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Some WordPress plugins create and use its own database tables. Those tables (small and large) are left in your database after plugin deactivation and deletion often. If your blog is more than 1 day old you have some plugins garbage in your WordPress database probably. With the help of this plugin you can check your database and discover if it is clean or not. Plugin shows not WordPress tables list with quant of its records, size they occupy in Kb. Plugin name and plugin state are shown too if those data are available.
Changes made to the core WordPress database tables (columns added) could be discovered too.
The latest version: 0.10.4. Click the Download button below if you wish to try it.
Quant of downloads: 190694
Attention! Starting from version 0.9.2 plugin works with WordPress 3.0 and higher only. For earlier WordPress versions use plugin version 0.9.1 from here.
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Look at "Plugins Garbage Collector" plugin in action screenshot:
- Red color rows with high probability show old deleted plugins forgotten tables, so-called plugins garbage, which can be deleted from your WordPress database with the help of
Delete Tablesbutton or some of your favorite database tools, e.g. phpMyAdmin.
- Blue color rows show tables which belong to deactivated plugins. Those tables are probably candidates for deletion after you decide to delete theirs parent plugins.
- Green color rows show tables which belong to active plugins. Those tables are now in use. You do not need to touch them.
How Plugins Garbage Collector works? It selects all table names from your WordPress database, excludes core WordPress installation tables, then scans your plugins directory .php files text for table names and shows you the result as written above.
Delete Tables button appears if you have red color rows in the scan results table only. You need to turn on checkbox near the table name if you decided to drop it before click the
Delete Tables button.
Attention! Delete table operation can not be rolled back. Please double think what are you doing before use
Delete Tables button.
Plugins Garbage Collector is the decision support tool only and its conclusion about table usage can be wrong in some (I hope rare) cases. For example, if plugin developer uses some sophisticated scheme to assign names for his tables, not puts simple text into source code e.g. 'my_plugin_table_name', but calculates it with some algorithm e.g. 'my'.'_'.'plugin'.'_'.'table', etc… Final decision is for you – blog owner.
Do you have a suggestion what useful feature we can add to this plugin? Please, left your comments.
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- Czech: Jindřich "Masterbill" Rubeš
- French: Simon
- Dutch: Arthur
- German: Christian
- Japanese: Yoichi
- Indonesian: Masino Sinaga
- Italian: Alessandro Mariani
- Latin: Alessandro Mariani
- Russian: Vladimir Garagulya
- Spanish: Melvis E. Leon Lopez
Dear plugin User,
if you wish to help me with this plugin translation I very appreciate it. Please contact me via Contact form and I will answer you by email. Do not forget include your site link in order I can show it with greetings for the translation help at shinephp.com, plugin settings page and in this readme.txt file. If you have better translation for some phrases send it to me. You are welcome!
Special Thanks to
- alx359 – for contribution to the source code which fixed AJAX empty response for WordPress multi-site with subdomains and other stuff.
You are welcome! Help me in the bug hunting, share with me new ideas about plugin further development, contribute to the source code and link to your site will appear here.
0.10.4 [20.06.2019]
- Marked as compatible with WordPress version 5.2.2
0.10.3 [06.04.2018]
- Mark as compatible with WordPress version 4.9.5
0.10.3 [01.09.2016]
- Fix: 1st plugin in the alphabetically ordered plugins list was always skipped at the scan process.
0.10.2 [08.01.2016]
- Fix: missed text was added to a translation
- Japanese translation was added.
0.10.1 [16.11.2015]
- Fix: Wrong "Scan" link under plugin row at the "Plugins" page was updated.
0.10 [29.10.2015]
- use WordPress AJAX API and JSON for data exchange
- move some logic to the client and split the whole task for the smaller parts to exclude server time limit PHP error for the sites with large quant of plugins installed.
- use jQuery UI progress bar
- restructure code
- escape translated text
- 01.12.2014
- Fix for fatal error during activation with fresh install of WordPress 4.0 (missed WPLANG constant caused plugin to stop execution).
Unfortunately it worked fine under WP 4.0 with wp-config.php from previous version with WPLANG defined.
- 30.06.2014
- Polish translation was updated. Thanks to Grzegorz Janoszka.
- 2.12.2012
- Dutch – Nederlands translation was updated. Thanks to Harald Labout.
- load_plugin_textdomain() call moved to the 'plugins_loaded' hook for higher compatibility with translation plugins.
- 31.10.2012
- In case other plugin had some uppercase letters at the DB table name PGC failed to define that plugin as table owner. It is fixed now.
- 22.08.2012
- Minor code cleanup and unused piece of code removing
- 16.07.2012
- Polish translation is added, thanks to Esej Konrad Łącki.
- 15.04.2012
- Lithuanian translation is added, thanks to Vincent G.
- 28.07.2011
- AJAX empty response for WordPress multi-site with subdomains is fixed – thanks to alx359.
- AJAX error processing is enhanced slightly.
- Minor enhancements to plugin page CSS are made.
- 16.01.2011
- Chinese Simple translation is added.
- Minor change to pgc-ajax.js errors processing is made.
- 28.12.2010
- Italian translation is updated.
- Latin translation is added.
- Thanks to Alessandro Mariani for these translations update.
- 14.10.2010
- Bug fix: database table names had been processed in the lowercase format and tables could not be deleted if have uppercase letters in it. It is fixed now. If database table has 'dbTableWithSomeData' name, you will see it as 'dbTableWithSomeData', not as 'dbtablewithsomedata'. Thanks to Deirdre who found this bug.
- 27.09.2010
- Technical update for WordPress 3.0 full compatibility. Staff deprecated since WordPress v.3.0 is excluded.
- Italian translation update. Thanks to Alessandro Mariani.
- 07.07.2010
- options form layout problem is fixed. That was wrong pgc-admin.css file version issue.
- 01.07.2010
- You can mark tables which you do not wish to see as scan results as hidden.
- You can search extra columns in the core WordPress tables, which could be added by plugins.
- Czech translation is added
- 25.05.2010
- Dutch translation is updated.
- 18.05.2010
- Italian translation is updated
- 14.05.2010
- German translation is updated
- 12.05.2010
- Italian translation is added
- Lost translation domain inserted into a few places in the source code. Translators are welcome to update their work :).
- 03.05.2010
- "Delete Tables" button is added
- General code cleanup
- 02.05.2010
- German, Japanese translations are added
- Another text domain 'pgc' missing bug is fixed
- 01.05.2010
- French, Indonesian, Spanish translations are added
- Text domain 'pgc' missing bug is fixed
- 29.04.2010
- 1st pre-release.
Coming soon. Just ask it. I will search the answer.
I am ready to answer on your questions about this plugin usage and help with possible problems. Use Plugins Garbage Collector plugin forum or this page comments and site contact form for that please.
Vladimir, ShinePHP.com.
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Republican presidential candidate greets supporters Friday during a campaign rally in Orange City, Iowa.
ORANGE CITY, Iowa -- In his first rally since President Barack Obama accepted the Democratic nomination for president, Mitt Romney on Friday called Obama's speech in Charlotte, N.C., "extraordinarily disappointing" and castigated Obama for not proposing how to solve joblessness.
"I read that this morning, you perhaps got the chance to do that," Romney said of the speech, suggesting he didn't watch the event live on television Thursday night.
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Romney made the remarks to several thousand people inside a basketball gym at Northwestern College, a small Christian liberal arts school here in conservative northwest Iowa.
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Before Romney took the stage here in Orange City, campaign aides tossed to the crowd blue foam gloves designed to look like baseball mitts.
A scoreboard inside the gym had been programmed to list one team as "Mitt" and the other "Romney." Scores were listed as 11 and 6, a reference to the Nov. 6 general election.
Romney was introduced by two Iowa Republicans, Gov. Terry Branstad and Rep. Steve King, who represents the 5th district here and is running for re-election.
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Quote:So, do I have it straight - OJKD are all those people who train to move and execute techniques done by Lee, and look as MUCH LIKE HIM as possible while doing it, and JKDC people are like Vunak or Inosanto and are always looking for ways to push the philosophy in new directions?
Quote:"Using no way as way, having no limitation as limitation".
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- Supports nearly 8,500 hours of data connection to date
Headquartered in Malaysia, Simplify markets an Android app that creates a marketplace for mobile consumers to resell or share surplus mobile data from their monthly data plans. The app also enables consumers to connect their mobile devices to hotspots auto-configured as a Simplify network without having to ask for or even input a Wi-Fi password.
The business effectively brings to mobile data the sharing economy popularized in other industries by companies such as Uber and Airbnb.
Simplify decided to develop and deliver its mobile app using Android Studio. Following experiments with several public cloud services, the business realized the seamless integration between Android and Google Cloud Platform made selecting GCP to run the app a no-brainer.
"We were able to manage and seamlessly integrate Google App Engine in GCP with Android Studio, which streamlined the development and deployment of the backend of our app," says Yen Pei Tay, Chief Executive Officer of Simplify. "We were able to build our web services quickly and easily, speeding up our concept prototyping."
Simplify started building on the GCP environment in February 2016 and launched its service the following August. The simplicity of GCP, combined with the skills and experience of the Simplify engineering team, ensured the project was completed ahead of time. "The GCP user interfaces were so easy to use that our engineers needed less than three hours to learn how to use GCP in production," says Yen Pei. The business was so convinced by the performance and capabilities of GCP, it is now running all its key systems on the platform.
GCP enables Simplify to seamlessly create Compute Engine instances and easily configure Cloud Load Balancing load balancers to optimize performance. Simplify can also choose a zone or region across the global GCP network to position its instances, giving the business the flexibility to expand into new markets. Furthermore, the business is using Cloud SDK to create snapshots for use in automated daily backups, providing protection against data loss.
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GCP account and technical teams have provided support and advice that has helped Simplify reduce new release cycles and launch its app in new countries. The business now operates in several countries, including Malaysia, Singapore, and the United States. The support from GCP is particularly welcome for a start-up that operates only a four-person engineering team that needs to focus closely on app development. "We receive tremendous support from Google and its team, who has been very active in this region," Yen Pei says. "I sincerely appreciate their advice as to how we could fully utilize the capabilities of GCP to meet our needs."
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I have a ball attached to a spring and the spring is attached to a wall. There is no gravity for simplicity. In the rest RF the oscillating ball energy is conserved: T + U = const. In a moving RF it is not conserved. I would like to see the shortest answer to the question "Why?".
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Edit: For those who has doubt - I choose the moving RF velocity equal to the maximum ball velocity, for example. Then the ball with its maximum velocity in the rest RF looks as still and does not have any potential energy in the moving RF (the maximum velocity is attained at the equilibrium position where no force acts). So T = 0 and U = 0.
At the farthest right position the ball looks as moving with $-V_{RF}$ and having a potential energy $kx^2/2$, both energy terms are positive ($v^2 > 0, x^2 > 0$). So now the total energy of the ball is positive and thus is not conserved. It oscillates from zero to some maximum value. Why?


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Thursday, June 23, 2011
The Truthiness Tour—the Movies; Again
For anyone who reads my blog entries, it won't come as any surprise that I am usually treading the purist line of nonfiction. Don't make anything up, ever. But this "based on" the lives of real people issue in the movies is complex. Some of it even has to do with rights. For example, I recently learned from my friend that there are varying degrees of situations in which a writer either needs to, or does not need to, secure a person's life rights. If it's a public figure, and it is long enough ago, it is considered public domain. But the length of time does not necessarily matter if it is a private figure (such as a specific hero or heroine in a story who is not well known). Interesting, right?
Now I find myself thinking about all kinds of distracting things while watching films such as The Aviator, The Conspirator, The King's Speech, The Blind Side, and the list goes on. Wikipedia tags The Blind Side as "semi-biographical," in fact. I didn't even know that was a category! If all the facts about the family in The Blind Side were known, would the story have come across in the same way? Maybe, maybe not.
I wrote a lot about the Fine, Fine Line of truth in nonfiction books in my recent Horn Book article. But in the movies, that line seems not to be so fine at all…and people seem fine with it. I wonder why that is?
My filmmaker friend believes it may be because the truth isn't dramatic enough for a blockbuster movie. I argue with him about this, of course, but his points have at least made me not be as stubbornly rooted (momentarily). For example, I said to him, why did The King's Speech need to make Churchill appear against King Edward's relationship with Wallis Simpson when in fact Churchill was fine with it? More dramatic, my friend said. Perhaps, I replied. But why not just leave that bit out and leave well enough alone, I pushed. He ventured a guess about people being hesitant to expose the flaws of giants such as Churchill, which might have been distracting to the main thrust of the film. Again, that may be. But why twist history?
I have some more thinking to do about this, it seems. My opinions hold fast when it comes to truth in nonfiction books, but perhaps this movie thing is too slippery for me. Or just slippery enough. I certainly enjoy watching these "based on" movies, but I can't help feeling duped once I discover which facts have been altered to fit the script. Where do you stand?
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- Jeannine Atkins said...
A movie must be "as based on" from the get go, since dialogue has to be invented. Perhaps it's that initial move from adherence to documented fact that makes other changes seem okay to the film writer and then other collaborators down the line who are asking does this seem real, does it seem exciting, and lose sight of asking is this completely true. Some are going to feel duped. Some are going to say, "That's Hollywood." I tend to be glad that interesting figures and events can be brought to a bigger audience, who then may go on to learn more about the original figures and events.
- June 23, 2011 at 9:00 AM
- Unknown said...
Perhaps the way to handle this conundrum is to make it a teachable moment. Movies that are "based" on real events might publish a list of resources so that students can read the truth for themselves and discuss why certain liberties were taken to "improve" the story. Someone could create an online forum to discuss these issues. Just pondering.....Thanks for the post, Tanya.
- June 23, 2011 at 9:09 AM
- Unknown said...
This is a very big subject and one that prompts lots of heated discussion. Sometimes -- not always -- the people involved in these movies want very much to be taken as truth tellers. They want viewers to realize they may have played with this fact, that detail, probably invented dialogue, etc., all for dramatic effect, but that they have gotten to the 'truth' of the person or event. I always feel that when you move away from the established, accepted history you have entered the world of historical fiction (which, by the way, I love). But it's fiction. Now if it's done well, it might just prompt viewers to become readers. Unfortunately, most simply misinform viewers and complicates our lives as writers of nonfiction. Of course, no one said life or nonfiction was easy or uncomplicated. I would hang on to your faith in accurate information and enjoy those movie productions for what they are. Gee, I hope I don't sound too negative here; I like walking on red carpets as much as anyone.
- June 23, 2011 at 12:49 PM
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- June 23, 2011 at 6:53 PM
- Sue Macy said...
Your post brings to mind the movie A League of Their Own, which helped the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League enter the annals of popular culture. The movie took some liberties, condensing many seasons into one, allowing a male manager to come into the women's locker room for comedic effect (the players will tell you men NEVER came into the locker room), making all of the players heterosexual. It was far from a documentary, but its impact was HUGE. It created a consciousness of the league far beyond what even a library shelf full of books on it could do, and made the players celebrities again in their senior years. Witnessing all this as I was writing my book about the league taught me a dramatic lesson on the impact of film. The movie also gave rise to need for nonfiction authors to tell the true story of the league and created a market for their books. I know I owe the sunroof of my 1995 Toyota to Penny Marshall.
- June 23, 2011 at 6:53 PM
- Tanya Lee Stone said...
I love all of these comments!
- June 23, 2011 at 9:16 PM
- Tanya Lee Stone said...
League of Their Own is on right now, and AMC has added a feature called Story Notes, which is giving all kinds of nonfiction tidbits about the real facts!
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Primary and Secondary Sources
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You are writing a paper about the influence Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. had on the country's leaders and policies. You find a speech called "I Am a Man, a Black Man, an American," delivered by Clarence Thomas, Justice for the United States Supreme Court, delivered on July 29, 1998.
The speech was printed the September 15, 1998 issue of Vital Speeches of the Day, a periodical. This speech, in this periodical, is a primary source.
Later, as part of MLK events on your campus, you attend a forum commemorating the contributions Dr. King made to education. Comments made at the forum are primary source material. If you use it, however, you must record or transcribe it accurately.
If your school newspaper prints a transcript of the forum, that article would also be a primary source. If the college posts an audio or video recording of the forum to the college website, such a recording would also be primary source material.
You decide to interview one of the forum presenters to fill in some details about Dr. King. That interview is a primary source.
Following the interview you have a email conversation with another of the forum presenters. Those email records are primary sources.


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People make choices every day, either by deciding something or by ignoring something. Yet, mistakes are frequently made in these choices. Here are some of the major reasons for errors in making choces:
- Post hoc ergo propter hoc reasoning: meaning, afterward, therefore because of. Snow is falling, therefore global warming is a hoax. Linking cause with effect is one of the biggest challenges of science, and intuitive "experts" who are quick to jump to conclusions with weak foundations make some of the most egregious errors in decision making.
- Bias and prejudice. Strongly held views often cloud objectivity and lead to failure to recognize what is actually happening or what the results of something actually are.
- Incomplete information. Always ask, "What information is left out here?" Hunting for and relying solely on information that supports our own biases and beliefs is a chronic source of error. Sound decisions require being informed about all information relevant to a particular problem or issue. Most problems are complex and complex problems do not have simple solutions that can be resolved by gurus and psuedo experts who claim to have a magic answer.
- Self denial. Fear of facing up to what is really happening can lead to disaster. While physicians may lament some patients who ask too many questions, one doctor told me that one of his biggest problems comes from patients who won't own up to their symptoms because they are afraid of what will happen to them.
- Lack of respect for reliable knowledge. The textbook titled "Reliable Knowledge" was perhaps the most important textbook I read during eight years of college. If we get all of our news and information from sources supporting our biases, if we give short shrift to scientific methodology as opposed to psuedo science, if we are too lazy to look up the facts on all sides of an issue, we will continue to blunder along the choppy seas of indecision and error.
And these are only a few of the things that worried me at 5:00 a.m. today and made me wonder why, with all of our emphasis on education and learning, we don't also learn to have greater respect for science and for the quest for Reliable Knowledge. Maybe I'll have something else on my mind at 4:00 a.m. tomorrow morning. Have a nice day.


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If you've always relied on the kindness of strangers it's highly unlikely that you've ever been able to cross the street.
Same route home as always, except maybe this time with a little bit more verve and a little bit more caution and a lot more drivers driving in the bike lanes. Could it really be so hard to keep one's car out of the bike lane? Maybe it is. I don't know. When I drive, to the best of my knowledge, I don't drive in bike lanes, but maybe that's not the case and I'm just as horrible as everyone else. What if the outside of bike lanes were divoted like those highway rumble strips? That sounds like a fairly inexpensive solution to the problem of drivers "inadvertently" driving into bike lanes. Just throwing that out there.
It behooves the bicyclist to occasionally be a bit forward and to take the lane when the situation calls for it. It might be one of the hardest things to learn, but it's one of the most valuable. The best way to get around a car parked in the bike lane is to shove your hand out, look over your shoulder, move into the travel lane and just get on with it. It doesn't always come naturally, but it's just the way that it works sometimes. That's some trite advice.
Guy on recumbent-type bike at 11th and Mass:
|Worst picture ever.
Then some traffic at 11th and New York:
|I blame bike lanes
11th is a funny street. South of Massachusetts, there are no bike lanes. Instead, the cyclist is asked to weave through ludicrous traffic or wait amidst it and the road conditions are horrible and there are many bus stops and underground parking garages and there are grates and manhole covers and it's one of those streets where the number of users (pedestrians, cyclists, bus passengers, drivers) are not adequately represented in the amount of road space given (almost all to cars). But such is the way of the world, I guess. I don't see this problem getting any better once City Center, and it's 1800 new parking spots, opens. There's actually a banner on the side of the construction site that advertises the number of parking spots that the development will have. I heard the Egyptians did the same thing at Giza.
I saw Justin in the Penn Ave cycle track on his way off to Crystal City to visit their farmers' market. I was off to another farmers' market (at Eastern Market) and we talked farmers' markets and bike stuff and it was nice to chat for a while and I wonder if he made it there and back before the rain.
George bellows? George Bellows.
|George Bellows
You can yell "stop," which I did, and you can hope that a driver making an illegal left turn on red stops, which he did, but you can't know if your yelling is what prompted it. When I passed the driver, who had stopped in the middle of the intersection, I slowed, deliberately, and I didn't make eye contact, deliberately, and that was pretty much what happened. Did he feel chastened by my iciness? Unlikely.
There's a parking lot between 3rd Street NW and the traffic circle at First NW and Pennsylvania Avenue and this parking lot is controlled by the Senate Sergeant at Arms, allegedly, but it's also a popular place for drivers to slow down and have their passengers take pictures of the Capitol while the car is still moving or maybe parked. Please, I beseech you. If you come to Washington to see the sights, please at least get out of your car to take your pictures. I can't promise that it will be worth it, but I will promise that I won't deride you if you do. Is there anything more American than the drive-by photo-op? Sigh.
East Capitol to 7th Street and then I stopped at the farmers' market to buy what I thought was an heirloom tomato (it was a pepper), some cherry tomatoes and some squash. I purchased these vegetables from the Amish. Here's an Amish child:
I only buy locally sourced organic vegetables from authentic artisanally crafted, behatted children. That lady and her kid, on the left of the picture, had left their baby carriage (and baby!) in front of my bike, thereby blocking me in. First time that I've ever been blocked by a stroller. It was cool and she apologized and made some sort of self-effacing "OMG who abandoned their baby" joke but it was no big since I knew exactly who abandoned her baby and she didn't even abandon it because she was like three feet away buying tomatoes from the Amish.
Up North Carolina behind a guy on a fixie and then past the park, which was filled with small, fuzzy dogs. Small, fuzzy dogs own this city.


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Twins add versatile Fuld off waivers
KANSAS CITY -- In an effort to upgrade their outfield production, the Twins claimed Sam Fuld off waivers from the Athletics on Sunday.
Fuld, 32, hit .200 for the A's with two triples, a homer and four RBIs this season. To make room on the 40-man and 25-man roster, the Twins designated outfielder Darin Mastroianni for assignment. Mastroianni had gone 0-for-11 with five strikeouts in seven games since coming up from Triple-A Rochester.
Fuld's outfield versatility caught the eye of Twins officials.
"He can play all the outfield positions, and he can steal a base," assistant general manager Rob Antony said. "He puts together pretty good at-bats. We got a firsthand look at him when Oakland was in town last week. He's a gamer, a guy who comes to play every day. Hopefully, he can add a little life to the offense."
Fuld was in the Bay Area on Sunday and will join the Twins as they open a series against Tampa Bay on Tuesday night.
The Twins will have a week to possibly work out a deal for Mastroianni. If Mastroianni should eventually be put on waivers and clear, the Twins would be receptive to keeping him in the organization.
"He's in good standing in this organization," Antony said. "He works hard and plays hard. His speed is what you like to see in an extra outfielder. Unfortunately, he came up here and hit a few balls hard, but didn't have any luck."
The Fuld acquisition could give the Twins options should center fielder Aaron Hicks continue to struggle at the plate.
"I don't think [Hicks] is inked in as our everyday center fielder for the rest of the season," Antony said. "He needs to improve his game and become more consistent. He has shown flashes of the things we like to see. And then sometimes he'll kind of get in a fog, slip back into some old habits and doesn't appear as focused as he should be. But we still have a lot of confidence in him and believe he has a world of talent. It's just a matter of him being able to help us right now as well."
Antony said he has discussed with manager Ron Gardenhire the possibility of a platoon situation in center with the switch-hitting Hicks and Fuld.
"I think Aaron is more comfortable from the right side," Antony said. "Maybe we give him more at-bats where he's a little more comfortable and get him going."


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Voyage 7. THE… "SUN LANGUAGE"
Περιήγηση 7η. Η… "ΓΛΩΣΣΑ-ΗΛΙΟΣ"
"HITTITES, SUMERIANS, EGYPTIANS, Romans, Indians and Chinese, they all owe their existence to the Turkic race: their cultures and languages have been created by the Turks; Arabs and Jews are of Turkic origin: the prophet Muhammad was also a Turk; and all the languages of the world are derived from Turkish, the mother of all languages: the Kurdish language is non-existent; it is just a corrupt dialect of Turkish; the Kurds are nothing but Turkish highlanders"…
Psychotic megalomania? Absolutely; but also a… university thesis – and even more: an official state policy! This aphorism might be the starting point of a synopsis about the official Turkish ideology on the national question. Almost everyone in the Eurasian zone – except perhaps the Hellenes, Persians and… barbarians – owe almost everything to the Turks: their very existence, their language and culture, let alone their music!
"What about the Hellenes?", some "Romioí" anxiously insist on asking, as they refuse to accept that they have either… never existed, or – most likely – are included among the "Romans" of the above mentioned citation quoted from the gold-bound kitabs of the sages.
"The question on the origin of the Yunanlılar [Ionians] has been clear since the time of Homer", is the smug reply. "The great rhapsode was also a Turk called Omer. Besides, the Europeans have preserved his name almost intact: Homer"!
Well, I'm not referring to freaks of a sick mind. It is perhaps hard to believe but these ideas have been championed by academics! The "Great Idea" (Megale Idea) has died out in Greece(?) but in Turkey it's alive and well and (wants to be) the master of the world…
The Kurdish languages belong to the Iranian and Indo-Iranian branches of the Indo-European family. So, they are related to the Persian (Farsi), Indian Sanskrit, Hellenic and most European languages. Even… worse (for the Turkish "linguists"), all the ancient languages in the Anatolian area, still spoken or extinct, such as the Hittite, have also been Indo-European.
Against this panspermia of ancient native Indo-European Anatolian languages and dialects,(a) the Turkic languages (Turkish is just one of them) are relatively newcomers in Asia Minor, and belong to the Altaic family, together with the Mongolic tongues. Some linguists group the Altaic and Uralic (or Finno-Ugric) languages together (in the Ural-Altaic family). No such hypothesis connecting the Altaic and Indo-European languages has been put forward. It doesn't matter much to Ankara's "scientists". Therefore, they teach linguistics this way… à la turca:
Subject: The Sun Language Theory
"As is well known, the word soleil means sun in French. In the Turkic dialect of Yakut [or Sakha] we can find the corresponding word silai. As the 's' of the Yakut dialect becomes 'g' in the other Turkic dialects,(b) it is self-evident [!] that the word comes from a Turkic root meaning light. Nevertheless, the Turks prefer the more common Turkish word günes. But the proof of the Turkic origin of the word soleil has been a revelation of a great linguistic and scientific truth, from which most important conclusions are derived"…
Signed (unashamedly): İ.N. Dilmen, professor.
Since I don't like to be branded as a "nationalist", I invoke a Turkish scientist in the true sense of the word, the sociologist İsmail Beşikçi,(c) a man who's spent most of his life in Turkish prisons not because he has committed any crime, but because he's had the courage to publicize his documented views. Beşikçi has been persecuted / prosecuted because he initially criticized (and polemicized later on) the Turkish ruling ideology as it was set forth in such "scientific" theses – and even more because he has studied in depth a taboo subject: the Kurdish question.(d)
The citations quoted above (except that reference to Homer) are from Beşikçi's book, Historical Thesis on Turkey / The Sun Language Theory and the Kurdish Question, which cost him three years in prison because he was "reckless" enough not to deny the existence of a nation… The first thing he took into account was the nature of the positions adopted in 1930 by Turkish "scientists" under the guidance of Mustafa Kemal (Atatürk)! Based on official documents, speeches and such "scientific" theses, Beşikçi analyzed the formulation and development of the ideology of Kemalism, exposing its unscientific, racist and chauvinistic nature. In one of his many apologies (speeches in defense of himself), he attacked the official "Justice" of the Kemalist regime:
"As a repressive state mechanism, this court threatens writers and intellectuals with imprisonment, favours police measures and secret trials, condemns scientific thought, prefers the secret services reports against truth and sociological findings, imposes verdicts without – at least – taking into account the defense of the accused and, using loopholes, accepts colonial oppression and tyranny, denying the reality of the existence of the Kurdish nation, which is an objective fact above the will of people and institutions.
"This court essentially acts as an administrative and political body with a seemingly 'independent function' and 'independent judgment'. It functions like the gendarmerie, police, national security service and other similar services, attempting to impose the hegemony of the official ideology through its verdicts. Rejecting an objective truth, your court is lying, considering the conclusions drawn by our systematic societal research, the reliable knowledge, and the rights we advocate, as incriminating evidence.
"This court acts like the gendarmerie, police, national security
and other services, attempting to impose the hegemony
of the official ideology through its verdicts." (İsmail Beşikçi)
"In its verdicts regarding my books, your court states that 'the sacred memory of Atatürk is stained'. What does that mean? It means that the Kurdish masses – men, women and children – will be continuously sent to exile, to the gallows, will be slaughtered, that laws and decrees will be shamelessly adopted on this logic – but anyone who criticizes such phenomena will be tried on the grounds of 'libeling the sacred memory of Atatürk'. How can one consider genocide, exiles, the complete assimilation enforced in Kurdistan by the Kemalist regime as 'sacred memory'? The division and partition of Kurdistan, the implementation of the tactics 'divide and rule' against the Kurdish nation, may be 'sacred memory' only for the imperialists and colonialists.
"The Turkish universities, on the other hand, as slaves of the official ideology, reject in principio scientific thought obscuring and denying the reality of the Kurdish nation. They consider the official ideology, which is based on fraud and indifference towards objectivity, as the only irresistible and definite reality. So they present this official ideology as scientific and legal. It is at this point that the 'independent' court and 'independent' judgment intervene, trying under threat of punishment to prevent any criticism of the university professors who, through political charlatanism, demand material and social privileges"…
This trial took place in 1979, just one year before the so-called democracy was overthrown in a coup of the army, the mighty pillar supporting at that time the regime. More trials and convictions preceded and followed for Beşikçi. Even if he could live two or three lives, he would not have time enough to serve the 200 plus years in prison imposed on him in total. Released in 1999, he was sent back to court in 2010 – that is, even after the collapse of Kemalism – for "propaganda" because of an article entitled The Rights of Nations to self-determination and the Kurds, which cost him 15 extra months in jail.
In January 1981, he sent a Letter to UNESCO from his prison, stigmatizing the decision of the Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization of the United Nations to declare that year as The Atatürk Year.(e) A new conviction followed. Undeterred he continued sending letters from the dungeons to international organizations that, of course, ended up in the hands of Turkish judges who imposed new sentences. A letter to the Journalist Union of Switzerland e.g. cost him 10 years!
But even in his trials (where we lose count, indeed) with his apologies (several of these speeches have been put together in his book, Defense), he persevered with remarkable courage and selflessness so as to defend the rights of the Kurdish people relying only on the public's sense of justice – a sense that has ceased to govern even the actions of the "competent" international organizations.
We imagine spontaneously that we have before us İsmail B, personifying Josef K, Kafka's main character in The Trial. But our association is rather incongruous: Beşikçi has not been a surreal figure of absurdist fiction but an indomitable hero of free thought and scientific knowledge, a symbol of our time – exactly because people like him are so rare today. However, he had the misfortune to be born in Turkey. Therefore, he will never be awarded a Nobel Prize!(f)
Certainly, it's not me to blame for politicizing the issue of linguistics à la turca, as it is an issue profoundly political. Lay, if you will, the blame on Alain Gheerbrant who "cast the first stone" by paralleling Atatürk to Âşık Veysel (see Voyage 6). No doubt, the French researcher is not an isolated case: it constitutes the rule (that is why we take note of him); which means there are even worse cases. One thing, you see, is to credit "exclusively" the Turks with the music of Anatolia; another thing is to do the same with the music of Constantinople; especially if we bear in mind that the Ottomans described this music as Arabo-Persian; only after the Republic was established, it was called Turkish, or even Ottoman.
● There are cases of "friendly fire" on this issue, which is, nevertheless, anything but crucial. It's just a matter of orderliness and correct terminology. See e.g. the starting point of the reflections of Stéphane Yerasimos, the Greek-born director of the French Institute of Anatolian Studies, in the booklet of an album with old "Ottoman" music featuring, among others, compositions by Dimitrie Cantemir who was anything but Ottoman:(g)
"This project of performing Ottoman music on original instruments", Yerasimos wrote in the booklet, "arose from a simple question: why not apply the method that has been already successfully followed in Europe for several decades, and try to re-discover the spirit and the performing style of the Ottoman music of the great period – the 17th and 18th centuries?"
● The Empire that substituted the once powerful Byzantine Empire after its downfall was Ottoman, indeed, as it was controlled by this tribe. But is this sufficient reason to classify also the music of post-Byzantine Constantinople under the same heading? My objection is due to the explicitly ethnic import of the term Ottoman as it means Turkish. On the contrary, the term Byzantine is supranational, referring in general to "the eastern part of the Late Roman Empire that, after the fall of Rome, continued as its successor until 1453". It is well known that in both these empires, the Byzantine and Ottoman, culture was a collective work of all ethnicities living within their boundaries. Ethnic identities can be found only in those cultures that have been cultivated by peoples distinguished for the originality of their contributions to human civilization. If e.g. there has been no Phoenician civilization, given that the Phoenicians were heavily influenced by the Egyptians, Mesopotamians and Hellenes, likewise there has been no Ottoman civilization either. Let alone that compared to the Ottomans, the role the Phoenicians have played, especially in the spread of the alphabet, has been far more important.
COMPLETELY DIFFERENT WAS THE APPROACH adopted by Gheerbrant's namesake and compatriot, Alain Daniélou, as an adviser to UNESCO's International Music Council, which led to several outstanding recordings of world music such as Unesco Collection: A Musical Anthology of the Orient; Musical Atlas; Musical Sources; and Anthology of Indian Classical Music / A Tribute to Alain Daniélou. As a producer of the Cairo recordings, Taqâsîm and Layâlî, on instrumental and vocal modal improvisations, he made a thought-provoking synopsis that begins as follows:
"The melodic system peculiar to the Arabic-speaking peoples of the countries bordering on the Eastern and Southern shores of the Mediterranean is the result of a long evolution. It derives from the adaptation by the Arab conquerors of the ancient Greek, Persian, and Egyptian systems, which gradually developed into a unified and highly original art.
"'Until the 13th century the theorists refer to Greek theories, but subsequently there arose a distinctly independent theory and an art, cultivated at the court of the Caliphs, which became increasingly refined and elaborate. Until the end of the 19th century, this art continued to develop under the influence of fresh Persian and Byzantine elements, which had become more prominent owing to the Turkish domination' (d'Erlanger)."
"The melodic system of the Arabic-speaking peoples of the Mediterranean
derives from the adaptation of the ancient Greek, Persian, and Egyptian
systems"… "Until the end of the 19th century, this art developed under
the influence of fresh Persian and Byzantine elements."
(Alain Daniélou, Rodolphe d'Erlanger)
The conclusions we can draw are quite astonishing, indeed: until the eve of their Empire's downfall, the Ottomans – at least in the domain of music – were still under the influence of the empire they had abolished before half a millennium! It was natural that the Arabic-speaking peoples, then vassals of the Ottomans in the region, were equally influenced. In this way, the Byzantine echoe echoed and resonated throughout the Mediterranean: Christians were influenced through Byzantine ecclesiastical chant at least until the 11th century when, due to the Schism, Gregorian chant became obligatory for the Catholics; the Muslims of the Ottoman Empire were equally influenced – not by ecclesiastical chant, of course, but by the erstwhile secular Byzantine music.
Persian influences may be considered natural, because the Iranians had already achieved their self-determination having their own independent state. But what can anybody say about Byzantine music, especially secular, which – supposedly – ceased to exist as soon as the state that gave birth to it was erased from the map? How could it possibly influence the Mediterranean on the eve of the 20th century and even impregnate it with "fresh" musical elements?
Trying to resume what Alain Daniélou and Rodolphe d'Erlanger have said, and the thoughts they have provoked, we can imagine a historical model as follows: the Arabs (those coming from the Arabian Peninsula), were cultivated adopting the ancient Hellenic, Persian, and Egyptian cultures. They knew, therefore, very well that their empire would not last long if they were not able to assimilate the civilized Mediterranean peoples they had conquered.
The Arabs knew their empire would not last long if they did not
assimilate the ancient peoples they had conquered. This could
only happen through religion (Islam) and language (Arabic),
breaking the ties of these peoples with their glorious past.
All they needed was a combination of incentives and coercion…
Under the circumstances, this could only happen through religion, first of all, and secondarily, language. It was absolutely necessary for the Arabs to break the ties of these ancient peoples with their glorious past making them convert to Islam and – even better – adopt Arabic. That's how they could exert undisputed control on their vast empire. All they needed was a combination of incentives and coercion. It was a rather moderate tactic compared with the one used for the Christianization of the Hellenes that was an outright violent campaign, a long, widespread genocide: see Chronicle 7*. "We Don't Need No Thought Control!").
When the Ottomans took over the Caliphate, they also adopted Arabic culture that had sprung out like an amalgam from these ancient civilizations. Note that this synthesis started bearing fruit only in the 13th century, after Constantinople fell for the first time to the Crusaders and Venetians in 1204. No similar cultural renaissance took place during the Ottoman period. That's why there were still "fresh Persian and Byzantine influences" onto the Court music and art until the last days of the Ottoman Empire. What exactly was the Ottoman contribution? It was not so much musical but mainly political – through this wide, unified area – allowing these influences to have a great impact on every corner of the empire.
ACCORDING TO THE TUNISIAN PROFESSOR Salah el Mahdi, who spoke at the International musicological symposium at Delphi on Rhythms, Modes and Scales of Mediterranean Music in 1988,(h) the Near East was influenced by the so-called Turco-Byzantine music:
"Arabic culture is an integral and significant part of Mediterranean culture", he said. "The modes of Arabic music are classified into four major schools:
"a) The Maghreb School; it is represented by the Arabo-Andalusian musical heritage introduced into this area by the Arabo-Andalusian refugees in the 14th and 15th centuries. This music survives today across North Africa, along with the old music of the Libyan people of this region.(i)
"b) The Near East School; it is represented by the musical heritage of Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Palestine and, of course, Egypt. In part, this school has influenced Libya and Tunisia, which thus participate in two schools, as they are found in between. The Near East School has been influenced by the old Turco-Byzantine music, extending to the Balkans and Caucasus.
"c) The Arabo-Persian School; it is represented by the Abbasid musical heritage that was created in their great capital, Baghdad. It's been the musical act in Iraq, Iran and all the [former] Soviet Republics of Central Asia as far as China.
"d) The Arabian Peninsula School; it includes Saudi Arabia, Yemen, all the Emirates and the Sultanate of Oman, and has had a twofold influence: from India and Africa."
Now that we are sufficiently informed, and also have the necessary standard of comparison, we may have some fun enjoying Bernard Mauguin's sophistries:
"Born in the shadow of Islam, Turkish classical music has been confused early in its history with art music of Persia and the Arab peoples. This common origin has been the cause of a persistent misunderstanding and, in general, little distinction is made between these various musical forms, which are usually grouped together under the vague heading of 'Oriental music'…
"However, just as a knowledgeable listener can easily distinguish a work of Bach from a work of Berlioz, he could never confuse the playing of a Turkish musician with that of an Arab or an Iranian musician. Classical Turkish music has its own distinct personality"…
Mind you! We are talking about such colossal differences: those between Bach and Berlioz! Who would have the guts to disagree? But these were differences of eras, between two composers (one baroque, the other romantic) who created in the same tradition of Occidental "classical" music during the so-called common practice period (baroque, classical, romantic). Racial differences (i.e. German vs. French) were rather insignificant. The same applies to the distinction among Turkish, Arab and Iranian musicians: their main difference, especially before the creation of national states, was also a difference of eras. If Mauguin compared Bach not with Berlioz but with Brahms, he would have noticed that they too are "easily distinguishable". However, such a comparison between two composers of common origin (both Bach and Brahms were Germans) would have deprived him of any pretext for his chicaneries…
Bach vs. Berlioz: not German vs. French music but
baroque vs. romanticism (plus genius vs. average…)
No doubt that if instead of Western theorists we had their Oriental colleagues, things might have been even worse, since everyone would have "trumpeted one's own merchandise". Mahdi in Delphi e.g. spoke of Turco-Byzantine music because he was not a Turk; that's why he gave no due emphasis to the role of Persian music theorists, something that the Iranian Hormoz Farhat did; but he in turn "forgot" the contribution of Byzantine musicians, which Simon Karas put forward at the forefront – and so on…
What the Orient needs is an era of Renaissance and Enlightenment – something that the Occident intentionally obstructs for its own interests. These interests, I'm afraid, have been served, consciously or not, by those Western theoreticians who can't see the forest for the trees (or, if you like, focus on the finger and can't see it's pointing to the moon), focusing on the secondary – the local differences in music – and minimizing the primary – its common features. The classic recipe: Divide et impera!


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In Pakistan, the term "a war of words" can take on a menacing dimension beyond the metaphorical. Words--written, spoken, or reported--regularly land journalists in trouble, a very literal, physical sort of trouble. Reporters have become accustomed to being threatened, and over the years they've seen threats sometimes build to abductions, beatings, and even death. Such violence seldom comes without a string of prior warnings.
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The murder of Saleem Shahzad at the end of May 2011 is currently the bellwether, though there were many highly publicized cases before his. And since Shahzad's death, there have been three more targeted killings--Mukarram Khan Aatif in January 2012, apparently at the hand of a Taliban-related group; Javed Naseer Rind, a Baloch journalist and political activist killed in November 2011, whose killers remain unidentified; and Faisal Qureshi, whose staunchly partisan website The London Post in October 2011 had run a scathing series of stories on the Muttahida Qaumi Movement shortly before men slashed his throat in his apartment in Lahore. All three men had been repeatedly threatened before they were killed.
Almost for sure, here come some more threats. In an editorial in The Friday Times, "Overreach and miscalculation," Najam Sethi, a CPJ award winner who is no stranger to threats himself, mentions Shahzad's death in passing as he itemizes recent setbacks to the credibility of the Pakistani military and security establishment. The media, Sethi says, in part,
is also resentful about its manipulation by the ISI [Inter-Services Intelligence] viz drone policy, the Raymond Davis affair and Memogate. Question marks abound over its incompetence or complicity in the OBL [Osama bin Laden] affair, especially following recent revelations by former [Director-General of the] ISI Ziauddin Butt that General Pervez Musharraf "hid" Osama bin Laden in Abbottabad. The murder of journalist Saleem Shahzad, followed by threats to independent journalists, is laid at the ISI's door. The ease with which terrorists have breached military security, as in the attacks on GHQ, ISI offices, military messes, Mehran Naval Base, and army officers etc also rankle. Finally, the media is now speaking up and asking disturbing questions about the role of [Military Intelligence] and related non-state actors in the disappearances and torture of Baloch activists. Consequently, the media is loath to blindly follow the army's "line" on any issue any more.
With the perpetrators still at large even after a full-scale, six-month judicial inquiry, the Shahzad case continues to resonate, generating a continuing war of words. On January 30, Human Rights Watch released a statement headlined "Shahzad Commission Results Marred by Free Ride for ISI." On Thursday, the Inter-Services Public Relations directorate issued its rebuttal, "Human Rights Watch (HRW) Report on Judicial Commission on Saleem Shehzad Murder Case Not Correct," in which it launches an attack on Brad Adams, the executive director of Human Rights Watch's Asia Division. While Adams himself "may have his head buried deep in the sand," the ISPR says, HRW's "press release in question is part of a well-orchestrated and sinister media campaign, in which HRW and the likes of Brad Adams and Ali Dayan Hassan [HRW's country representative] may have been unwittingly drawn into."
In an editorial, "A Sharp Riposte," The Express Tribune rose to HRW's defense Saturday:
The response of the ISPR to a report by the New York-based Human Rights Watch (HRW)--which suggested that the ISI hindered the investigation into the death of journalist Saleem Shahzad in May last year--is rather alarming in its tone and tenor.
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Since the judicial inquiry has been unable to identify people responsible, it is time we step forward. We killed Saleem Shahzad. If you read the report carefully, it lays the blame on us. It blames us for doubting the country's intelligence agencies for the murder of a journalist, because of course, they can never be held in doubt, let alone be responsible, or worse be at fault.
CPJ's position all along has been that such judicial inquiries are inconclusive--see "Justice for Saleem Shahzad? We've seen this before." What is needed is a standard police investigation, not the convening of a high-powered judicial commission, no matter how well-intentioned. As CPJ has said incessantly, in only one case, that of the murder of American Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl in 2002, have the killers of a journalist ever been brought to trial and sentenced in Pakistan. The investigation into Pearl's death and the subsequent trial and sentencing, though flawed, serve as a high-water mark for Pakistani jurisprudence. Saleem Shahzad's death remains unresolved, just as the many others over the years. And threats to Pakistani journalists don't let up.


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McNulty, a 17-year-old freshman, will be the No. 1 golfer in VCU's lineup Sept. 15-16 when the Rams open the year at the Tar Heel Intercollegiate tournament in Chapel Hill, N.C. McNulty earned the No. 1 position after winning VCU Coach Matt Ball's six-round (108-hole) qualifier. It's a remarkable development, given that McNulty wasn't even supposed to be on the team a little over a month ago.
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