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Farewell To Arms By Hemingway One of the best novels of Ernest Hemingway is A Farewell to Arms. Hemingway takes much of his life story line to his novel. A Farewell to Arms is the typical classic story that can refer to Romeo and his Juliet placed against the odds. In this novel, Romeo is Frederick Henry and Juliet is Catherine Barkley. Their love affair must survive the barrier of World War I. The background of war-torn Italy adds to the tragedy of the love story. The story starts when Frederick Henry is serving in the Italian Army.
He meets his love in the hospital after he gets injured from the mortar attack. A Farewell to Arms is one of the best American novels because of the symbolism, the exciting plot and the characteristic of the main character, Lieutenant Henry. The symbolism in A Farewell to Arms is very much apparent. For example, In the book, Twentieth Century Interpretations of A Farewell to Arms, Malcolm Cowley focuses on the symbolism of rain. He sees rain a frequent occurrence in the book, as symbolizing disaster (Malcolm, 54-55). He points out that, at the beginning of A Farewell to Arms, Henry talks about how "things went very badly" and how this is connected to "At the start of the winter came permanent rain".
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In the book, Miss Barkley afraid of the rain because she has a nightmare and she sees death in the rain. She says, "Sometimes I see me dead in it", which she is referring to the rain as a death. It is raining the entire night when Miss Barkley is giving childbirth and when both she and her baby die (Malcolm 54-55). Most of the reader fined out that A Farewell to Arms is fun and excited to read. Hemingway makes the language very easy to understand and it is suitable for all ages. Agnes W.
Smith, the editor of Mr. Hemingway Does It Again says, "A Farewell to Arms..is Hemingway's greatest works..it is glowing modern love story, a story of emotion that is so true it is like an intense personal experience"(Stephens 78). Walter R. Brooks the editor of Behind the Blurbs also says "..warmth, of actuality of closeness that only your own personal experiences have for you. It was so real to us that we felt, as we do ordinarily in our own life" (Stephens 81). Hemingway popularity does not stop in the United States, but explodes across over sea to the European country such as Germany. Many of the critics such as Klaus Mann, Max Dietrich, and Hans Falada give him a big welcome support (Kvam 92).
A Farewell to Arms is the first Hemingway novel to be reissue after World War II (Kvam 92), and the majority of German critics believe that A Farewell to Arms is the best novel up to date (Kvam 93). According to Papajewski, According to Papajewski, "The book was generally acclaimed by readers of all ages"; the aspects of the novel which constituted to its wide spread success.. were not only its political implication, but also its captivating love story and the powerful tragic ending..the blurb on the Seinberg-Verlag's edition in 1948 proclaimed that over 100,000 copies in the German language had already been sold (Kvam 92-93) Thomas Mann, a well known critics mention A Farewell to Arms as, "It is one of the most beautiful, carefully restrained modern love stories..[It is] a genuine, manly book, a masterpiece"(Kvam 92). In A Farewell to Arms, Hemingway introduces Lieutenant Henry as an American Soldier in the Italian Army during the World War I. Henry works as a paramedic and he is the only few of the American in the Italian armed force. Lieutenant Henry has an interesting characteristic because although, he is in the war, but his attitude refused to be involved.
For example, "..he drinks with the officers and talks with priest, and visit the officer's brothel, but all contact he keeps deliberately on a superficial level. He has rejected the world." (Johnson 135) Henry truly isolates himself from the war and he does not think he desires to be parts of the war. However, Henry is not a Barbarian at all, during the war, Henry had study the architecture in the Italy when the war begin. "Henry make an Ironical remarks about sculptures and bronze; his reflections and conversation contain allusion to Samuel Jackson, Saint Paul, Andrew Marvel, and Sir Thomas Wyatt" (Johnson 135). Lieutenant Henry knows that he is the war and he fully understands how crazy the war is and how life and death can be take away in any second, but instead of being paranoid, he isolates himself from the war. This avoidance of real relationships and involvement do not show an insensitive person, but rather someone who is protecting himself from getting involved and hurt.
It is clear that in all of Hemingway's books and from his own life that he sees the world as his enemy. Johnson says, "He will solve the problem of dealing with the world by taking refuge in individualism and isolated personal relationships and sensations" (Johnson 134-136). Henry drinks, smoke, party, travel and fall in love; Henry has an interesting characteristic because the way he behaves himself during the war. A Farewell to Arms is one of the best novels of Ernest Hemingway. Hemingway takes much of his life story line to his novel. A Farewell to Arms is the typical classic story that can refer to Romeo and his Juliet placed against the odds. Frederick Henry is an American who serves as a lieutenant in the Italian army to a group of ambulance drivers. The story starts when Frederick Henry is serving in the Italian Army.
He meets his love in the hospital after he injured from the mortar attack. A Farewell to Arms is one of the best American novels because of the characteristic of the main character, Lieutenant Henry, the symbolism, the exciting plot. Bibliography Carson, David L. "Symbolism in A Farewell to Arms." English Studies. Vol. 53 (1972): 518-22. Dow, William. "Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms." Explicator.
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Hatten, Charles. "The Crisis of Masculinity, Reified Desire, and Catharine Barkley in A Farewell to Arms." Journal of the History of Sexuality. Vol. 4.1 (1993): 76-78. Justus, James H. "Hemingway and Faulkner: Vision and Repudiation." Kenyon Review.
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"War Zone Revisited: Hemingway's Aesthetics and A Farewell to Arms." South Dakota Review. Vermilion, SD: winter, 1984. 14-18. Monterio, George. "Patriotism and Treason in A Farewell to Arms." War, Literature, & the Arts. CO: U.S. Air Force Academy, 1997.
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"Harlotry and Love: A Friendship in A Farewell to Arms." Spectrum (Univ. of California, Santa Barbara). Vol. 21.1 (1979): 20-24. Sylvester, Bickford.
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Improve Your English Listening Skills Faster
In a conversation, English listening skills are just as important as speaking. The fact is that you cannot respond to someone if you do not hear them well. What's worse, you could give an incorrect response because you had to guess what was said to you.
Students tend to focus on speaking as a problem because they find it difficult to put together entire sentences properly. Listening seems easier in the beginning because you can guess what a message means with hearing as little as 30 or 40%. For this reason, many students reach an intermediate or even an advanced level before they realize they need to focus on improving their listening skills.
Find Your Biggest Listening Problems
In this article, I'll explain the different stages of how to improve listening skills in a way that will help you understand exactly where your ears need help. Plus you will learn the techniques I used to improve my listening skills learning a second language to be able to start learning new vocabulary and phrases, with only my ears.
What Happens If you Ignore Poor English Listening Skills?
I wonder if you can relate to my experience…
As I started to reach an intermediate level (with my second language), I had learned enough vocabulary that I could finally understand basic audio conversations. Even though I couldn't hear every word, I understood enough of the audio to create a story in my head that made sense when I thought about the context of the situation.
At this stage, you get excited that you can finally understand something in this language you have been studying for a really long time and you say to yourself, "I just need to learn more words and verbs then I'll be able to understand more."
My listening skills had always been weak, and I was trying to figure out how to improve listening skills. I was only able to recognize words that I knew really well or if a person spoke really slowly and separated all the words. Because of this, I became developed with the skill of guessing what I was hearing based on the few words I could hear.
If you have ever had to 'guess' what someone said, keep reading…
I Often Just Pretended I Understood Them…
I felt too embarrassed to admit that I didn't understand. I just pretended I knew what the other person was talking about and agreed until I was asked a question.
Which is the moment that you realize you have no idea what they just asked you which is super embarrassing!
AND that type of situation is completely acceptable and normal at an intermediate level.
It starts to become a problem if you aren't trying to improve your English listening skills. You will strengthen the habit of only hearing words you know and your ears will continue to ignore all the little words in between. Fully understanding movies, conversations, and other audio (without context) will continue to be impossible!
One of the worst parts is you are missing out on the opportunity to learn grammar, vocabulary, and expressions while you are listening to English. It is very rewarding when you realize your listening skills are improving and you can finally understand movies and TV shows without subtitles!
Listening is NOT Just One Skill
You may be surprised to know there are several steps that happen when you first hear something. Once you identify the stage where your listening is 'broken', the solution to fix it is easy!
Let's take a moment to look at all the processes of listening:
- Hearing sounds
- Recognizing the sounds are parts of a word
- Connecting the word to its meaning
- Remembering what each word means
- Understanding the concept of all of the words together
Testing Your English Listening Skills
The easiest way to know if your listening skills need some attention is to listen to a new piece of audio with the intention of recognizing the areas you CAN'T hear or understand perfectly.
Listen for each word you do not recognize, take note of it by counting with your fingers or using a piece of paper to draw a dot or a line each time you aren't 100% certain you are hearing and understanding everything.
This video is from the REC Mini-Course. To get free access to the entire course plus tons of audio to improve your skills, create an account here.
Identifying Your Problems with Listening
Now that you have identified that there are still some areas you can improve here are some ways on how to improve listening skills. Let's go, into more detail about which skill needs practice and the solutions to become an expert listener 🙂
1 – Hearing Sounds
Being able to hear sound is the first stage of listening. If you can hear sounds like the dog barking outside, humming of the fridge… then you have nothing to worry about here.
There are some people that can't hear very well or they have a hearing disability. If you have problems listening and hearing sounds in your native language, it will be a bigger challenge to have excellent English listening skills too.
2 – Recognizing the Sounds as Words
Without a doubt, this is the most common problem for students that are having problems improving their English listening skills. Many websites suggest listening to a lot of English audio to overcome your listening problems but in fact, that is terrible advice! This section of the article will explain why you cannot hear certain words or sounds and EXACTLY what you need to do to fix that.
I know a lot about how to improve listening skills because this was my biggest problem when I was learning another language. It took me a long time to recognize it but once I did, my listening started to improve rapidly.
English sounds and syllables are 'foreign' to your ears compared to the sounds in your native language. Your brain is choosing to ignore these sounds and treating them like they are not important. It is ignoring those sounds in the same way that it can ignore the annoying dog barking outside all day.
The solution is to train your ears to recognize the sounds it is ignoring. It takes a bit of patience to do the exercises to correct the problem but you will hear the first results after only a few hours of training 🙂
Watch this clip from Chris Lonsdale, an expert in language acquisition where he speaks exactly about the 'sound filters' which are your ears. You only need to watch seconds of the video now, but I highly recommend you watch the whole video later.
How to Fix Your Listening Skills
Listen to audio that is appropriate for your level, not too difficult or too easy. If the audio is too fast, use a software like Audacity to slow it down. This video I recorded shows you exactly how to use it in this way:
English Listening Training
You need to train your ears to pay attention to these new sounds so they are recognized as something that has a meaning and needs to be recognized and heard.
Start by listening to a small section of audio with a word or a phrase you cannot understand very well. Sometimes, I need to listen to a very short audio clip (1 second long) as many as 20 or 30 times. At times, I had to listen with the audio slowed down until my ears were recognizing the individual words and sounds. After I can identify the words with slow audio, I listen 15 or 20 more times at a normal speed audio.
Be Patient – Repetition is Important
It takes a while to understand 2 or 3 words that are said very quickly and blended together. Using a transcription is very important in listening training. Read the words as you listen once or twice, then try to listen without the transcript. Continue using the transcript to help you identify the sounds and words with the goal of work toward being able to hear the audio perfectly without the transcription.
Two words can sound like they are joined together when the sound of the last word is similar to the sound of the next word while you are doing this activity as well. It takes practice to train your brain to recognize these special patterns that are used in connected speech.
For example: Go away sounds like 'go-way' when it is said by a native speaker.
Get Really Detailed with Your English Listening Practice
I discovered that the software I used to edit audio is actually an incredible tool to improve listening skills too!
The control you have to select a very small section of audio and hear it several times is a very efficient way to train your ears to understand a difficult piece of audio perfectly.
With this tool you can:
- Slow down the audio
- Select a specific section (less than one second is possible)
- Replay the audio quickly without having to continue adjusting the audio player
- Use it to repeat audio and practice speaking too!
A listening Improvement Secret I've Discovered
Your brain needs time to digest the new sounds. The first time that you try to understand a new audio perfectly, you might feel like you can't and that you will never develop good listening skills.
Try listening to the same audio the next day. You will be surprised how much easier it is to understand. You might not even need a transcription! You will be able to hear more than the first time you tried to understand it because your brain has had time to process the new sounds.
Improve Listening While You Sleep!
Your brain needs a bit of time to learn and process the new sounds that you were exposing it to during your study session. For this reason, it is best to study the same audio one or two days later once your brain has started to realize those sounds are important to listen for and they have a meaning.
Listen Without Thinking of the Meaning
Another listening technique to try is focusing on the syllable of the words that you hear without trying to hear the words or think about the meaning. Your brain will hear and understand the words it knows instantly. By focusing on the syllables you are hearing in the audio you focusing on hearing the sounds of the language more than the meaning. Surprisingly, you might feel like you understand more and your English listening skills are improving, even though you weren't trying to.
3 – Connecting a Word to a meaning
Reading a word is completely different than recognizing a word in audio or a conversation. It is 100% normal to not recognize a word when you hear it for the first time, even if you 'know' the word well from reading it or using it in writing.
You have probably noticed that there are some words that you can hear in any audio, conversation or movie. It feels effortless to understand the words that you know really well and you already have an audio connection to.
Words you have learned recently or words that you have never heard before do not have a strong connection in your mind to the meaning of the word. It takes you a moment to recognize and remember the meaning of the word the first time you hear it.
[Activity] How to Improve Your English Listening Skills:
This activity helps you build a connection between the words you 'know' to be able to recognize them when you hear them. It also lets you practice new vocabulary without studying a list of words!
- Choose audio that you can understand 70-80% (without reading the text)
- Look up the meaning or read the transcription to see what is being said.
- Listen to the audio again trying to hear the new words
- Stop the audio the moment you can't hear a word clearly and automatically.
- Repeat this process until you can understand without the text.
This practice technique is to help you build your connection to the words you already know when you are studying alone to improve your English listening skills.
If you are still having a difficult time understanding the new words, you might be listening to an audio that is too difficult or there are too many new words. Be sure that you can understand the context of the audio very well and let that help you to remember the meaning of the new vocabulary.
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How to Listen During a Real Conversation
In a conversation, you cannot stop to think to remember a word or look up the meaning. The best advice is to pay attention to the speaker and not to let yourself stop to think about the meaning of a word.
You either know the meaning of the word really well or you don't. Focus on the words you can understand and guess what they are saying.
This is a survival skill until you have developed a stronger connection to vocabulary and have improved your listening skills.
When you stop to think about the meaning of one word during a conversation can stop you from hearing several sentences while you are thinking. 20, 30 or even 40 words can pass by while you are trying to remember one word. Remember, the words you know well will feel easy to hear.
4 – Remembering What You Just Heard
At first, it seems like this step should happen without effort and be a skill that transfers from your native language.
It doesn't take long to fix this important English listening skill.
You will know you have this problem if you feel like you recognize every word you are hearing while you are listening to audio… but the moment the audio stops, you can't clearly remember the details. If someone asked you what the audio was about, you won't be confident to explain the audio in detail.
This activity below is great for any one student to try even if you do not think you have this listening problem.
How to fix this listening problem:
- Listen to one sentence of an audio track that you can understand well. Not too easy, but you can understand every word.
- Try to repeat the sentence in a loud voice.
If you can repeat the sentence after two attempts, great! If you can only remember the last few words, it's okay. You will improve.
Continue to listen to the next few words in the audio and try to repeat as much as you can. The objective is not to repeat the sentence because it is memorized, it is to 'remember' what you just heard.
A tip to stay focused while you are listening to audio is to tell yourself that you have to explain what you are listening to the moment it is finished. In fact, you can turn this into a speaking exercise by stopping to explain the audio every 2 or 3 minutes with this speaking practice technique in this article.
Tip 5 – Listening Comprehension
Understanding what you hear, otherwise known as listening comprehension, is something that will affect most listeners when the audio they are listening to is challenging. Perhaps the audio contains a lot of new vocabulary, fancier words or a complex grammar structure that you aren't used to seeing or hearing.
How to fix this:
Again I will say, using a transcription while you are listening allows you to use your eyes to assist your brain in understanding better. Your mind needs practice processing information (and all the little details) at the speed of someone speaking. Slowing down the audio is a great way to give you more time to understand. Gradually, increase the speed of the audio, and then stop using the transcription. You should be able to understand the concept perfectly as your English listening skills develop.
Slowing down the audio is a great way to give you brain more time to think about what it is hearing. Try listening to the audio a few times at a slower speed. Once you feel comfortable understanding everything, try listening without the transcription.
Next, increase the speed of the audio to its regular speed. You may need to use the transcript again. It's okay to use a transcription, with more listening training you won't need them! Use it to help you feel like you are understanding everything perfectly. After you are confident with the regular speed audio, stop using the transcription. You should be able to understand everything perfectly, at a normal speed.
As an advanced student, it is easy to overlook the 10% of audio that you don't understand or comprehend. It's really important to comprehend all of the little grammar pieces and words that may change the meaning. For example, a tiny word like 'will' can change the verb tense to the future, or hearing the difference between 'the man is on the car' versus 'the man in the car'. With one letter changing in the proposition from 'on' to 'in', the meaning changes completely.
I hope this article has helped you to identify where your English 'listening' skills have been getting stuck. Be patient with your ears and realize that you need to take the time to focus on specific activities to help you overcome the small stages in the process.
Which one of these English listening skills do you think is your biggest problem?
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Hii Friends....I hope you all are fine. As we all know that Windows 7 has excellent themes. But many of us do not know that Windows has some hidden themes. As the themes that are visible to us are country specific that is according to our demographic location. And rest of the themes are hidden in our C drive or where our windows has been installed. Today am going to tell you the trick to unlock those hidden themes. If we enable these hidden themes then we can use them.
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Steps to unlock hidden themes in windows 7:-
- Please make sure that you can view hidden files and folders. If not you can view it by going to Control Panel
- Now make a click on the address bar and paste the given below command:-
C:/Windows/Globalization/MCT and hit enter. A new folder will appear.
- Now, In this new folder, you will see folders named as MCT-AU,MCT-CA,etc. where these AU,CA,etc refer to country codes.
- Inside each MCT folder, you will see a theme folder.
- Click on that theme folder. You will see the country code of that Particular MCT folder.
- Double Click on it!! Yippee!!! You have unlocked that theme!!!
- Now Right click on desktop and click on Personalize to use those themes!!!


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Approximately 6 Ospreys reported active over the Exe estuary today - I myself saw 3 in the air at the same time early this afternoon but they were very distant and the light was poor - obviously i took record shots but was able to bin them as later in the afternoon I changed my location and managed better shots in the good light we had early evening- still quite distant but not as far as the earlier ones.
Osprey and Black tailed Godwit flock that it had just scared to death!
Closer next time with a bit of luck.
Mustn't forget this special bird which flew up the estuary.
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Lovely set of shots Bob in an area we know very well, both you and Derek did well thank you also for sharing.
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In reply to Shane:
Great that you got to see the Ospreys as they start their migration to warmer climes. Lovely photos of them and I especially like the Spitfire ?
Regards, Hazel
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In reply to HAZY:
Congratulations on the Ospreys but I'm green with envy, Bob!
Kind regards,
In reply to Gardenbirder:
Stunning shots Bob well caught I especially like the fifth one.
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In reply to Alan.:
Great captures, Bob. Good to see them before they start the long journey south.
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In reply to TeeJay:
Thanks all -I think this Osprey is an unringed adult - 2 dives and it took a fish and was gone. The ones I had seen earlier in poorer light were possibly juveniles according to the guys with scopes - certainly they were doing a lot more dives and coming away with no fish.
In reply to Bobs_Still_Retired:
Brilliant Bob, I am down on South Dartmoor, and if lucky may hear them going further south, I wonder if they will look in on the new nest at Fowey?
In reply to SunnyKate2:
Well done Bob, West side of the Estuary looked best to get closer to them. They may hang around for a day or two. Plenty to catch by the looks of things. The Exe hold large Shoals of Grey Mullet and an odd early Sea Trout and Salmon with a Bass for good measure. Really fantastic to see these birds passing thro'. I'm very busy at the mo' getting ready for our Round the World tour of the UK. Julie and I are taking off for a 12 months tour to see our wonderful Island and wildlife. We head East in 10 days time. Tenants in and off we go. Will be interesting!!??. Will post anything interesting we see, may need guidance from this forum to.
In reply to Derek C:
Fantastic set Bob! How close were they? I will be following the action, we are tied up at present but if they stay a bit longer we will venture the four hour drive early next week to see them!
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Marina P said:
Fantastic set Bob! How close were they? I will be following the action, we are tied up at present but if they stay a bit longer we will venture the four hour drive early next week to see them!
Quite distant, but it depends where you choose to locate yourself and then where they decide to fish - its a big estuary -:). This is the full frame of one of the above shots and is probably about the closest they got to me, though these were a lot closer than the ones I saw in the morning. This is 700mm on a crop sensor camera.
Keep a check as to whether they are still there too - there is a festival on at Powderham castle this weekend and I have no idea how that will affect the wildlife but it will make parking in some of the more interesting areas a little more difficult. If you want any more info pm me and I can let you know where I took these from.
You might want to keep an eye out for the one at Noahs Pool at Shapwick Heath -, that should have good views if its still there as the dead tree they eat on is quite close. Yo can then check out the rest of the Heath and Ham Wall.
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Active professional practice in automation is a significant factor in maintaining and improving your knowledge and skills. You may be an actual automation practitioner or one that is "influencing" the practice of the automation. In this context, "influencing" means having some effect on how the automation profession is practiced without necessarily performing technical work (i.e., management, teaching).
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Here is a comment exchange between the author ("J. Money") of the Budgets are Sexy blog and I, July 8–11, 2016, concerning vehicle purchase decisions and investing. I have been following J. Money's blog for a few months now—I would definitely recommend reading it and similar blogs if you are interested in changing your financial perspective. My comments also elucidate some of my viewpoints on Toastmasters, financial concerns for college students, market timing, risk, and insurance.
Comment by Richard Thripp, 2016-07-08:
The brief Brexit crash was actually a good buying opportunity, though it is easy to say in hindsight. I think when adding money from a bank account via Vanguard, the transaction doesn't post until the next business day, meaning the price you see now is not the price VTSAX will be at when your "buy" order actually posts.
I would agree given the much lower value your Lexus minivan shows for private sales that you paid too much. However, many others make far worse decisions—I have young friends who literally have 15%+ car loans due to not understanding how credit works (meaning, they didn't have their first credit card or student loan until AFTER the car loan and got their loan at a used car dealership).
With such high liquid net worth, why do you choose to pay 3.45% interest plus credit inquiries when you could just buy the car outright? Why do you have an $1859 warranty, which is clearly a money-maker for the warranty guarantor, when you could easily use your savings as your warranty? I suppose you are benefiting in the 10% "mix of credit types" portion of your credit score by having a car loan, but this seems no more worthwhile to me than keeping a credit card you don't use that has an annual fee, just to avoid the hit to your average age of accounts from closing it (which doesn't even occur until 10 years later, as far as I know).
Even most rewards checking accounts do not offer a 3.45% return. Most outlooks for the stock market are tepid compared to returns in recent years. A 3.45% return with no risk to the principal is pretty good.
I've been reading your blog for a while. You are definitely still a half-millionaire since your net worth estimates are very conservative. You aren't including the value of most of your possessions, and you have barely any debts. Very smart.
Response from blog author, J. Money, 2016-07-09:
Thanks man 🙂 Yeah, actually just got an offer for the blog and my other project which raises the worth substantially more, but I never count on any of that until it's actually a reality so that's why I don't include that stuff (I turned down the offer, btw).
As for liquidating some assets to pay for the car, it's too slippery of a slope for me – I never like touching investments cuz it would tempt me too much to make it OK to do for other stuff down the road. And I honestly don't mind taking on some debt and paying for the convenience of it since I know I can pay it off at any time and manage it responsibly. Plus, my investments will make much more than 3.45% anyways over the years 🙂 And actually gonna spend some time and try and get it refinanced lower too as soon as the chaos winds down….
thx for stopping by btw – just checked out your site, your background is pretty impressive! especially in the speaking stuff – always admire that about people as I hate it. Keep hustling 🙂
Response by Richard Thripp, 2016-07-11:
Thanks for replying and checking out my site, J. Money! Toastmasters has been great… when I started 2 years ago I was super nervous but after being a club president and giving two dozen speeches I have improved greatly. It's not really "public" speaking per se since you only have an audience of 10–20 people you already know, typically, so it's a good segueway into more anxiety-provoking environments.
As for my education, financially I find it a very interesting topic. I still live with parents and have all my degrees (AA, BS, MA, starting PhD next month) from public community colleges / universities. This is so much cheaper than going to private institutions or moving away (though not as exciting). It must be awful to come out of undergrad with $100K+ debt which is quite common with pricey private institutions. Alarmingly, what is becoming more common is that people incur debt without ever finishing their degree! Might be a good blog post topic.
I can definitely understand the "slippery slope" dilemma, and I too think the VTSAX index fund will continue to yield more than 3.45% annually. Heck, it yielded much more than this over the past 10 years, even considering the 2008 crash.
I am glad you turned down the offer for your blog—I am sure it wouldn't be as good. So many blogs turn bad when revenue generation becomes the #1 priority.
Best Regards,
Richard T.


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The section for testing aimed at system developers on Kanta.fi has been updated, and you now have access to the redesigned pages.
28/06/2019, Notice
Social welfare services included in new presentation video of the Kanta Services
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Kanta Services in 2018 – Significant increase in the use of Kanta services
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Workshop on ICT solutions for freedom of choice on 26 September
Are you preparing the health and social services reform at the county level? Are you interested in the enterprise architecture of ICT systems for freedom of choice? Do you need information about launch processes in the pilots for direct-choice services?
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New free citizen's brochure on Kanta Services now available to order – Destroy your old Kanta brochures!
The Kanta brochures with outdated contents and look (Omakanta [My Kanta Pages] and Resepti – Potilastiedon arkisto [Prescription – Patient Data Repository] are now replaced by a single brochure for citizens. The title of the new brochure is Kanta-tietoa kansalaisille [Kanta Information for Citizens].
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This is a comfort food in many Filipino households, called sinigang. It's sour but the flavour actually enhances your appetite.
Delicious soup! definately comfort food, but light! I used 1/4 cup fresh lime juice instead of the Tamarind paste cause i just couldn't find any! I also disolved a teaspoon of thai green curry paste into the water for a bit of kick! Needed salt but that can always be added to taste after. Fast tastey dish! - 24 Jan 2006 (Review from Allrecipes USA and Canada)
Great recipe and very simple and quick to make. However, I added some things: 1/2 tsp lime juice, 1/2 tsp red curry paste, a couple sprinkles of salt, and 5 tablespoons of fish sauce. Serve hot over steamed rice...great dish! Just like my grandmother used to make it! - 30 Mar 2008 (Review from Allrecipes USA and Canada)
I love this soup. It's light and you would not feel guilty serving along with other main dishes. The original traditional tangy taste calls for tamarind, but lime or tomato is definitely acceptable. Add excitement to your Sinigang by adding prawns, 1/8 cup sliced red onions and 1 tbsp shredded ginger. Some greens like bok choy, or even anaheim pepper (long green pepper) is also good. Since this is soup, I usually add the green veggies sparingly in order not to overpower the character as a soup. Since this is a cultural food, you can deninitely adjust the spices according to your orientation. - 11 Oct 2007 (Review from Allrecipes USA and Canada)


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John D. Woodbridge. Revolt in Pre-Revolutionary France: The Prince de Conti's Conspiracy against Louis XV, 1755-1757. Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995. xvii + 242 pp. $39.95 US (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8018-4945-9.
Reviewed by Michael D. Slaven (California University of Pennsylvania)
Published on H-France (May, 1996)
The middle of the eighteenth century was a tumultuous time for France. It was perhaps the most brilliant period of Louis XV's reign, yet fraught with great problems. Enlightenment thought, marked by Denis Diderot's volume-by-volume publication of the Encyclopedie, challenged aspects of the traditional political and economic order. Jansenism, which opposed Jesuit theories of free will with a strict Augustinian emphasis on the necessary role of divine grace for human salvation, had been banned several times since 1653. The movement had regained strength through the parti janseniste in the Parlement de Paris and seemed to threaten the religious and political stability of the state.
Jansenism, like Protestantism, was not only a religious stance, but also a political one: to admit Jansenism as orthodoxy meant a negation of the premise that the Roman Catholic religion was the only one in France, an important legal fiction upheld by the monarchy. Structural imbalances in the French economy were deepening, thanks to an antiquated system of taxation and the widening gulf between the expectations of the growing merchant and commercial class and the resistance of the nobility to the encroaching bourgeoisie. Political and economic reforms were proving impossible; and intermittent warfare with England went on from the 1740s to the end of Louis' life (d. 1774).
Yet for all of the looming trouble, court life reached new levels of refinement during the period of royal mistress Madame de Pompadour's enormous personal and political influence (1743-1757). Underneath the glitter of courtly spectacle, however, bitter rivalries formed in opposition to the maitresse-en-titre's hold over the king. One of the leaders of the anti-Pompadour faction was the king's cousin, the powerful and popular Prince de Conti. Conti, a military hero, a supporter of the Jansenists in the Parlement de Paris, and a trusted advisor, suddenly fell from royal favor in 1756 and 1757, later to be publicly, but not privately, reinstated into the king's good graces. What had happened?
In Revolt in Pre-Revolutionary France, John D. Woodbridge, a professor of history at the Trinity Evangelical School and a visiting professor at Northwestern University, claims that religious disputes were the backdrop to a serious political threat to Louis XV, which occurred between 1755 and 1757, when the Prince de Conti conspired to force the king from his throne in what Woodbridge characterizes as an "eighteenth-century Fronde" (p. 136). Further, this seditious activity impeded the ability of the monarchy to preserve its sacred authority, later subverting, for instance, Louis XVI's attempts to reinforce the sacred bond of king and nation during his coronation at Rheims in 1775. "Too much of the monarchy's sacred aura had been obliterated during the politico-religious revolt against Louis XV; too many 'enlightened' and 'frondish' views of the state now contested this sacred ideology in both clandestine and licit literature" (p. 171). This argument is consistent with Dale Van Kley's work (see, for example his The Damiens Affair and the Unravelling of the Ancien Regime, 1750-1770 [1984]). Van Kley points to a change in the king's sacramental policy, which played a part in the unbinding of state and king.
Woodbridge also acknowledges a debt to Jeffrey Merrick's research into the "desacralization" of the monarchy (The Desacralization of the French Monarchy [1990]), asserting that a similar loss of position occurred in the aftermath of the Conti conspiracy (p. 173). The author ties the political and religious controversies of the 1750s into a larger context of the eroding status of monarchy in France, which raises another question. If Conti's plot, attempting, as it did, to exploit religious and political discontents and to recreate a Fronde-like revolt, severely damaged the monarchy through desacralization, why was the original Fronde (1648-1652), certainly a more serious rebellion, unable to undermine permanently Louis XIV's absolutism? Further, if Conti's plot was successfully covered up by its protagonists, as Woodbridge claims, to what extent can it have served to destroy the sacred status of the monarchy in France, helping to pave the way for the French Revolution?
Woodbridge's book is both thought-provoking and curious. The author adroitly uncovers a conspiratorial Prince de Conti, plotting in collusion with high Protestant clergy. He suggests that the conspiracy involved the British government, and implies that Conti may have been implicated in the assassination attempt on Louis XV by Robert-Francois Damiens in 1757.
In his attempt to uncover what would have been, even at the time, shadowy and secretive plots, Woodbridge has made ingenious use of reports from government spies and correspondence from the principal participants, and a wide variety of other primary sources. The difficulty in sifting through the labyrinth of deceit, innuendo, and coded information is that the sources ultimately remain elusive and ambiguous, full of tantalizing hints, which sometimes necessitate important leaps in interpretation. Occasionally, Woodbridge's conspiracy theory seems to take on a life of its own, reading too much into the sources. Woodbridge writes that, "[a]s the byzantine story of intrigue began to unfold, I came to realize that the conspiracy was far more complex and expansive than I had ever envisioned" (p. xiv). In fact, what appears to have been a well-planned conspiracy to Woodbridge may have been no more than Conti's improvised stratagems to oppose Madame de Pompadour's political positions. Conti was eager to offer himself as the leader of opposition to Pompadour, and he attempted to ally himself with her enemies, the Jansenists and the Parlement de Paris.
According to Woodbridge, the conspiracy may be summarized in three points: first, between 1755 and 1757 the Prince de Conti tried to use the issue of freedom of conscience for French Protestants to gain allies in an attempt to topple Louis XV from the French throne; second, William Pitt the Elder, the British secretary of state and the architect of the British victory in the Seven Years` War, planned a British naval landing on the French west coast, in hopes of sparking a Huguenot rebellion or a mass emigration of Protestants from France. Finally, there was a further conspiracy aimed at a coverup of these plots, with the collusion of both Conti and the French king in an attempt to avoid embarrassment for either party. Louis XV could not afford to offend Conti's many followers, while the disloyal prince would only set back his attempt to regain favor at court by public revelations of his failed conspiracy.
The author's thesis rests on the proposition that the quest for Huguenot freedom of conscience left the Protestant minority far more inclined to disobedience and rebellion than is commonly supposed. Conti needed to find an armed group of willing conspirators with whom to raise the standard of insurrection, and he looked to the Protestants as potential allies. The Huguenots did pose a potential threat to the monarchy, for while the religious minority generally proclaimed loyalty to the king, many of them carried out officially forbidden acts, such as public worship ceremonies and the construction of new churches. The very existence of non-Catholics in France, of course, was technically a form of disobedience, since France gave no legal status to persons not baptized in the Catholic church. However, most Protestants tried to reconcile their obedience to God, as they saw it, with loyalty to the king.
Woodbridge convincingly shows that Conti tried to persuade the Protestants to play the role of co-conspirators: he appealed to the Protestant national synod and he asked for intelligence on Huguenot military strength. Conti appears to have miscalculated, however, for the overwhelming majority of Protestants appear to have opposed the rebellion, and in fact prided themselves on their loyalty to the crown. But Woodbridge points to the radicalism of some of the Protestant leaders, such as pastor Jean-Louis Gibert, to suggest that Huguenots, particularly in the south, were discontented, because of government persecution, and ready to rise up against the king. Here Woodbridge holds to the position, argued so effectively by Philippe Joutard in La Legende des Camisards: une sensibilite au passe (1977), that protestations of obedience and devotion to the monarchy sometimes disguised the desire "to take up arms in imitation of their Camisard forebears" (p. xi). Huguenot leaders wanted official toleration from the crown and permission to worship publicly, but most found the prospect of open rebellion to be frightening and unlikely to succeed.
The weaknesses of the book are in two areas: first, Woodbridge asks the reader to accept a level of cooperation and collusion between the Protestant leadership, the British government, and Conti that the evidence does not fully support. The author does a creditable job of identifying the connections between Huguenot leaders and Conti, but is less successful in implicating Conti directly with British agents.
When he discusses the planning of Pitt's "Secret Expedition" to the French west coast, Woodbridge asserts that the British government believed that Conti had promised protection to Gibert and his radical Huguenot followers. It is not clear, however, whether Conti's bargain with the Protestants implied backing for a British-supported rebellion or was only a promise to protect the Huguenots from persecution. The British would certainly have but the author's evidence does fully sustain this scenario.
Second, the author asserts that Louis may have very nearly abdicated as a result of Conti's conspiracy and the abortive attempt on his life. In the aftermath of the assassination attempt, the secret correspondence of an unidentified spy alluded to a possible abdication, but Louis XV was often moody and depressed, and the spy may have reported no more than the king's frequents bouts of despondency.
The great strength of Woodbridge's work is its combination of meticulous research and provocative interpretation. The existence of at least substantial elements of Conti's plot seems indisputable. Woodbridge presents both direct and collateral evidence of Conti's discussions with pastor Paul Rabaut, in which the idea of a Conti-led Protestant revolt was raised. The split in the Huguenot ranks over Conti's plot is effectively discussed and well-documented. The difficulty with what Woodbridge calls the "moderate" position was that "... the caveat that Protestants submitted to the monarchy except when it forbade public worship permitted foes to impugn the sincerity of the Protestants' repeated professions of loyalty" (p. 20). Woodbridge nonetheless demonstrates the clear victory of the more numerous "moderate" Huguenots over their vocal, but outnumbered, radical co-religionists.
In conclusion, Revolt in Pre-Revolutionary France succeeds in uncovering the machinations of the troubled Prince de Conti's relationship with Louis XV and in describing the hopes and fears of the influential Huguenot leaders. If the book falls short of proving the existence of a pervasive conspiracy in which all of the principals were committed to a common goal, it does convincingly and lucidly place the tangled threads of Conti's conspiracy into a larger context of "desacralization" of the monarchy. Woodbridge declares that "[i]t provided a precedent of sorts and arguments for revolt for some of those who defied another king in the turbulent days preceding a much larger 'revolution' three decades later" (p. 183). This last statement sums up both the strengths and weaknesses of the book: for while the author substantiates his supposition that the monarchy was hurt by the Conti conspiracy, his further assertion that the coverup was successful undercuts the theory that the prince's disloyalty inspired other subsequent revolutionaries.
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