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The Country, Parents, and Time of Pythagoras
The Italic Sect was distinct from the Ionic, in respect of the author, place, discipline, and doctrine. It was denominated from that part of Italy which, from the frequency of Greek colonies, was called Magna Graecia. Yet was not the author, Pythagoras, an Italian, for though some think his father was of Metapontum; some, a Tyrrhene of Etruria in Italy; yet Diogenes and others report him a Tyrrhene of the race of those who inhabited Lemnus, Imbrus, and Scyrus. And that coming upon traffic to Samos, he settled there and was made free. With these concurs Aristoxenus (to whom Clement of Alexandria joins Aristarchus and Theopompus), who says in his life of Pythagoras, that he was born in one of those islands which the Athenians won and expelled thence the Tyrrhenians. Whence Suidas says that Pythagoras was a Samian, but by birth a Tyrrhenian, brought over young by his father from Tyrrhenia to Samos. And indeed, his country seems inscrutable to Lycus; and to Josephus no less difficult to find out than that of Homer.
Nor is it strange that the country of his father should be questioned, since it is not agreed concerning his name and quality. Justin calls him Demaratus (and Johannes Sarisburiensis, from Justine, Maratus), others, Mamercus. But the greatest part of writers agree, that he was called Mnesarchus. His profession, according to Hermippus and others, a graver of rings; according to others, a merchant.
Some there are who affirm he was a Phliasian. Pausanias reports that he was son of Euphron, grandson of Hippasus, who upon the taking of Phlius by the Dorians, fled to Samos. Others, that he was the son of Hippasus. Hippasus was son of Euthyphron of Cleonymus, who was banished out of Phlius; and that Mamercus (or rather Mnesarchus) lived in Samos, whence Pythagoras was said to be a Samian. Cleanthes relates he was a Syrian, of the city Tyrus in Syria (or rather in Phoenicia), whence making a voyage to Samos for traffic, at such time as the Samiams were much oppressed with famine, he furnished them with corn; in requital whereof, they made him free of their country. Hippobotus says that Pythagoras was a Samian.
Indeed, the most general and approved opinion is that Mnesarchus was a Samian, descended from Ancaeus, who first brought a colony into Samos. And that Pythagoras, his son, was born at Sidon in Phoenicia; but by education, as well as extraction, a Samian also. This is ratified by the authority of Iamblichus, who begins his life with the following fabulous narration.
It is reported that Ancaeus, who lived at Same in Cephalenia, was descended from Jupiter (others say from Neptune and Astypalaea), an opinion occasioned by his virtues or some particular greatness of soul. In prudence and magnanimity he excelled all other Cephalenians. This Ancaeus was commanded by the Pythian Oracle to gather together a colony out of Cephalenia, Arcadia, and Thessaly, augmenting it from Athens, Epidaurus, and Chalcis. And that having got them together under his command, he should people an island, named from the richness of the soil Melamphyllos (black-leaf), and call the city which they built Samos, from Same in Cephalenia. The Oracle was thus:
Instead of Same, Samos thou (an isle) Shalt plant Aneaeus, which men Phyllas style.
That this colony was drawn from those several places appears not only from their religious rites and sacrifices (which are derived from the countries out of which those people came), but also from the affinities and mutual conventions made by the Samians. Mnesarchus and Pythais, the parents of Pythagoras, are said to be descended from the family of the same Ancaeus who planted this colony there. (Of Pythais it is confirmed by Apollonius.) Which nobleness of their extraction, being much celebrated amongst their countrymen, a Samian poet declared him to be the son of Apollo in these words:
Pythais of all Samians the most fair, Jove-loved Pythagoras to Phoebus bare.
Which report was raised thus. This Mnesarchus the Samian, being upon occasion of traffic at Delphi with his wife, who was at that time newly with child and not known to be so; he enquired of the Oracle concerning his voyage to Syria. The Prophetess told him that his journey should be, according to his mind, very advantageous. That his wife was already with child, and should bring forth a son that should exceed all men that ever were in Beauty and Wisdom, and through the whole course of his life bring much benefit to mankind. Mnesarchus considering that the Oracle would not have spoken of his son, seeing that he demanded nothing concerning him, if there were not something extraordinary to be expected from him, immediately hereupon changed the name of his wife, which was Parthenis, to Pythais, from the Prophetess.
And as soon as she was delivered at Sidon in Phoenicia, they called the child Pythagoras. For Epimenides, Eudoxus, Xenocrates (and others mentioned by Apollonius) are to be rejected who affirm Apollo at that time lay with Pythais, and got her with child (she not being so before) and thereupon foretold it by the Prophetess. This is not to be admitted. But that the soul of Pythagoras, being of the regimen of Apollo (whether as a follower, or some other way more near to him), was sent to men none can doubt—since it may be evinced by these circumstances of his birth, and the universal wisdom of his mind. This much (says Iamblichus) concerning his generation. Whence we see the Greeks did so much admire his wit that they thought it could be nothing less than divine, and thereupon fabled Apollo to be his father.
Pythagoras was the youngest of three sons: the eldest Cleanthes calls Eunostus; Laertius and Suidas called him Eunomus; the second was called Tyrrhenus. He had likewise an uncle Zoilus, mentioned by Laertius.
The reasons for establishing the times concerning Pythagoras's life will hereafter be set forth upon the occasion of his going into Italy. In the meantime, I shall desire it may be admitted, that he was born about the third year of the fifty-third Olympiad [ca. 562 B.C., see Glossary—Ed.]. That being eighteen years old, he heard Thales and others. Then he went to Phoenicia, thence into Egypt, where he stayed twenty-two years; afterwards at Babylon twelve years; then returned to Samos, being fifty-six years old; and from thence went into Italy. The particulars whereof shall in their several places be more fully discoursed.
His First Education and Masters
Mnesarchus (says Iamblichus) returning from Syria to Samos with much wealth and abundance of merchandise, built a Temple which he dedicated to Apollo the Pythian, and brought up his son in several excellent disciplines. He committed him sometimes to Creophilus, sometimes to Pherecydes of Syria, and to almost all the Prefects of the Temple, as being blessed with the fairest and most divine son that ever man had.
Some there are who affirm that Pythagoras was a wrestler; and that when Pherecydes first discoursed among the Greeks concerning the immortality of the soul, Pythagoras the Samian, moved at the novelty of the discourse, changed from being a wrestler to a philosopher. But these relations seem to have been occasioned by confounding Pythagoras the philosopher with a wrestler of that name, his contemporary, of whom more hereafter.
Cleanthes and Suidas relate that Pythagoras first heard Pherecydes the Syrian at Samos; and in the second place Hermodomas, [TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII] "the Creophylian," at the same Samos, then very old. Hermodamas was his name, but he was surnamed Creophylus, wherefore perhaps instead of [TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII] should be read, [TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII] Or else he was termed a Creophylian, as well as surnamed Creophylus, because he was reported to be descended from Creophylus, a Samian, who in times past entertained Homer as his guest, and was, as some say, his master and his rival in poetry. But when Apuleius says Hermodamas (or Leodamas, as he calls him) was disciple to that Creophilus, he makes an error no less in chronology than when he says Pythagoras was disciple of Plato, unless the whole text be corrupted.
Pythagoras, his father dying, grew up in prudence and temperance, being while he was yet very young generally much respected and honored even by the most aged. His presence and discourse attracted all persons. To everyone on whom he looked, he appeared worthy of admiration, insomuch that many averred he was the son of a deity. He, being thus confirmed by the great opinions that were had of him, by the education of his infancy, and by his natural excellence, made himself daily more worthy of these advantages. He adorned himself with devotions, with sciences, with excellent conversation, with constancy of mind, with grave deportment, and with a sweet inimitable serenity; never transported with anger, laughter, emulation, contention, or any other disorder; living like some good genius come to converse in Samos. Hereupon, though young, a great report was spread of him to Thales at Miletus, to Bias at Priene—two of the sages—and to all the cities thereabout. Many in all those parts commending the young man made him famous, calling him by a proverb:
The Samian Comer or, The fair-hair'd Samian.
About this time began the tyranny of Polycrates. Pythagoras, now eighteen years old, foreseeing the event, and how obstructive it would prove to his designs and to the pursuit of learning, which he intended above all things, being young and desirous of knowledge, he left his country to go to travel. He stole away privately by night, taking with him Hermodamas (surnamed Creophylus, and descended, as was reported, from that Creophylus who was host to Homer). They made a voyage to Pherecydes at Lisbus (to whom, Laertius says, he was recommended by his Uncle Zoilus); and to Anaximander, the natural philosopher; and to Thales at Miletus.
With each of these he conversed severally in such manner that they all loved him, admired his parts, and communicated their learning to him. Under Anaximander, the Milesian, he is said to have studied the knowledge of natural things. Thales entertained him kindly; and wondering at his excellence above other youths which much surpassed the report he had received, assisted him as far as he was able in sciences. Withal, accusing his own age and infirmity, he advised Pythagoras to make a voyage to Egypt there to get acquaintance with the priests of Memphis and Diospolis. He said that of them he had learned those things for which he was by many esteemed wise, though he were not of such forwardness, neither by nature or education, as he saw Pythagoras to be. Whence he presaged that if he conversed with those priests, he should become the most divine and wisest of men.
This Pherecydes fell sick at Delos. That he outlived not the fifty-seventh Olympiad [ca. 548–544 B.C.] is manifest from a letter which he wrote the day before his death to Thales, who died the first year of the Olympiad following. And though the greater part of authors write that at the same time when the Cylonians in Crotona conspired against the Pythagoreans (which was not long before Pythagoras died), Pythagoras was gone from Italy to Delos to visit and bury Pherecydes—yet Dicaearchus and other more accurate authors (says Porphyry) aver that Pythagoras was present when that conspiracy broke forth; and that Pherecydes died before Pythagoras departed from Samos. The former relation has imposed, among others, upon the learned Salmasius, who to reconcile this with other circumstances concerning Pherecydes, is constrained to imagine another person of the same name. It was therefore before Pythagoras left Samos that Pherecydes, being desperately seized by a Phthiriasis, he went to visit him and attended him in his sickness until he died. And then performed the rites of funeral as to his master. For Laertius and Porphyry add that after the death and burial of Pherecydes, Pythagoras returned to Samos out of a desire to enjoy the society of Hermodamus.
Phavorinus, in the seventh book of his various History, and Porphyry, relate that after he had lived awhile with Hermodamas, he first taught wrestlers—and of them Eurimenes—to diet with flesh (whereas other wrestlers used to eat dried figs, cheese-curds, and whey) whereby Eurimenes became victor at the Olympic Games. But Laertius and Iamblichus observe that this is falsely ascribed to Pythagoras the Samian (for he allowed not the eating of flesh), but was indeed the invention of Pythagoras, son of Eratocles, of whom more hereafter.
How He Traveled to Phoenicia
He learned of Thales above all things to husband his time. And forbearing wine and flesh, and having before refrained from eating much, he accustomed himself to such meats as were light and easy of digestion. By such means he procured a habit of watchfulness, clearness of mind, and an exact constant health of body.
He made a voyage to Sidon, as well out of a natural desire to the place itself, esteeming it his country, as conceiving that he might more easily pass from thence into Egypt. Here he conferred with the prophets, successors of Mecus the physiologist, and with others, and with the Phoenician priests, and was initiated into all the mysteries of Byblus, and Tyre, and several of the principal sacred institutions in diverse other parts of Syria. He underwent these things not out of superstition, as may be imagined, but out of love to knowledge, and a fear lest anything worthy to be known, which was preserved amongst them in the miracles or mysteries of the gods, might escape him. Withal not being ignorant that the rites of those places were deduced from the Egyptian ceremonies, by means whereof he hoped to participate of the more sublime and divine mysteries in Egypt, which he pursued with admiration as his master Thales had advised him.
How He Traveled to Egypt
Some Egyptian mariners passing accidentally along that coast which lies under Carmel (a Phoenician mountain where he spent much of his time in private retirement at the Temple), willingly received him into their ship. But observing during the voyage how temperately he lived, keeping his usual diet, they began to have a greater esteem for him. And perceiving some things in the excellence of his demeanor, more than human, they reflected within themselves how that he appeared to them as soon as they landed, coming down from the top of the mountain Carmel (which they knew to be more sacred than other hills, and not trode upon by the vulgar), easily and directly, neither stones nor precipices obstructing his passage. And how that coming to the side of the ship, he asked, whether they were bound for Egypt; and they, answering that they were, he went into the vessel, and silently sitting down in a place where he might least disturb the mariners in case they should be in any stress.
He continued in the same posture two nights and three days—without meat, drink, or sleep (except when none perceived he slumbered a little, sitting in the same unmovable posture, and this constantly to the end). They noted how that the voyage proceeded direct, beyond their expectation, as if assisted by the presence of some god. Laying all these things together, they concluded and persuaded themselves that some Divine Genius did indeed come along with them from Syria to Egypt. The rest of the voyage they performed prosperously, observing a greater respect then formerly in their words and actions, as well to one another as towards him, until they at last arrived upon the coast of Egypt by a most fortunate passage without any storm.
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City The "Ghetto Latte"
Starbucks baristas debate the pros and conswith an emphasis on the conof the "Ghetto Latte."
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Starbucks baristas debate the pros and conswith an emphasis on the conof the "Ghetto Latte."
(Non-Sequitur ahead. Proceed with Caution)
Tough Love v. Savage Love
Last week Bwana Dan wrote that Focus on the Family's Dobson 'beats up homos' like Dan.
Maybe. Homos, sapiens & others, do get beaten, but I suspect that the phrase 'beat up' is like the words 'gay' and 'bash,' words that have become unhinged from meaning.
So pull up your shirt (is that a spud gun in your pants, or are you just happy to see me?) & show us some skin. Show us the bruises.
I never realized what a bunch of whiny-ass-bitches Starbucks baristas were! Why do they give two shits if someone orders a cheaper version of a drink, then (gasp!) adds milk to it? Big whoop. It's not affecting their paycheck.
ah - that explains why, when I go to put a little dollop of half and half in my iced double espresso, there's little or none left in the carafe
serves Starbucks right for inventing these idiotic venti/grande drinks anyway - and then charging an arm and a leg for them
me, I like my espressos small and cheap - the way the Italians orignated it
Poor people should drink regular coffee and not use up all my half and half for their ghetto lattes.
Oh shit I didn't know they were on to me.
Man, reading that made me realize how glad I am I don't work in coffeeshops anymore. What a soul-sucking occupation. The thing is, you really do start to take all that stuff - who gets what kind of drink, what they put in it, blah blah blah - seriously. I feel sorry for those people.
my personal favorite is my ghetto mocha, which you can make at home: just add swiss miss to you coffee! ta-da!
bitches be coming into the restaraunt and ordering ice water to drink, asking for lemons on the side, then putting sweetener in the drink to make Lemonade when Lemonade is on the drink list. Fresh Squeezed! On top of that, they're usually white!
this has to stop! someone, make it stop!
I used to make a NeoRx latte when i worked there - you take a coffee cup, put in the half and half, and do an air drop (about eigth to twelve inches) of poured coffee into the cup.
Foam every time.
And a lot cheaper - think it cost 25 cents.
Face it, when I can still get $1 coffee with free refills at the diner across the street next to Gasworks Park, ghetto lattes are just economics in action.
I can't decide which is more entertaining: the baristards who refer to the use of free half-and-half by paying customers as "stealing", or the customers who accuse other patrons of stealing "their" half-and-half. Imbeciles, the lot of them.
In a realistic market place, Starbucks is not going to lose any money on this proposition. If enough people "cheat" their market system, it increases their costs, and they will increase prices to match. The people who pay for it will be those who don't "cheat" the system.
I thought Bush banned economics and capitalism, silvertail! You're not allowed to talk about how capitalism works any more, unless it's to support Red no-bid contracts or Party Elites getting tax "breaks".
Oh right! Let me correct that, tax cuts pay for themselves.
A second look at this... It seems the person ordering is adding what 12oz of half and half to their drink? 12oz x ~30g/oz = 360g half and half at 20% fat = 72g fat. 72g fat x 9cal/g = ~650 cal, not including the milk sugars. Way to change your coffee beverage into the liquid equivalent of a burger and fries...
JFK's did.
Um, Starbucks coffee drinks are not priced in relation to cost. They are priced in relation to what people are willing to pay for them. If people are unwilling to pay another 50 cents or whatever, they will not be able to raise the price no matter whether it costs them another penny or another dollar.
So no, you are not stealing from people who don't cheat. You're stealing from Starbucks. The way you will hurt the people who don't cheat is when Starbucks takes the thermoses of milk away, and doles out only a couple of those diabolical little tubs.
This is almost as fascinating a subject as the question of how much ketchup you are allowed at McDonalds.....
Whiners will always be whiners but can they stop using the word "ghetto" as a synonym for "poor" or "fake"? That shit ain't right.
HAHA, I drink black coffee and get soy milk when ordering mixed drinks so this doesn't affect me.
That said, most small coffeeshops work around this by keeping the cream and half/half in the fridge behind the counter, and providing a small pouring tin with said cream with drinks. If Starbucks considered the ghetto latte a problem, they'd just change up how they provide cream and half/half accordingly. No sense in increasing costs and decreasing customers, when just moving the condiment in question behind the counter while making it available on request will work just fine.
Starbucks should definitely start offering these folks benefits - they need vacations!
Fun fact: allegedly, Starbucks already provides benefits to even their part timers. Not sure if those benefits include paid vacations, tho.
Ghetto latte, close cousin of the infamous MooLatte.
Though this one seems more authentically racist.
Guess Starbucks doesn't spring for political correctness training for their barristas.
Considering coffee companies, including Starbucks, purchase their coffee from countries in Africa, South America, etc for less than 5 cents a pound (or less) and then turn around and mark-up the cost a gazillion percent-can this argument even be a real one? Who cares? And if you care so much about fair/unfair, go ask your coffee farmers if they think it's fair that they can't put their kids through school (or even build a school in their village) because places like Starbucks rarely buy the coffee they use to make the drinks we buy at fair trade prices.
I know we arenât discussing the ignorance of calling anything in Starbucks "ghetto", but can I just remind people that GHETTO is when you have to use socks for washcloths & sheets for curtains, not when you add too much creamer to your starbucks coffee. Christ- itâs as bad as when I hear white girls calling their Abercrombie hoodie "ghetto" because the zipper broke. Letâs get some phucking perspective. And man I do feel sorry for baristas if they actually give a shit enough to care what people do with their goddamn coffee. Find a new cause, jagoffs.
I think they're currently paying about $1 - $1.50 on the market, like everyone else. Shipping, storing, roasting, grinding, and brewing, not to mention things like rent and labor, add far more to the cost than the growing does.
Starbucks wants to get 5 or 6 bucks from every customer that walks through the door,thats why you pay 3.50 for a 10 cent cup of coffe. the price you pay has nothing to do with the underlying product,Starbucks is stealing from its customers.So you can guzzle all the half & half you want till your red faced and shit your pants and Starbucks wouldnt care they'd still make money.Stop being lazy or thinking your cool because you drink expensive coffee and make your own coffee at home. Wake UP Idiots.
I can't believe all this energy wasted on talking about Starbucks. The people who work there are real snobs. It's just coffee for ***st sakes! Don't get your panties in a bunch because i don't shop at Lord & Taylor!!!! I think their coffee is awful anyway. And to give any recognition to anything called 'ghetto' is insulting.
People should pay THIS much attention to something important... like illiteracy in our schools.
Actually, even fair-trade coffee isn't very fair. More coffee companies need to encourage 'direct trade' which is where the company goes directly to the farmers and they buy the coffee at a higher price than the so-called fair trade price. as of right now, i think Intelligencia (a chicago based company) is the only company that does this (in fact, i think they are the ones who came up with the idea) and the main basis is to provide a more socially concious product.
also, why go to starbucks when independent coffee shops are so much cheaper and more socially concious? and the baristas tend to be a lot less jaded and snarky. i speak from experience as i AM a barista at a couple independent coffee shops.
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LONDON, Feb 18 (Reuters) - Former Scotland and England coach Andy Robinson has been appointed director of rugby at second-tier English club Bristol.
"I firmly believe that - with the passion for rugby in the region and the vision of the owners - Bristol has the potential to be one of the most successful sides in England," Robinson said on the club's website (www.bristolrugby.co.uk) on Monday.
Robinson, who had a disappointing spell as England coach between 2004 and 2006, resigned as Scotland coach in November after a 21-15 home humbling by Tonga extended a poor run of results.
Former England international Robinson said his first goal was to help fourth-placed Bristol back to the Premiership, where the club last played in the 2008/09 season. (Writing by Tom Pilcher, Editing by Mark Meadows)


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Today and Sunday's Sports Calendar
Published: Friday, April 23, 2010 at 6:01 a.m.
Last Modified: Friday, April 23, 2010 at 11:46 p.m.
Today. Terrebonne at Ascension Catholic, 10 a.m.
Today. Vandebilt Catholic at Central Lafourche, 1:30 p.m.
Today. St. Stanislaus at South Terrebonne, 3 p.m.
Today. Class B regional, No. 10 Grand Lake at No. 7 Houma Christian, Girls Softball Westside Complex, 1 p.m.
Today. Tulane at Memphis, 2 p.m.
Today. Nicholls State at Sam Houston State, 2 p.m.
Today. LSU at Ole Miss, 3 p.m. (DH) (TV:FSN).
Sunday. Nicholls State at Sam Houston State, 1 p.m.
Sunday. Tulane at Memphis, 1 p.m.
Sunday. LSU at Ole Miss, 1:30 p.m. (TV:CSS)
Today. LSU at Kentucky, noon. (DH)
Today. Nicholls State at Northwestern State, 2 p.m. (DH)
Sunday. LSU at Kentucky, 11 a.m.
Sunday. Nicholls State at Northwestern State, 1 p.m.
Today. Sounds at Zephyrs, 6 p.m.
Sunday. Sounds at Zephyrs, 2 p.m.
* — TV, radio and Internet listings in parenthesis.
Today. The Houma Eagles, an 11-year-old boys competitive baseball team, is looking for players to compete in six or seven highly competitive weekend tournaments from April to July. The player must be able to play multiple positions and cannot turn 12 before May 1, 2010. For information, call Bennett Porche at 856-3893.
Today. Registration for Terrebonne Parish Recreation 5-6 boys and girls T-ball and 15-16 boys baseball begins at area gyms today and Monday-Thursday from 5 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Those interested can also register April 29-May 7 from 8 p.m. to 4 p.m. at the Terrebonne Parish Recreation building at 876 Verret St. next to the Houma Municipal Auditorium. For information, call 873-6584 or 873-6583.
Today. The Phi Kappa Theta Nu Omega chapter of Nicholls State University will hold its 4th Annual Redfish Rodeo at the Pointe-Aux-Chenes Marina. Tickets cost $15. Cash prizes will be awarded for top redfish and speckled trout. For information, call Cody Morrison at 668-9804, Ryan Trahan at 804-9769 or Branson Bittner at 337-499-3385.
Today. The Kappa Eta chapter of the Phi Mu Sorority at Nicholls State will host its Fourth Annual Hoop-A-Paluza event at Thibodaux High School's Gym on Saturday from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. All proceeds will benefit Children's Hospital in New Orleans and the local Children's Miracle Network. Admission is $1 per person and donations will be accepted. For information contact Chrystal Lachney at firstname.lastname@example.com. Information can be found at http://nicholls.phimu.org.
May 1. The Terrebonne Sportsman League will be hosting the 10th Annual Terrebonne Sportsman League's Youth Fishing Rodeo at the Pointe-Aux-Chenes Marina. Registration will be at day break until 2 p.m. Scales will be open from day break to 2 p.m.Young fishermen MUST BE accompanied by an adult and children under 12 MUST wear an approve flotation device. The rodeo is free for children ages 4 through 15. For information call Larry at 601-4110 or Kevin at 851-4537 or Moise at 804-3726.
May 6. The Nicholls State University Foundation will host the 11th annual Women's Night Out benefit on May 6, at Cypress Columns in Gray. All proceeds will benefit women's athletics at Nicholls. Sponsored by Entergy, the Tim Emerson Team at Smith Barney, Peter Knoop of Morgan Keegan, AIG, Coca-Cola and the Nicholls Foundation, the event includes a four-course dinner, live and silent auctions and a night of entertainment and fun – including free, after-party limousine service. Attire for the evening is dressy-casual. The evening will begin at 6:30 p.m. with hors d'oeuvres and champagne, followed by dinner at 7:15 p.m. Tickets are $100 per person. To make reservations, call the foundation at (985) 448-4005 or (985) 448-4134.
May 7. Lafourche Parish District Attorney Cam Morvant will hold his Eighth Social and Golf Event on May 7 at Sugarland Country Club in Raceland. It will be a four-person scramble and gift certificates will be presented to the first three places in each of the five flights. Teams that participated last year will receive an invitation to this year's event in the mail. The deadline to enter is Monday. For information, call Yockey Bernard at 438-7871 or 446-5986.
May 14. South Lafourche will hold its Sixth Annual Alumni Softball Tournament on May 14, 15, 16 at Golden Meadow's Oakridge Park. Anyone interested in sponsorships, volunteering time or participating in the tournament contact Mel Guidroz at 637-5822.
May 22. The FNS All-Star High School Baseball Classic will be held on May 22 at Nicholls State's Ray E. Didier Field in Thibodaux.
May 24-28. The Ninth Annual Pitch, Hit and Run Baseball/Softball Clinic will be held at the Broadmoor Fields in Houma. The camp is open to players ages 7-12 and will last from 8:30 a.m.-noon each day. For information, contact Craig Hamner at 851-7702 or 688-5225 or James Mills at 860-7962.
June 14-16. E.D. White Catholic baseball coach Shane Trosclair will hoset the Shane Trosclair Cardinal Baseball Camp at E.D. White. It is $70 to participate. For more information, e-mail Trosclair at firstname.lastname@example.com.
Aug. 6-8. The 60th Annual Terrebonne Sportsman's League International Fishing Rodeo will be held Aug. 6-8 at the East Park Receration Center in Houma. For information, contact Larry Jordan at 601-4110 or Kevin Whitney at 851-4537.
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SoftwareThe Lake Palace homepage tells the soon to be player that several bonuses are on offer but without a description of them. The only big bonus advertised is the $100 free when a player downloads the software. There is an icon calling on existing players to 'upgrade now' whereas most sites will perform the software upgrades automatically when a player logs on to the site.
BankingThe banking section of this casino needs a bit of work. There is a long list of text and a player just wishing to make a quick deposit or withdrawal will find himself hit with a lot to read before being able to do so. There are no quick short cuts for someone looking to find out which banking methods are on offer and how they can perform this task simply.
GamesThe website is a bright green colour, which is nice, though not particularly representative of the theme of a lake. Clicking on any of the games on the homepage of the site will take the player to a list of games that no one has ever heard of before. Clicking on any of the four games laid out on the homepage takes the potential player to exactly the same place. Anyone for a game of 'Minted Sevens'? Why someone clicking on the icon for 'poker' would want to hit a page describing the slot machines that the casino has, is not clear.
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Customer SupportThe customer service information is clearly displayed in the corner of the casino's home page. There is a toll free number for the United States and an email address for those wishing to write down their problems. In addition, there is a live chat function which is often very helpful.
The online gambling market is a crowded market with literally hundreds of sites offering thousands of games. The bonuses offered are high and the games that are professional will attract the players, those that aren't can not expect to survive for very long. That said if there are gamers out there who enjoy the more obscure slots and basic games this could be the place for them.
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I used to play alot at Lake Palace but since they changed software, customer service is horrible and their reputation has gone way down. I will not be playing or depositing at this casino again.
DO NOT DEPOSIT HERE ! THEY ARE SCAM ! VOIDED WINNINGS AND BLOCKED ACCOUNTS without my fault!
I have played there with free chip only. I had no luck wagering it but I got a pretty bad impression. The support lacked professionalism, knowledge about their own games and terms. The game selection was decent but just the same as all other Saucify casinos.
as mentioned this is not a trusted group of casinos, i have account their and they keep offering no depsoit bonuses and i like to play betonsoft slots so i used to play my depsoit bonuses here but never won and i had read many complaints for this group of casinos so i had never deposited here, but if you wanna master bet on soft games you can register here use their no depsoit bonuses to know more about these slots.
I like Bet on Soft games and used to be big fan of their games,specially of their free spins or chips,which before they offered a lot.I have opened my account ,maybe 2 years ago,but never made deposit here .Like the rest of the Bet on Soft Casino ,so they did changed their Terms of free chips.Before you could use tons of them,but now after the deposit ,you are allowed to use 5 free chips or spins in a row,but i guess thats not that bad.Nice support as for withdraw i didnt made any.
This is a rogue casino. I learned the hard way and had to pay to know better in unpaid winnings. Don't do the same listen to the voice of experience and find a relible gaming site to put your hard earned money at risk with.
There are many forums including this one where you should check on a casino before you make a deposit.
What amazes me is that these crooks can continue to operate year after year. I'm glad that more and more user forums like this one are online now. Hopefully less people are getting ripped off than in the past due to cyber forums.
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Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory
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Data Quality in Zooarchaeological Faunal Identification
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There is no standard for reporting faunal identifications in zooarchaeology. Zooarchaeologists are open to accusations that reported conclusions are invalid. Other sciences counter such problems through use of quality assurance, consisting of quality control (QC), and assessment (QA). QC is a standard for procedures adopted during laboratory practice. A rarely cited standard was published by Driver in 1992. QA focuses on criteria for faunal identification and is becoming more common in zooarchaeology. QC and QA must be integral parts of zooarchaeology if identifications are to be accepted. The stakes are high because paleobiological datasets are now used to study problems in conservation science.
KeywordsZooarchaeology Faunal identification Quality assurance Quality control Quality assessment
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- Data Quality in Zooarchaeological Faunal Identification
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Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory
Volume 20, Issue 3 , pp 381-396
- Cover Date
- 2013-09
- 10.1007/s10816-012-9161-4
- Print ISSN
- 1072-5369
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- 1573-7764
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- Springer US
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- Zooarchaeology
- Faunal identification
- Quality assurance
- Quality control
- Quality assessment
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- Steve Wolverton (1)
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- 1. Department of Geography and Institute of Applied Science, University of North Texas, Denton, TX, 76203, USA


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SEOUL, July 5 (Yonhap) -- A Korean businessman found by a local online news outlet to have set up a paper company in a tax haven has allegedly embezzled company funds worth billions of won, the news organization said Friday.
The Korea Center for Investigative Journalism (KCIJ) accused Oh Jung-hyun, the former chief executive of now-defunct electronics material maker SSCP Corp., of embezzling 83 billion won (US$72.8 million) from his own company over the past six years, according to the independent news media's Web channel Newstapa.com.
The KCIJ findings revealed that a total of 83.3 billion won has been moved to Oh's personal account from the business account since 2007.
Last month the KCIJ revealed that Oh established one or more shell companies in popular tax havens including the British Virgin Islands, raising suspicions that he may have used them as a channel to move slush funds overseas or avoid taxes.
Oh had inherited the KOSDAQ-listed company from his father in 2002, but his management only lasted 10 years after the company was liquidated due to a cash shortage, incurring massive losses for minor shareholders. Oh has been since sued by investors for embezzlement and on negligence charges.
Even after the bankruptcy, Oh paid some 18 million won for a three-month rental of a luxury car, the KCIJ said, adding that he is trying to buy back his company.
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ADEN, Yemen - With American officials stung by the ease that apparent suicide bombers attacked the USS Cole, Yemeni security forces on Monday interrogated dozens of port workers and others - including the head of the company that services U.S. warships.
Ahmed al-Mansoob, general manager of the Al-Mansoob Commercial Group that provides food, supplies and garbage pickup to the U.S. warships, was released Monday after two days of questioning. The two crew members of the garbage barge assigned to the Cole were also brought in and later freed.
Al-Mansoob would not speak to reporters. But Abdullah Al-Khalaqi, marketing director for the Yemeni company, denied any connection to the attack last week that killed 17 American sailors.
"No one here is an extremist," he said in an office filled with caps, mugs and notes of thanks from visiting U.S. ships.
"Most of our employees are relatives," said al-Khalaqi. "For others, we rely on word of mouth to see if someone is a good man."
Several people remained in a highly guarded camp on Aden's outskirts, but it was unclear whether they were considered suspects in the explosion that tore a 40-by-40-foot hole in the destroyer.
Yemen now considers the blast "a premeditated criminal act," according to SABA, the official Yemeni news agency, a reversal of an earlier position that is crucial to the investigation. Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh's backing is vital in allowing FBI agents and other U.S. terrorism experts to work closely with Yemeni authorities.
Saleh met with the head of the U.S. Central Command, Gen. Tommy Franks, to review military cooperation and evidence gathered by Yemeni security forces, SABA said.
"The president expressed his deep regret and sorrow for this criminal act against our country and against the United States of America," the agency added.
There has been no credible claim of responsibility for the deadliest terrorist attack on the U.S. military since the 1996 bombing of an Air Force barracks in Saudi Arabia that killed 19.
"We will track them down," U.S. Defense Secretary William Cohen said. "We owe that to the families."
Thursday's explosion was so powerful it buckled the deck and turned the attack boat into "confetti size" bits, an official said.
Immediate suspicion fell on terrorist mastermind Osama bin Laden - accused in the 1998 bombings of U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania that killed 224 people.
Bin Laden, who has been living in Afghanistan since 1996, has denounced Yemen for allowing U.S. ships to refuel at Aden, near the southwestern tip of the Arabian Peninsula.
But Afghanistan's Taliban rulers denied bin Laden was involved, according to a statement published in the Pakistani newspaper Jang.
The London-based newspaper Al-Hayat quoted a Muslim fundamentalist leader as saying the attack was carried out by the Aden-Abyan Islamic Army, which bin Laden's brother helped create. Mustafa Kamel, or Abu Hamza al-Masry, said the group was upset with bin Laden for refusing to strike at Yemen, the newspaper reported.
As of Monday, the FBI was having trouble getting its entire contingent of explosives experts, evidence technicians and investigators to Yemen, according to two federal law enforcement officials in Washington.
The officials said about 30 FBI agents had reached Yemen and were arranging facilities to accommodate the larger group. More than 70 FBI agents remained at the U.S. Air Force base in Ramstein, Germany, on Monday awaiting a flight to Yemen.
Franks toured the crippled Cole on Monday and spoke to exhausted crew members. They seemed finally to have gained the upper hand in keeping the warship afloat. Until dawn Sunday, they had continued to try to bail out a flooded bulkhead, with electrical shorts knocking out power. At one point, they jury-rigged a pumping system from port side fire fighting equipment.
By Monday, most flooding was contained and conditions on board improved.
"Heroic efforts were undertaken by the crew . . . they saved the ship," said Rear Adm. Mark Fitzgerald, head of the U.S. task force at the ship.
Lt. Terrence Dudley, a spokesman for the U.S. 5th Fleet, said electricity and air conditioning had been restored. Temperatures have been in the 90s.
Only five of the victims have been recovered. Divers searched water-filled compartments and crews with powerful metal cutters would try to slice through the wreckage to reach the others: two visible and the 10 still missing and perhaps trapped behind floors and walls wrenched apart by the blast.
In Germany, James Rundell, deputy director of the Landstuhl Regional Medical Center, said two badly injured victims will remain in a military hospital there for at least another week, while four sailors will likely return to the United States today or Wednesday.
The ability of the attack vessel to come alongside the Cole undetected has left U.S. officials on the defensive. They insist security levels were adequate at the port, which became a refueling point for U.S. warships last year. About 25 Navy vessels have used Aden.
"We obviously . . . determined it was safe to come into this port. . . . If we had specific and credible information to the contrary, the ship would not have come in," Ambassador Barbara Bodine said Sunday.
U.S. officials have suspended naval stops in Aden for the moment.
The Cole will have to be moved from the port for major repairs. A U.S. defense official said the trip could begin in as soon as a few days and would be made on the back of a vessel known as a heavy lift ship, like a floating dry dock capable of carrying ships of up to 30,000 tons.
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and 18-year non-parole life sentence for stabbing his former
girlfriend 216 times Sophie Elliott, 22, in Dunedin in
January, 2008.
Robert Lithgow, QC, told the Court of Appeal today that
public comment made by the Law Commission's deputy president
Warren Young attacking the provocation defence undermined
Weatherston's case, as he was arguing the same defence.
Mr Lithgow argued that the jury could have been influenced by
Dr Young's comments, made on a programme broadcast on TVNZ 7
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"most poisonous" that could have been said about him.
"Nobody would want a trial under these conditions," Mr
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got things right. She had given the jury appropriate and
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with media coverage of the case.
There was no basis to show the jury did not follow the
Dr Young was an experienced legal commentator and would have
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The three Court of Appeal judges reserved their decision.
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I was asked a simple question the other day by a CIO of one of our RetailIndustry client. The question was in the context of business we were conductingand he asked me, "what value your solution or technology provides to ourbusiness? What impact can it have on our business imperatives? I am being askedby my CEO to empower our Enterprise IT to make impacts on the overall businessand I am evaluating what technologies or platforms will enable me to do that."
I tried to explain the business value, ROI and TCO of the technology investmentscan provide to his portfolio but that was not enough. The question got methinking and I had been possessed by this question since then.
Let me ask you if you are an IT consultant, an IT manager or a CIO, "what valuedo you provide to your organization? What impact have you made recently on thekey KPI's of your company's business which normally are revenue growth, profitmargin and market share growth? "
This is a serious enough thought that it requires deep introspection and analysis tocome up with an answer. Who knows, if you come up with something plausible, itmay save your job or may even get you a promotion.
Let us first define what these two terms mean and establish some common ground forthis discussion.
Value: Value is something which you provide tosomeone else through your service, product, knowledge sharing or an influencingthought. It basically describes how much the activity is worth to someone.Either in time, money or opportunity. In economics, value is calculated bysubtracting total costs from total benefits. The value can be tangible (as inmoney) or intangible (as in satisfaction). If you post a review and thatinfluenced someone's purchasing decision then you delivered something ofvalue.
Now whether you can claim that the person making purchasing decision received ROI (Return on investment) fromthe value you provided is sometimes debatable. In that sense not all value ismeasurable clearly and that forms the basis for ambiguity of the value (Includingbusiness value). In financial sense, we can say that the value exists in thebalance sheet and hence we can say that it is created over time and not in apoint of time.
Impact: An impact is the net result of the activity or the value you provided. Impact is ameasurable entity which results from an activity. May be your activity resultedin new jobs, new customers, new revenue, new knowledge etc. Then it is said tohave made impact. Impact can have many potential measures of varyingdefinitions and degrees. If you provided a service or a product to a businesswhich helped that business in increasing their market share or revenue by x% ina quarter then you made impact on that business's bottom-line. In a financialsense, we can say that the impact exists or gets reported on the incomestatement and is something which can be created at a point in time.
So, if we agree on these two term's definitions as discussed above then we canproceed to discuss these two terms in the context of relationship betweenEnterprise IT and the Organization while keeping the questions we asked of usin the beginning. These questions are:
All of us have heard this oft-repeated comment that IT is an enabler of thebusiness processes. Some articles like the provocative HBR article "IT doesn't matter" byNicholas Carr, even suggest that IT has become a commodity and really does notmatter for the organization since it does not create any business value. You will find numerous articles, books andpresentation from the big IT consulting companies and the enterprise IT vendorshow much "value" their products or services or IT investments create for theorganizations. I am yet to come across an article or a case study where the ITinvestments have delivered substantial bottom-line business impacts, theimpacts those are validated by a CEO or CFO.
Let me first differentiate between IT investments and technology investments madeby organizations. Most organizations today invest in engineering or productcreation functions which need investments in technology such as heavymachinery, manufacturing lines or robotics. So, a company like Intel may havemade investments in technology for their chip manufacturing plants or a companylike General Electric may have made technology investments in modernizing theirturbine manufacturing plants or a company like Amazon may have invested in roboticsin their huge warehouses (Drones may be?). These same companies also run prettysizeable business support function in their IT divisions which support theirnetworking, servers, and storage investments to serve their communication,collaboration, productivity and application processing needs. Let us keep thisdistinction in mind during this discussion and focus on the value or impact ofthese IT investments on the overall business.
We all agree that we need the IT to provide us with the corporate devices (such asPCs, Macs, and Tablets etc), applications and the common services such asemail, communications and collaborations. IT also provides the control and compliance for the enterprise securityto protect the corporate information. These tasks by IT are now seen ascommodity tasks and in this "cloud" era, can be met with a variety ofcloud-based services. So, the argument here can be while IT is providing thebasic services required for an organization to function, these are not reallyseen as "value-creating" activities. Especially when you think of value as thebusiness value or economic value to the business. Going back to our definitionof the term value, this becomes a question of how much business value does ITcreate which is going to be a difference between the business benefits andbusiness costs. And that is the hot button issue today for the CIO.
Typical enterprise IT spend and budgets run in multi-millions of dollars and the CIOsare always under the scanner to justify their IT budgets. Because of the natureof the Enterprise IT today, CIOs need to plan and justify the IT spend firstand then purchase the infrastructure to deploy. Given how well the deploymentgoes, this may or may not deliver expected business value to the organization. Thismeans that the deployed software or infrastructure may not enable the businessprocesses as expected or as desired by the business units. Then the businessunits start questioning the business value they received from the investmentsthey agreed to. And the impact of these investments did not even enter thediscussion since everyone is now stuck on the business value question itself.
There are times though that the some rare IT projects do succeed and some businessvalue is delivered by these projects eventually to enable some businessprocesses. Business units and IT teams do come to an agreement that a givenproject delivered some business value but then they often struggle toaccurately measure this business value or at least they can't communicate thisbusiness value to broader audiences since the metrics for the business valueare either not available or are not clearly understood. This is when thequestion of "impact" enters the conversation.
Did the IT initiative or IT program make substantial impact to the organizationlike to market share, customer acquisition or retention, customer success orultimately to company's stock price? These are the thing the executive suitesreally cares for anyways. Most of the time CIOs do not have clear answer tothis question because most of the IT projects are far isolated from makingdirect impacts on these business metrics. So, you invested in new data center,how do you relate that to the market share growth? You delivered cloud-based servicesfor CRM which may have reduced some costs but did that deliver customersuccess? And even if the CIO can claim that any of his/her IT initiatives didimpact some business metrics, does he have concrete data to support his/herclaims?
So, if we are caught in this dilemma then what is the way out? It is clear that thebusiness value matters and that IT should deliver the business value but as is everythingin our lives, this is the expected outcome. The organization made someexpenditure on IT projects and it expects to realize the benefits of these expenditures.That is the business value it would derive. It is just like if you bought a carthen you expect it to work and take you from place A to place B. You get thevalue from that transaction because the money spent is yielding you benefit oftransportation. But does it impact your lifestyle in a positive way or improveyour commute in some way?
One way to handle this "Value vs Impact" quandary is to think about going beyondthe value creation and deliver "economic impacts" to the business.The intent would be to enable the overall business to create "competitivedifferentiation" and "operating leverage"; thus giving the CEO theability to create a "responsive business".
This means that the IT should not be just a supporting business function like Legalor HR; but it should become another "core" business unit of theorganization. IT should have its own business plan which aligns with thestrategic plan of the business. This way it will have its own business metricswhich will bear direct relationship with the organization's metrics. The CIOshould be able to report to the CEO that how much customer retention rate hasincreased because of the investments made in that new data center which deliverscritical Software-as-a-service CRM to organization's sales force, allowing themto be more responsive to the customers. Another example would be to report on improvementin inventory levels due to better matching of forecast data with the productshipping data due to much improved analytics solution delivered by IT, whichnow aggregates the disperse data and allows to make better decisions formatching supply and demand in a region. This will surely make the CEO happy andexcited. This is where IT delivers the competitive advantage.
Now that we have reached a point in this discussion where we think IT should thinkabout delivering the impact to the business, let us shift gears and think abouthow this can be made possible?
One answer could be Business capabilities led IT planning and transformation. Iwill save it for the next article but to give you a sense of what it is, it isthe method of IT planning where you align business capabilities with technologycapabilities by modeling capability themes as IT priorities. This way astechnology continues to change that leads to opportunities to do thingsdifferently. And using technology to do things differently provides theleverage of gaining an advantage in the marketplace.