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al-Mutanabbi 915-965
(Full name Ahmad ibn al-Husayn Abu al-Tayyib al-Jufi al-Kindi al-Mutanabbi) Syrian poet.
One of the most acclaimed of the classical Arab poets, al-Mutanabbi is the author of the tenth-century Diwan, a collection of poems featuring numerous skillfully crafted panegyrics or praiseful verses, written for the poet's patrons to extol their generosity and celebrate their bravery in battle. His mastery of the genre helped to advance Arab poetry from its classic qasida form.
Biographical Information
Al-Mutanabbi was born in Kufu in 915; his father, although of noble ancestry, was a water-bearer. Al-Mutanabbi was well-educated, studied for a time in Damascus, and from a young age offered himself as a panegyrist to various men of modest rank. He completed his education in the desert, practicing his craft with the Bedouin. His consummate skill at writing verse enabled him to pass himself off as divinely inspired; his popular name, al-Mutanabbi, means "he who passes himself off as a prophet." With numerous Bedouins joining him, he led a failed uprising in al-Samāwa, Syria, for which he was imprisoned in 933. From 948 to 957, al-Mutanabbi served as poet in the court of the Arab prince Saif al-Daula of Aleppo but ultimately, after falling victim to court intrigue, fled to Egypt. There, he wrote numerous panegyrics for the ruler, Kāfūr. When his hoped-for reward of a government position was denied him, al-Mutanabbi left Egypt in 962 and wreaked revenge on Kāfūr by making him the object of biting satire. Further searches for patrons led al-Mutanabbi to Iraq and Iran. Returning to Iraq in 965, he and his party were accosted by thieves. According to legend, al-Mutanabbi's first impulse was to escape, but then he was reminded of some of his verses glorifying bravery in warfare, turned back to fight against his attackers, and was killed.
Major Works
Al-Mutanabbi's fame rests on one work, the Diwan. It is divided into five sections: the first part consists of poems written in Syria; the second part contains 161 poems, most dedicated to Saif al-Daula; the third part contains numerous poems written for a variety of occasions; the fourth part consists of five poems written for Ibn al 'Amid; and the fifth and final part consists of seven poems for the Prince of Southern Persia, 'Adud al-Daula. In all, the Diwan. encompasses 287 individual poems, ranging in length from a couple of lines to sixty stanzas.
Critical Reception
Al-Mutanabbi has received much praise in past centuries for the careful structure of his poems' opening lines, transitions between sections, and endings. A. J. Arberry notes that al-Mutanabbi's detractors, however, charge him with plagiarism, ill manners, and inadequate stylistic skill. Arberry regards the controversy about al-Mutanabbi's merit as a poet, which continues to the present day, to be "perhaps the surest proof of his universal greatness." Andras Hamori further examines the arguments of both admirers and detractors of al-Mutanabbi. Hamori, beyond noting that al-Mutanabbi's aphorisms are quotable and forceful, adds: "His images can be astonishingly bold and, within a mannerist system of perception, beautifully precise." Elsewhere, Hamori examines the question of how al-Mutanabbi's contemporary audience would have read and reacted to his poems. Hamori cites critical evidence that "the medieval reader could indeed see past the single line and notice larger aspects of composition." J. Derek Latham offers critical analysis of one of al-Mutanabbi's most famous poems, written on the battle of al-Hadath, in which he finds a logically developed poetic scheme that results in a "coherent and harmonious whole." Arthur Wormhoudt provides a close reading of several poems from the Diwan, discussing their background, meaning, and stylistic traits. While Arberry deems that "the odes which [al-Mutanabbi] composed in praise of Saif al-Daula rank amongst the greatest masterpieces of Arabic literature," critics unanimously agree that it is difficult if not impossible for readers not raised in an Arab culture to fully appreciate his work.
Principal Works
Diwan (poetry) 10th century
Poems of al-Mutanabbī [translated by A. J. Arberry] (poetry) 1967
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SOURCE: Nicholson, Reynold A. "Poetry, Literature, and Science in the 'Abbásid Period." In A Literary History of the Arabs, pp. 285-364. London: Cambridge University Press, 1966.
[In the following excerpt from a work originally published in 1907, Nicholson examines al-Mutanabbi's critical reputation, particularly objections made to his work by his near-contemporary, Tha'álibí.]
Sayfu 'l-Dawla's cousin, Abú Firás al-Hamdání, was a gallant soldier and a poet of some mark, who if space permitted would receive fuller notice here.1 He, however, though superior to the common herd of court poets, is overshadowed by one who with all his faults—and they are not inconsiderable—made an extraordinary impression upon his contemporaries, and by the commanding influence of his reputation decided what should henceforth be the standard of poetical taste in the Muḥammadan world.
Abu 'l-Tayyib Aḥmad b. Husayn, known to fame as al-Mutanabbí, was born and bred at Kúfa, where his father is said to have been a water-carrier. Following the admirable custom by which young men of promise were sent abroad to complete their education, he studied at Damascus and visited other towns in Syria, but also passed much of his time among the Bedouins, to whom he owed the singular knowledge and mastery of Arabic displayed in his poems. Here he came forward as a prophet (from which...
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SOURCE: Arberry, A. J. Introduction to Poems of Al-Mutanabbi, edited by A. J. Arberry, pp. 1-15. London: Cambridge University Press, 1967.
[In the following essay, Arberry surveys al-Mutanabbi's literary merits and shortcomings and offers an explanation for his popularity despite his many flaws as a poet.]
My Arabic Poetry was intended as an initiation into a study of a great and abundant, but as yet still comparatively unexplored literature, so that the Western reader might hopefully be stimulated to explore farther, being by now a little more oriented towards the ideals at which the Arab poets aimed, the themes of which they sang, the images they invented and elaborated, and the conventions they observed. That anthology comprised specimens of the work of thirty-one poets, ranging in time from the sixth to the twentieth century, and in space from Persia to Morocco. Now in this volume it is intended to present for examination the best and most interesting (at least to the compiler's taste) of the output of the man universally esteemed the greatest of all the Arab poets, and thereby to advance a little nearer towards understanding the art of poetry as practised by the most poetical people of mankind.
Abu 'l-Taiyib Aḥmad ibn al-Husain al-Mutanabbī was born in al-Kūfa, thriving city of commerce and learning, in the year 303/915. His father is said to have been a water-carrier of...
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SOURCE: Latham, J. Derek. "Toward a Better Understanding of al-Mutanabbi's Poem on the Battle of al-Hadath." Journal of Arabic Literature 10 (1979): 1-22.
[In the following essay, Latham provides historical context for a celebrated poem by al-Mutanabbi and analyzes its style and symbolism.]
1. 'Alā qadr-i ahl-i l-'azm-i ta'tī l-'azā'im-u wa-ta'tī 'alā qadr-i l-kirām-i l-makārim-u
2. wa-ta'zumu fī 'ayn-i l-ṣaghīr-i ṣighār-u-hā wa-taṣghuru fī 'ayn-i l-'azīm-i l-'azā'im-u
With the worth of men of resolve are resolutions in accordance, and in accordance with the worth of the generous are generous deeds.1
Great in the eye of the small are small deeds, and small in the eye of the great are great deeds.
It is with these two verses, now proverbial and as famous as their celebrated author, that al-Mutanabbī opens one of his best known qaṣīdas.2 Perhaps because the poem is so familiar, its undoubted artistic merits have been taken very much for granted, or worse, they have passed the undiscerning unperceived.3 Such merits—as indeed the merits of much great Arabic poetry, which are only too often lost on...
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SOURCE: Hamori, Andras. "Reading al-Mutanabbi's 'Ode on the Siege of al-Hadat.'" In Studia Arabica et Islamica: Feststchrift for Ihsan 'Abbas on his Sixtieth Birthday, edited by Wadad al-Qadi, pp. 195-208. Beirut, Lebanon: American University of Beirut, 1981.
[In the following essay, Hamori explores aspects of al-Mutanabbi's poetry that would have appealed to his contemporary audience.]
Among the classical Arabic poems that treat specific events, many are strongly linear.1 The composition of the work at hand2 is best understood as an occasionally intricate variation on an implicit linear sequence. Al-Mutanabbī's mastery of sound and phrase are evident in it throughout, but the design is largely responsible for the power.
The poem—a panegyric—opens with a two-line moral generalization ("what seems great to the mean seems mean to the great," etc.) that is applied, in vss. 3-4, to the recipient: Sayf al-Dawla.3 In Arabic poetry, generalization followed by specific application often serves as preface, the reverse as conclusion. The latter was observed by the medieval writers on rhetoric.4 Why such a technique of composition would develop is easy to see. Apt generalization—ḥikma—is valued by the culture in the first place. When the ḥikma stands in a formal relation to the rest of the matter (when coolly...
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SOURCE: Hamori, A. "Al-Mutanabbi." In 'Abbasid Belles-Lettres, edited by Julia Ashtiany, T. M. Johnstone, J. D. Latham, R. B. Serjeant, and G. Rex Smith, pp. 300-14. Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge University Press, 1990.
[In the following essay, Hamori provides an overview of al-Mutanabbi's life and works.]
Abū 'l-Tayyib Aḥmad b. al-Husayn, known as al-Mutanabbī, was born in 303/915 into a poor Kufan family. He took up the career of professional panegyrist while still a boy, and early began his travels in search of patrons. For years he had to content himself with offering hyperboles to men of modest distinction. In 322/933 we find him in prison in Himṣ (Homs): according to most Arabic sources, he had attempted to lead a bedouin revolt in the Syrian desert. The religious tincture of his call (of which his collected verse may retain some samples) earned him, according to this tradition, the name al-Mutanabbī, "He who sets up as a prophet." This appears to have been his only try at advancement by extraliterary means. Gradually he grew in fame, and his patrons in rank. The nine years he spent, from 337/948 to 346/957, at the court of the Hamdanid prince Sayf al-Dawlah1 in Aleppo were his longest stay with any one patron, and must have been the most satisfying. Sayf al-Dawlah was an Arab prince—a matter of great importance to Mutanabbī—and he truly...
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SOURCE: Wormhoudt, Arthur. "The Blessing of Ishmael and Esau." In The Blessing of Ishmael and Esau in the Diwan of Abu Tayyib ibn al Husain al Kindi al Mutanabbi, pp. 1-57. Oskaloosa, Iowa: William Penn College, 1992.
[In the following excerpt, Wormhoudt explicates several of al-Mutanabbi's poems.]
Ishmael and Esau both play important roles in the tradition of which the New Testament and the Quran are a part. Ishmael is mentioned several times in the Quran since he and his father Abraham are said to be the builders of the Ka'ba at Mecca. Esau is important to Arabic Christians since his name is spelled 'Isu and the name of Jesus is spelled 'Isa. The root 'is' can mean to wither and become gray. The former term is applied to crops, the latter to camels. The name of Abraham is often referred to in both the Quran and the New Testament as the founder of Christianity and Islam. The covenant between him and Yahweh Elohim is sealed with circumcision which represents the separation of vowels from consonants in the Hebraic, Arabic and Greco-Roman scripts. These scripts are to be distinguished from the syllabic scripts of ancient Mesopotamia and Egypt which do not separate vowels from consonants. The latter are thus idolatrous since idols do not hear or speak with vowels and consonants. Idols are only visible objects.
The story in Genesis which provides the context for these characters...
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Further Reading
Hamori, Andras. The Composition of Mutanabbi's "Panegyrics to Sayf al-Dawla." Leiden, The Netherlands: E. J. Brill, 1992, 127 p.
Provides compositional analysis of the panegyrics and compares Mutanabbi's literary techniques to those of his contemporaries.
Issawi, Charles. "Al-Mutanabbi in Egypt (957–962)." In The Arab World's Legacy, pp. 81–84. Princeton, N.J.: Darwin Press, 1981.
Discusses al-Mutanabbi's frustrated political ambitions. This essay was first published in 1952.
Larkin, Margaret. "Two Examples of Ritha." Journal of Arabic Literature 16 (1985): 18-39.
Examines how poet Ahmad Shawqi (1868-1932) made use of an elegy by al-Mutanabbi in one of his own elegies.
Meisami, Julie Scott. "Al-Mutanabbi and the Critics." Arabic and Middle Eastern Literatures 2, no. 1 (January 1999): 21-41.
Examines structural aspects of three poems by al-Mutanabbi.
Wahbi, Magdi. "An Anger Observed." Journal of Arabic Literature 20, no. 2 (September 1989): 187-99.
Briefly discusses Mahmoud Shakir's personal approach to the study of al-Mutanabbi.
Additional coverage of al-Mutanabbi's life and works is contained in the following source published by the Gale...
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Source: Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism, ©2004 Gale Cengage. All Rights Reserved. Full copyright.


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I recently read this article by a Christian doctor who continues to perform abortions. I was struck by this line:
I wrestled with the morality of it. I grew up in the South and in fundamentalist Protestantism, I was taught that abortion is wrong.
Yet as I pursued my career as an OB/GYN, I saw the dilemmas that women found themselves in. And I could no longer weigh the life of a pre-viable or lethally flawed fetus equally with the life of the woman sitting before me.
In listening to a sermon by Dr. Martin Luther King, I came to a deeper understanding of my spirituality, which places a higher value on compassion. King said what made the good Samaritan "good" is that instead of focusing on would happen to him by stopping to help the traveler, he was more concerned about what would happen to the traveler if he didn't stop to help.
I became more concerned about what would happen to these women if I, as an obstetrician, did not help them.
I just blogged about how the Pro-Choice movement needs to rethink its strategy about how it presents itself to a new generation. This is one example of moving the debate into a moral playing field instead of a policy one, albeit a consequentialist perspective. This type of debate occurs on economic policy for instance. President Obama and Rep. Paul Ryan offer different perspectives on how to balance the budget and when to raise taxes. On gay marriage, people quote lines in Bible about the sinfulness of homosexuality who oppose gay marriage and people quote the inclusiveness of Jesus and his followers to support gay marriage. Moralizing is not hard to do and quoting Jesus is not hard to do either, it just requires various frameworks to discuss specific topics.

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We are all going to be invited to the funeral of the two-state solution if and when the UN General Assembly announces the acceptance of Palestine as a member state.
The support of the vast majority of the organization's members would complete a cycle that began in 1967 and which granted the ill-advised two-state solution the backing of every powerful and less powerful actor on the international and regional stages.
Even inside Israel, the support engulfed eventually the right as well as the left and center of Zionist politics. And yet despite the previous and future support, everybody inside and outside Palestine seems to concede that the occupation will continue and that even in the best of all scenarios, there will be a greater and racist Israel next to a fragmented and useless bantustan.
The charade will end in September or October — when the Palestinian Authority plans to submit its request for UN membership as a full member — in one of two ways.
It could be either painful and violent, if Israel continues to enjoy international immunity and is allowed to finalize by sheer brutal force its mapping of post-Oslo Palestine. Or it could end in a revolutionary and much more peaceful way with the gradual replacement of the old fabrications with solid new truths about peace and reconciliation for Palestine. Or perhaps the first scenario is an unfortunate precondition for the second. Time will tell.
A substitute dictionary for Zionism
In ancient times, the dead were buried with their beloved artifacts and belongings. This coming funeral will probably follow a similar ritual. The most important item to go six feet under is the dictionary of illusion and deception and its famous entries such as "the peace process," "the only democracy in the Middle East," "a peace-loving nation," "parity and reciprocity" and a "humane solution to the refugee problem."
The substitute dictionary has been in the making for many years describing Zionism as colonialism, Israel as an apartheid state and the Nakba as ethnic cleansing. It will be much easier to put it into common use after September.
The maps of the dead solution will also be lying next to the body. The cartography that diminished Palestine into one tenth of its historical self, and which was presented as a map of peace, will hopefully be gone forever.
There is no need to prepare an alternative map. Since 1967, the geography of the conflict has never changed in reality, while it kept constantly transforming in the discourse of liberal Zionist politicians, journalists and academics, who still enjoy today a widespread international backing.
Palestine was always the land between the river and the sea. It still is. Its changing fortunes are characterized not by geography but by demography. The settler movement that came there in the late 19th century now accounts for half of the population and controls the other half through a matrix of racist ideologies and apartheid policies.
Peace is not a demographic change, nor a redrawing of maps: it is the elimination of these ideologies and policies. Who knows — it may be easier now than ever before to do this.
Exposing Israel's protest movement
The funeral will expose the fallacy of the present Israeli mass protest movement, while at the same time highlight its positive potential. For seven weeks, mostly middle class Israeli Jews have protested in huge numbers against their government's social and economic policies.
In order to keep the protest as large a movement as possible, its leaders and coordinators do not dare to mention occupation, colonization or apartheid. The sources of evil for everything, they claim, are the brutal capitalist policies of the government.
On a certain level they have a point. These policies disabled the master race of Israel from fully and equally enjoying the fruits of Palestine's colonization and dispossession. But a fairer division of the spoils will not ensure normal life for either Jews or Palestinians; only the end to looting and pillage will.
And yet they also showed skepticism and distrust in what their media and politicians tell them about the socio-economic reality; it may open the way for a better understanding of the lies they were fed about the "conflict" and their "national security" over so many years.
The funeral should energize us all to follow the same distribution of labor as before. Palestinians urgently need to solve the issue of representation. The progressive Jewish forces in the world have to be more intensively recruited to the boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) and other solidarity campaigns.
Intifada at the proms
The recent disruption of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra performance at the prestigious BBC Proms in London shocked the gentle Israelis more than any genocidal event in their own history.
But more than anything else, as reported by senior Israeli journalists who were there, they were flabbergasted by the presence of so many Jews among the protesters. These very journalists kept depicting in the past the Palestine Solidarity Campaign and BDS activists as terrorist groups and extremists of the worst kind. They believed their own reports. To its credit, the mini-intifada at the Royal Albert Hall at least confused them.
Putting one state into political action
In Palestine itself the time has come to move the discourse of one state into political action and maybe adopt the new dictionary. The dispossession is everywhere and therefore the repossession and reconciliation have to occur everywhere.
If the relationship between Jews and Palestinians is to be reformulated on a just and democratic basis, one can accept neither the old buried map of the two-state solution nor its logic of partition. This also means that the sacred distinction made between Jewish settlements near Haifa and those near Nablus should be put in the grave as well.
The distinction should be made between those Jews who are willing to discuss a reformulation of the relationship, change of regime and equal status and those who are not, regardless of where they live now. There are surprising phenomena in this respect if one studies well the human and political fabric of 2011 historic Palestine, ruled as it is by the Israeli regime: the willingness for a dialogue is sometimes more evident beyond the 1967 line rather than inside it.
The dialogue from within for a change of regime, the question of representation and the BDS movement are all part and parcel of the same effort to bring justice and peace to Palestine. What we will bury — hopefully — in September was one of the major obstacles in the way to realizing this vision.
The author of numerous books, Ilan Pappe is Professor of History and Director of the European Centre for Palestine Studies at the University of Exeter.
By Maldonado, Juan at Sep 17, 2011 12:30 PM
Not to confuse "the peace process" with the two-state solution. "Peace process" refers to the politico-diplomatic charade that US/Israel have been playing for the last 30+ years while continuing the dispossesion and repression of Palestinians on the ground. And it would be indeed positive if such charade would finally be unmasked and killed as a result of the UN "funeral" of which you speak.
A two-state solution is overwhelmingly accepted as the only step forward that can be practically envisaged under current circumstances, it has enjoyed full international consensus (excluding the masters of the charade) for decades and it does not discount future evolution towards a more ideal arrangement (i.e. 1 fully democratic state).
With a proposal for 1 state solution now you are condemning the Palestinian people to 100 more years of struggle until some "revolutionary and much more peaceful way with the gradual replacement of the old fabrications with solid new truths about peace and reconciliation for Palestine" (whatever that might mean), will bring it about. Anyways, why to put forward a proposal that is an unthinkable thing to expect from the Israeli ruling class, does not count with the the support of 95% of the Israeli people (Jews), has no international support whatsoever and is not even wanted by the Palestininans themselves?
And how do you imagine a single state where one part of the population owns or controls all valuable land, ressources and means of economic development plus the policy and security apparatus? A long road ahead from current scenario if your goal is real justice and equality.
"Palestinians urgently need to solve the issue of representation." What issue of representation are you refering too? It may be necessary to elaborate further. As you know the result of the freest elections in the Arab world to date was economic santions, blockade that made life even more miserable for the Palestinians and bombardments that killed hundreds of persons. In the West Bank, under brutal military occupation legitimately elected democratic officials are routinely arrested, incarcerated for years and worse. And anyways, since when have Palestinians had an "issue of representation" ? From the early 70´s onwards first through the PLO, then the PA and Hamas the Palestinians have been constantly putting forward the same fundamental principles in accordance with international law that if observed would inmediately solve the conflict. Until when do we need to hear this fallacious lie and inmoral argument of a Palestinian "issue of representation"? Why not "the US and Israel need to urgently solve their issue of rejectionism?"
and many other things to critize in this article...
["...the first scenario is an unfortunate precondition..."]
["If the relationship between Jews and Palestinians is to be reformulated on a just and democratic basis..."]
["...sacred distinction made between Jewish settlements near Haifa and those near Nablus should be put in the grave as well"]
["...those Jews who are willing to discuss a reformulation of the relationship, change of regime and equal status..."]


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I have been studying general aviation accidents for almost 50 years and it is amazing that over all this period of time we have lost eight, plus or minus a few, IFR airplanes to thunderstorms each year. It's amazing because when I started there was little or no radar information on thunderstorms available, where now our cup runneth over with radar and lightning information. In 2004 there were eight airplanes lost in storms. They were high-value singles, light twins and a turboprop twin. All likely had some manner of weather-avoidance gear.
Apparently we need to step back and examine how all the available information is used, both in planning, the strategy part, and in flying, the tactics part. Tom Benenson, who is handling strategy, remarked when I told him to don his combat boots before writing that maybe we should call it "Shock and Awe." Maybe, because it is shocking that some pilots don't recognize thunderstorms for the awesome things that they are. But we'll stick with "Strategy and Tactics."
As we were discussing this, some mention was made that it might be addressed from the perspective of the new pilot and the experienced pilot. In truth, there is not much difference because thunderstorms don't discriminate. Scott Crossfield, with more experience than the rest of us could ever hope to have, lost a battle with a storm in north Georgia recently. And a perusal of the accidents shows a broad level of experience. Of the eight 2004 thunderstorm accidents reviewed, only three involved pilots with less than 1,000 hours. The high time pilot claimed 30,000 hours.
The simple fact is that once the airplane is in a thunderstorm, experience might not count for much. So, the trick is to stay out of the beasts. Does experience help here? Are there effective ways to do this? Read on.-RLC
Shock and Awe! Get caught in a thunderstorm and first comes the shock and then, if you're lucky and get out of it unscathed, comes the awe. There's no question that thunderstorms are the most frightening bogeymen lurking in the sky. With their booming bluster and spears of lightning, it's no wonder that primitive man thought they were a sign that the gods were angry. Even today, pilots who stray into a storm's murderous maw often call on their God for help.
In preparation for taking the private pilot knowledge exam we had to learn about thunderstorms. If we did our homework, we understood that all thunderstorms build around a cell with a distinct lifecycle that lasts about 30 minutes. During that 30-minute cycle, the storm goes through three phases. The first is the "towering cumulus stage," during which a cumulus cloud begins to grow vertically up to a height of some 20,000 feet.
As the storm grows it enters the "mature stage." A mature storm can reach heights of 40,000 to 60,000 feet and have both strong up- and downdrafts. This, the most dangerous stage of a thunderstorm, often produces large hail, damaging winds and flash floods.
When the downdraft cuts off the updraft, a storm enters its final phase, the "dissipating stage." With its supply of moist, warm air cut off, the storm can't sustain itself and weakens. The dissipating stage is often accompanied by light rain and weak winds flowing out from the storm.
Thunderstorms are a frequent occurrence, so chances are good that all of us who venture aloft are going to find ourselves sharing the sky with them at times. Meteorologists estimate that worldwide there are as many as 40,000 thunderstorms every day, some 14.6 million a year; in the United States alone there are something like 100,000 thunderstorms each year.
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Intellectually, we understand thunderstorms are to be avoided. We're taught to "see and avoid" to prevent midair collisions, but it's also a useful mantra to avoid tangling with one of Mother Nature's most violent manifestations. Risk assessment requires that if there are storms around-or forecasted-we have to be able to see them in order to avoid them. "Seeing" can mean looking out the windscreen or relying on lightning detection devices, on-board radar, or up- or down-linked weather. If we don't have a way to see the storms, the prudent decision is to wait and fly another time.


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Ookay, you get some serious Oooooohhh's and AAaaaa's on that one. I've seen guys with 3D HS Extra's that can't do that stuff (of course, it would probably be somewhat more traumatic if they misjudged a bit than for the champ). Great flying - this is getting fun again. Someone else - IMPRESS US! |
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Long time no see guys, built my first plane the other day, it's a pound shop glider conversion with 3ch heli (S107 Syma) parts. It can sort of prop hang but my skill ain't there yet.
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Its been a dream of mine to build something similar, but out of an mCX2 brick. How does the rudder control feel, with the props changing speed I wanted to do a mini f117 with dual props and elevons, with the mCX2 brick it should be possible with the 2 built in servos. I would just need to bind it in acro mode, it would even have a built in rudder gyro lol |
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I found it was best to start turning, drop the throttle to almost nothing for a split second and back up. I installed the counter rotation so that the blade tips moved up near the fuselage and down near wing tips, this is so that when the outer motor is moving the fastest it's prop induces a touch of torque roll, this banks the plane into the turn, you can see in the video, just before it hits the wall it's banked towards the camera. Quote:
If your going to use one servo per controll surface you would need to setup eleven mix in your Tx, only thing with using the mCX2 brick is that for te gyro to fiction correctly the board must be mounted vertically, lookin at the shape of a f117 this should not be a problem but it would make using the servos more difficult, you could use fishing gut and go with the pull-pull method, a 90 leaver above each servo would give you back a horizontal movement. If you would the board flat you could go with just the main motor out (main motor being the one that is directly proportional to throttle and not mixed with gyro on the yaw channel) in pull or push prop and use elevator as elevator and aileron as rudder (mixed in your Tx for elevon/Vtail). Check out these threads for info on this topic. http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1701591 http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1636399 |
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Aside from the money earned for doing missions, I think that players in Merc Corps should be able to pool the "extra" money they don't need into the Corps fund. Let's say a new Mercenary unit starts out with 5 billion C-Bills, not including the funds the player have themselves. They can spend this money on dropships and jumpships.
The type and amount of jumpships determine:
- How much salvage your fleet can hold.
- How far your fleet can move each day (not to scale with canon, for gameplay sake).
- The amount of dropships you can carry.
- Amount of Fighters, which improve effectiveness of Airstrike.
- Naval weapons, which improve effectiveness of Naval Bombardment.
Merchant - 350 million C-bills, N/A, 2 Dropship Collars, 90LY/Day
Invader - 500 million C-bills, N/A, 3 Dropship Collars, 70LY/Day
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Lola - 2 billion C-Bills, High Firepower, 0 Dropship, 70LY/Day
Dart - 4 billion C-bills, Minor Firepower, 5 Dropship, 75LY/Day
Samarkand - 7 billion C-bills, High Firepower, 3 Dropships, 55LY/Day
Texas - 12 billion C-bills, High Firepower, 5 Dropships, 65LY/Day
McKenna - 20 billion C-bills, Super High Firepower, 7 Dropships, 60LY/Day
Bug-Eye - 24 billion C-bills, N/A, 0 Dropships, 150LY/Day, Provides lots of tactical data in different star systems
Of course, I don't have... things... fully planned out yet. I have no idea how this would translate to gameplay. But it's just a WIP idea. May have something like the Mass Effect galaxy map?
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Yes sir. I was thinking about somehow wrapping the base of all of the cables there in something black, or painting them, but I didn't know how to go about it. If we can figure it out then I might attack that when I have to dig into it again for the SSD/H100.
Heatshrink them. Pull the pins out one at a time, put on the heatshrink, shrink it and put the pin back in.
Thanks! Installing the rig into a real case now for real review testing, next board will go on the test bench. Gotta check temps and such when in a case for every review, but the testbench sure makes checking votlages and suc hfar easier...sits at just the right height, too. I kinda wish ai had a real testbench though...wanna get one of the LianLi test benches...they are pretty cheap right now, but since i ahve no real NEED for one, I'l lwait until I get some extra cash before making that change.
Just installed a 7850 I got from life from mars, no pictures yet but I'm having a lot of fun. 1.3ghz/1450mhz thing bloody flies at this speed.
Is that an ancient artifact squeezed between the Xfire? I didn't even know they still existed On a serious note why keep it there? I feel does more harm than good.
He's asking why it's in between the cards when there is still another slot at the bottom of the board... But, I can answer that... a duel slot card covers the headers at the bottom of the board. If you need the headers, like he does, you would need a single slotted card.
Don't bother with the Lian-Li test bench. It's very flimsy and doesn't come with the power/reset buttons or usb/audio headers, you must purchase them separately and they aren't cheap. If you're willing to drop the cash, just get a DangerDen Torture Rack. that's about the best test bench you can buy. It doesn't raise temps on either 7970 and doesn't draw much power even at full clocks, so why not? I wouldn't have even bothered with it if it weren't for the extra effects and eye-candy is some of the games I play. Both Batman games, Metro 2033, Borderlands, Sacred 2... without Physx they just don't feel the same. Actually, it wouldn't bother me in the bottom slot. What would bother me is that the slot the bottom 7970 is in would have its bandwidth halved if the bottom slot is populated. On the RIVE, the PCIE slots go like this: top slot is x16, second and third slots are electrically the same at x8(one shuts off if the other is populated), fourth and sixth(fifth is x1 2.0) slots are x16/0 or x8/x8. Having the 250 in between the 7970s allows both 7970s to run x16 and the 250 at x8.
oh, i know all about the LianLi bench..it's dropped from $169 to $75 locally. If it drops below $69, I'm all over it. I'll end up buying a few accessories, know all about the buttons and such. And I'll get it in red. LianLi cases aren't what they used to be, in my opinion. Ever since they dropped using screws, and went with pop-rivets, I stopped buying them. Before that, I'd buy nothing else. I AM pretty picky about cases though, and have no issues running multiple systems out in the open in my livingroom..even with my 4 kids. The Antec P280, and two silverstone cases for the kids are the only three cases I've bought and kept in the last 7 years. I bought a Raven, and hated it so much I gave it away, rather than sell it..didn't want to make someone pay for that garbage. The "pretty" will make the wife happy. I've been commited to buying one of those mITX Bitfenix cases for her for a diablo build, too.
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Madam Montessori
Fifty years after her death, innovative Italian educator Maria Montessori still gets high marks
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Six-year-old shari and her 5-year-old classmate Ugochi are adding 1,756 and 1,268. They've penciled the numbers neatly into their notebooks, but the method they're using to come up with the answer—3,024—isn't something you'd see in most American schools, let alone kindergartens. Each little girl loads a wooden tray with gold beads. Sprawled on a mat on the floor, they combine six of Shari's beads and eight of Ugochi's. "Nine units, ten units!" Ugochi counts triumphantly. With that, she scoops up ten beads and skips across the room to a cabinet, where she trades them in for a "10 bar"—ten beads wired together. Now the girls count in unison: "five 10s, six 10s, seven, eight, nine, ten 10s!" Then, pigtails flying, they run to trade in the 10s for a 100.
The 21 other children in the class at the public Matthew Henson Elementary School in Landover, Maryland, seem equally energetic as they follow their own independent agendas. Fiveyear- old Taiwo lays out wooden letters that spell "May is back. I am happy." Nearby, two 4-year-old boys stack pink blocks, watch them topple, then stack them again, this time with the larger ones on the bottom. A 3-year-old uses a cotton swab to polish a tiny silver pitcher— a task that refines motor skills—while a 5- year-old gets herself a bowl of cereal, eats it at the snack table, then cleans up everything.
Nearly a century ago, a young Italian physician imagined that children would learn better in a classroom like this one—a place where they could choose among lessons carefully designed to encourage their development. Since then, the views of Maria Montessori, who died 50 years ago this year, have met with both worldwide acclaim and yawning indifference. Her method, which she developed with the children of Rome's worst slum, is now more commonly applied to the oftpampered offspring of the well-heeled. Montessorians embrace Maria and her ideology with a fervor that often borders on the cultlike, while critics say Montessori classes are either too lax and individualized or, paradoxically, too rigidly structured. "
Her ideas were so radical," says Mary Hayes, general secretary of the Association Montessori Internationale (AMI). "We're still trying to convince the world that this is the best way for children to grow."
Teacher rosemary beam alcott sits on the floor with Ugochi and Shari, who show her their notebooks. "Did you exchange your 10 ones for a 10 bar? Did you carry? Did you write it down? How many 100s do you have?"
"None," Ugochi replies.
"That's great!" says Alcott.
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I took a short course in the Montessori Method before the birth of my first child. As a result when I bought toys I wanted them to have a lot of educational value - blocks, shapes, stackables, puzzles, etc. My babies were on their tummies on the floor when awake, so they could creep and crawl freely, necessary for brain development. Everything I did had teaching in mind. In conversation, saying a simple sentence and then repeating the same thought in a more complicated sentence, building vocabulary. I read to them for at least one hour every night. I have four children, an electrician, two mechanical engineers, one attorney. They are all extremely nice, generous, compassionate, fun and funny, and successful individuals. Although our family never had a lot of money we did always live in very good school districts. A second grade teacher told me she could give my daughter the books and she would teach herself. Montessori should begin at home, at birth. Parents need to understand that children are all about learning.
Posted by Joan Hamill on August 5,2013 | 08:05 AM
Fun fact: The first charter school in America was a Montessori, part of the original point of the charter administrative structure being to allow teachers to teach without dealing with the bureaucracy that had built up over generations (and only gotten worse since). That was, of course, before the conservative movement co-opted charters as a means to weaken the teachers' unions and divert public funds to the for-profit sector.
Posted by yoda on May 31,2012 | 12:09 PM
I am sorry to hear of the one bad experience in a Montessori school. I was born to be a Montessori teacher and I think that some times we get into the ridgid thinking that nothing can happen with a child that is not in the "book" this goes for public shcools as well as private. But it is the teadher that sets the tone. Thanks for commenting and letting us know that we need to be flexibel in our classroom to accomodate the child. So sorry for your bad expereince. May be another school would be better but check the other Montessori schools and see what is up with them too before you write off Montessori altogether.
Posted by Linda Bale on October 1,2011 | 08:23 AM
There are some great short videos online about Montessori education. I can recommend "Superwoman Was Already Here!" and "Montessori Madness." Thank you.
Posted by Sheryl Morris on September 27,2011 | 03:22 PM
So much depends on the teacher in a Montessori School . My son thrived his first year and was miserable his second year due to a teacher that was punitive and non-receptive to his needs. He was also extremely bright and playing chess at 5 years old and there was not one student close to his developmental level.So parents be careful because what sounds good in theory may not be so great for your child. You should check out the breakdown of the classroom (it is supposed to contain MIXED ages)and see the teacher in action. The school pointed their finger at my son not what they could do better. I only wished that I pulled my son out mid-year and switched his school as I do believe they made my son feel badly about himself when he only wanted to play with one other peer that was at his level and they did not provide materials to challenge him. My son thrived the next year in public school and I only wished I would have pulled him out of the Montessori School he attended earlier. I guess I was intimidated by what I believed to be professional people but I should have went with my instincts.
Posted by Alicia Kammerling on September 6,2011 | 02:04 PM
I satrt ami recently and i like it so much.Let me Know how can i join and train
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please let me know about the montessori training & nursery training which has more scope in the mere future where is training centre in bangalore India
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I'm Nursery Teacher.....
Until now i always learn about Montessori....
Student feel interesting when they play montessori especially life skills....i hope you will send information about how to be a good teacher....
Posted by Novia Anggarini on July 3,2009 | 09:54 AM
i myself attend montessori school and im in 6th grade!
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Ard Scoil Ris will face P.B.C. in the semi final of the Avonmore SuperMilk Munster Schools Junior Cup in Musgrave Park on the 14th March after a deserving victory over Rockwell at Dooradoyle.
It was Rockwell who opened the scoring with a try from scrum half Ben Riley which Bill Johnston converted.
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