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Stinson called up, Barch optioned
BALTIMORE -- Before Monday's game, the Orioles selected the contract of right-hander Josh Stinson and optioned right-hander Brad Brach to clear room on the active roster.
Stinson, who made the team's Opening Day roster, has appeared in seven games for Baltimore this season and will help give the club some length behind starter Bud Norris.
Manager Buck Showalter was forced to dip into his bullpen early Sunday, with Ubaldo Jimenez lasting just 2 1/3 innings and the team needed some fresh arms in the event of another short outing. Stinson allowed nine earned runs over 11 1/3 innings -- six of which came April 13 -- and last appeared in a game for the O's on April 27 before he was designated for assignment.
Left-hander Johan Santana was transferred to the 60-day disabled list to clear a 40-man roster spot.

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Und dennoch sei jenen, die sich zur Kunst herablassen und ihr den Spielraum zwischen den Horizonten gönnen, so von der individuellen Nullität bis zur sozialen Quantität, mit ziemlicher Gewißheit gesagt: Wenn Kunst nicht das ist, was sie glauben und erlauben, sondern die Wegweite ist zwischen einem Geschauten und einem Gedachten, von einem Rinnsal zur Milchstraße die kürzeste Verbindung, so hat es nie unter deutschem Himmel einen Läufer gegeben wie Nestroy. Versteht sich, nie unter denen, die mit lachendem Gesicht zu melden hatten, daß es im Leben häßlich eingerichtet sei.One of the many scholarly projects that I have put on my virtual shelf to be published in the future – as soon as somebody is willing to pay for it – is a huge collection of unknown documents related to the life of this incomparable satirist whom one critic aptly called "Hogarth of the stage". In the course of my fifteen-year-long search for Nestroy documents, I unearthed a lot of material whose discovery is surprising given that all *available* Nestroy documents have supposedly been published in Walter Obermaier's and Hermann Böhm's book Johann Nestroy Dokumente. But this edition, which was funded by (who else?) the Kulturabteilung der Stadt Wien and published in 2009, is marred by glaring ommissions and astonishing mistakes. This blog post – which is meant as a mere appetizer – is supposed to point out the current unsatisfactory state of Nestroy research. As the eminent Nestroy scholar Jürgen Hein put it: "Some chapters of Nestroy's biography should be written anew, others should be opened in the first place". Many sources concerning Nestroy's biography are still waiting to be published and, in my opinion, this cannot be better demonstrated than by presenting one of the poet's previously unknown children. Imagine a scenario where we realize that Mozart fathered a child that we know nothing about. This is the kind of situation we are dealing with in the case of Nestroy's unknown son.
And yet, to those who condescend to art and give it room between the horizons, from the individual nullity to the social quantity, it shall be said with considerable certainty: If art is not what they believe and allow, but the distance between the sight and the thought, the shortest connection between a gutter and the Milky Way, then never under the German sky has there been a runner like Nestroy. Of course, never among those, who, with a smiling face, had to report that life is ugly.
Johann Nestroy on 14 March 1861. This photograph by Ludwig Angerer is not included in the 1977 book Johann Nestroy im Bild.
In 1928, Bruno Hampel (1888–1953), amateur genealogist and employee of the Austrian Postal Savings Bank, published an article titled "Die Familie Nestroy und die Sippe der Gattin des Dichters" (Monatsblatt Adler 10). This article, which deals with Johann Nestroy's and his wife's genealogy, has become the basis of most publications about Nestroy's family. But Hampel's research does not meet modern standards. He lacked the necessary expertise concerning archival sources, misidentified a number of Nestroy's relatives and failed to include important biographical data in his article. In many instances he could not access the primary sources and had to resort to provisory and undocumented presumptions. Once again, we are being reminded of the situation in Mozart scholarship where Otto Erich Deutsch never bothered to check the reliability of Emil Karl Blümml's research on Mozart's children, and in his edition of the Mozart Dokumente chose to uncritically refer to Blümml's forty-year-old publication. Also reminiscent of Mozart research is the fact that some of the transcriptions in the Nestroy Dokumente are so flawed that they should basically be published anew.
Marie Weiler
In 1822, shortly before his debut as opera singer, Nestroy declared his intention to marry Wilhelmine Nespiesni, one of three illegitimate daughters of Katharina Zwettlinger (née Nespiesni, widowed von Sonnenstein) and Count Franz de Paula Zichy de Zich et Vasonkeö. On 23 August 1822, Joseph Carl Rosenbaum, a friend of Wilhelmine's mother, wrote the following in his diary:
Nach Mittag in den Garten. Dorthin kamen die Pisling, dann er mit 3 Kindern, die Zwettling mit der Mali und Liesi, unterhielten sich recht gut. Sie erzählte mir, dass Nestroy ihre Mina heiraten will, wenn er beim Hoftheater engagiert wird. Er singt morgen den Sarastro und bat mich um meine Protektion. Ich stimme für diese Heirat nicht. Dann ins Kärntnertor-Theater. Mosevius missfiel abermals, plauderte mit Michel, Kupelwieser; er zeigte mir den Nestroy; er soll eine hübsche Stimme, aber keine Tiefe haben.Soon after Nestroy had expressed his intention to marry Mrs. Zwettlinger's daughter Wilhelmine, a series of events occurred that changed the bride's situation and may have influenced the realization of the couple's marriage plans. Nestroy was employed by the K.K. Hof-Theater. On 26 May 1823 (Wiener Zeitung, 2 June 1823, 503), Wilhelmine Nespiesni's guardian, the court physician Dr. Andreas Pißling, died. Pißling had been a close friend of Wilhelmine's father and he had also been the curator of her patrimony (according to §166 ABGB a father could not be the guardian of his own illegitimate children). On 20 June 1823 (Wiener Zeitung, 25 June 1823, 585) Wilhelmine's illegitimate father, the I. & R. Captain Count Franz de Paula Zichy de Zich et Vasonkeö, died of "Auflösung der Säfte" (dissolution of the fluids) at the age of 54 (his year of birth given by Wurzbach is wrong). Wilhelmine's new guardian, her step-father Franz Wilhelm Zwettlinger, possibly had different views concerning her choice of partner. In August of 1823, Nestroy was hired by the German Theater in Amsterdam which put him under time pressure, because his fiancé was already pregnant. On 7 September 1823, in Vienna's Augustinian Church, Nestroy married Wilhelmine Nespiesni, and on 9 September the newly-weds left Vienna for Amsterdam where they arrived twelve days later. The fact that Nestroy's nineteen-year-old wife owned a paternal heritage of 12,000 gulden in Viennese Currency, from which she was drawing an annual pension of 222 gulden, not only made her a more desirable match, it also provided her with the kind of financial independence that may not have strengthened her marital fidelity. These assets had been bequeathed to Wilhelmine in 1813 by her illegitimate father, and she was to receive the full amount of her inheritance in 1828. In 1827, during his engagement in Graz, Nestroy's marriage came to an end. His wife began an extramarital affair with Count Adelbert Batthyány von Német-Ujvar and she left her husband. In 1845, Nestroy legally divorced her, but the legal situation at that time defined a divorce as "Scheidung von Tisch und Bett" (divorce from table and bed) and precluded both spouses from marrying again. In 1827, while still being engaged as singer at the Graz opera, Nestroy began a thirty-five-year relationship with his colleague, the actress and singer Maria Cäcilia Laucher who appeared on the stage under the name Marie Weiler, a surname that she seems to have taken from a relative. It was not her grandmother's maiden name which was Kunigunde Metzger. Another explanation of the name's origin could well be that, at some point of time, Marie's mother Cäcilie Laucher (as she was to claim in 1825 and 1840) really was married to a merchant named Weiler, and for legal reasons, was obliged to give birth under her maiden name, because her deceased husband was not the father of her child.
In the afternoon to the garden. Mrs. Pisling came there, then her husband with 3 children, Mrs. Zwettling[sic], Mali and Liesi [Amalia Nespiesni and her half-sister Elisabeth Zwettlinger] enjoyed themselves quite well. She [Mrs. Zwettlinger] told me that Nestroy wants to marry her Minna, in case he will be hired by the court theater. Tomorrow he will sing Sarastro and asked me to support him. I disapprove of this marriage. Then to the Kärntnertor-Theater. Mosevius displeased again, I chatted with [Ignaz] Michel, and [Joseph] Kupelwieser; he pointed out Nestroy to me; he is said to have a nice voice, but no gravity. [A-Wn, Cod. Ser. n. 203 Han, Bd. 10, p. 57r. My thanks go to DI Peter Prokop for providing this source, part of which was first published by Karl Glossy on 24 April 1927 in an article in the Neue Freie Presse]
The sisters Antonia Laucher and Cäcilie Weiler and their three children, registered in 1825 in a conscription sheet of the house Stadt 322 ("Zum Hahnenbeiß", today Am Hof 5). This previously unknown source sheds more light on a still slightly mysterious family constellation: Cäcilie Weiler is described as Antonia Laucher's younger sister and "Handelmannswittwe v: Dilligen in bayern". Antonia Laucher's illegitimate son Alexander Woina was living "im Erziehungshaus zu Korneuburg" and Maria Laucher (born 1812 and "Nichte der obigen") is obviously a previously unknown illegitimate daughter of Antonia Laucher (that this Maria was Marie Weiler's sister makes no sense). It must be noted that Antonia Laucher's alleged stepson Adolf Wagner (Obermaier 2009, 54) does not appear in this document (A-Wsa, Konskriptionsamt, Stadt 322/12r).
After her death in 1861, Marie Weiler's mother is referred to as "ledige Privatiere" in the death records, but her name is still given as "Cäcilia Weiler" (St. Johann Nepomuk, Tom. 6, fol. 159).
Marie Weiler in 1861, photograph by Ludwig Angerer (A-Wst, H.I.N. 229.599 Fa)
Although the birth of Marie Weiler has been dealt with in the literature, I shall still address this topic, because a) based on an error in the literature (Rommel 1930, 36), her date of birth sometimes is still wrongly given as "13. September 1809" (for example in Schöny 1977 and, as of December 2015, on German Wikipedia), b) the Nestroy Dokumente manage to misidentify Weiler's place of birth, and c) the identity of her father is still not clear in the literature. Maria Antonia Cäcilia Laucher (the future Marie Weiler) was born on 13 November 1809, illegitimate daughter of Cäcilia Weiler, née Laucher (born 15 November 1787 in Dillingen, daughter of the regens chori Joseph Anton Laucher [Dillingen 4-T, pag. 42]) and Count Ferdinand von Stockhammer who professed to his paternity by signing his name in the baptismal register. That the name of the father reads "Stochtamerer" is caused by the fact that this document is a copy of an original baptismal register that may still be preserved (which the Dokumente fail to mention). Maria Laucher's, her mother's and her aunt's surname is given as "Lager" in the baptismal entry. This is a typical off-hand attempt to blur the identity of the mother, a method that was frequently applied on the occasion of the baptism of illegitimate children. The later incorrect spelling "Lacher" is nothing else but the long-time result of the flawed baptismal certificate, copied from an incorrect entry that had served the purpose to anonymize an unmarried mother. In printed sources Marie's godmother, her aunt, the opera singer Antonia Laucher (20 Jun 1786 – 22 Aug 1871), always appear under the name Laucher. The literature concerning the Laucher sisters is generally weak. As of December 2015, the German Wikipedia article on Antonia Laucher, for instance, presented the singer as having been married to her own father-in-law.
The entry concerning the baptism of Marie Weiler (with her name Laucher anonymized as "Lager") on 13 November 1809. The note on the far right reads: "He [Stockhammer] himself has signed as father" (St. Rochus und Sebastian, Tom. 5, fol. 200).
In the Nestroy Dokumente, Walter Obermaier claims that Marie Weiler was born "at Landstraße 268, in the still extant house 'Zum Kometstern', Landstraßer Hauptstraße 112". This is false. Being unaware of the two later renumberings of the Landstraße suburb in 1821 and 1830, the co-author of the Dokumente did not realize that the number 268 in Weiler's baptismal entry refers to the house's number in 1809 and not to the last one from 1830. Marie Weiler was born in the house Landstraße 340, "Zum Grünen Kranz" (The Green Wreath, today Landstraßer Hauptstraße 26).
Marie Weiler's place of birth, Landstraße 340 (A-Wn, L 20.904-C)
In this house (built in 1800 and ruthlessly torn down in 1972) Beethoven intermittently lived between 1817 and 1819. Here he wrote the Piano Sonata op. 106. In 1951, a small memorial plaque was mounted above the entrance.
The Beethoven plaque above the entrance of Landstraßer Hauptstraße 26 on a photograph from the 1960s (A-Wsa, Fotosammlung, C7017/672)
Together with a second, explanatory one, the old plaque in 1973 was remounted beside the entrance of the new (unspeakably ugly) building.
"At this spot the house was situated where the above plaque had originally been mounted."
The building which in 1972 replaced the old Beethoven site. This monstrosity stands as a symbol for Vienna's misguided urban planning during the 1970s (see: Klein 1973).
Most of the information in the literature about Marie Weiler's father Count Ferdinand von Stockhammer is still fragmentary or wrong. Stockhammer was born on 6 July 1787 in the "Stockhammerisches Haus", Stadt 626 (today Rotenturmstraße 4), only child of Count Ignaz von Stockhammer (b. 9 October 1756) and his wife Maria Anna, née Bernrieder (b. 24 September 1759).
The entry concerning the baptism of Ferdinand von Stockhammer. His godfather was Mathias Huld, an inmate of a poorhouse. This old practice of charity was strictly observed in the Stockhammer family (A-Wd, Tom. 99, fol. 95v).
The early death of his parents – his mother died on 14 February 1789, his father on 24 March 1795 – might well have had an effect on young Ferdinand's easygoing life and his love for the musical theater which brought him into contact with Cäcilia Laucher, who, like her sister, for some time was employed as singer at the court theater. On 31 March 1806, for instance, the two Laucher sisters took part in a benefit concert of the Tonkünstler-Sozietät and on 22 March 1807, at another concert of the Sozietät, they sang the soprano parts in Hummel's cantata Eudimione e Diana. At the time of his affair with Cäcilia Laucher, Ferdinand Stockhammer lived at Stadt 1150 (today Kohlmarkt 7).
Count Ferdinand von Stockhammer ("Studiosus Landwehr Officier 3 Bat[taillon] 3 Compag[nie]") on a conscription sheet of Stadt 1150 from around 1810 (A-Wsa, Konskriptionsamt, Stadt 1148/11r)
Stockhammer kept a close relation to Vienna's musical life. He was a member of the board of representatives of the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde and regularly housed concerts at his home (in 1819, Ignaz Moscheles gave the Viennese premiere of Hummel's op. 81 at Stockhammer's). In 1835, the composer Franz Lachner dedicated his first symphony to Stockhammer. Most interesting of all, in the early 1840s, Stockhammer was a very active protector of the "Wiedner Kirchenmusik-Verein" (sacred music society of Wieden) at the Karlskirche, at a time when Nestroy lived in that parish. In November 1837, after the death of Johann Nepomuk Hummel, Stockhammer organized a musical memorial ceremony in the Karlskirche which was conducted by Conradin Kreutzer. It is not known if Stockhammer ever had any contact with his daughter Marie Weiler, but he certainly knew about the existence of his grandchildren.On 16 September 1813, in the parish church of Hütteldorf (Hütteldorf, Tom. 4, fol. 14v), Stockhammer married his cousin Countess Johanna Nepomucena von Stockhammer (b. 16 September 1796). This marriage, which seems to have been arranged by the family to curb Stockhammer's passion for female opera singers, between 1815 and 1817 produced three children who all died very young.
Ferdinand von Stockhammer's signature as witness of his sister-in-law Sophia von Stockhammer, on the occasion of her wedding on 29 May 1817 to Count Johann Heinrich von Auersperg (A-Wstm, Tom. 10, fol. 174)
During the last years of their lives, the Stockhammers resided in the house Stadt 411, "Zum Englischen Gruß" ("The Angelic Salutation", today Judenplatz 5).
Ferdinand and Johanna von Stockhammer, registered on a conscription sheet of Stadt 411 from about 1840. The notes "Stw" (Stadt Wien) and "gestorben" (deceased) were added after 1842 (A-Wsa, Konskriptionsamt, Stadt 411/7r).
Ferdinand von Stockhammer died of a stroke on 8 August 1845, during a summer stay in Baden bei Wien (Baden, St. Stephan, Tom 10, fol. 256), and was buried three days later in the Stockhammer family crypt in Purkersdorf (Purkersdorf, Tom. 6, fol. 100). His wife had already died on 20 June 1842 (Maria Hietzing, Tom. 3, fol. 32). On 22 August 1845 (Wiener Zeitung, 21 August 1845, 799), the "Wiedner Kirchenmusik-Verein" took part in the celebration of a Requiem for Stockhammer in the Karlskirche.
Nestroy's Three Known Children
Apart from the miscarriage that his wife suffered on 22 December 1824, Nestroy until now was known to have fathered three children. A son with his wife and another son and a girl with his partner in life ("the faithful friend of my days", as he put it) Marie Weiler. These three children (whose lives have been covered in the literature) are the following:
- Gustav Johann Wilhelm Nestroy was born on 21 April 1824 at Heiligeweg 15 in Amsterdam (Jürgen Hein neither gives an exact shelfmark for the baptismal entry nor does he specify the church where the child was baptized). Gustav Nestroy became an employee of the "K.K. privilegierte Kaiser Ferdinands-Nordbahn" (I. & R. Emperor Ferdinand Northern Railway) and in 1860 married Antonia Schöppesdorfer. On 29 April 1869 at 9 a.m. he died at Hietzing 247 (today Lainzer Straße 30) of "Lungenlähmung in Folge Hypertrophie des Herzens" (pulmonal arrest, caused by cardiac hypertrophy). The inheritance of his mother, who – seven years after the death of her divorced husband – was still under guardianship, amounted to 1952 gulden 8 kreuzer. Gustav Nestroy had no children.
- Karl Johann Anton Nestroy was born on 3 October 1831, illegitimate son of Nestroy and Marie Weiler and baptized "Karl Laucher" (this is the name that appears in the index) on the same day in the Augustinian Church. On the occasion of his christening, the parish priest and Nestroy's colleagues Ignaz Frech von Ehrimfeld (Ignaz Stahl) and Louis Grois signed as witnesses to Nestroy's acknowledgement of paternity.
- Maria Cäcilia Nestroy was born on 2 April 1840 at Wieden 794 and baptized two days later in the Karlskirche. Her godmother was her grandmother "Cecile[!] Weiler" who on this occasion again described herself as "Kaufmanns=Witwe" (widow of a merchant). Nestroy professed to his paternity by signing the baptismal register. His friends, the actors Louis Grois and Franz Gämmerler signed as witnesses. Like her elder brother, Maria Nestroy was also legalized in 1858 by the Emperor. On 12 October 1857, Maria Nestroy married the I. & R. cavalry captain Karl Sluka (1827–1891) with whom in 1861 (according to Hampel 1928) she had one daughter, Maria Karolina, who only lived for two weeks. Maria Sluka died on 18 April 1873, at Opernring 3 of cardiac arrest (St. Augustin, Tom. 9, fol. 105 [this date is missing in Hampel 1928]).
Gustav Nestroy's widow Antonia, listed as owner of the house Hietzing No. 247 in the 1880 Orientirungs-Schema der Gemeinde Hietzing bei Wien (Vienna: Verlag d. Gemeinde Hietzing)
The left half of Karl Nestroy's baptismal entry with a note at the bottom, added in 1858 by the parish priest Johann Georg Etz, referring to the child's legalization. The wrong name "Lacher" (which also appears in the Imperial decree) still originates from Weiler's false baptismal certificate. The transcription of this document in the Dokumente contains several astonishing mistakes (St. Augustin, Tom. 7, fol. 136).
On 3 February 1858, Karl Nestroy was officially legalized by Emperor Franz Joseph I as Johann Nestroy's legitimate son (at that time illegitimate children could only be legalized by an Imperial decree). Following a family tradition (his uncle Ferdinand had joined the military, because he was "groß und stark gewachsen"), Karl Nestroy became a soldier. On 18 August 1852, after his graduation from the k.k. Genie-Akademie, he was appointed first-class lieutenant. After having reached the rank of captain in 1859, he retired early (obviously for reasons of health problems) in 1863. On 15 July 1880 – while already being very sick – he married Stefanie Maria Franziska von Bene. This wedding took place at Karl Nestroy's sickbed at Gumpendorfer Straße 3 (St. Josef ob der Laimgrube, Tom. 18, fol. 65) and not in the church of St. Josef ob der Laimgrube (as given in Obermaier 1996/97, 319). Karl Nestroy died on 30 July 1880 at Altmannsdorf 64 (Altmannsdorf, Tom. 2, fol. 11) of "organischer Herzfehler" (organic cardiac defect).
Nestroy's Fourth Child: Adolph Johann Nestroy
Johann Nestroy and Marie Weiler had a previously unknown third child. A son, who was born on 25 March 1842, and baptized Adolph Johann on 28 March 1842 in the Karlskirche.
The entry concerning the baptism of Adolph Johann Nestroy on 28 March 1842 (St. Karl, Tom. 12, fol. 75). The editors of the Dokumente do not address the fact that Maria Nestroy's baptismal entry in the records of the Karlskirche is a fair copy of an original that still exists.
Nahme des Taufenden. Joh: Jestrźabek, / Cooperator.Adolph Nestroy's place of birth was the house Wieden No. 794, "Zum Luftschützen" ("The Airgunner", today Rechte Wienzeile 9). Nestroy lived there, because this building was located south of the Wien river, exactly opposite the Theater an der Wien which – crossing the river on the so-called "Theatersteg" – was only a five-minute walk away from Nestroy's home. Wieden 794 was a two-storeyed house which had a large yard and on its south side was divided from the Freihaus by the Mühlbach.
Jahr, Monath, Tag. 1842. den 25ten / März geboren, / den 28ten ge= / tauft.
Wohnung und Nro. des Hauses. Wieden / N° 794
Nahmen des Getauften. Adolph Jo= / hann
Geschlecht. Unehelich. Männlich. 1
Religion. Katholisch. 1
Vaters Nahme und Condition oder Charakter. Johann Nep: Nestroy, / Schriftsteller und Schau= / spieler, gebürtig aus / Wien, kath: Rel: ehe= / licher Sohn des Johann / Nestroy, Doctors bei= / der Rechte, Hof= und Ge= / richtsadvokaten, und / der Magdalena, gebor= / nen Constantin.
Mutters Tauf= und Zunahmen. Maria Laucher, ge= / bürtig aus Wien, kath: / Rel: Tochter der Cä= / cilia Laucher, und des / des Grafen Ferdinand / Stockhammer, der / laut Taufschein sich als / Vater erklärt hat.
Todtgeburten. /
Pathen. Cecile Laucher / ehemalige k.k. / Hofoperistin.
Anmerkungen. Hebamme: Barbara / Gruber, Stadt N° 223.
[additional note] Daß der bei der Taufe anwesende H. Johann Nestroy sich frewillig / als Vater dieses Kindes erklärt und verlangt habe als solcher eingetragen / zu werden, bestättigt nebst zwey Zeugen, seine eigenhändigen Unterschrift:
Joh: Nestroy Schrift= / steller und Schauspieler / m.p.
Ignaz Frech Edler von / Ehrimfeld, als Zeuge / m.p.
Louis Grois / als Zeuge / m.p.
The house Wieden 794 (in the center) on the map of Robert Messner's Die Wieden im Vormärz (Vienna: Verb. d. Wissenschaftl. Gesellschaften Österreichs, 1975). The red color marks the preserved houses dating from before 1845. The houses of the Laimgrube, north of the river, are not visible, because this map only covers the Wieden.
A photograph of the front of the house Wieden 794 taken in 1902 by August Stauda (Wien Museum, I.N. 24266). Nestroy's play Einen Jux will er sich machen was written in this building. Nestroy's landlord was the flax dealer Leopold Rainharter. In 1903 the studio of the painter Olga Wisinger-Florian was located in this house.
A photograph of the northeastern part of Wieden 794 taken in 1902 by August Stauda (Wien Museum, I.N. 41948/2).
A photograph of the north wing of Wieden 794 from the same series (Wien Museum, I.N. 41948/1)
A photograph of the northwestern corner of the yard of the house Rechte Wienzeile 9 in a much more desolate state during the 1930s (A-Khm, Theatermuseum, FS_PA85184alt)
Johann Nestroy's family with Marie Weiler being described as "mother of the below children" in an 1840 entry on a conscription sheet of Wieden 794. Weiler's mother is listed as "Afterp[artei] (subtenant) Cezilia Weiler[!] 792 Kaufmannswitwe[!] Tillingen Bay[ern]" (A-Wsa, Konskriptionsamt, Wieden 794/27r). For unknown reasons, this document is not included in the Nestroy Dokumente.
At this point a few comments regarding Adolph Nestroy's baptismal entry are necessary. Although the text of this document very much resembles Maria Nestroy's (already published) baptismal entry from 1840, a number of small differences are of interest. Because the officiating priest seems to have been better acquainted with the parents, certain details, that were considered important two years earlier, are missing. Particularly interesting is the fact that the child's godmother (and grandmother), who in 1840 appeared as "Cecile Laucher Kaufmanns=Witwe", now calls herself "ehemalige k.k. Hofoperistin" (a mix-up with her sister is impossible, because at that time Antonia Laucher was already the widowed Antonia von Nespern whose husband had died in 1839). The midwife Barbara Gruber is of interest, because in the 1850s she advanced to the position of court midwife and in 1858 assisted the Empress with the birth of Crown Prince Rudolf. Gruber was born Barbara Hofmann on 22 September 1800 (A-Ws, Tom. 45, fol. 18). In 1822 she married the municipal tax official Joseph Gruber from whom she later lived separated (A-Ws, Tom. 43, fol. 101). On 17 August 1880, she died a house owner in Baden bei Wien (Baden, St. Stephan, Tom. 19, fol. 94). Like in 1831, Nestroy's two witnesses were his friends, the actors Louis Grois and Ignaz Frech von Ehrimfeld (Ignaz Stahl), the latter of whom caused theater historians to spill a lot of ink, without ever determining his correct date of birth. Ignaz Stahl was not born on 20 October 1790 (a wrong date that authors have copied from Wurzbach's article for more than 100 years). He was born on 20 October 1788 in the "Frech'sches Haus", Stadt 395 (Tiefer Graben 28) and baptized Ignaz Amand Johann Nepomuk Felizian, only child of Ignaz Nicolaus Georg Amand Frech von Ehrimfeld (1759–1827), Hofkonzipist with the United Bohemian and Austrian Court Chancery, and his wife Barbara, née Haas von Grünberg (1766–1847).
The entry concerning the baptism of Ignaz Frech von Ehrimfeld (Ignaz Stahl) on 20 October 1788 (A-Ws, Tom. 43, fol. 77). Stahl's biographical sketch (A-Wst, H.I.N. 174.762), which he wrote in 1860 for Moritz Bermann, proves that Stahl himself was unaware of his correct date of birth. The wrong year of birth also appears on Stahl's tombstone in St. Marx.
Ignaz Frech von Ehrimfeld adopted the stage name Ignaz Stahl, because he obviously did not want to embarrass his noble relatives with his acting career. By doing this, he caused a lot of posthumous confusion. Some amusingly ignorant theater historians of the Don Juan Archiv actually believe that Frech's pseudonym "Ignaz Stahl" was a real name of a person whose pseudonym[!] was "Tobias Frech von Ehrimfeld" – who actually was a real person, namely the actor's cousin, the writer Tobias Frech von Ehrimfeld (1785–1809).
The seal of the Frech von Ehrimfeld family (A-Whh, OMaA 640-32)
Why did Nestroy name his third son Adolph? Who was the child's spiritual namesake? It was probably the composer Adolph Müller senior who worked together with Nestroy as Kapellmeister at the Theater an der Wien and also wrote the music for Nestroy's new play. The birth of Adolph Nestroy should also be put into a broader biographical perspective. During Maria Weiler's third pregnancy, Nestroy wrote one of his most successful plays: Einen Jux will er sich machen which premiered on 10 March 1842, at the Theater an der Wien. Weiler's pregnancy was the reason why Nestroy did not put a role for her in this play.
Johann Nestroy's fourth child Adolph already died on 14 April 1842, of "Kopffraisen" (Eclampsia infantum, i.e. infantile convulsions).
The entry concerning Adolph Nestroy's death in the municipal death register (A-Wsa, Totenbeschreibamt 191, N, fol. 5v)
[den 14ten April]
Nestroy Johann, Schauspieler an Theater an d. Wien, s.[sein] K.[ind] Adolf; kath. 3 Woch: v: Wieden N 794. am Kopffraisen dto [Johann Lauttner]
Nestroy Johann, actor at the Theater an der Wien, his child Adolf, aged 3 weeks from Wieden 794 was inspected by coroner Lauttner to have died of convulsions.
On 16 April 1842, Adolph Nestroy was consecrated in the Karlskirche according to the "8. Rubrik" (8th category) of the Stollordnung (regulation of burial fees) and buried on 17 April 1842 in the cemetery Außer Matzleinsdorf.
The entry concerning Adolph Nestroy's obsequies in the parish records of the Karlskirche (St. Karl, Tom. 8, fol. 295)
Zeit des Sterbens. [1842] 14 April
Wohnung und Nro. des Hauses Wieden / N° 794.
Nahmen des Gestorbenen, und des Condition oder Charakter, allenfalls Charakter des Ehegattens oder Vaters. Nestroy Adolph, / Kind des Johann Nestroy, Schauspie= / lers, an Kopffraisen
Geschlecht. Männlich. /
Religion. Katholisch. /
Alters Jahre 3 / Wochen
Todesarten Krankheit Gewöhnliche /
Ort, wohin, und Tag, an welchem die Begräbniß geschehen. Matzleinsdorf / den 16 April 1842.
Anmerkungen.. 8 Rubr.
How important this short-lived infant was to his parents is signified by the fact that Adolph Nestroy was given an own grave in the Matzleinsdorf cemetery (9th row, No. 1368). For a child of this young age such an expense was quite extraordinary. One is reminded of Nestroy's orders in his letter of 2 August 1842 to Ignaz Stahl, concerning a possible burial of the actress Louise Rusa (who was planning to undergo surgery): "An attractive grave, surely not in an ordinary one, among every Tom, Dick and Harry ["Creti und pleti"]." It is possible that Nestroy and Weiler originally had planned to be eventually buried in the Matzleinsdorf cemetery, together with their last child.
The entry concerning Adolph Nestroy's grave ("1368 Nestroy Adolf, Schauspielers Kind, Wieden N° 794, beerd.[igt] 17. April 1842") in the old register of own graves in the Matzleinsdorf cemetery (A-Wsa, Matzleinsdorfer Kommunalfriedhof, B2-1, alt: II-D-2, Eigene Gräber, fol. 88v)
How could the existence of Adolph Nestroy for such a long time escape the attention of Nestroy scholars? The most important source for the existence of Nestroy's two other illegitimate children was the Emperor's decree of legalization from 1858. Of course, Adolph Nestroy never needed to be legalized, because he died too young. In 1928, Bruno Hampel was aware of Marie Nestroy's date of birth and he also knew that she had been baptized in the Karlskirche. He could not check the entry however, because the Knights of the Cross with the Red Star – who are administrating this parish – did not grant him permission to access the church records. All later Nestroy scholars (except for Heinz Schöny who just copied everything from Hampel) fell victim to a beginner's mistake: while checking the church records, they looked for something they already knew, instead of maintaining a broad-minded approach in a search for something they possibly did not know. The routine procedure of checking the baptismal index (which in the Karlskirche parish consists of a separate book) occurred to no one.
Daguerrotype of Nestroy from around 1850 (Wien Museum, I.N. 57459))
Similar to the case of the identification of Haydn's real wife, the discovery of Adolph Nestroy's short existence changes very little in Nestroy's biography. But it should change our perspective on current Nestroy research and make us more skeptical concerning what we read in the cutting-edge literature.
Bartsch-Salgast-Dyhrn, Rudolf. 1954. "Das Wiener Geschlecht Nesper (von Nespern)". Adler. Zeitschrift für Genealogie und Heraldik. 3. (XVII.) Band, 11. Heft, 154-158.
Hampel, Bruno. 1928. "Die Familie Nestroy und die Sippe der Gattin des Dichters". Monatsblatt Adler 10, 369-87.
Hein, Jürgen. 1988. "Nestroy in Amsterdam". Nestroyana 8, 53-69.
Klein, Rudolf. 1973. "Requiem für ein Wiener Beethovenhaus (3, Landstraßer Hauptstraße 26)". Wiener Geschichtsblätter 28, 26-28.
Obermaier, Walter. 1996/97. "Aus Johann Nepomuk Nestroys Familie". Jahrbuch des Vereins für Geschichte der Stadt Wien, 307-319.
–––––––. 2007. Johann Nestroy. Sämtliche Briefe. Vienna: Deuticke.
–––––––. Böhm, Hermann. 2009. Johann Nestroy Dokumente. Vienna: Deuticke.
Orel, Alfred. 1958. "Opernsänger Johann Nestroy". Jahrbuch des Vereins für Geschichte der Stadt Wien, 94-113.
Rommel, Otto. 1930. Johann Nestroy. Vienna: Anton Schroll & Co.
Schöny, Heinz. 1964. "Neues zur Stammtafel Nestroy". Adler. Zeitschrift für Genealogie und Heraldik 6. Bd., 15./16. Heft.
–––––––. 1977. "Die Vorfahren des Dichters Johann Nestroy". Adler. Zeitschrift für Genealogie und Heraldik 11. Bd., Heft 1.
© Dr. Michael Lorenz 2015. All rights reserved.
Updated: 14 March 2023
Postscript (November 2017)
In Nestroyana 3/4 (2016), the journal of the Internationale Nestroy-Gesellschaft, Walter Obermaier, the editor of the Nestroy Dokumente, republished the above information related to Nestroy's previously unknown son. He gave credit to my publication, graciously praised my research, and tried to explain this belated discovery and the negligence of Nestroy scholars as follows: "This musicologist [Dr. Lorenz] is a proven researcher of sources, in particular meticulous research concerning persons in which he relies not least on archival material and the online portal Matricula where for several years the records of many parishes can be retrieved." Obermaier's statement is based on a misunderstanding. My discovery had nothing to do with Matricula. I discovered the existence of Nestroy's son Adolph already in 2011, at a time when the Viennese parish records had not yet been digitized. I have been conducting research in Vienna's parish archives for more than 20 years and, owing to my good relations to several parish secretaries, I was able to scrutinize material that no other present-day researcher has ever seen. During my long work in the parishes, I never met a Nestroy scholar. The records of the St. Karl parish may have been inaccessible to Bruno Hampel before WWII, but since then, thanks to the friendliness of the parish priest and his secretary Josef Machaček, for several decades, the records of this parish have been easily accessible to researchers. And yet, no Nestroy scholar ever bothered to visit the beautiful Vienna headquarter of the Knights of the Cross with the Red Star. It was always so much easier to copy Hampel's flawed article from 1928. Symptomatic of Obermaier's flawed perspective is the fact that – like countless of his colleagues – he is obviously holding the belief that the Vienna church records have been completely digitized. This is a misconception. The digitization of these records was done by people who had no previous knowledge of the actual holdings of the parish archives. These people came to the parishes like managers of a foreign corporation and often decided on a whim which series of books should be digitized. No experts on Viennese parish archives were ever consulted by Matricula which resulted in important sources being completely ignored. The supposed completeness of digitization of the Vienna church records, which is currently being presented to the public, is pure fiction.


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It's because I'm so humble, obviously. Allow me to illustrate with an excerpt from the personal character chapter of McConnell's Code Complete 2.0:
The intense inwardness of programming makes personal character especially important. You know how difficult it is to put in eight concentrated hours in one day. You've probably had the experience of being burned out one day from concentrating the day before or burned out one month from concentrating too hard the month before. You've probably had days on which you've worked well from 8:00 am to 2:00 pm and then felt like quitting. You didn't quit, though; you pushed on from 2:00 pm to 5:00 pm and then spent the rest of the week fixing what you wrote from 2:00 to 5:00.At the top of the list of desirable personal character traits is humility:Programming work is essentially unsupervisable because no one ever really knows what you're working on. We've all had projects in which we spent 80 percent of the time working on a small piece we found interesting and 20 percent of the time building the other 80 percent of the program.
Your employer can't force you to be a good programmer; a lot of times your employer isn't even in a position to judge whether you're good. If you want to be great, you're responsible for making yourself great. It's a matter of your personal character.
Nobody is really smart enough to program computers. Fully understanding an average program requires an almost limitless capacity to absorb details and an equal capacity to comprehend them all at the same time. The way you focus your intelligence is more important than how much intelligence you haveWhen interviewing candidates for programming positions, I always look for someone who is brave enough to say "I don't know" when they need to. Candidates who can't or won't do this get red flagged; those types of programmers are dangerous. "Can-do" attitiudes have a superficial allure, but they're actually poison in our field.At the 1972 Turing Award lecture, Edsger Dijkstra delivered a paper titled "The Humble Programmer." He argued that most of programming is an attempt to compensate for the strictly limited size of our skulls. The people who are best at programming are the people who realize how small their brains are. They are humble. The people who are the worst at programming are the people who refuse to accept the fact that their brains aren't equal to the task. Their egos keep them from being great programmers. The more you learn to compensate for your small brain, the better a programmer you'll be. The more humble you are, the faster you'll improve.
The purpose of many good programming practices is to reduce the load on your gray cells. You might think that the high road would be to develop better mental abilities so you wouldn't need these programming crutches. You might think that a programmer who uses mental crutches is taking the low road. Empirically, however, it's been shown that humble programmers who compensate for their fallibilities write code that's easier for themselves and others to understand and that has fewer errors. The real low road is the road of errors and delayed schedules.
Isn't the world of development blogs, an amazing fountain of seemingly endless knowledge-- also incredibly humbling? There are so many people, many of them giants in the field, who are far smarter and just plain better than I will ever be.
But it's not our job to be better than anyone else; we just need to be better than we were a year ago.
* Yes, the title is intended to be ironic. Just in case, I wanted this disclaimer here..


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Episode 179: [60:23]
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In this show we review La Otra Orilla's El12 and Wen Wei Dance's Cock-Pit, have a round table discussion about upcoming Festival TransAmériques shows, Les Grands Ballets Candiens' Minus One, briefly report on the talk that Marie Chouinard gave on her personal library and sources of inspiration at the Grande Bibliotheque and the book sale at the Bibliothèque de la danse Vincent-Warren along with discussing some of the events taking place in Montreal as part of International Dance Day / Pas de Danse Pas de Vie.
The theme song is the Laurent Voulzy's version of Do You Want to Dance, the dance poem of the week is The Dance by William Carlos Williams, and the music played during the show is from Jean Luc Fillon's On the Reed Again.
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Welcome to Puppet 6.28.0
Puppet provides tools to automate managing your infrastructure. Puppet is an open source product with a vibrant community of users and contributors. You can get involved by fixing bugs, influencing new feature direction, publishing your modules, and engaging with the community to share knowledge and expertise.
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Northfield City Administrator and Faribault resident Tim Madigan alerted me to a Bikeable Community Workshop hosted by the Faribault Area Chamber of Commerce and Tourism last week. I contacted Kymn Anderson, Chamber President, to see if there was room for any Northfielders and she graciously allowed me to attend. Northfield City Councilor Suzie Nakasian was there, too.
The Bikeable Community Workshop brochure (PDF) states:
A Bikeable Community Workshop trains local, county and regional staff, and advocates on how to plan and support more Bike Friendly Communities to encourage more people on bikes more often in Minnesota. Participants enjoy a short bike ride to assess their community's bicycle facilities to base an action plan on. Target audiences include engineers, law enforcement, planners, public health practitioners, school administrators, elected officials, and advocates. The course includes a short bicycle ride auditing your community.
The workshop was presented by staff from the Bicycle Alliance of Minnesota, the Minnesota Department of Health, and the Minnesota Department of Transportation. These folks knew their stuff and presented it well.
After the morning session, we broke up into three groups for a bike audit ride around Faribault.
See the May 14 Faribault Daily News by reporter Rebecca Rodenborg (@FDNRebecca): Faribault leaders take on bikeability issue. Also see her earlier article on May 4: How bike-friendly is Faribault?
My take-away? We need to begin working immediately with the Bicycle Alliance of Minnesota to form a Northfield area bicycle advisory committee so we can begin tackling a myriad of bike-related issues. The City of Minneapolis' Bicycle Advisory Committee page spells much of it out:
Advise the Mayor, City Council, and Park Board on bicycling related issues; help advance the state of bicycle infrastructure; encourage more people to bike; educate the public; work towards more compliance with traffic laws; help the City and Park Board make bicycle plans; work to increase equity between bicyclist and other modes of transportation; review and suggest legislative and policy changes; recommend priorities for the use of public funds on bicycle projects; help ensure Minneapolis keeps and improves its status as a bicycle friendly community; serve as a liaison between Mpls communities and the City and Park Board, coordinate between difference agencies that interact with bicyclists.
Props to Kymn Anderson at the Faribault Area Chamber of Commerce and Tourism and the Faribault area bicycle advocates for hosting the session. It was inspiring.


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Kernel Transport Layer Security (kTLS) Offloads
This feature is supported on ConnectX-6 Dx crypto cards only.
Transport Layer Security (TLS) is a widely-deployed protocol used for securing TCP connections on the Internet. TLS is also a required feature for HTTP/2, the latest web standard. Kernel implementation of TLS (kTLS) provides new opportunities for offloading the protocol into the hardware.
TLS data-path offload allows the NIC to accelerate encryption, decryption and authentication of AES-GCM. TLS offload handles data as it goes through the device without storing any data, but only updating context. If the packet cannot be encrypted/decrypted by the device, then a software fallback handles the packet.
To avoid unnecessary complexity in the kernel, the TLS handshake is kept in the user space. A full TLS connection using the socket is done using the following scheme:
Call connect() or accept() on a standard TCP file descriptor.
Use a user space TLS library to complete a handshake.
Create a new KTLS socket file descriptor.
Extract the TLS Initialization Vectors (IVs), session keys, and sequence IDs from the TLS library. Use the setsockopt function on the kTLS file descriptor (FD) to pass them to the kernel.
Use standard read(), write(), sendfile() and splice() system calls on the KTLS FD.
Drivers can offer Tx and Rx packet encryption/decryption offload from the kernel into the NIC hardware. Upon receipt of a non-data TLS message (a control message), the kTLS socket returns an error, and the message is left on the original TCP socket instead. The kTLS socket is automatically unattached. Transfer of control back to the original encrypted FD is done by calling getsockopt to receive the current sequence numbers, and inserting them into the TLS library.
For support in the kernel, make sure the following flags are set as follows.
CONFIG_TLS_DEVICE=y | m
For kTLS Tx device offloads with OFED drivers, kernel TLS module (kernel/net/tls) must be aligned to kernel v5.3 and above.
For kTLS Rx device offloads with OFED drivers, kernel TLS module (kernel/net/tls) must be aligned to kernel v5.9 and above.
To enable kTLS Tx offload, run:
ethtool -K <ifs> tls-hw-tx-offload on
ethtool -K <ifs> tls-hw-rx-offload on
For further information on TLS offloads, please visit the following kernel documentation:
OpenSSL version 3.0.0 or above is required to support kTLS TX/RX offloads.
Supported OpenSSL version is available to download from distro packages, or can be downloaded and compiled from the OpenSSL github.


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A key challenge facing movements for social change is the global commercial media. A handful of western-based trans-national media corporations, working in tandem with regional companies, control most programming, emphasising entertainment to recruit urban consumers, and circulating news primarily framed by the interests of corporate business and western foreign policy. Public programming to encourage dialogue and debate of public issues has withered. Stark inequalities are increasing, in both poor and rich countries, between those with the full means to produce communications and those without, especially if we factor in the violence of poverty, illiteracy, and patriarchal, racial, and caste oppression.
A global network of communications activists, advocates and researchers is emerging to address these problems. This network of networks operates simultaneously on at least three planes, the construction of alternative communications media, the reform of the mainstream corporate and state media, and the support of trans-national communications networks for social change movements. Alternative media projects (zines, radio, video, television and internet sites and blogs) not only serve people seldom represented in the corporate media; they also demonstrate what democratic media might look like in their alternative content, modes of operation and overall philosophy. Communication reformers campaign to make existing local, national and global communications systems more accessible, representative, accountable and participatory.
Finally, media activists work in support of social change movements whose transnational communications networks also provide additional links for the movements to democratize media.
Why now? This is due to at least three inter-related global trends. First, the global shift to neo-liberalism presents people all over the world with a complicated, but very clear set of common problems. Secondly, the communications networks first emerged as links among social justice movements to address these common problems. Finally, the network of communications networks began to take its own shape, as groups everywhere inventively adapted the glut of consumer hardware and software from the transnational corporate market.
A New World Information Communications Order (NWICO)
The trans-national movement to transform communications predates the shift to global neo-liberalism. During the 1970s, led by the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM), a coalition of national governments of the global south, mobilized to challenge the old imperial status quo in which news, information and entertainment media were controlled by western governments and corporate powers. They called within the UN System for a New World Information and Communications Order (NWICO), for an end to the dominance of the western colonial powers, the equitable distribution of the worlds information resources, the right to communicate, and the support of alternative and community based media in democratizing communications. Rejecting this multilateral consensus, the US and UK Governments withdrew from the Commission, arguing with the commercial media industry that any measures to limit western media corporations or journalists represented state censorship of the free flow of information.
The US instead shifted to what we now call neo-liberalism, or the Washington agenda. They called for market rules (privatization of public resources and deregulation of government oversight of corporations) at home and abroad. The Reagan Government successfully gutted anti-trust and public interest rules, as well as public support programs at home, and pushed for the implementation of similar policies in other countries through their powerful voice in the International Monetary Fund (IMF), and World Bank (WB). However, the US Government was still unable to win in the multilateral arena, failing to get culture (AV services) onto the trade block in the General Agreement on Trades and Tariffs (GATT), the precursor to the World Trade Organization (WTO). Instead, they decided to work on the less powerful countries one or two at a time, and began unilateral free trade talks with Taiwan, Canada and Mexico.
During the same decade, the number and sophistication of alternative media projects and networks grew around the world. These networks emerged both from the confluence of links between social movements, primarily from the countries of the south, mobilizing against the Washington agenda; and alternative media groups inventively seizing the newly available consumer production media. Primarily based in local geographic communities, media activists began to link across their own countries, national and regional boundaries to share resources, and campaign for greater access to radio, cable and satellite, and the newly emerging computer-linked systems. They also began to support one another on common issues, including the massive cuts in public spending and state-run services, the growth in global media conglomeration, and the US, Japanese and European calls for global standards in digital systems and copyright rules.
The trans-national networks begun in this era include the World Association of Community Radio (AMARC)
During the 1990s, a new set of activists demonstrated the more tactical use of the technologies and networks in political change. In 1989, the pro-democracy activists of Tienanmen Square in Beijing China used fax machines to get their message out to the world . In 1994, the Zapatista National Liberation Army built on what Harry Cleaver called the emerging trans-national electronic fabric of struggle, employing old and new media, and global media networks, to challenge the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). Then, in 1997, the Korean labor and social movement activists use highly sophisticated broadband media to demonstrate against the International Monetary Fund (IMF), and also opened Jinbonet, the first Web-based interactive peoples news service. This alternative vision of communications took another leap forward in 1999 when the first Independent Media Center (IMC) formed in Seattle to support the protests against the World Trade Organization (WTO). Drawing from the Zapatistas, the IMCistas created a global news network. Building on the existing networks opposed to corporate globalization, and providing easy-to-use open-publishing software, the global IMC quickly grew to over 150 centers around the world.
International Network for Communications Reform
In the last five years, the network of networks has begun to flex its collective muscles to reform the dominant global media system. Coalitions of activists, often in tandem with progressive government representatives, are calling for more democratic communications at the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) (
More than a coalition of Nos, this new network of networks demonstrates that another communications is possible and already happening. Its strength is based in cooperation via social movement organizing, media reform campaigns and the adaptation of information and communications for the greater use of all. Almost all are severely challenged by their lack of sustainable funds and technical resources, and continuing inequities between members of racialized and gendered class differences and of cultural capital. However, faced with the stark realities of neo-liberal immiseration, the network continues to build, creating a complex lattice of local-local, regional (especially south-south), and trans-national links that circumvent the old colonial north-south linkages and power dynamics. If there is one glaring structural vacuum, it is the lack of involvement of US activists, and particularly those based in US communities and social justice movements. In the next five years, one of the key challenges will be for US activists to bring together efforts for media justice in the US, recognize the leadership of the rest of the world, and assist in mobilizing against the Washington agenda at home.
What can people do to help build this network? In their own area, they can help support or produce programming for their local alternative communications media. They can also find and support the existing local, national and global campaigns to reform the mainstream corporate and state media. This is especially crucial in the US, whose media and media policy affect so much of the world. Finally they can educate themselves about whats going on in their own communities, national and especially internationally, and then help link the work of the local and global justice networks.
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A handful of Western-based transnational corporations control most media programming. They emphasize entertainment and news acceptable to business and Western foreign policy. A global network of communications activists, advocates, and researchers is working to reform the mainstream media and to construct alternative media. Alternative media projects not only serve people; they also demonstrate what democratic media might look like.
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Rochester is a city in the U.S. state of Minnesota and is the county seat of Olmsted County. Located on both banks of the Zumbro River, it is perhaps best known as the home of Mayo Clinic and is also home to an IBM facility. The city was estimated to have a population of 101,659 according to the Census' 2008 American Community Survey released in 2009, making Minnesota's third-largest city and the largest outside of the Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington Metropolitan Statistical Area. The Rochester Metropolitan Statistical Area, consisting of Olmsted, Dodge, and Wabasha counties, had an estimated population of 182,924 as of 2009.The city has long been a fixture on Money magazine's "Best Places to Live" index, and was ranked number 67 on the 2006 list but did not make the top 100 in 2009. The city has many outlets, stores, and shops that provide Muslim and Middle Eastern merchandize that includes Halal meat, Islamic Clothing, Hijab, Abaya, Groceries, Islamic Books, Clothing, Indian jewelry, wedding and marriage dresses.
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Simple pedestal light with the hexagonal 'Elegance' lamp head.
In addition, 2 alternative window shapes are available.
Light point height: 56cm
In addition, 2 alternative window shapes are available.
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Russia and Italy have entered into an agreement to build a new fusion reactor outside Moscow that could become the first such reactor to achieve ignition, the point where a fusion reaction becomes self-sustaining instead of requiring a constant input of energy.Bruno Coppi was an associate of Dr. Robert Bussard (of Polywell fame) when they worked together on the Riggatron concept [pdf].
The design for the reactor, called Ignitor, originated with MIT physics professor Bruno Coppi, who will be the project's principal investigator.
The concept for the new reactor builds on decades of experience with MIT's Alcator fusion research programme, also initiated by Coppi, which in its present version (called Alcator C-Mod) has the highest magnetic field and highest plasma pressure of any fusion reactor, and is the largest university-based fusion reactor in the world.
Wednesday, May 12, 2010
Smaller, Cheaper, Tokamak
The Italians and Russians are working on a cheaper version of ITER.
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It is time to halt this boondoggle before it sucks up precious taxpayer dollars which are so desperately needed to help the ever-growing underclass of people living in poverty.
- June 18, 2010 at 9:31:00 PM GMT+1
- EHS Director said...
RE: "Polywell is a little more complicated."
Indeed ;-)
Had to link to that comment.
Have a good weekend. - June 25, 2010 at 12:42:00 PM GMT+1
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James M. Hivner became Clerk of the Appellate Courts June 3, 2014.
In his role as Clerk, Hivner oversees a staff of 29 at offices in Jackson, Nashville, and Knoxville. He serves the Supreme Court as well as the Court of Appeals and Court of Criminal Appeals.
Hivner came to the Appellate Court Clerk's role from Shelby County, where he was Chief Administrative Officer of the Shelby County Chancery Court. Prior to his role in Memphis, Hivner had a solo practice in Alabama before moving back to Tennessee, where he had an extended career with several law firms in Memphis. He also previously worked at NASA and served as an adjunct professor of business law at the University of North Alabama and Faulkner University.
Hivner earned a bachelor's degree in business administration from the University of Tennessee and received his J.D and LL.M. in taxation from the University of Alabama School of Law. He is married and has two children.


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World famous Ford Models is holding an open casting call for children tomorrow, March 27, 2010 in New York City from 10:00 am to 1:00 pm only. They are seeking boys & girls of all ethnicities, between 36 inches and 58 inches tall. All applicants must live within 1 hour driving distance from NYC. Please


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Smart computing – National Consumers League
By Jacob Markey, Summer 2010 LifeSmarts intern
In just a few weeks, LifeSmarts teams from across the country will travel to Hollywood to compete for the 2011 LifeSmarts National Championship. They will get the chance to put their knowledge to the test, while also enjoying the city, meeting some great new people, and having a ton of fun.
Like other readers of the Savvy Consumer Blog, they would be wise to review this month's LifeSmarts post on Technology. As I mentioned back in December, there are many safety concerns consumers should keep in mind online to keep their personal information private online to better avoid identity theft. With more consumers going online to buy goods, conduct online banking, or read the news, identity theft is a persistent problem for consumers.
Here are some helpful tips to ensure that you have a safer experience online:
- Know that the site you are buying from is safe and reliable. Be thorough and review a person's or online store's background information: Check the person's online ratings to see if others give the seller positive or negative reviews; see if the business is accredited with the Better Business Bureau in their state; make sure the site is secure if you are paying with your credit card. By taking these types of actions, you will decrease the likelihood that you will do business with a person looking to scam you.
- Watch the actions you take when using an unsecured wireless network at places like cafes, hotels, and airports. Computer thieves can snoop on unsecured connections to steal your personal information and exploit it if they acquire it. It is recommended that you abstain from reviewing banking and other sensitive information when using an unsecured wireless network. If you need to work on confidential information, it is better to choose a secured wired connection or an encrypted wireless connection that requires a password.
- Do not click on links or go to sites that you are unsure of or don't trust. The page or file could contain viruses, spyware, or other material that could wreck your computer. As repairs can cost hundreds of dollars, it is important to practice safe browsing.
Teens must be aware that there is much to watch out for on the Internet. Even Web sites that look harmless may contain dangerous information. If you have any concerns about these types of issues, ask your parents for advice.
Identity theft and computer issues remain a problem. Following smart Internet browsing will help decrease the likelihood that your computer will become infected, your personal information stolen, and losing a ton of money.


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Oh, how I love to raise Monarchs! Those striped larvae that transform themselves into lovely butterflies fascinate me. Watching them munch away on milkweed generates great joy and anticipation.
I've observed Monarch (Danaus plexippus) caterpillars morph into chrysalises countless times and am always mesmerized. It brings such pleasure to release butterflies that I've raised into my garden, especially when they linger.
If you want to raise healthy Monarchs, you have to have milkweed (Asclepias spp.) and lots of it! Anyone who has ever raised Monarch butterflies has probably, at one point or another, run out of milkweed. I've driven 30 miles to the nearest reliable supplier to replenish milkweed for hungry caterpillars. It's astonishing how much these caterpillars devour during their last two instars.
The best way to get milkweed is to grow it yourself. You have more control over the quantity and quality of your plants. That said, some species of milkweed can be a chore to grow.
Tropical Milkweed (Asclepias curassavica), on the other hand, is easy to grow from seed or propagate from cuttings. (Tropical Milkweed is also known as Scarlet Milkweed, Mexican Butterfly Weed, Bloodflower, Redhead, Cotton Bush and Wild Ipecacuanha.)
While Tropical Milkweed readily grows from seeds, if you already have stock in your garden, growing it from cuttings is the easiest and fastest way to expand the number of milkweed plants needed to feed your hungry caterpillars.
Once the Monarch caterpillars have stripped the milkweed plant of all its leaves, cut the stems by pruning the plant and leaving about 5-6 inches (12-15 cm) of stems on the plant. It is painful, I know. But, this is actually a very good way to stimulate more growth and fullness of the plant.
Many Monarch experts also believe that by cutting back Milkweed, of any variety, it can reduce OE (Ophryocystis elektroscirrha) infections in Monarch butterfly populations. OE is a naturally-occurring protozoan parasite that can infect Monarch and Queen (Danaus gilippus) butterflies to the point of harming its hosts.
Even if you do not want to propagate new plants from stem cuttings, Tropical Milkweed should be pruned back on occasion, as it gets too "leggy" and ineffective at producing leaves and flowers. Also, I find that pruning Milkweed helps control and even eliminate Aphids (Aphididae spp.).
You can also place the stem cuttings in the water and soak them until they grow roots. The cuttings will grow leaves within a few days and roots in a week or two. However, you can transfer them directly to potting soil anytime. Just remember to keep the soil moist where you have planted the new stem cuttings. You can also speed up the growth by adding Miracle-Gro®, mixed half-strength each time you water.
I grow most of my Tropical Milkweed in pots. After two years, I retire them to a garden bed, removing them from their pots and trimming their roots lightly, because they can become root-bound. One season, I grew 200 plants from cuttings. It was a lot of work but I was able to feed hundreds of Monarch caterpillars!
If you have a love affair with Monarchs and Milkweed like I do. There's no cure. Accept it. Embrace it. Feed the passion and reap the joy!


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Fedora Council Mindshare representative
As a major steering committee under the Fedora Council, Mindshare is responsible for selecting a representative that covers the community aspects of the Fedora Project. This person is responsible for representing Mindshare as a collective and not as a single voice. They will be required to work with all of the various groups that collaborate with Mindshare and act as a liaison between these groups and the Council. The role will require a fair amount of time investment and good communication skills.
The following responsibilities and duties are delegated to the Mindshare representative.
To Fedora Council:
Participate in two to three Council hackfests a year (If these events happen).
Participate in two to three Council meetings a month as representative of the Mindshare committee (If these events happen).
Identify synergies and collaboration opportunities with Fedora Council responsibilities, Mindshare objectives, and the Fedora Community.
Any other normal functions of a Fedora Council member
To the Mindshare Committee:
Participate in two to three Mindshare meetings a month.
Share periodic updates and insight on Council tasks and priorities back to the team.
Listen to the needs, concerns, and hopes of the Fedora Community and relay them to the Mindshare Committee.
Duration of Service
The representative will serve in this role for two release cycles. They may also step down before that time or the Council or Mindshare may wish to replace them. Careful consideration of time commitments should be taken when making the selection, and the Council, Mindshare, and the representative should evaluate their effectiveness as a group on a fairly regular basis. In the event that the representative to Mindshare needs to step down, they should make the Committee aware and the process to choose a new rep will begin. In the event that the Mindshare Committee or the Council wish to make a change in representative, a thorough explanation of why will be required, and each situation will be handled on a case by case basis. In the event that the Council wants to change the rep, Mindshare Committee will review and make a final decision, and vice versa.
This section explains how the representative is nominated and confirmed. The selection process documented below is initiated when a rotation of representatives is motioned by the existing representative, the Mindshare committee, or the Fedora Council.
There will be a two-week nomination period for potential representatives. Nominees can be self-nominated or nominated by other members of the Mindshare Committee with their consent. Nominees are required to be members of the Mindshare Committee and should have a basic understanding of various Fedora sub-projects, and have sufficient time to perform the responsibilities required.
In the event that there are no nominees, the Mindshare committee will work with the Council to broaden the search message and request more time. Should no nominees be found after that, the role will rotate among existing Mindshare members until the next representative is identified.
After the nomination period expires, Mindshare will discuss candidates in a public meeting. A meeting discussion provides an opportunity for the team to weigh in and share another context. In the unlikely event that more than two nominees are interested in the representative role, we will allow for an additional week to discuss and come to a resolution as a Committee.
The selected person and the Council will be notified, and the person will start serving in that role as soon as possible.
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What You Need: Yellow construction paper; pencil; glue; sunflower seeds; black pipe cleaner; brown pipe cleaner; scissors; stapler.
How to Make It: Trace child's hand 8 to 10 times on yellow construction paper, using pencil. Have child cut out the hand shapes (littler kids will need help). Arrange the hands upside down (so the pencil marks don't show), overlapping in a circle, and glue, tape or staple together. Staple straight brown pipe cleaner to back of sunflower. Cut black pipe cleaner in half and bend into circle. Staple to center of flower. Use glue to add sunflower seeds to center.


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Climate change activists are being challenged by the UK police during a 24 hours mass action in front of the British Airport Association (BAA), close to Heathrow airport to protest against climate change and the expansion plans for the airport on Sunday, Aug. 19, 2007, Heathrow, England. More than 1800 police officers were deployed to counter the activists in their plan to disrupt the BAA activities on the site. Aviation is the fastest growing source of greenhouse gas emissions in the UK, and all our efforts to tackle climate change in other sectors are undone by the massive growth in air travel. Holding the camp at Heathrow aims to highlight the paradoxical government's airport expansion plans, target industry giants profiteering from the climate crisis, and raise awareness about the need to fly less. The camp also support local residents in their long-term struggle against the building of a third runway and the destruction of their communities. Heathrow, the world's busiest international airport, has been the target of Climat Camp campaing in 2007. www.climatecamp.org.uk **Italy Out** ..


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Lance Bass Insists NSYNC Will Reunite This Year, This He Promises You
Twenty years after the release of NSYNC's self-titled debut album, the voices behind "Bye Bye Bye" and "Gone" will reunite, Lance Bass has confirmed.
NSYNC, who last performed as an ensemble at the 2013 MTV Video Music Awards, aren't shrugging off their big-time anniversary, and have definite plans. Bass meant to keep the upcoming projects secret during an interview with Entertainment Tonight but eventually decided to sing like a bird, instead.
"We're doing something. I don't know if I can announce it yet," he said. "We're coming out with a really cool vinyl edition of our Christmas album because it's coming up on the 20 years of that. And then we're going to be getting our star on the [Hollywood] Walk of Fame this year at some point."
"We'll all be there!" he added. "We just have to decide on a date. We're terrible at planning things...We're five guys, so for us to make a decision about anything is really hard, so we just need to do it. So hopefully maybe around Christmas time."
In the meantime, Bass insists the guys are still in constant communication via text, and that they routinely rag on each other. He noted Joey Fatone usually bears the brunt of the mockery.
"I would have to shoot you if you saw the stuff we wrote to each other," he joked. "We bag on each other all day long. We find pictures on Instagram of us from the '90s and so we're always giving it to each other."
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Students with Disabilities
Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 states that, "No qualified handicapped person, shall on the basis of handicap, be excluded from participation in, be denied benefits of, or otherwise be subjected to discrimination under any program or activity which receives or benefits from federal assistance". If it is determined that an individual is a qualified person with a disability, then the school will develop a 504 Accommodation Plan to ensure equal access to the instructional program.
The Student Services program offers services for students with special needs. Services for traditional post-secondary adult students with disabilities are provided in the regular adult/technical classroom. They are provided to students who self-identify and request accommodations. The accommodations are provided via the Section 504 Accommodation Plan for Post-Secondary Adult Vocational Education Students. Students may request accommodation by speaking to an adult/vocational counselor. Additional information can be found at: