Over the past couple of months, my knitting focus has been on the public art, yarn bomb project at a nearby lake. While great in length (about 23 feet/7 meters in total, I think), it wasn't particularly interesting knitting. I didn't have an idea for my next project, but I was looking forward to it — whatever it was!
By good fortune, I spent a couple of hours with a dear friend who asked for my help in rescuing her project, a cozy entrelac throw for a granddaughter who will be heading off to college in the fall. In advance of my "house call," I watched a couple of entrelac videos and fell in love with the geometry and construction.
As soon as I got home from our wonderful visit — I ripped and tinked while Barbara wove in ends (entrelac has lots of ends) — I found the Woven Sky Throw pattern and ordered four skeins of Universal Yarn, two each of English Garden and Silver Blush.
I took advantage of a dishwasher dilemma to knit a few rows. Thanks to a wonky latch, the dishwasher door wouldn't stay closed, so I pulled up a chair and applied some foot pressure. Voila! Clean dishes and another tier of entrelac triangles.
Yes, I recognize that this did not actually fix the dishwasher dilemma, but I'm OK with the short term solution. Besides, there was no way I'd get an appliance repair person to make a house call on the holiday weekend. Maybe the house elves will repair it before we visit again….
I've written before about the inevitability of mistakes in knitting and about the many mistakes I've made in a variety of projects. Learning to fix mistakes is one of the key steps in becoming a Fearless Knitter.
I believe that every knitter has a different approach to mistakes, which can vary given the project, mood, or phase of the moon. Some are just fine with ripping back inches to fix a single dropped stitch. By "just fine" I don't mean they're happy with said ripping back, but they prefer the ripping and re-knitting to leaving the error. Other knitters prefer to think of the error as a personal "design element," something that makes their particular project unique.
After a weekend visiting two dear sister-friends, Fearless Knitter Marcia discovered a few errant stitches in a square of her Great American Aran Afghan. Can you see it here?
Hardly noticeable amidst the reverse stockinette stitch. It's easier to see the knits (that should have been purls) on the reverse side.
Now, perhaps a complex knitting project was not the ideal take-along for a girls' weekend together since lots of conversation, cooking, and wine were on the menu. But that's beside the point.
Marcia's general practice is to fix mistakes, tearing back or tinking as needed. However, this time she decided to leave those four stitches. "Every time I see them, I'll be reminded of that fun weekend," she declared. Mistake as memory. I love it.
At the risk of sounding like a dinosaur (and no, I don't know what a dinosaur sounds like), I'd just like to say how awesome it is to have the Internet as a tool in my knitting teaching and learning tool kit.
In a recent knitting class, Rachel was learning how to make a provisional cast-on for Knit Picks' Chromatic Circle Cowl, a luscious piece that's knit "lengthwise." After I explained the point of a provisional cast-on — to be able to create a seamless circle so that the subtle color changes would "flow" — we found an online video tutorial. Rachel watched, followed along (with the occasional curses and snide comments) and paused, as long as needed to complete the cast-on.
The next week, Kathy decided her next project would be a Pineapple Tea Cozy (not a typo). Before she bought the yarn, I recommended she try the pattern by knitting a swatch with some spare yarn. The pattern looked simple enough, but as my mother says, "anything's easy if you know how." And we didn't know how to decipher the instructions in this pattern.
Using Kathy's phone and my laptop, we looked through Ravelry projects, searching for notes and tips. Then we searched for videos — "how to knit pineapple stitch" and the like — all to no avail. Then Kathy typed the instructions, "k4tog, p4tog," into her search engine and discovered that the stitch is also called the "anemone stitch." That was the breakthrough we needed. One click on a video, and she was on her way.


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Keywords: Destruction, defense, conflict, change, purging. Also Danger, betrayal, malice, hatred, lies, spite.
When Interpreting Upright: Thurisaz is a run of power. Unleashing it's energy can result in a primal force either for good or bad. It is a force of defense and destruction. Drawing this rune may tell you that you have outside forces working against you and that need to protect against them. It could mean that you need to suffer through the oncoming storm. With destruction comes new growth. Prepare to contemplate the situation and move forward slowly. You shouldn't make any decisions or actions quickly when this rune is drawn. Look at the runes drawn next to it, if any, to determine what your action should be. They can be a clue as to what sort of force you're dealing with.
When Interpreting Merkstave ( Reverse or Upside Down): When Thurisaz is drawn Merkstave, this should make you pause. You have potentially been left defenseless in what is to come. You could be the victim of some sort of betrayal or unknown danger. This force is negative and usually shows a change for things to come that are destructive, filled with malice, envy, spite. The longer you wait the worse things will get. This rune reversed signals a need for quick action. Try to stay positive and come up for a solution with all haste. If you feel the need to hesitate, do so but use that time wisely. Use that time to look over your life, reconsider the old and integrate the new.
Using this rune in workings can give you a boost of extra power, just be sure to focus on what type of energy you are needing. Draw a continuous line of this rune on a white ribbon, piece of wood or metal and bury it with the points facing outward along the edges of your property for added protection against negative forces.


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Witnessing the Subversion of Democracy in West Virginia
Rahall tells constituents that 90% of the work he does is "symbolic"
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As a resident of the Coal River Valley in Raleigh County, West Virginia, I sat in a meeting with a handful of Appalachian Ambassadors at Congressman Nick Joe Rahall's office on July 13, 2011 in Washington, DC. It was stunning to see the 18th-term Congressman stare in silence — his only real reply — as Bo Webb, Maria Gunnoe and Vernon Haltom described the horror and the heartbreak of living with the long-term effects of mountaintop removal coal mining. Armed with the latest Hendryx report, which cites the connection between increased chance of birth defects in newborns with living near mountaintop removal operations, these Power-Hillbillies put this latest evidence in front of a distracted Rahall and announced their demand for an immediate moratorium on mountaintop removal. Rahall had nothing to say other than trying to pass the buck, first to, Alpha Natural Resources (Massey Energy's new name), then Office of Surface Mining (OSM). What we witnessed in Representative Nick Joe Rahall's office is what Bobby Kennedy Jr calls the "subversion of democracy in the state of West Virginia," and we stared back in silence, in anticipation, as Rep. Rahall, stone dead in the eyes, the dome of the Capitol filling the large window behind him, said nothing to us West Virginians demanding to be represented.
This is what the subversion of democracy looks like in West Virginia, where sprawling corporations have woven their money-hungry tentacles all throughout the Appalachians in search and removal of coal, seizing more that 550 mountaintops and 5000 miles of headwater streams; annihilating hundreds of mountain hamlets, so many treasures, spurned with contempt. All of the normal paths to correct injustices like Massey's chronic corporate nuisances, like the courts and regulatory agencies, have been compromised beyond belief. Instead, West Virginians face a state Supreme Court where the Chief Justice Brent Benjamin was elected with 3 million dollars of help from the local coal company, Massey Energy.
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Finally, it was Representative Dennis Kucinich of Ohio who heard us during the House Oversight Committee hearing where Rep. Kucinich proposed a visit to see the atrocities he's been hearing so much about, especially in the brilliant new documentary, The Last Mountain. Kucinich repeatedly demanded that he "wants to view specific sites in the Coal River Valley." We anticipate Congressman Kucinich's visit and we would welcome Congressional investigations into the health effects of mountaintop removal coal mining. It is imperative that you act on this issue.
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Exclusive: Lange & Söhne's new limited edition 1815 Tourbillon watch is high on tech and yet a classic
There are merely 100 pieces of the limited edition 1815 Tourbillon with Enamel Dial.
The dial is encased in a 39.5m platinum case.
Lange's watchmakers put the timepiece through 30 manual processes to craft each dial.
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Almost four years ago, German luxury watch brand A. Lange & Söhne introduced the 1815 Tourbillon, a striking timepiece that established its watchmaking virtuosity in a Swiss luxury watches-dominated global market. It combined Lange's trademark subtle aesthetics with an exquisitely executed tourbillon that was visible at '6' on the dial. It encompassed a patented Zero-Reset mechanism that zeros the seconds' hand alongside a stop-seconds feature, allowing the user to stop the watch and then set it with one-second accuracy.
Now Lange has upended its game, at least aesthetically, by introducing the 1815 Tourbillon with Enamel Dial, in a limited edition of 100 pieces. The watch has a delicately crafted white enamel dial encased in a 39.5mm platinum case, and sports blue steel hands, a red-coloured '12' marker, and the most interesting feature—a large aperture at 6 o'clock which reveals the complexity of the one-minute tourbillon, suspended beneath a black polished bridge.
The enamel forms a smooth, bright base for both the black polished tourbillon bridge and the long blued steel hands. Anthony de Haas, Director, Product Development at A. Lange & Söhne, says, "The basic idea was to build a credible bridge from the origins of watchmaking to the present."
Among other features, the 1815 Tourbillon includes a movement of 3Hz, a 72-hour power reserve, and black hand-stitched alligator leather strap secured with a solid-platinum deployant buckle (that allows the strap to be widened so that the watch can be slipped on or taken off, without unbuckling). The style-meet-substance timepiece feathers in two of Lange's strong points—traditional craftsmanship and modern micromechanics.
Understated in its aesthetics, the tourbillon has an exquisite manufacture calibre L102.1 set in a sapphire-crystal caseback and crowned by a diamond end-stone in a screwed gold chaton on the fourth-wheel bridge, which itself is decorated with freehand engraving.
The master craftsmen and watchmakers at Lange—a brand with its foundations in Glashütte, a town in eastern Germany—put the timepiece through 30 manual processes to craft each dial. The watch also harks back to the brand's watchmaking heritage through details such as the red-fired number 12, blued-steel hands, Arabic numerals and a railway-track minute scale that references the legendary 19th- and 20th-century pocket watches.
Lange's Watchmaking Heritage
The 1815 tourbillon with Enamel Dial is among the several watches that Lange hand-makes as part of its long watch-making tradition. To put the tourbillon into perspective, at the brand's manufactory, even the most complex of mechanical movements are crafted by hand.
Founded by Ferdinand Adolph Lange in 1845 as Lange & Cie., the fine watchmaking company combines precision engineering with rare craftsmanship. Lange has innovated several families of watches, among them are the Lange 1 family, a legend among Lange timepieces (a combination of craftsmanship and technology), 'Saxonia' (focusing on micromechanical ingenuity), 'Zeitwerk' (with its ingenious digital display concept, the watch is considered a masterpiece), 'Richard Lange' (pays tribute to probably the most inventive member of the dynasty of Lange watchmakers) and the '1815 family' (dedicated to the year in which Ferdinand Adolph Lange was born).
The 1815 family of watches melds several traditional watchmaking elements, such as three-quarter plate made of untreated German silver and the hand-engraved balance cock, and evokes memories of Lange's historic pocket watches.
We have an exclusive interview with Anthony de Haas, Director, Product Development at A Lange & Söhne, on the limited edition 1815 tourbillon with an enamel dial.
What inspired Lange to equip the 1815 Tourbillon with an enamel dial?
In a way, the 1815 Tourbillon is one of the most quintessential A. Lange & Söhne timepieces, because it offers a well-balanced blend of the brand's traditional aspects and pioneering inventions of the new era. The large tourbillon is combined with two patents, the Zero Reset and the stop-seconds feature for the tourbillon. These intricate mechanisms are characteristic of our understated approach to fine watchmaking. They work behind the scenes like 'hidden heroes'with the single purpose of enhancing the accuracy and the functional performance of the watch. The enamel dial accentuates the classic design, which is adapted from Lange's pocket watches with their Arabic numerals, "chemin de fer" minute scale and blued steel hands.
What is behind the decision to print the 12 in red?
The red 12 is a design statement with a nod to the history of fine watchmaking. It brought liveliness to the dial of a pocket watch—and continues to do so even today. Lange's dedication to historic authenticity comes at a price: The red 12 has to be separately imprinted and stoved.
What was the biggest challenge involved in crafting the enamel dial?
Enamel is capricious and can't be hurried. The process takes several days, during which the various steps have to be repeated over and over again. Absolute cleanliness is paramount because the inclusion of even the smallest particle of dust or dirt would mar the flawless surface.
Why does the watch have a different case height compared to the standard version?
Compared to the standard version with a case height of 11.1 millimetres, the new model is 0.2 millimetres higher. The applied enamel results in a slightly thicker dial than the standard dial made of solid silver.
What is so special about the patented stop-seconds mechanism and how does it interact with the Zero-Reset function?
While a stop-seconds mechanism is quite common in a modern wristwatch, it was for a long time not to be found in a tourbillon movement. It was considered to be impossible to stop the oscillating balance wheel inside the rotating tourbillon cage. Lange overcame this problem with a stop lever featuring a hinged V-shaped braking spring. It reliably stops the balance wheel, even if one arm of the spring is resting against one of the three cage posts. By interacting with the added Zero-Reset system, the tourbillon cage stops instantaneously and the seconds'hand jumps to the zero position, much like in a chronograph. That makes it easy to synchronise the watch to the second.
Deepali Nandwani is a journalist who keeps a close watch on the world of luxury.
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TV Licence Fee Imprisonment To Remain For At Least 2 Years
December 21, 2020 by Or Goren
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The risk of jail time over TV licence fee evasion is reportedly staying put – at least until 2022.
The government has been discussing the possible decriminalisation of the BBC fee ever since Boris Johnson became Prime Minister – but the ministers have now reportedly decided to postpone their decision.
The annual TV Licence fee, which is used to fund the BBC, currently stands at £157.50/year. Anyone who watches the BBC live, or via BBC iPlayer, has to pay it.
In addition, if you watch any type of live TV from any broadcaster (even an international one) – you also need to pay the fee (See our full guide on whether you need to pay the TV Licence fee or not).
As it stands, failure to pay the TV licence fee is a criminal offence, and evaders can end up paying a fine of up to £1,000 or even go to jail.
Last month, alarming data from the Ministry of Justice showed that 74% of all those convicted of TV licence fee evasion in 2019 were women, usually for the simple fact that they are more likely to be at home when the inspectors come knocking.
In total, there were 114,000 convictions of TV licence fee evaders in 2019 (up 3% from 2015).
Last year, Boris Johnson ordered a review of the BBC licence fee, with its cancellation or decriminalisation on the table.
Earlier this year, government sources suggested that the licence will be decriminalised soon, and failure to pay it will be regarded as a "civil debt" – similar to not paying your energy bill, for example.
The fines will then be enforced in the civil courts and by bailiffs, and those debts could also affect your credit rating.
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However, different voices then came from the government, when culture secretary Oliver Dowden said the decriminalising of the fee would "send a signal that it's acceptable not to pay your television licence", and the public debate raged on.
Now, The Telegraph reports, the government is preparing to shelve the decriminalisation plans.
Reportedly, the ministers are concerned the move would make matters even worse, with poor families being harassed by bailiffs and debt collectors.
Therefore, the decision has been postponed until at least 2022.
This comes a week after the media and data minister John Whittingdale – who has been overseeing the TV licence fee consultation, spoke about these issues before the Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee.
When asked when the results of the consultation would be published, Whittingdale said he's hoping "Before Christmas, but possibly later".
He also admitted there are many aspects of the TV licence fee he "doesn't like", namely that it's a flat charge with no means testing, and that "Eventually we will need alternative means of funding".
When will Govt publish results of consultation on decriminalisation of licence fee evasion? Hope before Xmas but possibly later. It got 150k responses & opinion strongly divided. Govt feels criminal sanctions are disproportionate, but alternatives have potential negatives too.
— Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee (@CommonsDCMS) December 15, 2020
As to whether the BBC should be turned into a Netflix-like subscription service, Whittingdale implied it's mainly a technical issue – "You can't do that while the majority of people receive their TV through Freeview.
"It may eventually change, but we're a long way from that. Licence fee debate will be part of 2027 charter review."
The BBC's new director-general, Tim Davie, previously said he's against a subscription model: "We could make a decent business out of it, and I suspect it could do quite well in certain postcodes, but it would make us just another media company serving a specific group."
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BOURNE Going FAST AND FURIOUS With Justin Lin (Eventually)
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Justin Lin, who guided four installments of the Fast and Furious franchise to worldwide success, will direct the next film in the Bourne series, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
Earlier this year, Lin stepped away from the speedy and ridiculous automotive franchise when Universal decided that Fast and Furious 7 needed to be fast-tracked for next summer, since he'd have to be preparing that movie while also finishing post-production on Furious 6. Unofficially, Lin was said to be suffering from "franchise exhaustion."
Meanwhile, The Bourne Legacy, the fourth installment of the series, but the first with Jeremy Renner playing a new lead character (in place of Matt Damon), under-performed a bit under the direction of Tony Gilroy. Universal controls both franchises, so it's understandable that they'd want Lin to reinvigorate the spy games series.
No writer has been hired for Bourne 5 yet, so that leaves things wide open for Lin, who will also serve as a producer. Theoretically, Lin could direct another movie while the development process continues, to recharge his batteries. He's been linked as a producer for sci-fi comedy Subdivision and his production company is also working on sci-fi thriller Hibernation. A non-franchise Lin movie could be a very good thing.
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Are complex sentences uncommon or unwanted in English?
I wrote my opinion essay using a lot of different complex grammatical structures, linking words and so on, and some of the sentences were even over 4 lines long.
However, I was afterwards told by my English teacher that this is a bad habit, and any sentence one has to read twice to grasp is simply badly formulated. I was told to use short sentences instead, always.
Well, I was a bit disappointed by that, and it also seems a bit strange to me: If I'm able to formulate lengthy sentences in a good manner, why shouldn't I do so?
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@Dafr I don't think this is true at all. A well-formulated complex sentence is a wonderful thing. But if you are depending on a teacher for a grade, go with what he or she wants on their assignments (at least if you want the best possible scores/grades). – jgbelacqua Mar 21 '11 at 20:45
I think four lines is, maybe, a bit much. – advs89 Mar 21 '11 at 22:00
Also, I think Occam would side with your teacher. – advs89 Mar 21 '11 at 22:01
Go long sentences! Short is bad! I like long sentences! – Mateen Ulhaq Mar 21 '11 at 23:34
It's awfully tempting to write an extended answer in one sentence, but I have nothing to say that hasn't been said well already. – Goodbye Stack Exchange Mar 22 '11 at 3:07
Short, forceful, sentences are clear and pleasant to read.
Long sentences (full of description and unnecessary circumlocution), while capable of containing more information than a much shorter sentence, have a tendency to indulge in bad habits like the passive voice, and oftimes the reader, upon reaching the end of a monstrously long and verbose sentence, doesn't remember what the sentence was supposed to be about.
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The only way this answer could be better is if the second sentence didn't read so well. :) – Jason Orendorff Mar 21 '11 at 19:13
The sentences don't tend to indulge in bad habits, but the use of very log sentences may give the writer opportunities to indulge in bad habits. That being said, sometimes the only difference between a long sentence and a collection of shorter ones is that the pauses -- as indicated by punctuation -- are more pronounced in the stops between the smaller sentences. – jgbelacqua Mar 21 '11 at 23:02
Oh great, another person who thinks passive voice is inherently bad. – Kosmonaut Mar 21 '11 at 23:58
You can easily write short sentences. It is easy to write them using the subject, verb, object order. You can fill a whole book with such sentences. Such books are dull. It is much better to vary your sentence structure. You can do this without making your sentences long and confusing. You should also sometimes use introductory words or phrases at the beginnings of your sentences. This connects your sentences. Your writing will seem rather choppy otherwise. – Peter Shor Mar 22 '11 at 13:40
@Satanicpuppy: I would argue that it is not wishy-washy or dull unless you use it in that way (or inappropriately). People shouldn't say "more passive voice is needed!" any more than they should say "more subjunctive!" My main point is, when looking on a case-by-case basis, I feel that "because it's passive" is not a good enough reason to change a sentence. There needs to be another reason. – Kosmonaut Mar 22 '11 at 14:17
Complex, long sentences are less common in modern English than in modern German, or in the English of a century ago, or in Latin.
Most style guides agree that a sentence that one has to read twice in order to understand it is inferior to rephrasing the same such that one may understand it in one read. (Did you enjoy reading the previous sentence? I think it is a bit ugly, but I feel too lazy to make it easier to read.) However, there are some topics that might be nearly impossible to understand without reading several sentences twice. Nevertheless the ideal must always be to save the reader as much time and effort as possible.
That said, complex sentences can be quite readable if structured well; linking words help a lot, as do conjunctions. There are many authors who can get away with very long, complex sentences without forcing their readers to reread anything.
I suppose it all depends on how you do it; perhaps it might prove useful if you added a few examples to your question of complex sentences that your teacher disapproved of. On the one hand, the modern trend of writing in very short sentences by using full stops everywhere, depreciating semicolons and colons, has always seemed excessive to me, as you can see; on the other, I do agree that many writers of dubious skill tend to write sentences that are too long.
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As a German native speaker, I'd like to comment on the prevalence of long sentences in Germany. It's true that there is still very much a bias in favour of long sentences, much more than in English. But luckily that's changing. Like in English, long-winded sentences are rarely clear and desirable in German. Their existence just shows that most writers frankly don't pay enough attention. – Konrad Rudolph Mar 21 '11 at 21:36
"Most style guides agree that if a sentence needs to be read twice in order to understand it is better to rephrase it" ? – Quibblesome Mar 21 '11 at 23:05
@Quibblesome: That would be an improvement! But perhaps it might be better to leave the convoluted sentence as it is, to support my point about convoluted sentences. Oh, and don't you think you'd need a comma? I think I'd put a comma before "if" and another one after "understand". – Cerberus Mar 21 '11 at 23:30
I find that spanish too tends to have longer sentences. – Trufa Mar 22 '11 at 1:19
The audience matters. An Internet audience means short attention. An inattentive audience prefers pith. Even so, compact writing doesn't have to be simple — long sentences can be broken up with punctuation besides the period. – kojiro Mar 22 '11 at 2:28
There is nothing inherently wrong with using rich phrasing and complex structure in English. Doing so correctly can indeed enhance your writing and the enjoyment of people reading it. That said, your teacher has a very valid point.
The purpose of language, broadly speaking, is to communicate. If your writing style is so convoluted that it gets in the way of people understanding what you've written, then it isn't achieving that aim. Long sentences packed with ideas are particularly prone to causing problems. People can in general only hold a limited number of things at the front of their minds, ready for immediate use, and it's quite easy for a long sentence to exceed this limit. If by the end of the sentence the reader has forgotten what the beginning of the sentence was about, you've got trouble.
The answer is to be moderate!
RhodriRhodri
Agree, but it is also true that -on average- English uses shorter sentences than other languages, such as French or Italian. See also: english.stackexchange.com/questions/3602/… – nico Mar 21 '11 at 19:00
Moderation/variety is key. Too many short sentences just start to seem boring, choppy, unintelligent...The point of your paper is the most important thing, obviously, but if it's not interesting linguistically, it affects the whole paper and not at all pleasantly. – kitukwfyer Mar 21 '11 at 22:11
Sentences in Italian are longer for the fact Italian words are generally longer than English words; other factors contribute to make Italian sentences longer, as the fact that, or the is normally not omitted in Italian sentences (compare I think you are right with penso che tu abbia ragione) and the genitive is rendered with of (compare Michelle's book with il libro di Michela). – kiamlaluno Mar 22 '11 at 1:24
It's hard to opine on this without some examples of the sentences you wrote. But generally, you shouldn't write complex sentences just because you can do it well. When a particular idea really requires a complex sentence in order to be conveyed accurately and fully, then I see no problem with it. But this is rarely the case. I can't tell you how many elegantly convoluted sentences I've hacked to pieces in the editing phase of a paper. :)
Another thing to consider: Sometimes, needing to use a complex sentence structure indicates you don't yet have the best grasp on the ideas you're writing about. Being able to whittle that sentence down to a more readable length means your understanding has matured.
Kelly C HessKelly C Hess
I'm assuming that an opinion essay is one where you articulate your opinion about something or attempt to persuade others to share your opinion. In such an essay, using complex grammatical structures can be a liability rather than a benefit, as the complexity of the language distracts from the message you are trying to get across.
That said, I disagree with your English teacher. I don't think all sentences should be short. The best writing I've read has a good variety of sentence lengths, with each sentence representing a relatively complete thought. Using a short sentence to represent a long thought can be as detrimental to your purpose as using a long sentence to represent a short thought.
quanticlequanticle
+1; The point and purpose of the paper or essay should determine how you write the paper. Creative writing will tend to have longer and more artistic sentences. Opinion pieces or descriptive essays should be short and condensed. Exceptions abound, obviously, but if you must err, err with short sentences. – MrHen Mar 21 '11 at 18:59
I think the problem with long sentences is not length per se, but poor construction. A well-written long sentence carries you along with it, and is a joy to read.
Consider this long sentence, the opening line of John Irving's A Prayer for Owen Meany:
I am doomed to remember a boy with a wrecked voice—not because of his voice, or because he was the smallest person I ever knew, or even because he was the instrument of my mother's death, but because he is the reason I believe in God; I am a Christian because of Owen Meany.
That's fifty four words, and you're never lost for a moment. Not only that, but by the end of the sentence, you know you're in the hands of an author who's a master of his craft. (Though, to be fair, you probably knew that when you saw his name on the cover.)
Here's a longer sentence from Audrey Niffenegger's The Time Traveler's Wife. Prior to this sentence, Clare has bumped into Henry in the library. She's met him many times, but he's never met her. (It's a time-travel thing, yo.) Clare asks Henry out to dinner. Then comes this:
We plan to meet tonight at a nearby Thai restaurant, all the while under the amused gaze of the women behind the desk, and I leave, forgetting about Kelmscott and Chaucer and floating down the marble stairs, through the lobby and out into the October Chicago sun, running across the park scattering small dogs and squirrels, whooping and rejoicing.
This delightful sentence, fifty-nine words long, skips and dances and flutters in exactly the same way that Clare skips and dances and flutters. It's lyrical and rhythmic and floaty. Try to do that in a short sentence. Again, as you read this, you are never lost even for a moment.
As these two examples show, there are things you can do with long sentences that you simply cannot do with short ones (and vice versa). The question is: What are you trying to accomplish with sentence length? Or: What are you trying to accomplish that can be accomplished only with long sentences? Finally: Are your sentence length choices achieving the effects you want to achieve?
A few years ago I created this exercise for my writer's group, to explore the effects of sentence length, and to be mindful of our choices:
Sentence Length Exercise
First draft. Draft a scene or section in your usual way, about 500 words. Include activity of some kind, but no dialogue.
First rewrite: Short sentences. Rewrite the piece using sentences no longer than 10 words.
Second rewrite: Long sentences. Rewrite the piece using sentences no shorter than 25 words.
Analyze the effects of sentence length. Analyze your three drafts to identify the effects of sentence length. Make notes about what you observe.
Final draft. Write your final draft however you wish, but give particular attention to sentence length. Apply everything you have learned about sentence length during this exercise.
Additional guidelines for the exercise
As you revise, notice the changes you make about how to shorten, lengthen, slice, or combine sentences. Notice the effects of each choice, and whether you like each effect.
If writing 10-word sentences is too easy in step 2, use a maximum of 7 words per sentence. If 25-word sentences are too easy in step 3, use a minimum of 30 words, or 35. The idea is to challenge yourself. Within these restrictions, write the best sentences, the best paragraphs, and the best piece you can.
When you've finished revising, consider:
What challenges did you experience? What was difficult? How did you solve the problems?
What surprised you? What meaning do you make of your surprise?
What patterns do you notice in the structures of your short sentences? Of your long sentences?
What patterns do you notice in the types, lengths, and arrangement of phrases and clauses in your long sentences?
In your final version, what similarities and variations do you notice in sentence lengths and structures? What patterns do you see in the arrangement of short and long sentences?
Read each version aloud. What makes a sentence easier or harder to read?
How did focusing on sentence length affect other elements of your writing?
Dale Hartley EmeryDale Hartley Emery
A rich and full application of English is the tapestry of poetry and well written prose. Its uses include:
Making text more interesting and entertaining to read
To fully or more concisely express the attitude or opinion of the writer
The application of a specific rhythm or timbre to improve the "sound" of the text (e.g. Shakespeare, poetry, rap)
Most failures occur in texts that are not appropriate for its use. Complex and delightful arrangements of English are primarily for entertainment. As an example, this type of language would not be suited to technical documentation.
A good way to check for poorly applied complexity is to look for tautologies (repetitions of the same meaning) and ways to express your meaning using less words. It might be that your English is describing things in a "round about" fashion as opposed to being direct and concise.
QuibblesomeQuibblesome
You are hitting an interesting question here. I am a native French speaker and I struggled with the same issue when I learnt English.
My English writing used to reflect my French upbringing. It is considered a skill to be able to craft long, complex sentences in French, using encapsulations and appositions.
Fortunately enough, my English teacher explained to me that he was more interested in the substance of my arguments rather than by my ability to show off grammatical skillfulness.
I now get strange looks from French colleagues when I use four-word sentences to answer their queries. My word of advice: value concision over circumlocution.
Fr.Fr.
I've done a fair bit of tech writing and would put a lot of effort into writing simple, short sentences devoid of ambiguity and profligacy. I am currently reading a Richard Ford novel (The Sportswriter) and it is the total opposite. The sentences twist and turn, they infuse exposition in the descriptions, feelings in the narrative and vary the sentence structure making it impossible to skim. In short, his book is a joy to read.
davedave
This depends a lot on the preferences of the individual reader, editor, or teacher. There is nothing inherently wrong with long, elaborate sentences in English, and many of the best writers in English are known for using sentences of this type.
However, the more complex your sentence is, the more difficult it will be for others to understand. Therefore it may be advisable for less experienced writers to try and keep things simple and not to overestimate their skill at composing such elaborate sentences.
JSBձոգչJSBձոգչ
I would argue that many of the best writers in English are known despite using sentences of this type. True, they had the skill to pull this off. But looking at older texts (by good writers!) I never fail to notice that their texts would have been even clearer had they used shorter sentences. – Konrad Rudolph Mar 21 '11 at 21:39
Long sentences contain a lot of opportunities for ambiguity, which is a potential source of intrinsic confusion.
Even if you avoid the ambiguity trap, there is a less concrete issue: when you use a very complex sentence, you are making certain assumptions about the readers ability and willingness to pay attention. Look at it this way, if you are an expert on some subject and still have to concentrate to form a information dense sentence correctly, are your readers going to be able to grasp the whole idea in one pass? If not, you can—and should—make it easier for them.
The other side of the issue is that a few long, difficult sentences may contain more information in fewer words than a lot of short choppy sentences.
So, you need to judge your audience.
dmckee --- ex-moderator kittendmckee --- ex-moderator kitten
Read Hemingway. Then read Henry James. These are both considered great English writers, so presumably both have acceptable writing styles. I looked at the first paragraph of two of their most famous stories, and extracted the first two sentences of each. Compare.
The story had held us, round the fire, sufficiently breathless, but except the obvious remark that it was gruesome, as, on Christmas eve in an old house, a strange tale should essentially be, I remember no comment uttered till somebody happened to say that it was the only case he had met in which such a visitation had fallen on a child. The case, I may mention, was that of an apparition in just such an old house as had gathered us for the occasion—an appearance, of a dreadful kind, to a little boy sleeping in the room with his mother and waking her up in the terror of it; waking her not to dissipate his dread and soothe him to sleep again, but to encounter also, herself, before she had succeeded in doing so, the same sight that had shaken him.
Hemingway:
He was an old man who fished alone in a skiff in the Gulf Stream and he had gone eighty-four days now without taking a fish. In the first forty days a boy had been with him.
Peter Shor Peter Shor
There have been very good answers before, but I'd like to point out that English doesn't use lots of commas. (E.g. compared to German, from where I started to learn English and which is infamous for endless sentences. It was pretty hard for me not to put commas into English sentences at the beginning. For example, a common mistake is putting a comma before "that".) So complex sentences can get very confusing in English because you don't know exactly where dependent sentences start or end.
For example, in the accepted post was a sentence I had to read several times:
Most style guides agree that a sentence that one has to read twice in order to understand it is inferior to rephrasing the same such that one may understand it in one read.
If that was a German sentence, it would contain 6 commas:
Die meisten Anleitungen für guten Stil stimmen überein, dass ein Satz, den man mehrmals lesen muss, um ihn zu verstehen, schlechter ist, als denselben Satz umzuformulieren, so dass man ihn beim einmaligen Lesen verstehen kann.
It is still a pain to read, but rather because you're thinking "come to a point!"; you don't necessarily have to read it twice to understand it.
ladybugladybug
I know what you mean. Being a native Russian speaker it is rather unusual for me to rely on word order alone either. In Russian you can change the word order and retain the meaning because it is determined by using cases. Commas are also frequently used. However, all the word modifications are also what makes the language so tough to learn for the non-native speakers. – Malcolm Mar 22 '11 at 22:53
Some good answers above, especially satanicpuppy's. Also, consider the matter of register. What is appropriate to one setting may fail in another. If the requested format is "short and concise," then write to that requirement.
Your dissertation on Victorian phrasing in the instruction manuals of penny-farthing velocipedes will probably let you stretch your literary legs a bit longer.
The RavenThe Raven
I was reading a book written in the USA during the 1890s, and there were some very long sentences.
For example on page 17;
"After the different ceremonies of the Indians were over, Sir Alexander made a speech to them, acquainting them with the fact, that he was clothed with authority from the Great King George, who loved them, and that he had come a great way to demand of Moy Toy (the Chief of the Cherokees), and all the Chieftains of the nation, to recognize the authority of the King and become his subjects."
(Colonial and Revolutionary History of Upper South Carolina, by John Belton O'Neal Landrum)
One advantage to shorter sentences is that the subject gets referenced more often. Repetition aids learning. Longer sentences sometimes loose track of the subject. For example: Try remembering who made a speech to the Indians in the above sentence (no peeking). On the other hand, Longer sentences allow for better narrative; What happened in the above (long) sentence about the Indians?
Use short sentences for facts and figures and when emphasizing the subject.
Employ longer and more complex sentence structure when narrative is the purpose.
PeirPeir
As always, think of your audience. Would you rather read something brief and clear, or long and convoluted? As a writer, it is harder to be brief, but I think your readers will appreciate the effort.
It is more than just a matter of personal preference. In many cases your reader may not be a native English speaker. Keeping it short and simple can avoid misunderstanding and frustration.
gauss256gauss256
Well, it's nice to see such a question and after reading it I think that your teacher actually told you to write the sentences that are easy to understand because what is required is to facilitate the reader; however it depends how long you want your sentence to be but conciseness is always appreciated and it may be that your teacher only told you to write small sentences because (s)he thought that at that time that you are unable to write long sentences in simple way.
Now, if you've noticed the above paragraph I wrote is a single sentence. So now decide yourself how you'd feel about writing it? No matter what language we're talking about, the purpose when writing is to avoid being overly complex to serve readers.
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1939: Karoly Ney first comes to importance when he becomes a supporter of the right wing pro-German parties in the Hungarian parliament.
1942: Ney attends a training course in Berlin for 2 months with the SS.
1942: (1) Ney serves in Russia and after being wounded he returns to Hungary and assists in the formation of the "Keleti Arcvonal Bajtársi Szövetség" (KABSZ) along with Bela Imredy the ex-prime minister of Hungary.
1942/ 1943(?) (2)On his return Ney assists in the formation of the "Keleti Arcvonal Bajtársi Szövetség" (KABSZ) (3) along with Bela Imredy the ex-prime minister of Hungary (4). The KABSZ is not a political party but a para-military organisation (5) that is to combat all communist groups and tendencies in Hungary. Ney is eventually to become chairman of the movement (6)
After March 19 1944: The KABSZ joins forces with Imrédy's "Hungarian Renewal Party". The KABSZ is to become the "storm troopers" of the new party along the same lines as the German and Italian parties.The KABSZ had its temporary headquarters at the premises of the "Hungarian Renewal Party" on Hunyadi Janos Road. The organization begins an intensive recruitment drive. 3000-4000 people attended a meeting, most of the attendee's are former soldiers. Béla Imrédy also attends the meeting. Soon Imredy is joined by Jenő Ratz, Jaross Andor, László Endre and László Baky who also became members of the association. Jaross funds the party with Hungarian Jewish assets which had been confiscated, while the two-Secretary of State for Home Affairs, Endre and Baky gather support from the mayor of Budapest and other similar positions for the organization's operations, as the KABSZ gather leading people in the fight against Bolshevism.
Döme Sztójay, Béla Imrédy and András Tasnády-Nagy arrive at the
KABSZ meeting in Tattersall on June 22, 1944
KABSZ Rally 1944
(filmhiradok.nova.hu)
http://filmhiradokonline.hu
(Click on link above to see the film)
KABSZ Poster
KABSZ Badge
Late March 1944: Ney designs and distributes anti Allied posters in Budapest.
May 1944: Béla Imrédy becomes the leader of the. KABSZ. The leaders of the other bodies are dr. Miklos Hajdu (Department of Legal Affairs), dr. Károly Ney (Administration Department), Károly Schöner (Economics Department), Bertalan Ambrus (Propaganda Department), Pál Máté Vadon (Advocacy Department) and Imre Bolhóy (Department of applicants). Imre Bolhóy also becomes the "chief of staff" of the KABSZ military companies. The uniforms of these are black trousers, yellow shirt, black tie and an armband worn on the upper left arm with a skull and cross bones. They also wear side arms.
Summer 1944: Ney makes contact with Otto Skorzeny with the idea of creating squads of experienced men who could be used behind enemy lines. With support from Skorzeny and financial backing by ex premier Bela Imredy, Ney makes several tours of Hungary recruiting former members of the Hungarian army who had served in Russia. The Honved did not approve of Ney's mission due to his close work with the Germans.
August 1944: Due to its similar aims, the KABSZ and the Arrow Cross party hold talks about merging together but Szalasi objects to Imredy due to his Jewish mother. Imredy is replaced as head of the KABSZ by Ney.
September 1944 With the help of Skorzeny the "halálfejes légió" (Death's head legion) are formed and a training camp in the Bakony mountains called "Farlesanfueher Schule" is opened. At the camp volunteers for the legions are trained by German SS officers and other instructors. Ney eventually falls out with Skorzeny.
Posters Budapest October/November 1944
(Fortepan.hu)
September 17 1944: Official merger of the KABSZ and the Arrow Cross party takes place when about 150 to 200 men of the KABSZ come under the command of Emil Kovarczl, the Arrow Cross Party Movement "Hungarista "armed forces "supreme commander".
October 6 1944: Dr. Lóránd Somóczy (8) of the KABSZ visits one of the leaders of the anti-German resistance on Margaret Boulevard and informs him that extreme elements of the KABSZ are preparing for a take-over in two days time. In the afternoon commander of I corps - Lieutenant General Szilárd Bakay instructs the corps prosecutor – Dr. Ákos Major that following day he is to check on the accusations of a KABSZ coup.
October 7 1944: Dr. Ákos Major leads a raid on a workshop on Zac road where members of the KABSZ are located. No opposition is met and people are arrested and taken away for questioning. As a result of the questioning a raid takes place on the KABSZ Vörösmarty street headquarters at dusk. The organisation's management escapes into the Swabian mountains however and places itself under SS protection.
October 8 1944: At the appropriate time, if the coup had gone ahead certain buildings would have had to be occupied, and the KABSZ organisation undertook an active part in the preparation of a take-over. The documents underpinning all these were stored at KABSZ headquarters and disappear on this day along with Szilárd Bakay. In the following days the majority of the members of the KABSZ (some of them having already received German call-up papers) are informing each other about the situation and reporting to the SS office in Budapest (9)
KABSZ October 1944
October 15 1944: A small unit of the members of the KABSZ (wearing SS uniforms but still wearing their death-head armbands) is involved in the German led coup. In doing so, the group led by Károly Ney is subordinated to the 22nd SS volunteer cavalry division ,,Maria Theresia" which temporarily encloses the castle
October 20 1944: An agreement is reached to permit veteran volunteers from the Comradeship to enlist into the Waffen SS via the SS-Ersatzkommando Ungarn (prior to this Szálasi had been approached but due to him wanting to use the veterans as a guard unit and the veterans wanting to fight no agreement was reached) . They are intended as replacements for 22. SS Cavalry Division ,,Maria Theresia". The commander of the unit is Obersturmfuhrer Dr Karl Ney ( a lawyer and a Hussar reserve first lieutenant), the brigade adjutant is Obersturmfuhrer Lajos Koermendy-Wache (died 21st February 1976). (10)
October 21 1944: The unit is issued with weapons at Veszprém
October 22 1944: The unit officially becomes part of 22. SS Artillery Regiment and becomes its security guard company.
October 30 1944: SS Brigade ,,Ney" reaches battalion size
November 1 1944: The new unit is sent to Bakonyer forest for formation and training(11) by Waffen-SS instructors speaking in Hungarian (these come from 2 SS division ,,Das Reich", 3 SS division ,,Totenkopf"" and 5 SS division ,,Viking")
November 17 1944: While the unit is training in Veszprém the Hungarian political leadership dissolves the KABSZ association which results in more volunteers going to Sur
December 24 1944: The number of men increases to regiment size.(approximately 1600 men)
HQ Company
I Infantry Battalion
II Infantry Battalion
Supply Company
Károly Ney returns to Sur from a Officers training course in Hirschberg and finds the regiment is almost combat ready.
On this day Russian forces surround Budapest and cuts off Brigade ,,Ney" from its parent division. Most of the supply company of 22. SS Division ,,Maria Theresia" along with the 22. SS artillery company are with Brigade ,,Ney" at Sur so avoid being surrounded.
Around this time the German army leadership have the idea of using SS Brigade ,,Ney" to go behind the front lines as a Reconnaissance and sabotage unit. Ney rejects this request, saying that preparing for the tasks would have pushed the corps's combat readiness back by months and so SS Brigade ,,Ney" does not go on the parachute course.
December 25 1944: Due to 22 SS Division ,,Maria Theresia" being cut off in Budapest the unit is assigned to IV SS Panzer Corps (12)
December 28/29 1944: According to one source one of the battalions of kampfgruppe ,,Ney" under the command of SS-Obersturmführer Gyula Dömötör is transported to Balatonakarattya from the Hajmáskér parade ground, where it is to help both the Hungarian 25. Infantry division and the German III. Panzer corps.
January 1 1945: Regimental strength is approximately 2 000 men. Two battalions from the kampfgruppe take part in Operation Konrad I & II to help relieve Budapest (13) (this continues until January 12 1945)
January 8 1945: From 23.00 Kampfgruppe ,,Ney" is assigned to 1st Panzer Division. (14)
January 11 1945: A third combat ready battalion reports for duty (15)
January 13 1945: kampfgruppe ,,Ney" is removed from the IV. SS Panzer Corps
January 18 1945: During Konrad III Kampfgruppe ,,Ney" is split into 2 units. At dawn Battalions I and II are involved in the first wave of attacks in the Varpalota region along side the 1st Panzer Division (16) and III battalion (17) is assigned to the second wave in the Balatonkenese area. After heavy fighting a breakthrough is made near Retipuszta.
January 19 1945: Battalions I and II along with the rest of Kampfgruppe ,,Huppert" are involved in heavy fighting around Palmajor trying to advance to Sarszentmihaly.
January 20 1945: III Battalion numbering 400-420 men rise at 05.00 and by 07.00 after reaching their starting positions join in the attack and soon reaches Nadasladany and Szabadbattyan. By evening III Battalion along with Panzer Grenadier Regiment 1 have broken through the Russian lines at Edinapustza and crossed the Sarviz canal.Kampfgruppe ,,Ney" is subordinated to the Hungarian units under the command of SS- Obersturmführer Levetzo Obersturmfuhrer Károly Ney does not take a part in the manoeuvre as a commander
January 21 1945: Kampfgruppe ,,Ney" and Panzer Grenadier Regiment 1 takes part in the advance into Székesfehérvár (Stuhlweissenburg). At 20.00 Battalions I and II attack from the west and III Battalion attacks from the south (18)Kampfgruppe ,,Ney"takes part in heavy fighting in the Székesfehérvár (Stuhlweissenburg) suburbs whilst trying to capture the town .At one point there is a danger that the SS battle group may be cut off as a force of 400-500 Russians advance approximately 500 metres on the right wing of SS Brigade ,,Ney" and comes close to Sárpentele behind them Artillery support is asked for on the radio and the German-Hungarian forces are pressed back into Székesfehérvár (Stuhlweissenburg),In the afternoon Kampfgruppe ,,Ney" becomes part of the Holste division group (19)
January 22 1945: SS Brigade ,,Ney" takes part in the capture of Székesfehérvár (Stuhlweissenburg) and takes part in the mopping up operations. A resident remembered " later a Hungarian military patrol came onto the refuge (around 12.30). On their left arm was a black band with a skull on (this was the armband of the KABSZ) After the salute he was told that their aim was to go to Fehervar by the coast of Lake Velence and along the main road to the capital".
For the fighting on January 20/21 1945 Adolf Hilter gives permission for Kampfgruppe ,,Ney" to wear the cuff title "SS Regiment Ney"
January 23 1945: 1st Panzergrenadier Regiment withdraws from Székesfehérvár (Stuhlweissenburg) leaving Kampfgruppe ,,Ney" and the 20th Hungarian Infantry Division to defend the area.(20) (This lasts until March 22) The bulk of Brigade ,,Ney " returns to Sur leaving behind one battalion.A company of Hungarian airforce men are absorbed by SS Brigade ,,Ney"
January 25 1945: Kampfgruppe ,,Ney" is assigned to the 356th Infantry division recently arrived from Italy. .Kampfgruppe ,,Ney" is subordinated to I battalion of the Hungarian 4. Cavalry brigade inside the Holste's division group.
The man in the uniform is from Regiment ,,Ney"
Please note the KABSZ badge on the right breast pocket, the blank collar patches on the M43 tunic and the "deaths head" badge on the cap.
January 26 1945: Kampfgruppe ,,Ney" takes part in an attack to extend their positions but they are driven back with heavy losses by the Russians.
January 27 1945: Kampfgruppe ,,Ney" as part of Holste's division takes part in an attack that captures hill 182 and advances to the Nagyszombati road. (21) Due to the strength of the Russian forces it is not possible to hold this position for too long and the hill exchanges hands several times between now and the end of the fighting (around February 15)
January 28 1945: SS Brigade ,,Ney" fight in the Székesfehérvár (Stuhlweissenburg) area under the IV. SS Panzer Army corps. It is supporting the 3. SS panzer division ,,Totenkopf" and does so until February 3
January 29 1945: SS regiment ,,Ney" comes under the direct subordination of the German 356th infantry division.In the few next days the regiment, as part of the IV. SS Panzer corps's divisions (together with the parts of the 1. SS Sturmjaeger regiment) attack from Székesfehérvár in a north north-east direction against the Russian forces.
January 31 1945: Kampfgruppe ,,Ney" along with Infantry Battalion 871 and Engineer Battalion 356 with support of tanks and infantry from 3. SS Division ,,Totenkopf" repulse a Russian advance to the north of Székesfehérvár (Stuhlweissenburg).
(Mirko Boverl collection)
Székesfehérvár January 1945
February 1 1945: The area defended by Kampfgruppe ,,Ney" is further reinforced by troops from 3. SS Division ,,Totenkopf" and tanks from heavy tank detachment 509
February 2 1945: The Russians resume the earlier attack on the northern part of Székesfehérvár (Stuhlweissenburg) in the area around the brick works.SS Brigade ,,Ney" to the east of Székesfehérvár (Stuhlweissenburg) repulse a Soviet infantry attack.
February 3 1945: The German forces along with Kampfgruppe ,,Ney" counter attack the Russian positions driving them from the Csala area and occupying the munitions factory.What is left of the KABSZ organisation brakes with Szálasi and because of this Szálasi deprives Ney and his corps of their Hungarian citizenship.(A courier from Szálasi had arrived earlier at Ney's command post with a written command and had handed it to Ney. The command told Ney that his unit was fighting illegally, and had to march in to the Honvéd Ministry in Koszeg because of this, if they did not they would deprive Ney's regiment of their Hungarian citizenship. Ney denied this pointing out the German-Hungarian treaty)
February 4 1945: The Russian attack has been stopped and driven back to the original defensive lines.
February 5 1945: Kampfgruppe ,,Ney" is designated as a reserve unit of IV SS Panzer Corps and is withdrawn to Sur for rest and reforming (around this time a company of Air force personnal joins the Brigade). The unit is reorganised as a cavalry/re-enforced mounted regiment and is now called SS Cavalry Brigade ,,Ney" (mostly referred to as SS Brigade ,,Ney")(22)
The Kampfgruppe's Order of battle at this time was: (23)
Staff Headquarters
Interpreter Platoon
Signals Platoon
Motorcycle Platoon
Field Gendarmarie Platoon
Staff Security Company
Supply Platoon (partly motorised, partly horse drawn)
I Battalion (Mounted Detachment)
II Battalion (Mounted Detachment)
III Battalion (Mounted Detachment)
February 27 1945: In recognition of SS regiment Ney's successful action , at the IV. SS Panzer Army corps's command post members of the regiment are awarded 12 Iron cross II. Class, and three Iron cross I class. Dr. Ney Károly is promoted to SS-Sturmbannführer
March 1 1945: USAAF 15 Squadron, which is stationed in Italy with 630 airplanes, attacks near Vienna at Moosbierbaum. Whilst passing over Hungary one B-24 Liberator type four-engine bomber is shot down and crashes near Ácsteszér parish border around 14.00(five B-24 Liberators are reported lost.). Eight crewmen parachute out and land approximately 4,5 kilometres from Sur were SS Brigade ,,Ney" is stationed and are caught by soldiers of SS Brigade ,,Ney".Later three airmen are taken to the Germans at Kisbér.
March 3 1945: The other five American airmen along with four Hungarian civilians are charged with spying.
March 4 1945: Winklemann issues a statement (tgb.nr.45(?)/45g) announcing among other things the following:
1 - SS Brigade Ney is to become a special unit of the Reichfuhrer as the Hungarian government refuses to reconize the unit
2 - The regiment is to be manned by volunteers only
3 - the publishing of promotional material (posters, newspaper adverts, etc) is forbidden
4 - the unit is granted permission to use the greeting 'Harc' (from the KABSZ) (Harc means fight/battle)
5 - it is promised that whatever equipment is procured for the unit (which is fitting out in Alsóság and in Sahhegy) then it shall be provided
March 6 1945: A Kampfgruppe of about battalion strength from. Brigade ,,Ney" takes part in Operation Spring Awakening.
March 13 1945: SS Brigade ,,Ney" soldiers execute the airmen in Crow forest near Súr and bury their corpses at the same place. A local resident recalls "[the prisoners], were kept in the castle, and Protestant schools around Sur. The prisoners had two of their legs broken. Among them were two officers, one a lieutenant. The prisoners were interrogated and beaten for days by the gendarmes and forced to testify. Later, two prisoners and two of the officers were taken (3 airmen were actually taken) to Kisber. Six soldiers (four men and two NCO's) took part. (...) Before the Execution of the prisoners they were stripped naked. Four prisoners were apparently Catholic because they crossed themselves and were praying. The fifth was a Jew. The prisoner turned his back on one of the executed before the eyes of the rest. The execution was carried out by 4-5 infantry with a machine gun weapon. The tomb was not marked. (24)
Hauptsturmfuhrer Miklos Bakos in US custody 1946
CIA Official paperwork showing list of names wanted in relation to war crimes against US airmen
March 14 1945: Operation Spring Awakening comes to a halt (25). The Russians begin to counter attack to the north of Székesfehérvár (Stuhlweissenburg) towards Mor and Tatabanya intending to cut of the 6th SS Panzer army. To counter this a kampfgruppe is assembled from IV SS Panzer Corps reserves.(26)
Mid March 1945: The brigade continues to form with the addition of a reconnaissance detachment and IV Battalion ,,Imrady" (27) (Reconnaissance/Fusilier battalion) (28) The unit also receives its official title from SS-FHA of 1.(ungarische) – Husaren – Brigade der SS
March 17 1945: Order Number 529/1945 makes the KABSZ organisation cease to exist.
March 18 1945: between 18.00 and 19.00 Kampfgruppe ,,Ney" in support of troops from ,,Totenkopf" and the remnants of the 2nd Hungarian Panzer Division (29) retake the defensive lines lost earlier south-west of Bodajk. SS Brigade ,,Ney" is now combined with the survivors of 2nd Hungarian Panzer Division to form Kampfgruppe ,,Schell" under Oberst Zoltan Schell.
March 19 1945: Due to the Russian advance Kampfgruppe ,,Schell" retreats towards Aka-Sur.
March 21 1945: Due to further Russian advances Kampfgruppe ,,Schell" withdraws to a line that runs from Acsteszer-Csatka-Csatarpuszta-Szapar-Inotapuszta.
March 22 1945: During the evening Kampfgruppe ,,Schell" falls back again to the ,,Klara Positions" between Veszpremvarsany and Lokut.
March 26 1945: After 4 days of bitter fighting the Russians have reach Cselldomolk and secured a bridgehead across the Marcel Canal. SS Brigade ,,Ney" are the nearest troops and in the afternoon launch a counterattack and stop the Russian advance.
March 27 1945: The retreating III. Battalion is removed from the bulk of SS Brigade ,,Ney" in the Papa area and the battalion is assigned to the I. SS Panzer Army corps's 3. SS division ,,Totenkopf " battle group and III Battalion remains with ,,Totenkopf" until the end of the war.
March 29 1945: SS Brigade ,,Ney" (now consisting of battalions I., II and IV). is in Rohonc, Gyepüfüzes and then, finally, in the Felsoor area.. The bulk of SS Brigade ,,Ney" is attached to Kampfgruppe ,,Schweitzer" (30)at this time, while a small section is assigned to support a Hungarian fortress battalion.
March 30 1945: Part of Kampfgruppe ,,Ney" is under the command of the 2nd Hungarian Armoured Division(31) to the south of Neusiedler See. The Russians reach the Reich Defence Positions (Reichschutzstellung)and SS Brigade ,,Ney" takes up new positions around Rechnitz and Oberwart. The remnants of Kampfgruppe ,,Ney" withdraw towards the Austrian border. They are split between III Panzer Corps/6th Army and I SS Panzer Corps/6th Panzer Army. (32)
April 1 1945: Some portions of Kampfgruppe ,,Ney" and the headquarter staff are stationed in the ,,Fortress Stelermark" area along the Duernback-Szombathely road. (33)
April 1/2 1945: I battalion as part of Kampfgruppe ,,Schweitzer" retakes Rechnitz taking heavy casualties.
April 4 1945: I Battalion along with the rest of Kampfgruppe ,,Schweitzer" retreat from Rechnitz.
April 5 1945: Kampfgruppe ,,Schweitzer" and I battalion become part of Kampfgruppe ,,Semmer" near Friedberg in Austria (34)2 battalions ( II and IV) from SS Brigade ,,Ney" serve with III Panzer Corps (this continues until April 8 1945)
April 9 1945: IV Battalion is serving with IV SS Panzer Corps around St Michael. Other parts of Kampfgruppe ,,Ney" are attached to ,,Viking" Division and also to the 1st Volks Mountain Division.
April 21 1945: .Kampfgruppe ,,Ney"consists of IV. battalions – it has 4211 men at this time, of which 3100 men were classed as combat troops (35)The kampfgruppe has the following equipment: 2660 Mauser Kar 98k, 91 Mauser Kar 98k with telescope sights, 342 9 mm MP–40, 531 various pistols, 73 machine guns (MG–42), 17 heavy machine guns, 21 armour-piercing cannon (7,5 cm PaK 40), 34 mortars, 15 Panzershreks, 331 Panzerfaust, five flamethrowers, 1207 handled hand-grenades and 125 anti personnel mines. The kampfgruppe also as the following vehicles: seven armoured cars (Sd. Kfz. 223); 11 lorries (3,5 ton Opel Blitz) nine automobiles, 53 vehicles and 141 horses. Kampfgruppe/Brigade ,,Ney" has suffered losses so far of 770 dead and 94 men are classed as missing. The estimated numbers of Russian tanks destroyed were approximately 50.
The Kampfgruppe's Order of battle at this time is:
Field Gendarmerie Platoon
I Battalion (Reconnaissance/Fusilier battalion) (Hauptsturmfuhrer K.F ?)
II Battalion (Reconnaissance/Fusilier battalion) (Hauptsturmfuhrer N.I ?)
III Battalion (Reconnaissance/Fusilier battalion) (Hauptsturmfuhrer K.N ?)(36)
IV Battalion ,,Imrady" (Reconnaissance/Fusilier battalion) (Sturmbannfuhrer B.B ?)
III Battalion is serving with I SS Panzer Army fighting around Wiener Neustadt and Vienna whilst two battalions are serving with the III. Panzer army corp. With the Russian advance the command post of SS Brigade ,,Ney" moves to Birkfeld in Styr Austria
Early May 1945 (37): 2 companies from Brigade ,,Ney" fight in eastern Austria under Hauptsturmfuhrer Edui . Survivors of Kampfgruppe ,,Ney" refuse to be taken over by SS Division ,,Viking" and end up joining 25. SS Division ,,Hunyadi".
May 8 1945: SS Brigade ,,Ney" is officially dissolved by its commanding office Obersturmbannfuhrer Dr Karl Ney in the Weiz, Birkfeld and St. Erhardt area. All stores, equipment and documents are destroyed. Approximately 1000-1200 men join one of the German VI army columns in the retreat.
May 9 1945: The survivors of Kampfgruppe ,,Ney" headquarters staff surrender to American forces along with other elements of the Hungarian SS in the Attersee area of Austria Also on this day In the Bruck area parts of Brigade ,,Ney" along with the 1. Hungarian SS ski battalion and parts of 5. ,,Wiking" SS panzer division retreating from Graz break through Russian lines to reach the American troops to surrender.
May 11 1945: Other elements of Kampfgruppe ,,Ney" surrender with elements of 25. Division ,,Hunyadi" in the Attersee area of Austria.(38)
Late 1945/ early 1946: Ney becomes Camp commander of Camp Ebensee and later at Camp Styr (both in Austria). During this time due to his choice of men to administrate the camps, food due to the general mess is siphoned off to suppliment their own rations. This action eventually turns most of the Officers and enlisted men of 25 SS division "Hunyadi" and 26 SS division "Hungaria" against Ney. Members of "Hunydai" and "Hungaria" also claim cases of looting, rape and murder by members of Brigade Ney.
1 One CIA paper states he was wounded in March 1942, other states he received a head wound from a splinter shell in 1942 and returned home.
2 There is some confusion on the dates for the formation of the KABSZ. Some paperwork states 1942 as the formation of the KABSZ and others state 1943.
3 "The Comradeship Federation of the Eastern Front". A CIA paper claims it was later changed to "Veres Kard" (Bloody sword).
4 Other people in the KABSZ who later served in "Brigade Ney" were Lajos Wache, Imre Zador, Pal Vadon, Karl Shoerner and Imre Bolhoy. Count Franz Karolyi is another member mentioned in the CIA papers. All reached the rank of Hauptsturmfuhrer.
5 CIA papers refer to the party as a "Waffenpartei". These papers also state it was a police unit and not military unit and its purpose was the liquidation of Jews, defeatists, saboteurs and others in Hungary. They also refer to it as "Kampfgruppe Ney". They also state that the KABSZ worked against Admiral Horthy and his efforts to take Hungary out of the war which climaxed in the military support they provided the Germans on October 15 1944.
6 CIA papers claim that he was given the post at the request of Hans Riemann and to get Ney support it was requested that the party did not pay Ney a salary. Ney's salary was to be paid by Riemann. The same papers also refer to the fact that Imredy had a Jewish mother and so was not accepted by the Germans and because of this Ney was made the leader of the KABSZ.
7 CIA papers claim that despite the falling out some members of the legion were dropped behind Russian lines. In the book "The SS hunter battalions" the author states that Ney offered several hundred commandoes to the 8th SS division "Florian Geyer" and that many were reportatly dropped behind enemy lines.
8 Dr. Lóránd Somóczy is a sergeant (officer candidate)
9 SS-Ersatzkommando Ungarn, Abt.B/I/4a, Budapest, VI. district Munkácsy Mihály utca 5-7. Telephone numbers - 425-585 & 425-566.
10 During the war he won both classes of iron cross and the Hungarian Knights Cross with swords
11 The unit starts with approximately 300 men
12 By now the unit is known as Kampfgruppe ,,Ney". A German archive lists the brigade as "Ungarisches SS Freiwilligen Regiment Ney"
13 I Battalion is assigned to 3. SS Division ,,Totenkopf" and II Battalion is assigned to 5. SS Division ,,Viking"
14This is part of IV SS Panzer Corps.
15 This brings the total strength to approximately 2 000 men of which 1870 men are combat personel
16 These two battalions along with 2 battalions from 1st Panzergrenadier Regiment and 3 other Honved battalions (II/24. III/24 and I/54) make up Kampfgruppe ,,Huppert"
17 This is lead by Haupsturrnfuhrer Paul Vadon
18 The Kampfgruppe has 5 officers and 166 other ranks killed and 2 officers and 47 other ranks are listed as missing. 300 are listed as wounded in the fighting. They had destroyed 17 tanks. They also recaptured 12 damaged German tanks that had been captured by the Russians. They were later repaired in Hajmasker and used by the 6th Company/ Panzer Regiment 1.
19 This consists of parts of the German 6. Panzer Division and the Hungarian 4. Cavalry brigade along with a single battalion of 20. Infantry division along with parts of the Hungarian 2. Panzer Division
20 They are supported by 403 Volksartillerie Corp
21 The kampfgruppe are awarded 2 German Gold crosses (Dr Ney and Paul Vadon) 10 iron crosses 1st class, 20 iron crosses 2nd class and various grades of the close combat claps for bravery during the fighting over the last week or so
22 In the current fighting Brigade ,,Ney" has 171 men (including five officers) killed and a further 49 people (including two officers) are missing.
23 This would be the order of battle if the Kampfgruppe was together and not split under different corps.
24 6 members of the unit were tried for the killings in Salzburg Austria in 1946 (case 5-100):Karoly Ney and Ferenc Karolyi, were sentenced to death but this was commuted to life imprisonment (at hard labour) in September 1946 (Ney claimed it was the 5th during a police interagation) after a review, Istvan Eros and Istvan Lengyel was sentenced to life imprisonment and Miklos Bakos and Istvan Csihas were executed by hanging by US military police in Salzberg. Ney only served a few months of his sentence and was released (in the same interagation Ney stated it was on 2nd April 1948 that he was given a conditional pardon}. CIA papers state that it appears that Ney was released on intervention from a high level from the USA and the Vatican. The same paper also mentions that a crucial Hungarian witness arrived in Salzberg 3 days after the trail had ended with damaging evidence against Ney that should have resulted in the death sentence being carried out. The testimony was never presented to the court. Ney was defended by Dr. Tamas Huzella (an Hungarian refugee)
25 Kampfgruppe ,,Ney" loses 52 men killed in the fighting and 6 men are listed as missing
26 this comprises of 6 panzer grenadier battalions from ,,Totenkopf" and ,,Viking" (including I/,,Danmark" and I/,,Norge") and the armoured reconnaissance units from both divisions, a anti tank unit and SS Brigade ,,Ney"
27 Named after the President of the Comrade Association
28 The 3 mounted detachments were soon designated fusilier battalions
29 This division had been shattered in the Russian attack on March 16 1945.
30 I battalion of Kampfgruppe ,,Ney" is combined with 18. Panzer Grenadier Training and Replacement Battalion (one source says it was the 11 battalion} to form Kampfgruppe ,,Schweitzer" which is commanded by Sturmbannfuhrer Schweitzer of the 18th
31 This is part of 2nd Panzer Army
32 From March 16 1945 until early April the Brigade had 75 men listed as killed and 94 listed as missing
33 This battalion comes under the command of Artillery Commando 3
34 This consists of Engineer Construction Battalion 504, the Panther tank battalion I of Panzer Regiment 24, Assault Gun Brigade 303 as well as I battalion and the rest of Kampfgruppe ,,Schweitzer"
35 These totals do not include 750 wounded men.
36 Some sources list Hauptsturmfuhrer Paul Vadon as commander of this battalion and his adjutant as Untersturmfuhrer Istvan Csihas
37 One source states that 472 men were killed and 32 were listed as missing in the fighting in April and May
38 2/3 of the officers returned to Hungary but were imprisoned by the Russians


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IFC Markets Corp.  é corretor on-line, sediado em BVI, fornecendo o comércio de pares de moedas, metais preciosos e CFDs (Contract for difference) sobre as ações (americanas, britânicas, russas, alemãs, chinesas e japonesas), futuros de mercadorias e CFD contínuos sobre índices e mercadorias. A empresa opera através de sua própria plataforma analítica comercial NetTradeX  e MetaTrader 4. Em 2013, a empresa lançou a tecnologia única PCI, que fornece aos seus clientes uma oportunidade de criar, analisar e negociar com um número ilimitado de instrumentos exclusivos comerciais.

A versão móvel do site foi lançada recentemente, uma vez que os dispositivos móveis tornaram-se uma parte inseparável da vida diária.

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IFC Markets  foi fundada em 2006 como uma parte da IFCM Group. A empresa foi licenciada pela Comissão de Serviços Financeiros de Ilhas Virgens Britânicas em junho de 2014 sob o número do Certificado SIBA/L/14/1073. IFC Markets (IFCM) é licenciada a usar a estação comercial de nova geração NetTradeX desde 2006. Atualmente ela atende a mais de 80.000 clientes em 60 países em plena conformidade com os padrões internacionais de serviços de corretagem.

Em 2007 IFCM Group incorpora NetTradeX Corp.- o desenvolvedor de software comercial avançado, registrado em Seychelles sob o número 022316, bem como o licenciado de I-Securities Global Ltd. para a utilização da plataforma comercial MetaTrader 4.
Em 2013, depois de muitos anos de pesquisa e colaboração, o Método GeWorko e Instrumentos Compostos Pessoais são finalmente introduzidos na plataforma comercial NetTradeX.

A partir de Setembro de 2014, a empresa detém o Seguro de indenização profissional com a AIG EUROPE LIMITED sob o Certificado número P/080408/2012/7.

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IFC Markets é incorporada nas Ilhas Virgens Britânicas (BVI) sob o número de registro 669838. A empresa é licenciada pela Comissão de Serviços Financeiros de Ilhas Virgens Britânicas (BVI FSC), Certificado No. SIBA/L/14/1073, para realizar operações de investimento fora das seguintes categorias:

Categoria 1: Negociação em Investimentos

Sub-categoria B: Negociação como principal

Categoria 2: Organização de ofertas em investimentos

Modelo de negócio

O modelo de negócios da IFC Markets é baseado em relações transparentes e de confiança com o cliente. A empresa recebe cotações dos principais fornecedores de bancos- fornecedores de liquidez nas praças de mercados ECN e formas de fluxo de cotações para os clientes com melhores preços. No terminal comercial, o cliente observa e negocia com os melhores preços de bid e ask para cada instrumento financeiro. Como resultado, as ordens de clientes são executadas ao preço do provedor de liquidez que oferece atualmente o melhor preços de Compra e Venda.

Plataformas comerciais

IFC Markets oferece duas plataformas comerciais on-line: NetTradeX e MetaTrader 4. NetTradeX opera em PC, iOS, Android e Windows Mobile. MetaTrader 4 está disponível em PC, Mac OS, iOS e Android. Ambos NetTradeX e MetaTrader 4 fornecem programas comerciais (Expert Advisors).

PCI Tecnologia
A empresa trabalhado muito sobre o lançamento da tecnologia PCI (Instrumento Composto Pessoal), integrado no terminal comercial NetTradeX. A tecnologia é baseada no método GeWorko e permite a criação, análise e negociação do número ilimitado de instrumentos.

Concorrentes

Hoje em dia, existem muitos corretores de Forex e CFD no mercado financeiro e alguns deles são os principais concorrentes da IFC Markets.

FXCM
Admiral Markets
FxPro
IronFx
Alpari
Oanda
eToro
XTB
SaxoBank
IG

Referências

Ligações externas

Informações Companhia
IFC Markets Visão Geral
IFC Markets
Trading
Informações sobre a empresa - IFC Markets Overview

Veja também
Instrumento Composto Pessoal
Método GeWorko

Serviços financeiros

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