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Brian Eno
: May 15, 1948
A part of me has become immortal, out of my control.
Agressive music can only shock you once. Afterwards its impact declines. It's inevitable.
As soon as I hear a sound, it always suggests a mood to me.
At the beginning of the 20th century, the ambition of the great painters was to make paintings that were like music, which was then considered as the noblest art.
Avant-garde music is sort of research music. You're glad someone's done it but you don't necessarily want to listen to it.
Every collaboration helps you grow. With Bowie, it's different every time. I know how to create settings, unusual aural environments. That inspires him. He's very quick.
For me it's always contingent on getting a sound-the sound always suggests what kind of melody it should be. So it's always sound first and then the line afterwards.
For the world to be interesting, you have to be manipulating it all the time.
I always use the same guitar; I got this guitar years and years ago for nine pounds. It's still got the same strings on it.
I don't live in the past at all; I'm always wanting to do something new. I make a point of constantly trying to forget and get things out of my mind.
I enjoy working with complicated equipment. A lot of my things started just with a rhythm box, but I feed it through so many things that what comes out sounds very complex and rich.
I felt extremely uncomfortable as the focal point, in the spotlight. I really like the behind the scenes role, because all my freedom is there.
I had a lot of trouble with engineers, because their whole background is learning from a functional point of view, and then learning how to perform that function.
I had wanted a tape recorder since I was tiny. I thought it was a magic thing. I never got one until just before I went to art school.
I hate the rock music tradition. I can't bear it!
I have a definite talent for convincing people to try something new. I am a good salesman. When I'm on form, I can sell anything.
I have lived in countries that were coming out of conflict: Ireland, South Africa, the Czech republic. People there are overflowing with energy.
I often work by avoidance.
I see TV as a picture medium rather than a narrative medium.
I take sounds and change them into words.
I think generally playing live is a crap idea. So much of stage work is the presentation of personality, and I've never been interested in that.
I thought it was magic to be able to catch something identically on tape and then be able to play around with it, run it backwards; I thought that was great for years.
I wanted to get rid of the element that had been considered essential in pop music: the voice.
I'm not interested in possible complexities. I regard song structure as a graph paper.
I'm very good with technology, I always have been, and with machines in general. They seem not threatening like other people find them, but a source of fun and amusement.
I've discovered this new electronic technique that creates new speech out of stuff that's already there.
If I had a stock of fabulous sounds I would just always use them. I wouldn't bother to find new ones.
If you want to make someone feel emotion, you have to make them let go. Listening to something is an act of surrender.
If you watch any good player, they're using different parts of their body and working with instruments that respond to those movements. They're moving in many dimensions at once.
If you're in a forest, the quality of the echo is very strange because echoes back off so many surfaces of all those trees that you get this strange, itchy ricochet effect.
In the 1960s, people were trying to get away from the pop song format. Tracks were getting longer, or much, much shorter.
It's not the destination that matters. It's the change of scene.
Most of those melodies are me trying to find out what notes fit, and then hitting ones that don't fit in a very interesting way.
Music in itself carries a whole set of messages which are very, very rich and complex, and the words either serve to exclude certain ones or point up certain others.
Musicians are there in front of you, and the spectators sense their tension, which is not the case when you're listening to a record. Your attention is more relaxed. The emotional aspect is more important in live music.
My guitar only has five strings 'cause the top one broke and I decided not to put it back on: when I play chords I only play bar chords, and the top one always used to cut me there.
My lyrics are generated by various peculiar processes. Very random and similar to automatic writing.
Nearly all the things I do that are of any merit at all start off just being good fun, and I think I'm sort of building up to doing something else quite soon.
One of the interesting things about having little musical knowledge is that you generate surprising results sometimes; you move to places you wouldn't if you knew better.
People assume that the meaning of a song is vested in the lyrics. To me, that has never been the case. There are very few songs that I can think of where I remember the words.
Robert Fripp and I will be recording another LP very soon. It should be even more monotonous than the first one!
Set up a situation that presents you with something slightly beyond your reach.
The basis of computer work is predicated on the idea that only the brain makes decisions and only the index finger does the work.
The lyrics are constructed as empirically as the music. I don't set out to say anything very important.
The philosophical idea that there are no more distances, that we are all just one world, that we are all brothers, is such a drag! I like differences.
The reason I don't tour is that I don't know how to front a band. What would I do? I can't really play anything well enough to deal with that situation.
We are increasingly likely to find ourselves in places with background music. No composers have thought to write for these modern spaces, which represent 30% of our musical experience.
When I started making my own records, I had this idea of drowning out the singer and putting the rest in the foreground. It was the background that interested me.
When I went back to England after a year away, the country seemed stuck, dozing in a fairy tale, stifled by the weight of tradition.
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When a man has anal/doggystyle sex with a chick facing a window then trades places with his buddy who is hiding in the room without the chick realizing. The guy then proceeds to go outside and wave at the chick who is looking out the window. She then asks herself "If he's out there, who is fucking me?"
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During sexual intercourse from the back or "anal sex" the male pretends to ejaculate on the female by spitting on her back. Then when the female turns thinking intercourse is over the male ejaculates in her face created a moment of comical acts for the male to tell his friends about.
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Famed model of Rolls-Royce taken through many stages of excellence since the twenties. The ultimate version would be the 1980 Phantom VI convertible state limo in midnight blue. The car to own all cars.
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1. Short nickname used by theatre-lovers for Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber's the Phantom of the Opera.
2. The lead title role in the Phantom of the opera. His real name is Erik.
2. The lead title role in the Phantom of the opera. His real name is Erik.
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2. The Phantom of the opera is there... inside my mind.
di Thespian 08 ottobre 2005
Someone who is seldom seen or heard from, but used to be around all the time.
Where's Mike Been lately? I don't know, he's been a phantom lately.
di Johnnie Regalado 10 gennaio 2006
to disappear without notice from a party; to go 'phantom'
Also can be used as a nickname for people who commonly do this
Also can be used as a nickname for people who commonly do this
hey where'd mike go?
dunno, must have gone phantom
dunno, must have gone phantom
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When someone leaves an anonymous shit in a public/common toilet.
Who left that fucking Phantom.
Dude, I just left a phenom Phantom.
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Four Fundamental Econ Facts Missed By Economist Cantor-Slayer David Brat
Dave Brat speaks to hundreds of supporters after beating Republican Congressman Eric Cantor in Tuesday's Republican primary for the 7th Congressional District in Virginia, June 10, 2014.
On MSNBC Wednesday morning, Chuck Todd asked David Brat, the Eric-Cantor-slayer, Ayn Rand acolyte, and chairman of the economics department at Randolph-Macon College, about his viewpoint on the minimum wage. Here's their exchange:
TODD: Should there be a minimum wage in your opinion?
BRAT: I don't have a well-crafted response on that one. All I know is if you take the long-run graph over 200 years of the wage rate, it cannot differ from your nation's productivity. Right? So you can't make up wage rates. Right? I would love for everyone in sub-Saharan Africa, for example— children of God—to make $100 an hour. I would love to just assert that that would be the case. But you can't assert that unless you raise their productivity, and then the wage follows.
So you raise a nation's productivity rate and its wages follow, huh? Does Professor Brat pay even the slightest attention to the figures on productivity and wages in the United States? If he did, he'd know that between 1947 and 1973, productivity in the U.S. increased by 97 percent and median compensation (that's wages plus benefits) increased by 95 percent—almost exactly in accord with Brat's assessment. Since 1979, however, productivity in the U.S. has grown by 65 percent and median compensation by just 8 percent.
That is to say, during the pre-globalization post-World War II decades—the only time in American history when unions were strong enough to ensure widespread collective bargaining—wages did indeed reflect productivity levels. Since then, as the economy has gone global, as American corporations have offshored jobs and as private-sector unions have all but vanished from the landscape, productivity has increased but all the economic gains that have come from that increase have gone to the wealthiest tenth of Americans—and since 2009, according to University of California economists Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman, all income growth has gone to the top 5 percent. That's why wages now constitute the lowest share of the nation's economy since the government began measuring such things in the mid-1940s, and profits the highest share.
These facts have not been kept secret. They've been widely published in popular media and in economics journals. Somehow, they've either failed to come to David Brat's attention or are so at odds with his views of heaven and earth that he has resisted taking them in. Which suggests that while his election to the Congress will be bad for the county, it may well be good for students at Randolph-Macon. At least the chairman of their economics department won't be an utter ignoramus.
Thu, 2014-06-12 10:21
So the author's theory is that our country has become more capitalistic and less statist since 1979? EPA? OSHA? etc? Someone please explain that!
If union power was the panacea the author proposes, post WWII Great Britain should be a high-flying success. Yet they languished until capitalist reforms were instituted in the 1980's. The problem was the state messing with something they should leave well-enough alone.
Consider this alternative: "It is only when the state manipulates and over regulates free markets that capitalism fails. However, capitalism usually takes the blame for the failures of statism." (John Browne)
Sun, 2014-06-15 17:36
Tommy - It is your assertion that no correlation exists from a relative dearth of union representation to a failing middle class? That's simply a right wing "fairytale". Much like "trickle down economics" and the best of all "free markets". I didn't see anything from the author mentioning a "panacea", for 'unions' being the answer for our economic malaise - but you'd have to be in utter denial (or closed minded Republican), to insist a decline of unions hasn't been a significant symptom for this decline. It is disingenuous if not patently rediculous, to lay blame at the feet of the EPA or OSHA, you prefer an even higher rate of airborn illness in this country?! As for your comment on Great Britain, Margaret Thatcher was a disasterous, ruinous bully. At least to those whom worked for a living. She decimated British industry, Britain saw record inflation, record bankruptcies, poll tax, record home repossessions, record unemployment. Do you really think most British citizens considered this "improvement"?!
Thu, 2014-06-12 14:56
Brat ignores that Alan Greenspan and most of his friends were fans of Ayn Rand leading to the economic meltdown in 2008 largely due to lack of regulation and/or the regulators being in bed with the criminals. He might reply that he is also advocating a religious theocracy, but most regimes, including Hitler's Germany, were supported by religious groups even afer the corporations realized their buying Hitler did not work. I use Hitler's name because Brat used it as the threat if his policies are not followed.
Thu, 2014-06-12 16:04
Huh? "...leading to the economic meltdown in 2008 largely due to lack of regulation and/or the regulators being in bed with the criminals." These are opposite ends of the spectrum – it can only be one of the two (bad capitalism or bad gov't intervention); it can't be both. History indicates it is the latter.
Fri, 2014-06-13 00:25
Often on Wall Street the SEC office was in the same building as the company they were supposed to be regulating. They went to lunch together. They had a revolving door together. It was not the government who came up with the scam to fund every loan because they were going to tranch it and sell the bond with a false rating. That is rightie propaganda because, as Brat would say, all government is bad. Very convenient idea for crooks.
Thu, 2014-06-12 19:20
Tommy is so wrong it's not funny. First, the article said nothing about "capitalism vs. statism", whatever that is. Second, the phrase "...leading to the economic meltdown..." doesn't imply "opposite ends of the spectrum"--it can be both, because there is a third alternative: regulators who are NOT corrupt(something "statists" devoutly wish for and try to attain). The presence of regulations does not automatically imply corruption of the regulators. Besides, there is no contradiction between "inadequate regulations" and "corrupt regulators"--they can and do coexist.
Tommy needs to read history more carefully and get off his high horse.
Thu, 2014-06-12 20:13
Will Shirley
Fri, 2014-06-13 08:12
It is in the acquisition of great wealth that great harm is done to society, and as this wealth is concentrated in the hands of fewer and fewer people the harm done is increased until finally society collapses and most of the wealth is rendered valueless. German Fascists demonstrated this nicely and now Russia and the USA are following suit. If money were to return to it's original use as a token representing work done instead of being a commodity by itself it would not be possible to have such inequality unless there was a real difference in the amount of work done. In our current system the wealthiest work the least, living off the work done by the employees and occasionally replacing humans with machines to increase the profits. This system is unstable and history has shown it will not last more than a generation or so.
Mon, 2014-06-16 16:17
For countries as different as the USA and sub-Saharan Africa the different in wages is a reflection of the different in productivity. According to the World Bank, GNI per-capita for sub-Saharan Africa is $1,547. A comparable number for the USA is $52,340.
Given the vast gap in national income per-capita, distributional issues are irrelevant. Meyerson's numbers for the U.S. since 1980 aren't that bad. They are also meaningless. A 30 fold delta in productivity is far more important in determining wages than rising inequality in the U.S.
Brat is essentially right and Meyerson is wrong. Run correlation between wages and per-capita GDP globally and linkage is overwhelming and obvious.
George S
Mon, 2014-06-16 17:24
This is textbook sophistry. What is being ignored is the regulatory compliance cost elephant in the room that gobbles 40% of GDP (including the governments consumption of 20% GDP). Here's how it works:
Your salary is based on your productivity and your productivity has to cover your salary plus overhead plus profit. An increase in productivity will not necessarily translate into a wage raise. If the rent goes up and sales increase as a result of increased productivity, then the rent must be paid first before any raise can be paid.
But what if your company has to hire extra accountants to comply with Sarbanes-Oxley and Dodd-Frank? Those accountants have nothing to do with sales, but their salaries can only be paid from them. Same thing for human resources people hired to navigate health insurance, family leave policies, workplace discrimination awareness, sexual harassment awareness, etc. These people do not make product or sell them, but they can only be paid by sales income. How about legal fees to comply with EPA mandates, labor laws, OSHA, and now ObamaCare? Who pays legal staff or those $750 per man-hour legal fees?
The short answer is you do. Your productivity must increase so sales can increase (or labor cost decrease) so that extra money can pay all those nice people who have absolutely nothing to do with the bottom line except keep management out of jail.
There is where your productivity raise went, To the 40% GDP vacuum that government regulators have decreed.
Glad to be of assistance, Myerson.
Mon, 2014-06-16 19:16
Here is a direct quote from the Brat campaign.
"The entire amnesty and low-wage agenda collapses if Cantor loses — all the billions of special interests dollars, all the favors, all the insider dealing — all of it is stopped in its tracks tomorrow if the patriotic working families of Virginia send Eric Cantor back home tomorrow.
Tomorrow, the middle class has its chance to fight back.
Tomorrow, the people of Virginia can show up to the polls and defeat the entire crony corporate lobby.
Tomorrow, we can restore our borders, rebuild our communities, and revitalize our middle class."
Brat campaigned for the American people. Meyerson should go back to his cheap labor corporate cronies.
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The year 1706 had begun well for Louis XIV's generals, who had gained early success in Italy and in Alsace, where Marshal Villars had forced the Margrave of Baden to retreat across the Rhine. Louis now pressed Marshal Villeroi to seek out Marlborough and bring the Allies to battle in the Spanish Netherlands. Accordingly, the French Marshal set off from Louvain at the head of 60,000 men, and provocatively marched towards Léau. Marlborough, also determined to fight a major engagement, assembled his forces – some 62,000 men – near Maastricht, before advancing towards the Mehaigne river and the plain of Ramillies. However, the French had anticipated the Allies, and Marlborough's advance party found the location already occupied. Nevertheless, the Duke decided to attack at once.
In less than four hours, Villeroi's army was utterly defeated. Marlborough's subtle moves and changes in emphasis during the battle – something the French and Bavarian commanders failed to realise until it was too late – caught his foe in a tactical vice. The Franco-Bavarian army broke and ran en masse, suffering over 20,000 casualties. With Prince Eugène's subsequent success at Turin in northern Italy, the Allies had imposed the greatest loss of territory and resources that Louis XIV would suffer during the war. Town after town – including Brussels, Bruges and Antwerp – fell to Marlborough's forces and by the end of the campaign, the Franco-Spanish army had been driven from most of the Spanish Netherlands. The year 1706 had indeed proved to be the Allies' annus mirabilis.
The reluctance of his Dutch allies to see their frontiers denuded of troops for another gamble in Germany had denied Marlborough the initiative, but of far greater importance was the Margrave of Baden's pronouncement that he could not join the Duke in strength for the coming offensive. This was in part due to the sudden switching of troops from the Rhine to reinforce Prince Eugène in Italy, and part due to the deterioration of Baden's health brought on by the re-opening of a severe foot wound he had received at the storming of the Schellenberg the previous year. Moreover, Marlborough had to cope with the death of Emperor Leopold I in May and the accession of Joseph I, which unavoidably complicated matters for the Grand Alliance.
The resilience of the French King, and the efforts of his generals, also added to Marlborough's problems. Marshal Villeroi, exerting considerable pressure on the Dutch commander, Count Overkirk, along the Meuse, took Huy on 10 June before pressing on towards Liège. With Marshal Villars sitting strong on the Moselle, the Allied commander – whose supplies had by now become critical – was forced to call off his campaign on 16 June. "What a disgrace for Marlborough," exulted Villeroi, "to have made false movements without any result! With Marlborough's departure north, the French now transferred troops from the Moselle valley to reinforce Villeroi in Flanders, whilst Villars marched off to the Rhine.
The Allies gained minor compensation for the failed Moselle campaign with the success at Elixheim and the crossing of the Lines of Brabant in the Spanish Netherlands (Huy was also retaken on 11 July), but due to considerable Dutch hesitancy and reluctance, a chance to bring the French to a decisive engagement had eluded Marlborough. The year 1705 proved almost entirely barren for the Duke whose military disappointments were only partly compensated by efforts on the diplomatic front where, at the courts of Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Vienna, Berlin and Hanover, Marlborough sought to bolster support for the Grand Alliance and extract promises of prompt assistance for the following year's campaign.
Determined to show the Allies that France was still resolute, Louis XIV prepared to launch a double surprise in Alsace and northern Italy. On the latter front, on 19 April, Marshal Vendôme defeated the Imperial army at Calcinato, pushing the Imperialists back in confusion; French forces were now in a position to prepare for the long-anticipated siege of Turin. In Alsace, Marshal Villars took the Margrave of Baden by surprise and captured Haguenau, driving him back across the Rhine in some disorder, thus creating a threat on Landau. With these reverses, the Dutch now refused to contemplate Marlborough's ambitious march to Italy, or, indeed, any plan that denuded their borders of the Duke and his army. Therefore, in the interest of coalition harmony, Marlborough prepared to campaign in the Low Countries.
Following the successes in Italy and along the Rhine, Louis XIV was now hopeful of similar results in Flanders. Far from standing on the defensive therefore – and unbeknown to Marlborough – Louis XIV was persistently goading his marshal into action. "[Villeroi] began to imagine," wrote St Simon, "that the King doubted his courage, and resolved to stake all at once in an effort to vindicate himself. Accordingly, on 18 May, Villeroi set off from Louvain at the head of 70 battalions, 132 squadrons and 62 cannon – comprising an overall force of some 60,000 troops – and crossed the river Dyle to seek battle with the enemy. Spurred on by his growing confidence in his ability to out-general his opponent, and by Versailles' determination to avenge Blenheim, Villeroi and his generals anticipated success.
Neither opponent expected the clash at the exact moment or place where it occurred. The French moved first to Tirlemont, (as if to threaten Léau, abandoned by the French in October 1705), before turning southwards, heading for Judoigne – this line of march took Villeroi's army towards the narrow aperture of dry ground between the Mehaigne and Petite Gheete rivers close to the small villages of Ramillies and Taviers; but neither commander quite appreciated how far his opponent had travelled. Villeroi still believed (on 22 May) the Allies were a full day's march away when in fact they had camped near Corswaren waiting for the Danish squadrons to catch up; for his part, Marlborough deemed Villeroi still at Judoigne when in reality he was now approaching the plateau of Mont St. André with the intention of pitching camp near Ramillies (see map at right).
The following day, at 01:00, Marlborough dispatched Cadogan, his Quartermaster-General, with an advanced guard to reconnoitre the same dry ground that Villeroi's army was now heading, country that was well known to the Duke from previous campaigns. Two hours later the Duke followed with the main body: 74 battalions, 123 squadrons, 90 pieces of artillery and 20 mortars, totalling 62,000 troops. At about 08:00, after Cadogan had just passed Merdorp, his force made brief contact with a party of French hussars gathering forage on the edge of the plateau of Jandrenouille. After a brief exchange of shots the French retired and the Allied dragoons pressed forward. With a short lift in the mist, Cadogan soon discovered the smartly ordered lines of Villeroi's advance guard some four miles (6 km) off; a galloper hastened back to warn Marlborough. Two hours later the Duke, accompanied by the Dutch field commander Veldt Marshal Overkirk, General Daniel Dopff and the Allied staff, rode up to Cadogan where, on the horizon to the westward he could discern the massed ranks of the French army deploying for battle along the four mile (6.4 km) front.
At 11:00, the Duke ordered the army to take standard battle formation. On the far right, towards Foulz, the British battalions and squadrons took up their posts in a double line near the Jeuche stream. The centre was formed by the mass of Dutch, German, Protestant Swiss and Scottish infantry – perhaps 30,000 men – facing Offus and Ramillies. Also facing Ramillies Marlborough placed a powerful battery of thirty 24-pounders, dragged into position by a team of oxen; further batteries were positioned overlooking the Petite Gheete. On their left, on the broad plain between Taviers and Ramillies – and where Marlborough thought the decisive encounter must take place – Overkirk drew the 69 squadrons of the Dutch and Danish horse, supported by 19 battalions of Dutch infantry and two artillery pieces.
Meanwhile Villeroi deployed his forces. In Taviers on his right, he placed two battalions of the Greder Suisse Régiment, with a smaller force forward in Franquenée; the whole position was protected by the boggy ground of the Mehaigne river, thus preventing an Allied flanking movement. Between the open country of Taviers and Ramillies, he placed 82 squadrons under General de Guiscard supported by several interleaved brigades of French, Swiss and Bavarian infantry. Along the Ramillies–Offus–Autre Eglise ridge-line, Villeroi positioned Walloon and Bavarian infantry, supported by the Elector of Bavaria's 50 squadrons of Bavarian and Walloon cavalry placed behind on the plateau of Mont St. André. Ramillies, Offus and Autre-Eglise were all packed with troops and put in a state of defence, with alleys barricaded and walls loop-holed for muskets. Villeroi also positioned powerful batteries near Ramillies. These guns (some of which were of the three barrelled kind first seen at Elixheim the previous year) enjoyed good arcs of fire, able to fully cover the approaches of the plateau of Jandrenouille over which the Allied infantry would have to pass.
Marlborough, however, noticed several important weaknesses in the French dispositions. Tactically, it was imperative for Villeroi to occupy Taviers on his right and Autre-Eglise on his left, but by adopting this posture he had been forced to over-extend his forces. Moreover, this disposition – concave in relation to the Allied army – gave Marlborough the opportunity to form a more compact line, drawn up in a shorter front between the 'horns' of the French crescent; thus when the Allied blow came, it would be more concentrated and carry more weight. Additionally, the Duke's disposition facilitated the transfer of troops across his front far more easily than his foe, a tactical advantage that would grow in importance as the events of the afternoon unfolded. Although Villeroi had the option of enveloping the flanks of the Allies as they deployed on the plateau of Jandrenouille – threatening to encircle the Allies – the Duke correctly gauged that the characteristically cautious French commander was intent on a defensive battle along the ridge-line.
Villeroi's right flank fell into chaos and was now open and vulnerable. Alerted to the situation de Guiscard ordered an immediate attack with 14 squadrons of French dragoons currently stationed in the rear. Two other battalions of the Greder Suisse Régiment were also sent, but the attack was poorly co-ordinated and consequently went in piecemeal. The Allied commanders now sent dismounted Dutch dragoons into Taviers, which, together with the Guards and their field guns, poured concentrated musketry- and canister-fire into the advancing French troops – Colonel d'Aubigni leading his regiment fell mortally wounded.
As the French ranks wavered, the leading squadrons of Württemberg's Danish horse – now unhampered by enemy fire from either village – were also sent into the attack and fell upon the exposed flank of the Franco-Swiss infantry and dragoons. De la Colonie, with his Grenadiers Rouge regiment, together with the Cologne Guards who were brigaded with them, was now ordered forward from his post south of Ramillies to support the faltering counter-attack on the village. But on his arrival, all was chaos – "Scarcely had my troops got over when the dragoons and Swiss who had preceded us, came tumbling down upon my battalions in full flight … My own fellows turned about and fled along with them." De La Colonie managed to rally some of his grenadiers, together with the remnants of the French dragoons and Greder Suisse battalions, but it was an entirely peripheral operation, offering only fragile support for Villeroi's right flank.
Whilst the attack on Taviers went in, the Earl of Orkney launched his first line of English across the Petite Gheete in a determined attack against the barricaded villages of Offus and Autre-Eglise on the Allied right. Villeroi, posting himself near Offus, watched anxiously the redcoats' advance, minded of the counsel he had received on 6 May from Louis XIV – "Have particular care to that part of the line which will endure the first shock of the English troops." Heeding this advice the French commander began to transfer battalions from his centre to reinforce the left, drawing more foot from the already weakened right to replace them.
As the English battalions descended the gentle slope of the Petite Gheete valley, struggling through the boggy stream, they were met by Major General de la Guiche's disciplined Walloon infantry sent forward from around Offus. After concentrated volleys – extracting heavy casualties on the redcoats – the Walloons fell back to the ridge-line in good order. Nevertheless, the English were able to form their ranks on the dry ground beyond the stream and press on up the slope towards the cottages and barricades on the ridge. The vigour of the English assault, however, was such that they threatened to break through the line of the villages and out onto the open plateau of Mont St André beyond. This was potentially dangerous for the Allied infantry who would then be at the mercy of the Elector's Bavarian and Walloon squadrons patiently waiting on the plateau for the order to move.
Although Henry Lumley's British cavalry had managed to cross the marshy ground around the Petite Gheete, it was soon evident to Marlborough that sufficient cavalry support would not be practicable and that the battle could not be won on the Allied right. The Duke, therefore, called off the attack against Offus and Autre-Eglise. To make sure that Orkney obeyed his order to withdraw, Marlborough sent his Quartermaster-General in person with the command. Despite Orkney's protestations, Cadogan insisted on compliance and, reluctantly, Orkney gave the word for his troops to fall back to their original positions on the edge of the plateau of Jandrenouille.
Seeing that Schultz and Spaar were faltering, Marlborough now ordered Orkney's second-line British and Danish battalions (who had not been used in the assault on Offus and Autre-Eglise) to move south towards Ramillies. Shielded as they were from observation by a slight fold in the land, their commander, Brigadier-General van Pallandt, ordered the regimental colours to be left in place on the edge of the plateau to convince their opponents they were still in their initial position. Therefore, unbeknown to the French who remained oblivious to the Allies' real strength and intentions on the opposite side of the Petite Gheete, Marlborough was throwing his full weight against Ramillies and the open plain to the south. Villeroi meanwhile, was still moving more reserves of infantry in the opposite direction towards his left flank; crucially, it would be some time before the French commander noticed the subtle change in emphasis of the Allied dispositions.
At around 15:30, Overkirk advanced his massed squadrons on the open plain in support of the infantry attack on Ramillies. The disciplined Allied squadrons – 48 Dutch, supported on their left by 21 Danish – steadily advanced towards the enemy (taking care not to prematurely tire the horses), before breaking into a trot to gain the impetus for their charge. The Marquis de Feuquières writing after the battle described the scene – "They advanced in four lines … As they approached they advanced their second and fourth lines into the intervals of their first and third lines; so that when they made their advance upon us, they formed only one front, without any intermediate spaces.
The initial clash favoured the Dutch and Danish squadrons. The disparity of numbers – exacerbated by Villeroi stripping their ranks of infantry to reinforce his left flank – enabled the Allies to throw the first line of French horse back in some disorder towards their second-line squadrons. This line also came under severe pressure and, in turn, was forced back to their third-line of cavalry and the few battalions still remaining on the plain. But these French horsemen were amongst the best in Louis XIV's army – the Maison du Roi, supported by four elite squadrons of Bavarian Cuirassiers. Ably led by de Guiscard, the French cavalry rallied, thrusting back the Allied squadrons in successful local counterattacks. On Overkirk's right flank, close to Ramillies, ten of his squadrons suddenly broke ranks and were scattered, riding headlong to the rear to recover their order, leaving the left flank of the Allied assault on Ramillies dangerously exposed. Notwithstanding the lack of infantry support, de Guiscard threw his cavalry forward in an attempt to split the Allied army in two.
A crisis threatened the centre, but from his vantage point Marlborough was at once aware of the situation. The Allied commander now summoned the cavalry on the right wing to reinforce his centre, leaving only the English squadrons in support of Orkney. Thanks to a combination of battle-smoke and favourable terrain, his redeployment went unnoticed by Villeroi who made no attempt to transfer any of his own 50 unused squadrons. While he waited for the fresh reinforcements to arrive, Marlborough flung himself into the mêlée, rallying some of the Dutch cavalry who were recoiling in confusion. But his personal involvement nearly led to his undoing. A number of French horsemen, recognising the Duke, came surging towards his party. Marlborough's horse tumbled and the Duke was thrown – "Milord Marlborough was rid over," wrote Orkney some time later. It was a critical moment of the battle. "Major-General Murray," recalled one eye witness, " … seeing him fall, marched up in all haste with two Swiss battalions to save him and stop the enemy who were hewing all down in their way." One of Marlborough's aides provided him with his own horse in order to speed him to safety before Murray's disciplined ranks threw back the pursuing French troopers.
After a brief pause, Marlborough's equerry, Colonel Bringfield (or Bingfield), led up another of the Duke's spare horses; but whilst assisting him onto his mount, the unfortunate Bringfield was hit by an errant cannonball that sheered off his head. One account has it that the cannonball flew between the Captain-General's legs before hitting the unfortunate colonel, whose torso fell at Marlborough's feet – a moment subsequently depicted in a lurid set of contemporary playing cards. Nevertheless the danger passed, enabling the Duke to attend to the positioning of the cavalry reinforcements feeding down from his right flank – a change of which Villeroi remained blissfully unaware.
The time was about 16:30, and the two armies were in close contact across the whole four-mile (6 km) front, from the skirmishing in the marshes in the south, through the vast cavalry battle on the open plain; to the fierce struggle for Ramillies at the centre, and to the north, where, around the cottages of Offus and Autre-Eglise, Orkney and de la Guiche faced each other across the Petite Gheete ready to renew hostilities.
The arrival of the transferring squadrons now began to tip the balance in favour of the Allies. Tired, and suffering a growing list of casualties, the numerical inferiority of Guiscard's squadrons battling on the plain at last began to tell. After earlier failing to hold or retake Franquenée and Taviers, Guiscard's right flank had become dangerously exposed and a fatal gap had opened on the right of their line. Taking advantage of this breach, Württemberg's Danish cavalry now swept forward, wheeling to penetrate the flank of the Maison du Roi whose attention was almost entirely fixed on holding back the Dutch. Sweeping forwards, virtually without resistance, the 21 Danish squadrons reformed behind the French around the area of the Tomb of Ottomond, facing north across the plateau of Mont St André towards the exposed flank of Villeroi's army.
The final Allied reinforcements for the cavalry contest to the south were at last in position; Marlborough's superiority on the left could no longer be denied, and his fast-moving plan took hold of the battlefield. Now, far too late, Villeroi tried to redeploy his 50 unused squadrons, but a desperate attempt to form line behind Ramillies floundered amongst the baggage and tents of the French camp carelessly left there after the initial deployment. The Allied commander ordered his cavalry forward against the now heavily outnumbered French and Bavarian horsemen. De Guiscard's right flank, without proper infantry support, could no longer resist the onslaught and, turning their horses northwards, they broke and fled in complete disorder. Even the squadrons currently being scrambled together by Villeroi behind Ramillies could not withstand the onslaught. "The cry went up," remembered Peter Drake, the Irish mercenary serving with the French – "Save yourselves!
In Ramillies, the Allied infantry, now reinforced by the English troops brought down from the north, at last broke through. The Régiment de Picardie stood their ground but were caught between Colonel Borthwick's Scots-Dutch regiment and the English reinforcements. Borthwick was killed, as was Charles O'Brien, the Irish Viscount Clare in French service, fighting at the head of his regiment. The Marquis de Maffei attempted one last stand with his Bavarian and Cologne Guards, but it proved in vain. Noticing a rush of horsemen fast approaching from the south, he later recalled – " … I went towards the nearest of these squadrons to instruct their officer, but instead of being listened to [I] was immediately surrounded and called upon to ask for quarter.
The roads leading north and west were choked with fugitives. Orkney now sent his English troops back across the Petite Gheete stream to once again storm Offus where de la Guiche's infantry had begun to drift away in the confusion. To the right of the infantry, Hay's and Ross's regiments of dragoons also picked their way across the stream and charged the Régment du Roi within Autre-Eglise. "Our dragoons," wrote John Deane, "pushing into the village … made terrible slaughter of the enemy." The Bavarian Horse Grenadiers and the Electoral Guards withdrew and formed a shield about Villeroi and the Elector but were scattered by Lumley's cavalry. Stuck in the mass of fugitives fleeing the battlefield, the French and Bavarian commanders narrowly escaped capture by General Cornelius Wood, who, unaware of their identity, had to content himself with the seizure of two Bavarian Lieutenant-Generals. Far to the south, the remnants of de la Colonie's brigade headed in the opposite direction towards the French held fortress of Namur.
The retreat became a rout. Individual Allied commanders drove their troops forward in pursuit, allowing their beaten enemy no chance to recover. Soon the Allied infantry could no longer keep up, but their cavalry were off the leash, heading through the gathering night for the crossings on the Dyle river. At last, however, Marlborough called a halt to the pursuit shortly after midnight near Meldert, from the field.
Town after town now succumbed to the Allies. Louvain fell on 25 May 1706; three days later, the Allies entered Brussels, the capital of the Spanish Netherlands. Marlborough realised the great opportunity created by the early victory of Ramillies, – "We now have the whole summer before us," wrote the Duke from Brussels to Robert Harley, "and with the blessing of God I shall make the best use of it. Malines, Lierre, Ghent, Alost, Damme, Oudenaarde, Bruges, and on 6 June Antwerp, all subsequently fell to Marlborough's victorious army. Villeroi was helpless to arrest the process of collapse. When Louis learnt of the disaster, he recalled Marshal Vendôme from northern Italy to take command in Flanders; but it would be weeks before the command changed hands.
As news spread of the Allies' triumph, the Prussians, Hessians and Hanoverian contingents, long delayed by their respective rulers, eagerly joined the pursuit of the broken French and Bavarian forces. "This," wrote Marlborough wearily, "I take to be owing to our late success. Meanwhile, Overkirk took the port of Ostend on 4 July thus opening a direct route to the English Channel for communication and supply, but the Allies were making scant progress against Dendermonde whose governor, the Marquis de Valée, was stubbornly resisting. Only later when Cadogan and Churchill went to take charge did the town's defences begin to fail.
Vendôme formally took over command in Flanders on 4 August; Villeroi, his defeated predecessor, would never again receive a major command, bemoaning – "I cannot foresee a happy day in my life save only that of my death." Louis XIV however, was more forgiving, greeting his old friend with the kind words – "At our age, Marshal, we must no longer expect good fortune. In the mean time, Marlborough invested the elaborate fortress of Menin which, after a costly siege, capitulated on 22 August. Dendermonde finally succumbed on 6 September followed by Ath – the last conquest of 1706 – on 2 October. By the time Marlborough had closed down the Ramillies campaign he had denied the French most of the Spanish Netherlands west of the Meuse and north of the Sambre – it was an unsurpassed operational triumph for the English Duke.
Meanwhile, on the Upper Rhine, Villars had been forced onto the defensive as battalion after battalion had been sent north to bolster collapsing French forces in Flanders; there was now no possibility of his undertaking the re-capture of Landau. Further good news for the Allies arrived from northern Italy where, on 7 September, Prince Eugène had routed a French army before the Piedmontese capital, Turin, driving the Franco-Spanish forces from northern Italy. Only from Spain did Louis XIV receive any good news where Lord Galway had been forced to retreat from Madrid towards Valencia, allowing Philip V to re-enter his capital on 4 October.
All in all though, the situation had changed considerably and Louis XIV began to look for ways to end what was fast becoming a ruinous war for France. For Queen Anne also, the Ramillies campaign had one overriding significance – "Now we have God be thanked so hopeful a prospect of peace. But the Grand Alliance, emboldened by victory, had neither the wit nor the will to conclude peace terms. With the utter defeat of France seemingly within their grasp, the war would continue through to the following year. Instead of continuing the momentum of victory, however, cracks in Allied unity would enable Louis to reverse some of the major setbacks suffered at Turin and Ramillies.
La Colonie omits a casualty figure in his Chronicles of an old Campaigner; but the duc de Saint-Simon in his Memoirs states 4,000 killed, adding 'many others were wounded and many important persons were taken prisoner'. Voltaire, however, in Histoire du siecle du Louis XIV records, 'the French lost there twenty thousand men'.


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Call it the Meryl Streep money shot, the scene most likely to appear in the Oscar montage for best actress. Margaret Thatcher sits in a patient's paper gown, grasping for her wits through a fog of Alzheimer's, aware she must perform a charade of competency. A young doctor peppers her with questions about whether she's experiencing hallucinations and how she's feeling. And just like that, the anxious old woman transforms, replaced by a former U.K. prime minister who draws herself up, fixes her opponent with a glare, and issues a flinty indictment about the tyranny of modern life, dominated by those who "care more about feelings than thoughts and ideas."
The irony is that the much-anticipated The Iron Lady hews precisely to this formula. Long on sentiment but short on statement, the film is a star vehicle for Streep, who does her usual, impeccable job of conjuring flesh and blood out of a stale script. This time she's channeling director Phyllida Lloyd's take on Thatcher as a grocer's daughter who battled stuffed-shirt sexism to become one of the most powerful and controversial leaders in the world. Lloyd catches her subject on the downswing, however, recounting the story of Thatcher's reign through a series of senility-induced flashbacks. By telling this story from the viewpoint of an unreliable narrator, Lloyd presents a more intimate than iconic portrait of Thatcher—a small-screen lady Lear on the heath. As Thatcher is still alive, some of her supporters have looked askance at the film's alleged insensitivity and invasion of privacy. Thatcher herself might have protested this treatment as well, but for different reasons. It seems unlikely that the powerhouse who shredded Britain's post-war social-democratic contract, sacked scores of ministers, and went to war with "the enemy without" (the Argentinian junta over the Falklands) and "the enemy within" (striking miners at home) would prefer a profile more focused on Thatcher than Thatcherism, particularly if that portrait failed to reveal her relevance today.
With her embrace of free-market ideology, dismantling of public services and union power, and the sugar frosting/steel cake mien conservatives seem to favor in female politicians, Thatcher has become a Tea Party darling. More than any conservative before her, she understood that Britain's social order was ripe for a fall—that the individualism of the 1960s could be yoked to a desire for upward mobility that would disrupt the country's class and political affiliations. With the Housing Act of 1980, she granted millions of working-class families the right to buy their government-subsidized homes—and wooed them away from their Labour party stronghold. True, Thatcher was a grocer's daughter, but her father, Alfred Roberts, was also the mayor of Grantham, and his politically savvy daughter tapped into the middle-class's distaste for those who relied on handouts—government-granted or unearned inheritances alike—and turned it into in-your-face populism.
But Thatcher's reign also provides a fair warning for our times. In her early years, she went after inflation rather than unemployment, cutting government spending and raising interest rates—a move that sent England down the road to recession. Unemployment doubled to three million, sparking riots, blackouts, and strikes that left garbage filling the streets. Thatcher, however, had implemented the recommendations of a government committee that called for a dramatic raise in police salaries—up to 45 percent in some cases—along with an increase in their recruitment, so she was ready to put a harsh end to the unrest.
Shortly thereafter, the Falkland War both bloodied and bailed her out, leaving Thatcher well-primed to whack the next challenge to her power: the miners' union that had helped bring down her predecessor, Edward Heath, with a crippling strike in 1974. She'd stockpiled coal and used MI5 to infiltrate miners' groups before she fired a shot over the bow—a proposal to close down 20 pits employing some 20,000 workers, a move that sent the miners into a doomed strike. After a year of brinkmanship, Thatcher broke the trade unions' backs, and with a slash in public services, the fortunes of much of northern England, Scotland, and Wales. Inflation soared again and many who had bought their council homes found them repossessed. Her attempt to implement a poll tax sparked riots, and finally a ministerial mutiny that forced her exit from 10 Downing Street.
High drama, but one wouldn't know it from The Iron Lady, which plays like a domestic weepie spliced together with a historical clip reel. The film is so interior as to be hermetic, with criticisms of Thatcher's policies stuffed into two unenlightening tropes—either some angry mullet foaming and barking outside her limo window or the viperous hissing of "grocer's daughter" by the public-school boys turned MPs. And for all of its urge to plumb the depths of the person behind the politician, The Iron Lady doesn't even tap into some of the richest veins—how Thatcher's muscular English nationalism fit in with her sexual allure (yes, you read that right), how she married a girls-are-better-than-boys playground rhetoric with staunch individualism, why she felt consensus was for Quislings. For a film set in a character's autumnal years, a period often imbued with regret and reckoning, there's little mention of Thatcher's legacy of privatization, deregulation, and recalibration of the left far to the right of where it had been.
The Iron Lady could have forced Yank viewers to replace their outmoded ideas of Thatcher as all helmet hair, British teeth, and shoulder pads. Popular U.K. puppet-satire show "Spitting Image" dressed her as a dominatrix, as did Barney's window decorator Simon Doonan. Francois Mitterand said she had the "eyes of Caligula and the mouth of Marilyn Monroe." As Julian Barnes wrote, "If the House of Commons, with its incessant background noise, its schoolboy rowdiness, its dominant maleness, and its low level of repartée, often resembles nothing so much as the canteen in a minor public school, then Mrs. Thatcher is cast as Matron"—a role she obviously relished when she told Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau at a 1981 economic summit meeting to "stop acting like a naughty schoolboy" and spanked Christopher Hitchens with a rolled-up parliamentary order. (That last is simply too good—scroll down to "Naughty Maggie" for a read.) For the manky male political id, Thatcher's dominance triggered both terror and desire, and therein underlay the sense of political anxiety, guilt, and relief at her ouster—"It was like killing your mother," said one British colleague.
Thatcher was certainly canny at using the rhetoric of good housekeeping and women's superiority to back her points, uttering such bon mots as "If you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman," even as she declared that she owed nothing to women's liberation. Thatcher's derogatory views on identity politics are in keeping with her fetishization of the exceptional, entrepreneurial individual—after all, by boot-strapping herself into power she provided a template for a whole nation and a role for herself as the schoolmarm who would beat you with her Yes, You Can stick. Not surprisingly, she had little time for the snoozy political consensus nor the social-welfare safety net that preceded her, and worked at dismantling its geopolitical equivalent with her early embrace of Mikhail Gorbachev. For Thatcher, the free market was the future. "There is no alternative," she famously declared, then sought to make it so. Now that the House That Thatcher Built (and New Labour helped renovate) is crumbling, there is no clear way forward … and riots reminiscent of Thatcher's early years just behind.
This is the story Meryl Streep deserved to sink her horsey prosthetic choppers into, but that grande dame seems doomed to put her shine into nickel-plated settings. A pity, as this could have been a film—not just a role—of real relevance. Thatcher galvanized political dialogue, fueled a renaissance of cultural discontent, and left behind a legacy of drastic change and increased social mobility—both upward and downward. Much of our current moment was born from her reign; it is no time to be lost, like The Iron Lady's Thatcher, in a fog of forgetting, regret, and recrimination.
Many thanks to my colleagues Alexis Buisson and Kung Li for their insights, and particularly to Arun Kundnani for his trenchant analysis of the Thatcher years.
Mon, 2012-01-02 11:29
«that the individualism of the 1960s could be yoked to a desire for upward mobility that would disrupt the country's class and political affiliations. With the Housing Act of 1980, she granted millions of working-class families the right to buy their government-subsidized homes»
That was done because a conservative think tank had studied a poll that showed that people who owned a home, shares, or a car were far more likely to be voting to the right than those who were renting, saved cash, or used public transport. Because they felt like petty rentier proprietors and felt their interests aligned with bigger landlors and shareholders rather than with fellow wage earners.
Thatcher therefore addressed all three by turning council house renters into property speculators, savers into share speculators (with the distribution of privatized company shares), and train and bus users into car owners (by slashing spending on public transport).
Her success in this has been amazing: the UK has turned into a nation where a hardline tory like Blair ended up leading the Labour Party, and most "aspirational" voters demanded higher asset prices (for themselves) and lower wages (for others).
As an example, a quote from The Times, 2011-09-17, about the political stance of working and middle class middle aged women:
«The C2 women who voted Conservative last time did so because they, in low to middling-paid roles such as nurses, secretaries and carers, believed welfare had grown too generous, that benefits rewarded the do-nothings while they toiled. They hoped the Tories would crack down.
Now, they are shocked to discover the Government regards them as part of the problem. They work in the "bloated public sector", their meagre pensions are grotesquely lavish, their often tough vocational jobs are regarded as worthless and dispensable. Labour celebrated "hard-working families"; the Tories tell them it was their salaries – not the bankers' excesses – that broke the economy.»
These are middle aged/working class women who thought they had a safe well paying government job for life, and accordingly voted for a very conservative government to lower taxes on them by cracking down, at the beginning of the worst recession since 1930, on unemployment welfare, to punish the idle parasites exploiting them.
Mon, 2012-01-02 11:41
«Unemployment doubled to three million, sparking riots, blackouts, and strikes that left garbage filling the streets. Thatcher, however, had implemented the recommendations of a government committee that called for a dramatic raise in police salaries—up to 45 percent in some cases»
I am impressed that you noticed this often forgotten detail. Policing used to be in the UK a very working class job, badly paid with long hours and hard work. Policemen were just the public version of security guards, and were largely drawn from the communities they served, and that was indeed the model of the Peel reforms, according to the Peelian Principles.
The Thatcher reforms were meant to turn the English police officers into middle class, both as a to salary levels and working conditions, to make them less sympathetic to the working class people they were eventually called upon to repress. This has had the effect of leading to an explosion of private security guards, and even of "auxiliary" police officers, who are used for ordinary crime and order tasks, rather than "political" ones, as they are much cheaper and recruited from the working class.
Mon, 2012-01-02 11:52
«Thatcher's well-primed to whack the next challenge to her power: the miners' union that had helped bring down her predecessor, Edward Heath,»
I would not waste a second feeling sorry for the miners' union who were a bunch of corrupt bullies trying to blackmail the rest of the country and dominate politics by holding the UK's energy supply hostage. The miners's union bullying disgraced the whole union movement in the UK, persuading many even left wing voters that the bosses were the least of two evils. Given a choice between having the country ruled by the miners union or Parliament, most UK voters chose parliament, as they did not want to be disenfranchised.
It was a tragedy that miners and their communities were collateral damage and victims of their union's arrogance and foolishness.
«with a crippling strike in 1974. She'd stockpiled coal»
As to the foolishness of the miners, apart from stockpiling coal, Thatcher surely was aware that Nort Sea oil production was surging and the UK no longer needed coal. Apparently the miners were not aware of that. This graph of UK oil production, consumption and net imports/exports, tell the most important story about the UK economy:
As it is pretty clear, BTW, whatever Thatcher and Blair booms and tax cuts happened because of the huge tax revenue and strong pound effect from surging oil production and exports. Which the "aspirational" voters of the UK in practice decided to "invest" in a mindless colossal bubble of the prices of the council houses they had been given for peanuts by Thatcher.
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In the pages of his Northern Junket magazine, caller and dance historian Ralph Page enjoyed sharing articles based on his dance research. He included a six-part series on the Lancers. California caller and choreographer Chris Page (no relation) created a highly personal index to some of his favorite pieces from the magazine, including links to this series. Thanks, Chris!
The first two articles are written by Ralph Page; the third one contains extensive comments by Hugh Thurston; the fourth one contains numerous comments by Gordon Tracie about the Lancers in Scandinavia. The fifth article (misnumbered in Northern Junket as Part IV) was written by Harold M. Smith and focuses on the Lancers on St. Lawrence County in upstate New York; the final piece, by Page again, looks at the Lancers in Europe.
A search on the SHDP website for Lancers will return more than a dozen other items related to this topic.
For easier reading, we have included on this website two PDF files that contain all the articles. Interested readers can view the entire series online if they wish. (Thanks to the University of New Hampshire's Library of Traditional Music and Dance for digitizing the entire press run of Northern Junket and making it available online, complete with index.)
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Yeah but the XL will be double the price I can get an OG 3DS though. Is it worth double the price???
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Robot Inspiration Series #14: Remote Controlled Robot
One fun application of remote controlled robots is a Battle Bots game, where multiple robots try to flip or disable their opponents. Once I made a remote controlled robot to battle with some of my siblings' Spybots. Racing is another possible application of remote controlled robots. If you have a wireless camera to attach to your robot, you could make a robotic explorer that would let you explore a room while sitting at your computer.
Some robots you can use for inspiration include my PC-Controlled Robot, Jim's remote controlled robot with camera goggles, and Philo's Spy Camera Rover along with his NXT Joystick. There's lots of others out there, and feel free to comment with any good ones you know of!
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- Dave Parker said...
Note that remote control doesn't necessarily need to imply wireless remote control. If you don't have the parts for a wireless remote, you can still design lots of different wired remote controls. The www.nxtprograms.com web site has several designs for wired remote controls that can be built with a single NXT kit, including a game console like controller for the Claw Car with Game
Controller project.
Of course, wireless is better. Why don't we have a reliable, inexpensive, easy to use wireless remote for the NXT? Where do we complain to LEGO about this?! Honestly, given the target market for this product, it should come in the box. Everybody wants remote control, and this would go a long way towards keeping a lot of NXT kits from becoming shelfware.
- Nov 11, 2008, 4:56:00 AM
- jason said...
this is my remote controller bot http://mindstorms.lego.com/NXTLOG/ProjectDisplay.aspx?id=270b90f6-0ea4-4aeb-9e44-05830d7eb885
- Nov 11, 2008, 10:10:00 AM
- Mike1 said...
Well, your phone is a easy to use remote. Most parents have a phone that is BT enabled that can control the NXT. Sadly, Nluetooth is probably complicated to make a simple remote that is sold with the NXT. It'll probably cost a lot...
- Nov 11, 2008, 10:57:00 AM
I don't know about ya'll, but i love the pspnx wireless PS2 controller for controlling my robot. and the price,$50-$60 dollars (i think) is reasonable compaired to buying another nxt set that costs five times what the controller and sensor cost.
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What I Wore to Alt 2013
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I hate pictures more than anything. I am so with you but you nailed it! I am going out to buy that shirt in your first picture today. Need it!ReplyDelete
You are adorable in your awkwardness :) I am loving that striped blazer. I haven't stepped foot on a Forever 21 in ages but you've made me rethink that!ReplyDelete
You look beautiful in every picture. But, I feel your pain about having pictures taken. I don't know how those fashion bloggers do it. I would have severe anxiety.ReplyDelete
I love all your outfits!!! I especially love that floral shirt from Target and that striped blazer from Forever 21! You look gorgeous!!! :)ReplyDelete
I love your outfits! You have such a colorful and fun style.ReplyDelete
Awkward? No. Not at all. Those are professional model worthy compared to my WIWW pictures. Good grief. I need to learn how to pose.
Well, say what you will, but I think you should do more of these posts. Seriously, you are adorable and your outfits look like a million bucks. Thanks so much for sharing. I think I know what i'm doing today :)ReplyDelete
I have to say, this post was really inspiring to me! I too loved all of your outfits when I saw them in your Alt roundup. You looked so put together and lovely I just assumed that each fabulous piece would be out of my budget. I LOVE that so many looks came from F21 and Target. You nailed it!ReplyDelete
You look AMAZING!!!! I want to go shopping now. :-)ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJanuary 31, 2013 at 6:51 AM
I love this post. You have great taste. Got to get to target!ReplyDelete
You couldn't be more adorable! Love the way you've paired your fabulous finds! Target will be on my list for that cute floral shirt, too!ReplyDelete
My sister is so awesome. I want that floral shirt!ReplyDelete
OMG, you have nothing to be akward about, you are adorable and your sense of style is amazing! :)ReplyDelete
You look beautiful! Love these outfits!ReplyDelete
You are seriously too cute and obviously fashionable! Thank you for sharing your outfits! I am ready to go shopping at all of the places you mentioned. Although, I'll have to wait to get my husband to watch the baby since you're absolutely right, it's hard going shopping with kids :) And I feel you on getting your photo taken. I get like Chandler from Friends when it comes to getting my picture taken - super awkward ;)ReplyDelete
Love your cheery happy sense of style!ReplyDelete
You are beautiful! I also love all of your hairstyles in these pics and at Alt. I wish I could look as put together as you.ReplyDelete
I loved meeting you at Alt! My friend thought we could be sisters :) Great pics...and i love the floral & stripes combo. perfect!ReplyDelete
Seriously I already liked you, but those last shots makes me like you so much more! Miss you girl!ReplyDelete
You look great! I would love to see a post from you on the technical side of enhancing your blog. Like what tools to you use for adding text to the photos here. You seem to do it with ease, which means that you nay not be using such a complicated tool. Would love to hear your perspective of the graphic side of running your business.ReplyDelete
You look so cute, I love all of your outfits!ReplyDelete
Love your outfits! Your style is so fun yet modest at the same time...I love it! I would love to see what kind of outfits you wear for church, I feel like I am in a blah stage with church clothes. Thanks for sharing your pics, you look adorable! Oh are you liking your longer hair v. your shorter hair?! My hair has been going through the same stages as yours, was short at about the same time and now it's about as long as yours. But I always get to this length and then decide to hack it again! Trying to resist!ReplyDelete
You look beautiful! Your outfits are so well put together--you seriously look like you are wearing expensive designer pieces. Your hair look amazing too. Love your style!ReplyDelete
You are adorable! Love all the outfits..especially the striped blazer!ReplyDelete
What great outfits!! I agree Target is really on the money these days! They have adorable things! I love your striped blazer!! =)ReplyDelete
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I am dying for target to come to Canada!!! Love your outfits, Kirsten. I'm all about the colour and pattern, you look amazing!ReplyDelete
Love your outfits! Looks like I need to make a trip to Forever 21. Had no idea they carried such great pieces. That sequined jacket is fantastic!ReplyDelete
You looked amazing and these photos are stunning, they look very natural! And that floral shirt from Target is GORGEOUS!! If we had Target here I'd be running this second to get it ;)ReplyDelete
love your style!ReplyDelete
you are way to cute! love your style :)ReplyDelete
so so cute! i love all your target finds. i need to browse their clothes more often.ReplyDelete
ha! you have a fun personality. love all the fun colors. But your smile is the best accessory :-)ReplyDelete
You look FABulous, Darling!!!!ReplyDelete
This made me realize, I need some serious shopping advice! Maybe we should take the day off ... let josh and adam take the kids, and enjoy fun day shopping! Seeing these cute pictures made me miss ya! Need to get together soon!ReplyDelete
- Trisha linfordJanuary 31, 2013 at 4:01 PM
You are just too Pretty!!! I loved everything you wore...perfect outfits!ReplyDelete
it's fun to see your cute face! Makes me miss you a ton! We need to get together next time I'm up there!! Better yet, come visit me! It's nice and warm here!!!ReplyDelete
You're darling! Love your style.ReplyDelete
LOVE that Target floral top!!ReplyDelete
-Bree @ aBreeFashion.blogspot.com
I hate taking photos too, I'm just awkward the whole time! You look so cute though- you really don't look that awkwardReplyDelete
oh kirsten, you are adorable. truly. i kind of want to take your picture to my hair stylist and say, "cut it like this please!" :)ReplyDelete
OH! and i have a baby girl named jane, too! such a lovely name.
You still look pretty adorable even in your "awkward" photos! Can't wait to see your cute face...I've missed you!ReplyDelete
um, yeah, you're hot. and hear, hear about target! the only place i shop lately. go moms with 2!ReplyDelete
you are just as cute as a button!! love these looks!!! I wish I could have been there!!!ReplyDelete
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