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The Palm PDA as pioneer e-book reader, and Ernest Shackleton, and war
Before the Kindle, Nook, and iPad, there was the Palm
I got my Palm some years ago, to help out my fibromyalgia-diminished memory. It was like a proto-tablet, on which I could take notes, write, outline, draw and paint well enough to illustrate notes, and keep a calendar and to-do list. There were all sorts of games for it, and apps to change the look of the interface. The one feature I thought I'd never use was the ability to read entire books on that tiny screen.
But it came loaded with a mystery by a popular author and, compulsive reader that I am, I took a look at it and found it quite easy to read. Fonts and font size were adjustable and later I got a third-party app that enabled me to change the background color to one my eyes found more comfortable. I've been reading on my Palm ever since.
It's a small device, about the size of a pack of cards, and with an upgraded memory card it can easily hold 50 or 75 books in addition to all the other stuff. iSiloX, companion app to one of the readers, would convert text files to Palm format (.pdb), so all of Project Gutenberg was mine.
Like most people, I don't find it pleasant to read text continuously on the computer screen for an hour, and I would never have printed out these copyright-free books, but to have them available to read any time I wanted on the Palm—that worked for me. Is it easier to concentrate my visual attention on the small screen than on the large one? I don't know what the reason is, but reading the Palm is more comfortable for long periods whether by daylight or in a dark room.
Some of what I've been reading in the wee hours
Although I've bought a few e-books and issues of sf magazines for the Palm, mostly I have read my way through free downloads, 19th and early 20th C. works from Jack London's social fiction and reflections on his own alcoholism, to Virginia Woolf's Common Reader essays. I've found several good reads among women writers including novels like Wives and Daughters (1865), and North and South (1854), by Elizabeth Gaskell, and excellent short stories by Edith Wharton, Willa Cather, Mary Austin, and Katherine Mansfield. The Woman Who Did (1895) by Grant Allen, is about a "New Woman" who dared to live her life as she wished, having an affair but refusing to marry the man, raising the child, with tragic results. Then there's the wide range of popular adventure fiction, of which I've enjoyed works by such out-of-fashion writers as H. Rider Haggard, P. C. Wren, and Ouida, with titles like The Snake and the Sword, and Under Two Flags (both stories of the French Foreign Legion). All these have been enjoyable to read in themselves, and of course provide fascinating windows into life and attitudes, with the same sort of caveats that attach to judging our times by our popular fiction.
I've got some familiar big-C Classics on the Palm too, like Fagles's recent translation of the Odyssey (a purchased e-book, I have it in print as well), Northanger Abbey and Tom Jones (haven't been able to finish either one of these), a couple of Anthony Trollope novels (more readable, enjoyed The Warden), and a bunch of poetry. There's a goodly selection of older sf to be found online as text files, and even some new sf books that have been made freely available by authors such as Cory Doctorow.
Views of Antarctic heroism, and of the world before ours
Just now my 2 am reading is Sir Ernest Shackleton's South, his account of the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition (1914–17)—often known as the "ill-fated" Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition. Their sturdy ship was trapped in pack ice for nearly a year, then crushed by the movement of the ice; the men lived on ice floes for some time since the current was taking them closer to land, but when the floes broke up under their feet, they took to 3 small open boats…and on it goes. The privation endured, the courage and resourcefulness shown, are astonishing. One aspect of human beings at their best.
Replica of one of the expedition's open boats, among pack ice.
And here too, are found glimpses of how differently some things were perceived.
Shackleton's ship the Endurance left England just after the outbreak of what was to become World War I; at the time many thought it would be over by Christmas. I just read the part where Shackleton and a few companions reach South Georgia Island, having left the rest of the company slowly starving on Elephant Island, while they cross 800 miles of ocean in a small boat in order to send back a rescue ship. They are forced to land on the opposite side of the island from Stromness Whaling Station, and Shackleton takes the two fittest men on a 36-hour trek over glaciers and rocky peaks, without a map, to reach "civilization".
The first thing Shackleton says to the whaling station manager, after introducing himself, is "Tell me, when was the war over?" It is May, 1916, and he cannot conceive that the war might still continue. The manager replies, "The war is not over. Millions are being killed. Europe is mad. The world is mad." Later, after arranging for the other two men on South Georgia to be picked up, Shackleton and a companion hear details of the war. "We were like men arisen from the dead to a world gone mad," he says.
I've often read of how shocked and demoralized people of the time were by this unprecedented industrialized war that dragged on and on, by the use of poison gas, machine guns, long-range artillery, and planes, and by battles such as the Somme, in which over one million men (on both sides) were killed, wounded, or taken prisoner, over a 4 and 1/2 month period. British casualties on the Somme (in these same three categories) were 80% during that time; by November, 80% of the original men in a division were gone save for those lightly wounded who returned. The total advance of the Allied lines was 8 miles.
But this scene, in which men in such an isolated and inhospitable place learn all at once of the war, has a different imaginative impact. After all, the late 20th-century reader may be appalled by the Somme, but knows already of things as bad or worse: the Holocaust, Rwanda, visions of nuclear war. To imagine Shackleton learning about his time's Great War suddenly, in one conversation, is to experience a little of how it was for those of his time.
Many well-educated young men with literary leanings joined up in 1914, and some of them wrote poetry while in camps and trenches. The early World War I poetry is of a high idealistic tenor probably not equalled by any war poetry since, because that war changed reality for everyone then and since. Never again, I hope, can anyone write something like this, about dead soldiers:
Blow out, you bugles, over the rich Dead!
There's none of these so lonely and poor of old,
But, dying, has made us rarer gifts than gold.
These laid the world away; poured out the red
Sweet wine of youth; gave up the years to be
Of work and joy, and that unhoped serene,
That men call age; and those who would have been,
Their sons, they gave, their immortality.
First stanza of 1914 III: The Dead by Rupert Brooke.
As I recall, Brooke died just as his attitude toward the war began to shift from public-school "play the game" patriotism to something more hopeless and grim. But many another British war-poet showed this change of reality that took place for his generation and those to come, including us. Things were never the same. Though it is long, I'll reprint here one such poem:
Bent double, like old beggars under sacks,
Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge,
Till on the haunting flares we turned our backs,
And towards our distant rest began to trudge.
Men marched asleep. Many had lost their boots,
But limped on, blood-shod. All went lame, all blind;
Drunk with fatigue; deaf even to the hoots
Of gas-shells dropping softly behind.
Gas! GAS! Quick, boys! — An ecstasy of fumbling
Fitting the clumsy helmets just in time,
But someone still was yelling out and stumbling
And flound'ring like a man in fire or lime. —
Dim through the misty panes and thick green light,
As under a green sea, I saw him drowning.
In all my dreams before my helpless sight
He plunges at me, guttering, choking, drowning.
If in some smothering dreams, you too could pace
Behind the wagon that we flung him in,
And watch the white eyes writhing in his face,
His hanging face, like a devil's sick of sin,
If you could hear, at every jolt, the blood
Come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs
Bitter as the cud
Of vile, incurable sores on innocent tongues, —
My friend, you would not tell with such high zest
To children ardent for some desperate glory,
The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est
Pro patria mori.
The poem is Dulce et Decorum est, by Wilfred Owen, written in 1915.
Dulce et decorum est, pro patria mori (Latin) means "It's sweet and fitting to die for one's country". This famous quotation from Horace would have been extremely familiar to public-school boys, in that time when education always included the Latin language and literature as well as some indoctrination about the Empire. In 1913, the first line, Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori, was inscribed on the wall of the chapel of the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst (Wikipedia), and the text and the sentiment were used to encourage enlistment and support of the war.
Indeed, Ernest Shackleton and his men (not one perished, incredibly) did emerge from the ice-bound wilderness "like men arisen from the dead" into a world forever changed.
Detail from John Singer Sargent, Gassed (1918). This painting hangs in the Imperial War Museum in London; the canvas is over seven feet high and twenty feet long. It depicts soldiers blinded by gas being led in lines back to the hospital tents and the dressing stations; the men lie on the ground all about the tents waiting for treatment. (Source)
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More about hydraulic mining, including some corrections
Posted on Friday, September 17, 2010 by nosleepingdog
In an earlier post, about a walk along the Gin LinTrail, an area still scarred by hydraulic mining, I made errors that have been pointed out to me by a commenter on that post. I've made brief corrections to parts of my text in the original post, but will sort things out at more length here. On a couple of points, one trivial and the other important, I do differ with the commenter.
One error arose from my ignorance of the geological nature of the area where the hydraulic mining was done and the source of the gold. The commenter's reference to Tertiary gravel deposits being the location of the gold was new to me, so I looked it up and learned a lot about the Northern California (and, I assume, extreme southern Oregon) hydraulic gold-mining industry.
The gold mined by hydraulic mining in Northern California was found accumulated in ancient "riverbed deposits, now elevated above modern rivers". These deposits are 40 million years old, or older. So the hydraulickers, as they were sometimes called, were following a very old plane of deposited material across a large area which has since been raised, and also cut into, by modern geological forces such as uplift and water flow. The map below, from the UCSB Dept. of Geography, shows the location of those ancient rivers and their modern counterparts in one region of Northern California.
"Pay streaks", some ado about a phrase
With regard to the term "pay streaks", of which the commenter said "A pay streak is a modern term used to describe a gold deposit that has formed in an existing waterway", this term does in fact date back to the days of hydraulic mining and was used as I used it. For example, here is a passage from Hydraulic and placer mining by Eugene Benjamin Wilson (Wiley, 1918), page 8 (Google Books):
It is easy to see how confusion may have arisen about this term's early use, because of the change in meaning of another word: "placer". Like other writers of his time and before, Wilson's definition of "placer" is much more inclusive than what seems to be common usage today. We think of placer as meaning something deposited recently (in geological terms)
But Wilson and others of his era used it to refer not only to deposits in current rivers, but also to those made millions of years ago on riverbeds now under many feet of overburden.
(above, from Wilson page 11; below, from page 9) and
His use of the the term "pay streaks" is in the half of his book about placer mining. For him, hydraulic mining is a method and placer describes a type of gold deposit including both recent and ancient riverbeds.
(Wilson, page 152)
Another authoritative writer, Waldemar Lindgren, used "placer" in the same way (and "pay streak" also). In 1911 the U.S. Geological Survey published his opus, The Tertiary Gravels of the Sierra Nevada of California, as no. 73 in its series of Professional Papers. He says,
The occurrence of gold in paying quantities in the Tertiary gravels of the Sierra Nevada is limited almost entirely to the gravels in which quartz and metamorphic rocks form the principal components. …
DISTRIBUTION OF THE GOLD IN THE GRAVELS
It has become almost an axiom among miners that the gold is concentrated on the bedrock and all efforts in placer mining are generally directed toward finding the bedrock in order to pursue mining operations there. It is well known to all drift miners, however, that the gold is not equally distributed on the bedrock in the channels. The richest part forms a streak of irregular width referred to in the English colonies as the "run of gold" and in the United States as the "pay streak" or "pay lead."
(Lindgren, p. 65-66)
Environmental effects of hydraulic mining
I blamed hydraulic mining for the unvegetated areas we saw along the Gin Lin Trail. The commenter blamed it upon poor soil in the areas of these ancient rivers, which he said was typical and something he has often observed. He said, "the deeper they were worked, the better the vegetation has recovered".
The best description I found, in researching the revegetation of hydraulic mining sites, was this by Randall Rohe:
(Source: Green versus gold: sources in California's environmental history, by Carolyn Merchant. From the chapter by Randall Rohe, "Mining's Impact on the land", p. 128. Google books.)
So, all things being equal, the bottoms of hydraulic mining pits are most likely to revegetate quickly, while the slopes may remain bare for decades or centuries. However in some places the mining may result in contaminating the pit-bottom with minerals that are toxic to plants, such as seems to be the case here.
The photo above shows a pool of water devoid of any plants in or around it other than algae, in the area of the Malakoff Diggins—California's largest hydraulic mine. (Source. Following photos are also of Malakoff Diggins.)
Minerals exposed by hydraulic mining can leach out and, if toxic, make plant growth impossible. Here is a view of what appears to be an exposed peak of some mineral:
The steep slopes in themselves, of course, also resist plant growth.
As far as the differences in soil quality, comparing ground above the ancient riverbeds (which would probably be what's on the top area of the cliffs shown) versus that exposed by water cannons like this
who can say? Are the bottoms of mining pits often more lushly vegetated because water collects there (as long as no toxic minerals accumulate)? Do different species, of different habits, grow in the pits as opposed to at the tops, and so growth appears different? My guess would be that it varies greatly according to specific location. Perhaps someone can point me to comparative photos or soil studies.
For the people downstream of these mines, the major consideration was what it did to their own locale. All the material washed away by the powerful streams of water—strong enough to hold a fifty-pound boulder in the air—went downstream sooner or later. Often the debris included boulders, cobbles, gravel, as well as finer material.
"The historian Hubert Howe Bancroft stated that an eight-inch Monitor [patented nozzle] could throw 185,000 cubic feet of water in an hour with a velocity of 150 feet per second." (Source)
"A conservative estimate places the amount of debris dumped into tributaries of the Sacramento at 1.3 billion cubic yards." (p. 132, article by Rohe in Green versus Gold previously cited). The total amount of material removed to build the Panama Canal (including both the French and the American work) was 268,000,000 cubic yards: only one-fifth the amount that was sent down the tributaries of the Sacramento.
The massive volume of debris that resulted from hydraulic mining clogged streams and rivers from the foothill outlets to the mouth of San Francisco Bay, obstructing navigable rivers and reducing their ability to carry flood waters. The lighter silt and sands, the "slickins", spread over the river-side farms of the Sacramento Valley and ruined many farmers. These downstream impacts of the industry eventually brought on a series of local, then federal, lawsuits, and a series of debates in the California Legislature on how (or if) the problem would be solved. The end of debate came in 1884, when federal circuit judge Lorenzo Sawyer issued an injunction against the industry discharging its debris.
Many of the streams are turned out of their original channels, either directly for mining purposes, or in consequence of the great masses of soil and gravel that come down from the gold-washing above. Thousands of acres of fine land along their banks are ruined forever by the deposits of this character. A farmer may have his whole estate turned into a barren waste by a flood of sand and gravel from some hydraulic mining up stream; more, if a fine orchard or garden stands in the way of the working of a rich gulch or bank, orchard or garden must go. Then the tornout, dug- out, washed to pieces and then washed over side- hills, masses that have been or are being subjected to the hydraulics of the miners, are the very devil's chaos indeed. The country is full of them among the mining districts of the Sierra Nevada, and they are truly a terrible blot upon the face of Nature. (Samuel Bowles, 1868.
It raised the level of rivers in some cases above the level of nearby towns, changed river-courses, silted up fish spawning gravels, reduced open water areas and increased tidal flats in San Francisco Bay and environs, and led to increasingly serious floods.
An invisible hazard accompanied the debris and silt-laden water: mercury. The gold-bearing material was sent down thousands of feet of sluices which were lined with mercury in order to snag particles of gold as they tumbled through. Mercury is very persistent in the environment. An estimated 2500 – 10,000 metric tons (2755 to 11,000 tons) entered the Bay. "Currently San Francisco Bay is listed under Clean Water Act Section 303(d) as impaired for mercury contamination, and many Bay-caught sport fish exceed the EPA human health criterion of 0.3 mg methylmercury/kg fish tissue" (Source). About 261 million cubic yards of sediment still remain in the northern part of San Francisco Bay.
I went past the subject of the original commentator's remarks (about seeing better vegetation in the bottoms of mining pits than on the presumably undisturbed top ground), to recapitulate some of the horrors of hydraulic mining, and that was not so I could bash him with matters not part of our differences, but because we must still fight against similarly great environmental damage from other mining practices. Strip mining, destruction of mountain tops, chemical "fracking" of strata to get at natural gas deposits, the list goes on and on.
Close to home, hydraulic mining's little brother has come to visit. The recent moratorium on dredging in California has sent hundreds of miners with gas-powered dredges up to Southern Oregon, to suck up the banks and bottoms of streams in a small scale version of hydraulic mining. Small scale, but then our rivers and creeks are smaller too. The damage to the "stream banks and nursery gravels", as one local gold panner wrote, is severe. "If you did a bio-survey of say, one cubic foot of stream gravel passed through a internal combustion driven pump, the numbers of ruptured organisms and caddis-fly eggs, water-beetle eggs, dragonfly larva, newt and salamander eggs would stagger one's imagination. Just check a sluiced site for life forms sometime; see if you can find any. …The dredger's assertion that their comparative damage is lesser than that of the major extractors doesn't mitigate their injury." (Pers. comm., Dan Barker, 2010).
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Siskiyou wild plants: horsetail, chokecherry and yarrow, and a detour into the Iliad
Posted on Friday, June 18, 2010 by nosleepingdog
Today I'll start with a genus of plants that is a bit different: it's a "living fossil" from the Devonian (405 million to 345 million years ago, age of fishes and appearance of amphibians) when some specimens topped 90 feet (30 meters), it does not flower, and it's found on every continent except Australia and Antarctica. And, people both cook it and use it to scour pots. This is the genus Equisetum, commonly called horsetail. It's a lover of wet places and we found it at the edge of a creek.
Above are both stages of growth side by side: the jointed stem somewhat like bamboo, which I plucked from a slope next to the creek, and a smaller stem that has already "leafed out" in radial whorls of needle-like leaves. This picture from Wikipedia shows the leaf whorls well.
The unleafed stems were beautifully colored,
and hollow.
The stems are said to be "anatomically […] unique among plants".
This beautiful microphotograph is of a stained cross-section of stem.
Equisetum species grow from underground rhizomes that are extremely persistent and invasive; think twice before deciding it is the perfect plant for that boggy spot in your yard, because it is likely to be there (and maybe other places too) forever. They've been used for all sorts of purposes through history. Many a camper and wildland dweller has scoured pots with the stems, which have a lot of silica in them, and they are "still boiled and then dried in Japan, to be used for the final polishing process on woodcraft to produce a smoother finish than any sandpaper." The leaves are used as a dye for a soft green color. The young shoots are eaten but require special treatment because they contain the enzyme thiaminase[172], a substance that can rob the body of the vitamin B complex.
In addition to spreading locally via rhizomes, Equisetum produces spores on terminal cones, shown below.
Photo source.
There are several species found in Oregon, and I think the one we saw and photographed is Equisetum hyemale but I'm not sure. Equisetum, by the way, means "horse-bristle", as in "scrub-brush", and hyemale is from hiemis, "winter" (both terms from the Latin). Other common names include scouring rush, pipes (children play with them, as the hollow segments can be taken apart and put back together), and scrub grass.
Downstream from the equisetum, back on the road, we saw next to the narrow concrete bridge a small tree growing in the water
and laden with tresses of white blooms.
This is choke cherry (Prunus virginiana), a species of "bird cherry". Fruits are small and sour but very high in antioxidant pigment compounds, like anthocyanins. With a lot of added sugar, they are used to make wines, syrups, jellies, and jams.
Yarrow cultivars are familiar garden plants. Here is the ancestor of those, Achillea millefolium or common yarrow. It's found throughout the Northern Hemisphere, even in the Himalayas.
A closer view of the flowers.
The leaves are distinctive, giving rise to the common name plumajillo, or "little feather" in Spanish-speaking New Mexico and southern Colorado, and to the millefolium (thousand-leaf) in its scientific name.
It's called Achillea after Achilles, Homer's hero in the Iliad, who was well-trained in healing wounds as well as in causing them. Yarrow has been used for thousands of years to staunch the flow of blood and for other medical purposes, and among its common names are "herbal militaris" or soldier's herb, nosebleed plant, and soldier's woundwort. But there doesn't seem to be any peer-reviewed research into compounds in the plant that may have medicinal properties. One site I visited, planetbotanic.ca, promoted it as an immune stimulant to ward off colds. But then the site's "fact sheet" also tells us that "Yarrow's scientific name hints of a legendary use. Achilles' famous heel is said to have been healed when yarrow was applied to it." Other than the words "Achilles" and "heel", everything in this sentence is wrong: Achilles's mother held her infant by the heel while dipping him in the River Styx to confer invincibility upon him. The water did not touch that part of his body, and eventually the warrior who had survived many wounds was killed by an arrow to the heel, from the bow of Paris.
Achilles bandaging the wounded Patroclus. From a Greek vase painting. Source.
Paris was not much of a fighter. He mostly stayed with the women and old men observing the ten years' war from the heights of Troy's great battlements, so it's ironic that his blow (even if delivered from a distance) should kill the otherwise invincible champion of combat, Achilles.
Achilles in battle. Source.
Homer doesn't include the death of Achilles in the Iliad; he ends with a final consequence of Achilles's wounded pride, fit of rage and refusal to fight, when his friend Patroclus goes out wearing the great warrior's armor to drive back the attacking Trojans. Patroclus and the Greeks carried the day, indeed seemed about to breach the walls of Troy, but the god Apollo intervened, striking Patroclus so as to daze him, sending his borrowed helmet spinning in the dust; one Trojan wounded him from behind and then Hector, Prince of Troy, delivered the fatal blow. When word of this reached Achilles he put aside his pride under force of a greater rage, and went after Hector like a lioness whose cub's been killed.
All is not the clashing of bronze and shedding of blood in the Iliad. This is a famously tender moment, famously sad as well, one that is familiar to too many soldier parents.
"And tall Hector nodded, his helmet flashing:
… shining Hector reached down for his son—but the boy recoiled,
… screaming out at the sight of his own father,
terrified by the flashing bronze, the horsehair crest,
the great ridge of the helmet nodding, bristling terror—
so it struck his eyes. And his loving father laughed,
his mother laughed as well, and glorious Hector,
quickly lifting the helmet from his head,
set it down on the ground, fiery in the sunlight,
and raising his son he kissed him, tossed him in his arms…"
Iliad Bk. 6: 556-56, in the very readable translation by Robert Fagles. Source.
The Iliad ends with Hector's father King Priam of Troy humbly seeking his son's body for burial. In his boundless desire for vengeance upon his friend's killer, Achilles has been dragging the body behind his chariot, around and around the city. Yet when the old man, escorted through the enemy lines by a disguised Mercury, kneels before Achilles, kisses his hands, and implores his son's killer to think of his own faraway father and give up Hector's body, Achilles weeps with Priam, and relents.
All that was about 1250 BC, yet reading the Iliad we find characters and feelings that match those we can see around us still. The immense destructive power of rage and wounded pride are as great now as then. And the history of the humble yarrow also connects us to people like Achilles and Hector; their eyes saw these flowers, crushed these leaves to keep with them against the likelihood of wound from sword or spear.
Troy, level VI, defensive walls, as excavated by Schliemann. This level is about a hundred years earlier than that believed to have been the city destroyed by war in the Iliad, about 1250 BC. Source.
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require File.expand_path("../../Homebrew/emacs_formula", __FILE__)

class Robe < EmacsFormula
  desc "Navigation, documentation lookup and completion for Ruby"
  homepage "https://github.com/dgutov/robe"
  url "https://github.com/dgutov/robe/archive/0.8.1.tar.gz"
  sha256 "790d201cc8aa7c95aaf9ca10b322c3c8944ffebd9e4045c047487297922fe4ee"
  head "https://github.com/dgutov/robe.git"

  depends_on EmacsRequirement => "24.4"
  depends_on "ruby" => :recommended if MacOS.version <= :mountain_lion
  depends_on "dunn/emacs/inf-ruby"

  def install
    ert_run_tests "ert/core-tests.el"

    byte_compile "robe.el", "ac-robe.el", "company-robe.el"
    elisp.install "robe.el", "ac-robe.el", "company-robe.el",
                  "robe.elc", "ac-robe.elc", "company-robe.elc",
                  "lib"
  end

  test do
    (testpath/"test.el").write <<~EOS
      (add-to-list 'load-path "#{elisp}")
      (add-to-list 'load-path "#{Formula["inf-ruby"].opt_elisp}")
      (load "robe")
      (print (minibuffer-prompt-width))
    EOS
    assert_equal "0", shell_output("emacs -Q --batch -l #{testpath}/test.el").strip
  end
end

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Baron Dorchester was a title that was created twice in British history, once in the Peerage of Great Britain and once in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. The first creation came in the Peerage of Great Britain on 21 August 1786 when the soldier and administrator Sir Guy Carleton was made Lord Dorchester, Baron of Dorchester, in the County of Oxford. He was succeeded by his grandson, the second Baron. He was the only son of the Hon. Christopher Carleton, third son of the first Baron. The second Baron died unmarried at an early age and was succeeded by his first cousin, the third Baron. He was the only son of the Hon. George Carleton, fourth son of the first Baron. He had no sons and was succeeded by his first cousin, the fourth Baron. He was the only son of the Reverend and Hon. Richard Carleton, seventh son of the first Baron. The fourth Baron was a Colonel in the Coldstream Guards. He was childless, and the title became extinct upon his death on 30 November 1897.

The title was revived on 2 August 1899 when the Honourable Henrietta Anne Carleton was made Baroness Dorchester, of Dorchester, in the County of Oxford, in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. She was the elder daughter of the third Baron of the first creation. She was the wife of, firstly, Francis Paynton Pigott and, secondly, of Major-General Richard Langford Leir. In 1899, she assumed by Royal licence the surname of Carleton. She was succeeded by her son from her first marriage, the second Baron. He was a soldier and fought in the Second Boer War and the First World War. He had two daughters but no sons, and on his death in 1963, the title became extinct for the second time.

As indicated by the territorial designations, the titles referred to Dorchester in Oxfordshire (also known as Dorchester-on-Thames) and not to the more famous Dorchester, county town of Dorset.

Barons Dorchester; first creation (1786)
Guy Carleton, 1st Baron Dorchester (1724–1808)
The Hon. Christopher Carleton (1775–1806)
Arthur Henry Carleton, 2nd Baron Dorchester (1805–1826)
Guy Carleton, 3rd Baron Dorchester (1811–1875)
Dudley Wilmot Carleton, 4th Baron Dorchester (1822–1897)

Barons Dorchester; second creation (1899)
Henrietta Anne Carleton, 1st Baroness Dorchester  (1846–1925)
Dudley Massey Pigott Carleton, 2nd Baron Dorchester (1876–1963)

Family tree

See also
Marquess of Dorchester
Earl of Dorchester
Viscount Dorchester

References

Attribution

External links

Extinct baronies in the Peerage of Great Britain
Extinct baronies in the Peerage of the United Kingdom
Noble titles created in 1786
Noble titles created in 1899

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Sea Snakes
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About Narwhal :
Narwhal (Monodon monoceros), are the medium-sized whale found in the Arctic Ocean. It has a small rounded head and the most distinctive feature, which is its long tusk. Moreover, its long tusk is very sensitive, which helps them to catch prey and also to protect themselves. These tusks may grow up to a size of 9 feet. Their tusk grows in a clockwise direction. It is the unicorn of the sea as it has a tusk like the unicorn horse. Narwhals can grow up to a size of about 16 feet and can weigh up to 1.8 tonnes. The female of these species is quite smaller than the male and grow up to a size of about 13 feet. They have bluish-gray skin with white blotches on it. They have thick blubber, which retains heat. They are deep divers and can dive up to 4921 feet.
Narwhal Fast Facts :
Some of the fast and interesting facts about the narwhal are as follows:
Narwhal Habitat and Behavior :
These narwhal whales live in icy conditions. They are found in the icy water of the Arctic seas. They are very rarely found away from these icy conditions. They have a special characteristic that they perform deep dives. They dive up to a depth of 4921 feet and this diving is performed by them 15 times a day.
Reproduction and Breeding :
The narwhal whales reach maturity at the age between (4 to 9) years. The males get matured between (8-9) years of age and the females reach maturity at the age of (4-7) years. The gestation period in these species is about 15 months. They give birth to a calf every 3 years. The size of the calf measures 5 feet and it weighs up to 180 pounds at birth. The mating of the narwhal whales usually occur in the month of April.
Narwhal Feeding :
They most probably feed in deep bays and inlets. Here, they find Arctic squid, cod, flatfish, pelagic shrimp, cephalopods, etc. very easily. In the early days, it was thought that these whales use their tusk in search of food, but it is not true. These tusks help them most probably in mating conditions.
Narwhal Sounds :
The Narwhal whales make a wide variation of whistles and clicks. The amplitude of the clicks they produce ranges from 19 kHz to 48 kHz. The rate of the clicks vary from (3-150) clicks per second and the amplitude of the whistle ranges from 300 Hz to 18 Hz.
Narwhal Conservation :
Polar bear and orcas are the only predators of the Narwhal whales besides human beings. They are hunted by polar bear and orcas for their flesh. But they are hunted by the human beings mostly for their ivory tusks. Their ivory tusks are very expensive. They are also hunted because their meat is rich in vitamins and minerals. The government has banned on the sale of the Narwhal tusks. The step was taken because if the hunting of the Narwhal fish is not stopped then it will make them extinct from the

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In Bloggers on Tuesday 7th May, 2019
'I want to stretch my limits after 60 by learning new skills'
Written byDebra Trayler
Deb wanted to learn to play the piano, but the first lesson had her off key. Source: Getty Images
I'm about to embark on tutoring a 'knitting for beginners' class at the Mornington U3A (University of the Third Age)! I've been really looking forward to it. I ran one successfully in 2018 and had requests to do another, but as we were heading into spring and summer the timing wasn't quite right.
Recently I ran through any changes to housekeeping (attendance rolls, fire drill and evacuation point, office admin and photocopying etc.) and this year I've gained two extra students maxing out to 10, plus a waiting list! It's all very exciting!
However, I've not only fulfilled the role of tutor, but I am also a U3A student. It was only recently that I had my first ever piano lesson. I'll admit to feeling a bit peeved at the timing — scheduled at the same time as my tai chi class, which I'm enjoying, but I put in an apology and headed over to the music room with great expectation.
The class was limited to six people so I thought that boded well — lots of time for individual attention. I somehow pictured in my head six keyboards with us newbies plonking as the tutor explained about middle C or something, but that could not have been further from the truth.
A row of chairs around the wall. One upright piano. One Hammond organ. A whiteboard. That's it.
Eight of us sat around introducing ourselves and our musical accomplishments, which in my case was nil. I learned that five students had studied piano as children, even took exams and became graded, but over the years hadn't touched a keyboard. We three rank novices sighed. This was going to be long and arduous.
After one hour of the two-hour class, no one had touched a note. It was all theory, staff/stave, time signature, the names of the notes and their beats, a very boring dissertation of how music has changed over the centuries — from baroque to rap … And then the tutor played octaves, mentioned sharps and flats, diminished something-or-others and belted out a teeth-grinding version of 'Up Up and Away'!
That was my exit tune! I excused myself from further classes and dashed over to tai chi just in time to catch the 5-minute cool down.
Deb has a love of knitting and the piano, skills she hoped to advance at the local U3A. Source: Deb Trayler
Aside from whipping up some expert yarn-bombing (see photo), I shall ponder the next step in my efforts to conquer the keyboard at no cost. YouTube is looking good!
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Q: Why does ground contact change whether or not an object will rotate/move Abstract: Imagine you are in space with a wheel, and you give it a spin, it should stay in the space place rotating about its center of mass.  (Correct me if I am wrong please!)  While you are in space, you push a different wheel (along the same vector as the radius) and it moves forward, but it does not spin. Now you are on Earth with both wheels and you give one a spin, the wheel rotates and it moves forward, and the other a push, and it rotates and moves forward.
From my limited understanding of physics, the forces being applied to the wheel on the ground would be gravity, normal force, friction and the angular/linear force you apply to it.  Why in space does it spin and not move, or move and not spin, but when in contact with the ground, it spins and moves?  Is there a force in play that I have not listed?  Also, how do you calculate the linear and angular velocities of the wheels spun and pushed on the ground (And how does the angle of the surface play into this)?

A: Correct me if I am wrong please! - not a correction but a clarification?
In space there are two possibilities in terms of spinning the wheel.
The first is that you hold on to the axle of the wheel and spin the wheel.
You will spin in the opposite direction.
The centre of mass of the wheel and yourself will not move.
This is illustrated in this video where the direction of spin of wheel (its angular momentum) is changed and the person standing on a "friction free" rotating platform rotates in the opposite direction to conserve angular momentum.
If instead of holding on to the wheel you gave the wheel a push with a line of action not through the centre of mass of the wheel then the wheel will rotate but also the wheel will have a linear velocity ie move way from you in a straight line at constant speed.  You will move off in the opposite direction both in terms of your linear velocity but also in terms of your direction of spin.
On the Earth there are extra forces which are acting which modify what happens to the wheel when you push it.

A: You have named all the forces but you have not considered how they affect the motion of the wheel.
In space the wheel keeps spinning in one place or moves in a straight line because of inertia (Newton's 1st Law). When pushed it moves in that direction. When pushed in 2 opposing directions it spins about a point.
When the spinning wheel is placed in contact with the ground, there is a net force on it : the friction force from the ground. Initially the wheel slips against the ground. The friction force slows the rotation and also pushes the wheel forward, accelerating it until the slipping stops. Then the centre has velocity $v=R\omega$ where $R$ is the wheel radius and $\omega$ is the angular velocity of rotation (radians per second).
See :
Which force makes a wheel roll down the hill? What causes friction?
Force applied to wheel in pure rolling motion at contact point with road

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Britain's political storm
Boris goes
The revolt gathers against Theresa May's Brexit plans
This piece is being updated in light of new developments
6pm, London
HAVING kept suspiciously quiet all morning Boris Johnson, the foreign secretary, confirmed the rumours whirring around Westminster and resigned in the afternoon on July 9th. He follows David Davis as the second minister to resign from Theresa May's cabinet over the Brexit agreement hammered out on July 6th at Chequers, Mrs May's official country residence. David Davis's deputy, Steve Baker, has also resigned from the Department for Exiting the European Union.
Mr Johnson was the most visible and probably most effective leader of the Brexiteers during the EU referendum campaign in 2016. Even before his resignation he had let it be known that he was deeply unhappy about the Chequers agreement, reportedly comparing it to "polishing a turd". Like Mr Davis, he has been unenthusiastic about the government's softening on Brexit for some time. He has long harboured ambitions to lead the Conservative Party, and may have calculated that if there is to be a leadership challenge against Mrs May, this is his last chance to claim the throne.
Immediately after Mr Johnson's resignation, Mrs May was forced to defend her Brexit plan in the House of Commons. She made a robust defence of her position, and won support from Remainer Tory MPs, who hope that the prime minister has at last summoned up the courage to face down the hard-Brexiteers.
In his resignation letter to the prime minister, Mr Johnson argues that Britain is heading for a "semi-Brexit". In particular, he says that the Chequers agreement surrenders "control over our rulebook on goods and agrifoods", reducing Britain to the status of a "colony". In answer to critics who ask why he did not resign on July 6th, he has this to say: "As I said then, the government now has a song to sing". He goes on: "The trouble is that I have practised the words over the weekend and find that they stick in the throat." In a radio interview an aide to Mr Johnson said that the former foreign secretary had not taken the decision lightly, and that further ministerial resignations were "certainly possible".
2.30pm, London
DOMINIC RAAB, a leading Brexiteer, has been appointed the new Brexit secretary following the resignation of David Davis late on Sunday night. The promotion of Mr Raab, the former housing minister, maintains the balance between Brexiteers and former Remainers in the cabinet. Despite this, however, the government's divisions are being exposed as never before.
Prompted by Mr Davis's resignation, hardline Brexiteers have been using the morning radio and TV programmes to attack the prime minister's approach to Brexit and in particular the plan agreed at Chequers, her country residence, on July 6th, which provoked the departure of Mr Davis. Boris Johnson, the foreign secretary, has remained conspicuously silent this morning but has been reported as saying of the Chequers agreement that it amounted to "polishing a turd". Angry and disillusioned Tory backbenchers are talking openly of a leadership challenge to Mrs May. The government, which lacks a majority in Parliament, appears to be in disarray.
Following Mr Davis, the charge against the Chequers agreement was joined by Steve Baker, a junior Brexit minister who resigned with his boss. He has also accused Mrs May of giving too much away to the EU, claiming the government has made "mistakes" all along in its negotiations with Brussels. He claims that his department was "blindsided" by the prime minister's proposals, which include remaining in a common regulatory area with the EU for goods. Mr Baker argues that this represents a "significant evolution" from Mrs May's previous speeches on the subject.
Backbench Brexiteers were much less polite this morning. Jacob Rees-Mogg, the leader of the main Tory pressure group advocating a hard Brexit, the European Research Group, said the Chequers agreement sought to "stymie" Brexit rather than deliver it. Another Tory MP, Marcus Fysh, called the government's policy an "absolute stinker"; his colleague Andrew Bridgen said he had "no confidence" in Mrs May's policy, and thus no confidence in her. He warned darkly that "a large number of my colleagues will have that same view", raising the prospect of a leadership challenge. That requires the nod from just 15% of the parliamentary party, 48 MPs. Mr Bridgen predicts a "huge backlash" among Tory MPs over the Chequers agreement.
At least Mrs May has received the backing of some of the other Brexiteers in the cabinet. Michael Gove, the environment secretary, was the first to back the Chequers policy publicly. Liam Fox, the trade secretary, has also backed her. This morning Andrea Leadsom, the leader of the House of Commons, supported her.
Mrs May is due to brief Parliament in the afternoon of July 9th on her Chequers plan, while her chief of staff is also calling in opposition MPs and peers to give them a briefing. The prime minister's task is to staunch a full-scale Brexit revolt—and that is before she has even presented her plans to the EU negotiators.
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2023 IIDA Student Design Competition
Honoring the talent and innovative thinking of interior design students and showcases emerging professionals in the interior design industry.
Submit/Apply
This competition is open to graduate and undergraduate students around the world who are currently enrolled in an interior design or architecture program. Entrants must currently be enrolled at the time of submission. School projects already completed may be reinterpreted and/or edited to meet the requirements of this competition. If the school project was completed as a group, all members must agree in writing to enter the reinterpreted and/or edited project, and all members must be listed as participants on the entry form. Participants can enter individually, or as a team with a maximum of five (5) team members.
The IIDA Student Design Competition takes place annually.
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The competition will open Monday January 9, 2023, it is advised that you begin the application and project before that date.
All submissions must be submitted electronically, no hard copy submissions will be accepted. To enter a project into this competition, you will need to prepare and submit the following:
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Your contact information including participant name(s), member ID (if applicable), address, phone number, and email
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Please submit one (1) 24" x 36" digital presentation board in PDF format with a file size between 3MB and 10MB and containing the following:
One (1) dimensioned floor plan drawn to scale
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Two to four (2-4) renderings of the completed space
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Additional elements to convey the overall concept including, but not limited to, furniture and fixture specifications, color palettes, wall sections, electrical plans, schedules, additional renderings, etc.
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The winning design projects will be selected by a jury of design professionals. Submissions are judged on excellence in aesthetics, design, creativity, and function as well as the suitability of the design solution to the project challenge and the successful integration of the elements of design.
Winners will be announced Spring 2023, and will be featured on IIDA.org, in the spring 2023 issue of QUAD, and DesignMatters newsletters. OFS provides the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Place winners with a financial prize of $2,500, $1,500, and $750 respectively. Winners will also receive official digital assets, including competition winner logos for self-promotion, coverage and mention on IIDA's social media accounts, and in an official press release distributed to leading industry outlets and media partners.
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Theremin Hero FTW January 5, 2009
Filed under: Games,Other Folks,Rock Band — Gwyddia @ 5:56 pm
Tags: rock band, rock band 2, still alive
Have you lost your voice singing in Rock Band? Can't conceive of giving up the game until your throat feels better? Grab a theremin and go to town. Check out how this guy does.
Guitar Hero World Tour Creation Mode Woes November 9, 2008
Filed under: Games,GamesLaw.net,Industry,Kotaku,Rock Band — Gwyddia @ 3:25 pm
Tags: Activision, copyright, fair use, GamesLaw.net, guitar hero
Some snags this week for users of Guitar Hero World Tour's Creation mode.
User-created versions of existing, copyrighted songs are disappearing. This comes as no surprise, as Blactivizzion warned that content would be monitored for infringement. That being said, I think there is a significant legal argument to be made that what people are creating in World Tour is not copyright infringement per se.
A little law first, from the U.S. Copyright Office:
One of the rights accorded to the owner of copyright is the right to reproduce or to authorize others to reproduce the work in copies or phonorecords. This right is subject to certain limitations found in sections 107 through 118 of the Copyright Act (title 17, U. S. Code). One of the more important limitations is the doctrine of "fair use." Although fair use was not mentioned in the previous copyright law, the doctrine has developed through a substantial number of court decisions over the years. This doctrine has been codified in section 107 of the copyright law.
Section 107 contains a list of the various purposes for which the reproduction of a particular work may be considered "fair," such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Section 107 also sets out four factors to be considered in determining whether or not a particular use is fair:
1.) the purpose and character of the use, including whether such use is of commercial nature or is for nonprofit educational purposes;
2.) the nature of the copyrighted work;
3.) amount and substantiality of the portion used in relation to the copyrighted work as a whole; and
4.) the effect of the use upon the potential market for or value of the copyrighted work.
Making your own version of the Green Hills Zone available for free download in GHWT is not "commercial", at least for users. You don't expect to realize a dime on it. Blactivizzion, however, may.
Kotaku is reporting that the company is considering a fee-for-service model for user-created content. That sounds like foul play, as users were not warned about this possibility before buying the game. Why should we create content for the company to sell and not realize a dividend? And what, then, is the effect of the use of these tunes on the potential market for the copyrighted work? I would think it would encourage people to enjoy the original, whether that be playing Sonic or picking up a song on iTunes. These three "instrument" versions of songs are NOT the original. The nature is substantially different. No one is going to mistake your lyrics-free version of Bohemian Rhapsody with Queen's magnum opus. And no one who wants to sing along with Freddie is going to miss their chance to do so with the actual song.
The implications for your own creations of original material are different, and possibly worse. If Blactivizzion does what they are proposing, you will be creating new music and handling them the licensing fees. Moreover, it is unclear how this structure would affect your own copyrights in the future. All in all, this seems bad bad bad bad and bad. Fun, fairly used tunes are being taken out of play and it seems that they are to be replaced by play-for-play wholesale acquisition of your music. It's enough to make me want to stick to Rock Band.
Excuse me now, I'm going to exercise my right to reproduce this piece over at GamesLaw.net.
Weinercast Wednesday November 5, 2008
Filed under: Games,Rock Band,WeinerCast — Gwyddia @ 8:00 am
Tags: avernum, bad dudes, Beatles, bioshock, call of duty 4, castlevania order of ecclesia, civilization, defcon, fallout, final fantasy 12, geneforge, little big planet, metal gear, politics, rock band, WeinerCast
The Weinercast is go! This week: Gwyddia's Top 8 Politically Themed Games.
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Please leave us a review or a comment/question, and we'll address it on air next week!
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Beatles Rock Band Compatibility is Questionable November 3, 2008
Filed under: Blizzard,Games,Rock Band,Rumors — Gwyddia @ 3:25 pm
Tags: Activision, Beatles, Blizzard, guitar hero, joystiq, mtv, rock band
Curiouser and curiouser. More details keep leaking out in the wake of last week's announcement. Today's snippet comes from Joystiq, who reports that MTV Games won the Beatles video game licensing duel because they showed "more flexibility" than Guitar Hero publisher Activision Blizzard. By "flexibility", they mean "willingness to not brand the game as 'Rock Band' or 'Guitar Hero'. Apparently the Beatles are still worried about name recognition.
Beatles Announcement a Bust? October 30, 2008
Filed under: Games,Industry,Rock Band,Rumors — Gwyddia @ 12:07 pm
Tags: Beatles, Harmonix, Kotaku, rock band
AppleCorps
It looks like yesterday's OMGs may have been a bit premature. Yes, there will be a Beatles music game. Yes, it will use Rock Band instruments. But it is NOT a Rock Band expansion pack ala' Guitar Hero: Aerosmith. It is also at least a year away.
You can check out the full text of the press release over at Kotaku.
OMG OMG OMG Beatles! October 29, 2008
Filed under: Games,Kotaku,Rock Band,Rumors — Gwyddia @ 7:33 pm
Tags: Beatles, Kotaku, rock band, Rumors
Not THAT Apple.
As per Kotaku, MTV Games and Apple Corps, who holds the right to the Beatles' catalog, are holding a press conference tomorrow to announce "an exclusive agreement to develop a global music project."
Rock Band Beatles, anyone?
Review: Guitar Hero World Tour October 27, 2008
Filed under: 3 weiners,Games,Kotaku,Other Folks,Penny Arcade,Reviews,Rock Band,XBox 360 — Gwyddia @ 7:04 am
Tags: 3 weiners, Activision, guitar hero, Guitar Hero World Tour, Pax, review, rock band, rock band 2
This is not Rock Band.
I need to get that out of the way right now. I also need to state that we are playing this game on Xbox 360 with the Rock Band 2 drums and microphone, but the Les Paul Guitar Hero III guitar. I have to admit that I went into GHWT thinking of it as a Rock Band 2 expansion pack. I quickly learned how wrong I was.
The art style of GHWT is animated and over-the-top, and each instrument and type of play has a series of hysterical cutscenes that just scream "rock". The characters, both the pre-made type and the ones you can create are the colorful distorted, exaggerated "Judy Nails" types you've come to expect from GH. The venues, both real and imaginary, are fully rendered and complete down to the broken chairs and half-eaten wings. Maybe the venues are a little TOO realistic, as they are festooned with in-game advertising for real world brands. I understand having Sabian cymbals and Marshall amps, but do I need to be told which fried chicken to eat while playing?
Screw my hair, check out my knobs!
The controls and setup are so-so. Despite promises to the contrary, the Rock Band drums do not map perfectly onto the GHWT songs. Drummers are encouraged to hit silver-topped notes harder for more points, but the velocity sensitivity is variable at best. It is nearly impossible to deploy Star Power, as the regular set requires you to hit the Green and Orange cymbals together, and those two notes don't usually show up together in the drum track. The tutorial is not available for drummers that aren't using the GH set, either. We aren't using the GHWT set because having tried them both at PAX, we found the Rock Band 2 set to be crisper, quieter, and more responsive, with a good spring in the pedal. The GHWT set we played was mushier, louder, less accurate, and just all around not as good as the Rock Band 2 set, though it was an improvement over the original Rock Band drum set.
Vocals are a nightmare. There is no "Tambourine Hero" fill section during long instrumental solos. Instead vocalists have fills which seem to be randomly inserted passages of swirls in which you can earn multiples of 9 points by saying "la" over and over and over. Vocals Star Power can only be deployed through hitting your microphone or holding your controller the whole time and hitting a button. It lasts for about five seconds, and then you have to go back to hitting buttons like a rat hoping for a food pellet. There is no musical staff guiding your pitch adjustments, but rather one line for you to follow the whole time through. The accuracy level and pickup are just plain bad. I scored about 15% lower in GHWT on songs that I have completed perfectly on Hard in Rock Band 2.
All of that being said, if you've enjoyed Guitar Hero before, keep on keeping on. You'll probably enjoy this game. The Guitar and Bass work just fine. If you are new to GH, or are trying it after Rock Band, keep in mind that GH is significantly different, and don't count on the manual or the early tracks to help you find your way. The manual is eight pages long and barely goes farther than "turn the game on and play". If you are eligible to play a tutorial, good luck finding it. You have to search around through stacks of menus to find the tutorials or anything else in the game.
I was disappointed in Guitar Hero World Tour. I guess I expected more after I saw the excellent track list. I did enjoy the cameos from rock icons such as Jimi Hendrix and Zack Wylde, and the game is fun to watch in general, but I'd almost rather watch than play, and that's a bad sign. Maybe they'll get it right on their inevitable next time out, but on their initial foray into the full band genre Activision has put too much focus on being different for difference's sake and not enough on streamlining and gameplay.
For being a mediocre comparitor to Rock Band 2 when it could have been so much more, Guitar Hero World Tour earns 3 Weiners out of 5
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One of the century's most distinguished artists, Louise Bourgeois is an utterly unique figure. Born in Paris in 1911, Bourgeois spent most of her career receiving little recognition from the art community. She has worked closely to many of the century's key artistic moments, from Surrealism to Abstract Expressionism to feminist art, and yet she remains distinct from all of them. An extraordinarily influential sculptor, she has worked, often experimentally, with materials varying from alabaster, plaster, latex, bronze and marble. Bourgeois is equally admired for her intimate drawings, often combining fragments of text, and her highly personal writings, which often address her long and complex life story. With the backdrop of a conflicted and sexually complicated family upbringing, her struggles as an artist in a world reserved for men, as well as her experiences as a mother, the subject of her work is as broad as the materials in which she expresses them. As a figure of outstanding significance in contemporary art, her stature has been recognized by such awards as the American National Medal of the Arts (1991), the French Grand Prix National de Sculpture (1991) and the Venice Biennale's Golden Lion Prize (1999), among others. Critic Paulo Herkenhoff (with Thyra Goodeve) has been in discussion with Bourgeois for many years. Topics in their Interview range from her troubled relationship with her father, to men's fashions, to her recollections of Marcel Duchamp, whom she knew personally. Critic and curator Robert Storr's Survey chronicles the unique trajectory of Bourgeois' work and life from a highly personal point of view. In his Focus, critic Allan Schwartzman concentrates on Cell (You Better Grow Up) (1993), an intense cage-like space. For her Artist's Choice Bourgeois has selected extracts from the novel Bonjour Tristesse (1954) by Francoise Sagan, whose story about a young girl's response to her father's amorous relationships parallels to some degree the artist's own childhood experiences. The Artist's Writings include an early text, 'The Puritan', from 1947, alongside discussions of her own work, autobiographical writings and artist's projects.
Text: Herkenhoff Paulo, Schwartzman Allan et al. cm 25×29; pp. 160 ; COL and BW; paperback. Publisher: Phaidon Press, London, 2003.
ISBN: 9780714841229| 0714841226
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Installation Art // Sculpture
Bourgeois Louise, Goodeve Thyrza, Herkenhoff Paulo, Schwartzman Allan, Storr Robert
warum! Bilder diesseits und jenseits des Menschen
Text: Ebeling Knut , Herzogenrath Wulf et al. cm 21x27; pp. 358; 236 COL e 124 BW ills.; paperback. Publisher: Hatje Cantz Verlag, Ostfildern, 2003.
John Baldessari Catalogue Raisonné: Volume Four: 1994-2004
Text: Pardo Patrick, Storr Robert et al. cm 25x29; pp. 480; 420 COL e 20 BW ills.; hardcover with slipcase. Publisher: Yale University Press, New Haven, 2017.
Rites of Passage. Art for the End of the Century
Text: Morgan Stuart, Penwarden Charles et al. cm 24x30; pp. 152; COL and BW; paperback. Publisher: Tate Gallery Publishing, London, 199/5.
Heresies : A Feminist Publication on Art & Politics / Sex Issue #1
cm 21,5x28; pp. 112; BW ills.; paperback. Publisher: Heresies, New York, 1977.


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FROM: Job
TO: Portfolio career
"I thought about how I wanted big businesses to behave differently, and knew I had to be part of making that change happen."
From Publishing to Social Impact
Charlotte Sewell couldn't bear seeing the industry she loved being strangled by big business. Determined to find another way, she joined a social enterprise programme that opened her eyes to a whole new set of possibilities. Here's how she's now doing work she believes in.
What work were you doing previously?
I worked in publishing.
Most recently, I was Commercial Executive for Faber and Faber. I worked alongside the Financial Director, managing the reporting and communication of the profitability of key lists across the business.
What are you doing now?
Now I have two different jobs.
Four days a week I work for COOK – a brilliant, family-run food company based in Kent. They make delicious, high-end, frozen ready meals you don't feel bad about eating! I'm their 'Social Impact Manager'.
It's a funny title, but it basically means I look at all the ways the business can have an 'impact' – on the community it works in, the people it employs, the environment, the suppliers it works with, and the customers it feeds.
It's a brilliant role and there's a lot of scope for exciting projects: from facilitating the move towards paying the Living Wage across the business, to launching innovative community schemes in all our 84 shops, and redesigning our packaging to reduce resource use.
One day a week I also work for B Lab UK, a small start-up not-for-profit that coordinates the brand new UK B Corp community – an amazing gang of British companies committed to using their businesses as a force for good.
Why did you change?
Because working for a wonderful independent publishing house that I totally believed in, and seeing how uneven the playing field was for them, made me want to change things.
Faber is one of the last great independent British publishing houses, with an amazing history. It's doing brilliant work, both celebrating phenomenal authors (from Plath and Eliot to Heaney and Lorrie Moore) and supporting extraordinary new writing. Even though it was doing a brilliant job, I felt like it could have done so much more if it weren't for the really sad dynamics of big business.
The invention of online bookselling has offered a whole new adventure, but the dominance of big retailers with disproportionate control, who are held to little account, seems to me to be doing a lot of harm to an industry (and a small company) that is trying to help bring the best writing to readers by publishing intelligently, beautifully and thoughtfully.
So, I thought about how I wanted big businesses to behave differently, and knew I had to be part of making that change happen.
When was the moment you decided to make the change?
There was a day when a few things happened.
I heard the news that a particularly lovely edition of a new book had had its price slashed online (with there being very little that we could do about it).
I also discovered a smaller platform, Better World Books, that was shaking up the market by using online book purchases to fund global literacy. It woke me up to how frustrated I was with 'business as usual' and reminded me that business could be seriously powerful when put to the right ends.
Are you happy with the change?
In an office where I recently worked, there was a lovely print hanging on the wall: one red fish swimming against the tide of a swarm of blue fish. Sometimes I feel like that. But it's nice to be attempting to go the way I want to, and I'm in no way a lone fish. Every day I meet phenomenal people with staggering commitment, creativity and conviction, and that feels like a huge privilege.
What do you miss and what don't you miss?
I miss working for a publishing house I adore, meeting their authors and hearing first about amazing new writers.
I also miss learning heaps from an awesome female Finance Director in an industry where C-suite roles are often disproportionately male!
I don't miss having to watch the unstoppable machine of big business having a destructive effect on creativity and independence.
How did you go about making the shift?
I talked to people about what I thought I wanted to do before I was really sure exactly what that was.
I think it was important to start doing this before I was ready, or perhaps I never would have got going. I kept reading, thinking and discussing until I worked it out some more.
At the same time, I tried things out.
I did things that made me feel like me: I took Spanish lessons, volunteered for some amazing organisations tackling homelessness and social isolation in sustainable and ingenious ways. I re-engaged with what I enjoyed and cared most about: learning, meeting new people, and challenging myself.
I also went to events that seemed like they could be useful. Some were, some weren't. I let friends suggest people who might be helpful and I sent what felt likely slightly awkward emails to them asking to meet for coffees.
One evening my housemate saw a post an old friend of hers had written about OnPurpose. She mentioned it to me and I found out more.
I was very lucky indeed – getting a place on the OnPurpose programme opened more doors than I knew or ever could have imagined existed.
What didn't go well? What 'wrong turns' did you take?
Lots of events and conversations didn't lead to lightbulb moments.
I made cold applications that got me nowhere and I did some soul searching that sometimes left me thinking the changes I wanted were impossible.
How did you handle your finances to make your change possible?
The world of publishing is full of poorly paid creatives (partly as a result of the lack of trickle down from the big agents operating at the top), so I was used to quite a lean lifestyle.
I took up cycling and tried to use my bike wherever I felt the journey was safe, which is tricky in London! And I went in for a lot of frugal packed lunches.
Happily, the world of social enterprise is not one of financial excess. I coped pretty well with lots of simple socialising in cheap pubs, and friends' houses. Meanwhile, I tried to put spending on hold and accepted that I wouldn't be able to save for a while.
What was the most difficult thing about changing?
Taking a risk and believing in myself before I had the support networks I do now.
Asking for help in the first place.
Accepting uncertainty.
Sticking at it when it seemed unlikely (and not beating myself up when it wasn't smooth sailing).
What help did you get?
The OnPurpose network is out of this world.
The small but powerful core team who runs it couldn't have been more supportive. The mentors and coaching that the programme gives you access to were phenomenal and the network of OnPurpose Fellows (the alumni of the programme) are among the most generous people I've ever known.
It was like being given access to a special club of people who seemed to think they owed you a lot of favours and wanted to bend over backwards to help you immediately.
What have you learnt in the process?
That the change you want to see won't always come quickly.
It is possible to stick at it, fail at it, and stick at it some more, but when the progress comes (and you might have to look hard to see it), it's a joy to observe.
What do you wish you'd done differently?
Sometimes I wish I hadn't been in such a rush, or felt the need to 'fix' things so fast.
I could have been less hard on myself and gone at a steadier pace. But I'm also really happy to be where I am now so I'm trying to just enjoy that.
What resources would you recommend to others?
The DO Lectures are excellent and free to watch online.
I also love a book called Do Purpose by David Hieatt, and a podcast called The Boiling Point.
The Happy Startup School is also a stunning network of awesome, switched-on business people (not just start-ups) who are astoundingly generous with their time and energy.
Escape the City and Amazing If are also brilliant projects – definitely worth exploring.
What would you advise others to do in the same situation?
Find out about OnPurpose.
Or, do anything you can to find your 'tribe' – people who 'get' you / inspire you / nudge you to do what you care about.
Buy (from independent retailers!) the books they write, read their blogs, watch their TED talks, meet them at events.
Seek help and ask for it. Take a risk.
Find out more about OnPurpose here.
What lessons could you take from Charlotte's story to use in your own career change? Let us know in the comments below.
Plus, if you know someone who's made a successful shift into work they love, we'd love to hear from you. Drop us a line at [email protected]. and you could win a £25 / $35 voucher in our monthly draw.
From Editor to Marketing Strategist
"I wanted to do so much more."
From Public Services to Portfolio Career
"It had really become quite apparent to people who cared about me that things were not right."
From Theatre to Facilitation
"The self-talk I had was that I'd lost the ability to do anything else."


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Q: Rollback a write-dbadatatable with the truncate flag? I'm using the dbatools for our SQL Server 2019 server. When I try to import an Excel sheet, I would like to truncate the table before importing the new rows. This is possible if I add the -Truncate flag, as in:
Write-DbaDataTable -SQLInstance $Ins -Database $MyDB -InputObject $Excel -Table $MyTable -Schema $Sch -Truncate

However, I would very much like to rollback the truncate, if something else in the Write-DbaDataTable goes wrong.
Like when I get:
"WARNING: ... Cannot insert duplicate key"

Is it possible to run this a one transation, and get a complete rollback?


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Q: How would I use javascript to validate an e-mail with output on the DOM? Basically I created a form in html and when things are input properly it simply goes to google.com. Right now I have completed the first few fields but I am unsure of how I would make it recognize if the input that was put in and did not include an @ sign or a . some point after it.
I created a fiddle as I was having trouble getting some of the longer of my lines of code to be in-line.
Click here for the fiddle Example

A: You can use HTML5 properties like :

*

*pattern attribute which contains a regexp

*set your input type to email

If you want to do it with JavaScript, use a regexp also and use the test() method to verify it.

A: Add this
 var re = /^([\w-]+(?:\.[\w-]+)*)@((?:[\w-]+\.)*\w[\w-]{0,66})\.([a-z]{2,6}(?:\.[a-z]{2})?)$/i;
    return re.test(email);

A: You have a few options depending on how thorougly you want to validate.
email.indexOf('@') >= 0

checks that there is an @ at all in the email. See http://jsfiddle.net/27f1h6ws/ for a version of your fiddle with it added.
A more thorough way would be to check it with regex. You can do it extremely simple just checking the general structure of the email input, or extremely thorough check for all valid characters, depending on how crucial the validation is. See this link or the answers in this question for more information.


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March 7 Day 66 The Voice of Truth - Are You Ready for a Change?
The reality is our "self" has already died but our carnal mind tells us otherwise. The voice of truth is the mind of Christ consciousness.
The voice of truth tells us we are complete, we have everything we need inside us.
The voice of truth is reality. The voice of truth says do not be afraid.


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Ocean Rescue warns of rip currents on Tybee Island
Updated: 11:53 PM EDT Aug 31, 2016
WEBVTT 3 ONE OF THE DANGERS AS TROPICAL STORM HERMINE APPROACHES ..- RIP CURRENTS. WJCL'S ASHLEY LIOTUS IS LIVE ON TYBEE ISLAND TONIGHT ...WHERE THOSE RIP CURRENTS COULD CAUSE BEACHES TO CLOSE. ASHLEY?33 SHANNON, OFFICIALS HERE ARE KEEPING A VERY CLOSE WATCH ON THE WATERS AND RIP CURRENTS... WAVES ARE ALSO EXPECTED TO GET AS HIGH AS 7 FEET. A CONCERN -- áESPECIALLYá SINCE THERE WILL BE A LOT OF PEOPLE OUT HERE FOR LABOR DAY WEEKEND.:09 - :14:29 - :34 "IT WAS PRETTY ROUGH...THE WAVES JUST KEEP PUSHING YOU BACK IN." RIP CURRENTS. A THREAT THAT IS NOT ALWAYS VISIBLE. "WE DON'T WANT PEOPLE TO GET IN THE WATER UP TO THEIR WAIST.IT TAKES NOTHING FOR THE WAVES TO KNOCK YOU DOWN AND TAKE YOU RIGHT OUT.ALL IT HAS TO DO IS TAKE YOU RIGHT OFF YOUR FEET AND YOU'RE GOING OUT TO SEA." TYBEE OCEAN RESCUE HAS BEEN WATCHING THE WATER AS TROPICAL STORM HER-MEAN APPROACHES. TODAY, A SINGLE RED FLAG FLEW -- MEANING DANGEROUS CURRENTS. GOOD NEWS FOR SURFERS -- "YOU CAN SEE IT CLOUD UP AND YOU'LL DRIFT OUT WITH IT...ON A BOARD IT'S NOT THAT BAD TO FIGHT BUT FOR A SWIMMER IT CAN BE PRETTY BAD." BUT NOT FOR BEACHGOERS AS LABOR DAY WEEKEND GETS CLOSER. "THIS IS THE LAST WEEKEND FOR EVERYONE WHO GOES OUT FOR SUMMER.THERE WILL PROBABLY BE A LOT OF PEOPLE OUT HERE ON FRIDAY.BUT IF THE BEACH IS OPEN, THERE WILL BE LIFE GUARDS ON THE BEACH AND WE'LL MAKE SURE WE'RE MONITORING ALL THE SWIMMERS." TYBEE OCEAN RESCUE OFFICIALS SAY THERE IS A CHANCE THEY COULD CLOSE THE WATER ON FRIDAY -- FLYING A áDOUBLEá RED FLAG. THEY'LL MAKE THAT FINAL DECISION FRIDAY 3THAT FINAL 3DECISION FRIDAY MORNING.3 OCEAN RESCUE TELLING BEACHGOERS TO STAY CLEAR OF THE PIER AND ROCKS... AND IF YOU GET CAUGHT IN A RIP CURRENT, SWIM PARALLEL TO THE SHORELINE. LIVE ON TYBEE ISLAND, ASHLEY LIOTUS WJCL 22 NEWS.
Tybee Island Ocean Rescue is warning beach goers of rip currents as Tropical Storm Hermine approaches. Officials are keeping a close eye on the waters this week. Waves are expected to get as high as 7 feet on Friday. This, as many people are expected to hit the beach for the Labor Day weekend holiday. Melinda Lanigille was visiting Tybee Island on Thursday from Niagra Falls. "It was pretty rough... The waves just keep pushing you back in," she said. Strong rip currents caused Ocean Rescue crews to fly a single red flag meaning dangerous rip currents. "We don't want people to get in the water up to their waist. It takes nothing for the waves to knock you down and take you right out. All it has to do is take you right off your feet and you're going out to sea," said Captain Chad Osterlund of Tybee Ocean Rescue. The rip currents caused 2-3 foot waves for surfers today. "You can see it cloud up and you'll drift out with it... On a board it's not that bad to fight but for a swimmer it can be pretty bad," said local surfer, Josh Wood. He said these waves aren't the biggest he's seen, but he's been waiting for a storm to get back into the water. He, along with many others, will be hitting the beach for the Labor Day weekend starting on Friday. However, the rip currents could put a damper on those beach plans. Ocean Rescue says if the rip currents are too bad, they'll close the beach. "This is the last weekend for everyone to go out for summer. There will probably be a lot of people out here on Friday. But if the beach is open, there will be life guards on the beach and we'll make sure we're monitoring all the swimmers," said Osterlund. If you see a double red flag flying, do not go in the water. Crews say they'll make the final decision on Friday morning. Crews are also asking you to avoid the pier and rocks if you will be swimming. Ocean Rescue also wants to remind you, if you get caught in a rip current, swim parallel to the shoreline to get out of it.
TYBEE ISLAND, Ga. —
Tybee Island Ocean Rescue is warning beach goers of rip currents as Tropical Storm Hermine approaches.
Officials are keeping a close eye on the waters this week. Waves are expected to get as high as 7 feet on Friday. This, as many people are expected to hit the beach for the Labor Day weekend holiday.
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Melinda Lanigille was visiting Tybee Island on Thursday from Niagra Falls. "It was pretty rough... The waves just keep pushing you back in," she said. Strong rip currents caused Ocean Rescue crews to fly a single red flag meaning dangerous rip currents.
"We don't want people to get in the water up to their waist. It takes nothing for the waves to knock you down and take you right out. All it has to do is take you right off your feet and you're going out to sea," said Captain Chad Osterlund of Tybee Ocean Rescue.
The rip currents caused 2-3 foot waves for surfers today. "You can see it cloud up and you'll drift out with it... On a board it's not that bad to fight but for a swimmer it can be pretty bad," said local surfer, Josh Wood. He said these waves aren't the biggest he's seen, but he's been waiting for a storm to get back into the water.
He, along with many others, will be hitting the beach for the Labor Day weekend starting on Friday. However, the rip currents could put a damper on those beach plans.
Ocean Rescue says if the rip currents are too bad, they'll close the beach. "This is the last weekend for everyone to go out for summer. There will probably be a lot of people out here on Friday. But if the beach is open, there will be life guards on the beach and we'll make sure we're monitoring all the swimmers," said Osterlund.
If you see a double red flag flying, do not go in the water. Crews say they'll make the final decision on Friday morning.
Crews are also asking you to avoid the pier and rocks if you will be swimming. Ocean Rescue also wants to remind you, if you get caught in a rip current, swim parallel to the shoreline to get out of it.


In today's Gospel, it is Peter who answers on behalf of the other eleven disciples. Peter confesses Jesus as the Christ, that is, the one who has been anointed by God and sent as the Messiah. The popular conception of the Messiah at the time of Jesus was that he would be a political leader who would help the people regain the political independence they had lost to the Romans in 63 B.C. Peter is accurate when he says that Jesus is the Messiah, but he still has to understand that his image of Messiah, which is largely influenced by the political expectations of the time, does not correspond to the type of Messiah Jesus really is. After reprimanding Peter, Jesus addresses his followers and states clearly what is demanded of all who want to be his disciples. He does not attempt to make things easier, to smooth things over; he sets three standards by which to judge how firm is the disciple's purpose: "renounce yourself, take up your cross, and follow me. "Renounce yourself" means: "stop thinking about yourself!" stop making yourself the center of all your interests, forgetting the others. If one wants to follow Christ one must, first of all, reject this selfishness and stop assessing one's options in the light of one's interests. The second categorical injunction: "Take up your cross" does not mean the need to bear patiently with all the tribulations in life, and even less does it present pain and sorrow as a means to please God. The Christian does not seek pain but love. The cross is the sign of love and self-giving. To carry one's cross after Christ means to join him as he gives the greatest proof of his love. The third: "Follow me" does not stand for "take me as a model" but "share my choice," take part in my plan, live your life for love of people with me.


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We are going back to Florida Miami South Beach which is home to Marina. From the look of the pictures you can see Marina a beautiful and strong lady. For Marina kiteboarding certainly changed her life from having meeting deadlines demanding clients, weekends in the office and busy seasons to account for – this used to be Marina's world for many years until Marina saw kiting on a sunny winter day in Miami, shredding the waves on a kiteboard.
Back then Marina didn't even know what this sport "kiteboarding" is called and couldn't imagine, that it will change Marina's life. Marina started to build Marina's work schedule around the wind forecast and Marina took days on off windy days (you guys know the feeling of checking windguru more often than facebook). Kitesufring has became Marina's therapy, gym and my new lifestyle.
What can be more captivating than power of the ocean, wind and sun? So many times Marina returned home from a kite session all bruised, with bloody cuts (Marina know's it is not very girly), exhausted but extremely happy! Yes, Marina has become an adrenaline junkie but no more sign of anxiety and depression. Yes Kiting is therapy! Marina currently has a company that has products from Rash Guards to Neoprene Jackets called Platinum Sun.
Marina thinks its awesome to be a girl in a male dominated sport? Yes yes yes "she says" you get all the benefits combined of being a girl ( Marina just wouldn't recommend to kite in a bikini to avoid accidents) plus you get to know some amazing people with awesome personalities.