text: While most of the early British punk bands spoke of working-class concerns -- primarily unemployment and the shrinking U.K. economy, which was leaving a generation with nothing to do and nowhere to go -- many of the pioneering groups had working-class credentials that were suspect at best; the Sex Pistols' career was being molded by a haberdasher and would-be artist, while the Clash were led by the son of a diplomat. Sham 69, however, was different; proletarian and proud of it, Sham 69 was the voice of the people in the first wave of British punk, and if they were never as fashionable as such contemporaries as the Sex Pistols, the Clash, Wire, or the Jam (who, in their early days, shared Sham's provincial outlook and "we're with the kids" fan solidarity), they enjoyed a long run of chart successes and were a major influence on the street punk and Oi! movements which followed. Sham 69 was formed in the working-class community of Hersham (in Surrey) in 1975 by singer and lyricist Jimmy Pursey; the name came from an ancient bit of graffiti celebrating a local football team's winning season in 1969. From the start, Sham 69's politics were populist, and their sound accessible; straight-ahead four-square punk with a hard rock influence and lyrics that often used sing-along slogans in their choruses, such as "If the Kids Are United" and "(Gonna Be A) Borstal Breakout." The band went through a revolving cast of musicians early on before settling on the lineup of Pursey, Dave Parsons on guitar, Albie Slider on bass, and Mark Cain behind the drums. They began scaring up gigs where they could, and began playing the notorious London punk venue the Roxy on a regular basis, where they built up a loyal following. Step Forward, a small independent label, released the band's first single, "I Don't Wanna," in September 1977. The success of the single and the band's growing fan base prompted Polydor to sign the band in the U.K., and their first album, Tell Us the Truth -- one side recorded live, the other in the studio -- was released in early 1978. (Sire released the album in the United States, and it would prove to be the only Sham 69 album released in America until the late '80s.) By the time the album came out, Albie Slider had left the band and Dave "Kermit" Tregenna took over on bass. Sham's second album, That's Life, was released in the fall of 1978, and featured two major hit singles, "Hurry Up Harry" and "Angels With Dirty Faces"; and as many of the first wave of U.K. punk bands were beginning to peter out, Sham 69's popularity continued to grow. However, there was a fly in the ointment for Sham 69; the band's rowdy, sing-along attitude began attracting a violent and undiscriminating audience, and fighting became increasing common at the band's live shows. The group also found their gigs were becoming recruiting grounds for Britain 's extreme right-wing (and racist) political party, the National Front; while Pursey often spoke out against the NF, for some reason it was an association that wouldn't go away. While the group's third album, The Adventures of Hersham Boys, was a commercial success (as were the singles "If The Kids Are United" and "You're a Better Man Than I"), the increasing violence at concerts made it harder to tour, and Pursey began producing other bands and investigating new musical directions. (Drummer Mark Cain also quit the band, with Ricky Goldstein taking over on percussion.) After the group's fourth album, The Game, received a lukewarm reception from both reviewers and fans, Pursey opted to split up Sham 69 in mid-1980. Pursey went on to a solo career, briefly working with former Sex Pistols Steve Jones and Paul Cook, while Dave Parsons and Dave Tregenna formed a short-lived band called the Wanderers with former Dead Boys vocalist Stiv Bators. After "the Sham Pistols" failed to work out, Pursey recorded a series of ambitious but commercially unsuccessful solo albums, and Tregenna joined the Lords of the New Church. In 1987, Pursey and Parsons assembled a new edition of Sham 69; Pursey continues to tour and record with Sham 69, while also pursuing an acting career and recording solo material. ~ Mark Deming


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I just updated my main workstation today to KDE4 along with some other software, and KDE4 is truly a work of art. The entire thing is really quite beautiful with one small problem.
It may be related to legacy KDE3 stuff in my home directory, but for some reason my systray clock is blinking and the second digit of the seconds is covered by what looks like junk when in seamonkey. Seamonkey is maximized in one of my virtual desktops. Moving the mouse over other virtual desktops looks incorrect as well (the highlighting it normally does over them is not correct in appearance, the actual weirdness is hard to explain). Once I change to another virtual desktop, such as an empty one, or one inhabited by a maximized ktorrent or konsole, everything is normal until my focus returns to seamonkey in its virtual desktop. I've tried with Firefox3 as well, and this issue only seems to occur with seamonkey (I prefer the seamonkey UI to the newer firefox UI).
I've seen a few other KDE4 users on here, has anyone else seen anything like this? I can't get a screenshot of it, as the problem goes away when I bring KSnapShot into focus.
I haven't noticed the "blinking clock" behavior and I don't use seamonkey. Can you elaborate on what you mean when you say the clock is blinking? I have both KDE3 and KDE4 installed and haven't noticed any issues with it other than the seconds lagging sometimes under load.
If you want to take a screenshot, use the "Snapshot Delay" feature in KSnapshot. Give yourself enough time to setup your desktop to where the problem arises, then it should snap it just as it is.
I've narrowed this issue down a little bit more, and found another. On this one:
By blinking, I mean the clock either becomes wholly transparent if translucency effects are turned OFF, or the second digit of the seconds becomes garbled if translucency effects are turned ON. Also, the virtual desktop selector does not become garbled when translucency effects are OFF.
I've also narrowed it down to find that it only occurs when my cursor focus is in certain places, and even then, it's unreliable at best - oftentimes, typing in a text input box on a web form, or in the URL bar, will trigger it, but it's flaky about triggering.
The second issue I've found is that after opening several browser windows, progressive windows are painted entirely black - they still accept input, and become normal when sized down, but I prefer my browsers maximized. They still behave normally when they are entirely black (clicking the un-maximize button works, even, as do other non-WM parts of the window.) This impacts firefox, seamonkey, etc. I have not tested opening many of the same type of windows in other applications, so it's hard to tell if it's mozilla-specific, or even perhaps GTK-specific. I'll muck with this a bit today and see if I can narrow it down.
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This black window bug can occur with any sort of window, and not just root windows either - it just happened to the ktorrent window which pops up to allow one to select which files in a torrent to download. It's also happened when I opened a bunch of kpdf instances.
The black-window-bug (or BWB) has plagued nvidia users with compiz for a long time now. Basically, it happens when the video card runs out of memory when using the GLX_EXT_texture_from_pixmap extension.
While you haven't said what video card you are using, I'm going to guess that it's an nvidia card and that you are either using compiz or KDEs built-in compositor, correct?
When first researching this, I did see a bunch of stuff on the web about the beryl/compiz nvidia bug that caused a similar situation, but since I'm not using beryl/compiz, I didn't figure that it applied. I also saw a similar bug on the KDE bug tracker, but it is a fairly old entry and spoke of more recent nvidia drivers fixing the issue. I've asked the maintainer on that bug for some more information, since I couldn't find any more details on my own regarding that issue.
I'm running the latest (from ports) nvidia driver, which is version 173.14.12 with a GeForce 6200 PCIE16 card. With regards to the built-in compositor, I'm not entirely sure. I'm using KDE4.1.1 from ports, on a recent RELENG_7 system. KDE4 is set to use OpenGL, where the options are OpenGL or Xrender.
As far as the former issue goes, it doesn't seem to be related - no one else is mentioning it when talking about the nvidia black window bug, at least. Once I figure out what the fix is for the black window bug and apply it, I'll see if the first issue goes away...
Yeah, I can't comment on the first issue, but the second is definitely the notorious BWB. Just like compiz and beryl, the OpenGL backend for the KDE4 compositor uses GLX_EXT_texture_from_pixmap.
I'm not sure there really is a fix, per se. Generally, newer versions of the driver resolved that issue for *most* compiz/nvidia users. I know that in compiz, using the --indirect-rendering would often reduce the chances of hitting that bug in the driver, but I don't know if there's a way to force indirect rendering for kwin.
A brief summary of the information I've found so far on the "black windows bug" from around the web:
Someone having similar difficulties with KDE4 on Linux: http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=118778 (This links to a KDE bug tracker entry where the KDE devs blame nVidia and there's no real useful information as far as I can tell, but you may wish to check it out.)
Some proposed fixes for Compiz, which I've not tried, but plan to mess around with later: http://forum.compiz-fusion.org/showthread.php?t=1762
A fix for it (which stinks, since one ought to be able to enjoy their video card):
System Settings -> Desktop -> Desktop Effects: Un-click the checkbox for "Enable desktop effects"
Note: This doesn't fix the first bug I mention - may need to submit it to the KDE bug tracker and see what they say there, but getting a screencap of it doesn't seem possible, which makes life a bit harder...
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AAC Northeast Region Live Your Dream Grants Awarded
Golden, CO—The Northeast Region of the American Alpine Club is pleased to announce the winners of the first Live Your Dream Grant. The grant—new this year—was born from the idea that the most important climbs are our own. It funds individuals or small teams in the pursuit of their climbing dreams. The Live Your Dream grants provide seed money to climbers—of all disciplines, ages, and abilities—who have ambitions to expand their climbing horizons.
The four grant winning teams from the Northeast Region plan trips to Peru, Wyoming, and Alaska:
• Erik Eisele and partner Michael Wejchert's dream is to push the alpine skills they've acquired and honed in the mountains of New England out into the word's greater ranges. Eisele and Wejchert will live this dream by attempting a new route on Urus Este (5,420 m) in Peru's Cordillera Blanca.
• Sean Yaw's dream is to climb a big route in the mountains, a route that will take multiple days on technical terrain. This summer, before graduate school and "a 'nine-to-five job with health insurance and two weeks of vacation a year'†that he sees inevitably in his future, he will live this dream via an attempt, with partner Bryan Friedrichs, of a route on Broken Tooth (9,050') in the Alaska Range.
• Brian Threlkeld and Paul Clifford share a dream to climb as an efficient team, traveling light and fast on technical alpine rock. They will spend two weeks this summer on the long, remote climbs of the Cirque of the Towers in the Wind River Range, pushing their alpine rock skills to the next level, both individually and as a team.
• Alison Criscitiello and partner Lauren Peritz both dream of being well-rounded climbers with the skills to be able to travel comfortably in the mountains on technical snow, rock, ice, and mixed terrain. Criscitiello describes herself as "a mountaineer comfortable on ice and snowâ€. Peritz, on the other hand, is "primarily a rock climber with less experience in the big mountainsâ€. Together, they will visit the Little Switzerland area of the Central Alaska Range and climb the long rock routes off the Pika Glacier. The trip will require their combined skill-sets and allow them to both teach and learn from each other.
The "Live Your Dream†Climbing Grants are developed and administered locally with community support—each Region of the American Alpine Club has it's own grant program.
In the Northeast Region, the "Live Your Dream†Climbing Grant seeks to support climbers from a range of ages and experience levels, as well as a range of climbing disciplines (sport climbing, bouldering, traditional rock climbing, ice climbing, mountaineering, etc.). Climbers from Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, and Maryland are eligible for the Northeast Region grant.
The AAC launched the program this year with $12,000, which will be distributed to at least a dozen individuals or small teams in pursuit of their personal climbing dreams. The emphasis of the grant is on projects that have significant positive impact on grantees' progressions as climbers. Regions have been encouraged to supplement that funding with fundraising events in their own areas. The 2012 Northeast Region "Live Your Dream†Climbing Grants have the support of the American Alpine Club, the Mount Washington Valley Ice Festival, and individual donors.
The winners were selected by a committee consisting of Northeastern climbers Carolyn Riccardi, Pete Ward, Jack Tracey, Freddie Wilkinson, and Northeast Regional Coordinator Sarah Garlick. Garlick said, by email, "Freddie was off in Nepal on an expedition, so he emailed and phoned in his opinions from his tent! We received so many inspiring applications, it was quite difficult to narrow them down to the final grant winners. The committee looked for the applications that distinguished themselves from the others. In the end, the winners held two main things in common: their proposed projects demonstrated both a clear progression in their personal climbing experiences, and that they would help them attain long-held climbing dreams.â€
"The committee would like to congratulate all the grant winners and wish them safe and successful climbing trips. We are looking forward to the next round of Live Your Dream grant applications—deadline September 1. We loved all the alpine climbing applications in the first round, so keep them coming — but please spread the word to your rock climbing friends too! We'd love to see more sport climbing, trad climbing, and bouldering applications!†said Garlick.
About the Live Your Dream Grant
Each Region of The American Alpine Club has its own local grants programs to support climbers in realizing their climbing ambitions and dreams. These grants are developed and administered locally with community support.
The purpose of the Northeast "Live Your Dream" Grant is to fund individuals or small teams in pursuit of their personal climbing dreams. The emphasis of the grant is on projects that have significant positive impact on grantees' progressions as climbers, as opposed to cutting-edge or exploratory objectives. We seek to support climbers from a range of ages and experience levels, as well as a range of climbing disciplines (sport climbing, bouldering, traditional rock climbing, ice climbing, mountaineering, etc.). Climbers from Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Washington D.C., Massachusetts, and Maryland are eligible for the Northeast Region grant.
About The American Alpine Club
The American Alpine Club is a 501(c)(3) charitable organization that provides knowledge and inspiration, conservation and advocacy, and logistical support for the climbing community. The AAC advocates for American climbers domestically and around the world; provides grants and volunteer opportunities to protect and conserve the places we climb; hosts local and national climbing festivals and events; publishes two of the world's most sought-after climbing annuals, The American Alpine Journal and Accidents in North American Mountaineering; cares for the world's leading climbing library and country's leading mountaineering museum; manages the Grand Teton Climbers' Ranch as part of a larger lodging network for climbers; and annually gives $80,000+ toward climbing, conservation, and research grants to adventurers who travel the world. Learn about additional programs and become a member at americanalpineclub.org. Join the AAC's online community at facebook.com/americanalpineclub, americanalpineclub.org/news, or follow all the latest press on the Club's Press Room RSS feed at americanalpineclub.org/prfeed.


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It is only right to show compassion for two of our members of Congress from South Florida — namely, Ileana Ros-Lehtinen and Mario Diaz Balart.
Like the rest of their ilk, they're home on recess to eschuchar a sus electores, which is local dialect for "listen to their constituents."
To wit: They're both conservatives, and normally could be counted on to hew to the party line on all the usual hot-button topics — except immigration. They represent districts heavily populated by immigrants, and those who can vote have friends and relatives for whom adjustments in federal policy are more than just a political abstraction, a cheap applause line or a bargaining chip.
To understand Ros-Lehtinen's and Diaz-Balart's predicament, you need to remember that the bulk of the obstructionist wing in the U.S. House Republican caucus comes from districts that, along with having hard line convictions on issues such as abortion and gun control, believe that immigrants are a drain on this country and should be rounded up and shipped back to wherever they came from. The ones who slipped in illegally certainly don't deserve to be rewarded with "amnesty."
One can see how that position might ruffle some feathers down in the Miami area. Our two stalwart reps, who normally identify with the conservative way of thinking in Congress, are delicately trying to distance themselves from it on this one issue. The more intolerant their colleagues appear, the more their broad brush tars Ros-Lehtinen and Diaz-Balart. All politics is local, and the local folks will want to know why they aren't spearheading the battle in Washington for their interests.
Until now, South Florida Republican representatives have been given a quiet pass on immigration, in recognition of the realities of their situation. Now the issue has become a flash point (ironically, ginned up by rabble-rousers on the right), and they can't weasel away from it.
It should make for some compelling town-hall meetings, since the anti-immigration types promise to show up in force. Remember the Obamacare free-for-alls back in 2010 that had Democrats on the run? It's going to be the same tough crowd — only the target has changed.


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Judging by the number in attendance, the business cards exchanged, the buzz of conversation and the sounds of laughter, all accompanied by some lively music, the third "McLean Orchestra is Instrumental to Business" (i2B) mixer held at Clyde's in Tysons Corner on Jan. 23 was a ringing success. The gatherings are part of a multi-purpose outreach program, providing a taste of what audiences can expect from their concert series and allowing the orchestra to showcase its value to business as a resource for networking—all for free.
The organization's board president, Aileen Pisciotta, came up with the idea. "People sometimes perceive an orchestra as unapproachable," said Pisciotta. "The audience is in their seats, the musicians up there on the stage. We wanted to make a closer connection. This is one way to make orchestral music accessible, playing music that is well known and giving the company and the musicians a way to be of service. My tagline for this year is 'Community in Concert.' I think that captures our mission."
Pisciotta's sentiments were reinforced by Executive Director John Huling, and Immediate Past President Wayne Sharp. "Our events have been described as like having an orchestra in your living room," commented Sharp. "You meet friends and make friends. It's really social. Really a sense of community." Executive Director Huling agreed. "Of course our cake and champagne post-concert gatherings might have something to do with that friendly atmosphere," Huling said with a laugh, "and our pre-concert dinners get things started off on the right foot."
About one hundred members of the local business community turned out for the event. Corporate sponsors like Capital Wealth Management, McKeever Services, LTBD and more generously ensured that there were plenty of hors d'oeuvres and beverages for the crowd. The evening's entertainment included a soprano soloist and a brass quintet, and wrapped up with the awarding of a number of door prizes.
The orchestra's next performance, "Musical Fairy Tales," will take place on Saturday, Feb. 2, at Oakcrest School in McLean. Tickets are $40 for adults, $30 for seniors, and $15 for youth. The pre-concert dinner with a discounted menu will be held at Evo Bistro. A visit online to www.mclean-orchestra.org will provide more information about the organization, the concert series, the McLean Youth Orchestra, the i2B events and the opportunity to become a corporate sponsor.


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2014 Browns
Posted 23 June 2014 - 06:57 AM
The Browns have to let there defense win games. If the team can buy into a tressel style system its possible to do some damage in the AFC.
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If rex Grossman can lead a team to the super bowl anything is possible.
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Kennedy, on 07 July 2014 - 12:29 PM, said:
hopefully between now and then he gets his life together.
Good post ............ and as a side note, after passing on Sammy Watkins the Browns will open the season with Miles Austin (244 yards in 2013 and no TDs) and Nate Burleson (461 yards in 2013 and 1 TD) at WR. And neither of the two ever play a full season.
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The offense looked plain disturbing. Jordan Cameron the pro bowl tight end looked really, really bad. The only exception is our two horses in the backfield alternating carries. When they ran the stretch correctly it was very effective.
The defense, as always, seems to be this teams calling card. I absolutely love the 46 defense especially with our size up front, and if gilbert can mature into a shut down corner they will be a force to be reckoned with. I don't think our defense got any sizeable "upgrade" at any position over last year, but the addition of Dansby and Whitner and their attitude and leadership can't be underestimated. They have a toughness about them that is infectious.
Tashaun Gipson. I love it. He will emerge as a big time player maker this year, especially in Pettine's defense. Look at what Jarius Byrd did as the center fielder in buffalo under him.
Browns fans have been saying it for a decade, but this could really be the year that the defense takes that step from good to great.
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That has to be this teams offensive identity. You have to be able to string together first downs and keep your defense off the field. They dominated the line of scrimmage in the 2nd half because they stuck with it, wore the d line out and were relentless in holding their blocks. That was the most impressed I've been with a Cleveland backfield since Byner and Mack.
West is a stud. Making 2 guys miss in the backfield and still finding a gap for 5 or 6 yards is a rare skill. Not to mention that whack he just absorbed from Shazier.
I hope this is the direction this team takes. If you're averaging 6 a carry why are you throwing on 3rd and 2? Control the clock, control the ball, control the game.
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YOu may have a system you want to run, but offensively The Browns may not have the personal to do it. Besides, the weather is a huge factor is this league. Running helps with that as well. Steelers did that with Big BEN in his first few years til he got more comfortable reading d's.
Posted 10 September 2014 - 12:12 PM
If Cleveland can control the ball and limit Brees's possessions they can keep it close. If they catch the 3 and out bug early it will get ugly fast, just like the 1st half last week. I hope for a good game but I'm leaning towards NO by 2 scores.
Posted 10 September 2014 - 02:10 PM
Graham worries me more than Colston, or them picking on Gilbert. Who is going to cover him.
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Next week will be true test, with Baltimore.
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Titans, Steelers, @Jacksonville, RAiders, and Bucs. Before they have their brutal closing part of their schedule. Momentum and confidence could help them through the last half, Where they have Bengals twice Ravens again, @Panthers, @Colts, @falcons, and @bills. Other than the Bills, The teams after the bye will probably be in the playoff hunt. So we can see if the Browns have closed the gap and have improved enough to take that next step.
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Design a Football Engine and Learn How to Apply Design Patterns (Observer, Decorator, Strategy)
Solution Architect: "But you can use patterns."
Dumb Developer: "Yes, but can I get it as an ActiveX control?"
This article is expected to:
- Introduce patterns to you in a simple, human readable (?) way
- Train you how to really 'Apply' patterns (you can learn patterns easily, but to apply them to solve a problem, you need real design skills)
- Provide you with a fair idea regarding the contexts for applying the following patterns: Builder, Observer, Strategy, and Decorator (well, they are few popular design patterns)
- Demonstrate you how to apply the Observer pattern to solve a design problem
In this entire article, you will go through the following steps:
- You will model a very simple football game engine.
- You will identify the design problems in your football game engine.
- You will decide which patterns to use to solve your design problems.
- You will actually use the observer pattern to solve one of your design problems.
As a prerequisite, you may need to get a grip on reading and understanding UML diagrams.
Using The Code
The related zip file includes the code, UML designs (in Visio format), and so forth. After reading this article, you may download and extract the zip file—using a program like Winzip—to play with the source code.
An Overview Of Design Patterns
Even without much knowledge about design patterns, designers and developers tend to reuse class relationships and object collaborations to simplify the design process. In short, "A Design pattern consists of various co-operating objects (classes, relationships, and so on)". They provide solutions for common design problems. More than anything else, they offer a consistent idiom for designers and programmers to speak about their design. For example, you can tell a friend that you used a 'Builder' pattern to address some design specifications in your project.
A consistent classification of patterns for common design problems are provided by Erich Gamma, Richard Helm, Ralph Johnson, and John Vlissides [also known as the Gang of Four (GOF)]. The Gang of Four (GOF) patterns are generally considered the foundation for all other patterns.
The basic principle of using patterns is reusability. Once a problem is addressed some way, you are not really expected to re-invent the wheel if you properly understand the concept of pattern-centric software engineering. Here are some important points to remember about design patterns.
- A Design Pattern is not code. It is, in fact, an approach or a model that can be used to solve a problem.
- Design Patterns are about design and interaction of objects; they provide reusable solutions to solve common design problems.
- A Design Pattern is normally represented with the help of a UML diagram.
Some real hands-on experience with patterns may provide you a better idea!!
Architecting Your (Simple) Football Engine
You are working with a popular computer game developing company, and they made you the Solution Architect of one of their major projects—a Soccer (Football) Game Engine (nice, huh?). Now, you are leading the process of designing the entire Football game engine, and suddenly you have a lot of design considerations, straight away. Take a look:
- How do you identify the entities in your game system?
- How do you identify the design problems?
- How do you apply patterns to address your design specifications?
Identifying Entities
First of all, you need to identify the objects you use in your game engine. For this, you should visualize how the end user is going to use the system. Assume that the end user is going to operate the game in the following sequence (to keep things simple).
- Start the game
- Select two teams
- Add or remove players to/from a team
- Pick a playground
- Begin playing the game
Your system may have a number of PlayGrounds in it, a number of Teams, and so forth. To list a few real-world objects in the system, you have the following:
- A Player who plays soccer
- A Team with various players in it
- A Ball that is handled by various players
- A PlayGround where the match takes place
- A Referee on the ground to control the game
Also, you may need some logical objects in your game engine; for example,
- A Game that defines a football game, constitutes teams, ball, referee, playground, and the like.
- A GameEngine to simulate a number of games at a time.
- A TeamStrategy to decide a team's strategy when playing.
So, here is a very abstract view of the system. The boxes represent classes in your system, and the connectors depict 'has' relationships and their multiplicity. The arrow head represents the direction of reading. In other words, a GameEngine has (can simulate) Games. A Game has (consists of) three referees, one ball, two teams, and one ground. A team can have multiple players, and one strategy at a time.
Figure 1: High level view
Identifying Design Problems
Now, you should decide:
- How these objects are structured
- How they are created
- How they behave when they interact each other, to formulate the design specifications
First of all, you have to write down a minimum description of your soccer engine to identify the design problems. For example, here are few design problems related to some of the objects that were identified earlier.
- Ball: When the position of a ball changes, all the players and the referee should be notified straight away.
- Team and TeamStrategy: When the game is in progress, the end user can change the strategy of his team (for example, from Attack to Defend).
- Player: A player on a team should have additional responsibilities, such as Forward, Defender, and so forth, that can be assigned during runtime.
- PlayGround: Each ground constitutes of gallery, ground surface, audience, and the like; each ground has a different appearance.
So now, see how to identify the patterns to address these design problems.
Identifying Patterns to Use
Have a look at the design problems you identified above (yes, do it once more). Now, see how to address these problems by using design patterns.
1: Addressing the design problems related to the 'Ball'
First of all, take the specifications related to the ball. You need to design a framework such that when the state (position) of the ball is changed, all the players and the referee are notified regarding the new state (position) of the ball. Now, generalize the problem:
Specific Design Problem: "When the position of a ball changes, all the players and the referee should be notified straight away."
Problem Generalized: "When a subject (in this case, the ball) changes, all its dependents (in this case, the players) are notified and updated automatically."
Once you have such a design problem, you refer to the GOF patterns, and suddenly you may find out that you can apply the 'Observer' pattern to solve the problem.
Observer Pattern: Define a one-to-many dependency between objects so that when one object changes state, all its dependents are notified and updated automatically.
In this case, you used this pattern because you need to notify all the players when the position of the ball is changed.
2: Addressing the design problems related to 'Team' And 'TeamStrategy'
Next, you have to address the specifications related to the team and team strategy. As was discussed earlier, when the game is in progress, the end user can change the strategy of his team (for example, from Attack to Defend). This clearly means that you need to separate the Team's Strategy from the Team that uses it.
Specific Design Problem: "When the game is in progress, the end user can change the strategy of his team (as in from Attack to Defend)"
Problem Generalized: "You need to let the algorithm (TeamStrategy) vary independently from clients (in this case, the Team) that use it."
Then, you can chose the 'Strategy' pattern to address the above design problem.
Strategy Pattern: Define a family of algorithms, encapsulate each one, and make them interchangeable. Strategy lets the algorithm vary independently from clients that use it.
3: Addressing the design problems related to 'Player'
Now, address the design specifications related to the player. From your problem definition, it is clear that you need to assign responsibilities (such as forward or defender) to each player during runtime. At this point, you can think about sub classing (inheritance) by creating a player class, and then inheriting classes such as Forward or Defender from the base class. But, the disadvantage is that when you do sub classing, you cannot separate the responsibility of an object from its implementation.
In your case, sub classing is not the suitable method because you need to separate the responsibilities such as 'Forward', 'Midfielder', 'Defender' and so forth from the Player implementation. A player can be a 'Forward' one time; some other time, the same player can be a 'Midfielder'.
Specific Design Problem: "A player on a team should have additional responsibilities, such as Forward or Defender, that can be assigned during runtime."
Problem Generalized: "You need to attach additional responsibilities (such as Forward or Midfielder) to the object (in this case, the Player) dynamically, without using sub classing."
Then, you can chose the 'Decorator' pattern to address the above design problem.
Decorator Pattern: Attach additional responsibilities to an object dynamically. Decorators provide a flexible alternative to sub classing to extend functionality.
4: Addressing the design problems related to 'PlayGround'
If you take a look at the specifications of Ground, you see that a ground's appearance is decided by various sub units such as gallery, surface of the ground, audience, and so on. The appearance of the ground may vary according to these sub units. Hence, you need to construct the ground in such a way that the construction of the ground can create different representations of the ground. In other words, a ground in Italy may have different gallery structure and surface when compared to a ground in England. But, the game engine may create both these grounds by calling the same set of functions.
Specific Design Problem: "Each ground constitutes of gallery, ground surface, audience, and so forth; each ground has a different appearance."
Problem Generalized: "You need to separate the construction of an object (ground) from its representation (the appearance of the ground) and you need to use the same construction process to create different representations."
Builder Pattern: Separate the construction of a complex object from its representation so that the same construction process can create different representations.
Now, you can chose the 'Builder' pattern to address the above design problem.


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One of two professional theaters in rural
Missouri, Ozark Actors Theatre brings live drama to Rolla
OTHER theater
One of two professional theaters in rural
Missouri, Ozark Actors Theatre brings live drama to Rolla
OTHER theater
One of two professional theaters in rural
Missouri, Ozark Actors Theatre brings live drama to Rolla
OTHER theater
One of two professional theaters in rural
Missouri, Ozark Actors Theatre brings live drama to Rolla
OTHER theater
One of two professional theaters in rural
Missouri, Ozark Actors Theatre brings live drama to Rolla
by Bob McEowen
The house lights
dim as a small wooden stage is awash in colored light. Instantly, Rollas
Cedar Street Center for the Arts is transformed into 18th-century London.
A matinee performance of Oliver! has begun.
Few outside south-central
Missouri have ever heard of the Ozark Actors Theatre. But the obscure
theater company has 16 seasons and more than 60 productions to its credit.
The brainchild of
Rolla native Gail Andrews, the drama group performs in a 180-seat theater
housed in a one-time Baptist church at 7th and Cedar streets near downtown
Unlike community
theater groups in countless small towns, the Ozark Actors Theatre is
a professional drama company a member of the Actors Equity
Association, a labor union representing more than 40,000 actors and
stage managers in the United States. Each production includes paid actors
and production staff in addition to area amateurs who volunteer their
time and talents.
really unique about us, and even different from some other summer theaters
in Missouri, is our mix of seasoned professionals and locals,
says Edward Coffield, executive producer of the theater, known locally
as OAT. There are people in Oliver! who are incredibly
well-known in this community. They are doing major roles right alongside
equity actors from St. Louis.
The Ozark Actors
Theatre presented two productions during its 2003 season, which ran
from June 19 through July 20. Always . . . Patsy Cline,
a musical tribute told from the perspective of a close friend of the
singer, featured just two actors, both professionals. Oliver!
boasted a cast of 41 primarily local children who portrayed orphans
and pickpockets in the Charles Dickens classic. The cast, the largest
in the theater groups history, also included college students,
teachers, a nurse, a church organist and a local government official.
Im always
amazed by their talents because I dont have those kinds of talents,
says John Petersen, Rollas director of community development.
The gal that played Nancy in Oliver! and plays Patsy
Cline, she is fantastic. Her voice will take the paint off the back
wall with just the quality and the volume.
Rollas company
of amateur thespians benefits by exposures to these talents many
of whom can sing, dance and act with such skill that audiences are left
to wonder why they are not on bigger stages. Some, in fact, are. Like
CoCo Sansoni, who portrayed Patsy Cline, many of the professionals who
appear at the Cedar Street theater have extensive resumes of stage and
television performances.
To the audience,
however, the distinction between amateur and professional fades as rehearsals
turn to opening night.
The challenge
is to keep up and not let the professionals down, says Kittie
Robertson, OATs managing director and an occasional actress in
the companys productions. Even though youre local
and not being paid, the expectation is still there that you will perform
in a professional manner.
To help achieve
this end, the company holds a two-week drama camp each summer to prepare
children for the stage. One product of the camp is 7-year-old Lydia
Kent Bagnall, who played the title role in Oliver!
Bagnalls co-star,
Alan Knoll, is a professional actor from St. Louis who has appeared
in 11 OAT productions. Ironically, Knoll found summer housing in the
home of Intercounty Electric Cooperative members Kent and Lindsay Bagnall,
the parents of Lydia and her older sister, Hannah, who also appeared
in the musical.
Lydia and
I would run our lines in the morning when we would have a bowl of cereal,
Knoll says.
This close collaboration between equity actors and amateurs is unusual
in Missouri. The only other professional theater outside the states
big cities is the older and better-known Lyceum
Theatre of Arrow Rock.
Those involved with
the Ozark Actors Theatre are quick to compare their company with the
highly respected Lyceum. While the association clearly flatters OAT,
it is not without merit.
Many of the professional
actors who appear at the Cedar Street theater have also performed at
Arrow Rock. Coffield, who oversees the Rolla productions during his
summer hiatus from the Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, has an even closer
tie. His twin brother, Phillip, is associate producer of the Lyceum
If the Ozark Actors
Theatre can claim equal status as an equity theater, it has not yet
matched the Lyceum in terms of repertoire or attendance. While OAT members
say their season will expand with time, they are not leaving ticket
sales to chance.
Robertson, a professional
meeting planner, says public perceptions of Rolla have hampered the
theaters growth. Rolla has not traditionally been a tourist
destination on any level, the Intercounty Electric Cooperative
member says.
People think
of Rolla as a stop on the way to Branson. There is no reason we cant
be a tourist destination.
To help fill its
seats, the Ozark Actors Theatre promotes matinee performances as the
centerpiece of day tours to Rolla. Increasingly, tour bus operators
rely on Robertson to provide an entertaining excursion to the I-44 community.
Three years ago we had six bus tours come in, she says.
This year we have about 20.
Besides an afternoon
play at the Cedar Street theater, groups tour local attractions such
as the USGS mapping center or the Memoryville USA antique auto museum,
visit local wineries and see historic sites. Typically, groups eat lunch
and shop at Rollas Cedar Street Village, a cluster of historic
buildings down the street from the theater.
Together, these
sites are beginning to offer visitors a reason to do more than merely
gas up at the interstate off-ramp. We are taking the leadership
role for tourism in Rolla, Robertson says.
Petersen, a member
of the OAT board of trustees, says more than just boosting to the local
economy, the theater adds to the quality of life in Rolla.
Having a theater
like this is a real asset when people are looking at living in a place.
Is this a good place to live or not? Live theater makes Rolla a little
more attractive not such a backwater like people might think,
says Petersen.
Former board member,
theater volunteer and proud parent Kent Bagnall agrees.
There arent that many small towns that have a live theater.
This is what separates one small town that just sits there from a small
town that has life.
For more information
write: Ozark Actors Theatre, P.O. Box K, Rolla, MO 65402; call (573)
364-9523 or visit www.ozarkactorstheatre.org


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Martin Luther King Jr. at Arizona State University
Martin Luther King Jr.'s speech entitled "Religious Witness for Human Dignity" presented at Goodwin Stadium, Arizona State University on June 3, 1964. Introduction by ASU President G. Homer Durham. This recording is followed by a brief recording of King's remarks to NAACP supporters at the Tanner AME Church in Phoenix earlier in the same day. Related photographs and correspondence of President Durham are included.
- 2 English
- 5 Public
- 4 King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968.
- 2 Durham, G. Homer (George Homer), 1911-1985.
- 2 Ragsdale, Lincoln Johnson, 1926-1995.
- 1 Abernathy, Ralph, 1926-1990.
- 1 African Americans -- Civil Rights -- Arizona.
- 1 African Methodist Episcopal Church -- Phoenix (Ariz.) -- History.
- 1 Harvill, Richard Anderson, 1905-
- more
- 1 National Association For The Advancement Of Colored People -- Arizona -- History.
- President Durham Correspondence re: Martin Luther King at Arizona State University
- Audiotape Photographs
- Lincoln Ragsdale with Martin Luther King, Jr. at Arizona State University [photograph]
- Martin Luther King, Jr. at Arizona State University [photograph]
- Religious Witness for Human Dignity [audio recording]
Selected correspondence from two files of ASU President G. Homer Durham's papers regarding planning for and reaction to Dr. King's visit to ASU. Especially noteworthy is President Durham's June 4, 1964 letter to John G. Babbitt, President of the Arizona Board of Regents providing details about how the event was organized and his perceptions of Dr. King's presentation. On June 9th President Harvill of the University of Arizona wrote with a message of support and acknowledgement of King's previous appearances at that institution.
- Created Date
- 1964
Photo depicts Lincoln Ragsdale at the podium, Goodwin Stadium, Arizona State University June 3, 1964. Martin Luther King Jr., and Ralph Abernathy are visible.
- Created Date
- 1964-06-03
Martin Luther King Jr.'s speech, recorded by Lincoln Ragsdale, at Goodwin Stadium, Arizona State University, June 3, 1964. The recording includes a brief talk with Arizona NAACP supporters at the Tanner Chapel AME Church in Phoenix earlier the same day A transcript of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., speech by Kristen LaRue, Department of English, Arizona State University.
- Contributors
- LaRue, Kristen
- Created Date
- 1964-06-03
G. Homer Durham, Martin Luther King, Jr., Ralph Abernathy, an unidentified participant, Rev. Louis Eaton and Msgr. Robert Donohoe at Goodwin Stadium, Arizona State University. June 3, 1964
- Contributors
- Gilbert, Stan, ASU Photographic Services
- Created Date
- 1964-06-03
Photos depicting the physical condition and labelling of the original reel to reel audiotapes.
- Contributors
- Harp, Matt
- Created Date
- 2014


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NEW YORK (AP) -- Carmelo Anthony scored 25 points, Amare Stoudemire had 17 points and seven rebounds off the bench, and the New York Knicks extended their winning streak to four games with a 96-86 victory over the Milwaukee Bucks on Friday night.
J.R. Smith had 17 points and Tyson Chandler pulled down 20 rebounds in New York's fourth straight win over Milwaukee.
Ersan Ilyasova led the Bucks with 19 points and seven rebounds. Monta Ellis added 16 points and Brandon Jennings had 14.
The Knicks trailed for the majority of the game until late in the third quarter when they stormed back.
With 4:02 remaining in the period, New York was down 70-63 after a turnaround jumper by Ellis. But the Knicks went on an 8-0 run as Anthony hit a 3-pointer and Raymond Felton connected on an alley-oop with Chandler, who finished with nine points.
Smith then hit a 3-pointer to make it 71-70 with 2:04 left.
Ilyasova drove to the basket and was fouled by Chandler before making a free throw that tied it at 71. Samuel Dalembert briefly gave the Bucks a 73-71 lead with a tip-in after Ilyasova stole the ball from Anthony.
But the Knicks answered right back. Anthony scored on a drive and was fouled, converting a three-point play that put New York ahead for good with 42.5 seconds left in the third.
The Knicks opened the fourth quarter with another run. Stoudemire made a pair of free throws and a hook shot in the lane to give the Knicks a 78-73 lead before Milwaukee called a timeout after Pablo Prigioni drew a charge on Mike Dunleavy with 9:35 left.
After Jennings' layup made it 78-75, the Knicks went on an 8-2 run and never looked back. Iman Shumpert scored on a layup and Chandler followed with a dunk to make it 82-75. Marquis Daniels answered with a layup for Milwaukee but Shumpert made another basket and Felton followed with a 3-pointer to make it 87-77 before the Bucks called timeout with 4:58 to go.
NOTES: The Knicks honored former New York City Mayor Ed Koch during a timeout in the first quarter. Koch died of congestive heart failure Friday at 88. ... New York Yankees ace CC Sabathia was in attendance. ... The Bucks had won 12 of 14 before losing four straight to the Knicks. ... The Bucks are 0-12 when held to 90 points or fewer this season. They scored 88 in a loss to the Chicago Bulls on Wednesday night.


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Year: 2001
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using a nonverbal writing spell to rearrange "Tom Marvolo Riddle" to "I am Lord Voldemort".]]
- "Your adversary has no warning about what kind of magic you are about to perform, which gives you a split-second advantage."
- —Hermione Granger quoting Standard Book of Spells, Grade 6[src]
A nonverbal spell is a spell which is performed without saying the incantation out loud. Performing spells nonverbally is very difficult and requires a good deal of practice, as it requires concentration and mental discipline alone. Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry begins teaching nonverbal magic to students in their sixth year in Defence Against the Dark Arts, Charms, and Transfiguration; the students are expected to use spells nonverbally from then on. Harry Potter noted that several students in his class looked "like they had received an overdose in U-No-Poo", a substance that causes constipation, while attempting nonverbal spells.[1]
Some spells, such as Levicorpus, are easier to perform nonverbally than others. Most spells, however, seem to be less effective than normal when the incantation is not said. For example, the unnamed curse that critically injured Hermione Granger during the Battle of the Department of Mysteries might have been fatal had Antonin Dolohov not been silenced when he used it, according to Hogwarts nurse Poppy Pomfrey.[2]
Known usesEdit
|Rubeus Hagrid
|Unknown, possibly Incendio
|Conjured fire in 1991, using his umbrella.[3]
|Rubeus Hagrid
|Human to pig
|Gave Dudley a pig's tail, using his umbrella
|Rubeus Hagrid
|Tapped the rowboat to self-propel it
|Quirinus Quirrell
|Unknown, possibly Hurling Hex
|Caused Harry's broomstick to buck violently during a Quidditch match in 1991.[3]
|Quirinus Quirrell
|Unknown, possibly Incarcerous
|Conjured ropes in 1991.[3]
|Arthur Weasley
|Unknown, possibly Oculus Reparo
|Repaired Harry Potter's glasses with a nonverbal spell in Diagon Alley.[4]
|The memory of Tom Marvolo Riddle
|Unknown writing spell, possibly Flagrate[5]
|in the Chamber of Secrets.[4]
|Remus Lupin
|Magical fire - possibly Bluebell flames
|On his way to Hogwarts in 1993. He also did this without using his wand.[6]
|Remus Lupin
|Patronus charm
|On his way to Hogwarts in 1993.[7]
|Albus Dumbledore
|Extinguished and re-lit a candle during the opening feast. He also did this wandlessly.[7]
|Remus Lupin
|Unknown spell that had a shower of sparks, possibly Alohomora or equivalent
|Opened the cupboard containing the Boggart during the Gryffindor's first defence lesson .[6]
|Remus Lupin
|Unknown - possibly Incendio or equivalent
|Relit the candles in his office during Harry's Patronus lessons. He also did this without using his wand.[7]
|Remus Lupin
|Unknown transfiguration spell, possibly Homorphus, has a flash of blue-white light. Spell simultaneously performed by Sirius Black
|Used to force Peter Pettigrew out of his Animagus form in the Shrieking Shack.[6]
|Sirius Black
|Unknown transfiguration spell, possibly Homorphus, has a flash of blue-white light. Spell simultaneously performed by Remus Lupin
|Used to force Peter Pettigrew out of his Animagus form in the Shrieking Shack.[6]
|Remus Lupin
|Unknown, possibly Incarcerous
|Conjured ropes to restrain Peter Pettigrew in the Shrieking Shack. [6]
|Remus Lupin
|Packing spell
|Used to pack his possessions while clearing out his office. [7]
|Barty Crouch Jr.
|Unknown, possibly Depulso
|In 1995, while disguised as Alastor Moody, he pushed the students´desks to the classroom walls, only by waving his wand.[8]
|Rita Skeeter
|Unknown - possibly Incendio or equivalent
|While interviewing Harry Potter in the broom cupboard in 1994 she took out some candles from her bag and lit them with her wand without saying anything.[8]
|Fleur Delacour
|Conjured water during the first task of the Triwizard Tournament.[8]
|Madam Pomfrey
|Unidentified healing spell (I)
|Used by Madam Pomfrey to heal Harry Potters injuries after the first task of the Triwizard Tournament.
|Peter Pettigrew
|Unknown, possibly Incarcerous
|Conjured ropes in 1995.[8]
|Marietta Edgecombe
|Conjured water during the first DA meeting.[9]
|Unidentified female Hufflepuff student
|Unknown, possibly Stupefy or Expelliarmus
|Performed during a DA meeting after assistance from Harry Potter. Sent a male student hurling backwards.[10]
|Kingsley Shacklebolt
|Memory Charm
|Altered Marietta Edgecombe's memory of the DA meetings.[2]
|Antonin Dolohov
|A Dark curse
|Against Hermione Granger during the Battle of the Department of Mysteries after she silenced him.[2]
|Bellatrix Lestrange
|Unknown, but most likely the Killing Curse
|In 1996, she used a nonverbal Curse with a green jet of light to kill a fox.
|Nymphadora Tonks
|Patronus Charm
|Conjured her Werewolf Patronus without saying the incantation in 1996.
|Severus Snape
|Unknown, a spell that opened the main gates of Hogwarts, which had recently been fortified by enhanced protective enchantments.
In 1996, he used a nonverbal spell to open the Hogwarts gates. It is unlikely that this was Alohomora since Harry had tried this before, although he had been outside the gates instead of inside like Snape was.
|Fred Weasley
|Transfigured a knife into a paper aeroplane
Ron Weasley threw the knife at him, and Fred transfigured it "with one lazy flick of his wand" without speaking any sort of incantation.[1]
|Hermione Granger
|Shield Charm
|The first one in her Defence Against the Dark Arts class to perform nonverbal magic successfully. She continually used nonverbal spells in Defence Against the Dark Arts, Charms, Potions, and Transfiguration.[1]
|Ron Weasley
|Unknown Conjuration Spell
|Unknowingly made it snow while sitting down in the Great Hall[1]
|Harry Potter
|Though Harry found nonverbal magic very difficult to do, he was eventually able to cast this spell, which is meant for nonverbal use, nonverbally.[1]
|Albus Dumbledore
|Conjured a crystal goblet in order to drink the potion inside the basin in the seaside cave.
|Albus Dumbledore
|Full Body-Bind Curse
|Immobilized Harry Potter while he was under his Invisibility cloak right before being disarmed by Draco Malfoy. This allowed Harry to witness Severus Snape kill Albus Dumbledore.[1]
|Severus Snape
|Unknown, possibly Protego
|Deflected several curses cast at him by Harry Potter in 1997.[1]
|Lord Voldemort
|Move Charity Burbage's body.
|Antonin Dolohov
|Unknown, possibly Incarcerous
|Used against Ron Weasley in a skirmish at the Luchino Caffe.[11]
|Remus Lupin
|Spell that with a loud bang sends victim flying back as if punched; possibly Flipendo or Everte Statum
|Used against Harry Potter during their argument in Grimmauld Place in 1997.[11]
|Hermione Granger
|Stunning Spell
|She silently stunned Mafalda Hopkirk as part of the infiltration of the Ministry of Magic.[11]
|Hermione Granger
|Hermione nonverbally conjured a wreath of Christmas roses for Harry Potter to place on his parents's graves in Godric's Hollow when they visited the village on 24 December, 1997.[11]
|Hermione Granger
|Stinging Hex
|Jinxed Harry Potter's face in an attempt to hide his identity when she, Harry, and Ron were caught by Snatchers in 1998.[11]
|Minerva McGonagall
|Patronus Charm
|Conjured three Patronuses to alert the other Heads of Houses to the upcoming battle in 1998.[11]
|Hermione Granger
Unknown, possibly Blasting Curse
|With a "deafening blast from her wand" but no incantation, Hermione repelled Fenrir Greyback from an injured Lavender Brown during the Battle of Hogwarts.[11]
Known practitionersEdit
The following is a list of wizards and witches known to have nonverbally performed spells that are usually performed with an incantation.
- Albus Dumbledore[1]
- Antonin Dolohov[2]
- Arthur Weasley[4]
- Barty Crouch Jr.[8]
- Bellatrix Lestrange [1]
- Bill Weasley [1]
- Draco Malfoy[1]
- Filius Flitwick
- Fleur Delacour[8]
- Fred Weasley[1]
- Hermione Granger
- Harry Potter
- Female Hufflepuff[12]
- Kingsley Shacklebolt[2]
- Lord Voldemort
- Luna Lovegood[11]
- Madam Malkin[1]
- Madam Pomfrey[8]
- Marietta Edgecombe [9]
- Minerva McGonagall[11]
- Morfin Gaunt [11]
- Nymphadora Tonks [1]
- Peter Pettigrew[8]
- Quirinus Quirrell [3]
- Remus Lupin[6] [11]
- Rubeus Hagrid [3]
- Severus Snape[1]
Possible usesEdit
- Fred and George Weasley cast Expelliarmus nonverbally when they were surreptitiously disarming Zacharias Smith at the first meeting of Dumbledore's Army.[2]
- Harry Potter attempted to use the Summoning Charm nonverbally and wandlessly to retrieve his fallen wand when he was paralysed by Draco Malfoy, but to no avail.[1]
- Harry Potter performed nonverbal magic when he cast his Patronus during the Battle of Hogwarts.[13]
- Molly Weasley killed Bellatrix Lestrange with a nonverbal magic during the Battle of Hogwarts.[11]
Behind the scenesEdit
- In many of the Harry Potter films, especially in the later ones, combat and duels are portrayed as being conducted almost entirely nonverbally, such as the Duel in the Ministry Atrium and Harry's final duel with Voldemort during the Battle of Hogwarts. This is probably done to keep the duels fast-paced and dramatic.
- In the Harry Potter video games, non-verbal magic is commonly used, as pronouncing every spell could have been annoying.
- In addition, in LEGO Harry Potter: Years 1-4 and its sequel, nonverbal magic is almost always used as there is absolutely no dialogue.
- In the film adaptation of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, Quirrell used a Nonverbal wandless spell to start up some fire in order to stop Harry Potter from running.
- Hermione Granger may have used Wingardium Leviosa in the film version of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix to levitate the prophecies to smash one of the Death Eaters chasing them.
- It is notable that Rubeus Hagrid was able to perform nonverbal magic despite both having been expelled from Hogwarts well before his sixth year and despite having had his wand snapped.
- Wands made of pine are known to be sensitive to non-verbal magic.[14]
- Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (First appearance)
- Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (film)
- Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
- Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (film)
- Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
- Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (film)
- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (film)
- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (film)
- Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
- Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (film)
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
- LEGO Harry Potter: Years 1-4
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Motorbike Escape
Notes and referencesEdit
- ↑ 1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 1.11 1.12 1.13 1.14 1.15 Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
- ↑ Given the fact Riddle was not technically alive at this point, only a sentient memory, is can be argued that he wasn't actually casting a spell.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 6.5 Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (film)
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 8.4 8.5 8.6 8.7 Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
- ↑ Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (film)
- ↑ 11.00 11.01 11.02 11.03 11.04 11.05 11.06 11.07 11.08 11.09 11.10 11.11 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
- ↑ Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (film)
- ↑ In Ch. 32 of Deathly Hallows, Harry casts his Patronus at Luna Lovegood's urging and with great effort. No incantation is mentioned, but Harry's perception of sound at the time was severely distorted by the presence of many Dementors, and there is also no mention of the others who also cast the Patronus speaking the incantation. It is also not specifically stated to be a nonverbal or silent use. See this article's talk page for more information.
- ↑ Pottermore


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If you love cheese, the area between the North Sea and the Baltic is the perfect destination. It's a real foodie heaven! Experiences with nature and fine food are the key ingredients of the approximately 500 km Schlweswig-Holstein Cheese Route that runs from Lauenburg through Lübeck, Kiel and Flensburg and then from the island of Föhr along the North Sea coast and the Elbe river to Hamburg before returning to Lauenburg.
The Cheese Route is set in Germany's cool north, a region encircled by the North Sea, the Baltic Sea and the Elbe river, bounded by a coastline formed by the wind and the sea, and host to a diverse natural landscape of droughts and floods, beaches, coastal mudflats, dykes, islands of all shapes and sizes and exceptional sunrises and sunsets set against the roar of the sea and the cries of the gulls. The narrow, flat land between the North and Baltic Seas depicts a familiar scene of lighthouses, trees bent in the wind, typical thatched cottages, Frisian cows and sheep grazing in lush pastures. But what few people realise is that the milk from these animals is used to produce more than 120 varieties of cheese.
And now for an insider tip
Schleswig-Holstein is a traditional cheese-making area whose speciality cheeses are still a real insider's tip. The Schleswig-Holstein Cheese Route connects around 30 dairies across the whole region where passionate cheese experts lovingly produce cheese in the traditional way and in never-ending variety: delectably mild, full of tangy flavour or mildly aromatic, from cow's, sheep's or goat's milk. Cheese is so much more than an accompaniment to bread.
A slalom of flavour
Despite all the technical advances of the last few years, cheese has remained a craft defined by the artistry and passion of cheesemakers. Although you can buy direct from many dairies, watch the cheese being made and enjoy a tasting, this is not the case everywhere due to strict hygiene regulations. If you'd like to look around a cheese dairy, it's best to make an appointment in advance.
A land beyond the horizon
A magical energy draws people to the coast. It draws barefoot walkers, cloud-watching beach dreamers, people who love nothing more than to race through the waves and those who like to wait patiently in the harbour for the fishing boats' return. Follow the rhythm of the tide and leave your day-to-day routine behind. This is a narrow land between the North and Baltic Sea and at its narrowest point between Husum and Schleswig is only 36 km wide. However, there is more to this area that just coastline, lighthouses and mills.
Yet more interesting stops
Steeped in history, the charming inland landscape is characterised by arable farming and pasture farming. The farmhouses have remained intact to this day.
Every side of the road is lined with magnificent country estates, proud Herrenhausen manors, Baroque castles, brick Gothic, wonderful ecclesiastical buildings and countless museums, and with a varied programme of events on offer, the Cheese Route has something for everyone, even cyclists and hikers. Why not try it out for yourself?
Length: approximately 500 km
Theme: fine food, cheese dairies, sea, countryside
Behl/b. Plön: cheese dairy
Bendorf: Lohmühle cheesemakers (Käsehof Lohmühle)
Boksee: Ziegenhof Rehder farm
Cismar: abbey, Demeter cheese dairy (Demeter-Hofkäserei)
Dannau: cheese dairy (Bauernkäserei)
Lauenburg: old quarter, museums, castle ruins
Lübeck: UNESCO World Heritage Site, dairy, museums
Glücksburg: moated palace, Energy Adventure Park (Energie-Erlebnispark)
Holtsee: dairy cooperative, cheese cellar (Käsekeller), tours
Molfsee: historical dairy and garden, open-air museum
Owschlag: sheep farm (Milchschafhof)
Westerholz: farm (Ziegenhof)
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RNC alleges voting machines are flawed
With Election Day less than a week away, the Republican National Committee on Thursday alleged voting machines in Nevada and five other states are flawed and improperly showing voters choosing President Barack Obama when they thought they had selected GOP nominee Mitt Romney."I understand that, in a significant number of cases, voting machines in your states have populated a vote for Barack Obama when a voter cast his or her ballot for Mitt Romney," RNC chief counsel John Phillippe Jr. wrote in a letter to top election officials in Nevada, Ohio, Kansas, North Carolina, Missouri and Colorado.The letter does not, however, claim any votes for the wrong candidate have actually been recorded. Phillippe alleged the problem's causes include "miscalibration and hyper-sensitivity" of the touch-screen machines, which have been in use in Nevada for several years. This year, Nevadans began using the devices for early voting Oct. 20. Secretary of State Ross Miller called the RNC allegations "irresponsible and unfortunate" and said the organization failed to provide any direct evidence needed to open an investigation."To date, our multijurisdictional task force has not received any direct, firsthand complaints from voters experiencing voting machine errors of the type you describe," Miller wrote in a response to the RNC. Only one day of early voting remains in Nevada, but voters in the state also will be using the machines on Election Day.Larry Lomax, Clark County voter registrar, said he's heard of a few complaints about the machines in which people thought they had touched Romney's name and Obama's name came up."But nobody is claiming they didn't correct it," Lomax told The Associated Press, adding voters have several opportunities to review and correct their ballots before recording their votes."The machines work just fine," he said. "It is possible for a machine to get out of calibration. That simply means if you touch somewhere, it may read the touch in a slightly different place."I've seen this happen before, and it's the voter touching the wrong spot almost every single time," Lomax said.Allegations of faulty machines arose in the 2010 U.S. Senate race between Democratic Majority Leader Harry Reid and GOP candidate Sharron Angle. Angle's campaign alleged that voters who tried to cast a ballot for her reported that the voting machines instead selected Reid's name. She claimed she lost because of fraud.Election officials said there was no evidence the Senate race was rigged, and noted that no official complaints were ever lodged with poll workers or election officials.The RNC on Thursday asked that all voting machines be recalibrated before Tuesday's election and that more technicians be on hand to address any problems.Republicans also want polling-place officials to post a sign and verbally remind voters to double-check their ballots before votes are recorded, and to notify poll workers of any problems.


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After 20 NFL weeks, it has come down to a family affair in Super Bowl XLVII, a first-time event that could also signal the beginning of the end for the salary cap era's most successful dynasty.
Yes, John and Jim Harbaugh will now take sibling rivalries to the next level. Coach Jim Harbaugh's San Francisco 49ers pounded their way into the NFL's title game with a bruising, 28-24 victory over the Atlanta Falcons in the NFC championship game and Coach John Harbaugh's Baltimore Ravens upset both the Broncos and Patriots — 28-13 on Sunday — on the road to earn their way into the league's title game.
It is the sixth trip to the Super Bowl in 49ers history, while the Ravens will make their second.
Here's an early look at the matchup on the field:
A quarterback test. No Peyton Manning, no Tom Brady, no Aaron Rodgers, no quarterback with a Super Bowl ring already on his finger.
The 49ers' Colin Kaepernick, with all of nine career starts, postseason included, will face the Ravens' Joe Flacco with the title on the line. It will be each up-and-comer's first trip to the title game.
Kaepernick has three passing touchdowns and two rushing TDs, and has thrown just one interception in his two postseason wins. Flacco is now the league's road king in the postseason, having earned his sixth career playoff win on the road Sunday in Foxborough, Mass.
In three playoff wins this season, Flacco has outdueled rookie Andrew Luck, Manning and Brady. Flacco threw eight touchdown passes without an interception in the three playoff victories and keeps rising to meet the biggest moments.
And in the end, history may say it was Flacco, on a wind-swept January day in New England, who ended a run of five Super Bowl trips in an 11-season span for the aging Patriots.
"They were just better than we were," Patriots coach Bill Belichick said after the game.
Now vs. later. The 49ers are upstarts, built largely by a team administration that is no longer there, including former coach Mike Nolan. But Jim Harbaugh has forged them into winners behind a bruising offense that now features the whip-armed Kaepernick behind center.
The 49ers reached their first Super Bowl since a glory-filled run when San Francisco won five titles in five appearances from the 1981 through the 1994 seasons behind two Hall of Fame quarterbacks: Joe Montana and Steve Young. Sunday, San Francisco posted the largest comeback in NFC championship game history, coming back from a 17-0 deficit in the first half for their 28-24 victory over the Falcons.
They are a team built to move forward from this point, with Jim Harbaugh in just his second season.
The Ravens have been a different team since linebacker Ray Lewis stood up in a team meeting and announced this was his "last ride." Lewis is in his 17th season, safety Ed Reed his 11th, center Matt Birk his 15th, wide receiver Anquan Boldin his 10th and outside linebacker Terrell Suggs his 10th.
It is Lewis' last ride, but it may well be this group's last title journey as well.
Stats vs. intangibles. Many of the numbers will add up to a 49ers championship. They have the league's No. 4 rushing attack and the No. 2 scoring defense, and they had nine players selected for the Pro Bowl.
Kaepernick is the new-age quarterback, a read-option runner who can throw with power and accuracy.
But the Ravens are a poster team for what so many of those who make their living in football believe in with all of their souls — that emotion, the belief in the group, can still tip the scales.
There's something at work. The Ravens' aging defense has played 87, 87 and 82 plays in the team's three playoff wins, an astounding total that usually spells doom for any defense that attempts it in back-to-back-to-back games.
But the Ravens played with more energy than the far younger Colts in the wild-card round, played with more energy than the Broncos in a double-overtime game and played with more energy than the Patriots on Sunday.
In the end it meant the Patriots, who were 67-0 in Brady's tenure at quarterback when leading a home game at halftime, are now 67-1, and will watch the Harbaugh brothers in the Super Bowl.
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8-4: John Harbaugh's record in the postseason as the Ravens' coach. Sunday was Baltimore's third trip to the AFC championship game in Harbaugh's five-season tenure.
7: Regular-season starts for 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick, who led his team into the Super Bowl with Sunday's win. It's the third-lowest total for a QB in a season in which he went on to start a Super Bowl. The Giants' Jeff Hostetler had four starts in 1990 and the Rams' Vince Ferragamo had five in 1979.
Super Bowl XLVII
Site: New Orleans, La., Mercedes-Benz Superdome
Kickoff: Feb. 3, 4:30 p.m.
Baltimore wins if: It can maintain the kind of defensive momentum that has carried it through January. The Ravens have slowed the two highest-scoring offenses in the NFL in the regular season — the Patriots and the Broncos — and they consistently forced those two high-powered teams to play far more conservatively than they did in the regular season. So much so, Patriots coach Bill Belichick punted from Baltimore's 35- and 34-yard lines in Sunday's game.
San Francisco wins if: Second-year quarterback Colin Kaepernick can keep his wits about him when people will be coming at him from all angles to tell his story. Kaepernick made Jim Harbaugh look like a member of the football Mensa club after the 49ers' coach made the controversial switch at quarterback. Kaepernick didn't have the same kind of historic day against the Falcons that he had against the Packers a week earlier, but he did not have a turnover at the Georgia Dome and put together three touchdown drives of at least 76 yards in the win.


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Farrell has numbers in mind for Pierzynski, Ross
FORT MYERS, Fla. -- Known for being a workhorse behind the plate throughout his career, A.J. Pierzynski might play a little less than he's accustomed to this season. But it won't come as a surprise to the 37-year-old, who is in his first season with the Red Sox.
"When we talked with A.J. in the offseason during kind of the recruiting process, we outlined that we saw it as 100 to 110 starts for A.J. and 50 to 60 for David [Ross]," said manager John Farrell. "That was an estimate. I'm certainly not going to hold myself to an exact number. That was kind of the breakdown we saw because of David Ross's capabilities and how productive he is. That's just kind of a general estimate."
Pierzynski started 111 games for the Rangers last season, but he spent time on the disabled list with an oblique strain.
The Red Sox feel fortunate to have a backup catcher like Ross, who was the team's primary starter in the American League Championship Series and the World Series.
"You can't measure David Ross's value by the number of at-bats or what the batting average is," said Farrell. "We know he can be a productive player. His vision or his view of the game -- he's a leader in the role that he's in. In games when he's not in the lineup, it's almost like having another coach on the bench."


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Maya Angelou to Appear on Campus
Dr. Maya Angelou, renowned poet and writer, will return to speak at Augustana College at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 23, at the Elmen Center.
This will be the second time Angelou has appeared on campus. She previously spoke in 2007 at the Elmen Center.
The event is sponsored and organized by the Union Board of Governors (UBG) Culture and Fine Arts Committee, a student-run campus programming organization.
"We are excited to welcome Ms. Angelou, one of this generation's greatest poets, to our campus again and to share her beautiful words with the region," President Rob Oliver said.
Angelou's works include "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings," "The Heart of a Woman," and "A Song Flung Up to Heaven." She most recently published "Mom & Me & Mom," written about her mother and released earlier in 2013.
Dr. Angelou has served on two presidential committees, was awarded the Presidential Medal of Arts in 2000, the Lincoln Medal in 2008, and has received three Grammy Awards. President Clinton requested that she compose a poem to read at his inauguration in 1993. Dr. Angelou's reading of her poem "On the Pulse of the Morning" was broadcast live around the world.
Dr. Angelou has received over 30 honorary degrees and is the Reynolds Professor of American Studies at Wake Forest University.
Tickets are $20 for bleacher seats and $40 for floor seats. Tickets are free for Augustana students with a valid ID; $10 for Augustana faculty/staff with coupon code. Tickets are available at www.augietickets.com.
Contact info:
Jeff Venekamp
Director of Student Activities
Jeff Venekamp
Director of Student Activities


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Jails is one of the best surf spots in the maldives its along right with some very fast sections the water is hot and its not crowded. Why the name? It´s a former jail, now small military area.
Its a very humbling experience at Jails when one minute you duck dive a 6 ft slab of water just about breaking on bare coral only to turn around and see the Maldives worst criminals in jail 100m in front of you. It gives you that feeling of freedom as a surfer.
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By Anonymous , 10-02-2007
Amazing - Amazing Inside Bowl Session...hollow deep tubes that can scare the shit out of you !!! really hollow inside amazing :)
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maafushi local-island - who can say me something about this local-island? I'm a foreigner and would like to visiting this island for few days. What i have to do? Thanks for answer.
By Geel , 16-06-2005
If Jails is GIRIFUSHI - If "Jails" is referred here to the Girifushi Island then I don't think anybody can see any of the Maldivian Worst Criminals near 100 meters away as the spot is described in the spot page. As far as I know, Girifushi is nothing but a Military training camp. No criminals there. If its but Maafushi Island, then there are criminals.
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So I was thinking about this character today, and how she could be incorporated into the Classics line. I never really thought much about her before honestly. However, one of the things that strikes me about this character is the potential her abilities give her to be something of an oracle, perhaps not only seeing over long distances and other dimensions, but maybe even into the past or the future. As I thought about it, I think the idea would be pretty cool since that would make her a very powerful ally and intregal part of the rebellion.
Something else struck me as I was reading her style guide bio. In it, it talks about how she is "proud of her plummage and likes to strut around Etheria showing them off". That got me to thinking, what if Peekablue was an entertainer, perhaps like a showgirl? Maybe she runs some kind of Vegas-esque entertainment complex on Etheria? Since we know that the Horde would more than likely would have an establishment like this under it's thumb, it would stand to reason that perhaps this would make Peekablue reluctant ally of the Rebellion, as doing so could mean the end of her very profitable business.
Just some ideas I had as I thought about it. I was curious what some of you guys would think of this take on the character.


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I have been sorely remiss about fulfilling my 1940 Blog Ambassador duties, but I have an excuse.....I've been very busy filling that responsibility over at the History Burgoo blog site for KHS. As some of that activity tapers down to a slower pace, and as we all wait for April 2nd, I find myself mulling over some questions and tips that might be helpful as we get towards C-Day (Census Day).
1. Audience: I have been so focused on my genealogy friends and acquaintances, that I had been forgetting about my general friends and family. We all work or live in a world where you know the genealogically receptive people in your sphere, and usually censure your conversations accordingly - while I love to tell non-genealogists stories, I know their eyes will glaze over immediately if I slip into source citation or pedigree recitations. But recently, while attending a family funeral, I was checking myself, and letting the census info fly! It was kind of liberating, but we need to remember that the closer April 2nd gets here, the more we can hype this to our general friends and family! I am now making it a point to use this as a conversation starter regardless of the audience. Hopefully we'll snag some younger folks permanently into the world of genealogy/family history!
2. Questions: As excited as I am about this event, there are many questions that remain:
I'm not concerned about finding my family in the NARA images. I know which family units were rural and therefore easily findable. I also know which family units were young nomads in big cities, so I'm content with waiting on the index for them.
Some of us are concerned about image viewing on the 2nd - will it be able to support all of us? Word from Archives.com is that the system was designed to hold 25,000 viewers at one time. Ok, I guess this will test the volume of genealogy users - take note industry - this could be VERY interesting!
Then, how about the index? I am already signed up and have been indexing regular records as well the 1940 simulation batches to be prepared. But we are still not clear on how the batches will be released for the real 1940 census. On what date will the first batches be ready? Which batches will be ready first? At RootsTech, FamilySearch hinted that larger population states, such as New York would be released first.....but since so many things have changed since then, we're not sure if that is true anymore. If it is, what is the state release schedule going to be like? Also, I've had patrons ask if they can index their county - which would be great since FamilySearch was wanting "community experts" to be involved for the best accuracy possible - but we have not heard if county level batches will be available - somehow I doubt it.
Alternate indexing entities: So we know that Ancestry and MyHeritage are joining in the hype by advertising that they too will have an index. However, they have not revealed how or when this will happen. We know they will not have advance access to the images - they will get them the same time FamilySearch and the rest of the gang gets them to start our volunteer indexing projects. So who will index for Ancestry and MyHeritage? Since they have not called for volunteers and did not join up with the group that will be coordinating the massive nation-wide indexing project, I'm very curious as to how they will get this done, and who will be doing their indexing. FamilySearch advertised that they want community experts to volunteer so the interpretation of writing/surnames can be the most accurate. Yet, Ancestry and MyHeritage are not asking for any such thing. MyHeritage has even advertised that they will guarantee a 98% accuracy rate. Hmmmm, exactly how will that be achieved? As a company whose headquarters is across the ocean - I hope they will not be using non-US folks to do the indexing. The same goes for Ancestry - I hope these two companies are not planning on outsourcing their indexing just to get it done faster. I really think both companies should put out some disclosure on this aspect of their indexing model. Either way, I know who will be indexing through the community project - good ole local Americans who look at these records or hear these surnames everyday - which is why - the only index I'm going to trust once finished is the collaborative edition that we have all worked on together! (the1940census.com)
3. Homework: And so, I am still sorely behind on gathering my addresses for the people I want to find. I am not concerned about the rural farmers who lived in the same area for decades - they will be right where I left them in the 1930 census. But, since it is important to take a family inventory of who would have been alive in 1940, and narrow down our location to have the enumeration district numbers ready for April 2nd.....here are just a few of the people I will be looking for, and the challenges associated with each.
Uncle Myron and Aunt Anna Beyersdoerfer (brother and sister) - due to the questions raised by this photo in 1935, I will be VERY interested in their incomes listed and residences in 1935 versus 1940. Anna may be hard to find since she was listed in a few different residences in Cincinnati at the time - but I will find her eventually. For more info about why I am curious, see one of my earliest blog posts: Looking at Anna.
The Pace siblings: Nomadic group of brothers and sisters who did travel quite a bit in the Ohio and Kentucky areas due to work circumstances. Also, sisters all married, so need to find all the surnames, etc. This group alone will take some digging to have all of my info ready for searching each one.
The Pace childrens' Mama: Fannie Pace Cottle. I know roughly where she was living, but some of the supplemental answers on the Census will give me significant information about a woman I never had the pleasure of meeting.
My Paternal Grandparents: Charles and Bessie Daniels. Still living in the heart of downtown Cincinnati for 1940, but I need to ask my Dad where he thinks they were living at the time, because this side of the family, despite having moved around a lot over the years, still had this uncanny ability to point out every little spot they ever resided to proudly pass on that info to the next generation.
Speaking of Dad: He was born in 1939, so I think he would have looked just like this when the Census was taken :-)
Maternal Grandparents: Roy and Freida Watts: The boys in the middle here were not yet born, but the parents were fairly young newlyweds in 1940, possibly still living in Covington, since they hadn't fulfilled Pappa's dream of farm ownership until after the War. They might prove to be a bit elusive.
Maternal Great Grandparents: John & Nellie Beyersdoerfer. On their Pendleton County farm in 1940 with probably only a couple of their kids still in the house.....but since "Ma" was known for feeding homeless ("hobos") men from the back porch during the depression, I will be interested to see what kind of income level a small family farm would have been bringing in at the time.
Anyway, these are the groups I'll be starting with - get busy everyone - it's almost here!
CHere's a bit of fun from the Stooges as they take the 1940 Census :-) The first few minutes are priceless....."Are you married or happy?"


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A short recap of Creative Commons-founder Lawrence Lessig's evangelization talk (or rather motivation session for the converted) at 23C3 in Berlin about the differences between culture and code.
The fundamental change is the fact that code had been used to create things like printer-drivers and such. But - since a few years, code, or rather the tools that had been coded have become a main element in the creation of culture as we use and witness it today. Especially the whole mashup-culture is heavily relying on the techniques and the mindset of digital creation and open access to other's works for sampling from and building upon, etc. Popular examples are the anime music-clip subculture like the Muppet Hunter, the Jesus Christ the Musical-clip or lots of pieces that borrow from news networks' footage to make their own suggestive edits.
So you could regard this as the pinnacle of today's tools of creativity, even the most important contemporary form of expression, probably even replacing speech and text in an American mass-media context as the main means to reach people. Having said this (and that's a bit of a rhetorical trick), he argued that threatening the freedom of this kind of usage of media equals threatening the freedom of speech itself. But, and that's a fact, the nagging question is whether this form of expression is legal or not, both in the US and elsewhere. Lessig told of a recent meeting in NYC where lawyers tried to explain the four conditions which you have to fullfill to be able to work under the law of Fair use. It took four lawyers, one hour and in the end the audience was only more confused. To him he said, it seemed a bit like the the Soviet Union somewhere in between the height of its power and its downfall and brought up the question just how you could have convinced the Soviet officials to change their system in that era. In his view, the system as it exists today doesn't work anymore (and it's constantly being ignored by many people because of that) and needs to be changed, so how would that work?
You can find some more pictures on the 23C3-pool on Flickr and an actual gnu was also spotted at the venue.
Here's the complete talk on Google Video. (Via Joi Ito)
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