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The earliest printed books were modeled on the manuscript volumes of the time. Many of the features that we regard today as essential to the intellectual structures of books, such as title pages, publication information, pagination, running heads, tables of contents, and indexes, had been used only intermittently in manuscripts. During the late fifteenth century printers gradually adopted these aids to reading, so that by the early sixteenth century the modern book had taken shape.
On exhibition are two copies of Jacobus de Voragine's Golden Legend, a highly popular compilation of stories of the lives of the saints.
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Jacobus de Voragine.
Jacobus de Voragine.
On the left is a 14th century French manuscript and on the right is a late 15th century edition printed in Germany. The books show some of the similarities of the two forms, as well as the changes beginning to take place in printed books. The volumes have a similar appearance, with gothic lettering in double columns, large decorated initial letters to set off paragraphs, and no title pages or other introductory material. Unlike the manuscript, though, the printed book has numbered folios (the manuscript's page numbers are a later addition) and a table of contents at the back to help the reader locate particular stories. Both the manuscript version and the printed book are open to the section regarding Saint Barnabus.
Johann Gensfleisch zum Gutenberg (1397?-1468) was one of a number of people who experimented with methods for mechanizing book production in the mid-fifteenth century. Woodblock prints were already in use by the early 1400s, but since they required a separately carved block for each page, they were used primarily for pictures and captions, not for texts. Small devotional works, known as "block books," were printed in this way. Gutenberg's breakthrough was the development of a practical method for making movable metal type that could be used repeatedly in different combinations to print each page. Gutenberg started his printing firm by borrowing money from Johann Fust (1400-1466), but was never able to repay the loan. After printing the Bible, Gutenberg was forced to give up the equipment to Fust, who thereupon began his own printing business with his son-in-law Peter Schöffer (1425-1502), one of Gutenberg's former employees. There are no other printed books that can definitively be attributed to Gutenberg, although it is probable that he printed an edition of Balbi's Catholicon in 1460.
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A leaf of the Gutenberg Bible,
Book of Jude.
Shown here is a page from the first Western book printed with movable type, which was also known as the "42-Line Bible" after the number of lines that were printed on each page. The Bible used a textura font based on a gothic hand and had no title page and no printed page numbers. Some of the books were printed on vellum and some on paper. The Latin text was from the Vulgate version of the Bible prepared by Saint Jerome.
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The earliest books were printed in gothic typefaces that were based upon the dominant handwriting forms of the late Middle Ages. For an edition of Cicero's letters and this edition of Eusebius, Nicolaus Jenson produced the first true Roman typeface, in imitation of the humanistic hand developed by Poggio Bracciolini and his associates in the early fifteenth century. Although Jenson himself continued to use gothic typefaces for most of his books, other printers in Italy soon adopted the Roman typeface for most Italian and classical writings. By the mid-16th century, the gothic typefaces were becoming increasingly rare throughout western Europe, although they continued to be used for the Germanic languages into the twentieth century. The typeface gives Jenson's work a modern appearance, but this early printed book has much in common with manuscript texts. It lacks a title page, pagination, and running heads on the pages, and has red rubricated headings and spaces for large capitals. Publication information is supplied in a colophon, or notation at the end of the book, which in this case is in the form of a poem. Jenson, a Frenchman, was one of the first printers to set up shop in Venice, the city that would eventually come to dominate printing in Italy.
The printing of music posed considerable technical problems since ways had to be found to superimpose notes and bar lines on the staff lines, to print open and closed notes, and to link notes together. Some printers solved these problems by printing the text and having a scribe add all of the music; others printed the staves and had a scribe add the notes; and still others printed the notes and had a scribe add the staves.
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Franchinus Gaffurius.
Fragment of manuscript hymnal.
The Practica musicae was one of the first books in which the music was printed from woodcut blocks, and it is considered a masterpiece of the form. The author of the book, Franchinus Gaffurius (1451-1522), was a priest at the Milan Cathedral and directed a school where he trained musicians and taught music theory. Practica musicae is one of several music theory works he published in the 1490s. Also shown is a sheet of manuscript music from a late fifteenth century hymnal for comparison with the printed music. Because of the continuing difficulty of printing music, most music circulated in manuscript form into the eighteenth century.
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Poggio Bracciolini.
Illuminated manuscripts are the most frequently exhibited manuscript books, but working volumes such as this one were much more common. The reading public had grown large enough by the early fifteenth century that the work of copying books had become a significant industry, producing books for everyday use as well as for institutional libraries. This book, written by a single scribe in a humanistic cursive hand, was made to be used by a scholar as a study text, and so it contains few decorations. The text is laid out in one column per page, without page numbers, and each page has readers' notes in both margins. De miseria conditionis humanae was written late in life by the Italian humanist Poggio Bracciolini (1380-1459), a leader in the humanist project of recovering and correcting the writings of classical antiquity. Poggio was the special focus of research by Phyllis Goodhart Gordan, Bryn Mawr Class of 1935.
This book is the only manuscript in the exhibition written on paper, rather than parchment. Parchment, a specially-prepared animal skin, had supplanted papyrus as the principal writing medium in Europe during the last centuries of the Roman Empire, and it continued to be in demand, particularly for luxury books, long after the introduction of paper in the twelfth century. Once it began to be produced commercially, rag-based paper was considerably cheaper than parchment and so it was used for relatively inexpensive working texts, such as this book. Paper became the dominant medium for books with the advent of printing since it offered an even and absorbent surface for the impressions, and was available in much larger quantities than was parchment.
Many of Bryn Mawr's fifteenth century books are still in the leather and board bindings placed on them by their first owners. The best bindings serve the functional purpose of holding the book's pages together and protecting them from damage, and are also examples of the extraordinary artistry and craftsmanship of the period.
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The binding on this volume shows the artistry of Italian bookbinders, the finest in Europe, at the close of the fifteenth century. It is bound in goatskin over pasteboards and makes lavish use of gold tooling, suggesting that it was commissioned by a wealthy owner. Gold tooling was first practiced in the Middle East, and arrived in Italy during the mid-fifteenth century. The process has multiple stages and its use requires great skill. The binder must first create an overall design on the leather cover using hand tools. Egg glaire, the run-off from beaten egg white, is applied to the completed design to serve as an adhesive, and then a second impression is made through gold foil onto the cover, striking the first designs as precisely as possible.
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John Duns Scotus.
Marcus Tullius Cicero.
In contrast with the more elaborate bindings, these two bindings are relatively plain. They are half bound in goatskin over beech boards. A brass retaining strip with star-shaped nails secures the leather to the boards, an economical treatment typical of bindings commissioned for frequent scholarly use. In the usual Italian style, the book clasps fasten from the front of the volume catching on the back, the opposite of Germanic binding practice.
The volume of Cicero, although respined at a later date, shows remnants of early blind tooling, that is, impressions made in the leather, done with heated hand stamps and fillets. Use of four clasps was common for larger volumes at this time.
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Johannes Marchesinus.
Saint Augustine, Bishop of Hippo.
The Marchesinus is an example of a Paduan binding, and it has an elaborate knotwork design made up of individual, hand-stamped elements. This exacting work demanded great skill and patience, and is typical of much Italian binding during the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries. Originally, this volume would have been stored horizontally on a bookshelf. The brass bosses protected the covers from wear.
The volume of Saint Augustine's writings on the right also shows the skill of Italian bookbinders. A series of rectangular frames is executed with hand stamps and fillets. The back cover is shown, with two Italian trefoil catch plates.
The Hypnerotomachia Poliphili, or "Poliphilo's strife of love in a dream," is the most famous and beautiful of the books printed by Aldus Manutius, but it was also an unusual piece, very much out of keeping with the works of classical antiquity on which Aldus built his reputation. This erotic, allegorical novel, probably written by Francesco Colonna (d.1527), a Dominican monk, tells of Poliphilo's dream in which he searches for, catches, and finally loses his love, Polia. The book's reputation is not based on the dense and confusing story, but instead on the artistry that went into the book's construction. The book is beautifully illustrated with 174 woodcuts in a classical style. (The woodcuts are now thought to have been the work of the Venetian artist Benedetto Bordon.) Unlike most illustrated books of the time, the woodcuts are closely tied to the text. The book shows one of Aldus's earliest uses of a clean Roman typeface done by Francesco Griffo, who also designed the italic type that Aldus would later use in his editions of the Latin classics.
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Francesco Colonna.
Leonhardt Fuchs's commentary on plants was a milestone in the history of science, for it was the first illustrated botanical work in which the pictures were drawn from life and intended to accurately represent the plant described in the text.
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Leonhardt Fuchs.
Illustrated botanical books were nothing new in the mid-sixteenth century. The first had been published in the mid-1480s, and new books appeared regularly throughout the early sixteenth century. Unlike the illustrations in Fuchs, the earlier ones were stylized and showed little knowledge of the actual plants. In many cases, a single woodcut was used for more than one plant. Fuchs (1501-1566), a member of the medical faculty at Tübingen and a follower of the ancient Greek medical writer Galen, was interested in the potential medicinal value of plants, and so insisted that his book include illustrations that could help the reader identify real plants. An interesting and unusual feature of the book is the visual credit Fuchs gave to the artists responsible for the illustrations, Albrecht Meyer, the painter; Heinrich Füllmaurer, who copied the drawings onto the woodblocks; and Veit Rudolf Speckle, who cut the blocks:
Meyer also oversaw the coloring of the woodblock prints in some copies of the book, although the ones in this copy were probably done at a later date.
Printing opened up new opportunities for artists as well as writers. The public demand for illustrated books meant that publishers like Anton Koberger, who were in constant need of woodcuts, provided an important stream of revenues for artists' shops, like the one of Wolgemut and Pleydenwurff. These shops also produced woodcuts for individual sale, since the prints were an affordable form of art for members of the middle class. The most successful of the woodcut artists was Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528) of Nuremberg.
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Albrecht Dürer.
Dürer was already well-known as an artist when his set of woodcuts on the life of Mary was printed in Nuremberg in 1511 by Heironymous Hölzel, together with two other series of woodcuts, one on the passion of Christ, and the other on the Apocalypse. The life of Mary was originally accompanied by poems in Latin by Benedictus Chelidonius, and the set was sold as a book. The copy shown consists of prints pulled from Dürer's original woodblocks at the end of the sixteenth century, and it does not include either the text or the title page used in the original.
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Hartmann Schedel
This history of the world, popularly known as the Nuremberg Chronicle, was the most heavily illustrated work of the fifteenth century, with more than 1800 woodcuts showing biblical scenes, major European cities, maps of Europe and the world, and hundreds of popes, emperors, kings, philosophers, figures from classical mythology, and, of course, from the Bible. The illustrations were done in the Nuremberg workshops of Michael Wolgemut and his son-in-law, Wilhelm Pleydenwurff. A teen-aged Albrecht Dürer was one of Wolgemut's apprentices and may have participated in the work during the early years of production on the book.
Whereas most illustrated books of the time used woodcuts as supplements to the text, the Nuremberg Chronicle was planned from the first to be a marriage of words and pictures. It is not known who conceived the idea for the book, but the first contracts for it were drawn up in 1487 between the Nuremberg businessmen who financed the project, led by the publisher Anton Koberger, and Wolgemut and Pleydenwurff. When the accounts were settled in 1509, the artists split the profits with the financiers. Schedel (1440-1514), a noted Nuremberg scholar, was probably recruited to write the text at a later date, and most of his text was drawn from earlier chronicles, particularly Jacopo da Bergamo's Supplementum Chronicarum. The book was first issued in Latin, and then in a German translation in December 1493. Koberger printed approximately 2500 copies between the two editions, an extraordinary number at a time when most print runs were in the range of 200 to 500 copies.
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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will conduct a scientific assessment of the Bristol Bay watershed to better understand how future large-scale development projects may affect water quality and Bristol Bay's salmon fishery, a major salmon resource for the United States.
EPA initiated this assessment in response to concerns from federally-recognized tribes and others who petitioned the agency in 2010 to assess any potential risks to the watershed.
"The Bristol Bay watershed is essential to the health, environment and economy of Alaska," said EPA Regional Administrator Dennis McLerran. "Gathering data and getting public input now, before development occurs, just makes sense. Doing this we can be assured that our future decisions are grounded in the best science and information and in touch with the needs of these communities. We look forward to working with Alaskans to protect and preserve this valuable resource."
In 2010, nine federally-recognized Bristol Bay tribes petitioned EPA to use its authority under the Clean Water Act to protect Bristol Bay. Their concerns focused on the potential Pebble Mine project. Two other tribes asked EPA to wait for mining projects to submit permit applications before taking action.
This action this week does not represent any regulatory decision by the agency, say officials. Instead, the agency says, "it represents EPA's proactive steps to better understand the watershed and gather important scientific information. This information gathered will inform any future guidelines or actions about how to protect the waters and promote sustainable development."
Bristol Bay is an important source of wild Pacific salmon for commercial, recreational, and subsistence users. It produces hundreds of millions of dollars in annual fisheries revenues. The area may be the last major watershed in North America that produces historic numbers of wild salmon. Most of the Bristol Bay watershed is wildlife refuge or park where large development is restricted. EPA's efforts will focus on those areas that are not protected.
EPA's assessment is not limited to examining the effects of hard-rock mining projects, but will consider the effects of large-scale development in general.
The assessment, which will focus primarily on the Nushagak and Kvichak watersheds, will be informed by scientific peer review, tribal consultation, federal and state agency participation, as well as public and industry input.
EPA will accept and consider public input during development of the watershed assessment and will continue to work closely with tribal governments, state and federal agencies as we undertake this analysis.

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A 32-year-old milk truck driver took about a dozen girls hostage in a one-room Amish schoolhouse Monday, barricaded the doors with boards and killed at least three girls and apparently himself, authorities said.
It was the nation's third deadly school shooting in less than a week, and similar to an attack just days earlier at a school in Colorado.
The gunman, identified as Charles Carl Roberts IV, was inside for over half an hour and had barred the doors with 2x4s with the girls inside, State Police Commissioner Jeffrey B. Miller said. By the time officers broke windows to get in, three girls and the gunman were dead, Miller said. Seven others were taken to hospitals, three in critical condition.
"It appears that when he began shooting these victims, the victims were shot execution style in the head," Miller said.
Roberts had walked into the one-room West Nickel Mines Amish School with a shotgun and handgun, then released about 15 boys, a pregnant woman and three other women with infants before barring the doors with the girls inside, Miller said.
The girls were lined up along a blackboard, Miller said. "He had wire ties with him and flex ties, and he began to tie the girls' feet together," Miller said.
A teacher was able to call police around 10:30 a.m. and reported that a gunman was holding students hostage.
About 11 a.m., Roberts apparently called his wife from a cell phone, saying he was "acting out in revenge for something that happened 20 years ago," Miller said. "It seems as though he wanted to attack young, female victims."
Moments later, Roberts told a dispatcher he would open fire on the children if police didn't back away from the building. Troopers heard gunfire in the building seconds later.
The school has about 25 to 30 students in all, ages 6 to 13.
"It seems as though he wanted to attack young, female victims," Miller said. He released no further details about that what the grudge Roberts mentioned could have involved.
Lancaster County Coroner G. Gary Kirchner initially said six people were killed, but later said he wasn't certain about that number.
At least seven people were taken to hospitals, including at least three girls, ages 6-12, who were admitted to Lancaster General Hospital in critical condition with gunshot wounds, spokesman John Lines said.
The small school, surrounded by a white board fence, sits among farmlands just outside Nickel Mines, a tiny village about 55 miles west of Philadelphia.
Hours after the attack, about three dozen people in traditional Amish clothing, broad-brimmed hats and bonnets stood near the small schoolhouse as investigators walked in a line through fields searching for evidence.
The shootings were disturbingly similar to an attack last week at Platte Canyon High School in Bailey, Colo., where a man took several girls hostage in a school classroom and then killed one of them and himself. Authorities said the man sexually molested the girls.
"If this is some kind of a copycat, it's horrible and of concern to everybody, all law enforcement," said Monte Gore, undersheriff of Park County, Colo.
"On behalf of Park County and our citizens and our sheriff's office, our hearts go out to that school and the community," he said.
Nationwide, the 1999 Columbine High School massacre in Littleton, Colo., remains the deadliest school shooting, claiming the lives of 15 people, including the two teenage gunmen. On Friday, a school principal was gunned down in Cazenovia, Wis. A 15-year-old student, described as upset over a reprimand, was charged with murder in the killing.


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In our first segment regarding the subject of market correlation, we provided readers with a broad brush view of market correlation and how they could potentially profit from this. But the question that has arisen is what do you do if the market correlation that I describe in segment one isn't so clear cut? Some comments would include "you provide us with a daily bias of the markets even when they aren't correlated, but you don't explain how you came to that conclusion." That is the purpose of this article.
As my followers already know, each day I provide an initial conclusion. In it I spell out if the market is correlated and whether or not it's correlated to the upside or downside. I also provide a section for the market bias of the day. I might say something like "Today we're not dealing with a correlated market, however our bias is to upside." So the further question is if we say the markets aren't correlated how do we determine our bias for the day?
As I've explained to some of my followers, market correlation does have rules associated it but on any given trading day, any rule can virtually be thrown out a window. Anyone who's ever traded for any period of time knows this. Case-in-point this past March Mario Draghi made a comment regarding the euro whereby he basically said "we're not concerned with the inflation aspects of the euro." No sooner did he say this and the euro dropped like a rock, the U.S. dollar took off and the markets, although correlated to the upside, dropped for the day. The point is that anything can happen in the markets, correlated or not and it's up to the trader to be cognizant of this. Bottom line, you have to be a good observer of the markets to capitalize on trading and that is what market correlation is about, observing the markets to profit from them. Now getting back to the original question, how would you call the following?
Now at first glance you may be thinking "well the dollar is down, oil is down and bonds are down (which is correlated) so the markets must be heading down." Not so. True there's no correlation between the U.S. dollar and crude, but generally during the course of a trading day this has a way of correcting itself. The bonds are down, which is bullish for the markets, and indexes and gold are trading higher. Gold in this case acts as the outlier, and gold trading higher is bullish for the markets. In this case, I would say the markets aren't correlated but our bias is to the upside. Why? Bonds trading lower are bullish for the markets as well as gold trading higher. Now, are there other factors involved? Yes. How did the Asian markets close? Is Europe trading higher or lower? Are there factors involved? If so, what are they?
Now you might be saying, "Bonds aren't a factor any longer and gold is trading near $1,300 an ounce." Bonds may have dropped in price after the FOMC meeting on June 20 and gold may have dropped below $1,300, but negate their value as it pertains to market correlation. They're still a factor.
We determine market correlation in the early AM hours prior to the market open. This is because we catch the close of Asia and the European open and we have found that over a period of time the market gravitates to its correlation over the course of a trading day. Market Correlation is three-quarters observation and one-quarter rule based.


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We wouldn't blame Santa if he wore a hazmat suit this Christmas. It has been a defective year for toys, with millions recalled because of lead paint, loose magnets and other problems. But here's another kind of recall, a remembrance of facts about toys:
1. Play-Doh was invented as a wallpaper cleaner.
2. When Milton Bradley bought the concept for a game called Pretzel, it changed the name to Twister. The game soared in popularity in 1966 after Johnny Carson played it with actress Eva Gabor on his television show.
3. The Chicago area has been a healthy playground for toymakers. The Radio Flyer red metal wagon was born in Chicago, and the headquarters remains here, though the metal wagons are now made in China. Tinkertoys were designed in Evanston by Charles Pajeau. Donald Duncan, a businessman from Oak Park, popularized the yo-yo, bringing joy to millions, but perhaps not making up for his nefarious promotion of another product, the dreaded parking meter.
4. The 1964 television special "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" featured the Island of Misfit Toys, where unwanted playthings were exiled. The original program omitted the misfits in its happy ending -- an oversight that brought viewer complaints. For the rebroadcast the next year, footage was added to show Santa delivering the misfits on Christmas Eve.
5. Gumby toys were ubiquitous in the 1960s as the television show gained popularity. The claymation character's name came from Michigan farm slang: Creator Art Clokey's father referred to a muddy clay road as a "gumbo."
6. You know her as Barbie. But her full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts. By various estimates, 10 percent to 25 percent of adults who collect Barbies are men -- not that there's anything wrong with that.
7. When Hooters waitress Jodee Berry won a 2001 beer-sales contest at her Florida restaurant, she thought the prize was a Toyota. Instead, the restaurant gave her a "toy Yoda" -- a "Star Wars" doll -- in what her manager called an April Fool's joke. Berry laughed all the way to her lawyer's office. The case was settled, with Berry getting enough money to buy a car, the lawyer said.
8. llinois-based RC2 Corp., maker of Thomas the Tank Engine, recalled more than 1 million of its wooden trains this year because of lead paint from China. Then RC2 sent free boxcars to aggrieved customers as a goodwill gesture. Trouble was, some of those boxcars had lead paint too.
9. You know it's a bad, bizarre year for toys when a children's product is mentioned in the same sentence as "date-rape drug." In November, 4 million craft kits called Aqua Dots were recalled because their beads were coated with a chemical that metabolizes into the drug GHB when swallowed. A Chinese company had substituted a cheaper -- and toxic -- chemical for the proper one. The Australian version of Aqua Dots, called Bindeez, had the same problem, and from now on will be coated in Bitrex, an extremely bitter "taste aversive" agent that discourages kids from putting it in their mouths.
10. In 2005, the Mujahedeen Brigades posted a grainy picture on a Web site, claiming it showed a U.S. soldier named John Adam who had been captured in Iraq and soon would be beheaded. But the U.S. military said no such soldier was missing. The hoax was exposed when a California toymaker reported that the soldier looked an awful lot like Cody, its foot-tall doll.
Sources: "Warman's 101 Greatest Baby Boomer Toys" by Mark Rich, Fortune magazine, Tribune staff and news services


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Roll Call reports that "despite being the first attorney general ever to be held in contempt of Congress, Eric Holder intends to stay in his post for the foreseeable future." According to Roll Call, "Holder had been expected to step down relatively early into President Barack Obama's second term." But no such luck.
There's a certain logic to Holder's retention. Obama has made a series of in-your-face nominations — Chuck Hagel, John Brennan, and Jack Lew. But no nominee for Justice could match Holder in this department. Holder's continued tenure at DOJ represents the "in your face" move.
Holder is also an African-American in a decreasingly "diverse" cabinet. But Obama could maintain the diversity Holder brings by nominating Jeh Johnson, the African-American General Counsel of the Defense Department, for Attorney General. Johnson, whose manipulation helped bring an end to "don't ask, don't tell," is among the names mentioned as Holder's eventual replacement.
Even without knowing who will succeed Holder, we can hope that "eventual" doesn't turn out to be a long time from now.
JOHN adds: I suspect that Holder is in a position analogous to an embezzling accountant who can't take a vacation lest her misdeeds be discovered. If that is the case, he will hang on to his position as long as possible.


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We're resurrecting the Official Car Pundit Drinking Game (OCBDG) in order to toast "Rafael" Orlove's debut on Leo Parente Is Afraid Of Change (Shakedown). The basic premise of the series is to make up a drinking game based on the Jalopnik guest's quirks.
In this case, may we suggest having to chug your beer every time Leo asks a question and Raphael refuses to make eye contact?


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Here at FOOD52, we love competitions! This week we're getting fierce with our Summer Food Fights are we're looking for Your Best Pub Food in honor of the games in London. Most of us get hungry just thinking about the crazy feats of athleticism we're about to see! Not to fear -- that's where snacks come in handy. Here are 11 ideas for game-watching grub, all perfect for snacking on while the world's best athletes work up a sweat on TV.
Roberto Santibañez' Classic Guacamole by Genius Recipes
Summer Radler and Spicy Chips by amanda
Sweet Pea Hummus by Gena Hamshaw
Jim Lahey's No-Knead Pizza Dough by Genius Recipes
Caramelized Onion Dip by ADRIENNE
Party Pretzel Bites by fiveandspice
Corn Zeppole by Andrew Feinberg
Scallion Pancakes by mrslarkin
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[Place a radio or so in front of the microphone and measure the DC voltage after the diode.
If you are interested in db, have a look at the AD8307 (Analog Devices) - it is a logarithmic amplifier which gives you 0.0-2.5V DC output (for your ADC) when the input signal is -80..+12dB (90dB range). It is a DIL8 chip, you need 1 resistor and ~3 capacitors and you get a calibrated db voltmeter.
Update: * The "nothing after the diode" means the scope registers nada here. I haven't actually attached the Arduino yet.
I'm getting a nice amplified signal on my scope from pin 5 of the LM386, but nothing after the diode.


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This week we are bringing you some great main dish crock pot recipes from our friends around the internet. Hot summer weather in the South always makes me bring out the crock pot to keep from using the oven and heating up my house. I have always loved cooking in the crock pot and I own five of them. I still have my first crock pot. Remember those old three quart green ones? (some of the first ones were orange) The first crock pots came out around 1971. I still have one of each! The no turning, no stirring, no adjusting heat and being able to go off for the day makes me love this type of slow cooking. I just put vegetables in two of them, my meat in the five quart one and return home to a meal all ready to put on the table.
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BBQ BEEF BRISKET from The Country Cook
CROCK POT PULLED CHICKEN from South Your Mouth
SLOW COOKER MEATBALL SUBS from Everyday Mom's Meals
EASY CROCK POT HAM from Recipes that Crock
SLOW COOKER COUNTRY STYLE BBQ RIBS from Real Food Girl: Unmodified
WEEKLY FOOD TIPS FOR CROCK POTS: Don't overfill, 3/4 full is best. Trim fat from meats before cooking to prevent greasy soups and sauces. Generally, the low setting takes twice as long as the high setting in crockery cooking. Most of the time, stirring is not necessary and removing the lid adds 20 to 30 minutes cooking time.
WEEKLY QUOTE: No spectacle on earth is more appealing than that of a beautiful woman in the act of cooking dinner for someone she loves~Thomas Wolfe
WEEKLY FOOD FACT: Most ears of corn have an even number of rows and most have 16 rows.
The crock pots today offer so many more cooking options than the old ones from years ago. I probably use my crock pot more than any other appliance in my kitchen other than my mixer. I use it in summer and winter. So, if you don't have one or you have one and it is in the back of a closet somewhere, drag it out and cook up some delicious meals this summer. Here is a list of 26 Things You Can Do With A Crock Pot.
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Thanks for sharing my recipe!! 🙂 I hope your readers enjoy my Slow Cooker Country Style BBQ Ribs!
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Is Microsoft Bottoming Out? - Part 2
Aug 11, 2012 5:00 AM PT
Is Microsoft Bottoming Out? - Part 1
You'd think that Microsoft was all but dead, judging by some of the industry scuttlebutt. Microsoft's tactical and strategic technology and business missteps are well publicized and dissected ad infinitum.
Less well documented are Microsoft's strengths -- from both a consumer and enterprise perspective -- and there are plenty of those.
Microsoft's Consumer Strengths
One of the most notable company wins in the past five years is the Xbox 360 and Kinect.
Simply put, this is an unqualified success. The latest statistics released earlier this month by the NPD Group show that Microsoft has a 47 percent market share and sold 257,000 Xbox 360 units in the U.S. in June, besting its rivals the Sony PlayStation 3 and Nintendo Wii for the 18th consecutive month.
However, Microsoft and indeed all the game hardware vendors find their sales shrinking due to the sharp increase in the number of users playing games on their smartphones.
In Microsoft's 2012 third fiscal quarter ending in March, Xbox 360 sales dropped 33 percent to US$584 million. The consumer space is notoriously fickle, and gamers are always looking for the next big thing.
Microsoft's ace in the hole is the Kinect motion controller, which still has a lot of appeal. The company is banking on that, as well as slew of new applications and functions like the Kinect PlayFit Dashboard, which lets users track the number of calories they burn when they play Kinect games.
Microsoft continues to dominate and innovate in the consumer video game market segment and is showing the necessary agility to transition as needed.
Microsoft's Enterprise Strengths
Microsoft is also doing well among enterprise customers. While the Windows operating system and Office productivity suite may not be the show stoppers and headline grabbers they were in the 80s, 90s and into the 2000s, Microsoft has addressed user concerns and solidified the reliability and uptime of the software.
Performance/Reliability: Some 82 percent of the 500 respondents to ITIC's 2011-2012 Global Server Hardware and Server OS Reliability Survey in January of this year indicated their organizations experienced less than one unplanned, severe/lengthy Tier 3 outage per server, per annum on Windows Server 2008 and 2008 R2 platforms.
Windows Server 2008 R2 scored the biggest reliability gains in the survey. The 2011-2012 survey respondents now rank Windows Server 2008 R2 as among the top three most reliable mainstream server operating systems.
Windows Server 2008 R2's reliability renaissance is especially impressive since Microsoft's Windows Server OS noticeably lagged behind the majority of the Unix, Linux and Open Source distributions in the ITIC/Sunbelt Software (now GFI Software) 2008 and 2009 Server Reliability surveys.
Security: Microsoft has turned what used to be its most glaring deficit into one of its chief strengths. Microsoft's decade-old, ongoing Trustworthy Computing Initiative has resulted in tangible gains in the security and overall reliability and performance of its products -- most notably two of its core platforms: SQL Server and Windows Server.
The enhanced security and strong synergies between the underlying Windows Server 2008 R2 Operating System and the SQL Server 2008 R2 database platform provide organizations with arguably the most reliable and secure operating environment in the history of these solutions.
The same ITIC 2011-2012 Global Server Hardware and Server survey found that Windows Server 2008 R2 vied with IBM's AIX v 7.1 for the most secure server OS as ranked by users. Nine out of 10 survey participants rated Windows Server 2008 R2 Security as "excellent" or "very good." And none of the respondents gave Windows a "poor" or "unsatisfactory" grade.
Statistics obtained from the National Institute of Standards and Technology's Computer Vulnerabilities and Exposure database (NIST CVE) indicate that for the past nine years SQL Server has been the most secure of any of the major database platforms. SQL Server recorded the fewest number of reported vulnerabilities -- just 52 from 2002 through 2011 -- of any major database.
NIST is the government agency that monitors security vulnerabilities by technology, vendor and product. In 2010, SQL Server compiled a perfect record -- no security vulnerabilities were recorded by NIST CVE; it recorded only three vulnerabilities during 2011.
Its closest competitor, MySQL, recorded 99 security flaws -- twice as many as SQL Server over the same period. By contrast, during the same period spanning 2002 through 2011, the NIST CVE recorded 361 security vulnerabilities associated with the Oracle database platform, the highest total of any major vendor. Oracle had almost seven times as many reported security flaws as SQL Server during the same time span.
Enterprise Solutions: Microsoft is also making tangible gains in crucial technology arenas like virtualization, cloud computing, and pivotal applications like customer relationship management (CRM) and business intelligence (BI).
After a slow start, Microsoft's Hyper-V is rapidly gaining ground on market leader VMware and expanding its presence among enterprise users, as well as among small and mid-sized businesses. Microsoft continues to fortify and expand its Azure cloud platform products and strategy.
Additionally, Microsoft Dynamics CRM is one of the top three solutions in that space, along with market leader Salesforce.com and SugarCRM.
Finally, after nearly 40 years in business, Microsoft has developed one of the most extensive enterprise application, support and channel ecosystems. Resellers, IT managers and consultants find it easy to access technical documentation and fixes when they need them.
Microsoft Office: Despite being targeted by Google Apps, Microsoft Office retains its dominant position among corporate users, thanks in no small measure to the depth and breadth of its enterprise ecosystem and broad technical service and support offerings, which 11 year-old Google is not yet capable of matching.
In July, Microsoft unveiled the newest version of its Office software, which incorporates a touchscreen user interface designed to provide integration and interoperability with the company's forthcoming Surface tablets.
The new version of Office, slated to ship this fall, will also deliver integration with Microsoft's newest acquisition, Yammer, which it purchased in June for $1.2 billion in cash. Ballmer said in a live webcast that Microsoft will make the private social network service available to Office users for free, and integrate it with SharePoint and Microsoft Dynamics.
Office 15 also now will come with 60 free minutes of the online phone service Skype, which Microsoft purchased in 2011.
And, in order to better compete with Google Drive and Apple's iCloud integration, the upcoming version of Office will be integrated with Microsoft's online storage system, SkyDrive. Users will be able to synchronize their files, settings and templates across myriad devices such as tablets, notebooks and Windows Phone smartphones. Microsoft will also ship new editions of the cloud-based Office 365.
Summing Up
Microsoft has stumbled and fallen many times with respect to products, timing and execution in the last 10 years. It inarguably lags well behind Google and Apple in key markets like search engines, mobility and tablets, much to its detriment. As a result, Microsoft is no longer considered indomitable. In addition, the declines in PC sales are challenging Microsoft to change its tactics and strategy, and to step up its initiatives to spur revenue growth.
The forthcoming Surface tablet could be a game changer; that remains to be seen. It will most certainly be disruptive. Microsoft notes that fact on page 14 of its compulsory 10-K annual earnings report filing, acknowledging that it faces a rocky road and may alienate some of its OEM partners when it ships the Surface tablet.
In the 10-K filing, Microsoft emphasizes its established ecosystem of users, application developers, and partners that provide platforms that accelerate growth. Windows 8, the Surface tablet and the associated cloud-based services could change that.
Microsoft also acknowledges in the filing what everyone knows: Its operating margins are under assault from competitors -- most notably Apple -- that control the hardware and software (e.g., the Macs, iPhone and iPad).
In recent years, Microsoft has also waded into these waters with the Xbox and its emerging Azure cloud computing platform. Specifically, Microsoft discloses in the 10-K filing that "... we derive substantial revenue from licenses of Windows operating systems on personal computers. The proliferation of alternative devices and form factors, in particular mobile devices such as smartphones and tablet computers, creates challenges from competing software platforms. These devices compete on multiple bases including price and the perceived utility of the device and its platform ... ."
The most cautionary statement in Microsoft's 10-K filing notes that "even if many users view these devices as complementary to a personal computer, the prevalence of these devices may make it more difficult to attract applications developers to our platforms. In addition, our Surface devices will compete with products made by our OEM partners, which may affect their commitment to our platform."
Microsoft's concerns are well founded. Frankly, though, this is an issue confronting nearly all high-technology vendors as they seek to grow their business through diversification. In other words, even steadfast partners find themselves becoming rivals as they expand outside of their core competencies.
For years, Apple and Google enjoyed a very cozy relationship: Google's Eric Schmidt had a seat on Apple's board for years but resigned in August of 2009, citing a conflict of interest as the Android and Chrome OS directly competed with Apple's iOS and Mac OS X.
By virtually any measure, Microsoft will have a long, uphill climb to make an impact in the smartphone and tablet segments. It must offer a clear, compelling product road map and cogent marketing strategy to convince customers to upgrade to Windows 8, Windows Server 2012, and Office 13 and Office 365. Execution is everything.
Microsoft is far from finished. It faces steeper challenges now than it ever has. The company's financials are still solid. Microsoft can also boast of many wins in the past decade, not the least of which is solidifying and bolstering the performance, reliability, uptime and security of its core Windows and Office products, and improving customer satisfaction.
Most immediately, Microsoft needs to win big this fall with its Office, Windows 8 and Surface tablets. Pressure anyone?


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New Lunch Menu!
July 8, 2010
Fantastic news! The Toro Bar & Grill has just updated their lunch menu and I was lucky enough to be given a sneak-peak taste of one of their upcoming dishes. The fine looking meal you see above is their new Chile Chicken Panini- a savory chicken sandwich on grilled pita bread and garnished with spicy pico de gallo. The first taste was a rush of flavor- the chicken retained all of its juices, though it was grilled, and when coupled with the fresh pico it veritably exploded on the palate. The texture is one thing I'd like to elaborate on, because it was simply divine. The Pita bread, which is lightly grilled, was ever so slightly crispy on the edges before the teeth sank into the soft, pillowy goodness we all know pita for. Then a delightful spread of juices as the pico and chicken enter center stage of the taste bud theater. The chicken was so tender that it melded with the cheese and pita bread into a soft, delightful, melt-in-your-mouth experience complimented by the buttery spice of the chipotle mayo. So as not to go all soft and gooey on you, though, the chefs had the good sense to add all that crispy, juicy pico de gallo which adds a strong southwestern flavor to the dish and adds a complexity to the texture that the teeth enjoy as much as the tongue. The flavor is pure southwestern home cooking with just enough heat from the chile to tell you you're in green chile country, but mild enough to be approachable by even the most sensitive of tongue. (i.e. the heat is noticeable, but not overpowering). And just in case you're still hungry, it comes with a plateful of fries and a pickle. I've been a long supporter of the Toro tortilla burger, but I think this new lunch menu has a few entrees that are vying to be my favorite. This, ladies and gentlemen, is definitely one of them.
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text: Job Discussion Forums :: View topic - Any know anything about Sochi? Get TEFL Certified & Start Your Adventure Today! Job Discussion Forums"The Internet's Meeting Place for ESL/EFL Students and Teachers from Around the World!" FAQ Search Memberlist Usergroups Register Profile Log in to check your private messages Log in Any know anything about Sochi? Job Discussion Forums Forum Index -> Russia & C.I.S. View previous topic :: View next topic Author Message danJoined: 20 Mar 2003Posts: 247Location: shanghai Posted: Fri May 07, 2004 5:05 pm Post subject: Any know anything about Sochi? can anyone comment on this city? also: I was offered a job at the "The London School" for around $500 plus accomodation. has anyone heard of it? I have an MA in TESOL from a US uni - is this a decent offer given the cost of living in this particular city, my qualifications, demand for teachers, etc? Back to top zanethJoined: 31 Mar 2004Posts: 545Location: Between Russia and Germany Posted: Sat May 08, 2004 11:04 am Post subject: Sounds good. I'm not in that area but if it's outside of moscow that sounds like quite a reasonable offer. The MA might not increase the offer much in outlying areas. It should help in various ways (respect of native colleagues for instance). Back to top khmerhitJoined: 31 May 2003Posts: 1874Location: Reverse Culture Shock Unit Posted: Sun May 09, 2004 3:46 am Post subject: What about the moonpie allowance--how much is that? Back to top zanethJoined: 31 Mar 2004Posts: 545Location: Between Russia and Germany Posted: Sun May 09, 2004 7:34 am Post subject: Oh, you won't need moon pies in Russia. Though there's no accounting for food nostalgia. Hmm, I'll have to go looking. Maybe I should bring my own turtle. Like in Blazing Saddles: "Nobody move or the N***** gets it!" And I'll have to try not to be distracted by the curious questions when I pull out my entirely too big swiss army knife and start looking for the right blade. "Hey, I've never seen one that big! How many tools do you have on that thing anyway? Welcome to Russia, Dan! Or could someone actually have the audacity to fashion an entire country experience as a troll? Back to top danJoined: 20 Mar 2003Posts: 247Location: shanghai Posted: Sun May 09, 2004 5:38 pm Post subject: i'd imagine there are some places in russia where dudes can get a serious workout, no? some of those russians are pretty intense about smashing it, almost fanatic. a little much for me... Back to top Communist SmurfJoined: 24 Jun 2003Posts: 330Location: San Francisco Posted: Sun May 09, 2004 6:36 pm Post subject: There's a gym in the Embassy that's open to non-Embassy employees. I'm uncertain of the requirements, but you have to be either an American or affiliated with an American company. I'll warn you now though that the fees for non-Embassy employees are steep and you pay for a whole year in advance. Other fees include deposit and you pay for your own background investigation. It's perhaps one of the nicest gyms in Moscow. I find that many Russians do take the weight room very serious. If you're interested call (095) 728 5000 and ask for AECA (American Embassy Community Association). CS Back to top zanethJoined: 31 Mar 2004Posts: 545Location: Between Russia and Germany Posted: Mon May 10, 2004 8:43 am Post subject: Dude! You guys have a weight room in there? It really is just like a prison! I guess it makes sense, I just never would have put the two thoughts together. There was a weight room in the basement of my building. Soviet style public fitness "club." Maybe a little like a YMCA weight room. I never quite figured out how to use the place, where to sign up, etc. But I believe it was free or extremely inexpensive. There were also some wiry old guys playing ping pong like they meant it. Dan versus the wiry ping pong playing old guys. I wouldn't give him good odds. They're fast and they know how to work together, and they have the staying power. I was wondering how Dan would find the weight lifting community here. Would probably make an interesting contrastive sociological study. I imagine a lot of them got into weights in the military (compulsory service). Pretty much all the guys I know are student types (one of the dodges) and I doubt they lift weights. So it'd be a window on a different world for me. I'd be interested in hearing about the scene here. Dan, dare to lift weights with the locals, it should be interesting. Though you might meet some interesting characters in the embassy..... How far is Sochi from Moscow, anyway? (interesting, that instead of simply looking at a map I use all this technology to ask someone else to look at a map). Back to top Communist SmurfJoined: 24 Jun 2003Posts: 330Location: San Francisco Posted: Mon May 10, 2004 11:38 am Post subject: Haven't you ever seen the Embassy? We have our own city block (almost). Atleast 75% of the city block belongs to the US and it's a very big block at that. For a number of reasons your thinking is a bit flawed on why Russians take weight lifting serious. 1. Look at all the other countries that have compulsory military service. I lived in Italy for 3 years the men are about as big as the women. 2. I don't know the numbers, but many Russians tell me very few Russians living in Moscow actually do their service. They pay money to doctors to say they're medically unfit. Despite so many of them not doing military service, they're still pretty big guys. 3. Look at most men in the American military. And these are people that volunteered for the military. 4. Although I don't actually know this, or have even asked a Russian this, but I doubt they are even provided good facilities (or even nutrition for that matter) to stay in good shape. Ok, I just asked one and she said "mostly no." In order for me to call my response good constructive criticism, I should come up with an alternative answer to why Russians lift weights more than most others. But I don't have an answer. The only thing I know about Sochi is that it's a resort. I heard that it's a lot like Crimea, but the sea is very dirty there. CS Back to top zanethJoined: 31 Mar 2004Posts: 545Location: Between Russia and Germany Posted: Mon May 10, 2004 11:46 am Post subject: Oh, right. Sochi. I know where it is. Never been there. I've been to the Embassy, though. The last time was even a vaguely pleasant experience. Back to top Display posts from previous: All Posts1 Day7 Days2 Weeks1 Month3 Months6 Months1 Year Oldest FirstNewest First Job Discussion Forums Forum Index -> Russia & C.I.S. 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SlutWalk tensions
SlutWalk has come and gone in Boston, but the larger movement surrounding SlutWalk continues to grow and move around the world. A lot of activists have shared a lot of thoughts on SlutWalk, both here and in other locations. Some really good critiques/rebuttals/general thoughts can be found here (second wave thoughts) and here (rebuttal) and here (critique of the racial politics at play in SlutWalk and here).
Harsha Walia's piece crossposted at Racialicious, in particular, helped me see some of the tensions organizing an event like SlutWalk. She writes:
"According to Nassim Elbardouh, a community organizer and Muslim woman who grew up in Saskatoon, 'Though I support the tremendous effort, I didn't go to Slutwalk because rather than focusing on lack of consent in sexual assault, there seemed to be a message that I have heard since I was a young girl – that I am only a feminist under the White gaze if I dressed and behaved in certain exposing and forward ways. People need to realize that being 'scantily clad' is not the only patriarchal excuse that victimizes women (my emphasis). Sexual assaults against Muslim women are often minimized in our society because Muslim women are perceived as repressed, and therefore in need of sexual emancipation. I would much rather have attended a 'Do Not Rape' Walk.'"
We use the term 'slut' (culturally) as either cover, or a pretense; a 'go-ahead' to allow violence against women. Any woman who steps out of whatever narrow, ill-defined behavior she's supposed to know and respect can be branded a slut, and that gives a perpetrator the 'cover' he needs from the rest of the culture to get away with it (I think this type of cover is usually unique to men who perpetrators). No one believes a slut, or if they do, they don't care. Women can be branded sluts for virtually anything at all - the scantily clad white woman is one standard, but women can be branded as sluts for having casual sex, for not having casual sex, for being near boys, not being near boys, for being conventionally attractive, for having breasts.
When I talk about cover, what I really mean is socially justifiable pretense - a pretense that we all know is a pretense, but we let it slide all the same. It's the type of pretense we use when going through the motions. It's a formality at best, but a formality with power. To give a more limited, similar example: a state agency decides to hire for a new position. The directors of human resources know, and everyone else knows, that they are going to hire someone from inside the agency already; however, they are required by a law to post the position somewhere public. They put the job up on USAjobs for a hot second, get a bunch of resumes they never look inspect, and hire their inside candidate. No one would argue that this agency posted the job in a true effort to find a qualified employee; it was a 'cover your ass' move to protect the agency from some sort of outside, aggrieved party. The term slut functions as a similar sort of pretense: the parties directly involved (the survivor and the perpetrator) know that it was the perpetrator who committed the crime, but the perpetrator gets the benefit of being able to use the word 'slut' to convince other people - outside parties - that his actions were, if not justified, at least not that bad. Remember, if a woman is a 'slut,' it must mean she did something wrong, and probably deserves some kind of punishment.
So far, I've got no beef with SlutWalk's mission - depowering this word is a good thing. Calling out social hypocrisy is a good thing. Exposing social pretenses and making accountable perpetrators for their actions is also a good, good thing. There is a tension, though, between white activists and activists of color here, and I think it's one of focus and perspective.
Both sets of activists agree that violence against women is a bad, bad thing and needs to stop. The white activists, though, see the slut label pretense and want to smash through it by charging directly at it. Once we expose how much of a pretense the word slut is, maybe we can start to erode the social cover that rapists get for invoking it. Destroy the power of the word slut, destroy the ability of the culture to label women as 'OK to rape,' and rape will stop (or at least decrease). One of the ways of doing that is running directly AT the label, to make it look as ridiculous as a term as possible, and to destroy anyone's ability to reasonably use it to defend indefensible conduct. Hence, SlutWalk - an opportunity to put in a very visible, very physical form the idea that we can label anyone as a slut, and how ridiculous that is. De-power the word, or at least make it clear that we all know that it's a pretense, and maybe we can start to hit the actual cover rapists get for their actions.
The activists of color, though, (if I'm understanding things correctly) are responding with the historically correct assertion that, for women of color, society has never needed a pretense to do violence against them. If slut is a word we use to paint a target on white women to open them up to violence, just BEING a woman of color is also to be a target. Even if the word slut disappeared tomorrow, it wouldn't change a whole lot of the violence that women of color experience. No one believes a slut, but no one believes a black woman, either.
Activists of color are already walking a tightrope when it comes to fighting for sexual freedom and protection from assault. Damaging and very-alive stereotypes of women of color as exotic, over-sexed, and animalistic still control much of the media representation of women in those communities. It's telling that the coverage of SlutWalk, even the positive coverage, tends to have a lot of pictures of the conventionally attractive, young, female attendees who have interesting, but not particularly jarring tattoos, piercings, and hair color. I've yet to see a lot of coverage of the Boston SlutWalk that includes photos of the large gender non-conforming folks, of women in normal everyday jeans and t-shirts, or of any of the men (myself included). SlutWalk, if staged by activists of color, would not have received the type of media coverage it did. There's already a media narrative for women of color who proclaim their sexuality loudly and defiantly (trigger warning - this page describes some RACIST memorabilia - http://www.ferris.edu/jimcrow/jezebel/). Even if they screamed at the top of their lungs that a women-of-color fronted SlutWalk was about ridding the world of sexual assault and exposing the ridiculousness of the term slut, the world would probably not have listened. It wouldn't, after all, be the first time the media ignored women of color.
And that's the second point of tension here. The media and the cultural at large has actually paid some attention to the various SlutWalks around the country. There's a very real danger that the only reason the media is doing so is because they know they'll get some good shots of taut, white female bodies. When Aura Blogando writes, "If SlutWalk has proven anything, it is that liberal white women are perfectly comfortable parading their privilege, absorbing every speck of airtime celebrating their audacity, and ignoring women of color," (emphasis mine) I think the point is a powerful one, even if I think it's also a bit misdirected. I don't think it's the organizers of SlutWalks themselves who are attempting to silence women of color - I think it's a much larger narrative that gives more weight to white words than everyone else's.
I think on balance that SlutWalk was a good thing, especially in Boston, but I also think there needs to be a back-end response or follow-up to really make the SlutWalk more than a one-time deal. Challenging the power of the word slut is one aspects in the fight against violence against women, but it's not the only one. Knowing that, for many women of color, slut is one of a million social justifications our racist, sexist society provides for hurting them might encourage the SlutWalk organizers to reach out more, to take the soap box they've just been given by nature of the media coverage SlutWalk has gotten, and give it to activists of color to explain to the world the violence their communities face. That sharing and organizing needs to be done at the same time as media reform work, so that activists of color no longer are ignored.


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Read Shakespeare's sonnets below, along with a modern English interpretation. These are intended to offer an easy read-through to aid understanding of the sonnets. There's no attempt to 'translate' Shakespeare's sonnets word for word, as Shakespeare's poetry is intense and heavily layered with multiple meanings and use of rhyme, metre, and metaphors. These Shakespeare sonnet translations offer only the argument of each sonnet and a general impression of the main sense, whilst following each line and image as a modern version. Take your pick from the list of Shakespeare sonnets below (or learn how to write a sonnet of your own!):
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gaps says:
shakespeare is my favorite person among the writer . he was best .he is best .and he will be best.
jrastin says:
I have translated 40 sonnets into Farsi, and I am looking for a way to get them published in a book. If can help me please inform me. thanks
Megan W. says:
I love sonnet 145. That has to be one of my favorite sonnets.
And 130 is just great. Like a straight smack to the face 😀
Cate says:
Like sonnet 45 too. It's all about how you interpret it.;-)
Cate says:
Love sonnet 19. Oh Shakespeare
Adithya says:
shakespeare is my favorite and especially his sonnet 18 he handle words with such delicacy and he express his feelings with simplicity and beauty and thats what makes him a great poet.
sindy says:
I like sonnets.I find this useful and easier to understand
Daniel Klayton says:
Ahh, I love the sonnets! I think I'm getting ready for a new reading of them… I like to go back and rediscover them every once in awhile 🙂
I love the snarkiness of sonnet 11: "Nature meant for ugly people to die without having kids, because they're so dang ugly"… oh Shakespeare….
I wrote a piece about the sonnet as a form – what it can accomplish, and what the structure makes it particularly attuned to… if you love Shakespeare's sonnets, check it out, methinks you'll enjoy it 🙂
Candido says:
Huh…..I think he ment that they were ugly figurtivly.
Daniel Klayton says:
Mm, well that certainly would be one way of reading it.
Frankly though, I think we're a bit too ready to remember Shakespeare as the cosmically-super-serious-brilliant voice of Hamlet, and not as the hilariously-snarky-and-inappropriate voice of Falstaff. Especially in his sonnets, in which I think he's far more often intending to be ironic and funny than I think he's given credit for.
If he's being serious in Sonnet 11 when he says certain people should rightly "barrenly perish," then he's sort of being a jerk – whether he's talking about physically unattractive people, rude people, mean people, dumb people – whomever.
If he's being serious, then the sonnet is elitist and eugenist. If he's being snarky and funny, then the sonnet is snarky and funny.
I'll take the latter 😉
Anna says:
I think that they are written amazingly and flow so lovely and fluently
lol says:
i recomend u to read shall i compare thee to a summer day its beutiful from the heart
megan says:
sonnet 18 is beautiful now that i understand it fully in modern english. I have put it into my homework about shakespeare sonnets 🙂
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