"This may be a big "so what?" for all the "test pilot types", but to those of us who got our license the "old fashioned way," it may be of interest.
In an attempt at currency prior to flying my newly built Lancair 360, I decided to enrol in an Emergency Manoeuvre Course at Santa Paula. The course was taught in a Super Decathlon (180 HP, C/S prop), a very stable, fun platform, or as I now affectionately call her, "The Death-A-Con."
Back in 1976 when I started my commercial rating, instructors were still teaching spin and unusual attitude recovery training, so I figured this would be a nice refresher and a piece of cake ……. wrong! I had never done fully developed spins and had no idea how elevator, aileron, and power accelerated the spin if used at the wrong time or out of sequence.
During one of many fully developed spins, while dropping out of the sky at 7000 feet a minute, at a spin rate of less than one second per turn, and waiting for Joe (my instructor) to tell me, "Okay, that's enough, recover", I saw his reflection in the canopy, hands above his head, screaming like a teenager on an E-ticket ride a Disney Land - what a job!
Then there's the crossover spin - a nice gentle manoeuvre which reminds you that you haven't neutralised the rudder on recovery, by snapping the spin back in the opposite direction at twice the speed - a real fun ride! Now that I'm completely disoriented, Joe tells me "You're doing a fine job, but now I'd like you to anticipate your recovery 180 degrees and recover on a heading of ..…." --– oh yeah, you bet!
During the 1980's NASA published several research papers on the stall, spin, and recovery characteristics of typical general aviation airplanes. An analysis of the data collected during the NASA research identified important considerations about spin recovery methods.
The most poignant observation was that no recovery control input was identified which would always stop the spin. The only 100% guaranteed solution is to prevent the spin before it occurs.
This is accomplished by dealing with roll and yaw appropriately near and above the critical angle of attack. NASA research has shown that the PARE recovery technique is the most effective method of spin recovery, and found that the published aircraft manual spin recovery procedures may not recover an aircraft from developed spin modes.


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Friday Funny September 9, 2016 Are You Ready for Some Football?
Happy Friday! Summer is over, school is back in session and professional football is back for another season. So, let's kick off this Friday with some football jokes.
Three Browns fans were talking about the sad state of their team.
On the day of the game, the team relaxes by the pool, and the coach decides to check the score. He turns on the television and the announcer says: "It's the Eagles 7 and the Browns 0 at the end of the 1st quarter." The whole team cheers.
About 4:00 the coach decides to check the final score. The announcer comes on again. "I can't believe this but the Browns scored on the final play of the fourth quarter and converted the two points to win 8 to 7!" "What in the world went wrong?!" screams the coach.
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It's not been an easy season for Leicester City both on and off the field. That Premier League title win feels like an age ago but the season could yet have a happy ending. A revival in form has seen them move up to seventh in the league and that could get them into the Europa League next season. They look for three points against a Newcastle United team that are still not quite safe from relegation and have a poor away record.
Leicester City supporters may find themselves cheering on Manchester City soon. If the Foxes can finish seventh in the Premier League, then that will qualify them for the Europa League if City can beat Watford in the FA Cup final next month.
They currently fill that seventh position ahead of Wolverhampton Wanderers on goal difference. However, after this game against Newcastle United, they will have played two games more than their Midlands rivals. A bet on Leicester finishing seventh is 6/1 (7.0) at BetVictor.
City have showed improved form since sacking Claude Puel and replacing him with Brendan Rodgers. Leicester's most recent game was away at relegated Huddersfield Town and they came home with a 4-1 win. That makes it four league wins in a row and 11 goals scored.
Home form has seen Leicester win their last three Premier League games, a distinct improvement on the four losses that preceded this return to form. You can get odds of 7/10 (1.7) at William Hill on them winning this game on Friday evening.
Newcastle United are another club that have had their fair share of problems both on and off the field this season. Mike Ashley still hasn't been able to sell the club but at least he did give Rafael Benitez some cash to spend in January and not a free gift token to spend in the House of Fraser.
United start this game in 15th place in the Premier League and seven points clear of the relegation zone. After this game they will have played two more games than Cardiff City. With the Welsh club having lost five of their last six games and still to play Liverpool and Manchester United, probably one more win will see United safe. There are odds of 50/1 (51.0) at Bet365 on Newcastle being relegated this season.
Newcastle United have failed to score in their last two league games. Their winning run at home ended at the weekend as they lost 1-0 to Crystal Palace. The previous five had been won at home and that's what has got United out of the bottom three.
It's certainly not their away form because they have just two points from their last eight on the road. Their last win was at Huddersfield Town and it's 4/1 (5.0) at Paddy Power that they can win at Leicester.
Leicester City have won six of their last seven games against Newcastle United. Only one of their last eight home games played against United have been lost but there have been four draws. Betfair will give you 15/4 (4.75) on this game finishing level.
City will be without Marc Albrighton and Daniel Amartey and have fitness doubts over Jonny Evans. Newcastle will be missing Sean Longstaff and Florian Lejeune.
The last transfer window saw Newcastle spend £20m on Miguel Almiron from Atlanta United. He's made eight appearances since joining the club and is yet to score a goal. Will Friday be the night he scores his first goal for the club? He's 5/1 (6.0) at Ladbrokes to score in this match.
In the dying days of the reign of Claude Puel, there was talk of Jamie Vardy leaving the club. He was getting used to sitting on the bench far too often but that's changed in recent weeks. Vardy has scored seven times in the last six league games. The former England international is 3/1 (4.0) at Unibet to score the first goal in this match and 5/6 (1.83) to score anytime.
Leicester City are in good form now and another home win looks likely here. Their opponents are nearly safe but just can't get away wins. A bet on Leicester City to win and over 1.5 goals in the match is 11/10 (2.1) at Betfred.
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Burgos ([ˈburɣos]) is a city in northern Spain, historic capital of Castile. It is situated on the confluence of the Arlanzón river tributaries, at the edge of the Iberian central plateau. It has about 180,000 inhabitants in the actual city and another 20,000 in the metropolitan area. It is the capital of the province of Burgos, in the autonomous community of Castile and León. The Burgos Laws or Leyes de Burgos which first governed the behaviour of Spaniards towards the natives of the Americas were promulgated here in 1512.
It has many historic landmarks, of particular importance; the ⊙Cathedral of Burgos (declared World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1984) and the Cartuja of Miraflores. A large number of churches, palaces and other buildings from themedieval age remain. The city is surrounded by the Fuentes Blancas and the Paseo de la Isla parks.
The city forms the principal crossroad of northern Spain along the Camino de Santiago, which runs parallel to the River Arlanzón.
The ⊙Museum of Human Evolution was opened in 2010, unique in its kind across the world and projected to become one of the top 10 most-visited museums in Spain. The museum features the first Europeans, which lived in this area 800,000 years ago.
The ⊙Museum of Burgos summarizes the history of the province of Burgos. It has important objects and documents from all the ages, starting from Atapuerca, passing to the Romans and Iberians, and finishing in the contemporary period. The museum is located in a renascence palace, the House of Íñigo Angulo, which has a main patio that structures the museum.
Burgos is rich in ancient churches and convents. The three most notable are the cathedral, with its chapel of the Condestables de Castilla, the monastery of Las Huelgas, and the Carthusian monastery of Miraflores. Minor notable churches are San Esteban, San Gil (Sancti Aegidii), San Pedro, San Cosme y San Damián, Santiago (Sancti Jacobi), San Lorenzo and San Lesmes (Adelelmi). The Convento de la Merced, occupied by the Jesuits, and the Hospital del Rey are also of historic and architectural interest.
Among the other interesting architectural structures, in the walls of the city are the famous gateway of Santa María, erected for the first entrance of the Emperor Charles V, and the arch of Fernán González.
⊙Burgos' Gothic Cathedral
Construction on Burgos' Gothic Cathedral began in 1221 and spanned mainly from the 13th to 15th centuries. It has been declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The west front is flanked by towers terminating in octagonal spires covered with open stonework traceries. The middle section, which serves as an entrance, has three alabaster pilasters, the intercolumnar spaces bearing panel-pictures representing the martyrdom of saints. The façade possessed ornate and fantastic surface decoration.
The octagonal chapel of the Condestable, in florid, thus highly sculpted, Gothic design, has a roof finished with balustraded turrets, needle-pointed pinnacles, and statues. In the lower portion, coats of arms, shields, and crouching lions have been worked into the ensemble. The exterior of the sacristy is decorated with carved traceries, figures of angels and armoured knights. The elaborate tabernacle is composed of two octagonal sections in Corinthian style.
⊙Monasterio de las Huelgas Reales
The Monastery of the Royal Retreats on the outskirts of the city, was founded in 1180 by king Alfonso VIII, and was begun in a pre-Gothic style, although almost every style has been introduced over many additions. The remarkable cloisters have been described as "unrivalled for beauty both of detail and design, and perhaps unsurpassed by anything in its age and style in any part of Europe" (1911 Encyclopædia Britannica). One cloister has semicircular arches with delicate and varied columns; the other has an ogival style of early Gothic. The interior of the church has enormous columns supporting its magnificent vault; the entrance is modern. This convent historically benefited from extraordinary privileges granted to its abbess by kings and popes.
The city preserves its medievalhistoric centre, corresponding to the city walls.
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The University of Nigeria, Nsukka (UNN) Chapter of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), has announced that its members would boycott the 2018 convocation of the university.
The Chairman of the chapter, Dr Ifeanyichukwu Abada, made the announcement in Nsukka on Thursday at a news conference after a congress to update members of the union on the ongoing nationwide ASUU strike.
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He said the union agreed at the congress to write the Vice-Chancellor of UNN, Prof. Benjamin Ozumba, to suspend the 2018 convocation of the university, billed to start on Nov. 26 and end on Dec. 2.
"One of the resolutions reached at this congress is that Ozumba should suspend arrangements for the 48th convocation of the university until the ongoing ASUU strike is suspended.
"If he refuses and decides to go ahead with the convocation, academic staff of UNN will boycott all the activities lined up for the convocation
"I wonder what the convocation will look like in the absence of lecturers, heads of departments, directors and deans of faculties, who have the responsibility of presenting graduating students to the university during convocations.''
Abada said that severe sanctions would be imposed on any academic, who might sabotage the union by participating in the convocation if the university decided to go ahead with it.
"ASUU executives in Nsukka zone, who attended this congress are in support that the convocation should be cancelled since the ongoing ASUU nationwide strike is total and comprehensive.
"Serious sanctions will be placed on any academic staff who participates in the convocation if UNN decides to go ahead with it.
"If some universities in the country can cancel their convocations because of ongoing ASUU nationwide strike, I see no reason why UNN will not do same."
The unionist said the congress was happy with the compliance of UNN workers with the ongoing strike of the union, urging the members to keep it up.
"The congress is happy that the strike since it started has been total and comprehensive in UNN.
"The total compliance has paralysed academic activities at both the Nsukka Campus and the Enugu Campus of the university.
"The nationwide strike embarked upon by academic staff of public universities in the country will continue until the Federal Government meets the demands of the union," he said.
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The focal point of the Estate, Axwell Hall, is a nationally important jewel of Palladian architecture and for this reason is listed by English Heritage Grade II*, acknowledging its status as one of the top 8% most important buildings in the UK. It was built in 1758 for Sir Thomas Clavering, the Seventh Baronet of Axwell, to the designs of James Paine - one of England's most notable architects of the period.
The Estate itself was laid out in the informal 'English Landscape' style advocated by William Kent and his student Lancelot 'Capability' Brown and elements of it can still be seen today. Over the next century and a half the Estate was embellished with a remodelling of the Hall and the addition of a garden temple (since lost) to the designs of John Dobson and later, the creation of a pleasure ground at the instigation of Henry Augustus Clavering, the Tenth (and last) Baronet.
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From the end of the Great War, when the contents of the house were sold, the Estate declined and was eventually sold in 1920 to be used as the site for the Newcastle Ragged School. By the end of the Twentieth Century the Hall was derelict and the Park neglected.
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Lotte Lehmann Firsts
1. Sang world premier as the Composer in Ariadne auf Naxos by Strauss (1916).
2. Sang world premier as the Dyer's Wife in Die Frau ohne Schatten by Strauss (1919).
3. Sang Vienna premier, as Silla, in Pfitzner's Palestrina (1919).
4. Sang the Vienna premier of Suor Angelica by Puccini (1920).
5. Sang the world premier as Helene in Die Kohlhaymerin by Bittner (1921).
6. Sang the Vienna premier as Blanchefleur in Der Kuhreigen by Kienzl (1921).
7. Sang the Vienna premier of Puccini's Manon Lescaut (1923).
8. Sang world premier as Christine in Intermezzo by Strauss (1924).
9. First woman to sing Sophie, Octavian and the Marschallin in Der Rosenkavalier (by 1924).
10. Sang the world premier as Juana in Don Gil by Branfels (1925).
11. Sang the Vienna premier of Turandot by Puccini (1926).
12. First singer to receive the rank of Kammersängerin since the collapse of the monarchy (Vienna 1926).
13. Sang the Vienna premier as Madeleine in Giordano's André Chénier (1926).
14. Sang the Vienna premier as Heliane in Korngold's Das Wunder der Heliane (1927).
15. First German to sing in Belgium after World War I (1929).
16. First German to receive the French Légion d'honneur after World War I (1931).
17. Sang Vienna premier of Arabella by Strauss (1933).
18. Sang the Vienna premier as Tatiana in Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin (1934).
19. The vocal soloist chosen to join Toscanini in his first US radio broadcast (1934).
20. First woman to record Schubert's "Winterreise" and "Die schöne Müllerin" (1941).
21. First woman to record Schumann's "Dichterliebe" (1941).
22. First woman to sing Beethoven's "An die ferne Geliebte" song cycle (1948).
Honors: Several honors are mentioned above in the "Firsts"
Undated honors include the building named the Lotte Lehmann Akademie in her birthplace (Perleberg); a street named for her in Vienna; a hall in her name at the Music Academy of the West (Santa Barbara, California); another hall at the University of California Santa Barbara; a regularly-scheduled week-long vocal institute called "Die Lotte-Lehmann-Woche"; a newsletter that ran for years; a foundation that lasted around 10 years; master-classes named for her at various summer festivals; and the regular flow of biographies, re-releases of her recordings and the appearances of her former students, now often in mentoring roles, but always with the mention of Lehmann.
Lehmann received the title of Kammersängerin (the first singer to receive that designation since the collapse of the monarchy), 1926.
Lehmann was made Ehrenmitglied der Wiener Staatsoper [Honorary Member of the Vienna State Opera], 1928.
The King of Sweden conferred upon her the golden medal Literis et Artibus after a performance of Fidelio in February 1929.
France promoted her from the Golden Palm to Officer of the Légion d'honneur ("Offizier der Ehrenlegion") 1931.
When Lehmann took out her first citizenship papers in the United States, her recordings were banned in Austria in October 1938.
Lehmann's first book, her 1937 autobiography "Anfang und Aufstieg," was banned by the Nazis on their list of harmful and undesirable writings ("schädlichen und unerwünschten") on December 31, 1938.
Bon Ami Award 1960
Austrian Medal of Honor 1961
Lehmann earned the Ehrenring der Stadt Wien [the Honor or Dedication Ring of the City of Vienna], 1962.
Lehmann was registered in the Goldene Buch der Philharmoniker [the Golden Book of the Vienna Philharmonic], 1962.
Third Ring of Honor, 1963
From Germany, Lehmann received the "Großes Deutsches Verdienstkreuz" [the Great German Service Cross], 8 February 1964.
The City of Santa Barbara proclaimed "Lotte Lehmann Day" 27 February 1968.
The Los Angeles Philharmonic, conducted by Zubin Mehta, celebrated Lehmann's 80th birthday with a concert "dedicated to Lotte Lehmann in recognition of her invaluable contribution to the world of music as both performer and teacher" February 1968.
The San Francisco Opera performed Die Walküre honoring Lehmann (who was there for both the performance and reception) 30 September 1968.
University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) named and dedicated its concert hall for Lehmann, February 1969.
The San Francisco Opera performed Die Walküre, dedicated to Lehmann, April 1969.
Salzburg gave Lehmann the Große Silbermedaille der Stadt Salzburg, [the Great Silver Medal of the City of Salzburg], 1969.
Perhaps at the same time (see above) Salzburg named a street after Lehmann. The photo is dated 1970.
Nicaragua issues a Lehmann stamp in 1976.
From the University of California, Santa Barbara; Northwestern University; the University of Oregon, Portland; and Mills College, Oakland, Lehmann recieived Honorary Doctorates.
Germany honored Lehmann in 1989 with a stamp. The first day covers (issued at that time from both Berlin and Bonn) can be seen below.
In 1996 Vienna Donaustadt (22. Bezirk) named a street Lotte-Lehmann-Weg.
Perhaps a dubious honor, but Lehmann has a star in the Hollywood walk of fame. Her name is misspelled as Lottie.


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I had it all planned out. I originally planned to do a outfit post today. I had the time mapped out and the look decided. Even the weather was perfect, nice mid-sixties, where it's not too cold to go out for a while, but not so hot that the lighting is harsh. However, I ended up not going out to take pictures for the blog. And why was that? I needed to focus on me.
Last week I talked about the Need for Productivity, and that need was definitely speaking to me that day. Every element of planning was set for that day and the time frame was absolutely perfect. However, I just wasn't feeling it. Of course, there are good days, but there are also bad days. And that day just so happened to be the latter. All I wanted was to curl up in my bed and pull out some Netflix and some comfort food. To not have to worry about anything, but the need for productivity was tolling on me. I was trying to force creativity.
So I want to build off of the previous post about the Need for Productivity and venture into the line that separates healthy productivity from unhealthy productivity and how to deal with it. While I may know that I'm pushing myself, against my own feelings and emotions, that doesn't necessarily mean that I'll handle it well. I could have gone out and taken some nice outfit pictures and posted a clean and polished post. However, I'm writing this post today not because I was lazy, but because I needed to put myself first. My blog is important to me. My schoolwork is important to me. But most of all, I am the most important, no matter how selfish that sounds.
I realized that I had been a bit of a hypocrite about the things that I say on my blog. It's not because I'm intentionally saying things that I don't actually put into action in my own life, it's because it's easier said than done. It's not easy to step out of your comfort zone and ignore your fear of failure, it's not easy to throw away the art of pretending to have a life, and it's not easy to overcome the fear of missing out. So today I'm taking my own advice, which is actually harder than it seems.
So how can we start to stop "saying" and "start doing?" Like I mentioned before, it's a lot easier said than done. I can spit out all of the advice that I can possibly come up with, but that doesn't necessarily mean that I will follow it. So today I want to follow my own advice with this post and share my tips for following your own advice.
Ever heard of those acronyms like WWJD, meaning, "What would Jesus do?" or other ones, like WWBD, meaning, "What would Beyonce do?" The acronym that I propose to you is WWYD, that stands for, "What would YOU do?" What I mean by this is that if you were someone else, what would you tell yourself? What advice would you give yourself? For example, there was an opportunity that I was considering going after recently, but it was a little out of my comfort zone. I knew that I would tell myself that I just had the fear of failure and that I should not let it stop me. Deep down, I knew what the answer was. I knew that I should step out of my comfort zone and go for it, because that is the advice that I would tell someone else. And although it's scary, I know that this is this best thing for me to do. I'm following my own advice for once.
This has recently been my go-to question for anything. Whether it's deciding whether or not to attend a party (and instead having a party for one!) or it's a bigger decision like whether to apply for a summer program, this is the foolproof question for deciding what to do next in life. That's the end goal, right? To be happy. The advice that I dish out is meant to make people happier. Whether it means doing more in life or just accepting yourself. Ask yourself whether or not things will make you happy, because 99.9% of the time, your advice will make you happier.
This person that knows you best is you.
Obviously, anyone can give advice. Maybe it can be a school counselor or even a random stranger, but you have to understand that they might not truly understand you. I'm not saying that their advice isn't fantastic, but I'm trying to say that your own advice can be the most valuable advice that you could ever take. While a school counselor might be well versed in advising, but you know yourself better than anyone else. The advice that I give is based on personal experiences, so what better way to advice to apply than advice that's basically tailored to people like you. Not just that, the advice is tailored to you, your personality, your flaws, everything about you. The beginning to following your own advice starts with valuing what you have to offer.
Today I vow to start following my own advice. Honestly, do I really need all of those self-help books when I have myself? The thing is, following your own advice isn't easy, but I'm going to do it anyways, because my wisdom is worth something and I'm going to make the most of it. So yeah, maybe I don't have a fancy outfit post, but this was the right choice. I focused on me and followed my own advice. And guess what? It was worth it.


Considering the depth of mutual suspicion and animosity between Britain and Russia after 1815, it is astonishing that the lion and bear have fought each other only twice. At Winston Churchill's behest, British forces played a desultory role supporting the White interest in the 1919-21 Civil War. The nations clashed much more fiercely between 1854 and 1856, when the Crimean War made a flagellatory impact on British society: it set a benchmark for political and military bungling, and public recrimination about it, which endures today.
A British officer wrote to me from Afghanistan last fall: 'When the history of this war is written, almost everything we have done here until very recently will be discussed in the same breath as the Charge of the Light Brigade'. Balaclava (named Bella Clava- Beautiful Port- by the Genoese who colonised it in the late Middle Ages) has provided synonyms for battlefield folly since Lucan's cavalry entered the Valley of Death on 25 October 1854.
Most British children nowadays leave school ignorant of all historical events save the two world wars, but they acquire fragments of folklore about the Crimea, especially gratifying to teachers of leftist leanings. They learn that stupid aristocrats launched a war with Russia during which even stupider ones in uniform then squandered thousands of soldiers' lives on the battlefield; Florence Nightingale showed what an enlightened woman could achieve in transforming the care of the wounded, after men had grossly mismanaged the job; William Howard Russell was the first honourable journalist (cynics add 'and the last') to expose the madnesses of war, while highlighting the new power of the press.
Some of this is more or less true as Orlando Figes, following many other historians, acknowledges in his new study of the war. More than half a century ago, in her magnificent tale The Reason Why, Cecil Woodham Smith described the chief British officers in the Crimea with a vividness and coruscating wit that remain unsurpassed. Figes's account of military operations is a trifle pedestrian by comparison, but freshly informed by Russian sources, of which he is a master.
Russian expansionism evolved in the late 18th century, with a southward advance to the Black Sea inspired by Catherine the Great. The khanate of Crimea was annexed in 1783. Russian armies conquered Bessarabia and the Caucasus, and thereafter engaged in frequent strife with their muslim inhabitants.
In the decades following Waterloo, both Britain and France became increasingly alarmed by Russian ambitions, especially towards the tottering Ottoman empire. The Prince of Serbia told the British consul in Belgrade in 1838: 'Turkey cannot stand, she is falling of herself; the revolt of her misgoverned provinces will destroy her' (F p.29). Tsar Nicholas I, whom Figes describes (p.36) as 'the man responsible, more than anyone, for the Crimean War', was of the same opinion.
Nicholas favoured partition of the Ottomans' vast possessions between the Christian powers. He was sincerely bewildered to find Christian solidarity eclipsed by European resistance to Russian imperialism. In particular, Moscow's brutal suppression of a Polish uprising in 1831, and subsequent mistreatment of the Poles and Hungarians, fired public opinion in London and Paris.
But the Tsar, a bold, impulsive and insensitive man, allowed himself to be deluded by royal courtesies on an 1844 visit to London that Britain would acquiesce in his designs. He bullied the Turkish sultan into accepting the claims of the Orthodox church to control the Holy Places of Palestine- Figes emphasises religion, among the causes of the war, though he seems more persuasive when he writes (p.164): 'By the time the war began, its origins in the Holly Lands had been forgotten and subsumed by the European war against Russia'.
In October 1853, Russian armies marched into Moldavia and Wallachia- modern Romania- and Nicholas's warships destroyed the Turkish fleet at Sinope. British opinion was appalled. 'Sinope', The Times editorialized (F p.144), 'dispels the hope we have been led to entertain of pacification…We have thought it our duty to uphold and defend the cause of peace as long as peace was compatible with the honour and dignity of our country…But the Emperor of Russia has thrown down the gauntlet to the maritime Powers…and now war has begun in earnest'.
Both Figes and Stefanie Markovits, in her collection of essays on the cultural impact of the war, emphasise that in the middle 19th Century, many nations- and especially the British- were astonishingly insouciant about making war, and indeed enthusiastic about the manly virtues it was alleged to inculcate. They notice the notorious passage in praise of strife in Thomas Hughes's immensely influential novel Tom Brown's Schooldays, published in 1857 (F p.473): 'From the cradle to the grave, fighting, rightly understood, is the business, the real highest, honestest business of every son of man. Every one who is worth his salt has his enemies, who must be beaten, be they evil thoughts and habits in himself, or spiritual wickednesses in high places, or Russians, or Border Ruffians, or Bill, Tom or Harry, who will not let him live his life in quiet till he has thrashed them'.
Hughes's prose echoes the robust views of Palmerston- the politician who did most to promote British engagement in the Crimea- about war in general and that war in particular. The great exponent of 'gunboat diplomacy' said in 1848 (F p.78): 'I hold that the real policy of England…is to be the champion of justice and right; pursuing that course with moderation and prudence, not becoming the Quixote of the world, but giving the weight of her moral sanction and support wherever she thinks that justice is, and wherever she thinks that wrong has been done'.
Seven years later, when he had become prime minister amid the Crimean struggle, Palmerston frankly avowed: 'the main and real object of the war was to curb the aggressive ambition of Russia. We went to war not so much to keep the Sultan and the Muslims in Turkey as to keep the Russians out of it'. But from the outset, the British lacked any clear notion of how to translate this purpose into attainable war aims or a coherent war plan.
Lord Aberdeen, prime minister in 1854, was unwilling to fight, but popular bellicosity, powerfully stimulated by the press, was too much for him. In March 1854, the British government issued an ultimatum to Moscow- which the Tsar first read in the columns of The Times, then rejected. A military expedition was dispatched to the Black Sea before Aberdeen and his colleagues had plausibly answered the question of whether its purpose was to restore Turkey's sovereignty or to roll back Russia in the Near East. Stratford Canning, for instance, wanted a wider war with the Tsar (F p.160), 'for the benefit of Poland and other spoliated neighbours to the lasting delivery of Europe from Russian dictation'.
The British still see the Crimea as 'their' war, but the Emperor Louis Napoleon dispatched a larger contingent, eventually 310,000 men, which conducted itself more effectively on the battlefield, and suffered five times as many casualties as did the 98,000 British troops who served in the East. The French Emperor's unworthy purpose was to ease his domestic political difficulties through the diversionary excitements of a foreign adventure. At first, this enjoyed considerable popular support, because his people, influenced by the Marquis de Custine's bestselling traveller's portrait of a threatening bear La Russie en 1839, were almost as hostile to Russia as the British.
Karl Marx wrote (M p.2): 'All great historical movements appear to the superficial observer finally to subside into farce, or at least the commonplace. But to commence with this is a feature peculiar to the tragedy entitled 'War With Russia' '. The allied armies landed and established a base at Varna on the Black Sea. The Turks were already fighting in Wallachia where, says Figes, they inflicted more damage on the Russians than most European historians acknowledge. The Sultan's forces also conducted some impressive massacres of local Christians before cholera crippled all the combatants, and persuaded the Russians to retreat.
The author emphasises that the Turkish army, though savage and ill-disciplined, played an important part in the war. It was a colourful body, led by such generals as Omar Pasha, a Croatian Serb who travelled on campaign with his private harem and German orchestra, which later serenaded him in the Crimea with Verdi's fashionable hit from Il Trovatore, 'Ah ! Che La Morte'.
Russian sympathisers were probably responsible for starting a huge fire at Varna which destroyed most of the allies' supplies before they had fired a shot or even seized the opportunity to pursue the Tsar's retreating forces into Bessarabia- Raglan and his French counterpart Saint-Arnaud were fearful of cholera inland. Figes suggests convincingly that the British government should then have declared victory and summoned its troops home. Instead, it instructed Raglan to invade the Crimea, which seemed the handiest accessible Russian real estate on which to teach the Tsar a lesson. On 14 September 1854, the allied army began to disembark at Kalamita Bay.
The principal events of the war thereafter are familiar. The battle of the Alma took place on 20 September, Balaclava on 25 October, Inkerman on 5 November. On 14 November, a storm in the Black Sea sank twenty-one transport ships, precipitating a shortage of winter equipment and stores which intensified the miseries of the troops ashore. Sevastapol was thereafter besieged, though the Russians always kept open a northward line of communication. Successive allied assaults were repulsed, those of the British being characterised by familiar command incompetence.
On 9 September 1855 the city belatedly fell to the French, after a new British attack had been thrown back. Queen Victoria found it unbearable to think that (M p.10) 'the failure on the Redan should be our last fait d'armes'. Palmerston, who succeeded to the premiership when the Aberdeen government fell in consequence of its bungling of the campaign, had sufficient wit to refuse to order the church bells rung to celebrate victory. He knew the nation saw nothing in the Crimea to rejoice about. The peace treaty signed in Paris in February 1856 yielded no prize of substance, save a face-saving agreement about shared custody of Jerusalem's holy places and demilitarisation of the Black Sea. Moscow shifted the focus of its territorial ambitions further eastwards, to khanates about which the western Europeans were less sensitive. To secure this peace with supposed honour, the British had lost 20,813 men, 80% of them to disease, and the French around 100,000.
The Russians lost 127,583 killed and dead of disease defending Sevastapol, and far more in Wallachia and other Crimean battles. The Turks also suffered heavily- for instance, half of their 4,000 men who fought at Balaclava subsequently perished of malnutrition- their British and French allies refused to feed them, and treated them with shocking contempt. One of Leech's most famous, or notorious, Punch drawings depicts a cheery pipe-smoking sailor riding on the back of a hapless fezzed figure, above the caption (M p.170): 'How Jack made the Turk useful at Balaclava'.
Figes is on familiar territory when he describes the incompetence with which the British conducted the Crimean campaign. Until its coming, they had enjoyed almost 40 years of peace and hemispheric superiority. Markovits notes a complacent line in Thackeray's The Newcomes, where a character advises on the young hero's future (M p.95): 'I think I should send him into the army, that's the best place for him- there's the least to do and the handsomest clothes to wear'.
'The men here gave one of those surprising examples of coolness and contempt of danger which forms one of our national characteristics. In the midst of the most tremendous fire which an army has ever encountered, with comrades falling around them, the men commenced seeking for and plucking the half-ripe grapes, which were hanging temptingly on the hewn vines'. In truth, of course, far from demonstrating pluck, this was a sample of the imbecility which sometimes characterised the conduct of British soldiers until modern times.
Captain Fred Dallas wrote home from the Crimea in the same spirit as many other officers and men, heaping scorn on 'the clever way in which everything connected with the Army is done' (M p.12). When sorely-needed replacements arrived for his battalion's boots, which were falling to pieces, these were found to be hopelessly undersized. 'How curiously the vein of Incapacity seems to wind about thro' everything…With endless wealth, great popular enthusiasm, numberless ships, the best material for Soldiers in the World, we are certainly the worst clad, worst fed, worst housed Army that ever was read of'.
Markovits emphasises the last words of this passage: Dallas was powerfully aware of the fact that the army's privations were known to every middle-class household in Britain, through reports in the press. Of these, then as now The Times dispatches of William Howard Russell were the most celebrated.
Russell was the first war correspondent, and one of the first journalists in history, himself to become recognised as a protagonist in, and hero of, the events he described. In the eyes of the public as well as those of many soldiers in the Crimea- though emphatically not those of their commanders- his pen became the sharpest sword on the battlefield, slashing out at generals and government on behalf of their hapless victims of the Crimean army.
He writes of the scene after the Alma (M p.31): 'It was a sad sight to see the litters borne in from all quarters hour after hour- to watch the working parties as they wandered about the plain turning down the blankets which had been stretched over the wounded to behold if they were yet alive, or were food for the worms, and then adding many a habitant to the yawning pits which lay with insatiable mouths gaping on the hillside, or covering up the poor sufferers destined to pass another night of indescribable agony. The thirst of the wounded seemed intolerable, and our men- all honour to the noble fellows !- went about relieving the wants of the miserable creatures as far as they could'.
Other star correspondents found their own scoops elsewhere in the theatre: Thomas Chenery, The Times's Constantinople correspondent, exposed the horrors of medical facilities at Scutari, which prompted the descent of Florence Nightingale and her nurses. Nightingale wrote in her journal in 1850 (p.106): 'I had 3 paths from which to choose. I might have been a married woman, a literary woman or a Hospital Sister'. The world knows the career she adopted, though for all her noble efforts 52% of patients at Scutari died in February 1855 alone. No better than the army doctors did Nightingale understand the hazards of polluted water and poor hygiene.
The Russians found their own Nightingale in 18 year-old laundress Daria Mikhailova, whom Figes describing caring for wounded men after the Alma with a cart and supplies purchased from her own pocket. As for surgery, the Russian Nikokai Pirogvov, operating in Sevastapol, achieved a higher survival rate for amputees than did his British and French confreres- up to 65% for arms, 25% for thighs. Those who claim that the French displayed greater administrative competence than the British in the Crimea should notice that 40,000 of Louis Napoleon's soldiers died of disease in the second winter of the war.
Beyond Russell and other professional reporters, letters home written by scores of officers and men such as Fred Dallas were soon being offered for publication by families at home- outraged by the mismanagement of the campaign which they revealed- and eagerly accepted by newspapers. This was unprecedented. Some 40 years earlier, Private William Wheeler was the finest correspondent in Wellington's army, who described to his family the experience of the Napoleonic wars. Yet his letters achieved publication and celebrity only in 1950, when they were rediscovered and published in The Strand magazine.
Some of the most senior commanders in the Crimea, including Lord Raglan, as young men had fought Bonaparte. In the interim their national culture had been transformed by railways, the growth of newspapers- by 1855 The Times had a print order of 61,000- and the electric telegraph. Contemporaries observed with fascination and amazement the phenomenon of almost instant press coverage and literary responses to military events two thousand miles away. E.B.Hamley, who served in the Crimea, wrote in a review of newly-published war poetry (M p.3.): 'Fancy…the white-haired Nestor, and the sage Ulysses, reading, towards the close of the first year of their sojourn before Troy, the first book of the Iliad, to be continued in parts as a serial'.
There was no censorship of allied correspondents' reports, and it was some time before commanders began to grasp the assistance press coverage provided to the enemy: within a week or two of publication, the Russians in Sevastapol were reading The Times, with its detailed reports on allied operations, logistical problems and morale; some of Russell's dispatches ran to over 10,000 words.
Some allied soldiers and civilians remained sceptical about the merits of eye-witness reportage on its own terms. 'How utterly valueless history, tho' written by the most eloquent and truthful men, will always seem to me', wrote Fred Dallas (M p.37), 'when on the spot where events daily are taking place, I can't tell you the whole truth of them'. Carlyle reflected (M p.139): 'I am very sad, in thinking of the general matter: a War undertaken to please Able Editors and the windy part of the population…carried on amid…The unmelodious rumour of 'Own Correspondents' at every step'.
Markovits, who addesses the relationship between the Crimea and the press, the contemporary novel, poetry and visual art, argues that the war had a greater cultural influence than has been generally recognised. She writes of Tennyson's poem on Balaclava's gravest blunder (M p.125): ' "The Charge" in which "All the world wondered" seems to offer the unifying and heroic voice expected of martial and chivalric song…(M p.142) Meaning had to be constructed out of something so apparently meaningless'. The poem, she says (p.156) 'can also be considered as an essay in madness'. Within weeks of its publication, soldiers were enjoying singing- rather than reciting- Tennyson's tale of folly at their Crimean campfires.
Markovits notes(p.189) 'the cult of masculinity that came out of the war'. In her discussion of visual art prompted by the Crimea, she has an excellent passage on John Leech's Punch cartoon captioned 'Enthusiasm of Paterfamilias, On Reading the Report of the Grand Charge of British Cavalry on the 25th'. A family surrounds an exuberant father, brandishing his cane in emulation of a sabre as he reads The Times- presumably the issue which includes Russell's immortal account of the Light Brigade's sally. While Leech's man and boys visibly exult in the saga, the family's women react conspicuously more equivocally, obviously grieving at the carnage. The author quotes Trudi Tate (p.188): 'The cartoon suggests, characteristically, that men and women occupy completely different imaginative realms. What delights father is painful to mother'.
In Markovits's chapter on the war's visual art, she notes that some of the most celebrated representations of the Crimea were composed only a generation after the event, by Elizabeth Thompson, Lady Butler. Her 'Calling The Roll after an Engagement, Crimea', became the star of the Royal Academy's 1874 exhibition. The artist, then 27, wrote (p.210): 'I may say that I woke this morning and found myself famous'.
A critic described the painting as (p.214) 'a picture of the battlefield, neither ridiculous, nor offensive, nor improbable, nor exaggerated, in which there is neither swagger, nor sentimentalism, but plain, manly, pathetic, heroic truth, and this is the work of a young woman'. Butler was compared to Kipling, and during the years that followed became Queen Victoria's favourite portraitist of climactic battlefield moments. The artist contributed much to the new cult of the working-class hero, though her popularity was later surpassed by that of such unabashed jingoes as Richard Caton Woodville.
When Markovits turns to the influence of the war on contemporary literature, she quotes Thackeray who observed wonderingly, and perhaps part-ironically (p.63): 'What can any novelist write so interesting as our own correspondent ?'. It is undoubtedly true that, while the Crimea prompted some of the greatest journalism of all time, it inspired much less memorable fiction.
George Whyte-Melville, best-known as an author of foxhunting novels, served as a volunteer major in the Turkish cavalry, and published The Interpreter: A Tale of The War. The prolific children's author G.A.Henty long afterwards drew on his own memories of service in the Crimean hospital commissariat for Jack Archer, or, The Fall of Sebastopol (1883). I come from the last generation of young Englishmen to have read Henty's novels with avid enthusiasm, though I never shared what Markovits categorises as the author's belief in boyhood as 'a blessed state'.
Charles Kingsley's Westward Ho !, published in 1855, professes to be a tale of the 1588 Spanish Armada, but is heavily redolent of the Crimea. Its hero, Amyas Leigh, is (M p.71) 'a symbol, though he knows it not, of brave young England longing to wing its way out of its island prison'. Kingsley, like Henty and many other contemporaries, believed that the foremost purpose of education was to promote 'manliness' and the warrior ethic. Even Trollope, a far more sophisticated and sensible writer, often uses 'manly' as a term of high praise for a character or his conduct.
By contrast, a disgusted contemporary reviewer of Westward Ho !, W.E.Aytoun, observed (M p.72) that 'lust for blood and plunder are expressed in almost every page'. In one passage, Amyas Leigh's brother Frank exults: 'There is nothing more noble and blessed than to fight in behalf of those we love'. Charles Kingsley's brother Henry wrote Ravenshoe, a tale of a disinherited heir who fills a billet as servant to a young army swell posted to the Crimea. This story adopted a more equivocal view of the virtues of war- the hero returns shell-shocked from his Eastern experiences.
Markovits notes that, while soldiers avidly consumed press reports of their own doings, the most requested book in Crimean military hospitals was Charlotte Yonge's 1853 morality tale The Heir Of Radclyffe Hall, while another of Yonge's works, Heartease, was the last work read by Britain's egregious commander, Lord Raglan, before his death in the Crimea- of a broken heart, some said.
I drink in home, and its delight.
How here they marched, and there they fought.
Shape the event, or show the cause.
Say who was wrong and who was right.
Lie naked staring to the sky.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning was among those who not merely deplored the Crimean war and its follies, but even the role of Florence Nightingale and her fellow-nurses, a theme she pursued in her 1856 novel Aurora Leigh. Browning wrote after hearing Tennyson read his dramatic monologue Maud, heavy with Crimean allusions, in October 1855: 'War, war ! It is terrible certainly. But there are worse plagues, deeper griefs, dreader wounds than the physical. What of the forty thousand wretched [presumably fallen] women in this city ? The silent writhing of them is to me more appalling than the roar of the cannons' (M p.115).
War, Browning suggests, imposes a mere physical toll, where the plight of the women represents a deeper spiritual wound. Aurora Leigh, says Markovits (p.115), proves that redemption must come not from the physical deeds of men, but from 'the ideal labours of woman'. Gladstone likewise hated (M p.150) the 'war-spirit' of Maud'. Punch defined a hero (M p.159) as 'A Fool who dies for his country, when he could stop at home perfectly safe'.
A central feature of the war, as both Figes and Markovits note and discuss, was the emergence of the ordinary British soldier as a focus of popular adulation, heedless of and partly because of the failures of those who sent him to war. The Victoria Cross, Britain's supreme military decoration, was introduced in 1857 as an award for courage open to officers and other ranks alike: the first sixty-two were presented to Crimean veterans.
Figes ends his own work with a discussion of the cultural legacy of the Crimea which is both more succinct and more lucid than that of Markovits. In Turkey, he says, the war has been (F p.482) 'obliterated from the nation's historical memory'. In Russia, it is a source of bitterness that Crimea is today part of Ukraine. Vladimir Putin has promoted Tsar Nicholas I's portrait to hang in a place of honour in the Kremlin.
In France, there are many memorials to the dead of Crimea, while the British naming thousands of pubs and streets for Sebastapol and the Redan, a host of children for Florence, Alma- even, poor little mites, for Balaclava and Inkerman. The critical military legacy was the Cardwell reform programme of 1868-71, which reorganised the army and abolished the purchase of commissions which had allowed such pernicious boobies as Lucan and Cardigan to exercise commands.
Orlando Figes's history does not alter our perception of the Crimea, but admirably sets the saga in its international and religious context. Russia was indeed an aggressive tyranny which posed a threat to international stability, but it was hard for a naval power deficient in military strength and skills to do much effective about it within the compass of a limited war.
There are conspicuous parallels between the Crimea and the conflicts of our own times in Iraq and Afghanistan. Just as in 1854-55, popular admiration and support for the ordinary soldiers of Britain and America persist, despite the obloquy heaped on most of the allied leadership, civilian and military. In our modern wars as in the Crimea, though the West faces a real strategic threat, and has some virtue in its cause, it is difficult either to define attainable objectives, or to leverage NATO's military capabilities to achieve them.
Charles Kingsley wrote ruefully in 1855 'Eastward Ho ! has never brought us luck', a sentiment familiar in today's editorial columns. Consider the resonance of Godwin Smith's words, reviewing the Crimean war passages in Maud (M p.126): 'We do not, like the nations of antiquity…literally go to war. We send our hired soldiers to attack a nation which may not be in need of the same regimen as ourselves'. When histories of Bush's wars are written a few years hence, some of their authors will hold up a mirror to the frustrations of Aberdeen and Palmerston.


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Q: Server Error in '/' Application - .ASPX Web Form Application http://cinicraft.com/VB/WebForm1.aspx
I cannot get .aspx pages to work online, they work perfectly fine in offline mode when I'm debugging.
I published my project in Visual Studio 2010 but no matter what I try I am plagued with this parser error.
Could someone explain to me what this means?
Parser Error Message: Could not load type 'Assignment_1_MattAndrzejczuk.WebForm1'.

And why am I getting this?
I've compiled many simple WebForm applications but I can't seem to get them working online. Why can't it load the type? I've been pulling my hair out over this problem all weekend, plz help!

A: Your not giving us a ton to go off, but if I had to guess I'm say you are missing something that was required to deploy your site.  Depending on how you done your deployment I'd imagine your either missing the bin directory or the .vb file that would accompany that .aspx file.

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At the annual summit of Open Management Partnership held in London, Georgia, along with other countries, has as well presented its plan for the further development of the country's transparency, accountability and openness in 2014-2015.
The Minister of Justice of Georgia Tea Tsulukiani has acquainted the quests attending the summit with the Georgia's project. She spoke regarding the availability of public information and further development of its electronic inquiry. Georgia has also presented a legislation for proactive publication of information within the framework of the summit, and the Head of Information for Development of Freedom of Information(IDFI) has been interviewed by Media.Ge with reference to the issue.
What aspects have been discussed at Open Management Partnership London summit?
-"The summit of the Open Management Partnership is held once a year in a country that takes leadership in the open management and is the Head of Secretariat. This year's summit has been held in London, which hosted the governments, NGOs, representatives of academic circles, journalists, experts, etc. of the countries participating in the partnership.
Georgia has been participating in the Open Management Partnership since 2011, and also assumed concrete liabilities in April 2012. It's been the first large-scale meeting since then. At the summarizing meeting of the year, the governments had each presented one initiative, which will be included in the next action plan.
Could you clarify what does the Open Management Partnership itself implies, within the framework of which responsibilities and initiatives are being presented, so that the reader has better understanding of the summit's role?
- The basic issues of Open Management Partnership itself are: enhancement of responsibility, transparency and open management, as well as the development of innovations and joint participation of citizens in the management. Open Management Partnership Consists of governmental and non-governmental sectors. The leading government and the non-governmental Secretariat, which ensures the participation of the civil society, function on the basis of rotation and change every year.
Within the framework of these basic provisions, certain concrete liabilities are then taken. The London summit has been of special importance due to the fact that Georgia has won in the so-called nomination of successful stories, and presented, along with the other 6 finalists, its own successful project dealing with the ensuring of the civil society's participation and implementation of the electronic inquiry system of information.
The law came into force since September 1?
-Yes, the law has been functioning since September 1, and this is one of our accomplishments in Open Management Partnership. I have personally attended the London Summit in the capacity of IDFI Head, as it's IDFI that has nominated that successful project. Open Society Partnership has in turn included our country in the list of the finalists.
In addition, along with the NGO sector, representatives of the Georgian government have as well attended the summit. Those were: the Minister of Justice and representatives of the Analytical Department of the Ministry of Justice. The Chancellery of the Georgian government was represented by the Parliamentary Secretary and Head of the Legal Department. The Georgian Minister of Justice has announced another important project, which will be included in the action plan for 2014. It is a reform of the information freedom legislation and implementation of the Commissioner's Institute of Information Freedom in Georgia. The launch of data.gov.ge website has been yet another important initiative, which will provide open data, governmental information and the option of electronic inquiry of information. A platform for proactive publication of information will be implemented as well.
Apart from the inherent effect of those innovations, what other benefit can Georgia have by fulfilling that responsibility within the framework of Open Management Partnership?
-This is an agreement entirely based on a voluntary initiative, where the governments of the participant counties are engaged in a transparency competition, and share their respective practices with one another. Governmental agencies must in the first place give an account, within the frame of Open Management Partnership, to the society regarding those accomplished or unaccomplished liabilities they have taken.
Does Open Management Partnership imply any sanctions in case the liabilities haven't been fulfilled?
-No, there are no such sanctions. As I've told you, this is an organization united on the voluntary basis, therefore, it doesn't imply any strict measures. It's up to a government whether or not to fulfill certain liabilities. That just reflects on the attitude of the population towards that certain government, as it affects the attitude of the population when a liability taken hasn't been fulfilled. Open Management Partnership is just a competition in open management between the 61 countries currently being the participants of the Partnership. It's notable that their number is expected to grow even more in the future.
You've mentioned the initiative of the Ministry of Justice within the next action plan, and is IDFI itself planning to present news projects?
-We are preparing various recommendations, improve and refine them, as Georgia has to present the new action plan no later than March 2014. We believe, however, that we'll present the plan even sooner. The topic of the freedom of information is just one of those numerous issues we're working on together with the government and other NGOs. IDFI is actively working not only on the development of recommendations, but also on advocating with the government. I want to stress it once more that this summit has been very successful for Georgia. Our country has made substantial bid on the international tribune, and I think it will be even more active in the future in Open Management Partnership.
It's interesting to know the degree of citizens' involvement and awareness regarding new initiatives?
- Not only the society, but also public figures aren't informed for that matter. In this respect we have a project supported by USAID, in which we're trying to increase the level of citizens' awareness and recognizability towards Open Management Partnership. Within the framework of the project we meet and deliver trainings to public figures and various groups of citizens: ethnic minorities, persons with limited capabilities, teachers, students, representatives of NGOs and the media, and try to make that information more available for wide sections of population. Society must know how Open Management Partnership can benefit Georgia. In addition, we as well talk about the benefits of the proactive publication of information, as not many people know how to efficiently take advantage of those liabilities, neither they know where can they obtain such information, get it electronically, etc.


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Why Einstein Equals Musical Comedy Squared
Acclaimed science-theatre writer-performer John Hinton talks about what theatre has to offer science ahead of his new theoretical physics musical comedy ALBERT EINSTEIN: RELATIVITIVELY SPEAKING at the Edinburgh Festival.
John Hinton
Tue 30 Jul 2013 08.21 EDT First published on Tue 30 Jul 2013 08.21 EDT
Where better to explain the flexible nature of the universe than the theatre, where time and space are easily manipulated. Photograph: Ashley Clarke
Plato hated theatre. For him, theatre was at best a distraction from our pursuit of truth, and at worst dangerous and hubristic, since it is a double-distortion of reality: theatre imperfectly imitates life, and life in turn imperfectly imitates the reality that only philosophy can reveal to us.
While there may exist modern forms of entertainment that support Plato's view (e.g. soap operas, which purport to show us real life and instead just serve as a buttress between us and the lives we could be living), I am on a personal crusade to use theatre as a vehicle for getting to the very nub of reality.
I write solo musical comedies about scientists. Over the past four years, I've been touring internationally with my successful self-penned musical comedy about Charles Darwin. This summer at the Edinburgh Fringe I launch its follow-up – a musical comedy about Albert Einstein, called Albert Einstein: Relativitively Speaking – and yes, I have been afflicted with 'difficult-second-album' syndrome - technically known as the "sophomore slump". Ja. Wirklich.
There are many reasons why Einstein is a far harder nut to crack theatrically than Darwin. Firstly, everybody has a firm idea of Einstein's persona. Whether you like it or not, you will be expecting a character portrait which confirms your pre-conceived ideas about the tongue pulling genius with the über-cool moustache. Secondly and perhaps more significantly, the theories of relativity are so much harder to explain and distil into an hour-long piece of theatre than evolution.
Or are they? Einstein stunned the world in 1919 with the news that space and time were no longer constant and absolute, but bendable and relative. And yet, theatre practitioners have been bending space-time for many centuries without anyone batting an eyelid. To paraphrase our friend Will Shakespeare's Henry V, thirty years can fit in an hour, a battlefield can fit into a shoebox, and, should you wish it, an atom can look and sound like a human. Audiences will gladly suspend their disbelief and accept whatever new reality the play offers them.
If I want to make a new generation truly understand the weird and wonderful world that Einstein and others reveal that we live in, then what better medium to do so than a medium that teems with the very traits I'm seeking to expound?
Einstein is famous for his good humour so it was no surprise to find out that one of our peer review team – a lecturer in astrophysics at Sussex University – begins his lectures on Special Relativity with what sounds like a joke: "How do you park a 30-metre long spaceship in a 20-metre long garage?"
Einstein posited the idea that space contracts as you accelerate towards the speed of light, permitting us to observe, to use another analogy, that one gentleman's twelve inches might seem less impressive than his friend's who is standing still. To come to the first gentleman's rescue, since time is dilating as well, his two minutes will definitely feel longer than his stationary counterpart. You can't have you cake and eat it, relativitively speaking.
But I can on stage. As I've searched for ways to explain the science in my show, I've discovered that songs help. And jokes help. And mentioning sex really helps. Getting your facts right also helps which is where a good peer review team comes in. But most importantly I've found, practice what you preach: explain bent time by bending time yourself. And that's what I do in the show.
Oh and, if you were wondering, the answer to lecturer's joke is mathematical. You just have to park your spaceship into the garage at circa 75% of the speed of light. Good brakes essential.
ALBERT EINSTEIN: RELATIVITIVELY SPEAKING runs at Edinburgh's Pleasance Courtyard from 31 July – 26 August at 2.25pm (no show Tuesdays). More information here
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Dean Burnett: Supposedly sensible people have been very angry online recently. What is it that could cause this to happen?
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Monrovia Mayor Koijee Outlines Achievements In 2019
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By Robert Dixon
Monrovia City Mayor Jefferson T. Koijee has disclosed that with the help of reforms instituted at the Monrovia City Corporation (MCC) coupled with improved service delivery, the MCC registered increased revenue generation in 2019.He named some of the reforms as the International Financial Reporting Standards, mainly the International Public Sector Accounting Standards (IPSAS), the MCC was able to enhance reforms in Public Financial Management by expanding the Revenue Section for the establishment of the Revenue Department to increase revenue generation.
He said that the MCC have automated its financial management system through the adoption of SMART ACCOUNT software for easy and timely financial planning, reporting and audits.
His statement was contained in a State of the City Message delivered on the occasion marking the Celebration of Monrovia Day held at the Monrovia City Hall in Sinkor.
Monrovia, formerly called Christopolis, was named in honor of former US President James Monroe, in 1822, about 25 years before the independence of the Republic of Liberia.
He further that they have endeavored to increase the overall budget of the City by 42%, but yet the amount was too inadequate to fund the growing expenditure demand for efficient operation of the city.
According to him, the MCC finally retrieved the advertisement services which was outsourced to a private entity to increase revenue generation and help to ensure the best value for public money
"We restored the allotments of the GoL-World Bank Counterpart Funding for solid waste management operations within the City and its environs,' he noted.
In another development, Koijee pointed out that the MCC ensured and received the donation of three front-end loaders, six dump trucks, six mini- trucks, three (3) skip trucks, one bulldozer, and six tricycles, three pickups to support Solid Waste Management within the City, and three pickups from the World Bank.
The pick-ups are for the use of regional supervisions (North, Central and South) for Solid Waste Management within the City.
He stressed that with the help of the World Bank and the European Union, the MCC constructed 14 water kiosks for residents in When Town, where the existing landfill is located and in Cheesemanburg where the new landfill is being built.
"Habitat for Humanity constructed for us one huge RC garbage bin in the Peace Island Community in Congo Town and donated four tricycles for Community-Based Enterprises (CBEs) operations," he disclosed.
He also said that the Cities Alliance has provided loans and grants in the amount US$500,000 for the empowerment of CBEs in greater Monrovia, and US$1million for community upgrading projects in greater Monrovia.


Are you looking for the best school to study in London? The good news is that there is a bevy of universities in the city that offers specialist or multidisciplinary courses with a flexible schedule. Here are 5 universities in London that you can consider based on the QS World University Rankings for 2013 – 2014.
Ranking 4th in the QS World University Rankings this year, University College London is quite attractive for international students, which represents 1/3 of its student body. This multidisciplinary institute is divided into 10 faculties with campuses conveniently situated in the heart of Central London. The main campus in Gower Street is just a short walk from most of the city's cultural institutions, the party environment of Soho, the entertainment center, and Oxford Street, the well-renowned shopping district.
Always keeping in step with UCL in the rankings, Imperial College London placed 5th this year in the QS Global Top 10. This prestigious science-focused institution highlights the importance of laboratory work to complement teaching and research. Its global appeal is reflected in the high number of international students enrolled in its halls. The main campus is located in South Kensington and is close to attractions like Hyde Park, Royal Albert Hall, Harrods, and several of London's biggest museums.
King's College London (KCL) climbs seven notches to 19th in the world. It excels in a wide range of subjects. KCL has also shown a strong international presence which is complemented by its world-leading academics and a plethora of scholarship opportunities. It has five London campuses, four of which are in Thames, right in the center of London and near famous landmarks.
The only university in the United Kingdom specializing in social sciences, London School of Economics and Political Science lands in 68th position this year. However, it gets a higher ranking in most of the individual subject rankings, which strengthens its stature as the pioneer in subjects such as international relations, politics, sociology, law, and accounting. The international students enrolled in this cosmopolitan university come from more than 150 countries.
Ranked 115th in the world, Queen Mary University of London (QMUL) provides teaching and research across a variety of subjects, such as medicine and dentistry at Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry. From the 17,840 students enrolled in the school, 10% come from EU countries outside the UK and 30% from further afield. A unique feature of QMUL is its 1,176-room Student Village located in the East End area of London.
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Honda NSX - best supercars
The second generation Honda NSX is here, ready to take on the world again with a baffling array of tech
by: Auto Express team
The Honda NSX offers something different to the Porsches, Lamborghinis and Ferraris of the supercar world, thanks largely to its sophisticated powertrain and aluminium underpinnings. The new NSX was born under the rather large shadow cast by its predecessor, but a twin-turbo V6 petrol engine and three electric motors mean it's breathtakingly fast.
It is not without its faults; the options list is a tad on the steep side, it is not the best in class to drive and despite being a hybrid, the economy is disappointing. The high tech powertrain is good for 573bhp and 645Nm, which allows the NSX to reach a top speed of 191mph and 0-62mph time of 2.9 seconds.
• Honda NSX review
Honda claims that the new NSX's aerodynamics are incredibly efficient, thanks in no small part to its dynamic spoilers and flaps. The low slung body and aggressive nose will allow you to attract attention almost anywhere, which, as we all know, is required of a good supercar.
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Burlington Town Mall | The Vermont Political Observer.
The front page, for those not close enough to a library or convenience store to give it an eyeball, features Don Sinex, owner of the Burlington Town Center Mall. Sinex is seeking city approval for a complete makeover of the mall, including two 14-story towers that would be the tallest human-made buildings in the city. Sinex is certainly newsworthy; it's the layout, and all the surrounding circumstances, that illustrate the shortcomings of the Queen City's Newsroom Of The Future.
For starters, there's the fact that the Free Press has been giving this story constant, breathless coverage for quite a while now — interrupted only by its ardent pursuit of Trump-related clickbait. I understand that this is a major story regarding the development of downtown Burlington, and I don't mind quantity coverage with some balance to it. This, however, is giving over the paper's most valuable real estate to Sinex.
This entry was posted in The media and tagged Al Getler, Brandon del Pozo, Burlington Free Press, Burlington Town Mall, corporate synergy, crimes against journalism, Don Sinex, Hamburger Helper journalism, journalistic whoredom on January 12, 2016 by John S. Walters.


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No Work, No Pay For MPs? Will Government Show The Way?
When the Union Minister of State for Civil Aviation "suggested" that Parliamentarians should have their pay docked for disrupting Parliament, it received widespread media attention. But there is a larger question of double-speak here: If salaries or allowances of opposition Parliamentarians can be withheld for not productively contributing to Parliament, then should not the same principle be applied to ministers of the Cabinet?
When the Union Minister of State for Civil Aviation "suggested" that Parliamentarians should have their pay docked for disrupting Parliament, it received widespread media attention. The view has subsequently been endorsed by a young political leader from the ruling party as well, who has justified a pay cut for Parliamentarians who do not productively contribute in Parliament. While it is arguable whether agitating or "placarding" within the premises of the House falls within the scope of democratic duty, there is a larger question of double-speak here: If salaries or allowances of opposition Parliamentarians can be withheld for not productively contributing to Parliament, then should not the same principle be applied to ministers of the Cabinet?
Let us apply a simple, rule-of-thumb test to see how productive the contribution of the Union Government ministers has been of late. An easy assessment tool is to see how Cabinet ministers contribute to Question Hour -- the one hour during which they answer questions from other Members of Parliament. During this year's Budget session of Parliament, the Prime Minister was asked a total of five starred questions (ones which are answered orally) in the Lok Sabha. Of these, he himself answered none. All the responses were given by the minister of state in the Prime Minister's Office Dr Jitender Singh. Likewise, the Union Home Minister was asked 32 starred questions and, he too, answered none, leaving the task to ministers of state.
It is understandable that on the odd occasion or for an emergent reason, the minister of state could have been called to stand in for the Cabinet minister. But, having answered none of the questions put forth by fellow Parliamentarians in the entire session, can the senior-most ministers of the Government convince us that they have contributed productively to the functioning of Parliament? In contrast, the United Kingdom Parliament has an hour each week where the Prime Minister responds directly to questions raised by Parliamentarians.
"During this year's Budget session of Parliament, the Prime Minister was asked a total of five starred questions in the Lok Sabha. Of these, he himself answered none."
Fortunately for the Government, Question Hour is not the be-all and end-all of Parliamentary procedure. Unfortunately, their record in other aspects is shoddy as well.
Take for instance, during the previous session, the Government's statement on the attempted suicides by four athletes in Sports Authority of India complex. After initial reluctance, the Government gave in to opposition pressure and agreed to give a statement on the issue. On the day the statement was scheduled to be made in Rajya Sabha, the minister in-charge of Youth Affairs and Sports did not turn up and his statement was given by the minister for Skill Development. On another occasion, a discussion on the Ministry of Women and Child Development in Rajya Sabha had begun in August 2014. The reply to the discussion, given by the Cabinet Minister Maneka Gandhi was delivered in the same House after seven months and skipping an entire session of Parliament in November-December 2014. Even when "Matters of Urgent Public Importance" are raised in Parliament by MPs, the replies on any action taken take a not-so-urgent three months on average.
But then, didn't the previous Government(s) have flaws similar to what has been pointed out here? Certainly. What we must do to improve the Parliamentary system as a whole, and to make the Government and Parliamentarians more accountable to Parliament, calls for a much deeper, separate analysis. For now, what is clear is that the Government's argument on contributing productively to Parliament must start with its own ministers.


I am a little obsessed with Twitter birdie icons right now and I don't know why. Although I have come across quite a few nice ones recently, I have not selected ONE for my blog. I do have a Twitter widget on my other blog already but would like to add a Twitter "Follow Me" icon too but all these cute icons have made me confused and indecisive!
This morning, I found yet another set of cute Twitter icons. This one has six icons, slightly different from the Twitter bird that we are so familiar with already. Do you think that looking at these bird icons, people will realize that these would point to my Twitter account? Anyway, these six Twitter icons are in a .PSD file. How does one use these icons? Do I crop them from the .PSD file or what? I am so blur.
This entry was posted in Freebies and tagged cute icons, cute Twitter icon, free Twitter icon, Twitter, Twitter bird, Twitter icon, Twitter icons on December 10, 2009 by Cyberpartygal.


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