text: Day of the Tentacle FAQ +-----+ +-----+ +-+ +-----+ +-+ +-+ +-+ +-+ +-+ +------+ +-+ +-+ | --- | | | | +---+ | | / / \ \ / / | / | +----+ | | | +---+ | | | | | |/ / \ + / |/ | +----+ | | | | \ \ | | | | | | /\ \ / +----+ | | | | | | | | | | +---+ | |/\ \ | | +----+ | +-+ +-+ +-+ +-+ +-----+ +-+ +-+ +-+ +------+ COMPLETE WALKTROUGH FOR DAY OF THE TENTACLE Version 1.00 - By Tricky +------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Index: | +------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Introduction to this FAQ and the game ........................... IDX01 Prologue ........................................................ IDX02 Main Game ....................................................... IDX03 Epilogue ........................................................ IDX04 FAQ in Q&A style ................................................ IDX05 Copyrights and permissions ...................................... IDX10 Contacting me ................................................... IDX11 +------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Introduction to this FAQ and the game | IDX01 | +------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Day of the Tentacle is one of the good old adventure games of long lost times. If you wonder how to get this game, I cannot help you, I still got my copy from times this was still in store. I'm sure there are sites you can download it from, but since I cannot support software piracy, I cannot give you links. If you can give me sites on which this game can be bought/downloaded from WITHOUT VIOLATING COPYRIGHTS mail me, and I'll add those to this FAQ. Also note that since this game is old you may NOT be able to play it on modern machines. You may need an emulator to play it. One of the best out there is DOSBox. Download it from: http://www.dosbox.com I recommand only to use this FAQ when you are stuck, or else this game will be no challenge at all. If you are stuck look at the index on what you are doing and look at the IDX code. Open a search window (Ctrl-F in Windows and Linux and Apple-F in MacOS). There are a few things you should know though. - All items you pick up can be dropped anywhere you want. Please note that in most cases you can come back for those items. However there is one point in which you need to check before continuing or else the game can NOT be completed. - There are jewels everywhere across Kyrandia. They appear at random so I cannot tell you where to look for those. Only a few specific ones can be found at fixed places. You can do well, in collecting those, but since you can only carry 10 items, you may want to store them all in one location as long as the game allows it. There are only two tasks in which these jewels have value - This game has a dozen of areas or "rooms" as we call them in adventure programming terms. Each time you get into a new room I start with "-" and the name of the room, so you can check if you are in the right room. One important note. Day of the Tentacle is a game in which many events go in some kind of a choas through each other. Writing a FAQ on it that takes everything one by one is therefore hard. In order to give some possibilities to look things up, I provided a Q&A chapter in which I try to answer some questions. Another thing is, the game starts with Bernard as playable character, lateron Hoagie and Laverne will become available. When I call a name, it means you need to switch to that person. You can also give items to another character by selecting that item, and click with it on a person's face (in the switch menu) with it. Well, that's all folks... Let's get started on this +------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Prologue | IDX02 | +------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Bernard: - Open the grandfather's clock to open the secret passage Now watch the rest of the intro. After the intro we can continue play Bernard: - Walk to the "To Do" board east - Pick up the paper from the board If you have the old diskette version you get the copy-protection. Not gonna give you the solution to that, as I'm not allowed to. When you got the CD-ROM version the copy-protection will be skipped. The game will automaticly switch to Hoagie. The first thing we want to do is to get Laverne out of that damn tree, so let's get crackin' +------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Main game | IDX03 | +------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Hoagie: - Go west and exit south - Enter the mansion - Enter the main hall - Go to the swinging door - Pick up the spaghetti and the oil - Exit east - Pick up the bucket - Open the cabinet and take the brush - Fill the bucket with the water pump - Exit north - Go through the fireplace - Enter the mansion through the window - Pick up the red paint - Use both beds - Swap the beds - Use the north bed to distract the cat - Steal the mouse toy - Go out of the window - Go into the chimney - Leave the mansion - Go to the outhouses - Use the red paint on the kumquat tree to make it look like a cherry tree. - Enter the mansion again and speak with George Washington - Say "Woah, you're like George Washington" - Say "My name's Hoagie" - Say "Is it true about you and the cherry tree". - Say "I bet you lost it. You couldn't cut down a tree to save your grandmother". Now George Washington will cut the tree down, releasing Laverne out of the tree in the process, which makes her available now. Let's switch to her. Laverne: Laverne is as human in a time where humans are demoted to pets, in a bad position. We will have to get her into a disguise first so she can move around freely. - Tell the guard you're not feeling well. You'll end up in the doctor's office. - Pick up the Tentacle Chart - Leave the office - Exit north - Exit north again to get back into the kennel - Talk to the guard again and tell him you gotta go to the bathroom - Now that you are in range of the Chron-O-John you can swap items. Send the Tentacle Chart to Hoagie - Also send the scalpel to Bernard Bernard: - Leave the lab - Exit north - Go into the fireplace to get on the roof - Get the crank out of the flagpole - Give the crank to Laverne Hoagie: - Enter the mansion - Go up the stairs - Pick the middle door Here you meet Betsy Ross. She's desining a flag for the USA. - Put the tentacle chart on the flag design table and in Laverne's time the flag will change Laverne: Now we can get Laverne disguised. - Get yourself back in the kennel and tell the guard again you are not feeling well. - Leave the doctor's office - Exit north - Use the fireplace to get on the roof - Use the crank to retrieve the "flag" - Put in on and you are disguised. (Yeah the Tentacles are too stupid to tell the diffrrence so, doncha worry). Good, now that we can all move freely, let's get onto the next step. - Go down the chimney - Talk to the blue tentacle to get a name tag for the human show. - Exit west - Go up the stairs (you can now do so since the guard thinks you are a Tentacle). - Pick the middle door - Pick up the extention cord - Use the roller skates on the mummy - Push him into the corridor :) - Leave - Go downstairs - Put the nametag on the mummy and the human show can begin You're not gonna win that easily, so let's get ready to cheat. Laverne can't do this on her own, so let's get the help from the boys. Hoagie: - Give the spagetti to Laverne Bernard: - Give the textbook to Hoagie Hoagie: - Leave Betsy's room - Read the textbook to the horse and it will fall asleep - Get its teeth and send them to Laverne Bernard: - Go down the chimney - Use Laverne's scalpel on the clown - Pick up the laugh box and send it to Laverne - Exit west - Go upstairs - Pick the right door to meet Green Tentacle - Push the speaker box on the floor - Put on the stereo and downstairs the fake-barf will fall on the floor - Put the stereo off again (if you don't wanna go crazy) - Pick up the video tape - Go downstairs - Pick up the fake barf and send it to Laverne. - Exit north - Go through the swinging door - Pick up the fork and send it to Laverne All set, let the human show begin. Laverne: - Go to the top floor of the mansion - Put the fake barf in front of Harrold to get him disqualified - Put the horse teeth on the mummy - Use the soggy noodles (formely spagetti) on the mummy - Use the fork to comb this "hair" - Put the laugh box in the mummy's pocket - Talk to the judges and get them to judge all categories to get your mummy to win. Well that settles it for Laverne for the time being. Bernard: - Pick up both the coffee and the decaff - Go to Dr. Fred's lab - Give Dr. Fred the coffee and he'll fall asleep and start sleepwalking. - Leave the lab - Go upstairs - Go upstairs again - Pick the left door - You are now in the office of nurse Edna. Hoagie: - Now it's Hoagie's turn to go into the secret lab. Go there. (Passage in the clock, in case you missed that). - Pick up the left-handed hammer - Exit the lab - Go up the stairs (twice) - Take the left door - After talking to Ned & Jed switch the left handed hammer with the hammer Jed/Ned/whatever is using. Bernard: - Kick Nurse Edna out of the room - Put the video tape in the VCR - Look at the monitor - Push the record button to get the combination recorded (And Dr. Fred arrested). - Rewind the tape - Put the right switch to "ep" - Play back the tape. You'll see the combination (You don't have to memorize it. The game will do that for you). - Eject and leave - Go to the ground floor - Go to the office and open the safe - Pick up the contract - Open the drawer to pick up the Booboo-B-Gone - Pick up the swish bank book Hoagie: - Send the Paint to Bernard Bernard: - Go to the roof using the chimney (there is no other way) - Enter the house by the window - Get the white rope from Fred - Go out the window - Use the rope on the pulley - Go down the chimney - Go outside - Use the paint on the mummy - Use the rope on the mummy - Go inside and go to the roof with the fireplace - Pull the rope to get the mummy up - Get yourself up the roof again (with the fireplace) - Inside swap Fred with the mummy - Use the white rope on Fred - Go out the window - Pull the rope and you'll end up in the lab - Leave the lab - Go to the kitchen - From there east into the washing room - Open the cabinet and get the funnel from it - Go back into the lab - Put the funnel in Dr. Fred's mouth - Pour the normal coffee in. - Now give Dr. Fred the contract and any excuse will do to get him to sign it (without reading it). Just say that you get rid of Purple Tentacle yourself and give up the excuse you like. Hoagie: - Go out of the mansion. - Open the mailbox - Get the letter and send it to Bernard Bernard: - Leave the lab - Get upstairs - Pick the middle door - Give the suicidal guy the letter Hoagie ripped from the mailbox - Pick up the disappearing ink - Pick up the flag gun - Leave - Go upstairs - Go through the door on the right to meed Weird Ed. - After the chat use the disappearing ink on his stamp collection (He'll get mad and kick you out, throwing his album at your face). - Pick up the pony express stamp - Pick up the album and give it back to Weird Ed. - Now put the stamp on the contract and send it to Hoagie Hoagie: - Put the contract in the mailbox and the Pony Express will take the letter Bernard: - Go to the floor with three doors and take the left one - Put the television on. You hear a phone number. Bernard will automaticly memorize it. - Go to Dr. Fred's office. - Use the phone to get your diamond ordered. Now the main unit of the time machine's fixed. However both Hoagie and Laverne should power up their Chron-O-John first before you can bring them back. Well, Ladies first, so let's get on getting Laverne's unit up first. Bernard: - Go to Weird Ed's room and get the hamster - Go to the corridor on the first floor (or second if you count in US counting). - Put the hamster in the freezer - Go to the entrance hall - Pick up the dime from the telephone - Go to the room with the sleeping guy - Close the door - Get the keys from the lock - Leave the room - Go outside the mansion - Go to the parking lot - Give the keys to the thief (the thief gives you a crowbar) - Go back to the entrance hall - Use the crowbar to get the dime in gum - Chew the gum to release the dime (this is gross, I warn ya). - Go to the room with the sleeping guy - Use both dimes on the coin slot to drill the guy off the bed (He'll remain sleeping, though). - Pick up the sweater - Leave this room - Use the crowbar with the candy machine - Take all the quarters that fall out of the machine - Go to the laundry room (behind the kitchen) - Open the dryer - Put the sweater in - Put in the quarters - Go back into the entrance hall - Remove the flyer from the post board - Send it to Hoagie - Send the Booboo-B-Gone(tm) to Laverne Hoagie: - Put the flyer into the suggestion box in the main hall. (This will get a Vacuum Cleaner in Fred's Secret Lab in Laverne's time). - Send the toy mouse to Laverne Ok, finally Laverne's part to get her unit running. Laverne: - Go outside There's a cat here. It goes away under the fence when approach it. - Go close to it and use Booboo-B-Gone on the fence. - Use the toy mouse to lure the cat - Now go to the kennel - Give the dinner coupon to the guard to make him leave - Put off the forcefield - Use the cat to scare the Edisons away (this will get the guard at the clock to chase after them and never come back). - Go upstairs - Get the hamster out of the freezer - Go to the kitchen - Out the hamster in the microwave to defrost it - Go to the laundry room - Remove the sweater from the dryer (it'll have shrunk) - Use the sweater on the hamster - Go to the entrance hall - Get into the secret lab (oh, yeah, did I mention it was in the clock?) - Put the extention cord in the machine - Put the rest of the chord out of the window - Put the hamster in the machine and it will flee - Use the vaccuum cleaner to get the hamster out of its hole. - Open the hatch to retrieve the hamster - Put the hamster in the generator again and this time it won't escape. - Go outside to the Chrono-O-John. Plug it in, and Laverne's unit is ready. Alright, now only Hoagie needs to get his stuff done. Bernard: - If you didn't do it before get the flag gun from the room of the suicidal guy - Go to the room with the fireplace and talk to the man here - After the chat switch the guns - Ask the man for a cigar - Open the grating left of the fireplace - Go to the moving teeth and chase them into grating hole - Pick them up - Send the lighter (pistol), cigar and teeth to Hoagie Hoagie: - Give the exploding cigar to George Washington - Give him the fake teeth - Take the blanket from the floor - Make your way up to the roof (long way, since the fireplace is unavailable) - Use the blanket on the chimney - Go back to the main hall - Get the golden feather pen - Go upstairs - Take the most right door - Pick up the wine bottle - Go to the main hall - Give the wine to Thomas Jefferson (the guy with the time capsule). - Give the can opener to Laverne Laverne: - Go into the mansion and go upstairs - Take the left door - Open capsule with the can opener - Take the vinegar out of it and send it to Hoagie Hoagie: - Go into the secret lab - Show the battery plans to Red Edison - Give the oil, gold pen and vinegar to Red Edison - Pick up the battery (Hoagie will automaticly distract Red). That covers the batter, now to power it up. - If you haven't already done it, get a bucket of water from the kitchen - Go upstairs and enter George's room - Push the bed to mess it - Pull the chord so the cleaner will come - Leave and get the soap from the cart - Put the soap in the bucket of water - Go outside and wash the carriage Bernard: - Go to the entrance hall - Remove the Help-Wanted-sign and send it to Hoagie Hoagie: - Go to the secret lab - Show the sign to Red - Take the lab coat - Leave the lab - Go upstairs and visit Ben Franklin. (Most right door) - Give the lab coat to Ben Franklin - When Franklin goes to test the kite put the battery in - Then push the kite when Franklin requests you to. - Go to the Crono-O-John - Use the batter to power it. All set. Now everybody should get back and we can get on with the final part. +------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Epilogue | IDX04 | +------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Now no more switching between party members, you'll soon see why ;) This part is pretty short, so let's get on it to get this fixed. - Leave the room - Open the middle door (the Tentacle will shrink you) - Go through the middle door - Use the mouse hole to get into the next room - Wait till you grow again - Pick up the bowling ball - Leave the room (the tentacle will be gone) - Go to the secret lab - Use the bowling ball on the tentacles (STRIKE!!!!) Now you get the final showdown with Purple. Say the next things = "Just what is it you have against humans, anyway?" = "Sounds like that's all Dr. Fred's fault, really" = "You're pretty handy with that ray gun" = "Why don't you zap Dr. Fred if you hat him so much?" CONGRATULATIONS! YOU'VE COMPLETED DAY OF THE TENTACLE! +------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | FAQ Q&A Style | IDX05 | +------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Q: How to get Laverne out of the tree? A: Get yourself a can of red paint and use it on the Cherry Tree (Hoagie's time) Then you have have George Washington to chop it down, and that tree happens to be the same one that Laverne get stuck in. Time has been changed and Laverne will be out of the tree. Q: How to steal the mouse toy from the cat? A: On the top floor of the mansion in Hoagie's time. Use both bed, then swap them with each other. Then use the beds again and the cat will be distracted. Now to steal the mouse toy. Q: How to disguise Laverne as a tentacle? A: You need the Tentacle Anatomy chart from the docter's office. Send it to Hoagie and let Hoagie put in on the table of the flag designer to change the design of the American flag. With the crank (from Bernard's time) Laverne can retreive it. Q: How to enter the human show? A: - First you need a name tag from the blue Tentacle in the corridor. - Next you need a human. You can use the mummy from the second floor. Use the roller skates to get him down in the lobby. - Put the name tag on him and you entered the show. Q: How to win the human show? A: First you need to get rid of Harrold, since he'll win everything. Put the fake barf on the floor and he'll be disqualified. - Best Hair: Put the spaghetti on the head of the mummy and use the fork to comb it. - Best smile: Put the fake teeth from the hose on it - Beest laugh: The laughing box from Oozo the clown does this. Q: How to get the combination from Dr. Fred? A: Put him asleep with Decaff. He'll opent he save and a security cam records the combination Q: All fine, but Nurse Edna wouldn't let me look at it. A: Kick her away. Q: That's nice, but she keeps coming back A: Have Hoagie to put the left handed hammer on the peddestal of the statue maker and the statue will change. Now Nurse Edna cannot stop herself from being kicked away. Q: How can I save Dr. Fred from those secret agents? A: - PGo aint the mummy red. - Untie Fred - Use the rope to get the mummy in the in the room on the bed. - Use the rope to get Fred down and you'll be in the office. Q: How can I wake Dr. Fred? A: By giving him coffee. Put a funnel in his mouth and pour it in. Q: How to get rid of that suicidal sucker? A: Give him the letter from the mailbox in Hoagie's time. Q: Is it true that you can play "Maniac Mansion" in DOTT? A: Yes. Quite true. You can do that with the computer in Weird Ed's room. Q: Ok. Dr Fred signed the contract. How to make millions of it? A: Steal a stamp from Weird Ed. You can do so by ruining his stamp collection with disappearing ink. Then put the stamp on the contract and let Hoagie send it by putting it into the mailbox. The Pony Express will take it and the millions are made. Q: How can I order the diamond? A: You get the phone number from the TV in the room with the sleeping guy. Call and get your diamond ordered. Q: The girl at the other side of the phone refuses my order. Why? Two possible reasons: Reason 1: You don't have the bank book. Get it from the table Reason 2: You don't have the millions yet. The previous questions can tell you hot to get that. Q: Laverne needs a hamster. But I cannot put it in the Chron-O-John. How am I supposed to get it there. A: Put it in the freezer. Laverne will be able to get it out. Q: I need two dimes. I got one, but how do I get the other A: You need the crowbar to get it loose. Then you can pick it up. Chew the gum to release the dime (YUCK). Q: And how do I get this crowbar? A: Get the keys from the door in the room with the sleeping man. Give those to the thief and he'll give you the crowbar. Q: How do I get the sweater? A: Get the sleeping guy of the bed. Two dimes in the slot beside his bed will take care of that. Q: How to get the sweater to Laverne? A: Put it in the dryer and put you highload of quarters in it. (You get it when use use the crowbar on the candy machine). When Laverne comes in the room, the dryer just finished it's program. Q: The hamster fled. How to get it? A: Use the vacuum cleaner Q: How does it come there A: Put the ad in Bernard's time in the suggestion box of Hoagie's time. Q: What to do with the cat in Laverne's time? A: Put Booboo-B-Gone on the fence. Then lure it with the toy mouse. Now you can use it to scare the Edisons away from the kennel Q: The kennel guard won't let me. A: Give him the dinner coupon you won at the human show and he'll leave. Q: How can I get that freaky moustached tentacle to leave the clock alone? A: Scare the Edisons out of the kennel with your cat Q: Powering up Laverne's Chrono-O-John at last? A: If you reached the lab, you need the hamster to power the machine. The extention chord to get the power to the unit. When the hamster flees use the vaccuum cleaner to get it back. Q: How to get the lighter? A: Switch the lighter gun with the flag gun Q: How to get an exploding cigar? A: After switching the guns, ask for one. Q: How to get that golden feather? A: Give Washington an exploding cigar. Then give him the fake teeth. Now steal the blanket and put in on the chimney. The man will flee and you are free to grab the pen. Q: How do I get vinegar? A: Give a bottle of wine to the guy with the time capsule. Once you done that have Laverne to find that capsule and open it with the can opener to get it. Q: How to get to talk to Ben Franklin? A: First get him inside. Wash the carriage to do that Q: How to get water and soap? A: Bucket and water in the kitchen. The soap from the cleaning cart. That cart will appear if you mess up George Washington's bed and call for the cleaner with the chord in that room Q: Red doesn't allow me to take the lab coat A: Get the Help-wanted-sign from Bernard's time and show it to him. This will get you the coat. Q: How to power the super-battery A: Give the labcoat to Ben Franklin, put the battery in it and push it when you are asked to. +------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Copyrights and permissions | IDX10 | +------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ This FAQ has been copyrighted by Jeroen Broks aka Tricky, formely known as Tricrokra. This FAQ may be viewed, downloaded and printed for personal use only. It may not be sold, or used as a basis for commercial work. This FAQ may also not be modified. Parts of it may not be copied to your own FAQs without my permission. 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Microsoft has added its Azure cloud platform to the Cloud Security Alliance's STAR security registry, which is a listing where cloud service providers post information about their security features.
The Security, Trust and Assurance Registry (STAR) began last year but almost six months after its launch only three companies had filled out the 170-question form that makes up STAR. Microsoft was one of the early adopters when it submitted security information for Microsoft Office 365, with cloud service providers Mimecast and Solutionary being the others. In the last month, though, there have been two additions, including Microsoft Azure and IT and cloud manager SHI International.
BACKGROUND: Cloud security registry slow to catch on
EDITORIAL: Push your cloud supplier to participate in CSA STAR
In the registry listing, Microsoft officials say that Azure's "core services" are ISO 27001 certified and "this work is planned for the remaining features of the platform." The "core" services, it says, refer to compute, storage, and virtual network features. Meanwhile, the company's global foundation services, which are the systems that run much of Microsoft's online services, undergo annual American Institute of Certified Public Accountants Statement of Auditing Standards (SAS) No. 70 audits. The SAS 70 audits will be replaced with Standards for Attestation Engagements No. 16 audits and International Standards for Assurance Engagements No. 3402 audits.
Some cloud watchers have expressed optimism for STAR to be a place where customers can easily compare and contrast security features from providers they may consider working with. But, to fully realize that potential, Kyle Hilgendorf, a Gartner analyst, says more companies need to sign on. CSA officials say that some big name companies, such as Google, McAfee, Verizon and Intel, have said they will contribute to STAR, but they haven't yet.
"Our customers are able to go to the STAR registry and they're able to pick up our specific security controls, they're able to dive into what we do at the data center level, all the way up through the platform level," says Kellie Ann Chainier, a cloud business manager for Microsoft, in a video posting the company released about the news.
Network World staff writer Brandon Butler covers cloud computing and social media. He can be reached at email@example.com and found on Twitter at @BButlerNWW.

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MIA: Encyclopedia of Marxism: Glossary of Terms
Right is the system of socially regulated freedoms (rights) having its origin in pre-capitalist societies, reflecting the developing relations between individuals, social classes and the whole community.
Right is actualised as written and enforceable law, but has its origins in the social relations of production, and right exists even where it has not yet attained legal form. Furthermore, right is never an altogether settled question, but is contested and in change.
Historical Development: The nature of right develops historically. In ancient and tribal society, the concept of right would be meaningless because personal interest has not yet developed as something distinct from communal interest; as Aristotle observed: "Where people are in Friendship Justice is not required" (Ethics, Book VIII).
As feudal society developed, rights adhered to this or that person only in accordance to their station, and was expressed in systems of titles and obligations defining the place of each individual in society as a whole:
"For feudalism ... the elements of civil life such as property, the family, the mode and manner of work, for example, were raised into elements of political life in the form of landlordism, estates and corporations. In this form they determined the relation of the particular individual to the state as a whole, that is, his political relation, his separation and exclusion from other parts of society. ..." [From On the Jewish Question, Marx 1843]
From the time of the Magna Carta, there began to emerge concepts of "Rights of Man". Denis Diderot, in the decades leading up to the French Revolution, elaborated the idea of "natural rights" that were subsequently enshrined in the Constitution of the French Revolution; Thomas Paine was instrumental in bringing forward the Rights of Man in the American Revolution, eternal, "inalienable" rights, which were subsequently incorporated in the drafting of the Constitution of the French Republic.
The Right established by the French Revolution did not live up to expectations though:
"Formerly, the feudal vices had openly stalked about in broad daylight; though not eradicated, they were now at any rate thrust into the background. In their stead, the bourgeois vices, hitherto practiced in secret, began to blossom all the more luxuriantly. Trade became to a greater and greater extent cheating. The "fraternity" of the revolutionary motto was realised in the chicanery and rivalries of the battle of competition. Oppression by force was replaced by corruption; the sword, as the first social lever, by gold. The right of the first night was transferred from the feudal lords to the bourgeois manufacturers. Marriage itself remained, as before, the legally recognised form, the official cloak of prostitution, and, moreover, was supplemented by rich crops of adultery.
"In a word, compared with the splendid promises of the philosophers, the social and political institutions born of the "triumph of reason" were bitterly disappointing caricatures." [Socialism, Utopian & Scientific]
In the seventeenth century, a civil society had grown up between the kinship and state relations of traditional society, a society whose rights Thomas Hobbes described as "the war of all against all". All the rights pertaining in civil, or bourgeois society, are derived from what Hegel calls "abstract right", the right of property. The ethical system expressed by this abstract right was systematised by Jeremy Bentham and John Stuart Mill as Utilitarianism.
Civil Rights and Human Rights: Despite the overlay of political rights, it is this system of abstract rights which is the dominant form of right in bourgeois society to this day. Marx drew attention to the distinction held between rights of citizens (civil or political rights) and:
"the so-called rights of man ... are only the rights of the member of civil society, that is, of egoistic man, man separated from other men and from the community.
"Liberty is thus the right to do and perform anything that does not harm others. The limits within which each can act without harming others is determined by law ... This is the liberty of man viewed as an isolated monad, with drawn into himself. ... liberty as a right of man is not based on the association of man with man but rather on the separation of man from man. It is the right of this separation, the right of the limited individual limited to himself. The practical application of the right of liberty is the right of property. ... the right of self-interest. .... It lets every man find in other men not the realisation but rather the limitation of his own freedom. ... Thus none of the so-called rights of man goes beyond the egoistic man, the man withdrawn into himself, his private interest and his private choice, and separated from the community as a member of civil society ... The only bond between men is natural necessity, need and private interest, the maintenance of their property and egoistic persons." [From On the Jewish Question, Marx 1843]
Although it has a 300-year-long history, "Human rights" is a phrase which has become more and more prominent since the mid-1970s, mainly in international relations, in relation to governments which resist free trade. The distinction made by Marx between "human rights" and "political rights" can be summarised as follows:
- Human rights – the right to property, freedom of religion, etc., the rights which guarantee the concrete, real human being in their occupation, their beliefs, etc. – but founded on the separation of man from man, not on the relations or community of people, – the foundation of bourgeois political economy.
- Political rights, – equality before the law, universal suffrage, etc. – can only be the rights of abstract human beings, rights which abstract from the real differences in wealth, privilege, education, occupation, kinship etc.
The foundation of the bourgeois state on political rights equalised between abstract human beings, is the basis of a situation where the real differences and relations in social power, founded in civil society, dominate political life, despite formal equality. Consequently, civil life – global, universal, free competition and exchange – dominates political life. There can be no real political emancipation without real human emancipation.
Workers' Rights: In its struggle which develops within capitalism, the proletariat also brings forward its own distinctive "workers' rights". The needs of the class of people who must sell their labour power in order to live, are different from the needs of those who live off the proceeds of their property. Property rights are of little use to those who have no property. Workers need first and foremost the right to organise and form combinations, and the various rights which contribute to this such as legal protection for union funds, and so on, and the right to satisfaction of basic human needs – food, shelter, clothing, health, education – access to which the bourgeoisie can purchase with money. These are the distinctive workers' rights, over and above those fought for by the progressive bourgeoisie, rights that are denied in bourgeois society except insofar as workers secure them through struggle and protect them with legal instruments and the constant threat of class struggle.
Rights Under Socialism: In Critique of the Gotha Program, Marx sketched the development of right under socialism:
"Within the cooperative society based on common ownership of the means of production, the producers do not exchange their products; just as little does the labour employed on the products appear here at the value of these products, as a material quality possessed by them, since now, in contrast to capitalist society, individual labour no longer exists in an indirect fashion, but directly as a component part of the total labour. ..."
"in a communist society ... as it emerges from capitalist society ... equal right here is still in principle – bourgeois right, although principle and practice are no longer at loggerheads ... equal right is still constantly stigmatised by bourgeois limitation. The right of the producers is proportional to the labour they supply; the equality consists in the fact that measurement is made by an equal standard, labour.
"But one person is superior to another physically or mentally, and so supplies more labour in the same time, ... This equal right is an unequal right for unequal labour ...It is therefore a right of inequality, in its content, like every right. Right by its nature can consist only in the application of an equal standard; but unequal individuals ... are measurable only by an equal standard in so far as they are brought under an equal point of view, are taken from one definite side only, for instance, in the present case, are regarded only as workers, and nothing more is seen in them, everything else is ignored .. To avoid all these defects, right instead of being equal would have to be unequal.
"But these defects are inevitable in the first phase of communist society as it is when it has just emerged after prolonged birth pangs from capitalist society. Right can never be higher than the economic structure of society and the cultural development conditioned by it.
"In the higher phase of communist society, ... after labour has become not only a means of life but life's prime want; after the productive forces have also increased ... only then can the narrow horizons of bourgeois right be crossed in its entirety and society inscribe on its banners: 'From each according to her ability, to each according to her needs!' "
Hegelian philosophy: "That a reality is the realisation of the free will, this is what is meant by a right. Right, therefore, is, in general, freedom as Idea". Thus Abstract Right is reflected or negated in Morality, and the unity of Abstract Right and Morality is Ethics, in which the whole range of social institutions from family to market to state can be understood, not just negatively as limitations on the Will ('what you can get away with') but the unfolding of Right from its most abstract form, property, to its most concrete form – the State.
Further Reading: On the Jewish Question, Critique of the Gotha Program (Marx), Philosophy of Right, (Hegel).


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When it comes to saving money, September is a good month to buy a lot of things, especially compared with June, July and August. But there are a number of things you shouldn't buy in September, even if a lot of other people are buying them then.
2013 cars: The vast majority of the 2013 models are on car lots by now, and they'll never be more expensive than they are now. Want a good deal on a '13 model? Good luck. This is the time to seriously consider buying a 2012 model, which dealers badly want to get off their lots.
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TVs: Depending on whom you ask, January, February, March, April, November and December are good months to buy a TV. You'll never hear anyone say September. Retailers try to sell them for as much as they can until November and particularlyBlack Friday, the best day of the year to buy one. If you don't want to battle the hoards of shoppers on the day after Thanksgiving, there are good sales throughout most of December and sometimes into January.
Cell phones: Buy one when you see good sales in May, June and December. Sales are rare in September. One exception: Some stores will put phones on sale during the last few days of any month in which sales have been bad.
Fall fashion: When do people buy fall clothes? This is not a trick question. In the fall, of course. Retailers know this and aren't going to lower prices when demand is high. And demand is highest in September. Prices on fall fashion dip by November, when clothes shoppers are thinking more about overcoats, wool sweaters and gloves.
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Backpacks: Backpacks often go on sale when you would least expect them to: in August, when the vast majority of parents are buying school supplies. It's one of those purchases that fly in the face of logic. By September, the selection of backpacks is typically poor, and the sales are a distant memory.
Diamonds: Diamonds tend to be the least expensive in July and August, when sales are slow and jewelers are very eager to do business with you. Fast-forward to October, when many jewelers receive large shipments of diamonds they hope to sell a lot of that month as well as in November, December and January. Crammed in between August and October is September, when the selection of diamonds is poor and the summer sales are over.
Longtime journalist Di Vincenzo wrote the New York Times best seller Buy Ketchup in May and Fly at Noon: A Guide to the Best Time to Buy This, Do That and Go There. This month, he released an app based on that book called WHEN. An all-new second edition on the best time to buy things, called Buy Shoes on Wednesday and Tweet at 4:00: More of the Best Times to Buy This, Do That and Go There, was released on Sept. 11.


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Breitbart brings ACORN videos lie to MSNBC
Written by Matt Gertz
Interviewed on MSNBC, Andrew Breitbart falsely claimed that the ACORN videos created by James O'Keefe and Hannah Giles "clearly show in every -- in almost every single office, the employees at ACORN helping aid and abet the establishment of an underage prostitution brothel." But in six of the eight heavily edited videos produced by O'Keefe and Giles and distributed by Breitbart, either the activists did not clearly tell the ACORN employees that they were planning to engage in child prostitution; or the ACORN employees refused to help them or apparently deliberately misled them; or ACORN employees contacted the police following their visit.
From the January 28 edition of MSNBC Live:
BREITBART: The videos clearly show in every -- in almost every single office, the employees at ACORN helping aid and abet the establishment of an underage prostitution brothel and of fourteen year old girls. They even helped them figure out how to get them on the -- off of the IRS rolls as dependents. If you don't find that to be criminal behavior, that's your problem, not mine.
Claim that videos show many ACORN offices willing to aid child prostitution is false
Washington, D.C., office: Child prostitution not clearly discussed. At no point in the transcript of Giles and O'Keefe's visit to the Washington, D.C., ACORN office does either Giles or O'Keefe clearly state that they are planning to engage in child prostitution. Both Giles (Page 15) and O'Keefe (Page 9) say that the house will be used by "girls" -- who the ACORN employee refers to as "women of the night" -- and at one point, O'Keefe says (Page 13) that "10 El Salvadorians" will be working in the house, but at no point are the ages of the supposed prostitutes mentioned.
New York office: Child prostitution not clearly discussed: In the transcript of Giles and O'Keefe's visit to the New York ACORN office, they discuss underage girls that Giles wants to "protect" and separately discuss "girls" working in the house, but they do not indicate that the two groups are the same. O'Keefe says that Giles "is going to have this business in the house with a bunch of girls coming and doing these things, performing tricks and she is going to give me the money so that I can pay the mortgage" (Page 15) but does not say that those "girls" are underage. Much later, Giles states, "They should throw Sonny in jail, not me, he's the one who got me started. ... I mean he got a whole slew of which is why I also want a house. ... He's got all these 13, 14, 15 year old girls from El Salvador and that's what -- I need to protect them like I know what its like and I have to protect them and like give them somewhere to live" (Page 28). The videos posted on YouTube are nevertheless titled "ACORN NYC Child Prostitution Investigation."
Hannity, Lowry similarly referred to presumably of-age prostitutes as "girls." While Giles and O'Keefe refer to the prostitutes who would reside in the house as "girls" in the Washington, D.C., and New York videos, conservative media figures such as Hannity -- who repeatedly touted the videos -- have similarly referred to prostitutes in that manner regardless of their age. The July 3, 2006, and December 16, 2005, edition of Fox News' Hannity & Colmes featured Hannity's interviews with presumably adult prostitutes, whom Hannity repeatedly referred to as "girls." Likewise, guest-hosting the July 27, 2007, edition of Hannity & Colmes, Rich Lowry referred to "part two of Sean's attempt to Hannitize the girls of Reno's Bunny Ranch." [from Nexis]
San Bernardino: ACORN employee tries to "shock them as much as they were shocking me." In the video of Giles and O'Keefe's visit to the San Bernardino ACORN office, ACORN organizer Tresa Kaelke gives them advice on how to run a brothel and also informs them that she murdered her ex-husband. During the evening on September 15, ACORN issued a statement calling the video of O'Keefe and Giles' interactions with Kaelke an "obvious set of lies and manipulations." Kaelke stated of the conservative activists who filmed her: "They were not believable. ... Somewhat entertaining, but they weren't even good actors. I didn't know what to make of them. They were clearly playing with me. I decided to shock them as much as they were shocking me. Like Stephen Colbert does -- saying the most outrageous things with a straightface." In a September 15 news release, the San Bernardino Police Department stated that Kaelke's claim that she shot and killed her ex-husband "do[es] not appear to be factual."
Los Angeles: ACORN employee refused to help them after they mentioned child prostitution. In a blog post accompanying video of Giles and O'Keefe's visit to the Los Angeles ACORN Housing office, O'Keefe reports that the ACORN employee "drew the line when we spoke about the underage girls" and "would not assist us."
Philadelphia: ACORN employee contacted police following visit. ACORN has publicly released a July 24 Philadelphia police report stating that an ACORN employee complained to police that O'Keefe had created a "verbal disturbance" at ACORN's office.
San Diego: ACORN employee contacted police following visit. In a September 22 article, the Associated Press reported that National City, California, police said an ACORN worker contacted them about "possible human smuggling" after his interactions with Giles and O'Keefe.
Breitbart falsehood consistent with BigGovernment record of mendacity
Breitbart, O'Keefe, Giles, and BigGovernment.com editor-in-chief Mike Flynn have each at various times falsely suggested that the filmmakers were never rebuffed by any of the ACORN offices they visited in their attempts to get ACORN to assist them in improper activities, or that they had only been rebuffed on one occasion.
O'Keefe falsely claimed only one ACORN employee "would not assist us." In a November 16, 2009, BigGovernment.com post, O'Keefe claimed:
Although Mr. Felix D. Harris of Los Angeles ACORN told us he didn't care about our prostitution business in regards to a housing loan, he drew the line when we spoke about the underage girls. Although he did not kick us out, he was the only employee in our nationwide ACORN child prostitution investigation who would not assist us.
O'Keefe dodged question about whether ACORN employees refused to help. During the September 13, 2009, edition of Fox News' America's News HQ, correspondent Eric Shawn asked, "Were there some that refused your offers, that actually did not -- were not willing to cooperate?" But rather than acknowledge at the time what happened in Los Angeles, O'Keefe responded:
O'KEEFE: No -- in none of the facil -- [laughs] none of the facilities kicked us out. That's a lie.
O'Keefe waited more than two months after this exchange to acknowledge that Harris "would not assist us obtain a house for our illegal activities."
Giles previously answered "No" to the question: "[Y]ou didn't go into one office, and they said, 'We're not going to help you do anything like that?' " On the September 16 edition of Fox News' Hannity, Sean Hannity interviewed Giles and Breitbart. During the interview, Hannity asked Giles: "[W]hen you go to Baltimore and D.C. and New York and San Bernardino and San Diego, and this all happened, were there any cities you went to where you just didn't get any videotape not worthy to air?" Giles replied: "We're airing it. It's pretty worthy. Everyone seems to think -- ." Hannity then asked: "In other words, you didn't go into one office, and they said, 'We're not going to help you do anything like that?' " Giles responded, "No."
Breitbart didn't disclose LA tape when asked whether "every" ACORN office visited "helped you or were willing to help you." Following Giles' denial, Hannity said during the September 16 interview, "Not one? Every place you went, they helped you or were willing to help you, either -- not report you for an underage prostitution ring, evade taxes as we've -- ." Rather than acknowledge what happened in Los Angeles, Breitbart responded, "Right. It is interesting. There's no place, as ACORN tried to state, that kicked them out based upon the premise that they were doing something nefarious."
Giles previously answered "no" to question: "[Y]ou are saying that there were some [ACORN employees] that did refuse?" Appearing on the September 13 edition of Fox News' America's News HQ, Giles stated: "[A]bout the whole kicking out, I mean, the women in Baltimore hugged me and -- when I left. And the women in D.C. -- I did follow-up phone calls, and they asked if I could come and meet them for coffee so we could further discuss how to make this possible." Shawn then asked, "[Y]ou are saying that there were some that did refuse? James or Hannah?" Giles responded, "Not -- no."
BigGovernment's Flynn previously claimed: "[I]t's everywhere [O'Keefe] went." According to a September 16 article on the conservative website Human Events, Mike Flynn, the editor-in-chief of BigGovernment.com, said in an exclusive interview: "It's not even just one random employee, it's so comprehensive, it's everywhere [O'Keefe] went. What shocks me is when you watch the videos, they don't even flinch."


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The Coca-Cola Co. said Thursday it once again won't be able to make "kosher for Passover" versions of its flagship cola this year because of manufacturing changes that were made in the state.
A spokeswoman for the Atlanta-based company said in an email that Coca-Cola has made "good progress" in developing kosher for Passover drinks in the state but that it's still monitoring the shelf stability of those products for quality assurance.
She said they should be available next year.
Coke directed its suppliers last year to change the way they manufacture caramel to reduce levels of the chemical 4-methylimidazole, or 4-MEI, after California listed it as a carcinogen.
Regular Coca-Cola is sweetened with high-fructose corn syrup in the United States, but the Passover version is made with sugar.


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text: > Problem: each node in a 20 node beowulf typically will > not reboot following a linux poweroff command. Power comes > back on, but it never even shows the BIOS screens. > > Hardware: > > S2466 MPX mobo Two of these nodes are flakey and aren't in the compute pool. These were both upgraded to BIOS v4.06. This DID resolve the problem with a "poweroff" followed by "turning power switch on" not rebooting. In other words, they now boot as they should following a poweroff/power switch on cycle. The oddball message cited in the first post that comes out the serial line at the end of "poweroff" remains. Tests: "poweroff" followed by "power switch on": worked 5/5 times "reboot": worked 5/5 times However, the new BIOS didn't make these two nodes any more stable - they still crash at about the same rate. Conclusion, it might be worth the effort to upgrade the BIOS if your cluster is down for some reason anyway. WARNING1. All my nodes seemed to "forget" how to read floppy disks. If the nodes had been up for a while and then were rebooted, and a known good floppy placed in the drive, they would NOT boot from it. If, however, while the node was up, the same floppy was put into the drive and explicitly mounted, listed, and unmounted a couple of times, THEN on the subsequent reboot the system could read from the floppy. I've never seen this on any other system (Tyan's are just full of suprises :-( ). Subsequent to the V4.06 upgrade these nodes seem to recognize the floppy better and so far have not had any problems rebooting directly from a floppy without the kludge described above. However, if you are at Bios V4.03 (which is what they were at, not V4.01 as I had previously posted) you may have the same problems booting from floppy in order to do the BIOS upgrades. So either flash from the net (I have no idea how) or verify that your floppy drives work before rebooting the nodes to be upgraded. WARNING2: update with: >phlash16 244v406.rom left the BIOS settings as they were. But: >flash which ran flash.bat, WIPED the BIOS settings. WARNING3: These are BIOS settings seem to be equivalent: v4.03 v4.06 quickboot enabled disabled diagnostic disabled disabled summary disabled disabled If quickboot is enabled in v4.06 it appears to skip the BIOS memory test entirely. It boots MUCH faster but you may have a hard time ever getting in an F2 to get back to change the BIOS. Regards, David Mathog mathog at caltech.edu Manager, Sequence Analysis Facility, Biology Division, Caltech


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Maxwell '66 Appointed Director of McNeely Center
July 21, 2014
Saint John's University and the College of Saint Benedict are pleased to announce that Pat Maxwell has been appointed director of the Donald McNeely Center for Entrepreneurship at CSB/SJU. Maxwell will succeed recently retired founding director Terri Barreiro, who served from 2004-14.
Maxwell has more than 40 years of experience as an entrepreneur, executive and turnaround management specialist in both the business and non-profit sectors. He is a 1966 graduate of Saint John's University with a degree in philosophy, and holds a juris doctor degree from Northwestern University School of Law.
Maxwell has held management positions including board chairman, director, chief executive officer, chief financial officer, vice president and general counsel. He has served as executive director of two membership associations and one charitable organization. Maxwell has started, bought or led 20 businesses and non-profits. The areas he has worked in include manufacturing, insurance, personnel placement, education, business services, food, medical, legal, membership and charitable services. These organizations are located throughout the United States, Europe and the Pacific Rim.
"In addition to his impressive record and experience as an entrepreneur, Pat is both the product of, and an advocate for, the liberal arts. He has the ideal pedigree to direct an entrepreneurship center at a liberal arts college," said Michael Hemesath, president of Saint John's University.
Maxwell has served on the Saint John's National Alumni Board and the Saint John's Board of Regents. He currently serves on the Board of Overseers of the Saint John's School of Theology•Seminary.
Maxwell has also been very active with the McNeely Center. He is currently on the McNeely Center Advisory Committee, and for the past two years he has served as the executive-in-residence for the McNeely Center, mentoring and assisting students.
"Under Pat's leadership, I am confident that the McNeely Center will continue to focus on our students and their interests," said Mary Dana Hinton, president of the College of Saint Benedict, "and work to provide programming for alumnae and alumni."
Founded in 2004 by St. Paul, Minnesota, business and civic leader the late Donald McNeely, the Donald McNeely Center for Entrepreneurship is an education resource that provides classes, coaching and assistance to entrepreneurs. It builds relationships among and between CSB/SJU students, faculty, alumnae/i and community members to create and strengthen the entrepreneurial spirit. Its mission is to create social value and economic opportunity by actively building alliances between students as future entrepreneurs, faculty and experienced entrepreneurs in service to communities, organizations and individuals.


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Under lock and key
The company I worked for in the UK used to keep all the desktops under lock and key underneath the desk. This meant if it needed a hard reset you had to call someone from support to come up with a key. Probably a policy designed to stop third party peripherials being connected and introducing virues or sucking away company data.
It's OK though - we survived - we found that one of the prongs on a power plug was able to fit in the lock and jimmy it open....
Obviously such a lock and key policy doesn't support the notion of turning on/off PCs overnight though.


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Qatari ace Nasser Al Attiyah won his second successive stage in this year's Dakar Rally as he triumphed in the fourth stage to give himself a great chance of adding to his triumph in the 2011 edition.
The 42-year-old driver - who made it four stage wins from four for his Red Bull Buggy team - closed the gap on the overall leader, France's Mini-driving 10-time champion Stephane Peterhansel.
Guerlain Chicherit took second in the stage, 36sec behind, while Peterhansel, 47, who has won the race six times on a motorbike and four times in the car discipline, came in over a minute behind the Qatari and saw his lead clipped to 5min 16sec.
However, it was not all good news for the Red Bull team as the 2010 winner Carlos Sainz dropped out of contention with a second successive poor day, the winner of the first two stages suffering more problems with his car.
The Spaniard is now over three hours off the pace while another of the contenders American Robby Gordon, who was disqualified last year for his car not conforming to race regulations, also fell out of contention.
He attempted an ambitious manoeuvre and ended up with his car on its roof, losing more than two hours in the process.
Al Attiyah, though, was all smiles when he emerged from his car.
"In the dunes at the start, it was very difficult to open the way, but in the end we are here without any problem at all and a good time as well so we are happy," said Al Attiyah, who last year showed his all round sporting skills by winning Olympic bronze in the shooting competition.
"Of course, we know that tomorrow (Tuesday) the terrain is going to be less easy for the buggies and we will probably lose a bit of time, but since it should be better for us in Chile, I'm not worried, especially since we are out in front and not far behind Peterhansel."
The motorbike section saw a change of hands in terms of the overall lead as Frenchman Olivier Pain took over from compatriot and four-time winner Cyril Despres.
The stage honours went to Spanish rider Joan Barreda Bort on a Husqvarna, who recorded his second stage win of this year's race in beating Pain by 8min 23sec while another Frenchman David Casteu was third.
Pain leads Casteu in the overall standings by 2min 24sec with defending champion Despres, dropping to third 3min 09sec adrift.
Pain, whose best finish in six previous editions has been two ninth places including last year, was not getting ahead of himself with regard to winning the race outright.
"I don't want to get overexcited about my place in the overall, the rally's still long and my objective is to finish in the Top 10 every day, and I hope to continue doing this well until the end," said the 31-year-old.
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Alexander Graham Bell
Alexander Graham Bell (March 3, 1847 - August 2, 1922) was a Scottish-born British-Canadian-American teacher, scientist, and inventor. He was the founder of the Bell Telephone Company. In 1876, Bell was the first inventor to patent the telephone, and he helped start the Bell Telephone Company with others in July 1877.[1] In 1879, this company joined with the New England Telephone Company to form the National Bell Telephone Company. In 1880, they formed the American Bell Telephone Company, and in 1885, American Telephone and Telegraph Company (AT&T), still a large company today. Along with Thomas Edison, Bell formed the Oriental Telephone Company on January 25, 1881.
Alexander Graham Bell | |
Born | Alexander Bell March 3, 1847 Edinburgh, Scotland |
Died | August 2, 1922 | (aged 75)
Early life change
Alexander Graham Bell was born in Edinburgh, Scotland. His family was known for teaching people how to speak English clearly (elocution). Both his grandfather, Alexander Bell, and his father, Alexander Melville Bell, taught elocution. His father wrote often about this and is most known for his invention and writings of Visible Speech.[1] In his writings he explained ways of teaching people who were deaf and Mute. It also showed how these people could learn to speak words by watching their lips and reading what other people were saying.
Education change
Alexander Graham Bell went to the Royal High School of Edinburgh. He graduated at the age of fifteen. At the age of sixteen, he got a job as a student and teacher of elocution and music in Weston House Academy, at Elgin in Morayshire. He spent the next year at the University of Edinburgh. While still in Scotland, he became more interested in the science of sound (acoustics). He hoped to help his deaf mother. From 1866 to 1867, he was a teacher at Somersetshire College in Bath, Somerset.
Career change
In 1870 when he was 23 years old, he moved with his family to Canada where they settled at Brantford, Ontario.[1] Bell began to study communication machines. He made a piano that could be heard far away by using electricity. In 1871 he went with his father to Montreal, Quebec in Canada, where he took a job teaching about "visible speech". His father was asked to teach about it at a large school for deaf mutes in Boston, Massachusetts, but instead he gave the job to his son. The younger Bell began teaching there in 1872.[1] Alexander Graham Bell soon became famous in the United States for this important work. He published many writings about it in Washington, D.C.. Because of this work, thousands of deaf mutes in the United States of America are now able to speak, even though they cannot hear.
Inventions change
Bell's genius is seen in part by the eighteen patents granted in his name alone and the twelve that he shared with others. These included fifteen for the telephone and telegraph, four for the photophone, one for the phonograph, five for aeronautics, four for hydrofoils, and two for a selenium cell.
In 1888, he was one of the original members of the National Geographic Society and became its second president.
He was given many honors.
- The French government gave him the decoration of the Legion of Honor.
- The Royal Society of Arts in London awarded him the Albert medal in 1902.
- The University of Würzburg, Bavaria, granted him the Degree of PhD
Telephone change
His past experience made him ready to work more with sound and electricity. He began his studies in 1874 with a musical telegraph, in which he used an electric circuit and a magnet to make an iron reed or tongue vibrate. One day, it was found that a reed failed to respond to the current. Mr. Bell desired his assistant, who was at the other end of the line, to pluck the reed, thinking it had stuck to the magnet. His assistant, Thomas Watson complied, and to his surprise, Bell heard the corresponding reed at his end of the line vibrate and sound the same - without any electric current to power it. A few experiments soon showed that his reed had been set in vibration by the changes in the magnetic field that the moving reed produced in the line. This discovery led him to stop using the electric battery current. His idea was that, since the circuit was never broken, all the complex vibrations of speech might be converted into currents, which in turn would reproduce the speech at a distance.
Bell, with his assistant, devised a receiver, consisting of a stretched film or drum with a bit of magnetised iron attached to its middle, and free to vibrate in front of the pole of an electromagnet in circuit with the line. This apparatus was completed on June 2, 1875. On July 7, he instructed his assistant to make a second receiver which could be used with the first, and a few days later they were tried together, at each end of the line, which ran from a room in the inventor's house at Boston to the cellar underneath. Bell, in the room, held one instrument in his hands, while Watson in the cellar listened at the other. The inventor spoke into his instrument, "Do you understand what I say?" and Mr. Watson rushed back into the upstairs and answered "Yes." The first successful two-way telephone call was not made until March 10, 1876 when Bell spoke into his device, "Mr. Watson, come here, I want to see you." and Watson answered back and came into the room to see Bell.[1] The first long distance telephone call was made on August 10, 1876 by Bell from the family home in Brantford, Ontario to his assistant in Paris, Ontario, some 16 km (10 mi.) away.
On March 7, 1876, the U.S. Patent Office gave him patent #174465 for the telephone.[1]
Metal detector change
Bell is also credited with the invention of an improved metal detector in 1881 that made sounds when it was near metal. The device was quickly put together in an attempt to find the bullet in the body of U.S. President James Garfield. The metal detector worked, but did not find the bullet because of the metal bedframe the President was lying on. Bell gave a full description of his experiments in a paper read before the "American Association for the Advancement of Science" in August, 1882.
Personal life change
Bell married Mabel Hubbard on July 11, 1877 and they had four children. He died of problems caused by anemia and diabetes at his home near Baddeck, Nova Scotia in 1922. He was 75 years old.
Opinions change
Bell was an active supporter of the eugenics movement in the United States. He was the honorary president of the "Second International Congress of Eugenics" held at the American Museum of Natural History in New York in 1921.
As a teacher of the deaf, Bell did not want deaf people to teach in schools for the deaf. He was also against the use of sign language. These things mean that he is not appreciated by some deaf people in the present day.
References change
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 "Alexander Graham Bell Laboratory Notebook, 1875-1876". World Digital Library. 1875–1876. Retrieved July 24, 2013.
Other websites change
- Media related to Alexander Graham Bell at Wikimedia Commons
- Bell Homestead, National Historic Site
- Alexander Graham Bell Association for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing Archived 2013-07-22 at the Wayback Machine


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John Smart has been dealing out smackdown with his Maven Mythbusters series over on his Wakaleo Consulting blog. His first two entries in this series debunk some persistent myths about Maven:
- Maven Mythbusters #1 - Maven automatically updates for every build
- Maven Mythbusters #2 - Maven requires an internet connection to delete a directory
These are important articles for you to read if you have been responsible for introducing Maven into a new environment. Invariably, every time you introduce Maven somewhere new, you'll meet up with people echoing some of these myths. The idea that Maven takes seven minutes to run the Clean plugin, or that Maven requires internet access is nothing more than FUD, and John Smart is doing a good job dismantling these myths. Read these posts on John Smart's blog.
A Review of Maven By Example
In other news, John Yeary has been diving into Maven by Example. John writes of the book:
This turned out to be a really good book on learning Maven. It is a Creative Commons licensed book so that it offers the community a chance to update the book and add content. Like any great open source project, giving the community to have a direct chance to update the project produces a better final product.
Even better than that, John found some issues in Chapter 7 and he's taken the time to start reporting issues. This is just the sort of involved community we had in mind when we decided to release the books as a free project. John has already reported typos and errors in the Nexus book which were addressed in the last two editions of the Nexus book. We're happy that John liked the book, and we're also happy that he's taking the time to help us improve it. Thanks.
I sent John a shipment of Maven and Nexus books in December as part of our effort to get the word out to the community. If you run a JUG or related technical user group. Get in touch with us by sending an email to email@example.com. We're very interested in helping to support to communities that use Maven and Nexus. Let us know how we can help.


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And the Nominees Are…! Andrew Garfield & More Meet the Press at the 2018 Tony Junket
May 2nd, 2018 | By Broadway.com Staff
The race to Broadway's biggest night has begun! On May 1, the 2018 Tony nominations were revealed. On May 2, this year's nominees woke up bright and early (again) to get ready for their close-up. Stars like Andrew Garfield, Ethan Slater, Ariana DeBose and many more stepped out. Click through our fantastic gallery to see all of this year's talented Tony nominees!