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Social Security Administration
Notice of System of Records
Required by the Privacy Act of 1974; as Amended
System Number: 60-0219
System Name: Representative Disqualification, Suspension and Non-Recognition Information File, Social Security Administration, Office of the General Counsel.
Security Classification: None.
System Location: Social Security Administration, Office of the General Counsel, Office of General Law, 6401 Security Boulevard, Room 617 Altmeyer Building, Baltimore MD 21235, and Regional Chief Counsels Offices as follows:
Room 625,
26 Federal Plaza, Room 3904
OGC Chicago
Room 965
Categories of persons covered by the system: This system covers persons who allegedly fail to meet our qualifications to serve as a claimant's representative, as provided by the Social Security Act or regulations relating to representation of claimants and beneficiaries before us. It includes representatives alleged to have violated the provisions of the Social Security Act or our regulations relating to representation of claimants and beneficiaries, representatives whom we have found to have committed such violations and have disqualified or suspended, and representatives we have investigated, but have not disqualified or suspended because we resolved the matter without an action to disqualify or suspend the representative or because we found that a violation did not occur.
Categories of records in the system: As applicable, the system will contain information about persons seeking to represent our claimants as well as representatives who have represented claimants and beneficiaries before us. For example, we collect name, date of birth, Social Security number (SSN), representative identification number, home or business address(es), telephone and facsimile (fax) numbers, email address, and type of representative (e.g., attorney, non-attorney, eligible direct pay non-attorney).
The system will also contain information about the representative's legal standing and business affiliations. For example, we collect status of the representative (e.g., suspended, disqualified), bar, court, and Federal program or agency admission information (e.g., year admitted, license number, present standing, and disciplinary history), copies of all documentation resulting from our investigation and actions taken due to violations of the Social Security Act and regulations relating to the representative, and employer identification number. The system will also maintain relevant claimant and beneficiary information.
The following are examples of information covered by this system of records relating to the representation of claimants and beneficiaries: documentation resulting from our investigation or actions taken due to violations of the Social Security Act or our regulations; documentation relating to any request for recognition or reinstatement that a non-recognized person or disqualified or suspended representative files with us; documentation pertaining to hearings on charges of alleged violations of the Social Security Act or our regulations; and representation attestations made and information provided on our paper and electronic forms.
The system may also contain documentation pertaining to Appeals Council reviews of the decisions rendered in hearings on charges of violations of the Social Security Act or our regulations, or of requests for reinstatement to practice as a claimant's representative before us; copies of notifications of a representative's disqualification or suspension or a person's non-recognition; documentation pertaining to any legal or administrative action that a disqualified or suspended representative, or non-recognized person brings against us; and documentation of any disclosures made pursuant to the routine uses in this system of records.
Authority for maintenance of the system: Sections 206(a) and 1631(d)(2) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. §§ 406(a) and 1383(d)(2)).
Purpose(s): The Representative Disqualification, Suspension, and Non-Recognition Information File system of records provides us real-time access to information key to decisionmaking in the disqualified or suspended representative business process. For example, the records provide timely access to information we need to make decisions about whether persons meet our qualifications to serve as a claimant's representative and whether violations of the provisions of the Social Security Act or regulations relating to representation have previously occurred.
The records also enable us to more efficiently investigate alleged administrative or criminal violations; take action against representatives; respond to the Appeals Council when a representative has requested reinstatement; provide detailed notice of, and information on, cases in which we have disqualified or suspended a representative; and assist the Department of Justice in Federal court litigation, including that which relates to our decision to disqualify or suspend a representative or not recognize a person as a claimant's representative.
Routine uses of records covered by the Representative Disqualification, Suspension, and Non-Recognition Information File system of records system, including categories of users and the purposes of such uses: Routine use disclosures are indicated below; however, we will not disclose any information defined as "return or return information" under 26 U.S.C. § 6103 of the Internal Revenue Code (IRC) unless authorized by the IRC, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), or IRS regulations.
1. To applicants for benefits or payments, claimants, and beneficiaries to inform them that we have disqualified or suspended the representative from further representation before us or that the person was not recognized as a representative, and the basis for our action.
2. To a Federal court, State court, administrative tribunal, or bar disciplinary authority in the Federal jurisdiction(s) or State(s) in which an attorney is admitted to practice that we have disqualified or suspended the attorney from representing claimants or beneficiaries before us and the basis for our action.
3. To an official or employee of a Federal, State, or local agency that we have disqualified or suspended a claimant's representative from representing claimants and beneficiaries before us, and the basis for our action in order to permit that agency to perform its official duties related to representation of parties before that agency.
4. To any person or entity from which we need information to pursue the investigation or litigation of any action against a representative, to the extent necessary to identify the representative about whom the record is maintained, inform the person or entity of the purpose(s) of the request, and identify the type of information needed.
5. To the Department of Justice (DOJ), a court, other tribunal, or another party before such court or tribunal when:
a) SSA or any of our components;
b) any SSA employee in his or her official capacity;
c) any SSA employee in his or her individual capacity when DOJ (or SSA when we are authorized to do so) has agreed to represent the employee; or
d) the
is a party to litigation or has an interest in such litigation, and we determine that the use of such records by DOJ, the court, other tribunal, or another party before such court or tribunal is relevant and necessary to the litigation. In each case, however, we must determine that such disclosure is compatible with the purpose for which we collected the records.
6. To DOJ, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Offices of United States Attorneys, and other Federal law enforcement agencies, for investigation and potential prosecution of violations of the Social Security Act.
7. To a congressional office in response to an inquiry from that office made at the request of the subject of the record or a third party on that person's behalf.
8. To the public via our Internet web site located at http://www.socialsecurity.gov that we have disqualified or suspended a representative from representation before us, or not recognized a person as a claimant's representative.
9. To persons, groups, organizations, or government entities that routinely refer potential claimants or beneficiaries to attorneys or persons other than attorneys for the purpose of putting such persons, groups, organizations or government entities on notice that we have disqualified or suspended a representative from representation before us, or not recognized a person as a claimant's representative.
10. To any person or entity with whom the representative is affiliated or has indicated that he or she wants to be affiliated in representing claimants before us, notice that we have disqualified or suspended the affiliated or potentially affiliated representative from representation before us, or not recognized that person as a claimant's representative.
11. To the General Services Administration and the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) under 44 U.S.C. §§ 2904 and 2906, as amended by the NARA Act, information that is not restricted from disclosure by Federal law for their use in conducting records management studies.
12. To the appropriate Federal, State, and local agencies, entities, and persons when: 1) we suspect or confirm that the security or confidentiality of information in this system of records has been compromised; 2) we determine that as a result of the suspected or confirmed compromise there is a risk of harm to economic or property interests, risk of identity theft or fraud, or harm to the security or integrity of this system or other systems or programs that rely upon the compromised information; and 3) we determine that disclosing the information to such agencies, entities, and persons is necessary to assist in our efforts to respond to the suspected or confirmed compromise and prevent, minimize, or remedy such harm. We will use this routine use to respond only to those incidents involving an unintentional release of our records.
13. To the Office of the President in response to an inquiry made at the request of the subject of the record or a third party on that person's behalf.
14. To student volunteers, persons working under a personal services contract, and others who are not technically Federal employees, when they are performing work for us as authorized by law, and they need access to information in our records in order to perform their assigned duties.
15. To Federal, State, and local law enforcement agencies and private security contractors as appropriate, information as necessary:
a) to enable them to assure the safety of our employees and customers, and the security of our workplace, and the operation of our facilities; or
b) to assist investigations or prosecutions with respect to activities that affect such safety and security or activities that disrupt the operation of our facilities.
16. To contractors and other Federal agencies, as necessary, for the purpose of assisting us in the efficient administration of our programs. We will disclose information under the routine use only in situations in which we may enter into a contractual or similar agreement with a third party to assist in accomplishing an agency function relating to this system of records.
Policies and practices for storing, retrieving, accessing, retaining, and disposing of records in the system:
Storage: We will store records in this system in paper and electronic form.
Retrievability: We will retrieve records by SSN, representative identification number, or alphabetically by the representative's name.
Safeguards: We retain paper and electronic files with personal identifiers in secure storage areas accessible only to our authorized employees and contractors. We limit access to data with personal identifiers from this system to only authorized personnel who have a need for the information in the performance of their official duties. We annually provide all of our employees and contractors with appropriate security awareness training that includes reminders about the need to protect personally identifiable information and the criminal penalties that apply to unauthorized access to, or disclosure of, personally identifiable information. See 5 U.S.C. § 552a(i)(l). Employees and contractors with access to databases maintaining personally identifiable information must sign a sanction document annually, acknowledging their accountability for inappropriately accessing or disclosing such information.
Retention and disposal: For purposes of records management
dispositions authority, we follow the
System manager(s) and address(es): Associate General Counsel for General Law, Office of the General Counsel, Social Security Administration, 6401 Security Boulevard, Baltimore, MD 21235. Regional Chief Counsels (see addresses in the System Location section of this notice).
Notification procedures: Persons can determine if this system contains a record about them by writing to the system manager at the above address and providing their name, SSN, or other information in this system of records that will identify them. Persons requesting notification by mail must include a notarized statement to us to verify their identity or they must certify in the request that they are the person they claim to be and understand that the knowing and willful request for, or acquisition of, a record pertaining to another person under false pretenses is a criminal offense.
Persons requesting notification of records in person should provide the same information, as well as provide an identity document, preferably with a photograph, such as a driver's license. Persons lacking identification documents sufficient to establish their identity must certify in writing that they are the person they claim to be and that they understand that the knowing and willful request for, or acquisition of, a record pertaining to another person under false pretenses is a criminal offense.
Persons requesting notification by telephone must verify their identity by providing identifying information that parallels the information in the record to which notification is being requested. If we determine that the identifying information the person provides by telephone is insufficient, the person will be required to submit a request in writing or in person. If a person requests information by telephone on behalf of another person, the subject person must be on the telephone with the requesting person and us in the same telephone call. We will establish the subject person's identity (his or her name, SSN, address, date of birth, and place of birth, along with one other piece of information, such as mother's maiden name) and ask for his or her consent to provide information to the requesting person. These procedures are in accordance with our regulations (20 C.F.R. §§ 401.40 and 401.45).
Record access procedures: Same as notification procedures. Requesters also should reasonably specify the record contents they are seeking. These procedures are in accordance with our regulations (20 C.F.R. § 401.40(c)).
Contesting record procedures: Same as notification procedures. Requesters also should reasonably identify the record, specify the information they are contesting, and state the corrective action sought and the reasons for the correction with supporting justification showing how the record is incomplete, untimely, inaccurate, or irrelevant. These procedures are in accordance with our regulations (20 C.F.R. § 401.65(a)).
Record source categories: We obtain information covered by this system of records from existing records we maintain (e.g., the Claims Folder System, 60-0089), which contain information relating to the representation of claimants before us.
Exemptions claimed for the system: None.


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Web Services
UH Hilo Home > Office of Campus Technology (OCT) > Web Services
The Web Services branch of the Office of Campus Technology supports departments, faculty and staff in the creation, use and maintenance of World Wide Web. Web Services is responsible for maintaining the hilo.hawaii.edu web site and many of its subsidiary sites located on multiple servers.
For web-related activities, sites can be developed either by the individual or by the Web Services staff. Web space is available on either Linux- or Mac OS X-based servers, depending on what functions are required. A variety of web-enhancing features may also be added to a site upon request.
The Web Team
- Sunny Walker, Webmaster
- Brennan V. Low, IT Specialist
The UH Hilo Web Services recommends the following software and technologies:
- Firefox, Internet Explorer, Safari/Chrome, Opera, Lynx (text only browser)
- Dreamweaver (educational pricing available through the UH Bookstore)
- Contribute (educational pricing available through the UH Bookstore and limited site licenses available)
- MySQL
The UH Hilo web site makes use of the following resources:

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About the Prague Summer Film Program
The Prague Summer Film Program is an intensive course in production that offers Emerson film students an unparalleled experience. The Academy of Performing Arts (FAMU) is one of Europe's oldest and finest film academies and is rated one of the top film schools in the world. FAMU alumni include famous writers and directors Jiri Menzel, Milan Kundera, Milos Forman, Vaclav Havel, and Agnieszka Holland, among many others.
Students who participate in the program should be highly motivated and able to manage their expectations and work collaboratively with other students. Every student will depart the program with a film. Students will be registered for two courses for a total of 8 VMA credits, which will fulfill 4 credits of elective and 4 credits toward the media studies requirement.
Prague Summer 2014 class in front of Barrandov Studios
All participants meet regularly with FAMU professors and mentors. Students should be prepared to work at a fast pace while managing production training, class lectures, group excursions, and everyday life in the city of Prague. Students who are most successful in this program are independent, hard-working, open-minded, and willing to change course on a minute's notice. Students learn through the production process itself, class lectures, and on-site workshops. Courses are taught in English.
The first course in Cinematic Language is a production course that involves an intensive, week-long lighting and cinematography workshop on a soundstage and the scripting, casting, location scouting, acting, shooting, directing, and editing of a 5- to 7-minute HD production. FAMU and Emerson College faculty will evaluate students.
The second course is a film studies course on the history and development of Czech and Slovak cinema with emphasis on the Czech New Wave, one of the most influential film movements of the post–World War II era. Special tours and lectures are planned at Barrandov Studios, Jiri Trnka's Animation Studios and a two-night excursion to the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (KVIFF). Additional lectures and discussions will feature Czech film directors. Past guest speakers have included Jiri Menzel, Jaromil Jires, Alice Nellis, Jiri Barta, and Jan Nemec.
An Emerson College faculty member will supervise students in their academic studies and travel. In addition, lectures are scheduled with film historians Dr. Michal Bregant and Dr. Jan Bernard and FAMU Cinematography Professor Michal Gahut, Pavel Marek, and Marek Jicha.
Travel Opportunities
Travel is a meaningful part of the educational experience in this program. Students will attend the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (KVIFF) as well as tour the historic North Bohemian district. This festival is one of the oldest film festivals in Europe, and ranks alongside Venice and Cannes. KVIFF annually presents more than 200 new films from all over the world. In addition to travel to Karlovy Vary, students will travel to Terezin Concentration Camp and the medieval town of Litoměřice.


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Airbus' fuel-saving and performance-enhancing Sharkets will soon become a familiar sight in the Asia-Pacific region as the first A320 with these largewingtip devices is readied for its service entry with AirAsia.
Handover of the initial Sharklets-equipped A320 to AirAsia occurred today, marking another milestone for this important customer – the largest low-cost carrier in Asia, which has ordered the most A320 Family jetliners of any airline operator.
By helping reduce the spiral-shaped vortices formed at an aircraft's wingtips during flight, Sharklets further improve the A320's aerodynamics. This contributes to a lowering of the jetliner's fuel consumption and emissions, an enhancement of takeoff performance, increased range and payload capability, improved rate-of-climb, a raising of the optimum flight altitude, and a lowering of engine maintenance costs.
Built with lightweight composite materials, the 2.4-metre-tall Sharklets are manufactured by the Korean Air Group's Korean Air Aerospace Division.
For AirAsia, the Sharklets will be fitted on new A320 Family jetliners received by the airline, beginning with today's delivery. In total, AirAsia has ordered 475 of the Airbus single-aisle aircraft, of which more than 100 already have been provided to the airline.
Sharklets are available as an option on new-build A320ceo (current engine option) Family aircraft, and are standard on all members of Airbus' A320neo (new engine option) Family.


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Melvin Roy Halgrimson
Melvin Roy Halgrimson, 96, Princeton (formerly Pine River), died Monday, Sept. 10 at the Sterling Pointe Memory Care Unit in Princeton, Minnesota.
Melvin was born on March 30, 1916 in Alberta, Canada, son of Albert and Alice (Morris) Halgrimson. As a youth, his family moved to northern Minnesota and made their home in Bain for a few years. He later worked in the Boundary Waters in a Civilian Conservation Corps camp.
He served his country in the U.S. Army aboard the USS Sea Witch during WWII, beginning on July 25, 1942 until his honorable discharge on Feb. 9, 1946. Melvin worked as a heavy equipment operator for the McGary Brothers, Elk River Bituminous, Barbarosa Construction and others over the years.
On Feb. 14, 1947, he was united in marriage with Evelyn Nielsen. They lived in Minneapolis, Rockford, Illinois, and many other areas due to his work.
In 1958, they moved to Zimmerman. It is there they raised their three children. His wife, Evelyn died on Dec. 20, 1975. Melvin moved to Pine River in the late 1970s, where he lived until entering the Guardian Angels in Elk River and last year moving to Sterling Pointe in Princeton.
Melvin was a member of the 49ers Union, the Zimmerman Fire Department and the Zimmerman American Legion Post No. 560.
Melvin is survived by his children: Mike (Pam) Halgrimson of Princeton, Randy (Geri) Halgrimson of Zimmerman and Rita (Tom) Smith of Bemidji; four grandchildren: Lisa (Kelly) Johnson, Derek (Kerstin) Halgrimson, Chelsea Starr and Nichole Peterson; eight great-grandchildren: Emily, Russell, Shania, Allyson, Isabelle, Rylie, Jenna and Raine; two brothers: Albert Halgrimson of Palisade and Harold Halgrimson of Tucson; many other relatives and friends.
Melvin was preceded in death by his parents: Albert and Alice Halgrimson; five brothers: Alfred, Olaf, Mervin, Ellis and Christ; four sisters: Otilda, Ida, Myrtle and Edith; and his wife: Evelyn.
The funeral was held Saturday, Sept. 15 at the Williams Dingmann Family Funeral Home, Princeton, Minnesota. Burial: Waukenabo Lake Cemetery, rural Palisade, Minnesota.
Arrangements are with Williams Dingmann of Princeton, Minnesota.


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Tree Pruning Fact Sheet
An educated and experienced arborist knows that all tree pruning is not equal. The arborist assesses each tree individually and then decides what type of pruning the tree is in need of. Crown cleaning, crown thinning, crown raising, deadwood pruning and training pruning are nationally accepted standards of tree pruning developed by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI). The ANSI A300 pruning standards are extensive and involved. They are there to protect the consumer. If these pruning standards are not addressed in the tree pruning proposals or estimates you receive you are not getting a professional job. At Wachtel our educated and experienced Certified Arborists will help you benefit from these standards and assist you in determining what type of pruning your trees will need.
The different classifications of tree pruning are:
Crown cleaning: is the removal of dead, dying, diseased, crowded, weak, low vigor branches and water sprouts from a tree's crown. This standard is one of the most commonly used.
Crown thinning: includes all of the above in crown cleaning and in addition the remaining live canopy is selectively thinned out to increase light penetration and air movement. It is also useful for reducing weight on branch ends. Crown thinning should never exceed more than 25% of the live crown being removed. 5-20% is typical.
Deadwood pruning: is just as it sounds. The deadwood is properly pruned out of the tree's entire crown.
The three pruning types listed above must be denoted with a branch diameter size. This meansthat specific attention will be placed on branches of that diameter and larger. Common examples of this are 1/4",1/2",1" or 2" diameter branches and larger.
Crown raising: is the pruning off of the lower branches to provide clearance. This clearance could be needed for houses, lights, garages, utility lines, vehicle or pedestrian traffic or to clear other plants. Crown raising alone does not address needs that are met in a crown cleaning, crown thinning or deadwood pruning. Crown raising is usually done in conjunction with other pruning. Crown raising must address what is to be cleared and by what distance. An example of this might be a crown raising to provide 8 feet of clearance over garage roof.
Training pruning: is the most under used category of pruning. Training pruning is done with the specific intent to promote the best branch spacing and a single leader which will develop a superior form as the tree matures. Future form is the goal. Trees that receive training pruning while young tend to require less pruning as they mature. Oftentimes complete training pruning may need to be done in stages.
All tree pruning is not equal. What is needed for one tree may not be appropriate for another.
Finding an arborist who knows this is very important. At Wachtel our knowledgeable and experienced Certified Arborists will help you determine what type of pruning is needed for your trees. The standard has been set; don't play games of chance with untrained tree cutters. CHOOSE THE LEADER -- CHOOSE WACHTEL
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PL's 16-under team 6-0
The Pequot Lakes 16-under girls' fast-pitch summer softball team swept visiting Pine River-Backus by scores of 10-0 in four innings and 21-2 in four innings on Wednesday, June 26.
In the opener, Katie White tossed a no-hitter with the only PR-B base runner coming on a second-inning walk. White also had nine strikeouts.
Pequot Lakes, 6-0 overall, scored twice in the first inning on a sacrifice fly and Taylor Crocker's RBI single. White added a two-run single in the second inning, and Pequot Lakes scored two more in the third. Pequot Lakes ended the game with four runs in the fourth on RBI hits by Emilee Buell and Laura Squires.
Crocker had three hits and three RBI while White drove in three runs.
In the second game, Pequot Lakes had six runs in the first inning as pitcher Taya Salminen earned the victory. Barb Miller and White each tripled.
Pequot Lakes added a run in the second inning on Madison Galligan's triple, and then scored 14 times in the third. White belted a three-run homer. Pequot Lakes had 16 hits, including three by Galligan and Emilee Buell and two by Croker and White. Salminen allowed just two hits, and also had a two-run single.
14-under team splits
The Pequot Lakes Blue 14-under split with Bemidji Huschle on Monday, June 24. Pequot Lakes lost the first game, but won the second game 6- 5. Meghan Nelson started the rally in the third inning with a three-run triple, while Caitlyn Carkhuff and Shelby Edblad each had RBI. Jessica Faacks hit a triple in the fifth inning, with Taya Salminen singling home Jessica Faacks with the winning run.


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Excerpt: "Old habits and hatreds die hard. Its difficult for any blue-blooded Giant fan to admit out loud that the unraveling Eagles no longer pose a threat in the NFC East or that the Cowboys, too, are as harmless, soft and fluffy as a goose down pillow whenever the fourth quarter arrives.
The real divisional threat now, and for the foreseeable future, resides instead near the Capital Beltway and bears a racist nickname that no respectful columnist should ever type. That would be Washington, the precocious, upstart football team waiting in ambush at FedEx Field on Monday night for the Super Bowl champs.
Fortunately for Giants, they are taking notice sort of.
They have a really good team, and it all starts with RG3, Victor Cruz said on Wednesday, during a conference call. Theyre a team on the rise. I think theyre still a couple of pieces away from being contenders... whether it is defensively or wherever, but theyve got to be in the conversation. They really do some good things. I put them in that conversation for sure.
That conversation is growing dense and complicated, like a Faulkner novel. The sound and the fury began in earnest after Cruz caught a 77-yard, game-winning touchdown with 1:13 left in the fourth quarter to beat Washington at MetLife Stadium in October. DeAngelo Hall then belittled the play, saying Eli Manning had very little to do with the score.
We gave him that play, Hall said. It wasnt something where he was a rocket scientist and he figured something out. We just played that as bad as possible.
On Wednesday, Cruz insisted he and Manning actually had something to do with that pass. He also expressed his respect for rocket scientists, because Cruz has a sense of humor about these things.
Its definitely high up there, Cruz said, about the play. To have a game-winning touchdown of 70-plus yards, a long bomb through the double team, sprinting through the end zone.
Plus a salsa. Never forget the salsa.
The point is, however, that this rivalry could become something both fun and mean at the same time.
Robert Griffin III is 22 years old and not going anywhere soon. Neither is running back Alfred Morris, 23, who already has gained 982 yards with six touchdowns in his rookie season, averaging 4.7 yards per carry. Washington always plays the Giants tough, beating them twice last year. It has the skill players to compete for many years to come, and is just starting to find its rhythm after rescuing its season with two straight victories." Read more...


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Just what the title says. Has there been any evidence for either argument...boots custom built or based off an exsisting boot. I.e. The strips were added and the color was changed, but the boot essentially remained the same.
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Just what the title says. Has there been any evidence for either argument...boots custom built or based off an exsisting boot. I.e. The strips were added and the color was changed, but the boot essentially remained the same.
While I don't know, I would suggest emailing Mark Cheng. I know his are manufactured, but I would think that if anyone knows or has researched them, he might have.
Somebody here recently said something about finding a "Goodyear" boot at a yard sale that looked very similar. They never did elaborate on it or post any pictures. I'll look to see who it was.
Yeah, I remember that. Something about a firefighter boot w/ goodyear soles, wasn't it?
Hmmmm...I must have missed that post. The soles do look very familiar to me. The style of boot is quite common, but the details are unique. I'd really like to get whatever info we can muster on them.
Edit- while looking through boots I came across these:
There is a larger version on their website:
While this absolutely no where near the correct boot, I wonder if it is a step in the right direction in determining what style of boot the originals are. After all these are all new boots, and we are in search of a vintage boot.
Wait a minute. Memory is kicking in. The "Goodyear" boots were referring to Jango style boots I believe...
I found a pair that looks like the base boot on that Prop Palace uses. You can buy them at walmart for $17. The brand name is george, but i cant remember what model they are. I painted mine (and they held the paint really well)but i plan on getting another pair and adding leather to them. Also, while I'm on the subject of feet, I found spikes like what we used in bracelets and collars in the 80' (im showing my age)at Hottopic for $6. I figure I can screw them into a brace and screw the brace into the shoe. Voila... Fett boots for under $25.
When I took my Fett pictures to a local seamstress to see about doing a custom softsuit, she said she used to work a lot with the Navy overseas and she said she thought the boots looked a lot like a British Neoprene boot. Now, I have no idea when this "Neoprene" stuff was invented, but she said to check out dive boots of different kinds. I admit I didn't put much stock in this assessment, but maybe it's worth checking out-- she was right about the little blousing strap with hook and loop at the bottom of the softsuit-- also used in these military duds overseas, according to her.
Just a thought.
Definitely worth looking into, Chris! Stormtrooper boots are very similar to Navy welding boots...lots of military related items used in SW, so it's source definitely fits the SW pattern of "found" items.
I'll have to do some research and see if anything pops up.
Thanks for the info. :)
I came accross a couple pairs of boots that were very close to the pattern of the fett boots ( the elastic inlay ). The technical SHOE MAKER term for the boots is a "ROMEO" style boot.
it'd make sense if the boots are a British military origin, considering that's where a lot of the props for costumes came from. But I think the seamstress might be right on with the diving boot idea. When I was watching junkyard wars, they were doing the diving episode and the iron diving boots the host wore were square toed. So maybe Boba's boots are neoprene inserts for diving suit boots?
Based on the "Dive Boots" recommendation above, I went looking and may have found some that could work as a good, cheap base boot for about $35. It would require some painting/coloring. (How would you paint neoprene anyway?) The piping could be easily stitched on. Maybe paint the sole with white latex paint?Quote:
Mannie Bothans wrote:
...she thought the boots looked a lot like a British Neoprene boot. ...but she said to check out dive boots of different kinds.
What do you guys think?
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Here in Manila, there is a town that specializes with shoes/custom made shoes.
I've printed out the pics Rex sent me & I'll be visiting those shoe places by next week.
I've showed the pics to some of my friends & they say that our shoe makers here could replicate it.
Wish me luck!
Ooh! keep us posted!
As for the dive boots, you'd be better off gluing material (ideally canvas) to them and then painting them and add the piping. If you decided to go with these, try and get a pair with a white/off-white sole.
The dive boots look good. Have any of you guys ever dove before? Your feet will sweat at an unbelievable rate in neoprene as it designed to maintain heat, not breath. The neoprene itself has thousands of tiny air bubbles in it to act as dead space which is an excellent insulator. Ive seen some post about their pits going hyperactive with the suit on on. You can't imagine what your feet will do. Neoprene is washable (Id say hand washable in mild detergent) but you'll be washing/repainting after every outing. As far as painting goes it would probably work as they typically put a cloth covering over it for durability. You'll have to check this one as I never painted mine.
I think that is very possible the idea that the boots we are looking for are british diving boots from the 70's. In the link below there is a picture of a pair of british diving boots from WWII. They have certain similarities in the squeare tipe toe and the back of the boot used for fitting.
It is very possible that Boba,s boots are a newer version of these.
I feel sorry for the guy that had to were those ciderblock slippers.
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... Your feet will sweat at an unbelievable rate in neoprene as it designed to maintain heat, not breathe.
Check out this other pair of deep see diving boots. specially the sole.
Just hold on about another month or two folks the tides will change.
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I went yesterday to the local Walmart, and I bought a pair of tennis shoes as the base boot that resembles a lot to the "Adidas" from the '80s (does "RUN DMC" comes to your mind??? :rolleyes ). It has a flat white sole. The walmart version is called "Joe", but it has the shape and even the 3 stipes in the sides as the Adidas does, but this ones are silver (the stripes). I'm planning to buy canvas and dye them with RIT dye, sewing on the black piping or buying some stuff that comes like a toothpaste that's exclusively for shoes. Let's see what happens form there.
By the way...I'm not into RAP or anything like that, just a base for the boot! :D
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Boston Mayor Says Vice President Guaranteed Him Obama Will Pass Major Gun Control Reform by End of January
Posted on January 3, 2013 at 5:55pm by Jason Howerton
This Oct. 5, 2012 file photo shows Boston Mayor Tom Menino during a campaign event for Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren in Boston. Menino on Friday, Dec. 21, 2012, responded to the National Rifle Associations call for armed police and security volunteers to be posted at schools, saying the groups proposal is not a plan, but a ploy to bring more guns into our neighborhoods, following the Dec. 14 massacre in a Connecticut elementary school. Credit: AP
Vice President Joe Biden guaranteed that President Barack Obama will pass sweeping gun control legislation by the end of January, according to Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino.
He said, Tommy, I guarantee you, well get it done by the end of January, Menino reportedly said at City Hall on Thursday. Theyre going to get it done.
I understand the Second Amendment, the right to bear arms. But I dont understand how young kids should be able to get guns, Menino said, adding that Obama has no excuse not to pass strong legislation.
The mayor also said the president no longer has to worry about upsetting pro-gun voters or the National Rifle Association because he is in his second term. In other words, he is more flexible.
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An eye-popping visual feast also reveals rampant consumerism and environmental degradation, writes Peter Calder
Making moving images as intensely rich and clear as still ones is Mark Magidson's reason for being. The American producer of Samsara, which opened in cinemas this week, says he and director Ron Fricke went to extraordinary lengths to ensure the shots they captured were of the same standard as great still photography.
Samsara, like 1992's Baraka, which the pair also made, is a visually ravishing non-narrative documentary that takes viewers on an eye-popping tour of some of the many worlds on Earth.
Shot over five years in almost 100 locations in 25 countries, it captures footage of what looks like randomly connected events and sites: a golf driving range, a slum, a chicken factory, a Buddhist temple.
Magidson and Fricke's first collaboration, Chronos, in 1985, was only 40 minutes long because that was the limit of the Imax format - then state of the art for high-resolution cinematic projection. The quantum leap in digital projection in the generation since has changed all that. The movie is shot on 70mm film - "It's so rich, digital doesn't touch it," says Magidson - and scanned before being digitally edited and output in a 2.4:1 format.
"We love that wide look on the big screen. Shooting on film, there's a big logistical price to pay in terms of the hassles of moving stuff in and out of countries compared to 1992 when we made Baraka. We used to carry it with us, but now it would be X-rayed, so we have to ship it. But when you get back, you have footage in a format that is going to stand up for ever."
The digital projection, by contrast, is steadier because there is no movement of film through the gate of a projector: this allows for an intimacy, particularly in the many shots in which subjects stare straight into the camera, that film does not achieve.
"It's about taking film-making technique further," says Magidson, "but what's underneath it all is the desire to express something artistically about the life experience that we all share."
So what is that something? The film's title, the producer explains, is a Sanskrit word that refers to the cycle of birth, death and rebirth common to Buddhism and Hinduism. Its correlative is the notion of impermanence - a fundamental idea in Buddhism.
"That is what guided us. We were looking for images that reflected the transitory nature of life. But we wanted to provide an experience that people felt connected to."
That said, they were careful to avoid the temptation to editorialise. "We tried not to give a strong view as film-makers. Some of the material is political in nature - guns and factory farming and so on - but we try not to steer the viewer. We walk the line. Sometimes maybe we get over the line a little bit. But we are trying to be restrained."
To a good Buddhist, of course, there is nothing that, clearly contemplated, does not exemplify the transitory nature of life. For this viewer, one of Samsara's strongest and most dispiriting impressions was the ways it documented rampant consumerism and its flip side, environmental degradation. Magidson says everyone will make a different meaning of the film.
There's a commendable absence of trickery in post-production to be found here. Time-lapse photography and slow frame-rate shooting (to create a sped-up finished product) was done in camera and, Magidson says, "occasionally we took a bird off a statue's head", but for the most part we see what they saw.
Sometimes, we've seen it before: Jennifer Baichwal's Manufactured Landscapes opened on the mile-long small-appliance factory in China that also features here. The sulphur miners of Ijen in Indonesia were more pointedly depicted in Austrian Michael Glawogger's 2005 film Workingman's Death.
"We were not trying to avoid images that have been seen before," Magidson says. "There's a sequence in a prison that we found on YouTube, though I think we did a better job. We borrow from other people, sure, but we just try to film it well and do it in an honourable way. We wanted to make a film that has an arc and makes sense without words. And that's what we worked really hard at trying to pull off."
Who: Mark Magidson, producer
What: Samsara, a non-narrative documentary in the vein of Baraka. In cinemas now
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REDMOND, Ore. - What many people see as a limitation, Joe Fonseca sees as an opportunity to motivate.
Joe was born with no hands, but you would never know it.
"You see someone who is always open, always giving, and Joe is that person," said Gretchin Kingston, a Triumph Fitness member.
As the owner of Triumph Fitness in Redmond, his gym members say he's fought hard to live his dream of owning a training facility and motivating people to work hard and push themselves.
Despite his own setbacks, Joe can pump out more pushups, squats and sit-ups than most of the crew.
"When you first know Joe, it's a bad habit for a lot of people to say, 'Can you do this or can you do that?' And after you go play golf with him or play football with him, you don't even ask, you say, 'Let's just go do this', said another gym member, Mike Spitz.
But Joe wants to do more.
"I compete with these guys. When we do our workouts, I'm fighting to be as good as them, as fast as them -- and now they chase me," he said.
He may be able to show up the gym members, but Joe wants to compete in the CrossFit games, a high intensity style of workout involving weights, cardio and cross training.
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"We all love you and appreciate everything you do for us," Kingston told Joe. "You are so wonderful. You give to everybody, you give to us. And so we wanted to nominate you for the Pay it Forward contest, and you won for this month."
"They inspire me so much more than they could ever possibly imagine, and walking through the door and seeing what I saw tonight, it was overwhelming," Joe said.
Many hope Joe will use the money to help him compete, but he wants to use it to make the gym even better.
Though he has no hands, Joe says he has no limits, no excuses -- and a lot of love.
"There's so many different things I want to do for them and put it back. Everything we make has gone right back into the gym and trying to make this the perfect home for them and that's what's happened," he said.
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Carissa, (Ness's youngest sister) had traveled up the coast to see us with Rob and the two boys. We headed inland to Mt Tambourine, and to the local version of a Sky walk (usual case of a walk way over the rain forest). At near on A$20 ea, it was deemed too expensive for one of the party, who snuck under the barrier
My Mum and Dad had flown to Qld and were staying in the sunshine coast and were awaiting our trip up there after the visit to the coast, but a 2 hr drive was all that separated us, and Mum could not resist making the day trip down to see us and the Perry's.
Ness suggested we go to the new high rise at surfers, P1, it has an observation deck and had some pretty cool views of the coast. (See pics)
Ness- Great time catching up with the family. Stayed with the folks in Labrador, basically gate crashing their holiday up on the Gold Coast. Mt Tambourine was a little disappointing for the wild life, especially now that we are keen birdwatchers! But we did manage to score some great local wines that we drunk while playing UNO attack! Great family game that turns very competitive when consumed with bottles and bottles of alcohol! What was the final score Dad?
Martyn's folks drove down to see us and we immediately whisked them off to the local surf life saving club, they always have the best views and great food. Which reminds me that what with all the drinking and eating I am happily participating in the old jeans are getting a little tight around the waist! Bummer....


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You know the pain incurred by a woman scorned, and if you don't we pray you never do. Lizard Lick Towing's Ron Shirley is here to help you avoid feeling it ever again.
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The cluster resets (tach drops to zero and goes back up to idle) and the time and trip reset as well everytime I start the car and turn the fog/driving lights on. After turning them on, I can shut them off and on again and the cluster won't reset, seems like only at start up/first time.
There are HID bulbs in place of the factory H3's, but it would only happen sometimes - after installing a relay to provide power from the battery to the ballasts does this problem happen all the time now. I am thinking it has to do with the voltage spikes of the ballasts; and now the relay windings. Does anyone have an idea or experienced this before? I am thinking of using either a diode or a capacitor to 'soak' up the extra voltage - but it would need to be dissipated some how. Just don't really know where to put one.
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Titan Comics has announced the launch of the DmC: Devil May Cry: The Vergil Chronicles comic, based on the game series.
Mass Effect and Dragon Age comics and merch announced
BioWare had a little moment at New York Comic Con and announced a looming mountain of new merchandise and tie-in media for fans of the Dragon Age and Mass Effect franchises.
Splinter Cell: Echoes comic to bridge narrative gap
Splinter Cell's universe is set to expand with a full-length graphic novel detailing events between 2010's Conviction and the upcoming Blacklist.
Marvel produced Max Payne 3 digital comic "Hoboken Blues" now available for download
What's better than Max Payne 3? A Max Payne 3 comic written by Sam Lake and produced by Marvel.
Max Payne 3 issue 2 out June 12
Rockstar Newswire heralds the imminent arrival of the next issue of the Max Payne 3 comic; Hoboken Blues releases on June 12. the comic mini-series was written by Rockstar's written by Dan Houser and Remedy's Sam Lake, and covers events from throughout the franchise's timeline, including Payne's past.
Uncharted novel, comic series get release dates
So, reading. It's quite the thing, apparently. While Kinect, Move, and their ilk try to do away with controllers as much as possible, reading requires only a pair of un-blinded eyes. Pretty wild, huh? Being the trailblazer that he is, Nathan Drake hopes to tame this amazing technology using a two-pronged attack composed of comics […]
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The second and final episode of the Portal 2 prequel comic, Lab Rat, is up.
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As promised earlier this week, IGN has released Part 1 of Valve's Portal 2: Lab Rat comic.
Portal 2: Lab Rat online comic to launch Friday
To feed your Portal 2 anticipation, Valve has produced an online comic bridging the gap between the two games.
Mass Effect comics to return to series timeline
Mass Effect lead writer Mac Walters has dropped a few hints regarding an upcoming comic series.
Crysis 2 story bridged by prequel comic mini-series
IDW will publish a prequel comic for Crysis 2, spanning the previously undisclosed plot events between the two games.
The Darkness II prequel comic available on Free Comic Book Day
Comics publisher Top Cow is getting into the spirit of the upcoming sequel The Darkness II by releasing a prequel comic on Free Comic Book Day.
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EA's put out the first edition of its Dante's Inferno mini-comic. You can download it here. Looks cool, innit. The publisher announced the game's animated movie release for February 8 this morning, in addition. The game's out for PS3 and 360 on February 5.
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The second episode of Halo Legends, The Duel, premieres today on Halo Waypoint. It will be free for 24-hours for both Silver and Gold members will have access to the anime. Silver members should note that this is their last week to explore Waypoint for free along with the weekly episodes of Halo Legends. The […]
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Modern Warfare 2's adding a new weapon to its arsenal of modern media blitz tactics, Infinity Ward announced today. Joining games like Dante's Inferno and Star Wars: The Old Republic, Modern Warfare 2's getting its own comic book miniseries, starring a ghastly ghoul named Ghost. Infinity Ward's Robert Bowling gave MTV Multiplayer a brief description […]
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Activision's put out the second edition of its Wolfenstein web comic, the next part in the series we didn't report on in the first place. We've failed you, Wolfenstein fan. Get both videos after the break. We'll never be so slack again. That's a lie, actually. The game's out in August. Thanks, Joystiq.
Read all issues of a now-complete inFamous comic
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Mikel Arteta believes he is finding the right balance in the Arsenal midfield right now.
The Spaniard faced former club Everton on Saturday at Emirates Stadium and helped the team secure victory with another assured display alongside Alex Song and Aaron Ramsey.
Arteta has featured in every available Premier League fixture for Arsenal since his deadline-day transfer from Goodison Park and has added experience as well as an acute understanding of when to sit back and when to attack.
"It depends on how the game is going and on our opponents," Arteta told the Official Matchday Programme.
"I have scored five goals this season already, if you count my two for Everton in August, so I don't think things are going badly. if I can add to that then it can only help the team.
"We need to make sure people other than Robin are scoring for us, after all!"
Arteta hit his third Arsenal goal of the campaign as Arsène Wenger's side cruised past Wigan at the DW Stadium last week and the Spaniard wants more of the same in the coming months.
"I used to be quite good at that!" he said. "I need to keep trying these things - sometimes we get space to move into when the forward players have attracted defenders to them, and we need to stay aware of that.
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Bobby Stephens was shot in face and left for dead at a Chuck E. Cheese in Aurora
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. - The death penalty was debated at the State Capitol on Tuesday. But while the politicians talk, one survivor already has his mind made up.
Bobby Stephens was shot in the face and left for dead at a Chuck E. Cheese in Aurora in 1993. He was one of five people shot and the only survivor.
Now, nearly 20 years later, he still lives with the pain and believes up to now his shooter has gotten off easy.
"Nathan (Dunlap) has sat comfortably, living comfortably for 20 years longer than any of his victims. He's paid no penalties for what he's done. I'm paying in my taxes for Nathan to live in his jail cell. It's not fair," Stephens said.
"So far, Nathan hasn't lost any of his rights. He still has a voice, able to reach out to the outside world. I'm sure sitting in a jail cell he's made friends, got to know people," said Stephens.
On that fatal day in 1993, Stephens said he looked Dunlap straight in his eyes and Dunlap smiled at him before he shot him. He played dead and survived.
Recently, Dunlap had a letter delivered to him. "He apologized. He said he was sorry for what he had done to me. The person giving me the letter also said he would have killed me if he had known I was alive. He would have shot me again," said Stephens.
Stephens says the mass shooting has changed his life forever. "When I heard the third shot, I thought someone was in the game area popping balloons. So for some reason I relate balloons to gun shots. Even to this day I can't stand to be around balloons," he said.
It wasn't until his son's birthday recently when he was finally able to go inside another Chuck E. Cheese. "I was on edge. For the most part I did well until they started closing the restaurant and one employee turned on a vacuum cleaner and it set me off," he said.
Dunlap has exhausted his appeals and is on death row.
Since the shooting, Stephens says he's morally struggled with the death penalty. But now, he sent a letter to Gov. John Hickenlooper to keep it.
Stephens said he may even decide to watch Dunlap's execution. "Part of me wants to be there smiling at him like he was smiling at me. But I don't think I can be that evil," he said.
The house judiciary committee heard testimony on a bill to rid Colorado of the death penalty on Tuesday. If lawmakers approve it, it won't affect any current cases.
The last execution in Colorado was in 1997.


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H. W. Fowler's "Dictionary of Modern English Usage" is one of the fruits of the Oxford English Dictionary. The O.E.D. was (like many Victorian novels) published in parts: it was a serial publication whose serialization took fifty-four years. In 1879, its editor, James Murray, signed a contract with Oxford University Press, in which he promised to produce a four-volume dictionary within a decade. Five years later, he managed to publish the first part: "A—Ant." The dictionary was finished in 1933. (Murray expired in 1915, after reaching "Trink—Turndown," which, if it is not the end of the alphabet, is at least farther than Virginia Woolf's Mr. Ramsay was able to get.) It fills thirteen volumes: almost sixteen thousand pages.
Murray's method was to collect, for each word, specimen sentences from printed works illustrating changes in meaning and usage over time. For many years, Murray stored the slips on which these sentences were recorded in his yard in an iron shed known as the Scriptorium. If it had appeared in a Borges story, the Scriptorium would have figured as a kind of alternate literary universe, in which all the sentences ever written in English have been rescrambled, and transformed into a series of free-verse poems on words—all the sentences with "muffin," for instance, strung together to make a found-object ode to "muffin."
The dimensions of the actual Scriptorium were not so Borgesian, of course, but it was a fantastic resource. It was as though Murray had drilled a shaft into the history of the language, which one might descend and ascend, observing the linguistic striations. The Delegates of the Oxford University Press soon recognized that although the O.E.D. was a publishing triumph ("the greatest effort probably which any University, it may be any printing press, has taken in hand since the invention of printing," the Times declared in 1897, after the completion of "Foisty— Frankish"), not many people were likely to rush out and buy a sixteen-thousand-page dictionary. So they planned a series of affordable spinoffs, among them the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary (assigned to a man named Little, which shows that the Delegates were not without a sense of humor), the Concise Oxford Dictionary (shorter than the Shorter), and the Pocket Oxford Dictionary (more concise than the Concise). These were all quarried from the big dictionary: they drew on the specimen sentences in the published parts and, in the case of words later in the alphabet, in the warehouse of slips. The press had a dictionary in the works for every market niche. This is where Henry Fowler entered the picture.
Fowler was born in 1858, in Devon. He attended Rugby and Oxford, but his family was not well-off: his father was a schoolteacher, who died at the age of fifty-six, leaving eight children. Henry was the oldest. After Oxford, he became a teacher at a school in Yorkshire called Sedbergh. He seems not to have been a prime object of schoolboy affection: "He took some knowing" was a typical reminiscence. He had a reputation for rectitude, and after seventeen years at Sedbergh he resigned abruptly, because he had come to the conclusion that his lack of religious faith meant that he would never be promoted to housemaster. He was forty-one. He went to London, where he lived on a minuscule inheritance and the income from his writing, mostly essays of a belletristic nature, which he published with some difficulty. Diminished circumstances had no effect on his sense of what was honorable: after The Spectator sent him a check for a piece it had accepted but was unable to run because of lack of space, he refused to write for the magazine again.
He eventually realized that he was too reserved to get far in a literary world that required some talent for social gamesmanship, and in 1903 he moved to the island of Guernsey, a hundred miles off the south coast of England, where his brother Frank had gone into business as a tomato farmer. Fowler lived on Guernsey for twenty-two years. He and Frank became collaborators, first on a translation of Lucian, which Oxford published, and then on "The King's English" (1906), a guide for writers. This led to their employment in the O.E.D. spinoff industry: they were responsible for both the Concise Oxford Dictionary (1911) and the Pocket Oxford Dictionary (which was published in 1924, after Frank's death). It was on Guernsey that Fowler wrote the "Dictionary of Modern English Usage." It came out in 1926, when he was sixty-eight. He died in 1933, the year the O.E.D. was finally finished.
Upright people do not make ideal biographical subjects. To say that Jenny McMorris's "The Warden of English: A Life of H. W. Fowler" (Oxford; $27.50) is the biography Fowler deserves is neither to take anything away from Jenny McMorris nor to say that it is a particularly compelling biography. Fowler was a person who began every day, no matter what the weather, by rising early, running for a few miles, and then taking a dip in the nearest body of water. This, along with gardening, seems to have marked the upper limit of his conception of "fun." He lived alone until he was fifty, when he married a local nurse, almost his age, named Jessie Wills, a voluble woman, part of whose appeal was that she relieved her husband, in social situations, of having to talk.
In 1914, when he was fifty-six, Fowler falsified his age in order to enlist in the British Army. (Frank enlisted as well; he was forty-four.) He went to France, but although he had joined a battalion reserved for older men, when his real age was discovered he was taken off the front lines, and eventually, to his shame and disgust, he broke down physically and had to be sent home. In all his work for Oxford University Press, he insisted on a flat fee, and protested mildly when the press mailed him Christmas "bonuses" in lieu of royalties, which he had declined to accept. (One feels that the press, for its part, did not exactly insist. All of that generation of lexicographers, in their low-tech world, were overworked people. Murray wasn't the only one to die in harness: so did poor Mr. Little, and so did Frank Fowler. It would be interesting to know how much money Oxford has made on the dictionaries they produced; but McMorris doesn't tell us.) In short, Fowler was a modest, disciplined, and punctilious English gentleman. "He knew what he wanted from life," wrote the man who produced the second edition of "Modern English Usage," Ernest Gowers. "What he wanted was within reach; he took it and was content."
The most striking fact about Fowler's life is his isolation. There he sat, for more than twenty years, in a cottage on a remote island in the English Channel, writing a book that tells readers what the currently accepted pronunciation of "anchovy" is, when to use "gent" ("only in uneducated speech or in jocular imitations of it"), and the special connotation of "pawky" ("The Englishman is tempted to use the word merely as a synonym in certain contexts for Scotch; any jest uttered by a Scot is pawky, & pawky humour is understood to be unattainable except by Scots"). Fowler was, of course, a well-educated man, but after he got to Guernsey he rarely read anything except the newspaper. "I am the most unliterary person that ever posed as an expert on how to write," he once complained. And although he had friends and correspondents and collaborators—he was not a hermit—he took pains to distance himself from literary society. He rarely even visited Oxford. Yet his judgment seemed, for several generations of readers, virtually unerring. If it was not the Bible of English usage, Fowler's "Dictionary" was at least the Hoyle's: it was the arbiter of all disputes. Yet its authority is based largely on twenty years of reading the papers and plowing through the O.E.D. and other dictionaries. Fowler essentially intuited the state of the language from lexicographical bits and pieces. Out of the slips, he re-created the tongue.
As McMorris points out, many people who never met Fowler have felt that they "know" him, and this is because, however reticent he may have been in person, he was not reticent in print. "Modern English Usage" bristles with personality, not only in the articles on Fowler's various hobbyhorses, like STURDY INDEFENSIBLES and FACETIOUS FORMATIONS, but in many of the shorter entries as well. The tone is the tone of a schoolmaster, but a rather sly schoolmaster, who won't let you completely in on the joke. "Welsh rabbit is amusing & right, & Welsh rarebit stupid & wrong": there is a hint of high facetiousness in this, even though no one who reads it will ever say "Welsh rarebit" again. Like the big dictionary itself, "Modern English Usage" is one of those reference books that are read for pleasure even when the need for instruction has been satisfied. It is a classic of the language. The question is: Is it a dead classic?
Any usage manual is bound to seem antique after seventy-five years. Few people today will experience a need to check the correct pronunciation of "puttee." Gowers discreetly excised a number of Fowler's entries in the second edition, in 1965; R. W. Burchfield aggressively rewrote many of them in the third, published in 1996. On the other hand, some of the original entries retain their relevance:
coward(ly). The identification of coward & bully has gone so far in the popular consciousness that persons & acts in which no trace of fear is to be found are often called coward(ly) merely because advantage has been taken of superior strength or position; such action may be unchivalrous, unsportsmanlike, mean, tyrannical, & many other bad things, but not cowardly.
For the first generation of readers, a large part of Fowler's appeal was his impatience with what he labelled "Superstitions": never begin a sentence with "But," never end a sentence with a preposition, never split an infinitive. His general position was that it is almost always worse to appear to have gone out of one's way not to break a rule than it is to break it when breaking it appears to be unavoidable. Fowler wanted writing to be unaffected and clear, and he wanted writers to do what comes naturally. He believed that the ability to distinguish right from wrong in usage did not require any special philological knowledge but was essentially what he called "a matter of instinct."
Still, he did think there were rights and wrongs, and it is easy to suspect that "instinct" is a euphemism (not euphuism: see PAIRS & SNARES) for some more invidious term, such as "breeding." Fowler was a prescriptivist in a profession in which the trend was emphatically in the direction of nonjudgmental descriptivism: the position that whatever people say or write at the moment constitutes "usage," and there is nothing further to be said about it. Even in his own time, he was regarded by some linguists as a dinosaur. An "instinctive grammatical moralizer," Otto Jespersen called him.
Fowler was not offended, and although contemporary prejudice is likely to lie with descriptivism—in Jespersen's time, it seemed the properly scientific attitude; today, it seems the properly democratic attitude—Fowler had a point. A language may be whatever the people who speak that language make it, but "Modern English Usage" is not a book about language. It is a book about idiom, and idiom is language in its moral (also its social, political, and even ethnic) aspect. People make judgments based on usage and pronunciation all the time, just as they make judgments based on clothing and hair style and body odor (not to mention gender and skin color). A speaker whose English is unidiomatic is not saved from ridicule or condescension by the fact that his or her speech is technically correct. There is no more obvious signal that the speaker doesn't "belong" than speech that is supercorrect—a point Fowler made repeatedly. Language is a social weapon. Fowler was mostly trying to keep it from blowing up in people's hands.
Still, the people who read Fowler for pleasure are likely to be looking not for information but for the ratification of their own tastes:
To say a French word in the middle of an English sentence exactly as it would be said by a Frenchman in a French sentence is a feat demanding an acrobatic mouth; the muscles have to be suddenly adjusted to a performance of a different nature, & after it as suddenly recalled to the normal state; it is a feat that should not be attempted; the greater its success as a tour de force, the greater its failure as a step in the conversational progress; for your collocutor, aware that he could not have done it himself, has his attention distracted whether he admires or is humiliated. All that is necessary is a polite acknowledgement of indebtedness to the French language indicated by some approach in some part of the word to the foreign sound.
Good advice for the next time you are having tea with the bishop, but it is also a confirmation of the conviction (so British) that more than a "polite acknowledgement" that the French have their own system of pronunciation must be a form of vulgar pretension. (It is characteristic of Fowler to have dropped a French phrase into the entry for readers to practice mouthing.) Fowler is explaining what speakers ought to do when they find themselves about to use a French word, and his advice is perfectly sensible. He is also sneering, just a little, at speakers who try to do more. In "Modern English Usage," the democratic impulse (let's stop showing off) and the élitist impulse (showing off is vulgar) are two sides of almost every coin, and this has something to do with the changing status of language during the period of the book's greatest popularity.
"Modern English Usage" came out in the same year, 1926, that the BBC established an Advisory Committee on Spoken English, for the purpose of providing radio announcers with guidance on pronunciation and diction. It was a panel of learned celebrities: Robert Bridges (the Poet Laureate), Julian Huxley, Kenneth Clark, C. T. Onions (one of the editors of the O.E.D.), and Alistair Cooke all served at various times. The chairman was George Bernard Shaw (whose own pronunciation happened to be Irish but who was, after all, the author of "Pygmalion"). It was the view of the director general of the BBC, Lord Reith, that "the higher a community climbs on the social scale, the greater the degree of uniformity in speech"; but the practical purpose of the committee was simply to eliminate regional dialects and accents among the announcers so that listeners would not develop antipathies based on social prejudice. An announcement delivered in a Liverpool accent might not carry much authority in London. The consequence was the creation of what was in some respects a new dialect: BBC English, the speech of educated professionals. Radio and television are great homogenizers of language. They make the regional seem not colorful and authentic but ignorant and illiterate. They teach everyone the same inflections. "Modern English Usage" belongs to this trend toward a single national standard, which is, despite the destruction of the local and idiosyncratic along the way, the democratic trend.
But language does not homogenize so easily—and this, too, is part of the significance of Fowler's book. In 1925, an Oxford student named Alan Ross noticed that certain speech habits were becoming markers of social class, and he began collecting examples. He published his results in 1954 as "Linguistic Class-Indicators in Present-Day English," an analysis famous for establishing the categories U (for upper class) and non-U. Ross's point was that in a society in which class differences are increasingly difficult to detect—in which breeding, wealth, and power are no longer necessarily overlapping categories—language becomes virtually the only indicator of social class. Ross thought that although the upper class had words and pronunciations peculiar to it, the main characteristic of U speech was the avoidance of non-U speech. And, as is clear from his lists of U and non-U usages, the main characteristic of non-U speech is the effort to sound, in fact, U. "They've a lovely home," for example, is pure non-U, because it is an attempt to be refined. Non-U speakers say "wealthy" and "ever so"; U speakers say "rich" and "very." Non-U speakers "recall"; U-speakers simply "remember."
Fowler's tastes ran in exactly this direction: he thought that writers give themselves away when they use a foreign word, or draw attention to a quaint locution, or prefer an elegant alternative to the common term. "Rarebit" is patently non-U: it is the consequence of a genteel avoidance of the common word "rabbit." Fowler would never have described his preferences as upper class; he lived frugally and had no social aspirations. But, even as he was trying to make the idiomatic mainstream accessible to everyone, he helped to sustain the feeling that knowing the right word and the correct pronunciation is the sign of a superior nature. There is a lot more satisfaction in getting those things right when you know that other people are getting them wrong. ♦