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Wednesday, 9 September 2015
The Campaigner Issue 13 released
The 13th issue of The Campaigner is now available for your downloading and reading pleasure. And no, you don't have to worry about the 13th issue being haunted or anything. Besides, that'd be October-type stuff, and it's still only September.
This issue they look at El Luchador Fantastico Grande, including an interview with game desinger Al Caynes. Den of Imagination's Dariusz Piotrowski talks about what it takes to run a professional miniature painting studio. There's a bit from the convention that was AVCon 2015. All that and more. Plus, it's free to download, so why not get yourself a copy and see what all the fuss is about?
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GlossophilePosts: 12Joined: Fri Aug 14, 2015 6:57 pmLocation: Florida, USA Gender: Male
Re: Skeptical Perspectives on English Spelling Reform?
I arrived at the English/Chinese comparison independently, but although I must admit to not being able to track it down, I'm pretty sure I stumbled upon another person making a similar remark in my research a couple of years ago. In trying to locate the original third-party comment, I did find another one making similar statements (scroll down to "Words in General") .
Of course, the above linked version states that it mainly applies to experienced readers rather than young novices, and I agree with that. However, I would also argue that English orthography compels children to make the shift earlier and more completely than they would otherwise have to or risk falling behind. I summarized my reasoning here in the unabridged version of a published paper of mine (a "logography" is what you call a "pictography"):
Any code, however alphabetic in its underlying construction, will ultimately come to function as an effective logography in the minds of well-read literates. The holistic visual form of a word, regardless of the smaller units comprising it, eventually becomes a shortcut to recognition. Nevertheless, reaching this advanced stage will be greatly facilitated and catalyzed through the use of a system that builds words from sequentially arranged symbols with predictable sound values. This is why I prefer to give those who are still acquiring English literacy mild or even moderate priority over those who have already acquired it…While still developing holistic word-shape recognition, the young reader/writer raised with something like [my proposed system] would always have the more readily-acquired rules of individual sound-symbol correspondences on which to fall back, hence rendering him/her a bit slow at times but never as helpless as a comparable student of traditional spelling. With functional literacy no longer so contingent upon mastery of the logographic stage, most people would then spend a smaller proportion of their lives marred in illiteracy.
Anyway, the claim is not that English words function exactly like Chinese morphograms, merely that they drift more in that direction than most people think. This is because, in many cases, the phonic route to recognition is so unreliable that it's actually more efficient overall to just memorize the visual shape of the word as a whole. I suspect that the notability of the "whole-word" or "whole-language" movement in English literacy pedagogy testifies to this fact.
Of course, educational success is determined by a complex of variables, but I'm convinced that, although it is by no means the sole cause, the excessive complexity of English spelling is one of the most prominent ones and therefore no less worthy of being the first line of attack than any other. If you want to improve our success at teaching something and know that most of the difficulties trace back to a relative few (though still multiple) factors, one of which is that the system being taught is itself far more complicated than its function demands, doesn't that seem like as good of a candidate for a first strike as any other (if not better)?
What resources do you think spelling reform might make unavailable, and for what presumably more effective strategy?
The only sacred truth in science is that there are no sacred truths. – Carl Sagan
Sōla vēritās sancta in philosophiā nātūrālī est absentia vēritātum sanctārum.
Ἡ μόνη ἱερᾱ̀ ἀληθείᾱ ἐν φυσικῇ φιλοσοφίᾳ ἐστίν ἡ ἱερῶν ἀληθειῶν σπάνις.
|Thu Jan 07, 2016 12:39 am
Re: Skeptical Perspectives on English Spelling Reform?
Hi Glossophile,
I got curious. Do you think that there is a language or languages that do spelling right? Or at least could be set as an example for English to try to mimic?
Also, what other languages get it as wrong as English?
Did you see that ludicrous display last night?
|Thu Jan 07, 2016 7:46 pm
GlossophilePosts: 12Joined: Fri Aug 14, 2015 6:57 pmLocation: Florida, USA Gender: Male
Re: Skeptical Perspectives on English Spelling Reform?
WarK, that's an excellent question! Two languages that immediately spring to mind are Spanish and Italian. German is also pretty regular, and Finnish seems even more so.
There is, however, a distinction which must be made between what I call "phonemicity," which is the degree to which any written word can be reliably pronounced, and what I call "graphemicity," which is the degree to which any spoken word can be reliably spelled. Spanish and Italian are both nearly perfect in terms of phonemicity, but in terms of graphemicity, they become less impressive. I think Finnish fares significantly better on the latter measure.
For example, both Spanish and Italian use 'h' as a silent letter. When seeing the spellings hilo and ironía, a novice can instantly know exactly how to pronounce both words, but when hearing the pronunciations of the same words /ˈi.lo/ and /i.ɾoˈni.a/, he/she cannot know whether to write hilo or ilo or ironía or hironía except by resorting to rote memory. In other words, the regular rules of Spanish spelling allow both forms of each word based on how they are pronounced, and it is only by conventional fiat that one or the other becomes "incorrect." Similarly, since 'g' is pronounced identically to 'j' before 'e' or 'i,' I know right away how to pronounce jefe, but I don't know just from hearing the same word aloud whether I should write gefe or jefe. I must have the correct form memorized rather than simply deriving it in a rule-based way from what I hear.
Greek is perhaps the best example of the fact that phonemicity and graphemicity don't always match. Greek is highly phonemic, but it uses several different letters for the same /i/-sound, which means that seeing any one of those letters automatically signals the reader to say /i/, but hearing the same sound presents the writer with an unpredictable choice between, for instance, ' ι,' 'η,' 'υ,' 'ει,' and 'οι.'
Most spelling reform advocates aim at least for higher phonemicity, with some also aiming for higher graphemicity as well. My personal stance is that both phonemicity and graphemicity should be at or very near 100%. What this would mean is that, using only a concise set of rules and no case-by-case rote memorization, no unique written form would have more than one possible pronunciation and no unique spoken form would have more than one possible spelling.
The only sacred truth in science is that there are no sacred truths. – Carl Sagan
Sōla vēritās sancta in philosophiā nātūrālī est absentia vēritātum sanctārum.
Ἡ μόνη ἱερᾱ̀ ἀληθείᾱ ἐν φυσικῇ φιλοσοφίᾳ ἐστίν ἡ ἱερῶν ἀληθειῶν σπάνις.
Last edited by Glossophile on Thu Jan 14, 2016 7:52 pm, edited 2 times in total.
|Sat Jan 09, 2016 9:50 pm
Re: Skeptical Perspectives on English Spelling Reform?
Thank You for answering my question.
I had German at school and it was far easier to get the pronunciation just by seeing how a word was spelled than in English. Both German and Finnish seem grammatically more complex than English but I suppose this is outside of this topic.
Did you see that ludicrous display last night?
|Sat Jan 09, 2016 10:32 pm
VisakiPosts: 813Joined: Fri Nov 12, 2010 12:26 pmLocation: Helsinki, Finland Gender: Male
Re: Skeptical Perspectives on English Spelling Reform?
For Wark, an oldie but goldie:
That's not even made up, but proper finnish grammar. Yes, I know, finnish is an awesome language.
P.S. Sorry for the derail.
|Mon Jan 11, 2016 12:53 pm
Re: Skeptical Perspectives on English Spelling Reform?
Visaki wrote:For Wark, an oldie but goldie:
Did you see that ludicrous display last night?
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text: Korean Job Discussion Forums :: View topic - If you need an FBI check urgently Speak Korean Now! Korean Job Discussion Forums"The Internet's Meeting Place for ESL/EFL Teachers from Around the World!" FAQ Search Memberlist Usergroups Register Profile Log in to check your private messages Log in If you need an FBI check urgently Goto page 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 Next Korean Job Discussion Forums Forum Index -> Job-related Discussion Forum View previous topic :: View next topic Author Message kingssurferJoined: 14 Dec 2009 Posted: Mon Jul 25, 2011 12:14 am Post subject: If you need an FBI check urgently Well, I don't know if its true, but apparently they can have the FBI CBC with an apostille done in 2- 5 days. The apostille can be done by the Illinois Secretary of State. I am going to call them as soon as they open up. They are brand new FBI channeler, and they will save a lot of time and hassle. Has anyone used this service, or know anything about them? http://www.accuratebiometrics.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=61&Itemid=62 http://www.reddit.com/r/korea/comments/iwzb8/deliverance_good_news_for_people_dealing_with_the/ Thanks Back to top failanJoined: 02 May 2011Location: USA Posted: Mon Jul 25, 2011 2:37 am Post subject: After you call them, can you let us know what they say? I'll probably give them a call too. Apparently, after you get it back from them, you can send it off to Apostillepros. I assume it's a notarized copy you send them and that you don't need the FBI seal and signature. Or possibly, Accurate Biometrics provides the seal and signature as well. This is exciting because my chances for work were looking grim.. Thanks for posting this. Back to top kingssurferJoined: 14 Dec 2009 Posted: Mon Jul 25, 2011 3:50 am Post subject: I am assuming your in the same situation I am, and need an FBI check urgently. I actually was using apotillepros, and I will use them to apsostille my diploma but according to this link http://www.reddit.com/r/korea/comments/iwzb8/deliverance_good_news_for_people_dealing_with_the/ and according to this link http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/background-checks/fbi-approved-channelers an FBI channeler such as accutebiometrics.com can not apostille, sign, or seal the FBI check, which is why they would send it to the Illinois Secretary of State. I am sure that it would be much faster than having to use both accutebiometrics.com and apostillepros.com. The Illinois Secretary of state can apostille, sign and seal your background check and send it back to you. I kept trying to contact them, but they won't be open for another couple of hours. I am going to contact them and keep you posted.Last edited by kingssurfer on Mon Jul 25, 2011 3:59 am; edited 1 time in total Back to top young_clintonJoined: 09 Sep 2009 Posted: Mon Jul 25, 2011 3:57 am Post subject: Are these guys legit? Does anybody know? Back to top marsavalancheJoined: 27 Aug 2010Location: where pretty lies perish Posted: Mon Jul 25, 2011 4:03 am Post subject: lol @ posting a reddit link. place is about as safe as sticking your crotch into a tank of piranhas. Back to top kingssurferJoined: 14 Dec 2009 Posted: Mon Jul 25, 2011 4:04 am Post subject: Well, according to these links they are. I am going to find out more obviously. I think they just opened up their channeling service. As long as they get the job done, thats all that matters. If it works, it doesn't matter where I found the info. Back to top veejjangJoined: 12 Jun 2011 Posted: Mon Jul 25, 2011 5:55 am Post subject: has anyone on here actually received a visa using this service? Back to top kingssurferJoined: 14 Dec 2009 Posted: Mon Jul 25, 2011 6:26 am Post subject: I just spoke with accutebiometrics.com on the phone. My understanding is that they can do same day processing for fingerprints, but they can not authenticate the FBI cbc for you. They have to send it back korea, and then in turn you send it back to the US to apostillepros.com, who then will get the signature and seal for you. I am guessing that by using Fedex priority delivery this whole process could take 5 to seven days. I'll keep you updated on the process. Back to top JenocJoined: 26 Oct 2010 Posted: Mon Jul 25, 2011 6:30 am Post subject: I live in Illinois and they would not apostille my FBI CBC. I called the office in Springfield and Chicago and both told me they would not do it and that no other state SHOULD so it. California does it but they should have stopped and from what I understand Korea is accepting it. I called Apostille pros the other day and they said no one has been rejected so far and that with the large number they process daily they would be one of the first people to know about it. I just sent mine off to be apostilled so heres hoping for the best. Back to top kingssurferJoined: 14 Dec 2009 Posted: Mon Jul 25, 2011 6:44 am Post subject: Well,I hope apostillepros.com can make this happen. And, yes California does it, and Korean Immigration has been accepting it as far as I know. I just spoke with accutebiometrics.com. Yes, apostillepros.com can do that. This is what you need to do 1. Get you fingerprints at a local police station 2 copies. 2. Send them FedEx to accutebiometrics.com (apparently they can do this in a day) 3. They mail you back your FBI CBC in Korea. 4. When you receive it, you then FEDEX back to the U.S to apostillepros.com to get it authenticated/signed/sealed/apostilled. 5. Wait 6. Go visit Korean Immigration With one day processing, I am assuming this can be done in under a week. What an insane process, but that�s what you need to do. All right, there you go. Back to top plchronJoined: 26 Feb 2011Location: Korea Posted: Mon Jul 25, 2011 6:59 am Post subject: I just had mine "apostilled" by California. It wasn't the same as sending it to the sec of state in DC, but it was approved by immigration. If you send it to the sec of state in DC then they staple the apostille onto your FBI CBC, If you send it to California sec of state then you have to make a sworn oath saying that the document is true, then they apostille that sworn statement. So If you guys are getting state apostilles then there is a piece of paper or two in between the FBI CBC and the apostille. It still worked out for me. Back to top kingssurferJoined: 14 Dec 2009 Posted: Mon Jul 25, 2011 7:12 am Post subject: plchron How long did this whole process take you? Back to top tyrobinsonJoined: 11 Jul 2010 Posted: Mon Jul 25, 2011 2:56 pm Post subject: When I went to Korea I had all my docs apostilled by the state depatement in LA. It wasn't any more trouble than having the docs notarized first and then driving down there. If this new place can get the FBI background checks done quickly, then anyone living within driving distance of a state department building should be able to have all their documents ready to go inside of a week. That is a very appealing prospect. Back to top lorunner07Joined: 04 Jun 2011 Posted: Mon Jul 25, 2011 3:34 pm Post subject: This is interesting. Looks like the FBI has found a way to speed up the process. I might try this even though I sent mine in a month ago. Since it's new I hope they have all the kinks worked out and it actually works like it's supposed to. It says it can get it done in a day, but I wonder if this company will get flooded with requests and that will significantly change too? Back to top veejjangJoined: 12 Jun 2011 Posted: Mon Jul 25, 2011 3:36 pm Post subject: I talked to apostillepros.com via email asking them about FBI channeling services. They said that they have not received any feedback on the services or claims of the "channeling" companies (quotes their use, not mine). I'm still a little skeptical here guys. 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There is more fallout from the latest Google privacy violation that got everybody talking. Now, an Illinois man is determined to get back at Google for allegedly exposing his personal data and spying on him. Matthew Soble has filed a lawsuit against Google less than 24 hours ago in a federal court in Delaware.
Attorneys representing Mr. Soble are arguing that Google willfully and knowingly violated federal wiretapping laws and other statutes. Attorneys for the man are not just stopping there, they are seeking a class-action status for their lawsuit so that all individuals "whose default privacy settings on the web browser software produced by Apple, known as Safari, [and] knowingly circumvented by Google" can also seek justice. Since Apple's web browser is used by most people who use mobile devices, this class-action lawsuit can result in millions of people going after Google.
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Kevin Steen returns to Orpington to make his IPW:UK debut in May. Who will be his opponent? The fans decide!
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so Pac is like Matt Sydel ?Aaron wrote:Seriously? Not even Spud or Simmonz who were both on the PWG show here? Or Leroy Kincade, the current FWA All England champion?
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Most people who play a sport do it to have fun with others who share the same interest. But it's not always fun and games. There can be plenty of pressure in high school sports. Sometimes pressure comes from the feeling that a parent or coach expects you to always win.
But it can come from inside, too: Some players are just really hard on themselves. And specific situations can add pressure: Maybe there's a recruiter from your No. 1 college scouting you on the sidelines.
Whatever the cause, the pressure to win can sometimes stress you to the point where you just don't know how to have fun anymore.
It's natural to feel some stress before a big game or when facing a tough opponent. That positive pressure can prepare us to do our best. Stress can help us rise to a challenge and meet it with alertness, focus, and strength.
When the challenge is over, the stress lets up. We can relax and recharge. Then we're ready for the next challenge. But at times, there are more demands and pressures than we can handle. Stress can pile up if the stressful situation doesn't have a specific end point.
Ongoing stress can exhaust our energy and drive. And, it can interfere with doing our best.
If you're facing stress that doesn't let up or feeling so pressured you're not enjoying sports, it's time to do something about it.
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Talk over these ideas with a friend, parent, coach, or fitness instructor. Get their perspectives, support, and advice. Ask them to help you decide what to do to ease the pressure you're facing. Just sharing what you're going through can lower stress, refresh your energy, and remind you that you're not alone.
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Stress will always be a part of competition and sports. But we can use stress to our advantage by dialing it back and managing it well. We can use stress to boost our performance rather than let it defeat us.
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Okay, lets get this show on the road!
Iron Scorpions - Brag
The hero rallies his troops. "Onward! Seize the day!"
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This is Karlos. Karlos likes smashing stuff. Karlos sees something to smash. Karlos away!
Oh, Karlos! You clumsy bastard! (Disrupted)
The rider understands what Karlos was going for.
With the 40 watt bulb sun shining on him, he charges at the wagon.
With a successful charge, the halberd makes contact, pushing the wagon forward-
-two inches.
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The boats move towards the pier, and dock.
The Elite Knight gets out of the boat, and starts climbing the tower. (Seriously, Lego, would it kill you to place some stairs once in a while?) He is followed by a worker.
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The King addresses the fisherman. "Don't you want to make something of your life? Then go and die for me!"
The fisherman doesn't even seem to notice. He casts out again.
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Drakkhiri - Zahru II
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Beach Hoes - Ogel96
Surrounded by fighting and zombies, the Hoes do the obvious thing. Throw an awesome beach party!
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Orkz - FISH!!!
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I know these songs. They play in the taxi, as soon as you leave for the city from Khomenei Airport, they rumble in the kebab shop and in the bazaar, they stiffen your mind during the all-day bus route across the desert. But I have never seen people publicly dancing to them, especially not with a glass of whisky in the hand, and particularly not in the company of girls with uncovered hair and in skirts that at the thigh. Any of these subplots individually would call out for a few years of prison in Iran. But not in Berlin, in Neukölln's Werkstatt der Kulturen, in the cellar of which a Noruz celebration, a spring New Year's disco is being held tonight. The songs are the characteristic pieces of rollicking Iranian music, laments in Persian about the torment of love and the inevitability of adulthood, singing Egyptian pop in Arabic, which is becoming increasingly fashionable in Iran, or changing to Iranian-Azerbaijani Torki or Kurdish folk songs for the sake of the Iranian ethnic minorities present in the room. The audience still responds as they did at home, the boys dance only with boys and the girls with girls, but at least no longer in separate rooms, but in a common space, laughing, embarrassed, at the unusual situation. The children wander about along the edge of the stage, they already grow into the situation, imitating the adults, until around midnight they are taken away to sleep.
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A wealth of topics are suggested by this week's Sepia Saturday image prompt depicting a scene very familiar to me from my school and university days, although I must admit that my efforts in the chemistry laboratory were never very successful. The plethora of bunsen burners, tripods, glass beakers and a shelf of bottles containing reagents are almost enough to overwhelm the class of teenage boys and their teacher, but it is school children to which I'll direct my attention in this post.
Vintage school photos have long intrigued me, and I must confess to a degree of sympathy for the nineteenth century photographer who was called to his neighbourhood school for the annual class portrait sessions. Anyone who has tried to photograph a group of school children will appreciate how tricky it is to capture the attention of all individuals simultaneously, and to prevent any of the more unruly in the class from pulling funny faces just as the shutter is released.
Unidentified class portrait by Erasmus Bostock of Derby, c.1889-1892
Large format print (157 x 100mm) mounted on card (166 x 108mm)
Image © and collection of Brett Payne
This class of 55 children - I make it 22 girls and 33 boys, but am unsure of the gender of a few of them - are being very capably supervised by a severe looking older woman at far right, who has one little miscreant firmly in her grasp, and her eagle eye on a troublesome group of boys in the centre. The younger teacher on the left, perhaps an assistant, also has her hand on a young girl's shoulder. The photographer's "hold still" command or some other attention grabbing signal (he's very unlikely to have asked them to "smile for the camera" as smiling wasn't part of the portrait convention for the Victorians) has produced a very successful response. Only two of the children were moving when he eventually exposed the glass plate.
And that is before the complicated processes involved in collodion or wet-plate photography are taken into account [1]. There is evidence suggesting that Erasmus Bostock started his career as a scholastic photographer in the mid-1870s, apprenticed at the Derby studio of William Pearson [2], when wet-plate photography was still very much the norm. Although the gelatin dry-plate procedure was first described by Maddox in print in 1871, it wasn't until March 1878 that an improved technique was published by Charles Bennett in the British Journal of Photography. The new dry plates could be prepared in advance of the sitting, and then processed later, but an additional benefit was that the new gelatin emulsion were considerably "faster," reducing exposure times to as little as a tenth of a second. [3]
Unidentified class portrait by Erasmus Bostock of Derby, c.1889-1892
Large format print (162 x 104mm) mounted on card (166 x 107mm)
Image © and collection of Brett Payne
The second portrait, the pair having been purchased together on eBay, was probably taken on the same day, and appears to be a class of 49 slightly younger boys (24) and girls (25). This time there is only one smartly dressed and coiffured school mistress, who is looking after a rather fidgety boy, but the remainder of the class seem pretty well behaved, if a little glum (apart from a talkative girl who moved her head sharply just as the exposure took place). My guess is that somewhere in the two group portraits are two siblings, although there is no indication which school this was and all provenance has sadly been lost.
Thornton-Pickard Triple Imperial Extension camera, c.1903-1910s
Image © and courtesy of the Tauranga Heritage Collection
Photographic manufacturers began to produce dry-plates over the next few months from March 1978, and within a few years, the wet-plate process had by and large been abandoned. By the time Bostock took these two portraits around 1890, he would almost certainly have used a dry-plate camera. The dimensions of these prints (roughly 6¼" x 4") suggests that he may have taken two exposures side-by-side on a full-plate (6½" x 8½") device, perhaps something similar to the slightly later Thornton-Pickard Triple Imperial Extension folding bellows camera, shown below, that I recently photographed in the Tauranga Heritage Collection. Many models of folding stand cameras were produced in Great Britain from the 1870s to the 1890s [4], and the excellent Early Photography web site has a wide selection of such field cameras on display [5].
Reverse of card mount by Erasmus Bostock of Derby, c.1889-1892
Image © and collection of Brett Payne
Derby had several photographers who were prepared to visit schools - I have seen examples from George Holden, Thomas Lewis, R.K. Peacock, Gervase Gibson & Sons and George Bower [6-9] - but Erasmus Foster Bostock appears to have been the only practitioner to have specialised in scholastic portraits. As evidenced by a class photo taken c.1881-1882 [7], Bostock used a hand stamp rather than cardstock pre-printed with his name for at least a decade. Although this was slightly unusual for a photographer who remained in business in one location for more than a couple of years, it would have been slightly cheaper and would have given him the added flexibility of being able to trim card mounts to suit particular photographs.
Unidentified class portrait by E.F. Bostock of Nottingham, c.1900-1902
Large format print (209 x 155mm) mounted on decorated card (261 x 209mm)
Image © and collection of Brett Payne
Between 1891 and 1894 Bostock moved with his family to the nearby town of Nottingham, where he again set up a practice as a schools photographer, operating out of his home at 76 Burford Road (1894-1901) and 32 Maples Street (1901-c.1902) [10-14]. It is during the latter period that I estimate he took this very competent, albeit now somewhat damaged, class photograph of 36 children (28 boys and 8 girls). While the card stock now has a printed design surround the photograph, he was still printing his name and location on the mount.
The imbalance between numbers of boys and girls, the wide range in apparent ages (from 7 or 8 to early teens), and the shape of the door in the background all suggest to me that it was perhaps a Sunday School class. A somewhat hirsute male teacher this time casts a stern eye over his well-behaved charges. I note that several of the pupils have medals pinned to their lapels or, in the case of the girls, bodices - one surprised looking boy has three of them! I hope this was the "Gregory" whose name is pencilled on the back. Apart from this, there are no clues as to location or identity of the subjects.
Samuel Collison (b. 1886), aged 17 or 18, taken c.1903-1904
Cabinet card portrait by E.F. Bostock of 24 Moorgate Street, Nottingham
Image © and courtesy of Simon Collison, Some rights reserved
Between 1902 and 1903, judging by entries in trade directories of the period, Bostock started operating a portrait studio with premises at 24 Moorgate Street, Radford (now a suburb of Nottingham) [15,16]. This appears to be the same premises occupied by well known Radford photographer Edward Carnell from 1879 until 1901 [14], and I suspect that Bostock took over the business from Carnell on the latter's retirement. That he already had some experience of studio portraiture is clear from the early 1880s portrait in my profile of Bostock. Perhaps he found that catering to schools alone was not bringing in sufficient business, or it may simply have been that he was weary of the seasonal and peripatetic nature of that work, but it seems that from 1903 onwards he concentrated on studio portraiture.
In 1915, he moved again to a studio at 44 Clarendon Street and in 1919, at the age of 61, Erasmus Bostock died after three and a half decades in the photographic business. [18,19] The studio was probably taken over by his son Erasmus James Bostock (1885-1970), who was working as a photographic assistant in 1911 and still described himself as a photographer when he emigrated with his wife and young son to Australia in October 1928. [20-23]
[1] Hirsch, Robert (2009) Pictures on Glass: The Wet-Plate Process, Chapter 4 in Seizing The Light (2nd edition), available online on Luminous Lint.
[2] Payne, Brett (2009) All lined up in the school playground in their Sunday best, Photo-Sleuth, 17 October 2009.
[3] Coe, Brian (1976) The Birth of Photography: The Story of the Formative Years, 1800-1900, Great Britain: Ash & Grant, p 38-39.
[4] Coe, Brian (1978) Cameras: From Daguerreotypes to Instant Pictures, United States: Crown Publishers, p 29-40.
[5] Field Cameras, on the Early Photography web site.
[6] Payne, Brett (2011) Sepia Saturday 97: Geo W Holden, Brother of the more famous Jack, on Photo-Sleuth, 20 October 2011.
[7] Payne, Brett (2008) More photos from St James' Board School, on Photo-Sleuth, 14 September 2008.
[8] Payne, Brett (2008) St. Chad's Church Schools, Derby, 1895, on Photo-Sleuth, 10 May 2008.
[9] Payne, Brett (2007) A Derbyshire photographer working afield, on Photo-Sleuth, 15 August 2007.
[10] 1891 Census for 102 Drewry Lane, Derby St Werburgh, Derbyshire Ref. RG12/2731/102/15/95, courtesy of Ancestry.co.uk.
[11] Anon (1891) Kelly's Directory of Derbyshire, Leicestershire & Rutland, and Nottinghamshire, Seventh Edition, 1891, London: Kelly & Co., courtesy of the University of Leicester's Historical Directories.
[12] Wright, C.N. (1895) Directory of Nottingham and Twelve Miles Round, Seventeenth Edition, 1894-1895, courtesy of the University of Leicester's Historical Directories.
[13] Wright, C.N. (1899) Directory of the City of Nottingham, Nineteenth Edition, 1898-1899, courtesy of the University of Leicester's Historical Directories.
[14] Heathcote, Bernard V. & Heathcote, Pauline F. (1982) Leicester Photographic Studios in Victorian & Edwardian Times, publ. Historical Group of the Royal Photographic Society.
[15] Anon (1903) Wright's Directory of the City of Nottingham including the Immediate Neighbourhoods, Twenty-First Edition, 1902-1903, London: Kelly's Directories Ltd., courtesy of Ancestry.co.uk.
[16] Anon (1904) Kelly's Directory of Nottinghamshire, 1904, London: Kelly's Directories Ltd., courtesy of the University of Leicester's Historical Directories.
[17] Portrait of Simon Collison, Image © and courtesy of Simon Collison's Flickr photostream.
[18] Anon (1916) Wright's Directory of Nottingham and Neighbourhood, Twenty-Sixth Edition, 1915-1916, London: Kelly's Directories Ltd., courtesy of the University of Leicester's Historical Directories.
[19] UK General Register Office Death Index entry for Erasmus F Bostock, aged 61, Dec Qtr 1919, Nottingham Registration District, Vol 7b Pg 356, courtesy of FreeBMD.
[20] 1911 Census for 32 Maples St, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, courtesy of Ancestry.co.uk.
[21] Anon (1920) Wright's Directory of Nottingham and Neighbourhood, Twenty-Seventh Edition, 1920, London: Kelly's Directories Ltd., courtesy of Ancestry.co.uk.
[22] Passenger Manifest for ship Hobson's Bay, London (England) to Sydney (Australia), 30 October 1928, in UK, Outward Passenger Lists, 1890-1960 database, courtesy of Ancestry.co.uk.
[23] NSW Registry of Births, Deaths & Marriages Index entry for James Bostock, 1970, Hornby, Reg No 14672/1970, courtesy of the NSW Government web site.


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Wabash College's Visiting Artists Series will present Project V.O.I.C.E. at 8 p.m., Monday, Feb. 24, in Salter Concert Hall in the Fine Arts Center.
Project V.O.I.C.E. (Vocal Outreach Into Creative Expression) celebrates and inspires self-expression through spoken word poetry. The co-directors of Project VOICE, Sarah Kay and Phil Kaye, have performed at such diverse venues as TED 2011 (with a presentation that Wired Magazine noted: "blew down the house"), Lincoln Center, the United Nations, and HBO's Def Poetry Jam.
Conceived in 2004, Project V.O.I.C.E. encourages young people to engage with the world around them and use poetry as an instrument to explore and better understand their culture, society, and ultimately themselves. Project V.O.I.C.E. presents a variety of subjects from the personal to the political, and draws from traditions of storytelling, stand-up comedy, song, and lyricism.
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Via the Right Scoop and Mediaite, a point of divergence from conservative orthodoxy by CPAC's newest scheduled speaker. The urban/rural distinction was actually a key part of Breyer's dissent in the Heller case five years ago that established an individual right to bear arms under the Second Amendment:
[H]andguns are not only popular tools for crime, but popular objects of it as well: the FBI received on average over 274,000 reports of stolen guns for each year between 1985 and 1994, and almost 60% of stolen guns are handguns… Department of Justice studies have concluded that stolen handguns in particular are an important source of weapons for both adult and juvenile offenders. Ibid.
Statistics further suggest that urban areas, such as the District, have different experiences with gun-related death, injury, and crime, than do less densely populated rural areas. A disproportionate amount of violent and property crimes occur in urban areas, and urban criminals are more likely than other offenders to use a firearm during the commission of a violent crime… Homicide appears to be a much greater issue in urban areas; from 1985 to 1993, for example, "half of all homicides occurred in 63 cities with 16% of the nation's population."… One study concluded that although the overall rate of gun death between 1989 and 1999 was roughly the same in urban than rural areas, the urban homicide rate was three times as high; even after adjusting for other variables, it was still twice as high… And a study of firearm injuries to children and adolescents in Pennsylvania between 1987 and 2000 showed an injury rate in urban counties 10 times higher than in nonurban counties…
Finally, the linkage of handguns to firearms deaths and injuries appears to be much stronger in urban than in rural areas. "[S]tudies to date generally support the hypothesis that the greater number of rural gun deaths are from rifles or shotguns, whereas the greater number of urban gun deaths are from handguns."… And the Pennsylvania study reached a similar conclusion with respect to firearm injuries—they are much more likely to be caused by handguns in urban areas than in rural areas.
Citations omitted. I'm a bit surprised that Democrats haven't made more of urban/rural logic on guns, punctuated by the federalist approach that Carson endorses here. Obama and Biden pay lip service to it, periodically reassuring rural gun owners that no one wants to take away their hunting rifle or shotgun, but that argument's hard to swallow when they're pushing blanket bans on certain weapons nationwide from the seat of power in D.C. The smarter approach would be for O to declare that he doesn't believe in a one-size-fits-all solution on guns and then call on Democrats to agitate for bans at the city and state level. That would kill some of the conservative pushback to gun control — most red-staters would have little to fear — while letting city dwellers live out their fondest confiscatory fantasies. There would be limits, obviously; the point of the Heller decision is that not even cities can ban handguns outright. But there are still a lot of blanks in Heller that will be filled in by federal courts over the next decade or two in terms of which weapons, precisely, can be regulated. Liberal energy would be better spent convincing cities to limit permissible handguns to revolvers than trying to put a dent in the country's inventory of hundreds of thousands of AR-15s. After all, we're already past the point of anyone besides Piers Morgan seriously believing that a new assault-weapons ban will prevent mass shootings. If you're inclined to grab guns capable of doing lots of damage, you should be focused on semiautomatics generally rather than on scary-looking rifles that resemble M-16s. And the only way you'll make a dent there is by stepping back from your national ambitions and respecting urban/rural differences on this subject.


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"We want to know if you think we should change the eligibility criteria for farmers; whether we should repeal, retain or amend the score of financing requirements; and how we should regulate farm credit system lending for farmers' other credit needs," says Mark Johansen, policy analyst for the Farm Credit Administration in McLean, Va.
Comments on the issue are being solicited as a result of a petition filed with the Farm Credit Administration claiming the agency's current rules restrict the farm credit system's ability to serve creditworthy and eligible farmers, including those who have significant off-farm income, and young, beginning, and small farmers.
The petition also asks the Farm Credit Administration to repeal its rule limiting the amount of credit that can be extended to eligible farmers.
Bert Ely of Alexandria, Va., who publishes Farm Credit Watch, a farm credit system watchdog publication, says, "Many bankers understandably are skeptical about the Farm Credit Administration's willingness to crack down on farm credit system lending abuses. To some extent, this unwillingness stems from the fuzziness of the FCA regulations now under review."
Because of this, he encouraged bankers and producers to send the Farm Credit Administration suggestions on how to improve these regulations. That way, he says. "The Farm Credit Administration will be better equipped legally to enforce the spirit as well as the letter of the Farm Credit Act, which governs both the farm credit system and the Farm Credit Administration."
The Farm Credit Administration currently defines a farmer or rancher as a person who either owns agricultural land, or is engaging in the production of agricultural products.
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Comments on the issue, directed to the Farm Credit Agency, should be addressed to Robert E. Donnelly, Acting Director, Regulation and Policy Division, Office of Policy Analysis, Farm Credit Administration, 1501 Farm Credit Drive, McLean, Virginia 22102-5090. You can also e-mail your comments to firstname.lastname@example.com, or fax them to 703-734-5784. The deadline to respond the Farm Credit Agency's inquiry is July 31.
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Tuesday (5/29) local digest
VCTA summer activities starting soon
The registration deadline is coming up for several Valley City Tennis Association programs.
1) Summer Tennis League: Monday nights at 7pm from June 4 - July 30 playing the World Team Tennis format; $25 entry fee. Open to junior/senior high players and adults.
2) Adult Beginner Lessons: Monday nights from 6-7pm in June (4,11,18,25); $20 entry fee; 4 players minimum.
Registration is due by June 1 to the Valley City Parks and Recreation office. Call 840-1727 for more information.
VCSU offering youth basketball camps
The Valley City State University mens and womens basketball team will be hosting camps this summer.
The women will be hosting a position camp June 10-12, which starts at $135 per person for athletes in grades 5-12. The registration deadline is June 1.
From June 18-21, the mens team will host a boys camp for athletes in grades 2-12. There is a $60 fee per person and the registration deadline is June 14.
Complete information can be found at vikings.vcsu.edu or at the W.E. Osmon Fieldhouse.
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North Dakota State College of Science announced Friday that Valley City High School senior Allyson Suhr had signed a National Letter of Intent to play basketball for the school.
Suhr was a three year letter winner and led the Hi-Liners in points, rebounds, and blocks
"Allyson Suhr will give the team an added inside presence at 6-1, plus her experience in cross country and track has added to her athletic ability in becoming a solid inside player who will be a factor in running the fast break," NDSCS coach Paulette Stein said in a release.


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Kenneth Branagh is one intense bastard in the first trailer for Prodigal, a short film directed by Benjamin Grayson, Branagh's long-time assistant. In Prodigal, some kids are showing supernatural abilities, complete with the spooky black contact-lens eyes and demonic expressions as they make shit go haywire.
One of them is a little girl named Samantha (Jade Pettyjohn), whom two different organizations are trying to take away so they can study her. It's up to her father to save her from all the people who want to make use of her abilities or put her under a microscope. The main selling point, though, appears to be Branagh as one of the people who wants to lock Samantha up and use her to unlock the secret potential of the human brain. This short film also stars Jennifer Morrison, Winter Ave Zoli, Travis Crim and Taylor Kinney, and we'll let you know if it gets screened anywhere else, or shows up in its entirety online. [via The Playlist]


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Since we announced the release of IE7, we've noticed many questions and discussion about how well the program works with various screen readers and screen enlargers on the net. We wanted to provide the latest information we have from the various manufacturers of these products and answer some concerns around automatic updates.
IE7 and Automatic Updates
As we announced earlier, IE7 is now being distributed via automatic updates.That said, no matter what setting a user has for automatic updates, IE7 will not be installed without the user making an explicit choice to install IE7. Users will be given a notification screen that has choices to install, get a reminder to install later or to skip the install. IE7 will not be installed unless the user gives consent to have IE updated and users do not need to make changes to their automatic update settings.
Will IE7 Work With My Assistive Technology?
It is our suggestion that users of any assistive technology check with the manufacturer of their product about compatibility with any product and specific version. That said, we believe there are several shipping products or public betas that support IE7 today and those users should install IE7. For products that do not have an official version that supports IE7, we've tried to detail what issues the user will encounter. A user should assess the known issues with his or her comfort at working around the issues when installing IE7.
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To some extent the experience a user will have with IE7 is dependent on the particular screen reader or magnifier version a user is running. There are several instances where a user can install IE7 today and be working with little or no problem. We believe that by the end of November, sooner in several cases, products that require an official IE7 version will have shipped. Below are details on some of the products we know people use with IE7 today.
JAWS – Freedom Scientific
JAWS8, due out in November, adds enhanced support for IE such as announcement of RSS feeds on web pages and improved navigation of web pages with dynamically updating content. JAWS 7.1, the current shipping version, works well with IE7 with the exception of drop downs on web pages that are expanded or that the user expands. JAWS 7.1 does not read the item with focus in these cases. Freedom Scientific plans to release a free update to JAWS 7.1 that fixes this issue in approximately a week. JAWS 7.0 and earlier have several problems including missing content from frames on web pages, characters occasionally lost when typing in edit boxes, the previously described issues around web drop downs and the fact that JAWS configuration files which add specific enhancements for IE do not load. Updating to JAWS 7.1 from JAWS 7.0 or the 7.1 patch is a free update. Please watch the Freedom Scientific home page for more details.
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Window-Eyes 6.0, presently in public beta, will be the official version of the software to support IE7. We expect it to ship before the end of November. The biggest difference between 6.0 and 5.5 is that 6.0 automatically announces some of the newer security notifications for anti-phishing, secure and IDN web pages. Window-Eyes 6.0 also has better performance when loading web pages into the product's browse mode with IE7.
Window-Eyes 5.5, the current shipping version, works without any blocking issues with IE7. Users will find that the program's browse mode does not come on automatically if a web page sets focus to an edit box. In addition, browse mode can not be enabled when in an edit box on a web page. In both cases tabbing to another item on the web page makes browse mode available.
ZoomText – AI Squared
ZoomText 9.04 Magnifier and MagReader, is the official version to support IE7. Users running any ZoomText 9.X version can obtain a free update to version 9.04 using ZoomText's update feature or via a download from the company's web site. More details are available on the AI Squared update page.
ZoomText 9.03 Magnifier, works with IE7 today if the user makes a one-time change to IE's Use Clear Type setting. The user must turn this off from the Internet Options dialog. This is found in Internet Options:Advanced Tab:Multimedia:Always Use Clear Type. ZoomText 9.03 MagReader App and Doc readers do not work correctly with IE7. The issues have been resolved in ZoomText 9.04.
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There is a wide range of assistive technology for Windows and IE7 and this list covers only a few products. We welcome your feedback on your experiences with IE7 with the technology you are using. We'll continue to work with the assistive technology industry on support for IE7 and future versions of the product.
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Today was VBS at the project. Letty did an amazing job organizing the event. There were about 117 children who showed up to make picture frames, have a fluoride treatment, sing songs, read stories, play games, and paint a mural that will be hung up on the wall of the newly built classrooms.
The team did a wonderful job and the children had fun and were exhausted by the end of the event.
Part of the team continued working on building the walls of the classroom. There has been a lot of progress made and the classroom is looking great.
A couple of the team members went to see their sponsor child's homes. Meeting the sponsored children has been amazing and at times very emotional. The lives of the families and the hardships they face have been difficult to see at times. The sponsors have also seen first-hand the difference child-sponsorship makes in the life of a child. Not only have we experienced the hope within the child, but also the impact it makes in the lives of the family as well as the community.