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Review: Bobbi Brown Foundations
Hi all,
Sorry I've been putting this off for a while. I wanted to use the skin foundation for a while before making a verdict on it.
I'm going to review only three of the eleven foundations Bobbi Brown offers. You can go to her site and check and see what type fits you. My reviews are going to be based on the oily-skin type foundations (because that's what I am :p)
* All Products are in shade 2 Sand *
So the reviewees are (L-R)the skin foundation, the stick foundation and the oil-free even finish foundation.
The Bobbi Brown Skin Foundation
The Bobbi Brown Skin Foundation is described as a foundation that looks like skin. It fits all skin types and provides medium to light coverage, which means.. on the one hand, it's going to look really natural, but on the other hand it's not going to provide enough coverage for those that have a lot of blemishes like me.
I mean, I guess it does make sense. There's not a lot of people with perfect, flawless skin and it would look natural to have some blemishes here and there.
The foundation is a liquid type that is quite watery (you can read my first impressions here). It comes with it's own pump attached and contains 1 Fl. oz (or 30ml). It seems to be the best bang for the buck since other foundations have lesser volume, but I don't think that's the case with this foundation. Since it is so sheer and light, you really have to pile up a bit if you want coverage and it usually doesn't happen with one pump. Even if you want to even out your skin tone, you will need at least a minimum of 1.5 pumps.
The recommended usage period is 24 months after it's first application.
The retail price is $45.00 excluding tax. Bobbi Brown counters are usually located in department stores such as Saks, Bloomingdales, Neiman Marcus, Berfdorf Goodman, etc.
I believe Bobbi Brown is one of the Estee Lauder companies, so if you know a Estee Lauder store (CCO) - it is most likely that they will have Bobbi Brown products at a discounted price there too.
So here's a demo of how much coverage this foundation gives to an average NC20, yellow undertones, tons of blemishes and uneven skin tone person.
As you can see I have old acne scars down my cheek and a lot of red spots.
The middle picture is purely the skin foundation with no additional products. I have applied it with a foundation brush evenly. My uneven skin tone has been corrected (under and around the eyes and nose) a bit, but the overall coverage isn't impressive. The camera failed to capture it, but the strongest selling point of the skin foundation is actually the natural glow that it gives to your skin.
Now the third picture is Missha Perfect Concealer (light beige) applied on the blemishes. Coverage has drastically improved, yet the surface of my skin has lost that "natural looking" touch and looks a bit caked up.
If you want a natural and glowy, dewy looking skin, yet you could care less about blemishes showing then you should try the skin foundation out. If you are not okay with freckles and scars apparent on your skin, no need to bother unless you are willing to pile up a bit. This foundation only provides minimal coverage.
Extremely light weight
Reflects light, which makes your skin GLOW and look shiny & healthy
Comes off easily when removed
Comes with its own pump and cap
Provides SPF 15
Minimum coverage - you have to really build up if you want coverage from the foundation alone
A bit too watery
Gets a bit oily and clumpy after a couple of hours (if you are an oily skin type)
Overall Impression:
I do have to admit that this foundation makes your skin look amazing in videos and/or pictures (if it's not taken in macro mode). It also doesn't make your face look ghostly white when flash is used, so if you like to take pictures in low-light setting or at clubs, this will make your skin look shiny and healthy. :) The only catch is you have to build up a bit or combine a concealer to make your skin look flawless. All in all, the Skin foundation is a bit disappointing since it doesn't seem to live up to other good foundations from Bobbi Brown. But then again it could purely be so because I'm an extremely oily person and I'm comparing this "for all skin types" to "oily skin type" foundations. If that's the case, they should change the recommended skin types for this foundation.
- Bobbi Brown Stick Foundation -
The Bobbi Brown Stick foundation is for those that are busy and that need an on the go foundation. It is an extremely compact (a bit bigger than a single lipstick) and is retractable. The formula is cream and the coverage is medium to full.
The price is $40.00 for a .31 oz/9g, which seems to be a rip off compared to the skin foundation. However, you only need to use a couple of strikes to cover your whole face unlike the several pumps of skin foundation. On top of that, the coverage and consistency is extremely good so all you have to do is blend the foundation evenly - which is really easy too.
Unlike the Skin foundation, this foundation doesn't clump and oil up through out the day. Out of all three foundations, it is the stickiest one, but if you like to buff your face with power, that isn't going to be a problem.
I rarely use concealer with this foundation, so if you like things done at a fast phase, this is the foundation that could suit you. It has the least shine of all three foundations, so if you want that dewy look this isn't going to provide much of that feature.
Here's a demo of how the foundation applies on my bare skin
Haha, yikes. Yes, this is how my skin looks like :p That's why I'm often embarrassed when people tell me I have good skin. I have old acne scars and disconnected veins under my skin that gives me a reddish look on my cheek.
I applied the stick foundation on the second picture and spread it around a bit with my fingers. The foundation color came out really yellow, but once you blend it out - it matches your skin tone like your second skin.
The third picture is the foundation evenly spread out. Can you see how great the coverage is? I didn't even have to use a concealer! The "Bobbi Brown glow" is still there, but not as prominent as the other foundations.
The color of the foundation is exactly the same as the skin foundation. (maybe it's because both are targeted for all skin types)
Very compact
Amazing coverage
Easy to blend
Minimal usage
Doesn't oil up or melt through out the day
Has a tendency to collect dust on the surface
Quite pricy
The foundation stick gets shaved off on the rim when you retract it
Overall Impression:
I would definitely prefer this foundation over the skin foundation since coverage is super important to me. However, if you like light weight foundation, this is going to feel a bit on the thicker and heavier side. You have to be careful with the blending. It's a bit ambiguous when it comes to what tools are the best to use with this foundation. I have used the conventional foundation (flat) brush, but that leaves streak marks. You have to either use your finger or a sponge (but keep in mind, if you use a sponge it will defeat the whole purpose of this foundation. it will add more tools and eliminate the "on the go concept". It will also force you to use more foundation than when it is applied with your fingers, which make the foundation relatively expensive).
So if you are okay with using your fingers and don't have a lot of time to put your makeup on, this is for you :) If you like the more natural and dewy look - this might not be suitable.
- Bobbi Brown Oil-Free Even Finish Compact Foundation -
This Bobbi Brown foundation is specifically targeted for normal to oily skin people. If you have dry or combo skin, you shouldn't try this. The comparable one for dry/combo people is the Moisturizing Cream Compact Foundation.
The container contains a mirror, the foundation and a sponge that you can use as a applicator. The amount that you get for its $40.00 price is .31 oz / 9g (the same as the stick foundation) - which is extremely little.
The most noticeable aspect of this foundation is its finishing. It has an incredibly matte-satin finish once it is blended in. There is no stickiness and a bit of the "Bobbi Brown Glow" makes your skin look healthy and not drenched in oil. The foundation is buildable, but there's not a lot of touch up to do through out the day. A small amount can cover one's whole face while providing full coverage.
The foundation tends to make your face have that whitening effect when a picture is taken with the flash on, so be careful with the shade you choose. And for some reason, shade 1 (warm ivory) seems to be darker than shade 2 (sand).
The Oil-free compact's shade 2(sand) does not match the skin foundation and stick foundation's shade 2 (sand). The compact's shade is much lighter, so if you are matched to the skin or stick, you should still get your shade checked out when you buy the compact (or vice versa).
Here's a comparative swatch of the three foundations
As you can see the oil-free compact is a bit lighter than the other two.. or the other two are a bit more yellow than the oil-free compact :)
Here's a demo of the foundation on my skin
So my bare skin on my left face isn't as messy as my right cheek. I have a scar, freckles and some old acne scars on the cheek. The redness on my cheeks are the biggest problems.
The second shot is just to show how the color is like when applied to the skin without being blended out.
The third shot is the foundation blended out without any concealer. The scar and some big blemishes are slightly noticeable. The coverage isn't as powerful as the stick foundation, but it is definitely better than the skin foundation.
Great coverage with a healthy looking glow
Extremely soft and satin0ish finish
Doesn't cake or clump
Nice packaging (mirror, foundation, sponge)
Shades are a bit difference from the "all skin types" foundations
Very small amount per container
Collects too much dust and small stuff in the air
Dews up when temperatures change drastically
Overall Impressions:
If you are used to using a concealer, this foundation has the best compatibility with concealers. You only need to dab a little bit of concealer on the bigger blemishes. Since the foundation isn't too light (like the skin foundation) - the combination with the concealer is utilized to its maximum potential and you won't have that cakey look.
Woah, that was quite a long review :p I hope this helped those that were wondering how the Bobbi Brown foundations are.
I'll see you guys in my next post :)
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Make a Folder Compelety Invisible in Windows
Do you want a folder to be completely hidden?.In windows even if we make a folder properties hidden it will be shown when we use the option ‘search for hidden files and folder’ while searching a file.But here is a trick that really make the folder invisible.So here’s how you do it.
1. Right click the place where you want the folder to be created and select create a new folder.
2. Right click the newly created folder and select rename.
3. Now clear the file name.But windows tells you that you cant create a folder without a file name.
4. So clear the file name, while the name field still active press and hold alt and press 0160 (Num lock must be on).
5. Now you will have a folder without a file name.
6. Right click the nameless folder and go to the properties and select the customize tab.
7. Now select the change icon.
8. Look for the icon that has no image. That is a blank one. Select it and press OK.
9. That’s it there’s your invisible folder.
10. I recommend not to put it on your desktop as it may show up for a second while starting windows.
11. It will be good enough to put it with a group of folders.
12. For an enhanced hiding you can also make its property hidden.
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A Reformed Biblical Theology of Priesthood
Jules Beauchamp
Prepared for Chester Association March 2011
The “priesthood of all believers” an evangelical catchphrase since Luther’s day used to bash RC priesthood.[i]
But a robust biblical-theological understanding of the doctrine?[ii]
How do the dual concepts of kingdom (sovereignty) and cultus (holiness) relate?
A definition of biblical priesthood
The priesthood (in the Bible) is a people called and set apart by God to maintain and guard and mediate to others the conditions necessary for enjoying permanent fellowship with God and divine blessing.
a) Within the framework of Covenant Theology.[iii]
b) Patterns/types/design of a) the sanctuary, b) priestly responsibilities and functions.
Main thesis
1. The OT Priests (Aaron + sons) prefigure and find fulfilment in Jesus Christ.
2. The OT Levites prefigure and find fulfilment in the Church.
The Sanctuary
The Divine Sanctuary: 3 levels of graded holiness. A holy dwelling-place for God and his people.
Various expressions: Garden of Eden, tabernacle/temple, Christ (in earth/heaven), the Church and the New Creation.
Nb movement from ‘perishable’ to ‘imperishable’.
Sanctuary closely associated with Sabbath rest (cf Leviticus 19:30).
Genesis 1
Genesis 2
Adam’s role
Kingly: to rule in God’s image
Priestly: to ‘guard’ (shamar) and ‘serve’ it (abad). Levitical concepts
God’s Name
The World (general)
The Garden sanctuary (specific)
To govern/order and fill the earth
To serve and guard the sanctuary (and redeem the world)
Gen 2 describes a garden with features of a divine sanctuary; precious stones, rivers, trees in abundance, cherubim.
Adam’s job: to ‘serve’ it (abad) and ‘guard’ it (shamar). Levitical concepts used together of Levites in the tabernacle.
Adam’s disobedience results in being ejected and barred from the Tree of Life and the Garden itself.
Cherubim appointed as guardians to execute by sword anyone who enters without authorisation.
Adam must guard God’s word, the sanctuary, and himself. God’s plan to extend the sanctuary over the whole cosmos (cf Rev 21).
No institutionalised priesthood/sanctuary; cult in embryo form.
Patriarchs build altars, and either pitch a tent (Gen 12-33) or set up stone pillars (Gen 28-Ex 24).
Cult now institutionalised. Israel redeemed for worship on Mt Sinai.
But Israel’s status as a “kingdom of priests” and “holy nation”[v] is forfeited at Golden Calf.
The Tabernacle
A ‘mobile Eden’; materials of tabernacle (Ex 26) like priestly garments (Ex 28)[vi]: the priest was a ‘walking tabernacle’;
containing Ark of the Covenant and Decalogue, ie the locus of God’s rule.
The Priestly Tribe of Levi
• The name "Levi" (ywIle) given at birth by Leah (Genesis 29:34)[vii] as a pun on the Hebrew word l¹wâ (to ‘join’ or ‘attach’).[viii]
• In Num, the Levites are ‘joined’ to Aaron to assist in tabernacle service. (cf Union with Christ).
• The tribe is characterised by a fighting spirit (Genesis 49:5) = zeal for the LORD.[ix]
• Cf Golden Calf incident when “all the Levites rallied to [Moses] (Exodus 32:26). Like the cherubim guarding Eden.
• This loyalty and fighting spirit are good qualities for priestly work[x] (cf Christian discipleship in Matt 10:32-39).
A ‘priestly’ tribe; “The Levites [tribe] have no portion among you, for the priesthood of the LORD is their heritage." (Josh 18:7)
The Priests
Ordination: ceremonial washing in Bronze Sea, + priestly garments.
Aaron and his sons (alone) had unique priestly role:
• to serve at the altar and inside the curtain (Num 18:7);[xi]
• offer sacrifices, burn incense (Num 16:40), mediate for sinners (Num 25:13), bear responsibility for offences against the priesthood (Num 17:1). Plus a teaching role (Deut 31:9-13),esp to distinguish between clean and unclean (Lev 10:8-11).
• The High Priest alone entered the MHP once a year on the Day of Atonement.
The Levites
Levites given to Aaron “in place of” all the firstborn of the Israelites (Num 3:12, 41, 45)[xii] as gifts to help assist him in guard-duty and service of the tabernacle (Num 3:5f).[xiii]
Levites are not Priests (Num 16);[xiv] ‘clean’ rather than ‘holy’ (Numbers 8:6-7).[xv]
• The tribe of Levi not counted in the census (Num 1:47). The Lord is their inheritance (Num 18:8-32).
• In the Israelite camp, the Levites encamped on three adjacent sides of the tabernacle as ‘guards’ (Aaron’s sons on fourth side).
• Transportation duties for tabernacle are delegated and divided among the 3 Levite clans.
A Golden Age of Israel’s history. Military and political rest from Israel’s enemies; Jerusalem a place of ‘rest’ for the Ark.
Davidic Covenant (2 Sam 7) God promises a ‘house’ (royal line) for David. Solomon builds the temple.
Role of Levites as ‘tent-bearers’ redundant. Levite responsibilities diversified to include:
Music, singing, gatekeepers, supervisors of temple-work, treasurers, distribution of gifts, officials and judges, administrators, caterers, food preparation, purification, prophesying, etc. (1 Chr 9, 23-26, 2 Chr 29) and instructors of God’s word (Neh 8:7f).
Exile: Prophets speak against the sin and failure of the Priests and Levites (cf Mal 1-2, Zech 3).
Temple destroyed (2 Kings 25).
BUT… a new temple (Ezekiel 40-44);[xvi]
Levites will be refined like gold and silver (Malachi 3:3);
Levites “as countless as the stars in the sky” (Jer 33:22);
“foreigners will (lawa) join (or ‘bind’ NIV) themselves to the LORD to serve him (ebed)… all who keep (shamar) the Sabbath” (Isaiah 56).[xvii]
Jesus the true ‘tabernacle’ in flesh (John 1:14) & the true temple in res’n (John 2).[xviii] As Adam in Eden, Jesus is now the sanctuary we’re called to guard and serve to ensure blessings/relationship with God. But not with real swords (cf J’s rebuke in Gethsemane).
He also fulfils the priestly functions of the OT.
1. 1. He fulfils the OT role of Aaronic priest
2. 2. He fulfils the OT role of the High Priest
3. 3. Displays the characteristics of faithful Levites.
THE CHURCH – “on whom the fulfilment of the ages has come” (1 Cor 10:11)
The Dwelling-place of God
Individually: an earthly tent/body, a heavenly dwelling (oikos/temple) 2Cor 5:1-5.
Corporately: the Church is the temple of God (1 Cor 3:16). “House/household” – building and people.
The Priesthood of All Believers (1 Pet 2:5, 9; Rev 1:6, 5:10, 7:14-15, 20:6, 22:14)
By faith and baptism in Christ we are ordained into Christ’s priesthood.[xix] Like the OT priesthood, the NT priesthood has two aspects (priestly and Levite):
1. 1. We participate in Christ’s priesthood: we serve God offering spiritual (non-bloody) sacrifices and prayer:
a) We offer our bodies as living sacrifices (Rom 12:1-2)
b) We offer spiritual sacrifices pleasing to God (1 Peter 2:5)
c) We offer a sacrifice of thanks and praise (Heb 13:15)
d) We offer good works and share with others (Heb 13:16)
e) We offer the ‘incense’ that is prayer (Rev 8:3)
f) Priestly ministry of proclaiming gospel (Rom 15:16)
g) We receive “food of grace” from spiritual altar (Heb 13:9-10)
2. We fulfil the role of Levite – united/joined to the High Priest to assist in his ministry (with practical works of service).
Based on Levitical ministry (1 Chron 9, 23-26, 2 Chron 29, Neh 8:7f):-
a) Gate-Keepers/Guardians Contending for the faith & guarding doctrine and holiness (Jude 3)
b) Builders Evangelists/ Proclaiming Christ (Eph 4:11, 1 Peter 2:9, cf “enlarging the tent” – Is 54:2)
c) Instructors of God’s Word Bible Teachers (Rom 12:7)
d) Prophesying Preaching/ Prophesying (Rom 12:6)
e) Project Managers/supervisors Christian Leadership (Rom 12:8)
f) Administrators Administration (1 Cor 12:28)
g) Musicians/singers Music and Praise in Worship (1 Peter 2:9)
h) Treasurers, distribution of gifts Treasurers/Practical Service (Eph 4:12)
i) Meal-times (caterers/ food prep) The Lord’s Supper (Fellowship Meal)
Questions for discussion and/or further thought
To what extent does all this enlarge our vision of what NT priesthood is?
Are we serving Christ with due care? Are we guarding the doctrine of Christ? Or letting ‘unclean’ doctrine slip in.
Are we serving the Church with due care? Are we guarding our lives individually and corporately with the same zeal that the Levites did?
To what extent should we adopt/increase the use of cultic language into our corporate life?
[i] Currently, ironically, official RC doctrine explicitly affirms the priesthood of all believers, but adds a three-fold priestly office derived from the OT priesthood.
[ii] Helpful books on the cultus of Israel include Van Gemeren’s Progress of Redemption, W. Dumbrell’s Covenant and Creation, Noel Due’s Made for Worship, and David Peterson’s Engaging With God. Also Greg Beale’s, The Temple and the Church’s Mission where he argues from a thorough exegesis of the Hebrew Scriptures that the Garden of Eden was the first (typological) temple. He explores Adam and Eve’s role as that of extending the Garden/temple throughout the whole earth.
[iii] Most Reformed scholars consider this to be the “architectonic principle” of Scripture, the lens through which theology is best understood.
[iv] The Noahic covenant is a renewal of the Covenant of Creation. Noah becomes a ‘new Adam’ whose responsibility it is to have dominion over the earth.
[v] Some scholars maintain (from Judges 17:10) that prior to the Levitical priesthood the father of the family acted as the family priest.
[vi] The sons of Aaron had to wear special garments specified by God “to give them dignity and honour” (Exodus 28:2, 40). These were to be worn “so that they may serve me as priests” says God (Exodus 28:4). The fact that precious stones were attached with the names of the sons of Israel suggests that they represented the sons of Israel when they brought their offerings to God in the tabernacle. A priest also wore a breastpiece, a turban, a tunic, a sash and a headband. Wearing the right clothes was essential for drawing near to God and serving him acceptably (cf Leviticus 16:23-24). And on certain occasions these garments needed to be washed, cf the Levites’ ordination (Numbers 8). Repeatedly, God makes it clear that the priests are to be holy to their God because they present the offering to the LORD by fire. Their special role within Israel gives them a different status. Their holiness is rooted God’s holiness; “Consider them holy, because I the LORD am holy – I who make you holy.” (Lev 12:8, cf 22:15,23, 22:9,16,32).
[viii] The word lawa can also be used for military alliances (Psalm 83:8). The TWOT Hebrew Lexicon also states; “As a term referring to conversion [lawa] describes those who, impressed by God's work in restoring his people, will join themselves to the Hebrews in the worship and service of God, i.e. will be spiritually converted (Isa 14:1). Others will join themselves to God as a result of some divine judgment (Zech 2:5; cf. Est 9:27). Such Gentile converts are assured that they will not be separated from God's Covenant (Isa 56:3-6). Someday God's repentant people will (re)join themselves to a true covenant relationship to God (Jer 50:5).”
[ix] When Shechem, a Hivite, rapes Jacob’s daughter Dinah, Simeon and Levi respond by attacking their city killing every male (Gen 34:25). Jacob rebukes them fearing recrimination from the surrounding Canaanites, but their answer reveals their zeal for purity and holiness; “Should he have treated our sister like a prostitute?”(Gen 34:31). The rest of the blessing is more a curse than a blessing (“cursed be their anger… I will scatter them in Jacob and disperse them in Israel”). God takes worldly war-craft and turns it into spiritual war-craft.
[x] This zeal to defend the honour of God as one of the main characteristics of ‘priesthood’ is confirmed in one particular incident when Israel had been joining in worshipping the Baal of Peor (Numbers 25). After Moses tells Israel’s judges to put to death all the men who have joined in the worship, one of the Israelite men brings a Midianite woman to the Tent of Meeting Phinehas, the grandson of Aaron, takes a spear and follows the Israelite into the tent and kills them both. The plague then stops. The LORD then says to Moses; 11 "Phinehas son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron, the priest, has turned my anger away from the Israelites; for he was as zealous as I am for my honour among them, so that in my zeal I did not put an end to them. 12 Therefore tell him I am making my covenant of peace with him. 13 He and his descendants will have a covenant of a lasting priesthood, because he was zealous for the honour of his God and made atonement for the Israelites." (Numbers 25:10-13).
[xi] God says to Aaron; “only you and your sons may serve as priests in connection with everything at the altar and inside the curtain. I am giving you the service of the priesthood as a gift. Anyone else who comes near the sanctuary [inc Levites] must be put to death.” (Numbers 18:7).
[xii] At the Golden Calf, the covenant was effectively broken. It was so disastrous for Israel that her status as firstborn son was taken from her and given to the Levites instead. The Hebrew word tahat (eg Num 3:12) can mean “in place of”, “instead of”, “under” (ie to succeed [as in royal succession]).
[xiii]5The LORD said to Moses, 6 "Bring [lit. ‘bring near’] the tribe of Levi and present them to Aaron the priest to assist him. 7 They are to perform duties for him and for the whole community at the Tent of Meeting by doing the work of the tabernacle. 8 They are to take care of all the furnishings of the Tent of Meeting, fulfilling the obligations of the Israelites by doing the work of the tabernacle. 9 Give the Levites to Aaron and his sons; they are the Israelites who are to be given wholly to him.” (Numbers 3:5-9).
[xiv] This particular distinction between Levites and priests comes into sharp focus in Numbers 16-18, when Moses and Aaron – and the Aaronic priesthood as a whole – face a leadership challenge. The ringleaders are Korah (a Levite), Dathan, Abiram and On, plus 250 Israelites many of whom wielded some clout within the community. Specifically, their issue is with the very concept and authority of the priesthood and a perceived priestly authoritarianism within Israel. So they come to Moses and Aaron and say; “You have gone too far! The whole community is holy, every one of them, and the LORD is with them. Why then do you set yourselves above the LORD’s assembly?” (Numbers 16:3). The budding of Aaron’s staff alone in the Tent of Meeting (Numbers 17) confirms that Aaron and his sons alone are authorised to serve as priests behind the curtain in the Most Holy Place.
[xv] Philip Jenson, NIDOTTE, Vol 2, p773.
[xvi] In Ezekiel 40-44, Ezekiel paints a picture of a glorious new three-tiered temple in Jerusalem. As a type of divine dwelling place there is escalation on previous types. It includes a pavement, many rooms, from its threshold a stream of water flows that grows into a river too wide to cross that irrigates the trees on the banks of the river and flows into the Dead Sea turning the salt water fresh and giving life.
[xvii] “these I will bring to my holy mountain and give them joy in my house of prayer…for my house will be called a house of prayer for all nations”.
[xviii] We’re familiar with the tabernacle and temple being ‘types’ of Christ. It’s tempting to see the journey of the tabernacle as a type of Jesus’ earthly ministry and Solomon’s temple as a shadow of his exalted heavenly ministry. Thus, his incarnation (cf the Ark gets ‘clothed’ at Sinai), his arrest (cf the Philistine Gentile capture of the Ark), his death (foreshadowed by the gold rats on the cart of the Ark on its return), and his resurrection/ascension (cf the building of the temple).
[xix] Martin Luther says that “Through baptism we have all been ordained as priests.” Luther’s Works Volume 6.
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Ram Charan's Airlines Venture Commences
Ram Charan is a busy man these days. On one end he is
readying up for the production of his father’s 150th
film and on the other his airline business is almost
ready to go.
He has commenced the business for Godavari Pushkaralu.
Along with his friend V Umesh, Cherry has launched his
new airlines company Turbo Megha. Initially this
company will start its operations for Godavari
They have purchased two mini aircrafts and these are
readily placed at Rajiv Gandhi International Airport in
The two aircraft models are ATR72-500. Sources inform
us that the permission for this will come in four days
from the Director General of Civil Aviation.
Cherry will take the first flight of this venture to
Rajamundry. Presently he is busy shooting for Srinu
Vaitla’s film.
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Beneficial Contribution of the Smart Drug Modafinil
Modafinil is well-known for its ability to help keep people aware, cautious, dynamic, and focused over extended times of extreme psychological activity. When taken properly, this drug, Modafinil, will not adversely affect sleep pattern or result to negative side effects like other powerful stimulating elements. Modafinil 200 is a wakefulness medication that is approved by the FDA for treating conditions such as narcolepsy, and sleep apnea which can often cause excessive daytime tiredness. The beauty of prescriptions is that you’ll find countless opinions from real customers notifying you to the advantages and adverse reactions of the medication. Plus, it is mostly recommended by medical practitioners as well which is why it’s safe to say that this smart drug is the good drug.
Studies have been conducted and it shows that the medication enhanced patients’ mind and made them more goal-focused at work. Tasks including reading, writing, and performing complex technical analysis became less stressing and the average user’s attention span increased. Research discovered that Modafinil could enhance psychological performance in the event of sleep deprivation, but also had a positive influence on regular, healthier grownups who were not rest limited.
Benefits of Modafinil
Narcolepsy is caused by a malfunction in wakefulness-promoting proteins. These proteins are known as orexins. When taking Modafinil, it is assumed that these nerves become triggered. This is thought to increase inspiration as well.
• Users have revealed an enhanced feelings. Dopamine is assumed to play a small role within the method of action, so this could be relevant.
• Provides 10-12 hours of wakefulness. This is why Modafinil should be taken in the morning.
• Users become focused, making them easier. This relates to the same impact as caffeinated drinks, except customers do not experience any jitters. The consequences also last longer than caffeinated drinks.
• Studies have shown that Modafinil improves and maintains intellectual function when customers are in a proper condition against factors such as sleep deprivation. More research still needs to be performed to confirm these potential results.
Beneficial Contribution of the Smart Drug Modafinil
Shift-work rest disorder
This is a circadian beat problem that develops when people have tasks that they perform during regular evening hours rest times. This can be folks who continually perform evening move of various tasks or those that have a spinning schedule that causes them to occasionally work evening shifts. This is also seen in some folks who work very lengthy shifts, such as doctors.
Obstructive rest apnea/hypopnea syndrome
This is a potentially serious problem that develops when the muscles assisting the toungue and soft palate in the mouth relax and cause the air to be partly or completely obstructed. Apnea represents times of total impediment and no respiration, while hypopnea represents slow or superficial respiration that takes place with limited air impediment.
Another benefit of modafinil is with regard to general cognitive abilities. Modafinil can enhance minds, which are calculated by reaction time, working memory, and other assessments. While the advantages are less for non-sleep limited people, it is obvious that healthier grownups can still see intellectual gains advantage from using modafinil. If it interests you, check out modafinil experience reddit or check out that site. Answers are everywhere when you search about modafnil where to buy and how much.
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Expertise Areas
Our Strength
Our main strength is our in-depth body of knowledge in computational stochastic mechanics, uncertainty modeling and risk prediction for complex engineering applications. Our specific areas of expertise include:
• Stochastic modeling of operational environments, loads, material and structural behaviors
• Deterministic and stochastic computational mechanics, stochastic finite elements, fluid dynamics, progressive failure mechanism
• Probabilistic risk assessment for complex engineering systems, such as aircraft structure and engines, nuclear facilities and ground vehicle systems
• Probabilistic structural analysis and design
• Risk-based maintenance engineering and optimal cost analysis • Health risk management including risk-based fault diagnostics and prognostics for air and ground vehicle and turbo-machinery systems
Research Areas
Currently, we have several on-going research projects on computational stochastic mechanics developments with in different industry application areas:
1. Stochastic-optimization of complex mechanical system problems involving highly nonlinear, noisy responses
2. Seismic wave progagation in random soil layering media including local wave scattering near building foundations and dynamic soil-structure interaction effects
3. Reliability-based optimization of vehicle component design
4. Reliability analysis of aircraft structures and joints
5. Stochastic modeling of fatigue and fatigue-corrosion progressive damage in aluminum alloys
6. Stochastic field expansion models for approximating nonlinear responses under random inputs
7. Stochastic unsteady forced response of bladed-disks in gas turbine engines
8. Stochastic simulation of complex uncertain responses using dynamic Monte Carlo algorithms
9. Computation of predicted risk variations due to epistemic uncertainties
10. Stochastic domain partitioning techniques for large stochastic mechanics problems
11. Stochastic multilevel domain decomposition for large stochastic mechanics problems
12. Stochastic algebraic multigrid techniques for stochastic finite element solutions
13. Visualization of high-dimensional stochastic responses
14. Stochastic image processing for advanced pattern classification and incipient fault detections
Clients & Collaborators
Selected List of Clients and Collaborators:
1. ABDA Inc., Dayton, OH
2. Atomic Energy Canadian Limited, AECL, Toronto, Canada
3. Akita University, Akita, Japan
4. APES Inc., Saint Louis, MI
5. ARES Corporation, Los Angeles, CA
6. Boeing Phantom Works, Los Angeles, CA
7. Bechtel Corporation, San Francisco, CA
8. Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH
9. CNGSoftech, Seoul, South Korea
10. CNPE, Beijing, China
11. Chiba University, Tokio, Japan
12. Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
13. DaimlerChrysler, Detroit, MI
14. Defense Nuclear Facility Safety Board, Washington, D.C.
15. Electronuclear, Brasil, Brasil
16. Electric Power Research Institute, Palo Alto, CA
17. Fluor Daniel Corporation, Las Vegas, NV
18. General Electric Aviation, Cincinnati, OH
19. GE Global Research Center, Schenectady, NY
20. International Atomic Energy Agency, Austria
21. LMS International, Detroit, MI
22. Lockheed Martin Corporation, Atlanta, GE
23. KOPEC, Seoul, South Korea
24. KOPEC, Seoul, South Korea
25. MD Professional Services Inc., Richland, WA
26. Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, MHI, Kobe, Japan
27. Northeastern University of Boston, Boston, MA
28. Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan
29. PMBR Ltd., Centurion, Republic of South Africa
30. Pratt&Whitney, East Hartford, CT
31. Princeton University, New Jersey, NJ
32. Sargent & Lundy, Chicago, IL
33. Shinshu University, Shinshu, Japan
34. SNERDI,Shanghai, China
35. Stevenson Consulting, Cleveland, OH
36. STI Technologies Inc., Rochester, NY
37. Toshiba Corporation, Yokohama, Japan
38. TRW Corporation, Las Vegas, NV
39. University of California at Berkeley, San Francisco, CA
40. University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
41. University of Iowa, Iowa City, IO
42. University of Toledo, Toledo, OH
43. University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
44. URS Washington Division, Princeton, NJ
45. US Air Force, AFRL-WPAFB, Dayton, OH
46. US Army, RDECOM-TARDEC, Detroit, MI
47. US Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, D.C.
48. US Office of Secretary of Defense, Washington, D.C.
49. Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN
50. Washington Group International, Princeton, NJ
51. Westinghouse Electric Company, Pittsburgh, PA
Consulting Areas
Computational Mechanics:
1. Structural analysis and design of mechanical components and systems
2. Advanced, specialized finite element and fluid dynamics numerical modeling and code development
3. Computational modeling for structural stress analysis of systems and components
4. Structural dynamics and stability, chaotic problems, linear and nonlinear structural vibration
5. Computational modeling for structure-fluid coupled field problems, including aerolastic phenomena
6. Unsteady CFD analysis and flutter analysis for turbine blades, including shape design optimization
7. Through flow multistage turbine simulation with empirical loss model for optimal design.
8. Seismic soil-structure interaction analysis of embedded structures, on pile foundations, or buried structures, such as hazardous waste storage tanks, subway stations in urban areas
9. Seismic safety margin evaluation and reevaluation of nuclear structures and systems
10. Structural evaluation and redesign of internal platforms and reactor building structures subjected to severe accident dynamic loads and external loading from strong winds and earthquakes.
Stochastic Mechanics and Risk Predictions:
1. Stochastic modeling of loads. material structure and behavior
2. Reliability analysis of components and systems
3. Risk-based component and system condition assessment and remaining life prediction
4. Probabilistic risk assessment reviews for large, complex systems including nuclear facilities, aircraft structures, vehicle systems and turbine systems
5. Stochastic-neuro-fuzzy approaches for fault/failure prognostics in st ructures and engines
6. Fragility (risk) analyses and risk assessment for nuclear power plant structures
7. Reliability-based design optimization of structural and mechanical systems
8. Uncertainty quantification and risk management
9. Stochastic physics of failure analysis
10. Stochastic dynamics, nonlinear random vibration, stochastic stability
11. Probabilistic damage mechanics and fracture mechanics
12. Risk-based life-cycle cost analysis of mechanical systems, including maintenance activities
Deterministic and Probabilistic Optimization:
1. Multi-objective Pareto optimization, combinatorial optimization, dynamic programming optimization, gradient-based and gradient-free optimization
2. Optimization of blade shapes based on vibration responses and aerodynamic performance
3. Reliability-based design optimization of mechanical systems and components
4. Shape optimization of nuclear power turbines based on a viscous steam flow modeling
Design Improvement:
1. Quantification of sensitivity of design performance and effectiveness to off-design conditions
2. Implementation of probabilistic aspects into multidimensional design, verification and analysis
3. Failure analysis and engineering solution for vibrating structures, systems, including turbines
Failure Prediction:
1. Predicting localized damages based on dispersion wave theory and wavelet transforms
2. Predicting component failures using stochastic process models, such as hidden Markov chains, and stochastic Petri nets
3. Physics of failure analysis in mechanical systems, in alloys and composites
4. Predicting faults using advanced stochastic-neurro-fuzzy inference and prediction tools
Damage Mechanics and Fracture Mechanics:
1. High cycle fatigue modeling for mechanical systems including jet engine blades
2. Corrosion-fatigue of mechanical systems including aircraft fuselage lap and butt joints
3. Health prognostics and management of aging and degrading structures and systems
Recent Publications
1. Engineering Design Reliability Handbook, Taylor & Francis, CRC Press, December 2004 Available in CRC Press and Amazon bookstores. Please see Chapters 20,28 and 41 on Stochastic Simulation Methods in Engineering Predictions (Draft), Reliability Assessment of Aircraft Structure Joints under Corrosion-Fatigue Damage (Draft) and Nondeterministic Hybrid Architectures for Vehicle Health Management (Draft)
2. Engineering Design Reliability Applications: For Aerospace, Automotive and Ship Industries, Taylor & Francis, CRC Press, September 2007 Available in CRC Press and Amazon bookstores.
Selected Papers and Presentations:
1. Papers in OECD NEA/IAEA SSI Workshop Proceedings, Ottawa, October 6-8, 2010
Seismic SSI Response of Reactor Building Structures
Seismic Motion Incoherency Effects for Nuclear Complex Structures On Different Soil Site Conditions
EPRI AP1000 NI Model Studies on Seismic Structure-Soil-Structure Interaction (SSSI) Effects
Seismic Motion Incoherency Effects for CANDU Reactor Building Structure
2. Paper and Slide Presentation included in the Proceedings of the 2010 NDIA Ground Vehicle Systems Engineering and Technology Symposium (GVSETS), Detroit, MI, August 18-20, 2010
Application of An Integrated HPC Reliability Prediction Framework to HMMWV Suspension System(paper)
Application of An Integrated HPC Reliability Prediction Framework to HMMWV Suspension System (slides)
3. Paper and Slide Presentation included in the Proceedings of the 2009 NDIA Ground Vehicle Systems Engineering and Technology Symposium (GVSETS), Detroit, MI, August 18-20, 2009
An Integrated High-Performance Computing Reliability Prediction Framework for Ground Vehicle Design Evaluation (paper)
An Integrated High-Performance Computing Reliability Prediction Framework for Ground Vehicle Design Evaluation (slides)
4. Papers at the 20th Structure Mechanics in Reactor Technology, Proceedings of SMiRT20 Conference, Paper 1852, Helsinki, August 10-14, 2009
Seismic Motion Incoherency Effects for AP1000 Nuclear Island Complex
Seismic Motion Incoherency Effects on SSI Response of Nuclear Islands with Significant Mass Eccentricities and Different Embedment Levels
5. Paper at the ASME 2009 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences 7th International Conference on Multibody Systems, Nonlinear Dynamics, and Control, IDETC/MSNDC 2009, August 30 – September 2, 2009, San Diego, California, USA
A Stochastic Approach to Integrated Vehicle Reliability Prediction
6. Paper at the 10th International Conference in Structural Safety And Reliability, Proceedings of ICOSSAR 2009 Conference, Osaka, Japan, September 13-17, 2009
Seismic motion incoherency effects on soil-structure interaction (SSI) response of nuclear power plant buildings
7. Invited Presentation at 8th. World Congress on Computational Mechanics(WCCM8), 5th. European Congress on Computational Methods in Applied Sciences and Engineering(ECCOMAS 2008), Venice, Italy, June 30 – July 5, 2008
Stochastic Modeling and Simulation for Large Size Computational Mechanics Problems (Compact Version)
8. Paper at the 19th Structure Mechanics in Reactor Technology, Proceedings of SMiRT19 Conference, Paper K05/4, Toronto, August, 2007
"Seismic Ground Motion Incoherency Effects on Soil-Structure Interaction Response of NPP Building Structures"
9. Paper at the 47th AIAA/ASME/ASCE/AHS/ASC SDM Conference, 1st AIAA NDA Conference, Newport, RI, May 1-4, 2006
Novel Stochastic Concepts and Algorithms Integrated Within A Graphically-Assisted Reliability Prediction System for Aircraft Jet Engine Rotating Assemblies, Paper AIAA-2006-1991
10. Papers/Presentation at 46th AIAA/ASME/ASCE/AHS/ASC SDM Conference, Austin, TX, April 18-21, 2005
Computational Advances in Reliability Assessment of Aircraft Structures Under Corrosion-Fatigue Damage, Paper AIAA-2005-2148
Advances in Computational Risk Predictions for Complex, Large-Size Structural Engineering Applications, Paper AIAA-2005-2222
Computational Advances in Reliability Assessment of Aircraft Structures Under Corrosion-Fatigue Damage, Slide Presentation
11. Briefs of the Presentations at the 2005 National HCF Conference, New Orleans, LO, March 14-18, 2005
Stochastic Subspace Projection Schemes for Solving Random Mistuning Problems in Jet Engine Bladed-Disks
Stochastic Interference and Visualization Tools for Risk-Based In-Flight Engine Fault Diagnostics and Prognostics
Stochastic Response Surface Approximation Using (Bayesian and Fuzzy) Hierarchical Models for Complex Engineering Applications
12. Paper at the US-Japan Seismic Soil-Structure Interaction Workshop, Menlo Park, California, March 29-30, 2004
Seismic Motion Incoherency Effects on Structures
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we're in tex-ass! yes-sir-ee. where the houses are big but the hats are even bigger.
the farmer and i ventured off the farm, hopped a plane and arrived yesterday. we are here to visit farmer's cousin, pete and his lov-er-ly wife, nicole. we call pete "big oil." he works for haliburton. they go hand in hand.
and just so y'all know...it's HOT in texas. H.O.T. but guess who made it just a little hotter?
my farmer. enjoy.
is it okay to put a disclaimer at the bottom of a post? yes? okay.
DISCLAIMER: the content in this post may be offensive, lude, speedo-rific, and ooze with hotness. you've been warned.
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need three fun gender reveal ideas!? this post is for you!
good morning! i'm feeling all sorts of ridiculous today because the day to share the gender of baby #3 has FINALLY arrived.
i had a little survey in the right hand, top corner to cast your vote...and the votes are IN!
57% of you are really pulling for that future farmer for my farmer. i mean...with two gals, he's quite out numbered as things sit!
and then 42% of you scoffed and said - "uh yeah right. you're only having girls."
or you could be like amy and hope we have a girl because as she put it, "home school prom is going to be super awkward if you have a boy." (this is funny because she has her three handsome boys...and if our baby #3 isn't a girl, poor bennett isn't going to have a dance partner.)
let me give you some background - when my farmer and i first decided it would be a fun idea to get our baby-making started he reminded me that we were destined to have girls. girls was the word - he just knew it. he knew it because he felt like he had some bad karma from his dating days. he knew he was going to be put through the same agony all dads feel when they watch their daughters navigate the dating pool.
i gladly accepted my "all girls" fate - i grew up with two sisters! and now both of my sisters each have a daughter...girls are just how we do it and what i know.
so when people would ask what baby #3 was i confidently said - girl. duh. it's a girl. of course it's a girl. everyone knows we only do girls.
when i had my first ultrasound at 12 weeks i triiiiiied to get our tech to tell me it was a girl. (she wouldn't.) all she would say was that some sort of something was running horizontal and blah blah medical term, medical term - basically if this thing she was talking about was running horizontal it was a girl and vertical meant boy. so...GIRL, right?! an ultrasound tech at 12 weeks says girl...its'a girl.
then i had a dream it was a girl. i had dreams with both kaye and sawyer that they were girls, so reaffirmed...girl.
theeeeennnnnn as the weeks passed by and our 20 week appointment approached i started having terrible anxiety - all over the gender of this third baby. i was just absolutely and literally sick to my stomach at the thought that i could be wrong. i could have a tiny penis growing in my belly and what the eff was i going to do with a boy?
on the day of the ultrasound i was sweating and my stomach was in knots and it was all i could do to keep my mind off of everything. luckily my farmer was going with were the gals, so the distractions were welcomed.
before we headed into town for the big moment i had decided to whip up a card for the ultrasound tech to write on telling us - boy or girl.
i had to make the card simple with an icon of a pink bow for a girl and a truck for a boy...because kaye would be revealing to us the gender of baby #3! (and she can't read, so...icons were the way to go.)
so...what do we think? boy or girl?!
we went to a local, favorite restaurant, had a seat, and let kaye spill the beans...
i'll absolutely adore and treasure this video forever. i can't get enough of the excitement in kaye's voice. the look on my farmer's face is priceless. he knew it was coming, but i think he also aged 15 years in that exact moment, and sawyer. sawyer in typical sawyer fashion, rocking her shades and really only caring about when these people she has to sit with were going to stop making such an embarrassing fuss.
so, farm girl #3 will be joining us sometime the first week of september. it feels far away, but still right around the corner. in reality, i know it'll be here sooner than i think - really just a blink of an eye. especially with kaye and sawyer keeping me going going going all the time. i will say - it's nice to say, "mommy just needs to sit down and rest for a minute (or 30) - baby is making me tired." i get several free passes to do so each day.
if you're looking for really just about the easiest gender reveal idea, all you need to do is print this 5x7 card and take it with you to the appointment. simple as that!
pin me for future use!
or, are you looking for other gender reveal ideas?
i kind of went all out with sawyer and DIY'd some gender reveal cupcakes, which you can see here.
with sawyer i also did a photo session with amy so i could share our big news on the blog with a balloon pop.
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Regionalization in R
Last spring I completed a small project to write a regionalization/political districting program in R. I never really did anything with it because it’s pretty slow. It is very much a work in progress, however I release it to the world here:
The main program is called reRegionalize.R. It calls the other code, so all of these should be unzipped into the same folder. It works with an example data set, but it’s fairly easy to use your own.
If I start working on it again, I will post it on githuband update the link. Use at your own risk.
A halloween injury epidemiology nightmare
A paper (‘research letter’, actually) was recently published in JAMA pediatrics (‘Pedestrian Fatalities Associated With Halloween in the United States‘) which attempts to quantify the impact of Halloween on child pedestrian fatality risk in the United States. I have looked at the original study, and using the numbers reported in the study, along with a few other numbers, I have calculated the actual impact of Halloween on the risk of child pedestrian fatality in Canada. I used Canada as a reference, but the general ideas here would be roughly the same as in the U.S..
Here is the screenshot of the results of my analysis:
And here is a link to the Google Sheet where I do all the calculations:
The links in the document take you to the sources of data I used for these calculations.
What does it mean?
The authors of the study show that the risk of a child dying as a pedestrian as a result of a motor vehicle collision is 1.43 times higher on Halloween than on the days immediately before and after Halloween. The main reason is probably exposure–more children walk at night on Halloween than on other days. I don’t doubt their findings–the methods seem reasonable.
What I object to is how these results have been framed, particularly by the media. The researchers and media focus on the measure of relative risk–that Halloween is associated with a 43% increased risk of child pedestrian fatality. However, we need to put these results in proper perspective. Given how rare child pedestrian fatalities are, the actual impact of this increased in risk on the population is very small. As you can see above, in Canada, we should expect roughly 1 extra child pedestrian death every 30 years due to this Halloween effect.
Think of the children!
Some might argue that even one extra child pedestrian death is one too many. That seems reasonable on the face of it, but it’s also naive. Life involves making trade-offs. While we could go out of our way to increase policing on Halloween, inform and educate parents of risks, add street lighting, and end trick or treating altogether, all of these risks come with a cost, and there’s no guarantee that any of them would even reduce the fatality risk at all. Furthermore, there are probably more cost-effective ways of saving children’s lives–such as increasing immunization rates, particularly in the developing world.
Finally, media stories about the dangers of Halloween have an important social cost. They add to the culture of fear, paranoia and helicopter parenting that threaten to further erode the joyful chaos of childhood. This exceedingly small risk may be real, but is it really worth the attention it received on Halloween given the impact it may have on parental attitudes towards safety in their community?
My relative risk diatribe (again!)
This is another instance of media sources putting emphasis on relative rather than attributable risk. In fairness, the researchers do not discuss attributable risk in their paper, and so perhaps it’s unfair to blame non-expert journalists for not figuring it out on their own. Relative risk provides little useful context for understanding the risk of rare events. Relative risk tells us only the difference in risk between exposed and non-exposed groups; it does not tell us about the actual impact on our lives. A relative risk of mortality of 2.0 (where exposure increases risk of death by 100%) sounds terrifying on the face of it, but what if the baseline risk is one in a billion? This would mean risk from exposure would go from from 0.000000001 in the unexposed to 0.000000002 in the exposed, and result in one extra death per billion people due to exposure.
In terms of relative risk, Halloween seems pretty terrifying to child pedestrians; however, relative risk does not tell us a complete picture, since pedestrian fatalities are (fortunately) rare and Halloween only happens once a year. In terms of attributable risk and actual impact on the population’s health, the impact of Halloween on pedestrian safety is pretty small, and it’s not clear that knowing about these risks (when measured in terms of relative risk) is meaningful, particularly since there are material and social consequences to fear associated with media stories about the dangers of our world.
On rhubarb clusters
Many, many years ago I had a friend who was very smart, and had a predilection for saying all sorts of stuff that seemed both facilitating and ridiculous. One thing I remember him saying is that any time there is a crowd of extras in a movie that have to make background conversation, they were instructed to say the phrase ‘rhubarb cluster’. He said that when everyone in a crowd says the phrase ‘rhubarb cluster’, it simulates a conversation, and keeps their lips moving in a way that looks realistic on film. There are other advantages too. He said it keeps the extras focused on doing something other than staring off into the distance in a way that could distract from the main movie scene, and it ensures that no actual words are heard or understood by the movie watcher (imagine the grief of two extras in a scene overheard saying “dude! I got so STONED this past weekend” on the audio track of a blockbuster). In short, by instructing the extras to say a specific phrase, a director keeps control of the soundscape.
I have wondered for years if this would work in the real world, or if my friend was making it all up, but I never really followed up any further. A few weeks ago I told my 6 year old daughter about this (almost certainly apocryphal) use of ‘rhubarb cluster’ in film, and she suggested I run an experiment using students in one of my classes to determine if it is at all plausible. So I did. Below, I present the methods and results.
I stood at the front of a class of about 70 students, turned on the voice recorder on my cell phone, and had them say three things. First, I had them say the phrase ‘rhubarb cluster’ repeatedly for about 10 seconds. Second, I had them say the alphabet repeatedly for about 10 seconds. Finally, I had them carry on a conversation with their neighbour for about 10 seconds.
Then I cleaned up each sound sequence. I cleaned them in two steps. Step one was to trim out the audio after a short ‘burn in’ period. I had to do this because for the first few seconds, the phrase ‘rhubarb cluster’ is quite audible:
I did this for all three audio clips. Then I normalised the volume levels for each clip to the same level.
I then combined the audio clips into a YouTube video:
Finally, I set up a short online survey for my students, asking them to watch the video, and then identify which of the clips was ‘rhubarb cluster’, and which was real conversation. Based on the method of administering the survey, I could not set up a proper choice set experiment (with random order of audio clips, for example), but I am not sure that would have affected the results much. Speaking of which…
Of the 80 students that answered the survey, around 63% could correctly identify the real conversation. By itself, that could suggest that ‘rhubarb cluster’ does not perfectly simulate audible conversation, and probably could not be used as background conversation in a film.
However, in processing the audio, I did notice something interesting about the sound levels of the three clips:
The first third of the clip is ‘rhubarb cluster’, the second is the alphabet, and the third is natural conversation. The first section has a much more stable noise level over time than the natural conversation (the third clip), even after adjusting for different average noise level. In other words, ‘rhubarb cluster’ yields a more predictable sound profile than natural conversation, especially after the burn in period. For audio engineers this could be an advantage, since it would allow them to record audio at a high volume without worrying about ‘peaking’ sound levels. Peaking sound levels results in unwanted noise and distortion on recordings, and is generally avoided in audio recording.
The experiment here was not perfect, but I think it’s fair to say that the results do suggest that when spoken by a small crowd (in a university lecture room) ‘rhubarb cluster’ is detectable on a digital audio recording, perhaps even to the majority of people hearing it.
Having written that, the idea of having a crowd of extras in a scene on a movie set saying some predefined phrase doesn’t seem totally ridiculous. It would give the crowd some predictable behaviour to simulate and it could make sound recording easier. In the experiment I conducted students could tell the difference, but perhaps a longer phrase or a longer burn in period would have made the phrase less detectable, and make the sound more natural. Perhaps I’ll try that in next year’s class!
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Neo-Marxism and the Fermi paradox
Enrico Fermi, a Nobel prize winning physicist, probably said and did many interesting things over the course of his life, but the only thing I know about him is that he is responsible for what people now refer to as the Fermi paradox.
By Department of Energy. Office of Public Affairs [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
In short, the Fermi paradox says that given the vast quantity of stars in our galaxy, and the virtual certainty that many of these stars are encircled by Earth-like planets, why hasn’t earth been visited by aliens from these planets?
There are many possible answers to this paradox, all of which are pretty speculative. A few examples:
1. Supernaturalism (god(s), magic, etc.)
2. We are regularly visited by aliens and don’t know it yet
3. Alien civilizations are waiting until the universe is a bit cooler, and it is more efficient to travel great distances (the Aestivation hypothesis)
4. Intelligent life is really, really rare
Well, I have a favourite answer to this paradox, and it’s kind of Marxist.
Before I proceed, I should say a couple of things. First, I am not a Marxist, I don’t practice or even like Marxist scholarship, and I am not making any claims about the way the world ought to be. This is more of a thought experiment than anything. Finally, I seriously doubt that I am the first to discuss this idea, so this is merely an attempt to articulate it in my own way.
Technological progress is self limiting
The basic idea here is that as any creative civilisation approaches the capability of efficient interstellar travel it simultaneously approaches the capacity to destroy itself, along with the technology for efficient interstellar travel. This places a limit on technological advancement well below what would be required for interstellar travel. I won’t inventory the many ways that technological progress can destroys itself. but just offer three possibilities.
1. Interconnections are necessary for advanced technology, but cause fragility Interstellar travel will require a great degree of coordination and interconnection. This isn’t just cooperation between people, but the interconnection of energy production, communication systems, and labour. Basically, we’ll probably rely on single interconnected systems more and more over time because they will be necessary to reach the productive efficiency required for interstellar travel. The problem is that such interconnection makes civilisations more fragile to the effects of disasters. A single failure in an interconnected system has larger effects on the system as a whole than the same failure in a decentralised and unconnected system. Think of major financial collapses; big banks are more efficient, but when they fail, watch out.
2. Production enhancing technology makes it easier for megalomaniacs to kill I have written before on the consequences of ever increasing productive efficiency on human survival. Productive efficiency boils down to how much labour is required to produce a product or service. Interstellar travel will require a great deal of productive efficiency–much more productive than we humans have now, for example. However, the downside of increased productive efficiency is that it increases the efficiency of everything–both good and bad. This means that as a creative alien species increases productivity, they also make it easy for an insane megalomaniac among them to destroy their world. Think of it this way: the scale of harm that an stone age insane megalomaniac could do was pretty limited. Today, one insane megalomaniac can do a lot of damage, and megalomaniacs of the future will have even more efficient tools for destruction. It seems inevitable that innovation in productivity would have a self-induced limit; any alien civilisation that develops technology for interstellar travel is simultaneously creating technology that enables an insane alien megalomaniac to destroy civilisation.
3. Production enhancing technology evolves too fast for societies to adapt This is kind of related to the above point, but is perhaps more speculative. The idea is that social and biological evolution (whether natural or artificial) is a slower than technological innovation, and the result is that our societies have a hard time adapting to the technology we create. Failure to adapt can produce limits on further innovation. For one, it can create resistance against the technology, some minor and short lived (like the 19th century protests against motor vehicles) and some major and long-term (like current opposition to nuclear power). It can also create conflicts between societies in possession of these technologies that impairs or even reverses innovation. Lags between social/biological evolution and technological innovation slows down and eventually halts advancements in productivity, particularly those for which the benefits to humanity are not immediately clear–as could easily be the case in interstellar travel.
None of these arguments assume much about the nature of aliens or how they organise themselves. The main assumption is that increasing productive efficiency is unavoidably paired with technological innovation. That’s why I see this as a Marxist or neo-Marxist resolution to the Fermi paradox; changes in the modes and efficiency of production drive innovation, but also create conditions for destruction, resulting in a self-induced limit on all technological innovation.
Personally, this possible limit does bother me at all, as I have never been much of a fan of aliens or space travel and exploration.
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Tuesday, October 19, 2010
Exercising during pregnancy
I meant this to be part of my Sunday Surf, because I was reading and liking "Staying Active for a Healthy Pregnancy" from Becoming Mamas, which has some great info on the benefits of prenatal exercise, and wanted to comment on it. But I ended up writing so much that I thought I'd bump it out into its own post.
I've mentioned I'm running the Couch-to-5K plan in my first trimester here. I'm about 8 weeks pregnant and just finished my sixth week in the 9-week program. Which I guess means I started just about the time we got pregnant? Even during these first-trimester queasies, getting outside and getting moving always makes me feel better.
Last pregnancy I kept up ballet class and taking my usual long walks until somewhere in my second trimester, when those stretching ligaments made the hip and back pain way too much for pliés and eventually slowed my walking (with support belt) to a crawl. At that point, it was swimming or nothing, and I did love being weightless in the pool.
This time around, I'm committing to going into my second trimester as fit as possible. (Well, within reason; I'm still the only person among my friends who doesn't have a gym membership.) I'm hoping being active now might stave off pregnancy-related pains for as long as possible.
How to exercise during pregnancy
When we were trying for Mikko, I researched a lot about exercise and pregnancy and found some outdated advice that claimed exercise is always dangerous or put a lot of restrictions on what kind of exercise you can do, most of which is nonsense.
Here's some of the actual practical advice I've gleaned:
• Exercising for most people during pregnancy is entirely safe. Always check with your midwife or obstetrician and how you yourself are feeling to make sure. If you have had previous pregnancy complications, you might be given advice to limit your activity, and that's fine. But for most, staying active is a good way to feel better, improve your sleep, and even make labor easier because you'll be in shape for it.
• If you were doing an exercise activity before pregnancy, it's generally fine to continue during the pregnancy. So if you were a dancer, you can keep dancing, and if you were a runner, you can keep running. The idea is that it might not be wise to take up a new activity during pregnancy — although I question that wisdom, personally. I took up running, as I said, and I think I'm doing it in a reasonable enough fashion that it's not an issue. I grant that it wouldn't be the best time to try to start training for a marathon that will take place in my third trimester, of course. But I know plenty of women who take up, say, yoga and swimming during pregnancy, and I can't see that that's a problem. If you weren't active before, just ease into whatever it is you want to do and stop if it hurts (or on medical advice).
• There are various standards for heart rate and core temperature that are given to pregnant women. And then I've heard one or the other debated by opposing camps. For me, I just find it too complicated to track such things. Sometimes I get hot in ballet class, but I'll just move to the window or doorway to get some fresh air. The guidelines would have me leave the class to go take a vaginal temperature (no, seriously), which — well, it ain't gonna happen. So if you want to be ultra-safe, go ahead and look up the guidelines and try to follow them. For me, I ask myself a couple things: Can I talk comfortably at this pace? If yes, then my heart rate isn't too high. Am I feeling overheated? If yes, then I calm my movements and try to find some fresh air to cool down. This isn't a medical guide, note, but I think it works on a practical level. (And the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists says there are no studies that currently link exercise with fetal distress due to a rise in maternal heart rate or core temperature; in other words, although impaired blood flow itself can cause fetal distress or birth defects, there's been no link to suggest exercise alone can cause such effects.)
• Whether you're a serious athlete or just the other side of sedentary, expect your activity level to decline during the pregnancy. Pregnancy is not the time to try to set world records in distance and speed. I'm not saying you couldn't, but — no, you couldn't. Your joints are going to change. Your breathing is going to change. Your blood volume, your center of gravity, your weight — it all affects how well you can perform athletically. And that's OK. You'll be able to pick up again at some point after the baby's born.
• If you find yourself feeling more uncomfortable in your chosen activity as the pregnancy progresses, try a different type of exercise. One that's universally recommended for pregnancy is swimming, and I can testify that having the water take all your weight away is bliss. I did have to stop doing my favorite frog kick later in pregnancy because of pelvic and hip pain, but I loved doing some slow freestyle laps and then stretching along the side of the pool, underwater. I think I'll try water aerobics if I become pool-bound this time as well. Another treat is yoga, which will give you time to stop and meditate as you stretch. A gentle walk (and/or waddle) might be tolerable. Weight lifting or pilates can give you a more low-impact workout. You might be able to come up with something more original, too, if you think: maybe kayaking (assuming the boat and life jackets are big enough for two)? Spinning? Perhaps belly dancing?
• This is up to you and the health care professionals helping you make wise decisions, but I would curtail any dangerous sports during pregnancy, or be really, really careful. While some activities may be fine early in pregnancy, or if done in a very controlled environment, increased risk of physical injury to your abdomen make them less appealing as your belly starts to protrude. Yes, the fetus is protected by the uterine wall and the amniotic fluid, but, come on — you want your baby to be safe. So I'm thinking about things like horseback riding, rock climbing, scuba diving (recommended at no time, due to compression issues), hang-gliding, downhill skiing, water skiing, hockey, boxing…I guess just consider the risks and injuries that you normally incur, and realize your baby will be experiencing that danger along with you. Even with "safer" activities, be aware of obstacles like slippery or uneven surfaces. For instance, if you normally run or bike outside, during an ice storm, you might want to head for a treadmill or stationary bicycle. And be aware of how your changing body affects the safety of a sport. Tennis, for instance, might be a no-go if your stretching ligaments cause undue stress on your ankles and make you prone to fall.
• Along the same lines, you'll probably want to step back on how vigorous your exercise is sometime in the second to third trimester. Some of this might depend on your own athletic level and how your pregnancy is progressing. For me, I plan to stop jumping in ballet as soon as I feel it's uncomfortable. I might need to keep tighter hold of the barre for balance and be careful in the center as my gravity shifts. I'll monitor how running makes my body feel and scale back if I feel too jostled. I also want to be careful not to over-stretch as my ligaments loosen, so I'll hold back when stretching during ballet class instead of pushing myself to do the splits. Your midwife or OB might have specific guidelines for you, depending on any risk factors associated with your pregnancy — and your body might surprise you by choosing its own path for when to scale back, as mine did with my pelvic pain last pregnancy.
• Beware the dreaded back-lying. Ok, I'm being a little facetious with this one, because all over the internet, you'll find dire warnings about lying on your back at all later in pregnancy, since the enlarged uterus can compress the inferior vena cava and reduce blood flow to the baby. That said, you're likely to notice if this is happening and be made uncomfortable by it (such as your legs falling asleep) so that you change positions long before the baby's health would be in jeopardy, and this is true even if you're asleep. (Although don't these warnings make you wonder why doctors prefer women to labor on their backs? Hmmm?) My take on the issue is, don't freak out if you need to perform a stretch or abdominal exercise on your back, particularly earlier in pregnancy. As your pregnancy progresses into the second trimester, cut out vigorous activity that has you lying on your back (such as weight lifting or intense yoga), just in case, and substitute it with something similar in a different position.
• Include the other little ones. If you already have children and don't have access to someone who could watch them while you work out, find ways to bring them along. You can pop a baby or toddler into a wrap or stroller while you take a brisk walk (or jog, if your stroller and older baby are up for it). You can find a mommy-and-me class that lets two of you exercise at once. Some gyms have free nurseries if your child doesn't mind a new environment. There are many DVDs geared for prenatal exercise at home; maybe your child would like to practice maternal yoga alongside you, or else you could save it for naptime or after the kids have gone to bed.
• Make sure to fuel your activities. Drink plenty of water, and eat when you're hungry. Your body will tell you what it needs.
• Wear what makes you feel comfortable. First of all, if the girls have gotten bigger and you're doing anything bouncy, make sure you get a decently supportive bra. I have had the worst time finding sports bras that fit my enhanced boobage (due to nursing as well as pregnancy), but I need something to keep my chest from hitting my chin during flying leaps, so I've been squeezing into the largest compression bras I have on hand. As for the rest of your bod, they make some stylish active wear for pregnancy now, so if you need something special, you can likely find it. If price is a consideration, check children's consignment shops for their maternity section. And I scored my maternity leotard off eBay!
Exercise and pregnancy loss
I had a chance to test out my belief that exercise during pregnancy is safe when my very first pregnancy ended in miscarriage — and the initial bleeding started just after my ballet class. I knew then that the ballet hadn't caused the bleeding; it had just sped up its descent. You might have noticed this phenomenon when waiting for your period to begin — sometimes vigorous activity can kickstart the flow. (In fact, that was Sam's and my first improvised pregnancy test this time around: having intercourse to see if my late period would come!) I knew when the bleeding started after my ballet class that the miscarriage was going to happen or not regardless of whether I'd been active that day. Even so, I rested on my left side as much as possible in the coming weeks, and I skipped my ballet classes, out of a psychological fear if nothing else. I did end up miscarrying finally at 10 weeks. When I got pregnant with Mikko, I forced myself to go back to ballet — even though I furtively checked my underwear after each class! From that experience, I learned a couple things about a comfort level with exercise during pregnancy:
• If it's uncomfortable to you, you can stop. Even mid-class or -workout, it's all right to say you're overheated or crampy and take a rest or quit for the day. Drink plenty of water and get some fresh air or lie down on your left side as you need to.
• If you miscarry, it's pointless to blame yourself. Miscarriages happen all the time, usually early on because of genetic defects that can't be helped. No matter what all those old movies show about women who would ride their horses during early pregnancy! That said, if you would feel guilty about a possible connection between a pregnancy loss and your exercise regimen, it's fine for you to slow down or stop your activity level. For instance, if you've had miscarriages or spotting before and it would make you more comfortable to take it really easy your first trimester, you do what you have to, emotionally speaking.
Weight and exercise
Now, I wouldn't normally talk about weight gain when discussing exercise and pregnancy, except that the Becoming Mamas article I referenced did. So I just want to give my own take on the exercise and weight gain connection during pregnancy, and that's not to worry about weight gain at all. I have a perspective of having midwives (in my last pregnancy) who didn't bother worrying about weight gain one bit. I was never weighed by them, and they never asked me for any numbers I'd gotten at home or on the scale that was near the bathroom. I liked keeping track, for curiosity's sake, and I gained 33 pounds, which — if you're playing along at home — is over the recommended weight gain for overweight women. To which I wave my paw and say, bah. I lost it all within 2 weeks after the birth. And I had a healthy, almost-12-pound baby. Clearly, that was the weight my body and my baby needed to gain. I don't give my specific numbers to say you should match those anymore than you should match an arbitrary chart based on averages — I give them to encourage you to eat competently, listen to your body's cues, and let the numbers be what they are. The only caveat I have is to be cautious if you're losing a lot of weight through exercise. Some women lose weight during pregnancy, or lose net weight, and the baby is fine. My mother, for instance, gave birth to 10-pound darling me but gained only 5 pounds in that pregnancy. Her metabolism simply sped up, and she couldn't get in enough food to combat the increase in calorie burning. Others, particularly in the first trimester, might be so sick they absolutely cannot keep food down. If a symptom is that common, I simply can't believe it to be universally harmful to fetal health. Sometimes people naturally gravitate toward healthier food choices during pregnancy and thereby lower their caloric intake without trying. So I don't want to overstate the risks of low weight gain or weight loss in pregnancy. That said, there might be a risk to the fetus from the release of ketones into the bloodstream, which happens when a person loses fat stores. Another potential risk is that our fat is where toxins build up, and losing fat during pregnancy will release those toxins into the bloodstream as well. Usually, if you lose weight gradually, your body can process these toxins. But, generally speaking, rapid or excessive weight loss during pregnancy (or a presumed net loss like my mom's) is a cause for concern and should be evaluated to make sure you and the baby are healthy. For instance, you might take a ketone urine test. If there are still concerns after testing, it might be a question of slowing down the fitness plan or increasing caloric intake, particularly healthy fats and proteins. If you have a psychological block to gaining weight, you might need a therapist's help. Remember, fat is good: for you and the baby. A lot of weight gain happens late in the pregnancy as the baby quickly increases in size to be healthy enough to survive on the outside. And a lot of pregnant women will find they don't gain weight on a steady trajectory but through leaps and lulls, and that's OK, too. I barely gained any weight until the third trimester last time, even though my belly grew early on, and after that it was a race as Mikko put on his own pounds. Just check in with a supportive and well-informed health professional if you have a concern over your weight gain or lack thereof.
When exercise and pregnancy might not mix
Based on the ACOG list, and to be thorough, here are people who should definitely seek medical advice before starting or continuing exercise during pregnancy:
• People with non-pregnancy-related health conditions that affect exercise safety, such as health conditions linked with heart failure or respiratory distress.
• Anyone at risk for premature labor, particularly with a multiple gestation. Diagnosis might include incompetent cervix, placenta previa, or ruptured membranes. (I can just see someone whose water's broken saying, "No, no! I need to get to my aerobics class! Just hand me a pad.")
• People suffering from pregnancy-induced high blood pressure.
• Anyone for whom exercise is going to be tough, such as those who are extremely sedentary, extremely underweight or overweight, or suffering from certain limitations such as high blood pressure, poorly controlled diabetes, severe anemia, swelling, balance issues, breathing issues, etc.
• I'm also going to add, anyone with an unresolved or reemerging eating disorder or exercise obsession. Being monitored by someone qualified to help you psychologically through the weight gain and body changes of pregnancy will be invaluable, for your health and your baby's.
• Anyone who displays warning signs during exercise:
• Vaginal bleeding
• Severe shortness of breath
• Worrisome dizziness or headache
• Chest pain
• Worrisome muscle weakness
• Calf pain or swelling
• Anything suggesting preterm labor or fetal distress, such as preterm contractions, leaking amniotic fluid, or decreased fetal movement
In general, exercising during pregnancy is safe and beneficial. Just use your head, find a helpful professional to help you with any questions and concerns, and then go enjoy the burn! And now, if you'll excuse me, I have to go start Week 7 of Couch-to-5K! What's been your experience or plan regarding exercise during pregnancy? If you exercised during a previous pregnancy, how did it affect you?
Disclosure: This post is not intended as medical advice. Please consult your health care professional and your common sense if you have any concerns about exercising during pregnancy. Product links might be affiliate links. See my full disclosure policy here.
Photos of active pregnant lovelies, from top, courtesy lewishamdreamer, Elsie Escobar, kptice, Ernst Vikne, and Ben McLeod (cc)
Kelly Hogaboom said...
I did all the activities and exercise I did before I was pregnant, while I was pregnant (which included walking, running, swimming, basketball, bike-riding). I was fortunate in that I could and I didn't have any pregnancy complications. I was as active as I was before and it was great.
I have found running is also helpful on my Lady Days. Takes the edge of the cramps for me. The only time I can't run or I caution myself is if I have a hangover, which is basically a state of dehydration.
Sybil said...
I don't have a gym membership! Though I have been seriously toying with joining the Y because it's no joining fee this month. What I love to do is swim, too, but I'm not in love with the Y's pool. If you ever want to swim together, let me know! I go to a pool in Burien.
Andrea!!! said...
I was a slug before and during my pregnancy with Ella and I feel like I really paid for it - my self esteem was low, I had so many aches and pains, it was rough. With my next pregnancy (soon I hope!) I plan on continuing my current exercise routine for as long as I can. For me, the numbers on the scale don't matter so much as how I feel - I could weigh the same, but if I'm not exercising, I just don't feel as good in general.
I think it's great you're doing the C-to-5K program! I have been following the same program off and on this summer and can now easily run 4 miles!!! That is approximately amazing for me (a fellow non-runner!)
Laura said...
I ran quite a bit during my first pregnancy, but not as much as I was before I was pregnant. I loved James Clapp's book, Exercising Through Pregnancy. But all my research then aligns very closely with what you outlined here.
Anonymous said...
I went horseback riding daily while pregnant, even past my due date. Granted, I've been doing so for years open years and ride a horse trained by me. I galloped, I jumped, I did everything as usual. Surprisingly, I found that a lot of the women at my barn rode through pregnancy, too. Not many people talk about it though. Perhaps because the warnings for horseback riding aren't necessarily geared toward regular riders but more of the "what a fun vacation, let's go horseback riding!" kind of riders? I'm not sure. What I do know is that my likelihood of injury due to horseback riding was much lower than my risk of injury in a car accident (I assessed this by how many times I've ever been injured by horse versus car accidents that were not caused by me).
My doctor was totally fine with me riding as well. But he was confident in my ability to do so.
I ran, lifted, slept on my back... and gave birth to a healthy little girl without any complication.
I will admit - I was hoping the horseback riding after my due date would shake her on out, but it didn't happen. ;)
Because of my intense exercise during pregnancy, I feel that my labor and delivery was extremely easy. I only gained six pounds throughout pregnancy (I'm considered overweight for my height) and lost it and then some within the first two weeks.
beth said...
I was very active before and after my pregnancy, but one of the things I hated most about being pregnant was that I couldn't keep up the activities I loved. My pelvis just totally gave out on me, starting around 7 weeks pregnant.
I play roller derby and knew I couldn't keep that up the whole time, but it was sad at 7 weeks not being able to skate laps without pain. I also like to run and I couldn't do that either; about the only thing that didn't hurt was swimming freestyle, so I did that, even though it was kind of boring. About 2 weeks before the kid was born, I discovered that DDR (a dancing video game) didn't hurt at all, so I bought some new discs for it but delivered the baby before I had a chance to open them!
I would like another baby someday, so my plan for next time is to keep in touch with my derby friends - maybe I can coach or do other jobs from the sidelines - and try to find a way to get excited about swimming.
Marilyn (A Lot of Loves) said...
I had a lot of pelvis issues with my pregnancies that resulted in me being barely able to walk so there was no exercise for me. I always admire and am awed by women who are able to exercise or work throughout a pregnancy. I was off work from 6 months on.
I've been offline for a bit on vacation and then dealing with sick kids so I missed your pregnancy announcement. Congratulations! That's really exciting to hear.
Kat said...
Great post! Exercise during pregnancy is so important and can help with so many things. I just love how you've listed all the things to consider to make it safe and enjoyable for pregnant women to exercise :-)
mamapoekie said...
Did I not know you were pregnant? Anyway: congratulations!!! wow that's great!!! Yay! Happy dance
Mama Wants said...
Intriguing post on the assortment of different pre-natal exercises. Concentrating on different areas of the body in small increments will aid in firming and strengthening without causing any damages to the growing fetus.
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God's Great Exchange
God’s Great Exchange
The Main Message of the Bible
“If you were to die tonight, are you sure that you would have eternal life?”
A rather bold question! But a necessary one to ask: Are you sure where you would be, if your heart were to stop beating in your sleep tonight, or if you were to suffer a serious auto accident on the highway tomorrow?
Let me ask the question another way: “When that moment comes that you leave this life and stand before God, and if He were to ask you, ‘Why should I let you into my heaven?’ what would you tell Him?
Would you say, “I’ve tried to do my best”?
Would you say, “I’m not perfect, but I’m not a criminal either!”
Would you say, “I hope God will be merciful, because I’ve got a lot to be forgiven”?
Just what would you say to God?
Well, first, we need to ask another question: “What does God say to you?”
What God Demands
You see, God has certain standards, certain requirements. What He expects of us is not that we try hard or do our best, He says rather, “Be holy, as I, the Lord your God, am holy.” (Leviticus 19:2) God demands that we be perfect. “Be perfect, as your Father in heaven is perfect.” (Matthew 5:48)
Now that’s a pretty high standard to live up to! But God is the One who sets the standards. He has made it clear what He asks of us, what He asks of all people.
His law can be summarized in two sentences: “Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind.” and “Love your neighbor as yourself.”
That’s what God asks, or rather what God demands – to love Him above everything else, and to show love to your neighbor. It’s His unchanging will for all people of all time. He demands that’s what we are to be - holy. To be holy means to be without sin, without fault, without transgressing God’s commands - even once.
And if we could do that, then eternal life would be ours. Jesus says, “Do this and you will live.” (see Luke 10:27,28)
What God Sees
Now, have you always done what God asks?
Have you always been holy, perfect? I know I’m not. I haven’t always loved God with my whole “heart, soul, strength and mind.” Yet, that’s what He asks of me. There have been times, admittedly, when I’ve put other things before God – my priorities, my pleasures, my needs. I’ve thought more of myself than I’ve thought of Him. How about you?
Have you “loved your neighbor, as yourself?” Have you overlooked someone in need? Have you failed to honor your parents as you should? Have you used your tongue to whisper gossip or to tell a lie? Have you used your eyes to look lustfully? Have you used your hands to hinder someone rather than help them? Have you used your feet to run away from responsibility, or worse, to run away from God?
Looking at ourselves, we see we have not measured up to God’s standards. God tells us what we ought to do and what we ought to avoid, but simple honesty says we haven’t done what is asked of us. In fact, we’ve done just the opposite of what God has asked.
And the Bible says that those who fall short of what God asks – those who sin – will reap the wages of sin. “The wages of sin is death.” (Romans 6:23) Every time a sinner dies is testimony to sin’s power in our world. The wages of sin is death. Although we don’t like to think of it, none of us can escape it. Death will, one day, come to us all.
So, how do we bridge the gap between what God demands of us and where we are now – falling far short of what He asks? What hope do we have?
Man-made Solutions
Well, we can try to bridge that gap on our own.
1) We can try harder. “If only I do my best, if only I try my hardest, won’t God be pleased with me?”
Remember, God says, “Be perfect . . .” not “try harder.” Even our very best falls short of perfection. And God, who is absolutely perfect Himself, won’t accept anything less than perfection.
2) We can try the balancing act. “Yes, I’ve done some bad things in my life, but if only I make up for them, all will be okay, won’t it?”
But can you “make up” for something you’ve done? Once you’ve hurt someone’s feelings, or harmed someone’s reputation, or spoken a damaging lie, can you “make up” for it by doing a good deed? Can you erase what you’ve done by trying to do good?
Once a deed is done, it’s done. You cannot “make up” for it. A lie once spoken cannot be taken back. A ruined reputation won’t return just because you try harder. Justice demands more than that.
3) What about comparing ourselves with someone else? “At least I’m not as bad as . . . ” We can easily find someone we look good standing next to – a thief, a murderer, a pedophile. Compared to them we look good.
But have you also thought: what if others could see me on the inside – what I’m thinking – all the time? Would you want someone to know your inner thoughts … about them? … about someone else? … about yourself?
No, the real test is not how we look next to someone else; the real test is how we look next to the one genuine person; how do we look next to Jesus, who was perfect, without sin of any kind? Can we even begin to match up to Him?
Trying harder … the balancing act … comparisons – they all fall short, because none of them can erase sin. None of them can forgive sin. None of them can make us righteous, holy, perfect in God’s sight. “There is a way that seems right to a man, but in the end it leads to death.” (Proverbs 16:25)
God says that even one sin will keep us from enjoying the eternal peace in heaven He desires for all people. “Whoever keeps the whole law and yet stumbles at just one point is guilty of breaking all of it.” (James 2:10) Like a mirror that is shattered and broken by one crash, or a balloon popped by a hole from one pinprick, so one sin breaks the law!
God’s Great Exchange
How do we get across that gap between where we are and where God wants us to be? How do imperfect people become perfect in God’s eyes?
At the cross of Christ! There God’s demand for holiness is reconciled with His love and compassion for sinners. There God’s justice is satisfied.
For you see, Jesus was the one perfect person to walk the face of this earth. He had no sin. Not once did Jesus cave to the pressure to sin. Not once did He allow temptation get the better of Him. He asked his enemies: “Can any of you prove Me guilty of sin?” They couldn’t! They couldn’t find one sin that would stick to Him, because He had none. He was holy. He was perfect.
By His holy, sinless life Jesus perfectly fulfilled every requirement of God to qualify for life with God now and life with God forever.
As our “stand in” Jesus kept every one of God’s commandments for us, in our place, as if we had kept it. He loved God His heavenly Father with all of His “heart, soul, strength and mind.” Never once did He flinch from loving His Father. And He loved His neighbor as Himself. He showed compassion, kindness right up to the end. “Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing.” Those were His words to those who drove the nails into his hands and feet!
Yes, Jesus fulfilled God’s demands perfectly, and then He also paid the price necessary to ransom us from our sins.
“The Lord laid on Him the iniquity (sin) of us all.” (Isaiah 53:6) The sins of anger we have committed; the sins of hatred against someone else; the sins of lust for someone else; the sins of lying to get ahead or to avoid punishment; the sins of failing to love others – all sins, every sin we have committed or one day will commit, Jesus took them all to the cross.
God placed on Him the punishment we deserved. God made Jesus guilty of our sins, as if He had committed them. He was innocent, of course, but He took the punishment. You can hear the note of victory in John’s voice when he points to Jesus and says, “Look, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world.” (John 1:29)
Our debt to God has been paid! “It is finished!” Jesus said from the cross. (John 19:30) He completed what He came to do. He paid the ransom price for the whole world of sinners – for you, for me, for all!
Jesus did what we couldn’t – live a perfect life – and He endured what we deserved – the punishment for our sins. And now, through faith in Him, this great gift of salvation becomes ours. “God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life.” John 3:16
Yes, it is true, “the wages of sin is death” but it’s just as true, “the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.” (Romans 6:23) A gift is not earned, but given. God in His mercy and grace also freely gives the gift of eternal life. We couldn’t earn it. We certainly don’t deserve it. But by grace (undeserved love), He gives it freely. “For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God—not by works so that no one can boast.” (Ephesians 2:8,9)
Augustus Toplady, the hymnwriter, says it this way:
Nothing in my hand I bring, Simply to Thy cross I cling.
Rock of Ages, Cleft for Me
The Answer
If we are asked by God, “Why should I let you into My heaven?” in faith we point to Jesus and say,
He’s why You should let me into Your heaven. Your Son opened the way to heaven for me.
He’s my Savior.”
“Believe in the Lord Jesus and you will be saved.” Acts 16:31
For more help or information from the Bible, contact one of our pastors at Immanuel Evangelical Lutheran Church, 40 Coleman Road, Long Valley, New Jersey 07853
Pastor Donald Tollefson email: [email protected] Phone: 908-876-5429
Pastor Mark Voss email: [email protected] Phone: 908-867-7179
"Let us fix our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Finisher of our faith." ~ Hebrews 12:2
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Give yourself the gift of luxury by installing a towel warmer wall unit in your bathroom. You can choose from several different types of racks depending on how much money you want to spend and how much effort you want to expend during the installation process.
The most basic type of electric towel warmers are freestanding models that plug simply into an electrical. These models can easily be transformed into a wall unit by purchasing a mounting kit. Many manufacturer's offer these kits for an additional fee and you can usually pick one up for somewhere between $15 and $25.
Another towel warmer is the type that replaces a radiator in your bathroom. These towel racks hook into your water supply and the hot water running through the rails is what heats your towels. Experienced do-it-yourselfers can probably handle the installation of these racks by themselves but novices will want to hire someone to avoid any accidents or damage. Of course, if you have an old radiator in your bathroom, you already have a free towel warmer, although it probably doesn't look as sharp as a heated towel rack.
Other wall mounted towel racks are hardwired into your electrical system and use electricity to heat your towels, just like the ones you plug into the wall. While this might sound complicated, the installation process is similar to installing new lights in your bathroom. Again, experience DIY enthusiasts can probably handle this but if you feel iffy about dealing with electricity, call an expert.
Once you figure out what type of towel warming rack best fits your needs, it's time to think about price. If you've already decided on a hardwired model, you might be in for a case of sticker shock real soon. The cheapest free standing, plug in electric warmers seem to run $50 and up. Add in a wall mounting kit and you're looking at $65 yo $75 at the bare minimum.
The hot water and hardwired electric models start at approximately $100 and they go up to over $7000. No, that's not a typo, there are towel racks on the market that cost more than seven thousand dollars. It's a high price to pay for a little luxury, but if money is no object, you can get some really cool looking towel holders.
If money is an object, make sure to shop around. Amazon seems to have a pretty good selection of electric towel warmers that range from about $70 to $200. This is really one of those items that it's worth waiting for a sale to buy. Of course, that isn't very comforting if you're shopping during those nippy winter months.
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Cashing In on Insurance Policies
I have a couple of Accidental Death, Dismemberment and Loss of Sight Benefit policies. I got them with some loans I applied for. They are paid in full. Is there any way I can cash them in?
The only way that you can "cash in" on these policies is if they have some cash value attached to them. Since these policies were associated with loans (and I'm presuming the loans are paid off), the value of the policy is likely nil.
In most cases, the only kind of insurance policy that you can cash in is Whole Life Insurance.
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CHINESE-IRANIAN RELATIONS xii. Mutual Influences in Painting
xii. Mutual Influences in Painting
In the Chinese cultural sphere Persian artistic influence was at its peak under the Tang dynasty (618-906 c.e.), contemporary with the end of the Sasanian period (30/651) and the first centuries after the Islamic conquest. The reciprocal influence of Chinese art in Persia was apparent in contemporary ceramics (see xi, above) and other small arts but cannot be observed in painting before the Il-khanid period (654-736/1256-1336). These mutual influences were transmitted through a variety of media, and, as always when artists of one culture are exposed to works from another, only those aspects that were particularly compatible with local tastes were emulated and adapted.
Sasanian and early Islamic periods. The 6th- and 7th-century (Sui dynasty, 581-618) frescos in the Buddhist caves at Dunhuang (Tun-huang) include pearl-bordered roundels containing horsemen hunting lionesses, probably derived from Sasanian models, as well as a number of motifs associated with the Sogdian art of Pyandzhikent (Gray, 1959, pl. 33B, from cave 427; cf. Survey of Persian Art XIV, pp. 3076-77 figs. 1138-39; see also caves of the thousand buddhas). Sasanian Persian art also strongly influenced Tang metalwork and wall paintings, for example, those found in the tombs of the Tang princes Yide (Li Zhong-run, 682-701) and Zhang-huai (Li Xian, 654-84) in Gan xian, Shensi province, where images like one of a woman under a tree were clearly derived from motifs on Sasanian silver vessels (Murals, pls. 38-43, 27-29). Even the Tang painter Wu Dao-xuan was said to have been influenced by Central Asian cave paintings (Eberhard, p. 183). On the other hand, except for a few surviving illustrated Manichean manuscripts found in Central Asia (See chinese turkestan vii. manicheism in chinese turkestan and china), there is little evidence of Chinese influence on painting from the Iranian world. A travel account of the mid-Tang period (ca. late 8th century), Jing xing ji by Du Huan, mentions a Chinese captive from the “battle of Talas” (Ṭarāz, on the steppes north of the Alai river) in 133/751; he spent several years in the ʿAbbasid capital, probably Kūfa (Pelliot). Two Chinese painters, as well as Chinese weavers and potters, are also mentioned, but there are no surviving signed works of such Chinese artists, nor is there any visible trace of Chinese influence on the style of Islamic painting and metalwork from this period, though it was very strong on contemporary Islamic ceramics.
II-khanid period. Although artists under the Saljuqs could have adopted certain East Asian elements from northern China in the Liao (907-1125) and Jin (1115-1234) periods, the rarity of extant contemporary Persian paintings prevents their being identified. Eastern influence on Persian painting first becomes noticeable in manuscripts illustrated during the reign of the Il-khanids, when the center of artistic and cultural activity was their capital, Tabrīz, which was in direct contact with China via the trade routes through Central Asia. Most Persian paintings in “Chinese style” are assumed to have been produced there. The Chinese impact on various aspects of Persian painting is particularly evident in such court manuscripts as the Manāfeʿ al-ḥayawān by Ebn Boḵtīšūʿ copied at Marāḡā in 697 or 699/1297 or 1299 and now in The Pierpont Morgan Library, New York (no. M 500; for illustrations, see, e.g., Gray, 1961, pp. 20-21); two fragments of Rašīd al-Dīn’s Jāmeʿ al-tawārīḵ in the library of the University of Edinburgh (no. Ar. 20; Rice) and a private collection in Switzerland (formerly in the Royal Asiatic Society, London; Gray, 1978), dated 707/1307 and 714/1314 respectively; and the dispersed fragment of a manuscript of Ferdowsī’s Šāh-nāma formerly owned by the dealer Benjamin Demotte and known as the great Mongol Šāh-nāma (Grabar and Blair).
An important way in which Chinese influence on the painting of this period manifested itself was in the use of a softer, more delicate and sinuous line and shading, in contrast to the boldly outlined areas of flat color that characterized Persian painting (e.g., “Lion and Lioness,” fol. 11r, from the Morgan Manāfeʿ; Gray, 1961, p. 20).
Lighter, more subdued coloring also clearly reflected the impact of Chinese taste, approximating the monochromatic tonality of ink painting (e.g., “The Sacred Tree of Buddha,” fol. 36v, from the former Royal Asiatic Society Jāmeʿ al-tawārīḵ; Gray, 1961, p. 24). The scant available evidence suggests that Persian painters had traditionally preferred to crowd the picture space with a large number of motifs concentrated in the frontal plane, but in this period they learned from the Chinese to place their figures more effectively in space. The devices of superimposing several planes (e.g., “Alexander and His Warriors Fighting a Dragon” from the great Mongol Šāh-nāma, now in a private collection in Paris; Grabar and Blair, color pl. 34) and arranging figures and motifs in overlapping rows on the manuscript page (e.g., “Battle of Alexander with the Dragon” from the Mongol Šāh-nāma, now in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, no. 30.105; Gray, 1961, p. 28) may have been adapted from Chinese conventions for producing a sense of depth. The use of a bird’s-eye view may also have been an adaptation of the basic perspective of Chinese painting (e.g., “Alexander Builds the Iron Rampart” from the great Mongol Šāh-nāma, now in The Sackler Collection, Washington, D.C., no. s86.0104; Lowry and Nemazee, pp. 86-87).
Although Persian manuscripts of this period include many vertical compositions, the horizontal format of Chinese hand scrolls was also adopted; figures were arranged horizontally and in lateral motion, often breaking through the frame and thus suggesting an extension of the picture space. The opposite device of allowing the frame to cut off parts of figures and motifs had long been known in China, particularly in bird-and-flower paintings (Sugimura, pp. 104-05); it, too, was adopted in Persia. (For these compositional devices, see, e.g., “Moses Scolds the Makers of the Golden Calf,” fol. 52r, and, from the summary of the Rāmāyaṇa, “Ravana, King of Lanka, Lying Dead,” fol. 30v, from the former Royal Asiatic Society Jāmeʿ al-tawārīḵ; Gray, 1978, nos. 32 and 24). The style of figure drawing was also influenced by Chinese taste. The use of line and shading to suggest volume and the placement of figures in the picture space to suggest interaction were all devices known to Tang painters and were revived in the Yuan period, when they had an impact on the painting of the Timurids, particularly those preserved in albums in Istanbul and elsewhere (Steinhardt; Sugimura, pp. 27, 29 n. 42, 113).
The Chinese sense of harmony in nature had resulted in the development of landscape painting, whereas the Persians, accustomed to a harsher environment, painted idealized settings that they expected to find only in paradise (Moynihan, p. 48; Burckhardt, pp. 31-36); representation of human figures predominated over backgrounds, which were designed simply to suggest the surroundings. In the Il-khanid period, however, Chinese landscape paintings stimulated Persian painters to emulate their blasted trees with gnarled trunks and dead branches; stylized rocks and mountain formations, sometimes with double outlines reminiscent of Taang blue-and-green landscapes; scalloped patterns and whirls of moving water, with crested waves; and convoluted clouds, the so-called ling zhi clouds. All these elements were known in Sung and Yuan paintings and appeared on 14th-century blue-and-white porcelains and textiles. Other decorative motifs included real or fantastic animals like the dragon, the phoenix (fenghuang), the “unicorn” (qilin, in Western sources sometimes written qui’lin, a composite horned creature with cloven hooves), and the crane, usually represented in landscape settings. Even details of Chinese costume were sometime depicted, perhaps because these fashions had actually been adopted by the Il-khanid rulers of Persia. For example, the so-called “mandarin square,” an ornamental gold-embroidered cloth panel on the front of the caftan, was apparently popular from the early 7th/14th century (See clothing vii. mongol and timurid)
Although Chinese landscape conventions and motifs were gradually assimilated, they did not fundamentally alter traditional Persian conceptions. The original Chinese symbolic and mythological associations of animals were, for example, largely unknown to Persian painters, who occasionally adapted such images to myths familiar in their own cultural heritage, as in the representation of the mythical bird sīmorḡ in the form of a phoenix (see, e.g., two versions of “The Sīmorḡ Carrying Zāl to His Nest in the Alborz Mountains” from Ferdowsī’s Šāh-nāma: Tabrīz, ca. 772/1370, fol. 23a in Emmet Hazine no. 2153, Topkapı Sarayı Müzesi, Istanbul, Gray, 1961, p. 41, and Isfahan [?], ca. 998-1009/1590-1600, fol. 12b in no. 277, The Chester Beatty Library, Dublin, Arberry et al., III, pl. 41; and “The Sīmorḡ Restores the Child Zāl to His Father Sām,” ca. 848/1444, fol. 16b, from Jāmeʿ al-tawārīḵ, no. 239, Royal Asiatic Society, London, Lentz and Lowry, p. 158 no. 43).
Timurid and subsequent periods. In the 8th/15th century active diplomatic and trade relations were maintained by sea between the Timurid and Ming courts (Rossabi, 1973; idem, 1976, p. 28; Serruys, p. 540 and n. 7). Large numbers of works of art and a considerable number of artists traveled between the two countries. The Persian painter Ḡīāṯ-al-Dīn Ḵalīl Naqqāš, who accompanied an envoy from Prince Šāhroḵ to the Ming court in 823-25/1419-22, has left an important though fragmentary record of his journey, preserved most fully in Zobdat al-tawārīḵ-e bāysongorī by Ḥāfeẓ-e Abrū (d. 833/1430; Maitra; Thaekston, pp. 279-97; cf. Storey, I, pp. 295-96 with n. 1). In this period Persian painting incorporated a new array of motifs, originally imported on Chinese ceramics and textiles. The mandarin square became increasingly popular, and the “cloud collar,” a kind of stole with shaped edges, also began to appear frequently. The importation of Chinese artifacts initiated a vogue for chinoiserie, exemplified in the leaves of the so-called “Fatih albums” (believed to have belonged to the contemporary Ottoman sultan Mehmet II Fatih, 848-50/1444-46, 855-86/1451-8, in the Topkapı Sarayı Müzesi, Istanbul (nos. 2152-54, 2160), and several albums in the Nationalbibliothek, Berlin (West), originally published by M. S. İpşiroğlu. These albums contain original Chinese drawings and prints on silk and paper, as well as Persian copies (Loehr); the subjects range from the religious (Buddhist and Taoist) to the historical and literary. Beginning in the Sung period, a considerable number of Chinese paintings on silk must have reached Persia, where they were emulated by painters in the Timurid court workshops. The large-scale horizontal compositions, as well as the subject matter, suggest that the models were Chinese hand-scroll paintings. Many of the album paintings and drawings in “Chinese style” were not originally manuscript illustrations but were independent compositions. The album itself, a new format in Persia in the Timurid period, may also have been inspired by Chinese models. In addition to pictorial works, albums usually include examples of calligraphy in various styles. Such albums remained popular with the Mughal descendants of the Timurids in India (Beach, 1978, pp. 26ff.; idem, 1981, pp. 156ff.). The Timurid album leaves in Chinese taste are assumed to have been completed in Herat and other Persian cities; none of them was produced by a Chinese master, nor can the individual style of even a lower-class Chinese painter be identified. The Yuan revival of the Tang style played a greater role than the contemporary Ming style (Lee and Ho, pp. 4, 30ff.; Cahill, pp. 35, 38, 39ff.).
The technique of Chinese ink painting and baimiao hua (drawing in ink without shading) stimulated the development of Persian drawing at the end of the 7th/14th century. Early 8th/15th-century marginal drawings in this style can be seen in a dīvān of the poems of Sultan Aḥmad Jalāʾer. (r. 784-813/1382-1410, with interruptions) now in The Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. (no. 32.35; see, e.g., Gray, 1961, p. 49); they recall the delicacy and virtuosity of Chinese brushwork. In subsequent centuries such marginal drawings were particularly associated with the works of the much earlier Chinese painter Li Gonglin (ca. 1040-1106), but there is insufficient evidence to regard him as a source. One source for the minute and delicate representations of birds, flowers, dragons, and such landscape elements as dead trees with spiky branches and floating mushroom clouds might be Sung and later porcelains.
Many Chinese paintings of birds and flowers, naturalistically rendered in the Sung period, as well as copies by Persian painters, are included in the Istanbul albums. Although this genre was not developed extensively in Timurid Persia, it became quite popular under the Safavid Shah ʿAbbās I (996-1038/1588-1629) and remained in favor until the 13th/19th centuries (see, e.g., “Bird on a Branch,” by Reżā, ca. 1019/1610, Seattle Art Museum, “Birds, Butterflies and Blossoms,” by Šafīʿ ʿAbbāsī, 1062/1651-52, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Welch, pls. 11, 58 respectively; and “Rose and Nightingale,” 12-13th/18-19th century, and “Withering Plants and Insects,” 1151/1738-39, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, Mass., Simpson and Welch, pls. 41-42).
Persian painters tended to borrow small isolated elements from Chinese painting and to reorganize them, assimilating them to their own traditional aesthetic concerns. For example, a flowering branch, sometimes behind a balustrade or fence, a motif borrowed from Chinese painting, was often combined with a more traditional figural composition (e.g., “An Attempted Murder Frustrated,” from a copy of Kalīla wa Demna in the library of Istanbul University, no. F.1422, fol. 11v; Gray, 1961, p. 38; “Couple under a Flowering Tree,” a painting on silk in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, no. 14.545; Grube, pl. 15).
Despite Persian admiration of Chinese style and adoption of a considerable number of Chinese motifs, Chinese influence did not fundamentally alter the themes, style, iconography, and technique of Persian manuscript painting.
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T. W. Lentz and G. D. Lowry, Timur and the Princely Vision. Persian Art and Culture in the Fifteenth Century, Los Angeles and Washington, D.C., 1989.
M. Loehr, “The Chinese Elements in the Istanbul Miniatures,” Ars Orientalis 1, 1954, pp. 85-89.
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E. B. Moynihan, Paradise as a Garden in Persia and Mughal India, New York, 1979.
Murals in the Tombs of Li Hsien and Li Chung-jun of the Tang Dynasty (in Chinese with English summary), Peking, 1974.
P. Pelliot, “Des artisans chinois à la capitale abbasside en 751-762,” T’oung Pao 26, 1929, pp. 110-12.
D. T. Rice, The Illustrations to the “World History” of Rashid al-Din, ed. B. Gray, Edinburgh, 1976.
M. Rossabi, “Cheng Ho and Timur. Any Relation?” Oriens Extremis 30, 1973, pp. 129-36. Idem, “Two Ming Envoys to Inner Asia,” T’oung Pao 62, 1976, pp. 1-34.
H. Serruys, Sino-Mongol Relations during the Ming II: The Tribute System and Diplomatic Missions (1440-1600), Mélanges chinois et bouddhiques 14, Brussels, 1967.
M. S. Simpson and S. C. Welch, Arab and Persian Painting, Cambridge, Mass., 1980.
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(Toh Sugimura)
Originally Published: December 15, 1991
Last Updated: October 17, 2011
This article is available in print.
Vol. V, Fasc. 5, pp. 458-460
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1996 Re-Mastered - international re-master (2011)
1996 Re-Mastered
1996 Re-Mastered is Ryuichi Sakamoto's '1996' album (from the same year) remastered and including a bonus track, 'Self Portrait'.
"The album 1996 contains 12 pieces arranged for violin (Everton Nelson, David Nadien, or Barry Finclair), cello (Jaques Morelenbaum), and piano (Ryuichi Sakamoto), including both new compositions and music used in the soundtracks to The Last Emperor, Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence, The Sheltering Sky, and High Heels. The music is for the most part restrained and reflective, as Sakamoto makes use of the contrasting timbres of the chamber instrumentation, mixing melodic and rhythmic effects soothingly (the exceptions being the more quick-moving "M.A.Y. in the Backyard" and "1919," which uses a barely audible voice and staccato playing to stirring effect)." -allmusic.com
01. A Day a Gorilla Gives a Banana
02. Rain
03. Bibo No Aozora
04. The Last Emperor
05. 1919
06. Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence
07. M.A.Y. in The Backyard
08. The Sheltering Sky
09. A Tribute to N.J.P.
10. High Heels (Main Theme)
11. Aoneko no Torso
12. The Wuthering Heights
13. Parolibre
14. Acceptance (End Credit) - Little Buddha
15. Before Long
16. Self Portrait
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Adventures in Pickling
Happy Sunday!
It's so nice in New York City today. After waking up early I went to my favorite new grocery store in the neighborhood, Union Market, and bought some pickles.
I love pickles and, lately, I've had the urge to try and make them myself. I think it started a few months ago when I bought something called "new pickles." They're really green and crisp and look like they haven't been pickling for long, so I researched how they're made and learned that they're not actually pickled, but brined.
Here's a picture that shows the difference between a normal pickle and a new pickle. (The new pickle is the really green one.)
I LOVE them and started eating them like crazy (although I'm sure they're loaded with salt), and then I thought, I bet I could make these! So that's when I decided to become a pickler.
Now, I've have this dream for when I get older... I'm going to move to Big Sur and live by the beach where I'm going to make soap and candles and knit. (I might even get some alpaca and make my own yarn. If alpaca can live in Big Sur; I haven't looked into that yet.) I was going to wait until then to start my pickling adventure, but I've given it some thought and think I'm just going to do it now.
Dill-wise, I love McClure's. Has anyone tried them? They're awesome. (But expensive.)
Has anyone made pickles before? I'm thinking about buying this book to help get me started:
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Setup allows you to set basic features of EchoLink. Choose one of the tabs along the top to view the MyStation, Servers, Timing, and Audio options. Each of these tabs is described in detail below.
MyStation Tab
The MyStation Tab configures the system mode, callsign, and other information about your station.
Mode: Choose the appropriate mode for EchoLink. The following modes are available:
• Single-User (no radio connected to your PC)
• Sysop (System operator; radio locally connected to PC)
For a complete description of each mode, see Modes
Callsign: Set the callsign exactly as you wish to be registered. If you have already registered, use the same callsign you used previously. The callsign must be at least 3 characters long and may not contain spaces or punctuation, except as part of an -L or -R suffix.
If you have selected Sysop mode, put an -L or -R at the end of your call, to indicate a "repeater" or "link", respectively (for example, K1RFD-L). Use -L if the link is tuned to a simplex frequency or -R if the link is tuned to the frequency pair of a local repeater.
If you have selected Single-User mode, do not use a suffix after your callsign.
Password: If you have registered previously with EchoLink, type your original password here. Otherwise, select a password you can easily remember, and it will be assigned to you as you register. Once established, you cannot select a new password using EchoLink, but if you realize you had entered it incorrectly, you can re-enter it after choosing Change Callsign.
For protection against casual glances, the password is shown only as a series of asterisks. To display the actual password, click the question-mark icon.
Store password locally: Leave this box checked if you want EchoLink to store your password on the PC (encrypted). This will allow EchoLink to log on automatically each time the program is started. If your PC is used by others, you may want to un-check this box. If this box is not checked, EchoLink will prompt you for the password each time the program is started.
Change Callsign: As a precaution against inadvertent changes, you cannot enter a different callsign or password without first choosing Change Callsign. Note that if you are connected to another station, you will be disconnected when you change callsigns.
Name: Enter your first name here. This name will appear on the other station's screen when you establish a contact.
Location: Enter the location of your station, or a description of its function. This will appear in the list of available users. Examples: "Ridgefield, CT", or "Link to W2ABC/R, NYC".
Email Addr: Enter your e-mail address. This is used only if EchoLink Support needs to contact you.
Servers Tab
The Servers tab configures the connection between EchoLink and one or more Registration Servers. Registration servers maintain information about which stations are registered, and which are currently on the system. Normally, this information does not need to be changed.
Pref 1 through Pref 4: Shows each of the server names (or addresses), in order of preference. If the server at Pref 1 cannot be contacted, the server at Pref 2 will be tried, and so on down to Pref 4.
Reset to Defaults: If you had found it necessary to change any of servers in the list, choose this option to restore the original settings. You will be asked to indicate in which region of the world you are located. This information is used by EchoLink to select the best combination of servers closest to you.
Retry Timeout (sec): Specifies the number of seconds EchoLink will wait while trying to contact each of the servers on the list. If the time expires without success, EchoLink moves to the next server on the list. The default is 10 seconds.
Automatically Dial Connection: If your computer uses a dial-up modem to connect to the Internet, check this box if you wish to have EchoLink dial and establish the connection when EchoLink starts. If more than one phonebook entry is defined, choose the desired one from the drop-down list.
If you use a dial-up Internet service but prefer to dial the connection before starting EchoLink, do not check this box.
Disconnect on Exit: When Automatic Dial is enabled, checking this box will cause EchoLink to drop the connection when EchoLink closes.
Proxy Tab
The Proxy tab sets options related to EchoLink Proxy servers. A Proxy is a convenience for EchoLink users who are behind restrictive routers or firewalls, such as public Wi-Fi "hotspots" or other shared public networks.
An EchoLink Proxy can be set up either as public or private. Private proxies are generally for the benefit of one specific user, wherease public proxies are offered for use by any EchoLink user who needs it.
For details on the EchoLink Proxy system, please see the Proxy page on the EchoLink Web site.
• No Proxy (Direct Connect): Choose this option for normal EchoLink use. When this option is chosen, EchoLink connects directly to other nodes in the EchoLink system, without using a proxy.
• Use Specific Proxy: Choose this option to have EchoLink use a proxy for all connections. Enter the host name (or IP address) of the proxy, along with its port number and password. The default port number is 8100. This option is normally used to designate a private proxy.
• Choose Public Proxy: Choose this option to access a public proxy. A list of available public proxies is displayed in the drop-down list when you click the small down-arrow icon on the right. Choose a proxy from the list, then click OK. The proxy's address, port number, and password are automatically entered.
The Public Proxy option is not available if EchoLink is running in Sysop mode.
When using a public proxy, please be aware that public proxies are scarce, shared resources. Priority should be given to EchoLink users operating in restricted public networks. If you are operating EchoLink at home and experiencing firewall-related problems, please try to troubleshoot the problem rather than using a public proxy. Direct Connect uses less Internet bandwidth and is typically more reliable.
Timing Tab
The Timing tab configures several of EchoLink's time-out timers. Limiting the time allotted to certain features helps assure smooth operation of EchoLink and other stations on the system.
Connect Attempt: Specifies how long EchoLink will try to establish a connection with another station. If there is no response from the other station by this time, EchoLink cancels the request. The default is 30 seconds.
Transmit Time Limit: Specifies how long EchoLink will allow a single transmission (from this computer to another station on the Internet) to be. If the time limit is approaching, a special warning message appears near the bottom of the screen. If the limit is exceeded, EchoLink automatically stops transmitting. The default is 210 seconds. Enter 0 to configure no such time limit.
Receive Time Limit: Specified how long EchoLink will allow another station's transmission (from the Internet to this computer) to be. If the limit is exceeded, EchoLink automatically disconnects the other station. Enter 0 (the default) to configure no such time limit.
Inactivity Timeout: Specifies how long EchoLink will allow a connection to remain connected if neither station is making a transmission. If the time limit is exceeded, EchoLink automatically disconnects. Enter 0 to specify no such time limit, which is the default.
Receive Hang Time: Specifies how long EchoLink remains in "receive" mode after the remote station has stopped sending. This value is specified in milliseconds (1 second = 1000 ms). The default is 1200 ms, or 1.2 seconds. This value should rarely be changed.
Audio Tab
The Audio tab lets you specify which of your PC's sound cards to use, and select certain other audio-related options.
Input Device and Output Device: Specifies the sound card(s) or device(s) EchoLink should use for its audio. This is useful when EchoLink is used on a PC with more than one sound card installed. In most cases, the [system default] setting is appropriate for both items; when this choice is selected, EchoLink will use the Record and Playback sound devices that have been set up in your Windows Control Panel.
If you are running Windows Vista, the choices in the Input Device list may include two or more input jacks on the same sound device. For example, if you have a sound card with a Microphone input and a Line input, you may see these two choices listed as though they were separate devices.
Note: In Single-User mode, signals are always played using the Windows default playback device, irrespective of these settings. See Signals.
Mic Type: If you are running in Single-User mode, choose the type of microphone you have connected to your PC. The choices are Communications Mic and General-Purpose Mic. The default setting is Communications Mic, which applies no shaping to the microphone audio. However, if you are using a general-purpose mic with a flat response, you might be able to improve intelligibility by choosing General-Purpose Mic, which adds a "boost" in the upper and midrange frequencies, to mimic the response of a communications-type mic. Note that this setting has no effect on audio received from other stations over the Internet, nor does it have any effect in Sysop mode.
Open in Full Duplex: Check this box only if you sometimes receive an error message, when you begin transmitting, about EchoLink being unable to open the sound device. When this box is checked, EchoLink will keep the sound device open for Recording at all times while the program is running. Do not check this box if your computer uses a "half duplex" sound card or driver.
Auto Sample Rate Compensation: Check this box to allow EchoLink to compensate automatically for variations among sound cards. Some sound cards may operate as much as 2% away from the desired sample rate, which can cause periodic gaps in received audio, even over a perfect Internet connection. When this feature is enabled, EchoLink detects this problem and inserts or removes packets to compensate for it dynamically. You might perceive this compensation as a slight skip or echo periodically.
300 Hz High-Pass Filter: Check this box to invoke a software-based DSP filter which rolls off outbound audio below 300 Hz. This is often useful to remove bassiness and various pops and "booms" from your audio, particularly if you are using a PC-style or general-purpose microphone. This can also be used to filter out PL tones from a local RF signal in Sysop mode, if your receiver does not roll off audio below 300 Hz. This filter does not affect incoming audio (audio received over the Internet).
Fine Tuning: Adjusts the sampling rate of your computer's sound device. For best results, EchoLink requires that the sound device run at 8000 Hz. However, some sound cards are significantly off-frequency, which can cause periodic audio drop-outs. If you suspect this is the case, the sound card can usually be forced to run slightly faster by choosing a positive Fine Tuning amount, or slower by choosing a negative amount. However, please note that some sound cards do not allow this setting to be adjusted, in which case this adjustment will have no effect.
Calibrate: Choose Calibrate to have EchoLink automatically estimate the appropriate Fine Tuning amount by comparing the sound card's sample rate to the computer's high-resolution timer. However, note that this estimate is not always accurate, due to the effects of other applications running on your system. If in doubt, choose 0 as the Fine Tuning amount, which is the default.
Recording Mode: Enables or disables the auto-recording feature, and when enabled, specifies the recording mode. See the Record and Playback for more information.
Folder: Click this button to choose the folder in which EchoLink should save the audio files it records. This folder will also be the default folder for locating Playback files. By default, this is a subfolder called "wav" in the subfolder in which the EchoLink program file is installed.
Note: If you are running Windows 98 or above, you can choose Adjust Volume from the Tools menu to adjust the Playback or Recording audio levels. On all versions of Windows except Vista, you can also choose the Sounds icon in your Windows Control Panel, or double-click the loudspeaker icon which appears near the bottom right-hand corner of your screen. For more information, see Sound Card Adjustment .
Performance Tab
The Performance tab lets you make adjustments to compensate for a slow computer or slow (or fast) Internet connection.
Network Buffering: Controls how much data EchoLink will accept from the Internet before it begins to play it. This technique is known as "buffering", and helps ensure that incoming audio does not sound choppy due to variations in the timing of the Internet. Moving the slider to the right (for more buffering) may produce smoother audio on your system if you are connected to the Internet over a slow link, such as a dial-up modem. However, the further the slider is moved to the right, the longer the delay.
PC Buffering: Controls how much data EchoLink will send to your PC's sound card at once. As with Network Buffering, this technique helps ensure smooth-sounding audio. If your PC is an older machine, or is running other tasks at the same time (particularly if there is a lot of hard-disk access), you may get smoother performance by moving the slider to the right.
The illustration above shows the default positions of these two sliders, which is recommended for normal operation.
Total Audio Delay: Displays the estimated delay between the moment the remote station speaks to the moment you hear the sound from your speakers. This value is updated automatically as you move the Network Buffering and PC Buffering sliders, so you can see the total effect.
Reset to Defaults: Returns the Network Buffering and PC Buffering sliders to their default positions.
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Simple Steps To Remember When Shopping For Auto Insurance
20 Dec
Simple Steps To Remember When Shopping For Auto Insurance
Auto insurance can be riddled with complex wording and terminology that you do not understand. It can really seem to be so confusing at times. The goal of this article is to help you better understand insurance terms that agents use. Understanding what the terms really mean can help you want to make more informed decisions about your auto insurance.
Every company has its own algorithms to decide your premium. You will find the policy that is most affordable and best suited to you by consulting with several different companies.
Cut back on how much you drive in a year and you’ll cut down on the insurance bill. Most insurance providers will actually decrease the amount of your premium if you drive.
Think long and hard about what type of coverage you need on your auto insurance. There are many different levels of coverage, but they may not all make sense for your situation. If you tend to have accidents, it may be worthwhile to pay for collision coverage.
This can blow up in your face if you need to make a large claim, but as long as you’re willing to set aside money each month to cover the cost of your deductible in case of an accident, you might come out ahead in the end. Your insurance rate will often be considerably lower if you choose the higher deductible.
Take an inventory of all of them, in order to ensure you take advantage of these price savers.You may be shocked at how much these discounts there is a lot of money to be saved.
Get quotes from many different insurance agencies before you decide on which one for your car. You will most likely need to shop around in order to find the best one.
After reading this article, you should have the confidence to make your own decisions when it comes to purchasing auto insurance. Learning about the various discounts, terms and policy types that abound in auto insurance will help you to be a better proponent for yourself and your policies.
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10 Best Easy Rock Guitar Songs
These ten songs are all easy guitar rock songs for the beginner guitarist. They are all rock songs with a wide variety of era; going from Joan Jett to Twisted Sister to Greenday.
1. “Every Rose Has Its Thorn,” by Poison. This song is typically one of the first songs guitar players learn because of its simplicity. It contains only four basic chords; G, C, D and Em.
2. “Knocking on Heaven’s Door,” by Bob Dylan and Guns N’ Roses. Another four-chord song was made famous by two different artists. This top ten easy guitar song is one of rock’s greatest tunes ever. It contains the chords G, C, D and Am.
3. “Wonderful Tonight,” by Eric Clapton. Eric Clapton made this easy guitar rock song famous years ago and it is still a popular song at weddings and for cover bands to do. It contains five chords; G, D, C, Em and Am.
4. “House of the Rising Sun,” by the Animals. This is one of the top ten easiest guitar rock songs ever, and one of the most popular. It contains the chords Am, C, D, F and E7.
5. “I Remember You,” by Skid Row. A popular hair band from the ‘80’s came out with this easy rock song. It contains the chords G, C, D, Am and Em.
6. “When I Come Around,” by Greenday. This rock song is a little more modern than the others and contains five basic chords, G, D, Em, C and Am. It is a fun and easy song to play on guitar.
7. “I Love Rock ‘N Roll,” by Joan Jett. For chic-rock guitar players, this is one of the easiest rock guitar songs to learn. It has three chords, E, A and B. It’s fun to play and sounds great.
8. “We’re Not Gonna Take It,” by Twisted Sister. Twisted Sister was a popular band in the ‘80’s and this song is one of the easiest songs to play on guitar. It has the chords E, Eb, C#, B and A.
9. “Take it Easy,” by the Eagles. Another easy guitar rock song was made famous by the Eagles. It has five basic chords in it: G, D, C, Em and Am.
10. “All Right Now,” by Free. This two-chord song is guitar’s easiest song ever. Containing the chords A and D, many beginner guitar players learn guitar by starting with this easy guitar rock song.
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CTG, LULC Grid Cell
CTG, LULC Grid Cell
LULC (Land Use Land Cover) data for locations in the United States has been provided by the USGS (U.S. Geological Survey) over the years using several different formats. Legacy LULC data sets are often found that use two different formats for LULC data for the same region: the GIRAS (Geographical Information Retrieval and Analysis System) vector format, and CTG (Composite Theme Grid) raster format. CTG format is also known as Grid Cell format since it is often published in a file called grid_cell. LULC data in these formats can usually be found for each of the 1:100K and 1:250K regions traditionally served by USGS.
LULC Grid Cell Files
Files in either CTG or GIRAS format do not use three-letter extensions. For example, downloading and then decompressing any compressed files for the San Francisco 100K LULC data set from USGS will result in five files, as seen in Windows File Explorer:
One of the files, the grid_cell file, is raster data in CTG format. The other four files contain vector data in GIRAS format. The five files provide the following information:
It is not always easy to remember that the grid_cell file uses a different format, so Manifold users often will rename the grid_cell file to grid_cell.ctg to indicate it is a raster file in CTG format, a different format used than the other four files.
The grid_cell.ctg file can then be imported into Manifold using the CTG dataport.
To import from LULC CTG format:
1. Choose File-Import from the main menu.
2. In the Import dialog browse to the location of the file.
3. Chose the . Files (CTG LULC) (*.*) option.
4. Double-click on the the grid_cell file or grid_cell.ctg file.
5. A table and four images will be created.
The four images each use a different tile column in the grid_cell Tiles table.
For a step-by-step example of importing and using Style with a CTG file, see the Example: Import CTG Grid Cell File and Style topic.
Projections - CTG grid cell format stores projection information so normally the imported images will be in the correct coordinate system.
Classification Codes - The value for each pixel in the grid_cell LULC is a classification code that can be matched to a palette color to provide a more understandable display, as illustrated in the Example: Import CTG Grid Cell File and Style topic. USGS defines the following codes:
1 Urban or Built-Up Land
11 Residential
12 Commercial Services
13 Industrial
14 Transportation, Communications
15 Industrial and Commercial
16 Mixed Urban or Built-Up Land
17 Other Urban or Built-Up Land
2 Agricultural Land
21 Cropland and Pasture
22 Orchards, Groves, Vineyards, Nurseries
23 Confined Feeding Operations
24 Other Agricultural Land
3 Rangeland
31 Herbaceous Rangeland
32 Shrub and Brush Rangeland
33 Mixed Rangeland
4 Forest Land
41 Deciduous Forest Land
42 Evergreen Forest Land
43 Mixed Forest Land
5 Water
51 Streams and Canals
52 Lakes
53 Reservoirs
54 Bays and Estuaries
6 Wetland
61 Forested Wetlands
62 Non-forested Wetlands
7 Barren Land
71 Dry Salt Flats
72 Beaches
73 Sandy Areas Other than Beaches
74 Bare Exposed Rock
75 Strip Mines, Quarries, and Gravel Pits
76 Transitional Areas
77 Mixed Barren Land
8 Tundra
81 Shrub and Brush Tundra
82 Herbaceous Tundra
83 Bare Ground
84 Wet Tundra
85 Mixed Tundra
9 Perennial Snow and Ice
91 Perennial Snowfields
92 Glaciers
Oceans may be coded with a value of 2000000102 or 0.
See Also
Assign Initial Coordinate System
GIRAS, LULC Vector Format
Example: Import CTG Grid Cell File and Style - We import a CTG grid cell file containing raster data showing land use and land cover and then we use Style to provide a more understandable display.
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Tuesday, June 12, 2012
The Highs & the Lows
I used to host a link up here called Hi&Low - I like the idea to talk about the best and worst of your day. I don't know if I'll do it again, but it's a good way to remember to talk about the good as much as we talk about the bad. That's the essence of the title of my blog - Daily Venting & Exclamations...when you're venting about the bad stuff that happens, don't forget to say prayers of thanks & exclaim for all the good things, too!
I think this picture is a good visual of that - the evolution of a fit in a two year old...
Evolution of a fit! Always comes back to Mommy making it better!! #son #kisses
I don't remember why he was upset now (b/c it isn't important) - but I think I wouldn't let him have chips while I was cooking dinner - he went through his fit, though and when I sat on the floor with him he crawled up in my lap, cried on my shoulder, and then in a bit I got kisses from him and all was forgotten.
The bad stuff makes all the good stuff that much better. I think if God didn't throw in a little bad now and then we would get too comfortable and forget to give Him thanks for all the good - b/c the good is so good. That kiss made the fit fade away like it never happened!! I would give anything if my babies were all smiles all the time, but that isn't how life is...I'm just thankful that I am able to kiss their tears away and I hope they always turn to me for that.
1. Poor guy.. life is so tough at that age! ;)
2. Life is so tough! He's cute though ;) My little guy does the same thing - I can't help but laugh at him. Sometimes he will come up and hit me and right before I get after him he gives me kisses, brat!
Thank you so much for visiting my blog!!
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Tuesday, February 01, 2011
Seitei jo kihon in 31 jo kata
Jo and aikido go together like peas and carrots. But what kind of jo? There are several jo systems that various aikido classes use as an adjunct to aikido, including
• Shindo Muso-ryu Jojutsu (developed feudally)
• ZNKR Seitei Jo (developed 1968)
• aikijo and aikiken (developed pre-war by Ueshiba and formalized in 1973 by Saito)
One distinctive feature of Aikijo is its pair of extended, solo kata titled (uncreatively) the 31-step kata and the 13-step kata. Seitei Jo does not have this sort of prolonged solo forms and from what very little I've seen of the Koryu Jo, neither do they.
31-jo kata is interesting as an exercise when you do not have a partner because it provides a method of practicing some of the same kihon as found in Seitei Jo - but within a context of aiki-like movement. The Seiteijo kihon that are easiest to identify in 31-jo kata include:
• tsuki (both honte and gyakute)
• honteuchi
• gyakuteuchi
• hikiotoshi uchi
• kaeshizuki
• gyakutezuki
• makiotoshi
• kuritsuki
• kurihanashi
More kihon analogous to stuff in Seitei Jo are probably in 31-jo kata but I just haven't been able to find them yet. In any case, 31-jo kata makes for an interesting solo exercise when you don't have a jo partner available to help keep your jo skills honed.
[photo courtesy of Quemando Chirucas]
Patrick Parker
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It's so good that 4.1 million Botox procedures were performed last year, according to the American Society of Plastic Surgeons. That's nearly an 8 percent increase from 2005.
It's certainly got the vote of Dr. Greg Wiener, a Chicago-based surgeon who specializes in cosmetic and reconstructive plastic surgery. He injects patients with Botox, a substance derived from botulinum toxin, an average of 10 times a week.
"Botox works so well because it paralyzes the muscle," he says. "When you're doing other injectables, (like Restylane and collagen), they don't work that way. You're putting something beneath the wrinkle to flatten it out."
But don't write off those fillers just yet.
Such techniques, which work well at lip plumping and filling in smile lines, as well as many technologically advanced skin creams, have a place on your face, dermatologists say. Many even offer benefits Botox doesn't. Some fillers, for example, last longer than Botox while reducing deep wrinkles and crows feet.
"The biggest fallacy is that there is really one magic ingredient," says New York City-based dermatologist Dr. Dennis Gross, whose MD Skincare range includes line softeners such as hyaluronic acid, vitamin C and retinol.
Bad-talking Botox
Though Botox has its fans, others take issue with that fact that it masks the problem, rather than improving it.
Navin Geria, vice president of research and development for the Spa Dermaceutical Products Group, a New Jersey-based consumer product development company that specializes in custom development of anti-aging skincare and products for dermatologists and spa chains, says that a new range of anti-aging technology called cosmeceuticals (cosmetics that companies say possess drug-like affects) will go a step further. Over a period of time, he says, they will visibly reduce wrinkles and prevent future wear and tear.
This includes DNA nanotechnology and stem-cell technology.
In its European markets, for example, cosmetic company Juneva of Switzerland sells a product called DNA Skin Optimizer Fluid, which promises to help aging skin cells to renew and duplicate themselves by targeting the nuclei — Juneva says skin takes on a fresher, smoother appearance within days of use. The fluid was developed in conjuction with Laboratoire des Substituts Cutanés in Lyon, France in 2004. There is no set date for U.S. release so if you want this wrinkle zapper, you'd better book a flight across the pond.
The fruits of stem-cell technology, on the other hand, can be found at Bloomingdale's. Amatokin, which retails for $173 for 1 ounce, is said to target stem cells, and in doing so claims to renew old skin, reduce wrinkles and even out tone.
Other alternatives are not as pricey.
Cheaper choices
Alpha Hydroxy Acids (AHAs), including glycolic and lactic acids, have been the basis for chemical peels and potions for years, and can be found in formulas costing less than $100. They slough away old skin cells, revealing more youthful-looking skin and reducing the look of wrinkles. And vitamin C, which only several years ago became available in topical form, is used to heal sun-damaged skin. It, too, is being used in brands available at drugstores.
Still, Botox gets the nod from many familiar with the market's smorgasbord of wrinkle reducers.
"There are products that will make the skin look younger and firmer, and it can happen but not overnight," says Wendy Lewis, a beauty industry consultant. "And there really is no other injection that does what Botox does."
Other experts say your best bet is a two-fold approach. Gross advocates using multiple products with a meaningful concentration of active ingredients.
"Even people getting injected should be doing this," he says. "Botox is just a Band-Aid — these products are targeting the reason for collagen breakdown."
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DON IMUS, MSNBC HOST: “Please welcome now to the IMUS IN THE MORNING program, the junior senator from the state of Massachusetts, Senator John Kerry.”
SEN. JOHN KERRY (D) MASSACHUSETTS: “Good morning, Don Imus.”
IMUS: “Good morning, Senator Kerry .”
KERRY: “Good morning. Good morning. Yes, yes, yes, yes. Is Barnicle out there cheerleading?”
IMUS: “Yes, he is. “
KERRY: “I see you've assembled your usual crowd of folks on work release out there.”
IMUS: “You know, I had to threaten these bastards to get them to cheer for you, you know.”
KERRY: “ Right. Listen a threat from you is a threat indeed . “
IMUS: “How are you?”
KERRY: “I'm doing great. It's been about a month, Dick Cheney hasn't shot anyone. We're doing great . “
IMUS: “ I had senator -- senator -- Governor Mitt Romney on this morning. Do you like him?”
KERRY: “Listen, I get along fine with him. I was a little worried when he started talking about your beautiful bright blue eyes. “
IMUS: “Well, we do have gay marriage here in Massachusetts, so... “
KERRY: “Well, is that an invitation?”
IMUS: “You know, I was talking with -- before we talk about stuff that maybe you're interested in, I was talking with Senator Dodd the other day about this Combating Autism Act. And I said, is there any way you can call the CDC and talk to Gaberdeen, whatever her name is over there, who's apparently not a nice woman, get them to get behind this, and so -- you know, this might be hard to believe. He actually followed up and did that.”
KERRY: “Chris is terrific. That's Chris Dodd. He's superb. “
IMUS: “And the CDC apparently does support it, and do you know anything about it?”
KERRY: “I do. And let me tell you an amazing story. During the early days of Katrina, UPS very, very kindly, and so did FedEx, put together a couple of planes to fly stuff down. So I flew down to Lafayette to take the UPS down there and deliver it to those folks. And the UPS driver, I rode in the truck with the UPS driver, just he and myself, all the way to Baton Rouge, and he was talking, just started to talk. He tells me that he's got twins, and one of the twins got sick. The doctor says, well, we've got to give him a vaccination. They give him the vaccination while the kid is sick, and within days, this kid starts changing and showing symptoms. Low and behold, these are identical twins, same DNA, same (INAUDIBLE), the whole deal, same egg. And that child who was vaccinated has autism today. And this family is struggling with it. And they believe, they believe as deeply as they can, it's the thymerasol that caused this reaction.
This is -- you find this all over the country. You and Deidre have been terrific on this issue. And yet, we still have mercury in vaccinations around the country. It's absurd. I don't get it. We ought to stop, and we ought to pass that bill. “
IMUS: “Well, the Combating Autism Act actually does provide some funds for research, because we really don't know. We know that thymerasol is a neurotoxin, and that it's ethyl mercury, and it's 50 times stronger than the mercury we'd find in fish for example and so on. There's all kinds of statistics. But there really hasn't been -- despite what people say. And believe me, I've talked to a lot of them. There's been no definitive determination whether in fact there is a link between autism and thymerasol .”
KERRY: “That's absolutely true. That's absolutely true. Look, If I were a parent and I knew what I know just anecdotally from across the country, I wouldn't want it, and I wouldn't want to put it in my kid. And I think...”
IMUS: “Well, the CDC said...”
KERRY: “ ... parents ought to have that choice and that right. In fact, they do. Many of them are saying they're not going to do it, but a lot of them don't know about it.”
IMUS: “The CDC in fact says that now. But the Combating Autism Act really is primarily to build these centers around the country, to provide these parents with the ability for early detection, with therapy and some financial support and that sort of thing, and there will be some research. But to think of it as a thymerasol bill, it isn't that. I mean, maybe...”
KERRY: “Well, it's to try start down the road, Don.”
IMUS: “ Exactly.”
KERRY: “ What I'm saying is that in a lot of choices you have to make in public life, you make them on a basis on a sort of cautionary principal. I mean, that's true, for instance, of global warming. I can't say to a certainty exactly what's going to happen, and the models differ about what's going to happen. But I can say to an absolute certainly, and I just got a NASA briefing on this the other day, that if things stay exactly as they are today, absent some unpredictable change in what's going on, within the next 30 years, the Arctic ice sheet is gone, not maybe, not if, the Arctic ice sheet is gone. And already you have the Greenland ice sheet beginning to melt. The Greenland ice sheet, unlike the Arctic ice sheet, is on rock. It's out of the water. If that melts, you have a level of sea increase that wipes out Boston Harbor and New York Harbor. I mean, It's just stunning what we're looking at. And yet, there's no -- Europe, other countries are responding. The United States remains oblivious. Or at least the administration remains oblivious. “
IMUS: “Where are you this morning, some fancy hotel?”
KERRY: “I wish I was. I'm like you. I'm in Washington. We just finished voting on this horrible budget. It passed 51-49. We've got a $9 trillion debt now. The administration is determined to get people who earn more than $1 million a year (INAUDIBLE) to a billion dollars worth of tax cuts next year, and they're going to leave the veterans budget, you know, cut, and people like you have to go out and do the Fallen Hero's Fund. It's crazy . “
IMUS: “You know who was here this morning, Setti Warren.”
KERRY: “You got him up early.”
IMUS: “Well, he was here at 5:00, 5:30. I asked him -- what does he do for you again? “
KERRY: “He's a terrific guy. He's my deputy chief up in Boston. He's in charge of working with a lot of the companies up there, and works also with the press. “
IMUS: “ I asked him if you were running for president again; he wouldn't tell me. Are you?”
KERRY: “Setti, what am I doing? “
IMUS: “ He's holding up -- he's got his fingers up and they're crossed .”
KERRY: “Yes, he's doing good. Listen, I'm going to make that decision down the road. I know that you and others sort of have a quick take on the thing. But everybody had a quick take during Howard Dean, and I'm not worried about it. “
IMUS: “Back on the original vote for the Iraq war, if you'd had voted your conscience instead of the way you did vote -- No, a serious question, knowing what you know now, would you still have voted to authorize the president to go?”
KERRY: “Obviously not. No way. And I said during the campaign. I said it's the wrong war, wrong place, wrong time. I said -- look, I think everybody has made it clear that at the time, given the information that we were given, I believe it was the right vote. It was a vote based on seven-and-a-half years of destroying weapons of mass destruction, and then we lost the inspectors. We had a two-year period of no inspectors, even though we'd been destroying weapons for seven-and-a-half years, and the CIA tells you, he's got weapons. I think it was the right vote. If I'd been president, I'd have wanted that power. But the president said he was going to do meticulous planning. He said he would exhaust the remedies of the inspections and the U.N., and he said he would go to the war as a last resort. He broke every one of those promises. And everything, every step of the way -- you just listen to Colin Powell, who tells you, there was a small cabal run by Dick Cheney and people in the White House. They captured the policy. They didn't even look at the State Department plans for the post-war period. I went to Georgetown University in January of 2003, and I said, Mr. President, do not rush to war. The difficult part is not winning the ground war, it's winning the peace. And that's exactly what's happened. “
IMUS: “Talking with Senator John Kerry here on the IMUS IN THE MORNING program. It's 20 minutes until the hour. Let's say you had been elected and we are where we are now with the war in Iraq. What would you do now to get us out, or to resolve it? “
KERRY: “I think you have to put it to the Iraqis and put it tough. This is ridiculous that we've taken three months since the election. There's no government. Young Americans -- you know, I was talking to Jack Murtha the other day. He was up at Bethesda Hospital, and said he saw a kid who could move his eyes. That's it. Can't move any other part of his body. His mother has been sitting by that bed for a year, and you got a lot of other kids over there who are giving their lives, and their limbs and shedding blood while the Iraqis are playing around, trying to figure out who's up, who's down. You know, the last election, everybody said the mistake that was made is they lost the momentum after the election. They weren't going to let it happen again. Well, they've let it happen again. And I think we sought to just tell them, look, you got, you know, whatever it is, X number of days. You put this thing together or we're out of here. And once you have put it together, we negotiate a period by which we shift it entirely over to them, get out, because if you don't do that, this is going to continue, and our guys are going to stay stuck in the middle of a civil war.”
IMUS: “Well, who would deliver that message? “
KERRY: “Well, it ought to be delivered by the president and the secretary of state. What they do -- you know, this ambassador over there, Ambassador Khalilzad, who's a good man. And I was over there about a month ago. He's working as hard as he can. But you need to have more diplomatic lift. You need to have a much more serious diplomatic effort to try to pull the other countries, the Sunni neighbors in the community and others, to pressure them. You know, this is the third war, in effect, in Iraq. This first war was the war against Saddam Hussein and alleged weapons of mass destruction. The second war was against the jihadist, with the theory that it's better to fight them over here than fight them over here. Now you've got the third war, and that's for democracy and for their freedom, et cetera. Well, the problem is, it's really a civil struggle. And even General Casey and others have said, this can't be resolved militarily, it's got to be resolved politically. But you don't see the kind of effort you saw with a Henry Kissinger or a Jim Baker, or any number of other people historically who lift diplomatically to make something happen .”
IMUS: “The Dubai Ports Deal resolved to your satisfaction?”
KERRY: “Well, you know, I think that was -- I mean, there was a certain amount of noise factor in that, Don, as you know. The issue to me is not fundamentally ownership standing alone, it's security, port security. And, again, I raised that issue in the campaign. Only back then, it was about three percent of our containers that are actually inspected. Now it's five percent. So ninety-five percent of the containers that come in to the United States aren't inspected. That is crazy. It's just absurd, and there is technology out there. There are system that could be put in place. They've refused to spend the money. And you stand up and you look at the priorities. Once again, veterans are being cut. The post-traumatic stress disorder is up among the vets coming home. You've got about a 300 percent increase of the divorce rate in the officer corps of our military. The National Guard is being stripped. You have enormous need for veterans to have long-term care, because we've got more people who are amputees, more people surviving, because the quality of the, you know, immediate triage and care. These guys are being cut, so people earning more than a million a year can get a tax cut. You know, I get so sick of those guys running around talking about values when those are the choices that are being made. That's just -- it's wrong. “
IMUS: “You know, while you were talking, I started thinking about something else.”
KERRY: “Well, I'm sorry about that. “
IMUS: “I don't mean that. I don't know why I do that. Actually Charles and I just agreed to stay with CBS Radio for some more time. But I mean, that's not good, is it, senator. I mean, I got to start paying attention . “
IMUS: “How is Theresa doing?”
KERRY: “ She's doing great . “
IMUS: “She's not ready to, you know...”
KERRY: “ No.”
IMUS: “She still loves you? OK, good.”
KERRY: “ Yes. St. Patrick's Day, celebrate, break out the green ketchup.”
IMUS: “I still, I don't think I understood -- I was talking to Governor Romney, for example, about the Dubai Ports thing, and he started talking about how it was an opportunity to examine who manages our ports and that sort of thing, but that would have never come it had it not been, you know, the Arab Emirates.”
KERRY: “The real issue is security. “
IMUS: “So, but I mean, we're told by a number of people, like people who I respect, like Tom Friedman, like David Brooks, like other folks like that, that they weren't going to have all that much to do with the security aspect of it. And I guess, my question is, most of the American people thought it was insane to turn it over to a company primarily of Arabs. But there were some responsible people who thought that that was ridiculous, and it was an opportunity for us to make some desperately needed friends in that part of the world, so that's what I ask you know, is kind of...”
KERRY: “ Well, it hadn't been vetted, and you know, they take part in the Arab boycott against Israel. Are you going to turn it over to them? I just think there was a lot of issues that weren't thought through and they weren't vetted, and it was appropriate to oppose it. “
IMUS: “Always nice to have you on the program.”
KERRY: “Glad to be here. I've got a good St. Patrick's Day here. We're going out with David Gregory. “
IMUS: “You are?”
KERRY: “No, I'm -- I heard your interview the other day. It was funny.”
IMUS: “Thanks very much, Senator Kerry. I appreciate it.”
KERRY: “Good to be with you. Take care.”
IMUS: “Senator John Kerry on the program. “
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Photos of Earth, Taken 900M Miles Away
We're just a dot in NASA pics
By Matt Cantor, Newser User
Posted Jul 23, 2013 3:48 AM CDT
This July 19, 2013 image from the Cassini spacecraft shows the planet Earth, annotated by NASA with a white arrow, lower right, below Saturn's rings. (AP Photo/NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute)
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(Newser) – Stunning new pictures taken from near Saturn and Mercury make our planet look pretty insignificant. We're just a tiny dot next to Saturn in an image taken by the NASA spacecraft Cassini, Space.com reports. That makes it a little tough to see that some 20,000 humans were reportedly waving toward Saturn when the picture was taken. Saturn was experiencing a total eclipse of the sun at the time; that meant Cassini could snap its shot of Earth, some 898 million miles away, without getting damaged by the light.
"Cassini's picture reminds us how tiny our home planet is in the vastness of space, and also testifies to the ingenuity of the citizens of this tiny planet to send a robotic spacecraft so far away from home," says a Cassini scientist. For pictures of Earth taken from Mercury—a mere 61 million miles away—on the same day, head to Space.com. (Read more NASA stories.)
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The "Dive Shot".
Lacrosse is a team sport that is played with ten players (men's field), six players (men's box), or 12 players (women's field), each of whom uses a netted stick (the cross) in order to pass and catch a hard rubber ball with the aim of scoring goals (each worth one point traditionally, but Major League Lacrosse uses a two point goal for goals scored from a distance of 16 yards or greater.[1]) by propelling the ball into the opponent's goal. The team scoring the most points after two halves, of varying length from competition to competition, and overtime if necessary, wins.[2][3][4]
Most popular in North America, lacrosse is Canada's national summer sport.[5] It has grown in popularity in the United States, becoming the fastest growing sport at the high school and NCAA levels.[6]
In its current form, men's lacrosse is played on a field of grass or artificial turf (such as FieldTurf). Each team is composed of ten players on the field at a time: three attackmen, three midfielders, three defenders and one goaltender. In men's lacrosse, players wear protective equipment on their heads, shoulders, arms, and hands, as body-checking is an integral part of the game, and stick checks to the arms and hands are considered legal. Women's lacrosse is played in a similar manner except with two additional midfielders per team. Players of women's lacrosse (in the United States only) need only wear protective eyewear (except for the goaltender, who wears additional padding, usually consisting of a helmet, shin guards, and chest pad, and most goalies do not wear arm pads), as contact is not permitted apart from minor stick-checks.
The game was named lacrosse by early French spectators. It is widely and inaccurately believed that the name stems from the French term "cross," for the shepherd's crook-like crosier carried by bishops as a symbol of office. Jesuit missionary Jean-de-Brébeuf noted the resemblance between the crosier and the shape of the racket stick in the Relation des Jésuites around 1640. In fact, the term cross is a general word in French for any type of bat or stick used in a ball game. The name lacrosse is simply a reflection of this term, and perhaps a shorthand for a phrase such as le jeu de la cross (the game of the stick).[8]
"An Indian Ball-Play" by George Catlin, circa 1846-1850.
Lacrosse has witnessed great modifications since its origins in the fifteenth century, but many aspects of the sport remain the same. In the Native North American version, each team consisted of about 100 to 1,000 men on a field that stretched from about 500 yards to a couple of miles long.[10] These lacrosse games lasted from sun-up to sun-down for two to three days. These games were played to settle inter-tribal disputes, to toughen young warriors in preparation for future combat and to give thanks to the Creator. The Alqonquin tribes referred to the sport as "baggatway".[10] The game became known to Westerners when a French Jesuit Missionary, Jean de Brébeuf, saw the Iroquois Natives play it in 1636.[11]
Richmond Hill "Young Canadians" lacrosse team, 1885.
A "pee wee" game in progress
In Canada, the Canadian University Field Lacrosse Association has been operating a collegiate men's league since 1985 and now includes 12 varsity teams which span from London, Ontario to Lennoxville, Quebec. On the women's side, ten varsity teams, from London, Ontario to Montreal, Quebec, compete in the Ontario University Athletics conference.
At the professional level, there are 13 National Lacrosse League (indoor) teams; ten in the United States and three in Canada. In Major League Lacrosse, there are ten teams, all of which are based in the United States, and two more expansion teams are set to play in the 2008 season. The Australian Lacrosse League has three teams; one for each of Victoria, South Australia and Western Australia.
The highest level of box lacrosse (Senior A) has two leagues in Canada: the Western Lacrosse Association (sanctioned by the BCLA) for British Columbia, and Major Series Lacrosse (sanctioned by the OLA) for Ontario; both with seven teams each.
Men's lacrosse
Diagram of a men's lacrosse field.
Outdoor men's lacrosse involves two teams of ten players each competing to project a small ball of solid rubber into the opposing team's goal. The field of play is 110 yards (100 m) long and 60 yards (54 m) wide.[2] The goals are 6 feet (1.8 m) by 6 feet, containing a mesh netting similar to an ice hockey goal. The goal sits inside a circular "crease," measuring 18 feet (5.5 m) in diameter.[2] Behind the crease is the area designated simply as "X." Typically one Attackmen will remain at "X" in most types of offensive setups.
Players line up with three offensive players called "attackmen," players who shoot on the opposing team's net; three "midfielders" or "middies," who shoot on the opposing team's net as well as defending their own net; three "defensemen," who guard their own team's net; and 1 designated goaltender, or "goalie" who stands inside the "crease" and blocks incoming shots. Each player carries a lacrosse stick measuring between 40 inches (101.6 centimeters) and 42 inches (106.68 centimeters) long (a "short cross"), or 52 inches (132.08 centimeters) to 72 (182.88 centimeters) long (a "long cross").[2] The designated goalkeeper is allowed to have a stick from 40 inches (101.6 centimeters) to 72 inches (182.88 centimeters) long. The head of the cross on both long and short crosses must be 6 inches or larger at its widest point and 2.5 inches wide or wider at its narrowest point.[2]
A men's lacrosse stick head
The head of a goaltender's cross may measure up to 15 inches (38.1 centimeters) wide, significantly larger than field players' heads to assist in blocking shots.[2] Goalies at the youth levels commonly use short crosses because they are not capable of handling the true 60 inch goalie cross. Although most attackmen and midfielders utilize short crosses, defensemen carry long crosses, and one midfielder on defense may carry a long cross.[2] Some teams choose to distribute their sticks differently, not uncommon because a team may only have four long crosses on the field during live play, excluding the benches and penalty boxes. Most modern sticks have a metal shaft, usually made of aluminum or titanium, while the head is made of hard plastic. Metal shafts must have a plastic or a more popular rubber cap or ("butt") at the end. The heads are strung with string, leather, and mesh. The strings in the "pocket" are called shooting strings and accuracy or "v" strings.
Lacrosse players must wear helmets and gloves and also typically wear shoulder and elbow pads and sometimes they wear rib pads.[3] Athletic supporters and protective cups for all players are also strongly recommended and often required.[12]
• Attackmen: There are three Attackmen on the field at one time. The Attackmen use "short-sticks." Attackmen must demonstrate good stick-handling with both hands and they must be able to handle the pressure of the opposing defenseman and they are also the people who score goals.
• Defensemen: There are three Defensemen and one long stick midfielder allowed on the field at a time. Defensemen use "long-poles." The Defensemen uses his stick to throw checks and try to dislodge the ball. The "long-poles" may also play mid-field as a strategic defender, aka a Long-stick middie (LSM). Teams usually use this to anticipate losing the face-off and be stronger on defense.
• Midfielder: Commonly referred to as "middies," three Midfielders are allowed on the field at once. There are two types of Midfielders, the defensive and offensive. The two can rotate by running off the sidelines. The Midfielders are allowed to use short-sticks and up to one long-pole. While on offense three short-sticks are generally used for their superior stick-handling. While on defense two short-sticks are used with one long-pole. Some teams have a designated face-off middie that takes the majority of face-offs and is usually quickly substituted after the face-off is complete.
• Goalkeeper: The goalkeeper's job is to prevent the ball from getting into the goal. Goalies also direct the team defense. Goalies need to be tough both physically and mentally. Also the Goalie needs to be the loudest player on the field calling the position of the ball at all times so the defense can concentrate on the man they are covering instead of where the ball is. The Goalie needs to be able to keep his composure on the field while enduring pain from shots that are capable of reaching over 100 MPH.
Since men’s lacrosse is a full contact sport, with players wearing complete protective equipment, “checking”—striking opponents’ stick or body with the stick—is legal and very much part of the game.
A face-off
Each team starts with ten players on the field: a goalkeeper and three defenders in the defensive end; three midfielders free to roam the whole field; and three attackers in the offensive end. Each quarter starts with a “face-off” in which the ball is placed on the ground and two “face-off-men” lay their stick horizontally next to the ball, head of the stick inches from the ball and the butt-end pointing down the midfield line.[2] Face-off-men scrap for the ball, often by “clamping” it under their stick and flicking it out to their midfielders, who start on the wing restraining line near the sideline and sprint in when the whistle is blown to start play. Attackers and defenders cannot cross their “restraining line” until one player from the midfield takes possession of the ball.[2] A face-off also restarts the game after each goal.
Time continues to run in dead ball situations such as in between goals, with two exceptions: when the referees deem it necessary to avoid a significant loss of playing time, for example when chasing a ball shot far away or during care of an injured player; and in the last three minutes of the fourth quarter of any men’s game.[3]
Personal fouls
• Slashing: Occurs when a player hits another player uncontrolled, in the back, below or on the knees, or in the helmet/neck.
• Tripping: Occurs when a player obstructs his opponent at or below the waist with the cross, hands, arms, feet or legs.
• Cross Checking: Occurs when a player uses the handle of his cross between his hands to make contact with an opponent.
• Illegal Cross: Occurs when a player uses a cross that does not conform to required specifications. A cross may be found illegal if the pocket is too deep or if any other part of the cross was altered to gain an advantage, such as the stick being shorter than the required length in order to make it harder to check. (In addition, the penalized player may not use the illegal cross for the remainder of the game). A head must also not be too pinched so the lacrosse ball cannot come out.
An example of a "Push from behind" or "Illegal Body Checking"
• Other Illegal equipment: not having a mouthguard, or not having it in the mouth, open ends on the shaft of the stick (no butt end), no shoulder pads, no arm pads (in most leagues, goalies do not have to wear arm pads so they can move their arms faster to block shots. The minimum amount of pads a goalie needs are helmet, throat guard, gloves, chest protector,and cup)
Technical fouls
• Holding: Occurs when a player impedes the movement of an opponent or an opponent's cross, or a player has his cross in between the arm pads and the players body.
• Illegal Start: Occurs when a wing player passes the wing sideline before the faceoff whistle blows.
• Time Delay: (Goalie Only) When the Goalie is in possession of the ball for more than the allotted time while in the crease or fails to clear the ball in the allotted time.
• Warding Off: Occurs when a player in possession of the ball uses his free hand or arm to hold, push or control the direction of an opponent, including pushing him off.
• Mouthguard Fouls: Not having a mouthguard, not having in the mouth or taking in or out of the mouth (also known as chewing on the mouthguard). (Under ILF-Rules no mouth guard is required) [2]
Box lacrosse
National Lacrosse League game
Canadians most commonly play box lacrosse, an indoor version of the game played by teams of six on ice hockey rinks where the ice has been removed or covered by turf; the enclosed playing area is called the box, in contrast to the open playing field of the traditional game.[13] This version of the game was introduced in the 1930s to promote business for hockey arenas, and within a few years had almost entirely supplanted field lacrosse in Canada.
In box lacrosse the goal is smaller (4'9" X 4') than in outdoor lacrosse, and the goaltender is usually bigger, with considerably more padding.[13] The attacking team must take a shot on goal within 30 seconds of gaining possession of the ball, and play is rougher than in the field game with the allowance of crosschecking (see below).[13]
Indoor lacrosse is a version of box lacrosse with slight rule changes–the games are played during the winter,[13] not only in regions where summer lacrosse is popular but also in regions where lacrosse is rarely played in summer. This version of the game was intended to be less violent than box lacrosse, although changes in box lacrosse rules have reduced some of its violent play and a change in indoor lacrosse rules to permit crosschecking (hitting another player with the stick with one's hands apart on the shaft) have made it more violent. The chief differences between the two forms of the indoor game now are that indoor lacrosse games consist of 4 x 15 minute quarters compared with 3 x 20 minute periods in box lacrosse, and that indoor lacrosse players may use only sticks with hollow shafts, while box lacrosse permits solid wooden sticks.[14] Indoor lacrosse is always played on artificial turf (sometimes called "carpet"), while box lacrosse is usually played on bare concrete.[13] Comparably, field lacrosse is played on a standard size field.
Today, there are 13 different teams in thirteen different cities playing the National Lacrosse League.
Men's professional league
One of the fastest growing professional sports leagues on the planet, Major League Lacrosse has captivated fans since its inception in 2001. 2006 MLL World Champions the Philadelphia Barrage boast star players midfielder "middie" Roy Colsey, defensemen Kyle Sweeney, goalie Brian Dougherty, and attackmen Ryan Boyle, amongst others. MLL expansion in 2006 has solidified lacrosse hotbeds of Denver, CO (with the Denver Outlaws), and fostered continued growth in Los Angeles (Los Angeles Riptide), San Francisco (San Francisco Dragons), and Chicago (Chicago Machine).
Rochester, New York (Rochester Rattlers), East Brunswick, New Jersey (New Jersey Pride), Washington, D.C. (Washington Bayhawks), Boston, Massachusetts (Boston Cannons), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania—games played in Downingtown, PA (Philadelphia Barrage)—and the Long Island Lizards comprise the "original six franchises" of MLL.
In the 2007 MLL collegiate draft, the first overall selection (by the Chicago Machine) was Pennsylvania State University senior midfielder Patrick Heim. The 2007 Major League Lacrosse Championship was won by the Philadelphia Barrage led by Matt Striebel.
Other leagues
While Major League Lacrosse is growing by leaps and bounds, professional lacrosse is also played at the high school level, collegiate level (NCAA Lacrosse) as well as in the National Lacrosse League.
Women's lacrosse
2005 NCAA Women's Lacrosse Championship where the Virginia Cavaliers lost to the Northwestern University Wildcats
The rules of women's lacrosse differ significantly from men's lacrosse and are specifically designed to allow less physical contact between players. As a result of the lack of contact, the only protective equipment required is eyewear and a mouthguard.[4] Although these are the only protective equipment, there are still many injuries due to accidental checks to the head and the overall aggressiveness of the sport. The pockets of women's sticks are shallower than those of the men, making the ball harder to catch and more difficult to shoot at high speed. Women play with three attackers (or "homes"), five midfielders (or "middies"), three defenders (starting from the back, called "point," "cover point," and "third man"), and one goalie.[4] Seven players play attack at one time and seven defenders are present.[4] There is a restraining line that keeps the other four players (plus the goalie) from going into the attack. If those players cross the line, they are considered offsides and a penalty is given.[4]
In women's lacrosse, players may only check if the check is directed away from the ball carrier's head.[4] Also, players may only check using the side of their stick. If caught by one of the referees using the flat of the head, it will be called as a "held check" and the opposing team will get the ball.[4]
There are two types of fouls in woman's lacrosse, major and minor.[4] When a minor foul is committed anywhere on the field, the player who fouled is set four meters to whichever side she was guarding the person she obstructed. If a major foul occurs outside of the 12-meter fan or eight-meter arc, the fouler must stand four meters behind the player she fouled.[4]
There are two different surroundings around the goal on both sides of the field. The eight-meter arc and the 12-meter fan. When committing a major foul inside either of these areas, all players that were previously inside the surrounding must take the most direct route out. The player who was fouled now moves to the nearest hash mark that is located around the edges of the arc or fan and either takes position to shoot or to pass (although, most often to shoot). When the whistle is blown, the player with the ball may move up and try for a goal.[4]
The most important rule in women's lacrosse is shooting space—this is a violation of the rules. It occurs when a defender moves in at a bad angle on the offender while shooting in the eight-meter arc. This is a dangerous play made by the defender.
Women's games are played in two 25-minute halves. These 25 minutes are running time, except for the last two minutes, during which time stops when the whistle is blown (This can differ when playing high school or middle school games).[4] While the whistle is blown, players are not allowed to move. In women's lacrosse, players are not allowed to touch the ball with their body or cover the ball with their stick in order to scoop it into their stick or protect the ball from picked up by an opponent.[4]
Penalties for women's lacrosse are assessed with the following cards:[4]
• The yellow card is for a first-time penalty and results in the player being removed from the field for three minutes.
The University of Maryland, College Park has traditionally dominated the women's intercollegiate play, producing innumerable head coaches across the country and many U.S. national team players. The Lady Terps won seven consecutive NCAA championships, from 1995 through 2001. Princeton University's women's teams have made it to the final game seven times since 1993 and have won three NCAA titles, in 1993, 2002, and 2003. The game is also commonly played in British girls' independent schools, and while only a minor sport in Australia, it is played to a very high standard at the elite level, where its national squad won the 2005 World Cup.
Women's intercollegiate lacrosse stars have included University of Maryland, College Park standouts Kelly Amonte-Hiller, coach of the 2005, 2006, and 2007 national championship team from Northwestern University, and all-time scoring leader Australian Jen Adams.
International lacrosse
While modern lacrosse has been around for over 70 years, until about 20 years ago it had only been played for the most part in Canada and the United States, with small but dedicated lacrosse communities in Great Britain and Australia. Since then however, lacrosse has flourished at an international level with the sport establishing itself in many new and far-reaching countries, particularly in Europe and East Asia.
With lacrosse not having been an official Olympic sport since 1908, the pinnacle of international lacrosse competition consisted of the quadrennial World Championships. Currently, there are world championships for lacrosse at senior men, senior women, under 19 men and under 19 women level. Until 1986, lacrosse world championships had only been contested by the United States, Canada, England and Australia, with Scotland and Wales also competing in the women's edition. The expansion of the game internationally has seen the 2005 Women's World Cup competed for by ten nations, and the 2006 Men's World Championship was contested by 21 countries. One of the major stumbling blocks to the reintroduction of lacrosse into the Olympic program is the fact that men's and women's lacrosse have completely separate international governing bodies.
In 2003, the first World Indoor Lacrosse Championship contested by six nations at four sites in Ontario, Canada. The 2007 WILC will be held in Halifax, Canada. Teams from Australia, Canada, the Czech Republic, England, Ireland, Iroquois Nationals, Scotland and the United States will be competing.
The next largest international field lacrosse competition would most likely be the European Lacrosse Championships. Held for both men and women, the European Lacrosse Federation (ELF) has been running the European Championships since 1995. Before 2001 the Championships were an annual event, but in 2001 the ELF changed the format to every four years between the World Championship. Before 2004, only seven nations had ever participated, but in 2004 there was a record number of participating countries, with 12 men's and six women's, which made it the largest international lacrosse event of 2004. The next European Lacrosse Championships will be held in Lahti, Finland in 2008.
Lacrosse being played in Finland
The World Lacrosse Championships have been dominated by the United States, particularly in the men's game, where the only world championship game losses at either level was in the 1978 and 2006 final to Canada. The United States has won eight of the ten senior men's and all five under-19 men's tournaments to date. In the women's game, Australia have provided stiffer competition, even holding a winning record against the United States of six wins to five at senior world championships, plus one draw. Despite this, the United States has won five of the seven senior women's and two of the three under-19 women's tournaments to date, with the other world championships won by Australia, including the 2005 senior women's trophy.
Despite overall North American success, the highest scoring teams in international competition are not from the United States or Canada. In the women's game, a collaboration of Great Britain and Ireland defeated a team from Long Island, New York by a score of 40-0 in 1967.[16] For the men, the highest scoring team was Scotland over Germany, 34-3 in 1994.[16] However, in the World Championships Premier Division (in 2006 it was Blue), the highest score was from the United States, with their 33-2 win over Japan in 1994.[16]
The Iroquois Nationals are a team consisting of members of the Six Nations of the Iroquois Confederacy. The team was admitted to the International Lacrosse Federation (ILF) in 1990. It is the only Native American team sanctioned to compete in any sport internationally.[17] The Nationals placed fourth in the 1998, 2002 and 2006 World Lacrosse Championships. In 2006, the Iroquois Nationals Lacrosse Program signed a partnership with Nike, Inc.[17]
Lacrosse Terminology
• 10-Second Rule- The time allotted to a team to move the ball into the offensive zone when short-handed.
• 30-Second Rule- The time allotted to a team to get a shot on the opponent’s goal.
• Corner Man- The player who plays the corner or shooter positions on offense (also see Corner Position).
• Cradling The rocking motion of the stick used to gain a feel for, and to maintain control of, the ball.
• Crease- An area around the goal that opposing players are forbidden to enter.
• Draw- Pulling and turning the stick during a face-off; used to re-start play after a dead ball.
• Fast Break- A rapid attack which occurs during the transition from offense to defense.
• Man Short- A situation where one team has fewer players allowed on the floor than the opponent (also referred to as short-handed or man-down).
• Man-to-Man- A team defensive strategy where pressure is placed on the ball carrier while the remaining players move off their checks towards the middle of the floor.
• Overload- The strategy of moving one or two extra players into one area of the floor.
• Pick & Roll- The act of setting a pick and then turning to receive a pass.
• Point Man- The player who plays the point position on offense.
• Point Position- A location at the top and center of the floor; this location is taken by the player who is furthest from the goal.
• Power Play- A situation when one team has a player advantage as a result of a penalty.
• Quick Stick- The act of catching and then passing or shooting in one motion.
• Scoop- A method of picking up the ball by accelerating the head of the stick under the ball.
• Side Arm- The act of shooting or passing the ball by swinging the stick through the horizontal plane at the waist.
• Sliding- The act of leaving one’s check to assist a teammate.
• Switch- The act of exchanging checks with a teammate.
• Trap & Scoop- The act of placing the head of the stick over the ball to stop its movement and then scooping the ball into the stick.
• V-Cut- A one- to three-step move by an offensive player where the defender is first engaged; the offensive player then takes a quick reverse step and moves into the open to receive the ball.
• Weak Side- The side of the floor with the fewest number of players.
• Zone- A defensive strategy where each player is assigned a designated area to defend.
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Nobody Leaves This Place Without Singing the Blues
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By Dustin Rowles | Industry | February 24, 2010 |
A couple of high-profile Apatow guys -- and alums of Knocked Up and Forgetting Sarah Marshall -- are continuing their comedy trends, clearly seeing no point in really trying much else (hey! They know their limitations).
First up, THR reports that Jonah Hill will star in The Sitter, an Adventures in Babysitting crossed with Superbad comedy about a suspended college kid who gets conned into babysitting the neighbor kids -- two boys and an eight-year-old girl. (It strikes me now that no one thought to cast D'Onofrio as Thor?) Peter over at /Film has read the script, and describes it as an R-rated version of Babysitting, which isn't necessarily a bad thing, particularly if the eight-year-old gets coked to the gills.
The script comes from Brian Gatewood and Alessandro Tanaka, and will be directed by David Gordon Green (Pineapple Express, All the Real Girls) who replaces Jonathan Levine (The Wackness), which is to say: six of one, half dozen of the other (they're both great directors who seem better than the premise of this movie, but if the script really is great, then maybe either one would've been suitable).
Meanwhile, Jason Segal has been cast in Bad Teacher, a Cameron Diaz black comedy about a "a foul-mouthed, conniving seventh-grade teacher who pursues a colleague after being dumped by her sugar daddy." That pursuit pits her against another teacher played by Lucy Punch in competition over the as yet uncast model teacher. Segal will play the gym teacher -- I'm not sure how significant a role that is. Jake Kasdan (Walk Hard, Zero Effect) will direct. The script comes from "The Office" scribes, Lee Eisenberg and Gene Stupnitsky, who are immensely popular these days, despite having written Year One. Filming begins next month.
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"I Wanna Be a Cleaner"
By Steven Lloyd Wilson | Industry | September 28, 2010 |
By Steven Lloyd Wilson | Industry | September 28, 2010 |
Natalie Portman's film debut was of course 1994's The Professional (or Leon if you subscribe to the thesis that filmmakers are able to actually assign names to their own works), in which she played the role of Mathilda, a role which Prisco pointed out was an apex she has never quite recaptured. Hit Girl? Mathilda was Hit Girl without the comic book sheen of ironic self consciousness.
It's well known that most Hollywood names tend to coordinate the news they drop in interviews with our Seriously Random Lists, so Portman decided to let MTV know that contrary to previous interviews in which she expressed no interest in returning to the role of Mathilda, she now would be up for it.
Luc Besson has reportedly written a script for a sequel already. It's naturally titled Mathilda, so in America it would probably be The Pro2essional for reasonable reasons of cultural differences. The problem is that we've got a stand off here because unfortunately, Besson says he's retired and won't be making any more films.
Portman's gone so far as to refuse reading the script, saying "I have never read it because Luc won't direct it himself, and so I'm only interested if he [directs] ... I told him if he would do it himself, I would do it in two seconds, But he won't, so..."
Now hopefully Besson is only retired like Michael Jordan used to retire every other year, I mean, really, nobody retires from making movies. It's like being in the mafia, there's only one way out. So maybe he's just been crotchety because there was no way he was going to change up actresses for the sequel, and now he'll jump on the train since Portman's on board too.
Either that or the project will get handed off to McG and he'll sign Taylor Swift up for the role. It could really go either way at this point.
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Knuckles - 2007-08-27
I know calling Bush dumb is sort of a cliche by this point, but it honestly sounds like he didn't understand what was meant by the word "sovereign."
Hooker - 2007-08-27
I hate most Americas. There, I said it.
ChocFullOfFunk - 2007-08-27
Seriously. Screw you, Nicaragua!
Knuckles - 2007-08-27
South and central do kinda suck, but north is pretty all right.
Hooker - 2007-08-27
Wah wah wee wah.
theSnake - 2007-08-27
The only thing that keeps some of us going here is that little qualifying article you use, "most."
Also, the north is pretty terribad too, the only thing keeping northern midwest states blue are the black people and unions in chicago and detroit. Sad but true.
zurvan - 2007-08-28
That's okay, most Americans hate most Americans too.
IrishWhiskey - 2007-08-27
He was Governor of Texas. They don't have Indians in Texas? Its not like its a hard word to understand, or unimportant to world politics.
Menudo con queso - 2007-08-28
They got three, count 'em, THREE federally recognized tribes in TX. In a state of 21 million people. Compare that with NM or Oklahoma next door. Texas does genocide and barbecue right. And his boys Rick Goodhair Perry and John Cornyn made sure to kidney-punch the Ysleta del Surs and the Alabama Coushattas right the economic-development breadbaskets on behalf Ralph Reed and big Jack Abramoff. This is a mean, ugly world.
Jesus, if anyone needs the two-line word limit back, it's me.
boba. - 2007-08-28
you sure do
Scynne - 2007-08-27
Finishes answer. Looks a questioner. Sees dissatisfaction. Shrugs. Says more words.
Adramelech - 2007-08-28
Pretty sure this is a dupe, but it probably had horrible tags and who cares. Classic W.
kingarthur - 2007-08-28
It makes me cry inside.
voodoo_pork - 2007-08-28
This was back when he was just stupid and kinda likable (the way you would like a retarded cat), despite being a utter complete joke as a candidate.
I can't not laugh at the idea that this guy somehow duped 50 million people into voting for him.
Stopheles - 2007-08-28
No, this was a debate for the 2004 election. By this point, the retarded cat had ruined the economy and started a pointless war.
Camonk - 2007-08-28
This is blindingly, tear-raising awful. The fact that people saw this and went, well he's still MY kind of president is the most depressing part.
vecctor - 2007-09-21
Don't you remember those elections? Nobody voted FOR anyone, they just voted against the other guy. I am sure many of the people that voted for him didn't like it either, sadly.
Rodents of Unusual Size - 2007-08-28
It's all so clear now!
yoyo1 - 2007-08-29
The best part is when people start laughing and he thinks it's because he was being smart.
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Pong Flash
It's hard to believe but the foundation of gaming industry is formed by a single game with incredible simple gameplay. It's name is just like the sound with which a tennis ball bouncess off a table or a player's racket.
The success of Pong game is a programmed accident. But for the attempt of Ralph Bayer to create TV videogames market with his creation of Madnavox Odyssey, but for the disaster of ambitious arcade Computer Space, a simple game Pong could never be born. But brilliance, persistance, adventurism and luck got mixed together in proper parts - created with primitive resources Atari company made its major game.
Pong ROM mostly owes its success to a brilliant engineer Alan Elcorn, who left Ampex company to join ambitious Atari project. Gameplay of Pong was less complicated than that of its predecessor - Computer Space. And this very simplicity served the reason for the popularity of Atari Pong and leading position on a game market for several years.
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God Redeems
God Redeems - Exodus 19:4-6
August 3, 2014
In the fourth week of this series on the Mission of God, we consider God's covenant with the people of Israel through Moses. After redeeming them from slavery in Egypt, God invited the people of Israel to become His treasured possession, a kingdom of priests, a holy nation. This same language is used by Peter to describe those who follow Jesus.
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Jet Man
(Orville Wrong)
Character sheet for 5th Edition HERO System™ (Champions)
15 STR 5
18 DEX 24
18 CON 16
13 INT 3
11 EGO 2
15 PRE 5
10 COM
6 PD 3
6 ED 2
4 SPD 12
36 END
Total cost 72
Skills, Perks, and Powers
costSkill, Perk, or Powerroll
6321" Flight at Zero Endurance Cost
10Noncombat Flight speed is 8x combat
10 Radio Perception/Transmission (aviation band)
1Licensed airline transport pilot
3 Combat Piloting (large planes)13-
2Air Navigation12-
8Change Environment in a 2" radius (loud
wind), Always On, Linked with Flight,
No Range
97 Total cost of Skills, Perks, and Powers
Running: 6", 12" noncombat
Swimming: 2", 4" noncombat
OCV: 6
DCV: 6
ECV: 4
Total Points: 72 + 97 = 169
Experience Points Spent: 0
15Public Identity
20Normal Characteristic Maxima
10 Physical Limitation: Can't speak
while flying (but may transmit)
10 Distinctive Features: exhaust
nozzle (concealable, noticed)
10DNPC: Normal, 8 or less
4Mystery Disadvantage
69Disadvantages Total
Orville Wrong was just an ordinary airline pilot, until one day, he accidentally swallowed a jet engine! (It was a very small jet engine, you see.) The surgeons had a choice: they could either remove the engine from his body, or they could build it into him, allowing him to fly under his own power. Jet Man is the only flying superhero to fully comply with FAA regulations.
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Tuesday, August 21, 2012
Habits are what have to be changed in the long run to make changes to a person, a company or a family. Often it seems we need the silver bullet but that doesn't work for long. Eventually the old habits take hold and the old outcomes reappear. Below is a great post by Seth Godin about this topic - enjoy.
Crash diets and good habits
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Friday, August 17, 2012
12 Tasks That Killer Employees Always Finish Before Noon
Business Insider recently ran an article on the 12 Tasks That Killer Employees Always Finish Before Noon. Most people believe they are part of the "killer" crowd, including me, so I thought I would read what was written. Below are three of the twelve. Go to the article to see all twelve.
5. They practice a morning ritual. Jensen also recommends instituting a morning routine aside from your exercise routine. Whether you opt to meditate, read the newspaper, or surf the Web, Jensen says "it's important to have that quiet time with just you."
Spend some time reading this article and try to do the points you think will make the biggest difference for you. Enjoy.
Friday, August 10, 2012
Focus, Focus, Focus
In a world filled with an incredible number of distractions it's a wonder that anyone can stay focused. Between tv, movies, radio, the internet, our phones and life in general - it is difficult to focus. This morning I was reading about Steve Jobs and Mark Zuckerberg and the issues they face with focus. An article on Business Insider talked about how Zuckerberg doesn't do angel investing because it would take his focus off of his core business - Facebook. He doesn't feel like he can do his job with Facebook and spend time on other ventures. This was also true with Steve Jobs and Apple - he didn't do angel investing.
Then I started thinking about how this should impact me in my life - what is my focus. During work hours my focus should be 100% on building a great business that will be around for the next 100 years. During the day what do I do that takes my focus off of business? Do I allow non-work things to sneak in and take time?
Staying focused is a difficult discipline because there are so many distractions but the payoff is huge. If it's good enough for Mark and Steve then it's good enough for me.
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Getting the SAPGUI Version at Runtime from ABAP Code
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To get the SAPGUI version at Run time, you can use the function module DSVAS_RPGEN_SAPGUI_VERSION_GET. Following is the sample code of the same:
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May 29 2018
Let Beauty Sink In Deep
Jun 13 2010
Aware and Alive
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This weekend Bonita and I celebrated our 29th anniversary by going over to Cumberland Falls State Park. As always, I took my camera with me (I have a very understanding wife!) thinking I might find something to photograph. As we entered the park it was raining and I quickly noticed that everything was green. This is not my favorite time of the year to photograph and I began to think that I’d probably brought my camera along for nothing. Then I began to notice all of the flowers.
Around here we have wildflowers about nine months out of the year. Maybe because they are almost always around I sometimes fail to pay them any attention. This is just another example of ways we can take nature for granted. Some of us have eyes only for the spectacular. We fail to notice and appreciate the simple.
This reminds me of something Sigurd Olson wrote in his book, Open Horizons. He said, “Joys come from simple and natural things, mists over meadows, sunlight on leaves, the path of the moon over water. Even rain and wind and stormy clouds bring joy, just as knowing animals and flowers and where they live. Such things are where you find them, and belong to the aware and alive.”
If we are not careful we will miss out on a lot of the joys God has intended for us in His Creation. Doing so is equivalent to receiving a precious gift from someone and never noticing that it is even there. Creation is God’s gift to us and certainly deserves to be noticed. Recognizing that our joy is at stake, perhaps we should begin each day by praying that God would help us to be “aware and alive” and more cognizant of the “simple and natural things” around us.
(The image above was taken yesterday near the entrance to Cumberland Falls State Park.)
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Sunday, October 5, 2014
Combine AngularJS templates in ASP.NET MVC app
Lots of people write pretty heavy JavaScript applications these days, which normally involves client side templates rendering. When we have a lot of templates it potentially might slow down initial application load. AngularJS application lazy loads external files through ajax requests and caches them in $templateCache service in order to reuse them later. One of the possible solutions on how to improve initial load time is to combine multiple files and serve them as one single dependency.
I tried to do it in ASP.NET MVC application recently, but haven’t found any good solutions. There are some nice grunt tasks (for example grunt-angular-templates) to combine AngularJS templates, but I didn’t want to introduce nodejs dependency and implemented an ASP.NET MVC bundle that does pretty much the same thing. Maybe in the next version of Visual Studio grunt/gulp integration is going to be first class citizen, but not for now.
So I created a NuGet package AngularTemplates.Compile that contains ASP.NET MVC bundle and MsBuild task (in case you want to use it outside of ASP.NET MVC pipeline) to combine multiple AngularJS templates. First things first add this package:
PM> Install-Package AngularTemplates.Compile
Then add a bundle with templates:
And render this bundle in your view:
The output result will look similar to this:
Please note that it will generate combined result only when bundle optimizations are enabled (BundleTable.EnableOptimizations = true, or "debug" attribute of "compilation" section in web.config is set to false).
If you prefer MsBuild to precompile and bundle templates/javascripts - there is also available a task:
Packages source are available on github:
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March 2003 • Vol 3, No. 3 •
Disarm the Criminals, Not the Victim!
By Carole Seligman
On February 15th an historic event shook the world when millions of people on every continent (yes, even Antarctica!) demonstrated to stop the U.S. attack on Iraq. Several cities, including London, New York, and several European cities had demonstrations of unprecedented size. And, even during the Vietnam War, which was also opposed by the majority of the world’s people, there were never internationally coordinated demonstrations in so many countries and of such scope and size on a single weekend.
The U.S. government has continued the massive build up and planning for imminent war and has made no indication that it will even consider the clear majority opinion of the world population. Even the New York Times, a major media mouthpiece for U.S. ruling class policy, acknowledged the counterpoised forces of U.S. might vs. world public opinion.
At least a quarter of a million people participated in the Feb. 16th demonstration against the war in San Francisco, California. Even the police estimated 200,000 and they are notorious for understating peace demonstration estimates. The local mass media all put the demonstration at massive numbers but, subsequently, the San Francisco Chronicle decided to revise their size estimate down to 65,000 with a several-page explanation of how they arrived at their new estimate (using the services of an aerial photography outfit who does military contracting as well!).
Even the police scoffed at the Chronicle estimate as being only slightly more than the stadium capacity of PacBell Park, the S.F. Giants baseball stadium. In probably one of the most reliable figures available, a Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) official reported that 150,000 more people rode BART trains on Feb. 16th, 2003 than on the same day one year ago. (And of course tens, perhaps hundreds, of thousands didn’t travel to the demonstration by BART).
The historic significance of the Feb. 16 San Francisco event was that it was part of the global actions. Because it took place one day after the massive February 15th demonstrations around the world, people attending the S.F. march really knew they were part of a massive world peace movement. The most forceful speaker at the San Francisco demonstration was a Labor member of British parliament, Jeremy Corbyn, who had spoken at the London demonstration the day before. He brought the powerful idea of international workers solidarity into the S.F. rally and was loudly cheered for his description of the biggest demonstration in England’s history the day before and for his uncompromising stand against the U.S./British war on Iraq. He opposed the war on any grounds—unilaterally, multi-laterally, or with the blessings of the United Nations.
The San Francisco demonstration, (as well as many others around the world) took place only one month after the January 18th march of 200,000, and yet it was bigger with far less organizing time. San Francisco has now had three gigantic mobilizations since October 26, 2002, each larger and broader than the previous one, and all three to stop an impending war before it has begun.
After Bay Area United Against War initiated and put out the call for the S.F. demonstration, all of the major anti-war organizations came together to co-sponsor it, winning media coverage for days before the march and tremendous unity of purpose of the antiwar activists and organizations. This factor also accounts for the huge size of the S.F. demonstration.
Most promising of all, the co-sponsoring organizations, Bay Area United Against War, International A.N.S.W.E.R., Not in Our Name Project and United for Peace and Justice, have agreed to continue working together to stop the war. They all have co-sponsored actions and demonstrations inititiated by each other such as the March 5th National Moratorium to Stop the War, and the March 15th Convergence to Stop the War (initiated by International A.N.S.W.E.R.). And, as of a meeting on Feb. 28th, the Bay Area co-sponsors of Feb. 16th agreed to initiate the call for a united future action after March 15th.
Unprecedented scope of world antiwar movement
The U.S. war mobilization has not been stopped. But the signs are that a massive antiwar movement of unprecedented depth and size will continue to grow and act. In the United States, as well as around the world, there is a growing realization that the severe economic problems facing working people cannot be solved while the wealth of society is spent on destruction and war, bombs, bullets, tanks, rockets, fighter planes, aircraft carriers and all the materiel of war.
Working people and students are linking their job insecurity, education cutbacks, lack of housing, the poor health care system and all the problems of reduced social services with the role the United States government is playing as world cop and imperialist war maker.
The antiwar movement must take the lead in making these connections and offering the alternatives of Jobs, not War; Books, not bombs; Housing and Healthcare, not destruction; Preventing and treating AIDS and other epidemics and not funding Israel and other repressive regimes and their nuclear arsenals.
Inherent in the struggle against war is the question of which class shall rule society, the capitalists who profit from war, or the working class who benefits from peace? These unprecedented antiwar mobilizations will bring new forces to socialist conclusions as millions of demonstrators make the connections between the social and economic system of capitalism and its reliance on war to maintain its system of private property and profit. The knowledge that oil and empire are behind the U.S. moves on Iraq is widespread and growing. “No blood for oil,” is a slogan used all around the world in demonstrations against the war.
Tests for the U.S. antiwar movement
In the U.S. the first tests of the new antiwar movement are: To resist all forms of war (unilateral, multi-lateral, U.N.) and all U.S. demands on Iraq for disarmament. Calling for Iraqi disarmament is calling for the conditions under which the U.S. corporations can march into a sovereign country, Iraq, and take over its most valuable resource—oil.
The demand for disarmament should be aimed at the most highly armed force in the world and the force that has used its arms most in the world, the United States government. The demand for nuclear disarmament should be aimed at the only force that has used nuclear weapons and their derivatives against civilians and countries— the United States.
Associated with the need for uncompromising opposition to war on Iraq in any form is the need for the movement to stay independent of, and opposed to, the ruling political parties (Democrats and Republicans) who have both approved the expenses and budget for war. The movement must resist the efforts of the Democratic Party to co-opt it into supporting demands like “Impeach Bush” or other efforts to support capitalist politicians. While there is a totally correct revulsion at the Bush administration’s acts of war and trampling upon the U.S. Constitutional guarantees of civil liberties and freedom, the Democrats offer no alternative and, in most cases, have supported the administration’s most reactionary plans for war on Iraq, war on Afghanistan (and previously war on Yugoslavia), as well as the establishment of the Homeland Security program, the passage of the USA Patriot Act and all the other attacks on immigrants and the Constitutional rights of U.S. residents and citizens.
The antiwar movement must stay completely independent and build its power in the streets. It must invite all who oppose the war to join in ever larger actions until a movement grows so large, and so powerful that it can engage in the kinds of actions, such as strikes and work stoppages, including by soldiers, that make it impossible for the war to be prosecuted. All that we do now to build such a movement is critical to its future success.
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And a Happy New Year....
Happy New Year!
1. Happy New Year to all of the Spooners!!!!
2. We are also on the "less is more" train for 2016. I've been decluttering left and right. For me, the stuff distracts me from being happy and content with our house. We always talk about our dream condo, beautifully modern and sleek--and I'm determined to get there soon! I too am sentimental, but we're basically implementing "one in, two out" this year. There are so many who are in need and can use our unwanted items. There's simply no reason to cling to them. In the end, the memories are all that counts. Happy 2016 to the Spooners! Wishing y'all all the love.
3. Happy New Year!
I find the process of decluttering very therapeutic, and the resulting simplified spaces to be good for my soul. Life is easier when there's less "stuff" to manage!
Regarding the maturity front- dealing with the first of my parent's illnesses and death when I was 32 was probably the event that fully morphed me into an adult. By the time we became parents at 40, I felt like I needed to retract some maturity and sprinkle in more whimsy and spontaneity!! So I understand your feeling, except from the reverse perspective!
-Kim from Philadelphia
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Why Bother?
Why bother with life? Why bother with anything at all?
Questions of personal meaning and significance trouble us all at some time in our lives. These are aggravated by many issues that face us in these times. Redundancy, job pressures, lack of discretionary time, shortage of money, marriage breakup, moral decline, increasing crime and violence in society, are symptoms of the pressured times we live in.
What possible relevance to these issues is a collection of 2,000-year-old myths about a 'god'? Most religions seem to suggest that we try to live on a higher plane than these real-life issues, which is not much help to us in our personal struggles. Other popular therapies seem to present us merely with psychological coping techniques - not much better, because they are only as strong as the person trying to cope.
But what if God actually does exist - and is interested in us? The problems wouldn't disappear (a god who behaves like the Aladdin's genie belongs in fairyland, not in the real world) but if God exists and is interested in us, our whole perspective on these pressing issues and on life itself would be radically altered. Everything would appear in a new perspective. There would be a purpose and meaning to life.
Why don't you test the hypothesis that God exists?
Don't simply dismiss the issue with some throw-away line - it's too important; give it a good thorough investigation.
We believe these are serious questions deserving serious investigation. You could use an online Bible browser, starting with some of the references suggested above, to make your own evaluation.
You might also check the Logos Research Systems'TMtopical search facility.
Christianity - Commonly Asked Questions
The Bible is the definitive text, but many people have done an excellent job of explaining its basic claims, and the relevance of these claims for us today. One such explanation is that of Melody Covington, which we recommend to you.
Why don't you see what's involved in becoming a Christian?
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buy the afghan whigs in spades
Order The Afghan Whigs'
New Album: In Spades
Powder Burns Makes iTunes Top 10
Powder Burns debuted at #9 on the iTunes alternative albums chart.
iTunes Top 10
Take that, Fall Out Boy.
Buy Powder Burns at iTunes
5 Responses to “Powder Burns Makes iTunes Top 10”
1. seth says:
I may not exactly be ITunes savvy, but I just spent $9.99 to download the album, and the only thing I can listen to it on is my computer or IPod (which I don’t have)?? I thought I would at least be able to burn it onto a disc to listen to it in my car or stereo. Am I doing something wrong here?
2. admin says:
Create a Playlist and add the tracks from Powder Burns. Now, you can burn a CD by viewing the playlist and clicking the “burn disc” icon or “burn” from the file menu.
3. trintdog says: beat out fall out boy!
For seth….you can just go File under Itunes…select new playlist…drag the songs to the empty playlist, go back to File and select Burn Playlist to Disc…
4. domani says:
Can you also upload these tunes to an MP3 player that isn’t an Ipod or are they only compatible with Apple products?
5. admin says:
officially, the downloaded tracks only work with the iPod. But, you can always convert them to standard MP3s. There’s plenty of info about that online.
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Teen Mom OG recap
Lets talk about Teen Mom OG news because this week is fuul of them!
Maci Bookout told her ex Ryan Edwards and his parents about her pregnancy. Ryan simply says "Good luck, ya'll," when Maci and Taylor tell him during a drop-off with Bentley that she's pregnant. Larry, Ryan's dad, seems a little bit more excited and genuinely thrilled that Bentley is going to be a big brother. Maci was scared to tell them she was pregnant out of fear that they'd be disappointed in her because she's not married. Jen and Larry tell her instead that they're happy for her because she's "the only daughter they ever had."
Catelynn Lowell & Tyler Baltierra at last have their conversation with Brandon & Teresa. As you remember this is a couple who adopted their first daughter Carly. It was the first time in a year when Catelynn and Tayler saw her.
Amber Portwood is finally coming to terms with the fact that Gary Shirley and Kristina are expecting, but Gary won't stop calling and texting Amber to "check up" on her. Amber says to producer : "Gary calls me and asks me if I miss his penis.'' During the same conversation, Amber alludes to the fact that Gary cheated on Kristina, asking her, "What are you thinking about? Kristina’s gone…"
And the main news of this week - Farrah Abraham makes her return to the show.
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We're Taking a Trip
It's true.
Shaun and I are taking a trip in just a few short weeks!
When Shaun found out that his company was sending him to Europe to visit clients, I immediately invited myself to tag along for the ride. We both love traveling, so we are super excited to be exploring 2 countries that neither of us have been to yet: Spain and Switzerland. A random assortment, no?
We will fly into Madrid, Spain and stay for 4 days. Then, we will hop a plan to Zurich, Switzerland for 3 days, and then head on back to NJ. Not too shabby, right? Of course, Shaun will have meetings almost everyday that we are abroad, but we plan to cram in as much sightseeing and exploring local culture as possible. Oh and of course we plan to sample up some local goods like it's nobody's business.
After all, we are known for exploring European countries with a bit of gusto and an iron stomach. During our first Euro trip, we attended the 2006 World Cup in Germany.
Talk about eating and drinking our way through a country!
I ate so much bratwurst and schnitzel, followed by copious amounts of Kolsch (one of their local styles of beer), that by the end of the trip, I was certifiably ill. Even Shaun got his drink on a littttle too much.
It happens.
On our trip to Prague in 2007 with my sister Kimberly, we drank 1.1 million lattes
and sampled some hot, mulled wine while trying to escape from a storm outside.
My favorite food in Prague were the fried cheese sandwiches, which of course, I do not have any photos of, since it was before the blog days! But just know that it's like a giant mozzarella stick on a roll with mayo sauce. And it's wonderful.
And I can't overlook our faux honeymoon in 2008 to Sweden and Estonia (also built around Shaun's work trip), where we not only visited the gorgeous Medieval town of Tallinn in Estonia, but went to an ice bar in Stockholm, Sweden! The entire bar was made of ice (seats too!) so they give you these fun get ups to wear while you sample lots of Absolut vodka.
Though I've gotten some guidebooks already to prepare us for our upcoming trip, I'm hoping that you can provide some insights into our upcoming getaway! Have you been to Madrid? Or Switzerland? What are your must-see's? What are your must-eats? And how do you handle that looong flight?
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pruritus ani
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Related to Pruritis ani: pruritus vulvae, Pinworms
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Noun1.pruritus ani - chronic itching of the skin around the anus
pruritus - an intense itching sensation that can have various causes (as by allergies or infection or lymphoma or jaundice etc.)
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Male and female patients of more than 20 years and above, representing all ethnic groups and areas of Pakistan presenting with bleeding per rectum with or without associated symptoms like mucosal prolapse, discharge, pruritis ani and pain as well having being diagnosed on history and proctoscopy findings like visible bleeding and engorged anal cushions were included in the study.
It commonly causes benign symptoms like pruritis ani and restless sleep but can conveniently mimic acute appendicitis leading to negative appendectomy.
anal pain, constipation, diarrhea, pruritis ani and mucous discharge per rectum was kept.
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Thursday, January 16, 2014
Metaphors in the Bayeux Tapestry
Here's an interesting article examining semantic aspects of the Bayeux Tapestry that just appeared in the latest issue of Review of Cognitive Linguistics.
I've written before about Charles Forceville's work applying conceptual metaphor theory to aspects of the visual language of comics. His approach has subsequently been applied by other researchers looking at comics, animation, and film. Now, here's an article that examines conceptual metaphor in historical visual language, particularly the images in the Bayeux Tapestry.
There are several things that are interesting in and about this article. First off, it is one of the few explicit studies of historical examples of visual language that have been done using a linguistic analysis (another being this).
Second, the article nice details various systematic representations in the "drawing style" of the Bayeux Tapestry. As I argue in my book, drawing systems use a "visual vocabulary" of graphic patterns that are reused when people draw. The "styles" of different cultures' drawings emerge from various people sharing the same visual vocabulary. Here, we see the visual vocabulary of medieval English drawing detailed in systematic ways—perhaps "Medieval British Visual Language"?
Finally, the actual metaphors that are examined relate to various aspects of conveying emotion. Conceptual metaphor in general relates to how one domain maps to the ideas in another domain. For example, the metaphor LIFE IS A JOURNEY, is invoked when saying things like she's got a long road ahead of her or he's starting on a path of discovery. In these cases, aspects of living life are mapped to concepts of travel or a journey.
The metaphors described by this article mostly involve aspects of emotion, such as ANGER IS HOT FLUID IN A CONTAINER, which in comics and cartoons occurs when steam comes out of someone's ears. Similar metaphors are described here, depicted in the Bayeux Tapestry.
Of particular interest though, is that the authors claim that the same metaphors appear here in the tapestry as in the Old English language. This taps into issues related to how much connection there is between the conceptualization in spoken and visual languages, and in questions of cross-cultural universality and diversity.
As always, I'd love to see more careful, systematic research of this sort with existing comics and historical representations alike.
Full abstract:
Following Forceville (2005, 2011), in this paper I show that the same conceptual models underlie the expression of Old English emotions in both the language and the visual modes. Kövecses (2000, 2005) and Stefanowitsch (2004, 2006) have shown that verbal expressions and idioms used to describe emotions can be traced back to a limited number of conceptual metaphors. In the light of these findings, I will analyze here the pictorial representations of emotions in the Bayeux Tapestry, an 11th century embroidered cloth that narrates and depicts the events that led up to the Norman Conquest of England and the invasion itself. The tapestry, which has been described as an example of early narrative art (McCloud, 1993, pp. 12–14), shows hundreds of human figures in an astounding range of poses and circumstances. My analysis of the set of pictorial signals used in the Anglo-Norman Bayeux Tapestry to represent emotion types such as ‘anger’, ‘grief’ and ‘fear’ shows that (1) Anglo-Norman artists used a well-organized set of visual stimuli to convey emotion-related meanings in a patterned way, that (2) the same idealised conceptual models are shared by verbal and visual modalities, and that (3) whereas verbal expressions of emotions regularly draw on non-embodied, behavioural concepts, visual representations show a clear preference for embodied container concepts.
ResearchBlogging.orgE. Díaz Vera, Javier (2013). Woven emotions: Visual representations of emotions in medieval English textiles Review of Cognitive Linguistics, 16, 269-284 DOI: 10.1075/rcl.11.2.04dia
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The first thing she threw at me was the duck-footed cheese board, a Christmas gift from Gordon and Melanie. It was heavy and didn’t travel far, barely making it over the kitchen counter she stood behind. It landed on one of the pewter feet, which broke off and clattered over the hardwood floor to my feet, like an offering, while the dark green marble board clapped loudly on the floor, the remaining three feet sticking up in the air, a deformed dead duck.
Later, we followed the same rituals as the night before and as too many nights to remember before that. I sat up in bed moving files around on my notebook computer while she removed make-up and put on red flannel pajamas in the bathroom. When she’d finished and was turning down the covers on her side of the bed, I put my notebook on the night table and got up and headed for the bathroom. Brushed teeth, put on cut-off sweat pants and an old T-shirt, both gray. When I got back to the bed she was on her side facing outside. I turned off my notebook and slid cautiously under my own covers on my own side of the bed.
“Night,” I said.
While she snored softly I could hear the ornaments of the Christmas tree sliding off the artificial branches and plinking onto the floor of the family room. In the morning I gathered up the ones which had survived the fall, and then tried to reposition them more securely. The broken ones I swept up and put in the trash.
I’d told her—I was almost sure I’d told her—that we had tickets to the new Duchamp show at the museum, but she said no, she couldn’t remember, I didn’t, and she could not possibly go today because she’d already invited Greta over for lunch, and didn’t I remember her telling me about that?
“I think I’ll pass on lunch and take in the show,” I said. “It should be OK—your ticket is good for another couple of weeks.”
It was called “Duchamp Douchant: A Shower of Art” and the billboard photo featured a cartoon of him, dressed in a natty suit, soaking wet from a shower, and standing next to a urinal. Not many other people were there. Three or four teenagers giggling. A perplexed old couple in front of the Nude Descending, the woman adjusting her head and the angle of her view so that, perhaps, it all would make some kind of sense.
I walked over to the Mona Lisa with the mustache. A woman approached from the side and put her nose about three inches from the art, staring intently.
She looked at me and smiled.
“Bonjour, monsieur,” she said.
“Ah—hello,” I stammered.
She pointed at the painting. “Original?” she said, the i’s sounding like e’s.
I paused.
“Ohio,” I said eventually. “I’m from O-hi-o.”
She looked at me and then at the art again.
“Excusez-moi?” she asked.
“Yes,” I said illogically. “Yes.”
I turned around and walked out of the museum to my car. It had started to rain and the driver’s side wiper was broken. I looked out my own wet obscured side mostly, and out the other side for right-hand turns. On the radio, the host was interviewing the author of Why Someone You Love Doesn’t Want You, asking superficially probing questions and never giving her a chance to answer.
“When it’s all over,” she was saying, “you’ll look back on it and you’ll notice all the signs, all the indications that there was something desperately wrong with your love. It’ll seem like a long drawn-out process to you then, inexorable even, progressing—so to speak—progressing from hints and disagreements and criticisms to the point where one of you has a suitcase in your hand and you’re headed to a hotel for the night while the other is left in the house, clattering around with all those tainted possessions, and at best the cat is the only other life you’ll have around you.
“At that time, as someone watches someone else drive away, you won’t care about any process. You’ll know as little about what has happened as about what will happen, and it’ll all just seem like one precise thing then, like a single event with no cause and no predictable outcome.”
I pulled the car over to the side of the road, turned off the radio and the wiper, and let myself be both engulfed in the rain and protected from it, too. Lightning flashed and I waited for the thunder to tell me how close the danger really was.
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REVIEW // Clarins Gentle Exfoliating Brightening Toner
The Clarins Gentle Exfoliating Brightening Toner was my first foray into the world of chemical exfoliants, which sounds a lot scarier than it is and it's that statement that initially put me off trying anything like this. If it had the word acid in it, I immediately thought it was going to burn my skin off. In reality, this toner is a lot less scary than some of it's bead exfoliating counter parts which can scratch and irritate the skin and I actually have to stay away from those kind of exfoliators, because I just end up with sore, red skin (aside from the Antipodes Exfoliator which is a wonderful product). I won't go into the full details of it but it uses fruit acids to break down the dead surface skin and wipes it away to leave fresh super soft skin, you must however use an SPF after using this product, because if you're skin may be more sensitive to harmful sun rays after using.
This particular toner is probably one of the mildest of the toners currently on the market but it works really well with my sensitive skin and doesn't cause any irritation, it just makes my skin look younger, tighter and smoother, using Tamarind Fruit extract to exfoliate the skin and white nettle to tighten pores. I tend to use this on a cotton wool pad, after I've cleansed and before I moisturise, it takes away any trace bits of makeup left on my skin and buffs away any dead skin (Nice!), After using this, I find I wake up with more even skin, both tone and texture and any potential breakouts seem to have calmed down. It does state to use this only once or twice a week, I use it more than this because it is very mild but you need to test it on your skin to see what works best for you, I use it maybe 4 times a week and that seems to work quite well for me.
It's a whole new area for me, but I really love using this and the effect it has on my skin, I now really want to try the Pixi Glow Tonic and the Alpha H Liquid Gold. You can pick this up here for around £25, which seems steep initially but you only need a tiny amount and it's not something that you will use everyday so it will last.
Do you use an exfoliating toner? Any others I should be looking out for?
Soph x
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focusing on words and literature
What is another word for saccharide?
What's another word for saccharide? | Here's a list of synonyms for saccharide.
Definition 1: an essential structural component of living cells and source of energy for animals; includes simple sugars with small molecules as well as macromolecular substances; are classified according to the number of monosaccharide groups they contain - [noun denoting substance]
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Teaching Your Child to Tell Time
kids-683444_1920Being able to tell time is a basic but vital skill that every person should have. In fact, according to experts, it is crucial for parents to teach their children how to read time at a very young age. Knowing the exact time and how time passes can be very helpful to children in lots of ways.
At an early age, parents need to start teaching their children how to tell time. Telling time has a variety of skills that are put into practice. Being able to tell time will help your child manage it and do more productive activities. It will help him create outputs that are high quality and thus helping him become more competitive academics wise.
But teaching your child to read time is not such an easy task. It is gruelling, exasperating and often stressful. Nevertheless, there are some sure-fire ways you can teach your child to tell time without getting all stressed out.
Here are some of them:
Reading Numbers
When teaching a child how to tell time, the first thing you need to do is to teach him how to read numbers. Make sure your child is able to count from 1 to 60. Here at Yoyoboko, we also prepared an article to help you teach your child to read numbers and you can find it here.
Remember not to start teaching your child how to tell time before he learns how to read numbers. If you do this, your child may end up becoming frustrated and discouraged.
Learning the 5 Times Table
After your child learns how to read numbers, the next step you should take is to teach your child the five times table. Again this is a step that you should take in order to make your child learn to tell time quickly and more accurately.
To help your child to quickly learn the 5 times table, it is advisable that you play a little counting game with your child while teaching him. Use a watch to see how long it takes to count up to 20. Then start increasing the numbers gradually until you reach 60. Then let them ask you 2 x 10. Give the answer to give them an insight as to why there’s a need to learn tables.
To help you further about this step, we have also upload an article specifically meant for teaching children how to read the 5 times table. To read the said article, please feel free to click here.
Introducing a Clock
Once your child is adept with numbers and the 5 times table, get him a large analog clock. Start off with a daily planning clock. You can either make an analog clock or buy one if you have no time to create a clock. If you happen to plan on buying an analog clock, make sure that there’s no glass that will prevent you from maneuvering the hands. It's best to buy a toy clock, responsibility clock or time chart like our Yoyoboko Bumble Bee Time Chart.
Analog Clock
Explain what the short hand is for. Move the short hand to different positions on the clock, while keeping the minute hand at 12. Explain what hour it is every time you maneuver the clock to each hour. After demonstrating this to your child, allow him to do the same as well.
Next, explain what the minute hand is for. Keep the hour hand steady and start moving the minute hand. Start by covering 5 minute marks and make sure your child understands in clearly before you progress to the next steps. Once your child becomes confident that he’s mastered the minute had, encourage him to demonstrate.
As for the next step, demonstrate how they can read the hour and minute together. When doing this, start with something simple like 2:30, 12:10, 11:05 or 4:05 and, once your child gets this concept, move on to more complex times like 9:42, 10:29 and 11:17.
The next and final step is quizzing. First off, allow your child to quiz you. This will give him a sense of control and the confidence, while getting enough about your teachings. After which, ask your child about the clock.
Make sure he got everything you taught him. And if in case he missed something or there’s something that he doesn’t understand, gladly go through your lesson as well.
Making This Lesson More Fun
Get a large piece of paper or a paper and then crayons. Then supervise your child while he’s creating a clock. Then use the crayons to demonstrate how the hour hand and the minute hand work, just like it says in the previous part of this article.
Teaching your child how to tell time can definitely be fun. You can even use it as a bonding moment between you and your child. Just remember that your child may not get it the first time you teach it to him, so gather all your patience before starting this activity.
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Writing a mystery novel for dummies
In fiction, anything is fair game if you can explain it. What your characters say and do, how they look and what they hide all contribute to creating a mysterious, uncertain mood. Cozy mysteries are among the most popular of the sub-genres. In a conversation between two characters, you can create suspense by: They can become quite familiar to fans who eagerly compete with the amateur sleuth to solve the crime first.
When writing a mystery novel, ideally your ending will: When you have a time machine, getting the details right is not a problem. If a reader feels they have to wade to the end of your opener, this could deter them from continuing. The reveal is one of the two most important scenes in a mystery novel the other being discovery of the corpseand it has dual goals.
Use too much and readers dump the entire thing in the garbage bin. In chapter openings you can: They have to engineer a jailbreak NOW. In my world, the method comes before the victim, but this is a chicken-and-egg kind of problem.
And plan to start with an interesting sleuth. Mystery offers plenty of room for variation, too. This push and pull between question and answer lies at the heart of the great mystery novel.
Readers want more than somebody being interviewed. A secret outline, for your eyes alone. Construct and memorize that landscape. Whatever form of celebratory debauchery fits your style.
Most cozies also let the reader learn new information since they tend to be theme-oriented. End chapters on new discoveries that either bring the mystery-solving character s closer to finding the answer or create new questions.
The Mystery of Mysteries: 16 Steps to Writing the Cozy Mystery
The first sentence, first paragraph, first page and first chapter. You need all three types of clues, and you must insert them in a way that keeps the reader guessing which is which. An old cathedral might have a hallowed, restful feeling whereas darkening woods can be menacing or eerie.
Suspenseful dialogue moves in ellipses and omissions; says one thing but means another. Divorces, tragic accidents, and dead relatives are dime-a-dozen. Squash her beloved iguana beneath a Zamboni and then force her to solve a murder at an ice rink. Just, please, find a better explanation for how they got there.
Also, since most cozies are series books, readers have lots of time to engage with characters across books. However, that seems to be more of a U. Welcome to the long, dark, potty break of the soul—and every detective has to hit bottom or at least wipe out before he or she can find the killer.
A character who laughs mid-conversation, apropos of nothing, is a curious one.
Writing a mystery novel: 7 items your story needs
Open in the middle of an unknown setting Open your chapter in the middle of a tense situation Begin with the discovery that something previously thought true was false These are just a few examples of the way you can make a chapter riveting from the outset.
Because we are perplexed by unexpected behaviour, use it to throw the reader and your characters off. The hook is typically a line or image that creates curiosity and questions that keep readers wanting to know more. This is why your reader stuck with you for all those pages.How to Write a Mystery, Writing Thrillers.
Here are a few things I learned along the way to writing a novel between stints as a copywriter. Writing the Supernatural Thriller: How to Turn Old Fables into New Tales.
By: Guest Column | September 30, | Comments 0. The Complete Idiot's Guide to Writing a Novel, 2nd Edition: Make Your Dream of Writing a Novel Come True 2nd Edition. Writing a Novel and Getting Published For Dummies UK (For Dummies Series) George Green.
out of 5 stars Paperback. $ Next. Editorial Reviews/5(72). In Mystery Writing, Plot is Everything RonBailey / Getty Images Because readers are playing a kind of game when they read a detective novel, the plot has to. The Mystery of Mysteries: 16 Steps to Writing the Cozy Mystery The traditional mystery is sometimes referred to as a cozy mystery, as I explained in last month’s The Mystery of Mysteries post on the 12 steps to writing a traditional mystery.
Author Dennis Palumbo takes the mystery out of how to write a mystery with expert tips using examples from excellent mystery films and tv shows. and the mystery you're writing?
Let's see if we can break it down. Benni Harper, now on her 12th or 13th novel in a hugely successful series. I cite this mostly to prove that you don't have to. Writing Fiction for Dummies is a wonderful, fairly-detailed outline on how to puke out a novel and form it into something others will want to read, but as I said, he will state a step and move on without bogging you down in theory, which is what I like about this book/5().
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The Camel Club - David Baldacci
The Camel Club made up more a group of misfits that don't belong to anywhere but with each other.
The Camel Club witnessed placing of a dead body. Two persons were placing the body and they were armed.
As they don't think anyone would believe them, they didn't go to the police.
Now the dead body found hit the news. The dead body has a suicide note on it. So it was ruled as a suicide at first.
But Alex found some inconsistency. As he is also a friend of Oliver Stone, a member of the Camel Club, he talked to Stone.
The clue lead him to believe it might not be a suicide after all. The dead body belonged to a NIC agent. A very secret part of the government.
The problem is, the two persons who place the dead is also from the same agency.
While they are investigating, a terrorist group is planning something big.
Now they found out that more about the dead agent, drug was found in his premise. That throw the investigation off except Alex.
The setup of the story is very complex. How is the dead body linked to the terrorist group activity.
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Chapter 1: The Trouble In Future Domino CityEdit
In Future Domino City, everyone's dueling or cheering a duelist. Others are playing or working. But a young duelist, Yuma Tsukumo is a bad boy in grade 8 class. Yuma's a happy 18-year-old boy who duels all his life. He's gonna be the next king of games. But he also has enemies with powers but since he also has powers he won't stop untill he wins against them. Today everyone's being happy especially Yuma.Todays the day! he said,"'I finally will be able to get a chance to go to Superior Duelists!"he was very excited. Then he started running. He ran so fast that his lungs pushed in and he fell to his knees. He looked around and he saw a bench. He sat on the bench and he sat down for two minutes. When he got up again he looked in the sky and saw a Motorship, the new peice of vehicle technology. Then he saw a stranger geting out of th Motorship. Then he showed his duel disk and drawed 5 cards. "I summon Blazing Phoenix in attack mode"he said. A powerful Phoenix-looking Dragon appeared. Everyone shouted in horror. "Attack!"he shouted. "Hey!" Yuma said,"don't hurt these innocent people. If you want a duel, you've got one right here"he said trying to save his city. "I accept" the stranger said with a grin on his face.
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Pain… Introduction
Pain. Put simply, it is physical suffering or discomfort caused by illness or injury. Fortunately for us, we have our brain, that protects us from injury or illness through our central nervous system. It warns us through reflex reactions and physical discomfort. I remember when I was just a kid, I’d come home everyday with bruises on my knees after playing with my friends. At one point, my mother got visibly tired of consistently mustering up concern for my bleeding knees. Bruises, cuts, tears and breaks: those are the easier ones to notice. What of the emotional injuries that we get from day to day? Do we feel the emotional pain that lets us know something is wrong? Do our parents notice them and bandage them up when we get home? Yes, really, what about emotional pain?
Although I hate generalizing “growing up in an African home”, or even “growing up in a Zimbabwean home,” there are definitely some common threads that tie those experiences together, mostly conservative threads. These are the threads that make it a cardinal sin to break any of your mother’s special china or talk back to your parents or elders even when you are justifiably angry (especially then) or slack off on doing household chores. The theory behind these conservative principles is that they breed well-mannered, respectable and hardworking children who have a solid foundation for life. This is theory is true, except for when it isn’t. There are significant tradeoffs that come with it, chief among them, limitation of self-expression. Children, by nature, will break the rules, or at least bend them as far as they can go. The same can even be said about people in general, from a different vantage point. Are the trade offs worth it? Do we even know what they are?
I grew up in a Christian and conservative Zimbabwean household. If you had asked me anytime when I was young if I felt that I had the freedom to self-express at home, my answer probably would have been a yes. The definition of freedom of expression is often very subjective and therefore, very deceptive.
I have been living in the United States for 2 years now. In that 2 years, I have not only had the freedom of living on my own as a young adult but I have also been exposed to the vastly different American culture. The culture here promotes self-expression and freedom of speech, even for children living with their parents/guardians. This experience led me to review my own upbringing in retrospect, with slightly liberal lenses. What I saw was astonishing; suppressed pain, lots of it, everywhere.
In this series (Pain), I will explore the complexities of my childhood, the trade offs of conservative family values, mental health and the taboos around expressing pain in African Tradition Culture.
Pain is real…
This series will be my most emotional and personal yet. This introduction took me over 2 weeks to finish, from draft to publishing. Churning out the different parts of this series will no doubt be the toughest of all of my literary endeavors, but a necessary exercise nonetheless. Stay tuned for the next entry in this series, “Pain… Chapter One – Who is Alvin?”
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The Place of Miscegenation Laws within Historical Scholarship about Slavery
In American History, Arts & Letters, Book Reviews, Communication, Economics, History, Law, Laws of Slavery, Legal Education & Pedagogy, Nineteenth-Century America, Politics, Slavery, The Literary Table, Thomas Jefferson, Western Civilization on May 17, 2011 at 8:28 am
Allen Mendenhall
The following post appeared at The Literary Table.
1. A. The 1960s
In the 1960s, as the topic of slavery gained purchase as a subject of academic study, historical texts about slavery cast a wide net and tended to paint slavery in broad strokes (excuse the dual metaphors). These texts were well received. Jordan’s book, for instance, earned him the National Book Award, the Bancroft Prize, the Parkman Prize, and the Ralph Waldo Emerson Award from Phi Beta Kappa. Other prominent books from this time include Jacobus tenBroek’s Equal Under Law (1965, originally published in 1951 as The Antislavery Origins of the Fourteenth Amendment) and David Brion Davis’s The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture (1966). These early works on slavery covered a large geographical and chronological range. As slavery received more and more critical attention, however, treatments of slavery became more focused, and historians began developing specific critical paradigms with and through which to analyze slavery. Historians increasingly turned to economics, the influence of African culture upon slave life, the relationships between masters and slaves, and the role of gender and sexuality in slave life, all while narrowing their focus upon specific places and time periods—the Revolutionary era, for instance, or colonial Virginia. Jordan himself does not elaborate on miscegenation laws because, I suspect, his book is one of the earliest detailed investigations of slavery in America. His history therefore addresses all aspects of American slavery to try to provide as holistic an account of slavery as possible. Early scholarship on slavery is, as I have suggested, broad and wide-ranging, and not until the 1970s and 1980s did scholars begin to hone in on more specific phenomena such as miscegenation laws. Nevertheless, Jordan does devote an entire chapter (“Fruits of Passion”) by and large to the issue of miscegenation, thereby carving out a space for future scholarship on this issue.
Jordan’s first sustained treatment of interracial sex in White Over Black addresses the question of whether, in Maryland and Virginia, “repugnance for intermixture preceded legislative enactment of slavery” (78). In other words, did the creation and implementation of slave laws stigmatize interracial sexual unions, or were interracial sexual unions already a stigma that motivated slave laws? Jordan concludes that “it is not possible to tell” which came first (78). He makes an interesting distinction between “fornication” and “miscegenation,” treating the former as a sexual relationship and the latter as a sexual relationship resulting in the birth of a child (78). This view of miscegenation seems to be unique to Jordan, since no other work of scholarship that I have read treats “miscegenation” as necessarily entailing childbirth. Most treatments of miscegenation seem to involve cohabitation, marriage, the birth of mixed-race children, or sexual intercourse between whites and other races (e.g., blacks or Natives). But Jordan treats that last example—sexual intercourse—as something besides miscegenation. On one hand, Jordan’s take on miscegenation is understandable because most early court cases about miscegenation refer to “mulattos” and “mulattas” as if offspring or issue were fundamental elements—or perhaps the only proof or evidence—of miscegenation. On the other hand, the race “mixing” targeted by miscegenation laws was also sexual mixing: something that could occur regardless of whether that “mixing” produced children. This is not to say that Jordan is wrong. The stigmatization of sexual mixing, after all, had to do with the potential for childbirth, and of course sexual intercourse often entailed childbirth. But Jordan risks sounding misinformed or imprecise by not qualifying the reasons he distinguishes between fornication and miscegenation. His distinction might relate to the distinction between the crimes of “fornication” and “miscegenation,” even though the former crime can be subsumed within the latter, and even though the former crime lacks racial criteria as part of its constituent elements. Jordan comes across as meticulous throughout the book, but in this instance he either lapses into carelessness or fails to clarify his meaning.
Jordan points out that in Virginia “free Negroes” were “barred from sexual relations with whites and occasionally (but by no means usually) assigned more severe punishments than white men for the same crime” (125). In many ways, this double-standard does not seem surprising, except that later scholarship[1] suggests that interracial sex was less stigmatized, less taboo, and more common in Virginia in the mid-seventeenth-century than it was in the eighteenth- and nineteenth- centuries (43-44). Jordan himself makes this point in the early pages of “Fruits of Passion” (136-142). Jordan’s claim, which may seem predictable or commonplace to contemporary readers, is actually momentous because it lays the foundation for future scholarship dealing with the contradictory notion that although “[m]iscegenation was extensive in all the English colonies,” at the same time “[n]o one thought intermixture was a good thing” (137). In fact, writing in the 1970s, historians like Peter Wood (Black Majority: Negroes in Colonial South Carolina from 1670 through the Stono Rebellion, 1974) address this contradiction, as well as interracial sex, from a similar angle as the one Jordan takes (see, e.g., Wood 98-99, 233-236). Without Jordan’s groundbreaking labor, Wood and others may not have been able to undertake the issues they undertook because Jordan paved the way for “the Woodses” of the field to focus on more specific times, places, events, and practices. At any rate, Jordan’s text is an impressive work, commendable for its breadth and scope and remarkable for its attention to detail and accessible prose. Jordan’s persuasive argument that white racism predated the American Revolution and had its roots in English presuppositions has been challenged and reconsidered over the years, but it remains powerful and memorable and continues to be cited often and favorably.
One of Jordan’s arguments that is not central to his thesis, but that signifies tellingly in the context of interracial sex and miscegenation laws, investigates the tension between the Euro-American desire for and simultaneous aversion toward blacks. “Desire and aversion,” Jordan says, referring to white colonials’ sexual views of slaves, “rested on the bedrock fact that white men perceived Negroes as being both alike and different from themselves” (137, italics in the original). Jordan adds that “[w]ithout perception of difference, […] no aversion to miscegenation nor tension concerning it could have arisen” (137). The problem, for Jordan, is not explaining “desire,” but explaining “difference.” In a sweeping generalization about human behavior, Jordan claims that the “sexual drive of human beings has always, in the long run, overridden the far stronger sense which men have of the difference between themselves and animals” (138). By this reasoning, “aversion” flies in the face of the natural tendency of humans to be drawn together sexually despite perceptions of difference. Put another way, the colonials were culturally underwritten or else socially constructed to believe that interracial sex was bad. This cultural understanding, or misunderstanding, was “strong enough to force itself over the hurdles of the legislative process into the statute books” (139). Although Jordan is unwilling to say conclusively whether slave laws preceded the stigmatization of interracial sex, he seems to favor the idea that, instead, stigmatization of sex brought about miscegenation laws. Insofar as White Over Black explores early European and colonial reactions to black skin color and African traditions and mores, it would seem to lend critical context to future studies of interracial sex and miscegenation laws, which implicate cultural clashes occurring during initial African-European contacts.
1. B. The 1970s-1980s
James Hugo Johnston’s Race Relations in Virginia & Miscegenation in the South, published in 1970, is one of the most important texts about interracial sex and miscegenation laws during American slavery. This book is unusual because it is a 1937 dissertation that went unpublished in book form until 1970. To say that this book inaugurates trends in scholarship about slavery or interracial sex is to exaggerate the book’s importance. Rather than appraising or assessing the massive stock of data that it lists and displays, the book degenerates time after time into a collection of large block quotations that are supposed to speak for themselves. A major aim of the book seems to be to make available primary sources that in 1937 had not been available. Instead of trying to explain interracial sex or miscegenation laws in ideological or even practical terms, this book, in particular the second section dealing with interracial sex, merely compiles several details, documents, and information without much in the way of critical commentary. What to make of these details, documents, and information is left up to the reader. For this reason, I would label the book a “documentary history.”
When Race Relations in Virginia & Miscegenation in the South was published in 1971, the primary sources incorporated into the book had become more widely available, and therefore there was little need to publish many of the book’s passages, but the publisher (University of Massachusetts Press) probably went forward with the book because to date there had been no other book-length investigations of this weighty topic. Although Johnston’s prose seems more descriptive than evaluative, and although he gathers more information than he analyzes, his book is commendable for its consideration of legislative and judicial documents, and for its status as one of a few books dedicated entirely to interracial sex and miscegenation laws under slavery. Despite its obvious shortcomings, Race Relations in Virginia & Miscegenation in the South is probably the best starting point for researchers on interracial sex and miscegenation laws in the antebellum period and earlier. Other books more adequately address interracial sex and miscegenation laws in later periods of American history, but this book stands apart (though not alone) in its attention to early American history—and more specifically to early Virginia history.
An enormous book with a tremendous influence, Eugene Genovese’s Roll, Jordan, Roll, first published in 1972, attends to miscegenation with more detail than Jordan’s White Over Black, presumably because the work of previous historians like Jordan afforded Genovese wider latitude to undertake this issue with care, and because, in addition, interracial sex and miscegenation laws implicate Genovese’s focus on hegemony and paternalism. Upon publication, Roll, Jordan, Roll generated wide acclaim and was awarded the Bancroft Prize. It was praised for its breadth and criticized for its alleged “Eurocentricity.” A Marxist critic interested in relations between the planter class, slaves, and lower class whites, Genovese was an established historian on slavery by the publication of this book, and his previous work, with its focus on ideology and political economy, left room for a fresh look at interracial sex and miscegenation laws as they pertained to power plays and economic interaction.
According to Genovese, “The intimacy of the Big House and of the paternalistic master-slave relationship in general manifested itself as acts of love in the best cases, sadistic violence in the worst, and ostensible seduction and imposed lust in the typical” (413-14). This statement offers a framework within which Genovese can explore interracial sex in light of cultural hegemony. Genovese takes pains to correct scholarly records and to provide statistics about the number of mulatto children in the South (414-15). He suggests that previous historians had overstated the number of mulatto children, thereby implying that those same historians had overstated the frequency of interracial sex in the South under slavery. Genovese is right to question the methods and conclusions of earlier historians writing on interracial sex during American slavery, but his inferences—I do not think it is fair to call them “conclusions”—point out gaps in the relevant scholarship and call for further research on these matters rather than provide definitive statistics or summative analyses. In any case, to articulate as accurate a narrative as possible, and to revise perceptions of slavery that, Genovese implies, were based on partisan or imprecise data, Genovese seeks to uncover how and why “miscegenation had a profound and in some respects devastating effect on southern life” (415). Generally, Genovese succeeds in this examination, even if he reveals rather than fills lacunae in historical research.
Genovese offers four generalizations about miscegenation in the plantation South: (1) “Enough violations of black women occurred on the plantations to constitute a scandal and make life hell for a discernable minority of black women and their men”; (2) “[m]uch of the plantation miscegenation occurred with single girls under circumstances that varied from seduction to rape and typically fell between the two”; (3) “[m]arried black women and their men did not take white sexual aggression lightly and resisted effectively enough to hold it to a minimum”; and (4) “[m]ost of the miscegenation in the South occurred in towns and cities, not on the plantations or even farms” (415). For the purposes of this essay, these four generalizations suffice to show the conclusions that Genovese draws after systematically evaluating and arranging historical data (although he offers these generalizations before he provides the analysis substantiating the generalizations). Genovese does not scrutinize interracial sex or miscegenation laws with the same degree of care that he reserves for other issues, but that is excusable for a text devoted to the exploration of nearly all aspects of the slave system in the American South.
Less excusable is Genovese’s overreliance on the perspectives of white Southern planters. Although most scholarship on slavery had not incorporated black forms of agency and resistance or centered on black perspectives, Genovese could have presented interracial sex from the vantage point, say, of black women in light of then-new understandings of the concept of “rape.” Furthermore, some historians—most notably Jown W. Blassingame in his book The Slave Community (1972)—had actually begun to reverse the supposition that masters enjoyed absolute dominance over submissive and docile slaves and to reconsider master-slave relationships while taking into account fugitive slave narratives and other forms of black narrative. The take-home point from Genovese, with regard to interracial sex and miscegenation laws, is that history on slavery began to taper around issues—like miscegenation—previously glossed over by most historians save for Johnston. Genovese’s Roll, Jordan, Roll remains extraordinary in its scope and controversial for its glorification, however measured, of slave masters, whom Genovese dubs “heroes” at one point in the text.
In the mid-1970s, as I have suggested, scholarship on slavery began to narrow its focus on more specific times and places and to employ a variety of new methodologies to make sense of slavery and its legacies. When Robert Fogel and Stanley Engerman published Time on the Cross: The Economics of American Negro Slavery in 1974, their use of quantitative data and cliometric or economic analysis, applied to the history of slavery, raised eyebrows and drew exacting criticisms. This book appeared in print at roughly the same time as Peter Wood’s Black Majority, which also deals with miscegenation, albeit briefly, and which, more than Time on the Cross, sharpens its focus on specific eras and regions. Both works were pioneering—Fogel and Engerman’s for its methodology and thesis about the profitability of slavery, and Wood’s for its turn away from “white readings” of slavery and towards readings that included black perspectives and acknowledged and explored slave agency (a major point of the book is that South Carolina slave owners sought out slaves from rice cultivating regions of Africa because those slaves had special skills and technical knowledge). I will pass over Wood’s analysis of miscegenation because his methodology, compared to the methodology of Fogel and Engerman, does not depart dramatically from the methodology of earlier books on slavery. Fogel and Engerman’s methodology, however, stands apart from the methodologies used by earlier historians and remains unusual even for historians today. Time on the Cross is just as controversial as the conclusions it leads to, or perhaps controversial because of the conclusions it leads to, and my attention to Fogel and Engerman has to do above all with the original approach these men take.
Arguably Fogel and Engerman’s most notorious position is that Southern slaves had a better quality of life than Northern industrial workers. Meant as a reinterpretation of slave history, Time on the Cross makes other provocative claims: that slaves were not mistreated as often or as severely as historians had supposed, or that other historical accounts of slavery were unbalanced or misguided. Perhaps the most lasting contribution of this book is not its scientific or pseudoscientific techniques, but its investigation of work and labor as suitable and revealing areas of study. Before the publication of this book, few works considered the centrality of labor to the maintaining of slavery. Several works at this time served as economic histories of slavery, but these works failed to address the perspectives of laboring individuals—that is, of the enslaved blacks whose very existence was bound up with commercialism. Fogel and Engerman would not go so far as their Marxist predecessors (c.f., Williams and others interested in economic matters) in presenting history through the eyes of the oppressed or common person rather than the politically enfranchised or economic elite, but their attention to economics, considered alongside the Marxist works existing at this time, made possible redoubled efforts to understand economics and economic relations and their influence on slave life.
Fogel and Engerman address miscegenation in one quick reference that seems to substantiate Genovese’s concern that statistics about miscegenation had been overstated or else taken out of context. Fogel and Engerman address miscegenation, moreover, in the context of their study of the exploitation of black women. Having concluded that reports about exploitation of black women constituted only a few hundred cases among a population of millions, and therefore that these numbers prove the infrequency as much as the frequency of such exploitation, Fogel and Engerman submit that “travelers to the South greatly exaggerated the extent of miscegenation because they came into contact with unrepresentative samples of Negro population” (132). These samples, Fogel and Engerman assert, came from cities, where miscegenation was apparently more common, and not from plantations, where “relative isolation” meant that slaves there had “less contact with the freedmen and slaves of the urban areas” (132). Fogel and Engerman determine that “during the twenty-three decades of contact between slaves and whites which elapsed between 1620 and 1850, only 7.7 percent of the slaves were mulattoes” (132). This fact suggests that “on average only a very small percentage of the slaves born in any given year were fathered by white men” (132). These conclusions and the interpretive strategies that lead to them are problematic for a number of reasons, not least of which is the authors’ reliance on census reports and other data that cannot be taken at face value or treated as meticulous reports on the conditions and realities of plantation life.
Be that as it may, it is not my intention to recycle or belabor the many criticisms of Fogel and Engerman’s conclusions here—only to show the unique path that these men take to arrive at their conclusions. Suffice it to say that I generally agree with critics of Fogel and Engerman who claim that Time on the Cross overemphasizes numbers without satisfactory regard for how those numbers came about, what those numbers conceal, and whether those numbers are accurate. The quantitative methodology of Fogel and Engerman reveals something about the direction of history on slavery insofar as the study of slavery, as a field, appears to have begun incorporating economic methodologies—or other like methodologies—in the mid-1970s. The study of slavery, in other words, was becoming more interdisciplinary and in some cases more “scientific” or “quantitative,” for lack of better terms.
This trend in economic history may have influenced later scholarship refuting Genovese’s handling of the Old South as a pre-capitalist, seigniorial society inasmuch as the trend suggested, in no uncertain terms, that slavery was not only economically viable but also economically lucrative—that slavery was as much about maximizing profits as it was about racial ideology, feudalism, or survival. Genovese himself collaborated with Engerman to produce the edition Race and Slavery in the Western Hemisphere: Quantitative Studies, which appeared in 1975 and which presented essays by twenty authors who employ quantitative methodologies to investigate disparate aspects of slavery and economics. What is more, less than a decade after Race and Slavery in the Western Hemisphere, Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, the wife of Eugene Genovese, came out with Fruits of Merchant Capital: Slavery and Bourgeois Property in the Rise and Expansion of Capitalism (1983), a book that managed to tell a story and not just crunch numbers and compute statistics. Elizabeth Fox-Genovese’s book represents a marriage of traditional historical methodology with more recent, economic, statistics-based methodologies, and this marriage is what makes her work important.
Slave studies around the time of the publication of Time on the Cross were becoming, it seems, less about broad narratives of slavery as an institution and more about particular foci—labor and economics, for instance—that explained or at least shed light on the broad narratives. At the same time, criticisms of quantitative analysis picked up momentum and found illuminating expression in numerous articles and reviews, but most importantly, perhaps, in one book meant to counteract and call into question the econometrics and statistics-driven approach of Fogel and Engerman: Reckoning with Slavery: A Critical Study in the Quantitative History of American Negro Slavery (1976). This book about a book demonstrates the frustration of several scholars with economic-based historical revisionism. But as I have suggested, later scholarship of historians like Elizabeth Fox-Genovese succeeded in wedding the traditional with the economic and the narrative with the numbers.
That Fogel and Engerman’s project appears in print just two years after the publication of Genovese’s Roll, Jordan, Roll, which also calls into question statistics about mulattoes in the South and hence about interracial sex, suggests at the very least that miscegenation was still understudied at this point in time and that, in addition, statistics about miscegenation remained unsettled. Fogel and Engerman should be applauded for drawing attention to miscegenation and like issues, but their conclusions about these issues cannot be accepted wholesale. An overemphasis on statistics, however revealing of lacunae in the study of sexuality or miscegenation, is misleading and does not account for the realities that cannot be quantified because they were obscured, silenced, untold, or unknown and unknowable. For instance, statistics about mulattoes cannot account for interracial sexual encounters that did not produce children or that resulted in abortions.
If Genovese’s scholarship suggests that historians on slavery began turning their writing on slavery into more evaluative rather than descriptive exercises, hence seeking explanations for ideological assumptions about slavery rather than recounting the fact that there were ideological assumptions, then texts like David Brion Davis’s The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Revolution (1975) suggest that historians were beginning to confine their studies of slavery to more definite time periods. Indeed, this book deals with roughly fifty years of history. An extension of Davis’s earlier volume The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture, this book tells the story of how several disparate movements—evangelicalism, millennialism, Enlightenment rationalism and skepticism, and patriotism—combine to give force to the antislavery movement. Davis’s work on the revolutionary era is dauntingly expansive, for it deals not just with the Revolution in America but with many revolutions, including the French Revolution, taking place in the Western world from 1770-1823. Davis’s book, in short, is more particular about its coverage of time periods, but still ambitious—one might say overambitious because a text about revolutionary movements in England, France, and America is bound to leave out much material and to privilege certain regions or countries over others—about its coverage of geographic territory.
Davis’s book does not deal with interracial sex or miscegenation laws. It mentions the word “miscegenation” in a single footnote and the word “sex” just twice, both times to signify gender (by which I mean biological anatomy, not social construction) rather than sexual intercourse. These absences notwithstanding, The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Revoluition appears in this historiographical essay because it is a landmark text that (perhaps unwittingly) supplies readers with information about the logic underpinning miscegenation statutes. That logic concerned white suppression of black slaves to avoid slave revolts, which, many whites believed, would be intensified and more widespread if the number of mulattos increased throughout the South—if interracial sex was not banned outright. Another seminal volume from the same year (1975) shares this logic and delivers critical analysis about miscegenation laws where such analysis was missing in Davis. This volume is Edmund S. Morgan’s American Slavery, American Freedom, a text that in many ways complements The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Revolution.
American Slavery, American Freedom deals chiefly with slave experience in Virginia from the 1630s to the 1680s. More precise in its attention to a fixed time and place than some of the most celebrated historical texts about slavery published before 1975, including some of those texts I have mentioned already, American Slavery, American Freedom describes miscegenation by way of other important topics. Morgan suggests that up until the 1660s records on interracial sex do not seem to indicate indisputable racism (333). After the 1660s, however, miscegenation laws seemed to reflect racist ideology. Morgan discusses two court cases that, respectively, took place in 1656 and 1671 (334). The second case played a role in Virginia’s creation of the miscegenation statute passed by the Virginia legislature in 1691 (334-35). Under this statute, whites who married blacks, mulattos, or Indians were subject to banishment (335). In 1705, the assembly revised the statute to impose a fine and six months of imprisonment rather than banishment (335). It is important to contextualize Morgan’s comments about miscegenation within his broader interest in white solidarity dependent upon black slavery. Miscegenation laws both reflected and galvanized white consensus about black bodies. These laws also allowed the planter classes to forge a common identity motivated by fear and defined by racial distinctions.
Morgan speculates that because the population of women in Virginia was small, the miscegenation statutes “were aimed at confining the affections of these rare white women to white men,” a speculation seemingly affirmed by statistics showing the number of white woman giving birth to illegitimate or mulatto children (336). Morgan explains, “It would appear that black men were competing all too successfully for white women, even in the face of the severe penalties” (336). Morgan extends his treatment of miscegenation laws elsewhere in the book, but although his analysis of interracial sex and miscegenation laws is more meticulous than the analysis of other historians who talk about interracial sex and miscegenation laws, he still treats interracial sex and miscegenation laws as peripheral issues. That is to be expected in a book of this scope and length, and I am not indicting Morgan for passing over these issues, which are not central to his theses.
What I am doing is calling attention to important areas of research that Morgan and other historians in the 1970s omitted probably because these areas were not yet a major part of the critical conversations about slavery that were taking place. If Morgan succeeds in narrowing the general scholarship about slavery to a particular time and place, he does not signal an even sharper turn toward particular issues—such as interracial sex or miscegenation laws—within particular times and places. Nevertheless, his book is a valuable and readable contribution to scholarship on slavery, and his references to miscegenation, however passing, suggest a growing interest in miscegenation laws that policed the black body and its relation to white bodies and whiteness.
In the 1980s, scholarship on slavery did not fill the gaps in information about miscegenation and miscegenation laws, but it did create new vantage points from which to view slavery in all of its manifestations. Orlando Patterson forged a sociological approach to slavery, to give just one notable example, but he mentions miscegenation only a few times in his landmark text Slavery and Social Death, which appeared in 1982 and which has been critiqued for, among other things, its analogy of slave labor to the arrangement between professional athletes and their “owners.” Patterson uses this analogy to show that the definition of slavery need not involve a property aspect. This now-infamous claim notwithstanding, Patterson’s book is telling and remarkable because it undertakes a global or transnational examination of slavery rather than focusing exclusively or mostly on American plantation life or on conditions in the West Indies and Brazil. This trend in historiography did not do much to recover lost information about interracial sex and like issues; nor did it shift attention to interracial sex and like issues. Indeed, not until the publication of Dorothy Sterling’s We Are Your Sisters: Black Women in the Nineteenth Century (1984), Deborah White’s Aren’t I a Woman? Female Slaves in the Plantation South (1985), and Elizabeth Fox-Genovese’s Within the Plantation Household: Black and White Women of the Old South (1988) did interracial sex and miscegenation laws receive the sort of treatment that they received in the work of, say, Eugene Genovese’s Roll, Jordan, Roll.
The declared objective of Aren’t I a Woman? is to “enrich our knowledge of antebellum black culture and to serve as a chapter in the yet unwritten history of the American black woman” (25). This objective, so stated, offers a possible clue about why interracial sex and miscegenation laws received scant attention in the early decades of scholarship about slavery: the black woman had yet to be considered a worthy site of study in her own right. Indeed, few feminist readings of the slave body had surfaced at this juncture, in part because so much documentary evidence about the everyday lives of slave women had gone missing or else been deliberately erased. One would expect to find more evidence of interracial sex in court documents, but statistics are hard to come by because some interracial sex was non-consensual—it was rape—and from “emancipation through more than two-thirds of the twentieth century,” a time when slave scholarship first gained traction, “no Southern white male was convicted of raping or attempting to rape a black woman” (188). Therefore, the misconceptions and silences surrounding the issue of slave womanhood have as much to do with concerted efforts at omitting or expunging records long after slavery as they do with omitting and expunging records while slavery was in its prime. If contemporaries of slavery did not want to leave behind traces and documentation of the harsh realities that slave women faced, later historians and writers were no more eager to recover or inspect such traces and documentation. That is why White treats black women as “invisible” (3) and as robbed of their femininity. It is this very “de-feminization” that led black women to ask, almost two centuries ago, “Aren’t I a Woman?”
As I have suggested, White’s book is a corrective to a dearth in literature about slave women and also about gender relations and their effect on class during American slavery. By making the invisible visible, so to speak, White enabled future research and writing about interracial sex and miscegenation laws. The 1990s saw an increase in attention to interracial sex and miscegenation laws, and that increase has multiplied even more during the last decade.
1. C. 1990s – Present
When Peter Kolchin published American Slavery: 1619-1877 (1993), a book intended to synthesize the most important historiographical information on slavery to date, miscegenation received only passing mention. Kolchin does devote five telling pages to “interracial sex.” He refers to James Henry Hammond, a South Carolinian slave master who carried out a longstanding affair with two of his slaves (120). He points out, too, that the “close contact that existed between masters and slaves worked special hardship on slave women, who were vulnerable to sexual as well as labor exploitation” (124). Both blacks and whites, for reasons ranging from decorum to embarrassment to communal acceptance to fear of punishment, often remained silent about miscegenation, but the fact of the matter was that interracial sex was prevalent (124). That sexual matters were silenced should have some bearing on the way that we read and challenge the statistical approaches of Fogel and Engelman.
As evidence of the prevalence of interracial sex, at any rate, Kolchin suggests that one South Carolina ideologue—William Harper—turned sex with black slave women into a virtuous activity that minimized the prostitution of white women and that, to that end, ensured the purity of white womanhood (124). Kolchin is careful to point out that not all white-on-black sexual advances were unwanted, for there “were slave women who maintained long-term relations with white men that came close to common-law marriages” (124). Furthermore, on rare occasions, “slave men had such relations with white women” (124). Despite all that, Kolchin, pointing to Harriet Jacobs’s autobiography as a definitive source, explains that most “slaves who had sex with whites did so against their will, whether the victims of outright rape or of the powerlessness that made resistance to advances futile and the use of force in such advances unnecessary” (125). In short, some white-black sexual relationships were based on mutual consent, and some even functioned as de facto marriages, but most of the time whites, occupying a unique position of power, coerced blacks into having sex. Kolchin’s approach to historiography is helpful precisely because it allows us to understand the scope and focus of the burgeoning field, which, if Kolchin’s text were truly summative of scholarship up to this point, would seem to have failed to adequately evaluate sexuality in general or miscegenation in particular. But as this historiographical essay has shown, scholars like Deborah White did address these issues, so what Kolchin leaves out of his synthesis says as much about his perception of the historiography as what he includes in his synthesis. Put another way, Kolchin reveals that there are some areas of slavery studies with which he is either less familiar or less interested.
A decisive turn in slave scholarship occurred not long after Kolchin’s synthesis of the historiography on slavery. Most notably, the field began to explore issues of gender and class as interactive rather than mutually exclusive phenomena. Genovese’s work enabled this scholarship, which had yet to find suitable articulation, by highlighting issues of gender in the domestic sphere (the threat of separating slaves from their wives and families comes to mind, as does the nostalgic-seeming commemoration of the “Mammy” figure) and by addressing issues such as interracial sex and marriage. This development in the field did not supplant various foci on labor and work, but rather revised and extended those foci to account for the complicated but clarifying relationship between the human body and culture writ large. In many ways, Ira Berlin’s Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America, published in 1998, is the culmination of this development. This book serves for my purposes as a representative text for the new direction of slave scholarship in the 1990s. Many Thousands Gone acknowledges that slavery was not monolithic and homogenous over time and throughout space but rather conditional and organic, as different from one generation to the next as it was from one region to another. Slavery, in short, did not share a common characteristic from time to time or place to place, but developed distinctive characteristics depending on various contingencies—technological advancements, economic changes, and so forth—which were calibrated by negotiations between masters and their slaves. Importantly for my purposes here, this book, like many prominent texts on slavery during this decade, offers more-than-passing treatments of miscegenation without actually devoting so much as chapter length analyses to this phenomenon. My interest in Berlin has to do above all with Berlin’s claims about the frequency and openness of interracial sexual unions. These claims suggest that racial ideology and white supremacy intensified rather than diminished as the nineteenth-century approached.
Berlin writes that marriage bans in the Chesapeake “indicate that some whites and blacks ignored the strictures against what Chesapeake lawmakers later termed ‘shameful’ and ‘unnatural’ acts and instead joined together as man and wife without regard to color” (44). After all, what is the need for a ban if the activity to be banned is not a threat? Berlin is interested in how “little stigma” accompanied marriages between whites and blacks—both black men to white women and white men to black women—in America during the seventeenth-century (44). These racial attitudes in the Chesapeake would seem to suggest that racism was an outgrowth of the ideology of slavery after and alongside such eighteenth- and nineteenth- century phenomena as the banning of the international slave trade, westward expansion, the invention of the cotton gin, economic rivalries between North and South, and many other factors that combined to shape the rhetorical and cultural grounds for the slave system and hence to harshen slave conditions.
According to Berlin, interracial relationships, sexual or otherwise, “revealed the large social expanse where black men and women interacted with white people, if not with full equality, at least with open recognition that power had many sources, of which descent was but one” (44). It was not until the eighteenth-century, in fact, that white lawmakers began to heavily restrict black mobility and ensure the nearly unconditional dominance of the white planter class over blacks both free and enslaved, or once free and now enslaved (Berlin 123-125). During this time, moreover, free blacks lost many if not most of the rights and liberties that they had previously enjoyed by law (Berlin 123-125). Despite these increasingly prevalent and severe racial restrictions, many of the young blacks were of mixed racial origins and appeared lighter in color than their parents or grandparents (Berlin 124). This trend shows that miscegenation happened occasionally (or more than occasionally, depending on what criteria one uses to register frequency) and was relatively widespread. Even so, the “tawny color” of these mixed-race children indicated only “partial European ancestry,” and “most free people of color had no kinship to the new planter class, men and women who, in an earlier age, might have served as patrons and benefactors (Berlin 125). Far more often than members of the planter class, white servants crossed racial lines to produce children of blended racial backgrounds (Berlin 125). This observation signals another developing focus of historiographical scholarship that received its fullest treatment in Genovese’s Roll, Jordan, Roll and that influenced most if not all books thereafter: class. Berlin’s treatment of interracial sex suggests that gender and class are, or can be, inextricably tied, and his book is indicative of the direction historiography had taken towards incorporating nuanced and specialized understandings of gender and class and their relation to slave agency and autonomy. Examples of this direction can be found in such works as Catharine Clinton and Michele Gillespie’s The Devil’s Lane (1997).
The Devil’s Lane is a fascinating and curious edition consisting of seventeen essays. It is a sort of invitation to scholars to “welcome more into the fold as well as the feud” of Southern history (xiii). Clinton and Gillespie attempt to foreground issues of race, sex, and violence, which meant something very different to early colonials than they did to Americans in the nineteenth-century, who insisted on rigid rather than fluid racial and sexual categories. Several essays in this collection take up interracial sex and miscegenation laws. Peter Wallenstein’s essay “Indian Foremothers” implicates interracial sex by way of freedom suits brought by slave plaintiffs claiming that they had a maternal Native American ancestor. That ancestry meant that the slave plaintiffs could be freed because they were not fully or legally black. Diane Miller Sommerville’s essay “Rape, Race, and Castration in Slave Law in the Colonial and Early South” examines the treatment of black males in southern rape statutes. Gillespie’s essay attends to Mary Musgrove, a mixed race leader of the Creek Nation. Kimberly S. Hanger considers common law marriages between black women and white men in colonial New Orleans. Likewise, Virginia Meacham Gould evaluates interracial sexual liaisons between black women and white men in colonial New Orleans. Each of these essays is important in its own way, but none is as relevant for my purposes as Paul Finkelman’s essay “Crimes of Love, Misdemeanors of Passion.”
Finkelman’s essay demands special attention because it undertakes to explain miscegenation laws in Virginia during the late seventeenth-, eighteenth-, and early nineteenth centuries, precisely the time periods that I have already suggested are critical for understanding interracial sex and miscegenation laws during American slavery. Finkelman argues convincingly that white Europeans succeeded in tying slavery to color once Africans began to convert to Christianity, thus delegitimizing paganism and heathenism as illegitimate bases for enslavement. “If slavery was tied to color,” Finkelman submits, “then racial separation had to be maintained” (126). “Otherwise,” he adds, “it would soon become impossible to tell the slave from their masters” (126). This thesis recalls Jordan’s analysis of interracial sex in Virginia (Finkelman cites White Over Black several times) and provides an operative paradigm for other scholars to mimic and refine. Finkelman certainly does not exhaust the issue of interracial sex and miscegenation laws in early Virginia; indeed, he merely skims the surface. But what Finkelman does with sources about interracial sex and miscegenation laws in Virginia, other scholars could do with sources about interracial sex and miscegenation laws in different states.
The Devil’s Lane is pioneering and bold, but may seem wanting in continuity and connectedness insofar as the essays presented in it speak to vastly different topics and geographic spaces. What links these essays is a revisionist focus on sexuality, a focus that at times seems to overemphasize the bizarre and spectacular (for example, the story of the communal persecution and bodily humiliation suffered by one transgendered Virginian, or the infanticide case involving the slave Juana Salom) at the expense of equally important information about everyday sex and sexuality. Readers of this volume might come away with the impression that the Old South was little more than a sexual circus. A focus on ordinary sexual relations would be more enlightening about the lives and thinking of most individuals, black or white, living through American slavery. Sensational histories have their purposes, including the legitimate purpose to provoke and entertain, but their most important function is to point out the extremes to contextualize the ordinary. A secondary goal of this book is to subvert mythic ideals about white womanhood in the Old South, but the overreliance on tumultuous stories and obscure sources works against this goal, as the book gradually comes across as a forced effort to insist that the extraordinary was ordinary and the abnormal, normal.
Recent volumes examining interracial sex and miscegenation laws have proliferated. Some of the books published in the last fifteen years that touch upon these subjects include Martha Hodes’s White Women, Black Men: Illicit Sex in the 19th-Century South (1997), Kirsten Fischer’s Suspect Relations: Sex, Race, and Resistance in Colonial North Carolina (2002), Joshua D. Rothman’s Notorious in the Neighborhood: Sex and Families across the Color Line in Virginia, 1787-1861 (2003), Jennifer L. Morgan’s Laboring Women: Reproduction and Gender in New World Slavery (2004), Hannah Rosen’s Terror in the Heart of Freedom: Citizenship, Sexual Violence, and the Meaning of Race in the Postemancipation South (2009), and Peggy Pascoe’s What Comes Naturally: Miscegenation Law and the Making of Race in America (2009), which deals with miscegenation laws and race from the end of the Civil War until their demise in the 1960s. The books by Fischer and Rothman are arguably the best of these works because they are narrow in scope and focused in their analyses. Despite the publication of these texts about gender and sexuality, there remains much work left to do, especially regarding miscegenation laws and interracial sex in the seventeenth-, eighteenth-, and early nineteenth- centuries.
Interracial sex and miscegenation laws would seem to call for more attention than is accorded by most scholars of slavery, but the trajectory of historical scholarship on slavery would also suggest that a definitive, comprehensive treatment of interracial sex and miscegenation laws is already underway—or at least ripe for discussion. As the field has pushed once-marginalized issues like gender to the center of its efforts, it also has turned to overlooked documents—court records, newspapers, records of traders, advertisements, and so on—to clarify and often qualify various assertions of earlier historians. It is only a matter of time before seventeenth, eighteenth, and early nineteenth-century miscegenation laws receive extensive treatment. As I have suggested, a number of articles and books has addressed miscegenation laws during the mid-nineteenth-century through their demise in the mid-twentieth-century, but now is a favorable time to expand that research to encompass miscegenation laws that inspired and produced later miscegenation laws and that codified racism as a state-sanctioned enterprise. Limited source material will complicate our understanding of interracial sex and miscegenation laws during slavery. No doubt many court cases, diary entries, recorded observations, and miscellaneous documents have gone missing or were destroyed. Nevertheless, we have enough source material, I suspect, to make clear and compelling observations and arguments, and we should congratulate and encourage scholars who are doing just that.
Works Cited
Berlin, Ira. Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America (The Belknap Press of Harvard University, 1998).
Clinton, Catharine and Michele Gillespie, eds. The Devil’s Lane (Oxford University Press, 1997).
David, Paul A. et al., Reckoning with Slavery: A Critical Study in the Quantitative History of American Negro Slavery (Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 1976).
Davis, David Brion. The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1966).
Davis, David Brion. The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Revolution, 1770-1823 (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1975).
Elkins, Stanley. Slavery: A Problem in American Institutional and Intellectual Life (University of Chicago Press, 1959).
Engerman, Stanley L. and Eugene Genovese, eds. Race and Slavery in the Western Hemisphere: Quantitative Studies (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1975).
Fischer, Kirsten. Suspect Relations: Sex, Race, and Resistance in Colonial North Carolina (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2002).
Fogel, Robert William and Stanley L. Engerman. Time on the Cross: The Economics of American Negro Slavery (Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1974).
Fox-Genovese, Elizabeth. Fruits of Merchant Capital: Slavery and Bourgeois Property in the Rise and Expansion of Capitalism (New York: Oxford University Press, 1983).
Fox-Genovese, Elizabeth. Within the Plantation Household: Black and White Women of the Old South (Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1988).
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Johnston, James Hugo. Race Relations in Virginia & Miscegenation in the South (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1970).
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Morgan, Edmund S. American Slavery, American Freedom: The Ordeal of Colonial Virginia (W.W. Norton & Company, 1975).
Morgan, Jennifer L. Laboring Women: Reproduction and Gender in New World Slavery (Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004).
Pascoe, Peggy. What Comes Naturally: Miscegenation Law and the Making of Race in America (Oxford University Press, 2009).
Patterson, Orlando. Slavery and Social Death: A Comparative Study (Cambridge, M.A.: Harvard University Press, 1982).
Rosen, Hannah. Terror in the Heart of Freedom: Citizenship, Sexual Violence, and the Meaning of Race in the Postemancipation South (Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2009).
Rothman, Joshua D. Notorious in the Neighborhood: Sex and Families across the Color Line in Virginia, 1787-1861 (Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2003).
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Tannenbaum, Frank. Slave and Citizen (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1946).
tenBroek, Jacobus. Equal Under Law. New York: Collier Books, revised ed., 1965 (originally published as The Antislavery Origins of the Fourteenth Amendment, 1951).
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Williams, Eric. Capitalism & Slavery (Chapel Hill, NC: North Carolina University Press, 1994 [original 1944]).
[1] C.f., Ira Berlin, whose work Many Thousands Gone appeared in 1998. In an effort to address historical treatments of miscegenation chronologically—that is, by order of the historians rather than by order of the historical periods that the historians describe—I will save Berlin’s treatment of miscegenation until later in this essay. I cite him here to show how important Jordan’s claim is because it anticipates other claims made by later historians.
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Maria sank down into her living room chair. It had been a long day. She closed her eyes and replayed the events of the last few days. There had been another encounter with one of the crippled hearts. When she done replaying the events of the past few days her thoughts drifted back to her first encounter with a crippled heart. It had been 30 years ago when she was 15 years old.
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It was in the fall and she had stopped at Sally’s house about an hour after school. They were sitting in Sally’s room listening to music when Sally told her she had a surprise. Sally reached under her bed and pulled out a large laundry bag. She opened it and slid it off of a pay phone. Sally told Maria how she had noticed it was loose the night before when she used it and she had returned today with a crowbar to pry it off. Sally slid it back in the pillow case, put it under the bed, and told her that she was going to take it to the garage and bust it open the next day when she would have more time before her parents got home from work.
Maria’s expression and comment that Sally was crazy to do such a thing was met by Sally telling her that she was being a ‘goody two shoes’. Maria had told Sally that she wanted no part of it. Maria was heading out the door when Sally”s mother came home. Two hours later Maria heard knocks on her door. It was a police officer. Sally’s mother had found the phone. Sally had told her mother that she had been watching T.V. when Maria came to the house with the pay phone in the laundry bag promising to come back and pick it up the next day.
Maria told the police officer the truth. He took notes and told her that it would be investigated. The next day it was all over school that Maria had stolen a pay phone, had taken it to Sally’s house, and when she had gotten caught had blamed Sally. Maria told her version of the events to a few people who seemed to believe her but the general buzz about school was that she had tried to save her own neck by getting Sally in trouble.
Justice had been served in the end, but it had taken four months. All throughout those four months and even after Sally continued to blame Maria. What had saved her were the words of Mrs. Contega the old woman who liked to sit on her front steps and chain smoke while she watched the goings on in the neighborhood. Mrs. Contega had seen Sally enter the house with the laundry bag and also seen Maria come by empty handed. Sally was put on juvenile probation, ordered to pay restitution and to do 50 hours of community service.
The following summer Maria and her parents traveled to San Francisco. It was 1977 and there was a ten year anniversary celebration of the Summer of Love. Maria’s parents were freshmen students at Berkeley in 1962 when Maria was born. It was an unplanned and unexpected pregnancy but both of her parents had managed to complete college. After graduating they spent the summer of 67 in the Haight-Ashbury district with 5 year old Maria in tow. Maria had remembered it as being like a circus and it had changed a lot in ten years but so had she. It was during this trip in 1977 that she had first heard the term “crippled heart.” Her parents had heard that their former Guru of sorts was camping at a rural farm about an hour north of San Francisco and they decided to go see him. Maria had remembered Vee. He laughed a lot and used to caller her Magic Maria.
Vee had remembered her too. When they arrived at the farm Vee hugged her mother and father then looked at her, held his hand low and said, “I knew that you were magic. You have gone from this to this small to this tall”, he said as he motioned low and high with his hand. There were others who had come to see Vee. They sat around in a circle outside, reminisced and told stories. Then Vee gave one of his talks. Maria looked around and noticed tears streaking down some cheeks. Vee could do that. He could touch people in a way that could move them between laughter and tears. After his talk Vee retreated to a cabin and several people lined up to see him one by one. Maria asked her parents what the people lining up were doing and her mother explained that each of them had a question for Vee or were seeking guidance about something.
Maria got on line. She had waited for almost an hour. When she entered the cabin Guru Vee was seated on the floor on a large pillow cushion. There was a small round table with three candles burning. On the other side of the table, directly across from Vee there was another pillow cushion. Vee held out his hand towards the empty cushion. Maria told him of her experience with Sally. Vee listened with an intense smile on his face, interrupting only once after she had told him of Sally spreading the lie at school. Then he had said, “Mark Twain said that a lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is still putting on its shoes.”
When she had finished her story Vee had asked, “And your question?” Maria blurted out, “How can someone be like that?” Vee stared at her and said, “You have had an encounter with a crippled heart. Hearts become crippled through injury.” Vee had gone on to explain that these injuries are usually inflicted by other crippled hearts and that during an encounter with a crippled heart that one must exercise caution so as not to also become crippled.
He had talked about crippled hearts and hearts that walk, saying that each could influence the other during situational encounters. A crippled heart might help to cripple a heart that walked if the encounter was not handled correctly and mirroring occurred. A heart that walked that made it through the encounter without mirroring was a heart that was strengthened.
Maria remembered the words that Vee had spoken that day. “The heart that uses encounters with crippled hearts to its own advantage can reach a point where it no longer walks.” He had reached for a small back pack that was beside the pillow he was sitting on. He opened a side pocket, fished around inside, pulled out something small, and passed it to her across the table. She held it in her hand and looked down at it. It was a golden winged heart. The wingspan made it slightly smaller than a penny. And it was about the same thickness. She had gone to pass it back to him and Vee had said, “It is yours.” Vee told her that a winged heart could see through the masks of the crippled hearts. This gave the winged heart a decisive advantage in all encounters. “A winged heart can help the lame to walk.” He reached across the table and put his hand on the front of her head and whispered, “Teach your heart to fly.”
She had gotten up to leave but Vee said, “Wait.” She sat back down. He fished around in the large compartment of the back pack and pulled out a small cassette player that he placed on the table. He fished around some more and pulled out 4 or 5 cassette tapes. He kept one out and threw the others back in the back-pack. He opened the cassette case and passed the empty case to her. It was John Lennon’s Imagine . Vee searched for a song on the tape. That was the first time that she had heard Crippled Inside.
Maria spent the night in a cabin with her mother and father. She told them of her conversation with Vee. She thought that there was some kind of significance in the coincidence of Guru Vee having both the winged heart and a tape with a song that was related to the nature of their conversation.
The following morning people gathered at scattered picnic tables that were loaded with fruit. Vee came to sit at the table where Maria and her parents were sitting. Her parents and Vee talked about old times and what they had been doing for the last 10 years. Vee looked at Maria and said, “Raising a flower.” Her father told Vee of Maria’s wondering about the coincidence of his having the winged heart and a tape with a song that related to what she had talked to him about. Vee reached for his back pack beside the table. He unzipped a small compartment and placed 7 or 8 winged hearts on the palm of his hand. Then he went into another compartment and pulled out 6 or 7 cassette tapes. They were all Beatles and Lennon. “I’m listening to Lennon a lot recently. My friend Gabe has been discussing his lyrics with me.”
After breakfast about 30 people gathered in a large circle in an open field and Vee gave one of his talks. She had remembered being at similar events when she was younger. Vee looked at her and said, “I am inspired to speak of the heart.” Vee said that the heart was part the apparatus of perception and that some day science would come to understand this. He said that the brain receives what the eye sends to it and that the brain hears what the ear sends to it. Vee said that the heart also sends information to the brain but the part of the brain that receives this information was underdeveloped in most people. This underdevelopment was due to training, education, and upbringing that was rooted in a culture that did not recognize the value of heart perception.
Vee said that there were times when people had flashes where the brain was able to receive what the heart was sending. Vee called hearts that this happened to “hearts that walk.” He said that in some that part of the brain that receives the signal that the heart sends was not only underdeveloped but had also been damaged. He called these “crippled hearts.” Most of what they felt was not genuine. In fact it was greatly distorted. Crippled hearts were motivated by fear.
Vee had said that hearts could learn to fly. That the perceptual apparatus of the heart and that part of the brain that receives it could be developed. It was possible to integrate perception. He looked around the circle. He was begging the question. At almost the same time two people said, “How?” Vee smiled and said, “I thought you’d never ask.”
Maria returned from her memory and moved in her chair, catching herself as she was about to doze off. She was excited at the prospect of another opportunity to strengthen the wings of her heart. The higher she soared the more she saw. A bird’s eye view. Looked at from a higher level everything appeared connected and part of the same ground. Everything on the ground was part of the same fabric of existence. This fabric is woven of love.
Maria was hungry and wanted to fix something to eat but first she went to her jewelry box. She took out the winged heart and looked at it. Then she pushed away some jewelry and took out the folded sheet of paper that was in the bottom of the jewelry box. It was the paper that Vee had passed out. He reached into his pack and passed the papers in both directions around the circle. Then he read it aloud.
Maria unfolded the paper thinking about how long it had been in her jewelry box. She read through it while thinking of that day long ago when Vee had read it:
Path of the Winged Heart
— Analects, XV, 23
“What is hateful to you, do not to your fellow men. That is the entire law, all the rest is commentary.”
–The Talmud, Shabbat31a
“Hurt not others in ways that your yourself would find hurtful.”
–Undana-varqa: 518
–Luke 6:31
“It is our wish and desire that every one of you may become a source of all goodness unto men, and an example of uprightness to mankind. Beware lest you prefer yourself above your neighbors .”
–Baha’u’llah, Gleanings, 315
“That nature only is good when it shall not do unto another whatever is not good of its own self.”
–Dadistan-I-Dinik, 94:5
–The Mahabharata
“No one of you is a believer until he desires for his brother that which he desires of himself.”
“The good man ought to pity the malignant tendencies of others; to rejoice over their excellence; to help them in their straits; to regard their gains as if they were his own, and their losses in the same way.”
–The Thai-shang. 3
Maria went to the kitchen and made a sandwich. While eating it she thought of how crippled hearts wallow in their own misery, much of it self created. For some the misery was almost constant and they did not recognize it as such because it was the only way they knew. She thought of the sadness in this and a tear tricked down her cheek. She ate the last bit of sandwich,went into the living room, and put a CD in the stereo. She stretched out on the couch and drifted off to sleep while listening to Lennon’s Instant Karma.
Brian Joseph writes inspirational short stories. He is the author of the mystical, musical novel, The Gift of Gabe.
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Servicenow Admin Quiz – APP
ServiceNow System Administration Certification Study Questions
ServiceNow System Administration Certification Study Questions
What provides a guide for moving data from import sets?
transform map
How do you change the sort sequence of fields or task?
modify the order field
Tables and Fields can be viewed and manipulated where?
Record List
Tables and Columns
What is the sequencing of publishing a Knowledge Article?
What are the 3 basic components of Workflow?
How do you modify or create workflow?
Utilize the Graphical Workflow Editor
System Properties, then CSS Properties
To access the control list you have to have which access?
What are the 3 basic components of workflow?
Where do you go to delete tables?
Tables and Columns
Choose “delete” and type the word “delete”
What is a row?
A record is a row
What is a column?
A field is a column
What do incident, problem and change have in common?
They save to the task table
If importing data, how do you keep from importing duplicates?
Utilize the Coalace field to state which field is the unique key
What controls what data users can access ?
ACL-Access Control List
Service Catalog>Maintain Item
What provides a guide for moving data from Import Sets?
Transform Map
What is stored in a table?
How are users related to roles or groups?
1 to many relationships
What are update sets?
groups of customizations that can be moved from one instance to another
What is a CI?
A CI is tangible and intangible
What is BSM?
Help the Helpdesk
What is a record producer?
does ESS have a role?
ESS does not have a role
What is a variable set?
Unit of variables that can be shared between catalog items
What are the workflow stages?
Waiting for approval>fulfillment>delivery>completed
What are the workflow activities?
approvals,conditions, notifications, task, timers, utilities
If a request is rejected what happens?
notification is sent and sets the status to cancelled
service catalog workflow can be attached in 3 ways:
manually on the catalog item form
automatically based on conditions
automatically if no other workflows attached
SLAs include actions that can be triggered when during the lifecycle?
Type Field
which workflow is designed to be used over and over again?
default SLA Workflow
Retroactive start when activated does what?
Sets start to equal when the ticket was created
What are the steps in a SLA?
How can you set a read only field?
UI Policy
data policy
What is a business rule?
What are update sets?
customizations that can be moved from 1 instance to another
How do you limit file attachments?
Security>System Security
ACL-Access Control List
What has conditions,scripts and roles and can limit security?
ACL-Access Control List
What is the Duration of the elevated role?
Current Session
When is a notification sent out?
When an event has been fired
Script, Business Rule, Workflow can all send out notifications
Inbound Email Action
Where can you view information about system activity?
system logs
What module tracks all upgrades made to the system?
System Diagnostics>Upgrade History
what does SaaS stand for?
software as a service
What can you do if the Homepage is slow?
Remove some gauges or change the refresh rate
ServiceNow Administrator Questions
What application is available to all users?
What is a form?
A form displays a single record from a table.
Which of the following are form feature field status indicators?
a. Light red – Required field that has a saved value
b. Green- modified field content
c. Red – Required field that requires a value
d. Orange – Read only data that is not editable
What is a list?
A list is a structure that displays information from a table
What are the list interface elements?
a. Title bar
b. Breadcrumbs
c. Column headings
d. fields
What is a field?
A field is a cell in a table. Each field holds an individual piece of data.
What field type in a list is not sortable?
What is a Power edge toolbar?
It’s the gray toolbar on the left side of the screen for the new ui.
i. It allows you to show or hide the application navigator or banner fram
ii. Split the screens – Resize screen
iii. Create and manage bookmarks.
What features of ITIL are utilized by the ServiceNow platform?
ITIL is Strategy, design, Transition, operations
What is ServiceNow?
a. Service Now is a cloud based ITSM tool built on Web 2.0, SAAS , ITIL v3, PaaS, and IT 3.0. Its significant differential from competitors is that ServiceNow applications are built on a single platform.
i. SAAS – Software as a service- Service now is the on-demand leader in IT service management.
ii. ITIL v3 – is a platform of applications offering continual service improvement
iii. Platform as a Service (PAAS) – delivery of an ondemand, webased solution stack. Servicenow is java based and uses tomcat on liniux.
iv. IT 3.0 refers to added social IT functionality. Chat ect
Which of the following are contained in the banner frame that runs across the top of every Servicenow webpage?
a. Welcome message
b. Impersonation key
c. Logout
d. Homepage
e. Print
f. Help
g. Debug
h. Global text search
i. Header Expand / collaps
j. All of the above(answer)
An application is a group of modules?
True – Applications are a grouping of modules or an organizational element in service now.
True or false – The application navigator provides links to all applications and modules they comprise.
True or false – Type filter text is a valuable way of searching applications in Servicenow
In what way does the Switch perspective feature in application navigator assist you in organizing applications in Servicenow?
It allows you to view applictions from the perspective of individual roles such as ITIL, Asset Management, or Admin ect.
What is the main area in all Servicenow web pages?
Content pane
What is a breadcrumb?
A horizontal display of filter conditions showing the hierarchy of the conditions used to display the form or list results.
Where is the impersonation feature located?
It’s a picture of a key and its in the banner frame next to welcome message
What are the 3 ways to bring users into the ServiceNow system?
a. Through Single Signon and ldap
b. Using an import set (importing users)
c. Manually enter users, manually creating users
What are the benefits of using groups?
a. Permissions and Access – Simplified ability to assign permissions
b. Identifies a subset of users for role and skill assignment
c. Provide a reference for alerts and notifcations
d. Email notifcations
What is a role?
a. A role is an orginazational element. Roles are granted access to applications.
b. Roles are collections of permissions
c. A role is a record in the Role table; a role is a persona that is assigned to a group or single user. An example is the admin role.
What are the OOTB Servicenow roles?
a. System Administrator
b. ITIL (or process) roles ful fill itil activities
c. ESS – users and end users.Create an
What is Access Control?
a. Access control is a security role defined and set at the Row-leve (access to the record) and at the column level (access to the field), and is exectured when attempeing to access any Servicenow table
What is an Access Control Rule in ServiceNow
a. ACLs are a list of all access controls for a table. Access controls are defined by roles, conditional expressions and scripts.
b. ACL rules are used to control what data users can access and how they can access it.
c. Each ACL rule specifies the object being secured and the permission required to access the object
d. ACLS are defined by the security admin
e. ACLS are defined in System Security | Access Control
Please provide an example of when you use Access Control Record in ServiceNow
a. You would create an access control rule to make the updated by field on the incident form editable for admins but read only for ITIl users
i. Login as admin
ii. Right click on “updated by ” field
iii. Click Personalize Security
iv. In the Security Mechanic, change the value to Write
v. Move admin to selected column.
What is the the high security plugin in ServiceNow?
a. accessed from System Security > High Security Settings:
b. High security creates a security_admin elevated privilege role
c. The elevated privilege role is manually assigned and not inherited from any role
i. Elevated privilege only exists during current session
What is contextual security in ServiceNow?
a. Protects a record based on its contents and table location
b. Data is acted upon based on the position of the information in the table hierarchy
c. Defines access control rules to any level
After the High Security Plugin is activated, a security_admin privledge is created. What is an elevated privilege
An elevated permission is a role that has special permissions for the duration of the log in session.
The CMDB application in Service now does all of the following.
a. Helps locate failed changes
b. Facilitae quick impact analysis
c. Increase cost saving to the business
d. Contains assests and there relationships
What are the two major record types in the ucmdb?
a. Core Configuration
b. CI relationship
What is a business service map (bsm)?
a. business service map graphically displays the configuration items that compose a business service and indicates the status of those configuration items.
b. **A good example of a business service map is exchange and all the upstream and down stream CIS that make up the exchange service.
Multiple Choice, Single Line Text, and Select Box are what type of elements in Servicenow?
Variable types
What is a metric?
a. A metric is used to measure and evaluate the effictiveness of IT Service Managemnt process
b. Measures data over time to show past history
c. An example of a metric is that it could measure the effectiveness of the incident resolution process by calculating how long it takes to resolve an incident.
d. Metrics are viewed in SN by going to Metrics | Definitions
What are the types of metrics?
a. Field value duration – measures a time interval from when a value in a field is achieved until it is changed.
b. Script calculation- creates a metric instance using script. The script does calculations and inserts data into the metric table [metric_instance]
What does Custom Charting plugin allow you to do?
Custom Charting allows you to create charts when you have a requirement that can not be satisfied with the Report application
What does a Servicenow homepage provide?
a. A dashboard of frequently used content which usually includes reports
b. A personal space that is configured to be the first page seen after login
c. Access to multiple personal homepages
d. Access to other global homepages the user has the rights to view
What is a guage?
a. Is a graphical, refreshable widget viewable as a homepage section
b. Gauges are created by admins or users with Gauge_Maker role
What is a Service Level agreement?
a. Is a record in the SLA[contract_sla] table which defines a set amount of time for a task to reach a certain condition, the tables to access and what type of sla is being evaluated.
b. If the SLA task does not reach the condition, the task is marked breach
c. SLAs contain actions that can be triggered at different times during the life cycle of the SLA
What is the greatest benefit of utilizing SLAS?
a. SLA’s allow an IT Service Desk to track if there representatives are providing a specific level of service, and run reports on the success rates of the SLA actions.
b. Slas are commonly used to make sure incidents are being resolved within desired amount of time.
In SLA definition, what are the conditions that will trigger an SLA?
Start Condition, Stop Condition, Pause condition
i. A pause condition is for example, when a support individual marks a ticket “pending customer feedback”
What are the 4 aspects of Service Level Agreement?
a. SLA Definition
i. The record defining the conditions to trigger the sla
b. Task SLA
i. Individual instances of the SLA associated with particular tasks
c. SLA automation
i. The business rule and scheduled job that automates the SLA
d. SLA Workflow
i. The workflow driving events or actions based on the SLA
What are the types of SLAS in Servicenow?
a. SLA agreement
b. Operational level agreement (ola) –
i. Defines how departments work together to meet the service level required
c. Underpinning contract (UC)
i. Manages, monitors, and defines agreements with outside supplieers
1. It’s a tool for supplier management.
What is a Servicenow knowledge base?
a. A repository used for the storage and publication of important information that requires distribution within an organization
b. Something that stores shared configuration documentation, policy documents, compliance documents
c. Security policy and procedure doucments
How is the knowledge base populated?
a. Manually – by creating news articles
b. Automatically, from events or from an incident or task
i. You can develop a business rule that generates a news item
c. Importing existing articles
d. From the Service Catalog using a record producer
e. From an existing problem record,
i. The problem application plugin has a workarounds feature
What is the hierarchy of the knowledge base?
a. Topic is the highest level
b. Category is the second level
i. Example
1. Topic = Email
2. Categories =
a. Calender permissions
b. Outlook settings
c. Increase size of mailbox.
What is the Service Catalog in Servicenow?
a. Service catalog is the central repository of goods and services that an it service desk provides for users
i. Its an ordering system for goods and services
ii. Help and training portal
What is a Record producer and how does it relate to the Service Catalog?
a. A record producer provides a user-friendly alternative to the regular form interface. Record producers populate record data using variables and scripts
i. They ask users a series of questions to assist users in the request process
1. This assists them in providing correct and relevant information on forms
ii. They provide a single point of entry to create an incident or request.
What is an order guide? (In remedy it’s like an active link guide)
a. An order guide provides the ability to order multiple, related items as one request
b. An order guide prompts user information and uses the rule base to generate options
i. Depending on what fields are chosen on the form, the system displays relevant catalog items.
c. When a user orders an item from the catalog, a request is generated. P 248
True or False- an order generates a request?
True, and request is generated to keep track of the specific order
What are the 3 types of numbers from orders?
a. Request Number (REQ) – The request is generated and given a REQ number
b. Request Item (RITM) – Each item in the order is assigned a Requested Item number
c. Catalog Task number – For each requested item, a set of catalog tasks are created. Each task is assigned a catalog task number
What do Service Catalog Variables provide? (Variables are like questions in Kinetic Request).
a. Options to tailor a catalog item to the customers’ needs
b. Definitions of available item options using questions choices
c. Variables define questions for users
d. Question selections then define the available option
True or False – The order field establishes the sequence for displaying the variables?
True, variables with an lower three digit integer , appears first in the list
True or False – A variable Set is a modular unit of variables that can be shared between catalog items?
True – you can define the variable set once and then use it in multiple places
What role allows users to define catalog items?
Catalog_admin role
What is an update set?
a. A group of customizations that can be moved from one instance to another.
b. Allows administrators to group a series of changes into a named set and then move this set as a unit to the other instance.
c. Update sets are “point in time” xml snapshots of records.
d. An update set writes changes from tracked tables to the customer update tables sys_update+xml
True or False, an update set is a “point in time” XML snapshot of the record?
True – An update set workfs by writing changes from tracked tables to the customer updates table [sys_update_xml)
Which of the following are you allowed to make customizations to?
a. A table
b. A form
c. A field
d. A business rule
e. A client script
f. A view
g. All of the above (this is the answer)
What is not a customization
a. New records (data)
b. New users and groups
c. Modified cis
d. Schedules
By default in ServiceNow, what customizations are added to Update Sets?
a. Changes made to data
b. Changes made to a form – B this is the answer.
c. Changes made to a schedule
d. Changes made to an homepage
True or False – it is best practice to never make changes to an update set in the Default update set?
True – The baseline and Default update sets are self-maintaining and it is not recommended to change or delete or move them between systems.
Which of the following are best practices when working with update sets?
a. Have a plan to manage changes, identify a common migration path
b. Communicate efficiently by knowing whats being develeopmed and make sure administrators are aware of developments
c. Include many changes in one set
d. Group like items in a small manageable set
e. Use preview before moving update sets
True or false – Do not delete update sets?
True – Deleting update sets is not recommended for three reasons
i. It does not undo the updates
ii. It removes any record of who applied customization’s to any instance
iii. Next upgrade, customizations will be over written,
What is an import set?
a. DATA Load
b. An import set is a tool used to import data from various data sources and then map that data into servicenow tables.
1) This is an admin function
2) Data that already matches or exists is skipped.
What is the purpose of the import set table?
It acts as a staging area for records imported
What are the possible import sources?
1. CSV
3. XML
ii. Network
2. FTP
What do transformation maps do?
a. Kinda like Extract, Transform, load except its Import transform load.
b. Map source data to destination table
c. Allow you to transform import data into Servicenow format you desire.
d. Any table in servicenow table is a potential destination for transformation of an import set
e. Any field within a table can serve as a potential destination for transformation from a field within an import set.
f. You can reuse existing transform maps for mapping data
What is the task table?
Task [task] is one of the core tables provided with the base system. It provides a series of standard fields used on each of the tables that extend it, such as the Incident [incident] and Problem [problem] tables. In addition, any table which extends task can take advantage of task-specific functionality for driving tasks.
What is UI policy?
a. Ui policy is client side business rules (like active links in Remedy).
b. Examples of ui policy – by qualification or criterion
i. Make a Close Notes field mandatory
ii. Hide the Opened by field
iii. Make the Priority, Severity, and Urgency fields read-only
iv. Run a client script that displays an alert message
What is UI actions?
UI Actions are an easy way to put buttons, links, and context menu items on forms and lists, making the UI more interactive, customizable, and specific to user activities. These buttons, links, and context menu items can be scripted, making them more powerful.
i. UI Actions include:
1. Form buttons
2. Form context menu items (right-click the header)
3. Form links (Related Links in a form)
4. List buttons
5. List context menu items (right-click a record)
6. List choices (at the bottom of a list)
7. List links (Related Links at the bottom of a list)
ii. UI actions are given access via permission
What is a client script?
Client scripts are created in the cleints scripts form and shipped to the client (the browser), and they run there instead of on the server. You can define JavaScript to run in the client browser. Several types of scripts are supported:
i. onLoad(): Runs when a form is loaded
ii. onChange(): Runs when a particular widget changes value
iii. onSubmit(): Runs when a form is submitted
iv. onCellEdit(): Runs when a cell on a list changes value
What is a business rule? These are like filters in Remedy
A business rule is a piece of JavaScript configured to run when a record is displayed, inserted, updated, deleted, or when a table is queried. A business rule can be set to run before or after the database action has occurred. In the case of a query, the business rule runs before the database operation, so that the data returned to the user is appropriate to his system privileges (user roles). A typical business rule might execute a script after a user updates an incident or escalates the priority of a change request. Use a business rules to create new events for email notification and script actions.
Where they get initiated?
They are created in the business rules form
What is a workflow?
a. A workflow is a virtual representation of tasks consisting of connected steps planned out in a sequential manner
b. For each step in the workflow, an activity is processed
i. The behavior is determined when the activity begins
ii. Workflows provide a summary of workflow progress by updating any field designated as a stage field.
iii. Workflows are tracked in the sc_request table
What are 3 ways to attach workflows to particular requests?
a. Manually, on the catalog item form
b. Automatically based on condition
c. Automatically if there are no other workflows
Once the Service Catalog Request is submitted, what workflow stages does the request go to?
a. Waiting for approval
b. Fulfillment
c. Delivery
d. Completed
e. (Request Cancelled)
The Graphical Workflow Editor is used to drive delivery of a service catalog order; what are the three basic components to generate and assign?
a. Approvals
b. Notifications
c. Tasks
Which of the following are workflow activities?
a. Approvals
b. Notifications
c. Timers – Pause the workflow for a set period of time
d. Tasks
e. Utilities
f. All of the above (f is the answer)
True or False – Workflows need to be checked out before they can be edited?
True or False – To make a new or edited workflow available to all users, it needs to be published.
What are common, OOTB places where workflows are commonly seen in Servicenow?
a. Routine Changes
b. Emergency Changes
c. Service Level Agreements (SLA)
True or False – All Workflows have a beginning and end?
True or False – A workflow can have multiple layers of approval
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Palm Trees and Airplanes
Yesterday I met up with Rhiannon of Garb-Oh Vintage and we visited a variety of vintage clothing shops downtown, including our friend Christine’s shop, Living Threads. I hadn’t been in in a few days, and I was in for a treat! I not only found a pair of pants (a treasure in themselves!) but I also found this killer dress…
Yes, yes, those are hibiscus flowers, palm trees and airplanes! I was jumping up and down in Christine’s shop over it. Yeah, I do things like that. And then I got smacked with another shocker…it’s 80s! 80s! SHWA!? I knew that the 1980s took many cues from then 1940s (ahem, shoulder pads and peplums, anyone?) but I never knew there were any pieces this convincing! And of course, because it was 80s, it was a fraction of the price of that a 1940s piece similar would be.
It also has a darling little bustle in the back…it isn’t too visible here in the picture, but it’s there!
And the best part? It didn’t cost me a single red cent. Christine is always interested in doing trade so I got this, the pants, and Patrick a shirt with some credit I had racked up in her shop. Yep, I’m pretty much a happy camper.
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Grooveshark's music link
Issue #75 new
Anonymous created an issue
Sometimes we hear something that's woth sharing with friends and colleagues. So it would be nice to create a way for clicking a song in the playlist in order to copy it's link for sharing.
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1. Vladimir Kolev repo owner
Personally I haven't visited the grooveshark website for about an year or so, have to see how the share links are generated, and if this could be implemented I will update.
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What Is Operational Debt?
by Marquis Codjia ; Updated September 26, 2017
Operational debt helps a firm finance activities in the short term.
Senior corporate executives generally sign borrowing agreements to finance operating activities in the short and long terms. These activities relate to purchases, sales and marketing, human resources management and business partnerships.
Debt Defined
A debt is a liability, such as a short-term loan or long-term note, that a borrower must repay.
Operational Debt Defined
Operational debt consists of all liabilities that a firm incurs through its primary activities. It include accounts payable and taxes due.
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Perception of Operational Debt
Senior managers pay special attention to operational debt because business partners--such as customers, lenders and suppliers--often gauge a firm's short-term economic robustness by calculating operational debt levels.
Types of operational debt items vary by company and industry, but the most common are vendor payables, pension liabilities, salaries and taxes.
Accounting for Operational Debt
To record an operational debt transaction, such as inventory delivery, an accountant credits the vendor payable account and debits the purchases account.
Reporting Operational Debt
An accountant reports operational debt in a company's statement of financial condition, otherwise known as statement of financial position or balance sheet.
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07 October 2010
Google Pushes Back on Oracle's Java IP Law Suit
Much of the commentary and news coverage we have read (eg in The Age, and at SDTimes, amongst others) has focused on Google's motion to dismiss Oracle's copyright infringement complaint, on the basis that it includes “impermissibly vague and broad allegations of copyright infringement” and does not specifically identify any allegedly infringing works of Google, how Google allegedly infringed Oracle’s rights or how Oracle believes its claim of vicarious liability for copyright infringement arises. As we noted when discussing the case previously, Google's position is that Android was developed independently, without use of the Sun/Oracle Java source code, and therefore there was no copying and thus no copyright infringement. There is an onus on Oracle to allege facts that describe infringing acts in sufficient detail to establish that there is a case to be answered. Google contends that Oracle's copyright infringement complaint does not include any factual allegation regarding how the infringement occurred, and thus should be dismissed. There seems to be some merit in this contention. (Read the motion to dismiss here.)
Reading some of the news reports, you might think that Google is asking the court to toss out the entire suit. This is not the case. Even if the court grants Google's motion to dismiss the copyright claims, the patent infringement claims will still remain to be tried. You might also think, from some reports, that Google is seeking to have Oracle's complaints dismissed on the basis that Java is "open source", and that it is therefore not possible to infringe any associated rights. This is also not the case. While there is some discussion of the history of Java, Android, the JVM and the Dalvik VM, in the factual background provided in Google's answer, none of this actually provides the legal basis for Google's defense or the motion to dismiss the copyright claims.
With regard to the alleged patent infringement, Google's reply states only that Google denies infringement of any of the seven asserted patents, and further alleges that all of the patents are invalid and/or unenforceable on all of the usual grounds available under the law. This is not a request to dismiss the claims, but is a statement of what Google's position is, and will be at trial.
In fact, Google expressly admits, in relation to each of the patent infringement claims, that "an actual case or controversy exists between Google and Oracle as to whether the ... patent is infringed by Google", and that "a judicial declaration is necessary and appropriate so that Google may ascertain its rights regarding the ... patent."
It will be interesting to see how Oracle responds to Google's motion to dismiss the copyright complaint.
However, barring a settlement in the meantime it looks like the patent infringement case is going to court.
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Me and my GF fighting mit Wet-Kelly
Me and my girlfriend had a fight, we did some sexy wrestling while we stayed one on eachother under her weight ,keeping my hands locked and legs also without being able to escape, so sexy and naughty, i wanted to escape but i liked to feel her power, while she was laying over me, then we switched i sat on her and made her feel my power too. Such a great game.
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Raina Telgemeier
Raina Telgemeier
Raina Telgemeier
Raina Telgemeier is the author and illustrator of the graphic novels Smile, Drama, and Sisters, all #1 New York Times bestsellers. She also adapted and illustrated four graphic novel versions of Ann M. Martin’s Baby-sitters Club series, and has contributed short stories to many anthologies. Raina’s accolades include two Eisner Awards, a Boston Globe-Horn Book Honor, a Stonewall Honor, and many Best Of and Notable lists. Her newest graphic novel is Ghosts. Raina lives and works in San Francisco, CA.
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Tanya Sands (Author) Exclusive Interview
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I don’t have a set schedule. However, the document I happen to be working on at the time is open on my laptop pretty much 24/7. That way when something comes to me, I can write.
Q. Do your novels carry a message?
In my Chasers series and the upcoming Inked Chasers trilogy, all my female heroines are curvy women. The only message my books carry is that it shouldn’t matter your size, color or sex. Love is up for grabs for everyone.
Q. How much of yourself do you put into your books?
I see myself in every one of my heroines, even if in a small way. My husband has read my 1st book and he said my Randa Michaels is so much like me it’s uncanny.
Q. You write using a pseudonym can you tell us why you chose to write under a pseudonym?
While I’m sure some authors might worry about an unsavory fan, I guess it never occurred to me. My reasoning was merely because I didn’t think my real name was very interesting.
Q. You’re a veteran of the US Air Force how have you incorporated that into your writing?
Through my parents, I learned that being the best person you could be (to yourself and to others) is very important. This carried over into my military life. I took a lot of pride in how I acted, how I treated others as I saw it a reflection of my branch of service and didn’t want to dishonor it. I guess I try and make my characters the same, the best THEY can be. Now, that’s not to say that I and THEY don’t have flaws, but generally speaking I try to keep them to behaving like good people.
Q. Is there anything you are currently working on that may intrigue the interest of your readers?
My Chasers series is about ½ written and I’m hoping to continue it in a different city. However, I do have a couple of standalone stories that I’m working on. One is a younger woman/older man idea and the other is an MC with a mafia feel to it.
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While living a charmed life, Eva Pasco’s summer employment during college served her well for learning how to relate with all kinds of folks and roll with the punches whether gluing eyes on pairs of lion slippers at Capitol Heel Lining, collating booklets at Sidney-Higgins Bookbinding, or getting down and dirty at H & H Screw Products. Eva attributes her youthfulness and resilience to a 29-year teaching career in the trenches at Northern Lincoln Elementary. Midlife restlessness prompted her to revive a dormant flair for writing.
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Actually, I not only conduct research before beginning a book, but throughout the process of writing as the need arises to provide information for blurring the demarcation line between fiction and nonfiction.
Since my author signature is that of incorporating local setting—my native state of Rhode Island—my research delves into historic events, geographic entities, and regional culture as it fits into the parameters of my work in progress. For ‘An Enlightening Quiche,’ which features an impoverished mill, my research chased such topics as: The Industrial Revolution and Slater Mill of Pawtucket, RI; the Blackstone River; French-Canadian immigration to northern Rhode Island; colloquial expressions and cuisine.
For authenticating my protagonist’s introspective narratives, my research swerved to the Eighties, and then backpedaled to D-Day during WWII in conjunction with a minor character. I also meticulously looked up the weather for specific days in the year 2011, the year I have envisioned my story taking place.
My first 100 Memoirs relate incidents which occurred during my childhood and teenage years during the Sixties, and are featured at The Sixties Official Site where I have my own Web page. However, my novels feature women forty and older.
Q. What are the ethics of writing Women’s Fiction?
For me, it is about writing stories that dispel the clichés that accompany the genre of Women’s Fiction by the coined term, “Chick Lit.” The label conjures an image of frivolous, lighthearted fare with book cover images of cocktail glasses, designer handbags, and high heels. Whereas, Women’s Fiction taps into the hopes, fears, and dreams of females.
I like to bill my novels as “Lit with Grit” because they embrace realism and portray women over forty who grapple with, confront, and overcome their personal dilemmas to become empowered in making profound life changes for the better. My novels are descriptive, introspective, and explore the gamut of inner conflicts: convention vs. rebellion; fate vs. free will; loyalty vs. betrayal; unbridled love vs. sacrifice; death–inevitable or tragic?
I agree with this statement wholeheartedly. It’s the belief that propels a writer from start to finish despite frustrations along the way such as being at a loss for words on any given day, or not being satisfied with the quality of your output during a writing session.
Q. What does the word ‘retirement’ mean to you? Do writers ever retire?
After retiring from a teaching career, I revived my dormant flair for writing, and put in even longer hours than before! Though I often struggle with the notion of walking away, resenting all the time an Indie author must invest in marketing one’s published work, I can’t do it just yet.
Q. What do you do in your free time?
I welcome the change of pace that running errands affords. I enjoy the simple pleasures of going out for breakfast or lunch. Since Rhode Island has 400 miles of coastline and over 100 accessible beaches, I walk the shore throughout our four seasons. I also take great pleasure in driving along scenic routes listening to the radio. By the end of the day, I take comfort in reading and solving challenging crossword puzzles.
Q. Describe your creative process from start to finish.
No outline. No rigid plot to hem me in. You might say the windmills of my mind propel the story, whereby the end justifies the means to get there. From past practice, my characters sabotage the ending I have in mind. Believe me, I know better than to question their judgment!
Usually bursts of brilliance for how to best articulate an idea or parlay snatches of dialog overtake me when I’m away from the keyboard doing housework. I immediately turn off the vacuum or abandon my dust cloth to heed my inner voice by scribbling the message on a notebook kept on my desk for this purpose. Another quirk of mine is to play music conducive for plying my mood to write a scene. For example, listening to “Wicked Games” by Chris Isaak provided the heat I needed to better convey one of my protagonists’ thoughts on the subject of a certain male.
Q. What makes your latest book stand out from the crowd?
An excerpt from Joel R. Dennstedt’s 5-Star review for Readers’ Favorite indicates how my book stands out from the crowd—“As a stylistic practice in relating the story behind An Enlightening Quiche, Eva Pasco accomplishes a most difficult task for a writer, and she accomplishes it to perfection: not only using alternating voices, but having each voice alternate between the present and a remembered, expository past. The effect of such stylistic mastery is to create – breaking from the culinary theme – a sensationally intricate and complex tapestry as pleasing to the reader’s mind as such artwork is to expert eyes. And though this work has been labeled simplistically as “contemporary women’s fiction,” make no mistake: this is a psychological, literary novel, and a wonderful, highly challenging masterpiece of writing.”
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Augusta – An inconvenient truth lay in the acquisition of a whiskey-soured premonition of a lost soul past her prime groping in the darkness through the thicket of another decade, then another, ravished by the winds of change. A vision of myself as a ghoul from Christmases Yet to Come appeared in the guise of a long-in-the-tooth trollop flicking fried-dyed hair and wearing age-inappropriate, skintight attire tautly stretched over my butt of a joke. A comparable image satirized every night by Cohen at closing time inside the chamber of Chuggers put the fear of God in me.
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Coronation apple
Coronation apple
History of the Coronation apple
The Coronation apple was raised by H C Princep at Buxted Park and introduced by nurseryman Pyne, Topsham, Devon. It was recorded in 1902 in the year of the coronation of Edward V11 and won an RHS Award of Merit in 1902.
It is currently cultivated as part of Brighton Permaculture Trust's National Collection in Stanmer Park, Brighton. You can see a Coronation apple tree (planted 2011) in Home Farm Orchard (map).
Description of fruit
The Coronation is a large, handsome apple which can be variable in size and flat to almost conic in shape. The yellow skin is flushed orange-red and streaked with dark red. There is some russet at the base of the apple. It has soft, coarse flesh with a sweet, light taste.
Season of use
Fruit ripens in mid September and will store until November, though it becomes very soft.
Notes on cultivation
The Coronation is a vigorous growing tree.
Flowering and pollination
Flowering day: F13
How to identify a Coronation apple
Apples can be identified by sending them to the National Fruit Collection at Brogdale or by bringing a sample to Apple Day Brighton, where an expert pomologist will be on hand to identify apples. From each tree, bring three or more ripe fruits and a shoot with representative leaves.
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Let’s talk about yeast prior to the 20th century. Back then, you did not go down to the grocery store and pick up packets of dried yeast. Instead, you probably got your yeast from the local brewer, either skimmed from the top (kreusen), or from the bottom of the cask after decanting (lees). And then, you would make up a jug or crock of a slurry of flour or potatoes to keep it alive in. 19th century books are full of recipes for “yeast”, but these are not recipes for making yeast, they are recipes for maintaining a yeast culture. It is from this liquid culture that you would get your yeast for baking. And as you took some away, you would add additional liquid and nutrients to replace it, exactly the same as maintaining a modern sourdough starter. Toward the end of the 19th century, you start to see references to purchasing cakes of yeast, and even occasional recipes for making dried cakes of yeast. But the majority of the recipes I have all use liquid yeast cultures.
Another oddity by modern standards is that many of the yeast recipes call for adding hops. Keep in mind that for hundreds of years, bakers had been getting their yeast from brewers, which was obtained from the ale vats themselves. This means that the yeast was well-flavored with hops. And since the bread was made from that yeast, the bread had the flavor of hops as well. So for people of the time, bread that did not taste of hops would have been odd. Of course there was another reason for the hops that was well-known at the time, hops are a preservative. So yeast cultures made with hops would last longer before going sour. This is not so much a problem today with refrigeration, but back then it could be a significant issue, especially in the warmer months.
From “Domestic Cookery“, 1866[1]
Potato Yeast
But there’s another difference between modern baking yeast and the yeast of the past. Modern yeast is FAST. I mean lightning-fast compared to yeast of the time, even the ones not labelled as rapid-rise are very much faster. A lot of the old recipes call for batters, sponges and doughs to be risen overnight. Seriously, don’t do this with a modern yeast unless it’s cold in your house. In that amount of time, a modern yeast will have consumed everything and exhausted itself. And sure, it’s convenient to have bread rise so much faster, but it does change things, especially the flavor if the sponge or dough was meant to rise overnight.
So, if this matters to you, consider making your own yeast solution. You can obtain good brewing yeast (and hops) from home-brewing supply shops. There might even be one near you. These yeasts come in both dry and liquid form, either will do, but you want an ale yeast, not a lager, wine or champagne yeast. Then just use a recipe like the ones above, and add that yeast to it. I keep mine in a large mason jar in the refrigerator. Just pull out as much as you need and let it sit out for a bit to warm up before using. the results I have gotten so far match up with the descriptions in the old cook books. A sponge left overnight was just right in the morning. And another that called for a two-hour rise was also right, when using modern yeast would have taken only 20-30 minutes.
Elizabeth E. Lea, Domestic Cookery. Cushings and Bailey, 1866.
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Religious Practicalities
Religious Practicalities
Anyone who has been following the Alt Right internal politics will no doubt be getting a little peeved by the infighting and edge-lording that is coming dangerously close to defining the movement. Just in the last few weeks, what essentially amounts to a hit-piece on Greg Johnson came out from, and Jack Donovan finally came out in public attacking the White Nationalist movement as a whole.
I don’t know Daniel Friberg — one of the editors of, with whom the argument with Greg began — so I’ll assume he’s probably a decent fellow. Or perhaps he’s a piece of shit, as Greg Johnson alleges. I don’t know.
I do know Greg Johnson, however, if only peripherally, and I know Jack Donovan. Both are not merely fundamentally good people, but courageous to boot (a far rarer trait). So many intelligent people, and yet the arguments persist. It seems as if the Alt Right as a political movement is inheriting the internal divisiveness of its libertarian predecessor.
A few weeks back, the arguments between The Golden One and Thulean Perspective (Varg) related to the Christianity and Paganism essentially reflect the pugnacious nature of the Alt Right journals, for those who only follow politics on YouTube.
Worse still, it isn’t just the dumber elements arguing with the intelligent ones, or the humble with the vainglorious. Some of the more firm race-realists might ascribe this to white individualism, but I believe the lines are traceable to a religious starting point. By uncovering this cause of the disconnection between subcomponent members of the Alt Right, we may be able to move forward as a group, rather than as squabbling mini-groups, and actually accomplish something in our own interest.
The divisiveness of the Libertarian party, I believe, correlates strongly to its broadly atheistic identity. As I have written about elsewhere (here and here, for instance), religion is not best understood primarily as a metaphysical belief structure, but as a hierarchy of values and a general orientation towards the world. At the symbolic religious level, atheism is virtually indistinguishable from nihilism, and a political movement which is predominantly atheistic in character will naturally result in a plethora of disjointed and incompatible value-hierarchies. Political success from such a movement is unlikely.
Now the choice arises in the Alt Right between paganism (especially the Nordic variety) and Christianity. Here’s an interesting question to explore: which one is more likely to succeed, in a political context?
I think the heart of the answer can be reached rather intuitively by looking at the most important virtues established in each. Paganism most strongly emphasizes strength and honor, while Christianity holds up forgiveness and grace.
Personal strength and honor are certainly critical virtues, and they are unfortunately undervalued by many Christians, especially today. However, real strength is not achieved by an individual, but by an individual working within a group. In Pagan circles, this is often stated as an aphorism: “the strength of the wolf is the pack, and the strength of the pack is the wolf.” These pagan circles understand the concept, and hold up “tribe” as something like a sacred unit. That these religions succeeded in surviving for thousands of years argues on its own, prima facie, that such a small-scale, tribal system is cohesive and sustainable.
But there is strength in numbers, and we live in a larger world. A perfect Dunbar-sized tribe of 250 people won’t stand a chance against a nation-state of 250,000, armed with the latest technology, specialized industry, and economies of scale. This is not a matter of idyllic lifestyles, but a matter of brute strength. In war, the larger nations usually win, and in politics, larger movements will succeed over smaller ones.
The symbol for strength through unity has historically been the fasces, a bundle of sticks bound together around an axe. Individually, they can be broken, but as a group, they are invincible. Symbolically speaking, the question is which makes for the stronger axe: better sticks, or better bindings?
Aedhan Cassiel of Counter Currents puts it comparatively in a more prescient way:
If the United States government were to turn against the Wolves of Vinland and try to wipe it out of existence, how long do you think the Wolves would survive? It would be perfectly reasonable to bet they wouldn’t last a week.
And why is that?
It’s because the United States government is a larger entity than the Wolves. And the United States government is a larger entity than the Wolves because membership in it is based on shared dedication to common principles and goals as well as consent to the hierarchy of an overarching command structure—not whether or not everyone who joins the U.S. government wants to buddy up with each other. The U.S. government’s capacity for domination of fringe groups like the Wolves is, in and of itself, proof that political alliances built out of principle rather than “buddying up” will trump isolated, small–tribe “groups of buddies” every time.
So in order to be successful, the Alt Right needs to find a narrative moral foundation (i.e., a religion) which encourages the virtues that bind people together, rather than the virtues that encourage in-group cannibalism.
Christianity fits this bill.
All of these things are conducive not only to personal spiritual growth and maturity, but also to the success of a political organization. Some of the earliest letters of the Church, after all, were explicitly written to reduce in-fighting. And the history of Christendom broadly bears out the success of Christianity in this regard.
The question is, does Paganism have these qualities?
I believe the answer in principle is “yes.” The problem modern pagans run into, however, is that their Paganism tends to derive from a rejection of Christianity, rather than a genuine expression of classical religious beliefs and the carrying on of an organic tradition. As a result, they have become Dionysians, rather than Apollonians. In a more Nordic context, many pagans who believe they are worshipping Thor and Odin are, in fact, following in the example of Fafnir (whom Nietzsche described as the Dionysian character of Wagner’s opera, contrasted with the Apollonian Wotan), or perhaps the great wolf Fenrir.
Those who were influenced by Nietzche’s arguments for master moralities over slave moralities have aspired for the virtues of nobility. The Dionysian character of a master morality is impulsive, assertive, unconstrained by conventional morality, and otherwise essentially virile and vivacious. It may plan and display patience, but it does not brood or linger. For the Nietzschean master, the Christian slave is a pathetic thing, self-denying, and by extension, life-denying.
Of course, Christianity is not at all anti-life. It embraces the virtues that form the bonds of a cohesive and strong society, from which strength in life is derived. They have become the innumerable pack, while Pagans have remained Dunbar packs, or even lone wolves.
As Nietzsche saw a Christian culture in his time, despite a loss of Christian theology, so too is much of modern pagan culture Nietzschean in character, despite a general lack of Nietzschean literature. It rejects Christianity not because of Jesus, but because of the Apollonian character of Jesus. Within this Nietzschean paganism, the pathetic, weak, Left has become so dehumanized that they are not even worthy of combat. There is no honor in beating up children.
Where is there honor? Why, in waging wars with other valiant, strong pagans — explicit, nominal, or honorary. People like Jack Donovan, or The Golden One, or like Greg Johnson.
I have no desire to convert contended Pagans to Christianity. I do, however, desire a successful right-wing political answer to the left’s march of nihilism and atheism, and cohesion will be required for this movement. Both European history and the texts themselves indicate a stronger embodiment of the necessary virtues for this movement within Christianity than within Paganism. If this movement is to be successful, Christians will, of course, need to leave their American-Protestant evangelism and their obsession with conversion at home (Orthodox Christians and Catholics have something of an advantage here).
More importantly, however, Pagans will need to confront what their own personal issues with Christianity are. The things they most hate about Christianity are not just latent within the Pagan traditions themselves, but will be required of a successful political movement. In the long run, they will most likely be required of any given individual anyways, so you may as well sort yourself out earlier rather than later.
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The Strong Case for Censorship
The Strong Case for Censorship
Here’s a puzzle: what’s wrong with Slavoj Zizek’s argument for censorship?
I like censorship, but what kind of censorship? Not ‘the office, you get imprisoned,’ but censorship which is a measure of cultural standards. What do I mean by this? For example, I wouldn’t like to live in a society where you argue against rape. You know, this reminds me of Ronald Reagan, you remember one of his legendary stories is that once he said when he was accused of tolerating holocaust denial, he said: “No, it’s not true! Whenever, at my dinner table, there are people who deny the holocaust, I strongly oppose them.” Well, the question being, ‘what kind of friends, yes?’ Yes, all the time oppose them!
But my point is that it’s the same with… you know, I like to live in a society where you don’t have to argue why rape is prohibited; why rape shouldn’t be allowed. I would like to live in a society where when somebody, in any way, tolerates rape, it’s simply—how would you put this—disqualifies himself, is perceived as either dangerous or ridiculous. This is what I mean by censorship, that it’s inadmissible, and we shouldn’t be afraid of it. And the sad thing is that in Europe, the standards for what is publicly admissible are falling lower, and lower, and lower. Things at the level of racism and so on, which 20, 30 years ago simply were not possible, are today tolerated and accepted.
The answer is only this: he’s on the wrong side.
Conservatives outnumber liberals in the United States, meaning that cultural norms for censorship (which are always democratic in nature) will be firmly against anything that smacks of Marxism or Communism. In extreme cases, they will oppose even things which seem too intellectual, because to the layman, they appear untrustworthy.
Even if immigration eventually makes democrats outnumber republicans, the essential psychological breakdown will not have changed, because immigrants side with the democrats for personal benefits, not out of ideological loyalty. Hispanic Catholics and Muslim Africans may be fiscally liberal, but are socially conservative. Perhaps more importantly, they are functionally low in verbal intelligence as a group, due to language barriers, and this correlates with supporting political censorship.
What is most ironic about this support for cultural censorship is how conservative it is in its psychology. The leftist mind is open to experience, while the conservative mind is characterized by conscientiousness. Thus censorship–which establishes the stability in a society that Zizek alludes to, in which we do not have to constantly answer for established principles–will always work to the benefit of conservatives, and at the cost of liberals.
Perhaps more accurately, censorship solidifies a paradigm, while free speech opens the paradigm to criticism. Even if this criticism is answered, the energy and effort of answering it is a burden that detracts from the defenders’ ability to focus on other tasks in their society. Rather than focusing on the finer details of, say, property law, within the confines of an established legal paradigm, we have to yet again go over whether or not the very concept of property is legitimate.
Or whether or not rape is okay.
If such challenges are taken remotely seriously, then the entire structure of society rocks back and forth in an ongoing, low-grade earthquake. How high can it be built? How long can it even stand?
The only reason that free speech is plausibly defensible is that it can, sometimes, be used to identify flaws in the structure itself–not to exploit for demolition, but to strengthen the structure. The argument presumes that the harm that can be prevented through this speech is greater than the harm imposed by its existence. It also presumes a kind of socio-cultural coherence which Zizek alludes to. This coherence, Zizek and other leftists attack, as “racism” and “xenophobia,” despite being a necessary condition for the sort of society Zizek desires to live in.
What, then, should be done? Logically, the thing to do would be to establish support for free speech as a cultural metric for censorship: if you oppose free speech, then you are “dangerous or ridiculous.”
Whether or not this itself constitutes a paradox, I leave to the contemplation of the leftists advocating for repressive tolerance 2.0, as “cultural censorship.” Indeed, they would escape the seeming contradiction by advocating against free speech, rather than for it. I think, however, that they know as well as we do how that would turn out for them, were it accepted by everyone at the same time. They have the cities and the universities in their ideological grasp, but that is not nearly enough of a lead to win the censorship war that they are hell-bent on sparking.
For my part, I am this close to throwing up my hands and putting my redactor’s warpaint on. It seems as though protecting the value of free speech may require tightening the restrictions on the speech of those who do not share that value. Whether this is the more slippery slope to step on than allowing the left to maintain the reigns of cultural censorship, I do not know.
It certainly looks like a shallower angle though.
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Having problems with your 2000 Chevrolet Blazer ?
I have a 2000 Chevy Blazer, 2WD, 4.3L engine. I just replaced the heater core and discovered my keyless remote won't lock or unlock the doors. The negative battery cable was removed during heater core replacement, but after hooking everything up again, no keyless locks. I've double checked all dashboard connections and nothing wrong. This is the second heater core I've replaced and I didn't have any electrical issues before. Thanks.
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There is a way to reset your remote.
- hold down the unlock button
- turn on an off your ignition four times
- you should here a click, if that does not work hold the lock button..i had to reset my remote an this does work..
Check the battery in the keyless
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Miles Paul Whisted ✵ 1997-1997
Miles Paul Whisted
Name at birth: Miles Paul Whisted
Date of birth: February 11,1997
Place of birth: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Date of death: February 11, 1997
Place of death: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Place of burial: Holy Septlecure Cemetery,Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Submitted by: Erika Whisted (
I cry everyday for us. For you, because you will never share life with your family, those who love you so much already. For us, because we will never see your smile or feel your tiny arms holding us close. I ask God everyday why he needs you. Why you can’t grow up with your brothers who love and need you. Why your daddy has to feel such pain. I pray everyday that you already know how much you are loved. I pray that you can hear us talking to you inside me, that you can feel your daddy’s touch, Michael’s kisses, Alex’s hugs and Dylan’s head lying close to yours. I wish everyday that you were not so sick and you were coming home with us. Sometimes I wish that you could stay inside me forever, so that you could live and I could be with you, my son. I am afraid everyday that once you leave me the lonliness will be more than I can bear. I fear the emptiness inside without you there and without you in my arms. I hope everyday, Miles, that you will be in God’s arms. I hope you will hear our prayers for you and know that even though we only had a short time to be with you, you are our son, our love, our angel and you will be missed everyday. A part of your soul will live in each of our hearts where you will shine brightly forever. I know everyday that passes will be filled with memories of you. I know you will never know the sorrows of this world. You are loved.
Mommy, Daddy, Dylan, Alex and Micheal
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Audio Fundamentals (Beta 2 SDK)
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This is awesome!!
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But how about other languages? Like German, French oder Spanish?
Are these supported?
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How about a brief code sample of how general dictation might be used? When I try to modify the sample code to add
It crashes on
I've searched high and low for a solution but it appears this is a general issue (that the dictation stuff doesn't work) with the speech API so why is it there? Any help is much appreciated.
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George Birbilis
typo: visaul -> visual
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@George Birbilis: fixed the typo
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@TheZar: are you using the x86 or x64 speech APIs?
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Very good the tutorial but, do you have the code for Speech Recognition? Thanks
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Is there any good resource out there for learning the SRGS XML format? The W3C specification is too.. specificationy, and all the tutorials I've found so far deal with the BNF format rather than the XML format.
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Hi, thanks for sharing us such a good tutorial. But I personally find it is not so difficult to record streaming audio from microphone by standalone audio recorders, not built-in ones.
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Hiva Javaher
I'm trying to get both speech recognition and Text to speech to work on a WPF app (C#)
I have the Recognition down but the synthesizer part keeps giving an error of "No voice installed on the system or none available with the current security setting."
I have both "Microsoft Speech Platform - Software Development Kit (SDK) (Version 10.2)" and "Microsoft Speech Platform - Server Runtime (Version 10.2)" in X86 and X64 installed on my system.
Can anyone tell me whats wrong? I would really really appreciate it.
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I am trying to add speech recognition to a WPF C# app. I am receiving video, skeletal, and depth data correctly, but whenever I start capturing the audio I receive the exception error bellow. I can run the demo above correctly. Is there a reference or an extra step needed when using WPF.
System.InvalidCastException was unhandled
Message=Unable to cast COM object of type 'System.__ComObject' to interface type 'Microsoft.Research.Kinect.Audio.IMediaObject'. This operation failed because the QueryInterface call on the COM component for the interface with IID '{D8AD0F58-5494-4102-97C5-EC798E59BCF4}' failed due to the following error: No such interface supported (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80004002 (E_NOINTERFACE)).
at System.StubHelpers.StubHelpers.GetCOMIPFromRCW(Object objSrc, IntPtr pCPCMD, Boolean& pfNeedsRelease)
at Microsoft.Research.Kinect.Audio.IMediaObject.ProcessOutput(Int32 dwFlags, Int32 cOutputBufferCount, DMO_OUTPUT_DATA_BUFFER[] pOutputBuffers, Int32& pdwStatus)
at Microsoft.Research.Kinect.Audio.KinectAudioStream.RunCapture(Object notused)
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at System.Threading.ExecutionContext.Run(ExecutionContext executionContext, ContextCallback callback, Object state)
at System.Threading.ThreadHelper.ThreadStart(Object obj)
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For some reason i only have the Microsoft Lightweight Speech Recognizer v11.0 (SR_MS_ZXX_Lightweight_v11.0) showing up as an available speech recognizer. I've double-checked that i have everything installed correctly, and i'm referencing the C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Speech\v11.0\Assembly\Microsoft.Speech.dll. Any ideas why i don't see the Kinect Recognizer?
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Rhythmless Dance
Music, for many of us, is more than a catchy beat, more than a song to fill the silence. Music can be solace and armor on life’s journey because the experience is so unlike a choreographed gymnastics performance that’s been perfectly timed to a marketable song.
Rarely in life do we execute a flawless performance, one so beautiful and mesmerizing that each movement is done to scorable perfection. With every challenge- we jump, we move, we fall, we stand up, we resist, we fall, we rise, we refuse, we bend, we choke, we break, and we jump again- into a rhythmless dance with no soundtrack following us except the ones we create in our minds.
With the unrevealed company of our favorite drumbeats- we bruise, we bleed, we lose, we gain, we steal, and we learn. Makeup and gel wash away. Ugly cries don’t get an audience moved to tears on our behalf. And grief has hands made of saw blades that tear and cut until we are bound in stillness and fear.
Music moves us on. The twists and turns on the path to escape leave us shaken. Our hair and clothes and smiles come out of the darkness different, changed, but the slow steady beat of our soundtrack of faith or courage or hope carried us through.
Just around the corner, a new rhythm takes us by surprise. Our path never follows the beat to perfection and so we learn again. And we dance because we turned the music on loud, to cover our crying or to celebrate our joys when words fail us. And again, somewhere along the line- we fall, we rise, we resist, and we survive.
by Christina Lynn Lambert
Below are some of my most recent favorite songs. I’ve been listening as I write, wash dishes, ride my exercise bike (because it’s too cold to go outside except to walk the dog), and cook, and procrastinate by watching an episode of Murder She Wrote when I’m supposed to be knee deep in figuring out what my characters will do in their next scene.
Fool For Love by Lord Huron. The song tells a story and the music reminds me of Jimmy Buffett but with a haunting walk through the woods kind of twisted sound.
Sailing by The Strumbellas.
and from the Your Name anime soundtrack: Nandemonaiya and also Sparkle by RADWIMPS
Ball and Chain by Social Distortion. This song actually reminds me so much of the hero I’m writing for Stranger Creatures book 3 and some of the struggles he’s fighting to overcome, I decided to reference the song in my story.
Sometimes music speaks to me and inspires me, sometimes I just like the sound of something on in the background. Either way, it keeps me company on my journey. Sometimes that journey is just to the grocery store and the music is turned up ridiculously loud and the songs are completely uncool by modern standards. That’s alright though, because nobody can hear me sing with my car windows up.
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Doomsday Reels: Highlander 2 – The Quickening
Whether it comes from outer space or the distant past, no amount of editing can fix 'Highlander 2.'
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Doomsday Reels: The Darkest Hour
Is it possible to like a movie and find it super dull at the same time?
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Business Process 2
In this ArchiMate diagram example, external and internal business services are distinguished. The Basic administration function acts as a shared service center. The take out business processes corresponding with the travel and luggage insurance use the (internal) business services that are provided by the Basic administration function. Both business processes realize an (external) business service. The insurance selling service is accessible via a business interface (e.g., web form) of the insurance seller. Each business service should be of value to the user(s) of the service (in this example, the insurance buyer role). This value may be explicitly modeled, if appropriate. The value of the Travel insurance selling service to an external customer (the insurance buyer) is that the customer is insured.
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Cambridge Springs Clinics - Health/Urgent Care
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Lithic Analysis of Late Mousterian Assemblages at Riparo Bombrini
Author(s): Julien Riel-Salvatore; Rebecca D'Occhio
Year: 2015
We present a preliminary analysis of the Late Mousterian lithic assemblages from Riparo Bombrini, in Northwestern Italy. Riparo Bombrini is an important site because it contains some of the most recent Neanderthal occupations for that region. Our analysis includes both retouched pieces and unretouched debitage, focusing especially on piece dimensions; the presence, kind, and intensity of retouch; platform and termination types; as well as raw material procurement. These multiple dimensions combine to provide a fine-grained view of, among other behaviors, Neanderthal mobility in the various Late Mousterian levels at Bombrini, and thus shed light on the adaptations and behavioral strategies of Neanderthals immediately prior to the arrival of modern humans in NW Italy.
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Lithic Analysis of Late Mousterian Assemblages at Riparo Bombrini. Rebecca D'Occhio, Julien Riel-Salvatore. Presented at The 80th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, San Francisco, California. 2015 ( tDAR id: 397913)
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All the permissions that CoRubrics requires are exclusively to perform the functions that have been detailed (create forms, import from Classroom, send emails to students ...). In no case is the data taken from the data sheet or the Google forms. Thus, data security is provided by Google's servers.
CoRubrics only performs an anonymous count of the rubrics that have been processed. This statistic is public and can be found on the Usage statistics page.
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Top 10 Famous Indonesian Foods
Indonesian food is known to be very many and some of them well-known to many countries. The Indonesian food menus abroad did not lose much compared with foreign food into Indonesia. In our own country the kinds of Indonesian food is always a favorite of the Indonesian people itself and easy to find in many areas. Characteristic of Indonesian foods is the taste of spices or strong seasonings. Here are some famous Indonesian food you may often find in around Indonesia.
1. Fried Rice
Although in Indonesian fried rice is a menu that is generally known, but the fact that almost all the Indonesian people love it. The fried rice had become a menu that attracts many overseas, the people of Europe and America.
1. Sate
The meat skewers were burnt are navigation pioneer of our nation. Almost every foreign person who came to Indonesia will be looking for the sate to feel one of the famous Indonesian cuisine. Satay type also varied, there is satay, chicken satay, satay fish etc.
1. Meatballs
History meatballs yore taken by the Chinese community in Indonesia, but the name is already attached meatballs a favorite food much appreciated by the public.
1. Soto
Indonesia has a wide variety of soup, no Holy Soto, Soto Banjar, Pekalongan Soto, Soto Betawi with a different dish. But the hallmark of soup is rice with a sauce with spices were delicious plus thinly sliced meat.
1. Rendang
Rendang got the title of the most delicious cuisines in the world. The distinctive feature is a menu of beef with herbs thick coconut milk and spices strong, the longer it will be more tasty cooked. In 2011, rendang dish was named the first rank in the list of World’s 50 Most Delicious Foods (50 dishes are the yummiest World) held by CNN International. Source choice-worlds-50-most-delicious-foods
1. Rawon
Rawon is one of the typical menu of Indonesia who came from East Java. Rawon is a beef dish with a typical black sauce with a distinctive taste and pleasure derived from that kluwek / keluwak / kluak. Rawon served with rice, equipped with a small bean sprouts, scallions, shrimp crackers, fried beef (jerked) and sambal.
1. Kerak Telor
Kerak Telor is typical food of Jakarta / Betawi has a history as part of the cultural menu Indonesian nation. Kerak Telor is very unique and menaraik tourists in Jakarta, by way of cooking using pans and charcoal with the basic ingredients of sticky rice, duck eggs, and seasoned mashed form of oil roasted red chili, kencur, ginger, pepper grains, salt and sugar ,
1. Rujak Cingur
Rujak cingur is one of the traditional foods that are easily found in the area of East Java, especially Surabaya native region. In the Java language cingur word meaning “mouth”, this refers to the material or muzzle the mouth sliced braised veal and mixed into the dish. If the come to Surabaya, salad cingur is a culinary menu that should be attempted.
1. Nasi Pecel
Pecel famous regions such as East Java and Ponorogo Madiun. The menu is typical of pecel vegetables (cabbage, beans, bean sprouts) doused with chili peanut sauce. Typically plus fried eggs and fried complement increasingly favors enjoyed pecel.
1. Chicken Opor
Curry chicken is a food that is not foreign to the people of Indonesia, the most favorite menu dish dishes family, first became typical dishes at the time of Eid. Chicken curry with yellow-red seasoning was very tasty which is usually served with diamond.
That’s 10 famous Indonesian food, there are dozens of different types of food from various regions in Indonesia that may have not been included. Take pride in typical Indonesian food seasoning it rich with spices that tastes more delicious than the foreign cuisine.
Top 10 Famous Indonesian Foods
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How a web server works
Basically, the sequence of events goes like this:
1. The server connects to the local TCP/IP stack.
2. The server starts to ‘listen’ for connection requests on a specific port number, for example good old port 80, the default HTTP port (normally though, ports up to 1024 are reserved and you have to use something else, for example 8080).
3. When a connection request arrives the server accepts it and receives the data.
4. The server analyzes the request header and locates the appropriate resource requested by the client.
5. The server sends the resource in a response to the client.
6. The Server goes back to waiting for the next connection request (step2).
As far as the outside world is concerned that is what is happening. However internally things need to happen slightly differently in order to support the world.
Consider the situation where many people are accessing a web site at the same time. With the above processing scheme, anyone who tried to connect whilst the server was busy would be ignored. Obviously this is not a good thing. However what you can do (in our simple server) is to tell TCP/IP to queue connection requests until we can get to them. That way if a whole bunch of them arrive at the same time we won’t lose them.
This is good because what typically happens with browsers is that once a web pages HTML has been loaded and they start loading the resources referenced by the page, for example images, they initiate multiple concurrent connections to the server in order to load the resources more quickly. Obviously this is would not work if there was no way to queue the requests.
The second thing that typically happens in a web server is that once the connection request has been accepted, the main server process hands the request (and the socket) off to a sub process. This enables to main server process to go back to listening for connection requests as quickly as possible whilst allowing multiple client requests for resources to be handled concurrently. If your processing environment supports multiprocessing then you can implement this type of architecture. On z/OS you could even do it (albeit subject to some serious limitations) using batch jobs. One job runs some code to act as a ‘listener’ and when it receives a connection request, it accepts it and then submits a batch job that executes asynchronously to the main job, takes the socket and handles the request.
However as I have found, you do not HAVE to to offload the requests to an asynchronous process. There is nothing wrong with handling each request in turn. You just have to make sure that:
• You tell TCP/P to use a big enough connection queue so that you do not lose requests.
• You don’t take too long processing each request so that when multiple requests arrive simultaneously from a browser, the ones that get processed last do not time out.
What’s a big enough connection queue?
If you are just handling a single client instance (like my ISPF web front end) then usually you can limit the number of concurrent sessions the browser will start through the browser options. If you are trying to create a multi-user web server then you need to decide the maximum number of concurrent client you want to support.
How do you keep response time low?
On z/OS, REXX is a great development and prototyping language but by default, every time you call a new exec REXX checks to see if it has changed on the disk which can cause a lot of additional I/O. REXX also has to create a new REXX environment for the called exec and destroy it afterwords which leads to additional CPU usage. If you have a processing environment that can optimize REXX execution then traditional REXX programming can work well. However if programming in REXX in a normal TSO/ISPF environment (like I am for my ISPF web front end) then sometimes it is more efficient to embed code directly within an EXEC, even if this means duplicate code in multiple execs, rather than modularizing everything.
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Communicating with a child about dementia
Children are particularly perceptive to changes in their family, especially when there is difficulty. They are exceptional at perceiving sadness and distress in their parents and other adults in the family.
Children are also quick to blame themselves for distress in a parent. In the absence of an adult being able to explain to them that it’s not their fault, children will almost always assume that somebody is upset because of something they did.
It is really important to communicate with children about somebody in the family having dementia, because without this, the child may assume that people in the family are upset because of something the child has done. Likewise, as care requirements change, a child may misinterpret the reason for this. For example, if a parent is now required to assist a grandparent with shopping on Saturday mornings, when they used to take their child to sport, the child may interpret this change as ‘my parent isn’t coming to my sport because they don’t love me as much anymore; I must have done something wrong’.
Providing children with information and understanding about dementia and what will change as a result allows them to make sense of the new situation. They are less likely to imagine reasons for the changes and fill in the blanks themselves. Children are often more resilient than we think. They can often handle challenges with their tendency for black and white thinking.
Many parents find it helpful to start the conversation with a young child using a story book. There are many books for children about the relationship between a child and a family member with dementia. These books can be read by a parent and a child together and followed by a discussion about your family member having the same illness as the person in the story.
Generic books about illness, change and death can be helpful for children too. Even if the book isn’t about dementia, it can be a helpful conversation starter. You will find links to suggested reading in our resources section.
Parents of older children often find it helpful to start the conversation with a reference to a change the child might have noticed in the person. For example:
Adult: “You know how dad has had to stop driving? Well, that’s because his doctor has told us that he has an illness called dementia.”
Providing an example to explain a recognisable change is a great way to help a young person make sense of what’s happening.
Children are less likely to be affected by the negative connotations associated with terms like ‘dementia’ or ‘Alzheimer’s disease’ than adults are. If they are hearing it for the first time, it really is just another word. For adults, these terms might conjure up all sorts of difficult images and thoughts. For children, this is not usually the case.
It is best to use simple, honest and consistent language with children.
An example of this might be:
Adult: “Grandpa has got an illness called dementia.”
Child: “What does that mean?”
Adult: “It’s a type of illness that means his brain isn’t working properly anymore. And because his brain isn’t working properly anymore, it means that there are some things he can’t do anymore, or some things that he is doing differently now”.
The above example is providing a name for the condition. This can then be referred to when particular symptoms occur in the future and need to be explained to the child, for example:
Child: “Why does grandpa keep thinking I’m in Grade 2? I’ve told him I’m in Grade 4.”
Adult: “That’s because of his dementia. It affects the way his brain remembers things”.
You might be surprised by some of the big questions that children ask when they learn that someone in the family has dementia, or any major illness. For adults, the questions might seem selfish, or inappropriate. However, it’s normal for children to be focused on how things impact them directly. The following is a list of common questions:
• Will I get it too?
• Can I still have my birthday party this weekend?
• Am I going to have to share my bedroom when Nan moves in?
• Will he still come and watch me at athletics?
• Is it like cancer?
• Will she forget who I am?
• Will he/she die?
It is important for children to know that dementia is not contagious. They don’t need to worry about ‘catching’ the condition from their loved one. Similarly, genetic forms of dementia are incredibly rare. Most families will not have to explain genetic risks to children. However, for the small minority that have been informed that there is a genetic link in the family, specialist genetic counselling services exist to provide support and guidance for managing these discussions.
Explaining progression is useful to children, so that they can be prepared for what lies ahead. It might help to inform them that ‘doctors don’t yet know how to make dementia go away, and people’s brains get sicker and sicker with time’.
Use of nature analogies can be a helpful way to talk about death and dying. Children often understand the concept of trees or plants getting sick and withering. It might be helpful to provide children with this example. Alternatively, if your child has had the experience of a sick or dying pet, this might also be a helpful analogy.
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With the establishment of both regional and national ethnic, gender, cultural, and religious collections, the concept of diversity in archives encourages a fragmented world. This is one in which a researcher has a few clear-cut options--go to a women's repository to do research on women, a labor collection for labor history, an African-American archives for African-Americans, and so forth. However, time has demonstrated that no repository has a comer on the market for diversity which can also be found in holdings of what are often referred to as "traditional collections." Such repositories, whose primary objective is to document state and local history, already reflect the entire scope of, the society which they seek to chronicle including diverse ethnjc, religious, and cultural communities.
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I am developing a simple xmpp server component,while I have been stucked by a little error for few days.After searching and trying all the solution,nothing gets improved. Some of the solutions did not work at all,others can not express how to fix it exactly.So helpless am I that I decide to ask this question by myself.
I use the Whack and Tinder as the externalcomponent library,everything works fine except this error cause by this code :ExternalComponentManager mgr = new ExternalComponentManager
That is the error :
Exception in thread “main” java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/xmpp/component/Log
at Main.main(Main.java:10)
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.xmpp.component.Log
The instantiation of the ExternalComponentManager require the log class,which shoule be located in the Tinder library,but the tinder library has no more include this class.So ,how to fix this error ,is anything I have miss ? by the way,I have refrence the SVN of the whack and add all the jar files in my project classpath . I hope someone can help me to solve me ,Thanks.
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27 Functions of Number TheoryAdditive Number Theory
§27.14 Unrestricted Partitions
§27.14(i) Partition Functions
A fundamental problem studies the number of ways n can be written as a sum of positive integers n, that is, the number of solutions of
27.14.1 n=a1+a2+,
The number of summands is unrestricted, repetition is allowed, and the order of the summands is not taken into account. The corresponding unrestricted partition function is denoted by p(n), and the summands are called parts; see §26.9(i). For example, p(5)=7 because there are exactly seven partitions of 5: 5=4+1=3+2=3+1+1=2+2+1=2+1+1+1=1+1+1+1+1.
The number of partitions of n into at most k parts is denoted by pk(n); again see §26.9(i).
§27.14(ii) Generating Functions and Recursions
Euler introduced the reciprocal of the infinite product
27.14.2 f(x)=m=1(1-xm),
as a generating function for the function p(n) defined in §27.14(i):
27.14.3 1f(x)=n=0p(n)xn,
with p(0)=1. Euler’s pentagonal number theorem states that
27.14.4 f(x)=1-x-x2+x5+x7-x12-x15+=1+k=1(-1)k(xω(k)+xω(-k)),
where the exponents 1, 2, 5, 7, 12, 15, are the pentagonal numbers, defined by
27.14.5 ω(±k)=(3k2k)/2,
Multiplying the power series for f(x) with that for 1/f(x) and equating coefficients, we obtain the recursion formula
27.14.6 p(n)=k=1(-1)k+1(p(n-ω(k))+p(n-ω(-k)))=p(n-1)+p(n-2)-p(n-5)-p(n-7)+,
where p(k) is defined to be 0 if k<0. Logarithmic differentiation of the generating function 1/f(x) leads to another recursion:
27.14.7 np(n)=k=1nσ1(k)p(n-k),
where σ1(k) is defined by (27.2.10) with α=1.
§27.14(iii) Asymptotic Formulas
These recursions can be used to calculate p(n), which grows very rapidly. For example, p(10)=42,p(100) = 1905 69292, and p(200)=397 29990 29388. For large n
27.14.8 p(n)eKn/(4n3),
where K=π2/3 (Hardy and Ramanujan (1918)). Rademacher (1938) derives a convergent series that also provides an asymptotic expansion for p(n):
27.14.9 p(n)=1π2k=1kAk(n)[ddtsinh(Kt/k)t]t=n-(1/24),
27.14.10 Ak(n)=h=1(h,k)=1kexp(πis(h,k)-2πinhk),
and s(h,k) is a Dedekind sum given by
27.14.11 s(h,k)=r=1k-1rk(hrk-hrk-12).
§27.14(iv) Relation to Modular Functions
Dedekind sums occur in the transformation theory of the Dedekind modular function η(τ), defined by
27.14.12 η(τ)=eπiτ/12n=1(1-e2πinτ),
This is related to the function f(x) in (27.14.2) by
27.14.13 η(τ)=eπiτ/12f(e2πiτ).
η(τ) satisfies the following functional equation: if a,b,c,d are integers with ad-bc=1 and c>0, then
27.14.14 η(aτ+bcτ+d)=ε(-i(cτ+d))12η(τ),
where ε=exp(πi(((a+d)/(12c))-s(d,c))) and s(d,c) is given by (27.14.11).
For further properties of the function η(τ) see §§23.1523.19.
§27.14(v) Divisibility Properties
Ramanujan (1921) gives identities that imply divisibility properties of the partition function. For example, the Ramanujan identity
27.14.15 5(f(x5))5(f(x))6=n=0p(5n+4)xn
implies p(5n+4)0(mod5). Ramanujan also found that p(7n+5)0(mod7) and p(11n+6)0(mod11) for all n. After decades of nearly fruitless searching for further congruences of this type, it was believed that no others existed, until it was shown in Ono (2000) that there are infinitely many. Ono proved that for every prime q>3 there are integers a and b such that p(an+b)0(modq) for all n. For example, p(1575 25693n+1 11247)0(mod13).
§27.14(vi) Ramanujan’s Tau Function
The discriminant function Δ(τ) is defined by
27.14.16 Δ(τ)=(2π)12(η(τ))24,
and satisfies the functional equation
27.14.17 Δ(aτ+bcτ+d)=(cτ+d)12Δ(τ),
The 24th power of η(τ) in (27.14.12) with e2πiτ=x is an infinite product that generates a power series in x with integer coefficients called Ramanujan’s tau function τ(n):
27.14.18 xn=1(1-xn)24=n=1τ(n)xn,
The tau function is multiplicative and satisfies the more general relation:
27.14.19 τ(m)τ(n)=d|(m,n)d11τ(mnd2),
Lehmer (1947) conjectures that τ(n) is never 0 and verifies this for all n<21 49286 39999 by studying various congruences satisfied by τ(n), for example:
27.14.20 τ(n)σ11(n)(mod691).
For further information on partitions and generating functions see Andrews (1976); also §§17.217.14, and §§26.926.10.
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A path describes a shape.
Shapes can be descriped using a path. Use an instance of Path to create complex shapes that can be drawn to a DrawContext.
-new Path
Constructs a path.
Use the methods on the path to create complex shapes.
new Path()
Moves to a point.
Moves to a point without drawing a line between the current point and the new point.
move(point: Point)
Adds a line to a point.
Add a line from the current point, e.g. set using the move method, and to the new point.
addLine(point: Point)
Adds a rectangle.
This is a convenience function for adding a rectangle to the path starting from the lower left corner and drawing the lines counter-clockwise until the rectangle is closed.
addRect(rect: Rect)
Adds an ellipse.
Adds an ellipse incapsulated by the provided rectangle to the path.
addEllipse(rect: Rect)
Adds a rounded rectangle.
Adds a rounded rectangle to the path. The corner width specifies the horizontal size of the corner and the corner height specifies the the vertical size of the corner.
addRoundedRect(rect: Rect, cornerWidth: number, cornerHeight: number)
Adds a cubic curve to a point.
Adds a cubic Bézier curve to the path with the specified end point and control points.
addCurve(point: Point, control1: Point, control2: Point)
Adds a quadratic curve to a point.
Adds a quadratic Bézier curve to the specified end point with the specified control point.
addQuadCurve(point: Point, control: Point)
Adds a set of lines.
Adds straight lines between an array of points. Calling this method is equivalent to calling the move function with the first point in the array of points and then calling addLine on the subsequent points in the array.
addLines(points: [Point])
Adds a set of rectangles.
Calling this is equivalent to repeatedly calling addRect.
addRects(rects: [Rect])
Closes a sub path.
Adds a straight line from the current point to the start of the current subpath.
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The Church kept wine-making alive during the Dark Ages
After the fall of the Roman Empire, the Church was critical in the revitalization, production, and promotion of wine. Among chaotic daily life, wine was the good element, associated with holyness (body of christ) and comfort.
By Middle Ages, the Church had developed and owned Europe’s greatest vineyards (except Bordeaux). The Bendictines casting their influence over Alsace, Germany and Austria; and the Cistercians running Cote d’Or and Burgundy.
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Manfrotto 055XPROB Pro Tripod
I bought the Manfrotto 055XPROB Pro Tripod out of necessity from . I was trying to take very detailed images of small parts from an overhead position and I was struggling. Then I stumbled across the 055XPROB which can go vertical to horizontal in seconds. With the right tripod head (in my case the Manfrotto 3437 3D) your options are unlimited. When shooting pictures on my coffee table with the D90 facing down I Continue ReadingManfrotto 055XPROB Pro Tripod
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Sueños de esperanza
Help them would mean to open their eyes for them to create their own livelihoods means; would mean teach them how to desalinate the sea water with solar energy, how to catch the water at night with nets, how to water drop by drop and how to keep multiple cultures (not monocultures).
Admit them massively would mean prolonging their slavery and that in their land continue uploaded to the coconut palm and prospering those who did not teach them anything useful nor left them means to subsist.
Help them would mean teach them to think without self limiting so that they can co-create a wonderful reality.
But I think the ideal would be teach them in their own land without delivering them limiting messages (those who gave religions or international aid organizations) that make them feel like slaves of a god or slaves of others.
The important thing is to teach to create, as this implies that one takes the power and not to take what others create because this condemns them to begging.
El libertario
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How to keep your interest
When learning something new, keeping your interest is crucial
Posted on August 07, 2017
I had a problem, a problem I know a lot of people suffer from. I’m always excited to learn something new, but after some time, I lose interest. Searching online gave me almost the same answers: Be curious, start small, be accountable… I had all of that, this was not the answer I wanted! So I started analyzing what happened when I lost interest!
I discovered that, in every subject or skill you want to learn, there is always that part I call the least pleasing part. When you hit this part, you lose interest in what you’re learning and you just give up. In addition to this, we don’t share the same preferences, thus, the least pleasing part isn’t the same for everyone! In order to find it, you need to deconstruct what you’re learning and identify what the possibilities might be! (I’ll show you how to do that with some examples)
If you want to keep the interest, you need to identify the least pleasing part about what you’re learning and try to resolve it while learning. Yes, while, not before nor after. Don’t get distracted by it, resolve it while learning, and get over it!
To help you understand how this works, I’ll give some real world examples of how to deconstruct your subject and find the least pleasing part. I’ll share with you 3 skills I wanted to learn and how I applied this to them: Writing, Coding, and Cooking.
I always wanted to write, for me, it’s how you learn to express your ideas clearly and communicate with others.
To develop the habit of writing, I did what all writers tell you: write a lot! However, the least pleasing part about writing for me was finding ideas to write about.
So instead of not writing until you get a new idea, just keep writing, just put what you think about or what you did in that day in a text file. And while writing, sometimes you’ll get good ideas, or you’ll see that there is a connexion with what you wrote yesterday, you start to see patterns, and now you got a subject to write about!
When I get an idea, I create a new file for it with a small description of what I want to write so I can complete the writing later or stop everything and start working on it if it’s important.
This is how I fixed the problem while learning writing! Even this article started like that!
I’m a self-taught programmer, coder, software developer or whatever they call it nowadays. And while learning the art of programming, I started with: the basics, picking a programming language, doing side projects and small applications to apply my knowledge.
Learning the basics and picking a language was kind of easy. Watching online material and choosing the language depending on the platform you want to develop for. Things got out of control when I wanted to do side projects! The least pleasing part of my coding journey was architecting my applications. Whenever I wanted to start something, I take a pen and paper and try to get an architecture for the app. But when I start coding, I hit some edge cases I didn’t think of, and now, my architecture is not working! I tried to solve the problem before, I was wrong!
I got frustrated at first, I taught I’m going nowhere, I was always wrong! But after some time, I just accepted the fact that it will never be good from the first try. So I started fixing it while coding. I start with the most basic architecture I can think of and whenever I hit a problem due to it, I stop, fix it, and continue coding. Just like that, a happy ending!
When I want to cook something, this is how I go with it: Pick a recipe, buy ingredients (all of them or what I don’t have), cook, clean dishes (because no one likes dirty dishes).
For me, picking a recipe was easy, I just google whatever I want. Same goes for buying ingredients and cooking, you just follow steps. But the part when I need to clean dishes was hard! Whenever I think about cooking, I think about the dishes I need to clean and how I’ll lose a lot of time doing it. So I end up… eating out!
Once I tried** cleaning dishes while cooking, the frustration disappeared. The idea is to **clean anything you used in the preparation while waiting for your meal to cook. You’ll end up with one dish (the one used for serving) to clean after eating, which is less intimidating than cleaning the whole army of dishes.
This is how the idea is applied to cooking, clean while cooking! Let’s make cooking great again!
To sum up:
1. Deconstruct what you want to learn and identify the least pleasing part about it
2. Resolve it while learning, not before/after
3. Repeat
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Surprise, No One Buys Things via Alexa
Published on August 7th, 2018 | by Emergent Enterprise
Surprise, No One Buys Things via Alexa
Source: Devin Coldewey, techcrunch.com, August 6, 2018
The Amazon Echo and its brethren are mostly used for the expected everyday purposes of listening to music, asking what the weather will be like tomorrow and setting timers. All of these things are obviously things that phones do as well, but there’s something to be said for having a stationary hub for the more domestic tasks.
But part of the expectation of seeding the home with these devices has been that users would also make purchases using them: “Alexa, order more Oreos,” or “Alexa, buy a pair of Bose noise-cancelling headphones.” This always seemed rather odd, as people tend to want to look at items before buying them, to check reviews, to shop around for better prices and so on. Who would just buy something by telling their Echo that they want to?
Hardly anyone, it seems. That said, it would be a bit disingenuous to pretend that conversational commerce is anything other than one point in a litany of proposed uses for the likes of Alexa, running the gamut of credibility.
As a hub for increasingly common smart home devices, Alexa is a great choice and a common one. And although groceries and impulse purchases may not be something people do via voice, an Echo is a great seller of subscriptions like Spotify and Audible, not to mention future possibilities from queries like “Alexa, call me a plumber.” And of course there’s the whole behind-the-scenes industry of ads, promotions and clever use of voice data.
Why would anyone use these devices to shop? It’s like using a laptop as a hammer. Possible, but not recommended. The other stat The Information mentions is that a million people have tried buying stuff but only 100,000 continued. It may be that this side of e-commerce is merely not “mature,” that catch-all term that could mean so many things. But it may also just be that it’s not something people want to do.
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Roger Hunt (speaker)
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Roger Hunt (died c. 1455) was an English MP and Speaker of the House of Commons.
He was of obscure origins, but acquired the manor of Molesworth in Huntingdonshire and acquired a circle of influential friends such as Sir John Tiptoft and John Mowbray, the future Duke of Norfolk. About 1402, he leased a London house, perhaps while training as a lawyer at Lincoln's Inn, and became royal attorney for the common pleas, under Tiptoft's patronage, from 1408 to 1410.[1]
In 1407, he was returned as knight of the shire for Huntingdonshire, the first of eighteen times he was elected to parliament, being returned on every occasion except one (December 1421) between then and 1433. On three occasions (1414, 1416, and 1420) he chose to represent Bedfordshire, where he had interests at Chawston, instead of Huntingdonshire. He was elected Speaker of the House in 1420 and again in 1433.[2]
Following his parliamentary career he was appointed High Sheriff of Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire for 1433 and 1434. He was appointed second baron of the exchequer in 1439 until 1447.[3][1]
He died about 1455. He had married Margery, whose surname was probably Bullock; they had a son, Roger, who succeeded to his father's estates in July 1456.[1]
1. ^ a b c Roskell 1993.
2. ^ Archbold 1891.
3. ^ Sir John Sainty (comp.) The Judges of England, 1272-1990: a list of the judges of the Superior courts (Selden Society: Supplementary Series 1993, 10), 117.
• This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domainArchbold, William Arthur Jobson (1891). "Hunt, Roger". In Lee, Sidney. Dictionary of National Biography. 28. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
• J.S. Roskell, L. Clark, C. Rawcliffe., eds. (1993). "Hunt, Roger of Chawston, Beds and Molesworth, Hunts". The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1386-1421.
Political offices
Preceded by
Roger Flower
Speaker of the House of Commons
Succeeded by
Thomas Chaucer
Preceded by
Sir John Russell
Speaker of the House of Commons
Succeeded by
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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A tallyman is an individual who keeps a numerical record with tally marks, historically often on tally sticks. The heavy metal singer Udo Dirkschneider produced a song called Tallyman.
Vote counter[edit]
In Ireland, it is common for political parties to provide private observers when ballot boxes are opened. These tallymen keep a tally of the preferences of visible voting papers and allow an early initial estimate of which candidates are likely to win in the drawn-out single transferable vote counting process.[1] Since the public voting process is by then complete, it is usual for tallymen from different parties to share information.
Head counter[edit]
Another possible definition is a person who called to literally do a head count, presumably on behalf of either the town council or the house owners. This is rumoured to have occurred in Liverpool, in the years after the First World War. Mechanical tally counters can make such head counts easier, by removing the need to make any marks.
Debt collector[edit]
In poorer parts of England (including the north and the East End of London), the tallyman was the hire purchase collector, who visited each week to collect the payments for goods purchased on the 'never never', or hire purchase. These people still had such employment up until the 1960s.
The title tallyman extended to the keeper of a village pound as animals were often held against debts, and tally sticks were used to prove they could be released.
The credit information company Experian Tallyman markets debt collection management software called Tallyman, a product originally purchased from Talgentra[2][3]
In 1967 Graham Gouldman wrote a song called Tallyman, which was recorded by Jeff Beck and reached #30 on the British charts.
"'The tallyman,' Mum told me, 'slice off the top of the stems of the bunches as they take them in. Then him count the little stubs he just sliced off and pay the farmer.'" explains a Ms. Wade in Andrea Levy’s novel "Fruit of the Lemon".[4] Harry Belafonte addresses the tallyman in his Banana Boat Song.
Comic character[edit]
The Tally Man is the name of two super villains in the DC Universe, usually enemies of Batman. The original was a "collector" of human lives, having killed a criminal debt collecter in his boyhood.
See also[edit]
1. ^ "Art of the tallyman extolled at columnist's book launch". The Irish Times. 2011-02-02.
2. ^ "Tallyman". Experian Decision Analytics.
3. ^ Experian Acquires Tallyman Collections Software. Retrieved on 2009-01-23
4. ^ [1]
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pedophilia: a paraphilia of the stigmatic/eligibilic type in which sexuoerotic arousal and the facilitation or attainment of orgasm in a postpubertal adolescent or adult male or female are responsive to and [dependent upon]{contingent on} having a juvenile partner of prepubertal or peripubertal, developmental status [from Greek, paidos, child + -philia]. Pedophile relationships may be heterosexual or homosexual or, more rarely, bisexual. They may take place in imagery or actuality, or both. The technical term for the reciprocal paraphilic condition in which an older person impersonates a juvenile is paraphilic juvenilism. The age and developmental status of the partner distinguishes pedophilia from nepiophilia and ephebophilia. (adjective, pedophilic): the condition in which an adult is responsive to or dependent on the imagery or actuality of erotic/sexual activity with a peripubertal or early pubertal boy or girl, in order to obtain erotic arousal and facilitate or achieve orgasm. A pedophiliac may be a male or a female. Pedophilic activity may be replayed in fantasy during masturbation or copulation with an older partner. See also gerontophilia.
Dictionary of Sexology Project: Main Index
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This was a side project of Milla Jovovich’, completely contrary to her earlier album “The Divine Comedy”, and by the same token, absolutely a divergence from her most recent music in her band Plastic Has Memory (which by this time, has broken up). She described this CD as ‘hardcore space Frank Sinatra music’, or in one interview, “Frank Sinatra on acid”; I say it is scratchy and tortured and warbly and occasionally lucid. It is more than anything, layered. it is layer upon layer of (amateuristic) sounds and drowning voices, it is summertime and lazy and paranoid. It’s for sitting around and maybe being anxious. It would certainly make you nervous.
Hey Lord, I know you’re up there.. send your smile across the sea
Frankly, I loved, or learned to love a few songs but the rest didn’t reverberate with me one speck; they were too tangential, too nothing songs, too full of Milla not even singing but rambling, incoherent. Don’t expect her pretty commendable adolescent attempt at creating music (the aforementioned ‘The Divine Comedy’) to be anything whatsoever like this. It was sweet (and rather dark), folkish, and in parts exquisitely dialectical.. this is more attitudeish and uncooked.
I like it, I like it, I do. But I am biased, I love Milla; like a child, her embarrassing achievements become unembarrassing, so I never know if its me or if the things she does are lovable to others. Its just, its not very appetizing. It’s, as she rasps, like coughing up blood, in the morning. it’s, most of all, a very intimate recording. Apparently (according to it was a culmination of Milla and ‘other roaming musical energies gathered daily for gossip, birdsounds and song. The result is a moody, magical record full of dark corners and glimmering trinkets.’ Well. There you go.
Let’s see the discography here:
Yes, i invent words. If this is why you are hideously downvoting an otherwise C!ed node, please tell me, and/or get over it. My words are wonderful. Thank you darlings :)
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