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A version of this article was first published in Contemporary Authors (Gale Research Company, Chicago, 1991), pp. 462-65, with, however, more than half the text missing, and false information inserted at the beginning of the article. The original version appears here, therefore, for the first time.Jules Verne has a very considerable renown with the public, but one that often has little to do with his writing, and is not always even internally consistent. If one asks the man in the street who "Jules Verne" is, a reply will always be forthcoming. To the average American, Verne was the inventor of science fiction, and predicted much of the twentieth century, including the exploration of the depths of the sea, of the interior of the earth, and of outer space. He is also meant to have foreseen the submarine, the aeroplane, and perhaps the motor-car. But the same person will rarely be able to name the actual books where this happened, will be vague as to when the predictions were made, and will virtually never offer any information about the writer himself. Indeed, he may assume by default that Verne was an American. After all, Djools Vurn is an all-American name; and how many foreign writers have adopted local names?
If one poses similar questions in other countries, one gets remarkably
similar replies, with one important variation. The Italians have
their Giulio Verne, the Spanish, Julio Verne, and so on—exactly
as if he were a native son of the whole world. Only in his own
country, France, does the name "Vairn" produce a different
reaction, centred more on the man and especially his works.
Much of Verne's reputation—even his perceived internationality—does contain a small grain of truth. Accordingly, we will use the popular conceptions as a sounding-board to approach the real writer. Thus, after studying both the most famous and some less well-known work, we will briefly examine Verne's life. Then some of the myths surrounding his name will be analysed, before the "meaning" or "message" of the works is examined: their religious, political, social, and personal perspectives and—perhaps the most important—their influence as literature.
Amongst the novels with a more or less scientific theme, three or four stand out for their originality and their popularity. Thus Vingt mille lieues sous les mers ("Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Seas") (1869-1870) recounts a journey by submarine, with Captain Nemo ("nobody" in Latin) as the enigmatic hero. The novel includes dramatic episodes such as the passage under the Antarctic icecap, the planting of a flag on the South Pole, and the discovery of the ruins of Atlantis; but much of the interest comes from the intense if distant relationship between Nemo and his guest/prisoner, Dr Aronnax, who is also the first-person narrator. De la Terre à la Lune ("From the Earth to the Moon") (1865) is perhaps the first serious literary attempt to present a vessel capable of escaping from the Earth's gravitation. The initial impulse is provided by a giant cannon, constructed as a concrete-lined hole in the ground and filled with huge amounts of explosive. Verne realised the problems that would be produced for the passengers by the rapid acceleration; but his only solution is to use water-filled, collapsible compartments designed to absorb the shock. The novel ends with the launch of the three passengers towards outer space. A sequel is, however, provided in Autour de la Lune ("Around the Moon") (1870), where relatively accurate solutions are found to the problems of airlessness, weightlessness (believed at the time to occur only at the equilibrium point between the Earth and the Moon), and the navigation of the conical-shaped projectile (by expulsion of hot gases). Both space volumes are light-hearted in tone, due partly to the presence of the character Ardan (anagram of Nadar, close friend of Verne's and a famous French photographer). In Voyage au centre de la Terre ("Journey to the Centre of the Earth") (1864, 1867), Prof. Lidenbrock and his nephew Axel (but not his fiancée, except in the film version) descend into an extinct volcano in Iceland. They eventually discover an underground world containing plants, fish, but also a marine dinosaur, and finally human beings: a dead white man, apparently a previous explorer, tantalising glimpses of a Giant Shepherd herding Giant Mastodons. The final episode, where the heroes ride a volcanic eruption on a wooden raft, is typical of this book—and many others—in describing unlikely events in the most plausible way possible.
A second category consists of novels which are only slightly less well-known or which contain less science or none at all. Thus Le Tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours ("Around the World in Eighty Days") (1872) describes the journey undertaken for a bet by an eccentric Englishman called Phileas Fogg. The mood is again humorous and the pace fast-moving, with counterpoint provided by Fogg's acrobatic domestic, Passepartout, and the young Indian widow rescued from suttee; but there are also serious points to the work. For Verne, the shrinking of the world, caused notably by the end of the age of exploration and the building of the railways, is of radical importance; but also, as shown in the denouement where Fogg "gains" a day by having crossed of the International Date Line, space and time are inextricably linked. In contrast, Cinq semaines en ballon ("Five Weeks in a Balloon") (1863) conducts its heroes across the still-unexplored areas of Central Africa, while playing games with the dates of real exploration, and also with those of its own publication (just before the final events of the novel). Voyages et aventures du capitaine Hatteras ("Travels and Adventures of Captain Hatteras") (1866) takes the obsessed captain of the title ever further north over the Arctic icecap. Like many of the novels, it involves murder and cannibalism; even the hero was meant to die at the Pole at the end—that is until Hetzel, Verne's publisher, stepped in and made him bring Hatteras home again. In Les Enfants du capitaine Grant ("Captain Grant's Children") (1866-68), the younger Grants receive a half-effaced message-in-a-bottle giving the latitude of their father's shipwreck, but not its longitude; thus prompting a straight-line round-the-world trip through South America, New Zealand, and Australia. L'Ile mystérieuse ("The Mysterious Island") (1874-75) represents the culmination of many long-maturing Vernian ideas. It deals extensively with the desert-island dream, closely associated in Verne's mind with the ideal community; but is also designed to show up the facile and implausible manipulation of the plot in Defoe's Robinson Crusoe. It presents the "re-invention" of the whole technological history of mankind; and it re-employs characters from Capitaine Grant but also Nemo, revealed at the end of the novel to be the reason why the settlers were so successful in all their endeavours. Nemo dies at the end, victim of his attempt to solve the problems of society by fleeing them: "I die because I thought that one could live alone." Robur-le-conquérant ("Robur-the-Conqueror") (1886), finally, centres on the still-vigorous debate between the protagonists of the "lighter-than-air" (balloons, etc.) and the "heavier-than-air" (fixed-wing aircraft and helicopters). Robur is a rebel, a spiritual descendant of Nemo, a man whose brilliant aeronautical ideas are ignored and who resorts to violence to prove his point. His aircraft is memorable for its ship-like characteristics and its 37 horizontal propellers on masts, which manage to leave unruffled the headgear of the passengers on the deck just below.
Although popular attention has concentrated on the above novels, few of the remaining seventy or so works can be considered negligible. One of the reasons is that the works from a continuing progression—or, it sometimes seems, regression. First, the short stories from before 1863, although often derivative, have been shown by Delabroy to contain in embryo many of the Vernian themes, ideas, and obsessions, and are often brilliantly written. The period 1863 to 1875 includes all but one of the works discussed above, and is the most complete presentation of the author's primary themes. From 1875 to 1905, on the other hand, the novels undergo a large number of transformations. The subject is less often exploration or scientific innovation and more often mere tourism; the mood is more pessimistic, ironical, or bitter (although Verne's early optimism has been much exaggerated, being rather the result of the pressures of the age, and particularly of his publisher); the British and even the Americans are no longer presented in favourable fashion; the novels often close with the death or madness of even the sympathetic protagonists; the few machines that are shown finish up utterly destroyed; and in real life, as Charles-Noël Martin has shown, the novels sold progressively less well.
Nevertheless, some critics, like Raymond, defend the later works. They point out that their irony, scepticism, and self-analysis are more "modern" than in the more straightforward novels—and more revealing of what Verne is really concerned with. As just one example, the theme of cannibalism, which had occurred regularly but briefly in the previous novels, receives a full and systematic treatment in Le Chancellor ("The Chancellor") (1875), a transcription of the terrible events on the hunger-bound raft of the Méduse. This same novel has also been claimed to be the first one in Western literature to be written in the present tense—a remarkable self-conscious device that would be hard to imagine in the earlier, happier period. Verne himself recognised that there were changes, writing to his publisher in 1883: "I don't have any subjects left whose interest is in the extraordinary: balloons, Captain Nemo, etc." One sign of the lack of primary invention was the number of sequels he produced—whether to his own previous novels or to works like Wyss's Swiss Family Robinson or Poe's Adventures of Arthur Gordon Pym (1838). Verne's novels of his final thirty years, in sum, work less well as adventure stories, but many of them may be considered interesting or important in other ways.
The six or seven works that appeared after Verne's death were different again. Les Naufragés du "Jonathan" ("The Survivors from the Jonathan") (1909) goes much deeper in its analysis of anarchism, socialism, and communism than any of the previous works; and seems to conclude that solitude is the only satisfactory social or political solution. L'Etonnante aventure de la mission Barsac ("The Astonishing Adventure of the Barsac Mission") (1919) presents an authoritarian anti-Utopia in darkest Africa, complete with self-correcting aircraft and robots. The (long) short story "L'Eternel Adam" ("The Eternal Adam") (1910), above all, is a masterpiece: it ranges 20,000 years forward, and back to the very beginnings of human history. On the way, it observes the Flood, Atlantis, and a total destruction of civilisation in the third millennium AD. One of its conclusions is that all man's "efforts in the infinity of time" are destined to be fruitless, that we must realise "the eternal recommencement of all things". But the story's structure, which is unique in being equally divided between two widely separated eras and two protagonists of equal stature, points the way to a divergent conclusion. Only by contemplating the apparently endless cycle, it implies, and by benefitting directly from the experience of elders, can man begin to escape the cycle and hence achieve true wisdom, situated somewhere between a hopeless pessimism and a blind optimism.
For a long time, critical opinion was divided as to why most of the posthumous works should be so different. One school of thought, including Verne's own grandson, Jean Jules-Verne, considered that the author had delayed publication of his most radical works until after his death so as to avoid a possibly unfavourable public reaction. But another school believed that Verne's son, Michel, had in fact written whole chunks of them (though he claimed merely to have put the manuscripts in order). Only in 1978 did Piero Gondolo della Riva, settle the question. He discovered very considerable differences between the 1905 typescripts of the posthumous works and the published works; ones which had to be ascribed to the efforts of Michel. Thus La Mission Barsac was shown to be mostly by Verne's son, and "L'Eternel Adam" probably entirely by him!
Critical opinion does not seem to have entirely recovered from the shock. But it would seem necessary to accept that Michel Verne is an authentic writer in his own right, and one of considerable merit. But his contributions to Les Voyages extraordinaires were published under Jules's name, and in fact fooled most of the people most of the time. Even if with the benefit of hindsight we can see a certain ironical distance from the other works (and sometimes direct attacks on them), the general spirit of Michel's works would seem sufficiently close to that of his father's as to permit us to consider the Voyages extraordinaires as a single entity. Other creative works by two or more people do exist, after all. For the critic the advantage of this position is that he can then view the works as a curve with a pleasing upturn at its end.
Other circumstances of the publication are important. With the exception of the first two, all of Verne's novels were first published as serials in periodicals. Many of them appeared in Hetzel's Magasin d'éducation et de récréation, whose twin goals were reflected in its title and whose readership was designed to include both adults and young people. Hetzel often played a major part in the production—writing whole pages for his author, for instance, or insisting that Nemo's nationality be changed from Polish and the reason for his misanthropy, from Russian atrocities to international ones. Verne made large numbers of corrections at each stage of the proofs, and indeed between the serial and first book publication (18mo), which was usually unillustrated.
The famous illustrations, drawn by independent artists under the supervision of Verne and Hetzel, appeared only in the octavo edition, usually a few months after the first book publication. It is these octavo editions which have become the main target of collectors, with prices sometimes reaching $2,000 a volume (for those that sold fewest copies, and therefore often are the least interesting to read).
As for Verne's life, it is interesting mainly insofar as it informs his writing, and less for any intrinsic originality. Virtually his whole life was spent either writing, or preparing for it. The following account is drawn mainly from the biography by Jean Jules-Verne.
Born as the second child of four in a middle-class Nantes family in 1828—on an island in the river—Verne's schooldays were reasonably successful without being brilliant. From 1848 he lived in Paris (narrowly missing the revolution of that year), studying law in preparation for joining his father's law-firm. But at the same time, he started writing short stories and, above all, a large number of plays. In 1859, still living in cramped conditions in the Latin Quarter, but now with his pregnant wife and two step-daughters, he was invited by a friend on a free trip to Scotland and England. Considering himself of "Celtic" ancestry on both sides, Verne accepted; and was delighted by his visit, which was to be reflected in much of his later writing. In 1862, still unsuccessful as an author, having meanwhile become a stockbroker, he presented a manuscript to a publisher in the Rue de la Seine. According to the story, Hetzel was immediately impressed; and from that point on, Verne's livelihood was guaranteed by successively more lucrative contracts, although requiring him to produce between one and two books each year.
For the next 43 years, in Paris and then in Amiens, Verne wrote steadily. Often he would be changing the published serial version of one novel while correcting the proofs of another, writing the manuscript of yet another, and planning the extensive reading required for a fourth. In 1866, he bought the first of a series of successively larger yachts on which he travelled through the Mediterranean, the Baltic, and the North Sea. His marriage was not totally happy; and he seems to have had mistresses. At various stages, also, his son Michel caused him problems, eventually culminating in his being packed off to India as a midshipman; and in 1886 in mysterious circumstances, one of Verne's nephews shot him in the leg while insane, rendering him lame for the rest of his life. In 1905 he died of diabetes, having become perhaps the most famous story-teller of all time.
The simplicity of Verne's life is thus in opposition to—and perhaps the reason for—the complexity of his works: a complexity demonstrated, above all, by recent critical reception.
Verne soon received positive appreciations from writers such as Baudelaire, George Sand, or Tolstoy. But from then on, his subject matter, genre, and audience seem to have caused him to be completely ignored by those writing about mainstream literature. The paradoxical result was that for about a century the best-known of French writers was also one of the least-known. Doctorates were written in Germany and the United States—and sank without trace. There were brief studies in the 1950s, but a wide critical awareness developed only in the 1970s (and then only in France). In the Anglo-Saxon countries, in particular, despite pioneering articles by Ray Bradbury, a few mostly derivative biographies, and an excellent bibliography in 1980, serious literary study of Verne has been very slow in coming. Three English-language doctorates (all written partly in Paris) have been produced; but at the moment of writing [1986] there has still been no original book on Verne in English.
The studies carried out in France have given us a multi-faceted vision of the writer. Raymond and Compère have written perhaps the fairest account of "Verne Studies", and the following is indebted to them and to Gallagher et al. After René Escaich's general survey, classification, and evaluation in Voyage au monde de Jules Verne (1951, 1955), Marcel Moré pioneered the detailed, literary analysis of the individual texts. In Le Très curieux Jules Verne (1960), he argued for a strong link between Verne's works and his life: Nemo, for instance, shares many traits with Hetzel; the numbers in the cryptograms dotted about the works correspond to important dates for the writer; and fictional fathers and brothers closely reflect Verne's severe lawyer-father and beloved naval-captain-brother Paul. In Nouvelles explorations de Jules Verne (1963), finally, Moré studied three particular themes: the evolution of twentieth-century music, as foreseen by Verne; his influences on Villiers de l'Isle-Adam, Huysmans, and Bloy; and the writer's misogamy, as reflected in his constant disparagement of the idea of marriage and—claims the critic—in a strong undercurrent of homosexuality. If, in fact, many of Moré's ideas have since been considered tangential or mistaken, they did give an impulse for subsequent studies of Verne.
Thus Jean Chesneaux's Une Lecture politique de Jules Verne (1971) ("The Political and Social Ideas of Jules Verne") (1972) argues for the influence on Verne of contemporary political views such as Fourierism and Saint-Simonism, and in particular his early faith in science, his belief in the subjugation of Nature, his attention to contemporary independence movements, and his surface optimism. The book is, however, selective in its choice of subject-matter. And because it ignores the tensions at the very heart of many of Verne's positions, it neglects the specifically literary aspects of the works, such as the interaction of form and content and the role of ambiguity. Simone Vierne's 750-page Jules Verne et le roman initiatique (1973), in contrast, adopts a subtle psychological approach, arguing that all the Voyages present a hero's initiatory quest, divisible into three stages: the preparation, the journey into the sacred, and the subsequent rebirth of the hero. Vierne's central thesis is perhaps over-systematic (in the Gallic tradition), but the book is full of sensitive insights into the meaning of the works. Other studies followed in rapid succession. Marie-Hélène Huet's L'Histoire des "Voyages extraordinaires" (1973) is a competent survey of history in the works, especially the conflicts of interest between the European powers. At the other extreme, Michel Serres adopts brilliant but idiosyncratic positions in Jouvences sur Jules Verne (1974): by analysing the scientific or mathematical structures very much in evidence in the Voyages, he argues, for instance, that the tension between horizontal displacement and vertical displacement is vital; but he simultaneously throws off illuminating sparks in the directions of Verne's verbal play and, amongst others, the Odyssey and James Joyce.
Daniel Compère's Un Voyage imaginaire de Jules Verne: "Voyage au centre de la Terre" (1977) is a useful and reliable survey of methods and results bearing on the rich novel of the title: as just one detail, it points out the frequency of anagrams of the name "Verne" in this work—a sign of its constituent self-reflexiveness. Jean Delabroy's 1200-page thesis, "Jules Verne et l'imaginaire"—unfortunately not published—is a perceptive and wide-ranging "psycho-" and "socio-thematic" analysis of the works written before 1875. It argues that there are two sorts of time for Verne: a controlled and scientific, but vacuous and ultimately dead one; and one where "every moment counts", where vitality and intensity are paramount. The necessary synthesis of the two conceptions leads paradoxically, back into the past; but it eventually culminates, Delabroy argues, in a recognition of the futility of searching for a totally coherent solution to the problem of time.
It will thus be seen that recent critical work has concentrated on historical, social, personal, and metaphysical themes more than on "anticipations". But it is also clear that any attempts at synthesis are impeded by dichotomies in the works. Amongst those demonstrated by the critics are: a respectable conservatism combined with a support for oppressed peoples from the Québecois to the Australian Aborigines; descriptions of technological progress, but also analyses of its pernicious effects on human society; the use of conventional happy endings with everybody married off, but also the presence in the texts of a strong sensuality; and direct borrowing from many contemporary sources, but also influences of classical mythology and of Scott, Dickens, and Stendhal.
It is this perspective of their literary functioning that is perhaps the most valuable way of approaching Verne's anticipations. Great care, however, is necessary.
A first point is that the Voyages were not, in general, set in the future. The first work to have a setting after the year of publication was Robur-le-conquérant (1886). Although seven or eight others may be observed after that date, it was perhaps only Verne's decreasing success with the general public that led him to adapt these works to his own reputation!
Whatever the reason, there certainly are many bold innovations in the works from 1886: an aeroplane/helicopter, a pneumatically-driven train under the Atlantic, a giant cannon designed to correct the Earth's axis, perfect audiovisual reproduction, a Trans-Siberian railway, a motorised floating island, and a project to turn the Sahara into an extension of the Mediterranean. One short story, first published in English (by Michel) and called "In the Year 2889" (1889), describes such innovations as: the disappearance of horse-drawn transport, trains at 1500 km/hr, worldwide news in colour, weather control, a life expectancy of sixty-eight years, communication with the planets, algebraic "compteurs" (computers?), aerial publicity, skyscrapers, and a reduction of the chemical elements first to three basic units and then to one. In "L'Eternel Adam", the major novelty is that "the secrets of the phenomenon of life had been successfully explored [...], and the tremendous discoveries that had ben made allowed one to foresee that organic beings could soon receive the gift of immortality".
But the works set in the future do not have a monopoly of "predictions". In the other works, as well, one can observe such innovations as: the extensive role of electricity, various submarines, an explosive which is claimed by its inventor to be capable of blowing up the globe, and laser, telecontrol, artificial rain, radiotelephone, and torture by means of electric shock. Amongst particular events "predicted", the most striking is the fact that Verne's moon-rocket is the same height and weight as Apollo 8, like it is launched from Florida and observed by means of a giant telescope in the Rocky Mountains, and splashes down in the Pacific at a point only four kilometres away from that where Apollo 8 did.
Critical judgement is necessary, however, in assessing Verne's "predictions". First, care must be taken not to read too much into the texts—as certain critics have done. The element of chance has also been forgotten by many commentators, as undoubtedly in the case of the splash-down. The Einsteinian (or anti-Einsteinian?) hint of "their speed [...] reduced their weight" and the nuclear hint of "water is the coal of the future" are probably also due to mere coincidence. Similarities between fact and fiction must be considered in the perspective of the many remarks in the Voyages that go very wide of the mark.
Thirdly, many of the ideas were not original to Verne. Submarines, for instance, were built and tested between 1796 and 1801, and were used in the American Civil War: even the name Nautilus probably came from the prototype built by Robert Fulton. Jules Verne himself pointed out that his reading about contemporary scientific developments was the source of most of his ideas. In any case, virtually all of the ideas had already appeared in fiction. "In the Year 2889", in particular, seems to have plagiarised Albert Robida's Le Vingtième siècle (1882). More generally, Versins claims that in at most three of Verne's thirty-one novels of anticipation, the basic idea had not already been used in fictional works.
Fourthly, the vision of the future is often merely the result of extrapolating past and present tendencies. This method does throw up many accurate projections concerning giant artefacts or improvements in land-, water-, or air-based transport. But its philosophy is basically conservative, in accordance with Michel Verne's belief that "nothing ever happens that has not been determined by what came before, and the future is produced by the continuation of the past". This uncritical attitude works better in the area of applied science than in international politics or the arts: if the general prediction of the increasing dominance of the United States is correct, those of its physical absorption of Britain and Canada are as wide of the mark as Verne's repetition of the nineteenth-century conventional wisdom of paintings being replaced by photography and novels by newspapers.
The final limitation of the "predictions" in Verne's works is that, despite their use of extrapolation, they do not seem to betray an awareness of the acceleration of history, the exponential rate of technological innovation, and so their time-scale is all wrong. They speak, for instance, of a "constant progression [...] of 'industrial and commercial development' ". Thus the inventions of "In the Year 2889" will take a thousand years (Robida placed them in 1953); and coal resources will be exhausted in about "a hundred centuries"—or just when "far-sighted nature" has had time to produce more! Perhaps concomitant with this tendency, the machines themselves always break down or break up, and every trace of them is invariably lost, almost as if inventors and inventions had never existed. The "predictions" usually come to have instead the nostalgic whiff of what might have been.
Nevertheless, these reservations as to the accuracy, originality, and permanence of the scientific innovations in the Voyages cannot completely destroy their importance. Verne's works do demonstrate a shrewd awareness of technological implications, an "instinct for the direction of science", as Blum says. From his extremely wide reading, Verne selected the ideas he found most plausible. Florida was chosen as the launching-pad because it was the southernmost part of the United States, the Rockies for the telescope because they were the highest. Since Verne played relatively safe, many of his scientific extrapolations have worked—at least until recently.
Because of their lucidity and their clairvoyance (in the non-mystical sense), the Voyages have above all had a popularising and educational role. Verne himself claimed: "my aim [...] was not to prophesy, but to spread knowledge". Explorers, geographers, and scientists acknowledging their debt to Verne include Nansen, Lyautey, Simon Lake, Von Braun, Marconi, Gagarin, and Richard Byrd. In sum, Verne's presentation of future scientific developments is far from naive.
What, finally, is Verne's ultimate contribution to literature? In certain genres, there has been demonstrable influence. Verne has probably had a very wide influence on that considerable proportion of mankind which has come into contact with the Voyages at a formative age. But what of Verne's contribution to "serious" literature? And what reputation is he likely to have in the future?
Verne's distinctiveness is in his avoidance of the detailed description of interactions of human beings, and the resultant lack of development of personality. Bildungsromans, the Voyages certainly are not. The characters do not progress, but regress from a stable and fair-to-middling humanistic position to a precariously solipsistic, aggressive, or desperate one. But, in compensation, as Vierne, Delabroy, and Andrew Martin have all convincingly shown, the observation of the interaction of the individual and the material (although apparently sentient) environment, is acute. It presages many aspects of the modern era, and is apparently still of considerable interest today, to judge from the sales-figures.
Many of Verne's positions and factual observations are on the surface naive. Their value is in their oblique but unmistakable posing of many questions which remain vital today. His adolescent dream of recounting the whole world, for instance, gives way, in a deeper analysis, to an understanding of the ideas of exhaustiveness, obsession, and even totalitarianism.
Despite the "objectivity" of the style, then, the Vernian vision of the world is an intensely personal one. The political, historical, scientific, and geographical themes act principally as vehicles for a profound angst. Nihilism—or at least systematic scepticism—is one of the few common threads running through all the Voyages. Understanding the works must therefore pass through an understanding of the subject within them, and hence not the surface themes.
Verne thus remains attached to the nineteenth century but also continuingly relevant; more French than has generally been recognised but also universal; intimate but an "outsider"; obvious but discreet; light but deep; annoying but attractive; and finally readable and memorable. As the twenty-first century edges closer, Djools Vurn's reputation outside France is surely due for a most radical revision.
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Piero Gondolo della Riva, "A propos des oeuvres posthumes de Jules Verne", Europe, n° 595-96, pp. 73-88
William Butcher, "Le Sens de 'L'Eternel Adam' ", BSJV, n° 58, 2e tri. 1981, pp. 73-81
Ross Chambers, "Cultural and Ideological Determinations in Narrative: A Note on Jules Verne's Les Cinq cent millions de la Begum", L'Esprit createur, Vol. XXI, 1981, n° 3, Fall, pp. 69-78
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Westerville OH – June 8th, 2011. The International Executive Housekeepers Association (IEHA) is pleased to announce the continuing expansion of the High Performance Cleaning Product (HPCP) testing program in conjunction with UMass Lowell's Toxics Use Reduction Institute (TURI) Lab. In 2010, IEHA/TURI embarked upon a fee-based program for testing soil removal efficacy of hard-surface green cleaning products, and for recognizing products that perform well when compared to similar products (green or conventional). Test metrics and program scope have expanded and now encompass:
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IEHA's High Performance Cleaning Product (HPCP) Program tests, verifies and helps promote hard surface cleaning products with green attributes to enable selection of those that effectively clean a range of building and environmental surfaces. While green certification programs (e.g., Green Seal, EcoLogo, DfE, etc.) do include basic product performance and efficacy criteria as part of an overall environmental review, these organizations, while laudable, emphasize multi-attribute eco-factors more than comprehensive cleaning or usage criteria. To fill this gap, HPCP rigorously targets the cleaning performance of greener products, taking testing to a higher level through application of realistic soils on surface materials likely to be found in actual facilities (e.g., white boards, stainless steel, textured or composite countertops, etc.) This provides end-users with practical test data they can use to improve their specific cleaning situation, and suppliers with lab-based verification of product efficacy under specific, challenging and real-world circumstances. Tests can also be customized to focus on surfaces and soils most likely to be encountered in specific environments such as schools, gymnasiums, theatres, and more.
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Troy from West Virginia is the man. Joe Beimel's biggest fan gets his wish. Welcome to Joe Beimel Bobblehead night at Dodger Stadium on August 12th.
The first 50,000 fans in attendance on July 25 will receive a Brad Penny bobblehead compliments of Cacique, while the first 50,000 fans on August 12 will take home a Joe Beimel bobblehead, compliments of Bank of America.Yhea, Joe. Who you should really thank is Troy!
For the second consecutive season, the Dodgers conducted an online fan vote during Spring Training to determine one of the bobblehead promotions, and after Russell Martin garnered the most votes in 2007, Beimel took home the honors this season. With a strong Internet following, including a campaign that was orchestrated by his parents, Ron and Marge Beimel, the southpaw reliever earned the right to be immortalized in ceramic.
"This is a cool birthday present and a real honor," said Beimel. "I really want to thank the fans who voted for me, and I know my kids will get a kick out of this. I just hope that I get into the game that night and help the team earn a victory."
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The upcoming election and federal tax reforms were hot topics Friday morning at the Newport Beach Chamber of Commerce's Economic Forecast for 2013 breakfast.
"This is very topical — the connection between politics and the economy," said Casey Griffin, event organizer and chamber board member.
Event attendance nearly tripled since the chamber's first forecast last year, Griffin said.
About 350 people from around the area turned out for the early seminar at the Fashion Island Newport Beach Marriott.
Rep. John Campbell (R-Irvine), animated even as audience members sipped coffee to wake up, spoke first.
"I feel a bit like Lady Gaga," he joked, adjusting his microphone earpiece.
His message for business leaders, however, was less bright.
"You have absolutely no idea what your tax rates are going to be in January," he said, adding that that uncertainty and higher taxes stifle risk taking in business.
As the U.S. budget hurtles toward a "fiscal cliff," he said, budgetary fixes will require bipartisan cooperation.
"[The Republican majority House of Representatives has] been trying all year," he said. "Let's just extend the fiscal cliff and work on an entirely new tax code." If President Obama is reelected, he said, budget negotiations may again reach a stalemate.
Obama, he said, was largely responsible for escalating partisan ill-will by passing the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act without any Republican votes in the Senate, a move he said was "a political mistake."
In the upcoming election, Campbell said, "neither side is going to get 60 votes in the Senate," but "I don't think a President [Mitt] Romney will make that mistake."
Andrew Policano, dean of UC Irvine's Paul Merage School of Business, addressed some of the complex global forces affecting the national economy, while drawing a few laughs.
He used a complex flow chart to illustrate how fiscal policy is implemented, and to illustrate monetary policy implementation, up popped a picture of Federal Reserve Board Chairman Ben Bernanke.
"Doesn't that [essentially one-man system] seem strange to you?" he said. "But thank God we have it."
Policano also addressed what he said is the deeply troubled Social Security system. He said without action, Social Security could be exhausted by 2033. Still with slow, measured adjustments in the form of tax increases and decreases in benefits, it doesn't have to be all doom and gloom, he said.
As a possible solution for the country's financial woes, Policano posited that too many people believe a four-year degree is the only option. Instead, he suggested, certain areas where costs of living are low could be transformed into manufacturing centers with new work for highly skilled workers.
"Make Detroit our China," he said.
Anfield Capital Management Chief Executive David Young rounded out the morning's speakers, bringing a more advice-oriented perspective to the stage.
Young, who has also worked for Newport financial giant PIMCO, advised investors to take hyperbole with a grain of salt.
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Young said long-maturity bonds — especially municipal bonds — are risky, unless you plan to hang onto them until maturity.
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I had just pulled an espresso shot as part of my usual heart-starting morning routine and sat down to enjoy my breakfast.
Next minute, my iPhone rings with a "Blocked" number. I pick it up with a slightly grumpy "Hello?"
A robot on the other end of the line says:
"Hello. . . I'm calling from HostGator. . . one of your accounts has a script running that is causing problems for the server."
The piece of toast that was hanging out of my mouth dropped a little.
I was actually pretty happy that they were so pro-active and calling me, rather than simply relying on email that might not get to me.
However, I also knew from experience that when you get your host contacting you about this sort of thing it normally means hours of painful work ahead.
They tend to never help find the source of the problem, but just shut down your account and tell you to sort it out.
Especially from a host that is as inexpensive as HostGator. You simply don't expect too much service when you're paying $9.95 a month for unlimited domains.
The robot caller went on to tell me that a support ticket had been created for me to help sort out the problem.
At least they looked like they were ready to help me I thought.
My laptop was sitting on the table, so I opened up Gmail.
There was indeed a ticket in there. However, the contents surprised me.
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"A WordPress installation located at http://www.xxxxx.xxx was causing some issues on the server that it was on. "
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As I kept reading my mood changed. It went on to say:
"Instead of suspending the site, the plugin WP-Super-Cache was installed to greatly reduce the load that is caused by this particular installation. We determined that this was not in place by checking the .htaccess directives, so though you may already have had this plug-in it was not fully configured.
Please let us know if you see any issues, or if you have any questions regarding this and we will be happy to assist!"
They then went on to give a full technical breakdown of the figures from the server to show the problems that the WordPress installation was causing.
I couldn't believe it.
Instead of saying here are the problems, you go fix it, they just went ahead and solved my problem.
So they saw that the WordPress blog was getting too much traffic, and then found a plug-in that would cache the pages to reduce the load completely.
I've had over a decade of dealing with web hosts including with fancy hosts like "Rackspace" where they proclaim "Fanatical Support". Yet, I've never had such a proactive and positive approach as this.
All on an account that costs less than 10 bucks a month for unlimited sites.
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If anyone wishes to see cricket at its finest, when it becomes a truly great spectator sport, which any number of people can enjoy, then it is advisable to forget all notions of Twenty/20 cricket.
When going to the Oval to see the 'London derby' of Surrey against Middlesex one could be forgiven for expecting raucousness, singing and the diluted football like atmosphere that makes the shortest form of the game an entertaining experience.
It is also reasonable to expect that when sitting only a few rows back from the outfield you would be able to concentrate on the game and fully absorb yourself with the batsman's frantic attempt to run at every ball. Doing this, however, is dependent upon your fellow spectators giving a damn about what happens on the pitch and not wasting time gossiping.
The lower tier of the Vauxhall End of the ground is the worst place to watch 20/20 cricket when at the Oval. The noise is incessant, wasp like in fact and if your fellow spectators give you a headache through that then their mundane conversations, spoken loud enough to be heard above the PA, will.
The existence of 20/20 cricket shows why Test matches should never be allowed to die out, irrespective of attendance or what short term business ideas come about.
Cricket is a thinking man's game and all the shortest format does is reduce it to its very basics under the misapprehension that it enhances the spectator's enjoyment. It is tempting to think that 20/20 cricket exists to give an outburst of unbridled enjoyment, to help those genuine fans who have followed cricket all their lives to enjoy the game and let off steam at the same time.
The truth is, however that 20/20 cricket is a sport in itself. It attracts a different type of fan, one whose main interest is making a lot of noise and drinking even more. In reducing the length of the game, cricket has gone out of its way to reach out for new support. It has been successful and as a result has created a game which, broadly speaking, appeals to a different form of sports fans.
The Champions Trophy semi-final between England and South Africa at the Oval a few weeks earlier was very different as was last season's Pro-40 Trophy Final between Warwickshire and Hampshire at Lord's where intelligent comment and good humour took the place of obnoxiousness and indifference, which made for a pleasant and engaging atmosphere.
This indicates that the problems that plagued the more recent game at the Oval were not ones belonging to one day or county cricket but rather the result of the shortest, most asinine form of the game being contested between two provincial sides with artificial franchise teams to whom nobody has any specific alliance.
The price of the tickets (£20) makes it cheaper, considerably so, than football and lacking the intense antipathy between rival teams. 20/20 cricket is a game for television, for big international tournaments which can broadcast around the world, replayed and given an acerbic edge by clever dick pundits.
Cricket is one of the few sports in the world that does not benefit from being reduced to the most basic and necessary components.
The 20/20 format exists purely for fan enjoyment. It does not serve to tell us which side is superior. If we are willing to reduce the game to professional quick-cricket then there should at the very least be a bowl-off to test the accuracy and technique of the bowlers, like penalties do with the technique of footballers.
Despite the complaining by those who are conveniently not very good at them, penalties are the best way to decide a drawn cup final. The semi-final of the Confederations Cup this year between Spain and Italy demonstrates how reducing football to one player attempting to score a goal from a standing position against a goalkeeper is the best way to end it.
The penalties, against two of the best goalkeepers of their generation, were excellent, until Bonucci missed for Italy and Spain won 7-6. Each penalty up until that point was, quite literally, impossible to save. Juan Mata in particular, who needed to score when Italy were winning 5-4, stroked the ball into the left hand corner as calmly as if he were playing a pre-season friendly.
Making sport as simple as possible is part of its success. Some are naturally that way; the most popular events at the Olympics are the ones where the winner is decided who can run the fastest or jump the furthest or, in the case of the Winter Olympics, who can slide from the top of a hill to the bottom in the shortest amount of time.
Cricket is the exception and as a result shouldn't be the subject of constant cutting, reshaping and diluting. The game's survival is dependent retention of Test matches and all those who love cricket should have little more than a passing interest in 20/20.
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The most ambitious and seemingly consistent of Chris Nolan's Batman trilogy ultimately proves its least engaging. What started with a grounded but still comic-inspired origin tale and continued with a masterfully brazen crime saga ends with a convoluted yet often intriguing societal revolution epic.
While debates will rage over the various issues that plague this final chapter, there's no question that it mostly works quite well. Nolan avoids the fate of so many superhero franchises before him (ie. Spider-Man, X-Men, Superman, the 90's Batman films) who follow-up a solid debut and a stellar second entry with a fizzer of third outing. By making this a closing chapter, there's less of a feeling of sequel-itis – compounded by Nolan taking some big chances with the story's direction. Even when elements don't work, and quite a few don't here, you can't help but admire the attempts made.
Starting off with an eight year gap between this and the previous film, the continuity delay allows both a resetting of the board's pieces and an exploration (albeit cursory) of the consequences of the events in the earlier films. Wayne, now a limping recluse, is drawn back into action because some intruder with a gymnastics degree kicked his cane. Cue not one but two long stretches throughout the movie where Bruce has to "get back in the game" after self-imposed retirement the first time, and a brutal beatdown the second. The latter proves the more personal, the more convincingly motivated, and ultimately the more rewarding of the two (thus making much of the first feel redundant).
With a scope and ambition so huge, especially in the second half which bares a similarity to the "No Man's Land" storyline of the comics (not to mention the French revolution parallels), the logic flaws are more noticeable than ever. Much like "Sherlock" and "Doctor Who" show runner Steven Moffat, the writing of both Nolan brothers blisters along at a cracking pace and with a desperate desire to please you with all its cleverness. Yet it's also un-involving as everything is surface. A slick, stylish and broadly appealing surface, but that's all – there's little to no emotional involvement or more profound truths on offer.
Certain flaws of this trilogy have remained the same throughout its run be it clunky exposition, dubious character motivations, occasionally risible dialogue and/or uneven action sequences. Many love to wax on about the third act problems of "Batman Begins", easily the most comic-esque of the Nolan's films, because it's where said flaws are the most visible in the series. Yet 'Begins' also remains the most human of the trilogy, certainly the one with the most satisfying emotional throughline.
As one grows older, especially those of us driven by our own inner demons, one realises that the ultimate goal of life isn't love, wealth or even happiness – it's peace of mind. Nolan's entire filmography deals with this quest – his stories focusing on a man or men desperate to achieve true solace but unable to due to their enslavement to their obsessions (which provide a fleeting contentment of their own).
As 'Rises' is a trilogy capper, there are numerous links back to 'Begins' throughout which are often inventive. In fact the strongest elements of the film essentially serve as a coda to 'Begins' and deliver a fitting conclusion to Wayne's story. It could only have gone in two directions and Nolan enjoys dancing us between both possibilities right up until the end – ultimately delivering a satisfying and definitive finale.
Full kudos must go to both Christian Bale and Michael Caine for their work. Bale starts the film in the darkest place the character has been yet and must take him through quite an arc, much of it retreading areas he's already covered. People will nitpick about the time windows (namely the eight year gap and the three month injury recovery periods), but Bale remains the committed steadfast center of this series and sells it – while also getting to enjoy some progression in his character which he didn't really get in the previous outing.
Michael Caine's pseudo-father figure also gets a chance to be more than just a sage advice giver. In one of the film's strongest scenes, Alfred confronts Bruce on his obsession and where it will take him, in the process making a desperate ultimatum fully aware that he'll likely lose his surrogate son in the process. Caine has only a few scenes this time, but he makes the most out of them and gives this otherwise often quite cold film its few real signs of life.
Faring less well this time are returning champs Gary Oldman and Morgan Freeman. Both lend stellar support as always, but with so many characters to service they both haven't much to do this time and what scenes they do have only service the plot in fairly anonymous ways. It's a similar problem for several of the newcomers including Marion Cotillard and Matthew Modine. Even with certain character revelations amongst the old and new guard to give them a bit more depth, none of them really get a chance to shine aside from Joseph Gordon-Levitt whose subplot gets both adequate time and a proper arc with some rewarding key scenes.
It's a committed performance from Tom Hardy, but partly due to it being hidden behind a mask and partly due to the character being frustratingly underdone – it doesn't stand out as one of his strongest. Hardy certainly conveys Bane's raw brutality and fighting skill, but the patient and intelligent mastermind side of the character is rarely displayed isn't helped by the choice of what sounds like (at least to me) a geriatric English accent – it may be done for contrast, that still doesn't make it work any better. The few glimpses we see of a true adversary to Batman aren't convincing and ultimately he proves to be little more than a skilled thug.
Anne Hathaway is a standout thanks to a decision to try something quite different with the character of Selena Kyle than previous screen interpretations. This Catwoman (though that moniker is never stated by name) is an opportunistic vixen, a thief who thinks on her feet and can quickly adapt. Her loyalty is only to herself and her own survival, but beneath a flirty and amoral exterior hardened by life lies someone who'll ultimately do right. She dances around the story's periphery, flitting in and out which is why she remains one of the few that manages to stand on her own as a character.
Adding another level of interest is that she's also portrayed as someone who is not as good as she thinks she is, though a subplot involving her care of a street kid (Juno Temple) is a waste. Hathaway is quite convincing showcasing her darker side, though her cute girl next door looks mean she lacks the raw sexuality of Michelle Pfeiffer's now iconic turn in "Batman Returns". While Pfeiffer's delicious dark interpretation portrayed Selena as essentially "damaged goods", Hathaway's take is more layered and certainly the closest interpretation yet to the character in the comics.
From the ticking clock countdown to the opening aerial stunt, Nolan's fetish for the James Bond film franchise is more visible than ever here in his style and sensibility (indeed a key element of the narrative seems a direct lift from "The World is Not Enough"). His skill at filming action hasn't always been his great strength, be it the all too-close fight scenes in 'Begins', or the messy choreography of the chase and finale sequences in "The Dark Knight". Here however he's able to bring a clearness to the various bursts of adrenaline which results in some strong highlights be it Bane's reign of destruction, his mano-e-mano sewer fight with Batman, and the nail-biting finale chase.
There's even a few moments of playfulness and comic relief, but the pervasive tonal seriousness and meticulous attention to detail tends to suck the energy out of the attempted spontaneity. Tech credits from Wally Pfister's cinematography to Hans Zimmer's excellent score are, as usual, amongst the best of the year in the industry. It's a film that cost a small fortune, but it shows be it in the extensive use of practical where possible to the pervasive use of IMAX throughout.
Lacking both the sheer fun and watchability of "Batman Begins" or the tightness and energy of "The Dark Knight", Nolan nevertheless manages to decently cap off his trilogy thanks to his usual raft of top notch talent around him along with some adventurous risk taking with the story. Pacing is strong throughout, but at 164 minutes the film is in need of trimming.
There's too many red herrings or unnecessary plot points, political swipes lack any bite, and too many side characters take much needed time away from the key players. It's constantly self-important, sporadically fascinating and generally entertaining. I quite enjoyed it but, for the first time in this series, I've little desire to rush out and see it again even if it is a smarter and more well composed effort than pretty much any other tentpole fare this Summer. Not great, but good enough to ensure the trilogy's place as one of the strongest film series of modern times.


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In his soulful, surreal paintings, Eddy Stevens imagines a world dominated by intuition and emotion, abandoning the mundane for an ethereal landscape dominated by female sensual power. In his wondrous vision, the woman, a heroine modeled after his wife Sophie, sheds her clothes, forging a primal connection with the natural world. The horse, in his majestic equine glory, mirrors the innocent nakedness of the woman, his massive muscles rippling parallel to her bosom.
In Stevens's evocative images, raw, exposed sexuality is a source of spiritual strength rather than shame, fueling miracles like levitation and mysterious candle lights. Here, the domestic space of the house cannot contain the divinity of woman, and its walls crumble at her feet; she, like the horse, is free to roam infinite wildness.
Stevens's cornerstone motifs, the nude female and the white horse, are reminiscent of the work of surrealist master Salvador Dalí, whose 1946 painting The Temptation of Saint Anthony also imagined the gift of levitation. But Stevens's impressive body of work differs in its treatment of the nude and the equine creature; where Dalí presents them as perverse and frightful temptations, both symbols of the desires of the flesh, Stevens depicts them tenderly, as embodiments of purity and strength. This vision is perhaps most fully realized in "Birth of a Dream," a painting depicting a trinity of nudes following a horse as he ascends into the clouds above. In a stunning reversal of Dalí's imagery, the parade is shown from the back; instead of falling to earth, they climb to the holy heavens. Take a look. (via HiFructose)


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The guys came across a TruTV article that highlights 13 dumb sex tips from all over the internet. The list takes sex advise from sources like Yahoo Answers, Cosmopolitan, and Men's Health. The tips and tricks that are featured seem to be not to well thought out. Several of the tips are completely off the wall, and only the kinkiest of individuals would seem to enjoy it.
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All these are stupid, man. You just gotta get to the f'in and that's it. Just get down. Let's go get down! - Zane
Let's highlight a few of these odd sex tips:
7. Dip into your kids' toy chest. You paid for all those board games — why not borrow them and play strip versions? [TheNewHomemaker.com]
10. [Male ejaculate] contains zinc and calcium, both of which are proven to prevent tooth decay. [Cosmopolitan.com]
12. Chill a bunch of marbles in the fridge. Toss them on the bed and make him lie on them while you straddle him. [Cosmopolitan.com]
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In addition, Boston's BassTrac circuitry delivers rich bass without distortion.
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The TVee 26 comes equipped with digital and optical analog inputs for greater flexibility,
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The TVee 26 Theater System is backed by a one-year limited warranty, subject to the full warranty terms and conditions.
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TVee 26 soundbar, speaker grill, wireless subwoofer, analog cable, digital optical
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The sound quality is truly amazing and the bass from the subwoofer. The bass that comes from that tiny subwoofer is outstanding! I'm very impressed with this sound bar. I listened to Harman Kardon sound bars, Sony sound bars, and even Samsung sound bars (which I'm partial to because my TV is a Samsung) that were close to double what this unit costs and I always came back to the great sounding BA TVee 26. Don't worry about not having the ability to change the settings on the sound bar. For example: News, Cinema, Sports mode, etc. aren't an option because of its dedicated music and movie mode. This certainly wasn't a problem for me because, in my honest opinion, those other modes make the dialogue and music come out sounding terrible. Boston Acoustics did it right with just one mode: Dedicated Music and Movie Mode. Give this sound bar w/ subwoofer a shot. You'll be glad you did!
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Setup took around 10 minutes. Hardest part was installing the digital audio cable. Paring between sub-woofer and sound bar took only 5 seconds. Sounds great.
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The only problems I had was getting on that worked properly. The 3rd one works great. Easy to program to your remote, and easy to install. Sound is as good as more expensive units.
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Love the clarity and the simulated surround sound. Easy to connect too!
Frank Vizard , Departures.com"And while the bass on the TVee 10 is surprisingly effective, those looking for a bigger sonic boom should opt for the 150-watt TVee 26 ($350) that includes a wireless subwoofer that can be positioned virtually out of sight."
Rachel Cericola, Big Picture Big Sound"It's about a million times better than whatever is currently emitting from your TV on its own."


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Every once in a while an idea comes along like slicked bread, foaming hand soap and cordless game controllers when you think, "WHY DID THIS TAKE SO LONG?!" Newest one I discovered: printing shooting targets on the back of pizza boxes.
In our world obsessed with reduce, reuse and recycle, this is an ingenious way to be more environmentally friendly while also preparing for our armed revolt against those damn environmentalists and their U.N. lackeys!
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STANFIELD, Robert Nelson, a Senator from Oregon; born in Umatilla, Umatilla County, Oreg., July 9, 1877; attended the public schools and the State normal school at Weston, Oreg.; engaged in the livestock industry and also interested in banking in Echo and Baker, Oreg.; member, State house of representatives 1913-1917, serving as speaker in 1917; elected as a Republican to the United States Senate in 1920 and served from March 4, 1921, to March 3, 1927; unsuccessful candidate for reelection on the Independent ticket in 1926; chairman, Committee to Examine Branches of the Civil Service (Sixty-eighth Congress), Committee on Public Lands and Surveys (Sixty-ninth Congress); resumed his former business pursuits; died in Weiser, Idaho, April 13, 1945: interment in Hillcrest Cemetery.


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The Women's Chamber Choir of Hope College will perform its spring concert, with Luminescence and 12th Street Harmony, on Monday, April 16, at 7:30 p.m. at St. Francis de Sales Catholic Church.
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The choir will be joined by Hope's close-harmony groups, Luminescence (women) and 12th Street Harmony (men), as well as by pianist Lannette Zylman-TenHave, violinist Erin Gilbert and cellist Laura Vanderveld.
The program will range from spirituals ("Children, Go Where I Send Thee" and "Little David, Play on Your Harp"), to springtime music ("Solar Flares," sung in Romanian, and "The Smoothing Iron," a love song about laundry), to Gwyneth Walker's "I Will Be Earth" and the Italian melody "Torna a Surriento."
The Women's Chamber Choir, established in 2001, is an auditioned group of 20-25 Hope students. The group is directed by Jennifer Wolfe, adjunct assistant professor of music.
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text: I am not sure Tek Sharp continues to make the patch feeds. They certainly do not make the tri-band feed, but I was able to get a dual band patch from them in June 2009 for one of their hardware cloth dishes. 73's, Tim - N8DEU ----- Original Message ----- From: "K5OE" <k5oe at aol.com> To: <amsat-bb at amsat.org> Sent: Wednesday, January 04, 2012 4:37 PM Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: Looking for a G3RUH dish > > Bob, > Regarding your Cu wire dish... you might look at the Tek Sharp dishes as > an easier alternative to "rolling your own." I picked one up on ebay > about a year ago and put it in my attic... waiting for amsat-dl :-) > > http://www.plumdragon.com/teksharp/hr_AO-40_products.htm > > Drew, > I have a spare PF dish about 60 cm, but it is steel, not aluminum like the > G3RUH. I used it on AO-40 for 24 GHz. Let me know off-list if you want > it. > > 73, > Jerry, K5OE > > ---- previous message ---- > You probably have one of the K5GNA "BBQ" dishes. The G3RUH is a solid > round > spun dish. > > 73, Drew > > -----Original Message----- >>From: Bob Bruninga <bruninga at usna.edu> >>Sent: Jan 3, 2012 2:19 PM >>To: 'Andrew Glasbrenner' <glasbrenner at mindspring.com>, 'amsat-bb' >><amsat-bb at amsat.org> >>Subject: RE: [amsat-bb] Looking for a G3RUH dish >> >>> I'm looking for one of the 60cm G3RUH dishes >> >>Got one, (but not available). >> >>Questions: I measured reflector grid separation as .88 inches which works >>out to be about 0.18 wavelength. I always thought the grid had to be >>tighter than 0.1 inches to be an effective "surface". >> >>Maybe the difference with almost double the spacing is not that >>significant? >>(especially for a steel one which would be quite heavy. >> >>Reason I am asking is that I also need another S band dish (at 70 MPH on >>the >>roof of a tracking van) and we are thinking about building one by using an >>old solid 6' TVRO dish as a form and laying in copper wire and soldering >>it >>to copper straps. With all that labor, I'd not want to get the spacing >>wrong. >> >>Bob, Wb4APR >> > > _______________________________________________ > Sent via AMSAT-BB at amsat.org. Opinions expressed are those of the author. > Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! > Subscription settings: http://amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb


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