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Episode PremiereNovember 03, 1996
GenreAnimation, Comedy
Show Period1989 - now
Production CompanyFOX, Gracie Films, Film Roman Productions
Cast and Crew
DirectorMike B. Anderson
ScreenwriterMatt Groening, James L. Brooks
Main Cast
- Dan Castellaneta as Homer Simpson (voice)
- Julie Kavner
- Nancy Cartwright as Bart Simpson (voice)
- Yeardley Smith
- Harry Shearer
- Hank Azaria as Chief Wiggum / Moe Szyslak (voice)
- Pamela Hayden
- Tress MacNeille
- Karl Wiedergott
Additional Cast
- Sally Stevens
- Albert Brooks as Jacques/Tab Spangler/Hank Scorpio/Brad Goodman/Cowboy Bob (voice)
A charismatic yet secretive businessman named Hank Scorpio enlists Homer to work for Globex Corporation. Homer likes Scorpio's casual, laid-back management style and accepts the job, moving his family to Cypress Creek, where Globex is located. As Homer learns the ropes of his new job, life in Cypress Creek for Marge is so uneventful that she takes to drink to pass the day. Bart and Lisa are having a tough time as well: Lisa is allergic to nearly all the plants in the nearby forest and Bart is placed in a special class for slow kids in his new school. Homer is still convinced that Cypress Creek is the place for him and that Hank Scorpio is the boss of his dreams.


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Specialty Reports, Inc. Announces Continued Domestic And International Sales Growth For Its Online Vehicle History Reports PR Newswire NEW YORK, May 1, 2013 NEW YORK, May 1, 2013 /PRNewswire/ --Specialty Reports, Inc., a subsidiary of Sparta Commercial Services, Inc. (OTCQB: SRCO), reported today that the continuing sales growth for its Cyclechex Motorcycle History Report product (www.cyclechex.com) and its RVChecks History Report product (www.rvchecks.com) have seen an average year over year increase of more than 17% from April, 2012 to April, 2013. The vehicle history reports group of SRI has now sold its online history reports not only in all fifty states and the District of Columbia, but also in forty-six other countries, the latest of which include Belgium, Colombia, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Malaysia, Philippines, Peru, Spain, Switzerland, Ukraine, and the United Arab Emirates. With the simple entry of a vehicle's seventeen digit Vehicle Identification Number (VIN), and a modest fee, the system can inform consumers, dealers, insurers, lenders, manufacturers, credit unions, and any other interested party of any reported Salvage or Rebuilt title brands, the most recent reported mileage, and other valuable information, regardless of the vehicle's country of origin. For retail dealers or private parties selling a motorcycle or recreational vehicle, the online history report is a powerful tool, demonstrating to any prospective buyer the vehicle's actual history, and thereby assuring a level of comfort for the buyer. Given the fact that these types of pre-owned vehicles can be quite expensive, a history report is becoming a virtual necessity for any potential buyer. Additionally, any financial institution that is considering a loan for the purchase of a pre-owned vehicle is well served with a vehicle history report that can more fully inform them as they make their credit decision. Similarly, retail dealers, insurers, manufacturers, and others are also aided by detailed vehicle history reports to support their respective interests. In addition to being available at www.DMV.org and via dealerships across the country, the Specialty Reports, Inc. vehicle history reports are also available at www.NADAguides.com and www.kbb.com, the two most prominent online sources for pre-owned vehicle values. These relationships have proven to be extremely productive for the company's marketing efforts in support of its vehicle history reports products. About Sparta Commercial Services, Inc. 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In a programmable integrated circuit device, a pad interface structure is provided in which the number of pads connected to the interface structure is selectively changed without redesigning the interface structure or redesigning the chip interior.
1. A layout of an integrated circuit chip comprising:
a plurality of input/output blocks positioned around the perimeter of said integrated circuit chip;
a core logic region positioned away from said perimeter;
an interface region positioned between said plurality of input/output blocks and said core logic region, said interface region including
first lines connectable to said core logic region and extending into said input/output blocks, and
second lines connectable to said core logic region, pairs of said second lines being connected together in said interface region, each line of said pair of second lines being connectable to the same portions of said core logic region as one of said first lines;
whereby said integrated circuit chip layout can be replaced by an integrated circuit chip layout having a smaller core logic region by decreasing the number of said input/output blocks positioned around the perimeter and altering said interface region to replace pairs of said first lines with pairs of said second lines.
This application is a division of application Ser. No. 08/221,679, filed Apr. 1, 1994.
This application relates to the following concurrently filed and commonly assigned co-pending U.S. patent applications:
1. Ser. No. 08/222,138 invented by Danesh Tavana, Wilson K. Yee, and Victor A. Holen entitled "TILE BASED ARCHITECTURE FOR FPGA",
2. Ser. No. 08/223,391 invented by Wilson K. Yee entitled "FIELD PROGRAMMABLE GATE ARRAY PROVIDING CONTENTION FREE CONFIGURATION AND RECONFIGURATION",
3. Ser. No. 08/223,083 invented by Wilson K. Yee entitled "A PROGRAMMABLE SCAN-CHAIN TESTING STRUCTURE AND METHOD",
4. Ser. No. 08/223,247 invented by Lawrence C. Hung and Charles R. Erickson entitled "A PROGRAMMABLE LOGIC DEVICE INCLUDING A PARALLEL INPUT DEVICE FOR LOADING MEMORY CELLS", and
5. Ser. No. 08/222,141 invented by Lawrence C. Hung entitled A PROGRAMMABLE LOGIC DEVICE WITH PARTIALLY CONFIGURABLE MEMORY CELLS AND A METHOD FOR CONFIGURATION",
all of which are incorporated herein by reference.
The invention relates to input/output pad structures for integrated circuit devices, and more particularly to pad-limited integrated circuit devices.
Pads are metal contacts usually at the perimeter of a device which are manufactured as part of the integrated circuit device and connected to selected internal wires. Metal wires or tape automated bonding lines are bonded to the pads to connect the integrated circuit device to external pins. Internal components of IC devices, such as transistors, metal lines, and vias, are increasingly becoming smaller. However, the size of the pads has not shrunk comparably to the sizes of these internal components. Thus many IC devices are pad limited, i.e. cannot become smaller in area irrespective of the shrinkage of internal components because the number and size of the pads require that the circuit be of a given size.
To minimize total chip area, pads are sometimes eliminated. If enough pads are eliminated, the device can be made smaller, but may have reduced functionality. Moreover, removing pads in a conventional field programmable gate array (FPGA) device is not a trivial task, and typically requires a new layout of the device, or even architectural changes. The physical layout dependence between pads and logic elements remains a significant impediment to technology migration (downward scaling of geometries) since pad sizes don't shrink in correspondence to logic cell sizes and line widths.
FPGAs provide routing interconnect lines for connecting logic elements to pads and for interconnecting logic elements. Thus, routing congestion occurs at the perimeter of the chip due to routing signals between pads and the logic elements as well as routing signals in the interior of the chip between logic elements.
The present invention provides a pad interface cell between the pads and the logic cells of an integrated circuit device. The interface cell allows pads to be added to or removed from a design easily, and allows certain interconnect lines to be used for routing when no pad is present and to connect to a pad or pads if a pad is present.
With the present invention, when design rules shrink, only minor changes need be made at the periphery of the pad interface to remove connections to eliminated pads. There is no need for major redesign of the layout.
In one embodiment, the pad interface cell comprises a plurality of matrix interconnect lines which are crossed by a plurality of logic cell input and output lines and by lines for connecting the matrix interconnect lines of one cell to corresponding matrix interconnect lines of at least one other cell. Means are provided for connecting several pads to the matrix interconnect lines. In one embodiment, the means includes tristate buffers.
FIGS. 1A and 1B show two cell portions, differing in the size of logic cells, number of pads provided, and pad connections.
FIGS. 2A and 2B show two embodiments of the same pad interface, differing in the number of pads to which they connect.
FIG. 3 illustrates a tile-based embodiment of a pad interface structure which can be connected to identical structures above and below.
FIG. 1A shows a portion of a representative logic device 100 having logic elements or tiles such as T11, T12. In one embodiment, the FPGA combines logic elements which perform a programmable function with programmable routing. Detail of these tiles is described in concurrently filed copending patent application Ser. No. 08/222,138. Logic device 100 further includes pads such as P1 through P10 for providing input and output signals and power and ground pads VCC and GND for providing power to the integrated circuit device. Power and ground pad connections to the interior of logic device 100 are well known to those skilled in the art, and therefore are not shown in FIG. 1A.
According to the invention, an input/output interface structure is provided between the pads and the internal logic elements. Specifically, the interconnect structure comprises a plurality of input/output interface cells such as IOI-1 through IOI-5, each connectable to predetermined logic elements T11 through T15, and to adjacent interface cells. They are further connectable, simply by changing a metal mask, to several adjacent pads. In one embodiment, each interface cell IOI-1, IOI-2, etc. is connectable at the mask design stage to up to four pads.
Because the interface cells are programmably connectable to each other, it is possible to connect any pad to its corresponding interface cell and through the interface structure to any one of a plurality of tiles interior to the array. This structure has the advantage that if the relative size of the tiles such as T11 and the interface cells such as IOI-1 changes with respect to the relative size or position of the pads, the layout of the new design requires a change only in the connections from the interface structure to the pads. Furthermore, the interface structure allows for additional programmable wiring, for example from one pad to another pad, or from one logic element to another logic element.
Referring to FIG. 1A, pads P1, P2, and P3 are connected to input/output interface cell IOI-1. Pad P4 is connected to interface cell IOI-2. In another embodiment of the present invention shown in FIG. 1B, pad P3 is removed, thereby leaving interface cell IOI-1 connected to only two pads, P1 and P2. Note that the sizes of the logic tiles and interface structures have been shrunk with respect to FIG. 1A, but that the size of the pads has not been shrunk. The ease of this adjustment will be further understood from FIGS. 2A and 2B below.
As a second change in converting to FIG. 1B, Pad P10 is connected to interface IOI-6, whereas in FIG. 1A, pad P10 was connected to interface cell IOI-5. By taking advantage of the connection means within the interface cells, pad P10 can still be connected to logic cell T15 and others, if desired.
FIG. 2A shows in detail one embodiment of the interface structure. In FIG. 2A are interface cells IOI-1 and IOI-2 (FIGS. 1A and 1B). In this embodiment, lines T11-1 through T11-12 and T12-1 through T12-12 at the left of interconnect matrices M-1 and M-2 extend to the left to connect to logic cells T11 and T12, as shown in FIGS. 1A and 1B. Lines extending between adjacent interconnect cells IOI-1 and IOI-2 include short lines S1 through S9 that extend between two adjacent interconnect cells only, and longer lines, for example lines Q1 through Q4, that extend the length of several interface cells. In one embodiment, long lines Q1 through Q4 extend the length of the chip thereby providing fast connection means for routing signals from one side of the chip to the other. In this embodiment, a global line G1 extends through both the core tiles such as T11 and the entire ring of interface cells such as IOI-1 in a chip, for distributing global signals such as clock and reset signals.
Selected intersections of horizontal and vertical line segments within the boundaries of interconnect matrices M-1 and M-2 include programmable interconnections, which may be formed from N-channel MOS transistors or antifuses, for example. By selectively programming the programmable interconnections, a user creates a path from a pad to any of the internal logic elements. For example, referring to FIG. 2A, to connect pad P1 to line T11-12, (which leads to logic element T11 and other logic elements T21 and T31 in the same row) the programmable interconnect point between the vertically extending output line B1OUT from buffer B1 of matrix M-1 and horizontal line H4 of matrix M-1 is programmed to form an interconnection, and the intersection between horizontal line H4 and vertical line T11-12 is programmed (see black dots showing programmed connection). With these two connections, a path is formed from pad P1 through input buffer IB1, through buffer B1 of matrix M-1, through the first interconnection point, onto horizontal line H4 of matrix M-1, through the second interconnection point, and onto line T11-12.
If it is desirable to connect pad P1 to line T12-1 leading to logic elements T12, T22 and others, horizontal line H4 is connected to short segment S4, short segment S4 is connected to, for example, horizontal segment H3 in matrix M-2, and horizontal segment H3 is connected to vertical line T12-1 leading to logic element T12. For this connection from pad P1 to line T12-1, the path goes through input buffer IB1, through buffer B1 of matrix M-1, through the first interconnection point, onto horizontal line H4, through a second interconnection point to vertical short segment S4, through a third interconnection point to horizontal segment of matrix M-2 and onto segment T12-1 leading to logic element T12. Thus it can be seen that the interconnect cells such as shown in FIGS. 2A and 2B allow for programmable connection between pads in one part of the integrated circuit and logic elements in any other part of the circuit.
In the embodiments of the present invention shown in FIGS. 2A and 2B, the interiors of cells IOI-1 and IOI-2 are identical. However, if a design shrink occurs as assumed in FIG. 2B, the only necessary layout change between FIG. 2A and FIG. 2B (other than the shrink of logic elements T11, T12, etc. explained in detail in reference to FIG. 1B) is the number of pads and their connection to matrices M1 and M2. Specifically referring to FIG. 2A, pads P1, P2, and P3 are connected to interconnect matrix M-1 through lines L1a, L1b, L2a, L2b, L3a, and L3b, subscript "a" referring to input lines and subscript "b" referring to output lines. In this embodiment, lines L4a and L4b are shorted together, thereby providing further routing options in interconnection matrix M-1. In the interface cell IOI-2, only one pad, P4, is connected to interconnect matrix M-2 through lines L6a and L6b.
In FIG. 2B pad P3 is eliminated. Removal of pad P3 requires only the elimination of the pad from the pad mask area and shorting together lines L3A and L3B (instead of connecting these lines to pad P3 as was done in FIG. 2A). Thus, the amount of change in layout of a chip made to implement the circuit of FIG. 2B and one already previously designed to implement the circuit of FIG. 2A is quite small.
Interface cells IOI-1 and others in the interface system provide several additional advantages. Logic cells are selectively connected to each other either through short lines, such as lines S1 through S9, or through longer length lines, such as lines Q1-Q4. Alternatively or additionally, pads may be connected to each other through these same lines.
As a further advantage, buffers B1 through B4, which are controlled by high-impedance-control line TS1, may be controlled through one of the horizontal lines H1 through H17 to apply buffer output signals to other selected horizontal lines H1 through H17 and thence to vertical lines such as Q1 through Q4. By similarly connecting buffers B1 through B4 to lines Q1 through Q4 which extend to adjacent interface cells, and using tristate control line TS1 in each of the adjacent interface cells to provide an enable signal for a bus control line, lines Q1 through Q4 then serve as a bus. In other embodiments, lines of other lengths and/or numbers of tristate buffers are provided.
FIG. 3 shows a structure according to one embodiment of the invention. In this embodiment, four pads PV, PZ, PY, and PX and related input/output buffer structures IOBV, IOBZ, IOBY, and IOBX are shown adjacent and to the right of input/output interface structure 105. However, as indicated by the dashed lines, pad PZ and input/output buffer structure IOBZ are not connected to interface structure 105, and in fact are not provided in the actual chip. Input line IZ and output line OZ are connected together, and tristate control line TSX is left unconnected.
Input/output buffer structure IOBV is shown in detail and includes an electrostatic discharge protection structure ESDV, input and output buffers IB and OB, and multiplexers for selecting polarity and amount of delay. Commonly owned copending patent application Ser. No. 08/058,189 describes an ESD protection circuit appropriate for this use and is incorporated herein by reference.
Interface structure 105 connects to other tiles (not shown), just as interface structures IOI-1 through IOI-6 of FIG. 1B connect to tiles T11 through T16, respectively. In the drawing of FIG. 3, lines which extend to the top, left, and bottom edges of interface structure 105 abut with lines on neighboring tiles. Interface structure 105 includes two representations of programmable interconnection points. Small open circles represent programmable means for interconnecting the crossing lines in which signal flow may be in either direction. Small triangles at intersections indicate programmable connections at the crossing lines in which signal flow is onto the line pointed to by the tip of the triangle. Possible interconnection means include pass transistors, EPROM cells, or antifuses. In one embodiment using pass transistors, the gates of these transistors are controlled by memory cells or latches. In this embodiment, tiles above and below tile 105 have identical structures, but differ in the number of pad interconnections provided. Lines LV0 through LV7 are long lines extending from one interface tile 105 to the next, whereas lines N0 through N7 are short lines for connecting to lines S0 through S7, respectively, in adjacent tiles. Lines LH0 through LH7 provide long line connections through several tiles such as T11, T21, and T31 (FIGS. 1A or 1B) to the left while lines such as W1 through W11 connect to the next adjacent tile to the left, such as T11. Thus, pads connected to interface structure 105 can be connected by interface structure 105 either to tiles to the left or to tiles above and below interface structure 105.
Thus, the present invention significantly simplifies forming different sizes of integrated circuit devices. Specifically, changing number of pad connections to the logic elements or tiles requires changes only in the interface structure of FIG. 3. Thus, any number pads in this embodiment up to four, are selectively connected to any one interface structure 105. Significantly, no redesign of the interior of the chip is required beyond changing the number of logic elements included.
In light of the above description, many other embodiments of this invention can be envisioned by those skilled in the art.
The present invention is set forth in the appended claims.
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This workshop is intended for those familiar with UBlearns. The session features demonstrations but does not include hands-on activities. Featured content includes migrating UBlearns grade center grades into HUB web grading, capturing course content and student interactions prior to enrollments being disabled, student access to past semester courses, Course Setup tool functionality, UB's data management policy and course copy utility.
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King Edward VII and his family
1 portrait of Princess Louise, Duchess of Fife
© National Portrait Gallery, London
King Edward VII and his family
by James Russell & Sons
albumen carte-de-visite, July 1867
2 1/4 in. x 3 3/8 in. (57 mm x 86 mm) image size
Given by Algernon Graves, 1916
Photographs Collection
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- Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence and Avondale (1864-1892), Eldest son of Edward VII. Sitter in 111 portraits.
- Queen Alexandra (1844-1925), Queen of Edward VII. Sitter associated with 436 portraits, Artist associated with 10 portraits.
- King Edward VII (1841-1910), Reigned 1901-1910. Sitter associated with 447 portraits.
- King George V (1865-1936), Reigned 1910-36. Sitter in 401 portraits.
- Princess Louise, Duchess of Fife (1867-1931), Princess Royal; wife of 6th Earl of Fife, later Duke of Fife; daughter of King Edward VII. Sitter in 90 portraits.
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Within six years of marriage the Prince and Princess of Wales had five children. Motherhood enhanced Alexandra's popularity with the British public and brought her closer to the Queen Victoria, who had created a more domestic public image for the monarchy. The portrait of Alexandra carrying Princess Louise on her back became the most popular photograph ever made in England, selling 300,000 copies.
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|Mr. 9
|Japanese Name:
|Romanized Name:
|Misutā Nain
|Official English Name:
|Mr. 9
|Chapter 103; Episode 62[1]
|Baroque Works[1] (former)
|Baroque Works Frontier Agent (former); Bounty Hunter
|Mr. 9[1]
|Japanese VA:
|Yasuhiro Takato
|Odex English VA:
|Brian Zimmerman
|4Kids English VA:
|Michael Sinterniklaas
|Funi English VA:
|Chris Patton
Mr. 9 is a bounty hunter and Miss Wednesday's former assigned partner during her infiltration of Baroque Works.[1] He is one of the main antagonists of the Reverse Mountain Arc.
Mr. 9 is a middle aged man donned with long red hair with a crown on top, and his agent number is written on his cheeks. He wears green royal clothes along with an ornate red scarf. His attire makes him look like a prince or a king, even though it is false.
After two years, his hair is much longer, and he has grown a mustache. He wears a different, longer scarf, and he has erased his agent numbers. His clothes also look different from his previous ones.[2]
His favorite phrase is "Bye bye, baby"; his last words to Miss Wednesday before he attempts to hold off Mr. 5. Unlike Officer Agents, who believe that friendship is a sign of weakness, Mr. 9 is shown to value friendship and loyalty highly since he fought for Vivi to allow her to escape.
Abilities and PowersEdit
Mr. 9 was skilled enough to become a Frontier Agent. He uses his metal bats in conjunction with his acrobatic skills to deal damage to foes. His body is quite flexible, as he is able to perform several acrobatic jumps and cartwheels. Despite this, he is a weak foe; his acrobatics being useless against Officer Agents such as Mr. 5 and is clumsy enough to fall off a building unprovoked while fighting Zoro.
Mr. 9 wields two steel bats, a pun as he uses his bats in conjunction with his "acrobatics". With the momentum generated from his acrobatics, they can be quite powerful. He also hides steel ropes within them, normally used to subdue foes, as shown when he was fighting against Zoro. However, it was used against him, causing his defeat. He also used a bazooka during the Reverse Mountain Arc. He was also seen wielding a pistol, when first introduced.
- Nekketsu Nine Konjo Bat (熱血ナイン根性バット Nekketsu Nain Konjō Batto?, Hot Blooded Bat of Guts): A pair of steel bats which, when coupled with his acrobatics, create a powerful close-combat attack.
- Kattobase Shikomi Bat (カッ飛ばせ仕込みバット Kattobase Shikomi Batto?, Home-Run Hide-A-Bat): His other attack, which uses the steel rope inside the bats which to simply bind the opponent. This attack had little effect on Roronoa Zoro and Mr. 5. In the anime, rope was replaced with chain.
Whiskey Peak ArcEdit
He and Vivi (known as Miss Wednesday at the time) meet the Straw Hat Pirates during the Reverse Mountain Arc while trying to kill Laboon to be used as food for their bounty hunting partners at Whiskey Peak. The Straw Hats gave them a ride later after they accidentally lost their Log Pose.
After Vivi was exposed by Mr. 5 and Miss Valentine, Mr. 9 tried to hold them off to allow her to escape as he had grown fond of Vivi during their time together, declaring that they were still partners (effectively placing their loyalty to one another before loyalty to Baroque Works, an act frowned upon by Mr. 5). Unfortunately, Mr. 5 apparently hits him with a Nose Cannon attack that knocked Mr. 9 into a river.
Two Years LaterEdit
Mr. 9 is shown two years later alive and well, still living in Whiskey Peak. He had a child with Miss Monday and is seen playing with the infant by throwing him in the air with his baseball bats.[2]
Major BattlesEdit
- Mr. 9 vs. Roronoa Zoro
- Mr. 9 vs. Mr. 5
Video GamesEdit
Playable AppearancesEdit
Enemy AppearancesEdit
- In a character poll, Mr. 9 is currently ranked the 122nd most popular character in One Piece.
- The Mr. 9 pair has a "performing" theme with dancing and acrobatics.
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 One Piece Manga and Anime — Vol. 12 Chapter 103 (p. 8) and Episode 62, Mister 9 is introduced.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 One Piece Manga — Vol. 64 Chapter 632, cover story: From the Decks of the World Vol. 17, After the time skip, still living in Whiskey Peak with his wife Miss Monday.


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Joined: Jul 2007
Location: sunny SoCal
Oddometer: 2,329
I had to fish one out myself some time ago, twisted a length of safety wire and bent a hook at the end.
"If you want to fix it with a rock, you have to stick to stone-age technology" -Anton
"...solving the latest crisis that is preventing my Airhead from taking me to the bar." -Beater-
Joined: Jul 2008
Location: Melbourne
Oddometer: 1,070
Anyway, I've just done over 1,000km's (and some very hard km's at that) on it that way so I hope things are OK.
Maybe I should open it up and have another look at it though... thoughts welcome
Joined: Jul 2008
Location: Melbourne
Oddometer: 1,070
Got back last night, so here's a few photos from my little week long ride and camp.
It was a hot day when I left, something around 40C (104F).
I was heading somewhere very familiar and wanted to try a new-to-me road for part of the way... a very long dirt and gravel road (the back way between Marysville and Mansfield through Woods Point). I got out of the house late, had a long way to go, and by the time I finally got onto this road I realised I was pushing things to make my destination in time, so I was going kinda quick. It was mostly a nice fast dirt road, with the only problem being the rapid approach of unavoidable (at that speed) deep potholes and nasty corrugations. I'm looking forward to 'tootling' along this road again on the R90 at a relaxing pace exploring some of the very many campsites, but would not consider doing it again with those time (speed) requirements and luggage load.
My bar end mirrors had soon shaken loose (in spite of the locktite on the offending bolts) and soon after amongst a range of other undiagnosed new noises I had broken the forward mount on my right side pannier- lucky for pannier straps
anyway, in spite of very few photos on the way up it was a nice long day of riding.
one of many essential stops to recharge the airconditioning and refill the camelback- this one a lovely high altitude mountain stream with icy cool water
many hours and km's later I had located my friends 'secret island' and was just about to walk into here for a nice relaxing swim.
I had a beer for the first time in 5 months, followed by a few more, some single malt, etc, etc, Good times.
As the wier water was falling, once the island was no longer an island the R90 settled into the grass and enjoyed the fresh air
Activities involved swimming, fishing, sailing on my friends lovely boat he built, more drinking, and so on. Most nights and days were also sweetened by some excellent live music (steel string and acoustic guitars and violin and vocals) by a few of the very talented people I was camping with.
there was time to look at the small things (Jewel Spider)
time to ponder and build some bigger things such as a woodfire pizza oven,
it took a lot of stone, some steel rebar and wire, digging, mud and grass but man this thing works very well. Next year, if it is still standing, it will probably be full of broken glass and rubbish and bullet holes... but one can live in hope.
and plenty of time to cook and smoke things in the oven
A few of the many unlucky Redfin (Perca fluviatilis) I caught. Great eating fish, and now classified as a class 1 noxious fish (you cannot legally throw them back). Not bad smoked either.
Just a random shot of home base nestled in the Elms, going through an unnatural autumn because of the falling water and heat. Between my arriving and leaving the trees had lost nearly half their leaves.
after many lovely days and nights with a nice day ride in the middle it was time to go home.
It is always tempting in the hot summer times to not bring wet weather gear- even though I only had leather gloves luckily I did bring my goretex and eVent pants and jacket liners- I got absolutely drenched on the way back for 3 hours or so of very limited visibility riding as I came up to and then crossed the mountains (after Whitfield).
So, while I was very wet, chilled, and a bit harrowed having done some very twisty roads in dumping rain and mist with a near bald rear tyre... at least it gave the bike a good wash for her last photos.
Once I had dried and warmed up again exploring a few side tracks a couple of hours from home
Once again I've had a great ride on the R90. She is really such a beautiful touring road bike and handles the dirt and gravel surprisingly well... however, I am really looking forward to getting the G/S done. Those particular potholes and corrugations were brutal and though the nice surface dirt straights and friendly camber sweepers are a blast, the funky tight stuff on road tyres and near-stock suspension can get a bit uncomfortable if not scary.
Time to get back to work, and back to work on the G/S,
Happy new year
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Looks like a nice way to spend a few days, Hans!
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Your camp looks amazing. Pizza oven and smoked fish! Wow.
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almost perfect but....
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thanks folks,
Jenna, the weak link in my R90 luggage was the pannier itself- I'd already made extensive repairs with ABS glue and new plastic, metal and rivets, but this road was its undoing. Not sure what I'll do, probably just a beefier repair like the last one for the moment- later on I might look into a set of aluminium boxes for it as well.
igormortis, cheers, it was a great camp which I was lucky enough to arrive at already set-up. It was good fun making that oven and a good learning experience. For hot-smoking that oven is brilliant, and with a bit of care and attention could probably be rigged up for cold smoking as well. For pizza it needed a lid over the front which was fabricated out of some corrugated iron- and some big ceramic floor tiles on top of the metal hotplate- temperatures were checked with a oven thermometer and it was very controllable from very low to anywhere over 300C.
OLH, no worries about that. Comparitively speaking, in Australia 'responsible moderate drinkers' put a lot of foreign alchoholics to shame especially on holidays like this. There were something like 4-5 eskies (coolers, chilly billies, whatever you call them) full of cold beer amongst other things. Most of this beer was a range of different home brew numbers in different styles and vintages. Excellent stuff. Someone was usually doing a run into town (or home nearby) to pick up more ice and beer (and usually single malt) on a daily basis... and of course return another boot load of empty beer bottles
back to work tomorrow, unfortunately, but now I'm off to buy a bit more hydraulic pipe so that I have the supplies to play in my spare time,
Fortunately my neighbours are pretty forgiving and don't seem to mind me cutting and grinding metal until quite late, so I'll be trying to get this stuff done after working hours,
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You poor bugger - no tellyHow did you keep up with the Xfactor? Smart phone?
If you start saving now next year you'll be able to stay at a motel.
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Hi Hans ... I'm assuming that was Camp Charlie ? Very nice indeed Do you by any chance have some less artistic photos of the boat ?....perhaps something showing the whole ?
and the R90,"Princess ? "is a real beauty ...she's gonna be sad when all the cobwebs grow over her when the g/s comes online! Much as I like Tilly that girl is a beauty !
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yes that was camp Charlie and his boat Fanny which is a real beauty in looks and sailing ability. Unfortunately I didn't take many photos and I don't seem to have anything showing the whole boat. Charlie is going to send me some of the photos he took so I'll shoot you some by email if there are any better ones in that bunch.
The R90 is a lovely girl. I do feel a little guilty though thrashing her across corrugated potholed dirt roads with full load on her back. I feel that at this point in her life she deserves a little bit better treatment! A lot of the time I suspect that I will be unable to sell her when the time comes... we'll see how that goes...
I'll be putting her on club plates this year (which will get me a maximum of 90 days a year (legally) riding it. In fact rego is due now. Bugger. I can barely afford having the car and the bike rego'd and once the G/S comes online it will be stupid. Club plating the R90 will put the pressure on getting the G/S ready- which I may just put on club plates as well to see how that works out- which if I am riding a lot in a year will make me use both bikes... so hopefully cobwebs won't be a problem.
anyway, sorry, no non-arty shots of the boat.
I'll give you an arty shot (from my 5 year old mobile phone camera) of my first day back at work today instead
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Thanks Hans...I've heard about Charlie's boat on the WBF but have never seen a photo ...please excuse my nasty arty photo comment a bit slack ......
Club rego is something I should investigate cos I really don't get the time to ride, well not as much as I'd like . It's the third party insurance that is the killer here in NSW . $490 this year .The rego was a pittance by comparison .
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Hey, no offense taken whatsoever Peter.
I used to take arty photos as my primary passion- and as it happens I'm usually pretty hopeless at taking good old ordinary photos that are good at showing people things
I'll soon be embracing the digital age and getting myself a digi camera that I am actually happy putting in the effort with again.
I didn't know Charlie had been so modest about his lovely boat... but now that I know I am glad I have perpetuated the mystery. You're just going to have to make it down one day soon to have a look for yourself
About club rego- yep worth looking into.
The R90 costs me $577 a year to keep on the road fully registered, and my 4x4 $641. Thats with the compulsory third party insurance included. Both are due next month
The club permit thing costs a membership to the club (IIRC anywhere from $50-100 a year I think unless you qualify for pensioner rate or something) and then $66 for a 45 day rego (availble twice in year) or $130 for a 90 day rego (only available once in a year) (used any days of the year you want).
My two bikes and my BJ42 all qualify for club rego- I could keep them all rego'd on club plates, including the club fees for a lot cheaper than fully registering only one of them... if driving 90 days and riding 180 a year isn't enough... well... I'd just have to get another bike then wouldn't I and club registering that as well (ie, 4 vehicles) would still be cheaper than only registering my car and would give me 360 days a year of potential driving or riding. It's madness.
I'm looking forward to a different job where I don't need to lug tools so I can ride to work and then I may just go down this path (club registering all my vehicles).
And there's a bit of thread drift.
Back on track, I'm happy, but my wallet is not, that I've wound up with a day off tomorrow. Hopefully some time to play with the welder,
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Well, a package arrived this morning. Thanks Solo
One of the things in it (aside from my Slavens custom wound springs for the new front end) was a set of used white brothers stainless footpegs.
I got them on US ebay pretty cheap and from looking at online photos and comparing angles and whatnot I figured I might be able to make them work on the G/S. A total gamble really.
these are the kind of footpegs (these ones pictured are actually ti-pro but my version are stainless)
Now, getting them in my hands and lining them up with the bike it did indeed look like they could be made to work with minimal efffort.
for a simple bolt on swap all you need to do is to shorten this a little
and then they fit in the G/S footpeg bracket thing in quite an adequate position
compared to the stock one
it is not quite that simple though-
there are a range of ways it could be done, but for my purposes (not altering the bike frame aside from overdrilling the bolt hole a tiny bit) a bit of metal also had to be added here (this is before it got welded on) to allow the footpeg stop to work properly,
like I said, that could be done other ways that didn't require welding.
Now this was all OK and might be just fine for someone else, but as the footpeg is wider it had kind of moved forward a little while staying at the same height- I wanted to lower the footpegs a little bit if I could...
if we look again at how they were before,
I chopped off those sleeves and rewelded them on the bottom, (the one on the right looks particularly ugly because that was the one I had already shortened and after slicing it off I had some metal to build back up- and then I had to grind the weld to get the spring back over it)
At this point they've also had their stops packed out and welded on,
now the new comparison with the new position
old footpeg again
now the altered white brothers in its new position
As you can see the footpegs are now lower than stock (and compared to the previous position a little bit further back)-
Not a lot lower than the stock peg, but the difference is noticable, and there is not interference with anything or any permanant mods that need to be made- the brake pedal the shifter actually feel like they will work fine in the positions they are in with no adjustment- but a little tweaking won't be a problem anyway.
with a little bit of 'massaging' the springs that came with the white brothers work like they were made for this appication- and by swapping from left to right will work fine in either the first option or my cut and re-welded lowered option. The footpegs spring back and forward just like the stock ones.
The position feels great, not a huge lowering but a good improvement and compared to my 90/6 my legs and knees are much more comfortable. With raised handlebars I may actually be able to stand on the pegs (with a positive effect on handling) which will be nice for a change.
These footpegs feel really good- they are wide and long and seriously grip, with the raised center strip you can kind of pivot forward and back and with their width and length you can shift your feet around a fair bit (good for long rides for me because my legs hurt). They feel very nice to stand on.
For me they are a massive improvement from stock.
In the end this was a pretty cheap upgrade for me, and with the TIG and my who-cares-how-it-looks welding 'skills' it was a pretty easy modification... I am getting a little sick of the smell of burning powdercaot though
Of course, the only testing I've been able to do is on the centre stand in the shed making bbrrrmmm bbrrrmmmmmn noises, so the we'll see how they go in the real world at a later date
P.S. on an interesting note, while I was down at my metal recyclers today trying to find a bit of stainless for moving that sleeve from the bottom to the top of the peg (before I gave up and just used the bits I had cut off) these footpegs seriously failed the 'stainless test' of magnetism. They are seriously magnetic- just as much as mild steel. NOT stainless says my very friendly metal recycler- just use mild steel... that can't be right I think as I walk out, I was sure these things were meant to be stainless... and the polished bits... not way this was mild steel
Back at home the internet and a white brothers sales blurb told me that they are made out of 17-4 stainless which as it happens is very magnetic.
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Good bait indeed.
Sailing on the Hume dam was interesting. I am actually a very lousy and unconfident sailer. I am much more a boat builder than a sailor. Given the hills and valleys and whatever else that effects it, the wind on the water there goes all over the place. Stops, starts, swings around, swings back... I am used to port phillip bay but that was challenging.
Load Tilly up and get on down here for a ride before it gets cold again
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I have been looking for a bike I can start using for CX (and I do not want to build it up), and I was wondering: the Surly or the Salsa?
This may be my first "real" bike, apart from some beaters and disposable x-mart mtbs driven through hell (and I regret even buying them), and changing into the best cycling sport the Midwest can offer: CX.
I'm thinking of swapping the Surly's derailleurs (front and rear) into some Deore LX's.
I like the Surly's capability as a frame, but I also want a mean, CX orientated machine.
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9 Days, 3000 Miles, Searching for Dirt and Mountains in New Mexico and Texas
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Day 3
DAY 3 (woot dirt!):
So our plan was to start out at around 7am and get an early start on the day to attack out aggressive schedule. I get outside and start packing only to discover we are in the middle of a cloud! Oh well, I cant go back to sleep when there is riding to be had!!!
We decide to wait out the fog but eventually say fuck it and start out for some gas and dirt! Here is another shot of Byrons rig. Note the neck brace on the seat, this guy means business!
In this shot Byron questions a guy with a muddy 4x4 about trail conditions in the area. Unfortunately he is from out of state and is in the same situation as us. His news about the conditions in Utah confirm our fears rain and snow! I am too busy filling my camelbak with fresh water, I am carrying 11.5 liters of water on myself and the bike at the moment. (Plus water purification tablets but supposedly they taste like shit).
The fog stays with us for quite a while, soaking us while we ride. I am wearing a good bit of layers to fight the cold. I dont really mind being cold but I am seriously trying to avoid getting sick (especially since Byron does not feel good).
This is our first taste of dirt, my mouth is watering, heart racing, this is exactly what I have been dreaming of for the past year! The obligatory pictures are in order, I would never leave you guys behind.
The fog produces a spectacular effect as we ride. I feel as though I am living a dream
How would you like to live out here in the desert? This house is not too far from town but definitely far enough to feel as though you are in the middle of nowhere.
If you guys didnt notice, in the middle of the above picture are some wild turkeys.
Few words can describe the feeling
We run into the first gate. Byron looks confused, he had called the local sheriff department to inquire about these roads and they assured him it is open. We take a few detours (awesome roads, sorry no pics) and even come on another dead end into another persons yard.
This was very surreal the old man on the porch eyes us and we stare longingly at the gate on the far side of the yard where the gps tells us the road must go. The road completely disappears beyond the gate and there is no use asking the old man to let us through. Some quick casual conversation and we turn around after he confirms there is no road past the gate.
Here is a picture of the first real gate, sorry no pics of the surreal old man and fading road.
Dont forget the dirty GS! This is what you get for following someone through the fog on a dirt road lol.
day 3 to be continued
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Back in the day I used Dunlop K70s
I just put up a thread about this.
I'm running Dunlop K70s on my R75/6 a 3.50x19 front, 4.00x18 rear
Here's essentially my review
I love them, used to ride on them back in the day, just bought my first set of then new ones. They are great tires, better then I had remembered. They do well on dirt, gravel roads, as well as on pavement. I wouldn't necessarily call them a true duel sport tire, or stick them on a GS, but for your bike I'd say they are pretty perfect. Since we don't have much mud out here I'm not running them in muddy conditions. If I did I imagine I'd have to raise the front fender.
I'm not sure what your going to be riding on but if I'm reading you right I think you'll be pretty pleased with that tire. You may want to consider increasing your front tire size to 3.50 for more grab on dirt, and I think the larger tire planes up better on the soft stuff.
Then again if you want a true dual sport tire.... I really like Shinko705s. I put them on my R65 bobber/chopper project (just the front in this pic)
That tire rides well on pavement, comes in sizes that will fit your bike, looks incredibly cool, and it will out perform your bike on dirt, on gravel, or off-road.
I can ride that bobber almost anywhere with those tires. It's only ground clearance that slows me down. My buddy Walt a true Dual sport aficionado got so excited when he saw mine, he instantly bought a set for his KTM. He's always riding offroad and loves them.
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Critical Essay by Stephen Criswell
SOURCE: "Okonkwo As Yeatsian Hero: The Influence of W. B. Yeats on Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart," in The Literary Criterion, Vol. XXX, No. 4, pp. 1-14.
In the following essay, Criswell traces thematic parallels between Things Fall Apart and Yeats's play On Baile's Strand, focusing on conceptual similarities that characterize the tragic hero in each work.
The title of Chinua Achebe's first novel, Things Fall Apart, is taken from W. B. Yeats's poem, "The Second Coming." Many critics, such as Judith Gleason and A. G. Stock, have commented on the influence of Yeats's view of history and time (his notion of the cyclical nature of existence symbolized by his "gyres," or intertwining cones, illustrated in such poems as "The Double Vision of Michael Robartes," "The Phases of the Moon," and "The Second Coming") on Achebe's novel. However, Chinua Achebe may have found in the writings of W. B. Yeats more than merely a shared view of the rise and fall of civilizations (as A. G. Stock suggests); it is possible that Achebe was influenced by the way Yeats utilized Irish folklore to dramatize his interpretation of the historical process. Yeats found the legends of the Irish hero, Cuchulainn, to be an especially useful vehicle for his cosmological paradigm and his notion of the tragic hero's place within that cosmology. One such legend, "The Death of Aife's One Son," seems to have served as the inspiration for certain events in Things Fall Apart. Several parallels between the Irish legend and Achebe's novel suggest that the Nigerian novelist was inspired by the "The Death of Aife's One Son" and, more specifically, by Yeats's version of the legend, and in comparing Yeats's play as well as certain poems with Achebe's novel, it appears that in creating Okonkwo, his novel's hero, Achebe has constructed an Igbo version of the Yeatsian tragic hero.
"The Death of Aife's One Son," from the Ulster cycle of Irish myths, legends, and tales, began as an orally-transmitted legend and was eventually recorded in the Yellow Book of Lecan (a fourteenth-century monastic manuscript) as one of the pre-tales, or remscela, of the Irish Epic, the Tain Bo Cuailnge (Kinsella x). The legend recounts an episode in the life of the Tain's hero, Cuchulainn, who according to Ulster legends was trained in arms in by Scathach, the warrior queen of Alba (Scotland). While under Scathach's tutelage, Cuchulainn aids his teacher in defeating a rival warrior queen, Aife, whom Cuchulainn defeats in single combat. In exchange for her life, Aife agrees to bear Cuchulainn's child. Cuchulainn returns to Ulster before the child is born, but before departing, he tells Aife to name the child Connla (or Conloach). He gives her a gold ring and tells her that when the boy's finger has grown to fit the ring, she must send him to Ulster.
Years pass, and Aife receives word that Cuchulainn has married someone else. Jealous, Aife vows to get revenge through her and Cuchulainn's son. She sends Connla, who by now has grown into a young man and, like his father, possesses extraordinary strength and ability, to Ulster. Before Connla leaves, Aife gives him three commands:
The first never to give way to any living person, but to die sooner than be made turn back; the second, not to refuse a challenge from the greatest champion alive, but to fight him at all risks, even if he [is] sure to lose his life; the third, not to tell anyone his name on any account, though he might be threatened with death for hiding it. (Gregory 658)
When Connla arrives on Ulster's shore, the high-king, Conchubar, sends one warrior after another to intercept the boy and get his name. When he refuses to reveal his name, the boy is challenged to single combat by the warriors, each of whom Connla easily defeats. Finally, Cuchulainn, seeing that the young man should prove to be a worthy opponent, challenges Connla. The two warriors fight equally in strength and skill, but Cuchulainn eventually uses his secret weapon, the gae bolga, the terrible javelin that only Cuchulainn can use. The gae bolga's blow is fatal, but before the young man dies, he reveals his name and shows his father the gold ring that Cuchulainn had given to Aife. Cuchulainn becomes maddened with rage and grief. Fearing that the crazed hero will turn on his fellow warriors, King Conchubar orders his druids to bewitch Cuchulainn into taking his rage out on the sea. The druids' spell takes hold of Cuchulainn, and he fights the waves for three days and nights until he is eventually exhausted.
W. B. Yeats retells this legend in his play, On Baile's Strand (1903), making several changes to the story in order to use the legend to dramatize his conception of history. In A Vision, which Yeats published in 1925, the poet outlines his complicated and at times mystical system of history. According to his system, history moves in cycles, or gyres, from objectivity (the "primary gyre") to subjectivity (the "antithetical gyre") and from subjectivity back to objectivity. The period of the subjective age emphasizes the individual, the heroic, passion, worldly glory, and human achievement; the objective age is marked by service to others, passivity, civil concerns, conformity, and uniformity. When the objective age reaches its zenith and soon begins its decline, the subjective age begins its ascension, and vice-versa. As Yeats explains in A Vision:
Each age unwinds the thread another age has wound, and it amuses one to remember that before Phidias, and his westward-moving art, Persia fell, and that when full moon came round again, amid east-ward moving thought, and brought Byzantine glory, Rome fell; and that at the outset of our westward-moving Renaissance Byzantium fell; all things dying each other's life, living each other's death. (271)
According to Yeats, as one civilization or age begins to fall (for example, the Greco-Roman period), an age or civilization with opposing or antithetical concerns (in this case, Christianity) begins to grow.
In On Baile's Strand Yeats reworks the legend of "The Death of Aife's One Son" to illustrate the decline of one age—the subjective age, represented by the self-determined, physically powerful Cuchulainn—and the rise of another—the objective age, represented by the civic-minded leader of the society, King Conchubar. While the plot of Yeats's play superficially follows the ancient Irish legend, Yeats makes specific deliberate alterations to the story. In his version, the story opens with Conchubar's having called Cuchulainn to a meeting of the kings of Ireland. Conchubar convinces Cuchulainn to swear obedience to him and his state. In the growing objective age, the subjective hero is feared and distrusted and must be brought under civil control. Conchubar explains to Cuchulainn:
Look at the door and what men gather there—
Old counselors that steer the land with me,
And younger kings, the dancers and harp-players
That follow in your tumults, and all of these
Are held there by one anxiety.
Will you be bound into obedience
And so make this land safe for them and theirs? (29)
Cuchulainn yields to Conchubar's command, reflecting on the days when men "praised whatever life could make the pulse run quickly," and realizing "that's all over" (32). Cuchulainn understands that the gyre of the heroic age is winding down.
The first order that Conchubar gives Cuchulainn is to defeat the young man who has just arrived on Ulster's shore. As in the legend, Yeats's Cuchulainn does not know that the boy is his son, but he admires his strength and prowess. At first the hero refuses Conchubar's command, but his warrior's pride soon gets the better of him. He fights and kills the boy. When he soon discovers that he has killed his own son, he flies into a rage. But in Yeats's version it is unclear if Cuchulainn is tricked into attacking the waves, or if he chooses to do so, having no one else upon whom to exact his revenge. The play ends with the image of Cuchulainn foolishly but tragically, even heroically, fighting the sea, the "invulnerable tide" (Poems 36) which serves as a symbol of the endless process of change. It is this process, or cycle, that is the source of Cuchulainn's pain. Cuchulainn, in the ultimate heroic act, takes up arms against the eternal process that potentially makes all heroism meaningless. He cannot stop the rise of the objective age, but he can remain true to his heroic nature and stand against the process of change, though it means his defeat.
Yeats takes this heroic, but often futile, stand against the inevitable as his theme in a number of his poems and plays. Some of his most memorable, and anthologized, poems honour doomed but determined heroes. Probably Yeats's most famous doomed hero, Major Robert Gregory, the airman of "An Irish Airman Foresees His Death," knows his fate; he knows that his death will not change the lives and futures of his countrymen:
My country is Kiltartan Cross,
My countrymen Kiltartan's poor,
No likely end could bring them loss
Or leave them happier than before.
(Poems 135)
However, Gregory confronts death freely for one moment of self-determination:
A lonely impulse of delight
Drove me to this tumult in the clouds;
I balanced all, brought all to mind,
The years to come seemed waste of breath,
A waste of breath the years behind
In balance with this life, this death. (135)
As Jahan Ramazani has pointed out in Yeats and the Poetry of Death, "The airman affirms this intense life of death as his chosen fate and freedom" (85). Otto Bohlmann has noted that Yeats's Cuchulainn is "of the same breed as Robert Gregory" (145), as are the tragic heroes of the Easter Rising commemorated in Yeats's "Easter 1916." In an age and place "where motley is worn" and people spend their days at "counter or desk" (85), Yeats celebrates the doomed leaders of the seemingly futile Easter Rebellion, who displayed the heroism of an earlier age:
And what if excess of love
Bewildered them till they died?
I write it out in verse—
MacDonagh and MacBride
And Connolly and Pearse
Now and in time to be,
Wherever green is worn,
Are changed, changed utterly:
A terrible beauty is born. (180)
The heroic act transcends and transfigures history. Standing courageously with self-determination even in the face of death, the Yeatsian hero rises above the endless gyres of existence that inevitably seem to make all heroism meaningless. In On Baile's Strand Yeats's Cuchulainn, in Maeve Good's words, "battle[s] against a world hostile to the heroic temperament" (13), but like the leaders of the Easter Rebellion, he behaves heroically in an unheroic age and stands against the inevitable process that has created this age.
It is this tragic-heroic stand against change, along with the motif of infanticide, that most clearly links Yeats's play with Achebe's Things Fall Apart. Obviously, Achebe was inspired to some degree by Yeats, taking the title of his novel from Yeats's "The Second Coming" A. G. Stock, in her article "Yeats and Achebe," examines the relationship between Things Fall Apart and the poem that provided the novel's title. She notes specifically the similarities between Yeats's and Achebe's concept of history:
It is startling to find the Yeatsian pattern traced most closely where Yeats himself was least likely to look for it, in an imaginary village of the lower Niger…. [Yeats] looks at Europe with its two-thousands-year-old tradition of Christian civilization, which itself once made chaos of the values that proceeded it and is now collapsing before the onset of something new, something more frightening because it is nameless, being all that our inherited civilization has incapacitated us from understanding. Achebe is … primarily interested in Europe: from the standpoint of Umuofia the western world is itself the fabulous formless darkness. But his instrument of interpretation is the same; his Umuofia is a civilization in miniature, and the chaos finds its way in through slight flaws in its structure, murmurs that might have remained inaudible if they had not found an echo in the darkness. (106)
While she makes the important observation that Christianity and, more significantly, the British raj, are to Okonkwo's village "mere anarchy let loose on the Umuofian world" (110) and she shows how this idea is played out in the novel, Stock limits Yeats's influence on Achebe's novel to a shared view of history and, of course, to the novel's title. Judith Gleason in her study of African novels, This Africa, also notes the influence of Yeats's conception of the historical process on Achebe's first novel: "For Things Fall Apart comes from the world of Yeats' cataclysmic vision, and how the Irish Poet would have appreciated the wild Old Nigerian" (132). While most critics acknowledge, at least to some degree, the influence of Yeats's concept of history on Things Fall Apart, few if any see Yeats as having any further influence. However, if it is clear that in writing his first novel, Achebe had in mind Yeats's poem and the view of history which it dramatizes, then it is reasonable to assume that Achebe was familiar with and possibly inspired by Yeats's other works, particularly On Baile's Strand. Both works contain the key plot elements of the hero murdering his own son (or in the case of Okonkwo his fosterson), which in thematic terms becomes, for both works, the destruction of the future of the protagonists' way of life and the hero's final futile stand against inevitable change. While these motifs are by no means limited to these two stories, the pairings of the motifs and the theme which they both develop seem unique to these two works.
The first motif, the murder of the hero's son at the hands of the hero himself, plays itself out in Things Fall Apart somewhat differently than in Yeats's play; however, the contexts and results of the action are similar. Okonkwo does not kill his own son, Nwoye, but rather Ikemefuna, the hostage-child who becomes part of Okonkwo's family and, for all practical purposes, his foster-son. Achebe describes Ikemefuna's feelings for Okonkwo, stating "he could hardly imagine that Okonkwo was not his real father" (58). Like Cuchulainn with his son, Okonkwo admires Ikemefuna's qualities ("manly" qualities that Okonkwo himself possesses and that he fears are lacking in his own son, Nwoye) and regrets having to kill him. Unfortunately the village has decided that the boy must die, and fearing that the community might think him weak, Okonkwo refuses not to participate in Ikemefuna's execution. Okonkwo, like Cuchulainn, is so driven by his pride that he willingly kills his own foster-son, and in the process he destroys the possibility of continuing his way of life. Ikemefuna, like Connla, embodies, if only in rudimentary form, many of his father's ideals of manhood, ideals antithetical to those of the fast-approaching new order. Though killing Ikemefuna does not drive him mad, Okonkwo's participation in this act seems to initiate his eventual downfall, culminating in his final actions—the killing of the messenger and his subsequent suicide—actions which could be perceived as insane, but which nevertheless have tragic-heroic quality to them.
These final actions of the novel's protagonist closely parallel, thematically, the actions of Cuchulainn at the conclusion of On Baile's Strand. Okonkwo is faced with the collapse of his whole way of life. The arrival of the Christian missionaries signals the beginning of a new way of life contrary to Umuofia's old order. The process of change that Okonkwo faces is "incomprehensible, uncomprehending, invincible" (Stock 109), and completely unsympathetic toward Okonkwo's old ways. The District Commissioner best represents not only the power of the British Empire, but also this indifference of the process of change: he tells Okonkwo and others in his community:
We shall not do you any harm … if only you agree to cooperate with us. We have brought a peaceful administration to you and your people so that you may be happy … in the dominion of our queen, the most powerful ruler in the world. (178)
Okonkwo must choose between accepting this powerful new order or standing firmly, but perhaps futilely, against it. He chooses to fight though he realizes that the days of Umuofia's heroes are over. Like Cuchulainn, Okonkwo recalls the "days when men were men," but realizes "worthy men are no more" (184). He takes the only opportunity for action open to him and kills one of the "white man's" messengers. His actions seem unreasonable to the other villagers: "He heard voices asking: 'Why did he do it?'" The only response Okonkwo gives to their questions is to hang himself. However, Okonkwo's friend, Obierika, provides the answer, telling the British officials, "That man was one of the greatest men in Umuofia. You drove him to kill himself" (191). The source of Okonkwo's suffering and his seemingly incomprehensible actions lies in the coming of the British to Umuofia, or more accurately to the process of change their arrival represents. Like Yeats's Cuchulainn, Achebe's Okonkwo recognizes the inevitable end of his old way of life, but he chooses to act against the process of change and commit some act of self-determination, even if his only choice is suicide. Charles E. Nnolim has pointed out that "in committing suicide Okonkwo displays another Igbo characteristic—a characteristic that slave traders discovered to their chagrin—that of resorting to suicide as a way out of difficulties in which every other alternative leads to personal humiliation and defeat" (60). While suicide is an offence against the Earth-goddess, it does not seem to have for the Igbo the same sense of weakness or shame often associated with it in the West (In fact, Nnolim, in arguing that Things Fall Apart is an Igbo epic, cites Okonkwo's suicide as one of the characteristics that makes him an epic hero.), and in the novel Okonkwo's suicide has an air of martyrdom, like Yeats's description of the Rebellion leaders' suicidal stand against the British, or his description in "Parnell's Funeral" of the deaths of Irish nationalists Robert Emmet, Lord Edward Fitzgerald, and Wolfe Tone (Emmet was executed by the British, Fitzgerald wounded and eventually died, and Tone committed suicide while awaiting execution).
One further element connects Achebe's novel with Yeats's works: the effects of colonialism. Much of Yeats's work is, in tone and substance, often nationalistic and even at times propagandistic. Yeats's poetry and plays, like Achebe's works, are situated historically in a colonial and post-colonial context, and as Edward Said has noted, "It is helpful to remember that 'the Anglo-Irish conflict' with which Yeats's poetic oeuvre is saturated was a 'model of twentieth-century wars of liberation'" (235). While A. G. Stock criticizes Yeats for his "nostalgia for the lost Hellenic world" (111), Said argues that Yeats's historic concerns were for his country's present situation, its struggle against colonial oppression:
His greatest decolonizing works concern the birth of violence, or the violent birth of change … Yeats situates himself at that juncture where the violence of change is unarguable but where the results of the violence beseech necessary, if not always sufficient, reason. His greatest theme … is how to reconcile the inevitable violence of the colonial conflict with the everyday politics of an ongoing national struggle." (235)
Said points out that one of the ways that Yeats treats this theme is by taking the "inevitable violence" and the "disorder" of the colonial conflict "back to the colonial intervention in the first place—which is what Chinua Achebe did in 1959 in his great novel Things Fall Apart" (235). One of the purposes of both writers' works is to reconnect their countrymen and women with their pre-colonial past and restore their dignity and identity, for as Frantz Fanon has noted:
Colonialism is not simply content to impose its rule upon the present and the future of a dominated country. Colonialism is not satisfied merely with holding a people in its grip and emptying the native's brain of all form and content. By a kind of perverted logic, it turns to the past of the people, and distorts, disfigures and destroys it. (210)
Yeats attempted to reconnect himself and his fellow Irish to their past and their culture, in part, through his use of Irish folklore and mythology, especially the tales of Cuchulainn, and his celebration of those Irish men and women who stood against British rule. Achebe, in much the same way, has dealt with this issue; he has said:
African people did not hear of culture for the first time from Europeans;… their societies were not mindless but frequently had a philosophy of great depth and value and beauty,… they had poetry, and above all, they had dignity. It is this dignity that many African people all but lost during the colonial period and it is this that they must regain. The worst thing that can happen to any people is the loss of their dignity and self-respect. The writer's duty is to help them regain it by showing them in human terms what happened to them, what they lost. ("The Role of the Writer" 8)
In Things Fall Apart, Achebe succeeds in showing "what happened," and in creating Okonkwo, Achebe gives his Nigerian readers a pre-colonial hero who is the epitome of dignity and self-respect, and as Judith Gleason notes, "Okonkwo alone defies the disintegrative effects of colonial occupation" (81). Achebe has constructed a figure like Yeats's Cuchulainn, a warrior from "the heroic past" (Nnolim 56), who, though defeated in the end, tragically and heroically confirms "the fundamental worth of the personality of the nation" (55).
While A. G. Stock seems to suggest that Yeats and Achebe are too different in "their minds, their perspectives, and their fields of vision" for Yeats to have had a direct effect on Achebe's novel (She makes a point of stating that Things Fall Apart does not "smell of discipleship" [106]), the parallels between Achebe's novel and Yeats's On Baile's Strand suggest that Things Fall Apart owes something to Yeats's play and its ancient Irish source, and the thematic similarities—from their shared concepts of history to their similar portrayals of the tragic hero to their concern with the effects of colonialism—between Achebe's novel and much of Yeats's work suggest that Achebe found in Yeats's poetry more than just the title of his first book. More importantly, however, examined together Achebe's novel and Yeats's poetry and plays illuminate each other, bringing out in both the essential idea of the tragic-heroic stand against the inevitable eternal processes of history.
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|1 Pound
|Tomato sauce
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|Green pepper
|1 Clove (5 gm)
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The Central West council in New South Wales says its bottom line is so strong that it will not need to merge with other shires.
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While just about every team in the league got a makeover when Nike unveiled their new NFL uniforms this year, some teams still want to update their look. For the Rams, that means going retro. Rams chief operating officer Kevin Demoff said on 101 ESPN on Friday that the team would like to bring back its old white and blue uniforms from the heyday of the Los Angeles Rams. Taking on the design from the 1960s and 1970s would make the uniforms look like the Rams' current white unis — just without the nice trimmings of gold. (They also had a nice blue version back then.) The league would have to approve the change, and the Rams aren't interested in any switches until 2014. St. Louis would phase in the new design by wearing the uniforms for a few games a season, much like NFL teams do now when they pull out retro duds for a game or two. While the plain white and blue look would certainly add a simplicity and classiness to the Rams' look, a la the Brooklyn Nets' approach, it would also be quite a bit of fun if the Rams went medium retro and got the gaudy gold and blue look from a decade or two ago. (Check out a photo of that below.) Nike has shown that it's willing to get all creative with the new uniforms, whether the teams incorporate those changes or not. This could be the Rams' chance for a stylish makeover. Click here to see the best uniforms from the new Nike crop>> Hat tip to SB Nation
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