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Super Disadvantage In The Super Bowl For The Jets? The game format is not suited for smash mouth football
Posted 18 January 2010 - 05:14 PM
Games like the Packer/Card's game in the WC round bore me in comparison. Unfortunately the NFL as well as the majority of fans think otherwise.
The Super Bowl is one event that will not allow Jet football to thrive because of the number of breaks and length of time it takes to play that game compared to normal game. Our strength is based on controlling both lines of scrimmage, especially on the offensive side and my fear is it will be harder to wear out either the of the NFC lines no mater if it's the Vikings or the Saints like we have seen the Jets do so far in the playoffs.
I just hope if we get to play the game some adjustments can be made on our part offensively. The breaks the other teams defenses will get leave our style of football at a disadvantage.
What do you guys think, am i just paranoid or what?
Posted 18 January 2010 - 06:38 PM
It could also take a potent offense out of their rhythm.
See : Rams 2002, Raiders 2003, Seahawks 2006, Patriots 2008
Those were all high flying teams....that good defenses held in check!
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Posted 19 January 2010 - 12:35 AM
please elaborate .
If you are saying that the NFL wants to get all games won inside the 2 minutes and high scoring than yes you are correct.
Posted 19 January 2010 - 12:43 AM
Posted 19 January 2010 - 01:01 AM
the chargers was a joke . we had control of the game with the exception that the refs provided with some weird calls all with some obvious attempts to cheat . like the catch that was ruled an incomplete because the defender got there to fast. if a computer was to search all receptions in the yr of the same BS how many receptions would have been over turned ? I was not convinced of the VJ reception and his right foot touching the turf .I wanted it to be good but the evidence was not good enough for me I hate cheating.
Posted 19 January 2010 - 02:09 AM
i was begging for it to rain out in san diego
i really feel the jets get a clear advantage when some elements are involved
stupid domes...
Posted 19 January 2010 - 09:56 AM
The breaks the other teams defenses will get leave our style of football at a disadvantage.
please elaborate .
If you are saying that the NFL wants to get all games won inside the 2 minutes and high scoring than yes you are correct.
My thought is our O-line seems to get a advantage as the game wears on. I realize the SB still plays with a 60 min game clock, but it also has more stoppages of plays and a much longer half time. In theory that extra time should offer much more rest for our opponents. It obviously gives us more rest too. But i think it gives a advantage to the D-line's. Our offensive strength is running the ball. If we can't run the ball like we have all year i fear the worst.
Then again there is the Sanchez factor... If he plays like he did on opening day in Houston were there was not a third down that was too long for him to convert. Sanchez's third-down passing was unconscious: 12-for-15 for 191 yards, the Stuckey TD and no interceptions, picking up nine first downs in all four to Jerricho Cotchery, three to Stuckey and two to Keller. It wont matter if we run or not. But i like our ground game and i would hate to have that pressure on Mark to win this game.
I love our chances in the AFC title game and the SB no matter who the opponent. I'm just saying the format of the SB favors the passing game and high scoring. But there are a few recent exceptions.
BTW anyone know the last team to get to the SB as the #1 rushing team and also have the #1 D. The '86 Bears maybe? i cant find that stat...
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Exterminate all rational thought, that is the conclusion I have come to

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Curated by Christof Migone
Co-presented with Blackwood Gallery
Artists at the Justina M. Barnicke Gallery:
Mitchell Akiyama, crys cole, Marla Hlady, Neil Klassen, David Lieberman, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, Sylvia Matas, David Merritt, Ryan Park, Juliana Pivato, Alexandre St-Onge, Chiyoko Szlavnics, John Wynne
Artists at the Blackwood Gallery:
Dave Dyment, Alexis O'Hara, Darsha Hewitt, John Oswald, Ian Skedd, Charles Stankievech
When: Jan.17–Mar. 10, 2013
Where: Justina M. Barnicke Gallery and Blackwood Gallery
Cost: Free
Opening Reception at Justina M. Barnicke Gallery: Thurs. Jan. 17, 7:00–9:00 pm
Opening Recpetion at Blackwood Gallery: Wed. Jan. 16, 5:00–8:00 pm*
*A free shuttle bus will depart at 5:30pm on Wed. Jan. 16, from Mercer Union (1286 Bloor Street W.) and return for 8:00 pm. Artists will be in attendance.
Curatorial Statement:
From the utterance stems the establishment of the category of the present, and from the category of the present is born the category of time. The present is precisely the source of time. It is that presence in the world that only the speech act makes possible, since (if we reflect on this) man has no other way of living "now" at his disposition besides the possibility to realize it through the insertion of discourse in the world.
– Émile Benveniste
Volume: Hear Here is conceived around the vexed question of presence in its entwine with absence—the da of dasein. An ontological discussion considered through the tenuous objecthood, but resolute materiality of sonic phenomena. Benveniste's epigraph gives primacy to the speech act, here the intent is to supplant it with the sound act. The event of language taking place in time is replaced by sound as infiltrator, enveloper, occupier of both time and space. This is a moment akin to Tony Smith's famed conclusion following his experience of driving on an unfinished and unmarked portion of the New Jersey Turnpike: "There is no way you can frame it, you just have to experience it." The incompleteness which is a corollary of the decision to dwell on unframed experience is what Michael Fried in "Art of Objecthood" so vehemently resisted and is the condition of possibility of this exhibition project. Returning to the epigraph, the other bias it foregrounds is the role of discourse which also performs a framing function. There is a desire in the twenty-four works by nineteen artists assembled here, however temporary and fraught the exercise of this desire might be, to go beyond meaning, beyond interpretation. Why this desire to seemingly bypass the straight path to knowledge? Hans-Georg Gadamer spoke of a poem speaking not only through a "meaning intention" but that simultaneously a "truth lies in its performance." Serendipitously, he dubbed this dimension volumen.


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Saturday, January 07, 2012
Lossless decompression and the generation of random samples
We then use any of a number of popular methods to generate uniform pseudorandom numbers in the range [0,1) and for each one walk through the table until we find the first entry greater than our pseudorandom number. The symbol above the number is the one we generate. So if we generated 0.512, we'd pick symbol C. It's straightforward to prove this gives the correct probability distribution.
As described this algorithm can be slow. If the size of the table is N we may have to walk through up to N entries to generate each sample.
One approach to accelerating this algorithm is to quantise our pseudorandom number and use it to look up, in a precomputed table, a jump into our cumulative distribution table. I've used this several times in my visual effects career. But today I'm going to take a different approach.
Another natural way to speed up sample generation is to use a binary search to find the appropriate point in the cumulative distribution, for example the C++ standard template library's upper_bound method will do the job.
But what is a binary search algorithm going to do? Typically it's going to start by comparing our pseudorandom number with the midpoint of the table. If our number is bigger then it will recursively use binary search on the left (looking next at the midpoint of the left half), otherwise on the right, and so on. If we're generating many samples from the same distribution we're going to be repeatedly looking up the same midpoints in the table. At the end of the day, the process can be described by a decision tree. So we may as well throw away the table and build the decision tree up front. Here's what it might look look like:
But maybe we can do better. For example C is three times as likely as A but they both take the same amount of time to generate as they both require walking down to depth 2. Meanwhile D has a probability of 0.25 and requires walking to depth 3. We'd like to rebalance the tree. Note also that there's no reason to list our original PDF in the order I gave. Different orderings might give different trees.
It's straightforward to describe what we want to optimise. We want to place sample i at depth di so that the expected value of di is as small as possible. In other words we want to minimise Σpidi. But this is precisely the problem solved by Huffman coding.
And that's the conclusion I wanted to reach: Huffman coding gives the optimal decision tree to generate random samples. It also tells us this interesting consequence: if we use a decision tree method then the performance of our algorithm is bounded by the entropy of the probability distribution. I find this connection between entropy and algorithmic complexity pretty surprising.
I learnt the above during my interview at Google!
Why is there this connection between a compression algorithm and the generation of random samples? It took me a little longer to realise why but it's quite straightforward.
Huffman coding tries to compress text one letter at a time on the assumption that each letter comes from some fixed and known probability distribution. If the algorithm is successful then we'd expect the compressed text to look like a uniformly distributed sequence of bits. If it didn't then there'd be patterns that could be used for further compression.
So when we're decompressing Huffman encoded data we have a machine that takes as input uniformly distributed bits and which outputs letters sampled from some probability distribution. But that's exactly the same problem that I posed above. So, at least from some perspective, decompression is precisely the same thing as generating samples from a probability distribution.
Or to put it another way: there is a class of algorithm whose purpose is to convert samples from one probability distribution into samples from another. When we use one of these algorithms to convert from samples from some distribution P that's easy to generate samples from, into samples from Q, we call this "an algorithm to sample from distribution Q". When we use one of these algorithms to convert from some distribution to a uniform distribution, and the function given by the algorithm is invertible, then we call it "lossless compression".
21 comments:
- Nick said...
That's a really great insight! It goes to show the value in asking the right question :) At last I know when a raven is like a writing desk.
- Saturday, 07 January, 2012
- Chad Scherrer said...
Nice! This is similar to a Galois tech talk I gave in May:
- Saturday, 07 January, 2012
This concept of a decoder as a random sample generator is explained in MacKay's book, my personal reference book in the subject.
You can download it for free at
It appears at chapter 6.3, page 118 of the book, 130 of the PDF file.
- Saturday, 07 January, 2012
- sigfpe said...
I really need to read that book!
(PS I was a student at the same time and place as MacKay. It was interesting suddenly seeing his name everywhere years later.)
- Saturday, 07 January, 2012
- Justin said...
There'es a faster algorithm for selecting elements at random from a finite distribution known as the Alias Method that doesn't suffer from the O(log n) worse case. Keith Schwarz has a good description written up called Darts, Dice, and Coins: Sampling from a Discrete Distribution.
- Saturday, 07 January, 2012
- sigfpe said...
I've had links to that article on both G+ and Twitter now! Looks like I missed out on a nice article a few weeks ago. But does the alias method imply anything interesting about compression algorithms?
- Saturday, 07 January, 2012
- Justin said...
@sigfpe, I don't believe so, it's a rather clever way of doing random sampling. That said, I haven't looked at the literature beyond the article linked.
- Saturday, 07 January, 2012
- jkff said...
I see how this tells us about the optimal number of decisions you have to make while generating a random number, but we still cannot generate the numbers by just taking a random bit string and decompressing it with the Huffman tree over the desired distribution. E.g. consider a distribution {a:0.4, b:0.6} - it will have a Huffman tree with just 2 leaves, and decompression will give {a:0.5, b:0.5}. Am I missing something?
- Saturday, 07 January, 2012
- sigfpe said...
You use the tree given by the Huffman algorithm but you don't have a 50/50 decision at each branch. You derive the probability of going each way from the sum of the probabilities in each branch below.
- Sunday, 08 January, 2012
Another elegant solution (Walker's method) is described by Mihai here-- http://infoweekly.blogspot.com/2011/09/follow-up-sampling-discrete.html
- Sunday, 08 January, 2012
- bw said...
Neat! Had this problem before and wasn't sure how to solve it efficiently.
- Sunday, 08 January, 2012
- bw said...
Neat! Had this problem before and wasn't sure how to solve it. Thanks for the explanation.
- Sunday, 08 January, 2012
- Iain Murray said...
What if we are sampling/compression observations from a latent variable model? The bits-back method makes a connection. See p353 of MacKay's textbook for a sketch and references.
- Monday, 09 January, 2012
- Pseudonym said...
Bear in mind that if this code is a bottleneck, branch instructions whose conditions depend on random numbers are effectively unpredictable, and hence expensive.
Here's a neat little trick you should know. If the number of symbols is a power of 2, there's also this solution:
double x = random_number();
unsigned s = 0;
for (i = 0; i < log2(numberOfSymbols); ++i)
s = (s << 1) | (a[s] < x);
return s;
- Saturday, 14 January, 2012
- Victor said...
I came to this same realization when I started studying data compression (almost 30 years ago -- yikes!) seriously. Build a decoder for the appropriate arithmetic code, and feed it random bits. You get your output distributed according to the probability model used to build the arithmetic code.
- Monday, 16 January, 2012
Hi I hate to jump to a different subject. But a while back you had some wonderful notes on Target Enumeration and a Haskell implementation.
My question is how could you extend what you did such that our boundary points lie on real number coordinates...so to refer to the pixel examples our area of coverage would contain the counted 'holes' plus the partially contained 'holes' or say pixel areas? How could we get the exact coverage based on the way you implemented? I appreciate any information as I know this was a while back---but I JUST found the blog if you have any resources please feel free to contact me at:
firstname.lastname@example.com ---thanks for any time you can spare. Regards
- Friday, 20 January, 2012
- caustic said...
As I read the problem statement I immediately wanted to mention Optimal Binary Search Trees (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_search_tree#Optimal_binary_search_trees).
As it turns out, the publication "Darts, Dice, and Coins" already does it. Argh!
- Monday, 23 January, 2012
- Yang Zhang said...
I don't think Huffman coding yields suitable trees for this problem, since the trees for random variate generation have the additional requirement of being ordered. Optimal alphabetic binary trees or optimal BSTs require a different algorithm that is not a variation of Huffman coding:
"This is also known as the Hu-Tucker problem, after the authors of the paper presenting the first linearithmic solution to this optimal binary alphabetic problem, which has some similarities to Huffman algorithm, but is not a variation of [Huffman coding]. These optimal alphabetic binary trees are often used as binary search trees."
- Monday, 06 February, 2012
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- Monday, 13 February, 2012
- Thomas said...
Very interesting insight. This is essentially an application of the source coding theorem which says that one can find a code that is arbitrarily close the entropy (which also is the lower bound).
Computing the entropy of p (=1.54 in this case) then tells us that, using this method, we have to do 1.5 evaluations on average on the tree to generate one sample.
- Monday, 13 February, 2012
- PBonthemove said...
How about primenumber distribution. What's the entropy, and how could they be stored with minimal bits.
(Question might seam simple but its quite fundamental math)
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WHAT A WASTEPosted Monday, October 25, 2010, at 3:53 PM
I was visiting with the owner of the Irish Pub the other and he gave me a tour of the premises. I couldn't believe all of the brand new restaurant equipment that was purchased and put in the building. The construction work on the inside looked liked many of the most elementary commercial construction work was attempted by some local contractors that are totally incompetent.
I have a saying that bears repeating here. "Give me a 14 year old kid with a high fever and he could have done this quality of work. "Mike Morgan, the city building inspector stopped by and looked at the work and couldn't and wouldn't approve work that was absolutely pitiful.
The front entry door wouldn't even open all the way. Water was leaking from a hole in the electrical room where they brought in the new electrical service. Water has been leaking from the roof down the mast pipe and running into the electrical box. What type of work is this. The city inspector wouldn't approve this type of work for obvious reasons and it all has to be reworked.
I really don't know how the owner has been able to keep his sanity through this. The owner had brand new hardwood floors installed. The materials were received in February. I don't know if anybody doesn't know it but wood flooring has to be removed from the shipping cartons and allowed to acclimate to room temperature before it is installed. These particular products should be allowed to acclimate for at least several days because of their thickness and the fact that they were really cold when they were delivered. The owner says that he asked the contractor to wait a week before the flooring was installed. The owner told me that the contractor installed the flooring the next day. Now that the material has warmed up and expanded the flooring is buckled throughout the place. When to flooring expanded the pressure broke the marble floor trim that the owner had installed. Another relative fact is that the flooring was installed in the wrong direction.
At the front entrance of the building you can put your hand half was into the building because the front wall is not sealed and doesn't quite reach the brick wall in some places. I noticed that the waste water stack pipe, approximately 14 feet tall is swaying with the breeze unsecured to the building.
The front stoop has negative drainage and water runs under the door and unsealed front wall and pools up to 20' feet into the building on a bare concrete floor. I walked down the new steps that were built to get down to the basement. I discovered that the steps had an unacceptable negative level that would cause a person descending the steps to fall backwards. If you are ascending the steps you would find yourself leaning or falling forward. I wouldn't what to be the person who had to carry something up or down these steps.
As I walked into the new kitchen I found that the swinging door got stuck on the ceiling and wouldn't open all the way. In the back the walk in cooler was missing half of the front. The storage building next to the cooler still doesn't have a front on the building.
I want you to realize that all of the items addressed in this blog come from my personal observations and comments that where made to me by the owner. There are always two sides to every story and probably multiple reasons why these problems exist. Whether the pub owner can survive all of the additional costs that will be required to fix all these problems is another thing.
I'm John Q. What do you think?
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What do I think? I think you've bad-mouthed an awful lot of local people, just for starters. You are absolutely right that there are always two sides to every story, and I hope the people who did the work can defend themselves in this forum as soon as possible.
Even if it's true that sub-standard work was done, is it really your place to post that information here, especially since you're not the owner? Did he or she ask you to do that?
-- Posted by Miss Marple on Mon, Oct 25, 2010, at 4:00 PM
Miss Marple, I only made a reference to local contractors. For one I don't know which contractor's did what particular tasks. I did comment on the quality of work that I saw and described that in the blog. My question to you is; if this quality was done for your home or business how would feel at it?
-- Posted by John Q. on Mon, Oct 25, 2010, at 8:00 PM
I would like to add that the reason that I was at the pub is that I had heard a lot of rumors. I talked with the foreclosure officer at Wood & Huston Bank to see who might have possession of the building, was it REO or possibly for sale. I was standing on the outside looking through the window when the owner came out and asked me what I wanted. I reiterated what I had heard and asked him if and when the business might open or if the building was for sale. The owner gave me a tour of the premises. When the city inspector visited at the owners request and I saw why the projects didn't pass inspection all I could do is look at the floor and shake my head. Reread the items that I mentioned in the blog and tell me which item I mentioned would be acceptable for your home or business?
-- Posted by John Q. on Mon, Oct 25, 2010, at 8:23 PM
You're exactly right, John Q. You made reference to local contractors, any of whom might have had a truck parked outside the building at any time in the long months this business has been undergoing remodeling. That means that any one of those contractors, whether they were involved in what you regard as substandard work or not, is now tainted by what you've said.
In our nasty little world (and I mean everywhere, not just in Marshall), the next step will be for people to speculate on who did the lousy job(s). Someone will say, "I know that so-and-so did some work there." The next person will take that, embroider it a little, and next thing you know, a name will be on the street as having done the substandard work.
It's not a question of whether I or anyone else would like to pay for poor work - what's at issue is that you have tarred every contractor who worked there with the same brush, no matter how good their work was. I believe that's irresponsible on your part. You asked "What do you think?" That's what I think.
-- Posted by Miss Marple on Mon, Oct 25, 2010, at 9:47 PM
Thank you John Q. for shedding light on a question that has aroused the curiousity of the community.
Do not be discouraged by those who would protect the guilty in order to avoid the possibility, (not the certainty), that an innocent may be besmirched by attending gossip.
Gossip can swirl around any statement, twist any fact, and will always be believed by some. It is not a valid response under any circumstance to to seek censorship of comments in order to quell potential gossip. One may more successfully carry water in a sieve, than carry water for censorship to avoid careless gossip.
-- Posted by Oklahoma Reader on Mon, Oct 25, 2010, at 11:44 PM
Miss Marple, I have seen trucks parked on the street there for over a year. Quite frankly I can't remember the name on any vehicles that was parked in front of the building. If a person wants quality work all the have to do is ask the contractor for references and take the time to look at several examples of their work. Any contractor worth his salt wouldn't mind displaying his work for you. A satisfied customer is your best salesman. Heightened awareness of this problem may save others from having a roof fixed that still leaks or home remodeling or additions that won't pass final inspection by the building inspectors or fire department. As far a rumor and innuendo goes Marshall doesn't have any corner on this problem.
I think if you ask any experienced contractor who does good work how they feel about this issue I think they would tell you cheap inexperienced contractor's just muddy up they water. As for as good craftsmanship at a cheap price - that animal doesn't exist.
-- Posted by John Q. on Mon, Oct 25, 2010, at 11:50 PM
Oklahoma Reader, It's good to hear from you. Thank you for your insightful response, as always.
-- Posted by John Q. on Mon, Oct 25, 2010, at 11:58 PM
OKR and John Q - both of you are missing the central point, which is that one of you has jumped on local contractors with both feet without regard for the damage you may possibly have done to any of the local people who worked on this particular project. John Q may not remember who worked there, but rest assured there are plenty of people who do remember that and will be more than willing to assert they "know" who you're talking about and "know" who did faulty work.
-- Posted by Miss Marple on Tue, Oct 26, 2010, at 5:50 AM
This is from an engineering perspective and is not intended to jump on any local contractors.
In most projects of this magnitude, the usual method in places I have lived outside of Marshall is to hire an archetectural firm or engineering company to do the design work for necessary electrical, hvac, structural and finish carpentry, roofing, etc. Drawings are made and specifications for materials and workmanship are written.
The design firm then accepts responsibility that all work will meet building codes and be of acceptable quality. This is accomplished by the archetect being responsible for specifications in the contracts let out to contractors. This is followed up by inspections by the archetect or engineer. Per terms of the contract, if the carpenter or electrician do not meet the required specs, they must re-do the work.
I would hold our recent courthouse renovation as an example of how the system is supposed to work.
When a person decides to be thier own general contractor or project manager, these problems arise. It is a nice thought that an individual could save some money by taking on this responsibility themselves, but there is significant risk.
In any case, the lesson learned here is that the 'good old boy' method of a handshake and a promise no longer works in our community or country. Before any work is done, all requirements must be spelled out in advance, in writing, and agreed to by both parties. It is a shame, but that is now our culture. And yes, you do have to say things that seem silly like 'all doors and windows will open and close completely' and 'all finish carpentry will be plumb and level and pleasing to the eye.' Seems foolish, eh? Also, as statement that the work is to be redone in a manner that will pass inspection, at the cost to the contractor, if it does not pass final inspections must be in there.
To defend the contractors, they can not provide a price for doing a job without a clear definition of what is required. Most will do the minimum required to get the job done and when problems arise, do not want to loose money, so they either leave the problem, or ask for more money to fix it. Clearly defined specifications and requirements, written down and signed, give the contractor the motive to be thorough and make sure they are planning for success.
To often, the job looks quick and easy up front and turns into a quagmire of problems. Up front design and engineering, along with understanding code requirements and what it will take to meet them on the part of the general contractor or project manager would have most likely prevented these problems.
I feel very sorry for this fellow as he is attempting to do that thing so many wish would happen, 'make Marshall a better place to live.' I would like to think that the contractors who did some of the shoddy work would step up and help fix their tarnished reputations if that indeed is what is happening.
Now, back to the real world we live in in Saline County.
We have some really, really excellent contractors and business men in the area and I am thankful for them. We also have some really bad ones. If you live here long enough, you figure out which are which. I feel sorry for those who move to the community and are not so well informed on the workings of our little community.
-- Posted by Smart Dog on Tue, Oct 26, 2010, at 8:57 AM
Well said Smart Dog. No surprise there, but a pat on the head any way.
-- Posted by Oklahoma Reader on Tue, Oct 26, 2010, at 9:48 AM
Miss Marple we seem to be going back and forth and never really getting down to the matter. So there is doubt I will just say that whoever install the ceiling lights and the drywall on the ceilings and the mirrors behind the bars did an acceptable job. The rest of the work that has been done is unacceptable.
For those contractors that may have had a truck outside on the street that identified you and your specialty if you preformed the first three jobs great for you. For those contractors that may have had a truck outside on the street that identified you and your specialty that performed any of the other work maybe you should consider getting another profession.
-- Posted by John Q. on Tue, Oct 26, 2010, at 6:15 PM
I have heard it said that when two people are arguing, the one who is wrong will be doing most of the talking.
You're ahead by a wide margin, so I think we will just leave it at that.
-- Posted by Miss Marple on Tue, Oct 26, 2010, at 6:50 PM
Miss Marple I am looking for a distinction here so please bear with me.
You dropped the discussion insinuating that John Q. is wrong. Do you mean that he is wrong in his observations? Do you mean he is wrong in stating that the inspector said he could not approve the work? Or is it that you think it is wrong to expose the botched job because those that botched the work will be exposed?
I am thinking that you are stating he is wrong to tell the facts because some who are not guilty of the botched work will be assumed guilty by association.
If that is your concern breath easy. The ones who did the work properly, are likely doing, and have been doing work in the community in an acceptable manner for some time. They are known by their work.
The one's who did the poor work as John Q. described it, also are likely to have been doing work in the community for some time. Reporting this one job is not going to wipe them out. They, if John Q.'s observations are correct, have bigger problems caused by lack of skill, or effort. That is their problem, not John Q. reporting their problem. They also are known by, or will become known by their work.
-- Posted by Oklahoma Reader on Tue, Oct 26, 2010, at 9:40 PM
Miss Marple, I take it a friend or relative may have been a contractor that did some work at this place???? I too can not remember any of the names of the trucks that were parked out front of this building, I noticed work was being done and wondered when this place would open. Sorry Ms.M but I feel more for the owner of this place than for the contractors, as mentioned before those that are good contractors can prove it, and if anyone is going to have work done by local contractors...ask for references. I can't even imagine the anguish and money this "poor" gentleman has been out because a mans word/work was not upheld in a true craftmans manner. Hope it still opens, I can't wait to see it once its done!(properly)
-- Posted by MBGAL on Mon, Nov 1, 2010, at 12:52 PM
Here is one opinion I have taken from this article, it was very hard to read, follow and decipher the misplaced words throughout. Another opinion is that I dont remember the trucks parked out front, I dont know who did the shotty work but i do know that the work was either bid or hired out at some point and I will assume, wrong or right, that the owner accepted the lowest possible bid and did none of the reference checking that John Q. proposes, so some of the blame of what work he ended up with does fall back on the owner, you get what you pay for. I will also say, Miss M. that in any investigative piece names of contractors can and should be mentioned, if these "tailgaters" continue to do this work at this level then they should have their licenses pulled and to avoid that happening maybe local potential customers should have some insight as to what they just might be getting. No one hires them and that saves everyone the hassle. I think it is a shame that he (the owner) had to learn this lesson this way, bvut it might save another from the same heartache
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NEW YORK ( TheStreet) -- When Apple (AAPL) released its Maps app as part of iOS 6, it was a direct shot at Google (GOOG) . But due to the poor product, it never really stood a chance. Now, though, it looks like it may actually have a fighting shot.
The Wall Street Journal reported that Apple is in early talks with Foursquare, the location-sharing app, about a deal to integrate data from Foursquare into Apple's mapping app.
TheStreet's Eric Jackson noted that Apple executive Eddy Cue was using Foursquare's service, twice in two days. Jackson was paying attention to tweets from Cue, who doesn't tweet often. Cue, who took over Apple's Siri and Maps as part of a management shakeup, was in California one day, then New York the next, leading Jackson to speculate that something was up with regards to Apple and Foursquare.
When it comes to maps, Google is the 800-pound gorilla in the room, due to its widespread usage, accurate directions, and vast amounts of useful information and data. Apple had hoped to achieve similar status with its Apple Maps, but a slew of criticism and mistakes caused Apple to issue an apology, while it works on bettering the application.
Google Maps has had the benefit of years and years of usage, data, and information to make it the product it is today. Apple doesn't have the luxury of time, so joint ventures are a good way to compete. By doing more of these joint ventures and partnerships ( Urbanspoon, HopStop, perhaps), Apple will be able to better accumulate the data it needs.
Apple has integrated data from Yelp (YELP) and Open Table (OPEN) into Apple Maps. By adding Foursquare's local data into the app, it will only give Apple more ammunition as it seeks to make good on its promise to its mapping tool.
CEO Tim Cook issued an apology about Apple Maps, and the fiasco ultimately led to the ouster of executive Scott Forstall , who reportedly refused to sign the apology letter to Apple customers.
Consumers enjoy using Foursquare, checking into their favorite places, getting recommendations, writing a small review sometimes, and potentially earning rewards. But Foursquare has not been able to do much with this data when it comes to revenue generation. A potential deal with Apple could change that, while helping Apple grab the data and information it so desperately needs to make Apple Maps a much improved product.
Tackling and overcoming Google Maps won't be easy for Apple, but it sure won't be for lack of trying.
"Everything we do at Apple is aimed at making our products the best in the world. We know that you expect that from us, and we will keep working non-stop until Maps lives up to the same incredibly high standard," Cook wrote in the apology.


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Despite of lowering demand towards netbooks, Acer Group, the world's top supplier of such systems, still pins a lot of hopes on the market. According to the chairman of Acer, shipments of mobile computers will increase to 200 million units, whereas shipments of netbooks will total 50 million with Acer leading the market. Analyst, however, disagree with the high-ranking executive.
JT Wang, the chairman of Acer Group, has reportedly said in an interview with DigiTimes web-site that this year shipments of notebooks will grow 32% to 170 million units in 2009 and then 17.6% to 200 million devices in 2010. According to the executive, supplies of netbooks will also increase to 25 – 30 million in 2009 and to 50 million in 2010.
Acer projects that it will continue to remain the largest supplier of netbooks on the globe and will have 40% to 50% market share, thus, will ship up to 15 million and up to 25 million of netbooks in 2009 and 2010, respectively.
While predictions of Acer Group's chairman look impressive, they contradict data from independent analysts.
According to IDC, worldwide shipments of portable personal computers will total 148.6 million of units in 2009 and 169.6 million in 2010, considerably less compared to prediction of Mr. Wang. Moreover, shipments increase of mobile PCs in 2009 will only be 4.5%. Finally, IDC only predicts total available market of netbooks to reach 30 million units in 2010.
Recently sources familiar with the matter said that Acer, Asustek Computer and Microstar International did not meet netbook shipments expectations in Q1 2009. On Wednesday, the 29th of April, Acer Group slashed its netbook shipments expectations to 12 million from 15 million for the year, further questioning feasibility of the numbers announced by the chairman. Besides, rumours emerged recently that even Intel recently had hard times selling its netbook-oriented Atom processors.


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ESCANABA – With the 2013 walleye fishing season opening today, there are a lot of eager fishermen in the area wondering how much of an impact the late spring will have on their overall success.
The more experienced fishers know, however, the only way to find out is to cast their lines and hope for the best.
"The fishing may be a little more tricky than usual," said Michigan Department of Natural Resources' Fisheries Supervisor Jessica Mistak. "They may not be moving as much due to the cold, so anglers will have their work cut out for them."
Mistak added that despite the conditions, early reports have been promising.
"We anticipate a good walleye opener for Big Bay de Noc," she said. "Some of the areas at the head of the bay, as well as the area known as 'the boot.' In Nahma, there are a lot of areas that are looking good. We're hopeful about it. People have been seeing some walleye during perch fishing."
Ken Lee, co-owner of Sall-Mar Resort Charter service in Rapid River, said that as a result of the unseasonably cold water, the fish are likely to hang out in the shallower reefs for some time.
"The fish are just coming off of the spawn and they aren't going to be very active," he said. "I suggest a very slow presentation, like drifting. Floating jigheads and nightcrawlers usually work pretty well for the first few nights of the season. Going slow is the key though."
He also said that crawler harnesses are always a staple out on the bay, and he has had a lot more people coming into the shop as the season is approaching to pick them up along with other gear.
"Some guys are even heading out at midnight (Wednesday)," he said. "Personally, I think the best fishing comes at the middle of the day when the water warms up a little."
Lee and his brother were originally from Cadillac. They had taken fishing trips to the U.P., and he said they always told themselves that if they had an opportunity to move here, they would jump on it.
"My brother and I quit our jobs, we took the plunge and bought a business," he said. "Luckily, we are still here after 17 years. It's the fishing that brought us here. Little and Big Bay de Noc.. This is it."
Keith Wils, owner of Walleye's Choice Guide Service in Gladstone, has been a captain for about 17 years now. He said he has seen cold strings like this before, but never in his time as a captain.
"With the crazy weather, it's obviously a concern," he said. "A lot of places up here still have some ice. Hopefully, the warm weather over the next few days will be a positive thing. As fishermen, all we can be is hopeful."
Chris Wahl, co-owner of Bay View and Tackle, had some advice for those who might be going out fishing for the first time.
"First, go with bright colors," he said. "Something that will stand out in that dark water. If you have to go with one kind of bait, go with night crawlers. They are always a safe bet. Just throw the lure out on the bottom and let the wind push you across the water. The bay north of Gladstone is usually a safe bet."
He added that this season is like many others; it's a lot of wait and see.
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Is it possible to create a parameter of type "password" or a type of the same kind, using the command "scaffold"?
Rails scaffold command
rails g scaffold <options>
will generate a model, a controller with corresponding 4 views + partial, tests. Scaffold will not
create a parameter of type "password".
If you want to add a new attribute to your model, just create a new migration that will add it and then just run. See more details at Rails Guides for Migrations.
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Hello Javix,
Sorry, when I said command "scaffold" I mean "rails generate scaffold <options>".
The thing is, is it possible to add a parameter to database (mysql) which will be automatically encrypted? (using: "rails generate scaffold <option>")
See a R.Bates screencast which explains the basics for that: http://railscasts.com/episodes/270-auth =asciicast
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What's Apple Doing With Foursquare?
So I pay attention when Eddy Cue says or tweets something.
He's not that active a tweeter, actually. Before a few days ago, the last time Cue tweeted was after the Heat beat the Thunder to win the NBA title in June. And before that, the only time he tweeted was to promote some new piece of music he was listening to on iTunes, using the now defunct Apple-made Ping service.
Well, in the last week he's tweeted twice on consecutive days. Both were Foursquare check-ins: one at Apple's Cupertino headquarters on Wednesday and the second at Madison Square Garden the next day to watch the Lakers and Knicks play.
Does this mean anything? I think so. It's quite likely Apple's looking to buy Foursquare.
Cue has had his hands on quite a few important Apple acquisitions over the years, including buying Lala from Bill Nguyen. That service eventually grew into iTunes Match and other parts of iCloud.
He's probably the Apple executive most familiar with social networks given his work with Ping and now with Siri and Maps.
Foursquare naturally fits into both of those latter Apple services. They are also going to be important to layer over any commerce services that Apple integrates with its Maps or Siri services. There have been numerous rumors that the next version of iPhone -- 5S -- to be launched in six months, will have near-field communication. That would most certainly be an add-on to Apple's brand-new PassBook offering for purchases and brand loyalty cards.
Although many have criticized Foursquare for having limited revenue generation potential in a crowded space, it has an enormous amount of local merchant data. In fact, this knowledge base is often piggy-backed on by other start-ups who don't want to re-create the wheel. Apple would be interested in them for that data and what Apple could do with it -- not for whatever revenue Foursquare is generating from that today.
Foursquare has been moving away from the personal check-in to being known as a service that tells you where your friends are, what they're doing, and giving you suggestions for where you can spend your money. All those things are very interesting for Apple -- especially remembering that Apple is going to be making a big push to get in your car as well in the coming years.
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With margaritas ranking as the U.S.'s number one cocktail, show we're showing that the Sunshine State knows how to throw it down. Shake it up with a Florida twist with these recipes.
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Time to get into the Cinco de Mayo spirit with the classic slushy, tequila-laden sip with a Florida twist. Chef Timineri offers up a slew of margarita recipes that are sure to keep the party abuzz. Tequila!
Watermelon Margarita
Yields 4 servings
- 2 tsp. natural sugar (for rim of glasses)
- 2 fresh limes, cut in halves
- 4 cups watermelon, seeded and cut in 2-inch chunks
- 2 tbsp. natural sugar
- 1 oz. freshly squeezed lime juice
- 4 oz. tequila (go with 6 oz. for a stronger batch)
- 2 oz. orange-flavored liqueur (Cointreau or Grand Marnier)
- lime wedges for garnish
- watermelon balls, for garnish
Place 2 teaspoons sugar in a small dish. Rub rim of margarita glasses with 1 cut half of lime, and then roll glasses in sugar to coat. Place prepared glasses in the freezer until ready to serve drinks. Combine juice of limes, watermelon, 2 tablespoons sugar, tequila and orange-flavored liqueur in a blender and process until smooth. Fill blender with ice cubes and process until mixture is a slush consistency. Fill prepared glasses with margaritas; garnish each glass with lime wedge and watermelon balls on a skewer and serve immediately.
Passion Fruit and Orange Margarita
Yields 4 servings
- 4 oz. passion fruit juice
- 6 oz. tequila
- 2 oz. orange liqueur (Cointreau or Grand Marnier)
- 2 oz. freshly squeezed orange juice
- 1 oz. freshly squeezed lime juice
- ½ tsp. vanilla extract
- 2 tbsp. fresh-cracked sea salt
Prepare the glass by running a lime wedge around the rim. Invert margarita glass, and twist rim in salt. Fill cocktail shaker with ice. Pour passion fruit juice, tequila, orange liquor, orange and lime juices and vanilla extract in cocktail shaker. Shake the mix vigorously, 50 times or more. Pour into glass; serve chilled.
Strawberry Margarita
Yields 4 servings
- 6 oz. tequila
- 2 oz. orange liqueur (Cointreau or Grand Marnier)
- 8 oz. fresh strawberries
- 4 oz. frozen limeade concentrate
- 6 cups ice
- 2 tbsp. fresh-cracked sea salt
Place ice in a blender and crush for 15-20 seconds. Add strawberries, tequila, orange liquor and limeade. Blend until smooth. Moisten rim of margarita glass with lime juice. Holding glass upside down, dip rim into salt. Pour the blend into the glass and serve.
*Recipe and images courtesy of Chef Justin Timineri and the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services.
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Serves 4
Preparation Time: 5 minutes
- 1 cup tequila, reposado
- ¼ cup orange liqueur, controy (Cointreau)
- 1 cup water
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This recipe comes to us from the official chef of Florida, Justin Timineri. Utilizing fresh-from-Florida ingredients, this recipe for black-bean cakes is the perfect addition to the barbecue for the meatless eater.
Black Bean Cakes
- 2 (15-ounce) cans low-sodium black beans, drained and rinsed
- 2 large tomatoes, seeded and chopped
- 1/2 cup bell pepper, chopped (any color will do)
- 1/4 cup fresh cilantro, chopped
- 1/2 cup green onion or scallion, chopped
- 2 large cloves garlic, minced
- 2 teaspoons ground cumin
- 1 teaspoon chili powder
- 1 cup all-purpose unbleached flour, plus more as needed
- Canola oil or vegetable oil for cooking
- Kosher salt to taste
- Freshly ground pepper to taste
- In a medium-sized mixing bowl, add all ingredients except oil. Mix until well combined. Separate about 1/3 of the mixture into a small mixing bowl. Mash the contents of smaller bowl, and then return mashed mixture to the larger bowl. Stir to combine.
- Adjust seasoning with kosher salt and fresh ground pepper. If the mixture is thin, then slowly add more flour, 1 tablespoon at a time, until thick enough to form into a ball.
- Place a large sauté pan over medium-high heat. When the pan is up to temperature, add about 4 tablespoons of oil. Portion out golf ball-sized patties and carefully place them into the pan. Working in batches, cook bean cakes until crisp and golden brown on both sides. Lightly flatten cakes with a spatula during the cooking process. Drain cakes on a paper towel. Serve warm with spicy yogurt sauce.
Spicy Yogurt Sauce
- 2 cups plain low-fat yogurt
- 1 lime, juiced
- 1 tablespoon dried cumin
- 1/4 cup cilantro, finely chopped
- 1 teaspoon chili powder
- Kosher salt to taste
- Freshly ground pepper to taste
In a small mixing bowl, combine all ingredients and mix well. Taste and adjust seasoning with kosher salt and fresh ground pepper. Keep chilled. Serve with bean cakes.
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For another fresh-from-Florida favorite, check out Timineri's grilled peach salad with candied pecans, a Southern staple in the making.
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Michiko & Hatchin
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Michiko is summoned at gunpoint to see Rico, the local favela boss. Pepê Lima, a dancer at a nearby nightclub run by Rico, approaches Hatchin with information about Hiroshi. However, Pepê has an agenda of her own for meeting with Michiko and Hatchin.
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Alabaster, William
William Alabaster 1568-1640
English poet, playwright, and essayist.
Alabaster is best remembered for his sequence of devotional sonnets, which anticipate the works of the metaphysical poets such as John Donne and George Herbert. Written during the late Elizabethan age, these sonnets often employ the stylistic elements of paradox and extended metaphor which characterize the poems of these later writers. A Cambridge scholar and cleric who converted from the Anglican church to Catholicism and back twice, Alabaster also wrote Latin verse, drama, and theological works. Since the rediscovery of his works, critical interest in Alabaster has been primarily historical, though some have examined his style as well.
Biographical Information
Born in 1568 to a Protestant family in Hadleigh, Suffolk, Alabaster grew up studying classical languages. In 1584, partly through the influence of his uncle, he was elected a Queen's Scholar to Trinity College, Cambridge. While there he made a promising start to his literary career, beginning Elisaeis (composed c. 1588), an unfinished verse epic in Latin on the career of Elizabeth I. Alabaster presented a copy of the first volume of the poem to the queen, and Edmund Spenser highly extolled the work in his Colin Clout's come Home Again: "Who lives that can match that heroic song / Which he hath of that mighty Princess made? / … / No braver Poem can be under Sun." Alabaster received a B.A. from Cambridge in 1588 and an M.A. in 1591; five years later he became chaplain to the Earl of Essex. His theological career, newly begun, took a drastically different route in 1597, when Alabaster converted to Roman Catholicism. He sent a letter to the Earl of Essex containing "Seven Motives" for his conversion, but the government intercepted this correspondence. Alabaster was arrested and taken to London, where for the most part he was treated gently. A number of Anglican authorities urged him to recant, but he refused. Alabaster escaped from his unguarded confinement, making his way to the English College in Rome. He probably finished the majority of his devotional sonnets before he escaped to the continent. While attempting to return to England in 1599, he was captured at La Rochelle, France, and taken to the Tower of London, where he began to cooperate with the authorities, giving them information about Catholic plots. Soon after his release in 1603, Alabaster was again arrested for engaging in pro-Catholic teachings and writings, and he was held for two years. He then moved to Belgium, where he wrote his first essay in mystical theology, but he soon became disillusioned with the Catholic institutions of the Inquisition and the Jesuits. After being imprisoned by the Inquisition, released, then imprisoned by the Dutch government, Alabaster declared his intention to return to the Protestant church and was handed over to English authorities. While being confined at the house of the Dean of St. Paul's, however, he repented and re-declared his Catholic faith. Little is known about the next few years of Alabaster's life, but three years later he had once again converted to the Church of England and found himself in favor with King James. In 1618 Alabaster married Katherine Fludd and settled into a life of study and writing about mystical theology, as well as continuing to write epigrams and elegies, until his death in London on April 28, 1640.
Major Works
Alabaster is best known for the neo-Latin works he completed while still at Cambridge. The first of these, Elisaeis, is an epic about Elizabeth I originally intended to be twelve books in length. The extant volume shows a preoccupation with stylistic experimentation as well as the use of extended rhetorical speeches. However, Alabaster published only the first book—concerning Elizabeth's early difficulties during the reign of Mary I—before he became a Catholic and lost motivation to pursue the anti-Catholic project. Also while at Cambridge, Alabaster wrote Roxana, an adaptation of an Italian tragedy written by Luigi Groto concerning the ghost of a murdered king seeking revenge upon his nephew. The play, featuring allegorized figures such as Death and Jealousy, includes many rhetorical speeches and epigrams, recalling Elisaeis. After his conversion to Catholicism in 1597, Alabaster began work on a sequence of devotional sonnets in English that later editors have titled Divine Meditations. These sonnets, save one, were not published in Alabaster's lifetime, but were circulated in manuscript form. The wit and subtle argument of these poems, as well as their frequent use of extended conceits, have earned Alabaster his modern reputation as an important precursor to the metaphysical poetry of the seventeenth century.
Critical Reception
Alabaster's reputation among his contemporaries rests solely on his Latin verse—Samuel Johnson considered the Latin verse of Roxana among the best created in England. Alabaster's devotional sonnets were not known until Bertram Dobell published several in 1903. It was at this point that Alabaster was first recognized as a proto-metaphysical poet, and only after G. M. Story and Helen Gardner's 1959 edition of Divine Meditations did he begin to receive much critical attention. Since then, critical interest has been divided between Alabaster's early Latin works and his English poetry. The interest in the neo-Latin texts is largely scholarly and uses these works as examples of period academic literature. Alabaster's devotional poetry has attracted a more diverse attention—critics such as George Klawitter have analyzed the style and language of the sonnets, while Ceri Sullivan and others have discussed their thematic content. While Alabaster is noted as a talented Latin poet and an important predecessor to the later Metaphysical movement in poetry, his career also illustrates the religious and political divisions of his time.
Principal Works
*Elisaeis (poetry) c. 1588
Roxana (play) c. 1592
Apparatus in Revelationem Jesu Christi (prose) 1607
De Bestia Apocalyptica (prose) 1621
Ecce sponsus venit (prose) 1633
Spiraculum tubarum sive fons spiritualium expositionum ex aequivocis Pentaglotti significationibus (prose) 1633
The Sonnets of William Alabaster [edited by G. M. Story and Helen Gardner] (poetry) 1959
Unpublished Works by William Alabaster (1568-1640) [edited by Dana F. Sutton] (poetry) 1997
*Only the first book of this projected twelve-volume work survives. Alabaster reported that a second book was completed, but it was apparently destroyed.
Bertram Dobell (essay date 26 December 1903)
SOURCE: Dobell, Bertram. "The Sonnets of William Alabaster." The Athenaeum, no. 3974 (26 December 1903): 856-58.
[In the following essay, Dobell announces his recovery of Alabaster's sonnet series and discusses the nature of the works.]
Considering what an amount of study and research has been devoted to the literary history of England during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, it might be thought that no fresh discoveries of any importance were likely to be made in so well-explored a field. Nevertheless I have been so fortunate myself in the recovery of unknown or only imperfectly known treasure-trove of those periods, that I am convinced that this is by no...
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G. M. Story (essay date 1959)
SOURCE: Story, G. M. "William Alabaster and the Devotional Tradition." In The Sonnets of William Alabaster, edited by G. M. Story and Helen Gardner, pp. xxiii-xxxvi. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1959.
[In the following excerpt from the introduction to the definitive publication of Alabaster's sonnets, Story overviews the sequence within the tradition of devotional poetry and highlights its distinctive elements.]
Not the least interesting paradox of Alabaster's eminently paradoxical verse is that its special quality comes from the fusion of an old and widespread devotional tradition with the new poetic temper of the last decade of the sixteenth century. His...
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J. W. Binns (essay date 1974)
SOURCE: Binns, J. W. "Seneca and Neo-Latin Tragedy in England." In Seneca, edited by C. D. N. Costa, pp. 205-34. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, 1974.
[In the following excerpt from his essay on three neo-Latin tragedies from the Elizabethan age, Binns determines the influence of Seneca upon Alabaster's Roxana.]
A large number of Renaissance plays which were written in Latin survive today from all the countries of Europe.1 In England, the plays which are extant from the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries form an interesting by-way of the Elizabethan drama.2 A number of tragedies in particular remain, which, cast in Senecan...
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Lance K. Donaldson-Evans (essay date March 1975)
SOURCE: Donaldson-Evans, Lance K. "Two Baroque Devotional Poets: La Ceppéde and Alabaster." Comparative Literature Studies 12, no. 1 (March 1975): 21-31.
[In the following essay, Donaldson-Evans compares Alabaster's sonnets to those of the French poet La Ceppéde in order to suggest similarities in devotional poetry across Europe.]
The rediscovery and ensuing re-evaluation of the devotional poetry of the baroque period has been one of the literary phenomena of the twentieth century. It is as though literary critics and readers alike have felt an intellectual and emotional kinship with the political, religious, and social upheavals which shook Europe after the...
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George Klawitter (essay date 1983-4)
SOURCE: Klawitter, George. "Craft and Purpose in Alabaster's Incarnation Sonnets." University of Hartford Studies in Literature 15-16, no. 3-1 (1983-4): 60-66.
[In the following essay, Klawitter provides a focused analysis of the fifteen of Alabaster's sonnets on the Incarnation of Christ.]
In An Apology for Poetry, Sidney divides verse into three kinds, none of which precisely describes the kind of religious verse which began to appear in the decades after his death. His first category, "they that did imitate the inconceivable excellencies of God," refers to poets praising the Divinity, like "David in his Psalms," but the category cannot accommodate...
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Robert B. Caro (essay date October 1988)
SOURCE: Caro, Robert B. "William Alabaster: Rhetor, Meditator, Devotional Poet—II: Alabaster's Meditative Sonnets." Recusant History 19, no. 2 (October 1988): 155-70.
[In the following essay, Caro examines the style of Alabaster's meditative sonnets and demonstrates how they anticipate subsequent developments in the rhetorical and meditative traditions.]
As we approach Alabaster's sonnets1 our expectation is enhanced not by the promise of poetic greatness but by the prospect of exploring pure instances of the kind of poetry born in the convergence of rhetoric and meditation. We will focus first on a sequence of sonnets remarkable for their rhetorical...
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Elizabeth M. Richmond-Garza (essay date 1997)
SOURCE: Richmond-Garza, Elizabeth M. "'She Never Recovered Her Senses': Roxana and Dramatic Representations of Women at Oxbridge in the Elizabethan Age." In Sex and Gender in Medieval and Renaissance Texts: The Latin Tradition, edited by Barbara K. Gold, Paul Allen Miller, and Charles Platter, pp. 223-46. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1997.
[In the following essay, Richmond-Garza highlights the thematic treatment of the woman and the Oriental in Elizabethan academic plays such as Alabaster's Roxana.]
Neoclassical theories of tragedy privilege the plays of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, with their careful observations of...
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Ceri Sullivan (essay date April 2000)
SOURCE: Sullivan, Ceri. "Penitence in 1590s Weeping Texts." Cahiers Élisabéthains 57, no. 5 (April 2000): 31-47.
[In the following excerpt, Sullivan studies the style and function of penitence in Alabaster's devotional sonnets in relation to other late Elizabethan writers.]
When without tears I look on Christ, I see Only a story of some passion … But if I look through tears Christ smiles on me … And from his side the blood doth spin, whereon My heart, my mouth, mine eyes still sucking be.(1)
Penitential writing such as William Alabaster's is opaque to the fastidious modern gaze in the literalism of its cannibal images, its depth of...
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Further Reading
Guiney, Louise Imogen. "William Alabaster." In Recusant Poets, Vol. 1, pp. 335-346. New York: Sheed & Ward, 1939.
Provides an introductory overview of the poet's religious life.
Story, G. M. "Biographical Sketch." In the General Introduction to The Sonnets of William Alabaster, edited by G. M. Story and Helen Gardner, pp. xi-xxii. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1959.
Places Alabaster in his literary and political context.
Coldewey, John C. "William Alabaster's Roxana: Some Textual Considerations." In Acta conventus...
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