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JBW TO THOMAS CARLYLE; 24 December 1822; DOI: 10.1215/lt-18221224-JBW-TC-01; CL 2:247-248.
Haddington / 24th December [1822]
My dear friend
You cannot fall on a more effectual [way] of making my kindness for you less, than talking so much about it— I see you do not understand how to manage us women; no wonder!— You ought above all things to beware of seeming grateful for any favour we may please to confer on you; for, you must know we value our favours just in proportion to the gratitude they are paid with. By thanking a Lady, however humbly, for any mark of her esteem you at once alarm her pride—her prudence too—if she happen to have any; whereas by receiving it with indifference you pique her vanity: and what miracles may not that work in your favour?— Would you continue to enjoy the sunshine of my smiles you must also abstain from flattery (at least of the common sort)— I have been stuffed with adulation since ever I left the Boarding-school; (at that time I was as ugly a little bundle of a thing as ever you set your eyes on) and adulation like sweetmeats palls the appetite when presented at all hours of the day— I value one compliment to my judgement above twenty to my person (for the latter, my glass declares to me every morning, is totally unmerited, whereas I may be tempted to believe the former has some foundation)—now what more delicate compliment can you pay to any one's judgement than to show you esteem it inaccessible to flattery? Here is a lesson for you! see that you profit by it!—
Oh this book! this book!— I dream on it all day and wake on it all night— you and it together will assuredly drive me mad—(One of my great grandaunt's (she had been taught latin too) died in a straight-waistcoat)— Write tales indeed, to be placed side by side with yours! as foils I suppose!— You must either think me monstrous silly or generous beyond example for You cannot but know that were I to rack my heart and soul I should never be able to extort anything worthy of being mentioned in the same century with the story you have sent me. Unmerciful that you are! thus to throw me back on my own weakness after deluding me with the hope of getting my stupidities enlightened by your wit and genius. I cannot even commence—so many sunny mornings in the month of may, and stormy nights in the month of december have shone and snowed at the commencement of works by ladies 'yo[u]ng' and 'very young' that without com[m]itting plagiarism I cannot avail myself, for a first line, of any one day of either summer or winter: Spring and Autum[n] have also been already appropriated—to be sure there is a still more convenient way of beginning—I mean plumping right into the midst of the business at onc[e], as in "No fictions" 1 for instance, which, I think, begins with "this is a fine day" said Mr A to Mr B, as they met (I really do not remember where; but somewhere they certainly did meet, and Mr A remarked, "the day was fine," and Mr B replied "it really was very fine indeed"!!) but then my love of order prevents me from imitating this lively, and humourous mann[er] of setting out, for I have an insurmountable dislike to all stories that begin just where one natural[l]y expects their end— I should be content to open the business with a moral reflection—but; (always a "but")—I never reflected in my life, and it would be the height of presumption to begin on paper— For mercy's sake help me in[.] If you do not you shall hear some morning I have hanged myself in my garters2 for an ambitious ass—
I return you Wal[l]enstein with many thanks— It is the most tragical tragedy I ever read and has cost me as many tears as might have wet my whole stock of new handkerchiefs— this german is a glorious language; while I live I shall bless my old music Master whose starvation first suggested to me the idea of learning it— I am in a desperate hurry tonight as you may see—I would have delayed writing until I found time to compose a letter worthy of being got by heart—had I not been in want of more german—if you have Faust I will thank you for it—if you have it not I desire you will not get it; but send me anything you have in the mean time and I can get it and some other books I want when I am in town the beginning of spring
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Release Date: 1941-01-01
Genre: Comedy,
Rating: NR
Duration: 1hr 51min
Professor Bertram Potts is the youngest of eight bookish academics assembling a dictionary of slang. They find a perfect "research associate" in the curvaceous form of strip-tease dancer Kathryn "Sugar Puss" O'Shea, who has hidden out at the professors' domicile to escape Joe Lilac, her gangster boyfriend. As Sugar Puss interprets various slang expressions, she and the professors grow quite fond of one another. She brings their personalities out from under their collegiate facades, while they revive her essential decency and genial womanhood. When Joe and his enforcer Duke Pastrami show up to claim Kathryn, the professors save the day.
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I love natural gas. It's a great fuel, but the focus in Europe has been almost entirely on natural gas and not about the potential for oil production using the same techniques.
One reason may be what to call oil from shales. Is it shale oil? Is it tight oil? The answer is it doesn't really matter. Oil is oil as natural gas is natural gas.
The combination of hydraulic fracturing, horizontal drilling and technology first gave rise to natural gas extraction in the US back in the 1990's but a few people like Harold Hamm of Continental Resources and Mark Papa of EOG took Mitchell's ideas to the next step.What if the same techniques could liberate oil?
The answer was found first in the North Dakota Bakken, then in the South Texas Eagle Ford and moved into the Permian Basin in West Texas. There are any number of developing oil plays n the US on the radar, but the basic lesson is that although oil production is not as widely distributed as natural gas, there is plenty of opportunity to go back to resources which only a matter of years ago were considered impossible to access.
The US domestic oil production has increased by over 2 million barrels a day since 2011. The nation is expected to achieve energy independence and to become the world's largest producer. This from the Economist last month highlights how reality has emerged so fast that outdated perceptions still exist even in the US:
The benefits of shale oil are bigger than many Americans realise. Policy has yet to catch up
That headline refers to the continuing discussion about US crude oil exports, something that seemed as ludicrous as, well natural gas exports did, back in 2010.
In Europe, we're only in the first days of considering natural gas abundance. The question of oil is completely off almost anyone's radar. Using US geological examples, just as we have great natural gas resource potential, it follows that there is substantial oil potential in the rest of the world. But, as European greens seem to forget, the rest of the world includes us. Not only are there great shale oil potentials in Argentina, Australia, Colombia and China, geologists with their annoying habit of looking at maps based on hundreds of million of years ago instead of borders today, tell us that there is significant oil potential in Europe.
Very few are paying any attention. This is especially bizarre in France, where the Paris Basin is thought of as a geological analogue to the Bakken. A popular saying in France is "We don't have oil, but we do have ideas". Yet the idea that flat, empty North Eastern France has enough oil to not only energise France's economic prospects but enough to potentially turn the Euro into a petrocurrency is almost unknown.
Northern Germany, Spain, the Netherlands and Hungary are all equally prospective - and equally ignored. The handy rule of thumb from the US is that if there was once some oil, at either at a very small scale or exhausted by conventional means in the past, the new "shale" techniques change everything. But today's oil prices also changes everything. It's obvious that peak oil meant peak $20 oil. At $100 there's plenty, and as with US gas prices, improving extraction technology will mean the market can still make money at far less than today's prices.
Yet, oil simply doesn't register on most people's horizon scans or scenario builds. That's interesting on multiple levels, but first things first and let's look at the UK.
I've been pointing out here for over two years that the potential for UK oil is as encouraging as it is for gas. IHS think the Bowland has 4 billion barrels of recoverable oil as they told an audience at Royal Geological Society last year. I saw three reporters there, from the Telegraph, Independent and Times. They must have decided it wasn't as interesting as controversial shale gas.
Similarly reporters could have picked up this from DECC's chief geologist. It was cleverly hidden in public testimony to the House of Lords. Those sneaky scientists making things complicated:
Lord Griffiths of Fforestfach: The report that you held up then is about shale gas. It is not about tight oil. Could tight oil also be a substantial addition to the UK's shale resource?
Toni Harvey: When DECC commissioned the report, we were focused on shale gas. It came somewhat as a surprise to us, because we thought that Bowland shale was going to be very deeply buried and entirely in the gas window, but there actually is some Bowland shale in the oil window, which is less deeply buried. So again, back to this figure of 42, the light orange is the Bowland shale that is in the oil window, and the dark orange is the Bowland shale that is in the gas window. Because most of it was in the gas window and we had not scoped out the report to do an oil estimate, we stopped at gas.
DECC has now commissioned the BGS to do a report on the Weald basin in southern England, because that basin has not been buried as deeply and is likely to be mostly liquids. In that case, we will probably come out with a shale oil estimate, and we might not go to the effort of doing a shale gas estimate.
I've written on this before, and been published elsewhere on it too. Just not in the UK, so therefore the story doesn't exist. Until the past week. There was a story in The Times that I missed since the paper lives behind a firewall so thick it doesn't even appear on Google searches, but luckily the Daily Mail stole it the next day, although, yet again it was nothing the Telegraph or the Financial Times or Guardian or BBC thought worth repeating.The Daily Mail, as passive aggressive and clinically depressed as it's readers, immediately saw the true story:
Oil-bearing shale rocks in the Weald area spanning parts of Sussex, Hampshire, Kent and Surrey are believed to be as rich in oil as the North Sea fields.
The area could hold reserves to equal a third of those under the North Sea, which would offer Britain greater energy security and could help to drive down prices.
But it would have to be extracted by fracking - the controversial technique which uses high-pressure water to split rocks - and attempts to exploit it risk an angry response from campaigners.
So let's call the whole thing off? I think not.Green campaigners have any number of rationales to leave gas in the ground - and some make some sense to other people, me included. Using more natural gas and postponing the emergence of renewable technology is one fear not entirely without foundation, even if I think it exaggerated. The leave all fossil fuels in the ground now because we only have a limited carbon budget is another fear that if you only were only looking at electricity generation and weren't bothered with security or cost but CO2 alone, might make sense in that case.
Although I say that gas not only complements, but could actually accelerate renewables, the green view is one of gas as a direct competitor and using gas today locks in investments that will shut out renewables. I think it wrong, but from some viewpoints, it would make sense to see gas a threat.
What greens can't ignore is that there is very little competition between oil and renewables. Speaking as a great fan of natural gas transportation in trucks, buses and even trains, I can still confidently predict that oil is going to remain dominant in what the wonks call the personal transportation sector and everyone else calls cars. Natural gas for cars will grow, but we have over 120 years of the gasoline engine and associated infrastructure to displace and that won't happen even if there were radical advances in battery technology and cost.
Green cars simply won't happen on a mass scale. The rather obvious question about electric vehicles is where the electricity comes from, which means that we remain locked in to oil powered cars. Of course even there, we are only locked in until we sell the car, so we can't say that domestically produced oil will prevent the sudden appearance of $50K Tesla's in the driveways. The lack of both charging infrastructure, and $50K each is preventing that.
The competition for UK produced oil is other peoples oil, since we import increasing amounts of oil and oil products this century as the North Sea has declined. Some may propose we use no oil at all Certainly, we are not using any more oil in OECD countries as cars become far more efficient thanks to pollution concerns and as public transport becomes more popular and simply because oil is so much more expensive than it used to be.
But we will need oil for the foreseeable future: In that regard there is no substitute on the horizon for our oil except to use other people's oil. So in that case, domestically produced oil will certainly be better for CO2 than imported simply because of lower transport carbon costs. We then have to ask why would be want to import what we already have as it involves exporting money that otherwise we can tax at home. We also have to ask ourselves, as Americans are doing, whether the true cost of oil alsoincludes international adventures to secure overseas what we have at home. In this case it's not a matter of worrying about the danger to peace and quiet of trucks on UK country lanes, but the physical danger to the military of UK tanks on foreign roads.
Producing UK oil has several benefits, but we need to know the size of those benefits first. I think the BGS report will suddenly concentrate people's minds. If we look at US analogues, we could see the sudden appearance of several hundred thousand barrels a day of oil. Not from out of nowhere, but under our own feet. How much exactly? The answer as in gas, is that we'll never know until we explore. A low impact exploration program may lead to substantial production.Then again, it may not, but we can have that argument only once we know what is -or isn't- there. To reject exploration is simply anti-scientific obscurantism.
The obsession with risks can also obscure the benefits. Let's use a conservative figures of 250,000 barrels a day production. That isn't too off the wall, considering the three well pad Wytch Farm field was producing 110K per day during the 90's for example. We didn't notice it because it was very low impact and also because the average price per barrel of oil in 1985 to 1995 was $18.87, giving only £313 million a year to the Chancellor.
Today, things are different. We know we can get more oil, although not yet, how much. Most importantly Brent Crude is $103. Even assuming a drop to $80, 250,000 barrels a day from places like the Bowland, the East Midlands and the Weald would produce £3 billion in tax revenue each year. 400,000 barrels at today's price would produce £6.2 billion. For only one good use, apart from the NHS or schools or trains or tax breaks too, that amount of money could accelerate green technology something awful.
But if we go back to the Daily Mail some people want to burn the lottery ticket before they've checked the numbers:
Plans for energy firm Europa Oil & Gas to sink exploratory wells in an area of outstanding natural beauty near Dorking, Surrey, have already prompted legal protests by the Leith Hill Action Group.
City financiers may not leave the M25 that often and are thus prone to a narrative of UK natural gas or oil will never happen thanks to a sylvan splendour spoilt only by the occasional Tory hobbit. But, apart from Wytch Farm and their £6 million apartments being safe from landscape impact, let me assure you that there are many sites in Southern Britain that are areas of outstanding natural ugliness. How do I know? Because I, and many others are out looking already. Some people don't need to read the papers to discover what's under our noses.


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Today concluded the 8th Annual Tools for Transformation Conference and Legislative Breakfast: Early Childhood Education – An Investment Worth Making! The two-day conference sponsored by the Special Needs Network (SNN) started on Friday with its Legislative Breakfast. The breakfast was held at the California African American Museum (CAAM) and was attended by elected officials, policy influencers, service providers, educators, parents, business leaders, and other community members.
The Conference is held each year during National Autism Awareness Month, and is the largest FREE autism, disability rights, and advocacy conference in the greater Los Angeles area. SNN President and Co-Founder, Areva Martin, Esq., started SNN after going through personal experiences with her son who has autism. She wanted to help parents who were having some of the same problems, and concerns she had experienced.
The breakfast included speakers and a panel to discuss topics such as policies, practices, and strategies to improve the quality of health care, education, and employment opportunities for children with special needs. One critical point that was shared with the large audience was "poor children of color have a 30 million word gap by age 3." Wow!
Day 1 continued with a Legislative Townhall, iStand4Peace Anti-Bullying Youth Summit, Social Media for Non Profits: 101, Advocates Summit, and a Get Empowered Reception events held at the Radisson Hotel, and the Davidson Conference Center.
Saturday, Day 2 of the Conference was held at the Junior Blind of America site, and included a FREE pancake breakfast, lunch, and sixteen workshops for parents, educators, and providers, featuring the region's top experts on developing IEP's and identifying appropriate early childhood interventions. And more than 50 health and education vendors were on hand to provide much needed resources to participants.
Both days included entertainment, and lots of support from the many volunteers who worked tirelessly to make sure that the conference was a success. But at the end of the day much credit needs to go to the Sponsors and Partners who provided financial and in-kind contributions that supported the magnitude of such an event. And they are: First 5 LA, Los Angeles County Office of Education, California American Water, ECEWORKS, Supervisor Mark Ridley-Thomas, El Pollo Locco, Yogurtland, Starbucks, Costco, Trader Joe's, echoes of hope, Farmers Insurance, and us bank.
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It's that time of year again: the Napa Valley Marathon
This time next week the 30th Annual Napa Valley Marathon will be underway. If you've driven around the valley at all in the past couple weeks you've surely noticed the hundreds of bright orange signs alerting you to the fact that the marathon is coming up.
The race officially starts at 7am in Calistoga and the course, which winds down Silverado Trail all the way to the city of Napa, officially closes at 1pm. Here's the list of roads that will be closed during the marathon, straight from the Napa Valley Marathon website:
Silverado Trail from Calistoga to Dunaweal Lane: 5:30am – 8:00am
Silverado Trail from Dunaweal to Deer Park: 6:00am – 9:00am
Silverado Trail from Deer Park to Highway 128: 7:00am – 10:00am
Silverado Trail from Highway 128 to Yountville Cross: 8:00am – 11:00am
Silverado Trail from Yountville Cross to Oak Knoll: 8:15am – 11:45am
Oak Knoll to Vintage High School: 9:00am – 12:30pm
Last year, Steve Sundell from Redwood City won the race in a time of 2:21:03.0 and the winner on the women's side was Devon Crosby-Helms of San Francisco, who finished with a time of 2:52:49.0. Here's hoping the weather next Sunday is a whole lot better than it is today!
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5th Street Grill Turkey Italian Sausage which comes in a big pack with 12 oz. packets. Slice sausage in half, then on the diagonal, and brown in a little olive oil.
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1 head cauliflower, cut into bite-sized pieces
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1 T white wine vinegar
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1 tsp. Italian herb blend
4 links (12 oz.) turkey Italian sausage (I like 5th Street Grill Turkey Italian Sausage)
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Running Results | Field Results
DES MOINES, Iowa - The University of Iowa track and field team competed in day three of the NCAA Championships Friday. The Hawkeyes were led by two stellar performances from team captains Erik Sowinski (800 meters) and Troy Doris (triple jump).
Sowinski ended his Iowa career with a race he will never forget. The senior ran a career best 800-meter time of 1:45.90 to finish second. He is the first athlete in school history to break the 1:46 mark. Sowinski previously held the school record of 1:46.09.
"I never would have imagined that I would take second place," said Sowinski. "At Iowa I have grown a lot. It has been a great four years."
Senior Doris leapt to a fifth place finish in the triple jump. Doris reached the mark of 54-1 (16.48m) on his fourth attempt to reach the victory stand. Florida junior Omar Craddock won the event with a leap of 55-6 ¼ (16.92m).
"Our captains did it for us once again," said director of track and field Larry Wieczorek. "They will leave a legacy at Iowa that will be remembered forever."
Matt Banse also competed on the day. The senior's hammer throw toss of 197-11 (60.33m) earned him a 20th place finish.
Senior McKenzie Melander will be the last Hawkeye to hit the blue oval. Melander will compete in the 5,000 meters at 12:19 p.m. Saturday.


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Silver Rule 4
My conscientious self, be no more to anyone than you are expected to be.
This might take us aback because we feel that it seems stingy to be only what we are expected to be. We might feel we should exceed others' expectations. And yet it is important to reflect on our motivation. What drives our need to be more than we are expected to be? We believe our intentions to be good—but is that what is really wanted, what is really needed? Does our gesture really have to do with the other person, or does it have to do more with what we wish to project? There are many causes concerned with saving the world and saving souls, and yet many such causes pay little heed to what the people they propose to save really want and need. This is presumption, well intended though it may be. This rule asks us to pause and seek to know from the other what is wanted, and only then, if one can help, to help.
Call to mind a situation where you've felt pressured and jostled by someone who, in their heart-of-hearts, perhaps genuinely intended to be of service, but didn't know how and as a result caused more harm than good.
Then switch positions and put yourself into the shoes of someone in your life who might not be ready for what you're offering them. Consider a different stance so as not to withdraw your sympathy, but to care in a different way, to introduce in your attitude and behavior a note of independence and patience—a readiness to be of service when the opportunity arises but with no compulsive need to do anything.
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There's no question that the best time to visit a campus is when class is in session, and springtime is perfect for that. Spring visits allow families to tour campuses with a relaxed attitude. There are no looming deadlines and you can gather important information about the application process in plenty of time to schedule any standardized tests or even squeeze in a missing course. Since many Florida schools start their admissions cycles during the summer, spring might be your last chance to see the campus before making the choice of whether or not to apply.
A few Do's and Don'ts for planning your college tour.
DO visit a variety of schools, even if you think you know exactly what you want. Go to at least one urban, one rural, one large (more than 5,000 students) and one small. You never know what you really like until you actually set foot on the campus. In Florida, this is easy to do! Colleges in our state are clustered around the larger cities, so a trip to Tampa, Orlando, Miami or Jacksonville can yield several colleges large and small for you to visit.
DO attend the information session and take the tour. Settling for a "drive thru" just won't give you a real feel for the place. Ask questions, get a copy of the student newspaper, see what's going on in the coming week on campus. Is this a place you can picture yourself?
DO let the admissions office know you're there. Even if you don't make a formal appointment, it's still important to demonstrate your interest in the school. This can mean extra points for you down the road when you apply.
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Edgar Villchur and the Acoustic Suspension Loudspeaker
|The AR-3 on display in the Smithsonian Information Age exhibit
|Edgar Villchur in lab ca. 1965
|Old and new enclosures, from Villchur 1962
|AR catalog 1974 explaining acoustic suspension
"A Laboratory Reference Standard Loudspeaker System" by Plach and Williams, old-style speaker was 52 inches high, from Audio, Oct. 1954,
p. 84 and p. 85
Villchur used two standard 12-inch Western Electric loudspeakers in designing his new enclosure. "I cut away part of the spider of one of them, making it more compliant. I also cut away the entire rim suspension and replaced it with a suspension made of mattress cover material (bacause it is very compliant, and adequately impervious to air). My wife, Rosemary, had worked as a draftsperson during WWII. With those skills, she was able to project my sketch of the three dimensional suspension to the correct pattern on the mattress material so that I could cut it out and form it to the shape I needed. I mounted the second Western Electric speaker on a baffle at the head of an enclosed stairway, so I could compare the performance of my acoustic suspension system with an enclosure volume of two cubic feet against and infinite baffle system with well over 100 cubic feet. The acoustic suspension system was substantially superior in fulness of bass, and especially in lack of distortion." (Birchall 1993)
|AR-1 "experimental enclosure, showing Fiberglas made up in cheesecloth-covered 'pillows.' The enclosed volume of air rather than mechanical suspensions, supplies elastic restoring force to the special 12-inch speaker.", in Audio, Oct. 1954
|AR-1 ad on page 85 of Audio, Oct. 1954 emphasizing small dimenstions and ability to reproduce organ tones, for $185
|AR-1 "assembled experimental speaker and enclosure", in Audio, Oct. 1954
Villchur took his new design to two speak manufacturers but they were not interested. One of his former students, Henry Kloss, was interested. Previously, Villchur believed that creating a commercial product would require the resources of a major loudspeaker manufacturer. "After these two rebuffs, and in particular the nature of the rebuffs, I changed my mind," said Villchur. In the spring of 1954, Villchur drove Kloss up to his lab in Woodstock, describing the theory of his new design along the way. After they arrived, Villchur played some recordings, including an E. Power Biggs LP with copious low-frequency content. After hearing it, Kloss exclaimed, "That's it!" and offered the use of his Cambridge loft to manufacture acoustic suspension loudspeakers. "And thus, AR was born," observed Villchur." (Birchall 1993)
Acoustic Research in Cambridge started with $4000 that Kloss raised from his friends, plus $2000 from Villchur. Since they didn't have the capitalization to hire a production engineer to convert the prototype into a production model, Kloss worked out the details. "Henry was responsible for at least 75 percent of the production design of the AR-1. The rest was done by me and by Tony Hoffman, a physicist friend of Henry." They assembled several AR-1 loudspeakers in time for the New York Audio Show in September 1954. Although the critics were impressed with the clean 32-Hz organ pedal tones that the AR-1 could reproduce, they did not quite get the point. "One critic commented,' If your space is limited and you're looking for a small speaker, you should consider the AR-1 very seriously. It's a fine speaker - for its size.' Julian Hirsch, who at the time published the Audio League Report, wrote that 'the AR-1 had the lowest electroacoustic efficiency of any loudspeaker on the market - but at 25 Hz and below, it was more efficient that the Klipschorn, which had the highest efficiency of any speaker on the market.' Hirsch also said that the AR-1 'established a new industry standard for low distortion bass.' Eventually, the industry began to realize that the smaller size of the cabinet was only a secondary advantage of the extended bass response." (Birchall 1993)
The acoustic suspension speaker of Edgar Villchur has been considered one of the five most important speaker designs since the Rice-Kellog dynamic speaker of 1925. "What really caught the public fancy, however, was the fact that the original Acoustic Research AR-1 was a small loudspeaker system having essentially flat low-frequency response to- below the 40-Hz region. Other manufacturers were quick to point out that the AR-1 gobbled up about 10 times the electrical power needed by larger, more efficient systems. With 50- and 60-watt amplifiers becoming available, this turned out not to be a major drawback, and the trend toward smaller, less-efficient home loudspeaker systems was firmly established." (Augspurger 1987)
|AR-2 loudspeaker ad with press comments, from Audio, Oct. 1958
|AR-2 loudspeaker ad, from Audio, Oct. 1958
|AR-2 loudspeaker ad with picture of "Louis Armstrong in his den, editing tape (Note his AR-2 loudspeaker at the left)" from Audio, Oct. 1958
Villchur lowered the cost of his speaker with the $89 AR-2 model introduced in 1956. The use of this small inexpensive speaker by such notables as Louis Armstrong was featured in AR's advertising. By 1958, Villchur added a new tweeter to the AR-3. "The dome tweeter was Villchur's answer to the problems of high frequency dispersion. 'When you are listening to a loudspeaker in a normally reverberant room, and that loudspeaker has excellent on-axis high-frequency response but depressed off-axis response, the loudspeaker will sound dull in any listening position in the room, including one directly on-axis, because the major part of the sound you hear is that reflected from the walls, floor and ceiling. Putting a dispersing lens in front of the driver doesn't help much because there isn't enough high-frequency energy to disperse. The secret of high-frequency dispersion can be stated in two words: small size. Shrinking a cone tweeter to a small size doesn't help because the voice coil becomes too small to handle any appreciable amount of power. I placed my voice coil at the large diameter of the diaphragm. When you do that, the shape of the diaphragm emerges almost naturally as a dome. That has the further advantage of making unnecessary a second suspension, and it also greatly facilitates solution of the other problems (irregular frequency response and response at the extreme high frequencies). Some years later, Roy Allison improved the dome tweeter by making one with a pulsating motion.'" (Birchall 1993)
Villchur himself wrote most of the advertising copy and brochures for the company in the 1950s and 1960s, emphasizing facts and performance. This style of the 1960s ads continued in the 1970s ads. Villchur sponsored "live vs. recorded" concerts to demonstrate the accuracy and low distortion of his speakers. "He placed the musicians (the Fine Arts String Quartet, among others) on the stage, with a pair of AR-3 loudspeakers behind them. At various points, they would stop playing and the taped performance would take over. Most reviewers of the day could not tell the difference between the live and recorded sound. 'I thought these concerts defined what we meant by high fidelity,' commented Villchur. He took care to use the best equipment possible at the time, including an Ampex tape deck, two 60-watt Dynakit amplifiers, and number 18 zip cord." (Birchall 1993)
Villchur left AR in 1967 to establish the Foundation for Hearing Aid Research where he developed hearing aids with a system combining compression and equalization that were manufactured by the Resound Corporation. He was appointed a Visiting Scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and would write numerous articles and books on acoustics that would be published by professional journals of the ASA, IEEE and AES and reprinted by university presses. He continues to live and work at his Foundation in Woodstock NY.
- Augspurger, George L. "Theory, Ingenuity, and Wizadry in Speaker Design," Audio, April 1987 p. 51-55, originally published in Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 77, No. 4, April 1985, p. 1303-1308.
- Birchall, Steve. "Acoustic Suspension," Journal of the Audio Engineering Society 41, November 1993, p. 970-971.
- Rice, Chester W. and Edward W. Kellogg, "Notes on the Development of a New Type of Hornless Loudspeaker," Transactions of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers 44, 1925, p. 461-475.
- Villchur, Edgar M. "Revolutionary Loudspeaker and Enclosure," Audio 38, October 1954, p. 25-27, 100.
- Villchur, Edgar M. "New High-Frequency Speaker," Audio 42, October 1958, p. 38.
- Villchur, Edgar M. Reproduction of Sound in High-Fidelity and Stereo Phonographs, rev. ed. New York: Dover Publications, 1965; 1st published in Cambridge, Mass.: Acoustic Research, 1962.
- Villchur, Edgar M. "A Short History of the Dynamic Loudspeaker," Voice Coil, July 2000, p. 26-32, paper presented at the 133rd meeting, Acoustical Society of America, June 1997.
- Photos courtesy of Tom Tyson, unless otherwise credited.
- 2001-2008 by Steven E. Schoenherr. All rights reserved.
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The winners of Saturday's matches will meet in the championship on Sunday at 2 p.m. CT, playing for a spot in the USTA/ITA National Team Indoor Championships, which runs Feb. 7-10 in Charlottesville, Va. The losers of both matches will also play in a consolation match, which will precede the championship at 10 a.m. CT on Sunday.
Alabama is 1-3 all-time against William & Mary, however the two teams have not met since the 1999 season. The Tide has won the last three matchups against Ole Miss, but trails in the overall series, 15-29. Oklahoma also leads the series against Alabama, 3-5, with the last matchup coming in 2011 at the Blue Gray National Tennis Classic in Montgomery, Ala.
The Tide is playing its first dual matches of the season this weekend, while all three teams traveling to Alabama have already logged at least one match thus far. The Tribe is 2-2, securing wins against East Carolina and James Madison. The Rebels are 1-0 with a win over Jackson State, while Oklahoma's win came at home against North Texas.
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Ten Individuals Claim Swim/Dive Scholar Honors; Both Teams Also Recognized
Five men and five women from the Princeton swimming and diving teams were honored as 2013 Individual Scholar All-Americans by the College Swimming Coaches Association of America. Both squads were also recognized as 2013 CSCAA Scholar All-America Teams.
Highlighting the list is rising senior co-captain Lisa Boyce, the lone Princetonian named to the Scholar All-American First Team, which honors those who have achieved a cumulative grade point average of 3.5 or higher, for the semester or cumulative average, and have qualified for and competed at their respective national championship. Boyce, who swept the 50 free, 100 free and 100 back, earned All-America honors in the 100 free at the NCAA Championships.
Randi Brown, Sarah Furgatch, Rachel Zambrowicz and Helen Zitkovsky were the four women who earned All-America Honorable Mention, which is presented to college and university swimmers and divers, who have achieved a grade point average of 3.5 or higher, for the semester or cumulative average, and have achieved a "B" time standard, but have not qualified to compete in their respective national championship.
Furgatch earned the pretigious Fulbright Scholarship upon her graduation, while Brown, Zambrowicz and Zitkovsky were each members of the Princeton diving corps. All five of the honorees helped Princeton knock off unbeaten Harvard to win the 2013 Ivy League championship, the Tigers' 11th in the last 14 years.
Five members of the five-time reigning Ivy League champion men's team earned All-America Honorable Mention, including rising senior co-captain Daniel Hasler, a three-time finalist at the 2013 Ivy League championships.
Graduated seniors Will Lawley and Stevie Vines joins rising juniors Michael Hauss and Michael Manhard on the All-America Honorable Mention list. Vines earned second-team All-Ivy League honors, as well as the Career High Point diver honors, at the Ivy Championships, while Hauss was a finalist in the 200 free and Manhard qualified for the 3-meter A finals. Lawley is a former first-team All-Ivy League honoree.


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Although football is certainly an exciting sport it's not without risks. In fact there have been so many claims for concussion related injuries the NFL is removing a $675 million cap on damages stemming from thousands of concussion associated claims reported ESPN on June 25, 2014. The NFL decided to take this move after a federal judge raised questions about whether there would be enough money to cover the claims of as many as 20,000 retired players.
The revised settlement agreement which has been filed in federal court in Philadelphia has also eliminated a provision which barred any person who gets concussion damages from the NFL from suing the NCAA or other amateur football leagues. Back in January U.S. District Judge Anita Brody had denied preliminary approval of this deal due to concerns the money could run out sooner than had been expected.
The settlement which was negotiated over several months has been designed to last at least 65 years and to cover retired football players who develop Lou Gehrig's disease, dementia or other neurological problems which are believed to have been caused by concussions which were suffered during their pro football careers. Plaintiffs' lawyer Christopher Seeger said this was a fantastic deal when it was presented and now it's been improved. There are thousands of former players who have filed suit with some of them accusing the NFL of fraud for how it has handled concussions.
The NFL with about 5,000 retired players have reached an agreement on a revised settlement dealing with the NFL concussion litigation which is pending in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania reports The Washington Post. There is no monetary limit in the new agreement which has an open-ended commitment to pay former players who suffer from dementia and other qualifying health issues which are associated with repeated hits to the head. This revised agreement seems fairer for former players who have found out the hard way that such injury associated illnesses represent a very dark side of playing football.


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Friday, June 28, 2013
What a difference a day makes. Yesterday we were trying to get our walk in between rain showers. Today its blue skies and 90 degrees.
I have been saving the two DesMoines walks for a day like this. (I have a goal of doing 100 DIFFERENT walks this year) The write up promised views of Puget Sound and the Olympic Mountains. I was not disappointed.
DesMoines Walk Y1461 is called simply "south". Starting in the Marina District, it did just that...walked south along Marine View Drive. Though this was a busy street, it was a pleasant walk with many nice homes and views of the Sound and the mountains.
At about 3k we turn off the busy street and enter Salt Water State Park. It is a rather steep drop from the entry down to the beach, but it is a beautiful walk.
And then you get to the beach. I remember driving my boys here for a low tide day when they were young. It seems many young families were doing the same today. It was quite busy for a weekday.
I took my time exploring the beach and the park and sat near this bridge to reapply sunscreen before moving on.
The return trip was retracing the route back to the start.
The second walk Y0605 is titled "Creek Stroll". I chose the 5k, which did not spend a lot of time on the creek, but it was very interesting anyway.
Starting out with a walk on the marina, it was interesting to look at the boats and birds.
This guy was being lowered in a sling from street level...I had to stop to watch.
Time to get my bearings before heading on
The directions for the 5k have you skip the fishing pier, but I went out to the end anyway. I was rewarded on the walk back with the chance to watch this couple have their wedding photos taken.
Leaving the marina, the route enters Des Moines Beach Park, a former summer camp now public beach access....
... then joined the Des Moines Trail.
After a short walk along this creekside trail I was instructed to return to the park,
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Thank you SeaTac Volkssport Club for adding these fine walks to our area.
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Can someone draw the reaction that leads to the generation of HOCl when dichloroisocyanuric acid (structure shown below) is dissolved in water?
Can someone draw the reaction that leads to the generation of HOCl when dichloroisocyanuric acid (structure shown below) is dissolved in water?
$N-Cl$ bond is polarized toward nitrogen: $N^--Cl^+$ This means, that any chloramine can produce $HOCl$ in water by mean of hydrolysis of $N-Cl$ bond.
The mechanism is more subtle matter. Basically, it should be one of $S_N$ mechanisms, but it is hard to choose right one here ($S_N1$ or $S_N2$). The central atom in mechanism here should be $Cl$, and $R_2N^-$ is leaving group.
To build on permekra's answer, I have drawn a mechanism. I think that is would be SN2 (due to the unlikeliness of $\ce{Cl+}$).
Water attacks a chlorine atom as a nucleophile, and the chloroisocynurate anion leaves resulting in $\ce{H2OCl+}$. The chloroisocyanurate anion can act as a leaving group due to its resonance stabilization (see below). Then, the chloroisocyanurate anion depropotonates $\ce{H2OCl+}$ to form choroisocyanuric acid and hypochlorous acid.
Finally, since there is another chlorine atom, this substitution reaction occurs again to form cyanuric acid $\ce{(NCOH)3}$ and another equivalent of $\ce{HOCl}$. The net reaction for the hydrolysis is:
$$\ce{ C3HCl2N3O2 + 2H2O -> C3H3N3O3 + 2HOCl}$$
For curiosity - the sodium salt of dichloroisocyanuric acid is the active ingredient in the household cleaning product Comet.


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A lot of people groan at the idea of budgeting and tracking every little expense and always second guessing even the simplest purchase. Building a spending plan is about more than that, though. It's about creating a strategy that covers how you save and how you spend money. A good spending plan is the first step toward meeting your larger financial goals, and it doesn't have to be as painful of a process as many people think.
A spending plan is more than just another word for a budget. Yes, it requires some budgeting, but it can be a great tool for helping you identify your available resources, spend and save more effectively, and develop more confidence and independence with your own finances.
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Many of us have been in a position where we just don't know what happened to all the money we expected to have. The end of the month rolls around and we're scraping to find the finances we need to get by. A spending plan will help you keep track of your finances and develop good spending habits by planning ahead and understanding more about your expenses.
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The UEFA European Football Championship
The Tournament
European football's premier event, the UEFA European Football Championship runs on a four-year cycle with the event being held on the even year that does not coincide with the FIFA World Cup. Inaugurated in 1960 as the UEFA European Nations Cup, it began as a very low-key and small-scale event, with only four teams taking part in what was a very compact final tournament won by the Soviet Union. The official name of the competition was changed to the UEFA European Football Championship in 1968, with the four-team final round remaining in place until the number of finalists was expanded to eight for the 1980 edition of the tournament. The 1980 tournament also saw for the first time a designated host nation – until then the host for the final tournament had been decided only after the four finalists had been determined.
As the marketing and promotion of international football grew during the late 1970s and early 1980s, so did the status of the UEFA European Championship finals. To increase the event's marketability, the long-winded official title was supplemented in 1992 with a shortened form of "Euro" and the year – meaning that the 1992 UEFA European Football Championships was also known as "Euro 1992".
By 1996, a tournament that had started off as a relatively minor four-team gathering had become a sixteen-team event, and it has already been decided that twenty-four teams will take part in the Euro 2016 finals – leading some commentators (including this author) to conclude that it is no longer an elite event but little more than an exercise to generate television revenue. Given that there are only fifty-three UEFA member nations, a final tournament consisting of twenty-four teams will mean that just under one in two (around 45%) of the member nations will qualify; if one were to apply this same percentage to the FIFA World cup, the final tournament would need to be expanded to accommodate a staggering ninety-three countries. We might has well just abandon the idea of Euro qualifiers and throw all of the member countries in together for one two-month footballing jamboree.
Fourteen editions of the Euro have been played since its creation in 1960, and only three teams have won the tournament more than once: Germany (1972, 1980, 1996), Spain (1964, 2008, 2012) and France (1984, 2002). Six others nations have recorded one victory: the Soviet Union (1960), Italy (1968), Czechoslovakia (1976), The Netherlands (1988), Denmark (1992) and Greece (2004).
The Trophy
The trophy awarded to the winners of the European Championship is the Henri Delaunay trophy, the first General Secretary of UEFA who has initially proposed the idea of a pan-European tournament. The original trophy was made of sterling silver atop a black marble base, and was presented to the winners in every finals tournament until 2004.
In 2008 a new larger, remodelled trophy with the same essential design was introduced, with the base being made wider and the marble plinth being removed. While the names of previous winners had before been engraved onto a metal plaque on the plinth, they are now on the 8kg, 60cm trophy itself, filling the space where a small figure juggling a ball had previously appeared.
Germany's Participation and Record
Germany has by far the best record in the UEFA European Championship. They have appeared in eleven of the fourteen editions of the tournament, more than any other participating nation; they did not enter the first two events in 1960 and 1964 and have missed out in the qualifying round on only one occasion – when they were pipped by Yugoslavia in the group stage of the 1968 competition. Five of these appearances were made as the Federal Republic of Germany or West Germany (1972-1988) and five since unification (1992-2008).
In these eleven appearances, the Mannschaft have appeared in the final match a record six times, winning three of them – also a record, now shared with Spain after the Spaniards' victory at Euro 2012. They have played the most matches of any participating nation (43), and have scored the most goals (65), moving clear of the Netherlands during Euro 2012.
Having missed out on qualification for the Euro finals at their first attempt in 1968, Germany did not put a foot wrong the second time around in 1972. Having made it to the last four, they clinically disposed of the opposition to claim the title. Thus began a dominant period for the Mannschaft, where they reached the next final – losing only on penalties to Czechoslovakia – before making it three finals in a row in 1980, when they claimed a second title in beating a competitive Belgian side.
A disappointing tournament in France in 1984 was followed by a semi-final exit at home four years later, before a fourth final appearance in 1992 which resulted in a second defeat at the hands of first-time winners Denmark. It was a case of one place better in England in 1996, when the Mannschaft reached their fifth final in seven tournaments and claimed a third title by beating the Czech Republic and gaining a measure of revenge for the penalty shootout defeat twenty years earlier.
After two barren competitions in 2000 and 2004 which saw ignominious first round exits, the new-look German team returned to the top with their sixth European Championship final appearance in 2008. Unfortunately it was also to bring about their third defeat at the hands of an impressive Spanish team. The German team had been hotly tipped to add a fourth title at the 2012 tournament, but after an impressive start would fall to bogey team Italy in the semi-finals.
Qualifying Record
Since their first European Championship qualifying match against Albania in April 1967, Germany have played a total of eighty-eight games: winning 63, drawing 18 and losing 7 – scoring 213 goals and conceding 52. At home their record reads played 44, won 35, drawn 7 and lost 2 with a goal count of 129-25, while away from home they have also played 44 games – winning 28, drawing 11 and losing 5 with a goal count of 84-27. The Mannschaft's first away Euro qualifying defeat was against Yugoslavia in 1967, and their only other away defeats were against Northern Ireland (Euro 1984), Wales (Euro 92), Bulgaria (Euro 1996) and Turkey (Euro 2000).
It was Northern Ireland who inflicted Germany's first home defeat in a European Championship qualifying match; in doing so, they became the first and so far only country to do the double over the Mannschaft in any World Cup or European Championship qualifying campaign. Germany's only other defeat at home came against the Czech Republic in qualifying for Euro 2008, though by that time both sides had already secured their passage to the finals.
Comparative Tournament Records
Only three teams have won the European Championship on two or more occasions: Germany, Spain and France. The following chart shows the tournament record of these three teams from the first tournament in France in 1960: Germany and Spain lead the way with three victories (with the Mannschaft making a record seven final appearances) while France have recorded two victories. The Spaniards have won the last two Euro tournaments, in 2008 and 2012.
Germany did not enter the first two competitions in 1960 and 1964, and were eliminated at the qualifying stage in 1968; they have made the final cut in every tournament since.
Key: 0 = DNQ; 2 = 1st Phase; 4 = Quarter-Finalist; 6 = Semi-Finalist; 8 = Runner-Up; 10 = Winner. Germany's three tournament victories are marked A, B and C.
UEFA European Championship Finals Tournaments, and Germany's Tournament Placing
France 1960 (4 finalists) – Did not participate
Spain 1964 (4 finalists) – Did not participate
Italy 1968 (4 finalists) – Did not qualify
Belgium 1972 (4 finalists) – Champions
Yugoslavia 1976 (4 finalists) – Runners-up
Italy 1980 (8 finalists) – Champions
France 1984 (8 finalists) – First Phase
Germany 1988 (8 finalists) – Semi-Finalists
Sweden 1992 (8 finalists) – Runners-up
England 1996 (16 finalists) – Champions
Belgium/The Netherlands 2000 (16 finalists) – First Phase
Portugal 2004 (16 finalists) – First Phase
Austria/Switzerland 2008 (16 finalists) – Runners-up
Poland/Ukraine 2012 (16 finalists) – Semi-Finalists


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In a stunning turn of events, it appears that the Spider-Man 4 film, set to be released next year, has been set aside and a script by James Vanderbilt will be used instead. It will focus on Peter Parker/Spider-Man back in high school with a completely new creative team and cast and is set for a 2012 release. A plethora of script changes and rewrites have stalled the movie and led to this dramatic reassembling of a once-mighty film saga. Both Sam Raimi, director extraordinaire, and Tobey Maguire are out.
With Thor being slated for a May 6, 2011 release, the Marvel engine is turning out some massive film epics with some of its core characters: Iron Man II is soon to hit theaters, Captain America, Wolverine and Avengers films are being bandied about, as well as a much rumored Daredevil 2. While Maguire is putting on the ever-ready happy face over the decision to revamp the franchise, the next few months should prove interesting as to who will don the webs for the next installment. It was no secret that at one point both Maguire and Mary-Jane Watson actress Kirsten Dunst wanted to move on to other projects, but just a few months ago the movie was said to be in full swing with a 2012 release at the ready. Raimi had done such a magnificent job with the trilogy that it will be most interesting to see how the saga will continue with all new faces and hands at the helm.
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The PUD staff told commissioners at work sessions Monday and Tuesday that the revenues for the 2014 electrical budget presume a 3½ percent rate increase, but commissioners have taken no action on such a hike and won't consider action until after public hearings next year.
PUD staff have not calculated what such a rate increase will mean for the average electric customer, spokesman Michael Howe said.
No water rate changes for 2014 are proposed for the PUD's 4,500 water customers, he added.
Any of its 30,000 electric customers will get a chance to comment on a more detailed electric rate proposal before commissioners consider the new rates, likely in April, Howe added.
Working out details
Staff will work out the details of the proposed rate increase, presumed in the PUD's 2014 electric system budget, by early spring, Howe said.
By then, a consultant will have completed a study on how much it costs to run the electric utility, he added.
Commissioners are expected to decide on a consultant in December, Howe said. If a contract is approved then, the cost-of-service study could be done by March.
The PUD's electrical department expense budget is expected to be about $65.6 million in 2014, up from $57.9 million in 2013.
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Electric revenues are expected to be $64.9 million in 2014, up from $57.2 million budgeted for 2013.
The PUD's water department expense budget is expected to be $6.9 million in 2014, up from $4.7 million in 2013.
Water revenues are expected to be $6.8 million in 2014, up from $4.5 million budgeted for 2013.
The PUD's largest upcoming expenses include about $10.2 million worth of new construction expected to start, contingent on commissioner approval and permitting, next June or July and take between 14 and 18 months.
The new construction will include a new headquarters building next to the central warehouse facility on 100 Hooker Road in Carlsborg and an expansion of the operations center off Carlsborg Road for the engineering department.
The new headquarters and engineering shop is slated to take the place of the PUD's Port Angeles office and water maintenance shop, which would be put up for sale.
Reporter Jeremy Schwartz can be reached at 360-452-2345, ext. 5074, or at email@example.com.
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A Nevada motel captive was rescued after six months thanks to a Facebook post. On Jan. 14, The Las Vegas Sun reported that Sheena Herschbach was kept captive by Jason Greniger at the MV Motel in Mesquite, only allowed to go out to buy Greniger some beer. He threatened her and beat her and kept her at his beck and call for the past several months -- until she finally was able to get to a computer.
According to the report, Herschbach convinced Greniger to let her go to the library. While she was there, she quickly logged in to her Facebook account and posted a cryptic message.
The Nevada motel captive wrote, "I just want to let every one know I'm sarry I whant to come home but he wont let me yes Jason don't knoe im online in mesquet novata at the mv motel (sic)." A friend saw the strange post and quickly alerted police. Police acted swiftly and were able to save Herschbach -- and arrest Greniger.
"Herschbach said Greniger beat her numerous times and threatened to harm her or her children if she tried to call police. It wasn't until he allowed her to visit the library that she was able to escape," read the Mesquite Police arrest report in part.
The Nevada motel captive's kidnapped tried to deny who he was but he was eventually taken into custody and charged with second-degree kidnapping. Sheena Herschbach is back home with her family and is said to be doing better following the ordeal.
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Maurice B. PrendergastAmerican, 1858 - 1924
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Maurice Prendergast . . . plays with his public his usual baffling little game of pretending to repeat himself and never doing it. That psychically sensitive public continually is hypnotized into thinking that because the little figures continue satisfactorily to exist without features and to picnic joyously upon a sunny shore there is nothing new to be got out of the Prendergast designs. Let them invent a little game for themselves and practice tracing the composition in pure line. Hardly a painter can be found to give more variety of linear pattern.1
In the work of Maurice B. Prendergast (1859 - 1924), the ongoing theme is a crowd of people at leisure in public places. His early work usually featured flocks of small figures, rendered as masses of brilliant mosaic-like touches of color, thronging through parks, streets, and beaches. As time went on, his subjects remained basically the same, but the figures became larger, their poses more emphatic and differentiated. Indeed, as the figures grew in size and decreased in number, it became easy to believe that Prendergast replicated the same compositions over and over again. Yet one searches in vain through the vast catalogue of his work for repeated compositions. One finds endless variations on the familiar themes, but not strict repetition. For him, the subject matter was essentially a vehicle for his constant pursuit of a fresh orchestration of color, line, pattern, and compositional design.
Recent scholars have recognized that Prendergast's emphasis on formal elements over subject matter, his use of brilliant color, the flattening and patterning of forms, and his free handling of mediums (which at times approached abstraction) are characteristics that link his art closely with European Post-Impressionism and modernism. Yet somehow, in the fifty or so years after his death, Prendergast was portrayed in the literature as a reclusive character who functioned "outside the mainstream of American artistic life."2 Indeed, a great deal about his art and reputation seems to have been lost, confused, or misinterpreted. It was not until 1980 that Patterson Sims recognized how misunderstood Prendergast's contribution had become, when he wrote: "Because of his association with The Eight, Prendergast's commitment to modernism and his real achievement as a modernist have been minimalized and misunderstood."3 A decade later, in the catalogue raisonné of Prendergast's work, Nancy Mowll Mathews plumbed the depths of this issue, revealing in detail Prendergast's lifelong attraction to modernism and his incorporation of many of its principles into his work, and showing that he had been recognized during his lifetime as a modernist.4
Born in St. John's, Newfoundland, in 1857, Prendergast moved with his family to Boston in 1868. Beginning in the early 1890s and until 1914 he traveled several times to Europe. Largely self-taught, he received his most sustained artistic training in Paris in 1891-94 at the Académie Julian and the Académie Colarossi. As early as 1900, when he received a solo exhibition at the esteemed Macbeth Gallery in New York, Prendergast already was using the bold brushwork and luminous color that foreshadowed the watercolors of John Marin.5 More important, however, would be the influence of Paul Cézanne, Henri Matisse, and the Fauves on the work that emerged after his 1907 Paris sojourn, causing him to heighten the intensity of his color, the freedom of his brushwork, and increasingly to flatten and simplify forms. In the 1910s Prendergast became an active participant in the New York art world, exhibiting his work there nearly every year, joining organizations of artists, and visiting exhibitions such as those of Matisse, Auguste Rodin, and others at Alfred Stieglitz's gallery 291, which had an evident influence on his work.6 Prendergast's membership on the committee that selected work by American artists for the Armory Show, to which he contributed seven of his own works, gives further testimony to the fact that during his lifetime he was recognized by his contemporaries as a leading American modernist artist.7Innis Howe Shoemaker, from Adventures in Modern Art: The Charles K. Williams II Collection (2009), pp. 233-235.
3. Patterson Sims, Maurice B. Prendergast: A Concentration of Works from the Permanent Collection, exh. cat. (New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1980), p. 4. The other members of The Eight were George Luks, Arthur B. Davies, Ernest Lawson, John Sloan, Robert Henri, Everett Shinn, and William Glackens.
4. Nancy Mowll Mathews, "Maurice Prendergast and the Influence of European Modernism," in Clark, Mathews, and Owens, Maurice Brazil Prendergast, Charles Prendergast, pp. 35-58. In the same publication, Dominic Madormo, "The 'Butterfly' Artist: Maurice Prendergast and His Critics," pp. 59-70, shows that Prendergast's critical fortune also fell victim to misinterpretation in the years following his death.
5. Brown, "Maurice B. Prendergast," p. 20.
6. Nancy Mowll Mathews, "Thoroughly Modern Maurice," in Maurice Prendergast: Paintings of America, exh. cat. (New York: Adelson Galleries, 2003), p. 171.
7. Brown, "Maurice B. Prendergast," p. 15.


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