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How to Conquer the Indian Chaos
In his new book, "Conquering the Chaos: Win in India, Win Everywhere," former Microsoft India chairman Ravi Venkatesan examines what it takes for multinational companies to succeed in India.
Mr. Venkatesan was chairman of Microsoft India from 2004 to 2011. Prior to that, he was chairman of engine and power generation company Cummins India. He is now on the board of directors at Volvo and Infosys and is founder and chairman of Social Venture Partners India, among other commitments.
Here is an excerpt from his book, which is published by Harvard Business Review Press and released on Tuesday.
How Microsoft India Bounced Back:
"Microsoft is the digital divide," said India's IT minister, shortly after announcing the launch of a new low-cost PC running Linux, not Windows. Definitely not a great start to my tenure at Microsoft in India.
In early 2005, Microsoft was at the top of its game Google and a resurgent Apple were in the future, and the primary threat was from free, open source software, which had captured the imagination of governments. Governments were concerned about Microsoft's large market shares in software and sought a free alternative to make computing accessible to millions. As in many countries, admiration for Microsoft and Bill Gates was mixed with distrust. That had much to do with the company's legal battles with the US Department of Justice and the European Union, but there were challenges in India, too. Microsoft India had gained a reputation for aggressive business practices, unaffordable prices, and the lack of relationships. That's what we had to change.
EARNING TRUST THROUGH BETTER BUSINESS PRACTICES. Microsoft had sharp elbows in India when it came to doing business. That was particularly true about piracy. Many large Indian enterprises were underlicensed; they used more software than they had paid for. Smaller firms ran almost entirely on pirated software. Every now and then, CEOs would receive an aggressive communication or a threatening visit from an arrogant Microsoft employee.
Microsoft wasn't wrong to tackle piracy, but such engagements lacked finesse. Moreover, people felt the cost of software was egregiously high relative to the plummeting cost of hardware. That rankled in a poor country like India. The government worried about the growing digital divide: those with access to IT would do much better than those denied access to it, amplifying inequity. As the industry leader, people expected Microsoft to develop solutions to bridge the digital divide, but the company didn't seem sensitive to the issue. It was easy for leaders in business and government to see open source software as the panacea. That resulted in a wave of experimentation with Linux and Open Office, with everyone trying to reduce their dependence on Microsoft or using the threat to extract better prices from us.
Fortunately, there was greater sensitivity toward such sentiments in Microsoft's headquarters in Redmond. An increasingly philanthropic Bill Gates; Brad Smith, the thoughtful general counsel; and Craig Mundie, the chief technology officer but also a sort of secretary of state for the company, were all highly attuned and receptive to the need for change.
Microsoft decided to implement a differential pricing framework globally and particularly in India. A new public-sector pricing framework transparently linked software prices to per capita GDP. A program called Partners in Learning enabled schools to get Microsoft Office for about $2.50 a year. A version of Windows called Starter Edition for India, which sold for around $20 to OEMs, made an operating system more affordable for first-time PC users. It also made local-language versions of Office available at attractive prices, to which India's state governments warmed.
To correct the perception that Microsoft Office in India cost $300, the company launched cheaper products for consumers and small businesses—products like Office Home and Student for around $70, and Windows Small Business Server—and made them available everywhere. Start-ups, student developers, and qualifying NGOs enjoyed access to the full suite of Microsoft software free through an imaginative program called Dreamspark. These efforts dramatically reduced the level of dissonance in the ecosystem. While the pricing issue never went away, perceptions of Microsoft as being unresponsive steadily changed.
Concurrently, as part of a global mission called Unlimited Potential, Microsoft launched another set of initiatives to bridge the digital divide by increasing the use of computers in India by the less affluent. Microsoft invested over $20 million to provide computer literacy to nearly 700,000 schoolteachers, who have trained almost 32 million schoolchildren and large numbers of retiring soldiers and policemen and their children. With another initiative called Saksham, Microsoft entered into a partnership with the government, NGOs, and private-sector partners to create computer kiosks in 100,000 Indian villages. These programs enabled productive partnerships with key state governments in an increasingly federal country.
WINNING FRIENDS AND POLICY INFLUENCE. One memorable conversation I had when I was Microsoft India's CEO was with Deepak Pathak, a professor of computer sciences at IIT Bombay, my alma mater. An ardent supporter of open source software, Pathak was forthright in his criticism of Microsoft, but since I was a former student, tempered it with advice. Most of his advice had to do with building bridges. Microsoft stood alone ("I, me, and myself," was how Pathak characterized us), and came across as arrogant and made no friends. I vowed to change that.
It's tough to engage key stakeholders in ways that don't come across as pure self-interest. The intersection between self-interest and the national interest turned out to be policies that would increase the usage of information and communications technologies, and bridge the digital divide. Embedded in this were knotty issues such as the protection of IP rights, technology neutrality in place of a bias toward open source software, the government's use of IT, and e-governance.
The traditional approach to tackling policy issues in India is lobbying. However, those who are in charge of policy and those who influence it are cynical. They are more appreciative of companies that have developed broad national and industry viewpoints rather than narrow company-specific agendas. They expected thought leadership and the ability to bring global expertise and experience from companies like Microsoft. Microsoft India therefore invested in building the capability for thought leadership on issues important to us. We created senior roles—a national technology officer, a chief security adviser, an expert on standards, a cell comprising experts on intellectual property, and a corporate affairs team—to develop the capability to engage with industry bodies and the government. We framed issues around what is good for India and Indian industry, providing global evidence for our point of view, bringing in subject-matter experts from around the world, and creating coalitions for viewpoint. The approach proved to be effective.
Microsoft invested in creating an ecosystem of people and organizations that had a stake in developing a healthy policy environment. It ramped up engagement with India's industry associations, like NASSCOM, FICCI, and CII, in which we chaired influential committees on issues like intellectual property rights, technology and education, and software taxation. Realizing that Indian companies like Tata, Infosys, and Wipro had more credibility and influence than did foreign companies, we forged alignment with those firms on policy issues.
India's civil society, consisting of over 3 million NGOs, is an important voice. Most NGOs tend to be skeptical about the motivations of big business, especially multinationals like Microsoft. Through a program called Jyoti, Microsoft collaborated with NGOs to support initiatives to empower unemployed youth, marginalized women, farmers, fisherwomen, victims of human trafficking, and rural self-help groups by providing computer literacy and free access to computers through community centers. Between 2004 and 2011, Microsoft invested about $10 million in this program, training 430,000 people in 1,425 community technology learning centers across 27 states.
Microsoft Research India (MSR), set up in Bangalore in 2005, became a platform for collaboration with top academic institutions and leading computer scientists to advance the state of computer science in India. MSR earned trust and goodwill in two ways. It focused on the burning challenge of fostering more doctoral candidates in computer science, who had numbered only a paltry thirty-five a year at that time. MSR offered internships and fellowships, provided travel grants, and ran summer schools to encourage more computer scientists to complete their degrees and pursue careers in teaching and research. By creating a new discipline called Technology for Emerging Markets MSR India became the hub of a global community of researchers exploring challenges such as machine translation, natural interfaces, and the application of cheap mobile phones and low-cost computing to social problems. Over time, academics and researchers in India, traditionally supporters of open source software, became more balanced in their opinions about Microsoft.
Another vital decision that Microsoft India made was to engage with state governments, and not just the central government. As the central government in India weakens in authority, the action is rapidly shifting to the states. That's a positive development. As in China, leaders of many states realize that development is good politics and are vying with each other to attract investment. Their ministers and bureaucrats were keen to work with Microsoft for computer literacy, skills development, and e-governance. When decision making slowed in Delhi, Microsoft was able to make significant progress in fifteen of thirty states. Even in Kerala, where a Marxist government wasn't too keen about Microsoft, tenacious engagement paid off. Mission critical e-government applications, such as an HR management system, a road transport application, and the flagship Information Kerala Mission, were built on Microsoft technology.
One of the most sensible decisions we made was to create an advisory board for the company comprised of ten thoughtful and influential leaders drawn from diverse fields. Between 2006 and 2010, this board met three times a year with senior executives from Microsoft headquarters in Redmond. It advised the company on many specific issues, but was more helpful in educating Microsoft's senior leaders on how to do business in India. Its views were instrumental in softening the approach to India. In turn, the members developed an insider's perspective about Microsoft that they carried with them into India Inc.'s sanctum sanctorum, to which no multinational company usually has access.
MANAGING REPUTATION. The third plank of Microsoft's turnaround involved a shift away from the traditional PR approach, which was tactical and reactive. A new senior executive drove an integrated communications strategy. No longer did we define success in terms of the number of media stories about Microsoft or its share of voice. We focused on a few key messages—"Innovation in India," "Good for India," and India's need to move from renting IQ to creating IP, for instance—and told our stories around these themes.
We leveraged all of Microsoft's assets in India—Microsoft Research, the India Development Center, thousands of Microsoft partners, and the 1.2 million strong developer ecosystem—to tell these stories. Around each key theme, we ran a 360-degree campaign. We would commission research; have credible academics or analysts write white papers; engage trade associations and organize industry roundtables on the issue; send out newsletters and mailers; and write bylined articles in newspapers and magazines. To amplify the effect, we synchronized the marketing campaigns with the communications campaigns. Wherever possible, we tried to make our messages more credible through the endorsement of academics, analysts, and industry leaders. We sustained each campaign for two years, which resulted in messages becoming sticky. The results were impressive. The Indian government's favorability toward Microsoft, measured through the International Government Elites Survey, went through the roof, with net favorability surging from the fifties to the nineties on a scale of one hundred, well ahead of Google and IBM. Microsoft was consistently recognized as one of the best Indian employers and one of the most respected multinationals in India. The aura turned the company's reputation from a headwind to a tailwind for sales teams. Indeed, greater trust, more goodwill, and a web of relationships enabled Microsoft to navigate several challenges, such as a bruising disagreement with the Indian tax authorities, a confrontation with IBM on the issue of document standards, and many attempts by the open source community to get educational institutions and local governments to ban the use of Microsoft software.
The government of India, recognizing the importance of intellectual property rights for the IT industry, increased enforcement, and the piracy rate dipped from 75 percent to 64 percent in seven years. The debate on open source versus commercial software evolved into a pragmatic acceptance of mixed source, with a focus on interoperability. The central government maintained its policy of technology neutrality, while many state governments embraced Microsoft. In fact, Microsoft's government business grew at double-digit rates over the period. Earning trust and respect turned out to be good business.
Reprinted by permission of Harvard Business Review Press. Excerpted from 'Conquering the Chaos: Win in India, Win Everywhere.' Copyright 2013. Harvard Business Publishing Corporation. All rights reserved.


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How good is the information going into your healthcare database? If your organization is compiling its own knowledge base from which to make diagnostic and treatment decisions, you need the most up-to-date, evidence-based sources to improve patient outcomes and compete with other providers. And many organizations aren't doing enough in this area.
As I mentioned in my last column, if you rely solely on Medline, you're missing a lot of useful data to feed your e-prescribing and clinical decision support systems. Although Medline covers most of the important healthcare journals, the process it uses to qualify journals for its database can exclude some valuable publications.
Medline, the main online bibliographic citation database of the National Library of Medicine, is used internationally for access to much of the world's biomedical journal literature. The database indexes about 5,000 titles and uses a selection committee that meets three times a year to consider adding about 140 other titles. The review process considers a journal's objectivity, credibility, and the quality of its contents, as well as the quality of its layout, graphics, and illustrations--and much more. Over the years, I've spoken with several medical editors who think the process is subjective and arbitrary.
[ For more background on e-prescribing tools, see 6 E-Prescribing Vendors To Watch. ]
With those shortcomings in mind, a comprehensive clinical information system should tap into additional sources. EMBASE, for instance, indexes more than 7,600 peer-reviewed journals, including those cited in Medline. But EMBASE is much more thorough, including more than 5 million records not covered in the NLM database. EMBASE's forte is adverse drug reactions, systematic reviews, and the development and use of medical devices.
Like EMBASE, Micromedix goes beyond Medline, tapping into 7,000 professional journals. It's especially famous for its comprehensive poisons database. In fact, Poisindex is used in every poison control center in the U.S.
Other useful data sources include Micromedix's Diseasedex Emergency Medicine, which offers detailed information on patient presentation, lab and radiology reports, and pharmacologic and nonpharmacologic therapies. Drugdex, also from Micromedix, covers dosage, pharmacokinetics, cautions, interactions, comparative efficacy, labeled and off-label indications, and nonprescription products.
One of the less appreciated data sources is the FDA's Adverse Event Reporting System (AERS). It's a collection of raw data from clinicians and patients, essentially a complaint service listing adverse reactions that providers and patients suspect have been caused by specific medications after they've been approved by the FDA--what's referred to as the post-marketing period.
One of AERS's limitations is the fact that there's no way to know for sure if the adverse reaction was caused by the drug in question, because the FDA doesn't require that a causal relationship between a product and event be proven. But then again, many of the reports of adverse drug reactions in the peer-reviewed journals are likewise anecdotal. Although it's not the strongest type of evidence, oftentimes it's the best we can hope for.
The other problem with AERS is the data presentation isn't very user friendly. The fact that the FDA provides the information as quarterly reports, rather than in one comprehensive database, makes it difficult to get a full picture of how many adverse events were reported over the entire post-marketing period. The lack of a search function is just one more stumbling block.
Adverseevents.com is worth considering because its data-refinement algorithm, RxFilter, has extracted and organized the FDA data so that it's of practical use at the bedside. It also provides a search engine for its database.
Thinking outside the Medline box might cost your organization more in dollars and cents, but it's an investment that should improve patient care and reduce healthcare costs over the long term.
As healthcare providers of all shapes and sizes start implementing electronic medical records systems, security must be a top priority. Here's what you need to be thinking about to ensure your system is locked down. Download the report here (registration required).

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Major General Manila G. Shaver was drafted into the army in 1950, volunteered for the airborne and was assigned to the 675th Field Artillery Battalion, 11th Airborne Division. He left the service in 1953 as a Sergeant and resumed his college career. He graduated from Michigan Tech in 1955 and was commissioned in the Field Artillery. After leaving active service, he stayed in the Army Reserves. His last assignment was Commanding General, 88th US Army Reserve Command, Fort Snelling, Minnesota responsible for a three state area.
From 1956 to 1990 Maj. Gen. Shaver held positions with Kimberly Clark, Spencer Kellogg & Sons and 3M concurrent with his US Army Reserve career. In 1990 he retired as Major General with the US Army and from 3M as Manager, Resource Recovery, Staff Manufacturing. During his years at Michigan Tech, Maj. Gen. Shaver was affiliated with Intramural Sports, Sigma Rho, American Institute of Chemical Engineers and ROTC/Army – Distinguished Military Student. In 1974 he received the General John J. Pershing Award as the Distinguished Graduate of the US Army Command and General Staff College, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. Maj.
General Shaver is a member and past president of the Retired Officers Association of the Sandhills area. He is President of Sandhills/Moore Coalition for Human Care, Inc. and Manager of the Empty Stocking Christmas Program for Moore County. Maj. Gen. Shaver has four daughters and a son and currently resides with his wife Dolores in North Carolina.
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Bionicles was a fun run. I got into the first and then picked a few from them as it moved on. Loved the "exotic" looking enemies when in Europe back in 2003 or so. Those round egg-like ones that you can head-butt others with. Hope to see another glorious Busou Shinki day .Heckfire wrote:As someone who only this month finally officially got into Busou Shinki (after drooling over the figures for years), I share your hope that this isn't the third time I get into a toyline just as it dies, previous times being Xevoz and BIONICLE.
I also hope that this isn't truly your last post, since your blog was one of the ones I found while I was looking up Shinkis on the Internet along with this forum (you are also single-handedly responsible for me now adding Renge to my "holy grail" list, LOL). I know that it's slightly off-topic, but I do want to say that Varakitsu is absolutely gorgeous and her and Renge make a very amusing pair.
If the line is gone, we still have our Shinkis and our love of the line.
I did intend to make it the last post but now that I think about it I'm being hasty. I ended up getting highly annoyed with Konami. We'll see what images I take that may be shared onto here as time goes on. Oh? Awesome! Renge as well? Sweet! Pleases me to hear that and do hope we can fill that list out somehow. I still have a Tempesta to hunt down. And many thanks! I do try to keep her looking foxy, even when struggling with the Dollfie make.
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From within, disaster struck. Transhumanity reaped the rewards of its arrogance when conflict spiked between the battered nations of Earth, already weakened by decades of climate catastrophes and other disruptive factors. Rampant netwars soon exploded into physical conflicts with spiraling body counts. In the midst of these aggressions, a group of military AIs known as TITANS quietly achieved full sentience and autonomy, and rapidly began exponentially incrementing their own intellectual growth. The AI intelligences spawned by this hard-takeoff singularity quickly turned against transhumanity, enveloping the system in unprecedented levels of violence, disaster, and warfare. What began as a whirlwind of conflict between political factions, revolutionaries, and hypercorps soon escalated into a struggle between man and machine.
In just a few years, transhumanity was nearly wiped out with nuclear strikes, biowarfare plagues, destructive nanoswarms, infowar attacks, mass uploads, and other unexplained singularity events, ripping the superpowers of old to pieces. Our planetary home—Earth—was transformed into a toxic and strange hellhole, while many major habitats were left frozen sarcophagi in the vacuum of space. Just as quickly as they came, the TITANS disappeared, taking millions of uploaded minds with them, leaving behind a network of wormhole gateways. Known as Pandora Gates, these poorly-understood devices allow instantaneous teleportation to distant star systems—often one-way and/or fatal. Though only a handful of Pandora Gates are known to exist—each highly contested—the foolish, brave, curious, and desperate are already risking certain death to enter and explore what lies beyond.
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First up comes word that Nintendo will be releasing updated versions of the games from Wii Sports. The new games in Wii Sports Club will feature HD graphics, improved MotionPlus controls, and, most intriguingly, an online versus mode that groups players loosely together into regional "club" teams.
Rather than re-releasing Wii Sports as a single package, though, Nintendo is dribbling out all five component games as individual releases, starting with Tennis and Bowling on November 7. Each game will sell for $9.99, a price that might seem a little galling considering the original game was a free pack-in with the original North American Wii, not to mention that Wii Sports first started selling with systems seven years old. Those not quite ready to take the full price plunge will be able to purchase a "day pass" for $1.99, or download limited-time free trials after purchasing other Wii Sports Club games.
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Heat the stock with the saffron, paprika and the onion. Cover and simmer for about 15 minutes. Remove the onion and measure the stock. You need 5 1/2 cups.
Cut the chickens into small serving pieces. Dry the pieces well and sprinkle with salt.
Use a large pan to heat the oil. Add the chicken pieces and fry over high heat until they're golden brown. Remove to a warm platter. Add the sausage, the pork and the ham to the pan. Stir fry for about ten minutes. Add the onion, scallions, garlic, and pimientos and cook until the onion wilts.
Add the shrimp and the lobster and sauté for about three minutes, or until they just turn pink. Remove the seafood to the platter with the chicken. Add the rice to the pan and stir to coat it well with the oil. Sprinkle in the five tablespoons of chopped parsley and the crumbled bay leaves.
Heat the broth to boiling, then stir it into the rice. Add the wine and the peas. Salt to taste. Bring to a boil and cook, uncovered, over medium high heat for about ten minutes, stirring from time to time.
Bury the shrimp and the chicken in the rice. Add the clams and mussels, pushing them into the rice. Decorate the paella with the lobster pieces and the shrimp, then bake at 325 for about 20 minutes, uncovered.
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Panoramics--Let's get W-I-D-E
{Photography.80.1}: Rich Mason {richpix} Fri, 25 Feb 2005 22:05:40 CST (HTML)
Here's my first contribution:
The view from Astoria, Oregon, across the Columbia River to Washington State--as seen from a window of the place I'm staying. This is only my second attempt at a stitched panorama, and I still have much to learn. To wit: It's very important to have the tripod head perfectly level when putting 19 pictures together. I ended up doing a bit of cropping and rotating to level the horizon--enough that the 150 MB file went down to 130 MB (reduced to less than 60 Kb here)--and I thought I had it fairly level when I started tripping the shutter.
It's important to use the same shutter and aperture settings for all
the pictures to be used in stitching. Fortunately I knew and
remembered this. Unfortunately, I didn't remember to take the camera
off auto white balance the first time and had to repeat the set,
thereby missing the perfect light which inspired me in the first
{Photography.80.2}: Paddrick Mackin {paddrick} Sat, 26 Feb 2005 00:06:38 CST (HTML)
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{Photography.80.4}: Paddrick Mackin {paddrick} Sat, 26 Feb 2005 11:15:41 CST (5 lines)
So what stitching techniques or programs are being used for creating the panos being posted. How many photos (if you can remember) are being used? I get my panos printed on custom paper at a reasonable price at ezprints.com. Most of my panos are simply two images stitched together in Panaview using manually controlled flags.
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{Photography.80.6}: David Burke {tualatin} Sat, 26 Feb 2005 12:39:55 CST (15 lines)
Some really gorgeous shots, guys! The peak in teton_pano3 looks like a monster emerging from the clouds. A Polish artist friend of mine, Robert Alda, is currently part of a group show - Grenseløs (Boundless) at Stenersenmuseet in Oslo - www.riksutstillinger.no/ksys/print.shtml?pid=1113&ppid=0&rtyp=10 - featuring a series of wacky short videos of himself naked, many with various known landmarks in background. I swear he uses exactly the same Yosemite viewpoint as your's Paddrick in one of them. You didn't see a naked man there did you? Rich, you got some view from your place in Astoria. How goes the search for a permanent pad?
{Photography.80.7}: Paddrick Mackin {paddrick} Sat, 26 Feb 2005 13:40:04 CST (10 lines)
That's a popular viewpoint of the Tetons David. On a clear, still day the reflection in the lake is magnificent. Your friend Robert was not there during my visit, but there are a lot of big lens photographers around me during this shoot. The clouds were showering fresh snow on the mountains at higher elevations and it was cold. I have a snowless film shot of this same view taken about 25 years ago with a Nikon F4 with full reflection in the lake. The clouds presented some unique views from those on an ordinary cloudless day.
{Photography.80.8}: Jenny Reiswig {jreiswig} Sat, 26 Feb 2005 15:34:36 CST (HTML)
This was two pictures, but no tripod. From my not-quite-a-megapixel
Epson in 2000. Kluged together as best I could at the time. I think
I messed up part of the right-side building when I selected the sky to
blur out the line between the two pictures... oh well.
{Photography.80.9}: Jak King {jakking} Sat, 26 Feb 2005 16:00:02 CST (HTML)
{Photography.80.10}: Will Page {willpage} Sat, 26 Feb 2005 16:57:55 CST (2 lines)
Jenny, the only thing wrong I could detect turned out to be a smudge on my monitor. I see no flaws at all! Good job.
{Photography.80.11}: can't sow, but I can crop {willpage} Sat, 26 Feb 2005 17:08:00 CST (HTML)
I have never done the stitching together bit, is this something that you can do with PS Elements?
The other wide shots I take are at a distance, ones I know will be 'horizontally cropped it they are any good at all. Here's one that was ok, a little too much shadow on the right:
{Photography.80.12}: Gary Minniss {gminniss} Sat, 26 Feb 2005 18:36:45 CST (1 line)
Wow! These are really neat! Any tips from the experts on doing this?
{Photography.80.13}: Paddrick Mackin {paddrick} Sat, 26 Feb 2005 21:59:10 CST (13 lines)
Gary, There are software stitching programs that will do this. I've read articles about using Paint Shop Pro, Photo Shop and MGI Photo Suite v 4.0 to do this. I use a program called Panavue. Google "creating panoramic photos" and you will see a lot of interesting links. Individual digital cameras may have to have certain settings involving focus lock and white balance to make a panorama. It also helps to use a camera with the tripod connection centered directly in line with the lens.
{Photography.80.14}: Jenny Reiswig {jreiswig} Sat, 26 Feb 2005 22:08:25 CST (3 lines)
My Olympus camera has a panorama assist feature that shows you little guides to line up each next picture. It's special software that came pre-loaded on Olympus-brand media cards.
{Photography.80.15}: Jak King {jakking} Sat, 26 Feb 2005 23:02:26 CST (3 lines)
I used to use a specialist pano software -- I can't even remember the name now. But these days, the panorama feature in PS CS is so good that I only have a little touching up to do as a rule.
{Photography.80.16}: Tom Coleman {tomcoleman} Sat, 26 Feb 2005 23:20:22 CST (HTML)
{Photography.80.17}: T.J. McGovern {tj2} Sun, 27 Feb 2005 00:14:47 CST (10 lines)
I usually use three or four shots for a pano, sometimes more. I've tried Panavue and all the others and I always go back to Photoshop. The Photomerge feature does a great job, especially if you use the "Advanced Blending" thingy. I don't know if that's in Elements or not, but I'd bet it is. They always need a little touch-up, and occasionaly there's one that just won't work, but the results are usually very good.
{Photography.80.18}: Paddrick Mackin {paddrick} Sun, 27 Feb 2005 01:03:24 CST (HTML)
Below is a pano of 4 images using AutoStitch. The blending mode is fantastic, and it is all automatic. The software is Windows based. The pano was created at 50% of the original images and then resized to 30%. Then it was compressed to be within the posting guidelines. The view is looking north from Petroleum Creek at Shi Shi Beach.
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{Photography.80.19}: Rich Mason {richpix} Sun, 27 Feb 2005 05:42:20 CST (HTML)
I found one stitched picture that's not a panoramic, per se, but is absolutely huge in terms of resolution (2.5 gigapixels): http://www.tpd.tno.nl/smartsite966.html It's kind of fun to see how much resolution it has, even in a Web version.
Here's a screen shot of a detail from that picture (note that the little red square in the inset photo is what is shown in the larger picture):
It points out one of the advantages of making stitched photos,
panoramic or otherwise, rather than using a wider angle lens and then
cropping: more resolution. I could print the picture this topic
started off with at 16 x79.252 inches @ 240 ppi, without resampling.
{Photography.80.20}: Gary Minniss {gminniss} Sun, 27 Feb 2005 07:32:26 CST (2 lines)
Thank you all for your help. I'll have to get out and see I can do this. I like the looks of pano.
{Photography.80.21}: Ed Hawco {ed1} Sun, 27 Feb 2005 09:36:35 CST (HTML)
I use PanoramaMaker (or something like that) that came with my Nikon. It's not bad. Not brilliant, but not bad.
Here's a challenge that most stitching programs would have trouble with -- dealing with straight lines on a 180-degree panorama. The one below was taken in the McGill Metro station in Montreal. (Hand-held.)
{Photography.80.22}: Ed Hawco {ed1} Sun, 27 Feb 2005 09:43:19 CST (HTML)
If you click the image, a larger version will open in a new browser window (1600x296, 380K).
{Photography.80.23}: Gary Minniss {gminniss} Sun, 27 Feb 2005 10:12:04 CST (2 lines)
I could not get the link to work. However, this looks very nice to me. You must have a very steady hand to do this hand held.
{Photography.80.24}: Paddrick Mackin {paddrick} Sun, 27 Feb 2005 13:56:09 CST (1 line)
That sure looks like a sharp corner for a subway Ed :-)
{Photography.80.25}: Paddrick Mackin {paddrick} Sun, 27 Feb 2005 14:00:37 CST (HTML)
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We have an extensive collection, available for the community to use. Our print volumes go back to 1929 with the years before the fifties having sporadic coverage. We also have a collection on microfilm that overlaps the print collection and goes back to 1904.
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CLEMSON, S.C. - Ibrahim Djambo is transferring from Clemson, the athletic department announced today. Djambo played just one season after transferring from Three Rivers Community College in Missouri last spring.
"We thank Ibi for the hard work he has given to our program over the past year," said head men's basketball coach Brad Brownell. "He was an outstanding student and a great teammate, and I'm sorry to see him leave. We wish him the best in the future."
Djambo averaged 1.9 points per game in 32 appearances this past season, playing 9.2 minutes per game as a reserve power forward.
"I really appreciated the opportunity to be here at Clemson," Djambo said. "My reasons for leaving are personal; I really liked my teammates and coaches. Since I've been in America, I've never been on a team like that, where you were always around everyone else. It created memories I'll take with me the rest of my life. I wouldn't trade it for anything."


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'Back to the Future' Audio Replaced by One-Man A Cappella Performance [VIDEO]
Musician/comedian Matt "The Mouth" Mulholland was able to recreate the entire audio track from the famous skateboard chase scene in 'Back to the Future' using only the power of his own voice.
Mulholland voiced the dialogue, the sound effects and the background music from the scene on different tracks and synced them to the video. As you can see (and hear) below, the results are very impressive:
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How can I detect a power outage with a microcontroller?
I'm doing some research with the goal of eventually creating a light dimmer controllable from a micro controller. I've figured out how to do the dimming of the light and now I need a zero cross detection circuit that I can use to determine when to phase shift the AC power.
I have a few opto-couplers which should do the trick. However (and this is my question), it appears that the AC side of the circuit takes around 1.7V (assuming I'm reading the datasheet correctly). How do I get the line voltage down from 120V to 1.7V. I assume that I could use a high value resistor, but wouldn't this generate too much heat? Seems to me like it would just fry the resistor. I'm pretty hesitant to just try this as I enjoy having all of my fingers attached.
I've seen people discuss connecting the line voltage directly to the micro controller through high value resistors here, which seems like a pretty bad idea.
To summarize my question: How can I connect AC line voltage to my opto-coupler? And if that's done with a resistor, how do I determine the correct ohms/watt rating to use?


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The End of the fifth week
Timeframe, 35th day from 15th of Nissan the day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread which was the day after The Passover Sabbath which started at sunset on the 14th of Nissan.
Pentecost or Shavuot was also known as the feast of weeks is 51 days after the Passover or 50 days or 7 weeks plus one day after the Feast of Unleavened Bread.
Background Reading:
Annual Offerings
16 "The LORD's Passover is to take place on the fourteenth day of the first month. 17 You are to hold a festival on the fifteenth day of this month for seven days, during which time unleavened bread is to be eaten."
A Week of Post-Passover Offerings
18 "On the first day, you are to hold a sacred assembly. No servile work is to be done. 19 Bring an offering that is to be incinerated in the LORD's presence, consisting of two young bulls, a ram, and seven one year old lambs, all without any defects, 20 along with their grain offering of fine flour mixed with olive oil. Offer three tenths of an ephah for each bull, two tenths of an ephah for the ram, 21 and one tenth of an ephah for each of the seven lambs. 22 Then present one goat for a sin offering to make atonement for you, 23 apart from the burnt offering in the morning, which you are to continue offering. 24 Do this every day for seven days, as an edible sacrifice to the LORD made by fire, a pleasing aroma. It is to be offered apart from the regular burnt offering and its corresponding drink offering. 25 On the seventh day you are to hold another sacred assembly for your benefit, on which no servile work is to be done."
First Fruit Offerings
26 "On the first day of your harvest season, you are to hold a sacred assembly when you present your first fruits during the Festival of Weeks. No servile work is to be done. 27 You are to offer this burnt offering as a pleasing aroma to the LORD: two young bulls, one ram, and seven one year old lambs, 28 along with their corresponding grain offerings of fine flour mixed with olive oil; specifically, three tenths of an ephah for each bull, two tenths of an ephah for the one ram, 29 one tenth of an ephah for each of the seven lambs, 30 and one goat to make atonement for you. 31 Offer them in addition to the regular burnt offering, accompanied by its grain offering and its corresponding drink offerings."
Numbers 28:16-31
Other modules in this unit:
- Zacchaeus, the tax collector, waited for Jesus up a tree, Luke 19:1-10
- Mary – First of two anointings by two different women, John 12:1-11
- The Triumphal Entry, Luke 19:28-44
- Palm tree leaves and cloaks, John 12:12-19
- Jesus taught in parables – The Lamps of the Ten Bridesmaids. Matthew 25:1-13
- Jesus predicts His crucifixion, Luke 22:1-6
- Jesus anointed at Bethany by an unknown woman, Mark 14:3-9
- Sandal, Jesus Washes His Disciples' Feet, John 13:1-20
- Judas Agrees to Betray Jesus, Luke 22:1-6
- Passover, Luke 22:7-38 and Numbers 28:16-31
- The upper room discourse, Jesus comforts His Disciples, John 14:1-31
- Jesus spoke three prayers of intercession: one for Himself; one for his disciples; and one for all believers, John 17:1-26
- Jesus prays for Himself, Luke 22:39-46
- Soldiers came at night to arrest Jesus, Luke 22:47-48
- Peter cuts off an ear, Luke 22:49-51
- Jesus Arrested, Luke 22:52-53
- Jesus was on trial six times
- First trial – Annas the Father-in-law of Caiaphas the High Priest, John 18:12-14
- 2nd Trial – Jesus arrested and taken to the High Priest Caiaphas, Luke 22:54-65
- Friday?: day of Jesus' death?
- The Cock Crow – Peter Disowned Jesus, Luke 22:54-62
- Third Trial of Jesus before The Sanhedrin, Luke 22:66-71
- 4th Trial – Jesus before Pontius Pilate for the first time – Luke 23:1-7
- 5th Trial, Jesus before Herod Antipas the Governor of Galilee and Perea, Luke 23:8-12
- 6th trial – Jesus in front of Pontius Pilate for the second time, Luke 23:13-25
- Jesus, the Crucifixion walk, Luke 23:26-33
- The Cross or the Crucifixion, Luke 23:32-43
- Darkness, Luke 23:44-46
- The Roman Centurion, Luke 23:47-49
- Jesus is Buried, Luke 23:50-56
- Roman Soldiers guard the Tomb, Matthew 27:62-66
- They made sure by sealing the tomb, Matthew 27:62-66
- Feast Unleavened Bread
- Firstfruits, Leviticus 23:9-14
- Jesus stays in the tomb three days and three nights, Matthew 28:1
- Firstfuits or Resurrection Sunday, Luke 24:1-12
- The open empty tomb or the Resurrection, Luke 24:1-8
- He is not Here, He has risen – The Resurrection, Luke 24:5-8
- Jesus Has Risen Indeed – The Resurrection, Luke 24:1-12
- Come See Where He Lay, Matthew 28:1-10
- Peter Looks – He has Risen Indeed, Luke 24:12
- On the Road to Emmaus, Luke 24:13-35
- The end of the first week
- Jesus makes a special appearance for Thomas, John 20:24-31
- The First Sunday or 7 days after the Firstfuits or Resurrection of Jesus, Numbers 28:16-31
- Jesus and the Miraculous Catch of Fish, John 21:1-25
- The end of the second week
- The Second Sunday after Firstfuits or Resurrection Sunday, John 20:24-29
- The end of the third week
- The Third Sunday after Firstfuits or Resurrection Sunday
- The end of the fourth week
- The Fourth Sunday after Firstfuits or Resurrection Sunday
- The end of the 5th week
- The Fifth Sunday or 35 days after feast of Firstfuits or the resurrection of Jesus
- Ascension Day – Back to Heaven for Jesus, Luke 24:50-53
- Jesus was seen by over 500 people, 1 Corinthians 15:1-11
- The end of the 6th week
- The Sixth Sunday or 42 days from Firstfuits or Resurrection Sunday, Numbers 28:16-31
- The end of the 7th week
- Pentecost Fire, Acts 2:1-13
- Questions and Answers 1-14
- Easter-Timeline
- Background Information – Easter
- Resources: Easter or Palm Sunday To Pentecost
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Marketplace Africa is a weekly show covering business trends and focusing on the continent's key industries and corporations.
Seychelles (CNN) -- The pristine waters of the Seychelles, a glittering necklace of coralline and granitic islands scattered on the Indian Ocean, have long beguiled jet-setters and eco-conscious visitors from around the world, turning the idyllic archipelago into a popular travel destination.
But as well as boosting the tiny nation's tourism revenues, the high seas off the east coast of Africa have also helped create another strategic industry: fishing.
A major economic pillar, fishing is the second biggest contributor to the Seychelles' finances after tourism. Over the last two decades, the sector's products have accounted for more than 90% of the country's merchandise exports by value, supplying international markets with items such as canned tuna, also known as the Seychelles' "blue gold."
But in recent years, the fishing industry has come under severe threat as a result of the ongoing risk posed by Somali pirates roaming the waters off the Horn of Africa.
"It's a big problem," explains major Jean Attala, deputy operations officer of the Seychelles coast guard. "Anything that disrupts the tourism or fishing industry or the maritime equilibrium is a very big problem for us," he adds.
Read this: The global cost of piracy
To deal with the threat of piracy, the country's authorities had to change the way they manage their waters in recent years. As part of this increased security drive, the Seychelles coast guard has intensified its patrolling efforts, with fast-attack armed vessels monitoring a newly defined zone for fishing.
But there are just four such vessels in the Seychelles' entire fleet. It's a small nation in terms of landmass, but with its oceans, it is nearly twice the size of France. "This is not adequate to cover such a large area," says Attala. "We need more assets and build up more our capacity to deal with the issue."
Local fishermen are restricted from sailing beyond the designated area's perimeter, several dozen miles outside the main port.
Analysts say that fishing boats are of particular importance to pirates because they can be used as floating bases from which to launch further attacks.
But while the measure seems to be working -- there have been no successful attacks in nearly a year -- the restrictions on the movement of Seychellois fishermen has created another problem.
"There's no fish," explains local fisherman Patrick Pierre. "Every boat is fishing in the same place," he adds.
Pierre, who's been casting his nets for 12 years now, says his job was hardest during the worst period of the piracy -- in 2007 and 2008. Since then, the Seychelles has been at the forefront of the global fight against piracy but the new rules mean fewer fish and less money.
Latest African gold rush: Hotels
Joram Madnack is the general manager of the French-owned Indian Ocean Tuna, one of the world's largest tuna canneries and the biggest employer in the Seychelles. He says fish intake has fallen nearly 25% in the last five years.
"The impact has been on the price, which for some places has gone up by 70%-80% compared to 2007 prices," explains Madnack.
According to a recent report by the World Bank, piracy costs the global economy an estimated $18 billion a year. The increased costs come as shippers are forced to change trading routes, sending fuel bills soaring, as well as pay higher insurance premiums and security bills for guards on board.
But the threat of Somali piracy is also damaging the economies of neighboring countries, particularly in the key sectors of tourism and fishing. Since 2006, the year the World Bank report takes as the starting point of piracy, exports of fish products from piracy-hit countries have declined by 23.8%. In Seychelles, the impact has been even greater, with exports collapsing by nearly 30%.
"We now fish where we are allowed to fish," says Peter Sinon, the country's minister of natural resources and industry. "It has made the industry more costly in terms of going out there [and] be secure to bring in what usually was our daily supply of protein," he adds.
Watch video: protecting "blue gold" from pirates
And although many of the pirates have now gone, the fishermen say their industry still hasn't recovered.
For people like Pierre, the fight against piracy and the introduction of fishing zones has proven to be a double-edged sword.
The protection is still necessary, he says, acknowledging that today he is safer. Yet, he and other local fishermen miss the freedom to sail about and return with a big catch.
"Five years ago, there was a lot of fish," says Pierre. "We could go anywhere we wanted without the fear of piracy and everything."
Teo Kermeliotis contributed to this report.


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I have absolutely no chill when it comes to this cake.
It's amazing. And that's a bold statement. But so amazing that I ate it for breakfast before Mr. LTSL was even awake. I wish I was lying but #RealLife.
And I would only make it for the specialist of occasions … you know, like Friday night.
Kidding … kind of.
But it's mother's day weekend and we gotttaaa celebrate mama!! Also, this mother's day is super-extra-special aannnnd we need cake.cake.cake.!
First, HAPPY MOTHERS DAY to all the people mamas out there, all the expecting mamas out there, all the adopting mamas, all the pet mamas, and all the women who are holding it down!!
I have no words for my mom, seriously she's my everything – she loves cake, her laugh is infectious and her kindness can put mother Teresa to shame (not true, mother Teresa wins life … by Mama LTSL comes a very close second).Don't get me wrong though, her sass is something similar to Queen Bey's Lemonade video. I'll just warn you, don't mess with mama's family – she'll juice you!!
Now that we're all afraid of my mom – let's talk cake!! More specifically naked cake … such as this one. Funny story, a couple years ago for my bridal shower I wanted a naked cake – something with fruits and fresh flowers, simple but elegant. I walked into a bakery and simply asked Hi, do you guys do naked cakes – the kind baker responded, why – yes, I've done a few ass cakes over the years.
I looked at my mom – my mom looked at me and we walked out pretty much peeing our pants.
But this cake. AHH – the lavender makes it taste like spring, the honey cream cheese frosting is sweet but not too sweet and it's sooooo preeeetttyyyy!! Also, champagne. YYYEEESSS! We're winning folks, simply winning all of the golden stars.
Lavender Champagne Cake with honey cream cheese frosting
- 3 cups all-purpose flower
- 3 teaspoons baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon sea salt
- ½ tbsp. dried lavender
- ½ tsp lemon zest
- 1 cup (2 sticks) unsalted butter
- 2 cups sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 6 egg whites
- 2 cups champagne
- Prepared cream cheese frosting
- 1 tbsp honey
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease and flour two 9-inch cake pans (or 1 10 inch and 1 8 inch because you realize your 9 inch pans are at your parent's house after making the batter *rolls eyes*).
In a bowl combine flour, baking powder sea salt, lavender and lemon zest .
In a mixing bowl beat butter and sugar 3 to 5 minutes until light and fluffy.
Add vanilla and beat in the eggs one at a time.
Beat in flour mixture and champagne in three alternating additions, starting and ending with flour to prevent curdling.
Pour batter into pans and bake 35 minutes.
Let cool.
In a small bowl, combine can of cream cheese frosting and honey.
Once the cake has cooled, cut each cake in half horizontally and frost the middle. Stack each layer and repeat, only frosting the middle ( that's why it's called a naked cake heh. without any bums in sight).


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Lots of us are taught about science in the classroom, but that isn't always the best environment to learn. Sometimes, we learn more from watching a TV series about science, or reading a really engaging nonfiction book. What book or movie/TV documentary helped you really understand a scientific concept for the first time?
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Tell us something about what you learned, and also what it was about the nonfiction book or documentary that helped you understand it. Please include links, pictures, and video, so we can learn too!


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Polymer Vision, the company beavering away on flexible-ish e-ink displays, has reportedly closed its doors.
The company's chief technology officer Edzer Huitema, has apparently confirmed the closure after the company that owned Polymer failed to find a buyer, but he wasn't letting slip much more than that.
In this brave new world of tablets, laptops that can also be tablets and phones that are so big they might as well be tablets, it likely became clear that there was no call for a handily rollable yet, crucially, quite bulky e-ink device.
The Readius, Polymer's e-reader device, does sound good on paper (ironically enough) but after years of undelivered promises it missed its window of opportunity.
Readius or not
We were expecting the Readius to launch in the UK in October 2008, a time when Kindles and iPhones were just starting out and it may have had a fighting chance.
Nowadays we're more likely to get het up about flexible AMOLED displays which look a lot jazzier, come in colour and have big-name backing (take a bow, Samsung).
While they're not exactly tripping off the production line just yet, reports are coming in that the flexible AMOLED display orders are on the up and could make a bendy appearance in consumer devices at some point next year.
From Plus Plastics via Engadget


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Paul Douglass is Professor Emeritus of English and American Literature at San Jose State University, where he directed the Martha Heasley Cox Center for Steinbeck Studies and the Steinbeck Fellows Program. His research interests include British Romanticism (Byron Studies), Modern American Literature (Eliot and Steinbeck Studies), Literary Theory, and interdisciplinary approaches to literature-- through Music, Philosophy, and painterly aesthetics. He is the author of Lady Caroline Lamb: A Biography (Palgrave 2004), and co-editor, with Frederick Burwick, of a facsimile edition of Lord Byron and Isaac Nathan's A Selection of Hebrew Melodies, Ancient and Modern (University of Alabama Press, 1988). In 2007 he received the Elma Dangerfield Award of the International Byron Society for publication of new and original work related to the life, works and times of the 6th Lord George Gordon Noel Byron the Poet. In 2009 he was chosen as the President's Scholar of San Jose State University by President Jon Whitmore.
His selection of Lady Caroline Lamb's letters, The Whole Disgraceful Truth, was published by Palgrave in April 2006. Together with Leigh Wetherall, he edited The Works of Lady Caroline Lamb, published by Pickering and Chatto in 2009. This and other publications and projects are listed below in his summary of Scholarly Activity.
With Frederick Burwick (UCLA), he also curates the Romantic-Era Songs Web-Site dedicated to enabling scholars and music-lovers greater access to recordings of the Theater and Popular Songs, Catches, Airs, and Art Songs of the Romantic Period, including modern settings of Romantic-era lyrics.
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"Douglass's insightful biography reintroduces us to a Caroline Lamb who is emotionally damaged, often egregious, but by no means the crazed flibbertigibbet of myth. He treats her as a woman of intelligence as well as passion, and above all as a writer: a courtesy anyone who has the discipline to write three novels in overheated circumstances certainly deserves." —Sunday Times ( UK)
Professor Douglass's riveting work, a triumph of scholarship and original research, is a much-needed corrective to the skewed portraits of the past. —Choice
"This professionally wrought biography provides a revisionist feminist view of a fascinating historical figure." —Booklist
"Has anyone else ever wished that Lady Caroline Lamb would attract her own Leslie Marchand [biographer of Byron]? Well, now she has a Marchand analogue in Paul Douglass, a biographer who pays his subject the compliment of taking her life seriously. . . a beautifully researched, clear, fair, sympathetic and fascinating account. I am willing to bet that Caroline Lamb herself would approve of what Paul Douglass says of her: for all her caprice and eccentricity, she seems to have possessed a fairmindedness that would appreciate Douglass's humane, carefully nuanced approach to biography." —The Byron Journal
"A monumental work of scholarship that illuminates, in a score of fascinating and unexpected ways, that famous woman 'of wild originality.'" —Simon Winchester, author of The Professor and the Madman, The Meaning of Everything, and A Crack in the Edge of the World: America and the Great California Earthquake of 1906.
"An exemplary blend of scholarship and sympathy, Lady Caroline Lamb gives us a vivid portrait of the life and times of a scatty, outrageous, self-destructive, and appealing woman, who out-emoted any heroine of Regency Romance, and actually snagged Byron. One reads the fascinating story with a growing conviction that the British aristocracy was almost entirely mad." —Ursula K. Le Guin, whose recent books include The Wave in the Mind and Gifts.
"This biography does full justice not only to Caroline Lamb's intelligence, willfulness, and capacity to outrage her family and friends, but also to her considerable literary gifts and feminist politics." —Anne K. Mellor, Professor of English and Women's Studies, University of California, Los Angeles.
"A fascinating biography that treats the poems and novels of Lady Caroline Lamb with insight and takes her seriously as a woman, an author, and a passionate witness of the foibles of her age." —Jonathan Gross, DePaul University, editor of Byron's Corbeau Blanc (Lady Melbourne's letters), and of two novels by Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, and author of Byron: The Erotic Liberal.
"Lady Caroline Lamb is a biographical triumph. Paul Douglass shows great sympathy and perceptiveness in his account of a woman hitherto most famous for her liaison with Byron. He persuades us that Lady Caroline played a role in changing the possibilities for women in the nineteenth century. And he brings out, too, the significance of Caroline's own writings. Packed with original information and insight, Lady Caroline Lamb is, throughout, a pleasure to read." —Michael O'Neill, Professor of English, University of Durham.
"With the publication of Paul Douglass's biography, Lady Caroline Lamb has received what her life deserves: a thoughtful, scholarly, sympathetic yet penetrating account that neither reduces her to an unusually vocal and highborn bit player in the Byronic drama nor contorts her to an ideological exemplum of how women and their talents were repressed in Regency England. The result is a beautifully researched, clear, fair, and engrossing biography that permits a remarkable and complicated real woman, and her considerable talents, to emerge from the myths that have long veiled them." —Peter W. Graham, Clifford Cutchins Professor of English, Virginia Tech.
"Before Paul Douglass's immaculately researched, sympathetic, page-turning portrait of Lady Caroline Lamb, it had been her fate to be as maligned by her biographers as she was by her own friends and family. Lady Caroline emerges afresh from these pages as a woman funnier, cleverer, braver, more gifted and more tragic than we previously had cause to believe, and while her frantic affair with Byron remains the central moment of her life we can no longer say that it was the defining one. But Douglass does not tell the story of just one woman; so close was Lady Caroline Lamb to the political and cultural heart of the Regency that, in exploring so intelligently the causes and effects of her exhausting life, he gives us a new portrait of the age." —Frances Wilson, author of Literary Seductions: Compulsive Writers and Diverted Readers and The Courtesan's Revenge: Harriette Wilson, the Woman who Blackmailed the King.
"Oh the low life of the high born! Paul Douglas's spirited account of Lady Caroline's love affairs, intrigues, ambitions, and accomplishments is compulsively readable. Lady Caroline emerges as one of the most endearing women in history, hot, generous, gifted, brave, wrong-headed and wise. I loved meeting her." —Molly Giles, author of Iron Shoes.
"Lady Caroline Lamb is best known as Byron's most clinging ex-lover, notorious for sending him clippings of her pubic hair and for her portrait of him in her scandalous first novel, Glenarvon. Without descending into psychobabble, Douglass, a professor of English and American literature at San Jose State University , reveals the stresses of his subject's childhood, including a mother who was almost always ill or in the midst of an affair. He gives a sympathetic though unsentimental account of Caroline's adult mania and addictions to drugs and alcohol. He evokes her stoically reserved husband, William Lamb, later prime minister of England, telling in intricate detail the chilling story of his family's numerous attempts to separate Caroline from him. To his credit, Douglass does not allow Byron to dominate the narrative. But he maintains that Byron's influence made Caroline write her novels, describing her literary ambition as a form of misguided psychological transference. Douglass faithfully catalogues the content of Caroline's three gothic novels, although some readers may find his attention to detail a little wearisome. Constructing his narrative largely from letters and diaries, Douglass provides a richly textured account of 19th-century aristocratic life, with all its sordid liaisons and backstabbing: a world in which the eccentrically emotive and indiscreet Caroline was all too vulnerable." —Publisher's Weekly. (October 2004).
"Paul Douglass's biography is the first to foreground the Romantic writer over the 'Byron woman' who descended into 'erotomania'. Douglass skilfully brings together the famous chapters in Lamb's life - marriage to the man who would become Queen Victoria's first Prime Minister, extra-marital affairs, Byron, mental health problems and the 'madness of writing' - and combines this with new, meticulously researched, evidence of her life outside these events and with a narrative rich in social, political and cultural context. . . . Douglass's erudition arguably makes this the first literary biography of Lamb and it has excellent chapters on her later novels, neglected poetry and the music of Glenarvon. Douglass also makes good use of unpublished texts not previously discussed as part of Lamb's literary corpus, such as her amusing and scholarly letters and the writerly experiments in the commonplace books in the John Murray archive. . . . By focusing on Lamb's own writing, rather than gossip about her, Douglass allows Lamb to speak for herself. One of the main themes of this work is the underlying exploration of why Lamb has been ignored by 1980s feminist revisionism and 1990s studies of Romanticism and gender.... The theory that Lamb was only motivated to write after her affair with Byron was damaging to her literary reputation as her works were viewed as hysterical obsession. The discussion of Lamb's early writing works to dispel this archaic judgement, and the effects of the Byron affaire upon her work are treated sensitively and sensibly. " —British Association for Romantic Studies Bulletin & Review (October 2005).
Douglass makes it very clear that Lady Caroline brought much to her relationship with Byron, that she captivated his mind, and that her hold on him lasted far beyond their affair. This biography helps to ensure that Lady Caroline Lamb will be remembered along with Byron as long as he is remembered. —Pacific Coast Philology (2007).
London: Pickering & Chatto (2009). (3 vols., 902 pp.)
This is the first scholarly critical edition of the works of Lady Caroline Lamb (1785–1828), the late Romantic-era novelist now most famous for her adulterous affair with Lord Byron. Her first novel, Glenarvon, is a scandalous roman à clef which hinges upon the relationship's break-up. However, it also indicts Lamb's friends and family as a morally bankrupt and ineffective aristocracy. Her familiarity with and criticism of the power structures of her time, mean that her novels deserve to be viewed within their wider cultural and historical contexts.
From birth, the intersecting worlds of politics and fashion surrounded Lamb. She was born into the heart of the ultra-cosmopolitan, politically frustrated Whig opposition. She was married to William Lamb, later Lord Melbourne and first prime minister to Queen Victoria. Her aunt was Georgiana, fifth Duchess of Devonshire. The Prince Regent was godfather to her only son. Her intellectual endeavours were supported by Edward and Rosina Bulwer Lytton, William Godwin, Lady Morgan, Amelia Opie, Elizabeth Benger and Elizabeth Spence. Culturally, she is an influential link between second-generation Romantic and first-generation Victorian writers.
This is the first edition to present Lamb's works in a scholarly format. Graham Hamilton and Ada Reis have never been republished, and Gordon: A Tale has been misattributed to Byron. This edition will appeal to scholars of Romanticism and Women's Writing.
New York: Palgrave (2006). (260 pp.)
"What is clearer than ever from Douglass's superb transcriptions of her letters is that Caroline was not just insecure, possessive, and addicted to emotion: she was also highly intelligent, witty, independent, and creative. She speaks French at six-and-a-half; she's quoting Macbeth at the age of eight (p.10); she reads, and approves of, Mary Wollstonecraft (p.46): Wollstonecraft "stands up for the rights of the Sex & wear[s] our shackles with dignity" (p.56). She writes letters in verse. . . . She's angry at the double standard whereby Lady Oxford's affair with Byron should be tolerated (p.120: "Such a Woman as Lady Oxford!") while hers is frowned on. This is a point which I don't recollect ever being made by anyone else. "What will not a Woman do to get rid of a rival?" she snarls (p.203). . . . The collection is full of revelations. . . . I feel, having read Paul Douglass's edition, that I understand Caroline Lamb at last." —Peter Cochran, The Newstead Abbey Byron Society Review
"This extraordinarily talented woman of letters now speaks for herself in an impressively researched volume, allowing us to understand a much maligned figure, as tormented as she was tormenting, in all of her fascinating complexity—a must read for anyone with a serious interest in Romantic-era literature, history, domestic politics, or feminist studies." —Paula Feldman, University of South Carolina, author of British Women Poets of the Romantic Era
"This new edition of Caroline Lamb's Letters is a valuable resource and a vital complement to Douglass's impressive biography of Lamb. With the publication of the Letters we can see the human side of Lamb as well as her version of the events that were so infamously portrayed in her novel Glenarvon. Meticulously edited, this collection lets the 'Byronic heroine' speak in her own voice and it rounds out the portrait of a woman who is becoming increasingly important in the romantic canon." —Diane Long Hoeveler, Marquette University, author of Gothic Feminism: The Professionalization of Gender from Charlotte Smith to the Brontës .
"It was Caroline Lamb who coined the memorable phrase for her lover Lord Byron: 'mad, bad, and dangerous to know.' It takes one to know one. The Whole Disgraceful Truth: Selected Letters of Lady Caroline Lamb not only does justice to this challenging subject, but provides a unique, indispensable, everywhere compelling view of the world of Regency aristocratic society: its privilege, its high-living, its self-indulgent and frequently outrageous behavior. Cutting a swath through it all is 'Caro,' the theatrical gamine whose passions evoked and provoked Byron (he called her a "little volcano"). In his masterfully developed, scrupulously well-informed, groundbreaking edition, Paul Douglass presents her correspondence from girlhood to dying days—an unrivaled cache of letters, cascading with passion and punctuated with outbursts of verse, that constitute a trove of inestimable historical value and irresistible entertainment." —Susan J. Wolfson, Princeton University, editor of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, and the poems and letters of Felicia Hemans.
"Caro Lamb was as familiar with the world of the Whig English aristocracy and the circle round the Prince Regent as she was with such literary giants as Blake, Foscolo, Godwin and above all Lord Byron with whom she had a famous affair and whose disappeared Memoirs she read. We know her from report and from her novel Glenarvon but this volume, based on original research and hitherto unpublished material, gives us the life and voice of an extraordinary literary figure directly. The volume impresses both by the thoroughness of its scholarship and by the light yet sure touch with which Paul Douglass conducts us through an eccentric, moving, pathetic, but courageous life in letters. Byron complains of the labours of reading a 'she-epistle' but there are few labours in this fascinating window into Regency England during the Napoleonic Wars and their aftermath and one of the greatest periods of Romantic Poetry." —Bernard Beatty, University of Liverpool, former editor of The Byron Journal.
The Romantics in Italy: Dante, Italian Culture, and Romantic Literature. Ed. and with contributions by Frederick Burwick and Paul Douglass. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
T. S. Eliot, Dante, and the European Tradition. Ed. and with a contribution by Paul Douglass. Cambridge, England: Cambridge Scholars P, 2011.
The Claremont Graduate University: A History of Its Early Development, by Malcolm Paul Douglass (my father), ed. by Paul Douglass. Claremont: CGU (via Xlibris), 2010.
Works of Lady Caroline Lamb. Ed. by Paul Douglass and Leigh Wetherall Dickson. 3 vols. London: Pickering & Chatto, 2009. Nominated by the publisher for the 2011 MLA Prize for a Distinguished Scholarly Edition.
The Whole Disgraceful Truth: Selected Letters of Lady Caroline Lamb. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.
Lady Caroline Lamb: A Biography. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.
The Crisis in Modernism: Bergson and the Vitalist Controversy, ed. by Paul Douglass and Frederick Burwick. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1992. Repr. 2010.
Cradle of the Copperheads: A Novel by Jesse Stuart, edited and with an introduction by Paul Douglass. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1988.
A Selection of Hebrew Melodies, Ancient and Modern, by Isaac Nathan and Lord Byron, a facsimile edited and with an introduction and notes by Frederick Burwick and Paul Douglass. Tuscaloosa: U of Alabama P, 1988.
Bergson, Eliot, and American Literature. Lexington: UP of Kentucky, 1986.
The Steinbeck Newsletter, Vol. 7 (1994), nos. 1 and 2.
Steinbeck Studies, vol. 16 (2005), issues 1 and 2.
Steinbeck Review—merged with Steinbeck Studies, Vols. 3-7 (2006-2011) and continuing.
"On a Special Copy of Caroline Lamb's Glenarvon Recently Discovered in the Koninklijke Bibliotheek." Co-authored with Ria Grimbergen. The Byron Journal 37, 2 (2009): 151-60.
"Twisty Little Passages: Editing Glenarvon." The Wordsworth Circle 40 (Spring and Summer 2009): 77-82.
"Lady Caroline Lamb's Revisions to Her Novel Glenarvon: Some Observations." Bulletin of the Byron Society in Australia 32 (2008): 31-38.
"An Interview With Corinne Cooke." The Steinbeck Review 4, 1 (Spring 2007): 95-101.
"An Interview With Dr. James D. Watson." The Steinbeck Review 4, 1 (Spring 2007): 115-118.
"Lord Byron's Feminist Canon: Notes Toward Its Construction." Romanticism on the Net #43 (August 2006). ISSN : 1467-1255 (electronic version) http://www.erudit.org/revue/ron/2006/v/n43/013588ar.html
"An Unpublished Letter of Lord Byron to Lady Caroline Lamb." Notes and Queries (UK) Vol. 251 of continuous series, [New Series Vol. 53], no. 3 (September 2006): 322-23.
"That 'Vital Spark of Genius': Lady Caroline Lamb's Writing Before Byron." Co-authored with Rosemary March of Oxford University. Pacific Coast Philology 41 (2006): 43-62.
" Paradise Decomposed: Byron's Decadence and Wordsworthian Nature in Childe Harold III and IV." The Byron Journal 34, 1 (Spring 2006): 9-19.
"Young Caroline: A Medea in the Making?" A View in the Rear-Mirror: Romantic Aesthetics, Culture, and Science Seen from Today—Festschrift for Frederick Burwick on the Occasion of His 70th Birthday. Studien zur Englischen Romantik #3. Ed. Walter Pape. Trier: Wissenschftlicher Verlag Trier, 2006. 73-88.
"Lady Caroline Lamb Before Byron: or, The Godfrey Vassal Webster Affair," The Wordsworth Circle 36,3 (Summer 2005): 117-24.
"What Lord Byron Learned from Lady Caroline Lamb." European Romantic Review 16,3 (July 2005): 273-81.
"Byron's Life and His Biographers." The Cambridge Companion to Byron, ed. Drummond Bone. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2004. 7-26.
"Isaac Nathan and Lady Caroline Lamb: A Response to Graham Pont." Newstead Abbey Byron Society Review (January 2004): 88-89.
"Eliot's Hulme—Or Pound's." ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes, and Reviews. 13, 1 (Winter 2000): 23-28.
"The Madness of Writing: Lady Caroline Lamb's Byronic Identity." Pacific Coast Philology (1999).
"Deleuze, Cinema, Bergson." Social Semiotics 8,1 (1998): 25-35.
"Playing Byron: Lady Caroline Lamb's Glenarvon and the Music of Isaac Nathan." European Romantic Review (1997).
"Reading the Wreckage: De-Encrypting Eliot's Aesthetics of Empire." Twentieth Century Literature 43,1 (Spring 1997): 1-26.
"Bionic Eye: The Resources and Limits of the Cinematic Apparatus." Pacific Coast Philology (1997).
"Deleuze and the Endurance of Bergson." Thought 67 (March 1992): 47-61.
"Loose Canon on the Deck," Pacific Coast Philology 24,1-2 (July 1991): 26-34.
"Modernism and Science: The Case of Pound's ABC of Reading " Paideuma, 18 (Spring & Fall, 1989): 187-96.
"'The Theory of Poetry Is the Theory of Life': Bergson and the Later Stevens," in Critical Essays on Wallace Stevens, Steven Gould Axelrod and Helen Deese, eds. G.K. Hall & Co., 1988. 245-60.
Cradle of the Copperheads : Education and the Career of Jesse Stuart," Appalachian Journal, 15 (Spring 1988): 224-36.
"Such as the Life Is, Such Is the Form: Organicism Among the Moderns," Approaches to Organic Form. D. Reidel, 1987. 253-273.
"Hebrew Melodies as Songs: Why We Need a New Edition," The Byron Journal 14 (1986): 12-21.
"Isaac Nathan's Settings for the Hebrew Melodies," English Romanticism: The Paderborn Symposium 1 (1985): 139-151.
"The Gold Coin: Bergsonian Intuition and Modernist Aesthetics," Thought 58 (June 1983): 234-50.
"Eliot's Cats: Serious Play Behind the Playful Seriousness," Children's Literature (Yale) 11 (1983), pp. 109-24.
"Opposition is True Friendship: Keeping Spirit and Body Together in the Writing Curriculum," Claremont Reading Conference Yearbook 46 (1982): 65-75.
British Romanticism and the Jews: History, Culture, Literature, by Sheila A. Spector for Keats-Shelley Journal (2005).
Review-Essay of Byron as Reader, Lord Byron: A Multidisciplinary Forum, and Byron: East and West for the Newstead Abbey Byron Society Review (2002).
Review-Essay of Joanne Wilkes's Lord Byron and Madame de Staël, Paul Elledge's Lord Byron at Harrow School, Jonathan Gross's Byron: The Erotic Liberal, and Caroline Franklin's Byron: A Literary Life for European Romantic Review (2002).
Byromania: Portraits of the Artist in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Culture by Frances Wilson for Keats-Shelley Journal (2001).
Byron's Le Corbeau Blanc: The Life and Letters of Lady Melbourne by Jonathan Gross for Keats-Shelley Journal (1999);
Byromania: Portraits of the Artist in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Culture by Frances Wilson and Byron's Le Corbeau Blanc: The Life and Letters of Lady Melbourne by Jonathan Gross for The Wordsworth Circle 30, 4 (Autumn 1999): 225-26.
Fantasy, Forgery, and the Byron Legend by James Soderholm in European Romantic Review (1998).
The Conservative Imagination by Philip Thody in The European Legacy: Toward New Paradigms. 1,8 (1997).
Manuscripts of the Younger Romantics: A Facsimile Edition, with Full Transcriptions and Scholarly Apparatus . Lord Byron. Vol. XIII. The Prisoner of Chillon and Don Juan Canto IX, ed. Peter Cochran in Keats-Shelley Journal (1996).
T. S. Eliot and American Philosophy: The Harvard Years by Manju Jain in Philosophy and Literature (1994).
Minotaur: Poetry and the Nation State by Tom Paulin in Rocky Mountain Review of Language and Literature (1993).
Re-Making It New: Contemporary American Poetry and the Modernist Tradition by Lynn Keller in The Modern Language Review (1990).
The Romantic Foundations of the American Renaissance by Leon Chai in The Yearbook of English Studies (1990).
The Matrix of Modernism: Pound, Eliot, and Early Twentieth-Century Thought by Sanford Schwartz in Modern Language Quarterly (1986).
"Late Hike" [poem]. Caesura. Spring 2007: 64.
Obituary of Leslie Marchand (Byron's biographer) in Australian Byron Society Newsletter 24 (2000): 25-26.
"Patronage of Writers, Explosion of Awards Corrode Independence of the Literary World." San Jose Mercury News. Section C, p. 1. Sunday, January 24, 1999.
Theater and Popular Songs, Catches, Airs, and Art Songs of the Romantic Period, maintained by Paul Douglass in collaboration with Frederick Burwick.
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As much as Claremont coach Mike Collins would like to take the gift wrap off Pomona transfer running back Taj Teague, he's not going to do it until Teague is fully recovered from a calf injury he suffered early in camp while still at Pomona.
Teague will miss tonight's scrimmage against West Covina and is likely out for the Wolfpack's Week 0 game vs. Cajon. He stands a pretty good chance to return for Week 1 against Bonita on Sept. 10.
"He's not 100 percent, so I really don't want to chance anything," Collins said. "I'm more of a guy who looks down the road. It's not even a day-to-day thing. We're keeping him off it. With these injuries, you never know."
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Looks like Catching Fire is heating up: Philip Seymour Hoffman has just been cast as Plutarch Heavensbee in the film adaptation of Suzanne Collins's bestselling novel.
Heavensbee, who replaces Seneca Crane as the new Head Gamemaker in the second installment of the Hunger Games trilogy, is a pretty complicated guy. After all, you never really know whether he's friend or foe until the very end of the book.
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Oops, I'm a little behind in my MATS recaps! Last week was actually week 5, which was the last week of the course.. big sad face. But I won't jump ahead yet (though if you're following me on Instagram you'll have had a peek!).
Week 3 was all about children's book illustration. Probably not a market I really see myself in I must admit, but worth giving it a go anyway, right! We were first tasked with drawing lost of cats and creating cat characters, before being given the big assignment to either illustrate the cover, or one spread of the story The White Cat.
I had a bit of shaky start to my cat illustrations, trying to work out how a cat really looks.. but then when I made it more human like, I really got into it! I thought it was so fun sketching her facial expressions and trying different shapes and sizes for her features.
I eventually settled on the middle-bottom one. I thought she had a nice personality :) Next onto the cover..
The story is about a white cat and a prince, and the prince rides a wooden horse.. it's a really bazaar story actually, pretty dark and creepy, so I opted to put a lighter, more fun spin on the cover. Why not, it's for kids after all!
Here's what I ended up with.. I think there are a few things I'd like to keep working on, but overall I was happy I managed to complete it :)
There was such a massive variety of designs that were submitted, all so different, and quite a number that really stood out as incredible to me. There's some serious talent in this class!
If I'm honest, I'm actually finding it very difficult not to compare my work to everyone else's! There are so many wonderful illustrators that sometimes I can't help but feel a bit overwhelmed.. BUT I'm also really proud of myself for getting through each task as it comes and creating great work even if I'm initially stumped by the idea. I'm proving to myself that I can do it, and that's worth a lot I reckon :)