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This 35mm T1.5 f/1.4 ultra wide cine lens from Rokinon for a Nikon F-mount cameras is great for low lighting conditions and shallow depth-of-field shooting. The manual focus, 14mm lens produces an ultra-wide 115-degree angle-of-view when used with a full-frame or 35mm camera (not included). It features a f/2.8 lens with "de-clicked" apertures to eliminate hard clicks when changing or manually changing apertures to a very specific number (like f/1.7, f/2.8). The focus and iris rings boast industry-standard gearing for the best possible format while the lens' follow focus system is integrated into the quality optics for comparability. The addition of depth of field markings provided greater convenience when pulling focus. The 10 elements in 12 groups lens construction includes 1 hybrid aspherical lens for sharply defined images while minimizing distortion and chromatic aberrations. The multilayer lens coating produces sharply defined images with minimum flare and ghosting. The 35mm lens focuses as close as 12" (30.48 cm) from the lens for close shots while the petal-type lens hood reduces glare. Plus, it comes with a 5-piece lens cleaning kit and a 77mm UV filter.Product Features:
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ESPN Dallas' Calvin Watkins reports Dez Bryant's (hip, questionable) status for Sunday Night Football is particularly concerning for the Cowboys because he fell on the hip in Friday's walkthrough practice, aggravating the injury.
Mike Wallace believes he is a better receiver today than when he left Pittsburgh.
Coach Pete Carroll said Tyler Lockett is "right in the middle of all our planning."
Walk-year WR Emmanuel Sanders said he is not weighed down by ongoing contract negotiations.
In an interview with ESPN's Vaughn McClure, Sammy Watkins (foot) was noncommittal about his status for training camp.
Jimmy Kempski of PhillyVoice.com believes Carson Wentz will watch his rookie year from the sidelines.
Hays Carlyon of the Florida Times Union expects Julius Thomas to score double-digit touchdowns this season.
Calvin Johnson said he knew 2015 would be his last year in the NFL before the season began.
ESPN's John Keim reports the Redskins "loved how [Jamison] Crowder looked" in the offseason program.
Updating a previous item, Raiders suspended OLB Aldon Smith's Friday hearing for a probation violation did not stem from a new incident.
The Cleveland Plain Dealer's Terry Pluto reports Robert Griffin III has been "coachable" this spring.
Speaking to ESPN's Josina Anderson, Johnny Manziel's father said, "My son is a druggie and he needs help."

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ZF-2043: Unappealing From header
When a letter is sent and the message does not provide a name for the sender then the From-header is set with empty brackets.
Results as From : "" email@example.com
One would expect the from-header not to include empty brackets "".
The setFrom function of the Zend_Mail class should be changed as follows
* Sets From-header and sender of the message
* @param string $email
* @param string $name optional
* @return Zend_Mail Provides fluent interface
* @throws Zend_Mail_Exception if called subsequent times
public function setFrom($email, $name = '')
if ($this->_from === null) {
$email = strtr($email,"\r\n\t",'???');
$this->_from = $email;
if ($name != '') {
$name = '"' . $this->_encodeHeader($name) . '" ';
$this->_storeHeader('From', $name .' <'.$email.'>', true);
} else {
throw new Zend_Mail_Exception('From Header set twice');
return $this;
Assigned to Nico
Solved in SVN r12370
As the second parameter is optional I suggest setting $name = null and verifying whether $name === null to be conform with "PHP Coding Standard (draft) -> Optional Parameters".
One more thing: if name is given you're currently adding two spaces between name and email address. A possible variant, IMO also easier to read could be:
public function setFrom($email, $name = null) { if ($this->_from === null) { $email = strtr($email,"\r\n\t",'???'); $this->_from = $email; if (null === $name) { $from = sprintf('"%s" ', $this->_encodeHeader($name)); } else { $from = ''; } $from .= sprintf('<%s>', (string) $email); $this->_storeHeader('From', $from, true); } else { ...
Cheers, Thomas
Sorry for nitpicking, could not resist ;-)
Hello, Thomas. You are welcome.;-) Thank You for Your advice.
I refixed as following.
1) If $name is not used or the $name is same as $email, header is "From: $email".
2) If $name is used and the $name is encoded, header is "From: $name <$email>".
3) If $name is used and the $name is not encoded and not contains comma, header is "From: $name <$email>".
4) If $name is used and the $name is not encoded and contains comma, header is "From: "$name" <$email>".
Best Regards, Satoru Yoshida
Great. One last note: Wouln't 1) better be From: <$email> ?
Regards, Thomas Gelf
Sorry, my fault. "From: email@example.com" is correct.
Hi, Thomas.
Thank You for checking my comment.
Yes, both "From: email@example.com" and "From: email@example.com" are correct.
I selected "From: email@example.com" on implementation. :-)
Changing issues in preparation for the 1.7.0 release.


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'In Praise of Shadows' at Istanbul Modern
'In Praise of Shadows,' an exhibition chronicling the history of shadow theater in Turkey and Greece and exploring how contemporary art has made use of this tradition, went on display yesterday at the Istanbul Museum of Modern Art. more »
Henry Kupjack creates tiny, fascinating worlds, complete in every detail. Many of his work can be seen in the permanent collections of such museums as the Wintherthur, the Chicago Art Institute, the Boston Library and the Illinois State Museum. Many of his commissions also come from private collectors. more »
Cumhuriyet Museum in Taksim Square...
Responding to question of journalists, Mayor of Istanbul Metropolitan Municipiality Kadir Topbaş said that 275 yeared Historical Cistern will be Cumhuriyet Museum and Comittee of the Protection of Cultural and Natural Heritage affirmed this project, also they will work for opening of 1000 square meters museum on 29 October, Rebuplican Day. more »
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Unique suet-feeding system includes plastic sleeve upper and metal cage below. Simply slip suet or seed cake inside feeder and as the birds eat the cake, it drops down, revealing more, until the cake is gone. This method works well to keep larger birds, such as starlings and grackles, from stealing suet, yet allows smaller woodpeckers access, since they have the capacity to perch upside down to feed. Available in Small or Large sizes to fit most suet & seed cakes. Includes hanging chain.
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Wow. So it definitely took me long enough to get this blog going. A lot has happened since I got this site up and running, so hopefully there will be no shortage of thoughts to write about.
This semester I've finally qualified to take the CS Senior Design Project, which, this semester, is to design a Chord client. At the heart of the system is the identifier, which is essentially a glorified hash. We decided to go with SHA-256, partially because the instructor mentioned it was in the class of his favorite hashes. It didn't really matter to me, since C# supports it just as easily as anything else.
Identifiers have two essential purposes, comparison and addition, from which every method can be derived. I wasn't particularly intrigued by either of these topics, since almost without exception, you can rely on existing structures in the FCL to do whatever you need to do, and it's always better to do so. Now, I said "almost without exception," namely because I stumbled upon the fact that these identifiers unequivocally are exceptions. The thing about using a SHA-256 hash – or any hash for that matter – is that it's an enormous value – 256 bits to be precise. There aren't any real 32 or even 64 bit hashes available (I doubt they'd be useful), so relying on the good ol' FCL goes out the window. Continue reading "Variable-length Integers"


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- Date submitted: 1 Nov 2011
- Stakeholder type: Major Group
- Name: International Disability Alliance (IDA)
- Submission Document: Download
Member Organizations: Disabled Peoples' International, Down Syndrome International, Inclusion International, International Federation of Hard of Hearing People, World Blind Union, World Federation of the Deaf, World Federation of the DeafBlind, World Network of Users and Survivors of Psychiatry, Arab Organization of Disabled People, European Disability Forum, Red Latinoamericana de Organizaciones no Gubernamentales de Personas con Discapacidad y sus familias (RIADIS), Pacific Disability Forum
Draft IDA contribution to the Rio+20 Conference
Persons with disabilities need to be considered in all initiatives that are undertaken in the area of sustainable development at international and national level.
To ensure this, the Rio + 20 Conference outcome document must include references to persons with disabilities.
IDA and its members are exploring together with other stakeholders, including some UN agencies, the convening of a side event on sustainable development and the rights of persons with disabilities during the Rio + 20 Conference.
IDA would also like to remind that a Conference like this needs to be fully accessible to persons with disabilities, both in terms of access to the facilities and within the premises, as well as related to access to all the information produced by this Conference, including the official website of this Conference. Too often, Conference like this are not organized in an accessible way, excluding therefore many persons with disabilities from participating in these events.
Population with disabilities and the consequences of exclusion
The recentlypublished World Report on Disability1 produced by the WHO and World Bank has updated the statistics on persons with disabilities, indicating that one out of 7 persons, i.e. one billion persons, have a disability.
Sustainable development goals cannot be achieved if such an important group of the population is not adequately taken into account in national and international actions in this area.
1World Bank and World Health Organization, World Report on Disability, World Health Organization, Geneva, 2011, at pp. 237-9.
Like in many other areas, including the MDGs, persons with disabilities have been largely invisible in the sustainable development agenda. The new UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD), which has already now been ratified by 105 Member States of the UN and by the European Union, states very clearly in its article 4 that persons with disabilities and their representative organizations need to be consulted on all policies affecting them. Sustainable development initiatives cannot be an exception to this.
Poverty eradication and persons with disabilities
Poverty eradication is one of the key issues on the agenda of the Rio + 20 Conference.
It is a commonly accepted fact that persons with disabilities are overrepresented among persons living in poverty and extreme poverty worldwide.
This has been confirmed again by the recently published World Report on Disability produced by the WHO and World Bank, which noted that "adults with disabilities tend to be poorer than those without disabilities". Furthermore, the World Report reminds how the cost of exclusion of persons with disabilities affects the Gross domestic product.
The need for coherence and consistency of different global initiatives, all of which need to include persons with disabilities
There are a number of important initiatives (in place or being negotiated) at the global level all of which are relevant to persons with disabilities.
While poverty eradication is an objective in all these initiatives, more needs to be done to establish a coherent approach across initiatives, all of which are also related to sustainable development.
MDGs and post-2015 framework
The outcome document of the 2010 MDG Review Summitincludes a number of references to persons with disabilities in recognition of the fact that the MDGs in general and MDG 1 in particular cannot be reached if persons with disabilities are excluded from these initiatives. As an example of this, the World Report on Disability stressed that MDG 2 cannot be achieved without ensuring access to education for children with disabilities.
Thus paragraph 28 of this document indicates that: ?We also recognize that policies and actions must focus on the poor and those living in the most vulnerable situations, including persons with disabilities, so that they benefit from progress towards achieving the Millennium Development Goals. In this respect there is a particular need to provide more equitable access to economic opportunities and social services.
Even more relevant issubparagraph d) of paragraph 70 which refers to sustainable development and marginalized groups, including persons with disabilities:
?(d) Pursuing job-intensive, sustained, inclusive and equitable economic growth and sustainable development to promote full and productive employment and decent work for all, including for women, indigenous people, young people, people with disabilities and rural populations, and promoting small-and medium-sized enterprises through initiatives such as skills enhancement and technical training programmes, vocational training and entrepreneurial skills development. Employers and workers? representatives should be closely associated with these initiatives;?
Subparagraph v) reminds us about the extreme vulnerability of many persons with disabilities in the area of food security:
?(v) Making special efforts to meet the nutritional needs of women, children, older persons and persons with disabilities, as well as those living in vulnerable situations, through targeted and effective programming;?
These important references need to be the first step towards an adequate inclusion of the rights of persons with disabilities in the international framework that will be established for the post-2015 period.
Social Protection Floor Initiative
IDA welcomes the decision taken by the ILO Labour Conference in 2011 to produce an ILO recommendation on a Social Protection Floor.
This initiative has a very important potential to address poverty in developing countries through the provision of a number of basic services as well as cash benefits. IDA is following closely the start of the negotiation process towards this important document, in order to ensure that persons with disabilities will benefit from this initiative.
The need for an approach that promotes participation (and not dependence) of persons with disabilities is central to our demand in this area.
Global Pact for Jobs
The other key global initiative resulting from the global financial and economic crisis, the Global Pact for Jobs, is also extremely relevant to persons with disabilities.
It is widely accepted (see also evidence in the World Report on Disability) that persons with disabilities have much higher levels of unemployment and much lower levels of activity rates compared with the general population.
Aid effectiveness
IDA will be present at the High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness in Busan at the end of November 2011 in order to ensure that aid effectiveness, which started with the Paris Declaration and continued with the Accra Agenda for Action, respects disability-rights inclusive development.
All too often, international co-operation in general, and official development aid in particular, is provided in such a way that it further discriminates against and excludes persons with disabilities.
Development cannot be effective or sustainable if it excludes a large part of the population.
The need to ensure that international co-operation is inclusive of the rights of persons with disabilities is reflected in article 32 of the CRPD, the only UN human rights treaty with a stand-alone article on international co-operation.
The three pillars of sustainable development are relevant for persons with disabilities
All three pillars of sustainable development (environmental, economic and social) have a great impact on persons with disabilities.
The UN Secretary-General Report on the Objective and themes of the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development recommends that the Preparatory Committee:
"(b) Continue to give high priority to policies that directly aim at poverty reduction, such as investments in education and access to basic services such as water, sanitation and energy;
(f) Put in place social safety nets that support incomes and limit the impacts of unemployment on long-term outcomes such as access to education;"
All those policies and investments should include persons with disabilities.
It is crucial that sustainable development does not further hide persons with disabilities. As highlighted by the World Report on Disability, "children and youth with disabilities are less likely to start school or attend school than other children. They also have lower transition rates to higher levels of education. A lack of education at an early age has a significant impact on poverty in adulthood".
The UN Secretary-General recommends in his report that the Preparatory Committee: ?(c) Prioritize green economy policies that have the potential to deliver socialbenefits;?. The green economy has a huge potential to create new jobs and this opportunity should be seized to also address the employment situation of persons with disabilities. There are examples, albeit very insufficient, of persons with disabilities working in the green economy, thus showing the important contribution persons with disabilities can make in this area.
It is also a fact that persons living in poverty are the most affected by environmental issues, including the consequences of climate change.
Public procurement policies play an important role in ensuring that sustainable development is taken into account in the different initiatives supported by the public sector. There are good examples of public procurement being used to promote environmental objectives and also some, but still far too few, examples of how public procurement can support social issues, including accessibility for persons with disabilities to any infrastructure, as well as employment of persons with disabilities.
Any initiatives in the area of sustainability evaluation and reporting must include the impact of initiatives on persons with disabilities.
Conclusion: good governance through the involvement of persons with disabilities and their representative organizations
The Rio + 20 guidance document refers to the objective of the Conference to revise also the institutional framework at international level dealing with sustainable development.
In this respect, IDA would like to insist that the meaningful involvement of civil society, including organizations that represent population groups directly affected by these policies, like persons with disabilities, need to be part of this new framework.
The new standard of good governance established by the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities can serve as a good example for other global processes, which are still too often lacking adequate participation of those populations that are most affected. The direct participation of these constituencies will improve the quality and effectiveness of decisions taken and will prevent leaving large groups of the population out of these initiatives.


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- 3 dozen large fresh strawberries
- 2 packages (one 8 ounces, one 3 ounces) cream cheese, softened
- 1/2 cup confectioners' sugar
- 1/4 teaspoon almond extract
- Grated chocolate
- Remove stems from strawberries; cut a deep "X" in the tip of each berry. Gently spread berries open.
- In a small bowl, beat the cream cheese, confectioners' sugar and extract until light and fluffy. Pipe or spoon about 2 teaspoons into each berry; sprinkle with chocolate. Chill until serving. Yield: 3 dozen.
Reviews for Heavenly Filled Strawberries
"A very delightful desert for a warm summer day. Cool and refreshing end to a meal. Not overly sweet."
"De reaction on amount of cream cheese is to confusing, I used the soft cream cheeze that was left over from a last minute catering, it work like a charm, I never knew it could be useable other then bagels but it works great here, problem is this disapear to quietly lol"
"These are pretty to look at and taste good, too. I found the filling to be took thick to push through my Pampered Chef Pastry Decorator, so I thinned it with some half n half and it was still too thick. I think I will put some Cool Whip in the cream cheese mixture next time to make it easier to push thru the nozzle."
"These look lovely, not sure about the almond essence though. I'm going to make these with ' Philadelphia Sweet Chilli ' cream cheese, which also has pineapple and mango in. Topped with a sprinkling of ground pepper to bring out the flavour of the strawberry, should go well with some nice rose' wine."
"These were beautiful and delicious and were a hit on the dessert table at our church potluck. They would be lovely for showers or receptions or anytime a fancy-looking, delicious dessert is needed. I used chocolate sprinkles rather than grating chocolate -- much easier, and I thought it looked just as nice."


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James Turrell, End Around: Ganzfeld, 2006, neon and fluorescent light (2007 installation at Pomona College Museum of Art, Claremont, California), the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, gift of the estate of Isabel B. Wilson in memory of Peter C. Marzio. © James Turrell / Photograph by Florian Holzherr
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Experience the exhibition James Turrell: The Light Inside in the most intimate way possible—on Monday, when the Museum is closed to the public. This immersive presentation features seven light environments, created by the remarkable artist James Turrell, that invite guests to investigate the margins of perception. Preview the exhibition through images and a short video here.
Enjoy an enhanced visit when you explore the spaces in a more tranquil environment, on select Mondays. These viewings are limited to a small number of individuals with advance reservations. Monday entry begins at 10:30 a.m., with the last entry at 3:30 p.m. The rest of the Museum is not open. Guests with reservations should use the Law Building entrance on Bissonnet Street.
$20 MFAH Members
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James Turrell: The Light Inside consists of rooms containing dramatic effects created by light. The experiences in these rooms may be disorienting to some viewers. To ensure the safety of all visitors and provide the best experience possible, each room has a limited capacity. Children are welcome but must be supervised by an adult at all times. Attendants are on hand to provide assistance. Click here prior to your visit for important information and guidelines.


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Idea Blog
Curb Scholars "Think Wrong" at Opening Retreat
Posted on: August 28th, 2014 | 0 Comments
Before the classes had begun, the Vanderbilt Curb Scholars were hard at work getting their year off to a creative start. They spent a week attending the Curb Center's Opening Retreat, a series of workshops, exercises, and a field trip to The Farm, an intentional community located in Summertown, Tennessee.
From their experiences at the Retreat, the Curb Scholars enter this year with new methods of problem solving, innovative ideas for campus projects, and much to continue pondering as they begin another year as creatives in their academic work and elsewhere. Read More
Curb Scholar Madeline Pt. 2
Posted on: August 7th, 2014 | 0 Comments
I always try to find the ways of becoming a better artist and a better human from any experience I have – try to stretch beyond shuffling it into a category of good or bad, exciting or boring, etc. in order to really consciously grow with each experience. I've recently gotten to spend some time on the Hudson River on the West side of the island just sitting, looking at the water, and taking in a kind of quiet I had forgotten existed amidst the everyday cacophony of horns and police sirens and millions of intersecting dialogues.
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Curb Scholar: Madeline
Posted on: August 7th, 2014 | 0 Comments
This summer I have the privilege of working at The Civilians, an experimental theatre company located on South Oxford Street in Brooklyn. Basically, they devise original theatrical pieces exploring social issues or controversial subjects through research and interviews. Their unique process yields some of the most socially conscious plays and musicals produced in contemporary American theatre. They just produced an incredibly successful show about climate change called The Great Immensity, and their next big show is a musical about the porn industry. My parents were particularly proud and somewhat concerned to hear about my possible involvement in the research and development of that upcoming show.
Elizabeth Meadows: Summer at the Curb Center–The Work of Public Engagement
Posted on: July 2nd, 2014 | 0 Comments
Ed note: Dr. Elizabeth S. Meadows leads the Creative Campus and the Curb Scholars Program for the Curb Center at Vanderbilt.
I started at the Curb Center last summer, and it was a hectic time—planning the opening retreat and fall semester's Scholar sessions, selecting Innovation Grant recipients for the first time, and planning the 3rd Annual Creative Practice Boot Camp on the fly—all while learning how to do a new job with a staff as new to the job as I was. I found myself wondering what summertime at the Curb Center would be like in a "normal" year. Now I know…
Curb Internship Blog: Boston Healthcare for the Homeless
Posted on: July 1st, 2014 | 0 Comments
This blog is part of the Curb Scholars Internship Program.
My beginning days with Boston Healthcare for the Homeless have served as some of my most humble. I began this internship expecting to be in the office making phone calls and assisting the Finance Department; however, I feel as though I will play a vital role to a team of dedicated and inspiring individuals. And even more important, become a more open-minded and serviced-oriented person.
With the changes made under the Affordable Care Act, insurance companies are now billing for medical expenses differently. For example, instead of billing per expense, their consumers are now worth an allotted sum of money for their medical expenses that year. That means it is imperative that each medical provider that provides care for their patients are properly listed so that the practice, like Boston Healthcare for the Homeless, can properly receive funds. Read More
Curb Internship Blog Post: Compassionate Travel
Posted on: June 26th, 2014 | 0 Comments
By Ben Shane
This blog post is part of the Curb Scholars program.
I have faith in humanity when I travel. It comes from hitchhiking in Spain, where strangers interrupted their lives because they saw me for a total of a second-and-a-half on the side of the road and invited me into their cars and sometimes their homes. From the young woman in Morro Bay, California, who invited me surfing with her and her friends and equipped me with surfboard and wetsuit and patient instruction. From the countless people on the road who provided me with food or shelter or company, all of the most basic and meaningful necessities of life. These experiences bring me close to humankind and make me feel fortunate to be a part of it. Read More
A Summer Internship in Hualcayán
Posted on: June 23rd, 2014 | 0 Comments
Hello! My name is Karissa and I am an intern with PIARA this summer. My journey with PIARA started two weeks ago, when I arrived at the C.H. Nash Museum at Chucalissa in Memphis, TN to work with director Dr. Robert Connolly and begin preparing educational and outreach materials for the summer in Hualcayán, Peru. I'm excited to join the PIARA team in Peru in two weeks, but first, here's the story on how I became involved with PIARA. Read More
Apply now: Curb Fellow in Media, Art, and Public Policy, 2014-15
Posted on: March 10th, 2014 | 0 Comments
Applications accepted through Friday, March 28.
The Curb Center is pleased to announce a continuing fellowship opportunity for advanced graduate students in the humanities or humanistic social sciences at Vanderbilt University. For the academic year 2014-15, the Curb Center offers a year-long fellowship to support a student who has completed his or her comprehensive examination and is interested in policy issues raised by media or the arts.
Candidates should be engaged in research that promises to illuminate challenges or opportunities that face any cultural field, including (but not limited to) music, publishing, the graphic arts, film, television, theater, literature, the entertainment industry, or digital media. Policy concerns may involve race, class, gender, social or political concerns, economic issues, legal questions, government regulation, copyright, urban planning and development, public humanities and heritage preservation, indigenous cultures, international trade and diplomacy, distribution and access, artistic careers, nonprofits, new media, medicine and the arts, creativity and well-being, arts entrepreneurs, public support of the arts, arts education, and more. We are also willing to entertain proposals that would allow a student to do research on an arts and cultural policy issue related to a dissertation nearing completion.
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Using Google Forms in the Classroom (HASTAC Cross-Post)
Posted on: February 7th, 2014 | 0 Comments
This post originally appeared on HASTAC.org on February 7, 2014. The original post and comments can be found here.
Weekly course assignments can be a headache for both instructors and students. Students lament having to print them (let alone do them), and instructors lament opening several hundred emails in the course of a semester. However, there are times when such assignments are pedagogically necessary.
A friend and I both used weekly reading assignment in our history courses last semester as a way to gauge student understanding of material and develop students' abilities to summarize and interrogate readings. Although my friend teaches high school and I was a TA at a university, our students had a communal complaint about the assignments: "I don't have the resources to print the assignment," which was followed up with a "Can I just email it to you instead?" Read More
Tepper named dean of ASU's Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts
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After ten years of exceptional research and practice at the Curb Center, Steven Tepper has accepted an appointment as dean of the Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts at Arizona State University. Steven's opportunity is an extraordinary one, and a testimony to his expertise and stature in the field of arts careers, creative practice, and arts policy.
Sad as we are to see him go, we are also overjoyed for Steven's success. For a link to ASU's press release click here, and to read a note from Steven, click here. Read More


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Mother and son listed in good condition after chase
Published: Monday, February 25, 2013 at 11:22 a.m.
Last Modified: Monday, February 25, 2013 at 11:22 a.m.
The mother and son who were involved in Friday's chase with the N.C. Highway Patrol on Hickory Tree Road remained hospitalized Monday morning.
A spokeswoman with the Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center in Winston-Salem said Tameka Sherri Rhyne, 38, and her son, Daquan Rhyne, 19, were listed in good condition. Both were transported to WFBMC after the one-vehicle accident occurred at 12:42 p.m.
The Highway Patrol said Tameka Rhyne was involved in a chase with Trooper Austin Beck. Trooper Jeff Boozer said the woman was fleeing from another trooper manning a license checkpoint on the U.S. Highway 52 off-ramp for Hickory Tree Road and crashed on her own.
The chase, which had speeds of more than 90 miles per hour, went about 2.5 miles before the woman lost control as she headed on Hickory Tree Road toward N.C. Highway 150, Chief Mike Craft of the Midway Volunteer Fire Department said. Craft said it appeared the woman was sliding sideways when she hit a brick column that serves as the entrance sign for the Hidden Creek subdivision.
After hitting the brick column, it seemed the vehicle went airborne, striking at least five trees and overturning on its top. The impact caused the engine to come out of the Pontiac Grand Prix and catch on fire. It appeared Daquan Rhyne was ejected from the vehicle, the chief said.
No troopers were injured. Additionally, no Highway Patrol vehicles were damaged.
Charges against the driver remain pending Monday. Boozer said Tameka Rhyne's license appeared to be suspended.
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MEN: Silva return key to Toffees triumph
- 06 October 2013 08:48
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It's always a pleasure to pen the media round-up the morning after an impressive win for the Sky Blues.
After a disappointing week which saw Manuel Pellegrini's men lose games to Aston Villa and Bayern Munich, the headlines make for happier reading after Saturday lunchtime's 3-1 win over Everton.
David Silva made his first start since August and took centre stage for City – a fact not lost on the Manchester Evening News in their "Five Things We Learned" piece.
"For all the money City spent this summer, David Silva remains the Blues' key player," Paul Handler argued.
"His feline midfield play is just that level above most opponents, darting here and there, seeing passes where defences see none, angling little balls here and there.
"The subtlety in his play a joy to behold at times."
Handler also asserted that Joe Hart's performance should restore confidence in the goalkeeper for club and country.
"It must have been a nervy afternoon for the England number one but the crowd backed him strongly and he didn't disappoint," he wrote.
"There have been a few mutterings about Lukaku's goal but to blame the keeper would be extremely harsh."
...Manchester Evening News on Hart...
"Elsewhere he was tidy and alert under what must have been uncomfortable pressure. Like Pellegrini said, trusting Hart is key now."
Meanwhile, yesterday's pronouncements from Sergio Aguero that he never thinks about a move away from the club don't stop the Guardian from speculating on a future for the Argentine striker away from the Etihad Stadium in this morning's paper.
"Real Madrid are considering a January bid for Sergio Agüero after the Manchester City striker was identified as the Spanish club's prime target at the start of the summer, ahead of Gareth Bale, who was bought for a world record £85.3m," Jamie Jackson reports.
"Madrid made an inquiry about Agüero – who scored in Saturday's 3-1 win over Everton at the Etihad Stadium – and were told he would not be sold. They had also wanted to sign Neymar, who was then at Santos, and Radamel Falcao, who began the summer at Atlético Madrid, ahead of Bale.
"While Real may firm up their interest for Agüero in the January transfer window with an offer expected to be markedly more than the £38m he cost the club two years ago, in an interview with the Guardian on Saturday Agüero reiterated his loyalty to City."
...Jamie Jackson on Aguero...
"I'm very happy at City, very happy since the day I came," he said. "I knew that the project was good and in my head there is nothing else but Manchester City, so how long I'm going to be at City is just never a question."
Sergio only signed a new deal with the club in May, but rest assured, all confirmed transfer news in the January window will be reported here on mcfc.co.uk first when the deals are done.
Finally, there's a small story in the Sunday people linking the Sky Blues with an Ajax teenager.
"Manchester City are going Dutch, with teenage winger Javairo Dilrosun heading their way from Ajax," the story reads.
"City will have to pay compensation of around £500,000 for the 15-year-old."


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After five years, two BCS national championships, a handful of World Series games, Super Bowls and countless Orlando Magic games, sports anchor Guy Rawlings is leaving WESH to join CBS Atlanta.
Rawlings' last day at WESH Channel 2 is scheduled for December 23. He will anchor the 5 p.m. and 11 p.m. news and host two football shows.
"I grew up wanting to be Bryant Gumbel in a Today show format," said Rawlings, 42. "But I can see staying in Atlanta for a while."
Rawlings says his favorite story during his time here in Orlando came earlier this year when he interviewed Dwight Howard's mother, Sheryl, and managed to surprise his own mother with a camera crew during the NBA playoffs in Atlanta
"It's interesting to me how people remember that story out of all the stories I've done," Rawlings chuckled.
Although Rawlings grew up in Connecticut, he became an adopted Floridian. After graduating from the University of Florida in 1991, he worked in Jacksonville, South Carolina, Baltimore and Miami before accepting a job in Orlando. He won an Emmy for a story about Dan Marino's induction into the Hall of Fame.
I interviewed Rawlings back in 2009 for an all-access community spotlight and discovered that his childhood dream of becoming the next Bryant Gumbel partly came about because of a rare hip disorder that robbed him of his ability to play competitive sports.
More than his on-air work, Rawlings developed a reputation for his sunny demeanor and propensity to give back. He was an honorary chairman for the walk to end Alzheimer's organization and raised money each Wednesday with his local mixers at Draft restaurant across the street from the Amway Center.
Here's an excerpt from our 2009 story.
All Access: Is it hard not to root for your alma mater?
Guy Rawlings: I quietly root, I never verbalize it. That's part of the reason [WESH] brought me to Orlando [from Miami]. My first assignment was to cover the [BCS] championship game in Phoenix. I remember ending my report with it's great to be a Florida Gator. Sometimes I use it as shtick. But I get e-mails from Gator haters saying I refuse to watch you anymore. I toned it down a little bit.
AA: Who are the best interview subjects?
GR: Bobby Bowden is one of the best interviews I've ever done. He was so real and honest and likable as much as I wanted to root against him [laughs].
D-Wade was one of the best. I did an interview with him after practice after he did a crossover that put a guy on his butt [in a previous game]. He showed me why his crossover dribble is better than most and I did a story on his crossover. It was a fun story.
AA: What's the most misunderstood thing about your job?
GR: Everybody thinks it's glamorous. Everything you see me do on air is done by me. We don't have any producers, any editors. I get a little frustrated at the lack of support that local sports get despite the fact that a lot of people feel it's very important.
It's not as glamorous as some people think, but if I didn't do this I don't know what I would do.
AA: What advice would you give to an aspiring television sports journalist?
GR: People will say local sports are dying because of the monster that is ESPN, but don't let that deter you.
Go for it, because you never know where you'll end up. I would like to have been an athlete, but I think things turned out all right.


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I'm finally out of school mode and back in PokeDream mode. Over the next three months, you can expect to see many improvements around the site, major updates, and maybe new sections. I will have the responsibility to refresh my knowledge on HTML, CSS, PHP (especially), and web design in general, for I have spent too long in school working with software languages such as Java and C (for those of you who know what I'm talking about). So, there is a ton of work on my part, but I will enjoy the work.
For the future, I plan on coming up with interesting web applications and more efficient ways of managing the site, perhaps making more use of databases and dynamically generated pages. I hope to use what I've learned about computers in the past school year to effectively bring Pokemon Dream to another level, to be able to provide top quality content and be able to compete with other top Pokemon sites at the same level. I assure you that good things are to come for this site.
For the moment, I've added new guides for Pokemon Diamond and Pearl, thanks to the generous contributions of a few people. I've (unfortunately) just started on the walkthrough, so expect that up in a while...that's it for now.


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ZF-10706: Call to a member function last() on a non-object in Zend/Session/SessionManager.php on line 339
Zend\Session\SessionManager::isValid() throws an error as it relies on $response being an object with a method last() while it obviously can be null.
The following code provokes this the error reproducable:
$session = new \Zend\Session\Container('test'); $session->test = 42;
Fixed in ZF2 master branch.
The issue was actually with SignalSlot. Signals::emitUntil() was not returning a ResponseCollection if no handlers were present; this is now fixed. Additionally, ResponseCollection::last() would then raise an exception if the collection was empty, as you can't return a value normally. I've modified it to return null when the collection is empty.


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By Alice Kenny
Julie Vann, 17, whose parents fled the brutal assault of Cambodia's Khmer Rouge, dreamed of one day going to college and building a better life for her family. But when her father who had found work in the U.S. as a maintenance worker, died last year from skin cancer, the challenge of overcoming her family's tragic history grew tougher.
Her mother, who speaks little English and can no longer work as a manicurist due to carpal tunnel syndrome, weeps every day as she shares her dinner with a photo of her dad. The family's sole income is now just $1100 in Social Security survivor benefits for Julie and her younger sister.
Yet Julie remains determined to not only graduate from high school this year but to go to college to become an engineer.
Fortunately, Catholic Charities and its Transitio
n to Adulthood Program stepped it. Catholic Charities helped her prepare for her SAT exams, took her on trips to visit colleges, helped her complete her college applications and provided her, thanks to funds from the New York Times Neediest Cases program, with the money she needed to purchase her cap and gown, graduation tickets, senior award dinner and yearbook. Most important, it provided her with the counseling and support she needed to fulfill her dream.
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Other than the question of God, the question of human nature-who we are, why we are here, whey we behave as we do-is the most fundamental and perplexing of all. We are mystified at both the kindness and the horrors of human behavior and wonder where God is in both. In Only Human, David Gushee-ethicist, pastor, and award-winning Christian writer¾ uses a classic Christian framework to addresses questions about what it means to be a human being, our makeup and nature, what is right and what is wrong with us, and our origins and destiny. Drawing from contemporary and ancient discussions of human nature, Gushee offers a substantive and accessible exploration of eight essential questions:+ Is there such a thing as human nature, something all humans share?+ How do we understand what we are made of?+ Why do relationships matter so much to us?+ Is it true that human beings are intrinsically sinful?+ Are human beings truly free to chart their own paths and make meaningful choices?+ How do human beings become morally good people or morally evil?+ What does a morally great life look like?+ What should we hope for as our ultimate goal for life's journey?
Author Biography
David P. Gushee is Graves Professor of Moral Philosophy and senior fellow at the Carl F. H. Henry Center for Christian Leadership at Union University, Jackson, Tennessee. Gushee is the author of nine books and winner (with Glen Stassen) of the Christianity Today 2004 award for best book in theology and ethics for their book Kingdom Ethics.
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|What Am I Made Of?
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|Why Do Relationships Matter So Much to Me?
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|Am I a "Sinner"?
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|Am I Really Free?
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|How Do I Become a Good Person?
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|What Does Moral Greatness Look Like?
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|Where Can True Wholeness Be Found?
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|Further Reading
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|The Author
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Sheriff's cold cases to get fresh look on Facebook
Published: Monday, February 11, 2013 at 11:32 a.m.
Last Modified: Monday, February 11, 2013 at 9:13 p.m.
Sheriff's investigators are hoping that cold cases dating back to 1957 could be solved with the help of Facebook.
Every Monday, a graphic that includes a picture of a murdered individual and a brief synopsis of the person's death will appear on the Facebook page of the Volusia County Sheriff's Office, said sheriff's spokesman Gary Davidson.
Investigator Chuck Lee of the Cold Case Squad is hoping that the effort will jog someone's memory or bring a new perspective to an unsolved murder.
The Sheriff's Office will focus on 38 cold cases and 39 victims, Davidson said. The oldest case -- a double murder -- occurred in 1957.
Of the 39 people killed, one was a 2-year-old child, Davidson said. In addition, seven of the people murdered were never identified.
The first case chosen for the campaign is the 1974 murder of James Aslinger of DeBary. Aslinger was found inside a house on Bent Junction Road in May of that year, "his body exhibiting signs of violent trauma," Davidson said.
Sgt. Pat Thoman, head of the agency's Major Case Unit, said he hopes the exposure on Facebook proves successful: "Often public exposure is our biggest ally in solving crime. Each and every one of these cases is one phone call away from being solved."
If anyone has information regarding any of the cold cases that will be featured on the Facebook page, please call investigator Chuck Lee, 386-254-1535, or, if you wish to remain anonymous, call Crime Stoppers, 888-277-TIPS (8477).
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Spotlight for Recruiting ProfessionalsSeptember 4, 2013
Identifying the schools that can help meet your hiring goals can
be challenging. An important step is to work closely with the
people who do head count planning to determine the number and kind
of openings your organization will have, the type of employees your
organization wants, the diversity needs of your organization, and
your budget for college recruiting.
Make sure to avoid common mistakes, such as selecting schools
without basing the decision on how the school will meet the
company's needs or recruiting at too many schools. There is no set
formula for determining target schools. Since each organization—and
its corporate culture—is different, so are its needs. Still, each
school should be rated by several factors, including:
Companies use different combinations of these factors to
identify their target schools. Some employers then create a tiered
system of the support they offer to their target schools. A sample
tiered system is:
Tier 1:
Tier 2:
Tier 3:
It is critical that you periodically reevaluate and update your
list of target schools to confirm your commitment to the colleges
and universities with which you already work, to add schools that
could provide greater returns on your recruiting investment, and to
drop others that might no longer meet your recruiting
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NYS police departments are revoking pistol permits of those who are "blown-in" by the medical community for being prescribed anti-anxiety medications (for those who are in therapy for anxiety or depression), under the gray shroud of the UNSAFE Act. This is happening now folks, and it is likely to get worse.
They NY Safe Act apparently requires Doctors to REPORT this info.
NYS Police Departments Revoking Pistol Permits because of Anti-Anxiety Meds


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The list of baronets who died unmarried is far from complete. I picked them up when I ran across them, but the researcher for whom I compiled the listing wasn't really interested in them, so it isn't systematic.
The following title was not recognized in the English peerage:
James Drummond 3rd Jacobite duke of Perth (1713-1746)
John Drummond 4th Jacobite duke of Perth (c. 1715-1747) [born in France; died in Antwerp]
Thomas Kennedy 9th earl of Cassilis (d. 1775, aged at least 40)
David Kennedy 10th earl of Cassilis (d. 1792, aged at least 5
James Castleton 1st earl Castleton (d. 1723, aged at least 53)
John Proby 2nd earl of Carysfort (1780-1855)
John Lyon 5th earl of Strathmore (1696-1715) [killed in action]
Thomas Watson 3rd earl of Rockingham (1715-1746) [died of smallpox]
Thomas Pope 4th earl of Downe (1640-1668)
Richard Hely-Hutchinson 1st earl of Donoughmore (1756-1825)
John Hely-Hutchinson 2nd earl of Donoughmore (1757-1832)
Wilmot Vaughn 2nd earl of Lisburne (1755-1820)
Nicholas Hume-Loftus 2nd earl of Ely (1738-1769)
Charles Coote 4th earl of Mountrath (1680-1715) [died in France]
Harry Coote 5th earl of Mountrath (1684-1720)
William Brabazon 9th earl of Meath (1769-1797) [killed in a duel]
Robert Henley 2nd earl of Northington (1747-1786)
Frederick North 5th earl of Guilford (1766-1827)
George Ramsay 4th earl of Dalhousie (c. 1676-1696) [died in the Netherlands, killed by a Mr. Hamilton]
William Ramsay 5th earl of Dalhousie (c. 1678-1710) [died in Spain]
Thomas Villiers 2nd earl of Clarendon (1753-1824)
George Keith de jure 9th or 10th earl Marischal (1692-1778) [died in Potsdam, Brandenburg]
Charles Stewart 8th earl of Traquair (1781-1861)
James Dillon 8th earl of Roscommon (d. 1746, aged at least 31)
Robert Dillon 9th earl of Roscommon (d. 1770, aged at least 32)
Lewis Ogilvy-Grant 5th earl of Seafield (1767-1840)
Andrews Windsor 7th earl of Plymouth (1764-1837)
Alexander Lindsay 15th earl of Crawford (c. 1599-1639)
George Sinclair 7th earl of Caithness (d. 1698, probably aged at least 40)
Joseph Leeson 2nd earl of Milltown (1730-1801)
Charles Henry St. John O'Neill 1st earl O'Neill (1779-1841)
Henry Skeffington 3rd earl of Massereene (1746-1811)
Richard Lowther 2nd viscount Lonsdale (d. 1713; born after 1675]
Peregrine Saunderson 4th viscount Castleton (c. 1628-1650)
Henry Thomas Cary 8th viscount Falkland (1766-1796)
John Allen 3rd viscount Allen (d. 1745, age at least 37)
John Allen 4th viscount Allen (1726-1753)
Joshua William Allen 6th viscount Allen (c. 1782-1845)
Christopher Wandesford 3rd viscount Castlecomer (1717-1736) [died of smallpox]
Hervey Redmond Morres 2nd viscount Mountmorres (d. 1797, aged at least 43)
Caryll Molyneux 6th viscount Molyneux (1683-1745)
John Bruce Richard O'Neill 3rd viscount O'Neill (1780-1855)
Edward Ward 9th baron Dudley (1740-1731)
Ferdinando Lea 11th baron Dudley (1710-1757)
Lewis Richard Watson 3rd baron Sondes (1792-1836)
George Agar 1st baron Callan (1751-1815)
John Coventry 4th baron Coventry (1654-1685)
Richard Robinson 1st baron Rokeby (1708-1794)
Matthew Morris 2nd baron Rokeby (1713-1800)
Morris Robinson 3rd baron Rokeby (1757-1829)
Edward Montagu 5th baron Rokeby (1787-1847)
John Roper 13th baron Teynham (1767-1824)
Charles Gray 12th baron Gray (1752-1786)
William John Gray 13th baron Gray (c. 1759-1807)
John de Blaquiere 2nd baron de Blaquiere (1776-1844)
William Hotham 1st baron Hotham (1736-1813)
Beaumont Hotham 3rd baron Hotham (1794-1870)
Alleyne Fitzherbert 1st baron St. Helens (1753-1839)
Eric Mackay 7th baron Reay (1773-1847)
Alexander Fraser 13th lord Saltoun (1710-1751)
Catherine Leslie 4th countess of Leven in her own right (d. 1706, aged at least 42)
John Lade, 1st Bt. (1662-1740)
John Lade, 2nd Bt. (1721-1747)
Thomas Clarges, 4th Bt. (1780-1834)
Gerard Vanneck, 2nd Bt. (d. 1791, aged at least 45)
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Another installment of title-holders who died unmarried. You will note that this is not distinguishing among English, Irish, Scottish, and GB titles, but I could query the db to get that. I could also query the db to find out how many of the first holders of a title listed here were younger sons of men who held some other title. For social history, that would be relevant. As Cannon pointed out, few of the newly granted 18th century titles went to actual "new men." The majority of recipients had prior connections to existing peers.
Robert Bertie, 4th duke of Ancaster and Kesteven (1756-1779) [died of scarlet fever; left an acknowledged illegitimate daughter]
William Beauchamp Lygon 2nd earl Beauchamp (1782-1823)
Brinsley Butler 4th earl of Lanesborough (1783-1847)
Charles Ramsay 7th earl of Dalhousie (about 1727-1764)
John Murray 2nd earl of Dunmore (1685-1752)
Alexander Montgomerie 10th earl of Eglinton (1723-1769) [murdered by Mungo Campbell]
Thomas Erskine 2nd earl of Kellie (1615-1643)
Thomas Alexander Erskine 6th earl of Kellie (1732-1781) [died in Brussels]
Archibald Erskine 7th earl of Kellie (1736-1797)
Charles Erskine 8th earl of Kellie (1765-1799)
William Keith 4th earl of Kintore (c. 1702-1761)
James Maitland 9th earl of Lauderdale (1784-1860)
Anthony Maitland 10th earl of Lauderdale (1785-1863)
George Augustus Bertie 10th earl of Lindsey (1814-1877)
George James Ludlow 3rd earl Ludlow (1758-1842)
Francis Stuart 11th earl of Moray (1795-1859)
John Stuart 12th earl of Moray (1797-1867)
David Carnegie 5th earl of Northesk (1701-1741)
George Hastings 8th earl of Huntingdon (1677-1705)
John Power 2nd earl of Tyrone (c. 1664-1693)
George Augustus Lumley 5th earl of Scarborough (1753-1807)
James Dalrymple 3rd earl of Stair (d. 1760, aged at least 30)
John Dalrymple 6th earl of Stair (1749-1821)
Charles Tufton 10th earl of Thanet (1770-1832)
Henry Tufton 11th earl of Thanet (1775-1849)
George Carpenter 3rd earl of Tyrconnel (1788-1812) [killed in action]
John Child 2nd earl Tylney of Castlemaine (1712-1784)
Robert Howard 2nd earl of Wicklow (about 1757-1815)
Hugh Cholmondeley 1st earl of Cholmondeley (1662-c. 1724)
Robert Cholmondeley 1st earl of Leinster (1584-1659)
James Cuninghame 14th earl of Glencairn (1749-1791)
George Augustus Yelverton 2nd earl of Sussex (1727-1758)
Edward Henry Rich 7th earl of Warwick (1698-1721) [barely made the "at least age 21 at death" cut-off]
James Francis Edward Sarsfield 2nd earl of Lucan (1693-1719)
Paulet St. John 3rd earl of Bolingbroke (d. 1711, aged at least 83 years)
William Craven earl of Craven (1606-1697)
Henry de Massué de Ruvigny 1st earl of Galway (1648-1720) [born in France; Huguenot; supporter of William III}
Richard Fitzwilliam, 7th viscount Fitzwilliam (1745-1816)
John Fitzwilliam, 8th viscount Fitzwilliam (1752-1830)
Thomas Fitzwilliam 9th viscount Fitzwilliam (1755-1833)
Robert Arbuthnott 4th viscount Arbuthnott (1686-1710)
William Flower 3rd viscount Ashbrook (1767-1802)
George Barnewall, 5th viscount Barnewall (1758-1800) [died in France]
Gustavus Hamilton 2nd viscount Boyne (1710-1746)
Henry Pleydell Dawnay 3rd viscount Downe (1727-1760) [killed in action]
Thomas Preston 3rd viscount Tara (1652-1674)
John Prendergast-Smyth 1st viscount Gort (1742-1817)
Charles Maynard, 1st viscount Maynard (c. 1690-1775)
Richard Nassau Molesworth, 4th viscount Molesworth (1748-1793)
Richard Molesworth 7th viscount Molesworth (1786-1875)
John Netterville 6th viscount Netterville (1744-1826)
Charles Jones 5th viscount Ranelagh (1761-1800)
Andrew John Drummond 7th viscount Strathallan (d. 1817, aged at least 49) [his older brother, the 6th viscount, died unmarried in 1775, aged between 9 and 24; so far I haven't managed to find the precise birth date of either man]
George Augustus Howe 3rd viscount Howe (c. 1724-1758) [died at Ft. Ticonderoga, NY; not sure whether or not he was killed in action]
William Charles Fortescue 2nd viscount Clermont (1764-1829)
William Seton Hatton 2nd viscount Hatton (1690-1760)
Charles Henry Hatton 3rd viscount Hatton (c. 1700-1762)
Hercules Rowley 2nd viscount Langford (1737-1796)
John Tracy 7th viscount Rathcoole (d. 1793, aged at least 38 years)
Edward Blayney 3rd baron Blayney (c. 1625-1669)
John Stewart 5th baron Castle Stewart (d. 1685, aged at least 81)
George Pitt 2nd baron Rivers (1751-1828)
Piers Butler 8th baron Caher (1727-1788) [died in Paris]
Nathaniel Curzon, 3rd baron Scarsdale (1781-1856)
Walter Stuart 8th lord Blantyre (d. 1751, aged at least 25) [died in Paris]
John Hamilton 4th lord Belhaven & Stenton (d. 1764, aged at least 45)
James Hamilton 5th lord Belhaven & Stenton (d. 1777, aged at least 57)
Henry William Fitzgerald 22nd baron de Ros (1793-1839)
Digby Willoughby 7th baron Middleton (1759-1856)
Henry Maynard, 4th baron Maynard (c. 1670-before 1745)
Grey Maynard, 5th baron Maynard (c. 1680-1745)
John Hanger 2nd baron Hanger of Coleraine (1743-1794) [died in Paris, killed by a mob]
William Hanger 3rd baron Hanger of Coleraine (1744-1814)
Frederick Whitworth-Aylmer 6th lord Aylmer (1777-1858)
Charles Gough-Calthorpe 2nd baron Calthorpe (1786-1807) [barely made the "at least age 21 at death" cut-off]
George Gough-Calthorpe 3rd baron Calthorpe (1786-1851) [died in Paris, France)
Philip Aston alleged 6th lord Aston of Forfar (1709-1755)
Christopher Plunkett 10th baron Dunsany (d. 1690, aged at least 22)
Patrick Murray 5th lord Elibank (1703-1778)
John Elphinstone 13th lord Elphinstone (1807-1860)
Charles Yelverton 14th baron Grey de Ruthyn (1657-1679) [barely made the "at least age 21 at death" cut-off]
Stanhope Hawke-Harvey 5th baron Hawke (1804-1870)
Thomas de Courcy 27th baron Kingsale (1774-1832)
Alexander Macdonald 2nd baron Macdonald of Slate (1773-1824)
Francis Willoughby 3rd lord Middleton (1726-1774)
George Sandford 3rd baron Mount Sandford (1756-1846)
Daniel Toler 2nd baron Norwood (c. 1779-1832)
Hugh Mackay 6th lord Reay (d. 1797, aged at least 57 years old)
James Sutherland 5th lord Duffus (1747-1827)
George Dunbar 7th lord Duffus (1799-1875)
William St. John 8th baron St. John of Bletso (d. 1720, aged about 30 years]
John Sempill 11th lord Sempill (d. 1727, aged about 37 years]
Selkirk Sempill 15th lord Sempill (1788-1835)
James Sinclair de jure 9th lord Sinclair (d. 1762, aged at least 45 years]
Mathias Barnewall 10th baron Trimlestown (d. 1692, aged at least 21 years]
Thomas Barnewall 13th baron Trimlestown (d. 1796, aged at least 21 years]
JohnPeyto Verney 15th baron Willoughby de Broke (1762-1820)
George Willoughby 14th lord Willoughby of Parham (1742-1779)
Hugh Willoughby 15th lord Willoughby of Parham (d. 1765, aged at least 50 years]
William Cranston 7th lord Cranstoun (1749-1778)
Cheney Culpeper 4th baron Culpeper (1642-1725)
Thomas Fairfax 6th lord Fairfax of Cameron (1693-1781) [died in Virginia]
Robert Fairfax 7th lord Fairfax of Cameron (1707-1793)
Francis Augustus Elliot 2nd lord Heathfield (1750-1813)
Henry Power, de jure 10th baron Power (d. 1742, aged at least 25 years]
Frances Basset 2nd baroness Basset in her own right (1781-1855)
Madelina Gray 16th baroness Gray in her own right (1799-1869)
William Fowler, 4th Bt. (d. 1760, aged between 21 and 30)
Charles Blois, 3rd Bt. (1692-1761)
Henry Fletcher, 3rd Bt. (c. 1661-1712) [died in Douai, France]
Thomas Smijth, 8th Bt. (1781-1833)
John Smijth, 9th Bt. (1782-1838)
John Augustus Parnell, 3rd Bt. (1775-1812)
Edward Simeon, 2nd Bt. (c. 1682-1768)
Lionel Copley, 2nd Bt. (c. 1767-1806)
John Pennington, 3rd Bt. (d. 1768, age at least 50)
John Rous, 3rd Bt. (d. 1731, aged between 45 and 55 years old)
Oliver St. John, 3rd Bt. (c. 1683-c. 1710)
William Weller Pepys, 2nd Bt. (1778-1845)
Charles Leslie, 2nd Bt. (1774-1833)
Banks Jenkinson, 6th Bt. (d. 1789, aged at least 53 years)
Robert Davers, 5th Bt. (1730-1763) [died at Lake Huron, Canada]
Stewkley Shuckburgh, 4th Bt. (1711-1759)
Spencer Rodney, 5th baron Rodney (1785-1846)
Thomas Corbet, 3rd Bt. (b. before 1624-d. after 1661)
Richard Corbet, 4th Bt. (1696-1774)
James Johnstone, 4th Bt. (1726-1794)
James Cunynghame, 2nd Bt. (d. 1747, aged at least 47 years)
Thomas Gage, 3rd Bt. (d. 1741, aged at least 25 years)
Framlingham Gawdy, 3rd Bt. (c. 1660-1710)
Bassingbourne Gawdy, 3rd Bt. (d. 1723, aged at least 33 years) [died in a riding accident]
John Aubrey, 4th Bt. (d. 1767, aged at least 25 years]
Daniel Molyneux, 2nd Bt. (1713-1739)
John Snell Colleton, 5th Bt. (c. 1775-1801)
Francis Henry Drake, 5th Bt. (1723-1794)
Adam Gordon Johnson, 3rd Bt. (1781-1843) [died in Montreal; descendant of the colonial Indian agent Sir William Johnson]
Laurence Esmonde, 4th Bt. (c. 1705-1739)
Charles Bond, 4th Bt. (1734-1767)
Edward Bettenson, 2nd Bt. (c. 1675-1733)
Philip Sydenham, 3rd Bt. (1676-1739)
George Carleton, 2nd Bt. (c. 1626-1650)
John Dashwood, 6th Bt. (1792-1863)
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Posted: Wed Oct 21, 2009 11:45 am
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Elaine S wrote:
Virginia - I am curious about your database of significant numbers of those with heriditary titles not marrying. Many people died early due to poor health which was, of course, not uncommon. How have you constructed your database? Any particular published sources? I can certainly see the case for younger sons, because they often had to make their own way and went into professions where marriage was either a barrier or outright forbidden: universities, army, navy, church or the bar.
When I look at family trees, I often see men marrying several times due to the early deaths of wives (presumably in childbirth) and I've presumed this was in an effort to get an heir, especially where there were unbreakable entails involved.
I've now given you pretty much the list for 1603-1824. A couple of names came up of never-married peers who were born within that period, but not age 21 by 1824; I'm not sure why. I'll presume a glitch in my data entry process. Please ignore them.
I think a lot of people on the AAR boards got a little bored with the "real history" stuff that I posted some time back, so unless you need analysis of birth cohorts or lifespans, etc., I won't bother to run queries.
Where I have the date of death and a note that the person was "at least" age x, that's calculated from the date of death of whichever of his parents died first.
Do you want the biographical notes on all these men?
They aren't so obvious when you just look at "family trees," because by definition they aren't in the direct line of ascent of the current title holder, if the title even still exists.
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Posted: Wed Oct 21, 2009 1:19 pm
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ElaineS wrote:
Here's something else to consider. Although there was a long fight for women's rights and equality, etc, etc, are women any happier now that they have a bewildering and often contradictory range of life choices? Is Superwoman any happier than her great, great, great grannie whose life was spelt out more or less from birth? Has women's lib gone too far, emasculated men and bitten us all in the rear?
I think that people are resilient enough to be happy in most situations, if they really set their minds to it. Aside from that, I don't think I can talk about happiness in general with any real authority.
Yet I must say that I think "choice" is a huge sacred cow and shibboleth. We seem to justify everything about the present by saying, "Well, at least we have choices people didn't have in so-and-so . . ." Yet I think ours is the first age to worship the abstract idea of "choice" in this way.
The suffragettes wanted something more definite than "choice": they wanted votes for women. At least that was something anyone could get behind or oppose with real clarity.
Allyson wrote:
I'm sure lots of women wish they were married to someone rich enough that they didn't have to work, but so do some men! Of my friends, I definitely hear the 'I wish I could stay home and be a housewife/househusband' from men and women alike, though it often (from both genders) comes off as 'I want to stay home and not work', grass-is-greener sort of statement.
I've actually wanted to be a housewife since I was very young. A feminist aunt tried to convince me it wasn't what I really wanted, and for a while I just wasn't right in the head.
Statements such as that may come off as lazy, but I've actually tested both worlds. I've had jobs outside the home and also spent a year as housekeeper to my aging grandparents, and I can tell you which one was harder (the latter) and which one I preferred (also the latter). Now that I'm back in the workforce, I get my vicarious fix by reading the blogs of stay at home mothers; if they also home school their children, so much the better!
"To be in a romance is to be in uncongenial surroundings. To be born into this earth is to be born into uncongenial surroundings, hence to be born into a romance." (G.K. Chesterton)
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Posted: Sat Oct 24, 2009 8:39 am
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With all due respect, I don't think you have tested both worlds. Caring for aging grandparents is no doubt a very difficult task. I had total care of my mom after a debilitating stroke so I know how hard it can be. But it does not come close to carrying a life for 9 months (with all the discomforts that entails), giving birth, waking up every 2 hours to take care of it for months on end, nursing, trying to figure out what the baby needs cuz it can't talk, not being able to leave it alone ever, etc. And I've done that and worked outside the home, simultaneously at some points in my life, and am truly grateful that I've had the choice to stay at home or work outside of home. But I also realize that most people today, in this economy, do not have a choice. It's instead a series of compromises. So I don't think choice is worshipped, but rather a goal that most people never truly get to experience.
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Posted: Tue Oct 27, 2009 9:32 pm
Post subject: Choice
I think it's interesting the ways in which we want to be like our parents and the ways in which they provide lessons in what we don't want to be. My mother stayed at home to raise her 3 daughters, and all 3 of us felt that our mother -- much as she loved us -- was bored and restless as a stay-at-home mom. As a result, all 3 of us work outside the home (although it must be said that my youngest sister doesn't have children, so it's not so unusual), because none of us want to be like our mother in that way. OTOH, my mother-in-law worked outside the home and my sister-in-law always resented it, so when she had her 2 daughters she stayed at home and enjoyed it.
I personally always loved that I had so many facets to my life. I was a wife, a mother, a working woman, a friend, a volunteer, etc. When things were hard at home (child going through the terrible twos, sleep deprivation, whatever), I knew I could go to work and talk to adults, that projects had a foreseeable end, and that my co-workers could be trusted to feed and clothe themselves. When things were hard at work (boss made an unreasonable demand, project was underfunded), I knew I could come home to a family that loved me just as I loved them -- unconditionally. Sure I was tired and at times felt pulled in a number of different directions. But I was so grateful that these were all
directions; if anything, I wanted more hours in the day to spend on all of them. Certainly I didn't feel wonderful every moment or every day, but mostly I felt quite blessed (and it didn't hurt that I have a husband who loves to cook).
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Posted: Mon Nov 02, 2009 9:11 am
Post subject:
Lee wrote:
With all due respect, I don't think you have tested both worlds. Caring for aging grandparents is no doubt a very difficult task. I had total care of my mom after a debilitating stroke so I know how hard it can be. But it does not come close to carrying a life for 9 months (with all the discomforts that entails), giving birth, waking up every 2 hours to take care of it for months on end, nursing, trying to figure out what the baby needs cuz it can't talk, not being able to leave it alone ever, etc.
There's no need to get defensive.
It's all good, and I do look forward to being a mother someday, right?
What I meant was that I know what it's like to work outside the home and be independent, and also what it's like to be supported by somebody else while doing what many people might not consider a "real" job. While I was taking care of my grandparents, I ended up asking my mom (who kept her professional job) for an allowance for the first time since high school. It was very humbling for me (even taking my huge "pay cut" into account), but given our situation, it really was fair.
The second situation is definitely a less powerful position and many women have been made to feel like second class citizens for having chosen it or something like it.
"To be in a romance is to be in uncongenial surroundings. To be born into this earth is to be born into uncongenial surroundings, hence to be born into a romance." (G.K. Chesterton)
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Posted: Mon Nov 02, 2009 11:03 am
Post subject: Re: Period mores and etiquette in historical romance
Elaine S wrote:
Here's something else to consider. Although there was a long fight for women's rights and equality, etc, etc, are women any happier now that they have a bewildering and often contradictory range of life choices? Is Superwoman any happier than her great, great, great grannie whose life was spelt out more or less from birth? Has women's lib gone too far, emasculated men and bitten us all in the rear?
Happiness is subjective. What makes one person happy doesn't necessarily make another person happy. Is happiness the correct way to judge progress? Everyone has their own definition of happiness. It's a nice by-product and to be happy is icing on the cake. I do think giving people the right to choose makes people feel they are in control of their lives. They then own their lives. If they do well they can be happy about their choices. If life does not work well for them they have no one to blame but themselves.
If there are any emasculated men as a result of the women's movement, they have done it to themselves. They are insecure and frightened over their loss of their special privileges and angry they have to compete on merit with women. Must be pretty scary to those guys that dislike women and feel that women are inferior to them. I would think most men who feel they have been emasculated are those men who are pretty insecure or are misogynists. People should be judged on merit, ability, education and talent not on race, gender or social standing.
I certainly appreciate choices I have had in my life. My sister graduated from high school in 1956. She said her two choices were nursing and teaching. She opted for nursing. By the time I graduated in 1973 the world was opening up a little more so I had more choices than my sister.
When my first child was born in 1989 I chose to be a stay-at-home mom. I was fortunate I had a choice. If I could not have stayed home I probably would not have had kids. Again my choice. It was also nice to have a good income that allowed me to stay home. The only thing that bothers me about the debate between stay-at-home moms and working moms is the hypocrisy. Our society expects upper-class moms to stay home but expects lower-class moms to work. Society is basically telling them not to have children. You can't tell me that lower-class mom's kids don't need their mothers as much as upper-class kids need their moms. As long as kids are loved, nurtured and wanted it shouldn't matter who has kids.
Having reproductive choice certainly gives women more freedom. Women should have the final say with their bodies. To have kids or not to have kids is a woman's right. It's not always about being fertile and being able to create life but the desire to be a mother and a willingness to provide a loving, nurturing environment for any children brought into this world. If a woman can not provide that environment and has no desire to provide it she is better off and so is society as well as her children to either give that child up for adoption or to terminate the pregnancy. And what choice she makes is no one's business.
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Posted: Mon Nov 02, 2009 12:25 pm
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I'm not a misogynist, and I've still got plenty of testosterone moving around in the blood stream, but I do think that the extremes of the women's movement have so blurred the line between men and women that both genders get confused about what is and what is not "politically correct." In general, the old rules about how men and women conduct themselves in their interactions have, also, I think, led to deterioration of general conduct.
And, when it becomes a problem to choose a pronoun that won't offend someone--usually female, I think--language suffers also.
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Posted: Sat Nov 07, 2009 10:14 pm
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I have never believed in the strict differentiation between male and female traits anyway. People in general are different and while there are tendencies of certain traits/interests/abilities correlating with one gender or the other (and so far no one can tell whether those tendencies are the result of nature, nurture or a combination of both), both men and women exist along a broad range of traits, interests and abilities. While some people may extremely conform to one gender stereotype or the other, most of us are a mix of stereotypically male and female traits. In short, men and women are not different. People are different.
I am very grateful that the 1960s did away with the whole "men are like that and women are like this" mentality, though those attitudes have begun to rear their ugly head again in recent years under the guise of evolutionary biology. And while I have no beef with either evolution or evolutionary biologists, I really wish they would stick to fossils and fruit flies and leave anything with the brain capacity of a chimpanzee or higher alone.
As a result, I find many of the old rules of conduct between men and women stifling, redundant and sometimes downright insulting to both genders. There are gestures of general civility that make sense regardless of gender. For example, I think it's perfectly natural to hold open the door for the person behind me, whether that person is male or female, old or young. And if the person in front of me lets the door slam into my face, I think, "What a jerk!", regardless of gender.
Other rules used to make sense, but are redundant now, for example the old chestnut about how the man should always enter the restaurant first. I absolutely hated that rule, because it seemed to imply that women were second class citizens that had to wait until the important people, i.e. men, were inside. Then I read that the reasoning behind the "men go first rule" was that the men could shield the women from flying tables, chairs or glasses. Which made sense - during the Regency. However, how often do you enter a restaurant where the patrons are likely to throw furniture around these days?
Other old norms of conduct are downright insulting, e.g. the assumption that the man always pays for coffee, dinner, movie tickets and hopes (or in the nastier cases assumes) that the woman will pay him back with sex in due time. In the early stages of a romantic/potentially romantic relationship, I always pay for my own dinner, movie ticket or whatever. And if I can't afford it, I bloody well say so. In fact, I think a lot of potential awkwardness between men and women could be avoided, if people would just talk to each other. Not sure if a woman would feel insulted if a man opened the door for her, brought her flowers or whatever? Ask her. And frankly, only the most extreme and humourless of feminists are offended when a man holds the door open for them or holds their coat. Most of us may find some things a bit old-fashioned (e.g. the coat holding thing usually makes it more difficult for me to get into my coat than otherwise), but have no real problem with it and especially aren't bitchy about it.
Though I agree with dick about the pronoun issue (and in many ways, it's even worse in German). Getting upset about pronouns or the gender ratio of stick figures on traffic signs (yes, I once met a feminist who was crusading for equality in traffic signage) is counterproductive, as long as there are still way too many really important problems to tackle.
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Posted: Sun Nov 08, 2009 11:08 am
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Agreed that the old rules of conduct between men and women, when one thinks about them or the reasons for them, appear silly. But I also think that, like good manners in general, they created greater ease in most situations. Neither gender, when the rules were known, had any doubts about what to say or what to do in most social situations. With some of the more ardent feminists, that ease can no longer be counted on.
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Posted: Tue Nov 10, 2009 8:22 am
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Cora wrote:
I have never believed in the strict differentiation between male and female traits anyway. People in general are different and while there are tendencies of certain traits/interests/abilities correlating with one gender or the other (and so far no one can tell whether those tendencies are the result of nature, nurture or a combination of both), both men and women exist along a broad range of traits, interests and abilities. While some people may extremely conform to one gender stereotype or the other, most of us are a mix of stereotypically male and female traits. In short, men and women are not different. People are different.
This looks good on paper and what person could not agree with you? It makes sense, appears logical...and yet, I feel there are differences between men and women--in how they process thoughts and interact. Granted, there are not as many spaces in our behaviors as we once thought, though; and that's a good thing. I haven't studied this on a professional level or earned any degrees in psychology, etc. But, generally, IMO, there are differences, some subtle and some not, that exist between females and males.
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Posted: Tue Nov 10, 2009 10:38 am
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Vive la difference!
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Posted: Wed Jan 06, 2010 10:18 pm
Post subject: What feminists fought for
I'm part of the feminist generation and I remember well the days when we yearned for the equality--and even more--for the respect men had in the workplace. Looking back, I know we succeeded at least in part. Recently, the wife of one of my best friends was offered a transfer and promotion if she moved to another state, and my friend said he was moving with her, that it was her turn to follow her dream. Now that's commitment to equality and respect!
A few years ago when my youngest daughter married, she decided to give up her career as an HR director and be a stay-at-home wife (and now a mom). I found myself becoming unaccountably annoyed at first. I'd set such a fine example for her by pursuing my own career. Didn't she get it? Then I realized that what we'd fought for wasn't the freedom to work but the freedom to choose.
My daughter is eminently happy with her choice. However, having that choice was an important point we feminists often overlooked while struggling to be part of the "boys' club" in years past. Now there are options for women. They can choose to follow a career or take time out for family. As I was growing up, the expectations were set for girls, and that's what I and many others rebelled against.
When I was in my first year of college, I met a girl who asked me, "So, why are you here? Because your parents sent you or to find a husband?" Stunned, I mumbled something about wanting an education and beat a hasty retreat. It's different today.
Heroines in our novels need to be consistent with the times they live in, but they can be creative and push the envelope a little. That's what makes them intriguing--and attractive to men who regard other women as flighty little debutantes.
"I write only when I'm inspired and I make it a point to be inspired every morning at nine o'clock." - Peter deVries
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Posted: Sun Feb 28, 2010 9:43 pm
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dick wrote:
Agreed that the old rules of conduct between men and women, when one thinks about them or the reasons for them, appear silly. But I also think that, like good manners in general, they created greater ease in most situations. Neither gender, when the rules were known, had any doubts about what to say or what to do in most social situations. With some of the more ardent feminists, that ease can no longer be counted on.
I think that in times of transition, it is harder to gauge "appropriate behavior." People like to stay with what is familiar to them and change of any kind is difficult. Those who oppose this change can be just as ardent. Fundamentalist Christians come to mind. I think the one constant over time is to treat people as you would wish to be treated. Good manners are good manners regardless of gender. If someone berates you for opening a door, that personality type would most likely have berated you for something else in a previous era. What specific rules that are no longer in place do you believe cause the most consternation for men?
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|A classic potluck dish, this casserole uses the same basic elements as chicken salad, but it is baked and just delicious! I like to include the chopped boiled eggs, but those can be omitted if you prefer. Always a favorite!
Hot Chicken Salad CasseroleCalled Hot Chicken Salad because it contains many of the typical elements of a cold chicken salad, but it's baked in a casserole form. Probably one of the Original Church Lady Casserole Recipes from way back, and published in most every southern community cookbook, it still finds its way not only at church socials, but reunions, potlucks, as a funeral dish, or at any number of other gatherings.
As always, ingredients do vary a bit among us Southern cooks with this dish, and some folks exclude the boiled eggs, though I think that they are fitting and taste good, so I do use them. You can also use a wide variety of toppings, including some additional shredded cheese, alone or with some soft or panko bread crumbs, cracker crumbs, or even potato chips which were the most traditional.
Some do add the toppings at the beginning of the cooking process. I personally prefer to heat the casserole through first before applying the toppings and then return it to the oven for the topping to lightly brown. Either way works fine.
Remember, the next time that you pick up a rotisserie chicken from the deli, grab two, or the next time that you roast a chicken at home, go ahead and cook two. Set the second chicken aside to cool, and then put up the meat in 2 to 3 cup portions in your freezer. That's what I do!
This is one of those mix and dump casseroles too - simple and super easy!
In a bowl combine the mayonnaise and soup; blend well. Stir in the cheddar cheese, lemon pepper, thyme and rosemary. Add the chicken, eggs, celery, onion, green onion and almonds; mix. Pretty much looks like good ole chicken salad doesn't it?
Taste and adjust seasonings, adding salt only as needed, then transfer to prepared baking dish. Bake 20 minutes until hot and bubbly and lightly browned.
Remove from oven, add topping, and bake an additional 5 minutes. You can also add additional cheese before topping with crushed crackers, potato chips or bread crumbs.
Recipe: Hot Chicken Salad Casserole©From the Kitchen of Deep South Dish
Prep time: 10 min |Cook time: 25 min | Yield: About 8 servings
- 1 cup of mayonnaise
- 1 can of cream of chicken soup
- 1 cup of shredded cheddar cheese
- 1/2 teaspoon of lemon pepper
- Pinch of dried thyme and rosemary, crushed
- 4 cups of diced cooked chicken
- 4 eggs, boiled and chopped, optional
- 1/2 cup of minced celery
- 1/3 cup of finely minced onion
- 1 green onion, sliced
- 1/2 cup of sliced almonds
- Topping (below)
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Butter a 13 x 9 inch baking dish. In a bowl combine the mayonnaise and soup; blend well. Stir in the cheddar cheese, lemon pepper, thyme and rosemary. Add the chicken, eggs, celery, onion, green onion and almonds; mix. Taste and adjust seasonings, adding salt only as needed, then transfer to prepared baking dish. Bake 20 minutes until hot and bubbly. Remove from oven, add topping, and bake an additional 5 minutes. Can also add toppings at the beginning cooking time if desired.
Cook's Notes: Vary the casserole toppings by using additional shredded cheese on top, alone or with one of these toppings: 1 cup of Panko bread crumbs, dry bread crumbs, a sleeve of crushed saltines or Ritz crackers mixed with 1 to 4 tablespoons of unsalted butter, melted, or simply slice cold butter thinly and scatter over the top; or add 1-1/2 cups of crushed plain or kettle style potato chips to the top, potato chips being the most traditional topping.
Variations: Reduced fat products okay to use but be aware that they are thinner. Include some finely chopped red or green bell pepper, or chopped pimentos for color, if desired. Substitute sour cream, Greek yogurt or a combination of the two, for part of the mayonnaise. Can also substitute a cup of sour cream for the cream soup if you like.
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Kheeston Rumeil Randall
Position: DT
Height: 6-4 Weight: 296 lbs.
Born: May 7, 1989 in Beaumont, TX
High School: Kelly Catholic
College: Texas (school history) (Randall college stats)
Drafted by the Miami Dolphins in the 7th round (215th overall) of the 2012 NFL Draft.
Weighted Career AV (100-95-...): 1 (13070th overall since 1950)
Other SR Links: College Football at Sports-Reference.com
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