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Can the FCC Handle Phone Service over the Internet?
Regulating IP telephony will be like updating the rules of the road from horse-and-carriage traffic to modern automobiles.
Slowly and carefully, the FCC is circling around a problem that may be its hardest ever. The digital TV transition? Piece of cake. First-on-the-planet incentive auctions? No sweat. But this one is tough: nothing less than a remake of the U.S. telephone system, all 120 million phones and 1.5 billion miles of wire.
The engineers and entrepreneurs have gotten out ahead of the FCC lawyers. Now the lawyers are scrambling to catch up.
Imagine you're Alexander Graham Bell. It's 1876. You've just finished constructing the first two working telephones. You have made the first ever telephone call, to your assistant in another room: "Mr. Watson, come here, I want to see you." The call needed a pair of copper wires between the telephones, to carry an electrical signal whose variations matched the sound waves of your voice.
Now you're ready to scale, as we say these days – to start the rollout that will place a telephone in every home and business. Your problem: just like that first time, any two telephones on a call must have a pair of wires connecting them.
That was basically the phone system for the next 125 years. Improvements came mainly in better ways of handling the switchboard function. The young-women operators gave way to noisy, clunky Strowger switches that let customers establish their own connections by dialing numbers on their phones. Decades later, fast, reliable crossbar switches replaced the Strowgers. Decades later still, computer-based switching systems supplanted the crossbars, offering features like call waiting, caller ID, and call forwarding.
All of these technologies serve the same function: creating a direct, metallic connection from one telephone to another. Dialing a number – or later, punching the Touch-Tone buttons – puts in motion a cascade that ripples through the system, setting up connections from one switching office to the next, sometimes a dozen or more, from your telephone all the way to the individual telephone being called. When you hang up, another message goes out to take down these connections, freeing up the lines and switches for other callers.
The AT&T and Bell Canada long-distance divisions, beginning in the 1950s, replaced some of the intercity copper wires with microwave radio. Each call, though, still had its own dedicated circuit, now running partly over radio facilities. When the microwave systems converted to digital transmission in the 1970s, each ongoing call acquired its own time slot, rather than a separate circuit, but the principle of dedicated facilities remained.
This is "circuit switched" telephony, in which switches create separate, temporary circuits for each call. Insiders call the system the "public switched telephone network," or PSTN. It provides POTS: "plain old telephone service," dial-up voice communications and nothing else.
Most countries made the telephone system a government function, typically part of the post office, but the United States and Canada kept it in private hands. Both countries began regulating phone service around the 1930s. Local phone companies had to provide service to anyone who asked. Rather than make rural customers pay the full cost of installing their expensive lines, regulators told the companies to average out the costs among all customers in the area. Each company had to physically interconnect with the others, so that any phone could call any other phone. Tariffed rates kept phone companies from discriminating unfairly among their customers. Rate regulation held profits at reasonable levels, yet encouraged investment in reliability and modernization. Charges for long-distance service, used mostly by businesses, were set artificially high to subsidize local service, and thus keep it inexpensive for consumers.
The U.S./Canadian telephone system that resulted was the envy of the world. Despite its stunning complexity – by far the most complicated machine of its time – the system operated with near-perfect reliability, except sometimes on Mother's Day. Even when ice storms and hurricanes knocked out power, picking up the handset almost always gave a dial tone.
Sending digital information over wires is not new. In fact, it's very old. Morse code telegraphy, which goes back to the 1840s, is a form of digital transmission. So are teleprinter machines, such as Teletype, which displaced Morse for sending text around the middle of the last century. The major U.S. teleprinter service, Western Union's Telex, operated its own switched-circuit system that paralleled the telephone system.
Nineteen-sixties-era computers, although big, slow, and expensive, were moving into commercial applications such as billing and accounting. That created a need to move quantities of data from one place to another. Some early applications used modem signals over ordinary phone lines – a precursor to the dial-up Internet. Systems needing to cover longer distances could connect their computers to Telex lines which, although slow, were less expensive than long-distance telephone, and were highly reliable. I worked on one such system in the early 1960s that controlled a 3,500-mile natural gas pipeline from a central location, over the Canadian equivalent of Telex.
A decade later, with computers becoming smaller, faster, and cheaper, modem and Telex speeds no longer sufficed. The phone companies offered high-speed data transmission over dedicated lines, but at costs too high for many applications. Fortunately, a new communications technology promised to meet the need: packet switching.
A packet-switched network superficially resembles a circuit-switched network, consisting of switching facilities connected by lines (or radio links or fiber-optics). There the resemblance ends. Where circuit switching reconfigures the wiring in advance for each call, packet switching leaves the network unchanged and instead routes pieces of the message on the fly.
The computer sending a message hands it off to an access point, called a host, that separates the message into chunks (packets) of uniform size, typically between 1024 and 524,280 bits. The host adds to each packet a "header" that carries the destination address along with other needed information. The host transmits the packets, one at a time, to a switching point, called a node, in the general direction of the destination. Equipment there inspects each header and directs the packet to another node, one still closer to the destination. The packet migrates in this way through the network, from node to node, until it reaches another host at the destination. There the host strips off the headers, reassembles the packets into the original message, and delivers it to the recipient.
Some systems, including the Internet, allow the packets for a given message to travel by different routes, possibly arriving at the receiving host out of order and requiring reassembly. Other systems use the first packet to drop a trail of electronic breadcrumbs that subsequent packets must follow, so that they reach the destination in sequence. There can also be arrangements for prioritizing packets, instructing the nodes to pass through urgent messages first.
But the phone companies liked the status quo. They still owned the massive switched voice network, also reliable and mostly paid for, from which they hoped to keep extracting revenues.
It took the growth of the public Internet, and particularly the spread of broadband connections to homes and businesses, to bring about change. Many peoples' computers were sending and receiving email and web data over the collection of packet networks called the Internet, using standards called Internet Protocol, or IP. Beginning ten years ago, a few start-ups began offering digitized voice over Internet Protocol – VoIP: a telephone-like service that ran over the Internet via a broadband connection to the user's premises.
Consumer VoIP now comes in two main types: "interconnected VoIP," which can place calls to and receive calls from ordinary phones, using ordinary phone numbers, and non-interconnected VoIP that usually connects through a user's computer and does not have its own traditional phone number for receiving calls. Some non-interconnected VoIP services are free. Although interconnected VoIP entails a monthly charge, that may include low-cost calling to much of the world, with an overall bill that is often far less than that for traditional phone service. Moreover, an interconnected VoIP user can obtain a phone number unrelated to his actual location. A user in Australia, for example, who has family and friends in New York City, can request a number with New York City country and area codes. Calls from New York City to Australia become local calls at local rates, while calls from Australia back to New York City go at low VoIP rates.
Although interconnected VoIP originally substituted for wireline phone service, the spread of smartphones changed that. A smartphone can use a VoIP connection over Wi-Fi or 3G/4G data services to send and receive mobile calls without eating into expensive cell plan minutes.
VoIP presents the FCC with a doctrinal conflict.
On the one hand, VoIP is an Internet application, and the FCC has long forborne from regulating Internet applications. This principle says: leave VoIP alone.
The economics dictate that more and more telephone users and functions will migrate to the Internet. Some public interest advocates view this trend with alarm. In particular, they fear losing hard-won consumer protections that benefit PSTN users.
Their concern may have some basis in history.
Back in the dial-up Internet days, thousands of independent Internet service providers (ISPs) flourished under rules that gave them equal footing with the telephone companies' own ISPs. But the FCC dropped those rules for broadband. The telephone and cable company broadband providers duly locked out the independents, leaving them no way to reach their customers. Today, except for wireless ISPs that provide their own broadband connections, the independents are mostly extinct. VoIP providers are likely to argue, as the broadband providers did, that traditional telephone-line protections are infeasible or unneeded in an Internet age.
Here is one example of the coming problems.
Running telephone lines to deeply rural areas and isolated Indian reservations is expensive. But the phone companies do it anyway, and they spread the cost, because the rules require it. Mobile service providers, in contrast, have no comparable obligation to reach every potential customer. The cell companies accordingly can (and do) omit base stations that would serve only small numbers of people. This leaves many rural and reservation residents with no access to the mobile voice and data services that the rest of us take for granted.
Will the FCC regulate the coverage of IP telephony like wireline phones or like mobile phones – or possibly some other way?
One theoretical solution is to leave VoIP providers lightly regulated, yet still require the traditional phone companies to continue serving anyone who asks. But if VoIP picks off the low-cost urban and suburban markets, leaving the traditional companies with just the expensive rural customers, those customers will pay high rates. Requiring VoIP companies to serve everyone does not work, either; VoIP needs broadband, and providing broadband to remote locations is even more expensive than running wireline service – although ubiquitous broadband service would have a lot of social value.
The answer may be a fund that all providers, whether wireline or VoIP, would pay into, and that would subsidize rural and reservation service – somewhat like the present high-cost component of the universal service fund, but with much of the revenue coming from outside the conventional telephone industry.
Multiply this issue by every other facet of telephone regulation. The overall task will be something like updating the rules of the road from horse-and-carriage traffic to modern automobiles.
There is an added complication. Local wireline service is a tough market to get started in, even as a non-incumbent competitive local carrier. Accordingly, there are relatively few companies to regulate. But almost anybody can become a VoIP provider. With cloud services bringing down the costs of entry, VoIP companies are likely to spring up all over. The competition will undoubtedly be good for customers. But for regulators, collecting payments and reports from multitudinous small providers will be a major headache.
Today the states have a large role in regulating local wireline telephone service, but no jurisdiction over the Internet. At first glance it makes little sense to extend or replicate the states' present wireline authority in order to allow them to regulate VoIP – if it is possible at all; a customer with an in-state phone number might actually be far outside the state. But governments do not easily give up their powers, and the states may fight for the right to protect their citizens.
Finally, the current policy of regulating only interconnected VoIP, while leaving non-interconnected VoIP nearly untouched, cannot survive indefinitely. There used to be a marked difference between the two: where interconnected VoIP needed no special skills, the typical non-interconnected VoIP customer was a highly computer-literate person with a headset plugged into a laptop. But then smartphones appeared. They combined the functions of both the headset and the laptop, while VoIP apps eliminated the need for computer skills. A lot of the people chatting on their phones at Starbucks may well be using VoIP. Many of the apps can dial out to any phone number. But because they have no number themselves for dialing in, they are deemed non-interconnected, and hence are mostly unregulated. Sooner or later, the providers will work out ways for their customers to call each other without using phone numbers at all. Regulatory efforts that continue to ignore these apps and their providers will miss a large piece of the industry. That will put more of the regulatory burden on interconnected VoIP, which will drive still more users to the non-interconnected apps.
If the FCC wanted to, could it apply full telephone regulation to the non-interconnected providers? Its statutory mandate does not obviously extend that far. Besides, providers could easily locate off-shore, outside the FCC's reach. And even just identifying the myriad of providers and their untold numbers of customers could be a formidable task. Not many people think that completely unregulated telephone service is the right outcome, but we may be heading in that direction at accelerating speeds.
A recent meeting of the FCC heard a high-level presentation on some of these issues. Experiments are planned. It is good to see the FCC getting started. But they sure have a long way to go.
Thanks for the time and effort you put into this, Mitchell. I've been looking for something I could use to explain the PSTN sunset challenge to non specialists. Very well written and clear.
Not bad not bad at all but you still confuse Voice Over IP aka Vonage with Voice Using IP which is Cable and FIOS. Dont worry everyone does it.
We the engineers will have something to say about this shortly.
You can see all my filings on FCBA..
Richard Shockey's point is crucial here. The PSTN didn't "end" when its internal signalling moved from manual cord boards to MF or from MF to SS7, and the move from SS7 to IP is no different. The PSTN is defined by criteria like mandatory interconnection, , settlements, and access to 911. It makes about as much sense to say the Internet and the PSTN are the same because they both use IP as it does to say a jet plane is a tractor because they both use kerosene.
There are some real arbitrage issues, and funding of public service and universal service functions, but they're not hard to solve once you understand what you're regulating.
Or looking at it another way. The PSTN is 3 things.
1. Anyone to Anyone. That implies 251 interconnection is some way shape or form, though like the Internet those agreements could be more voluntary. Note less than 7% of all voice minutes are real VoIP like Skype etc. PSTN voice across all platforms is still about 140 Billion in revenue per year.
2. 911 that is a central value proposition here and an essential public good.
3 The persistent identifier. The phone number. If we do this right we can have national geographic number portability.
At least technically we may actually be able to get a better service out of this. Wow actually take a conference call on a mobile device .. HD Voice? How novel.
Of all the assorted regulations in question, only E911 is an embedded public good. The other requirements amount to economic subsidies of one kind or another.
The E911 system evolved under the assumption that subscribers could be located based on assigned telephone number. With cellphones quickly displacing wireline phones, that assumption is no longer valid.
The Congress can enact taxes to cover any rural connectivity subsidies it thinks appropriate, perhaps avoiding some of the unintended consequences of present policy.
And E911 should be scrapped in favor of a dedicated emergency button or even an embedded application capable of self activating in case medical emergency. The dial – talk – wait model is simply no longer relevant.
A smaller FCC role will naturally give rise to the sorts of innovations the IP medium is capable of. To the extent the FCC attempts to regulate along the lines of the present wireline regime, the possibilities for innovation will be fewer.
Phone Service Providers plays important role in telecommunication in the world. every one needs phone connection at their residence or at their office for communication in this mobile world because the work done on land line phone are not able to do properly on mobile devices.
I've been doing some research and wondering do the patents that Voip-Pal (an IP company) just acquired from USPTO regarding the VoIP industry come into play with the new FCC proposal? Their BOD, who are industry experts, believe that anyone using VoIP is infringing on their patents and they are trying to find a licensing deal with a major Telco player and eventually be acquired for their IP.
I'd like to hear your insight since it you probably are more familiar with the market than most.
ARP — Ordinarily the FCC regulates without regard to patent considerations.
Unfortunately I personally lack the patent expertise to have an opinion on the infringement question you raise. Maybe someone more knowledgeable will step forward.


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Ohio State football recruit Jack Mewhort (74) stands with Ohio State head football coach Jim Tressel, left, during a news conference Wednesday, Feb. 4, 2009, in Columbus, Ohio. (AP Photo/Terry Gilliam)
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Against Penn State on Nov. 26, Mewhort will see plenty of action head-to-head with redshirt sophomore Deion Barnes. That matchup will be an important one in determining if the Nittany Lions can slow down Miller and the Buckeyes' rushing attack.
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No. 19: Jonathan Brown, LB, Illinois
No. 18: Adolphus Washington, DE, Ohio State
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No. 16: Spencer Long, OG, Nebraska
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By uomatters | 04/06/2011 - 2:42 pm | 04/06/2011 Uncategorized
4/6/2011: Gov Kitzhaber's is out selling his "one board to bind them" education plan. The fact that his chief adviser is Springfield Schools head Nancy Golden is a good sign – she's very impressive. Big step up from Goldschmidt's Dr. Pernsteiner – whoops, sorry, that's Mr. Pernsteiner. The RG has a story but their website is down and there's no way I'm going out to the drive to get the paper copy in this rain. Kimberly Melton in the Oregonian:
Senate Bill 909 creates a 13-member investment board appointed by the governor. The board would make recommendations on how to invest state education money. Kitzhaber says Oregon needs to target its money to ensure that children show up to kindergarten and first grade ready to read and that students who are leaving high school are college ready and have an easy transition to post-secondary education.
… representatives from some of the state's key education groups disputed Kitzhaber's claim that Oregon's education system is broken. It's not broken, they said during a packed hearing Tuesday afternoon, just underfunded.
"We may have a fragmented system, a competing system, but it's not a broken system," said David Rives, president of the American Federation of Teachers of Oregon.
And Bonnie Luisi, president of the Oregon School Employees Association, testified in support of the bill but said the state's "drastic underfunding" of education is the "single greatest barrier to the improvement of quality and access."
The state's biggest education group, the Oregon Education Association, is neutral on the bill.
Follow the bill here, or all higher ed legislation here. Before you get too excited about this bill and what it would mean for the UO Freedom Forces, read Ms Melton's other story here, on how dysfunctional the House education committee is:
Some are calling it a meltdown. Others say it's just a bump in the road. But no matter how you characterize it, Oregon's evenly-split House Education Committee is struggling to move legislation as the co-chairs haggle over individual bills, what should make the agenda and even who should hold the gavel.
The ongoing rift has frustrated legislators and stalled some big-ticket education bills on higher education, online learning, student transportation and charter schools. And now, it's forcing House leaders to start working around the committee.
"We haven't been nearly as productive as we should or could be," said Rep. Michael Dembrow, D-Portland, a member of the committee. "There are bills hanging out there that people want to see move to the floor. But they're getting caught up in other political agendas and time is running out."
Tagged OUS Board and Chancellor, Pernsteiner
Has Pernsteiner been voting illegally?
3/21/2011: The ever helpful bojack.org posts the Oregon statutes on determining voting residence:
(3) An elections official may consider, but is not limited to considering, the following factors in determining residency of a person for voter registration purposes:
(a) Where the person receives personal mail;
(b) Where the person is licensed to drive;
(c) Where the person registers motor vehicles for personal use;
(d) Where any immediate family members of the person reside;
(e) The address from which the person pays for utility services; and
(f) The address from which the person files any federal or state income tax returns.
3/19/2011: OUS Chancellor George Pernsteiner owns a house in Portland, and he spends most of his working time at his office at PSU. But he votes in Eugene. Now the Lane County elections supervisor is asking him why:
He's been doing this since 2004 – apparently it's part of the pretense that he is using the state owned Treetops mansion in Eugene as his "actual residence." I'm no lawyer, but I believe in Oregon it's a felony to make a false statement on a voter registration card:
Here's what Oregon Secretary of State Kate Brown says about voter fraud, in the Oregonian, last year.
… Perhaps the greatest deterrents are the penalties for a Class C felony. That's the crime when someone ineligible casts a ballot, votes under a false name, forges a signature on a ballot envelope or falsely registers to vote. If they do manage to get by our security checks, the Oregon Department of Justice will prosecute and then we're talking five years in prison, a $125,000 fine and, when appropriate, deportation.
For example, a Josephine County man who was not a citizen forged the name of his younger brother, a citizen, on a voter registration card. We investigated, the Department of Justice prosecuted and he was convicted of four felonies and deported. Now he can never become an American. …
We deploy a full arsenal of tools against voter fraud, including long prison terms, heavy fines and deportation. We have checks and balances at all levels of the system. And we have the Department of Justice prosecutors backing us up.
As chief elections officer, it's my job to protect the integrity of the ballot. If you suspect any kind of fraud at all, you should call us at 503-986-1518 with as many details as possible. Believe me, we'll investigate.
Deportation. I like that. Next time you leave Oregon's 3rd Congressional District you'd better have a visa, dude.
As I see it Pernsteiner can either admit that he has been voting illegally, change his registration and pretend he just now moved, or stonewall and keep claiming he lives at Treetops. So far, he's still claiming his residence is Treetops:
My guess is that his lawyer tells him to quietly change his registration to his real house, throw himself on the mercy of Secretary of State Kate Brown, and claim his 7 years of voting in Lane County were an innocent mistake that had nothing to do with his office's efforts to fend off the claims by Campbell Church's heirs to Treetops.
Which is going to be a tough sell, given the letters like this that are floating around:
"no records responsive to this request"
3/14/2011: I've been trying to figure out Chancellor Pernsteiner's OUS contract. Is it possible the $23,320 for "Professional expenses" is for tuition payments, so he can finally get that PhD? Seems a bit high for the University of Phoenix, but I haven't heard a better explanation. So I made a request to OUS for the accounting statements. Friday I got this reply from their public records officer:
How can you give a guy that kind of money and not have any documentation? This keeps getting weirder. Here's the relevant part of the contract:
I've now talked on the phone with Mr. Triplett about this. The OUS does not check on how he actually spends the money. He says that these amounts are simply paid to Chancellor Persteiner on a monthly basis as "salary supplements" or additional compensation, added to his $280,900 base. Which brings it up to $342,940.
In addition he gets a car, and is also reimbursed about $20,000 a year for in and out of state travel expenses. Then of course there's the $50,000 a year or so for Treetops. And the $7,000 or so he charges OUS students for his personal food.
Pernsteiner studying for a PhD?
By uomatters | 03/08/2011 - 6:37 am | 03/08/2011 Uncategorized
3/8/2011: I've been trying to figure out Chancellor Pernsteiner's OUS contract. Not the $70K a year Treetops mansion and additional $26K housing allowance – that's just stupidity and greed, respectively. But what about the $23,320 for "Professional expenses"? Is it possible this is for tuition payments, so he can finally get that PhD? Seems a bit high for the University of Phoenix, but I haven't heard a better explanation:


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Margret Petersons Amon Among The Hidden - Start studying Greek Art: Geometric,Orientilizing, Archaic, Classical, Hellenistic Period. Learn vocabulary, terms, and more with flashcards, games, and other study. Difference Between Hellenistic and Classical Art Hellenistic vs Classical Art When talking about Hellenistic and classical art, both arts are known for displaying human anatomy. In Hellenistic art, one can see that the art forms went beyond understanding human anatomy and looked at how the body moved and how it looked when in action. The Hellenistic art looked at how the [ ]. BC – 27 BC. The Hellenistic period in both history and in art refers to the era of the conquests of Alexander the Great and the subsequent spreading of Greek culture throughout the major cities and nations of Southern Europe, the Mediterranean, and Near East. The art movement of this time period is mostly expressed through sculpture. Channing Matthew Tatum Research Paper
the ninety-five theses - Aug 23, · The term Ancient, or Archaic, Greece refers to the years B.C., not the Classical Age ( B.C.) known for its art, architecture and philosophy. Archaic Greece saw advances in art. Start studying Greek Art: Geometric, Orientalizing, Archaic, Classical, & Hellenistic. Learn vocabulary, terms, and more with flashcards, games, and other study tools. Jul 31, · History of Ancient Greek Architecture, From Archaic to Hellenistic Period. July 31, As far as written records report, "prehistory" dates back between 35, BCE and BCE in the Middle East ( BCE in Western Europe). Ancient builders had a profound understanding of human responses to environmental conditions and physical aikotoba-jp.somee.comted Reading Time: 5 mins. The Vikings: Adventurers, Raiders, And Settlers
Cultural Conflict In Amy Tans Short Story Two Kinds - The "Early Classical Period" (/ – B.C.E.) was a period of transition when some sculptural work displayed archaizing holdovers alongside the so-called "Severe Style.". As can be seen in the Kritios Boy, c. B.C.E., the "Severe Style" features realistic anatomy, serious . The Archaic period was the earliest period in Greek Sculpture which started around BCE. These works have a stiff and ridged appearance similar to that of the Egyptian sculpture. The Classical period, was between the Archaic and the Hellenistic times BCE. This period shows a very large shift from the stiff Archaic to a more. Paleolithic Art (Dawn of Man – 10, BC), Neolithic Art ( BC – AD), Egyptian Art ( BC - AD), Ancient Near Eastern Art (Neolithic era – BC), Bronze and Iron Age Art ( BC – Debated), Aegean Art ( BC), Archaic Greek Art ( BC), Classical Greek Art ( BC), Hellenistic Art ( BC – 27 BC. Merchant Of Venice Bound Analysis
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Reflection On Post-Partum Patient Experience - Feb 01, · The Archaic phase is best known for the beginnings of realistic depictions of humans and monumental stone sculptures. It was during the Archaic period that the limestone kouros (male) and kore (female) statues were created, always depicting young, nude, smiling persons. Note: The Archaic and subsequent Classical and Hellenistic periods each contained separate Early, High, and Late phases Estimated Reading Time: 5 mins. Hellenistic (Ancient Greek) art history; It is the period denoting Ancient Greek art, covering the period beginning with the death of Alexander the Great in BC and ending in BC, when the Greek mainland was taken by the Romans. It follows the period of classical Greek art. The Greco-Roman art that followed was largely a continuation of. The Archaic period (ca. BC) was the formative era of Greek art, while the Classical period (ca. BC) was the culminating age. The history of large-scale sculpture in Europe essentially begins with ancient Greece; only a handful of large sculpted works were produced by earlier cultures. The two great traditional forms of large. The Siren Song Analysis
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Honors Anatomy And Physiology: The Respiratory System - spelled peplus, garment worn by Greek women during the early Archaic, Classical, and Hellenistic periods (i.e., up to about ce). It consisted of a large rectangular piece of material folded vertically and hung from the shoulders, with a broad overfold. During the . History >> Art History The Ancient Greeks became known for their perfection in art. During the classical era they developed their own style that historians would later call the Severe Style. Periods of Greek Art Archaic Period: The Greeks from the Archaic Period made sculptures of men called Kouroi and women called Korai. These statues had similar features and stood stiffly with their arms at. The style of Greek panel painting mirrored that of murals: flat during the Archaic period, realistic during the Classical/Hellenistic age. Almost nothing survives of ancient Greek panel painting, however. 8, God And Nature In William Bradfords Of Plymouth Plantation
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christmas carol poverty quotes - View aikotoba-jp.somee.com from ART at St. Johns River State College. Geometric, Archaic, Classical and Hellenistic Barrons Book Chapter 4 Greek; Chapter 5 Etruscan Essential Knowledge: Greek art. Archaic Period (c BCE) Archaic Greek Pottery. The most developed art form of the pre-Archaic period (c) was undoubtedly Greek aikotoba-jp.somee.com involving large vases and other vessels, it was decorated originally with linear designs (proto-geometric style), then more elaborate patterns (geometric style) of triangles, zigzags and other similar shapes. Apr 29, · The Greek city-states and Macedon and the Hellenistic kingdoms were all part of the same culture/aikotoba-jp.somee.com were hellenic/aikotoba-jp.somee.com only did they existed at the same time but they also spoke the same aikotoba-jp.somee.com word "Hellenistic" was coined in the 19th century to describe a period where greek culture spread over to non greek. Merchant Of Venice Bound Analysis
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Best Books Set in Paris: Novels, Memoirs, Biographies and More
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Another day, another great book comes out about Paris. Or so it seems. The City of Light fuels an endless literary appetite. We are seemingly fascinated with this city like no other, and dozens of books fly off the shelves to feed the need. Not to mention the importance of the city as a source of inspiration to expat writers—from James Fenimore Cooper to Gertrude Stein. This rich literary tradition continues today, with a slew of impressive expat writers taking up residence in Paris. Recent picks Bonjour Paris is lucky to review a number of Paris books. Below is a frequently-updated list of recent volumes (and advance copies) that have crossed our desks. Lauren Elkin's fabulous Flâneuse, Women Walk the City in Paris, New York, Tokyo, Venice and London. This wonderful volume has been listed as a best book of 2017 by multiple critics.  When in French: Love in a Second Language by New Yorker columnist Lauren Collins. We highly recommend this excellent book.  A Taste of Paris: A History of the Parisian Love Affair with Food by David Downie. The Mistress of Paris, a fascinating biography by Catherine Hewitt about "the 19th century courtesan who built an empire on a secret." City of Noise, professor Aimée Boutin's insightful study of historic Parisian soundscapes.  The Streets of Paris, Susan Cahill's guide to the City of Light following in the footsteps of 22 famous Parisians throughout history. Say our colleagues at France Today magazine: "Let yourself be guided through history along Paris's sweeping avenues and tapered passages, with the odd pitstop in the capital's coveted patisseries!"  A Paris Year, an illustrated journal and city guide by Janice MacLeod. The author built up a following with her "Paris Letters"– a fun subscription service featuring painted letters about life in Paris. This is her second book.  The Bonjour Effect, The Secret Codes of French Conversation Revealed by Julie Barlow & Jean-Benoît Nadeau. This is the latest book by the award-winning authors of the international bestseller Sixty Million Frenchmen Can't Be Wrong.  Murder on the Quai by Cara Black, the New York Times and USA Today best-selling author of 16 books in the Aimée Leduc mystery series, all set in Paris.  The Light of Paris by Eleanor Brown– a novel she was inspired to write when she discovered a stash of letters written by her grandmother as a young woman in Paris.  The Novel of the Century: The Extraordinary Adventure of Les Misérables by David Bellos.  Lindsey Tramuta's buzzed-about The New Paris: The People, Places and Ideas Fueling a Movement. There's a dynamic new energy in the City of Light, and journalist Tramuta has mapped out this exciting scene.  Doorways of Paris by Raquel Puig, the Parisian woman who's behind the Instagram account "Doorways of Paris." Peruse the photographs and discover "the most beautiful city in the world through its doors." The Pilot by Ed Cobleigh, a BP contributor Miracle at Midlife: A Transatlantic Romance by Roni Beth Tower, a BP contributor. Last Christmas in Paris: A Novel of World War One by Hazel Gaynor and Heather Webb. A romantic novel set during the Great War. Our reader's…
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Another day, another great book comes out about Paris. Or so it seems. The City of Light fuels an endless literary appetite. We are seemingly fascinated with this city like no other, and dozens of books fly off the shelves to feed the need. Not to mention the importance of the city as a source of inspiration to expat writers—from James Fenimore Cooper to Gertrude Stein. This rich literary tradition continues today, with a slew of impressive expat writers taking up residence in Paris.
Recent picks
Bonjour Paris is lucky to review a number of Paris books. Below is a frequently-updated list of recent volumes (and advance copies) that have crossed our desks.
Lauren Elkin's fabulous Flâneuse, Women Walk the City in Paris, New York, Tokyo, Venice and London. This wonderful volume has been listed as a best book of 2017 by multiple critics. [Read the Bonjour Paris interview here.]
When in French: Love in a Second Language by New Yorker columnist Lauren Collins. We highly recommend this excellent book. [Read the Bonjour Paris interview here.]
A Taste of Paris: A History of the Parisian Love Affair with Food by David Downie. [Read the Bonjour Paris interview here.]
The Mistress of Paris, a fascinating biography by Catherine Hewitt about "the 19th century courtesan who built an empire on a secret."
City of Noise, professor Aimée Boutin's insightful study of historic Parisian soundscapes.
The Streets of Paris, Susan Cahill's guide to the City of Light following in the footsteps of 22 famous Parisians throughout history. Say our colleagues at France Today magazine: "Let yourself be guided through history along Paris's sweeping avenues and tapered passages, with the odd pitstop in the capital's coveted patisseries!"
A Paris Year, an illustrated journal and city guide by Janice MacLeod. The author built up a following with her "Paris Letters"– a fun subscription service featuring painted letters about life in Paris. This is her second book.
The Bonjour Effect, The Secret Codes of French Conversation Revealed by Julie Barlow & Jean-Benoît Nadeau. This is the latest book by the award-winning authors of the international bestseller Sixty Million Frenchmen Can't Be Wrong. [Read the Bonjour Paris interview here.]
Murder on the Quai by Cara Black, the New York Times and USA Today best-selling author of 16 books in the Aimée Leduc mystery series, all set in Paris. [Read the Bonjour Paris interview here.]
The Light of Paris by Eleanor Brown– a novel she was inspired to write when she discovered a stash of letters written by her grandmother as a young woman in Paris. [Read the Bonjour Paris interview here.]
The Novel of the Century: The Extraordinary Adventure of Les Misérables by David Bellos. [Read the Bonjour Paris interview here.]
Lindsey Tramuta's buzzed-about The New Paris: The People, Places and Ideas Fueling a Movement. There's a dynamic new energy in the City of Light, and journalist Tramuta has mapped out this exciting scene. [Read the Bonjour Paris interview here.]
Doorways of Paris by Raquel Puig, the Parisian woman who's behind the Instagram account "Doorways of Paris." Peruse the photographs and discover "the most beautiful city in the world through its doors."
The Pilot by Ed Cobleigh, a BP contributor
Miracle at Midlife: A Transatlantic Romance by Roni Beth Tower, a BP contributor. [Read the Bonjour Paris interview here.]
Last Christmas in Paris: A Novel of World War One by Hazel Gaynor and Heather Webb. A romantic novel set during the Great War.
Our reader's recommendations
Back in February, we polled readers: do you have a favorite book set in the City of Light? Many of you wrote in to share suggestions. (And please feel free to leave more in the comments section below.)
The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris by David McCullough.
Le Divorce by Diane Johnson
Lunch in Paris: A Love Story with Recipes by Elizabeth Bard
Les Misérables. This list wouldn't be complete without Victor Hugo's classic.
Pulang (Home) by Laila S. Chudori.
Metronome: History of Paris from the Underground Up by Lorànt Deutsch.
A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway (Reader Patricia Schneider wrote, "Cliché though it may be, I have to admit that my favorite is "A Moveable Feast". This viscerally evocative book unsentimentally captures the fragile period in the 1920s when expats and Parisians could enjoy a meal for several francs at the Closerie des Lilas, or engage in spirited debates with other writers and artists. Its nostalgia isn't sugary, but transportive. I know I'm not alone in saying that I wish I could've experienced my beloved Paris during this time. Life wasn't simpler-in many ways it was more difficult-but the sense of community and artistic fertility could only have happened during the 1920s."
The Only Street in Paris: Life on the Rue des Martyrs by Elaine Sciolino (Reader Patricia Schneider shared: "I loved this book. It captures the rare and unique flavor and sense of community that rarely exists in today's world. Her passion for her quartier is palpable.") [Read the Bonjour Paris interview with Elaine Sciolino here.]
Reader Lisa recommends a trio of art-related books: Bohemian Paris ("one for the library!"), Shocking Paris ("set during World War II, at times heartbreaking, focusing on Jewish artists of the School of Paris"); Renoir ("a rare first person account, written by his son. As a Paris lover I loved reading how the tenements surrounded what is now the Louvre and how the little kids (Renoir being one of them) would play in the courtyard as the guards tried to chase them off and the queen would open the window and toss out bonbons. Those weird little tidbits that get the obsessed excited!"), and Francis Bacon in Your Blood: A Memoir ("While most people might first think of England, Bacon lived a great part of his life in Paris; this is a rare perspective from an author who met Bacon just as his career was taking off, and remained close friends until Bacon's death. An intimate, sometimes raw read. As art lovers we are fortunate to get such intimate access to an artist and his personal life and thoughts.")
If you think we've missed any great novels set in Paris let us know in the comments section below!
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Aida La Brutte
Thank you for this wonderful list of books about Paris. I've read some of these, and I've put others on my "must read" list. I'd like to recommend, "Paris to the Moon," by Adam Gopnik, Random House 2008. A wonderful Paris "memoir" by an American journalist.
Sue G
This is one of my favorites too. I've read it many times. It's by Thad Carhart and his latest book, 'Finding Fountainbleau: An American Boy in France' is also worth a read even though it's not set in Paris, but a short train ride away.
KERRIN HOFSTRAND
Me too!!!....my question is why are we in Australia getting this part of Bonjour Paris now when all your replies are in April??...anyway I totally agree with you!!! He was just on my favourite podcast ...Earful Tower ...and i won a signed copy of Montparnasse!!!!
Paris Revealed by John Baxter Dirty Bertie by STEPHEN Clarke The golden Moments of Paris by John Baxter Montmartre by John Baxter Montparnasse by John Baxter Can't remember the full name but the book about the Ritz!...Hotel Vendome The Flâneur!!!
Jerry Stanton
The Autobiography of Waverly Root Read it for the description of Lindbergh's arrival in Paris after his solo flight across the Atlantic.
Kasia Dietz
I really enjoyed The Velvet Hours by Alyson Richman. A great read for romantics and history buffs!
Jo Moncrieff
Joanne Moncrieff Any book on Paris by John Baxter gives the most interesting, factual, educational view whilst his personal sweet fascinating touch makes me smile as I read. My bedside table is like a John Baxter shrine, love those books !!
Merryn Sterling
I can't go past 'The Piano Shop on the Left Bank' as my favourite book set in Paris. It combines the uniqueness of the city with interesting musical musings. There is so much to be learnt about the noble piano, as well as lots of Parisian atmosphere.
Delicious Days in Paris @Amazon, Book Depository by Jane Paech. This book is one of best looks inside Paris as a traveler you NEED to read it.
Cheryl Stoy
IRRESISTIBLY YOURS by Lark Brennan is set in a fictionalized Deyrolle. It's an adult novel--a combination of suspense, fantasy, and a bit of romance where the protagonist has the ability to "bring the animals to life." Charming and fun to read!
Mary Rack
Who is the author of "Shocking Paris"?
Ed Cobleigh, Author
My all-time favorite book set in Paris is, of course, The Pilot: Fighter Planes and Paris. Why? Because I wrote it. I've visited The City of Lights over 50 times, I know it well and I put my experiences in the book, from bistros on l'ile Saint-Louis, Le Tour Eiffel, Fouquets, the inner office of the US Ambassador, Le Coup Chou, Sidney Bechet, and naturally a boudoir or two. The book is a literary aviation novel, a genre invented by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. He wrote the third best selling book of all time, maybe some of that success will rub off on me. My current project is a creative non-fiction bio of Roland Garros. Thanks for enduring this exercise of shameless commerce.
Joe Jurick
Cara Black has a nice mystery series of Aimee Leduc, a French computer security pro and part-time private eye in her Murder mystery series. Each book is written to occur in a different arrondisement. She is more than half way there, and I am not sure what she will do if she gets past 20. She does a prodigious amount of research, so the background is reasonably accurate.