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Discussion in 'Former Pro Player Talk' started by 90's Clay, Aug 22, 2012.
joe sch, I would agree. I just would omit the "h" from Novak's name ;-)
Absolutely. If anything, it should be a "ć".
But what about Borg 8?
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The problems with conflating pre-open majors and non-traditional majors with traditional open majors are two fold: (1) pre-open amateur and pro majors are not the equivalent of open majors and, in my view, disrespects, discounts and diminishes the value of winning an open major, and (2) if you are going to do it for Rosewall, then you have to do it for everyone. On that basis, by my estimation, Laver has 36 major titles.
If we're including amateur and pro majors in this I think the YEC should be included - Borg also has 11 classic majors not 8.
Then shouldn't the TCC and ALL of the "pro majors," pre-open and open era, be included? What about the 1970 Dunlop International? Wasn't it the defacto AO that year?
And then Emerson makes the list of leaders.
Erm no? I've already said that I don't think we should lump all these different types of tournaments together as one. My point was that if the standards for major status are so varried and low then the YEC should be included. I don't want to have to explain this again...
Dunlop should be considered a major though due to the absence of a suitable AO IMO.
Well I wouldn't include amateur majors at all personally.
Then you have to deduct those amateur majors from Laver and Rosewall....you cannot have two standards.
Have you seen me list major counts for any players recently?
I have repeated this several times:
"The problems with conflating pre-open majors [amateur and pro] and non-traditional majors with traditional open majors are two fold: (1) pre-open amateur and pro majors are not the equivalent of open majors and, in my view, disrespects, discounts and diminishes the value of winning an open major, and (2) if you are going to do it for Rosewall, then you have to do it for everyone. On that basis, by my estimation, Laver has 36 major titles."
I don't want to have to explain this again, either!
So, you have said that they YEC and the Dunlop should be included in the major count. What about the TCC? Wasn't that bigger, more prestigious than any traditional major? It was higher paying than all of the traditional majors combined.
Your first point implies that you don't think counting majors in this way is correct, your second point makes it clear you're doing this primarily as device against Rosewall.
Seems like I was spot on.
Answer this instead of copying me...Ignoring what anyone might say of Rosewall's major count, how many majors do you think Laver won? If you say 36 then you are perpetuating the standard as opposed to just applying it.
Nope. I have said the Dunlop should be in the major count and the YEC in some years is absolutely a major because of the diminished status of the AO. I have only said that every YEC should be in the major count if we're including amateur and pro majors on a one to one basis (with Open Era majors). I believe the YEC is at least equal with the Pro Majors in terms of prestige and value.
The TCC in 1971 (IIRC) was a huge tournament, I consider that a major as well. I prefer to look at each of these non-traditional tournaments on an individual basis - I don't necessarily include the 1970 TCC as a major. The YEC in some years is absolutely a major because of the diminished status of the AO.
Reading comprehension deficit, indeed. In any event, if you are counting the YEC and the Dunlop, then it logically follows that any event that was determined to be more prestigious than the YEC or Dunlop (if such a thing can be objectively determined), should be included in the total list of majors.
I guess you didn't want to answer my question. Carry on being disingenuous, your stock is falling. At this point I'm not sure if you're dense or just a tool.
I guess you have no interest in having a reasonable debate. I have no interest in your sarcasm.
I've been trying to discuss things reasonably. You refuse to offer anything resembling a debate. I asked your honest opinion on how many majors Laver has - ignoring what anyone might claim about Rosewall - but you didn't answer. You've ignored the holes in your points and have been repeating my quips back at me. Offer something reasonable and logically consistent before trying to take the high road with me.
IMHO makes no sense to talk about the majors .
Even in 2015 the 4 slam not have equal importance . Wimbledon > US > RG >> Aus .
In 70 years the real majors were maybe 2 !
Before, they were 3 or 5 or 7 . Boh .
It makes no sense , I repeat , try 4 majors before 1990 .
In some years, the Dunlop > slam , to start 70 Dallas > RG , in some years the US Pro Indoor was a major, the master GP 77 >> RG .
Any WCT 1971 tournament , or Los Angeles South Pacific beginning 70 or Seiko Super 80 years ..... or US Pro to Boston or Washington Star >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> a slam amateur
Limpin, Same standard for Rosewall and Laver: Rosewall 25; Laver 19. You can add Wimbledon '67, Dunlop '70 and TCC '71 for Laver and you get: Rosewall 25 and Laver 22.
Thought you will learn from your many disproved errors in your Laver list of 36 but you won't...
Limpinhitter; You were not able f.i. to read exactly the Australian Pro titles for Laver and Rosewall (There even were no Australian Pro titles at all in the 1960's; Wikipedia is wrong and you ignored my hint to that!). It's a shame!
The 1970 TCC was not a big event. The 1971 TCC was a big event but still way under Wimbledon, AO and US Open (and maybe French Open).
NatF, Reasonable post. As mentioned Limpinhitter made several severe mistakes in his Laver 36 majors list such as counting some "Australian Pro" titles for Laver but no "Australian Pro" title for Rosewall even though the numbers he found were on the same Wikipedia page and on the same championship roll!!! krosero and I have already hinted to that error but Limpinhitter still refuses to correct it. Apart from that there was no Australian Pro in the 1960's at all as Rosewall once assured me. Wikipedia has some wrong data.There were some more errors in his list of 36 majors.
It's bad to be pro-Rosewall biased but it's at least as bad to be anti-Rosewall biased!
For sure and also give Bjorn his 11 big wins !
Sure, for someone who is 'pleading' for consistent standards for all he's made a really half assed attempt of it. Like I said if he really thinks Laver won 36 majors that is something we can debate, however his agenda with this is all to clear and his posts lack sincerity.
@NatF @Limpinhitter @BobbyOne : Appreciate your debates and reasoning on slam equivalent counts for GOATs. One suggestion, it would nice to see your rankings and totals. This would really help the casual browsers get a better feel for what the actual counts are for the greats that we know have totals that surpass today open GOATS.
I'm not sure what you mean by rankings and totals. I would merely say that, in my view, it isn't fair or productive (to anyone) to compare major totals between players who played there entire careers in the open era with those who didn't. KG convincingly argues that it isn't productive to count the traditional majors as equals before 1990. Further, if you are going to include events that are not traditional majors, then there is very little limit to what can be argued should be considered a major, year to year. For example, if the 1970 Dunlop International was the true Australian major for the year because the AO had such a weak field, then you have to add one major to Laver's total and subtract one from Rosewall's total. Further, if a "pro major," should be included in the totals, then why shouldn't a pro major, with an equivalently tough draw in 1968, 1969, 1970, etc., not be just as much a major as it was in 1967?
The bottom line is that, to put Rosewall at the top of the list with 25 majors and pretend that those titles are somehow of equal status as Federer's 17 open, traditional majors, or Sampras' and Nadal's 14 open, traditional majors is, to put it diplomatically, ridiculous. For the sake of honest comparison, the correct number for Rosewall is 4 and for Laver 5, unless the Dunlop and not the AO was the genuine Aussie major for 1970, in which case the correct numbers would be 3 for Rosewall and 6 for Laver. It is regrettable that they and other greats were deprived of the opportunity to play traditional open majors for all or most of their careers, but, it is what it is. And, that does not justify a dishonest comparison which diminishes and disrespects the value and status of winning an open, traditional major.
NatF, Thanks.
Limpin, You will never learn. Your bias is without any borders.
What do you want to subtract from Rosewall's total? Your hate against Rosewall is so great that you believe Rosewall was the winner of the 1970 AO. I can assure you: he wasn't!
I have explained the reason why it's absurd to value old pro majors as majors in open era (the GS tournaments were mostly the big events).
Your mathematics is breath-taking!
Djokovic2011, Your top eight are also mine but in different order. An example: I value Rosewall's achievements much higher than Nadal's. 25 majors vs. 14 majors.
What would your order be Bobby?
Nadal has won 14 traditional open majors. Rosewall won 4.
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Description: The purpose of this study was to examine the impact of computer instruction on the near transfer and far transfer of a means-end analysis problem solving strategy.
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The Role of Information in the Selection Process of a Primary Care Physician
Date: December 1993
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Information Management in Local Area Networks: Impact on Users' Perceptions
Date: May 1994
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Description: In this study, computer human interaction factors are examined as a possible source of information to aid in the operation and management of local area computer networks. Users' perceptions of computer performance and response time are evaluated in relation to specific modifications in the information organization of a file server in a local area network configuration running in Novell 3.11.
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Our program at Vacaville Unified School District is an exemplary model of differentiated instruction that is driven by the classroom teachers at our ten elementary schools. The students are placed in cluster groups and enriched with materials that may be accelerated or presented in greater depth and /or complexity. Our GATE Students are challenged at rate commensurate with their abilities that is determined by their classroom teacher daily.
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Congratulations to the Novel Knowledge District Champions from Alamo Elementary, 'The Bananas at Large! ' The team consisted of Carlie Goodsen, Katie Edde, Daphne and Ivy Knabe. Year #11 was the second, consecutive win for team Alamo. In second place were Markham's 'Best Buffalos' which included: Emma Boyd, John James, Ayden Morgan and Rubi Martin Del Campo. Placing third , from ACE Charter, were 'The Chapter Slayers' which included:Allison Cline, Emma Askew,Brooke Morgan and Kailey Berumen. This year's competition was delivered 'live' and digitally for the first time via socrative.com. The 'Most Creatively Attired Team' , the Mystical, Sparkly, Rainbow Unicorns from Padan absolutely provided just what was needed on Friday, 13 May 2016 at Vaca Pena Middle School. Many thanks to the village of volunteers that have supported the NK for the last decade plus!
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[1]Neonatal hemochromatosis is a disease in which too much iron builds up in the body. In this form of hemochromatosis the iron overload begins before birth. This disease tends to progress rapidly and is characterized by liver damage that is apparent at birth or in the first day of life.
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- Hemochromatosis. Genetics Home Reference. 2006; http://ghr.nlm.nih.gov/condition=hemochromatosis . Accessed 8/10/2011.
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- Genetics Home Reference (GHR) contains information on Neonatal hemochromatosis. This website is maintained by the National Library of Medicine.
- The National Organization for Rare Disorders (NORD) has a report for patients and families about this condition. NORD is a patient advocacy organization for individuals with rare diseases and the organizations that serve them.
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- The Monarch Initiative brings together data about this condition from humans and other species to help physicians and biomedical researchers. Monarch's tools are designed to make it easier to compare the signs and symptoms (phenotypes) of different diseases and discover common features. This initiative is a collaboration between several academic institutions across the world and is funded by the National Institutes of Health. Visit the website to explore the biology of this condition.
- Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man (OMIM) is a catalog of human genes and genetic disorders. Each entry has a summary of related medical articles. It is meant for health care professionals and researchers. OMIM is maintained by Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.
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- Neonatal hepatitis (formerly)
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The Cambridge Autonomous Underwater Vehicle
Creating autonomous systems is a fascinating topic and has been ever since Isaac Asimov wrote about robotics in the early 1940s. Such a system can navigate unknown terrains, perform tasks and make decisions without assistance from humans. Lawn mowers and vacuum cleaners, able to operate without intervention, are simple examples of these concepts. Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs) are now becoming a major area of research and development with large companies investing in advancing this technology for both defense and academic purposes.
Several competitions have arisen from the recent interest, such as the Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Student Initiative (AUVSI) challenge, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) grand challenge and the Student Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Challenge-Europe (SAUC-E). All are aimed at encouraging student teams to develop solutions to some interesting problems.
The Cambridge Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (CAUV) team is a group of students from the University of Cambridge that has developed a Linux-powered AUV for the annual SAUC-E. The AUV must be able to complete an underwater assault course with no communication with the surface, external processors or outside intervention.
The CAUV team includes about 20 undergraduate students from around the university, studying computer science, engineering or natural sciences. Most students join to gain experience in the difficulties involved with team-oriented multidisciplinary design projects, with problems ranging from how to manage a team effectively to designing components that will operate correctly together in a system.
In previous years, we've done well in the competition. We took second place in 2007, and we won a prize for innovation in systems engineering from Direction des Constructions Navales Services (DCNS) in 2008. Preparations for the 2009 SAUC-E competition are underway, with high hopes of another strong result.
Although the end-of-year competition is our short-term goal, we also have a long-term goal that heavily influences the design decisions we make. Part of our wider design aim for this project involves deployment into the Arctic through a bore hole in pack ice. To facilitate this, we chose a thin cylindrical design and avoided objects that would stick out of the hull, such as fins and external thrusters.
The chassis is small, lightweight and modular. The AUV is controlled by internal vector thrusters, two sets of two orthogonal thrusters that shoot jets of water to turn the vehicle and a propeller mounted at the stern. Most of the AUV is custom built in order to achieve the small size we require. Early on in the design process, we chose to split the AUV into five sections: the nose cone, the bow thrusters, the electronics racks, the stern thrusters and the tail cone.
The nose, tail and electronics sections are constructed from carbon fiber molded to a Myring Hull shape, allowing for minimum weight and maximum internal diameter. The nose cone contains a camera looking through a Perspex window, surrounded by a ring of bright LEDs to illuminate objects for the cameras in low light conditions. The bow thrusters' section houses a second camera and the vector bow thrusters along with associated electronics.
The electronics section houses the VIA EPIA PX10000G motherboard, which is supplemented with an array of dsPIC electronics to control the AUV and navigation equipment. The main sensory inputs are two orthogonal cameras and an inertial navigation system built by the CAUV team. The AUV's 12 2400mAhr Lithium polymer batteries make up the power core and offer a substantial working range.
We can estimate the best range and duration for the AUV using a basic fluid dynamics model of the AUV combined with data for power consumption and battery capacity. These calculations give a maximum range of 41km–51km at a cruise speed of 2.4m/s with a duration of 6–8 hours. The model also estimated the maximum speed at 4.2m/s.
Although our lightweight, high-density battery module allows for a good range, it does require careful management to avoid damage that can lead to explosions. This is where our custom-built battery management boards come in. Each battery has its own circuit that constantly monitors the temperature, charge and discharge rates. If any abnormal activity is detected, the battery is shut down and a log recorded in a central monitoring chip. At the 2008 competition, the battery management system was tested unintentionally when the AUV developed a leak, covering much of the electronics in water. Thankfully, the system worked perfectly, shutting down the batteries and protecting our electronics.
Waterproofing is a big concern for us, especially with the connectors that link the modules together. We fitted rubber O-rings to make the actual seal, but in order for them to be effective they need to be squashed against a smooth flat surface. To achieve this, we machined our connectors from aluminum with a 30-degree angle to act as the squash face for the O-ring. As some parts of the AUV need to be accessed more than others, we designed two types of connectors: quick and semi-permanent. The quick connector consists of a threaded aluminum sheath that screws over an aluminum ring attached to the receiving part of the hull, squashing the two parts of the connector together. The semi-permanent connectors use bolts that go up inside the AUV to compress the O-rings.
The AUV also is equipped with a mission-specific module (MSM) system so that extra hardware or sensors can be attached without major modification to the base of the AUV. We machined the MSM connector from an aluminum block, fitted bolts for the module to screw on to and provided a variety of wires connected up to the AUV electronics. Initially, these wires linked the mission-specific modules to the I2C bus of a dsPIC; however, we will change this to a more generic serial connection to the PICO ITX in the future. In previous years, this connection has been used to attach a marker dropping system required for the competition. This year, we plan to attach a much-needed sonar unit that has been kindly donated by Tritech International.
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This prank was perpetrated, in part, by Seattle's own Reggie Watts.
The premise of the presentation, which included a PowerPoint lecture by "S.K. Wolff," was that as humans begin to die as a result of calamities caused by climate change, their remains could be harvested for an alternative fuel source called "vivoleum" that would eventually replace oil.
Osenberg, supposedly the director of human resources with the vivoleum program, took the stage carrying a lit candle while volunteers handed out candles to the audience.
The approximately 250 assembled guests were told the vivoleum for the candles had been "sourced" from an ExxonMobil maintenance worker who donated it before dying of cancer.
The candles were actually made of wax and human hair gathered from barbershops.
Organizers of GO-Expo were not impressed with the stunt.
The candles were supposedly made of Reggie. Gross!


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Ben Franklin loves the ladies in Assassin's Creed III
Benjamin Franklin was a rather randy fellow. Most Americans know this already, but our brethren on the other side of the pond will experience just how salacious he was when Assassin's Creed III is released.
Speaking with Penny Arcade Report, creative director Alex Hutchinson explained that since Franklin spent a lot of his time in France the team "went with the more unusual sides of him, " – like his love of women.
Hutchinson goes on to explain Franklin's thoughts on choosing a mistress, but we won't get into that bit here. Click the link and read it for yourself.
The article also discusses other, less lewd elements to the game such as – like with previous entries in the series – each named victims assassinated in the game were real people at one point in history.
"It's super difficult, this period, because no one famous dies," Hutinson said. "We have a rule: Everyone dies in the right year, at the right place. They have to be real people. We don't get enough mileage out of it, I think it's kind of magical, and yet no one knows. I don't know how we make it more obvious.
"Every single person is a legit person, and they die in the right place at the right time," he said, just not in the way depicted in the games.
Assassin's Creed III is due on PC, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 in late October, with a Wii U version undated.
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Seattle Seahawks a favorite in media power rankings
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What people are saying about Russell Wilson's contract negotiations, Seattle Seahawks before start of training camp
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With just days before the start of Seattle Seahawks training camp — players report on Thursday, while practices start at the Virginia Mason Athletic Center in Renton on Friday — there's been a …
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Seattle Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson still hasn't agreed to terms on a contract extension, and that's not news. Still, it's got people talking. Since Bleacher Report's Jason Cole reported last …
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To not only keep your flatware in service, but also looking its best, it must be washed promptly and maintained properly. Below are the recommended cleaning methods as well as some tips on how to keep your flatware sturdy and shiny.
1. Use Portable Racks When Bussing From The Table
For transport from the table to the kitchen, always separate glassware, dinnerware and flatware. In bus trays, portable racks are great for holding flatware.
2. Remove Food From Flatware Before Pre-soaking
You can do this with a sponge, a pre-rinse unit or a rubber scraper. Never use metal scouring pads or abrasive pads, as they will scratch the surface of your flatware. Do not let your dirty flatware sit overnight.
Quick Tip: Change your presoak solution regularly. Dirty presoak solution will not help you clean your flatware.
3. Pre-soak Immediately For 10 Minutes
Food can damage the flatware and cause corrosion over time. Use a presoak solution in a plastic or stainless steel container. Aluminum and copper containers react badly with the presoak solution and can corrode your flatware. Presoaking for more than 15 minutes is also harmful.
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I've been following Daniel Cazzulino's series about building a DI container using TDD. In part five of the series, he adds support for container hierarchies without commenting on what makes this feature useful. I've seen mention of support for hierarchies in many of the DI frameworks, but I'm having trouble understanding when they'd be used, and why. Can someone offer some insight?
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Here's a sample that uses child containers in a scenario similar to the one Matt describes. It uses child containers to select between different database configurations.
The key here is that most of the configuration is shared between the child containers (that shared part belongs in the parent container)
I left a comment on kzu's blog asking the same question. It's a shame he didn't clarify the use-case for such a feature before coding it.
The only thing I could think of is if you wanted to have different types resolved from your container in different parts of your app. For example, if you had an order-entry system with two separate sections, and each section was identical except that they needed to present a different product list, you could create a child container for each section, and "override" the registration of your product repository in each. Whenever a section tried to resolve a product repository (or anything that depended on one) it would get the instance you set up in the child container rather than the parent. Sort of like overriding a virtual method.
This might be way off base, but it's the best I could come up with.
There is good reason for having child containers if dependency injection is fully embraced by the project. Let's imagine an application that has processes messages from two different, but similar systems. Most of the processing is similar, but there are variations to support compatability from those systems. Our aim is to re-use the code we can, while writing different code as requirements differ.
In OO programming, we wire together a series of classes that will collaborate to meet the system requirements. The DI container takes this responsibility. When a message arrives from a system, we want to build a set of collaborating classes suitable for processing a message from that particular system.
We have a top level container which has items that do not vary between the two systems. Then, we have child containers that do vary between systems. When a message arrives, we ask the approriate child DI container for a
Please leave a comment if this is not a clear answer. Also, you can search for "robot legs problem". Each leg is identical but one needs a left foot and the other needs a right foot. We could have a child DI container for each leg.
The best example that I'm aware of for nested containers is a windowing system. It's very nice for just separation of concerns to have each tab/window have it's own container independent of the other tabs/windows, with all window containers inheriting global dependencies from a parent container.
This is especially needed if you can have duplicate tab/windows, since in many cases you want to distinct instances of various classes for each duplicate tab/window


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I'm pretty slammed and distracted by my new Kickstarter (laumched yesterday) so what better post to write than another She Has No Head!/Random Thoughts mash-up (TM Chad Nevett!), especially since I haven't done one since 2011 – what have I been doing with my time?! Also, I'm sure you noticed, but in case not, Chad has been back on CSBG of late, stirring things up, so make sure to check out all that.
Random She Thought: It's She Has Random (Largely Narcissistic) Thoughts Time! Get Excited!
Link Thought: Kickstarter for the new Storykiller novel i.e. non-comics-y stuff, 1979 Semi-Finalist for blog-y comics stuff, 79semifinalist for twitter-y comics stuff, Kelly Thompson on CBR for review-y comics stuff.
Random She Thought: Show of hands, who is surprised that Superman/Batman got pushed? That's right, NOBODY. I mean, I think this is a good thing in that I didn't think there was any chance we were going to get an actual good movie in 2015…but given how much I hated MoS I guess I don't think we're getting a good movie anyway and so this just looks like more disorganized "we have no idea what we're doing" BS. Still, 2015 was ALWAYS ambitious.
The problem with Wonder Woman?
Let's cut to the chase, there isn't one.
Unless it's lack of balls…and you can take that either way you like. That she can't catch a break because she doesn't have literal balls like her male counterparts or because DC/WB/Hollywood/Whoever Is Really In Charge of These Things don't have the metaphorical balls to simply make her damn movie.
And why not? Frozen and Catching Fire are blowing the doors off at the box office and nobody cares that they have female leads. They just care that they're damn good movies. Smart movies. Movies that respect their characters and their audiences. And in the case of Catching Fire a movie that is vehemently faithful to its source material.
But we still somehow live in a world where "whoever is in charge of these things" thinks the best way to introduce Wonder Woman to the world is as a bit part in Superman/Batman.
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Worth More Than It Costs
By Margo Jefferson
Published: April 1, 2001
On Her Own Ground
The Life and Times
of Madam C. J. Walker.
By A'Lelia Bundles.
Illustrated. 415 pp. New York:
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HAIR: We are not content to let it lie quietly on our heads, but must color, cut, crimp, straighten, braid, supplement and adorn with plastic, shell, bone, metal, silk, velvet and every kind of hat. For women, it is mythology, obsession, religion and sport. What culture does not have some version of the old adage about hair as a woman's glory? Hair connotes standards of beauty, taste, power, money, class and caste. For black women, whose nonstraight, wavy or curly hair was considered yet another sure marker of racial inferiority, Madam C. J. Walker brought hope in jars that helped them grow and ''cultivate'' their hair. Her formula, combined with the hot metal comb invented by a Frenchman in 1870, gave hair a resilience and an appearance of straightness that allowed black women to wear the popular styles of the day, from Gibson girl to bob-haired flapper.
Walker's biographer and great-great granddaughter, A'Lelia Bundles, does not overestimate her importance when she calls Walker one of the pioneers in her use of direct sales (the Fuller Brush Company was founded in 1906, the same year as Walker's), marketing strategies and commissions. Bundles writes: ''As an early advocate of women's economic independence she provided lucrative incomes for thousands of African-American women who otherwise would have been consigned to jobs as farm laborers, washerwomen and maids.'' Walker's philanthropy ranged from the virtuous Y.W.C.A. to the radical N.A.A.C.P.; she began her career soliciting Booker T. Washington's approval and ended it working with W. E. B. Du Bois, Monroe Trotter and Ida B. Wells-Barnett. Shortly before she died in 1919, she planned to organize her sales agents into local clubs that could use their economic clout to protest lynching and other civil rights abuses while improving conditions in their communities.
Bundles's well-paced and well-written book, ''On Her Own Ground: The Life and Times of Madam C. J. Walker,'' is as much social history as biography, filled with the detail and texture of culture and politics. And rightly so, for Walker's life encompassed Reconstruction, the Gilded Age and World War I. She moved from the kind of poverty that usually ensures anonymity to a 34-room mansion in upstate New York, near the big show houses of John D. Rockefeller and Jay Gould; from visits to Tiffany's for diamond jewelry to plans for attending the International Paris Peace Conference in 1919 with a group of blacks determined to lobby for African independence -- which won her a place in the Military Intelligence Division's file of ''Negro subversives.''
She was born Sarah Breedlove in Delta, La., in 1867. Her parents were laborers on the same plantation where they had been slaves, and Sarah labored beside them, chopping and picking cotton. She got about three months of schooling. The rights that Reconstruction had so briefly granted blacks were being snatched away. The Freedmen's Bureau disbanded its education division. And two offshoots of the original Ku Klux Klan were founded nearby, the lyrically named Knights of the White Camellia and the curtly named White League.
Orphaned at the age of 7, Sarah lived with a cruel brother-in-law and a passive sister. ''I married at the age of 14 in order to get a home of my own,'' she later said. She was a mother by 17 and a widow by 20. In 1888 she took her 3-year-old daughter, A'Lelia, and headed north, like thousands of blacks who were fleeing violence and looking for opportunity. For more than half of the employed black women in St. Louis, opportunity meant work as a washerwoman. Sarah did that for 10 years, moving from boardinghouse to boardinghouse.
What Bundles calls Walker's ''scrupulously crafted life story'' began in 1903, when, as she told it so many times afterward, Sarah found herself going bald. (Most rural and poor urban women knew nothing about hair hygiene. They would wash their clothes and scrub their tenement floors, but they might wash their hair once a month.) She prayed to the Lord for guidance, she said, and one night in a dream, ''a big black man appeared to me and told me what to mix for my hair. Some of the remedy was from Africa, but I sent for it, mixed it, put it on my scalp and in a few weeks my hair was coming in faster than it had ever fallen out.'' After trying it out on her daughter and a neighbor she decided to sell her formula; it was ''inspiration from God,'' a gift to be placed ''in the reach of those who appreciate beautiful hair and healthy scalps which is the glory of woman.''
The actual story wasn't quite so visionary or simple. Walker began as an agent for the black businesswoman she eventually outstripped, Annie Pope-Turbo, whose Poro School of Beauty Culture was already well established in St. Louis. (And whose products, Bundles writes, probably helped Sarah's hair grow back.) In 1906 she headed for Denver, armed with Poro products and a third husband, C. J. Walker. She had her own company by 1906 and a divorce by 1912. Helped by her daughter (who much preferred to party but did her best to please mother), Walker took her Wonderful Hair Grower across the country, selling it, setting up shops and training women in her hair-care methods. By 1907, the washerwoman who had earned $300 a year was earning $300 a month. When she died, of kidney disease, her net worth of $600,000 made her a millionaire in myth, not fact. But that sum, the equivalent of $6 million today, did make her one of the richest businesswomen in America.


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for a project I'd need to make a quiz, where the user has the possibility to answer the question until he finds the correct solution.
So if we've got A), B) and C), if A) is correct and the user chooses B), he shouldn't see the solution, but get a "wrong!" message and the chance to answer again to the same question.
I hope my text is understandable and sb can help me!!