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Imagine a scaled-down, delicately boned German shepherd dog, black and gray and tan instead of black and sable like a purebred, her face the color of ink with a faint gray mask. This is Lucille, a most ordinary-looking dog. She does have some exceptional features—her two forelegs are white, one halfway up from the paw, the other about a quarter of the way, which create the impression that she is wearing ladies' gloves; there is also the tiniest bit of white mixed into the fur at her chin, which makes her look vaguely like Ho Chi Minh if you catch her at the right angle. But for the most part, she is the kind of dog you might see pictured in the dictionary under "mongrel" or, if you happen to own a more politically correct edition, "mixed breed." Unremarkable, in other words, but no matter.
When you study a dog you love, you find beauty in every small detail, and so it is with Lucille: I have become enchanted by the small asymmetrical whorls of white fur on either side of her chest, and by her tail, which she carries in a high confident curve, and by her eyes, which are watchful and intelligent, the color of chestnuts. I am in love with the dog's belly, where the fur is fine and soft and tan, and I am charmed by her jet black toenails, which stand out against the white of her front paws as though they've been lacquered, and I am deeply admiring of her demeanor, which is elegant and focused and restrained. I seem to spend a great deal of time just staring at the dog, struck by how mysterious and beautiful she is to me and by how much my world has changed since she came along.
Before you get a dog, you can't quite imagine what living with one might be like; afterward, you can't imagine living any other way. Life without Lucille? Unfathomable, to contemplate how quiet and still my home would be, and how much less laughter there'd be, and how much less tenderness, and how unanchored I'd feel without her presence, the simple constancy of it. I once heard a woman who'd lost her dog say that she felt as though a color were suddenly missing from her world: the dog had introduced to her field of vision some previously unavailable hue, and without the dog, that color was gone. That seemed to capture the experience of loving a dog with eminent simplicity. I'd amend it only slightly and say that if we are open to what they have to give us, dogs can introduce us to several colors, with names like wildness and nurturance and trust and joy.
I am not sentimental about dogs, my passion for Lucille notwithstanding. I don't share the view, popular among some animal aficionados, that dogs are necessarily higher beings, that they represent a canine version of shamans, capable by virtue of their wild ancestry or nobility of offering humans a particular kind of wisdom or healing. I don't think that the world would be a better place if everyone owned a dog, and I don't think that all relationships between dogs and their owners are good, healthy, or enriching. "Dogs lead us into a kinder, gentler world." Honey Loring, a woman who runs a camp for dogs and their owners in Vermont, said this to me about a year after I got Lucille, a statement that struck me as rather flip. No: dogs lead us into a world that is sometimes kind and gentle but that can be frightening, frustrating, and confusing, too. Dogs can be aggressive and stubborn and willful. They can be difficult to read and understand. They can (and do) evoke oceans of complicated feelings on the part of their owners, confusion and ambivalence about what it means to be responsible, forceful (or not), depended upon. They can push huge buttons, sometimes even more directly than humans can, because they're such unambiguous creatures, so in-your-face when it comes to expressing their own needs and drives: if you've got problems asserting authority, or insecurities about leadership, or fears about being either in or out of control, you're likely to get hit in the face with them from day one. In my view, dogs can be shamanistic, can be heroic and gentle and wise and enormously healing, but for the most part dogs are dogs, creatures governed by their own biological imperatives and codes of conduct, and we do both them and our relationships with them a disservice when we romanticize them. Writes Jean Schinto, author of The Literary Dog, "To deny dogs their nature is to do them great harm."
That said, I also believe that dogs can—and often do—lead us into a world that is qualitatively different from the world of people, a place that can transform us. Fall in love with a dog, and in many ways you enter a new orbit, a universe that features not just new colors but new rituals, new rules, a new way of experiencing attachment.
Everything shifts in this new orbit, sometimes subtly, sometimes dramatically. Walks are slower: you find yourself ambling up a city street instead of racing to a destination, the dog stopping to sniff every third leaf, every other twig, every bit of debris or detritus in your path. The clothes are different: pre-dog, I used to be very finicky and self-conscious about how I looked; now I schlepp around in the worst clothing—big heavy boots, baggy old sweaters, a hooded down parka from L.L. Bean that makes me look like an astronaut. The language is different, based on tone and nuance instead of vocabulary. Even the equipment is new and strange: you find yourself ordering unthinkable products from the Foster & Smith catalog (smoked pigs' ears, chicken-flavored toothpaste), and you find your living-room floor littered with sterilized beef bones and rawhide chips and plastic chew toys and ropes and balls, and you find your cupboards stocked with the oddest things—freeze-dried liver cubes, tick shampoo, poop bags.
The internal shifts are bigger, sometimes life-altering. When you speak to people about what it's like to live with a dog, you hear them talk about discovering a degree of solace that's extremely difficult to achieve in relationships with people, a way of experiencing solitude without the loneliness. You hear them talk about the dog's capacity to wrest their focus off the past and future and plant it firmly in the present, with the here-and-now immediacy of a romp on the living-room rug or a walk in the woods. You hear them talk about joys that are exquisitely simple and pure: what it's like to laugh at a dog who's doing something ridiculous, and how soothing it is to sit and brush a dog's coat, and how gratifying it is to make a breakthrough in training a dog, to understand that you're communicating effectively with a different species. Above all, you hear them talk about feeling accepted in a new way, accompanied through daily life and over the course of years by a creature who bears witness to every change, every shift in mood, everything we do and say and experience, never judging us when we falter or fail.
Of course, not everybody gets this. Fall in love with a dog, and among non-dog people, you will see eyebrows rise, expressions grow wary. You'll reach into your wallet to brandish a photograph of a new puppy, and a friend will say, "Oh, no—not pictures." You'll find yourself struggling to decline an invitation for a getaway weekend—to a hotel or a spa or a family home, somewhere dogs are not permitted—and you'll hear the words, "Just kennel the dog and come on down." You'll say something that implies profound affection or commitment, and you'll be hit with a phrase, dreaded words to a dog lover, "Oh, please, it's just a dog."
More commonly, you'll get vacant looks. A married friend who lives in Los Angeles, someone I don't often see, was in town recently and came to my house for dinner. At one point, sitting in my living room, he looked around and asked me, "So what's it like living alone? What's it like getting up alone every morning and coming home every night to an empty house?" I was on the sofa, Lucille curled against my thigh. I pointed to the dog and said, "But, I'm not alone. I have her." He said, "Yeah, but …" He didn't finish the sentence, but he didn't have to. He meant: Yeah, but a dog isn't the same as a human. A dog doesn't really count.
Attitudes like this can make dog lovers feel like members of a secret society, as though we're inhabiting a strange and somehow improper universe. Not long ago, over dinner with a non-dog friend named Lisa, I started talking about Lucille, and how important her presence had been to me during the breakup of a long-term relationship. The breakup was recent, and it was long and painful and scary, as such things are, and at one point I said quite candidly, "I'm not sure I would have been able to face the loss if I hadn't had the dog."
This seemed like a perfectly reasonable statement to me—I tend to take my attachment to her for granted these days, as a simple and central fact of life—but Lisa's eyes widened a little when I said it. She said, "Wait a minute. You're scaring me."
Scaring her? I looked at Lisa, aware of a sudden sense of dissonance, as though I'd just exposed too much. It was an uh-oh feeling. Uh-oh, she doesn't live in that world, she probably thinks I'm wacko.
So I took a deep breath and tried to explain. This is a complicated task, trying to describe how a relationship with a dog can be healthy and sustaining and rich. It's hard even trying to explain that the attachment does, in fact, qualify as a relationship, a genuine union between two beings who communicate with, respect, and give to one another. Unless you fall back on the one or two pat explanations we routinely trot out in order to explain the canine place in the human heart—dogs give us unconditional love, dogs are "good companions"—it's hard to talk about loving a dog deeply without inviting skepticism. A lot of people, quite frankly, think intense attachments to animals are weird and suspect, the domain of people who can't quite handle attachments to humans.
So there was a good deal I didn't tell Lisa. I didn't talk about what a central force in my life Lucille has become in the years since I acquired her. I didn't talk about how I basically structure my life around the dog, organizing the day around the morning walk, the noon walk, the evening outing. I didn't tell her how much I think about Lucille, how much I hate leaving her alone when I have to go out, how I've either written off or vastly reduced my involvement in activities that don't include her—shopping, movies, trips that involve air travel. I didn't use words like joy or love or affection, although it's safe to say that Lucille has given me direct and vivid access to all those feelings.
Nor did I tell Lisa how much I need the dog, which might have been the most honest thing to say. Lucille came into my life in the aftermath of a period of enormous upheaval. In the three years before I got her, both my parents had died, my father of a brain tumor and my mother of metastatic breast cancer. Eighteen months to the day before I got her, I'd quit drinking, ending a twenty-year relationship with alcohol, and opening up a third abyss in my life. So I was wandering around at the time in a haze of uncertainty, blinking up at the biggest questions: Who am I without parents and without alcohol? How to make my way in the world without access to either? How to form attachments, and where to find comfort, in the face of such daunting vulnerability? Lucille has been a fundamental part of my answer to those questions: in her, I have found solace, joy, a bridge to the world.
But I didn't go into all that with Lisa. Instead, I used safe descriptions, clinical terms. I talked about loneliness, and how Lucille's presence had helped ease the fear and emptiness that accompany a major breakup. I gave the dogs-as-pack-animals speech, explaining how dogs' need for social structure really does turn them into family members of sorts, highly relational creatures who look to their owners for leadership and guidance and companionship. I talked about what a comforting presence she is, how much pleasure I get out of walking in the woods with her, watching her play, even just sitting beside her while she's curled up on the sofa at home.
Lisa seemed to respond positively enough to this line of thought—"right," she said at one point, "they are good companions"—but I was aware as I talked of a gnawing frustration, a sense of my own compulsion to hold back when I talk about my dog and to offer up what's in effect a watered-down and fairly stereotypical view of the attachment: dog as man's best friend, dog as a loyal and faithful servant. There are elements of truth to that view—dogs can be wonderful friends, they can be enormously loyal and faithful creatures—but those factors represent only one part of the picture, a limited and really rather arrogant fragment that concerns only the way dogs serve us, not the ways we serve them or the ways we serve each other. Finally, I shook my head and said to Lisa, "You know, it's been really important to me to learn not to pathologize my relationship with Lucille. People have very powerful relationships with their dogs, and that doesn't mean they're crazy, or that they're substituting dogs for humans, or that they're somehow incapable of forming intimate attachments with people. It's a different kind of relationship, but it's no less authentic."
Alas, Lisa looked across the table and said, "You're still scaring me."
Dog love, popular wisdom suggests, should be limited love. Let on the depth of your true feelings about a dog—how attached you are, how vital the relationship feels—and you risk being accused of any number of neuroses: you're displacing human love onto the animal, which is perverse; you're anthropomorphizing, which is naive and unsophisticated; you're sublimating your unconscious wish for a baby or a spouse or a family into the dog, which is sad and pathetic. Children are allowed to harbor deep affection for dogs: that's seen not only as cute and normal but as morally acceptable, as caring for a pet can teach a child about compassion and responsibility, even about loss, given a dog's relatively short life span. The elderly and the infirm are permitted some degree of attachment, too, thanks in recent years to widescale acceptance of the use of therapy dogs in settings like nursing homes and hospitals. But the rest of us are expected to keep our feelings about dogs somehow contained and compartmentalized, in the box labeled "Just a Dog." And if we don't—well, as my friend Lisa said, we're a little scary.
In fact, more than one third of all Americans live with dogs today—by most reliable estimates, that's about 55 million dogs—and it's safe to say that a good number of us don't contain or compartmentalize our feelings nearly so effectively. Suspect though dog love may be in the public eye, Americans are in the midst of a veritable love affair with dogs: we're spending more money on our dogs than ever before (the average owner can expect to shell out a minimum of $11,500 in the course of a dog's life); we're indulging them with an ever more elaborate range of goods and services (doggie day care, doggie summer camp, gold-plated Neiman Marcus doghouses); and in many respects we're treating them far more like members of the human pack than like common household pets. Depending on which study you look at, anywhere from 87 to 99 percent of dog owners report that they see their dogs as family members, figures that are certainly borne out by behavior. The American Animal Hospital Association conducts an annual survey of pet owner attitudes. In 1995, 79 percent of respondents reported that they give their pets holiday or birthday presents. Thirty-three percent said they talk to their dogs on the phone or through an answering machine when they're away. If they were stranded on a desert island and could pick only one companion, 57 percent of owners said they'd choose to be marooned with the dog rather than a human. A more telling number: the following year, 48 percent of female respondents reported that they relied more heavily on their pets than on their partners or family members for affection.
I understand the temptation to pathologize such behavior, or at least to poke fun at it (dogs in birthday hats?), but I don't believe that dog owners are unilaterally engaged in displacement, sublimation, or rampant anthropomorphism. Nor do I see this apparent depth of attachment as a sad commentary on contemporary human affairs. This is another common view, that people turn to pets for love and affection by default, because "real" (read: human) love and affection are so hard to come by in today's fractured, isolated, alienating world. I think there is a kernel of truth to that—we live in lonely times, and dogs can go a long way toward alleviating loneliness—but I think the more important truth has to do not with modern culture but with dogs themselves, and with the remarkable, mysterious, often highly complicated dances that go on between individual dogs and their owners.
That dance is about love. It's about attachment that's mutual and unambiguous and exceptionally private, and it's about a kind of connection that's virtually unknowable in human relationships because it's essentially wordless. It's not always a smooth and seamless dance, and it's not always easy or graceful—love can be a conflicted, uncertain experience no matter what species it involves—but it is no less valid because one of the partners happens to move on four legs.
"Love is love. I don't care if it comes from humans or from animals: it's the same feeling." Paula, a forty-seven-year-old children's book author who lives in Los Angeles with three Maltese dogs, said this to me with such simple candor the words stuck with me for days. She continued: "When I'm feeling bad or thinking about something I can't handle, I pick up my dogs and it helps for that moment. It may not be the perfect relationship we all hope to have with a human, but it's a relationship. And love is love."
Indeed. Just this morning, I came into the house after being out for an hour or so and found Lucille nestled in a corner of the sofa, her favorite spot when I'm away. She didn't race across the room to greet me—she's sufficiently accustomed to my comings and goings by now that she no longer feels compelled to fly to the door and hurl herself onto me as though I've just returned from the battlefield—but when I came into the room and approached her, her whole body seemed to tighten into a smile: the pointed ears drew flat back, the tail thumped against the sofa cushion, the eyes gleamed, the expression took on a depth and clarity that suggested, Happy; I am completely happy. A friend says her dog seems to wake up every morning with a thought balloon over her head that says, Yahoo! That was precisely the look: All is right with the world, it said, you are home. I crouched down by the sofa to scratch her chest and coo at her, and she hooked her front paw over my forearm. She gazed at me; I gazed back.
I have had Lucille for close to three years, but moments like that, my heart fills in a way that still strikes me with its novelty and power. The colors come into sharp focus: attached, connected, joyful, us. I adore this dog, without apology. She has changed my life.
From Pack of Two: The Intricate Bond Between People and Dogs © 1998 by Caroline Knapp; published by Dial Press. This essay also appears in Dog Is My Co-Pilot, an anthology compiled by the Editors of Bark and published by Crown.


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I definitely think there's a lot of room for collaboration here. I've been in touch with maintainers for other Linux distributions, and I think Stackage could become a project where different distros are all able to work together. Stackage is also set up in a way right now that seems to fit Arch's rolling release cycle.

To start off with, I would recommend using Stackage as a way to get a list of packages and their versions which work together correctly (the generated build-plan.log). You could then use automate a process to make Arch versions of all those packages.

Stackage provides a library in addition to an executable, and it can be extended to provide support for whatever facilities you need. This would also allow you to add in packages which are not currently part of the "official" Stackage set of packages. By using Stackage, you'll get a few benefits:

* A tool which is well tested for confirming that packages work well together.

* The ability to work with other developers outside of Arch to improve this tooling.

* As a community resource, I think Stackage stands a better chance of getting necessary modifications merged upstream. I've so far had very positive responses from package maintainers I've interacted with; I don't think a requested change has yet taken over a week to get implemented.

All that said, I'm not intimately familiar with the Arch Haskell processes and what hurdles you're trying to overcome. If you have concrete objectives, let me know what they are, and I'd be happy to figure out with you if Stackage would help achieve them.

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On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 5:55 AM, Ramana Kumar <email@example.com> wrote:

Dear Michael, Arch Haskell,

I saw this in the Haskell Weekly News recently:
http://www.yesodweb.com/blog/2012/11/stable-vetted-hackage

I would like to propose that Arch Linux and the Hackage-packaging community project therein also be involved :)

Some information about the Arch Haskell project is here https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Haskell_package_guidelines

I believe yesod and its dependencies, for example, are available in our [haskell-web] repository, and we (mainly Fabian and Magnus) are doing a great job of keeping it all working and up-to-date.
How might this interface with stackage?

Do you (on either side) see potential for collaboration?

Cheers,
Ramana


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So cleverly played by Cochran. When you have a strong alliance like that it is so dangerous for Andrea to start pegging people within the alliance. Cochran didn't even have to call her out... just inform others who she wanted out. I think that's the key to this game. You can't overstrategize, it cost Andrea the game... like Cochran, you just need to be there at the right moment to counter a strategy. It is really working for him.
It would have been lethal for Erik to keep that idol. Up to that point, he was under the radar. Yes, he won individual immunity, but with an HII, he would have become the top enemy of the 6 alliance. Look what it did to Andrea...
A really brilliant blindside there. And Andrea played it awfully. I think she's a great player, but that kind of confidence so near the end of the game? With an idol in her pocket? I can't believe she underestimated everyone else. While she touchy-feeleyed Eddie. Crazy!
Loved the look on Brenda's face when Andrea's second vote was read. She went from big grin to fish face. Cracked me up. :lol
I think Andrea told everyone but Eddie and Reynold what the clue was, from what she said. I'm sure that since it was her clue and she didn't "have" to share it that there was an agreement (possibly implicit) that she get it when found. The idea was to keep it away from the two "bad guys".
So tonight we learned that Cochran is close to Dawn--as in really close, not just close for the moment. Once Andrea started mentioning Dawn's name she was a goner, and incidentally Brenda got protected.
I also loved Brenda's facial expresssion when she realized it was working, but didn't want to gloat! :)
It does sound as if Andrea cooked her own goose by mentioning Dawn as a possible boot but was there any explanation as to why Eddie or Sherri weren't targeted or considered?
Three points:
1. I loved the irony of how Jeff mentions Erik's fatal mistake his first go regarding individual immunity - as he thought he was safe, and then immediately afterward Andrea is eliminated with a hidden immunity idol in her pocket. And yes, Brenda's face was priceless when she found out what was going on.
2. Kudos to Erik for indeed learning his lesson in regard to II and playing an excellent challenge. He earned that win after figuring out the puzzle THAT fast.
3. Phillip looks like he may become the male equivalent of Sue Hawk this season when it comes to the final council. I mean, the other three were smiling - I mean they're probably upset, but they all know it's a game and they were outplayed (Malcolm admits this too in his final interview). Sure they may have some harsh questions but I think overall they know that they were outwitted, out played and out lasted by the others.
Phillip looked like he was wanted to toss everyone into the fire then over the council area with the sour lemon and fiber diet face. (Sorry, I really don't know how to describe that face except that way).
Because of the 'Cochran worries he's a target' preview for next week, I'm hoping that means he's safe. Usually they don't throw out big tells like that a week in advance. Cochran FTW!
Starting to remember why I disliked Brenda so much during her season.
I agree they don't see Sherri or Eddie as threats, although I'm still thinking Sherri may be faking it to get exactly that view going...for now.
Eddie was being protected by Andrea, in Cochran's opinion, and I think he was right. She either wanted his vote, wanted him in F3, and/or thinks he's cute.
Kudos to Reynold and Andrea for classy exits. Andrea was taken completely by surprise so that was especially impressive, and Reynold...well, I wouldn't have guessed he had it in him from his earlier edit, so good on him.
We knew Reynolds would be going with no immunity. Nice goodbye- he didn't sound bitter.( he also lasted longer than Malcolm!!) Andrea shouldn't have said she wanted to take Eddie ( Eddie ??) to the end. Cochran orchestrated a great blindside!!! Loved it!
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Common Core pressure to intensify on Board of Regents
ALBANY—A subcomittee of the state's Board of Regents will present a report on Monday that includes recommendations for how to address problems associated with the state's tougher new curriculum guidelines.
The board's action comes shortly after the legislature set its own course for the new standards.
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In a rare show of unity on a controversial issue, leaders of both the State Senate and Assembly last week advocated a two-year moratorium that would decouple Common Core-aligned test scores with teacher evaluations and student-placement decisions. Lawmakers are "chomping at the bit" to address their constituents' outrage and anxiety over the standards, and the Regents are caught in the crossfire.
Members of the Senate and Assembly, Democrats and Republicans, packed an interview room in the state Capitol last week to interview potential Regents, grilling applicants for four contested seats about their positions on the Common Core, testing, evaluations and other contentious education issues. Incumbent Regents likely won't have the easy re-election they're accustomed to, a political reality that raises the stakes for the group's report due Monday.
"We have been remarkably clear that there will be some mid-course corrections," Senate Education Committee chair John Flanagan, a Long Island Republican, said Wednesday after his conference released a statement on the proposed moratorium. "Implementation has been woeful and replete with mistakes. I said it very clearly on a number of different [occasions]: If they didn't act, and act aggressively, we would act on their behalf. Today we tightened the belt a little bit more and reiterated: Do your job, or we're going to end up doing it for you."
Board of Regents chancellor Merryl Tisch and education commissioner John King have opposed delaying implementation of the standards, but King has said one change state officials are considering is pushing back when students would need to pass Common Core-aligned Regents exam for graduation. Under the state's current plan, the graduating class of 2017 would be the first to risk not graduating if they don't succeed on the tougher exams.
"We're still committed to ensuring that we move forward in implementing the standards," King said Thursday after testifying at a higher education budget hearing. "One of the things the Regents work group is looking at is, are there adjustments we might make to the phase-in of our graduation requirements? And the tension is, you want to strike a balance between a thoughtful pace of implementation and the very real reality that there are students today sitting in remedial courses because their preparation at the high school level was inadequate."
There are a variety of proposals for how to delay implementation on the standards, which is not as simple as it sounds. Schools have already begun teaching, and students testing, based on the tougher material, and the test scores are being used to evaluate teachers and principals.
It's the evaluation system, as well as processes used for determining student placement and promotion, that lawmakers are targeting. And while the decision for New York to adopt the Common Core, like 44 other states, belonged to the Regents, the change in the evaluation law is up to lawmakers—if they get approval from Governor Andrew Cuomo.
But that's unlikely. Cuomo championed the evaluation system and often touts it as an example of his administration's ability to get results where progress has long been stalled by bureaucracy and politics. He faces a tough dilemma in an election year: Blocking lawmakers' push for a moratorium would be unpopular, but allowing them to move forward would take the teeth out of a law that he has presented as one of his crowning achievements.
Cuomo stayed out of the Common Core fight for as long as he could, but pledged during his budget address last month that he would form his own panel to examine implementation problems. Reacting to lawmakers, he called the moratorium push "premature" and quickly assembled his committee, which will be chaired by IBM executive and P-TECH creator Stanley Litow.
The group will follow the Regents and lawmakers in outlining an action plan to fix implementation, with an end-of-session deadline. Some lawmakers have said that's too late.
In a statement Friday announcing the members of his panel, Cuomo urged them to work "speedily."


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Microsoft's (NASDAQ: MSFT ) foray into tablets has been a disaster, but industry tracker IDC sees better days ahead for the software giant.
Microsoft's Surface line of tablets has been a disappointment since rolling out late last year, and hardware companies putting out tablets based on Microsoft's Windows RT or Windows 8 haven't fared any better.
It hasn't helped that Windows RT and to a lesser extent Windows 8 lack the same developer support that Apple's (NASDAQ: AAPL ) iOS and Google's (NASDAQ: GOOG ) Android are commanding. Windows 8 on tablets offers greater PC compatibility, but that also comes at the expense of hogging up precious storage space for entry-level models.
It also doesn't help that potential Windows hardware partners have little reason to abandon the freely available Android. It's there. It's working.
But IDC does see Windows gaining ground in tablets in the coming years, and it naturally will come at the expense of iOS and Android. Let's take a look at IDC's market share forecast for the three leading platforms.
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Making matters worse, IDC sees tablet growth slowing considerably in a few years as consumers gravitate to larger smartphones and phablets that make outright tablet purchases less compelling. Yielding market share in a growing pie isn't the end of the world, but fading in a pie that is itself expected to diminish is problematic.
The good news for Apple and Google investors is that it doesn't have to play out that way. The tablet market could continue to expand, especially if tablets continue to gain at the expense of desktop and laptop computers. There's also little reason for Microsoft to succeed in tablets if Apple's iOS and Google's Android are living up to consumer and corporate expectations. That seems to be the case right now. Between Apple's iPad on the high end, and a growing fleet of Android tablets all across the pricing spectrum, it's hard to see how Microsoft plans to make itself viable at a time when the market's moving away from chunky operating systems.
IDC and fellow PC industry trackers underestimated the shift away from Windows-fueled PCs in recent years, and now IDC appears to be overestimating the role that Windows will play in the future of tablets.
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Recycle Week 2014 'your questions answered'
RPC: Why are polymers more complex to recycle?
The focus of the social media campaign was to debunk myths about plastics packaging recycling.
Katherine Fleet, group sustainability manager, RPC Group, told FoodProductionDaily the plastics industry faces several challenges in the coming years to meet ambitious Government-set recycling rates and to build a more positive environmental profile for the material among consumers.
She said the biggest myth it faced was plastic packaging is not recyclable or it is sent to China where it sits in landfill.
Here are the top questions RPC saw on its @rpc_group and www.rpc_group.com #recycleweek websites
Are councils obliged to provide recycling? Is it central government ruling or is it decided at local level how they deal with recycling?
Yes and yes! Central government targets are placed on councils to recycle a certain percentage of domestic waste. However this is an overall target so there are no specific targets placed on councils specifically for recycling plastics. How these targets are met is decided by individual councils, or groups of councils working in partnership, and different solutions may work best in different areas.
Central government do place specific plastic packaging recycling targets on producers, suppliers, brands and retailers under producer responsibility and packaging recycling regulations. Both packaging and waste regulations are led by European directives and strategies passed at an European level, and it is up to individual countries to interpret and transpose requirements and relevant targets into laws and policies.
Still want to know more? See the following Recoup website pages for all things packaging and waste legislation related.
What percentage of material that is recycled is plastic?
Based on official packaging recycling data, approximately 6.7m tonnes of UK packaging was recycled in 2013. From this, 714kt (just over 10% by weight) was plastic packaging. We estimate that 475kt of this was from households, and 239kt from C&I sources. But don't forget this data is based on weight, and plastic is a much bigger proportion of the total packaging recycled by volume – saving lots of landfill space!
What types of plastic can be recycled and how do I know they can?
The types of plastic that can be recycled often depends on your local collection scheme. You can find out if it is collected by checking your local council website or using the 'Where to recycle' application on the Recycle Now website at www.recyclenow.com. Most packaging will also have a recycling label that tells you if it is not currently recycled, to check local recycling or it is widely recycled.
With growing plastic pollution what plan, if any, do you have to solve this global problem?
As an industry we are very aware that plastic, as well as other valuable materials, are sometimes ending up in the wrong places, these are resources we would like to see recycled and not wasted. This requires a supply chain approach to educate the industry and consumers about the correct way to dispose of materials. Operation Clean Sweep is one example of an industry initiative to reduce the loss of plastic into the environment. In the UK we also have numerous campaigns to discourage littering which we support through our membership of organisations such as, The BPF, Incpen and the Packaging Federation.
For more information see: http://www.bpf.co.uk/Press/Marine_Litter.aspx
Where can I recycle my plastic packaging?
If you have a local recycling scheme check which types of plastic packaging the scheme collects either by calling your local council or by checking their website. You can also use the 'Where to recycle' application on the Recycle Now website at www.recyclenow.com to find out more information.
Why does my scheme say it collects 'plastic bottles only'?
'Plastic bottles only' is a specification made by some local councils who collect plastics. The reason for this is that bottles are very easy to identify, account for 40% of all household plastic waste and are easily separated into two main polymer (plastic) types. These are PET (e.g. fizzy drink bottles and squash bottles), HDPE (e.g. milk and juice bottles (natural HDPE) and detergent bottles (coloured HDPE)).
Why doesn't my scheme collect things like yoghurt pots and margarine tubs?
Items such as margarine tubs and other rigid food containers are made from a wide range of polymers. These can be more complex to identify and separate in the recycling stream than bottles. However 60%of local authorities now collect pots, tubs and trays for recycling and this is increasing year on year.
Do I have to do anything with my plastic packaging before I recycle it?
It is a good idea to give your plastic packaging a quick wash before you put items out for recycling. This helps to maintain the quality of the collected plastic and stops any nasty smells while you store it. Use the left over washing up water rather than running fresh water.


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Horses, snakes and dogs recently revealed in a disquieting way certain attitudes based on illogic and ignorance that are prevalent in society. Snakes were the topic of discussion by a group of elected officials. I introduce the dogs and horses as evidence of the underlying illogic and ignorance.
Before I go on, let me admit that I am capable of thinking illogically and am ignorant on many topics. I neither condemn nor resent people just because they have these traits. I am especially tolerant of such undesirable attitudes if the person will pay attention to other views and learn. Of course, some of the people I encounter who have these uncomplimentary traits think I am the one who has them.
The clearly insensible behavior I have in mind began in Columbia, S.C., when some presumably well-meaning but unenlightened people on the city council proposed a ban. Did they propose to ban alcohol, tobacco or the Internet, all of which have caused a bit of grief for a few people? Oh no. They decided they should forbid the keeping of venomous snakes as pets. Has this become a big problem in your neighborhood?
A key reason given by those wanting such a law was that a venomous snake can injure or kill its keeper. Another justification was that a reptile that can kill a full-grown rat in minutes could be dangerous if it escaped. Both are indeed possibilities, so let's consider some facts and some principles of living in a community.
First, should society start deciding what dangerous things another person can keep just because other people fear them? If so, we have not been particularly effective when we consider how many people possess guns, fast cars and electrical appliances, all of which injure and kill a lot more owners and other people each year than pet snakes do. So, why should we be deciding what snakes people keep?
Why snakes? Why not single out some other dangerous animals? For example, each year, more than 100 people in the United States are killed by pet horses. Compare this to the one person on average who is killed by a pet snake. And according to the Centers for Disease Control statistics, a staggering 800,000 Americans require medical attention each year for dog bites, of which more than a dozen result in death. I know of no instance in which someone was harmed because someone else's pet venomous snake escaped.
One reason that a pet rattlesnake or cobra is a lot safer than most horses or mean dogs is that a snake stays in a cage and usually has an owner who holds great respect for how dangerous it can be. The problem does not rest with the reality of the level of danger. The problem is one of irrational fear in people who want to keep someone else from doing what they would be afraid to do themselves.
Maybe the council members in favor of a ban were well-meaning, or maybe some like to control other people. Neither reason justifies a ruling that venomous snakes should not be kept by an adult. The fundamental answer of how to get people to appreciate the natural world will come from getting people to appreciate the environment because they are in it, along with all the life that lives there.
And keeping wild animals for pets is an extension of the process. Making laws to limit and control someone's enthusiasm for keeping a particular animal for a pet (barring the obvious ban of keeping a protected species) is not a process we should even contemplate much less institute.
I was recently asked in an e-mail what my stance was on the hobby of keeping snakes and other wild animals as pets. I answered that anyone should be allowed to keep any animal as long as their hobby is not contributing to the depletion of the remaining natural populations in the wild.
Most of today's professional herpetologists and zookeepers kept reptiles, amphibians or other animals for pets as children. If not, they might have done something less interesting with their lives.
I have never kept venomous snakes at home myself, but if someone else wants to, the decision should be their own (along with whoever lives with them). We do not need laws that restrict personal choice simply because the risk-taking doesn't appeal to the lawmakers.
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I created a program in Perl that crawls through a directory and outputs all folder and file names to a text document.
I want to create the same program in c++ but I do not know how to write the code in c++ that can find and search through dirctories and files. I only know how to open and write to a file that is in the same folder as my program.
I'm on a windows machine using Borland 5.5.
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I cannot think of many worse jobs to have than a journalist when you lose your voice.
I recently had the unfortunate chance to experience this first hand, the day of the election no less.
For some reason, people do not take you seriously or even acknowledge you at all when your lips move but nothing comes out.
I should not say that I was completely voiceless, but I may have well been for what good I was worth.
I tried to communicate by e-mail, but, to my chagrin, not everyone is on call waiting to jump up to respond immediately to my queries.
Change is inevitable. Sometimes it's a good thing and sometimes it's not quite what you hoped it would be or in other words a work in progress.
That's kind of the way we feel about the look of our new Web site.
We had grand plans for a Web site that had all the bells and whistles and that would just take your breath away when it popped onto your computer screen.
I've got a shameful secret. I am awful with directions.
Awful doesn't even really convey how terrible I am with directions. If I stood next to my bed and had directions to my bedroom door, I would end up in my closet. If I was Columbus, I would have discovered the Artic. If I was George Washington leading his men across the Potomac River, I would have ended up in the Gulf of Mexico.
Last week, I had my first taste of winter here in Kentucky. It was the end of October and it was freezing. How could that be?
Growing up in South Florida, I can remember Halloween as a kid and hating to wear a costume because it was too hot and sweaty. So you can understand why at the beginning of October, I was breaking out my winter coats. But apparently my idea of what a winter coat is and what they truly are, are two different things. I'll explain later.
Nineteen sixty eight was a difficult year for Americans. Ultra conservative bullets took the lives of Bobby Kennedy and Martin Luther King. American cities were on fire, neighborhoods were burning and ducks and boats did not fare any better.
The miracle chemical DDT was poisoning the ducks and everything around them and polluted water was poisoning and destroying the boats. If you were a little duck-boat then it was a double whammy with a bigger whammy soon to arrive.
As an Episcopalian child I remember living in a far northern rural Indiana community where Episcopalians were as rare as indoor toilets.
Let me digress. It was 1955 and the community decided to protest higher water rates by flushing all the toilets in town at the same time. I am sure you can appreciate the logistics of accomplishing this and it was carried out 100 percent. The problem was, you can't make much of a point flushing six toilets and the protest went by un-noticed.
Prior to loading my van with empty aluminum cans, I squeezed in a greenhorn Grant Countian for their first unique adventure into the isolated Canadian wilderness. The greenhorn had me stop at an ATM machine to pick up cash for the trip. My son and I had to snicker about the incident.
We crossed the border at Port Huron, breezed through Sarnia, Ontario, and made our first stop deep into the northland. The greenhorn ordered a horseburger and fries. (When in the Canadian wilderness, never ask what kind of meat you are eating unless you really want to know.)
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Founded in 1895 by Moise Dreyfuss, the company is a fourth generation family-run firm with Robert Dreyfuss at the helm. Moise Dreyfuss was dedicated to creating beautiful watches with timeless elegance. His attention to detail and insistence on first class, personal service ensured the business grew quickly. Within 12 years of the initial conception of Rotary, the family's success led to the opening of a UK office by Moise's sons, Georges and Sylvain.
The company continued to grow and in 1925 they introduced the now famous Rotary watch logo, the 'winged wheel'. Georges' son, Teddy, joined the family firm soon after the war. He took the brand even further with innovative watches, sophisticated marketing and powerful advertising campaigns.
Rotary watches are now sold in over thirty-five countries throughout the world. Yet despite the huge growth, Rotary remains true to Moise Dreyfuss' vision to offer contemporary classic, dress watches of high quality and outstanding design.
Rotary specialise in designing affordably stylish timepieces. The latest collection of stunning designs from Rotary is no exception, carefully blending the 'old with the new' and the 'contemporary with the classic', to achieve a distinctive range of Rotary watches for the modern man and woman.
In 2005, Rotary introduced the unique 'Dolphin standard' of waterproof watches which offers consumers peace of mind that they can "swim and dive all day" whilst wearing their timepiece. It applies to all watches in the Rotary range (with the exception of precious metal) including ladies Rotary dress watches and ultra slim cases.Shop Rotary


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This app is only available on the App Store for iOS devices.
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- favLife.com, マシカク写真だけを撮るならこれだけあれば良いと思えるアプリです。
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Squara is the application of squared photos. Over 10,000 presets can be created by combining 19 special effects, 6 adjustment effects, 12 borders and 11 light-leaks(19 x 6 x 12 x 11). All of these outstanding effects can be applied with simple swipe operation or shuffle button. In addition, the filter combination can be saved in user presets, which can be applied again anytime.
- Touch Focus & Exposure
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- Process Existing Photos
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What's New in Version 2.2.0
This version of Squara provides several bug fixes.
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While I did love this app in the beginning. It has been crashing every time I use it lately. I have tried deleting and reinstalling. There is no support or information online about any problems with the app.
Cool and unique
Love the app pretty cool, i like how it can take 3x3 frames and i especially love the "cross process" filter, and I love the positive film border!!!! Buzzzbeepp
Not worth 1.99
Yes this app has filters and leaks and frames too but they are not good enough.
- $1.99
- Category: Photo & Video
- Updated: Sep 18, 2013
- Version: 2.2.0
- Size: 14.8 MB
- Languages: English, Japanese, Korean
- Seller: Sehwan Kim
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Compatibility: Requires iOS 6.0 or later. Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch.


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Julianus, the Theurgist
From Library of Congress Name Authority File
Julianus, the Theurgist
Instance Of
Scheme Membership(s)
Collection Membership(s)
- Julian, the Theurgist
- Iulianus, the Theurgist
Additional Information
Exact Matching Concepts from Other Schemes
Earlier Established Forms
Julianus the Theurgist.
- found: His The Chaldaean oracles, 1978: t.p. (The Chaldaean oracles, attributed to Zoroaster as set down by Julianus the Theurgist) p. ix (present scholarship all but conclusively attributes the authorship of the Chaldaean oracles to Julianus the Theurgist, living during the reign of Marcus Aurelius)
- found: Enc. Brit., macro, 1977, v. 12, p. 783 (Chaldean oracles, theosophical text in verse, was composed by Julianus the Theurgist late in the 2nd cent. A.D.)
- found: Enc. Brit., 1972 (Index, under Chaldaean oracles: Julian the Theurgist) v. 16, p. 218p (under Neoplatonism: Julian the Theurgist)
- found: Jöcher. Allg. Gel. Lexicon, 1750 (Julianus, ein Theurgus oder Magus aus Chaldaea, hat um A.D. 100 gelebt)
- found: Brill's new Pauly online, 8 September 2013 (Iulianus, the Theurgist; son of Iulianus the Chaldaean; wrote down the Oracula Chaldaica; accompanied Marcus Aurelius on his campaigns)
- notfound: BM (The Chaldaean oracles under: Zoroaster, the Magician);Gubernatis, 1905;Encyc. Amer.
Change Notes
- 1979-06-06: new
- 2013-09-12: revised
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On Calf Club day
Your calf will need to be transported to the grounds where Calf Club is being held - this is usually in a calf trailer pulled behind Mum or Dad's car. The trailers usually have a cover at the front so the calf is sheltered from wind on the drive to Calf Club.
Have all your equipment clean and ready for when Mum or Dad are ready to load your calf into the trailer.
You will need:
Remember, you are on display as well as your calf, so be sure you are also dressed neat and tidy and enjoy yourself because the judges will be looking for signs that you are comfortable with, and care for, your calf.
You're on your way - well done. If you've followed all the tips in this website you and your calf are ready for a wonderful day!
Good luck!!
After Calf Club
Well done. You can be very proud that you took on a big task, and completed it. You've fed and trained a calf over a long period of time; you've learned a lot about yourself and self-discipline (making yourself go out to feed and tend to your calf when you'd rather not), and you've got a lot of satisfaction from forging a bond and friendship with an animal which relied on you.
Remember to take care to put your calf back into its paddock for a good sleep and put all your gear away, and don't forget to say thanks to Mum and Dad for their support and help - and to the farmer who made it all possible.
Group Day and A&P Shows
Depending on how well your calf did at Calf Club, you'll be talking to Mum and Dad about whether it should be entered in Group Day or the local A & P Show. If it is going to be in more events, you will leave its cover on and keep its training going so it's ready for new challenges.
If your calf's showing days are over, however, and it's bound for a dairy or rearing future, you can begin to decide when to take its cover off. Make sure the weather is warm before you do this, as the calf will notice the 'lack of warmth' on cool nights if you suddenly take the cover off.
And remember, while the calf goes back to being a member of a mob of calves, it will still remember you – many farmers can point out the Calf Club calves in their herds today because they are often the quietest and friendliest in the herd. And that's a nice thought, knowing you have trained such an animal.


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Lucy and Emily - Outskirts of Jubilife
Lucy hesitated as the sounds of a fight breaking out behind her erupted. She turned only to find that Mako was fighting off an unknown person. Aw, what?! She just sort of narrowed her eyes. Sure, it probably wasn't proper to assume he couldn't handle himself, but a part of her didn't trust him to not die on her.
Boys are such wimps and all, right Amy?
People were such fragile things after all! She glanced back on Amethyst. Normally, this would've been a pretty easy decission. The little girl she was practically mothering took priority over the boy she may or may not have had a crush on. However, Amy wasn't actually being /attacked/! In fact, from what her sensitive ears could hear the group of females were just... talking!
Huh. Lucy grit her teeth, becoming frustrated with having to make yet another decision she interpreted as very important. Finally she turned her back on Amy and attempted to race off to help Mako, silently hoping Emily wouldn't be useless in protecting Amethyst while she was busy trying to 'save' Mako. To her slight dismay, however, she was unable to cover the distance before the fight was over anyway, making her feel a bit like a slug. Closing the remaining distance, she took a few laboured breaths before addressing Kraus...
"Hey... Mako—are you alright?" she asked, mildly concerned apparently. When had she started caring again?
Hailey and Arcea - Outskirts of Jubilife
Hailey seemed slightly confused for a moment before her expresion turned... sour. She shook her head as if to clear it of some sort of bad thought physically before turning her back on the possessed Amethyst. "...Fine. If you're here, you can help. Disregard these fools—they have no idea what they're dealing with," she responded, regarding the others with semi-hostility.
"Well," Em interjected, "would you mind telling me what we're dealing with? I don't like being left in the dark." It was bad enough that she had little idea what these two were talking about in the first place. Was Amy this girl's relative or something?
Hailey just sort of... narrowed her eyes slightly, looking down at Emily. A part of her wished that people wouldn't be so cooperative. It made her feel bad—because sooner or later she had to kill them. "...The city we're approaching is full of adults, the worst of the worst." Hailey explained in a matter-o'-fact tone.
"Why are they the worst? All the adults I knew were pretty nice."
What the heck is wrong with this girl?
Hailey wondered. She had to have a ton of screws loose to think adults were... eugh... nice. She narrowed her eyes further, in an almost threatening and all sorts of diabolical manner. "Adults have warred endlessly since the end of Pokémon—they've enslaved countless children for their own purposes, and even Arceus itself has turned its back on them. We're going to destroy the city, and those within it. You can either help us, or get out of our way..." She explained all this in a dark tone, a complete lack of compassion in her voice. She had declined to elaborate on her plans for the future.
"Wouldn't that be bad, too?" Emily asked, apparently more clueless than Hailey first believed.
"... What?" It was a rhetorical kind of "what", like you want them to shut up, but you want to know what they're thinking just a little bit more than that.
"There's a word for that, but I can't remember it, where you kill lots of people."
Between her silent grumbles of how stupid this girl must have been, Hailey couldn't help but note she could not recognize what Emily was fused with. She didn't particularly like not knowing, but this wasn't overly concerning to her, as she was no professor.
"Genocide? No. That would imply some sort of... arbitrary focus. This a /purge/ of the evil from the world!" Hailey declared, vindication in her tone.
"What's a 'purge'?"
It's been a long time since we crossed paths over spcae-time~
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|The Concord School of Philosophy was a private summer academy for adults in the late 1800s. Freewheeling discussions were encouraged at the well-attended lectures. (Jonathan Wiggs/Globe Staff)
School embraced new ideas, lifelong learning
CONCORD - The name Alcott tends to be associated with Louisa May, the world-famous writer raised in this Boston suburb and best known for her classic novel, "Little Women."
But Louisa's father was a man of considerable fame, too.
A onetime superintendent of Concord's public schools, Bronson Alcott was the founder of the Concord School of Philosophy, a private summer academy for adults that drew people from around the country to its lectures and freewheeling exchange of ideas.
Opened in 1879, the school lasted only nine years. But during its relatively short life it won substantial acclaim. To this day, it is regarded as one of the earliest models of what is now known as continuing education.
Its five-week terms ran from July to August, and classes originally were held in Orchard House, the Alcott family home. When enrollment exceeded expectations and more space was needed, courses were moved to a barn-like building behind the house. The sparsely furnished, minimally decorated wood structure still stands today.
The school offered a series of classes and lectures - Alcott preferred to call them "conversations" - on topics that included the origin of evil, eternal life, Platonic philosophy, the human body, education, the nation, memory, the birth of American literature, "the making of freedom," and philanthropy and public charities. There were also courses on Greek, Spanish, Italian, and German art. The discussions often tilted toward the philosophical, and students were encouraged to share their views.
In its first season, the school enrolled about 400 students, three-quarters of whom came from outside the town, according to "Concord: Historic, Literary and Picturesque," an 1885 book authored by George B. Bartlett. Those early participants, who ranged from teachers to clergymen to artists to social reformers, came from at least 22 states, Bartlett wrote.
A Connecticut native, Alcott began his professional life as a salesman before becoming a teacher, and his educational philosophies were far ahead of their time. He was fascinated by how people learn, and devoted himself to changing traditional methods, which were rooted in the maxim that children should speak only when spoken to.
Alcott took a radically different approach. He believed that students should be treated with respect and kindness, not beaten regularly to keep them in line. He allowed them to ask questions in class, a policy some other teachers considered inappropriate. He incorporated art, music, nature studies, field trips, and physical education into his curricula; he encouraged self-expression and prodded students to keep journals.
Louisa once described his classroom methods: "My father taught in the wise way which unfolds what lies in the child's nature, as a flower blooms, rather than crammed it, like a Strasbourg goose, with more than it could digest."
Among some intellectuals, including Ralph Waldo Emerson, his dear friend and loyal supporter, Alcott was praised as an innovator. But he clashed philosophically with other educators, and some parents, troubled by what they viewed as his permissive attitude, removed their children from his tutelage.
"He was known as an experimenter in education," said Jan Turnquist, executive director of the Orchard House, which runs lectures, musical events, and cultural programs at the Concord School of Philosophy each summer. "He'd get an idea and hold firm to it, and people like Emerson thought he was a genius - but he could rub people the wrong way because he didn't compromise well."
In his late 70s, after many years of teaching children, Alcott turned his attention to adults. Adamant that learning was a lifelong process, he opened the Concord School of Philosophy to "perpetuate new trends in American thought," according to "The Concord School of Philosophy: A Short History," by Julie Dapper. His academy promoted creative thinking and the study of transcendentalism, a philosophy that shunned materialism, focused on the search for truth, and taught that humans were meant to live in harmony with nature.
"It was quite a concept," Turnquist said of the school. "He was always pushing the envelope."
When Alcott died on March 4, 1888, the school died with him; it closed in July of that year after a memorial service in his honor. But his commitment to never-ending learning lives on.
"Bronson Alcott always seemed to be good at stirring up in people the idea that you can aspire to more, that you can be yourself but at the same time read about Aristotle and the ancient Greeks and then talk about modern society and where we are headed," Turnquist said. "He really helped make Concord the setting of the literary flowering of New England."
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