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If you ask around Washington D.C., the Republican Party could have a no-brainer opportunity to claw its way back toward a triumphant and diverse majority -- or it could be on the verge of legislating itself out of existence.
Since the 2012 election, when Latino voters selected Barack Obama over Mitt Romney by nearly a 3-1 margin, proponents of comprehensive immigration reform have pointed to the passage of the legislation as a political imperative for the survival of the GOP.
Opponents of the legislation, on the other hand, have questioned whether the embrace of a bill that contains a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants would have any long-term political benefit for Republicans.
Former WH Hispanic Media Dir. Luis Miranda, the Washington Post's Nia-Malika Henderson and National Review/CNBC's Robert Costa, join The Daily Rundown gaggle to talk about the progress of the Senate's immigration bill, the scandals plaguing the White House, and Obama's visit to the Jersey Shore.
That's a sentiment encapsulated by Kansas GOP Rep. Tim Huelskamp, who told Reuters this month that "There is no evidence to support this idea that Republicans will pick up a lot of votes if we give amnesty to 11 million folks."
So how would the passage of an immigration bill really change the way the country votes -- especially as Hispanics swell to a bigger share of the electorate?
Republicans who are skeptical of the reform effort point to data showing that Hispanics lean towards the liberal side of the political spectrum, while those on the other side of the issue argue that Hispanics share important social and fiscal values with the GOP.
And some in the party are simply eager to move on from a national debate fraught with the risk that one tone-deaf comment -- like Rep. Don Young's reference to "wetbacks" earlier this year -- can erase months of progress in widening the party's appeal.
Both sides agree it's generally true that, right now, Latinos are primarily a Democratic constituency, demonstrated in no small part by the fact that the Democratic candidate has won the Latino vote in every presidential election since at least 1972.
(Mitt Romney won just 27 percent of the Latino vote in the 2012 election. President George W. Bush won as high a share as 44 percent in 2004, according to some exit polls.)
An April 2013 survey by the Pew Hispanic Center showed three in 10 Latinos surveyed described themselves as "liberal," compared to 21 percent of the general population.
And 75 percent of Hispanics surveyed said they prefer "a bigger government providing more services" to a smaller government providing fewer.
Steven Camarota, the director of research for the Center for Immigration Studies -- a group that supports limitations on legal immigration and has opposed the Senate bill's provisions -- says that's bad news for Republicans.
"Continuing ongoing levels of legal immigration likely will continue to shift the national electorate towards the Democratic Party and toward greater sympathy for government intervention in the economy," he said.
Other Republicans optimistic about growing the GOP's appeal among Hispanics see plenty of bright spots in the data.
The overwhelming preference for a larger government diminishes the longer Hispanics have been in the country, for example. While 81 percent of new Latino immigrants said they prefer a bigger government, the share goes down to 58 percent for those who are third-generation immigrants or more.
Latinos are also the fastest-growing group of small business owners in the country.
And on some measures, including frequency of church attendance and opinions on abortion rights, Hispanics tend to be more culturally conservative than the public-at-large.
J. Scott Applewhite / AP file photo
Immigration activists gather on Capitol Hill in Washington, Monday, May 20, 2013, before the Senate Judiciary Committee began working on a landmark immigration bill to secure the border and offer citizenship to millions.
"The Hispanic community is open to candidates who speak to them, open to ideas that are pro-business, pro-entrepreneurial, about seeking the American Dream," says Jennifer Sevilla Korn, the new Deputy Political Director and National Field Director for Hispanic Initiatives at the Republican National Committee
Korn's new role at the RNC is to engage the Hispanic community nationwide and help implement the party's "Growth and Opportunity Project," which included recommendations for building better connections with minorities, women and young voters.
"There's a huge window of opportunity to engage with Hispanics and talk about what we're for, especially when you're talking about small-business owners and Hispanic evangelicals," she said. "There's absolutely room there."
Dr. Matt Barreto, a co-founder of polling group Latino Decisions, says that Republican rhetoric about illegal immigration, not conflict with an overarching political ideology, is mostly to blame for the party's dismal performance with Latinos.
"There is certainly truth to the notion that there are some issues on which Latinos are more conservative and could be open to hearing Republican viewpoints," Barreto said. "But when the Republican Party is associated with very negative rhetoric and positioning on immigration it makes people not want to listen."
So, would those voters consider a Republican candidate if the GOP played ball on the passage of immigration reform?
A poll by Latino Decisions and America's Voice in March of this year asked Hispanic voters that question.
Asked if they would be "more or less likely to vote for a Republican candidate in the future if Republicans take a leadership role in passing comprehensive immigration reform including a pathway to citizenship," 44 percent of those surveyed said they would be more likely to support a Republican.
And a majority of Hispanic voters (63 percent) also said they would back a Republican candidate who supported a "pathway to citizenship" over a Democratic candidate who didn't.
Potential GOP fears also increase at the threat of an influx of new, previously undocumented Hispanic voters who eventually earn the right to vote after becoming U.S. citizens – a process that would take most applicants more than 13 years.
But it's unclear what percentage of the estimated 11 million illegal immigrants in the country will choose to work their way toward citizenship rather than remaining legal permanent residents – who don't have voting rights.
Skeptics charge that those granted citizenship will be so dependent on government programs that they will never support a Republican Party largely dedicated to scaling back the size of those programs.
(Undocumented immigrants aren't technically eligible for federal means-tested benefits like Medicaid and food stamps, and under the current version of the Senate's comprehensive immigration reform bill, previously undocumented immigrants with probationary legal status wouldn't be eligible to receive those benefits either.)
Data from the 2010 American Community Survey does indicate that foreign-born individuals in the U.S. – meaning naturalized citizens as well as legal and undocumented residents – are more likely than natural-born Americans to lack a high school diploma or live below the poverty line, both indicators of dependency upon federal benefits.
But while immigrants are more likely to be low-income and thus eligible for benefits, some studies – like from the libertarian Cato Institute -- dispute that immigrants actually access those benefits at a higher rate than their counterparts in the native-born population.
No matter how many reams of data are available to each side, questions about the political impact of immigration reform won't stop before the legislation meets its eventual success or failure after a full-throated debate on the airwaves and in the halls of Congress.
"This is a perfect opportunity for the Republican Party to reverse this very negative image that they have, to try to be associated with positive outreach to this new community and 'say we are part of the solution,'" says Barreto.
Camarota of the Center for Immigration Studies believes just the opposite.
"It seems very likely that politically this bill is almost certainly going to hurt them, not just because it creates more Democratic voters but because it alienates the people who are likely to vote for them, including the less educated whites who have not been showing up to the polls," says Camarota. "Without those people it's hard to see how Republicans win another presidential election."
Related stories:
- Groups look for next step in delicate immigration reform dance
- Conservative talkers, grassroots groups push anti-immigration reform effort
This story was originally published on Thu May 30, 2013 5:55 PM EDT


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Wallcovering, the new wallpaper? Remember that wallcoverings come in many foms not just from flat, textureless paper. KOTHEA are now releasing 7 Raffia Wallcovering Designs each in a range of colourways.
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The Trails to the Past is an organization of volunteers dedicated to providing non-commercial, free genealogical data to researchers. We want to provide not only birth, death and marriage records; census, bible records, books and cemetery records, but that unusual data that often provides not just facts, but a window on the life of your ancestors.
Each district, state and county will have a site devoted to that place. There are a number of "Special Projects" already available to peruse or donate data to.
"Oh", you say, "It sounds like the GenWeb". I can only say that it is similar, but different in some very important ways. First of all is the work environment. The TTTP is focused on making the volunteers work environment nice, uncomplicated and friendly. There will be no 'behind the scenes' struggles for power. We will all avail ourselves to helping you to get started. We want to invite creativity in your site design and data presentation. We also wish to offer more history. Genealogy is not just names and dates. Knowing the history of the time period your ancestor lived in and the environment he had to survive is just as important when it comes time to "flesh out the bones" as they say.
We are in need of volunteers to join us. There are states and counties needing adoption. On the main page of the TTTP National site it reads:
"If you are interested please email the administrator of the state or district you are interested in and send us a resume of your qualifications using FTP and writing HTML along with any sites you might have on the Internet."
It also states:
"If you adopt a state or a county, the web space that you get from Rootsweb is your website. You have the passwords to the site and you maintain what goes on the site. You own the copyright to any information you add to the site and your submitters own the copyright for whatever they add to the site. Trails to the Past only hold the copyright on what we put on our National pages."
If you do not feel you can adopt a county or state, you still can volunteer! You have data about your own ancestors. I know that I have collected many bits and pieces over the years to many databases. Put together a lot of little bits and you have a complete database. Any little bit is much appreciated. There are grave photos, photographs of your ancestors, transcriptions of data and so many other things that you can submit to a site. Not only does this help other researchers, but you just might make that all important connection that aids you as well.


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Just as important as kite size.
pro rider matthias larsen on optimal line length
Kite line length is underappreciated and often overlooked. It has a big impact on your kite's flying characteristics and learning how and when to adjust them will make you a better kiter. We all know pulling power is dictated by kite
size and shape, but few realize that line length also has an effect on kite power.
Find out for yourself with the Vario line equipped CORE Sensor 2+ or Sensor Pro bar. Both bars can easily adjust line length between 18 and 24m. Now, let's review the main factors that affect line length choice:
Longer lines increase the kite's wind window and generate more power because a longer flight path means the kite accelerates faster. A faster accelerating kite generates more force. And ergo, more power. The additional power is especially noticeable with CORE's LW lightwind edition kites that come standard with 3m line extensions.
Shorter lines, on the other hand, increases bar reflexivity, kite agility and turning speed. Although the optimal length for the majority of kiters is 24m, you won't know unless you try shorter lines. 24m lines generate good power, turning speed and reflexivity without being too twitchy.
Rider level and style are the most important factors in deciding line length. Beginners are better suited to longer lines as it gives the rider more time to react and more power without resorting to cycling the kite. Experienced riders will gravitate towards longer lines for bigger air as they generate more power than shorter lines. With the right technique and the same size kite, you will launch much higher with longer lines.
Shorter lines are recommended for wave riding, wakestyle and kite looping. Every wave rider has their personal preference, but most will select a line length between 20 and 24m. If your wave style includes a lot of kite movement and looping you may prefer 20m. If your wave style is more classic with lots of "drifting" and riding the wave face then you may lean towards a 24m line setup.
To get the best slack line performance out of your kite during a wakestyle session, go a little shorter like 22m. Handle passes are a little easier. And if I plan on throwing in some kiteloops, I might even go down to 20m for even faster kite response. In addition, shorter lines let me loop deeper in the window with a horizontal trajectory.
Pros also look at wind consistency before considering line length. The longer the lines, the more reserve the kite has in the lulls.
Longer lines make kiting more comfortable for beginners and intermediates alike in gusty winds and, therefore, should stick with 24m lines in these conditions. More experienced kiters, though, may go shorter in squalls.


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Research shows for-profit hospitals cost more and deliver worse care than not-for-profit hospitals:
TORONTO, June 7, 2004 – The Registered Nurses Association of Ontario (RNAO) called on federal leadership hopefuls today to end the deliberation and debate about private for-profit health services after a landmark study found for-profit hospitals cost more.
The study, conducted by McMaster University health researchers and published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal, is a systematic review and meta-analysis of studies comparing how much care cost in private for-profit versus private not-for-profit hospitals in the United States. The researchers reached a clear-cut conclusion: care at for-profit hospitals cost 19 per cent more – the equivalent of $7.2 billion Cdn each year – than not-for-profit hospitals.
"RNAO commends the researchers for their excellent and timely analysis," said RNAO president Joan Lesmond. "With the federal election just 21 days away, the results should inform the national debate about the future of health care in Canada and put an end to the discussion around for-profit and not-for-profit health-care delivery."
"This landmark study provides further proof that no evidence exists to support an expansion of for-profit health-care delivery," said RNAO executive director Doris Grinspun. "Surely this study which reveals a $7.2 billion price tag will curb – or kill – the appetite for private, for-profit health-care delivery." Combined with previous studies that revealed a higher death rate in for-profit hospitals, the evidence strongly supports a policy of not-for-profit health-care delivery, she added.
"We all know what happens when shareholders and investors
call the shots in health-care delivery – we will pay more
and see a decline in the quality of care. And the consequences,
as the researchers' previous study shows, are dire: fewer
highly skilled personnel like registered nurses, cutting patient
care corners to accommodate the profit margin, and inevitably, higher
death rates," said Grinspun.
"Canadians are more committed than ever to universal, publicly funded health care that does not profit from a person's illness. They continue to identify Medicare and access to registered nurses and other health-care providers as their top priorities," said Lesmond.
The association is calling on governments to heed the study's findings, listen to the same chorus of voices that informed Roy Romanow's Commission on the Future of Health Care in Canada, and steer clear of for-profit health care.
The Registered Nurses Association of Ontario (RNAO) is the professional association representing registered nurses wherever they practise in Ontario. Since 1925, RNAO has lobbied for healthy public policy, promoted excellence in nursing practice, increased nurses' contribution to shaping the health-care system, and influenced decisions that affect nurses and the public they serve.
For more information, please contact:
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Phone: 416-408-5605
Toll free: 1-800-268-7199 ext.209
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What does "WCHS" in partinfo mean?
Partinfg (example attached) shows in the headline describing the hard drive CHS and WCHS data. What does WCHS stand for? I could not find this abbreviation neither on terabyteunlimited.com nor with Google.
While at partinfg, could you please explain the data and their meaning in the diffent columns of the table or give a link to a document that contains this exlplanation?


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- Ami Futami
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- Maid Yukata
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- 2013
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- 3rd Place at SF Cherry Blossom Festival, Best Choreography w/Angel Hearts at Fanime Con 2010
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Yay for group cosplays~!! Used Quilter Solids cotton fabrics. I modded a basic t-shirt pattern for the top to make it over lap in the middle. The skirt was basically two gathered rectangles attached to a waist band. All the ruffles were hand gathered by Angel Hearts (top,headband) and me (skirt, obi, wristlets).
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It's the first time for me to do analyses with e-prime, and I have to analyse some data from an experiment. The data are, at the moment, in e-prime. I'd like to have the accuracy, the hits, and the false alarms for every subject. When I am in the anaylse window:
Accuracy: I drop the subjects into the rows, and the Target ACC into the Data window. But do I take the ACC mean or the ACC count?
Hits: Isn't it the same as accuracy? And, if not, what is the difference?
False Alarms: do I just count them? How can I make it then comparable over different tasks (some tasks have more trials than the others).


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Edward Foster, Derby, 8 November 1864
When I started to research the life of Edward Foster, silhouettist and book publisher of Derby, there was no shortage of material on which to draw. As described in Part 4, the accounts of this man's remarkable life continued to grow throughout the century and a half following his death, the latest article appearing in Derbyshire Life just two years ago. During the course of his reputed 102 years there appeared to be little that Mr Foster did not accomplish. Born of noble parentage, reduced by circumstance, he had a notable military career, became an accomplished miniature painter, with royal appointments, was an inventor, then became a silhouette artist, capturing the profiles of many eminent persons of the day, and finally was a compiler, publisher and distributer of educational charts and texts.
Profile of Thomas Marseille of Canterbury, by Edward Foster, 1822
His career as a prolific painter of profiles, which I covered in Part 2 of this series, was relatively straightforward to document. A series of newspaper advertisements and trade directory entries from 1809 to 1833 is supported by an impressive body of extant signed work, often with trade labels, an example of which I even managed to purchase for myself (pictured above).
Foster's Elementary French Grammar and Exercises, 1839
Then in the late 1830s and 1840s Foster and his son Edward Ward Foster (1819-1851) together compiled and published a number of educational texts and charts, discussed in part 3. After his son's death in 1851 Edward senior continued peddling scholastic charts throughout the United Kingdom, also easily verified through newspaper advertorials.
20th Regiment of Foot uniforms
His earlier life, however, proved to be far more difficult to corroborate. Although the events described in the reports of his military service did take place, details of his actual connection to them have been particularly elusive. Much has been made of his royal patronage, but I have not been able to unearth a single piece of contemporary evidence that Foster was ever a miniature painter to the Royal Family. Besides the single purported self portrait used to illustrate a 1907 article which I reproduced in Part 4, I have yet to find unequivocal evidence of a single miniature portrait, as opposed to a profile, painted by him.
from Derbyshire Gatherings by Joseph Barlow Robinson, 1866
With the first contemporary evidence of his activities only to be found in June 1809, when he was already reputedly in his mid-40s, I then began to wonder about the veracity of the stories concerning the years prior to his establishment as a silhouette artist. To this end, I carried out a comparison of the accounts which have appeared. Most, if not all, of the material in reports about Foster's early years written in the 20th century has most likely been taken from a chapter in Robinson's 1866 book Derbyshire Gatherings (PDF), with the usual slight embellishments that are expected with time. Although his sources are not stated, Robinson, in turn, appears to have based his account mostly on the text of a speech by Henry Adams at the "conratulatory dinner" to Foster in November 1862, probably supplemented by newspaper and other reports of the period.
A Veteran, The Derby Mercury, 7 May 1862
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The earliest of these reports that I've been able to find - at least in the 19th century British Library Newspapers selection presented online by Gale - is an undated article from Aris's Birmingham Gazette reprinted in The Derby Mercury on 7 May 1862. While primarily a promotion for his "admirable chronological charts," it states that Mr Foster will complete his 100th year in a few months" and refers to his military service, but strangely makes no mention whatsoever of his artisitic career. One very definitely gets the impression, on reading it, that Foster provided the information to the Gazette reporter himself. Likewise, much of the biographic material used by Henry Adams in his speech is likely to have been put forward by Foster who, as I demonstrated in Part 1, was particularly adept at self promotion using a variety of media.
The stories of Edward Foster's family and pre-silhouette years can be separated into the following "events," each of which will be dealt with separately:
- Noble ancestry, birth, numerous wives and children, including:
a. birth at All Saints, Derby on 8 November 1762,
b. descendant of Duke of Norfolk,
c. centenarian grandparents,
d. father was land steward to Sit Robert Burdett, Baronet of Foremark,
e. married 5 times and had 17 children.
- 2. Entered Derby militia, aged 17, c.1780
- 3. Military service as junior officer in 20th Regiment of Foot, c.1781-1805, including:
a. under Marquis Cornwallis in latter part of American Revolution, c.1781,
b. under Duke of York in Holland, c.1793-4,
c. under Sir Ralph Abercrombie in Egypt, 1801,
d. at Deal/Walmer, Kent, c.1801-5,
e. resigned on ther day Nelson died, 21 October 1805.
- 4. Involved with "Ragged schools."
- 5. Appointed miniature painter to the Royal Family, with rooms at Round Tower, Windsor Castle.
- 6. Invented and patented machine for taking profiles.
Birth in 1762, noble ancestry, family
Much of the legend which surrounds Edward Foster derives from his longevity. His claims of a great age can be traced somewhat earlier than the 1862 article, with his stated ages in the 1851 and 1861 Census records being 90 and 99 respectively. Reports in The York Herald (27 April 1861) and The Hull Packet (3 May 1861) also gave his age as 99 years. Unfortunately, I've as yet been unable to locate him in the 1841 Census.
Baptism: Edward Foster, 13 November 1774, Egginton
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I was hoping that finding a record of his baptism would be a relatively straightforward matter, since the International Genealogical Index (IGI) has good, albeit not complete, coverage of the parish registers of Derby town, as well as the non-conformist registers. Disappointingly there was no sign of a suitable baptism in the IGI, and a trawl of microfilms of the parish registers for All Saints, St Werburgh, St Alkmund, St Michael and St Peter between 1760 and 1765, kindly carried out for me by Frank Wattleworth, also turned up empty. Spreading the net (and the fishing euphemisms) a little wider, both location- and time-wise, produced a baptism for an Edward Foster on 13 November 1774 at Egginton, a parish seven miles to the south-west of Derby, the son of Edward and Anne Foster.
Marriage: Edward Foster & Ann Haward, 7 June 1774, Egginton
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Further research reveals that Edward Foster senior's wife, whom he married at Egginton in 1774, was Ann Haward, Heyward, Hayward or Haywood (but never Howard), baptised on 25 February 1753 at Egginton, one of six children of Robert and Ann Heyward. This is almost certainly the family of our Edward Foster, given the number of coincidental facts.
Ann Haywood senior was buried at Egginton on 12 September 1798. Her children were born between 1750 and 1763 so, given the oldest likely age of child bearing in the 18th century was about 45. Her earliest possible date of birth was therefore c.1718, and she is unlikely to have been more than 81 years old when she died, a far cry from the 103 years claimed by Robinson.
Henry Howard (1628-1684), 6th Duke of Norfolk
If her husband Robert was of a similar age, even give or take a couple of decades, the only Duke of Norfolk of that era to have been producing children was the 6th Duke, who died in 1683/84. The 7th, 8th and 9th Dukes died without issue, and the 10th was only born in 1720. The chances of his being a Howard of that family are, in my view, very slim indeed!
Foremarke Hall, 1805, seat of Sir Robert Burdett, 5th Baronet
Was Edward Foster senior ever land steward to Sir Robert Burdett, 4th Baronet, of Foremark Hall, Derbyshire? After all, the dates seem to fit, and Foremarke Hall is only four miles to the east of Egginton. I believe he was probably born in nearby Doveridge in 1748, so would have been in his mid-20s by the time Edward junior was born. In 1791, Burdett's land steward in Foremark was Robert C. Greaves, Esq. (Universal British Directory, 1791), and by 1821-22 William Crabtree was performing that duty (Pigot's Derbyshire Directory, 1821-1822). However, Foster's father may well have been the incumbent at some other time between those dates. This awaits further research, perhaps in the extensive collection of Burdett papers at the Derbyshire Record Office. A quick look at the catalogue contents, for example, reveals the names of further agents John Brand (1783), Benjamin Redfern (1783-1789) and Robert Banton (1808-1816), but no sign of Foster.
In the celebratory speech given by Adams in 1862, which I think we can now assume was based largely on information supplied by Foster himself, he boasted of having been married five times, and to have fathered 17 children, with the oldest daughter born c.1784. The last of these claims is obviously unrealistic, if we now accept that he was born in 1774, and would have been a mere 10 years old at the time. While I have only found evidence for two children, I accept there may well have been several others.
Marriage: Edward Ward Foster & Isabella Magdalene Graham, 22 December 1841, Islington
- Edward Ward Foster was probably born at Scarborough, Yorkshire around 1819, son of Edward and Elizabeth Foster. He married Isabella Magdalene Graham at Islington in 1841, died in Peckham and was buried at Nunhead Cemetery, Linden Grove, Southwark on 3 May 1851.
- Phillis Howard Foster was born at Barony, a suburb of Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland on 2 November 1852 and baptised on 13 June 1855 at the High St Presbyterian or Unitarian Chapel in Portsmouth, Hampshire, daughter of Edward Foster and Margaret Mothersill (IGI). After Foster's death she moved to Southport, Lancashire but was back in Derby visiting in April 1881 and married Matthew Brunskill soon after. They had five children, and lived in Barrow-in-Furness, Waterloo and then Liverpool, where he was a grocer's assistant and coal merchant's agent. Phillis Howard Brunskill died in 1927, aged 74.
Death: Eliza Foster, The Derby Mercury, 4 August 1847
Edward Foster had married Margaret Mothersill, the mother of his youngest child, at Manchester in late 1851, the 1851 Census having described him as a widower. Four years earlier, a report in The Derby Mercury stated, "DEATHS. On Tuesday, July 27, in London, Eliza, the beloved wife of Edward Foster, Esq., formerly of St. John's Terrace, Derby, aged 67." It seems likely, given her age, that she was the Elizabeth Ward that Edward Foster married at St Margaret's, Leicester on 10 October 1818, and was presumably the mother of Edward Ward Foster.
Death of General Abercrombie at Alexandria, 28 March 1801
Military Service
While Edward Foster may have served in a Derby militia of some kind, if he was born in 1774 then his stated military service as a lieutenant with the 20th Regiment of Foot in America and Holland was impossible. I confirmed that the 20th Regiment were in Minorca in early 1801, travelled to Egypt in June that year, and went to Malta in September. I also found a note that 80 men suffering from ophthalmia were sent back to England. He would have been 25 for the expedition to Egypt, but it is physically impossible that he witnessed General Abercrombie's death in the moment of triumph at Alexandria, since that event occurred on 28 March, prior to the regiment's arrival in Alexandria. Nor have I have been able to find any record of his service with that regiment. It seems to me to have been a complete fabrication.
Rev Guthrie at Ragged School, Princes Street, Edinburgh, 1851
Ragged Schools
The Ragged Schools movement has been fairly well documented in a number of texts, but I've been unable to find any mention of either Edward Foster or his son, who described himself as an "Author Lecturer & Professor of Elocution &c." in the 1851 Census, having a prominent role in their promotion or growth.
Advertisement in The Hull Packet, 26 December 1809
Miniature Painter and Royal Patronage
Mention is made of two "water-colour miniatures" and a miniature of a lady signed in ink on the reverse "Edward Foster / York" and dated 1803 by Daphne Foskett in Miniatures: Dictionary and Guide (1987). He is also mentioned in Harry Blättel's International Dictionary of Miniature Painters, Porcelain Painters, Silhouettists (1992). Once again, I've been unable to find any contemporary evidence of supportive this claim of patronage. He did, however, include a royal coat of arms in some of his advertisements, such as the 1809 example above, which also claims "By His Majesty's Royal Letters Patent."
Advertisement in The Leeds Mercury, 17 June 1809
Invention and Patent of Profile-Taking Machine
The first indisputable contemporary evidence found during this study of Foster's commercial artistic activity is an advertisement that he placed in The Leeds Mercury of 17 June 1809. The words "By His Majesty's Royal Letters Patent" suggest that a Royal patent had been granted for the newly invented machine for sketching profiles in a short space of time, accurately and in great detail, although Foster in this particular case neither implicitly states that he was the inventor of the machine nor the grantee of the patent.
Patent application for physiognotrace by Schmalcalder, 1806
Later descriptions of the machine render it likely to have been a pantograph, which had been invented at least some two centuries earlier, or at the least an adaptation of one like the physiognotrace, but was perhaps not in common everyday use. Cynthia McKinley described a similar process in use by profile miniature artist James H. Gillespie, who also claimed to have invented a "new optiocal contrivance" which enabled him to draw likenesses in one minute. Although I have not carried out a search at the British Patent Office, I think it rather unlikely that such a patent in Foster's name exists.
Conclusion & Foster's Legacy
I believe the clue to all of these stories lies in the series of four educational charts which Foster was hawking for the last decade of his life. He stated in 1862 that these had been compiled by him at the British Museum, covering histories of the scriptures, England, France, Rome and the British Empire. It is my view that he developed his own "early history" during this voyage of discovery, and used it to good advantage in the years following. As his friend John Haslem stated in 1882, "He was a good hand at spinning a yarn, and in doing so appeared at times to draw somewhat on his imagination."
So, after that hatchet job, what remains of Edward Foster's legacy? He is unlikely to have had noble ancestry, he does not appear to have served in the miltary, probably never had royal patronage, let alone a royal appointment, and did not live to be a hundred (he was ninety years old when he died). For me it is his fine body of work that stands out, dozens - perhaps hundreds - of gilt-tinged black and reddish brown silhouettes in public and private collections, most signed simply below the bust with "Foster Pinxit" (Foster painted it) and a date, and a good proportion with the trademark "Foster & Crown" brass hanger. If you have a Foster silhouette in your collection, I'd very much appreciate seeing a scan or photograph of it, and if you would be happy for it to be shared via this blog, so much the better.


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Because we are a bit late starting the challenge this month we are going to make it super long, so you have loads of time to create something and join in x
There are 3 prizes on offer and the winners will be drawn at random from all the entries;
1st - £20 LOTV voucher
2nd - £15 LOTV voucher
3rd - £10 LOTV voucher
To enter, just post your photo in the Facebook Event or email it to firstname.lastname@example.com (please note this is a different email address to the normal one) - and don't forget to check back to see if you are one of the lucky winners :-)
To be eligible, your card or project will need to fit the theme and feature an LOTV image. 1 Entry per person please. The challenge closes on Sunday 23rd July at 9pm UK time (ignore the time in the challenge details - it won't let me have an event for longer than 2 weeks!) We will announce the winners asap after that.
Happy Crafting and we look forward to seeing all your creations xx
Before I forget (again!) the winners of last month's challenge were;
£20 - Mari Hirvonen
£15 - Lauren Elizabeth
£10 - Lesley McCloskey
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|Cream Cake by Dena
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Alain Wong-Hong Kong Deerhill Bay Residential
At Design Interviews
Interview with Alain Wong : Frank Scott: What is the main principle, idea and inspiration behind your design?. Alain Wong : Besides integrating artistry with functionality, home design is especially important to be human-oriented and to enrich people's living experiences. .Frank Scott: What has been your main focus in designing this work? Especially what did you want to achieve?. Alain Wong : An irregular false ceiling with light troughs in Living and Dining Areas is the main element in the design, highlighting the travel experiences and revealing the personality of the client. To create a characterized visual element in the room and keep the rest simple, white and beige colors spread over the room, with black and grey furnishes in simple lines and proportions. .Frank Scott: How long did it take you to design this particular concept?. Alain Wong : More than a month, as the false ceiling is not only a decoration but also a practical box to hide the air conditioner, speakers and all those wires and cables. The technical part had taken me quite a long time, because the design is minimal and therefore embellishing those ugly parts is very important and can influence the design outcome a lot. .Frank Scott: Why did you design this particular concept? Was this design commissioned or did you decide to pursuit an inspiration?. Alain Wong : As inspired by one of the travel experiences of the clients. By creating that false ceiling and the hotel-like atmosphere in master bedroom, it outstands the personality of the clients. It's important as it is their home. .Frank Scott: What sets this design apart from other similar or resembling concepts?. Alain Wong : The eye-catching design in dining room and the overall match up of the living and dining rooms. .Frank Scott: How did you decide to submit your design to an international design competition?. Alain Wong : A competition or award is a recognition from professionals, the public and fellows. .
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In the end, BART negotiators caved, agreeing to pay an enormous price for the benefit contribution and work rule changes they wanted from employees.
So far, district officials have remained mum. But numbers we've obtained show that they significantly sweetened the deal at the last moment to settle the four-day-old strike. Employees, already among the best-compensated transit workers in the nation, will receive a stunning 16.4 percent raise over the next four years.
In exchange, they will finally start making contributions to their pensions, ratcheting up to 4 percent of their salaries by the end of the contract. That's still well below what most public employees in California contribute.
They will maintain an amazing health care deal that currently allows employees to obtain health insurance for $92 a month no matter how many dependents. The cost will apparently increase by $37 a month, still a tremendous bargain.
BART managers and directors will probably argue that the deal — which nets out to nearly a 13 percent raise after tax consequences are considered — was worth the work rule changes the district badly wanted and needed.
"This offer is more than we wanted to pay," General Manager Grace Crunican said Monday night when announcing the agreement without providing details. "But it is also a new path in terms of our partnership with our workers, and helps us to deliver the BART service for the future. We compromised to get to this place, as did our union members."
From where we sit, BART did most of the compromising. Indeed, while details of the rule changes are still fuzzy, it appears district leaders only got part of what they sought.
Left alone, BART officials might have had more backbone. But, the pressure was enormous. Local politicians shilled for the unions, pushing the district to give more with little or no regard for the cost.
State Sen. Ellen Corbett, D-Hayward, was the worst. Other shameless meddlers included Assembly members Nancy Skinner, D-Berkeley; Rob Bonta, D-Alameda; and Bill Quirk, D-Hayward. Then there were Oakland Mayor Jean Quan, who can't manage her own city's finances, and her deputy, former Assemblyman Sandré Swanson.
To be sure, Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom and state Sen. Mark DeSaulnier, D-Concord, were regarded as helpful, honest brokers. But in the end, it would have been better if everyone had kept their noses out.
Ultimately, however, BART directors will be accountable for the deal. When they next raise fares and seek tax increases, they will first need to explain why they gave away the store.


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PARK CITY, Utah, Jan. 27 (UPI) -- The Sundance Film Festival in Utah has concluded, with "Fruitvale" winning the top U.S. prize for drama and "Blood Brother" winning as top U.S. documentary.
"Fruitvale" is based on the real-life story of a young man who was shot to death at an Oakland bus station. It was the first feature-length film by 26-year-old director Ryan Coogler, the Los Angeles Times reported Sunday.
The film also won the audience award for best U.S. drama.
"Blood Brother" was filmmaker Steve Hoover's look at his friend's relocation to India to help children with HIV, the human immunodeficiency virus. The film also won the audience award for best U.S. documentary.
"Jiseul," directed by Muel O, a film about the Jeju Island massacre in Korea in 1948, won the the World Cinema Jury Prize for drama, the Times reported.
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In a sidebar to yesterday's OD story, it was reported that the Planning Board approved an expansion of the Jewel Ridge development . . . but not without a warning from newest member Elisabetta DeGironimo:
"We're deforesting the area on top of a watershed," she said. "I just worry that the town is letting projects be approved that create storm water problems later."Hello ... Is Anybody Listening?
The Planning Board was warned that the project would create problems off-site, but it went ahead and approved it anyway? I'm sorry, but this just defies common sense . . . and demonstrates that officialdom is more concerned about possible legal repercussions from developers than the health and safety of its residents.
Based on Ms. DeGironimo's statement, it appears that the Town is authorizing . . .
Modern environmental law is grounded in the law of nuisance. Essentially, you can enjoy the use of your own property as long as you do not interfere with your neighbor's use of their property. That's a pretty simple concept that even school children understand. If you foolishly denude your hillside and cause runoff to flow onto your neighbor's property, you have interfered with your neighbor's use of his or her property, you have created a nuisance, and you can be enjoined by a court of law to abate it. But why let the situation get that far? Isn't this why we have planning boards? . . . to anticipate problems and place conditions on projects to stop problems from developing?
The Town of New Hartford knows full well that it has fallen down on the job when it comes to protecting its residents from storm water. The runoff problem has become a public nuisance, and has necessitated taxpayer expenditures on solutions . . . solutions that should have been implemented by the developers that caused the problems. But even after passing a $2M stormwater bond and spending hundreds of thousands on culverts, etc., the old pattern of approving developments that will cause problems continues.
If Town Government is unwilling or incapable of protecting its residents, why have it at all?


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Monday, May 7, 2012
The HoseMaster's Guide to Tasting Room Etiquette
24 comments:
- Bob said...
Awesome. This needs to be in every tasting room's employee guide. In fact, I'll put it in our right now!
- May 7, 2012 at 8:47 AM
- Steve Heimoff said...
Is it permissible to go to the bathroom in the bushes outside the tasting room?
- May 7, 2012 at 8:56 AM
- Ron Washam, HMW said...
Only if you take the appropriately-named dump bucket with you.
The general rule is, "If they'll let your dog do it, it's OK for you as well." But remember to ask permission before leg-humping.
- May 7, 2012 at 9:00 AM
Is it permissible to indulge in sexual escapades behind the first row of vines? I am already fucked up so why not see if I can get it up?
Mister Us Wheeze
- May 7, 2012 at 9:00 AM
- Ron Washam, HMW said...
Mister Us Wheeze,
Yes. This goes back to the previously noted Dog Rule.
Special Note: At Biodynamic wineries, you may not use a condom. It might prevent indigenous yeast infections.
- May 7, 2012 at 9:03 AM
- Samantha Dugan said...
Now wait a darn tootin' minute here. When I was up visiting you and you took me to those tasting rooms, you told me it was customary to remove my shirt before spitting....mixed messages here bub.
- May 7, 2012 at 9:15 AM
- Ron Washam, HMW said...
My Gorgeous Samantha,
Oh. Hmm. Well, you were wearing such a nice shirt, and since it's quite a distance from your lips to beyond your wondrous bosom, I thought it best.
And double magnums are my favorite format.
Wow, I Love You So!
- May 7, 2012 at 9:30 AM
- Mockingbird said...
"tasting rooms are the major source of misinformation in the wine business"
well, that explains Jay McInerney:
- May 7, 2012 at 9:35 AM
- Samantha Dugan said...
And I suppose the jumping up and down you made me do doesn't actually aerate the wine either?!
- May 7, 2012 at 9:43 AM
- Mockingbird said...
BD disallows condoms?
Was Steiner a Catholic?...
- May 7, 2012 at 9:48 AM
- Carolyn Blakeslee said...
Several months ago I watched an old episode of Gary V. tasting with Jancis R. and she had to keep asking him to move the bucket back to where she could reach it ... it was tough for her, as she had to interrupt him every time ... that was oddly entertaining.
- May 7, 2012 at 10:48 AM
- Thomas said...
Reading JM, and reading about him in Slate, has a Hosemaster-like air about it, don't you think?
Well, it has some kind of odor, anyway...
- May 7, 2012 at 2:42 PM
- Beau said...
This is brilliant. I am going to re-train all my staff using some of these guidelines. We'll show those hoity-toity "wine" people what's up!
- May 7, 2012 at 3:16 PM
- John M. Kelly said...
You forgot the part about "Be sure to tell your server, repeatedly, that you are a regular customer, or a local, so they should comp your tastings."
And "If you want to actually buy some wine, join the wine club to get the discount. Then quit before they actually ship you any wine. Or better yet, when they do ship you wine call and scream at the person at the other end of the line that you never joined their effing club, over and over until they reverse the charge on your card. And then keep what they sent you. Because, you know that sort of thing is factored into the retail price, right?"
Oh, and RE: escapades in the vines? Not recommended. (1) Other drunk guests might see you and laugh at the scale of your wedding tackle, making it an embarrassing moment for your "date." And (2) especially at bioD vineyards you might end up with a bee in your bonnet, or your date might, which would definitely lead to (1).
But by all means, sneak off from the tour and have sex in the barrel cellar! Everyone knows the barrel cellar is like a hotel in the Tenderloin that bills in 15 minute increments. Have at it! And be sure to leave a little of yourself behind - what do you think "natural" winemakers use to soften the tannins in their wines?
- May 7, 2012 at 5:53 PM
- Ron Washam, HMW said...
Many folks have asked me to lampoon Jay McInerney, but the bozo is self-parody. He is an Everest of wine stupidity, and, frankly, I don't have the Sherpa to get me over that gigantic pile.
Does ANYONE miss Gary V.? And I think "oddly entertaining" is the perfect expression. Poor Jancis. If she'd had any gumption she would have just spit on the floor--or the host.
Thanks. Far from "brilliant," I'm no Jay McInerney, but, hey, it's free.
I was writing for the novice tasting room attendee, not the hardened freeloader alcoholics who fancy themselves connoisseurs and ambassadors for wineries and thus deserve our thanks, no tasting fees and a discount. In other words, wine bloggers.
- May 7, 2012 at 6:33 PM
- Mockingbird said...
"If she'd had any gumption"...
So how do you explain her giving a gig to BushFlowerTree man (who does not like being held to journalistic standards when called on something, but now considers himself a colleague of other "wine journalists" since he got the gig)?
- May 7, 2012 at 9:06 PM
- Mockingbird said...
Incidentally, you of all people might appreciate the fact that there is a difference between "GaryVee" and Gary Vaynerchuk in private. I've spoken to him in person once and glimpsed a considerably disparate persona...
- May 7, 2012 at 10:49 PM
Clearly, I'm not mean enough. I must be giving my audience way too much credit!
No more Mr. Nice Guy, that's for sure! Great piece.
- May 7, 2012 at 10:57 PM
- Dosage Dog said...
You forgot to mention gargling to release the phenols.
- May 8, 2012 at 8:55 AM
Key to enjoying any tasting room experience: Be sure to bring your kids! Everybody knows that kids need to run and play after a long car ride, and a tasting room is the perfect place for a kid to be a kid. Many tasting rooms include jungle gyms, ball pits, or educational toys for the little ones and skateparks or free bicycle rental for the adolescents. Barring such amenities, your delightful offspring can improvise on the tasting rooms stairs, guardrails, or catwalks . . . and everybody loves playing in the parking lot! Make sure that your kids get in on the fun while mom and dad drink and expound on their favorite hobby - drinking!
- May 8, 2012 at 9:53 AM
- Thomas said...
The tasting bar is also a good place for changing diapers. It's big, flat, and always has an attendant to piss on.
- May 8, 2012 at 10:12 AM
- John Cesano said...
Thank you for the gift to every tasting room employee, I'm printing this for my staff, they'll love it.
- May 8, 2012 at 11:10 PM
I actually do miss Gary V, he was awesome. What's the matter with you??
- May 10, 2012 at 12:22 AM
- Ron Washam, HMW said...
Yeah, awesome.
In answer to your question--A Lot.
- May 10, 2012 at 8:35 AM


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Mike Wallace, the CBS newsman who interviewed celebrities, politicians, athletes, and just about any other public figure that somehow became newsworthy, died Saturday night in a Connecticut care facility at the age of 93. His hard-hitting sit-downs helped make 60 Minutes the most successful prime-time news show ever. Right up until he was slowed by heart surgery on the cusp of his 90th birthday in 2008, Wallace was still logging interviews with Mitt Romney and Jack Kevorkian, and notably predicted that he'd retire "when my toes turn up," adding "they're just beginning to curl a trifle.…It's become apparent to me that my eyes and ears, among other appurtenances, aren't quite what they used to be."
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Quick Take: Year-end DRAM Price Follow-up, Thoughts on 2010December 30, 2009
Looking at memory prices one last time before the year is out and prices of our "benchmark" Kingston DDR3 server DIMMs are on the decline. While the quad rank 8G DDR3/1066 DIMMs are below the $565 target price (at $514) we predicted back in August, the dual rank equivalent (on our benchmark list) are still hovering around $670 each. Likewise, while retail price on the 8G DDR2/667 parts continue to rise, inventory and promotional pricing has managed to keep them flat at $433 each, giving large foot print DDR2 systems a $2,000 price advantage (based on 64GB systems).
|Benchmark Server (Spot) Memory Pricing – Dual Rank DDR2 Only
|DDR2 Reg. ECC Series (1.8V)
|Price Jun '09
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Dec '09
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(Promo price, retail $162)
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As the year ends, OEMs are expected to "pull up inventory," according to DRAMeXchange, in advance of a predicted market short fall somewhere in Q2/2010. Demand for greater memory capacities are being driven by Windows 7 and 64-bit processors with 4GB as the well established minimum system foot print ending 2009. With Server 2008 systems demanding 6GB+ and increased shift towards large memory foot print virtualization servers and blades, the market price for DDR3 – just turning the corner in Q1/2010 versus DDR2 – will likely flatten based on growing demand.
SOLORI's Take: With Samsung and Hynix doubling CAPEX spending in 2010, we'd be surprised to see anything more than a 30% drop in retail 4GB and 8GB server memory by Q3/2010 given the anticipated demand. That puts 8G DDR3/10666 at $470/stick versus $330 for 2x 4GB and on track with August 2009 estimates. The increase in compute, I/O and memory densities in 2010 will be market changing and memory demand will play a small (but significant) role in that development.
In the battle to "feed" the virtualization servers of 2H/2010, the 4-channel "behemoth" Magny-Cours system could have a serious memory/price advantage with 8 (2-DPC) or 12 (3-DPC) configurations of 64GB (2.6GB/thread) and 96GB (3.9GB/thread) DDR3/1066 using only 4GB sticks (assumes 2P configuration). Similar GB/thread loads on Nehalem-EP6 "Gulftown" (6-core/12-thread) could be had with 72GB DDR3/800 (18x 4GB, 3-DPC) or 96GB DDR3/1066 (12x 8GB, 2-DPC), providing the solution architect with a choice between either a performance (memory bandwidth) or price (about $2,900 more) crunch. This means Magny-Cours could show a $2-3K price advantage (per system) versus Nehalem-EP6 in $/VM optimized VDI implementations.
Where the rubber starts to meet the road, from a virtualization context, is with (unannounced) Nehalem-EP8 (8-core/16-thread) which would need 96GB (12x 8GB, 2-DPC) to maintain 2.6GB/thread capacity with Magny-Cours. This creates a memory-based price differential – in Magny-Cours' favor – of about $3K per system/blade in the 2P space. At the high-end (3.9GB/thread), the EP8 system would need a full 144GB (running DDR3/800 timing) to maintain GB/thread parity with 2P Magny-Cours – this creates a $5,700 system price differential and possibly a good reason why we'll not actually see an 8-core/16-thread variant of Nehalem-EP in 2010.
Assuming that EP8 has 30% greater thread capacity than Magny-Cours (32-threads versus 24-threads, 2P system), a $5,700 difference in system price would require a 2P Magny-Cours system to cost about $19,000 just to make it an even value proposition. We'd be shocked to see a MC processor priced above $2,600/socket, making the target system price in the $8-9K range (24-core, 2P, 96GB DDR3/1066). That said, with VDI growth on the move, a 4GB/thread baseline is not unrealistic (4 VM/thread, 1GB per virtual desktop) given current best practices. If our numbers are conservative, that's a $100 equipment cost per virtual desktop – about 20% less than today's 2P equivalents in the VDI space. In retrospect, this realization makes VMware's decision to license VDI per-concurrent-user and NOT per socket a very forward-thinking one!
Of course, we're talking about rack servers and double-size and non-standard blades here: after all, where can we put 24 DIMM slots (2P, 3-DPC, 4-channel memory) on a SFF blade? Vendors will have a hard enough time with 8-DIMM per processor (2P, 2-DPC, 4-channel memory) configurations today. Plus, all that dense compute and I/O will need to get out of the box somehow (10GE, IB, etc.) It's easy to see that HPC and virtualization platforms demands are converging, and we think that's good for both markets.
SOLORI's 2nd Take: Why does 8GB of DRAM require less than 4GB at the same speed and voltage??? The 4GB stick is based on 36x 256M x 4-bit DDR3-1066 FBGA's (60nm) and the 8GB stick is based on 36x 512M x 4-bit DDR3-1066 FBGA's (likely 50nm). According to SAMSUNG, the smaller feature size offers nearly 40% improvement in power consumption (per FBGA). Since the sticks use the same number of FBGA components (1Gb vs 2Gb), the 20% power savings seems reasonable.
The prospect of lower power at higher memory densities will drive additional market share to modules based on 2Gb DRAM modules. The gulf between DDR2 will continue to expand as tooling shifts to majority-DDR3 production and the technology. While minority leader Hynix announced a 50nm 2Gb DDR2 part earlier this year (2009), the chip giant Samsung continues to use 60-nm for its 2Gb DDR2. Recently, Hynix announced a successful validation of its 40-nm class 2Gb DDR3 module operating at 1333MHz and saving up to 40% power from the 50nm design. Similarly, Samsung's leading the DRAM arms race with 30nm, 4Gb DDR3 production which will show-up in 1.35V, 16GB UDIMM and RDIMM in 2010 offering additional power saving benefits over 40-50nm designs. Meanwhile, Samsung has all but abandoned advances on DDR2 feature sizes.
The writing is on the wall for DDR2 systems: unit costs are rising, demand is shrinking, research is stagnant and a new wave of DDR3-based hardware is just over the horizon (1H/2010). While these things will show the door to DDR2-based systems (which enjoyed a brief resurgence in 2009 due to DDR3 supply problems and marginal power differences) as demand and DDR3 advantages heat-up in later 2010, it's kudos to AMD for calling the adoption curve, spot on!


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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is laying out a new immigration plan to convince the public and lawmakers that the U.S. legal migration system needs to be overhauled.
Trump, speaking Thursday in the Rose Garden, says his plan aims to create a "fair, modern and lawful system of immigration for the United States." He says: "It's about time."
Trump says the immigration plan he's proposing would prioritize "totally brilliant" immigrants.
The latest effort, spearheaded by Trump's son-in-law and senior adviser, Jared Kushner, focuses on beefing up border security and rethinking the nation's green card system.
Under the plan, the country would award the same number of green cards as it now does. But far more would go to exceptional students, professionals and people with high-level and vocational degrees. Factors such as age, English language ability and employment offers would also be considered.
Far fewer green cards would be given to people with relatives already in the U.S. Fifty-seven percent would be awarded on merit as opposed to the current 12%.
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[National League] President [John] Heydler kicked up quite a discussion [at the winter meetings] by suggesting a modification to the playing rules which provided for a batter for the pitcher.Since the AL introduced the DH in 1973, it has undergone an evolution in the World Series. There was no DH in the 1973, 1974, and 1975 World Series. From 1976-198
The substance of this amendment was not generally understood. It is the idea of President Heydler that if a manager wishes to make the choice of a batter to bat for his pitcher he may do so before the game begins, but if he names such a player, the player named may do nothing else, while the pitcher may remain in the game if this particular batter hits for him. The condition would resolve itself into a sort of tenth man who would step into the game to add spice and zest to it.
As President Heydler sees the modern baseball game there is a strange interlude when the pitcher comes to bat. Most of the pitchers can't hit the side of a hay stack with a snow shovel and the spectators sit back in calm resignation when they see such a pitcher slowly wander towards the plate. Now and then that type of pitcher does make a safe hit and win a ball game and the next morning the newspapers chronicle the fact in large, black letters.
If there is a pinch-batter for the pitcher, President Heydler thinks the dark cloud that fringes the silver lining will be removed and the fans will have as much opportunity to cheer and hurrah at the finish of the batting order as they have had at the beginning. Of course, if a manager wants a pitcher to go to bat that is something else and the pitcher will have a perfect right to go to bat. If the pitcher has nothing to do but pitch he will take good care of his arm and not bother about his legs which have not always been of much use to him.
The change would make a ten-man team imperative on some days. It would establish a new kind of record and might leave some pitchers without any batting average. It would also change the strategy of any game in which a manager was trying to force a pitcher out of the contest because the manager of an opposing team simply would not remove the pitcher as long as the pitcher could have someone to bat for him. ...
Members of the [American] League were reported not to be enthusiastic over the suggestion of President Heydler in the National League to supply a pinch-hitter for the pitcher. The suggestion, however, was not formally brought before the meeting and was discussed only in a casual way.
December 15, 2011
1928 Winter Meetings: NL Suggests DH, AL Says No
5 comments:
- Jere said...
The DH went to AL parks only starting in '86, not '85. ('85 WS was completely DH-free.) I'll never forget this since I remember being pissed going into the '86 WS, knowing that year was due to be an all-DH World Series, but they had changed the rule (before that season), so we only got it at Fenway. Yet another thing to blame us losing that WS on.
- December 15, 2011 at 10:09 AM
- Amy said...
Thanks for digging that up! Just more proof that everything we think of as "new" and "modern" has probably been said or thought about long before our times. (I am not talking about scientific inventions or technology, obviously.)
- December 15, 2011 at 10:54 AM
- allan said...
Connie Mack suggested a DH in 1906. I think that is the earliest mention.
- December 15, 2011 at 11:06 AM
- allan said...
Just more proof that everything we think of as "new" and "modern" has probably been said or thought about long before our times.
Yep. 100 years ago, people bitched and moaned that pitchers couldn't hit, the games were too long, the players were paid too much, and all of the teams were going broke!
- December 15, 2011 at 11:08 AM
- laura k said...
(I am not talking about scientific inventions or technology, obviously.)
And you know what? Everything that is said about technology has been said for every past technology too - flood of information, replacing face-to-face contact, ruining memory/concentration/ability to think, etc. etc. The technology is new, but the effects on us is not - there's just much more of it.
- December 15, 2011 at 12:33 PM


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I was just playing around and came up with this. Don't know what this is supposed to be, but it looked kinda pretty so did a bit of grading and called it finished.
And then I thought, hey, I should start a thread on the HitFilm forum, so other people can give feedback/criticise. (And also so that I have an outlet for experiments and projects - and thus more likely to actually finish them)
I've a few other bits and pieces of things left over from various other things, I'll probably add those to this thread as well over the next day or so.
I made this in response to a joke in someone else's thread (here)
Part of the title sequence from "Thunderbirds" but with HitFilm instead of Thunderbirds.
A couple of months ago I tried to grow trees in HitFilm (also based on something someone said in another thread) and the result reminded me of the song "Forever Autumn" from Jeff Wayne's "War of the Worlds", so I added text and a clip from the song.
Nice vortex--good for a variety of sci-fi shots.
Hitfilm is Go! Hahaha! Josh Davies and his fellow pilots Kirstie Davies, Oli Davies, Javert Davies, Axel Davies and... Tracy Davies? The dev team can collectively be Brains, and... Oh Andrea Wake can play Kyrano.
Smooth animation on the branches.
The branches are lightning, the leaves are a particle sim.
@JMcAllister OMG! I thought I was the only person who ever liked that song. The animation and use of effects in the video were fabulous too. I would love to see the whole song done up as a video.
Fun stuff all around! I especially like the growing branches. Had a hunch the base effect was lightning, but wasn't sure how you got the leaves to follow the branches. I don't have Pro (thus no particles), but I'm guessing you had the particles generated based on a luminance map. Is that correct?
@jsbarrett it's a couple of months since I did that shot, but a luminance map sounds about right. I think what I did was make a second copy of the lightning with the animation delayed, and then used the difference between the two as the map to spawn the particles, that way the leaves would only grow from the branches that were still growing. I remember having an animated map that looked almost like like sparks spreading out along the lengths of the branches
Very cool. I'd love to play with particles (and many other Pro features), but can't justify the cost at the moment. Maybe someday.
Very nice! I thought someone would eventually play with changing the angle mid-turn. It works beautifully! You also added some nice shading to help it feel more three-dimensional. I messed with that a bit, but got frustrated/impatient and didn't push it far enough to work out a solution.
Wow, awesome!
@spydurhank coming from you, that means a lot to me
@jsbarrett thanks! Funny you should mention the shading, because tbh the only reason I started making this was because I thought your page turns looked too "flat" and I wanted to see if I could do any better. So I'm kinda glad you didn't add shading, because I probably wouldn't have made this if you had
I tried using the Neon path effect and the particle simulator to make freehand masks into motion paths, it sort of worked but not quite the way I wanted it to...
That looks pretty good! What about it isn't working the way you want? If there's any one feature that's tempting me to purchase Pro, it's Neon Path, but I just can't justify (or flat-out afford) the expense right now.
@JMcAllister That does indeed look pretty good! The bee is just a little further north of my path when I visited Scotland in '89. I went from Dunoon (across the Clyde from Greenock) to Glasgow and on the Edinburgh then back and up to Inverary. I miss it! I can see I'm going to have to have a play with this Neon Path I hear so much about. I'm clueless...
@jsbarrett I was able to use neon path to make a dash that travels along the mask, I was able to use the particle sim to draw those dashes as the original dash went along, I was able to use the particle sim to make the bee follow the dash, but I couldn't figure out a way to orient the bee along the path.
In the end I just rendered out the original dash and then used tracking to get the movement for the bee. That way I could set the bee's alignment to "along motion path"
From what I hear, it had to reinvent itself after the US Navy pulled out the sub tender at Holy Loch and became a Wedding/vacation destination, but I don't know what change that wrought.
Like it, nice job.
@Aladdin4d absolutely... and very fast to set up as well.
With the benefit of a day's hindsight I can safely say this experiment is still an overall success. So for now I will file this away for next time I need to do some motion graphics or if I want to animate something very quickly...
@JMcAllister oddly enough a future Hit-U Effects Lab will be on creating classic motion maps, and I already have several methods, but Neon Path hadn't occurred to me! So I'm stealing it.
Since you're in Pro I'll say the particle sim is always a good option. Just animate a point emitter (particle speed zero) to follow a point, dropping dots or dashes as it goes.
Here's an example using the particle sim for a map line.
@Triem23 you're welcome... tbh I was mostly trying to see if I could make an object (the bee) automatically follow a path that I had drawn out, rather than having to keyframe the movement. The dashed line was an afterthought... but worth it
Particle sim is so versatile... I have used it to automate many things that would otherwise be very difficult to do. Easily the best feature in HitFilm IMO.
True that. In some ways the entire Hitfilm University channel is currently a long build up to the particle sim. It's crazy powerful! There are so many effects questions that could be answered 'Particle Sim' if they weren't being asked by Express users.
Couldn't sleep, so I made some rain. In beautiful black-and-white (mostly)
I might come back to this, and make something "proper" out of the idea, so any suggestions for improvements are welcome. If so, I'll probably start by making that wall-and-bit-of-road into an actual street, and then maybe add some people.... we'll see.
Hitfilm Pro, right?
I ask because I'm not a big fan of Hitfilm's Rain on Glass effect. It's got a certain look to it that screams plug in.
Axel did a particle sim tutorial back in Hitfilm Ultimate 2 (before the Rain on Glass effect existed) that I think gives better results.
Just my opinion, but something to look into. Axel's using his water particles to drive a displacement effect, but, with a set matte and caustics, you've probably get something EVEN COOLER! Yes, I went all-caps there!.
I see you did a good job getting a nice watery look on your ground plane. Get some real video in there and you really do have the start of a great shot.
Yeah I did think the rain-on-glass looked a bit weird when I rendered it out, seemed ok inside HitFilm although I didn't look at it in too much detail at the time.
But IMO Axel's particle setup is actually worse than the rain on glass effect.
Sure the effect isn't perfect, but at least it has the drops moving in a not-totally-straight-line motion, their speed seems roughly dependent on their mass, and when they get close enough together they are attracted together and merge. And as the bigger drops move, they get smeared out into trails of smaller drops.
Axel's method is fine for generating the drops on the screen (especially since there is more control), but the movements are all wrong. One single drop gets smeared out into a straight line which is somehow the same density (because the distortion is the same), but a bigger shape, implying that it has increased in mass. Where did all the extra water come from? Rain does not impact on glass in perfect straight lines with perfect regularity.
Although I'm willing to admit that the rain on glass effect also has the problem of regularity because the drops seem to follow pre-determined curves on the screen. I'm pretty sure that wouldn't happen quite so neatly.
But yeah, if I decide to tidy this shot up I think I will try and roll my own. Also because I kinda want it to be windy as well, so the rain wouldn't be travelling straight down the glass and the rain-on-glass effect doesn't seem to allow for that.
Maybe I will make my own rain simulator to model the movement... that sounds like a fun project.
Maybe it would work for paint on a wall as well? Then I could make a suspense film where people are watching the paint running down the wall but the audience has no idea when it is going to dry... Just kidding.


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As I look outside at the trees with their leaves turning red,orange, and yellow; I just want to cry. I am so NOT ready for winter. I want the flowers to keep blooming and the sun to keep warming my face. I want to go swimming and play with the children in the sand. I […]
Proverbs 30 tells us, "There are four things on earth that are small, but they are very wise. Ants are not very strong, but they store up food in the summer. Rock badgers are not very powerful, but they can live among the rock. Locusts have no king, but they all go forward in formation. Lizards can be caught in the hand, but they are also found even in the king's palace."
We may not be the strongest Christian in our church, or the most talented singer. We may not be the wealthiest person or in the best physical condition. We may not live in a palace or a 20 million dollar house or have eight fancy cars, but we can be wise. Our wisdom comes from God. Of course, we learn from our parents, teachers, and life experiences, but ultimately it all comes through our relationship with God.
When we get into a diffucult situation, we tend to seek out the opinions of other people. That's not all bad because the Bible says there is safety in a multitude of counsel. But, often I believe we can work things out by ourselves if we will ask God for the answer and wait for Him to respond.
Much of our wisdom comes from our daily living. Our problem solving skills become greater with each new challenge we face. That's why a teenager doesn't see problems the same as adults do. They simply lack the experiences to draw from. The wisest person who ever lived was Jesus. Solomon was pretty smart too. We don't need to be the best at it, to make sound decisions. We all know right from wrong. We should all know what pleases God.
One good way I have learned to make many difficult decesions is to ask myself, "What would Jesus do?" If we can imagine what His response would be, we will usually be right on target. Our earthly wisdom will fail us because sometimes we get our own opinions entangled with God's word; sometimes we make decesions for selfish reasons, and sometimes we don't have all the facts needed to make the right choice.
Jesus never fails!! He is always right. He is always just on time. His motives are always pure and unselfish. He is the beginning and the ending of all wisdom. Let's try to be more like the ant or badger. Better yet, let's strive to be more like Jesus.


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Some parts of Texas approaching worst-ever drought
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas continues to suffer a serious rainfall deficit and is on track to experience the second-worst drought on record, the state climatologist said Tuesday.
John Nielsen-Gammon told the House and Senate Natural Resources Committees that most of the state is still in extreme drought and the forecast tilts toward drier-than-normal conditions through the spring. For some parts of the state, the current drought may end up being the worst ever recorded.
"No corner of the state has been spared dry conditions, the drought persists at historic levels," he said. "In summary, 2011 was about as bad as it gets for agriculture, but it is these multi-year droughts that strain water supplies and there is still a good chance this will end up being the drought of record for most of the state."
Texas has only received 68 percent of its normal rainfall, and reservoirs are at their lowest levels since 1990, Nielsen-Gammon said. He said high temperatures due to climate change have exacerbated the drought.
"The state temperature has increased on average by about 2 degrees Fahrenheit since the 1970s, and so that impacts drought through evaporation and loss of water once it reaches the ground," he said. "While there is greater hurricane activity over the water that tends to suppress ordinary summer thunderstorm activity over land."
Increased evaporation due to climate change also increases the severity of wildfires, Nielsen-Gammon added.
L'Oreal Stepney, deputy director for water at the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, told lawmakers that 1,011 communities have imposed water restriction and 19 water systems have less than 180 days of water, three have less than 45 days and one is trucking in water to meet residents' needs.
The commission is currently managing water rights to make sure essential services and senior water rights holders receive enough to keep operating.
The state needs to spend $53 billion over the next 50 years to meet the state's long-term water needs, but so far officials have only spent about $3.1 billion, said Carolyn Britton, a senior Texas Water Development Board official. The state is pursuing permits to begin building 5-6 water reservoirs, she added.
Gov. Rick Perry and top lawmakers have recommended taking $2 billion from the Rainy Day Fund to create a water development bank to finance new projects.
Britton said the State Water Plan seeks to add 9 million acre feet of new water supply by 2060, with 22 percent coming from conservation and 10 percent from reusing water. The state will also require communities that rely on only one water source to develop an emergency plan to get water elsewhere in the event of a severe drought.


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Like my previous DB project, I wouldn't say that this is a resounding success. let me start with the dough which I found extremely sticky when it came to kneading it. Only the constant sprinkling of flour just about allowed me to finish it. One thing to bear in mind is to keep everything cold or chilled or you will have problems in stickiness and handling.
It was a very warm day when I decided to do this which made it very tricky. By the time I did the second rolling and folding I thought I was getting the hang of it and felt mighty pleased with myself when I finally parked the four-times folded dough in the fridge for the final chilling. This is when I think it all went wrong. It was supposed to be chilled for the last time for up to 24 hours. Of course the next day I forgot to take it out and bake it instead it took me another day so that was 48 hours not 24. So I rolled, filled, and braided it then proofed it in a slightly warm oven. Two hours later it still looked the same. I thought to myself maybe at baking time it will finally puff up to all its glory. It didn't! *waaah* My yeast phobia is all coming back to me.
Well actually the top puffed up a little but nothing more. The apple filling was problematic as well. I substituted Golden Delicious for the Fuji and it was sooo runny despite simmering it for more than 10 minutes. I have made the necessary adjustment in the recipe below so I won't make the same mistake next time I decide to make it. All is not lost though, the aroma was wonderful and when me and my son tasted it was actually delicious despite having a bottom crust that was on the hard side.
Danish Dough
(makes enough for 2 Danish Braid)
*For the dough:
30 g [1 oz] fresh yeast or 1 Tbsp active dry yeast
1/2 cup whole milk - chilled
1/3 cup sugar
zest of 1 orange - finely grated
3/4 tsp ground cardamom (optional)
1/2 Tbsp vanilla extract
1/2 vanilla bean - split and scraped
2 large eggs - chilled and slightly beaten
1/4 cup fresh orange juice
3 1/4 cup plain flour
1 tsp fine salt
*For the butter block:
250 g [1 cup] cold unsalted butter - cut into cubes
1/4 cup plain flour
- Combine yeast and milk in a bowl with a whisk.
- Slowly add sugar, orange zest, cardamom, vanilla extract, vanilla seeds, eggs and orange juice. Mix well.
- In another bowl combine the flour and salt. Make a well in the centre and pour in the milk mixture. Stir initially with a wooden spoon then as it gets sticky use your hand to combine.
- Once they come together, transfer to a well floured surface and knead until smooth and easy to work with (about 5-7 minutes).
- Cover with a plastic wrap and refrigerate for 30 minutes.
- Beat the cubed butter and 1/4 cup flour with an electric mixer on the slowest speed until smooth and lump free. Set aside.
- Remove the dough from the fridge and turn out on a lightly floured surface.
- Roll the dough into a rectangle approximately 18x13 inches and 1/4 inch thick. The dough may be sticky so keep lightly dusting it with flour.
- Spread the butter evenly over the right two-thirds of the dough.
- Now fold the left third of the dough over the right, covering half of the butter.
- Fold the right third of the rectangle over the centre third; pinch the edges a little. The first turn has now been completed. Mark the dough by poking it with your finger to keep track or use a stick tape and keep a tally.
- Place on a baking sheet and cover with a plastic wrap. Refrigerate for 30 minutes.
- Put the dough lengthwise on a floured surface. The open ends should be to your right and left. Roll the dough again into approximately 18x13 inches, 1/4 inch rectangle.
- Again fold the left third of the rectangle over the centre third and the right third over the centre third. No additional butter will be added. The second turn has now been completed. Refrigerate for 30 minutes.
- Roll out, turn and refrigerate the dough two more times, for a total of four single turns.
- Refrigerate the dough after the final turn for 5 hours or overnight.
- The danish dough is now ready to be used. If you will not be using the dough within 24 hours, freeze it. To do this, roll out the dough to about 1 inch thickness, wrap tightly in plastic wrap and freeze. Defrost slowly in the refrigerator for easiest handling. Danish dough will keep in the freezer for up to 1 month.
Apple Filling
4 Golden Delicious apples - peeled, cored, and chopped into 1/4-inch thickness
1/2 cup sugar
1/2 tsp ground cinnamon
1/2 vanilla bean - split and scraped
2 Tbsp fresh lemon juice
4 Tbsp unsalted butter
1 Tbsp flour
- Toss all ingredients except butter in a bowl.
- Melt the butter in a saucepan until slightly nutty in colour (about 6 minutes).
- Add the apple mixture and saute until the apples are softened and caramelised (10-15 minutes).
- Transfer to another container. Cool and set aside.
Danish Braid
1/2 recipe of Danish Dough
2 cups apple filling, jam or preserves
For the egg wash: 1 large egg plus 1 large egg yolk
- Line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
- On a lightly floured surface, roll the Danish dough into approximately 15x10-inch, 1/4 inch thick rectangle. If the dough seems elastic and shrinks back when rolled, let it rest for a few minutes, then roll again.
- Place the dough on the prepared baking sheet.
- Along one long side of the pastry make parallel, 3-inch long cuts with a knife or a rolling pastry wheel, each about 1 inch apart. Repeat on the opposite side making sure to line up the cuts with those you have already made.
- Spoon the filling you have chosen to fill your braid down the centre of the rectangle.
- Starting with the top and bottom flaps, fold the top flap down over the filling to cover. Next fold the bottom flap up to cover filling. This helps keep the braid neat and helps to hold in the filling.
- Begin folding the cut side strips of the dough over the filling, alternating first left, then right, left, right, until finished. Trim any excess dough and tuck in ends.
- Whisk together the whole egg and yolk in a bowl and with a pastry brush, lightly coat the braid.
- Lightly oil one side of a piece of plastic wrap and place over the braid.
- Proof at room temperature or if possible in a controlled 90F degree environment for about 2 hours or until doubled in volume and light to the touch.
- Preheat oven to 190°C/fan 170°C/375°F. Bake for 10 minutes then rotate pan to bake evenly.
- Lower oven temperature to 180°C/fan 160°C/350°F and bake for another 15-20 minutes or until golden brown.
- Cool and serve the braid warm or at room temperature.


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Trump calls Rex Tillerson 'dumb as a rock' after fired secretary of state says he kept having to say 'You can't do that'
WASHINGTON — Former Secretary of State Rex Tillerson on Thursday described former boss President Donald Trump as someone who is "pretty undisciplined," "doesn't like to read," and "doesn't like to get into the details of a lot of things."
The Texas native and former Exxon Mobil CEO didn't stop there.
"So often, the president would say, 'Here's what I want to do, and here's how I want to do it,' and I would have to say to him, 'Mr. President, I understand what you want to do, but you can't do it that way. It violates the law,'" he said at a rare public appearance in Houston.
That less-than-stellar job review, first reported by the Houston Chronicle, earned a quick rebuke on Friday from Trump.
Tillerson "didn't have the mental capacity needed," the president wrote on Twitter, saying Tillerson didn't measure up to current Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. "He was dumb as a rock and I couldn't get rid of him fast enough. He was lazy as hell."
The exchange is another bizarre chapter in the duo's relationship, one that started with great promise over the meeting of two famous business minds, then soured when Tillerson reportedly called Trump a "moron" and ended when the president fired Tillerson by tweet.
Tillerson, speaking at a fundraiser for the MD Anderson Cancer Center, said on Thursday that Trump had a much different style than his own.
"He acts on his instincts and, in some respects, that looks like impulsiveness," Tillerson told the moderator, CBS News' Bob Schieffer, according to The Washington Post. "But it's not his intent to act on impulse. I think he's trying to act on his instincts."
That approach was world's away from Tillerson's standard — the "disciplined, highly process-oriented Exxon Mobil corporation," he said.
"I didn't know how to conduct my affairs with him any other way than in a very straightforward fashion," he said, according to Politico. "And I think he grew tired of me being the guy every day that told him 'You can't do that, and let's talk about what we can do.'"
Tillerson also lamented the effectiveness of Trump's bombastic Twitter account.
"I will be honest with you," he said, according to the Chronicle. "It troubles me that the American people seem to want to know so little about issues, that they are satisfied with a 128 characters."
Trump response to Tillerson's critique was true to form.
The president didn't hold back last year when the reports emerged that his secretary of state called him a "moron." Even as he dismissed Tillerson's alleged insult as "fake news," he said at the time that if the diplomat "did that, I guess we'll have to compare IQ tests."
"I can tell you who is going to win," Trump said then.