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(RNN) - London theater-goers reported hearing a crackling sound they thought was part of the show before part of the structure of the Apollo Theater collapsed in on them, injuring dozens.
London ambulance reports they treated 76 patients, most considered "walking wounded." That number was downgraded from an initial report of 88 injured. Seven people sustained serious injuries.
So far, no fatalities have been reported.
"It wasn't a full-roof collapse of heavy-duty beams. It seems to be confined to quite thick ornate plaster that you would find in a theater of that age," said Graham Ellis, Deputy Assistant Commissioner of London Fire Service.
Around 720 people were believed to be in the theater at the time of the collapse, including Simon Usborne, a writer with The Independent, a paper in the UK.
"Back home after Apollo theatre collapse. Terrifying. Sheltered in stalls by upper circle. Loud bangs, cracks. Thought was part of show," he tweeted.
Martin Bowstock, who was at the show with his wife and children, told CNN that part of the balcony he was sitting on collapsed on the people below.
"It was full of dust, you couldn't see couldn't breathe, it was absolutely terrifying."
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time was playing at the Shaftesbury Avenue venue.
Anthony Davis, a London broadcaster, tweeted that triage was set up in the Gielgud Theatre next door.
One witness told BBC she heard a "strange crackling noise" before "the roof just crumpled." The theatre "suddenly went dark" with "dust clouds everywhere", she said.
"Was at the #Apollo Theatre watching a play when the roof came crashing in! Praying for those still inside #London," eyewitness Khalil Anjarwalla said on Twitter.
According to CNN, eyewitnesses reported that people were being escorted out covered in dust and debris.
Nic Robertson told CNN people left in an orderly manner after the collapse.
The theatre, which was built in 1901, sits more than 775 people and has four levels.
The Apollo was almost at capacity at the time of the collapse.
The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night-Time has been running in London since August 2012.
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Imiquimod cream is used to treat certain types of actinic keratoses (flat, scaly growths on the skin caused by too much sun exposure) on the face or scalp. Imiquimod cream is also used to treat superficial basal cell carcinoma (a type of skin cancer) on the trunk, neck, arms, hands, legs, or feet and warts on the skin of the genital and anal areas. Imiquimod is in a class of medications called immune response modifiers. It treats genital and anal warts by increasing the activity of the body's immune system. It is not known exactly how imiquimod cream works to treat actinic keratoses or superficial basal cell carcinoma.
Imiquimod cream does not cure warts, and new warts may appear during treatment. It is not known whether imiquimod cream prevents the spread of warts to other people.
Imiquimod comes as a cream to apply to the skin.
If you are using imiquimod cream to treat actinic keratoses, you will probably apply it once a day for 2 days a week, 3 to 4 days apart (e.g., Monday and Thursday or Tuesday and Friday). Do not apply the cream to an area larger than your forehead or cheek (about 2 inches by 2 inches). Imiquimod cream should be left on the skin for approximately 8 hours. Continue using imiquimod cream for a full 16 weeks, even if all the actinic keratoses are gone, unless you are told otherwise by your doctor.
If you are using imiquimod cream to treat superficial basal cell carcinoma, you will probably apply it once a day for 5 days a week (e.g., Monday through Friday). Apply the cream to the basal cell carcinoma and the immediate surrounding area. Imiquimod cream should be left on the skin for approximately 8 hours. Continue using imiquimod for a full 6 weeks, even if the superficial basal cell carcinoma appears to be gone, unless you are told otherwise by your doctor.
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Follow the directions on your prescription label carefully, and ask your doctor or pharmacist to explain any part you do not understand. Use imiquimod exactly as directed. Do not use more or less of it or use it more often than prescribed by your doctor.
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Political Risk Perceptions and the Financial Crisis
MIGA recently launched its new World Investment and Political Risk [1] report in London to a gathering of investment and political risk experts. Based on a joint MIGA – EIU Political Risk Survey conducted last year, the report underscores that political risk remains one of the main obstacles to FDI in emerging markets [2].
Specifically, investors indicated a greater concern about breach of contract, non-honoring of government guarantees and adverse regulatory changes—which can result in investment loss—than outright expropriation itself. Investors also noted that political risk [3] relative to other concerns will increase over the next three years, as constraints related to the crisis begin to ease.
While the financial crisis does not appear to have significantly altered political risk perceptions across the board, it has exacerbated concerns over specific perils and investment destinations. Specifically, risk of convertibility and transfer restrictions were concentrated in Eastern Europe and Central Asia for 2010, with risk to recede over the next three years. Risk of payment defaults by sovereign (or sub-sovereign) and state-owned entities was expected to remain roughly the same over the medium term.
For additional information on risk perceptions and political risk mitigation mechanisms, download the full report from MIGA.org [1].
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MANHATTAN, Kan. - The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said Monday he wants to increase the national conversation about war veterans and how they're treated and regarded in society.
Gen. Martin Dempsey spoke to a large audience of soldiers, faculty and students at Kansas State University. He said he believes the nation has a positive image of its military men and women and that there is a conversation taking place about how to help veterans reintegrate with work, school and their families.
"I want to turn up the volume," Dempsey said.
Dempsey said that, after many years of war, it's important for veterans and the nation to talk about the role of those who have served, where they fit in society and whether they're regarded as heroes, victims or average citizens.
The general said that many organizations had increased their efforts over the past four years to help link veterans with colleges and employers.
Dempsey graduated from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point in 1974 as the Vietnam War was winding down. He said he doesn't believe the public views its current generation of veterans with the same disdain they held for Vietnam veterans.
But the general wants to renew the focus and conversation, especially with the war in Iraq over, the war in Afghanistan winding down and a downsizing of the military on the horizon.
"We ought to have that conversation," Dempsey said.
He said he believes future military action will be decentralized conflicts to which the nation sends smaller groups of soldiers to battle, unlike most wars in U.S. history.
"I just don't want to wake up one day and decide that I should have had a conversation with America before it occurs," he said.
Dempsey said that one of the lessons from the recent wars was that "protracted conflicts" make it harder to sustain interest.
"That's a long time to maintain interest in distant conflicts," he said.
Dempsey's speech was part of Kansas State's Landon Lecture series. The general also planned to visit with soldiers at nearby Fort Riley, home of the 1st Infantry Division. About 750 soldiers attended his lecture.


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(The Root) — I am certain at some point during the past 18 months you found yourself feeling like that kid riding in the backseat of the family car on what is supposed to be the "great adventure" to "someplace special." But the only thing you can muster after about 15 minutes is, "Are we there yet?" Well, kiddies, Tuesday night we arrived, and the trip that was Election 2012 was finally over.
When this journey started many of us had high hopes for an engaging battle of ideas, but what we got instead was more a battle of super PACs and their negative campaign ads. By the time of the first debate in early October, many voters were fed up and tuned out.
But a funny thing happened that night: President Obama finally got to meet Mitt Romney — not the caricature of the "rich white guy" or the plutocrat from, well, Pluto, but the husband and father, and the former governor of Massachusetts. It was this night, on the biggest stage of his political career, that Romney found his voice. He didn't talk process or sound indifferent to the concerns of 47 percent of Americans, nor did he concern himself with the misdirection and bright shiny objects offered up by Democrats (e.g. campaign ads) but instead, looked every voter in the eye and talked to us with specifics and reminded us that we are not better off just because "it could be worse."
And for weeks following that debate it appeared, for the Obama campaign, as if the entire 18 months of this campaign had been lost in just 90 minutes. It suddenly sunk in for the Obama team: This campaign actually was Romney's to lose. The president took a crippling hit, subtle but direct. Romney had proven himself presidential, and the president, uninterested. As his momentum grew, Romney pounced at every opportunity to reinforce the perceptions and images from that first debate, even as the president steadily recovered by winning the next two debates.
But what would not become apparent until Tuesday night was that while a good debate — even a great debate — may spark enthusiasm for your campaign, it may not be enough to close the deal with the voters. And Mitt Romney did not close the deal.
It's true, this election was always about the math: 23 million (unemployed and underemployed), 7.9 percent (the unemployment rate as of October), $16 trillion (U.S. debt) and 46 million (Americans living in poverty). Add to that 43 (the number of continual months of unemployment above 8 percent), 8 (the percentage by which individual incomes have shrunk) and finally, if 8 million people hadn't quit looking for jobs since the "recovery" began, the unemployment rate would be 11.2 percent.
But it was the number 47 (the percentage of Americans who, according to Romney, wouldn't vote for him) that seemed to capture the collective imagination of both the media and political worlds. Too bad the rest of us live in the world fixated on those other numbers, and Romney could never close the deal on his ability to fix them.
Consequently, the electoral spanking the Obama campaign laid on Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan was stunning in its swiftness (everyone was planning for a long night of waiting on returns) and its magnitude (while the popular vote was close, with Obama winning by around 3 million votes, the electoral vote was not (332-206)).
When you get whacked the way the GOP got whacked on Tuesday, somebody had better start to pay attention to the reasons why. No amount of denial by Karl Rove on election night or postmortem second-guessing by others on the nomination of Romney or his selection of Ryan can spare this party from the new math: The electorate was 72 percent white, a group Obama lost with 39 percent to Romney's 59 percent; 13 percent African American, a bloc that gave the president 93 percent of their votes; 10 percent Hispanic, a group the president won 71 percent to 27 percent (a slightly worse outcome than in 2008, when Obama carried Latinos 67 percent to Arizona Sen. John McCain's 31 percent). Put another way, if Romney had received the same percentage of the Hispanic vote that McCain did, we'd be calling him president-elect today.
As the president moves forward into a second term and the words of Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) about a one-term presidency ring in the ears of Republicans, it's important to understand that what happened Tuesday was not a rejection of the case for conservatism (individual freedoms, smaller and more efficient government, prosperity, entrepreneurism and ownership) but rather a rejection of the way some conservatives made the case (vaginal probes, "legitimate rape," the "47 percent").
Sadly, it appears the lessons of 2006 and 2008 (or even 2010, for that matter) were not taken to heart or understood. Republicans fundamentally failed to communicate a message that spoke to our hopes for prosperity, for ourselves and especially for our children. Consequently, one good debate notwithstanding, our case fell flat before the American people.
It's time to take this wayward party by the scruff of the neck and knock some common sense into it (yes, that means no more coddling crazy) and emerge out of this election as leaders who will speak with clarity and honesty on the issues that matter to 100 percent of Americans.
So like that kid in the backseat of the car asking, "Are we there yet?" Republicans had better realize that we've been here for some time now, and America is just waiting for us to get out of the car.
Michael Steele is the former chairman of the Republican National Committee and served as lieutenant governor of Maryland from 2003 to 2007. He is currently a political analyst for MSNBC.


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Coxeter Graphs and Dynkin Diagrams
We've taken our root system and turned it into a Cartan matrix. Now we're going to take our Cartan matrix and turn it into a pictorial form that we can really get our hands on.
Given a Cartan matrix, we want to construct a combinatorial graph. If the matrix is , then we start with points. The rows and columns of the matrix correspond to simple roots, and so each of these points corresponds to a simple root as well. Noting this, we will call the points "roots".
Now given any two simple roots and we can construct the Cartan integers and . Our data about pairs of roots tells us that the product is either , , , or . We'll connect each pair of roots by this many lines, like so:
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The resulting combinatorial graph is called the "Coxeter graph" of This is almost enough information to recover the Cartan matrix. Unfortunately, in the two- and three-edge cases, we know that the two roots have different lengths, and we have no way of telling which is which. To fix this, we will draw an arrow (that looks suspiciously like a "greater-than" sign) pointing from the larger of the two roots to the smaller, like so:
In each case we know one root must be longer than the other, and by a particular ratio. And so with this information we call the graph a "Dynkin diagram", and it is enough to reconstruct the Cartan matrix. For example, consider the Dynkin diagram called :
We can use this to reconstruct the Cartan matrix:
One nice thing about Dynkin diagrams is that we really don't care about the order of the roots, like we had to do for the Cartan matrix. They also show graphically a lot of information about the root system. For instance, we may be able to break a Dynkin diagram up into more than one connected component. Any root in one of these components has no edges connecting it to a root in another. This means that , and thus that and are perpendicular. This breaks the base up into a bunch of mutually-perpendicular subsets, which give rise to irreducible components of the root system .
The upshot of this last fact is that irreducibility of a root system corresponds to connectedness of its Dynkin diagram. Thus our project has come down to this question: which connected Dynkin diagrams arise from root systems? At last, we're almost ready to answer this question.
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It's a minor point, but just above the final diagram you talk about the Dynkin diagram being enough to reconstruct the "Coxeter matrix"; I think you mean "Cartan matrix".
Like many other readers, I expect, the fact that I haven't commented before doesn't mean I'm not enjoying the posts. Keep up the good work! 🙂
Comment by Jonathan | February 19, 2010 |
[…] up to isomorphism. We've shown that for each such root system we can construct a connected Dynkin diagram, which determines a Cartan matrix, which determines the root system itself, up to isomorphism. So […]
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[…] strategy is to determine which Coxeter graphs can arise from actual root systems, and then see what Dynkin diagrams we can get. Since Coxeter […]
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[…] proven the classification theorem, we know all about root systems, right? No! All we know is which Dynkin diagrams could possibly arise from root systems. We don't know whether there actually exists a root […]
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[…] Transformations of Dynkin Diagrams Before we continue constructing root systems, we want to stop and observe a couple things about transformations of Dynkin diagrams. […]
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[…] But we need another short root which will both give a component in the direction of and will give us access to . Further, it should be orthogonal to both and , and should have a Cartan integer of with in either order. For this purpose, we pick , which then gives us the last vertex of the Dynkin diagram. […]
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[…] of . But each shuffles around the roots in , and these roots correspond to the vertices of the Dynkin diagram of the root system. And for to be an automorphism of , it must preserve the Cartan integers, and […]
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[…] To classify these, we defined Cartan matrices and verified that we can use it to reconstruct a root system. Then we turned Cartan matrices into Dynkin diagrams. […]
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Isn't the Cartan matrix the transpose of what it should be? Kac says that implies the arrow points towards vertex i. It points towards 3, so , right?
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Shakira and Ricky Martin are among the artists adding their voices to a Spanish-language adaptation of "We Are the World" to raise money for Haiti earthquake relief.
The song will first air Monday on Univision's "The Cristina Show." It was produced by Emilio Estefan, Quincy Jones and Univision, under the auspices of the We Are The World Foundation.
The foundation said all proceeds will be used to help Haiti recover from a devastating Jan. 12 quake.
Gloria Estefan penned the adaptation. Other participants include Carlos Santana, Chayanne, David Archuleta, Juan Luis Guerra and Juanes.
The original "We Are the World" in 1985 raised more than $30 million for African hunger relief. Some 80 artists recently recorded a 25th anniversary version benefiting Haiti.


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You know, we at PopcornBiz spend a lot of time mocking the career choices of actresses like Katherine Heigl, Kate Hudson, Jennifer Aniston, and the like. These are actresses who seem to make NOTHING but terrible films. In fact, they seem to go out of their way to make the same terrible movie over and over again.
Which brings us to Reese Witherspoon. Have you seen the movies this woman has made lately? Chances are, you probably haven't. Take a look at this week's box office chart and you'll see that her latest - "This Means War" - got bum-rushed (chart via Box Office Mojo, totals don't include Monday).
1. Safe House - $23.8M
2. The Vow - $23.1M
3. Ghost Rider 2 - $22.1M
4. Journey 2: The Mysterious Island - $19.9M
5. This Means War - $17.3M
6. Star Wars Episode I (3D) - $8.0M 7. Chronicle - $7.6M
8. The Woman In Black - $6.7M
9. The Secret World Of Arrietty - $6.4M
10. The Grey - $3.1M
Even "Ghost Rider 2" kicked Reese's tushie. GHOST RIDER 2! I didn't even know that was supposed to open this week! It's been a shockingly robust February at the box office, and yet Reese failed to capitalize. She doesn't even show up in our PBCS standings this week. BEHOLD!
1. The Artist - 539
2. The Descendants - 353
3. Chronicle - 334
4. The Woman In Black - 155
5. The Vow - 148
6. Safe House - 120
7. The Secret World Of Arreitty - 89
8. Journey 2 - 49
9. The Grey - 36
10. The Iron Lady - 34
"This Means War" notched a pathetic score of 12 in our standings, not good enough to crack the top 10. Since "Walk the Line" in 2005, Witherspoon has starred in a string of poorly received movies including "Just Like Heaven," "Rendition," "Four Christmases," and the now-infamous "How Do You Know?" This makes very little sense, given that Witherspoon is a much more likable actress (and human being) than someone like Katherine Heigl. I would like her to STOP starring in terrible romantic comedies and get back to playing scrappy overachievers. Surely, she'd be a great fit for "The Jeremy Lin Story," minus the whole "Jeremy Lin is not a caucasian woman" factor.


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Is anyone running Accordance on a Linux tablet?
Posted 17 February 2012 - 12:47 PM
Is anyone using an emulator on a Linux tablet to run Accordance? I would be willing to have a device almost exclusively dedicated to accordance, so if I had to use an ugly UI/tiny linux build to keep my speed up while emulating I would be fine with it. Before I pursue this farther I would love to have some feedback from somebody who has tried it before.
Posted 17 February 2012 - 02:56 PM
Edited by Robert B Johnson, 17 February 2012 - 02:58 PM.
I am sinner, saved by Grace. Soli Deo gloria.
Posted 17 February 2012 - 03:26 PM
I've got a good friend of mine who won't use an iPad because he says he doesn't like the "control" Apple puts on it. He has an Android tablet that I see him constantly frustrated with because it won't do something like he wants, while the iPad would not give him many of these same problems. My suggestion to him--although he has not made action on it yet--is to simply get an iPad and jailbreak it. There's an extremely vibrant iOS jailbreak community out there that will allow a person to do pretty much anything they want with their iPad. And it was ruled last year that jailbreaking does not violate a warranty, so there's not even that issue.
I can also assure you that the experience of using an iPad is not that of using a large iPhone. I have an iPhone and an iPad, and I use them for very different things. Although I have Accordance on my iPhone, honestly, I don't use it much there. I do, however, use it a lot on my iPad. The larger screen means that I can do a hundred things on the iPad that I either couldn't do or couldn't do near as easily on an iPhone.
Going to the main topic of your post, I'd be interested to know about Accordance on Linux (tablet or otherwise), too. I keep a current copy of both Windows 7 and Ubuntu Linux running in VMWare (which I cannot run at all at the moment after installing Mountain Lion) just to keep up with other platforms. I really don't mind the tighter controls Apple places on iOS because these are still secondary devices for me. I do fear that a day will come somewhere down the road that Apple might lock us out of our file system altogether (an issue which may be related to your issues with the iPad). If that day comes, I'd probably try to switch to something like Linux. However, Accordance would always be my main issue. I came to the Mac from Windows 14 years ago for a number of reasons, but I stay with the Mac primarily because of Accordance. I can't imagine a world in which I couldn't use Accordance. Supposedly, there was a time before I used Accordance, but those memories are rather blurry and not to be trusted.
So, yes, I'd be interested in knowing more about Accordance on Linux, although not necessarily on a tablet.
However, in light of the idea of Accordance on a non-iOS tablet, have you see the Axiotron Modbooks (Mac tablets)? Maybe this is just what you need! In Linux, like Robert Johnson mentioned, you'd have to run Accordance in an emulator. On a Modbook, you could simply run OS X.
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Posted 17 February 2012 - 03:54 PM
If that day comes, I'd probably try to switch to something like Linux. However, Accordance would always be my main issue. I came to the Mac from Windows 14 years ago for a number of reasons, but I stay with the Mac primarily because of Accordance. I can't imagine a world in which I couldn't use Accordance. Supposedly, there was a time before I used Accordance, but those memories are rather blurry and not to be trusted.
I secretly pray that the Oaktree folks begin writing a web based version of their app so I can use it on a Chromebook.
I am sinner, saved by Grace. Soli Deo gloria.
Posted 17 February 2012 - 06:31 PM
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Posted 17 February 2012 - 07:36 PM
Apple didn't make a net book? They did. It's called a MacBook Air. It's also why sales of other net books have been plummeting.
Indeed. It is a fabulous netbook/ultralight laptop. Accordance sings on it.
Accordance on Macintosh, iPhone, and iPad
Posted 17 February 2012 - 07:38 PM
As to the Ipad specifically---I think it's a cool device but ultimately it is designed for consuming, not creating. Yes you can hook a keyboard up to it and pretend like it's a laptop but it still isn't. I haven't tried but I would guess that I would have a little difficulty formatting a paper in Turabian on it---I most certainly would have trouble referring to Accordance, an online journal, and the paper I was writing simultaneously. It's a nifty little device but for $600 I could buy an actual computer---it would be extensible, parts would be replaceable, and it would stand up all by itself. It could (processor permitting) do literally whatever I wanted it to do. Some Linux build, OS X, Windows XP (those are the only viable options) I could install whatever (i would buy one that was hackintoshable). I cannot imagine being in a place where I thought an Ipad was a smart investment (unless that place had Ipads for $200.) The things I value: extensibility (so it won't be an un-upgradeable brick that can't run anything new 2 years from now), unlockedness (meaning the people in charge of the operating system are me---jailbreak solves some of this), and not spending $600 for something with less to offer than $150 netbook (The screen would be better on the ipad---but I can add a $200 27" monitor if the smaller screen is a problem---and carry it like I would carry my keyboard/stand if I had an Ipad).
I'm ranting now. I've been meaning to start a blog about the things I hate about Apple even though I still love and use their products. Don't get me started on how long it takes to turn down an Ipod classic. This device is ONLY FOR PLAYING MUSIC and I'm waiting 7 seconds for the ability to to adjust the volume? Because volume rockers don't look cool? UGH.
The point is that apple has proven that they will take advantage of their market share to the detriment of developers and ultimately the end user. On OS X, I can avoid that---on the iOS 11 of the future I ostensibly could not.
Posted 17 February 2012 - 08:30 PM
Apple didn't make a net book? They did. It's called a MacBook Air. It's also why sales of other net books have been plummeting.
Yeah, with the 11" at $999 it is a viable---albeit expensive for what you get (Lion on 2GB of RAM)---entry into the netbook market.
I guess I still have bad feelings towards the Air because of how ridiculous it was when it came out. It was like $1700… Dell was making a 9" netbook that could run OS X pretty well and Apple's answer was a 13 inch, underpowered, $2000 gimmick? (it was definitely a gimmick---its primary selling point was its ability to slide under doors, which is very, very useful for those who inexplicably need to give or receive computers while on the toilet but the rest of us can just spend a few less thousand dollars on normal netbook or spend the same amount on an actual macbook.) I was just really, really hoping for the return of that awesome, square 12" Powerbook (I still want one of those) or a $500 10" TinyBook. It was pretty big let down for my younger self.
At the current price point and with the smaller screen I guess I should just get over the residual ill will. I mean, I'm not the guy to evaluate the value of something in the "premium netbook" category anyway. I think of a netbook as a tiny, sub-$300 supplement to a primary machine. An upgraded Air could easily be a non-power users primary machine so its a bit like comparing Apples to much less expensive computers running Apple's OS on a tiny screen.
Edited by Chris Robinson, 17 February 2012 - 08:32 PM.
Posted 17 February 2012 - 09:20 PM
Apple "pushed" the envelope and the results are pretty profound. One of the reasons netbooks are so inexpensive today is because of Apple.
Everyone is still trying to duplicate it, mimic it.
With the Air things started moving more quickly in many areas.
I do not have one but, I no longer use a media drive, don't need one anymore and everyone learned you "can" do without one now.
The App store, wireless transfers, thinner, lighter, less battery-longer run times, many things started moving forward in these areas after the Air, iPhone, iPad. Someone has to "Move the mark, push the industry", Apple did so. It was expensive and a small market. But it is those that push and, the early adopters that take it up , that the rest of us benefit from. I am thankful for all of them.
Accordance is better, more mobile, easier to update, upgrade and share , than ever before, because of these things and the people behind and around them.
Who Knows, we might even get a new Ui before long-smile
Posted 17 February 2012 - 09:34 PM
Who Knows, we might even get a new Ui before long-smile
The new UI is certainly to be eagerly awaited, but the current UI is incredibly powerful. Another thread have brought up Mountain Lion. There I wondered if Accordance was being rewritten in Cocoa. I did not get a direct answer, but David Lang's blog today noted something critical the Accordance folks have been doing "behind the scenes." They have kept pace with the OS changes as they have occurred, and that is what keeps Accordance fast and compatible with every OS upgrade.
We all have desires for our favorite Bible study program. We have pushed the developers and pleaded for more modules and features. But this discussion moves me to thank them for the fantastic and unsung work behind the scenes to keep Accordance fast and compatible with all the changes Apple brings. Thank you Accordance! God bless you.
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Accordance on Macintosh, iPhone, and iPad
Posted 18 February 2012 - 12:15 AM
I am so grateful for all the work that is done that "is not" eye candy, but that which keeps us tuned up and running well.
Posted 18 February 2012 - 01:25 AM
Could not have said it better.
I am so grateful for all the work that is done that "is not" eye candy, but that which keeps us tuned up and running well.
Totally Agree!
Not seeking to inflame either, but here is my 2c worth based on my own experience. Other opinions and mileage may vary. :-)
I once was a heavy linux user and am forced to struggle with Windows' idiosyncrasies on a daily basis at my workplace. The bottom line for me is that once I started using a Mac many years ago, I now spend more time using my computer and far less time troubleshooting, configuring, etc. the computer. Accordance has become a critical piece of my workflow.
Ultimately, I want to use my computer for study, writing and other such tasks. That to me is more important than a philosophical difference with Apple or any other company.
"I was but a Pen in God's hand, and what praise is due to a Pen?"
–Richard Baxter–
Posted 23 February 2012 - 02:30 AM
Where does Accordance enter into the picture? They develop high quality Bible software for the Apple platform. With the growth in the Apple platform, other software developers particularly in recent years have decided to port their products to OSX in some form or another. The difficulty is that these products are rarely as mature and refined as Accordance. I own one other product due to being a Windows user from years ago and while it runs, it is not generally up to the quality that one would normally expect in OSX and stands out as the most problematic piece of software currently on my Macbook. It works and I can get things done, but it is not why I came back to the Apple platform after a number of years of pain on Windows.
I wholeheartedly encourage Accordance and Apple to stay the course. There are plenty of players out there in the general computer world and we need some that stand out as generally outstanding!
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Posted 23 February 2012 - 04:21 AM
I wholeheartedly encourage Accordance and Apple to stay the course. There are plenty of players out there in the general computer world and we need some that stand out as generally outstanding!
+1 - could not have said it better
Andrew Mercer
Summerlakes Church
Malaga, Western Australia
Posted 06 May 2012 - 10:40 AM
While I've not tried Accordance on linux I have heavily tested the emulator on an old Fujitsu Stylistic tablet PC. I picked one up a local PC recycler for only $150.00. It has a "wacom penabled" pressure sensitive screen (which means it uses a stylis). I ran Basilisk and then the emulator version of Accordance on a tablet version of XP which the emulator ran great on. The only real issues I had with it were minor and related to mouse sensitivity. Now the Fujitsu tablet is old, ugly, heavy, and not at all what I'd call full of style.. even though the name "Stylistic" might suggest that...
The problem you will likely find with running linux on a tablet is finding a linux build that will fully support the newer tablet and still run the Basilisk emulator well. There are a few people still playing with the emulator and even recompiling it with minor tweaks - but from what I've seen their is no real developement happening on it.
Oh by the way.... with the new iPad out you can now get into the iPad world for $350.00... (if you don't mind buying a refurbished iPad 2 from Apple...)
The iPad fulfills the "light computing" highly moble desire of many people. It is highly artistic and has a style of its own... Sure it has tons of limitations - but it does what it does really well. If doing serious computing is your need then don't buy it -- and if I might be so bold -- don't be so mad about it - some of us enjoy the little thing!
Posted 06 May 2012 - 11:03 AM
Is it a full fledge computer replacement? Not at all at least for what I do. I can see the possibility of a one OS world, but there are still substantial limitations to the iPad simply simply because of processing power. I'm guessing that if and when the two merge, there will be a lot of adjustments. My guess is that for now we will see a blurring of the design traits for now so that users can move back and forth across.
I don't find a lot of use for 'full screen apps' OSX apps on large screens, but I do like launchpad for accessing the apps that I less frequently go to (the ones I use 95% of the time are on the dock). I do like the growing interoperability between iOS and OSX by way of iCloud. My only gripe with iCloud is it would be nice to have an iDisk type of feature... or maybe Airdrop between an iPad and the Mac would be nice.
Edited by Donovan R. Palmer, 06 May 2012 - 11:03 AM.
Posted 06 May 2012 - 11:32 AM
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Posted 07 May 2012 - 10:44 AM
It's also in english now ;-) http://internetseite...ad/AccLinux.pdf
Greetings. Johannes
Edited by Johannes, 26 September 2013 - 06:49 AM.
Bibellesen mit Accordance: http://accordancebible.de
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Expand Those Short URLs Before Clicking
Just when we were getting the point across that you need to be careful about what links you click on, along comes the new phenomenon of shortened links through redirection services, making it that much harder to be careful. There are products and services that can help though.
The success of these services has been driven mostly by Twitter, whose 140 character limit on posts makes it important for links to be as short as possible. Actually, "success" is a tricky word to use here sincemuch like Twitter itselfnone of these services have a business model that makes them any money at all. But I digress.
The fact remains that when you click on a shortened link you don't know where you will end up. Depending on the circumstances, you could subject yourself to an attack for which you are defenseless. And even if you're careful about whose links you click on, you are still trusting those users, and there's a long and shady history of Twitter accounts getting hijacked.
It's worth noting that http://bit.ly/, probably the most popular of the services, has added some protection against spam and malware in their links through multiple filtering services such as SURBL and Google Safe Browsing. These services leave lots of malicious content unblocked, especially on the fast-moving Twitter, but it's good that they're trying and you're better off for them doing so.
If only you could see what the links pointed to before you clicked on them... You can. There are tools to help.
The simplest example is ExpandMyURL.com. It's a web form in which you enter a short URL. The server does the HTTP request and gives you back the site to which it is redirected. Untiny works the same way. Both worked with several services I tested. I found some web pages like ExpandMyURL that were specific to one service, but there's no reason to use them.
Firefox users are especially blessed in this software category by several add-ons that help with shortened URLs. PowerTwitter includes URL expansion among with many other features, including link shortening. LongUrlPlease claims to support 73 redirection services in their products including their Firefox add-on. Bit.ly has their own Firefox add-on, but it only works for bit.ly links. What's the point?
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Why I care about Judaism: Milestones and goals give us a better grasp of time
This week, according to the Jewish calendar, I turn 35 years old. I have never been particularly enthusiastic about celebrating birthdays. Our society makes a big deal about them. We send cards, hold birthday parties, post on people's Facebook pages and give presents. But are birthdays a day we really want to celebrate? Especially in a culture that venerates youth, is getting a year older and gaining a few more gray hairs and wrinkles truly cause for celebration?
Whether I like it or not, my birthday is a milestone and Judaism cares about milestones. Every 50 years we celebrate Yovel or the Jubilee year, which has a huge significance for commerce. Every seven years we celebrate Shmita, which has significance for business and agriculture. Every year we make a big deal about Rosh Hashana (the Jewish New Year) and use it as a time for introspection to see whether we have lived up to our own expectations for the past year and to ensure that the following year is more successful and productive. Every month we celebrate Rosh Chodesh or the New Month as another milestone. Every week we celebrate Shabbat.
This gives us an idea of how Judaism views time. Time is really not an independent entity at all. There is an eternity of time. We humans are limited in the time we have to live, yet that is only a subjective experience. For an inanimate object that is unaffected temporally, or for God, time is irrelevant. Time becomes important when we create milestones and deadlines. In a sense all of the celebrations that Judaism offers, enable us to have a better grasp on our time. This allows us to make sure that the time we have is used productively.
In our personal life Judaism offers us other milestones. In the great rabbinic wisdom book entitled Avot (Ethics of the Fathers), Yahudah ben Teima is quoted as saying: "At 5 years old a person should study the Scriptures, at 10 years the Mishnah, at 13 the Commandments, at 15 the Talmud, at 18, marriage. Twenty, to pursue a livelihood. Thirty, for strength. Forty, for understanding. Fifty, for counsel. Sixty, for sagacity. Seventy, for elderliness. Eighty, for power, etc.(5:24)."
These are very general milestones that an individual should set for their lives. They are shorter in duration when we are younger, but as we hit 20 yearsold each milestone is a decade apart from the other. Some people believe that these milestones are reached automatically. I maintain that the Mishna in Avot is telling us what we should strive for as we go from decade to decade in our lives. But beyond that, this wisdom-teaching has a larger message about time. Time becomes significant when we create goals and milestones for ourselves. Besides the general goals of trying to reach "understanding" by age 40 and "counsel" by age 50, we should also have other more specific goals for each decade.
When I turned 20, I set a goal for myself to become a published author at age 30. I was, with the help of my Creator, successful at reaching that goal with the publication of "Jewish Wisdom for Business Success" in 2008.
At 30, I set a new goal for when I reach 40. I have now reached the halfway-line on my way to that goal, and I am making steady progress towards it. It is this midway point that I will be celebrating next week. It is Judaism that has taught me this vitally important lesson about milestones, time and making decade-long goals. This is another area where Judaism has had a huge impact in my life. If I had not assimilated this teaching, significant accomplishments would be impossible.
Rabbi Levi Brackman is co-founder and executive director of Youth Directions an organization that helps youth make long-term positive goals they are passionate about achieving. He also serves as rabbi at Judaism in the Foothills which he co-founded together with Sheindy, his wife.


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Posted by Bruce Kahl on April 16, 2003
In Reply to: Reality check posted by R. Berg on April 16, 2003
: : : : : : Maybe I need to get out more, but I am stumped again. The clue was "Fourth estate" and the answer was "Press".
: : : : : Fourth estate = journalists. By coincidence, the OED's Word of the Day is "fourth."
: : : : Any idea how this term came about? What is its usage? Why fourth?
: : : FOURTH ESTATE - "the press, now outdated and used ironically. Books of quotations usually credit Edmund Burke with coinage, thanks to a citation by historian Thomas Carlyle in 'Heroes and Hero-Worship' written in 1839: 'Burke said that there were three estates in Parliament; but, in the Reporters' Gallery yonder, there sat a Fourth Estate more important far than them all.' When diligent research failed to turn up the phrase in anything Burke said or wrote, some quotation detectives assumed Carlyle was referring to Lord Macaulay, who said in 1828: 'The gallery in which the reporters sit has become a fourth estate of the realm.' 'Fourth estate' had been used in both England and France, usually in reference to 'the mob' (the other estates being the king, the clergy and the commons, all powers whose agreement was necessary for legislation). The OED suggests that Lord Brougham used it in Commons in 1823 applied to the press, 'and at that time is was treated as original.' The vote of this lexicographer for the coiner of this phrase goes to English essayist William Hazlitt, who wrote on the character of William Cobbett in an 1821 'Table Talk'. 'He is a kind of 'fourth estate' in the politics of the country.'." From "Safire's New Political Dictionary" by William Safire (Random House, New York, 1993).
: : I'll bite.
: : ibi illa multa cum iocosa fiebant,
: : quae tu volebas nec puella nolebat,
: : fulsere vere candidi tibi soles.
: : nunc iam illa non vult: tu quoque impotens noli,
: : nec quae fugit sectare, nec miser vive,
: : sed obstinata mente perfer, obdura.
: : When then those many joking things happened,
: : which you wanted and the girl didn't not want,
: : truly bright suns shone for you.
: : Now already she does not want; you also, powerless one, do not want,
: : and do not follow who flees, and do not live wretched,
: : but with a hardened mind endure, be firm.
: : Catullus and the puella (check out Quinn on the difference between
: : Lesbia and puella, the gist of which is that, when Catullus and Lesbia are
: : most in synch, she is "Lesbia," otherwise "mea puella," "puella," "mulier," and
: : even "illa," in decreasing order of like-mindedness) are not in synch. The
: : litotes in the second line makes this clear that she went along with what
: : was going on (the appearance was the same) but the interior motivation was
: : unequal. Now the break is pronounced and has proceeded to the level of
: : external dissention and schism. He is powerless to change this, and with
: : uncharacteristically strong imperatives (note the more gentler and more
: : colloquial subjunctive in lines one and two of the whole poem) he commands
: : himself to get control.
: : Next idea is to correct any
: : misinterpretations,
: : ok ro??
: : Sincerely,
: : Bruce Kahl
: Bruce, did you mean to put all that under "Fourth estate"? It landed there.
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KSCB News - October 14, 2013 5:56 am
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) – A county and nine cities in Kansas will share $2.1 million in grants to help them building housing for moderate-income families and extend their streets, sewers and water systems.
The Kansas Housing Resources Corporation is making the grants under its Moderate-Income Housing Program. It's aimed at helping the development of single-family homes, rental properties and infrastructure in communities with fewer than 60,000 residents.
Stafford County is receiving $168,000.
The largest grant of $400,000 went to the city of Quinter.
Hoxie received about $382,000 and Liberal, $350,000.
The corporation awarded $250,000 to Hugoton, $200,000 to Lyons and $100,000 each to Cottonwood Falls, Humboldt and Parsons.
Stockton received $71,000.
The corporation is an independent agency with a board appointed by the governor.


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Constantius Sole Emperor. - Elevation And Death Of Gallus. - Danger And Elevation Of Julian. - Sarmatian And Persian Wars. - Victories Of Julian In Gaul.
The divided provinces of the empire were again united by the victory of Constantius; but as that feeble prince was destitute of personal merit, either in peace or war; as he feared his generals, and distrusted his ministers; the triumph of his arms served only to establish the reign of the eunuchs over the Roman world. Those unhappy beings, the ancient production of Oriental jealousy and despotism, 1 were introduced into Greece and Rome by the contagion of Asiatic luxury. 2 Their progress was rapid; and the eunuchs, who, in the time of Augustus, had been abhorred, as the monstrous retinue of an Egyptian queen, 3 were gradually admitted into the families of matrons, of senators, and of the emperors themselves. 4 5 Restrained by the severe edicts of Domitian and Nerva, cherished by the pride of Diocletian, reduced to an humble station by the prudence of Constantine, 6 they multiplied in the palaces of his degenerate sons, and insensibly acquired the knowledge, and at length the direction, of the secret councils of Constantius. The aversion and contempt which mankind had so uniformly entertained for that imperfect species, appears to have degraded their character, and to have rendered them almost as incapable as they were supposed to be, of conceiving any generous sentiment, or of performing any worthy action. 7 But the eunuchs were skilled in the arts of flattery and intrigue; and they alternately governed the mind of Constantius by his fears, his indolence, and his vanity. 8 Whilst he viewed in a deceitful mirror the fair appearance of public prosperity, he supinely permitted them to intercept the complaints of the injured provinces, to accumulate immense treasures by the sale of justice and of honors; to disgrace the most important dignities, by the promotion of those who had purchased at their hands the powers of oppression, 9 and to gratify their resentment against the few independent spirits, who arrogantly refused to solicit the protection of slaves. Of these slaves the most distinguished was the chamberlain Eusebius, who ruled the monarch and the palace with such absolute sway, that Constantius, according to the sarcasm of an impartial historian, possessed some credit with this haughty favorite. 10 By his artful suggestions, the emperor was persuaded to subscribe the condemnation of the unfortunate Gallus, and to add a new crime to the long list of unnatural murders which pollute the honor of the house of Constantine.
When the two nephews of Constantine, Gallus and Julian, were saved from the fury of the soldiers, the former was about twelve, and the latter about six, years of age; and, as the eldest was thought to be of a sickly constitution, they obtained with the less difficulty a precarious and dependent life, from the affected pity of Constantius, who was sensible that the execution of these helpless orphans would have been esteemed, by all mankind, an act of the most deliberate cruelty. 11 *_0038 Different cities of Ionia and Bithynia were assigned for the places of their exile and education; but as soon as their growing years excited the jealousy of the emperor, he judged it more prudent to secure those unhappy youths in the strong castle of Macellum, near Caesarea. The treatment which they experienced during a six years' confinement, was partly such as they could hope from a careful guardian, and partly such as they might dread from a suspicious tyrant. 12 Their prison was an ancient palace, the residence of the kings of Cappadocia; the situation was pleasant, the buildings of stately, the enclosure spacious. They pursued their studies, and practised their exercises, under the tuition of the most skilful masters; and the numerous household appointed to attend, or rather to guard, the nephews of Constantine, was not unworthy of the dignity of their birth. But they could not disguise to themselves that they were deprived of fortune, of freedom, and of safety; secluded from the society of all whom they could trust or esteem, and condemned to pass their melancholy hours in the company of slaves devoted to the commands of a tyrant who had already injured them beyond the hope of reconciliation. At length, however, the emergencies of the state compelled the emperor, or rather his eunuchs, to invest Gallus, in the twenty-fifth year of his age, with the title of Caesar, and to cement this political connection by his marriage with the princess Constantina. After a formal interview, in which the two princes mutually engaged their faith never to undertake any thing to the prejudice of each other, they repaired without delay to their respective stations. Constantius continued his march towards the West, and Gallus fixed his residence at Antioch; from whence, with a delegated authority, he administered the five great dioceses of the eastern praefecture. 13 In this fortunate change, the new Caesar was not unmindful of his brother Julian, who obtained the honors of his rank, the appearances of liberty, and the restitution of an ample patrimony. 14
The writers the most indulgent to the memory of Gallus, and even Julian himself, though he wished to cast a veil over the frailties of his brother, are obliged to confess that the Caesar was incapable of reigning. Transported from a prison to a throne, he possessed neither genius nor application, nor docility to compensate for the want of knowledge and experience. A temper naturally morose and violent, instead of being corrected, was soured by solitude and adversity; the remembrance of what he had endured disposed him to retaliation rather than to sympathy; and the ungoverned sallies of his rage were often fatal to those who approached his person, or were subject to his power. 15 Constantina, his wife, is described, not as a woman, but as one of the infernal furies tormented with an insatiate thirst of human blood. 16 Instead of employing her influence to insinuate the mild counsels of prudence and humanity, she exasperated the fierce passions of her husband; and as she retained the vanity, though she had renounced, the gentleness of her sex, a pearl necklace was esteemed an equivalent price for the murder of an innocent and virtuous nobleman. 17 The cruelty of Gallus was sometimes displayed in the undissembled violence of popular or military executions; and was sometimes disguised by the abuse of law, and the forms of judicial proceedings. The private houses of Antioch, and the places of public resort, were besieged by spies and informers; and the Caesar himself, concealed in a a plebeian habit, very frequently condescended to assume that odious character. Every apartment of the palace was adorned with the instruments of death and torture, and a general consternation was diffused through the capital of Syria. The prince of the East, as if he had been conscious how much he had to fear, and how little he deserved to reign, selected for the objects of his resentment the provincials accused of some imaginary treason, and his own courtiers, whom with more reason he suspected of incensing, by their secret correspondence, the timid and suspicious mind of Constantius. But he forgot that he was depriving himself of his only support, the affection of the people; whilst he furnished the malice of his enemies with the arms of truth, and afforded the emperor the fairest pretence of exacting the forfeit of his purple, and of his life. 18
As long as the civil war suspended the fate of the Roman world, Constantius dissembled his knowledge of the weak and cruel administration to which his choice had subjected the East; and the discovery of some assassins, secretly despatched to Antioch by the tyrant of Gaul, was employed to convince the public, that the emperor and the Caesar were united by the same interest, and pursued by the same enemies. 19 But when the victory was decided in favor of Constantius, his dependent colleague became less useful and less formidable. Every circumstance of his conduct was severely and suspiciously examined, and it was privately resolved, either to deprive Gallus of the purple, or at least to remove him from the indolent luxury of Asia to the hardships and dangers of a German war. The death of Theophilus, consular of the province of Syria, who in a time of scarcity had been massacred by the people of Antioch, with the connivance, and almost at the instigation, of Gallus, was justly resented, not only as an act of wanton cruelty, but as a dangerous insult on the supreme majesty of Constantius. Two ministers of illustrious rank, Domitian the Oriental praefect, and Montius, quaestor of the palace, were empowered by a special commission *_0039 to visit and reform the state of the East. They were instructed to behave towards Gallus with moderation and respect, and, by the gentlest arts of persuasion, to engage him to comply with the invitation of his brother and colleague. The rashness of the praefect disappointed these prudent measures, and hastened his own ruin, as well as that of his enemy. On his arrival at Antioch, Domitian passed disdainfully before the gates of the palace, and alleging a slight pretence of indisposition, continued several days in sullen retirement, to prepare an inflammatory memorial, which he transmitted to the Imperial court. Yielding at length to the pressing solicitations of Gallus, the praefect condescended to take his seat in council; but his first step was to signify a concise and haughty mandate, importing that the Caesar should immediately repair to Italy, and threatening that he himself would punish his delay or hesitation, by suspending the usual allowance of his household. The nephew and daughter of Constantine, who could ill brook the insolence of a subject, expressed their resentment by instantly delivering Domitian to the custody of a guard. The quarrel still admitted of some terms of accommodation. They were rendered impracticable by the imprudent behavior of Montius, a statesman whose arts and experience were frequently betrayed by the levity of his disposition. 20 The quaestor reproached Gallus in a haughty language, that a prince who was scarcely authorized to remove a municipal magistrate, should presume to imprison a Praetorian praefect; convoked a meeting of the civil and military officers; and required them, in the name of their sovereign, to defend the person and dignity of his representatives. By this rash declaration of war, the impatient temper of Gallus was provoked to embrace the most desperate counsels. He ordered his guards to stand to their arms, assembled the populace of Antioch, and recommended to their zeal the care of his safety and revenge. His commands were too fatally obeyed. They rudely seized the praefect and the quaestor, and tying their legs together with ropes, they dragged them through the streets of the city, inflicted a thousand insults and a thousand wounds on these unhappy victims, and at last precipitated their mangled and lifeless bodies into the stream of the Orontes. 21
After such a deed, whatever might have been the designs of Gallus, it was only in a field of battle that he could assert his innocence with any hope of success. But the mind of that prince was formed of an equal mixture of violence and weakness. Instead of assuming the title of Augustus, instead of employing in his defence the troops and treasures of the East, he suffered himself to be deceived by the affected tranquillity of Constantius, who, leaving him the vain pageantry of a court, imperceptibly recalled the veteran legions from the provinces of Asia. But as it still appeared dangerous to arrest Gallus in his capital, the slow and safer arts of dissimulation were practised with success. The frequent and pressing epistles of Constantius were filled with professions of confidence and friendship; exhorting the Caesar to discharge the duties of his high station, to relieve his colleague from a part of the public cares, and to assist the West by his presence, his counsels, and his arms. After so many reciprocal injuries, Gallus had reason to fear and to distrust. But he had neglected the opportunities of flight and of resistance; he was seduced by the flattering assurances of the tribune Scudilo, who, under the semblance of a rough soldier, disguised the most artful insinuation; and he depended on the credit of his wife Constantina, till the unseasonable death of that princess completed the ruin in which he had been involved by her impetuous passions. 22
1 Ammianus (l. xiv. c. 6) imputes the first practice of castration to the cruel ingenuity of Semiramis, who is supposed to have reigned above nineteen hundred years before Christ. The use of eunuchs is of high antiquity, both in Asia and Egypt. They are mentioned in the law of Moses, Deuteron. xxxiii. 1. See Goguet, Origines des Loix, &c., Part i. l. i. c. 3.
2 Eunuchum dixti velle te;
Quia solae utuntur his reginae - Terent. Eunuch. act i. scene 2.
This play is translated from Meander, and the original must have appeared soon after the eastern conquests of Alexander.
3 Miles. . . . spadonibus
Servire rugosis potest. Horat. Carm. v. 9, and Dacier ad loe.
By the word spado, the Romans very forcibly expressed their abhorrence of this mutilated condition. The Greek appellation of eunuchs, which insensibly prevailed, had a milder sound, and a more ambiguous sense.
4 We need only mention Posides, a freedman and eunuch of Claudius, in whose favor the emperor prostituted some of the most honorable rewards of military valor. See Sueton. in Claudio, c. 28. Posides employed a great part of his wealth in building.
Ut Spado vincebat Capitolia Nostra Posides. Juvenal. Sat. xiv.
5 Castrari mares vetuit. Sueton. in Domitian. c. 7. See Dion Cassius, l. lxvii. p. 1107, l. lxviii. p. 1119.
6 There is a passage in the Augustan History, p. 137, in which Lampridius, whilst he praises Alexander Severus and Constantine for restraining the tyranny of the eunuchs, deplores the mischiefs which they occasioned in other reigns. Huc accedit quod eunuchos nec in consiliis nec in ministeriis habuit; qui soli principes perdunt, dum eos more gentium aut regum Persarum volunt vivere; qui a populo etiam amicissimum semovent; qui internuntii sunt, aliud quam respondetur, referentes; claudentes principem suum, et agentes ante omnia ne quid sciat.
7 Xenophon (Cyropaedia, l. viii. p. 540) has stated the specious reasons which engaged Cyrus to intrust his person to the guard of eunuchs. He had observed in animals, that although the practice of castration might tame their ungovernable fierceness, it did not diminish their strength or spirit; and he persuaded himself, that those who were separated from the rest of human kind, would be more firmly attached to the person of their benefactor. But a long experience has contradicted the judgment of Cyrus. Some particular instances may occur of eunuchs distinguished by their fidelity, their valor, and their abilities; but if we examine the general history of Persia, India, and China, we shall find that the power of the eunuchs has uniformly marked the decline and fall of every dynasty.
8 See Ammianus Marcellinus, l. xxi. c. 16, l. xxii. c. 4. The whole tenor of his impartial history serves to justify the invectives of Mamertinus, of Libanius, and of Julian himself, who have insulted the vices of the court of Constantius.
9 Aurelius Victor censures the negligence of his sovereign in choosing the governors of the provinces, and the generals of the army, and concludes his history with a very bold observation, as it is much more dangerous under a feeble reign to attack the ministers than the master himself. "Uti verum absolvam brevi, ut Imperatore ipso clarius ita apparitorum plerisque magis atrox nihil."
10 Apud quem (si vere dici debeat) multum Constantius potuit. Ammian. l. xviii. c. 4.
11 Gregory Nazianzen (Orat. iii. p. 90) reproaches the apostate with his ingratitude towards Mark, bishop of Arethusa, who had contributed to save his life; and we learn, though from a less respectable authority, (Tillemont, Hist. des Empereurs, tom. iv. p. 916,) that Julian was concealed in the sanctuary of a church.
*_0038 Gallus and Julian were not sons of the same mother. Their father, Julius Constantius, had had Gallus by his first wife, named Galla: Julian was the son of Basilina, whom he had espoused in a second marriage. Tillemont. Hist. des Emp. Vie de Constantin. art. 3. - G.
12 The most authentic account of the education and adventures of Julian is contained in the epistle or manifesto which he himself addressed to the senate and people of Athens. Libanius, (Orat. Parentalis,) on the side of the Pagans, and Socrates, (l. iii. c. 1,) on that of the Christians, have preserved several interesting circumstances.
13 For the promotion of Gallus, see Idatius, Zosimus, and the two Victors. According to Philostorgius, (l. iv. c. 1,) Theophilus, an Arian bishop, was the witness, and, as it were, the guarantee of this solemn engagement. He supported that character with generous firmness; but M. de Tillemont (Hist. des Empereurs, tom. iv. p. 1120) thinks it very improbable that a heretic should have possessed such virtue.
14 Julian was at first permitted to pursue his studies at Constantinople, but the reputation which he acquired soon excited the jealousy of Constantius; and the young prince was advised to withdraw himself to the less conspicuous scenes of Bithynia and Ionia.
15 See Julian. ad S. P. Q. A. p. 271. Jerom. in Chron. Aurelius Victor, Eutropius, x. 14. I shall copy the words of Eutropius, who wrote his abridgment about fifteen years after the death of Gallus, when there was no longer any motive either to flatter or to depreciate his character. "Multis incivilibus gestis Gallus Caesar . . . . vir natura ferox et ad tyrannidem pronior, si suo jure imperare licuisset."
16 Megaera quidem mortalis, inflammatrix saevientis assidua, humani cruoris avida, &c. Ammian. Marcellin. l. xiv. c. 1. The sincerity of Ammianus would not suffer him to misrepresent facts or characters, but his love of ambitious ornaments frequently betrayed him into an unnatural vehemence of expression.
17 His name was Clematius of Alexandria, and his only crime was a refusal to gratify the desires of his mother-in-law; who solicited his death, because she had been disappointed of his love. Ammian. xiv. c. i.
18 See in Ammianus (l. xiv. c. 1, 7) a very ample detail of the cruelties of Gallus. His brother Julian (p. 272) insinuates, that a secret conspiracy had been formed against him; and Zosimus names (l. ii. p. 135) the persons engaged in it; a minister of considerable rank, and two obscure agents, who were resolved to make their fortune.
19 Zonaras, l. xiii. tom. ii. p. 17, 18. The assassins had seduced a great number of legionaries; but their designs were discovered and revealed by an old woman in whose cottage they lodged.
*_0039 The commission seems to have been granted to Domitian alone. Montius interfered to support his authority. Amm. Marc. loc. cit. - M
20 In the present text of Ammianus, we read Asper, quidem, sed ad lenitatem propensior; which forms a sentence of contradictory nonsense. With the aid of an old manuscript, Valesius has rectified the first of these corruptions, and we perceive a ray of light in the substitution of the word vafer. If we venture to change lenitatem into lexitatem, this alteration of a single letter will render the whole passage clear and consistent.
21 Instead of being obliged to collect scattered and imperfect hints from various sources, we now enter into the full stream of the history of Ammianus, and need only refer to the seventh and ninth chapters of his fourteenth book. Philostorgius, however, (l. iii. c. 28) though partial to Gallus, should not be entirely overlooked.
22 She had preceded her husband, but died of a fever on the road at a little place in Bithynia, called Coenum Gallicanum.


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A quasi-experimental design is one that looks a bit like an experimental design but lacks the key ingredient -- random assignment. My mentor, Don Campbell, often referred to them as "queasy" experiments because they give the experimental purists a queasy feeling. With respect to internal validity, they often appear to be inferior to randomized experiments. But there is something compelling about these designs; taken as a group, they are easily more frequently implemented than their randomized cousins.
I'm not going to try to cover the quasi-experimental designs comprehensively. Instead, I'll present two of the classic quasi-experimental designs in some detail and show how we analyze them. Probably the most commonly used quasi-experimental design (and it may be the most commonly used of all designs) is the nonequivalent groups design. In its simplest form it requires a pretest and posttest for a treated and comparison group. It's identical to the Analysis of Covariance design except that the groups are not created through random assignment. You will see that the lack of random assignment, and the potential nonequivalence between the groups, complicates the statistical analysis of the nonequivalent groups design.
The second design I'll focus on is the regression-discontinuity design. I'm not including it just because I did my dissertation on it and wrote a book about it (although those were certainly factors weighing in its favor!). I include it because I believe it is an important and often misunderstood alternative to randomized experiments because its distinguishing characteristic -- assignment to treatment using a cutoff score on a pretreatment variable -- allows us to assign to the program those who need or deserve it most. At first glance, the regression discontinuity design strikes most people as biased because of regression to the mean. After all, we're assigning low scorers to one group and high scorers to the other. In the discussion of the statistical analysis of the regression discontinuity design, I'll show you why this isn't the case.
Finally, I'll briefly present an assortment of other quasi-experiments that have specific applicability or noteworthy features, including the Proxy Pretest Design, Double Pretest Design, Nonequivalent Dependent Variables Design, Pattern Matching Design, and the Regression Point Displacement design. I had the distinct honor of co-authoring a paper with Donald T. Campbell that first described the Regression Point Displacement Design. At the time of his death in Spring 1996, we had gone through about five drafts each over a five year period. The paper (click here for the entire paper) includes numerous examples of this newest of quasi-experiments, and provides a detailed description of the statistical analysis of the regression point displacement design.
There is one major class of quasi-experimental designs that are not included here -- the interrupted time series designs. I plan to include them in later rewrites of this material.
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