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Rajon Rondo said Tuesday he was simply making a joke with official Rodney Mott when he bumped him in Saturday's game against the Atlanta Hawks, which along with what the NBA said was "a failure to cooperate with a league investigation" ended in a one-game suspended for Monday's game against the Knicks.
On Saturday, Rondo was called for an offensive foul when he ran into Atlanta's Josh Smith with 3:19 remaining in the third quarter, and made contact with Mott as he protested the call.
"Yeah, I thought Josh flopped," Rondo told reporters Tuesday. "I told Rodney, his body size and what he weighs, and look at me, there's no way I could have made him go into the stands off of contact. [Mott] laughed, threw the ball in, and we got back on defense."
Rondo said he talked to league officials about the bump and didn't understand why he was cited for failing to cooperate.
"I don't know about an investigation," Rondo said. "I don't feel it was needed to have an investigation. I know Rodney, and that particular time on that play, I actually went up to him and I made a joke, he laughed. In the midst of it I guess I touched him. I did touch him, and the league, I guess, reviewed it. The media blew it up on SportsCenter or whatever, and I served a one-game suspension."
Rondo insisted Tuesday he "didn't drop any bad words" on his chat with the NBA Monday. But reporters, after Rondo agreed to a limited number of questions, kept pressing the point guard on the issue.
"I said like one or two questions," Rondo said. "You [reporters] are asking like 30 questions. That situation's over, man. They did what they had to do. Ask the league, you know?"
Monday's suspension was Rondo's fourth in less than a year, and second this season. When asked if he felt like a "repeat offender" in the league's eyes, Rondo turned sarcastic.
"Yeah, I feel like I'm a criminal. I go to court a lot, they say investigation — what happened during the investigation?" Rondo said. "I'm not on trial or anything, it's just how it is when you're dealing with the league when you get in a little bit of trouble. I'm a repeat offender. I don't know if I have two or three strikes, but it is what it is."
Rondo admitted he might have to "adapt" his behavior as the NBA keeps his conduct under close monitoring.
"Maybe. I may have to, but I'll adapt. I'll learn the game," Rondo said. "But I'm an emotional player in that aspect. I think at that time I had a triple-double, we were up 10. I wasn't angry. I didn't go over and yell at Rodney. I think he even said that in his statement. But the league put the hammer down and made a decision."
Rondo also discussed the incident that took place after Monday's win, in which Knicks forward Carmelo Anthony approached the Celtics' team bus after verbally sparring with Kevin Garnett for much of the game. Video of the incident showed Rondo nearby as Anthony hovered close to Boston's bus.
"I don't know. I haven't talked to Carmelo Anthony," Rondo said. "I talked to KG, but like I said, we'll focus on Phoenix tomorrow and getting better here as the Celtics. There was a couple people at the bus. I thought everybody was coming to talk to each other and figure out some things, going to dinner next time. I don't know."
Rondo said he knew Anthony and Garnett had been going at it during the game, but didn't realize Anthony's behavior carried over afterward.
"No, I didn't. I actually left my location where I was watching the game around like three minutes to go in the fourth to get to the team bus, and I didn't know what had happened," Rondo said. "They were talking trash in the game, but I didn't know it escalated to whatever happened after the game."
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Step Back in Time to the English Civil Wars - Monday, 11 February 2013
Step back in time to the 17th century and the world of Roundheads and Cavaliers in the latest Living History Day at the Royal Armouries Museum in Leeds this Saturday (February 9).
Britain's oldest public museum, and home to the national collection of arms and armour, is joining forces with Colonel Edward Montagu's Regiment of Foote to offer a unique insight into the period's military and civilian life.
The Regiment of Foote is from the Roundhead Association, part of the English Civil War Society. Museum and event admission are free and the living history day runs from 10am to 4pm. Visitors can:
- See demonstrations of the weapons used in the clashes between the Roundheads and those loyal to the King.
- Learn drills to teach them how to be a soldier for the day
- Witness everyday life – including sewing and spinning demonstrations and a resident scribe.
- Understand how officers and soldiers carried out their duties
As always, the Royal Armouries' visitor experience team will be on hand with free performances and hands-on activities every day.
The regiment's Dave Lister said, "It's great to interact with the audience and to see their reactions to hearing what life was like in the 17th century. It also gives our members a chance to learn new skills from others within the regiment and the society."
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- Bob Woosnam-Savage, AMA, took up his post at the Royal Armouries in 2001. He read Art History at the University of Manchester (1978-81) and gained a Post-Graduate Diploma in Art Gallery and Museum Studies (1982). He has been involved with work on various battlefields including Towton (1461), Bosworth (1485) and Culloden (1746).
- Royal Armouries is the national museum of arms and armour and has sites in Leeds, HM Tower of London, Fort Nelson and Louisville, Kentucky. It is the first British national museum to open a permanent presence in another country
- Admission to the museum is free. However, there may be a small charge for some special events.
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The acrimonious split between Stone Brothers Racing (SBR) and returning New Zealand V8 Supercars racer Shane van Gisbergen continued to rumble in the background at the opening round of the 2013 championship.
In the run up to the Clipsal 500, it was strongly rumoured van Gisbergen was about to be slapped with an injunction to stop him racing due to an alleged breach of his termination contract not to race V8 Supercars for a year.
Nothing like that happened - and van Gisbergen took his new Car of the Future and promptly plonked it on pole for yesterday's first race.
At the press conference, van Gisbergen refused to be drawn on any queries about possible legal action and repeatedly said: "I'm just here to go racing and not commenting on any of the other stuff."
He tried to let his racing do the talking but, in race one, fluffed his start from pole and had to settle for 10th at the end of lap one. He fought back - at half race distance there were two Kiwis in the top three, Fabian Coulthard and van Gisbergen with Craig Lowndes holding a handy 18 second lead.
But van Gisbergen's march up the table ended on lap 66 after the car was parked up, stuck in gear.
The initial feeling about the new 'Car Of The Future' will be: fast but fragile after race one of the of the opening round of the 2013 V8 Supercars series on the streets of Adelaide.
Triple Eight driver Lowndes made the most of the high attrition rate to lead the field home from FPR's Will Davison and defending champion Jamie Whincup.
"It's been sensational. It's been one hell of a day and one hell of a weekend so far. I can honestly say it's the best COTF car I've ever raced," said a laughing Lowndes. "The car suits my style a bit better than last year's but there is more to come."
The opening laps were a fraught time for a number of teams with a Mercedes AMG having to be push-started at the start of the warm-up lap, two Fords into the pits with gearbox issues and a Nissan with oil line problems.
Meanwhile, up front Coulthard proceeded on his merry way keeping Lowndes and Whincup at bay. But he experienced brake problems and slowly sunk down the table from a fighting second to finish 19th.
"What can you do, it's out of my control," said a philosophical Coulthard. "We had the speed and were staying with the guys at the front. It just wasn't meant to be."
New Kiwi to the main game Scott McLaughlin stayed out of trouble and comfortably circulated inside the top 10 all day - finishing an outstanding sixth on debut in the main game.
"I can't say much, I'm just very happy," said McLaughlin. "The car was great and it's all credit to the entire team who've built me a great car. They gave me the opportunity and I'm just glad I could repay them."
As for van Gisbergen and the prospect of court rather than car action, the Herald on Sunday sat down with Ross Stone in the team's three-car pit garage and asked him about possible legal action - but hit the same stone wall.
"We released a statement last year and that's what we're sticking with," said Stone. "So no comment. What is incredible, though, is that we managed to build three complete race cars in 109 days and got all three through Friday's action to make the grid for the first race of the season."
What makes that feat more remarkable is the fact these new cars are not even remotely similar to the Fords Ross and Jimmy Stone built and raced to such great success since 1998 - winning three championships along the way.
"To get an all new car, and an engine developed and tested in that short a time, is a huge credit to everyone in the team," said Stone.
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Great idea and something I was looking for as I am currently making a baby quilt for a friend of a friend and wondered if I should place the label after the quilting or before. Question answered. Thanks for sharing. Bridget and I think it looks great!
Creative idea! I like it.
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Very nice label.
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thanks for the idea and suggestions .... I need them. I've found several quilts from days gone by with no label or an unreadable label, it would be so wonderful to have that part of the quilts story.
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nice idea for a label. My MIL had over 20 quilts stolen while she was moving. They were locked in a storage shed. Someone broke it and took them. It would have helped if she had put labels on them.
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I had heard about adding label before quilting. I have never seen one done, this is great! Also had a thought that not only would it deter a possible theft, but it will also SPUR the quiltmaker to actually label their quilt, since many leave that to the last thing and it often doesn't get done. I helped on a quilt registry project and believe me, when you are long gone, those who have your work in their hands would LOVE to have a label for them to know you better!
You do need to plan in advance where to place the label on the back so it doesn't end up in the wrong place. I usually lay the backing down then the quilt top. I lay my label on the quilt top itself sticking pins in each corner which gives me a good idea where to place the label. I then use dots of Elmer's Washable Glue to hold the label in place, press to dry glue. Then I use my sewing machine to sew the label to the backing along the label border edge and then again just inside the muslin part. Hope this makes sense.


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"View And Re-Views: Soviet Political Posters And Cartoons" | Brown University's David Winton Bell Gallery, 64 College St, Providence + The John Hay Library, 20 Prospect St, Through October 19
"Views and Re-Views: Soviet Political Posters and Cartoons" is one of the best exhibits you'll see in New England this year.
The 160 posters offer a mirror-view of the 20th century. They prompt questions about war and peace, about economics and society that feel rivetingly urgent at a moment when oil dollars are fueling a resurgent Russia, when our debt-fueled consumerism is tanking, when Cold War stories (see Vietnam) are still dominating our politics, and when Russia's invasion of Georgia last month is inspiring neo-Cold War posturing.
And they simply look cool.
The design — sometimes dubbed Socialist Realism — often crisply mixes photography, illustration, bold typography, and dynamic diagonals, all in signature Soviet red and black. You can sense the style's roots in the abstractions of Russian Constructivism and German Dada and Bauhaus (though images of Joseph Stalin as big daddy in military garb feel schmaltzy — and creepy). And things can get cluttered with all those masses packed in.
Bell Gallery director Jo-Ann Conklin and history professor emeritus Abbot Gleason, who assembled the show from a private European collection, begin with posters from the 1920s and '30s promoting communist industrialization and coal production. The heroes are Lenin, Marx, Stalin, and idealized anonymous working men and women of the world. Villains are capitalist pigs. Soviet authoritarian thuggery is conveniently absent.
World War II shifted things for a bit. Red Army soldiers were recruited with images of Nazi bayonets menacing Russian mothers and children. Heroic laborers are now called — as in a 1942 El Lissitsky lithograph — to "Give us more tanks, anti-tank weapons, guns, small arms, artillery, mines bombs, machine guns, rifles! Everything for victory!"
After the war, as the nuclear arms race took off and the US went to war against communists in Korea, the Western allies are portrayed as enemies to Soviet cravings for peace. Alexander Zhitomirsky's 1948 photomontage shows President Harry Truman banging the drum of war — and his shadow resembling Adolph Hitler giving the Nazi salute. It's sharply composed, but the comparison remains offensive, even if you don't note that the Soviets were then pushing their influence on Hungary, Czechoslovakia, and East Germany. But it's always easier to point out the other guy's failings than your own.
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Where the housing recovery is only a faint hope
Single-family home prices in some south suburbs have dropped to where they were in 1992. "We're like in some kind of a time warp here," says one broker. "It's really sad."
Bulls star Derrick Rose's return will be a test not only of Dr. Brian Cole's healing powers but also of a marketing strategy that focuses on the star patients of his medical group, Midwest Orthopaedics.
"It looked like 'Little House on the Prairie' five years ago," President Robert Breuder says of the 273-acre campus. "No 17-year-old wants to move in with Laura Ingalls."
After testing 1,500 designs over three years, steelmaker ArcelorMittal has come up with what its engineers think will be a key component of the car of the future: a 29-pound door.
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Scott Santi has injected new energy into ITW but still has some tinkering to do.
Execs from Amanda Puck to Bruce Zivian cling to their BlackBerrys. "My kids give me a hard time," admits one. "I'm a Luddite," confesses another.
Single-family home prices in some south suburbs have dropped to where they were in 1992. "We're like in some kind of a time warp here," says one broker. "It's really sad."
When ComEd sold state lawmakers on the need for a series of annual rate hikes to pay for smart meters, it bruited the money-saving control the meters would give its customers. All in good time. . . .
There has been $7.9 billion in commercial real estate deals in the Chicago area so far this year, paced by $2.7 billion in office properties.
If you order a crude oil tank car today, know this: There are 48,000 ahead of you, and it'll be nearly three years before you see the finished product.
Mr. Martinez comes to Crain's from his native Denver, where he co-owned and -operated a studio specializing in films, commercials, audio production and video editing.
In 2007, when Kendra Okolita started an online forum for mothers who were photography buffs like her, she was something of a pioneer. Today her Clickin Moms is one of the fastest-growing small businesses in the country.
When finance blogs are a dime a dozen, it can be hard to know which ones are worth the bandwidth. So we've curated eight of the best. Bonus: They're all locally sourced.
To the chagrin of the Big Four audit firms she covers, Francine McKenna pulls no punches in her role of self-appointed watchdog.
Angel investor and venture capitalist Jeff Carter started his blog to counter what he saw as misleading info in the press and over the market grapevine. "You can't Google this stuff," says one observer.
Ryan Guina's finances were pretty basic when he was in the Air Force. Then he got married and entered a world of mortgages, health insurance and retirement plans.
After one too many rants over dinner, John Cochrane's kids started calling him "the grumpy economist," and a blog was born.
Jonathan Hoenig writes about the glories of capitalism, free markets and objectivism, the Ayn Rand-created philosophy of individual rights and self-happiness as moral pursuit.
"We believe that educated market participants make the markets better," says John Lothian. He and his team aim not only to inform and educate, but to "inspire and even amuse."
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FORT WAYNE, Ind.—A much-anticipated tuition reciprocity agreement for Indiana University–Purdue University Fort Wayne (IPFW) has recently been approved. Indiana's Commission for Higher Education and the Ohio Board of Regents endorsed a reciprocity agreement for county residents and campuses on both sides of the Indiana/Ohio border.
Effective July 1, 2013, IPFW offers Indiana in-state, resident tuition rates to students in the following six counties in Ohio: Butler, Darke, Preble, Shelby, Mercer, and Van Wert.
This purpose of this tuition reciprocity agreement is to expand higher education opportunities across the Indiana/Ohio border while limiting the cost of such expansion through collaboration among public institutions.
"Conversations about establishing reciprocity began years ago to give students in Ohio border counties the opportunity to choose IPFW as their college of choice, without having to pay out-of-state tuition rates due to proximity of location," said Chancellor Vicky Carwein. "This is a win-win situation for students looking for a college near home with affordable tuition and we are very pleased to be included in the new reciprocity agreement."
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Gross Domestic Product
The Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is perhaps the most widely used indicator of economic growth and well-being. The World Bank has called it "the main criterion for classifying economies." According to conventional wisdom, what is good for the GDP is good for the nation; as the GDP rises, so do our fortunes. But what does it actually measure?
Simply put, the GDP is the total value of all products and services bought and sold, a measure of money changing hands. It is a misleading yardstick of true progress for many reasons, most of which fall under three major categories:
- The GDP makes no distinction between productive and destructive activities. While a realistic measure of progress would separate costs and benefits, the GDP places a positive value on all transactions and adds them to the total. Illness, crime, and natural disasters all cause the GDP to increase, as money is spent to treat the sick, jail prisoners, and repair the damage. In this way the GDP rises even as the quality of life declines.
- The GDP has no way of assessing the value of natural resources until they enter the monetary economy, or in other words, are consumed. The trees in an old-growth forest that provide numerous services to humans and animals alike are worth nothing to the GDP until they are cut down for timber, at which point the GDP has no way of accounting for the loss of their services. By celebrating consumption rather than conservation, the GDP encourages the unsustainable depletion of finite resources.
- The GDP completely ignores all activities and services that have no price attached to them. Essential functions performed by the family, community, and volunteers, such as housework and child care, don't count in the GDP. When these services have to be paid for because people no longer have time for them, the GDP goes up -- putting a positive value on the erosion of the social fabric.
In short, the GDP values growth at all costs over the things that really matter to people, such as clean air and water, a healthy and safe community, and the free time to enjoy them. The continued rise of the GDP is no longer something to cheer about, and it is past time to establish a new way to measure our progress.
If the GDP is up, why is America down? (requires subscription to The Atlantic)
If you read only one thing about the failures of the GDP, read this. A pointed and well-written article by the staff of Redefining Progress, a San Francisco-based organization that concentrates on issues of growth and sustainability.
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More information than you can shake a stick at, including in-depth analysis of the GDP and the details on RP's own Genuine Progress Indicator, which attempts to correct the flaws in the GDP and present an alternative assessment of the economy.
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Anyone who liked DownCity Diner when Paul Shire opened it in 1990 or Oak when the chef was in charge there will love his newest restaurant, the ROI. It's in the low-key Jewelry District — oops, we're supposed to think of it as the Knowledge District these days — and it fits well in that laidback neighborhood.
Shire's culinary heritage ranges from regal — his great-grandfather was chef to the king of Egypt — to regal-er — his aunt Lydia Shire is Boston restaurant royalty (Biba, Locke-Ober, Scampo). Until recently he headed the kitchen at Andreas in Providence.
The ROI looks cozy enough to trigger a yen for comfort food. The basement space is inviting, maintaining the low-light intimacy of the former occupant, the Century Lounge, the decor warm ambers and browns. The restaurant is billing itself as a "Food & Music" supper club, so there's a small stage, a nightclub-quality sound system, and frequently scheduled performances.
Since roi means king in French, Shire hasn't passed up the opportunity to joke around that the food and service here is fit for such, and also that he's aware it also stands for "return on investment." (Speaking of the latter, this ROI is pronounced "roy," as in Paul Roidoulis, Shire's financial backer in this venture.)
The food here is good, but any crown-chapeaued tourists venturing down the stairs would be doing so to learn how we ordinary folk live. All half-dozen burgers and half of the dozen sandwiches offered at lunch are on the dinner menu, indicating that the expected clientele is not your quail and truffle crowd. And the prices are kept down — the top splurge is the $24 filet mignon.
If you're thinking of checking out the place at lunchtime, there are a couple of representative entrées that also are on the dinner menu: Maryland crab cakes ($14.95) and Shire's signature all-beef meatloaf ($12.95) with Jack Daniel's gravy, each three bucks more in the evening. Available larger as an entrée at lunch ($12.95) as well as an appetizer at dinner ($10.95), there's also a roasted garlic and chives hummus platter.
We were there for dinner, and that appetizer list presented several temptations to me: a pulled pork and Monterey Jack quesadilla ($10.95); pecan-crusted chicken tenders ($9.95) with a blackberry glaze; and Gorgonzola-topped polenta fries ($8.95), sliced thick, fried in olive oil, with marinara sauce for dipping. But we wanted to see what they did with pizza, so we tried one of those. For us carnivores, there's either grilled chicken or sausage — not offering a choice of oh-so popular pepperoni counts as a touching health measure.
The veggie version ($12.95) had such an appealing collection of ingredients that I was glad to go with that. Not only spinach but organic spinach, not only tomatoes but fine-ripened tomatoes, caramelized onions, mushrooms, olives, and four cheeses over tomato sauce. It was wonderful, the toppings not only varied but also bountiful. Who needs nitrates and spicy animal parts?
There are only seven main dishes on the dinner menu, but our server proposed three or four additional options, including cod and mussels over spinach and fish and chips. We limited ourselves to the menu, so that you, dear reader, would be able to partake and not just wistfully crave.
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One mischievous strategy might be called the dictator: It unilaterally sets the other player's long-term average score to any value between the mutual-defection payment and the mutual-cooperation payment. (For the standard payoff values 0, 1, 3, 5, that means anywhere between 1 and 3.)
Consider the strategy (4/5, 2/5, 2/5, 1/5), where the four numbers again indicate the probability of choosing to cooperate after cc, cd, dc, dd, respectively. If Y plays this strategy against X, then X's average score per round will converge on the value 2.0 after a sufficiently long series of games, no matter what strategy X chooses to play. In the lower illustration on the previous page X responds to Y's coercion with four different strategies, but in each case X's average score gravitates ineluctably toward 2.0. It should be emphasized that dictating X's score does not require Y to make any active adjustments or responses as the game proceeds. Y can set the four probabilities and then "go to lunch," as Press and Dyson put it.
A second form of mischief manipulates the ratio between X's score and Y's score. If SX and SY are the players' long-term average scores, the strategy allows Y to enforce the linear relation SY = 1 + M(SX – 1), where M is an arbitrary constant greater than 1. X has the option of playing an always-defect strategy, which consigns both players to the minimal payoff of one point per round. But if X takes any steps to improve this return, every increment to SX will increase SY by M times as much. Press and Dyson call the technique extortion. As an example they cite the strategy (11/13, 1/2, 7/26, 0), which sets M = 3. If Y adopts this rule, X can play always-defect (or tit-for-tat) to limit both players to one point per round. When X chooses other strategies, however, Y comes out ahead. If X plays Pavlov, the scores are approximately SX = 1.46 and SY = 2.36. To maximize his or her score, X must cooperate unconditionally, earning an average of 1.91 points, but then Y gets 3.73 points.
The discovery of dictatorial and extortionate strategies came as a great surprise, and yet there were precedents. Aspects of the discovery were anticipated in the 1990s by Maarten C. Boerlijst, Martin A. Nowak, and Karl Sigmund. Moreover, not all of the zero-determinant strategies are exotic ideas that no one ever thought of trying. Tit-for-tat, the most famous of all IPD rules, is in fact an extortionate zero-determinant strategy. It sets M = 1, forcing equality of scores.
Watching the coercive strategies in action (or playing against them), I can't help feeling there is something uncanny going on. In a game whose structure is fully symmetrical, how can one contestant wield such power over the other? In the case of the dictatorial strategies, the symmetry isn't so much broken as transformed: When I take control of your score, I lose control of my own; although there's nothing you can do to alter your own score, you have the power to set mine.
The extortionate strategies can't be explained away so easily. There really is an asymmetry, with one player grabbing an unfair share of the spoils, and the only defense is to retreat to the policy of universal defection that leaves everyone impoverished. IPD seems to be back in the same dreary jail cell where it all began.
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Potato prices up for Eastern Idaho farmers
IDAHO FALLS, Idaho - It is early in the potato harvest season, but right now, prices for Eastern Idaho farmers are looking good.
"Growers are probably getting somewhere between $8-$10, the same potatoes last year were somewhere in the $3-$4 range," said Paul Patterson, University of Idaho agricultural economist.
Idaho Falls grower James Hoff pointed out that at this point in the season, higher prices are normal. He expects those prices to dip in the coming weeks, but he is still hopeful for a better year.
"Given last year's return on the crop and this year's potential return on the crop, hopefully it will turn out as a wash and we will get healed up from last year," said Hoff.
"In order to stay in business, they can't sell potatoes at $3 and $4 when it costs them at least $7 or $7.25 to produce," said Patterson.
Add another 50 cents to $2 to that cost to include storage and processing.
The price increase is all supply and demand. The number of acres of potatoes is down about 8% in Idaho.
"For me-- I'm down about 60 percent," said Hoff.
Patterson says that less acreage is a good thing for profits, but consumers could pay a little more for potatoes at the grocery store.
"Potatoes in general are usually a very good bargain, even if prices go up, if you look at it from a nutritional standpoint," he said.
With over 60 percent of Idaho potatoes coming from Eastern Idaho, the economic boost could make up for it.
"When people see potato trucks rolling down the highway, they should think about that in terms of dollars that are going to be flowing through the Idaho economy," said Patterson.
Although we saw many days of above-average heat this summer, Hoff says he still expects at least an average-quality crop. The recent heavy rain and cooler temperatures have also been helpful for his harvest.


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Yeah there are lots of those that have been turned into some really cool homes.
Wish I had the funds. ;-)
Have you guys seen links to these old abandoned missile silos that people are buying and turning into residences?
This one isn't too far from me. Pretty dam cool. This would be an ideal lair for me to build and launch my orbiting space laser.
Yeah there are lots of those that have been turned into some really cool homes.
Wish I had the funds. ;-)
Absolutely. Seems like that would also make pretty good sites for server farms.
I would hope the Russkies have retargeted their missiles by now, but you know beaurocracy.... IIRC, they shot down one or more of their own planes when they got Power's U2 because the new IFF codes weren't entered into the planes yet. It would suck to own one of these and get a MIRV down the air vent someday.....
I was thinking the same thing, actually, but in the event of all out Armageddon, there aren't gonna be too many GOOD places to be!
I was just trying to think of something productive to do with the actual missile silo. It's deep.... so what do you do with it?
Other than your own personal rocket, little comes to mind unless you go commercial for storage. Or you could recreate Stargate Command in there and charge admission for people to come in and role play with airsoft? Get your own permanent Carter, Frazier, and Keller lookalikes to play along with the customers, you will have a waiting list so long......
I saw on TV a while back some company was buying these up and turning them into doomsday retreats or whatever you want to call them, setting them up complete with your own condo and all the comforts of home. They were selling spots in them fast as they could build them too.
The very atmosphere of firearms anywhere and everywhere restrains evil interference- they deserve a place of honor with all that is good. George Washington
"A free people ought not only to be armed and disciplined, but they should have sufficient arms and ammunition to maintain a status of independence from any who might attempt to abuse them, which would include their own government."
George Washington
Maybe turn the silo into some sort of multi level workshop. Os possibly a swimming pool that is very deep, but not very long and wide.
The "swimming pool" will need to be drained and kept dry if you plan on working/living in one in most areas. A silo complex is essentially a complex well, most are below water tables.
I've been in some drier ones in South Dakota, they're damp nonetheless. Not good for server farms or survival life without pumping out on a continuous basis.
I have a daughter. I tell her, "911 is what you dial after you're raped. 1911 is what you should have before they try."
The actual control rooms (which are separate from the silo itself) must have been dry enough, because they kept plenty of computer equipment in them back in the day.
Moisture would definitely be an issue though. I wonder what sort of techniques they used to keep them as dry as possible.


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Muay Thai Weekly Recap: January 12
- Written by Rian Scalia
Continuing on our "This Week in Muay Thai" series, I'm going to write up full recaps of each week for Muay Thai in Thailand. This past week had its fair share of everything from great fights to great knockouts and includes action from Rajadamnern, Lumpini, Omnoi and more. This post will include everything from the 8th to today, the 12th. Next week will be the standard where it'll be from Sunday to Saturday. Fights that aren't linked to videos in the quick results are linked after the break, just click "Read More."
Quick Results Recap below. Full results from Lumpini and Rajadamnern in the past week here.
Tuesday, January 8:
Chokprecha Kor. Sakooncher def. Satarnfar Zakami (Eminentair) by decision for the Lumpini bantamweight title.
Kangkenlek Ioderm (SBP Car Network) def. Kwankao Cho. Rajapatsadu-Esarn by decision.
Wednesday, January 9:
Songkom Sakhomsin def. Aikmongkol Gaiyanghadao by decision.
Nutaphol Por. Pernruamsang def. Petchartchai Chaorai-Oi by KO (High Kick) in Round 4.
Thursday, January 10:
Sirimongkon PK Muay Thai def. Tapaotong Eminentair by decision.
Thanongsaklek Chuwattana def. Kraiphet Sor. Chokkitchai by KO (Elbow) in Round 3.
Friday, January 11 (Will update with more from the Kiatpet show in Chumpon Province):
Newwangjan Pagonponsurin def. Yokvitaya Phetsimean by decision.
Lookman Fonjaengchonburi def. Seeoui Sor Sunantachai
Saturday, January 12:
142 lb Isuzu Tournament: Fahmongkon Sor. Jor. Danrayong def. Chok Eminentair by decision.
Naka Kaewsamrit def. Jatujak Sakhomsin by decision.
118lb Gyproc tournament: Visunlek Seatransferry def. Kengsiam Nor. Sripueng by decision.
Full recaps after the break.
Fights to watch (Aside from all of them, because they're all great):
Chokprecha Kor Sakooncher vs. Satarnfah Zakami (Eminentair)
With Chokprecha and Satarnfah splitting fights last year, this rematch was a big one for the Lumpini bantamweight title. Chokprecha really went for it as he always does, coming forward with heavy punches. Satarnfah also did pretty well for himself, especially later on. This was quite a good, competitive fight and is definitely worth checking out.
Songkom Sakhomsin vs. Aikmongkol Gaiyanghadao
Another good fight here. It was all action from the very beginning and showcased pretty much the full Muay Thai arsenal. Songkom especially had some really nice combos and some pretty hard kicks. Aikmongkol wasn't out of his depth here either and made it a nice fun fight.
Petchartchai Chaorai-Or vs. Nutaphol Por. Pernruamsang
I posted this on the site earlier this week. Great KO and just a good fight in general. Petchartchai is always all action. He's probably even fighting too high in weight, as this one was at 118lbs. He wasn't exactly out of his depth, it was competitive, but he'd be much better suited even a few lbs lower. Regardless, with Petchartchai it's KO or get KO'd and everyone should check out all his fights, including this one.
Kraiphet Sor Chokkitchai vs. Thanongsaklek Chuwattana
Add another great KO to the list for this year so far. Good action throughout. This one's definitely for you if you love elbows.
Liampet Sitboonmee vs. Phetsuwannaphum Por Niphapon
More elbows! Another awesome elbow KO here.
All in all, it was a great week for Muay Thai in Thailand, as pretty much every week there is. Songkom Sakhomsin in particular was pretty impressive, making his return to Muay Thai after his last pro boxing fight on December 2. Bantamweight seems to be a good fit for him and I'm looking forward to hopefully seeing him mix it up more with some of the top fighters in that division. Another fighter to keep an eye on that won this past week is Kangkenlek SPB Car Network. His fight with Kwankao took place at 131lbs but he normally fights at featherweight, 126lbs and below. He's a strong clincher and there are tons of good fights to be made for him.


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On August 28, 1963, Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his famous "I Have A Dream" speech in front of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. Fifty years to the day after that key moment in U.S. history, President Barack Obama and others stood in the same spot to honor the speech and its enduring message.
Click here to listen to King's 16-minute speech.
Obama told a crowd of thousands, "We rightly and best remember Dr. King's soaring oratory that day, how he gave mighty voice to the quiet hopes of millions."
The president also said, "What King was describing has been the dream of every American."
Former presidents Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter were among the other speakers at the event. Obama was the last person to speak. At 3 p.m., bells rang out to mark the moment King ended his speech 50 years ago.
A Long Road to Equality
King delivered his "I Have A Dream" speech during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. That event is now remembered as one of the most important symbols of the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s. It was held to protest racial discrimination and to demand civil rights laws in Congress.
"The march 50 years ago inspired so many young people to continue participating in the civil rights movement," John Lewis, U.S. Representative from Georgia, told TFK in a phone interview. Lewis is the only person to speak at both the 1963 march and the 50th anniversary event. "Young people didn't like what they'd seen in the South … but they were engaging in non-violent protests."
In the early 1960s, segregation, or the separation of people by race, was accepted in many parts of the U.S., particularly the South. Black people and white people could not attend the same schools, sit next to each other on buses, or even use the same water fountains. Businesses often refused to hire people based solely on the color of their skin.
Those laws no longer exist and much progress has been made. Barack Obama, the first African-American U.S. president, was elected twice.
"America changed for you and for me," Obama said during his speech. "And the entire world drew strength from that example." But the president added that there is still work to be done to ensure full equality for all Americans.
"The promise of this nation will only be kept when we work together," he said. "America, I know the road will be long, but I know we can get there."
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The media marked the anniversary with special coverage. TIME put together a project called "One Dream," in which 17 people who attended the 1963 march discussed their memories of the event. View a video from the project embedded below, or click here for more information.
TIME also had several important people explain what the "I Have a Dream" speech means to them. Click here to view a slideshow of some of their answers.
CNN created a documentary called We Were There: The March on Washington – An Oral History. Premiering on August 23, it featured Lewis and many other people who participated in the historic demonstration.
"This march is an example of what any one person, any group can do," CNN anchor Don Lemon, who hosted the documentary, told TFK. "It is an example of what America is about, and how social change, political change, changes in our laws can be brought about."
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Learn how to use a circular saw safely and effectively. These pro tips and techniques will help you build everything from a few shelves to a whole house faster and better.
Setting the blade too deep causes a few problems. First, it's more dangerous than a correctly set blade because more blade is exposed while cutting. In addition, the saw is more likely to bind and kick back if the blade is too deep. Safety issues aside, blades cut more efficiently when properly set.
Determine the blade depth by unplugging the saw and holding it alongside your board with the blade guard retracted. Then loosen the depth-adjusting lever or knob and pivot the saw's base until the blade extends about 1/4 to 1/2 in. below the board. Tighten the lever or knob and you're ready to saw.
Always make sure the end of the board you're cutting is free to fall or move away. For rough cuts in framing lumber, let the cut end fall. Be aware, though, that the falling piece can take a sliver of wood with it as the cut nears completion. To avoid this splintering when you're cutting boards for nicer projects, support the board continuously. But don't clamp, hold or otherwise restrict the cutoff piece.
Crosscutting plywood without supporting it across its entire length can cause the saw to bind or the plywood veneer to tear or splinter as the cutoff piece drops. If you're using sawhorses, simply span them with a pair of 2x4s. This will provide the support needed.
It's sort of like cutting off the tree limb you're standing on—a guaranteed disaster. The reason is that as the cut nears completion, the board bows downward, which pinches the blade in the cut and causes the saw and/or board to buck. This is dangerous and usually makes a mess of the board, too.
In most cases, a table saw is a better choice for ripping lumber than a circular saw. But if you don't have a table saw handy, and the rip cut doesn't have to be precise, then a circular saw works fine. The trick is to hold the board in place while you rip it. Unless the board you're ripping is very wide, clamps will get in the way. So a good alternative to clamping is to tack the board down to your sawhorses. We let the nails protrude here because they don't interfere with the saw bed. But you can drive the nails (or screws) flush and still easily pull the board off when you're done. To reduce damage to better-quality boards, use finish nails, and pull them through the back side when you're done.
Some newer saws have blade guards that are designed to retract even when you're sawing at an angle. But even with these newer designs, it's easier to get an angled cut started if you first retract the blade guard. Once you're a few inches into the cut, slowly release the blade guard so it rests on the board. If you try to start an angled cut without retracting the blade guard, the guard can catch on the wood and cause the saw blade to bind or the cut to wander off course.
Cutting along a straight line is a skill that takes practice. Once the saw blade is aligned and cutting along the line, it doesn't take much effort to keep the blade on track. But if you get off to a crooked start, it's difficult to guide the saw back to the line. Don't try to steer the blade back onto the line. Instead, stop and let the blade stop spinning. Then withdraw the saw from the cut, sight along the line and start again. With practice, you'll be cutting straight every time.
When you're cutting joists or other heavy pieces of lumber, it's often easier to cut them where they lie rather than hoist them onto sawhorses. An easy way to do this is to simply rest the board on your toe and lean it against your shin. Then align the saw with your mark and let gravity help pull the saw through the cut. Do be careful to keep the saw cut at least 12 in. from your toe.
Making long narrow rip cuts with a circular saw is easy if you use your index finger as a guide. Align the blade with the line. Then pinch the saw base between your thumb and index finger and let your finger ride along the edge of the board to guide the cut. This technique is safe as long as you grip the saw before turning it on and don't release it until the blade stops.
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Any of the mints - spearmint, oregano for sure. And holly blooms are worth braving my bee-eating dog for. (I had to bring him in)
Any of the mints - spearmint, oregano for sure. And holly blooms are worth braving my bee-eating dog for. (I had to bring him in)
Stuck in Texas. Learning Permaculture in drought, flood and strange weather. The bees are still alive.
Fireweed or it's scientific name of Epilobium angustifolium is one plant that I
have yet to approach in the summer without seeing some type of bee on it.
It grows wild where I live in large clusters. I also read that fireweed honey is
produced in great quantities in some areas of western Canada and northwestern
US and is considered a premium monofloral. It's also amber colored. I'm not sure
if it's bees favorite plant but I do know they like it a lot. Anyone who has seen
these growing know what I mean.
It's one plant from a dozen that I plan to buy seeds for when I finally get into
bee keeping to create a flower garden. At least, it will grow back every year
on it's own after it's established.
Greg Whitehead, Ten Mile, TN
Blog - http://gregsbees.blogspot.com/
If there is a poppy blooming my bees are in it.
Alsike clover and white clover are good. Honey bees can't deal with the depth of the red clover blossom.
What an incredible thread.
I really appreciate all the tips.
My wife is going to think I'm insane for experimenting with some of these, but what wife doesn't think their husband is insane already? Might as well be over something like this.
Someone tried to post this link earlier, but it was incorrect. It's a wealth of info:
Dr. Stashenko's list of honeybee plants
Anybody know anything about Paulownia and Korean Evodia (Bee Bee Tree) trees for honey production? And also, is Korean Lespedeza a good bee plant?
I plant alot of the mints, lavenders and in my opinion their all time favorite borage.
what about dandelion? how long are they in bloom?
Dandelions are an extremely important plant for bees. They get pollen and nectar in large quantities from them. I tell everyone I can how important they are. I mow mine in a staggered fashion; leaving some to bloom and some to try again. I'm not sure how long they last if left alone but it is long enough to give bees a great start in the spring. If there is a patch fairly near a hive it will be really buzzing on good days. If you like making splits or you buy package bees then peak dandelion time is a great time to do these things.
Dave - PM me if you are interested in natural beekeeping in Hancock County Maine.
thanks dave, i have a good patch in my backyard and the bees are on them a lot. i built a swarm box and placed it in their flight path w/wax striped top bars and a little lemongrass oil. i'm hopeful. i also placed a jar of sugar water on top.
Borage is popular with my bees. When I lived in Denver, they were all over the Russian Sage bush. Horsemint, a wild relative Lemonmint, is always well visited by my bees. But the two hands down favorites seem to be: 1.) Chinese Tallow tree -- supposedly good for wax building. 2.) Purple tansy.
Last year, I planted a wildflower mix that included purple tansy. It was covered with bees. And, it survived the worst drought in Texas' recorded history, and bloomed for almost 3 months without water, and in our ungodly hot summer!
This year, I bought three pounds of tansy seed and planted it in early January. (It would need to be planted in the late fall in climes north of mine.) It is already coming up strongly, but no blooms yet. It has strong taproots, and does a great job breaking up the soil, as I understand it.
My advice is this: Try different things, and if it grows well for YOU, and the bees like it, plant some more. The trick is to try and find different things that bloom at different times, so there's always something available.
Good luck!
I say if the bees are in your yard they can be in your hive. If they can find you flowers, they can find your hive. Good luck.
Dave - PM me if you are interested in natural beekeeping in Hancock County Maine.
thanks Summer, i've started looking at blooms everywhere i go now trying to see what the bees like.
thanks Dave, for the reassurance.
+1 for borage, brassicas, clovers, milkweeds, & mints. of course goldenrod and asters, which are fall staples here. add also willow (in bloom now and clouded with a diversity of pollinators I never knew were out there), burdock (long flowering season), and a little garden plant that looks like a mini-borage called Pulmonaria (girls are spending a lot of time on it right now).
Perennial - my red flowering quince has been in bloom for more than a month. Even with dandelion everywhere...and fruit trees now in bloom as well, you can walk near the quince and hear "the buzz".
Annual - my fall garden greens are still in bloom after 2 weeks. Normally, I sow approx. 20X60 patch. Next fall, I think I'll make it a half acre!
In our herb garden the bees love the thai basils, catnip and catmint and get a lot of orange pollen from our male asparagus, they really climb over the asparagus. WVMJ
Stock Seed Farms has developed a "Stock's Pollinator Mix" of 40 species. I have ordered 2 lbs to plant this spring.
Stock Seed Farms has put together this mixture with annual and perennial wildflowers plus legumes for use in creating pollinator habitat. One key to providing good pollinator habitat is to make sure there are blooms from early spring all the way through late fall. This mixture will produce diverse colors and flower shapes making it attractive to many species of pollinators. Another recommendation is to plant this mixture close to flowering trees and/or native grasses to provide additional blooms, nesting sites, and shelter. Our Prairie 7 or Prairie 3 Plus prairie grass mixtures work well for that purpose. Seed this mixture in mid spring. The legumes, annual wildflowers, and many perennials will bloom the first year with increased blooms the second and third year as perennials establish themselves.
Pussy willow tress my bees work them really good and it's one of the 1st pollen's around here,Toledo Ohio
Put your ear against a hive in January when it is -20 degrees. Hearing the hum is priceless to me.


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The age-old image type debate is going on over at Reddit. What used to be mostly JPG versus GIF now puts JPG up against PNG.
Yahoo's Stoyan Stefanov recently had a series on image optimization. His breakdown on page weight was particularly fascinating. Google's home page is 75% image, weight-wise, because there's very little to it besides the logo and search box.
Stefanov also posted a good run-down on file types, which is less snarky than the opinionated-but-useful Reddit thread. But for quick fun, see the image type comic that the Reddit folks are discussing.
While I love PNG for its clarity, I often end up choosing JPG for screenshots on Webmonkey because of size. PNG is often 10x the JPG version, with little loss in quality.
But aren't we all on broadband now? According to a recent study, no. Just over half of Americans have home broadband connections. However, another study shows that 90% of active users have fast connections.
That said, Mobile use is expected to increase, and its speeds are not nearly up with broadband. Plus, if you're serving bigger images from your own server, you have to pay for that bandwidth, which can add up with significant traffic. All this means image optimization is still relevant, even when many do have access to fast connections.
See also:
- Microsoft's HD Photo Format Could Replace JPEG
- Solving Internet Explorer's PNG Shortcomings with JavaScript
- Site Optimization Tutorial


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Gosh in my family ambrosia was made with citrus fruits not apples.
Welcome to the Quilting Board!
Gosh in my family ambrosia was made with citrus fruits not apples.
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One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries A. A. Milne
This is my recipe for Taffy Apple Salad: Two cups of apple (diced -don't peel), one large can of pineapple tidbits or chunks (drain and save juice), 2 cups miniature marshmallows.........Mix pineapple and marshmallows and refrigerate over night. Mix pineapple juice with One TBSP of flour, one egg beaten well, 1/2 cup sugar, one and one half TBSP vinegar, cook over medium heat until thickened, stir constantly, refrigerate over night or for several hours until cool. Just before serving fold in (8oz) container of cool whip, cooked dressing and one and one half cups unsalted dry roasted peanuts. Yummy....for Christmas you can combine red and green skinned apples.
Kaye Jacobson Salverda
LOL My grandma used to whip up Ivory Snow soap flakes- then spread it on evergreen boughs!
Well I thought it was real cream and I licked the beaters! Ugh
I saw your header"Anyone know what grandma did" and all could think of was she got run over by a reindeer. sorry I guess I am ready for christmas
Debbie in Tn
What my mother called Waldorf Salad had
Delicious apples (Ida Reds for me)
Pineapple tidbits
Mandarin oranges
Red grapes
The cream was whipped with a little sugar and some vanilla. Best eaten the first day.
5 cup salad is our Ambrosia. One cup each of pineapple tidbits, mandarin oranges, mini marshmallows, coconut and sour cream. Must be made the day before serving. I like walnuts in it, too.
And when your Waldorf or Ambrosia is gone, try the Snickers Salad!
Large container Cool Whip
large box Jello instant pudding (Our favorite is Cheesecake pudding, but Vanilla can be used)
2 diced Granny Smith apples
2 large Snickers candy bars-chopped up
Gently fold in the pudding to the Cool Whip in medium bowl. Fold in the apples and Snickers. Cover the bowl with clear wrap or Press n Seal. Refrigerate 1 hour.
It is best to only make what is going to be eaten in one day. The Cool Whip breaks down the longer it is kept.
This can be made with 8 oz cream cheese and 1 cup powdered sugar in place of the pudding.
I thought of Waldorf salad too until I remembered that it didn't have whipped cream in it. My mom and grandma always mixed up their own dressing for Waldorf salad with eggs and oil. Years later, while perusing cookbooks, I found a recipe for homemade mayo and that was what they must have used. I never liked it though because I don't care for mayo.
Now the ambrosia I would eat because I like all the ingredients in that.
sounds similar to waldorf salad. We had nuts in ours too.
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Hey all,
This is my first year beekeeping and we have two hives going in one deep brood each. We started with Mann Lake RiteCell foundation and to make a long story short, I made a newbie mistake and gave them to much bee space. They drew comb in the space (stick straight I may add) and its almost a full frame's worth. It does have capped brood, so I decided to tie it into a foundationless frame. In the midst of making this decision, I stumbled upon going foundationless. I really wish I would have known about foundationless from the start! I would have just started my beekeeping career like that. So now I'm getting ready to add a medium on top of my almost full deep and I am just befuddled as to a game plan to get the deeps to be foundationless. I don't mind the bottom brood being a deep, because I'm under the impression from my mentors that I probably won't be moving it that much. Plus, I'm 116 lbs soaking wet and currently pregnant. I really want to make the rest of the colony mediums if possible. So that throws the idea of being able to move things around a bit from bottom brood to top brood out the window. I'm probably rambling here.
My goals are: going foundationless and sticking with mediums from here on out.
How to go about that or what kind of game plan to follow, I am just at a loss. Any advice or ideas for a newbie??? Thanks!


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"Bartleby, the Scrivener"
Herman Melville
The following entry presents criticism of Melville's short story, "Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall-Street" (1853). See also, Redburn: His First Voyage Criticism, Pierre, or, The Ambiguities Criticism, and "Benito Cereno" Criticism.
The account of a young man's inability to conform to business life on Wall Street in the mid-nineteenth century, "Bartleby, the Scrivener" is hailed by some scholars as the first modem American short story for its break with the dense moralizing, overt allegorizing, romantic characterization, and strict form of more traditional tales. The symbolic suggestiveness and narrative ambiguity of "Bartleby" has gamered it more critical attention than any of Melville's other short stories.
Plot and Major Characters
"Bartleby, the Scrivener" is narrated by a Wall Street lawyer who deals in investment opportunities for wealthy clients. The narrator hires a man named Bartleby as a scrivener, a clerk who copies legal documents. Bartleby works diligently at first but gradually begins to decline his responsibilities with the statement "I would prefer not to." Bartleby eventually stops working entirely and stares at the wall immediately outside of a window in the law office. Only when clients are unnerved by Bartleby's idiosyncratic behavior does the narrator take significant action; he moves his business to another building rather than forcefully remove Bartleby, who "would prefer not to" quit the lawyer's service. Bartleby then refuses to leave the vacated building and is consequently jailed for vagrancy. The narrator, feeling somehow responsible for Bartleby's condition and incarceration, visits Bartleby, whom he finds dead from self-imposed starvation. At the conclusion of the story, the narrator relates a rumor about Bartleby's previous occupation: employment in the postal service's dead-letter office, the final repository of lost or otherwise undeliverable mail.
Major ThemesMuch of the story's complexity originates from the limited perspective of the narrator, who reveals much about himself while he relates the few facts known about Bartleby. As a result, differing and sometimes conflicting interpretations have been advanced. Some critics focus on the narrator, variously characterizing him as self-serving or well-meaning. Others have examined Bartleby, who they perceive as comical, nihilistic, Christ-like, or devoid of a social persona. Bartleby is most commonly identified as emblematic/symbolic of the writer alienated by society for his refusal to "copy" the formulas of popular fiction; many critics contend that Melville intended "Bartleby" to be autobiographical in this respect. Other commentators, focusing on the bleak mood and tragic conclusion of the story, consider the story a condemnation of capitalist society or a disheartening existentialist commentary. Others interpret the story as a satire of specific individuals, a parable about failed Christian charity, or an explication of contemporary philosophies. Another influential school of critics approach "Bartleby" from a psychoanalytic perspective, diagnosing Bartleby as schizophrenic, compulsive neurotic, manic depressive, or autistic.
Critical Reception
"Bartleby, the Scrivener" was Melville's first published short story. Out of financial need, he contributed stories and sketches to popular magazines throughout the mid-1850s; his previously published novels, including Moby-Dick and Pierre, were favorably reviewed but earned him little income. Melville's short fiction received scant critical or popular attention until the novella Billy Budd, left in manuscript at his death, was published in 1924. Its appearance sparked critical attention that revived interest in the Melville canon. Since then, "Bartleby" has attracted a particularly extensive collection of criticism.
Mordecai Marcus (essay date 1962)
SOURCE: "Melville's Bartleby as Psychological Double," in College English, Vol. 23, No. 5, February, 1962, pp. 365-68.
[Marcus is an American poet, critic, and educator who has written extensively on nineteenth-century American writers. In the following essay, Marcus insists that Bartleby represents the narrator's own protests against the impersonality of Wall Street.]
Most interpreters of Melville's haunting story "Bartleby the Scrivener" (1853) have seen it as a somewhat allegorical comment on Melville's plight as a writer after the publication of Moby-Dick and Pierre.
Others have suggested that the story dramatizes the conflict...
(The entire section is 2261 words.)
Harold Kaplan (essay date 1972)
SOURCE: "Melville: 'One Royal Mantle of Humanity'," in Democratic Humanism and American Literature, The University of Chicago Press, 1972, pp. 159-97.
[Kaplan is an American poet and critic. In the following excerpt, Kaplan explores the metaphysical implications of "Bartleby" by comparing Bartleby and Moby Dick 's Captain Ahab.]
It would be plausible to read "Bartleby the Scrivener" as social criticism; the setting is Wall Street and the man is the palest of the imprisoned office clerks who could symbolize human alienation in modem bureaucratic and technological society. But most would agree that this would be as limited a reading as the same emphasis would be...
(The entire section is 1543 words.)
Daniel Stempel and Bruce M. Stillians (essay date 1972-1973)
SOURCE: "Bartleby the Scrivener: A Parable of Pessimism," in Nineteenth-Century Fiction, Vol. 27, No. 1, 1972-73, pp. 268-82.
[In the following essay, Stempel and Stillians consider "Bartleby" to be the result of Melville's interest in Schopenhauer.]
In October 1853 a troubled Matthew Arnold explained why he had chosen to drop Empedocles on Etna from his new collection of poems. Certain situations, Arnold suggested, are intrinsically devoid of the power to provide "poetical enjoyment": "those in which the suffering finds no vent in action; in which a continuous state of mental distress is prolonged, unrelieved by incident, hope, or resistance; in which...
(The entire section is 5595 words.)
Morton Kaplan and Robert Kloss (essay date 1973)
SOURCE: "Fantasy of Passivity: Melville's Bartleby the Scrivener," in The Unspoken Motive: A Guide to Psychoanalytic Literary Criticism, The Free Press, 1973, pp. 63-79.
[In the following excerpt, Kaplan and Kloss insist that Bartleby exhibits symptoms of manic-depression, and contend that the narrator's veneer of passivity is a neurotic attempt to repress underlying impulses toward aggression and violence.]
Melville's "Bartleby the Scrivener" is a work of comic irony comparable to such novels as Ford's The Good Soldier or Durrell's Justine, both of which use the device of fallible narrator. In The Good Soldier, for instance, Dowell is an...
(The entire section is 6588 words.)
Marvin Fisher (essay date 1974)
SOURCE: "'Bartleby,' Melville's Circumscribed Scrivener," in The Southern Review, Louisiana State University, Vol. X, No. 1, Winter, 1974, pp. 59-79.
[Fisher is an American educator whose books include Going Under: Melville's Short Fiction and the American 1850's (1977). In the following essay, Fisher provides an overview of several critical approaches to "Bartleby," and insists that Melville intended Bartleby to be representative of humankind generally.]
"Bartleby" is certainly the most familiar of Melville's short stories, reprinted in dozens of anthologies and analyzed by scores of critics. It would be hard to say something new about this early study of...
(The entire section is 7578 words.)
Christopher Bollas (essay date 1974)
SOURCE: "Melville's Lost Self: Bartleby," in American Imago, Vol. 31, No. 4, Winter, 1974, pp. 401-11.
[In the following essay, Bollas argues that a psychological interpretation of "Bartleby" demonstrates the value of psychoanalysis to literary criticism.]
Herman Melville's short novel "Bartleby" is, a tale about a "pallidly neat, pitiably respectable, incurably forlorn" young man who answers an advertisement for a position as a scrivener. He is accepted for employment, disrupts the routine of his new environment when he "prefers not to" engage in certain assigned tasks, forces the employer to feel a resourcelessness that compels him to move his office. It ends...
(The entire section is 3496 words.)
R. K. Gupta (essay date 1974)
SOURCE: "'Bartleby': Melville's Critique of Reason," in Indian Journal of American Studies, Vol. 4, Nos. 1-2, June and December, 1974, pp. 66-71.
[In the following excerpt, Gupta insists that the narrator of "Bartleby" represents reason, and that Bartleby, in confounding the narrator, emphasizes the inability of pure reason to negotiate human behavior.]
"Say now, that in a day or two you will begin to be
a little reasonable:—say so, Bartleby."
"At present I would prefer not to be a little reasonable,"
was his mildly cadaverous reply.
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Ted Billy (essay date 1975)
SOURCE: "Eros and Thanatos in 'Bartleby'," in Arizona Quarterly, Vol. 31, No. 1, Spring, 1975, pp. 21-32.
[In the following essay, Billy interprets the narrator and Bartleby, respectively, as fictional projections of eros and thanatos principles in Melville's own psyche, and considers "Bartleby" a portrait of psychological conflict between the life and death instincts.]
The final comment of Melville's narrator in "Bartleby the Scrivener" ("Ah, Bartleby! Ah, humanity!") acts as a synecdoche for the irreconcilable struggle that animates the novella. This brief statement of commiseration does more than merely link Bartleby's predicament to the universal human situation....
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Milton Kornfeld (essay date 1975)
SOURCE: "Bartleby and the Presentation of Self in Everyday Life," in Arizona Quarterly, Vol. 31, No. 1, Spring, 1975, pp. 51-6.
[In the following essay, Kornfeld claims that Bartleby is distinguished by his refusal to correspond to social roles.]
Melville's "Bartleby the Scrivener" has been read as an attack on capitalism, an allegory of the frustrated artist in a commercial society, a study of passive resistance, an expression of melancholy, the absurd, the perverse, the irrational—the catalog is exhausting and seemingly endless. Some of this is helpful in elucidating the story, even useful from the teacher's perspective since "Bartleby" is a perennial favorite of...
(The entire section is 1813 words.)
Allan Moore Emery (essay date 1976)
SOURCE: "The Alternatives of Melville's 'Bartleby'," in Nineteenth-Century Fiction, Vol. 31, No. 2, September, 1976, pp. 170-87.
[In the following essay, Emery explores themes of freedom and limitation in "Bartleby," particularly emphasizing the doctrines of Jonathan Edwards and Joseph Priestly.]
In recent years Herman Melville's "Bartleby, the Scrivener" has attracted its share of critics, many of whom have rightly proclaimed the tale to be an ingenious treatment of the theme of freedom and limitation. Nevertheless, two questions of preëminent importance remain unanswered: What is the precise nature of Bartleby's revolt? And how ought we to characterize the...
(The entire section is 6067 words.)
Robert E. Abrams (essay date 1978)
SOURCE: "'Bartleby' and the Fragile Pageantry of the Ego," in ELH, Vol. 45, No. 3, Fall, 1978, pp. 488-500.
[In the following essay, Abrams contrasts Bartleby's acceptance of his involuntary and subconscious motivation with the social and "willful hypocrisies" of the narrator.]
Probing the "mysterious" wellsprings of preference and motive, Melville observes in Pierre that "no mere mortal who has … gone down into himself will ever pretend that his slightest … act originates in his own defined identity." An innocuous but involuntary habit, for example, can sneak up on one unawares. Man's "texture," writes Melville, "is very porous, and things assumed upon the...
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Robert N. Mollinger (essay date 1981)
SOURCE: "The Literary Work: Herman Melville's 'Bartleby the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street'," in Psychoanalysis and Literature: An Introduction, Nelson-Hall, 1981, pp. 85-96.
[Mollinger is an English scholar with extensive training in psychoanalysis. In the following excerpt, Mollinger considers "Bartleby" to be a portrayal of basic human, psychological needs, focusing especially on Melville's portrayal of oral fixations.]
In Melville's "Bartleby the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street" Bartleby's lack of motivation to work, his employer's motivation for putting up with him, the imagery, and even the actual subject of the story have yet to be fully clarified. The...
(The entire section is 4385 words.)
Dennis R. Perry (essay date 1987)
SOURCE: "'Ah, Humanity': Compulsion Neuroses in Melville's 'Bartleby'," in Studies in Short Fiction, Vol. 24, No. 4, Fall, 1987, pp. 407-15.
[In the following essay, Perry contends that the character of Bartleby is not schizophrenic, but neurotic.]
Psychoanalytic critics of Melville's "Bartleby" have been remarkably consistent in their diagnoses of the enigmatic scrivener as schizophrenic. Along with the tale's nearsighted narrator, they have isolated Bartleby as a fascinating case study while overlooking the importance of his relationship to the other characters in the tale. The problem with such readings is that, in isolating Bartleby as a psychological aberration,...
(The entire section is 3546 words.)
Further Reading
Bebb, Bruce. "'Bartleby': An Annotated Checklist of Criticism." In Bartleby the Inscrutable: A Collection of Commentary on Herman Melville's Tale "Bartleby the Scrivener," edited by M. Thomas Inge, pp. 199-238. Hamden, Conn.: Archon Books, 1979.
Catalogue of criticism organized chronologically by publication date.
Newman, Lea Bertani Vozar. "Bartleby, the Scrivener." In A Reader's Guide to the Short Stories of Herman Melville, pp. 19-78. Boston: G. K. Hall, 1986.
Overview of critical perspectives accompanied by an extensive list of essays and books about "Bartleby."
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Also known as a hind paw. It is a foot of an animal, or can be used within the furry fandom as well. It resembles the paw of an animal, with humanlike foot qualities, such as flat bottomed, five toes, etc. Fetishes have been tied with this word in the past, but not many find them appealing.
Look at that fox's cute footpaws.
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RE: st: re: Programming stata using egen functions
"Nick Cox" <firstname.lastname@example.com>
RE: st: re: Programming stata using egen functions
Tue, 28 Apr 2009 14:14:39 +0100
Martin's guess is not to the point here. As Anne's code given earlier in the thread does show, she is using (permanent) names like m_108 for scalars, and not locals.
The problem, already explained by Kit Baum (in the posting being replied to here) and also by myself, is that -egen, rowtotal()- does not accept scalars as arguments. It only feeds on variables. To spell it out once more: scalars in Stata are not variables.
Martin Weiss
Let me guess, you never dereferenced the -local-s for the -max- calculation? Note the difference here:
local m_108 2.33
local m_109 3.4
local m_1010 1.2
//with dereferencing
di max(`m_108', `m_109', `m_1010')
//w/o dereferencing
di max(m_108, m_109, m_1010)
Anne Resende
Thanks for your response.
I am a beginner in stata programming but my aim is to create a "mean"
of the variable logwage to after run the bootstrap.
So when I use rowmax( ) I expect the program to calculate the maximum
of the value of the variables in parenthesis. For each `s' I need the
maximum value between the `sp' numbers.
For example: m_108 = 2.33
m_109 = 3.4
m_1010= 1.2
So I want the program to return de value 3.4. When I use the function
max the program returns me the value of m_1010 because it is
considering the max between the values 108, 109, 1010.
So after the program calculate the maximum value within it m_`s'`sp' ,
I trying to use the rowtotal( ) to sum all of the maximum values and to
end up with just one variable.
Kit Baum wrote:
>egen rowmax() and rowtotal() are meant to be used with more than one
>variable (rather than a scalar) as an argument.
> qui egen `exem_`s''=rowmax(m_`s'`sp')
>if m_`s'`sp' is a scalar, its rowmax or rowtotal is itself--a constant
>value for each row (observation). What are you trying to do?
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text: Just curious what everyone's first memory of a car is? My dad had a '65 International Scout II with the full removable hard-top. He dropped a 327 in that thing and had a great off-road warrior. I remember being a kid in Boise, Idaho driving around that thing with the top off in the summer. Good times!


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Top photo: From left are UTSA's Gilman scholarship winners for fall
2009: Sharon Teller, UTSA exchange at Keele University, England;
Barbara Secenas, USAC architecture program, Italy; and Rosalinda
Rangel, Education Abroad Network, Fudan University, China
Other photos: UTSA students study around the world
Study abroad programs help UTSA students improve career skills
By Omar Hernandez
Public Affairs Specialist
(June 10, 2009)--Study abroad is usually synonymous with summer and education. While the most popular time to study abroad is summer, study abroad happens year-round. Each year hundreds of students leave the traditional learning environment of the UTSA campuses and embark on an experience that will surely change their lives forever.
Today's headlines
- La Prensa Foundation is newest member of UTSA Lone Star Society
- UTSA alumna Jordan Kaufmann wins $50K for new stent-graft start-up
- UTSA begins new way-finding sign installation this summer at Main Campus
- USA Today: UTSA long jumper Tyler Williamson rescues three-year-old boy
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UTSA offers many study abroad opportunities around the globe. There are four types of study abroad programs.
Exchange programs allow students to study at a university with which UTSA has a special agreement. Under an exchange program, students pay normal UTSA tuition and all other costs to the host university.
Affiliated study abroad programs are coordinated and managed by outside organizations and companies. Program costs are set by each program provider and vary with the length of the program, location, and cost of living.
UTSA faculty-led programs offer the opportunity to travel abroad with a faculty member. These programs most often run in the summer and are led and coordinated by the faculty member in charge. Program costs include UTSA tuition and any associated costs.
The UTSA College of Business maintains its own exchange programs. Students are selected by the College of Business but work with the Office of International Programs on all administrative matters. Read more at the College of Business Web site.
The benefits of studying abroad are more than a wonderful trip and memories. The experience can help students land jobs after graduation.
"Research has shown that students with international experience are more employable," said Holly Hill, UTSA assistant director of international programs. "Employers know they develop skills from international exposure. They can easily adapt to different backgrounds and cultures and are more flexible in the work place."
Paying for study abroad is perhaps the most intimidating task for a student. Luckily, UTSA offers scholarships to students interested in studying abroad through the International Education Fund. Students can use regular financial aid to help cover the costs, along with other available resources.
During the 2008-2009 academic year, UTSA was in the top 10 of recipients of the Gilman International Scholarship, which helps students who are traditionally underrepresented in education. Gilman is one of the only national scholarships in study abroad. Other schools on the list include: UCLA, UC Berkeley and UT Austin.
"Our students are the applicants they want to give money to," said Hill.
In fact, scholarship money for the fall 2009 semester has already been awarded. Only three UTSA students applied for the assistance and all three were approved. Barbara Secenas is headed to Italy with $4,500, Sharon Teller will take on the United Kingdom with $5,000 and Rosalinda Rangel will visit China with the maximum scholarship amount of $8,000. Hill urges students to apply before deadlines and to check for basic requirements.
Students must be at least a sophomore at time of departure; students must be in good academic standing with a minimum 2.5 G.P.A. Making the decision to study abroad requires a great deal of planning. Hill suggests planning as much as one year before stepping on the plane.
For more information, contact the UTSA Office of International Programs at (210) 458-7202 or e-mail email@example.com.


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Ruger GP100 or S&W Model 68X. Both are 357mag which can be loaded with 38spl/38spl+p to address recoil concerns. Typically you will save a few bucks on the Ruger.
Brace yourself; it seems lots of people around here love both Ruger and S&W products, but as far as models go we're all over the place.