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Chris -- 2018-04-11
On the sliver tea slaver, it's tea time at the Eggcorn Tea Room.
Lapsing Oolong Tea (my favorite)
(http://www.gilmoregirls.org/forum/index … 23.95;wap2)
Tea-Blending as a Fine Art
the following are very popular among them.
India Congou
Lapsing Souchong
(http://books.google.ca/books?id=LK0q1PI … 22&f=false)
What flowers would a girl want to recieved from a guy on their first date?????????
1. Roses
2. Hibiscuits
The finest tea from the region (and in the world arguably) is the Super Fine Tipi Golden Flowery Orange Picko
(http://184.108.40.206/search?q=cache:17p … =firefox-a)
Perhaps Madame would prefer a teasane.
Linden flowers teasane
(http://www.midgaardshop.be/lindebloesem … anguage=En)
The French word for a medicinal infusion of plant material, a tisane, is becoming popular for herbal teas – I think. I'm kind of looking out through French windows here in Quebec. The word tisane comes from the Greek πτισάνη / ptisánê for a barley gruel, and then a decoction in Latin, and there ain't no "tea" in there, which comes directly from a Chinese root word, t'e.
Also brewing: Craig Clarke's camelmile and jorkel's chamomild teas (link).
Teasane. Only a few examples on the web, but a classic eggcorn.
If a beverage is imported from across the ocean, is it row ship tea?
Hatching new language, one eggcorn at a time.
Amusing stuff. Some of these might be eye dialect, but others couch interesting elements like "tea" and "biscuits." Some of this might also brew up our old discussion on whether proper nouns can be eggcorns.
kem wrote:
If a beverage is imported from across the ocean, is it row ship tea?
Only if they have not yet advanced to the age of sail.
*If the human mind were simple enough for us to understand,
we would be too simple-minded to understand it* .
Still thirsty? The first two are from brand names but it's not clear that the utterers knew that.
Constant Comment
I used to love to have a cup of lemon zinger or constant common tea
(http://www.headwatersforum.com/forums/i … topic=4047)
Red Zinger
To accent your meal, they offer healthy salads, several sides, and all natural fruit smoothies, or red singer tea.
(http://www.epinions.com/review/Here_Com … 0083441284)
Note: Lemon singer available as well.
Yerba mate
Palma calmly sips her yerba mat tea and peers out the window
Yerba mat tea! It does have a very grassy, wickered flavour. The etymology is somewhat different:
The pronunciation is IPA: /'ɟɛrβa 'mate/. The word hierba is Spanish for grass or herb; yerba is a variant spelling of it which is quite common in Argentina, Uruguay and Mexico. Mate is from the Quechua mati, meaning "cup". Yerba mate is therefore literally the "herb cup".
BTW, you would think that there would be lots of poteaux roses! surrounding the word tisane in French. There are surprisingly few (a couple) of entries of "thésane" which would be the teasane equivalent, but very many "tisaine". Tisaine, when it's not a misspelling, would be "healthy tea" or "little healthy" in the sense of , hmm, Ti-Jos = little Joe , from the root which led to the English "sanity" (the word, that is).
I did find this poteau rose, yerba mathé, from 1841 no less.
Jorkel, I had to look up the meaning of "eye dialect" – nice! I agree that many or most of the above fall somewhere between eye dialect and eggcorns.
Last edited by David Bird (2009-12-19 19:10:15)
David—How would yerba mathé be a poteau rose? I'm not familiar with "mathé" in French.
Hatching new language, one eggcorn at a time.
I pegged "yerba mathé" as a based on the admittedly slim evidence that the last syllable was interpreted as thé, nothing more. As far as I know, any French word containing this kind of th construction is borrowed from another language. Thé itself apparently comes from the Dutch thee. So since I'm guessing that th did not come from the Guarani language, it must have been influenced by thé.
The poem below is on the wall of Murchie's Tea & Coffee in Victoria, BC. It was written by a local poet.
Hatching new language, one eggcorn at a time.
'how awfully naughty of me, with the old cup of Old Grey''new baked warm buns with butter, a cup of old grey – thats life on a cold thursday morning' 'The March Hare can usually be found at his tea table, enjoying a cup of Old Grey'
'you've spent an entire evening with her at a quaint coffee shop sipping on a cup of Old Gray'
On the plain in Spain where it mainly rains.
There's nothing like the taste of Early Gray tea and gingernut biscuit to help celebrate the landmarks of our lives!
*If the human mind were simple enough for us to understand,
we would be too simple-minded to understand it* .
Well, I'd invite you over to my house, but my replicator is off-line. I order…."Erroll Grey Tea, Hot" and all I get is a cup full of Arkellian sausage.
http://boardstest.straightdope.com/sdmb … ?p=1301186
It tastes the same, but it's a lot more swashbuckling.
Had Earl great tea for the first time yesterday :)
About ten example on the web of "camel meal/camelmeal tea." Definitely not for vegetarians. Or for anyone with taste buds.
: "Water with Camelmeal Tea to prevent damp off works for me too."
"I'll make you some camel meal tea, and about you going to public school we'll just see what your father says about that."
See also camelmile and camelmild: http://eggcorns.lascribe.net/forum/view … hp?id=1498
Last edited by kem (2010-05-14 18:42:00)
Hatching new language, one eggcorn at a time.
The true aficionado knows that there are a number of "grades" of tea. But they may not know that "Earl" is one of them:
Now all they need to do is come up with the Replicator like on the Enterprise so I can make some Earl Grade Tea hot….
http://www.hotstockmarket.com/forums/sh … hp?t=47674
About a half dozen unique hits.
Last edited by patschwieterman (2010-05-14 22:32:33)
This eggcorn might suit the thread to a T, but just what the imagery associated with "done to a tea" is is not immediately evident.
Linux questions elaboration
Which I have done to a tea.
Resort review sock-puppet
Tom & whomever else had all the details done to a tea like they knew us.
Zimbabwean politics
Prindle, I am shocked to hear there are people in the US with a better understanding. You have Mugabe done to a tea and your initial comment posted is 90% correct.
Model mayhem forum comment
I like your work and the vintage my dear looks and suits you to a tea!
Makeup enthusiast blog comment
You know I wasn't sold on your hair color before, but now I think it suits you to a tea.
We would have a better idea of the semantic jujitsu of "done to a tea" if we knew what "done to a T" meant. The and the subject of much folk etymology. Still, the connection of "done," a common cooking term, and a foodstuff is suggestive.
Hatching new language, one eggcorn at a time.
Here's an angle we might have seen coming: Mate tea.
I was in a generally very nice tea shop a couple of months ago and ordered mate.
After about fifteen minutes, the waiter brought some latte. It seemed a simple mishearing, so I very politely said that I had actually asked for mate, but would drink the latte anyway since it was there.
The waiter didn't move, and instead stood looking at me like I was from another planet, so I showed him in the menu what I had meant. Now speaking as if he were talking to a small child, he said 'Oh! Mate!', pronouncing it to rhyme with gate.
I hate being wrongly corrected. At least I got the mate in the end.
http://drownedinsound.com/community/boa … al/4266817
Hey brother, can you spare a mint tea? Here are a couple o' cuppas from this search results page
Ive been giving him pedyalite and sparemint tea when he accepts it.
...Peppermint and sparemint Tea Red Clover Tea Red Raspberry Leaf Tea Rosehip Tea Sage Leaf Tea…
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Buffalo and Kaycee high school athletes had a busy weekend again, and most fared well in competition.
The Bison basketball team was at the Bighorn Basin Basketball Classic hosted by Rocky Mountain high School, and the boys finished the tournament in second place.
BRONC / LADY BRONC BASKETBALL - The Bronc and Lady Bronc basketball teams went 5-1 at the Flaming Gorge classic.
The Lady Broncs didn't get much of a challenge with three blowout victories Head coach Jessica Pickett.
They stand at 6-1 overall heading into the Christmas break and Pickett says they'll go back to work in a few days to get ready for the new year which begins January 9th in Riverton.
Both the Broncs and Lady Broncs were victorious today after their match-ups with the Union High School Cougars (Roosevelt, UT).
The Broncs won their game with a final score of 78-71.
The Lady Broncs won their game with a final score of 61-27
Sheridan Broncs v Union High school (Utah) 8:30 AM
Lady Broncs v Union High school 10:10 AM
Wyoming Cowgirls at Idaho 12:30 PM
All three games live on 14-10 KWYO and 87.7 FM ESPN radio.
BRONC / LADY BRONCS BASKETBALL - The Lady Broncs got 21 points from Robbi Ryan and blow out the Tigers 71-42. They are now 4-1 on the season and play Union High school from Roosevelt, Utah Saturday at 10:00 AM.
The Broncs fought back from 11 points down with six minutes to play at beat Rock Springs 77-66 scoring 36 points in the 4th quarter to pull off an amazing come from behind victory.
Reed Ritterbusch led three players in double figures with 29 points.
They play Union high school from Roosevelt, Utah at 8:30 Saturday morning.
Most high school teams from Johnson County will be on the road this weekend, competing throughout the state.
The Bison basketball team will be at the Big Horn Basin Basketball Classic at Rocky Mountain High School this weekend.
The Lady Bison will be at the girls' Big Horn Basin Basketball Classic in Lovell Friday and Saturday.
Lady Broncs v Rock Springs 2:40
Broncs vs Rock Springs 4:10
Wyoming Cowboys v SMU 6:30
All three live on 14-10 KWYO and 87.7 FM ESPN radio.
BRONC / LADY BRONC BASKETBALL - -The Sheridan Lady Broncs cruised to a 56-30 win over Star Valley Thursday in the opening game of the Flaming Gorge classic.
They jumped out to a 17-3 lead after the first quarter and led by as many as 30 in the second half. Robbi Ryan led the scoring with 13 points.
The Broncs had rough day after a long bus ride they took on Uintah county,Utah.
It was a struggle through out the game as the Broncs played from behind uintah had a 10 point lead in the first half but the Broncs made a late run to get within two at halftime down 30-28.

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I'm taking a week off from the Cubs. I cannot believe the flaming bag of hepatitis and horse cock that I just witnessed on TV. With a 4-run lead against the flaccid Mets lineup going into the final frame, what could go wrong? Only a handful of pathetic walks, several basehits and enough stinging heartbreak to fill a thousand Dawson's Creek episodes.
Aramis finds his bat and contributes 3 RBIs, Guzman pitches tidily for 5 innings, Ohman K's 4 in 1 2/3 innings, and then Dempster couldn't find the strikezone if it was a piece of pornstar pussy.
The measure of a good team is winning games out, closing out and finishing yr business when you've put in a hard day's work. But not us. For the Cubs, we constantly strive to find new and exciting ways to lose, causing me so much grief I bet I could stick my hand in a blender and I would feel no pain. Why? Because loving the Cubs has caused me to lose all ability to feel pain. I'm immune now to sadness, because watching this bunch of sadsacks traipse around a field for 3 hours has left me emotionally sterile.
We stagger into Shea for a difficult 4-game series, and acquit ourselves quite well. We commit Hari-Kiri on monday night, thanks to Wuertz's "Walk This Way" heroics, we bounce back well on Tuesday thanks to El Toro regaining some balls, Wednesday was a wash as we were unable to solve Jorge fucking Sosa, and then today, we collect timely hits against a weakened lineup, only to piss it away at the death.
Give me sweet release from this horseshit. Please.
Send bullets with my name on them to: JT, Port Chester, NY. They'll know what to do from there.


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The singing vegetarian wanted nothing to do with the backwoods ducks.
When Morrissey was scheduled to appear on Jimmy Kimmel's late-night show last month along with the cast of A&E's "Duck Dynasty," the '80s cult rocker issued an ultimatum: Boot the "animal serial killers," as he described the Southern family that made its fortune selling duck-hunting paraphernalia, from the guest list or he would walk.
When showtime came, Kimmel's choice was clear. Rednecks 1, Rocker 0. "They have guns," joked the ABC talk-show host in explaining his rationale for standing by the ducky ones.
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Finally got the summer garden planted this year. Planted a little late because the cold weather carried on later than normal. Soon to have fresh tomatoes, bell peppers, squash, zucchini, cucumbers, strawberries, and artichokes. Can't wait.
Do you have a summer garden that you plant? What are you planting this year?
Herb gardens are easy to grow if you've never planted anything before. Basil, Oregano, Parsley. Onions and Garlic are also quite easy to grow.
If you have deer, rabbits or hungry squirrels, you may consider a small fence of chicken wire. Using one of those garden balloons (with the big eye) can be useful to keep marauding birds from your garden.
I'm considering planting an Avocado tree (something of a luxury here in the OC)
Fresh garden vegetables are so tasty, and good for you too!
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> XIV. The President and the Kaiser
William Roscoe Thayer
. Theodore Roosevelt.
XIV. The President and the Kaiser
the first years of Roosevelts Administration he had to encounter many conditions which existed rather from the momentum they had from the past than from any living vigor of their own. It was a time of transition. The group of politicians dating from the Civil War was nearly extinct, and the leaders who had come to the front after 1870 were also much thinned in number, and fast dropping off. Washington itself was becoming one of the most beautiful cities in the world, with its broad avenues, seldom thronged, its circles and squares, whose frequenters seemed never busy, its spirit of leisure, its suggestion of opulence and amplitude, and of a not too zealous or disturbing hold on reality. You still saw occasionally a tiny cottage inhabited by a colored family cuddled up against a new and imposing palace, just as you might pass a colored mammy on the same sidewalk with a millionaire Senator, for the residential section had not yet been socially standardized.
Only a few years before, under President Cleveland, a single telephone sufficed for the White House, and as the telephone operator stopped work at six oclock, the President himself or some member of his family had to answer calls during the evening. A single secretary wrote in long hand most of the Presidential correspondence. Examples of similar primitiveness might be found almost everywhere, and the older generation seemed to imagine that a certain slipshod and dozing quality belonged to the very idea of Democracy. If you were neatly dressed and wide awake, you would inevitably be remarked among your fellows; such remark would imply superiority; and to be superior was supposedly to be undemocratic.
Nevertheless this was a time of transition, and the vigor which emanated from the young President passed like electricity through all lines and hastened the change. He caused the White House to be remodeled and fitted on the one hand for social purposes which required much more spacious accommodation, and on the other for offices in which he could conduct the largely increased Presidential business. Instead of one telephone there were many working night and day, and instead of a single longhand secretary, there were a score of stenographers and typists. Before he left Washington he saw a vast Union Station erected instead of the over-grown shanties at Sixth Street, and he had encouraged the laying-out of the waste places beyond the Capitol, thus adding to the city another and imposing section. His interest did not stop at politics, nor at carrying through the reforms he had at heart. He attended with equal keenness and solicitude to external improvements.
Now at first, as I have suggested, his chief duty was to continue President McKinleys policies, which concerned mostly the establishment of our insular dependencies, and the readjustment of our diplomatic relations. I have described how he closed the dispute over the Alaskan Boundary, over our joint control with England over the Isthmus of Panama, and how he circumvented the attempt of the Colombian blackmailers to block our construction of the Canal.
We must now glance at a matter of almost equal importanceour relations with Germany. The German attack on civilization, which was openly delivered in 194, revealed to the world that for twenty years before the German Emperor had been secretly preparing his mad project of Universal Conquest. We see now that he used all sorts of base tools German exchange professors, spies, bribers, conventional insinuators and corrupters, organizers of pro-German sentiment, and of societies of German Americans. So little did he and his lackeys understand the American spirit that they assumed that at the given signal the people of the United States would gladly go over to them. He counted on securing North and South America by commerce and corruption, and not by armed force. The reaffirmation of the Monroe Doctrine by President Cleveland in 1895 seriously troubled him; for he contemplated planting German colonies in Central and South America without resistance, but the Monroe Doctrine in its latest interpretation forbade him or any foreign government from establishing dominion in either American continent. Still, two things comforted him: the Americans were, he thought, a loose, happy-go-lucky people, without any consecutive or deep-laid policy, as foolish republicans must be; and next, he knew that he had the most powerful army in the world, which, if put to the test, would crush the undisciplined American militia at the first onset. He adopted, therefore, a double policy: he pretended openly to be most friendly to the Americans; he flattered all of them whom he could reach in Berlin, and he directed an effusive propaganda in the United States. In secret, how ever, he lost no occasion to harm this country. When the Spanish War came in 1898, he tried to form a naval coalition of his fleet with those of France and England, and it was only the refusal of England to join in it which saved this country from disaster. The United States owe Mr. Balfour, who at that time controlled the British Foreign Office, an eternal debt of gratitude, because it was he who replied to the Kaisers secret temptation: No: if the British fleet takes any part in this war, it will be to put itself between the American fleet and those of your coalition.
The Kaiser expressed his real sentiment towards the United States in a remark which he made later, not expecting that it would reach American ears. If I had had ships enough, he said, I would have taken the Americans by the scruff of the neck. As it was, he showed his purpose to those who had eyes to see it, by ordering the German Squadron under Diederichs to go to Manila and take what he could there. Fortunately before he could take Manila or the Philippines he had to take the American Commodore, George Dewey, and when he discovered what sort of a sea-fighter the mountains of Vermont had produced in Dewey, he decided not to attack him. Perhaps also the fact that the English commander at Manila, Captain Chichester, stood ready to back up Dewey caused Diederichs to back down. The true Prussian truculence always oozes out when it has not a safe margin of superiority in strength on its side.
The Kaiser was not to be foiled, however, in his determination to get a foothold in America. As the likelihood that the Panama Canal would be constructed became a certainty, he redoubled his efforts. He tried to buy from a Mexican Land Company two large ports in Lower California for his personal use. These would have given him, of course, control over the approach to the Canal from the Pacific. Simultaneously he sent a surveying expedition to the Caribbean Sea, which found a spacious harbor, that might serve as a naval base, on an unoccupied island near the main line of vessels approaching the Canal from the east, but before he could plant a force there; the presence of his surveyors was discovered, and they sailed away.
He now resorted to a more cunning ruse. The people of Venezuela owed considerable sums to merchants and bankers in Germany, England, and Italy, and the creditors could recover neither their capital nor the interest on it. The Kaiser bethought him self of the simple plan of making a naval demonstration against the Venezuelans if they did not pay up; he would send his troops ashore, occupy the chief harbors, and take in the customs. To disguise his ulterior motive, he persuaded England and Italy to join him in collecting their bill against Venezuela. So warships of the three nations appeared off the Venezuelan coast, and for some time they maintained what they called A peaceful blockade. After a while Secretary Hay pointed out that there could be no such thing as a peaceful blockade; that a blockade was, by its very nature, an act of war; accordingly the blockaders declared a state of belligerency between themselves and Venezuela, and Germany threatened to bombard the seacoast towns unless the debt was settled without further delay. President Roosevelt had no illusions as to what bombardment and occupation by German troops would mean. If a regiment or two of Germans once went into garrison at Caracas or Porto Cabello, the Kaiser would secure the foothold he craved on the American Coast within striking distance of the projected Canal, and Venezuela, unable to ward off his aggression, would certainly be helpless to drive him out. Mr. Roosevelt allowed Mr. Herbert W. Bowen, the American Minister to Venezuela, to serve as Special Commissioner for Venezuela in conducting her negotiations with. Germany. He, himself, however, took the matter into his own hands at Washington. Having sounded England and Italy, and learned that they were willing to arbitrate, and knowing also that neither of them schemed to take territorial payment for their bills, he directed his diplomatic attack straight at the Kaiser. When the German Ambassador, Dr. von Holleben, one of the pompous and ponderous professorial sort of German officials, was calling on him at the White House, the President told him to warn the Kaiser that unless he consented, within a given timeabout ten daysto arbitrate the Venezuelan dispute, the American fleet under Admiral Dewey would appear off the Venezuelan coast and defend it from any attack which the German Squadron might attempt to make. Holleben displayed consternation; he protested that since his Imperial Master had refused to arbitrate, there could be no arbitration. His Imperial Master could not change his Imperial Mind, and the dutiful servant asked the President whether he realized what such a demand meant. The President replied calmly that he knew it meant war. A week passed, but brought no reply from Berlin; then Holleben called again at the White House on some unimportant matters; as he turned to go the President inquired, Have you heard from Berlin? No, said Holleben. Of course His Imperial Majesty cannot arbitrate. Very well, said Roosevelt, you may think it worth while to cable to Berlin that I have changed my mind. I am sending instructions to Admiral Dewey to take our fleet to Venezuela next Monday instead of Tuesday. Holleben brought the interview to a close at once and departed with evident signs of alarm. He returned in less than thirty-six hours with relief and satisfaction written on his face, as he informed the President, His Imperial Majesty consents to arbitrate.
In order to screen the Kaisers mortification from the world, Roosevelt declared that his transactionwhich only he, the Kaiser, and Holleben knew aboutshould not be made public at the time; and he even went so far, a little later, in speaking on the matter as to refer to the German Emperor as a good friend and practicer of arbitration.
Many years later, when Roosevelt and I discussed this episode we cast about for reasons to account for the Kaisers sudden back-down. We concluded that after the first interview Holleben either did not cable to Berlin at all, or he gave the message with his own comment that it was all a bluff. After the second interview, he consulted Buenz, the German Consul-General at New York, who knew Roosevelt well and knew also the powerfulness of Deweys fleet. He assured Holleben that the President was not bluffing, and that Dewey could blow all the German Navy, then in existence, out of the water in half an hour. So Holleben sent a hot cablegram to Berlin, and Berlin understood that only an immediate answer would do.
Poor, servile, old bureaucrat Holleben! The Kaiser soon treated him as he was in the habit of treating any of his servile creatures, high or low, who made a fiasco. Deceived by the glowing reports which his agents in the United States sent to him, the Kaiser believed that the time was ripe for a visit by a Hohenzollern, to let off the pent-up enthusiasm of the German-Americans and to stimulate the pro-German conspiracy here. Accordingly Prince Henry of Prussia came over and made a whirlwind trip, as far as Chicago; but it was in no sense a royal progress. Multitudes flocked to see him out of curiosity, but Prince Henry realized, and so did the German kin here, that his mission had failed. A scapegoat must be found, and apparently Holleben was the chosen victim.
The Kaiser cabled him to resign and take the next days steamer home, alleging chronic illness as an excuse. He sailed from Hoboken obediently, and there were none so poor as to do him reverence. The sycophants who had fawned upon him while he was enjoying the Imperial favor as Ambassador took care not to be seen waving a farewell to him from the pier. Instead of that, they were busy telling over his blunders. He had served French instead of German champagne at a banquet for Prince Henry, and he had allowed the Kaisers yacht to be christened in French champagne. How could such a blunderer satisfy the diplomatic requirements of the vain and petty Kaiser? And yet! Holleben was utterly devoted and willing to grovel in the mud. He even suggested to President Roosevelt that at the State Banquet at the White House, Prince Henry, as a Hohenzollern, and the representative of the Almightiest Kaiser, should walk out to dinner first; but there was no discussion, for the President replied curtly, No person living precedes the President of the United States in the White House.
Henceforth the Kaiser understood that the United States Government, at least as long as Roosevelt was President, would repel any attempt by foreigners to violate the Monroe Doctrine, and set up a nucleus of foreign power in either North or South America. He devoted himself all the more earnestly to pushing the sly work of peaceful penetration, that work of spying and lying in which the German people proved itself easily first. The diabolical propaganda, aimed not only at undermining the United States, at seducing the Irish and other hyphenate groups of Americans, but at polluting the Mexicans and several of the South American States; and later there was a thoroughly organized conspiracy to stir up animosity between this country and Japan by making the Japanese hate and suspect the Americans, and by making the Americans hate and suspect the Japanese. I alluded just now to the fact that German intrigue was working in Bogota, and influenced the Colombian blackmailers in refusing to sign the Hay Herran Canal Treaty with the United States, and peered about in the hope of snapping up the Canal rights for Germany.
Outwardly, during the first decade of the twentieth century, the Kaiser seemed to be most active in interfering in European politics, including those of Morocco, in which the French were entangled. In 1904 the war between Russia and Japan broke out. Roosevelt remained strictly neutral towards both belligerents, making it evident, however, that either or both of them could count on his friendly offices if they sought mediation. At the beginning of the war, it was generally assumed that the German Kaiser shed no tears over the Russian reverses, for the weaker Russia became, the less Germany needed to fear her as a neighbor. At length, however, when it looked as if the Japanese might actually shatter the Russian Empire, Germany and the other European Powers seemed to have had a common feeling that a decided victory by an Asiatic nation like Japan would certainly require a readjustment of world politics, and might not only put in jeopardy European interests and control in Asia, but also raise up against Europe what the Kaiser had already advertised as the Yellow Peril. I have no evidence that President Roosevelt shared this anxiety; on the contrary, I think that he was not unwilling that a strong Japan should exist to prevent the dismemberment of Eastern Asia by European land-grabbers.
By the spring of 1905, both Russia and Japan had fought almost to exhaustion. The probability was that Russia with her vast population could continue to replenish her army. Japan, with great pluck, after winning amazing victories, which left her weaker and weaker, made no sign of wishing for an armistice. Roosevelt, however, on his own motion wrote a private letter to the Czar, Nicholas II, and sent George Meyer, Ambassador to Italy, with it on a special mission to Petrograd. The President urged the Czar to consider making peace, since both the Russians and the Japanese had nearly fought them selves out, and further warfare would add to the losses and burdens, already tremendous, of both people. Probably he hinted also that another disaster in the field might cause an outbreak by the Russian Revolutionists. I have not seen his letterperhaps a copy of it has escaped, in the Czars secret archives, the violence of the Bolshevistsbut I have heard him speak about it. I have reason to suppose also that he wrote privately to the Kaiser to use his influence with the Czar. At any rate, the Czar listened to the Presidents advice, and by one of those diplomatic devices by which both parties saved their dignity, an armistice was arranged and, in the summer of 1905, the Peace was signed. The following year, the Trustees of the Nobel Peace Prize recognized Roosevelts large part in stopping the war, by giving the Prize to him.
Meanwhile, the irritation between France and Germany had increased to the point where open rupture was feared. For years Germany had been waiting for a propitious moment to swoop down on France and overwhelm her. The French intrigues in Morocco, which were leading visibly to a French Protectorate over that country, aroused German resentment, for the Germans coveted Morocco themselves. The Kaiser went so far as to invite Roosevelt to interfere with him in Morocco, but this, the President replied, was impossible. Probably he was not unwilling to have the German Emperor understand that, while the United States would interfere with all their might to prevent a foreign attack on the Monroe Doctrine, they meant to keep their hands off in European quarrels. That he also had a clear idea of William IIs temperament appears from the following opinion which I find in a private letter of his at this time: The Kaiser had weekly pipe dreams.
The situation grew very angry, and von Billow, the German Chancellor, did not hide his purpose of upholding the German pretensions, even at the cost of war. President Roosevelt then wroteprivatelyto the Kaiser impressing it upon him that for Germany to make war on France would be a crime against civilization, and he suggested that a Conference of Powers be held to discuss the Moroccan difficulty, and to agree upon terms for a peaceful adjustment. The Kaiser finally accepted Roosevelts advice, and after a long debate over the preliminaries, the Conference was held at Algeciras, Spain.
That Roosevelt understood, or even suspected, the great German conspiracy which the Kaisers hirelings were weaving over the United States is wholly improbable. Had he known of any plot he would have been the first to hunt it down and crush it. He knew in general of the extravagant vaporings of the Pan-Germans; but, like most of us, he supposed that there was still enough sanity, not to say common sense, left in Germany to laugh such follies away. Through his intimate friend, Spring-Rice, subsequently the British Ambassador, he had early and sound information of the conditions of Germany. He watched with curiosity the abnormal expansion of the German Fleet. All these things simply confirmed his belief that the United States must attend seriously to the business of making military and naval preparations.
Secretary Hay had already secured the recognition by the European Powers of the policy of the Open Door in China, the year before Roosevelt became President, but the struggle to maintain that policy had to be kept up for several years. On November 21, 1900, John Hay wrote to Henry Adams: At least we are spared the infamy of an alliance with Germany. I would rather, I think, be the dupe of China, than chum of the Kaiser. Have you noticed how the world will take anything nowadays from a German? Billow said yesterday in substanceWe have demanded of China everything we can think of. If we think of anything else we will demand that, and be dd to youand not a man in the world kicks.
By an adroit move similar to that by which Hay had secured the unwilling adherence of the Powers to his original proposal of the Open Door, he, with Roosevelts sanction, prevented the German Emperor from carrying out a plan to cut up China and divide the slices among the Europeans.
Equally adroit was Roosevelts method of dealing with the Czar in 1903. Russian mobs ran amuck and massacred many Jews in the city of Kishineff. The news of this atrocity reached the outside world slowly: when it came, the Jews of western Europe, and especially those of the United States, cried out in horror, held meetings, drew up protests, and framed petitions, asking the Czar to punish the criminals. Leading American Jews besought Roosevelt to plead their cause before the Czar. As it was well known that the Czar would refuse to receive such petitions, and would regard himself as insulted by whatever nation should lay them before him by official diplomatic means, the world wondered what Roosevelt would do. He took one of his short cuts, and chose a way which everybody saw was most obvious and most simple, as soon as he had chosen it. He sent the petitions to our Ambassador at Petrograd, accompanying them with a letter which recited the atrocities and grievances. In this letter, which was handed to the Russian Secretary of State, our Government asked whether His Majesty the Czar would condescend to receive the petitions. Of course the reply was no, but the letter was published in all countries, so that the Czar also knew of the petitions, and of the horrors which called them out. In this fashion the former Ranchman and Rough Rider outwitted, by what I may call his straightforward guile, the crafty diplomats of the Romanoffs.
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It's hard to believe Thanksgiving came and went in a blink of an eye. 'What comes next?", asked J. who can only tell time by the order in which holidays are approaching. I really wanted to tell him to enjoy the moment, to savor every second he has because time will fly soon enough. But again, I remember my own anxiety with time when I was a child. Soon was never soon enough.
We cooked, we ate and we enjoyed each others company this weekend. Thanksgiving morning we took the kids to the park. It was a beautiful morning and the streets were deserted. We had the park all to ourselves. "Let's really enjoy dinner" I told C.
It is easy for me to feel rushed at the dinner table with small children, especially when is just us. Just us might make it seem less important sometimes, but I was determined to sit down, enjoy and have a long conversation with my family, just like we used to do growing up. And so we did and it is the special moment I took away with me this weekend.
I spent Saturday morning baking cupcakes and more holiday cookies. C. asked to make his favorite pistachio sandies. Crumbly and soft, covered in melting powdered sugar. One of my all time favorites as well. I took some cupcakes to my friend Lena's house in exchange of some fresh greens from her garden.
Lunch was simple. I craved simple after all the heavy cooking and eating of the previous days. Thinly sliced apples, forelle pears and fennel with a simple apple cider vinaigrette inspired by Donna Hay's towering salads.
And so let the holiday baking continue…
Pear, Apple and Fennel Salad
makes 4 servings
2 honeycrisp apples, thinly sliced
4 forelle pears, thinly sliced
2 fennel bulbs, cored and thinly sliced
1 cup fresh watercress
1 tsp dijon mustard
1 lemon, juiced
1 Tbs apple cider vinegar
1/4 cup olive oil
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 tsp freshly ground pepper
In a large bowl, combine water and the juice of 1 lemon. Thinly slice the apples, per and fennel and place the slices in the water immediately after to avoid oxidation. To make the vinaigrette, whisk together the mustard, apple cider vinegar and olive oil. Stack the sliced vegetables and garnish with watercress leaves. Season with salt and pepper and drizzle the vinaigrette on top.
Pistachio Sandies
makes 2 dozen 1″ ball cookies
4 oz (115 grams) unsalted butter, room temperature
1/3 cup (45 grams) powdered sugar
1/2 tsp vanilla extract
3/4 cup (110 grams) superfine brown rice flour
2 Tbs (20 grams) tapioca starch
1/4 cup (40 grams) pistachios, chopped
pinch of salt
powdered sugar, for rolling
Cream the butter and powdered sugar together for a minute or so. Add the vanilla extract. Add the flour, tapioca starch, salt and chopped pistachios. Mix until the dough comes together.
using a 1″ ice cream scoop, scopp out the dough forming little balls. Place them on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper about 1″ apart.
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I Couldn't Believe My Ears
by L. Brent Bozell III
May 14, 1997
The other day, I watched Rep. Dan Burton's extraordinary
"Special Privilege" address to the Congress on C-SPAN. He laid out,
methodically and decisively, the incredible record of Clinton administration
criminal activities, lies, obfuscation, and stonewalling that his committee
had prepared, and which the mainstream press, with particular emphasis placed
on the networks, has ignored.
What, I wondered, could these media mavens say now? What
Burton did was to slam the book shut on mere speculation by offering a
chronological accounting of facts that simply bury this administration in a
seemingly endless web of deceit and corruption. So I started channel surfing,
and what I heard left me, well, speechless.
On NBC, Tom Brokaw was laying it on the line. "When [Burton's
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record of deceit, ignorance, naivete, good or bad intentions, failed policies,
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NBC reporter Carl Stern took it a step further. "If a
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and received immunity from prosecution, criminal prosecution for what they
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Stern wasn't finished. "And to top it off, Tom,
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prosecutor. That required a finding of reasonable, credible evidence to
believe that a significant crime may have been committed."
I hit the remote and found former Washington Post reporter
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Watergate scandal, making an impassioned point on PBS. For his part, he saw
parallels between that administration and the present one over the abuse of
confidential files. "It is often said that, during Watergate, the system
worked," he suggested. "But in dealing with its spiritual stepchild
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escalating criminality of the Clinton-Gore era - in which the [taking, and
hiding of] the 900 FBI files has become emblematic, just as the break-in of
Daniel Ellsberg's psychiatrist was a symbol of the Watergate era - refuses to
go away, like some dark stain on the national conscience."
Finally. Finally these leftist reporters were putting
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journalism. Finally they were recognizing, and publicly acknowledging, the
very sleazy nature of things at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. Finally they were
documenting, for the public record, truth. One of the guests on that PBS
program was CBS anchor Dan Rather, who called the developments "just the
first of several criminal [investigations] with their roots in concerns that a
secret clique of ideological zealots may have run policies and operations
outside the American constitutional system of checks and balances."
I watched until the end, when PBS omnipresence Bill Moyers
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it. A Vice President who lies to Congress and to the people will be elected
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scrap of paper."
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I know, dear reader, that you find these statements hard to
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made a dozen years ago about a man named Ronald Reagan, and a thing called
So what did the networks and these reporters have to say
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gave the story about eight seconds' worth of attention. CNN ran a story on its
10 PM broadcast, but nothing at all during the 8 PM time slot. And what of the
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A simple function that checks if a passed string is a GUID.
create function IsGuid ( @testString varchar(38))
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Despite the fact that the Los Angeles Auto Show is still in full swing, Lexus is looking to make a little news at the next auto show in the circuit.
The company announced Tuesday that its all-new 2014 IS sedan will make its world debut at the 2013 Detroit Auto Show on Jan. 15. It will be the third generation of the car; the current version is a bit long in the tooth, having been with us since 2006. The IS is the smallest sedan from the Toyota's luxury division, and counts as competitors other rear-wheel drive sport sedans such as BMW's 3-Series and Mercedes' C-Class.
No details on the new IS have been released, but expect both a four-cylinder IS 250 and a six-cylinder IS 350 to be available. The current IS 350 shares a direct-injection V-6 making 306 horsepower, and because that engine is also in the GS 350 that came to market in 2012, expect that powerplant to remain.
An eight-speed automatic transmission will be mated to the V-6 model, and should work with the engine's direct injection to boost fuel economy above the current model's 19/26 city/highway mpg rating. A hybrid model could also be introduced, as Lexus has been eager to expand its hybrid options in models such as the ES
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Songmei Yu, PhD
Field(s) of Interest/Expertise
My Research interests lie in Web Mining dedicated to Web Community Search and Discovery, Efficiency and Effectiveness of Distance Learning, and Data Warehouse and Data Modeling.
My teaching interests lie in Database Systems, Data Warehouse and Data Mining, Programming Courses, Fundamentals of Information Systems, Electronic Commerce, System Architecture and Operating Systems.
Courses Taught at Felician University
CS 101 Introduction to Computer Applications
CS 103 Introduction to Advanced Computer Applications
CS 120 Introduction to Computer Science
CS 150 Fundamentals of Information Systems
CS 350 Introduction to Operating Systems
CS 360 Database Management Systems
CS 460 Senior Project Practicum
Chapter 3: Preview - Optimizing View Materialization Cost in Spatial Data Warehouses
Complex Data Warehousing and Knowledge Discovery for Advanced Retrieval Development: Innovative Methods and Applications, IGI Global Press Inc, 2009. Songmei Yu, Vijay Atluri and Nabil Adam
Chapter 18: Challenges in Environmental Data Warehousing and Mining
Data Mining: Next Generation Challenges and Future Directions, AAAI Press/The MIT Press, 2004. Nabil Adam, Vijay Atluri, Dihua Guo and Songmei Yu
Computer Fraud: Financial and Ethical Implications
Review of Business, SJU Publisher, Issue Nov.1998. Patrick Casabona and Songmei Yu
Mining Forums for Asynchronous Learning in Distance Education
Proc. of 2011 Consortium for Computing Sciences in Colleges North Eastern Region (CCSCNE 2011), MA, 2011. Songmei Yu, Sofya Poger and Alberto LaCava
Teaching Computer Information Systems Courses in Three Ways: Traditional, Hybird and Online
Presented in 2010 The Teaching Professor Conference, MA, 2010. Songmei Yu, Sofya Poger and Alberto LaCava
Cascaded Star: a Data Model for Hyper-dimensional Data Warehouses
Proc. of 17th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications, Poland, 2006. Songmei Yu, Vijay Atluri and Nabil Adam
Preview: Optimizing View Materialization Cost in Spatial Data Warehouses
Proc. of 8th International Conference on Data Warehousing and Knowledge Discovery (DaWak'06, acceptance rate: 52/199), Poland, 2006. Songmei Yu, Vijay Atluri and Nabil Adam
Hierarchical Metadata Driven View Selection for Spatial Query Evaluations
Proc. of the 6th International Conference in Web-Age Information Management, China, 2005. Songmei Yu
Selective View Materialization in a Spatial Data Warehouse
Proc. of the 7th International Conference on Data Warehousing and Knowledge Discovery, Denmark, 2005. Songmei Yu, Vijay Atluri and Nabil Adam
Knowledge Discovery for Scientific Data
Proc. of NSF Workshop on Next Generation of Data Mining, Maryland, 2002. Nabil Adam, Vijay Atluri, Dihua Guo and Songmei Yu
Efficient Storage and Management of Environmental Information
Proc. of the 19th IEEE Symposium on Mass Storage Systems and Technologies (MSST'02), Maryland, 2002. Nabil Adam, Vijay Atluri, Songmei Yu and Yelena Yesha


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Decatur is in Metro Atlanta. Decatur is located east of midtown Atlanta and west of Stone Mountain. This article focuses primarily on downtown Decatur, the most tourist friendly and safe area within the city, and the nearby Oakhurst business district. It also references the historic Druid Hills neighborhood to the west, Emory University to the northwest, the Indian community to the northeast, the historic planned community of Avondale Estates to the southeast and Atlanta's eclectic Candler Park/Lake Claire neighborhood to the southwest.
Decatur is the county seat of DeKalb County. This historic city was founded in 1823 - before neighboring Atlanta. It has beautiful homes, historic places of worship and several institutions of higher learning. Centered on the historic Decatur Courthouse, Decatur has become a hot destination for college students and young professionals who want hip bars, great restaurants, and walkable neighborhoods, as well as for families who are drawn to the excellent independent school district. In addition to the single-family homes in old neighborhoods surrounding the central business district, in recent years there have been several mid-rise condominium developments in the downtown area, breathing new life into the downtown community.
While it may appear to be a typical southern city, Decatur marches to the beat of a different drummer. It declined to become a railroad transportation hub for the southeast in the 19th Century, resulting in the founding of Atlanta to its west. Both delegates from DeKalb County voted against secession in 1861. Decatur is one of the few parts of the sprawling Atlanta area that blends a small-town feel with an open-minded, freewheeling, artsy sensibility.
Decatur remains notable for its diversity. Founded by Scotch/Irish/English immigrants, the city remains majority Caucasian, but there is also a substantial African-American population, a lesbian community and recent Ethiopian immigrants. North of the city is a Greek-American community, and northeast of the city (around Church St., Scott Blvd./Lawrenceville Hwy. and DeKalb Industrial Blvd.) is a thriving Indian community with restaurants and retail outlets.
Decatur is also notable for its location. Atlanta and Decatur are Georgia's only county seats inside the "Perimeter" interstate (I-285) that encircles the metro area. Atlanta is an international city with corporate headquarters, world class convention facilities and a fast pace, while Decatur has retained a small city feel and a slightly slower pace. Decatur is surrounded by the city of Atlanta on its south and west sides. It is closer to Atlanta's business, retail and cultural destinations than many Atlanta neighborhoods, and is easily mistaken for an intown neighborhood of Atlanta.
Decatur experiences hot and humid summers, with temperatures frequently above 90°F/32°C. It is close enough to the north Georgia mountains that the city is cooler than other parts of Georgia, but the "heat island effect" of metro Atlanta can cause the temperature inside the perimeter (ITP) to be higher than outlying areas (OTP). Shorts, short-sleeve shirts and sandals/flip-flops are commonly worn during the summer in non-work settings to stay cool. The best time to visit the city is in the spring and fall, when the temperature is very pleasant. A jacket is generally all that is required. During the summer and fall, the city is impacted by hurricanes from both the Atlantic and Gulf coasts. However, the hurricanes are generally downgraded to tropical storms by the time they hit the metro area. Winters are comparatively mild; ice storms occasionally hit the city, but snowstorms are very rare. Check the forecast from NOAA [2], but visitors typically need no more than a heavy-weight, lined jacket in the winter (rather than a winter coat).
Get in
By plane
By train
By bus
By car
Decatur is accessible from Atlanta via Ponce de Leon Ave. (pronounced "Ponce d'Leon," or more commonly just "Ponce"), as well as the "Perimeter" interstate (I-285) via several exits. However, parking is limited in downtown Decatur. Street parking is free after 6 pm Monday-Saturday and all day Sunday. Off-street parking lot locations are posted on the City of Decatur's Parking in Decatur web page [9].
By bike
Decatur is also accessible via the PATH walk/bike trail. The trail runs from Atlanta to Stone Mountain through the city of Decatur.
American "English" is the primary language spoken in Decatur. The "southern" dialect has historically been spoken - more specifically the "Georgia drawl" – but this has been diluted by the influx of new residents in recent decades. Buford Highway (north of Decatur) is linguistically the most diverse commercial district in the metro.
Get around
Decatur is highly walkable, though visits to the Farmer's Market will require a private car, taxi or a ride on the MARTA bus that runs from Decatur Station toward Clarkston. MARTA buses leave from each of the three Decatur rail stations to various points in the county.
Decatur events [23] and festivals are scheduled through-out the year. Phone +1 404 371-9583 for information.
Music venues
Theatre/performing arts
Galleries/arts & crafts
Higher education
The city of Decatur does not have a shopping mall or a large retail shopping center. However, Decatur is not short on trendy boutiques. Most are located on or around Ponce de Leon.
Decatur may have more used bookstores than any other community in metro Atlanta. Bookstores selling new books are also listed.
Decatur has an eclectic mix of small clothing and accessory stores, from classic casual to artsy and eclectic.
Decatur has pharmacies, jewelry stores and other retail establishments located throughout the city, but the following are notable:
Malls & shopping centers
There are two small malls northeast of Decatur (North DeKalb and Northlake), but neither are tourist destinations. There is also a new urban shopping center (Edgewood Retail District[66]) southwest of the city, and unique shops along Highland Avenue west of Decatur. The nearest upscale shopping malls are Lenox Square and Phipps Plaza, which are close to the DeKalb County line in neighboring Atlanta (northwest of Decatur).
The music shops in Decatur have a good selection of used and new albums and CD's.
Decatur is known for its outstanding locally-owned restaurants, and patrons drive in from all over metro Atlanta. Despite the presence of Ted's Montana Grill & Ruby Tuesday's, the national chains are not prevalent here. There are over 70 restaurants and pubs - primarily clustered in the downtown area, Oakhurst and north of Decatur. (Pubs and taverns are listed under "Drink".) There are also sandwich shops, pasta restaurants and local chain pizza joints that have great food, but they are not listed below.
Downtown (Ponce/Decatur Square)
The restaurants are located on or near picturesque Ponce De Leon Avenue and around the Decatur (courthouse) Square. Here are some of the better restaurants:
SW of Decatur Square
SE of Decatur Square
The restaurants are clustered north and south of the railroad tracks. The north side centers on Decatur's old train depot and old ice house, both renovated for adaptive reuse. The south side includes two developments - the larger East Decatur Station at East College Avenue & New Street, which houses restaurants, a pub, coffee house, live theatre, salon and church - and the smaller development at 313 East College Avenue, which contains a tavern and furniture store.
The restaurants are located in Oakhurst Village historic buildings surrounded by the eclectic Oakhurst residential neighborhood.
N of Decatur Square
These restaurants are located in strip shopping centers clustered near the intersection of Clairmont Rd. & North Decatur Rd.
NE of Decatur Square
While several of the restaurants are excellent, most are located in older strip shopping centers near automobile dealerships and along highways.
Pubs & bars
Coffee Houses
Stay safe
Areas to avoid
More than fifty nations have a consulate in metro Atlanta. A complete list can be found at georgia.org [110].
There are four medical centers near Decatur. Emergency care for the general public is available at three of them. While 911 can be dialed in Decatur for an emergency, the following list includes the main switchboard phone number for each medical center:
Walk-in clinics
This is a partial list of medical and dental walk-in clinics for non-life-threatening conditions:
While local vets may work your pet in during office hours, the following clinic is open evenings, nights and weekends:
Internet access
Near Decatur
Rough it
There are no campsites within the City of Decatur. The nearest public campground is conveniently located off Stone Mountain Freeway, 12 miles east of Decatur Square:
Get out
Small town
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Upon closely examining his arguments in this debate, it seems clear that John Patterson is using thermodynamic arguments that have no relevance to the origin of life.
By way of background, one may write the equation for the Gibbs free energy change that accompanies aqueous chemical reactions or phase changes as follows (including only terms of significance):
where the change in enthalpy (H) is principally due to the change in bonding energy that occurs during the chemical reaction or phase change, the change in thermal entropy (-Sth) describes the change in the number of ways the thermal energy can be arranged in the system, and the change in configurational entropy ( cont) is associated with the change in the number of ways the mass can be arranged in the system. The Second Law of Thermodynamics requires that the change in the Gibbs free energy be negative for reactions that occur spontaneously (i.e., do not require some external energetic driving force).
When water freezes, when alloys experience diffusion up a concentration gradient (as they do during spinodal decomposition), or when atomic oxygen becomes molecular oxygen, (the three examples alluded to by Patterson) there is a decrease in entropy in the system. This is easily explained by the fact that change in enthalpy in each of these cases (and in many others one could cite) is negative (H less than 0): i.e., the reaction is exothermic. The energy released to the surrounding gives a sufficient increase in entropy to compensate for the local decrease in entropy, giving a net increase in the entropy of the universe as required by the Second Law of Thermodynamics.
One can illustrate this local ordering process by picturing a pool table on which someone has dropped a steel ball, one foot in diameter, producing a hemispherical depression in the very center of the table but leaving the rest of the table flat (see Fig. 1). Furthermore, assume that paper has been stuffed in each of the pockets to prevent the loss of balls from the table via the pockets, and picture the table being gently agitated randomly in the horizontal plane to maintain constant movement of the pool balls. You would hardly be surprised to find in due course that all of the balls would end up in a very nonrandom arrangement; namely, in the hemispherical depression in the center of the table. In the absence of such a hole, the probability of ever finding all of the balls within a one foot diameter circle at the center of the table can be calculated to be less than 1/10 exp20. Thus, an otherwise extremely improbable event becomes essentially certain when there is a local potential well.
It should then be emphasized that keeping all the balls in the hole would require that the agitation of the table be gentle. If the table were agitated more violently, all of the balls would not remain in the hole. The agitation of the table illustrates the thermal agitation present in real systems. For example, water will form the very orderly arrangement of molecules in ice (illustrated by the pool balls in a hole in the center of the table) as long as the thermal agitation of the system (illustrated by the agitation of the table) does not exceed some critical value (which it does at the melting point). Again the formation of ice is possible because H = -80cal/gram (1.44Kcal/mole) when water freezes.
What, if any, significance do the formation of snowflakes, spinodal decomposition, or the formation of molecular oxygen from atomic oxygen (which was the key illustration in the paper referred to by Patterson, Thermodynamics: The Red Herring, by Hugo F. Franzen) have to do with the crucial condenstation polymerization reactions required in the Oparian paradigm of the origin of life for the formation of protein and DNA? When one recognizes that the change in enthalpy (H) for such chemical reaction is positive, it is quite clear that such illustrations have no relevance to the origin of life.
We might illustrate this by returning to our original example of a pool table (see Fig. 2). The difficulty in getting polymerization condensation reactions is that our pool table is neither flat (H=0), nor does it have a hole (H less than 0). Rather it has a hill (H greater than 0). Morowitz [1] in his classic Energy Flow in Biology indicates that the macromolecule formation required to produce a living system in general has a H=+16.4 cal/gm. He further notes that the net increase in bonding energy in going from simple compounds to E. Coli bacterium is 0.27ev/atom. Thaxton, Bradley and Olsen [2] using data from Hutchens [3] calculate an enthalpy increase of 5-8Kcal/mole for the formation of dipeptide from amino acids (combining two amino acids). One might conclude that the formation of protein and DNA via polymerization condensation reactions is well nigh impossible. With regard to this issue of the formation of macromolecules near equilibrium, Prigogine et al. [4] have noted "The probability that at ordinary temperatures a macroscopic number of molecules is assembled to give rise to the highly ordered structures and to the coordinated functions characterizing living organisms is vanishingly small. The idea of spontaneous genesis of life in its present form is therefore highly improbable, even on the scale of billions of years during which prebiotic evolution occurred." Thus, the idea of a self ordering system implicit in the analogies of Patterson and others is seen to be irrelevant.
The only solution to this dilemma is to do some very specific work on the system to assist these balls up the hill. It should be added that this work must be very carefully done so as to not jar loose the balls that are already there. Thus, the energy must be selective in getting the balls up the hill while at the same time not causing the balls there to be removed from their positions of metastable equilibrium. Beyond this, the balls must be arranged in very specific sequencing of monomers in polymers to give biological function.
With regard to this problem of the energy flow through the system and its adequacy to do the required work, Nicolis and Prigogine [5] have noted, "Needless to say, these simple remarks cannot suffice to solve the problem of biological order. One would like not only to establish that the second law is compatible with a decrease in overall entropy, but also to indicate the mechanisms responsible for the emergence and maintenance of coherent states." To be more specific, the question is, "How can energy flow through the system which generates negative thermal entropy be coupled to do the required negative configurational entropy work; i.e., how can we convert energy flow into information?" Prigogine at al. [4] makes much more modest claims about the significance of their work in this regard than Patterson implies, using such expressions as "one is tempted to hope" that their work on dissipative structures will someday be found to be significant in answering these questions.
It is interesting to note that Patterson spends all of his time criticizing the work of creationists without making any attempt to use his own thermodynamic training to address the very significant problems outlined above. His position seems to be that if we can show some creationists make mistakes in their thermodynamic arguments, there are no thermodynamic problems. I find this to be an odd position, given that many scientists who share Patterson's conviction that the origin of life was naturalistic readily admit to the problems mentioned above [6]. In fact the question of how to generate the requisite complexity is universally recognized as the core problem in the origin of life. To show that some creationists may overstate or misrepresent the problem is hardly a substitute for a scientific solution to the problem.
Finally, it is interesting that in all of Patterson's writings I have yet to find any reference to the work of Thaxton, Bradley and Olsen [2]. Patterson and I have corresponded in the past with regard to his book, his failure to address the issues raised in this volume cannot be atrributed to ignorance about its contents. I thus find it difficult not to wonder about Patterson's own motives in this debate. I should add that Cramer [7], to whom Patterson has referred as a creationist who believes there are no thermodynamic problems with the origin of life, has since changed his mind after reading our book.
I do not believe that anyone has done the kind of thermodynamic analysis required to determine whether the Second Law of Thermodynamics represents any significant obstacle to biological evolution. Again, the kind of analysis we did in our book for the origin of life would be useful to quantify the nature and magnitude of the work required for macroevolution and the suitibility of the available energy and structures to do this work. It is certainly a question that should be pursued.
Arduini's comments reflect a lack of awareness of our book in which a decrease in configurational entropy is clearly quantified for the current paradigm for the origin of life. However, for a plausible naturalistic origin of life scenario to be established, it must be explained how energy flow through the system can be coupled to do the required work. Furthermore, his assertions with regard to Wilder-Smith should be qualified as follows: Wilder-Smith was only referring to biological evolution. In both of his books The Creation of Life and Man's Origin, Man's Destiny, he clearly argues that there are significant thermodynamic problems with the origin of life. He does not say that the Second Law of Thermodynamics precludes it but notes as we did in our book that the conversion of energy flow into information remains, at present, undemonstrated and without theoretical basis.
Walter L. Bradley received his Ph.D. in materials science from the University of Texas. He has participated as principal or co-principal investigator on over a million dollars of contract research, and has consulted for several major corporations. The author of over 30 research papers (published in refereed journals), he has held the Texas Engineering Experimental Station Research Fellowship since 1982 and is professor of Mechanical Engineering at Texas A&M University. He is also co-author of the 1984 book The Mystery of Life's Origin: Reassessing Current Theories. In this article, he directly addresses some of the arguments raised by John Patterson and Francis Arduini. He also addresses, in a more direct fashion, some of the concerns raised by our other writers.
Copyright © 1997 Walter L. Bradley. All
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Can Madea Save Minority Theater?
Last week in Manhattan, an organization founded by Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee, The Coalition of Theaters of Color, called a town meeting to discuss "the issue of sustainability" in small New York state African-American and Latino nonprofit theaters. An article in Backstage highlighted the meeting's focus on media and grantwriters' biases against these companies, and it brought me back to an issue that keeps popping up--why does urban-gospel-chitlin circuit-call-it-what-you-will-theater do so well?
Those for-profit touring companies helmed by Tyler Perry, Je'Caryous Johnson (I wrote this one) and David E. Talbert, among others, develop their own shows from scratch, sell out houses while advertising largely outside major media outlets, without reviews, and attract marquee names. Sure there are quality issues, and for-profits leave little room for experimentation, but on the flipside, if you're successful enough, you can ultimately do all the experimenting you'd like--or start your own nonprofit, for that matter.
On Broadway, The Color Purple has turned a gorgeous profit for its creators, In the Heights is a Tony bonanza, and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, with its African-American cast, flourished despite mixed reviews. As a reviewer, I've already noticed a recent shift in typically white non-profit houses toward more diverse programming, and can't help but attribute this to their notice of Broadway's multi-culti success stories. Here in Philly, the Arden's production of August Wlson's The Piano Lesson was extended even though Delaware Theatre Company (just a half-hour outside the city) was set to open the same play the following week.
So why can't minority-run non-profits catch the same kind of fire?
Could it be that the nonprofit model just doesn't serve people of color in the same way? If traditionally white channels aren't working, why keep using them? I participated in a roundtable discussion at USC in February where the subject came up, and used the example of the Jews' exclusion from banking and media. Once we stopped banging on their doors and built our own houses, we managed to do okay for ourselves. It's less an issue of "separate but equal" than "money talks." There's certainly a precedent in the African American community: look no farther than Madame C.J. Walker, who took her money and opened a theater that still operates today with a mandate to serve Indianapolis' African American community.
The Coalition would do well to look to the urban circuit's theater entrepreneurs for assistance with marketing and funding. There's may be an issue of snobbery on the part of non-profits toward what is viewed as a lowbrow entertainment, but guess what? Tyler Perry, who used to live in his car, isn't complaining about funding or bad reviews--which at this point, he receives almost as a matter of courtesy.
I'm not suggesting that minority theaters ought to give up the fight against funding inequity and media biases. Obviously, it's a real, frustrating and intolerable situation. But I am suggesting that if things have gotten so bad that the issues the coalition is addressing aren't about programming or education, but about the continuation of their very existence, well, maybe it's time to look elsewhere for answers.
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