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National Security Agency officials are considering a controversial amnesty that would return Edward Snowden to the United States, in exchange for the extensive document trove the whistleblower took from the agency…
The NSA official in charge of assessing the alleged damage caused by Snowden's leaks, Richard Ledgett, told CBS News an amnesty still remains controversial within the agency, which has spent the past six months defending itself against a global outcry and legislative and executive proposals to restrain its broad surveillance activities.
"My personal view is, yes, it's worth having a conversation about," Ledgett, who is under consideration to become the agency's top civilian, said in an interview slated to air Sunday evening on 60 Minutes. "I would need assurances that the remainder of the data could be secured, and my bar for those assurances would be very high. It would be more than just an assertion on his part."
The White House echoed a long-held position Monday: There will be no amnesty for Edward Snowden.
"Mr. Snowden is accused of leaking classified information and faces felony charges here in the United States," said Caitlin Hayden, spokesperson for the National Security Council. "He should be returned to the U.S. as soon as possible, where he will be accorded full due process and protections."
American intelligence and law enforcement investigators have concluded that they may never know the entirety of what the former National Security Agency contractor Edward J. Snowden extracted from classified government computers before leaving the United States, according to senior government officials.
Investigators remain in the dark about the extent of the data breach partly because the N.S.A. facility in Hawaii where Mr. Snowden worked — unlike other N.S.A. facilities — was not equipped with up-to-date software that allows the spy agency to monitor which corners of its vast computer landscape its employees are navigating at any given time…
"They've spent hundreds and hundreds of man-hours trying to reconstruct everything he has gotten, and they still don't know all of what he took," a senior administration official said. "I know that seems crazy, but everything with this is crazy."
Amnesty? Have they lost their minds? Snowden is a traitor to his country, who is responsible for the most damaging theft and release of classified information in American history. His actions have exposed not only the NSA terrorist surveillance programs, but our intelligence collection efforts against foreign governments, including Russia and China. He has aided our enemies, shared intelligence with potential adversaries, and has damaged our ability to defend against future terrorist attacks. Maybe we offer him life in prison instead of a firing squad, but amnesty? That would be insanity…
If Edward Snowden can get amnesty after what he has done, then who could ever be prosecuted for any intelligence leak? How could we possibly pursue charges against leakers for individual disclosures, however damaging, when someone like Snowden is allowed to get away with the largest disclosure of critical intelligence in our history?
If anything, amnesty would encourage leakers to share more information. The lesson will be: if you leak, leak big and you can get away with it. The more damaging the disclosure the better your chances to get off scott free.
"That kid was a genius among geniuses," says the NSA staffer. "NSA is full of smart people, but anybody who sat in a meeting with Ed will tell you he was in a class of his own…I've never seen anything like it."…
Snowden had been brought to Hawaii as a cybersecurity expert working for Dell's services division but due to a problem with the contract was reassigned to become an administrator for the Microsoft intranet management system known as Sharepoint. Impressed with his technical abilities, Snowden's managers decided that he was the most qualified candidate to build a new web front-end for one of its projects, despite his contractor status. As his coworker tells it, he was given full administrator privileges, with virtually unlimited access to NSA data. "Big mistake in hindsight," says Snowden's former colleague. "But if you had a guy who could do things nobody else could, and the only problem was that his badge was green instead of blue, what would you do?"…
Snowden's superiors were so impressed with his skills that he was at one point offered a position on the elite team of NSA hackers known as Tailored Access Operations. He unexpectedly turned it down and instead joined Booz Allen to work at NSA's Threat Operation Center…
Snowden's former colleague says that he or she has slowly come to understand Snowden's decision to leak the NSA's files. "I was shocked and betrayed when I first learned the news, but as more time passes I'm inclined to believe he really is trying to do the right thing and it's not out of character for him. I don't agree with his methods, but I understand why he did it," he or she says. "I won't call him a hero, but he's sure as hell no traitor."
Edward Snowden, the former security contractor who leaked a trove of National Security Agency documents, welcomed a court ruling on Monday that declared the bulk collection of Americans' telephone records to be a likely violation of the US constitution.
Snowden said the ruling, by a US district judge, justified his disclosures. "I acted on my belief that the NSA's mass surveillance programs would not withstand a constitutional challenge, and that the American public deserved a chance to see these issues determined by open courts," he said in comments released through Glenn Greenwald, the former Guardian journalist who received the documents from Snowden.
"Today, a secret program authorised by a secret court was, when exposed to the light of day, found to violate Americans' rights. It is the first of many," said Snowden, whose statement was first reported by the New York Times.
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The art of creating a whole new alias and story to go with it when your out on the lash. Having every detail perfected and being able to convince people it's true.
I told this bird a belter of a lagerlie the other nite! My name was Brad and I was a pro surfer dude!
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In the end, whether mass solitary confinement continues at the Maine State Prison supermax may come down to an issue of money rather than right or wrong. And resolving that issue may come down to whether the state wants to pay more now to pay less in the long term.
Psychiatrists, religious leaders, human-rights activists, former prisoners, and many others showed up in force at a nine-hour legislative hearing on February 17 to urge passage of a bill to restrict the Warren prison's extensive use of solitary. Organized by the Maine Civil Liberties Union, LD 1611's proponents told the Criminal Justice Committee that prolonged solitary confinement was a form of torture. Experts testified to overwhelming medical evidence that supermax isolation tends to drive prisoners mad — especially, those who are already mentally unstable.
The medical evidence was not disputed by the Department of Corrections. Commissioner Martin Magnusson, however, said his department "does not have the housing or staff" to treat the mentally ill prisoners who would not be allowed to be put in the supermax if the bill became law. Magnusson said that "almost every person" in the Special Management Unit, the 132-man supermax, has a "serious mental illness" under the bill's definition, though he thought the definition was too broad.
Dealing with these inmates less restrictively, he said, would cost taxpayers more than $11 million a year at a time of budgetary difficulty for the state. The nonpartisan legislative Office of Fiscal and Program Review, however, has not yet calculated how much the bill would cost the state.
LD 1611, sponsored by Representative James Schatz (D-Blue Hill), a Criminal Justice committee member, would ban placing seriously mentally ill inmates in solitary, restrict keeping prisoners there to 45 days (with some exceptions), reduce the use of physical restraints, and set up a placement appeals process.
Virtually all of the bill's opponents were Corrections employees. Many argued that limiting the ability of guards to keep inmates in the supermax would make their jobs more dangerous.
But Boston psychiatrist Stuart Grassian, a national expert on solitary confinement, testified that not driving prisoners insane makes a prison safer than a supermax does — and therefore cheaper, since controlling violent prisoners is expensive. Other testimony noted that labor-intensive supermax incarceration as a rule costs two or three times the cost of regular imprisonment.
Janis Petzel, president of the Maine Association of Psychiatric Physicians, testified about her experience with an alternative: "I thought if we got rid of solitary and restraints in mental hospitals we couldn't handle patients, but I was wrong." Both Petzel and Grassian said disruptive individuals could be calmed within a brief period — often minutes or hours. The supermax sometimes imprisons men for months or years.
A University of Southern Maine political science professor, Richard Maiman, suggested Maine could learn from Mississippi, which — facing lawsuits — drastically reduced the number of supermax inmates as it reduced supermax "serious incidents" by 70 percent as a result of relaxing restrictions on prisoners.
Representative Veronica Magnan (D-Stockton Springs) responded: "I don't care about Mississippi."
Many committee members made statements strongly suggesting they were in favor of the department status quo. Several members have worked or still work in law enforcement or corrections. The bill's supporters expect a more favorable reception on the House and Senate floors. Leaders of the majority Democrats are cosponsors.
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Getting Into the Halloween Spirit
Beware: Crystal takes her costume and party planning very seriously.
It's definitely that time of year again. The leaves are changing, jack-o'-lanterns are popping up on doorsteps and everywhere I turn inspires another genius costume idea, only to be rethought about a hundred more times before Halloween actually gets here.
To me, Halloween is the holiday of holidays. My friends would probably tell you I look forward to the night like six-year-olds look forward to their birthdays. I count down the days like a little kid, choose a costume like I'm choosing a wedding dress and plot-scheme-pour over the details of the night's festivities like…a crazy person. And I'm not ashamed to admit it! I get so into it that I usually end up making my costume from scratch so I have total control of the outcome, which usually falls somewhere in the Halloween-hottie-with-a-twist camp. Yeah, I can get pretty scary around the end of October. As can my bestie Kim—probably the only girl I know who gets just as freakishly into Halloween as I do. Her "dead teen" costume last year was a huge hit, especially with all the zombie fanatics. Check out our crazy costumes in the photo gallery to get a taste of how us Playmates do Halloween.
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One year in Chicago I braved the 30-something degree weather in not one but two different costumes—an emerald peacock and a Care Bear—because there was no way I was missing back-to-back theme parties, just because the Windy City decided to act like the dead of winter in October. For the peacock I had a friend air-brush my entire body to look like I had feathers and purple fur (don't try that at home, kids); for the "Share Bear" Care Bear costume we painted a milkshake with two straws on my stomach. Despite the beyond-freezing temps, it was one of the best Halloweens I've had yet.
Another year I went as a raver girl (see gallery), passing out Sweet Tarts from a lunchbox to interested partygoers while generating more than a few interesting reactions. Over the top? Probably. Clever? Hell, yeah!
For my second Halloween at Hef's, I decided to step up the sexy sailor outfit I wore to my first costume party at the Mansion with an Indian Chief getup. My handmade feather headdress was like icing on a cake (a LOT of icing on a cake), and it was without a doubt my favorite costume to date.
Ringing in Halloween will be a little different this year. As one of the Playmate party hosts on Bud Light's Port Paradise Bahamas cruise, I won't be able to dress up (tear). But I plan on living vicariously through my crew and all their interesting, wacky and no-they-didn't! costumes. (That means you, Claire and Marston—a.k.a. Elvis & Priscilla.)
What will YOU be for Halloween this year? Leave me a comment below or send me a tweet with your prospective costume ideas. Or, send me a Twitpic of you in your costume, for all you eager OCD planners like me. Don't worry, guys. I think there's a support group out there for people like us. Until then, Happy Hallow-scheming!


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|"I have been huge fan and player of Caparison guitars for over a decade now. Throughout the years I have tried many of their various models, and have loved them all! I am pleased to say that the JSM has all of my favorite features from all of the models I have tried, yet it still manages to be very unique within the Caparison family of instruments. The body shape is a cross between the Angelus and TAT models, and features a TAT style neck grip with an Angelus style headstock.
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If you are seeking a world-class educational experience within a vibrant, Christ-centered learning community, Cedarville is the place for you. Step up to the challenge of our arts, sciences, professional and graduate programs, and achieve more than you ever imagined. Be challenged and transformed by professors who are experts in their fields and invest their lives at Cedarville to mentor and guide students like you.
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Pat Estepp has been the head men's basketball coach at Cedarville University since the 2008–09 campaign. He has guided his alma mater to an average of nearly 24 victories per season and five consecutive national tournament appearances.
The Yellow Jackets' first active season in NCAA Division II resulted in a 22-9 mark in 2012-13. Estepp was voted the Great Midwest Athletic Conference Coach of the Year as his team claimed the G-MAC regular season title, the G-MAC Tournament trophy, and placed third in the NCCAA Championship.
Cedarville was 23-9 performance during their NCAA provisional year in 2011-12. They won the school's first NCCAA Championship banner in convincing fashion after entering the 2012 tournament as the No. 1 seed and winning their three games by an average of 18 points. Estepp was tabbed NCCAA National Coach of the Year.
Cedarville finished strong in 2010–11 by winning eight of its last nine regular season games, including the last five in a row. The Jackets were ranked as high as 14th in the NAIA Division II poll and finished at 20-13.
Cedarville won 16 of its last 18 games in 2009–10 to finish 26-9 and 14-2 in the American Mideast Conference as the league runner-up. The Yellow Jackets, who were rated as high as eighth in the national poll, later won the AMC Tournament and advanced to the second round of the national tournament.
Estepp's inaugural campaign at the helm was full of memorable accomplishments. He guided the Yellow Jackets to a 27-4 overall record and a share of the AMC title with a 12-1 league mark. Cedarville was ranked as high as No. 1 in the country, finished in a tie for the No. 2 spot in the final poll, and advanced to the national tournament. The Jackets assembled a number of school records, which included a 14-game winning streak. They also wiped out all of the previous marks for defense.
Cedarville led the country in field goal percentage defense with opponents shooting just 37.9 percent. The team also ranked second nationally by allowing a stingy 60 points per contest, which was 10 points per game lower than the old school record. Estepp was voted the AMC Coach of the Year as well as the NCCAA Midwest Region Coach of the Year.


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The Emerging Market Power Rankings: Idiosyncrasy Rules
Each week, I'll highlight the best performing emerging-markets single country exchange-traded funds, using the most heavily traded for each nation. Frontier markets are not included–yet.
After two weeks of big gains, the iShares MSCI Emerging Markets Index ETF (EEM) limped into the weekend with a TK% on the week–essentially unchanged. The action was in the 15 individual country ETFs, eight of which finished down and seven up, as idiosyncratic factors drove the gains and losses. Only one of last week's top five–Market Vectors Russia ETF (RSX)–stayed on the list, and the iShares MSCI South Africa Index ETF (EZA), last week's number one, fell all the way to 12th. Could country-specific factors be reestablishing themselves after a few weeks of risk-on/risk-off trading?
#1 The iShares MSCI Malaysia Index ETF (EWM): +5.4%
Malaysia's ruling party won the election, and investors concerned about the alternative unleashed their pent up demand (or covered their shorts). Demonstrations against alleged voting-abuses have not had much of an impact–yet. The iShares MSCI Malaysia Index ETF has climbed 9.1% in 2013.
#2 The iShares MSCI Indonesia Investable Market Index ETF (EIDO): +2.1%
Indonesia GDP rose 6.02% during the first three months of the year, the slowest rate in more than two years. Investors, however, took the news in stride. The iShares MSCI Indonesia Investable Market Index ETF has now gained 17% this year.
#3 The iShares FTSE China 25 Index (FXI): +1.9%
Chinese stocks rose for a fifth consecutive week, spurred on by better-than-expected export data and an increase in the money supply. The iShares FTSE China 25 Index has dropped 5% this year.
#4 The iShares MSCI All Peru Capped Index ETF (EPU): +1.3%
Peru's central bank kept interest rates unchanged for a 24th consecutive month, Bloomberg said, as inflation remained within policy makers' target range and growth near its full potential. The iShares MSCI All Peru Capped Index ETF has plunged 11% this year.
#5 The Market Vectors Russia ETF (RSX): +1.3%
Russia's inflation rose more than expected, its deputy prime minister resigned, commodities fell, and Russian stocks gained for a third consecutive week. Figures. The Market Vectors Russia ETF has dropped 7.6% this year.


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they are so cute together. Justin and selena are adorable cute. hope they spend quality time together. hope justin and selena last a long time. adore there chemistry and hope they can still have time to together to spend before justin leaves for his tour and doesn't dump selena. love those couples that stay together and last a long time. even though there boyfriend are way. hopefully the girls can occupy there time with there family and friends and course work and meeting with there publist. manager. and there agent to. just adore selena and justin's time together.


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Reverse Attacking and tracking down bot-nets?
1)is it possible to reverse attack the bots which is attacking us?
for example say if we got hit by some bots and we have logged their ip address,and instead of blocking them can we set our router to send the packets to them with-out being processes by our routers?Because i think it may also over load some of our band-width ,but at the same time the bots also getting attacked nah?
am i right? is it possible to do?how to configure the router to do such an task?
2) 90% of us may have this problem,
And also we are at the "receiving" end of the attack,instead of contacting isp's,law enforcing authorities for this (in reality they wont care about us much because it is a small attack for them)what are the steps we can do to trace back the attacker?
even tough it was some what complex i think it can be still possible to track them down...
We have some servers or some isp home connections,but when DDos Attacks happens on some "important" time and down our servers,we are trying to contact the hosting's-support team or isp whom are very very slow in responding to our questions,
And even they respond ,it is not suffuicient to us,And also most of the times unless the attackers stop the attack we can not do much things..
I really hate this,As a network professionals(i am not a professional,but asking in general) can't we do nothing other than complaining?
Also what can we do to track the original source of the attack?
I know it is really hard,but i don't think it is impossible to do ...
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Target Worst S&P Performer After Poor Earnings, Outlook Cut
Shares of Target (TGT) are down nearly 5% today, the worst performer on the Standard & Poor's 500 index, after its first-quarter results came in below expectations and it cut its full-year profit outlook. The culprit seems to be bad weather and tax hikes (though it's funny how those factors didn't seem to stop other retailers from doing well.)
As Reuters reports:
Target warned in April its first-quarter results would be weaker than anticipated, and its performance was even worse than revised Wall Street expectations due to the cool weather and the impact of higher payroll taxes on spending.
But while investors have reacted badly today, at least one group of analysts are unperturbed: Over at BernsteinResearch analysts Colin McGranahan and Peter Paskhaver reiterated their Outperform rating for the company:
TGT's lowered F13 outlook – after maintaining guidance last month – suggest a lack of improvement in trends so far and continued underlying pressure on the topline. As a result we expect the stock will be pressured moderately today.
McGranahan and Paskhaver also reaffirmed their $76 a share price target for the stock, which today is about $68.
Target is a generally liked stock on Wall Street, with a consensus Overweight rating and average price target of $72.72 among analysts, according to FactSet.


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While they have indeed bred dogs that can handle boar and bears (yep, even bears) I'll let you know that hunting either with only dogs and a pistol is pretty dangerous, and imo, stupid. You're likely to end up with at least one dead dog, and potentially get injured yourself.
If you plan on killing a bear with a handgun, it had better be a damn powerful round...I'd say .44 mag or more. Their skulls are extremely thick so the bone tends to deflect bullets, and they can take multiple shots to the body and still keep rolling. A revolver is typically a MUCH better choice than a powerful single shot pistol.
If you're considering using the dogs to bait the boar or bear, and keep it occupied while you try and get a shot off, I'd advise against it...you're going to end up chased up a tree (if you're lucky) and with a bunch of dead dogs.
I've heard the trick to pistol hunting a dangerous animal like that is to do it from a stand, not just walking around. Gotta get the drop on them, because if they get a chance to fight back you're in trouble. Boar are NASTY...trust me, they're all over Ft. Stewart.


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A pic puh leese.
good luck with her.
I've had times when I'll walk into an antique shop and immediately I hear the little voice calling my name. Joe ..... Joe .... I'm here don't leave without me. At that point I'm worse than a golden retriever searching out a bird. I won't leave till I find what's calling to me.
You did good spotting that treasure way up high. I'll echo all the others, I'd love to see pics: before and after, when you can do them.
Wow! I love those kind of stories! Congrats!
There may be times we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest. - Elie Wiesel
Geeze, what a lucky day you had! To find a FW anywhere reasonably priced is rare now a days - but, to get a free arm! Unbelieveable! Congratulations!
Seriously your lucky day - And the 222 is so lucky to have found such a nice caring new home!
she needs a picture and a name....like high flyer or hidden treasure......I am being silly I still call mine 301A and 1630 it is like an R2D2 & C3P0 thing.
always on the lookout for a 222 the only I have seen were at 'Road To California' and the price tag was sorta the year built times two........and they were repainted candy apple red.
Congrats, on the find....it was calling you cuz it knew you would give it a good home!!
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Lets go browns and skins right? What about da packers? Can we beat the pack?
Lets go browns and skins right? What about da packers? Can we beat the pack?
Eagles are done. I would rather have a skins loss than an eagles loss at this point.
It would really help us if the Cowboys stumbled down the stretch here
I'll be cheering for the Browns today.
The Philly vs. Washington game doesn't mean much.
i dunno...but i'd really like the Bears to drop the 49ers so we can start working on the 3 seed.
due to the fact that I am from the Woodstock generation ...
my opinions may be chemically enhanced and influenced by severe episodes of memory loss
One more loss for Philly is the nail in the coffin.
One more loss for Washington is the nail in the coffin.
But let's be honest, it's a race between the Giants and the Girls at this point.
The 49ers still have away games versus the Saints, Patriots, and Seahawks on their schedule, which are all ridiculously tough home teams.
A Browns win would be huge, but not likely. I hope I'm wrong though. Either way, it won't matter if we don't turn things around and win a footbal game.


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Halo plates come spot drilled already.
You can use your remnant to double check the locations, but mine matched up nicely.
Finished removing the RSP piece this morning. Think I'll use it as a drill guide when I get my RSP from Halo. Anyone have any thoughts on that?
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Halo plates come spot drilled already.
You can use your remnant to double check the locations, but mine matched up nicely.
Thanks. I tend to need a rain coat and an umbrella when it comes to drilling holes dead on and I want to get these right.
Mr pirate has indeed a verry intresting website after reading the numerous plugs about Halo I also order a sideplate and indeed the quality is outstanding !
Welcome to the "Brotherhood Of The Belt".Working on my second build(USGI in 8mm)gunut
Here's a link to Pirates site for the HALO RSP drill guide....Originally Posted by resting
Like 7.62x39 said, the holes should match up nicely with the pre-drilled spots on the HALO plate.
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I just ordered a kit from OOW and the sideplate from halo you guys recommended.
and starting on the accesorys.
I've read and re-read Pirate's site. Lots of good stuff. Once I have all the pieces in hand I will follow it carefully as I work through this thing. The tripod ideas are also interesting and will probably buy a kit from him to have something to use to test it off a bench. Really appreciate all the time has put into the site for all of us.
Try going to www.1919a4.com Lobo's Tutorials are second to none I have Built 3 already and am helping a buddy with his build right now now there are several people there like 30calmachinegunner that do the semi bolt mods for Cheap! & check out Badger Bob for a Repo Tripod His prices are the lowest you will find anywhere for a teriffic product. hope this helps out - Rocco
Thanks for all the tips and words of encouragement. I'm using Lobo's build check list to work from. I used 30calmachinegunner to do the internal mods. Quick and good is his rep. I had heard of Badger Bob's tripods but haven't decided to go for a repro tripod or pay a little more and get the original with the T&E and the pintle. When you add it all up the difference isn't too much from some sites. Also giving some thought to an MG3 tripod and adapting it then if I ever decide to build an MG42 Semi I would already have it and one for two wouldn't take so much room. Too cold in the garage to work right now. Hoping for a warming trend so I can get back at it.Originally Posted by rocco1911


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Kevin BurtonBPL Member
@burtonatorLocale: norcalApr 29, 2013 at 8:53 pm #1981813
Bob GrossMember
@b-g-2-2Locale: Silicon Valley
It seems kind of noisy. I'm a little surprised that the military would want that.
I've used DARPA inventions in the past, and sometimes they are a little –out there–.
–B.G.–Apr 29, 2013 at 8:55 pm #1981814
W I S N E R !BPL Member
Good thing our government is spending money on robot cows instead of providing current technology in classrooms across the nation.
I teach 180 kids a day and have a single virus-plagued laptop with a separate USB keyboard to replace the stock broken one. I'm still running Windows XP, crash when I try to open PDFs, and can't load a one minute video clip in less than 10 minutes.
Robot cows. I'll be darned.
And I thought our country was slipping.Apr 29, 2013 at 9:12 pm #1981817
Luke SchmidtSpectator
@cameronLocale: Idaho Falls
That bad Craig? To hear some folks whining in Dallas you'd think we had the most stingy district in the world and yet we have plenty of computers (and we don't use them as much as we should).
Back to the mechanical mule idea, lets just say I'm skeptical. How does this thing help a rifle squad in the real world?Apr 29, 2013 at 9:13 pm #1981818
Bob GrossMember
@b-g-2-2Locale: Silicon Valley
"How does this thing help a rifle squad in the real world?"
It would surely draw enemy fire away from the humans.
–B.G.–Apr 29, 2013 at 9:19 pm #1981819
Nick GatelBPL Member
@ngatelLocale: Southern California
I hear you!
Or we could transfer DARPA's budget to the FAA so we can get a freak'n airplane off the ground.Apr 29, 2013 at 10:32 pm #1981835
Eric BlumensaadtBPL Member
@danepackerLocale: Mojave Desert
DARPA is always looking for "The Next Great Thing" for military applications, like robotic cars (not remotely controlled), etc. Interestingly most new military gear comes from private industry inventing new goodies.
EX. The sniping gear that is now being adopted is almost all the result of private initiative, such as Kestrel weather/ballistic meter, Horus reticles, immproved long range cartridges, Barrett .50 cal. rifles, etc. Yes there are some some coming from military solitications, like the recent SOCOM sniper rifle. Usually military solitications wind up being things "designed by a committee" in truth and, unfortunately, in operation. Witness the painful gestation of the Bradley Fighting Vehicle. Aaaaarrgghh!
My son-in-law worked with DARPA on some research and was given a DARPA "challenge coin". They wanted him full time but he preferred academe. I think he was very smart in that decision.Apr 30, 2013 at 2:34 am #1981848
Dustin ShortBPL Member
You do realize you're all debating the merits of DARPA funding on the direct descendent of ARPANET, using servers that run a descendent of Multics. Not to mention GUIs being invented by DARPA funded scientists.
As for backpacking the vast majority of people use a GPS to get to at least the trailhead, if not while hiking.
They also fund the miniaturization and scaling of cancer diagnostics (as well as other cutting edge medical technologies).
Sure they're "defense" budgeted and they invest in some crazy ideas but "Defense" has been added and removed from the agency a few times. They're charting unknown technological territory and pushing the boundaries of what is possible, sometimes even transforming the world as we know it.
Eric, they aren't set up to create standard issue equipment for today's army, but rather to find the technologies that will transform the world (and hopefully our military) in several decades time. Hence the "Advanced Research" name.
Oh and Nick, the FAA received more money than they requested this year…it's our politicians playing games and refusing to pass a proper budget in years that are grounding airplanes. DARPA is only a $2.8B out of a budget of nearly $4Trillion. If anything it's your social security and medical care that is keeping the planes out of the air ;)
This is Obama's proposal from 2011, so dated, but still a good breakdown, department by department, of where our money is spent:
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2012/02/13/us/politics/2013-budget-proposal-graphic.html?_r=0Apr 30, 2013 at 2:40 am #1981849
Loren BMember
@ljamesbLocale: London UK, Greenville USA
Take a look at one of the earlier versions ;) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXI4WWhPn-UApr 30, 2013 at 5:57 am #1981866
Erik BasilBPL Member
@ebasilLocale: Atzlan
Why is it "Nick's" social security and medicaid? I mean, we know he's really old and everything, but in reality, he's just a drop in the bucket.
Oh, sorry about the bucket reference, Nick. Damn.Apr 30, 2013 at 6:04 am #1981868
Stephen MBPL Member
@stephen-mLocale: Way up North
My wife's used to do research for Darpa, some of the stuff she worked on 10 years ago is now in use in the outdoors.
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This is only my second season with 3 colonies.
2 of my colonies look 'normal' (whatever that is), building up well with no drones or even drone cells yet. The third colony also seems to be building well but there are several drones already and many proper drone cells around the edge of the brood nest (tops of combs).
This seems very early for drones??
Is it a sign of problems??
The queen looks fine and the rest of the brood pattern seems reasonable.


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Azerbaijan-Israel: An Azeri ministry of defense official called "absurd and groundless" a sensational article in Foreign Policy magazine that claimed Azerbaijan had granted Israel access to Azeri airfields in the event it attacked Iran.
An official with Azerbaijan's presidential administration, Ali Hasanov, blasted the allegations as an attempt to damage relations between Azerbaijan and Iran, who share a common border.
"We have stated on numerous occasions and we reiterate that there will be no actions against Iran... from the territory of Azerbaijan," Hasanov stated.
Comment: Israeli security cooperation with Azerbaijan dates to1991, months after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the declaration of an independent Azerbaijan. Israel was one of the first states to recognize an independent Azerbaijan.
Since then Israel has pursued a long term military assistance program. Since Netanyahu's visit to Baku in 1997, Israel has assisted the modernization and training of Azeri forces. In 2009, an Israeli defense company announced plans to build a plant in Baku. In February 2012 Israel announced a $1.6 billion arms and assistance package for Azerbaijan, including modern air defense systems, missiles and drones.
Israel probably does not require use of airfields in Azerbaijan to launch an attack against Iran. It would need them more as a place for the Israeli strike forces to recover after an attack. Thus, there is little likelihood of any actions against Iran originating from Azerbaijan. There is a higher likelihood that such actions might originate in Israel and conclude in Azerbaijan.
The advantage to Azerbaijan is that it would end up with a squadron of Israeli combat aircraft in place to defend it against any Iranian retaliation.
Syria: Several developments were reported on 28 and 29 March. Fighting continued, featuring phone video shots of fighting in Homs plus official reports of another "rebel stronghold" falling to the government on the 29th.
While the opposition and international media reported "heavy" fighting in Homs, President Asad was shown visiting the Homs neighborhoods that government forces recently cleared and seriously damaged.
Finally, a western reporter embedded with opposition fighters reported that he witnessed and heard the opposition fighters he was with order tires set on fire because the smoke made the fighting look more serious in the reporter's videos.
Comment: Readers should be suspicious of manipulation when they read any report that mentions a place as a rebel stronghold. The opposition controls no territory at all, much less strongholds. In the Syrian context, press mention of a stronghold in connection with the opposition is spin.
Readers may have confidence that President Asad would not be permitted by his security staff to visit a zone of heavy fighting. The government video of destruction in Homs was more credible than the cell phone video of fighting. Homs is quieter than the opposition wants outsiders to believe. The government does not hesitate to show destruction because it blames the fighting on outside infiltrators and backers.
Finally, the eyewitness testimony about opposition open manipulation of video images reinforces the NightWatch contention that a substantial portion of what the opposition reports is fabricated.
That statement does not imply that government reportage is necessarily more credible. Every reporting entity is and should be skeptical of government statements.
It does mean that sympathy for the apparent underdog can make some media people vulnerable to deception and manipulation. At least some of the images taken by cell phone users are completely phony and staged.
For analysts, it is all information that might be converted into evidence. A lot will be rejected. It must be judged piece by piece. There are no shortcuts.
Note to new analysts: It is important to appreciate a basic rule of evidence law: sometimes liars tell the truth and sometimes honest people lie. An inability to cope with these subtleties can mean the difference between freedom and incarceration; life and death.
Videos are not self-proving and not self-evident since the arrival of the digital age. Images are worth a thousand words, which is why propagandists delight in manipulating them. Superior analysts understand and are skillful in judging the value of information as evidence, regardless of the medium of collection.
Mali: A delegation of five Presidents from the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) cancelled their trip to Mali after about 100 pro-coup demonstrators blocked the runway at Bamako and refused to allow the delegation's aircraft to land. In response, ECOWAS has imposed tight sanctions on Mali until the army mutineers restore the elected government.
ECOWAS officials announced late Thursday, 29 March, that the members states - which include all those that border Mali -- will close all the land borders with landlocked Mali and freeze the nation's bank account if the junta does not step aside. No gasoline, for example, will be allowed into Mali. Only humanitarian aid will be allowed in.
Kadre Desire Ouedraogo, the President of the Commission of the Economic Community of West African States told reporters in Abidjan, the capital of Ivory Coast, that the sanctions will go into effect in 72 hours if the coup leaders do not take steps to restore the country's democratic institutions.
Comment: Mali is now under a blockade. Collective punishment is being administered to prompt Malians to boot out the army mutineers. Army officers in sub-Saharan Africa seem slow to pick up on the fact that the era of coups passed 30 years ago. They still occur, but they are increasingly short-lived and unsuccessful.
When Bamako, the capital, runs out of gasoline and food, the counter-coup will succeed. Meanwhile, no one is preventing the Tuaregs from fragmenting Mali, the declared purpose of the coup.
End of NightWatch for 29 March.
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Yesterday's game killed me...took the life outa me but....we win the next two games and we are in the wildcard, probably knocking Chicago and Minny out.
I know we played like **** and the thought of us being able to win out is on the outer rims of my imagination right now, but it's reality. If we finish 10-6, and Dallas and skins win next week, then the loser of the dallas/skins games get's sent packing for the season with a 9-7 record.
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Lady Mary Wroth 1587–1653(?)
(Born Mary Sidney) English fiction writer, poet, and playwright.
The following entry provides an overview of Wroth's career and works, and contains criticism published from 1946 through 1993.
Considered the first woman writer of English original prose fiction, Lady Mary Wroth published her lengthy prose romance, The Countesse of Mountgomeries Urania (1621) at a time when women's writing was confined strictly to translation and pious works. For centuries dismissed as an imitation of the pastoral romance genre epitomized by Sir Philip Sidney's The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia (1590), Wroth's Urania and the sonnet sequence at the end of the work, Pamphilia to Amphilanthus, have garnered increased scholarly attention since the 1970s for their successful transposition of the gender expectations that prevailed in seventeenth-century literary forms. Wroth's use of secular female viewpoints is recognized as an innovative approach to genres in which the point of view had been exclusively male. In Urania, Wroth reversed traditional male notions of community, creating a word of feminine friendship through which she depicted the quest for self identity and the formation of same sex friendships that support and transcend passion and marriage to the opposite sex. Wroth characterized women as the purveyors of culture and constancy, and while her works reflect the systematic subordination of women to the patriarchal mores of the times, her female characters manage to assert their identities, thereby avoiding victimization. Published after the pastoral and sonnet forms were past their popularity, Wroth's Urania expanded the conventions of the genres by fusing the romantic tradition with the realistic through the use of diversionary subplots and dialogue in the style of the novelle. Both for her daring examination of gender expectations and the stylistic deviations she made from traditional literary forms, Wroth is receiving increased scrutiny in modern scholarship.
Biographical Information
The eldest daughter of Sir Robert Sidney, a poet and government official, and Lady Barbara damage, Mary Sidney was born on 18 October 1587 into a family established in both literary pursuits and life in the courts of Elizabeth I and James I. For this reason, she had access to educational and cultural opportunities rare for
a woman of her time. Wroth's uncle was Sir Philip Sidney, author of influential Renaissance works including the sonnet sequence Astrophil and Stella (1590), and the pastoral romance Arcadia, both of which were to provide important models for Wroth's writing. Due to the literary interests of her family and her mother's active role in educating her children, Wroth spent her childhood practicing writing, language, and music. Wroth also traveled with her mother on the Continent when her father assumed a governorship in the Netherlands, spending much of her early childhood abroad. While receiving a thorough education in the arts from her mother, it was Wroth's aunt Mary Sidney, the Countess of Pembroke and sister to Sir Philip Sidney, who inspired her to literary pursuits. The Countess of Pembroke not only wrote poetry and translations from French and Italian, she also published them—a bold venture for a woman in the 1590s. According to Josephine Roberts, the Countess of Pembroke's work in various verse forms, particularly in a metrical version of the Psalms she had begun with Sir Philip Sidney, probably stimulated Wroth's interest in poetical techniques. Wroth used her aunt as the model for characters in her own work, as the Queen of Naples in the Urania, and as Simena in the play Love's Victory (1620s?). The family's standing at court increased during Wroth's early years. When Queen Elizabeth visited Penshurst in 1600 to show her favor for Sir Robert, young Mary Sidney entertained the queen with dancing, foreshadowing later dramatic performances at the court of James I.
In 1604, Mary married Robert Wroth, who had been knighted the previous year by James I and whose hunting skills found favor with the king. The union was not a happy one; Sir Robert Wroth's dissatisfaction with his new wife was apparent to Mary Wroth's father, who commented upon their marital difficulties in a letter to his wife. However unhappy the marriage, Lady Mary Wroth's position at court was enhanced by her new husband's and her father's rising influence with James I. She performed in several court entertainments for Queen Anne, most notably The Masque of Blackness in 1605 and Masque of Beauty in 1608 by the poet Ben Jonson, with whom Lady Wroth shared a mutual admiration for many years. Jonson wrote a poem praising Wroth's poetry, and commented to William Drummond on the unworthiness of her marriage to Robert Wroth. Due to her position at court, Lady Wroth became known as a literary patron as well as poet in her own right. She was most certainly composing verse by 1613, and her work may have circulated as early as 1605. In between her duties at court and at the Wroths' country estate, where she played hostess to the royal couple when James I came to hunt, Wroth wrote songs and sonnets, many of which would make up her sonnet sequence Pamphilia to Amphilanthus. Lady Wroth was well known as a poet long before the first publication of her work in 1621. However, although active and respected in literary circles, Wroth's first effort at publication may have been spurred by financial obligations incurred following the death of her husband in 1614, a month after the birth of their only child, a son. Robert Wroth left his wife a large debt. Her circumstances worsened with the death of her son, which caused Wroth to lose much of her husband's estate to his uncle due to the lack of an immediate male heir.
The difficulties for women brought on by patriarchal mores greatly influenced Wroth's later works, which extensively address the problems of marrying for financial gain, and the impoverishment that widowhood often brought to women of her class. During her early years as a widow, Wroth continued a romantic liaison with her cousin William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, which had begun during her marriage, eventually bearing two illegitimate children by him. Herbert is thought to be the model for the character Amphilanthus, the object of Pamphilia's affections in Pamphilia to Amphilanthus, while Wroth herself is thought to be reflected in Pamphilia. Despite her relationship with the wealthy Herbert, Wroth's financial position became increasingly desperate, and she may have decided to publish as a means out of her difficulties. Unfortunately, this avenue was forever closed to her with the appearance of the Urania, appended with the sonnet sequence Pamphilia to Amphilanthus, in 1621. Composed during the period 1618-1620, the Urania incorporates elements of the roman à clef, detailing Wroth's fall from favor in court upon the death of her husband, attributing her circumstances to court slander, and basing several episodes in the work on actual court scandals. Publication of the Urania sparked a venomous flurry of criticism by courtiers who claimed to identify their own embarrassing episodes in the work. Sir Edward Denny, in particular, was incensed by Wroth's depiction of his affairs and waged a public campaign to disparage the Urania and Wroth. Wroth responded in kind, answering his public outcries with spirited rebuttals and attempting to rally the support of influential friends, to whom she insisted she had not meant any harm. In the end, however, she was forced to remove the work from circulation, and it remained unpublished for the rest of her life. Despite the scandal, Wroth continued to write prolifically throughout the 1620s, producing a second part to the Urania, and composing the drama Love's Victory, for which there is no record of performance. Her financial position, however, became increasingly dire, and she was forced to petition the king several times for protection from creditors. Little is known of Wroth's later years, and no literary material exists from the last three decades of her life. Wroth likely died in 1651 or 1653 without ever having regained financial stability or her former standing at court.
Major Works
Wroth's three major works all derive from established literary forms popular in her time, but their unifying and distinguishing feature is the adaptation of exclusively male forms and techniques to a female point of view. In each of her works, the protagonists are women who suffer subordination to a patriarchal society, but nevertheless shape their own destinies in fulfillment of a quest for identity and spiritual freedom. Wroth's concern is to evoke a female community of friendship in which women attain acceptance and respect outside the norms of male-dominated society, which glorified court rituals or traditional heroic exploits. Strong women characters in Elizabethan literature often were paragons of virtue or female extensions of the male concept of heroism; for example, warriors or Amazons in the tradition of Spenser. In contrast, Wroth's women range from the virtuous to the deceitful. None defines herself by male standards of female virtue or heroism, and instead looks inward to determine her identity. In the Urania, for example, Wroth presents resilient women characters whose notions of self are challenged by male inconstancy and their subordinate position in society. The 600 page prose romance chronicles the adventures of a huge cast of characters, with the central theme being Queen Pamphilia's vow of love and loyalty to King Amphilanthus. Pamphilia's vow is tested continually by separation from her beloved and by various intrigues that reveal his inconstancy to her. Parallel to this plot is that concerning Pamphilia's close friend Urania, an important commentator on the many adventures narrated in the work. Ostensibly a shepherdess, Urania embarks on a search for her parents and her true identity, symbolizing the feminine quest for self identity and the rejection of societal expectations. The heroic deeds of knights are compared with the spiritual heroism of women's striving for the freedom to shape their lives. Female unhappiness is portrayed as a result of betrayal by the men to whom they have pledged loyalty; a theme that is explored further in the sonnet sequence Pamphilia to Amphilanthus, which follows the Urania in the 1621 edition.
The first known edition of Wroth's sonnets consisted of 110 poems and seven miscellaneous pieces, but by the publication of the Urania, she had revised the sequence to the eighty-three sonnets and twenty songs. The only Renaissance sonnet sequence composed by a woman, Pamphilia to Amphilanthus transforms the traditional Petrarchan conceit of a male sonneteer addressing a female love object to a female sonneteer writing of her love for a man. The characters' names reflect the main concern of the poetry; Pamphilia means "all-loving", while Amphilanthus means "lover of two". The contrast between women's constancy and men's inconstancy is voiced with emotion and depth by Pamphilia, who attempts to resolve the struggle between her desire to surrender to passion and the need to retain her identity and freedom. Although the poems are addressed to Amphilanthus, the focus of the poetry is Pamphilia's examination of her own character, her thoughts on love, her inner virtue, her ambivalence towards marriage. These themes are continued in Love's Victory, Wroth's pastoral tragicomedy modelled after the love story in Sir Philip Sidney's sonnet sequence Astrophil and Stella. In the play, Wroth focusses on a woman's right to choose whether and whom to marry. As in the Urania and Pamphilia to Amphilanthus, there are strongly autobiographical motifs to the play, as Wroth decries the repercussions of marrying for financial gain rather than for love. As in her other works, women play the dominant role in the action; the deity Venus, who comments on the action and guides the characters' behavior, dominates Cupid. The drama portrays one woman's decision to marry for love and another's decision to not marry at all, while the forced marriage of two characters ends in their mock deaths, a symbol of the stifling nature of arranged unions. Female friendship again is an important element of the action, with the women characters meeting to discuss their roles in romance and to empower each others' decisions regarding marriage. Although men are portrayed as disrespectful of women, in some cases comparing women with animals, Wroth endows her female characters with self-respect and the strength to shape their lives and make decisions, thus avoiding victimization. In her works, Wroth adhered to traditional forms and took her stylistic cues from the literary establishment of her times, but her writing was far from merely derivative of these forms in its transposition of gender roles to endow a female narrator with the ability to examine her own character and her society.
Critical Reception
With the rediscovery of her works and the release of important editions of her poetry by Gary Waller in 1977 and Josephine Roberts in 1983, among others, Wroth's place in the development of literary forms received new scrutiny. Most Wroth critics have sought to examine and clarify the role of the female voice and the revolutionary impact of the transposition of gender. The majority of scholars studying this aspect of Wroth's work have agreed that her representation of female perspectives and the creation of feminine community are both artistically successful and refreshing variations on established forms. In addition, critics have noted that the feminine viewpoint in her work serves as an important aid in a historical and sociological understanding of the role of women and the difficulties they faced during the Elizabethan and Jacobean eras. From both an historical and a literary standpoint, critics are continuing to research Wroth's contributions to English literature and to acknowledge her role in establishing the tradition of a literary feminine voice.
Principal Works
The Countesse of Mountgomeries Urania (fiction) 1621
*Pamphilia to Amphilanthus (poetry) 1621
‡Love's Victorie (drama) 1621(?)
†The Poems of Lady Mary Wroth (poetry) 1983
* Sonnet sequence first printed as the conclusion to Urania; published as separate work Pamphilia to Amphilanthus by Lady Mary Wroth, edited by G. F. Wallter, 1977.
†Wroth's poetry circulated in manuscript as early as 1605. This edition was edited by Josephine A. Roberts.
‡No record of performance. First published as Lady Mary Wroth's 'Love's Victory': The Penshurst Manuscript, edited by...
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B. G. MacCarthy (essay date 1946)
SOURCE: "The Pastoral Romance," in Women Writers: Their Contribution to The English Novel 1621-1744, 1944. Reprint by Cork University Press, 1946, pp. 47-69.
[In the following excerpt, MacCarthy examines Wroth's The Countesse of Mountgomeries Urania in the context of Elizabethan prose traditions and the influence of Sydney's Arcadia, and shows how Wroth blends realism and romanticism through the use of sub-plots and dialogue.]
In 1621, in the person of Lady Mary Wroath, woman made her first contribution to English prose fiction. Having barely mentioned the name of the first English woman-novelist, we must at once retrogress after the manner of a writer...
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Josephine A. Roberts (essay date 1983)
SOURCE: "The Nature of Poetry," in The Poems of Lady Mary Wroth, Louisiana State University Press, 1983, pp. 41-60.
[In the following essay, Roberts discusses Wroth's treatment of the subject of love relationships and the influence of Petrarchan and pastoral literary traditions in Pamphilia to Amphilanthus, Urania, and Love's Victory.]
Lady Mary Wroth's contemporaries recognized that her verse belonged to the Petrarchan tradition and strongly identified her as Sir Philip Sidney's successor, "In whom, her Uncle's noble Veine renewes." Despite the early seventeenth-century fashion of "hard lines," and...
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Carolyn Ruth Swift (essay date 1984)
SOURCE: "Feminine Identity in Lady Mary Wroth's Romance Urania," in English Literary Renaissance, Vol. 14, No. 3, Autumn, 1984, pp. 328-46.
[In this excerpt, Swift discusses Wroth's portrayal of the search for female identity through the characters Pamphilia and Urania, and draws parallels to Wroth's own struggle for acceptance and recognition in seventeenth-century society.]
In 1621 Lady Mary Wroth published The Countesse of Mountgomeries Urania, a beautiful folio divided into four lengthy books, approximately 600 pages of prose and poetry that concludes with the sonnet sequence Pamphilia to Amphilanthus. An unpublished 145-page manuscript,...
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Naomi J. Miller (essay date 1989)
SOURCE: "'Not much to be marked': Narrative of the Woman's Part in Lady Mary Wroth's Urania," in Studies in English Literature 1500-1900, Vol. 29, No. 1, Winter, 1989, pp. 121-37.
[In this excerpt, Miller studies Wroth's creation of a female community in the Urania, and examines her use of narrative strategies that revise the conventions of romance and affirm the resiliency of female characters.]
Virginia Woolf's speculations in A Room of One's Own about the hypothetical fate of Shakespeare's unknown sister achieve unexpected relevance in the example of Lady Mary Wroth, Sir Philip Sidney's niece. Woolf muses that any woman born with a gift of...
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Janet MacArthur (essay date 1989)
SOURCE: "'A Sydney, though un-named'; Lady Mary Wroth and her Poetical Progenitors," in English Studies in Canada, Vol. XV, No. 1, March, 1989, pp. 12-20.
[In this analysis of the Urania and Pamphilia to Amphilanthus, MacArthur contends that the absence of important Petrarchan conventions in Wroth's poetry functions as an assertion of the persona's feminine voice.]
Critics have often commented upon the tensions in Lady Mary Wroth's prose romance The Countesse of Montgomeries Urania (London, 1621), of which the sonnet sequence Pamphilia to Amphilanthus became a part. Carolyn Ruth Swift [in English Literary Renaissance, 14, 1984]...
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Carolyn Ruth Swift (essay date 1989)
SOURCE: "Feminine Self-Definition in Lady Mary Wroth's Love's Victorie," in English Literary Renaissance, Vol. 19, No. 2, Spring, 1989, pp. 171-88.
[In the following essay, Swift studies how Wroth's belief that women should have freedom of choice regarding marriage and the direction of their lives finds expression in her tragicomedy Love's Victory.]
In her pastoral play Love's Victorie, Lady Mary Wroth created a feminine dreamworld analogous to the "masculine dreamworld" that Renato Poggioli [in his The Oaten Flute] finds in traditional Renaissance pastorals. As male authors retreat to Arcadia in protest against sexual conformity and...
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Anne Shaver (essay date 1991)
SOURCE: "A New Woman of Romance," in Modern Language Studies, Vol. XXI, No. 4, Fall, 1991, pp. 63-77.
[In the following excerpt, Shaver examines Wroth's female protagonists, observing the ways in which they assert power within the strict behavioral confines of the feminine Renaissance ideal.]
An examination of Pamphilia, the cynosure and central character of the Lady Mary Wroth's romance Urania, shows to how great an extent her author appears to have internalized the Renaissance ideal of womanhood with its insistence on chastity above all, then silence and obedience. On the other hand, Wroth's women characters also embody glimmerings of new kinds of political,...
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Barbara K. Lewalski (essay date 1991)
SOURCE: "Mary Wroth's Love's Victory and Pastoral Tragicomedy," in Reading Mary Wroth: Representing Alternatives in Early Modern England, edited by Naomi J. Miller and Gary Waller, The University of Tennessee Press, 1991, pp. 88-109.
[Lewalski provides a brief history of the pastoral tragicomedy and discusses the influence of this tradition in Wroth's Love's Victory.]
Mary Wroth's pastoral tragicomedy, Love's Victory, has recently been published for the first and only time; it was unknown except to a small contemporary coterie, and is still virtually unread. Only one complete manuscript is extant, at Penshurst; the Huntington Library has a partial...
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Nona Fienberg (essay date 1991)
SOURCE: "Mary Wroth and the Invention of Female Poetic Subjectivity," in Reading Mary Wroth: Representing Alternatives in Early Modern England, edited by Naomi J. Miller and Gary Waller, The University of Tennessee Press, 1991, pp. 175-90.
[In the following excerpt, Feinberg explores Wroth's innovative use of a female perspective in Pamphilia to Amphilanthus and her evocation of "a fictional audience of women readers and writers."]
The nature of women's writing was clearly at issue early in the seventeenth century. Remember Rosalind's response to Phoebe's verses: "I say she never did invent this letter, / This is a man's invention and his hand" ([William...
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Gary Waller (essay date 1993)
SOURCE: " 'Watch, gaze, and marke': The Poetry of Mary Wroth," in The Sidney Family Romance: Mary Wroth, William Herbert, and the Early Modern Construction of Gender, Wayne State University Press, 1993, pp. 190-219.
[In this essay, Waller presents an overview of the traditions, influences, and seventeenth-century gender roles that shaped Wroth's poetry.]
Despite their apparent obviousness, the words we use to describe gender assignments are sites of continual struggle. "Man" and "woman" are sliding, not stable, signifiers. Nor are the material practices that embody our lived sexual roles adequately descibed by the tragic limitations of such binarism. New forms of...
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Further Reading
Paulissen, May Nelson. "The Life and Milieu of Lady Mary Wroth." In The Love Sonnets of Lady Mary Wroth: A Critical Introduction, edited by Dr. James Hogg, pp. 1-77. Austria: Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik Universität Salzburg, 1982.
A complete study of Wroth's life and the context of her work.
Roberts, Josephine A. "The Biographical Problem of Pamphilia to Amphilanthus." Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature, Vol. 1, No. 1, Spring, 1982, pp. 43-53.
Provides a biography of Wroth and comments on the autobiographical nature of Pamphilia to...
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