New York experienced Melanoma Surgeon Dr. Monica Halem offers new advanced treatments for skin cancer Excisional Surgery.
Surgical excision is also called resection, and the borders of the entire area excised are known as the margins. Surgical excision is used to treat all types of skin cancer. At its best – given an experienced of Dr. Monica Halem and a small, well-placed tumor – it offers results that are both medically and cosmetically excellent. Dr. Halem begins by outlining the tumor with a marking pen. A "safety margin" of healthy-looking tissue will be included, because it is not possible to determine with the naked eye how far microscopic strands of tumor may have extended. The extended line of excision is drawn, so the skin may be sewn back together.
Dr. Halem will administer a local anesthetic, and then cut along the lines that were drawn. The entire procedure takes about thirty minutes for smaller lesions.
Wounds heal rapidly, usually in a week or two. Scarring depends on many factors, including the placement of the tumor and the patient's care of the wound after the procedure.
The tissue sample will be sent to a lab, to see if any of the "safety margin" has been invaded by skin cancer. If this is the case, it is assumed that the cancer is still present, and additional surgery is required. Sometimes, Mohs micrographic surgery is a good option at this point.
In the new approach to surgery, much less of the normal skin around the tumor is removed and the margins, therefore, are much narrower than they ever were before. This spares significant amounts of tissue and reduces the need for postoperative cosmetic reconstructive surgery.
The first step in treatment is the removal of the melanoma, and the standard method of doing this is by surgical excision (cutting it out). Surgery has made great advances in the past decade, and much less tissue is removed than was customary in the past. Patients do just as well after the lesser surgery, which is easier to tolerate and produces a smaller scar.
Surgical excision is also called resection, and the borders of the entire area excised are known as the margins. In most cases, the surgery for thin melanomas can be done in our office under local anesthesia. Stitches (sutures) remain in place for one to two weeks, and most patients are advised to avoid heavy exercise during this time. Scars are usually small and improve over time.
Discolorations and areas that are depressed or raised following the surgery can be concealed with cosmetics specially formulated to provide camouflage. If the melanoma is larger and requires more extensive surgery, a better cosmetic appearance can be obtained with flaps made from skin near the tumor, or with grafts of skin taken from another part of the body. For grafting, the skin is removed from areas that are normally or easily covered with clothing.
There is now a trend towards performing sentinel node biopsy and tumor removal surgery at the same time, provided the tumor is 1 mm or more thick. When the procedures are combined in this way, the patient is spared an extra visit.
The most dangerous form of skin cancer, these cancerous growths develop when unrepaired DNA damage to skin cells (most often caused by ultraviolet radiation from sunshine or tanning beds) triggers mutations (genetic defects) that lead the skin cells to multiply rapidly and form malignant tumors. These tumors originate in the pigment-producing melanocytes in the basal layer of the epidermis. Melanomas often resemble moles; some develop from moles. The majority of melanomas are black or brown, but they can also be skin-colored, pink, red, purple, blue or white. Melanoma is caused mainly by intense, occasional UV exposure (frequently leading to sunburn), especially in those who are genetically predisposed to the disease. Melanoma kills an estimated 9,940 people in the US annually.
If melanoma is recognized and treated early, it is almost always curable, but if it is not, the cancer can advance and spread to other parts of the body, where it becomes hard to treat and can be fatal. While it is not the most common of the skin cancers, it causes the most deaths. The American Cancer Society estimates that at present, more than 135,000 new cases of melanoma in the US are diagnosed in a year. In 2015, an estimated 73,870 of these will be invasive melanomas, with about 42,670 in males and 31,200 in women.
Moles, brown spots and growths on the skin are usually harmless — but not always. Anyone who has more than 100 moles is at greater risk for melanoma. The first signs can appear in one or more atypical moles. That's why it's so important to get to know your skin very well and to recognize any changes in the moles on your body. Look for the ABCDE signs of melanoma, and if you see one or more, make an appointment with a physician immediately.
Most benign moles are all one color— often a single shade of brown. Having a variety of colors is another warning signal. A number of different shades of brown, tan or black could appear. A melanoma may also become red, white or blue.
For patients undergoing Excision Surgery in our New York office please download Excision Surgery Pre-Op Instructions here.
If you have been diagnosed with skin cancer, please call our office to schedule your consultation with Dr. Halem. Our caring and experienced professional staff work hard to continually exceed expectations and are always eager to help with any questions or concerns you may have.


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namespace engine {

GuardControllerSubSystem::GuardControllerSubSystem()
    : mScene(Scene::Get())
    , mProgramState(core::ProgramState::Get())
{
}

void GuardControllerSubSystem::Init()
{
}

void GuardControllerSubSystem::Update(Actor& actor, double DeltaTime)
{
    Opt<GuardControllerComponent> guardCC=actor.Get<IControllerComponent>();
    if (!guardCC.IsValid()||!guardCC->IsEnabled())
    {
        return;
    }
    if (mProgramState.mMode == core::ProgramState::Client)
    {
        return;
    }
    auto targetHolderC = actor.Get<ITargetHolderComponent>();
    if (!targetHolderC.IsValid())
    {
        return;
    }
    auto healthC = actor.Get<IHealthComponent>();
    if (!healthC.IsValid() || !healthC->IsAlive())
    {
        return;
    }
    UpdateTarget( actor, targetHolderC );
    Opt<Actor> currentTarget( mScene.GetActor( targetHolderC->GetTargetGUID() ) );
    auto moveC( actor.Get<IMoveComponent>() );
    guardCC->SetNextMoveTimer( guardCC->GetNextMoveTimer() - DeltaTime );
    if (currentTarget.IsValid())
    {
        auto positionC( actor.Get<IPositionComponent>() );
        auto targetPositionC( currentTarget->Get<IPositionComponent>() );
        auto const distSqr = GetDistanceSqr( positionC, targetPositionC );
        glm::vec2 const distV( (targetPositionC->GetX() - positionC->GetX()), (targetPositionC->GetY() - positionC->GetY()) );
        double const Rot = atan2( distV.y, distV.x );
        positionC->SetOrientation( Rot );
        auto inventoryC = actor.Get<IInventoryComponent>();
        if (inventoryC.IsValid())
        {
            Opt<Weapon> weapon = inventoryC->GetSelectedWeapon();
            if (weapon.IsValid())
            {
                int32_t const aggroAltDistSqr = guardCC->GetAggroAltDist() * guardCC->GetAggroAltDist();
                if (distSqr < aggroAltDistSqr)
                {
                    weapon->SetShoot( false );
                    weapon->SetShootAlt( true );
                }
                else
                {
                    weapon->SetShoot( true );
                    weapon->SetShootAlt( false );
                }
            }
        }

        if (guardCC->GetNextMoveTimer() <= 0.0)
        {
            const int32_t ran = RandomGenerator::global()() % 3;
            if (ran == 0)
            {
                guardCC->SetMoveDirection( GuardControllerComponent::Left );
            }
            else if (ran == 1)
            {
                guardCC->SetMoveDirection( GuardControllerComponent::Right );
            }
            else
            {
                guardCC->SetMoveDirection( GuardControllerComponent::None );
            }
            guardCC->SetNextMoveTimer(guardCC->GetNextMoveTimerMax()
                + (RandomGenerator::global()() % 100*0.02*- 1)*guardCC->GetNextMoveTimerVariance() );
        }
        int32_t const tooCloseDistSqr = guardCC->GetCloseDist() * guardCC->GetCloseDist();
        int32_t const walkAwayDistSqr = guardCC->GetWalkAwayDist() * guardCC->GetWalkAwayDist();
        double heading = 0.0;
        static const double pi = boost::math::constants::pi<double>();
        if (distSqr > tooCloseDistSqr)
        {
            heading = Rot;
            if (guardCC->GetMoveDirection() == GuardControllerComponent::Left)
            {
                heading -= pi / 4;
            }
            else if (guardCC->GetMoveDirection() == GuardControllerComponent::Right)
            {
                heading += pi / 4;
            }
            moveC->SetMoving( true );
        }
        else if (distSqr < walkAwayDistSqr)
        {
            heading = Rot-pi;
            if (guardCC->GetMoveDirection() == GuardControllerComponent::Left)
            {
                heading += pi / 4;
            }
            else if (guardCC->GetMoveDirection() == GuardControllerComponent::Right)
            {
                heading -= pi / 4;
            }
            moveC->SetMoving( true );
        }
        else
        {
            heading = Rot;
            if (guardCC->GetMoveDirection() == GuardControllerComponent::Left)
            {
                heading -= pi / 2;
                moveC->SetMoving( true );
            }
            else if (guardCC->GetMoveDirection() == GuardControllerComponent::Right)
            {
                heading += pi / 2;
                moveC->SetMoving( true );
            }
            else
            {
                moveC->SetMoving( false );
            }
        }
        moveC->SetHeading( heading );
    }
    else
    {
        moveC->SetMoving( false );
        Opt<IInventoryComponent> inventoryC = actor.Get<IInventoryComponent>();
        if (inventoryC.IsValid())
        {
            Opt<Weapon> weapon = inventoryC->GetSelectedWeapon();
            if (weapon.IsValid())
            {
                weapon->SetShoot( false );
                weapon->SetShootAlt( false );
            }
        }
    }
}

void GuardControllerSubSystem::UpdateTarget( Actor& actor, Opt<ITargetHolderComponent> targetHolderC )
{
    Opt<Actor> currentTarget( mScene.GetActor( targetHolderC->GetTargetGUID() ) );
    Opt<GuardControllerComponent> guardCC = actor.Get<IControllerComponent>();
    auto positionC( actor.Get<IPositionComponent>() );
    if (currentTarget.IsValid())
    {
        auto targetPositionC( currentTarget->Get<IPositionComponent>() );
        int32_t const disaggroDistSqr = guardCC->GetPeaceDist()*guardCC->GetPeaceDist();
        if (GetDistanceSqr( positionC, targetPositionC) > disaggroDistSqr )
        {
            targetHolderC->SetTargetGUID( -1 );
            currentTarget.Reset();
        }
    }
    if (!currentTarget.IsValid())
    {
        if (!positionC.IsValid())
        {
            return;
        }
        for (auto player : ActorListFilter<Scene::CollisionClassActors>( mScene.GetActors(), CollisionClass::Player ))
        {
            auto targetPositionC( player->Get<IPositionComponent>() );
            if (!targetPositionC.IsValid())
            {
                return;
            }
            int32_t const aggroDistSqr = guardCC->GetAggroDist() * guardCC->GetAggroDist();
            if (GetDistanceSqr( positionC, targetPositionC ) < aggroDistSqr )
            {
                targetHolderC->SetTargetGUID( player->GetGUID() );
                currentTarget = mScene.GetActor( targetHolderC->GetTargetGUID() );
                break;
            }
        }
    }
    if (currentTarget.IsValid())
    {
        Opt<IHealthComponent> healthC = currentTarget->Get<IHealthComponent>();
        if (!healthC.IsValid() || !healthC->IsAlive())
        {
            targetHolderC->SetTargetGUID( -1 );
            currentTarget.Reset();
        }
    }

}

int32_t GuardControllerSubSystem::GetDistanceSqr( Opt<IPositionComponent> positionC, Opt<IPositionComponent> otherPositionC )
{
    glm::vec2 const distV( (positionC->GetX() - otherPositionC->GetX()), (positionC->GetY() - otherPositionC->GetY()) );
    return glm::dot( distV, distV );
}

} // namespace engine

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This house / villa (town house) of 62 m² (about 666 ft²), built in 19, on 3 levels, with a land size of 28 m² (about 0,01 acres) comprises 3 rooms including 2 bedrooms, 1 shower room and 2 toilets. It is provided with a living room of 17 m² (about 183 ft²) and with a cellar. Heating : individual electric.


13.PATRICK4 HEENAN (JOHN3, PATRICK2, GREAT GREAT GREAT GRANDFATHER1) was born Jul 01, 1881 in Cornamult, Tipperary, Ireland, and died Unknown in ?.He married ? Unknown.
i. JOHN5 HEENAN, b. Unknown.
ii. COLETTE HEENAN, b. Unknown, ?; d. Unknown, ?; m. SPOUSE KERWIN, Unknown, ?.
14.WILLIE4 QUINLAN (MARGARET3HEENAN, PATRICK2, GREAT GREAT GREAT GRANDFATHER1) was born Unknown in ?, and died Unknown in ?.He married ? Unknown in ?.
i. MARGARET5 QUINLAN, b. Unknown.
ii. MAY QUINLAN, b. Unknown, Ireland; m. WILLIAM HOGAN.
15.PATT4 CAHALAN (JUDY3HEENAN, PATRICK2, GREAT GREAT GREAT GRANDFATHER1) was born Unknown in Borrisokane, Tipperary, Ireland, and died in Borrisokane, Tipperary, Ireland.He married UNKNOWN in Borrisokane, Tipperary, Ireland.
i. PATRICK5 CAHALAN, b. 1914, Borrisokane, Ireland; m. ?, Unknown, ?.
ii. BRIDGET CAHALAN, b. 1915, Cloninaha, Bellinderry, Tipperary, Ireland; d. Sep 26, 1970, Brocka, Ballinderry.
iii. JAMES CAHALAN, b. Unknown.
iv. JULIA CAHALAN, b. Unknown.
v. PHIL CAHALAN, b. Unknown.
16.THOMAS4 HEENAN (PATRICK3, PATRICK2, GREAT GREAT GREAT GRANDFATHER1) was born Dec 20, 1873 in Cloninaha Farmland, Ballinderry, County Tipperary, and died Unknown in ?.He married ANNIE LAMB Unknown in ?.
ii. PATRICK HEENAN, b. 1930, Cloninaha, Tipperary, Ireland; m. MARY MADELINE.
vii. BRIDGET HEENAN, m. PATRICK STUART.
17.JOHN4 HEENAN (PATRICK3, PATRICK2, GREAT GREAT GREAT GRANDFATHER1) was born Oct 17, 1875 in Cloninaha Farmland, Ballinderry, County Tipperary, Ireland, and died Jan 18, 1956 in Tombrican, Borrisokane, Ireland.He married MARY ANN MEARA.
i. DONAL PATRICK5 HEENAN, b. Apr 14, 1926, Borrisokane, Tipperary, Ireland; m. NORA SHEEHAN, Abt. 1950.
ii. SEAN HEENAN, b. Abt. 1923.
18.JAMES4 HEENAN (PATRICK3, PATRICK2, GREAT GREAT GREAT GRANDFATHER1) was born Jul 14, 1877 in Cloninaha Farmland, Ballinderry, County Tipperary.He married MARY SAMMON.
i. MARGARET5 HEENAN, b. Unknown, Cornamult, Tipperary, Ireland; d. Mar 07, 1953; m. DONAL KENNEDY, Unknown, Terryglass C hurch.
19.TIMOTHY4 HEENAN (PATRICK3, PATRICK2, GREAT GREAT GREAT GRANDFATHER1) was born Dec 18, 1883 in Cloninaha Farmland, Ballinderry, County Tipperary.He married MARY RYAN.
i. JOSEPH5 HEENAN, b. Unknown.
ii. EDWARD HEENAN, b. Unknown.
iii. MALACHY HEENAN, b. 1927, Grayfort Farm, County Tipperary,Ireland; m. UNKNOWN DUBLIN WOMAN.
iv. TERESA HEENAN, b. Unknown.
v. RITA HEENAN, b. 1923, Grayfort, Ireland; m. ? CAHALAN.
vi. ANNA HEENAN, b. 1926, Grayfort, Ireland; m. ? CLEERE.
20.PATRICK4 HEENAN (PATRICK3, PATRICK2, GREAT GREAT GREAT GRANDFATHER1) was born Sep 08, 1885 in Cloninaha Farmland, Ballinderry, County Tipperary.He married EILEEN COSWELL.
i. ANNE5 HEENAN, b. Unknown; m. ? ASER.
ii. SALLY HEENAN, b. Unknown.
iii. PATRICIA ANN HEENAN, b. Unknown.
21.PATRICK4 HEENAN (THOMAS3, PATRICK2, GREAT GREAT GREAT GRANDFATHER1) was born Aug 21, 1872 in Cloninaha, Tipperary, Ireland, and died May 31, 1916 in Terrglass, Tipperary.He married MARY A. KENNEDY Unknown.
On August 21, 1872, Thomas and Nora (Cahalan) Heenan's first child, Patrick was born.Patrick was baptized and entered into the registry by his sponsors Patrick Heenan and Ann Cahalan.Little is known about Patrick.Although we do know that he married Mary A.Kennedy.Together, Patrickand Mary (neé Kennedy) Heenan sired a set of twins, on May 10, 1903.Nothing is known of the son Joseph.However,Thomas, who is picture to the right was very scholastic and began to pursue the priesthood when he contracted Tuberculosis.Because the weather in Ireland was bad for Thomas' health, the seminary transferred him to a parish house in Australia.Thomas, grandson of Thomas, died in Australia on April 25, 1924, less than a month before his 20th birthday.
i. THOMAS5 HEENAN, b. May 10, 1903, Cloninaha, Tipperary, Ireland; d. Apr 25, 1934, Sydney, Australia.
Joined the Priesthood at the age of 10.Studied in Terryglass.Developed T.B. and was sent to Australia for recovery and instead died.
ii. JOSEPH HEENAN, b. May 10, 1903.
22.HANORA4 HEENAN (THOMAS3, PATRICK2, GREAT GREAT GREAT GRANDFATHER1) was born Dec 25, 1877 in Cloninaha, Tipperary, Ireland, and died Aug 25, 1935 in Lougheen.She married RODY CLEARY Unknown.
The forth child born to Thomas and Nora (Cahalan) Heenan was Hanora.Hanora named after her mother also went by the name of Nora.Nora was born on December 25, 1877.John Cahalan and Judy Costello sponsored her at her baptism.Nora met and married a man by the name of Rody Cleary.Together Rody and Nora (Heenan) Cleary sired four children; Martin, Thomas, Nora, and Bridget.Their eldest son Martin Cleary is still living and is a bachelor at the time of this writing.Thomas Cleary married a woman by the name of Cis O'Meara and together they sired five children; William Cleary, John Cleary, Sheila Cleary, Nora Cleary, and Bridget Cleary.Nora Cleary, daughter of Rody and Nora (Heenan) Cleary, met and married a man by the name of Michael Needham.Together Michael and Nora (Cleary) Needham sired four children; John Needham, Liam Needham, Marie Needham, and Nora Needham.Bridget Cleary, the youngest of Rody and Nora (Heenan) Cleary, met and married Patrick Cahalan.Together Patrick and Bridget (Cleary) Cahalan sired six children; Mary Cahalan, Bridget Cahalan, Sheila Cahalan, Nora Cahalan, Margaret Cahalan, and Sean Cahalan.Today, Sheila Cahalan is married to Oliver Darcy the local Postal Officer in Terryglass.They own a lovely Bed & Breakfast called the Lakeland Lodge, which is located on the Terryglass Road.
i. MARTIN5 CLEARY, b. Unknown.
ii. THOMAS CLEARY, b. Unknown, Ireland; d. Unknown, Ireland; m. CIS O'MEARA, Unknown.
iii. NORA CLEARY, b. Unknown, Ireland; d. Unknown, Ireland; m. MICHAEL NEEDHAM, Unknown, Unknown.
iv. BRIDGET CLEARY, b. 1915, Terrglass, Tipperary; d. Sep 26, 1970, Brocka, Ballinderry, Nenagh; m. PATRICK CAHALAN, Unknown.


This power supply can easily replace the original power supply (HES-ACA-02/03).
09/08/2017 - The power supply is back in stock but only in US plug at the moment. EU plug will come back in the near future and maybe UK plug.


text:
\section{Moment estimation of $Q$}
We consider the following random-effects model (REM): For Study $i$ ($i = 1, \ldots, K$),  the estimate of the effect is $\hat\theta_i \sim G(\theta_i, v_i^2)$, where the effect-measure-specific distribution $G$ has mean $\theta_i$ and variance $v_i^2$, and $\theta_i \sim N(\theta, \tau^2)$.
The $\hat\theta_i$ are unbiased estimates of the true conditional effects $\theta_i$, and the $v_i^2 = \hbox{Var}(\hat\theta_i | \theta_i)$ are the corresponding true conditional variances.

Cochran's $Q$ statistic is a weighted sum of squared deviations of the estimated effects $\hat\theta_i$ from their weighted mean $\bar\theta_w = \sum w_i\hat\theta_i/\sum w_i$:
\begin{equation} \label{Q}
Q=\sum w_i(\hat\theta_i-\bar\theta_w)^2.\end{equation}
In \cite{cochran1954combination} $w_i$ is the reciprocal of the \textit{estimated} variance of $\hat{\theta}_i$. In meta-analysis those $w_i$ come from the fixed-effect model. We denote this standard version of $Q$ by $Q_{IV}$.  In our simulations, we examine a version of $Q$, discussed by \cite{dersimonian2007random}, in which the $w_i$ are arbitrary positive constants. We denote this version by $Q_{F}$.

Define $W = \sum w_i$,  $q_i = w_i / W$, and $\Theta_i = \hat\theta_i - \theta$.  In this notation, and expanding $\bar\theta_w$, Equation (\ref{Q}) can be written  as
\begin{equation} \label{Q1}
Q = W \left[ \sum q_i (1 - q_i) \Theta_i^2 - \sum_{i \not = j} q_i q_j \Theta_i \Theta_j \right].
\end{equation}

Under the above REM, it is straightforward to obtain the first moment of $Q$ as
\begin{equation} \label{M1Q}
\hbox{E}(Q) = W \left[ \sum q_i (1 - q_i) \hbox{Var}(\Theta_i) \right] = W \left[ \sum q_i (1 - q_i) (\hbox{E}(v_i^2) + \tau^2) \right].
\end{equation}
Rearranging the terms gives the moment-based estimator of $\tau^2$
\begin{equation} \label{tau_DSK}
\hat\tau^2_{M} = \frac{Q / W - \sum q_i (1 - q_i) \hbox{E}(v_i^2)} {\sum q_i (1 - q_i)}.
\end{equation}
This equation is similar to Equation (6) in \cite{dersimonian2007random}; they use the estimate $s_i^2$ instead of $\hbox{E}(v_i^2)$.  We study this estimator of $\tau^2$, which uses the conditional estimated variances, $\hat v_i^2$, in the sample-size-based weights, and denote it by $\hat\tau^2_{SSC}$ or simply SSC. We also study the corresponding estimator that uses the unconditional estimated variances, $\hat\hbox{E}(v_i^2) $, which we denote by SSU.

\section{Approximations for the distribution of $Q$}
We also study approximations for the distributions of $Q$ statistics. For SMD, $Q_F$ is a quadratic form in $t$ variates.  The  \cite{Farebrother1984} algorithm for the exact distribution of a quadratic form in normal variables  may provide a satisfactory approximation, especially for larger sample sizes. To apply it, we plug in estimated variances. We investigate the quality of that approximation, which we denote by F SW, and the two-moment approximation (M2 SW) based on the gamma distribution.

The null distribution of $Q_{IV}$ is usually approximated by the chi-square distribution with $K - 1$ degrees of freedom.  For mean difference and standardized mean difference, however, this approximation is not accurate for small sample sizes (\cite{Viechtbauer-2007a}). For SMD \cite{kulinskaya2011moments} provided an improved approximation to the null distribution of $Q_{IV}$ based on a chi-square distribution with degrees of freedom equal to the estimate of the corrected first moment; we denote this approximation by KDB. \cite{biggerstaff2008exact} used the Farebrother approximation as the ``exact'' distribution of $Q_{IV}$. We denote this approximation by BJ.
When $\tau^2 = 0$, the BJ approximation to the distribution of $Q_{IV}$ reduces to the $\chi^2_{K - 1}$  distribution. For comparison, our simulations include these three approximations.

\section{Other point and interval estimators of $\tau^2$}

Distributions of the $Q$ statistics depend on the $\theta_i$ and the $v_i^2$ and on the between-study variance $\tau^2$. We denote such a distribution by $F(\cdot | \theta_i, v_i^2,\;\tau^2)$. In practice, an approximation uses estimated parameters, and we calculate its value at the observed value of $Q$, obtaining the approximate upper-tail p-value
$p(Q | \tau^2) = 1 - F(Q | \hat\theta_i, \hat v_i^2,\;\tau^2)$.

A confidence interval for $\tau^2$ at confidence level $1 - \alpha$ can be obtained as $$\{\tau^2: p(Q | \tau^2) \in [\alpha/2, 1 - \alpha/2]\}.$$
Similarly, a point estimator of $\tau^2 $ can be found as $$\hat\tau^2_{med} = \hbox{min}(0,\; \{\tau^2: F(Q|\tau^2)=0.5\})$$

Our simulations for SMD use the Farebrother approximation to the distribution of $Q$ in two versions. One uses the conditional variances of the $\hat\theta_i$ (i.e., $\hat v_i^2$), and the other uses the unconditional variances (i.e.,  $\hat \hbox{E}(v_i^2)$).  The corresponding point estimators of $\tau^2$, based on the median, are denoted by SMC and SMU, respectively.  The corresponding intervals are denoted by FPC and FPU. The P in their names reminds us that they are profile intervals.

For comparison our simulations include four point estimators that use inverse-variance weights: DerSimonian-Laird (DL), restricted maximum likelihood (REML), Mandel-Paule (MP), and an estimator (KDB) based on the work of \cite{kulinskaya2011testing}, which uses an improved first moment of $Q$.

We also include three interval estimators: the Q-profile (QP) interval, the profile-likelihood (PL) interval, and the KDB interval, which is based on the chi-square distribution with the corrected first moment.

\section{Study-level estimation of standardized mean difference} \label{sec:EffectSMD}

Each of the $K$ studies consists of two arms, treatment (T) and control (C), with sample sizes $n_{iT}$ and $n_{iC}$. The total sample size in Study $i$ is $n_i = n_{iT} + n_{iC}$, and the ratio of the control sample size to the total is $f_i = n_{iC}/n_{i}$. We define the effective sample size in Study $i$ as $\tilde{n}_i = n_{iC} n_{iT} / n_i$.

The subject-level data in each arm are assumed to be normally distributed with means $\mu_{iT}$ and $\mu_{iC}$ and equal variances $\sigma_{i}^2$. The sample means are $\bar{x}_{ij}$, and the sample variances are $s^2_{ij}$, for $i = 1,\ldots, K$ and $j = C$ or $T$.

The standardized mean difference effect measure is
$$\delta_{i} = \frac{\mu_{iT} - \mu_{iC}} {\sigma_{i}}.$$
The unbiased estimator of $\delta_i$ is Hedges's $g$:
\begin{equation} \label{eq:delta}
{g}_i = J(m_i) \frac{\bar{x}_{iT} - \bar{x}_{iC}} {s_{i}},
\end{equation}
where the standard deviation, $\sigma_i$, is estimated by the square root of the pooled sample variance $s_i^2$, $m_{i} = n_{iT} + n_{iC} - 2$, and the factor
$J(m) = {\Gamma \left( \frac{m} {2} \right) } / {\sqrt{\frac{m}{2}}\Gamma \left( \frac{m - 1} {2} \right) }$
corrects for bias.

For the variance of $g_i$ we use the unbiased estimator
\begin{equation} \label{eq:g_var}
v_{i}^2 = \frac{n_{iT} + n_{iC}} {n_{iT } n_{iC}} + \left(1 - \frac{(m_{i} - 2)} {m_{i}J(m_{i})^2} \right) g^2_{i},
\end{equation}
derived by \cite{hedges1983random}. The literature contains several other estimators of the variance of $g_i$ and its biased counterpart, $d_i$. \cite{LinAloe-2021} provide a comprehensive assessment.

The sample SMD ${g}_i$ has a scaled non-central $t$-distribution with non-centrality parameter
$\gamma_i = \tilde{n}_{i}^{1/2} \delta_i$ \citep{HO-1985}:
\begin{equation} \label{eq:g_dist}
\sqrt{\tilde{n}_i} J(m_i)^{-1} g_i \sim t_{m_i} (\tilde{n}_{i}^{1/2} \delta_i).
\end{equation}

\section{Sketch of the simulations}

The design of the simulations follows that described in \cite{BHK2018SMD}. Briefly,
we vary five parameters: the overall true SMD ($\delta$), the between-studies variance ($\tau^2$), the number of studies ($K$), the studies' total sample size (both equal, $n$, and unequal, $\bar{n}$), and the proportion of observations in the Control arm ($f$). Table~\ref{tab:altdataSMD} lists the values of each parameter. We use a total of $10,000$ repetitions for each combination of parameters.

We generate the true effect sizes $\delta_{i}$ from a normal distribution:  $\delta_{i} \sim N(\delta, \tau^2)$. We generate the values of Hedges's estimator ${g}_{i}$ directly from the appropriately scaled non-central $t$-distribution with non-centrality parameter $\tilde{n}_{i}^{1/2} \delta_i$:
\begin{equation}
\sqrt{\tilde{n}_i} J(m_i)^{-1} g_i \sim t_{m_i} (\tilde{n}_{i}^{1/2} \delta_i).
\end{equation}

\begin{table}[ht]
	\caption{\label{tab:altdataSMD} \emph{Values of parameters in the simulations for SMD}}
	\begin{footnotesize}
		\begin{center}
			\begin{tabular}
				{|l|l|l|}
				\hline
				Parameter & Equal study sizes & Unequal study sizes \\
                                & &\\	\hline
				$K$ (number of studies) & 5, 10, 30 & 5, 10, 30 \\
				$n$ or $\bar{n}$  (average (individual) study size ---  & 20, 40, 100, 250,640, 1000 & 30 (12,16,18,20,84), \\
				total of the two arms) & 30, 50, 60, 70 & 60 (24,32,36,40,168), \\
				For  $K = 10$ and $K = 30$, the same set & & 100 (64,72,76,80,208), \\
				of unequal study sizes is used & &160 (124,132,136,140,268) \\
twice or six times, respectively. & & \\
				$f$ (proportion of each study in the control arm) & 1/2, 3/4 &1/2, 3/4 \\
				$\delta$ (true value of the SMD) & 0, 0.2, 0.5, 1, 2 & 0, 0.2, 0.5, 1, 2 \\
				$\tau^{2}$ (variance of random effects) & 0, 0.5, 1, 1.5, 2, 2.5 & 0, 0.5, 1, 1.5, 2, 2.5 \\
				\hline
			\end{tabular}
		\end{center}
	\end{footnotesize}
\end{table}

\section{Summary}

In estimating $\tau^2$, our moment estimator based on $Q_F$ with effective-sample-size weights is almost unbiased, the Mandel-Paule estimator has some negative bias in some situations, and the DerSimonian-Laird and restricted-maximum-likelihood estimators have considerable negative bias.

All 95\% interval estimators have coverage that is too high when $\tau^2 = 0$, but otherwise the Q-profile interval performs very well.

An approximation based on an algorithm of Farebrother follows both the null and the alternative distributions of $Q_F$ reasonably well, whereas the usual chi-square approximation for the null distribution of $Q_{IV}$ and Biggerstaff-Jackson approximation to its alternative distribution are poor.

The test for heterogeneity based on $Q_F$ and F SW has error rates that somewhat exceed the nominal 5\%, and the test based on $Q_{IV}$ and the chi-square approximation has error rates that are noticeably too low.

When $\tau^2 > 0$, F SW provides robust empirical levels at all values of $\tau^2$ and $\delta$. Those levels, however, are somewhat higher than the nominal .05 (for larger $K$). M2 SW has below-nominal levels, which decrease further for larger $\delta$ but do not depend on $\tau^2$. The levels of the BJ approximation are even lower, and they decrease further as $\tau^2$ increases.

\section{Detailed results}
The appendices contain plots of the results of the simulations:
\begin{itemize}
	\item Appendix A. Plots for bias and coverage of estimators of $\tau^2$
	\item Appendix B. Plots of error in approximations for the distribution of $Q$
	\item Appendix C. Empirical level of the test for heterogeneity ($\tau^2$ = 0 versus $\tau^2 > 0$) based on approximations for the distribution of $Q$, plotted vs sample size
	\item Appendix D: Empirical level of the test for heterogeneity ($\tau^2 \leq \tau_{0}^2$ versus $\tau^2 > \tau_{0}^2$) based on approximations for the distribution of $Q$, plotted vs $\tau_{0}^2$
	\item Appendix E. Power of the test for heterogeneity ($\tau^2 = 0$ versus $\tau^2 > 0$) based on approximations for the distribution of $Q$
\end{itemize}

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After the buggy mess that Lollipop was, Google has done a pretty good job in squashing bugs and improving the core user experience in Android 6.0 Marshmallow. However, like every new version of Android, Marshmallow also comes with its own fair share of issues particularly related to Wi-Fi.
Post the Marshmallow update, many users have been having troubles connecting their Android device to a particular Wi-Fi network or facing slow transfer rates. If you are on the same boat as them, check out some solutions listed below that should hopefully fix your Wi-Fi woes on Marshmallow.
As someone who has been troubleshooting computer and smartphone problems for others since the last few years, I can confidently say that in most scenarios rebooting solves most of the issues. If your Android device is unable to connect to a particular Wi-Fi network or is giving you slow transfer speeds, reboot your device as well as your Wi-Fi router.
If your Android device has been unable to connect to a particular Wi-Fi network after updating to Marshmallow, try 'forgetting' that Wi-Fi network, turn off the Wi-Fi, switch it back on and then connect to it again. This should in most likelihood fix any connectivity issue that you are facing with any particular Wi-Fi network.
To forget an existing Wi-Fi network, go to Settings -> Wi-Fi, tap on the name of the Wi-Fi network followed by 'Forget'.
If your Android device has been having a tough time latching to your Wi-Fi network post the Marshmallow update, you can try to switch its Wi-Fi band to 2.4 or 5GHz. Doing this should lead to a noticeable improvement in Wi-Fi speed and performance, but make sure to change the Wi-Fi frequency of your device to the same one as the Wi-Fi network.
To change the Wi-Fi frequency band on your Android device, head over to Settings -> Wi-Fi, tap the 3-dot overflow menu button, select Wi-Fi frequency band and then select the appropriate frequency.
If your Marshmallow running Android device is able to connect to a Wi-Fi network, but pages are loading slow or the internet is outright not working despite the same network working on other devices, you can try and switch to a different DNS.
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If your Android device is unable to connect to a particular Wi-Fi network and you have already tried the steps above, it is recommended that you reset your router once. Resetting the router can be a tedious task for many, so consider this option as the last resort. If your other devices are able to connect to the same Wi-Fi network without any issues, then it is likely that the issue is with your phone rather than the Wi-Fi router itself. However, a reset can help in eliminating any problems with the router.
If all the above steps have failed to get the Wi-Fi performance of your Android device back to the state that it was before installing Marshmallow, you are only left with one solution: do a factory reset. While extremely cumbersome, doing a factory reset will eliminate any issues with the radio or software itself. Since a factory reset will wipe your phone of all data, it is recommended that you create a backup beforehand.
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Makinde pays N14bn gratuity to 50,000 pensioners
Oyo State Commissioner for Information, Culture and Tourism, Dr. Wasiu Olatunbosun
Published By: Muhamin Olowoporoku
Oyo State Commissioner for Information, Culture and Tourism, Dr. Wasiu Olatunbosun has said that the Seyi Makinde led administration has paid over N14 billion on gratuities, while about 5,000 beneficiaries have benefited from the exercise.
Dr. Olatubosun said this on Thursday after receiving an award of Excellence tagged 'Defender of Pensioners' at a Gala Night and Award Giving Ceremony organised by the Nigerian Union of Pensioners.
The commissioner said that governor Makinde has placed premium priority on the public service, including pensioners.
He dedicated the award to Makinde describing him as the people's governor and commended him for the priority given to the welfare of the pensioners in Oyo State.
Olatubosun further dedicated the award to all the downtrodden pensioners whom he said suffered throughout the eight years of past administration.
The award was presented by the Nigerian Union of Pensioners (NUP), South West Zone, to the commissioners alongside other awardees.
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Speaking earlier, the Chairman, NUP, Comrade Waheed Oloyede, described Dr. Wasiu Olatunbosun as a lover and defender of Pensioners, who has supported their course without any bias.
He congratulated the awardee for entering the Union's Hall of Fame, wishing him more enduring successes in life.
"The Honourable Commissioner for Information, Culture and Tourism in Oyo State, Dr. Wasiu Olatunbosun is a lover and defender of Pensioners both inside and outside of the state cabinet, everywhere he finds himself. He is proudly our own", he said.
"I congratulate him and other awardees, we carefully selected them all over Nigeria based on their various contributions to the growth of Nigeria Union of Pensioners and their love for the society in general."
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RUDY FINDS LITTLE ROOM TO MANEUVER: NY HURT BY SLOW ECONOMY, ENTITLEMENT RISE
Philip Lentz
After a year of endless and agonizing budget cuts of billions of dollars, Mayor Rudy Giuliani finds himself preparing for another year of-yes-more budget reductions.
The problem is that the mayor is caught in a pincer movement: a stagnant economy is depressing revenues while costs-particularly Medicaid, debt service and pensions-continue to rise.
The budget-cutting mood in Albany and Washington provides little opportunity for relief. To make matters worse, the various budget crises mean that by year end the mayor will have used $1 billion in "one-shot" revenues-money that won't be around to help balance next year's budget.
That is why Mayor Giuliani faces a $2.7 billion deficit for the fiscal 1996 budget beginning July 1 and why the preliminary budget plan he releases Tuesday will include an extraordinary combination of labor givebacks, agency consolidations and social service reductions to keep the city in the black.
"We have a big gap for fiscal '96 because a lot of the '95 actions were one-shots and did not provide recurring savings," says Ray Horton, president of the Citizens Budget Commission. "There's also a problem because revenues are going to have to be written down and intergovernmental aid has to be written down."
Gap continued to grow
The Giuliani administration knew it had a problem for next year even as it was trying to stanch this year's red ink. Its estimates of next year's gap have risen from $629 million a year ago to $955 million in October to the current $2.7 billion.
Part of the problem is the city economy. The sharp downturn on Wall Street due to rising interest rates forced the city to lower its revenue expectations by $200 million for this year and $400 million for next year.
The city also faces $836 million in additional debt service costs next year as lower bond payments made by possible by Municipal Assistance Corp. refinancings come to an end. The city also issued two bond refinancings during the last year totaling $270 million in nonrecurring revenues.
There will be added pension costs of between $300 million and $400 million, based on an actuarial report that shows that retirees are living longer and retiring at higher salaries than originally projected.
Many of the stop-gap measures aimed at closing this year's budget have or probably will fall through. Among them are $75 million from renegotiating the city's airport leases, $65 million from the sale of the U.N. Plaza Hotel and $45 million from unpassed tort reform.
Finally, the cost of social service entitlements continues to rise. For example, the city's biggest single expense, Medicaid, is expected to increase by nearly $200 million to $2.8 billion if spending grows at current rates.
Help from Pataki
On this last item the mayor has received some help from Gov. George Pataki, whose Medicaid and welfare cuts will translate into $800 million in lower costs for New York City, according to city officials. This assumes the mayor makes no effort to replace state budget cuts in other areas, such as mass transit, higher education and health care.
But even these savings are less than the mayor wants. He is seeking permission from the state to cut $1.2 billion from social service entitlement programs-which appears unrealistic given the uproar over the size of the governor's proposed budget reductions.
"He has three options," says Mr. Horton. "One is to cut services, another is to raise taxes and a third is to increase productivity, particularly labor productivity. To the extent he doesn't do the latter, he has to do more of the former two."
That explains why labor productivity is emerging as a key strategy to close the budget gap. Nearly all the major union contracts expire within the next year-including police, teachers and municipal employees-giving the city a unique opportunity to win wide-ranging productivity savings.
The Giuliani administration is offering the unions a deal: Agree to $600 million in cost-saving productivity gains or face layoffs.
"The unions understand there's a real budget problem and no money for raises," says Randy Levine, the mayor's labor negotiator. "The idea is to fund raises through productivity so we can generate some money that helps us out with the deficit."
And the administration is purposely keeping mum on what kinds of givebacks it wants, giving Mr. Levine and the unions flexibility to work these out in negotiations.
The third major part of his budget plan will be $600 million in agency consolidations. Mr. Giuliani talked a lot about restructuring government during his campaign, but relatively little has been done so far, save for a handful of competitive contracts for city services.
"He has squeezed rather than restructured," says Harvey Robins, director of operations under former Mayor David Dinkins. "There's an enormous amount of restructuring that can take place. The assumption that you're going to do all of this cost cutting from personnel is a fallacy."
Hanging over the mayor's preliminary plan is the fate of the current budget, which Mr. Giuliani and the City Council have been forced to continually cut and reshape almost since it was first approved last June.
Because the state's next fiscal year overlaps the city's current fiscal year for one quarter, from April through June, Mr. Pataki's proposed cuts could force yet another modification in this year's budget. That, in turn, could make it more difficult to balance next year's budget.
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The Media Is Hiding This Secret About The Florida School Shooting
maga2016 March 6, 2018
The media has exploited the shooting in Parkland, Florida by devoting hours of airtime to students who survived the horrific tragedy.
They have called for more gun control and banning so-called "assault" weapons.
But there is one secret the media is hiding from the American people.
Not all the students who survived the horrible tragedy support gun control.
But the pro-Second Amendment students are not given airtime on CNN or MSNBC.
Kyle Kashuv is a Marjory Stoneman Douglas student who escaped the deranged gunman's act of madness.
But he has challenged the anti-gun and anti-Trump message of classmates.
Hanging up on @POTUS @realDonaldTrump, the man who controls the Executive, is counterproductive to pushing change. Even if you do not like President Trump, one should not disrespect the office that has sat 44 past American Patriots. https://t.co/K1v8gKaM0n
— Kyle Kashuv (@KyleKashuv) March 4, 2018
His message is that the rights of law abiding gun owners should not be infringed upon because one madman committed a horrific act.
He told Guy Benson of Townhall.com:
"I'm a very strong Second Amendment supporter and I will continue to be throughout this entire campaign." he tells me. "As of right now, my main goal is to meet with legislators and represent to them that there are big Second Amendment supporters in our community. Through this entire thing, my number one concern has been making sure that the rights of innocent Americans aren't infringed upon." He says that when he visited the state capitol to talk to lawmakers shortly after the tragedy, he consistently asked for guarantees that the constitutional rights of law-abiding gun owners wouldn't be attacked or abridged. He's waded into this debate "kind of reluctantly," he admits, observing that at some point he realized that he was one of the few conservatives in his school who were speaking up in public. "It's not even by my choosing, it's just come to that," he remarks. "I feel somewhat obligated to do this because the other half of America needs to be heard. I'm doing this because I have to."
The media loves mass shootings because it gives them their only opportunity to push gun control.
And the survivors of the horrible events at Marjory Stoneman Douglas gave them sympathetic victims who could be used as emotional blackmail.
Anti-gun students were given prominent TV time because the media wanted everyone to believe every student was anti-gun and that anyone who disagreed with more gun control was heartless.
But Kashuv proves that is not the case.
And it also explains why he's been given a press blackout by the so-called "mainstream" media.
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Have you seen this Ted Talk by Simon Sinek?
In it, he explains how important it is for companies and people to know their WHY at the heart of what they do. As educators, I think knowing our WHY is so essential. I try to revisit my WHY at the beginning of each school year and each grading period.
Here's the WHY for RDNG. This is WHY I began this company while still continuing to work as a teacher.
Everyone deserves the gift of reading. It's one of the most meaningful things in my life. When I started teaching, I didn't know how to help a student learn to read. I could take a decent reader and make them better, but I left college not knowing how to help a non-reader, beyond some flashcards and starfall.com. Truthfully, there are some students who I call "The Ones Who Got Away." They left my 3rd grade classroom still not knowing how to read---and that responsibility still haunts me. I hope and pray that they learned from their next teacher.
I learned how to teach reading when working with low readers and studying them for over 12 years. I analyzed their weaknesses, read countless resources, and tried various activities and methods to find what works. My job was my reading laboratory.
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Accidental Historian
Searching the Past to Understand the Future
Menzies Contra Reality, Part 1
Gavin Menzies is an aggressively ignorant non-historian. It's true. Oh, he's also extremely fucking arrogant about it. If I've learned anything in life, it's that ignorance and arrogance go hand-in-hand. Also, too, they make for some interesting situations, especially if the ignorant and arrogant individual writes books specifically about the stupidity rampant in the rest of the world.
Those who have been around for a while might remember that I once attempted to make a series about the wildly historically inaccurate 1421, in which Menzies claimed that the Chinese circumnavigated the globe in 1421, made maps, and handed said maps to the Europeans who then immediately incorporated said maps into their own charts. I gave up a short while in because I, um, I'm lazy. And that's how I roll. Also because it seemed that I'd just end up writing, "No, seriously Gavin Menzies, what the fuck?" over and over again. That's got a shelf life…
Still, he wrote a second book. I remembered that a while ago and even mentioned it on this here blog. That same day I did my best Petrarch imitation and scoured the internet for my own copy of his famously difficult to find 1434. Because, really, why not?
I make no promises of turning this into a series, but it's worth talking about for a bit.
Menzies has a singularly spectacular ability to piss me off within the introduction of his book. I didn't make it past the Acknowledgements page of 1421 before I got mad. I didn't make it past the first sentence of 1434's Introduction this time. That might seem like it's an achievement, but I started with the Introduction. So, yeah. Either way, this is his first sentence (also, too, his first paragraph):
One thing that greatly puzzled me when writing 1421 was the lack of curiosity among many professional historians.
Now, for some this might be an indication that it's time to re-think the premise or methodology used in offering the book. Professional historians are, after all, a curious bunch. They're also an argumentative bunch, many of whom love nothing more to engage in an argument and win. There is a reason why the first thing a historian needs to learn to be a good historian is historiography, also known as the history of history. There is almost no known historical fact and there certainly isn't any analysis of a historical fact that hasn't been disputed at least once and, more likely, argued to death by men with beards and an unnatural appreciation for tweed.
Any good work of history contains a survey of the analysis of the results and a conclusion as to which side, if any, makes a stronger case. This is a necessary part of the process of adding to the long lists of historical documents, especially for anything that has been picked over and over and over again. It also shows, crucially, that the historian has done his or her homework. More than that, it makes for testable claims if anyone wants to wander far afield of the historical consensus.
Historians love this shit. It's why they do what they do. When Gavin Menzies released 1421 it was a book that literally turned everything we know about the last six centuries of world history on its head. When real historians greeted it with a yawn that should tell you everything you need to know about the worthiness of Menzies' claims. His bafflement at why he was ignored then says everything we need to know about Menzies' efficacy as a historian.
Fortunately, though, you don't have to take my word for it. He tells us exactly how good of a historian he is in the very next paragraph, also known as the second paragraph of the goddamn introduction to his goddamn book.
Alfter all, Christopher Columbus supposedly discovered America in 1492. Yet eighteen years before he set sail, Columbus had a map of the Americas, which he later acknowledged in his logs.
This, right here, is what we call "an extraordinary claim." An extraordinary claim is one that requires extraordinary evidence. Fortunately, this claim is also a testable claim. But before we get to the evidence – of which there is plenty – that Menzies is showing his ass in public, let's see if we can apply pure reason to this statement.
We refer to certain islands in the Caribbean as the West Indies. The somewhat-less-than-politically-correct term for the native occupants of the Americas is "Indians." The Indies were lands of fabulous wealth on the far eastern side of the Eurasian landmass that Europeans had been trying to reach and exploit for centuries by the time Colombo headed west from Spain.
Now, then, given this tiny bit of knowledge, what would you say is more likely? Did Colombo land in the New World and mistakenly call it the Indies and its people Indians? Or did Colombo know he was heading for the New World but pretend he was going somewhere else in order to participate in the biggest cover-up in history, wherein he, with the full cooperation of the Spanish sovereigns, the Spanish Court, his entire crew, and all of his partners in correspondence managed to participate in a conspiracy of silence that lasted from 1492 through 2002, when a former British submarine commander blew it all open with a book. And then there was not one historian who could offer up a single shit about his discovery.
Which one seems more likely?
As it turns out, I'm fascinated by the Age of Discovery. I think that's how I originally heard about Gavin Menzies and his fevered fantasies featuring Chinese eunuchs. I'm not exactly an expert in these things, but I do definitely know a thing or two. In fact, for anyone who's been paying attention, one of my favorite books is about exactly the claims Gavin Menzies makes at the beginning of 1434.
Well, not really. It's not about Gavin Menzies claims. It's about the actual reality of the things that Gavin Menzies makes the claims about. As such, I shall be trotting out Toby Lester's The Fourth Part of the World quite a bit here. On some level that's cheating. Menzies published 1421 in 2002 and 1434 in 2008. Lester published The Fourth Part of the World in 2009. So Menzies couldn't possibly offer anything to contradict Lester. By the same token, Lester doesn't mention Menzies once. Menzies would probably mention this as part of the conspiracy of silence from real historians. Lester – who isn't actually a real historian, either, but a journalist who happens to know how to do the history thing – did something that Menzies didn't do, though: his homework.
Homework, in this case, is boring-ass research. It involves reading a lot of books and chasing down manuscripts and synthesizing historiography. It's not Indiana Jones-esque globetrotting in search of crystal skulls or Holy Grails or dudes who can rip still-beating hearts out of chests. That would be awesome, but that ain't how it works. For someone who's done their homework Gavin Menzies' theory is, well, stupid. It's also self-evidently stupid. Let's continue:
Indeed, even before his first voyage, Columbus signed a contract with the king and queen of Spain that appointed him viceroy of the Americas. His fellow ship's captain Martín Alonso Pinzón, who sailed with him in 1492, had too seen a map of the Americas—in the pope's library.
Um…no? I mean, seriously, no. Columbus was told that he'd be made Admiral of the Ocean Sea if he found the Indies. He was also told that he'd be made governor of any land he discovered and claimed for Spain. America was not mentioned at all, mostly because America wasn't named until Waldseemuller and Ringmann put the word on their map of the world in 1507. But that's a technicality. Let's see what Toby Lester has to say about the subject.
Ophir, Saba, Tarshish, Cipangu: Columbus believe that Hispaniola might be any one of those places, or perhaps all of them at once, a single land that over the ages had been known by a succession of different names. Even several years later, after having devoted much study to this question, Columbus still hadn't worked out an answer. Instead, he had identified even more possibilities. "This island is Tarshish," he wrote in a letter to Pope Alexander VI in 1502, "It is Chittim, it is Ophir and Ophaz, and Cipangu, and we have named it Hispaniola."[1]
For those who aren't up on their mythical lands, Tarshish, Chittim, and Ophir are all lands mentioned in the Bible that can be shorthanded as "far away" and "really fucking rich." I have no idea what Ophaz is. Cipangu, though, is the key to this whole thing. The idea of the place came to Europe in the Travels of Marco Polo and it's not actually a legendary island at all. We know it as Japan.
In fact, you might want to keep that little tidbit in mind. It'll come up a time or seven in the future…
[1]Toby Lester, The Fourth Part of the World: The Race to the Ends of the Earth and the Epic Story of the Map That Gave America its Name, (New York: Free Press, 2009), 281.
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Oooooooookay, then. I'll just settle in and make popcorn, shall I? 'Cause this is a rich vein of [expletive deleted] you've chosen to mine, and the results promise to be entertaining...
Posted by: Michael Mock | 11/02/2012 at 12:25 PM
Oh, believe you me, the vein is rich. I'm about 2/3 of the way through part 2 and, um, I haven't gotten past the third paragraph. This, of course, is the problem with doing real history as opposed to what Menzies is doing here. In order to explain why Menzies gets his facts utterly wrong on both Columbus and Magellan (which is paragraph 3), I need to make sure you have a working knowledge of a series of Renaissance maps: the Toscanelli, the Schoner, the Waldseemuller, and the Behaim. Lester's book spends 300 some pages covering all of those things and the necessary background to get why they matter.
Menzies dismisses them in three paragraphs.
Posted by: Geds | 11/02/2012 at 01:26 PM
Sounds like fun. I'll bring a couple of bags of pretzels, in case we run out of popcorn.
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Menzies Contra Reality, Part 2 In the last entry I made it all the way to the second paragraph of Gavin Menzies' Introduction to 1434: The Year a Magnificent Chinese Fleet Sailed to Italy and Ignited the Renaissance. Hopefully I'll make it slightly farther this time. I'm guessing I'll make it at least to the...
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? ?What?s the matter, Sutton?? Mr. Jenkins inquired. ?Schneider get your goat??
There was a momentous silent pause followed by the audible snap of thirty heads whipping around in unison towards the mortified young girl and the shamelessly grinning boy who had yanked on her ponytail until she?d finally shouted at him to quit it.?
?I didn?t think I wanted to get married. But now I wonder who will take me to the bathroom when I?m too old to stand.?
?Go on, deep-water girl! Keep on lookin? for that deep water! You won?t never find it!?
?He approached her, thumbs tucked into the pockets of his own full-length dungarees, evidently immune to the heat.
?Say, that?s an expensive trip,? he observed. ?You, uh ? you got enough money to get there?? ?
?It was something, wasn?t it? Finding five dollars. Not a matter of life or death, maybe. Not just yet.?
?Each job had its own rhythm. Scrape, scrape, scrape. Thunk; thunk; thunk. It was such a persuasive rhythm that sometimes you even forgot that it was a part of the job. Like that unfortunate header from last season...?
?He raised his flashlight and looked her over, as they always did, comparing the image on the out-of-state license to the young woman in the rusty van that pre-dated her by a decade.?
"Our best friends were having a baby. Inwardly, I groaned."
"I watched as the water swirled away, taking Charlie on one final miraculous journey to the home of his ancient ancestors..."
?She hung suspended, gazing up at the sky, the sun, the surface, at the cord entangling her foot. It was too late. She would drown; she would die there beneath the water, ten feet away from the people who loved her.?
?Youth does not have a fair picture of itself... It is only with the perspective of years that we begin to see our lives in patterns, in great sweeping arcs that promise, if we examine them closely, to reveal to us something of ourselves, something of who we were, something of who we have become. Something of who we will become.?


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