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A Warm Welcome to the FBHP Website
Date posted: Saturday 7th September 2013
A quick update for early autumn:
Deer in the parks – we can't say this too often it seems, but even in the last week I have noticed a change in the demeanour of the deer; having been placid for the last few months the hormones are kicking in. Please do take care with dogs around the deer and encourage others to do so. My "boys†totally ignore them but I still put their leads on and keep my distance.
The leaves are already coming off a variety of trees. This is partly due to the drought conditions. Shedding leaves conserves the amount of water they use. The full extent of this year's drought will not be apparent until spring / summer 2014. The browning seen in the Horse Chestnuts is as a result of a Leaf Miner whose larvae burrow between the leaf laminae causing premature death. Because next years buds are already formed, it does not impact on the long term survival of these trees.
A reminder that on 26th September Dr Tom Greeves will be giving us a talk on Exploring the Archaeology of Bushy Park 20 Years Ago at the usual venue St John Ambulance Hall, Park Road, Teddington. Come along for a drink and a chat from 7.15pm.
Royal Parks Foundation Ultra run takes place on Sunday 6th October, and finishes in Upper Lodge car park, Bushy Park. RPF are looking for people to help manage the event they will provide a full briefing, t-shirt and food for volunteers. Further information is in our news section. To get involved please email firstname.lastname@example.com
And finally the committee works hard on behalf of its members but it is mindful that within the membership there will exist very different opinions and responses to situations that arise. In respect of planning applications we would always encourage individuals to express their own opinions, we will endeavour to make you aware of any planning applications that we think may be of interest.
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Caroline Wilhelmina of Brandenburg-Ansbach
16 of 36 portraits of Caroline Wilhelmina of Brandenburg-Ansbach
© National Portrait Gallery, London
Caroline Wilhelmina of Brandenburg-Ansbach
by George Vertue, after Sir Godfrey Kneller, Bt
line engraving, engraved 1718 (1716)
13 1/2 in. x 8 in. (343 mm x 202 mm) paper size
Given by Sir Herbert Henry Raphael, 1st Bt, 1916
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- Caroline Wilhelmina of Brandenburg-Ansbach (1683-1737), Queen of George II. Sitter in 36 portraits.
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- Sir Godfrey Kneller, Bt (1646-1723), Portrait painter. Artist associated with 1686 portraits, Sitter associated with 30 portraits.
- George Vertue (1683-1756), Engraver and antiquary. Artist associated with 864 portraits, Sitter in 7 portraits.
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Current affairsCharles Spencer, 3rd Earl of Sunderland becomes first Lord of the Treasury, the most influential political post in Britain at this time.
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Marrow Controversy; an ecclesiastical dispute breaks out in Scotland over the doctrine of atonement.
Art and scienceProper motion of the stars is discovered by Astronomer Royal Edmond Halley.
Inventor James Puckle patents an early form of machine gun known as the Puckle Gun.
InternationalCharles XII of Sweden dies in mysterious circumstances and is succeeded by his sister Ulrika Eleonora.
Quadruple Alliance formed as the Holy Roman Empire joins the Triple Alliance to prevent the Spanish changing the terms of the Treaty of Utrecht. War of the Quadruple Alliance begins against Spain until 1720. George Byng, 1st Viscount Torrington is made Admiral of the Fleet and thwarts Spanish attempts to take Sicily at the Battle of Cape Passaro.
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Sansa clip not showing album art
For whatever reason, editing an image that my Sandisk can display in MS Paint makes it undisplayable. The only difference I found in an MS Paint edited image is that Paint adds an orientation tag to the original image, where the original had no metadata at all. I removed this tag to see if that would fix the problem, but it didn't. As far as I know both images have no metadata, but still only one can be displayed. If anybody knows of another difference that may exist, or another program to use for basic image editing that doesn't change metadata at all, please let me know.
This is the original, displayable image
This is the edited, undisplayable image
Before anybody asks, the fact that these images aren't perfect squares doesn't matter, images that are still don't work after editing them. Also, I know for a fact that the tags on the mp3 files themselves don't matter at all in this situation.
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I just tried using Paint.net and Gimp, no success with them either.
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My comments are based on my testing your two jpg files using my Clip Sport.
I made 2 copies of one of my mp3 music files. I deleted the pre-existing jpg file from each mp3. Then I added your jpg files to my mp3 copy files (one jpg per file).. Then I modified the ID3 tag data so I could readily identify the two mp3 test files in the Music database of my Clip Sport player.
I discovered that both of your clip art jpg files display normally on my Clip Sport using the full 1 inch sq display screen.
I noticed your image pixel size is much lower than my typical choice (75x74 pixel vs 250x250 pixel). But this did not affect a successful display on my Clip Sport.
I wonder about your comment:
"Also, I know for a fact that the tags on the mp3 files themselves don't matter at all in this situation."
I find my most consistent picture display success (Clip Sport) occurs when I use ID3 tag version 2.3 (ISO 8859-1).
I always delete all other tag version data from my mp3 files (ID3 v.1, v2.3 UTF, v2.4, and APE).
I use ID3 tag editor software "mp3tag". This software allows for automated tag data conversion and cleaning.


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Ah! Spring is FINALLY here!! After what seems nothing short of a new Ice Age, we have suddenly arrived full swing into spring! The sunshine of the past week or so has brought out all the lovely spring flowers, so the garden is filled with colour once again, the birds are getting frisky, and the butterflies and bumble bees are embracing the early sunshine.
What better time to take you by the hand and take you through the changes at the Swan Inn?
You might notice Fred, the new customer seated on the settle at the back of the room. It's another Woodside Doll, from their cheaper range. He does have a slightly similar look to the barman, so maybe they are related (well this is a country pub!!).
You might also have noticed the little canine companion, which was a little stocking filler a few months back. And what else? well, there is the table and chairs, picked up from The Dolls' House in Northleach, as I felt the pub needed a bit of furniture in it. I'm not entirely convinced that it's right for the pub, but I love the chairs that go with it.
Charlie has seen a few changes also; gone are the narrow benches (there's one still under the window) to be replaced by a lovely settle (from Northleach again!). I seem to have misplaced his dominoes somewhere though! I have also been thinking of dirtying the fireplaces a bit too, adding some soot, to make things look more realistic. What do you think?
Behind the bar there is a new swan! the old one was really a white duck, and when I saw this little china swan, I thought it might look a little more graceful behind the bar.
I also got some new things for the kitchen. The mixer was another of those 'heart over head' purchases that I was discussing in my last post. I think I can just about get away with the period, but it doesn't really matter, as I do love it! The knives, jars of pickles, utensils and bowl of eggs were all purchased at a dolls' house fair just a few miles away near Milton Keynes. I think the maker for most of the items was called Dollshouse Delights (sorry if this is not the case!!).
I also got the little broom, dustpan and brush from the same maker. I like little dolls house brooms and brushes, they remind me of Beatrix Potter's Tale of Two Bad Mice.
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A Hard(ware) Act to Follow
Published at 9:48pm on 23 Oct 2006
Gartner, a prominent industry analyst believes that Apple would be better off if it abandoned the hardware business and concentrated on selling OS X to the established PC user base. Is this really the way forward for Apple? And if not, why do people keep thinking they know how to run Apple better than Apple does...?
Analyst firm Gartner has suggested that Apple would be better off abandoning the hardware business and licensing Mac OS X to a PC maker such as Dell.
This is hardly a revolutionary idea, of course, in fact as many will remember, Apple took a step in this direction in the 1990s by allowing Macintosh clones to be built by select partners such as Motorola and Power Computing. To cut a long story short, it was a huge failure, cutting into the company's profit margins and diluting the Macintosh brand, As well as introducing other difficulties such as more hardware variations to support. Steve canned the program as soon as he returned.
I simply cannot fathom why anyone, especially a supposed industry expert could possibly think this is a good idea. It would be like suggesting that Microsoft should abandon software and concentrate on the branded mouse and keyboard market, or that Disney should stop making films and concentrate on stuffed toys. Apple is a hardware manufacturer. Their hardware is acclaimed around the World as being the best, most reliable most luxurious and most stylish that money can buy. They are market leaders in making beautiful computers that are smaller, shinier, more feature-packed and more desirable than anything their competitors can muster, even when they rip them off so blatantly that lawsuits are involved.
Apple are so much better at this than anybody else that it borders on absurdity - It's as if Mr Sony's product development team actually look at Apple products and say "Hmmm... this iPod thingy is doing well, let's see... the only thing that makes it stand out from all its less successful competitors is that it has fewer buttons, a simpler interface and an attractive smooth case. Why don't we make the same thing, but put fifty hot keys on it for useless features that nobody wants, make it from cheap, crappy plastic painted silver, put half a dozen screw holes in it, slap some helpful stickers on it to point out where the on button is and then undercut their price by $50 - we'll dominate the market for sure!"
So why, when Apple have been making hardware for more than 20 years, and are one of the most successful, best-recognised hardware brands in the world, do people still keep having the same 'brilliant' revelation every few years that what Apple really needs to do is stop selling computers altogether and concentrate on software, from which they currently make virtually no profit?
Probably the same reason why everybody thinks that Apple and Microsoft are enemies; Despite having started out as a computer manufacturer, and having been responsible for most of the iconic computers of the 20th century, people have got it into their heads that Apple really wants to be a software company. This may have something to do with the fact that Apple didn't decide to run Windows like everybody else (at least, not until recently...) - if they had, this would probably never have come up.
Lets compare Apple with IBM - Like Apple, IBM has a history of making both hardware and software. They basically invented the PC, and despite having embraced MSDOS and then Windows, they have produced a steady stream of software over the years including ViaVoice, one of the first and most successful natural-language word-processing applications, and even had a decent stab at writing their own OS, which everybody said was great (before not buying it.)
But nobody ever suggested IBM should give up its hardware business, even though they actually have now jumped out of the home user market to concentrate on servers. If IBM had stuck to their guns and made OS/2 a success then perhaps now people would be saying that IBM should forget about those silly servers and concentrate on boosting its OS market share.
But instead it is Apple that bears the brunt of criticism from these fantasists who seem to believe that if only Apple wasn't being distracted by shiny white plastics it might be able to take on Microsoft in the operating system wars and boost its OS market share by 20% or so by selling OSX to the beige box brigade.
I can just imagine what Steve Jobs is thinking; "Genius! Why didn't we think of that? Yes, of course, now that we're running on Intel we could just let Dell build the boxes. Think how much money we'd save! Think how many more users would be willing to spend $130 on a copy of Tiger instead of $1500 on an iMac when they already own a beige breeze-block they bought from the local supermarket. How foolish we were to lock down our OS to run on proprietary hardware that we sell for a premium when instead we could be selling software at a lower margin to a slightly larger market..."
I think the easiest way to put this in perspective is to compare the pros and cons of letting Dell build Macintoshes (or rather let people run Mac OS on the PCs that Dell already builds, which would be much simpler.
- The (currently unknown) proportion of Windows users who would be willing to spend $130 on Mac OS and who-knows-how-much on a complete new suite of applications (Microsoft Office alone is $600) but who aren't prepared to pay for a Mac would now become Mac users, providing Apple with $130 extra revenue every 18 months (assuming they upgrade their OS frequently, and that they buy their software instead of trespassing on it).
- The (currently unknown) proportion of new users who are only put off buying Macintoshes by the extra $150 or so price differential of a Mac Mini over a budget PC will now not have to worry about it.
- Apple loses a guaranteed profit margin from every single Macintosh user of several hundred dollars on every Mac they purchase.
- Apple, instead of relying on hardware which cannot be illegally copied, now has to make its money from software, which means having to combat piracy.
- Instead of supporting a few dozen computer models with known components, Apple now has to try to make software that runs on thousands or even millions of hardware configurations, something which they have no experience of doing before. If they get it wrong, the hard-earned reputation of OSX's stability will be lost.
- Apple now has to compete directly with Microsoft instead of being able to co-exist - as they do now - without treading on each others toes.
- Apple loses their reputation as premium product provider - no longer will people be able to spot a Mac every time they see one in a film, instead people will have to squint to see if the mouse cursor on the screen is black or white. Their product visibility is gone.
- Without the revenue from hardware, Apple has to bolster its market share so it can make a comparable profit from its software. But with a bigger market share they lose the benefits of being the little guy; security for example suddenly becomes a much bigger deal - OSX viruses will finally move from theory to reality, something which Apple may not (yet) be ready to contend with.
- With Boot Camp, Apple have created a whole new market selling Macintoshes as high end PCs. Affluent business users who need to run Windows but want to have the smartest laptop in the office can buy a Mac. Who knows they might even take OSX for a spin when they're at home and become a convert. That possibility vanishes if Apple stops making hardware.
- Perhaps worst of all, instead of dictating the next big thing in computer technology, Apple will have to follow the trends. Apple was responsible for popularising USB and Firewire, the first to include Wireless LAN as standard in their laptops, and the first to put Bluetooth in all their machines. Now they'll have to wait and see what Dell thinks is the next big thing instead.
And from a user's perspective there are further disadvantages:
- If Apple needs to make money from OSX, they will need to start charging more for it. Instead of $130 for a copy of Mac OS X, users can expect to pay $200+ as they do for Windows XP.
- Apple's need to fight piracy will impact directly on the user. That means license codes, compulsory online 'product activation' and maybe even Apple Genuine Advantage.
- Those of us that actually like Apple hardware will have to make do with the poor substitutes provided by the likes of Dell or Sony.
- Apple may have to resort to more product placement tactics of the subtlety we saw in Blade III... bleugh.
Apple is not a software company that happens to make hardware for it to run on - they are a hardware company that makes great software exclusively for their own hardware to sweeten the deal so that people will buy it. Just as iTunes exists only to sell iPods, Mac OS exists only to sell Macintoshes. And Steve Jobs doesn't care what some nearsighted market analyst thinks is the best way to gain market share. As he says himself:
One of the nice things about having four or five percent market share is you don't really care if [the PC] market is down.
But I suspect that there's actually more to it than that. It is patently obvious to any fool that Apple could increase its market share by making cheap mini-towers for the business and school markets - and Steve is no fool. So it follows that Apple's market share is exactly what Jobs needs it to be right now so that he can make exactly the kind of computers that he wants to make - exactly the kind that Mac users want him to be making - and make billions of dollars in the process.
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Couldn't agree more
You said it all. Tried it in the 90's, didn't work for Gil Amelio. Steve pulled the plug ASAP. End of story. I don't want a Dell, make mine Macintosh, and it better have a cool lighted Apple logo.Reply
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I'm just starting to study tilings in a groups and geometry module, and I'd like some confirmation of my understanding of precisely what it is which differentiates a single tile, from a tiling- when it is considered as part of a tiling. Perhaps I misunderstand, but it seems that a tiling can be considered as an arbitrarily large assemblage of tiles, and also as a single tile, whose vertices and edges are determined by the other tiles that it is in contact with?
I figured it would be best to illustrate my interpretation. So I will re-edit later, with images!
Hexagonal tiling. This is a tile (or polygon), with 6 vertices, and 6 edges. This relationship is the same regardless of whether the tile is thought of in the context of a tiling or a polygon
Brick tiling. Each tile, in this case, when considered as part of a tiling, has 6 vertices, and 6 edges.
However, it doesn't seem completely clear what exactly the distinction between a tile and a tiling is? A tiling could presumably be an arbitrarily large collection of tiles, or just one?
(I'm observing the tiling in terms of the tiles which are adjacent to a single tile)


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The graphic above from the Chicago Metro History Fair (CMHF) is a great encapsulation of how to choose a topic for a history fair project. In addition, ask yourself the questions listed below. Does the topic relate to the 2018 National History Day (NHD) theme: Conflict & Compromise in History? For Illinois students, does the topic relate to local or Illinois state history? Does the topic really interest you? Do you have a personal connection to the topic? (It's not necessary … [Read more...]
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Well folks, its fire season in May.
That thought alone, is really scary. But let's also add in the fact that I have three young children who are easily spooked by smoke and flame (what child isn't?), then the fact that my husband was working out of town again which meant all the packing, loading of animals and other preparations for the possible evacuation would be left up to me and me alone. Oh, and can't forget Great Grandma down in the main house who is legally blind and doesn't exactly move quickly… Let's just sayI was holding my breath for about three whole days while these May Fires flew in circles around our little farm. Praise God, we came out of it unscathed and for the better. I learned A LOT about my "Evacuation Plan" or lack thereof and plan to make a lot of changes in the next few months because from everything I've read, this is just the begining….


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Major League Baseball
"Say this for big league baseball: it is beyond any question the greatest conversation piece ever invented in America." - Bruce Catton
Major League Baseball (MLB) is the highest level of play in professional baseball in the world. More specifically, Major League Baseball refers to the entity that operates North American professional baseball's two major leagues, the National League and the American League, by means of a joint organizational structure which has existed between them since 1903. On an organizational level, MLB effectively operates as a single "league", and as such it constitutes one of the major professional sports leagues of North America. A turning point in this direction came in 2000, when the separate league offices were abolished and the roster of umpires, once run by the leagues, was consolidated into a single major league roster of umpires.
Major League Baseball is governed by the Major League Baseball Constitution, an agreement that has undergone several incarnations since 1876 then called the NL Constitution, with the most recent revisions being made in 2005. Major League Baseball, under the direction of its Commissioner, Rob Manfred, hires and maintains the sport's umpiring crews, and negotiates marketing, labor, and television contracts. As is the case for most North American sports leagues, the 'closed shop' aspect of MLB effectively prevents the yearly promotion and demotion of teams into the Major League by virtue of their performance.
MLB as well maintains a unique, controlling relationship over the sport, including most aspects of minor league baseball. This is due in large part to a 1922 United States Supreme Court ruling in Federal Baseball Club v. National League which declared baseball is not considered interstate commerce (and therefore not subject to federal antitrust law), despite baseball's own references to itself as an "industry" rather than a "sport."
The production/multimedia wing of MLB is New York-based MLB Advanced Media, which oversees MLB.com and all 30 of the individual teams' websites. Its charter states that MLB Advanced Media holds editorial independence from the League itself, but it is indeed under the same ownership group and revenue-sharing plan. MLB Productions is a similarly-structured wing of the league, focusing on video and traditional broadcast media.
Current Major Leagues[edit]
The Major League regular season runs from late March or early April to late September or early October. Players and teams prepare for the season in spring training, primarily in Florida and Arizona, during February and March. Four rounds of playoffs follow the regular season, culminating in the World Series in late October or early November (see Baseball calendar for more details).
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- Rocco Constantino: 50 Moments That Defined Major League Baseball, Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham, MD, 2016. ISBN 978-1-4422-6054-2
- Robert F. Lewis II: Smart Ball: Marketing the Myth and Managing the Reality of Major League Baseball, University of Mississippi Press, Jackson, MS, 2009.
- Lincoln A. Mitchell: Will Big League Baseball Survive? Globalization, the End of Television, Youth Sports, and the Future of Major League Baseball, Temple University Press, Philadelphia, PA, 2016. ISBN 978-1-4399-1379-6
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When things are way, way, WAY worse than you thought they might get
You may recall that back in November last year I (and some other people) seriously questioned whether Google Translate for Gaelic was really such a great idea. Most people who came down on the side of it being a good thing cited things such as "attracting young people" (that must be the minority language equivalent of "exposure" in the arts world…), "enhancing the status", "used judiciously, it will do this and that good thing" and "wait and see, it won't be that bad".
Well, I have some news for you and if you've never seen me furious, and I mean steaming-out-of-the-ears-furious, here's your chance.
I wasn't actually planning to blog about this again, not for a while. But then I made the mistake of doing something unrelated – a bit of data entry in the Faclair Beag. After another fruitless attempt at finding the English for a coileach-gòthan, I picked up one of my many note-sheets and decided I might as well enter one. After a few useful phrases, I came across an odd looking word so I decided to ask the poor man's corpus (which is useful in giving you a very quick impression of how common a word is). 346 results – that seemed fairly conclusive (for a language like Gaelic) but being the OCD QA freak I am, as always I did a gross error check to see which sites these hits were coming from. Topslotsite? Strange but maybe a coincidence (something English typos or bad line breaks result in seemingly Gaelic words)… just keep going. Coinfalls? What the… Slotjar??? No, I'm not lying…
And it's not just something Google ran over the site descriptions, we're talking entire sites which people have just punched through Google Translate and put online:
It's not just casino stuff… you can also get gibberish about business…
So here's Reason 1 for me being furious: The more this happens, the less useful it will make the web for doing various Gaelic (and any other such unfortunate small language) related projects. I'm not just talking about messing up my searches. For instance, there are various spellcheckers for smaller languages which are based on web corpora i.e. bodies of text which have been collected from the web to form the basis of a spellchecker. This also often results in helpful word statistics – which words are more common than others. That may just sound like geekery but that's the kind of geekery that helps make a better predictive text tool for example. So while still geeky, we're talking geeky-that-is-useful-to-Joe-Blogs.
There more of this GT shite we're getting on the web, for each of those language that will mean the quality of anything you might otherwise cull from the web will go down, down and down. Because unproofed machine translation will just always re-hash whatever is in the machine's brain i.e. you will only ever get more of the same.
Then I came across this:
Some site in Russia about maths that has been Google-translated. Look at the lovely yellow box in particular.
So here is Reason 2 for the ceò coming out of my cluasan: Some of us spend a lot of time working on educational (and usually free) tools such as Scratch. It's hard enough to convince people to try things like that in Gaelic without having to hand them a huge note saying "Beware of the following 3,000 sites which are not fit for purpose". You know what that kind of warning does to people's confidence in Gaelic software? Well, I'll give you a small hint, it doesn't improve it, that's for sure.
At this point I decide to put e-pen to e-paper because there's something else that has been making me furious about all this, something I was saving for later, at least until I had seen what effect reporting the next problem would have.
Ladies and Gentlemen, I give you Publishing Hell. Let's start with a light entrée:
Nice, eh? For those of you not Gaelic speakers, that ought to say "Cidsin an t-Samhraidh". But wait, I hear you say, surely that's just an isolated thing… Nope, they are both beyond all linguistic pales and beyond counting:
"Yes but isn't that obvious? Surely people won't buy these…" Well, I have news for that camp to. Apparently they do. And why not? Especially a learner who is not fluent might very well find something like that an attractive proposition for helping them learn more Gaelic… or Tswana… or Samoan… or Chichewa..
Thanks guys. Nicely done.
ADDENDUM: Someone on Facebook commented that these are problems to be solved; problems to be welcomed and that Bitching about this problem is like bitching about bad teachers. You don't send all the teachers back to teacher school en masse because one makes some hideous errors. A generation would be lost. Or a language. The reason I'm commenting on this here as an addendum is not to slag them off but because I realise that this is indeed a way some people will look at this. So I'm dissecting it as a potential view on the matter, not as a personal response (which I did on Facebook).
So is it a problem to be solved? I don't think it can actually be solved. Who has the time or the money to pay someone to have the time? I already invest much too much of my non-working time into building resources. I don't have the time to chase charlatans on the web. It's like fighting midges.
And this is not like having a bad teacher either. You have one bad teacher, fine, shunt them into admin or find another way of improving their skills. Or a bad night class teacher where word eventually will get round. The difference is the sheer scale of the issue. This is no longer a contest of human vs human, if you pardon the crude simplification, this has become human vs machine. And that's a contest where a group of humans, small in number, are not going to come off well because a machine translation system can dish out junk much much faster than a team of humans can locate them and shut them down. Even if there was a simple way of shutting such things down.
No, this is a problem that Gaelic speakers cannot fix and that has grown out of the short-sightedness of a few people chasing a sexy headline, unwilling to engage in meaningful debate. All we can do now is watch the terror unfold and hope that it will one day step on the toes of a language much bigger than Gaelic.
ADDENDUM 2: I have removed all references to the children's books on Amazon I had previously discussed on here. The discussion over whether some of them are genuine translations and which of them and to what extent others might be MT was really beginning to detract from the issue at hand. I have asked the 3 people who re-blogged this post to take it down.
Getting your locale onto mobile OS
Though I was contemplating "How to waste lifetime" as a title to be honest. If you don't want to read through the Odyssey part, fair enough, the quick guide on what to do is at the very bottom.
No, I'm not about to repeat my rant on Detect locale, tempting as that may be. This is about the trek to actually get a locale onto the locales on offer on mobile operating systems like iOS or Android. In the case of Scottish Gaelic, we need to go back all the way to July 2010. I had just been roped into localizing Firefox and we had noticed that the plural rules for Gaelic were either missing or wrong. So in the process of fixing those, it was recommended to me that I also submit them to the Common Locale Data Repository (CLDR). Basically a big holding tank run by the Unicode Consortium for things like plural rules, names of days of the week, month names, whether the month goes before the day etc etc for different locales. Seemed reasonable, so off I go filing a ticket. It took a while but by September 2011, that was in. Yay.
In the meantime, because I had gotten involved with LibreOffice (well, technically speaking OpenOffice first), I also ended up submitting a minimal dataset for Gaelic to CLDR because creating one was a prerequisite for getting a release of LibreOffice and it again was recommended I submit to CLDR so it's generally available. Fair enough. Took a while figuring out because back then, the handy Survey Tool (basically a graphic interface) didn't exist – you had to edit an xml file. Yuck. Started in May 2011 and by October, that was done and dusted.
Here's where I got naive. I thought the "filtering through" of locale data was automatic. I did actually ask a few people and they all thought it was automatic too – though nobody was entirely sure. For most of even the smaller locales such as Welsh and Irish, somebody must have done "it" far enough back for nobody to know where it came from. So October 2011 on, I start watching the list of locales on my Android. Periodically, I'd pop into a mobile phone shop to check the latest models, in case my phone and OS were just too old.
In the meantime, I kept chipping away at the xml file, adding things like language and country names until I had the file relatively complete. Hoping that perhaps there was a completion threshold – even though nobody seemed to know. I started pinging questions as Android aka Google, figuring they were easier to communicate with than Apple. Hah! It's like standing at one end of the Munich Beer Festival and playing a game of Chinese whispers with someone at the far end. No answer, lots of silence or vague suggestions of "try there". Spent hours trying to google the answer. Frustratingly, even though I can almost always tease the web into giving me the info I want, not on this occasion. It was as if nobody had ever actually done whatever it was that needed doing to get a new locale to pop up on mobile OS.
I was getting increasingly frustrated/annoyed/angry because up until increasingly, apps were using detect locale to determine the language of one's UI. Up until Android 4.2, you could use an app to "fake" a locale i.e. I could set it to gd-GB and apps such as Opera Mini would come up in Gaelic. But towards the end of 2012, Google blocked that option. Don't ask me why… The upshot was that even those apps which had been localized were now hidden away because Gaelic did not exist as an official locale. Which set me off on the quest to get manual locale selection into FOSS apps but that's a different story.
To add insult to injury, while I could understand to some extent why Irish would just be "there" as a locale, I couldn't for the life of me understand why Manx of all languages was there, but not Gaelic. I mean, bully for Manx but what gives?
Fast forward to May 2014. CLDR is implementing it's shiny new Survey Tool and a colleague and I set about filling in the last remaining gaps in the locale data file. Still no Gaelic on Android or iOS, even though the data set was now complete. It wasn't until August 2014, out of a discussion surrounding the Survey Tool, that someone finally pinned down the problem. Even though we'd had a good enough data set since 2011, this was held "just" in CLDR. It turns out that Android aka Google actually pulls it's locales and locale data from something called ICU, the International Components for Unicode. So I file a bug on CLDR which someone kindly copymoved to ICU. While not great communicators, at least someone imported the data set from CLDR and it was finally included in the ICU 54 release in October 2014. It had taken more than 4 years to discover what was needed. And then it took less than 4 months to get it into the necessary data bucket. 😒
And even crazier, within weeks of the ticket being closed on ICU, a Gaelic speaking Apple tester excitedly mailed me to tell me that on his test version of iOS 8, Scottish Gaelic was there as a locale. There were a few other minor bumps in the road but with from iOS8, Gaelic was there as a locale and apparently, it made its debut on Android Marshmallow in October 2015. All we have to do now is for people to upgrade to iOS8 (fairly straight forward) and Android Marshmallow (not so straight forward, we'll probably have to wait for people to physically upgrade their devices).
Ay dios…
So here it is for all those who want their locale on Android, iOS & Co:
- Bring some spare time. Assuming a single contributor, it will probably take up to a year to get it to appear on the latest devices if you have perfect timing. More likely, 2 years.
- Submit a locale data set to CLDR. You will need a Survey Tool account – and bear in mind there is only ONE submission cycle a year, on the whole. If you missed the current one, I recommend you check out existing data sets because you will have to answer fairly techy questions around date and time formatting, plurals, sort orders and goodness knows what else. Pick a locale similar to your own or at least one for a language you speak and see what that looks like.
Also check what "coverage level target" your locale has (ask someone at CLDR via a ticket). Some locales have a low target, Gaelic happened to be in "comprehensive" for some reason. Probably not worth arguing which one you're in and just knuckling down.
- File a ticket on ICU to get the data ported over.
- Wait and finally, enjoy.
No time to discuss this as a committee
To begin with, I do not hold all the facts and I do like (or do I have to used the present-past-potential-future tense already?) the product. But there have been so many what the fuck moments it sadly is time for another Dear Developer epistle.
The topic? Mozilla OS. Which judging by today's post to the localization list by George Roter is now officially floating belly up and face down in digital muck. Oh sure, there are exciting opportunities with the Internet of Things (which has a lengthy Wikipedia article that truly fails to inspire) and Connected Devices (I have yet to meet a Mozillian who can actually tell me what that practically means for end-users).
I guess it at least has an element of closure because back in December, well, we were all completely in the dark, apart from a steady stream of well-meant fluffwords.
So what happened? Well, looking at it from the bottom-up view of a localizer, Mozilla has proven once again that it has a genuinely amazing and skilful pool of workers but management that makes a revolutionary student committee look efficient. So at some point the idea of Mozilla OS was born – all the good things about Mozilla but as an OS. Ok, sounds fair, and I was right in there from the start with localizations. Two reasons, no, make that three, one of which was selfish, the other practical and the third altruistic:
- We wanted mobile devices in our language (that was the selfish bit)
- Participating early means you reach the maintenance level of translation early, which is a lot easier when there are fewer words to begin with (the practical reason). Plus less of a chance localization turns into an afterthought. Or so I thought…
- We wanted to help create a better product that would reach more people (the altruistic reason but more on that later)
Regarding 1 and 2, I kind of started worrying early because it became clear that Mozilla was partly selling its soul to manufacturers. We could localize but there was to be no guarantee, as it turned out eventually, that commercial manufacturers would ship all locales with a high completion. Why? Apparently Mozilla had forgotten to either negotiate harder regarding that and/or forgotten to design an easy way of pulling an unshipped locale once your device had been set up. Ho-hum but given our experience with the better-late-than-never solution to manual locale selection on Mozilla Mobile, I had reasonable confidence there would be a solution. Eventually. So I stuck with the project. Paid for a testing device. Managed to get a tablet for testing too. Helped with sometimes left-field solutions, like when I helped someone crack the problem of how to sort contact lists in lists with mixed scripts without resorting to automatic Unicode conversion (like how to handle a contact like রবীন্দ্রনাথ ঠাকুর on a phone next to Jack Sparrow – easy, ask the user to provide a manual phonetic spelling during contact creation), filed bugs, was a bit of a squeaky wheel… yeah ok, I submitted no patches but I can't code for toffee, believe it or not.
I guess alarm bells should have started going off when Flatfish (the tablet branch) went quiet. As in, suddenly there no more nightly builds and bugs were beginning to pile up, some pretty central (like the fact no build ever shipped all locales – no, it was crazier than that, the locales where there but the translations weren't getting pulled from Pootle). Eventually the word was passed round in a very unofficial way that Flatfish was no longer a project Mozilla was pursuing. Like that wasn't worth an announcement? Even a short blog post by someone high up? Gee, thanks…
At the very least it was highly odd that a mobile OS aiming to compete with existing mobile OS would ignore the tablet side but maybe, I said to myself, we're prioritising resources until it works well on phone and then we'll get onto tablets again.
Then in early December we had the news fiasco. Short version is, somehow word got out that Mozilla was canning Mozilla OS but nobody had prepared anything official, not even a blog post, never mind press releases. Just some fluff about the Internet of Things. There's a pretty good write-up here if you want the whole nine yards. Then all through December and most of January everyone, including Mozillians (at least the workers at the "bottom") had no idea about what was going on. Great.
In a sense, we still don't (unless someone can finally explain Connected Devices and the IoT to me in simple, short sentences explaining how that relates to end-users…). Except that we are to cease all work on localizing Mozilla OS for now. Who know if this will still the position in a month but for now, there are not going to be any phones which will ship the OS. Why? Reading between the lines, the uptake wasn't great. Really? Like it was ever going to be easy to get a share of the iOS/Android/Windows phone market? If the decision makers expected an easy ride, they were naive. If they expected a tough ride, why are we bottling out now?
Which, incidentally, they could have made easier but considering one thing they mostly seems to have ignored – while the existing 3 hog most of the market, they are very restricted in their approach to localized interfaces. There are up to 40 million speakers of lesser-used languages in the EU alone and while certainly not all will shift by any stretch of the imagination, for a considerable number of those Mozilla OS would have been one of the few realistic means of getting a device in THEIR language. Neither Android nor iOS cater for Breton or Occitan. Small fry, you might think. Not so. It's a bit hard to count but there are at least some 350 million people on the planet speaking languages which are not amongst the big boys Android & Co cater for. If that isn't a market then I don't know what is.
Will it come back? I don't know. Would be good… even better if they teamed up with Ubuntu on this one. For now, I'm focussing on Ubuntu Mobile which is also localizable AND ships all locales with a high completion percentage and CyanogenMod AOSP which the Asturians have recently proven to be a way onto at least some devices running a version of Android. Gaelic SHALL go to the ball… would have been nice if it had been with Mozilla OS too.
But seriously, Mozilla is not too big to fail and if it continues to behave like an ocean liner which is steered in a fashion reminiscent of a revolutionary student committee, there will be a hard rock somewhere along the line for it. Which would be a great disservice to all the inspiring and hard working folks at Mozilla, not to mention the volunteers and the world at large. So please, revolutionary leaders up there, put down the hooch, put the origami helmets in the memento drawer and sharpen up your leadership, planning and above all, communication.
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Yes, I like technology. But increasingly these days, I wish we could have a global debate on where we're going with this and how much of it we want. Not as Gaels or Basques or Chinese or Brazilians but as a species.
Let me backtrack a little. We've just released the first ever Gaelic text-to-speech voice, having working together with the great people at Cereproc in Edinburgh over the last year. This is a good thing. It may seem to contradict my intro but the way I see it, it is an enabling tool. If nothing else, it is an assistive tool for people who are blind or dyslexic – and who speak Gaelic. We often forget that being a speaker of a minority language does not prevent you from being struck by the same issues as everyone else. Or rather, speakers of majority languages tend to forget this. It is not meant to replace real humans and it won't, as it cannot think for itself. It won't run off to the kitchen and make dinner or suddenly turn round and say to the user "What's with all this Somhairle stuff, I want to read some sci-fi, ok?"
Sure, learners will use the voice too and since it is a pretty good voice, it should enhance their learning experience, especially for those with little or no access to native speakers. So I don't see an issue there (though we did all bust several collective guts making sure the quality is as good as possible).
But a couple of days later, a colleague drew my attention to a line in a summary of a talk to be given at the Centre for Speech and Technology Research. It talks of speech production and refers to "…multimodal interactive games, involving many characters, dialogue partners…". Queue a slightly dystopian moment. I possibly misread the line slightly what it means is AI dialogue partners in games. Like "talking" to Deckard Cain in Diablo which is really just a fixed script which is reeled off following certain actions in the game.
But whatever the intended meaning, it did make me think about the wider implications of talking technology, and in this case speech technology in particular, further and further with little debate about where we're going with all this. I did have this quick mental flash of a Gaelic speaking Terminator, baking cookies with a human child. Don't be absurd, you might say but I don't think it's entirely far-fetched. There will come a point when our use of technology in language learning will turn into something more distasteful than a toy bleating out words. There will come a point when interaction with speech produced by an intelligent machine will start to infringe on the way our children learn language and probably even adult interactions.
It may be that we decide, as a species, that a Gaelic/Basque/Aymara/Rapanui… speaking robot is just the thing to re-invigorate our languages. But to my mind, it poses a bigger question about whether this won't make the whole thing pointless? Not just the issue of language but increasingly us as a species? Our affection for things, pretty sunsets, memories of baking biscuits with our grandmother and the particular sound waves our mothers made at us, is a very human thing. I cannot see a machine developing an appreciation for a field of dandelion other than in a utilitarian sense. Or perhaps we might decide that an intelligent interaction with a machine is preferable to the passive consumption we have at the moment, like those families I observe on the train using tablets as pacifiers. Playing I Spy with the tablet? Would I be looking at the outside of the train or a picture of the outside projected onto the screen?
We still seem to be operating, as a species, on the basis that it's ok to see what happens when I bang these two rocks together cause hey, it's Zoug's own time and effort and what harm can it do. But we're reaching a point in our technological development where the harm we can do by just seeing what happens when you bang something together is becoming considerable.
It makes me wish we talked more about what we actually want before we go out and do it. But sadly, I cannot really see it happening much, not with people going "well, if I don't, someone else will". Maybe I'm just having a gloomy day (no, the sun IS shining in Glasgow today) but I get the feeling we might finally be getting close to an answer to the Fermi paradox, a somewhat unpalatable one albeit. Fingers crossed, eyes closed and hope for the best?
Do minority languages need machine translation?
I'm glad to see others in the field have similar apprehensions about MT in small languages
This is an abbreviated transcript of a talk I gave at a British-Irish Council conference on language technology in indigenous, minority and lesser-used languages in Dublin earlier this month (November 2015) under the title 'Do minority languages need the same language technology as majority languages?' I wanted to bust the myth that machine translation is necessary for the revival of minority languages. What I had to say didn't go down well with some in the audience, especially people who work in machine translation (unsurprisingly). So beware, there is controversy ahead!
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How to make headlines for the wrong reasons
Good afternoon, boys and girls, very bad language, for example, what we see in the side and at the airport these days? No, I haven't gone insane, I'm just illustrating a point by resorting to reductio ad absurdum. In other words, I punched the sentence Hey folks, anyone up for some really truly bad language like the stuff we're seeing at BÁC airport these days? into Bad Translator and let it go through 10 machine translations.
Why? Glad you asked… these days, Google is making headlines both in the Irish traditional press and in social media. But for all the wrong reasons. The reason? Google Translate. Or rather, a language pair someone should have thought about a little more. Or at least done some user testing on it. Something…
So what I imagine happened is this… some bright spark, either on the Google side or some well-meaning Irish government official thought it would be great if we could have Irish on Google translate. First mistake. Give humans a tool, and they will mis-use it. Like our ex-joiner hammering in screws. So before you give people a tool, think about likely scenarios of mis-use. It clearly does not require a team of MENSA members to imagine that in a minoritised language like Irish, people might start using it for things like their homework or cheap translations rather than a quick way of getting the gist behind web content.
But having blissfully ignored this step, someone must have forged ahead and contributed a bilingual corpus to Google developers with a note along the lines of here's a corpus for Irish, please add it to Google Translate. Most likely, second mistake. Right, so there are many ways of building machine translation systems but most rely on a mix of rules and a bilingual corpus. The idea being that as long as you feed a computer enough aligned data in two languages, it can use statistics to figure out how to translate between the two. This idea in itself is sound. Sort of. It depends on the languages in question, the amount of data involved and the direction of the translation oddly enough. Here's an ideal scenario: build a system using a VAST amount of data (we're talking billions of words) to translate between closely related languages and into the language which has the less fancy grammatical system. Like German to English. That works quite well as a pair on Google Translate because a) there are indeed vast amounts of texts which exist in both languages. German has the fancier grammar (3 genders, case marking, inflection of verbs…) whereas English does buggerall (some past tense markers on verbs and a plural -s aside, which is peanuts in linguistic terms).
But once you move away from the ideal model, things start creaking. The more complex the structures of the target language, the more data you'd need for the computer to make any sense of it. So going English to Icelandic creaks much more because even though they're related languages (ultimately), Icelandic is even more complex than German. Oh and there's less bilingual data of course.
You get the idea. Now Irish is eye-candy to a linguist. It has grammatical structures to die for, a case system, two genders, two types of mutation (that's when the first sound in a word changes… you might know people called Hamish? Well that's what Irish does to a man called Séamus when you address him), a headache-inducing system for inflecting verbs, a different word order (English is subject-object-verb, Irish is verb-subject-object) and so on. A thousand things English doesn't do. So what would we need to make this work? Yup, take a gold star, a corpus billions of words big.
Unfortunately there's no bilingual corpus that even comes close to that. Or at the very least, Google did not feed in anywhere near enough data. I've lost track but I think it's mistake 3?
Cue mistake 4… let it loose on people without a big warning strapped to it or any form of user testing. The result? Eye-wateringly bad translations which start cropping up in the weirdest places. Facebook … ok, we could probably live with that… homework… a lot worse, don't teachers have enough to contend with? And of course the jewel in the crown – official signage. Yep, that's right. Google Translate has been making its way onto signage from Dublin Airport to government websites. And the result is almost always nauseating. Breaking through barriers? Only the blood vessels in Irish speakers' brains perhaps…
It's not that one shouldn't attempt to bring technology to smaller languages, I'm all for that. But quality is key. It's a hard enough sell at the best of times and something like a poor machine translation system can seriously damage the confidence people have in technology in or for their language. A little careful thinking goes a long way…


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It's been a whirlwind of a month and a long time since I've posted. My travels have taken me from one end of the country (St. John's Newfoundland) to the other (Vancouver) with stops in Toronto, Edmonton and Washington DC. Then the second week.....
However, just when the world seems completely out of control (yes including you Arnold!) with tornado season sowing its destructive path in Missouri and elsewhere, what happens to top it off? A volcano in Iceland erupts (a different one than last year no less!). So maybe that wacko that said the earth was going to end last weekend got it slightly wrong.
Obama Searches for his Apostrophe
The visit of President Obama (searching for the apostrophe tour) was a smash hit in Ireland as it was destined to be. As an Irish ex-pat myself, I couldn't help but be proud of the welcome they gave the First Couple, and how they, in turn, wowed them. Take a look at this column from the Irish Independent to get a flavor of what it meant for the Irish. He's had a great couple of weeks in terms of his personal biography - he not only proved he was American born, but also he found his Irish roots.
Meanwhile back in Canada...the Senate inaction.....
The Harper government is settling into its majority government phase, setting off a firestorm over the appointment of three former candidates to the Senate. the fact that one of them was a defeated MP and two had been appointed to the Senate last year and then stepped down to run for the House of Commons triggered an avalanche of protest. Some thoughts on that:
1. Their real sin was in stepping down and running for office. If they had just shut up and remained in the Senate it wouldn't have been such an 'outrage'.
2. Although they quite obviously did not know they would be appointed back to the Senate, apparently they should have turned the offer down on the premise that they are 'soiled goods' because they decided to um.... face the electorate.
3. Although they are not fundraisers for the Conservative party, they are apparently 'bagmen' as the continually outraged Pat Martin would have it. One - Fabian Manning - is a former Newfoundland provincial Minister, and the other - Larry Smith - is former Commissioner of the Canadian Football League. Same thing eh? The third Senate appointee, Josee Verner, is a former Conservative Cabinet Minister who was defeated. Surely there should be shame there!
4. The fact that the Prime Minister unilaterally changed Senate appointments to a maximum eight year term, instead of a cash-for-life lottery is um....well
5. Finally, as has already been suggested by Immigration Minister Jason Kenney, there is nothing stopping the provinces from taking Alberta's lead a number of years ago, and holding an election to determine who their next Senate appointment might be. For years, former Prime Minister Jean Chretien refused to recognize Alberta's elected Senator [Bert Brown] and received very little criticism for that. When it comes to the crunch the cognoscenti don't respect incremental reform of our unelected chamber. It's all or nothing.
So we all look forward to comprehensive change of the Senate under the majority government watch of Stephen Harper. Even if the provinces hi-jack the process with unrealistic Constitutional demands, at least he will have made it a signature move on his part. And if he goes down fighting, it is definitely better than avoiding the fight.
Until next time...


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Highlight in History:
On April 2, 1982, Argentina invaded and seized the British-held Falkland Islands, an action that launched the Falklands War.
On this date:
- 1513, Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de León landed in present-day Florida and claimed the territory for Spain.
- 1792, Congress passed the Coinage Act, which authorized establishment of the U.S. Mint.
- 1860, the first Italian Parliament met at Turin.
- 1865, Confederate President Jefferson Davis and most of his Cabinet fled the Confederate capital of Richmond, Va., as Union forces advanced.
- 1917, President Woodrow Wilson asked Congress to declare war against Germany, saying, "The world must be made safe for democracy." (Congress declared war four days later.)
- 1956, the first half-hour soap operas, "As the World Turns" and "The Edge of Night," premiered on CBS television.
- 1974, French President Georges Pompidou died in Paris.
- 1986, four American passengers were killed when a bomb hidden under a seat exploded aboard a TWA jetliner en route from Rome to Athens, Greece. (The other 118 people on board survived.)
- 1992, crime boss John Gotti was convicted in U.S. District Court in New York City of 13 charges, including murder, loan-sharking and obstruction of justice. (He was sentenced the following June to life in prison; he died 10 years later.)
- 2005, Pope John Paul II died in his Vatican apartment at the age of 84.


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Fifty years ago, and three years before Texas Western's historic NCAA Tournament upset of Kentucky, the 1963 Loyola Ramblers went on an NCAA Tournament run that would change college basketball forever.
There were no Selection Sunday-style celebrations in Starkville, Mississippi on March 11, 1963 when the SEC champion Mississippi State Maroons learned whom they would be playing in their opening NCAA Tournament game.
The Maroons were slated to play the fourth-ranked Loyola (Illinois) Ramblers in East Lansing, Michigan. But traveling north to represent the SEC in college basketball's national championship tournament would mean defying Mississippi governor Ross Barnett and the unwritten rules about which teams Mississippi State was allowed to play.
Loyola and head coach George Ireland had no use for unwritten rules.
One such rule in the early 1960s said that college basketball teams should have no more than two black players. Three was pushing it. College coaches had a saying back then: ""I play one black player at home, two on the road, and three if I'm behind."
Of course, there were plenty of teams, particularly in the south, who refused to put any black players on their rosters. The SEC, for example, was entirely white until Perry Wallace took the court for Vanderbilt in 1967. Many coaches at the time refused to schedule games against teams with integrated rosters.
The Ramblers were different. George Ireland started four black players, sometimes five.
Deal With It
Ireland, himself a former All American at Notre Dame, ignored the rules governing the racial composition of college basketball teams. He wasn't interested in quotas; he was interested in good players, regardless of the color of their skin.
He recruited post players Les Hunter and Vic Rouse, both juniors on the 1963 team, out of Pearl High School, an all-black school in Nashville, Tennessee. (At the time, high school basketball in Tennessee was segregated. When the sport integrated in 1965-66, Pearl went 31-0 and won the state title.)
Two-time All-American forward Jerry Harkness (senior) and guard Ron Miller (junior) came to Chicago from the Bronx, as did reserve guard Pablo Robertson (sophomore), who went on to a career with the Harlem Globetrotters. Harkness didn't play varsity basketball until his senior year in high school. He had been a playground player whose primary school sport was track. Loyola was the only school to offer him a scholarship.
In 1961 Ireland became the first coach in major college basketball to start five black players. During the 1962-63 season he started four.
George Ireland's decision to eschew the sport's unwritten rules was effective. The 1961-62 Ramblers went 23-4, finished the regular season ranked tenth in the AP Poll, and advanced to the semifinals of the NIT (which was a big deal back then).
But the Ramblers of the early 1960s were interested in more than just winning. They forced the college basketball world to take notice of the injustice of segregation.
In 1962 Ireland took his team south to face another Loyola: Loyola of New Orleans. Louisiana law at the time barred Ireland's black players from lodging with their white teammates. Instead of staying in the team hotel, Harkness, Miller, Rouse, and Hunter spent the night with African American families in New Orleans. The two Loyolas played in front of an all-white crowd because black fans had boycotted the game on account of segregated seating in the Loyola of New Orleans gym.
Ireland said of the experience, "I think the overall result may have been good. But the tension on all of us had just been too tough. I would not do this again."
The Ramblers continued to schedule southern opponents, even if they didn't travel south of the Mason-Dixon line to face them. During the 1962-63 season, Arkansas, Memphis State, and Loyola of New Orleans all made the trip to Loyola's Alumni Gym in Chicago to play the Ramblers. Loyola beat them by 19, 12, and 35 points, respectively.
Ramblers players called their coach "The Man." And the team's 1962-63 starting line-up—Harkness, Miller, Hunter, Rouse, and guard Jack Egan—earned the moniker "The Iron Five." Together, The Man and the Iron Five opened the season with 20 consecutive wins and led the nation in scoring, averaging 92.3 points per game.
The Game of Change
The 1962-63 Ramblers compiled a 24-2 regular season record and secured an invitation to the NCAA Tournament, where they opened with Ohio Valley Conference champion Tennessee Tech. Loyola defeated the all-white Tennessee Tech team 111-42. Their 69-point margin of victory still stands as the largest in NCAA Tournament history.
Mississippi State awaited Loyola in the Mideast Region semi-final. The Mississippi State Maroons (now Bulldogs) had won the SEC in 1959, 1961, and 1962 but each time had turned down their automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament on account of an unwritten law in the state of Mississippi that forbade racially integrated athletic competition. Each time Kentucky went to the tournament in their stead.
In 1963 Maroons head coach Babe McCarthy and other university leaders decided that they weren't going to pass up yet another opportunity to play for a national championship and orchestrated a secret trip to East Lansing, Michigan, the site of the Mideast Regional. Mississippi Governor Ross Barnett, a staunch segregationist, was adamant that the Maroons not leave the state to play against an integrated Loyola team. State senator Billy Mitts found a judge to issue an injunction keeping the team from traveling to Michigan.
A few days before the game, university president Dean Colvard went to Alabama for a speaking gig. Colvard instructed McCarthy to drive up to Memphis and stay there until it was time to leave for East Lansing. With McCarthy and Colvard out of the state, there was no one for Mitts's judge to serve the injunction to.
The day after the coach and president left Mississippi, a group of bench players and trainers went to the Starkville, Mississippi airport to see if anyone there would try to keep them from heading north. When no one did, the rest of the team joined them at the airport and boarded a plane to Nashville, where they would meet McCarthy and board a flight to Michigan.
Meanwhile in Chicago, Ireland asked to have all of his players' mail forwarded to him so that they would be spared from the hate mail that had been filling their dormitory mailboxes.
Despite all the drama leading up to the regional semifinal between Loyola and Mississippi State, the game itself went on without incident. The third-ranked Ramblers defeated the sixth-ranked Maroons 61-51 in a contest known by those who remember it as "The Game of Change."
The Mississippi State team that had spurned its state government received a warm reception from fans and students when they returned to Starkville. Loyola advanced to play Big Ten champion Illinois.
A Great Run by Any Standard
The 1966 NCAA championship game, in which a Texas Western (now UTEP) squad with five black starters upset an all-white Kentucky team, is often cited as a singular turning point in the history of race and college basketball. Texas Western's story was the subject of the successful 2006 Disney movie Glory Road and several books and made-for-TV documentaries.
College Basketball 101 doesn't cover the 1963 Loyola Ramblers, who overcame prejudice and rejected convention en route to a national title three years before Don Haskins, Bobby Joe Hill, and the Texas Western Miners went on their historic tournament run.
Where storytelling is concerned, Texas Western's story is tidier. First, the Miners' transcendent win over Kentucky was a championship game. Loyola's most significant tournament game, at least in terms of race relations in the United States, came in the second round. Second, when Texas Western played Kentucky in the 1966 title game, five black players took the floor against five white players. In the 1963 final, both teams had racially integrated starting line-ups.
One day after beating Mississippi State in the "Game of Change," Loyola easily defeated Illinois (79-64) to win the Mideast Region and advance to the Final Four in Louisville. In the national semi-final the Ramblers rolled over Duke, defeating the second-ranked Blue Devils 94-75.
Though Loyola was widely considered one of the nation's best teams and had won their first four NCAA Tournament games by an average margin of 28 points, Cincinnati was considered the overwhelming favorite to beat Loyola in the title game.
The Bearcats, who boasted two first-team All Americans in Ron Bonham and Tom Thacker, opened 1962-63 ranked first in the AP Poll and remained atop the poll for the entire season. Cincinnati's only loss that season was to fifth-ranked Wichita State, a team that had also defeated Loyola.
When the 1963 NCAA title game tipped off, the majority of the players on the floor—four of Loyola's starters and three of Cincinnati's—were black. While the 1966 final—with its black-versus-white, integration-versus-segregation storylines—works better as a Disney movie, the 1963 game was arguably more significant.
For the first time in NCAA history, two fully integrated teams were playing for a championship.
Cincinnati lived up to expectations and controlled much the game. The Bearcats had built a 15-point lead with ten minutes remaining in the second half. But behind Harkness, who led Loyola with 20 points, the Ramblers rallied and forced overtime. Neither team was able to secure an advantage in the extra period until a tip-in by Rouse at the buzzer clinched the game for Loyola. The Ramblers won 60-58.
In a span of eight days, Loyola defeated four teams ranked in the top eight of the final AP Poll: Mississippi State (7), Illinois (8), Duke (2), and Cincinnati (1). Few teams in college basketball history have had to defeat four teams of that caliber en route to a title.
The Ramblers Ramble On
Harkness, a senior, was selected by the Knicks in the second round of the 1963 NBA Draft. After a brief five-game stint with the Knicks, he played two seasons with the ABA's Indiana Pacers in the late 1960s before settling in Indianapolis.
The other four members of the Iron Five returned for the 1963-64 season and took Loyola to the Sweet 16. The Pistons drafted Hunter in the second round of the 1964 draft then traded him to the Baltimore Bullets. He played one season in the NBA and six in the ABA.
No other Ramblers played in the NBA or ABA, though Robertson (as mentioned above) had a nice career with the Harlem Globetrotters, which afforded him the opportunity to star on the Globetrotters's Saturday morning cartoon in the 1970s and to appear on Scooby-Doo.
Ireland took Loyola to the NCAA Tournament again in 1966 and 1968 before retiring in 1975. He remains the winningest coach in Loyola history. The Ramblers have only been to the NCAA Tournament once since Ireland's retirement.
One cannot tell the story of college basketball in the United States without mentioning the 1963 Loyola Ramblers.
While it is tempting to point to one game in 1966 as the one responsible for ending segregation in basketball, the truth is that many teams, players, and coaches, across many years (and even decades) had a hand in integrating the game.
We can celebrate Loyola's 1963 title, on its 50th anniversary, as a victory for integration and justice. But aside from issues of race, we can also celebrate it as one of the great runs in tournament history.


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