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Here's how RW members rated this race in the past (80 votes).
In short: Hot and hardIn full: My first time at this race. Organisation was good. The HQ was well signposted.The course was a good testing one. Might have enjoyed the second half more if I wasn't suffering so much.Plenty of water stations and a good crowd at the finish.Date of review: July 4, 2011
In short: Outstanding scenery, challenging courseIn full: Excellent scenery and a very well thought out course. Little up and down, but that keeps it interesting. Not masses of support, perhaps locals aren't aware it's on because most the runners seem to be from clubs. Would like to do again, but please bring the start forward, 10:30 is too late and results in running in excessive heat.Date of review: July 4, 2011
In short: well organised with great scenery. Challenging at times. Particularly on a very hot day!Date of review: July 4, 2011
In short: Definitely a must do race. One of my favourites.In full: I usually target fast PB courses, but this is a race I do just for 'me'. Everything about the race is spot on. I was so pleased to see from the Results that there was a big increase in numbers. Did the name change help? I tend to find out about some of the races I do from Bryan Dale's race photo website www.racephotos.org.uk. This time around it looks like I am going to get 5 race photos totally free. These are the icing on the cake for me. My son is so proud to show his mum on the Internet to his friends.Date of review: July 4, 2011
In short: brilliantIn full: this is how all races should be, well organised well signed, friendly marshall always encouraging,fabulous weather and scenery and whoever arranged the sprinkler in beckbury deserves an award, what a great race thanks to all involved see you next yearDate of review: July 3, 2011
In short: Very tough, but a fab raceIn full: This was my first half marathon, and it was hard work! The organisation was fantastic, and the marshalls were lovely. I'm a particularly slow runner and found myself running on my own at the back from about mile 2. However, I really enjoyed it and the support from the marshalls was fab! I'm looking forward to giving it another go next year and hopefully not finishing last!Date of review: July 3, 2011
In short: Hot, Hilly, lovely little raceIn full: Loved the course and the set up. Very friendly all the way through. Loved the fact this is not a huge event i.e easy parking, drinks, finish line etc etc. tough course but will defo be doing next year. Well done everyone today.Date of review: July 3, 2011
In short: Very pretty course, lots of dusty farm tracks, more undulating than expected!In full: My first time for this event which is very local for me. The atmosphere was really good, quite informal although there appeared to be a hell of a lot of very athletic looking people which was a bit intimidating! Marshalling was done by local volunteers and school children and they did a very good job on a blistering hot day. Very welcoming finish area with excellent post-race support and a nice, family fun atmosphere. Would definitely make this one an annual trip although I think it would be a lot less pleasant in the wet.Date of review: July 3, 2011
In short: Its tricky but a worthwhile half!! Really enjoyed it!In full: Fab race, markers in the right place. the school really make an effort!!Shame they dont get the kids to design a medal to give away...Date of review: July 8, 2010
In short: great event passing 5 Church steeples- trails and quiet country lanes.In full: a must do race - with free downloadable high resolution photos from racephotos by Bryan Dale at 3or4 locations on the course as a reminder of the day. plenty of marshals at the key places to ensure a safe event, well done race organiser. I think this is the fourth time I have done it be back next year.Date of review: July 7, 2010
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Bruce M. Spiegelman, PhD
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Research Department
Area of ResearchDifferentiation of Human Tumors
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
450 Brookline Avenue
Boston, MA 02215
BiographyDr. Spiegelman received his PhD in biochemistry from Princeton University in 1978, and completed postdoctoral work at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In 1982, he joined DFCI and was promoted to professor in 1991. His research focuses on cell differentation, cellular metabolism, and genetic factors involved in obesity and diabetes.
Recent Awards
- American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2002
- Berson Award, American Physiology Society, 2002
- National Academy of Sciences, 2002
- Heinrich Wieland Prize in Lipid Metabolism, University of Munich, 1997
- MERIT Award, NIH, 1997
ResearchDifferentiation of Human Tumors
Our laboratory focuses on the regulation of energy homeostasis in mammals, primarily at the level of gene transcription. Our studies - which explore the problems of fat cell development, control of metabolic rates, and the pathways of glucose and lipid metabolism - have applications to the development of new therapies for diabetes, obesity, and muscular diseases.
Regulation of fat cell differentiation.
In 1994, our group identified the master regulator of fat development: peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor gamma (PPAR-gamma), a nuclear receptor. Since then, a major focus of our group has been to understand the pathways that control PPAR-gamma function, its ligands and coactivators, as well as other transcription factors that modify its function. Since synthetic ligands to PPAR-gamma are used clinically as antidiabetic drugs, we are using biochemical approaches to understand the identity of endogenous ligands that control this receptor in vivo. Recently, we have begun to explore the transcriptional control of brown fat differentiation. Since brown fat cells dissipate energy as heat, this feature may provide a potential avenue into the problem of obesity and diabetes.
Metabolic control through the PGC-1 coactivators.
Biological control via gene transcription was thought to occur mainly through changes in amounts or activities of transcription factors. However, PPAR-gamma and its coactivators (PGC-1) have illustrated that the regulation of critical metabolic programs is controlled largely via transcriptional coactivation. Brown fat-mediated thermogenesis and hepatic gluconeogenesis are both induced through expression of PGC-1 alpha, which then docks on a variety of transcription factor targets.
Most recently, we have shown that PGC-1 beta is induced in liver by diets high in saturated and trans fats, and that this coactivator is largely responsible for the subsequent elevation in blood cholesterol and triglyceride synthesis. Current projects center on how the PGC-1 coactivators function mechanically by recruiting chromatin-modifying enzymes. We are also exploring the genetic role of the PGC-1 coactivators in a variety of metabolic states, including obesity, diabetes, muscle wasting, and nerve degeneration. We are particularly interested in how the PGC-1 coactivators control a variety of mitochondrial processes, including oxidative phosphorylation and the detoxification of reactive oxygen species (ROS), which are endogenous agents involved in aging and cancer, a very important area of future research.
Select Publications
- Handschin C, Lin J, Rhee J, Peyer AK, Chin S, Wu PH, Meyer UA, Spiegelman BM. Nutritional regulation of hepatic heme biosynthesis and porphyria through PGC-1 alpha. Cell 2005;122:505-15.
- Lin J, Yang R, Tarr PT, Wu PH, Handschin C, Li S, Yang W, Pei L, Uldry, M, Tontonoz P, Newgard CB, Spiegelman BM. Hyperlipidemic effects of dietary saturated fats mediated through PGC-1 beta coactivation of SREBP. Cell 2005;120:261-73.
- Drori S, Girnun GD, Tou L, Szwaya JD, Mueller E, Xia K, Shivdasani RA, Spiegelman BM. Hic-5 regulates an epithelial program mediated by PPAR-gamma. Genes Dev 2005;19:362-75.
- Arany Z, He H, Lin J, Hoyer K, Handschin C, Toka O, Ahmad F, Matsui T, Chin S, Wu PH, Rybkin II, Shelton JM, Manieri M, Cinti S, Schoen FJ, Bassel-Duby R, Rosenzweig A, Ingwall JS, Spiegelman BM. Transcriptional coactivator PGC-1 alpha controls the energy state and contractile function of cardiac muscle. Cell Metab 2005;1:259-71.
- Lin J, Handschin C, Spiegelman BM. Metabolic control through the PGC-1 family of transcription coactivators. Cell Metab 2005;1:361-70.
- Lin J, Wu PH, Tarr PT, Lindenberg KS, St-Pierre J, Zhang CY, Mootha VK, Jager S, Vianna CR, Reznick RM, Cui L, Manieri M, Donovan MX, Wu Z, Cooper MP, Fan MC, Rohas LM, Zavacki AM, Cinti S, Shulman GI, Lowell BB, Krainc D, Spiegelman BM. Defects in adaptive energy metabolism with CNS-linked hyperactivity in PGC-1 alpha null mice. Cell 2004;119:121-35.
- Mootha VK, Handschin C, Arlow D, Xie X, St Pierre, J, Sihag S, Yang W, Altshuler D, Puigserver P, Patterson N, Willy PJ, Schulman IG, Heyman RA, Lander ES, Spiegelman BM. ERRalpha and Gabpa/b specify PGC-1 alpha-dependent oxidative phosphorylation gene expression that is altered in diabetic muscle. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2004;101:6570-5.
- Puigserver P, Rhee J, Donovan J, Walkey CJ, Yoon JC, Oriente F, Kitamura Y, Altomonte J, Dong H, Accili D, Spiegelman BM. Insulin-regulated hepatic gluconeogenesis through FOXO1-PGC-1 alpha interaction. Nature 2003;423:550-5.
- Rhee J, Inoue Y, Yoon JC, Puigserver P, Fan M, Gonzalez FJ, and Spiegelman BM. Regulation of hepatic fasting response by PPARgamma coactivator-1 alpha (PGC-1): requirement for hepatocyte nuclear factor 4 alpha in gluconeogenesis. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2003;100:4012-7.
- Handschin C, Rhee J, Lin J, Tarr PT, Spiegelman BM. An autoregulatory loop controls peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor gamma coactivator 1 alpha expression in muscle. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2003;100:7111-6.
- Uldry M, Yang W, St-Pierre J, Lin J, Seale P, Spiegelman BM Complementary action of the PGC-1 coactivators in mitochondrial biogenesis and brown fat differentiation. Cell Metab. 2006 May;3(5):333-41.
- Arany, Zoltan, MD, PhD
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Jobs: General Linguistics: Asst Prof, McGill University
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We were having this discussion during some down-time at work today and I figured I'd ask you all what you use to carry your cash.
I personally have a well-used leather "Bad Mother Fucker" wallet. And yes, I do get plenty of looks and comments about it.
Pulp Fiction fans may recognize this as the wallet Samuel l. Jackson's character Jules has. That's the very reason I got mine a couple years ago.
So what's yours and why do you have it?
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After failed Twinkies-maker Hostess filed for bankruptcy in November, acting chief executive Gregory Rayburn imposed an 8 percent across-the-board pay cut on the company's workers. Despite those cuts, Rayburn, who took the company over after its second bankruptcy filing in March, will not be subject to the pay cut because he is not technically a company employee, the Huffington Post's Bonnie Kavoussi reports:
Though he imposed an 8 percent pay cut for all Hostess workers, Gregory Rayburn's monthly $125,000 pay — or $1.5 million a year — will remain unchanged, a company spokesman told The Huffington Post on Monday. Rayburn is not on the Hostess payroll and therefore isn't subject to the imposed pay cut, the spokesman explained.
Earlier this year, Hostess' former CEO received a pay increase from $750,000 to nearly $2.5 million even as the company was struggling. The pay package was later reduced to $1.5 million, and Rayburn reduced the salaries of four other senior executives who received bonuses to just $1 until the company emerges from bankruptcy, according to a company spokesperson. Four other executives who received raises, the spokesperson said, had their salaries reduced to pre-raise levels.
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Running the TWD group on facebook sounds like fun!! I'd love to help you and run the group!
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In place of this? I hope not :( I have facebook but don't really use it. I'm not very familiar with it.
I'd love to help too! Facebook is my best friend! Sad, I know.
I'd join!
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Mindfulness meditation is a mind-body practice that involves focusing your mind on the present, to be aware of your thoughts and actions without judgment. Research has shown that the practice of mindfulness can have many benefits, including enhancing clarity, concentration, mood, sleep, and immune function, in addition to reducing stress.
Lead by Daniel Caffarel, current graduate student in the Psychological Counseling masters program and a member of TC's Mindfulness and Education Working Group (MEWG) will lead a mindfulness meditation session. An active duty Army officer and an intern at the Center of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Daniel has been exploring the possibility of applying meditation in dealing with stress. He invites everyone to take a breath with him.
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Head Start faces tough challenges
ALPENA – Northeast Michigan's Head Start teachers and directors are bracing for budget cuts as a result of sequestration.
After lawmakers failed to reach a deal to prevent widespread federal spending cuts, Head Start provider Northeast Michigan Community Services Agency's budget for the program lost about $960,000, going from $18,446,000 to $17,487,000, NEMCSA Early Childhood Services Director Linda McGillis said. While the agency is still unsure just how far the cuts will go, teachers and students already saw the effects, and more changes could be on the way.
Head Start programs throughout NEMCSA's 21-county service area had to end two weeks early, and the agency permanently laid off 10 employees in three classrooms in Bay County, McGillis said. Transportation to some sites have been reduced or eliminated.
Looking ahead, NEMCSA could cut 5-8 percent of its Head Start spaces for children, McGillis said. This means about 217 spaces could be eliminated, although the final numbers are not yet known.
"Most of the reductions will be in the southern part of our service area, mainly because that's where our greater numbers are," she said. "The plan I put in place really was focused on keeping as many slots as I possibly could in our northern service area, largely because resources are very scarce in the north."
Ending its programs two weeks early meant Head Start teachers couldn't meet all of their program requirements, McGillis said. It also put families into a difficult position, forcing them to find someone else to watch their children for those two weeks.
Head Start focuses on getting youngsters ready for school, and much more, McGillis said. It also offers comprehensive services, including health, dental and mental health screenings. Parents are involved at all levels, and NEMCSA provides referrals to community services as needed. Families have to be at or below the federal poverty level, which varies depending on a family's size. Of those enrolled, 10 percent can be over the poverty guideline, and 10 percent have to be children with documented special needs.
Younger children in 12 counties, including Alcona, Alpena, Montmorency and Presque Isle, also can enroll in Early Head Start, McGillis said. This program provides prenatal care for expecting mothers and early childhood development services for children up to three years old.
While federal funding for Head Start has been cut, McGillis and others in NEMCSA are hoping to take advantage of increased state funding for Michigan's Early Childhood programs. By partnering with intermediate school districts, she's hoping to get eligible families into the Michigan School Readiness Program.
"The fact that sequestration happened is devastating for our programs and children and families," she said. "The fact that the state has increased early childhood funding has given us a great opportunity to help mitigate those damages."
McGillis is hoping to work with intermediate school districts, including Alpena-Montmorency-Alcona Educational Services District and Cheboygan-Otsego-Presque Isle Educational Services District, to provide an alternative, she said. It'll help soften the blow, but the state's program isn't as comprehensive as Head Start.
Northeast Michigan's situation is hardly unique. According to the Michigan Head Start Association, the sequester cut a total of $13.7 million from the state's 38 Head Start grantees. Figures from the White House claim as many as 2,200 Michigan children could lose their spot. Many programs had to close early, and some might have to cut more spaces than originally anticipated.
"Our members are doing everything they can to minimize the impact to children, their families and the staff," Executive Director Robin Bozek said in an email. "But the reality is that in order to reduce their budgets by 5.27 (percent), most have been forced to reduce the number of children for the 2013-14 school year. We are also concerned about the ripple effect these cuts will have on the community at large."
Jean Horrocks, assistant Head Start director for NEMCSA's north end, said she's hopeful deals with AMA ESD and COP ESD can bring more services to four-year-olds. The details are still in the works, but otherwise she expects cuts to Head Start in the Alpena area to be much the same as those throughout NEMCSA's service area.
"We're still working on some sort of planning," she said. "We kind of have an idea, but we won't have the specifics and hard numbers for a couple of weeks."
Even without federal budget cuts, Head Start teachers are used to making the most of their resources, NEMCSA Head Start Family Coordinator Deb Werner said. Family members volunteer to help teachers with classroom activities, and teachers themselves meet regularly to swap classroom and learning materials, as well as ideas.
"Each classroom is given a budget they have to stay in," she said. "They usually have excess left because we do so much sharing."
Werner and her coworker, Robyn Hart, will continue to recruit for Head Start until the 2013-14 school year begins in September, she said. Werner can be reached at 358-4644, and Hart at 358-4641.
Terry Pagels, Ella White Elementary School's lead Head Start teacher, is optimistic she and other teachers will be able to adapt to budget cuts and slot reductions.
"It's unfortunate, but it's not up to us, that's something that's out of our hands, and we'll still do the best we can for the children and the families that we do have."
Jordan Travis can be reached via email at email@example.com or by phone at 358-5688. Follow Jordan on Twitter @jt_alpenanews. Read his blog, A Snowball's Chance, at www.thealpenanews.com.


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This one goes out to all citizens of Fort Dodge and surrounding areas. Please learn how to use the roundabout on the east side of town (32nd and 10th). The roundabout has been here for long enough for people to acclimate and learn how to properly use it. If you are confused, weary, or don't like it find an alternative route. I leave town every morning, because I commute, and it is frustrating when people don't use their turn signals, they stop on the roundabout to let people in, or simply ignore the yield signs and just go on in without paying any attention. I witness this almost on a daily basis, and I have luckily avoided any accidents. The purpose of a roundabout is safer, more-efficient navigation, but the way people treat it here is ridiculous. There are videos and websites out there that can help you out, and I understand for many of you driving through a roundabout was not covered in driver's ed, but you need to learn how to use it if you are going to drive on it.
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Last September, Americans turned in 647,211 pounds of prescription drugs at over 5,600 sites operated by the DEA and its thousands of state and local law enforcement partners. In its five previous Take Back events, DEA and its partners took in over 2 million pounds—over a thousand tons—of pills.
This initiative addresses a vital public safety and public health issue. Medicines that languish in home cabinets are highly susceptible to diversion, misuse, and abuse. Rates of prescription drug abuse in the U.S. are alarmingly high, as are the number of accidental poisonings and overdoses due to these drugs. Studies show that a majority of abused prescription drugs are obtained from family and friends, including from the home medicine cabinet. In addition, Americans are now advised that their usual methods for disposing of unused medicines—flushing them down the toilet or throwing them in the trash—both pose potential safety and health hazards.
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7 mm/.284 Caliber (.284) 140 gr. SBT
For rifles chambered in 7mm cartridges, this bullet has the heavy, double-tapered Sierra jacket for hunting.. The #1905 bullet is recommended for all 7mm cartridges. It is an excellent choice as a lighter bullet in any of the 7mm magnum cartridges for use at medium to long ranges.
In handguns, the 140 grain #1905 is considered too "tough" for smaller cartridges, such as the 7mm TCU and 7mm BR. However, this bullet is seeing much use in the Remington XP-100 chambered for the 7mm-08 Remington or in similar cartridge/handgun combinations for both target shooting and hunting applications. This bullet is a good choice when driven at 2500 fps or more for medium or large game at typical handgun ranges. Using this bullet for hunting is limited to muzzle velocities achievable with only a select few cartridge and handgun combinations, but no such restrictions apply to target use. This bullet can be used in all 7mm cartridges for target shooting.
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|David E of Drayton, North Dakota
|November 24, 2016
|These are surpisingly hard bullets. I loaded them in a 7-08 and shot 2 whitetails . One at 100 and one at 2. Both behind the shoulder rib shots. 3/.4 inch exit holes and they both ran 50 yards. A max charge of big game powder bot not chronographed. I would guess 2900. Maybe more knockdown with more speed or shoulder shots.
|Edward L of Butler, Pennsylvania
|September 8, 2016
|I have yet to use this bullet on any game but it printed a five shot group at 200 yds., that measured 1 11/16". I'm pretty happy with that. I am still in the process of working up these 7mm/08 loads.
|Jeff K of Carrolltown, Pennsylvania
|October 24, 2015
|Have used these for almost 20 years in my 7mm rem mag. groups inch or less at 200 yards. have killed 30 plus deer and hundreds of groundhogs with these and never a fail.
|Jim W of Sussex, New Brunswick, Canada
|August 7, 2015
|I have had excellent success with the 7mm 140 gr 1905. I have a 280 that shoots under 1/2 inch at 100 yards. I have taken Deer, Bear, Moose and the bullet performed fantastically. I could not have asked for better. I have shot game from 30 yards to 400. I have tremendous confidence with this gun and load. I don't know how I could ask for more.
|Jared T of Palestine, Texas
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|I was a little worried about the penetration of these bullets after reading a rather critical review of them by an "expert" but since they were the ONLY bullet my Browning would group well with I decided to put them to the test to see if they would hold up and penetrate. Mind you I am pushing them 2953fps in my 7mm-08 so they are hitting hard and fast, 1st time out I lucked up and had the ideal torture test scenario for them, a raking shot on a boar hog, at crazy close range (5 yards not kidding) hit him in the front shoulder, took out the vitals and the bullet exited out the right ham, that is near full body penetration with obvious expansion. Needless to say I am not worried about their penetration anymore.
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|August 23, 2014
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|December 13, 2013
|I use these in my 7600 280 LOVE it. R22 55gr OAL I shortened to 3.28 will never use anything else for this rifle
|Barry G of Barnsdall, Oklahoma
|December 3, 2013
|I shoot this bullet out of my custom model 700 in 7x57 and it is amazing. I have taken several whitetails over 400 yards with this bullet and rifle the last a mature 5x4 at 500 with one shot and he ran only 25 yards before piling up. I would especially recommend these bullets for folks shooting similar cartridges. I should add I only take these shots under perfect conditions from a tower with a perfect rest, little to no wind and very still crosshairs.
|Jim T of La Grange, Missouri
|November 20, 2013
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Hunt 1261: CWMU Buck deer
Mountain Top
Season dates
9-1-2014 to 10-31-2014
- Nonresident permits: No
- Resident permits: 2
- Total permits: 2
The Wildlife Board establishes timeframes for hunting on CWMUs. Hunters should expect to hunt at least five days within these timeframes
Type: CWMU
Species: Buck deer
Weapon: Any legal weapon
Mountain Top
DescriptionThe Mountain Top Cooperative Wildlife Management Unit (CWMU) is south and southeast of East Canyon Reservoir. East Canyon Creek cuts the Unit on the west side (5000 to 5800 feet). From this point the unit rises in elevation to the east, where it catches its maximum elevation (9300 feet), it slopes down to the north in a block and to the south as a long finger. The most common elevation is 6400 feet but ranges from 5800 feet to 9300 feet with an elevation difference of 3500 feet. Fifty-one percent (51%) of the CWMU elevation ranges between 6500 feet and 8200 feet an elevation difference of 1700 feet.
On the Mountain Top Cooperative Wildlife Management Unit the dominant land cover type is a mixture of the Inter-Mountain Basins Montane Sagebrush Steppe (62) and Rocky Mountain Aspen Forest and Woodland (22). Rocky Mountain Gambel Oak-Mixed Montane Shrubland (41) also covers much of the Unit. There are some small patches of Rocky Mountain Bigtooth Maple Ravine Woodland (23) and scattered patches of Rocky Mountain Mesic Mixed Conifer Forest and Woodland (32).
One of the Mountain Top Cooperative Wildlife Mangement Unit (CWMU) nearest weather stations, WANSHIP DAM (429165), is about 3.7 km east from the east edge of the CWMU. WANSHIP DAM has fifty-two (52) years of records, 1955 - 2008. During the FALL (September, October and November) the average precipitation is 4.50 inches, but it can be as high as 9.65 inches or as low as 1.14 inches. During the 91-day FALL period, 23 days will experience greater than or equal to 0.01 inch of precipitation, 13 days of greater than or equal to 0.10 inch, or 2 days of the greater than or equal to 0.50 inch of precipitation. Snowfall during the FALL averages 12.4 inches but can be as high as 39.0 inches. FALL temperature at WANSHIP DAM averages 45.5 degrees F. but can be as high as 93.0 degrees F. or as low as -21.0 degrees F. During the FALL, 57 days will be below freezing (32 degrees F.) and 1 day above 90 degrees F. This map is provided for general reference only and does not constitute a legal hunt boundary. The Division does not guarantee access to any private or public land. Hunt unit boundaries may include private property or other excluded areas.
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March 14, 2003
WHITE PLAINS—The New York State Economic Development Power Allocation Board (EDPAB) will meet on Thursday, March 20, 2003, at 10 a.m.
The meeting will be held via video-conferencing. Consistent with the state's Open Meetings Law, the public has the right to attend the meeting at any of the video-conferencing locations, provided that advance notice of such attendance is submitted.
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Working to connect WHO with nongovernmental and civil society organizations
The Civil Society Initiative (CSI) fosters relations between WHO and nongovernmental and civil society organizations and is responsible for the administration of formal relations as set out in the Principles governing relations between WHO and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs). Counterparts at each WHO Regional Office serve in the same capacity. WHO country offices may also work with NGOs at the national level.
The objectives of WHO's relations with NGOs are to promote the policies, strategies and activities of WHO and, where appropriate, to collaborate with NGOs in jointly agreed activities to implement them. WHO may also seek to harmonize intersectoral interests among various sectoral bodies concerned in a country, regional or global setting.


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I recently had the opportunity to host the Ninth District Bar Meeting. For the entertainment I had arranged for a beer testing by Brau Brothers Brewing Company, which Dustin Brau hosted. As the outgoing president, I would like to thank the company and Dustin again.
I have had the opportunity to attend other tastings and I have been continually impressed with the business, the professionalism, the attention to detail, the knowledge of brewing, and of course – the beer. The city of Marshall is lucky to have Brau Brothers come to town, and I believe the business will have a very positive effect on the community.
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Here's how RW members rated this race in the past (203 votes).
Date of review: March 3, 2010
In short: Great race, well organisedIn full: Great race and a good intro to my first half distance - great support most of the way round which helped, but a lack on the homeward stretch between 8-9 miles! I found it hard mentally with going out of the park and then going back in again and it only being just half way! Would do it again!Date of review: February 7, 2010
In short: A great London eventDate of review: January 22, 2010
In short: I do lots of half marathons all year. but this the one where i get my PBDate of review: December 22, 2009
In short: Superb course and organisationDate of review: December 22, 2009
In short: I will be back next yearIn full: A good run, well worth a goDate of review: December 9, 2009
In short: I would recomend this halfDate of review: December 9, 2009
In short: Brilliant eventDate of review: December 9, 2009
In short: Love this race! Took 17 mins off my half marathon PB. Date of review: November 21, 2009
In short: My first half marathon, such a fantastic day.Date of review: November 21, 2009
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Laurie Spiegel's appearance in The Hunger GamesPosted by Christian Hertzog in Contemporary Classical, Electro-Acoustic, Experimental Music, Film Music, tags: analog synthesizers, Laurie Spiegel, The Hunger Games
How awful is the dystopia in The Hunger Games? Well, if you listen to one cue in the movie, you might be led to believe that only pitch-drifting analog synthesizers are available, and multitrack recordings are made with the greatest of difficulties.
At least that's what one might believe encountering Laurie Spiegel's 1972 composition, Sediment, during the cornucopia scene in the Hollywood blockbuster. (Steve Reich's music also makes an appearance!)
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Duke and Earl are just passing through Rockwood county in their pick-up truck when they stop at the Diner for a quick bite to eat. They aren't planning to stick around-until Loretta, the eatery's owner, offers them $100 to take care of her zombie problem. Given that Duke is a werewolf and Earl's a vampire, this looks right up their alley. But the shambling dead are just the tip of a particularly spiky iceberg.
Seems someone's out to drive Loretta from the Diner, and more than willing to raise a little Hell on Earth if that's what it takes. Before Duke and Earl get to the bottom of the Diner's troubles, they'll run into such otherworldly complications as undead cattle, an amorous ghost, a jailbait sorceress, and the terrifying occult power of pig-latin. And maybe--just maybe--the End of the World, too.
Gory, sexy, and flat-out hilarious, Gil's All Fright Diner will tickle your funnybone - before ripping it out of its socket!
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"Fans of Douglas Adams and Joe R. Lansdale...will happily sink their teeth into this combo platter of raunchy laughs and ectoplasmic ecstasy." (Publishers Weekly)
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I loved it! I've listened to it at least 3 times since i bought it. Sci-fi/Comedy at it's best! Martinez is good at what he does. Earl and Duke are a ridiculous vamp/werewolf team. A ghost for a girlfriend and a raunchy teenaged witch for a villain. What's not to love?
"Southern Fried Zombies, Werewolves and Vampires!"
This fun-filled, action packed, fantastical story is pure entertainment. The two main characters, Duke and Earl, are down-home boys who happen to also be a werewolf and a vampire. They complain about being stuck with each other, but it's clear that they truly are best friends. Despite their seemingly simple and small minded attitudes, they are actually two good guys you just know will do the right thing. Duke and Earl would never allow Loretta's diner to be taken over by zombies, leading to the end of the world itself. But are their efforts enough to battle the occult powers fighting against them? You'll have to listen to find out.
I love the Southern twang used for this book. It is a huge part of what makes it so entertaining, and perfect as an audiobook. The narrator captures the personality of every character, and manages to keep it all funny, without it ever becoming just a caricature of the various Southern stereotypes the listener encounters. He keeps to the story, and adds to the fun of listening.
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Paine, Thomas
Thomas Paine 1737-1809
(Born Thomas Pain) English pamphleteer and essayist.
Thomas Paine, a largely self-educated Englishman who was a corset-maker by trade, has been recognized as a primary force in the American Revolution since its instigation in 1775; he was similarly influential in the French Revolution, sparked in 1789. Several commentators have credited Paine with turning the tide of American opinion from tepid colonial discontent to the revolutionary conviction necessary for independence. Unlike other leading men of the revolution, such as John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton, and Thomas Jefferson, Paine enjoyed none of the advantages of wealth, such as social status and extensive formal education. Paine, however, turned his disadvantages into advantages, positioning himself as the spokesman of the American populace—a population he moved profoundly with the publication of the pamphlet Common Sense: Addressed to the Inhabitants of America early in 1776, a work that was in itself revolutionary in its vernacular style and directness. Because of his many writings and efforts on behalf of newly-emerging democratic governments, Paine has become emblematic of the modern struggle for human rights and social justice. He was also considered to be ahead of his time in his critiques of slavery, unfair labor practices, gender inequality, and even cruelty to animals.
Biographical Information
Paine was born in the small village of Thetford in England on January 29, 1737. His father was a Quaker and a middle-class tradesman—he made stays for women's corsets. At a time when only upper-class men received an extensive formal education, Paine had only six years of the typical English curriculum—English, Latin, Greek, mathematics—before he had to go to work with his father in the family business. At nineteen (some biographers say sixteen), he joined in England's war effort against France, signing on with the privateer ship The King of Prussia. In 1757, he began supporting himself as a staymaker, living for two years first in London, then Dover, then Sandwich, where he married Mary Lambert in 1759; within a year, she passed away. Paine began his career as a civil servant in 1761, when he became an excise officer—a customs official—in Lincolnshire, a post he held with only one brief interruption until 1774. He married again in 1771, to Elizabeth Ollive of Lewes. It was also during this year that he began to display evidence of his future calling, when he took up the cause of excise officers who felt they received an unfair wage. Paine wrote a pamphlet, The Case of the Officers of Excise (1772), to argue on their behalf and, in 1772-1773, went to London to lobby Parliament, unsuccessfully, for consideration. All he won for his effort, however, was a permanent dismissal from his post in 1774. That same year, he and his wife opted for a separation.
On the verge of bankruptcy, Paine went to London, where he became acquainted with Benjamin Franklin, who convinced him to try his luck in the British colonies in North America. Paine began his American career in Philadelphia, where he became a writer for a monthly periodical called the Pennsylvania Magazine. (Paine added the "e" to his surname after his arrival in America.) Paine had never stopped pursuing his education. He read everything he could find and attended lectures in every city in which he lived. He socialized with men more learned than himself, many of them scholars, and consulted with them informally as tutors. Paine's early success at the Pennsylvania Magazine—he became editor in 1775—was largely due to his style, which was uncommonly accessible to a general readership. Nonetheless, Paine left the journal, it is believed, in the fall of 1775. He was, all the same, already at work on his first significant work, a slim pamphlet called Common Sense. Published in January of 1776, it captured in succinct and persuasive prose otherwise unexpressed revolutionary sentiment. Although military conflict between Great Britain and the colonies had begun in the spring of the previous year, most Americans still sought some form of reconciliation with England. Common Sense, as most commentators since have argued, laid to rest the colonial mindset, replacing it with the fervent desire for national independence. The work sold over 100,000 copies in its first two months, and, published anonymously, was assumed to be the work of men much more well-known and well-educated than Paine, including John Adams and Franklin.
Without employment in 1776, Paine dedicated his body as well as his pen to the revolutionary cause, joining up with the Pennsylvania militia. He continued writing to his very broad, enthusiastic audience, penning sixteen pamphlets under the title The Crisis, or The American Crisis, the first of which appeared at the end of 1776. The publication of these pamphlets continued through to April 1783, when the war ended. Paine left the army at the beginning of 1777, convinced that he was not serving the revolution best in that capacity. Instead he became a commission secretary to several government bodies, including the Continental Congress. He served the Congress until 1779, when political complications forced him out of that position; he was then elected clerk of the Pennsylvania Assembly. Despite his successes as a pamphleteer and his many positions, Paine found himself once again penniless at the war's end in 1783: he had given all his profits from his publications to support the war. The states of Pennsylvania and New York and the new nation, via Congress, made him several gifts of cash and land. By the end of the decade Paine had become involved in many new projects, including a passion for bridge design; the latter took him to France in 1787, just as the revolutionary fervor there was mounting. He remained in Paris until July of 1791, serving the French Revolution in many capacities, even though he did not speak the language at all.
Edmund Burke, a prominent English statesman, published his influential criticism of France, Reflections on the Revolution in France, in 1790. Many defenders of France published responses, but the most significant of these replies was Paine's, the first part of which appeared in 1791. Completed in 1792, Rights of Man: Being an Answer to Mr. Burke's Attack on the French Revolution sold millions of copies in France and England. As with Common Sense, this publication made Paine both revered and despised in his homeland. Consequently, Paine's attempt to resettle in London was cut short; he fled in 1792, just ahead of the officers seeking his arrest on charges of high treason. He was convicted in absentia. Taking sanctuary in France, Paine was elected to several positions in the National Assembly and appointed to the committee responsible for framing the new constitution. The tenor of the French Revolution, however, diverged from Paine's values as it moved into a bloodthirsty phase commonly known as the "Terror," during which "enemies of the people"—both members of the former ruling class and less radical revolutionaries—were imprisoned and guillotined. Speaking against the planned execution of Louis XVI, the deposed king, Paine found himself incarcerated by the end of 1793, where he remained until James Monroe, the American ambassador to France, secured his release late in 1794. Restored to his position in the French government soon after, Paine remained in France until 1802. He produced his last significant pamphlet, Agrarian Justice, in 1797.
Paine immigrated to America again in 1802, although his reputation with Americans had been greatly damaged by several of his publications from the previous decade: The Age of Reason: Being an Investigation of True and Famous Theology (1794-1795), which critiqued organized religion and struck many readers as blasphemous, and the Letter to George Washington, President of the United States of America, on Affairs Public and Private (1796), which viciously attacked a man revered by Americans. Nonetheless, he remained in the United States until he passed away, largely unnoticed, on June 8, 1809.
Major Works
Although Paine produced articles and pamphlets almost nonstop after his arrival in colonial America, certain works stand out for their influence both at the time of their publication and over the ensuing centuries. Some, including Common Sense and Rights of Man, have become almost legendary, inspiring activists engaged in causes years after Paine's death; President Abraham Lincoln, for example, read Paine's works as he fought to end slavery in the United States.
Paine's writings share a generally consistent viewpoint and goal; although scholars can chart some changes in Paine's thinking, the framework of his perspective remained stable over the years. His style also remained largely the same, always remarkable for its difference from the dominant prose of the era, which consisted of complex sentences proposing complex arguments, written by highly-educated men for an audience of other highly-educated men. Paine, on the other hand, wrote to the broad mass of people in England and America, most of whom would have only as much as, if not less than, his six years of formal schooling. Consequently, his sentences were much more simple and direct, and his arguments turned on one or two accessible principles and pursued persuasion through clarity and repetition. He avoided the allusions and metaphors typical of prose for the highly literate, and chose instead references that would be available to common laborers and tradespeople. Sharing these standards, his major works differed from one another primarily in their focuses, which were often determined by the moment in which they were written.
Common Sense not only marks the real starting point of Paine's career as a pamphleteer in 1776, it also typifies his work. Rather than proposing any new political philosophies, Common Sense was remarkable for gathering up, in a sharp and powerful statement, the scattered strands of revolutionary thought. Once presented to the American public in this form, these arguments for America's need to cut itself free, both politically and economically, from the monarchy of the British Empire, instigated the drive to independence. A no-holds-barred critique of monarchy, Common Sense argued that Americans owed no loyalty to King George III or any hereditary ruler. Historians also credit Paine with maintaining the revolutionary spirit throughout the war years, from 1776 to 1783, with the many issues of The American Crisis, each of which offered further critiques of England and justifications for the American fight. The first issue began with the now legendary declaration that "These are the times that try men's souls."
With Rights of Man, published in 1791 and 1792 as a reply to Edmund Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France, Paine's criticisms of hereditary government became their most explicit and demanding. His attacks on the monarchy and the aristocracy, meant to inspire the English populace to their own acts of revolution, also roused the ire of the ruling classes: unlike his previous works, this one was declared treasonous and caused his exile from England. Part I offers an explanation of the purpose of government, which Paine saw as essentially democratic—that is, it could exist legitimately only by the consent of the governed. Part II constituted an undisguised call for English subjects to topple the monarchy and create a constitutional democracy. In The Age of Reason, Paine turned his anti-establishment gaze on religious institutions, arguing that organized religions perpetuate oppression and ignorance. He espoused, instead, a deistic faith based on reason and consistent with a scientific view of nature. Many of the views he expressed shared the basic assumptions of other thinkers of the era; nonetheless, Paine incurred much more anger than did other rationalists, particularly with his direct efforts to refute many of the central tenets of Christianity. Although some critics would consider this his final significant work, other major works include Agrarian Justice, written in 1797, which most clearly articulates Paine's economic views. Written in the context of land reform debates in post-revolutionary France, the pamphlet suggests methods to eliminate the exploitation of laborers and to achieve a more equal distribution of wealth.
Critical Reception
By the time Paine passed away, he had fallen far from the pinnacle of his celebrity in revolutionary America. Even in the land where he had contributed the most directly to the success of the nation, he had become forgotten at best and despised at worst. He had contributed to this fall himself in a variety of ways, particularly with the publication of The Age of Reason and the Letter to George Washington, but his loss of public favor was also due to certain detractors. James Cheetham, most prominently, cemented an unpopular image of Paine with a biography published in 1809; that work set Paine's image for at least another century. Despite some isolated efforts to reassess Paine's image in the nineteenth century, and the admiration of some respected readers, including Abraham Lincoln, Paine's reputation held its taint through even the beginning of the twentieth century, when Theodore Roosevelt repeated the old charge that Paine was a "filthy little atheist."
It remained for scholars in the twentieth century to rediscover Paine and his work. Such scholars gradually developed a new view of the significance and complexity of Paine's writings. For these critics, discussions generally turned on several key issues. Early in this century, for example, there was still considerable debate about Paine's originality as a political thinker, many critics seeking to undermine his value by pointing out that the content of his works was largely derivative. More recently, however, it has become commonplace to find Paine's significance in his ability to articulate those ideas in original and fundamentally "democratic" language. Scholars such as Olivia Smith, for example, identify Paine as the progenitor of a written vernacular that addressed and even helped bring into being a mass audience. A changing perception of Paine may also be due simply to the passage of time: political and religious views that once shocked even other revolutionaries now strike many readers as comfortably progressive and self-evident.
Principal Works
The Case of the Officers of Excise (political pamphlet) 1772
Common Sense: Addressed to the Inhabitants of America (political pamphlet) 1776
The American Crisis (political pamphlets) 1776-1783 Rights of Man: Being an Answer to Mr. Burke's Attack on the French Revolution (political treatise) 1791-1792
The Age of Reason: Being an Investigation of True and Famous Theology (political treatise) 1794-1795
Letter to George Washington, President of the United States of America, on Affairs Public and Private (political pamphlet) 1796
Agrarian Justice (political pamphlet) 1797
The Writings of Thomas Paine, 4 vols. (anthology, edited by...
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Frederick Sheldon (essay date 1859)
SOURCE: "Tom Paine's First Appearance in America," in Highlights in the History of the American Press: A Book of Readings, edited by Edwin H. Ford and Edwin Emery, University of Minnesota Press, 1954, pp. 100-11.
[In the second part of his Atlantic Monthly biography of Paine (from November, 1859), excerpted below, Sheldon recounts the revolutionary's role in the French Revolution and his efforts to inspire democratic fervor in England. As in his previous article, Sheldon summarizes the content of Paine's major works and illustrates the dramatic political situations in which he wrote.]
When Tom Paine came to America in 1774, he found the dispute...
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Frederick Sheldon (essay date 1859)
SOURCE: "Thomas Paine in England and in France," in The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. IV, No. XXVI, December, 1859, pp. 690-709.
[In the following essay (from December of 1859) Sheldon charts the first part of Paine's career as a pamphleteer. Hailing Paine as a primary force in the American move toward independence, Sheldon wrote against popular opinion of his day, which still tended to dismiss Paine's importance and integrity.]
[While he was in England in the late 1780s, Paine's] soul was engrossed by the contemplation of the wonderful event which was daily developing itself in France. Bankruptcy had brought on the crisis. In August, 1788, the interest was not paid on the...
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Leslie Stephen (essay date 1893)
SOURCE: "Thomas Paine," in Fortnightly Review, Vol. LIV, No. CCCXX, August 1, 1893, pp. 267-81.
[In the following essay, Stephen's review of Paine's major works substantiates his contention that Paine argued in a direct and formulaic fashion that emphasized one or two clear-cut hypotheses.]
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C. E. Merriam, Jr. (essay date 1899)
SOURCE: "Thomas Paine's Political Theories," in Political Science Quarterly, Vol. XIV, No. 3, September, 1899, pp. 389-403.
[In the essay that follows, Merriam outlines the basic tenets of Paine's political thought, defining at length his concepts of human nature and government. Merriam contends that Paine viewed government as a necessary evil, tolerable only in a democratic form.]
The political theories of Thomas Paine were struck off in the course of a career that extended over the revolutionary quarter of the eighteenth century and persistently followed the storm centre of the revolutionary movement.1 In January, 1776, he issued his famous pamphlet...
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Harry Hayden Clark (essay date 1933)
SOURCE: "Thomas Paine's Theories of Rhetoric," in Transactions of the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters, Vol. 28, 1933, pp. 307-39.
[In the following essay, Clark presents Paine as a literary "craftsman" who abided by a set of guidelines for effective writing, including clarity, boldness, wit, and appeal to feeling. Clark also suggests that Paine's view of language originated in his views of religion and nature.]
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Joseph Dorfman (essay date 1938)
SOURCE: "The Economic Philosophy of Thomas Paine," in Political Science Quarterly, Vol. LUI, No. 3, September, 1938, pp. 372-86.
[In the following essay, Dorfman depicts Paine as an advocate of free trade and charts some of his engagements with the development of American economic thought.]
On the eve of the Revolutionary War, Thomas Paine, a failure in England, landed in America and threw in his fortunes with the revolting colonists, fighting "for the security of their natural rights and the protection of their own property."1 Then began a career which made him one of the most powerful pamphleteers of the eighteenth century. Not only did he play a prominent...
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Howard Penniman (essay date 1943)
SOURCE: "Thomas Paine—Democrat," in The American Political Science Review, Vol. XXXVII, No. 2, April, 1943, pp. 244-62.
[In the essay that follows, Penniman parallels the moment in which he writes—during World War II—with the tumultuous time in which Paine wrote. He goes on to summarize the fundamental principles that girded the democracy that Paine ultimately espoused.]
These may be "the times that try men's souls," as President Roosevelt recently told the nation, but they may also be the times when free and courageous men may push forward toward the better society of which Thomas Paine dreamed when he pleaded with the colonists for unity in the cause of...
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Harry Hayden Clark (essay date 1944)
SOURCE: "Thomas Paine," in Thomas Paine: Representative Selections, with Introduction, Bibliography, and Notes, American Book Company, 1944, pp. xi-cxviii.
[In the following chapter from his book, Clark examines the various religious influences on Paine's thought.
Focusing on the significance of Paine's Quaker heritage, Clark examines it in conjunction with the rationalist, Newtonian concept of nature.]
I. Religious and Ethical Ideas
Broadly speaking, Paine's importance rests on the fact that he was an idealist, a man who envisaged a happier way of life for all men in the future, who thought in the light of first...
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A. Owen Aldridge (essay date 1955)
SOURCE: "The Poetry of Thomas Paine," in The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. LXXIX, No. 1, January, 1955, pp. 81-99.
[Addressing the much-neglected body of Paine's poetical writings, the essay that follows summarizes and assesses some of Paine's most read and more notable poems.]
Even the most fanatic devotees of Thomas Paine have had very little to say concerning his verse. Some of his admirers maintain that his prose has merit enough to secure him a respected place in American literature without the need of poetry. Others say that since he proved his talents in verse to be worthy of his prose, it is regrettable that he failed to encourage his...
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James T. Boulton (essay date 1962)
SOURCE: "Literature and Politics I: Tom Paine and the Vulgar Style," in Essays in Criticism, Vol. XII, No. 1, January, 1962, pp. 18-33.
[In the following essay, Boulton seeks to re-evaluate the "vulgarity" of Paine's style in light of its efficacy and purpose; although it may not have suited the aesthetic standards of the era, Boulton argues, it did suit itself to Paine's intended audience and sense of urgency.]
Prose—especially political prose—written for a largely uneducated audience seems to present the literary critic with a difficult problem of evaluation. Writers—such as those examined by John Holloway in The Victorian Sage—who cater for an...
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R. R. Fennessy (essay date 1963)
SOURCE: "Paine Replies to Burke: Rights of Man," in Burke, Paine and the Rights of Man: A Difference of Political Opinion, Martinus Nijhoff, 1963, pp. 160-80.
[In the following chapter from his book, Fennessy investigates the connection of Paine 's Rights of Man to Edmund Burke's famous indictment of the French Revolution, Reflections on the Revolution in France. Overall, Fennessy describes Paine as, first, failing to understand Burke's work and, second, making many logical errors in his own.]
Paine plans to write on the revolution
After writing his letter to Burke,1 Paine stayed on in Paris, watching with...
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Evelyn J. Hinz (essay date 1972)
SOURCE: "The 'Reasonable' Style of Tom Paine," in Queen's Quarterly, Vol. 79, No. 2, Summer, 1972, pp. 231-41.
[In the essay that follows, Hinz argues against the assumption that, because Paine declared his faith in reason alone, his works sought to convince via the laws of reason; Hinz contends quite the converse—that Paine employed many alogical strategies in his efforts to persuade readers.]
"In the following pages I offer nothing more than simple facts, plain arguments, and common sense ... " wrote Thomas Paine in the first of the trio of works—Common Sense, The Rights of Man and The Age of Reason—which has established his...
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Olivia Smith (essay date 1984)
SOURCE: "Rights of Man and Its Aftermath," in The Politics of Language, 1791-1819, Clarendon Press, 1984, pp. 35-67.
[In this chapter from her landmark book The Politics of Language, 1791-1819, Smith uses a close reading of Paine's word choice and grammar in order to establish the significance of his impact on language and political thought.]
John Simple, speaking of his wife's stay-maker to Mr Worthy: 'He is one of the prettiest-spoken men in the world'.1
The publication of Rights of Man demonstrated that a language could be neither vulgar nor refined, neither primitive nor...
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A. Owen Aldridge (essay date 1984)
SOURCE: "The Crisis," in Thomas Paine's American Ideology, University of Delaware Press, 1984, pp. 240-53.
[In the essay that follows, Aldridge reviews the series of pamphlets collectively titled the Crisis, which Paine published during the course of the Revolutionary War and which, consequently, reflect the array of issues and ideas that then permeated American thought.]
Much less has been written about Paine's Crisis than his Common Sense, probably because it concerns itself primarily with events and circumstances in the military and diplomatic struggle and devotes relatively little attention to ideology.
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Jack Fruchtman, Jr. (essay date 1993)
SOURCE: "Nature and Man's Democratic Calling," in Thomas Paine and the Religion of Nature, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993, pp. 38-56.
[In the following chapter from his book, Fruchtman demonstrates that Paine's rationalist view of nature as product of God and reason at once shaped his belief that democracy was the only political form consistent with human nature and rights.]
Human nature was one dimension of nature in Paine's ministry. Another was the physical world: the landscape and the heavens as God had created them. In the act of creation, God gave his people the trees, the sea, and the sky as well as human freedom and the rights of man. Human beings...
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Edward H. Davidson and William J. Scheick (essay date 1994)
SOURCE: "Paine Reads the Bible," in Paine, Scripture, and Authority: The Age of Reason as Religious and Political Idea, Lehigh University Press, 1994, pp. 70-87.
[Focusing on The Age of Reason, the following chapter from Davidson and Scheick's book analyzes Paine's effort to undermine the authority of the Bible and his effort to create a sense of authority for himself]
Paine intended The Age of Reason to present what he called "the theology that is true" (1:464). His own faith, he professed, contained two articles: "I believe in one God, and no more; . . . and I believe that religious duties consist in doing justice, loving mercy, and...
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Further Reading
Gimbel, Richard. A Bibliographical Check List of Common Sense with an Account of Its Publication. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1956, 124 p.
Comprehensive bibliography of the publication history of Common Sense and subsequent responses.
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|Sneak Peek - Behind the Scenes of Studio 300
Event Type: Adult
Age Group(s): Adults, Teen
Date: 1/22/2013
Start Time: 7:00 PM
End Time: 8:00 PM
Come check out all the things you will be able to do in the new library space - Studio 300! From podcasting to sound recording & mixing to shooting video - including adding special effects - to digitizing your record collection and old home movies, imagination is the only limit to what you can do. We'll also have a virtual tour of the Studio.Library: Fountaindale Public Library
Location: Meeting Room A
Contact: Tony Lucarelli
Contact Number: 6306854225
Presenter: Jeffrey Fisher
Status: Closed
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