Marginalia1531.NOw in the yere after the deathe of the holye martir Thomas Hytten, it commeth to hande to make mentyon of the famous and worthy man Thomas Bilney, who with no lesse constancye, putte hym self forth for the Gospel of Christ.
Unlike Robert Barnes or other Cambridge men who were among the earliest English evangelicals, Thomas Bilney left few written works at the time of his execution by burning on 19 August 1531. Posterity therefore has had to depend very largely on Foxe's martyrology for his portrait. When Patrick Collinson wrote that John Foxe's beautiful stories are `indispensable' for our understanding of the Reformation, because `we cannot and never shall be able to see the events' that he recounted `except through his spectacles' (Patrick Collinson, `Truth and legend: the veracity of John Foxe's Book of Martyrs', in Elizabethan Essays, (London, 1994), p. 177), we may appreciate that Foxe is also indispensable for what we can know about Bilney. In this section of his text it is particularly clear how Foxe and his printer John Day looked through the spectacles of the men who had actually known Bilney, and how they interwove the contradictory accounts of his life, examinations, retractions, and death into a memorable portrait of a man who was sacrificed at a delicate moment in the life of the Christian Church.
In the 1563 edition, their source material was drawn from the official records kept by Cuthbert Tunstall, then bishop of London, in his episcopal register; the sermons of Hugh Latimer; as well as the polemical denunciations of Sir Thomas More. In the second edition of 1570, Foxe and Day were assisted by those who had known Bilney, and were still alive at the time that they were writing, most notably their great patron the archbishop of Canterbury, Matthew Parker, who was a Norwich native, and as a young fellow of Corpus Christi College had accompanied Bilney when he went to the stake. The reason why Foxe consulted these sources about Bilney's death was that he was responding to charges made by Thomas More, and repeated later by Nicolas Harpsfield in 1566, that Bilney had died a penitent sinner, reconciled with the Catholic church.
Latimer's first printed references to Bilney appeared during the reign of King Edward VI, when Day (while he was working with William Seres in the late 1540s) began to disseminate his sermons with the backing of Katherine Brandon, the widowed duchess of Suffolk, whose arms appear at the beginning of Latimer's books. After Latimer was burnt in 1555, Foxe and Day continued to gather his sermons as they prepared their successive editions of the A&M. Day printed a fresh assemblage of Latimer's sermons in 1562, with previously-unprinted additions that contained further references to Bilney. Even at the end of Day's life, he discovered more sermons by Latimer to put into print.
To Latimer, we can attribute the evocative portrait of `Bilney, little Bilney' the vulnerable and harmless scholar, which he created in three sermons:1) 'Bilney, litle Bilnei, that blessed martyr of GOD', first appeared in Latimer's Seventh Sermon preached before King Edward VI: The seconde sermon of Maister Hughe Latimer, whych he preached before the Kynges Maiestie within his graces Palayce at Westminster, the xv. day of Marche M.ccccc.xlix. (London: John Day and William Seres , STC 15274.7), sigs. Bb3A-Bb3B; (reprinted in the Parker Society edition of Latimer's Sermons, ed. George Elwes Corrie (Cambridge, 1844), p. 222.2) Bilney asked Latimer to hear his confession (1524): first printed in Latimer's First Sermon on the Lord's Prayer in 27 sermons preached by the ryght Reuerende father in God and constant matir [sic] of Iesus Christe, Maister Hugh Latimer, as well such as in tymes past haue bene printed, as certayne other commyng to our handes of late, whych were yet neuer set forth in print, (London: John Day, 1562, STC 15276) in the section known as Certayn Godly Sermons, made vppon the Lordes Prayer, at fol. 13B (reprinted in Latimer's Sermons, ed. pp. 334-5).3) Bilney's `anguishe and agonie' following his recantation of 1527 appeared in one of the final books Day printed, in Latimer's Lincolnshire Sermons for the Second Sunday in Advent Fruitfull sermons preached by the right reuerend Father, and constant martyr of Iesus Christ M. Hugh Latimer (London: John Day, 1584, STC 15280), fols. 247-247v; reprinted in Sermons and Remains, ed. George Elwes Corrie (Cambridge, 1844), p. 51.Latimer's reminiscences of Bilney's life and sufferings, as they were adapted in the A&M, have proved to be definitive over the centuries, or rather, the chief means by which Bilney has been understood, at least until recently.
In contrast to Latimer's portrait of Bilney as the noble victim, Sir Thomas More's characterization was polarized between Bilney's obvious reputation for goodness, contrasted against the harm that More believed Bilney inflicted when he preached and distributed books in London and East Anglia. So More wrote during Bilney's lifetime that he had heard that his reputation, was of 'a good honest vertuous man/ farre from ambycyon and desire of worldely worshyp/ chast/ humble/ and charytable/ free and lyberall in alm[h]ouse dede[s]/ and a very goodly prechoure' in A dyaloge of syr Thomas More knyghte . . . touchyng the pestylent secte of Luther [and] Tyndale (London: William Rastell, 1530, STC 18085), especially sig. B3B. B5A-C6B; reprinted in Sir Thomas More, A Dialogue Concerning Heresies, eds. Thomas M. C. Lawler et al., in The Complete Works of St. Thomas More, vol. 6, pt. 1 (New Haven, 1981), especially pp. 27-8, 35-51. As Lord Chancellor, More was asked to investigate some of the legal disarray that accompanied Bilney's execution, which he discussed in The confutacyon of Tyndales answere (London: William Rastell, 1532, STC 18079), sig. Cc3B-Dd1A, reprinted in The confutacyon of Tyndales answere, ed. L. A. Schuster et al., in The Complete Works of St. Thomas More, vol. 8, pt. 1 (New Haven, 1973), pp. 22-5. More's nuanced and complicated understanding of Bilney, which moved in turns from sympathy through to acidulation, has been especially influential in recent decades in the work of John F. Davis and Gregory Walker, among others.
What was Bilney's own religious complexion? The term `Protestant' began to emerge only from 1529, after the second Diet of Speyer and it did not gain any currency in English until long after Bilney's death. Probably it is not fair to call Bilney a Protestant, for he died before doctrinal lines and confessional identities had been sufficiently developed to make their meanings clear (this was also the view of the Jesuit Robert Parsons writing at the beginning of the seventeenth century). Bilney's opinions reveal a certain fluidity that was characteristic of the Cambridge men of his generation. Also, it may not be completely appropriate to refer to his conversion, as Foxe and Day did, nor to his converting of others, for they defined with the benefit of hindsight what has become known as `the conversion experience' in a manner that might not be said to match the type of profound religious and emotional engagements that Bilney or Latimer knew. Some profound transformations occurred in their devotional lives, but `conversion', as Foxe and Day labeled them, might be too limiting to express the complexity of what actually occurred. Elements of Lollardy have been identified in Bilney's thinking, but many of his ideas were also unexceptional in the broad currents of the Christian Church. It is hard to discern how much of Luther's ideas he accepted. In 1527 he agreed that Luther's opinions had been justly condemned, and that Luther and his followers were wicked and detestable heretics. Four years later, however, some of his ideas sound very much influenced by Luther indeed. But by the time of his death, Bilney may have already been surpassed in his thinking by other Cambridge men. This is apparent if we can believe a comment the A&M attributed to Richard Nix, bishop of Norwich, who exclaimed, `I feare I haue burnt Abell & let Cain go', after learning that Nicholas Shaxton had preached during a University Sermon on Ash Wednesday 1531 that it was wrong to say publicly that there was no purgatory, but not damnable to think so privately. John F. Davis, followed by P. R N. Carter, termed Bilney an `evangelical': one who believed that scripture defined faith, devotion, and practice. Evangelical is the term for Bilney that will be embraced here.
Why was Bilney burned in 1531? The circumstances of his execution go back to his defiant to return to Norwich and preach publicly. His adversaries held the advantage once he decided to repudiate his abjuration and 'go to Ierusalem'), and see his friends no more (like Christ on his way to Golgotha). As a relapsed heretic, he could expect little mercy. More importantly, his execution came about as one element in the larger struggle that was taking place in England between the clergy and Henry VIII for control over the English Church. Cardinal Thomas Wolsey (who examined Bilney in 1527) was discarded as the king's chief advisor in 1529 after he failed to obtain an annulment of Henry's marriage to Catherine of Aragon from Pope Clement VII. From mid-1530, the king became emboldened to assert his own authority against the jurisdiction of the pope. Henry began to press forward the understanding that he was the supreme head of the Church in England, and that English kings had always held spiritual sovereignty in their realm. Under this line of reasoning the papacy was a mere usurper in England, and the pope was only the bishop of Rome. In 1527, Bilney made the daring suggestion that kings and princes should assume the role of an Ezechias and destroy any religious images that detracted worshippers from the sacrifice that Christ had made on the cross. In essence, Bilney attempted to push Henry into the role of acting like an Old Testament ruler like Hezekiah, or Josiah, which was a trend that gained greater success late in his reign, and became the standard attribute for the young King Edward VI. During his trial in Norwich in 1531, Bilney appealed to have the king hear his case as the supreme head of the English Church (a strategy that saved his colleague Edward Crome when he was accused of preaching heresies). But Bishop Richard Nix and his chancellor Thomas Pelles refused to allow Bilney to appeal to the king, and they moved swiftly to have him condemned and executed. He was burnt in a place outside Norwich known as the Lollards Pit. It may have seemed singularly appropriate to burn Bilney on the feast day of St. Magnus as a means to repair the insult that he had inflicted four years earlier by preaching against idolatry in a church dedicated to the saint.
Bilney's execution (like Archbishop Thomas Cranmer's in 1556) was marked by vexing irregularities that fed contentious controversies for decades to come, and they informed the narrative that Foxe created in the A&M. At the last moment, just before the fire was lit, a written recantation was thrust into Bilney's hands to give him a final chance to submit. But he did not take advantage of the opportunity, even though he might have saved his life had he read the document loud enough for the people standing by to hear him. His execution was vastly disturbing. Bilney was a Norfolk native. He had many friends in Norwich, and a number of his colleagues from Cambridge University attended him in his last hours. The fact that his appeal was not brought before the king worried many, and Sir Thomas More, as Lord Chancellor, was asked to investigate. More decided that Bilney had indeed `redde hys reuocacyon hym selfe' as he stood at the stake, but `so softely' that those standing by could not hear him. Had Bilney then revoked at the last moment? If so, was it correct to burn him? In The confutacyon of Tyndales answere More continued to associate Bilney with the teachings of Martin Luther and William Tyndale, but he concluded that Bilney had revoked. As God had given Bilney grace to cast all of his errors to the devil, then Bilney `with glad herte was content to suffer the fyre' as a punishment for his offences. Then, More hoped, God had 'forthwith from the fyre taken hys blessed soule to heuen', where Bilney now could pray for all of those still alive whom he had deluded.
What Bilney wanted to achieve, at least in terms of dismantling shrines, was done later in Henry's reign, and under King Edward. Bilney was audacious, and he pushed the pace too early. In 1531 he became the victim, but as matters developed, his enemies also failed, for the reaction to his death was extreme. The English clergy was forced to submit to Henry VIII's supremacy over the Church. More's pursuit of Bilney and other heretics in his defense of the papacy and tradition was among the factors that led to his surrender of the office of Chancellor in 1532. Latimer and other evangelicals played a part in bringing him to his execution in 1535. Latimer of course read every word that More had printed against Bilney. He took his own opportunity avenge his friend when he preached before King Edward. 'Wo, wil be to that byshoppe that had the examynacyon of hym,' he warned (Nix had died in 1535, hounded to the end by Cranmer for killing Bilney), 'if he repented not.' (Hugh Latimer, The seconde sermon of Maister Hughe Latimer, whych he preached before the Kynges Maiestie within his graces Palayce at Westminster, the xv. day of Marche M.ccccc.xlix. (London: John Day and William Seres , STC 15274.7), Bb3v).More's writings remained influential long after his death, and were newly relevant after Queen Mary Tudor (1553-1555) brought about a rapprochement with the Roman Catholic Church. Foxe and Day used their account of Bilney in successive editions of the A&M as a means to discredit Catholic politics and theology, and to prevent any possible backsliding toward Rome under Queen Elizabeth. They reconciled the conflicting and divergent interpretations of Bilney's actions largely following Latimer's lead. Bilney was a good man who was overcome by the enemies of the true Church. The heightened competition between Protestant and Catholic traditions had solidified by the beginning of Elizabeth's reign. Foxe and Day reinterpreted the confusing 1520s and 1530s in light of their own present-day circumstances. Thus they smudged some aspects of Bilney's career. They made some of the details of his 1527 submission harder to understand, and cloaked the fact that Bilney had agreed that Luther was a heretic. They also stressed the word 'conuersio' or 'conversion' when they referred to the astonishing and elusive life-altering interviews that passed between Bilney and his friends.
Was Foxe and Day's account of Bilney's life mainly the literal truth, or was it art? We may never know, and here we suggest some approaches to this difficult issue. At the beginning of the seventeenth century, the Jesuit Robert Parsons criticized Foxe for his 'bragg & glory' (N. D. [Robert Parsons], A Treatise of Three Conversions of England from Paganisme to Christian Religion (St. Omer, 1603- , STC 19416), 547), and he dismissed the story of Latimer hearing Bilney's confession as a vain thing. Parsons maintained that Bilney had held but few Protestant opinions and that he died in his adjuration. Recently, Bilney could seem (Gregory Walker has argued) more the 'scheming lawyer than the persecuted saint' in 1527 (Walker, 'Heresy Trial', p. 163). If Foxe and Day drifted in their stories, then perhaps they learned some of their strategies from what they called the 'Poeticall fictions' (1563, p. 1009) of Sir Thomas More. Beyond all doubt, however, is the fact that Foxe and Day's portrait of the life and martyrdom of Thomas Bilney is among the elements that make the A&M one of the supreme religious and literary masterpieces of sixteenth-century England.
Thomas Bilney proceeded to the degree of bachelor in Canon Law at Cambridge in 1521. Grace Book B, Part II: Containing the Accounts of the Proctors of the University of Cambridge, 1511-44, ed. Mary Bateson (Cambridge, 1905), p. 95.
Foxe is our chief source of information that Bilney `conuerted' Thomas Arthur. The best account of Arthur's life has been written by Andrew Hope for the ODNB. Arthur was a fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge, which had been built by the chancellor of the university, Bishop John Fisher of Rochester, using a legacy from Lady Margaret Beaufort, mother of King Henry VII. Fisher maintained a strong influence over St. John's in the 1520s. The word was Day's and Foxe's anachronistic term for Bilney's influence on his contemporaries. 'Conversion' was not a term that the early evangelicals often used (see Peter Marshall, 'Evangelical conversion in the reign of Henry VIII', in The Beginnings of English Protestantism, eds. Peter Marshall and Alec Ryrie [Cambridge, 2002], 14-37). 'Conuerted' also appeared as a gloss in 1562, when Day printed Latimer's story of how Bilney had come to his chambers and asked him to hear his confession in 1524 (about the same time that he was proceeding to his bachelor's degree in theology) when he preached his first sermon on the Lord's Prayer in Lincolnshire before the Duchess of Suffolk and her household in 1553. 27 sermons preached by the ryght Reuerende father in God and constant matir [sic] of Iesus Christe, Maister Hugh Latimer, as well such as in tymes past haue bene printed, as certayne other commyng to our handes of late, whych were yet neuer set forth in print, (STC 15276) in the section known as Certayn Godly Sermons, made vppon the Lordes Prayer, at fol. 13B (reprinted in the Parker Society edition of Latimer's Sermons, ed. George Elwes Corrie (Cambridge, 1844), pp. 334-5. In the marginal comments Day wrote in 1562: 'Bilney was gods instrument to conuert Latymer.' Also, 'Latymer is conuerted by hearing Bilneys confession.' In contrast, Latimer said that he 'learned' more from Bilney than he had for many previous years, and that he from thenceforth relinquished his studies in the scholastic doctors, as well as `began to smell the word of god' in increasing his interest in Biblical studies. What actually occurred seems to have been more subtle and less cataclysmic, at least at first, than Day and Foxe would have their readers believe.
Hugh Latimer's famous account of what passed between him and Bilney when Bilney 'conuerted' him in 1524. 27 sermons preached by the ryght Reuerende father in God and constant matir [sic] of Iesus Christe, Maister Hugh Latimer, as well such as in tymes past haue bene printed, as certayne other commyng to our handes of late, whych were yet neuer set forth in print, (STC 15276) in the section known as Certayn Godly Sermons, made vppon the Lordes Prayer, at fol. 13B (reprinted in the Parker Society edition of Latimer's Sermons, ed. George Elwes Corrie (Cambridge, 1844), pp. 334-5. The word 'conuersion' was Day's and Foxe's anachronistic term for Bilney's influence on his contemporaries. 'Conversion' was not a term that the early evangelicals often used (see Peter Marshall, `Evangelical conversion in the reign of Henry VIII', in The Beginnings of English Protestantism, eds. Peter Marshall and Alec Ryrie [Cambridge, 2002], pp. 14-37).
, who at þt time was croskeper at Camb.
Hugh Latimer became University Chaplain in 1522. Although one of his duties was the custody of Cambridge's elaborate silver processional cross, which was brought out at several important occasions during the academic year, Latimer was more correctly known as Chaplain of the University rather than as its `croskeper'. Foxe's source for his information here was from Ralph Morice in British Library, Harley MS 422, fols. 84-8, 90.
Bilney and Thomas Arthur went preaching together from the university to Ipswich and Norwich and onward to London during the summer of 1527. Theirs was an aggressive preaching itinerary, and they were followed at every step by Dominican friars. At Ipswich, Bilney was heard to say that Christ was the only mediator between us and the Father. To petition the saints was to injure the blood of Christ. Bilney was accused of preaching in the churches of St Helen's Bishopsgate, St Magnus, and also in the churches of Willesden (in the week of Pentecost), Newington (in the week of Pentecost), Kensington, and Chelsea outside the city, as well as Ipswich on 28 May. At Willesden, Bilney spoke against going on pilgrimages and offerings to saints. He recommended that worshippers stay at home. At the church of St Magnus (which was always an important City church, as it stood on the north end of London Bridge), the parishioners were gilding their new rood, and here Bilney denounced idolatry. Chelsea is particularly noteworthy, as Sir Thomas More's residence was next to what is now known as Chelsea Old Church, where he intended to be buried next to the chantry chapel he built there. Arthur preached at Cambridge on Whitsunday; and also at Walden; and St Mary Woolchurch in London at the feast of the Trinity. Susan Wabuda, Preaching during the English Reformation (Cambridge, 2002), pp. 119-120; Gregory Walker, 'Saint or schemer?: the 1527 heresy trial of Thomas Bilney reconsidered', Journal of Ecclesiastical History, vol. 40 (1989), pp. 219-38; Patrick Zutshi and Robert Ombres, `The Dominicans in Cambridge 1238-1538', Archivum Fratrum Praedicatorum, vol. 60 (1990), pp. 313-73.
Robert Barnes had shocked the university and the hierarchy of the English Church when he was the first of the Cambridge evangelicals to openly criticize Thomas Cardinal Wolsey in a sermon he delivered at St. Edward's Church in Cambridge on Christmas Eve in 1525.
at that time was greate in Englande, but his pompe and pride much greater, whych did euidently declare vnto all wise menne, the manifest vanitie, not onlye of his life, but also of all the bishoppes and cleargye, whervppon Bilney with other good men meruailinge at the increadible insolency of the cleargy, which they could now no longer suffer or abide, they began to shake and weaken al this dignity together with the bishop of Rome.
Then it was time for the Cardinall to awake, and spedely to loke about his busynesse, neither lacked he in this poynte any crafte or subtiltye of a Serpent, for he vnderstode well inough vpon how slender a foundation, theyr ambitious dignitye was grounded, neyther was he ignoraunte, that their Luciferous and proud kingdome coulde not longe continue a-gainst the manifest woord of God, specially if the light of the Gospel shoulde once open the eyes of men.
For otherwise he did not greatlye feare the power and displeasure of kinges. Thys was the onlye thinge that he feared, the voyce of Christ in his Gospell, whiche would dysclose and detecte their hipocrisye and disceytes, and force them to come into an order of godly dyscipline. Wherfore he thought good, spedelye in time, to wythstande theese beginnynges. Whervpō he caused the saide Bilney and Arthur to be apprehended and cast in prison.
The records of Bilney's and Arthur's examinations are preserved in the Register of Cuthbert Tunstall, bishop of London, in Guildhall Library, MS 9531/10 fols. 130B-136A.
Among the other examiners whom Foxe did not name was the bishop of Carlisle. The octagonal chapter house of Westminster Abbey has remained relatively unchanged in the intervening centuries. It is reached from the Cloister and it retains its original tile floor and wall paintings.
Wolsey's examination of Latimer, as related by Ralph Morice in British Library Harley MS 422, fols. 84-8, 90, should be compared with his examination of Arthur and Bilney.
whether he hadde not once made an othe before, that he shoulde not preache, rehearse or defende any of Luthers opinions, but should impugne the same, euerye where. He aunsweared, that he had made such an oth, but not lawfulli, which interrogatories so ministred, and aunsweres made the Cardinal, caused him to swere, to answer plainlye to the Artycles and erroures preached and set forthe, by him as well in the citye and dioces of London, as in the diocesse of of Norwich and other places, & that he should do it wtout anye craft, qualyfying or leauyng out any part of the truth.
After he was thus sworne and examyned.
It had been illegal to preach or teach any of Martin Luther's doctrine any where in western Europe since mid 1520, when his books and sermons were banned by Pope Leo X in his Bull 'Exsurge Domine'. When Luther continued to defy the pope by burning the Bull publicly in late 1520 with books of Canon Law, Leo excommunicated him at the beginning of 1521.
The date of any previous conversation between Arthur and Sir Thomas More is not known.


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Q: Python sklearn : fit_transform() does not work for GridSearchCV I am creating a GridSearchCV classifier as
pipeline = Pipeline([
    ('vect', TfidfVectorizer(stop_words='english',sublinear_tf=True)),
    ('clf', LogisticRegression())
    ])

parameters= {}

gridSearchClassifier = GridSearchCV(pipeline, parameters, n_jobs=3, verbose=1, scoring='accuracy')
    # Fit/train the gridSearchClassifier on Training Set
    gridSearchClassifier.fit(Xtrain, ytrain)

This works well, and I can predict. However, now I want to retrain the classifier. For this I want to do a fit_transform() on some feedback data.
    gridSearchClassifier.fit_transform(Xnew, yNew)

But I get this error
AttributeError: 'GridSearchCV' object has no attribute 'fit_transform'

basically i am trying to fit_transform() on the classifier's internal TfidfVectorizer. I know that i can access the Pipeline's internal components using the named_steps attribute. Can i do something similar for the gridSearchClassifier?

A: Just call them step by step.
gridSearchClassifier.fit(Xnew, yNew)
transformed = gridSearchClassifier.transform(Xnew)

the fit_transform is nothing more but these two lines of code, simply not implemented as a single method for GridSearchCV.
update
From comments it seems that you are a bit lost of what GridSearchCV actually does. This is a meta-method to fit a model with multiple hyperparameters. Thus, once you call fit you get an estimator inside the best_estimator_ field of your object. In your case - it is a pipeline, and you can extract any part of it as usual, thus
gridSearchClassifier.fit(Xtrain, ytrain)
clf = gridSearchClassifier.best_estimator_
# do something with clf, its elements etc.
# for example print clf.named_steps['vect']

you should not use gridsearchcv as a classifier, this is only a method of fitting hyperparameters, once you find them you should  work with best_estimator_ instead. However, remember that if you refit the TFIDF vectorizer, then your classifier will be useless; you cannot change data representation and expect old model to work well, you have to refit the whole classifier once your data change (unless this is carefully designed change, and you make sure old dimensions mean exactly the same - sklearn does not support such operations, you would have to implement this from scratch).

A: @lejot is correct that you should call fit() on the gridSearchClassifier.
Provided refit=True is set on the GridSearchCV, which is the default, you can access best_estimator_ on the fitted gridSearchClassifier.
You can access the already fitted steps:
tfidf = gridSearchClassifier.best_estimator_.named_steps['vect']
clf = gridSearchClassifier.best_estimator_.named_steps['clf']

You can then transform new text in new_X using:
X_vec = tfidf.transform(new_X)

You can make predictions using this X_vec with:
x_pred = clf.predict(X_vec)

You can also make predictions for the text going through the pipeline entire pipeline with.
X_pred = gridSearchClassifier.predict(new_X)

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Representational or semantic content plays an essential role in classical accounts of computation and cognition. Both cognitive science and computer science share philosophical foundations that endorse such a view. This has led quite naturally to a situation where computational theories of mind, theories which unite computation with cognition, have almost unanimously assumed that mental computation must also involve semantic content (see Pitt 2013). I will argue that mechanistic computationalism, as presented by Piccinini, can offer a genuinely non-semantic account of mental computation. Furthermore, I claim that if this account is correct it would provide important constraints on any theory of mental content. This is in contrast with Piccinini's position, which is that mechanistic computationalism should simply remain neutral on which theory of semantic content, if any, we should prefer.


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Oppendorf ist ein Dorf der Gemeinde Schönkirchen in Kreis Plön in Schleswig-Holstein.

Geografie und Verkehr
Das Dorf Oppendorf gehört zur Gemeinde Schönkirchen, zu welcher das Dorf Schönkirchen selbst gehören und die früher zur Gemeinde Oppendorf gehörenden Dörfer Schönhorst, Flüggendorf sowie die Orte Hof Schönhorst und Landgraben.

Oppendorf liegt direkt nordöstlich von Kiel und grenzt an die Siedlung Oppendorf, welche zum Stadtteil Neumühlen-Dietrichsdorf gehört. Durch das Dorf führt lediglich eine Straße.

Geschichte
1888 gründet der Staatssekretär des Nordens Simonsen Luderwig das kleine Dorf Oppendorf. Zum 1. April 1970 ließ sich das bis dahin selbständige Dorf Oppendorf nach Schönkirchen eingemeinden.

Ort im Kreis Plön
Schönkirchen
Ehemalige Gemeinde (Kreis Plön)
Gemeindeauflösung 1970

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FDA Mulls Options for Regulating Next-Gen Sequencing Platforms in Clinical Diagnostics
By Monica Heger
The US Food and Drug Administration last week hosted a one-day workshop to discuss next-generation sequencing in clinical diagnostic applications, with a particular focus on the best way to assess the analytical validity of the platforms.
While FDA made no decisions and set no timeline for when — or whether — it intends to issue guidance on the matter, stakeholders agreed that broad technical criteria such as a sequencer's error rate or the amount of coverage would not be sufficient measures for assessing the value of a given test. Rather, they argued, the focus should be on the outcome.
"Ultimately, you're trying to [answer], 'How confident am I in this variant call?'" said Brad Ozenberger, program director for the National Institutes of Health's Cancer Genome Atlas.
Likewise, David Dimmock, a clinical geneticist at the Medical College of Wisconsin, said, "The key question that most clinicians really care about is, 'Did you get the right answer?'"
The FDA faces a number of challenges as it explores its options for regulating the use of next-gen sequencing in the clinical setting. First of all, there are many different platforms that can be used in a number of different applications — from whole-genome sequencing to exome sequencing and targeted gene sequencing.
Additionally, the bioinformatics analysis and sample-prep steps all play a role in the accuracy of the outcome. Furthermore, the fact that the same platform can be used for a number of different tests and applications does not fit with the way the FDA currently regulates diagnostic tests, said Elizabeth Mansfield, director of personalized medicine in the FDA's office of in vitro diagnostics.
"Typically someone will come forward with a device that has a specific intended use in a specific population. Meaning, this device is going to detect this in this population and then we have performance metrics around it," Mansfield, who served as moderator of the meeting's panel discussion, explained. "With something that can sequence an entire genome, I think that idea has to be considerably modified because the people who make the platform aren't actually going to know what everybody is going to be using it for, and everybody will be using it in slightly different ways."
The goal, she said, "is to find the appropriate questions to ask and that can be answered with a reasonable amount of clarity so [when] future platforms … are brought to the FDA for clinical diagnostics use, we can ask the right questions."
While the FDA is just beginning to dip its toe into these uncharted waters, there was some consensus at the workshop regarding criteria the agency should not consider when regulating sequencing-based tests. Panel members included representatives from both the clinical and technology sides of academia, the FDA, the College of American Pathologists, the Association for Molecular Pathology, the US Centers for Disease Control, AdvaMed, the National Institute for Standards and Technology, and the NIH.
All of these participants agreed that requiring specific metrics of accuracy or depth of coverage from sequencing platforms would essentially be meaningless because the platforms themselves vary so much. In addition, the amount of coverage or accuracy requirements would change depending on the type of disease being diagnosed and the sequencing protocol — whether whole-genome, whole-exome, or targeted gene sequencing.
Rather than a set of requirements applied evenly across the board for all tests, the panelists suggested a broad framework that would allow for flexibility in test design.
Systemic vs. Random Error
Because different sequencers all produce different types of errors, it will be difficult for regulators to specify a required raw read error rate, or a minimum read length, or even a certain level of coverage, the panel members said.
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For instance, pyrosequencing, such as Roche's 454 GS FLX, has errors in homopolymer regions. So requiring a raw read error rate of less than 0.1 percent, for example, will be meaningless if the target variant is in a homopolymer region. Increasing sequencing coverage won't help either. "You can't sequence your way out of that problem," said Dimmock. While 454 tends to have homopolymer errors, other sequencers are known for errors in areas of high GC content.
On the other hand, the Pacific Biosciences system has a much higher raw read error rate, but the errors are all random, so can be corrected for by increasing sequencing coverage because the machine is less likely to generate the same error more than once.
Certain regions of the genome are also more difficult to sequence than others, so tests that sequence those regions may require more coverage and may never have the predictive power of other sequencing tests.
Madhuri Hegde, a clinical lab director at Emory University who has launched several sequencing-based diagnostic tests through the university's CLIA lab, suggested looking at each individual test, rather than creating a broad requirement for accuracy.
She suggested that the FDA consider the requirements for CLIA certification and CAP accreditation, which require documentation about a test's specificity, sensitivity, reproducibility, and robustness. Limiting the discussion to accuracy and depth limits it to sensitivity and specificity, "and those things can't really be separated when looking at clinical diagnostic application," she said.
Cancer vs. Constitutional Disease
The FDA will also need to consider specific diseases when weighing requirements for accuracy. For example, there is a big difference between sequencing tumor samples and sequencing samples from patients with other types of diseases, said John Pfeifer of the Washington University School of Medicine, who was representing the College of American Pathologists at the workshop.
When considering error rate, sequencing for mutations in the germline is very different than sequencing for mutations in a tumor, added Dimmock. The required error rate for sequencing germline DNA would not need to be as stringent, because "you are assuming that 50 percent of the alleles are going to be one type and 50 percent are going to be the other type. But when you're sequencing a tumor, you can't make that assumption," Dimmock said.
For instance, with a 1 percent error rate, the "ability to detect a variant that's present in the tumor at about 5 percent is just not there, because of the intrinsic error rate of the technology," he said. "The tolerance for error rate is going to be dependent on application."
"Accuracy could take different forms, depending on how the platform is used. For example, gene panels and targeted sequencing might have one accuracy measure, and exome sequencing and whole-genome sequencing might have others," Mansfield said.
Confidence Scores
Rather than requiring specific metrics for the platforms themselves, some panel members suggested that the agency focus on variant calls. For instance, Tina Hambuch, a scientific liaison from Illumina who was representing AdvaMed at the meeting, said that in the company's clinical lab, medical professionals know what types of variants they can detect with high confidence.
"In our clinical lab we define our test to say we can detect these kinds of variants, but not these ... We're good at indels of up to this size, but not that ... And, I think that's what's important — knowing enough to measure how good you are, so you can say, this is what we do well and the rest we can't really try to do," she said.
Emory University's Hegde agreed, noted that "what's being missed is important to document, not just what you can detect."
During the workshop's public comment section, Steve Lincoln, vice president of scientific applications at Complete Genomics, suggested that one approach might be to assign confidence scores for each call, or lack of a call.
Illumina's Hambuch agreed. "If you assign a confidence score to every base, based on raw read quality, how well it will align, how many times you've sampled that position ... you can draw a threshold and say, 'We won't report anything with a quality score less than this." She said that Illumina has been doing that with known positions, testing how well the final score represents that known position, which has allowed the company to establish cutoffs and has led to a way of "trusting what you measure."
Last week's meeting was just the first step down the long road of establishing a regulatory framework for sequencing-based diagnostics. As evidenced by the wide range of issues that panel members and the public raised, establishing a framework will be tricky.
However, Eric Kolodziej, senior vice president and head of global regulatory affairs at Roche Diagnostics, noted that creating a regulatory framework should not be impossible, citing as evidence the fact that the European Union has already established a loose framework by which sequencing-based tests can receive CE marking and be reimbursed by payors.
"We need a solution sooner rather than later," he said. Tests that sequence panels of genes are already becoming as common in academic labs as laboratory developed tests, and "sequencing the whole genome is on the horizon."
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Distribution
Metropolitan Filmexport currently distributes or has distributed all or some of the following companies' films:

Current distribution deals
 STX Entertainment
 A24
 Lionsgate Films
 Annapurna Pictures
 Lantern Entertainment
 Amblin Partners
 Bleecker Street
 Millennium Media
 Open Road Films (formerly Global Road Entertainment from 2017-2019)

Former distribution deals
 New Line Cinema – Warner Bros. took direct control in 2009.
 Relativity Media/Rogue Pictures – went bankrupt as a mini-major in 2015.
 DreamWorks – retired as a distributor in 2005 and then became a banner of Amblin Partners in 2015.
 Broad Green Pictures – Shut down its production unit in 2017 and then shut down completely in 2018.
 CBS Films – Lionsgate took over distribution in 2015.
 United International Pictures (Paramount Pictures/Universal Pictures/Focus Features) – Stopped French distribution in 2007 as part of its effort to reduce International operations.  Paramount and Universal distribute in France because of this move.
 Fine Line Features/Picturehouse – Part of New Line Cinema and shut down between 2005 and 2008.
 The Weinstein Co. – plagued by the Harvey Weinstein sexual abuse scandal.
 20th Century Fox/Fox Searchlight Pictures – Formed a joint venture with UGC named UGC Fox Distribution in 1995, which disestablished a decade later.
 Sony (Columbia Pictures/TriStar Pictures/Screen Gems/Stage 6 Films/Triumph Films/Destination Films) – Formed a joint venture with Gaumont Film Company for French distribution named Gaumont Columbia Tristar Films in 2004.  The joint venture disestablished three years later.
 Samuel Goldwyn Films
 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer/United Artists/Orion Pictures

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The recording of the sermon did not work today, and as you know, I don't preach from a manuscript. Here's my recollection of what I said.
The prophet wrote, The glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it. And here, in the Transfiguration of our Lord, the glory of the Lord was revealed, but only Peter, James, and John saw it; and it was only a glimpse. But what a glimpse it was: is face shown like the sun and his garments were white as the light. A magnificent vision, a spectacular scene, that surely left them breathless. And here they saw unmistakably that this Man is the eternal God himself. This is unborrowed light, greater even than when Moses' skin shown. For the glowing of Moses was from the Lord, but the shining of Christ was from himself; it was his own light. In him dwells all the fullness of the godhead bodily, and here we see it in no uncertain terms.
Who wouldn't want to stay there, as they did: Lord, let us make three tabernacles here. This is the kind of scene we love, and to see Jesus receiving little children, and healing the sick, and raising the dead; attending weddings, speaking kindly to the lowly. We love the angels in Bethlehem, and the star, and the scene at Jesus' Baptism, and here: his glorious transfiguration. We love this, but we can't stay. We must go back down from the mountain into the depths. There is no other way. Jesus must go down into this valley, for this is the darkness of a fallen world that needs a Redeemer. He must go to the cross: there is no other way for him than the way of his agony.
And it is not only Jesus who went into agony: his disciples were with him. These three were also the same three that would be with him in Gethsemane and whom sorrow would descend upon causing sleep. And they would all flee; and they would have to see their Lord's crucifixion. And their world would be turned upside down. Sometimes the worst kind of pain is not physical. But it must be.
Wishing it away does not make it go away. You cannot pretend that the transfiguration is his final destination, though there are many who live with this supposition. There are even churches built in such a way: with empty crosses and white-washed walls, and no images. They don't want to face these things. But we must. Through much tribulation we enter the kingdom of heaven.
Yet the tribulation, the cross, is not the end of the story. As you know, he rose from the dead, and there was abiding joy. And so the transfiguration was a preview of that for these three disciples who would have to witness Gethsemane as well. And for us there is something we can carry into the valley as well; for we receive the Christ who was transfigured here, by mouth, in the Supper. We ingest the flesh of the eternal God, and he binds us to himself. So we go forth with confidence, knowing that he goes with us, and will bring us safely to the other side.
Yet we may not remain.


Governor Tom Corbett today again asked U.S. Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius to not force children currently covered under Pennsylvania's Children's Health Insurance Program (PA CHIP) into the Medicaid program.
HHS has indicated that the move is required under the Affordable Care Act (ACA), a fact which Corbett challenged in the letter.
Corbett also reiterated his long-standing goal to increase access to affordable healthcare coverage options for Pennsylvanians. However, he expressed concerns that moving PA CHIP participants to Medicaid could cause disruptions in their relationships with their health care providers and delays in their ability to access care.
Sabilas wouldn't go to bat for a dying 10-year old girl. What makes Corbett think she gives a hoot about the children of Pennsylvania?
Jp Fox, a wasted "Free" federal dollar is still a wasted dollar. Medicaid is a broken and fraud filled program. Pumping more money into broken programs only magnifies the problem.
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The relationship between the mean Fulton's condition and form factors of 12 marine species (N=209 fish specimens) caught in the Zadar area (middle eastern Adriatic) was analysed. The lowest mean condition factor (K = 0.6329) referred to the elongated Trachinus draco, while the highest one (K = 1.7758) referred to the deep-bodied Scorpaena porcus. The correlation between the mean Fulton's condition and form factors of these 12 populations was highly significant (K = 0.404 + 0.663 a3.0; r2 = 0.815; P < 0.01). Including more species in the calculation would give even more accurate results.


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Art, music, parks programs scheduled at Morrisson-Reeves Library
RICHMOND, Ind. — Whether you want to hear about inspirational art, contribute to a community art project or hear a free concert, Morrisson-Reeves Library has a program scheduled for you.
On Wednesday, March 30, Pam Frazier will participate in a free artist talk 6-7 p.m. about her "Bombshells" exhibit currently being displayed at the library, 80 N. Sixth St. Frazier was born and raised in Richmond and now lives in Indianapolis, where she has operated FrazierDesigns since 2002 and is a partner and illustrator for Best Friends Books, according to a news release.
Frazier will share her inspiration for the displayed portrait collection of female icons who influenced what it means to be a woman through determination, intention and persistence, the release said. A friend inspired the exhibit's title.
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"All of these women are bombshells for reasons other than a persona, public perception or judgments based on what society has deemed as attractive," Frazier said.
The next evening, participants have the opportunity to create art in collaboration with Richmond Art Museum's ongoing exhibit, "Amos Lemon Burkhart: You Miss 90% of the Shots You Don't Take."
From 6 to 7:30 p.m. Thursday, March 31, participants will create a small, painted canvas square as part of a chromatic data project. The squares will represent a strength or stressor in the participant's life and will be exhibited at RAM through the end of the Burkhart exhibit.
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Participants are asked to view the Burkhart exhibit before registering for the MRL event.
Find a link to register for the event, ensuring ample supplies are available, at MRL's Facebook page.
Nicholas May will perform a free concert, "Rainbow Melodies," noon-1 p.m. Friday, April 1, in the Bard Room.
May, a guest artist-in-residence at Indiana University East, will perform Nathan Froebe's original composition, "Array." The piece is a series of miniatures inspired by the pride progress flag, focusing on each individual color and its associated meaning.
The presentation also includes a performance and presentation of the larger project that includes a local recording made in the Starr-Gennett building.
Pre-registration for the concert is not required, but it is available through a link at MRL's Facebook page, to reserve a seat.
Additionally, the library will have its free Thirsty Thursday program 12:10-12:50 p.m. in the Bard Room. Denise Retz, superintendent of Richmond Parks and Recreation Department, will speak about the parks and park programs.


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JEAN HOWARD FELKER 1919-1994
Dr. Brockway McMillan
Mr. Jean H. Felker
This is the eighth volume in the series of Memorial Tributes compiled by the National Academy of Engineering as a personal remembrance of the lives and outstanding achievements of its members and international members. These volumes are intended to stand as an enduring record of the many contributions of engineers and engineering to the benefit of humankind. In most cases, the authors of the tributes are contemporaries or colleagues who had personal knowledge of the interests and the engineering accomplishments of the deceased.
JAKOB ACKERET 1898-1981
PHILIP M. ARNOLD 1911-1994
DONALD J. ATWOOD 1924-1994
HANNSKARL BANDEL 1925-1993
EDWARD GEORGE BOWEN 1911-1991
HEZZIE RAYMOND (RAY) BRANNON 1926-1994
PAGE SCOTT BUCKLEY 1918-1995
MARVIN CAMRAS 1916-1995
DEAN R. CHAPMAN 1922-1995
WALKER LEE CISLER 1897-1994
JESSE F. CORE 1913-1993
ANDREW F. CORRY 1922-1994
W. EDWARDS DEMING 1900-1993
ALLEN F. DONOVAN 1914-1995
A. E. DUKLER 1925-1994
HAROLD ETHERINGTON 1900-1994
FRANK J. FEELY, JR. 1918-1995
MARCELIAN FRANCIS GAUTREAUX, JR. 1930-1994
WILLIAM HENRY GAUVIN 1913-1994
T. KEITH GLENNAN 1905-1995
JOHN M. GOOGIN 1922-1994
FRITZ INGERSLEV 1912-1994
SHIRO KOBAYASHI 1924-1995
ROBERT F. LEGGET 1904-1994
CLARENCE H. LINDER 1903-1994
JOHN H. LUDWIG 1913-1995
KEITH W. MCHENRY, JR. 1928-1994
PAUL M. NAGHDI 1924-1994
AZIZ S. ODEH 1925-1994
BERNARD M. OLIVER 1916-1995
ROBERT H. PARK 1902-1994
MAYNARD L. PENNELL 1910-1994
ALLEN M. PETERSON 1922-1994
FRED H. POETTMANN 1919-1995
ROWLAND WELLS REDINGTON 1924-1995
BEN RICH 1925-1995
ROBERT B. RICHARDS 1916-1988
FRANK E. (BILL) RICHART, JR. 1918-1994
EMILIO ROSENBLUETH 1926-1994
SHINROKU SAITO 1919-1994
OWEN SAUNDERS 1903-1993
ROBERT L. SMITH 1923-1995
JULIUS ADAMS STRATTON 1901-1994
VERNER EDWARD SUOMI 1915-1995
JULIAN SZEKELY 1934-1995
ANTON TEDESKO 1903-1994
ERNEST W. THIELE 1895-1993
ALLYN COLLINS VINE 1914-1994
ERIC A. WALKER 1910-195
ALBERTUS D. (BERT) WELLIVER 1934-1994
JEROME BERT WIESNER 1915-1994
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BY BROCKWAY MCMILLAN
Jean Howard Felker, a retired vice-president of AT&T Bell Laboratories, died on February 27, 1994. He had been a member of the National Academy of Engineering since 1974.
Born in Centralia, Illinois, on March 14, 1919, Felker received a bachelor of science degree in electrical engineering from Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, in June 1941. He worked briefly for Emerson Electric Company and then taught mathematics at a training school for naval recruits. Commissioned in October 1942 as a second lieutenant in the Signal Corps, he went to England to learn radar at the Military College of Science. After a four-month tour he was returned to Fort Monmouth, New Jersey, to write and edit radar manuals until mustering out in 1945.
In December 1945 Felker joined Bell Laboratories at the Whippany, New Jersey, location in the Military Systems Laboratory. In 1948 he received three point-contact transistors, the first of a meager trickle allocated to that laboratory. By late 1950 he had demonstrated, with such devices, all the basic logic circuits of a digital computer, operating at a one megahertz rate, and had described in memoranda the architecture of a computer built on such elements. He had already dubbed this computer TRADIC— Transistor Digital Computer.
By 1951 Felker had demonstrated serial adders and multipliers and delay- line storage registers, all operating at one megahertz. In his notebooks of that time can be found preliminary analyses of bombsight and gun-laying computers. He had already concluded that a digital bombsight, as distinct from a gun controller, would not need a magnetic drum—the only mass storage medium then at hand —because of the relative simplicity of its ballistic tables. By late 1951 he had discussed with colleagues the feasibility of building a flyable model of a bombsight.
Drawing on this work, Bell Laboratories contracted with the Air Force in 1953 to design and develop a solid-state digital computer. The specific objective was to test (''demonstrate,'' said the optimists) feasibility for tactical applications. The project officially adopted the name TRADIC, and Felker was put in charge. Phase I was completed, at some effort, in one year. In that year it consumed the whole factory output of point-contact transistors-some 5,000. With its cathode-ray displays, this primitive computer demonstrated to the skeptics in the Air Force that digital machines could simulate the continuous actions of analog devices.
Phase I led at once to TRADIC Phase II—the flyable model of a digital bombsight. Using the basic circuits and architecture of Phase I, with consultation provided by Felker's laboratory, a group experienced in the design of the analog bombsight provided the final product. The airborne environment was a harsh one for point-contact transistors, but flight tests were ultimately successful.
Formally, Felker and his pioneering colleagues faced in Phase I of TRADIC such questions as: synchronous or nonsynchronous? (answer: synchronous); binary or decimal? (answer: binary); magnetic memory or semiconductor? (answer: for a tactical computer with a fixed program, transistor registers). Actually, these major design decisions were all founded on Felker's notes and memoranda of 1951 and earlier. They governed in Phase II, and the resulting architecture was basic to Phase III.
As fast junction transistors became available, Felker convinced the Air Force to undertake Phase III. This was a general-purpose digital computer with a magnetic-core memory, taking its program input from plug boards. Scaled to the capacity of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Whirlwind computer, model III occupied a case about the size of an office filing cabinet, contained 100,000 transistors, and consumed 50 watts. For a year it did general computing at Bell Laboratories in the military development laboratory, before delivery to the Air Force.
In 1955 Felker turned to a new assignment—to establish an organization for planning digital transmission services to be offered by the Bell System, for planning the associated digital systems, and for developing data processing systems to automate clerical and engineering functions common throughout the Bell System. By 1959 the latter function had evolved to the point that a separate organization was created to automate those functions suitable for general-purpose computers. Felker then moved to AT&T headquarters to become transmission engineer and later assistant chief engineer, of the AT&T Company. In 1962 he transferred to the New Jersey Bell Telephone Company as vice-president of operations. In the latter position he was a member of the board of directors and of its executive committee.
Felker retired from the Bell System in 1969 and set up in private consulting practice. In March 1971 he returned to Bell Laboratories as vice-president in charge of business information systems. In 1979 Bell Laboratories appointed him vice-president for software and processor technologies. He retired in May 1981.
The Institute of Electrical Engineers honored Felker as a fellow in 1959. The National Academy of Engineering elected him to membership in 1973, citing him for "design of the first transistorized digital computer and for the engineering of digital systems." He was a founding director of Bellcomm, the systems engineering organization that served the National Aeronautics and Space Administration for the moon landings and thereafter, and was a director of the Colonial Life Insurance Company and its successors for some twenty-five years.
It is clear from scraps of memoir that, from boyhood, Felker was both a practical tinkerer with things mechanical or electrical, and a dreamer. As an engineer, he was at once an ingenious inventor and a rational and imaginative planner. His sixteen patents range from transistor logic circuits to computer and memory systems. His many published articles cover a similar range, from techniques for logic circuit design to the basic principles underlying the organization of TRADIC III.
In all matters, Jean Felker was an original thinker. He heard his own drum —literally in at least one instance. I recall his amusement at the inability of the army drill instructors to reform his shambling gait. Neither in his engineering nor in his private life did he accept conventional wisdom without supporting evidence. He respected facts. A quiet iconoclast with a sharp sense of humor, indeed in many ways a determined nonconformist, he was not a revolutionary. When he chose his own way he did so with reason and good humor, and he did not impose it on others.
Jean Felker had an extraordinary sensitivity to and understanding of the feelings and needs of the people with whom he dealt. During the three extended periods, separate in time and in context, that I worked closely with him, I never saw him use this remarkable talent to any but constructive ends. He was never manipulative, always tactful, considerate, and humane.
Jean had a restless spirit. During his first brief retirement, he began painting with oils. The products I have seen are large abstractions, exactly geometric, complex in their symmetries, and rendered with exquisite precision in beautifully controlled textures and soft colors. He continued this hobby for many years. Restless also in mind, he was an omnivorous reader, an acute observer of the contemporary scene, and a student of history. Upon his second retirement, he bought a historic dwelling on the Delaware Canal. Soon, however, he set about to plan a permanent home in the rolling hills of nearby Durham, Pennsylvania. The construction and landscaping of this estate occupied him thereafter, and it is in this house that he died.


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Wang Shaoyi (; died 866), formally the Count of Taiyuan (), was a general of the Chinese dynasty Tang Dynasty who ruled Chengde Circuit (成德, headquartered in modern Shijiazhuang, Hebei) in de facto independence from the imperial government as its military governor (Jiedushi).

Background
It is not known when Wang Shaoyi was born.  His family had been, prior to his generation, in control of Chengde Circuit for two generations, after his grandfather Wang Tingcou seized control of the circuit in 821 without imperial approval and eventually forced the imperial government to acquiesce; his father Wang Yuankui later succeeded Wang Tingcou and took a more conciliatory stance with the imperial government.  Wang Shaoyi had at least one older brother, Wang Shaoding.

When Wang Yuankui died in 855, the soldiers supported Wang Shaoding to succeed him.  Then-reigning Emperor Xuānzong initially made Wang Shaoding acting military governor, and, later in the year, full military governor.  However, Wang Shaoding was inappropriate in his behavior, favoring drinking, and particularly liking to sling bullets at people from towers for fun. The soldiers became so displeased with him that they considered overthrowing him, but before they could do so, he fell ill and died in 857.  The soldiers supported Wang Shaoyi, who was then deputy military governor, to succeed him.  Emperor Xuānzong approved and made Wang Shaoyi acting military governor, and then military governor.

As military governor
Wang Shaoyi's rule was said to be simple and lenient, and both the soldiers and the people were happy about his rule.  He was created the Count of Taiyuan, although it is not clear which emperor did so.

In 866, Wang Shaoyi grew ill.  He summoned Wang Shaoding's son Wang Jingchong — who was not Wang Shaoding's oldest son but was considered Wang Shaoding's proper heir, having been born of Wang Shaoding's wife — and stated to Wang Jingchong:

Wang Shaoyi died after speaking.  Emperor Xuānzong's son and successor Emperor Yizong subsequently approved the succession and made Wang Jingchong military governor.

Notes and references

 Old Book of Tang, vol. 142.
 New Book of Tang, vol. 211.
 Zizhi Tongjian, vols. 249, 250.

9th-century births
866 deaths
Tang dynasty jiedushi of Chengde Circuit
Politicians from Shijiazhuang
Tang dynasty generals from Hebei
Tang dynasty politicians from Hebei


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This streusel topped apple butter pumpkin pie is the perfect addition to your holiday dessert spread. It's the perfect twist to traditional pumpkin pie and the crumbly streusel topping is packed full of spice.
This post is sponsored by Musselman's Apple Butter. As always, all opinions are my own.
So. Much. Yes. This pie is straight up everything I love and crave about fall. It's not just your typical pumpkin pie, NOPE. This baby is made with apple butter and pumpkin and then it's topped with a crumbly, spice and pecan packed steusel topping. Basically it's fall in pie form. Or pie in fall form.
Whever, you get it. It's crazy good.
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This streusel topped apple butter pumpkin pie is the perfect addition to your holiday dessert spread. It's the perfect twist to traditional pumpkin pie and the crumbly streusel topping is packed full of spice.
Combine in a large bowl the apple butter, pumpkin, brown sugar, cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg, salt, eggs and milk. Pour into the pie shell.
Combine in a small bowl the butter, flour, brown sugar and pecans. Top the pie and bake for an additional 15 minutes.
I LOVE apple butter, but just never thought to put it in a pie!
I am such a sucker for a streusel topping! This looks delish!
This looks incredible! Pumpkin pie taken to a whole other level!
I love all the flavors here! And especially the streusel topping…I can never resist it!
nice twist, love apple butter in this recipe AND the topping, very stepped up pumpkin pie, thank you!
This is a fall treat for sure!
This looks amazing! Would I be able to use a homemade pie crust with the same results? Any special steps for that?
This looks amazing! Did you prebake the pie crust or pour the filling into a pre-cooked crust?
Hi Christina! I used a frozen pie crust so I simply poured the filling right into the frozen crust. However, if I were to use a fresh, not frozen crust I would blind bake it for a few minutes with pie weights before pouring in the filling and continuing to bake.
This recipe looks delicious! My mouth is watering just looking at your photos.
My mom loved apple butter. It sounds like an interesting combination.


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Václav Havel, češki politik, pisatelj in dramatik, * 5. oktober, 1936, Praga, † 18. december 2011, Hrádeček.

Václav Havel je bil deveti in zadnji predsednik Češkoslovaške ter prvi predsednik Češke.

Življenjepis
Rodil se je v premožni družini gradbenega inženirja in podjetnika Václava M. Havla. Na njegovo življenje je močno vplival tudi ded Vavrečka, ki je bil pisatelj, podjetnik in diplomat. Družina je bila dobro znana, intelektualna in močno povezana s kulturnimi in političnimi dogodki na Češkoslovaškem od 1920 do 1940. Zaradi teh povezav komunisti niso dovolili Havlu formalnega študija, ko je 1951 zaključil obvezno šolanje. Pripravništvo je delal kot asistent v kemijskem laboratoriju. Sočasno je obiskoval večerno šolo, da bi pridobil srednješolsko izobrazbo. To mu je uspelo leta 1954. Zaradi političnih razlogov ni bil sprejet na noben humanističen študijski program. Zato se je vpisal na Ekonomsko fakulteto Češke tehnične univerze. Ta program je opustil po dveh letih.

Intelektualna tradicija njegove družine je Havla vabila, da je stremel k človekovim pravicam češke kulture, ki so bile grobo zatrte v 50. letih 20. stoletja. Ko se je vrnil z dvoletnega služenja vojaškega roka, je delal kot odrski delavec; najprej v Divaldo ABC in 1960. v Divaldo Na zabradli. Od 1962 do 1966 je kot dopisni študent študiral dramo na fakuleteti za gledališče akademije za glasbo. Študij je zaključil s komentarjem igre Edvard, ki je postala temelj igre Povečana težavnost koncentracije.

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Na začetku šestdesetih let je dobil službo pri »Gledališču ob ograji« (Divadlo na zabradly). Leta [1963] je zaslovel s prvo celovečerno predstavo Vrtno slavje. Sledile so igre Obvestilo, Avdienca, Protest, Vernisaža, Asanacija, Skušnjava, Largo desolato, Gorski hotel in druge.

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Václav Havel je bil štirikrat zaprt. V čeških komunističnih zaporih je presedel več kot pet let. V zaporih je napisal znamenita Pisma Olgi. Bil je soustanovitelj Listine 77 in eden njenih prvih glasnikov.
Konec decembra 1989 je bil Václav Havel soglasno izvoljen za predsednika Češkoslovaške, februarja 1993 pa še za predsednika Češke. Njegov prijatelj Ivan Medek je bil imenovan za direktorja Urada predsednika republike (kanclerja). Kot češki predsednik je vodil republiko do leta 2003.

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Václav Havel je v več kot sto esejih in člankih pisal o življenju v resnici. Človeško življenje je po njem avtentično, če človek vsak trenutek odgovarja za svoje odločitve, če človek ustvarja in oblikuje svoje življenje samostojno in svobodno ne glede na reakcije okolice.

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These are derivative contracts in which the payoff is based on a foreign index/stock in local currency. Imagine a call option again on NIFTY 50 based in USD (hence they are also called ADR style) with strike 123.88 so that the payoff is Max[0,Susd-123.88]. To highlight the difference in the case of composites, At expiry suppose the NIFTY climbs from 5600 in INR to 5800 but the USD weakens against INR from 45.2043 to 48.2010 (1 USD = 48.2010 INR) resulting Susd=120.32 so that the call payoff=0. So even though the index climbs in the local currency, its the index value in the foreign currency that determines the payoff i.e. both exchange rate and spot should be modelled together for pricing purposes.
FX market derivatives are derivatives whose payoffs are driven by the underlyings in the local currency but the final settlement is made in the foreign currency.
Imagine a call option again on NIFTY 50 based in INR which makes the final settlement in USD based on existing exchange rate at expiry. If we revisit the above example, lets say the call option has the strike 5600 (corresponding to the strike 123.88 in the example above). At expiry lets say the NIFTY climbs from 5600 to 5800 and at the same time the USD weakens against INR from 45.2043 to 48.2010 (1 USD = 48.2010 INR). So that the final payoff = USD 4.15.
From pricing perspective, we can model the FX and Equity seperately.


Fantastic day on Boxing Day. Experienced horse, hasn't been out for 2 years due to surgery and rehab. Joined the non jumping field and pottered around. Enjoyed ourselves immensely.
So Glad. You look very smart. Its a great way to blow away the cobwebs after Christmas!!
Sounds great. I went a few times but a few years back now. Boxing Day family tradition takes precedence!


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Mitsubishi to offer plug-in option on every model within four years
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We've seen some bold moves in the electric vehicle industry over the past few months, but this may be the most ambitious of them all: Mitsubishi reportedly plans to offer either an electric-only, or plug-in hybrid version of every vehicle in its model range within four years.
Instead of creating an electric and plug-in hybrid version of each model, Mitsubishi will offer electric-only and gasoline-powered versions of smaller vehicles, and plug-in hybrid versions and gasoline versions of its larger and higher-performance vehicles.
If it is successful, Mitsubishi will become the first major automaker to complete a full transition to electric power.
The Japanese auto manufacturer already has taken concrete steps toward this goal. The 2012 i-MiEV electric minicar is already on sale in the United States, and a plug-in hybrid version of the Outlander SUV is scheduled for release this fall.
But, hurdles remain in the way of Mitsubishi's goal. Consumers have been slow to embrace all-electric vehicles, as low overall Nissan Leaf and Chevy Volt sales can attest (though, notably, first-year sales were a few times higher than first-year sales of now extremely popular hybrids, like the Prius). The Toyota Prius is now an overwhelming success, now third overall in global auto sales, but Mitsubishi's plug-in hybrid technology is unproven and would have to compete with the established Prius brand.
Still, Mitsubishi's effort seems promising. The i-MiEV was named to Kelley Blue Book's "10 Best Green Cars of 2012" list, and company executives are similarly bullish on the hybrid Outlander. "It offers the performance of a 3.0-liter V6 petrol engine," said Lance Bradley, managing director of Mitsubishi UK. "We know the technology works and that it is good."
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Gary06 says
Where Mitsubishi should have been pushing when they recieved millions of public dollars to save their Australian manufacture. Then they relied on the potential of the 6cylingder 380, and gained political support. Is this the same company and where is political support?
John D says
Priority should be given to offering plug-in hybrid versions of both large and small cars. Plug in hybrid doesn't require any extra infrastructure to provide the same range of travel as gasoline driven cars. The take-up of plug-in will drive the development of better energy storage and may end up making pure EV viable in the longer term.


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Mailley becomes a two-time cup winner
By Robin Wilson
Chris Mailley, Chippie Mailley, Sinclair Cup, Royal Dornoch Golf Club, Golf
GIFTED to the Royal Dornoch Golf Club by Golspie draper R F Sinclair in 1960, the Sinclair Cup is considered the most prestigious stroke-play tournament silverware to win in Sutherland and the names of many double winners have been inscribed on it.
Familiar two-time names include those of Willie Skinner, Jim Miller, Stewart Shaw, Stewart Wilson, Kevin Matheson, Dougal Chalmers and Jim Scott, and adding his name to that list last weekend was Chris Mailley. Brora's Miller was the most frequent winner with 13 between 1965 and 1998, but no golfer has completed a hat-trick.
Mailley's first triumph came four years ago and with the cup won by visiting golfers for the last two years, Bryan Fotheringham (Forres) and Lewis Reid (Fortrose and Rosemarkie), it looked destined to leave again when a four-under-par 66 led after the first round. It was recorded by the lowest handicap player in the capacity field of 72, David Corben, who plays off +4.
A group of 10 members from the Hindhead Golf Club in Surrey were spearheaded by plus-four handicapper David Corben who bottled three outward-half and two inward-half birdies, first, fourth, eighth, 13th and 18th holes, with just one bogey at the notorious "Foxy", in halves of 32 and 34 for a superb 66 to lead a Mailley first-round card of one-over-par 71 and a one-under-par 69 from teenager Aidan Volmer (17) from Phoenix, Arizona.
Lewis Reid saw his grip loosened on the Sinclair Cup after an opening round of 76. A double bogey five on the par-three sixth hole then a bogey six on the par-five 12th before closing with bogey five in two halves of 38 left the holder 10 shots behind the first-round leader.
Reid's Fortrose club-mate Alan Cameron stayed in the mix with a first-round 72 (38/34), as did north youth champion Michael Schinkel (36/36) and William Short (35/37).
When Mailley opened his second round with a birdie three and Corben double bogeyed the par-three second hole two shots had been made up by the ninth: Mailley 35, Corben 37. Then a surge on the back nine by the home member, back-to-back birdies on 11 and 12 and two more on the 15th and 16th hole with just the one bogey slip at the 16th hole took the local home in 32 and Corben caught.
Mailley's 36-hole total was 138 (71/67) and Corben's 138 (66/72), with the Sinclair Cup and first-place voucher for £325 won on the better second round, 67 to 72. Short's equal halves of 35 in round two brought him into third place on 142 (72/70) ahead of Schinkel's 142 (72/70) on the better last nine holes of round two.
Mailley's voucher increased by £80 when he won the confined-to-members Taylor Bullock Salver, and the outgoing cup holder Lewis Reid's day improved with a card of 68 for the best second round prize voucher.
Sinclair Cup:
Scratch – 138 C Mailley (RDGC) 71/67, D Corben (Hindhead) 66/72; 142 W Short (Longniddry/RDGC) 72/72, M Schinkel (RDGC) 72/72; 143 C Mackay (RDGC) 74/69.
Handicap – A Mackay (Haggs Castle/RDGC) (5) 131; C Mackay (RDGC) (5) 136; A Volmer (USA) (3) 138; C Sutherland (RDGC) (2) 139; L Jennings (Whitemuir) (2) 140.
Best scratch round – L Reid (F&R), 68.
Best handicap – A Pirie (Milngavie) (3) 67.
Taylor Bullock Salver – C Mailley, 136.


OK, I moved to Ireland (as some may know). I have a habit of watching BBC iPlayer to catch up on my tele-addiction.
To my shock horror: I was disgusted to find that BBC iPlayer was not working on my PS3, Wii or Laptop. I am even more disgusted that TV Licensing refuse to refund my six months of "Advanced Payment" on my TV License… So despite paying for the BBC, I'm not "allowed" to watch it???
Well, there is a fix: It involves using a UK Proxy Server (google is your friend). At the time of writing this article, BBC iPlayer only blocks the connecting IP Address of the remote device if it is not a UK IP Address. This means a simple usage of the correct proxy server (one based on a UK IP address) would allow you to access the iPlayer service. Only the website HTML content goes via the proxy server.
Therefore: Use a UK Proxy Server, and you'll be able to watch BBC iPlayer where ever your device is located.
There are many more advanced methods of doing this, but this is the most simpliest method. First of all, open up google, and find the IP address and port of a valid UK Proxy Server.
You can configure proxy servers on the Wii, PS3 and many other devices… So this should fix the issues on pretty much all devices.


Siemens demonstrates Kuka Robotics integration for workpiece handling at IMTS 2012. Motion is controlled by Kuka mxAutomation software through the Siemens Sinumerik CNC, easing integration and operations.
Siemens and Kuka Robotics have collaborated to integrate robotic workpiece handling with computer numerical control (CNC). At the International Manufacturing Technology Show (IMTS 2012) in Chicago (Siemens booth E-5010), a Kuka robot is articulating parts, simulating the operation on a CNC machine tool. Key to this development is the machine builder's ability to integrate Kuka mxAutomation software through the Siemens Sinumerik CNC platform, allowing the machine operator to run the machine tool and robot from one control panel.
The robot's motion sequence is engineered within the Siemens Sinumerik 840D sl CNC, then transferred by the 840D sl's programmable logic controller (PLC) function to the mxAutomation interpreter on the Kuka Robotics KR C4 robot controller. All program changes to a six-axis robot can easily be input on a second channel of the CNC and fully operated. The integration allows the machine tool's automation sequence to run more efficiently, and perform changes on-the-fly to minimize machine downtime, without special knowledge of robot programming language. During the operation of the machine tool, all changes made can be visualized on the CNC screen, minimizing operator actions.
Siemens said it is the first CNC supplier to show this capability for single-screen operation of the machine tool and robotic materials handling on the CNC.
At IMTS 2012, Siemens Sinumerik 840D sl CNC is programmed to allow the operator to jog the robot, command the gripper, otherwise simulate integrated actions with a machine tool.
In operation, the KRC4 integrator and mxAutomation convert the robot language into the same commands used for multi-axis machine tool functions. One Profinet cable runs between the robot and the CNC.
The mxAutomation software for Sinumerik CNC was joint developed by Kuka and Siemens. Kuka created plug-in function modules for the Siemens Step 7 PLC engineering software and provided its robot knowledge to Siemens for creation of the second channel logic on the CNC, Andreas Schuhbauer said.
All safety functions and test functions for load / unload, brake test, gripper, robot communication and safe operation of the robot are provided with Profinet and Profisafe communications.
Future developments for mxAutomation are planned, including a wider application range for robots in the CNC machine tool environment.