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I'm personally not interested in reading the back story of every one of the main apostles within the manga, I'd kind of prefer that stuff be off to the side and only consumed if/when you choose to do so. I'm eagerly awaiting a more thorough summary once those capable have the chance to put the time into this thing.
The scary thing about Grunbeld is he's a "live" character and we didn't know if/when/how we would get his backstory or how this affects that.A book on Wyald: The Enjoyment & Excitement Knight on the other hand, would be more easily embraced for a number of reasons. =)
I would really love to know the story of Zodd
"Established! Established! Skull Knight's character has been established. ♪ ヽ(´ ▽ `)/ "
Maybe Miura really did hand over story points the guy had to follow
And that's how you would want to read it? In a fucking novel written by some random guy? What a dismal thought.
Who the hell said that.I would like to see it in the manga written by Miura
Out of curiosity, has anyone found a fan translation online? I'd love to actually read the story--i've only seen 11 out of the 167 pages
A fan translation of the novel would be pirating the novel. You're just going to have to wait for an official release, or satisfy yourself with the summaries.
That's fair--though a funny thing to hear from someone on a site where people discuss the latest chapters--whereas official release-wise, we're just now getting Volume 38.
We actually buy the issues of Young Animal in which Berserk's episodes are prepublished. We have a step by step guide on how to do it, too. What's not funny though is some random dude coming over and asking us to translate a book for him, and then getting pissy when we don't.
I apologize if I seemed pissy--I legitimately thought it was an odd thing to hear on the internet.
I was unaware that Young Animal did English publications since it looks like it's a local thing.
If we never get an English release of this book, I imagine I'll invest in the Japanese release, but it would be nice to actual know the story.
Oh, and don't get me wrong, I expect the Grunbeld novel to be average at best, but I'm annoyingly a completionist xD I played through Sword of the Berserk to get the full story.
I'm not really sure what to make of your opinion. You seem to want to know about the origins of the apostles, but just not in the manga? Why...? Have they been obtrusive to you in the past? I think that Miura's kind of a master at compressed storytelling when he puts his mind, using just a few panels (Rochine), a few pages at most (Count, Ganishka) to convey what could have been volumes of information. There's no reason he can't, and won't still, do that in the manga moving forward. If I'm playing devil's advocate, maybe your concern is that as the story propels forward, with so many apostles still on the stage, the story would be slowed down by a series of flashbacks, so that they'd be executed in a perfunctory manner. Well, I'd just say I don't think there's precedence to have that concern, given how the backstories have been laid out in the past. I think Miura is going to space out his big fights in keeping with these characters. Novels or not, killing Locus, Grunbeld and Rakshas in the span of a handful of episodes in some cataclysmic fight wouldn't be very satisfying, I don't think.
What I meant to say is; the length of the novel and amount of detail that (I assume, having not read it) it goes into are beyond the scope of what I'd like to see in the manga for most characters.
For Skull Knight or Isidro or someone vital to the cast, I'll gladly take an entire episode (or two or three?!) dedicated to them -- if Miura has that much to say about them, that is. But I do not want to see that much for Grunbeld, Locus, Irvine, etc. A brief flashback of a few pages or even just a couple of text bubbles that explain where they come from is enough for most of them in my opinion.
From there, if you want more, I think a novel or a one-shot about the character that stands beside the manga is appropriate.
American comics do this all the time and it's not an issue there.
What I do take issue with is if said side material contradicts the source material or if it opens up plot holes that the source material doesn't address. If Miura gave the author of the novel an outline of what the story is about, and then checked it for consistency (or at least had someone check it for him) then this shouldn't be an issue. I don't know if that's the case with this novel, and based on the summary provided above, I'm a bit worried that the author had more free reign than we might like... But again, I'll wait until have a more detailed summary before jumping to conclusions.
The ideal scenario may lie somewhere in between -- with the manga giving us the vital bits of the back story and then letting the character really shine in their own stand alone tale that goes beyond the scope of what should have been included in the manga.
Think "The History of Trunks" from Dragon Ball Z. Trunks was a main character for a rather long story arc (often separated into two arcs, actually) and was massively influential to the story of that time. His back story was elaborated on within the original series, but he was given even more back story in his own standalone movie. Similarly, "Bardock - Father of Goku" was a standalone movie that gave a full back story on a character that wasn't originally mentioned in the manga, but was later referenced briefly after the success of the movie. Maybe Berserk would benefit most from a scenario like one of these.
If Skull Knight's story isn't explained in the manga at all (beyond the little bits we have so far) and is instead sold as a standalone novel or something written by a third party, then I wouldn't be too happy and I think the manga would suffer as a result of it.
Miura has taken every opportunity to stand behind this thing, particularly knowing his lack of dedicated involvement in other recent projects. His name is on the cover, he provided original art (which is awesome), and he praised the "establishment of Grunbeld's story" in the recent YA comment. If he wasn't proud of it, or his involvement was minimal, we'd likely have gotten the simple "please buy the new Berserk thing!" comment that we often saw in relation to the movies. That being said, we will likely never know the specifics of what transpired between he and the writer. I think there are some safe assumptions though. Miura has been very protective of Berserk, so I have a hard time believing he placed his entire trust in the writer to flesh out Grunbeld's story. He probably had pointers from Miura about the overall thrust. There's also a pretty safe bet about why this thing was created, and thus, how fans should weigh it in their minds. Given the recent animation, it would make sense if this novel was born as a merchandising ploy, using a character that had recently taken the spotlight. What I can't reconcile throughout this whole thing is what Miura was thinking about the audience at large, the international fans, which he is keenly aware of. It sure seems like an irresponsible merchandising choice, made without much thought for how the overall story of Berserk is assimilated. There's zero guarantee we'll ever get the novel officially translated. So what are we to do, and how are we to treat this thing? It's an uncomfortable place to be for fans. The fact that we've gotten a hastily assembled summary has changed nothing in that regard, as we expected.
There's no doubt in my mind that this thing is simply the "merchandising ploy" that you describe. I'd have a hard time believing it's something that Miura personally thought up and planned around. My question is how much of a say Miura has on such things. Could he have outright said "no" to something like this? Depending on the contract in question, at least in other industries, the author of the source material may have little to no say over something this whatsoever. But I don't know the nature of Miura's relationship with the rights holders.
My assumption with the recent anime itself is that he had little involvement in the choosing of the studio or the outcome of the product -- I'd guess that he agreed to have the series animated, signed some paperwork, and enjoyed whatever minimal involvement they allowed him while the suits handled the rest.
For example; if Miura's permission to make the light novel was required, then that means this project has his blessing up and down.
He approved of it to begin with and regardless of how much involvement he had in making it, his stamp of approval is on it.


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William Smith, my paternal Great Grandfather born in 1854, was the son of Owen Smith and Christiana Matheson (from the Isle of Skye). Owen disappeared from the records, however in 1857, Christiana went on to marry Jabez Smith, a shepard then later a store-keeper on the station "Boorolong" near Armidale. Jabez and Christiana had three children, Eliza and Catherine - twin girls, born in 1858 and Charles born 1860.
Jabez wrote his will in 1885, and died in 1888. His will states that "My stepson William to have all my horses and 1 dray & harness". The probate papers for Jabez' will describes these items as " 1 harness (old) worth £1, 10/- and 1 dray (old) worth £6". When in total his whole estate was valued at probate for just under £1000 with the majority of his estate being granted to his son Charles and his son in law, John Archibald Chisholm ; it seems step-sons were not very important in the scheme of things.
In 1881 William married Agnes Jane Johnson. I do not know why William and his family left the thriving Boorolong station, and moved to such a remote area. I might assume that he was no longer welcome at Boorolong after the death of his mother in 1894 and perhaps they thought he might "Make his Fortune" carting goods to the miners whom had flocked to the area because of the gold rush that was happening along Swamp Oak Creek during that time, but those reasons are now lost to time. Together William and Agnes Jane had 4 sons and 4 daughters; William Thomas, Ernest Jabez, Albert James, Henry Owen, Eliza Pearl, Janet Christina, Ethel May, and later, an illegitimate daughter, Vida F. Smith
A PITIFUL STORY:- A sad story of destitution reaches us from Swamp Oak (writes the Walcha "Witness") A Mr [William] Smith, a carter by occupation, has been living with his wife [Agnes Jane Johnson] and family near the school there. One boy got injured and was taken to Tamworth Hospital with a broken leg. From inquiries made by Constable Payne it appears the rest of the family were sleeping in the house without one blanket between them. Sickness set in, in the shape of inflammation of the lungs. The residents of Swamp Oak subscribed a little money and sent the father to Tamworth for medical advice. He reached Tamworth, but appears to have got no advice and no medicine for the children. On his return, although he did not complain, it was noticed that he was bad. Now the father and two boys have died, and the mother and remaining two [where were the other three?] children are in a bad state. Constable Payne came into the town – having ridden through from Tamworth and made arrangements for the admission of the mother and two children to the Walcha Hospital. Mr W. Moore has gone out for them.
Tamworth Observer, 24th August 1895
This trip, done either on horseback, by dray or by foot would have been no mean feat. The distance between Weabonga and Tamworth is about 45.5 miles, and the terrain is steep and wild and the tracks at that time, rough.
I had previously found a plaque inscribed with the name "W. Smith and his two sons" from their burial place at the Weabonga Cemetery, with only minimal details listed. I wrote to the Tamworth Historical Society filling them in with the missing details and asked if they had any information regarding an outbreak of diphtheria - the offical cause of death given on the NSW Death certifcates of William and his two sons, Henry Owen (aged 10) and Albert James (aged 6) - in the area during July and August (the months of their death) of 1895, but they could not give me any answer.
|Weabonga Cemetery plaque - from Australian Cemeteries Index
Information on Diphtheria:
"Diphtheria is aninfectious disease which primarily affects the mucous membranes of therespiratory tract (respiratory diphtheria).
Throughouthistory, diphtheria was a leading cause of death among children, and it wasonce referred to as the "strangling angel of children." Thediphtheria bacterium was first identified in the 1880s. In the 1890s, theantitoxin against diphtheria was developed, with the first vaccine beingdeveloped in the 1920s.
The signs andsymptoms of respiratory diphtheria are caused by the bacterium's ability tocause a localized inflammatory reaction of the cells lining the upperrespiratory tract. In certain cases, the disease can become more severe andwidespread, and it can involve other organs of the body as well.
Diphtheria is transmitted to closecontacts via airborne respiratory droplets. Overcrowding and poor livingconditions can further contribute to the spread of diphtheria."
Family lore always had William and the two children dying, after his horse and dray were broken up and washed away while trying to cross a flooded and swollen creek.
It is a story worthy of more investigation, but no matter what the circumstances, the idea of my Great Grandparents and their children "living without a blanket between them" will always send a shiver down my spine.
Sources:NSW BDM Certificates
Australian Cemeteries Index
Three of a kind : a history of Niangla, Weabonga & Ingelba / Claire Brazel et al, 1991
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Editors note: This was originally published yesterday, but continues to get plenty of attention today, and was just referenced by David Fasber on CNBC. Without further ado...
Earlier, we wrote about Felix Salmon's contention that there's a new mortgage fraud scandal that has the potential to dwarf Goldman's ABACUS dealings. In this fraud scenario, banks took advantage of their information advantage and sold CDOs with mortgages they knew to be bad without clear representation to investors.
In August, Manal Mehta and Branch Hill Capital put together a presentation targeting Bank of America's potential exposure to this mortgage fraud, as well as other problems in the mortgage market.
The presentation comes to a pretty damning conclusion: Bank of America's exposure could nearly halve its share price.
It's all about what capital Bank of America has in reserve for the scenario of mortgages having to come back on its balance sheet.
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By CATHLEEN FALSANI
c. 2011 Religion News Service
(RNS) Late Sunday night, while perusing Facebook, a friend on Facebook updated her status to announce that Osama bin Laden was dead. It took a few seconds to confirm the news on CNN, and by the time I refreshed the screen, her status had changed once again.
This time, she posted a prayer.
"O God, it is your will to hold both heaven and earth in a single peace," she wrote. "Let the design of your great love shine on … the waste of our wraths and sorrows, and give peace to your church, peace among nations, peace in our homes, and peace in our hearts; through your Son, Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen."
"Amen" indeed.
For hours, as the details of bin Laden's death emerged, dozens and dozens of Facebook friends chimed in to share news and, moreover, their candid thoughts.
Relief. Satisfaction. Jubilation. Anger. Worry. And a certain mournfulness that left more than a few people struggling to find the "proper" context for what was happening.
Many people mentioned the names of loved ones who perished on 9/11 or in the armed forces in Afghanistan and Iraq, in a sort of litany of remembrance.
There were also variations of "Got him!" "Good riddance!" "Hallelujah!" and "Payback's a bitch!"
Soon after, though, more nuanced and thoughtful comments began appearing.
"God would not allow the angels to join in the song of the Children of Israel after they crossed the Red Sea saying, 'My creatures are floating in the sea, and you want to sing?"' wrote a Lutheran minister. "Even the worst of the worst are children of God. Let us continue to pray for peace."
A journalist added the first of many quotes from Martin Luther King Jr. that appeared in dozens of status updates in the hours and days following the news: "There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies."
And then came the Scripture references, some of them starkly conflicting.
"Do not rejoice when your enemy falls, and do not let your heart be glad when he stumbles." Proverbs 24:17
"When it goes well with the righteous, the city rejoices, and when the wicked perish there are shouts of gladness." Proverbs 11:10
"As surely as I live, says the Sovereign Lord, I take no pleasure in the death of wicked people. I only want them to turn from their wicked ways so they can live. Turn, turn from your evil ways!" Ezekiel 33:11
"This is what the Lord Almighty says: `I will punish the Amalekites for what they did to Israel when they waylaid them as they came up from Egypt. Now go, attack the Amalekites and totally destroy all that belongs to them. Do not spare them; put to death men and women, children and infants, cattle and sheep, camels and donkeys."' 1 Samuel 15: 2-3
One person seemed to reflect the spiritual/existential conundrum that so many others are wrestling with in the wake of bin Laden's death: "There is a fine line between rejoicing in the destruction of a human being, and celebrating victory and justice," he said. "Where that line is … I have no idea."
Is what we are feeling and thinking "right" in God's eyes?
What would Jesus say or do? Would he celebrate the vanquishing of an evildoer, or would he mourn the death of a lost sheep?
Can God forgive bin Laden for the atrocities he committed on 9/11 and since? Should we? Can we?
As the world waited to see whether U.S. officials would release photographic evidence of bin Laden's corpse, the spiritual grappling continued with little consensus.
One outcome, however, was imminently clear: There are many people who feel a renewed sense of community, the kind wrought by sharing a traumatic and historic experience together in a virtual place that somehow, at least occasionally, feels strangely like hallowed ground.
More than a shouting match or purely intellectual exchange of opinion about bin Laden's demise, Facebook became a forum for authentic spiritual examination. It was fascinating — and heartening — to watch hearts and minds transform in real time as they responded to the shared thoughts of friends and acquaintances on Facebook.
For many of us, Facebook is a "Third Place," a virtual gathering place where everyone knows our name and our story. It's a place where we create, for better of for worse, an ongoing story together.
For people of faith, Facebook can be a very real sacred space, even — or perhaps most especially — in difficult times.
While we may feel uncomfortable or unjust thanking God for the death of a moral monster like bin Laden, surely we can give thanks for the grace that makes even a modicum of beauty out of ugly things.
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Poetry Dispatch No.154 | January 22, 2007
The votes are in. (Poetry Dispatch # I53, "The Couple in the Next Room" " and/or 'Why I don't read John Ashbery and would never buy another books of his'. The poets and readers are angry, humored, perceptive and in TOTAL agreement. But first, in case you may have forgotten-: the John Ashbery poesy territory, revisited…Norbert Blei
The Serious Doll by John Ashbery
The kinds of things are more important than the
Individual thing, though the specific is supremely
Interesting. Right? As each particular
Goes over Niagara Falls in a barrel one may
Justifiably ask: Where does this come from?
Whither goes my concern? What you are wearing
Has vanished along with other concepts.
They are lined up by the factory balcony railing
Against blue sky with some clumsy white paper clouds
Pasted on it. Where does the east meet the west?
At sunset there is a choice of two smiles: discreet or serious.
In the best of all possible worlds, that is enough.
from Houseboat Day
Thanks for the warning. After reading that, I wouldn't either.
My reply would be, "Huh?"
I am not astonished by poetry that speaks of nothing but artifice to only the poet and academia. —Norbert Blei, Poetry Dispatch Loved your comment. Hated the Ashberry poem. Bewildered by the critics. –S
I missed your Poem by Ashbury, just picked it up in the Delete box. My thought on seeing who the poet was was…………Ashbury??? You've got to be kidding.! And it turned out you agreed. I find him a jokester, dry of life.
I am so glad you said that…I thought it stunk (that's the southsider in me) –SH
You've got my vote on the matter, too.
I agree wholeheartedly; he just makes me
mad. –A
ick me too
Dear Coyote Claws, I sure as hell didn't understand this one.
Saying you like Asbury is like saying you like the holidays. Inside we're all happy and relieved when they're over and we can go back to our real normal lives that we secretly love. No one is brave enough to say these sentiments aloud. We just go along with it all.
This sounds like me on Vicodin! Free association, or WHAT? Chuckles,
Yep, The stuff is merde. Allons to real poetry.
I'm with you on this one. I can't tell crap from excellence in most poetry but I don't like the feeling I'm being put on. –RP
I read it twice and found only confirmation of nothingness. I'm reminded of an undergraduate course in T.S.Eliot in which I thought no one could possibly retain that much information from footnotes, without which we apparently couldn't expect to understand him. I departed still mystified. But I was grateful because it made guys like Frost so immediate.
I agree with your assessment.
I know what you mean about Ashbery..I think I agree with you. This density is fine if you know the key to translating him, and I just do not have the time. There are many great poets left out there for me to discover. –DT
I share your view! More grit, more accessibility, I say.
Old Navajo Brave & Chieftan!
For once you are not sniffing poetic glue! I could make neither heads nor tails of it either, although it did pique my curiosity to explore the rest of the book.
My 30 year starter wife said, while observing some highly touted abstract paintings at the Art Institute: "I am not interested in 'intellectualizing' or trying to understand the artist's personal nightmare!"
Louis XIV put it better: "Enlevez-moi ces grotesques!" Idiomatic translation into 21st Century vernacular: "Get these fuckin' ugly things out of my face!"
I suppose one can become too involved in one's personal take on perception, but why write of it for the public; just create the prose in your secret diary and see if it is a smash after being published posthumously! Then you don't have to worry about it!
I am glad you are reading so much new work! I love poetry and never tire of the tried and true old ones I love…Millay..
I forwarded your #152 Ashbury to D.W., noting "I suppose you might also have an opinion," and this was his reply. DS :
Re: Ashbury's verse. I am with Blei. Were Wallace Stevens still alive, I think he would call Ashbury "a clam playing an accordion," novel at first, then just mind-mushy.
this reads like gibberish to me
thank god. i though i was the only one who thought him ridiculous. thank you thank you thank you.
Why do you suppose Ashbery's work–I agree with you about it–has captured such acclaim? It reminds me of the faddish paintings of New York artists whose work I find repelling. But some of them, too, have captured acclaim that lasts for decades, & earns them money I wish I were paid. As chief executive artist of my enterprise, myself, I find I must consider the competition, or die. I don't doubt that some of it is know-who. But–I'm guessing–he must speak to the desire among the not-quite-terminally bored, for some sort of cleverness, that doesn't require moving beyond their privileged apartments? I'm so ignorant of their lives, I can only guess.
The people in question control probably the majority of money that, for instance, people who write poetry are going to be paid in our life-times. Probably, maybe. It must have been so during Whitman's life-time, too–the London crowd. Yet, look what he did. But he spent the second half of his life quite sick, adding to the core of Leaves of Grass–some excellent, most not as good as that core, mainly struggling to publish, rather than being creative in the sense of writing great poetry–struggling to survive during the long period during which most Americans earned less for their labor, relative to what they had to buy, than before the Civil War, while an elite got fabulously wealthy financing & contracting to build & supplying rails to & buying & selling the railroads. I frequently imagine how it must have looked to him, what was going on, who was getting paid, who was acclaimed, while he lived by the fertilizer factory, recovering from his stroke, partly, suffering from a variety of other illnesses he was in no position to have treated–if there were treatments–& putting out one edition after another of his book, only gradually getting out of nearly fatal poverty.
It wasn't his way to write about compelling reasons for despair–he operated in the contrary mode, almost totally. You have to be so strong, to persist, when drivel is acclaimed, Bushes are presidents, etc., & when, almost surely, what the greatest people of your generation create is lost to you, under an avalanche of
Ashberyisms, misunderstanding, propaganda, & ads for clever gizmos, shows, & obese automobiles.
Be well.
After bringing us Michael Blumenthal, one of the best of the best, I suppose it is in the interest of balance that you bring us John Assberry.
i couldn't agree with you more…in my opinion he's the perfect example of the worst kind of bullshit that's happened to american poetry. it scares me that someone can read his work and find it interesting.
Bravo, dear readers and writers. Thank you. Norbert Blei
John Ashbery (born July 28, 1927) is an American poet. He has won nearly every major American award for poetry and is recognized as one of America's most important, though still controversial, poets. In an article on Elizabeth Bishop in his Selected Prose, he characterizes himself as having been described as "a harebrained, homegrown surrealist whose poetry defies even the rules and logic of Surrealism."
Ashbery was born in Rochester, New York and raised on a farm near Lake Ontario; his brother died when they were children. Ashbery was educated at Deerfield Academy. At Deerfield, an all-boys school, Ashbery read such poets as W. H. Auden, Dylan Thomas, and Wallace Stevens, and began writing poetry; one of his poems was actually published in Poetry Magazine, though under the name of a classmate who had submitted it without Ashbery's knowledge or permission. He also published a handful of poems, including a sonnet about his frustrated love for a fellow student, and a piece of short fiction in the school newspaper, the Deerfield Scroll. His first ambition was to be a painter. From the age of eleven until fifteen he took weekly classes at the art museum in Rochester.
Ashbery graduated in 1949 with an A.B., cum laude, from Harvard College, where he was a member of the Harvard Advocate, the university's literary magazine, and the Signet Society. He wrote his senior thesis on the poetry of W.H. Auden. At Harvard he befriended fellow writers Kenneth Koch, Barbara Epstein, V.R. Lang, Frank O'Hara, and Edward Gorey, and was a classmate of Robert Creeley, Robert Bly, and Peter Davison. Ashbery went on to study briefly at New York University, and received an M.A. from Columbia in 1951.
From the mid-1950s, when he received a Fulbright Fellowship, through 1965, he lived in France. He served as the art editor for the European edition of the New York Herald Tribune, while also translating potboilers and contemporary French literature. During this period he lived with the French poet Pierre Martory. After returning to the United States, he continued his career as an art critic, for New York and Newsweek magazines, while also serving on the editorial board of ARTNews until 1972. Several years later, he began a stint as an editor at Partisan Review, serving from 1976 to 1980.
During the fall of 1963, Ashbery became acquainted with Andy Warhol at a scheduled poetry reading at the Literary Theatre in New York. He had also previously written favorable reviews of Warhol's art. That same year he reviewed Warhol's Flowers exhibition at Galerie Illeana Sonnabend in Paris, describing Warhol's visit to Paris as "the biggest transatlantic fuss since Oscar Wilde brought culture to Buffalo in the nineties." Ashbery returned to New York nearing the end of 1965 and was welcomed with a large party at the Factory, and also became close friends with poet Gerard Malanga, who was also Warhol's assistant, on whom he had an important influence as a poet.
In the early 1970s, Ashbery began teaching at Brooklyn College, where his students included poet John Yau, and in the 1980s, he moved to Bard College, where he is the Charles P. Stevenson, Jr., Professor of Languages and Literature. He was the poet laureate of New York state from 2001 to 2003, and also served for many years as a chancellor of the Academy of American Poets. Ashbery lives in New York City and Hudson, New York, with his partner, David Kermani.
Ashbery's long list of awards began with the Yale Younger Poets Prize in 1956, selected by W. H. Auden, for his first collection, Some Trees. His early work shows the influence of W. H. Auden, Wallace Stevens, Boris Pasternak, and many of the French surrealists (his translations from French literature are numerous). In the late 1950s, the critic John Bernard Myers categorized the common traits of Ashbery's avant-garde poetry, as well as that of Kenneth Koch, Frank O'Hara, James Schuyler, Barbara Guest, Kenward Elmslie and others, as constituting a "New York School." Ashbery then wrote two collections while in France, the highly controversial The Tennis Court Oath (1962), and Rivers and Mountains (1966), before returning to New York to write The Double Dream of Spring, which was published in 1970.
Increasing critical recognition in the 1970s transformed Ashbery from an obscure avant-garde experimentalist into one of America's most important (though still one of its most controversial) poets. After the publication of Three Poems (1973), Ashbery in 1975 won all three major American poetry prizes (the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award) for his Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror. The collection's title poem is considered to be one of the masterpieces of late-20th-century American poetic literature.
His subsequent collection, the more difficult Houseboat Days (1977), reinforced Ashbery's reputation, as did 1979's As We Know, which contains the long, double-columned poem "Litany." By the 1980s and 1990s, Ashbery had become a central figure in American and more broadly English-language poetry, as his number of imitators evidenced. His own poetry was accused of a staleness in this period, but books like A Wave (1985) and the later And the Stars Were Shining (1994), particularly in their long poems, show the unmistakable originality of a great poet in practice.
Ashbery's works are characterized by a free-flowing, often disjunctive syntax extensive linguistic play, often infused with considerable humor, and a prosaic, sometimes disarmingly flat or parodic tone. The play of the human mind is the subject of a great many of his poems. Formally, the earliest poems show the influence of conventional poetic practice, yet by The Tennis Court Oath a much more revolutionary engagement with form appears. Ashbery returned to something approximating conventional verse, at least on its surface, with many of the poems in The Double Dream of Spring, though his Three Poems are written in long blocks of prose. Although he has never again approached the radical experimentation of The Tennis Court Oath poems or "The Skaters" and "Into the Dusk-Charged Air" from his collection Rivers and Mountains, syntactic and semantic experimentation, linguistic expressiveness, deft, often abrupt shifts of register, and insistent wit remain consistent elements of his work.
Ashbery's art criticism has been collected in the 1989 volume Reported Sightings, Art Chronicles 1957-1987, edited by the poet David Bergman. He has written one novel, A Nest of Ninnies, with fellow poet James Schuyler, and in his 20s and 30s penned several plays, three of which have been collected in Three Plays (1978). Ashbery's Charles Eliot Norton Lectures at Harvard University were published as Other Traditions in 2000. A larger collection of his prose writings, Selected Prose, appeared in 2005.
- * W.H. Auden
- * Wallace Stevens
- * Raymond Roussel
- * John Clare
- * Marianne Moore
- * Giorgio de Chirico
- * Jasper Johns
- * Gertrude Stein
- * Turandot and Other Poems (1953)
- * Some Trees (1956), winner of the Yale Younger Poets Prize that year
- * The Tennis Court Oath (1962)
- * Rivers and Mountains (1966)
- * The Double Dream of Spring (1970)
- * Three Poems (1972)
- * Vermont Notebook (1975)
- * Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror (1975), awarded the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award
- * Houseboat Days (1977)
- * As We Know (1979)
- * Shadow Train (1981)
- * A Wave (1984), awarded the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize and the Bollingen Prize by Yale University
- * April Galleons (1987)
- * The Ice Storm (1987)
- * Flow Chart (1991)
- * Hotel Lautréamont (1992)
- * And the Stars Were Shining (1994)
- * Can You Hear, Bird? (1995)
- * Wakefulness (1998)
- * Girls on the Run (1999), a book-length poem inspired by the work of artist Henry Darger
- * Your Name Here (2000)
- * 100 Multiple-Choice Questions (2000)
- * Other Traditions (2000) Harvard University Press
- * As Umbrellas Follow Rain (2001)
- * Chinese Whispers (2002)
- * Selected Prose 1953-2003 (2005)
- * Where Shall I Wander (2005)
- * A Worldly Country (2007)
- * Notes from the Air: Selected Later Poems (2007)


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my husband and i are cops. we have two girls, riley (5) and delaney (18 months). we found out delaney was terminal with CF when she was one week old. we were devasted. we established hope 4 delaney to raise funding for the CF Center at CHOP to provide assistance to the patients and families that face life everyday fighting to breathe. Our girls are our world. They are full of life and give us both so much joy. On top of the daily stress of the job, these two divas rock our worlds. we are a fun family, easy going and love to be around fun people. This being said, we know alot of people. SOOOO - we are hosting an annual beef n beer type benefit for Hope 4 Delaney. last year we raised over $7,000 in one night. This organization is growing and we are so anxious to bring more money to the CF Center at CHOP. We gave a generous donation this year and want to double it next year.
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Given that it's being done by the team that helped make Modern Warfare a household name, it's only right that Titanfall has its own form of a prestige system.
MP1ST reported that Generations will act as Titanfall version of Call of Duty's original prestige mode. This builds on the lore-oriented multiplayer that Titanfall will be bringing. The concept behind Generations is that after reaching Titanfall's maximum online level, 50, you can get a new body that is smarter and acquires experience even faster than before, hinting that this new character is the offspring of the one you just leveled. Unfortunately, you have to sacrifice every unlock, rank and challenge that you achieved along the way when jumping to the next generation/prestige.
Further compounding the report is a NeoGAF user who claimed to have uncovered the in-game art for Generations icons. There are believed to be ten different Generations you can go through, each with its own designation and design. The beta only allowed players to progress to a capped level 14, but it does indeed sound possible for Respawn to include such a feature for avid players.
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* Sweex MM002V2 with
* Sweex MM002V2 with [[MT2060]] silicon tuner (USB ID 18b4:1689)
* Tvisto USB DVB-T with [[MXL5003S]] tuner (USB ID 18b4:fffa)
* Tvisto USB DVB-T with [[MXL5003S]] tuner (USB ID 18b4:fffa)
* ZAP DVB-T USB stick with [[MXL5003S]] tuner (USB ID 18b4:1689)
* ZAP DVB-T USB stick with [[MXL5003S]] tuner (USB ID 18b4:1689)
===DUTV007A USB DVB-T Receiver===
===DUTV007A USB DVB-T Receiver===
Revision as of 01:49, 24 May 2009
An USB controller, that also contains an embedded DVB-T demodulator, produced by Tai-Hui and marketed under the brand name e3C Technologies.
This IC is used in many cheap DVB-T USB Sticks. Support is currently very experimental under Linux. (Only the combination with MXL5003S will work and only with 7 and 8 MHz channels.)
- 1 EC168 Devices
- 2 External Links
EC168 Devices
- If you own such a device please check the pictures below to see if your device is already here.
- If it is then please add the brand and device name you bought it as.
- If your device is not yet here please open it up and see whats inside. (Sometimes the plasic case can differ but the innards are just the same.)
And please, if your device or its PCB differ from the ones that are here, please take some pictures and add them.
Known USB IDs are 18b4:1689, 18b4:fffa, 18b4:fffb, 18b4:1001 and 18b4:1002 (for devices with a second tuner).
Misc. Devices
If you own one of these devices, please add the missing information and make a subsection for them, or add them to the appropriate device subsection.
- Sweex MM002V2 with Microtune MT2060 silicon tuner (USB ID 18b4:1689)
- Tvisto USB DVB-T with MXL5003S tuner (USB ID 18b4:fffa)
- ZAP DVB-T USB stick with MXL5003S tuner (USB ID 18b4:1689)
DUTV007A USB DVB-T Receiver
Picture: [1]
USB ID: 18b4:1689
Tuner: MXL5003S
Works with the driver from Antti's mercurial repository as described in [2]
Sold as:
- "WandTV USB DVB-T TV Tuner with Remote" SKU 8325 by Dealextreme
- EzTV DUTV007A by ForwardVideo
DUTV002 MinTV-DVB-T Stick
USB ID: 18b4:1001
Tuner: MT2060
Sold as
- "MinTV-DVB-T Stick" by Shenzhen ForwardVideo.Co.,Ltd. [3]
- EzTV DUTV007 by ForwardVideo (please note that it is DUTV007 not DUTV007A or DUTV007B)
Linux owner
- Marco Rossini [5]
DUTV009 SinoVideo 3420A-2
USB ID: 18b4:1689/18b4:fffb (can anybody confirm that second USB ID ?)
Tuner: MXL5003S
Sold as:
- SinoVideo 3420A-2
- "EzTV DUTV009 USB DVB-T Receiver" by ForwardVideo
- "USB DVB-T TV Dongle with Remote SKU 8309" by DealExtreme
The firmware file EC168BDA.bin is contained in the Windows driver directory.
External links:
SinoVideo SV3420D
USB ID: 18b4:1689 Tuner: MXL5003S
The PCB says SV3420D-V02.
Apparently produced by SinoVideo and sold under lots of different names.
Sold as
- SinoVideo 3420D Product page
External links:
As the windows driver CD is labeled SV3420A and timestamps are rather old, I suspect that the drivers didn't change since SV3420A. Equally the Linux driver should work for all revisions. Remote control part is recognized as HID device by the kernel.
Works with the driver from Antti's mercurial repository as described in [6]
WS-DVBTM2 Tevion USB-DVB-T
Cheap offer at Hofer (Aldi) in Austria. Has an EC168 and MXL5003s built in, which refers to the E3C reference design. Reffering to the link, the system only freezes after loading the dvb-usb-ec168.ko module under debian 5.0 unstable. All other modules load fine. Maybe other distros and/or hardware has better success. It's even impossible to load the firmware via dfu-ec168
DUTV007B USB TNT Basic LIGHT (GRTNTUSBV4)
USB ID: 18b4:1001
Tuner: MXL5003S
Sold as
- DUTV007B USB TNT Basic LIGHT from PC-Basic (Graphics)
Same USB descriptors as SinoVideo 3420A-2, but with another PID... IR is detected directly by the hidraw driver (usbhid)
The PC-Basic v4 USB Stick contains following chips :
- EC168 (USB 2.0 µ-controller, could be also a preprogrammed AVR or PIC)
- Maxlinear MXL5003S Tuner [7]
- EEPROM 24C02N I²C 0xA0 (256 Bytes) [8]
The windows driver also upload a 7109-bytes sized firmware (EC168BDA.bin) to get the device working...
Uploading Firmware to the device
- EC168 Direct Firmware Upload tool based on libusb by Tanguy Pruvot : dfu-ec168
Something interresting with this device : We can patch USB ID and descriptors included in the firmware and/or device memory...
Known USB requests
#define CMD_EC168_RAM 0x00 //RW- Read/Write RAM (Firmware go to addr 0-0x1EFF) #define CMD_EC168_GETSTATUS 0x01 //R-- ex: dfu_ctrl_get(device,0x01,0,1,buffer,1); // to know if firmware is ready #define CMD_EC168_STREAM 0x03 //R-X ex: dfu_ctrl(device,0x03,0/0x20,0xFF00); // disable/enable streaming #define CMD_EC168_SET_POWER 0x04 //R-X ex: ex: dfu_ctrl(device,0x04,0/1,index); dfu_ctrl_get(device,0x04,0,index,buffer,1); // disable/enable LED : index=8 // indexes seen in trace: 0x8,0x9,0xA,0xB,0x206,0x208 - Not a Binary Mask ! #define CMD_EC168_UNKNOWN 0x10 //--X ??? #define CMD_EC168_READ_BUF 0x20 //R-- ex: dfu_ctrl_get(device,0x20,0x0000,0x01A0,buffer,0x1A); // read eeprom ? #define CMD_EC168_WRITE_BUF 0x21 //-W- #define CMD_EC168_SET 0x30 //--X ex: dfu_ctrl(device, 0x30, 0x0709, 0x1A); // set IR Key ?
USB subsytem ID is: 18b4:1001
output of 'lsusb -vv -d 18b4:1001':
Device Descriptor: bLength 18 bDescriptorType 1 bcdUSB 2.00 bDeviceClass 0 (Defined at Interface level) bDeviceSubClass 0 bDeviceProtocol 0 bMaxPacketSize0 64 idVendor 0x18b4 idProduct 0x1001 bcdDevice 0.02 iManufacturer 0 iProduct 0 iSerial 0 bNumConfigurations 1 Configuration Descriptor: bLength 9 bDescriptorType 2 wTotalLength 50 bNumInterfaces 2 bConfigurationValue 1 iConfiguration 0 bmAttributes 0x80 (Bus Powered) MaxPower 100mA Interface Descriptor: bLength 9 bDescriptorType 4 bInterfaceNumber 0 bAlternateSetting 0 bNumEndpoints 1 bInterfaceClass 3 Human Interface Device bInterfaceSubClass 1 Boot Interface Subclass bInterfaceProtocol 1 Keyboard iInterface 0 HID Device Descriptor: bLength 9 bDescriptorType 33 bcdHID 1.11 bCountryCode 0 Not supported bNumDescriptors 1 bDescriptorType 34 Report wDescriptorLength 63 Report Descriptors: ** UNAVAILABLE ** Endpoint Descriptor: bLength 7 bDescriptorType 5 bEndpointAddress 0x81 EP 1 IN bmAttributes 3 Transfer Type Interrupt Synch Type None Usage Type Data wMaxPacketSize 0x0008 1x 8 bytes bInterval 7 Interface Descriptor: bLength 9 bDescriptorType 4 bInterfaceNumber 1 bAlternateSetting 0 bNumEndpoints 1 bInterfaceClass 255 Vendor Specific Class bInterfaceSubClass 255 Vendor Specific Subclass bInterfaceProtocol 255 Vendor Specific Protocol iInterface 0 Endpoint Descriptor: bLength 7 bDescriptorType 5 bEndpointAddress 0x82 EP 2 IN bmAttributes 2 Transfer Type Bulk Synch Type None Usage Type Data wMaxPacketSize 0x0200 1x 512 bytes bInterval 0 Device Qualifier (for other device speed): bLength 10 bDescriptorType 6 bcdUSB 2.00 bDeviceClass 0 (Defined at Interface level) bDeviceSubClass 0 bDeviceProtocol 0 bMaxPacketSize0 64 bNumConfigurations 1 Device Status: 0x0001 Self Powered


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Our bible study leader made the following two statements: 1. John the Baptist had a conversion and 2.John the Baptist competed with Our Lord for disciples. Does scripture support either of these two statements? Please comment. Thank you.
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|Answer by Fr. John Echert on 12/4/2012:
Nonsense! He may be well intentioned but badly instructed in his own formation--perhaps a product of a typical pseudo-catholic college or modernist program. Jesus himself said no man born of woman of the Old Covenant was greater than John, so the claim that he had a conversion is preposterous. Also to competing for disciples, while there may have been disciples who clung to the Baptist, it was clear by his own words that he did not encourage this. Quite the opposite, as he said, "He must increase, I must decrease." Thanks, Prudence Father Echert
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I'm pleased to announce that I've just closed bug #3881, which means that from now on Canola and all its components are licensed under the GNU General Public License version 3.
The source code of the former closed-source packages, Atabake, Download Manager, Terra and Canola, has been uploaded to our gitorious server a few hours ago.
The canola-devel mailing list for developers is already set up and working on garage. Everyone is very welcome to join us in the development of the project. For documentation, such as installation instructions, build dependency, and so on, I'm setting up a wiki that should go online by the end of this week under the openbossa.org domain.
With all this, Canola officially leaves the beta status. The packages of for the final 2.0.0 version will be uploaded soon, together with brand new Maemo-EFL.
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By Charles Passy
The bank branch is dead. Long live the bank branch?
Such is the strange state of affairs in the banking world. Faced with a challenging economic and regulatory environment, industry officials are saying they may not be able to sustain the vast network of branches they've built over the years. And the branches they do maintain may need to be reconfigured to meet the different demands of a changing customer base.
In other words, forget the teller windows and solid-wood desks of days gone by. Say hello to everything from banks that feature community rooms for free yoga classes to ones that feature video-conferencing stations. It's all a matter of giving customers something more than a checking account with free checks – such pieces of paper are hardly necessary these days, anyhow — or a CD with a marginally higher rate.
"You must have a value proposition that allows you to compete – and you can't do it on price," said Raymond Davis, chief executive officer of Umpqua Holdings Corporation, the Oregon-based banking institution with $11-plus billion in assets and more than 175 "stores" (that's how the company refers to its branches). Davis was speaking at the annual Best Practices in Retail Financial Services Symposium, held earlier this week at the Boca Raton Resort & Club in Boca Raton, Fl.
Umpqua is widely recognized as one of the leaders in the movement to redefine branch banking. The company has turned its retail locations into community centers, offering wine tastings, trivia contests and, yes, yoga classes. The pitch is simple: Come for the fun and maybe do a little banking while you're at it.
But as many of the 200-plus industry professionals at the Retail Financial Services Symposium attested, Umpqua is hardly alone in seeking ways to rethink the branch concept. In some instances, banks are adding video conferencing as a way to beef up "staffing" without having extra employees at the physical location. (Need help with determining the right investment mix for your retirement account? Just "meet" with a top financial specialist – via camera.) In other cases, branches are being folded into supermarkets – it not only translates into savings of hundreds of thousands of dollars versus building a stand-alone location, it also potentially exposes a bank to much more foot traffic.
"Our most profitable branches are supermarket branches," said William Cooper, chairman of Minnesota-based TCF Financial Corporation, during a symposium keynote address.
The changes at the branch level are directly tied to what many banking officials describe as the "perfect storm" of challenges: a difficult lending environment, new federal regulations that limit fees (think Dodd-Frank) and – perhaps most important of all — a rapid migration of customers from branch banking to online and mobile platforms. So not only are banks finding themselves in belt-tightening mode, they also have to adapt to the fact that the old ways of connecting with customers (and therefore, selling more products and services) may no longer fully apply. And while banks saw business pick up in 2011 – industry net income increased by nearly 40 percent to $119.5 billion, according to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) – it still remains far below its post-crash highs. (In 2006, banks posted income of $145 billion.)
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Mitsubishi was founded as a shipbuilding company in Japan during the early 1870s. The company diversified over the next few decades and, in 1917, it introduced Japan's first series-production automobile, the Mitsubishi Model A. A seven-seater that was based on the Fiat Tipo 3, the Model A was built by hand and therefore too expensive to compete with mass-produced models from the U.S. and Europe. When the Model A discontinued in 1921, only 22 were built.
Mitsubishi Through The Years
For the next forty years or so, Mitsubishi produced a number of other manufacturing products including ships, railroad cars, and even the Mitsubishi A6M Zero, which was a long-range fighter flown by the Japanese military during World War II. During this time, Mitsubishi also produced the PX33, which was a prototype sedan intended for use by the military. The PX33 employed a full-time, four-wheel drive technology that would resurface decades later in modern vehicles built by Mitsubishi.
The company finally began producing cars on a large scale in the 1960s with the introduction of the compact Mitsubishi 500. In 1970, nearly 100 years after the company was founded, Mitsubishi's automobile production wing broke away from its parent company, and Mitsubishi Motors Corporation formed.
Mitsubishi in America
Within a year of its formation, the company began exporting models to the U.S. The first Mitsubishi vehicle to appear stateside was the Colt in 1971. The Mitsubishi Colt caught the eye of Chrysler which, like many U.S. car companies at the time, was looking for smaller, more economical vehicles. Chrysler decided to purchase a 15 percent interest in Mitsubishi and thus get access to its vehicles.
Chrysler rebranded many Mitsubishi models under the Dodge marquee. These vehicles sold extremely well, and, by the end of the decade, the company was producing more than one million cars per year. Finally, in 1982, Mitsubishi began to sell cars in the U.S. under its own name.
Throughout much of the 1980s, Mitsubishi remained under the shadow of more established Japanese auto brands such as Toyota and Honda. However, in the 1990s, Mitsubishi began to emerge with its own identity as a producer of sportier, more performance-oriented vehicles such as the Eclipse and the 3000GT, both of which sold extremely well in the U.S.
When Chrysler merged with Daimler-Benz in 1998, Mitsubishi continued its partnership with DaimlerChrysler. However, that arrangement terminated in 2003 and, since then, Mitsubishi has struggled to maintain its standing in the U.S. market. Revelations about a systematic cover up of defects in its vehicles lead to one of the largest corporate scandals in the history of Japan and did little to help the brand's flagging fortunes in the U.S. market.
Mitsubishi Models
The Mitsubishi Lancer is a family sedan that's been in production since 1973. While previous incarnations of the Lancer were regarded as being rather sluggish and dull, the most recent generation is noted for being stylish and fun to drive, along with providing the safety, fuel economy, and reliability you'd expect from a Japanese-built family sedan. The Lancer is also available in the more performance-oriented Sportback version and, of course, the Lancer Evolution sports car.
Originally released in 1969, the Mitsubishi Galant has been around even longer than the Lancer. Mitsubishi has discontinued the model.
The Outlander is a four-door crossover SUV that was introduced in 2001. Currently, it is the only vehicle Mitsubishi manufactures with all-wheel drive capable of accommodating seven passengers though the third row is real small.
The Outlander Sport is a more compact version of the crossover SUV and was unveiled in 2010. The Outlander Sport offers reduced seating capacity but in return it provides more attractive styling, reduced weight, and a slightly improved fuel economy.
The Mitsubishi i, which is also known as the i-MiEV, is a five-door electric vehicle first introduced to the U.S. in 2011. Compact, light, and highly economical, the i is available in select markets with plans for a nationwide rollout.
The Mitsubishi Eclipse was one of the most popular Japanese-made sport coupes and convertibles sold in the U.S. for nearly 20 years. However, in 2011, the Eclipse was discontinued with 2012 slated to be its final model year. The Mitsubishi Montero is another SUV manufactured by Mitsubishi that was discontinued in the U.S. back in 2006.
Mitsubishi briefly tried its hand at producing pickup trucks when it released the Mitsubishi Raider which was based off the Dodge Dakota. However, the Raider suffered from disappointing sales and only lasted until 2009.
Popular Mitsubishi Products and Technologies
Despite the troubles it has endured in recent years, the Mitsubishi brand is still highly regarded around the world. The company enjoys a reputation for building reliable, economical and performance minded sedans, coupes, and crossover SUVs. Many of the brand's discontinued models such as the Mirage, the Endeavor, the Eclipse, and the Montero remain big sellers in the used car market today.
Mitsubishi 3000 GT
1999-1995 | Convertible, Coupe, Sports
The Mitsubishi 3000 GT released new in the 1991 to 1999 model years.
Mitsubishi Diamante
2004-1997, 1995 | Luxury, Midsize, Sedan, Wagon
The Mitsubishi Diamante was a midsize luxury sedan produced by Mitsubishi Motors from 1990 to 2005.
Mitsubishi Eclipse
2012-1995 | Convertible, Coupe, Hatchback, Sports
The original Mitsubishi Eclipse is a product of Diamond Star Motors, a joint venture between Chrysler and Mitsubishi in the mid-1980s.
Mitsubishi Eclipse Cross
2019-2018 | SUV, Utility/Offroad
Mitsubishi Eclipse Spyder
2012-2007, 2005-2001 | Convertible, Sports
The Mitsubishi Eclipse Spyder is a convertible version of the Eclipse sport coupe.
Mitsubishi Endeavor
2011-2010, 2008-2004 | SUV, Utility/Offroad
Mitsubishi Motors manufactured the Mitsubishi Endeavor from 2003 until 2011 for model years 2004 to 2011.
Mitsubishi Galant
2012-1995 | Midsize, Sedan
During the Industrial Revolution of the late 1800s and early 1900s, companies all over the world discovered the benefits of the latest available technology both in terms of creating more efficient plants, as well as making more money.
Mitsubishi i MiEV
2012 | Compact, Hatchback
The Mitsubishi i MiEV, which stands for Mitsubishi innovative Electric Vehicle, was an electric five-door hatchback that went into production in 2009.
Mitsubishi i-MiEV
2017-2016, 2014 | Compact, Hatchback
Mitsubishi Lancer
2017-2008, 2006-2002 | Compact, Hatchback, Sedan
The Mitsubishi Lancer has a long history dating back to its introduction in 1973.
Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution
2013-2010, 2008, 2006-2003 | Compact, Sedan
While American and European automakers are often considered the pioneers of the automobile industry; manufacturers from around the globe were also making a name for themselves.
Mitsubishi Lancer Sportback
2013-2010, 2004 | Compact, Hatchback, Wagon
The Mitsubishi Lancer Sportback is a performance-oriented hatchback derived from the extremely popular Lancer.
Mitsubishi Mighty Max
1996-1995 | Truck, Utility/Offroad
The Mitsubishi Mighty Max was originally labeled as the Mitsubishi Forte when it was introduced in Japan in 1978.
Mitsubishi Mirage
2019-2017, 2015-2014, 2002-1997, 1995 | Compact, Coupe, Hatchback, Sedan
The Industrial Revolution carried a tremendous amount of change in the late 1800s and early 1900s.
Mitsubishi Mirage G4
2017 | Compact, Sedan
Mitsubishi Montero
2006-1995 | SUV, Utility/Offroad
The Mitsubishi Montero is a sport utility vehicle (SUV) manufactured by Japan-based Mitsubishi Motors.
Mitsubishi Montero Sport
2004-1997 | SUV, Utility/Offroad
The Montero Sport was first produced in Japan and made available in the U.S.
Mitsubishi Outlander
2019, 2017-2003 | Hybrid, SUV, Utility/Offroad
Most people tend to think of the American and European car makers when recalling the great automotive manufacturers of the early 1900s.
Mitsubishi Outlander Sport
2019, 2017-2011 | SUV, Utility/Offroad
The Mitsubishi Outlander Sport is a compact crossover vehicle that was introduced in the U.S.
Mitsubishi Raider
2009-2006 | Truck, Utility/Offroad
The automotive industry had its beginnings not just in Europe and the U.S., but also worldwide, including parts of Asia.


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While A Day in the Life takes place in Williamsburg, Virginia, the routines that are portrayed would have been familiar to people living in other British colonies in North America. Working-class young men received an education through apprenticeships with tradesmen or businessmen. Women managed household and domestic affairs. Gentlemen of wealth and status handled the responsibilities of government and politics. Merchants and storekeepers sold imported goods to local customers. Enslaved African Americans worked throughout the community in agriculture, trades, and households. Every colony also had small groups of free African Americans living and working in cities and in rural areas. A Day in the Life gives students the opportunity to experience eighteenth-century life from all of these perspectives and more.
Episode One: Dennis, Prissy, and Tom's Day (18:17)
Meet Dennis, a young enslaved house servant of the Carter family, Prissy, the Carter's youngest daughter, and Tom, an apprentice carpenter. This episode explores the differences in work, education, lifestyle, and family life of the different classes these children represent.
Episode Two: Mr. Carter's Day (17:17)
Meet Mr. Carter, a member of the gentry and a counselor to the Royal Governor. He seeks his own counsel with Mr. Grove, a wise plantation owner, as to whether he should support efforts to protest the British actions in Boston. This episode examines the political responsibilities, as well as the home life, of the gentry.
Episode Three: Daniel Grove's Day (18:32)
Meet Daniel Grove, a young gentleman who will escort Mr. Carter's oldest daughter, Elizabeth, to an evening ball. The episode shows some of Daniel's lessons, ranging from reading Shakespeare to fencing, as well his participation in a horse race and a subscription ball.
Episode Four: Jill's Day (18:17)
Meet Jill, an enslaved woman at the Grove plantation. She is pregnant, and nearly run down by Daniel and his friend while they are racing their horses. This episode shows the hardships of plantation slaves' lives, how enslaved families could be separated by their masters, and the difficulty of escape from slavery.
Episode Five: Anne Sparks' Day (18:13)
Meet Anne Sparks, a free black woman who makes her living as a seamstress. While Mr. Carter's daughter, Elizabeth, is shopping at the millinery for accessories to wear to the ball, Anne arrives to deliver a sewing order. This episode explores family life in a free black household, and shows how even free African Americans struggled in eighteenth-century Virginia.
Episode Six: Patsy Grenville's Day (18:07)
Meet Patsy Grenville, the young daughter of the proprietor of Grenville's store. Patsy has a head for business, but is unlikely to earn the chance to own her own store. This episode takes a close look at how people purchased goods in eighteenth-century Virginia, and examines the colonial monetary system.
Episode Seven: James Campbell's Day (17:46)
Meet James Campbell, an apprentice blacksmith and Tom's best friend. James has ambitions to become an artisan, but he must first learn the lessons of hammer and forge. This episode examines at the eighteenth-century apprenticeship system.
Episode Eight: Mrs. Wood's Day (18:02)
Meet Mrs. Wood, a middling-sort woman who manages a household. This episode follows Mrs. Wood through her day of supervising the household, running errands, and celebrating an anniversary.


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Notes from the trenches from a practicing pediatric occupational therapist -- because everyone is entitled to my opinion. With gratitude and appreciation to these visionaries: A. Jean Ayres, Barbara Knickerbocker, Sheila Frick, Patty Oetter, Colleen Hacker, Julia and Patricia Wilbarger, Jan Z. Olsen, Mary Sue Williams and Sherry Shellenberger, Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen, Sally Goddard Blythe, Andrew Taylor Still, Lawrence Jones, and F. Matthias Alexander. RIP Steve Jobs.
Wednesday, May 4, 2011
Another W We Don't Need
W sitting is problematic for both orthopedic and neurological reasons. It's fine to sit like this once in a while, and many toddlers do assume this posture from time to time, but it's not a good default position. Our bodies were NOT designed to sit like that, and prolonged W sitting is destructive to the bones, muscles, and ligaments that comprise the knees and hips. Habitual W sitters frequently grow up to be adults who have chronic knee pain. They may even need knee and hip replacements, their joints have been so compromised by misuse. Anyone who has lived with hip or knee pain even briefly knows how utterly debilitating it is.
Relying on the W position interferes with the child's neurological maturation and development of his balance and coordination. Sitting this way for long periods every day does not allow the child to rotate his trunk as he is playing. Rotation of the spine and trunk allows us to reach across the body with the dominant hand to pick up and use objects on either side of us. W sitting fixes the trunk so that the child must use each half of his body separately instead of coordinating the two sides together. Since he can't really move much in this position, he tends to reach with and use the handy hand on the same side, instead of turning, shifting his weight, and crossing over the midline of his body with his dominant hand. This does not provide the child with the movement experiences he needs to integrate the two hemispheres of the brain, which must communicate together for higher level activities. This interferes with the child's balance, equilibrium responses, and gross motor coordination.
Children who don't cross the midline due to W sitting often don't establish a strong hand dominance. Their fine motor control and eye hand coordination suffers as a result, and so does their ability to write and to use their hands to play with toys and games, make crafts, open packages, and manipulate fasteners.
Since they can't rotate their spines, W sitters are also limited in how far they can turn their heads, and so they don't use their eyes the way they should. Their visual skills, like depth perception and binocular vision, suffer as a result.
These delays affect their schoolwork, since they have not developed the physical underpinnings required to successfully coordinate their hands and eyes for reading and writing, nor the balance and strength they need to sit for long periods. Because they have not practiced weight shifting and rotating their trunks, which is critical for maintaining balance, navigating the busy hallways, gym classes, and playgrounds at school can be a huge, anxiety provoking challenge.
A child who is observed to be a habitual W sitter at school should be provided with a chair during play and circle time instead of sitting on the floor, or should be given a place against a wall where his back is supported. Since W sitting in school age children is often an indication of delays in the child's neurological development, a referral to an occupational therapist may be in order.
Home activities that are good for W sitters include toys and games that require crawling or playing on all fours, like floor puzzles, racing cars, tiddly winks, and marbles. If your child is small enough, carry him as often as you can on your hip or on your back and give him minimal support. This will encourage him to grip you with his arms and legs, which will strengthen him. A therapy ball to sit on at home while doing table top activities like homework or while using the computer or watching television is very strengthening to the small muscles of the spine, which are important for posture. Activities that promote balance and/or upper body strength, like wheelbarrow walking, are helpful.
Teach the child to sit on his heels, or to sit on the floor with both legs next to him on the same side. These two positions allows him to turn and rotate his trunk. Train him to tuck his heels under him when he hears a grown-up say "Fix your feet!".
I also recommend to the parents of W sitters that their children not wear shoes indoors, since it's much easier to sit on heels with bare feet.
3 comments:
- Tracy said...
This is very informative. Thanks for posting. I always knew w sitting was not good for children but I didn't know why.
- Sun May 08, 08:03:00 PM MST
- Carmen said...
I'm 14, and I W-sit....a lot, I'm not aware that I ever did this as a child. I can even T-sit....not sure if that's normal. Is it bad? Will it do any major damage>
- Tue Sep 10, 02:56:00 AM MST
- ShortCuts make our work smarter said...
Good one, my kid is having this problem.
Can you explain why kids used to W-sit, what makes them to site like W.
How to avoid this ?
Is this due to weak bones ? If so then how to avoid this ?
Do you have any exercise chart for strengthening bones, if so, can you post these too.
It will be highly useful for us.
- Mon Jan 06, 11:23:00 PM MST


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MADRID (AP) — Spain's prime minister defended his conservative government's imposition of austerity measures during its first year in power on Monday, even as thousands of people hit the streets to protest government spending cuts.
Spain, with 25 percent unemployment, is battling to reduce its deficit and emerge from its second recession in three years, and Mariano Rajoy said 2012 will be remembered as the year in which the foundations for the country's recovery were placed.
"There are no easy answers for difficult situations, (but) we are trying because it is our obligation to rectify this situation," the prime minister said, adding that he expected the economy to improve during the coming year.
Since ousting the socialists in elections last year, Rajoy's government has raised taxes, slashed the budget for health care and education, and reduced pensions, among other tough measures.
Late Monday, demonstrations against the government's painful policies were held in 55 Spanish cities. But the number of protesters fell well short of the hundreds of thousands the country's labor unions had called upon to show up.
"The country needs to educate and care for its citizens if it wants to move forward," said Nacho de la Torre, a 35-year-old topographer marching in Madrid's city center. "I'm not saying we mustn't save, but with these cuts we are mortgaging the future of people with education and training who have to go abroad because here there are no jobs."
Spain has seen several major protests since the beginning of its economic downturn.


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Blog: First Look of "Toba Khedoori" at PAMM
On Tuesday, April 18, 2017, Pérez Art Museum Miami welcomed guests for a special first-look private preview of the museum's latest special exhibition, Toba Khedoori, with a tour led by Director Franklin Sirmans. The first-look preview was followed by a reception hosted by Krug, where guests enjoyed Krug champagne and hors d'oeuvres as they toasted the artist's first survey in fifteen years.
Toba Khedoori explores the artist's nuanced and powerful body of work. Born in Sydney, Australia in 1964, Khedoori has lived and worked in Los Angeles since 1990. Her early works are notable for their precise draftsmanship and for their use of negative space—often at a very large scale. Khedoori frequently depicts architectural forms from distanced perspectives, rendering commonplace objects and spaces familiar yet decontextualized. In recent years, she has transitioned from paper to canvas, producing smaller¬-scale works that hover between representation and abstraction. Like her earlier compositions, these works are enigmatic and acutely detailed; in an art world awash with rapidly moving images and saturated colors, Khedoori remains committed to the silent, slow, and exacting process of working by hand. The exhibition is the first major museum presentation of Khedoori's new paintings and her first survey in fifteen years.
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A congressman from Massachusetts raised questions Thursday about how Walt Disney Co. will use information it collects when it gives parkgoers new wristbands embedded with computer chips.
Edward J. Markey (D-Mass), who co-chairs a congressional panel on privacy, asked Walt Disney Co. Chairman and Chief Executive Robert A. Iger in a letter what information the park will collect with the so-called MagicBand and how it will be used.
"Widespread use of MagicBand bracelets by park guests could dramatically increase the personal data Disney can collect about its guests," he said, adding that he is particularly concerned at the prospects of Disney collecting information about children.
Disney announced recently that it plans to unveil this spring at Walt Disney World in Florida a wristband embedded with radio frequency identification chips. A unique code in each chip lets parkgoers pay to enter the park, check into Disney hotels and buy food and souvenirs, among other things.


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vm24 needed a new button or icon design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 78 designs submitted by 28 freelance designers.
RocketPolls is a Facebook game where players vote on a poll, and then guess how most users would have voted on that same poll. These polls vary in topic anywhere from current events, celebrity gossip, to everyday questions. The better guesses that users make on polls, the more virtual goods they win. These virtual goods are in turn used to win real prizes.
Our primary demographic will be 18-30 year old males and females. Since we primarily have young users, the avatars should be clean and web 2.0 friendly.
We want to create 5 different species of aliens that users can give as gifts or win as a virtual good within the game. Users will collect all the aliens in a certain species. For example, you could create a "Blue" alien species where all of the aliens within that species are blue, but each individual alien looks different (i.e., blue male alien, blue female alien, etc).
Your designs should meet the following guidelines:
1. 5 different alien species - These species should be unique from one another, but still have the same design look/feel (i.e., they should all look like they were created by the same designer). You do not need to use color as the distinctive feature of the species, but there should be an easily noticeable difference between alien species.
2. Flexible designs - If we like the designs, we will eventually want multiple aliens of a particular species designed.
3. Cartoon, prize-like look and feel - Take a look at some of the popular Facebook game "gifts" or avatars. We want the aliens to look like it's something our users will work hard to obtain an have fun collecting. We do not want anything that looks scary. They should be cute, even adorable possibly with big friendly eyes. They can only be ugly if they are ugly in a way that cute and adorable. The kind of original delightful design that would make you really want to collect them.
4. Be creative - There is no need to limit yourself to our name, "RocketPolls". The color scheme is flexible, but the avatars should be generally appealing to both males and females.
Take a look at these avatars to get a general idea of what we're looking for:


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The other day, I made this. And topped it off with this. The other night, graduate school husband had the guys over, and they ate every last drop of this. However, they didn't believe this was homemade, so he had to pull out the ice cream maker to prove that this was the real deal.
- 2 c. half and half
- 1 1/2 c. whole milk
- 1 c. heavy cream
- 1 c. + 2 tbsp. pure cane sugar
- dash of sea salt
- 3 egg yolks
- 1 tbsp. vanilla extract
- In a heavy bottomed sauce pan (I use my Le Creuset), combine half and half, whole milk, heavy cream, 1 cup of sugar, and salt. Whisk to combine. Give it a little taste to make sure you have enough salt. Yes, salt.
- In a bowl, whisk together egg yolks and 2 tablespoons of sugar.
- Over medium-high heat, heat milk mixture until sugar dissolves and begins to simmer. Slowly pour about one cup of the simmering milk mixture into the egg mixture, whisking constantly to temper the eggs (a.k.a. cook the eggs without scrambling them). Add egg mixture to sauce pan, stirring occasionally for about 5 minutes. Turn heat off. Add vanilla extract.
- Pour mixture in a large bowl over a fine mesh sieve to catch any egg clumps. Cover and place in fridge to cool, about 3 hours. To speed up the cooling process, place bowl in an ice bath in the fridge, or place in the freezer sans ice bath.
- Once mixture is cold, make ice cream according to your machine's instructions...
… and then eat some of this. It's the real deal.
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Hoop earrings set with pavé diamonds, in yellow gold and white gold
The Quatre Radiant Edition hoop earrings combine diamonds with gold sculpture for a jewel with a sophisticated and unique design. The skill of the sculptor and the gold mirror setting highlight the brilliance of the diamonds. Trendy, these earrings are a jewel that can be worn everyday and can be associated with the Quatre rings in an original and contemporary set.More detail
From 1860, and for almost forty years, Russia's Imperial Family represent a significant part of Boucheron's clientele. The Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna, the Tsarina Maria Alexandrovna, Alexander III and Grand Duke Alexei all stop at Boucheron every time they visit Paris, giving the jeweler's name a good reputation at the Russian court.
This is why, in 1897, Frédéric Boucheron decides to open his first shop abroad in Moscow.
Hoop earrings set with pavé diamonds, in yellow gold and white gold
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SPWS needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 59 designs submitted by 25 freelance designers.
Check our history - we always award a winner, so that the best (like YOU!) will participate!
We're looking for a nice logo, in color and B&W.
Problems with the current logo: three different fonts, three different colors (focus on green and yellow for the new one!), not much creativity!!
- color and black & white versions
- we're a Web company, so we're not sure what the standard formats are - but they'll be using it for print as well
- Can't get much worse than what we've got! ;o)
Find out how a design contest works or learn more about our logo design services.


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wcardinal needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 84 designs submitted by 34 freelance designers.
Nimble Skills will be the logo to a website that is for small business to search for jobs and for individuals to post jobs. It will be a free service.
Nimble Skills comes from the saying ' jack be nimble, jack jump over the candle stick'. Making the search quick, easy end very efficient.
The client would like to see a guy jumping over a candle stick (candle stick would be the letter 'i' in Nimble).
From this idea - I would like to have something fun and memorable. No 'man' jumping over candle stick - maybe a rabbit instead or other animal.
The other idea is - to have something related to job search and resume posting site. But not Gender specific (breifcase). Maybe an animal or symbol - to make the logo very fun, colorful and geared toward the web 2.0 look and feel.
I would like to see a logo like the following sites:
- No Specific colors
- web 2.0 look
- fun
- Not gender specific
- nimble skill be one word - nimble and skills are different color to separate the words.
- Please PC fonts or will need to be able to turn over fonts that are PC compatible
- no rainbows
- no guy jumping over candle stick. Instead maybe a silhouette of a rabbit.
- Do not use the colors : pink or purple
Find out how a design contest works or learn more about our logo design services.


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Consumers are under a constant barrage of marketing messages.
To get your message across, clarity and strength are essential. The process includes forging a creative concept according to the marketing objectives and developing original and strong Creative that sells.
Our services include advertising design for all media: print ads, Internet banners, and billboards.
Clear advert. Client: Unilever


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Charles Krauthammer's weekly column reviews the collapse of the Obama administration's Middle East foreign policy. The collapse achieved expressive form this past Sunday in the person of Ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice, dispatched to each of the morning news shows to pronounce the Obama administration line of the moment on the murder of the American ambassador and three other Americans in Benghazi.
Peddling the party line, she promulgated patent absurdities with passionate conviction and made a complete and utter fool of herself. Paul Rahe perfectly captured the scenario: "It used to be the case that a diplomat was an honorable man who went abroad to lie for his country. In the Age of Obama, a diplomat is a dishonorable woman who goes on television to lie for her President."


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The Girl Chewing Gum, and the Perils of Google
Googling yourself can ultimately be a very dangerous, and addictive, thing to do. And with the automation of Google Alerts, this fundamentally narcissistic activity is even less guilt-ridden – just passively sit back and every tidbit of information about you uploaded into cyberspace is sent straight to your inbox. As I recently discovered, you can often find yourself in unexpected and somewhat cringeworthy contexts –[…..]


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Ascending the CSO Engagement Continuum II – Consultations
The Bank has learned a good deal about how to consult civil society over the years. The absence of consultation policies led to some of the most visible CSO advocacy campaigns opposing Bank-financed projects, such as the Narmada Dam in India and the Polonoreste Project in the Brazilian Amazon in the 1980s. Thus, while this third step on the civil society engagement continuum has been one of the most difficult to ascend, it has also shown the clearest progress in terms of more effective consultation practices. As the latest edition of the World Bank–Civil Society Engagement Review of Fiscal Years 2010–12 demonstrates, today the Bank consults CSOs widely on its strategies, policies, programs, and projects worldwide.


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Colorado's newest state lawmaker might be a Boulder County Democrat but he has an unusual political past.
Jonathan Singer, who on Saturday was elected to fill a vacancy in the House of Representatives, was an unaffiliated voter in 2000 but became a Republican so he could support John McCain because he liked his campaign-finance reform stance. He ended up unwittingly helping George W. Bush. (More on that later.)
Singer, 32, has twice been a delegate to the Democratic National Convention; in 2004 in Boston he supported Dennis Kucinich, in 2008, in Denver, he supported Barack Obama.
Singer caused a sensation on Day 3 of the 2008 convention when he entered the Pepsi Center wearing a Denver Nuggets outfit with the name "Obama" on the back. To complete his ensemble, Singer wore a Denver Nuggets headband with a hand-lettered "C" next to the "DN."
He can still remember the crowd's roar and cameras clicking when he showed up wearing the uniform, which he ordered online.


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Philip Ball / October 6, 2017
Neutrinos raise questions faster than they answer them, but in science that's a good thing
Philip Ball / October 3, 2017
We may soon be using GWs as routinely as radio waves and X-rays are used today
Philip Ball / August 30, 2017
The intensity of Hurricane Harvey has almost certainly been worsened by human-made climate change
Philip Ball / August 4, 2017
Scientists are making advances in gene editing, as a new experiment proves. But some of the reporting has been dire—let's all calm down
The ability to analyse people's genetic constitutions will transform cancer care over the coming years. But to make the most of the technology, highly sensitive data will need to be shared. That...
Did Darwin miss something? The 100-year-old book that rivalled "The Origin of Species"—and still shapes science today
Philip Ball / June 29, 2017
In "On Growth and Form," D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson argued that organisms are shaped less by adaptive evolutionary function and more by deep mathematical laws. To understand his argument, you...
Philip Ball / May 11, 2017
An evolutionary discovery creates new puzzles
Philip Ball / March 17, 2017
Physicists are reporting their creation
Philip Ball / March 3, 2017
Once we determine that, we'll better understand what the Trappist planets can tell us
Philip Ball / February 22, 2017
High-pressure science can produce surprises—as demonstrated by two recent discoveries


text: John Hearns wrote: > On Mon, 2007-10-29 at 06:54 +0530, Sandip Dev wrote: >> Thanks everyone. I got it. I will be using MPICH for my cluster. And >> my distro would be Ubuntu Giutsy Gibbon. It already has support for >> x86-64 architecture and SMP. So now i have to install MPICH. Hope >> everything goes well. > > Sandip, sorry that we have put you off from using Mosix. > As Tony Travis said, it is appropriate for a lot of workloads - and I > have supported it in a bioinformatics role at the Natural History > Museum. Hello, John and Sandip. In fact, you can install LAM MPI from the Ubuntu repositories and I'm using it under openMosix. We spent a lot of time trying to get MPICH working reliably with the 'mpd' device, but it seemed very fragile on our Beowulf. If you are not experienced, LAM is a lot easier to use. Best wishes, Tony. -- Dr. A.J.Travis, | mailto:ajt at rri.sari.ac.uk Rowett Research Institute, | http://www.rri.sari.ac.uk/~ajt Greenburn Road, Bucksburn, | phone:+44 (0)1224 712751 Aberdeen AB21 9SB, Scotland, UK. | fax:+44 (0)1224 716687