have another bag slot, or we don't know what to do with those items. Here is a guide from written by bakazero, which is about how to deal with this problem. Just check below:
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1st Solution: Buy Additional Slot Bag
Well, I don't want to think that my bag is a zoo like that picture, lol. So, buying additional bag is a must if u're someone who always stock/keep useful items for the future. Try to buy the 3rd slot bag for 188g, and if you still have some gold left, won't hurt if you buy the 4th slot bag too for 288g.
If you're addict jar smasher or wanna try to collect some outfit for your outfit collection, it's good thing to expand your wardrobe to until you can get 10-15 slots for your outfit.
2nd Solution: Item Grouping
Try to group some items with your creativity, synth them so you can group them. This example need two 1s as catalyst:
• Synth hp/chakra bag, element potion and konoha to toad arcanum.
• Synth pet food (21) to exp mark [1.6].
• Synth pet food (23) with low satiety until you get pet food (23) with 180 satiety or watermelon (32)/little bean (32) to feed your pet.
Optional: You can synth exp mark [1.6] to pet food (32) / exp seal [2.0] if you gonna use it to create demon proofs (must have hand grenade). Keep any pet food (8) with 80 satiety is good to feed your pet too, but discard any pet food (8) with low satiety.
If you don't need pet(30), you can synth pet food (21), hp/chakra bag, or element pot with two pet(30). Or try to create demon proofs by synth: hand grenade + pet food (32) + pet(30). And you can use pet(40) like 3s so try to synth orange outfit, or even new 4s using it if you don't need pet(40).
What to do with 2s, 3s, or 4s gears?
Well, 2s is good to create demon proof or blue outfit, you can combine it with pet food (32) or enchanment stone (32) as catalyst.
If you need to keep any 3s or 4s as future catalyst on your bag, try to cycle it until you get an accessories item. So you can have more slot for another item on your bag. To cycle 3s item, synth: 3s + 1s + 1s, and to cycle 4s item, synth 4s + 1s/2s + 2s.
3rd Solution: Keep Unbound Items at Market.
If you're not gonna use any unbound 2s/3s yet, it's good thing to keep it on market. Just sell then withdraw it but don't claim it yet. Best if you already got high synth cost, and want to keep your bag from those slot-bag-eater items. Don't forget that you can't claim your items when the market on maintenance.
4th Solution: Put Gear or Talisman on Armory
Well it's kinda the most extreme solution, but if you need space on your bag, it won't hurt to do that. But don't forget your gears. lol
Note: (any-number) means the item synthesis value.
Source: Bag Slot and Synthesis Dilemma
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Is "Advertorial" a Four-Letter Word? Part 1
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I support content as an online advertising vehicle. The large majority of people go online to research and read; their attention is focused primarily on words, not pictures. Google, Yahoo, and contextual ad networks serve text-based search ads within relevant content. They've proven successful, so why not expand text ad opportunities?
Advertorials, paid editorial content provided by an advertiser, define this expanded text ad buy. Advertorials have existed for years in print, but online advertorial opportunities seem rare and elusive. Is this fact or simply perception? If advertorial opportunities are scarce, why is it so? Is paid editorial evil?
In 2002, the online advertorial made headlines when Sony disclosed plans to launch a $10 million online advertorial campaign. The concept revolved around first-person informational accounts, written by real consumers (according to Sony), with related links to Sony products near or at the bottom of the copy. Sounds relatively harmless, right?
The campaign launched a debate about clear distinction between online editorial and advertising, as well as reader perception as to who produces and controls content. Many popular sites, including iVillage, People.com, TIME Online Edition, Yahoo, and National Geographic Online, ran the campaign. Other sites, such as NYTimes.com and CBS MarketWatch, turned it down, saying the articles looked too much like editorial.
Fast-forward three years. One wonders what doesn't look or behave like editorial content. According to the Pew Internet & American Life Project, search ads are still unrecognized as paid content by 62 percent of users. Many bloggers write for the sheer purpose of generating Google AdSense revenue, and bogus content is created to increase search engine rankings. Some publishers request fees to print press releases. Product placement is so rampant in broadcast media, few TV programs are without some form of subtle or blatant ("The Apprentice," anyone?) product marketing.
According to FCC Commissioner Jonathan Adelstein, things have gotten so bad "the increasing commercialization of American media" is making it more difficult for consumers to discern real, unbiased news from commercial agendas. If the situation is so severe, you'd think the concept of a site offering advertorials would be relatively trite.
Following print publishers' lead, online advertorials can adhere to industry standard best practices, which have been refined since 2002. The American Society of Magazine Editors offers "Best Practices for Digital Media." The Online Publishers Association offers guidelines in its member publishing criteria. Though the guidelines may differ, clear labeling or identification of the advertorial content is a consistent key element.
Online advertorial remains a hot potato. Few publishers will touch it. If they do, it's often not something found in their media kits. Most won't call it "advertorial." You're more likely to find advertorial opportunities under names such as "Special Advertising Section," "Content Module," or "Integrated Content." Some publishers won't go there. That's the official line at AOL and Bankrate.com, for example.
Perhaps that's because of the complexity in buying and placing advertorials. By its very nature, the advertorial isn't conducive to ad serving; it's typically a whole page of content, not a page component. Publishers succeeding at advertorial consider it more about integrated content, combining it with other page elements to give users a more complete, "wrapped" experience.
This, too, may contribute to the seeming scarcity of advertorial opportunities. Advertorials aren't a cut-and-dry buy with standard specifications anyone with a budget can purchase. They require comprehension and creativity from the media buyer and advertiser alike. The publisher must be willing to work with the advertiser to produce something that benefits site visitors. As one publisher put it, "We don't get a lot of calls for advertorial because most media buyers are not thinking outside the box of image-based buys."
Are online media buyers really to blame for the lack of advertorial opportunities? In part two, perspectives from both publishers and buyers. Send me yours!
Read part two of "Is 'Advertorial' a Four-Letter Word."
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It's kind of expensive for what is being delivered.
Also the instructions are generic and not focused at 'the Floating Apple'.
I'd say skip this unless you really need an apple and get one of his 'training' dvds.
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Fanartist who accused Sarkeesian of art theft banned from Reddit
Last week, artist Tamara Smith was something of an Internet hero: The woman who gave Reddit a real reason to be mad at Anita Sarkeesian by claiming that the controversial Tropes vs Women creator stole her fanart.
Now, a week after the drama unfolded, she's been banned from Reddit after attempting to do an AMA. Although the AMA didn't mention Sarkeesian, the AMA mods allegedly felt it was just an excuse to talk about Sarkeesian anyway. And Reddit's not too happy about losing the opportunity.
After all, when you ran a notorious Kickstarter campaign that led to an onslaught of death threats, online abuse, and harassment, you might not want to give ammunition to your enemies in the gaming community and the "mens' rights activists" communities on Reddit and 4chan. Sarkeesian has angered plenty of people over her gaming critique project, Tropes vs Women in Video Games. But failing to ask permission before using artwork is a pretty big misstep on the Internet, even for someone who doesn't have such a polarizing history.
Smith is a gamer, fan, and professional gaming artist who was shocked a week ago to discover that her Dragon's Lair fanart, created in 2009, was prominently featured on Sarkeesian's logo for the Tropes vs Women in Video Games series:
"How do I deal with my artwork being stolen?" she asked in a Tumblr post.
I don’t know how to approach this. On one hand, the project had a message I can identify with. On the other, no credit was given, my signature was removed, and they made $150k+ ...
Silliest Part: they stole my fanart (drawn by a me, a woman and freelance video game artist) to use in marketing material to illustrate sexism in video games.
Sarkeesian compiled the logo for the video game series from a variety of sources and art styles, under the assumption that she had Fair Use of the artwork because she was repurposing its context. After Smith came forward to claim theft, she responded and said as much. But Smith wasn't convinced. Though Sarkeesian contacted her shortly after the Tumblr post went up, Smith stated that she was "still waiting for valid nonprofit proof" that Sarkeesian's work wasn't being used to make money.
It should be noted that the Fair Use exclusion of copyright law can and has applied to for-profit ventures. Fanart is another tricky subject, since it, too, involves encroaching on the work of the copyright holder. But even fanartists retain copyright over their works of fanart. Since Smith isn't sure Sarkeesian's use of her art falls under Fair Use, she has every right to call attention to it.
Last Saturday, Sarkeesian told the Daily Dot that she and Smith were "working towards a quick and amicable solution to this dispute. In order to reach an amicable solution, we will not be making any further public comments at this time."
Smith, however, has continued to comment. She updated her Twitter shortly after making her original Tumblr post to note that Sarkeesian had contacted her. But although she promised supporters she would update her Tumblr post "ASAP" to note that Sarkeesian was working with her towards a resolution, it took her nearly a full day to add the note. In the meantime, the post went viral, garnering thousands of notes on Tumblr, and landing on Reddit's front page.
As of today, when she updated her Tumblr to announce that she'd been banned from Reddit, angry Redditors demanded to know not only why she'd been banned, but why the post about the ban, which had over 3,000 upvotes at press time, had been yanked from the Reddit front page. Reddit mods also apparently removed it from r/all and r/gaming, despite cries of censorship and obvious bias.
The move on the part of Reddit mods may have been to prevent yet more death threats and harassment from coming Sarkeesian's way. Sarkeesian's detractors have claimed numerous reasons for their hatred, including criticizing her videos as shallow and uneducated looks at the games she criticizes. Some have even tried to fake evidence that she's a con artist. She also came under fire previously for using footage of other YouTubers' "Let's Play" videos in her own series. (She claimed the right of Fair Use then as well.)
After Smith's claim drew Reddit's attention last week, Sarkeesian was pelted with familiar abuse from the Internet:
On Twitter, Smith seemed alarmed at the personal attacks coming Sarkeesian's way, but given Sarkeesian's very public history of receiving harassment, she shouldn't have been.
This time, though, Redditors seem angrier at the Reddit mods than the Internet.
Smith has promised that she will update when the matter has been resolved to her satisfaction—presumably when Sarkeesian proves to her satisfaction that she doesn't profit off her work.
In the meantime, Smith has provided the Internet a valuable lesson on copyright and basic etiquette in the age of the Internet:
When in doubt, always ask permission.
Disclosure: this reporter made monthly donations to Anita Sarkeesian's Feminist Frequency website between 2011 and 2013.
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Chapter 4&5: The Negation of Value; Determinism and Its Critics
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1. Determinism
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[1]. "La science est deterministe; elle l?est a priori; elle postule le determinisme, parce que sans lui elle ne pourrait etre." Henri Poincare, Dernieres pensees (Paris, Flammarion, 1913), p. 244.
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2. The Negation of Ideological Factors
From the point of view of this integral materialism, the only consistent materialist doctrine, the customary methods of historians and biographers are to be rejected as idealistic nonsense. It is vain to search for the development of certain ideas out of other previously held ideas. For example, it is ?unscientific? to describe how the philosophical ideas of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries evolved out of those of the sixteenth century. ?Scientific? history would have to describe how out of the real ---physical and biological--- conditions
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of each age its philosophical tenets necessarily spring. It is "unscientific" to describe as a mental process the evolution of Saint Augustine's ideas that led him from Cicero to Manichaeus and from Manichaeism to Catholicism. The "scientific" biographer would have to reveal the physiological processes that necessarily resulted in the corresponding philosophical doctrines.
3. The Free-Will Controversy
Man chooses between modes of action incompatible with one another. Such decisions, says the free-will doctrine, are basically undetermined and uncaused; they are not the inevitable outcome of antecedent conditions. They are rather the display of man's inmost disposition, the manifestation of his indelible moral freedom. This moral liberty is the essential characteristic of man, raising him to a unique position in the universe.
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The determinists are right in asserting that everything that happens is the necessary sequel of the preceding state of things. What a man does at any instant of his life is entirely dependent on his past, that is, on his physiological inheritance as well as of all he went through in his previous days. Yet the significance of this thesis is considerably weakened by the fact that nothing is known about the way in which ideas arise. Determinism is untenable if based upon or connected with the materialist dogma.[1] If advanced without the support of materialism, it says little indeed and certainly does not sustain the determinists' rejection of the methods of history.
[1]. See below, pp. 94-9.
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4. Foreordination and Fatalism
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Laplace proudly declared that his system does not need to resort to the hypothesis of God's existence. But he constructed his own image of a quasi God and called it superhuman intelligence. This hypothetical mind knows all things and events beforehand, but only because it is familiar with all the immutable and eternal laws regulating all occurrences, mental as well as physical.
The idea of God's omniscience has been popularly pictured as a book in which all future things are recorded No deviation from the lines described in this register is possible. All things will turn out precisely as written in it. What must happen will happen no matter what mortal man may undertake to bring about a different result. Hence, consistent fatalism concluded, it is useless for man to act. Why bother if everything must finally come to a preordained end?
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fate account for the courage of the Saracen warriors; and the Christians in the forces of Charles Martel and Leo the Isaurian who stopped their advance were no less courageous than the Moslems although fatalism had no hold on their minds. Nor was the lethargy which spread later among the Islamitic peoples caused by the fatalism of their religion. It was despotism that paralyzed the initiative of the subjects. The harsh tyrants who oppressed the masses were certainly not lethargic and apathetic. They were indefatigable in their quest for power, riches, and pleasures.
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Marxian dialectic materialism precludes the assumption that any political or ideological fact could influence the course of historical events, since the latter are substantially determined by the evolution of the material productive forces. What brings about socialism is the "operation of the immanent laws of capitalistic production itself."[1] Ideas, political parties, and revolutionary actions are merely superstructural; they can neither delay nor accelerate the march of history. Socialism will come when the material conditions for its appearance have matured in the womb of capitalist society, neither sooner nor later.[2] If Marx had been consistent, he would not have embarked upon any political activity.[3] He would have quietly waited for the day on which the "knell of private capitalist property sounds."[4]
In dealing with fatalism we may ignore the claims of soothsayers. Determinism has nothing at all to do with the art of fortune tellers, crystal gazers, and astrologers or with the more pretentious effusions of the authors of "philosophies of history." It does not predict future events. It asserts that there is regularity in the universe in the concatenation of all phenomena.
[1]. Marx, Das Kapital (7th ed. Hamburg, 1914), 1, 728.
[2]. Cf. below pp. 107 and 128.
[3]. Neither would he have written the often quoted eleventh aphorism on Feuerbach: ?The philosophers have only provided different interpretations of the world, but what matters is to change it.? According to the teachings of dialectical materialism only the evolution of the material productive forces, not the philosophers, can change the world.
[4]. Marx, Das Kapital, as quoted above.
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5. Determinism and Penology
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guilt whatever the consequences of their action may be.
The philosophers and lawyers who attacked determinism on these grounds failed to see that the doctrine of an almighty and omniscient God led to the same conclusions that moved them to reject philosophical determinism. If God is almighty, nothing can happen that he does not want to happen. If he is omniscient, he knows in advance all things that will happen. In either case, man cannot be considered answerable.[1] The young Benjamin Franklin argued "from the supposed attributes of God" in this manner: "That in erecting and governing the world, as he was infinitely wise, he knew what would be best; infinitely good, he must be disposed; and infinitely powerful, he must be able to execute it. Consequently all is right."[2] In fact, all attempts
[1]. See Fritz Mauthner, Worterbuch der Philosophie (2d ed. Leipzig, 1923), 1, 462-7.
[2]. Benjamin Franklin, Autobiography (New York, A. L. Burt, n.d.), pp. 73-4. Franklin very soon gave up this reasoning. He declared: ?The great uncertainty I found in metaphysical reasonings disgusted me, and I quitted that kind of reading and study for others more satisfactory.? In the posthumous papers of Franz Brentano a rather unconvincing refutation of Franklin?s flash of thought was found. It was published by Oskar Kraus in his edition of Brentano?s Vom Ursprung sittlicher Erkenninis (Leipzig, 1921), pp. 91-5.
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to justify, on metaphysical and theological grounds, society's right to punish those whose actions jeopardize peaceful social cooperation are open to the same criticism that is leveled against philosophical determinism.
6. Determinism and Statistics
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of crimes, suicides, and acts of forgetfulness-which play such a conspicuous role in Buckle's deductions-varies from year to year. These yearly changes are as a rule small, and over a period of years they often-but not always-show a definite trend toward either increase or decrease. These statistics are indicative of historical change, not of regularity in the sense which is attached to this term in the natural sciences.
[1]. On thymology see pp. 264 ff.
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life nor the fear of another world can avail anything towards even checking its operation."[2] Buckle's law seems to be very definite and unambiguous in its formulation. But in fact it defeats itself entirely by including the phrase "a given state of society," which even an enthusiastic admirer of Buckle termed "viciously vague."[3] As Buckle does not provide us with criteria for determining changes in the state of society, his formulation can be neither verified nor disproved by experience and thus lacks the distinctive mark of a law of the natural sciences.
Many years after Buckle, eminent physicists began to assume that certain or even all laws of mechanics may be "only" statistical in character. This doctrine was considered incompatible with determinism and causality. When later on quantum mechanics considerably enlarged the scope of "merely" statistical physics, many writers cast away all the epistemological principles that had guided the natural sciences for centuries. On the macroscopic scale, they say, we observe certain regularities which older generations erroneously interpreted as a manifestation of natural law. In fact, these regularities are the result of the statistical compensation of contingent events. The apparent causal arrangement on a large scale is to be explained by the law of large numbers.[4]
[2]. Buckle, Introduction to the History of Civilization in England, J. M. Robertson, ed. (London, G. Routledge; New York, E. P. Dutton, n. d.), ch.1 in 1, 15-16.
[3]. J. M. Robertson, Buckle and His Critics (London, 1895), p. 288.
[4]. John von Neumann, Mathematische Grundlagen der Quantenmechanik (New York, 1943), pp. 172 ff.
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Quantum mechanics deals with the fact that we do not know how an atom will behave in an individual instance. But we know what patterns of behavior can possibly occur and the proportion in which these patterns really occur. While the perfect form of a causal law is: A "produces" B, there is also a less perfect form: A "produces" C in n% of all cases, D in m% of all cases, and so on. Perhaps it will at a later day be possible to dissolve this A of the less perfect form into a number of disparate elements to each of which a definite "effect" will be assigned according to the perfect form. But whether this will happen or not is of no relevance for the problem of determinism. The imperfect law too is a
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causal law, although it discloses shortcomings in our knowledge. And because it is a display of a peculiar type both of knowledge and of ignorance, it opens a field for the employment of the calculus of probability. We know, with regard to a definite problem, all about the behavior of the whole class of events, we know that class A will produce definite effects in a known proportion; but all we know about the individual A?s is that they are members of the A class. The mathematical formulation of this mixture of knowledge and ignorance is We know the probability of the various effects that can possibly be "produced" by an individual A.
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must never ascribe to an individual" atom individuality in the sense in which this term is applied to men and to historical events.
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The present epistemological situation in the field of quantum mechanics would be correctly described by the statement: We know the various patterns according to which atoms behave and we know the proportion in which each of these patterns becomes actual. This would describe the state of our knowledge as an instance of class probability: We know all about the behavior of the whole class; about the behavior of the individual members of the class we know only that they are members.[5] It is inexpedient and misleading to apply to the problems concerned terms used in dealing with human action. Bertrand Russell resorts to such figurative speech: the atom "will do" something, there is
[5]. On the distinction between class probability and case probability, see Mises, Human Action, pp. 107-13.
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"a definite set of alternatives open to it, and it chooses sometimes one, sometimes another."[6] The reason Lord Russell chooses such inappropriate terms becomes obvious if we take into account the tendency of his book and of all his other writings. He wants to obliterate the difference between acting man and human action on the one hand and nonhuman events on the other hand. In his eyes "the difference between us and a stone is only one of degree"; for "we react to stimuli, and so do stones, though the stimuli to which they react are fewer."[7] Lord Russell omits to mention the fundamental difference in the way stones and men "react." Stones react according to a perennial pattern, which we call a law of nature. Men do not react in such a uniform way; they behave, as both praxeologists and historians say, in an individual way. Nobody has ever succeeded in assigning various men to classes each member of which behaves according to the same pattern.
7. The Autonomy of the Sciences of Human Action
[6]. Bertrand Russell, Religion and Science, Home University Library (London, Oxford University Press, 1936), pp. 152-8.
[7]. Ibid., p. 131.
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No action can ever succeed if not guided by a true in the sense of pragmatism-insight into what is commonly called a relation of cause and effect. The fundamental category of action, viz., means and ends, presupposes the category of cause and effect.
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Alan Connor demystifies the devices used in cryptic crosswords for beginners and asks experienced solvers to share their favourite examples. This week: putting one thing inside another
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Hello again to cryptic newcomers. Are you ready to have fun? This time, we're looking at clues which ask you to find one bunch of letters, then put that bunch inside another bunch and finally realise you have the answer. And then you write it in the grid.
And a reminder for nervous newcomers before we begin: here we're looking at clues in isolation; in a genuine puzzle environment, you'd have some letters from other clues to work with, considerably lightening the solving load. In other words, everything you see below is easier than it might appear.
How does it work?
A cryptic clue typically gives you two chances to get the answer: a definition found either at the beginning or the end (which I'll indicate in bold type in the examples below), and some wordplay (look out for the colours).
Unlike the spoonerisms we looked at last time, which are an occasional crosswording treat, this is a device solvers expect to find as often as not in a puzzle.
In clues with containers, the definition gives you, as ever, a straight description of the word or phrase. The rest of the clue is wordplay, where you have to get playful, as with this from Phi:
9ac Quantity of electricity or power brought into Channel Island (5)
Here, Phi has obligingly put the definition at the start of the clue: a SPARK is a quantity of electricity. But we wouldn't get that from the definition alone. We confirm it by taking the physicist's abbreviation for power - that is, P - and putting it in a Channel Island, in this case SARK. And so the definition and the wordplay match and we can write SPARK in the grid.
Some examples
It's also obliging of Phi to use the words "brought into" to hint that we put a P into SARK. Sometimes it's fairly obvious that this is what's going on, as with this clue from Chifonie:
10ac Embryos right to be included in valuable items (5)
It's the same structure: the definition is "embryos"; in the wordplay, we put an R inside GEMS for GERMS.
Other times, the hint is less obvious. Try this from Neo:
1ac College writer banks money (6)
"Banks", the dictionaries remind us, can have the sense of "encloses" we've been discussing and so here Albert CAMUS encloses a small amount of money to give us CAMPUS.
So how to spot them?
On the one hand, it's easy. If you see a phrase like "packing" or "sheltered by" or "entering" in a clue, it might well pay to look for a container. Even "describe" can mean to go around something, and "this without that" can mean that this is going around the outside of that.
On the other hand, the English language is not short of vocabulary to describe putting one thing inside another. I mean, the lewd phrases alone are enough to fill a filthy reference book or three. And then there are the clean ones. "Circling", "housing", "wrapping"... it's one thing after - as well as inside - another.
And, newcomer, please don't let what I'm about to say put you off. It's part of the fun, it honestly is. But many of the phrases most often used to indicate a container clue are also frequently used to mean utterly different cryptic devices. "About", for example, might mean "encircling", but it can also mean "reverse this bit of the clue", or RE, or even just C.
Honestly. Fun.
And how to enjoy them
The pleasure with this kind of clue is typically in realising that an expression like "run rings around" has been used to run rings around you. In a similar vein, here's Orlando:
23ac Girl rings friend and mum in holiday location (3,6)
A great surface reading, very clear and natural, and the answer is LAS PALMAS. Staying on the beach, here's Phi again:
11d Nothing turned up in abandoned storeroom in Spanish resort (12)
OK, so this is a down clue, which means that if "nothing" indicates NIL (and here it does), "nothing turned up" indicates LIN. Meanwhile, "abandoned storeroom" gives us TORREMOOS, an anagram of STOREROOM and our answer is TORREMOLINOS. And there's the subtlest indicator of containment you'll ever meet in "in".
It's not always that simple
As the TORREMOLINOS clue tells us, it's not always a case of putting one word or abbreviation inside the case of another. Either the container or the contained phrase might be the result of some cryptic adventure itself, requiring you to draw on other posts in this series.
Take initial letters. In crosswording, "first of ripe" is likely to mean the first letter of the word "ripe" and so in this Sunday Telegraph clue...
17a Nice sweets containing first of ripe fruit (8)
...we take a word used in the city of Nice to mean sweethearts, CHÉRIES, and insert the "first of ripe" to get the fruit CHERRIES.
Here's a clue from the Daily Telegraph which uses the same device to greater effect:
21d Something which snaps say, around top of instep (6)
Here we see a soundalike for the snappy creature the 'GATOR, around the letter I for GAITER.
Over to you
To the beginners: any other questions? To the addicts: any much-loved examples to share? And to everyone, let's finish with a favourite, this cracker from Brendan:
11ac For whom it's not easy having nothing stored (7)
It's HOARDER. What do you reckon?
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The fire-eyes form a superspecies, of which the White-shouldered Fire-eye is the southeastern representative of the genus. It is virtually confined to eastern Brazil, where the species ranges as far north as eastern Bahia, but also penetrates northeasternmost Argentina, in the province of Misiones. Within the species’ range, the White-shouldered Fire-eye is a highly distinctive and relatively common member of the avifauna. Pairs or family groups forage together, low above the ground, searching for insects, and sometimes joining mixed-species flocks within the dense undergrowth of forest and second growth. Males are largely black with bold white wing markings and a mid-sized interscapular patch (often visible when the bird is singing), and a staring red eye, whilst females are virtually entirely warm brown but paler below, with a blackish tail, and also has red irides.
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Terri Was Not `Brain-dead'
June 29, 2005|Candy Wilson, R.N. Organ Procurement Coordinator University of Miami's Life Alliance Organ Recovery Agency Delray Beach
How unfortunate and disappointing that the "professional" writing the editorial about Terri Schiavo in Friday's paper made up a diagnosis. This person stated in the editorial, in regard to Dr. Thogmartin's autopsy, that "the report clearly verifies Terri was brain-dead."
Dr. Thogmartin accurately diagnosed Terri as being a person in a "chronic vegetative state who was blind and with a brain half the normal size." He never said she was "brain-dead." He knows there is a huge difference between brain death and being in a vegetative state. Being blind doesn't make you "brain-dead," having only half of your brain working or a brain half the normal size doesn't make you "brain-dead." Yet someone on your editorial staff inappropriately diagnosed her as "brain-dead" in an editorial.
Too many people throw around the term or diagnosis of "brain death" inappropriately to describe people in chronic vegetative states or in a terminal condition, and that is quite scary.
To be brain-dead in Florida, there must be total cessation of activity in the whole brain and in the brainstem. This diagnosis is irreversible. If Terri had been brain-dead, she would have been on a ventilator and not breathing on her own. She was not brain-dead and to have a non-medical editor say so was very unfortunate.
Please be more accurate in your reporting about medical conditions or a diagnosis. It is unfortunate that someone on your staff added to the confusion of reporting medical conditions like hers to the public.
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Tuesday, March 10, 2009
The Death March of Evangelical Christianity
I was directed this evening to a opinion piece published in the Christian Science Monitor written by Michael Spencer (an evangelical). The following quote sums up the article nicely.
These few sentences give me hope that this group will lose their strangle hold over the American democratic system. Throughout most of my life, Evangelicals and other Christians have attempted to impose their beliefs on everyone else through legislation and judicial challenges. Hopeful this is the first whispers of an impending lose of power.
Spencer describes the reasons he thinks the dissolution will occur and many are the precise things that I had previously recognized.
Evangelicals will increasingly be seen as a threat to cultural progress. Public leaders will consider us bad for America, bad for education, bad for children, and bad for society...massive majorities of Evangelicals can't articulate the Gospel with any coherence.
I am glad that others are or soon will be catching up.
The author describes that he thinks currently religious people will take one of two paths. They will either leave religion behind or shift into the more orthodox and dogmatic forms like Catholicism. This will widen the gap between the religious and the non-religious by removing much of what is considered 'mainline' Christianity. This stark contrast will result in many moderates choosing a more secular path rather than the more fundamentalist ideologies.
I see this as a precursor to the death of Christianity as a whole as it will inevitably continue to follow the same path that past religions have. Initially, the religion is concentrated with its single set of dogma and orthodoxy. As time progresses the religion becomes fractured, as happened when the Protestants split from the Catholic Church, the Church of England split from the Roman Catholic Church, when the Protestant church fractured into it many denominations and most recently with the advent of the emerging church and mega churches. As the divisions occur the message becomes watered down and loses its power. As this occurs, the stories of God and Jesus will turn into myths and hold the same power as stories of Zeus and Thor.
Spencer, M. (2009, March 10). Title:The coming evangelical collapse [Editorial].
The Christian Science Monitor, 9. Retrieved March 10, 2009, from
Monday, March 9, 2009
Our First Trip to the Emergency Room
I had visions of our first trip to the ER with Sebastian being one of a broken limb from falling out of a tree or needing stitches after falling off his bike. I did not expect it to be due to him smearing food on his face. Here is what happened (Sebastian's view of the events can be found here).
Our family was sitting down for a lunch of mostly leftovers. I decided to have a peanut butter sandwich and gave a small piece to Sebastian. He ate the first couple of bites normally and then began to play with and mush the pieces. About 10-15 minutes later he started his usual "I'm ready for a nap" motions including rubbing his hands and whatever is on them all over his face. I proceeded to wipe him clean and then go lay down for a nap. I noticed that his face was a little red at this point but figured it was just from the washing. We had been lying down for about 5 minutes when I noticed that he had developed hives all over his face and the backs of his hands. I quickly sent Brian to the store for some Benadryl and more thoroughly washed him off and eventually put him in the tub. When Brian got back we got him out of the bath and dosed him up with the Benadryl. The reaction was limited to the skin that had come in contact with the peanut butter and he never developed any respiratory symptoms. Even though the reaction seemed to be taken care of by the Benadryl we decided to go to the hospital just in case.
When we arrived at the ER the swelling had gone done considerably but it was still very noticeable and red. We were checked in and triaged fairly quickly and sent to the waiting room. About 20-30 minutes later his face was started to get redder and the swelling increased so we went back to the triage nurse who got him in to a room. The nurse came in and checked him out and a few minutes later the doctor came in to examine him and get the history of the event. He was given a dose of steroids to further manage the reaction and finally the swelling started to diminish and redness started to fade. We were discharged with instructions to continue to give the Benadryl and steroids for 3 days, to avoid all products containing peanuts and carry and EpiPen at all times.
This was the last thing I ever expected to happen. Neither Brian nor I have any history of food allergies or any other allergies except poison ivy and hay fever. The most current research indicates that early exposure is protective against allergic reactions.
1. He is actually allergic to peanuts or to some other substance in the peanut butter (Smart Balance)? I guess we won't know the answer to this until we take him to an allergist.
2. Why did he only react once he 'applied' it to his skin? He had been fine for while after ingesting and only broke out where he had speared it. He had no swelling of his mouth (except bottom lip) or throat.
3. Is it possible that he has only a topical allergy and ingesting it would not pose problems? I have heard anecdotes from people who report getting rashes and/or hives when getting other foods (tomatoes, mangoes, some meats) on their skin but they are able to consume them without any problems. Are stories like this not common with peanuts because it doesn't happen or because people freak out with the skin rash that ingestion is never attempted again?
With the diagnosis of 'peanut allergy' there comes a lot of decisions that have to be made. Do we have to take this to the extreme of avoiding anything that was manufactured in the same place as something that contains peanuts? After he stops nursing do I have to continue to avoid peanut products as well? Do we need to be a peanut free house? Will he need to sit at a peanut free table at school? Can we take him to the circus or baseball games where others will probably be eating peanuts? How do we proceed with this without it taking over every decision we make? Right now it is easy because at only 1 year old we control everything he eats but as he gets older how do we make him aware of it without making him scared?
These are only a fraction of the questions and thoughts churning through my mind right now and the information out there is either purely speculation or inconclusive at best. What is a mom to do?
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My Personal Journey To Living Life To The Fullest
Making A Better You: Steps You Must Take
Setting goals for success and self-help can be challenging. While the road to a better you is often paved with pitfalls and obstacles, you can complete the journey, with the right information on your side. This article reveals several sure-fire ways to increase your self esteem and become a happier, more effective person.
success goal settingDevelop a sense of urgency.
When you are trying to improve any aspect of your life, procrastination is your worst enemy. The longer you wait to get started on a task, the less likely that task is going to get done. The first step is always the hardest; once you get started, you will surprise yourself with what you can accomplish.
Sometimes getting help is something beyond ourselves.
In cases like this it would behoove you to visit a licensed healthcare professional, like a psychologist. Through years of experience they have learned to help people just like yourself cope with difficult situations. Do not think you can solve it all on your own, see a psychologist.
Take time to do something for yourself, every day. Taking time, even as little as fifteen minutes, to do something you enjoy can do wonders for your mood, outlook and motivation. Use this time to relax and re-center yourself, and focus on you. After all, you are the most important person in your life.
For personal development the little things do matter.
Ease the burdens that you carry. If you are carrying around a lot of guilt and stress, you are surely going to benefit from seeking a professional to help you sort through those feelings. If you just let those feelings fester, you are sure to break down at one point or another.
You can help your depression by looking at the different types of medication you are on. Discuss them with your doctor. Some people don’t realize it but their medications can be causing their depression. That’s why it is important to monitor what you are on and discuss it with your doctor.
Make it a point to arrive early to work and any other appointments that you have. If you do not feel rushed when you reach your destination, it is likely to reduce the amount of stress that you feel when you get there or when you are on your way.
This article shows that self-help, while difficult, is possible. The keys to moving forward with your life, thinking positively, achieving happiness and becoming a well-rounded person all depend on good information. By applying the tips, tricks and mental exercises in this article, you can discover a pathway to success and personal happiness.
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Comics A.M. - Taiwan "One Piece" Exhibit Draws 100,000 in First Week
Fans flock to first "One Piece" exhibition of its kind outside of Japan! Jim Salicrup talks Papercutz! Jimmy Gownley on "Amelia Rules!" and "The Dumbest Idea Ever"!
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Comics A.M. - James Sturm on Why He's Boycotting "The Avengers"
James Sturm boycotting "The Avengers" movie over Jack Kirby's "raw deal"! Michael Chabon on Stan Lee and Jack Kirby's falling out! Jimmy Gownley on taking a break from "Amelia Rules"! Plus much more!
PRESS RELEASE: "Ameila Rules!" publishing rights aquired by Ginee Seo Books
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Hey Disney: Make a pangolin movie!
By John D. Sutter, CNN
April 7, 2014 -- Updated 1717 GMT (0117 HKT)
• More than 1,400 people sign a petition asking Disney to make a pangolin movie
• John Sutter recently featured the pangolin as part of his Change the List project
• The relatively unknown creature is thought to be the most trafficked mammal in the world
• Sutter says celebrity could help save the pangolin; few care about the illegal trade
(CNN) -- Kit Skogsbergh can see it now.
"He would be a sidekick," she told me. "He would have a soft and soothing voice. ... He would kind of be like Piglet in the Pooh movies because he would be a little cautious and scared of things, but once he knew the plan and how things worked he would warm up to it and maybe by the end of the movie he might not have to roll up into a ball (and hide). He'd be able to face things head on."
John D. Sutter
John D. Sutter
The 32-year-old from Pasadena, California, recently filed a petition on asking Disney to make an animated character out of a pangolin, a little-known, scale-covered mammal that's notoriously shy and, to Kit's point, can protect itself from pretty much anything in the wild -- lions, tigers -- by rolling up into a ball.
The pangolin is being trafficked toward extinction -- sold for its scales, which are used in traditional medicine, and for its meat, which is a delicacy in Vietnam and China. Pangolins are traded by the ton.
Disney could give the pangolin the celebrity it needs to survive.
I'd encourage you to sign Kit's petition at
If people cared about the pangolin the way they care about tigers or elephants, it easily could be saved from extinction. The trouble: Few seem to realize these awesomely introverted animals exist. They're little studied and barely understood. They're also not conventionally cute, which makes it easier for conservation organizations and the public to write them off as expendable. Yet they are essential, valuable creatures.
I recently went to Vietnam and Indonesia as part of CNN's Change the List project to document the massive illegal trade in endangered pangolin species. I hadn't heard of pangolins before readers voted for me to cover the illegal animal trade as part of that project; and Kit hadn't heard of them until she read the story last week.
Kit Skogsbergh with her cat, Ninja
Kit Skogsbergh with her cat, Ninja
"I got about halfway through (the story) and my stomach hurt so bad I couldn't finish it," Kit told me last week. "I had this nagging feeling, you know, to do something about it."
Kit's petition -- titled "Help beautiful and mysterious pangolins by featuring them in an animated movie!" -- had 1,425 signatures as of Monday morning. At least 13 other readers also started petitions urging Disney to put a pangolin character in an animated film or short, according to Pulin Modi, a senior campaigner at
Disney and Disney Pixar have the reach to make the pangolin popular. And they don't have to do it out of the goodness of their hearts. It could be a hit. Pangolins are the ultimate underdog -- lovable and secretive, curious and little-known.
Mother pangolins carry their babies around on their backs; pangolins hang from trees by their tails; and their tongues are longer than their bodies.
Plus, Disney already has a choice of names. CNN readers are voting on a name for pangolin P26, which was rescued from the wildlife trade and was recently released back into the wild in Vietnam. Some of the names would be perfect for an animated character: Pemalu, which is Indonesian for "shy"; Bao, Vietnamese for "protection." Or Percival, which is alliterative and fun.
"When you introduce a character in a Disney film the animal suddenly gets more recognition and people start talking about it," said Kit, who is a Disney fan.
"That education and awareness is what's going to help shape future generations' minds. Maybe we can start with younger people and they can grow up not wanting to eat the pangolin."
It might seem far-fetched that any Disney viewer would eat pangolin. But not for Kit, who is Chinese-American and who told me her father likely has consumed endangered wildlife products while doing business in China, possibly including pangolin.
It's been a source of family conflict.
"It's like talking to a piece of cheese, you just don't get anywhere," she said of her conversations with her dad about the welfare of endangered animals. "It's funny to him that people are concerned about what happens to an animal -- because it's just an animal, it's nothing more than that. It doesn't offer anything more than food or nourishment or medicinal properties. He laughs and says it makes you live longer or it makes your skin nice. And he'll say, 'You're crazy! You Americans!'"
She doesn't think she'll be able to persuade her dad to change, but younger generations may be the ones to save animals like pangolins and rhinos, she said.
And Disney could reach them.
Kit's own story is proof it could work.
Kit was born in the United States, and she developed a fondness for animals when she was young. Her parents valued animals for their function -- Doom the Doberman's ability to protect their home, their ducks' eggs -- but she saw them as friends.
"Maybe I didn't have enough friends and the animals were always super friendly all the time," she said. "I feel like it's pretty easy to make friends with animals." She now has three cats -- Cheezburger, Monster and Ninja -- and a rabbit named Bunny.
She became an advocate for animals because she got to know them.
"As a Chinese-American, I also want to speak up because the demand in China is helping drive the demand for pangolins to be killed for meat and medicines," she writes in the petition. "I can tell you many Chinese citizens do not support this cruelty, and I believe we can bring wildlife advocates from around the world together to ask Disney to take this simple, fun, positive step to help pangolins."
"It didn't cost me anything but half an hour of my time," she said of the petition.
And it would take far less time to sign it.
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Meet the man who wanders Lake Providence carrying an American flag.
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Recent financial settlements between the federal government and banks for mortgage practice wrongdoing has hit more than $19 billion.
Some observers believe that the fines, although hefty, were actually pesky when compared to the real damage done to the economic health of the country caused by the apparently deliberately shoddy mortgage practices that led to bailouts by taxpayers. And too often banks see such fines as just the cost of doing business.
About $9 billion in fines was levied against a dozen banking companies, and Bank of America separately was fined almost $10.4 billion for misdeeds in connection with Fannie Mae, the government agency that became entangled in what was one of the greatest financial disasters in American history.
Left in the wreckage caused by the goliaths were thousands of families whose mortgages were mishandled by companies such as JP Morgan Chase and Wells Fargo.
The fact that the government had to invest the time and effort that resulted in the imposition of these fines is bad enough. That in some cases the banks refused to cooperate in the investigations and continued their despicable practices even when notified is unconscionable.
It is far past time for America's large banks and their affiliates to straighten up and adhere to the laws that are designed to protect all Americans and the economy in general. But it might take more rigorous prosecution, rather than settlements, to ensure that happens.
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The International Secretariat of the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT) has received information and requests your URGENT intervention in the following situation in Bangladesh.
The High Court gave a landmark judgment today in the first application of its Sexual Harassment Guidelines pronounced on 14 May.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said the number of seats reserved for women in Bangladesh parliament would be raised from 45 at present.
Au Bangladesh, en dépit de lois édictées depuis 2002, les femmes sont toujours victimes d'agressions violentes et d'une discrimination contre leur sexe, explique The Daily Star, à Dacca.
There are many laws that are still discriminatory towards women and even those laws that do protect women are not enforced properly.
Acid attacks against women and girls are continuing despite legal campaigns to halt their spread.
"Bangladesh, whose population is 90 per cent Muslim, has a secular legal system but in matters related to inheritance and marriage Muslims follow Sharia law."
UN officials are urging the authorities in Bangladesh to clarify the fate of a UN human rights expert prevented from leaving the country since mid-May.
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How To Choose The Perfect Diamond For You
Whether you are looking for an diamond engagement ring, a diamond pendant or diamond studs, there is a lot more to diamonds that you may not know.
The 4 C’s
Often considered the most important feature of a diamond, the cut determines its brilliance or the amount of light that is reflected.
When a diamond is cut too shallow, the light that enters comes out of the bottom. When a diamond is cut too deep, the light reflects out through the side. However, when a diamond has the ideal cut, the maximum amount of light is reflected through the top of the diamond, making it brilliant and sparkly.
D being colorless and Z light yellow, white diamonds are graded on alphabetical order depending on their color. A colorless diamond, D color, is very rare and more expensive. Because slight color is not noticeable to the naked eye, choosing a diamond that is between G-J is less expensive than higher grading and almost colorless.
Because most diamonds contain a few minor flaws that affect their clarity, they are labeled according the the amount and nature of the inclusion. For example:
• FL or IF (lawless & internally flawless, respectively): The diamond contains no flaws when viewed under 10x magnification.
• VVS1 & VVS2 (Very, very slightly included): The diamond has tiny inclusions that are hard to see at 10x magnification.
• VS1 & VS2 (Very slightly included): These diamonds have inclusions that are only visible under 10x magnification.
• SI1 & SI2 (Slightly included): At this level, the diamond has inclusions that may be visible to the naked eye.
• I1, I2 & I3 (Included or imperfect): The inclusions are clearly visible to the naked eye.
The size of a diamond is measured as carat weight. Since large diamonds are more rare, the price of the diamond increases exponentially as their size and weight increases. For instance a 2 ct diamond may cost 4 times as much as a 1 ct diamond of the same quality.
Diamond Shape
From cushion to round diamond, Solomon Brothers has a wide variety of diamond shapes to choose from.
Round diamonds are the only shape of diamond with the dimensions that are necessary to be the most brilliant. While modern brides choose different shape diamond for their engagement ring, round is still the most popular shape.
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Sunday, October 2, 2011
The stay at home mom stigma.
I am angry. I am sad. I am ashamed at many women and their mindset today.
I'm ashamed because these women degrade the life and hopes and dreams of other women. What's worse is they do it in the name of "feminism".
I always had these crazy aspirations when I was a kid. I would go from Teacher, to Singer, to Pediatrician, to Radiologist, to Social Worker, and finally, back to teacher again. But there was also something else I really wanted more than anything else-to be a mom.
I have accomplished that, and while it is crazy, hectic, and exhausting, it is also amazing, rewarding, and filled with so much love and happiness. I wouldn't change it for the world. I get to see the small changes my daughter has day to day. I get to watch her as she grows and never miss a second. I am lucky enough to be married to a man who has a job that enables me to stay home with our daughter, and he wants that too.
For some reason, though, some women seem to think it's their right to judge mothers who stay home with their children. I understand it's not for everyone. Some people need time out of the house, more adult interaction, need to be bringing in income. I get it, and I certainly would never judge those women for that choice. Why, then, do they judge me for mine?
I've read everything from SAHM's are all lazy, never shower, never clean, spend all their "husband's" money, to all SAHM's have no ambition and we are to be pitied because we aren't doing "more" with our lives.
I'm sad for them, that that's how they view raising a child. In my mind, there's nothing trivial about it. My job, and yes, I said job, is incredibly important. The actions I take, the way I raise my daughter, the things I do with her every day shape who she will become. How is that unimportant?
Contrary to apparent popular belief, I, and most SAHM's that I know, do not sit on my fat butt all day eating "fried twinkies", watching TV, and neglecting my child. My daughter's only 5.5 months old, but I work my butt off every day. I spend 4 hours a day nursing her, and the rest of the time I am playing with her, changing her, holding her, reading to her, and trying to keep her happy. The rare moments that she allows me to set her down or takes a nap, I do a quick load of dishes, pick up the rooms, throw in some laundry, and get as much around the house done as I can. I cook the meals and I pick up after them. That's my job. I don't take my husband's money-this is a marriage, a partnership, and he understands that in order for me to be the one taking care of our child, that is my job. And he loves it. He has actually said "I would rather have my job than yours." He's not a super big fan of his job, so that's saying a lot.
A mother who stays at home because she wants to have that time with her child should never be bullied into feeling like she is a bane to society and her husband, is wasting her life, is lazy, or any of the other garbage I've seen spewed on the internet. It's hurtful, it's unnecessary, and it's wrong. I will admit even though I know it's just plain ignorance and women being catty and putting others down to make themselves feel better about themselves, I have read people's hurtful remarks about stay at home mom's and actually felt bad about that. And then I look at my beautiful daughter's face and feel ashamed that I ever let those stupid, stupid comments make me question my time with her.
I watch Keira roll over for the first time, see her as she catches me walking into a room with a huge smile lighting up her face, hear her adorable laugh, see the little personality she's developing and the child she's becoming more and more every day, and it amazes me. How could anyone make this seem like this job that I have doesn't deserve respect?
The whole point of feminism is the freedom of a woman's right to choose. Her choice; not your choice of what you think she should be doing. The beauty of it is if I want to stay home and clean poop and play patty cake and have dinner ready when the hubby comes home-I can! If you want to have a career and do it all-you can!
It's become acceptable to take women out of the molds they were forced into for so long by men, and force them into new molds? This time we can't blame the men. We're doing it to each other.
Well if that is how feminism works, I want no part of it. I'll be in the kitchen in my pj's, baking a pie with my baby on my hip.
And I'll be damn happy about it.
Wednesday, September 14, 2011
Hoisin Chicken over at the Messy Cook
I posted my first original recipe today over at my new blog. It was really good, and I'm pretty sure you don't want to miss out. :) My mind is brewing over some cupcakes that I am going to try, likely early next week-banana bread cupcakes filled with peanut butter ganache and topped with nutella frosting. Please tell me that doesn't sound AH-MAZING. And the banana bread cupcake part is super easy. Actually, all of it's going to be pretty easy even though it's all homemade. So go on over and follow there so I don't have to keep pimping it out on this blog ;)
Tuesday, September 13, 2011
New Blog-Food and Books=Awesome
Today I decided to make a new blog: The Messy Cook & Midnight Reader. It's all explained over there. It's pretty self explanatory, but it's going to be awesome recipes I've tried or created, and reviews on books I'm reading, be they good or bad. I thought it would be fun and maybe give me more inspiration to write. So go on over and follow me there, kthxbai. :)
Tuesday, September 6, 2011
Nine Loves
1. I love my lil miss Keira. She is getting so smiley and she loves to laugh at us when we tickle her belly, play the footsie game, or tickle her neck with smooches. She fills my days with happiness and I will take the shots of baby poo and getting puke in the mouth if I get those precious smiles at the end of the day.
2. I love my hubby. We have so much fun together and are our goofball, weirdo selves when we're around each other. He is the peanut butter to my jelly, the mac to my cheese, the cake to my fat girl. Plus he contributed to that pretty little girl up there so how bad can he be right?
3. I love my family. I can't wait to be closer to them again and for Keira to get to spend more time with them.
4. Okay so now that all of those cliche, obligatory loves are out the way let's get to the fun stuff. Just jokes ;) Anyway, I L.O.V.E fall. Like, I'm obsessed guys. When the pumpkin spice latte is back at Starbucks, I squeal. The thought of being able to comfortably wear a jacket outside puts a smile on my face. I jump up and down on the inside at the thought of going to a pumpkin patch, going on a hayride, and walking around in the crisp air. Loooooove. Fall.
5. I love to read. Ever since I was a kid I love getting to escape in a world that someone's imagination created. I have always gotten really attached to characters in books that I particularly love. I hope I can foster this love of reading in Keira, because it has always been something that brings me joy. I can't think of anything better than curling up in a cozy chair with some coffee in my hand and reading an amazing book.
6. I love to cook. I think more than anything, I like feeding people and knowing they liked what I created. I especially love baking. This love has gotten me into a bit of trouble around the waistline, if you know what I'm sayin'.
7. I love all things nerdy. Reading I've already gone over, but I really love going to Renaissance Fair's. I know it's so hokey and commercialized and not at ALL what the Renaissance was actually like, but I do not care. It's just fun. I like seeing all the crazy costumes, watching the shows, and walking around outside on no roads and feeling like I'm in a different time. Also, the turkey legs are pretty cool.
8. I love my Keurig. I'm telling you dude, if you love coffee, get you one of these babies. There are so many awesome flavors of Kcups (PUMPKIN SPICE!) and it is so. Easy. You just pop a k cup in, press a button, and bam, you have one single cup of coffee. They even have coffees meant to be brewed over ice, sweet iced tea, hot breakfast tea, hot chocolate, and my hubby's personal favorite, Apple Cider. I adore this thing. I swear I'm not getting anything from Keurig for this shameless plug, it is just a super cool product. (Although Keurig if you want to give me some free KCups, I will not object.)
9. Finally, I love home. I am from the most po dunk town in Kansas you could ever imagine. There is 1 stop light, a gas station, and everyone is seriously having a flipping cow that there's going to be a Pizza Hut built soon (can I say that I would also be freaking out if I still lived there, because come can get pizza without having to drive a half hour. That is sweet). Everybody always talks about wanting to leave and get out of there. Well I have, to two very different parts of the country, and let me tell you, it's not that great out here. I miss home. I miss nice people that wave at you even if I have no clue who they are. I miss people that let you in when you need to merge on the highway instead of giving you the finger as they almost run you off the road. I miss the hillbilly's at Wal Mart that don't sass you. Say what you will, but there's no place like home.
Friday, September 2, 2011
10 Day You Challenge: 10 Secrets
I have seen this going around a few blogs, so...I don't exactly know who to credit this to. But it's a quick, easy, way to make a blog post that doesn't include thought (from me, anyway). Miss attached-to-my-hip, otherwise known as my daughter Keira, is consuming about 98% of my time right now. I'm perfectly fine with that :) But I thought I would explain the possibly 1 person who is reading this.
So anyway, today: Ten secrets. And these are ACTUALLY going to be, total embarrassment, you can make fun of me for life, secrets...but isn't that what secrets are?
1. I used to be this really introverted, shy, never want to go anywhere type of girl (I'm talking when I was about 13) and I had online boyfriends. I know, I know...leave me alone.
2. I am totally hetero, but I think Kate Beckinsale is hot.
3. I have the grossest feet. I realize I'm not being super kind to myself but don't secrets about yourself usually suck? Anyway, they are gross. I sweat really easily, and I actually go walking and do housework so they aren't girly feet at all. Also they are really wide, and it's super hard for me to find a pair of shoes that don't leave my little toe blistered.
4. I am a hypochondriac of the biggest sort. Some people already know this, but it extends even further than most know. I would say on a daily basis there's some disease or super crappy thing I hear about/think of and convince myself I or someone I love has it. Okay maybe not EVERY day, but seriously. To give you an idea I had convinced myself we wouldn't be able to have babies because I thought I had PCOS. And thus, Keira was born :P
5. I am absolutely terrified of the dark. I am SUCH a baby and I have no idea where it came from. I used to watch the Exorcist and laugh when I was like 13. So I hate the fact that the hubs has a job where he leaves the house by 5AM when he's on days, OR is gone all night on mids. If I wake up in the middle of the night I will keep opening my eyes to make sure there are no ghosties. I know it's ridiculous...I'm not scared of real people. That would be too logical.
6. I am addicted to sweets, which I am currently trying to break that habit. I could probably eat a package of cookies in one sitting, by myself, and not bat an eye.
7. I am clingy, and I love that my husband has stuck with me and actually asked me to marry him knowing that. I was such a huge baby when he was gone at basic.
8. Sometimes I feel like I'm not doing enough with my life. But then I dance around with Keira and see her big, happy smile and I know that she will only be little for so long. Everything else will still be there 5 years from now, but her childhood won't.
9. I'm a total nerd. I play computer games with my husband, I know what a golden snitch is, I've fangirled over Twilight and made a whole bath tub full of spaghetti to win an advanced copy of a book.
10. Okay, it is really hard to think of 10 secrets! I weigh a lot more than people tend to think. Working on it :P
Saturday, July 2, 2011
Weight Loss: Take 34642342
Yep...I am at it again. Only this time I REALLY have my work cut out for me. There's this thing called having a baby and having a huge craving for chocolate and hashbrowns for 9 months that totally cramps my skinny style.
I'm 20 lbs over my pre pregnancy weight right now...and let's be honest, even then I was nowhere close to my goal weight. I'm short, so this goal weight is depressingly low.
This is what I looked like while Kyler was at basic.
Depressing, right? I was so skinny. And pretty. I don't often think I'm pretty, but I really felt it then. Looking at pictures from this time is really sad to me for now. Probably something to do with the stretchmarked, poochy thing I call a belly right now.
That picture was about 40 pounds ago. Pre-preggo was 20 pounds more than that, and to be honest I would love to be where I was then, even.
SO. I'm not making anymore sweets. I know, I know-this means I have to stay off of Foodgawker. Fail. :( But I saw somebody on facebook before say "Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels." I don't even remember who it was, but I'm trying to remind myself of that. Indulgences every now and then, sure, but the bulk of my eating needs to be healthy from now on. It's not just about looks, but it's about how I feel, too. I want to have energy. I want to be able to run around and keep up with Keira when she's a toddler running all over the place. I want her to be proud when people see that I'm her mommy.
I have a huge Coke addition. By this I mean that I love Coca Cola, and not that I am a druggie. So for now I'm limiting myself to 1 Coke every other day. I need to start small on this so I don't turn into a bear...I would like to eventually limit myself to 1 Coke per week, and then maybe cut it out altogether if I can.
I also started exercising again today. I got BIG with Keira, and there towards the end when I walked up our stairs it was like I just ran a marathon. That on top of the c section and Keira's non stop feeding=lack of time, I haven't really had any sort of exercise in a good 6 months. I am seriously, very out of shape. I took a walk outside for 30 minutes and came home and did a 10 minute Pilates arm sculpting DVD. And I was dog tired. It was sorta pathetic. But it's a start.
I ordered the dvd's of the lady who has the "walk at home" program. Which I used to always laugh at and be like hur hur how do you need someone to teach you how to walk. Well walking is all I can do for now, Dr's orders, and it would be SO much more convenient to pop in a video and set Keira in her bassinet for awhile instead of always having to lug her into the stroller and listen to her scream bloody murder while I walk.
So anyway I know you aren't supposed to lose a ton of weight quickly while breastfeeding, and I also know you aren't supposed to "diet" as in have low calories. I will eat plenty to nourish Keira, rest assured. I'm just eating healthier-oatmeal, cereals, bagels, for breakfast, sandwiches, soups, salads for lunch, fruits, granola bars, and trail mixes for snacks, and sensible dinners. I would like to exercise about 4 days a week for now. My goal is to lose 8 pounds per month. My first short term goal is to lose 10 pounds...hopefully next month, I'll have accomplished that. My long term goal is to lose 60 pounds.
I have a ways to go, but I'm praying I can stay strong. I would love to look in the mirror and feel good about myself and know that I am healthy.
Here's to having a "here's what I look like now!" picture instead of a "here's what I used to look like".
Friday, July 1, 2011
Mil Spouse Fill In Returns
With Kyler's schedule, we don't get the typical Sunday afternoon since he works every other weekend and is on nights half the time. BUT for answering the questions sake, I would say making an awesome dinner with the husband and maybe watching a movie, or walking around the mall. I like to get out of the house when Kyler's off.
If we were home, we would be going to my Grandparents for lunch of cook out burgers and dogs, deviled eggs, and watergate salad, then we would go to the fireworks show wherever they had it that year in Joplin, and then we would go back and shoot night fireworks. This year Kyler is on mids and has to sleep all day and work all evening so any plans we had for the 4th pretty much got shot. :( We're going to grill out steaks in the 2 hours that he is home, I'm going to eat Watermelon, and then probably spend the evening with baby girl watching movies.
Being a hypochondriac and going on WebMD thinking I had the flu and closing the site thinking I had cancer. I would totally win 1st place at that event every time. :)
Again....hahahahahahaha. Right before summer I had a GINORMOUS belly from my chunky monkey, and now I just have that nasty baby pooch left behind so yeah. My body may never be bathing suit ready again.
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'Parishes: Bower Chalke', A History of the County of Wiltshire: Volume 13: South-west Wiltshire: Chalke and Dunworth hundreds (1987), pp. 28-35. URL: Date accessed: 30 August 2014.
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Bower Chalke c. 1790
The lands of Bower Chalke, 15 km. WSW. of Salisbury, (fn. 1) were part of an estate called Chalke, granted to Wilton abbey in the 10th century, and perhaps also of a large parish called Chalke, served from Broad Chalke church in the 11th century. (fn. 2) The name Bower Chalke, apparently given to that part of the Chalke estate where lands were in 'bower hold' tenure, (fn. 3) and the fact that, unlike its neighbours in the Ebble valley, it has land on only one side of the river suggest that Bower Chalke was a late offshoot from Broad Chalke. Bower Chalke had become a separate parish by the early 14th century; a church was built there c. 1300. (fn. 4) In 1885 the southern part of Fifield Bavant, a narrow strip of land running the length of Bower Chalke's western boundary and comprising 283 a., was transferred to Bower Chalke, (fn. 5) increasing its area to 1,319 ha. (3,260 a.). The parish was and is wedge-shaped, broadening from 1.5 km. in the north to 4.5 km. in the south. Its southern boundary, the southern boundary of Wilton abbey's estate and Wiltshire's boundary with Dorset, had possibly been established by the 10th century and was described in the late 11th. (fn. 6) Its northern boundary lies approximately parallel with and 50–100 m. south of the Ebble and so excludes the meadow land beside the river, perhaps because that beside the tributary flowing north from Bower Chalke village was sufficient for the parish or because Fifield Bavant had early established rights over meadows south of the river. The eastern boundary followed the tributary for 500 m., and the western, before 1885, roughly followed a dry valley in the north and ridges in the centre and south. Bower Chalke village and the extremities of it called Mead End, Woodminton, and Misselfore lie within the parish.
The ridge which forms the watershed between the Ebble and other tributaries of the Christchurch Avon extends east and west across the parish. North of the ridge the land, much of it below 137 m., slopes gently to the Ebble and its tributary. Chalk outcrops over most of the parish, but west of the tributary Upper Greensand outcrops. Heights above 200 m. are reached on the ridge, and on Marleycombe Hill the chalk is covered by clay. South of the ridge the land again slopes more gently, to below 122 m. in a gravel-lined valley on the boundary with Dorset. (fn. 7)
Evidence of prehistoric activity has been found in the parish south of the ridge. Groups of barrows stand on Marleycombe Hill and on Woodminton Down, where some 50 burials of the late Bronze Age have been identified. Part of Grim's ditch, which may date from the same period, runs along or parallel with the parish boundary for 1 km. south-west of Cobley Lodge. Other ditches, probably associated with Grim's ditch, run approximately north and south, and another winds for 250 m. across Marleycombe Hill. A field system of 28 ha. is east of the burial sites on Woodminton Down, and one of 53 ha. is on Marleycombe Hill. South-west of Marleycombe Hill there may have been settlement in the Iron Age. (fn. 8)
In historic times most of Bower Chalke's arable lay north of the ridge. There were meadows beside the stream, some of which were converted to watercress beds in the late 19th century and the 20th. The downs in the centre of the parish provided common pasture for sheep. South of the ridge the land was heavily wooded until the 19th century. (fn. 9)
Ox Drove, an ancient ridge way, runs east and west across the parish and is metalled only on Woodminton Down. No major modern route runs through the parish; in the late 18th century and probably earlier the principal road ran south-west from Broad Chalke along the tributary valley, through Bower Chalke village and Woodminton, and across the downs to Sixpenny Handley (Dors.). Another road led north-west and south-east, linking the roads beside the Ebble north of the parish and from Salisbury to Blandford Forum (Dors.). south of it. (fn. 10) Following inclosure in 1792 and in the early 19th century the linking road followed a straight course west of Bower Chalke village. (fn. 11) Earlier and later it ran further east, along Quidham Street. (fn. 12) The western route was a path in the late 20th century. Roads which in the late 18th century ran from the village north to Fifield Bavant and west to Ebbesborne Wake (fn. 13) were unmetalled tracks in 1984. In the late 19th century roads were made parallel with Ox Drove and with the Broad Chalke to Sixpenny Handley road to serve new farmsteads near the parish's southern boundary. South of Marleycombe Hill a road leading south-east from the parish was then diverted westward along the boundary to serve East Chase Farm. (fn. 14)
From the 13th century the lord of Cranborne Chase claimed rights of chase and the right to exercise some forest laws in Bower Chalke, as in other parishes within the chase's outer bounds. The claims were at times resisted. In 1250 the abbess of Wilton, as lord of Chalke manor, alleged that she had been denied the exercise of her rights within her wood called Chettle, in the southern part of Bower Chalke parish. In 1275 it was said that the lord of the chase had then only recently begun to exercise forest law within the wood, and in 1279 it was recommended that the exercise of such law there should cease. (fn. 15) In the 16th century and the early 17th, however, the woodward of Bower Chalke, an officer either of the chase or of Chalke manor, presented inhabitants of Bower Chalke at chase courts for offences which included grazing sheep and pigs in woods subject to chase laws. (fn. 16) Much of the parish apparently lay within that part of the chase called Cobley walk. A lodge for the keeper of the walk lay near the parish's southern boundary until the early 19th century, and was replaced soon afterwards by Cutler's Cottages. (fn. 17) The parish's south-eastern corner was in Vernditch walk, which was sold in 1620 by the lord of the chase, William Cecil, earl of Salisbury, to William Herbert, earl of Pembroke, the owner of the land. In the late 18th century George Pitt, Lord Rivers, lord of the chase, claimed rights of chase on Cow down, in the south-eastern corner; his claims were resisted, apparently successfully, by Henry, earl of Pembroke and Montgomery. (fn. 18) On the disfranchisement of the chase in 1829, its lord received compensation for rights over only 147 a. in Bower Chalke. (fn. 19)
Bower Chalke was assessed for taxation at 90s. in 1334, the highest figure for a single tithing in the hundred, (fn. 20) and in 1377 there were 153 poll-tax payers. (fn. 21) It was again assessed for taxation at a figure above the average for the hundred in the late 16th century. (fn. 22) The population increased steadily from 320 in 1801 to 509 in 1851. Numbers fell thereafter, with some fluctuations. In 1951 the population was 379. (fn. 23) It had risen to 392 by 1971, (fn. 24) but in 1981 was 322. (fn. 25)
Bower Chalke village is on the Upper Greensand in a valley which runs into that of the boundary stream. The main street, called Church Street, is part of the road from Broad Chalke to Sixpenny Handley. In the late 18th century, as in the 20th, there were also houses and farmsteads along Back Lane, part of the Ebbesborne Wake road, and along Quidham Street and Coster's Lane which linked Back Lane and Church Street near the south-west and north-east ends of the village respectively. (fn. 26) The village had presumably grown up along Church Street before the church was built at what in the early 14th century may have been the settlement's south-west end. In the street several substantial stone farmhouses of 17th- or 18th-century origin survive. Two stand at the north-eastern end. Buddens, west of the street, is a 17th-century house of two storeys: its lower brick extension may have been a separate building before it was linked with the house in the 19th century. Bingham's Farm, east of the street, is also of 17th-century origin. (fn. 27) Another stone house, of slightly earlier date and of formal design, was perhaps used as a beerhouse from 1855, (fn. 28) was known in 1886 and 1900 as Grove Cottage, (fn. 29) but from c. 1918 was called the Bell inn. (fn. 30) Laws Farm, an ashlar and rubble house south-west of Buddens, and a large house west of the junction of Church Street and Coster's Lane, were probably built in the 18th century. Smaller houses and cottages of the 17th and 18th centuries also survive; many are thatched. The first settlement in Quidham Street may have been in the 17th century: several singlestoreyed stone and thatch cottages, extended mainly in brick, survive from then. Houses were built between the church and the junction of Church Street and Quidham Street c. 1810, (fn. 31) but most 19th-century building was infilling or replacement in older parts of the village. A farmstead south of Back Lane was replaced by Rookhaye Farm; the brick house was built c. 1830, and it was extended and brick and flint farm buildings were erected shortly afterwards. New building in Church Street in the mid and late 19th century included nonconformist chapels, at the junction with Quidham Street and north of the church, and a vicarage house and a school, respectively south and north-west of the church. At about the same time farmsteads in the street were replaced by new buildings outside the village. (fn. 32) Further infilling took place in the 20th century. At the southwest end of the village private houses were built north-west of Church Street in the 1920s and 1930s, and council houses south-east of it in the 1950s. Private houses and private and council bungalows were built further north and beside Coster's Lane in the later 20th century. Knowle Farm, a late 19th century house with extensive farm buildings south of Bingham's Farm, is part of the village but in Broad Chalke parish.
Mead End, on the chalk north of Bower Chalke village, comprised two or three houses west of the Broad Chalke to Sixpenny Handley road in the late 18th century and the early 19th. (fn. 33) Houses had been built east of the road by 1842, (fn. 34) and bungalows were added east and west of it in the 20th century.
Woodminton, south-west of the village beside a lane leading north-west from the Sixpenny Handley road, was a group of five or more houses or cottages in the mid 16th century. (fn. 35) In the late 18th century both the lane and the settlement were called Woodminton. (fn. 36) Thatched cottages, then standing, survive at the junction of the road and the lane. Other buildings were replaced by houses of the 19th and 20th centuries, scattered along the road and the lane. A farmstead, of brick and flint, was built at the northwest end of the lane in the mid 19th century.
The stone and thatch cottage at the road junction 600 m. south-west of the church was standing in 1773. (fn. 37) By 1842 several more cottages had been built south of it, (fn. 38) one bearing the date 1840. The settlement has been called Misselfore since the early 19th century. (fn. 39) In the late 19th century and the early 20th houses west of the junction on the south side of the Sixpenny Handley road were called Castle. (fn. 40)
Apart from Cobley Lodge and its successors there was no house in the southern part of the parish until the mid 19th century when three farmsteads, Middle Chase, Middle Chase Buildings, and East Chase, were built near the southern boundary. (fn. 41) The farmsteads incorporated, like Rookhaye Farm and Woodminton Farm built about the same time, extensive farm buildings with much flint and red-brick walling. Middle Chase Farm is approached from the north on the road to Sixpenny Handley through an avenue, 500 m. long, of beeches contemporary with the farmstead. A new house and bungalow were built near the farmstead in the 20th century.
Manors and other Estates.
Bower Chalke lay within the estate of 100 mansiunculae (small dwellings) called Chalke granted by King Edwy to the nuns of Wilton in 955. (fn. 42) In the early 13th century CHALKE manor apparently included nearly all the land there and much of Broad Chalke parish. (fn. 43) It passed from Wilton abbey to the Crown at the Dissolution, and in 1542 was granted by the name of Chalke and Broad Chalke manors to Sir William Herbert and his wife Anne for their lives. (fn. 44) In 1544 the estate was granted in tail male to Herbert (fn. 45) (cr. earl of Pembroke in 1551, d. 1570). The manor's lands in Bower Chalke passed with the Pembroke title to Reginald, earl of Pembroke and Montgomery, (fn. 46) who sold them in 1919. Manor farm, 525 a., was then sold to C. J. S. Harding and by him to John Beckley (d. 1966), who was succeeded by his son Mr. J. H. Beckley, the owner in 1984. (fn. 47) Rookhaye farm, 520 a., and East Chase farm, 330 a., were bought in 1919 by J. H. Butler, and in 1936 were conveyed to A. H. Rawle. In 1961 the farms passed to Rawle's son Mr. J. W. E. Rawle, who owned them in 1984. (fn. 48) Middle Chase farm, c. 450 a., and Stonedown Wood, including 244 a. in Bower Chalke, were sold together in 1919 to a Mr. Ingle, (fn. 49) and were bought in 1920 by Marsh Bros. In 1937 the farm was sold to Thomas Brodie (d. 1983), whose son Mr. M. Brodie owned it in 1984, (fn. 50) and the wood to the Forestry Commission, the owner in 1984. (fn. 51) Woodminton farm, c. 500 a., was bought in or after 1919 by a Mr. Bailey, (fn. 52) who sold it soon afterwards to H. J. Barter and Philip Thome. Barter bought Thome's interest in the farm in the 1920s. He was succeeded after 1939 by his son Frank, on whose death in 1976 the farm was divided; c. 300 a. were sold to Mr. David Coward and added to West Chase farm in Ebbesborne Wake, (fn. 53) and the remainder, c. 220 a. still known as Woodminton farm, was bought in 1978 by Mr. R. B. Kennard, the owner in 1984. (fn. 54) Middle Chase Buildings farm, 120 a., was sold in 1919 to W. P. Golden. (fn. 55) It passed in turn to his sons W. J. and H. J. Golden, who held the farm jointly, and to his grandson Mr. W. J. Golden, who owned it in 1984. (fn. 56)
Rectorial tithes and land in Bower Chalke, probably held by Wilton abbey in the mid 13th century, (fn. 57) were apparently part of the endowment of Chalke prebend in the conventual church in 1298. (fn. 58) The abbey in 1448 conveyed to Henry VI the presentation to the prebend, and the king used it to endow King's College, Cambridge, which in the same year was licensed to appropriate Bower Chalke church with the rectorial tithes and glebe there. (fn. 59) The appropriation took place in 1449. (fn. 60) The college held c. 30 a. in Bower Chalke in 1575, (fn. 61) and c. 20 a. in 1792 (fn. 62) and 1842. (fn. 63) The lands were sold in 1921. (fn. 64) The tithes were valued at £352 and commuted in 1842. (fn. 65)
Lands in Bower Chalke were settled in 1199–1200 on Richard of Calstone (fn. 66) (d. in or before 1237). (fn. 67) Walter of Calstone's heirs held the estate of Wilton abbey in 1242–3, (fn. 68) and by 1273 it had passed to Roger of.Calstone who then granted it to John Everard. (fn. 69) John Cole granted it to Roger Pychard and his wife Margery for their lives in 1378. (fn. 70) The estate may have been the later BINGHAM'S farm, which passed from Robert Bingham (d. 1431) (fn. 71) to his son Richard (d. 1482). (fn. 72) Richard was succeeded in turn by his son Robert (d. 1524) and by Robert's son Robert (d. 1561), (fn. 73) but c. 1553 John Bingham was said to hold the farm. (fn. 74) It passed to Robert, son of Robert (d. 1561), (fn. 75) who conveyed it to his son Thomas in or before 1590. (fn. 76) In 1632 Thomas's nephew Richard Bingham held it. (fn. 77) Richard (d. 1656) was succeeded in turn by his son John (d. 1673) and nephew Richard Bingham (d. 1735). Thereafter the farm passed, from father to son, to Richard Bingham (d. 1755), Richard (d. 1823), and Richard (d. 1829), whose relict Priscilla Bingham held it in 1846. (fn. 78) On her death Bingham's passed to Richard Bingham, her husband's nephew, (fn. 79) and was sold by him or another after 1860. (fn. 80) In 1903 it was sold by the executors of William Taunton, (fn. 81) perhaps to R. W. Williamson who owned the farm, 150 a., in 1910. (fn. 82) Thereafter it passed with Knowle farm in Broad Chalke to Mr. D. Mann. (fn. 83)
Bingham's Farm, built of stone in the 17th century, was altered in the 18th to a symmetrical plan with a central western entrance and gable stacks; an eastern service wing was added later. Beside the house, a barn bears the date 1668.
Lands said to be in Woodminton were held with the office of forester of the abbess of Wilton's wood called Chettle, (fn. 84) perhaps by William Foster c. 1255, and later by his son Henry. (fn. 85) An estate, which included the forester's lands and was later called BURLEY'S, was held freely of Chalke manor by William Burley c. 1553. (fn. 86) William (d. 1593) (fn. 87) devised it to his nieces Mary, wife of Thomas Lane the elder, and Bridget, wife of Thomas Lane the younger, and to Richard and Anne Hinton and Elizabeth W'ells, presumably also his kin. (fn. 88) In 1613 William's devisees or their successors sold the estate to Thomas Clarke, (fn. 89) who in 1628 settled it on his son Thomas (fn. 90) (fl. 1632). (fn. 91) Charles Clarke may have held the estate c. 1756; (fn. 92) Henry Rebbeck held it in 1789. (fn. 93) Rebbeck was succeeded c. 1825 by a Mrs. Powell, and she c. 1828 by Alexander Powell (fn. 94) (fl. 1860). (fn. 95) Powell's holding was probably the farm of c. 150 a. owned in 1910 by John Targett. (fn. 96) In or before 1929 Targett sold c. 100 a. to H. J. Butler; (fn. 97) that land was absorbed by Woodminton farm.
Simon Wyther conveyed lands in Bower Chalke to John le Wafre and his wife Isabel in 1267. (fn. 98) Wyther also granted a messuage and 34 a. there to John de Heydore and his wife Emme; the lands were returned to him in 1295 in exchange for a messuage, 48 a., and 20s. rent also in Bower Chalke. (fn. 99) In 1317, when Emme, probably Heydore's relict, held an estate in Bower Chalke with her husband John Carpenter for life, John de Heydore, possibly her son, granted the reversion to William of Tilshead. (fn. 100) An estate formerly TILSHEAD'S was held c. 1553 by Thomas Gawen (fn. 101) (d. c. 1558). It passed in turn to Thomas's son William (d. 1559) and William's son Thomas, who held it in 1590. (fn. 102) In 1705 it was held by Robert Short. (fn. 103) The estate was perhaps that held in 1780 by John Rebbeck (d. in or before 1820), and in 1831 by another John Rebbeck (fn. 104) (fl. 1860). (fn. 105) The lands, c. 70 a., were owned by H. J. Butler in 1910, (fn. 106) and by 1929 had been dispersed. (fn. 107)
The 1 knight's fee in Chalke held by Robert Maskerel and others in 1242–3 is noticed below. (fn. 108)
Economic History.
Nearly all the land of Bower Chalke was held by customary and free tenants of Chalke manor; no demesne arable or pasture of the manor lay within the parish. In 1225 the land was held by 39 tenants. Between them they held stock including 102 oxen, 63 cows, and 944 sheep. The largest flock was of 81 sheep; four tenants had 50 or more sheep each. (fn. 109) Services owed by customary tenants of the manor with lands in Bower Chalke were recorded in the mid 16th century but had presumably been commuted before then. They included washing and shearing sheep, ploughing, harrowing, providing seed corn and sowing it, and reaping and mowing. Some 10 yardlands were 'bower hold'; in addition to the usual rents and services the tenants paid grain rents and were required on leaving their holdings to provide for their successors grain, straw, and money. The tenant of 2 yardlands so held was, for example, to pay his successor 26s. 6d. The tenant of 2 yardlands of 'wetherboodehold' was to provide hurdles when the demesne flock was washed and sheared. (fn. 110)
In 1567 there were four open fields, named after the points of the compass; North, South, and West fields were each of c. 250 a., East field was c. 180 a. There were 600 a. of common pasture on the downs. The 21 copyholders, including two cottagers, held between them some 44 yardlands, including c. 900 a. of arable with pasture for c. 2,800 sheep; 60 a., in small closes, were probably meadow land. They also held a total of 98 a. of 'bourdland'. The average holding, c. 45 a. of arable with pasture for 130 sheep, was large. Five copyholds, a total of 13¾ yardlands, were based at Woodminton but the tenants apparently worked lands and had pasture rights with those of other tenants in the parish. (fn. 111) The number and size of copyholds had changed little by 1631; only two, of 4¼ yardlands and 3 yardlands, were then based at Woodminton. (fn. 112)
The largest freehold in the parish was what became Bingham's farm, said in 1273 and 1378 to comprise 1 hide. (fn. 113) In 1567 it was of 120 a. with pasture for 200 sheep. (fn. 114) Tilshead's was said to include 2 yardlands in 1317 (fn. 115) and the 16th century. (fn. 116) William Burley's freehold comprised 2½ yardlands in 1567, (fn. 117) and in 1593 that farm included c. 60 a. of arable. (fn. 118)
By the early 18th century some copyholds had been converted to leaseholds. In 1705 three leaseholders held between them c. 150 a. of arable with pasture for 450 sheep; of 11 copyholders who then shared 34½ yardlands, three held 4 or more each. (fn. 119) Of a total of c. 1,600 a. held of the manor in 1789, some 1,350 a. were held by 8 tenants, whether by lease or copy is not known. Approximately half the land was arable, half pasture. One holding, of c. 250 a., included c. 120 a. of several pasture on the downs. (fn. 120)
By an award of 1792, under an Act of 1785, the open fields, east and west of the village, and most of the common pastures, in the centre and south of the parish, were inclosed. Allotments were made of 2,576 a. Henry Herbert, earl of Pembroke and Montgomery, lord of Chalke manor, was allotted 2,200 a., including the largest single allotment, 850 a. of woodland south of Ox Drove, and allotments for his lessees and copyholders, none of which was more than 250 a. Allotments were made of 133 a. for Bingham's, 74 a. for Burley's, and 61 a. for the former Tilshead's. The Cow down, c. 100 a. south of Marleycombe Hill, was not inclosed; it remained open to tenants of the manor in summer, and in winter two thirds were grazed by a tenant of the manor and a third by the occupier of Bingham's farm. (fn. 121)
In 1842 the parish comprised c. 1,000 a. of arable, c. 850 a. each of downland pasture and woodland, and c. 120 a. of meadow. There were seven farms of 100 a. or more, four of between 20 a. and 100 a. The largest, Quidham Street, later Manor, farm, was of 457 a. That farm, Rookhaye farm, 287 a., Bingham's, 145 a., and a farm of 122 a. were worked from farmsteads in the village. The farm formerly William Burley's, 109 a., and others of 257 a. and 246 a. were worked from Woodminton; the same tenant held that of 246 a. and Quidham Street farm. (fn. 122) In 1860, under an Act of 1845, new divisions were made of c. 1,100 a., chiefly in the south part of the parish. The Cow down was then inclosed. (fn. 123) Soon afterwards most woodland, except that in the southwest corner, was cleared and three new farmsteads were built, Middle Chase, 1.5 km. south of Woodminton, and Middle Chase Buildings and East Chase, 500 m. and 1 km. north-east of Middle Chase respectively. (fn. 124)
Rookhaye, Manor, Woodminton, and Middle Chase were farms of 450–550 a. in the early 20th century. East Chase then measured c. 350 a. (fn. 125) and there were two smaller farms, Middle Chase Buildings, 120 a., and Bingham's, c. 150 a. (fn. 126) There were dairies on Rookhaye, Manor, and Middle Chase Buildings farms, and sheep were kept on Rookhaye and Bingham's. Most of the farms, however, were then, as in the late 20th century, chiefly arable. (fn. 127) Dairying ceased on Manor and Middle Chase Buildings farms in the 1960s. Middle Chase Buildings was thereafter an arable farm; on Manor farm some pasture was retained on which cattle were reared for beef. (fn. 128) From 1919 Rookhaye and East Chase farms were worked together. Sheep, pigs, poultry, and dairy cattle were kept and cereals were grown. After 1945 they were mainly arable and dairy farms. In 1984, on the combined farms, cereals were grown on over 400 a., there was a dairy herd of 140 cows, and cattle were also reared for beef. (fn. 129) From the 1920s Woodminton was principally a stock farm on which sheep and cattle were kept and corn was grown. After 1976 some 300 a. were worked with lands in Ebbesborne Wake; (fn. 130) the remainder became a mixed farm of c. 220 a. (fn. 131) Arable on Middle Chase farm was, unusually, converted to pasture in the later 20th century, and in 1984 a flock of 450–500 sheep and a herd of c. 70 cattle for beef were kept. (fn. 132) Between 1919 and 1948 and from 1972 Bingham's was worked with Knowle farm in Broad Chalke. (fn. 133) Watercress beds constructed north of Bingham's Farm in or before 1890 (fn. 134) remained in use until 1972. Thereafter they were converted for trout farming. (fn. 135)
Woodland 3 leagues long and 1 league broad, part of Wilton abbey's Chalke estate in 1086, (fn. 136) probably included that wood in the south part of the parish called Chettle in the 13th century (fn. 137) and the 16th, (fn. 138) later part of Chase Woods. In 1567 Chalke manor included 594 a. of woodland in Bower Chalke; hazel and oak grew there. (fn. 139) In the 18th century and the early 19th Chase Woods, which included c. 850 a. in Bower Chalke, was kept in hand when the rest of Chalke manor was tenanted. (fn. 140) Some coppice wood was cut annually in the mid 18th century; 18 a. of wood in Bower Chalke were cut and sold in 1748–9, 60 a. in 1749–50, and 15 a. in 1775–6. (fn. 141) Some 600 a. of wood were cleared between 1860 and 1886; Stonedown Wood, c. 270 a. in the parish's south-west corner, remained. (fn. 142) In 1938 there were hazel coppices, oak, ash, and birch in the wood. Beech, sycamore, and conifers were introduced by the Forestry Commission after 1939 as part of an experimental planting programme. (fn. 143)
Local Government.
A gallows, erected for Wilton abbey at 'Chutelborghe' in the early 16th century, may have stood east of Cobley Lodge near the southern parish boundary. In 1518, however, it was said to be south of the boundary and within South Damerham manor, which belonged to the abbey of Glastonbury (Som.). (fn. 144)
Courts and views of frankpledge held for Chalke manor were attended by the manor's tenants from Bower Chalke. (fn. 145) Tithingmen for Woodminton and Bower Chalke were elected at views held in the mid 16th century (fn. 146) and for Upper and Lower tithings of Bower Chalke from 1727. (fn. 147) The homage of Bower Chalke presented separately from that of Broad Chalke in 1632 and at later courts. (fn. 148) Tenants from Bower Chalke attended courts for Broad Chalke Rectory manor. (fn. 149)
In the late 18th century the parish was lightly rated in comparison with some in Chalke hundred. Between 1775 and 1813, however, annual expenditure on poor relief rose from £84 to £460, a steeper rise than in neighbouring parishes. The number of adults receiving permanent or occasional relief had, however, fallen from 40 in 1802–3 to 31 by 1814– 15. (fn. 150) Thereafter the pattern of expenditure followed that in other parishes of Chalke hundred. It had fallen to £256 by 1816, rose steeply before 1820, and from 1825 until 1830 was between £150 and £250 a year. (fn. 151) Average annual expenditure was £295 between 1833 and 1835. Bower Chalke became part of Wilton poor-law union in 1836 (fn. 152) and of Salisbury district in 1974. (fn. 153)
Until c. 1300 Bower Chalke may have been part of a large parish called Chalke, probably served by Broad Chalke church. (fn. 154) A church was built at Bower Chalke c. 1300, (fn. 155) and between 1298 and 1307 a vicarage was ordained. (fn. 156) The church was called a chapel of Broad Chalke in 1312, (fn. 157) and inhabitants of Bower Chalke were buried at Broad Chalke until 1506. Thereafter they had the right of burial at Bower Chalke but mortuary fees were reserved to the vicar of Broad Chalke. (fn. 158) Prebendaries of Chalke presented vicars of Bower Chalke from 1307 until 1440. (fn. 159) The advowson passed with the prebendal estate to King's College, Cambridge, in 1448–9, (fn. 160) and in 1449 the college appropriated Bower Chalke church. (fn. 161) The college was patron at most later vacancies. (fn. 162) With the college's consent the bishop of Salisbury collated to the vicarage the vicar of Broad Chalke, who held it in commendam in 1505–6. (fn. 163) The vicarage was again held with Broad Chalke vicarage from c. 1530 and, in addition, with Alvediston vicarage from 1584 or earlier. From the early 17th century the combined living was described as the vicarage of Broad Chalke with Bower Chalke and Alvediston chapels. (fn. 164) The suggestion made in 1650 that the living be divided (fn. 165) was apparently not implemented. In 1880 a perpetual curacy of Bower Chalke was created as a separate living in the gift of King's College. (fn. 166) Incumbents were usually called vicars. (fn. 167) The living was reunited with Broad Chalke vicarage in 1952, (fn. 168) and the parishes were served by the Chalke Valley group ministry from 1972. (fn. 169) In 1981 the united benefice became part of Chalke Valley West benefice. (fn. 170) King's College was patron of the united benefice from 1952, (fn. 171) and of Chalke Valley West at the first of every three turns from 1981. (fn. 172) .
In 1535 the clear annual value of Bower Chalke vicarage was £10, well below the average for a living in Chalke deanery. (fn. 173) In 1720 Edward Colston and King's College each gave £100 to augment the Bower Chalke portion of the combined living, (fn. 174) and by 1728 £200 had been given by Queen Anne's Bounty. (fn. 175) The benefactions may have been used to buy an estate at St. Mary Bourne (Hants), from which the incumbent of the combined benefice received £15 a year in 1782. (fn. 176) No later reference to the estate has been found.
In the 17th century the incumbent of the combined benefice received from Bower Chalke corn and hay tithes from the rectorial glebe and all wool and other small tithes. (fn. 177) In 1842 those tithes were valued at £100 and replaced by a rent charge. (fn. 178) There was a vicarage house but no other vicarial glebe at Bower Chalke in 1671. (fn. 179) The house, in poor repair in 1781, (fn. 180) may have been that described c. 1830 as a cottage and used by the churchwardens for charitable purposes. (fn. 181)
The income of the combined benefice from Bower Chalke was transferred to the perpetual curacy of Bower Chalke in 1880. King's College gave £856 to endow the new living, and the vicar also received £50 yearly from the Ecclesiastical Commissioners. A vicarage house was built south of the church in 1880; (fn. 182) it was sold in 1961. (fn. 183) .
From the 1530s Bower Chalke was served by curates; the absence of the incumbent and the resulting inadequate service of the cure caused complaints. (fn. 184) In 1650, however, curates employed by the incumbent John Sloper to serve Bower Chalke and Alvediston chapels were praised for preaching regularly. (fn. 185) Sloper's failure to say divine service twice on Sundays, for which he was presented in 1662, may reflect disapproval of the rites of the Restoration church (fn. 186) or the problems of serving three parishes. In 1783 a curate served all three parishes; one weekly service, on Sunday afternoons, was held at Bower Chalke. Communion was celebrated at four festivals. (fn. 187) In the 19th century a curate usually lived in the parish. (fn. 188) The service held on Census Sunday in 1851 was attended by 240 people, including 75 children. (fn. 189) Rowland Williams, incumbent of the combined benefice from 1858 to 1870, introduced a second Sunday service at Bower Chalke. Daily services were also introduced, without success. (fn. 190) In 1864 the average congregation at Sunday services was 65; additional services at festivals and in Lent were usually attended by 20 people. Communion was celebrated still only four times a year. (fn. 191) Edward Collett, curate of Bower Chalke 1878–80 and vicar 1880–1924, introduced many Anglo-Catholic practices into the parish including, by 1914, daily celebrations of communion. From 1882 until 1922 he also wrote and printed, on a press in the vicarage house, a weekly parish newspaper. (fn. 192)
HOLY TRINITY church, so called in the mid 19th century, (fn. 193) is built of ashlar and has a chancel and a nave with transeptal chapels, south aisle, and north porch surmounted by a tower with a pyramidal roof. Although the font is of the 12th century, the oldest parts of the building are of c. 1300; the transept arches and part of the nave's north wall, including the doorway, survive from a cruciform church, without aisles, of the later date. In the 15th century the porch and tower were added, and in the late 15th century or the early 16th new windows were made in the transepts. The tower was said to need repair in 1662. (fn. 194) In 1820 the upper part of it was rebuilt. (fn. 195) The church, said, with little apparent justification, to be too small for the congregation in 1864, (fn. 196) was restored and enlarged in 1865–6 under the direction of T. H. Wyatt. The south aisle was added, the tower was heightened, and the chancel and part of the nave were rebuilt. A west gallery was removed. (fn. 197)
In 1553 a chalice weighing 15 oz. was left in the parish; 4 oz. of plate were confiscated. The parish had a silver chalice and vessels of pewter c. 1830, a paten, acquired in 1866, and a 19th-century chalice, both silver-plated, in 1891. (fn. 198) The vessels of 1891 had been replaced by 1959 by a new chalice and paten (fn. 199) which, with another chalice and paten which may previously have belonged to Broad Chalke, were held by the parish in 1984. (fn. 200) There were three bells in 1553. A 17th-century bell, recast by John Warner & Sons in 1880, a bell of 1611, by John Wallis, and a third, of 1899, by Roger Lander, hung in the church in 1984. (fn. 201) The registers are complete from 1701. (fn. 202)
A house in Bower Chalke was licensed for Presbyterian meetings in 1672. (fn. 203) There was said to be no dissenter in the parish in 1783, (fn. 204) but a house was licensed for meetings of Independents in that year. (fn. 205) The Independent congregation in Bower Chalke was served with others in Broad Chalke and Ebbesborne Wake from 1812 but from 1816 had its own minister. (fn. 206) Meetings may still have been held in 1824 (fn. 207) but probably ceased soon afterwards.
In 1851, on the morning of Census Sunday, 54 people attended a Baptist meeting in Bower Chalke. (fn. 208) A small chapel of red brick was built in 1863–4. (fn. 209) It was converted to a schoolroom and a larger chapel built adjoining it in 1897. (fn. 210) The chapel was open in 1984.
Primitive Methodists held an evening service in a house on Census Sunday in 1851; the claim that it was attended by 96 people (fn. 211) seems exaggerated. By 1859 a building near the meeting house had been converted for use as a chapel. Plans were made to extend the chapel (fn. 212) but in or before 1864 it was closed. (fn. 213) A Wesleyan Methodist chapel, built in 1879, remained in use until c. 1983. (fn. 214)
In 1833 there were two day schools in Bower Chalke, attended by a total of 16 children. (fn. 215) A National school was built near the church in 1844. (fn. 216) Average attendance was 70 in 1858, (fn. 217) and 50 in 1861. (fn. 218) An additional classroom and a teacher's house were built in 1870. (fn. 219) From 1898 to 1907 average attendance was between 70 and 80. (fn. 220) By 1914 it had fallen to 56, (fn. 221) and by 1936 to 27. (fn. 222) The school was closed in 1976; (fn. 223) thereafter children from Bower Chalke attended Broad Chalke school. (fn. 224) A few children were taught in a cottage on the downs west of Middle Chase Farm between 1869 and 1897. (fn. 225)
Charity for the Poor.
At inclosure in 1792 an allotment was made of 10 a. from which poor parishioners were entitled to take fuel. In the late 19th century the allotment became bare of furze and was exchanged for another 10 a. (fn. 226) The land was sold in 1972, (fn. 227) under a Scheme of 1970, and the proceeds invested. In 1973–4 the income was £344, of which £210 was spent on food and assistance for needy parishioners. (fn. 228)
1 This article was written in 1984. Maps used include O.S. Maps 1/50,000, sheet 184 (1979 edn.); 1/25,000, ST 91–2, SU 01–2 (1958–61 edns.); 6", Wilts. LXX, LXXV (1887–9 and later edns.).
2 Below, manors; below, Broad Chalke, introduction.
3 Below, econ. hist.
4 Below, church.
5 V.C.H. Wilts. iv. 343; W.R.O., Fifield Bavant tithe award.
6 Arch. Jnl. lxxvii. 27–8.
8 V.C.H. Wilts. i (1), 43, 160–1, 252–3, 273; i (2), 393.
9 Below, econ. hist.
11 W.R.O., EA/38; O.S. Map 1", sheet 15 (1811 edn.).
12 Andrews and Dury, Map (W.R.S. viii), pl. 2; W.R.O., tithe award.
13 Andrews and Dury, Map (W.R.S. viii), pl. 2.
14 W.R.O., tithe award; O.S. Maps 6", Wilts. LXX, LXXV (1887–9 edn.).
15 V.C.H. Wilts. iv. 459.
16 Dors. R.O., D 396/M 9; D 396/M 12–13.
17 O.S. Map 1", sheet 15 (1811 edn.); 6", Wilts. LXXV (1887 edn.).
18 V.C.H. Wilts. iv. 459–60; Dors. R.O., D 396/L 29; W.R.O. 2057/E 1/5.
19 Inclosure Awards (W.R.S. xxv), pp. 57–8.
20 V.C.H. Wilts. iv. 298.
21 Ibid. 307.
22 Taxation Lists (W.R.S. x), 136.
23 V.C.H. Wilts. iv. 343.
24 Census, 1971.
25 Ibid. 1981.
26 Andrews and Dury, Map (W.R.S. viii), pl. 2.
27 Below, manors.
28 Kelly's Dir. Wilts. (1855).
29 O.S. Map 6", Wilts. LXX (1889 edn.), LXX. SW. (1901 edn.).
30 W.R.O. 2057/E 5/2.
31 B.L. Maps, O.S.D. 64; O.S. Map 1", sheet 15 (1811 edn.).
32 Below; below, econ. hist.
33 Andrews and Dury, Map (W.R.S. viii), pl. 2; O.S. Map 1", sheet 15 (1811 edn.).
34 W.R.O., tithe award.
35 Survey of Lands of Wm., First Earl of Pembroke, ed. C. R. Straton (Roxburghe Club, 1909), i. 72–4.
36 W.R.O., EA/38.
38 W.R.O., tithe award.
39 P.N. Wilts. (E.P.N.S.), 205.
40 O.S. Map 6", Wilts. LXX (1889 and later edns.).
41 Below, econ. hist.
42 V.C.H. Wilts. ii, p. 91; Arch. Jnl. lxxvii. 27–8.
43 Rolls of the Fifteenth (Pipe R. Soc. n.s. xlv), 46–52.
44 L. & P. Hen. VIII, xvii, p. 693.
45 Ibid. xix (1), p. 38.
46 Complete Peerage, x. 405–30.
47 Inf. from Mr. J. H. Beckley, Manor Farm.
48 Inf. from Mr. J. W. E. Rawle, Butts Cottage.
49 W.R.O. 868/31.
50 Inf. from Mr. M. Brodie, New Ho., Middle Chase.
51 Inf. from Chief Forester, Savernake Forest Office, Marlborough.
52 W.R.O. 868/31.
53 Inf. from Mrs. T. Barter, Woodminton; Kelly's Dir. Wilts. (1939).
54 Wilts. Cuttings, xxvii. 204; inf. from Mrs. Barter.
55 W.R.O. 868/31.
56 Inf. from Mrs. C. Golden, Buildings Farm, Middle Chase.
57 Below, Broad Chalke, manors.
58 Reg. Ghent (Cant. & York Soc.), ii. 585, 788–90.
59 Cal. Pat. 1446–52, 209–10.
60 W.R.O., D 1/2/10, f. 62.
61 King's Coll. Mun., D 128.
62 W.R.O., EA/38.
63 Ibid. tithe award.
64 Inf. from Mr. A. E. B. Owen, University Libr., Camb.
65 W.R.O., tithe award.
66 P.R.O., CP 25(1)/282/4, no. 2.
67 Ibid. CP 25(1)/250/11, no. 8.
68 Bk. of Fees, ii. 733.
69 Feet of F. 1272–1327 (W.R.S. i), p. 2.
70 P.R.O., CP 25(1)/256/54, no. 4.
71 Hoare, Mod. Wilts. Chalke, 156.
72 P.R.O., C 140/79, no. 9.
73 Burke, Land. Gent. (1846), i. 97.
74 W.R.O. 2057/S 1, p. 108.
75 Burke, Land. Gent. (1846), i. 97.
76 W.R.O. 2057/S 4, f. 2v.
77 Ibid. 2057/M 4; Burke, Land. Gent. (1846), i. 97.
78 Burke, Land. Gent. (1846), i. 97–8.
79 Ibid. (1871), 98.
80 W.R.O., EA/181.
81 Ibid. 776, sale cat. of Mount Sorrel farm, 1903.
82 W.R.O., Inland Revenue, val. reg. 176.
83 Below, Broad Chalke, manors.
84 First Pembroke Survey, ed. Straton, i. 66.
85 Cart. St. Nicholas's Hosp. ed. C. Wordsworth, 170–2.
86 W.R.O. 2057/S 1, p. 108.
87 Ibid. 413/248.
88 P.R.O., C 3/256/24; ibid. CP 25(2)/242/36 & 37 Eliz. I Mich.
89 Ibid. CP 25(2)/370/11 Jas. I Mich.
90 Ibid. 25(2)/508/4 Chas. I Trin.
91 W.R.O. 2057/M 4.
92 Ibid. 1553/25.
93 King's Coll. Mun., terrier, 1788, in which inf. is dated 1789.
94 W.R.O., A 1/345/88.
95 Ibid. EA/181.
96 Ibid. Inland Revenue, val. reg. 176.
97 Ibid. G 11/502/2.
98 P.R.O., CP 25(1)/283/16, no. 431.
99 Feet of F. 1272–1327 (W.R.S. i), p. 41.
100 Ibid. p. 96.
101 W.R.O. 2057/S 1, p. 107; First Pembroke Survey, ed. Straton, i. 63.
102 W.R.O. 2057/S 4, f. 1; below, Broad Chalke, manors.
103 W.R.O. 2057/S 16, f. 3.
104 Ibid. A 1/345/88.
105 Ibid. EA/l8l.
106 Ibid. Inland Revenue, val. reg. 176.
107 Ibid. G 11/505/2.
108 Below, Broad Chalke, manors.
109 Rolls of the Fifteenth (Pipe R. Soc. n.s. xlv), 49–52.
110 First Pembroke Survey, ed. Straton, i. 72–80.
111 Ibid.
112 Pembroke Manors, 1631–2 (W.R.S. ix), pp. 21–7.
113 Feet of F. 1272–1327 (W.R.S. i), p. 2; P.R.O., CP 25(1)/256/54, no. 4.
114 First Pembroke Survey, ed. Straton, i. 67.
115 Feet of F. 1272–1327 (W.R.S. i), p. 96.
116 First Pembroke Survey, ed. Straton, i. 62–4.
117 Ibid. 66–7.
118 W.R.O. 413/248.
119 Ibid. 2057/S 16, ff. 59–79.
121 W.R.O., EA/38.
122 Ibid. tithe award.
123 Ibid. EA/181.
124 O.S. Map 6", Wilts. LXXV (1887 edn.).
125 W.R.O. 868/31; 2057/R 105.
126 Ibid. Inland Revenue, val. reg. 176; W.A.S. Libr., sale cat. xxiv, no. 6.
127 W.R.O. 868/31; W.A.S. Libr., sale cat. xxiv, no. 6; inf. from Mrs. C. Golden, Buildings Farm, Middle Chase.
128 Inf. from Mr. J. H. Beckley, Manor Farm; Mrs. Golden.
129 Inf. from Mr. J. W. E. Rawle, Butts Cottage.
130 Inf. from Mrs. T. Barter, Woodminton.
131 Wilts. Cuttings, xxvii. 204.
132 Inf. from Mr. M. Brodie, New Ho., Middle Chase.
133 Inf. from Mr. D. Mann, Knowle Farm, Broad Chalke.
134 Kelly's Dir. Wilts. (1890); O.S. Map 6", Wilts. LXX. SW. (1901 edn.).
135 Inf. from Mr. Mann.
136 V.C.H. Wilts. ii, p. 129.
137 Ibid. iv. 459.
138 First Pembroke Survey, ed. Straton, i. 93.
139 Ibid. 93–4; P.R.O., E 318/Box 13/570.
140 W.R.O. 2057/A 3/1–2; ibid. A 1/345/88; ibid. tithe award.
141 Ibid. 2057/A 3/1–2; 2057/A 3/8.
142 Ibid. EA/181; O.S. Map 6", Wilts. LXXV (1887 edn.).
143 Inf. from Chief Forester, Savernake Forest Office, Marlborough.
144 W.A.M. Iv. 77.
145 Details of the cts. are described below, Broad Chalke, local govt.
146 B.L. Add. Ch. 24440–1.
147 W.R.O. 2057/M 42.
148 Ibid. 2057/M 4–5; 2057/M 8; 2057/M 12; 2057/M 24; 2057/M 42; 2057/S 12, Chalke ct. papers.
149 King's Coll. Mun., C 25; C 66; below, Broad Chalke, local govt.
150 Poor Law Abstract, 1804, 560–1; 1818, 494–5.
151 Poor Rate Returns, 1816–21, 186; 1825–9, 216; 1830–4, 210.
152 Poor Law Com. 2nd Rep. App. D, 560.
154 Close R. 1256–9, 226; Reg. Ghent (Cant. & York Soc.), ii. 585; below, Broad Chalke, church.
155 Below.
156 Reg. Ghent (Cant. & York Soc.), ii. 585, 693.
157 Ibid. 789.
158 W.R.O., D 1/2/14, f. 132v.
159 Phillipps, Wilts. Inst. i. 8, 18, 26–7, 63, 77, 95, 102, 131.
160 Cal. Pat. 1446–52, 209–10; above, manors.
161 W.R.O., D 1/2/10, f. 62.
162 Phillipps, Wilts. Inst. i. 170, 175, 183, 186.
163 Ibid. 182–3.
164 Ibid. (index in W.A.M. xxviii. 214); above, Alvediston, church; below, Broad Chalke, church.
165 W.A.M. xl. 307.
166 Lond. Gaz. 21 Sept. 1880, pp. 4983–5.
167 Kelly's Dir. Wilts. (1880 and later edns.).
168 Lond. Gaz. 14 Mar. 1952, p. 1466.
169 Ibid. 26 Oct. 1972, p. 12603.
170 Ibid. 1 Dec. 1981, p. 15283; above, Alvediston, church.
171 Lond. Gaz. 14 Mar. 1952, p. 1466.
172 Inf. from the vicar, Broad Chalke.
173 Valor Eccl. (Rec. Com.), ii. 107.
174 C. Hodgson, Queen Anne's Bounty (1845 edn.), p. cxxxiv.
175 W.R.O., D 1/24/36/4–5.
176 Ibid. D 1/24/37/6; below, Broad Chalke, church.
177 W.R.O., D 1/24/36/1–2.
178 Ibid. tithe award.
179 Ibid. D 1/24/36/2.
180 Ibid. D 1/61/4/46.
181 Hoare, Mod. Wilts. Chalke, 159.
182 Lond. Gaz. 21 Sept. 1880, pp. 4983–5.
183 Wilts. Cuttings, xxi. 394.
184 W.R.O., D 1/43/4.
185 W.A.M. xl. 307.
186 W.R.O., D 1/54/1; below, Broad Chalke, church.
187 Vis. Queries, 1783, (W.R.S. xxvii), p. 39.
188 Rep. Com. Eccl. Revenues, 826; Kelly's Dir. Wilts. (1848 and later edns.).
189 P.R.O., HO 129/265/2/11/15.
190 E. Williams, Rowland Williams, i. 388; below, Broad Chalke, church.
191 W.R.O., D 1/56/7.
192 V.C.H. Wilts. iii. 83 n.; R. L. Sawyer, ' Bowerchalke Par. Papers' (TS. in Wilts. Co. Libr.).
193 Williams, Rowland Williams, i. 387.
194 W.R.O., D 1/54/1.
195 M. Adams, Ch. Guide (priv. print.).
196 W.R.O., D 1/56/7.
197 Ibid. D 1/61/17/6.
198 Nightingale, Wilts. Plate, 47.
199 Adams, Ch. Guide.
200 Inf. from the vicar.
201 Ibid.; Walters, Wilts. Bells, 31.
202 W.R.O. 1280/1–12; some 17th-cent. bishop's transcripts are ibid.
203 Cal. S.P. Dom. 1672, 238.
204 Vis. Queries, 1783, (W.R.S. xxvii), p. 39.
205 Meeting Ho. Certs. (W.R.S. xl), p. 33.
206 C. J. P. Farr, Memorials of Independency (priv. print. 1890), 16.
207 Meeting Ho. Certs. (W.R.S. xl), p. 102.
208 P.R.O., HO 129/265/2/11/16.
209 Wilts. Cuttings, xxi. 213.
210 Ibid. xii. 330.
211 P.R.O., HO 129/265/2/11/17.
212 W.R.O. 1150/330.
213 Ibid. D 1/56/7.
214 Inf. from Messrs. Knapman & Bament, 27 Market Place, Salisbury.
215 Educ. of Poor Digest, 1021.
216 P.R.O., ED 7/130, no. 27.
217 Acct. of Wilts. Schs. 10.
218 P.R.O., ED 7/130, no. 27.
219 W.R.O. 782/24.
220 Kelly's Dir. Wilts. (1898 and later edns.); Return of Non-Provided Schs. 19.
221 Bd. of Educ., List 21, 1914 (H.M.S.O.), 547.
222 Ibid. 1936, 422.
223 W.R.O., list of primary schs. closed since 1946.
224 Inf. from the headmaster, Broad Chalke Sch.
225 Sawyer, 'Bowerchalke Par. Papers', 61–3.
226 Endowed Char. Wilts. (S. Div.), 56–7.
227 Inf. from Mr. J. W. E. Rawle, Butts Cottage.
228 Char. Com. file.
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Facts within a Myth
by Steve Yohe
1916 And The New York Tournament
By 1915 the history of American Greco (or Graeco)-Roman pro wrestling (GR)[29] was on its last page. It had been popular at the end on the 19th century due to great GR champions like William Muldoon, but most Americans preferred the Catch-as-Catch-Can style and GR was rarely used or talked about after Frank Gotch destroyed George Hackenschmidt in 1908 and 1911. GR wrestling is a sport of strength and endurance in which huge powerful giants (sometimes more fat than big) lock up in a wrestling contests in which no holds are allowed below the waist. It's much different than the Catch style, so most of the champion GR performers from Europe were used to job to American stars. It's a limited form of wrestling, that would have contestants locked in strength holds for long periods of time, and didn't have the moment or variety of holds of the Catch style.
But in 1915, a New York City Opera promoter named Samuel Rachmann, took advantage of a migration of European wrestler, trying to escape from the wars on the continent, and the large emigrant population of New York City, to promote two major GR tournaments in the city during 1915.[30]
The first, and lesser known, took place in May and June. The final match took place on June 25, 1915 between the GR champion Alexander Aberg and Wladek Zbyszko. The title match was ruled a draw after three hours and forty minutes of brutal wrestling. Aberg seemed to get the better of the contest, as Wladek fell into a "semi-conscious" state for three days following the match. A rematch for the GR title took place on October 25, 1915 in Madison Square Garden with Aberg defeating Wladek in one hour and four minutes. These matches with Aberg, were losses, but they were putting Wladek over in the city making Lewis's old friend a big star.
From Nov. 8, 1915 to Jan. 29, 1916, Rachmann ran his second and most famous GR International tournament at the Manhattan Opera House.[31] It is famous today for the creation of the first masked man and for Strangler Lewis's domination, but the original goal was to put over Alex Aberg and then Wladek Zbyszko. Because of the beginning of wars in Europe that would lead to WWII, Rachmann was able to put some of the major wrestlers in the world on salary for as low as $50 a week. Some of the stars used were Ben Roller, Charles Cutler, George Lurich, Dimitrius Tofalos, Yusif Hussane, Renado Gardini, Ivan Linow and of course, The Masked Marvel. Lou Daro (The Great Daro) and Frank Levett (later Man Mountain Dean) also made short appearances. Alex Aberg was the GR champion and considered unbeatable. He was never beaten in the tournament but he was booked as a GR idealist who refused to perform in the Catch style.[32]
They wrestled 6 nights a week with two matinees on weekends. Most matches were 20 minutes but if a challenge was made, wrestlers could and did wrestle what was called finish matches but, regardless of their name, they had to end by the city's one o'clock curfew. The early matches were all GR, but once the promotion started to tank, they allowed the catch style to be used. This tournament pretty much ended the use of GR in American pro wrestling.
The tournament began on Nov. 8, but Lewis didn't show up until Nov. 22. Sense it was an International Tournament, Lewis was billed as being from Germany. Ed was as International as the House of Pancakes but many Americans were being billed as foreigners, so the German speaking Lewis fit the billing. He was pushed from the beginning and won five straight matches before wrestling a 20 minute draw with Wladek Zbyszko on Nov. 30. A large number of these matches, because of the short timelimit, ended up as draws, and Lewis then entered a long period of them. His over all record during his stay in the tournament was 21 wins, one loss and 15 draws. At one point he wrestled six draws in a row. During the tournament he had four draws with Wladek (who had at least 13 draws in the tournament).[33] This type of booking was normal in GR tournaments in Europe.
Lewis went to a 20 minute draw with Aberg on Dec. 4, which led to another Aberg draw on Dec. 9 which lasted 1:04:00 before being stopped by the curfew. It was said to be an action filled match and Ed did well wrestling in the GR style against the champion. The match barely got any mention in the press because that night marked the debut of The Masked Marvel.[34]
The idea for a masked wrestlers seems to have originated with a opera promoter named Mark A. Luescher. Using the hero of a novel "THAT FRENCHMAN" by Archibald Clavering Gunter, he dressed an opera diva named La Belle Dazle up in a red mask and toured the country to sell out crowds. Luascher suggested a masked mystery gimmick to Ben Atwood, press agent for the opera house wrestling shows. Atwood went to Jack Curley, who was managing Yusif Hussane in the tournament but not promoting, and Charlie Cutler, and two came up with a wrestler to play the part with a mask for him to hide his identity.[35] Up until his debut into Rachmann's tournament, the fans were losing interest in the show, but with the masked man headlining they started seeing box office drawers fill with money. The masked man was really Mort Henderson, a Rochester performer, who had been picked by Cutler and Curley while wrestling in Pennsylvania. Once outfitted with a proper mask, the unknown became a major wrestler over night. His only true major victory was a win over George Lurich but he wrestled many long draws with the best like: Wladek Zbyszko (Dec. 17 2:13:00 and Dec. 30 1:56:00 and Jan. 5 1:58:00), Aberg (Dec. 17 2:21:00), and Lurich (Jan. 12 1:27:00). The Masked Marvel got good reviews in the press as a performer and everyone seemed willing to make him look good. He was not the first masked wrestler, but he was the first to be promoted to the top level for any length of time. Did the gimmick expose the business? Yes, but no one seemed to care with good money being made off him.
The mystery didn't last long. On Dec. 16, the Brooklyn Daily Eagle printed that The Masked Marvel was Mort Henderson. I believe the reporter got the information from Mort's manager, Ed Pollard, who then denied the charge. The angle continued like nothing happened.
Lewis became the first man to defeat The Masked Marvel on December 20, when the Strangler tricked the Marvel using a headlock followed by a wristlock and pin in 11:50. The ending happened so fast that it took the crowd a minute to realize the Marvel had been pinned. After the crowd regained its breath, it gave Lewis an ovation that he never forgot. The paper claimed he cried in the ring. The match had been an even affair, so a finish match was held on December 22, which ended up in a draw in 1:59:00. A third match between the two took place on January 3, and it also was a draw but lasted two hours and thirdly one minutes.[36]
Lewis had his big GR showdown with Alex Aberg on Dec. 29, 1916. Lewis started fast but after 20 minutes he found Aberg gaining in strength. Aberg put Lewis into a double nelson and after Ed broke the hold, he seemed groggy. After 50 minutes Lewis was slammed by Aberg and pinned by an inside arm lock. Lewis had to be helped out of the ring and later claimed Aberg wasn't human and "the strongest wrestler before the public in 1915".[37]
On January 15, 1916, Ed Lewis defeated Dr Ben Roller under catch rules. The next day manager Billy Sandow was interviewed in the newspaper saying that Ed Lewis was the catch style world champion due to the victory. He also claimed the first Stecher match was a draw and only stopped after The Strangler had held Stecher in a bridge for twenty-three minutes and Joe broke his finger to break free. This appeared around the same time that Jack Curley announced that the true world champion Joe Stecher would defend his title verses Wladek Zbyszko on January 27 in Madison Square Garden.
On January 17, Lewis scored one of his biggest wins at the Opera house in pinning Wladek Zbyszko in 1:21:07 under catch rules. The win and his continuing title claim, put Sandow back on the sports page claiming Lewis should replace Wladek against Stecher. Sandow and Lewis would claim, through the following years, that they won the catch section of the tournament. No one knows for sure, but in no place is there a mention of a "catch-as-catch-can" tournament in any newspaper. Ed Lewis could say he was the star during his two months stay at the Opera House and the strongest catch wrestler, but there is no straight out mention of a catch tournament. There was only a GR tournament champion and that was Alex Aberg.[38]
Lewis and Sandow then left the tournament before it completed. Rachmann wanted to take Lewis on a American tour meeting Aberg, but Sandow wanted more that the $200 a week he was getting in New York City. Lewis then started working on the East Coast, probably for Jack Curley, with an agreement to wrestle Stecher again in Omaha around July 4.
On Jan. 24, 1916, Alex Aberg defeated Wladek Zbyszko to win the GR tournament title. As was the habit of most major cards in pro wrestling's early period, the match was terrible and an insult to the fans who paid to be present. At 25:52 Zbyszko was thrown from the ring crashing him into the back of the stage. Wladek struck the floor and then rolled over on a table, laying still. When he was attended to, he claimed an injury, saying he couldn't continue. The fans yelled "quitter" and "fake". They shouted down any announcement and it looked like a riot was about to take place. A Doctor came into the ring and said that Wladek could continue, but Zbyszko refused. Zbyszko then announced, that he was injured, but would continue if the spectators desired him to do so. The crowd, being unsympathetic to Wladek's plight, made it plain they wanted him to wrestle, so Wladek walked off the stage and did not return. 50 minutes later referee George Bothner declared Aberg the winner.
Jack Curley had been a force in boxing for most of the 1900's, but he also had experience as a wrestling promoter in Chicago and the North West; and had managed Hackenschmidt, Roller and Yussif Hussane. Curley was the boxing promoter who found America's white hope, having staged famous Jack Johnson/Jess Willard fight in Havana Cuba on April 5, 1915. Jack Curley, was about as big and powerful a promoter as you could find in the world, but his position in boxing was challenged by a new man named Tex Rickard. Curley, not willing to offer the big guarantees, nor take the chances of Rickard, left boxing to concentrate on controlling the world of pro wrestling.[38]
In January of 1915, he booked the champion Joe Stecher into Madison Square Garden at the same time Rachmann was still running his Opera House tournament. At first, Curley had Stecher set up to defend verses Wladek Zbyszko, but three day before card Wladek made a fool of himself in the Jan. 25 match with Aberg and became unusable. So Curley contacted The Masked Marvel and Strangler Lewis to take Zbyszko's place in the title match. Rachmann, didn't see anything in the idea for him, so he took Curley to court claiming both wrestlers were under contracts. Turned out that Henderson was being paid $100 a week and Lewis was getting $200, "to engaged to take part in the wrestling performances, just as actors are engaged to perform" in stage plays.[39] Curley was friends with Rachmann and the two came to terms by the next day, so Jack made the announcement that Stecher would be meeting The Masked Marvel that night.
The statements in court blew the cover of Rachmann's tournament and confirmed The Masked Marvel's identity as Mort Henderson. Most of the air left in the Opera House Tournament then fled for a cleaner environment.[40]
On the day of the match, Sandow was in the newspapers again complaining that Stecher shouldn't be billed as Catch world champion because that title belonged to Lewis. But the new champion Stecher seemed to be getting most of the fan's attention and very few thought much of Sandow's comments.
On January 27, 1916, Stecher's first showing in New York City was a great success. Joe beat The Marvel in straight falls, 9:50 and 5:51, with his scissors hold. In outclassing one of the major stars of the Opera tournament, the paper claimed he "gave competitive sports a tremendous boost by his sportsmanlike actions" and that "Not since Frank Gotch showed here has there been such a wrestler" in the city. Stecher was a hit in front of one of the largest crowds in New York City in years. High society had turned out and approved of the sport. So Jack Curley had found a home in New York City and he remained the dominate wrestling promoter in town until 1937.[41]
The last card of Sam Rachmann's tournament took place on January 29, 1916. Alex Aberg received a $5,000 purse for winning first place in the GR tournament. No prize for catch wrestling was mentioned. The main event had The Masked Marvel losing to Sulo Hevonpaa. There were challenges printed about Aberg wanting a match with Joe Stecher, but the match never seemed to have taken place. Hachmann had plans on a GR tournament to tour the country but it also never happened. For the most part, Greco-Roman wrestling in America just seemed to die.[42]
In late 1915, reports were that Gotch was coming out of retirement for the Stecher match. In Jan. 1916 Frank traveled to Los Angeles on a family vacation but the real reason was to train. He later signed a contract to wrestle Ad Santel in San Francisco on February 22, but drops out due to a lack of conditioning. This lead to him being sued by the promoter.
On Feb. 24, Gene Melady, one of, if not the most, powerful wrestling promoter in American, said he had an options on both Stecher and Gotch for a match at the Omaha Fair Grounds on Labor Day. He planed to erect an arena big enough to draw a $150,000 gate. It all would depended on Gotch's feelings after training a few weeks. Other reports of the match, taking place in Chicago and Sioux City, follow.
In March, Gotch had two matches. In one he beat William Demetral at the Los Angeles Athletic Club (March 10, 1916) and in the other he won a handicap match over Herman Strech, Jack White and Sam Clapham in San Diego (March 12, 1916). On both nights he looked terrible.
On April 4, Gotch returned to his home, Hunboldt, Iowa, and announces he had signed to appear with the Sells-Floto Circus, starting on April 15. Said he would be paid $1,100 a week or $1,350 if he signs to meet Stecher. By May 1, Gotch had stomach problems and couldn't eat. Weighting only 185 pounds, he canceled his contract with the circus. Saying the condition started in California, he went back home to Humbolt but returned to the circus on May 24, noting that he needed the money. On June 14, Harry Tammen, owner of the Sells-Floto Circus, claimed Gotch has signed to meet Stecher in Chicago. On July 18, 1916, Frank Gotch broke the fibula bone in his left leg wrestling an exhibition match with Bob Managoff. Everyone involved then realized that a Stecher/Gotch super match would never happen.
Stecher had spent much of 1916 wrestling minor opponents and spinning his wheels waiting on Gotch. At this point he realized he needed a new rival to make big money off of. All signs pointed to Strangler Lewis to be the first to play the part.
Lewis and Sandow had continued to claim the world title, even after Alex Aberg got a temporary injunction from a judge telling them to stop. Aberg sited his win over Lewis as proof.
>> Continue to CHAPTER 9
• 29 The Graeco-Roman or Greco-Roman style of wrestling, wasn't Greek or Roman, but develop in France, but the rest of Europe resented the French so they created a name that gave credit to the Romans. For this paper, I'm going to refer to Greco-Roman as "GR" and Catch-as-Catch-Can as "Catch wrestling" because I hate typing those names out.
• 30 The tournament style of booking was used mostly in European wrestling. I understand most kinds of sports tournaments, but these tournaments of Germany, France, Russia, Spain, etc have no form to me. I do not understand them and no one I've talk to does either. As far as I know, the only major European wrestling historian known in America was Gerhaed Schaefer, and he died. This created a vacuum that hasn't been filled. These tournaments just seemed like a group of wrestlers converging on a city, and after a month or two months a champion was named. Looking at the results we have, I see no form. So the two 1915 New York City tournaments, took this "lack of form" and I can't explain them, so don't ask. One thing you do see is 20 minute draws, followed by a challenge and a finish match (no time limit) to follow the next night or later in the week. Of course, it being New York City, the finish had to end by the curfew time of one AM or it would be ruled a draw also.
• 31 The Manhattan Opera House exists today and was home to the early WWF RAW TV shows and at least one ECW PPV. Nice building but kind of small. Used for independent wrestling cards in the city.
• 32 I'm not sure about Alex Aberg's claim to the GR world title. We know he was defeated by Stanisiaus Zbyszko in Boston on Feb. 26, 1914. He lost clean in a 2/3 fall match, said to be for the GR world title. Stan, with Gotch retired and Stecher just starting up, was rated by most as the best wrestler in the world, but in 1915 he was out of the country being held under house arrest during wars in Russia.
• 33 We have a record of about 80% of the tournament but as the days rolled on, the newspapers, probably due to boredom, stopped some of their reports or left out matches. I think there was at least one Lewis victory over Wladek not found. So the results noted are weak, but all we got.
• 34 BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE December 10, 1915 and NEW YORK TIMES December 10, 1915
• 35 BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE December 27, 1915-- All the information on the creation of the mask gimmick came from this article.
• 36 NEW YORK TIMES and BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE December 21, 1915—The part about Lewis crying came from the Eagle.
• 37 BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE December 30, 1915—Lewis expressed a different opinion in his THE UNPUBLISHED LEWIS BIOGRAPHY written in the late 1940's. Ed claimed Aberg was temperamental and jealous of his standing, always demanding top billing. Said that Aberg with his bald head, paunchy stance, and surly look, didn't endear himself to American fans. Lewis of course, claimed Aberg didn't beat him, but was strong and tough but very over-rated. He didn't understand why they made him the champion of Europe or the world.
• 38 THE JACK CURLEY BIO by Steve Yohe—Its weak point is having me as the author, but it may be the only place you'll find info on Jack Curley.
• 39 NEW YORK TIMES January 26, 1916—I believe Rachmann's contract expired with the January 25 match and that would explain why Wladek was able to meet Stecher in the first place without a Rachmann complaint (Jan. 27) and Wladek's lack of "push" in the last part of the tournament. Wladek seems to have fired his manager at this time and signed with Jack Curley.
• 40 BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE January 26, 1916
• 41 BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE January 28, 1916 had the "boost" quote and the NEW YORK TIMES January 28, 1916 had the "Gotch" quote.
• 42 Alex Aberg's huge New York push goes up in smoke and I know of no more major Aberg matches in America. He returns to Europe and has matches with Stan Zbyszko in 1915 and 1918. The most famous one, in front of the Russian Police, he loses. Aberg died on February 15, 1920, after fighting typhoid and pneumonia, at Armavir in South Russia. He is buried in the same grave as his brother-in-law George Lurich at the Armavir German cemetery.
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Sunday, October 28, 2012
Seven Poppleton books by Cynthia Rylant
55. Poppleton
Poppleton and Friends - book 2
Poppleton Everyday - book 3
Poppleton in Spring - book 5
Poppleton in Fall - book 6
Poppleton Has Fun - book 7
Poppleton in Winter - book 8
by Cynthia Rylant
illustrated by Mark Teague
children's books, 1997-2001
library books sixteen through twenty-two
finished 10/28/12
If you want to have some reading fun, I heartily recommend this series of children's books by Cynthia Rylant featuring Poppleton the pig who
used to be a city pig. He did city things. He took taxis. He jogged in the park. He went to museums.
Then one day Poppleton got tired of city life. He moved to a small house in a small town.
I would love a spot just like this in my own house.
After he settles into his new house he meets the neighbors who become friends and are featured in later books. He spends every single Monday at the library reading, and he helps a sick friend swallow a pill.
Each of the following books also has three chapters; three glimpses into the life of Poppleton. In Poppleton and Friends, he tries to eat grapefruit because a 'man on TV said grapefruit made people live longer.' He hates it but he perseveres until his lips 'turned outside-in' and his eyes filled with tears. Finally his friend Hudson appears with his uncle, 'a very, very, very old mouse.' The secret to Uncle Bill's one hundred year old life? 'Friends.' Isn't that a lovely message?
There's a very funny chapter in Poppleton Everyday when his friend Fillmore takes him sailing. Poppleton didn't know what to do, and Fillmore tells him to 'just sit back and relax.' When the boat leans to one side, Poppleton says,
"I am not relaxed, Fillmore!"
When the boat bounces on the waves, he again cries out,
And when it flips over,
When the trip is over, and Fillmore asks,
"Wasn't that fun?"
Poppleton replies,
"Well, not all of it."
Fillmore proceeds to tell him that the leaning and the bouncing and the flipping over were all fun. And Poppleton says,
I laughed right out loud when I read this.
In the spring, Poppleton does some spring cleaning, and ends up with even more stuff. In the fall, he meets some geese who are flying over and feeds them cookies. In Poppleton Has Fun, he goes to the movies alone, and misses the companionship of a comforting friend. And in the winter, he learns a new use for icicles.
The theme of friendship carries through each book.
I love 'homey' children's books. The world of the Grimm brothers is not for me, and as much as I've read that fairy tales are a good way for children to deal with frightening things, I didn't like them as a child, and I didn't read them to my own kids. I prefer kindly stories, with gentle lessons. And these Poppleton books suit me perfectly. I just loved them.
I got all these books through my library's Interlibrary Loan system. Each book came from a different library in my state, at no cost. What a gift to readers.
1. Well, do these look adorable Nan. After one of your earlier posts about this author, I ordered (2) of her books for my grand daughter's collection. Keep posting:)
1. They are so precious. Perfect to read to little ones. (I have another great children's book coming soon)
2. I think these sound adorable. I have seen these in the library and book stores. I read Missing May by Rylant and it made me cry like a baby!!
1. MM is indeed very emotional. Cynthia Rylant has a gift for showing the reader people's lives. Even in cuter books like Poppleton, there is a gentle message. She is really wonderful.
3. Oh, how we loved Poppleton when the girls were young! This post brought back many happy memories - thanks, Nan.
1. My children were a bit too old, so now I'm catching up on kid books I've missed!
4. I never heard of Poppleton and I am feeling deprived (and as if I deprived my kids ;>))...Perhaps I'll order them for the great-grands...after all every generation deserves a better life. (My daughter and I can pre-read them and then send them on!).
5. These look like the kind of book I would have sought out at the library when I was a kid. I've never heard of them, so I'm afraid they were not translated into German.
As for the Grimm fairy tales, they are certainly enough to induce nightmares! I much prefer gentler stories, too, although I did have a "spooky phase" when I was about 10-11 and couldn't get enough of ghost stories and fairy tales with lots of scary stuff in it.
1. I never did go through that phase. I do remember a scary movie when I was young and I hid next to the seat. :<)
6. I'm going to read these to my grandson- they look so adorable.
I love using our province's inter-library loan system. It certainly is a gift!
1. Yes, they are. And funny and warm-hearted.
7. Okay, love this. On your recommendation I'm getting these books for my granddaughter. She's only 2 1/2 now but as she gets a little older, we'll definitely be reading these together. Thanks for the introduction, Nan.
1. You will so love reading them with her. She'd probably love them even now.
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Tuesday, November 28, 2006
Platoon: Not just a movie
It's also a baseball team.
Tuesday's agree-to-terms with outfielder David Dellucci ostensibly adds yet another platoon player to the mix for the Indians. Left-handed hitting Dellucci will likely start against righties and play left field, while right-handed hitting Jason Michaels will start against lefties.
And that's just the beginning. The Indians are apparently gunning for the Guinness Book of World Records for the most platoons on a single baseball team.
Despite what Mark Shapiro and Eric Wedge have said or will say, there are only two Indians players locked into their positions for 162 games, barring injury, as the 2007 roster stands right now.
Grady Sizemore is the undisputed center fielder. Travis Hafner is the undisputed designated hitter. That's it. Every other player on the roster has offensive or defensive questions, and could end up in a platoon situation.
Think that's going overboard? Let's take a look.
Left field and right field are a logistical mess. In addition to the Dellucci/Michaels platoon, you still have to find playing time for Casey Blake and Shin-Soo Choo, both of whom will make the opening day roster. Franklin Gutierrez is likely the odd man out.
Blake can play first base if Garko fails to follow up his solid rookie effort. Blake can also start at third if Andy Marte continues to struggle with the bat.
Second baseman Josh Barfield, like Marte, is penciled in as the opening day starter, but his small body of work, combined with the fact that he's changing leagues, doesn't scream "put him there and forget about him."
Jhonny Peralta had a maddening year last year. The fact that he is rubber-stamped as the starting shortstop to begin 2007 is far more a product of the Indians crossing their fingers and hoping 2006 was an aberration than anything concrete.
Translation: keep Hector Luna and Joe Inglett by the Batphone. They might be pressed into service if Barfield or Peralta end up playing themselves onto the Buffalo Shuttle.
Then there is the curious case of Victor Martinez. He hits like a first baseman, throws like a first baseman and catches like a first baseman, but the Indians already have too many first basemen, and might sign another before the offseason ends. So he catches. But he's still going to play some first base to save his knees.
So let's get the rundown of all the slashes that might exist for the Indians next year:
Victor Martinez, C/1B
Ryan Garko, 1B/DH
Hector Luna, IF/OF
Joe Inglett, IF/OF
Shin-Soo Choo, LF/RF/CF
Jason Michaels, LF/RF
David Dellucci, LF/RF
Andy Marte, Cleveland/Buffalo
Josh Barfield, Cleveland/Buffalo
Jhonny Peralta, Cleveland/Buffalo/bench
Casey Blake, RF/LF/DH/1B/3B/hitting coach/concessions manager/mayor of Linndale
Versatility is a great attribute in sports. But I'm just concerned that in the Indians' case, "versatile" is just a euphemism for "not good enough to play everyday."
Nah. When have the Indians ever been guilty of double-speak?
Zach said...
But what happens if Blake struggles at the bat? He'll still play 160 games. A few days ago I wrote that the Indians' dream lineup was Casey Blake at every position. It was joke, but looking at the recent signing, I'm not sure how funny it is.
Anonymous said...
Hey! Casey Blake can also play some second base!
Erik said...
I don't think Blake is going to play 160 games this year, or 140 for that matter. There just aren't enough at-bats to go around the way the roster is set up right now.
If this roster stands the way it is, I'd be curious to see what the average number of at-bats for an Indians player will be at the end of 2007. I bet it's the lowest in the bigs. I bet Sizemore, Hafner, and maybe Martinez, are the only three that top 500 ABs.
Anonymous said...
Is that neccessarily a bad thing? The Broussard/Perez platoon worked marvelously before we were out of contention by July 1st and shipped them off (for good value, though). Michaels on his own was a disaster, all Dellucci can possibly do is improve the situation.
Maybe Wedge has a bit of a hard-on for Blake, but he's a guy who has gone from an average defensive 3B to one of the top defensive corner guys (not even joking, guys like Dewan agree that he's very good defensively in RF and LF), he swings a good bat (injuries slowed him down last year but when healthy he was a .290-ish hitter with good HR potential) and, if you like the clutchiness factor, he went from an abyssmal clutch hitter in 2005 to a great one in 2006.
I think you'e exaggerating some of those platoons as well. I see Inglett getting MAYBE 5 or 6 games in CF, unless Guty gets called up, in which case Joe probably gets 0 games in the OF. Same with Luna. Choo will play a bit of CF to spell Grady, but not a large amount, and I don't see Dellucci moving out of LF (defensive liabilitY). Same with Michaels; if he isn't traded, why play him more than you have to?
I'm positive this trade was to give us another OF because of a trade we have brewed up; hopefully it doesn't mean Garko is gone, but if Garko brings us a legit closer, pull the trigger ASAP.
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Is this proper use of the word vernacular?
Wow! Curmudgeons is a cool word! I'm going to add it to my vernacular.
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This is an incorrect use of vernacular; it really should be vocabulary. The reason why this is incorrect is that vernacular refers to the vocabulary of common words shared by a group of people. You cannot add new words to it at the drop of a hat.
It may be misleading to say my vernacular; it is important to realize that this means the vernacular you share, not the corpus of words you personally ordinarily use. Your personal word list is called your vocabulary.
You can see the incorrect way in use by googling "add it to my vernacular" (47 results), and the correct way by googling "add it to my vocabulary" (266).
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i agree vocabulary is probably more clear, but i was still curious. – Andrew Nov 3 '11 at 20:36
I think using vernacular in this manner is an eggcorn of sorts: it starts with the same letter as the appropriate word (vocabulary) and it means something in the same ballpark, so people think it's ok. However, unless you're Lord High Vernacular Police or something, you can't add words to a vernacular, not even if you happen to speak that vernacular. – Marthaª Nov 3 '11 at 20:56
that's a good way of putting it Martha, thank you! – Andrew Nov 3 '11 at 21:00
The Google link is a typical case of misleading about nnnn results. It starts off claiming there are about 49,900 results, but when you page through them it turns out there are only 44 - so it's not "oft-used" at all. You're quite right the standard word is vocabulary (I wouldn't have a problem with lexicon, or even ideolect), but I can't bring myself to upvote while you've got "oft-used" in there! – FumbleFingers Nov 3 '11 at 21:30
This is not the correct use. You're assuming that you can add the word "Curmudgeons" among a group of people, not just yourself.
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A vernacular is the language spoken by a certain group or people living in a certain area (see OALD and CALD). Use in your example sentence is inappropriate unless it is used humorously or metaphorically.
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Hrithik Roshan: From Kaho Naa Pyar Hai To Krrish 3
by , IndiaTimes | June 27, 2013, 6:00 am IST
Rakesh Roshan was always a director with an enviable track record.
But ever since launched Hrithik Roshan in Kaho Naa Pyar Hai (and their subsequent films), he has become a powerful brand and their team is considered one of the most successful ones in the history of Indian cinema. For Hrithik too, despite delivering hits with other banners, the kind of success he has seen in his father's films has been unparalleled - Both critically and commercially.
As the Roshans get ready to unveil their new magnum opus Krrish 3, here's tracking this father-son jodi's run so far.
Krrish 3
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The hackers GliGli and Tyre using loud Heisefor their attack its ownsmall circuit board that is used to send a jamming signal on thereset line of the Xbox processor. does this rather crude attack afteran average of four attempts to ensure that the console security checkby the bootloader does not work correctly and so its own program codecan be executed. The two hackers have succeeded in this way, aNintendo 64 emulator and Linux on the Xbox 360 to start.
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So far the only attack on the twolatest Xbox 360 generations as the Slim model was tested. Whether itworks this way of bypassing the security measures with the olderversions with different chips and different power supply, has not yetbeen tried.
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