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Tiro Prosper of Aquitaine
The first sure date in the life of Prosper is that of his letter to St.
Augustine written under the following circumstances. In 428 or 429 a certain
Hilary wrote to St. Augustine in reference to difficulties raised against his
doctrine in Marseilles and the neighbourhood. Hilary distrusted his own ability
to give St. Augustine a proper grasp of the situation, so he prevailed with a
friend whom he described as a man distinguished tum moribus, tum eloquio et
studio (for morals, eloquence and zeal) to write also. This friend was Prosper
who, though he had never met St. Augustine, had corresponded with him. The two
letters were despatched at the same time, and may be said to have opened the
semi-Pelagian controversy. St. Augustine replied to the appeal made to him with
the two treatises,
De Praedestinatione and
De Dono Perseverantiae. It was
about this time that, Prosper wrote what was really a short treatise on grace
and free will, under the form of a letter to a certain Rufinus, and his great
dogmatic poem of over a thousand hexameter lines,
De Ingratis, on the
semi-Pelagians, who were enemies of grace and are represented as reviving the
errors of Pelagianism. Two epigrams of twelve and fourteen lines respectively
against an
obtrectator of St. Augustine seem also to have been composed in the
lifetime of the saint. Three opuscules belong to the time immediately after the
death of St. Augustine (430):
Responsiones ad capitula Gallorum. These capitula were a series of fifteen propositions attributed to St. Augustine by his opponents, e.g.
the Saviour was not crucified for the whole world. To each Prosper appended a brief responsio and concluded the treatise with fifteen corresponding sententiae, setting forth what he held to be the true doctrine.
Ad capitula objectionum Vincentianarum responsiones. The Vincentian objections were like the
capitula Gallorum, but more violent, and they attacked Prosper as well as St. Augustine. Prosper replied to them one by one. The Vincent who drew them up was probably Vincent of Lerins (Bardenhewer, Hauck, Valentin), but some writers have contested this point.
Pro Augustino responsiones ad excerpta Genuensium. This is an explanation of certain passages in St. Augustine's treatises,
De praedestand
De dono persev., which presented difficulties to some priests at Genoa who asked Prosper for an explanation of them. These three opuscula are placed by Bardenhewer after Prosper's visit to Rome.
In 431 Prosper and a friend went to Rome to invoke the aid of St. Celestine.
The pope responded with the Letter,
Apostolici Verba, addressed to the bishops
of Gaul, in which he blamed their remissness with regard to the enemies of grace,
and eulogized St. Augustine. On returning to Gaul, Prosper again took up the
controversy in his
De Gratia Dei et libero arbitrio; liber contra collatorem.
Collator was Cassian who in his
Conferences had put forward
semi-Pelagian doctrine. The date of this, the most important of Prosper's prose
writings, can be fixed at about 433, for the author speaks of twenty years and
more, having elapsed since the beginning of the Pelagian heresy, viz., according
to his
Chronicle, A.D. 413. An ironical epitaph on the Nestorian and Pelagian
heresies was probably composed shortly after the Council of Ephesus. The
Expositio psalmonum is substantially an abridgment of the
Enarrationes of St.
Augustine. It probably comprised the whole psalter, but as it has come down to
us it only comments on the last fifty. The
Sententiie ex Augustine delibatae
are a collection of sayings extracted from the writings of St. Augustine. In
framing them Prosper as a rule dealt rather freely with the text of St.
Augustine, chiefly in the interests of rhythmic prose. Canons 9, 14, 15, 16, 18
of the second Council of Orange were taken from sentences 22, 222, 226, 160, 297.
The epigram are a number of the sentences turned into verse. Both these works
must have been composed about the time of the Council of Chalcedon, and probably,
therefore, in Rome, whither Prosper was summoned about A.D. 440 by Leo the Great.
According to Gennadius (De vir. ill., 84) he was said to have drawn up the
letters written by this pope against Eutyches.
Chronicle of Prosper, from the creation to A.D. 378, was an abridgment
of St. Jerome's, with, however, some additional matter, e.g. the consuls for
each year from the date of the Passion. There seem to have been three editions:
the first continued up to 433, the second to 445, the third to 455. This
chronicle is sometimes called the
Consular Chronicle, to distinguish it from
another ascribed to Prosper where the years are reckoned according to the regnal
years of the emperors and which is accordingly called the
Imperial Chronicle.
This is certainly not the work of Prosper. It was compiled by a man whose
sympathies were not with St. Augustine, and who was formerly supposed to be Tiro
Prosper and not Prosper of Aquitaine, but this theory has broken down, for
Prosper of Aquitaine in some manuscripts of the
Consular Chronicle is called
Tiro Prosper. With regard to the writings of Prosper not yet mentioned, Valentin
pronounces the poem
De providentia to be genuine; the
Confessio S. Prosperi,
and De vocatione gentium to be probably genuine; the
Epistola ad Demetriadem,
Praeteritorum sedis Apostolicae auctoritates de Gratia Dei, etc. appended
to the Epistle of St. Celestine, and the
Poema mariti ad conjugem to be very
likely genuine. The
De vita contemplativa and
De promissionibus etc. are not
by Prosper, according to Valentin and Hauck. Hauck agrees with Valentin with
regard to the
Poema mariti and the
Confessio, but pronounces against the
vocatione, the
De providentia, and on the other doubtful works expresses no
view. The story that Prosper was Bishop of Reggio in Italy was exploded by
Sirmondi and others in the seventeenth century. For the origin of this legend
see Dom Morin in
Révue bénédictine, XII, 241 sqq. Prosper was neither bishop
nor priest. The question whether he mitigated the severity of St. Augustine's
doctrine has been much debated. The difference of opinion probably arises more
from different views regarding St. Augustine's doctrine than from different
interpretations of Prosper's. The general trend of opinion among Catholic
writers seems to be in favour of the affirmative view, e.g. Kraus, Funk,
Bardenhewer, Valentin, and others.
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The move by the pro-Russian rebels, who have been fighting government forces since April, came after German Chancellor Angela Merkel spoke to Russian President Vladimir Putin for the second time in two days to discuss how to end the crisis.
In Berlin, a government source said the aim of the phone call, which Moscow said took place at Merkel's initiative, was to find a way of prolonging Kiev's ceasefire which is due to expire at 3 p.m. EDT (1900 GMT) on Friday.
More than 420 people, including Ukrainian servicemen, rebels and civilians, are estimated to have been killed in the fighting, the United Nations said in a statement dated June 24.
Poroshenko said he had heard of the rebels' readiness to hold a second meeting on Friday with the so-called "contact group" which includes former Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma, Moscow's envoy to Kiev and a high-ranking official from the OSCE security and rights watchdog.
"It (Friday) is a very important day: if our conditions for the peace plan are not accepted, then we will make a very important decision," online newspaper Ukrainska Pravda quoted him as telling the Council of Europe in Strasbourg, France.
Poroshenko, installed as president only on June 7 and under pressure from his electorate not to bow to the separatists, has warned that government forces would switch to a "detailed Plan B" - widely assumed to be a government offensive - if the rebels use the ceasefire to re-arm and regroup.
Numerous breaches of the ceasefire - including the downing of a helicopter by rebels, killing nine servicemen, on Tuesday - have increased pressure on him to call the truce off.
In Strasbourg, he said almost 150 Ukrainian servicemen had been killed by rebels, including 18 in the past week since the ceasefire was declared.
He again criticized Russia for failing to give fuller support to his peace plan and for failing to halt arms supplies to rebels and stop "mercenaries" crossing into Ukraine. Moscow denies arming the rebels.
"It is clear that this peace plan can work only with the support of Russia. Unfortunately, the support of the Russian Federation is completely inadequate. Instead of them calling back their mercenaries, even more new, well-equipped and motivated fighters are arriving from the Russian Federation," Poroshenko told the Council of Europe session.
He said a normalization of relations with Russia was impossible without Moscow returning the Crimean peninsula which it annexed in March.
Western powers have been pressing Putin to rein in the well-equipped but often disunited pro-Russian militia who have taken up arms against the Kiev government, and have threatened to impose more sanctions if he fails to do so.
Putin strenuously denies abetting the rebels. But he has made clear he sees himself as the defender of the Russian-speaking minority in the east, many of whom say they have been alienated by a wave of Ukrainian nationalism since Moscow-backed president Viktor Yanukovich was toppled in February.
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said in Paris on Thursday that it was "critical for Russia to show in the next hours, literally, that they're moving to help disarm the separatists, to encourage them to disarm ... and to begin to become part of a legitimate process".
Poroshenko's peace plan offers rebels an amnesty and safe conduct out of the country if they lay down their arms.
He is also offering to people in the mainly Russian-speaking east broader Russian-language rights and will next week present a decentralization plan aimed at allowing the regions more control over their own finances and affairs.
The announcement of fresh peace talks, which the rebels said would take place in Donetsk, an industrial hub where the insurgency sprang up, seemed likely to cause the West to stay its hand in bringing in any fresh sanctions just now.
Though nobody from Poroshenko's administration will sit down with rebel leaders, the Ukrainians are represented in the contact group by former president Kuchma.
The phone-call between Merkel and Putin on Thursday touched on questions of "monitoring observance of the ceasefire between the sides in conflict, the necessity of extending the truce, the establishment of regular work by the contact group and the freeing of people being forcibly detained", the Kremlin said.
Putin also drew Merkel's attention to the worsening humanitarian situation in eastern Ukraine, where some areas have no power or water, and to the flow of refugees to Russian territory - 40,000 of which Russia says have been put into dedicated shelters.
From Strasbourg, Poroshenko was due to go on to Brussels where on Friday he will sign a landmark free trade agreement with the European Union which will open up new lucrative markets for Ukrainian goods.
It was Yanukovich's refusal, after months of pressure from Russia, to sign this agreement last November that brought thousands onto the streets of Kiev, leading to his downfall.
(Additional reporting by Andreas Rinke in Berlin,; Kevin Liffey in Moscow, Aleksandar Vasovic in Donetsk and Alessandra Prentice and Pavel Polityuk in Kiev; Editing by Robin Pomeroy)


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The chamber voted 97-0 in favor of the resolution sponsored by Democratic Rep. Mike Turner of Nashville.
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The Republican-controlled chamber removed language from the original resolution that sought to offer "profound apologies" for slavery.
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JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (Feb. 26, 2009) - In need of a confidence boost and looking to get his ETSU men's basketball team back on the winning track, senior guard Courtney Pigram (Memphis) responded to the fans' pregame chants of "Let's go, CP!" by scoring a game-high 16 points and dishing out seven assists in the Buccaneers 81-46 win over Kennesaw State Thursday night inside Memorial Center.
The crowd of 3,149 was treated to one of the Bucs' best performances of the season, as they shot 49 percent from the floor and held the Owls to just 26 percent shooting. ETSU improved to 19-10 overall, 13-6 in A-Sun play, while Kennesaw State fell to 7-21, 3-16.
"First, I want to thank the fans for staying with me and standing behind us as a team," said Pigram, who has now scored 1,934 points in his career. "I got a lot of e-mails this week from the fans and having the signs all over the Dome really meant a lot to me. Hitting that first shot relieved a lot of stress. Now I'm just ready to play like I can and keep it rolling."
ETSU head coach Murry Bartow was glad to see his two-time All A-Sun first teamer get back to playing well.
"I thought the crowd really got behind him and he broke out - which was good to see," Bartow said. "I think we did a lot of good things tonight and we had a good practice yesterday, so I think there's a lot of spirit left in this team. We've had a lot of close losses the last couple of games on the road, but I think this showed there's still a lot of fight in this team."
After several tough games shooting the basketball, Pigram looked more relaxed on a night when the ETSU fans began chanting his name even before the tip. The senior led all scorers with 10 point in the first half, going 4-of-10 from the field in the first 20 minutes and helping stake the Bucs to a 34-25 halftime lead.
The Bucs defensive effort was also stellar in the first half as ETSU's fullcourt press attack was initiated from the outset and held the Owls to just 29 percent shooting the first half. Meanwhile, the Bucs hit on 47 percent from the field and outrebounded Kennesaw State 20-14.
In the second half, the Bucs only turned up the heat and outscored the Owls 47-21 to leave no doubt about the game's ultimate outcome. For the game, the Bucs outrebounded KSU 47-31 and forced 21 turnovers on 12 steals.
Along with Pigram's 16, ETSU got 13 points from freshman guard Jarvis Jones (Memphis), while freshman Adam Sollazzo (Tampa) and senior forward Kevin Tiggs (Flint, Mich.) pitched in 11 apiece.
For Kennesaw State, only one player reached double figures with Kurtis Woods scored 12 to lead the Owls.
ETSU will return to action Saturday, as the team plays its final regular season home game of the year against Mercer. Tip is scheduled for 4 p.m. and the team will be celebrating Senior Day for Pigram, Tiggs and senior forward Greg Hamlin (Flint, Mich.).


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McMILLAN (MacMillan), JOSEPH C., printer and trade union leader; b. in 1836 in Scotland; he and his wife Mary had at least three children; d. 9 Jan. 1889 at Toronto, Ont.
Journeyman printer Joseph C. McMillan arrived in Toronto in 1867 or 1868. In December 1868 he joined the Toronto Typographical Union, local no.91 of the United States–based National Typographical Union (later the International Typographical Union), and he rose rapidly through its ranks to become vice-president of the local in December 1870. The following year, when he was acclaimed president, the membership of the local was 190. He was a prominent leader in the Toronto printers' strike of 1872, called when demands for an increased wage scale and a nine-hour day were vigorously opposed by the Master Printers Association led by George Brown*. McMillan and 12 other members of the TTU were arrested in May for seditious conspiracy. They were later released on bail and in November the charges against them were dropped after the Trade Unions Act was passed.
In September 1872 McMillan and two of his TTU colleagues, David Sleeth Jr and James S. Williams, formed the printing firm of Williams, Sleeth and McMillan and bought the Ontario Workman, the first major Canadian labour newspaper, from the Toronto Cooperative Printing Company. This purchase was partly funded by a loan from Prime Minister Sir John A. Macdonald* who had earlier that year cemented his bonds with the fledgling Canadian trade union movement by passing the Trade Unions Act in response to George Brown's attack on the printers. The paper ceased publication in 1875 although there was a brief attempt to revive it in late 1877. The firm continued, however, as a job printing shop until 1882, and the partners lived as next-door neighbours on Ontario Street for some 10 years. From 1882 to 1884 McMillan ran a small book and stationery store, which was a centre for labour activity and served as an agency for the Toronto Trades Union Advocate. In 1884 McMillan returned to the printer's case with the Grip (Toronto) and later was employed by Warwick and Sons with whom he remained as foreman until his death.
McMillan had represented the TTU in the Toronto Trades Assembly from 1872 to 1878. He served the assembly as a trustee, responsible for its financial transactions, except from January to August 1875 when he was president. McMillan also represented the TTA at various Canadian Labor Union conventions. He became treasurer of this association in 1877 and was a member of its parliamentary committee in 1876 and 1877. In these various offices he was a key member of the Toronto "junta" which in the 1870s lobbied for the changes in federal legislation that firmly established the legal basis of trade unionism. These changes included the Trade Unions Act of 1872, amendments to the "violence, threats and molestation" provisions of the criminal law in 1875 and 1876, and the Breaches of Contract Act of 1877. The last three acts were especially important because they legalized strikes and ended the legal discrimination against workers previously entrenched in the old masters and servants acts. The new political responsiveness to workingmen clearly demonstrated the growing importance of the young labour movement.
In May 1881 McMillan and his close friend Williams were chosen by the TTU to start discussions aimed at founding a new central body in Toronto to replace the lapsed Toronto Trades Assembly. The initiative taken by the printers resulted in the formation of the Toronto Trades and Labor Council on which McMillan served one term as a representative in 1883. His career as an important Toronto labour leader, however, was coming to an end in 1881 because a new group of leaders with strategies alien to men such as McMillan rose to prominence through the Order of the Knights of Labor. This new leadership stood for the organization of all workers without regard for level of skill, sex, or race. In addition, some of them called for independent labour representation in all levels of government.
McMillan was in many ways typical of the artisans who provided leadership to the early labour movement in Canada. Like fellow printers Daniel John O'Donoghue*, John Armstrong, and Williams, he drew strength from the craft traditions of "the art preservative" with its requirements of literacy and pride in culture. He was able to pass his craft on to at least three of his sons, all of whom became printers in Toronto. In this he, and other printers of his generation, enjoyed a privilege that few of their fellow skilled workingmen were able to maintain against the incursion of machinery.
At his funeral on 12 Jan. 1889, friends, some 150 fellow craftsmen from the TTU, and lodge brothers from the Sons of Scotland, the Order of Chosen Friends, and the Iron Hall gathered to pay their last respects. The pallbearers included not only his old comrades Sleeth and Williams but another printer and co-conspirator of 1872, Edward Frederick Clarke, who in the late 1880s became mayor of Toronto and a member of the provincial parliament; Clarke's prominence was a tribute to the battles men such as McMillan had waged throughout their adult years.
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Every year, some friends who live in Napa have an Octoberfest party. Or maybe it is an "Oystoberfest". There is Riesling. There are Sausages. There is Chablis. There are Oysters.
This year I vowed to create, or find, a Riesling Punch for the party. I didn't have any luck finding an official, vintage, "Hock", (as Rielsing used to be called,) Punch, so I applied the usual Punch Making Principles. The result was quite delicious.
Hock Punch
Oleo Saccharum:
6 Lemons, peeled
2 Oranges, peeled
2 Cups Powdered Washed Raw or other Demerara style sugar (When I need powdered sugar, I simply put Washed Raw or Demerara sugar in the blender and pulse for a few seconds.)
Reserve peeled fruit. Combine citrus peels and sugar and leave overnight, mixing occasionally.
Spiced Tea Sherbet:
2 Cups Water
2 tsp Green Tea
1 Cinnamon Stick
9 Whole Cloves
4 Whole Allspice
Oleo Saccarum (see above)
Bring water to a boil, cool slightly and pour over tea. After an appropriate interval, strain solids out of warm tea. Add warm tea to citrus peel and sugar mixture. Stir to dissolve sugar. Strain peels out of what is now your Sherbet and refrigerate.
375ml Brandy (I used a reasonably priced Armagnac I got on sale from K&L Wines.)
375ml Rum (Mostly Appletone V/X, but I also added in a little of a mostly empty bottle of pampero anniversario. Punch. Always a great opportunity to get rid of odd and ends of bottles lying around your liquor cabinet.)
1 Cup Batavia Arrack
2 Bottles Off Dry chilled Riesling
Juice from the 6 lemons and 2 oranges (see above)
Spiced Tea Sherbet (see above)
1 liter Chilled Sparkling Water
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NEW YORK — The price of oil fell more than 2 percent Friday as OPEC production climbed and the dollar rose against the euro and other currencies.
Benchmark crude for June delivery was down $2.60, or 2.7 percent, to $93.79 a barrel in morning trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange.
Since oil is traded in dollars, a stronger dollar makes crude and other commodities less appealing to investors with other currencies.
On Friday the euro was down to $1.2947 from $1.3041 late Thursday in New York. The dollar also gained on the Japanese yen and was trading at 101.92 yen on Friday, after breaking above 100 yen on Thursday for the first time since April 2009.
The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries said it produced 30.5 million barrels of oil a day in April, the most since November. The group said global supplies increased 450,000 barrels a day. Production from non-OPEC nations like the U.S. is also on the rise at a time when supplies are ample and mixed global economic data raise questions about demand.
OPEC said it expected global oil use to be "much higher" in the second half of the year, but warned that the struggles of the eurozone and possible lower growth in China could hurt demand.
"A fragile recovery in the global economy has been visible since the beginning of the year, but momentum has started slowing again and growth risks are skewed to the downside," OPEC said in its monthly report on the oil market.
The national average for a gallon of gasoline rose a penny on Friday, to $3.56. It's about 4 cents higher than week ago, but 18 cents lower than the same time last year.
Brent crude, a benchmark for many international oil varieties, was down $2.41, or 2.3 percent, to $102.06 a barrel on the ICE Futures exchange in London.
In other energy futures trading on Nymex:
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— Natural gas fell 1 cent to $3.96 per 1,000 cubic feet.
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MAXWELL AIR FORCE BASE, Ala. — Six years ago it seemed a zany idea when Lieutenant Colonel Jenns Robertson , 45, a bespectacled Minnesota native with an outsized gee-whiz quality even by military standards, began a rather unusual hobby: documenting a century of US air power — bomb by bomb.
Robertson asked: "What if you had the detailed data on when and where every bomb was dropped from an airplane in combat? What would you know?"
He worked nights and weekends finding out. Robertson unearthed 1,000 original World War I raid reports, and entered each by hand. For World War II, he scanned roughly 10,000 hand-written or typed pages. More modern conflicts meant combing a hodgepodge of conflict-specific databases.
The result: a compilation that, at the click of a mouse and a few keystrokes, reveals for the first time the sheer magnitude of destruction inflicted by the US and its allies from the air in the last century.
It has been assigned a military acronym befitting its epic goal: THOR, Theater History of Operations Reports, and was previewed last month at the Air Force Research Institute here. Government experts and private researchers say the data could have far-reaching implications.
It is already aiding efforts to spot unexploded bombs that still endanger civilians and to search for the missing aircraft and their crews of past wars. City planners in countries such as Germany, where new construction requires an assessment of the potential explosive hazards left over from World War II, have also consulted it. As a research tool, the project may even rewrite the history of some famous battles.
"It has proven useful in the real world, in real time," said Robertson, a space and missile officer by training who was used to crunching large streams of data. He was recently assigned by the Air Force's chief historian to work full time on his pet project.
The database, he said, has recently been used to investigate civilian deaths in Afghanistan and to judge claims by Iraqi villagers that bombs containing depleted uranium contaminated their water supply.
When plotted on a satellite map, the bombs — from the biplanes of the nascent US Air Service over France in World War I to pilotless drones targeting suspected terrorists in the war in Afghanistan — blanket many thousands of square miles from Europe to Africa, the Middle East and Asia. Even tiny Kiska, Alaska.
"You can pick any place you want and look at it in detail," Robertson explained, marking the first time the project has been publicly demonstrated.
One particularly relevant example: From October 1965 to May 1975, at least 456,365 cluster bombs were dropped on Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia, according to the records analyzed. Cluster munitions, designed to release small bomblets, often did not explode on impact and still pose a hazard to villagers.
This kind of information — including which of the 28 types of cluster bombs were used and where — has grabbed the attention of the Department of State's Office of Weapons Removal and Abatement, which has spent $2 billion in the last two decades helping clean up unexploded bombs and land mines in 80 countries.
"This type of information is critical to our efforts," said Major General Walter D. Givhan, the deputy assistant secretary of state for political-military affairs. "I was in Vietnam last week looking at old sites and talking with Vietnamese officials on how we can expedite this work. It will really help us to be able to refine what we know about where the strikes were made, where we might find unexploded ordnance, so we can focus our efforts there."
Another agency taking advantage of the project is the military command searching for clues to the remains of thousands of missing pilots and air crews from past wars.
"This collection contains a great trove of information that has greatly accelerated our research," said Chris McDermott, chief historian of the Joint Prisoner of War/Missing in Action Accounting Command. "Many of the cases where we have success are in far-flung locations with hazy loss circumstances. Each clue that we can compile from the official records could be the key that assists our team to locate a site.''
For the Korean War Robertson found the detailed mission records for the first 10 months of the three-year conflict but he is still trying to get his hands on the rest. Vietnam bombing data was contained on more than one million records, which he is still in the process of converting. He was also able to get records from US allies, including — to his surprise — strikes by the Chinese Air Force during World War II when it aided the Allied effort.
Bombing reports from more modern conflicts — in the Balkans, Afghanistan, and Iraq — were more readily available and in many cases already in digital form and needed to be converted using special software.
Now all that information can be plotted using modern research and mapping tools. The data, which are unclassified with the exceptions of Iraq and Afghanistan operations, can also be depicted in motion, with particular missions or battles plotted over space and time.
What Robertson didn't anticipate was how much the database would provide fresh historical perspective.
Unlike land battles, whose outcomes have been well understood by those who were physically engaged with the enemy, the impact of air attacks has historically been far more difficult to discern.
Initial analysis of THOR has raised at least one intriguing possibility in that regard: airstrikes, not tanks, may have been most responsible for the Allied breakthrough against the German Army at El Alemein in Egypt in the fall of 1942, a major turning point in the war against Nazi Germany.
It was one reason the Air Force's chief historian, Clarence R. "Dick" Anderegg, requested last summer that Robertson should work on the database full time.
"This is an extraordinary project," said Robert F. Dorr, a historian on air power whose latest book, "Mission to Berlin,'' details the role of the US Army Air Forces in the defeat of Germany in World War II. "I have never heard of anything of this magnitude."
"To have something like this available as a reference source when you are trying to determine what happened in a certain country, in a certain era, in the midst of a conflict could be extremely illuminating," he added.
Robertson's next objective is to improve the quality control process, both the conversion of the data and each datum itself; some of the raw records, for example, were subject to human error. One example he uncovered: The original mission report for the atomic bomb dropped on the Japanese city of Nagasaki in World War II was off by 552 miles; the latitude had a 9 where a zero should have been.
"Error checking is one of the biggest problems," said Robertson, who is anxious to have outside historians and database experts independently review THOR when it is complete.
But he has already found at least one novel way to spot check the data.
Using the information on World War II, he identified coordinates in the Tunisian desert that were struck seven times between Feb. 4 and March 26, 1942, by 118 B-25s and B-26s carrying a total 235,840 pounds of bombs.
He then pulled up recent satellite images of the area. Fifty-one bomb craters were still there.
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A Preview of CES: When Cars Become Smartphones
Is the day coming when your car will talk to your alarm clock and also check your heart rate?
It's time again for the Super Bowl of Stuff. Its official name is the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) and this is the week when Las Vegas gets its wonk on, filling up with people who prefer gizmos over G-strings and find nothing quite so ravishing as a TV screen big enough to need two zip codes.
CES brings its own kind of decadence to Sin City, one that cranks up consumption by making the gadgets you got last month already feel retro. But it also has been the event where we've taken our first looks at tech that quickly moved into our daily lives–the VCR in 1970, the camcorder and CD player in 1981, DVRs and high-definition TVs in 1998.
This year, though, CES is going through some changes. Yes, tonight, as usual, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer will kick things off with the opening keynote address. But it will be Microsoft's CES swan song; the company won't be back next year. At the same time, the keynoter tomorrow morning is someone who's never been there before–Dieter Zetsche, Daimler chairman and head of Mercedes-Benz. And among the three speakers on Wednesday morning's "CES Innovation Power Panel" is Ford CEO Alan Mulally. Ford alone will have 20 models on display.
Bottom line: CES is turning into a mini-auto show.
What's driving this is the belief that modern cars need to be as much smartphone as vehicle, that just because you're cruising down the highway doesn't mean you should feel any less connected than you do on your couch. Auto execs talk about turning cars into "infotainment centers" and are promising that models of the future shouldn't be any less a personal assistant than Apple's Siri, the voice-controlled digital concierge on the iPhone 4S. Why shouldn't you be able to ask your car to read you your email or have it know which tunes you like to hear when you're out on the interstate?
Daimler's Zetsche and Ford's Mulally will likely talk about cloud computing from inside your auto, how your car and smartphone will soon be talking to each other and how you'll one day be able control the temperature, the speaker volume and and plenty of other things simply by moving your fingers without your hands leaving the wheel.
Mulally also will bang the drums for a new smartphone app called MyFord Mobile, rolled out in conjunction with Ford's first electric car, the Focus Electric, which hits the market later this year. The app will let users check the charge level of their cars, find charging stations, warm up or cool down the interior and unlock the doors, all while they're away from their vehicles.
Talk about a dream car
But the Ford product at CES most likely to make gearheads gaga is its latest concept car, the Ford Evos. Keep in mind that concept cars are meant to be way out of the box and sometimes can end up looking daft. (Consider the Ford Nucleon, a concept car unveiled in 1957 that was supposed to be powered by a small nuclear reactor in the back.)
As envisioned by Ford, the Evos would start its day while you're still sleeping, checking the weather, traffic reports, your email and work schedule, then, based on what it finds out, tells your alarm clock when you need to get up. It would also know what you've been listening to and resume playing it when you get in the car. If conditions are dicey, it can check your heart rate and switch your smartphone to Do Not Disturb mode. Or if you're stuck in bumper-to-bumper traffic, your buddy Evos would take over the driving and let you answer emails. It could even direct you away from roads where pollution levels are high, then wrap things up by finding you parking space.
Nice concept, eh?
By the way, a few days ago Ford announced that it will open an R&D lab in Silicon Valley this year. Renault-Nissan, GM, BMW and Volkswagen are already there.
Gizmo alert
Here are some other gadgets that will get some attention at CES this week:
- Thanks, I needed that: BodyMedia has mixed a nifty armband with IBM software to create a device that gives you access to your own personal digital trainer and nutritionist.
- Another reason not to read in the dark: There's now a cover for the Kindle that uses solar power to give your tablet a nice long charge, compliments of a company called SolarFocus.
- The ride stuff: The iBike Powerhouse attaches to a bike and uploads your performance data to an iPhone and sets goals for your next ride. It also gives you digital pep talks.
- Turning up the heat: The Nest Learning Thermostat tracks your habits in adjusting the heat in your home for a week, then takes over and adjusts the temperature for you. And it gives you a report on your energy savings.
- Where, oh where has my iPhone gone?: BungeeAir Protect has come up with a wireless "tether" that lets you know if you've strayed too far from your iPhone.
Video Bonus: Go along for the ride as Ford spins the tale of its Evos concept car.
CES Bonus: Three places where you can get regular CES updates this week are The New York Times, Wired and CNet.


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How do you maintain your voice as an indie while working with one of the most recognizable AAA brands in the videogames industry? In this case study from Owlchemy Labs, you will see how establishing a strong voice for your company as well as for your title, and utilizing that voice across all marketing efforts can help you maintain your indie cred without passing up an opportunity to work with a traditional publisher.
SEGA recently released the first title to come out of their indie publishing initiative SEGA Alliance, the Owlchemy Labs developed title, Jack Lumber. When people see the name and logo of a AAA publisher alongside your indie title, it can be hard to retroactively convince them that the game was developed solely within the walls of an indie studio and not in a mansion filled with robot butlers.
Lumberjacks? Check. Hedgehog? Check. Robot Butlers? None to be found.
To keep our indie cred while working with a AAA publisher, the team at Owlchemy invested time and resources into creating a marketing campaign that fit with our unique brand and voice. The model we developed has three steps:
1. Develop a voice for your company
When your marketing budget is limited it is easy to come to the conclusion that money is best spent on promoting your game over blanket promoting your company. However, spending time and effort developing a strong consumer and developer facing brand for your company can reduce the amount of explanation and marketing needed for individual titles. If your company brand is developed for visibility and evokes a consumer response that is positive the company name alone can market the game. In the same way that consumers will flock to a Disney film because it is a brand that they trust to give them a quality family experience, you can leverage your company's branding to promote your products as long as that voice encompasses the tone and experience that players will find in your games. This is an integral part of your company's future visibility and success, remember that you cannot keep your indie voice when working with a publisher if your voice is undefined.
When Owlchemy Labs announced Smuggle Truck both the game and the studio gained immediate notoriety.
Owlchemy Labs escaped major public scrutiny by staying above the political fray surrounding the title and later redesigning it, swapping the controversial immigrants seeking asylum into plush toys trying to reach the zoo. The newly imagined Snuggle Truck was accepted into the app store, and players were quick to see the high level of style and polish in the physics based game.
By not engaging in any politically driven debates and focusing instead on promoting the quality of their game, Owlchemy Labs created a persona for itself; a creator of absurd, highly polished games.
2. Branding across all campaign efforts
Owlchemy Labs has worked hard to develop a reputation for over-the top absurdity with a high level of polish. Their strong brand voice and creative marketing efforts made them a company I wanted to work with-- when the opportunity to do so presented itself with their latest venture, Jack Lumber, I strove to develop a campaign that continued Owlchemy Labs' brand recognition while also celebrating being the first 3rd party iOS title published by SEGA.
Jack Lumber tells the tale of a lumberjack out to get revenge on the entire forest after a rotten tree fell on his granny. Owlchemy Labs began spreading the lore of Jack Lumber by sending out snarky anti-tree mailers for Arbor Day and filling their twitter feed with tree related puns. Owlchemy Labs developers wore plaid flannel despite obscenely warm temperatures at conferences. I walked the lines of PAX carrying an iPad decked out in a wood grain case offering queue-line scuttled fans the chance to play Jack Lumber against an Owlchemy Lumberjill. Chief Scientist of Owlchemy Labs, Alex Schwartz, roamed conferences with an axe in one hand and an iPhone in the other, inviting people to play Jack Lumber alongside one of the game's developers.
Proudly presenting Jack Lumber at PAX East, Alex wore flannel and carried a big axe throughout the convention.
Alex, Michael Carriere, and Kate pose in plaid at Boston FIG.
We worked with Kert Gartner on the trailer for Jack Lumber, and over the course of multiple raucous round table discussions, created a campy and fun introduction into the ridiculous and polished world of Jack Lumber. I remember walking into the room where the meeting was taking place and seeing several ideas scrawled out over paper. The room was filled: Kert Gartner, Indie Trailer Whisperer, and Devin Reimer, Chief Lumberjack and Programmer, took up computer monitors via Skype, Michael Carriere, Lead Beard, Alex, and I took turns pitching ideas to Kert for the trailer. When Devin suggested using a 1950's filmstrip about deforestation as inspiration we were off to the races. Putting on my best newsie voice, (basing it on Alex's impression of the Circus of Values bark from BioShock), I suggested the line "Whoa there fella, that's no log, that's a moose!" We had found the mood for our trailer.
Writing for the trailer soon became a race to see which one of us could come up with the best puns, with the best inflection; it was clear that everyone in the room was acutely aware of Owlchemy Labs' voice; campy, fun, oddly nostalgic, and, thanks in no small part to Kert's trailer-making-talent, polished from every angle.
3. Taking Calculated Risks
As an indie, generating and executing high-reward, low-cost marketing ideas is key. I pitched the World Lumberjack Championships idea to Alex while I was on vacation, days before I was set to start working for Owlchemy in an official capacity. The idea was simple: send one of the developers to Hayward, Wisconsin to film real life lumberjacks playing Jack Lumber. Hilarity would ensue. SEGA backed the idea by offering to professionally edit the Owlchemy Labs footage. While some companies would have rejected the idea as being too outside of the norm, Owlchemy Labs saw value in doing something unique, and I was off to Wisconsin.
Kate conducting "treesearch."
I called in favors from friends and a former student of mine to keep the project low-cost. We rented a car and drove for six hours from my high school hometown to Hayward, Wisconsin. We shared a small log cabin for the week, sleeping in bunk beds and enjoying pancake breakfasts each morning followed by fried cheese curds at lunch. The low carb lifestyle just doesn't apply in Wisconsin.
We ran on 18 hour days: our cameraman, David Aragon, would film until we needed to recharge, and then we would lumber back to the cabin, log film, reload batteries, and start again. I had my friend Jennifer Dickinson running sound as we interviewed world class lumberjacks about their experiences playing Jack Lumber. We saw a real black bear. We went to a pancake feed. I measured beards, chugged maple syrup, and conducted science. It was amazing.
Kate and the Pinery Boys at the World Lumberjack Championships
SEGA took our footage and created a great video showcasing the first leg of the trip, which you can see here. Eventually, I took off the Owlchemy Labs lab coat (yes, we have custom embroidered lab coats, done on the cheap) and attempted to become a lumberjill myself; that footage will be released with a future update to Jack Lumber. Lets just say log rolling is tougher than it looks.
So, how do you maintain the voice of an indie while working with a publisher?
All press releases and copy were a collaboration between the SEGA marketing team and Owlchemy Labs. All of the above mentioned marketing concepts were created in house at Owlchemy, with the full support of our publisher, SEGA. It's important to work with partners that understand the value of the creative, and are willing to support that creative spirit.
Working with your publisher from the beginning of the relationship on the marketing behind your game increases the chance that your product will continue to showcase the voice that your company has developed for itself. In the case of Owlchemy Labs, the marketing campaign was designed around promoting their ridiculous sense of humor and impressive level of polish. The first video of the World Lumberjack Championship is making its rounds and is being met with an overwhelmingly positive response.
Working with a company that values creative thinking and execution has been mutually rewarding, not to get too sappy, but considering that I am a gal that has always admired puns and lab oats, it has been a pretty amazing experience.
You can stay up to date with the antics of Owlchemy Labs by reading their blog found on OwlchemyLabs.com and following them on Twitter @OwlchemyLabs.
Made in the Indie Spirit: How to keep an indie marketing voice while working with a traditional publisher
How do you maintain your voice as an indie while working with one of the most recognizable AAA brands in the videogames industry? In this case study from Owlchemy Labs, you will see how establishing a strong voice for your company as well as for your title, and utilizing that voice across all marketing efforts can help you maintain your indie cred without passing up an opportunity to work with a traditional publisher.


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It's been kind of a shitty week for me (the kind where you sort of want to hide in a closet and suck your thumb) because of a number of not-very-good reasons, but you people have made me laugh about a gajillion times with your comments on the blog, Facebook, etc., and I feel like it's a shame for me to keep all that funny to myself.
Also? Stop being so funny! That's my schtick.
No, but for real, you guys are the best.
So, I decided to implement a weekly comment round-up on the blog so that if you didn't get a chance to read every single comment, you can see some of the ones that made me snort indelicately.
(I'm working on some more "reader appreciation" thingies, but they are Top Secret right now, shhhh. And, of course, I am always open to suggestions, so leave them in the comments or on Facebook or Twitter or wherever. I read all that shit, mayn.)
So, here's some stuff from this week that was awesome.
And I know that you all first would like to know who won the celery rose greeting card. You probably haven't slept a wink since Friday. I swear to you, this was a super, super tough decision and I wish I could send one to all of you, I really do. BUT I only have one. Womp womp. So the card goes to…
persephone767 I'd frame it and hang it in my bathroom, so that when I'm having horrible cramps, or maybe just a particularly tough time pooping, I can look at it and be reminded of all the crazy shit you've done in the name of pin-science. And it will make my day better just like that *snaps fingers*
Guys, you know how it is. Poop jokes FTW! Persephone767, email me your address! The card is yours!
Here are some other particularly amaze-balls comments from that post:
RinGilmore You should send it to my friend Melissa, she is the person who introduced me to your site and now you have me in your circle of cool people. So you should send the card to her and thank her for bringing me into your life and than go on and on about how cool and clever I am. yes. I think that will be a lovely idea, I think you should do it and ummm tit-sling shit screw you chik fil- a-holes go women's rights I love wrapped bodies and eating crafts too… Okay that last part was totally trying to play on your weaknesses.
Am I that transparent? Ok, fine.
jojomace I think you should send it to me BECAUSE I have been on one date with a really nice guy, going out with him again tomorrow, and he still has refrained from sending pictures of his junk. Trust me, this is RARE in a single guy these days. Enjoy it? Absolutely! Want to see pictures of it on my phone? Notsomuch. Previously, I was so inundated with weenie picks that I began to use the 'Edit' feature on my cell, which allows me to add features and also put them into interesting settings, like a winter wonderland. It's disturbing the amount of joy I got from adding a Frosty-type top hat and a scarf…Anyway, it would be to celebrate the absence of said weenie pics!
Dear men: That is fucking disgusting. Stop it. Admittedly, I haven't been on the dating scene since like 2001, but if anyone had ever done that to me (even though they would have had to send a photograph via carrier pigeon to do it because picture texting did not exist back then), I would never have called them again… on my land-line telephone. Oh shut up.
Simple Mama Pick me! I'm the original blogger from Homemade Serenity! I shared this post on my facebook page and I promise I'll give your menses card a place of honor in my studio. Best laugh I've had all week!
Thank you so much! I get a special thrill when the original blogger makes her way over here and actually likes what I've written!
Now, moving on to the bra post, sometimes I get a little sigh-y when someone leaves a comment on my post explaining the right way to do whatever it is that I fucked up. But not in this case:
caito Pfffft fuck that noise, yo! I have the answer to your underwire problems. SUPER GLUE. Yep, just super glue. I've glued the underwire fabric holder thingie shut on two bras and it's been perfect ever since. 🙂
First of all, you said "fuck that noise," so somehow I immediately know that you are not judging me. Thank you for that. Second of all, BRILLIANT! Where is my super glue?
The man-pleasing chicken post generated many comments, but more on why I shouldn't cook chicken to 180 degrees than why you shouldn't name a thing "man-pleasing" anything unless it's a condom (and even those are ribbed for her pleasure). But I digress. (That chicken was not done, people. I stand by my cooking method.)
Anyway, at least some of you had something constructive to say:
PiperAlexander Boners. You're giving me boners.
I win.
I love that when someone gets their panties all in a twist about, say, making fun of a silly line from a poem, you all jump to my defense. The Pintestes are the best, yo. Also, you are hella smarter than me.
mackiecarp If that's the case, then nobody should criticize anything ever. "Art" is a broad and overly-encompassing term, and to end any kind of humorous interpretations of it would mean the end of satire (i.e., no Candide, which I'm fairly certain 99% of the literati would hate you for). Sometimes, the humorous perspective yields more interesting results than the original piece. In the instance of this poem, I think the thing itself is actually fairly good as far as trite inspirational poetry goes, but I think that this post is a lot more enjoyable.
Also, you get me, you really, really get me.
Christine G the shore was obviously asking for it, just look at how it's dressed…and anyway, those weren't legitimate waves, so it's cool…
In conclusion, you people are the bomb and I love you. Keep commenting because you make my day every day, and I'm not kidding about that.


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Being Iranian, I am fascinated by Persian rugs and the exquisite uniqueness that defines them. The art of carpet weaving in Iran is deeply connected with the culture and the customs of the country.
Being away from California, surrounded by snow in Switzerland and far from my natural "soft fascinations" (read flowers, sunshine, rustling trees) I am experiencing a funny sense of "ecoanxiety" that may be cured by writing about my favorite permanent garden: the Persian Rug…
The designs (naghsheh or cartoon—a grid on paper with spaces colored to guide rug weavers in selecting pile yarns) are still mostly drawn by hand even though computers are doing wonders in this field.
Iranians are literally conceived, born and brought up on Persian rugs! Warmed by their soft and comfortable texture, touching, caressing, lying down and relaxing on them, comes naturally to Persians. The rugs add warmth underfoot like my favorite red carpet with these gorgeous Shah Abbasi patterns (with floral and leaf motifs mainly in the form of lotus blossoms):
The density of tightly woven Persian knots (or guereh) are the calibrating tool for the quality of the rug,
a good Nain rug may have 500 kpsi or 500 knots per square inch (farsibaaf, asymmetric or Persian pile knot.)
This is how a flower looks on the back of this Nain (Na'in):
and the same carpet from the front:
Like most textiles, carpets consist of warps (tar) and wefts (pud). The warps are the threads running the length of the carpet. The wefts are the threads that run across its breadth. This is the same carpet spread out:
Persian rugs go by region (cities mostly— like Tabriz, Esfahan, Nain, Kashan, Kerman, etc…) and each region has its MasterWeaver brand. A small encased signature can usually be found in the minor border like Habibian in Nain, Pirouzian in Tabriz and Taghavi in Bijar.
The most important signature must be Maqsud Kashani's (from 1540) on the famous pair of Ardabil Carpets. A poem of Hafez is woven into the cartouche:
"Except for thy threshold, there is no refuge for me in all the world.
Except for this door there is no resting place for my head."
جز آستان توام در جهان پناهی نیست
سر مرا بجز این در حواله گاهی نیست
The Ardabil Carpets have an interesting story: the lower field and border of one of them has been used to restore the other (now in Victoria and Albert Museum in London). The used and abused twin sister was kept in the dark (not to outshine the V&A version) until 1931 and finally found her way to Los Angeles County Museum of Art in 1965.
After exhaustive restoration done to the dazzling beauty, the LACMA sister was finally shown last year (look at how they had to wash it!)
The Ardabil carpets are the world's oldest dated and historically important carpets in the world. This is the twin sister in Victoria and Albert museum in London:
It all comes down to this fundamental design that I just finished reproducing for the blog:
A love for fine Farsh (rug in persian) may be one of the few things that Shahs and Mullahs have always agreed upon!
Even though I have visited the great Manufacture des Gobelins some years ago,
I am dying to see the real thing in Iran,
and take some great pictures.
I will leave you with this superb painting of my favorite Orientalist painter, Gerôme, called The Carpet Merchant (ca 1887):
A great site to get acquainted with Persian rugs: Farsh Mashad
Weaving Art Museum here
About different motifs and style here


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Lenovo Monday released an ultraportable with the weight of a netbook and the power of a laptop. The Lenovo IdeaPad U260 sports luxurious trim, and is aimed at consumers as interested in fashion as much as they are functionality.
(See Related: Top Ultraportable Laptops)
The metallic cover of this svelte laptop, for instance, is seamless to give the illusion of the user holding a ledger. The palm rest is soft and leather-patterned.
The U260 comes with a CPU at or below Intel's Core i7 class, the option of a solid state or a standard hard drive, up to 4GB of memory, and Windows 7. Starting at $899 for what we assume are basic (but upgradeable) specs, the IdeaPad a reasonably priced notebook.
With upscale looks, a ridiculously light form (it weighs less than 3 pounds), and a starting price under a grand, the U260 might turn consumers' heads back from tablets to proper notebooks. For a while, at least.