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Lynxx Blackout Budget Range Flame Retardant Fabric 140cm or 280cm
3 - 5 Days Delivery
Our budget flame retardant blackout curtains are unlined as standard as the base cloth has a 3 pass backing which gives a blackout to Best Western standards. They are flame retardant to BS5867 for use in commercial areas.
Lynx - 7023
Collection : FR Decorative Blackouts
Colour : Aubergine
Fabric Care : Wash at 30Do not bleachMust be professionally dry cleanedCool iron
Composition : 100% Polyester
Fabric Width (cm) : 140cm - 280cm also available to order min quantities and lead times on request
Weight : 280GSM
Meets FR Standard : BS 5867 PT2:B, IMO
Pattern Repeat : NA
Usage : Drapery
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Fitting your Curtain Poles or Tracks Correctly
The first step is to decide whether you want your curtains to hang from, whether you go for a curtain track or a curtain pole, both of which should be positioned 15cm (6 inches) above the window and extend 15-20cm (6-8 inches) either side.
Measuring the Width of your Pole or Track
You want to measure the total width of the track or pole, excluding the finials as these will not be covered. Then add a small amount on to allow for an overlap of your curtains.
Measuring from the Drop of the Curtains
When you are ready to measure, you have to make a decision about where you want the curtains to finish. The choices are whether to go to the sill, below the sill or to the floor. We suggest that:
- Sill length curtains finish 1.25cm (1/2 inch) above the sill.
- Curtains that fall below the sill should finish 15cm (6 inches) below or just above the radiator to stop heat loss.
- Floor length curtains finish 1 - 1.5cm (1/2 inch) from the floor (although you can create a shappy sheak look by having them puddled on the floor, but that is personal preference).
Double / Triple Check Your Measurements
It is essential that you double and triple check your measurements as if you have measured incorrectly your curtains will not fit properly and if they are made to measure / custom drapes they cannot be changed.
Measure the exact width of the recess in three places; at the top of the recess, in the centre of the recess and near the bottom - then take the smallest size.
Measure the exact drop of the recess in three places on the left hand side of the recess, in the centre of the recess and on the right hand side of the recess - then take thesmallest size.
We will take one cm (half an inch) off the finished width size you have given us, to allow for the blind to pull up and down easily. The amount of fabric required will be more than this finished size, This is to allow for fabric hemming.
Measure the width of the actual recess plus an additional amount – Usually from 7cm-15cm (3" - 6") whatever you think looks appropriate.
Measure the exact drop of the recess. The blind would be fitted above the recess, so check the space above and add an amount on to the drop – usually from 15-20cm (6" - 8")
These sizes you have taken will be the size of the finished blind. The amount of fabric required will be more than this finished size this is to allow for hemming.
Flame Retardant to British Standards
This fabric is flame retardant to British Standards. The flame retardant standards are certified for use in commercial environments, including; care homes, hotels, schools, pubs, restaurants and more. All our fire resistant products come with certification from UK registered testing houses. Please check the additional information tab for the flame retardant standards this particular product complies to. We ensure all our stated fire resistant curtain fabrics are certified to BS5867 Part2B or 2C. Upholsteryfabrics are certified to BS5852 and the bedding to BS7175, but please check the additional information to ensure the fabric you are viewing is fit for the purpose you require.
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The Santa Maria Style of Barbecue: Open-Flame Grilling
Guides, reviews, histories, and travel tales from the barbecue trail.
How do you measure good barbecue? Does the meat have a smoke ring? Is there a pile of wood out back? Does the cook look anything like this guy? My favorite "rule" of barbecue is the parking lot test. Apparently, if you pull up to a smokehouse and notice a BMW parked next to a hooptie and a pickup truck, then the odds favor great barbecue.
If you pull up to a smokehouse and notice a hooptie parked next to a pickup and a minivan, the odds stumble just a bit—though they'll bounce back if you spot a pyramid display of white bread from the entrance. If you pull up to a smokehouse and notice a BMW next to two other BMWs, you may actually be at the local BMW dealership (note to self: look up definition of "slight left").
When I pulled up to the steakhouses of Santa Maria, California, I found pickup trucks next to pickup trucks. That's what you get for a farmtown near the central coast.
First, Some Santa Maria History
Santa Maria's claim to culinary fame is a type of open-flame grilling that dates back to the 19th century. Despite its association with colonial Spain's vaquero culture, this approach was not too different from most American barbecue of the time—a process with three general steps: "Dig hole. Light coals. Apply carcass."
Today, the iconic Santa Maria BBQ rig is not a smoke-filled enclosure of brick or tin. It's a cast-iron grate hoisted over a fire pit by two thickly laced chains. Red oak logs smolder below the grate, cooking the meat and vegetables lying above and bursting into an expressive flame whenever the cook adds a hefty splash of red wine.
The Hitching Post: Casmalia, CA
Since the origins of the word "barbecue" reflect this style of cooking, the "grilling vs. barbecue" debate wasn't on my mind when I took a seat at The Hitching Post in Casmalia. What did catch my attention was the sight of an open pit just feet from the dining room, an occasional wisp of smoke escaping from the hearth.
Watching the pit cook quickly pointed my thoughts to a more important question: rare or medium?
Three orders of "medium rare" at The Hitching Post returned three spot-on steaks, seared-to-black edges revealing a tender, rosy center. Each thick slice of grain-fed top sirloin, the original cut of choice for Santa Maria's outdoor pit barbecues during the 1800s, had been dry aged; rubbed with salt, garlic salt, and black pepper; and basted with butter and red wine on the grill. The deep flavors, complex textures and hint of wood smoke made this a steak to savor.
Grilled linguiça, with a wood-kissed natural casing and juicy filling, was just as memorable. The snappiest link to Santa Maria's Portuguese heritage, this spiced pork sausage is available for purchase (cooked or uncooked) all over town. It's a welcome addition to a local barbecue stable dominated by beef.
The Hitching Post is one of several steakhouse "taverns" that have been Santa Maria institutions since the 1950s (in fact, the Hitching Post is an official Santa Barbara landmark). Running the gradient between family-friendly restaurant and western saloon, each house boasts the same constants: red oak pits, awesome signage, and a thing for red meat.
While the ranching roots of the region have long since diminished (many steaks served here are imported from the Midwest), their dens and dining halls have grown into local legends and reliable roadside destinations.
Shaw's Restaurant: Santa Maria, CA
A stop at Shaw's Restaurant, one of the only steakhouses actually located in the town of Santa Maria, rewarded us with a fantastic heap of tri-tip. Like other signature specialties in regional 'cue, tri-tip didn't take center stage in Santa Maria until the 20th century. It's since become synonymous with the style, whether grilled and served rare or slow-smoked like a beef brisket.
A classic serving of Santa Maria tri-tip involves toasted garlic bread, a bowl of pinquito beans, and a side fresh red salsa. Shaw's tri-tip sandwich did well by all three (plus fries), but the meat alone would have been worth the $17 price tag.
It has just the slightest hint of a char but each thick slice retains that smoky flavor. The beef, cooked medium rare, was extremely tender and ripe with jus. Strands of almost-rendered fat—robust with the flavors of garlic and salt—made every bite pop.
Santa Maria barbecue, like Maryland Pit Beef, doesn't adhere to contemporary rules but after spending a day at the region's taverns and steakhouses, I could taste about a century of tradition distilled into the craft of seriously delicious wood-smoke grilling.
The Hitching Post
3325 Point Sal Road, Casmalia CA 93429 (map)
Shaw's Restaurant
714 S Broadway, Santa Maria CA 93454 (map) 805-925-5862
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The early history of the American Staffordshire Terrier was not recorded, but many experts feel the Am Staff and the Staffordshire Bull Terrier share some of the same ancestors, especially the old English Bulldog and perhaps the white English Terrier.
American Staffordshire Terrier dogs were used in the blood sports of bull and bear baiting. The Am Staff and American Pit Bull Terrier separated into two different breeds many years ago when the Pit Bull was recognized by the UKC and the American Staffordshire Terrier was recognized by the AKC.
The American Staffordshire Terrier is a medium-sized dog standing between 17 and 19 inches tall and weighing between 55 and 70 pounds. The head is blocky with muscular jaws, dark, round eyes, and either cropped or natural ears. The body is muscular, with a deep, wide chest, straight front legs, and a tapered, rather short, but not docked tail. The coat is short and may be any color.
Grooming the American Staffordshire Terrier simply means brushing the dog with a soft bristle brush or curry comb twice a week. This is an active breed who needs vigorous daily exercise. They do not have the body build of a long-distance runner, however, so the exercise should be long, quick-paced walks, weightpulling exercise, carting training, or a game of catch and fetch.
The ancestry of American Staffordshire Terrier includes dogs who were bred to fight and sometimes to fight other dogs. Because of this, American Staffordshire Terriers often do not get along with other dogs, especially dogs of the same sex. Although early socialization can often temper this reaction, interactions with other dogs should always be closely supervised, and those who show aggression should no longer be allowed to socialize. To prevent potential problems, all exercise should be on leash or within a fenced yard.
American Staffordshire Terriers are excellent watchdogs. They are also gentle and affectionate family dogs who are tolerant of children's rough play. When raised with other pets, they can be gentle and patient. Health concerns include hip dysplasia, allergies, and thyroid problems.
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Paramount Gold and Silver Provides Update on San Miguel Project Preliminary Economic Assessment and Exploration Program
WINNEMUCCA, NEVADA--(Marketwire - Feb 4, 2013) - Paramount Gold and Silver Corp. (PZG.TO)(NYSE MKT:PZG)(NYSE Amex:PZG)(P6G.F)(WKN:A0HGKQ) ("Paramount") reported today that results from the Preliminary Economic Assessment (PEA) for its 100%-owned San Miguel Project in Mexico are scheduled for release in late February, 2013. Exploration drilling also continues on key targets in the high-grade Don Ese area.
The expanded PEA will include mine plans for six resource areas and incorporate data from a total of 128,000 meters of drilling from 511 drill holes including 139 new core holes totaling 37,925 meters completed during 2011 and the first half of 2012. The PEA is being prepared by Metal Mining Consultants Inc., Colorado (http://www.metalminingconsultants.com), formerly Scott E. Wilson Consulting Inc., a respected engineering team with experience in mid-size projects like San Miguel.
The resource estimate for the PEA was prepared by Mine Development Associates (MDA, www.mda.com) of Reno, Nevada (see news release of October 10, 2012). The estimate reports 639,000 ounces of gold in the indicated category and another 830,000 ounces of gold classified as inferred. For silver, indicated resources are now estimated at 53.6 million ounces plus an additional 46.2 million ounces of inferred. Based on the long term gold-to-silver price ratio used by MDA of 1-to-60, the San Miguel estimated resource now equates to 1.53 million indicated gold equivalent (AuEq) ounces and 1.60 million inferred gold equivalent ounces (see table below for details). The PEA will incorporate inferred resources in its mine plans. Inferred resources are speculative in nature and economic projections based on them may not be reliable.
The PEA will also incorporate data from a comprehensive metallurgical test program conducted by McClelland Laboratories (http://www.mettest.com/mliindex.htm) of Reno, Nevada using composite samples prepared by ALS Chemex of Chihuahua, Mexico. The results predict high recoveries of gold and silver from either a milling/cyanide leach or conventional milling/flotation process (see news release of October 22, 2012).
With the best deposits remaining open, drilling continues with the aim of adding additional resources in the near term. New drilling on Don Ese is extending the mineralized structure at depth. Additional sampling and mapping has extended surface continuity of the high grade San Miguel Vein for at least another 1.5 kilometers to the northwest; this target is expected to be drilled shortly. Definition drilling is also planned at La Bavisa (in the Don Ese area) where recent drilling has encountered high grade intercepts which have not been incorporated into resource estimates. Drill results will be released shortly.
NI 43-101 Disclosure
Exploration activities at San Miguel are being conducted by Paramount Gold de Mexico S.A de C.V personnel under the supervision of Glen van Treek, Exploration Vice President of the Company and Bill Threlkeld, a Qualified Person as defined by National Instrument 43-101, who have both reviewed and approved this press release. An ongoing quality control/quality assurance protocol is being employed for the drill program including blank, duplicate and reference standards in every batch of assays. Cross-check analyses are being conducted at a second external laboratory on 10% of the samples. Samples are being assayed at ALS Chemex, Vancouver, B.C., using fire assay atomic absorption methods for gold and aqua regia digestion ICP methods for other elements.
About Paramount Gold
Paramount is a U.S.-based exploration and development company with multi-million ounce advanced stage precious metals projects in Nevada (Sleeper) and northern Mexico (San Miguel). Fully funded exploration and engineering programs are now in progress at these two core projects are expected to generate substantial additional value for our shareholders.
The Sleeper Gold Project is located off a main highway about 25 miles from the town of Winnemucca. In 2010, Paramount acquired a 100% interest in the project including the original Sleeper high-grade open pit mine operated by Amax Gold from 1986 to 1996 as well as staked and purchased lands now totaling 2,570 claims and covering about 47,500 acres stretching south down trend to Newmont''s Sandman project. This acquisition is consistent with the Company''s strategy of district-scale exploration near infrastructure in established mining camps.
The San Miguel Project consists of over 142,000 hectares (over 353,000 acres) in the Palmarejo District of northwest Mexico, making Paramount the largest claim holder in this rapidly growing precious metals mining camp. The San Miguel Project is ideally situated near established, low cost production where the infrastructure already exists for early, cost-effective exploitation. A PEA for San Miguel is now in progress.
Summary of all PZG NI 43-101 Compliant Resource Estimates
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Mineral resources that are not mineral reserves do not have demonstrated economic viability.
Cautionary Note to U.S. Investors Concerning Estimates of Indicated and Inferred Resources
This news release uses the terms "measured and indicated resources" and "inferred resources". We advise U.S. investors that while these terms are defined in, and permitted by, Canadian regulations, these terms are not defined terms under SEC Industry Guide 7 and not normally permitted to be used in reports and registration statements filed with the SEC. "Inferred resources" have a great amount of uncertainty as to their existence, and great uncertainty as to their economic and legal feasibility. It cannot be assumed that all or any part of an inferred mineral resource will ever be upgraded to a higher category. Under Canadian rules, estimates of inferred mineral resources may not form the basis of a feasibility study or prefeasibility studies, except in rare cases. The SEC normally only permits issuers to report mineralization that does not constitute SEC Industry Guide 7 compliant "reserves", as in-place tonnage and grade without reference to unit measures. U.S. investors are cautioned not to assume that any part or all of mineral deposits in this category will ever be converted into reserves. U.S. investors are cautioned not to assume that any part or all of an inferred resource exists or is economically or legally minable.
Safe Harbor for Forward-Looking Statements
This release and related documents may include "forward-looking statements" including, but not limited to: statements related to the interpretation of drilling results and potential mineralization; the expected release of results of a Preliminary Economic Assessment, the timing of such a release and the accuracy of such results; and the accuracy and reliability of projections contained in mineral resource estimates. Forward-looking statements are statements that are not historical fact and are subject to a variety of risks and uncertainties which could cause actual events to differ materially from those reflected in the forward-looking statements including fluctuations in the price of gold, inability to complete drill programs on time and on budget, and future financing ability. Paramount''s future expectations, beliefs, goals, plans or prospects constitute forward-looking statements within the meaning of the United States Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 and other applicable securities laws. Words such as "believes" "plans" "anticipates" "expects" "estimates" and similar expressions should also be considered to be forward-looking statements. There are a number of important factors that could cause actual results or events to differ materially from those indicated by such forward-looking statements, including, but not limited to: uncertainties involving interpretation of drilling results, environmental matters, lack of ability to obtain required permitting, equipment breakdown or disruptions, and the other factors described in Paramount''s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended June 30, 2012 and its most recent quarterly reports filed with the SEC. Except as required by applicable law, Paramount disclaims any intention or obligation to update any forward-looking statements as a result of developments occurring after the date of this document.


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Attic Fan Installation in Ocklawaha, Florida
Wouldn't you love to maximize all the space that's available in your home? Turning an attic into usable space by installing Ocklawaha Florida solar attic fans is a clever and cost-effective option. Elite Power Pro's LLC has been making home climates more comfortable by installing energy-efficient building products and services since 2016. Give us a call at (352) 254-8054 to learn more about cost-effective ways to make your home temperature more pleasant with an IntelliBreeze solar attic fan installed in your Ocklawaha home.
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How a Cooler Attic in Ocklawaha Lowers Utility Bills
We all know heat rises. When it does, it gets trapped in poorly ventilated attics. When you think about what it would take to cool this space to a temperature that is bearable, you probably imagine much higher electric bills. With the IntelliBreeze solar attic fan installed in an Ocklawaha attic, you get a cooler space and a lower monthly power bill. This attic fan quietly and effectively draws hot air from your attic and release it outdoors, thereby cooling the space. The fan is solar-powered and can run constantly to keep your attic significantly cooler throughout the summer. With the IntelliBreeze solar attic fan, your air conditioning unit will require less power to keep your home comfortable.
Prevent Toxic Mold Growth in Ocklawaha With an Attic Fan Installation
Heat and humidity are frequent companions during the summer months. These create ideal conditions for mold and mildew growth. There are thousands of mold species in our environment, and some of them are known to cause serious respiratory problems. You can reduce the risk mold spores in your attic by calling Elite Power Pro's LLC to install an Ocklawaha attic fan. We love installing solar attic fans because they work exceptionally well to keep your attic cooler and drier than they would be from vents alone. When you want to safeguard your family's health against mold spore growth in your attic, give us a call at (352) 254-8054 to schedule an appointment with our professional Ocklawaha attic fan installers.
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Toni Payne weighs in on social media debate about 9ice's controversial song, 'Living Things'
Toni Payne, The Ex wife of superstar Afro pop singer, 9ice took to her Twitter page to defend his music after several people slammed him for trying to defend his 'Living Things' song which many have said glorified fraudsters.
Toni Payne got married to 9ice in July 2008 and they separated in 2010.
In a series of tweets, Toni who was once his manager wrote;
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OAP Toolz Recounts How Almost Everyone In Her Home Tested Positive For COVID-19
Media personality, Tolu Demuren alias Toolz, has narrated how she and the members of her household tested positive for the novel Coronavirus.
The on-air personality, in a string of tweets, mentioned that she was mainly concerned about her two children but fortunately, they did not contract the virus. Toolz also revealed that they have all fully recovered in her home.
In her words;
"Feeling super thankful to God today! This time last month, we were going through a very scary period! Almost everyone in our house (including myself) tested positive for Covid-19.
I was just about to return to work after my maternity, and it all started with Captain complaining of 'malaria-like' symptoms. He had them for a few days, and didn't seem to get any better…so we ended up taking him to hospital.
He had taken a Covid-19 test a few days before which was negative, so I thought it was a bad case of malaria. He was admitted with malaria and a bacterial infection we were told. After being given intravenous antibiotics and other meds he still wasn't getting better.
I decided to move him to a different hospital, and they tested again, and he 'blew up' the test according to the doctor. My body went cold, and my first thought was 'OMG the babies!!'. Then a short while later, I thought about myself. I did a rapid test, and it was positive.
Neither of us initially had the common symptoms- no coughing, no breathing issues…although I later lost my smell and taste. Captain was in hospital for a week and this was around the time of the Lekki shooting, so I was doubly terrified.
My main fear was the babies…especially our youngest son as he was just about 3 months old. We didn't test them, but I was certain they had Covid too as we literally kiss and cuddle our boys every day. The doctor assured us that they wouldn't be affected.
Thank God the doctor was right, other than a sneeze here & there, our babies were perfectly fine. I was generally ok too, just scared. Once you get that positive result, you get all these random symptoms you didn't have before. My back would hurt…I'd be like hmmm corona oo
The weirdest thing was the taste and smell thing. Everything Captain had tasted bad, he's a foodie so that was strange. One of my super powers is my sense of smell…and it just gradually faded. I actually put a bottle of bleach under my nose one day and…nothing.
I kept waiting to fall ill, and it didn't happen. I started thinking I had indaboski blood, but then I had 2 days where I felt like I had the worst hangover in the world, then there was some fatigue, but I was generally ok.
Captain on the other hand felt super rundown, couldn't keep food down, had cramping all over and a bunch of other symptoms. After a week, he came back home, and we finished our isolation period together.
After 2 weeks we all retested and were all thankfully Negative. Thanks to Almighty God for seeing us through, a big thank you to the doctors that looked after us… especially Dr Majekodunmi of Eurocare for the constant reassurance, and for taking my a million and one calls.
I'm super thankful I didn't get it while I was pregnant. Imagine I travelled to have my baby, came back, did a 7 covid tests, and it was the 8th that was positive. The craziest thing was that a week before I legit told someone that there's Covid in Lagos anymore. Silly me", she concluded.
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'Many Christians Speak In Tongues But It's Hard To Find Interpreters' – Uti Nwachukwu
Popular media personality, Uti Nwachukwu, has come for Christians who speak in tongues without interpreters. The ex BBA winner took to his official Twitter account to state that he finds it weird that a lot of Christians speak in tongues without anyone to interpret the tongues, stating that it is contrary to what is in the Bible.
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His tweet reads:
"I find it sooo weird that a LOT of Christians speak in tongues, But till today I have not met ONE person that can interprete the tongues. Afterall the Bible (1 Cor 12 V10) says Holy Spirit gifts some with tongues and others with interpretation? Where are the INTERPRETERS?"
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'Do Not Turn Your Mentor To Your Competitor', Helen Paul Advises
Popular Nigerian comedienne, Helen Paul, has taken to Instagram to share some words of advice. The stand-up comedienne cum TV host and actress shared a write-up on her page with a lengthy caption that states that it is only for the wise.
The post reads:
"Do not turn your mentor to your competitor, respect who saw the light before you… *Onlyforthewise*"
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"Only the wise will understand this. E dey happen when they think they know it all… Learning for mentors too is necessary, leadership skills and training is very much needed. Understanding temperament and when to draw the line is very much needed."
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Popular Science Monthly/Volume 46/January 1895/Obituary Notes
Colonel Garrick Mallery, of the United States Army, retired, an esteemed contributor to The Popular Science Monthly, died in Washington, October 24th, aged sixty-three years. He was born at Wilkesbarre, Pa., and was educated at Yale. In 1861 he entered the volunteer service, and for gallantry in action was promoted four times, finally rising to the rank of lieutenant-colonel. He was one of the Libby prisoners. He was in charge of the Signal-Service Bureau from 1870 to 1876, and then was ordered to Dakota. His investigations into Indian sign and gesture language, concerning which he published valuable papers in the Smithsonian series and in scientific journals, gave him a high scientific reputation. He was President of the Cosmos Club of Washington.
Dr. Terrien de Lacouperie, at one time Professor of the Comparative Philology of Southeastern Asia at University College, died in Fulham, England, October 11th. To him belongs the credit of having determined the origin of the Chinese writing and early civilization. He was of Norman descent and began life as a merchant, but was drawn away to science and particularly to comparative philology. Having studied the early writing of China, he compared it with the cuneiform characters of Babylonia, and found evidence that some of the characters had been borrowed from the ancient Akkadian. Tracing out other affinities, he found a like correspondence between the civilization of the Chinese and those of Elam and Chaldea. He discovered the key to the puzzling Yihking, or Book of Changes, of the Chinese, determining that it consists of old fragments of early times in China, mostly of a lexical character. He was author of the books: The Early History of Chinese Civilization, The Languages of China before the Chinese, A Catalogue of Chinese Coins from the Seventh Century b. c. to a. d. 621, and The Western Origin of the Early Chinese Civilization, from 2300 b. c. to 200 a. d.
William Topley, F. R. S., an industrious English working geologist, died in Croydon, September 30th, of gastritis contracted during a geological visit to Algeria. He was a special student of the geology of the Weald, on various aspects of which he contributed several papers, and of the bearings of geology on other branches of knowledge. One of his papers treated of the relation of parish boundaries to great physical features. His most important work was The Geological Survey Memoir of the Weald. He was Secretary of the Geological Section of the British Association for fifteen years, was Secretary of the Committee on Coast Erosion, and was President of the Geologists' Association from 1885 to 1887. He took part in most of the international geological congresses, and was for a time a sub-editor, and afterward editor, on the Geological Record.
Prof. N. Pringsheim, an eminent German botanist, died October 6th, in the seventy-second year of his age. He wrote especially on the processes of fructification and germination in the Algæ. He was Professor of Botany at Jena from 1864 to 1868, and founded there the first Institute for Vegetable Physiology. He returned to Berlin in the latter year, and established a private laboratory, in which he carried out valuable investigations on the sexual life of the lowest vegetable organisms.


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ATP have announced the initial line-up for next year's instalment of I'll Be Your Mirror and, lord, it's pretty spectacular. No fannying around here as Mogwai, Guided By Voices and Slayer are headlining a day each. Slayer, people, will be performing Reign In Blood in full, which isn't such a bad thing.
The other bands which are on the bill so far are Sleep, Mudhoney, Melvins, Codeine and Yuck. Like we say, an utterly fine start, isn't it? It'll be the first UK Guided By Voices show with the "classic" line-up since 2003, and they've got a new album on the way too. That said, I'm sure there will be plenty of classic songs. And plenty of songs in general, actually.
Next year's event takes place at London's Alexandra Palace on Friday May 25 (4-11PM), Saturday May 26 (Midday-1AM) and Sunday May 27 (Midday-1AM). There will also been a cinema, food, more (cash) bars, toilets. Plus there will be shuttle buses from Wood Green to the venue and back. Headliners will finish at 11PM. More bits and bobs found on the IBYM Tumblr.
Tickets go on sale at 10AM on Friday November 11 on this website. Friday-Sunday tickets cost £130 whilst Friday tickets are £39, and Saturday and Sunday tickets are £59. For your info: the bands playing on Friday are Slayer, Sleep and Melvins, Saturday: Mogwai, Mudhoney and Codeine, Sunday: Guided By Voices and Yuck.


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I have been using zimbra on FreeBSD since 5.0.16, it is amazing piece of software. Thank you.
For all those "this is not a real FreeBSD port" people: it is not meant to be.
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The Shocking Truth: The Scientific American Poll on Climate Change
November's Scientific American features a profile of Georgia Tech atmospheric scientist Judith Curry, who has committed the mortal sin of reaching out to other scientists who hypothesize that global warming isn't the disaster it's been cracked up to be. I have personal experience with this, as she invited me to give a research seminar in Tech's prestigious School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences in 2008. My lecture summarizing the reasons for doubting the apocalyptic synthesis of climate change was well‐received by an overflow crowd.
Written by Michael Lemonick, who hails from the shrill blog Climate Central, the article isn't devoid of the usual swipes, calling her a "heretic" which is hardly at all true. She's simply another hardworking scientist who lets the data take her wherever it must, even if that leads her to question some of our more alarmist colleagues.
But, as a make‐up call for calling attention to Curry, Scientific American has run a poll of its readers on climate change. Remember that SciAm has been shilling for the climate apocalypse for years, publishing a particularly vicious series of attacks on Denmark's Bjorn Lomborg's Skeptical Environmentalist. The magazine also featured NASA's James Hansen and his outlandish claims on sea‐level rise. Hansen has stated, under oath in a deposition, that a twenty foot rise is quite possible within the next 89 years; oddly, he has failed to note that in 1988 he predicted that the West Side Highway in Manhattan would go permanently under water in twenty years.
SciAm probably expected a lot of people would agree with the key statement in their poll that the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is "an effective group of government representatives and other experts."
Hardly. As of this morning, only 16% of the 6655 respondents agreed. 84%—that is not a typo—described the IPCC as "a corrupt organization, prone to groupthink, with a political agenda."
The poll also asks "What should we do about climate change?" 69% say "nothing, we are powerless to stop it." When asked about policy options, an astonishingly low 7% support cap‐and‐trade, which passed the U.S. House of Representatives in June, 2009, and cost approximately two dozen congressmen their seats.
The real killer is question "What is causing climate change?" For this one, multiple answers are allowed. 26% said greenhouse gases from human activity, 32% solar variation, and 78% "natural processes." (In reality all three are causes of climate change.)
And finally, "How much would you be willing to pay to forestall the risk of catastrophic climate change?" 80% of the respondents said "nothing."
Remember that this comes from what is hardly a random sample. Scientific American is a reliably statist publication and therefore appeals to a readership that is skewed to the left of the political center. This poll demonstrates that virtually everyone now acknowledges that the UN has corrupted climate science, that climate change is impossible to stop, and that futile attempts like cap‐and‐trade do nothing but waste money and burn political capital, things that Cato's scholars have been saying for years.


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Rev. Allen H. Smith, who was the founding pastor at Christian Tabernacle Baptist Church, was killed Monday.
Police were called to an area Senior Suites of Rainbow Beach about 6:30 a.m., where they found a man who had been shot in the face. Residents of the community identified the victim as Smith.
Smith had been living there in his retirement, according to an email from the he American Baptist Churches of Connecticut.
Smith was one of 13 fatally shot over the holiday weekend in Chicago.
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It felt as though I had the Magic Kingdom all to myself
I've known my next interviewee for a few years now. I met her when she and her sister opened Brainabilty, a local educational facility that presented unique and creative programming for children. My daughter LOVED it. Then, she helped me with some donations of stuffed animals for the Huggable Bears for Georgia's Children project which provides stuffed animals for children in caught in middle of the child support system in Georgia. Recently, she and her husband took ownership of a local lighting store, House Electric. In addition to all this, she puts on one of the best Vacation Bible Schools in Athens! She's a joy to know and to call a friend…introducing, Charlotte House.
Tell us about yourself:
My name's Charlotte House, I'm 39 and from Gainesville, Georgia. My husband, Geoff, and I now live in Athens. We went to Walt Disney World for our first anniversary and we were picked to open up MGM Studios. I know it's 'Disney Hollywood Studios' now, but to me, it's still MGM. We got to go in early and they helped us with a script that we did with some of the street actors. Then they whisked us away and took us straight to The Tower of Terror to ride it by ourselves. Well, I'd been there and done that, and it is just not my kind of ride, so Geoff ended up riding it by himself while I waited by the photo screens with a cast member. It was hysterical to see all of these images of empty elevators and then all of a sudden to see Geoff sitting by himself in the huge elevator car. They gave us a copy of the photo and special buttons and we had people pointing at us all day saying, "Look, it's the people who opened the park. I wonder if they're famous?" We certainly felt famous that day!
Do you have a favorite Disney Park?
Ooh this is a tough one!! Don't know that I can pick one.
What's your favorite Disney attraction?
I love to see the parades! They are always a must on my list!!
Do you have a favorite Disney food/treat and souvenir?
Popcorn and a Diet coke in souvenir buckets and mugs and my Mickey Mouse Ears with my name embroidered on the back.Feel free to read these fascinating blog posts about Mickey Ears here, here and here.
Favorite Disney movie?
Mary Poppins and The Lion King
Did you ever see a celebrity in the parks?
Yes, several. Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter; Michael Jackson; M.C. Hammer and his whole entourage; Melanie Griffith; Princess Diana with Prince William and Andrew. Of course, I saw Mickey and his gang as well!
What do you do now?
We own House Electric here in Athens, and I'm a Georgia Wolf Trap Teaching Artist working with the Alliance Theater in Atlanta.
Tell us about your time at Disney:
I worked there 3 years, 1990-93, during the peak seasons: Summer, Thanksgiving, Christmas and spring break. I lived in Kissimmee at the time. I was a Casual Temporary or (CT) in merchandising and my costume was a red skirt, white polo with the Mickey Mouse Club logo and Mickey Ears. I also worked in "glow" for overtime, when it was available. "Glow" is selling all of the glow-in-the-dark and light-up merchandise when the sun goes down. I would walk up and down Main Street with light up roses or glow sticks before Spectro Magic would run. Then I would watch the parade and then sell some more glow! Back then we didn't have anything near what they do today! We were able to carry or wear everything and still had our hands free to make change. Today they have full carts loaded up with glow. The only two glow products that I can remember were the necklaces and a glowing, battery operated rose. I saw a lot of very excited children who would beg their parents for cash and a lot of parents who were very reluctant to purchase them.
The main jobs that were available to CT's were attractions, merchandise or food services. Disney would move you around within the parks, but only within the category you were trained in, so I never worked food service or attractions.
Which park or unit did you work in?
The Magic Kingdom in Mickey's Starland. This was first built as Mickey's Birthdayland in 1988. In 1990, it became Starland and then Mickey's Toon Town Fair in 1996. If an area in the park was short employees, they would shuffle you around to different areas. So, I worked in Tomorrowland, Liberty Square, The Pirates of the Caribbean and on Main Street.
Why did you begin working for Disney?
I needed a summer job and I thought it would be fun. So, I went to Florida one weekend, found the Casting Center and interviewed. I walked out the door with a new summer job!
Why did you leave?
It was time to find a "real" job. I was getting ready to graduate from UGA and had to complete an internship at the Center for Puppetry Arts in Atlanta who hired me full-time after my internship so I choose to stay there instead of returning to Disney.
Tell us a favorite memory of working there:
Wow! I have tons of favorites!! One, in particular I'll never forget, was an evening when I was closing. It was very late, way past when the Magic Kingdom had closed. I walked all the way through Mickey's Starland and Fantasyland and everything was completely silent. There was no one around, or at least not within my seeing or hearing range. It felt as though I had the Magic Kingdom all to myself. I know it sounds dorky, but it was a feeling like no other that I treasure.
Tell us about a challenging day:
As part of closing procedures, we were responsible for doing "strollers." This meant that we had to roll all of the strollers that were left in our land and take them to the bridge next to Cinderella's Castle.
Most evenings, it was a pretty daunting task because of the number of strollers left behind. Lots of guests with children would visit Mickey's Starland and then hop on the train to Main Street, leaving their strollers behind. Most lands might have a handful to take care of but we usually had 20 or more. So, one evening, it was time to take care of them, several of us started gathering strollers and hooking them together by leaning the stroller back and placing the front wheel in the basket of the stroller in front of it. Then we'd continue staggering the strollers until they were all hooked together. However, this time, we had an extremely large number of strollers with only myself and two other girls to push. Why I volunteered to take the lead, I don't know, but I did. So, after getting a good head of steam, we had the strollers really moving towards the Teacups, and I had to make a turn to the left. Apparently, I wasn't strong enough (or maybe I was too strong) to push them into the turn so…suddenly the whole line of strollers lost control and went careening across Fantasyland…and tipped over! There were strollers everywhere. We were bruised and bleeding from trying to stop them, and laughing uncontrollably all the while. It took us forever to get all of the strollers cleaned up and make our way to Cinderella's Castle. Of course, after that I was never allowed to lead the stroller train again!
Tell us one of the most interesting or funniest events while you were working:
A call for volunteers was posted for anyone who wanted take part in the 20th Anniversary photo shoot. To me this was a no brainer – what an oppurtunity! We were to be dressed in our costumes and to meet at the front gates of the Magic Kingdom. It was really early in the morning because we had to get the shot before guests started to arriving. Cast members were positioned behind the railing above the floral Mickey at the ticket station. In front of us, the costumed characters were carefully arranged in the shape of a 20. We were never told where or when they would use the photo and for a long time I thought it would never be seen. Then one day I got a copy of the ad from a friend. He was flying someplace and saw it in a Delta SKY magazine and realized that I was in the top right hand corner. He tore the page from the magazine and sent it to me!
Tells us something no one knows about Disney:
In Peter Pan's Flight to Neverland, Captain Hook's hook was on the wrong hand. His hook should be on his left hand, but in the ride it was on his right. I don't know if they ever fixed it or not, I guess I will have to check it out next time I am there.
Would you go back?
Yes! I actually interviewed a few years ago and was offered a CT position to work at the Tower of Terror, but I was unable to make it to the training sessions.(Ed's note: If you've wanted to know what it was like to control The Tower of Terror, have a look at Randy Reighard's ToT simulation site.)
Did it help your future career?
Not sure that it helped my career, but it sure does make for a lively interview when people see "Disney" in my job history!
What, if anything, did you learn from Disney?
Walt Disney was never afraid to dream. He took a small sketch of a mouse and turned it into an empire of fun and wholesomeness that has spread across the world for more than three generations! This taught me to never think a dream is too small or too big. A dream is meant to be chased for it can become real if you believe!
Are you still in contact with Disney co-workers?
Yes, I am friends with several of them on Facebook. A big Mickey shout out to Leslie, Rex, Brian, Jeff, Greg and Terry!
If you worked in the parks, how did you share the Disney magic?
In many different ways! As a matter of fact, Disney sends you to Disney University to attend their 'Traditons' class before you start your job. This is where you learn all sorts of things to be a part of the magic, like not to make a funny face when people ask, "What time is the 3:00 parade?," or how to point things out using your whole hand or two fingers, because in some cultures it is rude to point with one finger.
You learn how to tell the difference between Chip and Dale and how to name all seven of the dwarfs. And of course you learn Disney lingo: you're not an employee, you're a cast member. If you are in front of visitors you are "on stage" and if you are not where guests are, you are "back stage." You go on tours around the parks to know where things are. Plus, they teach you the Disney way of dressing.
What was your favorite Hidden Mickey?
Working back in Mickey's Starland, I became very fond of "Minnie Moo". She was the cow that was born with the classic three-circle pattern on her side!Grandma Duck's Farm at the Magic Kingdom and later moved to the Petting Farm at the Tri-Circle D Rance at Disney's Fort Wilderness Resort and Campground.)
What advice would you give to a guest visiting the parks from the perspective of a cast member?
There is a HUGE difference with the crowds between the "peak" and "off" seasons. If you can plan your vacation during the off-season, the lines and waits will be much shorter! Also, use a park map and a schedule to plan your day. A family can get really worn out running back and forth across the park to catch rides and shows. A little planning goes a LONG, LONG way towards a fun and memorable trip!
If you could change anything about Disney, what would it be?
To change the Snow White ride. The story of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs is such a great story, but the ride in Fantasyland mainly focuses on the witch. She pops out everywhere cackling and trying to give away poison apples! I would enjoy it more if the focus was on the whole storyline.Fantasyland expansion opens next year. Below are some artist renderings of the new Seven Dwarves Mine Train.)
Are you glad you worked there?
Absolutely! It was a fantastic time! I loved seeing and learning about all of the "Behind the Magic" things that happen at Disney. Plus, we were encouraged to visit the theme parks on our days off. This way we became more familiar with the parks and were better able to help guests. Some days I would show up early and go ride something before clocking in. You gotta love a job where you can go take a spin in a tea cup before you start work!
In fact, I've wanted to go back to work at Disney ever since I left. It just wasn't geographically right for where I was at the time. My dream job is to be Snow White in a parade. What woman wouldn't want to be followed around all day by seven adorable men?! Unfortunately, at 5'6", Disney says I am too tall to be a princess. I still think that if they would put me in flats and not heels I could pull it off…how 'bout them apples?
Anything else you'd like to share?
If you have the chance to work at Disney go for it! It truly is a one of a kind, unforgettable experience!


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'The Canterbury Tales'
The Canterbury Tales
A New Unabridged Translation by Burton Raffel
Geoffrey Chaucer
The Modern Library: 624 pp. $35
Chaucer himself was a translator, people forget, his most important work along those lines being "The Romance of the Rose" and Boethius' "The Consolation of Philosophy." Some of the tales that appear in "The Canterbury Tales" he wrote in his youth, but others were, in fact, translations that he made anew later on. So Burton Raffel, a self-identified poet and professor emeritus of English at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, is therefore in good company. In his surprisingly brief "Translator's Foreword" for this new translation, he cites no more than the eight opening lines of the famous "Prologue" --
"Whan that Aprill with his shoures soote
The droghte of March hath perced to the roote,
And bathed every veyne in swich licour
Of which vertu engendred is the flour;
Whan Zephirus eek with his sweete breeth
Inspired hath in every holt and heeth
The tendre croppes and the yonge sonne
Hath in the Ram his half cours yronne"
-- to give his reasons for a new version: "There are unfamiliar words, and the metrics . . . are not at all clear." He goes on to say, "Englishmen as late as the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries could not follow Chaucer's metrics. . . . Still, native speakers of English, as recently as the first half of the twentieth century, were not particularly uncomfortable with Chaucer's difficulties. Time has, however, continued to move on. . . . As is always the case, what was is now no more." He alludes to "Chaucer's difficulties." A very real question must be asked: Are the difficulties Chaucer's or Raffel's?
Translating Chaucer's masterpiece is a herculean feat, needless to say. It is a work, 24 tales in all, that constitutes almost all of the literary forms that make up medieval literature: parodies, exempla, pious sermons, literary confessions, stately romances, saints' legends, lubricious anecdotes, you name it. Generally, it is "Estates satire," as well -- types. "The Franklin's Tale" is a Breton lai. "The Miller's Tale," that smutty story, is a fabliau. "The Nun's Priest's Tale" is a beast fable. The Parson offers an austerely orthodox treatise on penance. Two tales are in prose: "The Parson's Tale" and the "Tale of Melibee," which is full of legal jargon. "The Monk's Tale" expresses scorn for disrespectful and unruly commoners. Chaucer runs the gamut. There are many Chaucers: funny, gloomy, pious, political, gross. There is the learned Chaucer, the feminist Chaucer, the social Chaucer, the religious Chaucer, the rhetorical Chaucer, the Chaucer who attempts little more than trying to titillate the groundling mind with nothing but farce, foolishness and fart jokes.
He could do many voices. His own native dialect was that of metropolitan London, where he was born, educated and lived most of his life. (Granted, it was a small city at the time, only about 40,000 people.) Although much of 14th century England was a cultural satellite of France (French had been the official language of the English government since 1066), Chaucer was surely sparked by the vernacular with all of its rich, comic possibilities. Victories over the French at Crécy (1346) and Poitiers (1356) had raised the status of the native tongue. Bilingual from childhood, he picked up Latin training as a courtier and court diplomat and chose to write in English. "And for there is so great diversite / In Englissh and in writing of oure tongue, / So prey I to God that non miswrite thee / Ne the mysmetre for defaute of tongue," he declared in "Troilus and Criseyde." A wide diversity of language could be found then throughout England, where dialects often differed from county to county. A reader of Chaucer will encounter idioms, prayers, jingles, puns, tall tales, harangues, narratives, a few inflectional survivals from Old English, words no longer used, slang. It was for such multifariousness that he became "the firste fyndere of our faire language."
"The Canterbury Tales" is a delightful fiction, of course. (A "Canterbury tale" in Middle English slang is a "lie"!) The frame of the poem is a pilgrimage that consists of 30 pilgrims (29 plus the poet), each of them a recognizable 14th century type, taking the 60-mile trip from London's Tabard Inn to the tomb of St. Thomas à Becket at the Canterbury cathedral with each to tell four tales "to shorten the way." The telling becomes a competition, with one Harry Bailey, the Tabard proprietor, acting as host and guide. Chaucer projected 120 tales; only 24 constitute the entire work, and two of these remain unfinished.
"I have tried to give as much of the effect of Chaucer's poetry as I could," Raffel states, explaining as if confounded that in his translation the sound of the original poetry is unreproducible. We are told we are being given a "translation from" rather an "edition of" the poem, meaning simply that he is using the accepted order of the classic from the standard F.N. Robinson edition of Chaucer's poems. (Chaucer neither prepared a full, consecutive grouping of the full, final poem.) When Raffel confesses that he cannot integrate Chaucer's syntax with his own modern version, it is understandable. Although Chaucer's syntax in the original, untranslated, is very much like our own, for a translator to try to save or salvage parts in an otherwise translated sentence would of course cause problems.
Remarkably, Chaucerian English is quite accessible to the modern reader (often downright simple) and in other places asks merely for determination to read it. The language is realistic and oddly modern. It "demonstrates," as John Gardner noted, rather than "explores," and the openness and freshness of imagery has never failed to appeal to the popular and vulgar audience for whom the tales were composed. Take "The Summoner's Tale." How difficult is it to understand the following passage in the original?
"Now thanne, put in thyn hand doun by my bak,"
Seyde this man, "and grope wel bihynde.
Bynethe my buttok there shaltow fynde
A thing that I have hyd in pryvetee."
"A!" thoghte this frère, "that shal go with me!"
And doun his hand he launcheth to the clifte,
In hope for to fynde there a yifte.
And whan this sike man felte this frère
About his tuwel grope there and here,
Amydde his hand he leet the frère a fart.
Ther nys no capul, drawynge in a cart,
That myghte have lete a fart of swich a soun. (Look up capul (cart-horse) and tuwel (hole), and it could be a modern schoolboy telling a snappy whopper to his friend!
Raffel's is a reductive translation, if it is an accessible one. When he characterizes his undertaking by stating that "Comprehension by modern readers is the key," we suspect right off that we are being served up a dumbed-down version. He renames many familiar characters. There is no reason a person would any more know what a "Steward" does than a Reeve, although here the former replaces the latter. The occupation of manciple is changed into "Provisioner." Cui bono? Chaucer's Pardoner becomes by transubstantiation the "Pardon-Peddler," but may not one ask if a reader knows what a pardon is, would he not therefore know what a Pardoner does? What is clarified by denominating the Canon a "Cleric" or the Yeoman a "Magician," and what is gained by the leavening alteration? When Raffel arbitrarily leaves the names Squire and Summoner in the text, moreover, should one assume that (a) these particular two are modern professions and that (b) one is familiar with them? Choices, alterations seem subjective. When we are told, as indeed Raffel rather cavalierly tells us, that "virtually no one, today, understands what a 'canon' is, or what he does, or even where he does it, and much the same may be said of a 'yeoman,' " should one therefore conclude that new translations should now be required, say, of Charles Dickens' "The Mystery of Edwin Drood" and Dr. Seuss' fable "The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins" in which, respectively, a canon and a yeomen happen to appear? I must say, I was repeatedly struck by how cheap and vulgarized the paraphrased work of magnificent poetry can be.
Consider several comparisons between the original poem and this translation. The Reeve in his tale, recounting the story of a pompous miller, describes that man in part:
"A joly poppere baar he in his pouche;
Ther was no man, for peril, dorste hym touched.
A Sheffeld thwitel baar he in his hose.
Round was his face, and camus was his nose;
As agile as an ape was his skulle."
Raffel's "Steward" says,
"And in his pouch he carried a fine little dagger.
No one bothered him, for fear of danger.
His long stockings were long, and held a Sheffield knife.
His face was round, his nose was stubby and wide.
His skull was bald, as naked as any ape."
The translation is wordier, flatter, less succinct, dependent on clichés, comparatively imprecise and even redundant. Crispness has been sacrificed for clarity. (It should also be pointed out that Raffel doesn't follow the standard Chaucerian line-numbering, beginning every tale with line 1, making it almost impossible to compare his translation with the original.)
I found the same problem throughout the revised and paraphrased poem, bold poetry giving way to compromised narrative. In "The Wife of Bath's Prologue," the randy narrator confesses:
"Gat-toothed I was, and that bicam me weel;
I hadde the prente of seinte Venus seel.
As help me God! I was a lusty oon
And faire, and riche, and yong, and wel bigon;
And trewely, as myne housbondes tolde me,
I hadde the beste quoniam myghte be.
For certes, I am al Venerien
In feelynge"
This becomes in Raffel's translation:
"My teeth were wide apart, which is a sign
Of Venus, and I bore her birthmark on my body.
So help me God! But surely I was lusty,
Pretty, rich, and very well situated.
And truly, as my new husband often stated
My crotch was just as perfect as that part can be.
I'm truly born of Venus, most certainly,
In all my feelings"
Preference matters, of course. I myself have a hard time imagining any reader who is interested in Chaucer in the first place having trouble reading the original lines. It is personal taste to gauge whether flavor is lost.
Flavor is everything in Chaucer. Words, images, passages. Beyond all else, his flavor must be kept in any translation. The poem, which is found prevailingly in pentameter couplets, needs that continuing bounce or beat for its rude, narrative value. As a college student, but even in high school, I read "The Canterbury Tales" in the original Middle English in Robinson's edition. All sorts of editions (abridged and unabridged) are available. There are prose format translations for easy readings. There are interlinear versions. There are duncical translations that turn the poem into a different entity altogether.
Surely no one can doubt that this splendid work should ideally be read in Chaucer's own words, even if it means occasionally glancing at a marginal gloss or a footnote. "Glosynge is a glorious thing," the Friar tells in "The Summoner's Tale." It is undeniable that such odd Middle English words like "hende" and "joly" refuse translation. Strange words proliferate: gypon, lixt, cloutes, lymytour, artow, mooder, kiken. (I say: look them up!) Chaucerian variants can also confuse. As A.C. Cawley points out in his well-annotated Everyman edition of the tales, one can dredge up something like 10 variants in the work for the word "horse" alone: ambler, hackney, caple, dexter, palfry, rouncy, stot and more. Theological terms can be arcane, as well. There is no end of feudal terms and topical allusions. It is Cawley who also sagaciously observes in turn that "glosses and paraphrases can be just as harmful as a modernized version of the whole, if they are allowed to take precedence over the original." He advises that where footnotes or marginal notes are not needed, they should be ignored. I personally love footnotes simply because I yearn to know. When I was teaching, I tried to assure my students that the day they started reading rather ignoring scholarly paraphernalia was the day they were becoming what a good student should be.
I commend Raffel for his ambition to get folks to read and understand this complex poem. But the problem is that, in so doing, while giving readers access to the mysteries, he ironically robs those mysteries of their beauty. The genius of this magnificent poem is precisely in its original words. The fault is not in the concept of the undertaking but rather in the nature of it. Translating Chaucer is hazardously compromising at best. Technical words become ordinary. Puns can lose their significance. Rhymes are lost. Colors fade. Substitution can seem like a violation. There is a rough equity to a degree, but it is what critic George Steiner refers to as "radical equity."
Chaucer is the crown, the full flower, of English medieval verse. As Ezra Pound declared in "ABC of Reading," "Anyone who is too lazy to master the comparatively small glossary necessary to understand Chaucer deserves to be shut out from the reading of good books forever."
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- Active time: 30 minutes
- Total time:2 hours 30 minutes, including cooling
- 2 cups sugar
- 1/2 cup water
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- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
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When a runner thinks about Achilles, he usually thinks of an inflamed tendon in the lower leg rather than the mythical Greek warrior for whom that big fat tendon is named. Not much of a legacy for a soldier, to be sure, but it was apparently well deserved.
Long before Achilles tendinitis became such common parlance in the running community, the word "Achilles" suggested weakness, as in "Achilles heel." But several eons before it became a heel, a weakness, or a running injury, Achilles was a very mean and nasty Greek soldier. Or so the legend goes.
The weakness part was his mother's fault. She held him by the heel as an infant and dipped him in the River Styx, in hopes that the magic waters would coat his body with an arrow-proof layer. The heel missed out, of course, staying dry under his mother's vice-like grip. (After all, it wouldn't do to drown your kid while you're trying to make him invincible.)
Lacking the magical Styx defense mechanism, that unprotected heel turned out to be Achilles's downfall. An equally mean and nasty mythical warrior named Paris nailed the seemingly indestructible Achilles with a well-placed arrow in the heel. If you've ever survived a bout with Achilles tendinitis, you probably have an idea how that felt. While it may seem ironic that one of the biggest, hardest-working tendons in the body is named after a warrior with such a fatal flaw, it probably has more to do with location than symbolism.
And it is at this location that one of the ongoing fatal flaws in running shoes can be found. The heel fit of many shoes can indeed be an Achilles heel.
You can buy shoes with enough stability for an over-pronating gorilla, or with traction that will scale a water slide in the rain, but finding a shoe that fits well in the heel can be a challenge.
You know the feeling. You slide on a new shoe, and as you tighten the laces the upper wraps around your foot with increasing affection. With each tug, the laces sink into the plush, padded tongue spreading their pressure comfortably across the top of your foot. You finalize the ritual with the same knot you've used since kindergarten.
Both shoes securely attached, you stand and take that first magical step. The sensation of superb cush in the heel is followed by supportive stability in the arch as your foot flattens to the floor. As you roll forward, the forefoot starts to flex efficiently to push off into magical step number two, and then … the heel slips.
Yeah, it lifts up out of the shoe like a ballistic missile launched from a silo. So much for the security, comfort and ecstasy of new running shoes. These flashy new kicks may fit the rest of your foot like a wet suit and support your biomechanics as if they were prescribed by the Cooper Institute, but if the heel slips, the deal is off.
A sloppy heel fit is to a runner what loose morals are to a Baptist deacon, and that's trouble with a capital T. First, there's the rubbing. A loose heel fit creates more friction than a joint family reunion between the Hatfields and McCoys, and can lead to blisters so painful you'll want to shoot yourself in the foot to get relief.
Then there's the loss of stability. The foot is very much into its loose-bag-of-bones state when it first contacts the ground. A stable heel fit helps it organize into a rigid lever, a transformation that must occur within milliseconds if it is to push off efficiently into the next period of flight.
You don't, however, have to live with this sloppy heel stuff. The key here is not to learn to like blisters, or to shoot yourself in the foot, or to find another sport. Just pay attention to heel fit when shoe shopping.
First, if all things are right with the shoe, but the heel is loose, try "butterfly lacing" (also known as "reverse loop," "runner's loop," and probably several other loops). From the second or third eyelet from the top, insert the lace end into the very top eyelet on the same side from the outside, then use the resulting loop as an eyelet for the lace end from the other side of the shoe. You get better leverage, resulting in a snugger heel fit.
Second, if you have orthotics, make sure the heel cup is wide enough to allow them to slide all the way to the back of the shoe. Otherwise, the orthotic will be out of kilter, which defeats its purpose, or your foot will be too far forward in the shoe, resulting in, yep, heel slippage.
Finally, don't try to get a snugger heel fit with a narrower width shoe. While the mid- to forefoot fit varies significantly with different widths, the fit in the heel does not. Shoe companies figured out long ago that there is not near the variety of heel widths out there as there is variety of forefoot widths.
Of course, this would be much easier for all of us if the shoe designers would put the same effort into more versatile fitting heels that they put into flashy upper designs, plastic stability toys, and scalloped midsoles, but a better-fitting heel just doesn't have much sex appeal.
Achilles would certainly understand. It's clear that he didn't think heels mattered much, either.