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Scaife Foundations
The Scaife Foundations consist of a trio of philanthropic foundations directed by billionaire Richard Mellon Scaife, whose wealth was inherited from the Mellon industrial, oil, aluminum and banking fortune.[1]
- Sarah Scaife Foundation
- Carthage Foundation
- Allegheny Foundation
In addition, two other foundations are also associated with Richard Scaife and controlled by members of his family:[2]
- Scaife Family Foundation — previously controlled by Richard Scaife and now under the direction of his children since the early 2000s.[3]
- Colcom Foundation — established and previously managed by Richard Scaife's late sister, Cordelia Scaife May.[4]
All of these foundations have been heavily involved in financing various conservative causes.[3]
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- 1 The Scaife foundations
- 2 Scaife affiliated foundations
- 3 Bankrolling Anti-Immigration Groups
- 4 Funding Islamophobia in the United States
- 5 Financial summary and list of grant recipients
- 6 Contact information
- 7 Articles and resources
- 8 Related SourceWatch articles
The Scaife foundations
The Scaife family's foundations, set up by Richard Scaife's mother, Sarah, were relatively apolitical until her death in 1965, "when Richard assumed greater control of the family fortune and was able to direct his wealth toward the growth of a conservative infrastructure."[5] By 1976, over half of the Scaife foundations' grant money went to conservative organizations and causes.
Allegheny Foundation
According to its website, the foundation "concentrates its giving in the Western Pennsylvania area and confines most of its grant awards to programs for historic preservation, civic development and education." [6] As a philanthropic organization, Allegheny is officially dedicated to supporting nonpolitical causes. However, the foundation has heavily supported some of the most prominent right-wing institutions, including the Intercollegiate Studies Institute (nearly $2.7 million between 1992 and 2004), the Heritage Foundation (including a $1.25 million donation in 2010), the David Horowitz Freedom Center ($1.2 million since 2000), and the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) (more than $1.7 million since 1985).[2]
As of 2011 the foundation was worth $52 million (fair market value).[7]
In 2009, with $28,045,655 in assets (book value), it gave out grants worth over $4 million, including a grant to ALEC.[8]
Carthage Foundation
According to its website, the Carthage Foundation's "grant program is primarily directed toward public policy programs that address major domestic and international issues...[with] no geographical restrictions."[9]
Carthage directs its funding to smaller conservative groups, such as $2.4 million since 1985 to the the Baltimore-based Maldon Institute and $2.2 million since 1995 to the Allegheny Institute for Public Policy.[10] The foundation also gives to larger conservative organizations, such as: the Free Congress Research and Education Foundation (over $5 million since 1985), Judicial Watch ($4.6 million since 1997), the Heritage Foundation ($2.6 million since 1985), and the Washington Legal Foundation ($1.78 million since 1985).[10] It has also given over $1.5 million since 1995 to the Federation for American Immigration Reform, which has been designated as an anti-immigrant hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center.[10]
As of 2011, the foundation was worth over $29 million (fair market value).[11]
On the Founding of the Carthage Foundation
Jane Mayer, in her book Dark Money, describes how Scaife wrote a memoir before his death that has not been published,
- "In 2009, however, five years before he was diagnosed with inoperable cancer, Scaife penned a previously private, still-unpublished memoir, "A Richly Conservative Life," that serves as a secret tell-all about the building of the modern conservative movement. In his memoir, Scaife describes how he and a handful of other influential conservatives who shared the view that American civilization faced an existential threat from progressivism began meeting during the Cold War years, at first informally, to plot against the country's liberal drift....Out of this discussion was born the League to Save Carthage, an informal network of influential, die-hard American conservatives..." This network would become the Carthage Foundation."[12]
Sarah Scaife Foundation
With over $255 million in assets as of 2010, the Sarah Scaife Foundation is the largest of the foundations currently under Scaife's control, giving away over $14 million in 2010[5] According to its website, its funding is "primarily directed toward public policy programs that address major domestic and international issues."[13] In practice, the programs that benefit from the foundation's grants usually seek to shift public policy to the right.[5] "The foundation's biggest recipient over the last several decades has been the Heritage Foundation, which got over $23 million between 1985 and 2010 and probably much more in years prior to available records."[5] More big recipients are the Institute for Foreign Policy Analysis, the Center for Strategic and International Studies, and the Hoover Institution, all prominent right-wing think tanks. Others include the American Enterprise Institute (which has received nearly $9 million), and the Media Research Center (which has received over $4 million) as well as millions to organizations like FreedomWorks, the Cato Institute, and the Center for Immigration Studies.[5]
As of 2011, the foundation was worth over $263 million (fair market value).[14]
Scaife became chairman, commenced right wing funding
During the 1960s, Richard Mellon Scaife inherited an estimated $200 million from his mother, Sarah.[citation needed] The Foundation commenced funding "New Right" causes in 1973 when Richard became the foundation's chairman. His net personal worth was estimated at $800 million by Forbes magazine, which made Richard the 38th richest person in the United States.
Grants from 1985-2001
Between 1985 and 2001, the Sarah Scaife Foundation donated $15,860,000 to the Heritage Foundation; $7,333,000 to the Institute for Policy Analysis; $6,995,500 to the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace; $6,693,000 to the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS); $4,411,000 to the American Enterprise Institute; $2,575,000 to the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research; $1,855,000 to the George C. Marshall Institute; $1,808,000 to the Hudson Institute; and $1,697,000 to the Cato Institute.[15]
Scaife affiliated foundations
Scaife Family Foundation
According to its website, the Scaife Family Foundation's grants are dedicated to organizations that "support and develop programs that strengthen families, address issues surrounding the health and welfare of women and children, promote animal welfare, and that demonstrate the beneficial interaction between humans and animals."[16]
As of 2011, the foundation was worth more than $71 million (fair market value).[17]
Transition to daughter's control shifted focus
The Scaife Family Foundation broke away from the other three Scaife Foundations in the early 2000s and came under the control of Scaife's daughter, Jennie, who has since changed its focus.[3] According to the Palm Beach Post, Scaife's daughter, Jennie, moved the foundation's offices to Palm Beach, Florida, after differences arose concerning the foundation's support for Planned Parenthood. Jennie claimed the Scaife Family Foundation became more independent from her family in 2000.[3] As of 2003, the Scaife Family Foundation began giving a higher percentage of money to drug-treatment programs, disease-fighting groups, and colleges than it grants to think tanks, although it still funds measures to restrict immigration and abolish affirmative action.[3]
Grants from 1985 to 2001
For the years 1985-2001, the Scaife Family Foundation donated $702,640 to the Heritage Foundation; $590,000 to the American Enterprise Institute; $275,000 to the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) at Johns Hopkins University; $200,000 to the CSIS; and $175,000 to the New Citizenship Project, Inc., alone.
Colcom Foundation
The Colcom Foundation was directed by Richard Scaife's sister, Cordelia May, until her death in 2005.[4] May was a dedicated conservationist concerned with population growth and a close friend of John Tanton, another conservationist turned an anti-immigration activist, responsible for the creation of a network of anti-immigrant groups, such as Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) and Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR).[18][19]
Colcom has given tens of millions of dollars to Tanton's groups, including FAIR, CIS, and NumbersUSA since 2001.[20] From 2008-2010 alone, Colcom gave over 25 million dollars to these and other anti-immigrant organizations.[19]
Bankrolling Anti-Immigration Groups
Cordelia Scaife May, founder and director the Colcom Foundation until her death in 2005, was an environmentalist committed to population control and believed limiting immigration was a way to succeed in this endeavor. Since 2001, Colcom has been the primary funder for many groups in the anti-immigrant John Tanton Network, giving over $17 million to NumbersUSA, almost $15 million to the Federation for American Immigration Reform, and more than $6 million to the Center for Immigration Studies.[18]
Richard Scaife, through his management of the Carthage Foundation and the Sarah Scaife Foundation, and together with the Scaife Family Foundation (controlled by Richard Scaife's children since 2001) has donated more than $4 million to FAIR and more than $3 million to CIS since the early 1990s. Additionally, since 2001, the foundations have given ProEnglish $285,000 and NumbersUSA $987,500. The Scaife Family Foundation is also the sole funder of ProEnglish.[18]
Funding Islamophobia in the United States
Research from the Center for American Progress (CAP) indicates that a Scaife foundation has funded various organizations and individuals contributing to anti-Islamic sentiment in the United States. The organization contributed $7,875,000 to Islamophobic groups between 2001 and 2009. Some of the main recipients included the Center for Security Policy, the Counterterrorism & Security Education and Research Foundation, and the David Horowitz Freedom Center.[21]
Financial summary and list of grant recipients
In 1993 alone, the Scaife and Carthage foundations donated more than $17.6 million to conservative think tanks[citation needed].
In 1999, the Washington Post reported that Scaife's foundations had given $340 million to conservative causes and institutions.[22]
By 2002, they held more than $320 million in assets, and in that year alone they gave away more than $22 million.[23][24][25]
Grant recipients have included:
- American Civil Rights Union
- American Enterprise Institute
- American Legislative Exchange Council
- Americans for Tax Reform
- Atlas Economic Research Foundation
- Capital Research Center
- Cato Institute
- Center for Media and Public Affairs
- Center for the Study of Popular Culture
- Citizens for a Sound Economy
- Collegiate Network
- Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow
- Competitive Enterprise Institute
- Evergreen Freedom Foundation
- Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies
- Free Congress Research and Education Foundation
- George C. Marshall Institute
- Heritage Foundation
- Hudson Institute
- Independent Women's Forum
- Intercollegiate Studies Institute
- Judicial Watch
- Landmark Legal Foundation
- Media Research Center
- National Legal and Policy Center
- Philanthropy Roundtable
- Reason Foundation
- University of Chicago
Contact information
Scaife Foundations
One Oxford Center
301 Grant Street, Suite 3900
Pittsburgh, PA 15219-6401
Phone: (412) 392-2900
Web: http://www.scaife.com
Articles and resources
- ↑ Michael Joseph Gross, "A Vast Right-Wing Hypocrisy", Vanity Fair, February 2008
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Bridge Project profile on: "Allegheny Foundation", organizational website, accessed May 2013
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 Right Web profile on: "Scaife Foundations", organizational website, accessed May 2013
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Colcom Foundation, "History", organizational website, accessed May 2013
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 Bridge Project profile on: "Sarah Scaife Foundation", organizational website, accessed May 2013
- ↑ Scaife Foundations, "Allegheny Foundation: Application Guidelines", organizational website, accessed 2013
- ↑ Economic Research Institute, Nonprofit Organization Information for: "Allegheny Foundation", organizational website, accessed May 2013
- ↑ Allegheny Foundation. Media Matters Action Network. Retrieved on 2011-04-25.
- ↑ Scaife Foundations, "The Carthage Foundation: Application Guidelines", organizational website, accessed 2013
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 Bridge Project profile on: "The Carthage Foundation", organizational website, accessed May 2013
- ↑ Economic Research Institute, Nonprofit Organization Information for:"Carthage Foundation", organizational website, accessed May 2013
- ↑ Jane Mayer, [Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right], 2016.
- ↑ Scaife Foundations, "Sarah Scaife Foundation: Application Guidelines", organizational website, accessed 2013
- ↑ Economic Research Institute, Nonprofit Organization Information for: "Sarah Scaife Foundation Inc", Nonprofit Organization Information
- ↑ Sarah Scaife Foundation grant recipients (1985-2005). Media Transparency (old site). Retrieved on 2011-10-21. "Institute for Foreign Policy Analysis, Inc. - 9,698,000 (1985-2005)"
- ↑ Scaife Family Foundation, "Scaife Family Foundation", organizational website, accessed May 2013
- ↑ Economic Research Institute, Nonprofit Organization Information for:"Sarah Scaife Foundation Inc", organizational website, accessed May 2013
- ↑ 18.0 18.1 18.2 Katie Lorenze, "Scaife-Funded Network Works Hard to Kill Immigration Reform", PRWatch, May 31, 2013
- ↑ 19.0 19.1 Stephen Piggott, "Quiz Time: Which Single Foundation Almost Solely Bankroll's the Entirety of the John Tanton Network?", Imagine 2050, September 1, 2011
- ↑ Bridge Project profile on: "Colcom Foundation", organizational website, accessed May 2013
- ↑ Wajahat Ali, Eli Clifton, Matthew Duss, Lee Fang, Scott Keyes, and Faiz Shakir, Fear Inc.: The Roots of the Islamophobia Network in America, CAB, August 2011.
- ↑ Washington Post, special series on Clinton featuring Richard Scaife, May 1999
- ↑ Sarah Scaife Foundation, "2002 Annual Report"
- ↑ Allegheny Foundation, "2002 Annual Report"
- ↑ Carthage Foundation, "2002 Annual Report"
Related SourceWatch articles
- Conservative foundations
- Foundations and Funders
- Cato Institute
- Oil industry
- Richard Mellon Scaife
- Scaife Family Foundation
- Gulf Oil
External resources
- Media Transparency: Scaife Foundations (grants and other info, 2006&earlier)
- MediaMatters (grants and other info, 1985-2009, albeit incomplete - e.g. doesn't include Sarah Scaife Foundation grants to National Association of Scholars (as of 2011-08-13))
- Scaife Foundations on Right Web
External articles
- 1998 Salon article on Scaife.
- Scaife Probing Death of Activist Who Criticized Government, Vatican Involvement, American Atheists' Flashline, web posted March 8, 1999.
- "Scaife - Funding Father of the Right," Washington Post special report, May 2-3, 1999.
- Robert G. Kaiser, Money, Family Name Shaped Scaife, The Washington Post, May 3, 1999.
- Jamie Doward, "US millionaire bankrolls crusade against gay Anglican priests," The Observer (UK), October 12, 2003, mentions the role of Scaife as well as Howard F. Ahmanson, Jr..
- Political Friendster; Links to Scaife family members and allows network connections to be selected and displayed.
- Brendan DeMelle Heartland Denial-a-Palooza Sponsors Have Received $67 Million From ExxonMobil, Koch and Scaife Foundations DeSmogBlog 22/05/2012


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WHEELING - Beginning Friday, residents of the Ohio Valley will have a chance to walk the decks of replicas of the Pinta and Nina as the ships dock at Wheeling's Heritage Port until Wednesday.
The public is invited to visit the vessels and engage in self-guided tours. The ships will be open from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. daily. No reservations are necessary. There is a cost to board.
The history of the vessels is a storied one. It has been 526 years since a man from Genoa approached the Spanish monarchy with a bold idea for a sailing venture. Centuries before men in blue and gray clashed in the first ironclad vessels, and before a man named Armstrong stepped on gray soil and declared, "One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind," there were three wooden ships. One was a large ship named Santa Maria, and the two smaller vessels were called Pinta and Nina.
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SAILING UP THE RIVER — Replicas of the Nina and Pinta float past Heritage Port in Wheeling. The ships are scheduled to dock at Wheeling's Heritage Port Friday through Wednesday. -- Ian Hicks
During Columbus' voyage in 1492, the Santa Maria ran aground in what would be known as Hispaniola, now the Dominican Republic and Haiti. But the Pinta and Nina were caravels, a new kind of ship developed in Portugal and specially designed for speed and rough weather. Both would survive Columbus' first trip, which led to European knowledge of the American continent and changed the course of Western history.
"Historians consider the caravel the space shuttle of the 15th century," according to a news release from the Columbus Foundation Inc.
The Nina was Columbus' favorite ship. After returning home from his first voyage, he brought it on his second voyage to Hispaniola. The Nina then became his flagship in his third voyage to Cuba. At least 25,000 miles were logged on the Nina under Columbus' command.
The ship's adventures did not end there. Between the second and third voyages, the Nina had been taken on an unauthorized trip to Rome and captured by pirates. The crew then stole the ship back from the pirates and returned it to Spain. The last known record of the Nina was in 1501, when it was being used for trading.
Construction began on the first historically accurate replica of the Nina in 1988. The project was completed using only design and construction techniques that would have been used in the 15th century. It left Brazil and sailed to Costa Rica in 1991, and took part in filming "1492." Since that maiden voyage, the replica has visited 300 ports in the United States.
Nina's sister ship, Pinta, was completed in 2005 to accompany the Nina in its travels. The Pinta is a larger version of caravel and can be chartered out for special events.
Both ships act as a sort of "sailing museum." As they travel, the crew seeks to educate the public and students on the caravel and its place in history. Organizations or schools interested in scheduling 30-minute guided tours can call the crew at 787-672-2152. Groups must be at least 15 people, and there is no maximum. For more information, visit the website at www.thenina.com.


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I've heard that light can't escape from a black hole. Can it? If not, why?
A black hole has an event horizon which 'marks the point of no return'. So yes, light cannot escape from a black hole.
Why? Well, think of a 'spacetime fabric'. It's the easiest way to understand the physics at work here, in my opinion.
Usually, the fabric would look like this:
However, a black hole has so much gravity that one could say it 'rips' the spacetime fabric:
When the light hits this area of amazingly intense gravity, it simply cannot get out - the light travels 'along' the fabric, and since there is a rip in the fabric, one could say it simply goes away - it becomes part of the singularity.
This is a simplification, of course, but it's enough to understand at least part of the physics behind this phenonenom.
I like to think of this in terms of escape velocity.
Escape velocity is the speed needed to escape the gravitational pull of a given object. For the Earth, that speed is 11.2 km/second (Mach 34!). When rockets blast off from Earth, they aren't trying to achieve a certain height or altitude, they're trying to reach a certain speed, the escape velocity.
Once a rocket reaches 11.2 kips*, it has attained the speed needed to leave the Earth completely. If a rocket fails to attain that speed, regardless of its height, it will fall back to the Earth. (You can imagine a magical balloon that slowly lifts you up into space, up past the ISS and most satellites, and then you let go: since you aren't going fast enough, you will fall back down, past all the satellites, and crash into the earth.)
Smaller gravitational bodies, like the moon, have smaller escape velocities. That's why the lunar landers were able to leave the moon with such a small ascent stage, compared to the massive Saturn V it took to leave Earth: they only had to go 2.4 km/second.
To escape the Sun, you'd have to go 617.5 km/second!
Fortunately for us, light goes faster than 617.5 kips, so we're able to see the light created on the Sun. However, as you increase the mass of an object, eventually the escape velocity would meet or exceed 299,792km/s, the speed of light. At that point not even light itself can go fast enough to escape the gravity well, and will always be pulled back down into the black hole.
*Short for "kilometers per second"
Don't forget that if a black hole has less than the current stable mass of a black hole (3 solar masses) then it evaporates - transforming its mass in radiation, in which case it would give off light, mostly X rays and gamma, at an increasing rate as its mass decreases, until the entire black hole is turned into a flash of hard radiation.
However, this light is the mass of the black hole escaping in the form of the most basic form of energy.


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ANDERSON, S.C. – After a 12-win 2013 season which sealed a spot into the 2013 NCAA Division II Tournament, Anderson University men's soccer first-year head coach Michael Zion has announced his 2014 schedule that features eight home matches, highlighted by the home opener against archrival Erskine to kick off the run towards the Beville Cup.
Including 11 SAC matchups on tap, the Trojans will face a difficult nonconference schedule with three Peach Belt Conference teams, headlined by last year's regular season champion Young Harris, which went a perfect 9-0 in PBC matches in 2013. AU will also link up with PBC power Flagler, which finished 5-2-2 in league play and joined Anderson in the NCAA Tournament last season.
The Trojans begin their 2014 campaign on Sept. 4 in Florida as they open against Sunshine State Conference power Rollins which ended 2013 with a 17-3 record and a 7-1 mark in conference action. The Tars advanced to the second round of the NCAA Tournament before they were eliminated by eventual national runner-up, Carson-Newman, 2-1. Following the non-regional match, AU heads north to square off against Flagler on Sept. 6.
"The first weekend will be very tough," Zion said. "I think (Rollins) will be nationally ranked when we open with them, so that will be a tough road game for us. Flagler will also be tough, but if we can go down there and get a result that will very good."
On Sept. 13, the Trojans begin their South Atlantic Conference schedule with a trip to Catawba for a 7:30 p.m. kickoff. The meeting will mark the third straight season AU and the Indians have opened SAC play with the Black and Gold earning a 3-1 victory at Trojan Stadium a year ago.
Following the rivalry match and the home opener against Erskine on Sept. 17, Anderson hits the road once again when it faces Coker on Sept. 20 in Hartsville. The Cobras finished 6-4-1 in their first season as SAC members in 2013, claiming their first SAC win in program history over the Trojans on Sept. 21, 2013.
"We get Erskine coming to our place this season and I think that is going to be a very exciting," Zion said. "I think with the way the match went last year, they're going to want to come back and get a result against us."
Anderson returns to the Upstate for a pair of conference matchups, beginning with a rematch of last year's SAC Tournament championship match against Queens on Sept. 24. The Royals bested the Trojans twice last season, including a 2-0 setback in the SAC title game, snapping a consecutive tournament championship streak of three set by Anderson. The two-match home stretch concludes with a meeting with Mars Hill on Sept. 27.
"With Queens being the team that won the conference last year, them coming here will be big for us," Zion added. "They beat us twice last season, once in the regular season and once in the conference tournament championship so I think all of our guys have that game circled. We certainly want to get some respect back."
As the Trojans bring in October, they return to their nonconference slate with a trip to Young Harris. Last season, Anderson handed YHC one of its two losses on the season, as the Trojans claimed a 2-1 double-overtime win over the Lions on Sept. 11, 2013 at Trojan Stadium. Despite the setback, Young Harris finished the year with a 16-2 record and ranked No. 11 nationally in the NSCAA/Continental Tire NCAA Division II Men's Soccer Poll.
"Young Harris will be in the Top 25 when we play them," Zion said. "I expect them to be very good and I think this will be a huge game for us."
A trio of SAC matches await the Trojans as they play two of the next three at home. The stretch begins with a home match against Tusculum on Oct. 4, followed by a road contest at in-state rival, Newberry on Oct. 8. Anderson defeated both teams a year ago by a goal differential. AU closes the conference streak returning to Trojan Stadium on Oct. 10 against Lenoir-Rhyne.
Anderson remains in the Upstate on Oct. 14 when it hosts its final match against a Conference Carolinas opponent in Mount Olive. The Trojans cruised past UMO 5-1 a season ago for their second win of a four-match winning streak to begin the year.
After a road match with Lincoln Memorial on Oct. 18, AU closes its home slate with back-to-back SAC matches against Brevard (Oct. 22) and Wingate (Oct. 25). The Trojans will look to avenge a road setback to the Tornados a year ago, while WU seeks redemption against the Black and Gold as Anderson eliminated the Bulldogs from the postseason with a 1-0 win in the opening round of the SAC Tournament.
"If we had to play Wingate anywhere, I'd rather play them at home," Zion said. "Wingate has been one of the strongest teams in the conference every year, but I'm happy we have them at home, especially towards the end of the season. That will be a tough test for us."
Before rounding out their 2014 schedule, the Trojans will have two critical road tests, beginning with a meeting with Peach Belt opponent, Francis Marion, on Oct. 29. AU knocked off the Patriots at home in 2013, as a 65th minute goal from Bernd Muxel provided the difference, sealing an unbeaten 4-0-1 record against PBC teams.
"We won an important game against (Francis Marion) last season, which could have decided who would have been in the NCAA Tournament," Zion said. "If they would have beaten us, I think they would have gone in. That game will be big, especially for postseason placement."
For the second straight season, Anderson ends its regular season against Carson-Newman on Nov. 1, which knocked AU out of the NCAA Tournament a year ago and eventually advanced to the National Championship match. In both contests in 2013, the Trojans fell to the Eagles 3-2 with last year's regular season finale needing extra time.
"If there is any game I wanted to end with, it's this one," Zion added. "I hope they come in as high as they are ranked right now to give us a great opportunity to make a last impact and maybe get ourselves into an NCAA spot."
The SAC Tournament is scheduled for Nov. 4-9 with the opening rounds taking place at the higher seeds. The semifinals and finals will be held at Manchester Meadows in Rock Hill, S.C.
"This season's schedule is very tough," Zion said. "But I think we have the returning players and the talent to be able to handle it."
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Relevant and Hopefully Helpful Background Info: I am making a library using the XNA framework for games I make with XNA. The Library has a folder(Namespace) dedication to the GUI. The GUI Controls inherit a base class hooked with the appropriate Interfaces. After a control is made, the programmer can hook the control with a "Frame" or "Module" that will tell the controls when to update and draw with an event. To make a "Frame" or "Module", you would inherit a class with the details coded in. (Kind of how win forms does it.) My reason for doing this is to simplify the process of creating menus with intractable controls. The only way I could think of for making the events for all the controls to function without being class specific would be to typecast a control to an object and typecast it back. (As I have read, this can be terribly inefficient.)
Problem: Unfortunately, after I have implemented interfaces into the base classes and changed
public delegate void ClickedHandler(BaseControl cntrl);
public delegate void ClickedHandler(Object cntrl, EventArgs e);
my game has decreased in performance. This performance could be how I am firing the events, as what happens is the one menu will start fine, but then slowly but surely will freeze up. Every other frame works just fine, I just think it has something to do with the events and... that is why I am asking about them.
Question: Is there a better more industry way of dealing with GUI Libraries other then using and implementing Events?
Goal: To create a reusable feature rich XNA Control Library implementing performance enhancing standards and so on.
Thank-you very much for taking your time to read this. I also hope this will help others possibly facing what I am facing right now.
UPDATE: LAG SOLVED. The lag was caused do to an update method in my base text control. I had a mistake of running a loop a ton of times when it did not need to be ran.
I have also remove all instances of EventArgs from the library as I personally see no point in them.


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Continuing its interview series with various game creators , this week Weekly Famitsu sat down with Kenichiro Takaki of Marvelous AQL to talk about his thoughts for the future.
Takaki is famous for his hand in busty babe-featuring games like the Battle Vixens series, and the Senran Kagura series, as well as the non-busty babe-featuring Half-Minute Hero series. Nicknamed the "Bakunyuu (爆乳: huge boobs) Producer," Takaki came up with the Senran Kagura series by looking at the Nintendo 3DS and instantly deciding that what he wanted to see most with the new technology was boobs. The sequel, Senran Kagura Burst is scheduled for release in Japan on the 30th of this month.
Talking about his popular Senran Kagura series, Takaki explained, "In the current market, it's difficult for an original title to sell well. But, if it's a character-centric game, it's easier to increase the popularity with peripherals like anime, manga, and goods." He added, "This makes it easier to make sequels." A fairly successful business model that indeed has led to the development of the sequel, Senran Kagura Burst as well as a new anime. Takaki also added that he expects the Senran Kagura franchise to have more sequels and that further plans are currently in development.
When asked what he looked forward to in the evolution of hardware, Takaki said excitedly, "I'd like for something like a holographic technology that would have girls pop out of the screen!" On a more serious note, he added, "It wouldn't have to be girls; something like having a soccer ball pop out of the screen that you could manipulate with your fingers would be interesting. I believe that freeing players from the confines of the controllers would allow games to evolve." I'm sorry, all I heard was "interactive, holographic, big-busted girls..." The rest is kind of fuzzy.
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Father-daughter duo Juan Mari and Elena Arzak on their new restaurant and working together
WHEN SOMEONE ASKED Paul Bocuse who cooked in his restaurant, L'Auberge du Pont de Collonges, when he wasn't there, the legendary French chef responded: "The same people who cook when I am there." As Juan Mari Arzak and Elena Arzak open their first European venture outside of Spain, the father-and-daughter team behind the eponymous three-Michelin-star restaurant in San Sebastián might just sympathize.
At Arzak, at least one of them is always in the kitchen and, most of the time, both are present. But as the duo launch Ametsa with Arzak Instruction in London today, they won't be able to be in two places at once. So they will continue to work in San Sebastián, with occasional visits to London, where Mikel Sorazu (one of the three members of their test kitchen) will act as the day-to-day chef.
Arzak has been on the same site in San Sebastián since 1897. Ms. Arzak, 43 years old, is the fourth generation of the family to work in its kitchens, while Mr. Arzak, 70, is considered the father of New Basque Cuisine. Their menu is a playful take on traditional Basque cuisine, so a dish of lobster claws might include tiny clothes pegs made of lobster roe (the Basque word is the same for both).
We caught up with Ms. Arzak, ranked the top female chef in the world last year in the San Pellegrino Top 50 Restaurant Awards, and her father in San Sebastián for a conversation about working together, plans for Ametsa and the future—and how they stay out of each other's hair.
On joining the family business
Elena: When I was a child, my grandmother, parents and aunt all worked in the restaurant, and from the age of 11, I spent two hours in the kitchen every day. By the time I had finished high school at 18, I knew I wanted to devote myself to gastronomy and my parents were quite OK about that, but they merely wanted me to be really sure it was what I wanted to do with my life and not something based on just working in the summer holidays.
Juan Mari: Even though I very much liked the idea of Elena being my successor, I wanted to be a bit of a devil's advocate, so I tried to make her realize how tough it was and everything. When she finished at the school of hotel and restaurant management and came back to our kitchen, I simply asked her to make a few dishes and I was impressed with her ability.
Even then, though, I expected her to go and start up her own restaurant as there were some options at the time, but she said, "No, that is not my plan. I would much rather work here with you." So there you have it.
On different tastes
Elena: On one side, we understand each other very well, but I spent six years abroad, so I had perhaps different tastes. I suspect that I prefer things that are slightly more acidic, including wines, than my father, who has a sweeter tooth than I do. The desserts he likes are sweeter than what I like. But, of course, nothing appears on the menu until we both agree it should be there.
I spent six months at London's Le Gavroche in the late '80s and liked my time there very much. I never went to fancy restaurants, just pubs; and I liked the pastry shops very much. I go to London at least annually to try new places.
Juan Mari: In the early '60s, I worked in England for four months near Preston at the Ramsgate Inn. I love the way the English cook beef and ducks, and have very fond memories of eating roast partridge at a restaurant near Woodstock in Oxfordshire.
I was very amused when people told me at that time that Chinese food was one of the greatest cuisines in the world and I thought, how can it be so great when you get such a mountain of it for only £1.
On launching in London
Elena: I'm happy to have worked out a system where we can go abroad without disturbing or breaking our structure here. The people in London understand our way of thinking. Also for us, London is very interesting both because it is very cosmopolitan but also respects local traditions. We will have to be careful not to start with extremely strange things. We will have to start slowly and see after this experience what works or doesn't.
Juan Mari: I must emphasize that this will not be "Arzak in London," because Arzak is the way it is because of where it is—here in the Basque Country, with all of the people working together with the unique products and ingredients. Our chefs have found fantastic meat in England but fish is a bit more difficult. In general, the fish here in San Sebastián is extremely fresh....We had to look around far more in London than we do here. Some things we like here like hake are not very prized in Britain. It is very delicate and mild with a soft texture, but people in Northern Europe don't like that very much.
On retirement
Elena: As for the future, I always tell him of course the day you want to leave, you can. But he likes being here so much that he will remain. I have worked for him closely for so many years but I don't want to force him to leave. Nobody else understands how much he loves being here.
Juan Mari: I would like to die right at this table unless someone wants to throw me out before then.... When Elena agreed to join me, it was like I won the lottery. We have a lot of intense discussions but we never row.
On personal space
Elena: He is very disorganized and I am not. Now we have separate offices, so it is not an issue. Six years ago we created these different offices and it was a very happy occasion for me. I have my own space.


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He's also held on burglary and theft charges stemming from previous incidents.
He was arrested after a traffic stop at around 9:30 p.m. Friday near the intersection of New Road and Waco Drive, where a Waco officer pulled over a vehicle without taillights.
As the officer approached the vehicle, the driver jumped out, tried to dispose of a plastic bag containing methamphetamine, and then ran into traffic on New Road, police said Monday.
The officer was able to subdue the man, but as he was being escorted back to the patrol car he pulled a knife from his pocket and threatened the officer.
The officer used his Taser, which caused the man to fall to the ground, but then the man got up and tried to run again, police said.
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Say I have the following circle and I want to find the area bound between the axis and p, is there an easy way to do it? I tried using an integral but for some reason it doesn't have a nice clean form (or it times out of I use online integrators)
As David says, it's easy to see that the area is $\frac{1}{2}(P\sqrt{1-P^2} + \arcsin P)$ by dividing your region into two parts.
Since you had trouble doing it with integration, here it is: the area is
$$\int_0^P \sqrt{1-x^2}dx.$$
Now put $x=\sin \psi$, $dx = \cos \psi\: d\psi$. Then the integral is
$$\int_0^{\arcsin P} \cos^2 \psi\: d\psi = \frac{1}{2}\int_0^{\arcsin P} (1+\cos{2\psi}) \: d\psi$$ $$= \frac{1}{2}(\arcsin P + \frac{1}{2}\sin(2\arcsin P)) = \frac{1}{2}(\arcsin P + P\sqrt{1-P^2}).$$
You can do this by elementary geometry. We'll divide up the first quadrant into various pieces, all of which can be readily computed. I'll assume your circle has radius 1.
The trick is to consider the radial wedge of the circle between the axis and the upper-right corner of your figure. The width of your figure will be $\cos \theta$ for some $0 \le \theta \le \pi/2$, and so this wedge will have area $\theta/2$. The total area of the circle in the first quadrant will be $\pi / 4$. The triangle formed by the radius of angle $\theta$ and the right edge of your figure has area $1/2 \cos \theta \sin \theta = 1/4 \sin 2\theta$. Thus, the portion of the circle in the first quadrant lying outside of your figure, is $\theta/2 - 1/4 \sin 2\theta$; the area of your figure is therefore $$1/4 \left( \pi + \sin 2 \theta - 2\theta \right).$$


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I'd like to execute some code everytime my wordpress cron runs, regardless of the timeframe. Is it possible to create an add_action for this? I looked in the filter list but I couldn't find anything relevant.
I'd like to execute some code everytime my wordpress cron runs, regardless of the timeframe. Is it possible to create an add_action for this? I looked in the filter list but I couldn't find anything relevant.
Basically every page load looks to see if there is anything scheduled to run, so by that logic the cron is checked and can possibly run on every page load.
I can only presume you want to schedule something to run every so often. If that's the case you need to look at wp_schedule_event()
Below is the code to get some code to run ever hour:
If you want to fire your own code when someone else's cron has run then you need to tie into their action that is fired. So lets take the above code is someone else's plugin and you want to fire your code every time theirs is ran.
Well they have created an action like this:
so all you need to do is piggy back your function onto this:
After this remark from the OP:
I do not know if the W3 Total Cache plug-in not automatically flushes the cache when posts are published. I believed it did. If it does not - then in this intance I would hook onto post transition hook (see related question), and flush the cache then. This way, whenever a post changes status (via wp-cron or otherwise) - the cache is updated to the reflect this.
Orignal Problem
In response to the original question: firing a function whenever wp-cron is launched - I don't think this is possible programatically - and the solution given by @Brady is probably the closest that you'll get to doing that.
I recently had to do the same thing with w3 total cache, here is how I implemented it (simplified to answer the OP question)
To clear the page cache only when a future scheduled post actually changes it's status to publish, the hook 'publish_future_post' is recommended. Add the code snippet to your functions.php.
Don't use hook 'transition_post_status' which is executed, too. My debugging did show that sometimes the necessary class 'W3_PgCacheFlush' from the W3TC plugin can not be instantiated using this hook.


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As of today we have 110 posts on BI from the Swamp blog. Over the next two weeks we are going to repost the most popular blogs on BI from the Swamp since it launched in March 2010. Today's blog was originally posted on May 12, 2010 by Doug Moran to highlight the results of our 'What is Agile BI?' contest. Over a year later, Agile BI continues to be the hot topic. For example, the theme of the TDWI World conference last week was Evolving your Agile BI Environment. Multiple times at the conference we were asked how Pentaho defined the term, Agile BI. A quick an easy answer was to point them to the blog below and to our Agile BI Practical Guide.
****************** original post from May 12, 2010*****************
Last month, Pentaho sponsored a contest where people answer the question -"What does agile BI mean?" I was lucky enough to be one of the judges to determine who made it to the final five and win a Flip Ultra™ camcorder. The results were posted today http://www.pentaho.com/what_is_agile/. Now it's up to the community to vote for their favorite answer and the winner gets an iPad – (yes, that means you).
When reading through hundreds of entries I began to see a pattern and being an old BI guy, that meant I had to make a pie chart. The answers fell into 5 main groups: BI Solution Development, Business Users, Entire Business marketing Fluff and Other.
Almost 34% of the entries cited Agile BI as an iterative methodology for developing BI solutions involving the end user as early and often as possible. It is exemplified by one of the finalists "Agile is about speeding up the design/create/ship/observe cycle. The more you ship and observe, the better you learn to design and do. Whether you're headed in the wrong direction or the right one, it's imperative that you find that out as soon as possible." Exactly what we have started with the PDI 4.0 release and are continuing to focus on.
A full 25% of the responses focused on the business user with quotes like, "Agile is never being caught flat-footed – being able to react and adapt with ease, leaving competitors in your wake." The ability for end users to explore and analyze business data beyond static reporting is very important. Applications like Pentaho Analyzer and Web-based Ad hoc Query and Reporting address this need. The modeling perspective added to PDI 4.0 reduces the complexity and learning curve associated with building metadata models and schemas in order to put that analytical power into the end user's hands.
A little over 12% were not concerned whether the agility was on the development or user side. They just knew that the business had to react quickly to changing business conditions. "Agile means being able to rapidly adjust to changing conditions with speed and accuracy" was a typical response in this category.
Exactly 15% of people responded with what I call fluffy messages. These were creative and got the most attention from our marketing people (I wasn't the only judge) "The antonym to SAP", "Less work, more money" and "Agile (with Pentaho) means never having to say you're sorry."
The last 14% were entries like "agile is eliga read backwards" and the self-referencing "The only way to make agile decisions." Not sure where they were going with some of these but they were also entertaining.
Out of the entries, there were nine attempts to make a phrase by using words that start with the letters A-G-I-L-E. Two people submitted papers on agile BI. We even had a submission written in Haiku. No one went for the extra creativity points by using video or interpretive dance. We didn't get any abusive, obscene or SPAM entries, which was nice.
There were only two negative responses complaining that Agile BI was marketing hype. Here is one of them, "Two answers. 1. Personally, "Agile BI" means nothing to me. Sounds like yet another attempt by marketing to create an artificial differentiator. 2. If I had to describe "Agile BI" or die, I'd say, "An Agile BI environment enables an organization's people and processes to quickly adapt to new or changed user requirements, ideally through self-learning and pre-emptive adjustments." Answer two is exactly what we intend to enable with this initiative and when we are successful, that will prove the number one answer wrong.
Pentaho is committed to Agile BI. We believe our development plan is in line with the majority of respondents to this contest. PDI 4.0 is a great start but it is just the first steps and we are using this feedback to help set the product roadmap for the next half of this year and beyond. Thank you for participating! Please vote for one of the finalists.
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[asset management]
[non-destructing testing]
[service life]
[root causes]
The business manager for an asset management solutions (AMS)
firm in the Middle East faced a big task. He had been asked to
execute a major project for an oil and gas producer
and wanted to have his questions answered on remaining rotating
equipment life at existing client sites. The managers
charge was to analyze large oil and gas plants that had been
operating for far more than 25 years, although they were
originally designed for 20 to 25 years only.
The aim of his AMS firm was to secure the future of the
clients assets for another 20 years. The AMS manager had
to determine what the client needed to do to stay in business
for another 20 years without undue risk of production loss and
without jeopardizing the high level of safety the company had
achieved for its human and physical assets.
Before meeting with the manager and his staff, we had to set
the stage for a productive week of meetings. Once we agreed
that his firms charter was to quantify the remaining life
of the clients turbines, compressors, pump and other
equipment, the deliverables for a reliability consultant had to be
delineated. The consultant defined his work effort to
explaining key parameters and spelling out what the formula or
approach would be for calculating the remaining life of each
rotating machine.
We believe that the key ingredients of any useful endeavor
when determining the remaining life of machinery is hidden in
the client plants own past failure history. Where such
history exists and the root causes for the failures have been
analyzed, authoritative answers on remaining life are possible.
Conversely, when these data are lacking, applicable data from
others would have to be substituted.
Regarding stationary equipment and piping, corrosion data
should be available from coupons or from nondestructive testing
readings. If no such test data are available from a particular
facility, the AMS firm was advised to use third-party surveys
and look at corrosion rates experienced in comparable
industries and under comparable or scaleable conditions. This
effort takes time and money.
Because our specialty is rotating machinery, we wanted to
look first at process pumps. In the HPI, these simple machines
suffer many thousands of unexplained repeat failures every
year. We outlined to the AMS to focus on the pumps, audit the
plants own failure history and past repair data first. To
the maximum extent possible, plant data and pump configurations
must be compared against upgrade measures taken by successful
best-of-class organizations. Advanced lube
application strategies are used by best-of-class facilities. These strategies must
enter into the comparison, as will the extension of
oil-replacement intervals made possible by better lubricants
and superior bearing housing protection measures.
Mechanical seal life must be assessed and compared against
best-available sealing technologies. This requires a liaison
with the most competent mechanical seal suppliers. It requires
the seal suppliers active cooperation and divulgence of
what some claim (without real good justification) to represent
proprietary information. For instance, the extent to which
superior dual-sealing technology is of value must be
determined on a service-by-service or even pump-by-pump
In like fashion, the extent to which superior bearings
(ceramic hybrids) would lengthen pump life or avoid bearing
failures must be determined on a pump-by-pump basis. Lubricant
application and standby bearing preservation are especially
important in humid coastal and tropical environments, as well as in desert
climates. Oil-mist lubrication extends the life of
general-purpose machinery, and the AMS should consider it.
Then there is the issue of piping for all machinery types.
Just as residential sidewalks and the walls of houses move and
settle, pipe supports and equipment foundations will settle.
The effect of such settling on pipe connections and equipment
nozzles can be visualized and must certainly be considered.
Examining the grout support under base plates will be quite
Whenever steam turbines are used, blade stresses and water
quality at the client site must be compared to those in
successful long-running installations elsewhere.1
This is a time-consuming endeavor that requires an
investigators time; mere guessing will not suffice. Of
course, if a comparable experience exists elsewhere, the
investigative effort may take less time.
In the case of geared units, remaining gear life must be
examined by calculating tooth loading (stresses on tooth face)
and from temperature measurements. In all instances, synthetic
lubes from experienced oil formulators will greatly extend gear
life. The right oil additives are needed for life extensions.
They drive maintenance cost and affect gear
life; oil cleanliness ranks next on the investigators
priority list. Certain warehouse spares (gears, electric
motors, etc.) should be upgraded, if important. Upgrading
spares is likely to speed up equipment recommissioning after an
unanticipated future shutdown.
Since 1980, reciprocating compressors have benefitted from
upgraded piston-rod coatings, improved rod attachments,
effective onstream monitoring, more efficient valves, superior cylinder
lubricants, improved volume control and a host of other add-ons
or modifications. They are mentioned here because they serve as
a model for questions raised and answers sought.
The key to knowing about these improvements lies in keeping
track of the materials and appurtenances that were originally
provided by the equipment manufacturer and to then ask what
would be included if such equipment were delivered today. Once
that question is answered, a cost-justification calculation
will indicate if upgrading is appropriate. Needless to say, if
the asset owners do not know the details of their machine, then
the answers are more difficult to generate. As usual, data are
important; without data, proper asset management will prove
For compressors, one looks at all of the above discussed
equipment. Valve technology and piston velocity are
important comparison-worthy parameters on reciprocating
compressors. On-stream performance tracking and observation of
prior sealing experience are important for centrifugal and
axial compressors. This performance tracking and a review of
the clients present sealing technology determine seal-system
upgrade potential. Even the compressor-internal seal materials
must be examined in detail (Fig. 1) and judgments made as to
their failure potential. Couplings and the work procedures
associated with attaching couplings to shafts should not be
overlooked; neither should shaft alignment quality and
philosophy. They all tell a lot about the remaining equipment
life and failure risk.
1 Bloch, H. P. and M. P. Singh, Steam
Turbines: Design, Applications and Re-Rating, 2nd Ed.,
McGraw-Hill, New York, New York, 2009.
2 Quance, S., Using plastic seals to improve
compressor performance, Turbomachinery
International, January/February 1997.
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Looks very relevant & many in practice too. How ever reliability of process equipment both stationary & rotary are the biggest concern for all oil & gas processing industry. HC processing can dedicate this as a theme for the year 2012 where every industry is looking for improving reliability.
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Do you mean the rear windscreen or the side door window? If it is the windscreen, I believe they are bonded in and so will be very difficult to do anything with unless you have specialist equipment.
If it is the door window, the seals on these usually clip to the door frame and so should be replaceable. You may find they you have to remove the window glass to do this, but the procedure for that ought to be oulined in the workshop manual (if you can still get hold of those for cars that recent)


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Referring to items in a view
Is there a preferred way to refer to other items within a view?
In the code below, I'm trying to refer to the text area after the "Save" button is pressed in my onBtnAddNoteTap, so I can fire off an event with the value of the text area, rather than having a direct reference to the text area in my controller.
Ext.define('MyApp.view.AddNoteView', { extend: 'Ext.form.Panel', config: { items: [ { xtype: 'textareafield', id: 'txtAddNote', itemId: 'txtAddNote', padding: '0 0 20 0', label: 'Note' }, { xtype: 'button', itemId: 'btnAddNote', text: 'Save' } ], listeners: [ { fn: 'onBtnAddNoteTap', event: 'tap', delegate: '#btnAddNote' } ] }, onBtnAddNoteTap: function(button, e, options) { this.fireEvent('btnAddNotePressed'); console.log(this.txtAddNote,'button - getTxtAddNote'); } });
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And to expand on this slightly...I added a keyup listener on my textfield to try setting the values and then getting the values right after, and nothing is set and getValues() returns an empty object. I'm just not sure what I'm doing wrong here.
onTxtAddNoteKeyup: function(textfield, e, options) { this.setValues({note:textfield.getValue()}); console.log(this.getValues()); console.log(this.value); }
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Excellent! Thanks.
Now does anyone know if there's a reason that this.getValues() is not working. "this" definitely seems to be referring to the "Ext.form.Panel". The method is there. Just keeps returning an empty object. I even set the values and then try to get the values right after, but still an empty object.
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You should post your code you're using to set the values. My guess is that since the items in your form panel don't have a "name" parameter, the setValues() call doesn't know what to do with the data you're passing in to it.
5 Feb 2013 9:35 AM #6
That was exactly it. Thanks again. I skipped right over the "name" part in the documentation. I thought I would just be able to set a struct for the panel, then get that struct back out again. Guess I need to dive into the Sencha code a little more.


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Why was Tito able to rally the loyalty of so much of the young people in ex-Yugoslavia, and the royalist Draza Michailovich (Драгољуб "Дража" Михаиловић) was not? The so-called chetnicks, loyal to the last Yugoslav king, were in much less numbers than the partisans.
After reading up on the Chetnicks during WWII. Wow, they were a nasty piece of work.
So lets look at the two groups here. On the one hand we have Tito's partisans. They are communist, one of the popular up-and-comming ideologies of the early 20th century among idealists (particular slavic ones, after the Russian Revolution). They are fighting to free their whole country, Yugoslavia, from foriegn invasion.
Then you have the Chetnicks. They are in modern terms sort of a cross between modern neo-Nazi nationalists and Hezbola. They are fighting against anyone who doesn't look like them (Muslims, Croats), or doesn't agree with them (Communists, Axis occupiers). After a while, they even stopped fighting the Axis, arguing that the Communists were a bigger threat. So they essentially became collaborators.
Now personally I never understood the pull of racist right-wing ideology. So I don't see why any young person would have joined the Chetnicks at all. But let's instead be objective about this and try to take stock. To be a Chetnick, you'd need to be a right-wing racist and you'd need to be ethnically Serb. Based on the nearest census numbers (1921 and 1971), only about 40% of the population of the area was Serb.
Alternatively, if you happened to be a sociopath, the nearly indiscriminate terror and the impunity might appeal to you.
On the other hand, anybody who wanted to fight the occupiers could go join Tito. Thus one would expect Tito's followers to be more numerous based on the simple math of the situation.
Strangely enough, I believe that it was the ideology of Communism. That is, the various ethnic groups under Tito put aside their differences, because "we are all Communists here." (I have no sources on Yugoslav Communism, and am basing my answer on Chuikov's "the Battle For Stalingrad," in which "Communism" was a unifying force for the defenders. A similar factor was at work in Mao's China.)
The Chetniks didn't have any comparable unifying force. About their only ideology was Fascism. And the Fascist ideology of the time seemed to be best expressed as "Mein Land ist besser als dein Land." (My country/nationality/race is better than yours.)
USA National War College ascribes the cause as mastery of Engels, and through Engels a mastery of Clausewitzian warfare. I think that is a more than little dubious as it comes down to "Nothing succeeds like success."
I'd normally point to the spiral of violence type argument, which argues that revolutionary forces controlled the tempo of violence in a largely traditional society, causing the occupiers to inflict disproportionate violence on civil communities, thus legitimising the revolutionaries. Obviously, you need to do this "right" rather than just doing it.


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