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Joseph Biden
|Joseph Biden
|47th Vice President of the United States
From: January 20, 2009-January 20, 2017
|Barack Obama
|Dick Cheney
|Mike Pence
|Former U.S. Senator from Delaware
From: January 3, 1973 – January 15, 2009
|Cale Boggs
|Ted Kaufman
|Jill Biden
|Roman Catholic
Joe Biden (born Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr. on 20 November 1942) was the Vice President of the United States. Biden has been roundly criticized for his racist, sexist, and bigotted handling of the Clarence Thomas hearings,[1][2] and his pattern of offensive and disrespectful treatment of women and girls.[3] Biden is as of 2018 the most popular candidate among Democrats to challenge President Trump in 2020.[4]
Liberal Biden, notorious for his long-winded speeches and his foot-in-mouth moments, as illustrated by his declaration that "we have to go spend money to keep from going bankrupt."[5] A favorite of the liberal media, Biden avoids the mockery that greeted a less gaffe-prone predecessor, Dan Quayle.
Biden got a pass from fellow liberals in the media despite acting like a rude clown during his vice presidential debate with Paul Ryan in October 2012. Biden repeatedly interrupted Ryan and engaged in other offensive behavior, and even complained about not getting more time despite talking more than Ryan did. At one point Biden even nonsensically interjected, "so now you're Jack Kennedy?" in interrupting a valid point being made by Ryan.
Biden is the first Roman Catholic Vice President. He won few votes when running for president in 2008; he dropped out after placing fifth in Iowa in January, 2008. Biden became Barack Obama's vice-presidential running mate. His campaign stressed his Irish Catholic roots in appeals to working class Democrats, who had deserted Obama in the primaries but returned in the fall.
Biden, as a senator from Delaware from 1973-2009, chaired the Senate Judiciary Committee and subsequently the Committee on Foreign Relations. Biden in 2007 was ranked as the third most liberal Senator by the non-partisan National Journal.[6] Biden is a serial plagiarizer. He was accused of, and ultimately admitted to plagiarism while a student at Syracuse Law School.[7] He ran for President in 1988 but dropped out of the race after admitting he had plagiarized a speech by the leader of the British Labour Party.[8]
- 1 Early Life and Education
- 2 Family
- 3 United States Senate
- 4 Embarrassing or silly remarks
- 5 Hostile comments
- 6 Remarks about race or ethnicity
- 7 Quotations about Guns
- 8 Erroneous comments
- 9 Other quotations
- 10 1988 Presidential Campaign
- 11 2004 Presidential Election
- 12 2008 Presidential Campaign
- 13 Vice Presidential Nomination
- 14 Vice Presidency
- 15 References
- 16 See also
- 17 External links
Early Life and Education
Biden was born at Scranton State General Hospital in Scranton, Pennsylvania[9] and grew up in New Castle County, Delaware,[10] in a middle-class family. His father was a white collar businessmen who did well, but had fallen on hard times when Biden was a youth.[11] Biden attended Archmere Academy, a private Catholic college-preparatory high school in the Wilmington, Delaware area, graduating in 1961.[10] Biden took a summer job to help his family pay for his schooling.[11][12] He graduated from the University of Delaware in 1965, and from the Syracuse University College of Law in 1968 near the bottom of his class.[10] While attending Syracuse Law School, he submitted a paper in which he plagiarized from a law review article. After receiving a grade of F, he was permitted to retake the course.[13]
In 1966, while still in law school, Biden married Neilia Hunter.[9] They had three children together: Joseph R. "Beau" Dien, III, Robert Hunter, and Naomi. Shortly after his election to the Senate in 1972, his wife and infant daughter were killed in a car accident, and his two sons were seriously injured.[9] He eventually remarried to Dr. Jill Biden (née Jacobs), an educator in Delaware's schools.[10] She currently is an instructor[14] teaching at Delaware Technical Community College. Together, the couple added a daughter, Ashley Biden, to the family.[10]
Since 1991, Biden has been an adjunct professor at the Widener University School of Law, where he teaches a seminar on constitutional law.[10]
Biden is the father of Hunter Biden, who was thrown out of the US Navy for cocaine use. In April 2013, Hunter Biden joined the Board of Directors of Burisma, a Ukrainian oil and gas company.[15][16] The status of an independent Ukraine became the focus of much fake news reporting by the Washington Post to drive a wedge between President Donald Trump's efforts to improve relations with the Russian Federation following the disastrous foreign policy of President Barack Obama, which created a "zone of chaos" throughout the Middle East, North Africa, and the Caucus region.
United States SenateCale Boggs. In 1973, he hence became the fifth-youngest U.S. Senator in U.S. history. He was later reelected six times. On the abortion issue, Biden is pro-abortion and opposed President George W. Bush's two nominees to the U.S. Supreme court. On Roe v. Wade he said, "I strongly support Roe v. Wade....That's why I led the fight to defeat [Robert] Bork. Thank God he is not in the Court or Roe v. Wade would be gone by now."[17] He received a 100% rating from NARAL Pro-Choice America in 2001, 2004, 2005 and 2006,[18] but not in other years because of his opposition to partial-birth abortion and public funding for abortions.[19] On government spending Biden requested 116 congressional earmarks in 2008 alone, resulting in $342 million in taxpayer money.[20] He is a strong opponent of 2nd-amendment rights, earning an F by the National Rifle Association. Biden has also voted to give Social Security benefits and citizenship to illegal aliens. On energy, he opposes increased domestic oil production, saying proponents of offshore drilling want to "rape" the Outer Continental Shelf.[21]
As chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Biden was a major player in making foreign policy. He voted against aid the government of South Vietnam leading to its collapse in 1975. He called the fall of the Shah in the Iranian Revolution in 1979 a step forward for human rights. He opposed Ronald Reagan's development of the missile defense system. He voted against the Persian Gulf War in 1991, but voted for the Iraq War Resolution in 2002, although he criticized the Bush administration's management of the war. He voted against setting a timetable for troop withdrawal and is against cutting off funding for the troops on the ground. In a 2005 interview with Meet the Press, Biden said, "I've been calling for more troops [in Iraq] for over two years, along with John McCain and others subsequent to my saying that." On July 23, 2007, Biden said, "there's not a single military man in this audience, who will tell this Senator he can get those troops out in six months if the order goes today, let's start telling the truth." [22] He has also proposed dividing the Iraqi Population by giving Kurds, Shiites and Sunnis their own regions.
Biden was a long-time member of the U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary, which he chaired from 1987 until 1995 and served as ranking minority member from 1981 until 1987 and again from 1995 until 1997. He almost never supported a supreme court nominee who was not in his party and presided over two of the more contentious U.S. Supreme Court confirmation hearings ever, Robert Bork in 1987 and the racially motivated hearings for Clarence Thomas[23] in 1991.
Joe Biden has close ties with lobbyists, receiving $5,133,072 in contributions from lawyers and lobbyists since 2003.[24] One of Biden's sons, Hunter Biden, has been a registered Washington lobbyist since 2001.[25]
Embarrassing or silly remarks
- When Representative Gabrielle Giffords returned to Congress after a long hiatus (which was the result of her being shot in the head), Biden (who had a brain surgery in the past) remarked to her that "Now we're both members of the Cracked Head Club".[26]
- When he met Irish Prime Minister Brian Cowen, Biden said "God rest her soul" in reference to Cowen's mother. However, it was Cowen's father that died, not his mother.[27]
Hostile comments
- At one 2005 political event he said, "The next Republican that tells me I'm not religious, I'm going to shove my rosary down their throat." [28]
- In March 2007, Biden was criticizing President George W. Bush for vetoing a bill that would set a timeline for troops to be removed from Iraq, saying that Congress should "shove it down his throat."[29]
- In February 2019, Biden criticized U.S. President Donald Trump in Germany, breaking a longstanding tradition of not criticizing the current commander-in-chief in foreign countries.[30]
Remarks about race or ethnicity
- In July 2006, while speaking to a group of Indian-Americans in Delaware, Biden stated, "You cannot go to a 7-11 or a Dunkin' Donuts unless you have a slight Indian accent. I'm not joking." His comment was caught on C-SPAN.[31]
- In August 2006, Biden was on Fox News Sunday and bragged about his state being a former slave state. "You don't know my state. My state was a slave state. My state is a border state. My state is the eighth largest black population in the country. My state is anything from a northeast liberal state." [32]
- Talking about his fellow Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama he said in January 2007, "I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy, ... I mean, that's a storybook, man." [33]
Quotations about Guns
- During a February 2013 interview, Biden said that if there was a "problem" that his wife should "walk out on the balcony here, walk out, put that double-barrel shotgun and fire two blasts outside the house." [34] Doing so is of course, illegal, and would leave his wife holding an empty shotgun while dealing with the "problem".
- In another February 2013 interview, Biden said "[if] you want to keep someone away from your house, just fire the shotgun through the door." Coincidently, a man from Virginia Beach had done just that a few days before, and was arrested.[35]
Erroneous comments
- Joe Biden once told voters that his helicopter was "forced down" on "the superhighway of terror" by Afghan extremists. When actually, snow forced the helicopter pilot to land and wait out a storm.[36]
- In the Oct. 2008 VP debate, Biden made numerous misstatements, on topics ranging from the Constitution to the Mideast.[37]
- He said he was second in line to be President when he was first and Nancy Pelosi was second at the time.[38]
- During the 2008 presidential campaign, Biden said that "When the stock market crashed, Franklin Roosevelt got on the television and didn't just talk about the princes of greed. He said, 'look, here's what happened.'"[39] In actuality television wasn't in use for another twenty years and the president during the 1929 stock market crash was Herbert Hoover, not Franklin Roosevelt.
- In another erroneous remark made during the presidential campaign, Biden referred to Sarah Palin as lieutenant Governor of Alaska, when in fact she the state's Governor at the time.[40]
Other quotations
- During the 2008 presidential elections Joe Biden gave a speech in Springfield, Illinois in which he introduced the Democratic nominee for president as "Barack America".[41]
- Biden remarked about the 2010 Midterm "I was amazed at the amount of money, this $200 billion of money that is — where there's no accountability." Clearly he meant $200 million says the New York Times.[42] Though just a moment later. "So it really — I've never seen this before, so the only caveat I'd put in terms of the House is how much impact this $200 billion are going to mean."
- During the 2005 confirmation hearings for Justice John Roberts, Biden asked Roberts, "Can a microscopic tag be planted in someones body to track his every move, you will rule on that." [43]
- He said "Its easy being Vice President." Then a lawmaker said "It's like being the grandpa and not the parent," to which he responded "Yeah, that's it!"[45]
- After ObamaCare was signed into law, Biden was caught swearing on camera while expressing his joy.[46]
- Biden was caught swearing again while speaking to a former Senate colleague.[47]
Read more: Biden - "It's Easy Being Vice President", Fox News
1988 Presidential Campaign
Joe Biden announced his candidacy for President in 1987. He ran on his experience, saying in an campaign advertisement "The White House isn't the place to learn how to deal with international crisis, the balance of power, war and peace, and the economic future of the next generation." [48] His campaign was short-lived due to controversies. While campaigning in New Hampshire in 1987, a civilian asked about his grades in college, to which Biden yelled, "I think I have a much higher I.Q. than you do." He went on to say that he "went to law school on a full academic scholarship - the only one in my class to have a full academic scholarship" adding that he "ended up in the top half" of his class (Biden graduated 76th in a class of 85) and "graduated with three degrees from college."
Biden explained his comments "I did not graduate in the top half of my class at law school and my recollection of this was inacurate...I graduated from the University of Delaware with a double major in history and political science. My reference to degrees at the Claremont event was intended to refer to these majors - I said 'three' and should have said 'two'." [49]
Later in the campaign he was found to have plagiarized a speech from British Labour Party leader Neil Kinnock. The plagiarism was considered all the more serious, because it included details of Kinnock's life which were not true in Biden's case. Biden dropped out of the race in December 1987, and did not participate in the 1988 Democratic caucuses and primaries.
2004 Presidential Election
Joe Biden considered running as a Presidential candidate for the 2004 elections, but then decided against it, saying that it would be "now too much of a long shot.".[50] He was later mentioned as a possible running mate for Democratic Senator John Kerry, but he instead urged Kerry to chose Senator John McCain.[51]
2008 Presidential Campaign
Biden declared his candidacy for President on January 31, 2007 after months of prior discussions, but later withdrew after the Iowa Caucus when his candidacy failed to catch on with the voters.[52]
He ran on his foreign policy experience and credentials in the Senate. On November 15, 2007, during the CNN presidential debate, he said
"This is not about experience. It's not about change. It's about action. Who among us is going to be able to, on Day 1, step in and end the war?".
In the 2007 ABC debate with the Democratic presidential candidates, Biden was asked about the statement he made earlier regarding Barack Obama. He said:
"I think he can be ready but right now, I don't believe he is. The presidency is not something that lends itself to on-the-job training." Biden replied "I think that I stand by the statement." [53]
Joe Biden withdrew from the presidential race on January 3, after coming 5th in the Iowa caucus, receiving only 1% of the vote.
Vice Presidential NominationBarack Obama, in that he would add foreign policy experience to the ticket. When asked in June over the speculation, Biden stated, "I'd make a great president. I'd make a great Secretary of State. I'd make a great vice president." [54] On August 19, Biden was asked by reporters of his VP status, to which he replied "Hey guys, I'm not the guy. See ya." [55]
In August 2005 Biden paradoxically and nonsensically said, "John McCain is a personal friend, a great friend, and I would be honored to run with or against John McCain, because I think the country would be better off."[56]
However, on August 23 it was announced that Biden would be Obama's 2008 running mate. They appeared together in Springfield, Illinois. Obama proudly introduced Senator Biden,
"Let me introduce to you, the next president — the next vice president of the United States of America, Joe Biden."
Biden took the stage and endorsed Obama, saying,
"In this election year the choice is clear, one man stands ready to deliver change we desperately need, a man I'm proud to call my friend, a man who will be the next President of the United States, Barack America."
Obama hoped Biden would help the ticket in multiple ways:
- Biden has extensive foreign policy experience in the United States Senate and as such could have helped to bolster Obama's comparative lack of experience in this area.
- Biden is Catholic, and Obama was weak with that key voting bloc; however, the Catholic Church may have taken offense at Biden's pro-abortion positions (see below).
- Biden was born in Pennsylvania, a must-win state for Obama where he was thought to be weak;[57]
- Biden's son is going to Iraq, which may have helped to rehabilitate Obama's image as anti-military; however, Biden himself never served.
Almost immediately after his selection, the conflict between his pro-abortion position and that of his church surfaced:[58]
- Biden has said: "I am a long-standing supporter of Roe v. Wade and a woman's right to choose." But Biden's own bishop, Bishop Michael Saltarelli of Wilmington, Del., has ... denounced the notion that politicians can 'personally oppose' abortion, but refuse to pass laws protecting the unborn. He made clear that pro-abortion Catholic politicians should refrain from receiving the Eucharist:
- "The promotion of abortion by any Catholic is a grave and serious matter. Objectively, according to the constant teaching of the Scriptures and the Church, it would be more spiritually beneficial for such a person to refrain from receiving the Body and Blood of Christ. I ask Catholics in this position to have the integrity to respect the Eucharist, Catholic teaching and the Catholic faithful."
In September of the campaign Biden asked Missouri State Senator Chuck Graham, who has paralysis, to "Stand up, Chuck, let 'em see you. Oh, God love you. What am I talking about? I tell you what, you're making everybody else stand up, though, pal. I tell you what, stand up for Chuck." [44]
Biden's Republican opponent for the Vice Presidency was Alaska Governor Sarah Palin. They participated in their first and only Vice Presidential debate on October 2 in St. Louis, Missouri. Biden was elected the 47th Vice President of the United States on November 4, 2008.
Vice PresidencySwine Flu. People health officials rejected his scare tactics and the White House immediately repudiated them.
Under President Obama the budget deficit reached over $1 trillion for the first time in history. When asked over the fate of the United States' going into bankruptcy, Biden stated at an AARP meeting, "Now, people when I say that look at me and say, "What are you talking about, Joe? You're telling me we have to go spend money to keep from going bankrupt?'" Biden said. "The answer is yes, that's what I'm telling you."[5]
Biden was placed in charge of promoting the Administration's Recovery Summer in 2010, an attempt to highlight the Democratic Congress's American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, or "economic stimulus program. During Recovery Summer, the workforce shrank, unemployment swelled, and economic growth slowed to less than 2%. As more Americans became the victims of joblessness, by the 2010 Midterm elections more than 27,000,000 people were unemployed or underemployed.
- ↑ https://www.essence.com/news/politics/joe-biden-anita-hill-comment-2020-presidential-run/
- ↑ https://youtu.be/sM19YOqs7hU
- ↑ https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/compost/wp/2015/02/18/what-are-we-going-to-do-about-creepy-uncle-joe-biden/
- ↑ https://www.politico.com/story/2018/08/01/biden-trump-2020-elections-752979
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Joe Biden: 'We Have to Go Spend Money to Keep From Going Bankrupt', Cybercast News Service
- ↑ Biden's Senate Vote Record, National Journal
- ↑ Biden Was Accused of Plagiarism in Law School, The New York Times
- ↑ Why Biden's plagiarism shouldn't be forgotten. - Slate Magazine - Aug. 25, 2008
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 Joe Biden Timeline
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 10.3 10.4 10.5 Joe Biden Biography
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 Joe Biden's Mythical Blue-Collar Roots, Real Clear Politics
- ↑ Archmere Academy [1] Tuition for 2008-2009 is $18,450.
- ↑ Biden Admits Plagiarism in School But Says It Was Not 'Malevolent', By E. J. DIONNE JR., SPECIAL TO THE NEW YORK TIMES, Published: September 18, 1987
- ↑ Delaware Technical Community College - College Catalog
- ↑ http://burisma.com/en/board-of-directors/
- ↑ http://www.dw.com/en/who-are-hunter-bidens-ukrainian-bosses/a-17642254
- ↑ Where Do the Candidates Stand on Abortion?, National Right to Life Committee
- ↑ http://www.votesmart.org/issue_rating_category.php?can_id=53279
- ↑ http://www.ontheissues.org/Social/Joe_Biden_Abortion.htm
- ↑ Biden, Obama helped keep 'Bridge to Nowhere' alive, CNN
- ↑ http://www.votesmart.org/speech_detail.php?sc_id=400058
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wylferBh3IA
- ↑ Clarence Thomas High-Tech Lynching
- ↑ Statesman known for slips of his tongue, Politico
- ↑ Biden's son a registered lobbyist since 2001, USA Today
- ↑ Biden jokes Giffords is in 'Cracked Head Club' , USA Today
- ↑ Joe Biden loses the gift of the gab on St Patrick's Day - The Daily Telegraph, The Daily Telegraph
- ↑ Does Biden Have a Catholic Problem?, Time Magazine
- ↑ Biden on Iraq Bill: 'Shove It Down His Throat', Newsmax
- ↑ Gehrke, Joel (February 16, 2019). Biden tells Europeans in Munich that America is 'an embarrassment'. Washington Examiner. Retrieved February 16, 2019.
- ↑ Biden explains Indian-American remarks, MSNBC
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFduMuP7v-k
- ↑ Biden's description of Obama draws scrutiny, CNN
- ↑ Biden Shotgun Advice Draws Quizzical Response, The New York Times
- ↑ Biden Advises Shooting Shotgun Through Door, U.S. News & World Report
- ↑ Fact Check: Biden's Chopper Was 'Forced Down' by Snowflakes, Fox News
- ↑ Did Biden Get It Wrong? You Betcha, Fox News
- ↑ Bozo the VP botches line of succession, Michelle Malkin
- ↑ Behind The Scenes With Joe Biden, CBSNews
- ↑ Biden's Palin Demotion, Time Magazine
- ↑ Barack America and President Biden? Ooops..., Christian Science Monitor
- ↑ $200 Billion in Ads, Mr. Biden? That's Real Money, The New York Times, October 22, 2010
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbPvWm9ZkYw
- ↑ 44.0 44.1 Joe Biden to Man in Wheechair: "Stand Up, Chuck. Let 'Em See Ya!", Rush Limbaugh
- ↑ Biden - "It's Easy Being Vice President", Fox News
- ↑ US health care: Joe Biden swears after Barack Obama signs historic reforms , Daily Telegraph
- ↑ Joe Biden swearing in senators makes great TV, Fox News
- ↑ Biden's Foreign Policy Background Carries Growing Cachet, Wall Street Journal
- ↑ Biden Admits Errors and Criticizes Latest Report, The New York Times
- ↑ Who is in, who is out 2004, CNN
- ↑ McCain urged to join Kerry ticket, MSNBC
- ↑ Biden, Dodd Bow Out of Presidential Race After Poor Showings in Iowa, Fox News
- ↑ McCain Launches TV Ad Using Biden's Words Against Obama, Fox News, August 23, 2008
- ↑ The Hill's Blog Briefing Room: Biden: I'd Make a Great President, Secretary of State, Vice President
- ↑ Biden on Obama's VP Pick: 'I'm Not The Guy' ABC News, August 19, 2008
- ↑ 'Just Words' That Joe Biden Would Like To Forget, National Review Online
- ↑ Hillary Clinton defeated Obama by a wide margin in the Pennsylvania primary; in August polls show Obama leading McCain by an average of only 5.8% in Pennsylvania RealClearPolitics Pennsylvania Tracking
- ↑ Choice of Biden Re-Opens Catholic Wound, Reuters
See also
External links
- Biden On the Issues
- Voting Record, Washington Post
- Biography at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
- Presidential Race Site


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Autobiography of Adelheid Fischer
Scott 1872 - 1944
By Adelheid Fischer
Adelheid (Fischer) Scott was the daughter of Franz Karl and Margaretha (Kraft) Fischer.
Adelheid started to write about her personal insights on life in Russia in 1940 at age 68. Since her original writings were in German, they have been translated into English. She was only 12 years of age when she came to America, so she is writing as best she can remember.
Of their immigration to America, Adelheid writes:
Now the worst of it came; as there were 30 of us in all, with children and grandchildren. Mother said she wouldn't go without everyone, so dad told her not to worry as he would see they all get to go, as some of them didn't have their fare. Thank God all turned out well. If I remember right, we left in August and we landed in America in about October, so you can tell how long it took us to get here.
Of course, our uncles had to take us to the little town where we had to take the train, and it seems to me it was more like a funeral than anything else, as all of our friends were there to see us leave. It really was the first time any of us had ever gotten on a train. We finally boarded and got started and ...fare. Just a few of us in one of the cars. They were just like box cars - no place to eat, only on your lap, and no water, and no rest room, only when the train stopped. The cars were always locked so we couldn't get out. All the train men were Russians such great big men and they were sure men to...
Well, I think it took us three weeks until we got to Bremen; that
was in Germany, of course. That is where we had to take the ship.
I can just see myself and all the rest of our family - how funny
we all looked with our shawls on our heads. We had to have all of
our baggage hauled to the ship; they hauled it with some little
carts and the big boys had to pull the little carts. Well, it was
too funny for words, really. We all toddled after them, and I can
just hear myself laugh as I always got a big kick out of things.
My mother used to tell me to keep still as she always was so afraid
I might get left behind. I always wanted to see everything. If I
just had sense and would have paid more attention to things, I could
write better.
Well, to go on with my story. It must have been at least four o'clock in the afternoon when we got to the pier where we had to sail from. We had gotten into Bremen in the morning just at sunrise. It was a wonderful morning, and it was very hot! Well, we walked around and stretched our necks just like all folks who had never been in a city before. Was it a city! I can see the wonderful buildings and streets and street cars. They used dogs to do hauling of little things, and they also had big trucks. Poor folks couldn't afford them.
Well, to go back to where I left off at the ship. We all had to stand in line like they do here when they go to a show. My dad had to get his tickets out to let them sign. I never will forget when they asked him if he had all of his children with him, as 30, that's a lot. Dad said, "Wait till I see," so they said, "Are they all Fischers?" and dad said yes. Then they told us where to go and I never will forget we all had to climb three flights of stairs. Finally we landed in what they called second class.
My dad always had a big cask of brandy, and he always looked out for that as it was the only medicine I ever took in all my life. The ship purser started to take it from him. He hung on to it and it was a good thing as it came in handy. We all had to be vaccinated, and we got sick. Dad was our doctor. As for myself, I had an arm as big as a churn like we used when making butter, if you know what it is. I have made so many pounds of butter in churns and I wish I could have some of it now.
Well, we were on the ship for nine days on the way to New York and I want to say were we glad to get off of that ship. We just about starved as the food was just awful. At that, we had some good things as my sister and brother got a job in the kitchen and they used to bring us some good food. But for myself, I just lived on onions and tea, as I was sick the whole way.
Well, we got to New York in the morning; about ten o'clock. It took us about two hours until we got out. Of course, Dad had to stay to see to our baggage. They took us in a little ship and we had to go to what they called the Castle Garden* where all the passengers got off. Of course Dad didn't come for about three hours and we thought he got lost. Well, it was funny as Mother just had a fit almost as we couldn't tell her anything. She thought he had all the money and someone would rob him. But anyway, he finally came so, of course, we all were...and happy.
So we all went to find some place to eat. As you know, there are always some people that want to take you some place; and Dad, not being out in the world much, he just did as they told him. This old man could talk a little German, and he told Dad he could take us to a nice place to eat and it wouldn't cost us much. So we all went and we walked, and walked some more, and it was such a nice day and, of course, I was so interested, I wasn't a bit tired. There was so much to see - all the nice horses and the street cars always took my eyes as I always did love horses.
So we finally got to this place and it was just a little private house with one big table. I remember it had a great big looking glass in it so we could see ourselves all the time, and I had a lot of fun with my little shawl over my head. Well, I must tell you what we had for dinner: the first thing we had was rice soup and some crackers; then they took our bowls out and brought us some meat and brown gravy and brown potatoes, and some bread and butter. But there was so little of everything, we just didn't get filled up. But when we thought we were all done, then they brought us some rice pudding and some coffee.
Well, my Dad wanted to know how much it was, and the man said, "It will be just thirty dollars." I never will forget as long as I live as my Mother just about fell over, she was so shocked and I can see her yet, poor soul. She had glasses on and when she put her hand over her face, they fell on the floor. One glass fell out, but at the same time I had to giggle. I tell you, I never saw my Dad so mad, but he couldn't talk to the man, so he just had to pay and like it.
Afterwards, we went back to Castle Garden as it was called at that time. We kind of took our time. One of my brothers was a butcher and we happened to go by a big butcher shop. He said he would like to see, so he went in and looked around; when he came out, he said that you don't know what kind of meat we had for our dinner, as we all didn't know. I can see it yet as it was awfully coarse and I didn't eat any. But it was horse meat, so my Mother said, "Well, we will have to live on baloney the rest of the way," as we were going to South Dakota to stay for the winter Dad had some friends there. The name of the town was Yankton.
So we got on again after resting about twelve hours. I can remember just as if it were last night when we got in the train. It was so pretty and such pretty lights, and such wonderful sights. So we got to this town. I think it was the 18th of October, 1884 as much as I can remember, and I am almost sure.
My Dad rented a flat with eight rooms and bought just what we had to have to get along with, as he planned on going on a farm of his own in the spring. I know how tickled we all were at the first white bread we got and coffee. We just (lived) on it all winter as it was such a treat to us. We were sure a happy family until it was time for my folks to go on their farm as they called it at that time.
But it was more than that as Dad bought two wagons and two pair
of oxen. My aunts that were married, and Mother and Dad, they loaded
what house goods they had bought and were getting ready to go to
North Dakota to file on farm land. We (younger) ones, we had to
stay at this town where we'd spent the winter Yankton, South Dakota.
There were four of us and I was the youngest. Our Dad got us all
a place to work. He took all the money in advance so we just had
to stay until our year was up. And what do you think I got one dollar
a week and room and board. I don't know just how much my brothers
I was so lonesome and homesick at first, but I finally got used to it. I was left with a German family and they were the grandest people. They treated me just like their own. Well, I was a nice girl. They had three children; two of them just started to school and the one was only a year old, so I used to have to take care of them. Well, it was sure nice that I got in with such nice people as it was hard for me not knowing how to talk, only German. But the little girl could talk so we got along just fine. Always after school we used to go out in the garden and play school each day, and I used to be just tickled to have them tell me things. We had a lot of fun. They used to tell me how awful it was for me not to be able to go to school at my age as I could have. I could have gotten so many places to work for room and board as a lot of boys and girls did at that time, but our Dad just didn't see it that way. He really didn't think ahead as he told us we would have to get out and help him pay for bringing us over here.
Well, I haven't said a thing about my married brothers (Jacob, Martin and Ferdinand), and what they did to help Dad to pay for bringing them all over. Well, as I said, they all went to North Dakota to file on those homesteads. Then they went off and worked all summer. All the womenfolk stayed with Dad and worked and did what they could to raise gardens, some chickens, pigs and the like. Of course, they would always come home for the winter, and so they did until they could help themselves. In a few years, they were on Easy Street, and they always seemed to be as happy as can be, but I know they had some awful hard times just the same. It was quite some time before they could buy themselves some horses. They had to work with oxen.
I remember one summer - I think it was the third summer after we came here, as I stayed two years at the house my Dad left me in Yankton, South Dakota - and they were sure working hard. They wanted me to stay home, but I couldn't as I didn't like to do the kind of work they did on the farm, so I left again. I just kept on working all the time from the time I was twelve until I was nineteen, and they used to come and get my pay each month.
Well, I was always lucky. I always worked two and three years at one place, but the most pay I got was $4.00 a week, and I used to work from four in the morning until eleven at night. But I wasn't the only one, as girls used to have to work just like slaves in my time, and yet we didn't have to work as hard as they do in Russia. We never saved a dime the year round. We used to get a new dress at Easter time and wear it all summer for Sundays. We had one for weekdays and as soon as it got warm, we didn't have any shoes on, only on Sundays to go to church with.
Well, you will wonder how my folks got along on their homesteads
after they filed. As you know, they used to file on three claims:
homestead, timber, and streamlines. Of course they just went without
most everything in order to get the land, as that's why they really
came to America - to get all of this land, have our boys not have
to go to war, and have Freedom, thanks to God.
Well, in the first place, they built themselves some of those sod houses, and were they nice as they plastered them and white washed them, and put some nice floors in them. They lived in them until they got on their feet. They built some of those Dutch ovens just like we used to have in Russia to heat them with as they were made out of homemade brick. They also did their cooking in them as my Mother really liked them better than she did the stoves. She had some of those big iron kettles and she'd put her dinner in the Dutch oven at nine and by ten it was all cooked. She had a long fork with a long handle that she used to hook the kettles out with, and the same with baking bread. We always baked our own bread in those ovens as I remember before we came to America, as small as I was.
I used to get up often at three o'clock in the mornings to knead the bread and fire the oven, as it used to take about an hour to get the oven hot. We just had straw to burn in it, and it took about two hours to bake the bread hard. Was it hard! The loaves were as big as a rural dishpan. Well, my Mother used to have some nice white baskets to bake homemade bread in that my Dad made out of willow. Of course, it wasn't white; it was sure good just the same. And to think we never did have butter as we just couldn't afford it. Of course, after we came to America and kind of got on our feet, we had all the butter we needed. My Mother did all her cooking with butter - she never did like it - as lard was awful hard to get.
My Mother was a wonderful cook. She made such good things out of flour. I often wished I could cook like she could. I never was home with her where she could teach me. After I got onto the American ways, I just got so I didn't want to be ...away more as I didn't have to work so hard and liked those ways least.
It just came to me - I don't know just how old I was I don't think I could have been over eight years (in Russia). My Dad had an awful few ...and he had some flax and it wasn't fit to cut with the scythe as it was too short. So he took us children I think two of my little brothers and myself, and I know it must have been 30 varst, that is, 30 miles and he used to get us up early in the mornings and it used to ...frost on the ground already. Well, Mother used to get us children ready and wrap us up in some bedding, and we would get in the big wagon. I know it used to be still dark when we used to leave the house, and by the time we got out in the field, the sun would be just peeping over the hill.
Well, so we just got all three of us children out you might say babies and got busy pulling flax with our puny little hands all day long till the sun set. Then we would get in the old wagon and start for home. Well, we would be so exhausted, sometimes we would be asleep. I really don't see how we did it.
And another time, I remember, the bugs were awful bad, and they ate the entire crop up, so the whole village turned out to try to kill them. All of us children used to walk up and down the field with a big jar and just scrape the bugs in the jars and just bury them in a hole. I think the field was at least a mile long. We did it for days we didn't even stop to go home for dinner as Mother used to bring our dinner to us. When I think of all the things I did before I was the age of twelve years!!!
Of course, I didn't say anything about all the places that we really went through from the time we left Russia. It always seemed to be at night, mostly, when we went through some big places; as I know I used to see so many lights. But it was wonderful! I remember we went along some big fields of potatoes and all we could see was a lot of Russians picking them. They used to put them in jars as big as a small wash tub. They just used to put them on top of their heads and just walk along they wouldn't even hold them and put them in a big wagon. There was hardly a man in sight. But I can't tell just where it was. It was still in Russia, as most of the work was done by women. The men made them work just like slaves.
It put me in mind as we had to do the same things. As young as I was, I had to carry water on my head. It must have been at least a mile from our house. Some people had buckets. I wasn't strong enough to do it, so we had to go to this place. It was a big river and it was soft so we used to wash with it. We used to take a long pole. It had a hook on each end. We used to hang the buckets on it and hang it over our shoulders and carry it that way. That way we used to carry two buckets at one time. I don't know how we did. I know I couldn't do it now.
And I want to tell you how we used to wash clothes in the summertime as I did it. Anyway, at first we used to go to the river and stand on a big rock, rub and punch them with a lot of homemade soap, then spread them on the ground and dry them. Were they white and pretty! My Mother was sure a crank on clothes they had to be just so and such things as a doctor. I never did see one in our home. When they used to get sick, they would call in some old woman and she would look after the one that happened to be sick. And if there were such a thing as a birth well, then, they used to have what they called midwives, and they used to give them a dollar; that was their pay.
My Mother was a midwife for about forty years. I can remember she used to go out many times at night. Dad used to say, "Mother, I wish you would stay at home," as it used to be so cold in the winter time. But she used to just bundle up and away she would go. But she never did take anything. She always used to take all kinds of things to give to the ones she used to go to take care of. She sure was a wonderful Mother. Everyone knew her for miles around where we lived, and they always called her "Grandma Fischer." I really think she could do more for a sick person than a lot of doctors can today. My Mother didn't have any use for a doctor at any time.
And talk about SING. My Mother could yodel just like a clarinet or a flute. She sure was full of life. She loved to dance. I can see her yet in my mind, poor soul. How she used to get Dad out on the floor and make him dance with her, as he was kind of formal. I had a sister she was just like her until she got married. Then she stopped just like a clock she had so many other things that took up her time. Mother could also play the organ and learned she just played church music. So when all the family had gone, she and Dad used to sing ...and play they were very happy in their old age.
It was too bad my Dad had to pass on so many years before Mother did. He was only 74. Mother passed on at the age of 91. She was just as bright as she could be. I went to see her just a year before she passed on. She was in bed, of course, but she didn't wear any glasses, and she still used to read and sew buttons on, and little things like that. We lived in Montana at the time I went to see her. She still lived on this farm that they filed on when we came to America, in North Dakota, near Bismarck. Buried at the Krik.
* Ellis Island didn't open until 1892, so from 1855 until 1892, the arrival center was at Castle Garden, at the foot of Manhattan Island in New York used as the main port of arrival for immigrants in the 19th and 20th centuries.
The Ferdinand Fischer Family is on the American Immigrant Wall of Honor at Ellis Island because all immigrants will be listed there due to the fact that a museum and computer center will be located there and it can be used as a resource center.
Our appreciation is extended to Jolenta Fischer Masterson,
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Angelina Jolie is an Oscar-winning actress who has become popular by taking on the title role in the "Lara Croft" series of blockbuster movies. Off-screen, Jolie has become prominently involved in international charity projects, especially those involving refugees. She often appears on many "most beautiful women" lists, and she has a personal life that is avidly covered by the tabloid press.
In her earliest years, Angelina began absorbing the acting craft from her parents - her father is the Oscar-winning actor Jon Voight and her mother is Marcheline Bertrand, who had studied with Lee Strasberg. At age 11, Angelina began studying at the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute. She undertook some film studies at New York University and later joined the renowned Met Theatre Group in Los Angeles. At age 16, she took up a career in modeling and appeared in some music videos. Her exotic good looks may derive from her mixed ancestry which is Czech, French-Canadian, Iroquois and English.
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Started in 2009, Fluid Lines is an independent snow and watersports specialist store based in Colchester, Essex selling equipment for skiing, snowboarding, windsurfing, kitesurfing, stand up paddle boarding and kayaking.
Fluid Lines is a family business run by Dave Peek and his three sons and together they have many years of experience. Dave has been teaching skiing throughout Europe since the early 1980's, and is qualified to the highest level, holding BASI level 4 (ISTD) and the French Equivalence. For the past 25 years he has been mainly based in the Portes du Soleil ski area, as well as many other resorts.
He is currently teaching ski courses and off piste training for Snow works and Freedom 2 ski and manages to get away for 4-5 weeks a season. In addition, Dave has worked in the snow and watersports industry for over 25 years and uses his expert knowledge and experience to guide his clients towards the ideal choice of equipment for their individual needs.
Dave's sons Sam, Will and Tom have been skiing from a very young and are currently progressing through their BASI exams with the aim of completing their BASI level 4. They have been doing winter seasons in Zermatt and Saas Fee over the past few years.
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The Technical College of the Lowcountry Division of Continuing Education will offer a three-session rug hooking class from 9 to 11 a.m. Saturdays, May 5 through 19 and again on Saturdays, June 23 through July 7 at the TCL New River Campus in Bluffton.
This hands-on, introductory class will allow participants to complete a small piece over the three sessions. Students will be working with cut wool fabric. Cost is $65, plus an additional $25 paid to the instructor for materials.
When rug hooking developed in New England and Maritime Canada in the early 1800s, it was a craft of poverty to make rugs for bare floors. Rags and scraps were pulled through burlap forming looped pile. In the 1940s rug hooking was rediscovered and raised from hooking primitive designs to tapestry like pieces. Presently, the technique of rug hooking is used in folk art and fine fiber arts.
Required Materials:14-inch quilting hoop or rug hooking frame (students must bring)Scissors (students must bring)Kit purchased from instructor ($25)
Course Schedule:
Hooking straight and diagonal lines
Turning corners
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Intro to hooking curves
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Finishing Techniques
Pattern Making
To register or for more information, please call 843-525-8205.
About the instructor: Debra Walland
Debra Walland is a fiber artist, residing on Hilton Head Island, S.C. She has designed rug patterns since 2007 and has shown pieces in shows in Vermont, Virginia, Pennsylvania, and Florida. She is an exhibiting artist with the Hilton Head Art League and a member of the Association of Traditional Hooking Artists. Her rugs and patterns can be seen at www.rughookseaside.com.


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Ebfarber necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 145 diseños de 18 diseñadores freelance.
Ellen Beth Farber
Interior Design student graduating in the Spring. I need a name/initial logo to use in my portfolio, business cards, stationary,resume and on floorplans which will set me apart, represent my unique style and personality, and that customers,employers and business associates will recognize and remember.
Logo should be graphic but simple and creative. Use of negative/positve space could be interesting, or using initials inside shapes, on angles and in different combinations. Font type and size should reflect professional, confident, distinctive style. Open to using upper and lower case letters.
Interior designers are recognized by their name, so use of one,both, or all three of my initials as a logo(stamp) and then incorporating my name with related fonts, so that the graphic portion can be used directly with the name on a resume or business card, but initial logo could be used separately like a stamp on portfolio pages. Needs to look good in black and white as well as color. It also needs to look good for horizontally and vertically if possible. Should appeal to commercial as well as residential customers/employers and convey my straightforward, detail oriented, professional approach to design.
NOTE: Many of the designs coming in are too symmetrical based on the above description...so, it would be preferred if there could be some creative mixture of straightforward and simple wiht a touch of an unexpected flair.
Open to using my first and last name and initials only, or if design is superior with my middle name or initial, and any combination that is appealing by the design. I welcome all combinations. Horizontal or vertical graphics to compliment to letters and/or name could also be interesting and add a strong design statement.
I am an "older" student, starting my second career. I am an accountant by background and am making the transition to providing design solutions, although I am also qualified to provide business advice. I mention this as to provide some more background on me, while taking the other information into account.
Very exciting to start the personal branding process as I enter my new career!
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Epidemiology is the study of the causes, distribution, and control of disease in populations. One of the most intriguing results to emerge from epidemiology in recent years is the extent to which the structure of social networks influences both the dynamics of disease outbreaks and the potential for disease control.
Although the impact of social network structure is now widely appreciated, the underlying mechanisms of social network self-organization are poorly understood. This working group will use wild primates as a model system for exploring the mechanisms of disease network self-organization. Field primatologists, quantitative ecologists, and wildlife epidemiologists will use behavioral and ecological data to build models of social network self-organization in gorillas, chimpanzees, and monkeys.
Disease has recently joined poaching and habitat loss as one of the major threats to tropical wildlife and a primary working group objective will be to use to our models to find efficient strategies for vaccinating wild primates. A particular emphasis will be placed on optimal vaccination in protected areas and on efficiently vaccinating against Ebola virus, which has killed about one third of the gorillas in protected areas over the last 15 years.


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Bachelor of Arts - (History major)
Graduate Diploma - Librarianship
No informal studies as yet.
I've always been interested in history, and over time that extended into being into being curious about where my parents where from etc. After talking to one of my great aunts and seeing some photos and documents she had I became very interested about 12 years ago, but took it no further than searching a cemetery in Mudgee. 2 years ago I went on a cemetery walk organised by the local history association and located my 2xg grandparents graves, and the bug bit!
Reference Librarian in an academic library
Seriously for 2 years, vaguely for about 12.
I can lay no claim to any areas of expertise, but have a particular fondness for tracking down articles, family notices etc in old newspapers.
I have recently joined one of the local history associations in the area, the Richmond River Historical Society which is wonderful. I am about to join FIBIS, Families in British India to track down some of my husband's ancestors who are from India.
My ancestors are mostly from England, Scotland and Ireland. There is also a German or maybe Dutch connection, one of my first "brick walls", and I discovered last week a 2xg grandfather who was born in the USA - my one and only North American ancestor.
Bradford, Dawes, De Quadros, Dyson, Evans, Goodhew, Hetherington, Honey, Kirkland, Nevis, Pearson, Pickett, Rankin, Roach, Rosario, Simmons, Smede, St Clair Honey, Trimble, Walker, Wentworth, Williamson, Xavier.
My favourite ancestor, at the moment, is my mother's great grandfather David John SMEDE. I have discovered snippets of his life from when he was born in London in 1847 in Census records and BDMs etc, but remain in the dark as to when and how he came to Australia. This makes him intriguing to me, but what makes him my favourite ancestor is his obituary which describes him as a gentleman. I wish I had known him. (My Nans have also been very favourite ancestors as well!)
I think London. I've always loved London, but never knew of my London ancestors when I have visited so would like to go back and walk down the streets where they lived - if they're still there.
I love Twitter for finding out about new websites, resources and interesting genies to follow. The other resource I couldn't do without is Trove, particularly the historic newspapers because the articles put your ancestors lives' into context for you.
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The Secret River by Kate Grenville. (May be classified as borderline genealogy...)
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Review: Griffin Noise-Reducing Audio Cable
Company: Griffin Technology
Website: www.GriffinTechnology.com
Model: Noise-Reducing Audio Cable
Price: $20
Compatible: All iPods, iPhones
For the purposes of this review, we'll put aside the question of who's at fault -- car makers, accessory makers, or both -- for creating "alternator whine," what Griffin describes as "the high-pitched whine of ground loop noise," which "can result when you charge your iPod as it plays in many automobiles." The key word here is "can," so if your car and your iPod car kit have been designed properly, you'll have no need for Griffin's new Noise-Reducing Audio Cable ($20), a six-foot, gray and black cable, with a shiny black noise filter box two feet from one of the cable's two 3.5mm plugs. But if you've heard this noise in your car, as we have with iPods and iPhones in an aux-in-equipped Toyota Highlander -- one of a number of models with known issues -- the new Noise-Reducing Audio Cable will help. Whether you want to bother with it is a separate question.
Notably, the noise we're talking about isn't the high-pitched "TDMA interference" that comes from first-generation iPhones and EDGE-locked iPhone 3Gs as they play in some automobiles; this is a quiet, high-pitched squeal that appears to change in pitch or intensity as you accelerate. We've heard this noise in a number of cars, but it's easier than TDMA interference to ignore: it's generally only evident during quiet or silent parts in audio playback, and even so, it's high-pitched enough that some ears won't even know it's there unless it's specifically pointed out. Serious listeners, however, may care, and it's for them that the Noise-Reducing Audio Cable has been designed.
We tested Griffin's cable against other cables in our arsenal, including one that was directly integrated into the Kensington LiquidAUX charger for audio output. LiquidAUX, like many if not most other chargers with integrated audio-out, puts out an otherwise clean signal from the bottom of the connected iPod or iPhone, but you'll sometimes hear the aforementioned squeal in cars with the issue. During an extended drive, we swapped back and forth between the Noise-Reducing Audio Cable, and found that it unquestionably eliminated the noise, as promised; otherwise, there was no discernible difference between the music played through our test iPhone and the other cables. Across a bunch of different songs we tried, Griffin's filters appeared to be removing just the interference, so though it's possible that some songs may be modestly degraded, we didn't hear any evidence of this. For those who may be curious, the TDMA noise isn't increased as a result of using this product, which has plugs shaped to fit the original iPhone's recessed headphone port; it was, as with virtually every iPhone-specific product we've tested, barely audible during silences, and then only when the volume was turned up to above-average levels.
Our only issues with the Noise-Reducing Audio Cable were two in number. From a physical standpoint, we found the six-foot length of cable to be way more than was necessary, and while whatever's in the big black box in the center worked as it should have, it and Griffin's 3.5mm plugs are undeniably too large by reference to basically everything else that we attach these days to our in-car audio systems. Second is the "blame game" issue noted in this review's introduction: whether it's the car makers' fault for making whine-susceptible cars, or the accessory makers' fault for making whine-provoking accessories—a question we plan to examine further next week—a big, filtered, $20 audio cable may solve the problem, but hardly seems like the optimal way of doing so. It complicates and adds expense to car installations that should be simple, uncluttered by dangling wires, and sound great.
Yet unless Griffin's responsible for causing the problem, we can't fault the company for coming up with a solution. The Noise-Reducing Audio Cable does what it's supposed to do, so even if something like this shouldn't be necessary in an ideal world, it does provide an option for users who are bothered enough by the alternator whine to need a remedy. If it were smaller, cheaper, or better yet integrated invisibly into other accessories, we'd be more enthusiastic about its existence. [Editor's Note: We have posted an article discussing the alternator whine issue in greater depth for users who may be interested.]
Editors' Note: iLounge only reviews products in "final" form, but many companies now change their offerings - sometimes several times - after our reviews have been published. This iLounge article provides more information on this practice, known as revving.


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Tuesday, March 22, 2011
The basic idea, of zooming in super-close on a printed image to reveal the process dots that make up the printed image, might seem a bit on-the-nose for a film titled "Close-Up," but is actually kind of perfect: Kiaristami's whole methodology in the film is to lay bare the structure of filmmaking, it's both the main mover of the plot and the theme behind the whole thing. But then, of course, he's playing with you, too, you're never entirely sure what's real and what isn't, what's "re-enactment" and what's documentary, and even some of the things that seem to be very real--the final scene, for example, where the audio cuts in and out--are actually very deliberate choices to draw attention to the constructs of filmmaking.
Similarly, the 4-color process dots in the cover here draw your attention to the actual process of printing, but of course are actually an affectation… there's no press in the world that would use dots that big. (That's one reason why the cover was made totally digitally… we could have actually printed something out very small, then scanned that in and blown it up, but I liked the artificiality in this case, I thought it worked toward the theme.)
So anyway, with that idea in mind I put together the following comps. The very first one I did is the clearest execution of the concept, taking an image from the lovely scene at the end of the film--the greens and pinks really hold the whole thing together, (and it didn't hurt that this seemed like a good moment to use green in the design for an Iranian film):
I was pretty convinced that was the way to go, but I did a few more variations on the theme just to give people some options to chose from. This first one below is kind of interesting, but kind of blows the 4-color process concept by printing all 4 colors at the same angle (i.e. directly on top of each other). It's a neat look, though, I should just it for something else sometime… (I recommend clicking to embiggen.)
The rest are just variations on the theme, not terrible but not as nice as the first one. So that's where we wound up!
10 comments:
- Cub Pup said...
Thanks for sharing! I was curious as to how you went about recreating the image digitally using the color dot process, any further explanation you might be willing to share?
- March 22, 2011 at 12:22 PM
- Eric Skillman said...
Sure, Cub Pup… It's just a standard photoshop filter called "Color Halftone" (filter > pixelate > color halftone) For the final cover, I think the pixel radius was set to something large-ish like 15 or 20, angles at the regular default settings to achieve a standard rosette pattern. There's also a layer of a beige color on top of the whole thing, to soften the CMYK somewhat.
Or, for the look of that second comp, same deal, just set the all angles the same number, so that the dots will print exactly centered on top of each other.
Does that make sense, I hope?
- March 22, 2011 at 12:31 PM
- ccayuric said...
This is amazing... I am very jealous of your talent! Do you work for Criterion Collection? or did you just do this for fun?
- March 22, 2011 at 12:43 PM
- Andrew Bacon said...
This is the official art of the Criterion Release.
- March 22, 2011 at 1:28 PM
this is my favorite Criterion cover. it fits the tone of the film perfectly. thanks for sharing!
- March 22, 2011 at 2:39 PM
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- March 24, 2011 at 9:46 AM
- Aaron said...
Is the process-dot pattern's resemblance to tessellate patterns in Islamic art really purely coincidental? is that just me?
- March 24, 2011 at 9:48 AM
- Eric Skillman said...
That's a neat idea. I wish I could take credit for it, but it wasn't something I was thinking about at the time...
- March 24, 2011 at 10:17 AM
what did you mean by saying "a good moment to use green in the design for an Iranian film"?
- March 30, 2011 at 3:04 AM
- Cub Pup said...
Eric, perfect sense! Thank you for sharing.
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If you are planning a trip with your children, here's a secret weapon for your sanity: apps. With the right apps preloaded on your smartphone or tablet, you will have a response for when the going gets tough. Here's a list that can help to keep the whining and tantrums to a minimum.
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Crab Hill Press LLC, best for ages 3-7, $1.99, iPad
Rating: 3.5 stars (out of 4)
Perfect for the family whose vacation includes a trip to an amusement park, this app tells the story of little Hank trying to keep up with his family members who all drive amusement park vehicles. His dad drives the roller coaster; his mom sports a carousel horse; while his uncle flies a ship from the rocket ride. Grandpa skippers a boat from the flume ride. After asking family members if he can drive their special vehicles and being turned down, Hank finally finds a bumper car that needs driving. With fun animation, zany sounds and high energy that comes from tapping words that produce sounds like "clack clackity clack clack," this book app keeps kids giggling and reading, and builds anticipation for the fun to be had at the amusement park.
Finger Hoola
Plant Pot, best for ages 5-up, $.99, iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad, Android
Rating: 3.5 stars
When your wiggle worm kids have turned into a constant state of antsy, bring out "Finger Hoola." Since most travel involves being confined in a small space of a car, plane, train or bus, giving kids a hoola hoop to burn off steam isn't possible. But with this app, kids play with virtual hoops that they spin around their fingers. Presented as a series of puzzles, the app challenges kids to change the speed of their spinning to match a marker found on a musical meter. Spinning faster pushes the marker up to the top of the meter and slow movements bring the meter down. In the process of spinning, players create music that is both calming and magical. This is unlike any app you will have ever played.
Color Band
Ting-Wei Liu, best for ages 3-12, Free, iPad.
Rating: 4 stars
One of the ways to keep kids going at the end of a long travel day is to present them with something that creates wonder. "Color Band" accomplishes that by letting kids color with paint that also simultaneously creates music. That's cool, but apps have done that before. What makes this one so special is that when painters are done with their artwork, they can "play" the music by waving their hands in front of the screen in a Kinect-like manner. This is the first motion-controlled game I have seen for the iPad, and it's a stunner. Kids can also play their painting by touching it to create music. This free art and music creation app comes with a limited number of instruments and drawing spaces; but more are available as an in-app purchase.
Motion Math, best for ages 9-up, Free, iPad
Rating: 3.5 stars
When the whole family needs a diversion, fire up "Questimate." This iPad exclusive game lets you design fascinating estimation questions to stump the whole family. In the free Intro round, the game helps you to construct a question you are interested in by giving you choices of things to compare. You then "guess" the right answer and can pass on the iPad to others for their guesses, too. The app then answers the question; and if you were close to the correct answer, you earn points. A sample question is "How tall is an average man compared to an average woman," which you answer by pinching the image of a woman until she is the right height for your guess. Try this game out for free; and if you like it, you will enjoy it more if you unlock a few of the extra categories which include Need for Speed, Amazing Animals and History of Awesome. These extra categories cost between one to two dollars. This is a clever way to bring math into your family's life.
Pettson's Inventions Deluxe
Filmundus AB, best for ages 6-up, $3.99 for iPad, $3.36 for Android
Rating: 4 stars
Sometimes a good set of puzzles can get your kids' minds off the endless miles of travel. "Pettson's Inventions Deluxe" is just that kind of puzzle. Each of the 66 puzzles has a Rube Goldberg quality as you drag crazy parts to the play space to create inventions that will shower a bird, rock old woman's chair or clean a dirty pig. There is even a very challenging "versus" mode where two people are presented with the same puzzle on opposite ends of the tablet, and they compete to see who can construct the wacky contraption first.
This deluxe version combines most of the inventions found in "Pettson's Inventions" and "Pettson's Inventions 2" and adds a few new ones. If you don't have a tablet, those original two apps are available on smartphones and are equally as good.
Jinny Gudmundsen is the author of the new book: iPad Apps for Kids, part of the For Dummies series. Contact her at firstname.lastname@example.com. Follow her @JinnyGudmundsen.
Apps keep traveling kids engaged and their parents sane
If you are planning a trip with your children, here's a secret weapon for your sanity: apps. With the right apps preloaded on your smartphone or tablet, you will have a response for when the going gets tough. Here's a list that can help to keep the whining and tantrums to a minimum.


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Move over, parrots. There's a new animal in town that can mimic the sound of humans talking, and it's NOC, a male Beluga whale who was residing National Marine Mammal Foundation in San Diego in 1984 before he died five years ago. A recent study published by Current Biology in the latest October issue found that "spontaneous human speech mimicry by a cetacean" was possible thanks to recordings by NOC.
The story of NOC's talking is actually quite adorable: Initially, divers claimed they'd always hear strange noises underwater but thought NOC's voice was the sound of two people chattering in a distance. But when a group of divers trained outside of NOC's enclosure and thought they heard someone telling them to get out, they realized it was NOC "speaking." After the incident, divers began studying the series of sounds coming out of NOC's mouth, and discovered that the white cetacean was mimicking the sounds of humans talking.
"[The] team recorded NOC's calls, and found that their acoustic features were very unlike typical whale sounds, but not unlike those of human speech," Discover Magazine reports. "The rhythm was comparable, with vocal bursts that lasted for around three seconds and gaps of less than 0.5 seconds."
The study goes on to further find that it was unlikely that NOC learned how to speak, but was simply "interested" in the sounds heard around him. Which wouldn't be surprising, given that whales are also pretty vocal animals, and closely related to its Cetacean sibling, the dolphin. Eventually, the study ended as NOC began to slowed his speech after four years, and passed after 30 years at the NMMF.
So I bet you're dying to hear how a beluga whale interprets the way we talk. Hold on to your hats, the accuracy is going to blow your mind.
Not what you were expecting, huh? Yes, his voice sounds a bit like a kazoo, but to NOC's credit, he's pretty on par with an average Ke$ha song — and it's honestly not too far off from the typical city chatter or a person fighting on the phone with a telemarketer. Had this discovery been around just a couple of years earlier, he would have been a great candidate for a collaboration with Beyonce and Jay-Z's daughter for a record-breaking single, featuring baby Ivy Blue and NOC the talking Beluga. Ah, the possibilities. Rest in peace, NOC, and thanks for wonderful human depiction.
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american psycho - brett easton ellis
|Fri Jun 25, 2010 12:26 pm
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Everything I listed in this post, plus Discworld.
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|Fri Jun 25, 2010 1:22 pm
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The Preacher series by Garth Enis.
Read it and you'll love it.
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|Sat Jun 26, 2010 5:22 pm
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John Perkins - Confessions of an Economic Hitman
Christopher Hitchens - Letters to a Young Contrarian
Aldous Huxley - The Doors of Perception
Thomas Paine - The Age of Reason
George Orwell - 1984
On my to do list:
-Fahrenheit 451
-Pacifism as Pathology
|Mon Jul 05, 2010 6:30 pm
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Catch-22 is my favorite book, one of the only books I can recall quoting in conversations the way movies usually are.
Reading Good Omens right now, also recommended.
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|Tue Aug 10, 2010 9:01 pm
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Depending on your speed, these could cover anywhere from 2 years to a lifetime
Jean Auel ("Earth Children" series).
Tom Clancy (the novels he wrote solo).
Anne McCaffrey.
Ken Follet (Pillars of the Earth, World without End).
Peter Senge (Fifth Discipline series).
Charles Handy (The Age of Unreason).
Edward de Bono (Six thinking hats, and some others).
Thomas Harris (I'm Ok, You're Ok).
And I most certainly overlooked an author or two that was important to me at some point or another
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|Wed Aug 11, 2010 1:57 am
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I always tell people that if they're ever going to read anything in their lives...
only one book...
make that book Dune by Frank Herbert. (Not to be confused with the atrocities written by his son Brian and Kevin Judas Anderson.)
|Wed Aug 11, 2010 2:21 am
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Probably the most influencial book of my reading life was Daniel Dennett's Consciousness Explained. It was the first non-fiction book I recall reading voluntarily, it sparked my interest in science generally, and I still consider the multiple drafts model to be how my brain probably works. In addition to reading various other Dennett titles, I greatly enjoy Dawkins and the other horsemen, although I have read progressively less of each (two by Harris, one by Hitchens, probably the ones you would expect). But, since half the members of this forum have probably read them all too, I thought I would pick out some other favourites by name, all that I've read over the last three years.
Q, Luther Blissett - an absolute epic, set during the blood-soaked madness of Reformation Europe, in which history turns on the actions of a rebelious free-thinker (or what passes for one in the 1500s). It's brilliant, and was written by four Italian anarchists who named themselves after a moderately well-known English footballer...
Colony, Hugo Wilcken - very much in the vein of Joseph Conrad, imagine Heart of Darkness filtered through David Lynch.
Player Piano, The Sirens of Titan, Mother Night and Cat's Cradle, Kurt Vonnegut - anyone who loves The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy must try Vonnegut; I am now a fan of both writers but, with no disrespect to Douglas Addams, even having only read these four titles Vonnegut is a clear step up.
...and, if only because I've just finished reading it for the second time:
The Remains of the Day, Kazuo Ishiguro - an example of a perfect novel.
Homicide - A Year on the Killing Streets, David Simon - the book that spawned the TV series, and eventually led to the work of genius that is The Wire.
In Cold Blood, Truman Capote - I'm not well read of the classics, generally, but the ones I do read prove their status.
Schrodinger's Kittens and the Search for Reality, John Gribbin - Gribbin is an excellent summariser of science, as well demonstrated here, but also...
The Science of Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials, Mary and John Gribbin - I enjoyed the His Dark Materials series, with some reservations, but this short book is a masterpiece of scientific clarity, perfect for getting a youngster interested in science or for any old folks who didn't pay enough attention at school, like me.
derkvanl wrote:Helliconia (spring, summer, winter) - Dan SimmonsThat's Brian Aldiss, actually, but I also enjoyed them a lot - interesting ecosystem he built, even if the spirituality is a bit hard to swallow!
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.and their Being is grounded............Language as Symbolic Action
.in Nothings ability to noth"
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|Mon Nov 29, 2010 11:53 pm
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Some of my favourites:
God's Problem - Bart D. Ehrman
The God Delusion - Richard Dawkins
God Is Not Great - Christopher Hitchens
The Bible, The Biography - Karen Armstrong
Breaking The Spell - Daniel Dennett
Bad Science - Ben Goldacre
Cosmos - Carl Sagan
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - Hunter S. Thompson
A Riot Of Our Own, Night and Day With The Clash - Johnny Green
Chronicles - Bob Dylan
Revolution in the Head, The Beatles Records and the Sixties - Ian MacDonald
Crazy Diamond, Syd Barrett and the Dawn of Pink Floyd - Mike Watkinson & Pete Anderson
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If I read the posts correctly, there is no Demon Haunted World by Carl Sagan. Shame on all of you, so I will recommend it.
|Wed Jan 05, 2011 10:50 pm
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Having just finished it I would also like to recommend 'Homage to Catalonia' by George Orwell. If only for his vivid description of being shot through the neck...
As you can probably tell by my avatar, I've been reading a lot of Orwell recently
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|Wed Jan 12, 2011 6:38 pm
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I suggest you all read these books:
The Knight Templar (Crusades trilogy)
These books are awesome shit! Only bad thing is that you pretty much need to imagine God to be real in these books, or else it gets kinda uncomfortable.
|Wed Jan 12, 2011 6:46 pm
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Just finished Steven Erikson's first Malazan Book of the Fallen, and immediately started on book 2. All I can say is wow! This is among the best fantasy ever written. If you love fantasy, these books are a must.
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|Thu Jan 27, 2011 6:56 pm
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I'm reading through Bad Science by Ben Goldacre, it's one of the few books I've read that I feel tempted to pass on to pretty much everyone.
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I just bought the following book:
I don't think its the kind of book I could read from cover to cover, but it does look like it has shed loads of reference material. The illustrations/diagrams are really good, and it seems to have an awful lot of info in it.
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|Thu Feb 03, 2011 10:51 pm
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Your Inner Fish - Neil Shubin.
Basically explaining human anatomy through Tiktaalik.
|Tue Mar 01, 2011 4:39 pm
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American Gods - Neil Gaiman
The Graveyard Book - Neil Gaiman
Good Omens - Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett
All the Discworld books by Terry Pratchett
The Night's Dawn trilogy (The Reality Dysfunction, The Neutronium Alchemist, The Naked God) - Peter F. Hamilton
If any more pop up, I'll make another post.
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Aha! In an attempt to avoid duplicating other suggestions...
Some fiction:
Etgar Keret - The Nimrod Flipout (short story collection, funny and ocassionally poignant)
Robert Rankin - Dance of the voodoo handbag (or in fact, any Robert Rankin book - bonkers but brilliant)
Claude Vorilhon - The Message Given to Me by Extra-Terrestrials (The tale of Rael - added for being better and funnier than scientology)
Some non-fiction:
Samuel P. Huntington - The clash of civilizations and the remaking of the world order (don't tell Thunderf00t about this one)
Seth Godin - All marketers are liars (we all should take note of what the enemy is thinking )
Christopher Lee - This Sceptred Isle (originally a radio 4 production, I bought the book about ten years ago for a train journey - excellent, easily digestible stuff)
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If I listed my recommended book-list - my library! - I'd probably crash LoR's server!
I'll probably have to just list the authors - after I've compiled it...
Duvelthehobbit666 wrote:If I read the posts correctly, there is no Demon Haunted World by Carl Sagan. Shame on all of you, so I will recommend it.
Actually, Duvelthehobbit666, this is included in the **Sticky** Critical Thinking Resources topic.
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|Mon Mar 14, 2011 3:53 pm
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Finally finished Deadhouse Gates, book 2 of the Malazan Empire. And I dive straight into book 3.
Yes, I'm addicted. This is one of the best fantasy series I've ever read.
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Throughout Earl Sweatshirt's major-label debut, "Doris," the Odd Future rapper struggles to come to terms with the increased spotlight he's been under since returning from Coral Reef Academy--a retreat for at-risk boys outside the Samoan capital where he was sent by his mother in mid-2012.
Earl's disappearance, which somehow remained a mystery for months and even inspired a "Free Earl" campaign amid Odd Future's growing legions, coincided with the crew's public coronation. The rapper's return was trumpeted as one of the year's most anticipated musical comebacks, which might explain, in part, why he started to show signs of cracking under the pressure.
"My priorities [bleeped] up, I know it/Afraid I'm going to blow it," he rhymes on the low-key "Burgundy." "And when them expectations raising because daddy was a poet."
Even now the Los Angeles rapper, born Thebe Kgositsile 19 years ago, is still adjusting to fame. "Since I got home there's a set of things I can't do unless I want to be really annoyed while I'm doing it, so I kind of just stopped doing everything," he said. "I'm not a fan of attention. Well, sometimes, but not when I'm eating or going to concerts or just looking at something."
He is, however, a fan of literature (the avowed bookworm said he's nearly finished with the autobiography of Black Panther activist Assata Shakur), a trait he inherited from his father, South African poet Keorapetse, and his law professor mother. That's one of many topics he touched on in a recent phone interview.
Did the song "Chum" [a "Doris" track where Earl unpacks years of emotional baggage] feel like a turning point for you musically?
Yeah, man, that was a real turning point for me because that was the first time I was fully transparent on a song and I fully articulated an idea I wanted to get across. I was used to just saying whatever the [bleep] came to my head whether or not it made sense. I think it was just something that had to get done. I didn't necessarily drop my guard, but it was like I fully concentrated for once.
Near the end of that track you say "back a week and I already feel like calling it quits." What keeps you motivated to continue doing this?
That was like a year ago when I first got back and everything was really overwhelming. That was just a song for that period of time. Now I have a lot of fun. It's tight dude. I'm 19 and I get to have an apartment and do some [bleep] that is not work at all. Rappers get paid to smoke weed and complain.
Can you still relate to that 15-year-old kid who rapped about murder and rape?
Yeah, I feel him, but not in the same way. I think I'm going back to not the same [bleep] I was rapping about, but just the way I was doing it. I'm comfortable doing music again. Throughout "Doris" and while I was recording it you could hear I was apprehensive towards everything. I can't explain it. It wasn't fun; it was like I had to do it. Now it's returning to when it was fun and I can feel myself wanting to do music again. I feel myself getting restless.
There are definitely times on "Doris" you sound more willing to share the spotlight than to take hold of it.
I was still trying to figure out how to rap, and I was absolutely more enthusiastic to share the spotlight than take it completely. There's a whole other set of expectations that come when you get more of the spotlight.
That's interesting because you missed the part where Odd Future had the build-up. You just came home and had all the lights on you.
And it was fully [bleeped], yeah. Everything was fully blown out. There wasn't that gradual rise. It went from nothing to popping. I'm used to it now. I've had time to adjust to it. I'm a lot more comfortable now than I was when I got home.
Your father is a respected poet. Did you inherit your love of language from him?
Part of it, yes. Both of my parents had me reading at a really young age. Maybe it was a hereditary thing, but my mom always had my nose in a book. I've always been a bookworm.
I heard you were really into Edgar Allen Poe as a kid. Did you always have a fascination with the macabre?
I always enjoyed being made uneasy, and I was into anything that was off-putting. I can't exactly put my finger on why, but it always seemed more exciting than those things that made you feel comfortable.
In a recent interview, you talked about watching global warming documentaries and said everything was in a dismal state. As you look around now, do you see anything out there that gives you hope?
No, there's not too much to be hopeful about. With Drake's album out now I don't know what else there is to look forward to. Nothing was the same.
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I am familiar with LP relaxation for ILP (or IP). Assume we concern with integer minimization problem, which we formalize using ILP; we then relax the ILP into LP and we say that the LP provides a lower bound for the ILP. Why this is correct?
I do understand that a feasible solution for the ILP is a feasible solution to the LP, and the reversed is not always so, i.e. a feasible solution for the LP is not necessarily a feasible solution for the ILP.
Can one please point out and explain briefly why it is so?