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In Reply to: The TAS April/May issue... posted by mkuller on March 18, 2007 at 11:39:31:
when I visited him this past weekend. Short summary: he has tried to stay clear of those who have tried to bring him into the mess.
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"Short summary: he has tried to stay clear of those who have tried to bring him into the mess."
If HP is involved in practices of such questionable ethics, it is not others who have brought him into that mess.
I know this may be difficult for you, feel free to be specific. Name(s) and magazine(s) por favor. Or is The Audio Critic and Peter Aczel the only reviewer you've got the brass to ever criticize?
...to scroll down and read my "Bye, Bye TAS" post afrom 3/4?
Yes, a long, well deserved vacation.
"It will be interesting watching the fall-out from this since it's no secret." Since it is no secret, so who is it?
You have virtually called me a liar in the past based upon measurements I've taken with my speakers and now you totally distort my comments about HP.
The only connection HP has to the Valin cable affair is that he has been asked by more than one person as to what he thinks about the situation. Since he no longer owns the magazine, he has intentionally kept low key on voicing his opinion.
First and foremost, HP is a journalist. He earned quite a few awards long before starting TAS. Even before he worked for Newsday as an environmental reporter.
Hmmm, where do I start, pinhead? The entire month's argument hints that some high end, but not Stereophile magazine, kept equipment beyond the review period. Some (I love that line) have even hinted that they may have kept equipment in exchange for more favorable reviews. Why not just say what they really mean? Please tell me, what rag might these people be refering to? The Sensible Sound? I wasn't calling you in particular out. People here throw this kind of crap around all the time. But they are sure to stay within the gray area so as to protect their credibility. They make ascertions... only to use the old, I heard it from so and so or heard it from un named sources... People need to have the cojones to be a man and just finish what they started to say.
Since you took it there, ye man with 6 foot headphones, we'll briefly discuss your speaker / room interactions. You are but the first audiophile / sound engineer / whatever, that I am personally aware of who claims to have + / - 2 Db from 200 Hz on down to 20 Hz, with no room tuning whatsoever. Either you have found a way to defeat the laws of physics or you are full of it. If you want to go on record as saying that by my saying this that I am somehow calling you a liar, do feel free to do so. It's the internet and you can say whatever you feel, to whomever you disagree with. But by putting words in my mouth by saying that I am accusing HP, JV or any of the other reviewers of TAS out, you are being a complete chump. It was not me who penned the article two months ago and subsequent responses on this thread.
You are but the first audiophile / sound engineer / whatever, that I am personally aware of who claims to have + / - 2 Db from 200 Hz on down to 20 Hz
Please reread the last four times I corrected your misunderstanding. This makes five. This is your brain on drugs. Maybe one of these days you'll eventually figure out what I've said. Repeatedly. Over and over again. And yet you still can't remember jack.
...with no room tuning whatsoever
Hmmm. Don't know about you, but I consider a dozen bass traps to most certainly qualify as "room tuning". Yeah, I talked about those in one of my posts, too. Not to mention in my system specs.
But by putting words in my mouth by saying that I am accusing HP, JV or any of the other reviewers of TAS out, you are being a complete chump.
Let's review what you said, shall we?
If HP is involved in practices of such questionable ethics...
Obviously, English was not your major in college.
Sorry, but IO do not sit and read each and every post. I usually read a few during a break at work.
I'll remember that the next time you claim I said something. Since you base such comments on your imagination rather than fact, I'll just ignore it.
You spun this:
"If HP is involved in practices of such questionable ethics, it is not others who have brought him into that mess."
into something like this:
Since HP is involved in practices of such questionable ethics, it is not others who have brought him into that mess.
Which I did not write nor was it my intend to voice. As a subjectivist, you should be well aware of the subtle nuances of the written English language. BTW, it does look like a pretty mean rig rig and a fine room.
P.S. Hey, if neither one of us had an imagination, you wouldn't be busy punching out the code that I end up fixing. We also wouldn't have the dinero to afford this sick hobby of ours.
Hey, if neither one of us had an imagination, you wouldn't be busy punching out the code that I end up fixing.
Fixing what code?
You: Occupation: Software engineer
We're more alike than you think.
With my first job out of college, I was the IT department of a small company. We used a standard package, but I wrote countless modifications to meet our particular business needs. During this period, I supported my own development.
A dozen years later, I joined the developer of that package in tech support. When we found bugs in current code, we gave it back to development for correction. When it was found in older versions or in custom modifications, then I fixed it.
Fast forward another fifteen years to present, I now work in a sales capacity. I perform product demos (usually over the 'net) and give live product and industry presentations to user groups across the country. I also teach the programming certification course for our business partners and power users where among other things, I instruct others in the use of various debugging tools.
Three weeks ago, I was pressed back into coding service. I developed an interface from the original back end licensing software for the products I represent and the new one used by the $2B software firm who purchased our company a couple of years back. Once again, I support my own development!
"With my first job out of college, I was the IT department of a small company. We used a standard package, but I wrote countless modifications to meet our particular business needs. During this period, I supported my own development.
A dozen years later, I joined the developer of that package in tech support. When we found bugs in current code, we gave it back to development for correction. When it was found in older versions or in custom modifications, then I fixed it.
Fast forward another fifteen years to present, I now work in a sales capacity.
And you refer to yourself as a SOFTWARE ENGINEER, I should guessed. Your commentary on so much stuff did not add up, Software engineering is one of the most mathematical involved endeavours in computing, your aversion for 'numbers' was odd for a software engineer.
Music making the painting, recording it the photograph
After working for decades in software engineering I still remember many professional software engineers stopping and gawking when they walked by our offices and asked if we were really talking about Singular Value Decompositions when we were saying SVDs. I don't think many software engineers use all that much math on a daily basis in the industry. They use some specific forms of math informally a lot (e.g. big and little O estimations), but most of them would have no idea what you are talking about when you mention Dedekind cuts or Stone spaces... Heck even numerical analysis isn't taught that thoroughly to undergraduates much anymore either, a lot of people stair at me blankly when I talk about Runge�Kutta methods or Jacobi rotations.
and the enjoyment of working out algorithms to achieve some goal.
When I was young and stupid, however, I believed in Julian Hirsch and the value of all numbers. Obsessed with them. I could quote chapter and verse of distortion specs for quite a few receivers, amps, preamps, etc. I had my AR integrated amp measured by Dave O'Brien himself. Got the chart. As a result, I decided that I had to have some Crown gear. Why? Because they had "virtually unmeasurable distortion". Yep, that's what I want. Fortunately, the dealer talked me out of the dreadful sounding ICK preamp. The D-150 was a decent amp, but was hard on top and had no image width or depth. Very closed in. Maybe they couldn't measure it, but distortion free they were not. I learned that lesson when I was 17.
Numbers are great when they correlate to real world performance. I value the frequency measurements I've recently performed on three systems. With a forest of bass traps, the main one achieves a very flat response in the first four octaves. Measures good and sounds dead neutral. You'll definitely hear me preach neutrality.
You missed the point of my post i.e. you are NOT a software engineer in the traditional sense of the word nor to the best of my knowledge were you trained as a software engineer by extension did not train in the mathematics of software engineering. And you really ain't that old, at least not in comparison to me.
Music making the painting, recording it the photograph
You may choose to ignore the definition of a software engineer if you please. Specifically, I am an applications developer. Yes, I took many math related courses.
So, how old are you? More importantly, what relevance does that have?
Audio Hobbyman is trying to say that he was around when ENIAC was the industry standard. While not that old, I did work on some UNIVAC stuff while in school.
ENIAC certainly was the toast of the forties. Gee, I didn't realize that TAH had such seniority. Perhaps he knew Admiral Grace Hopper. :)
regarding the incorrect and ongoing fixation you have on the claim that my stats were flat to 20 hz. THEY'RE NOT !!!!!!!! NEVER SAID THEY WERE!!!!
Regarding HP. as others have said, what you did was insinuate without cause.
You know, you can always ask a question and I'll happily answer it. :)
Dude, do two things. Lighten up and get over yourself. I've gotten on you a few times because you can come across as a bit of a prick at times to people. In my last post, I humbled myself to you and you choose to kick me in the teeth once more. That is either a sign of someone who is not a gentleman or someone who lives on one of the coasts. As far as me insinuating anything, if that is how you want to take it, please feel free to do so. I can assure you that was not my intent.
Since you proabably live in a blue state, I have to ask you something. If you can grasp what the difference between is is, why can't you seem to grasp the meaning of if? Things were written back and forth by many here without directly naming names or the magazine. Do tell me why you did not jump on any of them? Because your buddy's name was not mentioned? I met the guy once. He was cordial, but dare I say a tad different. Not someone who I'd probably hang with. Regardless, audiophiles come in all shapes, sizes and colors. Take care and do enjoy that fine system.
You humbled yourself? How about just saying, "Sorry, E-man. Gee I really was mistaken about what you said about your speakers. Why I keep claiming you said flat to 20 hz on several occasions is beyond me. Also, I guess I should have asked you if you used any room treatments rather than just assuming that you didn't. Or checked your system description where I would have found the answer"
Since you proabably live in a blue state...
Arkansas is a red state. Perhaps you are unaware of something about the posters here. Click the "A" beside my moniker. Only takes two seconds. There you would find the answer to this question. Click my systems and you would have found the answer to your erroneous assumption about a lack of room treatments.
Do tell me why you did not jump on any of them?
To the best of my knowledge, only YOU made completely unsupported insinuations directed towards an individual reviewer. I will readily acknowledge the contrary if you provide proof. For some reason, only YOU continue to rant (incorrectly) about what I've said about my system. FOUR TIMES !
Take care and do enjoy that fine system.
Thank you. I'd offer you a beer and a listen if that were possible. Then we could measure the U-1s together. :)
just do a search on "pinhead" and find this post. Maybe you understand pictures better than words.
Each corner has four 18" by 36" traps.
With four smaller ones in the room.
Here for the upteenth time is the actual measured response of the room . You'll note that:
20 hz is about 10 db down!
Did you get it this time? :)
Man, you have way too much time on your hands.
Innuendo without substantiation is very bad form.
Robert, you obviously missed the word, "If." I accused nobody of anything for I have no first hand knowledge of these goings on by anyone or any magazine. Sheesh, people here have made accusations against unnamed others and an unnamed magazine, that we all seem to know (wink wink), and you say diddly. Instead of ranting on me, do question those people who do make such inuendos in the first place, to say who. This entire industry is shrouded by opinions hiding in the grey area of subjectivity, so I wouldn't doubt that it does go on. Heck, who are any of us kidding. If in the same situation as some of these very lucky writers, most of us would probably choose to hold on to some of this very fine equipment until the manufacturer showed up at our door with two burly piano movers.
Using "If" is what makes it an innuendo as opposed to an accusation.
"If" you didn't think there might be something to your post, why bother posting it?
I do get you about all the acusations that fly around here untethered to reality, and I'm not purposefully singling you out Ozzie. It's just that given the tenor of the thread, it wasn't difficult to project a conspiracy onto your post...
extremism in the defense of liberty is no crime..uh,,,how did that go?
I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice! And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.
Barry Goldwater, acceptance speech as Republican candidate for President, 1963
But he wasn't speaking to situation ethics, either. The political waters were far different in 1963.
....was a class act, and an intellectually honest man. Quite a rarity at any time, especially in politics.
...you're paranoid doesn't mean someone's not out to get you."
R. Nixon
....they both had extra-marital affairs, and have now publicly admitted them.
Harry Pearson has nothing to do with the situation....*you* are now creating inferences of "questionable ethics" on his part....the old "if". This and other threads are identical to the story of how a camel was designed.
Punchline....it started out as a horse, but was fashioned by committee. And always comes out differently than intended when others throw their own agenda into the mix.
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Ten years ago this morning, the Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrated upon re-entry into the Earth's atmosphere, killing the seven astronauts aboard. Here's a story I co-authored with Guy Gugliotta two days later, on Feb. 3, 2003.
The spacecraft was full of life: seven people, many spiders, a nest of carpenter bees, a baker's dozen rodents. Here was moss, yeast, strains of bacteria, cells growing in tissue cultures. In orbit, a silk moth emerged from its cocoon. A fish hatched. Miniature roses and rice flowers bloomed.
The final flight of Columbia was something of an anomaly: a pure science mission. No one asked this crew of astronauts to ferry hardware to the International Space Station. No one asked them to take a wrench to the Hubble Space Telescope. They were expected — even the fighter jocks among them — to perform science, in teams, 24 hours a day.
They carried with them a laboratory called Spacehab, crammed with instruments, cameras, computers, test tubes. The astronauts themselves were guinea pigs, swallowing calcium tracers to study the effects of weightlessness.
Columbia had a cargo of human ingenuity, with 80 experiments designed in 16 countries, from Japan to Liechtenstein.
At one point, astronauts used a contraption the size of a trash basket to create tiny, fragile "flame balls" of burning hydrogen and methane. Some winked out quickly, but one lasted 25 minutes and another a heroic 81. Mission specialist Dave Brown decided each had a personality.
"I see one flame ball," he told Mission Control, "and its name is Howard."
As experts try to figure out what went wrong on Columbia, the people who worked with the astronauts talk of much that went right, of hard work and excellent science, and high spirits all the way into space and almost all the way home.
The astronauts were on their backs, helmeted, in orange pressure suits, aimed toward space.
It was Jan. 16, and they were on Launch Pad 39-A, out toward the beach on Cape Canaveral. "The Lord has blessed us with a beautiful day here," Commander Rick Husband said.
At the Cape, and in Mission Control in Houston, NASA officials entertained the public with countdown pronouncements and informative chitchat, but inside Columbia the crew heard nothing. The launch required absolute silence. If something went wrong, the Florida launch team needed to communicate instantly with the crew.
Three of the astronauts had been to space before, but four hadn't. Security had been unusually tight before the launch because of the presence of an Israeli, Ilan Ramon, a military pilot who had brought with him a drawing by a boy killed at Auschwitz.
At 10:38 a.m., with the countdown nearing one minute, the astronauts closed and locked their visors. Six seconds before liftoff, the main engines ignited. The shuttle rocked back and forth a couple of feet, an unnerving feeling for those inside, as if the spacecraft were about to fall over. But there wasn't enough time. The solid fuel booster rockets ignited, and Columbia left the planet.
During liftoff, a piece of insulation broke free from one of Columbia's external fuel tanks and bounced off the left wing, coated with silicon insulation tiles designed to dissipate the heat of reentry. Tile damage could mean nothing. Or it could mean trouble.
Astronauts describe launches as noisy, with a whooshing, roaring sound to accompany the furious shaking — like a railroad car running too fast for its tracks. But after two minutes the booster rockets dropped off and the ride immediately smoothed out. The spacecraft was traveling faster now, much faster. The G-forces reached about three times the normal sensation of gravity.
And then — only 81/2 minutes after liftoff — the main engines shut down, and Columbia was in orbit, floating in splendid silence 178 miles above Earth. Those who have experienced space flight describe it as spectacular, like reaching the top of a mountain after a furious climb. But the calm is illusory. In reality, Columbia had accelerated from a standing start to 17,000 miles per hour, accumulating an incredible amount of energy.
In 16 days it would have to shed that energy in order to land.
Settling In
The crew split into two teams, to work and sleep in shifts (a necessity in any case, since there were only four bunks).
The Red Team would work pre-dawn and daytime — Houston time, since out the window the sun came up every 90 minutes — and would include Husband, Ramon, and mission specialists Kalpana Chawla (often called "KC") and Laurel Clark.
The Blue Team would work evening and through the night: Brown, pilot Willie McCool and payload commander Mike Anderson.
They didn't wait long to establish a routine. One of the first orders of business for the Blue team, just four hours into the flight, was to try to go to sleep.
But first they unstowed their gear — sticking loose objects to the Velcro that lines almost every surface. And they activated Spacehab, the research module in the shuttle's cargo bay that contained 59 of the experiments. They would do most of their work in this laboratory, accessible through tunnels from the mid-area living space.
In space they would be as busy as the carpenter bees, but weightless, forced to operate in a cramped environment without an obvious top or bottom, and dealing with the initial, powerful nausea of zero gravity. Things in space are strange: One must get used to the sensation, for example, of floating inside a sleeping bag.
One thing astronauts don't do in the first couple of days is take a crew picture. In zero gravity, water that gathers naturally in a person's legs on Earth roams freely through the body, and shuttle crews move about with puffy, bloated faces. Gradually, after dehydrating for a couple of days, they look better.
The simple act of changing one's pants can cause a person to tumble head over heels, grabbing for a handhold. Showers don't happen — astronauts sponge bathe. The toilet is complicated and, as astronauts have periodically pointed out, does not always work immaculately.
The core living space on a shuttle is the "mid-deck area." This is where the crew members eat, sleep, wash, use the toilet, change clothes, read messages from home and practice the things they always wanted to try in space — dancing on the ceiling like Fred Astaire or doing somersaults in mid-air.
The mid-deck area, points out astronomer Ronald A. Parise, who flew on two shuttles, including Columbia, "is an area about the size of a typical residential bathroom." The difference is that on Earth, everyone has to stand on the same surface, the floor. On the shuttle, all the volume is used. "If I'm looking for a place to eat, I can just float up to the ceiling," he said.
The view is tremendous. At 178 miles altitude Earth is not a blue marble, but something that fills the window with 1,600 miles of territory at a glance: "I can't describe the overwhelming sense of jubilation I feel up here," the boyish pilot, McCool, said later by video link, broadly grinning. "The sun rises, the sun sets, the moon rises, the moon sets, going about the globe, seeing the Himalayan range, the Great Barrier Reef — it's phenomenal."
Space Music
On Day 3, the astronauts took time out from their experiments to do a series of TV interviews.
"We've really got our space legs up and running," Husband told CNN.
Clark said she was surprised by the sounds inside the shuttle: "The zippers and all the belts that have D-rings that we hold things down with are always floating and hitting each other and jingling. It makes this beautiful tinkling music in the background all the time."
Ramon, the Israeli, didn't merely serve a symbolic function — he worked hard, like everyone else. Among other things, he wielded a camera to study dust plumes from the desert passing across the Mediterranean. That was tricky at first, because there were too many clouds, not enough dust.
"He was an Israeli jet jock, but he was really interested in learning the science, he went the extra mile," said Paul Ronney, the aerospace and mechanical engineering professor at the University of Southern California who designed the flame balls experiment.
"They had a really deep understanding of all the experiments that they did," said Stein Sture, a civil engineering professor at the University of Colorado.
Ronney, Sture and other scientists talked to the crew throughout the flight, via an intermediary at Mission Control. Spirits were high. "We had excellent results," Sture said.
Grieving since Saturday morning, both scientists said they managed to download data during the flight. Both estimated that their experiments yielded 50 percent of the projected data.
"What I lost," Ronney said, "is trivial and meaningless compared to what others have lost."
Science Marches On
On Day 6, Tuesday the 21st, Ramon used his camera to capture "sprites," electrical charges that pulse from the top of thunderheads. No one had ever studied such a thing.
He also spoke to Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon by video linkup, and held up a small Torah scroll, brought to Israel by a Holocaust survivor. Speaking in Hebrew, he said, "From space, Israel looks like it does on a map: small but charming. I think we have a great people in Israel, and we have to maintain our Jewish heritage."
Sharon told him, "I would like to congratulate you for standing up as a Jew."
As the spaceship went around and around the world, the sleeping astronauts would get wake-up calls in the form of music. The selection for Day 7: "Hakuna Matata" from "The Lion King." (It means no worries, for the rest of your days. . . .) That day, the astronauts beamed down pictures of their smallest passengers. Ants were busily skittering through tunnels in the ant farm contributed by the students of Fowler High School in Syracuse, N.Y. The Glen Waverly Secondary College in Melbourne, Australia, had contributed spiders that were beginning to construct webs. Silkworm larvae were developing in an experiment submitted by the Jingshan School in Beijing. And the Tokyo Institute of Technology had sent medaka fish embryos, which were growing in an aquarium.
The Red Team grew prostate cancer cells, and checked on their plants, including the miniature roses that may yield new fragrances for perfumes.
On Day 8, Anderson and Chawla made flame balls, the weakest forms of fire ever produced, invisible to the naked eye. One had half a watt of power, 100 times weaker than a candle. Scientists think this work could lead to better fuels and less vehicle pollution. That afternoon, Mission Control honored the flame experiments by giving the Blue Team a wake-up call from the Talking Heads: "Burning Down the House."
Science marched on, day after day. More flame balls. More tissue cultures. One experiment examined the way moss responds to light and gravity. Another looked at the "critical viscosity of Xenon-2."
It had been five years since the last shuttle voyage devoted completely to science. If everything had gone as planned this year, the next five shuttle flights would be devoted to supplying crew members and parts to the space station. Columbia was the first shuttle and the heaviest by 7,800 pounds, and although it had made trips to the space station it could not carry the heaviest shuttle payloads. It made a good laboratory, though.
Not everything on this mission worked perfectly. There was a balky air conditioner in Spacehab, and the astronauts had to improvise, funneling air from the crew compartment into the lab.
And in the third round of experiments lighting fires in zero gravity, the combustion module sprang a leak, forcing the crew to spend four hours dismantling the entire apparatus and replacing a critical part.
But on the whole, everything went smoothly — remarkably so, the NASA officials on the ground thought.
The Blue Team awoke on Day 9, Friday the 24th, to the tune of "Hotel California," by the Eagles, sung by McCool's family. To help with the formation of those fragile flame balls, the astronauts shut down the shuttle thrusters. Columbia drifted serenely in space.
On Day 11, a fish hatched and a silk moth emerged from a cocoon. The astronauts didn't watch the Super Bowl — there are no couch potatoes in space. But McCool let it be known he was pulling for the Raiders, and Brown rooted for the Buccaneers.
On Day 12, they shut down the flame balls experiment. They also made a long-distance call, speaking to the three astronauts orbiting on the space station.
"I wish I could stay some more time like you guys," Ramon said.
On Day 14, the Blue Team woke to John Lennon singing "Imagine."
The astronauts gave a news conference, and Anderson put the science in context: "The science we're dong here is great and it's fantastic; it's leading edge. But I think once we get a seven-member crew on board the space station you're really going to see some outstanding science in space." The scientists on the station, he said, "will have years to conduct the experiments that we're trying to do here in a relatively short period of time."
McCool spoke of riding an exercise bike:
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On Day 16, the 31st, the crew did routine tests of auxiliary power units, getting ready for reentry. They shut down the Spacehab module. No more experiments.
Florida weather is forecast to be excellent on Saturday, NASA said in its daily STS-107 report.
At 8:15 a.m. Eastern time Saturday, on its 255th journey around the planet, Columbia turned tail-first and fired its thrusters, braking its speed and dropping toward Earth. Inside the spacecraft, the crew felt a slight jolt, like a subway train leaving the station.
They took seats and strapped themselves in for reentry. The spacecraft turned nose-first again, all the maneuvers controlled by computers. The crew was dropping ever faster into a thickening atmosphere, so fast that they saw the air outside the windows turn into electrically charged ions — a bright yellow plasma cloud turning to white as the tiled undersurface of the shuttle neared 2,800 degrees Fahrenheit.
And then they were through the cloud, passing over Arizona and New Mexico, falling toward Earth — a brilliant light, streaking through a clear blue Texas morning.


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The Pennsylvania Emergency Management Agency has agreed to take up a review of events that occurred during the recent IUPatty's Day celebration and the response to them, the agency announced Friday.
Called an after-action review, it is something IUP officials sought following the disruptions and arrests that took place during the St. Patrick's Day celebration, held before students left for spring break.
The celebration's three days of partying caused general disturbances throughout Indiana Borough, beginning Thursday, March 6, and concluding in the early hours of Sunday, March 9. But most of the attention has been on the large crowd that formed on that Saturday and spilled onto South Seventh Street.
The crowd blocked traffic, and some revelers even jumped on top of a passing car. A few fights broke out, too. As a result of those fights two students and two others are facing criminal charges, including a felony count of riot. A fifth person also has been charged with taunting police officers as they tried to disperse the crowd. He, too, has been charged with riot.
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IUP has an existing relationship with the agency, and Cannon is an IUP graduate who was named to the university's council of trustees last year.
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Thomas Middleton and Early Modern Textual Culture: A Companion to the Collected Works
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In addition to textual introductions and collations, the Companion includes more than three hundred pages of scholarly background essays, and a lengthy but indispensable section on 'Canon and Chronology'. The essays are on topics as various as authorship, readership, the law, music, censorship, visual texts, printing and the book trade. There is some unevenness here: Taylor's opening essay, 'The Order of Persons' (written with Celia Daileader and Alexandra Bennett), is a richly detailed but meandering exploration of Middleton's 'lists'; and Richard Burt's piece on censorship comprehensively muddles a topic that is more straightforwardly addressed in several of the critical introductions, including Taylor's account of A Game at Chess. Given the significant impact of censorship on Middleton's career, it is hard to understand why Burt was allowed to get away with the high-theoretical sophistry of an argument that purports to show that, by virtue of its 'self-deconstructive non-identity . . . repressive censorship cannot always be distinguished from . . . non-censorship'. Most of these essays are excellent, however; and some, such as MacDonald Jackson's study of authorship or John Jowett's investigation of Middleton's early readers, are definitive.


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New Executive Vanuatu Law Society
In an historical event, Lawyers in Vanuatu have this week endorsed a Constitution establishing the Vanuatu Law Society as well as electing a new executive committee.
The establishment of the law society was a culmination of meetings and discussions by lawyers spanning four months in exploring ways towards formally establishing the VLS Reference was made to similar organizations in neighboring jurisdictions such as New Zealand, Queensland and Fiji.
A well regulated Law Society in Vanuatu will represent the interests of its increasing members and not only to promote the rule of law but also to promote rules of professional conduct regulating the practice of law in Vanuatu.
According to the new constitution, membership is open to lawyers who have been admitted to the Bar as well as lawyers who have completed their training but are yet to be admitted to practice.
The constitution is now available at the office of the Vanuatu Financial Services Commission for signatures by lawyers not present during the historical event onWednesday.
The 10- page constitution, while simple, reflects the aspirations of good legal practice and the promotion of the rule of law and the principles of good governance.
Newly elected President of the Vanuatu Law Society is Bill Bani of Bani Law who is also chairman of the Vanuatu Financial Services Commission, a position which he has held for the last 7 years. While thanking members for their confidence in him, he reminded them that the road ahead is challenging.
He called on all lawyers to cooperate with him and the committee he leads as they move forward.
Bani said the first and foremost task of the society is to work with relevant government authorities to provide input on the amendment of the Legal Profession Act parliament passed some four years ago.
It is anticipated that proposed changes to the existing Legal Profession Act will include provision on the establishment of the Vanuatu Law Society. Whilst there is a provision of law setting up the Law Council of Vanuatu which is headed by the chief Justice, there is no such provision establishing a Vanuatu Law Society. For the time being, VLS has been registered as a Charitable Association pursuant to the Charitable Associations (incorporation) Act.
The elected office bearers include : Bill Bani of Bani Law as President; Edward Nalyal of Edward Nalyal & Partners as Secretary; Marie Noel Ferrieux Patterson of Hudson & Sugden as Treasurer and three other members are Dudley Aru of Aru & Co ; Viran Molisa Trief of State Law Office and John Stephens Tougon of Vanuatu Financial Service Commission.
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Nepal's vulture "restaurants" for endangered birds
By Gopal Sharma
PITHAULI, Nepal (Reuters) - In the village of Pithauli, surrounded by ripening mustard fields, a woman hauls a cow carcass on a trolley, drops it in an open field, then runs and hides in a nearby hut as dozens of vultures swoop down.
In under half an hour, the carcass has been reduced to picked bones by the dun-colored birds, occasionally squabbling as they feed.
The site is one of a handful of vulture "restaurants" opened to save the birds, which help keep the environment clean by disposing of carrion, from extinction -- and at the same time help impoverished villages become self-sufficient.
A drug called diclofenac, used for treating inflammation in cattle, causes kidney failure and death in vultures which feed on their carcasses. As a result, two species of vulture -- the White-rumped and Slender-billed -- are now critically endangered in Nepal, as well as in Pakistan and India.
"If the situation continues the two species will be extinct in ten years," said Hem Sagar Baral, chief of the Nepalese Ornithological Union.
"We may maintain certain minimum numbers but we'll never see the numbers we had 20 years ago."
Two decades ago there were about 50,000 nesting pairs of the two vulture species in Nepal. Now, barely 500 pairs remain.
Their steep decline is blamed on the widespread use of diclofenac, which was banned in 2006, and loss of habitat, with the kapok trees they use for nesting vanishing fast to meet demand from factories producing match sticks and plywood. Continued...


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- 4 cups fresh or frozen blueberries, divided
- 3/4 cup sugar
- 3 tablespoons cornstarch
- 1/8 teaspoon salt
- 1 cup water
- 1/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1 teaspoon lemon juice
- 1 tablespoon butter
- 1 pastry shell (9 inches), baked
- Whipped topping or ice cream, optional
- Wash and drain blueberries. In a medium saucepan, combine the sugar, 1 cup of berries, cornstarch (use heaping tablespoons with frozen berries), salt, water, cinnamon and lemon juice. Cook and stir over medium heat until thick. Remove from heat.
- Immediately add butter and remaining berries. Stir until sauce is mixed with all of the berries and butter is melted. Pour mixture into prepared pie shell. Keep refrigerated till serving time. Serve with whipped topping or ice cream. Yield: 6-8 servings.
Originally published as Valerie's Blueberry Pie in Country Woman May/June 1992, p47
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"I added an extra tsp of cornstarch and it was the perfect blueberry pie filling. I poured it into a pre-baked shortbread crust I made using girl scout cookies. I also made a crumble using butter, flour, sugar and a pinch of cinnamon which I baked in the oven then sprinkled on top of the blueberry pie filling. My husband loved it."
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"I made this pie for my brother as lent was over, and he had given up sweets. He really enjoyed it! Thanks for a great recipe Valerie."
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Fargo, N.D. • A man who owns a semipro football team in Minnesota that plays games in the spring is starting a team in Fargo-Moorhead that will play in the fall.
James Kern owns the Brainerd (Minn.) Lumberjacks, who play in the Midwest Premier Football League. He tells The Forum newspaper that the team he is forming in Fargo-Moorhead will be an extension of the Lumberjacks and will play in the United National Football League.
Players have to be at least 18 years old and are responsible for their own health insurance. Players don't get paid and have to buy their own equipment.
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If I can't ship there, I don't want them here.... ;)
The Aussies have pests gaining a foot hold that we do not want. We have imported enough pests already.
They do have SHB down under.
But ain't the potential Aussie ban because if Apis Cerana, and the problems with it?


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The guru to the gurus at last shares his knowledge with the rest of us. Nobel laureate Daniel Kahneman's seminal studies in behavioral psychology, behavioral economics, and happiness studies have influenced numerous other authors, including Steven Pinker and Malcolm Gladwell. In Thinking, Fast and Slow, Kahneman at last offers his own, first book for the general public. It is a lucid and enlightening summary of his life's work. It will change the way you think about thinking.
Two systems drive the way we think and make choices, Kahneman explains: System One is fast, intuitive, and emotional; System Two is slower, more deliberative, and more logical. Examining how both systems function within the mind, Kahneman exposes the extraordinary capabilities as well as the biases of fast thinking and the pervasive influence of intuitive impressions on our thoughts and our choices. Engaging the reader in a lively conversation about how we think, he shows where we can trust our intuitions and how we can tap into the benefits of slow thinking, contrasting the two-system view of the mind with the standard model of the rational economic agent.
Kahneman's singularly influential work has transformed cognitive psychology and launched the new fields of behavioral economics and happiness studies. In this path-breaking book, Kahneman shows how the mind works, and offers practical and enlightening insights into how choices are made in both our business and personal lives - and how we can guard against the mental glitches that often get us into trouble.
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"A tour de force. . . Kahneman's book is a must read for anyone interested in either human behavior or investing. He clearly shows that while we like to think of ourselves as rational in our decision making, the truth is we are subject to many biases. At least being aware of them will give you a better chance of avoiding them, or at least making fewer of them." (Larry Swedroe, CBS News)
"A major intellectual event . . . The work of Kahneman and Tversky was a crucial pivot point in the way we see ourselves." (David Brooks, The New York Times)
"[Thinking, Fast and Slow] is wonderful, of course. To anyone with the slightest interest in the workings of his own mind, it is so rich and fascinating that any summary would seem absurd." (Michael Lewis, Vanity Fair)
"Wonderful ideas. I'm so glad I read this."
He defines two types of thinking. Fast thinking is our intuition. We use it most of the time and it works well most of the time. It doesn't take any energy. He calls it "System 1."
Slow thinking is doing complicated math problems, or reading and analyzing data to come to a conclusion. He calls it "System 2." Slow thinking takes energy. It uses glucose. People with less glucose (sugar) in their system aren't able to think in System 2 as well as when they have glucose in them. Using willpower for one activity uses glucose, leaving less energy for other System 2 activities.
There were many examples and results of studies which amazed me. I learned that when something is really important, do not trust my intuition (system 1 thinking) - spend some time supplementing it with system 2.
Now here's the bad part:
I listened to this as an audiobook. My mind wandered a lot. I wasn't paying attention for probably a fourth of the book. The first half was the best. The last half or third seemed to be mostly probability and statistics. For example, if you are here would you choose A or B? But if you are there, your choice would be different. My mind wandered a lot during those parts. But still, I got much out of this book. I think it might be better read as a physical book than listened to, so the mind wouldn't wander as much. It's like a textbook. It will take System 2 energy to read and understand everything.
PDF File:
I bought the audiobook from audible which provided a pdf file. That was good because the author referred to the pdf pictures.
Writing Book Reviews:
When watching a play or reading a book, we might feel one way (A) during 90% of the story and feel differently (B) during the last several minutes. Our rating of the book will be mostly the (B) feelings - as if we forgot about (A) feelings. One of the tests related to this was done with pain. The left arm was in ice water for 20 minutes with the final 5 minutes in slightly warmer water with less pain. Then the right arm was in ice water for 10 minutes with full pain at the end. Afterwards the subjects were told to retake the test and they could choose which arm to test. They chose to do the left arm, because they remembered less pain. The left arm had suffered more pain in total - the 20 minutes. (I may have the minutes wrong, but you get the idea.)
Statistics about marriage really stuck with me - surprised me. The last picture in the pdf file shows the results of a survey of respondents who were asked about their satisfaction with life (SL). They were asked this every year during a 9 year period that had marriage in the middle. 4 years before they married SL was 3. It started increasing 2 years before marriage and was 6 at the time of marriage. 5 years after marriage it dropped to 2.
Influencing Judges:
Judges were asked to impose a sentence on a woman for shoplifting. Shortly before they decided, the number 3 or 9 was shown to them from a dice roll. Judges who saw the 9, sentenced the woman to 8 months. Judges who saw the 3 sentenced her to 5 months. (The months are averages.)
Influencing Parole Boards:
More prison inmates were given parole when their case was decided right after the judges had eaten food.
The author is a psychologist but received a Nobel Prize in Economics for his work in prospect theory, about how people make decisions.
Patrick Egan did a great job.
Genre: psychology, economics, nonfiction.
"Very interesting!"
This book had an incredible amount of interesting material! There are so many interesting ways our minds are tricked by ourselves and the influences on us!
The only downside was it started to feel kind of repetitive because there is a lot of discussion of studies done. There really isn't much progression to the "story" of this work -- at least coming from the perspective of someone fascinated by brain development but nowhere near working in that field of study. I had to take a break from it and listen to something a little more... gripping.
I still highly recommend it for someone who is interested in this topic and the related books Daniel Kahneman is said to have influenced.
"thinking : intuitive and deliberate"
how to you win the nobel prize in economics ?
you'd think that it would help to be an economist
not so if you're as wise and smart as dan kahneman
can you deflate a theory that has been around for 2 centuries ?
if you do, you might expect some push back and a few enemies
dan kahneman is more than up to the task in his great book
the text is often dense and didactic and academic
it's built to survive the scrutiny of his enemies
he wants to tell you the truth more than make you laugh
people are relentlessly complex,feeble and paradoxical
dan kahneman's life taught him this at an early age
he then applied that wisdom to experimental psychology
all the jargon and descriptions of experiments can be a bit much
cognitive / thoughtful VS. intuitive / perceptive
remembering self VS. experiencing self
slow / effortful VS. fast / automatic
type 2 thinking VS. type 1 thinking
what you don't know VS. what you can see
cognitive strain VS. cognitive ease
lately m. gladwell et. al. have ripped off kahneman's ideas
my bet is that this doesn't bother him too much
he's more focused on the truth and what makes him happy
it takes some type 2 thinking to get through this book
the strain however is more that worth it
the text will likely be the foundation of our policies and lives
G.B. Shaw "... if you are going to tell people the truth - you
better make them laugh - otherwise they will kill you ..."
Keats Concept of Negative Capability "... man is capable of
being in uncertainties, mysteries, and doubts without any
irritable reaching after facts and reason ..."
Alpha Wolf
"Truly enlightening!"
Daniel Kahneman explains many of the decisions we make and why we make them. He explains intuition in a way that is clearly understandable, and very reasonable. He does tend to get very technical, and sometimes it gets very slow between the final conclusion, but it is worth bearing through to fully comprehend the final result.
This book is worth reading/listening to, because the information conveyed is worth learning.
"Possibly the most important book I have ever read"
Do you believe you are a rational person who relies mostly on thought and information to make decisions, important and trivial? You may not be so sure after you read this book. Do you instead go with your gut, trusting in the infallibility of your intuition? Perhaps you should consult Dr. Kahneman about how that might lead to disaster.
"Thinking Fast and Slow" is a combination treatise on some very complex science and a self-help book with down-to-earth advice about your marriage, your money, your health, and your safety. It's like listening to your favorite uncle, if your uncle was one of the smartest guys in the world.
The production and narration are excellent. So many audiobooks are ruined for me by having the narration artificially speeded up and cutting out all pauses, even pauses between chapters. There have been books I expected to enjoy but had to abandon soon after starting them because the ultrafast narration gave me vertigo. This book does not suffer from that. It's pretty long, but the pace is what the listener needs it to be.
I frequently reread a book, or relisten to a book, or listen and then read on Kindle (not simultaneously). I will probably relisten to this one.
"As you know, madness is like gravity...all it takes is a little push." The Joker
"THE best judgment and behavioral psychology book."
I have read/listened to a handful of books about judgment, decision-making, behavioral economics, and cognitive psychology. Now I have found "The Source"
Daniel Kahneman practically invented those areas of research and after getting a Nobel prize for doing so, he finally decided to write for the ordinary person in a very understandable and enjoyable manner.
Satisfaction guaranteed :)
I am an avid listener. I listen between 75-100 hours per month on my iPhone: 60% fiction to 40% non-fiction.
"A tour de force"
Yes. there was just so many things packed into this book. I actually bought the print copy so I could ake notes in the margin. I will listen to it again to squeeze out even more jewels.
You must listen to the book and then refer to the diagrams. It takes relection.
Clearly one of the top non-fiction works of the time.
"Bind-bending, in a nice way."
I think the audio version is excellent. You definitely have to re-listen to sections from time to time, as you think through things, and the diagrams need to be accessed via the PDF. Not a big problem, since there are only a dozen or so.
Excellent presentation of the way the mind grapples with the world – where it cuts corners, when that is good, when it is bad.
No, definitely not.
"Opens the Reader's Mind to How the Brain Works"
Posted as one of the best books of 2011, Thinking Fast and Slow explores the working of the mind on two levels; System 1 – fast and intuitive and System 2 deliberate. Along the way, Daniel Kahneman summarizes and explains the literature related on thought and decision making. He certainly covers a lot of material. Insights jump out on page. I particularly found sections on human judgment, anchoring, and the relationship between emotion and evaluation of risk very interesting and helpful. His explanations for intuitive behavior and regression to the mean are exceptional. That said, the novice to this literature will not get lost for Kahneman carries the reader along almost effortlessly. There is much for the reader to learn here. The narration of Patrick Egan is excellent.
"I thought fast and slow"
I would strongly recommend this book because it forces one to look at our own decision-making. It provides a framework to understand rational and non-rational decisions. We are capable of both, but we need to nudge ourselves in the direction of more rational decisions.
Some of the examples of research that shows how non-rational we can be even when being told of our errors.
Characters are not part of this book.
I would have liked to gone on a little longer at times. When I got home from work, I wanted to keep listening and sometimes set in the car because there was a point or idea being clarified.or finished.
Read it or listen to it. I may buy the print copy so I can use some parts in a class with students.
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