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I've been waiting for a forum to write this article for a while. I guess this is as good as any. New Orleans needs a real food critic. This city is regularly putting out some of the world's best food, and it's getting better seemingly every day. Rewind 13ish years ago to August 28, 2005. Man, we were really good at food back then. Really good at French creole cuisine. Really good at red sauce Italian. Really good at restaurant service. It wasn't a diverse offering, but we were really freaking good at it.
Now fast forward to today. Holy cow! New Orleans still maintains its status as the mecca of creole cuisine, but we are kicking some ass in other styles of cooking too now. Vietnamese is on point. We have a Chinese dim sum and dumpling shop in the Quarter. Mexican is still lacking a bit but steadily coming around. Italian: damn! Italian Barrel, Avo. Paladar 511, now Sofia. And we still have the best of the oldies despite several classics closing in this newly competitive battle royale. If you want the Thursday pork chop from Venezia, it's still there waiting for you. BBQ has become a strength here. You don't have to drive out to BFE for The Joint anymore (still great btw), thank you very much Hogs for the Cause. I think you get the point. One of the world's greatest food destinations is only growing stronger. The bar is high, new restaurants and old alike have to prove their niche, their unique strengths, or gtfo.
Maybe it's the medium, I know there are some great food blogs out there. But when I pick up a Gambit or read The Advocate or really most other print publications, you get the same benign reviews over and over again. Three beans. Excellent. Wonderful. Insert any other high praise word here. Shouldn't we be more discerning? All of the aforementioned venues for food "criticism" are catering to their "customers": the restaurants. Keep flipping your Gambit. Oh, there it is: there's the ad from the restaurant being reviewed. This is akin to a stock analyst rating an investment banking client as a Strong Buy. We deserve better.
And ol' Tom Fitzmorris is at the top of this garbage heap. Every time I hear his voice, I can see him over-swirling his wine glass, lifting his pinkie as he prepares for the slightest sip. He probably spits it into a spittoon as he's making his best "wow" face. If you are there watching this, please walk over and slap the glass off the table. This is not a restaurant critic. This is a shill.
If you believe Ol' Tom, a crabcake is literally the pinnacle of haute cuisine. Nuvolari's is really where my wife and I should head for an awesome Italian-inspired date night, Tom? Parran's has the best "poor" boy in town? How can you say this with a straight face?
Let's do a little experiment. Start at Tom's website which is barely more impressive than this piece of shit I built on WordPress with the IT savvy comparable to my four year-old daughter's. Go to Restaurants by Cuisine, and scroll down to Italian. What cutting-edge restaurants have earned Tom's discerning high praise? Four stars: Cafe Giovanni, Del Porto in Covington, Domenica, Fausto's, Impastato's, Irene's, Nuvolari's in Mandeville, Pizza Domenica, Sal and Judy's in Lacombe, Tommy's, Vincent's. Lower ratings: Avo, Italian Barrel, Marcello's. This list was last updated in mid-2017 according to the site so maybe there would be a totally different list if it were updated today. But I doubt it.
Impastato's is better than Nick Lama's rock-star Uptown Italian outpost Avo? Seriously?? Tom Fitzmorris is a business, and I don't have any problem with that. More power to him for making a living out of his shitty palate and haughty attitude. My problem is that there isn't anything better out there. It's all shades of the same BS. Nobody has come along and put Ol' Tom out of business because they are all running the same business model. Ads. Ads. Ads.
We're starved for the New Orleans version of Tony Bourdain. Witty and sophisticated, worldly, and above all, brutally honest. It doesn't matter which medium our "Tony" uses, shit a great blog would be just fine. I like to read a physical paper, but I understand that product is dying a not-so-slow death. It's the content not the medium that matters. Someone with real taste. Then maybe we wouldn't have to unwind restaurant empires built by shitty ass-grabbing hacks like John Besh. Say what you want, the first time I read the menu when his flagship Restaurant August opened, I was stunned that such an impressive building was dedicated to a blatant imposter who had word-for-word copied the recipes out of Thomas Keller's "The French Laundry Cookbook". I ordered the skate just to see if there was something Johnny was adding to Thomas' prized recipes. Nope. The menu at August has evolved since then, definitely a more local flair now.
The two best restaurants Besh has opened are Pizza Domenica and Shaya. Literally the only unique food the guy has created. Credit Alon Shaya in both cases. Now a decent critic would write about why Donald Link is so far superior to John Besh. Cochon, Herbsaint, Peche (Ryan I know). Butcher. We are all better off for having Donnie in this city, creating and inspiring. There are others too who aren't getting the recognition they deserve. The aforementioned Nick Lama. Sue Zemanick. Hao Gong at Luvi. Many others.
I'm optimistic that the end is near for the kind of regurgitated ad-starved pandering spewed by Tom and his disciples. There is some serious talent in this city now. Not just chefs, but writers too. It's hard to break down an institution, for starter's they have much better connections and access. Years of pimping Parran's probably pays off. But in the end, I firmly believe that the customers, the patrons, the populace will win. After all, we're the ones that blew the doors of Dian Xin so hard they had to close for a few days to re-organize and re-staff to keep up with the pent-up demand for the city's first real dim sum joint. Exciting times, my friends.


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Protesters On Both Sides Of Impeachment Divide Clash In Grand Junction
A a pro-impeachment rally in Grand Junction was met by a large group of counter-protesters Tuesday night. At the event's height, about 100 people collected on the steps of a federal building downtown and spilled into the sidewalk, as police blocked off the street.
At one point, some of those who came to defend the president started to yell "Babies' lives matter!" The chant eventually evolved into "Don't kill babies! Kill yourselves!" as they faced off against impeachment supporters.
The raucous Grand Junction demonstration was one of hundreds of taking place across the country on the eve of the House's historic impeachment vote, part of a national "Nobody is Above the Law" rally organized by left-leaning groups. In Denver, hundreds gathered on the steps of the state capital.
Delores Chaney, who supports impeachment, said she had to show up to have her "voice be heard" as an African American woman. She talked about being deeply troubled by the White House not cooperating with the impeachment inquiry.
"He needs to be impeached before something else happens," she said, of the allegations that Trump asked the Ukranian president to investigate the son of political rival Joe Biden.
Like many on both sides of the rally, Chaney's feelings about the president go far beyond the immediate impeachment debate. She talked about how tariffs have made it harder for her to get by and how embarrassed she is by how Trump conducts himself.
"For that man to represent me, I am appalled," she said, pausing for emphasis. "Appalled."
As the protest wore on, more counter-protesters showed up. Doug Thompson with the Mesa County Republican Party helped mobilize the effort "because I felt we should support our president."
"Unequivocally, he will go down in American history as having done more for our country than any other president had," he said.
Thompson added that he's troubled by current-day Democrats.
"They ought to refer to themselves as Nazis or something like that," he said, adding, "they're just so hateful, and they just take it out on the President."
When asked if he thought the rift between liberal and conservative voters can be mended — in Grand Junction or anywhere else — Thompson said it would likely be up to the "other side."
The US House plans to vote on the two articles of impeachment Wednesday. The Colorado delegation is expected to split along party lines.
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Stories in a Painting
March 21, 2019
An old painting that is part of Lutheran history in America fascinates me. This painting is definitely connected to the history that we attempt to preserve at our museum. It is a painting that has been displayed in at least one previous post, but I am going to spend more time with it today. That … More Stories in a Painting


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Property management firm, Residential One, chooses MRI Software again to provide property management and accounting solutions for their portfolio of over 7,000 units.
Cleveland, Ohio- Residential One recently made the decision to extend their working agreement to utilize MRI Software's suite of affordable/conventional property management and accounting solutions.
Residential One, headquartered in Columbia, MD, has been in business serving the apartment management industry in the Maryland, D.C. and Virginia markets since 1999. As a full-service organization, Residential One specializes in the management of multifamily real estate in both affordable and market-rate, and has a growing portfolio of more than 7,000 units. In addition to providing expert, hands-on property management, the firm also provides construction, renovation, due-diligence inspections, and professional education.
"Our business is growing, and our clients are becoming increasingly demanding in the information we offer them," said Mike Resau, Vice President and CIO of Residential One. "With MRI Software, not only did we receive top-notch service, but we feel we have the flexibility and benefit of an open platform to access the information we need. Plus, with MRI's Partner Connect Program, we are enabled to plug and play with third-party software solutions that best meet our needs. "
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Listen to Episode 7: The Voyage of Aphrodite – Chapter 2
Our heroes try to make their way topside in the upside-down submarine that is slowly sinking its way upwards into the sky ocean.
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Aug. 25, 2011
Aug. 25, 2011
Sorry so long without writing! It has been really busy in a mostly great way. We have settled into a routine of cranking through the weeks – keeping the space station running, ramping up the science, and learning how to get some really cool sequences of night photos I can't wait to show you. We recently commented on how we could see what life will be like up here in the post-Space Shuttle era. Today, however, we get a curve ball thrown at us when a Russian Progress cargo ship had a failure during launch and didn't make orbit. In other words, it crashed.
You probably know more about this than we do tonight.
There was no crew on the cargo ship, so apparently no loss of life and that's a very good thing.
We lost some cargo and supplies, but are pretty well stocked thanks to Atlantis and the STS-135 crew, so this isn't a serious setback.
The bigger deal right now is the fact that the booster system (i.e., "rocket") for the Soyuz spacecraft (which is now the only way to get crew to the space station) shares many components with the one used on the cargo ship which failed today.
In short, uh oh.
With very little knowledge of what went wrong, we have to be very careful before strapping another crew in for launch.
What this means for us immediately is we are as safe as you can be living 240 miles above the planet while orbiting at 17,500 mph! Our rockets worked perfectly during launch, got us into orbit and to the ISS. It seems fairly certain the failure which occurred is related to launch. We don't use the same huge rockets for the ride home, so there is no reason to worry about a problem with us getting home safely.
To make a long story just a little bit longer, we're fine. We have a mission to accomplish: We'll stay focused on taking care of this amazing international outpost and getting as much science accomplished as possible. As always, the ones who take the emotional brunt of this kind of deal are the loved ones waiting for us at home.
You'll hear from me again soon – I promise! In the meantime, here's a single photo to whet your appetite. It was taken over Central Europe looking south down the length of Italy. I have a few thousand more.
In the meantime, thanks for your prayers and stay tuned. This is going to continue to get interesting!
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Deadline: February 28, 2014
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CHRIS138 on The DJ Sessions and the Waterland Arcade presents "Attack the Block" 6/29/21
About CHRIS138 –
Chris Roeder, known as CHRIS138. was born and raised in Southern California and made his way up to the PNW in 2015. He first grew a love for trance music listening to Tiesto's "Elements of Life" album, and since then, his passion has grown from listening to mixing.
Over time, his music taste has diversified and he now mixes anything including Trance, Deep House, and Tech House. The 138 in his name stands for 138 beats per minute commonly found in trance, as his trance sets contain emotion and energy flowing throughout the mix.
One of his favorite parts about being an artist is interacting with the crowd and conversing with fans. As an avid concert-goer and participant within the electronic dance music scene, he understands and appreciates the fan side and welcomes anyone who wishes to learn more about the music he plays.
Chris strives to grow as an artist and learn more in the industry, providing music and most importantly, happiness, to others.
About "The DJ Sessions" –
"The DJ Sessions" is a online/downloadable series featuring the hottest electronic music DJ's with live mixes and interviews, streamed live to a global audience. Check out the website: www.thedjsessions.com With over 2,000 episodes produced over the last eleven years "The DJ Sessions", a Twitch and Mixcloud "Featured Partner", has featured international artists such as: BT, Simon Patterson, Lindsey Stirling, Mako, Morgan Page, Jes, Cut Chemist, Judge Jules, DubFX, DJs From Mars, Rudosa, Thievery Corporation, Sander Van Dorn, GAWP, Hollaphonic, Kissy Sell Out, Somna, David Morales, Roxanne, JB & Scooba, Massimo Vivona, Moulinx, Futuristic Polar Bears, Many Few, Joe Stone, Reboot, Truncate, Scotty Boy, Jody Wisternoff, Benny Bennasi, Dance Loud, Christopher Lawrence, Oliver Twizt, Ricardo Torres, Alex Harrington, 4 Strings, Sunshine Jones, Elite Force, Revolvr, Kenneth Thomas, Paul Oakenfold, George Acosta, Reid Speed, TyDi, Donald Glaude, Jimbo, Ricardo Torres, Hotel Garuda, Bryn Liedl, Rodg, Kems, Mr. Sam, Steve Aoki, Funtcase, Dirtyloud, Marco Bailey, Thousand Fingers, Dirtmonkey, Crystal Method, Beltek, Dyro, Andy Caldwell, Darin Epsilon, Kyau & Albert, Kutski, Vaski, Moguai, Blackliquid, Sunny Lax, Matt Darey, and many more. In addition to featuring national/international artists "The DJ Sessions" featured hundreds local top DJs from their homebase of Seattle. We have also undergone a massive upgrade in our TDJS studios and to our TDJS Mobile Studio to full HD streaming and HD audio to make the quality of the shows even better than before. Along with that we have launched a new website that now features our current live streams and past episodes in a much more user friendly mobile/social environment. About The DJ Sessions Event Services – TDJSES is a WA State Non-profit charitable organization that's main purpose is to provide music, art, fashion, dance, and entertainment to local and regional communities via events and video production programming distributed through broadcast television and the internet for live and archival viewing. "The DJ Sessions" is a Twitch "Featured Partner" and MixCloud "Featured Partner" series and has been recognized by Apple twice as a "New and Noteworthy" and "Featured Video" podcast. UStream and Livestream have also listed TDJS as a "Featured" stream in their lineups. The TDJS combined live streaming/podcast audience is over 125,000 viewers per week. For all press inquiries regarding "The DJ Sessions", or to schedule an interview with Darran Bruce, please contact us at firstname.lastname@example.com


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Emma Huels
Emma Huels
1. Please Tell us how you are involved with the DEI Task Force:
Currently, I am working with other members of our task force to promote new outreach opportunities for members of the NGP. The first hurdle is locating these opportunities or organizations with whom we can establish working relationships. Specifically, I am interested in finding long-term mentorship opportunities with individuals in need of support, teaching, or guidance, such as individuals coming out poverty/homelessness or children in foster care. We are also focused on offering mentorship to individuals in the PREP program who are interested in pursuing graduate school.
2. Share the most exciting thing you enjoy about your research?
Consciousness is one of the most fundamental scientific questions. While consciousness exists on a spectrum, the degree to which humans are consciousness is what makes us special, and the fact that I get to spend my time researching what allows us to be conscious and have the incredible human experiences we do is very exciting.
3. If science wasn't an option, what is another career you could see yourself doing?
If I couldn't be a scientist, I think I would absolutely do something with animals. I LOVE animals, so I could see myself being a veterinarian (although this comes with challenges), a zookeeper, or perhaps running my own animal shelter.
4. What was your childhood dream?
I cycled through a lot of childhood dreams. If we are talking about career dreams, I went from wanting to be a "medical researcher" (whatever that means) when I was in fourth grade, to wanting to be an oceanographer, then marina biologist, and then criminal profiler. I wanted to be a criminal profiler for quite some time, but when I learned you have to be an FBI agent as well, it didn't seem realistic for someone who runs into doors on a weekly basis.
5. What person in your life was the strongest influence on you choosing your career path? Why?
This question is a toss-up between my undergraduate mentor and my dad. My dad always told me I could pursue any career I wanted, whether it be as POTUS or a plumber. So I always believed I could have whatever career I wanted. But in terms of this particular path, my undergraduate mentor (shoutout to Dr. Suzanne Welcome!) really took me under her wing and told me science (and research) was an option when I was a student in her Biological Psychology class. Without her, I'd just be another 20-something-year-old with a useless psych degree.
6. What are your hobbies?
My current hobbies include exercise, reading, video games, outdoor activities like camping and fishing, and anything to do with dogs. I currently volunteer at a local animal shelter where I care for dogs on the weekend and cannot wait to get my own dog. I also consider being a turtle mom one of my hobbies, as my box turtle Luka is my pride and joy. I'm also planning to explore new hobbies this coming year, such as calligraphy.
7. What's your greatest life lesson?
I have two great life lessons. First, stop caring what other people think. It really is just a huge waste of time and once you're able to let go of what others think, you'll find you can be a lot more confident and a lot less stressed. Second, eliminate "shoulds" from your life. They really only exist to carry judgement and when you stop focusing on all the things you "should do" or "should feel," you can focus on what you want to do and what will make you happy.


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Many of them do not get enough physical activity, and they drink too many sugary beverages. They are suffering the consequences. Children with obesity suffer from serious conditions that used to occur only in adulthood, including type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure and high cholesterol. Play Every Day is working with partners across Alaska to improve the healthy options Alaska families have to eat and drink and support families in being more physically active.
Obesity during childhood is a significant health problem across the country.
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Raoul Island is one of the Kermadec Islands, about 1000km north-east of New Zealand in the South Pacific Ocean. DOC have a small team of staff and volunteers who live on the island in relative solitude. Their main focus is controlling weeds on the island, maintaining infrastructure such as buildings, roads and tracks, and carrying out work for Met Service and GNS.
Since the island is so remote, we get these diary entries from the team and post them up on their behalf. Today's diary is by volunteer Katie Grinsted.
Interested in becoming a volunteer on Raoul Island? DOC is recruiting for volunteers for August 2013 to February 2014 now. See www.doc.govt.nz/raoulvolunteers for more information.
On our way
It has been just over a month since us five volunteers departed Auckland, waved goodbye to the world we knew, and began our life on Raoul Island. I have been to some pretty special places in my life but I think this may just take the cake. We are actually marooned on a (sub) tropical island. We're stuck here with the volcanoes, the earthquakes, surrounded by sharks and we are lovin' it!
The journey began with a five day crossing on the sailboat Ranui. Sometime on a Friday morning, the high cliffs of Hutchison Bluff appeared. We were almost there!
It seemed no time at all that we were onshore, after so long at sea firm ground felt like an illusion. Thankfully we were steadied by the welcoming arms of our new island mates. The nine Cruisers of Sunday Island united!
The island itself
Raoul Island is a beautiful place. Everyday as I walk around I try and take a moment or two to look around me and yell, more often out loud: "Woo hoo! So lucky to be here."!
Despite being located so far from NZ, much of the flora and fauna here is identical or at least very similar, to NZ. The plant and animal life has had a boost with the removal of mammalian predators. The climate here is excellent for growing and everything here seems to shoot up so fast.
This is actually a five-finger tree for those of you who recognize it in NZ.
What we do
With the animal pests removed it is now it is up to us to get rid of the other pests on the island – the unwanted plant species. Condemned for their lack of consideration for other plants, and their effects on the habitat of the animal species, the weeds on Raoul Island are the focus of the work here.
The forest here is no walk in the park! Sometimes it is even a walk in a volcanic area!
Yep! Weeding can take it out of you!
But it is a lot of fun and life isn't all hard work! There are plenty of other things to entertain your average cruiser. There are the water sports – snorkeling in New Zealand's largest marine reserve for example…
And brewing high-quality beverages for another…
Then there are the forest sports. The other weekend we spent a night at the wee sky-blue Mahoe Hut before battling our way down a large dry waterfall to the coast. We emerged sweaty and exhausted but none the less, happy.
And of course, there is the sport of 'just cruisin', a natural and accepted progression of island life…
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Everyone deals with unwanted flirtation here and there. Some guy cat calls you in the street, and you yell something (probably mildly profane) back at him. Obviously not pleasant, but also not the end of the world. But when it happens in a work environment, it's a totally different story. You're probably seeing this person every day, and you don't want to risk creating an even more uncomfortable environment for yourself. There's no doubt that it's a delicate situation.
If it isn't bothering you all that much, and the flirtation is harmless, you could always try to brush it off and pretend you're totally oblivious to the behavior. Act nothing less than professional towards them. The subtle hint could be just enough to make it clear that you're not exactly loving the extra attention, and if all goes as planned, they'll soon back off. Easy!
But of course, some people just aren't perceptive enough to know that this is your way of telling them to stop. If avoiding the flirtation isn't cutting it, you're going to have to be straightforward with the person. Bluntly say that you aren't interested, and be up front with them that it's making your workplace uncomfortable if that's how you feel. Rejection isn't ever fun, so if you're looking to maintain some kind of friendship (or even just a friendly working relationship), it might be a good idea to make an effort to show that. Try not to be too harsh if the situation doesn't warrant it, and do your best to not make things for your future self unbearably awkward.
If this doesn't work, it's time to bring things to the attention of human resources or management. There's a chance you'll feel silly or uncomfortable, but don't. What you're doing certainly isn't uncalled for. Nobody should have to work in a place where they feel uncomfortable or unsafe. Plus, that's what HR is there for. I can guarantee that you won't be the first person visiting their offices due to unwanted attention. Make sure that you're completely honest about what has been going on, how it makes you feel, and what you would like to see done about it. Otherwise, they might not be able to handle the situation in the way that you were hoping.
Don't let someone else's behavior affect how you perform at work. The last thing anyone needs is extra stress while trying to do your job well, so don't brush it under the rug if it's really getting to you. Stand up for yourself and make sure you get rid of that flirtation for good!


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XI. A RETROSPECTIVE GLANCE AT CLASSICAL SCIENCE It is a favorite tenet of the modern historian that history is a continuous stream. The contention has fullest warrant. Sharp lines of demarcation are an evidence of man's analytical propensity rather than the work of nature. Nevertheless it would be absurd to deny that the stream of history presents an ever-varying current. There are times when it seems to rush rapidly on; times when it spreads out into a broad--seemingly static--current; times when its catastrophic changes remind us of nothing but a gigantic cataract. Rapids and whirlpools, broad estuaries and tumultuous cataracts are indeed part of the same stream, but they are parts that vary one from another in their salient features in such a way as to force the mind to classify them as things apart and give them individual names. So it is with the stream of history; however strongly we insist on its continuity we are none the less forced to recognize its periodicity. It may not be desirable to fix on specific dates as turning-points to the extent that our predecessors were wont to do. We may not, for example, be disposed to admit that the Roman Empire came to any such cataclysmic finish as the year 476 A.D., when cited in connection with the overthrow of the last Roman Empire of the West, might seem to indicate. But, on the other hand, no student of the period can fail to realize that a great change came over the aspect of the historical stream towards the close of the Roman epoch. The span from Thales to Galen has compassed about eight hundred years--let us say thirty generations. Throughout this period there is scarcely a generation that has not produced great scientific thinkers--men who have put their mark upon the progress of civilization; but we shall see, as we look forward for a corresponding period, that the ensuing thirty generations produced scarcely a single scientific thinker of the first rank. Eight hundred years of intellectual activity --thirty generations of greatness; then eight hundred years of stasis--thirty generations of mediocrity; such seems to be the record as viewed in perspective. Doubtless it seemed far different to the contemporary observer; it is only in reasonable perspective that any scene can be viewed fairly. But for us, looking back without prejudice across the stage of years, it seems indisputable that a great epoch came to a close at about the time when the barbarian nations of Europe began to sweep down into Greece and Italy. We are forced to feel that we have reached the limits of progress of what historians are pleased to call the ancient world. For about eight hundred years Greek thought has been dominant, but in the ensuing period it is to play a quite subordinate part, except in so far as it influences the thought of an alien race. As we leave this classical epoch, then, we may well recapitulate in brief its triumphs. A few words will suffice to summarize a story the details of which have made up our recent chapters. In the field of cosmology, Greek genius has demonstrated that the earth is spheroidal, that the moon is earthlike in structure and much smaller than our globe, and that the sun is vastly larger and many times more distant than the moon. The actual size of the earth and the angle of its axis with the ecliptic have been measured with approximate accuracy. It has been shown that the sun and moon present inequalities of motion which may be theoretically explained by supposing that the earth is not situated precisely at the centre of their orbits. A system of eccentrics and epicycles has been elaborated which serves to explain the apparent motions of the heavenly bodies in a manner that may be called scientific even though it is based, as we now know, upon a false hypothesis. The true hypothesis, which places the sun at the centre of the planetary system and postulates the orbital and axial motions of our earth in explanation of the motions of the heavenly bodies, has been put forward and ardently championed, but, unfortunately, is not accepted by the dominant thinkers at the close of our epoch. In this regard, therefore, a vast revolutionary work remains for the thinkers of a later period. Moreover, such observations as the precession of the equinoxes and the moon's evection are as yet unexplained, and measurements of the earth's size, and of the sun's size and distance, are so crude and imperfect as to be in one case only an approximation, and in the other an absurdly inadequate suggestion. But with all these defects, the total achievement of the Greek astronomers is stupendous. To have clearly grasped the idea that the earth is round is in itself an achievement that marks off the classical from the Oriental period as by a great gulf. In the physical sciences we have seen at least the beginnings of great things. Dynamics and hydrostatics may now, for the first time, claim a place among the sciences. Geometry has been perfected and trigonometry has made a sure beginning. The conception that there are four elementary substances, earth, water, air, and fire, may not appear a secure foundation for chemistry, yet it marks at least an attempt in the right direction. Similarly, the conception that all matter is made up of indivisible particles and that these have adjusted themselves and are perhaps held in place by a whirling motion, while it is scarcely more than a scientific dream, is, after all, a dream of marvellous insight. In the field of biological science progress has not been so marked, yet the elaborate garnering of facts regarding anatomy, physiology, and the zoological sciences is at least a valuable preparation for the generalizations of a later time. If with a map before us we glance at the portion of the globe which was known to the workers of the period now in question, bearing in mind at the same time what we have learned as to the seat of labors of the various great scientific thinkers from Thales to Galen, we cannot fail to be struck with a rather startling fact, intimations of which have been given from time to time--the fact, namely, that most of the great Greek thinkers did not live in Greece itself. As our eye falls upon Asia Minor and its outlying islands, we reflect that here were born such men as Thales, Anaximander, Anaximenes, Heraclitus, Pythagoras, Anaxagoras, Socrates, Aristarchus, Hipparchus, Eudoxus, Philolaus, and Galen. From the northern shores of the aegean came Lucippus, Democritus, and Aristotle. Italy, off to the west, is the home of Pythagoras and Xenophanes in their later years, and of Parmenides and Empedocles, Zeno, and Archimedes. Northern Africa can claim, by birth or by adoption, such names as Euclid, Apollonius of Perga, Herophilus, Erasistratus, Aristippus, Eratosthenes, Ctesibius, Hero, Strabo, and Ptolemy. This is but running over the list of great men whose discoveries have claimed our attention. Were we to extend the list to include a host of workers of the second rank, we should but emphasize the same fact. All along we are speaking of Greeks, or, as they call themselves, Hellenes, and we mean by these words the people whose home was a small jagged peninsula jutting into the Mediterranean at the southeastern extremity of Europe. We think of this peninsula as the home of Greek culture, yet of all the great thinkers we have just named, not one was born on this peninsula, and perhaps not one in five ever set foot upon it. In point of fact, one Greek thinker of the very first rank, and one only, was born in Greece proper; that one, however, was Plato, perhaps the greatest of them all. With this one brilliant exception (and even he was born of parents who came from the provinces), all the great thinkers of Greece had their origin at the circumference rather than the centre of the empire. And if we reflect that this circumference of the Greek world was in the nature of the case the widely circling region in which the Greek came in contact with other nations, we shall see at once that there could be no more striking illustration in all history than that furnished us here of the value of racial mingling as a stimulus to intellectual progress. But there is one other feature of the matter that must not be overlooked. Racial mingling gives vitality, but to produce the best effect the mingling must be that of races all of which are at a relatively high plane of civilization. In Asia Minor the Greek mingled with the Semite, who had the heritage of centuries of culture; and in Italy with the Umbrians, Oscans, and Etruscans, who, little as we know of their antecedents, have left us monuments to testify to their high development. The chief reason why the racial mingling of a later day did not avail at once to give new life to Roman thought was that the races which swept down from the north were barbarians. It was no more possible that they should spring to the heights of classical culture than it would, for example, be possible in two or three generations to produce a racer from a stock of draught horses. Evolution does not proceed by such vaults as this would imply. Celt, Goth, Hun, and Slav must undergo progressive development for many generations before the population of northern Europe can catch step with the classical Greek and prepare to march forward. That, perhaps, is one reason why we come to a period of stasis or retrogression when the time of classical activity is over. But, at best, it is only one reason of several. The influence of the barbarian nations will claim further attention as we proceed. But now, for the moment, we must turn our eyes in the other direction and give attention to certain phases of Greek and of Oriental thought which were destined to play a most important part in the development of the Western mind--a more important part, indeed, in the early mediaeval period than that played by those important inductions of science which have chiefly claimed our attention in recent chapters. The subject in question is the old familiar one of false inductions or pseudoscience. In dealing with the early development of thought and with Oriental science, we had occasion to emphasize the fact that such false inductions led everywhere to the prevalence of superstition. In dealing with Greek science, we have largely ignored this subject, confining attention chiefly to the progressive phases of thought; but it must not be inferred from this that Greek science, with all its secure inductions, was entirely free from superstition. On the contrary, the most casual acquaintance with Greek literature would suffice to show the incorrectness of such a supposition. True, the great thinkers of Greece were probably freer from this thraldom. of false inductions than any of their predecessors. Even at a very early day such men as Xenophanes, Empedocles, Anaxagoras, and Plato attained to a singularly rationalistic conception of the universe. We saw that "the father of medicine," Hippocrates, banished demonology and conceived disease as due to natural causes. At a slightly later day the sophists challenged all knowledge, and Pyrrhonism became a synonym for scepticism in recognition of the leadership of a master doubter. The entire school of Alexandrians must have been relatively free from superstition, else they could not have reasoned with such effective logicality from their observations of nature. It is almost inconceivable that men like Euclid and Archimedes, and Aristarchus and Eratosthenes, and Hipparchus and Hero, could have been the victims of such illusions regarding occult forces of nature as were constantly postulated by Oriental science. Herophilus and Erasistratus and Galen would hardly have pursued their anatomical studies with equanimity had they believed that ghostly apparitions watched over living and dead alike, and exercised at will a malign influence. Doubtless the Egyptian of the period considered the work, of the Ptolemaic anatomists an unspeakable profanation, and, indeed, it was nothing less than revolutionary--so revolutionary that it could not be sustained in subsequent generations. We have seen that the great Galen, at Rome, five centuries after the time of Herophilus, was prohibited from dissecting the human subject. The fact speaks volumes for the attitude of the Roman mind towards science. Vast audiences made up of every stratum of society thronged the amphitheatre, and watched exultingly while man slew his fellow-man in single or in multiple combat. Shouts of frenzied joy burst from a hundred thousand throats when the death-stroke was given to a new victim. The bodies of the slain, by scores, even by hundreds, were dragged ruthlessly from the arena and hurled into a ditch as contemptuously as if pity were yet unborn and human life the merest bauble. Yet the same eyes that witnessed these scenes with ecstatic approval would have been averted in pious horror had an anatomist dared to approach one of the mutilated bodies with the scalpel of science. It was sport to see the blade of the gladiator enter the quivering, living flesh of his fellow-gladiator; it was joy to see the warm blood spurt forth from the writhing victim while he still lived; but it were sacrilegious to approach that body with the knife of the anatomist, once it had ceased to pulsate with life. Life itself was held utterly in contempt, but about the realm of death hovered the threatening ghosts of superstition. And such, be it understood, was the attitude of the Roman populace in the early and the most brilliant epoch of the empire, before the Western world came under the influence of that Oriental philosophy which was presently to encompass it. In this regard the Alexandrian world was, as just intimated, far more advanced than the Roman, yet even there we must suppose that the leaders of thought were widely at variance with the popular conceptions. A few illustrations, drawn from Greek literature at various ages, will suggest the popular attitude. In the first instance, consider the poems of Homer and of Hesiod. For these writers, and doubtless for the vast majority of their readers, not merely of their own but of many subsequent generations, the world is peopled with a multitude of invisible apparitions, which, under title of gods, are held to dominate the affairs of man. It is sometimes difficult to discriminate as to where the Greek imagination drew the line between fact and allegory; nor need we attempt to analyse the early poetic narratives to this end. It will better serve our present purpose to cite three or four instances which illustrate the tangibility of beliefs based upon pseudo-scientific inductions. Let us cite, for example, the account which Herodotus gives us of the actions of the Greeks at Plataea, when their army confronted the remnant of the army of Xerxes, in the year 479 B.C. Here we see each side hesitating to attack the other, merely because the oracle had declared that whichever side struck the first blow would lose the conflict. Even after the Persian soldiers, who seemingly were a jot less superstitious or a shade more impatient than their opponents, had begun the attack, we are told that the Greeks dared not respond at first, though they were falling before the javelins of the enemy, because, forsooth, the entrails of a fowl did not present an auspicious appearance. And these were Greeks of the same generation with Empedocles and Anaxagoras and aeschylus; of the same epoch with Pericles and Sophocles and Euripides and Phidias. Such was the scientific status of the average mind--nay, of the best minds--with here and there a rare exception, in the golden age of Grecian culture. Were we to follow down the pages of Greek history, we should but repeat the same story over and over. We should, for example, see Alexander the Great balked at the banks of the Hyphasis, and forced to turn back because of inauspicious auguries based as before upon the dissection of a fowl. Alexander himself, to be sure, would have scorned the augury; had he been the prey of such petty superstitions he would never have conquered Asia. We know how he compelled the oracle at Delphi to yield to his wishes; how he cut the Gordian knot; how he made his dominating personality felt at the temple of Ammon in Egypt. We know, in a word, that he yielded to superstitions only in so far as they served his purpose. Left to his own devices, he would not have consulted an oracle at the banks of the Hyphasis; or, consulting, would have forced from the oracle a favorable answer. But his subordinates were mutinous and he had no choice. Suffice it for our present purpose that the oracle was consulted, and that its answer turned the conqueror back. One or two instances from Roman history may complete the picture. Passing over all those mythical narratives which virtually constitute the early history of Rome, as preserved to us by such historians as Livy and Dionysius, we find so logical an historian as Tacitus recording a miraculous achievement of Vespasian without adverse comment. "During the months when Vespasian was waiting at Alexandria for the periodical season of the summer winds, and a safe navigation, many miracles occurred by which the favor of Heaven and a sort of bias in the powers above towards Vespasian were manifested." Tacitus then describes in detail the cure of various maladies by the emperor, and relates that the emperor on visiting a temple was met there, in the spirit, by a prominent Egyptian who was proved to be at the same time some eighty miles distant from Alexandria. It must be admitted that Tacitus, in relating that Vespasian caused the blind to see and the lame to walk, qualifies his narrative by asserting that "persons who are present attest the truth of the transaction when there is nothing to be gained by falsehood." Nor must we overlook the fact that a similar belief in the power of royalty has persisted almost to our own day. But no such savor of scepticism attaches to a narrative which Dion Cassius gives us of an incident in the life of Marcus Aurelius--an incident that has become famous as the episode of The Thundering Legion. Xiphilinus has preserved the account of Dion, adding certain picturesque interpretations of his own. The original narrative, as cited, asserts that during one of the northern campaigns of Marcus Aurelius, the emperor and his army were surrounded by the hostile Quadi, who had every advantage of position and who presently ceased hostilities in the hope that heat and thirst would deliver their adversaries into their hands without the trouble of further fighting. "Now," says Dion, "while the Romans, unable either to combat or to retreat, and reduced to the last extremity by wounds, fatigue, heat, and thirst, were standing helplessly at their posts, clouds suddenly gathered in great number and rain descended in floods--certainly not without divine intervention, since the Egyptian Maege Arnulphis, who was with Marcus Antoninus, is said to have invoked several genii by the aerial mercury by enchantment, and thus through them had brought down rain." Here, it will be observed, a supernatural explanation is given of a natural phenomenon. But the narrator does not stop with this. If we are to accept the account of Xiphilinus, Dion brings forward some striking proofs of divine interference. Xiphilinus gives these proofs in the following remarkable paragraph: "Dion adds that when the rain began to fall every soldier lifted his head towards heaven to receive the water in his mouth; but afterwards others hold out their shields or their helmets to catch the water for themselves and for their horses. Being set upon by the barbarians . . . while occupied in drinking, they would have been seriously incommoded had not heavy hail and numerous thunderbolts thrown consternation into the ranks of the enemy. Fire and water were seen to mingle as they left the heavens. The fire, however, did not reach the Romans, but if it did by chance touch one of them it was immediately extinguished, while at the same time the rain, instead of comforting the barbarians, seemed merely to excite like oil the fire with which they were being consumed. Some barbarians inflicted wounds upon themselves as though their blood had power to extinguish flames, while many rushed over to the side of the Romans, hoping that there water might save them." We cannot better complete these illustrations of pagan credulity than by adding the comment of Xiphilinus himself. That writer was a Christian, living some generations later than Dion. He never thought of questioning the facts, but he felt that Dion's interpretation of these facts must not go unchallenged. As he interprets the matter, it was no pagan magician that wrought the miracle. He even inclines to the belief that Dion himself was aware that Christian interference, and not that of an Egyptian, saved the day. "Dion knew," he declares, "that there existed a legion called The Thundering Legion, which name was given it for no other reason than for what came to pass in this war," and that this legion was composed of soldiers from Militene who were all professed Christians. "During the battle," continues Xiphilinus, "the chief of the Pretonians , had set at Marcus Antoninus, who was in great perplexity at the turn events were taking, representing to him that there was nothing the people called Christians could not obtain by their prayers, and that among his forces was a troop composed wholly of followers of that religion. Rejoiced at this news, Marcus Antoninus demanded of these soldiers that they should pray to their god, who granted their petition on the instant, sent lightning among the enemy and consoled the Romans with rain. Struck by this wonderful success, the emperor honored the Christians in an edict and named their legion The Thundering. It is even asserted that a letter existed by Marcus Antoninus on this subject. The pagans well knew that the company was called The Thunderers, having attested the fact themselves, but they revealed nothing of the occasion on which the leader received the name."[1] Peculiar interest attaches to this narrative as illustrating both credulousness as to matters of fact and pseudo-scientific explanation of alleged facts. The modern interpreter may suppose that a violent thunderstorm came up during the course of a battle between the Romans and the so-called barbarians, and that owing to the local character of the storm, or a chance discharge of lightning, the barbarians suffered more than their opponents. We may well question whether the philosophical emperor himself put any other interpretation than this upon the incident. But, on the other hand, we need not doubt that the major part of his soldiers would very readily accept such an explanation as that given by Dion Cassius, just as most readers of a few centuries later would accept the explanation of Xiphilinus. It is well to bear this thought in mind in considering the static period of science upon which we are entering. We shall perhaps best understand this period, and its seeming retrogressions, if we suppose that the average man of the Middle Ages was no more credulous, no more superstitious, than the average Roman of an earlier period or than the average Greek; though the precise complexion of his credulity had changed under the influence of Oriental ideas, as we have just seen illustrated by the narrative of Xiphilinus.
CHAPTER I. PREHISTORIC SCIENCE Length of the Prehistoric Period.--It is of course quite impossible to reduce the prehistoric period to any definite number of years. There are, however, numerous bits of evidence that enable an anthropologist to make rough estimates as to the relative lengths of the different periods into which prehistoric time is divided. Gabriel de Mortillet, one of the most industrious students of prehistoric archaeology, ventured to give a tentative estimate as to the numbers of years involved in each period. He of course claimed for this nothing more than the value of a scientific guess. It is, however, a guess based on a very careful study of all data at present available. Mortillet divides the prehistoric period, as a whole, into four epochs. The first of these is the preglacial, which he estimates as comprising seventy-eight thousand years; the second is the glacial, covering one hundred thousand years; then follows what he terms the Solutreen, which numbers eleven thousand years; and, finally, the Magdalenien, comprising thirty-three thousand years. This gives, for the prehistoric period proper, a term of about two hundred and twenty-two thousand years. Add to this perhaps twelve thousand years ushering in the civilization of Egypt, and the six thousand years of stable, sure chronology of the historical period, and we have something like two hundred and thirty thousand or two hundred and forty thousand years as the age of man. "These figures," says Mortillet, "are certainly not exaggerated. It is even probable that they are below the truth. Constantly new discoveries are being made that tend to remove farther back the date of man's appearance." We see, then, according to this estimate, that about a quarter of a million years have elapsed since man evolved to a state that could properly be called human. This guess is as good as another, and it may advantageously be kept in mind, as it will enable us all along to understand better than we might otherwise be able to do the tremendous force of certain prejudices and preconceptions which recent man inherited from his prehistoric ancestor. Ideas which had passed current as unquestioned truths for one hundred thousand years or so are not easily cast aside. In going back, in imagination, to the beginning of the prehistoric period, we must of course reflect, in accordance with modern ideas on the subject, that there was no year, no millennium even, when it could be said expressly: "This being was hitherto a primate, he is now a man." The transition period must have been enormously long, and the changes from generation to generation, even from century to century, must have been very slight. In speaking of the extent of the age of man this must be borne in mind: it must be recalled that, even if the period were not vague for other reasons, the vagueness of its beginning must make it indeterminate. Bibliographical Notes.--A great mass of literature has been produced in recent years dealing with various phases of the history of prehistoric man. No single work known to the writer deals comprehensively with the scientific attainments of early man; indeed, the subject is usually ignored, except where practical phases of the mechanical arts are in question. But of course any attempt to consider the condition of primitive man talies into account, by inference at least, his knowledge and attainments. Therefore, most works on anthropology, ethnology, and primitive culture may be expected to throw some light on our present subject. Works dealing with the social and mental conditions of existing savages are also of importance, since it is now an accepted belief that the ancestors of civilized races evolved along similar lines and passed through corresponding stages of nascent culture. Herbert Spencer's Descriptive Sociology presents an unequalled mass of facts regarding existing primitive races, but, unfortunately, its inartistic method of arrangement makes it repellent to the general reader. E. B. Tyler's Primitive Culture and Anthropology; Lord Avebury's Prehistoric Times, The Origin of Civilization, and The Primitive Condition of Man; W. Boyd Dawkin's Cave-Hunting and Early Man in Britain; and Edward Clodd's Childhood of the World and Story of Primitive Man are deservedly popular. Paul Topinard's Elements d'Anthropologie Generale is one of the best-known and most comprehensive French works on the technical phases of anthropology; but Mortillet's Le Prehistorique has a more popular interest, owing to its chapters on primitive industries, though this work also contains much that is rather technical. Among periodicals, the Revue de l'Ecole d'Anthropologie de Paris, published by the professors, treats of all phases of anthropology, and the American Anthropologist, edited by F. W. Hodge for the American Anthropological Association, and intended as "a medium of communication between students of all branches of anthropology," contains much that is of interest from the present stand-point. The last-named journal devotes a good deal of space to Indian languages.
CHAPTER II. EGYPTIAN SCIENCE 1 (p. 34). Sir J. Norman Lockyer, The Dawn of Astronomy; a study of the temple worship and mythology of the ancient Egyptians, London, 1894. 2 (p. 43). G. Maspero, Histoire Ancie-nne des Peuples de l'Orient Classique, Paris, 1895. Translated as (1) The Dawn of Civilization, (2) The Struggle of the Nations, (3) The Passing of the Empires, 3 vols., London and New York, 1894-1900. Professor Maspero is one of the most famous of living Orientalists. His most important special studies have to do with Egyptology, but his writings cover the entire field of Oriental antiquity. He is a notable stylist, and his works are at once readable and authoritative. 3 (p. 44). Adolf Erman, Life in Ancient Egypt, London, 1894, p. 352. (Translated from the original German work entitled Aegypten und aegyptisches Leben in Alterthum, Tilbigen, 1887.) An altogether admirable work, full of interest for the general reader, though based on the most erudite studies. 4 (p. 47). Erman, op. cit., pp. 356, 357. 5 (p. 48). Erman, op. cit., p. 357. The work on Egyptian medicine here referred to is Georg Ebers' edition of an Egyptian document discovered by the explorer whose name it bears. It remains the most important source of our knowledge of Egyptian medicine. As mentioned in the text, this document dates from the eighteenth dynasty--that is to say, from about the fifteenth or sixteenth century, B.C., a relatively late period of Egyptian history. 6 (p. 49). Erman, op. cit., p. 357. 7 (p. 50). The History of Herodotus, pp. 85-90. There are numerous translations of the famous work of the "father of history," one of the most recent and authoritative being that of G. C. Macaulay, M.A., in two volumes, Macmillan & Co., London and New York, 1890. 8 (p. 50). The Historical Library of Diodorus the Sicilian, London, 1700. This most famous of ancient world histories is difficult to obtain in an English version. The most recently published translation known to the writer is that of G. Booth, London, 1814. 9 (p. 51). Erman, op. cit., p. 357. 10 (p. 52). The Papyrus Rhind is a sort of mathematical hand-book of the ancient Egyptians; it was made in the time of the Hyksos Kings (about 2000 B.C.), but is a copy of an older book. It is now preserved in the British Museum. The most accessible recent sources of information as to the social conditions of the ancient Egyptians are the works of Maspero and Erman, above mentioned; and the various publications of W. M. Flinders Petrie, The Pyramids and Temples of Gizeh, London, 1883; Tanis I., London, 1885; Tanis H., Nebesheh, and Defe-nnel, London, 1887; Ten Years' Diggings, London, 1892; Syria and Egypt from the Tel-el-Amar-na Letters, London, 1898, etc. The various works of Professor Petrie, recording his explorations from year to year, give the fullest available insight into Egyptian archaeology. CHAPTER III. SCIENCE OF BABYLONIA AND ASSYRIA 1 (p. 57). The Medes. Some difference of opinion exists among historians as to the exact ethnic relations of the conquerors; the precise date of the fall of Nineveh is also in doubt. 2 (p. 57). Darius. The familiar Hebrew narrative ascribes the first Persian conquest of Babylon to Darius, but inscriptions of Cyrus and of Nabonidus, the Babylonian king, make it certain that Cyrus was the real conqueror. These inscriptions are preserved on cylinders of baked clay, of the type made familiar by the excavation of the past fifty years, and they are invaluable historical documents. 3 (p. 58). Berosus. The fragments of Berosus have been translated by L. P. Cory, and included in his Ancient Fragments of Phenician, Chaldean, Egyptian, and Other Writers, London, 1826, second edition, 1832. 4 (p. 58). Chaldean learning. Recent writers reserve the name Chaldean for the later period of Babylonian history-- the time when the Greeks came in contact with the Mesopotamians--in contradistinction to the earlier periods which are revealed to us by the archaeological records. 5 (p. 59) King Sargon of Agade. The date given for this early king must not be accepted as absolute; but it is probably approximately correct. 6 (p. 59). Nippur. See the account of the early expeditions as recorded by the director, Dr. John P. Peters, Nippur, or explorations and adventures, etc., New York and London, 1897. 7 (p. 62). Fritz Hommel, Geschichte Babyloniens und Assyriens, Berlin, 1885. 8 (p. 63). R. Campbell Thompson, Reports of the Magicians and Astrologers of Nineveh and Babylon, London, 1900, p. xix. 9 (p. 64). George Smith, The Assyrian Canon, p. 21. 10 (p. 64). Thompson, op. cit., p. xix. 11 (p. 65). Thompson, op. cit., p. 2. 12 (p. 67). Thompson, op. cit., p. xvi. 13 (p. 68). Sextus Empiricus, author of Adversus Mathematicos, lived about 200 A.D. 14 (p. 68). R. Campbell Thompson, op. cit., p. xxiv. 15 (p. 72). Records of the Past (editor, Samuel Birch), Vol. III., p. 139. 16 (p. 72). Ibid., Vol. V., p. 16. 17 (p. 72). Quoted in Records of the Past, Vol. III., p. 143, from the Translations of the Society of Biblical Archeology, vol. II., p. 58. 18 (p. 73). Records of the Past, vol. L, p. 131. 19 (p. 73). Ibid., vol. V., p. 171. 20 (p. 74). Ibid., vol. V., p. 169. 21 (p. 74). Joachim Menant, La Bibliotheque du Palais de Ninive, Paris, 188o. 22 (p. 76). Code of Khamurabi. This famous inscription is on a block of black diorite nearly eight feet in height. It was discovered at Susa by the French expedition under M. de Morgan, in December, 1902. We quote the translation given in The Historians' History of the World, edited by Henry Smith Williams, London and New York, 1904, Vol. I, p. 510. 23 (p. 77). The Historical Library of Diodorus Siculus, p. 519. 24 (p. 82). George S. Goodspeed, Ph.D., History of the Babylonians and Assyrians, New York, 1902. 25 (p. 82). George Rawlinson, Great Oriental Monarchies, (second edition, London, 1871), Vol. III., pp. 75 ff. Of the books mentioned above, that of Hommel is particularly full in reference to culture development; Goodspeed's small volume gives an excellent condensed account; the original documents as translated in the various volumes of Records of the Past are full of interest; and Menant's little book is altogether admirable. The work of excavation is still going on in old Babylonia, and newly discovered texts add from time to time to our knowledge, but A. H. Layard's Nineveh and its Remains (London, 1849) still has importance as a record of the most important early discoveries. The general histories of Antiquity of Duncker, Lenormant, Maspero, and Meyer give full treatment of Babylonian and Assyrian development. Special histories of Babylonia and Assyria, in addition to these named above, are Tiele's Babylonisch-Assyrische Geschichte (Zwei Tiele, Gotha, 1886-1888); Winckler's Geschichte Babyloniens und Assyriens (Berlin, 1885-1888), and Rogers' History of Babylonia and Assyria, New York and London, 1900, the last of which, however, deals almost exclusively with political history. Certain phases of science, particularly with reference to chronology and cosmology, are treated by Edward Meyer (Geschichte des Alterthum, Vol. I., Stuttgart, 1884), and by P. Jensen (Die Kosmologie der Babylonier, Strassburg, 1890), but no comprehensive specific treatment of the subject in its entirety has yet been attempted. CHAPTER IV. THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE ALPHABET 1 (p. 87). Vicomte E. de Rouge, Memoire sur l'Origine Egyptienne de l'Alphabet Phinicien, Paris, 1874. 2 (p. 88). See the various publications of Mr. Arthur Evans. 3 (p. 80). Aztec and Maya writing. These pictographs are still in the main undecipherable, and opinions differ as to the exact stage of development which they represent. 4 (p. 90). E. A. Wallace Budge's First Steps in Egyptian, London, 1895, is an excellent elementary work on the Egyptian writing. Professor Erman's Egyptian Grammar, London, 1894, is the work of perhaps the foremost living Egyptologist. 5 (P. 93). Extant examples of Babylonian and Assyrian writing give opportunity to compare earlier and later systems, so the fact of evolution from the pictorial to the phonetic system rests on something more than mere theory. 6 (p. 96). Friedrich Delitzsch, Assyrischc Lesestucke mit grammatischen Tabellen und vollstdndigem Glossar einfiihrung in die assyrische und babylonische Keilschrift-litteratur bis hinauf zu Hammurabi, Leipzig, 1900. 7 (p. 97). It does not appear that the Babylonians thcmselves ever gave up the old system of writing, so long as they retained political autonomy. 8 (p. 101). See Isaac Taylor's History of the Alphabet; an Account of the origin and Development of Letters, new edition, 2 vols., London, 1899. For facsimiles of the various scripts, see Henry Smith Williams' History of the Art Of Writing, 4 vols, New York and London, 1902-1903. CHAPTER V. THE BEGINNINGS OF GREEK SCIENCE 1 (p. III). Anaximander, as recorded by Plutarch, vol. VIII-. See Arthur Fairbanks'First Philosophers of Greece: an Edition and Translation of the Remaining Fragments of the Pre-Socratic Philosophers, together with a Translation of the more Important Accounts of their Opinions Contained in the Early Epitomcs of their Works, London, 1898. This highly scholarly and extremely useful book contains the Greek text as well as translations. CHAPTER VI. THE EARLY GREEK PHILOSOPHERS IN ITALY 1 (p. 117). George Henry Lewes, A Biographical History of Philosophy from its Origin in Greece down to the Present Day, enlarged edition, New York, 1888, p. 17. 2 (p. 121). Diogenes Laertius, The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers, C. D. Yonge's translation, London, 1853, VIII., p. 153. 3 (p. 121). Alexander, Successions of Philosophers. 4 (p. 122). "All over its centre." Presumably this is intended to refer to the entire equatorial region. 5 (p. 125). Laertius, op. cit., pp. 348-351. 6 (p. 128). Arthur Fairbanks, The First Philosophers of Greece London, 1898, pp. 67-717. 7 (p. 129). Ibid., p. 838. 8 (p. 130). Ibid., p. 109. 9 (p. 130). Heinrich Ritter, The History of Ancient Philosophy, translated from the German by A. J. W. Morrison, 4 vols., London, 1838, vol, I., p. 463. 10 (p. 131). Ibid., p. 465. 11 (p. 132). George Henry Lewes, op. cit., p. 81. 12 (p. 135). Fairbanks, op. cit., p. 201. 13 (p. 136). Ibid., P. 234. 14 (p. 137). Ibid., p. 189. 15 (p. 137). Ibid., P. 220. 16 (p. 138). Ibid., p. 189. 17 (p. 138). Ibid., p. 191. CHAPTER VII. GREEK SCIENCE IN THE EARLY ATTIC PERIOD 1 (p. 150). Theodor Gomperz, Greek Thinkers: a History of Ancient Philosophy (translated from the German by Laurie Magnes), New York, 190 1, pp. 220, 221. 2 (p. 153). Aristotle's Treatise on Respiration, ch. ii. 3 (p. 159). Fairbanks' translation of the fragments of Anaxagoras, in The First Philosophers of Greece, pp. 239-243. CHAPTER VIII. POST-SOCRATIC SCIENCE AT ATHENS 1 (p. 180). Alfred William Bern, The Philosophy of Greece Considered in Relation to the Character and History of its People, London, 1898, p. 186. 2 (p. 183). Aristotle, quoted in William Whewell's History of the Inductive Sciences (second edition, London, 1847), Vol. II., p. 161. CHAPTER IX. GREEK SCIENCE OF THE ALEXANDRIAN OR HELLENISTIC PERIOD 1 (p. 195). Tertullian's Apologeticus. 2 (p. 205). We quote the quaint old translation of North, printed in 1657. CHAPTER X. SCIENCE OF THE ROMAN PERIOD 1 (p. 258). The Geography of Strabo, translated by H. C. Hamilton and W. Falconer, 3 vols., London, 1857, Vol. I, pp. 19, 20. 2 (p. 260). Ibid., p. 154. 3 (p. 263). Ibid., pp. 169, 170. 4 (p. 264) Ibid., pp. 166, 167. 5 (p. 271). K. 0. Miller and John W. Donaldson, The History of the Literature of Greece, 3 vols., London, Vol. III., p. 268.
6 (p. 276). E. T. Withington, Medical History fron., the Earliest Times, London, 1894, p. 118. 7 (p. 281). Ibid. 8 (p. 281). Johann Hermann Bass, History of Medicine, New York, 1889. CHAPTER XI. A RETROSPECTIVE GLANCE AT CLASSICAL SCIENCE (p. 298). Dion Cassius, as preserved by Xiphilinus. Our extract is quoted from the translation given in The Historians' History of the World (edited by Henry Smith Williams), 25 vols., London and New York, 1904, Vol. VI., p. 297 ff.
[For further bibliographical notes, the reader is referred to the Appendix of volume V.]
by Henry Smith Williams, M.D., LL.D.
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Best tips to staying active all winter long
As we make our way through November and into the winter months, it's no surprise that getting outside becomes more challenging. Between the shorter days and cooler temperatures, winter weather often makes you want to avoid that trip into the cold altogether. But at the end of the day, we all have places to be, so we're here to help you get to where you need to be, as quickly and safely as possible.
Our team has you covered with the best tips and tricks for staying warm and active all winter long.
Light It Up
This tip is essential! With daylight savings in full swing, walking or biking outside after the sun goes down can be a safety hazard without proper visibility. Make yourself visible to vehicles and other pedestrians by adding lights or reflectors to your bike, person, or dog if you have a four-legged friend.
Plan Ahead
Finding your best running, walking, or biking route ahead of time is helpful, especially when it's dark out. Luckily, there are plenty of apps that can help you do this. Under Armour's MapMyRun, MapMyWalk, and MapMyRide apps are great whether you are mapping your everyday commute to work or discovering a new route for your next leisurely bike ride.
Stay Hydrated
Plenty of water/fluids is just as important in cold weather as in the heat. Be sure to drink plenty of water before, during, and after your workout. Dehydration happens quickly in the winter from sweating and the drying power of the stronger winds. Don't forget your water!
Layer It On
Wonder why your hands, feet, head, and ears get so cold in the winter? When your body gets cold, blood flow concentrates at your body's core, leaving your extremities vulnerable to feeling cold. Depending on the temperatures, be sure to grab a hat, gloves, scarf, and thick socks before you head outdoors. Here are some recommended items for those outdoor adventures this season.
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As fall and winter approach, days become shorter and sunlight is at a premium. A lack of sunshine makes for a gloomy, dreary kitchen, and a gloomy, dreary kitchen makes for a gloomy, dreary home. After all, the kitchen is the heart of the home.
Keep your kitchen, and therefore your home bright and cheery during the cooler months and shorter days using these three decorating tips.
Let the Sun Shine In
Are your old curtains or blinds blocking the sun? Replace them with a cheerful valance and a roller shade or roman shade that can be raised for the day to let in sunlight, and lowered for the night to provide privacy. A valance blocks the least amount of glass of any window covering.
If a valance is too open or you're concerned about nosy neighbors and a lack of privacy during the day, try using lightweight sheers instead. Sheers don't allow as much sunlight to penetrate as a valance, but it's a good compromise as it allows sunshine to enter the home while they blur the neighbor's view.
Another option for the winter time, window dilemma is to choose brightly colored curtains. This option provides a pop of cheery color yet maintains your privacy both day and night.
Dress up the Kitchen
Sunny yellow or radiant red place mats make breakfast, lunch, and dinner an event to look forward to. A leafy green salad served on colorful place mats is not only a healthy meal, but the contrasting colors provide an emotional boost as well. Consider the combination of color and nutrition as a form of brain food!
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Change the Kitchen Towels and Scrubbers
Find some bright colored ones! These small changes to accessories unify the color scheme and tie the other elements together.
The changes are small and inexpensive, but have a huge impact. Making your kitchen a bright and cheerful place will do wonders for chasing away the winter time blues and by extension, the rest of the home will benefit as well.


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As the Accelerated Value Chain Development (AVCD) program completes the third and final year, strong linkages have been established between private buyers, processors, traders, commercial root farmers and decentralized vine multipliers (DVMs). The linkages developed by the program over the past 3 years have accelerated OFSP marketing, giving rise to a self-sustaining business model. Two private OFSP processors– Safe Produce Ventures and Organi Limited– and several sweetpotato local and urban traders have been linked up to over 715 OFSP commercial root producers through contract farming and mutual understanding, where each party understands quality standards of roots sold. The root producers are further linked to a network of 43 DVMs for supply of vines, 259 trainers of trainers (ToTs) and 23 trained Ministry of Agriculture (MOA) extension officers for capacity building and recurrent support supervision. Overall, the project has reached 43,000 households with integrated interventions of production, home utilization and marketing of OFSP.
Authors: PENINA MUOKI, Monica Parker
Pages: 2
Publication Date: September 26, 2018
Identifier: SPHI
Keywords: Commercial, Feed the Future, income, Kenya, OFSP, Orange fleshed sweetpotato, profitability, SPHI, SPHI 2018, SPHI Brief, Western Kenya


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It is with deep sorrow and humble acceptance of God's will that we announce the sudden demise of Gershon Joseph Agina (Midiwo) which occurred on 22 April 2018 peacefully in his home. Son of late Mr. Rodgers Mudhune Agina and the late Addah Majera Agina. Step son of the late Nelly Agina.
He is survived by his beloved wives Patricia Aoko Agina and Dolphine Awanda Agina. Father of Calvin Oloo, Collins Opiyo (the late), Levi Mudhune, Mical Maganda and Brian Agina.
He was born in a big family and was brother to among others, the late Ayieko Agina, Omollo Agina, Mildred Agina, Washington Nyamwanga, and Ernest Omondi, all deceased. Step brother of Wesley, Nimrod, the late Atieno, the late Obara and Beatrice.
Father in law of Jackline, Emilly, Priscah and Shem. Grandfather of Addah, Fidel, Grace, Chantel, Nikita, Margaret, Patricia, Franklin and Jesse.
Fundraising towards funeral expenses will be at 680 Hotel Nairobi on 30 April 2018 at 4.30 p.m.
The Cortege leaves Avenue Hospital Mortuary, Kisumu on 4th May, followed by a prayer service at St. Luke's ACK Church Luanda Dudi. Burial ceremony will take place at his home in Dudi Village, Siaya County on 5th May 2018 at 10 a.m.
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Image processing and photo editing are becoming most famous activities of the techno world these days. This emerging new trend has been taken up by a number of software, websites and web applications. Especially after Instagram's popularity has catapulted into world fame, there has been a great boost in the demand of photo editing and image processing applications. On a search spree for the best image editing program, I looked into a variety of applications and software available on the Internet. However, most of these cut a sorry figure when it came to quality and comprehensiveness. However, I recently came across an exceptional application that provides users with easy and great quality photo editing, i.e. Snapheal.
About Snapheal
Snapheal is an exciting new Mac application of photo editing and image improving. As the name says, Snapheal enables you to edit your photos and improve their quality by removing redundant objects or distractions like they never even existed. Snapheal has so many features that one can never get enough of photo editing.
The best thing about Snapheal is that it is literally 'everyone's cup of tea', meaning that this Mac application can be used and easily managed by everyone. Either you are a professional designers or an armature photographer, Snapheal can make your images picture perfect with a mere click. You don't need to take any online tutorials for photo editing or ask friends who works on PhotoShop to edit some photos for you. All you have to do is to install Snapheal in your Mac and get it done all by yourself.
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Snapheal is a bundle of absolutely interesting and highly creative features. These features make Snapheal standout from rest of the image editing application. Following is a sweeping glance at some of Snapheal's most alluring features:
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- Snapheal is specifically a Mac photo editing application that takes full advantage of all the OS X features for your wonderful image editing endeavor. It works equally well on the newly launched MacBook with Retina display.
- 3 different erasing modes with which you can edit the image with just one simple click
- Being a pure Mac application, Snapheal also gives you the complete freedom to export your 'healed' photos to Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Lightroom, Aperture and iPhoto.
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FirePro Worldwide Distributors' Convention 2011 – More Than Just a Success
FirePro Systems held its 2011 Worldwide Distributors' Convention during 13 – 15 October 2011.
Some 50 participants from Distributors in every continent of the globe gathered in Cyprus for this convention. An incredible turn-around that clearly demonstrates commitment and contribution from the Distributors, faith in our unique aerosol products, and belief in FirePro .
The convention included a special programme consisting of presentations, interactive sessions, updates on product development, new FirePro Listings/Certificates, updates on the international standards scene, awards for outstanding performance, and much more. A visit to the new factory of FirePro , and with live demos, was also arranged.
The convention, something very sacred to FirePro and its Distributors, brought everyone together to share experiences, knowledge and exchange views and ideas in the fire fighting industry. During the convention, a fantastic excursion on a catamaran was also arranged, producing an amazing atmosphere by everyone.
The uniqueness of the convention, though professional, was its special carefully thought-of approach, creating a close family atmosphere, making everyone relaxed and feeling very much at home. Adding to the atmosphere, was the warm hospitality that was offered by FirePro , a comment made unanimously by all Distributors; an event that they said would remain unforgettable, and talked about for many years to come.
A huge Thank You to our Distributors' contribution, and hard earned efforts for making this event into a remarkable success. Our Distributors are convinced of the many rewards found beyond the horizon, for they venture out there to save lives and to protect your properties and assets against fire using FirePro Fire Extinguishing Aerosol Systems.
Also a huge thank you for the presence of Mr Luciano Borghetti of Hughes Associates Europe.
FirePro goes from Strength to Strength.


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Ilse Jacobsen Urban Raincoat 37
Ilse Jacobsen was born and raised in the Danish island of Sjælland. Hornbæk, the seaside town where she grew up on the island, with its small harbour, wide sandy beaches and dunes is the backdrop to Ilse Jacobsen's life and creative inspiration.
This Raincoat 37 is a true staple for withstanding Orkney's stormy weather. This functional raincoat, made of breathable and stretchable soft shell material, has a comfortable and feminine shape with raglan sleeves, a slightly tailored waist, a c.b. slit with buttons for freedom of movement and YKK AquaGuard 2-way zipper.
The material resists water pressure up to 5000mm, withstanding even the hardest torrential downpour while the Ecorepel coating creates an invisible shield, that will protect you from the elements. Taped seams keep the rain out.
- Length – Above the Knee
- Material – 94% polyester, 6% elastane
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- Washing Instructions – Machine washable
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Almeida Theatre, London
Mike Bartlett has written some good plays in his time – Cock, Earthquakes in London, My Child and more. But few have bounded off the stage with quite such cheeky perfection as his latest, a `future history play' speculating on life when our present Prince of Wales's assumes the throne.
The brilliant stroke Bartlett falls upon is to write it in rhyming verse, in the style of a Shakespearean play featuring a cast list that includes Camilla, Kate, William and Harry, a PM and Opposition leader and various `commoners'. Diana gets a walk on part as a ghostly presence, telling Charles he will be the `greatest king of all' and the same refrain comes to William having a restless, troubled night. Harry, in an echo of the young prince Hal in the Henry IVs becomes a roistering `bad boy' tugging a little at the heart strings in his expression of the useless role he has been born into. Bard lovers will also find hints of Lear, as well as Edward VIII's Abdication and Charles I's run-in with Parliament.
Bartlett's exploration may look like an irreverent satire but this is also a thoughtful, topical, state-of-the-nation look at the relevancy of our monarchy and its relationship to the constitution today. In a delicious turnabout, it is Charles who turns out to be the democrat, refusing to give a Royal Assent to the Bill on privacy and press freedom deeming it wholly anti-democratic. There is much pleasure to be had, too, watching Charles playing PM and dissembling Opposition Leader off against each other.
As the new monarch, Tim Pigott-Smith produces a performance to treasure. The relish in his eyes, the twitch of the mouth all convey a man finally let off the leash whose enthusiasm and sense of principle and duty so veers into over-assumption of power it proves his undoing. He dissolves Parliament and in turn is forced to abdicate. `Kate' emerges as the power behind the throne.
A premise too far you might think but Rupert Goold's production carries gravity – Jocelyn Pook's music mixes Te Deums with a Michael Nymanish score – and radicalism in equal measure. A big, important triumphant event.
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On March 24, 2010, the U.S. Department of Labor's Wage and Hour Division announced that it would no longer issue opinion letters under the Fair Labor Standards Act. This was the first announcement made along with an interpretation during the Obama administration.
The administrator's interpretation held that the FLSA administrative exemption does not apply to mortgage loan officers because these officers "typically have the primary duty of making sales of behalf of their employer." The significance of this interpretation was that it served to reject a 2006 opinion letter released during the Bush administration. The prior opinion provided a narrow interpretation of sales duties and accepted the employer's statement that the exemption applied because loan officers spent less than fifty percent of their working time in sales activities. (See our full alert on this issue here.)
The DOL announcement stated that interpretations would be issued only when "further clarity regarding the proper interpretation of a statutory or regulatory issue [relates] ... to an entire industry, category of employees or to all employees." Shortly afterward, the DOL also announced that it was launching a new campaign aimed at cracking down on wage and hour violations and educating employees about their rights under the Fair Labor Standards Act.
Prevailing thought is that the Department of Labor under the Obama administration is becoming far less employer friendly. By moving beyond the scope of traditional fact presented opinion letters, the DOL is expanding its sub-regulatory mission and will likely issue more broad pronouncements. DOL asserts that the move is not based upon politics but is meant to provide more "meaningful and comprehensive guidance and outreach to the broadest number of employers and employees." However, it is contrary to the agency's long-time practice of responding to specific fact opinion requests. It is also contradicts the agency's prior reliance on using actual job duties instead of generalized job titles when issuing opinions.
In light of this announcement and interpretation, employers are recommended to take a close look at those job descriptions for which they rely on the administrative exemption.
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Submitted by Richard M. Pious (United States), Aug 6, 2011 at 21:40
Mr. Pipes you are way off base. Governor Christie is standing up to the most bigoted and fear mongering elements of the Republican Party. He is doing it at great political cost to himself. You are right that the "base" of the /GOP won't soon forget what he said, or how he characterized this nonsensical fear that Sharia Law will come to the US. That has about as much chance as Kashrut becoming a legal norm in this country. Lots of people, by the way, serve on boards of organizations that are doing things that they may not know about, or of which they would not approve.
Evidently this fellow that Christie appointed managed to get dismissals of a lot of ill-considered cases brought in the aftermath of 9/11. As Christie points out, such representation should be applauded and not condemned. Effective representation of defendants is as vital as energetic prosecution of suspects: you need both to make our legal system a true system of justice. (I write as someone who was an American Jewish volunteer for Israel's kibbutz harvest in June '67, so I am well aware of the difference between a significant threat and one that is overblown.)
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