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Luring the Tiger Away From the Mountain
Feng Yu Heng brought Wang Chuan and Huang Quan and quickly left the manor. Yao Xian was left behind to take care of Zi Rui. A bad feeling quickly filled her heart. In order to increase their pace, Feng Yu Heng's group of three did not sit in the imperial carriage, as they chose to ride horses instead.
Huang Quan said with a bit of concern: "I only saw it from far away. I only felt that the person sitting in the carriage looked a bit like the third prince. In addition to this, it was Duan Mu Qing's carriage procession leaving only after the sky had turned dark. No matter how you look at it, it's a bit odd."
Wang Chuan also furrowed her brow. Using her horsewhip, she then said: "After eldest young miss Feng's matter, the Xiang Palace never made any moves. This servant was wondering why that side would become so quiet. Who knew that this sort of thing would happen today." But she was still curious: "With his Highness the third prince leaving with Duan Mu Qing, could it be that he plans to return to the North?"
Feng Yu Heng was also worried about this. Although she did not reply, she held on to the horse tightly with her legs and hurried the horse with her horsewhip.
The North was where Xuan Tian Ye's maternal family had power. Xuan Tian Ye chose to not live obediently in the capital. Instead, he decided to follow Duan Mu Qing back to the North. That could only mean one thing: The North intended to cause unrest. Xuan Tian Ye had to be taken from the middle of this encirclement. Please, let us outflank them.
She thought to herself that based on the North's troops, it was impossible for the North to cause unrest. If Duan Mu Qing's family wanted to rebel, their only option was to implicate Qian Zhou. This was also a scenario that she did not wish to see. She was waiting for the completion of the steel weapons and for them to be distributed to the army. Old third's side was not stupid. They also knew that they had to act before the steel weapons were completed, thus the two sides were in a race to see who could rush ahead of the other.
The three did not speak along the way. Only after they successfully left the city did Ban Zou, who had been hiding in the shadows, suddenly appear. He landed directly behind Feng Yu Heng on her horse. Feng Yu Heng was not surprised. After all, they would increase their speed after leaving the city, and Ban Zou could not possibly continue to chase after a horse using his qinggong. But the words that he said after sitting down caused her to begin thinking. Ban Zou said: "With the third prince already being injured to such a degree, could it be that he plans to succeed the throne with his crippled body?"
She furrowed her brow tightly and felt that something was not quite right. Huang Quan also began to worry: "Young miss, how about we return!"
Feng Yu Heng shook her head, "We've already come out. Let's chase a little longer to take a look."
After saying this, Ban Zou hit the horse, and their speed went up once more. But at this time, the sound of hooves suddenly came from behind them. She listened carefully and noted that it was just one horse.
Ban Zou was the first to turn around, and Feng Yu Heng could clearly feel his body tremble. She could not help but ask: "Who is it?"
Ban Zou said: "His Highness the seventh prince."
While he spoke, the horse behind them had already caught up and was moving alongside them. Feng Yu Heng turned her head and looked over. Sure enough, it was definitely Xuan Tian Hua. She felt her heart drop, and that bad feeling filled her heart once more.
"Seventh brother, why have you come here?" She asked anxiously.
"Why are you here?" Xuan Tian Hua was a little anxious. It was rare to see his expression change; however, his face currently revealed a bit of cloudiness.
"You also noticed that something was off, right?" Feng Yu Heng spoke a little quickly, "I am not asking why you have come outside the city. Instead, I am asking why have we all come outside the city. My servant saw Duan Mu Qing's procession and noticed the third prince was inside the carriage. Only then did we quickly come outside the city to take a look at the situation. Is it the same for you?"
Sure enough, Xuan Tian Hua nodded and said: "I went outside the palace to buy some things. I saw him mixed in with the group."
She closed her eyes slightly, and her heart began thumping: "Seventh brother." Their horses had continued running forward for a while before she spoke: "Come up with an idea. Should we continue chasing or return to the city?"
Before Xuan Tian Hua could speak, Ban Zou spoke up: "We can no longer return to the city." Looking forward, he guided their gaze forward: "We've already caught up."
Everyone looked forward. Sure enough, they saw a large group not too far ahead.
Huang Quan and Xuan Tian Hua both said: "This is the one!"
Feng Yu Heng gritted her teeth, "Then let's chase over and take a look!" After saying this, they spurred their horses forward. Xuan Tian Hua rode behind them but did not forget to remind her: "Be careful!"
Regardless of how careful she was, she still had to charge forward. Feng Yu Heng felt that the procession ahead seemed to have slowed down, as though it was deliberately waiting for them to catch up. The people and their horses also gradually slowed down to maintain a certain safe distance from the procession. Feng Yu Heng asked Huang Quan: "Which carriage was it? Can you still recognize it?"
Huang Quan looked for a while and pointed forward, saying: "It's that one. The one with the yellow curtain. At that time, I only remembered the color of the curtain but did not notice much else. Now, it seems that there is only one carriage with yellow curtains."
Wang Chuan became nervous, "Young miss, something is not quite right."
Feng Yu Heng also knew that something was off. Why would there only be one carriage with a different colored curtain? Why would it be recognized immediately by Huang Quan? This was clearly to attract the attention of others and focus that attention on that one carriage. With things in their current situation, they had already chased this far. Could they still give up?
"Regardless of whether it's right or wrong, we need to take a clear look." She asked Ban Zou: "Is it possible to probe the situation?"
Ban Zou frowned and looked for a while. He did not dare speak too confidently, only saying: "I will try." He then soared into the air and quickly disappeared into the darkness.
Xuan Tian Hua advised Feng Yu Heng: "In a moment, no matter what happens, fight if you can fight, and run if you can run. Don't worry about anything else. Just make sure that you preserve your own life. Do you understand?"
She stubbornly refused to speak.
Xuan Tian Hua helplessly sighed, "Listen, if you suffer an unexpected misfortune, what sort of explanation should I offer Ming'er?"
Feng Yu Heng glared at him, "Seventh brother, even if Xuan Tian Ming himself was here today, I would still say the same thing. If we are to win, we will win together. If we die, we will die together. It does not matter if it's him or you, I cannot possibly only worry about myself and leave you behind."
"Heng Heng!" Xuan Tian Hua's voice carried a pleading tone, but it was clear that the girl on the horse was being stubborn. It was clear that his pleas would be unable to sway her. He could only give up and secretly decided that even if he had to use his own life, he would protect her.
Ban Zou returned very quickly, but he had a depressed look. Landing back on Feng Yu Heng's horse, he said: "It's impossible to get close. The defense all around the procession is very sturdy, and there are counter hidden guards."
Feng Yu Heng's expression sank, "Counter hidden guards?"
Xuan Tian Hua explained to her: "There are a few types of hidden guards. There are some that are proficient in hidden weapons, some proficient in fighting, some proficient in qinggong, and there are some that are proficient in assassination. Of course, as a hidden guard, the most basic ability is to remain hidden. But no matter how skilled they become in hiding, they cannot compare to any hidden guard specialized in hiding. In their lives, they don't learn anything else. They only learn how to stay hidden and find those that are hiding. Not only could they integrate themselves into their surroundings, but they could also instantly sense any danger that appears in their surroundings."
Feng Yu Heng had already guessed as much. Countering hiding, countering attacks and countering reconnaissance, these were all things that the special forces from her previous life had trained in; however, it was not something everyone was able to learn. There would only be a small portion of the group that could truly become elites, while the vast majority focused on their own strength.
Very clearly, she did not belong to that small group. In regard to the counter hidden guards in the procession ahead, she felt her head ache. It was not that she had not thought of using her space to move forward, but with everyone watching, it would not be easy for her to explain. Second, the procession ahead was continuing to advance. Although it had already lowered its speed, it was still moving very quickly. She could not rely on her own walking pace to catch up. But if nothing else worked, what should she do?
She began to ponder, while Xuan Tian Hua said from her side: "I will go and take a look." He then soared into the air even faster than Ban Zou and disappeared in the blink of an eye.
Feng Yu Heng was a little worried. The person behind her gently patted her shoulder and quietly said: "Prince Chun's martial abilities are no lower than Prince Yu's. Don't worry."
How could she truly not worry; however, she could only crane her neck to look forward. At the same time, she spurred her horse with her legs, increasing their speed once more.
Fortunately, Xuan Tian Hua returned very quickly, but when he returned, the words that he said were: "Heng Heng, listen to me. You go back first. Right now, the capital is definitely in a mess. Ming'er is still in the palace. I fear that something has happened."
Feng Yu Heng was stunned then shook her head, "If the capital is currently a mess, wouldn't having me go back be like pushing me into a pit of fire? Seventh brother, I trust Xuan Tian Ming. He also has his pride. He would not hope that his woman would return to the capital right now just to save him. Since both are dangerous, I really must see what sort of plan Duan Mu Qing has drawn up!"
After she said this, she did not give anyone else any time to react. She suddenly spurred her horse and charged forward. Xuan Tian Hua was given a fright and quickly chased after her.
Ban Zou held her waist, and his teeth squeaked from being gnashed. Leaning against her ear, he angrily said: "Have you gone insane?"
Feng Yu Heng shrugged, "I have not."
"If you haven't then where are you charging?"
"Toward the carriages ahead of us." Feng Yu Heng reached out and pointed to the side, "We will pass by the side. I will take a close look at that carriage then think of something."
Ban Zou was so angry that he wanted to spank her: "We've already told you that there are counter hidden guards to the side. Why do you not listen to any advice?"
Feng Yu Heng let out an exaggerated sigh. She spoke with a disappointed tone: "You've all said that there are counter hidden guards. With us doing all of this, do you believe that they really have not noticed? Ban Zou, oh Ban Zou, there is clearly a trap up ahead. Everything that we have done has been seen by them."
"Yet you would still go!" Ban Zou wanted to go and grab her; however, Feng Yu Heng managed to break free.
"Don't cause trouble! Since we've already come this far, how terrified would we look if we returned now? There is no need to fear a trap. We just need to rush past it. I really must see just how big a splash Duan Mu Qing from the North is able to cause outside the capital!"
As she spoke, her horse was now running alongside the carriage, but there was a bit of distance to the side, thus it was not too obvious. But even if this was the case, everyone understood that the other side would be making preparations. Otherwise, not to mention counter hidden guards, even someone like Ban Zou would have noticed their movements.
But the procession continued to advance. It did not have any intentions of stopping.
Feng Yu Heng pointed at the carriage with the yellow curtain and said: "That's the right one, right? Since we cannot go forward to investigate, let's just flip over that carriage and have the person inside crawl out on their own for us to see clearly!"
While saying this, she reached into her sleeve while someone to her side watched attentively. She pulled out a tranquilizer gun and held it in her hand. Everyone saw her stretch out her arm straight and curl her finger toward the carriage. In the blink of an eye, something unknown flew out as fast as lightning. Following this, there were a couple "thunk" sounds caused by the two horses pulling the carriage with the yellow curtain to fall and not get up…
TN: The title is an idiom meaning to draw an enemy from their base.


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Congrats on the new house, Po. Prune =]
On the subject of the competition, I'm almost finished with my entry. Anybody fancy beta-testing this thing before I officially submit it?
Lazzah wrote:I just had a thought: By "4 rooms" does this means locations where gameplay takes place and does not include rooms which are used for things like the game prologue and playing instructions, etc?
David Whyld wrote:I'm interested in an End of Year comp but less so in an Intro Comp. Why? Because we all know the chances of games entered in an Intro Comp being finished are slightly less than zilch. At least with the End of Year Comp, you get to play finished games (at least, I hope they're finished...)
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The first two I recommend only eating in Texas and the third, while nationally available, is a Texas original. On a recent visit home, I found all three, combined into one of the best hangover-helper dishes possible.
The purveyor of this heavenly concoction is Lamberts, a self-proclaimed "fancy barbecue" restaurant in downtown Austin. The dish is only on the bar menu—you're probably already sitting there if you find your way over on the morning after a long night out on Sixth Street. (But if you're avoiding anything that smells like beer, you can still order from the bar menu at any table, all day). Their Frito Pie ($12, but half off during happy hour) consists of a layer of Lamberts mustard bbq sauce, topped with Fritos, chopped beef brisket, queso, pico de gallo, goat cheese, and cilantro, with a pickled jalapeno on the side.
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As an artist, designer, and critic of all things aesthetic, that's not surprising. She demands beauty in all things and will tolerate nothing less. You can see her passion for the art of beauty in the design of her blog:
I'm telling you this, because Miss Asrat is holding a fundraiser to fund something she calls "Reclaiming Beauty." I believe it is an attempt to make the whole world reflect the beauty of her web site design.
Or maybe, she simply wants to fight the battle for beauty by spending more time exposing the the kind of filthy ugliness she most abhors. The name of that vile hideousness is Michele Obama:
Obama's [sic] cleverly uses Michelle's aggression to act like the "good guy." Yet, he is following in his politics the exact same dismantling of white society that Michelle is blatantly advocating. His expression above is a benevolent cringing at the loud vocals probably emitting from Michelle. Yet, she clearly behaves this way because he never tells her to stop. He wants her to behave like this. Their private conversations must be full of raised fists.
I can actually see her turning ugly. Is that why Obama is so nice to here - kissing her in public, and all those intimate dances during their parties? And he also needs her irrational (black power) anger, since he's not going there in the same way. He's smartly sticking to "politics."
And there is much there besides a pictorial one (e.g. Obama's underlying aggression, and Michelle as his female Captain).


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Dwight Howard never did hit the Pelicans with the sort of dunk that would require his New Orleans cap, but he had happy memories of the time he win the dunk contest with his superman slam at New Orleans Arena.
He will not, however, reprise that performance in the dunk contest next month either.
Howard, who won the 2008 dunk contest at New Orleans Arena, said the NBA invited him to dunk again this season in New Orleans, but he declined.
"Couldn't do it," Howard said.
Howard, 28, said he would participate again, "If I wasn't so old. I'm getting up there in age, man, I tell you. I got a lot of years."
Howard, however, said he had thought about that night just because with the return to New Orleans.
"It was a night to remember," Howard said. "It was probably one of the best memories of me being in the NBA being in the dunk contest here in New Orleans. The fans were amazing here. Every time I come in this building, I get chills thinking about it."
"I remember that whole experience," Howard said. "Being here, the fans were amazing. I saw in past years, nobody tried to really engage the crowd. I like to entertain. I tried to really engage the fans, give them something they'll remember."
Though he enjoyed the experience, Howard said he does not blame other top players from skipping it, saying that dunking in games and in contests require different talents.
"A lot of people see guys dunk in games and say they should do the dunk contest because they dunk in games," Howard said. "It's a different atmosphere. In games, you have the adrenaline going. You have your teammates out there. Everybody's out there playing. You're going up and down. In the dunk contest, it's just you, the basketball and the rim. It's a different situation. You have to build your own adrenaline. You have to get yourself going. It's tough. Not a lot of people are dunk contest dunkers. It doesn't matter if you're an elite player or not, the dunk contest is a different animal."


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"DEAR EDITOR: I am 8 years old.
"Some of my little friends say Steve Jobs is dead.
"Papa says, 'If you see it in THE SUN it's so.'
"Please tell me the truth; is Steve Jobs gone?
VIRGINIA, your little friends are wrong. They have been affected by the skepticism of a skeptical age. They do not believe except what they see online. They think that nothing can be which is not comprehensible by their little minds. All minds, Virginia, whether they be men's or children's, are little. In this great universe of ours man is a mere insect, an ant, in his intellect, as compared with the boundless world about him, as measured by the intelligence capable of grasping the whole of truth and knowledge.
Yes, VIRGINIA, there is a Steve Jobs. He exists as certainly as intuition and genius and innovation exist, and you know that they abound and give to your life its highest beauty and joy. Alas! how dreary would be the world if there were no Steve Jobs. It would be as dreary as if there were no VIRGINIAS. There would be no childlike faith then, no poetry, no romance to make tolerable this existence. We should have no enjoyment, not even in sense and sight. The eternal light with which creativity fills the world would be extinguished.
Believe Steve Jobs is dead! You might as well not believe in fairies! You might get your papa to hire men to watch at Infinite Loop for Steve Jobs, but even if they did not see Steve Jobs coming in, what would that prove? You may not see Steve Jobs yourself, but that is no sign that there is no Steve Jobs. The most real things in the world are those that neither children nor men can see. Did you ever see fairies dancing on the lawn? Of course not, but that's no proof that they are not there. Nobody can conceive or imagine all the wonders there are unseen and unseeable in the world.
You may tear apart the iPhone and see what processor it has inside, but there is a veil covering the unseen world which not the strongest man, nor even the united strength of all the strongest men that ever lived, could tear apart. Only faith, fancy, poetry, love, romance, can push aside that reality distortion field and view and picture the supernal beauty and glory beyond. Is it all real? Ah, VIRGINIA, in all this world there is nothing else real and abiding.
Steve Jobs dead?! Thank God! he lives, and he lives forever. A thousand years from now, Virginia, nay, ten times ten thousand years from now, he will continue to make glad the heart of the crazy ones.
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John McCain Pulls Support for Limited Syria Strike; Wants More Aggressive Action
Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) has refused to back a Senate resolution authorizing President Barack Obama to launch a limited military strike on the Syrian government, insisting that more aggressive measures need to be taken to end the deadly conflict.
"In its current form, I do not," McCain told The Associated Press on Wednesday, referring to a resolution put forth by Sens. Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) and Bob Corker (R-Tenn.), which places a 90-day limit on military action in Syria and blocks U.S. troops from being sent into the troubled country.
McCain, who spent over five years as a prisoner of war in north Vietnam before beginning his political career, has agreed with Obama that the evidence points clearly that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is responsible for the chemical attacks in August that killed at least 1,429 civilians, more than 400 of whom were children.
He previously warned in a joint statement with fellow Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) that military action against Syria must be meaningful and focused clearly at taking out Assad's regime.
"However, we cannot in good conscience support isolated military strikes in Syria that are not part of an overall strategy that can change the momentum on the battlefield, achieve the President's stated goal of Assad's removal from power, and bring an end to this conflict, which is a growing threat to our national security interests," the statement read.
"Anything short of this would be an inadequate response to the crimes against humanity that Assad and his forces are committing. And it would send the wrong signal to America's friends and allies, the Syrian opposition, the Assad regime, Iran, and the world – all of whom are watching closely what actions America will take."
McCain's refusal to back the current plan on Syria comes at a time when the U.S. is still deciding on how exactly to proceed in a conflict that analysts have said appears to be without a resolution. World powers such as Russia and China have warned Obama that military strikes in Syria will only further destabilize the region, while long-time allies like the U.K. have voted against participating in any such operations.
Obama has said that the U.S. will carry out an attack on Syria regardless of how much international support he receives, a stance that was recently backed by House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio).
"The use of chemical weapons is a barbarous act. It's pretty clear to me that the United Nations is unable to take action; NATO, not likely to take action," Boehner said after a meeting in the White House on Tuesday.
Other U.S. politicians, such as Senator Rand Paul (R-Ky.), have spoken out against military intervention in Syria all together:
"I think the Islamic rebels winning is a bad idea for the Christians. All of a sudden we'll have another Islamic state where Christians are persecuted," Paul said in an interview on Sunday.
McCain has rejected the idea that leaving Assad in power would be a better option for the region, but Obama has said he is committed to seeking Congressional approval before he takes any action on Syria.


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A couple of nights ago, Colin was stalling. He had already been tucked into bed, but a few minutes later, he came to my room with his classic technique:
"Mommy, I just want to snuggle with you."
Most nights, I can't resist that one... I let him climb in bed next to me and we talk about his day, or we watch youtube clips of Ina or Giada cooking, or I check my Google Reader or whatever. He usually conks within a few minutes.
This night, though, it was late, and I knew he needed to hit the sack. "Not tonight, buddy." I said. "We'll snuggle tomorrow."
"Can I go down and say goodnight to Daddy?"
Now, this had already been done--twice--but I said, "Sure. Go say goodnight to Daddy, but then come right back and get in bed."
As I guessed would happen, he was gone for a little while. I figured that he was just pulling more stall tactics with Shane...but after about 10 minutes, he came back with an index card in his hand.
Now, if you didn't know, my Colin is quite the artist. He loves anything he can create, paint, put together, cut, glue, form, or fashion. This night, however, he 'created' my favorite project to date.
"Mom, look what I did with this alphabet card!"
(A couple of years ago, I made some flashcards to help Colin learn and memorize his alphabet. Score on the creativity, I know...he definitely didn't get the artistic side from me.)
He spelled out Mom. Such a smart little guy.
Then, I flipped the card over and got the biggest chuckle of the week--and
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Here's the first ad for the 2013 Ford Mustang unveiled moments ago on the company's YouTube page. The commercial feels like something we've seen before — only sort of creepy.
The commercial is like Fiat's 'Seduction' ad, only, instead of the upgraded Mustang transforming into a gorgeous model, the muscle car we're madly waiting for morphs into an endless Skittles-like stream of colorful variant editions of itself. Interesting to watch, sure, but not overwhelmingly so. Especially when overlaid with what I think is an Adam Levine soundtrack.
It's sort of hard to believe a little girl looks at a Ford Mustang and thinks to herself "OMG! That's the car! I'm totally going to the ball to meet my prince and he'll be driving a bad-ass Mustang GT500!"
Sure, maybe, but only if her idea of a prince is Kid Rock in a wife beater crushing a PBR on his forehead.
But it's the little girl's mind that's creepy. I don't want to see into her daydreams of eschewing a pink tutu for a peacock-feathered black dress. Especially one that looks like it's a costume from the Black Swan.
And check out the Ford Crown Vics throughout the ad. As one commenter has already noted, there's "nothing like framing your most iconic car with the other iconic car you recently killed off."
Don't get me wrong — the ad's not bad, but what I really want to see is Catrinel Menghia. I'm going to go re-watch the Fiat ad. Because I kind of think that's how you make horsepower sexy.


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It is down to the final two chapters of the book by Alex Kuznetsova. Check out the previous chapter here. The review of this book is certainly taking longer to produce than I had planned. However, I think you find that the book is still worth it and that this little series is also worth it. I hope that the spread of this series is at least getting to a few more people here and there and that more people may get a copy of "Defensive Database Programming".
This chapter is about concurrent queries and Isolation Levels. I think these seem to be a hot button of late – at least I have been hearing more and more talk about them than in the near past. Alex starts the chapter with a stark realization. He states:
Even the simplest SELECT, against one table, may retrieve incorrect results when the base table is being modified at the same time. (p. 297)
Think about that statement for a bit. I imagine it won't take you long to realize that it is true. I am certain that you have come up with several examples that underscore that statement.
Alex then progresses through Isolation levels giving a demonstration of what will happen under the described circumstances. This chapter is not intended to explain the differences between the Isolation levels, but merely to demonstrate what could happen – as has been the theme throughout the book to this juncture. These examples that Alex uses first describe a theoretical problem and then he reproduces the theoretical problem with real world scenarios.
Alex also outlines in this chapter some considerations for choosing the correct Isolation level for your business needs. Pros and Cons are weighed and usefulness of the Isolation level is discussed. Alex also offers up the notion of using a query hint to issue a table lock when querying the database. Due to the reciprocal effects Alex also states that it is almost never really an option.
Alex goes the extra mile in this chapter by discussing how we can minimize deadlocks.
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If there's an upside to the relentless deluge of vampirism at the cinema these days, it's that when an honest-to-God vampire film comes along, it's like a breath of fresh, garlic-scented air. Such is the case with "Stake Land," the new micro-budget horror film about the search for New Eden in a vampire-controlled post-apocalyptic wasteland.
Connor Paolo (best known as Eric van der Woodsen on "Gossip Girl") stars as Martin, a teenager orphaned by a vampire attack he himself only barely survives thanks to the intervention of a mysterious stranger who introduces himself only as Mister (Nick Damici, who also co-wrote the film). "Mister" allows the boy to join him as he drives north, away from the vampire strongholds, teaching him the tricks of the vamp-killing trade along the way.
The pair soon happens upon a nun (Kelly McGillis—no, really) in a torn and bloody habit, who comes running out of the woods chased by two members of The Brethren, a murderous gang of fundamentalist led by Jebedia Loven, (Broadway star Michael Cerveris). Cerveris is perfectly cast as a maniacal leader who, like a certain fundamentalist hatemonger before him, joyfully embraces the horrifying scourge on humantiy as a judgement from God. Damici teeters on the brink as Mister, constantly in danger of turning into a caricature, but ultimately he makes the goatee, sunglasses and seen-it-all growl work.
Like "Monsters," Gareth Edwards low-budget sci-fi thriller from last year, "Stake Land" is a clinic in what can be accomplished for less than $1 million with today's technology and and a decent story. Director Jim Mickle's film is a thing of beauty to look at, with its wide landscapes and rich, staurated colors. And throughout the film, Mickle celverly uses close-ups and low angles to minimize how much he has to make look right. Mickle also makes things easier on himself by having Martin narrate much of the film, filling the moments between the action with explication. Paolo gives the narration the proper amount of world-weariness without descending into affected cool.
"Stake Land" is a pure low-fi genre film with a brain and a heart, one that reminds you just how good a proper vampire movie can be. There but for the grace of God went Mark Borchardt.
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So we have been working with the worlds leading content providers, alongside our OEM partners to create experiences that shine. With that, we've aggregated these together over at m.flash.com so that you can enjoy them on your mobile phones. I think it will really help to sell those mobile and device projects that we've all been thinking about.
If I'm honest, this is the one that I have been most excited about, and this week the BBC launched iPlayer 3.0. with support for Android Froyo devices and Flash Player 10.1. As I live in the UK, and I know many of you don't, let's take a look at just how huge the service has become.
Simply put, iPlayer is like Hulu for BBC content providing video on demand services for UK citizens. Using the service we can watch BBC content that we've missed, across 10 TV channels and 11 radio stations. On top of that, we can also watch TV live using iPlayer online to work around poor terrestrial signals – or in my case, a tiny television
In perspective (BBC iStats for May 2010)
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- 13m live streams were broadcast, including a huge amount of live radio proportional to video streams
- 6.5m video/radio requests from mobile phones
- Peak usage tracks linear broadcast usage almost exactly – the shape of things to come
Currently the iPlayer is available on the Nintendo Wii, PS3, Mac, Windows, Linux, Symbian, Windows Mobile and iOS devices. As you would expect, when it comes to scaling the iPlayer platform across all of these devices, the task is huge. That's where Flash comes in, if you look at the list above (and more still) we have demonstrated Flash on all of them.
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If you have a portable, battery-powered analog TV, you will still be able to watch broadcast TV, but you would need additional equipment and the TV wouldn't really be portable.
You would still have to have a converter box for portable, battery-powered analog TVs to receive over-the-air programming after June 12, 2009. First you will have to be sure they have the proper inputs for a connection. However, because there won't be battery-powered converter boxes, you will need to connect it to an external power source.


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Petraeus Scandal Takes a Serious Left Turn
The Petraeus scandal is getting very weird tonight.
The rapidly unfolding saga of David Petraeus, Paula Broadwell, Jill Kelley and an unnamed FBI agent is getting trashier by the minute. The Wall Street Journal dropped a scoop on Monday evening with fresh details about the case, including a report of a man who sent shirtless photos of himself to Kelley, the accidental whistleblower. Believe it or not, the man sending sexy pics is not David Petraeus — you know, the guy that just got caught having an illicit affair with his too-fit biographer. It's the FBI agent.
But wait there's more. Evidently, the FBI agent who opened an investigation into some harassing emails that Kelley, a friend of his from Florida, got a little too involved in the case. According to The Journal, the agent's "supervisors soon became concerned that the initial agent might have grown obsessed with the matter, and prohibited him from any role in the investigation."
Meanwhile, the investigators who worked their way through a maze of anonymous email exchanges between Petraeus, Broadwell and Kelley ascertained that the former CIA director and his friend from Florida may have gotten romantically involved as well. One email described a night at dinner when the anonymous writer claimed to witness Kelley touching Petraeus "provocatively" under the table. "Provocatively" is WSJ's word. We're guessing the email was a little bit more specific with what was going on with the under-the-table touching.


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Skip to comments.Anthony Weiner & Huma Abedin vs. NYC (Muslim Brotherhood takeover of NYC and America)
Posted on 05/29/2013 9:32:04 AM PDT by Perseverando
Anthony Weiner recently announced his intention to run for mayor of New York City. As a resident living in Manhattan, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo was right on the money when he said shame on us if New York City voters elect Weiner as their mayor. Governor Cuomo now says he was just kidding. But even the possibility of a Weiner victory is no joke.
Weiners foolish sexting, which brought an abrupt and disgraceful end to his congressional term, displays a serious lack of judgment that alone should disqualify him. But that is only a side show to the main problem that a Mayor Weiner would pose to the welfare of New Yorkers. His Muslim wife, Huma Abedin, former Secretary of State Hillary Clintons deputy chief of staff and close confidante, is said to be the driving force behind her husbands decision to run for the most important office of Americas largest city. She even reportedly pushed someone she had previously worked with to serve as Weiners campaign manager. If Weiner becomes mayor, Abedin will be in a position to shape her husbands policies from behind the scenes on such sensitive matters as law enforcement and city counterterrorism.
Huma Abedin has been an integral part of the Abedin family Islamist enterprise, which has links to jihadist groups. Although born in the United States, she grew up in Saudi Arabia, where her parents were recruited by Abdullah Omar Naseef (an extremist affiliated with al-Qaeda and the Muslim World League) to establish an organization known as the Institute of Muslim Minority Affairs (IMMA). The purpose of IMMA was to counter Muslim assimilation in non-Muslim societies and promote the idea of ummah, the Muslim nation, with sharia law as its core. Humas father founded IMMAs Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs, now run by
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"As Andrew McCarthy put it, to perceive no correlation between the Islamists fervid anti-assimilation program and the United States governments stunning accommodation of the Brotherhood and its agenda is to be willfully blind."
This is nothing more than the Clinton/Cuomo feud for control of the New York Democrat party. Don't make too much of Cuomo's outrage. I'm sure it's not genuine.
(Why do I have this urge to tag almost every reply these day with, "asshole", or a variant?)
Follow the money. The spread of Islam has always been about payoffs to those who grease the skids. The little people always suffer. Spain, France, the Balkans or Chechnya - it's always about greasing the palms and taking advantage of political instability. Islam can't stand on it's own - it's a death cult posing as a war plan.
Oh, please. Clinton raped a woman (at least one we know of), molested how many others, and Kennedy killed a woman, and they were revered as colossal giants (and still are) in the Demopervert Party.
What Weiner did was entirely small potatoes: no one was raped, molested, nor murdered.
Senator John McCain ought to be embarrassed. So should House Speaker John Boehner and Congressman Mike Rogers, the former FBI agent who chairs the Select Committee on Intelligence.
These pillars of the Republican establishment have been championing the cause of Huma Abedin, the deputy chief of staff to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Ms. Abedins name arose, along with several others, in connection with questions pressed by five conservative House Republicans regarding Muslim Brotherhood infiltration of the United States government. The GOP establishment, led by McCain, Boehner, and Rogers, has been slamming Congresswoman Michele Bachmann, one of the five House conservatives, over her refusal to back down from concerns over Ms. Abedin.
Here are four things, among many, that we now know:
Here are four things, among many, that we now know:
1. Huma Abedins mother, Dr. Saleha S. Mahmood Abedin (hereafter, Saleha Abedin), is an influential member of the Muslim Brotherhoods division for women, the Muslim Sisterhood. She is also a zealous advocate of sharia laws oppression of women which McCain himself condemned in a 2011 interview with Der Spiegel.
2. Not only that: Saleha Abedin is a board member of the International Islamic Council for Dawa and Relief. The IICDR has been long banned in Israel for supporting Hamas. It is also part of the Union for Good, which is a formally designated international terrorist organization under federal law. The Union for Good is led by Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi, the chief sharia jurist of the Muslim Brotherhood. He is the worlds most influential Islamic cleric, and has issued fatwas endorsing suicide bombings against Israel and terrorist attacks against American forces in Iraq.
3. Moreover, it turns out that Huma Abedin herself was, until late 2008, a member of another of her mothers Islamist organizations, the Institute of Muslim Minority Affairs.
The Center for Security Policy has reviewed past mastheads of the IMMAs journal. Huma Abedin is listed as an assistant editor (to her mother, the editor-in-chief) as far back as 1996, the year she began interning at the Clinton White House. The IMMA was started in Saudi Arabia in the 1970s by Huma Abedins parents, with the backing of Abdullah Omar Naseef. Naseef is a former secretary-general of the Muslim World League, which, as Ive previously explained, has long been the Muslim Brotherhoods principal vehicle for the international propagation of Islamic supremacist ideology.
Under the auspices of the MWL, Naseef not only backed the IMMA, he founded the Rabita Trust, which like the Union for Good is a specially designated international terrorist organization under federal law.
There's already a wiener in Gracie Mansion.
New York, the new California.
Bring someone like Giuliani back..please. Put some honor back, NY!
And yet 85% of New York's Jews will vote to be governed by a man who harbors an anti-Israeli, anti-Jew muzzie as his wife.
People took the danger of the communist aggression in the 50s seriously and we sustained the cold war threat. But, not many folks are that concerned about Muslim encroachment.
No lessons learned by the Clinton's and obamas will be a huge obstacle for conservatives. Too busy to fight it out ok. But why must conservatives continue to ascribe goodness or conventional logic to actions of political figures?
These people are not interested in serving New York.
People think a small time dopey smarmy gov from Arkansas and or a nothing from Chicago could never take over the WH and for two terms and ipose their perverted values on the world. But they did. Why can't this guy. With mb backing be even erode than the former two. New York is a step to them. Sexting or not. Huma might hate him even worse than the former twos wives do them. So what. Read some Shakespeare folks.
Weiner is a pushy, arrogant, self centered and perverted individual and his mere face inspires a visceral reaction in my body with a desire to see him banished from the earth.
Already in the White House pool:
Arif Alikhan - Assistant Secretary for Policy Development for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security
Mohammed Elibiary - Homeland Security Adviser
Rashad Hussain - Special Envoy to the (OIC) Organization of the Islamic Conference
Salam al-Marayati - Obama Adviser founder Muslim Public Affairs Council and its current executive director Imam Mohamed Magid - Obama's Sharia Czar Islamic Society of North America
Eboo Patel - Advisory Council on Faith-Based Neighborhood Partnerships
And the talking heads continue "to wonder about Obama's Islamic connections".....
Why does this guy wear mustard colored ties?
As a resident living in Manhattan, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo was right on the money when he said shame on us if New York City voters elect Weiner as their mayor. Governor Cuomo now says he was just kidding.
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Last year when we bought our house we bought a Whirlpool Gold side-by-side refrigerator with the ice bin in the door. About a month after the warranty ran out the ice maker stopped making ice. I replaced the ice maker unit itself but it's still not making ice. I know it's cycling, I've seen it happen, but its not getting water. I've used a hair dryer to try to thaw out the delivery tube but that didn't work either. The only other thing I can think of is the water valve must be shot but the water dispenser in the door works fine. From the research I've done I found that this is the water valve that is required but it looks like it controls both the ice maker and dispenser flow. Does anybody have any ideas?
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Saturday, 11 August 2012
Walker Evans: Xenophobia
9 comments:
- Anonymous said...
the roots of distrust are obviously learnt...
- 11 August 2012 at 07:17
- Wooden Boy said...
"Questions uninvited" are the only one that matter, leaving our selves in question, the place of true beginnings, of displacement.
- 11 August 2012 at 14:58
- Susan Kay Anderson said...
Home is
on the road
going somewhere
nowhere special
but that plan
Unasked, unanswered
ear a question mark
earring dangling
Some people can point
to a spring or mountain
tree and say
that's where they began
or look through
dense overstory
up the Umpqua
ask about the bright spot
Dad thinking it hilarious
even now
the sun
feeling dumb
not to have known this
Oregon age two
after Tina was born
in Roseburg
never settled down to
or found where it was
just left
The Sandwich Isles
once had strict rules
kapu is still felt
a tangible residue
feel it waiting
to kill if totally ignored
a beautiful sounding word
like kapu
almost a tattoo
of a deer
a caribou
also terrible
when misspelled
a mistake
for life
- 11 August 2012 at 16:39
- Susan Kay Anderson said...
The Crooked Bank
a plank
an inclined plane
where the pirate king
sentences you
to walk and eventually jump
into something that looks
familiar but is not
into a place
with a beautiful name
that begins with an X
but is not solved
by finding it
this was
not supposed to be
a math poem
but numbers to
figure against
- 11 August 2012 at 20:30
- Susan Kay Anderson said...
Hello Goodbye Dada
Hello funny hat. Flying mustache.
The serious aside. It is beside
itself. The only dance I knew
was sort of a twist. Then,
my half clown hat, dirty snow,
merriment or half of merriment.
Nonsense. Speaking as such. It
captured me and held me
there, still haunted, believing.
Almost basking. Not quite there.
Somewhat scornful of the table,
the waterfall fork, the spoo.
- 11 August 2012 at 20:34
- TC said...
The place of displacement, the place one can't go back to.
a question mark
earring dangling
Evans did little to reduce the distance of formality between himself and his subjects. He always remains very much the outsider -- East Coast liberal, schooled at Phillips/Williams, of the intellectual classes, an enigmatic man, with a cold eye.
The suspicion with which he is viewed by these "subjects" appears real.
Evans has become notorious for his entry into the photographic situation, his set-ups and set-designs.
The bank, and the straw hat business types, behind the Morgantown subjects -- accidental?
And the downward angle of the heads, so that the narrowed distrustful eyes come up toward the camera...
- 12 August 2012 at 06:49
- STEPHEN RATCLIFFE said...
It's the "learning" that counts (no child left behind) in "Learning to distrust /what's coming your way /
if it's not from around here. . ."
grey whiteness of fog against invisible
ridge, song sparrow calling from branch
in foreground, wave sounding in channel
i.e., thing "typed" in time
of "hand" in "action"
as different, what it would
be, form of "present"
grey white fog against invisible ridge,
shadowed green pine on tip of sandspit
- 12 August 2012 at 08:50
- Elmo St. Rose said...
"I can show you fear in a handfull
of dust" TS Elliot
The components of fear are ever
I wonder what TS Elliot would have
thought of John Lennon
"Imagine all the people.....
- 12 August 2012 at 17:12
- Susan Kay Anderson said...
I can't leave no Dagger behind.
There is the home of Cougars
also just down the road.
- 13 August 2012 at 11:04


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Four Great Inventions
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The Four Great Inventions (simplified Chinese: 四大发明; traditional Chinese: 四大發明) are inventions from ancient China that are celebrated in Chinese culture for their historical significance and as symbols of ancient China's advanced science and technology.[1]
According to Chinaculture.org the Four Great Inventions are:
These four inventions had a profound impact on the development of civilization throughout the world. However, some modern Chinese scholars have opined that other Chinese inventions were perhaps more sophisticated and had a greater impact on Chinese civilization – the Four Great Inventions serve merely to highlight the technological interaction between East and West.[6]
Although Chinese culture is replete with lists of significant works or achievements (e.g. Four Great Beauties, Four Great Classical Novels, Four Books and Five Classics, etc.), the concept of the Four Great Inventions originated from the West, and is adapted from the European intellectual and rhetorical commonplace of the Three Great (or, more properly, Greatest) Inventions.[citation needed] This commonplace spread rapidly throughout Europe in the 16th century and was appropriated only in modern times by sinologists and Chinese scholars. The origin of the Three Great Inventions—these being the printing press, firearms, and the nautical compass—was originally ascribed to Europe, and specifically to Germany in the case of the printing press and firearms. These inventions were a badge of honor to modern Europeans, who proclaimed that there was nothing to equal them among the ancient Greeks and Romans. After reports by Portuguese sailors and Spanish missionaries began to filter back to Europe beginning in the 1530s, the notion that these inventions had existed for centuries in China took hold. By 1620, when Francis Bacon wrote in his Instauratio magna that "printing, gunpowder, and the nautical compass . . . have altered the face and state of the world: first, in literary matters; second, in warfare; third, in navigation," this was hardly an original idea to most learned Europeans.[7]
In the 19th century, Karl Marx commented on the importance of gunpowder, the compass and printing, "Gunpowder, the compass, and the printing press were the three great inventions which ushered in bourgeois society. Gunpowder blew up the knightly class, the compass discovered the world market and found the colonies, and the printing press was the instrument of Protestantism and the regeneration of science in general; the most powerful lever for creating the intellectual prerequisites."[8]
Western writers and scholars from the 19th century onwards commonly attributed these inventions to China. The missionary and sinologist Joseph Edkins (1823–1905), comparing China with Japan, noted that for all of Japan's virtues, it did not make inventions as significant as paper-making, printing, the compass and gunpowder.[9] Edkins' notes on these inventions were mentioned in an 1859 review in the journal Athenaeum, comparing the contemporary science and technology in China and Japan.[10] Other examples include, in Johnson's New Universal Cyclopædia: A Scientific and Popular Treasury of Useful Knowledge in 1880,[11] The Chautauquan in 1887,[12] and by the sinologist, Berthold Laufer in 1915.[13] None of these, however, referred to four inventions or called them "great."
In the 20th century, this list was popularized and augmented by the noted British biochemist, historian, and sinologist Joseph Needham, who devoted the later part of his life to studying the science and civilization of ancient China.[14]
A lodestone compass was used in China during the Han Dynasty between the 2nd century BCE and 1st century CE, where it was called the "south-governor" (sīnán 司南).[15] It was not used for navigation, but rather for geomancy and fortune-telling.[15] The earliest reference to a magnetic device used for navigation is in a Song Dynasty book dated to 1040-1044, where there is a description of an iron "south-pointing fish" floating in a bowl of water, aligning itself to the south. The device is recommended as a means of orientation "in the obscurity of the night."[16] The first suspended magnetic needle compass was written of by Shen Kuo in his book of 1088.
For most of Chinese history, the compass that remained in use was in the form of a magnetic needle floating in a bowl of water.[17] According to Needham, the Chinese in the Song Dynasty and continuing Yuan Dynasty did make use of a dry compass, although this type never became as widely used in China as the wet compass.[18]
The dry compass used in China was a dry suspension compass, a wooden frame crafted in the shape of a turtle hung upside down by a board, with the lodestone sealed in by wax, and if rotated, the needle at the tail would always point in the northern cardinal direction.[18] Although the 14th-century European compass-card in box frame and dry pivot needle was adopted in China after its use was taken by Japanese pirates in the 16th century (who had in turn learned of it from Europeans), the Chinese design of the suspended dry compass persisted in use well into the 18th century.[14]
Gunpowder was invented in the 9th century by Chinese alchemists searching for an elixir of immortality.[19] By the time the Song Dynasty treatise, Wujing Zongyao (武经总要), was written by Zeng Gongliang and Yang Weide in 1044, the various Chinese formulas for gunpowder held levels of nitrate in the range of 27% to 50%.[20] By the end of the 12th century, Chinese formulas of gunpowder had a level of nitrate capable of bursting through cast iron metal containers, in the form of the earliest hollow, gunpowder-filled grenade bombs.[21]
In 1280, the bomb store of the large gunpowder arsenal at Weiyang accidentally caught fire, which produced such a large explosion that a team of inspectors at the site a week later deduced that 100 guards had been killed instantly, with wooden beams and pillars blown sky high and landing at a distance of over 10 li (~2 mi. or ~3.2 km) away from the explosion.[22]
By the time of Hanzo Yu and his Huolongjing (which describes military applications of gunpowder in great detail) in the mid-14th century, the explosive potential of gunpowder was perfected, as the level of nitrate in gunpowder formulas had risen to a range of 12% to 91%,[20] with at least 6 different formulas in use that are considered to have maximum explosive potential for gunpowder.[20] By that time, the Chinese had invented how to create explosive round shot by packing their hollow shells with this nitrate-enhanced gunpowder.[23] An excavated trove of early Ming land mines showed that corned gunpowder was present in China by 1370. There is evidence suggesting that corned powder may have been used in East Asia from as far back as the thirteenth century.[24]
Papermaking has traditionally been traced to China about AD 105, when Cai Lun, an official attached to the Imperial court during the Han Dynasty (202 BC-AD 220), created a sheet of paper using mulberry and other bast fibres along with fishnets, old rags, and hemp waste.[25] However, a recent archaeological discovery has been reported from Gansu of paper with Chinese characters on it dating to 8 BC.[26]
While paper used for wrapping and padding was used in China since the 2nd century BC,[27] paper used as a writing medium only became widespread by the 3rd century.[28] By the 6th century in China, sheets of paper were beginning to be used for toilet paper as well.[29] During the Tang Dynasty (618–907) paper was folded and sewn into square bags to preserve the flavor of tea.[27] The Song Dynasty (960–1279) that followed was the first government to issue paper currency.
The Chinese invention of woodblock printing, at some point before the first dated book in 868 (the Diamond Sutra), produced the world's first print culture. According to A. Hyatt Mayor, curator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, "it was the Chinese who really invented the means of communication that was to dominate until our age."[30] Woodblock printing was better suited to Chinese characters than movable type, which the Chinese also invented, but which did not replace woodblock printing. Western printing presses, although introduced in the 16th century, were not widely used in China until the 19th century. China, along with Korea, was one of the last countries to adopt them.[31]
Woodblock printing for textiles, on the other hand, preceded text printing by centuries in all cultures, and is first found in China at around 220.[32] It reached Europe by the 14th century or before, via the Islamic world, and by around 1400 was being used on paper for old master prints and playing cards.[33][34]
Printing in Northern China was further advanced by the 11th century, as it was written by the Song Dynasty scientist and statesman Shen Kuo (1031–1095) that the common artisan Bi Sheng (990-1051) invented ceramic movable type printing.[35] Then there were those such as Wang Zhen (fl. 1290-1333) who invented respectively wooden type setting, which later influenced developing metal moveable type printing in Korea (1372-1377). Movable type printing was a tedious process if one were to assemble thousands of individual characters for the printing of simply one or a few books, but if used for printing thousands of books, the process was efficient and rapid enough to be successful and highly employed. Indeed, there were many cities in China where movable type printing, in wooden and metal form, was adopted by the enterprises of wealthy local families or large private industries. The Qing dynasty court sponsored enormous printing projects using woodblock movable type printing during the 18th century. Although superseded by western printing techniques, woodblock movable type printing remains in use in isolated communities in China.[36]
Cultural influence[edit]
2005 Hong Kong stamp[edit]
In 2005, the Hong Kong postal service created a special stamp issue that featured the Four Great Inventions.[37] The stamp series was first issued on August 18, 2005 during a ceremony where an enlarged first day cover was stamped.[38] Allan Chiang (Postmaster General) and Prof. Chu Ching-wu (President of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology) marked the issue of the special stamps by personally stamping the first day cover.[38]
2008 Beijing Olympics[edit]
The Four Great Inventions was featured as one of the main themes of the opening ceremony of the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics.[39] Paper making was represented with a dance and an ink drawing on a huge piece of paper, printing by a set of dancing printing blocks, a replica of an ancient compass was showcased, and gunpowder by the extensive firework displays during the ceremony. A survey by the Beijing Social Facts & Public Opinion Survey Center found that Beijing residents found the program on the Four Great Inventions the most moving part of the opening ceremony.[40]
Scholarly critiques[edit]
Recently, scholars have questioned the importance placed on the inventions of paper, printing, gunpowder, and the compass. Chinese scholars in particular question if too much emphasis is given to these inventions, over other significant Chinese inventions. They have pointed out that other inventions in China were perhaps more sophisticated and had a greater impact within China.[6]
In the chapter "Are the Four Major Inventions the Most Important?" of his book Ancient Chinese Inventions, Chinese historian Deng Yinke writes:[41]
The four inventions do not necessarily summarize the achievements of science and technology in ancient China. The four inventions were regarded as the most important Chinese achievements in science and technology, simply because they had a prominent position in the exchanges between the East and the West and acted as a powerful dynamic in the development of capitalism in Europe. As a matter of fact, ancient Chinese scored much more than the four major inventions: in farming, iron and copper metallurgy, exploitation of coal and petroleum, machinery, medicine, astronomy, mathematics, porcelain, silk, and wine making. The numerous inventions and discoveries greatly advanced China's productive forces and social life. Many are at least as important as the four inventions, and some are even greater than the four.
Four Great New Inventions[edit]
In August 2017, Xinhua described high-speed rail, electronic payments, bike sharing and online shopping as China's "four great new inventions".[42] However others pointed out that none of the four were actually invented in China, with modern high-speed rail originating in Japan in 1964, e-payment systems originating in the United States in the 1990s, bike sharing invented in Europe in the 1960s and online shopping invented by the Briton Michael Aldrich in 1979.[43]
See also[edit]
- Dream Pool Essays
- Gunpowder warfare
- History of science and technology in China
- List of Chinese inventions
- Science and technology of the Han Dynasty
- Technology of the Song Dynasty
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- ^ "Four Great Inventions of Ancient China -- Compass". ChinaCulture.org. Archived from the original on 2007-04-09. Retrieved 2007-11-11.
- ^ "Four Great Inventions of Ancient China -- Gunpowder". ChinaCulture.org. Archived from the original on 2007-08-28. Retrieved 2007-11-11.
- ^ "Four Great Inventions of Ancient China -- Paper". ChinaCulture.org. Archived from the original on 2007-10-18. Retrieved 2007-11-11.
- ^ "Four Great Inventions of Ancient China -- Printing". ChinaCulture.org. Archived from the original on 2007-08-25. Retrieved 2007-11-11.
- ^ a b "Do We Need to Redefine the Top Four Inventions?". Beijing Review (35). 2008-08-26. Retrieved 2008-11-04.
- ^ Boruchoff, 2012.
- ^ Marx, Karl. "Division of Labour and Mechanical Workshop. Tool and Machinery". Economic Manuscripts of 1861-63.
- ^ Edkins, Joseph (1859). The religious condition of the Chinese: With observations on the prospects of christian conversion amongst that people. Routledge-Warnes and Routledge. p. 2. [1]
- ^ Maurice, Frederick Denison, Charles Wentworth Dilke, Thomas Kibble Hervey, William Hepworth Dixon; et al. (1859). The Athenæum: a journal of literature, science, the fine arts, music, and the drama. J. Francis. p. 839.CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
- ^ Frederick Augustus Porter Barnard, Arnold Guyot (1880). Johnson's New universal cyclopædia: a scientific and popular treasury of useful knowledge ... Volume 1, Part 2 of Johnson's New Universal Cyclopædia: A Scientific and Popular Treasury of Useful Knowledge. A.J. Johnson & Co. p. 924. Retrieved 2011-11-28.
Though the Chinese are skilled in imitative workmanship, they seem at present to be singularly destitute of inventive genius. Anciently, however, it must have been otherwise, for the mariner's compass, gunpowder, printing, and the manufacture of porcelain, paper, silk, and clocks, all were certainly first invented in China.CS1 maint: uses authors parameter (link)
- ^ Theodore L. Flood, Frank Chapin Bray, Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle, Chautauqua Institution (1887). The Chautauquan: a weekly newsmagazine, Volume 8. 8. p. 59. Retrieved 2011-11-28.
10. "The mariner's compass." The Chinese, doubtless, originated the compass, as more than one thousand years B. C, they were able to guide themselves by the use of the loadstone, and soon after the Christian era they navigated their vessels by the use of the magnetic needle. The compasses which came into use among the Italians in the 13th century were exactly like those used in China. The earliest mention to be found of this instrument, is made by Guyot, of Provence, in 1190. The date and the author of the invention of gunpowder are lost in obscurity.CS1 maint: uses authors parameter (link)
- ^ "Some Fundamental Ideas of Chinese Culture, Clark University (Worcester, Mass.) (1915). The Journal of international relations, Volume 5. p. 171. Retrieved 2011-11-28.
- ^ a b Needham, IV 1, p. 290
- ^ a b Merrill, Ronald T.; McElhinny, Michael W. (1983). The Earth's magnetic field: Its history, origin and planetary perspective (2nd printing ed.). San Francisco: Academic press. p. 1. ISBN 0-12-491242-7.
- ^ Shu-hua, Li (July 1954). "Origine de la Boussole 11. Aimant et Bousso". Isis. Oxford: Oxford Student Publications. 45: 175–196. doi:10.1086/348315.
- ^ Kreutz, Barbara M. (July 1973). "Mediterranean Contributions to the Medieval Mariner's Compass". Technology and Culture. 14 (3): 373. (note 21)
- ^ a b Needham, IV 1, p. 255
- ^ Buchanan (2006), p. 42
- ^ a b c Needham, V 7, pp. 345
- ^ Needham, V 7, pp. 347
- ^ Needham, V 7, pp. 209-210
- ^ Needham, V 7, pp. 264.
- ^ Andrade (2016), p. 110
- ^ "Papermaking". Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved 2007-11-11.
- ^ "World Archaeological Congress eNewsletter". 2006-08-11. Archived from the original on 2007-11-06. Retrieved 2007-11-11. Cite journal requires
- ^ a b Needham, V 1, p. 122
- ^ Needham, V 1
- ^ Needham, V 1, p. 123
- ^ A Hyatt Mayor (1971). Prints and People. Nos 1-4. Princeton: Metropolitan Museum of Art. ISBN 0-691-00326-2.
- ^ McGovern, Melvin (1967). "Early Western Presses in Korea". Korea Journal: 21–23.
- ^ Shelagh Vainker in Anne Farrer (ed) (1990). Caves of the Thousand Buddhas. British Museum publications. p. 112. ISBN 0-7141-1447-2.CS1 maint: extra text: authors list (link)
- ^ A Hyatt Mayor (1971). Prints and People Nos 5-18. Princeton: Metropolitan Museum of Art. ISBN 0-691-00326-2.
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- ^ Needham, V 1, p. 201.
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- ^ Beijing Olympics opening features four inventions of ancient China, China Daily
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- ^ Deng (2005), pp. 14.
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- ^ "Talent for invention? China claims other countries' discoveries". South China Morning Post. August 15, 2017.
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- Deng Yinke (2005). Ancient Chinese Inventions. Translated by Wang Pingxing. Beijing: China Intercontinental Press. ISBN 7-5085-0837-8.
- Li Shu-hua (1954). "Origine de la Boussole 11. Aimant et Boussole". Isis. Vol. 45 no. 2: July. Oxford. pp. 175–196.
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