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My son eats three foods. And this is making me insane.
Okay, maybe a little more than three. Here's the list. Anyone who's not a parent is signing off right abouuut… now, so without shame I can show the rest of you…
Everything My Son Will Ingest:
Milk and soy milk
American cheese
Macaroni and cheese
Ricotta cheese with pasta (but only certain shapes, and those rules change all the time)
Ravioli (sometimes, and you will never know when
Hummus (when he's feeling generous)
All forms of pudding
Ice cream (duh), cookies (dar)
And that's it! And don't think I'm forgetting something. "Surely pizza!" you might say, but no, not pizza. "What about bagels? Every kid loves bagels!" Not my kid. Shut up.
I know this is a control thing. I know if I make a big deal, or any kind of deal, over this, it's only going to get worse. I know many kids go through this. I know he'll grow out of it, someday, maybe. But right now it makes me nuts at just about every meal. Okay, not breakfast. Breakfast is okay. And for lunch, I've just given up—I hand him his two containers of yogurt and I lie down on the ground until he calls for me. So really it's just dinner.
Last year at Thanksgiving I broke down in tears because he wouldn't consider a single food. Not a cranberry, not a single chunk of yam. Turkey? HAHAHAHAHA. At some point during his second year he fixated on macaroni and cheese as the Ideal Dinner, and this festive evening was no different. So my sister said, "Just give him macaroni and cheese every night. He'll get sick of it."
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHHHhhahhhhhah. Heh. Hmm.
So here we are, over one year later. Every night, either Annie or Amy provides him with his dinner. (I have tried making it myself, but homemade macaroni and cheese was deemed the worst crime any mother could commit.) For a while he would enjoy peas or green beans with it, but no more will he even tolerate the sight of the green horrors. Such an atrocity cannot even remain on his plate.
And fruit! Oh, how he used to love fruit! Clementines and mango and bananas and apples and everything else! Kid liked fruit!
Even a few weeks ago, he would request apples and bananas. Request them! No more. These days, fruit is of the devil. Fruit will not be tolerated. Don't even think about it, with the fruit. Except blueberries, which are currently $45 a pint. I'm not buying them. Or applesauce, and is that even really a fruit? When a fruit has been sauced, may we still call it fruit?
His pediatrician recommended that we cease commenting on his eating, but that we also make sure that we're eating well in his presence. Somehow being around a variety of foods, even if he's not ingesting them, will have an effect. But I do! I do that! She also stressed the importance of the family dinner, and we can't seem to manage that because my husband for some reason can't come home at a reasonable hour even when he leaves home early and that's an entirely different topic that's making me want to cry every day, but as for me, I eat so well! (At least as far as he knows).
He'll watch me eating, he'll cook with me, he'll smell the food we're cooking or I'm eating and he'll exclaim over the wonderfulness of the smells, and like a fool I begin to hope. I let myself believe that maybe he's interested, that maybe he wants to (I can barely write it) taste something.
And then my mouth starts to open and my brain is screaming SHUT UP SHUT UP DON'T EVEN SAY IT, but I do! Because I'm not smart! I say, "You want a taste?" and then it's all over. I might as well have suggested that I whip out the kitchen shears and snip off his tongue. He clamps his mouth shut and presses both fists over his mouth and emits the worst sound ever made, a sound I can't even describe except it makes me want to scoop out my eardrums with a grapefruit spoon rather than hear it for one moment longer.
Everything I read, everything I hear, is telling me to LEAVE HIM ALONE, but I have such a hard time LEAVING HIM ALONE. I don't even worry that much about the nutritional challenges of his limited diet; we indulge often in smoothies that I pack with all manner of supplementary materials, and/or muffins that are crammed with vegetables and exotic grains. I know he's getting what he needs. What kills me is that we can't just eat the same damn dinner. That I can't share with him food that I know he would like if he would even have a tiny bite. That going to a restaurant is a near impossibility. He won't even eat the foods that are bad for him, that's he's supposed to like! Like French fries! Or grilled cheese! Or those nuggets composed of mashed chicken parts! Or ketchup THE KID WON'T EAT KETCHUP WHAT IS WRONG WITH HIM.
Tonight I failed, once again, to leave him alone. I dusted apple slices in cinnamon and sugar and ate them in front of him. He ignored me. I waved the sugary slices in front of his face and made yummy noises, but he continued to pointedly ignore me. Finally I said, "Apples with cinnamon! Mmm! Want a piece! Sure you do!" and he did the clamping-fists-indescribable sound. THEN he demanded "just plain cinnamon." I refused him this. He immediately dissolved in tears. "Just plain cinnamon! Just plain cinnamon!" he repeated, approximately 57 times. Then I lost it. I explained, at a somewhat (aherm) elevated volume, that I was not going to simply hand him the cinnamon shaker, that if he was going to have a snack, which was by no means required, it was going to have some sort of nutritional aspect to it. Then he cried like I told him his teddy bear was going to Hell. Then he screamed repeatedly, anguished yawps of cinnamon deprivation. And I yelled, because I was trying to provide him with a model of how not to behave. He didn't seem to get the message, because he yelled back.
Then! Because my mind was still not working right! I launched into a long and convoluted explanation of why he needs to eat nutritious foods, how such foods will make him big and strong. This didn't work because he informed me that he doesn't want to ever get big and/or strong. Then the rest of my brain died and I came up with the brilliant idea of a chart! We would make a chart, and every time Henry ate a new food we would put a star on the chart, and when the chart was full Henry would get a toy!
He liked this idea—focusing, as he was, on the word "toy." We went to the refrigerator. "I'll have a yogurt," he said, "then we'll get a toy." I explained to him what "new" meant. There were more tears. I tried to take back the chart idea, but he couldn't let it go. "We'll have some milk," he said, "And then, toy." Once again I explained, no, ha ha, he already drinks milk. How about some black bean soup?
More tears. More attempting to take back the not-very-smart chart idea I had. I tried to get across to him that the chart would not result in instant gratification, that he would need to try 1,2,3,4,5! new foods. Then I said we should forget it and play and LOOK OVER THERE! IS THAT A SUPERHERO IN OUR CURTAINS?
He continued staring into the refrigerator. Finally he said, "I want to try black bean soup. I think it's going to be," he squinted, "a little good."
I attempted to remain calm. I heated a few teaspoons of soup in the smallest bowl we own, and placed it before him. He took a tinier sip than I thought a human being could take, smiled, and said, "Okay, where's my toy?"
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I'm not sure what kinds of detectors have been used to measure the power or
voltage in your experiments. I'll make the following two points as your
1) The RMS is used frequently in power estimates when instant voltage or
current is measured. Because if you simply take the average of instant
voltage or current samples, you only get the DC component of the variable.
The RMS scheme converts the instant voltage or current into the equivalent
voltage or current respectively in terms of the averaged power produced by
the signals.
2) Considering power delivered through a transmission line and assuming the
generator impedance is fixed, to get maximum power (delivered to the load),
the conjugate-matching condition is necessary, i.e. the real part of the
generator impedance should equal to the real part of the input impedance
looking into the line from the generator and the line joint and the imaginary
part of the generator impedance should equal to complex conjugate of the
imaginary part of the input impedance. (The line is often connected with a
load.) Changing a transmission line length is equivalent to changing the input
Guang-Tsai Lei
On Aug 2, 10:57am, Pat Zabinski wrote:
> Subject: [SI-LIST] : coming up with average power estimates for buffers
> I'm working on a rather large system (over 50,000 Watts!), and we
> are trying to come up with some detailed power estimates for
> each component.
> The system is essentially comprised of LOTS(!) of identical
> parallel processing ASICs, each ASIC having roughly 600 I/O.
> The basic I/O is full-swing CMOS with a 2.5 VDD supply running
> at roughly 100 Mbps. A small change in one ASIC will have
> a three-orders of magnitude higher impact on the system, so we need
> to pay very close attention to details. The I/O have been
> designed and tweaked to account for impedance, edge rates,
> packaging effects, etc., so we have a high level of confidence
> they are going to work; at this point, we simply need to
> obtain a power estimate for them.
> In order to come up with good system-level power estimates (which
> will determine cooling requirements and power supply requirements),
> we need to have an accurate ASIC power estimate. We've got pretty
> good numbers for the core circuitry, but we're trying to develop
> an estimate for the custom I/O buffers.
> To get the power for one buffer, we simulate the buffer with
> a 1010101... pattern, toggling every possible bit period.
> The buffer is loaded with an average-length transmission
> line, and we use spice to plot the power vs time for at
> least two bit-transitions. Overall, we get a power
> vs time plot that is relatively flat except during the logic
> transitions (no surprise here), and the peaks vary in amplitude
> depending upon a rising or falling edge.
> In the past, we have used the "simple average" power, meaning
> taking the integral of the power over two bit periods (to ensure
> we've captured one falling and one rising edge)and dividing
> it by the time. We have used this figure as
> our average power for the worst-case-bit-pattern.
> However, a colleague recently suggested using the "RMS average"
> of the power, which is computed slightly differently. For our
> case, the RMS average resulted in a power estimate that was
> 50% higher than the average value.
> >From my experience, taking the integral of the power curve will
> result in the effective energy consumed by the buffer, and dividing
> this by the time will provide the average power. However,
> RMS is used so frequently in power estimates, I could not provide
> a good answer why it shouldn't be used.
> Can anyone tell me how to best determine the average power
> for a buffer? Am I anywhere on the right track? Which is better,
> simple average or RMS average?
> One other point to note: as we increase the transmission line
> length, the RMS power goes up as well (as expected). However,
> this trend continues to a certain point, then the power actually
> reduces with increased line length. Can someone explain why
> the RMS power would be reduced with increased length? We're only
> seeing a small percentage change (~10-20%), but it's got
> me curious.
> Thanks,
> Pat Zabinski
> --
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Dear Leanne:
I have a small bedroom - 2.74 metres by 3.05 metres (nine feet by 10 feet) - that I am converting into a reading room. I really want this space to be comfy and charming. It has a large south-facing window with lots of cheery sun. I already have a home office, so I want this room to be an escape for me. With the space being limited, I would love to hear your suggestions for decor.
A: Don't let small spaces deceive you - they have the potential to be brimming with ambience. Think back to a quaint restaurant, B&B or powder room you have seen.
These memories will provide clues to what you can do with your space. Maybe you loved sitting in the sun at that table by the window. Perhaps you love the crackling of a fire on a cold winter day, or maybe you loved the paint colour or wallpaper design in the space. Take these cues to develop your perfect getaway.
As in all great design, form follows function. If the room doesn't perform in an efficient and effective manner, it won't matter how "comfy and charming" it looks.
The basic furnishings you need are:
- A chaise longue or a comfy chair and ottoman.
- Cantilever shelving above or a bookcase that spans no more than three-quarters of the way up the wall. A wall of books from floor to ceiling can be so overwhelming that it can look chaotic rather than relaxing. Another option is to convert any closets into a bookshelf, which will save floor space.
- Add tactile decor items such as an area rug and a basket of blankets or throws.
- If space and building codes permit, consider adding an electric fireplace to the space.
- A floor lamp will be an effective ad-dition, as it takes less floor space than a lamp on a table.
- If you have room, consider an ot-toman rather than a side-table, and place a tray on it to support a cup of tea or a glass of wine.
- At the very least, add side panels to your windows for effect - however, functioning drapery will be both practical and visually effective.
Do not be afraid to use bold colours in this small space. Once you have selected your furniture and rug, use their colour palette to inspire the tones you imagine enveloping you while you curl up with a good read.
Dear Leanne:
We have just finished refinishing our kitchen cabinets and would like to give our drawers and cabinets more organization. What do you recommend to retro-fit these units? The front panels are solid wood, but the drawers are MDF. We would appreciate any suggestion you can offer.
A: An organized kitchen will be highly appreciated as a complement to your new look. Kitchen organization has come a long way since the standard cutlery tray insert. With so many options, you will be able to have a place for everything, and once you use them everyday you'll wonder how you ever did without them.
Many custom kitchen designs include specialty centres such as waste and compost collection, knife storage, efficient storage of plates, dishes, pots and lids, spice and condiment holders - to name just a few. For every item that is needed, there is a gadget that will help to keep you organized.
Ikea has a great assortment of storage items that you may want to look at. Their Rationell series has some interesting items, such as an allwooden knife drawer that keeps all of your carving and chopping utensils sharp and safely stored. Measuring 50.1 centimetres by 15.3 cm by 5.0 cm, the unit has a slot for each knife, so you quickly identify the tool you need at a glance. The pullout waste-sorting system can easily be added to an existing cupboard. It measures 25 cm wide by 42 cm deep by 25 cm high and efficiently holds a variety of sorting bins that are also available at Ikea.
Additional items in the Rationell series include revolving corner carousels, spice jar drawer inserts and plastic-bag dispensers. Other creative ideas from this series are the stacking plate holder and the pot-lid organizer. If your kitchen has a shortage of upper cabinetry but plenty of deep lower drawer space, consider moving your plates down to these lower storage drawers with specialized plate holders. Available in two sizes, these holders allow you to stack the plates horizontally as you would in your upper cupboard and the holders secure the plates safely when the drawer is opened or closed. The pot-lid holder can store up to six lids, allowing you to stack the open pots inside each other.
This is only one series that can be effective in organizing your kitchen. Check out the products available at specialty kitchen design studios such as Heart Kitchens and Bath (http: //www.heartkitchens.com) and Superior Cabinets (http: //www. superiorcabinets.com) for even more customized systems.
Leanne Brownoff is an Edmonton interior design consultant who welcomes your questions at email@example.com. Answers will be featured in her column as high volume sprevent individual email responses. Also follow Leanne at www.twitter.com/LeanneBrownoff


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Stoller, Witt Putting on NFL Helmets
NEW HAVEN, Conn. – Jake Stoller (Shaker Heights, Ohio), a standout and versatile Yale defensive lineman the last four years, has been signed by the Pittsburgh Steelers and will be at their rookie orientation weekend in a few days.
Stoller, signed as an unrestricted free agent, led the Bulldogs last fall with 4.5 sacks and was a second-team All-Ivy League selection. He also earned Yale's Jordan Olivar Award (respected most by teammates).
"The Steelers called just as the draft ended, and immediately I said yes. They are a great organization that I have followed for years. I head up there this weekend for the rookie mini-camp, and I am excited to get started," said the 6-4, 290-pound Bulldog, one of six defensive players signed by Pittsburgh after the draft.
Stoller's teammate, Patrick Witt (Atlanta, Ga.), has a tryout next weekend with the New Orleans Saints, while other former Bulldogs are also finalizing plans to get tryouts with NFL teams.


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Journey back to Scandinavia in the Viking Age! Vikings: Beyond the Legend brings these influential and captivating explorers to life with over 600 artifacts, a 21-foot replica of a ship, and much more!
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Sickening? Nose-pickers needn't worry
Q. Nose-pickers who eat their own exudate– couldn't they get sick from this? What's in the stuff to feed this bizarre habit? B. & P. Ferrelly
A. Mucus secretions are loaded with antibodies for fighting off infections– the basic purpose of a runny nose. So pickers-and-eaters may– unconsciously, one must presume– be acting as go-between for the body served and the pharmacopeia it produces.
Yet while the dried starches and trapped dust of a booger are generally harmless, onlookers feel queasy. So why do it? This must go down as a powerful private habit spilling over into public, reinforced by tactile sensitivities, play-goo textures, and salty taste.
For even deeper possible roots, watch a National Geographic-type TV program, suggests Baylor College of Medicine otorhinolaryngologist Holly H. Birdsall: "You'll see non-human primates grooming each other, picking off who-knows-what from the hair and skin, and promptly putting it in their mouths. Why should we be so different?"
Q: Card counters are known to beat the house at blackjack. Can you do the same at a roulette wheel? E. Murdock
A. Possibly, if you've got time, patience and a fat bankroll. And you "clock" the wheel.
In a famous showdown, recounts Russell Barnhart in Beating the Wheel: Winning Strategies at Roulette, high roller Billy Walters went to the Golden Nugget Casino in Atlantic City and placed a long series of $2,000 bets on each of five numbers: 7, 10, 20, 27, 26. After 18 hours of spin after spin, with Walters betting $10,000 each time, he walked out with an incredible $3,800,000 profit!
His secret? He had sent six "clockers" to Atlantic City beforehand to study the various wheels. Wear and tear can loosen frets between slots, deadening ball rebound and "biasing" a wheel toward certain numbers. But this bias is statistical, evident only over hundreds of spins.
In Probabilities in Everyday Life, physicist John D. McGervey sketched out the process: You watch, say, 3,800 spins of a particular wheel over a few days. Each of the 38 numbers (0, 00 and 1 through 36) should come up about 100 times, give or take 20. "If a number comes up more than 125 times on 3,800 spins, odds now are 25 to 1 that there's bias. Betting on this number will give you about a 20 percent edge over the house (give or take 10 percent), instead of the normal 5.26 percent in the house's favor."
Of course, there's no guarantee the first wheel you clock will show bias– or the second wheel, or the third. And the bias you read could be a fluke. So there's no way around needing a little good luck.
Q. Can you give us a one-minute power primer on getting to the top and staying there? I have my notepad ready. W. Chapman
A. Talk fluently, and look people squarely in the eye, advises James Vander Zanden in The Social Experience.
Stares make people uncomfortable, so don't "surrender."
"The staredown continues until one of you succumbs by averting the eyes. The matter thus settled, the yielder usually avoids further eye contact although the winner may occasionally glance at the loser as if to verify the victory."
Exude certainty and authority, like CEOs, powerful politicians, great generals: Move slowly, smoothly, purposefully, with strategic pauses along the way.
Gesture deliberately and appear charismatic. Keep posture erect (a modified West-Point cadet look will do), head steady while speaking, speech rate even and measured, sentences complete. By all means, interrupt others' talk: Movers and shakers steer conversations.
Spread out arms and legs, commandeering space; also "spread out" emotionally: smile, frown, joke, exclaim!
Take a lesson from the wolves: Subordinates lower their heads and tails, flatten their ears, roll over on their backs. Avoid these measures at all costs.
That ought to do it. See you at the top.
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January 1994 Tailgate!Posted in Features on January 1, 1994
Dear 4-Wheel & Off-Road,
This is Mike Marsh's '78 Ford Bronco in a deep rut in an old gravel pit in Robinson Township. This is where all of the locals and some out-of-towners go four-wheeling. Mike's back left tire is about a foot and a half off the ground. Of course, Mike was sure he could have made it all the way through. It took a bigger Chevy to pull him back out of it.
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Oracle Corporation ("Oracle") is a global company that designs, produces and markets computer software and hardware, and provides sales, consulting, education and training in the application and use of its products. Oracle is committed to meeting the needs of our customers, including helping our customers use information technology to meet environmental challenges.
Taking account of our business needs, customer requirements and the desire to minimize adverse impacts on the environment, we maintain our facilities, run our business operations and develop products in a responsible manner. Oracle's primary environmental impacts relate to: the company's own energy consumption as well as the energy consumption of its hardware products; the disposition of its hardware products at the end of their useful life; vendor and supply chain management; business travel; and the consumption of natural resources through its own activities and its procurement processes. Oracle, with the cooperation of its employees, customers, contractors and suppliers, is committed to environmental management through:
Oracle is committed to the successful implementation of this policy. To achieve results, Oracle develops and monitors short- and long-term environmental objectives.
Oracle's Environmental Steering Committee (the "ESC") is responsible for the implementation and oversight of this policy. The ESC, which is comprised of senior employees from Oracle's various business units, meets regularly to review Oracle's progress and status on environmental issues and makes recommendations related to this policy and other environmental initiatives. Representatives of the ESC provide regular updates and reports to the CEO of Oracle.


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The City of Altamonte Springs is scheduled to begin a complete remodel of Westmonte Park in January 2018. Unfortunately, progress brings inconvenience. Construction is estimated to take 14 months. All aquatics activities are postponed until the park reopens as the newly-named Westmonte Recreation Center in Spring 2019.
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IFAW takes on jumbo rescue mission to save last remaining forest elephants in West Africa
Jan 10, 2014, 10:00 ET
REIMS, France, Jan. 10, 2014 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- About a dozen extremely rare forest elephants (Loxodonta cyclotis) threatened with certain death will be evacuated to a protected area this month in the West African country of Côte d'Ivoire. The Ivorian government called on IFAW (International Fund for Animal Welfare – www.ifaw.org) to find a viable solution to escalating human-elephant conflict in the region.
IFAW's team will herd, dart, capture and truck the elephants about 400km (250 miles) to the protected area of Azagny National Park. The large scale operation will begin on January 19 and continue through the end of the month. Three elephants will be equipped with GPS collars to track movement and monitor their progress for up to two years.
Côte d'Ivoire is home to some of the last forest elephants, which only live in a handful of countries in West and Central Africa. For this reason every individual animal is integral for the survival of the entire population.
Two years ago, habitat encroachment forced the few remaining elephant residents out of Marahoué National Park. The three elephant families had nowhere else to go and settled in small pockets of forest on the outskirts of the city of Daloa. The area provides insufficient space for their habitat and now they are inadvertently in conflict with local farmers – raiding crops, destroying property and encroaching on the town. Pressure is mounting and if the elephants stay, the villagers will retaliate and eventually kill them.
"The elephant is the national emblem of Côte d'Ivoire. This is why, at the request of the Ivorian authorities, the villagers have shown patience so that a humane alternative to culling could be found," said Céline Sissler-Bienvenu, IFAW Director for France and Francophone Africa. "Having examined all of the available solutions, we proposed this last resort to move the elephants to safety."
"The very survival of forest elephants relies on actions of this scale that focus on protection and conservation in order to maintain the balance of our forest ecosystem and to educate future generations," said Mr. Mathieu Babaud Darret, Ivorian Minister of Water and Forests.
"The Ministry of Environment, Urban Hygiene and Sustainable Development is fully engaged in the relocation operations of Daloa's elephants to Azagny National Park. By engaging in these operations, we are contributing to the protection of this emblematic species for future generations whose world we are merely borrowing" declared Ivorian Minister, Dr. Rémi Allah-Kouadio.
"If we are to save these endangered elephants, we have to act now, during the dry season," said Céline Sissler-Bienvenu. "This jumbo rescue mission resolves a major conservation problem and contributes to the safety and well-being of both animals and people."
In 2009, IFAW successfully carried out a mammoth evacuation of 83 savannah elephants caught in deadly human-elephant conflict in Malawi.
About IFAW (the International Fund for Animal Welfare)
Founded in 1969, IFAW rescues and protects animals around the world. With projects in more than 40 countries, IFAW rescues individual animals, works to prevent cruelty to animals, and advocates for the protection of wildlife and habitats. For more information, visit www.ifaw.org. Follow us on Facebook and Twitter.
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IMO, if you must alter alter volume post-recording, simple normalisation is probably best, although I'd probably leave it to the listener's volume control.
Agreed. I personally recommend turning the Overdrive option off, and post-recording Normalise to -0.5dB. But really, as long as all the songs in one game are recorded in the same way, that's good enough.


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Jerrod Knight
Jerrod Knight graduated from Texas A&M University-Commerce in May of 2005, ready to take on numerous roles at prominent radio organizations, which have included Susquehanna-Pfaltzgraff (now Cumulus,) Omni Communications Corporation, and The Ranch Radio Network. With experience in multiple on-the-air roles and in every position behind-the-scenes, Knight rejoined 88.9 KETR in December 2008 as Director of Programming.
As General Manager, Knight oversees station programming, news and sports operations, individual and corporate development efforts, business and budget planning and execution, and technical operations. In addition to being the station's webmaster, he is also a regular on-air and online news and opinion contributor, and serves as executive producer of the station's various local program offerings.
Knight also manages the relationships between KETR and external organizations like NPR, American Public Media, the FCC, and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, among others.
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This EWP course is a legal requirement for anyone who operates a boom type Elevating Work Platform 11 metres and over. If you do not have a High Risk Work Licence class WP, you must enrol in a formal training course, delivered by a Registered Training Organisation, such as Cobra1 to undertake training and assessing in line with State Regulatory requirements. When you have achieved sufficient skills and competencies, you will be eligible to apply for a licence assessment by a SafeWork NSW accredited assessor. Weekly boom lift training courses are held at our Wetherill Park training facility and a Scissor Lift Yellow Card ticket can be done in conjunction with this course at a discounted cost.
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Author Notes: My mother, Lila, died 27 years ago just 13 days shy of her 53rd birthday following a valiant five-year battle with breast cancer. I still miss her every day. She was an exceptional home baker and it is undoubtedly from her that I inherited my passion for baking. I think she'd be proud to know that I earned a professional Pastry Cook's certificate in 2007. I have vivid childhood memories of baking at my mother's side when I was as young as four or five years old (more than 50 years ago!). When I left home to make my way in the world, I copied down my favorites of her recipes in long hand on loose leaf paper using a medium-point red felt tip pen. I still work from those recipes, the paper long since yellowed and stained. The most comforting of these is her Date & Nut Bread which, in truth, should really be called "cake." But she baked it in #2 cans to make little loaves and then sliced it into thick, delicious rounds and always called it "bread." To this day I can see her heading to the cupboard where she kept her stash of cans. The joy of baking with her, the sweet aroma from the oven, the taste of the warm bread slathered with melting cream cheese warmed my heart then. And it warms my heart and soul still. About the photos - that first one is my mother and me in the Catskills, Summer 1955; the next is her in the Summer of 1950 and the third is on her honeymoon in Miami in January 1950. —Maui Bonnie
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cup raisins
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- Pour the batter into the cans until half full. Bake for approximately 45 minutes or until a cake tester comes out clean.
- Let cool and then gently shake the "loaves" out of the cans. If you simply can't wait, you can shake them out when still warm.
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Toronto International Film Festival 2011 - UPDATE #5
Sons of Norway
Directed by Jens Lien
Sons of Norway follows circa 1970s adolescent Nikolaj (Åsmund Høeg) as he adopts a punk lifestyle after his mother passes away - with the movie detailing the impact that Nikolaj's transformation has on both himself and on his grieving father (Sven Nordin's Magnus). Filmmaker Jens Lien has infused the early part of Sons of Norway with a briskly-paced and lighthearted sensibility that proves impossible to resist, with the affable atmosphere perpetuated by the likeable performances and the emphasis on Nikolaj's relationship with his hippie parents. And while some of this stuff is admittedly quite funny - eg Magnus forbids Nikolaj from drinking cola because it's "the black blood of capitalism" - Lien finds himself unable to elevate the material above that of a fairly typical coming-of-age drama. The underwhelming atmosphere is certainly not helped by the tediously episodic narrative, as it eventually does feel as though the film's engaging sequences are outweighed by those of a needless variety (eg Magnus and Nikolaj's trip to a nudist colony). It is, as such, not surprising to note that the movie fizzles out substantially as it passes the one-hour mark, with Lien's ongoing (and fruitless) struggles at filling the padded-out running time ensuring that Sons of Norway finally concludes with a whimper. (An amusing one-minute cameo from Johnny Rotten towards the end arrives far too late to make any real difference.)
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Breathing follows Thomas Schubert's Roman Kogler, an inmate at a juvenile facility, as he begins a job on the outside hauling dead bodies, with the film detailing the character's day-to-day exploits both in and out of the prison. Actor-turned-director Karl Markovics has infused Breathing with an almost astonishingly deliberate pace that never becomes as oppressive as one might've feared, as the first-time filmmaker does a superb job of transforming Schubert's character into an intriguing figure worthy of the viewer's interest. Markovics' decision to focus on the minutia of Roman's work is certainly an intriguing choice, as the movie dwells on the microscopic details of Roman's less-than-enthralling existence to a degree that eventually becomes hypnotic. (There is, for example, a long sequence in which Roman and a coworker meticulously prepare a corpse for transport.) The movie's sporadic peeks into the central character's personal life - eg his ongoing efforts at finding the mother who abandoned him - proves effective at fleshing him out, with Schubert's impressively closed-off performance ensuring that Roman's rare displays of emotion are more affecting than one might've anticipated. The end result is a persistently watchable piece of work that never quite becomes the riveting piece of work Markovics obviously wants it to be, yet the movie undoubtedly stands as a stirring debut from a promising new filmmaker.
Directed by Davis Guggenheim, From the Sky Down primarily follows U2's four band members - Bono, the Edge, Adam Clayton, and Larry Mullen Jr - as they set out to follow-up 1987's insanely successful The Joshua Tree with 1991's Achtung Baby. There's little doubt that Under the Sky Down improves steadily as it progresses, as the movie's opening half hour ultimately feels like a typically superficial behind-the-scenes featurette on a bonus DVD. It's only as Guggenheim digs deeper into the band's astronomical rise to fame with The Joshua Tree that the film begins to adopt a more substantive atmosphere, although, by that same token, Guggenheim does display a penchant for dwelling on topics of a less-than-engrossing nature (eg there's a whole stretch on the impact that the Berlin Wall coming down had on the band). Having said that, From the Sky Down certainly contains a number of palpably enthralling sequences and interludes - with an obvious highlight the creation of the song "One," which almost seems to happen accidentally. (There's something quite thrilling about listening to Bono spout gibberish in place of lyrics as he discovers the song's infamous melody.) By the time the movie begins documenting the creation of U2's ZOO TV tour, Under the Sky Down has certainly established itself as a passable piece of work that's clearly been designed to appeal primarily to die-hard fans of the band.
A palpable improvement over last year's Cave of Forgotten Dreams, Into the Abyss: A Tale of Death, a Tale of Life follows Werner Herzog as he tackles the contentious capital punishment debate by exploring one specific crime in which three people were killed - as the filmmaker interviews every major person involved in the murders, including the young man scheduled to be executed for his part in the deaths. Unlike many of Herzog's past documentaries, Into the Abyss: A Tale of Death, a Tale of Life doesn't contain expectedly idiosyncratic narration from the filmmaker - as Herzog instead employs onscreen titles to fill in any informational gaps. (This is not to say that Herzog's typically off-kilter sensibilities are completely absent, as the director can be heard asking questions that occasionally border on the absurd.) Herzog's impressive ability for eliciting painfully honest answers from his subjects ensures that the film is often far more emotional than one might've anticipated, as it does become increasingly difficult not to become caught up in the tragedy of this real-life case (eg the sister of one of the victims explains how she lost virtually everyone in her immediate family within a six-year period). There's little doubt, however, that the movie does contain a handful of tangents that aren't quite explored to the degree that one might've liked, with the most obvious example of this everything revolving around the wife of one of the perpetrators (eg the two met while he was in prison, but Herzog doesn't really explore what she ultimately hopes to get out of the relationship). Into the Abyss: A Tale of Death, a Tale of Life is nevertheless a stirring documentary that provides an eye-opening glimpse into a seriously divisive issue.
For a little while, Sarah Palin: You Betcha! comes off as a surprisingly even-handed look at the life and political career of politician Sarah Palin - as filmmakers Nick Broomfield and Joan Churchill speak to the various folks in Palin's life and fill out the details of her past through archival footage. There is, as such, not much here to immediately capture the viewer's interest, as the filmmakers explore the less-than-engrossing details of Palin's background (eg her stint on a women's basketball team). There reaches a point, however, at which Broomfield and Churchill begin their relentless campaign of unearthing the dirt on the former Alaskan mayor, with the compilation of her on-camera flubs triggering the film's transformation into a mean-spirited hit piece (which, oddly enough, Broomfield insists on several occasions he's not making). As such, the latter half of Sarah Palin: You Betcha! Is chock-a-block with examples of Palin's ineptitude - though Broomfield and Churchill are simply unable to offer up any shocking or even unknown bits of information on their subject. The point has long-since been made that Palin is incompetent and corrupt, but Broomfield and Churchill have nowhere else to go from there (ie what's the point of all this muckraking?) It is, as a result, impossible not to wonder which demographic this is meant to appeal to, as there's nothing here Palin's detractors didn't already know - while the politician's supporters will unlikely make it past the half hour mark before giving up entirely.
Alexander Payne's first film since 2004's Sideways, The Descendants follows George Clooney's Matt King as he inevitably grows closer to his two young daughters (Shailene Woodley's Alexandra and Amara Miller's Scottie) after his wife is severely injured in a boating accident. There's little doubt that The Descendants is completely engrossing right from the outset, as Payne does a superb job of immediately luring the viewer into the proceedings - with Clooney's tremendously charismatic performance ensuring that his character becomes an immediately sympathetic figure. The compelling vibe is perpetuated by Matt's relationship between his two daughters, and there's certainly no denying the palpable chemistry that exists among the three performers. Payne's leisurely sensibilities result in a midsection that is certainly quite watchable, yet it's hard to deny that the movie never quite manages to recapture the stellar feel of its opening half hour. It doesn't hurt, however, that Payne has sprinkled the proceedings with a handful of undeniably captivating sequences, including a fantastic scene in which Matt confronts the man who almost destroyed his family. Otherwise, though, Payne is perfectly content to perpetuate the movie's affable atmosphere, which confirms The Descendants' place as a typically watchable yet far-from-consistent effort from the filmmaker.
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Directed by Fernando Meirelles, 360 follows several characters as they're forced to individually confront issues of love and loss over the course of a few eventful days. It's a promising setup that's employed to persistently underwhelming effect by Meirelles, as the filmmaker's difficulties in transforming any of the movie's many protagonists into wholeheartedly compelling figures holds the viewer at arm's length right from the get-go. The rather conventional nature of the individual stories - eg a couple's (Jude Law and Rachel Weisz) marital problems lead to acts of infidelity, a sex offender (Ben Foster) attempting to go straight finds himself in a tempting situation, etc - certainly goes a long way towards exacerbating the film's less-than-engrossing atmosphere, with Meirelles' ostentatious directorial choices certainly not helping matters. (The consistently jarring soundtrack is undoubtedly the best example of this, as Meirelles pummels the viewer with distracting elements such as a spoken-word version of The Beatles' "A Hard Days Night.") The only subplot that manages to make an overtly positive impact revolves around a man (Anthony Hopkins) who is trying to track down his missing daughter, with Hopkins' expectedly compelling performance infusing the proceedings with some much needed depth. It finally becomes clear that 360 is nothing more than a well-cast and expensive-looking actor's showcase, as Meirelles' efforts at making some kind of a profound statement on modern relationships falls flat on a dismayingly consistent basis (ie what's the point of all this, exactly?)


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Since the emergence of life on earth, the history of our planet has been characterised by a ravenous appetite for destruction; evolution - survival, in its barest essence - requires the brutal annihilation of anything that hasn't been borne of strength, will or determination.
So considering that the tank chase sequence in the upcoming Fast and Furious 6 movie sent more than one hundred vehicles to a house of bloody, violent, mechanical death, it's only right to assume that actually, we humans get off on Watching Stuff Explode.
"This new film might break records for car carnage," enthuses Dennis McCarthy, the man responsible for a) building the cars you see on screen, and then b) watching them die in ornate, fastidious and downright gratuitous ways. Consider TopGear.com very much interested…
You'll no doubt have seen the trailer for Fast and Furious 6; it practically melted our Internet when we published it. "I haven't seen the final cut of the movie yet," says Dennis, in his laid-back California drawl, "but from the pieces I've seen, it's basically like that trailer from beginning to end".
Let's take one specific example: the BMW M5. Those who possess M-Power winter jackets might want to look away, because Dennis took this BMW M5 - specifically, the previous-generation, V10-engined model - and toasted its 507bhp metallic behind to oblivion. "So we had this one sequence with a whole fleet of BMW M5s," says Dennis, "I think we had about 12 in total. It's a great car, the M5. All we did for those driving scenes was to unplug the ABS brakes - which deactivated the traction control - welded the spider gears together, and that was it." But, really, that wasn't it. "We pretty much destroyed every single one." He pauses, then adds, "I think maybe one survived". Ouch.
Such is the man's propensity for destruction, he could very well be a modern day emissary of Gozer the Gozerian, intent on laying waste to whatever cars he can get his hands on in order to please his ethereal paymaster. "This new film might break records for car carnage," he says, matter-of-factly. "In that scene with the tank chase, we had to go through over 100 vehicles. It was just brutal."
Thankfully, he's not an emissary of a crop-topped femme fatale intent on bringing down New York City. He's actually an incredibly passionate petrolhead with the intelligence and know-how to build anything. "A lot of the cars for the Fast & Furious movies we build ourselves, from scratch. For example, the Dodge Daytona in Fast 6 started as a rust-bucket; a $5,000 car that we pared down, sandblasted and rebuilt. The open-wheeled flip cars, those were built entirely from scratch. Dodge actually has been a huge supporter of the series and gave us Chargers and Challengers that only needed minor modifications.
"But for the old Mustangs and the Jensen Interceptor, for example, we buy them like anyone else would. I'll get one guy to find ten cars online, on Craigslist.com, ebay etc, and he'll then drive 3,000 or 4,000 miles to go and get these cars."
All in, Dennis reckons the movie required around 400 cars, with everything tuned in his performance shop in Burbank, California. "For most of the cars that we build - the Daytona, Jensen, flip cars, Mustangs, stunt cars - we ran with a 500bhp Chevy LS3 V8 motor. And all the cars used this same motor, transmission and differential, so everything was interchangeable." Dennis pauses, as if to pre-empt my next question. "Believe me, 500bhp is more than enough for what we're doing, but yes, we do have the occasional hero cars that we've sourced from friends or that we've rented. The white Mustang you see is actually an 850bhp car, and the hero car in this movie is running close to 600bhp.
"But when I'm building a car, there's no need to go past 500bhp, because it won't get reflected on film." It's very difficult to portray big horsepower on screen in a car you sometimes might only see for a split second, goes the thinking.
So what has Dennis built for Fast & Furious 6? He takes a deep breath. "So at some point I'll get a copy of the script, and then it's basically like casting cars for the characters with whatever I feel is the right choice.
"We have the Dodge Daytona, basically the NASCAR version of the Charger you see in all the other films, which is for the character Dom. Dom also drives a Hemi-powered 1970 Barracuda, we have a Lucra LC470 for Tej, there's a 1970 Ford Mustang for Roman, Michelle Rodriguez's character Letty drives the Jenson Interceptor (this is Good News) because story wise, she's in the UK. Paul Walker's character Bryan is seen driving a Ford Escort, one of the Escort rally cars that our English crew built. We had six of those, and they were just…amazing. The list goes on and on."
It certainly does. There's also a 1970 Z20, two Nissan Skylines (for Bryan), a Lamborghini Murcielago, an Aston Martin DB9 and a Navistar MXT military vehicle for man-mountain Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson. Even the camera cars were quick: a Nissan 370Z used on Fast and Furious 5, a turbocharged Subaru WRX, a supercharged Cadillac Escalade and 500bhp big-block El Caminos too.
Oh, and, praise be, an Eagle Speedster E-Type Jaguar made it on screen. "It's an absolutely gorgeous car - didn't you guys feature it on your show?"
Yes, we certainly did. Dennis hesitates, though. "There's always the wish to have more exotic cars, but what limits us is the fact we need so many of each." So Ferrari offered up a sole California for one sequence, but Dennis had to refuse, because, well, he needed a few more. "We also wanted to recreate the Ferrari GTO concept car with Ferrari's help, but it just ran into a timeframe issue, which was a shame because when I saw that concept, I had to build it. We'll see, maybe for Fast & Furious 7…"
He trails off, before hinting at another car we might see if Fast 7 ever happens. "Oh man, it's just the most evil looking car I've ever seen," Dennis says. It is of course, John Hennessey's Lotus-based Venom GT. "I spoke to John several times because I really wanted that car in this movie." Sadly, timing issues got in the way, despite Hennessey coming up with a plan to build some low-cost stunt versions. "That was one of my biggest disappointments for Fast 6," he says, ruefully.
There were quite a few hands on deck to help ease him through the pain, mind. We're talking some 80 stunt drivers, one of which included British rally ace Mark Higgins. "Watching Mark was amazing. He was the driver on the ramp car - the man has no fear whatsoever, you could throw him in any car with no practice, no testing, and he'd nail it every single time." I ask whether Dennis has seen Mark's simply incredible 150mph save on the Isle of Man TT course and how calm he was. "I haven't seen the clip, but yeah that makes sense! Nothing seems to faze him."
A bit like Paul Walker, actually. "Paul is a true car enthusiast. He actually owns a performance shop, races cars, rents out racetracks on the weekends… he's just a great guy. You can end up talking to him about cars for an hour. He's got a huge car collection too - most of which are stored in the same complex my shop is in - including BMWs, Porsches, a couple of M3 racecars, a Skyline, some muscle cars, a '66 Nova… I can't keep up."
That speaks volumes, because Dennis himself used to race professionally years ago, and currently holds a licence "with several different off-road divisions here in the States. Fun stuff," he laughs. He's also pretty handy when it comes to drifting too; fitting, considering his tenure with the Fast & Furious franchise began with Tokyo Drift. "We were doing drifting before it was called drifting, but it was usually on the streets and up Mulholland Drive and things of that nature," he says, with a cheeky glint in his voice.
So, as per that famous line in the original, now cult, The Fast And The Furious movie, does he in fact live his life a quarter mile at a time? Some laughter occurs. "That's a very good question. I've been racing cars from a very early age, so maybe some quarter mile stuff, but lots of stuff that verges on 1,000 miles."
And does he like tuna sandwiches with the crust, or without? Again, more laughter. "Another great question. I have to go with crust - I figure more is better." More is better. Buckle up for Fast 6, Internet…
Vijay Pattni
Fast & Furious 6 hits UK cinemas on May 17 2013


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Never mind social media. Retailers have been increasingly turning to a relatively old-school weapon to reach more customers: e-mail.
The number of emails retailers sent to customers jumped 20% in the first half of the year over the same period in 2011, according to a survey released this week by Responsys, a California-based marketing software company. In June alone, these stores sent an average of 16 emails per subscriber, up 21% on last year.
Why the jump in email blasts? There's been a lot of "hand-wringing" over the efficiency of social networking platforms, says Chad White, research director at Responsys. Retailers are growing impatient with Twitter and Facebook and want to see an immediate return on their time and money, he says. In fact, only 20% of Fortune 500's 100 largest companies engage with their customers on Facebook, according to a new survey by marketing consultants Bluewolf, and those that do tend to use the platform primarily for customer service.
Some retailers say email remains a more effective marketing tool than social media sites. "The world is still trying to figure out how to use social media the best way," says Jonathan Johnson, president at Overstock.com. (Overstock.com is one of the 500 retailers in the survey.)
Tablets and Smartphones make consumers a moving target for click-happy retailers on national holidays and weekends, experts say. People weren't accessible on these days in previous years, but that's rapidly changing: The number of people using their mobile phones to open email has risen 28% over the past year, according to market researcher ComScore Inc. "Memorial Day and 4th of July were a sniffle last year compared to the number of emails sent out this year," White says.
But email blasts do encourage consumers to click on offers, experts say. "The fastest growing category in retail is online sales," says Howard Davidowitz, chairman of Davidowitz & Associates, a New York-based retail consultant and investment bank. Recession-scarred consumers are more likely to make impulse purchases online, he says. In fact, recent studies show that online retailing has been thriving – in sharp contrast to the rest of the sector. Online retail spending in the U.S. rose 17% on the year in the first quarter of 2012, the 10th consecutive quarter of growth, according to ComScore.
And given lackluster store sales, aggressive emailing is also a particularly cheap way for retailers to reach existing customers compared, White says. "The recession has made retailers renew their focus on keeping the customers they have rather than attracting new customers," he says. "For retailers already suffering slower sales, the latter is a far more attractive proposition." June retail sales grew by 2.5%, the slowest pace in more than two years, according to data released this week from 18 retail chains tracked by Thomson Reuters.
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Social Background of the Anabaptists
The Anabaptists of the 16th century represented a radical challenge to the current social order and to the corresponding Catholic and Protestant social philosophies. Where the status quo represented a cultural monism with the whole society and culture grouped around a central religious motif, Anabaptism postulated a cultural pluralism which allowed for spontaneous and restrictive association, on the premise that by the very nature of the case complete homogeneity is not possible.
To the guardians of the social order the voluntary and exclusive assemblies appeared as a stab at social order and unity. Both Catholic and Protestant religious and civic leaders therefore felt that the movement had to be suppressed at all costs, even at the cost of contradicting their own religious professions. Their polemical declarations against the Anabaptists are filled with invectives against men who appear as society's worst enemies. These declarations became the basis for the interpretation of these stirring events until modern scholarship succeeded in placing the struggle into a more valid perspective.
A second ideological attempt to interpret 16th-century Anabaptism in its social development came in modern Marxist and Socialist thought. Marxist writers saw Anabaptism as an early stage of modern class warfare and as part of the Peasant Revolt (Engels). More moderate Socialists likewise saw it as the religious garb of class struggle (Kautsky) or as "the culminating effort of medieval Christian Communism" (Belfort Bax). From a completely different viewpoint Anabaptism became linked to the spirit of the French Revolution (Alexandre Weill), and Christian Socialists became interested in the social passion of this movement (Leonard Ragaz).
In both the 16th-century polemic and the modern social philosophies, interest was directed first of all to the dynamic or motivation of Anabaptism. While the Reformers did not deny the religious concern of the Anabaptists, they saw in their efforts nevertheless a revolt against duly constituted political and religious authority. In Switzerland Anabaptists were thought to have "sucked their poison" from Thomas Müntzer. After the Münster uprising (1534-35), it became customary to accuse all the 16th-century dissenting religious parties of clandestine revolutionary intention. In this way the religious aspirations of even the non-revolutionary dissenters were buried beneath the odium of supposed sedition.
In the hands of the Marxists the alleged revolutionary character of Anabaptism was likewise asserted. But now this became the glory of the movement. Whatever religious coloring it may have had, it was seen as nothing other than the class struggle in the economically determined course of history. The common denominator of the 16th-century Anabaptist bands was simply the proletarian status of their members.
Modern serious scholarship, however, has placed 16th-century Anabaptism into a completely new perspective. On the one hand there were liberal thinkers like Ludwig Keller and Ernst Troeltsch who recognized the genuine religious impulse underlying this movement. On the other hand there were the objective historical inquiries which have made available important historical data which had lain unused in the archives of European cities since the 16th century.
The first result of these inquiries of importance to us here is clear proof of the religious character of 16th-century Anabaptism. While admittedly the movement is quite complex in character, and non-religious factors are also discernible, an examination of the testimonies of the Anabaptists themselves and of their contemporaries shows that the movement can be understood only by understanding their religious experience.
In the second place, it follows from this that their radical social views must be interpreted in the light of their religious outlook and not vice versa. One of the major issues at the time of the Reformation was the payment of tithes to the church. This the Anabaptists rejected, because they repudiated an institutional church such as medieval Catholicism. But the civil tithe or tax they paid because the Scriptures commanded it, even though they rejected the magistracy in the sense of holding government office. They stoutly maintained that governments were divinely ordained and therefore must be obeyed. There are records of Anabaptists under torture addressing the officials under whom they suffered as ministers of God.
Finally, the social composition of 16th-century Anabaptism was far too diverse to allow interpretation in terms of class conflict. The initial communities in Switzerland contained members from all classes, as did those in South Germany and Moravia. The center of the movement lay in the cities in the enlightened intellectual and "middle class" circles, including both clergy and laity. From the outset there were also peasants and occasional members of the aristocracy, though admittedly the latter were few, probably for the reason that these were hostile to all reform efforts.
As to the earliest Dutch Anabaptism, Karel Vos, and in his footsteps A. F. Mellink, tried to prove that in the period 1530-44 with only a very few exceptions the Anabaptists came from the "lower class" and even from the dregs of the population, expecting from Anabaptism the improvement of their material conditions. W. J. Kühler and N. van der Zijpp have shown, however, that the vast majority of the Anabaptists in Holland and Flanders came from the "middle class," for a large part being craftsmen and artisans, and that the movement was purely or at least fairly predominantly of religious character.
In the wake of severe persecution, however, the descendants of the original Swiss Brethren, who today are to be found in Switzerland, France, Germany, and North America, rapidly lost out in the cities and developed a strong agrarian ethos. In the Netherlands, on the other hand, while strong rural communities developed, the city churches were able to perpetuate themselves and today strong city churches are to be found in centers like Amsterdam, Haarlem, The Hague, Groningen, Leeuwarden, Rotterdam, Leiden, and Utrecht.
Having recognized the religious motivation of 16th-century Anabaptism, however, we must note also the important conditioning role of the complex social forces operative at the time. There was the urban ferment of the city state of medieval Europe now caught up in the emergent mercantilistic nation state of the 16th and 17th centuries. There was the impact of modern political, economic, and religious theory on the peasantry. And there was the new learning carried forward by the men of letters and their busy printing presses. All of these helped to pave the way for the tremendous burst of spiritual energy released in the Protestant Reformation, which was then to be divided so tragically as the new wine was forced back into the old skins of the corpus christianum, and the Anabaptists arose to protest.
The motivation of the 16th-century Anabaptist movement was religious, but it did not occur in a social vacuum. Born in a time of intense groping, it brought perspectives to bear on the social struggle which were born of profound religious insights, and which were to play an influential role in modern history. - Paul Peachey
Anabaptists in the Hapsburg Territory, mainly Austria and Moravia
It used to be a common assumption that Anabaptism was basically a "proletarian" movement, made up in the main of "common people," that is, laborers and peasants, plus a few artisans, while the upper strata of society everywhere joined the new state churches (Swiss Reformed or German Lutheran) or remained Catholic. This picture is certainly incorrect as far as the earlier period of the movement is concerned, that is, the first and second generations, 1525-70. About 1600 the situation greatly changed, at least for the South German and Swiss area and for Moravia and Slovakia. As the fervor of the beginning waned, the movement became more and more rural, and the economically and intellectually stronger sections of population dropped out. But for the earlier period the picture is by no means uniform: there were priests among the Anabaptists as well as nobility, also a goodly number of citizens of some means; the number of learned men, however, was never large, as the simplicity of the Anabaptist faith did not have much appeal to the "humanists."
As for Austria and the Hapsburg realm (which includes Moravia and Slovakia) our knowledge is based on two brief studies, one by Paul Dedic, which are, however, sufficient to allow certain conclusions.
(1) Clergy—Dedic lists the following names: Hubmaier, Schiemer, Schlaffer, Thomas Waldhauser, Canon Martin Göschl, Oswald Glaidt, Jörg Blaurock (though Swiss he was also active in Tyrol), and perhaps Wolfgang Brandhuber. All these men belonged to the first few years of the movement up to 1530. To later decades belong the names of Leonhard Lochmaier, Leonhard Dax, and Virgil Plattner.
(2) Nobility—The best known is Leonhard Liechtenstein, Lord of Nikolsburg, the patron of Hubmaier and of the "Schwertler." He died in 1534 (his nephew Hans Liechtenstein, though sympathetic to the Anabaptists, was never baptized by them). Of the strong Tyrolean nobility there were Helene von Freyberg, mistress of the castle of Münichau near Kitzbühel, who joined the Marpeck group; the Barons Anton and Siegmund von Wolkenstein, of South Tyrol, who for a while joined the Anabaptists; a Bavarian nobleman, Michael Veldtaler, who joined the Hutterites in Moravia in 1555 and became one of the most active members, being imprisoned several times and working as a missioner for many years. Dedic names also the wife of the Imperial Captain Katzian and a Tyrolean noblewoman Agnes von Waltenhofen. Perhaps also the von Pappenheim family should be mentioned, supporters of Marpeck, although only distantly related to the Austrian territory.
(3) Burghers, the urban middle class of the 16th century, patricians, scholars, etc. The most outstanding representative of this class was, no doubt, Pilgram Marpeck of Rattenberg, Tyrol, a successful mining and water engineer. Ulrich Stadler of Sterzing, Tyrol, a mining official, and Onophrius Griesinger, likewise a mining official in Salzburg, belong to the same class; also Marpeck had originally been a mining official. The two brothers Freisleben or Eleutherobios of Upper Austria were outstanding examples of humanists among the Anabaptists (they, however, returned later to Catholicism). (Bünderlin, named by Dedic, was not an Anabaptist in the narrower sense.) Antoni Erfordter was a substantial burgher of the city of Klagenfurt, Carinthia, and a highly educated man. Jeronymus Käls, a schoolmaster of Tyrol, was martyred in 1536. Later in the 16th century the apothecary Melchior Platzer suffered martyrdom in Vorarlberg in 1583. The number of physicians and barber-surgeons among the brethren was by no means small (see Medicine among the Hutterites): Georg Zobel, a physician; Josef Hause, a barber (circa 1600); Balthasar Goller, a physician (died 1619); and Sebastian Dietrich, a barber. There is no doubt that a number of well-to-do burghers had joined the brotherhoods here and there, mainly in Tyrol (Dedic), but the sources rarely give their names. In Upper Austria Anabaptism centered around urban places like Linz, Steyr, and Wels, also Freistadt (before 1530), which implies that here the movement was predominantly urban.
(4) Artisans, both master craftsmen and journeymen. To this class, no doubt, the majority of Austrian (Moravian) Anabaptists belonged; nearly all the leading men came from this background. Since they belonged to the lower middle class, the Anabaptist movement may sociologically be considered an offspring mainly of this stratum, in spite of certain exceptions. Certainly Anabaptism was not "proletarian" in the narrow sense of the word.
A scanning of the list of the better-known men among the Hutterites and related groups shows names like Jacob Hutter, allegedly a hatter, Hans Amon, a weaver of wool, Peter Riedemann, a shoemaker, Peter Walpot, a warper, Leonhard Lanzenstiel, a ropemaker, Veith Grünberger, a clockmaker, Andreas Ehrenpreis, a miller, Gabriel Ascherham, a furrier, and Philipp Plener, a weaver. One of the noblest crafts among the Hutterites was pottery (see Ceramics), and much fame came to the brethren for their beautiful "fayence." But strangely, not one potter's name ever appears in the sources, just as no cutler is mentioned, another Hutterite trade of high repute.—Every new member of the brotherhood had to learn a trade; even the former nobleman Veldtaler had to comply and learned joinery. In fact the elaborate Gemeindeordnungen are a good indication of their major occupations.
It is characteristic of this class of artisans not to hold too high an appreciation for scholarship. A tract of circa 1590 inquires "Why no scholars (Hochgelehrte) are found in our midst." Answer: because too much studying is a hindrance to a simple and straightforward faith. But, says Dedic, even though there were no scholars among the brethren, there were no illiterates either. With a few exceptions all the men were literate, and many were truly masters of the art of letter writing. Thus the educational standards of this group were definitely high.
(5) Peasants – In Tyrol a great number of free peasants joined the Anabaptist but again names are rarely given. Dedic thinks that only in Tyrol did Anabaptists find response among this less educated class. In Upper Austria the movement took roots primarily in urban centers.
(6) Laborers – The only group to be considered here would be miners (Bergknappen). It is known that the miners were a most alert and open-minded element of the 16th century population. In the Inn Valley (Tyrol) copper was mined near Rattenburg, Schwartz, and Brixlegg, and salt near Hall. All these places quickly became centers of Anabaptism–to be sure, only during the earliest period (up to perhaps 1535-49). Of later decades no information is available. - Robert Friedmann
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One of my 2011 genealogy goals is to write a book about my Eiswerth surname. On my trip to Williamsport last summer, I was able to find mention of the town where the family originated in Bavaria. Then I was lucky to find that FamilySearch had an index to the Catholic Church records for that town. This summer I have been ordering microfilm from the Family History Library and finding the original records for the baptisms, marriages and burials of the Eiswerth family in Zeiskam, Bavaria.
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