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If Abraham Lincoln and his Secretary of War, Edwin M. Stanton, had thought they had cowed Gen. David Hunter by countermanding his order of emancipation in Spring 1862 for the Department of the South, they were sorely mistaken. Even before Hunter tried to free the slaves in his command, on his own initiative he took the unprecedented step of recruiting black men into the Union Army. In early May 1862 he began raising a regiment of contraband slaves. On May 8, 1862 (the day before he issued his emancipation order for the Department of the South), wrote his subordinate, Brig. Gen. Issac I. Stevens:
I am authorized by the War Department to form the negroes into "squads, companies, or otherwise," as I may deem most beneficial to the public service. I have concluded to enlist two regiments to be officered from the most intelligent and energetic of our non-commissioned officers; men who will go
into it with all their hearts.
Hunter's actions were consistent with his abolitionist tendencies and his belief that since his superiors in Washington, D.C., neglected the Department of the South he was justified taking extraordinary steps to bolster the strength of his isolated command. Hunter had asked the War Department in late April 1862 for authority to recruit African Americans as soldiers, but when he received no answer, he went ahead with the idea on his own authority. As with his emancipation order, however, David Hunter overreached. Just as Stanton and Lincoln were not ready for immediate emancipation in late Spring 1862 they were not ready to recruit blacks as Union soldiers.
But it took longer in the case of Hunter's black soldiers for the Lincoln administration to respond. Lincoln and his cabinet was busy enough in Spring 1862 with McClellan's Peninsula Campaign to capture Richmond, and what little attention could be spared the Department of the South went to countermanding Hunter's emancipation order and responding to the public furor over it in the North and especially in the loyal slave states. While David Hunter did not try to keep his recruitment activities of African Americans a secret, he also did not go out of his way to let his superiors in Washington know what he was doing. Soon enough though word of Hunter's new initiative spread, especially because of his recruiting methods. Instead of simply seeking volunteers among the male African-American population in Union-controlled areas of the Department of South, the general gave orders that all black men of military age, who appeared capable of service, be impressed by Union recruiters. In other words, he instituted an informal draft. This brought Hunter into conflict with Treasury agents caring for plantations abandoned by their owners, who needed black laborers to keep them functioning. These men complained to their immediate superior, Edward L. Pierce, overseeing Treasury Department interests in Hunter's command, who then proceeded to complain to the general. On May 11, 1862, Pierce wrote Hunter, informing him that the Treasury Department had expended large sums of money to keep in production the plantations under his care and that money would be wasted if he lost his most productive workers. Not only that, but Pierce also feared that the fragile alliance of federal authorities with the African Americans in the Sea Islands would be undone if they were impressed for military service. He wrote to the general:
As the persons are to be taken to Hilton Head, and without their consent, I assume (though I trust under a misapprehension) that they are to be organized for military purposes without their consent. I deplore the probable effects of this on their minds. They are ignorant, suspicious, and sensitive. They have not acquired such confidence in us; they have no so far recovered the manhood which two centuries of bondage have rooted out; they do not as yet so realize that they have a country to fight for, as to make this, in my judgment, a safe way of dealing with them. I have been struck, and so have other associated with me been struck, with their indisposition to become soldiers. This indisposition will pass away, but only time and a growing confidence in us will remove it. I fear also that an enforced enlistment will give color to their masters' assurance that we were going to take them to Cuba. For these and other reasons, which I have not time to give, I deplore the order which summarily calls these people to Hilton Head, there to be enrolled and enlisted. Even if they are to return, they would be excited by the trip; the families left behind would be in disorder, and all would be in suspense as to what would come next.
The day following his letter to Hunter, Pierce wrote his boss in Washington, D.C., Treasury Secretary Salmon Chase, alerting him to the general's action and the problems they were causing. Nonetheless, Lincoln administration did not act until Hunter's recruitment of African Americans came to the attention of Congress. On June 9, 1862, the House of Representative passed a resolution, written by Kentucky Congressman Charles A. Wyckliffe, demanding information from War Department on Hunter's activities, especially:
. . . if General Hunter of the Department of South Carolina has organized a regiment of South Carolina volunteers for the defense of the Union composed of black men (fugitive slaves). . . . Was he authorized by the Department to organize and muster into the Army of the United
States as soldiers the fugitive or captive slaves?
To this inquiry, Edwin M. Stanton feigned ignorance that David Hunter was recruiting African Americans into the Union Army (Chase had advised him of it on May 27), and disavowed that the general had received any authority from the Lincoln administration to do so. Not surprisingly, the Secretary of War then hastened to write Hunter for clarification. David Hunter's reply, dated June 23, 1862, was a model of proud defiance in defending his actions. He wrote Stanton:
. . . no regiment of fugitive slaves has been or is being organized in this department. There is, however, a fine regiment of persons whose late masters are fugitive rebels — men who everywhere fly before the appearance of the national flag, leaving their servants behind them to shift as best they can for themselves. So far, indeed, are the loyal persons composing the regiment from seeking to avoid the presence of their late owners, that they are now, one and all, working with remarkable industry to place themselves in a position to join in full and effective pursuit of their fugacious and traitorous proprietors.
Hunter further justified his actions by a creative interpretation of the instructions given his predecessor, Thomas W. Sherman, by Stanton's predecessor, Simon Cameron. The general stated:
. . . the instructions given to Brig.-Gen T. W. Sherman by the Hon. Simon Cameron, late Secretary of War, turned over to me by succession for my guidance, do distinctly authorize me to employ all loyal persons offering their service in defence of the Union and for the suppression of this rebellion in any manner I may see fit, or that circumstances may call for. There is no restriction as to the character or color of the persons to be employed or the nature of the employment, whether civil or military, in which their services may be used. I conclude, therefore, that I have been authorized to enlist fugitive slaves as soldiers could any such be found in this department.
Interestingly, unlike the case of his emancipation order, Lincoln and Stanton did not seek to reverse David Hunter's initiative to recruit black men as soldiers. But neither did they retroactively sanction it and refused to feed, cloth, or pay Hunter's black regiment. Despite legislation from Congress in Summer 1862 authorizing the recruitment of African Americans as soldiers, the Lincoln administration still declined to recognize the regiment, and the general was forced to disband it except for one company under Captain Charles Towbridge, which he managed to keep in service. This company would later, after Hunter left, form the nucleus of the 1st South Carolina Infantry, later redesignated the 33rd U.S. Colored Infantry. So while David Hunter was unsuccessful in getting his black regiment accepted into federal service, his efforts were not wasted, as they pressed the issue of recruiting African Americans into the Union Army and eased the path for other black units that would soon follow.
Sources: 1) http://www.drbronsontours.com/bronsongeneraldavidhuntersorderestablishingthefirstblackregiment.html; 2) http://www.drbronsontours.com/bronsonportroyalexperimentcorrespondence2345onimpressmentoffreedmenfor1stsouthcarolina.html; 3) http://www.drbronsontours.com/bronsongeneraldavidhuntercongressionalinquiryintohuntersregiment.html; 4) http://faculty.assumption.edu/aas/manuscripts/hunter.html.


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OAKLAND -- Orioles manager Buck Showalter was in high school when the Oakland Athletics won their second straight World Series title in 1973.
The team was officially honored on the 40th anniversary of the championship Saturday with a sellout on hand for the occasion.
"I remember the light-colored uniforms," Showalter said before the game. "The coaches wore white hats. That [former owner] Charlie Finley was ahead of his time."
Finley championed the designated-hitter rule and also tried to get baseball to adopt a designated-runner rule.
Oakland and the New York Yankees are the only teams to ever win as many as three consecutive World Series titles. Reggie Jackson, who was in town for the pregame ceremony, was a big reason for both.
"I got to know Reggie when I was in New York," Showalter said. "We used to talk about those teams all the time. I thought some of the teams Tony [La Russa] had here were similar."


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In previous posts earlier this year, I warned that efforts by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to block the proposed acquisition of video rental firm Hollywood Video by Blockbuster Inc. would likely lead to the demise of both companies in the long run. Well, excuse me while I toot my own horn for a moment, but it appears that I was likely right, and sooner than I expected.
Joe Flint and Kate Kelly report in today's Wall Street Journal ("New Signs of Strain for Blockbuster" p. B5) that "Blockbuster Inc. is facing new pressures as signs increase that a sharp decline in the video-rental market is putting a strain on the company's finances." The company's stock prices fell by 9.7% on Friday, hitting a 52-week low of $4.60 per share. This came on news that Movie Gallery Inc., the industry's #2 firm, was reporting that sales at many of its stores were expected to drop by 8-10% this quarter.
What's happening is clear: technological and market evolution are finally catching up with this old business and is about to wipe it from the face of the Earth. With all the new sources of competition out there–Netflix and cheap DVDs at WalMart, online movie download services, cable and satellite movie channels plus video-on-demand, telco entry into the video business, all sorts of handheld mobile media gadgets like the PlayStation Portable, and so on–its no wonder that Blockbuster and others in this sector are struggling.
In fact, Blockbuster Chairman and CEO John Antioco admitted to the Journal that the "rental industry is in the tank" and the firm's SEC filing last year said that it anticipates a "faster than expected decline" in the store-based video rental market. So even Blockbuster sees the writing on the wall.
This is what makes the FTC's efforts to stop the Blockbuster-Hollywood Video merger so troubling. Clearly, this is a sector in the midst of rapid decline; perhaps even the beginning of a death spiral. This has been forecast by some industry analysts and techno-pundits for years, but now it is really happening thanks to all the new competition and innovation in the media sector. Without this merger, both these firms are likely dead. Of course, they might have been dead even if they had been allowed to merge. But now we'll never know.
Hopefully this case study will serve as a cautionary tale for future antitrust analysis of high-technology and media markets. The lesson is simple: Don't sell the market short and don't limit your analysis of "the market" to just a narrow niche of some old market that long ago died. Things change very rapidly on the high-tech / media front. Regrettably, however, this case proves that antitrust thinking takes much longer to catch up to marketplace realities.


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TRU-SPEC Announces Exclusive Distributor Partnership with Asia Integrity
Marietta, GA – TRU-SPEC®, one of the leading suppliers of uniforms and personal equipment to the military, law enforcement and public safety markets, and Asia Integrity Enterprise are pleased to announce an exciting new partnership which will see Asia Integrity as the Exclusive Master Distributor of TRU-SPEC's products to the company's Asian regions – including: People's Republic of China, Taiwan, Philippines, Singapore, Hong Kong, Macau, Malaysia, Indonesia, Japan, South Korea, Thailand, Vietnam, Timor-Leste, Cambodia, Papa New Guinea, Brunei, Mongolia, Myanmar, Laos and Micronesia.
The agreement is an extension from the two companies long-stemming, six-plus year successful relationship. As part of the partnership, Asia Integrity will serve as TRU-SPEC's source of sales, distribution and contact for the high-demanding Asian regions.
"Asia Integrity is one of the fastest growing distribution companies in the Asian market for our products, and we're incredibly pleased to have this partnership in motion," stated TRU-SPEC's Vice President of Marketing, Darrell Jacks. "We at TRU-SPEC maintain an unwavering level of customer service, with every product that goes out the door; and this partnership demonstrates our commitment to making each of our customers – domestic and abroad happy. Through this new partnership we are confident that we can continue to serve our loyal customers and dealers overseas with seamless service and integrity."
The agreement, which was made official at SHOT Show 2014, will direct all of TRU-SPEC's Asian market distributors through Asia Integrity; who will sell products at distributor pricing, accept all Purchase Orders and ship product to customers in that market.
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Quote:and I don't even use the name "JKD"...
Quote: Or, you also enter into biting and grabbing/maiming distance.
Quote:The point that I'm making with this post is that certain requirements have to be in place if you truly understand JKD. Some are saying now that JKD is just MMA, etc. But this is true only in a very limited sense. JKD is about being without limits.
Quote:I agree John, I think you should write a book/training manual.
Quote:One thing I wanted to pull out of your post was this: Quote: Or, you also enter into biting and grabbing/maiming distance. This is very true. When I was bouncing I saw a very skilled combat athlete set up the clinch perfectly, and then clinch, but his head placement, though fine for the ring, allowed access to his ear. He had it bitten and torn half off. Little 'tweaks' like this to your overall game (like head placement, altering takedowns so the the knees stay off the ground as much as possible) are integral to using what you know for self defense.
Quote:The only thing I would add is that I still think that an MMA gym can bring someone 'up to speed' quickest and give them a good foundation. After this, I think working weapons and multiple attacker scenarios is absolutely necessary. Of course everyone is different, but for me, I found jumping right into this stuff without that base to be too challenging, and in the end fruitless.
Quote:And seriously John, start writing that book man.
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The City of Ancient Olympia, Greece will officially become Colorado Springs' seventh Sister City during the City Council meeting on Tuesday, April 8 at 1:00 p.m. A reception hosted by El Pomar will take place at the Penrose House at 6:30 p.m.
Following the reading of the City Council resolution, Colorado Springs Mayor Steve Bach and Ancient Olympia Vice Mayor Aristideis Panagiotopoulos will sign the official Sister City agreement.
Vice Mayor Aristideis Panagiotopoulos and Dr. Dionyssis S. Gangas, Director of the International Olympic Academy are in town until Wednesday, meeting with a variety of key partners in the Sister City relationship, including the University of Colorado Colorado Springs, Colorado College, the United States Olympic Committee, the Downtown Partnership, Colorado Springs Convention and Visitor's Bureau, and Colorado Springs Sister Cities International.
Ancient Olympia is the birthplace of the Olympic Games more than 2,700 years ago. Currently, the city hosts the torch lighting Ceremony of the Modern Olympic Games every 2 years and is the home of the International Olympic Academy (IOA). The IOA is the academic arm of the International Olympic Committee and works to promote Olympic ideals throughout the world. Ancient Olympia numbers approximately 14,000 residents and receives about 2 million visitors a year.
Colorado Springs is home to the United States Olympic Committee, 22 National Governing Bodies of Olympic and Paralympic Sport, and the world's finest high altitude Olympic Training Center. Becoming sister cities with Ancient Olympia, Greece will enhance the unique relationship our community has with the modern Olympic movement.
Based on the history and Olympic connections between Ancient Olympia and Colorado Springs, the main pillars of cooperation between the two cities will be 1) Academics, 2) Olympism and 3) Tourism.
Academic – Potential activities include academic programs at the University of Colorado Colorado Springs and Colorado College endorsed by the International Olympic Academy, student exchange programs and international promotions of these programs to increase the number of international students in Colorado Springs.
Olympic - Potential activities include a unique opportunity to host a series of artifacts from the Ancient Olympic Games, joint promotional efforts around Olympic theme projects such as replicating an Ancient Olympic site/park in Colorado Springs, and promoting Colorado Springs internationally as an ideal location for young professionals to start their career in sports.
Tourism – Potential activities include joint international marketing campaigns promoting Colorado Springs as a top academic, medical and Olympic training destination, and hosting annual conferences and events to attract an Olympic-minded audience from around the world.
Colorado Springs has six other sister cities: Bankstown, Australia; Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan; Fujiyoshida, Japan; Kaohsiung, Taiwan; Nuevo Casas Grandes, Mexico; and Smolensk, Russia. All sister city activities are coordinated through Colorado Springs Sister Cities International (CSSCI). For more information or to volunteer to help with any of the Sister City Committees, visit http://www.sistercitycs.us/.


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The information provided in the previous section is only a generalized description of drug dealing in open-air markets. In order to understand the potential effect that any preventative strategies will have, we recommend that you combine the basic facts with a more specific understanding of your local problem. A detailed analysis of the problem in your area will help you design a more effective response and allow you to better predict the outcome of any action taken against the drug market.
The nature of an open-air drug market makes it likely that its location will already be known. However, other key characteristics of the market should be examined. A community survey can serve to identify residents concerns as well as trouble hot spots in the neighborhood. In addition conducting a survey is a demonstration of police commitment and can help build relations between the police and local residents. A dedicated telephone hotline for local residents is also useful for gathering intelligence; and provided that information is acted upon promptly, can help build confidence in the community. Systematic and well-recorded observations by an officer can help define the nature of the drug market and identify some of the characteristics that allow drug-related sales to thrive in that area. Other data sources that may be useful to identify discrete drug markets include:
Because open-air drug markets vary in terms of size, drug type and clientele, it is important to understand the conditions of each particular market to best focus your response strategies.
It is also important to identify the reasons why drug markets exist in the area. These are likely to be a complicated mix of situational and social factors.28 Some open-air marketsespecially those that are centrally locatedowe their development and their persistence to the amenities that the area offers to buyers and sellers drawn from a wide geographic catchment area. Others may serve the needs largely of local users. The balance between supply reduction strategies and demand reduction strategies is likely to vary according to such factors.
The following are some key questions we suggest you ask in analyzing your particular problem of drug dealing in open-air markets, even if the answers are not always readily available. Your answers to these and other questions will help you choose the most appropriate set of responses later on.
Measurement allows you to determine to what degree your efforts have succeeded and suggests how you might modify your responses if they are not producing the intended results. We suggest you take measures of your problem before you implement responses to determine how serious the problem is, and after you implement them to determine whether they have been effective. All measures should be taken in both the target area and the surrounding area. (For more detailed guidance on measuring effectiveness, see the companion guide to this series, Assessing Responses to Problems: An Introductory Guide for Police Problem-Solvers.)
The following are potentially useful measures of the effectiveness of responses to drug dealing in open-air markets:
The most frequent effect of preventative strategies against drug markets is displacement. Displacement takes place when action against a drug market causes market participants to alter their patterns of behavior, whether by moving from one place to another, changing their times of operation, changing their mode of operation or replacing drug dealing with other forms of criminal activity. The effects of displacement are difficult to measureespecially in cases where the market is dispersed over a large area. Enforcement aimed at the Lower East Side of New York was successful at reducing drug-related activity in the local neighborhood; however, because of the size of area involved, it was difficult to ascertain whether the market was displaced to other areas of the city.29 However, it has been argued that even if displacement occurs, it may be preferable for crime to be diffused over a wider area.30 There is also an argument to be made for displacing open-market methods of transactions into less visible closed-market ones, if community concerns about open drug dealing are high. In summary, the fact that displacement may take place does not in itself undermine the benefits of strategies employed against the drug markets. It is essential to try to anticipate both the form of any displacement and its extent. In some circumstances displacing the market either to other geographical areas or to indoor locations may be regarded as a partial success.
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La Ribot – a performer, choreographer and visual artist – developed her first choreographic works in Madrid in the 80s, later becoming known for her solo work.  By the late 90s, she had become a figurehead in the Live Art scene in London, where she was based between 1997-2004.  In the mid 90s, she produced "Distinguished Pieces" – short solos presented in a series that were put on sale and purchased by art collectors.  In 2003, she presented a meta-performance of these 34 solos produced until then under the title "Panoramix," at the Tate Modern in London, at the Museo Reina Sofia in Madrid, and at the Centre Pompidou in Paris, among others.  More recently, she has produced work with her company including "40 espontaneos" (2004) a piece for 40 extras, "Laughing Hole" (2006) a 6-hour performance for three performers and one musician, "Gustavia" (2008) a duet created and performed with Mathilde Monnier, as well as "llamame mariachi" (2009).  Her work has appeared in various theatres and numerous museums, passing from Théâtre de la Ville and Festival d'Automne in Paris, from Queen Elizabeth Hall in London and from Festival Montpellier Danse to Art Unlimited / Art Basel in Switzerland, Museo Serralves in Porto, S.M.A.K. in Gent, Nam Jun Paik Art Centre in Seoul, Aichi Triennale in Japan, Galeria Soledad Lorenzo in Madrid, and the Haus der Kunst in Munich, among many others. In 2004, she relocated to Switzerland where she taught at the Haute Ecole d'Art et de Design in Geneva. In collaboration with her colleagues she founded a new Department for the live arts – Art/Action – and taught there until 2008.
La Ribot recently came to Chicago to present the US premiere of "Laughing Hole" and the video "mariachi 17″Â as part of the IN>TIME 13 Festival . Â Appearing for six hours at the Chicago Cultural Center, "Laughing Hole" traveled to Los Angeles where it appeared at LACMA in early March. Â Prior to the "Laughing Hole" performance, La Ribot sat down with local artists Hannah Verrill and Jane Jerardi to talk about her work. Â The video interview captures excerpts of her conversation with Hannah, with Jane behind the camera.
Hannah Verrill is a performance maker currently working towards her MFA from the School of The Art Institute of Chicago. She was grateful for this opportunity to sit and speak with La Ribot.
For more information on La Ribot: http://www.laribot.com/
And the IN>TIME 13 Festival: http://www.in-time-
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Size matters? I think not. Check out Pez, our male Australian Hobby. The Australian Hobby is one of this country's smallest raptors, second only to the Nankeen Kestrel. He looks fair sized in comparison to the city in the back ground but little Pez stands at only about twenty centimetres tall and weighs in at just under two hundred grams. That's not even the average weight of an orange you'd pick up in the super market.Pez is a young bird that came to Taronga Zoo when he needed a new home. We currently have two Peregrine Falcons Nike and Khan, but they need very special wind conditions to fly in our show. Pez though, being much smaller isn't as restricted and is set to be a super nova. He is becoming quiet a confident little bird and an apt flier.If you were wondering why Pez, it comes down to his species namesake; hobby. Everyone has a hobby, some people like model planes, others prefer rock-climbing and then there are those that are obsessed about Pez dispensers; just ask Bird Trainer Grey. We don't judge. Like a Pez dispenser he is compact, solid and goes mighty fast. Have you ever been able to make that candy last for longer than two minutes? Not I.Being new though Pez is still learning and likely to make mistakes; we expect this. I make mistakes daily, it's what I learn from them that matters, and hopefully, prevents me from making them again. It's exactly the same for Pez, he needs to learn the wind conditions and how to take advantage of his environment.Because he's small and a bird of prey he gets a lot of attention from the native birds, which try to chase him away. This happened yesterday and our team then spent the next three-quarters of an hour trying to locate him. He was driven out of the area by a Pied Currawong, flying from the zoo to Clifton Gardens. Just one more experience in Pez's learning curve … and a little bit of cardio for his trainers. Bird Show Keeper, Brendan


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As a kid, I was a voracious reader, and I read well above my grade level in school. As a result, there were words I read and could understand because of the context but had never heard anyone speak. One of these was "melancholy," which I read as muh-LANCH-oh [or uh]-lee. I knew basically what it meant but had not heard the word MEL-on-col-lie (or at least did not associate it.
In some cases these were foreign-based terms:
I pronounced French names the way you might if they were English. Francois was Frankoyce instead of Frahn-SWAH. And I pronounced Navajo with a "J" sound instead of the Spanish "H" sound (NAV-a-jo).
It must run in the family: My mom saw the word "knowledge" and thought it was NO-ledge.
I know these are not eggcorns, but they are of linguistic interest and could make for some lively discussion.
Did you have words when you were a kid that you mispronounced based on reading them before you had heard them?
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Feeling quite combobulated.
My daughter is 13, and over the years I've heard her mispronounce so many words—the Alamo as "the a-LAH-mo," for example.
It always makes sense, and it's a fun reminder that these words I know without thinking about, I had to learn some time.
I remember a friend talking about "SAH-voring" wine (instead of "SAY-voring" is)—h was about 24. He clearly knew what it was, but had probably never actually heard anyone say it.
My grandfather grew up speaking French in New York State, which makes this a little harder to understand. He apparently hated his father, and I believe partly for that reason changed his name when he was a very young man. Only my grandmother knew the details because he kept his "past name" completely hidden, even his children didn't know his birth name until Grandma told them after he died.
He chose the name Maurice Lyon Xavier. I think I was told he got the name, or part of it anyway, from choosing words from magazines he read.
Anyway, he pronounced his name "Morris," and since all adults called him that it was some time before I realized that it was spelled Maurice. I'm not sure why he read the word Maurice as Morris, given that he grew up speaking French, that's the part I don't understand.
My son does this all the time, he's hyperlexic (meaning is reading skills are more advanced than his comprehension) and he reads the most unbelievable things, sometimes it takes me a while to understand what he's talking about and then it blows my mind. But his primary reading language is Hebrew, so it's hard for me to give good examples in English… oh, here's one: the other day he told me that Gulliver studied at Kambarideg University.
One of the first books I read on my own was "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe": I thought it was about a little girl called Lucky.
I also used to pronounce the "p" in pnemonia, and up to about a year ago I thought the word "dour" was pronounced "dower" – until two different people corrected me in the same week.
I'm sure I have plenty of errors of this type, as I picked up most of my vocabulary from reading. Living in Israel, but being online all the time, I get a lot more opportunities to exercise my English writing skills than I do my speaking skills. As a result I probably have more pronounciation mistakes than I do spelling mistakes, in relation to someone who speaks English more frequently. I've been told, also, that there's a gap between my written English and my spoken English: I speak with an American accent, but people who've reviewed my writing have commented that I have a British writing style. This, again (if at all true) could be the result of reading more British than American texts.
For me, it was "rapport." I had read this word for many years, and heard it in my head as rap'-port. I had heard the word spoken for as many years, but imagined it to be spelled much differently. "Repoor," or something. I never quite figured it out. I think I was in my mid or late twenties before I connected the "two" words.
When I was a kid, I remember seeing the TV program, "The Undersea Adventures of Jacques Cousteau," I must have been at an age where I was just learning to read because every time I saw the program title appear on the screen I was perplexed; I thought the name (spelled) "Jacques" must be pronounced "Zhock-coo" because those were the sounds I would hear whenever his name was mentioned. (But then I couldn't figure out why the rest of his name always seemed a bit abbreviated… Looking at what clearly appeared to be four syllables, I wondered why it wasn't pronounced "Zhock-coo Coo-stoe.") So, to this day, whenever I see the name "Jacques" my mind sends me back to this setting.
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I thought of two more:
1) beribboned (which I think I read in A Christmas Carol, perhaps describing Fezziwig's daughters, and in a kid's picture book I had). I pronounced it as "berry-boned." I didn't connect it to being festooned with ribbons until much later.
2) facade, which I read as "fay-KAID" (I associated it with "fake-"). I knew it was a false front on a building, which was the first definition that I drew from reading it, but I had no idea it was French, with the C sounding like an S or that the A was pronounced as it is….
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Feeling quite combobulated.
Gillibug—your pronunciation of dour as dower may not have been idiolectical. The word is, in fact, widely pronounced as dower in certain parts of the U. S. I grew up with that pronunciation (Nebraska) I didn't hear dour pronounced the "right" way, the way that rhymes with "pure," until I moved to Canada some thirty years ago.
Hatching new language, one eggcorn at a time.
Here's another one in the recent New Yorker (Oct. 15 issue, page 44, 2008 campaign quiz):
"At a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing, Joseph Biden referred to the queue of senators wating to speak. How did he pronounce 'queue'?
(A) "Kwa-you"
(B) "Kway"
(C) "Cue-you-ee"
The answer listed at the bottom is B.
Then there are words that are pronounced differently in different regions, such as 'plait' which in America, I believe, is pronounced 'plate' but in Britain is 'platt'. Or Houston, which is one thing when it's a city in Texas, and another when it's a street in NYC.
Our family of early advanced readers has quite a collection of these (including berry-boned for beribboned already noted). One of my early in-head pronunciations was BEE-no-cue-lars for binoculars. Another family favorite is Mah-ZO-lee-um – rhymes with linoleum – for mausoleum.
My partner, who began reading at age 3, was incensed when his parents were trying to spell words around him to keep outings a secret; he insisted that there was no such things as a "Kir-kus" as they headed off to the circus.
I was an adult before I realized that the word "heady" had anything to do with "head." I always supposed it was pronounced "heedy." It was only rather recently that I realized that "Pleistocene," a word I've known since I was a child reading about extinct animals, is not pronounced "Plee-is-to-cene," as I assumed when I was eight or so. There is a famous example in the novel "How Green Was My Valley," of a Welsh-speaking boy, being educated in English, pronouncing "misled" as "mizzled" and being mocked for it by his teacher.
Gilibug, when I lived in Israel many years ago, I several times heard Israelis refer to "Abraham Lincolin," pronouncing the second "L."
Of course, proper names, of both people and places, are constantly pronounced as they are spelled by people not in the know. The Boston area provides an endless array of shibboleths by which the natives can distinguish the foreigners—not just obvious ones like "Worcester," but places like "Medford" (roughly, "Meffid"), "Waltham" (curiously pronounced "WALL-thAm" rather than "Wallth'm"), "Peabody" (Pibbidy), etc. I assumed that the last syllable in "Spokane" was pronounced "cane," not "can" until I visited the area, and that "Yakima" was stressed on the second syllable, not the first. (Have I even got this right?) The British laugh at those who don't know that "Ralph" is pronounced "Rafe," "Davies," "Davis" and "Talliaferro" "Tolliver."
Israelis have a very hard time pronouncing certain names. I cringe every time I watch the E channel in Hebrew: "Sidney" Crawford, Ralph "Finness", Gwyneth "Platrow", "Stephan" King and others regularly have their names mangled. This is partly due to the fact that in casual texts the vowels are usually not marked, hence must be inferred.
This same problem Israelis have with vowels in foreign words sometimes leads to the formation of eggcorns. For example, many Israelis are under the impression that a continental breakfast consists of coffee and a "corazon", and that a bagel with lox contains "smoked solomon". I find the mistake irksome but I have to agree, croissants are dear to my heart, and salmon is the king of fish.
Thanks to everyone for the great responses. I was thinking about this and came to the conclusion that the way we learned to read probably has a lot to do with whether we had words that we mispronounced in this way. My parents were big proponents of teaching us to "sound out" words. My dad and I would sit in the car at the grocery store while my mom shopped, and he would help me sound out words on signs, etc. around us. So with the English language being what it is, and so many letters having multiple possibilities for the sounds they make, it is easy to mispronounce a word we came across in text. I think in most people our reading vocabulary is greater than our spoken (or heard) vocabulary. But if a person learned to read primarily from sight words instead of phonics this situation may not have come up as frequently.
Feeling quite combobulated.
I pronouced it VA-gih-na, with the same stress as in "vaginal."
In my defense, when I was young, people did not say "vagina" in public and on the airwaves as much as they do now.
I still think I was using what would be the default English pronunciation, which had been displaced by some sort of pseudo-educated confusion between a long "i" in English (pronouced aiee) and a long "i" in Latin (pronouced ihhh).
The pronunciation of "vagina" with a long "i" and the stress on the second syllable does not reflect "pseudo-educated confusion" but the traditional (i.e., public school and university) English pronunciation of Latin from the 16h century through at least the first half of the 20th, when English schools began to adopt a more classicizing pronunciation (cf. the ordinary pronunciation of "Caesar" with "Kaisar," as students are now taught to say.) Similarly, British lawyers still say "re-GI-na," with a long "i", as in "Re-GI-na v. Smith." One of my law school professors actually said "ra-shun-ALE-ee" for "rationale," on the same principle.
I've always thought this was very interesting, because it means that the 15th and 16th century Great Vowel Shift in English was applied equally to Latin, so that a long "i" went from "EE" to the dipthong "AI," etc. The same thing happened in Ashkenaz (the Yiddish-speaking world), where different realizations of the same vowel in Yiddish were applied in the local pronunciation of Hebrew. To give an example, my father, who spoke Lithuanian Yiddish and therefore said "breit:" for "bread" where YIddish speakers from other regions would say "broyt," would similarly say "cheidesh" and "cheilem" for the more usual Ashkenazi Hebrew "choydesh" and "choylem" ["month" and "dream," respectively.]
Only upon reading this thread did I realize that I had been mispronouncing (in my head- I don't belive I have ever had occasion to say the word aloud) "beribonned".
A similar, but perhaps more esoteric example: until I heard someone else say it, I had read the name of the band "Mudhoney" [having taken their name from the Russ Meyer film] as mud-HO-nee. When first I heard someone pronounce it out loud, "Mud Honey", I wondered how I ever managed to come up with such a counterintuitive pronunciation.
Mudhoney esoteric? Well, Knave, I can assure you that there's at least one Mudhoney fan on the forum. But I probably heard the name before I ever saw it written.
In response to blandford's comment—yeah, I think the way you treat new words might be related to reading speed. I'm a painfully slow reader, so stopping and guessing at the sound of an unfamiliar word—which I usually do—doesn't seem like a big deal to me.
I remember that the unhyphenated version of "infra-red" tripped me up from time to time in college textbooks. It looks like a participial adjective, and I'd sit there thinking, "What does 'to infrare' mean?"
My Dad would deliberately mis-pronounce words like "picturesque" as "picture-skew".
My wife admits to having read the whole of the Hitchhikers' Guide to the Galaxy without spotting that Ford Prefect was not, in fact, Perfect. Not being English, the word "prefect" as in a school pupil with some senior responsibilities* nor the model of Ford car were familiar to her, so she just sight-read what she thought she saw.
I know it has other meanings such as in various legal systems (including Scots, and related words such as prefecture), but this was the context I first came across the word, and I suspect this is true for most British school kids.
Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day; teach a man to fish and he will buy a ridiculous hat – Scott Adams (author of Dilbert)
Build a man a fire and he will be warm for a day; set a man on fire and he will be warm for the rest of his life – Terry Pratchett
Oh, this discussion is so BAY-nal! Can't you con-JURE up better examples? To Blandford: Maybe, when we are young, we know spoken words better than written words. So that, when we run into a big written word, we seek the sound of it, because we already might know it as a spoken word. Then, if we get no familiar spoken word sound, we go back to the "skip-over" visual word.
Finally, how many people insist on saying, "misCHEEveeous," even when their eyes could tell them how the word is supposed to be pronounced? This is a big example of a skip-over visual word that turns into a spoken mistake.
The first time I came across the word vagina I thought it was vuh-JEE-na. (I knew girls named Gina, so that is the pronunciation I extrapolated.)
Feeling quite combobulated.
I easily deduced the meaning of "misled" from its context, but for a very long time, I assumed it was pronounced MY-ZULD i.e. the past tense of "misle".
Beribboned – Like a general! My mother pronounced it 'berry-boned', and to this day I have to catch myself whenever I see the word.
When I was a kid, I thought Life magazine was called Live (rhyme with hive).
Best one I had for years was the same as Clint above: misled – totally thought it was my-zeld.
I actually heard a segment on this on NPR's This American Life. (not Live – ha. my joke).
I'm including a link which references the show and includes a few other interesting mis-understood / interpreted things:
I grew up in Iowa, and live in NYC, and I have never heard "dour" pronounced any OTHER way than "dower."
Oh, and I pronounced "ignominius" as ig-NOM-i-nus. I think I just rushed through it at age 6 or something, and then never really looked at it again. It amused by dad no end, when I used it at age 19.
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"Dower" in Iowa? I'm not surprised, Toots. Just a suburb of Nebraska, isn't it?
Speaking of which (Nebraska), my Mom's family used to visit the CHOIR-prak-ter when they had a twinge in their bones. Never knew if that was a local misreading of the word KI-roh-prak-ter or detritus of an older tradition.
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DAYTONA BEACH — Giovanne "Gio" Gonzalez died holding onto the one thing that gave him joy in life — his skateboard.
The 17-year-old, an amateur skateboard competitor known for performing flying tricks in contests throughout Central Florida, was killed Monday night after he was struck by a southbound Florida East Coast Railways train, police said. The teenager was carrying his skateboard which was found broken in half near his body.
No one knows why Gonzalez was walking along the tracks near Wilder Boulevard about 8:30 p.m. Monday. Friends can only speculate that the boy they describe as having a ready smile, kind heart and humble attitude was heading to Bethune Point Skate Park on Bellevue Avenue a few blocks away.
Skate parks — the youngster also frequented the Jericho Skate Park in South Daytona — according to Gonzalez's friends, were the places where the teenager felt he had a home and some semblance of a family.
"His life and his support group was the skate family," said Kyle Childers, who owns a skate shop in Clearwater and met Gonzalez at Stone Edge Skate Park — now Jericho Skate Park — in South Daytona. "He lived a rough life."
Childers, 29, and Gonzalez's close friend John Holleman, 22, both said the Richard Milburn Academy student was an excellent skater who was never arrogant or disrespectful in spite of his talent. But they said the teen had also talked about a sad home life where he described spending much of his time alone. The boy lived with his mother in an apartment on South Caroline Street in the city. The teen's mother, Gloria Gonzalez, could not be reached.
"He was the kind of person that just by looking at him you wanted to give him everything you had," Childers said. "He came home with me many times and I gave him money for food a couple of times. You would never know what was going on in his life just by looking at him. He smiled all the time, he had such energy."
But it was his humility and kindness that endeared other skateboarders to Gio Gonzalez, said Holleman, who co-owns the skate shop with Childers.
"This breaks my heart," Holleman said. "He will be missed, truly."
Bob Langford, founder of Skateboarders For Christ, the group that took over Stone Edge Skate Park and renamed it Jericho Skate Park, echoed the words of Childers and Holleman, saying Gonzalez was a fixture at Jericho because it was the place where he felt comfortable.
Langford said many of the youngsters who belong to the skateboarding community come from broken homes. Jericho, like Stone Edge before it, was established so adolescents and teens could have a safe place where they could exercise their passion for skateboarding but also have someone to talk to if they're having a tough time. The skate park even offers Bible study, something that Gonzalez attended often, Langford said.
"We're trying to be a solution in the community," Langford said. "We want kids to know that if they're going through something, they can come here and talk to us about it."
Childers said most skate parks are devoid of any adult supervision and there is never anyone around to talk to the youths who hang out there daily and may be struggling.
"We wanted to create a scene (at Stone Edge and Jericho) where kids could come and feel safe," Childers said. "It's important to have a place where if a skater comes in with a sad face, someone who knows them will ask them, 'What's going on today?' "
This afternoon, Jericho, 1848 S. Ridgewood Ave., will hold a memorial service for Gonzalez, Langford said. The event will begin at 4 p.m. with free skating. The service will follow at 6 p.m.
Gonzalez's friends, while saddened by his passing, said his death happened for a reason.
"He struggled for everything in his life," Childers said. "Now he won't have to struggle anymore."
'Skate family' was dear to Daytona Beach teen killed by train
DAYTONA BEACH — Giovanne "Gio" Gonzalez died holding onto the one thing that gave him joy in life — his skateboard.


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Par mejadomino1 le 21 Décembre 2016 à 15:09
We've perhaps played dominoes if we where children. The box of rectangular tiles is probably hidden within the drawer or a closet able to be opened on a day you need it or over a sluggish Sunday afternoon. This ancient game remains used by people even today. Dominoes might be took part different methods, yet people keep to the basic rule in the game because it's easy, enjoyable as well as simple to help keep score.
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The games of dominoes have to have been derived in medieval times through the dice, which can be regarded as the oldest gaming implement. The definition of bones was replaced by the word dominoes for it resembled the half-masked domino. The domino pieces can be manufactured from ivory, wood, plastic or metal. There are many games that one can use dominoes. The draw game could be the simplest as well as the mostly played game.
A domino game set contains 28 pieces and is played by 4 people. These pieces are referred as tiles, cards, bones or stones. The ancient group of dominoes was either produced from ivory or bones. Each tile is rectangular in form and has lines engraved within the center which divides it into further two ends. These ends are either blotch with spots or stay blank. These ends could either have between 1-6 dots or have none. These dots are classified as pips. The tile which has the maximum amount of spots on both ends is called as doublets. The pile that isn't used while playing dominoes is referred as boneyard.
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The beginning was 100 years ago, on June 19, 1903, in New York, where a baseball team now known as the Yankees was playing its inaugural season. A 14-pound boy, a Big Apple indeed, was born in Manhattan's Yorkville district to German immigrants Heinrich and Christina Gehrig. "Little" Lou would be the only one of their four children to survive past infancy; one died before him and two after him.
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Holder of more than a score of Major and AL records, including that of playing 2130 consecutive games. When he retired in 1939, he had a life time average of .340.
The end was in 1939, a paradox of a lifetime. A giant of a baby, a giant of a ballplayer, known in the beginning and the middle for his persistence, health and staying power, Gehrig was diagnosed with a degenerative muscle disease that the Mayo Clinic reported to the Yankees that summer as "amyotrophic lateral sclerosis". With the most famous speech in sports, Lou Gehrig, barely 36, bade farewell to all on that last Fourth of July at Yankee Stadium. Within two years, he was gone.
But never to be forgotten.
Model of consistency
"Gehrig was a guy who went out there and enjoyed playing the game," Colorado Rockies first baseman Todd Helton says today. "He went out there and played as long and as hard as he could. I go out there and play every day, even if something is bothering me because you never know when the game, or even life itself, gets taken away."
"Day in, day out, he typified back then what today's Yankees think of as Yankees, a guy going out and playing hard every single day, making no excuses," adds Tino Martinez, one of those who later filled Gehrig's shoes at first base in the Bronx. "He just knew how to play the game."
If there were any 100th-birthday wishes that Lou Gehrig could have made, then one of them might have been to hear words just like those. To know that generations of players after him would love the game -- and life -- the way he loved it.
The average person has a great admiration for someone who quietly and passionately goes about his job every day and every year, and we saw that just last year. MLB.com users determined that the Most Memorable Moment in Major League history was when Cal Ripken Jr. broke Gehrig's consecutive-game record.
That speaks volumes about what Gehrig meant to the game. His consistency was something that even he had taken for granted while he was building a streak that became his biggest statistical achievement. In Frank Graham's 1942 biography, "Lou Gehrig: A Quiet Hero," there is a story that bears this out. In 1933, while the Yankees were in Washington, Dan Daniel of New York's
asked Gehrig in a hotel lobby: "Do you know how many games you have played in a row?"
Gehrig shook his head. "No, I don't. Come to think of it, it must run up in the hundreds somewhere." Told that it was roughly 1,250 at that time, then 57 away from the record set by former Red Sox and Yankees shortstop Everett Scott in 1925, Gehrig said: "Gosh! Why I never thought of that.. I had no idea."
Daniel then asked Gehrig the obvious question: "What do you play ball every day for, anyhow? Why don't you take a day off once in a while?"
It was the only way Gehrig knew. He proceeded to tell a story about when he was in grammar school and was ill one morning. His mother had to work as the Gehrigs tried to eke out a living, and before leaving for her job she "said I would have to stay in bed." Lou went to school after she left, and later that day his mother had to go to the school to pull him out and bring him back home. "I never had missed a day in school and I felt I just had to be there," he said. "I guess it's . . . well . . . just like me. . . . The way I've always been and, I guess, the way I'll always be."
It was that way ever since Gehrig replaced Wally Pipp as the Yankees' starting first baseman that day in 1925, and only the ALS could take him out of the lineup. Look at Gehrig's career stats for games played. The total was 2,164. That means that all but 34 were in consecutive fashion, and you can chalk those up to his early days of breaking in as a bench player. His career was nearly a complete streak.
Marlins first baseman Derrek Lee had played in 282 consecutive games through Wednesday, the longest active streak in the National League, and he shares that appreciation for the magnitude of Gehrig's run.
"I can't comprehend it," Lee said. "That's years and years and years of never missing a game. You have to be fortunate not to have one injury, and not missing a game at all. To be able to play that long and not ever being benched, that's pretty impressive. The last couple of years, I've had some bruises and knicks and knacks. I'm sure in more than 10 years, he had to have played through some pretty serious things."
Life in the shadow
Gehrig first appeared with the Bronx Bombers late in the 1923 season, at a time when Babe Ruth and America were roaring. In '25, when Gehrig joined the Sultan of Swat as a regular, opponents braced for what would become the most feared back-to-back hitting combination to this day. The Yanks were the first pro sports team to wear jersey numbers, making it easier for broadcasters to identify, and the numbers represented their spot in the batting order. Ruth was No. 3 and Gehrig was No. 4.
Ruth was the flamboyant slugger, basking in the spotlight and living life as hard as he belted fastballs. Gehrig was the model of consistency, around the clock. He had slashing power, spraying homers to all fields, and he was only happy to work in a relative shadow. Consider what happened at the 1932 World Series in Chicago. Ruth hit his "Called Shot" homer there off Cubs pitcher Charlie Root, and the legend has only grown over time. Does anyone remember that Gehrig proceeded to homer off Root in the next at-bat while Wrigley was buzzing? Or that Ruth and Gehrig already had gone deep together earlier in the same game?
In his 1990 biography, "Iron Horse: Lou Gehrig In His Time," Ray Robinson called them the "odd couple." He wrote that "there was too much difference in temperament and character for a firm bond of friendship to have formed." But there certainly was mutual respect, and right from the start.
"Gehrig didn't feel sorry for himself. He lived up to who he is. He was an American hero. That's why his farewell speech will always be known."
-- Randy Wolf
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Yankees manager Miller Huggins walked Gehrig out toward the batting cage in the rookie's first day in The Show, and Gehrig had not brought along a favorite bat of his own on that nickel Subway ride to the stadium. So he innocently picked one out from a bunch of bats that were resting against the cage. Unbeknownst to Lou, it was the Babe's favorite, all 48 ounces of it. Gehrig used that bat to whack BP pitch after pitch into the bleachers, traditionally only Ruth's area of reach. Ruth might have told anyone else to leave that bat alone; all he said to the rook that day was: "Hiya, keed."
There was room for both in the Yankee lineup, and room for both in great Major League lore. There always still seemed to be runs to drive in. That's one of the amazing things about Gehrig's career numbers. He hit behind Ruth and (later) Joe DiMaggio, two fabulous base-cleaners, and yet his RBI numbers were consistently through the roof. Gehrig drove in 184 runs in 1931, still an American League record.
Just think about that 1927 season. Gehrig's home run number bulged to 47, and only Ruth ever had hit more. Gehrig's RBIs soared to 175, a record at the time, and even more astounding when you consider that he stepped to the plate 60 times after congratulating Ruth on having just cleared the bases.
"He's one of the greatest of all time, streak or no streak," Orioles veteran Jeff Conine says. "He had like five seasons of over 170 RBIs. (It was actually five with 159 or more.) That's ridiculous. He averaged almost an RBI a game, that's absurd. You think of the streak when you think of him, but I think he's one of the best ever, streak or no streak. I think he's more famous for the streak than he should be. He was that good. It's a monumental feat. But to put up the numbers he did injured on more than one occasion is remarkable."
What might have been
Gehrig is generally considered one of the 10 best Major Leaguers of all-time, and it is fascinating to wonder what might have happened had a disease not stolen the rest of his career. On this 100th birthday, stop for a moment and play what-if.
Gehrig entered that final 1939 season with a streak of 2,122 consecutive games played. He had said he thought 2,500 was an attainable goal. Had he remained healthy, it is reasonable to assume that no one in the Yankee organization would have stood in the way of that. Assuming the Yanks played the full 154-game schedule from 1939-41, Gehrig already would have reached that goal by the time Japan bombed Pearl Harbor.
Conservatively speaking, it would have been reasonable to project another 500 hits, 350 runs, 90 doubles, 30 triples, 100 homers, 350 RBIs and 300 walks in those three years. He would have passed Ty Cobb as the all-time leader in runs scored. He would have been around the 600-homer mark. He would be the all-time leader in RBIs, not Hank Aaron. Gehrig might have been right behind the Babe again, as usual, as subsequent generations of fans debated the best of all-time.
Although Gehrig would have been 38, past draft age, those who knew Lou say he probably would have volunteered for the Navy at the start of World War II. So those three seasons probably would have been it. And then, perhaps in the mid-'40s, Yankee Stadium might have seen a Lou Gehrig Appreciation Day.
Instead, of course, Gehrig's fans were watching Gary Cooper star as him in "Pride of the Yankees," one of the most-watched sports movies. Now it is 2003, and 100 years later we are celebrating a hero's birth while also paying attention to the disease that took his life. Gehrig's name may have more importance than ever. On one day last summer, a different celebrity at each Major League ballpark gave a rendition of Gehrig's "luckiest man" speech. ALS is a disease that has touched many lives since his. Last weekend, for example, maybe the biggest story at golf's U.S. Open was Tom Watson's longtime caddy, Bruce Edwards, who was diagnosed in January with ALS.
Muscles were only part of the reason for Gehrig's phenomenal baseball career. In the end, when ALS rendered those muscles increasingly useless, his courage and inspiring approach to life were still there. And so were his fans.
Graham wrote in that 1942 biography: "He left the shining legacy of courage." Randy Wolf, the current Phillies pitcher, is among those who will never forget. "Gehrig didn't feel sorry for himself," he said. "He lived up to who he is. He was an American hero. That's why his farewell speech will always be known."
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posted on Friday, May 04, 2012 - 7:13 am
I have a national sample of 700 individuals measured on 28 occasions. Measures were taken about once every two weeks, covering a whole year. Data were collected both by self compiled diaries.
Individuals were instructed to record, for every measurement occasion, what they ate and what they drank out of a long list of food products and drinks along with other descriptors.
Within a measurement day, composition of meals and any in-between meals are recorded.
I am trying to analyze whether what is consumed at one meal (or in between meal) occasion within a given day is related to what is consumed during another consumption occasion on the same day. Also, some food categories are consumed very regurarly (like bread, meat, etc.), while others display seasonality (or special occasion) effects.
Basically I am attempting to model meal composition pattern in a day, however my intuition is that I should not just collapse all 28 measurement occasions in a "average" day.
Apart from few individual level variables (e.g. age, body mass index), all other variables are categorical (mostly binary)
I was thinking about using a growth mixture model approach, but I find myself wondering whether there is any growth process at all in meal composition patterns.
Do you have any suggestions or reference on the type of modeling that I could use?
Thank you very much!
Bengt O. Muthen
posted on Friday, May 04, 2012 - 8:16 pm
Perhaps this paper is of interest to you:
Greenbaum, P.E., Del Boca, F.K., Darkes, J., Wang, C. & Goldman, M.S. (2005). Variation in the drinking trajectories of freshman college students. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 73, 229-238
Nicola Spiller
posted on Monday, May 07, 2012 - 7:21 am
Thank you Bengt!
The paper is very interesting and I now have an idea on how to handle spikes in my data.
I also gave some more thoughts to my modeling problem.
Suppose an individual had only 1 meal per day.
Also suppose that meal composition could be represented by a binary multivariate vector.
If one considers m food/drink categories, the m-variate 0/1 vector would represent meal composition at time t as consumed by individual i.
From time t to t+1, the study of meal composition patterns could then be represented as a transition in a m-dimensional 0/1 matrix.
Do you think that in principle one could:
- model meal compositions as a multivariate 0/1 vector
- model an individual's meal consumption process as a HMM
- add a latent categorical variable to capture unobserved heterogeneity in meal composition trajectories
On a side note, I realize my issue looks like a discrete choice situation in a dynamic setting...
Thank you again for sharing your thoughts.
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Add this to the list of reasons we won't be voting for Carl Icahn's Yahoo (YHOO) slate: If he wins the proxy contest, this will trigger the massive severance-bonus plan Yahoo put in place to fight off Microsoft. This will ensure that whatever management moves Carl's new board makes will cost shareholders a ton of money and put Yahoo even more behind the eight ball.
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As some readers have pointed out, it's not our vote that matters is Icahn v Yahoo, but the votes of huge shareholders such as Gordon Crawford (Capital Research and Management) and Bill Miller (Legg Mason). After blasting Jerry Yang and Yahoo's board for blowing the Microsoft deal, Gordon has been mum. Bill, meanwhile, has been trimming his position. If we had to guess, we imagine that Gordon and Bill are likely thinking along the same lines we are. Namely:
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Monday, July 14, 2008
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Apparently, someone convinced the ironman to take a day off. It will be veteran news anchor Ryan Burr stepping-in tonight to host the one hour roundtable edition of NASCAR Now. Allen Bestwick is actually on vacation.
Burr will be joined by Ray Evernham, Boris Said and Mike Massaro on the panel. Burr has come a long way since moving over from ESPNEWS to host NASCAR Now regularly this season. He has a fast pace and keeps things moving. He also asks good questions.
He will need to do just that as the news is breaking that Ryan Newman is officially out at Penske. This sets the table for an announcement of Newman joining Stewart/Haas Racing and possibly bringing UPS on as a sponsor. Burr is going to have his hands full today.
Bestwick and Infield Studio Partner Brad Daugherty are also going to take a day off this weekend as ESPN hosts the Nationwide Series from Gateway. Dr. Jerry Punch, Dale Jarrett and Andy Petree will handle the pre and post-race content from the booth. Thanks to our friends at ESPN for this update. NASCAR Now airs at 5:30PM Eastern and again at 9PM Pacific Time.
Steve Byrnes is back with Michael Waltrip and Chad Knaus on This Week in NASCAR over on SPEED. They will be previewing and then reviewing. With the next Sprint Cup race two weeks away at The Brickyard, it should be interesting to see what they choose to preview.
TWIN is on at 8PM for one hour and then repeats head-to-head against NASCAR Now at 9PM Pacific Time. There will be full columns up immediately after each show for your comments and opinion. Please feel free to comment on this post in advance of the shows. Just click on the COMMENTS button, the rule for posting are on the right side of the main page.
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- Lou said...
Looking forward to a different Monday night on NASCAR Now with AB taking some well deserved time off. TWIN please... do not preview a race weeks away first..
- July 14, 2008 at 12:39 PM
- Ari in DC said...
John--I'm probably reading too much into it but I wonder if AB is sitting out next weekend's Nationwide race to give ESPN another chance to see Punch at handle the host duties, and if they like what they see, maybe swap AB and Punch for the in the booth announcing and infield studio hosting roles for Cup races. Any insights?
- July 14, 2008 at 1:08 PM
- Daly Planet Editor said...
All I know is the official ESPN PR release had Bestwick hosting on Monday and also at Gateway in the infield. This would be the week to take off, because there is no Cup race and ESPN's Cup coverage begins the week following.
Punch is probably going to stay, but ESPN has typically made high-profile changes during the off-season. Last year they made us wait for a long time to announce the new line-ups.
Remember our motto: Isn't TV interesting?
- July 14, 2008 at 1:11 PM
- Lisa Hogan said...
Thanks for letting us know about the host change, JD. Yes, Bestwick does deserve some time off. I will really miss him this weekend.
I had almost decided to skip tonight's Nascar Now with three non-favorites on the panel. Now, it will be a definite skip.
- July 14, 2008 at 1:15 PM
- Haus14 said...
I am looking forward to seeing how Ryan Burr does tonight...He has held his own pretty well this year so this new challenge will be nice.
- July 14, 2008 at 1:19 PM
- Anonymous said...
Breaking news also mentioned in the other comments that Budweiser was bought last night and that issue should be discussed on the show by Ray Evernham. The show should have room to discuss both topics today.
- July 14, 2008 at 1:24 PM
- Anonymous said...
Hope Bestwick will be back but I like Burr too.
I just hope ESPN/ABC is stepping up for there Cup coverage when the Brickyard rolls around in 2 weeks.
- July 14, 2008 at 1:46 PM
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- July 14, 2008 at 4:22 PM
- Anonymous said...
I am looking forward to TWIN. Great to have Chad Knaus on the show when the 48 car was at the center of the drama.
I rarely watch NascarNow but will tune in tonight to see coverage of the Newman switch, since TWIN rarely mentions breaking news. Personally, I don't care for Newman one bit and I think it is very interesting that he is announcing his leaving before he has his next ride fully lined up.... unless an announcement is imminent. Boy, I hope he doesn't go with Stewart.
I realize TWIN's format is "backwards" but I like it and look forward to the show every week. NNow I only watch when there is a particular off-track story of interest.
- July 14, 2008 at 4:53 PM
- Anonymous said...
I would like to see Bob Jenkins, Buddy Baker, Ned Jarrett and Eli Gold back in the game instead of the Johnny and Janey come latelies.
- July 14, 2008 at 5:31 PM
- Daly Planet Editor said...
Sorry for the tech problems, Google blogspot is having a tough day in the Admin mode.
The new NN column will be up when the program is over for comments.
Thanks for your patience.
- July 14, 2008 at 5:56 PM
- Daly Planet Editor said...
There is a new post up about the Monday edition of NASCAR Now for your comments. Thanks.
- July 14, 2008 at 6:37 PM
- Daly Planet Editor said...
There is a new post up about Monday night's This Week in NASCAR and NASCAR Now.
Just refresh your browser to view.
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