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Tracing Your Legal Ancestors : A Guide for Family Historians
The law had as much influence on our ancestors as it does on us today, and it occupies an extraordinary range of individuals, from eminent judges and barristers to clerks and minor officials.Yet, despite burgeoning interest in all aspects of history and ancestry, lawyers and legal history have rarely been looked at from the point of view of a family historian. And this is main purpose of Stephen Wade's accessible and authoritative introduction to the subject.
Assuming that the reader has little prior knowledge of how or where to look for such information, he traces the evolution of the law and the legal professions. He describes the parts played in the system by solicitors, officers of the High Court, registrars, recorders, town clerks, clerks of the peace, proctors, coroners, notaries, parliamentary agents, judges, barristers and magistrates. Also he identifies the various archives, records and books that the family researcher can turn to, and discusses other sources including the internet.
Stephen Wade's concise account of legal history and research resources will be an invaluable guide for anyone who is studying the subject or seeking an ancestor who was associated with it.
Stephen Wade is a freelance writer specializing in the history of crime and the law in Britain and Ireland. He has written fourteen true crime and crime history books, including Tracing Your Police Ancestors and Tracing Your Criminal Ancestors. His history of detectives, Plain Clothes and Sleuths, was published in 2007 and he is currently completing a history of the City of London Police. He also teaches crime history at the University of Hull and, as a visiting lecturer, at Oxford. He has contributed to Family Tree Magazine, Ancestors and other periodicals.
The British legal system is horribly complicated and confusing Quarter Sessions, Assizes, Magistrates, County Court, High Court to name but a few. There are lawyers, barristers, judges, recorders, registrars, clerks and coroners to name but a few more. Its hard enough to understand for those of us who have studied it for a while, so for the family history enthusiast finding that they have a lawyer in the family, it must be terrifying to know where to start. This book gives a good starting point.
I would go further however, and suggests that this is actually probably quite useful to read if you find that you have a criminal ancestor, as it gives a great description of the legal system. Therefore, you will be able to gain a much better understanding of the system that you ancestor will have gone through, and the people who would have defenced, prosectuted and sentenced them.
Never the less, this is a very useful book indeed. I must confess, it doesn't sound like the most rivetting read, and its probably not something you would pick up purely for fun. But if you find thats one of your ancestors was a lawyer or judge or such like, this would be an ideal guide. As usual with the 'Tracing your… Ancestors' series there are plenty of useful resources listed, and particularly useful in this case a sizeable glossary of legal terms.


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I've had the opportunity to visit several infrastructure and operations industry events already this year. Each targeted the same basic message: a return to innovation. But I have to wonder, are we really ready for innovation? The last 18 months have been marked by a consistent and constant effort to demonstrate return on investment (ROI). Why, as we now enter 2010, is there a sudden emphasis on innovation? The answer is what I refer to as "new shiny object syndrome."
As an infrastructure and operations professional, you're used to focusing on new, innovative uses of technology to support the business. However, the last 18 months have been anything but innovative. This period was characterised by project budget freezes and 20 per cent cuts to your operational budget. In fact, infrastructure spend suffered the deepest budget cuts in 2009, with a 16.3 per cent reduction from 2008 levels.
But all of that changes in 2010. Why? Because infrastructure will see the strongest IT budget growth. Our latest data shows that infrastructure spend will grow 9.2 percent in 2010, which is the largest overall growth and well above the 6.6 per cent average of other IT products and services. As a result, infrastructure spend is not only receiving the most emphasis in 2010, but shows the healthiest year-over-year delta at 25.5 percent.
Therein lies the dilemma. That's right, I said dilemma. It goes back to the shiny new object syndrome. As today's VPs of I&O see a return in their budgets they need to prioritise efforts and resist the temptation to go after shiny new infrastructure initiatives, like cloud computing.
The most important effort is to make sure the operations side of your house remains in order. Most infrastructure & operations departments are pretty good at focusing on operational efficiency by implementing frameworks like ITIL and deploying millions of dollars in IT service management tools from vendors like HP, IBM, and BMC. But that's not enough. Instead we recommend that you focus on three basic steps:
Step 1: Put the "O" back in "I&O" with IT process automation.
IT process automation is needed to take I&O to the next level of efficiency. Process automation isnt about reducing labor; it's about diverting resources so that staff that spends 75% of its time fighting fires can spend more time focused on business operations. We refer to this trend as IT Industrialisation.Why this is a big deal in 2010: Industrialisation is fueled by three trends culminate in 2010: 1) the maturation of IT operations frameworks like ITIL and Six Sigma; 2) the increased use of more sophisticated IT process automation tools; and 3) an appetite for organisational change.
What you need to do: It's often hard to change people and process, but in this post-recession era you'll find it's easier to take advantage of the crisis we're coming out of and realigning your teams' attitude, behavior, and culture. Stop rewarding your team as heroes that put out fires in IT and start motivating them to improve efficiency. The goal is to integrate IT operations with broader business operations. If you do nothing else in 2010, focus on IT automation tools to build a more efficient I&O foundation.
Step 2: Revitalise core datacenter gear, starting with the network.
After getting your IT operations house in order, you can move to optimising the datacenter. Use the early wins from IT automation -- often 40% in operation savings -- to fund your architectural refresh in the datacenter.
Why this is a big deal in 2010: Most firms update core datacenter gear every seven to 10 years. Chances are your last major upgrade was in 1999 or 2000 when times were good. Now we're 10 years down the road and the recession -- which temporarily delayed data center projects -- is now thawing. Move beyond consolidating and virtualising server infrastructure and demonstrate that similar optimisation efforts can be executed throughout the IT stack.
What you need to do: Rather than focusing on shiny new datacenter gear, work on collapsing tiers of the network by investing in new 10 GigE switch platforms; increasing the ratio of virtual machines to physic server ratios beyond 25:1; and finally building out new converged infrastructure that focuses on server, network, and storage in a single chassis. Look to IT heavyweights like IBM, HP, and Dell to deliver the most compelling solutions, but don't overlook new datacenter plays like Cisco with its EMC/VMware alliance. If nothing else, start your datacenter optimisation with your network. Your "throw bandwidth at it" upgrade strategy has outlived its usefulness and you need to revitalise an atrophied network fabric.
Step 3: Transform your desktop environment.
Finally, after improving operations and re-architecting the datacenter, 2010 will require you go after at least one shiny object: client virtualisation. But that's just the beginning; the end goal is to transform the endpoint.
Why this is a big deal in 2010: I use the "transformation" term lightly as it's often overused in IT. But 2010 is witnessing a confluence of events: the consumerisation of IT where employees are demanding that their netbooks, Macs, and smartphones are supported by IT; the rise of social computing as a legitimate business medium; the improvements in mobile broadband; and the shift to younger, tech-savvy workforce demographics. This is the year to rethink your desktop strategy and how you'll make your users, partners, and even customers more productive.
What you need to do: Transforming the desktop environment isn't as easy as it sounds. First, you must accurately segment your workforce. The two-size-fits-all days of providing either a desktop or laptop are long gone. Now you need to look at mobility and productivity needs to drive the architecture. Building a virtual desktop foundation is necessary, but you need to work closely with your security teams to revamp acceptable use policies. Also, chances are your remote worker policy is outdated too. To truly transform the endpoint you need to work with latest from Citrix, VMware, and Microsoft to support access from any device to any application.
Seeing a return to your I&O budget is a good thing. The challenge will be prioritising where you spend your time, energy, and money. Cloud computing -- and other infrastructure "shiny objects" are clearly the future -- but they often take three or more years to bear any fruit. Sure, you'll want to investigate these in 2010, but we feel the key to I&O is to 1) focus on industrialised models; 2) optimise the datacenter plumbing; and 3) enable new levels of user productivity. Use this three-step prioritisation to set your post-recession agenda.
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Women entrepreneurs celebrating Global Entrepreneurship Week in Pakistan.
Men in emerging economies significantly own more small and medium enterprises (SME) than women – women only represent about 38% of all SMEs. With all the strides that women entrepreneurs have made in the last decade – generating more employment, increasing trade, contributing to their local community development, and ultimately reducing poverty – why are not more women running their own businesses?
According to USAID's Chief Economist Steve Radelet, there are five major constraints to women's entrepreneurship.
- Legal and regulatory framework: from property rights to access to finance, women face myriad legal and regulatory challenges that prevent them from starting or formalizing enterprises.
- Cultural and social norms: in many countries, women do not fully participate in the labor force nor do they run businesses for cultural and social reasons.
- Lack of information and networks: compared to male business owners, women in business lack access to various information, including finance and technology. Moreover they often do not have networking opportunities to connect with other women entrepreneurs.
- Education: women are disproportionately less likely to have education in business skills.
- Tolerance for risk: compared to men, women entrepreneurs are risk-adverse with their business decision-making.
While these challenges are difficult to solve, many organizations are already addressing them. CIPE, for instance, works to remove the institutional and cultural barriers to women's entrepreneurship – such as eliminating legal barriers to women's economic participation in Pakistan, or easing access to credit for women entrepreneurs in Bangladesh.
On the educational front, Goldman Sachs' 10,000 Women initiative provides management education for women in developing economies to develop their business skills, as well as building a network of women entrepreneurs worldwide. As for increasing access to finance, the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and the Multilateral Investment Fund are running the women entrepreneurshipBanking (weB) to provide incentives for banks to offer more lending services to women-owned SMEs. Other development agencies and financial firms are also looking for ways to involve more venture capitalists to finance women SMEs around the world.
Creating opportunities and reducing barriers for women entrepreneurs is a must. But as various groups get more involved in the process, it is crucial for all the actors to communicate and complement each other's work. For example, USAID and World Bank's new initiative, Women's Leadership in Small & Medium Enterprises (WLSME), is a way to collaborate on innovative interventions to reduce the above mentioned barriers to entry and growth of female-led enterprises. Moving forward, as the development community, private sector, and governments continue to help empower women's participation in the economy, we must learn from best practices and work towards the same goal.


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In playing the game of retrospect, I was looking forward to seeing what kind of critical reception would await The Sessions, and that the leads of the film would surely see waves upon waves of critical praise heaped upon them like so many blankets on a bed. The film came and went and received some of the acclaim, though perhaps not as much as I expected. So for me at least, the next question to ask about The Sessions is "Wha Happened?"
The film is directed by Ben Lewin, who adapted a screenplay based on a Mark O'Brien newspaper article titled "On Seeing A Sex Surrogate." O'Brien graduated from Berkeley and was a poet along with being a journalist. In addition and more importantly, O'Brien (in his mid-thirties at the time of the article) had contracted polio when he was six years old, and was living in an iron lung, which rendered him without the ability to move his limbs. O'Brien was put in contact with Cheryl (Helen Hunt, As Good As It Gets), and Cheryl and Mark (John Hawkes, Martha Marcy May Marlene) have a half dozen sessions where Mark learns more about his constricted body and what he can do with it. Mark is left slightly spiritually conflicted by it, and he decides to seek counsel for it with Father Brendan (William H. Macy, Shameless), his neighborhood priest. The sessions have a deeper impact on Mark and Cheryl past the physical, and both have a slightly difficult time attempting to remedy them.
There are two things that one almost immediately notices while watching The Sessions, the first one being Hawkes' performance. Presumably using the Academy Award winning documentary short Breathing Lessons (which focused on O'Brien's life and work and included interviews with him), Hawkes mimicked O'Brien's vocal inflection and used a soccer ball underneath his body to help replicate his appearance outside of the lung, which Mark could do for a couple of hours at the time. The fact that Hawkes keeps this contortion throughout the movie, leaving his head and face as the only source of emotion is fascinating to watch, and as Mark, Hawkes is a convincing mix of humor, intellect and emotion as the relationship between he and Cheryl evolves as one session becomes the next. With this limitation of his faculties, I am left to wonder just what it is that Hawkes did to not get a lot of attention for his performance. He has been praised in the past and rightfully so, but I would hope he does not turn into the next Paul Giamatti; both gentlemen can act and deserve even more positive words than they generate.
With all of the work Hawkes does in the role, Hunt's performance has at least been generating good word of mouth and rightfully so. I do not pretend to know what kind of bravery it takes to strip down and bare everything in front of a camera and film crew, but I have to imagine Hunt must have had some sort of apprehension before doing it. Lewin manages to get the surprise of Hunt's nudity out of the way in a quick and almost professional manner so the story can get to brass tacks, and as she becomes more analytical about Mark's feelings about sex, she identifies more with his situation because she seems to encounter the same thing at home with an apathetic teenaged son and her husband (Adam Arkin, Sons of Anarchy). Having Mark's appreciation for her to spend this time is something she is touched by as they talk more and more, and the eventual end of the sessions hurts them both, perhaps more than she was thinking. She turns in stellar work.
But there is something about the movie that feels off. Lewin, a polio survivor himself who is crutch bound, handles the story as a hybrid between a comedy and drama, with two people in different environments thrown together and touched by one another physically and emotionally. Perhaps in taking on the story from that angle, one that would be less resonant with the viewer, it tends to lose such luster. The movie tends to be lighter viewing, and perhaps that is how Lewin desired it, and maybe if O'Brien were around he would have liked it that way. But if that was the desire, it seems to have been not as effectively communicated as desired.
That may be the flaw with The Sessions. What possibly may have wound up being a "great" film is ultimately just "very good," and the degree of positive vibes towards the work of Hawkes and Hunt in the film suffers for it. That may not be the right thing to identify about The Sessions, but for me, what could have been when it comes to the film might be more interesting than the story said film attempts to tell.The Blu-ray:
Fox presents The Sessions with an AVC-encoded 1.85:1 high-definition presentation, and looks sharp and quite beautiful. The mid-'80s color palette is reproduced accurately and nicely, and the film includes old video thrown into it, along with a visual sequence that includes slightly blown out whites, and none of them bat so much as an eye. Image detail is abundant throughout; one could even spot some textures on the mouthpiece Mark uses to type, and facial pores/wrinkles/hair is easily discernible, and the shots of Mark looking up into the trees as he is being shuttled from appointments are particularly gorgeous to look at. This is a nice viewing surprise.Audio:
The DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 lossless surround track is dialogue-driven and thus without any real moments to stand out. However, it is given other ambient moments (walking on the street, or in a coffee shop) where the secondary channels have the opportunity to get some blood moving to other sonic extremities, so to speak. The subwoofer remains dormant through the film, though one gathers the impression that all of the channels could do the work if given the chance. This is complaint-free listening.Extras:
For the disc, a dusting of promotional material are the only things to speak of (Breathing Lessons is only 37 minutes and would have made for a good extra to have here, but such is life). Two deleted scenes (3:34) are forgettable, though one includes a funny dream sequence of sorts. Then five featurettes comprise the bulk of the material. "Writer/Director Ben Lewin Finds Inspiration" (4:01) includes Lewin talking about his process and the cast's thoughts on it and him, "John Hawkes Becomes Mark O'Brien" (4:26) covers Hawkes' transformation, while "Helen Hunt as the Sex Surrogate" (4:13) covers her metamorphosis. "A Session with the Cast" (3:50) has the cast presumably answering the 'What is the movie about?' question, while "The Women Who Loved Mark O'Brien" (4:24) has the actresses for the film talk about their perspective on Mark. The trailer (2:26) and a redeemable Ultraviolet code complete the disc.Final Thoughts:
The Sessions includes great work by John Hawkes and Helen Hunt, there is little denying it. But I am left with the feeling that the film could have been even better than it was, and for that I am slightly disappointed. Technically the film looks and sounds fantastic, and the lack of bonus material does not help its case for being in your library. It is a must-view nonetheless, worthy of experiencing the performances.


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HELLS 500 has always been at the sharp end of innovation and adventure. It's this approach that keeps us interested, excited, and constantly seeking up.
It all started with a bunch of guys who liked riding in the hills. Too much.
We liked the fact that as hill riders we were on the fringe, so rather than race – we would set ourselves goals that no one else was doing. The pre-requisite for any challenge that we set was that it had to be tough. To qualify, it needed to be too difficult to just go out and ride it. We would spend months training up for each new epic – usually timed with the onset of spring. This meant that the crux of our training every year was undertaken in the cold, dark, and wet winters when everyone else would stay under the doona.
It was this approach that would eventually lead to the mark of the cloud emblazoned on every Hells 500 riders arm, and the grey stripe across their chest. It is a symbol that reminds others that while they are taking it easy over winter, that's when we ride the most. Each challenge completed lead to another more difficult, as these things tend to do. Soon we were clipping in on a hellish 2-day 500km epic through the High Country, including 10,000m of climbing. It was all kinds of tough, and word travelled. We started to get introduced as "those Hells 500 guys". It stuck. Hells 500 are not afraid of the odd epic. In fact, the more odd, the greater the appeal. Click here to read more about some of our previous epics..
Hells 500 are the creators and custodians of the everesting concept. It's a fiendishly simple concept, and a fiendishly difficult ride to complete. Pick any climb, anywhere in the world and ride repeat after grinding repeat until you have notched up 8,848m vert. In one ride.
All the kids are talking about it these days. See the coverage.
The concept of entry to High Rouleur's Society is simple. Pick any route, loop, or combination of roads and ride until you reach 10,000 vertical metres (32,809 feet). There are two ways you can rack up your 10,000m vert for your entry into the High Rouleur's Society.
The Limit: One single unbroken ride of more than 10,000m vertical. No time restriction, no distance requirement, no sleep allowed. This approach is all about finding the boundaries of what is possible in a single ride.
The Journey: More than 10,000m vertical in less than 36 hours, with a minimum of 400km. Sleep is allowed (while the clock is ticking), and in fact it should form part of your strategy! This approach is all about the joy of plotting something epic and unusual. With the ability to start the two days in different locations you should be getting creative with what can be achieved.
This stripe signifies Hells 500 riders who have completed either an everesting, or have notched up more than 10,000 vertical meters in a ride to enter the High Rouleur's Society. Either way it's bloody tough. They have put their blood, sweat, and tears into that sucka. When you see the grey stripe out on the road you know you are looking at one hard bastard.
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The producers of the Tony Award telecast clearly believe that more is more.
Sunday night's three-hour telecast from the Beacon Theater is packed with so many stars and performances — a record 16 musical numbers will feature moments from musicals, plays and revivals — that cynics might call it kitchen sink programming.
"Every year we've added more and more entertainment," said Charlotte St. Martin, the executive director of The Broadway League, which jointly presents the Tonys with the American Theatre Wing. "You can feel the energy in the room when they're rehearsing."
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The explosion of performances is an attempt to showcase as much on Broadway as possible and also an implicit admission that there's no clear, dying-to-see-it front-running musical like last year's juggernaut, "The Book of Mormon."
In fact, the producers have even invited the cast of "The Book of Mormon" to perform again this year. There also will be cameos by a little orphan Annie and Mary Poppins. And, to top it all off, one performance won't even be nearby — the song from "Hairspray" will be performed from a cruise ship in the Caribbean Sea.
It promises to be a hectic night. During a morning rehearsal, winners were warned that they only had 90 seconds from the time their name was called to get on stage and give their speech before loud music will drown them out.
"It's got that energy of any production," said Heather A. Hitchens, the executive director of the American Theatre Wing. "The excitement and the anxiety hand in hand — that's what makes it work."
Last year's Tonys was seen by 6.9 million viewers, roughly the same number as the year before. But the program, hosted by Neil Patrick Harris, posted a 9 percent year-to-year gain in the ratings for the 18-to-49 demographic.
The popular Harris is back again this year with several songs and skits. He'll be competing Sunday against the "Mad Men" season finale, but this time no NBA postseason games.
He'll also been tasked with trying to MC between performances from the four best musical nominees — "Leap of Faith," ''Newsies," ''Nice Work If You Can Get It" and "Once." To make time, most technical awards will be handed out during the commercial breaks.
The four musical revival nominees also get a turn on stage, with performances from "Evita," ''Follies," ''The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess" and "Jesus Christ Superstar." There will even be time carved out for the cast of "Godspell" and "Ghost The Musical" — two shows not up for best musical Tony.
As if that wasn't enough, look out for performances from the Tony-nominated plays "End of the Rainbow," ''One Man, Two Guvnors" and "Peter and the Starcatcher." There also are video snippets from other plays.
"With plays being such an important part of Broadway, we're excited that we're finding new ways to bring them to the world out there," said St. Martin. "The magic of a play is hard to show on a television screen. We're hoping this helps."
Not everyone can perform, although it may seem like it. One show not invited is "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark," whose producers decided tongue-in-cheek to hold a special matinee performance on Sunday and offer free tickets to anyone with the first name Tony, Anthony, Antoinette, Toni, Antonio or Antonia. Not to be outdone, the telecast will have at least one Spider-Man joke.
Producers of the telecast are counting on some intriguing matchups to keep interest high: Which play will win from a very strong category? Will James Corden from "One Man, Two Guvnors" take the best drama leading man award from the favorite, Philip Seymour Hoffman in "Death of a Salesman"? Who will emerge with the award in the best actress in a drama race — Nina Arianda, Tracie Bennett, Stockard Channing, Linda Lavin or Cynthia Nixon?
"There's a horse race in virtually every category," said St. Martin. "I love that." Hitchens said such competitions show the diversity of Broadway's offerings: "All the plays and musicals are so different from each other and that's so wonderful to see."
Harris will have plenty of help on stage, from both veterans of Broadway and newcomers. The list of presenters includes Jessica Chastain, Nick Jonas, Tyler Perry, Amanda Seyfried, Jim Parsons, Paul Rudd, Ellen Barkin, Angela Lansbury, Bernadette Peters, Candice Bergen, Christopher Plummer, James Marsden, Mandy Patinkin and Sheryl Crow. Hugh Jackman will get a few moments to talk after being presented with a special Tony.
The Tony Awards show is serious business and the exposure in front of millions is priceless. Many shows that are suffering pre-summer slumps are counting on a bump from the telecast.
"Godspell" producer Ken Davenport was warned that his production's future may hinge on making a splash at the ceremony. "'Godspell' has a heck of a lot riding on that Tony performance, as well as tourist traffic over the next couple of weeks," he wrote in a recent blog post. If Davenport doesn't see "a sizable uptick in sales," he says "Godspell" may close by the end of the month.
Overall, the health of Broadway is good, with shows yielding a record $1.14 billion in grosses this season, and total attendance reaching 12.3 million. The only concern is that audience numbers were flat, meaning higher ticket prices are pushing the overall box office take.
This season, 40 new shows opened — 14 new musicals, 23 new plays and three specials. Many of the musicals once again relied on Hollywood, with "Once," ''Ghost The Musical," ''On a Clear Day You Can See Forever," ''Newsies" and "Leap of Faith" all originating on celluloid.
Some older works — "Follies" and "Death of a Salesman" — reminded a new audience why they are classics. And George and Ira Gershwin — or at least their estates — are clear winners, with the revival of "Porgy and Bess" and the musical "Nice Work If You Can Get It" proving Gershwin songs still soar.
But, if anything, this was the season of brilliant original plays: "Clybourne Park" by Bruce Norris, "Other Desert Cities" by Jon Robin Baitz, "Peter and the Starcatcher" by Rick Elice and David Ives' "Venus in Fur." So loaded with talent was this category that plays such as David Henry Hwang's "Chinglish," Katori Hall's "The Mountaintop," Nicky Silver's "The Lyons," David Auburn's "The Columnist" and Theresa Rebeck's "Seminar" didn't even get nominations.
"It's a much healthier season," said Plummer. "There are some very excellent revivals and one or two very good new plays. I'm encouraged this year by the success of the theater. For such a long time it was just hanging in there. Now it's coming back. It always will come back because it's lasted 2,500 years."
What happens on Broadway got a boost this season from NBC's nightly soap opera "Smash," which takes a behind-the-stage look at two rival actresses competing for the title role in a musical about Marilyn Monroe. Packed with more stage stars than "Glee," the show made being in the ensemble look cool and putting on a show even cooler. A second season is in the works.
But if you're looking for another, more immediate rivalry than the one over who plays Marilyn, look no further than Sunday's best revival award, in which the two top contenders are "Follies" and a reworked "Porgy and Bess."
That contest got some added spice before "Porgy" even made it to Broadway when word came that the four-hour opera was to be condensed and the characters deepened. Purists including Stephen Sondheim complained that a musical treasure was being corrupted. Sondheim, of course, wrote the songs for "Follies."
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I am not conflating it. I am using the methods described by a philosophical position as a point of reference/comparison to what goes on in my own head.creativesoul wrote: ↑Sun Nov 18, 2018 9:02 pmYou're conflating the name of a philosophical position with your own recollection of your own mental activity.TimeSeeker wrote: ↑Sun Nov 18, 2018 8:51 pmHaving practiced phenomenology since the age of 5 and to this day - i am telling you that it doesn't require language. Only spatial memory. My head is a real-time 3D animation.creativesoul wrote: ↑Sun Nov 18, 2018 8:49 pm
Your agreement isn't necessary. Phenomenology is a philosophical notion which describes mental activity and it uses language to do so.
It is only expressed in language because - communication barrier.
Instead of re-inventing the wheel and trying to define it from first principles I am simply choosing to give you an ostensive definition ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ostensive_definition ) by pointing at phenomenology and saying "this is aproximatelly what I am talking about".
It creates a starting point/context which is 85% correct. I can shape and make minor alterations to explain myself to get it to 95%.


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In the previous year, from February 2011 to February 2012, sales volumes increased a much higher 34.4 per cent.
Supply shortages in Auckland and Christchurch are the main constraint on total transactions, O'Sullivan said.
"Across the rest of the country activity is more modest which is reflected in smaller increases in regional median prices.
"The continuing reduction in the number of days to sell between this year and last year is also indicative of more buyer pressure in markets across the country."
The REINZ Housing Price Index increased 1.6 per cent compared with January to sit at a new high of 3,544.9.
The Canterbury/Westland region recorded a record high median of $355,000 last month, which was 3.2 per cent higher than January.
The figures reflected the changing market since the earthquakes, said Bayleys agent Chris Jones.
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February was typically a busy time, "but on top of that we're seeing a lot of the earthquake-affected people either selling or buying", he said.
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Red zone home owners were also coming into the market after being paid their insurance money.
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It wasn't uncommon for auction dates to be brought forward by several weeks because of competition among buyers.
"It's common sense that when you've got more than one person wanting something it does tend to push the price up."
All but two regions recorded an increase in median price compared to January, with Northland up 17.8 per cent to $335,000.
Auckland's median price rose 14.3 per cent $535,000 from February last year, followed by Central Otago Lakes which was up 13.9 per cent to $450,000.
The number of days it took houses to sell fell by two days compared to January, from 41 to 39 days. That number was seven fewer than a year ago.
In Auckland, supply could not keep up with buyer demand in central city fringe suburbs, Barfoot and Thompson Grey Lynn branch manager Andrew Cosgrove said.
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ASB economist Jane Turner said improving labour market conditions, low interest rates and an increase in net migration inflows would keep bolstering housing demand over the year.
"The market remains supply constrained, particularly in Auckland and Canterbury where listings have remained very low and total housing inventory has fallen to low levels.
"The median number of days to sell fell in February, implying a tightening in housing market conditions and indicating further upward pressure on house prices. "
Undersupply was the key factor contributing to strong house price increases over the past year, she said.
"Over time an increase in construction may help reduce house price pressures," Turner said.
"In the meantime, the Reserve Bank is likely to become concerned by the continued increase in house prices and the subsequent lift in credit demand, particularly given debt-to-income and house price-to-income ratios are already elevated."
The Reserve Bank has recently released a public consultation on macro-prudential tools.


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So I've decided to join the endless sea of blogosphere. Majority of it is for personal use to keep track of Renderman related news and resources. Additionally I intend to share various solutions I've come up or learned during my experience in VFX industry - who knows, someone might find it useful.For those who don't know me - I'm 3D artist specializing in texturing, lighting and some shader writing (hence this place is called Shaderology) . My career started in games industry but soon after I joined Animal Logic in Sydney to work on Happy Feet. Ever since I've worked on commercials and films such as 28 Weeks Later and Legend of the Guardians. Today I'm back on Happy Feet because let's be honest, every half decent movie has to be ruined with a sequel.So keep an eye on this space. I'll try not to procrastinate with at least first 2 posts...hehe, I said procrastinate
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By private minibus: Send us an e-mail at firstname.lastname@example.com and we'll make arrangements to pick you up in our own 16 -seat, air-conditioned minibus. The trip takes about 6 hours and 110 euro (per trip, not per person).
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|Rencana ini memerlukan kemas kini dalam Bahasa Melayu piawai Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka. Silalah membantu.
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Aryabhata (IAST: Āryabhaṭa; Bahasa Sanskrit: आर्यभट) (476–550 AM) adalah yang pertama dalam turutan ahli matematik-ahli astronomi hebat dari zaman klasik matematik India dan astronomi India. Karya termasyhurnya adalah Aryabhatiya (499 AM, ketika dia berusia 23 tahun) dan Arya-siddhanta.
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Nama[sunting | sunting sumber]
Sungguhpun terdapat kecenderungan bagi salah mengeja sebagai "Aryabhatta" menurut analogi dengan nama-nama lain yang mempunyai akhiran "bhatta", namanya secara sesuai dieja Aryabhata: tiap teks astronomi mengeja namanya oleh itu,[1] termasuk rujukan Brahmagupta padanya "dalam lebih daripada seratus tempat mengikut nama".[2] Lebih lanjutnya, dalam kebanyakan contoh "Aryabhatta" tidak muatkan meter juga.[1]
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Aryabhata menyebut dalam Aryabhatiya bahawa ia dikarang 3,600 tahun ke dalam Kali Yuga, ketika dia berusia 23 tahun. Ini bersamaan dengan 499 AM, dan bermakna bahawa dia dilahirkan pada 476 AM.[1]
Aryabhata tidak memberikan maklumat tentang tempat kelahirannya. Satu-satunya maklumat datang dari Bhāskara I, yang menggambarkan wAryabhata sebagai āśmakīya, "seseorang yang datangnya dari negeri aśmaka." Sungguhpun aśmaka pada adalnya terletak di barat laut India, ia dibukti ramai bahawa, ketika zaman Buddha, satu cabang suku Aśmaka menetap di kawasan antara sungai Narmada dan sungai Godavari, di selatan Gujarat–Utara kawasan Maharashtra tengah India. Aryabhata dipercayai dilahirka di sana.[1][3] Bagaimanapun, teks awal Buddha menggambarkan Ashmaka sebelai lebih jauh keselatan, di dakshinapath atau Deccan, sementara teks lain menggambarkan Ashmakas sebagai menentang Alexander, yang akan meletakkan mereka lebih jauh ke utara.[3]
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It is fairly certain that, at some point, he went to Kusumapura for advanced studies and that he lived there for some time.[4] Both Hindu and Buddhist tradition, as well as Bhāskara I (CE 629), identify Kusumapura as Pāṭaliputra, modern Patna.[1] A verse mentions that Aryabhata was the head of an institution (kulapa) at Kusumapura, and, because the university of Nalanda was in Pataliputra at the time and had an astronomical observatory, it is speculated that Aryabhata might have been the head of the Nalanda university as well.[1]
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It has also been suggested that aśmaka (Sanskrit for "stone") might be the region in Kerala that is now known as Koṭuṅṅallūr, based on the belief that it was earlier known as Koṭum-Kal-l-ūr ("city of hard stones"); however, old records show that the city was actually Koṭum-kol-ūr ("city of strict governance").[1] It is also claimed that the fact that several commentaries on the Aryabhatiya have come from Kerala suggest that it was Aryabhata's main place of life and activity. But K. V. Sarma, the authority on Kerala's astronomical tradition,[5] disagrees and cites many commentaries that have come from outside Kerala and the Aryasiddhanta's being completely unknown in Kerala.[1] In recent (2007) papers, K. Chandra Hari uses a discrepancy in Aryabhata's astronomical values to deduce that he carried out his calculations from a place in Kerala at the same meridian as Ujjayini, possibly Chamravattam (10°N51, 75°E45) in central Kerala. He further hypothesizes that Asmaka was the Jain country surrounding Shravanabelagola, taking its name from the stone monoliths there.[5][6][7]
Aryabhata mentions "Lanka" on several occasions in the Aryabhatiya, but his "Lanka" is an abstraction, standing for a point on the equator at the same longitude as his Ujjayini.[8][9][10][11][12][13]
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Aryabhata is the author of several treatises on mathematics and astronomy, some of which are lost. His major work, Aryabhatiya, a compendium of mathematics and astronomy, was extensively referred to in the Indian mathematical literature and has survived to modern times. The mathematical part of the Aryabhatiya covers arithmetic, algebra, plane trigonometry, and spherical trigonometry. It also contains continued fractions, quadratic equations, sums-of-power series, and a table of sines.
The Arya-siddhanta, a lost work on astronomical computations, is known through the writings of Aryabhata's contemporary, Varahamihira, and later mathematicians and commentators, including Brahmagupta and Bhaskara I. This work appears to be based on the older Surya Siddhanta and uses the midnight-day reckoning, as opposed to sunrise in Aryabhatiya. It also contained a description of several astronomical instruments: the gnomon (shanku-yantra), a shadow instrument (chhAyA-yantra), possibly angle-measuring devices, semicircular and circular (dhanur-yantra / chakra-yantra), a cylindrical stick yasti-yantra, an umbrella-shaped device called the chhatra-yantra, and water clocks of at least two types, bow-shaped and cylindrical.[3]
A third text, which may have survived in the Arabic translation, is Al ntf or Al-nanf. It claims that it is a translation by Aryabhata, but the Sanskrit name of this work is not known. Probably dating from the 9th century, it is mentioned by the Persian scholar and chronicler of India, Abū Rayhān al-Bīrūnī.[3]
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Direct details of Aryabhata's work are therefore known only from the Aryabhatiya. The name "Aryabhatiya" is due to later commentators. Aryabhata himself may not have given it a name. His disciple Bhaskara I calls it Ashmakatantra (or the treatise from the Ashmaka). It is also occasionally referred to as Arya-shatas-aShTa (literally, Aryabhata's 108), because there are 108 verses in the text. It is written in the very terse style typical of sutra literature, in which each line is an aid to memory for a complex system. Thus, the explication of meaning is due to commentators. The text consists of the 108 verses and 13 introductory verses, and is divided into four pādas or chapters:
- Gitikapada: (13 verses): large units of time—kalpa, manvantra, and yuga—which present a cosmology different from earlier texts such as Lagadha's Vedanga Jyotisha(ca. 1st century BCE). There is also a table of sines (jya), given in a single verse. The duration of the planetary revolutions during a mahayuga is given as 4.32 million years.
- Ganitapada (33 verses): covering mensuration (kṣetra vyāvahāra), arithmetic and geometric progressions, gnomon / shadows (shanku-chhAyA), simple, quadratic, simultaneous, and indeterminate equations (kuTTaka)
- Kalakriyapada (25 verses): different units of time and a method for determining the positions of planets for a given day, calculations concerning the intercalary month (adhikamAsa), kShaya-tithis, and a seven-day week with names for the days of week.
- Golapada (50 verses): Geometric/trigonometric aspects of the celestial sphere, features of the ecliptic, celestial equator, node, shape of the earth, cause of day and night, rising of zodiacal signs on horizon, etc. In addition, some versions cite a few colophons added at the end, extolling the virtues of the work, etc.
The Aryabhatiya presented a number of innovations in mathematics and astronomy in verse form, which were influential for many centuries. The extreme brevity of the text was elaborated in commentaries by his disciple Bhaskara I (Bhashya, ca. 600 CE) and by Nilakantha Somayaji in his Aryabhatiya Bhasya, (1465 CE).
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The place-value system, first seen in the 3rd century Bakhshali Manuscript, was clearly in place in his work.[14] ; he certainly did not use the symbol, but French mathematician Georges Ifrah argues that knowledge of zero was implicit in Aryabhata's place-value system as a place holder for the powers of ten with null coefficients[15]
However, Aryabhata did not use the brahmi numerals. Continuing the Sanskritic tradition from Vedic times, he used letters of the alphabet to denote numbers, expressing quantities, such as the table of sines in a mnemonic form.[16]
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Aryabhata worked on the approximation for Pi (), and may have come to the conclusion that is irrational. In the second part of the Aryabhatiyam (gaṇitapāda 10), he writes:
chaturadhikam śatamaśṭaguṇam dvāśaśṭistathā sahasrāṇām
Ayutadvayaviśkambhasyāsanno vrîttapariṇahaḥ.
"Add four to 100, multiply by eight, and then add 62,000. By this rule the circumference of a circle with a diameter of 20,000 can be approached."
This implies that the ratio of the circumference to the diameter is ((4+100)×8+62000)/20000 = 3.1416, which is accurate to five significant figures.
It is speculated that Aryabhata used the word āsanna (approaching), to mean that not only is this an approximation but that the value is incommensurable (or irrational). If this is correct, it is quite a sophisticated insight, because the irrationality of pi was proved in Europe only in 1761 by Lambert).[17]
After Aryabhatiya was translated into Arabic (ca. 820 CE) this approximation was mentioned in Al-Khwarizmi's book on algebra.[3]
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In Ganitapada 6, Aryabhata gives the area of a triangle as
- tribhujasya phalashariram samadalakoti bhujardhasamvargah
that translates to: "for a triangle, the result of a perpendicular with the half-side is the area."[18]
Aryabhata discussed the concept of sine in his work by the name of ardha-jya. Literally, it means "half-chord". For simplicity, people started calling it jya. When Arabic writers translated his works from Sanskrit into Arabic, they referred it as jiba. However, in Arabic writings, vowels are omitted, and it was abbreviated as jb. Later writers substituted it with jiab, meaning "cove" or "bay." (In Arabic, jiba is a meaningless word.) Later in the 12th century, when Gherardo of Cremona translated these writings from Arabic into Latin, he replaced the Arabic jiab with its Latin counterpart, sinus, which means "cove" or "bay". And after that, the sinus became sine in English.[19]
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A problem of great interest to Indian mathematicians since ancient times has been to find integer solutions to equations that have the form ax + b = cy, a topic that has come to be known as diophantine equations. This is an example from Bhaskara's commentary on Aryabhatiya:
- Find the number which gives 5 as the remainder when divided by 8, 4 as the remainder when divided by 9, and 1 as the remainder when divided by 7
That is, find N = 8x+5 = 9y+4 = 7z+1. It turns out that the smallest value for N is 85. In general, diophantine equations, such as this, can be notoriously difficult. They were discussed extensively in ancient Vedic text Sulba Sutras, whose more ancient parts might date to 800 BCE. Aryabhata's method of solving such problems is called the kuṭṭaka (कुट्टक) method. Kuttaka means "pulverizing" or "breaking into small pieces", and the method involves a recursive algorithm for writing the original factors in smaller numbers. Today this algorithm, elaborated by Bhaskara in 621 CE, is the standard method for solving first-order diophantine equations and is often referred to as the Aryabhata algorithm.[20] The diophantine equations are of interest in cryptology, and the RSA Conference, 2006, focused on the kuttaka method and earlier work in the Sulvasutras.
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In Aryabhatiya Aryabhata provided elegant results for the summation of series of squares and cubes:[21]
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Aryabhata's system of astronomy was called the audAyaka system, in which days are reckoned from uday, dawn at lanka or "equator". Some of his later writings on astronomy, which apparently proposed a second model (or ardha-rAtrikA, midnight) are lost but can be partly reconstructed from the discussion in Brahmagupta's khanDakhAdyaka. In some texts, he seems to ascribe the apparent motions of the heavens to the Earth's rotation.
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Aryabhata appears to have believed that the earth rotates about its axis. This is indicated in the statement, referring to Lanka , which describes the movement of the stars as a relative motion caused by the rotation of the earth:
- "Like a man in a boat moving forward sees the stationary objects as moving backward, just so are the stationary stars seen by the people in Lanka (or on the equator) as moving exactly towards the west." [achalAni bhAni samapashchimagAni – golapAda.9]
But the next verse describes the motion of the stars and planets as real movements: "The cause of their rising and setting is due to the fact that the circle of the asterisms, together with the planets driven by the provector wind, constantly moves westwards at Lanka."
As mentioned above, Lanka (lit. Sri Lanka) is here a reference point on the equator, which was the equivalent of the reference meridian for astronomical calculations.
Aryabhata described a geocentric model of the solar system, in which the Sun and Moon are each carried by epicycles. They in turn revolve around the Earth. In this model, which is also found in the Paitāmahasiddhānta (ca. CE 425), the motions of the planets are each governed by two epicycles, a smaller manda (slow) and a larger śīghra (fast). [22] The order of the planets in terms of distance from earth is taken as: the Moon, Mercury, Venus, the Sun, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, and the asterisms."[3]
The positions and periods of the planets was calculated relative to uniformly moving points. In the case of Mercury and Venus, they move around the Earth at the same speed as the mean Sun. In the case of Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn, they move around the Earth at specific speeds, representing each planet's motion through the zodiac. Most historians of astronomy consider that this two-epicycle model reflects elements of pre-Ptolemaic Greek astronomy.[23] Another element in Aryabhata's model, the śīghrocca, the basic planetary period in relation to the Sun, is seen by some historians as a sign of an underlying heliocentric model.[24]
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Aryabhata states that the Moon and planets shine by reflected sunlight. Instead of the prevailing cosmogony in which eclipses were caused by pseudo-planetary nodes Rahu and Ketu, he explains eclipses in terms of shadows cast by and falling on Earth. Thus, the lunar eclipse occurs when the moon enters into the Earth's shadow (verse gola.37). He discusses at length the size and extent of the Earth's shadow (verses gola.38–48) and then provides the computation and the size of the eclipsed part during an eclipse. Later Indian astronomers improved on the calculations, but Aryabhata's methods provided the core. His computational paradigm was so accurate that 18th century scientist Guillaume Le Gentil, during a visit to Pondicherry, India, found the Indian computations of the duration of the lunar eclipse of 1765-08-30 to be short by 41 seconds, whereas his charts (by Tobias Mayer, 1752) were long by 68 seconds.[3]
Aryabhata's computation of the Earth's circumference as 39,968.0582 kilometres was only 0.2% smaller than the actual value of 40,075.0167 kilometres. This approximation was a significant improvement over the computation by Greek mathematician Eratosthenes (c. 200 BCE), whose exact computation is not known in modern units but his estimate had an error of around 5–10%.[25][26]
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Considered in modern English units of time, Aryabhata calculated the sidereal rotation (the rotation of the earth referencing the fixed stars) as 23 hours, 56 minutes, and 4.1 seconds; the modern value is 23:56:4.091. Similarly, his value for the length of the sidereal year at 365 days, 6 hours, 12 minutes, and 30 seconds is an error of 3 minutes and 20 seconds over the length of a year. The notion of sidereal time was known in most other astronomical systems of the time, but this computation was likely the most accurate of the period.
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As mentioned, Aryabhata claimed that the Earth turns on its own axis, and some elements of his planetary epicyclic models rotate at the same speed as the motion of the Earth around the Sun. Thus, it has been suggested that Aryabhata's calculations were based on an underlying heliocentric model, in which the planets orbit the Sun.[27][28] A detailed rebuttal to this heliocentric interpretation is in a review that describes B. L. van der Waerden's book as "show[ing] a complete misunderstanding of Indian planetary theory [that] is flatly contradicted by every word of Aryabhata's description."[29] However, some concede that Aryabhata's system stems from an earlier heliocentric model, of which he was unaware.[30] It has even been claimed that he considered the planet's paths to be elliptical, but no primary evidence for this has been found.[31] Though Aristarchus of Samos (3rd century BCE) and sometimes Heraclides of Pontus (4th century BCE) are usually credited with knowing the heliocentric theory, the version of Greek astronomy known in ancient India as the Paulisa Siddhanta (possibly by a Paul of Alexandria) makes no reference to a heliocentric theory.
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Aryabhata's work was of great influence in the Indian astronomical tradition and influenced several neighbouring cultures through translations. The Arabic translation during the Islamic Golden Age (ca. 820 CE), was particularly influential. Some of his results are cited by Al-Khwarizmi, and he is mentioned by the 10th century Arabic scholar Al-Biruni, who states that Aryabhata's followers believed that the Earth rotated on its axis.
His definitions of sine (jya), cosine (kojya), versine (ukramajya), and inverse sine (otkram jya) influenced the birth of trigonometry. He was also the first to specify sine and versine (1 - cosx) tables, in 3.75° intervals from 0° to 90°, to an accuracy of 4 decimal places.
In fact, modern names "sine" and "cosine" are mistranscriptions of the words jya and kojya as introduced by Aryabhata. As mentioned, they were translated as jiba and kojiba in Arabic and then misunderstood by Gerard of Cremona while translating an Arabic geometry text to Latin. He assumed that jiba was the Arabic word jaib, which means "fold in a garment", L. sinus (c.1150).[32]
Aryabhata's astronomical calculation methods were also very influential. Along with the trigonometric tables, they came to be widely used in the Islamic world and used to compute many Arabic astronomical tables (zijes). In particular, the astronomical tables in the work of the Arabic Spain scientist Al-Zarqali (11th century) were translated into Latin as the Tables of Toledo (12th c.) and remained the most accurate ephemeris used in Europe for centuries.
Calendric calculations devised by Aryabhata and his followers have been in continuous use in India for the practical purposes of fixing the Panchangam (the Hindu calendar). In the Islamic world, they formed the basis of the Jalali calendar introduced in 1073 CE by a group of astronomers including Omar Khayyam[33], versions of which (modified in 1925) are the national calendars in use in Iran and Afghanistan today. The dates of the Jalali calendar are based on actual solar transit, as in Aryabhata and earlier Siddhanta calendars. This type of calendar requires an ephemeris for calculating dates. Although dates were difficult to compute, seasonal errors were less in the Jalali calendar than in the Gregorian calendar.
India's first satellite Aryabhata and the lunar crater Aryabhata are named in his honour. An Institute for conducting research in astronomy, astrophysics and atmospheric sciences is the Aryabhatta Research Institute of observational sciences (ARIES) near Nainital, India. The inter-school Aryabhata Maths Competition is also named after him,[34] as is Bacillus aryabhata, a species of bacteria discovered by ISRO scientists in 2009.[35]
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- ^ Bhau Daji (1865), "Brief Notes on the Age and Authenticity of the Works of Aryabhata, Varahamihira, Brahmagupta, Bhattotpala, and Bhaskaracharya", Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland, m/s. 392
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Ansari, S.M.R. (1977). "Aryabhata I, His Life and His Contributions". Bulletin of the Astronomical Society of India. 5 (1): 10–18. Dicapai pada 2007-07-21. Parameter
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Aryabhata himself (one of at least two mathematicians bearing that name) lived in the late fifth and the early sixth centuries at Kusumapura (Pataliutra, a village near the city of Patna) and wrote a book called Aryabhatiya.Missing or empty
- ^ a b K. Chandra Hari, "Critical Evidence to Fix the Native Place of Āryabhat̟a-I", Current Science, Vol. 93, Issue 8, 25 October 2007
- ^ K. Chandra Hari, "Alleged Mistake of Āryabhat̟a — Light onto His Place of Observation", Current Science Vol. 93, Issue 12, 25 December 2007, pp. 1870–73.
- ^ K. Chandra Hari, "Āryabhat̟a on the Heliacal Rise and Set of Canopus", Current Science, Vol. 94, Issue 1, 10 January 2008
- ^ Clark 1930, p. 68
- ^ S. Balachandra Rao (2000), Indian Astronomy: An Introduction, Orient Blackswan, m/s. 82, ISBN 9788173712050: "In Indian astronomy, the prime meridian is the great circle of the Earth passing through the north and south poles, Ujjayinī and Laṅkā, where Laṅkā was assumed to be on the Earth's equator."
- ^ L. Satpathy (2003), Ancient Indian Astronomy, Alpha Science Int'l Ltd., m/s. 200, ISBN 9788173194320: "Seven cardinal points are then defined on the equator, one of them called Laṅkā, at the intersection of the equator with the meridional line through Ujjaini. This Laṅkā is, of course, a fanciful name and has nothing to do with the island of Sri Laṅkā."
- ^ Ernst Wilhelm, Classical Muhurta, Kala Occult Publishers, m/s. 44, ISBN 9780970963628: "The point on the equator that is below the city of Ujjain is known, according to the Siddhantas, as Lanka. (This is not the Lanka that is now known as Sri Lanka; Aryabhata is very clear in stating that Lanka is 23 degrees south of Ujjain.)"
- ^ R.M. Pujari; Pradeep Kolhe; N. R. Kumar (2006), Pride of India: A Glimpse into India's Scientific Heritage, SAMSKRITA BHARATI, m/s. 63, ISBN 9788187276272
- ^ Ebenezer Burgess; Phanindralal Gangooly (1989), The Surya Siddhanta: A Textbook of Hindu Astronomy, Motilal Banarsidass Publ., m/s. 46, ISBN 9788120806122
- ^ P. Z. Ingerman, "Panini-Backus form," Communications of the ACM 10 (3)(1967), p.137
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G. Ifrah (1998). A Universal History of Numbers: From Prehistory to the Invention of the Computer. John Wiley & Sons. Parameter
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- ^ Dutta, Bibhutibhushan & Avadhesh Narayan Singh (1962), History of Hindu Mathematics, Asia Publishing House, Bombay, ISBN 81-86050-86-8 (reprint)
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S. Balachandra Rao (1994/1998). Indian Mathematics and Astronomy: Some Landmarks. Jnana Deep Publications. ISBN 81-7371-205-0. Parameter
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- ^ Roger Cooke (1997.). "The Mathematics of the Hindus". History of Mathematics: A Brief Course. Wiley-Interscience. ISBN 0471180823.
Aryabhata gave the correct rule for the area of a triangle and an incorrect rule for the volume of a pyramid. (He claimed that the volume was half the height times the area of the base.)Periksa date values in:
- ^ Howard Eves (1990). An Introduction to the History of Mathematics (ed. 6). Saunders College Publishing House, New York. m/s. 237.
- ^ Amartya K Dutta, "Diophantine equations: The Kuttaka", Resonance, October 2002. Also see earlier overview: Mathematics in Ancient India.
- ^ Boyer, Carl B. (1991). "The Mathematics of the Hindus". A History of Mathematics (ed. Second). John Wiley & Sons, Inc. m/s. 207. ISBN 0471543977.
He gave more elegant rules for the sum of the squares and cubes of an initial segment of the positive integers. The sixth part of the product of three quantities consisting of the number of terms, the number of terms plus one, and twice the number of terms plus one is the sum of the squares. The square of the sum of the series is the sum of the cubes.
- ^ Pingree, David (1996), "Astronomy in India", written at London, in Walker, Christopher, Astronomy before the Telescope, British Museum Press, 123–142, ISBN 0-7141-1746-3 pp. 127–9.
- ^ Otto Neugebauer, "The Transmission of Planetary Theories in Ancient and Medieval Astronomy," Scripta Mathematica, 22 (1956), pp. 165–192; reprinted in Otto Neugebauer, Astronomy and History: Selected Essays, New York: Springer-Verlag, 1983, pp. 129–156. ISBN 0-387-90844-7
- ^ Hugh Thurston, Early Astronomy, New York: Springer-Verlag, 1996, pp. 178–189. ISBN 0-387-94822-8
- ^ "JSC NES School Measures Up", NASA, 11th April, 2006, retrieved 24th January, 2008.
- ^ "The Round Earth", NASA, 12th December, 2004, retrieved 24th January, 2008.
- ^ The concept of Indian heliocentrism has been advocated by B. L. van der Waerden, Das heliozentrische System in der griechischen, persischen und indischen Astronomie. Naturforschenden Gesellschaft in Zürich. Zürich:Kommissionsverlag Leeman AG, 1970.
- ^ B.L. van der Waerden, "The Heliocentric System in Greek, Persian and Hindu Astronomy", in David A. King and George Saliba, ed., From Deferent to Equant: A Volume of Studies in the History of Science in the Ancient and Medieval Near East in Honor of E. S. Kennedy, Annals of the New York Academy of Science, 500 (1987), pp. 529–534.
- ^ Noel Swerdlow, "Review: A Lost Monument of Indian Astronomy," Isis, 64 (1973): 239–243.
- ^ Dennis Duke, "The Equant in India: The Mathematical Basis of Ancient Indian Planetary Models." Archive for History of Exact Sciences 59 (2005): 563–576, n. 4[1].
- ^ J. J. O'Connor and E. F. Robertson, Aryabhata the Elder, MacTutor History of Mathematics archive:
"He believes that the Moon and planets shine by reflected sunlight, incredibly he believes that the orbits of the planets are ellipses."
- ^ Douglas Harper (2001). "Online Etymology Dictionary". Dicapai pada 2007-07-14.
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Omar Khayyam. The Columbia Encyclopedia (ed. 6). 2001-05. Dicapai pada 2007-06-10. Periksa date values in:
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- Cooke, Roger (1997). The History of Mathematics: A Brief Course. Wiley-Interscience. ISBN 0471180823.
- Clark (1930), The Āryabhaṭīya of Āryabhaṭa: An Ancient Indian Work on Mathematics and Astronomy, University of Chicago Press; reprint: Kessinger Publishing (2006), ISBN 978-1425485993 Parameter
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- Kak, Subhash C. (2000). 'Birth and Early Development of Indian Astronomy'. In Selin, Helaine (2000), Astronomy Across Cultures: The History of Non-Western Astronomy, Boston: Kluwer, ISBN 0-7923-6363-9
- Shukla, Kripa Shankar. Aryabhata: Indian Mathematician and Astronomer. New Delhi: Indian National Science Academy, 1976.
- Thurston, H. (1994), Early Astronomy, Springer-Verlag, New York, ISBN 0-387-94107-X
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- http://www.scribd.com/doc/20912413/The-Aryabhatiya-of-Aryabhata-English-Translation - The Aryabhatiya of Aryabhata English Translation
- John J. O'Connor dan Edmund F. Robertson. Aryabhata di Arkib Sejarah Matematik MacTutor.
- Aryabhata and Diophantus' son, Hindustan Times Storytelling Science column, Nov 2004


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Sunday, August 30, 2009
Books to read and those to review
I know I've slacked off on the reviews lately....don't know why, but I have read a couple that are worth reading and putting into hands of students. One of those is Hatter, the graphic novel by Frank Beddor. It takes the Looking Glass series into the graphic area, which, in my estimation, is perfect for this! Hatter M is still searching for Alyss and along the way, he encounters forces he didn't know existed, followers from Wonderland watching his every move, and an orphanage that specializes in stealing their wards' most unique gifts. I thoroughly enjoyed reading this, especially when the first and last parts of the GN read like a fantasy history book.
Just got the galley for Kevin Brook's new novel, Dawn....and since I am such a fan, I can't WAIT to start reading this one!!! I've devoured his other novels and this will be a treat for me : )
Tuesday, August 18, 2009
All I have to say right now...
Everyone MUST READ:
Julius Lester's Guardian...
short, beautifully written, and the entire time I was thinking, "please no....please don't...I can't believe these things really happened...."
I then went online to visit some of the websites Lester cited in his afterword and the images on the postcards - it makes me wonder how and why?? Of course, no powerful book is without its opponents, so headed to the website (can't remember it right now) that rates books appropriate for young and YA readers - it's for parents to "judge a book" and even there, Lester's book is rated four out of five stars. But I will agree - this is for a much older YA audience.
If you have an hour, read this. It will make you think....PERFECT compliment with Draper's Copper Sun and Volponi's Response.
Saturday, August 15, 2009
My booktalk for the fall semester
I always start out my booktalks using Animoto to show book covers. This year, I decided to add some text...I like the look of this one!!!
Tuesday, August 11, 2009
Ever get that feeling....
When you just have to put down books, turn off the computer and live a little outside the walls you've created? I know....did that this summer. Haven't posted anything in awhile, but rather got some fresh air, some sun, some family...but I'm walking into the halls to the world I've created, and it's nice to come back : )
Just finished my first blog in awhile (and that book is AMAZING!!!!) and will shortly finish another booktrailer for Crash Into Me that I've been working on for awhile! That and some Glogsters as well as Animoto videos I'm playing with will be posted this month. And let us not forget the listservs and Shelfaris!!
So from mojitos to bookitos and traileritos I'm back....and am excited about some of the titles I have in my sticky little hands!! Stay tuned : )
The Forest of Hands and Teeth by Carrie Ryan
Mary's heard the stories her mother's told her about the ocean....but she's never seen it. The only thing she knows is the forest, which is deadly and dangerous, and her village - ruled by the Sisters and the Guardians. But her life changes dramatically when her mother becomes one of the Unconsecrated...
The life Mary lives is a post-apocalyptic world after the Return, when a deadly infection created hordes of the Unconsecrated who feast off of those who live. And when Mary's mother is gone, she turns to her brother Jed, who shrugs her off for not protecting their family.
The only recourse Mary has is to live with the Sisters, and while there, she learns that they harbor secrets, ones that she wants to know. But she never has the chance when her village is overrun by the Unconsecrated and she narrowly escaped her village with her best friend Cass, her betrothed, Harry and his brother Travis, and her own brother Jed and his wife Beth. But loss, redemption, love, hate, pain, contentment, life and death follow their every step.
All Mary wants is to see the ocean...to see if her mother was telling the truth or making up stories. There is nothing more pressing than her drive to find the truth, and to know if there are others out there who still live, trapped in to keep out the Unconsecrated, or if her village was the only one...if they are now the only ones alive in the only world she's ever known.
It has been awhile since I picked up a book that was a riveting as I found this one to be. Carrie Ryan has created a novel that begs to be read until finished...it's that intriguing and exciting. The setting in this book takes on a characterization all on its own and owes its complexities to the Unconsecrated. The main characters are in-depth and their stories and lives weave themselves around each other. You end up hoping for the best for every one of them....This book does remind me of a combination of M. Night Shyamalan and Richard Matheson's I am Legend (movie stars Will Smith). I'm embedding the video, which won the Teen Book Award Finalist 2008. I may be behind on blogging this novel, but it still begs to be blogged about!! Full screen video can be found at: http://www.teen.com/movies/the-forest-of-hands-and-teeth/. Apparently they are going to make a movie on this one
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