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Harvest was plentiful, and so were laborers
October 9, 2012
In the days after my dad died in late August, friends and family members started asking how we would get our crop out of the fields. My dad had been a farmer almost his entire life, growing up on a farm, going to college and coming home to farm by his father's side.
In the last few years, my brother had started to learn the tricks of the trade and was getting into the family business.
So as people were asking those questions, my brother, at his young age, had the answer — and a plan — in his mind. He was having conversations with my uncle about farmers with 36-inch corn heads and those who might be able to help.
My husband began planning the days he would take off work to drive the grain cart.
Living in Nebraska, though, it never came to that.
A few weeks ago, some family friends approached my mom about hosting a harvest bee to get our crops out of the field.
Meetings were held and posters were plastered in several communities asking for help.
By the time the farmers started to arrive on our two farms around 7:30 a.m. Monday, a dozen combines, more than a dozen grain carts and another two-and-a-half to three dozen grain trucks and drivers had assembled. When I stepped outside at 8:30 a.m., there was already at least one combine harvesting the corn that my dad and brother had lovingly planted five months ago.
My mom and I spent the morning at the grain elevator with a few other ladies setting up tables, filling coolers with water and pop and organizing the many trays of desserts that were already piled on the tables there, each coming from the kitchens of women in the community.
Within 30 minutes, three or four grain trucks had already come through. I was in charge of thanking each driver by giving him a handshake and a freshly made apple prieska still warm from the oven.
While I recognized many of the drivers from their faces or the names on their trucks, there were many others I did not recognize.
When I wasn't sure who the person was, I would rush over to the crow's nest where a sample of the crop was from the truck.
There I would stand as the driver would identify him or herself, oftentimes simply saying "Dan Graves" or "truck for Dan Graves." It was a heartwarming feeling hearing other people — whether I knew them or not — saying proudly and lovingly that they had brought 800-1,000 bushels of corn to the elevator in my father's name.
I knew those trucks represented the kind combine and tractor drivers who were still in the fields picking that crop.
Throughout the day, I was able to thank many of those farmers who had taken time away from their own fields to help us.
I walked the line of more than a dozen trucks and talked to the drivers waiting in line to get to the scale and empty their load.
A few moments during the day, I reflected on the magnitude of the day's events, and I'll admit I became overwhelmed.
My mom, my brother and I have said more than once, "How do we thank all of these people?"
The answer each time was that there was no way we could thank them all.
I think the elevator manager said it best when he explained that most of the people were there because they just wanted to find a way to help us.
Those who asked days after the funeral how we would get the crop out were many of the same farmers who showed up Monday driving their tractors, combines and trucks.
In the next few years as my brother takes over the farm on his own, I know my father will be smiling down, watching as those same farmers help him along the way.
My mom's two sisters who created gift bags for each farmer said it best in the message they lovingly wrote on each sack:
"The true harvest of life is good friends."
Veteran Tribune reporter Shay Burk writes whatever is swirling around her mind each week. Read her columns on Tuesdays for her humorous thoughts on everyday life.
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How happy are people in NE Ohio that LeBron is back home? They're incorporating tributes to LBJ into their wedding reception introductions. Brian Perk and his beautiful bride tied the knot Saturday at the Westfall Event Center in Valley View, Ohio and wanted to work something special into their introduction. Brian tells BC CLE that the couple came up with the idea that Liz would throw powder into the air while Brian went "Money Manziel."
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He also reports that the introduction song is Patrick Stump & iPhonic, "This City" (Cleveland remix).
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'Battlestar Galactica': The fifth Cylon is revealed
It's been a centon more than seven months since last we Battlestar Galactica and I have to confess, the break hasn't been kind to my memory of the myriad twists and turns during the quest for Earth. (Need a refresher like me? Read our Battlestar Galactica episode guide for this season.)
In the aftermath of this beginning of the end, let me just say: What. The. Frak.
[This has all been spoiled before, and it will all be spoiled again.]
When last we saw our heroes (last June!), the Galactica's human-Cylon alliance reached Earth. Not a pretty blue marble, but a radioactive, muddy, ruined Earth. Expressions of utter shock and despair all around. Roslin picks a living plant -- and let me say there's no shortage of plant life around -- while Helo confirms no sign of human life anywhere on the planet. Sensors indicate the planetary nuking happened a couple of millennia earlier. That's no comfort to Dualla, who pulls a pocketwatch and some jacks from the mud.
Roslin, Adama and Apollo head back to Galactica where, when greeted by the crowd, Roslin can only shake her head. That's a pretty good sign something's wrong, and Roslin is hustled away before the crowd, now shouting questions, can turn violent.
Starbuck and Leoben track the Colonial distress signal detected by her all-new Viper. When dug out of the dirt, the transponder does turn out to be from a Colonial ship... and Leoben finds wreckage nearby with the markings "757NC." Starbuck's freaked: Her Viper's registration is G757NC.
The remaining human-Cylon away team finds a mass grave containing bones and a Centurion head. Though the head resembles the old-school (by which I mean, the '70s series) Centurions, a Six claims it's like nothing they've ever seen. Even weirder, Baltar and the science team say the bones in the grave are not human but skinjob.
Seriously, these are the comparatively small potatoes. Things just get weirder.
Chief Tyrol finds a standing wall with a human-shaped shadow, a la Hiroshima. He touches it as "All Along the Watchtower" plays, and flashes back to himself shopping at a farmer's market that is in turn quickly vaporized by a nuclear strike.
Back on Galactica, Dualla finds Apollo in the pilots' briefing room. Roslin has gone recluse, so he's going to meet with the Quorum. He's trying to pick the best lie, but Dualla urges him to tell the truth. They share a really nice, tender moment. He asks her to accompany him for a drink.
Starbuck, meanwhile, has found the wrecked ship's cockpit -- and it still has a corpse inside. A corpse with long, blonde hair and dogtags marked "K. Thrace." Holy frak. Could Starbuck be a Cylon? She's understandably disturbed, but not more than Leoben, who runs away with fear in his eyes.
At the dig site, Anders finds a guitar neck and sings a bit of "All Along the Watchtower." He finds Tyrol, who talks about the shadow, and then Tori arrives to say she remembers Anders singing to them all.
Get ready for symmetry! Roslin burns her copy of the Pythian Prophecies, telling a confused Adama that she led humanity to this end, one she considers inescapable. Roslin has given up, even stopping her cancer treatment. Starbuck, back on Earth, wraps her corpse and burns it on a pyre.
Apollo and Dualla laugh and stumble along a corridor, dressed to the nines. Did they get that drink? They're talking about his report to the Quorum and how suddenly humanity is free to do whatever it wants: There is no longer any plan or goal. They kiss passionately, and Dee gives Apollo a coy look before slipping into the pilots' quarters. Gaeta is there, having lost his leg, and the two talk about how they never expected this. Gaeta leaves; Dee hangs up her dogtags and her wedding ring, humming softly, then puts a gun to her head and kills herself.
Just typing that after already having seen it... the trauma is no less. The pain is no less.
Apollo and Adama meet in the morgue. Apollo holds it together, but barely. After he leaves, though, the Old Man breaks down and echoes Roslin: "What did you do? I let you down. I let everybody down."
Next time we see him, he's commandeered a pilot's pistol and stalks into Tigh's quarters, sloppy drunk. He insults Tigh's non-humanity, then reminds the colonel of Ellen's philandering. Tigh eventually has had enough and pulls a pistol, whereupon Adama points his own pistol at his temple. He wants to die, he wants to be free of the responsibility and the guilt, but he doesn't even have the resolve (or utter lack of hope) Dualla had.
Once tempers have settled and guns have been unloaded, Adama explains that his uncle had a farm and hunted foxes. Some foxes fought; some ran; and some swam halfway out into a river and let the current sweep them out to sea, and death, because they were just tired of being hunted. The bad Cylons are hunting the humans and rebels, but now that Earth is a dead end, the prey want to just be swept away to their end.
Starbuck finds Apollo on Colonial One and almost tells him about the corpse, but is surprised by news of Dualla. She shuts up.
Adama comes up with a new plan: Like the Thirteenth Colony, he's sure humanity can find a new home. Tigh heads planetside to recall the away team, but Three is tired of the circle and wants to be left behind and die on Earth. Tigh makes the connection to Adama's story -- the rebel Cylons are all out of fight too -- and wades into the sea. But wait! He flashes back to the Earth war, where he finds his wife... Ellen.
Ellen. Ellen is the fifth of the Final Five.
She dies, but as she does, she promises, "Everything is in place. We'll be reborn again together."
Well, frak. What does that make Starbuck?


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I'm becoming more and more convinced that Flash will never make it to the iPhone OS, and had you asked me 12 months ago if that was a good or bad thing I'd have said "bad". Now I'm changing my mind a bit, it's not outright "good" that Flash will likely never see it's day on iPhone OS, but with standards like HTML5 on our doorstep it makes we wonder if Flash is ever realy going to be needed... and when thinking about it, I don't access many sites on my iPhone that require Flash.
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I've mentioned a couple times already, given the recent flare-up in the discussion about iPad and iPhone not supporting Flash, that not so long ago you had a hard time using any browser other than IE6 because of another proprietary plugin -- Microsoft's ActiveX. Times change, though, and these days Firefox, Safari, and Chrome users seldom if ever come across the big red X. It's possible Flash and its blue lego block will soon be likewise optional on major sites.
Scobleizer draws the same analogy:
Let's go back a few years to when Firefox was just coming on the scene. Remember that? I remember that it didn't work with a ton of websites. Things like banks, e-commerce sites, and others. Why not? Because those sites were coded specifically for the dominant Internet Explorer back then.
Some people thought Firefox was going to fail because of these broken links. Just like Adobe is trying to say that Apple's iPad is going to fail because of its own set of broken links.
But just a few years later and have you seen a site that doesn't work on Firefox? I haven't.
What happened? Firefox FORCED developers to get on board with the standards-based web.
The same thing is happening now, based on my talks with developers: they are not including Flash in their future web plans any longer.
I work in web development and just did a major site redesign for an international company. It went from a lot of Flash, to no Flash. Why? Marketing wanted a site that would be more easily viewed on BlackBerrys and iPhones.
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Used to be you could argue that Flash, whatever its merits, delivered content to the entire audience you cared about. That's no longer true, and Adobe's Flash penetration is shrinking with each iPhone OS device Apple sells.
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iPhone, iPad Don't Support ActiveX Either
I still include Flash development as a small part of my services. But, I always do my best to talk clients out of it. Most of the time, the "mobile site" explanation does the trick. But when clients insist on Flash, developers should at least use alternate content to avoid the blue legos.
Flash is a menace.
@fastlane: I still do some Flash dev but only for stuff like animation. I used Flash to make the Zero Punctuation parodies for the Smartphone Round Robin, for example. Then I converted them to H.264 MP4 and uploaded them to YouTube...
To be honest with everyone, this whole flash argument is getting our of hand, yeah flash can do some good things but who really needs it anymore just let go and move on, or do you flash supporters all listen to music on tape cassettes on your walkman's, and ride in horse and carriages, or have you moved with the times?
I have owned iPhones now since day one and use my phone for 90% of my day to day browsing and have never missed flash, at first I thought I needed it but quickly realised I could quite easily live without it.
Things change, technology changes (fast), times change and people change, all because something is right for now it might not be tommorrow.
Innovate, adapt and accept new things, you never know you might even enjoy it!
Please, let me all remember that Apple always knows what's doing, it was the same with the iPhone, at the beginning, everyone was sceptic, know, look at the huge success the phone has made. Now, 2 months for a release is a huje Window to make improovments to The os, not that will support flash, but will at least support some form of multitasking. Don't forget, there may be allways the possibility to jailbreak it and have the best of both worlds.
Flash is overused, no question about it, but it is still the best tool for the job for many things. Aside from games like Farmville and whole-game sites like Webkinz, the principal thing it would be missed for on the iPad is web video. To hasten Flash's demise, all Apple needs two technical improvements, and one legal one. Technically, Apple needs to:
1) Release development tools on par with Flash. Of course, this does not have to be Apple, but Flash, whatever its faults, has an excellent development environment for browser-based games. Eventually, native browser capabilities will close the gap in a threshold percentage of browsers, but Farmville type games will still choose Flash because there are complete development environments with a low threshold of entry. For something as simple and fundamental to games as keyframe animation, CSS/JS toolkits have nothing even remotely comparable. Yes, it is possible, but for the types of complexity games often demand, it is still far more cumbersome, which seduces businesses into developing in Flash.
2) Come up with a better ad and streaming solution. I am not a huge fan of ads, but I recognize where they are necessary to pay the bills, and, like it or not, Flash video has a better story for DRM and for Ads, especially with regards to streaming video. The Hulus and ABCs of the world will be reluctant to switch while that revenue stream is not as well defined; once they do, they will likely jump fast.
Most importantly, legally, Apple has to:
3) Free the h264 codec. This is not talked about nearly enough, but the success of the tag depends entirely on pain-free cross-browser support. Right now, Firefox and Opera will not support it as long as the MPEG-LA group demands a license and/or payment for encoded content. Opera may be statistical white noise, but is not going to reach Scobelizer's tipping point if some video tags work only in Chrome and Safari, and some video tags work only in Firefox. Content producers are not going to encode everything twice, in h264 and theora, (not to mention streaming) just to satisfy duelling browsers. They'll stick with Flash until the smoke clears, or at least far longer than they otherwise would.
Mozilla is not going to change (See http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/roc/archives/2010/01/activexallove.html ); they will stand firm on free video codecs for the same reason they stood firm on ActiveX in 1999, a decision which benefited us all, and which lead to the timeline Scobelizer and Gruber both mention. If Apple wants to kill Flash/make iPad see web video, they need to pressure the rest of their MPEG-LA group to drop royalty demands. Nothing will stop faster than cross-browser pain, and nothing will kill Flash faster that universal support. Your move, Apple. Please free it up and solve all our problem.
Doh broken link above -- tinyurl'd version of link explaining Mozilla's stance on why Firefox will not support patent/royalty encumbered codecs:
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@Fox flash behind the times?? flash is ahead in every way in web programming technology! LOL. Unbelievable !
JUST TO NAME A FEW! Impossible without Flash!
Eh... There's no alternative to Flash for streaming video on the web, unless I'm totally mistaken. No flash = no BBC iPlayer on the iPad - fail :-(
Further to my previous comment, I must add that although I love my iPhone and will most likely get an ipad at some point, apple does need to not only keep up with but stay ahead of the competition, this I suppose rests on the shoulders of the next iPhone and what it brings to the table, as iPods in the traditional sense die out and make way for more multifunction 'convergence' devices, apples money now rests on the shoulders of the iPhone platform and if they do not bring something special this year they will be left behind!
People are fickle (espescially in gadgetland!) and only stay loyal for so long, before looking for something new.
As a wise man once said:
"Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it."
I didn't say that flash is behind the times and I also admitted it can do a few good things, but things do move on it called evolution, eventually new technologies come and overtake the old not always rightly so, but that the way it goes.
Flash serves it's purpose but that won't stop other technologies biting at it's heels and overtaking, otherwise I would still have a Betamax for movies!
But progress happens wether we like it or not, enjoy the ride, go with the flow like twig on the shoulders of a mighty stream!
(Sorry been warning too many John Hughes films lately!)
Like I said before flash is going, going, gone. Useless nobody cares. It's not going to be on the iPhone or the ipad or any device apple makes now or in the future. I believe there will be multitasking in the next update. To shut people up about it. As it all over the apple forums.
@Melissa what do you need USB on the ipad for? Just curious why people keep asking that. I can see complaining about a front facing camera not being on the ipad. That wouldve been sweet but I could care less about it.
There are alternatives folks. Quit drinking the Apple Kool-Aid fanboys.
I had my hopes up for this product soo much myself. But no multitasking? No Flash? BASIC FEATURES ON ALL COMPUTERS. You don't have to drink through this tiny apple straw folks. But I guess you guys will do it for the pretty little interfaces.
Sorry but my memory gets worse by the day keep forgetting say stuff!
@Andy Wilson
BBC iplayer works fine on the iPhone I watch it in the bath! (or the tub as you Americans might say!)
So I can only conclude that iplayer will also work on the ipad, though not in the bath though it's too big and I might drop it!
And remember:
"Mess with bull and you get the horns!"
if you had any knowledge of what you were talking about, any web developer worth his salt will tell you that flash is not worth using because :
• it has a large download size and slows down the site.
• content can't be accessed by search engines and therefore not linked in the results.
flash is outdated and processor heavy , html5 is the future as it deals with both of the above points. If you want to try it yourself goto youtube where you can switch to the beta and try it yourself. stop being a jerk
@fassy: excellent link and lots of food for thought there.
@_mark: I'm sorry, you actually plan on purchasing an HP slate? REALLY?
I don't think you have a right to discuss anything if you're that stupid. And yeah you've also proved your idiocy in your sexist remarks, you're not funny and, more importantly, you are a retard.
@Hand me...
Flash has a lot of weaknesses, but file size is not one of then. With few exceptions, flash delivery is smaller than equivalent standard content - from my own experiences with flash and svg, or flash and dom-based animation, sometimes much smaller. Flash still has a sweet spot for a good chunk of content. That spot is going to shrink, but not disappear.
i'm a diehard flash guy.
no, these things cannot be done with html5 folks.
give up that argument.
I have no particular allegiance to Flash per se, but I get really annoyed when I can't do some things on my iPhone that I can on my laptop. Chief among these things are browsing street view sites, watching Hulu, and getting the Youtube experience. All three of these are "musts" for me for a full Internet experience. I appreciate the Google Maps app, which allows me to do some of the first, but there's nothing even remotely resembling Hulu available for the iPhone, and let's face it--the Youtube app sucks.
Ignore the flash guy. Easy way out.
So in an all Apple/html5 world if you had a client like Jim Carrey who wanted a giant tentacle monster to grab the user and pull him to another city, you'd have to say 'Thats impossible Mr. Carrey!' this is html5, you'll have to wait at least 6 years for that to be possible!
although that has been possible in flash for 6+ years now!
So you see my point people, why are you limiting the possiblities of the internet? Isn't it nice that we have the ability to even do these things? To make anything possible for the client?
@Joe McG thx !
I disagree. Apple is isolating itself based on a grudge Jobs has had ever since Flash video decimated Quicktime as the number one way to deliver video on the internet. He needs therapy.
And the crashing of Safari, I remember those days. Safari would crash but Firefox would not during CPU intensive animation. This is not Flash Player's fault but Safari's! He's a stubborn guy, and he is flat out WRONG!
FYI - we are talking about mobile web here
And The reason for Apple's discontent with Flash is COMPLETELY IRRELEVANT. you don't have be an Apple fanboy/fangirl to understand the iPhone safari usage is the fastestgrowing accross the world and will continue to dominant until this mythical "iPhone killer" device is unveiled (we have not seen this yet).
That said - apple/developers/websites will find solutions outside of flash to get there products to these use. Plain & simple.
The iPad is a fantastic tool.
Apple did not design it to replace a laptop of desktop. Specifically, it is part of Apple's digital hub - the computer being the center, just like the iPod and iPhone. Thus, those who want every feature in the book to be added should bite their tongue. The iPad is not a PC. It will never be as complicated nor bug prone nor virus prone as a PC.
As a physician, I think the iPad is a fantastic tool. It is extremely portable. It doesn't have to be unfolded (like a laptop) to use. It isn't as fragile as keyboards are to dirt and liquids. It can carry my schedule and phone numbers straight from my server via the internet. It can carry tons of medical books and services. It can even do notes as I walk around the hospital seeing my patients. And it can even wire off prescriptions via the internet. It will become ubiquitous to other physicians, I seriously bet.
If it is too "girly", then fantastic. You have just attracted half of the human population to the iPad. Women, generally, are discouraged from using computers. But the iPad changes the equation and welcomes them with open arms. Just having women purchase the iPad means it will be a HUGE it.
For gamers, the iPad is HUGE. Think about higher quality games than what you can get on a Nintendo DS or Portable Playstation, without having to carry cartridges, which you can purchase anytime at the iPad apps store. Think how fantastic shooter games will be, how Madden's football will look. The iPad is a PORTABLE HD Screen just inches from your face. This means the action is right where you are not 20 fee away. It is instant-on. Thus, you can play anywhere immediately. And it is only $499 for the entry model - with games costing much less than they do on the Nintendo DS or Portable Playstation. Also, think about how easy it is on it to play multiplayer network games online or through bluetooth or wifi networks. Think about World of Warcraft on it in the near future. Wow!
The iPad is also the perfect computer for babies and and kids. It is so easy to use, a 1 year-old can be seen on YouTube using his iPod Touch. How much easier is the iPad to use. Kids can also use it to write their papers and reports. It is a lot more resilient than laptops with kids. Any dirt on the screen is easily wiped off. It is not so easy to wipe off dirt from a laptop keyboard and speaker grills.
The iPad is also perfect for grandparents, who aren't so computer savvy. They can easily learn how to surf the web, do email, and do other productive and entertaining things on their iPad. Wow! And it is SO INEXPENSIVE also.
Forget Flash and Active X. Steve Jobs is great at point out and leaving out old technologies.
Even in Mac OS X Snow Leopard, he left out Appletalk.
Flash and Active X are dying like the Dodo bird.
The whole world will be forever more peaceful and useful without them.
There are now more than 75 million iPhones and iPod Touches and thousands of Android phones. All of these DO NOT USE FLASH when browsing the web.
Adobe should add these to their statistics to see how quicly Flash is NOT being used on the web.
For the new sites and redesigns I'm involved with, flash barely gets a mention. Customers hate it because you can't SEO flash content, developers hate it because it's a slow, cpu intensive pig. The only valid pro flash argument out there is for streaming video support? Embedded flash video is the active X of yesteryear, and we all know what happened to active x.
It's on it's way out. Lack of player support on portable devices will only speed that up, and that's a good thing.
I am sorry but I had to chime in and correct some really incorrect statements, yes you can index flash properly, the company that I work for was just given an award for this by google's Avanish Kaushik. It has never really bee about not being able to optimize flash but index the content- sorry to be pedantic. Flash is going to be offered on every major mobile platform and handset apart from the iphone in 2010, however with flash 5 you will be able to convert Flash files into native iPhone app which you cant do the other way round. There are already ways of hacking the iphone and ipad to display flash content properly. This is just a classic example of steve jobs being protectionist. I am a true mac lover and have about 30 of them but lets discuss things with a few more facts.
Geez Rene... listen to yourself...
Firefox is a browser.. a FREE browser... the Ipad is a $629 device .. It's easy to switch to a free browser..
If you could have a flash enabled browser while waiting for a faster and better HTML5 safari that would be better...
with that said the IPad would still sell because there are a whole ot of Rene's out there..
Yes eventually HTML5 will be the way.. but in the meantime the IPAD is a horrible browsing experience
Oh dear. HTML 5, css 3. Video, basic vector graphics and drag and drop. Flash had all of this in 2003. Hardly catching up! Flash has so much more now. I have an iPhone. That contracts up, next a google nexus with flash 10.1 so I can surf the entire web. I have a mac, bought it cos I loved the phone and it worked well together. That'll be on eBay soon if anyone is interested. I want an open platform where I choose the content I see. Not decided on by a company. If flash is really dying out, then why don't apple just support it, let they're customers choose whether or not they want to use it and let it go gracefully. But we know won't happen cos flash is much more powerful than any other web technology, and has a massive developer base. Flash player 10.1 will be on every device exept the iPhone and ipad. That includes all other smart phones, backberry andriod and symbian, and netwooks. Check out adobes open screen project.
Truth is in my opinion, flash provides too much free content, games and music which will take money away from the iTunes and apps store.
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ACTIVE TIME: 15 min
TOTAL TIME: 20 min
Boil wine, vinegar, and shallot in a 2- to 3-quart heavy saucepan over moderate heat until liquid is syrupy and reduced to 2 to 3 tablespoons, about 5 minutes. Add cream, salt, and white pepper and boil 1 minute. Reduce heat to moderately low and add a few tablespoons butter, whisking constantly. Add remaining butter a few pieces at a time, whisking constantly and adding new pieces before previous ones have completely liquefied (the sauce should maintain consistency of hollandaise), lifting pan from heat occasionally to cool mixture.
Remove from heat, then season to taste with salt and pepper and pour sauce through a medium-mesh sieve into a sauceboat, pressing on and then discarding shallot. Serve immediately.
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Last season was a disappointing one for the Salem baseball team. But thanks to a sweep of rival Rockdale, the Seminoles are feeling a lot better about themselves in 2012.
Salem scored 10 runs in the first inning and cruised to a 15-4 win in five innings over Rockdale on Wednesday, two days after beating the Bulldogs 10-1.
The win secured a spot in the upcoming Region 8-AAAA playoffs for Salem (7-12, 5-5), which is trying to return to the Class AAAA state playoffs for the second time in three seasons. It also helped erase the memory of a 2-8 start.
"I think this win goes a long way to erase that terrible start. We've taken a step in the right direction," said Seminoles coach Chad Kitchens. "A lesser team would've quit, this team responded (and) consequently now are playing the best baseball of the season. We're not satisfied, but it's a big accomplishment."
In the bottom of the first, the first 10 batters reached base safely for the Seminoles. Facing starter and losing pitcher Tyler Page and reliever Kaleb Nieddu, the hosts got run-scoring singles from Jake Rich, Cole Gibson and Zach Bailey, while Rockdale helped with a pair of errors and four walks from Page and Nieddu.
"That was great," Kitchens said of the first inning. "We were patient, couple big base hits."
Adam Hood was the beneficiary of the run support as the right-hander allowed three earned runs in four innings.
"I thought he gutted it out (and) gave us enough," Kitchens said of Hood.
Rockdale, which has been outscored 38-8 during a three-game losing streak and dropped to 6-12 and 3-9 in region play, travels to Apalachee tonight at 5:30 p.m. Salem heads to Flowery Branch for a 5:55 p.m. game.
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The MDC implores the inclusive government to urgently look at the deplorable conditions at the country's prisons where prisoners across the country have been condemned to starvation and nutrition related sickness.
The party is disturbed by a recent report by the Parliamentary Thematic Committee
on Human Rights which says prisoners are living in hell holes where they lack basic necessities such as clothing, blankets, towels and soap among other day to day requirements.
The MDC calls upon the government to swallow its pride and send an SOS message to development partners appealing for aid to avoid a repeat of the pre-2008 period, which led to the death of thousands of prisoners due to a serious lack of food and sanitary facilities.
As the MDC, we know that the government through the Treasury cannot do a lot in terms of meeting prisoners' needs as it is still emerging and recovering from the collapse caused by the Zanu PF regime.
It is shocking that the prisoners are using tattered blankets as clothing because they have no uniforms. The inmates are having a single meal of sadza and roasted peanuts or half boiled cabbage with no salt per day.
This pathetic diet does not in any way comply with government's prison dietary policy and leads to serious malnutrition, exposing the prisoners to the deadly pellagra and other contagious diseases. A jail sentence should not be a death sentence.
Prisons that are severely affected by food and uniform shortages for the inmates include; Chikurubi, Harare Central and Remand, Khami in Bulawayo and Hwahwa in Gweru.
At Hwahwa Prison, inmates are being served meals from plastic papers as the prison does not have proper plates.
However, we find it strange that officials from the Ministry of Justice and Legal Affairs are making it impossible for the Deputy Minister of Justice, Hon. Obert Gutu from visiting prisons especially those in the southern part of the country. Senator Gutu since his appointment as a minister has visited several prisons and alerted the world of the deplorable conditions of the prisons and called for better conditions.
To stop him from pursuing this positive agenda, the ministry is now making it almost impossible for the minister to visit the other prisons claiming they have no resources.
The MDC does not seek to pardon those who are guilty of crime from being held accountable for their criminal behaviour but that stripping people of their dignity and basic human rights, then condemn them to horrible experiences can never viewed as fair punishment.
It is a gross violation of basic human rights and a crime against humanity.
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This is a very important week of basketball for the Mississippi State men's basketball team.
It will go a long way in determining which postseason destination the Bulldogs find themselves participating in for March Madness, either the NCAA Tournament or the National Invitational Tournament.
When MSU meets the Georgia Bulldogs in the first round of the Southeastern Conference Tournament on Thursday night in New Orleans, La., the outcome of that game will definitely help or hurt its chances for the Big Dance.
With their play over the last week, the Bulldogs are back on the bubble for the NCAA Tournament.
Mississippi State was falling out of the NCAA Tournament conversation quickly, while suffering through its five-game losing streak.
Ironically, Georgia started that skid for MSU with a 70-68 victory in Starkville back on Feb. 11.
The Bulldogs from Mississippi certainly need a much improved effort to keep that same result from happening in New Orleans.
If Mississippi State loses to Georgia once again, it will be a blow and may eliminate any NCAA Tournament hopes remaining.
It appears the Bulldogs understand the magnitude of what's about to happen.
"We've got our confidence back and we feel we owe Georgia one," MSU senior point guard Dee Bost said. "They got us on our home court, and we know how important it is to get a win as far as the NCAA Tournament is concerned."
Bost and teammate Arnett Moultrie were both recognized as first-team selections on the All-Southeastern Conference team on Tuesday.
Both needs to play at their best during this week's SEC Tournament and any further postseason opportunity the Bulldogs are fortunate to get.
Forgive me if there seems to be a hint of pessimism in the above statement, but there have been too many poor second-half performances out of MSU this season to be fully confident in what it can accomplish.
The Bulldogs must be focused on putting two halves together, much like they did in last Saturday's 79-59 senior day win against Arkansas.
Hopefully, they will carry some of that momentum to New Orleans.
It seems that Bost plans to take Georgia more seriously this time, but he needs to get his teammates on board with his thoughts.
Mississippi State has no choice now than to beat Georgia in order to put more pressure on the NCAA Tournament committee.
Danny P. Smith is sports editor and columnist for the Starkville Daily News. The opinions in this column are his and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Daily News or its staff.


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Are Nitrates or Nitrites Bad? Not Really
When you see a package of hot dogs saying "Nitrate Free" you probably think that you are doing something healthy for you and your family. Somewhere you heard vague whispers of nitrates being bad for you, or preserved meats causing cancer. First, rest easy, and second, don't buy nitrate-free processed meats.
In the 1980′s nitrates/nitrites and nitric oxide were considered a toxic environmental hazard, and any environmental hazard was thought to cause cancer. This idea has not left the popular press, and there were recommended daily allowances in an attempts to regulate amounts of dietary nitrates/nitrites. Nitrates were found in drinking water, and in particular in farm areas where levels of nitrates/nitrites were are used for fertilizer.
While today people think about at nitrates they often think about processed meats (bacon, hot dogs, antipasta, and other delicious charcuterie). Nitrites are the anti-bacterial agent desired for their anti-bacterial effect on food. But the highest levels of nitrates/nitrites are found in vegetables. But what is more fascinating is that the highest levels of nitrates are in human saliva.
Your Body Uses Nitric Oxide Gas to Regulate Blood Vessels
One of the great discoveries in modern biochemistry/physiology is that our body uses nitrates. In fact, it uses nitric oxide, a gas, for regulation of blood pressure, digestion, and to prevent clotting, among other things.
The technical stuff: Sodium Nitrate is converted to Sodium Nitrite in our digestive system. The biochemistry is that dietary nitrate (NO(3)) and nitrite (NO(2)) are sources for the production of NO(x) which is a group of chemicals the body uses, such as nitric oxide (a gas – yes your body produces gas for some great things), and others such as nitrosothiols and nitroalkenes.
Dietary nitrates/nitrites, it turns out, are the building blocks for the material that is beneficial to the heart and blood vessels. Even the mechanism of action of drugs for erectile function, such as Viagra, increase nitric oxide in the vessels of the penis to help develop and maintain an erection. That our body uses nitric oxide to regulate blood vessels would never have been considered before its discovery in the 1990′s. So where, you might ask, is the controversy about nitrates?
What about Cancer and Nitrates?
There are a number of potential "carcinogenic" agents in processed meats. Nitrates do not appear to be them, and the entire discussion about processed meats and cancer needs some context.
Of all the types of scientific studies to perform, the population studies are the most difficult to use, because recalling amounts and types of foods is never easy. As we have reported before, these studies are prone to error unless there is very high statistical evidence that a link exists. For example: smoking with lung cancer had a relative risk of 20, but most of the population studies with humans show relative risk ratios of 1-2. The second difficulty with population studies is "processed meat" can be anything from bacon to cured sausage. As people eat more processed meats the relative risk goes up.
As you can see, the relative risk is real- and statistically it is a real trend, but it is not overwhelming. Look at the chart below. See the Relative Risk numbers for lung cancer as they increase with cigarettes. These are RR above 5, where the chart above shows RR below 1.5 at its highest. The important point is this: the factors in processed meats, if there are factors that increase cancer risk, are not anywhere near the increased risk of developing lung cancer from tobacco. Some would argue that with a relative-risk ratio of less than 2, one cannot determine effect.
The real question is this: is this "trend" from nitrates/nitrites or some other factor? Is the risk of getting cancer from processed meat outweighed by the health benefits in maintaining the NO(x) levels needed? Some would note that nitrate-containing foods such as fruits, leafy green vegetables provide enough for the body to maintain NO(x) levels without the risk of colo-rectal cancers from the vegetarian group.
Are Vegetarians More at Risk than Bacon Eaters?
Here is the fun part of population studies. With processed meats the relative risk of colorectal cancer is mildly elevated, what about vegetarians and nitrates? Turns out they consume more nitrates than people who eat processed meats. But before we make the assumption about vegetarianism, or whole food plant diets, and cancer, we have to look at the real data. For example, fiber is primarily from vegetable sources, and it is the breakdown of that fiber by bacteria that provide us with chemicals that reduce colo-rectal cancer, one has to wonder if the answer is for meat eaters to increase fiber. Besides fiber, plants provide phytochemicals and other micronutrients that are associated with decreasing cancer in the laboratory, as well as in some human studies. Supplements do not provide this support (eat the food, don't take the supplement).
If you are a fan of charcuterie, as I am, know that nitrites are the best way to prevent bacteria, especially botulism. If you buy nitrate -free products, they are at a higher risk. But more important, A balanced diet contains more than just processed meats. Nitrates/nitrites are probably not the issue- if there is an issue. Eat more fruits and vegetables.
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Cuba's gangster government complains about lost revenue from "fraudulent" cell phone use
"The State monopoly ETECSA communications reported Thursday that a string of fraud, organized from abroad with the "complicity" of people in Cuba, is affecting the quality of cell phone service and causing huge economic losses to the regime."
What a web of hypocrisy and thuggery. The billionaire boys club in Cuba, better known as the Castro Family Mafia, busy currently promoting their so-called reforms allowing for private enterprise, cannot tolerate non-State sanctioned methods of communication, especially if they are not receiving their "taste" of the profits.
"The majority of fraud in mobile services are organized and implemented from outside, but they need the complicity of fraudsters in the country, without which communication can not be done," said the director of communication of ETECSA, Luis Manuel Díaz, in a lengthy article published in the official newspaper Juventud Rebelde.
He stressed that because of those facts, ETECSA "sees affected their income, its image and credibility and the quality of communications questioned by users (...) and international agents, with which are established and maintaineded bilateral agreements for the traffic of calls".
Diaz revealed that "certain facts (of detected fraud), given its magnitude and relevance, have been brought to the courts", under the "crimes of fraud, illegal economic activity, or receiving stolen goods".
In Cuba, with 11.1 million people and two million cell phones, users complain about daily SMS spam, mainly designed to promote new private businesses.
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The premises of Collège de la Retraite in downtown Yaounde were filled last Friday June 29 by representatives of some companies, institutions of higher learning and diplomatic institutions. They were participants in an orientation forum organised for final year students of the college.
According to the Coordinator of the forum, Jérôme Mebara, the idea was borne out of the growing need to brief high school students on further academic and professional training opportunities that could enable them secure jobs. "We must therefore inform, sensitise and orientate them. Through this forum, College de la Rétraite pursues the follow-up of children under its care," he told Cameroon Tribune.
The students visited various stands and at every stop, they were briefed by public relations officers mobilised for the purpose by their respective institutions. The majority of exhibitors at the forum were institutions of higher learning offering professional training in fields such as management, computer sciences, engineering, health management and tourism, among others.
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Fort Lee says in a news release that the soldier was found dead in his barracks around 8 a.m. Monday.
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1. Jazz it up at San Francisco's MOMA family workshop this Sunday, May 17. You'll create your artistic composition while professional musicians play classic jazz tunes. Don't miss a reading of "The Jazzy Alphabet," by Sherry Shahan and illustrated by Mary Thelen. (Free for kids ages 4-12 and up to four grown-ups.)
2. The annual Bay Area Storytelling Festival brings its signature brand of tale tellers, mimes and more to Kennedy Grove in El Sobrante on May 16 and 17, with a Kids Concert on May 17 at 1 p.m. ($20 and up)
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4. The De Young Museum's 23rd annual Young at Art Festival kicks off May 15 with a 9-day celebration of children's creativity – art, beatboxing, poetry, and ethnic dance and music from the San Francisco Ethnic Dance Festival, ABADA Capoeira Youth Ensemble, San Francisco Taiko Dojo and Ensambles Ballet Folklorico de San Francisco. Free.
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THE toilets in Stapenhill Gardens are now officially back in action after a major refurbishment.
Councillor Julian Mott, leader of East Staffordshire Borough Council, and Councillor Patricia Ackroyd went along to open the loos and see the work which had been done last week.
The ladies and gents toilets have been swapped, giving a better layout, and both have been fully refurbished, with changes made to ceilings, flooring, boilers, lighting and all fixtures and fittings.
The block is the first in the areas to undergo refurbishment in a three-year project by the council to bring facilities up to scratch.
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Baseball has a way of bringing a family closer together.
Sometimes it can be as close as the other dugout.
A unique situation takes place for members of the Abraham family on June 2 as brothers Jim and Josh of Starkville will coach on opposite sides at the Mississippi High School Class 4A-6A All-Star baseball game.
Josh will coach the Class 4A-6A North All-Stars, while Jim will lead the Class 4A-6A South team.
"It will be great for both of us," Jim said. "My parents will be there supporting on both sides so it will be a great experience. We're going to have a chance to coach with and against some of the best baseball players in the state of Mississippi. It will be neat to be on the opposite side to see if we can get after each other one time."
Josh calls it an honor to coach in the All-Star game and thanked the coaches who voted on him.
To be able to share the experience with his brother just adds to the anticipation.
"We're excited about it and looking forward to it," Josh said. "Coaches enjoy getting the opportunity to coach in this game. It's going to be fun for me and my family and everybody that enjoys baseball."
Josh's and Jim's parents, Jimmy and Patti Abraham, still live in Starkville.
As father and mother, they are proud of what their sons have accomplished. They don't necessarily like to see them coach against each other, but Jimmy says the All-Star Game is different.
"It's going to be a fun event watching them coach some of the best baseball players in the state of Mississippi," Jimmy said. "They have done a great job of not only coaching these young adults, but hopefully helping them in many other ways that will prepare them for what they do when they leave high school."
It's far from a sibling rivalry for Jim and Josh as the brothers love and respect each other.
They feel the same way about the game of baseball.
Because of that fact Josh said their relationship is unlike any other.
"We share the passion for what we do," Josh said. "Baseball is our life and at this point, it's an honor to be able to coach a game against or with him, against him in this case, and it's really nice to be able to enjoy the 4A, 5A and 6A North players on my team and the 4A, 5A, 6A South players on his team. It's going to be a fun experience."
Jim calls Josh "one of my biggest supporters" and is also glad to have shared the game of baseball with him over the years.
"We have a common bond with the game and that's been neat the past few years," Jim said. "Both of my brothers support me 100 percent and I support them 100 percent. My family is kind of neat to have your brother in the same profession because he can understand what you are going through so it's pretty special to me."
Josh is in his fourth season as the head coach at Warren Central, while Jim has spent the same number of years as the leader at Quitman.
Quitman will finish third in its division by losing out on a tiebreaker and will miss out on the postseason, while Warren Central looks forward to a playoff appearance.
"Everything has been going real well," Josh said. "Our kids play really hard and compete at the highest level. I'm proud of the success and looking forward to the playoffs."
Both played for coach Danny Carlisle at Starkville High School and expressed their appreciation for his influence. Carlisle is retiring after 35 years of service to the Yellowjackets and 29 as head coach.
"He's meant a lot to me and my brother and I wish him the best as he pursues retirement," Jim said.
After their SHS careers, the Abraham brothers went on to letter one season at Mississippi State (Jim in 1999 and Josh in 2002).
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Oral tradition, oral culture and oral lore is a way for a society to transmit history, literature, law and other knowledges across generations without a writing system; one set of criteria specifies material held in common by a group of people, over several generations, and thus distinct from testimony or oral history. In a general sense, "oral tradition" refers to the transmission of cultural material through vocal utterance, and was long held to be a key descriptor of folklore (a criterion no longer rigidly held by all folklorists). As an academic discipline, it refers both to a set of objects of study and a method by which they are studied -- the method may be called variously "oral traditional theory," "the theory of Oral-Formulaic Composition" and the "Parry-Lord theory" (after two of its founders; see below) The study of oral tradition is distinct from the academic discipline of oral history, which is the recording of personal memories and histories of those who experienced historical eras or events. It is also distinct from the study of orality, which can be defined as thought and its verbal expression in societies where the technologies of literacy (especially writing and print) are unfamiliar to most of the population.
Oral tradition as a field of study had its origins in the work of the Serb scholar Vuk Stefanovic Karadzic (1787-1864), a contemporary and friend of the Brothers Grimm. Vuk pursued similar projects of "salvage folklore" (similar to rescue archaeology) in the cognate traditions of the Southern Slavic regions which would later be gathered into Yugoslavia, and with the same admixture of romantic and nationalistic interests (he considered all those speaking Serbo-Croat as Serbs). Somewhat later, but as part of the same scholarly enterprise of nationalist studies in folklore, the turcologist Vasily Radlov (1837-1918) would study the songs of the Kara-Kirghiz in what would later become the Soviet Union; Karadzic and Radloff would provide models for the work of Parry.
Shortly thereafter, Milman Parry (1902-1935), pursuing a degree in Classics at Harvard, would begin to grapple with what was then called the "Homeric Question," usually framed as "who was Homer?" and "what are the Homeric poems?" The Homeric question actually consists of a series of related inquiries, and Parry's contribution, which drew upon and synthesized the insights of previous scholars including Marcel Jousse, Matija Murko and Arnold van Gennep, was to reconsider the foundational assumptions which framed the inquiries, a re-ordering that would have consequences for a great many literatures and disciplines.
Parry's work under Antoine Meillet at the Sorbonne led to his crucial insight into the "formula," which he originally defined as "a group of words which is regularly employed under the same metrical conditions to express a given essential idea. In Homeric verse, for example, phrases like eos rhododaktylos ("rosy fingered dawn") or oinops pontos ("winedark sea") occupy a certain metrical pattern that fits, in modular fashion, into the six-colon Greek hexameter, and aids the aioidos or bard in extempore composition. Moreover, phrases of this type would be subject to internal substitutions and adaptations, permitting flexibility in response to narrative and grammatical needs: podas okus axilleus ("swift footed Achilles") is metrically equivalent to koruthaiolos ektor ("glancing-helmed Hektor"). Parry and Lord observed that the same phenomenon was apparent in the Old English alliterative line:
and in the junacki deseterac (heroic decasyllable) of the demonstrably oral poetry of the Serbs:
In Parry's view, formulas were not individual and idiosyncratic devices of particular artists, but the shared inheritance of a tradition of singers. They were easily remembered, making it possible for the singer to execute an improvisational composition-in-performance. A later scholar commented on the potential for Parry's concept to be seen as disparaging of Homeric genius: "The meaning of the Greek term 'rhapsodize', rhapsoidein, 'to stitch song together' could then be taken in a negative sense: Homer stitched together pre-fabricated parts.
The idea indeed met with immediate resistance, because it seemed to make the fount of Western literary eloquence the slave of a system of clichés, but it accounted for such otherwise inexplicable features of the Homeric poems as gross anachronisms (revealed by advances in historical and archaeological knowledge), the presence of incompatible dialects, and the deployment of locally unsuitable epithets ("blameless Aegisthos" for the murderer of Agamemnon, or the almost comic use of "swift-footed Achilles" for the hero in conspicuously sedentary moments).
Parry was appointed to a junior professorship at Harvard, and during this time became aware of living oral traditions in the Balkan region. In two field expeditions with his young assistant Albert Lord (1912-1991) he would record thousands of songs on aluminum disks. The collection would provide the basis for an empirical documentation of the dynamics of composition of metrical narrative in traditional oral performance. This analysis included the patterns and types of variation at lexical and other levels which would yield a structural account of a work's multiformity. This phenomenon could only be accounted for in standard literary methodology by concepts of "corruption" and "distortion" of a pristine, original "ur-text" or hypothetical "lost Q" ("Quelle", German for "source"), hypothesized via stemmatology. Thus the work of Parry and Lord reduced the prominence of the historic-geographic method in folkloristics.
Tragically, Parry was killed in a pistol-accident. His work was posthumously published by his son Adam Parry as The Making of Homeric Verse (Oxford: Clarendon, 1971). Lord, however, had meanwhile published The Singer of Tales (1960), a work which summarized both Parry's response to the Homeric Question, and the joint work he had done with Parry in the Balkans. The Parry-Lord work exercised great influence on other scholars, notably Francis P. Magoun, whose application of their model to Anglo-Saxon traditions demonstrated the explicative and problem-solving power of the theory – a process that would be repeated by other scholars in numerous independent traditions (see below).
|I style the orality of a culture totally untouched by any knowledge of writing or print, 'primary orality'. It is 'primary' by contrast with the 'secondary orality' of present-day high technology culture, in which a new orality is sustained by telephone, radio, television and other electronic devices that depend for their existence and functioning on writing and print. Today primary culture in the strict sense hardly exists, since every culture knows of writing and has some experience of its effects. Still, to varying degrees many cultures and sub-cultures, even in a high-technology ambiance, preserve much of the mind-set of primary orality.
Ong's works also made possible an integrated theory of oral tradition which accounted for both production of content (the chief concern of Parry-Lord theory) and its reception. This approach, like McLuhan's, kept the field open not just to the study of aesthetic culture but to the way physical and behavioral artifacts of oral societies are used to store, manage and transmit knowledge, so that oral tradition provides methods for investigation of cultural differences, other than the purely verbal, between oral and literate societies.
The most-often studied section of Orality and Literacy concerns the "psychodynamics of orality" This chapter seeks to define the fundamental characteristics of 'primary' orality and summarizes a series of descriptors (including but not limited to verbal aspects of culture) which might be used to index the relative orality or literacy of a given text or society.
The bibliography would establish a clear underlying methodology which accounted for the findings of scholars working in the separate Linguistics fields (primarily Ancient Greek, Anglo-Saxon and Serbo-Croatian). Perhaps more importantly, it would stimulate conversation among these specialties, so that a network of independent but allied investigations and investigators could be established.
Foley's key works include The Theory of Oral Composition (1988); Immanent Art (1991); Traditional Oral Epic: The Odyssey, Beowulf and the Serbo-Croatian Return-Song (1993); The Singer of Tales in Performance (1995); Teaching Oral Traditions (1998); How to Read an Oral Poem (2002). His Pathways Project (2006-) draws parallels between the media dynamics of oral traditions and the Internet.
At the same time, the fairly rigid division between oral and literate was replaced by recognition of transitional and compartmentalized texts and societies, including models of diglossia (Brian Stock Franz Bäuml, and Eric Havelock). Perhaps most importantly, the terms and concepts of "orality" and "literacy" came to be replaced with the more useful and apt "traditionality" and "textuality." Very large units would be defined (The Indo-European Return Song) and areas outside of military epic would come under investigation: women's song, riddles." and other genres.
The methodology of oral tradition now conditions an large variety of studies, not only in folklore, literature and literacy, but in philosophy, communication theory, Semiotics, and including a very broad and continually expanding variety of languages and ethnic groups, , and perhaps most conspicuously in biblical studies , in which Werner Kelber has been especially prominent. ; the annual bibliography is indexed by 100 areas, most of which are ethnolinguistic divisions.
Present developments explore the implications of the theory for rhetoric and composition, interpersonal communication, cross-cultural communication, postcolonial studies, rural community development, popular culture and film studies, and many other areas. The most significant areas of theoretical development at present may be the construction of systematic hermeneutics and aesthetics specific to oral traditions.
There were disputes concerning particular findings of the theory. For example, those trying to support or refute Crowne's hypothesis found the "Hero on the Beach" formula in numerous Old English poems. It was also discovered in other works of Germanic origin, Middle English poetry, and even an Icelandic prose saga. J.A. Dane, in an article characterized as "polemics without rigor claimed that the appearance of the theme in Ancient Greek poetry, a tradition without known connection to the Germanic, invalidated the notion of "an autonomous theme in the baggage of an oral poet."
Within Homeric studies specifically, Lord's The Singer of Tales, which focused on problems and questions that arise in conjunction with applying oral-formulaic theory to problematic texts such as the Iliad, Odyssey, and even Beowulf, influenced nearly all of the articles written on Homer and oral-formulaic composition thereafter. However, in response to Lord, Geoffrey Kirk published "The Songs of Homer," questioning Lord's extension of the oral-formulaic nature of Serbian and Croatian literature (the area from which the theory was first developed) to Homeric epic. Kirk argues that Homeric poems differ from those traditions in their "metrical strictness," "formular system[s]", and creativity. In other words, Kirk argued that Homeric poems were recited under a system that gave the reciter much more freedom to choose words and passages to get to the same end than the Serbo-Croatian poet, who was merely "reproductive". Shortly thereafter, Eric Havelock's Preface to Plato revolutionized how scholars looked at Homeric epic by arguing not only that it was the product of an oral tradition, but also that the oral-formulas contained therein served as a way for ancient Greeks to preserve cultural knowledge across many different generations. Adam Parry, in his 1966 work "Have we Homer's Iliad?", theorized the existence of the most fully developed oral poet to his time, a person who could (at his discretion) creatively and intellectually create nuanced characters in the context of the accepted, traditional story. In fact, he discounted the Serbo-Croatian tradition to an "unfortunate" extent, choosing to elevate the Greek model of oral-tradition above all others. Lord reacted to Kirk's and Parry's essays with "Homer as Oral Poet," published in 1968, which reaffirmed Lord's belief in the relevance of Yugoslav poetry and its similarities to Homer and downplayed the intellectual and literary role of the reciters of Homeric epic.
Many of the criticisms of the theory have been absorbed into the evolving field as useful refinements and modifications. For example, in what Foley called a "pivotal" contribution, Larry Benson introduced the concept of "written-formulaic" to describe the status of some Anglo-Saxon poetry which, while demonstrably written, contains evidence of oral influences, including heavy reliance on formulas and themes A number of individual scholars in many areas continue to have misgivings about the applicability of the theory or the aptness of the South Slavic comparison, and particularly what they regard as its implications for the creativity which may legitimately be attributed to the individual artist. However, at present, there seems to be little systematic or theoretically coordinated challenge to the fundamental tenets of the theory; as Foley put it, ""there have been numerous suggestions for revisions or modifications of the theory, but the majority of controversies have generated further understanding.


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