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Hymns: All Things Bright and Beautiful
- 2005 29 Apr
Let's face it: Hymns suffer from an image problem in many church circles today. Revered, yet dusty and quaint. Beautiful and insightful … as in that special way ninth grade lit teachers preach that Beowulf matters and makes sense.
But it's difficult in worship services today to find words resembling Joseph Hart's 18th century hymn "Come, Ye Sinners:" "Come, ye sinners, poor and wretched, weak and wounded, sick and sore; Jesus, ready, stands to save you, full of pity, joined with power. ..."
That's all about to change.
New albums dropping now and later this spring by the likes of Amy Grant, Ashley Cleveland, Out of Eden, Jars of Clay and a slew of others spotlight church hymns. Works from the familiar, such as Out of Eden's "Immortal, Invisible, God Only Wise," to the uncommon, such as Jars of Clay's recording of "Thou Lovely Source of True Delight," are cloaked in new, stylized tunes, landing in listeners' ears with straight-from-the-garden freshness. Such recasting is a practice that's existed among church musicians for centuries, but fell out of fashion during recent generations as particular texts started to be associated with specific tunes.
Is this another worship trend? Just happy coincidence? Some musicians say the modern worship movement was bound to swing another direction. Music tastes change. After all, just look at 2004's year-end album sales charts. According to SoundScan the genre of "modern worship" didn't even crack the top 10 of the year's best-selling Christian albums. Either way, worship continues to evolve.
So, brace yourself. The hymnal of today may be no further away than your iPod. If that seems strange, try thinking about what it would be like to explain digital downloads to hymn writers like Martin Luther (1483-1546), Charles Wesley (1707-1788), Fanny Crosby (1820-1915), Isaac Watts (1674-1748), Thomas Dorsey (1899-1965) and Anne Steele (1716-1778).
Discovering Identity
Theories vary, but historians suggest changing musical tastes — especially among "Baby Boomers" and as illustrated by the rise of praise & worship music during the last 30-plus years — and the diminishing draw of denominational churches contributed to the result that many Christians today have never sung "Come, Ye Sinners" and thousands of other church hymns typically characterized by a consistent meter and a four-line verse structure with a progressive theme.
Christian music's leading lady Amy Grant is glad that's changing. With more than 25 years in music, Grant's seen plenty of musical preferences ebb and flow. "I think what's going on today is a timely reaction to what's going on in the church. There's been so much interest in praise choruses. Now I think it's the pendulum swinging back the other way to reconsider hymns again," she says. "What I love about hymns is that they are steeped in theology. They go so, so deep into your soul."
The idea of a hymn is Greek, intending to be a song of praise in honor of the gods, heroes and conquerors. Biblical New Testament writers adapted the concept, narrowing Christian hymns to become praise songs honoring God, as found in Paul's writings to the Ephesians and Colossians. They complemented the Jewish (and later, Jewish convert) tradition of singing the Psalter. Across centuries and into today, hymns act like vessels containing fragments of Christian thought. They excel at praising God for being God — and at reminding believers that we are not God.
Grant affirms hymnody's ability to help shape personal and collective identity. They reconnect her, she says, to simpler times growing up in Nashville, Tenn., as a young musician soaking up like a sponge whatever church music she could find. "It's like going to a family reunion," she says. "You might not want to go at first; but once you're there and you start hearing stories, it's pretty amazing. You realize these stories are part of who you are." Hymns remind us, Grant says, that "this experience of faith is so much broader and deeper than what is before us today."
Following up her 2002 project, "Legacy … Hymns & Faith" (Word), Grant will release her second hymns record this spring. She says this project consists of songs she sang growing up in the Church of Christ tradition. "These hymns mean a whole lot more [to me today], having lived a lot of life," Grant says. "Even though I loved these hymns at 18, I feel today like my soul just breathes a deep 'Amen' to all of it now."
A Firm Foundation
On "Precious Lord, Take My Hand," from Ashley Cleveland's recent February release, "Men and Angels Say" (Rambler), the blues-inspired licks of a lone steel guitar make known this isn't what grandma remembers of Dorsey's famous text. Likewise, Cleveland's gospel-arranged "What A Friend We Have in Jesus" shuns sentimentality, replacing it with a stout spirit for celebrating, "Precious Savior, still our refuge, take it to the Lord in prayer."
Cleveland speaks convincingly about hymnody's powerful draw to God. She remembers leafing through hymnals as a child who didn't want to be in church. Years later, as an adult, those words would thankfully return to her. "I grew up in the Presbyterian church; but then over time, my life got as far from the church as a person can get, and I ended up being fairly strung out on alcohol and drugs," Cleveland says. "But the thing that would happen to me when I was very, very ill — these songs would come to me at the strangest moments.
"It was like a reminder that there was a God who loved me. It seemed to me that He was calling me back to Him," she continues. "These songs have pierced my soul in a way that no other music ever has touched me."
Near her Franklin, Tenn., home Cleveland now attends a Presbyterian church that blends modern worship music with church hymns, and she hopes other churches will try that approach. But Cleveland aims, too, to find inroads into places where these songs aren't typically heard. "I still play clubs on occasion, and the audiences are decidedly mixed, believers and non-believers, people from all walks of life," she describes. "I have yet to go in and play my set — which is always going to include at least a couple of hymns — and not have someone come up to me to specifically comment on a hymn. More often than not, I have people come up to me in tears, saying, 'I haven't heard that song in years,' telling me briefly that it was a connection for them."
Faith and Hope
As hymns connect us to our past, they provide a shared language across denominational and cultural lines. To that end, these works help shape visions for transforming the future. While traveling internationally [thus making a face-to-face interview and participation in CCM's cover story photo shoot impossible] Out of Eden's Lisa Kimmey tells via e-mail about the trio's experience at a Focus on the Family chapel service. "We sang a couple of hymns; and, all of a sudden, it was forgotten that we are a pop/R&B group," she says. "Our ethnicity, gender and style didn't seem to matter anymore. There was something very special about being able to communicate without expectation."
The experience set Lisa and her sisters, Andrea Kimmey Baca and Danielle Kimmey, down a path toward creating a present-day record grounded in shared experiences. Growing up, Lisa says she remembers singing classics like "Praise to the Lord, the Almighty" and "Fairest Lord Jesus," each recorded for Out of Eden's March 29 release, "Hymns" (Gotee). Though she and her sisters grew up in a charismatic church that didn't sing hymns often, the women were exposed to hymns through their grandparents' African Methodist Episcopal church in Richmond, Virginia.
"We used to visit, and I remember my grandmother, an opera singer, singing in the choir, praising God with songs I had never heard before. They had very traditional harmonies and music, but I remember even as a child thinking it was all very grand and beautiful."
Musically, "Hymns" finds the group skillful at creating innovative praise & worship, R&B and pop arrangements, sprinkling influences from Al Green (as on the Psalm-inspired "Be Still, My Soul") and Andraé Crouch ("To God Be the Glory"). Lisa, who produced and arranged the project, found a common thread that boosted Out of Eden's work. "Worship is what is done to please and bring glory to God," she says. And of her research to select hymns, she comments, "I discovered a simplicity and purity in the writers' motives that is very inspiring to me. There is no sarcasm, no cool, idiomatic expressions — just a human heart reaching out to God in desperation for inspiration."
Roots and Wings
To shape their emerging faith, college students and young adults are recovering church traditions, including hymns, to boost the authenticity of their Christian experience.
At the four-day Passion '05 event held earlier this year in Nashville, 11,000 college students gathered across denominational lines to pray and worship. Among the inevitable praise choruses were historical selections such as "How Great Thou Art," "Amazing Grace" and "Phos Hilaron" ("hail gladdening light"). Each was sung in full voice to modern tunes, according to recent college grad Lane Wood, a spokesperson for the event.
"Hymns remind us that this [worship and faith] isn't a new thing. People have been worshiping God for years and years," says Lane, who works with students at a Murfreesboro, Tenn., Baptist church. Like Cleveland, he advocates a mix of hymns and praise choruses, benefiting not only students but also to promote multigenerational worship.
Back on campus, students search for authentic experiences to validate faith. For almost 100 Reformed University Fellowship groups across the country, hymns are increasingly keeping students company on the journey. The Rev. Kevin Twit serves as the RUF campus minister at Belmont University in Nashville and produces the grassroots-driven "Indelible Grace" series of independent recordings recasting hymns. Twit says loyal listeners include evangelicals and mainline Christians all over. "I talk about a sign my mom found at an antique store once: 'My grandmother saved it, my mother threw it away and now I'm buying it back.' I think a lot of younger people are feeling that, saying [the "Baby-Boomer" generation] handed us Christianity with no connection to tradition."
To reconnect, rising alternative worship forms tap into the early church practices. Ancient-Future worship, championed by church scholar Robert Webber, finds intersections between classical Christianity and postmodern thought, reviving sacraments and liturgy. Emergent worship, described by author and pastor Dan Kimball, goes a step further as a multi-sensory experience of old and new church traditions. Add thinkers like Sally Morgenthaler ("Worship Evangelism"), Brian McLaren ("A Generous Orthodoxy"), Spencer Burke (author/ theOooze.com creator) and others, and it's clear a new day dawns for Christian worship. Hymns remain at the ready on the horizon.
"I wouldn't say that it's a majority of college students that will connect with hymns," Twit cautions, "but I do think that the people who connect with them are going to be the movers and shakers and the influencers of the coming generation."
Rev. Twit recalls a group of college-aged leaders he met nearly 10 years ago, men who yearned to dig deep into worship to discover God's character. Now, those men — Jars of Clay—are releasing "Redemption Songs: A Collection of Reinvented Ancient Hymns and Spiritual Songs" (Essential) on March 22 as their unique contribution to the current worship music conversation.
"This is our experience in worship," Jars' front man Dan Haseltine explains. "This album represents songs important to the way the gospel is moving and shaping us."
Guitarist Matt Odmark agrees. "One reason I feel really connected to hymns is that I feel they are written for basically good people who need a way to express how much they love God," he says. "That's me — people who have limped into church knowing they really don't deserve much from God."
The image we kept tossing around while making the record was the idea of roots and wings," keyboardist Charlie Lowell says, "digging into what's gone before us and giving flight to these words through new melodies." This generation of college students is looking for experiences that actually connect with the heart and soul and the [core] of what true faith is, what the gospel really means and how it gets played out in our lives," Haseltine says. Hymns step up to that challenge.
"Redemption Songs" is signature Jars of Clay and includes both familiar titles ("It Is Well With My Soul," "They Will Know We Are Christians By Our Love") and the uncommon ones, mined from hymnbooks ("Hiding Place, "O Come and Mourn With Me Awhile"). Its theme points decidedly toward restoration through the life, death and resurrection of Christ. Says guitarist Steve Mason, "We wanted to serve well the people that enjoy what we do already, but, as well, we wanted to be a bridge, turning people on to this art who maybe weren't familiar with it or thought it was for people with gray or blue hair."
"With these hymns, it's not that we've discovered a lost book of the Bible or that there is hidden truth that couldn't be seen the first time," Odmark says. "But we are constantly in need of having our eyes opened to these things that have been true all along, and hymns do that."
Inspired by a poem, hymn writer Paul Gerhardt wrote, "What language shall I borrow to thank thee, dearest friend?"
Indeed, how do we find words to express our great joy? Or expressions that kick at the darkness of uncertainty and despair? Hymns, like Psalms, give us words we cannot find on our own. And in times of war or in times of peace, we lean on hymns like theological poetry, allowing us to sit steadily and with hope in the mystery of all that might come our way.
O for a Thousand Tongues
Here's a partial list of recent and soon-to-release projects spotlighting hymns. Below, a reminder of hymns records aging well.
Beth Nielsen Chapman, "Hymns" — a hit songwriter, Chapman recreates Latin liturgical music from her childhood (BNC)
Ashley Cleveland, "Men and Angels Say" — Steve Winwood guests on "I Need Thee Every Hour" (Rambler)
Amy Grant, currently untitled — more personal favorites, including a new version of "El Shaddai" (Word)
Buddy Green, "Hymns & Prayer Songs" — features his signature folk style with guitar and harmonica backing his vocals (Spring Hill)
Jars of Clay, "Redemption Songs: A Collection of Reinvented Ancient Hymns and Spiritual Songs" — guests include the legendary Blind Boys of Alabama and Grammy-nominated new artist Sarah Kelly (Essential)
Bart Millard, "Hymned" — the solo debut from MercyMe's lead singer (INO)
Donnie McClurkin, "Psalms, Hymns and Spiritual Songs" — the CD/DVD set captures a rousing blend of high church and praise & worship (Verity)
Out of Eden, "Hymns" — includes a duet with Tree63's John Ellis (Gotee)
Jill Phillips, "Kingdom Come" (Fervent/Munce) — available exclusively in Munce stores nationwide, guests include Andrew Peterson, Christine Denté, Derek Webb and Sandra McCracken
Matthew Smith, "Even When My Heart Is Breaking" — indie artist Smith comes out of the Indelible Grace camp (Detuned Radio)
Various, "Indelible Grace" — the first of three albums in the series, the debut includes top independent artists Sandra McCracken, Andy Osenga, Katy Bowser and others (Indelible Grace Music)
Various, "Bridges: Classic Hymns, Modern Worship" — lineup includes Michael Tait, Marc Byrd, Paul Colman, Jill Paquette, Todd Agnew, Ginny Owens, Jason Ingram and others (Waterfront)
Various, "Her Hymns: The Writing of Fannie Crosby" — female artists focus on the work of this prolific writer (Rocketown)
Various, "Hymns4Worship: Just As I Am" — the second hymns release from the series; includes Israel, Crystal Lewis, Paul Baloche, Kate Miner and Sara Groves (Integrity/Time Life)
Various, "Hymns4Worship: Just As I Am" (DVD) — A live worship experience (Integrity)
Past Projects of Note
Margaret Becker and David Edwards, "Faithfully Yours" (Here to Him)
Amy Grant, "Legacy … Hymns & Faith" (Word)
Fernando Ortega, "Hymns of Worship" (Word)
Sandy Patty, "Hymns of Faith … Songs of Inspiration" (INO)
Various, "Hymns4Worship: Amazing Grace" (Integrity/Time Life)
Various, "Our Hymns" (Word)
Various, "Women of Faith: Faith for A Lifetime — Hymns of Extraordinary Faith" (Integrity)
Various, "Passion: Hymns Ancient and Modern — Live Songs of Our Faith" (Sixsteps)
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Game Leaders
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Pa: Kyler Anderson - 82
Ru: Jack Kaiser - 110
Rec: Matt Misiewicz - 48
Pa: Ayrton Scott - 169
Ru: Ayrton Scott - 90
Rec: Tyler Swanson - 88
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Two backup quarterbacks, two freshmen running backs and a stingy defense joined forces Saturday to lead St. Thomas to a 30-14 win over Augsburg in MIAC football.
The No. 3 Tommies (8-0, 6-0 MIAC) maintained a one-game lead over second-place Concordia heading into next Saturday's showdown against the Cobbers (7-1, 5-1 MIAC) in Moorhead. They defeated Carleton 51-27 at home.
With the win, St. Thomas extended its regular-season winning streaks to 32 overall and 25 in the MIAC, and now has won 12 in a row in O'Shaughnessy Stadium.
Quarterback Ben Duncan, starting in place of injured Matt O'Connell, led the Tommies to a 20-0 halftime before leaving the game with a injury early in the third quarter. Third-string quarterback Kyler Anderson replaced him and played the rest of the game.
St. Thomas took advantage of excellent field position on its three first-half scoring drives, twice starting at the Augsburg 47 and the other time at the UST 49, and relied on a ground game that piled up 175 yards on 28 rushes.
After the defense held the Auggies on their opening series –- one of four three-and-out possessions in the first half –- St. Thomas needed only four plays get on the board. Duncan ran in from the 12 after a 31-yard run by freshman Brenton Braddock.
Jack Kaiser, another freshman running back, ran 21 yards for a touchdown and a 14-0 lead late in the first quarter. Kaiser rushed for 38 yards on the 51-yard, five-play drive, and finished the half with 77 yards and the game with 110; Braddock had 78.
Duncan picked up his second rushing touchdown, another sneak from one yard out, to give St. Thomas a 20-0 lead with five minutes remaining in the first half.
The Tommies' defense bottled up Augsburg quarterback Ayrton Scott in the first half, stuffing him on runs up the middle and repeatedly flushing him out of the pocket. The freshman ranks No. 3 in NCAA Division III with 371 yards of offense per game, including 148 yards (No. 7) on the ground, but needed runs of 16 and 13 yards late in the half to finish with 32 yards on 10 rushes. He was 4 of 17 for 51 yards and one interception.
Scott got on track on Augsburg's second drive in the third quarter. Starting at his own 8, he ran for 38 yards and passed for 46, the last seven on a touchdown pass to Tyler Swanson to cut the St. Thomas lead to 20-7.
The Tommies finished their scoring with a 27-yard Paul Graupner field goal and a fourth-down, one-yard touchdown plunge by Dominic Truoccolo, another freshman running back.
Scott scored on a seven-yard touchdown run with 9.6 seconds left in the game.

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By Tom Utescher
On the day after the Martin Luther King Day, the Germantown Friends School Tigers hosted the wresting team from the Philadelphia high school named for the great civil rights leader.
Neither team had an entry at the 112, 152, 189 and 215 lb. weight classes, and King forfeited to GFS at 119, 125, and 160 lbs. In addition to picking up 18 team points in this fashion, the host Tigers won six of the seven weight classes where wrestling actually occurred, and defeated the Cougars 51-6. Both teams had been 0-5 in dual meets coming into last Tuesday's contest at Germantown's Smith Gymnasium.
Prior to this season, Martin Luther King had not fielded a wrestling team for 10 years. The man who revived the program and now coaches the Cougars is MLK history teacher Dominic Castelli, a 1993 graduate of Chestnut Hill Academy.
In the past, lack of funding had quashed his attempts to revive the franchise, but recently he was able to obtain the financial backing of Beat the Streets, an organization dedicated to developing and supporting wrestling programs in urban middle schools and high schools. It was founded in New York and has spread to Philadelphia and other major cities in the U.S.
Before the grappling action got underway last Tuesday, GFS bid a ceremonial farewell to the three seniors on the team, Jim Hall, of Chestnut Hill, Nathaniel Rabin, of Mount Airy, and Tony Clark, of Andorra.
Rabin is a three-time champion at the annual Chestnut Hill Academy Invitational, and was named the outstanding wrestler overall at the 2010 tourney. He was also the silver medalist at the Valley Forge Military Academy tournament. Rabin qualifies for the 125 lb. class, but bumps up to 130 lbs. for certain matches, such as last week's meeting with King.
So far this season, the Tigers' Hall has won tournament championships at Chestnut Hill and at Church Farm School, and has captured bronze medals at the Valley Forge and Germantown Academy invitationals. He is the only one of the three GFS seniors who is firmly committed to continuing his wrestling career in college, and NYU and Wesleyan are among the schools on his short list.
Like his classmates, Clark has not yet reached a final decision in the college selection process. He doesn't quite have the extensive experience of Hall and Rabin, but he frequently provides points for the Tigers at the upper end of the scale. One of his best tourney performances this winter was a bronze-medal showing at Church Farm.
In the final home match for the GFS upperclassmen, it was actually a freshman, Elliot Wattenbarger, who led off the meet in the 103 lb. class. Scoring takedowns and back points, he rolled up a 10-1 lead over the first two periods, and the count reached 14-1 in the third before he pinned the Cougars' Tyrone Cook with 49 seconds remaining in the bout.
After that there was a mutual abdication at 112 lbs., then King forfeited the next two classes to give GFS an 18-0 lead in the meet score. Wrestling "up" at 130, the Tigers' Rabin went up 9-0 in the opening period, then a takedown and two back points increased his advantage over visitor Kerby Adolphe to 13-0 early in the second stanza. Two more back points gave Rabin a 15-0 technical fall, ending the contest with 1:03 to go in the period and tacking on five team points for Germantown.
The Cougars broke up the shutout with a victory at 135 lbs., where Stanley Jean-Louis took a 7-1 advantage out of the opening period, then pinned GFS junior Luke Furokawa with 57 seconds left in round two. That made it 23-6, but the hosts recouped four points with a major decision by junior Nick Davis at 140 lbs. He only had a 3-2 edge following the first period, but after that four takedowns helped him engineer a 15-4 victory over the Cougars' Wikensly Adolphe.
At 145, King appeared on the verge of winning a second individual match, with Kervins Bejin riding an 11-2 lead early in the second frame. The scales quickly tipped in the Tigers' favor as sophomore Hilyard Nichols scored a reversal and parlayed it into a pin with 1:11 still to go in the same round. Neither squad sent out a man at 152 lbs., and a forfeit by the Cougars at 160 spread the meet score to 39-6.
It took Hall just 59 seconds to raise the tally to 45-6, thanks to his pin against Mike Joseph at 171 lbs. Both teams forfeited in the 189 and 215 lb. weight classes. An elbow injury has sidelined GFS sophomore Khari Goosby at 285 lbs., so Clark moved up from his usual 215 to tackle King heavyweight Taivon Hudsan. Clark quickly executed a takedown, but he had trouble turning over Hudsan to score back points. He finally flipped his rival and secured a pin with just two seconds remaining in the opening round.


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Stalingrad gets name back to mark battle
MOSCOW (AP) — The southern Russian city where the Red Army decisively turned back Nazi forces in a key World War II battle will once again be known as Stalingrad, at least on the days commemorating the victory, the regional legislature declared Thursday.
The city was renamed Volgograd in 1961 as part of the Soviet Union's rejection of dictator Joseph Stalin's personality cult. But the name Stalingrad is inseparable with the historic battle, which was among the bloodiest in history with combined losses of nearly 2 million people.
Regional lawmakers' decision to use the historic name in city statements on Feb. 2, the day of the Nazi defeat, as well as several other war-related dates each year, has angered many in Russia where Stalin's name and legacy continues to cause fiery disputes nearly 60 years after his death.
Russia's human rights ombudsman Vladimir Lukin sharply criticized the move, saying it should be declared void by court.
"This is an insult of the memory of those who died," he said, according to the Interfax news agency.
Nikolai Levichev, a senior federal lawmaker with the leftist Just Russia party, condemned the restoration of the old city name, saying "it's blasphemous to rename the great Russian city after a bloody tyrant who killed millions of his fellow citizens." Levichev added that the country won the war "despite rather than thanks to" Stalin's leadership, whose errors multiplied the Soviet losses.
Stalin led the Soviet Union from 1924 until his death in 1953. Communists and other hardliners credit him with leading the country to victory in World War II and making it a nuclear superpower, while others condemn his brutal purges that killed millions of people.
President Vladimir Putin, a former KGB officer, has avoided open public praise or criticism of Stalin, but he has restored Soviet-era symbols and tried to soften public perceptions of the dictator. Kremlin critics have seen attempts to whitewash Stalin's image as part of Putin's rollback on democracy.
In recent years, many in Russia were outraged by government-sponsored school textbooks that painted Stalin in a largely positive light and the reconstruction of a Moscow subway station that restored old Soviet national anthem lyrics praising Stalin as part of its interior decoration.
In addition to the Volgograd legislature's move to restore the old name of the city, authorities in Volgograd, St. Petersburg and the Siberian city of Chita ordered images of Stalin to be put on city buses on Feb. 2 to commemorate the historic battle.
Yan Raczynski of Memorial, a leading Russia's human rights group, was quoted as saying by Interfax that the authorities' moves highlighted the nation's failure to "legally and politically recognize the crimes committed by the Bolshevik regime, particularly Stalin and his inner circle."
In turn, communists said the decision to restore the name of Stalingrad for just a few days each year is just a half-step. Communist lawmakers met with World War II veterans and sent a letter to Putin urging the government to fully rename the city, the party said in a statement.
But Sergei Zheleznyak, a top lawmaker with United Russia, the main Kremlin party dominating parliament, said there were no plans to fully restore the old name.
On Saturday, Russia plans extensive ceremonies to mark the 70th anniversary of the battle, which raged for half a year in 1942-43 with the Red Army resisting the Nazi onslaught in fierce street fighting and then encircling and capturing more than 100,000 Nazi soldiers.
Jim Heintz contributed to this report.
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Would you trade Broncos' Von Miller for Arizona's Patrick Peterson?
Von Miller is the best player on the Broncos defense. He also is the biggest headache on the team. Miller is 24 years old, but it seems growing up is a tougher task for him than sacking the quarterback. How might Miller's issues influence his future with team? Can he be considered a cornerstone player?
I would trade Miller right now for Arizona cornerback Patrick Peterson, who went No. 5 in the first round in the same draft when the Broncos took Miller second overall. Peterson doesn't play as important a position as Miller. But Peterson has twice been selected to the Pro Bowl, and has skills that make him a threat on special teams and offense, as well.


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Whitney Shaw drove in three runs in Game 2 against the Bulldogs Sunday (Harvard Athletic Communications).
NEW HAVEN, Conn. – The Harvard softball team completed the season series sweep of archrival Yale, pounding out 30 hits between two games Sunday at Dewitt Family Field. Harvard took down Yale in its third-straight run-rule shortened game, 15-1 (5) in Game 1 and 9-2 in Game 2, improving its record to 24-10 on the year and 11-1 in Ivy League play.
Harvard got all the offense it would need in the top of the first, scoring six runs before Yale had a chance to bat. Three straight singles saw Harvard bring home its first run and an Allison Scot double to right-center drove in one more for a quick 2-0 lead. A single by Emily Gusse saw two more runs cross the plate and Ashley Heritage brought Gusse home two batters later with an RBI single to the shortstop. Shelbi Olson drew a bases-loaded walk for Harvard's sixth run of the inning.
Olson ripped a triple in the top of the third and came home on a Kasey Lange sacrifice fly to extend the Harvard lead to 7-0 and the Crimson had its second six-run inning of the game in the fourth. Scott started the inning with a double and Gusse poked an RBI double for the first run of the frame. After Gusse came home on a Yale error, Jessica Ferri delivered the crushing blow, launching a grand slam over the left field fence to push the Crimson lead to 13-0. Yale pushed one run across in the bottom of the fourth but a two-run single from Lange gave Harvard the 15-1, five-inning win. Lange finished the game 3 for 4 from the plate with three RBI while Ferri's four RBI was a game high. Rachel Brown improved her record to 14-4, striking out five batters in five innings and scattering just two hits.
The Crimson was right back at it in the top of the first in Game 2, as Lange drove in a run with an RBI double. Two batters later, Scott brought Lange home with an RBI single to put the guests up 2-0 after one. Whitney Shaw led off the fourth with a double and pinch-runner Andrea Del Conte came around on an Adrienne Hume RBI double to left. Jane Alexander ripped the third double of the inning, plating Hume to push the lead to 4-0. Two hits and two errors led to three more runs for the Crimson in the top of the fifth, staking Harvard to a 7-0 lead.
Shaw poked her second double of the game in the sixth plating two runs to give Harvard a 9-0 cushion. The Bulldogs responded with two runs in the bottom of the sixth but couldn't manage any more are the Crimson clinched the series sweep with a 9-2 final. Alexander went 3 for 5 in the game while Shaw drove in three runs in the contest. Hume and Lange also recorded multiple hits in Game 2 while Laura Ricciardone reached the double-digit win mark, improving her record to 10-5 on the season with the win.
Harvard takes on a pair of local rivals this week as it travels to Boston University Tuesday and hosts Boston College Thursday in two non-conference matchups.


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I know it's something you want to draw everyday, but I thought when you do want to tackle a lesson on how to draw a piano, you're going to want the tutorial to be as easy as possible. So here is my version of drawing a piano but in a 'for kids' style. I figured the only way to make a piano easy to recreate was to make it in a coloring book style. I like the way it came out which means you might too. I don't know what else to say except, have fun, learn something new, and show off your work. I shall return with more drawing fun for you all. Adios mi amigos.
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My name is Becky. I used to post here on CC a lot a few years ago but life took off and I got very busy. I was finishing school, planning my wedding, and packing up my life in Chicago to move to Washington state after my wedding. Anyway, that was all back in September/October/November of 2014. I now live in very hilly Washington and hate it 😪. I love my husband but my day to day life is so hard that I just dont want to stay most days 😪😪😪😪. My pain is still very debilitating, which I know doesn?t help my mood/outlook on life. My husband is trying so hard to make our house fully accessible but, I just don?t know. I mean, we live on a very steep street, let?s face it, the whole state is pretty ?hilly? in comparison to the flat Midwest anyway. Some days I just don?t know what I can do. I want to be with my husband but, I miss Chicago more than anything 😪😪😪😪. If only life were different, you know.
In addition, I keep having health issues land me in the hospital, which just blows!!!!!! The main health issues that have happened since I moved to Washington has been, a lot of problems with my blood sugars, I?m also a type 1 diabetic, a broken hip, required 3 massive screws in it, I ended up needing to have an I&D done on the back side of my thigh because I had gotten an infected hair folical. I had no idea!!!!! I have also had many kidney infections, a few other broken bones, and occasionally my j-tube gets infected.
I?m so done with the way my life is going. I try to put on my happy face etc but, I don?t know, after dealing with this injury for more then 14 years now, I thought that I would be past all of the insecurities etc that come with this injury. Nope, I?m still uncomfortable with myself and this injury 😪😪😪.
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Starved for playmakers on offense, the New York Jets ended up selecting three wide receivers and a tight end in the 2014 NFL Draft.
It was the wide receiver they targeted in the second round who got away.
Per NFL Media Insider Ian Rapoport, the Jets tried "furiously" to trade up with the Buccaneers at No. 38 for Marquise Lee before the Jaguars grabbed the USC star one pick later.
On Saturday's draft wrap-up edition of the "Around The League Podcast," we made the point that Lee might have gone off the board higher than No. 4 overall pick Sammy Watkins had the two wide receivers entered the draft in 2013.
Lee would have given the Jets the explosive run-after-catch ability missing from their aerial attack.
As it turns out, general manager John Idzik's missed trade opportunity had stark repercussions for New York Daily News reporter Manish Mehta:
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It would appear Mark Twain's infamous quote that "history does not repeat, but it does rhyme" has never been so apt. The following eight charts suggest the rhythm is getting louder and louder. How is it possible? It's nonsense? Well at the heart of the markets, it is still us humans and our endearing greed, fear, and heuristic biases that drive the flows... trade accordingly.
The current price action in the S&P 500 is eerily similar to the movement leading up to the collapse in 1987... (via Bloomberg)
The Dow is also tracking this move almost perfectly over the last two years...(via Citi)
The next three charts are particularly concerning...
Here is the Dow leading up to the 1987 drop - showing its distance from the 55-week average and the collapse once it crossed... (via Citi)
here is an unnamed stock's price action (percentage change) over the past three years...(via Citi)
and AAPL's price appreciation from the lows in 2009 and its 55-week average...(via Bloomberg)
It's not just 1987... Here is the Dow analog again the 1977-78 period and 1905-1910 period... (via Citi)
and the Dow Transports are playing out a very similar pattern to the 1960s-70s... (via Citi)
And a Bonus Chart - for those who prefer to look at Bond Analogs... Here is the current move in 10Y US Treasury yields overlaid on 1992's movement... spooky no? and somewhat fits with a view of weakness into year-end, downgrade on debt-ceiling and collapse... (via Citi)
Machiavelli accounts for this 'repetitive' oscillation by arguing that virtù (valor and political effectiveness) produces peace, peace brings idleness (ozio), idleness disorder, and disorder rovina (ruin). In turn, from rovina springs order, from order virtù, and from this, glory and good fortune.
Machiavelli, as had the ancient Greek historian Thucydides, saw human nature as remarkably stable - steady enough for the formulation of rules of political behavior. Machiavelli wrote in his Discorsi:
Whoever considers the past and the present will readily observe that all cities and all peoples... ever have been animated by the same desires and the same passions; so that it is easy, by diligent study of the past, to foresee what is likely to happen in the future in any republic, and to apply those remedies that were used by the ancients, or not finding any that were employed by them, to devise new ones from the similarity of events.
"Everything that needs to be said has already been said. But since no one was listening, everything must be said again." — André Gide
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Wednesday afternoon while I was attending a blessingway, my mom called to tell me she was at the vet with our 15-year-old dachshund, Shorty. He had been unwell for a long time, so I knew this call was coming; I just didn't know when. His lungs were filling with fluid and his heart was giving out, and the vet thought it would be best to euthanize. I called Jordan, he left work right away, and we went to be with Shorty.
My mom held him in her arms, wrapped in a blanket. When I came in and touched him, he swung his head around, sniffing to find me, searching with clouded eyes that I'm sure couldn't see anything more than shadows. He probably couldn't hear much either, and he lay there in stark contrast to the jet black, muscular, energetic dog in my memories. But, there at the end in that small, sad room, he was no less beautiful to me. As I sat there petting him, his life flashed before my eyes. Bringing him home, naming him. His near-death experience with a gnawed electrical cord. Rooting under the covers in my bed. Meeting his "wife" Dixie when he was eight or so, and his new lease on life afterwards. Throwing a ball for him to fetch and his unbridled joy in bringing it back, thousands of times. In his prime, seeing him chase a ball all the way to the fence, sometimes rolling and somersaulting to grab it. Near the end, tossing it right at his feet and seeing him lose track of it anyway. He never gave up on his favorite game. Or guarding our house. He was also a great judge of character, and in retrospect I can see that he was always right.
I see clearly now how dogs, like people, are deliberately placed by God into our lives. Shorty was such a gift to us over the past 15 years, in so many ways. I'm so glad we were able to be with him as he left his life on earth behind. I'm so glad we stayed with him to the end, because I think he knows we stayed. He is in heaven now--in my heart, I know he is.
We miss him so much. I know it's much worse for my mom, who has lived with him and cared for him since I went to college, but I've been surprised at how hard it is for me. The first night was bad. It's better now, but Dixie has come to live at our house and sometimes I'll catch a glimpse of her out of the corner of my eye. Since she is also a dachshund and the same shape as he was, my heart jumps for a second, and then aches. Last night I was eating a bagel and she came to beg for scraps, and my mind involuntarily placed Shorty right there next to her. He always was right there next to her. It's not right to see her alone. It just hurts.
I am thankful for the time and memories we had with him. He wasn't perfect, but he was wonderful. I'll share some of my favorite Shorty stories a little later. Right now, I am comforted by Phibby and Dixie cuddles, and I just keep imagining Shorty running through the yard on his strong little legs, proudly bringing a ball back for us to throw.


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(July 12, 2013) – Today, the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries announced the 2013 spring inshore shrimp season will close Thursday, July 18, at 6:00 am in state inside waters in the remaining portions of Timbalier Bay, Terrebonne Bay, Lake Pelto and Pelican Lake where the shrimp season was extended; and, from the Mississippi/Louisiana state line westward to the eastern shore of Bayou Lafourche.
The following state inside water will remain open to shrimping until further notice:
- The portion of Mississippi Sound beginning at a point on the Mississippi/Louisiana Lateral Boundary at 30 degrees 09 minutes 39.6 seconds north latitude and -89 degrees 30 minutes 00.0 seconds west longitude; thence due south to a point at 30 degrees 05 minutes 00.0 seconds north latitude and -89 degrees 30 minutes 00.0 seconds west longitude; thence southeasterly to a point on the western shore of Three-Mile Pass at 30 degrees 03 minutes 00.0 seconds north latitude and -89 degrees 22 minutes 23.0 seconds west longitude; thence northeasterly to a point on Isle Au Pitre at 30 degrees 09 minutes 20.5 seconds north latitude and -89 degrees 11 minutes 15.5 seconds west longitude, which is a point on the double–rig line as described in R.S. 56:495.1(A)2; thence northerly along the double–rig line to a point on the Louisiana-Mississippi Lateral Boundary at 30 degrees 12 minutes 37.9056 seconds north latitude and -89 degrees 10 minutes 57.9725 seconds west longitude; thence westerly along the Mississippi/Louisiana Lateral Boundary to the point of beginning
- The open waters of Breton and Chandeleur Sounds as described in R.S. 56:495.1(A)2
Data collected in recent weeks by LDWF biologists indicate increased quantity, distribution and percentage of small, juvenile white shrimp within these waters. The decision to close this area was made in an effort to protect these developing shrimp and provide opportunity for growth to larger and more marketable sizes.
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All remaining state outside waters, as well as those portions of the Pontchartrain Basin described above will remain open to shrimping until further notice, with the exception of those areas still closed to recreational and commercial fishing due to the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil disaster. Maps of the areas still closed to recreational and commercial fishing are posted to the LDWF website at www.wlf.louisiana.gov/oilspill
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Total RecallTotal RecallTotal Recall is a look back at the history of video games through their characters, franchises, developers and trends.
Almost a year ago to the day, I wrote a piece on Sony's Net Yaroze, a kit which allowed PS1 users to make their own video games. Well, anyone who was interested in the subject, please check out this enormous feature over on Gamasutra, which even has in-depth interviews from the men behind it. [Gamasutra]


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- Privileged relations with the United States (preferential trade agreements)
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- Dependency on imports of fuels and cereals (corn is the staple food)
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Healthy Budget Situation and Balanced Trade Deficit with Expatriate Remittances
Since 2014, in the framework of the financial agreement with the IMF, the state has made significant efforts (efficiency of taxation and control of expenditure), without sacrificing social development and infrastructure. The tax liability law approved in 2016 sets a ceiling for the non-financial public sector deficit: 1% of the GDP by 2020. The government should achieve the 2017 target of a 1.4% deficit. An extension of the agreement with the IMF after its deadline of December 2017 could be envisaged, and would guarantee the maintenance of budgetary rigor. Restructuration of the struggling national electric company ENEE is ongoing, including the issuance of a USD 700 million bond in March 2017 to bail out the company, as well as the reduction of the wage bill and tariffs adjustments. This will weigh on public external debt service.
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The November 2017 presidential election was followed by violent protests, making the security situation more uncertain, despite the progress made (homicide rate lowered from 75 to 37 cases per 100,000 inhabitants since 2014). The two finalists, Juan Orlando Hernandez (National Party, whose candidature to the election was highly disputed) and Salvador Nasralla (Opposition Alliance against Dictatorship), both announced their victory. The Electoral Tribunal officially announced Mr Hernandez's victory after several unofficial proclamations, which had been highly criticized by international observers, with the OAS denouncing the lack of guarantees and transparency in the process. Mr Nasralla has refused to accept the results despite US pressures, calling for protests, while the violence has already claimed several victims. In this context, Honduras remains characterized by high poverty (39% of households living in extreme poverty; 25% with access to social security), significant violence associated with drug trafficking (the maras), as well as corruption (e.g. the Rosenthal family scandal in 2015 for narcotic money laundering) – all of which limit the country's development. The improvement of the business environment (strengthening of the PPP legal framework, public arrears auditing) is nonetheless recognized by international creditors.


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We're getting reports via Twitter traffic tonight of suspicious wires found in luggage or possibly in the lavatory on Delta Flight 126 at John F. Kennedy Airport in New York. Reports indicate that there's a person being held for questioning by Air Marshals on board the plane with the FBI bomb squad en route.
The plane was en route to Madrid when it suddenly turned around around at 40,000 feet and returned to JFK airport in approximately 20 minutes. UPDATE: Probably no big deal.
The flight is being reported as Delta Flight 126, a Boeing 767-300ER, which just landed in New York in a flight from Madrid, Spain. Most of the data is coming from police scanners via Twitter at this point.
According to FlightAware, the plane was in the air by 8:10 pm. It ascended to 40,000 feet by 8:30 pm. It remained at 40,000 feet, a common cruising altitude for international flights, for half an hour. But at 9 pm, the plane began a rapid descent, dropping from 40,000 feet to less than 10,000 feet by 9:20 pm.
At the same time, the plane's speed made a dramatic shift. It had been traveling at a normal clip of about 500 knots, when the speed dropped in minutes to 300 knots. According to Flight Tracker's map, the plane ascended along the Atlantic Coast, and made a fast turn east of Cape Cod to return to JFK.
Although the plane at that point was closer to Boston Logan airport, it would not have been able to descend safely and quickly enough from 40,000 feet to get there. As you can see in the graph it diverted course quickly.
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2013 Emmys: HBO's 'The Newsroom' Among Big Surprises
Mickey O'Connor, editor in chief of TVGuide.com provides a look at the surprises, upsets, and trends from the 65th Primetime Emmy Awards, which took place Sunday night in Los Angeles. Photo: Getty Images.
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Zimbabwe's media has suffered much from repression, exile, and worse, and on December 18 it lost one of its most beloved and compassionate voices.
Caroline Gombakomba, a reporter and radio host since 2003 for the Voice of America's Studio 7 broadcasts to the Southern African country, died in Silver Spring, Maryland. Gombakomba, 40, had been fighting breast cancer for years and in this second round met death with her customary serenity and courage.
In Zimbabwe, Carole worked for the Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation as a newscaster on its Newsbeat and Newsreel programs on Radio 1 and Radio 3 in the early 1990s. Amid the increasing politicization of state media under then-Information Minister Jonathan Moyo, she eventually emigrated to Toronto, where she was recruited by VOA soon after the January 2003 launch of Studio 7. The program offers a nightly news report in Shona (Carole's mother tongue) and Ndebele as well English. From there, she moved to the United States. Ndimyake Mwakalyele, a colleague at VOA, said that Carole had left Zimbabwe fearing for her life, saying that she had been followed and felt threatened.
Carole's meticulous and thoughtful reporting, her calm, authoritative on-air presence, and her determined coverage of health issues--including Zimbabwe's devastating HIV/AIDS pandemic--made her an editorial mainstay of Studio 7 and a beloved figure among listeners.
One of her finest hours as a journalist came in 2005 when she took the lead for Studio 7 in reporting on Operation Murambatsvina ("Drive Out Rubbish") in which the government of President Robert Mugabe evicted hundreds of thousands of Zimbabweans from their shacks and then demolished the dwellings. Carole reached through the cell network to record the gripping testimonies of victims, contacting humanitarian workers who then handed their cell phones to people to recount their stories. The International Association of Broadcasters awarded Carole a high commendation in 2006 for "Operation Murambatsvina: Voices of Zimbabwe's Dispossessed."
Carole pursued her work at Studio 7 until shortly before her death. Following several days of mourning in the traditional Shona way of friends and families praying, singing, and giving testimonials, she was laid to rest on December 22 in Washington.
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19-0000 Life, Physical, and Social Science Occupations (Major Group)
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#* Check your new files and make sure everything is correct; if you saved your previous page ocr.txt files, you can delete them now.
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==Audio Transcript Matching: Compound Objects==
==Audio Transcript Matching: Compound Objects==
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- for information on creating OCR files from images, see OCR List.
- for information regarding transcript decision as you scan, see TrackingFiles Standardized Fields.
Two extensions are used for plain-text OCR files:
- ".ocr.txt" - the "raw" OCR results.
- ".txt" - if and when the raw .ocr.txt files have been remediated, the remediated versions use the standard ".txt" extension.
If these remediated files exist, the ".ocr.txt" files should be deleted. The TIFF files of the transcriptions will be permanently deleted if it is deemed they do not themselves merit preservation. That is to say if the image of the transcript has no perceived value other than the text on the page, then the image of the transcription will be deleted.
NOTE: for Transcripts files where we have either corrected the OCR or typed in the transcription (where we save it as .txt instead of .ocr.txt) we must make certain that we are verifying the transcription against the original file. It's quite possible that the person who typed the transcription made an error, and it is insufficient for us simply to save a correct transcript of someone else's transcription; we need to be sure that the saved .txt file reflects what is actually in the original.
If it is deemed that remediation of raw OCR files will be too labor/cost intensive, both the TIFFS and the raw ".ocr.txt" files must be preserved. This way, as OCR technology improves, it may be possible to render higher quality OCR versions of the transcripts in the future.
Non-compound Objects
For non-compound objects/items, transcripts simply add a page-level extension to the item number.
For example, item u0008_9999999 might have 10 transcripts which will be named as thus for the transcript .tif files: u0008_9999999_0001.tif through u0008_9999999_0010.tif. The same applies to ".ocr.txt" and ".txt" files as well, that is to say the respective raw and remediated OCR versions of the transcript TIFFs.
Compound Objects
Often tiff/wave files do not have a one to one match with transcript files or vice-versa.
Below are three scenarios and the naming rules devised on 6/19/09 to allow the file names themselves to denote a correlation between different file types that point to the same information (i.e. an audio interview and a transcript of that interview).
Situation 1: One to Many (One media file to many text files)
ex: 1 .wav file and 3 .txt transcript files
Situation 2: Many to One (Many media files to one text file)
ex: 3 .wav files and 1 .txt transcript file
Situation 3: One to One (One media file to one text file)
ex: 1 .wav file and 1 .txt transcript file
*For general information on filenaming conventions, see File_naming_schemes.
Folder Names
Folders called "Transcripts" will reside at the same level as the Scans folders.
- All transcripts should be placed inside the Transcript directory at the same level. Do not place transcripts in sub-folders as you would in a Scans folder.
- The numerical identifier attached to the end of "Scans_" and "Transcripts_" folders will show the correspondence between given Scans and Transcripts folders.
- In other words, for a given collection: the folder "Transcripts_21" contains any transcript files for the scans in "Scans_21".
- for more on the naming of Scans folders, see Scans_folder.
- What if you have 2 .wav files and 3 pages of transcripts? That is, what happens when a transcript page contains the transcription for part of each of the 2 .wav files?
In that case you might have a scenario like this: _0001.wav goes with _0001_001.txt and _0001_002.txt while _0002.wav goes with _0002_001.txt and _0001_002.txt. In this case, _0001_002.txt and _0002_001.txt are the SAME document, simply existing twice with different file names. This still allows people to know what transcripts correspond to what media items based simply on the file name.
We understand that this calls for more storage space to be used (given that an analog item exists as two distinct files), but the greater concern is the removal of confusion regarding relation of items to one another.
Important: It was discussed on 070209 that in the case of .txt file transcripts (OCR), we can simply edit the .txt files so that there is a 1 to 1 match between the transcript and the media file (wav, tiff, etc.). That is to say that if the transcripts have no value in themselves (i.e. tiffs of historically important original transcripts WOULD have value in and of themselves) we can then use the OCR-ed .txt files and divide them up as needed to get a 1 to 1 match with the media file.
- What about a scenario in which there are 2 tiffs (of original analog materials) and 1 transcript file (in tiff format) which contains the transcription for both original tiffs? How will someone know what part of the transcription tiff matches with the respective portion of the scans of the analog materials?
In this case we have a workflow and scripts for that!
- After your have run OCR on your files and moved them to the correct folder, use the script joinPages_GUI.pl.
- Go to S:\Digital Projects\Administrative\scripts\transcripts and double click on joinPages_GUI.pl
- Choose the directory where your ocr.txt are
- The script will look for items with pages (example: u0003_0001583_0000122_0001.ocr.txt), read in each page-level file, and create a single txt file with all the pages in order and named for the item.
- Once complete, delete the individual page files or move them to another directory to be deleted later.
- Open the new file, compare the transcript text to the original materials, and prepare the txt file to be split correctly.
- Add the number of the page and a space to the beginning of the text that matches the original materials.
- You may leave a newline space between pages, but there should be no space lines within the text for each page; delete any line spaces within the page text. (See example below.)
- Save the edited file.
- Use the script makePages_GUI.pl to separate pages you've specified into individual txt files.
- In S:\Digital Projects\Administrative\scripts\transcripts and double click on makePages_GUI.pl
- Choose the item-level file you edited.
- The script will look for the page break numbers you put in on Step 2, grab the text, and create each page as a separate txt file named for the item + page.
- Check your new files and make sure everything is correct; if you saved your previous page ocr.txt files, you can delete them now.
Audio Transcript Matching: Compound Objects
Audio interviews for compound objects can have multiple transcript files/scans associated with one audio file. It is important to name these transcript files in a way that delineates which transcripts match with particular .wav files.
Here is a link to a small tutorial that demonstrates a method for doing such a thing provided the transcript scans are good candidates for OCR.