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Olivia Wilkinson '21 and Sullivan Blackburn '20 perform on New York City Stage
Two Centre College students, Olivia Wilkinson '21 (Memphis, Tennessee) and Sullivan Blackburn '20 (Louisville, Kentucky), recently took the stage in Kimberly Belflower's John Proctor is the Villain in The Alchemical Studios in New York City. The performance, on June 3rd, was part of The Farm Theater's College Collaboration Project, a program that allows for students
By Centre News|2019-06-28T18:19:14+00:00June 28th, 2019|Academics, Drama, News, Pre-M.B.A.|
On the day of their graduation from Centre, the Class of 2019 participated in the What's Next? campaign, an eagerly anticipated feature of Commencement day. The new alumni shared their post-graduation plans, as they now join the 97 percent of Centre alumni who either attend graduate school or are employed within a year of graduation. While their post-Centre pursuits vary,
By Centre News|2019-05-22T16:02:40+00:00May 20th, 2019|Academics, Alumni, Anthropology/Sociology, Athletics, Behavioral Neuroscience, Bicentennial, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Biology, Campus, Careers, Chemical Physics, Chemistry, Commencement, Community Service, Computer Science, Data Science, Diversity, Drama, Economics & Finance, Engineering, English, Environmental Studies, European Studies, Events, First Generation Students, German Studies, Greek Life, International Students, International Studies, Marketing, Mathematics, Natural Science, News, Performing Arts, Philosophy, Physics, Pre-Dentistry, Pre-Law, Pre-M.B.A., Pre-Med, Pre-Nursing, Pre-Pharmacy, Pre-Physical Therapy, Psychology, Religion, ROTC|
Zach Throne '16 to debut first feature film
Zach Throne '16, a dramatic arts and politics graduate, is gearing up for the debut of his first feature film, "Cadia: The World Within." Throne is serving as co-executive producer for the film that stars Corbin Bernsen, best known for his roles in "Psych," "L.A. Law," and "Major League," and James Phelps, the actor who
By Centre News|2019-05-13T18:01:01+00:00May 7th, 2019|Alumni, Drama, News, Politics|
DramaCentre to present James and the Giant Peach, April 17-20
For their spring production, Centre College's DramaCentre proudly presents "James and the Giant Peach," by Roald Dahl and directed by Professor of Dramatic Arts Patrick Kagan-Moore. The play opens on Wednesday, April 17 at 7:30 p.m. and runs through Saturday, April 20 in Weisiger Theatre in the Norton Center for the Arts. "James and the Giant Peach"
By Centre News|2019-04-16T18:11:15+00:00April 16th, 2019|Academics, Drama, News|
STUDENT BLOG: Olivia Wilkinson '21 takes Centre stage at London's Rose Bruford College
This is a weekly installment in a series of blog posts submitted by a team of Centre College students studying away or abroad throughout the spring semester. Learn more about Centre's nation-leading study abroad program, a guarantee of the Centre Commitment. Shakespeare's Globe (pictured with Hannah Johnson '21) A sophomore from Memphis, Tennessee, Olivia Wilkinson's passion
By Centre News|2019-02-26T15:25:54+00:00February 26th, 2019|Academics, Drama, Music, News, Politics, Study Abroad|
Remembering Mildred "Mimi" Nolte McClellan Krebs
Mimi McClellan Krebs, 96, died Feb. 5, 2019, at her home in Marblehead, Mass. She was an accomplished pianist and composer whose works were performed at Centre College during the 1970s and 1980s, when she lived in Danville. Throughout her life, wherever she landed, Mimi McClellan Krebs made music. "I liked Mimi's extravagant 10-minute piano
By Centre News|2019-02-25T17:58:40+00:00February 25th, 2019|Drama, Music, News, Religion, Uncategorized|
The film Rust Creek to receive premiere on campus of fictional heroine
Described by one critic as a "slow-burn survival thriller that defies expectations," the film "Rust Creek" will have its Danville-area premiere on the campus where some of the footage was shot and that is home to its lead character, Sawyer Scott. The 7 p.m. screening will take place Wednesday, Feb. 20, in Valhkamp Theater in
By Centre News|2019-02-15T14:11:29+00:00February 15th, 2019|Campus, Drama, Events, News, Performing Arts|
Approximately 152 Centre College students recently displayed and presented work they completed during CentreTerm with nearly 115 exhibits, giving insight into the unique topics students have the opportunity to explore during the three-week January term. "The CentreTerm Exhibition is an event on the last day of the term when students can showcase the projects they
By Centre News|2019-01-30T21:07:22+00:00January 30th, 2019|Biology, CentreTerm, Chemistry, Computer Science, Creative Writing, Drama, Film Studies, Japanese, Mathematics, News, Philosophy, Studio Art|
DramaCentre presents John Proctor is the Villain, Nov. 7-10
In conjunction with the Farm Theater's College Collaboration Project, DramaCentre will present the world premiere of Kimberly Belflower's John Proctor is the Villain, a play "written with an eye to the #MeToo movement," explains Director Jennifer Goff, assistant professor of dramatic arts. "It sets out to engage in conversations around how we, as a society, react
By Centre News|2018-11-07T16:42:51+00:00November 6th, 2018|Drama, News|
Centre to host American Shakespeare Center performances, Nov. 1-2
The American Shakespeare Center (ASC) on Tour will perform Sophocles' "Antigone" on Thursday, Nov. 1, at 7:30 p.m. in Newlin Hall in Centre College's Norton Center for the Arts. This performance will be a convocation credit for students and is an open event to the Centre community. The company will also perform Shakespeare's "The Comedy of Errors"
By Centre News|2018-10-31T13:54:29+00:00October 31st, 2018|Drama, News, Norton Center for the Arts|

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Kalynn:Welcome back to Act Local Marketing for Small Business, Laurie. The next trend I'd like to discuss is mobile and mobile management and mobile app usage in the SMB market.
Laurie:Well, what we've seen with mobile is really fascinating. I've never seen adoption in a technology area occur at such a fast and furious pace. It's been just unbelievable since the iPhone was launched.
The iPhone changed everything because it personalized the devices, and spawned this whole app ecosystem, and it just made these phones that we all now carry around become critical in our personal lives and in our businesses.
As a matter of fact, 67% of SMBs now view mobile solutions and services as critical to their businesses. That's kind of unbelievable considering just a few years ago you probably had a dumb phone and you might have relied on it but nothing like we rely on our phones now.
Kalynn: So what kind of mobile apps are SMBs using?
Laurie: Basic collaboration apps—calendars, emails, messaging and contacts—are already mainstream. About 83% of SMBs use them.
SMBs are also adopting mobile apps for very business-specific functions. So, for things like order entry or inventory lookup, or to log time and attendance or enter payroll. Mobile is becoming part and parcel of how we conduct business.
Almost half of SMBs also either have or are planning to build a mobile-friendly website to engage customers using mobile devices. Sometimes you don't even have to build it. If you have a WordPress site it's automatically mobile friendly.
Kalynn: Right, many themes now are mobile-enabled, and adjust depending on the size of the screen.
Laurie: If you're not doing this, you need to. It's so frustrating to go to a site and have to keep adjusting the screen to read the text because it's not mobile-friendly.
Some SMBs are also starting to deploy specific mobile apps to engage with their customers and prospects for appointment scheduling and payments, and things like that.
Kalynn: Do they develop their own proprietary mobile apps?
Laurie:Not necessarily. For instance, restaurants may use something like OpenTable. My hair salon uses a mobile app that lets me book and confirm and all that kind of stuff on my mobile device.
Some SMBs are also developing their own mobile apps or paying third parties to develop tailored apps for them. Most of the backend applications that SMBs use have mobile app extensions, which are often available on Apple and Android app stores. If the right mobile app is available and can snap into your existing app, that can do the trick.
Kalynn: There's absolutely no need to do customized right off the bat because so many apps are already out there that you can be a part of.
Don't forget that in terms of making sure you're getting found online, because I'm always thinking in terms of SEO or Search Engine Optimization, a lot of these review sites like Yelp have mobile apps. People will go on them to check reviews about your business, more often than not from a mobile device. I'm not sure I remember the exact statistic but it was something 68% of people have their mobile phone within arm's reach at all times.
Laurie:It may be even higher. Also I think we've already passed the point where more searches are done on a mobile device than on a laptop or traditional PC or MAC.
So this makes mobile management critical because it's a given that our reliance and use of mobile apps will continue to rise. SMBs must keep pace with the mobile explosion. You need to be able to manage not only the mobile devices in your company but also internal applications that your employees are using.
With any mobile applications, security, management and provisioning are very important. If you're not yet doing anything, in this area, the time has certainly come.
Kalynn: Right, you have to because employees are using so many devices and apps. Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) means that companies are less apt to supply people with devices. Everyone has a favorite and they have to all work together. You really have to think about mobile policies and procedures for mobile devices and various apps.
Laurie:Yes, fortunately there are a lot of vendors that have mobile management solutions now geared towards SMBs from vendors like AirWatch or MobileIron. And from vendors that you might already be doing business with like Dell or HP or IBM. A lot of them are cloud-based, so that makes them easier to deploy and use.
Kalynn: Right, and I'm sure there are tons of consultants that work with these solutions and can help you figure it out too.
In the third of this four-part series, I'll recap Kalynn's and my conversation about "SMBs View Payment Systems in a New Light." You can listen to the complete podcast here.


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Alain Desrosières (18 April 1940 – 15 February 2013) was a statistician, sociologist and historian of science in France, well known for his work in the history of statistics  He is the author of The Politics of Large Numbers: A History of Statistical Reasoning, published in 1993, translated into several languages, including English in 1998, and subsequently reviewed in the LRB in 2000. This described the origins of statistics as technical machinery for administration in the 19th and 20th centuries, including the attempts to measure human and economic development. The text is an account of the statistics and their use in abstracting features of society to better measure and understand them, with particular aims.

His major technical work on the socio-professional categorisation scheme used in French official statistics was updated in five editions over more than fifteen years. Further collected papers were published in two volumes as The Statistical Argument in 2008, and a final collection published posthumously in 2014 as Prouver et Gouverner. His major contribution was to frame public statistics as constructed reality, with categories created to describe society, but tracked carefully using these definitions. Thus bridging the opposing views that they are either objective facts or political propaganda due to his unusual combination of sociological study and statistical training.

References

External links
 Author's profile at the Centre Alexandre Koyré (EHESS, CNRS)

French statisticians
Historians of science
Sociologists of science
French sociologists
2013 deaths
1940 births
French male non-fiction writers

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The Isle of Skye is an increasingly popular tourist destination for holiday makers from all over the world. While those living on the island, such as myself, get to enjoy the splendours all year round most people's experience of Skye is far more fleeting. There are many people who spend as little as 24 hours on the misty isle, obviously not enough time to take in everything. However, a recent 24 hour period proved to me that you can fill one day with some pretty special memories if you know how.
It started with an optimistic forecast and a customer of mine who wanted to see some of the island's less visited locations at sunset. We headed up to the North of the island for our first stop, a beautiful and secluded waterfall. I could spend hours just sitting there (and have done on several occasions) but the sun was rapidly heading towards the horizon and our next location was calling. A 40 minute walk and quick scramble down saw us set up in front of a set of imposing cliffs, waiting for that perfect moment as the sun peeked out from the clouds to illuminate the rock face. We soaked in the last light of the day, perched in this quiet corner of Skye. Or at least what I thought would be the end of the day.
I had seen throughout the day reports and alerts that there could potentially be a good display of the aurora borealis that night. So after a quick dinner I headed back out to see what might happen. I'd barely stepped out my front door when I saw the lights already shimmering and waving across the night sky, vividly clear to the naked eye. After jumping in the car and rushing to an arranged viewpoint I enjoyed what had to be the best show of the northern lights I have ever seen. With greens, reds, pinks and purples all flashing and moving, with rays shooting upwards and explosions of colour, it still gives me goosebumps thinking about it. We're lucky on the Isle of Skye to have very little light pollution, and being at a relatively northerly latitude means that on a clear winter's night there's every possibility that anyone might be lucky enough to enjoy nature's greatest light show.
With the forecast looking promising for the next day, I intended to get out before sunrise to look for some of Skye's wildlife. As the Sun appeared over the horizon I was sat snuggly on the coastline watching an otter feed in the water in front of me for a good 20 minutes before disappearing round the corner. Bathed in that early morning glow it was a brilliant way to start the day.
From there I headed straight up one of Skye's many ridge-lines in search of eagles. Generally when you know where to look you can find them, after that it's up to the eagles how close they decide to come and on this occasion it was pretty close, so much so that I couldn't fit the whole bird in my frame! All of the above took place in less than 24 hours - it just goes to show what you can see and do with a bit of local knowledge. If you'd like to experience some of what this stunning island has to offer then please get in touch!


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Q: Using KOMA-Script packages with other classes When speaking of KOMA-Script most people will refer to its classes scrbook, scrreprt, scrartcl and perhaps scrlttr2. But not everyone will know, that part of the bundle are also some packages, that can be used with other classes than the KOMA-Script ones.
Let us give here an overview of these packages. Please one answer per package (except for packages with very similar functions) containing beside the name …

*

*if it's meant rather for package respective document class writers or for users dealing with documents (or both).

*where documentation is to be found, i.e. in main KOMA-Script doc scrgiuen.pdf (English)/scrguide.pdf (German) or separate.

*overview of package features.

*a short example if possible.

*perhaps links to some existant answers on TeX.SE using this package.

A: scrjura
The package scrjura is intended for drafting legal documents according to German standards. The design of the package allows in general writing contracts, verdicts and even a special kind of books we call commentary ("Kommentar").
"In general" means that the basic structures have been written, but so far only the branch to write contracts has been filled with all the details for swift work. I can recommend the package to German lawyers who negotiate contracts. The package has its own manual (scrjura.pdf), but this is slightly outdated (lacking the improvements of recent years), a much better documentation has been included in Markus Kohm's book about KOMA-Script written in German (ISBN 978-3-86541-459-5/ old 10 digit ISBN 3-86541-459-1).
If somebody would be interested using it for other purposes than contracts, please drop a message at http://www.komascript.de.

A: Package tocbasic is another package that defines some useful
commands not only for package author.
The most useful feature for the everyday user might be
DeclareNewTOC[<options>]{<file etension>}.
  \DeclareNewTOC[%
    type=remarkbox,%
    types=remarkboxes,%
    float,% define a floating environment
    floattype=4,%
    name=Remark,%
    listname={List of Remarks}%
  ]{lor}
  \setuptoc{lor}{chapteratlist}

This defines floating remarkboxes that can be used exactly the
same way as figures or tables. Those few lines enable you to set
a caption, have a List of Remarks and the little space between
chapter when using this KOMA-feature. It works out of the box
with hyperrefs autoref mechanism as well.
There is a lot of other handy stuff for package authors.

A: scrextend
This package makes basic features of KOMA-Script classes available for other classes, so it extends them. It is mainly meant for document writers, but could also be used by package and class writers. Description is found in main KOMA-Script documentation.
As explicitly stated in documentation this package should not be used together with a KOMA-Script class.
Feature overview:

*

*Early or late option selection: Options can be given in key-value pairs, and not only with \documentclass respective \usepackage, but also later in preamble and most options even in document using \KOMAoption or \KOMAoptions.

*Enhancement of draft mode: Provides marks for overful lines also for classes, where this is originally not defined, cf. What does the draft mode change?

*Document titles: This feature must activated as package option, but then one can use the enhanced KOMA-Script features for \maketitle and environment titlepage.
See How to span \textit{} and \Large several lines in \author{} and compare my answer with the others or float left figure in titlepage (scrextend at the end of answer).

*Fontsize selection: Choose any desired fontsize instead of the limited set of standard classes, it is also more flexible than package extsizes. Of course, a scalable font must be loaded, either explicitly or by loading fontenc and having cm-super installed.
See this:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[fontsize=14pt]{scrextend}
\usepackage{kantlipsum}% for some filler text
\begin{document}
\kant[160-164]
\end{document}

See also How to specify font size less than 10pt (or more than 12pt)? or second part of lockstep's answer to How to set a small default font size with beamer?.

*Enhanced text markup opportunities: A \textsubscript is provided, and for a limited set of elements the commands \setkomafont, \addtokomafont etc. can be used, where in standard classes often internal commands must be redefined. Supported elements are title (and disposition, that will be only active for title markup), all elements for footnotes, dictum and all elements for labeling environment.
See in How to span \textit{} and \Large several lines in \author{} (already linked above) and Description-like environment with fixed labels width.

*Detection of even and odd pages: A command \ifthispageodd is provided.
Example: If Then Else for odd page/even page.

*Commands for interleaf pages: Additons to \clearpage offering more flexibility.

*Footnote features of KOMA-Script, but for some features the command \deffootnote must have been used for activation.
Examples with  \deffootnote: Layout of multiple lines footnotes, Different formatting of footnote mark in text and in footnote, Footnote number in braces / parentheses and How to set superscript footnote mark in the text body but normalsized in the foot?. In Reference different places to the same footnote you can see the command \footref in action.

*Dicta, aphorisma, slogans for chapters and parts.

*Enhanced decription list labeling.
Examples: Make the lines of a description item line up, align list of symbols with dash and Description-like environment with fixed labels width (already linked above).

*Simple margin changes with (trivlist) environment addmargin.
Examples: Write text with some fixed amount of space from the margin, How can I indent a block of text for a specified amount?

*Margin notes like with package marginpar. Do not mix up with package marginnote also written by Markus Kohm.

A: Package list (links behind package names lead to answers):

*

*scrbase

*scrdate and scrtime

*scrextend – makes some features of the KOMA-Script classes available for other classes.

*scrjura – contract environment for advocates and scholary persons in law

*scrlayer

*scrlayer-notecolumn

*scrlayer-scrpage as successor of legacy package scrpage2 (which has itself an obsolete predecessor scrpage)

*scrlfile – control of package dependencies

*scrwfile

*tocbasic

*tocstyle

*typearea
See also abstracts in file README (included in TeX distributions, as well).
Please add missing packages, if there are.

Just as addition – no KOMA-Script packages, but also written by Markus Kohm (no answer here, please):

*

*gridset:

Grid setting — also known as strict in-register setting — is something, that should be done for a lot of documents but is not easy using LATEX. Package gridset helps to get the information needed for grid setting. It does not implement auto grid setting, but there is a command \vskipnextgrid, that moves to the next grid position. This may be enough under some circumstances. In other circumstances it may fail. So gridset is only one more step for grid setting not a complete solution.

*GS1:

There are several barcode packages out in the world, but they either need PStricks, or are restricted to EAN-13 barcodes. And most of all, they are all LATEX 2ε. I've decided to write a package, that supports several GS1 codes, and at almost the same time, I've decided to give L3 a chance. So I've started an experimental GS1 package using expl3. Using expl3 was the main reason writing this package.

GS1 does also contain rule-D:

At LATEX 2ε you have command \rule to make horizontal and vertical rules and even boxes. Currently there's no L3 command for this. This module provides two new L3 functions for rules. The "-D" in the module name indicates, that currently the implementation uses deprecated functions like \tex_vrule:D. Nevertheless, the new rule functions aren't declared to be deprecated.

*luaindex:

With LuaTEX it would not be a problem to call an index processor like MakeIndex while running LuaTEX. So the user would not longer require to call the index processor on his own. But on the other side Lua hat enough power to process the index itself. Package luaindex was made to do this. It consists primary of a Lua module: luaindex.lua. This provides functions to generate a new index (or several new indexes), add entries to it and print the index. To make the world easier there's an additional LATEX package: luaindex.sty.

*marginnote:

In LATEX the command \marginpar[⟨left⟩]{⟨right⟩} might be used to create a note in the margin. But there is a problem with this command: it creates a special kind of float. For this it cannot be used e.g. at floats or footnotes. Package marginnote supports another command \marginnote to create notes in the margin. This does not use a kind of float and for this does not have the disadvantage of \marginpar. But there might be other problems ...
  […]
  Note: The margin note will be placed at the current vertical line. This means, if you are using two \marginnote commands at the same line, they will be put on the same place. This is not a bug but a feature!

*pfarrei:
Lua script and package aiming to support pastors and priests in setting song and prayer books. Only German documentation available in the moment, but the Lua script/s provide/s a short help: texlua a5toa4.tlu -h (a wrapper script) or directly texlua pfarrei.tlu -h. Note that at time of writing there is a bug in MiKTeX where only execution of pfarrei.tlu works, cf. Lua script from package "pfarrei" not properly executed, probably due to outdated library.

*splitidx/splitindex:

With makeidx there's a standard package at LATEX to create one index to each document. But some times more than one index is needed. There are different packages with different solutions and different problems to achieve multiple indices. Here is one more.
  […]
  Before calling the index processor the one raw index file has to be splitted into multiple raw index files. Each of these contains the index entries of one index. This splitting can be done with the splitindex program.

*titlepage:
Provides extended title pages with several predefined styles.

Creation of title pages is something most authors should not have to do. But reality is not perfect, so a lot of authors have to do it. In 2009 KOMA started the title page project at <http://www.komascript.de/titlepage> to collect real title pages and implement them with a well defined interface. So changing from one title page style to another would be very simple. Nevertheless implementation of a new title page style may be still difficult. But maybe the guys of the title page project would help you. Just ask!

At time of writing not available on CTAN, but only on repository for experimental KOMA-Script versions, cf. Using most current KOMA-Script with TeX Live, MacTeX or MiKTeX on Markus Kohm's website http://komascript.de. (Note: http://www.komascript.de/titlepage is in German, but package manual is in English.)

A: scrlfile
Package scrlfile mostly gives powers to package authors, but a normal user can take advantage of this package as well.
Suppose you want to run some code, but only if a special package is loaded. Or maybe you want to prevent to load this package after all. No problem.
Feature overview

*

*scrlfile  gives you the possibility to run code BeforePackage{<packageName>}{<instructions>}
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{scrlfile}
\BeforePackage{hyperref}{\typeout{Loading hyperref just now:}}
\AfterPackage{hyperref}{\typeout{I am done with hyperref}}
\usepackage{blindtext}
\usepackage{hyperref}
\begin{document}
\blindtext
\end{document}

This can be very helpful, when you want to patch a command provided by a package. You can do the same with classes (\BeforeClass, \AfterClass) and also for input files (\BeforeFile, \AfterFile). More information can be found in the documentation scrguien.pdf (the documentation on texdoc.net).

*Consider your university provides class and/or package files to submit thesis in a corporate design. Package framed is loaded, but for some reasons you want to replace framed with mdframed.
\listfiles
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{scrlfile}
\ReplacePackage{framed}{mdframed}
\usepackage{framed} % explicitly loaded just for this example
\usepackage{blindtext}
\begin{document}
\blindtext
\end{document}

Please note, that packages and class names are given without the file ending.
Also interesting: Make ltxdoc class use report as underlying class.

*You are working with the classes of your university, which loads the packages fontenc and inputenc. Both with options (That should never be done by a class). Suppose you are working with LuaLaTeX, so you don't need and don't want to load those packages. You can prevent them from loading completely, as the following MWE shows.
\listfiles
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{blindtext}
\usepackage{scrlfile}
\usepackage{ifluatex}
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The New Facts of Life
There are more facts these days than there use to be. But are they helping?
By Gregory Curtis
The Joy of Sex and More Joy lie beside my desk. They are the base of a column of books, all written to instruct the American people about sex. When I finished reading each book I placed it carefully on top of the one before; now they reach from the floor almost to my navel. That column of books, Doric in its simplicity on the outside but a baroque mass of conflicting ideas on the inside, is nevertheless a monument to one fairly simple and obvious truth: We must be told. We can't figure sex out for ourselves. Our instincts aren't that explicit anymore. Monkeys raised in isolation never learn how and instinct has a stronger grip on monkeys than on us. We learn about sex, not by being instructed by a family member or watching older members of the tribe, but by reading. We now depend upon books, of all things, for the preservation of the species.
I don't think it's any more disturbing or unnatural that we should be the only animal who learns sex from books than it's disturbing or unnatural that we have language and must learn to speak. But there is something beyond curiosity about the facts of life that prompts more than 3.2 million people to buy The Joy of Sex and similarly large numbers to purchase Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex, The Sensuous Woman, The Marriage Art, and quantities of other books, perhaps not as notorious as these and now generally forgotten, which sold almost as well in their day.
Sex manuals have always been in the vanguard of sexual attitudes. It is easy to forget nowadays, with the title of a pornographic movie so well known it is part of the lore of a president's fall from office and Linda Lovelace a name as recognizable as that of any other movie star, that public attitudes about sex have changed more in the last fifteen years than they did in the previous fifty. I can remember being given the job, as part of the hazing during my freshman year in college in 1962, of finding a stag film—the real thing and nothing less—to show at the party that marked the end of our initiations. I spent the better part of a week lurking around the seedier parts of Houston and sidling up to managers of novelty stores, strip clubs, run-down movie houses, and newsstands and asking in an undertone if they knew where I could get a dirty movie. I never found one. My face was saved only by a roommate who arrived back from Mexico in the nick of time with a film he'd bought in Nuevo Laredo. It turned out to feature two people with porcine bodies wearing only black masks and white socks; all the good parts had been spliced out. This caused a general depression from which the party never recovered. Two years later I was called into the dean's office for having kept a girl out all night after she had gotten permission from the school by saying she was going to be with her parents. Only by my passionate and repeated insistence that this circumstance, though suspicious, had been entirely innocent—it had and hadn't been; had not been in intent, had been in result—was I able to escape whatever punishment was in store for me. Now, of course, there's no problem finding pornographic movies in Houston or anywhere else and college students can simply spend the night together in their rooms without going through elaborate ruses or incurring the wrath of the dean.
Well, I am, I suppose, in favor of all that. I don't believe in censorship and no censorship means there are going to be pornographic movies. I think that, with very few exceptions, there shouldn't be any laws against sex between adults and, at eighteen, college students are adults. In a general sense, I suppose I'm for almost everything that could be listed under the heading of the sexual revolution or, more precisely, I am against the measures that would have been necessary to stop it. Undoubtedly, the sexual revolution has helped get rid of that garbage heap of sexual prejudice and misinformation left over from the Victorian age. That mess needed to be cleaned up, and it took the great changes we have seen in sexual attitudes to do it. Marriage manuals, which is what sex manuals used to be called, have certainly played their part in that cleaning-up and, for whatever good has come from it, they deserve their share of the credit.
But the garbage heap is nearly gone, a fact recent manuals have failed to see. We're on our own these days. Neither laws nor social opinion are especially restrictive. Or especially helpful. Obviously we don't know what to do with the freedom we've won or else we wouldn't all be buying every book that promises to help. But sex manuals, which once made things seem so clear, are now only adding to the confusion. There are, they tell us, still more problems we need to solve and still deeper repressions we need to be rid of. They even mock us, as we shall see later. First though, it's necessary to take a step back and see how things that took so long to straighten out got mixed up again so soon.
Reading through Victorian books on sex is a very good way to have a few sly, rakish laughs. They were written by the scientific experts of the day and the more certain the expert, the funnier he is. Science in its popularized forms seems never to be so certain as when it's wrong. We should all, if the world were only just, have the natural right to live long enough to see Dr. Reuben, author of Everything You Always Wanted to Know, or Alex Comfort, editor of The Joy of Sex, as the same sort of comic book pundit that we now see, say, Sylvester Graham to be. Graham was a popular nineteenth-century author and lecturer who believed that sex was taxing to the constitution. If sexual desires were indulged too frequently, the result would be physical debilitation. Graham thought sexual desire and all other threats to good health could be cured by the proper diet. To save the world, therefore, he concocted a food that, besides being healthy in other ways, would reduce sexual longings. That cure, the Graham cracker, proved so effective that it is still available to those longing souls who need its several benefits.
Not until the end of the nineteenth century did ideas about sex change significantly. Before then sex was considered proper only when used for procreation, but by the early 1900s the idea that sex could be recreation, too, had thoroughly taken hold. Contemporary sexual literature announced, with or without woeful commentary, that the desire for children was no longer as strong as the desire for sex. Marriage manuals responded to this change by an increased emphasis on skill. Professor Michael Gordon of the University of Connecticut has the distinction of discovering that the first mention of mutual orgasm, an occurrence by which later books would insist one's sex life be judged, was in George W. Savoy's Marriage: Its Science and Ethics, published in 1900. In 1919 came H. W. Long's Sane Sex Life and Sane Sex Living, with one of the first detailed descriptions of sexual technique. And inevitably, with sex being pursued for pleasure rather than procreation, a few manuals appeared after 1920 which, though they did not necessarily condone sex before marriage, nevertheless omitted the previously obligatory condemnation of it. But no manual published during those years understood the changes that had happened so well, caught the spirit of the times so perfectly, or had a greater influence than Ideal Marriage, a book by a Dutch gynecologist named Theodoor Hendrik Van de Velde.
Ideal Marriage appeared in Europe in 1926, was published here in 1930, and has been in print ever since. In America it has sold almost one million copies, but its importance goes beyond any simple accounting of sales and printings. Plenty of other books have sold more, and some from the same period—A Marriage Manual by Drs. Hannah and Abraham Stone is one—have also been reprinted year after year. The other books have their virtues. The information in A Marriage Manual is dependable and clearly presented, the advice is sensible and straightforward. But Ideal Marriage has vision and the others don't. In A Marriage Manual a young couple about to be married visit a doctor to receive his instructions about sex. Their questions and his answers form the book. The doctor is so extremely sensible, sane, and correct that he seems never to have done anything foolish or taken any chances, even in love, and his advice seems to ignore something indefinable but terribly important. Compare the doctor's first words to the young couple—"I shall, of course, be glad to give you whatever information I can. An understanding of the basic physical, psychological and social factors involved in marriage is definitely a great help toward a more satisfactory adjustment"—with Van de Velde's first lines in Ideal Marriage—"I show you here the way to Ideal Marriage. You know the honeymoon of rapture. It is all too short, and soon you decline into that morass of disillusion and depression, which is all you know of marriage. But the bridal honeymoon should blossom into the perfect flower of ideal marriage. May this book help you to attain such happiness." Yes, it's florid. The whole book is florid. It seems even more so here because Van de Velde is not, as he usually is, describing a specific caress or position or point of physiology. Yet his style, in spite of its romantic quaintness, is still, after all is said and done, beguiling today. It sounds fresh, unashamed without being jaded. Modern manuals don't. By the Sixties sex manuals began to sound self-congratulatory for escaping the repression of the past and strident in their insistence on new freedoms; by the Seventies they were cool and self-satisfied. But Van de Velde writes like a man in love with love who wants to inspire his readers with his vision. No other manual writer comes close to matching his genuine tenderness.
Van de Velde was also the first manual writer who had the modern sensibility about sex, who thought that it was the basis of personal happiness, that it possessed pleasures that could be profound, that those pleasures were for both the man and woman equally, and that the way to those pleasures was through understanding and technique. Therefore he described technique. He included long discussions of the sexual aspects of smell, sight, hearing, taste, and touch. He was the first writer to recommend ways for the woman to arouse the man and also the first to recommend what he, ever delicate, called the "genital kiss." He had a powerful vision of how sex should proceed, so powerful in fact that his instructions, at least in broad outline, have been copied by nearly every writer since: foreplay lasting long enough for the woman to become fully aroused, a variety of positions, a simultaneous orgasm (although some modern writers no longer consider this so important), and maintaining a closeness afterwards while passion subsides. That is, in book after book, the sexual model we are given; it is Van de Velde's. He is the one, really, who has taught us how. In this respect he has probably had more influence, direct or indirect, on our private habits than any other writer of any kind in this century.
After Van de Velde there was increasing talk of sexual "artistry" and, through the Thirties, an increased fascination with positions. The ability for mutual orgasm gradually became recognized as the final criterion of good sex, the infallible sign of ultimate rapture. But the social context for all this remained marriage, a kind of marriage that from the outside would look exactly like a nineteenth-century one.
But after 1948, when Kinsey published his Sexual Behavior in the Human Male, it was obvious that this idyllic marital communion, even when it was possible, represented only a very small portion of American sexual activity. Actual behavior proved to be so far different from prescribed behavior that now, almost 30 years later, we have still not recovered from the shock.
Two things are important to remember. First, old ideas die hard. Just because people acted as they did in private didn't mean that the old public strictures against things like infidelity, visiting prostitutes, and masturbation had less currency. This gap between what was approved and what actually happened was bridged most often, at least in sexual matters, by guilt.
The second thing to remember is that we had just emerged from a great Depression and won a great war. Society had withstood its most severe test. Kinsey's first report would reveal the man of that society acted in ways that should have caused—if the warnings of the old strictures were true—the collapse of that society even without war: 40 per cent of married men had been unfaithful, 70 per cent of all men had visited a prostitute, 86 per cent had had premarital intercourse by the time they were 30, and virtually all had masturbated. Thinking back on their own sexual peccadilloes, many must have thought, "So many have done what I've done. The world is not in shambles. Why should I feel guilty?" Marriage manuals, in their titles—Love Without Fear, Sex Without Guilt—and in their pages, began to treat guilt as an enemy of sexual fulfillment and to assure their readers they needn't feel guilty anymore.
But that wasn't the only or even the most important effect Kinsey had on marriage manuals. Kinsey's goal was to be scientific in attitude, to be completely nonjudgmental, and to look at sexual behavior as it actually was. He wanted to consider a sexual occurrence as a simple fact, just as gall wasps, Kinsey's earlier scientific enthusiasm, were a fact. To do this meant that the social context in which sex occurred had to be ignored. The clear message of his findings was that, since each taste is to a greater or lesser degree different, the proscriptions against sexual activity should be very few. Since the report, the general tone of sex manuals has changed from that initial assurance that various acts aren't bad to the recent insistence that virtually everything people can do is good.
Things have been taken to this extreme so quickly that books written after 1948 but before 1965 already sound as quaint, if not so wrongheaded, as nineteenth-century manuals. The change is especially apparent in manuals written by women for other women. The relaxing of censorship does not completely account for the differences between, say, Maxine Davis' popular The Sexual Responsibility of Woman, published in 1956, with its carefully reasoned and reassuring chapters on "Preparing for Marriage" and "The Honeymoon," and "J" 's The Sensuous Woman, published in 1969, with its enthusiastic chapters on "Nibbling, Nipping, Eating, Licking, and Sucking" and "Party Sex—Swapping and Orgies and Why It's Better Sometimes to Bring Your Own Grapes." And in 1976, even "J," the completely dirty girl, once such a compelling male fantasy, now seems to be obvious, ordinary, and unimaginative. I was ready to dismiss her simply by noting that her chapter on "Sexual Ethics" is just over a page long while her chapter on "Masturbation" is fifteen. But I was less inclined to be snide after realizing that The Sensuous Woman is the only contemporary book I read with any direct mention of ethics at all. The best The Joy of Sex could do was to suggest that if you are pleased to see the person you wake up with, you're "probably onto the right thing." Of course this is no help at the time. The problem is whether there is any way to know beforehand.
"J" 's code isn't much—in brief: if you don't like a man, you mustn't; if you do like a man, you may, unless he belongs to your sister or best friend; and no fair teasing unless you mean to go through with it—but she at least had the insight to know a code was necessary these days. As she says in another chapter, "It's no longer a question of 'Does she or doesn't she?' We all know she wants to, is about to, or does. Now it's only a question of how tastefully she goes about it." That's a very good question, indeed, although tastefully may not be quite the right word. It's close, however, because it implies good judgment and discretion, two difficult virtues which, in the modem sexual climate, have been replaced by that easy attitude—acceptance.
The Sensuous Woman is a book that tells other women how to "be" something that will, in theory, improve their lives. Maxine Davis' previously mentioned The Sexual Responsibility of Woman and Dr. Marie N. Robinson's The Power of Sexual Surrender (1959) are books that tell women how to "get" what will make them happy, and in both books that something is an orgasm. Sexual Responsibility begins confidently: "Woman has come of age. For the first time in the history of civilization she . . . can live her own life to suit herself." But this new independence comes hand in hand with the "woman's responsibility for sexual participation." That means she must take responsibility for her own orgasm, a responsibility she can't shirk, since her orgasm is the sign of a proper and healthy sex life and the cornerstone of a good marriage. She must tell her husband what she likes, she must suggest new positions and practices, and, if "her husband reaches his peak ahead of her the wife should never exhibit dismay or disappointment but should go right ahead and take whatever steps are then possible to effect her own orgasm." There was even a warning, touching to me, that the bride on her honeymoon should be careful not to do anything to bruise her husband's tender, masculine sensibilities.
The Power of Sexual Surrender, which sold so well it went through at least ten paperback printings, also begins on a note of confidence: "Happiness between men and women has never had such a radiant outlook as it has in this decade." But there is something marring this outlook. Dr. Robinson claims that frigidity, which she defines as "the inability to enjoy physical love to the limits of its potentiality," is a problem with over 40 per cent of American women. Given Dr. Robinson's view of what the ultimate potential of physical love is, I suspect that the percentage must be much higher. She would have the woman embark on a program of complete submission to the male, which is supposed to result in this final moment: "In the woman's orgasm the excitement comes from the act of surrender. There is a tremendous surging physical ecstasy in the yielding itself, in the feeling of being the passive instrument of another person, of being stretched out supinely beneath him, taken up will-lessly by his passion as leaves are swept up before a wind."
The notion that women should be completely submissive is currently enjoying a certain vogue in some quarters (see "Retreat from Liberation," Texas Monthly, June 1975). Otherwise Dr. Robinson is something of an anomaly since she believes quite literally in Freud's view of female sexuality. Freud thought that women had two kinds of orgasms, clitoral and vaginal. The clitoral was essentially immature, adolescent, masturbatory, and a stage which she must abandon. The ability for and preference for vaginal orgasms was the mark of a woman who had developed fully. Without them she remained immature, her personality incomplete.
Today, the preponderance of evidence indicates there is only one kind of orgasm for women, but Freud's real point was that vaginal orgasm was preferable because it implied orgasm during intercourse. This view—that the ability to have orgasm during intercourse is necessary for the woman's personality to develop properly—-became the predominant one in manuals published from the Twenties until the very recent past. The writers used it as a way to define normality. Starting with Van de Velde, the advice in most manuals was anything that did not cause pain and led to intercourse was normal. Van de Velde, for instance, endorsed his "genital kiss" as a prelude to, not a substitute for, intercourse. The reason wasn't that other acts were immoral, but that they reinforced infantile aspects of the personality that would prevent proper growth and eventually undermine the marriage. The frequent insistence in marriage manuals that the man should take care to give the woman an orgasm and that the woman should take care that she gets one came from the belief that her failure would be ultimately fatal to their love.
Undoubtedly this view has done much harm. It has made the male feel that he is judged solely by his performance on this point alone, and made the woman feel that she is failing when she can't respond "totally." The tension created by the man trying to make it happen and the woman trying to let it happen has surely caused plenty of bad nights throughout America.
The woman's orgasm is still a mystery. No one knows, really, what it is, what it's for in a biological sense, what psychological factors inhibit it, which factors ease it. Some biologists believe that the female orgasm is so confusing because it is going through rapid evolutionary change. In any event, all this stern insistence in the marriage manuals has probably not done much more to promote orgasms than would the simple suggestions to slow down, relax, and let passion build on its own. And the tyranny of the orgasm, as one writer called it, has, during the six decades that it's held sway, certainly caused its share of guilt and feelings of unworthiness, the very things for which those same sex manuals condemn narrow Victorian morality. The orgasm, evidently, is no more benevolent a despot than the spinster.
Current manuals say there's no such thing as normal and anything that happens between us freewheeling consenting adults is permissible. At the same time, we are led to expect much more from the orgasm than just a balanced personality: "The orgasm," says The Joy of Sex, "is the most religious moment of our lives." That apotheosis is accompanied by an array of techniques which, since there's no such thing as normal, are all equally religious. We readers are supposed to sort through them to find the ones that will carry us closest to heaven.
Unfortunately for me, the most religious moment of my life was when I almost drowned. That may have left me permanently altered. But I can't help feeling that there is such a thing as normal and that there are reasons for recognizing it, especially in a society where sex is going to be free and easy. Even a loose definition of normal would let one know what to expect from someone new and would give a certainty to the way of going about sex that is lost with too much hopeful groping among exotic possibilities. The normality described in sex manuals of the recent past, one predicated on simple intercourse, may have had its drawbacks, but at least it let lovers know where they were heading, and the final goal was easier to comprehend and much easier to achieve than a religious experience. And there was a comforting biological rightness to it, too. One was so obviously in the mainstream of human experience. One understood what was trying to be said.
If one thing has confused us more than any other, it is the exaggeration of the rewards of sensual experience. This has been going on for quite a while, but by far the worst offenders are The Joy of Sex and More Joy. I have already mentioned that according to them the orgasm is supposed to be "the most religious moment of our lives"; there are related proclamations throughout both books. Some are just silly: "People who soak together [in a hot tub] behave as if they'd shared a warm womb." Others reinforce persistent myths like the whore with a heart of gold: love can be the "relationship between a prostitute and a casual client where, for reasons they didn't quite get, real tenderness and respect occur." And still other statements claim there can be nothing personal between people except sex: "Sex is the one place where we today can learn to treat people as people." "All human relationships are sexual, even when they don't look it and don't involve the genitals."
None of this, however dumb, would be so bad if it were not combined with the assumption that sexual abilities are the distinctions that separate good people from bad. Prejudice, self-congratulation, and contempt run all through the two Joys. We are informed that "Catholics have hang-ups over sex." We learn that black sexual superiority is a myth because the only thing blacks are naturally better at than whites is "hiding on a dark night." But then, in the next paragraph, we learn that, after all, blacks are better at sex "for the same reason they dance much better." But the people the authors really hate are the ones they label Squares.
Squares include "business executives" and other "up tight," "middle-class" people who, by definition, have less human feeling than the authors of Joy: "If your widened self-experience and experience of others leave you an unreconstructed Middletown don't-carer, it wasn't widened enough or human enough." Of course the only self-widening experience is sex. Its effects are so powerful and so cleansing to the soul that no one who'd had really good sex would remain square for long. Instead they'd become an "environmentalist" or choose to "stay and make love rather than kill Vietnamese," as if making love could have beat the draft.
The whole notion of love in the two Joys is based on contempt for everyone else: "The finger-raising quality of lovers vis-a-vis society is as necessary psychologically as their tenderness to each other." And lovers remain isolated because the "best modern sex is nonreproductive . . . sexual freedom isn't compatible with a child-bearing life style." Children, after all, necessarily make a family and families necessarily make a society and a society, admittedly, creates "money-grubbing"—since families must be fed—and "power-hunting"—since society must be governed—both middle-class "perversions" that sexual freedom is supposed to cure.
While we are on the subject of money-grubbing, I think there's something else worth saying. Any number of readers who were familiar with Alex Comfort's earlier writings—clear, learned, sensible, even wise; the object of admiring essays by the likes of Anthony Burgess—have wondered what happened to him, how he came to represent a project like Joy. I think he knew exactly what he was doing. In his 1966 book, The Nature of Human Nature, he comments, "If this book were about sexuality rather than about human biology it would be necessary to print many times as many copies." Of all money-grubbing middle-class perversions, which could be more calculated and cynical than The Joy of Sex? While it's depressing that over 3.2 million Americans have bought this book, it's reassuring at least that no one who takes it seriously is going to reproduce.
Ever since the turn of the century the most influential sex manuals have had a crusading zeal. The authors have believed that sex was a healthy, pleasurable, necessary experience. They have tried to wean their readers away from notions to the contrary by calming their fears and by claiming for sex the self-expressive and illuminating and binding qualities that it definitely has. But to read how current manuals rail against the overwhelming sexual repression in the United States today, you would, if you didn't know better, believe that nothing had changed since 1850. That once admirable zeal has, with the two Joys, become flaccid and cynical with its own success.
The tone of modern manuals implies that mere intercourse is hardly worth bothering with. In fact sexual feeling is now considered to lead in so many equally desirable directions toward so many equally desirable practices that it's unusual anymore to hear sex spoken of as a desire or need or drive or even an urge. Today we have sexual "preferences," a word that suggests the refinement and control over our sexual feelings that modern books seem to think necessary. At the same time the zeal that once argued for the personal benefits of sex has gone on unabated. Sex is supposed to wash away all the evil in our souls and bring out all the good. Yet how is this possible for something that is only a preference?
As desires are reduced to preferences and orgasms are elevated to mystic experiences, the gap between what people actually experience in sex and what they hope to experience widens until it is impossible to cross except in fantasy. And that, I think, is how people are crossing it. If there is one single act that defines modern sexuality it is not the freewheeling sex of the two Joys but the activity of the person alone fantasizing about sex, the masturbator. I have already mentioned how much time "J" devoted to the topic. Dr. Reuben, in Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Sex, lists 37 subheadings under masturbation, but has no listing for love, marriage, emotion, respect, or anything similar. Masturbation is described in many books as a therapeutic measure; women who have trouble reaching climaxes with their lover are advised to use vibrators to bring themselves to orgasm, on the theory that this will make things easier for them. Pornographic movies, skin magazines, the pictures in the two Joys, can all be aids to masturbation; there is a large and steady demand for all of them. And, almost as if to punish us for our isolation, in the two Joys and the newest magazines and movies there is an increasing fascination with and glorification of sadism. The Story of O is only the most obvious example of a trend that can be seen in publications ranging from the sleaziest skin magazines to photographs by Richard Avedon in a recent issue of Vogue. What once sought to arouse by exposing nakedness now seeks to arouse by portraying pain.
We are, I believe, no longer reaching out for the possibilities of sex but in retreat from everything that has presumed to tell us what those possibilities are, or, it seems, were. The assumption used to be that one wouldn't masturbate if one had the real thing available, but by now so many extreme claims have been made for the real thing—orgasm is the most religious experience of our lives, for example—that many people no longer feel that their own experience has been the real thing at all. No matter who one is with or what is happening, real sex seems always to be some place else with someone else. Bizarre experimentation, group sex, swinging, bisexuality are, at least in part, attempts to bring on, perhaps by novelty, fear, or surprise, the orgasm that fulfills all the glorious promises. But other people are a problem in the search for glory. They will want one to make good on the promise and will see every failure. With someone else the man finds himself impotent and the woman discovers that it wasn't as good as with her vibrator after all. She retreats home thinking how it would be if she were the perfect lover she'd read about, capable of orgasm after transcendent orgasm, and he retreats home, wishing he knew just one such woman, one who would take him with her out of the world.
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The Miraculous Draught of Fishes, Albrecht Dürer, 1500. Biblical Art on the WWW.
The Calling of Matthew, Vittore Carpaccio, 1502. Web Gallery of Art.
The Miraculous Draught of Fishes, Raphael, 1515. Web Gallery of Art.
The Miraculous Draught of Fishes, Pieter van Aelst, 1519. Christus Rex.
The Miraculous Draught of Fishes, Raphael, 1519. Web Gallery of Art.
The Calling of Matthew, Marinus van Reymerswaele, 1536. Web Gallery of Art.
Jesus Summons Matthew to Leave the Tax Office, Jan Sanders van Hemessen, 1536. Olga's Gallery.
Draught of Fishes, Joachim Beuckelaer, 1533. The Getty.
Teaching and Fishing, Kirchen Postilla, das ist, Auslegung der Episteln vnd Evangelien, von Aduent bis auff Ostern, 1550. Pitts Theology Library Digital Image Archive.
The Abundant Capture of Fish, 1593. Evangelicae Historiae Imagines.
The Calling of Saint Matthew, Caravaggio, 1599-1600. Web Gallery of Art.
Landscape on the Coast with the Calling of St Peter and St Andrew, Jan Brueghel the Elder, 1608. Olga's Gallery.
The Calling of Saint Matthew, Hendrick Terbrugghen, 1621. Web Gallery of Art.
A Miraculous Draught of Fishes, Rembrandt, c. 1655. The Words online.
The Calling of Saint Matthew, Claes Berchem and Jan Baptist Weenix, 1657.
The Calling of St. Matthew, Juan de Pareja, 1661. USC Annenberg School for Communication.
The Miraculous Draught of Fishes, James Thornhill, ca. 1729-31. Royal Academy of Arts.
The Miraculous Draught of Fishes, Johann Georg Platzer, c 1730. Residenzgalerie Salzburg.
Wonderful Catch of Fish, Anton Losenko, 1762. CGFA.
The Miraculous Draught of Fishes, Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps, c. 1853. The Wallace Collection.
The Miraculous Catch of Fish, Gustav Dore, 1865. Felix Just's "Gospel of John" site.
The Calling of Levi, James Tissot, 1886-96. Biblical Art on the WWW.
The Calling of Saint Peter and Saint Andrew, James Tissot, 1886-1894. Brooklyn Museum.
Nathanael under the Fig Tree, James Tissot, 1836-1902. Brooklyn Museum.
The Miraculous Haul of Fishes, Henry Ossawa Tanner, 1927. National Academy Museum and School of Fine Arts.
Miraculous Fishing and Calling 12 Apostles, Edouard Leon Louis Edy-Legrand, illustrator, La Bible- Nouvelle traduction de François Amiot et Robert Tamisier, 1950.
The Calling of Peter, Otto Dix, 1960. The Mary Page.
Miraculous Fishing & Calling 12 Apostles, Eric de Saussure, Textes de la bible de Jérusalem-Les pressesde Taizé-Seuil, 1968.
Calling the Disciples, Bertrand Bahuet, 1995-96, fresco.
Surprise at Galilee / First Steps in Faith, Robin Jensen, "The Apostle Peter: Just a Simple Fisherman," contemporary. Scroll Right.
Calling Disciples - Betty Grable, Miraculous Catch - Ingrid Bergman, "Hymn to Her," collage by Karen Whitehill, contemporary.
The First Two Disciples, African Mafa.
Calling Disciples, He Qi, China.
Christ Calls His Disciples, Raj Solomon.
The Miraculous Catch of Fish, stained glass, Saint Peter Church, Torrington, CT.
The Miraculous Catch of Fishes, stained glass, Calvary Presbyterian Church, Newburgh, NY.
Miraculous Catch of Fish, unknown.
Calling the Twelve, Spanish Master, unknown.
Calling of the First Four Disciples, Frank Wesley.
Calling of the Twelve Apostles, Greek Icon.


Medievil came into existence in the end of 1998 in Minsk, Belarus. The line-up was the following: Bretors - guitars, vocals; Svelt - keyboards, guitars; Trefoil - drums; Xvost - bass. At that time the leader and the main composer was Bretors. In 2000 the first demo/album Black Rats Liturgy was recorded, the music being an original blend of sympho/death/black/heavy. The quality of the recording was purely underground. In the autumn of 2001 the band split in two - Medievil (Trefoil & Xvost), and The Tzar (Bretors & Svelt). Shortly after that The Tzar seized to exist. Meanwhile, the concept of Medievil shifted towards black metal greatly.
After the line-up reformation Bes Trefoil took up lyrics, all guitars and vocals. Xvost was still on the bass, now taking part in composing the music. In the winter of 2002 the single Mahilny Son (The Grave Dream) was recorded as a promo for the force coming album. In the summer 2002 Medievil recorded its second album, Across The Gloomy Realm, in Bes personal studio, Pyre Rex. All the music material was recorded by Bes himself, except for some bass lines, performend by Xvost. In the beginning of 2003 Basilisk joined Medievil on the drums. Soon Xvost leaves the band because of lack of energy and change in life priorities. In spring 2003 Aldagil took the vacancy of the bass player, having played in Kaduk and Aeon Noctis before. In 2004 Medievil finished their first video K Tchertyam! (To Hell!). Although the video was introduced on the 1 National Channel, it was distributed only via Internet, due to the UG format of music. Medievil's music is broadly black metal, but due to the absence of ideologies of the mid-90s, we prefer to define it as Black Art.
From the autumn 2003 the band members started work on Atruta - a new stage of the band development. The music got heavy, mesmerizingly black, soaked with swampland atmosphere of stagnation and decay. Technically it is black metal with an addition of old-school death/trash, with poisoning vocals and both black and death riffs. In November 2003 Bes recorded two demo songs for the upcoming Atruta - Blood Comes Black and In Mist We Stand. Blood Comes Black was chosen to be the second music video, and simultaneously the video material was shot for the song, November being the best time for that - cold dreary autumn, twilight, rotting old forest. In the autumn 2004 Bes Trefoil began recording Atruta in his studio Pyre Rex. Ason the previous album, all the music was performed by him, except for the bass lines dor Blood Comes Black and In Gloom And Spikes. The reason for that was geographical distance - all the three members were residing in different countries. Till the middle of 2005 all the music was recorded, and in August 2005 Bes recorded drums in Zaglada studio, Kyiv. The recording was mastered at Pyre Rex. As a result, by the beginning of 2006 Atruta was ready.


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Where Are They Now: RBOC Edition
While poking around on Wikipedia I came across this interesting graphic. It's a map of the Regional Bell Operating Companies (RBOCs), the regional telecom monopolies – I'm sorry, I meant incumbent carriers – showing their coverage of the U.S. both today and back at deregulation in 1988. It's worth taking a look at.
The color-coding represents their territory coverage today, while the shaded lines mark boundaries between RBOCs at deregulation.
Ironically, there are fewer of them today than there were in 1988. That's right; for all the effort that went into deregulating Ma Bell, she's putting herself back together again, Terminator-style.
Consider the southeast and midwest, which has been subject to the greatest amount of reconsolidation. Originally, there were three RBOCs: BellSouth, Southwestern Bell, and Ameritech. BellSouth had the southeast from Kentucky to Florida; Southwestern Bell had the southern part of the midwest from Missouri to Texas; and Ameritech had the Great Lakes region, from Wisconsin east to Ohio.
Today, you'll find scant evidence of those companies – they're all parts of the AT&T empire once more, along with the former California and Nevada RBOC, Pacific Telesis. The rest of the nation is basically split between Quest in the West and Verizon in the East.
It's looking more and more like 1988 will be remembered as the high-water mark for telco competition in the U.S., with a total of eight regional operating companies. Now, we're down to three.
It's as though the U.S., with a few years to dull the bad memories of high rates and rented phones, has forgotten what life under a monopoly carrier was like. If we're not careful – especially with the evisceration of many pro-competition policies in the fallout from USTA v. FCC (2004)1 – we're going to end up back in some places we'd probably rather not return to.
Footnote 1: One of the best summaries of the issues at play in USTA v. FCC was written in early 2004, before the USSC declined to take up the case. It's "USTA v. FCC: A Decision Ripe for the Supremes" by Fred R. Goldstein and Jonathan S. Marashlian. Here's the money shot:
[T]he 62-page decision vacating the Federal Communications Commission's ("FCC") Triennial Review Order ("TRO") can be best described as threatening to gut over 8 years of hard work, sacrifice and the billions of dollars that have been invested by entrepreneurial competitive local exchange carriers ("CLECs") that are just beginning to create competition in the local telecom marketplace.
Why such a pessimistic analysis? Because unless the DC Circuit's decision is stayed by the Supreme Court, many of the FCC rules that require incumbent local exchange carriers ("ILEC") to share key elements of their networks with competitors, the rules which are the foundation of the still nascent competitive local market, will be vacated.
Of course, we know that's exactly what the Supreme Court did, or rather declined to do; the decision wasn't taken up for review, the DC Circuit's pro-RBOC decision stood, and years of progress in bringing competition to telecommunications at the local level disappeared virtually overnight. </small>


The Northwest School of Animal Massage is very pleased to announce we are teaming up with the great people and animals of Best Friends Animal Society to bring animal massage classes to Kanab, UT. NWSAM will hold a joint large and small animal massage class at Best Friends August 2nd through the 6th. We will also hold our one day FUNdamentals of Animal Massage workshop on July 31st.
It is the perfect opportunity for those interested in volunteering to add a certificate in animal massage to their Best Friends itinerary, or for those interested in taking an NWSAM certificate course to travel to the sanctuary to attend the practical and volunteer also! This will be the first in what we hope will be many trips to the sanctuary to work with these animals. We hope you will join us!


People who visit Detroit are always pleasantly surprised by all the sites activities this Michigan city has to offer. There are numerous things to do in Detroit and we have picked out some of them for you.
There are two St. Mary's churches in Detroit and this one is called the old one to prevent misunderstandings. Even if you are not Catholic, this magnificent building will leave you breathless. European-influenced architecture at its best that is what this church is!
There are only 4 museums in America larger than Detroit Institute of Arts; this fact only makes it a desirable place to visit. The museum has more than a 100 galleries, each of which is dedicated to some special style, region, period or artist. Beside the great American Art collection, there are works of some of the most famous world artists like Van Gogh and Picasso.
If you want to visit a theater worth of the old glamorous actors and best plays, Fox Theater will not disappoint you! Great ambiance, superb acoustic, fine drinks and good repertoire will make your visit to this theater a special one.
Here is a little treat for car lovers. All of you know that Detroit is the center of United States of America's automobile industry. It would really be a shame not to see this museum while in Detroit. In Henry Ford museum you will find everything, from old car exhibits to common household items and even aircrafts.
This is a luxurious cigar club where every man (and woman) should go when in Detroit. If you want to feel pampered for at least one night, this is the right place for that. Leather couches, luxurious cigars, classy drinks and great service are what makes this club different.
Countless things to do in Detroit will keep you busy during your stay in this city. Whatever you choose to do there will surely be an unforgettable experience. Take your time, explore the city and don't forget to have fun!


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China Miéville & Cory Doctorow at Clerkenwell Tales, July 20
Underground Reading: Wizard's First Rule by Terry Goodkind
Wizard's First Rule (1994) is the bestselling first book in "The Sword of Truth", a popular series that has spawned an indefinite number of sequels and a television show cancelled after two seasons.
Although I've read this book before, years ago, I couldn't remember anything about it. I blamed jetlag for the memory loss, not realizing that it was actually self-defense...
Wizard's First Rule is the inspiring story of Richard Cypher, who, despite being mentally-challenged, manages to eke out a living as a rustic guide in the hills of fantasy Alabama. His evil older brother picks on him a lot, but, despite the teasing and the beatings, Richard knows that he is loved.
In fact, Richard's small world is so filled with special love, that his father's horrific murder comes as shock (less so to the reader, as it occurs on page 2, before we've ever met the character). To recover, he spends his days stumbling about the hills of fantasy Alabama, grieving for a character that is completely unimportant to the reader and described in a purely functional way. On one of these wandering journeys, something new enters Richard's life: breasts.
Kahlan is the first woman to ever appear in fantasy Alabama, so when she shows up in her clingy, white, figure-hugging, completely-impractical cocktail dress and 5-inch spike heels, Richard is overcome with strange new sensations. When he first spots her, Kahlan is under attack by no less than four assassins, but, since they're all walking single file, they trip over Richard's engorged member and fall off a cliff.
Kahlan and Richard do some falling of their own - in love. Troooo love. As true as only high fantasy love between two barely sentient beings can be. Richard is attracted to her musky odor and the occasional biscuit that she feeds him. Kahlan is impressed by his magical ability to eat apples with his mouth. The two are further united by their hobbies: long walks on the beach, fulfilling prophecies, communicating entirely in stilted, explanatory dialogue, and over-using the word "friend".
Kahlan, aware that only Richard's prodigious schlong stands between her and the next team of assassins, asks for him to hide her from sight. He responds by taking her to a cocktail party (she's dressed for it), and introducing her to the entire population of fantasy Alabama, including his evil brother, who takes a break from his plans of world domination to try and rape her. Richard, distracted by the buffet, takes the opportunity to fill his pockets with sausages.
Richard and Kahlan (still seeking anonymity in her gleaming white dress and waist-length hair) head off to see the wizard, Zed Zeddicus Zickory Ztereotype. He's very old, very wise and has humorous-yet-distinctive character quirks, like "being hungry all the time" and "knowing everything". Wacky hijinks ensue as Zed distributes cryptic wisdom to everyone in attendance and then eats all the fried chicken.
"The Wizard's First Rule," Zed Zeddicus Zickory Ztereotype explains at one indeterminable point in the book, "is that people are stupid." (This is an actual quote from the book, and therefore the author's painful, anachronistic twaddle, not mine.) Richard, as the stupidest man in the world, is therefore a born wizard. Indeed, it is revealed that he's descended down through two different lines of wizardry - the perfect exercise in reverse eugenics. He's capable of vast acts of magical power, just not tying his own shoes.
Richard also learns that, outside of fantasy Alabama, there's a whole world of gender-specific magical powers. Richard is a Seeker. Seekers are men, because only men can get angry. Kahlan is a Confessor. Only women can be Confessors because only women can love. Later we learn about the Torture Nymphs (women, as only women can be sensitive and wear leather), Wizards (men, as only men can do math and handle pain) and Sorceresses (women, as only women can be inferior to men). Richard's dim brain is pleased with the idea that he is a man, and therefore not doesn't have to wear leather.
It seems that the situation is the following: Unless the Big Bad has a) Kahlan, b) Richard, c) Zed and d) The Box of Prophecy all in his grasp by a certain date, the Big Bad will die painfully and the world will be restored to happy-joyness. Currently, Richard, Zed and Kahlan are all out of his reach and the Box of Prophecy has disappeared. Rather than, say, taking a nap for six months and waking up to find that the world is perfectly fine, the adventurers decide to gather everything that the Big Bad needs into a single pile, tie a ribbon around it, and deliver it to his front door.
In their quest to fulfill the Big Bad's ambition for global conquest, the group run into a few problems. For one, nobody really knows what they're doing, or why they're doing it. Richard, however, wins over everyone's hearts and minds by saying really obvious things in short declarative sentences. This helps him through encounters with a little girl, a dragon, a bartender, two sorceresses and, inexplicably, Gollum.*
On Kahlan's part, she responds to being hunted by the big bad by maintaining her strategy of "wearing distinctive clothing, not cutting her unique hair & announcing her presence as loudly as possible in crowded urban areas". It is a fitting testament to the intelligence of their enemy that she actually survives to the end of the book. As a group, Richard, Zed and Kahlan pass the time with long-winded arguments about how they'll never leave one another, generally followed by an occasion in which they split up to go off on their own.
The emotional highlight of the book is when Richard is kidnapped by the Torture Nymphs.** The Torture Nymphs are a group of women (only women have the sensitivity and the breasts to be Torture Nymphs) who are taken away as little girls and groomed to be S&M fetishists. Richard's personal Torture Nymph beats him a lot and then sexes him. This makes Richard very uncomfortable, as previously he's only used his man-parts to battle assassins and as someplace to hang laundry to dry.
He survives the experience by learning the value of concentration. By aiming all six of his brain cells at a single thought (in this case, "Torture Nymph have soft hair, like bunny"), he can exclude all other sensory input - even pain. He can, in fact, become so dumb as to be invincible.
The author's sexual well rapidly runs dry, so Richard breaks free from the Torture Nymphs and carries on with his quest. Just in time (of course) to learn that the deadline is rapidly approaching. Unless the group scrambles dramatically to get to the Big Bad with the Missing Whatsit, they'll accidentally win! Fortunately, the evil brother (Wait - Captain Rapey was a bad guy?!) shows up to provide a personal courier service. With his help, they manage to deliver the Big Bad everything he needs. That's real heroism.
The book ends conclusively, if not dramatically. Richard's new trick proves useful: he's actually too stupid for the Big Bad's magic to work on him. He saves the day by a combination of attrition and the rare experience of being the second-dumbest person in the room. The universe of fantasy Alabama, sadly, survives.
In Wizard's First Rule, whenever anyone in the book exercises the barest bit of intelligence (dressing themselves, pointing out the blatantly obvious, varying their adjective selection between sentences), all the other characters applaud like they just invented spaghetti. And well they should: this may be the dumbest book ever written, featuring stupid people on an idiotic mission. If any single character, hero or villain, had the intelligence that God gave a turnip, Wizard's First Rule would've been two blissfully brief paragraphs long, rather than 9,000 endless, turgid pages.
Sexist and dull, filled with pedestrian masturbatory fantasies and shameless plagiarism, this may be the worst fantasy book ever written. Frighteningly, I suspect the sequels are probably even worse. I have no idea what the second rule is - but I swear that I will never, ever grow curious enough to find out.
*This is really shameful. Richard runs into a former Seeker, who has been corrupted by over-using the power of the Seeker. He is pale and pot-bellied, with huge eyes, and creeps around with oversized hands and feet. His name is "Samuel" (in no way "Smeagol") and his dialogue consists purely of "gimme" and "Mistress" (hissed under his breath, no less). Richard slings a rope around his neck and forces him to act as a guide, feeding him bits of bread as a reward. The entire scene is so embarrassing that, after the close of the chapter, it is never referenced again.
**Actual name, I kid you not, "Mord-Sith". It not only steals from Terry Brooks and George Lucas, but also manages to be goofier sounding than either would be on their own. At this point, I wouldn't be surprised if Richard's climactic battle was against the Decepticons of Mount Doom.
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Q: Make same app compatible for Net3.5 & 4.0 I have a set of applications as a single Project developed in C# using .NET3.5.
   The app doesn't work in PC with NET4, I added  and testing to see all functionality is working in NET4 or not. Changed the Net framework to 4.0 instead of 3.5.
The same app got compiled & build without a single error in NET4. The app contains UserSettings in Properties.Settings. I changed the version in  to 4.0.0 from 2.0.0 and now app starts its execution.
My QUESTION: The code is compatible for NET3.5 & 4.0. But the only problem lies at present is value of Version in  in appConfig will be different for version with .NET3.5 & .NET4.0. Is their anyway, I can use the same code for NET3.5 & 4 in addition to handle the above mentioned situation i.e. value of Version tag ?
   Also can I add
  <startup>
<!-- FOR .NET 3.0 & 3.5, 3.0.50727 CLR is only used -->

<supportedRuntime version="v4.0" sku=".NETFramework,Version=v4.0"/>
<supportedRuntime version="v2.0" />  <!-- For Net 2.0, 3.0, 3.5 -->

  to make the app run on PC with NET 4.0 or 3.5 ?
Any help, guidance is appreciated.
Thanks

A: You should build against v3.5 instead of v4. Then I'd expect you to be able to run it on machines with either just 4.0 or just 3.5 without any app.config file at all - or one which doesn't mention supported runtimes. It's expected that most code which runs on 3.5 should just be able to run on 4.0 without change.
(One change is around native code in mixed mode assemblies, IIRC - but unless you know that you're including native code, I doubt that you'll be bitten by that.)


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This is a great giveaway and just at the right time as our little Rosie is just weaning on to solids and enjoys the fruit pouches she has tasted so far.
Carrot and apple would be a huge hit in my house.
how lovely. something like parsnip and broccoli maybe?
If I could invent a flavour it would be a cherry bakewell style! Cherries, almonds, plum & a little cream!