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Announcing! The Green Building Academy 2018
We're thrilled to announce Peter McIntosh will be co-facilitating Long Way Home's inaugural Green Building Academy in Guatemala this year. Participants can expect a solid grounding and hands-on experience in green, sustainable building and construction practices, social development and a rich cultural immersion. The Academy will take place in Comalapa, Guatemala, and will draw on the expertise of the Academy's instructors, who for 9 years have built an 18-building school using state-of-the-art green and sustainable technologies and methods.
The Green Building Academy provides a menu of unique educational options that are relevant to both professionals and students inside AND outside of the construction industry. Guided by best practices in green construction, the Academy is dedicated to educating individuals and organizations, in both theory and practical application, about sustainable design, planning, and building practices. Participants will connect to their environment, and develop increased consciousness & competence relating to sustainability, environmental & ecological balance, and ethical & respectful community development. The Academy equips participants with the knowledge, skills, and dispositions to apply their creativity to design and construction using sustainable, unconventional materials and low-impact methodologies with potential for off-grid implementation.
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Thanks for an awesome 2017!
"The future belongs to the few of us still willing to get our hands dirty." – Roland Tiangco
As the end of the year approaches, we want to wish you well over the festive season, and thank you for your support in 2017. You helped us finish the Delft Early Childhood Development centre, start and almost complete a training centre for early childhood development in Delft, as well as host our two usual natural building courses and co-host a sustainable building course with earth and tyres in partnership with our friends Long Way Home. Prior to the course Long Way Home commissioned a manual for sustainable building which was authored by Peter McIntosh and Guy Williams (LWH).
During the past year, we were part of the design team for a new ECD in Strand with our focus on sustainable materials and passive solar design. It will be built from rammed earth, compressed earth brick and some ecobricks, offgrid and treat its own black water. This five star rated green building will serve a disadvantaged area in Strand for around 400 children. Unfortunately, it's on hold due to the current drought. We have also been giving design inputs on other City of Cape Town projects that are in various stages of planning. We are also working with Ikamva Labantu on using sustainable building in ECDCs in the NGO sector.
It has been a tough year, but a year of advances too. So we would like to give you an overview of the year, and to thank you, especially our donors, friends and volunteers, for the contributions you have made to the successes of the year.
We give you a very brief recap of the blog and then continue to update you on the Delft ECD, as well as our progress with the training centre. Continue reading
We need your help with our crowdfunding campaign
We've launched a crowdfunding campaign because we really need your help to finish building the edu-centre in Delft so carers from informal crèches can get training in early childhood development.
We are busy building a passive solar, earth sheltered building out of tyres, cob, compressed earth bricks and glass bottles at the Delft Early Childhood Development (ECD) centre. But, we need your help to finish building it. The building will be an edu-centre so carers from informal crèches can get training in early childhood development.
Please consider making a contribution to the campaign or spreading the word to people you know.
Following our involvement with building the Delft Early Childhood Development centre with natural and sustainable building materials we saw the space and need for an adult training centre there so that, amongst other things, carers from informal crèches in Delft and surrounding areas can receive training in early childhood development.
If you've ever been to a township you've seen how many children under the age of seven are often milling about, quietly entertaining themselves. They are starting their young lives at a distinct disadvantage as they will start primary school at age seven without any educational preparation. This is disastrous for these children and the future of our country. In the Cape Town area there are a staggering 18 000 children up to the age of 7 years old who do not attend an edu-care (according to local authority figures). Strong, inspiring and tenacious women (and occasionally men as well) qualify themselves as ECD teachers and operate an ECD from informal structures.
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It has been widely accepted that the first 1000 days in a child's life is critical to their, as well as society-at-large's health and wellbeing. During this period, children's brains can form 1,000 neural connections every second and these connections are the building blocks of their future. But, we need your help to complete the building…
What we have achieved to so far:
- Peter McIntosh has raised R120 000 from The Sophia foundation towards materials and has donated three months of his time towards the success of the project.
- We have provided employment for eight members of the local community during the building process.
- We have provided a month-long training sustainable building course including for architecture students of CPUT. The course was presented in collaboration with Guy Williams on behalf of international NGO Long Way Home from Guatemala.
- We have also used provided other learning opportunities for volunteers, architecture interns.
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With your help we can complete this building… Your contribution will go towards completing the following activities:
- Planning gum pole purloins to level to install roof sheets
- Installing IBR roof sheets
- Complete last two sections of ring beam (shutter/form and pour concrete)
- Source and make over 2000 more bottle bricks
- Install bottle bricks in cob above ring beam
- Cob scratch plaster coat, form coat and final lime plaster coat internally
- Form and final plaster coat on internal and external bottle walls
- Level and stamp floor
- Gravel, newspaper, cob and compressed earth brick floor layers
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- Final touches on tyre retaining wall and earth berm
- Front level ramp and paving threshold
- Painting fibre board on door-front
With your support we are making a difference… Please consider making a contribution to the campaign or spreading the word. Thank you!
Guest post: Hybrid alternative and natural building blocks at the Delft ECD (Early Childhood Development Centre)
In Delft, an impoverished township on the outskirts of the Cape Flats, local government is changing its approach to building early childhood development centres with a pioneering project showcasing a hybrid of natural building methods and up-cycled waste materials.
By Mary Anne Constable
This post first appeared on Earthworks Magazine in February 2017. We are re-posting it here with the permission of Young Africa Publishing and author Mary-Anne Constable.
Peter McIntosh, founder of the Natural Building Collective was the project coordinator for the alternative materials (natural and recycled) portion of the Delft ECD build.
The new Delft ECD (Early Childhood Development Centre) represents the first time that government – in this case the City of Cape Town – has significantly integrated alternative and unconventional building methods for the construction of a public building.
The considered design of the Delft ECD building is an example that will make an essential contribution to the development of South Africa's youngest residents. The alternative building materials, which include both natural methods (compressed earth bricks and cob) and recycled waste materials (ecobricks, tyres, glass bottles), deviate from conventional brick and concrete, while creating a healthy environment. Continue reading

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Easter Sunday 1873, Colfax, Louisiana: A white militia of Confederate veterans-turned-vigilantes ousts the elected town government and, in a gruesome killing spree, attacks the black community there, massacring dozens of people. This horrifying episode began an insurgency that changed the course of American history. White Southern Democrats were emboldened to further action, and for several years they waged a campaign of political terrorism aiming to overturn the Fourteenth and Fifteenth amendments and challenge President Grant's support for the emergent structures of black political power. Redemption-which is based on a wealth of military records, congressional investigations, memoirs, press reports, and the invaluable personal and public papers of Adelbert Ames, the young war hero from Maine who was Mississippi's governor at the time-is the first book to describe in uncompromising detail this organized racial violence, which reached its apogee in Mississippi in 1875. We are still living with the consequences. Book jacket.
Author Notes
Nicholas Lemann, a native of New Orleans, developed an interest in journalism during his teenage years. This eagerness to write was coupled with a keen interest in United States history and literature. He pooled his curiosities, earning a degree in American literature and history from Harvard University in 1976.
Journalism became Lemann's main occupation, as he built his writing career through working for the Washington Monthly, Texas Monthly, and the Washington Post. In 1983, he joined the Atlantic Monthly staff. His love for American history peaked with the publication of his commentary on the African-American migration to Chicago in search of jobs and a better life.
Lemann's book, The Promised Land, captured the 1991 Los Angeles Times Book Prize in journalism. His articles span many interests, from book reviews and political topics to travel stories about the Catskill Mountains and other natural wonders. He contributes many articles, not only to the Atlantic Monthly but to several other magazines as well.
Nicholas Lemann, his wife Dominique Browning, and their two sons live in New York City.
(Bowker Author Biography) Nicholas Lemann was born in New Orleans in 1954. He has been a journalist for more than twenty years. His last book was the prizewinning The Promised Land: The Great Black Migration and How It Changed America. He lives in Pelham, New York.
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Publisher's Weekly Review
Historians agree that Reconstruction was a conflict in which the good guys lost. Lemann (The Promised Land) hammers the point home with a grim account of post-Civil War Mississippi. His central figure is Adelbert Ames, a Union general and war hero who fought to preserve the Union, despised abolitionists and considered African-Americans an inferior race. Appointed provisional governor of postwar Mississippi, he was horrified at the violence that whites, a minority, used against blacks trying to vote. As military commander, he provided enough security to ensure a Republican victory in 1869 state elections (blacks voted Republican until the 1930s), became an advocate of civil rights and was elected senator in 1870 and governor in 1873. He worked hard to protect the freedmen but failed, and Lemann's description of the terror campaign against Mississippi blacks makes depressing reading. The book's title refers to the popular version of Reconstruction in which valiant Southern whites "redeemed" their states from corrupt carpetbaggers and ignorant freedmen. Agreeing with recent scholars who consider this another Civil War myth, Lemann delivers an engrossing but painful account of a disgraceful episode in American history. (Sept.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved
Booklist Review
Lemann follows up where W. E. B. DuBois left off in his essay on Reconstruction with the famous line that "the problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line." Author of The Promised Land: The Great Black Migration and How It Changed America 0 (1991), Lemann examines the aftermath of the Civil War and the struggle to incorporate former slaves into politics and society in\b \b0 Mississippi. Drawing on military records, memoirs, press reports, and congressional investigations, Lemann details the political machinations of whites, through vigilantism and chicanery, to deprive the freedmen of their rights as citizens under the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments. He focuses on the life of Adelbert Ames, the war hero who was named Mississippi's governor and found himself pleading with President Grant to send federal troops to uphold the law. When Grant wavered, white supremacists retook the state, "redeeming" it from Reconstruction efforts and setting the groundwork for generations of white control and racial violence with consequences that reverberate in present race relations. --Vanessa Bush Copyright 2006 Booklist
Kirkus Review
The Civil War ended not with Lee's surrender in 1865, but ten years later, with the triumph of white supremacy throughout the unrepentant South. After an opening chapter on anti-black violence in Colfax, La., in 1871, Lemann (The Big Test, 1999) turns to Adelbert Ames (1835-1933), a West Point graduate who fought in 16 Civil War battles and who rose to the rank of brigadier general, won a Medal of Honor, then commanded federal troops overseeing Reconstruction in the South. Under his supervision, Mississippi enacted a constitution granting former slaves the vote, and elected a largely Republican legislature that, in 1870, sent Ames to the U.S. Senate. In Washington, he met and married Blanche Butler, daughter of a union general widely viewed as a possible successor to U.S. Grant as president. But with Ames's 1873 election as governor of Mississippi, the tide began to turn. Eager to recapture power, white Mississippians began a campaign of ruthless intimidation. Republican rallies were broken up by Democratic gunmen who blamed the violence on blacks. In Vicksburg, armed whites ousted the Republican sheriff and murdered anyone who dared resist their rule. Ames asked for federal troops to restore order. But the president, more concerned with courting Northern businessmen, vacillated. Finally, the opposing parties agreed to end the violence--too late to save the Republicans. The 1876 election saw Mississippi blacks staying away from the polls in droves; those who attempted to vote were driven away at gunpoint. In the end, Ames resigned his governorship to avoid impeachment, and Reconstruction came to an end. Southern blacks would not receive full citizenship for nearly another century. A sobering account of the true end of Reconstruction, long suppressed in favor of the self-serving fairy tale peddled by the victors. Copyright ©Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.
Library Journal Review
Focusing on the 1873-75 race war that ex-Confederate vigilante White Leaguers waged in Louisiana and Mississippi, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Lemann (dean, Sch. of Journalism, Columbia Univ.; The Promised Land: The Great Black Migration and How It Changed America) illustrates the Civil War's meaning as a black-and-white lived experience in the postwar South. Collapsing history into crystalline moments filled not simply with facts but with historic truths, Lemann details the white supremacists' solution to the obvious postwar problem of establishing a place for ex-slaves. With unrestrained antiblack, political violence, Lemann explains, Southern whites rejected the postwar U.S. theory of freedom and sought to "redeem" their vision of America as a land of white supremacy. Using public and private papers, especially those of war hero and carpetbag Mississippi governor Adelbert Ames and his wife, Blanche Butler, Lemann personalizes the gruesome racial politics from which U.S. apartheid and its legacies emerged with the nation's acquiescence. Historians and general readers will find his work scandalously engrossing. Highly recommended for collections on Southern history, U.S. race relations, and the Civil War era.-Thomas J. Davis, Arizona State Univ., Tempe (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Prologue Colfax, Louisiana Easter Sunday, April 13, 1873 The Negroes had been in control of the village for three weeks now, and it was plain that something terrible was going to happen. Their leaders had left for New Orleans on Wednesday to try to get help--meaning, they hoped, a detachment of police or, even better, federal troops, who would come to protect the people in the village. The white militia was encamped out in the countryside a few miles away, and every day it was being reinforced with volunteers, mostly Confederate veterans who had heard the whites' call for help, who had taken their shotguns and six-shooters and muskets and Springfield rifles from the Civil War down from the wall and saddled up their horses, and who had come to Colfax to fight for white supremacy. The Negroes, some of them at least, had guns, too, Enfield rifles shipped up from New Orleans in boxes and an assortment of lesser firearms, but by now there were many more people than guns to go around--hundreds of people, including women and children, who had come to Colfax because they feared the whites' bursting in on their homes and killing them. The Negro headquarters was the county courthouse, a two-story converted stable from a sugarcane plantation. At a short distance from it they had dug rudimentary breastworks, manned by sentries, to stave off the inevitable attack. All around, the Negroes from the countryside were camped out. Deeply lodged in the consciousness of the South was the ever-present possibility of a race war in which, in each side's version, it would be mercilessly slaughtered by the other. If the anticipated deaths themselves were not horrible enough, unspeakable atrocities would make them more so. Now the inevitable was about to happen, and the cause was something that registered, in that time and place, as being literally a matter of life and death: politics. The Civil War was not yet ten years in the past. The Deep South was still in a raw condition not far removed from war. The two political parties and the two races were still violently opposed to each other. The great national questions the war had raised had by no means been settled. They were going to be settled now, with profound and lasting consequences for the whole United States, in places like rural Louisiana, by hard men with intensely local concerns, through the means of an armed struggle that, for all the potency of the load of racial fantasy it carried, was really about who could vote and hold government office. Colfax, Louisiana, was not really a town--it was more a settlement, containing just five or six structures, and new even to that status. It was not insignificant, though. It sat in the exact center of the state on the banks of the Red River, a sugarcane or cotton planter's dream waterway because it was navigable in the countryside of central Louisiana, where roads were poor and railroads nonexistent, and because its floods had deposited a thick, rich layer of alluvial soil along its banks. The land around Colfax was lushly green and flat, and there was money in it. Local legend had it that Simon Legree, the plantation overseer in Uncle Tom's Cabin who, in the public mind, symbolized the cruelty of American slavery, was based on a man named Robert McAlpin, who ran a plantation near Colfax called Hidden Hill, which Harriet Beecher Stowe had visited while preparing her book. The area around Colfax was lightly settled, with nearly impenetrable swamps and uncleared woods and labyrinthine bayous; within easy memory, it had been wild country where desperate, lawless people could live free from social control, and even now it was common to hear about sightings of wild animals and to see families of settlers in covered wagons passing by on their way to Texas. Politically, Colfax was part of an experiment, a new Louisiana that would resemble the abolitionists' prewar dream of how the South should be after its defeat in the Civil War. In 1868 a racially integrated (black-and-tan) Republican state legislature had created a new parish along the north bank of the Red River, drawing its boundaries so as to ensure that its local government would be Republican thanks to a Negro population majority. The parish was named Grant after the Republican president of the United States, Ulysses S. Grant, and its seat was named Colfax after the Republican vice president, Schuyler Colfax. To most local whites, these were unpleasantly resonant names: only a decade earlier, federal troops under General Grant's ultimate command--he was not far away, in Mississippi--had, as one white man from Colfax later remembered it, "ravaged" the Red River country using techniques taught them by the same "experts in extermination" that Grant's leading subordinate, General William Tecumseh Sherman, later used in his notoriously destructive march through Georgia. "If it were in my power, I would, as soon as possible, change the name of Grant Parish to Lee and the site of her dispensatory of justice to Davis," another white resident asserted, referring to the Confederacy's commanding general and its president. On Easter Sunday 1873, Louisiana was in a state of low-grade warfare. In 1872, while President Grant was being reelected in a landslide, Louisiana had had a close and corrupt election. Both sides claimed victory, and now the state had two governors and two state legislatures, one Democratic and one Republican. A month after Election Day, federal troops dispatched by President Grant arrived in New Orleans, took control of the statehouse, expelled the Democratic government, and installed the Republicans. Grant Parish, appropriately enough given the condition of the state, had two political leaders, one from each party, each claiming control over the local police function--the Republican a black Union veteran, born a slave, named William Ward, the Democrat a white Confederate veteran named Christopher Columbus Nash. "In his face he bears the indications of all the worst qualities of his race and none of the better," a white organization later wrote about Ward; and, to judge by the one surviving photograph of Nash, he was a pretty rough character, too, with a full untrimmed black beard and close-set piercing eyes. Both men had had long, harsh experiences during the Civil War--extensive combat, injury, and imprisonment. They had come, separately of course, to the raw Red River country after the war because they saw opportunity there--specifically political opportunity. One evening in 1871 Columbus Nash, then deputy sheriff of Grant Parish, led a mob of fifty armed white men to a house outside Colfax where two black Republican officeholders were living. The white men set the house on fire and shot the Negroes when they emerged; one of them survived by playing dead until the whites had left and then escaping. Legally, this incident fell under the category of law enforcement rather than crime, and Nash continued to serve as sheriff. William Ward was said to have killed a white man, or maybe two, that same year, though unlike the incident involving Nash, it was more a popular legend than a proven fact. In the version of the story most often told by the white people in Colfax, Ward had taken his victim out on the river in a skiff, hacked him to pieces with a hatchet, and dumped his remains overboard. When the Republicans got the upper hand in New Orleans at the outset of 1873, thanks to the help of the U.S. Army, both Nash and Ward made it known that they wanted to be put in political authority in Grant Parish. The Republican governor, William Pitt Kellogg, vacillated, which was the worst thing he could do for the cause of stability in Grant Parish, and then appointed Ward's Republican forces. A meeting was held at the governor's office in New Orleans in March, with Ward, one of his lieutenants, and two Democrats allied with Columbus Nash. In the presence of the governor, the two sides started arguing, and one of the Democrats warned that if Nash was not made sheriff, there would be bloodshed. Ward returned to Colfax, called together his Republican political allies, and, unable to effect a peaceful transition of power because the Democrats wouldn't permit it, broke into the courthouse at night and took over the machinery of parish government, such as it was. To the whites that was intolerable. They could not accept Negro rule in Colfax, with the freed-slave, plantation-hand majority having legal authority over their former masters. In fact, from the whites' perspective, the situation hadn't been tolerable for quite some time--probably since antislavery sentiment had become an important force in national politics, years before the Civil War began. Just after the war, white Louisianans had been able to establish firm political control over the state; then, from 1868 to 1872, Louisiana had been ruled by a biracial, moderate, and corrupt Republican regime, and so had Grant Parish. Whether that kind of government could have lasted is impossible to say, because it didn't last, but even before a blacker, more radical version of the Republican Party took power, whites in Grant Parish felt they were living in an upside-down nightmare world. In a deep-rural, almost frontier culture, where most communication was by word of mouth, where they were greatly outnumbered, and where racial issues carried the heaviest possible economic, political, and psychological load, rumor and myth were rife, and they mattered just about as much as reality--mattered enough, anyway, to determine what people thought and did. A woman named Kate K. Grant, whose family owned a plantation just across the Red River from Colfax, wrote a never-published novel called "From Blue to Gray; or, The Battle of Colfax." The subtitle is "A Woman's Tribute of Admiration to the Heroes of Grant and Her Sister Parishes Who Fought So Valiantly Side by Side with Sheriff C. C. Nash." Nash himself, along with a few dozen of his comrades in arms, signed an accompanying endorsement of the work, evidently meant to be sent to publishers, that said, "In our opinion she has written a book which in point of literary finish and breadth of research would do justice to the most accomplished and famed litterateur of the land." That attests not to the merit of the novel, which is at best a routine Victorian potboiler, but to its standing as a true representation of the whites' preferred version of events in Grant Parish. Negroes, in the view of "From Blue to Gray," are a simple people who thrive under conditions of forced labor, and who under other conditions deteriorate into idleness or, worse, violent rage at whites. Political activity--never the Negroes' own idea or preference, but instead something planted in their malleable minds by scheming, self-interested whites--is the prime force pushing them away from work and into mischief. In the first years after emancipation in 1863 and the ratification in 1870 of the Fifteenth Amendment, which gave Negroes the right to vote, this was not a terrible problem in Grant Parish, according to Kate Grant: "When the political fever has spent its force, when the simple Negro has been saturated with the pomp and excitement of mass meetings, barbecues, and the rest of the ridiculous hullaballoo, he will go back to his calm and he will work better if possible than before because of having learned the true nature of the men who pick him up and drop him at will. Old habits of industry will reassert themselves." But then Republicanism took a more ominous turn: "[S]trange white men appeared in the Quarters upon whose countenances the brand of Villainy was stamped. These tools of Radicalism sought the companionship of the black: ate with them; drank with them; lived with them on terms of perfect equality, embraced them also in the fulness of their new born affection. In a word they completely wormed themselves into the confidence of their unsuspecting dupes--the rascals gloried in their deception." After the 1872 election, when these Radicals took over the local Republican Party, "the negroes quit work; formed right societies to protest against the violence done their color on the other side, and with sullen looks and mutterings, showed the poison had done its work." Just as political activity led inevitably to lassitude, so lassitude led inevitably to crime. In white accounts, the Negroes, beginning with the election, rampaged through Grant Parish, stealing, threatening whites at gunpoint, and despoiling plantations. After they took over the courthouse in late March, such incidents became epidemic, it was said. All of them took place--or not--far outside the realm of a formal law-enforcement system, so it is impossible to determine their veracity; they were supremely important as stories that white people told each other, more than as data. The most widely repeated story was one of nightmare quite literally: A leading white citizen, whose custom it was to nap on a cot after his heavy plantation lunch, one postprandial afternoon during the political ascendancy of the Radical Republicans dreamed that a Negro mob came to his place, burned it to the ground, and killed his family. He woke up, told his wife about the dream--and just at that moment a "good Negro" arrived at the front door and reported that the mob was on its way. The man and his family escaped, just in time, to safety across the river, but in the pillage that followed (in the other side's version, it was merely a break-in by robbers when the family was out), the Negroes came upon a coffin containing the embalmed body of a long-dead daughter of the family. As the incident was breathlessly reported by the "good Negro" in "From Blue to Gray," "Dey picked dat pore little body outer hits coffin and flung hit out der winder, en sendin' der box after hit." Another horrified white report said, "They laid their destructive hands on the casket and threw it out of the house and left it there to the gaze of a howling mob, and at the mercy of the beasts or dogs that might come that way." This kind of profound symbolic violation of decency, rumors of which have accompanied violent ethnic conflict forever, was a short step from the most fundamental violation, the sexual kind. The whites of Grant Parish, like whites just about everywhere in the South where there was a large and now politically empowered black population, believed that the Negroes were poised to take that short step. The most breathlessly dramatic moment in "From Blue to Gray"--and that is saying a lot--is this: "Subsequently, a plot was discovered by Adolphe Layssard [a local planter]. He overheard a conversation that took place one night on his plantation and was able fortunately to give warning of the premeditated diabolism. The white men were to be trapped and the women and children thus left without protection were to be captured by the dastardly wretches who proposed (to use their own words) raising a new race of people. That this attempt would have been made, there is not a shadow of doubt. But for Mr. Layssard's warning, God knows if I would have had the courage to write the horrible fate of my sisters in Grant. I shudder even at the thought that such was designed for them. The shock of such fiendish plots unnerved Mr. Layssard--the fear of their fulfillment haunted him. To day he is the inmate of an Insane Asylum, driven there by the foul wretches whose atrocities led to the Battle of Colfax. His mental death, together with the blood of the slain, lies at their door." It is facile, perhaps, but irresistible to note that this unimaginable horror, the "new race of people," already existed copiously in Louisiana, which had a large, well-established mulatto population. Just across the river from Colfax, where Kate Grant lived, was a community of rich mulatto plantation owners. But these mixed-race Louisiana people had been born of black women and white fathers; the nightmare was the reverse, of a new race born of white mothers and black fathers. Perceiving how maximally high the stakes had become, far higher than most people would think a dispute over control of the offices of parish government entailed, the whites resolved to do what was required of them. A distance up the Red River from Colfax, in northwestern Louisiana, lived a remarkable former slave and Army veteran named Henry Adams who managed to pull off the almost unimaginably difficult feat of organizing a committee of five hundred Negroes to travel through the former Confederacy and, as he put it a few years later, "look into affairs and see the true condition of our race." During the years immediately following the Civil War, the committee's investigators went to every state in the South and compiled a record, which is deadpan in tone to the point of being stenographic and all the more powerful for that, of violence done to Negroes--a "statement of specific cases of outrage," every one of which went unpunished. For the ten years after the end of the Civil War, just in the upper Red River parishes of Louisiana, Adams's list contains the names of 683 victims. A typical section goes this way: 220th. Sam Maybury, whipped near to death by Lord Hill and Henry Smith, white men. He afterward died from the effects of the beating. This was in Mansfield, in December, 1865. Several other white men helped to beat him. 221st. A young colored man was killed on John McMillen's place by a colored man, in 1873. 222nd. Henry West, badly whipped by Butler Williams, in or near Mansfield, November 2nd, 1874, and since near beat him to death. 223rd. An old man (colored) was killed by Hersel ----, a white man, about cotton, while on their way to Shreveport, in the road, 1866. 224th. George, a colored man, killed on John McMillen's place by white man, 1873. 225th. Nancy Brooks, badly whipped by Davis, a white man, on Hammond Scott's place, in 1873. In 1875 General Philip Sheridan, the great Union cavalryman of the Civil War, was sent to Louisiana by President Grant to try to restore order; he made a careful investigation and reported that since the end of the war 2,141 Negroes had been killed by whites in Louisiana and 2,115 wounded--all these crimes, again, going unpunished. Henry Adams and his committee, concluding that the freed slaves could not safely live among their former masters, formed a "colonization council" and wrote to President Grant asking to be given land where they could settle and live in peace by themselves. The anti-Negro violence was an expression of racial hatred intertwined with, and intensified by, political conflict. Adams later testified before a U.S. Senate committee: "Now, in a great many parts of that country there our people most as well be slaves as to be free; because, in the first place, I will state this: that in some times, in times of politics, if they have any idea that the Republicans will carry a parish or ward, or something of that kind, why, they would do anything on God's earth. There aint nothing too mean for them to do to prevent it; nothing I can make mention of is too mean for them to do. If I am working on his place, and he has been laughing and talking with me, and I do everything he tells me to, yet in time of election he will crush me down, and even kill me, or do anything to me to carry his point. If he can't carry his point without killing me, he will kill me; but if he can carry his point without killing me, he will do that." Excerpted from Redemption: The Last Battle of the Civil War by Nicholas Lemann. Copyright (c) 2006 by Nicholas Lemann. Published in September 2006 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, LLC. All rights reserved. Excerpted from Redemption: The Last Battle of the Civil War by Nicholas Lemann All rights reserved by the original copyright owners. Excerpts are provided for display purposes only and may not be reproduced, reprinted or distributed without the written permission of the publisher.
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I installed the version 3.0.5, now I am trying to create one example, however, I am receiving errors, I did:
1. Created a Business Entity from PDSOE
2. Published from PAS, the test from Chorme worked fine - http://localhost:8810/Test_01/web/pdo/Test_01Service/Customer
3. Tested the service from POSTMANT, the service work fine
4. Created a project from KUIB 3.0.5 TestWeb_01
4.1 Try to create the DataSource, but I am receiving errors so:
To Service URI: http://localhost:8810/Test_01
To Catalog URI: http://localhost:8810/Test_01/web/pdo/Test_01Service/
4.2 If I choose the test button: I am receiving error:
Error 404
4.3 If I choose the "Add Data Provider" button: I am receiving error:
Requesting remote catalog failed. Status code: 406
4.4 I I change to Service URI: http://localhost:8810/Test_01/web/pdo/Test_01Service/ - the test button is test connection succeeded, but when I choose the "Add Data Provider" button: show the error 406
Thank you in advance.
NOTE: I used the KUIB 2.0 the same way, worked fine.
To me the catalog entry does not look correct. I would have expected it to be something like the following:
Hi Jeffrey,
Thank you. I can to see my mistake. Now, is OK.
Hello Diego
I am glad to hear that your code is running correctly now.


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I had to leave my family today. Life just became too hard and they knew it was my time. We had 16 years together and they gave me such a good life. We are so happy for all the time together. Sorry I can't be there today to get treats and hugs, there were so many. My family said they will always love me, and I believe them.
I had to leave my family today
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A world of joy and laughter – a world of fun.
Ellisha is an 6-yr old Indian girl who dreams about a world full of fun and happiness,
where there is no violence, no cruelty, no wicked people – a world where everybody
is nice to each other and lives happily.
She lives in USA with her parents but is very lonely. Both her parents work and
are very busy, so when she is all by herself, she dreams of a world of animals –
a set of friends that she will cherish forever.
Ella, the elephant
Isha, the bunny
Misty, the dog
Buddy, the macaw
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I have bibliographies in Microsoft Word documents, PDFs, and other text files. Can I import them into my Zotero library?
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Tuesday, December 30, 2008
My New Laptop!
The Acer Aspire One. This is one seriously small computer. Measuring in at only 9.8 inches across by 6.7 inches deep by a little over an inch tall, and weighing in at only about two pounds, it is easy to dismiss as a cool toy, reminiscent of the Cybiko.
But this is no toy. The one I bought has 1.6 GHz Intel Atom processor, 1GB of RAM and a 160 GB hard drive. The OS? No Vista here! Windows XP Home edition. It has built in 802.11g wireless networking, RJ11 socket for ethernet, three USB sockets, external socket for a monitor, mic and headphone jack, an SD Card socket and finally a multi-socket that will read SD cards and quite a few other things.
Oh. And mine is blue.
But they don't all come in one flavor. There are many different configurations for this laptop. Some have solid state hard drives (i.e. no spinning disk and quieter but less storage), more or less RAM, different processor speeds, and for those Linux lovers, several flavors come installed with Linpus Linux! I have read that installing other flavors of Linux on this machine is no problem at all.
Since this is such a small, inexpensive and simple unit, there is even a growing community of hardware hackers for this PC, doing things like home control, touch screen, media system control, security... and on and on...
The drawbacks... No CD or DVD drive, smaller screen size, and the speakers pretty much suck.
For $350, not a bad deal.
So, if you are looking for a little, rugged, inexpensive, powerful laptop to throw in your saddle bag or backpack, you might want to give this one a look.
PK, coming up, my notes from Day 3 of my trip - Eagle, Colorado to St. Francis, Kansas. Ahhh!!! The plaines!
4 comments:
- Stacy said...
I received an Asus eeePC as a Christmas present this year and I'm pretty happy with it so far. It's even better once you blow away the default Xandros Linux and install something reasonable like Debian. Mine has a 4Gb SSD, so space is at a premium. Switching to Debian took me from a 3.6Gb default install to a rather svelte 700Mb. (Yes, it really had only 400Mb of free space out of the box!)
Like you, I'm hoping that a tiny netbook will be useful in my future motorcycle travels.
- RazorsEdge2112 said...
Hi Stacy,
I was going to try SuSE but before I knew it, Visual Studio and MsSQL and MySQL and OO about a dozen other geeky things just seemed to install themselves! :-)
Ah, so you have an SSD. I would imagine it is nice and quiet. How is the battery life with an SSD?
Disk space - I really appreciate Linux for being able to let the user trim just about everything down to bare-bones minimum.
- Baron's Life said...
I've been looking at this computer and thinking of getting one. Should be a great tool for the road and probably more
Just came across your blog and very good reading so far! I recently bought an eeepc as well for a trip I did back in Oct..I ended up putting Fedora 10 on it a few weeks ago and it's performed wonderfully.
It's really nice to just be able to pop it into the tank bag and go..It has a 16G SSD as well so no spinning drives to worry about. Good luck with the rest of your trip!


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Our cover star Christina Hendricks brought some va-va-voom to last night's BAFTA Awards, looking gorgeous in her Vivienne Westwood gown.
The big winner of the night was The Artist, which picked up six awards at the ceremony, while Meryl Streep unsurprisingly took home the Best Actress award for her role as Maggie Thatcher - it looks like she's a shoe-in for the Oscar!
Her shoe fell off on her way to the podium, but Colin Firth was to the rescue, helping her put it back on while on stage in front of a crowd including Brad Pitt!
Meanwhile, British actress Hayley Atwell (Captain America) accused the ceremony of sexism after no female actors made it onto the shortlist for the Rising Star award - it went to Anuvahood's Adam Deacon last night.
She told the Daily Telegraph:
"There were girls on the longlist and I think it's really odd that girls haven't made it where guys have. We'd hope that gender doesn't really come into it and it's about the body of work that they produce that year, but it seems that hasn't been the case."
Let's hope there's a little more girl power on the list next year!
Check out all the winners below:
Best Film
The Artist
Outstanding British Film
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
Best Director
Michel Hazanavicius (The Artist)
Best Actor
Jean Dujardin (The Aritst)
Best Actress
Meryl Streep (The Iron Lady)
Best Supporting Actor
Christopher Plummer (Beginners)
Best Supporting Actress
Octavia Spencer (The Help)
Outstanding Debut
Best Foreign Language Film
The Skin I Live In
Best documentary
Best Animated Feature Film
Best Original Screenplay
The Artist
Best Adapted Screenplay
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
The Artist
Best Original Score
Ludovic Bource (The Artist)
Production Design
Costume Design
The Artist
Special Visual Effects
Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows - Part 2
Make-Up and Hair
The Iron Lady
Short Film
Pitch Black Heist
Short Animation
A Morning Stroll
Rising Star Award
Adam Deacon
Fellowship Award
Martin Scorsese
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around + vesping for making it possible!
the best way to see barcelona
around + vesping for making it possible!
'the best way to see barcelona' has 13 comments
March 4, 2014 @ 1:50 pm Katie Arruda
Spain is VERY high on my list of places to see ASAP! Thank you for the beautiful photos. Yummm that bread! Love your go pro photos too! I just got a go pro and I love how you use it to get cool angles and shots of you and the hub! Will travel with mine more!
I finally got my azores pics up – a little teaser so you can add this set of island on your list of must sees! http://runningaragnar.blogspot.com/2014/03/take-me-back-sao-miguel-azores-portugal.html
March 4, 2014 @ 3:09 pm Kate at Green Fashionista
Love that you went to Barcelona and Lisbon as we'll be going to both in a few months. GREAT tips! Definitely bookmarking these posts for research before we go :)
And as soon as I saw Mt. Tibidabo I immediately thought of Joey!
March 4, 2014 @ 7:36 pm nancy @ adore to adorn
great photos! I totally want to travel here one day and these photos make me want to do it even more!! looks amazing!
March 4, 2014 @ 9:14 pm Abby Rockwood
Glad you posted this! We are gonig to Barcelona in August before we head out on our cruise. I never would have thought of renting a Vespa, but its seems like so much fun:)
that is so fun you are going on a cruise out of barcelona! i would have never thought of getting vespas either, but of course chase did :) and i was so glad! it made it so we could see everything fast and in a fun, memorable way! can't wait to see pictures when you go in august!! xo
March 7, 2014 @ 11:38 pm Tiffany {A Touch of Grace}
Gorgeous photos as usual my dear! That flea market looks so cool! I would probably want to take it all home as well. :)
March 8, 2014 @ 10:09 pm Mimi Finerty
Barcelona is definitely on my to visit list. I have wanted to visit for ages but never got around to it. I just love the culture and art and architecture to see there. What a great way to see the city. I will keep it in mind when I finally get around to visiting.
We're going to Barcelona in April for a weekend and your posts have made me soooo excited! I love the idea of hiring a Vespa although neither of us have ridden one before…so my question is how easy are they to ride?
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April 24, 2014 @ 10:48 am Harley Perth
Nice Post!! what a beautiful array of pictures of this fantastic city! Your photos certainly show off the incredible versatility of Barcelona! Thanks for sharing with us.


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- Trees, birds, insects and wild flowers
- Excellent paths through the Reserve
- Formed around Hawes Water lake
Managed effectively by Natural England, Gait Barrows Nature Reserve is a naturalists delight.Not being an expert myself I consulted the web and found it is one of few homes of the extremely rare Lady's Slipper Orchid – my orchid viewing ex work colleague Pauline would have been very impressed. The walk through the reserve is interesting for us non botanists with the lake at its heart ,Hawes Water is a centre for birds, marshes and unusual butterflies whilst the woodland is a mix of yew, oak and ash, creating a wonderful canopy in the sunlight or when it is raining.
Recommend: Spring and early summer are best times to visit, when the flowering plants are out.
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|Start Point:
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|Height to Climb:
|12 ms (39 feet)
|Easy, wide paths, in fact they are wheel chair/push chair friendly
|Eating & Drinking:
|Silverdale is only 1 mile away and has a hotel serving tea, food and somewhere to stay
|Similar Walks Nearby:
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Maggie was devastated. Her little one had been molested, little doubt about that. That was awful, terrible, soul crushing, but DFCS was blaming her husband. She just knew he would never do such a thing. He loved that little girl more than life itself. He was a devoted daddy. Maggie couldn't have asked for Devin to be a more stand up guy when their baby was born. Devin couldn't do such a thing.
Back to School, Children
It's that time of year again! It's Back to School for our children, only this year without the benefit of a tax free weekend. But that's another story for another day. As a society, we mark the passage of childhood in a number of ways, and the progress from one school grade to the next is near the top of that list. If you are on social media, I have no doubt your newsfeed is filled with pictures of your family and friends' children on their first day of "x" grade. Mine certainly is and it's a sweet departure from some of the other topics I've grown accustomed to (numb to) in my social media. Often the picture is accompanied by a sincere, sweetly written post by the parent about how bittersweet the moment is, how quickly the years are ticking by, how they hope their child has a great year.
Bring Your Daughter to Work Day
This is a post about "mansplaining" and misogyny in the courtroom. This is a post dedicated to all the women out there who come in and crush it in the courtroom. Oftentimes in heels or itchy pantyhose. Oftentimes after dropping their little ones off - that is, after they've fed/bathed/clothed them. This is a post for the women who can't be aggressive without being called the "b" word, or who feel like they have to compensate for not being a man in a man-driven profession and go too hard in the paint, too adversarially. This is a post I've been wanting to write for a while, because I see this type of thing going on and have been the butt of it myself.
The Ring Didn't Mean A Thing!
This is it! The moment you have been dreaming of since you were a child. A ring has been purchased and exchanged. You and your betrothed are parading around town shining your love light as far as you possibly can. There are dozens of heavy bridal magazines arriving in your mailbox weekly and a lot of decisions are being made for the big day.
Motion to Produce the Children
Tonight's post on producing children was written by our Marietta divorce attorney, Alyssa Blanchard.
Children: Blurred Lines
Tonight's post about children and blurred lines was written by our Lawrenceville attorney, Brandy Alexander.
Working Moms and Children - There is Nothing to Feel Guilty About
Tonight's post about Working Moms and children was written by our working mom, Marietta divorce attorney, Jeannine Lowery.
Children, It's a good year to lose a few pounds.
Tonight's post about our children was written by our Lawrenceville Family Law attorney, Wesley Wilson.


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The Naval Museum is the former stock exchange of St. Petersburg. It overlooks the Neva River and is situated directly between the Hermitage and Peter and Paul Fortress. The influence for the design is Greek and was constructed in the early 1800's. In the center of the building is a sculpture of the Greek God Neptune, who riding a chariot drawn by sea horses. The picture above nicely shows this impressive statue.
Inside the museum are many fascinating pieces, including the boat that Peter the Great used to learn to sail. There is a vast collection of ship models from all over the word and from many eras. It also includes naval items from the Soviet Era, including missiles, bombs and flags. One of these missiles actually takes on two stories! My favorite part of excursions in this museum is pointing out the different hand carved faces, which were taken from the front of ships after they were decommissioned.
The naval museum is an important part of your visit to St. Petersburg for anybody that has a passion for the sea or has a naval background. The Greek architecture is also very interesting, as is the museums history as the stock exchange. There is even talk that the museum will be moved to another location and the exchange once again reopened. The descriptions are not in the English language, so be sure to request me as your St. Petersburg tour guide if you'd like to visit this museum.


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With the money you earn when you defeat your enemy, you can buy your armors and repair your castle. You should get enough ammo to be ready to fight with your enemy.
A group of evildoers who have a design on your beautiful princess invaded your kingdom. Defeat the enemy using your powerful weapons. To protect your kingdom and the princess, you have no time to take a rest.
Unlimited stages. You can keep playing until defeated.
Three different levels of difficulty.
Eight different types of weapons.
Seventeen types of enemy with different characteristics.
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I made another round of Frank's Red Hot flavored noodles. I dressed the noodles with our buttermilk bolognese. I finished the pasta with a spoonful of our Frank's bulletproof beurre monte. The noodle flavor stood up to the rich sauce. The beurre monte added a final richness to the bowl of pasta.
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After finding one service tee improperly installed on a new PE gas main, a gas utility in the northeastern US had to inspect every service tee in the area to confirm all services tees was installed properly. Rather than digging hundreds of excavations in a quiet, residential neighborhood, this gas utility looked to trenchless technology and new methods to significantly reduce costly and disruptive excavation by 87%.
Client : Undisclosed Gas Distribution Utility
Location : Northeast US
Project Duration : 17 days
Project Completed : October 2014
Example of an improper tee installation. The cutter has not fully penetrated into the gas main.
Example of a successful tee installation. The cutter protrudes slightly into the gas main.
In order to pass inspection, the mechanical cutter of the PE bolt style service tee must fully cut through the wall of the gas main. This works to secure the tee in place and ensure the flow of gas to the customer is not blocked. Using the patented PRX250 Live Gas Main Inspection Camera System, ULC Robotics' crews inspected multiple tee installations from a single excavation.
ULC Robotics worked closely with the gas utility to plan strategic entry points that maximized camera travel distances and validate tee installations in real time.
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Using ULC Robotics' In-Pipe Locating service, our crews were able to inspect 286 tees through 38 excavations. The use of live gas main cctv cameras reduced excavation by 87%. Data obtained through camera inspection of the plastic gas distribution mains showed that 35% of the installed tees did not pass inspection. With the ability to locate the camera from above ground, ULC Robotics was able to tell the gas utility exactly where to dig. Because the gas main camera inspection is performed live, there was no disruption of service to customers.


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An interesting thing I learned with Exchange 2007 and Outlook 2007, If you are running the latter than Exchange 2007 must have Autodiscovery installed and configured properly. Microsoft Technet has a decent article on how to set up and properly configure Autodiscovery.
It is importent to note that autodiscover.yourdomain.com has it's own seperate SSL certificate for things to work properly. This is an additional certificate to the one Outlook Web Access and Outlook Anywhere require to work properly.


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Margo is the oldest of the three girls Gru adopted to grab a shrink ray. Margo is less childish than Edith and Agnes and usually wants to do things by the book like starting with the A's than the B's and so on and so forth. Although she loves to have a little fun such as having fun on a roller-coaster or destroying booths that cheat people out of their money. She is also very independent and stubborn. When Gru wanted them to deliver cookies first she insisted that they had to attend ballet practice. Gru could not convince her otherwise.
She is very slow to trust, probably from years of broken promises and disappointments. Somehow Gru makes up for all his faults and Margo accepts him as her dad.
This cubeecraft features Margo from Despicable Me. She is wearing her iconic Lorax t-shirt with her jacket and plaid skirt. This cubeecraft is free to download but I do take donations. Cubeecrafts take a while to make and any amount will help keep the hobby alive.
To Build the Cubeecraft:
Materials needed:
Card stock
x-acto knife
To make:
1. Cut out each item along the outer black lines.
2. Cut along the white on each tab using the x-acto knife
3. Cut along each red line using the x-acto knife
4. Fold along each inner solid black line and slide each tab into the slots you created with an x-acto knife to form a cube of the head, body, arms, and feet
5. Slide the arms through the red slots on either side of the body.
6. Slide the feet through the red slots at the base of the body.
7. Slide the now completed body through the red lots of the head.
She is now complete
Use the image above for an example of how she should look when completed.
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I've just read Michael Tomasello's Constructing a Language (2003), and no, it's not about conlangs. It's about how children acquire language. It's one of the best books on language I've read; also one of the most difficult.
As adumbrated in Chapter 1, the Generative Grammar hypothesis focuses only on grammar and claims that the human species has evolved during its phylogeny a genetically based universal grammar.
Jeez, don't open with a joke or anything.
Contra Chomsky
I already reviewed an essay of Tomasello's; the book is an extended form. In brief, he destroys the idea of the poverty of the stimulus. Chomsky was reacting against Skinner's stimulus-response notion of language, rightfully pointing out that there has to be a good deal of mental machinery dealing with language— language is nothing like a conditioned response. His mistake was to assume that this machinery was innate— that children don't hear enough language to deduce its principles. As Tomasello shows, reviewing study after study, there is no evidence for this. Children learn most easily precisely those constructions they hear the most often, and the more difficult constructions take longest to learn.
In later years Chomsky, faced with the vast array of human languages, elaborated the idea of parameters: there are a bunch of switches (OS or SO? pro-drop or not? AN or NA?) which determine a language's particular grammar; all the child has to do is learn what the settings are for the language she hears. Again, the evidence is against this. Simply put, children don't suddenly acquire settings; their competence increases slowly and (this is a key point) item by item, construction by construction. There's not a sudden point where (say) they realize that English isn't pro-drop. They mix constructions with pronouns and those without.
A major argument for innateness is that children learn languages "naturally", supposedly within a window of opportunity and much easier than adults. I've addressed this before, and Tomasello repeats some of the same objections, but adds a good new one: children have the advantage of having no first-language interference.
How do children learn language? We know most about the years from 1 to 4, which have been best studied. Tomasello doesn't believe in a language organ at all; he maintains that human language depends simply on human cognitive abilities, and the key one, appearing at about 2 years of age, is the ability to maintain joint attentional frames… that is, the child interacts with an adult, about some situation. The key word is attention: the child only now can understand that others have mental states, and seek to affect them. Animal language is all about expressing states: the animal is horny or hungry or wants to go home, or sees a predator. Other animals may react to these expressions, but they're not intended as communication— in fact the animal is quite likely to make the same expressions when alone. What distinguishes human language is the ability to model other minds (and thus to try to affect them).
Joint attentional frames are Tomasello's response to Quine's dilemma about ostension: pointing to a rabbit, do we mean the rabbit, the rabbit's foot, the act of running, the color of the fur, or a bag of rabbit parts?
Tomasello points out, by the way, that ostension is of less use than we might think in language learning. Verbs, for instance, are most often used not to point out an ongoing action, but to describe one that just occurred or that's about to occur— neither of these are things that can be pointed to. Even nouns often occur when not present ("Where's Daddy?" "What does a cow say?").
What the frames provide is meaning and context. Basically, toddlers learn language because it's the commentary to a situation they already understand. (To put it another way, if you leave the TV on, they won't learn about elections or American Idol. There's no attentional frame to give them a handle on the words from the TV, so they don't learn anything from it.) A child won't learn 'rabbit' from a random act of pointing. They learn the word in a familiar, information-rich context: playing with a pet, visiting a zoo, reading a book, whatever. They pretty much already understand what the adult is doing and what the utterance means, and they can use that to figure out what any unfamiliar words mean.
Bag those trees
Tomasello rejects generative grammar and formal linguistics entirely. The language organ hypothesis posits that children have a full adult understanding of grammar and only need to learn how to activate it. This just doesn't match the years-long struggle children have to acquire language and the mistakes they make.
How do they acquire language? Item by item— and the items may be words, phrases with open slots, or entire constructions (e.g. passive voice). The evidence is that they don't learn to link up these items right away. E.g., learning the verb hit, they don't really have a concept of the verb's subject and object. They learn the word's particular slots: hitter and hittee. It's only much later that they abstract out general syntactic categories like subject; and particular items may indeed remain as anomalies in adult speech.
As an example, generative grammar treats questions as a transformation of statements… "Where's the rabbit?" is related to locatives like "The rabbit is in the cage." But Tomasello points out that for many children, the first multi-word constructions they produce are questions: where X, what's X? They can hardly be transforming statements when they're not producing statements yet. Rather, they learn the questions because they hear similar questions from adults.
Some aspects of language are delayed because they require more cognitive sophistication. The proper use of pronouns and definite articles, for instance, requires an understanding of what other people know. Young children use these features based only on what they themselves know. There are items and constructions that aren't mastered until well unto school age.
Further research needed
The book starts with words and simple constructions, and progresses to more complicateed ones. It gets weaker as it goes on, not because Tomasello's argument declines, but because the research gets thinner. There just aren't enough studies of how children learn the more complex constructions of their language.
Still, his usage-based linguistics is perhaps the first overall theory of language that strikes me as being on the right track in general. He rejects generative syntax and innate linguistic competence entirely, and that may be going too far. But as a heuristic, it's completely correct: we should explain as much as we can with general cognitive abilities before positing language-specific ones.
Chomskyan linguistics in particular seems like arid speculation verging on pseudo-science. The whole idea of parameters, for instance, is an invitation to fool oneself: any anomalous data can be swept under the rug by adding a new parameter. The best alternatives so far have been people who are more sensible (e.g. Lakoff and McCawley) but who still are very far from the neurochemistry of the brain. I've long felt that we won't be getting near the truth till linguistics is a lot more like color theory: read Hardin's Color for Philosophers and note how much vision and color perception derive directly from facts about neurons.
Tomasello isn't at the neural level yet, but he deals refreshingly in facts, both facts about child language acquisition and facts about human cognitive development. It doesn't exactly liven up the book, but a few decades of this and I think we'll get a whole lot closer to exactly how we do this language thing we do.


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Running is an ideal symmetrical activity for keeping fit. However, it is common for people to blame running for injuries rather than accept that it may be how they run that is at fault. Is there more to running than just putting one foot in front of the other?
The answer appears to be yes! If it were as simple as this there would not be so many running-related injuries. Observe the many different styles, or interpretations, of running and it is obvious that we may not necessarily know how to put one foot in front of the other! What should be an ideal way to improve and maintain fitness is often the cause of many problems. A large percentage of runners, whether running for fun or as part of a training programme, do not seek coaching. We assume it is within our ability to run as we did when young. However we cannot suddenly change our body and attitude when going for a run. How we use ourselves during the day will have an impact on running and if we spend hours slumped at our desk or on the car, our style will reflect the asymmetric nature of a body that has lost the poise of youth.
Our approach to any type of training is susceptible to habit. If we keep doing the same things we will get the same result, yet this is exactly what most of us do. Try the following in place of your usual routine. If you feel you do not want to interrupt your schedule for fear of your performance suffering, you may well be a slave to habit. Leave your stopwatch at home to avoid giving any consideration to the time.
Following your warm up, try walking the first two hundred yards. Enjoy the ease of the movement and let your legs swing from the hip joints, note these are located at the front of your pelvis. Allow your arms to swing like pendulums from your shoulder joints. Be aware of the ground beneath your feet and think of 'walking tall' by using the upward thrust from the ground in response to your body weight. Before you start to run let the arms swing faster without losing form and allow the legs to match the speed.
The next stage is important. Before you move up to a running pace, see if you start to prepare for the effort by holding your breath, stiffening your neck or lifting the shoulders in anticipation of effort. Any unnecessary tension applied at this point is likely to be carried throughout the duration of the run. Try to make the transition from walking to running without additional effort. Allow the arms to bend at the elbow and keep them swinging in a linear motion. Think of the legs swinging from the hips and raise the legs with the knee leading the move.
Once the knee has been raised, the lower leg can be allowed to swing through. The common kicking action of most runners increases the workload on the quadriceps, and in my view totally unnecessary. Be conscious of the hip, knee and ankle joints working together in the movement. As with walking tall, think of running tall to utilise the force of gravity. This may sound a little strange initially but the ground is where the force comes from that moves us forward. Be wary of trying to hold yourself up to achieve an upright position. If you can remove unnecessary effort, your body will attain an effortless upright stance due to the absence of inappropriate muscular activity.
The stimulus to return to your normal way of running will be very strong, as this would be the most familiar. If the new way feels wrong you are on the right track - this will not be your comfortable habitual style. Resist the urge to get it right and continue the experiment for as long as possible, thinking up through the spine and letting the limbs move freely. Try changing the speed of the arm movement to regulate the pace. Remember to monitor whether you have stiffened the neck. A head pulled back by tightening the neck and trapezius puts more pressure on the back and ultimately affects the whole movement.
At some point along the route allow, the arms to stop swinging and drop in front of your hips, an action common with many runners. Observe what this does to your back. You will notice the back starts to twist and shoulders roll. The movement of the psoas muscle, in the lower back, requires a balancing action in the upper trunk to maintain form. This unnecessary twist reduces efficiency by throwing weight in the wrong direction. Return to swinging the arms and observe how the twisting action disappears.The most common response to the thought of stepping up the pace is to put more effort into the stride. If the legs are already being over worked due to a less than efficient technique, the centre of the brain (motor cortex) that initiates the action has to send more impulses adding to the traffic in the feedback loop. We have the sensation that we are running quicker because of the increased effort, but are we using our energy efficiently?
When you want to increase your speed try the following method. Initially, when you have decided to quicken the pace, observe what you normally do to achieve this. After a minute, slow down to a comfortable jogging pace and again think about raising the pace. This time do not think about running faster but instead just move your arms quicker. If we think of only moving the arms faster, requiring less energy, the legs will match the speed. Try the exercise and experience the difference. The first time you speed up you will use your usual habitual method, the second will feel different because it will be unfamiliar. Try experimenting with your running, always with the goal of giving an alternative approach a chance. If you are experiencing injuries or loss of form first check your style, get someone to watch or take a video. If its habitual actions that are the cause, you will be the last person to notice - because you are the habit!
Running coach legend Percy Cerutty, who coached Olympic Gold medalist Herb Elliot, stated:
"The head rests loosely on the shoulders, that is, is not held rigid. It should be capable of movement as the needs of the athlete demand. In my techniques I often test this rigidity of an athlete. Many are quite incapable of turning their heads freely on their neck and shoulders. Any rigidity here spreads right through the whole musculature. Keep the head and neck free and the rest of the moving parts will tend to be free."
Less is more!
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A Cardio Snobs Workout
As I peruse the pages of various holiday issues of my favorite fitness/womens magazines I notice many articles about the benefits of practicing yoga at this stressful time of year. At the risk of sounding like a cardio snob, if I have 30 minutes a day (if I'm lucky) and i have to get into a special outfit in about a month and a half.
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Too Much Water Can Kill
Long distance runners and other endurance athletes have long been educated to believe that drinking lots of fluids during a long distance or endurance event was critical. And if you didn't drink enough water, you ran the risk of dehydration.
How To Start a Running Program
Running or jogging is one of the best ways there is to lose weight fast. It burns tons of calories and gets your body burning fat.
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Aerobic Activity Burns Fat
Aerobic activity is any exercise that helps you use oxygen more efficiently. It gets your heart pumping faster, makes you sweat and quickens your breath.
Maximum Cardio
Depending on your goals and body type, different amounts of cardio may be required. A lean "hard-gainer" trying to add mass may benefit from only one or two cardiovascular sessions per week.
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To many, that half-hour a day is the most enjoyable, most therapeutic part of your agenda. To others, it's as dreadful as taking out the trash and doing the dishes.
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Elliptical Workouts
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Are You Making This Cardio Mistake?
Are you exercising for long periods of time to try to burn fat? If you're like most people you probably are, but there is a better way. It's called "high intensity interval training" (HIIT) and lately it has started to become pretty famous for its obvious health benefits.
Walking for Your Health
Walking is the easiest way of exercise because it is accessible at anyplace, anywhere and anytime. Several studies show that walking can:* reduce high cholesterol and improve blood lipid profile* reduce body fat* enhance mental well being* increase bone density, hence helping to prevent osteoporosis* reduce the risk of cancer of the colon* reduce the risk of non insulin dependant diabetes* help to control body weight* help osteoarthritis* help flexibility and co-ordination hence reducing the risk of fallsAlthough walking can reduce body fat for weight loss purpose, it is actually not an effective option of exercise, because it doesn't burn lots of calories and only bring small increase in metabolism.
Benefits of Aerobic Exercise
The real benefits of aerobic exercise are achieved by increasing your heart rate and breathing hard for an extended period of time. During this aerobic activity your body produces more energy and delivers more oxygen to your muscles.
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August 8, 2014 by Rachel Tsoumbakos
Feathers Are Ruffled in the Fortenberry Home:
We have some promo stills and a sneak peek teaser video clip for HBO's upcoming Episode 8 (entitled Almost Home) of True Blood Season 7!
According to the video, we find out something a little unexpected about Hoyt Fortenberry (Jim Parrack) when his new girlfriend, Bridgette, is looking through Hoyt's baby photos with his ex-best friend, Jason Stackhouse (Ryan Kwanten).
After the sneak peek video, you can view the promo pictures in the gallery.
With his prey in sight, Eric Northman (Alexander Skarsgard) is going to reconsider his end-game strategies against Sarah Newlin (Anna Camp). Sookie Stackhouse (Anna Paquin) will put her life at risk in hopes of saving Bill Compton (Stephen Moyer). Lettie Mae (Adina Porter) and Lafayette Reynolds (Nelsan Ellis) are going to urge Reverend Daniels (Gregg Daniel) to join them in their V-fueled search for Tara Thornton (Rutina Wesley).
Violet (Karolina Wydra) is going to eye payback against those who betrayed her, while an old love is reborn for others.
The episode was written by Kate Barnow and it was directed by Jesse Warn.
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Upon Arrival
St. Catherine is tucked away southeast of 76th Street and Brown Deer Road on 76th Place. You are able to see our church building on the hill if you are coming south on 76th Street or east on Brown Deer Road. 76th Place is accessible from both of those streets.
Our main parking lot is directly across the street from the church building. There are a number of steps leading to the church from this lot. There is also a smaller lot to the south of the church. This is the only handicap accessible parking. The accessible entrance to church and our meeting room, the Granville Room, can be reached by following the covered sidewalk to a side entrance.
Parish Office
Our parish office is open Monday through Friday, 8:30 a.m. - 3:30 p.m. (These are our administrative assistant's hours. Other staff hours vary.) The parish office can be reached by parking in the lot south of the church building. You will see a set of three glass doors from that lot. One of the doors is marked "Parish Office Entrance." When you arrive, ring the bell and you will be buzzed in. Our offices are located on the second floor. If you are not able to manage the stairs, our staff will be happy to meet with you on the first floor.
Joining us at Mass
Our weekend Mass schedule: 4:30 p.m. on Saturday; 9:30 a.m. on Sunday. When you arrive, you'll be greeted by one of our ushers who will also hand you a worship aid. In addition to seating on the main floor, there is also seating in our balcony.
Attending an Event in Our School or Gym
Our school building is across the street from our church. While we no longer have our own school in the building, we still use it for Christian formation classes and parish events. The main entrance to the school is on the north side of the building and is accessed from the main parking lot.
Do you have a priest?
This may sound like a funny question for a Catholic church, but you may have heard that St. Catherine doesn't have a pastor. We actually have two priests who serve as our assisting priests. Both Fr. Dick Mirsberger and Fr. Joe Hornacek are senior (retired) priests who serve the sacramental needs of our parish community. In addition to Sunday Masses, they preside at our weekday Masses (Tuesdays, Thursdays and first Fridays at 8 a.m.) as well as our funerals and weddings. They are very much a part of our parish community.
We do have a parish director, Debbie Hintz, who is responsible for the work a pastor usually does in the parish, with the exception, of course, of celebrating our Masses and providing other sacramental ministries. Debbie was first appointed by Archbishop (now Cardinal) Timothy Dolan for a four year term and that term has been renewed twice by Archbishop Jerome Listecki.
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