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Ponce de Leon
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Posted: 20-Nov-2008 at 17:27
Hello folks. This is a little game I just made up on the spot and basically if you can read (the title) then you pretty much know what this game is about. Here are the rules for playing this "Game"
1. Go onto the world map and find a location of where you would like your Empire to start from
2. Give an explanation of how and where it will expand to in the course of 50 years
3. Tell us the century your empire will be in
4. Tell us the form of government your empire will take (either one government from the beginning to end or multiple succession of governments)
5. And lastly, tell us how your empire will fall. (This one you can have the most fun with. Anything for it can be possible.)
So lets have a few Empires rolling here since this is ALLEmpires forum anyway =0
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My empire is located in south africa (pretend I'm doing a lecture in some college) they called thmeselves the Aparians they had christianity bought to them by Axumite and Byzantine monks. (BTW Ponce can we do armies, technology, learning, etc. and the like?) they started around six hundred A.D, because of the ideas the got from the byzantine and axumite monks they adopted the latin language and spoke it right up to the fall of the empire and system of government and the military system, they imported several byzantine dromons, and lots of military tehcnology and equipment, and scholars and lots of non-military tehcnology and ideas using axum as their contact to the world, and crewed their new dromons with axumite sailors and marines. Because of their land hungry emperor (JustinianII) and their new military the Aparians rapidly conquered south africa in twenty years (using a system where their soldiers were payed in small parcels of conquered land with a small portion of the revenue and resourses so in order to pay their people they had to take more land) they also expanded into the horn of africa in an other thirty years. They had no taxes whatsoever and used tariffs to support the govenrment and massive arms factories, their people were also very free and they were very advanced for their time they used the zero. They had a statewide police force, colloege, military academies, fire brigade and medical service that provided medical care and had very sophisticated sanitation laws, including hot and cold running water a sophisticated sewer system, and knowledge of of biology and physics and anyone could be emperor provided they had served in the army the government and among the people and they were well educated in everything the empire had to offer and had passed their exams with flying colors.
In the late sixteenth the empire was swarmed not by the forces of islam for the muslims feared the aparian the aparian army. But by barbarians and with axum their only friendly contact to the outside world the all but conquered the Aparian empire virtually fell overnight. The last emperor Theodosius IV led the last sortie from the shattered gates of Appia the capital to by time for the fleeing refugees and the remnants of the govenment and the last of the Comitateneses, and there before the gates of appia the last emperor and his seven foot optimates and excubitores of proud aparia fell according to Ibn rashid a travleler who saw the battle from a safe distance: The emperor was the last to fall, mounting a dead optimates horse that was big enough to bear his massive frame he charged the barbarians calling out to the christian God he smashed into the barbarians and smote at least two hundred of them before a champion killed him however he smote the champion with his remaining strength and with his last breath called out to his and then to his wife. the barbarians buried him in a secret location with great reverence. Thats all, any questions?
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Pretty good assessment of your empire I am very impressed
I will give your Empire a score of 8 out of 10.
Reasons why I did not give your Empire a 10 out of 10
-You did not give a clear explanation on how your empire will expand in the first 50 years of its existence. (After you explain that then you can commence in talking about later years)
And Belisarius after taking all of my suggestions into account you can add any other features that you wish such as technologies, armies, etc.
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my empire will have nukes enough said lol. give me a while I'll think of something.
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It's a tad long, but I had to develop a little bit.
It is well documented that around the turn of the first millennium AD, that the medieval Norse left their traditional lands from greener (and warmer) pastures. Many settled in mainland Europe and the British Isles, but others elected instead to brave the waters of the North Atlantic Ocean. After fifty years of colonizing Iceland and Greenland, a group of intrepid explorers in four ships, set out even further. During the Atlantic crossing, the group of four ships suffer the misfortune of running into a squall, three of ships navigate to the north, and with their good fortune land in modern day Newfoundland in Canada. Their story is well known and studied.
That fourth ship instead sailed south, and their story is lesser known. Having lost their convoy, the drifted for several days until they have the fortune of happening across land. With their food, fresh water, and mead all running low, the explorers make land and begin to scavenge for resources. During their initial explorations of the island, they have fleeting encounters with local Carib populations. With the protection of rudimentary armor and metal weapons, the explorers are able to resist the initial assaults. However, with their small numbers, they don't have a prayer of fending off any other sort of attacks. Using jewelry, and weapons, the surviving Norse explorers begin to barter their way into the local societies. Over the following century, local and Norse technology, and societal norms became as one, and their society grew stronger for it. They maintained the tribal chief, but integrated the Norse ideas of more open governing. Honor duels were instituted to settle local disputes. The Norse used the local customs and knowledge to survive, and the Carib populations benefitted from Norse knowledge of metalwork, and ship making.
By 1200 AD, the new Carib-Norse society controls the entirety of their island and looking to expand. Armed with Carib knowledge, Carib and Norse weapons and Norse ships, they set sail towards the modern island of Hispañola (Dominican Republic and Haiti). Within two years they conquer the island, and within ten years they've conquered Cuba. On the conquered islands they share their technology and societal benefits with the newly conquered peoples to increase loyalty. As the new empire's territory and resources expand, they begin to build schools to convince the common folk of the benefits of their way of life. By 1240 they've expanded throughout the caribbean, and their ship building technology and navigation technique is unmatched throughout the world. By 1300 the Empire controls Cuba, Hispañola, Puerto Rico, the Bahamas, the West Indies, Jamaica, and had begun to explore the northern portions of South America. Instead of tribal Chieftains or Emperors, they have a council of governors, who meet monthly, with the exception of catastrophic events. Each governor oversees a local council within his or her jurisdiction. The local councils address the day to day affairs of the reasons, only relying on the absolute power of the governor in the event of a stalemate.
It was until 1324 when the Empire began to decline. A series of devastating hurricanes decimated the massive fleets, isolating the islands and destroying much of the infrastructure they had worked to build. Disease and famine spread across the empire as water sources became tainted. The death blow to the empire occurred in 1325, when a powerful earthquake along the fault line between the North American can Caribbean tectonic plates caused a massive shift in sediment levels, causing the capital island to sink and shift into the sea. The ensuing series of waves largely decimated whatever had remained from their society. By the time the Spanish arrived in the 1490's, nothing remained.
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Okay here you go (imagine someone in the back of the auditorium asking the professor what he didn't cover)
Once the Aparians power was consolidated they expanded with their roman style army here are some of the factors
1 massive overpopulation every family had at least twelve kids and there were a total of nine million people in the the pre-expansion aparian territory
2The aparians were always warlike every child male or female had a weapon placed in their crib at birth by the parents and were known for their ferocity
3 Because of the way they paid their troops they needed lots of land and because they were surrounded by enemies they had to have a strong and massive army which required more land and so if the troops weren't satisfied by the amount of revnue they had, well then go take the enemies land
Anyone want to know what happended to the refugees?
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Sorry to revive this thread, but it's really intruiging for me, so here I go :P
In nomine.. (In the name of..)
Pınkwe šimti tre šešms aght it Čę (piinkweh shymtee treh shehshms aht) 538th year of Tcheu (God of sun)
My empire is located in Eastern Europe, in the territories of these current states of Western Ukraine, Western Belorussian, Northern Poland, Lithuania, Kaliningrad oblast' (Russia) and southern Latvia.
2nd century BC, being in a strategic position, gaining profit from trades with the Roman republic made this state inhabited by Padeanilaea (Padenilaese people, of uknown origin, some say they travelled from Indus river to this place other - they are the legendary Sumerians, truth is still unknown) into a rich and successful in waging wars with tribes nearby.
149BC, High Chief of the United tribes Şevak (Schshevakh) declared a statute where it was written that the form of government was changed from tribal democratical confederation, into a unified, centralised state with only one dynastical ruler.
148BC the new king Iąs (Yaus) I declared a new capital Podłaği (Podwadzhii) located on Neman river (Near modern Grodno)
135-124 BC Successional crisis between brothers Ževač(Zhevatch) and Kąui(Kwowi), total population loses are c. 15,500, Country fears the total decline
120BC - Order is restored Ževač gains total control of the Northern provinces
105BC - Baltic tribes attack Northern Provinces, Padenilaese are forced to reform their state, 34% of their territories are lost
88BC - Çeuk (Shtevk) II integrates and mixes Baltisms and Slavisms, making a pidgin known as Tak Kalbei (literally this thing to say)
64BC - Northern territories are lost, new shape is becoming noticable, Eastern Poland, Slovakia, Western Ukraine, new capital in Błek (Bwek) (near Uzhgorod city in Ukraine)
22BC - the last generation of Tak kalbei pidgin dies, a creole is born, Ček golpet (the same meaning, tchek golpeht)
18BC - 102 AD - Golden age, country's name was found, Batenila
9BC - Slavs comprise up to 48% of nation's population, new creole and proto-Slavic language confront each other, creole slowly dies.
1 AD - 14AD - First militaristic battles with Romans, all attacks are repelled
40AD - spread of first primitive christian temples
since 3rd cent. AD all records were lost..
After the end of this country's golden age, it vanished into the dark ages, unique language was lost, culture was destroyed, one theory is dominating, due to its assimilation, Slavs couldn't afford their political system, so they stayed divided, yet tribal democracy was still popular.. Many claim that this culture, christianity was in decline Slavs forcefully rejected the idea of embracing this religion..
Any questions? Feel free to ask :P phonological name changes are in theory, voiceless and voiced sounds were very weak at those times.
Edited by Arekushii - 26-Jan-2009 at 17:42
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will u give us something if we do as what u've told us to do?
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Was that some kind of Balto-Slavic mixed tribal confederation?
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For all you Chicken Littles out there: A cyber problem that shuts down a top US cloud computing provider for three to six days could trigger a cost to clients of between $5.3 billion and $19 billion in business losses, of which only $1.1 billion to $3.5 billion would be covered by insurance, said insurer . (A "cyber problem" could include hacking, lightning strikes, bombing of datacenters, and human errors making a public cloud service provider take a dirt nap.)
I don't doubt those numbers. But if one or more major cloud providers are disabled for some reason, we'll have more important problems than not being able to log into the inventory system.
And the chances are slim, anyhow: The truth is that public clouds providers are pretty resilient. Although we've seen regional outages in the past, typically due to human error, taking down a public cloud provider through a cyberattack would be a bit like playing Whack-a-Mole with 800-pound moles.
Public cloud providers have set up many redundant systems in their clouds. Although you could bring down a single datacenter, perhaps even a whole region, you won't disrupt all the cloud datacenters and regions. Kill one, and the others take over.
Of course, there could be a major event such as an atomic attack that could take out most or all of a cloud provider. However, even then I doubt that all public cloud capabilities would be offline. Keep in mind that TCP/IP was designed by the US Defense Dept. to route around missing pieces of the network due to nuclear attack.
And, in the event of a nuclear attack, would you care about your cloud services all that much?
For less-world-ending scenarios, one of the good things about cloud computing is that the cloud providers are not the sitting ducks that enterprise datacenters have been (and many still are). The cloud providers have a wide geographical distribution, and they are redundant. So, your cloud data is actually safer than your on-premises data. It's a good thing cloud data redundancy is almost foolproof, because it looks like you won't get much help from insurance.

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The EIC Open Day was again a success on Saturday May 4th and we welcomed families and possible future students of all ages, from Preschool to Bachillerato. The attendees had the opportunity to see our school project and how we put it into practice.
The event lasted 3 hours during which, after an introductory talk, visitors were able to visit classrooms where the teachers offered practical information about the day to day of the school and where the families clarified their doubts and questions. Students and families who are currently in school also had the opportunity to express their points of view and answer questions related to our educational model Socrates Educa and the pillars of the school based on internationality, new technologies in the classroom, community and sustainability & the environment.


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"The Innovative Eighteenth Century"
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma – October 9 – 12, 2008
Midwestern American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies
Thursday, October 9
Session One: 1:00 – 2:30
Johnson at 299. Chair, Lance Wilcox, Elmhurst College.
Centennial Room I
1. Mark Wildermuth, University of Texas – Permian Basin. "Print, Complexity, and Media Culture in Johnson's Periodical Prose."
2. Thomas M. Curley, Bridgewater State College, "Samuel Johnson's Last Word on the Ossian Fraud in Association with William Shaw."
3. David Nunnery, Marquette University. "The Happy Use of an Unhappy Man: John Dennis in the Lives of the Poets."
Post-Colonialism and the Eighteenth Century. Chair, Sayanti Ganguly Puckett, Oklahoma State University.
Centennial Room II
1.Sayanti Ganguly Puckett, Oklahoma State University, "Refining the Natives: The Role of Education in the Quest for Colonization."
2. Jason Cimock, University of Central Oklahoma "'I may with Justice pronounce myself an Author perfectly blameless': Gulliver's colonial journey in Gulliver's Travels."
3. Rebekah Mercer, University of Central Oklahoma, "A Post-Colonial Exploration of Gulliver's Travels."
Session Two: 2:45 – 4:15
Maria Edgeworth: Maria Gets Her Props! Chair, Kathleen Leicht, University of Central Missouri.
Centennial Room I
1. Catherine Craft-Fairchild, "The Genesis of Harrington: the Correspondence of Maria Edgeworth and Rachel Mordecai Lazarus."
2. Jeanine Casler, Northwestern University, "Innovations in Education: Women Teaching Men in Maria Edgeworth's Irish Tales."
3. Heidi Silcox, University of Central Oklahoma "Parodies of the Gothic: Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey and Maria Edgeworth's Castle Rackrent."
The Americas. Chair, John Parris Springer, University of Central Oklahoma.
Centennial Room II
1. William Andrews, University of Central Oklahoma, "Thomas Paine: Forgotten Founder."
2. Christopher Black, Oklahoma State University, "The Rejection of Authority: Mutiny and Piracy in Herman Melville's Billy Budd and Cotton Mather's The Vial Poured Out Upon the Sea."
3. John Parris Springer, "'The idea of the wilderness': The Psycho-Political Space of the American Frontier in Charles Brockden Brown's Edgar Huntly."
4:45 – 5:00: Walk to Oklahoma City Memorial from Skirvin Hilton Hotel
5:00 – 5:30: Tour of Memorial grounds
5:45(ish): Cocktail party on the roof of the Oklahoma City Museum of Art.
Friday, October 10
Session Three: 8:45 – 10:15
Law, Literature, Culture: New Intersections and Directions. Chair, Kathryn Temple, Georgetown University.
Centennial Room I
1. Paul T. Ruxin, Chicago IL, "A Practical Application of Literature to Law: Dr. Johnson and the 'Macaroni Parson.'"
2. Gary Rick Chew, University of Central Oklahoma, "Hume, Bentham, and the Philosophy of Law." 3. Sara Schotland, Georgetown University, "Sarat Meets Fielding: An Eighteenth-Century Perspective on the Death Penalty."
Women Writers I. Chair, Kit Kincade, Indiana State University.
Centennial Room II
1. Kristina Booker, University of Oklahoma: "'It is next to impossible for any English Person to like French society': Nationalism and Social Performance in the Paris Diary of Frances Anne Crewe."
2. Jeanne Hageman, North Dakota State University, "Madame de Saint-Chamond's Camédris : The Creation of Character and the Importance of Appearances."
3. Elin Dowdican, Independent Scholar, "Radical Rhetoric: A Vindication of Mary Wollstonecraft's Rhetorical Strategy."
Session Four: 10:30 – 12:00
David Hume. Chair, James Mock, University of Central Oklahoma.
Centennial Room I
1. Mark Silcox, University of Central Oklahoma, "Hume on the Social Promise"
2. James Mock, University of Central Oklahoma, "Hume, Eloquence, and Contemporary Psychology."
3. C. Earl Ramsey, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, "Mitigated or Unmitigated: Montaigne versus Hume on Ancient Skepticism."
Reflections on the Grand Tour. Chair, J Karen Ray, Washburn University.
Centennial Room III
1. Whitney Philippi, Washburn University: From Whores of Babylon to Pious Princes: The Transformational Experience of Thomas Gray on the Grand Tour."
2. Sara Heckman, Washburn University: Angelica Kauffmann: The Muse of Neoclassical History Painting in Eighteenth Century England."
3. Thomas Prasch, Washburn University: "'My Country-women Would Rather Hear…': Hester Lynch Piozzi's Regendering of the Grand Tour."
Session Five: 1:00 – 2:00
ECCO and the Future of Eighteenth-Century Studies. Vincent Vessalo, Gale – Cengage Learning.
Respondent: Corey Andrews, Youngstown State University.
Centennial Room III
Session Six: 2:15 – 3:45
Women Writers 2. Chair, Pamela Washington, University of Central Oklahoma.
Centennial Room I
1. Lance Wilcox, Elmhurst College, "The Limits of Moral Education in Elizabeth Inchbald's Nature and Art."
2. Kit Kincade, Indiana State University, "What We Talk About When We Talk About Clara Reeve."
3. Keith Byerman, "Phillis Wheatley & the 18th-Century Discourse on Race."
Structure and Style. Chair, Lexi Stuckey, University of Tulsa.
Centennial Room II
1. James Parsons, "Schiller's 'An die Freude' before Beethoven: When Lyric Innovation and Compositional Convention Collide."
2. Eric Leuschner, Fort Hays University, "Dancing with the (Eighteenth-century) Stars: Tristram Shandy, Innovative Narrative, and the English Country Dance."
3. Troy Steele, University of Central Oklahoma, "Trading Places: On the Value of Deconstructing Persuasion."
Innovative Thought in Eighteenth-Century France: A Century of Originals. Chair, Melissa Wittmeier, Northwestern University.
Centennial Room III
1. Melissa Wittmeier, Northwestern University, "Revolutionary fever: a Languedocian example"
2. Abigail Stahl, Northwestern University, "Abolitionist sentimentalism: reconsidering the politics of 'L'esclavage des Noirs.'"
3. Megan Conway, Louisiana State University – Shreveport, "Anyone Can be Enlightened: Olympe de Gouges's Political Theatre"
Session Seven: 4:00 – 5:30
Revisiting Transatlanticism: A Roundtable Discussion.
Chair: Laura Stevens, University of Tulsa.
Honors Lounge
Julia Abramson, University of Oklahoma
Eve Tavor Bannet, University of Oklahoma
Troy Bickham, Texas A&M University
Ritch Frohock, Oklahoma State University
6:00: Plenary performance/presentation, "Evolution of Eighteenth-Century Opera: a Brief Overview," Crystal Room
7:00(ish): Hors d'œuvre reception and cash bar, Honors Lounge
Saturday, October 11
Business meeting 8 a.m.
Billiard Room
Session Eight: 9:00 – 10:30
Jane Austen 1: (Re) Categorizing Jane Austen, or Austen Through Three Lenses. Chair, Cami Agan, Oklahoma Christian University
Centennial Room I
1. Eva Dadlez, University of Central Oklahoma, "Austen and Aristotle and Hume."
2. Joan Conley, University of Central Oklahoma, "Jane Austen: The Not So Quiet Feminist."
The IR-rational eighteenth century 1: supernaturalism, superstition, and the occult in an age of Enlightenment. Chair, Jeanetta Calhoun Mish, University of Oklahoma.
Centennial Room II
1. Luke Brekke, University of Minnesota, "Heretics in the Pulpit, inquisitors in the pews: popular and elite religion in enlightenment Scotland."
2. Kelly Wezner, Department of English and Philosophy, Murray State University: "'No Man alive ever writ such damned Stuff as this': Paratexts, the Reading Public, and Swift's Bickerstaff Papers."
3. Chris Brooks, Wichita State University: "Not Warranted by Common Sense and Reason: or, Why 1,100 people ran into a crumbling church."
The Eighteenth-Century Fine Arts. Chair, Ronald Rarick, Ball State University.
Centennial Room III
1. Susan Dixon, University of Tulsa, "I Trofei Farnese."
2. Vivian Atwater, University of Houston-Clear Lake: "Visual Encyclopedism: Dézallier d'Argenville on Print Collections (1727)".
3. Özgür Erciyes, University of Texas, "Power Shift in the Ottoman Political System from the 16th to the 18th century, as its reflections on the Patronage of Art and Architecture during the Tulip Era (1718-1730)."
Session Nine: 10:45 – 12:15
Jane Austen 2: Mansfield Park-ing Violations: Money, Merit, and Mrs. Norris. Chair, Eva Dadlez, University of Central Oklahoma
Centennial Room I
1. Angela Bebb, Oklahoma Christian University, "The Social Machine and Deux ex Machina: The Conflict of Merit and Reality in Mansfield Park."
2. Taylor Boston, Oklahoma Christian University, "Starvation as Socio-Economic Metaphor in Mansfield Park."
3. Jeremy Johnson, Pittsburgh State, "What's In a Name?: Oppression and Rebellion in Austen's and J.K. Rowling's Mrs. Norris."
The Gothic. Chair, James D. Jenkins, Valancourt Books.
Centennial Room II
1. David Macey, University of Central Oklahoma, "Ut Pictura Poesis? Innovation, Retrospection, and Mary Walker Hamilton's Tableaux Vivants."
2. Thomas Bullington, Independent Scholar, "The Poet in Purgatory: Keats' Use of Dantesque and Gothic Imagery in The Fall of Hyperion."
3. Giulia Hoffman, University of California – Riverside, "I Was Seized with a Strange Distemper": Male Madness and the Demon in The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner."
Innovative Approaches to the Visual Arts, Chair, Jeff Stuckey, University of Central Oklahoma.
Centennial Room III
1. Marta Hess, Georgia State University, "Miss Prue in William Congreve's Love for Love: The New Celebrity."
2. Mary Brodnax, University of Central Oklahoma, "Peckinpah's Straw Dogs and Hogarth's Four Stages of Cruelty."
Session Ten: 1:30 – 3:00
Jane Austen 3: Austen's Powers. Chair, Sheila Hwang, Webster University
Centennial Room I
1. Martina Jauch, Purdue University,"Jane Austen's Adolescent Critique of the Atrocities of Power."
2. John Traver, California State University – Chico, "Without Conceit or Affectation": Artifice and Convention in Northanger Abbey and in Janeite Readings"
3. Roy Rhodes, Oklahoma Christian University,"'Fall into Literacy': Sexual Politics and Authorial Power in Austen's Emma."
New Perspectives on Canonical Figures. Chair, Jami Barnett, University of Tulsa.
Centennial Room II
1. Lorraine Eadie, Loyola University Chicago, "The Innovative Use of Sympathy in Addison's Paradise Lost Essays."
2. Jamie Childs, University of Central Oklahoma, "Voltaire's Samson: Tragic Opera in the Age of Revolution."
The IR-rational eighteenth century 2: supernaturalism, superstition, and the occult in an age of Enlightenment. Chair: Chris Brooks, Wichita State University.
Centennial Room III
1. Martha Lawler, Louisiana State University – Shreveport, "Fooling the Masses: Hoaxes, Witch Hunts, and the Power of Mass Hysteria."
2. Wayne Stein, University of Central Oklahoma, "Vampires!! The Asian Gothic."
3. Susan Spencer, University of Central Oklahoma, "P'u Songling's Sexy Supernaturals: Foxy Ladies and Things that Go Bump in the Night"
Session Eleven: 3:15 – 4:45
The Classical Tradition. Chair, Margaret Musgrove, University of Central Oklahoma.
Centennial Room I
1. John Burke, University of Alabama, "Dryden and the Question of a Providential Universe: The Lesson from Virgil's Aeneis."
2. Morgan Strawn, University of Wisconsin – Madison, "'As Much a Hero When He Weeps': Alexander Pope's Sentimentalized Iliad."
3. Paul McCallum, Pittsburg State University, "Pope the Dramatist: The Strategies and Perils of Literary Reenactment."
Drama in the Long Eighteenth Century: Innovative, Seductive, or Decorative. J Karen Ray, Washburn University.
Centennial Room II
1. Joshua Grasso, East Central University, ""Nothing That Pleases Me or the Town": The Author's Dilemma in Fielding's The Author's Farce."
2. Kristie Niemeier, "The Conflict Between the Law of the Duel and Legislation in Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos' El delincuente honrado (1787)."
3. Jennifer Airey, "'[T]o feel like men that go a hunting': Rape, Cannibalism, and the Critique of James II in Ravenscroft's Titus Andronicus."
Sexuality and Gender in the "Long" Eighteenth Century. Chair, David Macey, University of Central Oklahoma.
Centennial Room III
1. Edward Kozaczka, Binghamton University – SUNY, "Lacan, Locus, and Liminality: Language as Space and Onomastic Deficiency in Robinson Crusoe."
2.Lexi Stuckey, "I have nobody to talk to, hardly!": Silencing the Female Voice in Pamela."
3. Catherine S. Webster, University of Central Oklahoma, "She barely had the strength to hold herself upright": Courting and Conquest in Les liaisons dangereuses and Its Cinematic Adaptations."
6:00: No-host cocktail party and plenary banquet, Oklahoma City Petroleum Club
Sunday, October 12
Breakfast discussion in the Skirvin Hilton's Founders Room


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November Financial ReportPosted: 2011-11-30 Filed under: eveonline, industry | Tags: implants, isk, naga, oracle, PI, pos, profit, talos, tier 3, tornado 2 Comments
Following the trend of EVE-fail, I am going to continue releasing monthly financial reports.
November saw a resurgence of trading as the anticipation of Crucible brought me back into the game. With all the PI changes, there were ample opportunities to turn a profit. The change over to Player Owned Offices meant a tax barrier and therefore an increase to PI goods. Now that PI goods are involved in many production chains (POS'es, POS modules, T2 components), there has been an increase across the board.
New to the net value charts is the inclusion of Corp assets as I have taken the CEO role and put a lot of ISK into our ventures.
Here is a sneak-peak at my top trading groups. As you can see Implants far outweigh the other items. When a person goes to replace their implants, you are not only selling 1 implant, but 4 or maybe 5, as people will replace the entire set.
I have not tested the market with Skill Hardwiring implants but now that they are visible on killmails, I may have to parse what ones are popular. Expansions always bring new trading opportunities, you just have to look for them. I might write something to scrape killmails and give me a report on what are the top 10 by volume per month.
There was a large growth in November compared to October due to a renewed effort into trading. I expect that December will be a good month as the introduction of the new Tier 3 Battlecruisers opens up many avenues. They are going to be popular and will die quickly.
Crucible Fuel BlocksPosted: 2011-11-17 Filed under: industry, market, pos | Tags: caldari, crucible, pos, tower 7 Comments
If you haven't read the upcoming POS fuel change, check it out on the CCP Devblog. Also read over Jester's review of the upcoming change as he outlines the modification of each fuel type.
Caldari Towers
How much, how big, and how long? Here are the estimates for running the three sizes of Caldari towers at current Jita fuel costs.
For one month a Large Caldari Control Tower will cost 360 M to run, 144,000 m3 of Fuel Blocks moved around, and 1.5 days of build time for the Fuel Blocks.
Icon Change
The current icon set doesn't differentiate the racial fuel blocks with color very well. James at k162space came up with more colorful icons to match the racial color styling as seen with the ECM modules.
CCP Proposed Icons
K162's Proposed Icons
James has posted in the comment thread for the devblog and we've received some feedback from CCP Dropbear on Twitter. Perhaps the art department will give it a second pass. We would be happy to send along the 256×256 transparent PNGs!
[Edit] As Poetic Stanziel pointed out, color-blind people will have an issue with our proposed icon set. I think if CCP were to add our colorization to the existing icons, which have different metal bases and frames, we could have a real solution.
POS Fuel CostsPosted: 2011-10-31 Filed under: industry, pos | Tags: caldari, coolant, enriched uranium, faction, fuel, heavy water, liquid ozone, mechanical parts, oxygen, pos, robotics, sansha 4 Comments
I'm a creator at heart and now that we have gotten back into sovereign nullsec, I want to setup a research POS. Working with eve.1019.net's POS planner, I setup a tower with six Advanced Mobile Laboratories to estimate fuel costs.
Two major events are increasing the cost to run a POS. GoonSwarm's Gallente Ice Interdiction campaign has driven up prices for not just Oxygen Isotopes. All Isotope prices have gone up due to market speculation and general Mackinaw killing campaigns.
Gallente towers are used for moon harvesting due to their bonus 100% bonus to Silo Cargo Capacity values. Since I will not be moon mining, I picked a Caldari tower which uses Nitrogen Isotopes.
Additionally the announcement of Player Control Customs Offices in the Winter Expansion has caused all PI products to rise in price due to market speculation. Practically every PI item has been affected with precious Robotics taking a hard hit.
With Isotopes consuming a large amount of the ISK to run the tower, any ice mining that we do as a corp will help bring down the costs.
Faction towers do have lower fuel requirements than Racial ones. Putting the same 6 labs on a True Sansha Control Tower shows a 44.2 M/month savings on fuel.
Sadly the high price of the faction towers means that it will take 3.5 years to make up the cost difference using the lower prices True Sansha variant at 1.99 B ISK.
Empire Research and POS AttackPosted: 2011-08-25 Filed under: industry, pos | Tags: lowsec, me, pirate, pos, research 11 Comments
In Empire space open Material Research slots are notoriously hard to find. To view Public slots in your area, go to your Science & Industry section, Installations tab, filter by Material Research / Any / Current Region / Public. This will show you just how full the slots are.
The saturation of slots in Empire is true for Material Research and Copy job activities while Time Efficiency and Invention slots are generally easy to find.
Why are Time Efficiency (PE) and Invention slots generally open in empire?
Adding PE to a BPO reduces a small amount of time off of the construction job. For example here are the build times for a Noctis at differing PE levels (doesn't account for character skill bonuses):
PE 5: 2 hours, 46 minutes
PE 10: 2 hours, 43 minutes
PE 20: 2 hours, 41 minutes
via games.chruker.dk
If getting it to PE 20 only save 5 minutes off of the build time, why even bother? A lot of small industrialists consider PE on a blueprint a bonus. The amount of time does scale with the job length so for long jobs such as capitals, PE can save a few hours and might be worth the investment. Also if you are planning on making 1,000 Noctii (?), then you will want to spend some research time adding PE to the BPO.
For invention, the jobs are quick. To invent a Cap Recharge II the job takes 2 hours and 30 minutes. I find that it is easier to run a batch of invention jobs and then spend a few weeks working on the invented T2 BPCs.
So what is the budding industrialist supposed to do when he or she wants access to a lot of ME and Copy slots? Why setup a POS of course! How exciting — hours of anchoring, fueling, and defense management! Can you tell I don't like POS management?
I stupidly setup my research POS in a lowsec dead-end system that has a lot of cyno traffic. I picked this system due to my Highsec proximity. Not to my surprise, a local pirate group had targeted the tower within two weeks.
One weeknight while I was out to dinner, I started to get frantic emails and text messages from corpmates who were seeing the in-game 'Under Attack' messages. When I got home I was able to cancel the research jobs, unanchor all of the labs, pull out the majority of the fuel, and online a bunch or hardeners just to make the job of taking the tower down more tedious; the amount of smack in local informed me that they were there to stay and finish what they had started.
Note to you pirates out there that think killing a POS with labs will get you billions of BPOs: you can run the jobs remotely. This means that the BPO is sitting in a Station in the corporation hangar. The research is done from the POS while the shiny BPO is locked up in the Station corporation hanger.
Second note to pirates: If you find a research tower in a system with NO station, then you have found something quite precious.
After the last hardener was setup, I logged off, watched some Netflix, and went to bed. After waking up and reviewing the Eve in-game alerts, it turns out that they did put the tower into Reinforced mode after 7 hours. I'm glad that the only POS bashing I have participated in on was with Supercarriers and Titans; subcapital POS bashing seems like a boring, boring task.
The lowsec pirates did camp the lowsec station that I was using as a base and stalked me into Empire while the tower was in Reinforced. I believe that they were gathering intel to see if I was going to mount a defense effort or possibly unanchor and save the tower. Having wrote off the costs of the POS project from the beginning, I wasn't interested in either. Saving the 700 M worth of labs was all I really cared about.
Two weeks later the POS still stands anchored, offline, and with damaged guns that need repair in order to unanchor and save the tower. For now I have no interest in saving it and I need to find a different method or location for getting ME and Copy slots.
No Country For Old MenPosted: 2010-03-23 Filed under: eveonline, ships, wormhole | Tags: eve online, fight, podded, pos, WH, wormhole 9 Comments
It was a harrowing end of the week.
I awoke Friday morning to an email to the effect of:
The POS has been attacked, and is sitting in reinforced. Somebody said they have a plan?
As it so often happens, the full story is slightly more complex, but only slightly. While pulling some ore from one of our remaining grav sites, a couple of our miners had gotten surprised by a handful of hostiles. Both were melted pretty quickly and sent packing back to empire by way of a swift podding. The band of hostiles, who had entered the system though a new K162, proceeded then to our POS and after about 3 hours, sent it into reinforced mode.
Getting two pilots killed certainly left us down in terms of raw staff manning the WH, and at present I'm certainly not flying anything with firepower enough to repel anything save a starter frigate. We had no real eyes on the system, although the senior pilots had moved some of their ships to safe areas and logged the characters off. Blake and I, both still at work, started to muse about our possibilities via gChat. We decided that there were only a handful of viable scenarios.
They don't make em like they used to.Posted: 2010-03-04 Filed under: eveonline, wormhole | Tags: capital, carrier, Damark, die, eve, eve online, explode, fight, killed, pos, pvp, Twin Paradox, WH, wormhole 10 Comments
Sometimes, you go into a situation and you know exactly what you're doing. Don't let the fact that I myself have never found myself in that scenario from the offset deter you, you'll eventually find yourself warping into a fleet fight knowing exactly who to primary, why to do it and which board game to pull out once the lag hits.
More often, tho, you'll enter a scenario that you honestly have no idea how to operate in. This will usually be made painfully obvious when someone who DOES know EXACTLY what the hell they're doing comes along and tears you to pieces, possibly throwing a free trip back to empire in the process. Smart people learn from this process. Idiots complain.
I'd like to talk about one certain idiot given his explosive comupperance, and for the first time on this blog, it isn't me. Also for the first time, I wasn't involved at all except for offering assistance and cheering from the sidelines.
So, yesterday, it's a typical day in my life:
Channel Name: WSpace Colonists
Listener: Indiego Montoya
Indiego Montoya > burnin fast, burin last, on the long distant road, through the lost mountians endless so far away from hooooooome
Indiego Montoya > de dedede dede dee de de do do do de de de do dedede de do
Indiego Montoya > dee de de de dede dee dee de do do do de dedede dede dededede doooo
When suddenly my perfect rendition of Dragonforce is interrupted by people wanting to talk.
[ 2010.03.01 15:11:53 ] Damark > haav i have serious business
[ 2010.03.01 15:11:59 ] Damark > stop muddying up the channel
[ 2010.03.01 15:12:02 ] Indiego Montoya > omg wai so srs.
[ 2010.03.01 15:12:15 ] Indiego Montoya > wht is ur srz bzns?
[ 2010.03.01 15:13:40 ] Damark > it actually is srs
[ 2010.03.01 15:13:43 ] Damark > so thats not funny
[ 2010.03.01 15:13:48 ] Damark > srs alliance
[ 2010.03.01 15:13:49 ] Indiego Montoya > well, crap on a stick.
[ 2010.03.01 15:13:56 ] Indiego Montoya > that's not good.
Yes, apparently a serious-sounding alliance had found Damark, a dude who lives in a C3 w/ static highsec and laughs at most of my jokes. Damark came online to his corp's small tower in reinforced, his true sansha large and other large untouched, and a caldari large not owned by him online in his system, owned by SRS business, some sort of alliance none of us had ever heard of, because we stopped caring about normal space a few months after each of us got into a WH. As per the non-agression pact we have, me and several other corps started informing corp mates, pressing Damark for info and offering ships, isk to hire Noir and gun modules.
It was at about this point that Damark announced that the dude operating the pos had anchored moon mining arrays.
He anchored moon mining arrays.
Moon mining arrays. In a area of space where, to keep nullsec alliances from gaining intrest and other stupid reasons, moon mining is impossible. This was, we had thought, fairly common knowledge. It gets better.
With that one statement, most of us went from talking to merc corps, panicky trying to get Noir(for all your overwhelming force needs!) on the horn, friends in high paces, friends in null places about any assistance they could offer to informing their friends that the dude had just anchored moon mining arrays and having a good laugh.
The dude then anchored cruise missile batteries.
The laughter continued. For the uninformed, cruise missile batteries provide dps on about cruiser level, are the only gun to stop firing once the pos goes into reinforced and can be speed tanked extremely effectively.
He then anchored hardeners, one of each, the first REASONABLE move to make all morning. Damark started checking the fitting on one of his BSs, an armageddon. After a few minutes, where the BS was clearly visible on the directional scanner, he offlines an EM hardener and onlines a second kinetic hardener. This sounds reasonable, until you know that towers have an inherent 25% resist to kinetic, and amarr ships deal EM/thermal.
At this point, we've stopped laughing and assume that there's trickery afoot. No one could be this stupid. At some point, the follwing conversation takes place:
[ 2010.03.01 14:50:18 ] Corpmate > yea youre in my hole
[ 2010.03.01 14:53:39 ] Cpt Kabaal > it could be a good thing if ya were so hostile about it, i mean we are moving in, thats a fact, now we can work things out instead of the alternative
[ 2010.03.01 14:54:20 ] Bizmarcks > or we can destroy your pos and kick you out
[ 2010.03.01 14:54:57 ] Corpmate > yea thats a good alternative
[ 2010.03.01 14:55:16 ] Cpt Kabaal > Its your Choice lol
[ 2010.03.01 16:47:12 ] Bizmarcks > did you finally realise you cant moon mine in here ?
[ 2010.03.01 16:47:15 ] Bizmarcks > this aint null boy
Prompting more laughter, as the one thing WHers can't stand, besides russians(most of them, can't speak for everyone) is idiots. But the one thing above that, that will enrage a WH dweller to the point of scorched earth strategy, is when someone starts acting smug and claiming your home as his own.
The second reason that we apologized to our individual friends and that there wasn't any threat that needed dealing with is that Damark is one of those peculiar paranoid people(90% of eve) that builds carriers in places that mass limitations on WHs forbid carriers from entering.
Thus, with advice from CCRES(thanks guys, you still scare the hell outta us) and SI radio, a Minmatar carrier and five BSs put all the guns into incapacitated, removing the laughable cruiser-sized dps, prompting this convo:
[ 2010.03.02 06:16:25 ] Cpt Kabaal > i sry my ceo hired the mercs to rape you
[ 2010.03.02 06:16:44 ] Damark > lol those were mercs?
[ 2010.03.02 06:16:48 ] Damark > i hope you didnt pay too much
[ 2010.03.02 06:16:59 ] Cpt Kabaal > didnt pay at all actually
[ 2010.03.02 06:18:07 ] Damark > well thanks for explaining this incredibly too easy to explain coincidence
[ 2010.03.02 06:19:34 ] Cpt Kabaal > its not over rest asured
See previous comments about smug idiots.
More bashing. Damark gets convo'ed by the alliance leader.
[ 2010.03.02 03:58:18 ] thebarry > so i'm carebearing in high sec, right?
[ 2010.03.02 03:58:36 ] Damark > and you start getting messages
[ 2010.03.02 03:58:40 ] Damark > saying a POS is under attack?
[ 2010.03.02 03:58:43 ] thebarry > and one of my alliance mates convos me like 'um, i have a prob, my pos is being attacked'
[ 2010.03.02 03:58:48 ] thebarry > yes!
[ 2010.03.02 03:58:54 ] Damark > yea funny story
[ 2010.03.02 03:59:02 ] Damark > he moved into my hole
[ 2010.03.02 03:59:10 ] thebarry > and now i've discovered that the reason you are so motivated
[ 2010.03.02 03:59:13 ] thebarry > is that
[ 2010.03.02 03:59:14 ] thebarry > yes
[ 2010.03.02 03:59:18 ] thebarry > he is in your wh
[ 2010.03.02 03:59:23 ] Damark > yes he sure is
[ 2010.03.02 03:59:26 ] Damark > not for much longer tho
The CEO offers to remove the dude, and Damark requests 400 mil to let him leave peacefully, fully intending to steal the tower. SRS makes the first smart move all day and respectfully declined. Then make another stupid move.
[ 2010.03.02 04:02:46 ] thebarry > i'm sorry it took so long for me to realise it was your wh
[ 2010.03.02 04:02:48 ] thebarry > btw
[ 2010.03.02 04:03:02 ] thebarry > are you guyz interested in joining a new alliance?
[ 2010.03.02 04:03:08 ] thebarry > we could always use mroe help
[ 2010.03.02 04:03:14 ] thebarry > more too
[ 2010.03.02 04:03:57 ] Damark > not as of yet
What the hell are they smoking and can I have some?
An agreement is made and instantly collapses.
[ 2010.03.02 04:11:47 ] thebarry > ok buddy is going to get back to pos to start offlining and unachoring stuff
[ 2010.03.02 04:11:49 ] thebarry > plz dun shoot
[ 2010.03.02 04:12:01 ] Damark > if i have 400mil in my wallet in the next 27min i wont
[ 2010.03.02 04:14:10 ] thebarry > there will be no isk payments, sorry
[ 2010.03.02 04:14:28 ] thebarry > it's not my pos, and tbh it would teach a valuable lesson
[ 2010.03.02 04:14:47 ] thebarry > i may be tempted to run a viator's worth of stront to it, tho
[ 2010.03.02 04:14:57 ] thebarry > …just saying
[ 2010.03.02 04:15:12 ] Damark > lol so your saying it has no stront now?
[ 2010.03.02 04:15:14 ] Damark > ahahah
[ 2010.03.02 04:15:22 ] Damark > you shouldnt give this guy anchoring writes
[ 2010.03.02 04:15:50 ] thebarry > hahaha
For the record, it had one hour of strontium.
[ 2010.03.02 04:35:46 ] thebarry > man wtf are you having so many probs with that wh
[ 2010.03.02 04:35:49 ] thebarry > for?
[ 2010.03.02 04:35:54 ] Damark > it was just yesterday
[ 2010.03.02 04:36:01 ] Damark > otehr than yesterday and today its be awesome
[ 2010.03.02 04:36:02 ] Damark > lol
[ 2010.03.02 04:36:09 ] thebarry > haha
[ 2010.03.02 04:36:20 ] thebarry > well, sounds like you could use some alliance buddies to help
[ 2010.03.02 04:36:42 ] Damark > nah
[ 2010.03.02 04:36:53 ] thebarry > just htink, if you were in a alliance you wouldnt have lost the small pos!
You think I'm kidding? Whatever they're smoking. I wanna have no intelligence whatsoever for the next few hours.
The alliance lead pulls the dude into the private chat.
[ 2010.03.02 06:29:07 ] thebarry > i think his ceo is still in the wh
[ 2010.03.02 06:29:09 ] thebarry > with ships
[ 2010.03.02 06:29:12 ] thebarry > or something
[ 2010.03.02 06:29:22 ] thebarry > he said he apologized to you
[ 2010.03.02 06:29:35 ] Damark > yea and then treatened me
[ 2010.03.02 06:29:39 ] thebarry > this is way too much dramarama for me
[ 2010.03.02 06:29:42 ] Damark > no shit
[ 2010.03.02 06:29:48 ] thebarry > i need to get back to spreadsheets
[ 2010.03.02 06:29:52 ] thebarry > don't you understand?
[ 2010.03.02 06:30:00 ] Damark > yea man
[ 2010.03.02 06:30:09 ] Damark > and we need to get back to reacting sleeper shit
[ 2010.03.02 06:30:19 ] Damark > and captain needs to get back to moon goo in wh's
[ 2010.03.02 06:30:26 ] Cpt Kabaal > sry bro
[ 2010.03.02 06:30:40 ] Cpt Kabaal > was just trying to mind my own buissness
[ 2010.03.02 06:30:48 ] Damark > by shitting on my lawn?
[ 2010.03.02 06:30:55 ] thebarry > hahaha
[ 2010.03.02 06:30:59 ] Damark > you dont anchor a pos in an occupied wh
[ 2010.03.02 06:31:02 ] thebarry > GET OFF HIS LAWN PLZ
[ 2010.03.02 06:31:05 ] Damark > unless you are looking for a fight
[ 2010.03.02 06:31:09 ] Damark > we brought one
[ 2010.03.02 06:31:14 ] Damark > and you cried to your alliance head
[ 2010.03.02 06:31:18 ] Damark > deal with it and gtfo
The CEO apologizes for blowing up the small tower, and offers another incentive to join his alliance.
[ 2010.03.02 06:39:21 ] thebarry > what did you lose?
[ 2010.03.02 06:40:25 ] Damark > every amar cruiser bpo and a majority of mislse bpos
[ 2010.03.02 06:40:43 ] Damark > i dunno tbh
[ 2010.03.02 06:40:47 ] Damark > it was a corpies project
[ 2010.03.02 06:40:50 ] Damark > hes rather angry
[ 2010.03.02 06:41:14 ] thebarry > i can imagine
[ 2010.03.02 06:41:23 ] thebarry > listen, we have research pos available
Is this standard alliance policy? Try to beat the crap out of someone, fail, and try to invite them into your alliance?
More threatening…
[ 2010.03.02 07:09:10 ] thebarry > haha
[ 2010.03.02 07:09:19 ] thebarry > i'm trying to save you damark
[ 2010.03.02 07:09:27 ] thebarry > i liek you
[ 2010.03.02 07:09:27 ] Damark > save me from what?
[ 2010.03.02 07:09:31 ] thebarry > you're funny
[ 2010.03.02 07:09:39 ] thebarry > from nasty ppl
[ 2010.03.02 07:09:40 ] Damark > Noir is the best merc corp in the game
[ 2010.03.02 07:09:44 ] thebarry > i know
[ 2010.03.02 07:09:54 ] Damark > and i have a shit tonne of isk to throw
[ 2010.03.02 07:09:55 ] thebarry > but they arent the only one, just trust me
[ 2010.03.02 07:10:00 ] thebarry > i like you, trying to help
For the record, the two large poses were anchored less than five AU from where he put up his moon mining caldari large.
Damark and his corpies bash the heck outta the large tower, using
1 x Minmitar carrier (cant recall the name)
2x geddon
2x typhoon
1x raven
1x rohk
1x hurricane
Ten boring hours later, it explodes, Rigby Jess and Daedalic omitted cause they passed out a few hours earlier.
tldr, carrier n friends stomp a WH pos into the ground after failed takeover.
February FailmailsPosted: 2010-02-28 Filed under: failmail | Tags: capital, carrier, dominix, dreadnought, freighter, pos, ships 3 Comments
I spend a lot of time reviewing killmails so here are some choice fails.
- 52.8 B Officer/T2 Erebus (Gallente Titan) link
- 155.3 B lowsec Obelisk (Gallente Freighter) link
- 2.4 M damage Power Diagnostic System II fitted Thanatos (Gallente Carrier) link
- Two SOLODRAKBANSOLODRAKBANSO Anshar's (Gallente Jump Freighter) killed by their own Alliance's POS 3.8 B link and 4.4 B link
- 7x Warp Core fitted Dominix killed in lowsec link
- Heavy Pulse Laser II fitted Dominix link
- Phoenix (Caldari Dreadnought) taken out by a POS link
- Mixed fit Dominix link
- NPC killed Thanatos (Gallente Carrier) link
- 3.0 B Charon (Caldari Freighter) link


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During the Edo period (1603-1868), Japan was finally unified and pacified, after the long struggles in the Medieval Period. During this period of domination by the Tokugawa, the warrior class, whose seizure of power from the Emperor marked the beginning of the Kamakura Period, became a sort of new nobility in the pacified society. Naturally, the tea ceremony remained their prerogative in a fixed form. However, society was going through deep changes, and urban merchants and intellectuals were becoming richer and gaining more importance, in particular in Edo, the new capital city and future Tokyo.
In these conditions, scholars began turning towards a new tea in the seventeenth century, thus marking a rejection of the set, rigid nature of the tea ceremony. Once again, it concerned tea from China, which was known as tô-cha 唐茶 at the time, and corresponded to what we now call kama-iri-cha 釜炒り茶. This is the green tea that appeared in China during the Ming Period. Oxidation of the leaves is stopped by heating them in a large wok. The leaves are then stirred, rolled, dried, and then finally infused. For preparing this tea, the monk Ingen 隠元 (1592-1673) brought back from China tools that were probably close to those used for gong fu cha 工夫茶 (a Chinese method for preparing tea that spread from Fujian Province). We know that Kôyûgai 高遊外 (1675-1763), also known by the name of Baisaô 売茶翁 (the old man who sells tea), criss-crossed Japan getting those who crossed his path to try tea. Thanks to his poems, we are able to surmise that he used a cha hu 茶壷-type teapot identical to those used in China at that time.
Scholars were also attracted by the fact that the tea produced was translucent, instead of opaque like matcha.
A tea with beautiful translucent liquor thus seems to have been sought after at the time. In 1738, by combining aspects of methods for making matcha and kama-iri-cha, a producer in Uji, Kyôto, Nagatani Sôen 永谷宗円, created the process for making what we now call sencha 煎茶! Freshly picked leaves are heated with vapor in order to stop oxidation, and then dried while being stirred and rolled over heat for a long time. The tea is then brewed in a teapot. Nagatani presented his tea to the famous Nihonbashi Yamamoto-ya 山本屋 shop (today's Yamamoto-yama 山本山) in Edo. The tea was received enthusiastically. Little by little, production of this sencha spread throughout all of Japan, although kama-iri-cha continued to dominate. Actually, Nagatani did not invented sencha, as at the same time, others people were trying to make steamed leaves green tea, but elaborated the making process that will be the model and will be develop.
Later, in 1835, gyokuro 玉露 appeared. Its production method is not much different from that of sencha, except that, as with matcha, the tea plants are covered for several days before harvesting. This invention is attributed to Yamamoto Kahee 山本嘉兵衛 the sixth, but there are other versions of the story. Made using Kyôto tea, it was clearly a luxurious product.
We should also note that covering tea plants was authorized only in Uji, Kyôto at the time.
Finally, during the Edo Period, all of these new teas, sencha, gyokuro, tô-cha, remained, like matcha, reserved for a minority of wealthy city-dwellers. A list of prices at Yamamoto-yama from the end of the Edo Period shows matchas at incredible prices, which only the richest could have afforded, and even senchas remained very expensive. We can imagine that these products were meant for the luxurious restaurants that were opening in the middle of the Edo Period, at the precise time sencha appeared.
The rest of the population, especially in the countryside, continued to drink banchas 番茶, which are very simple, highly diverse teas. What seems to have been the most widespread bancha in Japan was the "kama-iri" type, which was made by cutting almost the entire tea plant to take all the leaves. Oxidation was stopped by direct heating in a large iron frying pan or pot, and then the leaves were stirred very roughly on a mat. When they became sticky, juicy, they were heated again and then stirred again, reheated, and so on until they were completely dry. The tea obtained in this way was prepared by being boiled in a large kettle. It was made in the morning, and then the kettle was left over the fire all day. When no tea was left, boiling water was added to the same leaves. (Since the tea was coarsely stirred, the leaves were not very damaged, and so they infused little and slowly.)
Generally, this tea was made for home use. Nonetheless, producing this tea was encouraged as a source of additional income, which leads us to think that it was also sold in cities as a tea for the common people.
Moreover, since these types of tea were brown, and produced liquor that was brown also, there is no doubt that Nagatani Sôen's sencha was inspired by his desire to create a Japanese tea that was green like the matcha from Kyoto. On top of it all, sencha could be produced anywhere in Japan.
Towards the end of the Edo Period, the arrival of Perry in 1853 and the opening of Japan the following year was a decisive turning point in the history of Japan, but also in that of Japanese tea.
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Thursday, February 9, 2017
Yakla. Arabic for Dieppe, or Normandy, or neither, or what..?
But...since this is supposed to be a blog about military affairs and geopolitics...let me concentrate on one specific issue involving one single episode in this farcical miniseries and what is says, not just about the Barely Sentient Administration but about the whole business we've been doing in the Middle East since 2001; the raid on the village of Yakla in Yemen.
And the issue is this: "winning"
"...a winning mission..." is the exact phrase that the Tangerine Toddler Twitterblurted out (attributing it to his SecDef, mind you).
As I noted in the preceding post, first, I have no idea what the actual objective(s) of this raid was or were, and, second, I have no idea whether that objective or objectives was or were achieved. And, indeed, if it was in intel-gathering operation we will probably NEVER know, and rightly so. Whatever intelligence was obtained will be hidden and used to guide future operations, as it should be.
If the intelligence desired was obtained, then, in the strictest sense even a raid that seems to have fallen apart tactically, cost over 100 million dollars as well as dozens of lives - innocent, friendly and enemy - and has provided cause for at least one of the "governments" of Yemen to first revoke and then to request a "review" of U.S. ground operations in their portion of that wretched land can be called a "success".
The entire farrago about this mission "winning" or "failing" just point out to me two problems.
First, and specific to this administration, that Five-Deferment Donnie has no more idea of how actual military operations, campaigns, and wars work than a fucking Jersey cow knows about the proceedings of the Council of Trent. The "winning" nonsense is that's just how a simpleminded derp thinks war works, and the orange Amway salesman has never been closer to combat than the concession line where American Sniper was playing, so that's just how he thinks.
But people like Mattis should know better, and tell him so. I suspect that he did, and that the joker didn't listen, or understand.
Second, and worse, generic to our nation and our foreign policy, that we're even debating about whether some piddly-ass little airmobile raid was a "win" or a "failure" points out the degree that ALL of us; the press, the public, the military and civil authorities in the United States have no real fucking clue what the fuck we are doing in the Middle East.
Because, quite simply, this Yakla raid is part of a much larger, much more complex...something. A "(Sort of) War on (Certain Kinds of People Who Use Certain Kinds of) Terror". A "clash of civilizations". A Great Power cabinet war gone out of control. A...well, I have no fucking idea, actually, and what pisses me off is that I'll bet you and Joe and Molly and Steve Fucking Bannon have no fucking idea, either.
The Yemen raid was something of a tactical mess. But, more importantly, we don't know what our actual goals are in Yemen and whether (or how much) this raid got us closer to them, or not.
In August of 1942 the Brits attacked the French Channel port of Dieppe. The raid was a fiasco, thousands of Allied troops were killed or captured, and the Nazi hierarchy exulted in their success. But the Allies learned a ton from Dieppe, so the next time they came ashore in France it opened the road all the way to the Elbe.
Is this raid Dieppe, or Normandy, or what?
We have no context. We can't possibly know.
And that's a huge problem. If you have no idea what your end-state is (or, worse, if your end-state is something utterly impossible, such as "the utter defeat of radical Islamic terrorism") then how the hell do you know when you've reached it. How do you know whether Operation Yemen Derp, or whatever, has gotten you closer, or further away, or sideways, or where the hell you are?
the usually-unnamed "Pentagon officials" it appears that this raid did not manage to acquire any particularly valuable information.
If that is indeed the case, then - given the loss of life and material - it seems fairly reasonable to write this operation off. Whether or not that loss has significantly affected the U.S. interests in Yemen, or whether the U.S. should be considered to even have interests in Yemen, is still nearly impossible to tell given the overall level of secrecy surrounding this war in the shadows.
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The Dieppe Raid was conducted mostly Canadians, the grunts anyways. It is a big deal up there because the fiasco was based on Limeys' faulty, non existent, massaged, withheld, intel. For a similar fiasco, see Arnhem of a bridge too far fame and general "Boy Browning," and his exploits.ReplyDelete
I think we'll be seeing more of these as El Presidente Bannon figures out how to military through his feeble left-tenant Pina heffe Trump.ReplyDelete
On this subject, sheerah, Bannon is actually the least of my worries. There's a frightening little piece over at Tomdispatch about the crusading fantasies of a bunch of the Trumpeters.Delete
Flynn, for example, says that America's enemies list includes: "...North Korea and China to Russia, Iran, Syria, Cuba, Bolivia, Venezuela, and Nicaragua...al-Qaeda, Hezbollah, ISIS, and countless other terrorist groups....the merging of narcotics traffickers, organized criminals, and terrorists." (Flynn has claimed that "Mexican drug cartels" actually post signs at the U.S.-Mexican border -- in Arabic, no less -- marking "lanes of entry" for Islamic terrorists.)
His top assistant is someone named K.T. McFarland. Here's her take on the world around us, that we face an: "apocalyptic death cult... the most virulent and lethal in history...radical Islam. If we do not destroy the scourge of radical Islam, it will ultimately destroy Western civilization... and the values we hold dear."
Pompeo, at the CIA, claims that we're already in a global war of Good versus Evil: we're in a global religious war, "the kind of struggle this country has not faced since its great wars." Part of the key to survival, as he sees it, is for "more politicians of faith to infuse the government with their beliefs and get the nation back on track, instead of bowing to secularism." Great...so the answer to islamic theocracy is...Christian theocracy! Good call, Mike!
Here's the rest of the article: http://www.tomdispatch.com/blog/176239/tomgram%3A_ira_chernus,_now_who%27s_the_enemy
So even if Bannon takes a weekend at Camp Kraft-durch-Freude all these other looney toons will surely be all over the Great War On Islam (and North Korea and Mexican drug cartels, oh my!).
But thank heaven we don't have to worry about Killery and her e-mails!
No comparison. The ground forces at Dieppe had 60% kia, wia or captured; well over 3300. And that does not count the 600 plus dead Sailors and Airmen.ReplyDelete
Agree that Mad Mike Flynn truly deserves his nickname. But maybe he will get the boot now that someone in the FBI dimed him on his phonecon with the Russkies.
Don't know anything about McFarland. Does she mean all that or was she just job-hunting when she said it?
Pompeo is IMHO just an opportunist. How else do you explain a Californian born and bred who goes to Kansas to et elected?
I agree with sheerakahn though about El Presidente Bannon. He is the one that got Trump elected. He is the one who whispers in his ear. The Cardinal of the White House. The other three plus the Merc are Trumpettes.Replies
The comparison, mike, is that the Allies "lost" Dieppe. Had the London Times and Bevin and Cordell Hull and George Marshall and FDR had to bloviate about "who lost Dieppe" and go after each other like it was the Last Battle of the War...well, it might well have been.Delete
But it wasn't. The Allies had a clearly defined set of war aims. Dieppe was a setback, in 1942...that turned out to provide a number of lessons learned that made Normandy 1944 a success.
But the peoples, leaders, and news organizations KNEW that; they knew that Dieppe was a setback, not a "win", but also not a disaster. There was a rational way to assess the relative damage that the failure did (as well as a way to move forward using the lessons of the failure.
THAT's my point. We have no idea. Was this a SOE team grabbed by the Gestapo? A successful munitions train dynamited by the OSS? Was this Dieppe? Or was this actually Utah Beach, opening the way forward to whatever-the-fuck-the U.S.-strategic-objective-is-in-Yemen?
And for that matter...what ARE our strategic objectives there? Do we have any? If we do, do they make military and/or geopolitical sense?
ISTM we're arguing about whether the fucking appetizer is tasty or revolting while the restaurant may or may not be burning down around us.
Good points!Delete
I've stood on the beaches of Dieppe and looked at the chateau on top of the cliff. It was a stupid disaster and very little was learned that could not be learned by thinking things over for, say, 30 seconds.Delete
Things like: Don't land in the smack in the middle of a defended port surrounded by fortifications on top of cliffs manned by angry Germans. If you do land in the middle of fortifications, maybe know where they are before they start shooting at you? Coordinate with the airforce before, during and after the landing. Don't land tanks on flint beaches. If you know you aren't staying, make sure you have a workable way to get folks back on the exiting landing craft.
Mountbatten (who claimed that he wasn't like other men and had never made a mistake (including the partition of India)) needed a reason why it was not a mistake. So he came up with the "lessons learned" story. And yes, Normandy was done differently, but it was two years later and lots of stuff would have been differently without Dieppe.
I personally think it was a SOP to Stalin because there was no second front and Stalingrad was looming, so they needed to make some noise and the Canadians were eager for action (poor fools).
Operation Biting (Bruneval Raid) is the proper analogy, I suppose:ReplyDelete
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Mountbatten certainly presided over the disastrous plan at Dieppe. He was probably only given the job as Chief of COH because of his links to the British throne, and perhaps for his actions at Crete and Norway as a destroyer flotilla commander. IMHO he never should have gotten that job, at least not without an experienced minder.
But many think that he took the blame for Churchill. And also for the RAF who devised the plan in the first place in order to lure the Luftwaffe into another "Battle of Britain", but this time over the French coast. Prior to late summer of 42 the Luftwaffe fighter squadrons had played coy and only engaged RAF fighters when they were low on fuel an far in the French interior. So the bright boys at RAF Fighter Command thought that a major raid on the coast would give them an opportunity to seriously attrit Luftwaffe forces in northern France. But instead their Spitfires got handled badly by the new Focke-Wulf 190s. They claimed a tactical victory in the air but lost twice as many aircaft as the Luftwaffe, and provided little or no close air support to their troops on the ground.
In the long run, by 1945, that two lost for every one Luftwaffe aircraft shot down worked. But only because of the superior productivity of US/Canadian/Brit aircraft industry.
As for partition: Vishnu, Mohammed, and JC himself could not have prevented that bloodbath. But we can probably fairly blame Mountbatten for the Kashmir mess still going on 70 years later. He thought Kashmir should go to India temporarily until a referendum election of the residents could be held. He got sucked in on that one.
It's20-20 hindsight to argue that attacking a fortified port was a mistake. Remember that in '42 the over-the-shore landing craft and Mulberry jetties were still in the draft stages. Conventional wisdom insisted a conventional port had to be seized by D+2 or so to supply the landings. We know better now, but I think you're being too hard on the planners of '42. I do agree that the timing had a lot to do w placating Stalin.ReplyDelete
But...my point here isn't to refight Dieppe, but to point out that talking about "losing" or "winning" Yakla is as senseless as debating "losing" at Dieppe. Yes, Dieppe WAS a "loss"...on the way to winning the larger war. It makes no more sense to get hung up on whether Yakla was a "winning mission" than it would have to have had the screaming fantods about "losing" at Dieppe.
The huge difference is that in '42 we knew what the endstate that would be a "win" in Europe would be. I argue that we have no such idea - or have a realistic way of getting one - what "winning" in Yemen would look like so there's no way to assess the cost, or benefit, of this raid...Replies
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Understand your point about Yakla. I for one hope not to get drawn into senseless debates with Donald the Drama Queen and his cheerleaders. Tomorrow will be another circle jerk.
Disagree about over-the-shore-landing-craft still being in the 'draft stages' in '42. Although there probably were not enough available at that time. They unfortunately had a low production priority.
Agree on the landing craft, and my understanding is that Dieppe (as well as the island campaigns in the Pacific) is one of the big reasons that they got bumped way up in priority.Delete
Off-topic, what I think is kind of interesting is that while the Army never really went beyond the basic LCI/LCM/LST sorts of landing craft in the ETO the Marines reeeeeally like having a landing vehicle that could crawl up out of the surf and the result - the LVT series of vehicles - has effectively replaced the barge-hull landing craft for over-the-shore assaults...
Sorry Chief,Delete
I'm a little sensitive over Dieppe.
I knew people who fought and were abandoned there.
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The LVTs originaly known as Amphibious Tractors or AMTRACs were developed for breaching both coral reefs and swampland. Prior to and just after WW1 a young visionary Marine intelligence officer by the name of Earl Ellis anticipated a war in the Pacific. In 1921 he detailed many of the tactical, technical, and logistical problems to be overcome for military operations in Micronesia. The AMTRACs originally came out of that, he did not design them but he laid out the need.
Ellis's foresight, and some say genius, had a dark side. He was a heavy drinker and ended up dying possibly of alcoholism in the Palau Islands in 1923. There was originally some suspicion that he was the victim of assassination by the Japanese military. But he had a history of the DTs and depression and may have died of cirrhosis. He was only 43.
Not long later at the Marine base in Quantico VA, a local commander sponsored the 'Gallipolli Lectures & Studies' to determine what went wrong with the British amphibious campaign at Gallipoli and why did it go wrong. Many recommendations were made that eventually went into Marine Corps amphibious planning & doctrine, which much later was adopted by the Army. But one item that again influenced the development of the AMTRAC was the realization that a swimming tracked vehicle could deliver men and supplies well past the high-tide line or even inland. Therefore avoiding the congested nightmare at the waterline that characterized the Gallipoli disaster. That became another requirement for the AMTRAC. The Army developed the DUKW out of that idea, but my understanding was that the DUKW was never seaworthy in heavy swells and high surf and had no protection against small arms fire.
What went wrong at Gallipolli was what went wrong with the American invasions at Anzio and Salerno. The mistake was again repeated in Normandy and Inchon, though with less consequences there:Delete
An insufficient exploitation on day one. Such landings were the equivalent of 1916's and 1917's offensives; few kilometres advance on the first day, then stuck the advance was too slow and hostile reserves were able to seal the breakthrough.
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Agree about "insufficient-exploitation-on-day-one". That was at the top of the discussion list back in the late 1920s/early 1930s at Quantico during those case studies. Every participant had been provided a copy of British BGen Aspinall-Oglander's official account of the military operations at Gallipoli. They went through it page by page and through constructive criticism established how better exploitation could have been achieved before D+1:
- careful selection of landing beaches;
- NGF and aerial attack of the beachhead area prior to and during the landing;
- smarter loading of high priority cargo on ships;
- better debarkation procedures;
- guidance methods for ship to shore movement to avoid landing on the wrong beach or in the wrong sequence;
- need for specialized equipment and boats;
- training for surf & inshore currents by boat coxswains;
- management of logistics at the beachline;
- early on use of CAS;
- well-aimed NGF called in by naval gunnery officer observers with the forward line of troops;
- early landing of assault force artillery; etc.
The Fifth Army at Salerno ignored some of these precepts, mostly upfront by trying to achieve surprise which turned out to be non-existent. Anzio (again the Fifth Army!) was a swampy basin surrounded by mountains and never should have been selected as a beachhead. Inchon was due to MacArthur's insistence on landing at and capturing the port instead of going in at suitable landing beaches nearby. Plus these above precepts were never considered at Dieppe.
And although Yakla was not an amphibious op I reckon they made some of the same mistakes Fifth Army did at Salerno. Most probably due to political reasons. But at least we are now free of Mad Mike Flynn. Maybe he can now get a job at a certain pizza house in Washington DC?
By the way, those case studies back in the 20s and 30s were done during lunch hour or after hours in the base chapel or in quarters by young Turk officers to camouflage the effort from the base commander who was opposed to it. And especially to conceal it from General MacArthur who at the time as Army Chief of Staff was attempting to transfer the bulk of the Marine Corps into the Army and just leave them a small ragtag force for the security of Naval Bases. Their first draft of a "Tentative Manual for Landing Operations 1934" was neither precisely written nor neatly printed, and the binding was reputed to be a bootlace. But it was quickly improved and after MacArthur left Washington it was adopted word-for-word by the Army. Too bad Fifth Army did not follow it in Italy.Replies
BTW, MacArthur gets too much credit for the invasion at Inchon.Delete
The Japanese did the very same decades earlier:
The way to go on such an invasion is to land a few protected scout cars and a few trucks really soon and simply send off a couple platoons forward to sow confusion. Reports about paras landed 50 km inland don't have the same effect on a corps HQ as do reports about motorised columns already being 50 km inland. Those daring spearheads could have 90% CAS firepower, so they could take on much larger forces, particularly when exploiting surprise.
I am still somewhat confused by the German breakout at Sedan 1940. The Germans had built a bridgehead and brought their already tired Panzerdivisionen across the pontoon bridge, but the French actually had multiple divisions in a ring around this bridgehead - their force density should have sufficed to prevent the breakout. So instead of getting embarrassed because of insufficient bridgehead expansion on day one they did cut through the hasty defensive positions like hot knife through butter. I've never seen a good explanation for it, and suspect there may be some interesting lesson buried.
@Sven: "BTW, MacArthur gets too much credit for the invasion at Inchon."ReplyDelete
Re your scout car spearheads. At Inchon the Navy sent in a Lieutenant along with a few ROK officers two weeks prior to the invasion to sow panic with the KPA and collect intel. After Inchon they continued hopping up the coast to the Yalu causing panic which eventually kept Kim Il Sung and his government on the run.
At Sedan I understood that Huntziger's 2nd Army had all substandard divisions filled with untrained reservists and obsolete weapons. Huntziger was a colonial general and had little experience outside of the mideast. Plus Gamelin, the French Army CinC, tried to use WW1 tactics.
Late to the party but . . . Op Biting (as SO points out) may be a similar template to the raid in question, but I think it misses the point. Biting was a tactical raid that coherently fit into an overall strategy (very crudely, end: military defeat of Nazi Germany to permit political negotiation of peace in Europe; ways: achieve air superiority; means: exploit technological advantages).ReplyDelete
Yakla doesn't appear to fit into a coherent strategy. The ends are unknown, so ways and means have nothing to bind them together. Maybe the raid fit into a larger tactical picture, but that still isn't framed in any apparent strategy.
Worse, it appears (based on reviewing open source info) that SOF keeps using the same template over and over again. Blackadder had a thing or two to say about using the same plan eighteen times in a row.


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Personally, I haven't read them all – but I have read the Understanding Microsoft Virtualization Solutions book – mainly to make sure that I can keep up with some of my more technical colleagues and customers, and to understand what the true potential can be in different scenarios.
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