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Author Richard Noel Hedditch (2 months)
Oh, goodie ! There was an Indian Ocean cometary impact at 2,807 BC. Then
there was the Clovis Comet impact on North America at 10,900 BC. That makes
two good cometary impacts. Spiffing. Noah's Flood at 4,800+ years ago,
instead of trying to work it back to 12,000 years ago. That is more like
it. Now one can start to conceptualise Hebrew Biblical geneology and
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7:53 where is that beautiful place
Author geoxpapas (1 year)
Based on it's physical, chemical and thermodynamic properties, why don't
these scientists look at CO2 as the more likely compound that forms
extraterrestrial ice as the main constituent of Comets rather than H2O? If
they are really as objective as they want us to believe, they would examine
and present all the real and factual possibilities, not only the ones that
suit their personnel theories and subjective opinions.
Author Murkie Waters (9 months)
oh no what will we do if this happons im going to get some pussy than evan
if i have to pay for it LOL
Author Rene Delrinam (11 months)
look at 40:00 when it hits the water ...that is a mix of beauty and
Author Cornelis Vader (1 year)
Couldn't the flood, or perhaps floods, have been created by earthquakes?
Author Rene Delrinam (11 months)
Impossible do not imagine if Sheomaker Levy 9 falls down here...
Author Cornelis Vader (1 year)
02:58 Okay, who flooded the Netherlands? Or the Hollands in this case.
Author jtronn (1 year)
I love the introduction that poses the destruction of San
Francisco…Hypothesis: Comets are the ultimate solution to gentrification.
Author Taekwonjoe75 (1 year)
Say it with me: NEW-clee-us. Not NEW-kya-lus.
Author bud oracle (1 year)
Does anyone really think that if science established the exact date of an
impact with a life changing impactor that this would be made known by
authority? Even if news of it leaked out there would be a discrediting
campaign with no expenses spared to keep the vengeful mob at bay. Death by
comet impact would be swift and easy compared to what some people who have
been tormented and screwed with by their leaders, bankers, judges, cops.
Some people would take torture to new heights
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About all I can do is TOTALLY agree with you on every point. Our so-called
leaders aren't really leaders at all.
Author lakecrab (1 year)
Stand, stick out your chin, shake your fist at the devil, you will be
cooked before all the nasty descriptive stuff happens...be ready to be
welcomed to your new home in eternity.
Author lakecrab (1 year)
I feel comfortable with the Comet theory as both an engine of creation and
destruction. I will remain open to anything new and with as much scientific
backup. Creation remains to be a divine process, in my opinion, but at some
point on the line it is a physical process too.
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Francis Schaeffer the Environmentalist?
The From the Front Lines blog (from the Apologetics Resource Center) has posted a review of an old and largely forgotten work by Francis Schaeffer: Pollution and the Death of Man: The Christian View of Ecology. This review, "Francis Schaeffer Speaks to the Problem of Ecology," is from the next issue of Areopagus Journal. Here is a portion:
When the man Francis Schaeffer is thought about, his great books that detail how true biblical Christianity answers the problem of man usually also come to mind. The God Who is There, Escape From Reason, He is There and He is Not Silent, and later on, How Should We Then Live are some of his dominant and most influential writings. But tucked away in an obscure corner of any complete Schaeffer library is his thinking on ecology, a topic most Christians rather enjoying ignoring, perhaps because we have a taste for beef and chicken, and we find little time for recycling or protecting endangered species. In fact, environmentalism is often associated with left wing liberal types and organizations such as PETA, thus to protect the environment, oddly enough, has a non-Christian flavor to it in our modern day.
Schaeffer, in his wisdom, begs to differ. In this short treatise, he offers the only lasting solution to the current ecological crisis, namely, a solid stance on the Christian worldview.
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This is a great little book. I read it years ago for an ethics class. It is well worth the effort to find it and read it.


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i am a student of Comparative Literature (doing Mphil) from Jadavpur University in India.though we are miles apart but let me tell u my area studies have been Canadian Literature ad that too Aboriginal Literature, so i can understand how it must have been living in foster homes (although my understanding comes from reading rather experience).
i really admire the concept of spirituality in the Aboriginal community which somewhat similar to the Indian notion of spirituality.i am trying to do research about "Dream Quest" which is an essential part of Aboriginal culture.
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1930s Children's Coat – Pictorial Review 6128
March 10, 2014 § 12 Comments
I made our little niece a vintage '30s coat as a Hannukah gift. For the pattern I used Pictorial Review 6128, a double-breasted coat with optional back belt and pockets.
Here's the diagram and description from the envelope back. It's a unisex coat for small children, and was available only in sizes 1 to 6:
The recommended fabrics were flannel, camel's hair, piqué, velveteen, cheviot, and serge. We had a length of purple Woolrich tweed that felt the right weight for a coat. (Established in 1830, Woolrich is North America's oldest woolen mill. Today, Woolrich tweed is a wool-nylon blend for durability.) I cut some leather trim for the welt pockets from an old pair of leather gloves, and my modest button stash yielded a set of one-inch vintage Civil Defence buttons for the front and belt.
Since the pattern is the old die-cut type and needed no alterations, I tried cutting using the original tissue pieces held down with weights.
I'm new to tailoring (and coat-making), so throughout the process I referred to Paco Peralta's tailoring tutorial and my 1970s Vogue Sewing Book on tailoring techniques. The coat collar gave me the opportunity to try out pad stitching. The pattern even gave instructions; the undercollar is to be interfaced with muslin and pad stitched, with the collar stand first worked with a running stitch:
Here are some progress photos of the pad stitched undercollar:
This is the undercollar attached to the coat body:
You could call my approach to the coat half-tailored—somewhere between the pattern's Depression-era muslin collar interlining and modern tailoring's padstitched hair canvas interfacing, all catch-stitched along the seam lines. As a compromise between vintage and modern methods I used a sew-in interfacing on coat facings, belt, and pocket welts. (None was called for in the pattern.) To handle the heavy tweed, I had no tailor's clapper, so I pounded the steamed seams and edges with a small cedar block we had on hand. Paco's tip of making a few stitches across lapel corners worked wonders for my first-ever lapels.
I bagged the lining and added handworked keyhole buttonholes—fanned at one end, with a bar tack at the other. Partway through making the coat we decided against the convertible collar, so I omitted the lapel buttonholes. (As with many vintage patterns, there were no button/buttonhole markings.) It was my first stab at handworked buttonholes on heavy fabric; I love how the hand stitches create an edge that curves out to the ridge of knots that lines the buttonhole opening.
Here are some photos of the finished coat:
I think of Civil Defence buttons as 'Keep Calm and Carry On' buttons since the font and crown are similar to those on the WW2 propaganda poster originally produced by Britain's Ministry of Information. (More on the Keep Calm font here.) Some closeup views of the buttons and buttonholes:
And the little back belt:
Our loft's walls have some mysterious industrial hardware that proved useful in showing the scale of the coat:
Cutting straight from a die-cut pattern was an interesting experience, but I still prefer printed or traced tissue for cutting and marking. An oft-cited drawback of unprinted patterns is that the notches and other markings don't always line up. This was true of the coat pattern, but it wasn't hard to correct.
It's always a pleasure working with wool, and I really enjoyed the challenge of trying out tailoring with a heavy fabric. The finished coat is something our niece will grow into, especially in the shoulders. But she does love the pockets! I see more coat-making in our future…
(Cross-posted to We Sew Retro.)
Schiaparelli Patterns, Part 1
January 22, 2014 § 10 Comments
Have you heard? The house of Schiaparelli, founded by the legendary Elsa Schiaparelli (1890-1973) and dormant since 1954, has been revived.
Last year Christian Lacroix presented a one-off couture collection for the house, and this week the new head designer, Marco Zanini, presented his first Schiaparelli collection at the Paris couture. (See the Spring 2014 collection on style.com, or read W's coverage of Zanini's appointment here.)
The high-profile revival follows the Costume Institute's major 2012 exhibition, Schiaparelli and Prada: Impossible Conversations (see my earlier post here). And, timed to coincide with couture week, an auction of Schiaparelli's personal collection takes place Thursday at Christie's Paris:
Many of you will be aware of Schiaparelli's licensed sewing patterns, since she was among the first designers of Vogue Paris Originals. There were also Schiaparelli knitting patterns. If you knit, you can download a free pattern for Schiaparelli's 1927 Bowknot sweater, updated by Lisa Stockebrand (Ravelry page here):
Like Vionnet, Schiaparelli also saw commercial sewing patterns for her designs in the interwar period, released by companies including the McCall Pattern Company, Pictorial Review, and the Paris Pattern Company. Here is a selection of early Schiaparelli patterns.
This McCall pattern is the earliest Schiaparelli pattern I've seen. Dating to the autumn of 1929, it's a pattern for a blouse, skirt, and coat with angled pockets. It was still shown in a 1930 catalogue:
Here is the illustration of McCall 5839 in McCall's magazine:
This Schiaparelli pattern from the Paris Pattern Company has some unusual details. The wrap skirt buttons diagonally across the hips and has two slits through which the blouse's attached scarf can pass, for a suspender effect:
McCall 6981 is a three-piece suit consisting of a jacket, cropped pussy-bow blouse, and sleeveless, bias dress:
Here's an illustration of this design (centre, no. 14) in the summer 1932 issue of McCall Fashion Bi-Monthly. Elsewhere it calls McCall 6981 a "trick" ensemble, since the blouse and jacket disguise a dress suitable for tennis:
This Benito illustration for Vogue shows a similar Schiaparelli ensemble, worn with a tomato red Sicilian cap:
This Pictorial Review Schiaparelli adaptation dates to late 1933. The dress has interesting details like shoulder flanges, diagonal waist darts, and inverted darts radiating from the neckline:
Here's the catalogue illustration for Pictorial Review 6764:
Paris Pattern 2286, illustrated in my 1934 Paris and Style Patterns booklet, is a jaunty ensemble consisting of a coat, skirt, and jacket blouse. The description reads, "A superb town and country suit. Just the thing for that week end vacation. Top coat can be worn over any dress. The skirt and jacket blouse make an ideal spectator costume":
Also in this leaflet is the Schiaparelli dress and capelet ensemble available as a reproduction from the Vintage Pattern Lending Library. The dress has shoulder yokes, puffed sleeves, and a skirt with pointed set-in panels and pair of buttons at the waist; the matching capelet is trimmed with pleating and buttons to the skirt front. Thanks to owner Deirdre Duggan for providing a scan of the envelope:
Finally, from McCall's, this Schiaparelli dinner dress in two lengths dates to winter 1936-37. The bodice back extends into sleeves that are gathered into a heart-shaped bodice:
The pattern is illustrated in the January 1937 issue of McCall's magazine, which made much of the new, street-length hemline:
Schiaparelli patterns from between the wars tend to lack the surrealist touches we associate with the designer, since many of these were based on couture embellishment, accessories, or notions. (Cricket buttons, anyone?) I remember reading a contemporary 1930s article that said Schiaparelli pieces were so simple, they were too easy to copy. Today one might say it's her brand of dynamic severity that makes her clothes seem so modern.
Bonus: The Art Deco Society of California has posted instructions for Schiaparelli's "Mad Cap" (via What Would Nancy Drew Wear?).
Surrealist Summer, 1939
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On the cover of the McCall Style News for July 1939:
(The illustration shows McCall 3319, a set of boleros.)
Vionnet Patterns
December 13, 2012 § 17 Comments
The reputation of Madeleine Vionnet (1876-1975), the brilliant innovator in draping and the bias cut, has only increased with time. The label she founded in 1912 was recently revived, and Betty Kirke's book is back in print for the house's 100th anniversary. You can see Vionnet pieces online at the V&A and the Costume Institute. There's even an animated video on Vimeo demonstrating the construction of one Vionnet dress. (For more on Vionnet, see Lisa's Coletterie post; Betty Kirke's 1989 Threads article; and Sandra Ericson's revised 2010 Threads article, in pdf here.)
In recent years, those who wished to reproduce a Vionnet design could trace their pattern from a book. Janet Arnold's Patterns of Fashion 2: Englishwomen's Dresses and their Construction, c. 1860-1940 (Macmillan, 1982) includes five Vionnet patterns, and the Japanese companion volume to Kirke's book (Bunka Fashion College, 2002; available on amazon.co.jp) contains tested, traceable versions of twenty-eight of Kirke's Vionnet patterns. Costumer Koshka has made the 1919 Vionnet dress in Patterns of Fashion, while the Vionnet Identique project saw all the designs in Kirke's book made up in half-scale for an exhibition and book (for photos see this Threads post and the book preview).
In the 1920s and 1930s, dressmakers could sew Vionnet designs using commercial patterns. McCall's released patterns based on Vionnet originals, while companies like Pictorial Review sold adaptations of Vionnet designs. Here is a selection of Vionnet patterns.
These two patterns for a negligee and day dress date to 1926. The negligee is reversible:
Vionnet was known for her robes à mouchoirs, or handkerchief dresses, like this evening dress:
This formal dress is another handkerchief dress. Note the triangular sleeve insets:
Here's a magazine illustration of McCall 5635 from the following year. The accompanying text reads, "A Vionnet gown characteristic of the graceful new formal frocks is simply made to fall in points at the center front and at the sides and back":
Both McCall's and Pictorial Review released patterns for this circa 1931 ensemble:
McCall's magazine showed two illustrations for this design (McCall 6451); the text on the first page reads, "A masterpiece in simplicity that only Vionnet could have created. The chic contrasting bodice top is sleeveless and joins the skirt in a coat-dress closing":
The ensemble was also illustrated on the cover of McCall Style News shown at the top of this post. Here's the full illustration:
This 1932 Pictorial Review design for an asymmetrical day dress was adapted from Vionnet. The skirt and applied front are cut on the bias:
Here's the corresponding illustration in Pictorial Review magazine. The accompanying text reads, "Yes, it's a Vionnet, we knew you would recognize it in the characteristic handling of the diagonal seaming, in the clever use of button trimming, and in its absolute simplicity. Make it in a sheer linen with contrasting button accents":
Finally, a three-piece suit pattern from the same year, consisting of a short-sleeved blouse, high-waisted suspender skirt, and jacket that criss-crosses in the front:
This illustration for McCall 6999 accompanies a trend report on suits:
And if you'd like to try your hand at some Vionnet-style fabric embellishment, the Center for Pattern Design sells a pattern for Vionnet roses.
Madeleine Vionnet is said to have considered herself a "geometrician"; the brilliance of her technique reveals itself in her garments' construction. Have you tried making any Vionnet designs?
How Ginger Got the Job!
September 3, 2012 § 13 Comments
In honour of Labour Day, here is an advertising comic strip about sewing and a young woman's job search. From my copy of the October 1939 McCall Style News, it's another comic strip promoting J.C. Penney's sewing department (click to enlarge):
I love how Ginger's transformation involves not only a freshly sewn dress in a cute diagonal print, but also a new hat and a good hair day. Our heroine wins over her new, male boss with help from a girlfriend wise in the ways of properly un-dowdy femininity. Ginger's new hat also points to how department stores like J.C. Penney's could expect further sales connected to purchases from their sewing departments—accessories to match the customer's soon-to-be-made new outfit.
A high resolution PDF copy of the October 1939 McCall Style News is now available in the shop:
I'm also giving away a copy of the PDF to one lucky reader. To enter the giveaway, just leave a comment below by midnight (EDT) on Saturday, September 8th. The winner will be chosen at random and announced this Sunday, September 9th.
Deco for Spring
March 9, 2012 § 1 Comment
Watching this year's Oscars red carpet pre-show, I was struck by the Deco details on Louise Roe's custom Black Halo dress, with its geometric, layered peplum and rhinestone buckle. (Details on the dress here.)
Spring's Deco trend is gathering force. In September, many of the Spring ready-to-wear collections contained references to the Twenties and Thirties. There was flapper fringe at Marchesa and geometric dévoré at Alberta Ferretti. Veronica Etro found inspiration in two avant-garde art movements of the early twentieth century: Futurism and Constructivism. (See the collection statement here.) And Marc Jacobs resurrected the Twenties drop waist:
Two of the most sustained interpretations of the Deco influence were made by Gucci and Ralph Lauren. At Gucci, Frida Giannini was inspired by New York skyscrapers. In this campaign image, one of the collection's fringed and beaded dresses is paired with a very Deco minaudière:
Patrick Demarchelier's recent Vogue Italia editorial, "The Outstanding MCB," casts Mariacarla Boscono as a Gucci-clad flapper:
(The Artist's Bérénice Bejo was photographed in a similar Gucci dress for Vanity Fair's March issue—in the Contents section, not the Hollywood portfolio, where she wears Ralph Lauren.)
Ralph Lauren presented a Gatsby-themed collection for Spring 2012, full of delicate beading, bias gowns, and three-piece suits in pastels and pinstripes. Cloches, boas, and long scarves or strands of beads completed the looks. (See the collection on style.com here, or view the Vogue UK trend slideshow, "Gatsby Glamour.")
The Ralph Lauren collection is well-represented on the cover of Vanity Fair's March Hollywood issue (click image to enlarge):
Rooney Mara, Mia Wasikowska, and Shailene Woodley wear dresses and boas by Ralph Lauren, and Elisabeth Olsen and Lily Collins' shoes (as well as Ms. Wasikowska's) are also Ralph Lauren Collection. The cover photo was taken at a New York set inspired by the work of English interior designer Syrie Maugham.
This was a return to the Jazz Age idiom for Ralph Lauren: early in his career he was responsible for the menswear in the last film adaptation of The Great Gatsby (1974). As Nicole Phelps points out in her style.com review of Lauren's collection, the designer got a jump start on the Twenties fever expected to follow the opening of Baz Luhrmann's 3-D version of F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel this Christmas.
The bias evening dresses in Ralph Lauren's Spring collection show the reach of the current Deco trend, beyond the Twenties into the Thirties and the glamour of Old Hollywood. Clothes on Film's Chris Laverty has credited the current revival of classic Old Hollywood style to Keira Knightley's green dress in Atonement (2007). HBO's Boardwalk Empire and The Artist can't help but give added momentum to a Deco revival.
The recent interpretations of Art Deco took varied approaches to their vintage inspiration. Collections like Gucci's or Etro's, which emphasized geometric prints and embellishment, are drawing on motifs from architecture and the old artistic avant-garde. When it comes to sewing patterns, Deco fashions tend to achieve their geometric look through contrast, trim, and seaming detail:
Marc Jacobs' drop waists, often with blousing and soft detailing at the hipline, were most faithful to Twenties silhouettes, like this repro design from the Vintage Pattern Lending Library:
Despite the strong Twenties flavour to the daywear in Ralph Lauren's Spring collection, for evening he reached for those mainstays of Thirties glamour, bias gowns and boas:
Even the masculine tailoring that punctuated the Daisy Buchanan girliness has a Thirties precedent, as shown by this pattern for a three-piece suit consisting of a waistcoat, double-breasted jacket, and cuffed trousers:
It's funny how 'Gatsby' functions as shorthand for what we like about Twenties fashion. The Great Gatsby is set in the summer of 1922, but recent reinterpretations seem to favour mid-to-later '20s styles. Here is a sample of 1922 eveningwear:
It's been years since Vogue Patterns reissued any Deco-era eveningwear patterns. Vogue 2241 was released in 1998, Vogue 2609 in 2001, and Vogue V2859 in 2005. More Twenties and Thirties, please, Vintage Vogue!
(If you missed my posts about sewing 1920s designer patterns, you can see the Patou dress here, Miler Soeurs cape here, Martial et Armand wrap here, and Chanel evening dress here.)
How Do You Take Your Vintage Vogue?
December 31, 2011 § 5 Comments
This Christmas, while browsing my mother's back issues of Vogue Patterns magazine, I was interested to see how the Vintage Vogue pattern line has evolved since its launch in 1998. Two repro patterns that were made up more than once for the magazine's editorials are especially revealing of Vogue Patterns' choices in promoting its vintage line. A look at the magazine's different versions of these patterns seems the perfect opportunity for end-of-year reflection on different approaches to sewing—and wearing—vintage.
Vogue 2241, an early 1930s evening gown pattern, has been made up twice for the magazine. (See the pattern on flickr here.) This pattern is one of the earliest Vintage Vogues: it was released soon after the initial batch, which was photographed in black and white for the September/October 1998 issue.
The 1998 holiday issue's "Vintage Vogue: Past Perfect" feature shows two evening designs, one Fifties, one Thirties, with an old-fashioned dressing screen. The headline promotes the 'romance' and timelessness of vintage, and the accompanying copy relates both designs to the "spare, romantic elegance of modern eveningwear," but the shoot's dress-up concept makes the garments look static and costumey. Here's the first Vintage Vogue 2241, in washed silk charmeuse:
Six years later, the same design was remade for another holiday editorial, this one called "Vintage Nights." This shoot features lush 'vintage' set design, with the model conveying a glamorous hauteur. The emphasis is more on dramatic style and interpretation: the headline reads, "Relive the glamour of a bygone era. Dressing for evening takes a cue from the past in Vintage Vogue." Here's the second Vogue 2241, this time in sueded silk charmeuse:
The second Vintage Vogue pattern, Vogue 2787, a Forties reproduction, is still in print. For its initial release in spring 2004, Vogue 2787 was made up in two versions, a printed and a solid silk charmeuse, each paired with a retro hat and gloves. The pattern was released with another Forties design, and the editorial gives a fairly direct rendition of Forties glamour; as the headline says, "Forties and still fabulous—take it from us, classic couture gets better with age." Here are the first two versions of Vogue 2787:
A few years later, Vogue 2787 reappeared in a garden party-themed editorial of Forties and Fifties designs called "Well Cultivated Vintage Vogue." (The cover shows a Fifties top from the same shoot.) The headline promotes the designs' freshness and timelessness: "Firmly rooted in the elegance of the past, these perennial beauties make a perfect pick for today." Vogue 2787's next incarnation was made up in silk crepe de chine in a pink-dotted print:
And just this fall, Vogue 2787 opened a feature called "Beyond Vintage," in which Vogue Patterns' staff adapted and modernized their reissued patterns. Creative Director Jelena Bogavac updated the Forties dress by raising the hemline and altering both sleeves for an asymmetrical bodice. Here it is in iridescent green and pink velvet:
Has our thinking about vintage changed since the '90s? When the two reissued patterns first came out, their straight period styling was appealing enough for me to get them both. Today I prefer the interpretation of the "Vintage Nights" shoot, and the updating and play of the fall vintage feature.
If you sew vintage, do you make it straight up, or with a twist? Do you adapt your style to accommodate vintage pieces, or make vintage adapt to you?
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In many engineering colleges, the focus does not seem to be on academics. The teachers are pressured to let students pass.
The standards of engineering education in India have fallen. Even in admissions, the effort is to dilute to rigour as evident in the demand from college managements in some States to lower the qualifications required to sign up for an engineering course.
All these have conspired to make the engineering degree similar to any other degree. The vacant seats in many colleges are self-explanatory.
The faculty members complain that the students they get are of low standard, poor in mathematics, critical thinking, knowledge and understanding. Because of the lower admission standards in many States, most students are not genuinely interested in academics.
But the most depressing fact is that the teachers are forced to help these students graduate. Even 15 years ago, students of such calibre would have been made to drop out midway, but now they even wangle out good grades.
Students have become easy-going in the class and want to learn without effort. "You are paid to teach me, and if I do not learn, it is your fault," they seem to tell the teachers. They groan and complain especially before the junior faculty members.
"You can't expect us to submit the assignments in a week since we have got other classes. We should be given full marks if we write the equation correctly. Will you be going to reduce marks for assignments? I know the things but I can't write or solve the problems?" So go the excuses and gripes.
Those new to the job may yield to pressure, but seasoned teachers stand their ground and the students complain that they are treated unfairly.
Most students require remedial classes to pass a subject. The students and their parents oppose such classes as attending them lowers their self-esteem. But they readily go for additional tuitions elsewhere, paying high fees. Tuitions for engineering studies were unheard of some years ago.
The teachers fear failing students because they do not get the support of their colleagues, superiors and the management. Students even threaten the faculty with dire consequences.
Teachers nowadays give excellent recommendations to their students irrespective of their character, conduct and academic performance. This is to help the college come up in the ranking of institutions based on placements. The colleges bring out expensive promotional materials to attract students, but not with the slightest suggestion that the study may be demanding or difficult. Only the air-conditioned classrooms and hostels, canteens and recreational facilities are advertised.
Standard questionnaires are circulated among the students to evaluate the faculty. If a teacher is strict, he or she will get a low score. The questionnaires are not properly prepared and the value and validity of the evaluation method have never been scientifically established. And if any student fails, it is considered a failure of the faculty members. The teachers hence dare not fail anyone.
The colleges employ administrators who ask progress reports, answers to questionnaires and reports in duplicate and triplicate, stealing the academic time of the teachers. Such bureaucracy makes things worse.
In many colleges, academics thus take a back seat. In a professional institution, the students should have a minimum percentage of attendance. But if some students fail to get that, then it becomes the job of the faculty to somehow provide them attendance.
New curricula, courses, computers and multimedia technologies have been introduced and the classrooms made electronic, all with the aim of improving the educational standards. But lack of parental guidance, the institutions inability to cope with disciplinary issues, the rising tide of divorce among parents, easy availability of drugs and student organisations with narrow interests and other pressure groups are making the teaching and learning process difficult. Teaching and learning should be independent activities to help the country improve its educational standards.
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Keyesport, Illinois
For population 25 years and over in Keyesport:
For population 15 years and over in Keyesport village:
5 residents are foreign born
Median real estate property taxes paid for housing units with mortgages in 2012: $708 (1.0%)
Nearest city with pop. 50,000+: St. Louis, MO (52.7 miles , pop. 348,189).
Nearest city with pop. 1,000,000+: Chicago, IL (230.4 miles , pop. 2,896,016).
Nearest cities: Huey, IL (3.1 miles) , Patoka, IL (3.1 miles ), Carlyle, IL (3.2 miles ), Vernon, IL (3.3 miles) , Smithboro, IL (3.4 miles) , Sandoval, IL (3.5 miles ), Greenville, IL (3.5 miles ), Beckemeyer, IL (3.6 miles ).
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Average cost (in $1000s)
Latitude: 38.74 N, Longitude: 89.28 W
Area code: 618
This village's Wikipedia profileUnemployment in July 2013:
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Population change in the 1990s: +40 (+9.1%).
Work and jobs in Keyesport: detailed stats about occupations, industries, unemployment, workers, commute
Average climate in Keyesport, Illinois
Based on data reported by over 4,000 weather stations
Tornado activity:
Keyesport-area historical tornado activity is above Illinois state average. It is 171% greater than the overall U.S. average.
On 2/24/1956, a category F4 (max. wind speeds 207-260 mph) tornado 15.6 miles away from the Keyesport village center killed 6 people and injured 36 people and caused between $500,000 and $5,000,000 in damages.
On 12/18/1957, a category F5 (max. wind speeds 261-318 mph) tornado 44.9 miles away from the village center killed one person and injured 6 people and caused between $50,000 and $500,000 in damages.
Earthquake activity:Keyesport-area historical earthquake activity is above Illinois state average. It is 71% smaller than the overall U.S. average.
On 4/18/2008 at 09:36:59, a magnitude 5.4 (5.1 MB, 4.8 MS, 5.4 MW, 5.2 MW, Depth: 8.9 mi, Class: Moderate, Intensity: VI - VII) earthquake occurred 77.8 miles away from the city center
On 6/10/1987 at 23:48:54, a magnitude 5.1 (4.9 MB, 4.4 MS, 4.6 MS, 5.1 LG) earthquake occurred 75.3 miles away from Keyesport center
On 6/18/2002 at 17:37:15, a magnitude 5.0 (4.3 MB, 4.6 MW, 5.0 LG, Depth: 3.1 mi) earthquake occurred 96.5 miles away from the city center
On 4/18/2008 at 15:14:16, a magnitude 4.8 (4.5 MB, 4.8 MW, 4.6 MW, Depth: 6.2 mi, Class: Light, Intensity: IV - V) earthquake occurred 79.4 miles away from the city center
On 4/3/1974 at 23:05:02, a magnitude 4.7 (4.5 MB, 4.7 LG) earthquake occurred 64.7 miles away from Keyesport center
On 2/5/1994 at 14:55:37, a magnitude 4.2 (4.2 LG, 4.2 MD, Depth: 9.9 mi) earthquake occurred 95.0 miles away from the city center
Magnitude types: regional Lg-wave magnitude (LG), body-wave magnitude (MB), duration magnitude (MD), surface-wave magnitude (MS), moment magnitude (MW)
Natural disasters:The number of natural disasters in Clinton County (5) is smaller than the US average (12).
Major Disasters (Presidential) Declared: 4
Emergencies Declared: 1
Causes of natural disasters: Floods: 3, Storms: 3, Tornadoes: 2, Heavy Rain: 1, Flood: 1, Hurricane: 1 (Note: Some incidents may be assigned to more than one category).
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Percentage of residents living in poverty in 2012: 32.3%
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Religion statistics for Keyesport village (based on Clinton County data)Percentage of population affiliated with a religious congregations: 75.35%
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Number of grocery stores: 12
Number of convenience stores (no gas): 3
Number of convenience stores (with gas): 22
Number of full-service restaurants: 20
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5.46% of this county's 2006 resident taxpayers lived in other counties in 2005 ($39,638 average adjusted gross income)
0.09% of residents moved from foreign countries ($535 average AGI)
Top counties from which taxpayers relocated into this county between 2005 and 2006:
5.00% of this county's 2005 resident taxpayers moved to other counties in 2006 ($33,439 average adjusted gross income)
10 or fewer of this county's residents moved to foreign countries between 2005 and 2006.
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FCC Registered Antenna Towers:10 (See the full list of FCC Registered Antenna Towers in Keyesport)
FCC Registered Microwave Towers:3
FCC Registered Amateur Radio Licenses:6
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|Deepak Chopra
Chopra in his office, August 2013
|[1] October 22, 1947
New Delhi, India
|Alternative medicine advocate, physician, public speaker, writer
|Rita Chopra
|Mallika Chopra and Gotham Chopra
|Krishan Chopra, Pushpa Chopra
|Deepak Chopra
Chopra in his office, August 2013
|[1] October 22, 1947
New Delhi, India
|Alternative medicine advocate, physician, public speaker, writer
|Rita Chopra
|Mallika Chopra and Gotham Chopra
|Krishan Chopra, Pushpa Chopra
Deepak Chopra (/ˈdiːpɑːk ˈtʃoʊprə/) (born October 22, 1947) is an Indian-American author, public speaker and physician.[2] A prominent alternative-medicine advocate and author of several dozen books and videos, he has become one of the best-known and wealthiest figures in the holistic-health movement and has been described as a New-Age guru.[3][4]
Chopra obtained his medical degree in India before emigrating in 1970 to the United States, where he specialized in endocrinology and became Chief of Staff at the New England Memorial Hospital (NEMH). In the 1980s he began practicing transcendental meditation (TM) and in 1985 resigned his position at NEMH to establish the Maharishi Ayurveda Health Center. Chopra left the TM movement in 1994 and founded the Chopra Center for Wellbeing.[5]
Chopra states that, combining principles from Ayurveda (Hindu traditional medicine) and mainstream medicine, his approach to health incorporates ideas about the mind-body relationship, a belief in teleology in nature and a belief in the primacy of consciousness over matter – that "consciousness creates reality."[6] He claims that his practices can extend the human lifespan and treat chronic disease. This position is criticized by scientists, who say his treatments rely on the placebo effect; that he misuses terms and ideas from quantum physics (quantum mysticism); and that he provides people with false hope that may obscure the possibility of effective medical treatment.[7]
Chopra was born in New Delhi, India, to Krishan Lal Chopra (1919–2001) and Pushpa Chopra; his mother tongue is Punjabi (his first name, Deepak, means lamp).[8]
His paternal grandfather was a sergeant in the British Army. His father was a prominent cardiologist, head of the department of medicine and cardiology at New Delhi's Mool Chand Khairati Ram Hospital for over 25 years; he was also a lieutenant in the British army, serving as an army doctor at the front at Burma and acting as a medical adviser to Lord Mountbatten, viceroy of India.[9] As of 2014 Chopra's younger brother, Sanjiv, is a professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and on staff at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.[10]
Chopra completed his primary education at St. Columba's School in New Delhi and graduated from the All India Institute of Medical Sciences in 1969.[5] He spent his first months as a doctor working in rural India, including, he writes, six months in a village where the lights went out whenever it rained.[11] It was during his early career that he was drawn to study endocrinology, particularly neuroendocrinology, to find a biological basis for the influence of thoughts and emotions.[12]
He married in India in 1970 before emigrating with his wife that year to the United States (the couple have two children and three grandchildren as of 2014).[4] The Indian government had banned its doctors from sitting the American Medical Association exam needed to practice in America, so Chopra had to travel to Sri Lanka to take it. After passing he arrived, penniless, in the United States to take up a clinical internship at Muhlenberg Hospital in Plainfield, New Jersey, where doctors from overseas were being recruited to replace those serving in Vietnam.[13]
Between 1971 and 1977 he completed residencies in internal medicine at the Lahey Clinic in Burlington, Massachusetts, the VA Medical Center, St Elizabeth's Medical Center and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston.[14] He earned his license to practice medicine in the state of Massachusetts in 1973, becoming board certified in internal medicine, specializing in endocrinology.[15]
Chopra taught at the medical schools of Tufts University, Boston University and Harvard University, and became Chief of Staff at the New England Memorial Hospital (later known as the Boston Regional Medical Center) in Stoneham, Massachusetts, before establishing a private practice in Boston in endocrinology.[5]
While visiting New Delhi in 1981, he met the physician Brihaspati Dev Triguna, head of the Indian Council for Ayurvedic Medicine, whose advice prompted him to begin investigating Ayurvedic practices.[16] Chopra was "drinking black coffee by the hour and smoking at least a pack of cigarettes a day."[17] He took up transcendental meditation to help him stop; as of 2006 he continued to meditate for two hours every morning and half an hour in the evening.[18]
Chopra's involvement with TM led to a meeting, in 1984, with the leader of the TM movement, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, who asked him to establish an Ayurvedic health center.[19] He left his position at the NEMH. Chopra said that one of the reasons he left was his disenchantment at having to prescribe too many drugs: "[W]hen all you do is prescribe medication, you start to feel like a legalized drug pusher. That doesn't mean that all prescriptions are useless, but it is true that 80 percent of all drugs prescribed today are of optional or marginal benefit."[20]
He became the founding president of the American Association of Ayurvedic Medicine, one of the founders of Maharishi Ayur-Veda Products International, and medical director of the Maharishi Ayur-veda Health Center in Lancaster, Massachusetts. The center charged between $2,850 and $3,950 a week, offering Ayurvedic cleansing rituals such as massage, enemas and oil baths, with an extra charge of $1,000 for lessons in transcendental meditation. Celebrity patients included Elizabeth Taylor.[21] Chopra also became one of the TM movement's spokespersons. In 1989 the Maharishi awarded him the title "Dhanvantari of Heaven and Earth" (Dhanvantari is the Hindu physician to the gods).[22] That year Chopra's Quantum Healing: Exploring the Frontiers of Mind/Body Medicine was published, followed by Perfect Health: The Complete Mind/Body Guide (1990).[23]
In May 1991 the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) published an article by Chopra and two others on Ayurvedic medicine and TM.[24] JAMA subsequently published an erratum stating that the lead author, Hari M. Sharma, had undisclosed financial interests, followed by an article by JAMA associate editor Andrew A. Skolnick which was highly critical of Chopra and the other authors for failing to disclose their financial connections to the article subject.[25] Several experts on meditation and traditional Indian medicine criticized JAMA for accepting the "shoddy science" of the original article.[26] Chopra and two TM groups sued Skolnick and JAMA for defamation, asking for $194 million in damages, but the case was dismissed in March 1993.[27]
By 1992 Chopra was serving on the National Institute of Health's ad hoc panel on alternative medicine.[28] In June 1993 he moved to California as executive director of Sharp HealthCare's Institute for Human Potential and Mind/Body Medicine, and head of their Center for Mind/Body Medicine, a clinic in an exclusive resort in Del Mar that charged $4,000 a week and included Michael Jackson's family among its clients.[29] Chopra and Jackson first met in 1988 and remained friends for 20 years; when Jackson died in 2009 after being administered prescription drugs, Chopra said he hoped it would be a call to action against the "cult of drug-pushing doctors, with their co-dependent relationships with addicted celebrities."[30]
Chopra left the Transcendental Meditation movement around the time he moved to California.[31] By his own account, the Maharishi had accused him of competing for the position of guru,[32] although Chopra rejects identification as a "guru".[33] Cynthia Ann Humes writes that the Maharishi was concerned, and not only with regard to Chopra, that rival systems were being taught at lower prices.[34] Chopra, for his part, was worried that his close association with the TM movement might prevent Ayurvedic medicine from being accepted as legitimate, particularly after the problems with the JAMA article.[35] He also stated that he had become "uncomfortable with what I sensed was a cultish atmosphere around Maharishi."[36]
Chopra's Ageless Body, Timeless Mind: The Quantum Alternative to Growing Old was published in 1993. (Robert Sapolsky sued because the book used a chart of his without proper attribution; the issue was settled out of court.)[37] The book and his friendship with Michael Jackson gained him an interview on July 12 that year on Oprah, which made him a household name. Paul Offit writes that within 24 hours Chopra had sold 137,000 copies of his book and 400,000 by the end of the week.[38] Four days after the interview, the Maharishi National Council of the Age of Enlightenment wrote to TM centers in the United States, instructing them not to promote Chopra, and his name and books were removed from the movement's literature and health centers.[39] Neuroscientist Tony Nader became the movement's new "Dhanvantari of Heaven and Earth."[40]
Sharp HealthCare changed ownership in 1996 and Chopra left to set up the Chopra Center for Wellbeing with neurologist David Simon, now located at the Omni La Costa Resort and Spa in Carlsbad, California.[41] In 2004 he received his California medical licence, and as of 2014 is affiliated with Scripps Memorial Hospital in La Jolla.[42] Chopra is the owner and supervisor of the Mind-Body Medical Group within the Chopra center, which in addition to standard medical treatment offers personalized advice about nutrition, sleep-wake cycles and stress management, based on mainstream medicine and Ayurveda.[43] He is a fellow of the American College of Physicians and member of the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists.[44]
As of 2014 Chopra serves as an adjunct professor at Columbia Business School and at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.[45] He participates annually as a lecturer at the Update in Internal Medicine event sponsored by Harvard Medical School and the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.[46] Robert Carroll writes of Chopra charging $25,000 per lecture, "giving spiritual advice while warning against the ill effects of materialism."[47]
In 2005 Chopra was appointed as a senior scientist at Gallup, analysing the results of health and well-being surveys.[48] In 2009 he founded the Chopra Foundation, a tax-exempt 501(c) organization, to promote and research holistic medicine; the Foundation sponsors annual Sages and Scientists conferences.[49] He sits on the board of advisors of the National Ayurvedic Medical Association and the tech startup State.com.[50] Since 2005 he has been a board member of Men's Wearhouse, a men's clothing distributor, and in 2006 launched Virgin Comics with his son, Gotham Chopra, and entrepreneur Richard Branson.[51]
Chopra speaks and writes regularly about metaphysics, the study of consciousness and Vedanta philosophy. He is a philosophical idealist, arguing for the primacy of consciousness over matter and for purpose and intelligence in nature – that mind, or "dynamically active consciousness," is a fundamental feature of the universe.[52]
In this view, consciousness is both subject and object.[53] It is consciousness, he writes, that creates reality; we are not "physical machines that have somehow learned to think ... [but] thoughts that have learned to create a physical machine."[54] He argues that the evolution of species is the evolution of consciousness seeking to express itself as multiple observers; the universe experiences itself through our brains: "We are the eyes of the universe looking at itself."[55] He opposes reductionist thinking in science and medicine, arguing that we can trace the physical structure of the body down to the molecular level and still have no explanation for beliefs, desires, memory and creativity.[56] In his book Quantum Healing, Chopra stated the conclusion that quantum entanglement links everything in the Universe, and therefore it must create consciousness.[57]
Chopra argues that everything that happens in the mind and brain is physically represented elsewhere in the body, with mental states (thoughts, feelings, perceptions and memories) directly influencing physiology by means of neurotransmitters such as dopamine, oxytocin and serotonin. He has stated, "Your mind, your body and your consciousness – which is your spirit – and your social interactions, your personal relationships, your environment, how you deal with the environment, and your biology are all inextricably woven into a single process ... By influencing one, you influence everything."[58]
Chopra and physicians at the Chopra Center practise integrative medicine, combining the medical model of conventional Western medicine with alternative therapies such as yoga, mindfulness meditation, and Ayurveda.[59][60] According to Ayurveda, illness is caused by an imbalance in the patient's doshas or humours, and is treated with diet, exercise and meditative practices[61] – there is, however, no scientific evidence to show that Ayurveda is effective in treating any disease.[62]
In discussing health care, Chopra has used the term "quantum healing," which he defined in Quantum Healing (1989) as the "ability of one mode of consciousness (the mind) to spontaneously correct the mistakes in another mode of consciousness (the body)."[63] This attempted to wed the Maharishi's version of Ayurvedic medicine with concepts from physics, an example of what cultural historian Kenneth Zysk called "New Age Ayurveda."[64] The book introduced Chopra's view that a person's thoughts and feelings give rise to all cellular processes.[65]
Physicists have objected to Chopra's use of terms from quantum physics; he was awarded the satirical Ig Nobel Prize in physics in 1998 for "his unique interpretation of quantum physics as it applies to life, liberty, and the pursuit of economic happiness."[66] When Chopra and Jean Houston debated Sam Harris and Michael Shermer in 2010 on the question "Does God Have a Future?", Harris argued that Chopra's use of "spooky physics" merged two language games in a "completely unprincipled way."[67] Interviewed in 2007 by Richard Dawkins, Chopra said that he used the term quantum as a metaphor when discussing healing and that it had little to do with quantum theory in physics.[68]
Chopra wrote in 2000 that his AIDS patients were combining mainstream medicine with activities based on Ayurveda, including taking herbs, meditation and yoga.[69] He acknowledges that AIDS is caused by the HIV virus, but claims that, "'[h]earing' the virus in its vicinity, the DNA mistakes it for a friendly or compatible sound". Ayurveda uses vibrations which are claimed to correct this supposed sound distortion.[70] Medical professor Lawrence Schneiderman writes that Chopra's treatment has "to put it mildly ... no supporting empirical data."[71]
In August 2001 ABC News aired a show segment on distance healing and prayer, in which Chopra attempted to relax a reporter in another room; the reporter's vital signs were recorded in charts said to show a correspondence between Chopra's periods of concentration and the subject's periods of relaxation. Health and science journalist Christopher Wanjek, calling it "an instructive example of how bad medicine is presented as exciting news," argued that the experiment could prove nothing, and said that in any case a more detailed examination of the charts showed the correlations were not as close as claimed.[72] After the show, a poll of its viewers found that 90 per cent believed in distance healing.[73]
Medical anthropologist Hans Baer argues that Chopra has not explored the potential benefits of a truly holistic approach to health, ignoring factors such as air and water pollution, racism and inequality, and failing to encourage people to become part of reform movements. Instead, Baer writes, Chopra offers an alternative form of medical hegemony by offering products and services to more affluent members of society.[74]
Chopra believes that "ageing is simply learned behaviour" that can be slowed or prevented and Chopra himself has said he expects "to live way beyond 100".[75] He states that "by consciously using our awareness, we can influence the way we age biologically. . . . You can tell your body not to age."[76] Conversely, Chopra also says that aging can be accelerated, for example by a person engaging in "cynical mistrust".[77]
Robert Todd Carroll has characterized Chopra's promotion of lengthened life as selling "hope" that seems to be "a false hope based on an unscientific imagination steeped in mysticism and cheerily dispensed gibberish".[78]
Chopra has likened the universe to a "reality sandwich" which has three layers: the "material" world, a "quantum" zone of matter and energy, and a "virtual" zone outside of time and space, which is the domain of God, and from which God can direct the other layers. Chopra has written that human beings' brains are "hardwired to know God" and that the functions of the human nervous system mirror divine experience.[79]
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In 1999 Time magazine included Chopra in its list of the 20th century's heroes and icons. The following year Mikhail Gorbachev referred to him as "one of the most lucid and inspired philosophers of our time." Cosmo Landesman wrote in 2005 that Chopra was "hardly a man now, more a lucrative new age brand – the David Beckham of personal/spiritual growth."[80]
As of 2014 Chopra has written 75 books, 21 of them New York Times bestsellers, which have been translated into 35 languages.[81] According to Paul Offit, writing in 2013, Chopra's business grosses around $20 million annually, built on the sale of courses, books, videos, herbal supplements and massage oils; a year's worth of anti-aging products can cost up to $10,000.[82] Chopra himself is estimated to be worth over $80 million as of 2014.[83] As of 2005, according to Srinivas Aravamudan, he was able to charge $25,000–30,000 per lecture five or six times a month.[84]
English professor George O'Har argues that Chopra exemplifies the need of human beings for meaning and spirit in their lives, and places what he calls Chopra's "sophistries" alongside the emotivism of Oprah Winfrey.[85] Paul Kurtz writes that Chopra's "regnant spirituality" is reinforced by postmodern criticism of the notion of objectivity in science, while Wendy Kaminer equates Chopra's views with irrational belief systems such as New Thought, Christian Science and Scientology.[86]
Several scientists have criticized Chopra's mix of spirituality and science. According to Ptolemy Tompkins, the medical and scientific communities' opinion of him ranges from dismissive to damning; criticism includes claims that his approach could lure sick people away from effective treatments.[87]


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QuickBooks Tip – Merging Duplicate Items and/or Accounts
Merging duplicate items and/or accounts in QuickBooks is preferable to making journal entries.
It is a common occurrence over time, especially if you have had numerous bookkeepers; to discover that you have duplicate items in your QuickBooks Item List or accounts in your Chart of Accounts.
Rather than performing journal entries to move the money all into one account and then making the duplicate account inactive – it's easy to merge the two accounts together.
BEFORE you attempt this procedure – make a backup of your QuickBooks company data file and run any necessary year to date reports for comparison after the merge.
Let's say, for example, in your Chart of Accounts you have an account called Delivery and another one called Postage & Delivery; you've decided that you want all of the dollars you spend tracked under the Postage & Delivery account.
Edit the "Delivery" account (Chart of Accounts -> right-click on Delivery -> choose Edit Account); changing the Account Name to Postage and Delivery and the number to 6610.
When you are finished editing, click the Save & Close button. QuickBooks will display a message box indicating that the account number is already being used and asks if you would like to merge them. Select Yes.
The two accounts are now merged into one.
This same procedure can be utilized for duplicate customers, vendors, items, etc.
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Be CAREFUL doing this with your item list, though. If you have inventory part or inventory assembly items, and you merge them, you COULD be making changes to your financial statements. You are changing the way that costs are received, you are changing the balance on hand on specific dates, and this affects how costs flow through the balance sheet.
Your tip for merging accounts works without having to put in both the name and account number. Just use the same name and don't worry about the account number and it also works.
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