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As Muppet fans, we naturally want to know who performs our favorite character, or even every bit character. This generally means identifying the voice (usually but not always that of the puppeteer). However, doing so just by ear, with no other source, can be hazardous. Some voices, like Jim Henson and Frank Oz, are instantly recognizable, but others aren't (or have a broader range).
Here are some guidelines and resources. And remember, there's nothing wrong with creating a character page (especially for one who has only one line or just makes sounds) and not identifying a performer.
- If you're guessing, then you're wrong: If you catch yourself thinking, "Hmmm, I wonder if that's so and so," then you're guessing, and that means you're probably wrong. YouTube and forum guesses and assumptions are also discounted. If you're not certain, use the talk page to ask, "Can anyone recognize/source who the voice is?" This works best with major, recurring or otherwise notable characters. We can't identify every Whatnot or Anything Muppet who shows up for one line.
- Use direct sources: The ear can be very fallible, and in many instances, the same character will sound different to everybody and prompt half a dozen guesses. (See Talk:Nelson, Talk:Astoria, and others). Instead, use screen credits, album credits, resumes, and especially interviews with the actual performers or voice actors. When an error or contradiction is found, bring it up on the talk page or share evidence for it being another performer; sources can be weighed and compared, but personal "It sounded kind of like" reactions can't.
- Unknown is okay: If no consensus is reached or direct evidence found, we leave out a performer name or just say "unknown."
In addition to actual production credits or a Muppeteer saying "Yes, I played so and so" in an article or interview, there are many resources which *can* (and often should) be used. However, one or two are fallible and would need to be brought up on the talk page first.
- Good source: Resumes and official sites. Official websites, bios, or resumes for puppeteers and voice actors. The performers sometimes misremember things, but generally, if a puppeteer or their agent says it's so, we accept their statement.
- Bad source: Fan sites. Note that this does not apply to fan sites. The difference usually lies in the title of the page, appearing either as text on the page itself or in your browser tab: "THE OFFICIAL JULIANNE BUESCHER WEBSITE" is just that, maintained by the actual performer (often with technical help from others). Halfway Down the Stairs- The Jerry Nelson Fan Site tells you up front that it's a fan site. It has some information which qualifies as a direct source (an interview the webmaster conducted with Jerry Nelson), but others are lists which are not clearly sourced and could come from anywhere or a mix of sources (other websites, guesses, credits). Other websites will have a title related to puppetry but, through the "About" pages or e-mail, can be clearly identified as portfolio or personal sites of specific puppeteers. A compiled list of such sites will be added to this page.
- Bad sources: IMDb and Wikipedia. The Internet Movie Database and Wikipedia are both popular sources for film and TV credits and information. However, it is often forgotten that both rely on user contributions, which do not require the user to prove their own sources or accuracy. Use in talk page discussions if you like but not as direct article sources (again, unless their information merely copies what was on screen in a more readily accessible form; confirm that first). For more on this, see our policy on sources
- Good source: InBaseline. InBaseline is another movie and TV credits database. The difference is that it doesn't use unsourced user contributions. Instead, it relies on actually watching and verifying screen credits, or submissions by producers, studios, actors, and other industry personnel. They have a set of verification standards. They also often have access to the actual internal cast or credit lists used on a show, thus identifying character names or roles which do not appear on screen (but for episodic actors, they seldom specify the episode). With Muppet/Creature Shop productions, they can also sometimes be confused as to whether a performer was a character's voice or puppeteer only. In general, however, it qualifies as a reliable source (and please link to the specific page, or just mention it in your edit summary).
- Good source: Presskits. These are often the best sources, with fun "About the Cast" sections which identify the performers' role in the specific project but also past credits. Many of these are online only as long as a movie is in theaters, while others are archived. Still others are only accessible through registration based on one's press credentials. Older print versions often surface on eBay and other sources. However you find them, if you do have access to a presskit, that counts as a source (and again, it can be either cited or mentioned in a summary, usually depending on how obscure or difficult to confirm the info is). Often they simply save one the time and effort involved in personally transcribing the screen cast list. Official websites may also have shorter but near equivalent bio sections. Sesamestreet.org maintains a cast list, which is useful, but some of that information (mostly regarding former human cast members, not the Muppet performers) was actually sourced from other websites or even Muppet Wiki. More accurate is their actual presskit for specific seasons, which are open to all users for as long as they're online. For example, the site currently hosts Season 40 bios for the principal speaking puppeteers.
Voice Demos
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Pacers superstar Paul George scored 35 points in the loss on 11-22 shooting.
The Wolves are now 26-28 overall and begin a five game road trip at Utah on Saturday evening.

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Last week, Charles Murray, a prominent sociologist known for his analyses of the IQ distributions (he co-wrote "The Bell Curve" with a Harvard colleague) was planning to give a talk at the Middlebury College in Vermont.
This 43-minute-long video shows what happened. Before his speech was supposed to begin, several officials were explaining how important it was for the university to listen and participate in peaceful discussions, even about unpopular views.
It didn't help. Around 19:10 in the video, after Murray articulated his first sentence, a mob composed of young people began to chant and do mess – the last 25 minutes in the video – and prevented Murray from saying anything. They were chanting all those primitive far left extremist slogans which were not only offensive but also proved that the young people didn't have a clue what Murray's work is all about. So the lecture was cancelled. The professor Ms Allison Stanger who accompanied Murray was physically attacked and had to be hospitalized, despite two big bodyguards who generally tried to protect these two.
Jay Parini and other professors at that college realize that some basic rules of Free Speech 101 were grossly neglected. However, the wild young people keep on calling themselves "college students" and they are basically dictating the atmosphere – and what is possible and what is impossible – on that college.
I am sorry but the officials at that college should dismiss these students. The fact that it hasn't taken place indicates that the college president is either incompetent or a coward. These young people are obviously not intelligent, disciplined, and ethical enough to be college students. We often talk about the decreasing standards of the college education but sometimes this deterioration shows up clearly in front of our eyes.
A zoo would be a much more appropriate place to keep these young people than a college. Let me emphasize that I recommend this habitat to the participants of that protest regardless of their race, gender, or ethnic background.
Sadly, not just gangs of politically radicalized young people may be described as marginally brain-dead inhabitants of the U.S. universities these days. Whole faculties sometimes behave in nearly equivalent ways.
Two weeks ago, Richard Lindzen – a retired MIT professor of atmospheric physics – penned a letter to Donald Trump that urged him to withdraw from the UNFCCC, a U.N. climate body politically directing the jihad against climate change. The petition mentioned the ecological importance of CO2 and the economic importance of the fossil fuels, especially for poorer people in the whole world.
The signatories were collected by invitation only in order to be qualified in some way and I am honored that despite my different-than-atmospheric background, I could have been included among the 300 signatories.
Note that the petition hasn't attacked anyone at all – although there could be many people who would naturally deserve it. Unfortunately, a "counter-letter" authored by Lindzen's MIT climate colleagues was different in character. Their letter started as follows:
Dear Mr. President:You can see that the first word, "Dear", is also the first big lie of the letter. Almost none of the signatories hold the U.S. president dear. In the letter, they point out that none of them agrees with Lindzen, and there are lots of bureaucrats at AGU and AMS and elsewhere who claimed that the sky is falling and who are numerous enough to trample Lindzen (and even Trump) to death.
(When trying to bully people by these references to "authorities", they forgot to mention that the U.S. EPA believes that CO2 isn't the primary contributor to global warming. Oops. And the Clean Power Plan is gone without any replacement. Oops, I did it again.)
22 signatories of this "counter-letter" include full professors such as Susan Solomon, emeritus profesors such as Carl Judas Wunsch, and associate and assistant professors. If you look at the official list of faculty at that MIT Program in Atmospheres, Oceans, and Climate, you will see that there are 32 people in total. So the 22 signatories of the counter-letter are a majority, 22/32 = 0.6875 if you need to know. (Yes, 68.75% is less than 97%.) 9 out of the 10 folks who are not signed were almost certainly under big pressure to join as well. Dick still has an office at the MIT – but so do the other 9 non-signatories. It may be nontrivial for all these 10 people to walk in the infinite corridor where 68.75% of the people belong to the lynch mob.
Needless to say, the fact that 10 members of the faculty at that program refused to sign wasn't mentioned by anybody, surely not by the left-wing press that promoted the counter-letter. Another "detail" that no one mentioned is that none of these people is impartial. Some of them were really hired in recent years with the very political goal in mind to strengthen the climate hysteria. Others had done some work independent of the climate hysteria but their funding in recent years increasingly depended on the hysteria. If you average over all climatology groups, you may see that 80-90 percent of the money they are collectively receiving depends on the sustainability of the climate panic.
Years ago (and even months ago), insane alarmism was backed up by the most powerful politicians in the U.S. Things have changed, somewhat, and these people may simply be afraid of their looming unemployment, homeless status, or – more modestly – significantly lowered grants. Just like the large number of these real or would-be climate scientists (22 at MIT) who contribute to the ludicrous fearmongering about the carbon dioxide and the climate was a political construct (politicians were mass-hiring people willing to say similar absurd things), their starvation may be a political construct of the coming months and years. And some of them just don't want to starve.
It's ludicrous for them to pretend that they are giving an independent testimony about some external problems. They're not witnesses. Obviously, they are the defendants now.
They are denying this fact – and their extreme left-wing comrades in the media are denying, too. The economically troubled left-wing U.K. daily, The Independent, published a story about the counter-letter today. In other words, it's a hit piece on Lindzen. It's pretty much equivalent to the yesterday's story by David Abel in The Boston Globe, a left-wing daily published in Boston. I will focus on Abel's text.
Those of us who have read the communist propaganda press (and those of us who are somewhat familiar with 100 Authors Against Einstein) recognize the style. The first paragraph of the story says:
MIT professor Richard Lindzen's contrarian views have lent the appearance of credibility to those who deny human activity is causing the planet to warm, but have caused deep angst among his colleagues at the university's vaunted program in atmospheres, oceans, and climate.You know, a fair journalist could just describe the facts about this disagreement between two groups of people and allow the reader to figure out what to think. But David Abel did something completely different. He wants to be sure that you know whom you should root for. In every fourth word, he struggles to push the reader's opinion in a particular ideologically preferred direction.
So Dick's views are "contrarian", his credibility is just "apparent", and the people who agree with him "deny" something while the lynch mob that disagrees with him define the "vaunted" program and our letter has caused "deep angst" among them. There are just so many unacceptable distortions in this paragraph that when you read this text by David Abel, you start to understand why David Cain had to do what he did. I hope that the TRF readers have been readers of the Bible, too, at least once. ;-)
Sorry but Dick's views aren't contrarian – they're really the mainstream these days. The MIT program is less vaunted than most other scholarly programs in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and the anti-Lindzen letter was only signed by 69% of the faculty, anyway.
Aside from describing some basics of this disagreement, Abel quotes an anonymous colleague of Lindzen who said that "Lindzen's intellectual dishonesty has tarred their program". This cowardly stabbing from the back is obviously silly because Dick is the most honest atmospheric physicist in Massachusetts, to say the least, and he has also attracted many more donations for the MIT than his average colleague. It's also laughable to make a big deal of Dick's receiving some "thousands" of dollars linked to fossil fuel companies. I have visited Dick's house and I can assure you that "thousands of dollars" are negligible relatively to his net worth and wouldn't affect his research even if they were paid for his research – and they were not. Most of the money that Lindzen has received were the scholarly funds from the usual government-linked sources.
But I exploded in laughter when I read:
In an interview, Kerry Emanuel, an MIT professor of atmospheric science and one of the signatories of the letter, called Lindzen's missive an effort at "stabbing the consensus on climate change in the back."LOL. So poor Mr Consensus on Climate Change was stabbed in the back. That must be classified as homicide in the People's Republic of Cambridge. The reality is that the consensus – bullying by mobs and references to formidable groups of politicians and mostly stupid people from 200 countries who have signed the Paris Agreement etc. – has absolutely no right to exist in science. It has to be stabbed in the back, in the belly, in the face, shot dead, and it has to be gassed, too. Moreover, a 69% support by the members of the MIT atmospheric program for a letter shouldn't be called a "consensus".
As Einstein said, if there were an argument against relativity (or Lindzen's insights), one person – and not 100 authors – would be enough. 22 signatories and officials from 200 UNFCCC countries aren't needed – and they aren't helpful.
A question is whether people like Abel could have been stabbed in the back by Cain and as I have already mentioned, I am open-minded about that question.
Abel also offers you some of the usual kitschy metaphors you must have heard 97 times. Your child may be sick and 97 out of 100 physicians tell you that your kid has cancer and you have to put it down by gradually increasing carbon taxes while 3 of 100 tell you not to do anything. Whom will you listen to? A nice "argument" but only for retarded kids.
I am telling you, Kerry Emanuel and other 21 members of the MIT climate lynch mob. You are violating the rules of decent interactions between the scientists. It is getting out of control, many people are watching what's happening, and because of your similarity to the immature leftists at the Middlebury College I have started with, the opinion is strengthening that the problem of your presence at scholarly institutions deserves a vigorous solution.


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2013-06-25 • Cartwright Bible
Start: 12:03:35
khathu: hello vkn
vkn: Howdy Khathu Hope all is well with you
Seventies: Hi y'all
vkn: Howdy Seventies Hope all is well with you
Seventies: I'm doing ok
vkn: and that's good there is a public official in DeKalb County GA named Burwell Ellis seventies
khathu: Hello Seventies
Seventies: hello khathu :}
vkn: Just here for a few
Seventies: What's going on with you today ms vkn?
vkn: Just finalizing family projects so whoever next can continue or change direction
Seventies: Ah okay... reunion time huh? Speaking of reunions... We are tossing around the idea of the Callins folks getting together in Alabama in a couple years.
khathu: Hello Selma
vkn: We have a group who dines on Sunday's No real reunion seventies
Seventies: ok Sunday dinners. nice. Hi Selma!
Selma: Good Tuesday afternoon Khathu, seventies and vkn
vkn: howdy Selma hope you are well
Seventies: hi alt....
Selma: Ah..I was wondering where Grumpy No. 1 was..
vkn: Howdy Alt hope you are well
alt: hello all .... khathu, Selma, Seventies & vkn
Selma: Afternoon daviss
alt: & daviss
Seventies: hi daviss.. what y'all coordinated to come in at the same time alt, daviss and Selma? lol
daviss: uh, am I sleeping still lol
Selma: Its a plot seventies.. LOL
khathu: Hello alt and daviss
Seventies: lol clearly... lol
vkn: Howdy Daviss hope you are well Nice pics you are posting
daviss: Hi alt, khathu, Selma Seventies and vkn!!! thanks vkn
Seventies: Any people here who have done a long distance reunion? Ah i'll post in the family reunion forum on Afrigeneas.
vkn: That bow is a beau daviss
daviss: lol lol vkn
alt: what's a 'long distance' reunion? planning, strategy, reservations????
daviss: my Texas cousins are doing that now Seventies for Atlanta's reunion
Seventies: All of the above alt. Contracts would have to be in order, etc. etc. We do have a few feet on the ground in AL, but not many.
alt: okay, in that case, not me Seventies
Seventies: daviss, that worked out for y'all. Let me know.
daviss: We are all set to go 3rd week of July seventies
Seventies: Let me know how it goes AFTER the reunion happens... lol You know how it is.. lol
Selma: LOL Do you have folks on the ground in Atlanta daviss..why was Atlanta chosen
daviss: They have done it on more than a few occasions Seventies.. The last one we went to was a blast
Seventies: I think one of the challenges for family reunions is getting people excited to come. The marketing of it all. An aspect often overlooked. You wanna have some strategies to get the family excited about spending their money and spending time together.
daviss: I do have a nephew and his wife are on the ground. The one thing that was changed was the hotel...The Tx folks picked one that was too far out
Seventies: that is good.
daviss: Now we have one that is closer to the airport
khathu: I finally received copies of the Cartwright Bible
Selma: Location..location is a key
Seventies: and. . . ???
daviss: Other than that seventies we are good to go
khathu: The information filled in some gaps I had
Seventies: ok daviss. khathu, what were you able to get from the bible?
khathu: Actual birth, marriage, and dates of death The wife full name and the names of all of Rev. Cartwrights children
Selma: Who recorded the info Khathu
Seventies: so you struck gold. excellent.
khathu: the Bible was published in 1828. The first entry was 1783 and the last was 1854
alt: what are the 'inclusive" dates of the Cartwright children? from when to when?
Seventies: brb y'all.
alt: okay, i see khathu
khathu: @alt 1802-1824
daviss: should the publish date be 1783 khathu?
alt: okay, the bible was published/produced in 1828 ... and the earliest date recorded was 1783 and it was recorded ?????
khathu: 1783 is the year of Rev. Cartwright's birth. The Bible was published in 1828. It was most likely given to him by the United Methodist Church
vkn: prolly so
khathu: Since they were the publisher of the Bible and it is around the same time he was ordained by the United Methodist Baltimore Conference
alt: okay... so Rev. Cartwright stared entering data ca 1828 by recording his birth date as 1783.
khathu: I really can't say who entered the information
alt: and probably all of the dates prior to 1828. regardless of the who, what & when .. you have a treasure!!!!!!!
khathu: What I can say is that the Bible was held by the youngest daughter for a time period since the info on the 3rd generation pertains solely to her
vkn: indeed
daviss: isn't that the truth
alt: you have copies of pages from the bible??? not copies of the bible, right???
khathu: I am going to the Baltimore Conference Archives on Friday to gather information on Cartwright's activities within the United Methodist Church I have digital copies of the Bible
alt: right... still a treasure!!!!!!!
Selma: Maybe you will find something that he actually "wrote" and you can compare handwriting
khathu: hopefully the birth dates are matches up with the other documentation I have located on the family.
alt: now this is the United Methodist & not the Methodist Episcopal, if I'm understanding correctly.
khathu: United Methodist
alt: okay
daviss: Well any comments on the Supreme Court ruling this morning?
khathu: On my own line I have been able to finally locate the mother of one of my gg grandmothers
alt: refresh my memory.. this is the African/Colored Methodist church located in G'Town?
khathu: Mt. Zion Methodist United Church in Georgetown
alt: wonderful khathu, how were you able to locate that information? Okay khathu...
khathu: I had to basically research the entire community and do a process of elimination
alt: ah so... good ole "cluster research" LOL LOL
khathu: the ages threw me off. Mary Jackson was born around 1860 in Rapides Parish, Louisiana She got married to Douglas Crawford in Avoyelles Parish 1876. I am able to locate only one Mary Jackson within the surrounding areas in the 1870 Census. However, this Mary Jackson is listed as being born in 1865 She is living in the household with a Celeste (39), Corrine (23), Ceasar (7), Ella (6 mos.)
alt: I swear to "cluster research" that's why I have 23K folks in my database.. I keep everything that is even remotely connected to ancestors at particular times in particular places.
khathu: I have 10K myself
alt: you're getting there khathu LOL LOL
Selma: Do you think her age was recorded incorrectly
khathu: Yes, I think the age was listed incorrectly, especially after tracing the individuals in household through the 1900
Selma: Actually it has been my observations that woman like to "shave" a couple of years off.. LOL
alt: naw Selma, lol lol
vkn: lol
khathu: in addition, Mary named her first child Ella
Selma: When we did the 2010..I reminded the women in my genealogy group not to LIE about their age..(some already had)
khathu: And looking at the community Ella wasn't a very common name especially among African Americans I am currently missing the identities of 8 ggg grandparents - one on my paternal side and 7 and my maternal side Unfortunately, half of them will remain unknown
alt: what time period are you into with ggg grandparents khathu?
khathu: Before 1830 Some of them are ggg grandfathers
alt: okay, that's a rough time period for US ... Enslaved or FPOC.
khathu: mother's baby daddy's maybe
Selma: Folks have to run..Khathu come back and let us know what you find at the Archives
khathu: Will do
Selma: Have a great day
vkn: good sharing khathu
khathu: thanks vkn two of them i am holding out hope on locating. the other ones i think are lost causes
alt: theat's the gg grandparent generation for me khathu..... I have them and the ggg grandparents on the materanl lines only because they were FPOC.... I'm woefully lacking information on as near as my great-grandparents on my paternal lines I need 'big time' help on slave research for my paternal lines from the 1850's back.
vkn: what is the plan for starters alt
daviss: ok back
khathu: slave research can be a real pain
daviss: are your paternal lines in Ohio also alt ?
alt: just keep plugging away vkn.. researching NC, Edgecombe Co. in particular and KY, Grant & Kenton counties for records in the 1850 and earlier time frame.
vkn: sounds good alt
alt: No daviss... I'm looking at NC, KY and then Indiana before they get to Ohio.
daviss: oh so your gg dad was a North Carolinian alt, so was mine
vkn: besides all question do not require an answer
alt: yep davis in the Tarboro area near Princeville in Edgecombe County, NC
daviss: :?
alt: Oops, dropped an "s' sorry bout that daviss LOL LOL
daviss: :}
khathu: enjoy the rest of the day everyone.
vkn: take all care
daviss: k
alt: must be quittin time?
daviss: come on alt lets go and leave seventies to put everything up
alt: okay lol lol
daviss: lol bye
Seventies: ah huh daviss, see now I was going to help you with Mar..... LOL Ooops gotta run!


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There's a chance I could get my wish and this thing will go seven games. Those that know me understand that the only rooting interest I have is for a playoff round go seven games.
Last night was about the resiliency of the Phillies which was something the Mets have seen the last three seasons. With the benefit of 20/20 hindsight, a play here or there the other way and the Phillies could have won already as they held leads in the games they lost.
The Yankees got to Cliff Lee for five runs, but it took them until the eighth to do it. We could see him again in Game 7 as a reliever, as that is his throw day. Lee has thrown well north of 200 innings this season and maybe they are catching up to him. The Phillies won because he pitched deep into the game to keep the Yankees out of their bullpen.
Last night, we also saw Chase Utley, who I've said several times throughout the season that he's one of the top position players in the game. If I were starting a team, Albert Pujols would be my first choice and Utley probably my second. Maybe A-Rod.
I'm looking forward to Game 6, which is often the most intense of the playoff games because of the sense of urgency. The key tomorrow night will be Andy Pettitte, who has pitched well this postseason, but not well over his career on three days rest.
Joe Girardi gambled by going with a three-man rotation. It could still work out for the Yankees, but Burnett was hammered and Pettitte has a losing record on three days.


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Determined to foil reporters tracking flights from Wisconsin to Boston, the Romney campaign booked Paul Ryan on a flight from Chicago to Hartford, Conn., where the 42-year-old lawmaker was picked up in a rented SUV by 19-year-old Curt Myers, son of the aide leading the vice presidential search process.
The casually dressed Ryan — wearing a baseball cap, sunglasses and jeans — was driven to the home of the longtime aide, Beth Myers, in suburban Brookline, Mass., six miles from campaign headquarters last Sunday, Aug. 5.
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Mitt Romney and Ryan were left alone in the dining room.
"We talked about the campaign, how we would work together, how the relationship would be, how we would interact and make big decisions," Romney said. "We talked about our families and the challenges to them."
More than an hour later, Ryan accepted the offer to become Romney's running mate.
"By the time we met in person, I kind of knew what was going to happen; I was thrilled; it was the biggest honor," Ryan said.
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Romney left shortly after the meeting to return to his lake home in Wolfeboro, N.H. Before Curt Myers could drive Ryan back to the Hartford airport, news broke of the shooting at the Sikh temple in Ryan's district — a tragedy that ultimately forced the campaign to reconfigure its rollout.
The stealthy meeting was the climax of a bruising four-month vetting process that started with 20 candidates and ended with three finalists — Ryan, Ohio Sen. Rob Portman and former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty.
Friends said Romney became uncharacteristically stressed as he stewed over the final cut as he realized that it would be his sole chance to dramatically affect his campaign's standing without depending on outside forces.
The former Massachusetts governor sought counsel not only from those inside his campaign but also friends and confidants outside his staff, said Beth Myers, who led the search.
One friend said the decision amounted to Romney taking control of his own campaign: He picked someone he felt comfortable with and who appealed to his intellect and wonkier side — rather than someone who helped with, say, Hispanics or Ohio.
Ryan is 42, the same age as Romney's oldest son, Tagg, giving the ticket a father-son aura.
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"Mitt sees a bit of himself in Ryan," said a top Romney adviser. "They're both data guys, policy guys, details guys. It's fun to watch them together — sometimes they go into wonk-world together."
Many close aides had been lobbying for the low-risk, nonobjectionable Pawlenty, arguing that the two could run as outsiders taking on Washington.


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Tuesday, February 1, 2011
Mudlord's HLSL Shaders for BSNES
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Those look really good. Thanks for your efforts!
- February 2, 2011 at 12:59 AM
Where do you find the original shader packs for snes9x-gtk?
- February 4, 2011 at 10:16 PM
- Hunter K. said...
I believe you can get them from mudlord's own site:
Look for "Generic HLSL shader patch + shaders"
- February 5, 2011 at 12:33 PM
Oh thank you! I should have looked more carefully before asking my question because I did find them on my own using the powers of google eventually. But it was all to no avail because I am on linux and can't run Microsofts HLSL.
But by looking at how you modified your simplebloom filter via the XML vertex and fragment tags I was able to convert the GLSL shaders that I use for ePSXe Playstation emulator and it worked beautifully! Now I can play SNES games using the "Natural Vision" shader!
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- February 5, 2011 at 1:40 PM
"I was able to convert the GLSL shaders that I use for ePSXe Playstation emulator and it worked beautifully! Now I can play SNES games using the "Natural Vision" shader!"
Could you explain how you did that and post an expamle?
I've been trying to convert my ePSXe Shaders, but no success so far.
- February 18, 2011 at 9:38 PM
- Hunter K. said...
It's not a difficult process. You basically just have to add some XML tag stuff. The easiest way to do it is to open one that I've already formatted in a text editor, then open whichever shader you want to convert (fragment and vertex, if there is one) and paste the contents of the fragment/vertex files between the corresponding tags in the shader file, overwriting the old contents. This won't work for everything (for example, multipass shaders are unsupported), but it will work for most. Also, be aware whether you're formatting a GLSL or HLSL shader, as the XML tags must match.
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The Dutch may be more familiar with the phenomenon. Take the example of the tall and slender traditional Dutch homes of Amsterdam pictured here. Amsterdam is rife with them because at one time there was a tax on the width of residences. The staircases of such structures are so narrow and steep they're practically ladders, which made furniture installation and removal an issue. Hence, the narrow homes of Amsterdam also come with hooks at the top, so homeowners could hoist furniture up and down and through the windows.
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As the weather becomes chillier, I love a good casserole. This pasta dish, though maybe not a traditional casserole, evokes the same warm, melty, heartiness. And while the list of ingredients may raise eyebrows, they all come together harmoniously: the bite of the cheese, the juicy sweetness of fresh figs, and the crunch of Brussels sprouts. I don't always love blue cheese, but it served its purpose well here. 4 ounces of cheese, especially a pungent one like gorgonzola, is just the right amount to add flavor throughout, without overwhelming the dish. It seeps into the tubes of rigatoni, and coats everything in a light, cheesy sauce. The almonds add some crunch, but flavor-wise don't interfere with the rest of the dish. This pasta is well balanced, unique, and makes excellent leftovers. Recipe from The Food Matters Cookbook.


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FOOTBALL fans enjoy transfer deadline day (apparently) so Lee Hall, my colleague at the Sunderland Echo, is sharing his live coverage of the sporting excitement with other Johnston Press titles. Here's the Worthing Herald's transfer day page.
Lee has put a lot of effort into this day, as he explains in his blog D-Day is upon me. It's a great opportunity for University of Sunderland students, too, as they will experience the real buzz of a newsroom.
Cover It Live is the medium of choice. It is a fabulous piece of software with terrific functions, particularly the polls. I used it for Worthing International Birdman.
However, the Worthing Herald sport department favours ScribbleLive. Why? They have always been able to connect and have never lost service.
We started using ScribbleLive after I carried out a comparison test for Johnston Press's digital higher powers.
Getting and maintaining a connection had been a problem from the start with CoverItLive (CiL).
During Worthing Birdman I couldn't connect to CiL using a JP laptop and I had difficulty with my 3G connection, losing the page for an hour or so.
The sports team used CiL three times at matches, the rest of the time it wouldn't work.
I had an email conversation with CiL president Keith McSpurren who didn't think 3G connections should cause a white-out in the pop up page.
From our experience the one page does all functionality of ScribbleLive means we have been able to connect and write every time.
A phenomenal example of ScribbleLive in action is its white label service used by Reuters. The Berlin Wall 2o event was fascinating.
A fine example of CiL used at local news level was the Manchester Evening News' live blog of Manchester City Council's meeting described by David Higgerson in his blog CoverItLive and Twitter covering councils in a new way.
I also find commenting is more obvious for the readers in CiL as it's at the bottom of the feed, whereas it's at the top with ScribbleLive.
I also miss CiL's poll function, as I'd really like to use something like it during election coverage.
There is also a preloading function for text and photographs which seems useful but in my experience shows it is difficult to use.
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Mayor Chris Beutler today presented the Mayor's Award of Excellence for February to Scott Holmes, Manager of the Environmental Public Health Division of the Lincoln-Lancaster County Health Department. The monthly award recognizes City employees who consistently provide exemplary service and work that demonstrates personal commitment to the City. The award was presented at the beginning of today's City Council meeting.
Holmes, who has worked for the City for more than 20 years, was nominated in the category of productivity by Environmental Public Health Supervisor Joyce Jensen on behalf of the division's supervisory staff - John Chess, Jr., Nancy Clark, Mark Kenne and Rick Thorson.
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A curious reader recently asked me, "Is real estate a good investment these days?" Unfortunately, the answer to this great question is not really a clear yes or no.
Personally, I've had a very positive experience with real estate as an investment, but not everyone shares that. In fact, in his latest investment newsletter, Pat McKeough (the man behind The Successful Investor Network) says, "If you buy real estate as an investment, you may discover that there are greater risks, and more work, than you bargained for."
Just as investing in mutual funds, stocks, and GICs is personal, so is the decision to invest in real estate. It pays to first weigh all your options and compare it to other forms of investing. Let's explore some of the considerations involved.
A mortgage is a very common component of investing in real estate. It can be easier to get financing for real estate than for stocks because real estate tends to be less volatile and easier to appraise. Investing in real estate has a long history, which makes it easier for banks and financial institutions to analyze their risks. Its value also rarely drops drastically overnight, as some stocks do from time to time. It's important to remember that while leverage can enhance returns, it also can enhance risk.
Other costs
When investing in real estate, it's important to be aware of all the associated costs and fees, including commissions, lawyer's fees and other costs related to the buying and selling of a property. Also keep in mind the extra costs - such as property taxes, maintenance costs, utility costs and financing costs like the mortgage - that arise once you own the property.
While there are also costs associated with investing in stocks, mutual funds and securities, there are not quite as many variables at play.
Cash flow
Whether there will be a positive cash flow on your property should play a major role in your investment decision. In order for a property to provide cash flow, the rental income must be higher than the mortgage, taxes, maintenance and other expenses.
If you have to subsidize the investment, then you are probably in negative cash flow. I've had a number of people show me their real estate investment proposals and for the most part here in Alberta, real estate is not producing overly positive cash flow, unless there is very little debt on the property.
I will often make comparisons to a dividend stock or dividend fund. If I think it's reasonable to get a three or four per cent dividend, then a real estate investment has to provide at least a four per cent net rental income, otherwise the dividend investment will likely provide a better cash flow.
Some would say I am ignoring the possibility of capital appreciation, but in fact there is capital appreciation opportunity with both the real estate investment and the dividend based investment. Which will do better? No one really has the perfect crystal ball.
Time and effort
Real estate investing requires some sweat equity. You will have to spend time dealing with tenants, arranging for maintenance, doing the accounting and so on. You can hire others to do these tasks for you, but that will have a negative impact on cash flow.
If I had to choose between making a four-per-cent dividend with very little time and effort, or making four per cent income on a rental property but having to deal with tenants and maintenance, I would opt for the easier path. What about you?
Risk and reward
Just like stocks, real estate comes with risk. For example, real estate has liquidity risk - it's harder to sell than stocks, mutual funds or other investments.
There are certainly people who get stuck with properties that do not provide cash flow and that they have trouble selling for the profit they want.
On the other hand, some of the wealthiest people in the world have built their wealth and fortunes with real estate investing. Like most things in life, what you put into it is what you are likely to get out of it.
Before you invest in real estate, remember there's risk involved, as well as the potential for a lot of hard work, so put a little time, research and effort into making the right investment decision.
Good luck!
Jim Yih is a financial expert. Visit his award-winning blog, RetireHappyBlog.ca
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The seigneurial system was a form of land settlement modelled on the French feudal system. It began in New France in 1627 with the formation of the Compagnie des Cent-Associés that was initially responsible for handing out land grants and seigneurial rights. The land was divided into 5 by 15 kilometre plots, usually along major rivers like the St. Lawrence. They were then further subdivided into narrow, but long lots for settlement. These lots were usually long enough to be suitable for faming, and they provided everyone who lived on them with equal access to neighbouring farms and the river.
Around 1637, to encourage French immigrants to settle in the St. Lawrence Valley, then known as 'Canada', the king implemented the seigneurial system, by distributing large tracts of land to settlement agents called 'seigneurs'. These agents had to subdivide the tracts of land into lots or censives each measuring approximately three arpents[1] of frontage by 30 arpents in depth (180 by 1,800 metres). These lots were granted at no cost to new arrivals. In return for this 'free' land, a habitant was required to pay certain annual fees that constituted a form of the income and consumption taxes. These included not only the cens[2], which ranged from two to six sols[3] per arpent, and the rente,[4] usually 20 sols per arpent of frontage, but also, goods in kind, such as a pig or bag of wheat. In addition, a habitant wanting to graze farm animals on the common had to pay a few sols. To have wheat ground at the mill, a habitant paid the seigneur banalités, every fourteenth bushel of grain to pay off the cost of the building and pay the miller's wages.[5] Similarly, a habitant was required to give every fourteenth fish to the seigneur in exchange for permission to fish the waters bordering the habitant's land grant.
Beginning in 1670, tenants under the seigneurial system were required to remit a tithe to the Church. The tithe, equal to a twenty-sixth of the wheat crop, was used to maintain the religious buildings and property that the tenants used, such as the chapel, the rectory and the cemetery. Finally, the obligation to provide days of unpaid labour or corvée, dating back to the medieval period, remained in effect. A habitant was required to provide three to five days of unpaid labour each year for the maintenance of bridges and roads and for the construction of various buildings or structures, such as the manor house, the mill, barns, stables and fences.[6] In return, the habitant had access to the seigneury's services and benefited from the security it provided.[7] The seigneurial system was central to France's colonisation policy and came to play a major role in traditional Québec society. Despite the attractions of city life and the fur trade, 75-80% of the population lived on seigneurial land until the mid-nineteenth century. The roughly 200 seigneuries granted during the French regime covered virtually all the inhabited areas on both banks of the St Lawrence River between Montréal and Québec and the Chaudière and Richelieu valleys and extended to the Gaspé. Seigneuries were granted to the nobility, to religious institutions in return for education and hospital services, to military officers and to civil administrators.
By the end of the seventeenth century, much of the land adjacent to the river was occupied and this led to the building of a road behind the first concessions parallel to the river: this was the 'rang'. Further land was then granted in long strips from this first 'rang' and this continued until the limits of arable land were reached. This structure formed the basic unit of the rural community and established a network of community solidarity. More generally, people were identified with their parish or canton (township), but it was the village or market town where people met to discuss politics, farm prices or offers of employment.[8]
Initially, the village was little more than a collection of houses spread at regular intervals along a road. At crossroads, or where a waterfall allowed the building of a mill, settlement was more densely concentrated giving rise to hamlets and markets. This also led to the development of commercial, administrative and industrial activities. The number of large villages was small until after the Conquest of 1760, but, between 1815 and 1850, the number of villages in Lower Canada grew from 50 to 300 containing 86,000 people. This rapid growth can be explained by the parallel growth of the Lower Canadian population that rose from 355,000 in 1815 to a million inhabitants by 1855. The birth rate was exceptionally high: in 1865, women had an average of seven children. Population growth led to increasing demands for goods and services that were provided by villages and this led to an intensification of the domestic trade in Lower Canada.
Largely because of the initiative of more entrepreneurial seigneurs, landless labourers were employed to develop rural industries especially in the communities round Montreal. There had always been artisans in villages and towns but by 1800 commodities were produced in smaller centres; for example, in the village of Saint-Charles in the Richelieu Valley, hat-making and pottery became important occupations and Saint-Jean became a centre for earthenware production. The appearance of coopers, tailors and carriage makers in other small centres emphasised the growing diversification of the rural economy.[9] Despite diversification of the rural economy, more than 80% of French Canadians were employed in farming in 1850. Soon prosperous market towns appeared such as Sainte-Rose, Terrebonne, Saint-Jérôme and Joliette on the north bank of the Richelieu, Saint-Charles, Napierville and Saint-Hyacinthe on the south bank and Saint-Romuald to the south of Quebec. This expansion of villages represented an essential transitory stage between the countryside and the cities by giving people their first experience of urban life.[10]
Most villages were organised on similar lines. The various buildings of the village were generally made of superimposed beams of squared timber. In the centre there was the church and presbytery generally built or rebuilt in stone. These buildings were extremely expensive to build and the community devoted much time and resources to them as the cost of building and running a church and the maintenance of the priest was met by the village. Parochial structures dated back to the seventeenth century and the territory was already squared into parishes by 1760. However, the increase in the number of villages and the growing power of the Church after 1840 led to the creation of new parishes and the sub-division of some that already existed. Although parishes often included several villages, they tended to take their name from the most important village community. When villages were established as municipalities after Confederation in 1867, their boundaries tended to follow existing parishes. This explains why there are so many small municipalities in Quebec today and why they often named after a saint.
Opposite the village church and the school that was generally attached to it, was the main street of the village occupied by the professional middle-class: lawyers, notaries, doctors, land-surveyors and principal businessman and merchants, the post master and blacksmiths. Because of the slowness of transport, there was also at least one inn that provided shelter for travellers. Buildings were less concentrated as one moved away from the centre of the village. The commercial activities tended to be located at the edges of villages: quays, warehouses, grain markets and industrial activities, such as sawmill, shipyards, potash factories, distilleries, etc. These enterprises were directly responsible for the growth of villages in the first half of the nineteenth century. They only employed a few workers but were found in significant numbers along the main transport routes.
There was considerable similarity in the social structure of villages across Lower Canada. Villages were generally founded by a seigneur though by the early-nineteenth century their economic and social role was declining. The priest was an important figure providing for the spiritual needs of the parish. The major problem in the early nineteenth century was that their numbers were limited: in 1837, there were only 273 priests for Lower Canada. While the number of priests remained small, there was a significant increase in the number of professionals. Between 1791 and 1836, the number of notaries increased from 55 to 373, lawyers from 17 to 208 and doctors from 50 to 260. They occupied the newer houses close to the centre of the village and were regarded as its natural leaders leading to many being elected to the Legislative Assembly. Closely linked to the professionals were artisans and merchants. They had many different roles and often travelled in search of work.
Farmers and share-croppers played an important role in the community providing much of the work for day labourers. Their wealth depended on their access to the market and they were, as was the case just before the Rebellions, particularly vulnerable to economic depression. They tended to be conservative in their economic and political attitudes. Farmers and their families tended to live outside the village. Their prosperity depended on access to the major road and river communication routes but there were wide variations of wealth across Lower Canada. Seigneurial tenure prevented the concentration of land but, as one writer commented in 1832, had the immense merit of obtaining land cheaply since habitants did not have to pay cash to benefit from it. Most work was carried out by the family especially the sons who hoped to obtain the paternal land in the future and who were prepared to work for nothing in the present. Habitants were not well regarded by the British or townspeople in general. In the eighteenth century, Frances Brooke found them ignorant, lazy, dirty and stupid to an incredible degree.[11] However, others saw them as honest, hard working, hospitable but also docile and submissive. In 1836, Romuald Trudeau criticised their lack of education and their idleness and their liking for spending time in inns. Observers were critical of habitant farming methods though this often reflected a failure to understand the peculiarities of colonial agriculture.[12] Levels of illiteracy among the French-speaking people were about 73% in 1838 but reached 88% in the countryside. This reflected not only inconsistencies in the provision of schooling in Lower Canada and a lack of interest by government but also habitant resistance to education.
Habitants frequently earned their living as day labourers. This sort of work was manual labour and labourers needed to be mobile to benefit from it. This appealed especially to unmarried men who could find themselves within a few months working in the city, then on logging sites or working for farmers during the labour-intensive harvest. Often casualties of the crisis in farming in the first decades of the nineteenth century and the resultant surplus of labour, their number is difficult to assess. Constantly on the move, they tramped the province in search of often transitory work. French Canadians moved as lumbermen into new forest frontiers, under employers largely from Britain or the United States and Quebec City, the centre of the lumber trade, grew in economic importance, offsetting Montreal's hold on the fur trade.[13] It was not until after 1850 that the expansion of the industrial economy that day labourers gravitated towards working in factories and on public projects such as railway construction.
Finally, at the edge of the rural world there were squatters who farmed less fertile land. They often lived in intense poverty and a great isolation. The missionary priest provided some comfort to these thinly spread people who often lived in the immense and undeveloped forests. Diversification was also present among this marginal farming population that became increasingly dependent on cash income from forest work, a feature of the agro-forest economy of the Ottawa, Saint-Maurice and Saguenay valleys. [14] Family survival depended on men supplementing farm production with winter work in the forests.
The nature of rural economy and society is exemplified by the community that developed at Saint-Eustache.[15] In 1683, Michel-Sidrac Du Gué, seigneur de Boisbriand and captain of the regiment de Carignan-Salières was granted the Seigneurie-des-Mille-Isles. Because he did not attempt to settle it, the Crown withdrew his grant and in 1714 gave it to Jean Petit, treasurer of the Navy and Charles Gaspard Piot de Langloiserie. In 1733, Charlotte-Louise Petit, daughter of Jean Petit married Eustache Lambert-Dumont and Langloiserie's daughter married Jean-Baptiste Céloron de Blainville. The Seigneurie-des-Mille-Isles was divided into the Seigneurie de Blainville and the Seigneurie Dumont also called the Seigneurie de la Rivière-du-Chêne. From 1755 to 1762, Dumont granted land to settlers along the Rivière-du-Chêne and also during this period he had the seigneurie's first flour mill built. The construction of the church from 1780 to 1783 combined with the mill favoured the development of the market town of Saint-Eustache. Between 1784 and 1790, population increased from 1,958 to 2,385 habitants and the number of grants reached 336 by 1800 by which time the land along the Rivière-du-Chêne was completely settled.[16] The population of the region of Saint-Eustache continued to rise reaching 4,830 habitants in 1831 though, probably as a result of the Rebellion, this fell back to 3,195 in 1840.[17]
Before 1800, wheat farming made up eighty% of agricultural production in the Seigneurie de la Rivière-du-Chêne. Competition from Upper Canada from the mid-1800s led to a dramatic fall in demand for Lower Canadian wheat that led to depression in agriculture in the Seigneurie de la Rivière-du-Chêne that lasted until the 1830s. In the seigneury, the major causes of depression were obsolete farming techniques and severe shortages of land caused by the dramatic increase in the population. Following bad harvests in 1826-1827, the growing of corn was replaced with potatoes and oats.[18] By the early 1830s, Saint-Eustache was the third most important town in the province in terms of population and an important political and cultural centre. Its population was largely made up of farmers and members of the professions. It was one of the first centres to mobilise against the government during the 1837 Rebellion, a consequence of the strength of the local Patriote organisation led by Doctor Jean-Olivier Chénier[19] and W. H. Scott[20] since 1834. [21] The parish of Saint-Eustache was founded in 1825 with a population of 4,343 habitants of whom 393 lived in the village and the remainder in the surrounding area. There were 61 houses in the village and 777 in the countryside. Saint- Eustache was a large agricultural parish with 26,000 arpents of land. From 1 July 1855, legislation gave the village of Saint-Eustache 'municipal' status but it was not until 1948 that the village obtained the status of 'town' and it was three years later that its population exceeded that of its surrounding countryside.
[1] An arpent is a unit of land measurement that equals 192 feet or 58.5 metres.
[2] The 'cens' was a nominal tax or land tax that replaced the 'taille', a direct tax levied on individuals in France. In New France settlers were also called 'censitaires', derived from this word that also relates to the word 'census.' The register in which the seigneur wrote the date and the amount paid each year by the censitaires was known as the 'censier.'
[3] The 'sol' was the French money in the colony.
[4] The 'rente' was duty, royalty or tax paid in cash and, in many cases, with goods in kind.
[5] Under seigneurial tenure, grist mills (and, in many cases all mills), were seigneurial monopolies. This prevented a form of peasant rural accumulation common in freehold areas. It did not guarantee the existence of 'service close to the producer' since seigneurs commonly waited until there was a large enough pool of habitants before they would build a mill.
[6] The roads 'provided' by the seigneurs in Quebec were built by habitants on their own land or through communal labour, the 'corvee'. The road system was actually governed by a colonial official, the 'grand voyer', not by the seigneurs.
[7] See, Desbarats, C., 'Agriculture within the Seigneurial Régime of Eighteenth-Century Canada', Canadian Historical Review, Vol. 73, (1992), pp. 1-29; Harris. R. C., The Seigneurial System in Early Canada: A Geographical Study, (McGill-Queen's University Press), 1984.
[8] Courville, Serge, Entre ville et campagne: L'essor du village dans les seigneuries du Bas-Canada, (Éditions PUL), 1990 remains an important study. Laurin, Serge, Les régions du Québec: Les Laurentides, (Éditions de l'IQRC), 2000 provides greater geographical and historical breadth.
[9] Courville, S., Robert, J-C and Séguin, N., 'The Spread of Rural Industry in Lower Canada, 1831-1851', Journal of the Canadian Historical Association, n.s., Vol. 2, (1991), pp. 43-70.
[10] Hardy, Jean-Pierre, La Vie Quotidienne dans la Vallée du Saint-Laurent 1790-1835, (Septentrion), 2001 provides an excellent synposis of life in the early-nineteenth century.
[11] Frances Brooke, The History of Emily Montague by the Author of Lady Julia Mandeville, (J. Dodsley), 1769, pp. 146-147. Frances Brooke (1724-1789) lived in Canada between 1763 and 1768 when her husband was military chaplain at Quebec and History of Emily Montague was one of the first novels written in the new World and certainly the first in Canada. See, Hammill, Faye, Canadian Literature, (Edinburgh University Press), 2007, pp. 33-38.
[12] Lambert, John, Travels Through Lower Canada and the United States of North America in the Years 1806, 1807 and 1808, 3 Vols. (Richard Phillips), 1810, Vol. 1, pp. 133-145 and Laterrière, Pierre de Sales, and Taunton, Henry Labouchere, A Political and Historical Account of Lower Canada, (W. Marsh & A. Miller), 1830, pp. 123-125, gave a negative view of farming.
[13] Innis, Harold A., The Fur Trade in Canada: An Introduction to Canadian Economic History, (Yale University Press), 1930, pp. 263-282 and Lower, Arthur R.M., Great Britain's woodyard: Nritish America and the timber trade 1763-1876, (McGill-Queen's University Press), 1973.
[14] Hardy, R., and Séguin, N., Forêt et societé en Mauricie, (Boréal Express), 1984.
[15] Grignon, Claude-Henri and Giroux, André, Le vécu à Saint-Eustache de 1683 à 1972: en hommage à nos patriotes, (Éditions Corporation des fêtes de Saint-Eustache), 1987.
[16] Giroux, André and Chapdelaine, Claude, Histoire du territoire de la municipalité régionale de comté de Deux-Montagnes, nd, pp. 15-17.
[17] Ouellet, Fernand, Le Bas-Canada de 1791 à 1840: Changements structuraux et crise, (Éditions de l'Université d'Ottawa), 1976, p. 243.
[18] Ibid, Giroux, André and Chapdelaine, Claude, Histoire du territoire de la municipalité régionale de comté de Deux-Montagnes, p. 19.
[19] Prévost, Robert, Chénier, l'opiniâtre, (Institut de la Nouvelle-France), 1940 is a short biography but see also Globensky, Maximilien, La Rébellion de 1837 à Saint-Eustache, pp. 220-224, passim. Messier, p. 109; Bernard, Jean-Paul, 'Jean-Olivier Chénier', DCB, Vol. 7, 1836-1850, pp. 171-174, is more recent. See also Laurin, Clément, 'Bibliographie de Jean-Olivier Chénier', Cahiers d'histoire de Deux-Montagnes, Vol. 5, (2), (1982), pp. 58-66.
[20] Globensky, Maximilien, La Rébellion de 1837 à Saint-Eustache, 1883, extended edition, 1889, reprinted (Éditions Du Jour), 1974, pp. 224-225, provided a brief, slanted biography. Messier, p. 441; Gouin, Jacques, 'William Henry Scott', DCB, Vol. 8, 1851-1860, pp. 791-792, is more balanced.
[21] Dubois, Abbé Émile, Le feu de la Rivière-du-Chêne, Étude historique sur le mouvement insurrectionnel de 1837 au nord de Montréal, (E.A. Deschamps), 1937; Paquin, Jacques, 'La bataille de Saint-Eustache et le triste sort de Saint-Benoît' in Boileau Gilles and Paquin, Jacques, Les Patriotes de Saint-Eustache, Cahier d'histoire de Deux-Montagnes, (Saint-Eustache: Société d'histoire de Deux-Montagnes), 1989.


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World record set with Bob Dylan song lyrics auction
Tue, 24 Jun 2014 18:08:40 GMT —
NEW YORK (AP) " One of the most popular songs of all time, Bob Dylan's "Like a Rolling Stone," has been sold at auction for more than $2 million.
Sotheby's offered the working draft of the finished song in Dylan's own hand for auction Tuesday. It says the selling price is a world record for a popular music manuscript. It includes a buyer's premium.
The draft is written in pencil on four sheets of hotel letterhead stationery with revisions, additions, notes and doodles.
Dylan was only 24 when he recorded the song in 1965.
The song is about a debutante who becomes a loner when she's cast from upper-class social circles.
The auction house says it is "the only known surviving draft of the final lyrics for this transformative rock anthem."
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