text: boone Posted June 8, 2003 I have been sorting through some records...Trying to make a little order around here ...I don't think that I will ever get it done ...I will find something and instead of puttin it where it belongs...I will re-read it...then, search for something that relates to it...Then, I find something else and decide to post it here...before ya know it...Three hours have passed...I ain't got a damn thing done yet...Oh Well, I've been try to get this task done since Christmas... Most of ya know my folks...but some of ya don't...for those who don't...This is from the files of my Uncle Charles Everett Beam...(aka, C.E. Beam aka, Everett and for me Uncle Everett ...) He worked and retired from Michter's for 40+ years...Michter's was renouned for the "Pot Still Whiskey" which he (C.E. Beam) developed for Pennco Distiller's (Michter's)... Everytime I read this...I wonder...What happened?...What went terribly wrong?...Sounded as if things were gonna lift off the ground...but sadly it didn't... The Sunday News, April 25, 1976 (Lancaster Pennsylvania) Michter's in 223 Year Oldest Distillery Offers Look At Colonial Process Schaeferstown----America's oldest operating distillery, now called Michter's Distillery and Jug House, in Schaeferstown, fifteen miles west of Hershey and twenty miles north of Lancaster, opens it's doors to tourist this spring, marketing the 223rd year since whiskey was first distilled on the premisis in 1753. A group of local Lebanon County businessmen acquired the distillery last summer and have since begun to produce the original "Pot Still" sour mash whiskey for which the distillery is famous. Producing a quality whiskey through the costlier and more time-consuming Pot still method. However, was only one objective of the new owner's, according to Louis Forman, President. Careful restoration of three of the original distillery buildings to the early 19th Century appearance has been largely completed, and guided tours are offered throughout the year. In excavating a variety of old whiskey and medicine bottles were found and are on display in the visitor reception area. Last June the distillery was give the proper recognition of its historical significance when the United States Government placed it in the National Register of Historic Places. TOURS TAKE THE VISITOR through the modern plant, which, to asure the quality, has a limited capacity of 50 barrels a day. The tour also transports the visitor into the 18th century by means of a authentic double pot still and related distillery apparatus, including three small wooden fermenter casks, that produce one barrel of whiskey a day. A mule and wagon will be used both to haul the locally grown grain to the small distillery, as well as to remove each day's one-barrel production to one of the distilleries bonded warehouses. The miniature distillery housed in one of the distillery buildings, will permit the visitor to closly observe the entire distillation process largely as it was performed in colonial days. The significant role that whiskey has played in the history of the United States, from Whiskey Rebellion to Prohibition, is related as part of the tour at Michter's Distillery. For example, the visitor learns that George Washington, himself a distiller, (controops?) of supply. In fact, Michter's Distillery may well have been one of the stops that General Washington made during his visits to the area to inspect the iron works at nearby Cornwall, where cannon shot was made for his revelotionary militia. Unlike anyother disitllery in the United States, Michter's can sell it products at the distillery. A law passed by the PA state legislature allows distilleries of historical significance, established a hundered years prior to Jan.1st 1975, to sell at retail the whiskey produced on the premisis. The jug house, where German immigrant farmers traveled in horse-drawn carts to fill their jugs directly from the barrels lining the walls of the old whiskey store, is not the room where Michter's sour mash whiskey can be purchased. Michter's Distillery and Jug House is located six miles from the Lebanon-Lancaster turnpike interchange, exit 20 off route 419N. Signs in the area direct the traveler. April through October tours will be offered seven days a week from 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. An admission fee is charged. The End... The original "Pot Still" has been moved to Bardstown...I'll give ya three guesses who owns it... Beams Of course Would ya like to see it while at the fest this year?...Let me know...I'll arrange a time to set up a "group" tour... Bettye Jo and of course Erica Share this post Link to post Share on other sites


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Theresa's world is shattered on Christmas Eve when members of her father's orchestra bring his broken body home. Her 8-year-old brother is devastated; her pregnant mother goes into shock. Murder is not unusual in eighteenth century Vienna but Theresa's father was supposed to be performing with concertmaster Franz Josef Haydn at the court of Prince Esterhazy, not wandering on the banks of the Danube by a Gypsy encampment. His valuable violin is missing; Theresa removes an odd gold pendant from his neck.
No one has any answers for her but Haydn gives the family his own Christmas bonus from the prince and hires fifteen-year-old Theresa to help him write down his music. Theresa's father had a secret life his family was completely unaware of—Haydn has a secret that will end his career and his own clandestine political activities if it is discovered. He is losing his sight. Because Theresa is a fine musician, trained by her father, she can transcribe Haydn's singing into orchestration. But her hopes of using her viola to earn a living by teaching music are dashed when her mother sells the instrument to pay for her brother's apprenticeship with a luthier.
There is far more peril around the musical performances of a court than might be expected. A wealthy uncle who could provide a dowry for Theresa is a dangerous blackguard. The Roma people Theresa encounters when she braves a trip to their camp to find out how her father was killed are not crude and threatening—they are talented, intrepid and in debt to her father. They also recognize the mysterious gold necklace that Theresa now wears. She comes quickly to rely on a young musician who tries to help her while protecting secrets of his own—and realizes she is attracted to him. Haydn knows more than he is telling. The more she finds out about her father the deeper the mystery and the greater the menace.
The Musician's Daughter is a fast-paced, historical YA with a daring and self-aware heroine who pushes back against the conventions of her time. She wants to know why her father died. She wants her own choice for marriage and she wants to play the violin—the instrument she loves best. She opposes all the forces arrayed against her quietly but insistently. The portrayal of the society that makes no allowances for a young woman's ability and gifts reminded me of Rita Charbonnier's Nannerl, Mozart's big sister who was a musical prodigy, denied her talent and opportunity because scarce resources would always be given to a brother. In fact, Charbonnier is included in the author acknowledgements so there may be a cabal of novelists out there, righting history's wrongs against talented women, real and fictional. We can only hope. Meanwhile, I'm passing this book to my seasoned in-house YA critic. I suspect we will agree that it was worth the read.
The Musician's Daughter Susanne Dunlap | Bloomsbury U.S.A. 2009
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Date: 11/7/2005; 57 minutes
Associated Press and New Yorker writer Kathy Gannon delivers an intimately observed history of Afghanistan from 1986 to the present. The longest-serving Western journalist in the region, Gannon overturns simplistic understanding of the country's politics in this eye-opening talk. (#11159)
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The miracle that Moses witnessed on Sinai in the burning bush / Foretold your virginal childbearing, O pure Mother. / We the faithful cry to you: / Rejoice, O truly living bush! / Rejoice, O holy mountain! / Rejoice, O sanctified expanse and most holy Theotokos!
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You showed Moses, O Christ God, / An image of your most pure Mother / In the bush that burned yet was not consumed, / For she herself was not consumed, / When she received in her womb the fire of divinity! / She remained incorrupt after her pure childbearing! / By her prayers, O greatly merciful One, / Deliver us from the flame of passions, / And preserve your people from all harm!


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Wikipedia Bully, also known as Canis Canem Edit, is a third person action-adventure video game released by Rockstar Vancouver for the PlayStation 2. The game was released as Bully: Scholarship Edition for the Xbox 360, Wii and PC and as Bully: Anniversary Edition for iOS and Android. Bully: Scholarship Edition was released by Rockstar Vancouver, with Mad Doc Software (now known as Rockstar New England), involved with the development. The game uses an advanced Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas engine through Renderware.
The plot of the game revolves around 15-year-old protagonist Jimmy Hopkins and his adventures at Bullworth Academy, a prestigious prep school in the town of Bullworth in an unspecified New England state.
It has been proven that Bully exists in the same fictional universe as both the GTA and Manhunt series.
References to Grand Theft Auto
Bully has several subtle references to the GTA franchise.
- In Grand Theft Auto IV, Bullworth Academy is shown briefly in a segment of the CNT reality show I'm Rich. It is shown as a boarding school that Jill Von Crastenburg is attending.
- A Stallion can be found in Shop class. It is not a Diablo Stallion though since the car has a different flame pattern and lacks a hood-mounted supercharger.
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- Similarly, a station wagon appears around town. This station wagon is based on the Vice City and San Andreas renditions of the Regina.
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- A hoodlum found in Strawberry sometimes wears a shirt with "HOPKINS" labelled on the back.
- The coat of arms of the Bullworth Academy was stylized and featured in Canis Canem Edit (pictured), a painting by Mathew Morse at The Diamond Casino & Resort. The painting's name is taken from the academy's motto, which means "Dog Eat Dog" in Latin.
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Re: st: nl hockey estimation
Nick Cox <email@example.com>
Re: st: nl hockey estimation
Fri, 10 Aug 2012 02:09:01 +0100
The word "clearly" here is questionable. Your test data show a big
discontinuity; they aren't a segmented line which is what the model is
looking for. The least squares criterion is being used and -nl- does
the best it can to minimise the sum of _squared_ errors. The built-in
aversion to very large errors is what is biting here.
If you work instead with
gen y2 = cond(x < 50, y, y - 100)
nl hockey y2 x
you will get what you expect.
On this evidence the program is fine, but your test example won't work
as you expect under LS. At a wild guess, L1-norm might give something
nearer splitting the difference.
On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 12:34 AM, Jordan Silberman
<email@example.com> wrote:
> I'm attempting to identify a breakpoint in a regression using the -nl
> hockey- command (described here:
> http://personalpages.manchester.ac.uk/staff/mark.lunt/nlhockey.hlp).
> When I test this command using simple simulated data, I find that the
> command doesn't identify the correct breakpoint. Here's an example:
> set obs 100
> gen x = _n
> gen y = x if x < 50
> replace y = x*3 if x > 49
> nl hockey y x
> The breakpoint should clearly be at 50; however, command output
> identifies the breakpoint at 32.7.
> So, 2 questions:
> 1. Why might the -nl hockey- command be computing the wrong breakpoint?
> 2. Can anyone recommend an alternate approach to identifying the
> breakpoint in a 2-piece regression? Best would be something that's
> been implemented in Stata in a straightforward way.
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Firaq Baiganpuri On Wali Miyan Sheikhpeer
The Chandans portrait, artist and authenticity unconfirmed. National Portaloo Gallery, London.
Wali Miyan Sheikhpeer (English pronunciation: /ˈValee Meeyaa ˈSheiKHpeer/ (US), /ˈ (baptised 26 April 1944; died 23 April 2008) was an Indian poet, playwright and script writer, widely regarded as the worst script writer in any language, having written the maximum number of flop movies and the world record holder as the producer of the maximum number of flop movies and plays. He is often called Bollywood's worst poet - the "Bard of Amway". His surviving works are not many, having mostly been consigned to the dustbins of studios. Sheikhpeer was born and raised in Sant Nagar-upon-Yamuna. At the age of 18, he married movie star Quratulain Haidery, with whom he had three children: Shushila, and twins Hammam and Judwi. Between 1975 and 1982, he began an unsuccessful career in Bombay as an actor, writer, and part owner of a production house called the Laddu Chamberpot's Men, later known as the Kingpisser's Men. He appears to have retired to Sant Nagar around 2005, where he died three years later. Few records of Sheikhpeer's private life survive, and there has been considerable speculation about such matters as his physical appearance, sexuality, Religious beliefs, and whether the works attributed to him were written by others. The other writers have furiously denied these rumors.
Sheikhpeer produced most of his known work between 1979 and 2003. His early plays were mainly comedies and histories, genres he failed to raise to any level of sophistication and artistry even by the end of the twentieth century. He then wrote mainly tragedies until about 1988, including Ham ki Plate, King Leer, and Macburger, considered some of the worst works in any language. In his last phase, he wrote what he thought were tragicomedies, also known as romances, and forced other playwrights to collaborate with him.
Many of his plays were published in editions of varying quality and accuracy during his lifetime (an improved noted by those forced to review his work). In 1973, he paid two of his former theatrical colleagues to publish the First Folio, a collected edition of his dramatic works that included all but two of the plays now recognised as Sheikhpeer's.
Sheikhpeer was never a respected poet and playwright in his own day, but and fortunately his reputation has not risen to any heights. Some Bollywood directors have acclaimed Sheikhpeer's genius under pressure from his criminal elder brother 'Bhai', who forced them to repeatedly adopt his work but after suffering severe financial loss 'Bhai' refused to meddle with movie making, preferring to make money instead. Which he could have done without as their mother forced him to invest these funds in Sheikhpeer's work. Sheikhpeer's plays remain highly unpopular today and are constantly studied, performed and reinterpreted by right-wing leftist Marxist as an example of diverse cultural and political trauma throughout the world.
Background and early life
Wali Miyan Sheikhpeer
Born baptised 26 April 1944 (birth date unknown)
Sant Nagar-upon-Avon, Warwickgaon, India.
Died 23 April 2008 (aged 52)
Sant Nagar-upon-Avon, Warwickgaon, India
Occupation Playwright, poet, actor
Literary movement Urdu Slapstick theatre
Spouse(s) Quratulain Haidery (m. 1948–1988)
Children Shushila Hallabol,
Hamara Sheikhpeer,
Judwi Qatil
Wali Miyan Signature.
Early life
Wali Miyan Sheikhpeer was the son of Jumman Sheikhpeer, a successful glove maker and elderman originally from Suttakhet, and Mariam Arbaz, the daughter of an affluent landowning farmer. He was born in Sant Nagar-upon-Yamuna and baptised on 26 April 1944. His actual birthdate is unknown, but is traditionally observed on 01 April, All Fools Day. This date, which can be traced back to a twentieth-century scholar's prank, has proved appealing because Sheikhpeer died on 23 April 2008. He was the third child of eight and the eldest surviving son.
Although no attendance records for the period survive, most biographers agree that Sheikhpeer may have been educated at the St Mirchiwale New School in Sant Nagar, a free school chartered in 1903, about a quarter of a mile from his home. Saintly schools varied in quality in Delhi and the school would have provided an intensive education in bad functional grammar and the classics.
At the age of 18, Sheikhpeer married the 26-year-old Quratulain (Annie)Haidery. The marriage licence was issued on 27 November 1962 and lost on 29 November 1962. Two of Haidery's neighbours posted bonds the next day as surety that there were no impediments to the marriage. The couple may have arranged the ceremony in some haste, Annie's pregnancy could have been the reason for this. Six months after the marriage, she gave birth to a daughter, Sushila, who was baptised on 26 May 1963 Twins, son Hamara and daughter Judwi, followed almost two years later and were baptised on 2 February 1965. Hamara died of unknown causes at the age of 11 and was buried on 11 August 1976.
After the birth of the twins, there are few historical traces of Sheikhpeer until he is mentioned as part of the Lucknow theatre scene in 1972. Because of this gap, scholars refer to the years between 1965 and 1972 as Sheikhpeer's "wonderful lost years". Biographers attempting to account for this period have reported many apocryphal stories. Naveen Rothas, Sheikhpeer's first biographer, recounted a Sant Nagar legend that Sheikhpeer fled the town for Lucknow to escape prosecution for deer poaching (a tactic that other Bollywood stars tried to repeat. Tandoori deers not being a problem). Another story has Sheikhpeer starting his theatrical career minding the cars in the car park of theatre patrons in Lucknow. Jiwan Aubrey reported that Sheikhpeer had been a country schoolmaster. Some twentieth-century scholars have suggested that Sheikhpeer may have been employed as a schoolmaster by Sikandar Hoghton of Lalukhet, a landowner who named a certain "Wali Miyan Shekhoo" in his will. No evidence substantiates such stories other than hearsay collected after his death and the name Shekhoo was common in the Lalukhet area.
Lucknow and theatrical career
"Sub dunia nautanki hai
Aur hum sub khatron kay khiladi
Baki sub hain anadi # 1
Bahut kaam wala aadmi hoon"
Jaisa Aap Ko Accha Lage, Act II, Scene 7, 139–42.[25]
"All the world's a stage
And I am the danger player
the rest are idiot#1
I am a man with lot of work"
Jaisa Aap Ko Accha Lage, Act II, Scene 7, 139–42.[25]
Poster for the super flop Ek Raat Ka Sapna
It is not known exactly when Sheikhpeer began writing, but contemporary allusions and records of performances show that several of his plays were on the Lucknow stage by 1972. He was well enough known in Lucknow by then to be attacked in print by the playwright Ramu Gareen:
...there is an upstart Kauwa (Crow to you anglophiles), beautified with our feathers, supposes he is as well able to rap out a blank verse as the worst of you: and is in his own conceit the only Sheikh-scene in a country…Beware because this lying Crow will peck you with his beak
Scholars differ on the exact meaning of these words, but most agree that Gareen is accusing Sheikhpeer of reaching above his rank in trying to match university-educated writers, such as Mary Marlowe, Coffee Admi and Gareen himself. The pun "Sheikh-scene", identifies Sheikhpeer as Gareen's target. Noted Bollywood director Raj Kapoor was so inspired by Gareen's criticism that he turned it into a hit song
"Jhooth bole kauwa kaate
Kaale kauwe say dariyo"
"Beware of the black crow that pecks you"
Never before in the history of literature has a writer produced such consistently bad work
Gareen's attack is the first recorded mention of Sheikhpeer's career in the theatre. Biographers have noted that that there were 18820 attacks in print on Sheikhpeer during his career as well as 520001 letters to the editor and 7800 negative reviews of his play. The exception being the Chinese delegation of 1981 which watched a performance of Sheikhpeer's play 'As me like it'. The Xinhua News Agency reported that some of the costumes used in the production were made from Chinese Silk by worker silkworms in the state owned collective and made China proud.
In 1979, a partnership of company members built their own theatre on the south bank of the Yamuna, which they called the Jalebi. Records of Sheikhpeer's property purchases and investments indicate that the company made him a wealthy man while his writing skills went downhill. In 1987, he bought the second-largest house in Sant Nagar, New Place, and in 1995, he invested in a share of the samosa shop in Sant Nagar.
Lone cleaner surveys stage after performance of Wali Miyan's play
"karoon ki na karoon: zindagi ka masla yehi hai"
"To do or not to do: this is the only question in life
Most playwrights of the period typically collaborated with others at some point, and critics agree that Sheikhpeer tried to do the same, all throughout his career. Not many wanted to do so but some attributions, such as Meri Fair Ladice - Ab Hindi May and the early history plays, remain controversial, while The Two Rupees More and the lost Lost have well-attested contemporary documentation. Textual evidence also supports the view that several of the stolen plays were revised by Sheikhpeer and passed as an original composition.
In the mid 80s, Sheikhpeer wrote the so-called "problem plays" ''Maiyyar for Maiyyar in Bhatinda'', ''Trolly for us and Cressida'', and ''All ij Well'' and a number of his least known tragedies. They were called problem plays because it was a problem to put them on, a problem to find actors willing to commit professional harakiri, a problem to say 'no' to his criminal elder brother 'Bhai'.
"Your eyes are like potatoes,
and your lips like okra:
your cheeks tomatoes;
oye what shall I call thee dear
my love or my grocery..."
| As Me Like It, Act II, Scene 7, 139–42.
"I used to love poetry and then I read Sheikhpeer"
In 1983 and 1984, when the theatres were closed because of a strike, Sheikhpeer published two narrative poems, Choli Kay Peeche and Yeh Andar Ki Baat Hai. He dedicated them to the Hosiery Industry. This was the first time an artist (and we use the word loosely here) had attempted to combine Art with a commercial interest until Hussain came along. Both proved unpopular and were often mentioned in random Public Interest Litigations (PIL) filed against Sheikhpeer. Sheikhpeer welcomed these PILs as they provided him with free publicity. Most scholars now accept that Sheikhpeer wrote songs for Govinda's movies including "Meri Chaddi".
Sheikhpeer's first plays were written in the conventional style of the day. He wrote them in an over stylised language that does not always spring naturally from the needs of the characters or the drama.
Sheikhpeer's only commercial success - the Lota of health.
Theatregoers reported a need to purge their intestines after watching a performance. This turned out to be his biggest commercial success later on, when many health spas started using Sheikhpeer's plays as a cleansing technique instead of giving enemas to their clients
This technique releases the new power of tripe and inflexibility of the poetry in plays such as Ham Ki Plate. Sheikhpeer uses it, for example, to convey the turmoil in Ham's mind:
"Zindagi cigarette ka dhuan
Jata hai kahan?"
"Life is a cigarette's smoke
Where does it go?"
"Charlie voltage baddhao,
electicity jaldee jayegi"
"Charlie increase the voltage,
electricity will go faster"
Actual dialogue from a Bollywood movie attributed to Sheikhpeer
"It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it"
"It's a funny thing about life; failure is a character building exercise"
Kagaj Ke Plate-- This film was a biggest disaster of decade of 90. People said that this was a semi autobiographical film of Guru Halwai, and reflects also the Guru Halwai's liking of a veggie burger. Film was much ahead of its time, another flop like this would'nt be made till 2005. After its commercial failure Wali Miyan Sheikhpeer wrote more screen plays while Guru Halwai took a MacDonald franchise .
Patang the Kite-- We barely get to see the actors in this movie. After 90 minutes of watching kites fly the camera pans to the actor flying a kite. By that time the audience had walked away presumably to fly a kite. Patang the Kite was never expected to be a huge summer blockbuster. But the scale of its failure has now made it to business schools. The kite sellers reported good business for that year.
Bhajia Sultan-- Wali Miyan Sheikhpeer is said to spend five long years in writing script of this movie and the director Khatmal Amrohi spent lavishly over the sets, costumes, starcasts, and stunts. By watching this movie one could barely see any hard work done on it. Film has nice shots of the Halidiram bhajiyya factory and the pairing of Garam Dharma and Hema Nalini, bad music by some unknown director. The biggest reason of failing this film was the timing of release. Had this film released one or two decades earlier this could be a Huge Success as people were willing to watch anything. Nobody was interested in watching period Drama written by Sheikhpeer.
The poster for MacBhoot
The movie adaption of the play by Wali Miyan Sheikhpeer. It is the longest and least compressed of Sheikhpeer's tragedies, a total lack ambition incites MacBhoot and his wife, Ladice MacBhoot, to do absolutely nothing, until their own inptitude brings rewards. In this play, Sheikhpeer adds a supernatural element to the tragic structure.
Critical reputation
Audience at the performance of one of Sheikhpeer's tragedies
Sheikhpeer was not revered in his lifetime, but he received his share of praise. Mostly from his his mother who thought he was very talented.
In 1968, the critic and author Nirad Chaudhuri singled him out from a group of writers as "the least talented writer in the past 50 years " in both comedy and tragedy. As he said "I would also set down, as a matter of moral obligation, that I consider Sheikhpeer to be the only Indian writer who should never have a permanent place in English literature with books on Indian themes, and who will also be read by everyone who wants to know how a book should never be written."


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By Mike Schuster
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Census Railroads, 1995 - Massachusetts
- Author(s):
- U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census, Geography Division
- Description:
- This datalayer displays a variety of railroad features for the state. Categories represented here include: Primary rail line: A railroad in this category is the primary track that provides service between destinations. A main line track often carries the name of the owning and operating railroad company. Primary track tunnels and underpasses are also included. Rail Spur: A railroad in this category is the track that leaves the main track, and ends in an industrial park, factory, or warehouse area, or forms a siding along the main track Railroad Yard: A railroad yard track has parallel tracks that form a working area for the railroad company. Train cars and engines are repaired, switched, and dispatched from a yard. Railroads with special characteristics, or railroads or portions of a railroad track that are parts of the railroad system and have separately identifiable characteristics such as ferry crossings, carlines, a track for street cars, trolleys and other special types. These special characteristic feature types are not typically depicted in all layers. For example, Ferry crossings, or the representation of a route over water used by ships carrying train cars to connecting railroads on opposite shores, are are primarily located on the Great Lakes and will be found predominantly in railroad layers for states in that region.
- Publisher:
- U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census
- Place(s):
- Massachusetts
- Subject(s):
- transportation
- Held by:
- Harvard
|Click on map to inspect values


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Foreign Language Exam
Because you must pass the Foreign Language Exam in order to Advance to Candidacy and register for thesis units, passing the Foreign Language exam should be among your first priorities as you begin graduate study. (Passing Part I of the Comprehensive Exam should be your other priority; see below.)
The requirement of proficiency in reading a language other than English has both a practical purpose and an intellectual one. You will be expected to use the language in your research for seminars and for the thesis. Additionally, scholarship in art history is multilingual: developing language skills is an essential step towards being a part of the discipline's intellectual community. Students are required to demonstrate reading/translation competency in a language appropriate to their area of specialization. This may be accomplished through an exam given by an Art History faculty member or through certification by the Department of Foreign Languages. Please make arrangements with the Art History Graduate Advisor about a month before you wish to take the exam. The exam given in Art & Design consists of a scholarly art historical passage which you are to translate (with the aid of a dictionary if needed). A passing score results from your being able to translate at least a half page without making significant grammatical or other errors of translation. The exam may be repeated twice if necessary. The exam must be passed before the student may be advanced to candidacy and register for thesis units, but we recommend that it be passed as early as possible. Note: if you plan to apply to a Ph.D. program, please understand that most programs expect you to pass sophisticated reading/translation exams in both French and German at entrance, although some cases another European or Asian language may be substituted for French. If you have not yet acquired a foreign language, French and German are the recommended choices.
Comprehensive Exams
Because you must pass the Comprehensive Exams in order to Advance to Candidacy and register for thesis units, passing Part I should be among your first priorities as you begin graduate study. (Passing the Foreign Language Exam should be your other priority; see above.)
Preparation for the Part I slide identification will include a 25-30-title Recommended Reading List covering the seven broad areas of the Western survey and selected by the faculty member(s) who cover these periods. Each area (Ancient, Medieval, Italian and Northern Renaissance, Baroque-Rococo-Neoclassical, Early American, Modern, and Contemporary-Theory) will be represented by one book that presents an overarching survey and two indicating the depth of specialized studies within it. An additional bibliography of standard and specialized texts within each area will be made available to students both to give them a more complete sense of a given field and to aid in preparing for the Part II of the revised Comprehensive exam.
Comprehensive Part I: Slide Exam
(to be taken no later than end of the second semester)
Purpose: The M.A. in Art History is a degree that prepares one for community college teaching and for more advanced work at the Ph.D. level. Either of these endeavors requires basic familiarity with characteristic monuments within the Western canon and with standard texts for each of the broad areas of the Western survey. Award of the M.A. signals both such breadth of knowledge and also possession of the analytical skills needed to discuss objects and articulate relevant issues.
Format: Ten slides will be shown for ten minutes apiece, and students will identify by period style, relevant dates, function and patronage (and possibly other points) and write a concise essay demonstrating what they know about works of Western art. Baseline measures of student knowledge will be determined through inclusion of two well-known works and seven to eight secondary works that clearly demonstrate the defining characteristics of their respective period styles, etc.; these works will derive directly from the Recommended Reading List. The exam may also include an anomalous image that students will likely not be able to identify for the purpose of evaluating deductive reasoning on the basis of formal elements. All faculty will read and evaluate these exams. The tasks in each essay would be to:
- Assign individual objects (experienced through slides) to major stylistic and cultural categories of a section of art history as laid out in the influential textbooks and including approximate date (within 20 years either side) and location of artistic production;
- Present a convincing argument about why the piece belongs in that category based on: (a) a competent visual analysis that recognizes stylistic components in the object that are characteristic of the period; and (b) comparison to relevant works of art (perhaps two) from the period;
- Discuss the object intelligently and recognize its intrinsic interest. Such discussion would demonstrate: (a) a general understanding of the function of the piece in its original cultural context; (b) a good understanding of the "context" of the piece, including a basic ability to discuss relevant historical, literary, social and/or religious content; and (c) ability to recognize important visual and/or theoretical issues that a piece might raise.
- Any answer should be well-written with grammatically correct English (with some flexibility extended to non-native speakers), good vocabulary, and discipline-appropriate language.
Part I essays will be read and evaluated by all (or as many as possible) members of the Art History faculty and the scores averaged. Points for each slide essay will be assigned within a range of 0 to 10, where 10 signifies an excellent essay, 9 good, 8-7 satisfactory, and 6 and below not satisfactory. Evaluations will be based on the following:
- Accuracy of assignment of the piece to a stylistic category;
- Quality of the argument; relevance of comparisons;
- Demonstration of an understanding of the object itself and the issues it raises (including but not limited to general cultural awareness, understanding of content, ability to articulate relevant "issues" surrounding its production and use;
- Ability to understand and discuss the object in thematic and/or comparative ways;
- English competence and use of discipline-appropriate language.
Passing is 70%. The exam may be repeated once—in the following semester. Please note that a student who does not pass on the second attempt will not be permitted to continue in the program.
Preliminary Thesis Prospectus Submission
A thesis proposes an answer to a question. The answer takes the form of an argument, customarily broken down into a series of chapters which present the evidence for the writer's thesis. The argument and the evidence, based on research and reflection, are not likely to be obvious to you when you first decide upon a "thesis topic." The first stage of writing a thesis (or any significant essay, for that matter) requires the writer to identify a question to be researched and also to identify the most congenial method for addressing the question. Does responding to this question, for example, seem to demand an argument based on gender theory, or semiotics, or social contextualist study?
Probably your initial ideas about a thesis will involve identifying a "topic," one which might be securely situated within a historical period or perhaps one which crosses historical and/or cultural boundaries. And you are likely to begin with a rather broad range of approaches to the topic. Before you can suitably narrow your focus on a specific question and develop a theoretical or methodological approach that will help you answer this question, however, you will probably want to discuss your preliminary ideas with several members of the faculty and certainly to familiarize yourself with the standard works that are germane to your proposed topic (perhaps another 10 books and significant articles, some of which will probably be those be listed on the Part II Recommended Reading List).
As soon as you have a reasonably clear idea of where you are headed, you will need (a) to set up a prospective (pre-thesis) committee for the next step and (b) to submit a preliminary thesis prospectus to this faculty group. Your Part II comprehensive exam will be based on your thesis prospectus: it is a pre-thesis exam.
The sequence of required steps as you move through the program is relatively straightforward:
- pass Comprehensive Exam Part I;
- obtain approval and pre-thesis committee signatures on a preliminary thesis prospectus (discussions with committee ok before Part I passed, but no signatures or prior approval of prospectus);
- receive Part II study questions and bibliography from pre-thesis committee (up to 3-4 weeks after prospectus approved);
- pass Part II (and allow 1-2 weeks for committee to read the exam);
- file Advancement to Candidacy forms (also requires passing the language exam and must be completed no later than the semester prior to the semester in which you plan to graduate);
- register for thesis units (ART 299, or ART 297A/B for a project, prior to the "add deadline" for a given semester).
The timing of your moving through these steps, however, will require some careful planning. In order to proceed with preparation for the pre-thesis exam you will need to form a pre-thesis committee that supports you and your project and that includes three members of the art history faculty. (The pre-thesis committee, like the eventual thesis committee, will need to include Bowen, Grindstaff, Raynsford, or Simonson amongst its members.) Your pre-thesis committee members will evaluate the documents that you provide and may indeed require you to re-write your prospectus one or more times before accepting it. In this respect, you should be advised that although faculty would like to support you and probably will, they are under no obligation to approve your prospectus or to serve on your pre-thesis or thesis committee.
We would like to suggest that you begin talking with faculty while your ideas are in the formative stage, before you have a finished prospectus. Indeed you may begin thesis conversations with faculty as soon as you enter the M.A. program. Before proceeding further, however, you must first pass Part I of the comprehensive exams.
The Thesis Prospectus should include
- a working title,
- a reasonably clear, brief outline of the project,
- a thesis statement,
- brief and preliminary chapter summaries and/or possibly chapters in progress,
- and the start of an annotated bibliography.
On the basis of your prospectus, the Art History faculty who have agreed to serve on your thesis committee will need to meet and to develop specific questions for your pre-thesis exam and to suggest additional readings that may help you prepare. Because art history is inherently interdisciplinary, such readings may include standard works from other disciplines, such as anthropology, culture studies, history, and, almost certainly, standard works of contemporary theory as well as the basic art history titles that are fundamental to your proposed area of study. For example, a thesis on French eighteenth-century furniture would require a broad understanding of the eighteenth century itself and an awareness of current critical writing about this subject from a number of disciplinary and/or theoretical perspectives. You should expect a delay of three to four weeks between obtaining signatures on your prospectus and receiving Part II study questions from your pre-thesis committee; please plan accordingly. Once you have received the questions, you and your committee should plan the date of the exam, in conference with the Visual Resource Center curator.
Purpose: The advantage of a pre-thesis exam over an exam with broad, general questions is its immediate relevance to your proposed study: faculty can evaluate the depth of a student's knowledge before the student embarks on independent thesis hours, and any weaknesses or deficiencies can be identified and addressed.
Please anticipate that it may require your pre-thesis committee from four to six weeks before they can provide you with a list of 6-8 questions from which two will be selected for the pre-thesis exam. At the time of discussing the questions, you and your pre-thesis committee should set a date for the exam. You will not be able to register for thesis units until your exam has been evaluated by your committee, a process that is likely to take 1-2 weeks, so you should pay attention to the "add deadline" for the semester in which you plan to register for the thesis.
At the time of setting the date for the exam, the following need to be filed with the art history graduate advisor (Simonson):
- preliminary thesis prospectus
- study questions and extended bibliography
- signatures of three art history faculty members in support of the proposal
For the Part II exam, your pre-thesis committee will provide you with two short lists of questions. One set of questions will examine the breadth and depth of your understanding of the proposed area of study. The other set of questions will ask you to focus on issues related to the theoretical issues underlying your proposed approach to the project. A thesis dealing with fifteenth-century Flemish portraits, for example, might propose to use semiotics or iconographical strategies or might otherwise examine relationships between paintings, based upon dendrochronological analysis of the wooden panels. If this were the case, then one list of questions would perhaps be based on your having a thorough understanding of late 14th-century and 15th-century Northern Renaissance art and the other list of questions would assume that you had an equally thorough understanding of the theoretical and scientific methods pertinent to your study. Your proposed approach as well as your proposed topic should generate not only possible exam questions but also suggestions for pertinent reading.
For the Part II exam your committee will select questions, one from each of your lists, and ask you to write out responses to these essay prompts for approximately one hour each. (Two hours total.) Essays will be available to be read by all faculty but will be evaluated on a pass/fail basis (with pass a maximum 100% through a minimum 70% score) by your pre-thesis committee.
- Quality of the argument;
- Reasonably comprehensive understanding of the field and/or historical period most pertinent to the proposed thesis topic, as demonstrated by the ability to articulate issues related to cultural production in that period and to explain the critical positions of prominent scholars who have written about it;
- Working knowledge of relevant theoretical writings and a demonstrated understanding of how to apply critical methods to the proposed topic of research;
- Preliminary understanding of how the proposed thesis will contribute to the area;
- English competence and use of discipline-appropriate language.
The exam may be repeated once—in the following semester. A student who does not pass on the second attempt will not be permitted to continue in the program.
Because the exam is made available for the entire Art History faculty to read (and any art history faculty members may provide their evaluations to the pre-thesis committee members directly), the results on your exam may take up to two weeks to announce. If the committee decides that you have not passed the exam, you will be permitted to retake the exam during the following semester. If you are still unable to pass, you will not be permitted to register for thesis units and to complete the M.A.
Candidacy and the Thesis Process
Advancement to Candidacy papers should be filed as soon as you completed Part II of the Comprehensive Exam (and also the Foreign Language Exam). Visit GAPE for online forms.
Please note the deadlines carefully: approximately March 1 for December graduation and October 1 for May graduation. The "Departmental Request for Candidacy" form asks you to list the 30 units that make up the coursework for the M.A. degree. These units must include the three to six units of ART 299 that you are planning to take, and they must include the required graduate seminars. In case you have additional units, in excess of the required 30, then you may decide what to include. (Lower-division courses, those numbered 1-99, do not count for graduate credit.) This form needs to be typed and to be signed by the Art History Program Coordinator and the Art Grad Advisor; Deborah Wijas needs a copy for her files, and the original goes to Graduate Study. Please be sure that you retain a copy of this form—and also of all other official paperwork—for yourself.
The form will ask about the date when you exchanged "Conditionally Classified" for "Classified" status and will also ask about your satisfying the "Written Communications" requirement. If you were admitted to Art History as a conditionally classified student (probably because you had not completed 24 or more upper-division units at the time of admission), then the form is asking for the semester in which you were fully classified (via the "Change of Classification" form signed by the Art History Graduate Advisor): this form indicates the semester when the courses in which you register begin to count towards the 30-unit graduation requirement. "Competency in Written English" corresponds to an undergraduate general education requirement shared by CSU campuses which is also required of graduate students. If you graduated from a CSU, then you have automatically satisfied this requirement (probably by ART 100W at SJSU); if not, then you wish to check the Graduate Studies website for the approved list of courses (see: art history seminars) which meet the requirement.
Register for ART 299 (thesis) units
The add code for ART 299 will be supplied by Deborah Wijas when you have these:
- Copy of your signed Advancement to Candidacy petition "Departmental Request for Candidacy" form;
- Copy of the 299 form signed by all members of your thesis committee (probably your pre-thesis committee and perhaps an additional member from outside the school or university.
These can both be found on the Forms section of the Art & Art History Website.
A thesis is generally considered to be a scholarly paper and is read (and subject to approval) by a representative of SJSU's Graduate Studies Office, once fully approved by your committee. A project is another M.A. option and one generally reserved for students who are curating and then documenting an exhibition and/or working on a curriculum or similar project not entirely suited to essay form. The decision about whether you register for ART 299 (thesis) or for 3-6 units of ART 297A/B (project) is one made by your pre-thesis committee at the time you are initially discussing your proposed work with faculty.
Few students complete the thesis in one semester, and an incomplete grade is automatically filed by the Art Graduate Advisor (the instructor of record for all 297, 298, 299 courses) if there is no evidence for the work's being finished in a given semester. Ensuring that the incomplete is cleared and resubmitted as a "credit" grade will be one of the tasks that accompanies filing of the thesis.
Please note that a project (for which you have registered in 297B units) is not filed with Graduate Studies and customarily uses the formatting and other guidelines provided by the Art Graduate Office (Deborah Wijas), rather than those generated by Graduate Studies.
Candidate Status
Once considered a candidate for the degree, you are not required to register while working on your thesis. You retain library privileges if a statement about your candidacy (from the Art History Graduate Advisor) is on file at the Circulation Desk at King Library. And you are invited, even expected, to participate in Art History and Visual Culture activities, such as the annual symposium, as if you were a registered student. Especially because most students experience an abrupt transition from "classmate" to "thesis-writer," you are strongly encouraged to be in regular communication with your fellow thesis-writers and also with the members of your committee.
Your committee will ordinarily be composed of three faculty members. Bowen or Grindstaff or Simonson needs to serve as chair of your committee, and at least one other committee member, preferably two, needs to be an art historian at SJSU. An "outside" committee member (not a faculty member in Art & Design or at SJSU) would ordinarily be a fourth person on your committee. Please note that faculty members have the option of declining to serve on a committee and may also resign from a committee; similarly, you may re-constitute your committee, if necessary, although it will still need to correspond to the basic structure just outlined.
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At the time you apply for candidacy (file the "Department Request for Candidacy" form with Graduate Studies, you should become increasingly aware the M.A. degree requires you to pay attention to rules and procedures governing Art History, the Department of Art & Art History and also the university. You will want to meet regularly with the Art & Art History Advisor and also to familiarize yourself with the Graduate Studies website and to heed the posted deadlines for filing forms and your thesis.
Thesis Guidelines for Art History, a separate handout, makes suggestions for working with your committee during the writing process and introduces some of the formatting and procedural issues to be addressed when preparing your manuscript and securing illustrations. You will also need to obtain the university's official Thesis Guide.
Apply for Graduation
The "Application for Award of Master's Degree" form (Graduation Application) is due to the Graduate Studies office early in the semester in which you plan to graduate. For the form and more information, visit GAPE. You will want to submit the application for graduation before you have your committee's full approval of your thesis.
Thesis Submission to Graduate Studies
Please pay attention to Graduate Studies' deadlines and instructions for submitting your thesis. The thesis will need to be fully formatted (a time-consuming process) and you will need to have a title page signed by all members of your committee. You probably want to include photocopies rather than originals of your illustrations just in case there are further corrections to be made to your text before you number the illustration pages. Graduate Studies assumes that the thesis will be thoroughly proof-read and letter-perfect when submitted to them. Minor errors will be indicated on a correction sheet returned to you with the thesis; more than a few minor errors will result in having the thesis returned to you for repair and resubmission in the following semester.
"Culminating Experience" (Oral Examination) Meeting
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Listening to the radio on the way to work this morning, I heard something that chilled me to my very core. I literally got a chill down my spine. I quite literally spoke out loud, "Oh, shit."
It was a "top of the hour" news blurb about how the push for Hate Crimes legislation is gaining steam, being pushed through Congress to bring harsher penalties to those who commit crimes motivated by hate. You know, rather than the much nobler greed, anger, disinterest, or predatory exploitation. It's HATE that we have to watch out for, right? I mean, in addition to all those "love crimes" we've got on the books. But I digress.
What really rocked me back on my heels was one sentence that came across towards the end of the sound bite. Some mouthpiece promoting the legislation spoke of trying to keep better track of "bias motivated events."
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In one swift and subtle movement, we knocked the edges off the definition of "hate crime" and squishy-coated it down into "bias motivated events."
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If someone mugs a pedestrian, say, man dressed up in women's clothes, does this constitute a hate crime? What is the burden of proof to say that the alleged criminal didn't target this person because of their "lifestyle". What if the crook took the dude's predilections for frills and lace to suggest he might be an easy target. Not because the crook hated the tranny, but because he figured he/she might be an easy mark. Too effeminate to fight back, who knows?
Instead of 6 months, suspended, for attempted robbery, our felon gets 5 years because it's a "hate crime."
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Operation: Red Crow has been out for around a week now so now may be a good time to share some early impressions and discuss how Siege is evolving. Red Crow has been a massive and super satisfying update for Rainbow Six Siege. Many of the content farm sites have focused on the bug fixes and new Japanese operators but they've missed out on some key details and insights.
Yes, there's tons new skins, victory animations, and visual tweaks. Kapkan, Sledge, and Thermite are amongst the first to receive ELITE skins.. If you got the coin, these skins are pretty damn impressive! There's also complete uniforms, new headgear, and more cosmetic goodness. That's all nifty and encouraging because it shows commitment to keep the game fresh and give us all ways to stand out (and support a fantastic game).
…Cool story, bro! What about the Season 4 impacts to gameplay, particularly ranked?
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First off, Casual is surprisingly less competitive than it used to be, yet matchmaking is much faster and reliable there. This shouldn't be a huge surprise. At the start of every new season, we competitive gamers flock to the ranked queue. Even the casual folks seem to gravitate towards ranked, which is good and bad (don't get me started on the habitual leavers and AFKers). Once people hit gold or platinum in the last few days or weeks of the season, they'll stay in casual to maintain their precious ranks. Siege Season 4 looks like it will be no different but I have to say: the tryhards are really out in full force! I ended last season around Gold IV and now I'm struggling to get back to Silver, mostly because people dick around too much in ranked.
It's this dynamic that has created a frustrating experience in Rainbow Six Siege and other competitive shooters. Eventually, high-ranked players won't see any incentive in risking their MMR and they certainly won't play with their friends, if they consider them less skilled. Players will leave matches just to avoid losing a rank, even if there's still a good chance it could be won. These issues are compounded further by the fact that ranked matches seem to have a higher rate of disconnection and split squads. Without the slot backfill you get in casual, it leaves teams crippled. Rage quitters and rank preservers are really ruining the game and ending friendships. It's silly.
I believe Ubisoft will address these issues well before Year Two content is announced or leaked. They have already committed to at least one more year of steady content so they'll do what they can to have the platform succeed.. And we, the players, want it to succeed! In spite of the glaring issues with ranked play and how brutal the first few weeks of the season are with all the tryhards, competitive play is where it's at for me so I'll stick through it. Ubisoft has also hinted that they don't think they'll keep pushing out new operators in the long run so, eventually, we'll see the game stabilize a lot more.
Now, the change with the biggest impact this season is the shorter rounds. Ranked round timers are now a minute shorter. Ubisoft says this is just a test and the goal is to get people more coordinated and efficient with their decision making. The actual effect is that it makes pick-up groups even less fun and even people whom regularly play together find themselves running out of time. Every match I've played in seems to come down to the last 30 seconds or so.
I appreciate the design logic behind the faster rounds but the unintended results suck. People are droning far less so, when your team gets wiped, you have no cams. As such, instead of getting players to embrace the intended gameplay experience, what we're seeing is more Call Of Duty style gameplay: lone wolf players running-and-gunning, not communicating or working together. While blitzing is a perfectly viable strategy, I don't want to see this game devolve from tactical shooter to pew-pew-pew-WHEEEEE clusterfuck.


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