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FORT MYERS, Fla. - MIT's softball team concluded its season-opening trip to Fort Myers, Fla., on Thursday afternoon with a pair of losses to the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater and DePauw University. UW-Whitewater used a six-run bottom of the sixth to explode past the Engineers, 10-0 in six innings, while DePauw plated 11 base-runners combined in the third and fourth frames to ease to a 16-1 victory in five innings.
The games were played as part of the 16th Annual Gene Cusic Collegiate Classic, with Tech competing at both the Cape Coral Sports Complex and the Lee County Sports Complex.
MIT dropped to 1-7 following the two setbacks, while UW-Whitewater improved to 6-3 and undefeated DePauw moved to 18-0 with the victories.
The Engineers hung tight with the Warhawks for the first five innings on Thursday, as junior Leah Bogsted pitched well enough to limit the powerful UW-Whitewater lineup to just four runs on seven hits heading into the sixth. However, the Cardinal and Gray committed three of its seven errors in the sixth inning to help the Warhawks score six runs and end the game due to the eight-run rule.
Bogsted finished the afternoon with five strikeouts and allowed 10 runs, though just two were earned. The Levittown, N.Y., native fell to 1-2 with the loss. UW-Whitewater's Jessie Harmeyer earned the victory and moved to 2-1 by limiting Tech to just one hit over six innings of work while striking out four.
Juniors Amanda Poteet and Amanda Jason were the only Engineers to reach base without the aid of an error, as Poteet tallied a single and a walk and Jason added two free passes.
Powerful DePauw provided the opposition for MIT's final game of its spring trip, and the Tigers displayed why they have started the season with 18 consecutive wins with an overpowering performance. The team from Greencastle, Ind., had base-runners cross the plate in every inning on its way to the 16-1 triumph.
Following a run in the first inning and two in the second, DePauw busted out for six runs in the top of the third. Carolyn Bartlett poked a two-RBI single while Jessica Krueger added an RBI single of her own to pace the Tigers. The remainder of the runs in the frame were unearned, as Tech committed four of its six errors.
DePauw added a five-spot in the next inning with the aid of a two-RBI single from Kimberly Heininger and a triple form Chelsy Patterson, which also plated a pair of runs. Rachel Gill added an RBI single to close out the scoring in the inning.
Freshman Lauren Balek took the loss on the mound for the Engineers, dropping her record to 0-3 on the young season. Katherine Veatch (4-0) and Kristin Barrow combined to limit Tech to just three hits.
Jason and fellow junior Holly Jeffrey picked up two of MIT's hits, while freshman Lily Keung made her first collegiate hit count as she belted an RBI double to break up the shutout bid in the bottom of the fifth.
The Engineers will return to action on Saturday, Mar. 31, when they will open up their 2007 New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference schedule against visiting Smith College in a doubleheader. The first game of the twinbill will take place at 12:00 p.m., with the second game following shortly thereafter.


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The exhibit is based in part on the 2005 publication, The Journey that Saved Curious George: The True Wartime Escape of Margret and H.A. Rey, written by Louise Borden and illustrated by Allan Drummond (Houghton Mifflin Company, New York). The Jewish couple stashed a few belongings and manuscripts in their knapsacks and bicycle baskets and fled Paris in June 1940, starting a five month odyssey by bike, train and boat that would eventually bring them to the U.S. A month after their arrival, they received a new contract from Houghton Mifflin for "The Adventures of Fifi," later re-titled "The Adventures of Curious George," a series about an irrepressible brown monkey enjoyed by children for decades.
The exhibit features 27 framed art prints by Drummond and archival images from the DeGrummond Collection of Children's Literature at the University of Southern Mississippi It is being toured by ExhibitsUSA, a national program of Mid-America Arts Alliance. The exhibit is open to the public during regular library hours: 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Saturday, and noon to 6 p.m. Sunday.
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Prayer Resources
Tradition says people pray in order to praise and thank God, express sorrow and ask forgiveness, or ask for what they want for themselves and others. Basically, we human beings pray because we are hard-wired to pray. It is in our
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The aim of this collection of prayers is to provide examples of how some individuals and communities have expressed their longings for God and, thus, to encourage those who use it to make those words their own or to find their own words and ways to pray.


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What follows is an original contribution by noted scholar Benjamin Richler to the Seforim blog. Any typographical errors are my fault alone. -- Dan
Biographical blurb: Benjamin Richler was born in Montreal, graduated from Yeshiva University in 1960 and from the Hebrew University Graduate Library School in 1963. From 1965 to 1995, he served as the Librarian at the Institute of Microfilmed Hebrew Manuscripts at the Jewish National and University Library, on the Givat Ram Campus of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. From 1995-2005, he was the Director (now retired) of the Institute. His books include Hebrew manuscripts, a treasured legacy (Cleveland-Jerusalem 1990); Guide to Hebrew Manuscript Collections (Jerusalem, Israel Academy of Sciences, 1994); The Hebrew Manuscripts in the Valmadonna Trust Library (London 1998); Hebrew manuscripts in the Biblioteca Palatina in Parma (Jerusalem 2001); Catalogue of the Hebrew Manuscripts in the Vatican Library, edited by Benjamin Richler (in preparation, to be published in 2007). His three dozen articles (in Hebrew and English) include: "Isaac Abravanel's 'lost' commentary on Deuteronomy," in Jewish Studies at the Turn of the Twentieth Century I (1999), 199-204; "Resources for the study of Tosafist literature at the Institute of Microfilmed Hebrew Manuscripts," in Rashi et la culture juive (1997), 383-392; "Rabbeinu Tam's 'lost' commentary on Job," in The Frank Talmage Memorial Volume I (1993), 191-202; "The scribe Moses ben Jacob Ibn Zabara of Spain; a Moroccan saint?" in Jewish Art, 18 (1992), 141-147; "Manuscripts of Moses ben Maimon's 'Pirke Moshe' in Hebrew translation," in Koroth 9:3-4 (1986), 345-356; "Resources for the history of medicine at the Institute of Microfilmed Hebrew Manuscripts," in Koroth 8:9-10 (1984), 407-413; "A Hebrew paraphrase of the Hippocratic Oath (from a fifth-century manuscript)," in Medical History 22:4 (1978), 438-445 (with S. Kottek).
Putting the Pieces Together:
The "discovery" of Gershon b. Meir Heilprin (Heilbronn)
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The manuscripts in the collection of the great bibliophile Heiman (Hayyim) Joseph Michael (1792-1846) were purchased in 1848 by the Bodleian Library in Oxford University. One of the manuscripts [1] was described by Adolf Neubauer in his Catalogue of the Hebrew Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library (Oxford 1886), no. 1265 as:
מורה דרך commentary on the 1st part of the Moreh han'N'bokhim by Gershom. ...He quotes R. Abraham Broda and מהר' לובלין (f. 8). For the enumeration of the author's books in his preface, see Steinschneider's מפתח האוצר, p. 324.[2]Steinschneider listed the following works by the author, Gershon[3]: דבר הלכה; בדי שולחן on Shulchan Arukh; חיקור דין responsa; דבר תורה on the Torah ; מאמר אסתר on Megillat Esther; דבר הגדה on the Haggadah; מליצת עיקרים on the 13 Principles of Faith and extracts and sermons.
Most of these works are not recorded in any bibliography, and the full name and identity of the author remained a mystery to Steinschneider.
Another manuscript in the Jewish National and University Library, MS Heb. oct. 711[4], contains commentaries on the Torah, Ruth and Eikhah (Lamentations), based on philosophical and scientific perspectives. The anonymous author quotes Moses Mendelssohn and Copernicus, among others. He mentions several other books he composed, including some of those listed in his preface to מורה דרך , namely מאמר אסתר and דברי הגדה as well as משאת הגרשוני on the 13 Principles of Faith – perhaps another title for מליצת עיקרים on the 13 Principles listed above – as well as commentaries or novellae on the Prophets, Moreh Nevukhim and others. One of the works he mentions is a sermon titled אבל יחיד. The author mentions an explanation he heard from Rabbi Avraham Tiktin, the dayyan of his community ושמעתי פי' ... מהגאון מה' אברהם טיקטין אב"ד קהילתינו. Needless to say, none of these other sources are recorded in bibliographies.
We can now establish that our author, Gershon, was a pupil, of R. Avraham Tiktin, or at least a resident of the same city in which R. Tiktin officiated. R. Avraham b. Gedaliah Tiktin (1764-1820), was a Rabbi in his birthplace Schwersenz (Polish: Swarzedz) near Posen (Poznan), then in Lenshits (Leczyca) and from 1803 in Glogau and from 1816 until his death in Breslau. We can assume, then, that Gershon resided in one of these communities. Which one? The answer is supplied by a manuscript in the Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati, MS 646, a copy of אבל יחיד, the sermon mentioned in the JNUL manuscript. It contains a 24 page eulogy ("hesped") on R. Avraham Tiktin written or composed in Schwersenz on the eve of Rosh Hodesh Shevat 5581=January 3, 1821 by גרשון היילפרין or היילפרון (Gershon Heilprin or Heilpron).
A search for other works by the author listed in the Oxford and Jerusalem manuscripts revealed a manuscript in the Jewish Theological Seminary - University of Jewish Studies (Országos Rabbiképzo Intézet - Zsidó Egyetem) in Budapest titled משאת הגרשוני. It is a curious work based on the Thirteen Principles of Moses b. Maimon and its 169 folios include a Fourteenth Principle that incorporates all the other principles and contains a critique of Kant's theories on the soul. It also includes some explanations of passages in Moreh Nevukhim, on difficult verses in the Bible and a commentary on the piyyut "Ehad Mi Yodea" in the Passover Haggadah. One section התילדות המשפחה deals with the the practice of assigning family surnames and delves into gynecology quoting physicians from Heraclitus until contemporary experts. He describes the wonders of the microscope and relates how a physician in Danzig showed him the sperm of a rooster under a microscope (f. 14r). There are a few poems by the author with the acrostic Gershon b. Meir, that establish the name of the author. The title page reads:
חלק ראשון מספר משאת הגרשני הוא מאיר עינים לאמונת והדיעות האמיתית מוסד על שלשה עשר העיקרים מהרמב"ם ז"ל, יוסף עליו עיקר הארבע עשר הכולל כל העיקרים ונקרא ... עיקר הכולל בו אמצא ויכוח עם החכם קאנט בענין השארות הנפש ... והראיתי מקורה ממקום נורא נקרא מקור הפילסופיאה ... והוספתי התילדות המשפחה ותפארת אדם ופירש על כמה מאמרי ספר המורה להרמב"ם ז"ל וספר המידות לאריסטו ... ומאמרי חז"ל הנאמרים בדרך חידה ומשלים ... גם מהדברים המוקשים ביותר בתורה ובנביאים ודע מה שתשיב לאפיקורס .Additional information about the author is found in an inscription by his son, Pinchas Heilbronn, on the title page in which he adds the date of his father's death, 9 Heshvan 5629=October 25, 1868 אמר פינחס בן מ"ר גרשון הילבראנן ניפטר ט חשון תרכ"ט.
We have now identified the author of these four manuscripts, Gershon b. Meir Heilprin or Heilbronn. We can assume that since he studied under R. Avraham Tiktin or audited his lessons in Schwersenz where Tiktin officiated until ca. 1800 when Gershon was in his late teens or older, that Gershon was born around 1780-1785 and lived well into his eighties, residing for most or all of his life in Schwersenz. On the basis of the cross references to his works in the various manuscripts we can date them approximately. מורה דרך is perhaps the earliest of his works to survive, though by the time he wrote it he had already composed four or five other books or essays. אבל יחיד was composed in 1821. משאת הגרשני is mentioned in the compilation in the Jerusalem manuscript which is the latest composition of Gershon's extant. If משאת הגרשני on the 13 Principles is the same work on the Principles entitled מליצת עיקרים in the Oxford manuscript then it should be considered the earliest work by Gershon to survive.
The figure that emerges from his extant writings is one of a talmid chacham, or at least of one fairly well-versed in Bible, Talmud and the writings of the Rambam with leanings towards the haskalah. He is familiar with some of the works of Aristotle and the teachings of Kant, though we cannot know if he read Kant in German or if his knowledge is from second-hand sources. He is interested in the sciences and has at least an elementary understanding of biology, astronomy and geography. Yet he remains an enigma. Apart from these four manuscripts no other details about Gershon Heilprin have surfaced. If he was so little known, why should Heiman Michael acquire a manuscript of his? Michael obviously acquired the manuscript before his own death in 1846. Was he offered the manuscript for sale? Did he purchase it because he considered it a worthwhile addition to his collection or did Gershon send it to him hoping to receive a generous donation? Likewise, we do not know how the other manuscripts reached the libraries in Budapest, Cincinnati and Jerusalem that now preserve them. It is ironic that so many unpublished works by better known rabbis and scholars did not survive the ravages of time and the Holocaust while four manuscripts by an otherwise unknown personality remained intact and are kept in libraries on three continents.
This detective work could not have been accomplished without a union catalogue of all the Hebrew manuscripts in the world. While no such tool encompasses 100% of all existing Hebrew manuscripts, there is available on the internet a catalogue that describes over 90% of this corpus, namely the catalogue of the Institute of Microfilmed Hebrew Manuscripts in the Jewish National and University Library in Jerusalem.
For over fifty years the Institute has been collecting microfilms of Hebrew manuscripts and its present holdings of 75,000 manuscripts together with the 8,000 original manuscripts deposited in the Jewish National Library represent an estimated 90-95% of all known Hebrew codices.
In the near future, I hope to write another entry at the Seforim blog about the Institute of Microfilmed Hebrew Manuscripts in the Jewish National and University Library in Jerusalem.


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Malaysia's prominent entrepreneurs Patrick Grove, Khailee Ng, and Joel Neoh have scored another exit.
Today, Malaysian media giant Media Prima announced it has agreed to buy digital media company REV Asia from Catcha Group and Youth Asia for US$24.2 million. Catcha is co-founded and chaired by Grove, while Youth Asia is owned by Ng – who's also managing partner of VC firm 500 Startups – and Neoh, co-founder of Fave (formerly Groupon Malaysia).
Media Prima is acquiring REV Asia to boost its digital content creation business amid difficulties in its traditional media segment, which includes TV, radio stations, and newspapers.
"This is a major milestone for both parties as it will see the combined group reach up to 10.4 million visitors," Media Prima said, noting the figure falls behind only Google's 15.7 million and Facebook's 14.1 million visitors in Malaysia. It didn't specify if the figures are on a monthly basis, although early this year, REV Asia told Tech in Asia it had roughly 5 million unique site visitors per month.
Led by Tze Khay Voon, REV Asia has 12 media sites targeting Malay, Chinese, and English-speaking audiences, covering news as well as a wide range of entertainment and lifestyle topics. Voon has been associated with Catcha for over a decade, holding roles across sales, advertising, and strategy.
Media Prima told Bursa Malaysia that REV Asia recorded a net profit of nearly US$970,000 as of the financial year ended December 31, 2016, while its assets amounted to US$6.3 million.
Those figures may seem small in relation to the acquisition cost but Media Prima stressed the cost "is justified in view of the potential earnings to be generated from [REV Asia] and the opportunity to expand the business of Media Pirma's digital division by leveraging the internet social media industry."
REV Asia was the product of a 2013 merger between Catcha Media and Says, one of the companies Ng and Neoh had built. The duo also co-founded Groupsmore, which was acquired by deals company Groupon as part of its foray into the Malaysian market in 2011.
When we last spoke to the REV Asia boss, he said Catcha owned 70 percent of the company, and the rest was held by Ng's and Neoh's firm.
Catcha, which runs classifieds websites throughout Southeast Asia, is known as one of Malaysia's top internet companies. It owns automotive portal iCar Asia and video streaming service iFlix. Before the REV Asia sale, it struck a landmark deal selling property listing site iProperty to Rupert Murdoch's REA Group for US$534 million in 2014.
"At Media Prima, we are big believers in digital content and its growth prospects for the future. The strategic acquisition of REV Asia demonstrates our firm commitment to capitalize on the growing demand for digital content amongst consumers by expanding our reach and further enhancing the group's competencies in digital content marketing, digital content curation, and digital native marketing ads," said group chief financial officer Encik Mohamaad Ariff Ibrahim.
According to The Star, Media Prima fell into the red in financial year 2016, reporting a loss of US$13.7 million, against a profit of US$32 million in the previous year. Its revenue for the year dropped 10 percent to US$300 million due to lower advertising and newspaper sales.
The transaction is subject to the fulfilment of certain conditions, including:
Barring any unforeseen circumstances, the deal is expected to be completed by the third quarter of 2017, Media Prima said.


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The highlight if my media career was definitely having the chance to interview George Harrison. George was funny, informative and up for a chat. Today marks the 7th anniversary of the death of what we all called `the Quiet Beatle`. Here is a a candid chat with Beatle George.
Paul Cashmere: I'm going to start off by talking about movies. I don't know how many times I've see "Monty Python's Life of Brian," in which you have a cameo. I've searched for your part, even on freeze frame. The problem with that movie is that everyone in it looks like George Harrison. Put me out of my misery. Where are you in it?
George Harrison: Well if you're looking for me, then everybody's going to look like that. There's just one little shot, it's probably about 12 frames. Do you know the scene where he comes out of the room and there's crowds of people in the house and John Cleese is there saying, "Those people with gifts form a queue on the left. Those possessed by demons over to the right," and then he comes out and he says, "Brian, Mister Papadopolus has promised to loan us the mount for Monday." You have to go through it again and see that scene and it cuts across and I'm in the crowd. And I just say "Eh, hello, thank you or something ... hello". That's all it is!
Paul Cashmere: And you never got an Oscar for that, George?
George Harrison: No, no, but I'm still hoping. Well, actually they wanted me to do the part of Christ in there, you know, at the beginning where he's doing the sermon on the mount. That's what they tried to get me to do, but I thought that's a bit too controversial.
Paul Cashmere: Yes, for someone from Liverpool, England, that is a bit over the top, isn't it!
George Harrison: (Laughing) Yes, it is.
Paul Cashmere: You and Eric Clapton go back a long way. When did you first meet?
George Harrison: I think I met him ... I'm not sure which year ... it was probably '63. No, must have been after that ... must have been '64 or '65 at the Hammersmith Odeon. He was in the Yardbirds. We did a Christmas season there ... two or three weeks we played there. That's the first time I met him. Then, later I met him ... somehow Brian Epstein was managing the Cream and the Bee Gees, and I used to see him hanging around at that point. That was when that guy (Robert) Stigwood had come to work for Brian Epstein. That's when I really got to know him quite a bit. It must have been 1966, '67.
Paul Cashmere: Considering Eric ran off with your first wife Patti, how have you managed to remain friends?
George Harrison: Well, he didn't really run off with her, because we'd kind of finished with each other basically anyway. And, you know, for me, this is what I think is the main problem, not the fact that he got married to Patti. I think the fact that makes the problem is that I didn't get annoyed at him and I think that has always annoyed him. I think that deep down inside he wishes that it really pissed me off, but it didn't, because I was happy that she went off, because we'd finished together, and it made things easier for me. You see, because otherwise we'd have had to gone through all these big rows and divorces. And you know, she went off to live in the same style she became accustomed to and it was really very convenient for me. So there.
Paul Cashmere: You've done a great version of "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" with Eric on both "The Beatles" album and the live album. Let's set the record straight. Going back to the original version, there was a version recorded with John on lead guitar, one with yourself on lead guitar and one with Eric. Now which one was the one that actually made the (Beatles') White album?
George Harrison: Well, I don't know about one with John on guitar. There was one that just a kind of demo. When I wrote it, that was done with just an acoustic guitar. And then there's the version that was on the Beatle White album, the version with Eric Clapton. There's only ever really been the one's the Eric on it. Even the one I did on the Princes Trust album was still Eric playing on it.
Paul Cashmere: Who came up with the lead break for it?
George Harrison: Yeah, Eric just played that, you know, live as we were figuring out the song. Paul played piano on the original record in 1967. There was Ringo on drums. I don't believe John was there. I played acoustic guitar, Paul played piano, Ringo on drums and Eric played live with us, and then Paul overdubbed the bass later. So Eric just made up the guitar part spontaneously. So this is the thing ... when we went to rehearsal for the Live in Japan tour, he consciously listened to the old version and tried to re-learn, at least, to use the old version as the basis for where he started, and I guess sometimes you forget about good stuff you've already done. So he picked back up on what he'd done originally, but the solo on that one is brilliant, I think, on the live version now.
Paul Cashmere: Can you tell me about "Something". Now, you wrote that about Patti, is that right?
George Harrison: Well no, I didn't. I just wrote it, and then somebody put together a video. And what they did was they went out and got some footage of me and Patti, Paul and Linda, Ringo and Maureen, it was at that time, and John and Yoko and they just made up a little video to go with it. So then, everybody presumed I wrote it about Patti, but actually, when I wrote it, I was thinking of Ray Charles.
Paul Cashmere: He's not as good looking, but well, you know ...
George Harrison: Yeah, but he's a better singer. (Laughs) But that's what I was thinking of. I could hear in my head Ray Charles singing it.
Paul Cashmere: Were you frustrated by the fact that it took just about the entire career of the Beatles before you were granted the "A" side of single, and then the band broke up?
George Harrison: Well, it wasn't so much the "A" side of a single, but it was frustrating at times when we had to wade through millions of "Maxwell's Silver Hammer's" before we could get to one of mine, you know. Because I think now that when you look retrospectively, that there were a couple of my tunes that were good enough ? or better ? than ones that Paul or John had written occasionally. But you know, that's just how it was. It doesn't bother me, really. I was just on hold for a while.
Paul Cashmere: Which of your solo hits do you think would have made great Beatle songs?
George Harrison: This is the funny thing, isn't it? If the Beatles had continued making records, all of the solo stuff that we'd done would have been on Beatle albums. So "Cloud 9" would have been a Beatle record and all that stuff like that. So I don't know. Somebody just asked me about the songs on the "Live in Japan" record, saying did I worry about putting so many Beatle songs on. But so much time has elapsed. I don't even think of them as being Beatle songs so much, you know. When you go back to "I Want To Tell You" and "Taxman," they, to me, were just tunes I wrote, and they were recorded at that period, and it was the Beatles. And "Cloud 9" was a song that I wrote, but I recorded it with those other guys, and it was a solo album. Basically, the thread that binds it all together was that I wrote it, so I don't really see things as Beatles or solo. I just see it as a body of work that I've been involved with one way or another.
Paul Cashmere: What's the story with the Traveling Wilburys?
George Harrison: Well the story at the moment is that we've all been doing our day jobs, and the Wilburys being a kind of hobby has been just put on hold. So Tom Petty had just done an album, and he did a whole bunch of tours at the end of last year and going into this year. Bob Dylan, as you know, is continually on tour. And I did that live album and tour, so I'm not sure when we'll do a new record, because, you know, I'm planning to start planning and writing a new studio album ... although we all got together in New York for Bob Dylan's Madison Square Garden show, which was for 30 years of Bob Dylan kind of celebration. We all went on to do Bob Dylan songs.
Paul Cashmere: Have you heard Guns 'n' Roses "Knocking on Heaven's Door"?
George Harrison: Yeah, didn't even get the chords right, did they?
Paul Cashmere: So I take it you're not a big fan of that one, then?
George Harrison: There's only three chords in it, but they managed to get one of them wrong. (Laughs)
Paul Cashmere: Bob Dylan's been a great friend of yours over the years. Were you in awe of him when you first met him?
George Harrison: You know we'd had our first number one in America when we first met him, and I don't think he'd ever had a number one record. He just had two albums ... the first album didn't do that well and the second album, you know. He was definitely hot at the time. No, we weren't particularly in awe of him, but we really loved his album. We just heard his second album, "Freewheelin'." We'd just spent a month in Paris prior to going to do the Sullivan shows in 1964, February. We'd just spent a month listening to this album of his and it blew us away really. It was just something special about him obviously.
Paul Cashmere: You must have that same effect on new artists now when they meet you.
George Harrison: Yeah, I don't know. I don't know. Sometimes you do and sometimes you don't. But with Bob, he has proven to be special, you know, the words he wrote, the songs he's done. And I think one of the best things about him is that he's true to today to how he was back in 1963, and not a lot of people still believe in the same stuff they believed in then.
Paul Cashmere: Do you enjoy doing sessions, like when you played on albums by Belinda Carlisle and Jimmy Nail? How do you decide what you will or won't do?
George Harrison: I don't know. I'm not so sure now. The deal is usually I'll play on it if somebody just sends me the tape and they take whatever I do. I don't like having someone saying, "Do this, do that and no, can you make it sound like this?" Basically if they want me, they get what I am. Usually they want slide guitar parts. I don't know. Sometimes it works out good and sometimes I can't work out what to do with it when it's the type of song I normally wouldn't normally play myself.
Paul Cashmere: When your live album came out it ended with a nice touch, "Roll Over Beethoven". That was the "With the Beatles" track, the old Chuck Berry thing. That was the song you actually did the duet with yourself on originally.
George Harrison: Oh yeah. Well that's the kind of tune I would have forgotten totally about, but a friend of mine, who's into rock and roll, said, "You've got to do 'Roll Over Beethoven.'"And as it turned out, we went to do this press conference in Tokyo, and one of the questions, they said, "Mister Hallison, will you be playing Loll Over Beethoven?" (sic). And I said yes, and the whole room stood up and applauded. (Laughs) And I said, "It's a good job. We are doing it." The Japanese are very into "Roll Over Beethoven".
Paul Cashmere: The Apple catalogue, George, is slowly being re-released on CD. Why has that taken so long?
George Harrison: I would imagine because EMI, who have the original deals with the Beatles and Apple Records, you know, they went through years and years of re-negotiation. And it could have had something to do with that, you know, when they finally got it all cleared up, and also because it took a number of years when everybody started re-issuing everything back onto CD.
Paul Cashmere: I hear "Wonderwall Music" (George's first solo album) is coming up soon.
George Harrison: Oh good, because you can't find it on vinyl. If you've got a vinyl copy of that thing, it's really rare.
Paul Cashmere: I might head down the markets with mine if that's the case.
George Harrison: Yeah, you want to put it into one of them Beatle sales.
Paul Cashmere: Who are the bands you're most proud of from the Apple stable?
George Harrison: Anybody who had a hit, probably ... like Badfinger was pretty good. It was a very sad story, though, because the guy, he ended up killing himself. Pete Ham, who was a lovely fellow, he was a good guitar player and a great singer. He wrote ... the most famous tune I would imagine is "Without You", you know, the Harry Nilsson record.
Paul Cashmere: Tell us about Anthology and what's happening at Apple?
George Harrison: There's a lot of activity going on in Apple at the moment. We made this series of films, nine or 10 hours of film, because we've virtually completed 1962 and it's 75 minutes long, and there's also one about the same length for 1963 and then it will go through each year, 1964, '65, and it will go through like that. It will be a bit like "The Civil War," (editor's note: the Ken Burns TV miniseries) you know. Hopefully, a whole box of video cassettes or a TV series. But it's really interesting because of the years that elapsed, everybody's put out Beatle footage or videos. They think they've just about told all the stories, but the real story is the one that only we can tell, from our point of view, and we know all of the little intimate details. So we've been compiling all this footage from our own cameras, and there's just tons and tons of material. It's really exciting. I was very pleased to see it, because it's got all of our influences. It's this finely woven web of intrigue.
Paul Cashmere: How do you feel about "My Sweet Lord" these days. How did the court case surrounding that song effect your songwriting?
George Harrison: It didn't really affect my songwriting. I did record "This Song," which was kind of a comment about the situation. The thing that really disappoints me is when you have a relationship with one person and they turn out to betray you. Because the whole story of "My Sweet Lord" is based upon this fellow, Allan Klein, who managed the Beatles from about 1968 or '69, through until 1973. When they issued a complaint about "My Sweet Lord", he was my business manager. He was the one who put out "My Sweet Lord" and collected 20 percent commission on the record. And he was the one who got the lawyers to defend me, and did an interview in Playboy where he talked about how the song was nothing like the other song. Later, when the judge in court told me to settle with them, because he didn't think I'd consciously stolen their song, they were doing a settlement deal with me when they suddenly stopped the settlement. Some time elapsed, and I found out that this guy Klein had gone around the back door. In the meantime, we'd fired him. He went round the back door and bought the rights to the one song, "He's So Fine," in order to continue a law suit against me. He, on one hand, was defending me, then he switched sides and continued the law suit. And every time the judge said what the result was, he'd appeal. And he kept appealing and appealing until it got to the Supreme Court. I mean this thing went on for 16 years or something ... 18 years. And finally, it's all over with, and the result of it is I own "My Sweet Lord," and I now own "He's So Fine," and Allan Klein owes me like three or four hundred thousand dollars 'cause he took all the money on both songs. It's really a joke. It's a total joke.
Paul Cashmere: There's a movie plot in there somewhere.
George Harrison: There's definitely a book, because, now with any kind of law pertaining to infringement of copyright, they always quote this case. It's become the precedent in all these law students' books.
Paul Cashmere: So we might be seeing George Harrison make a guest appearance on "LA Law."
George Harrison: (Laughs) I doubt it, but we did keep a lot of lawyers employed for years, and we still are in one way or another. There's always some kind of bullshit going on.
Paul Cashmere: You've already documented your own anthology. For the benefit of Aussies, tell us about "When We Was Fab".
George Harrison: Yeah, until I finalized the lyric on it, it was always called "Aussie Fab". That was it's working title. I hadn't figured out what the song was going to say ... what the lyrics would be about, but I knew it was definitely a Fab song. It was based on the Fabs, and as it was done up in Australia there, up in Queensland, then that's what we called it. As we developed the lyrics, it became "When We Was Fab". It's a difficult one to do live because of all the all the little overdubs and all the cellos and the weird noises and the backing voices. Who knows ... maybe next time, we'll attempt it. We'll try it in the rehearsal and see.
Paul Cashmere: What do you think of the Beatle sound alike bands, the bands that have drawn influence, not the copy bands, but bands like Crowded House, for instance?
George Harrison: I don't think I've heard that Crowded House ... is that the latest one? You know, it's good, because there were some really good sounds in the mid-'60's Beatle records. Thats's really why I wanted to do that "Fab" one as well, to recreate some of those sounds.
Paul Cashmere: Were you ever disappointed that the Beatles stopped performing live when they did?
George Harrison: Not really. I was disappointed retrospectively. I was disappointed that we got so famous, because as musicians, we were a really good band in the early days. And the more fame that we got, the more the audience screamed and the more that we did just 20 or 30 minute shows of our latest singles. The musicianship kind of went out the window. And when I hang out with somebody like Eric Clapton, who, on the other hand never stopped touring and never got into that situation, he always just changed bands, he really became so fluent on his instrument. You know, we pigeonholed ourselves by the mania that was going on and the inability to perform for longer periods at a time, because of the way it was.
Paul Cashmere: The works got so intricate. You could never have done "Sgt Pepper" or "Abbey Road" live, could you?
George Harrison: But then again, if we'd have kept touring, we might not have gone into the studio to do those kind of intricate works. But the last tour we did, I remember trying to do "Paperback Writer", which had a kind of double-tracked vocal and all that stuff, and it was a bit embarrassing at the time. I remember, "This isn't making it. This doesn't sound very good." So I don't know, but the Beatle tours were something else. You would have had to have been there to know how ridiculous it was. There was no way we could have continued under those circumstances.


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After more than 2 years working in the US, I will be returning to the UK in 48 hours. During those 2 years I have been asked pretty much once a week: "what is the difference between working in the US vs the UK".
It's a complicated question, and my experience isn't broad enough to really put it in a neat summary, but here is a brief 5 point summary to capture some thoughts on what is most different.
1. Working: Hard vs Always
'So, does everyone work really hard over there?' Well, I work in advertising, and I do a lot of pitching, and I think it's fair to say that anyone who is doing that works pretty hard everywhere in the world – and the US and the UK are probably the two most competitive markets, so it gets pretty extreme in both.
If I was to define the difference, it's that I have yet to experience in the US quite the level of intensity and speed of collaboration that I experienced in the UK in a comparable scenario. Sometimes it feels like American groups across agency and clients take the long road – long meetings, complex processes, many disciplines creating a lot of work rather than rolling up their sleeves and committing to collectively take as many shortcuts as possible (which is one definition of working hard.)
The big difference is that apart from a few entrepreneurs and manic CEOs, I haven't found many Londoners who view their weekends, holidays and nights' sleep as fair game for working time. On one project I worked for 4 consecutive weekends, and regular 16 hour days – and this wasn't viewed as a titanic individual effort, but just keeping up to speed.
In fact, my penchant for weekends free of email and 2-week holidays once a year can come across as pretty eccentric in the US.
2. Money: Embarrassment vs Riches
Londoners might stereotype Americans as pretty brash individuals who can never stop talking about money. Americans might stereotype Brits as charmingly over-apologetic Hugh Grant-a-likes. And there's actually a lot to this comparison.
In this, I've come to the conclusion that it's actually the Brits who are a little strange in this respect – I don't think American businesspeople have any particular compulsion to talk about money (when doing business, discussion of money probably comes with the territory.) On the flipside, many Brits seem to have a pathological aversion to even mentioning money, whether it's budgets, salary, investment or taxation.
This is particularly a challenge in the innovation space – some Brits seem to think that the brilliance of an idea should be enough to carry it, and that is shouldn't be sullied with commercial considerations. Whereas American innovators are much happy flitting between funding rounds and engineering scrambles. Which is one reason why the ideas:businesses ratio tends to be much healthier on the western coast of the Atlantic.
At this point, a blast of the US intro to the Apprentice as a money-flavoured sorbet.
3. Innovation: Thinking vs Doing
Within my own field of media thinking, there is no doubt that the UK leads the world. Pretty much every agency I know in New York has a British Head of Planning, Strategy or Innovation. The Brits just seem a lot more comfortable with random digression and with highly conceptual or theoretical thinking in the workplace, even in fields like advertising where it is clearly a highly valuable commodity everywhere.
The downside of this approach is that it is easy to feel that concepts are being sullied by their contact with the real world and with the action plan. This is accompanied by a fear of failure that doesn't exist in the same way in the USA. It's fine to try something that might be a bit wrong, learn from it, try again, fail again, and eventually strike it lucky. A four time failure who wins in the end in the UK would be perceived as a comical story of the plucky underdog. In the USA, that's just a success story.
So innovating through thinking vs innovating by doing – it's fair to say that a bit of both is probably the best place to be. Which, to anticipate my conclusion, is probably why teams that mix the two cultures tend to be so effective.
For a shorthand, a UK strategist is likely to say 'I just want to think about interesting problems' – their US equivalent is more likely to say 'I just want to do cool shit.'
4. Job titles: Descriptions vs Definitions
Nothing is more amusing to the Brit abroad than having a meeting with a VP, and SVP, and EVP, a Managing Director and a President. In our minds, this is a shorthand for obsession with hierarchy, and whilst the UK is hardly Sweden for egalitarianism it is fair to say that the sight of a young graduate employee with their arms around the CEO is far more likely at a British Christmas party than its US equivalent (if there even is one.)
However there is a broader truth behind this – I don't know how much of it is a function of scale, and how much is a function of culture, but US job roles tend to be a lot more specific, whether by discipline, department or hierarchy. There is also much more of an expectation that you will keep to your role, and that your work will be defined by it.
This is great for accountability, but it can be pretty inflexible when it comes to working collectively. This is why after much deliberation Jumptank elected the inscrutable, hierarchy-busting title of Partner. This came in useful many times in driving collaboration without borders.
5. Opening a conversation: Apology vs Storytelling
I have a somewhat hackneyed presentation opening/ice breaker that goes: "I have to start with a quck apology. Because I'm English, and that's what we do." Look, I even did it then – I totally undermined myself before I even said what I wanted to say. Now I'm going to have to think of something else, but it served its time for a few cheap laughs.
I have had UK colleagues emerge shocked from meetings at their US counterparts' enthusiasm about talking about themselves, and had US clients totally misunderstand my stream of caveats and seek to reassure me that the work was really good and I should stop apologising. I have also interviewed candidates in New York who have spent 20 minutes telling me their life story and their many successes before I have even asked a question.
Neither of these are optimal, clearly, but one thing that has astounded me (mainly in the bar rather than the office, but it stretches there too) is the incredible ability of the average US working male for storytelling. For a Brit, a story told in public tends to last 3 minutes and end in an ironic observation about life. Here, I have been told stories that were an hour long, stretched over many years of experience and extracted at least three peaks of hysterical laughter.
This is a skill worth learning, in business as in life.
US vs UK: who wins?
If the answer isn't totally obvious, both cultures are wonderfully mad, unique, dynamic and frustrating. If there is one thing I have learnt it is that the two in combination are a force to be reckoned with, and I am proud to have had great experiences in both countries and hopefully learnt from them too.
Goodbye America, and see you soon.


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Hi - if you weren't able to book on to a ShutterBugs event why not consider a 1:1 session - just for you. It's a quick way to get up to speed with your camera
NB - for admin reasons booking is only possible up to 7 days before your selected date - please bear this in mind when booking
Learn more about camera controls photo techniques & composition in this 2.5hr workshop. You let me know what you think you need & I'll help you reach your objective & tailor the session to suit your needs
Flexible – depending on what skills you'd like to develop I can be quite flexible in the arrangements – our location may be governed by what you need or you may need to fit it into a busy diary – there is a choice of dates – I can be flexible with the time
If you are already familiar with your camera – I'll use my experience to help you reach the next level, gain more confidence & produce better images
Location – normally in Bristol but we can arrange a location to suit you
My skills – I've been a photographer now for a long time! I now take great pleasure in sharing my knowledge & experience with you. This will allow space to explore your photography & creative skills further
On the day – we'll look at things like exposure, aperture priority, shutter priority (and when to use them), depth of field, filters, manual/auto focusing, lenses, composition and more. Of course this will depend on your present skills
Learning - over the years I've found the best way to get certain techniques across is with a simple powerpoint presentation we will therefore spend some of the session looking at these (they are very visual not wordy!) I'm quite happy to plug my iPad into your tv monitor at your house or we could find a faclity nearby to suit us both
Any Q's ask Graham: firstname.lastname@example.com
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The following four forms of the same colloquial expression have reference to stating the one that uses them of saying: "I will (or agree, accept) to something another suggests or did. They are: "Yes siree," "Yes sir e Bob," "Yes siree re-Bob," and "Yes siree, Bob!" In using the name Bob has reference to whoever the person expressing it is talking with. The term "siree" is a modification of "sir." Some believe it originated in West Virginia, which means: "Yes, absolutely!"
Using the same first name in a generic manner has been done for many years, maybe for several centuries. Often somebody may ask another to "put your John Henry on the dotted line!" Or, "Sign your John Hancock!" This is usually used in addressing another regardless of what their name is. It came about when John Hancock of Massachusetts signed his name in bigger letter than did others who signed the American Declaration of Independence. The changing of that expression came a century later to "John Henry." Why it was changed from "Hancock" to "Henry" is uncertain.
The term "Yankee" has been used to refer to all Americans down to those in more limited areas of our country. Sometimes it is shortened to "Yank" by those of other nations in speaking of all Americans. In this form it is usually used in a derogative manner. Within our nation it is often used of those in the northeast, especially of New Englanders. As time went by baseball entered into the picture. A professional baseball team in New York was named the New York Yankees. With their rivalry with the Boston Red Sox it became an insult of those in New England to be called a "Yankee" unless they were a fan of the Yankee baseball team. Southerners look upon anyone north of the Mason-Dixon Line as a Yankee. To a southerner it would be an insult to refer to him as a "Yankee." The precise origin of that expression is uncertain. It was first found to be used in 1758 by British General James Wolfe in speaking of New England soldier under his command. He said, "I can afford you two companies of Yankees, and the more because they are better for ranging and scouting than either work or vigilance." Some believe the term Yankee was derived from the Dutch. Their word "Janke means "little Jan" or "little John." They used it as a nickname as early as the 1680s in referring to pirates.


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Fdonovan needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 116 designs submitted by 31 freelance designers.
We have created a web app designed to allow marketers to chat instantly, in real-time, with their target demographic at a fraction of the cost of traditional research. The IM style chat gives marketers the chance to DoubleCheck their concepts and media with their target market prior to launching to the public, or prior to sending their concepts to a full-blown traditional research.
Our brand will be real, grounded, down-to-earth, fast, trustworthy, smart yet not intellectual, and friendly.
Our core brand message will be around immediacy of information, low cost, and vetting ones work in real time.
We are not researchy or academic.
The target for DoubleCheck is marketing professionals who work for companies with yearly revenue of $100 million to $1 billion+. These marketers are users of technology and want to be on the cutting edge of marketing techniques. They value information and the ability to reduce risk in the decisions they make. They are creative individuals.
Secondary audience includes advertising and PR agencies.
1. The logo is rectangular in dimensions and is wider than it is tall, not necessarily skinny, but definitely not square.
2. Preferably an icon which incorporates the name DoubleCheck.
3. Looks like it belongs on the homepage and web app (see attached).
4. Incorporates the brand characteristics listed in "tell us about yourself".
5. Incorporates the colors of the homepage and web app.
6. Logos we like - http://www.zendesk.com; http://www.surveymonkey.com/;
7. No stock images or clip art please.
Orange - D34227
Green - B4D88C
Blue - 8FCBEC
Grey - 717983
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Talk:Qtopia / Qt Extended on FreeRunner
From Openmoko
jffs image
Mounting the jffs file as described did not work for me. Instead I did the following:
mknod /dev/mtdblock0 b 31 0
losetup /dev/loop0 <rootfs.jffs2 file>
echo "/dev/loop0" > /sys/module/block2mtd/parameters/block2mtd
mount -t jffs2 /dev/mtdblock0 <mountpoint>
This seemed to work out alright.
I had pretty good luck with the procedure on the Qtopia on FreeRunner page using KnoppMyth 5.5 for my linux. Had to su but few problems. The only part I didn't figure out was the -C switch in the tar command. Failed every time. Worked around it.
uImage path
A problem I had was with "Installing Kernel" instructions : instead of putting uImage.bin on the first partition in /boot folder, I had to put it directly in / (without that I couldn't boot). If someone else can reproduce the problem, I will edit the article. -Xavier_OM
- Same here I have to put uImage directly to / (not to /boot) -PipBoy2000
- Same here too. Should I change it on the page? --Nowic 16:24, 7 August 2008 (UTC)
Partitioning & u-boot
How are you all (who have successfully booted to SD) partitioning your cards?
Also, what (if any) changes did you make to u-boot environment? I was unable to make any of my changes stick, so I couldn't add support for ext3.
- russell
Where should I report Qtopia related bugs? To docs.openmoko.org too? --Nowic 17:02, 10 August 2008 (UTC)
- My understanding is that they should be reported to Trolltech. I'll add the tracker address and information to the page now. --JohnSullivan 16:46, 4 September 2008 (UTC)
Suspend/Resume bug
I just tested with 4.3.3, booting on battery power, and the phone suspends and resumes just fine. Is this still reproducible now? I suggest removing it from the page. --JohnSullivan 16:47, 4 September 2008 (UTC)
in "Current Status" stands, that their is now browser...but in "What is in the latest release (Qtopia 4.4)? " there stands that a webkit browser is on the image...what is correct?
Is tangogps supposed to work with qtextended? wasn't it a gtk-app, was it?


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Seahawks May Trade Leon Washington
With the trade to bring wide receiver-kick returner Percy Harvin to Seattle, rumor around the NFL is that the Seahawks could be looking to move All-Pro kick returner Leon Washington.
Jason LaCanfora of CBS Sports is reporting that with the acquisition of Harvin, the Seahawks may be making a move with Leon Washington. Harvin is one of the most explosive kick returners in the league, and that could make Washington trade bait.
Danny O'Neil reported in Tuesday's Seattle Times:
So the report from Jason LaCanfora of CBS Sports that the Seahawks are soliciting offers for Washington isn't a shock. But that doesn't mean his departure is a certainty, either.
Seattle could be checking what a Pro Bowl returner — which Washington was in 2012 — would fetch in a trade. He's scheduled to make $1.5 million in base salary in 2013, according to the players association database. His deal also includes a $1 million roster bonus.
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The annual workshop is regional in scope and will cover a broad range of nanoscience and nanotechnology topics including bionanotechnology and nanomedicine, with faculty presentations, panel discussions, and student poster sessions.
Sponsored by
The CNST workshop is co-sponsored by the Micro and Nanotechnology Laboratory (MNTL), the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, the Frederick Seitz Materials Research Laboratory, the Coordinated Science Laboratory, the Institute for Genomic Biology, the Center on Nanoscale Chemical, Electrical, Mechanical, Manufacturing Systems (Nano-CEMMS), the Siteman Center of Cancer Nanotechnology Excellence (SCCNE), and the Center on Emergent Behaviors of Integrated Cellular Systems (EBICS).
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Fair Use: Worth More To The Economy Than Copyright?
from the take-that,-RIAA dept
The report is put out by the Computer and Communications Industry Association, of which Google, Yahoo and Microsoft are members. There's little doubt that the report is just as biased as the reports on piracy numbers -- but really what this report highlights is how bogus the numbers are in the piracy reports. You can put out a report that'll show just about any "loss" or "gain" if you get to set the assumptions and conveniently ignore certain things and double count other things. In this case, the CCIA was fairly rigid in using WTO approved methodology for how countries are supposed to count the value added for the copyright issue -- they just applied it to industries that are based on fair use in some way or another. You can certainly quibble with how they pick which industries are enabled by fair use, but at no worse a level than how the copyright lobby defines the importance of copyright-based industries. Either way, though, if the copyright industry is going to keep publishing its bogus reports, it's hard to fault the CCIA for using the same methodology to show how much more important fair use is. The next time anyone cites the bogus piracy numbers, they should at least be forced to acknowledge these numbers on the value of fair use as well as a counterweight. They may be bogus, but they're equally bogus to the piracy numbers. In the meantime, it's probably also worth noting that Microsoft is on both sides of this debate -- as an active member of the BSA which is famous for its bogus numbers, as well as a member of the CCIA. Apparently, the company is a little confused on its position on copyright.


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Nancy L. Green 3/4/2013 6:38:44 AMMASTERFULLY composed and captured Anita, I love the tones and lighting, WTG!!! <>< #1517562
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Classic Aeron Stool, High Height by Herman Miller
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Herman Miller Classic Classic Classic Aeron Stool, High Height
designed by Don Chadwick and Bill Stumpf
At A Glance:
Think of the Classic Aeron Chair, but then make it two feet higher. You've got the Classic Aeron Stool - perfect for the office, and even at home in the home (see what we did there?). It fits anyone who sits at a high table or work station. Adjustable, comfortable, ergonomic, and two feet higher.
This happens to be the high height version. The low height version is the more popular model of the Classic Classic Aeron Stool. Click here to go to the low height stool.
What's to Like:
For people who have to work in tall chairs this is a godsend. The aspects of comfort, back support and superior ergonomics that the Classic Aeron Stool brings to bear are largely missing from the stool industry. Not to mention consistency, a recyclable nature, and several color options.
What's Not to Like:
Just like the actual Classic Aeron Chair, the left and right edges of the seat pan are a bit upturned, and for larger people this can cause some discomfort. For small people, it engenders a feeling of constantly expanding bliss. There is a price increase from the regular chair as well.
Bottom Line:
This is a very comfortable stool, with all the looks, comfort and advanced engineering you'll find in the regular chair - just two feet off the ground.
Also Available:
Aeron Low Stool
Aeron Side Chair
Classic Aeron Chair
- High back. High and wide contoured back that takes weight off the lower spine.
- Easy on the arms. Wide, soft armrests are sloped in the front.
- Waterfall front edge. Reduces pressure under the thighs so circulation isn't restricted.
- Healthful support. The strong Pellicle suspension system distributes weight evenly over the seat and back.
- Form-fitting. The Pellicle conforms to each person's shape and minimizes pressure.
- Aeration. Wide, soft armrests are sloped in the front.
- Natural Tilt, Smooth ride. The Kinemat tilt lets people move naturally and effortlessly, from forward-leaning through reclining.
- In sync.The backrest and seat pan move in proper relation for correct support in all positions.
- Responsive. Whether the user is in motion or at rest, the chair spontaneously supports the preferred posture.
- Inclusive look. Wide, soft armrests are sloped in the front.
- Pellicle choices. Blends both classic and contemporary influences for a unique appearance that fits in wherever it's used.
- Easy on the arms. Three unique Pellicle weaves in a choice of neutral colors coordinate with lighter-scaled contemporary environments.
An All-Purpose Work Stool Solution
The Classic Aeron Stool is a high-performance, long-term seating solution that features a full complement of adjustments and along with the innovative Pellicle suspension fabric, making it ideal from general computer and office work to casual or formal meetings.
Combining distinctive looks with pioneering ergonomics, Classic Aeron performs like no other chair. It adapts naturally and adjusts precisely to fit people of all sizes and postures doing all kinds of activities, all day long. The imaginative design of the Classic Aeron Stool gives superior comfort, body support, and style that are widely copied but never matched.
The Classic Aeron work stool employs a Pellicle material that conforms to the user's body and retains its original shape when unoccupied. The material is lightweight and breathable and distributes the user's weight evenly over the seat and back of the stool. The Classic Classic Aeron Stool's Kinemat tilt lets the body naturally pivot at the ankles, knees, and hips.
The Herman Miller Classic Aeron Stool is also known by the following manufacturer Item Numbers: AE721PWB, AE723AWB, AE723AFB
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Materials & Measurements
High-Height Stool:
Overall: 51.75" to 57.25" h x 27" w x 17" d (seat depth)
Seat: 27.5 to 34" h x 20.25" w
Low-Height Stool:
Overall: 47.75" to 52.25" h x 27" w x 17" d (seat depth)
Seat: 24.5" to 29" h x 20.25" w
Pellicle suspension material conforms to user's body and retains its original shape when not in use. The material is lightweight and breathable, distributing the user's weight evenly over the seat and the back of the stool for added comfort.
Environmental Information
Herman Miller's Aeron Stool rewrote the book on office seating with its distinctive look and high-performance design. In addition to its well-known ergonomic and functional qualities, Bill Stumpf and Don Chadwick designed the Aeron stool to be sparing of natural resources, durable and repairable, and constructed for ease of disassembly and recycling.
From its earliest developmental stages, the Aeron's raw material selection and sourcing process emphasized environmental friendliness, with a preference for renewable, sustainable, and recycled source materials, including recycled pop bottles.
Material Content
The Aeron stool's components are constructed from aluminum, steel, plastic, and foam/textile. The Aeron stool is up to 94 percent recyclable at the end of its useful life. Aeron is comprised of 62-percent recycled materials. The recycled content breaks down to 41-percent post-consumer and 21-percent pre-consumer content.
- All die-cast aluminum components are made from 100-percent recycled material and are 100 percent recyclable
- Components contain approximately 25- percent recycled content and are 100 percent recyclable.
- Most metal components have a powder-coat paint finish that emits negligible volatile organic compounds (VOCs).
- Plastic components are identified with an ASTM recycling code whenever possible, to aid in returning these materials to the recycling stream.
- The seat frame and back contain over 60-percent recycled content, made from approximately 36 recycled two-liter plastic beverage bottles per chair.
- Foam and textile materials are part of an open-loop system and can be recycled into everything from automotive components to carpet padding at the end of their current life.
- Returnable/Recyclable Packaging - Packaging materials include corrugated cardboard and a polyethylene plastic bag. These materials are part of a closed- loop recycling system, meaning they can be recycled repeatedly.
Product Performance
- Easy assembly for cost-efficiency and quick parts replacement.
- Easy disassembly for recyclability.
- Designed for durability, an important environmental criterion.
- Backed by Herman Miller's 12-year, 24/7 warranty.
Indoor Air Quality
The Aeron stool is GREENGUARD certified as a low-emitting product that meets current indoor air quality standards. GREENGUARD-certified products also meet the emissions requirements of the State of Washington Furniture Systems criteria and the U.S. EPA Procurement Guidelines for Office Furniture.
The Aeron stool may contribute to LEED credits due to its returnable/reusable packaging, durability, pre-consumer and post-consumer recycled content, and GREENGUARD certification. Depending on project location, Aeron also may contribute to a LEED Regional Materials credit. Please contact us for detailed LEED credit sheets.
It's important to note that no interior furnishings, individually or collectively, can guarantee a specific number of points for LEED certification.
About The Manufacturer
Herman Miller is an industry leader in the integration of cutting edge technology to furniture and other household items to make everyday life more comfortable, convenient, and stylish. Herman Miller stands out at the forefront of such fields as ergonomic technologies, environmentally friendly manufacturing processes, and customizable furniture items.
In addition to producing some of the most outstanding office furniture in the world, Herman Miller has also taken on the responsibility of manufacturing some of the most celebrated furniture designs by some of the world's most famous designs. These "modern classics" include works by Charles and Ray Eames, George Nelson, and Isamu Noguchi. Herman Miller celebrates these famous mid-century designers' works through its extraordinarily precise manufacturing techniques and industry-leading green production processes.
Herman Miller is a global company with operations, sales offices, dealers, and licensees in more than 40 countries in North America, Asia/Pacific, Europe, Middle East, Africa, and Latin America, serving customers virtually anywhere in the world. Herman Miller is headquartered in Zeeland, Michigan, while manufacturing facilities are located in the U.S., China, Italy, and the United Kingdom.
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About The Designer
Stumpf's association with Herman Miller began in 1970 when he joined the staff of the Herman Miller Research Corporation. After establishing his own firm in 1972, Stumpf created the Ergon chair, the first ergonomic work chair. Later, in collaboration with Don Chadwick, he produced the groundbreaking Equa and iconic Aeron chairs. He also was principal designer for the Ethospace system. "I enjoy myself, and I do it through design," Stumpf declared in an interview a few years ago.
"I love beauty, and I love the availability of beautiful things and useful things immediately around me." During his lifetime Stumpf- a key figure in Herman Miller's transformation into a research-based, problem-solving innovator- received numerous awards for this work. Most recently, he was named the winner of the 2006 National Design Award in Product Design, an award presented posthumously by the Smithsonian's Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum. Stumpf died in 2006.
Don Chadwick
Chadwick's love for furniture design goes back to his childhood, when his cabinetmaker grandfather taught him how to use the tools of the trade--hand tools that required skill, precision, and patience. Later, unlike the other industrial design students at UCLA in the mid-1950s, he focused on furniture. And after hearing a Charles and Ray Eames lecture there, Chadwick was convinced: Furniture offered designers, even industrial designers, the chance to use materials in new, innovative ways--and to make a "real difference" in people's lives.
"Most industrial designers don't take furniture design seriously," he says. "They're not trained to get into that kind of detail. It's too personal, too much like surgery. And besides, you have to be in love with this kind of work." He attributes at least some of this optimism to the "LA recklessness" he's experienced as a lifelong resident of Southern California. "There's less fear of failure out here, so people are more apt to take risks. It's fertile ground for innovation." For over two decades now, Chadwick has had a partner in recklessness. "Herman Miller isn't afraid to take chances on new ideas. That's why the company's been successful for so long, and that's one reason why it's challenging to work for them."
Design Story
- It was tested for comfort with scores of users, pitting it against the best work chairs available.
- Leading ergonomists, orthopedic specialists, and physical therapists evaluated the chair's fit and motion, the benefit and ease of its adjustments.
- The design team conducted anthropometric studies across the country, using a specially developed instrument to calculate everything from popliteal height to forearm length.
- The research team did pressure mapping and thermal testing to determine the weight distribution and heat- and moisture-dissipating qualities of the Pellicle material on the chair's seat and back.
- Field studies using a specially-designed measuring device examined the relationship between sizes of people and their preference for chair size (Dowell 1995b). Measurements of 224 people--in a sample that was evenly distributed between men and women and that closely reflected the distribution of the U.S. population on most dimensions--found that of all the anthropometric dimensions measured, height and weight had the strongest relationship to chair size preference. The relationship is strong enough to allow us to recommend one of the three chair sizes based on those dimensions.
Although it reveals its aesthetic heritage in lyrical shapes reminiscent of George Nelson designs, organic forms that recall the work of Charles Eames, and a spare, athletic aspect that brings to mind its designers' Equa chair, the Aeron stool finally looks only like itself. Its unique form expresses its purpose and use and the material composition of its parts and the way they connect. The slightly transparent and reflective nature of its surfaces gives it an airy quality. It becomes a part of the person who uses it and the environment that surrounds it.
Made largely of recycled materials, the Aeron stool is designed to last a long time, with parts that get the most wear easily replaced and recycled. Just what you would expect in a well thought-out design.
Shipping & Delivery
Options are good. Here are your 2 shipping options:
Simple Scheduled Delivery: Free
Simple Scheduled Delivery is for folks that don't mind carrying furniture. The shipper will call prior to delivery to arrange an appointment, but the driver will not bring the furniture inside.
- Typical transit time is 4-7 business days.
- Larger/Freight items:
- For Residential deliveries, the shipper will contact you via phone call/email at least 24 hours in advance - to schedule a delivery appointment window (typically a 4 hour window). This is when your order does not ship with UPS/Fedex. Most shippers will have online tracking available as well.
- Business deliveries to companies/commercial addresses will typically not come with a pre-arranged appointment, but will arrive during standard business hours. Please contact Smart Furniture or the shipper if your business address has special scheduling needs.
- Smaller items + office chairs will typically ship via UPS/Fedex with a tracking number and online monitoring, but not a phone call and delivery appointment (UPS/Fedex do have scheduling programs with sign up on their websites). This can include office chairs and other products requiring assembly.
- The driver will deliver the shipment at the ground level/front of your house or in your apartment's regular delivery area. They will not bring the furniture inside or carry it up stairs.
- If you live in an apartment, the doorman can accept delivery on your behalf.
- For Larger/Freight shipment (non UPS/Fedex) You must be present at the scheduled delivery appointment to inspect the delivery items and sign paperwork if any damage is visible.
- We'll be sure to assist with any damage that may occur. Please call Smart Furniture right away if any issues arise.
- Any questions? Chat or call! We're happy to help!
For more information and shipping comparisons, click here.
Inside Delivery: $74.00 per item
If you don't like carrying furniture, this is a great option. The shipper will schedule an appointment with you prior to delivery and bring the furniture into your home for you. This service does not include unpackaging or assembly.
- Typical transit time is 4-7 business days. Some larger and specialty items may take a bit longer.
- Shipper will arrange a four hour window for delivery at least 24 hours in advance.
- Your driver or delivery team will bring the furniture inside your home and into your room of choice (Up to two flights of stairs).
- Delivery folks will not unpack or assemble your furniture.
- You must inspect the purchase at the time of delivery and sign for any damages.
- We'll be sure to assist with any damage that may occur. Please call Smart Furniture right away if any issues arise.
- If you're ordering multiple items from the same manufacturer, we might be able to bundle your shipping upgrade costs! Give us a call and we'll make sure you're getting the best shipping price possible!
- Any questions? Chat or call! We're happy to help!
Type: 1 box
Box dimensions: 27" x 28" x 50"
Packaged weight: 77 lbs
Assembly required: None (hooray!)
Comes with a 12-year manufacturer's warranty.
Do you have specific questions about what's covered under Herman Miller's warranty for this product? Give our sales team a call at 888-467-6278 to get your questions answered.
Did you purchase a piece of Herman Miller furniture that's not working as expected? Send an email to email@example.com or contact our customer service department at 888-762-7841, and we'll take care of you. We usually ask for a photo or video of the warranty issue that you're experiencing, so if you want to expedite the warranty claim process, you can e-mail us with those attachments, and we'll jump on filing the claim for you right away