Discussion in 'Adapted Lenses' started by brutto, Apr 20, 2011.
All recent lenses in mint condition. Does anyone have personal experience of these lenses?
I'd sell my mint Contax Carl Zeiss 50mm Planar f1.4 T* to help pay for them. I'll miss it but it is a big heavy lens with a long adaptor. The adaptor I have for Leica lenses is much shorter and neater. Will I be making a big mistake selling the Zeiss?
when it comes to nokton(esp pancakes) with floating elements, watch for focus shift when the subject is close (focus point changes with aperture --- wont hurt RF/film, but in slr, if you focus at big aperture and slow down, there is an issue).
50/1.5 excellent for the money, but was replaced by 1.1, solely for the flexibility of low light i wanted to try.
if you get a chance to try it before u buy/can return it... you cant go wrong.
I own both the Ultron 28 and CZ Contax 50mm 1.4 and I'm happy with both of them. Personally, I wouldn't get rid of the Zeiss. It's an excellent lens and I love the way it renders on these cameras. Of course the Zeiss is a larger lens, especially with the adapter, but in all honesty it's not that much bigger than the Ultron. The C/Y adapter I have doesn't weigh much more than the Panasonic LM adapter that I use and the lens itself is only about 2 oz heavier. To be honest, because of the way the weight is distributed the Zeiss feels lighter than the Ultron on the camera even though it isn't. I've never used the Nokton or the Heliar that you are looking at, but I've seen fantastic images taken with both. For me, the Nokton doesn't give me anything that I don't already have with the Zeiss and I lose the close focusing ability because the Nokton is a rangefinder lens. So, if it was me I would get the Ultron and pair it with the Zeiss and if I needed the longer reach of the Heliar then I would get it as well.
Also, focus shift is not a huge concern when you can focus with live-view. The Ultron can have focus-shift issues, but I've honestly never had a problem with it since I'm aware of it and use the lens accordingly.
For me, the Nokton doesn't give me anything that I don't already have with the Zeiss and I lose the close focusing ability because the Nokton is a rangefinder lens.
That's a very good point. I didn't realise that. One thing I've enjoyed with the Contax is the relatively short minimum focus distance.
Also, I can use the Contax on my SLR bodies. I'd lose that with the Nokton.
Thanks for your input, very helpful.
I thought long and hard about your 85 before I came across the Voigtlanders. It is tempting because I could also use it on my 5d2. Unfortunately the thought that I would have to pay 20% VAT plus duty plus import paperwork fees when it arrived here put me off. It does look to be a lovely lens though.
Aaargh, my brain hurts! I've looked at a gazillion images now (I love flickr) and it always seems that the Zeiss equivalent knocks spots off the Voigtlander. I think I am going to pass on these lenses and stick with Zeiss but change gradually to M-mount versions (for size and balance). Also I've come to hanker after the Sonnar 50mm rather than the Planar 50 which I have now. May be just that the grass is always greener (and I'm a terrible gear whore) but to my eyes the Sonnar is a dream lens.


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Thai court issues second arrest warrant for fugitive former PM Yingluck Shinawatra
Former prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra fled abroad in August fearing that the military government, set up after a coup in 2014, would seek a harsh sentence. PHOTO: EPA-EFE
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BANGKOK (REUTERS) - A Thai criminal court has issued a second arrest warrant for former prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra, who fled the country weeks ago before she was sentenced to jail in absentia, police said on Thursday (Oct 5).
The warrant, issued on Wednesday, was for violating the immigration law, deputy police chief Srivara Ransibrahmanakul told reporters.
Yingluck fled abroad in August fearing that the military government, set up after a coup in 2014, would seek a harsh sentence. It remains unclear how she left the country.
Last week, the Supreme Court convicted and sentenced Yingluck in absentia to five years in jail for mismanaging a rice subsidy scheme that cost the country billions of dollars.
Throughout her trial, Yingluck said she was innocent and not responsible for the day-to-day running of the scheme, arguing that she was a victim of political persecution.
Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha, the army chief who led the 2014 coup against Yingluck's government, recently said Thailand would pursue her through diplomatic channels and police cooperation, using Interpol.
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Foreign ministry spokeswoman Busadee Santipitaks told reporters on Thursday the ministry was working on revoking Yingluck's Thai passport.
She added that the ministry had no information on whether Yingluck was seeking political asylum.
Last week, Thai police raided Yingluck's home in eastern Bangkok, armed with a search warrant.
The military government said last week she was in Dubai. But a source in the United Arab Emirates said Yingluck left Dubai for London on Sept 11, without giving details.

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New Vauxhall Corsa: pics, engines, and electric power plans
Electric power, new engines, and an all-new design: The new 2019 Vauxhall Corsa
Murray Scullion
Could this be the most important new Vauxhall of the modern age?
The Corsa has long been Vauxhall's best-seller, buoyed by endless special editions and keen finance offers. The current Corsa is mostly an updated version of the previous generation too, making this new version the largest overhaul to the model in the last thirteen or so years.
So yes, it looks like it will be the most important Vauxhall of the modern age.
Stephen Norman, Vauxhall's Managing Director, says: "As our best-selling model for many years, the Corsa is fundamentally important to Vauxhall, having sold more than 2.1 million since it launched in 1993."
Vauxhall (as of 2017) belongs to the same group that owns Peugeot and Citroen, and this new Corsa shares mechanical parts with the new Peugeot 208 - itself due later this year.
This new Corsa will also be available with an electric powertain - making it the second electric car Vauxhall has ever made, behind the defunct Ampera.
What else is Vauxhall keen to shout about? It's 10 per cent lighter than the outgoing model. And Vauxhall says it'll be equipped with a raft of 'highly advanced' systems including the latest ESP (Electronic Stability Programme). So expect it to do well in Euro NCAP tests.
There's also a new style of LED headlights that automatically adapt to traffic, minimising glare.
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Vauxhall is keeping the design of the interior under wraps for now, as seen in the picture above. Whether any versions will get the Peugeot 208's fully digital dashboard remains to be seen, but judging by what we've seen, it does look like some versions will have buttons and switches.
The dashboard looks set to have an integrated touchscreen, rather than a 'floating' style one that looks like it was added on as an afterthought. Size of screen hasn't been confirmed yet, but there will most likely be different sizes on depending on trim.
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The 2019 Corsa will be the most technologically advanced Corsa ever made.
Headlining the hi-tech race is the all-electric version. This will start from around £20,000, and while specifications haven't been released yet, we expect it to be similar to the Peugeot e-208. Expect range to be 211 miles, and for it to charge from 0% to 80% in 30 minutes from the most powerful charging stations found at motorway service stations.
Vauxhall says that the Corsa will be the first non-premium supermini to have adaptive full LED headlights. These headlights automatically and continuously adapt to traffic conditions, sending their beam of light around traffic to maintain visibility at night, without blinding other road users.
2019 Vauxhall Corsa design
The outgoing Corsa really is beginning to look its age now. So a fresh face will do it the world of good. Luckily, it's receiving more than just a quick nip and tuck. It's being treated to a complete overhaul.
It's a bigger car than the old Corsa, and all of the prototype test cars have been five, rather than three-doors. These prototypes have been heavily camouflaged (see pictures) too. From the front it will have a recognisable Vauxhall front grille, with sharp and narrow front lights.
Rear lights are narrow too, helping to cut a slimming figure. The side profile can't escape the car's bulk though - on small wheels it begins to look a bit podgy.
2019 Vauxhall Corsa model range
The Corsa range will be split from the start between electric versions and non-electric versions.
Trim levels are yet to be confirmed, but Vauxhall has a knack for creating the most bewildering list on the market. There are six models of Corsa currently available - and that's before we get in to special editions.
2019 Vauxhall Corsa engines
Engines are likely to be shared with the 208. So expect a 1.2-litre three-cylinder petrol available in three states of tune. The cheapest and least powerful will have 75hp and a five speed manual, while the most expensive and most powerful will have 130hp and an automatic. In between will be a 100hp version available with a six-speed manual or automatic.
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No one from outside the company has driven one yet, but on paper it looks good. Vauxhall reckons the new Corsa weighs around 10 per cent less than the outgoing model, and generally, the lighter a car is, the better it is to drive.
The combustion engines are nothing new, but they are known entities. The cheapest and slowest version of the 1.0-litre (with 75hp) will most likely feel slow, while the 130hp will feel quite sprightly.
The electric version should have a 0-62mph time of around eight seconds, which will feel pretty brisk.
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In 1932 Franklin Roosevelt was nominated by the Democratic Party as their candidate for president. In his speech to the convention, he said "I pledge you, I pledge myself, to a New Deal for the American people."
The New Deal became the name by which the re-cover-y programs proposed by the new president and passed by Congress were known.
Roosevelt believed that using the power of the federal government was the only way to save the people and the country from the economic woes of the Great Depression .
Roosevelt had earlier said that the country needed "persistent experimentation…if it fails, admit it frankly and try another."
In the first days of his administration, Congress passed Roosevelt's proposed programs on banking reform, emergency relief programs, work relief and agriculture.
Later acts, also known as part of the New Deal legislation, included union protection laws, the Social Security Act, and programs to help -tenant farmer-s and migrant workers.
The New Deal acts were set up to offer direct relief, economic re-cover-y and financial reform. Relief programs were set up to help people most affected by the Depression. This included programs that gave people work and pay like the Civilian Conservation Corps and the Works Progress Administration.
These programs became known by their acronyms or initials. Works Progress Administration was WPA, Civilian Conservation Corps was called the CCC, and the Tennessee Valley Authority was known as TVA. People said the New Programs were like alphabet soup.
Reform acts were aimed at long-term measures to avoid another depression. It included the National Re-cover-y Administration, which was later declared by the Supreme Court to be unconstitutional, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, the Securities Act, and the Fair Labor Standards Act.
Roosevelt and his wife, Eleanor, also tried to lessen people's worries about the economy. They made public appearances and encouraged citizens through speeches and writings.
Photograph of Civilian Conservation Corps workers on a roadway near Norris Dam in 1935. The caption identifies the workers as African Americans. Photographer was Otto Haslbauer. Tennessee State Library and Archives. Volunteer Voices, Digital Library, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Photograph of staff at Mrs. Roberts' Eat Shop in 1935. The shop was located on West Main street in Jackson, Tennessee. Jackson-Madison County Library Collection. Volunteer Voices, Digital Library, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt, official White House portrait. White House
Social Security poster promoting the fact that elderly widows can received payments after their husband's death. Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library
Photograph of a young girl in a kitchen in East Tennessee. The photograph was used to promote the benefits of rural electrification. The caption says "Running water and a modern kitchen sink, in this American farm kitchen powered with electricity, adds to the health and efficiency of the entire family, as well as saves labor and many steps in drawing water from the old-fashioned well." Library of Congress
Photograph of First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt riding in a Memorial Day parade in Johnson City in 1939. Mrs. Roosevelt also visited the National Home for Disabled Soldiers in Mountain City. The caption said that 25,000 people attended the Memorial Day services. Museum at Mountain Home Collection, East Tennessee State University. Volunteer Voices, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
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Under the "progressive" leadership of Barack Obama and his like-minded "social justice" warriors throughout all levels of government, we have entered an era of lawlessness unprecedented in American history. This is no more apparent than in Alabama where Chief Justice Roy Moore of the Alabama Supreme Court has been unlawfully removed from the bench at the hands of liberal activists on Alabama's Court of the Judiciary (COJ).
To add insult to injury, Judge Moore's law clerks were likewise terminated without warning or explanation late last week. The Chief quickly issued a statement in response: "My appeal is still pending but Justice Stuart [interim chief] is acting like she has already decided the appeal against me. I have asked Justices Stuart, Bolin, Main and Shaw to be recused from hearing my case. Justice Stuart's action against me personally and the subsequent firing of the staff attorneys I hired is troublesome and such actions prejudge the case. Instead of acting as though my appeal has already been decided, I call upon these justices to recuse. None of them should have any role in appointing successor justices to hear my appeal."
Chief Justice Moore further remarked, "I have been targeted for my belief in marriage, a belief shared by the majority of Americans. No one can point to any illegal, unlawful or unethical aspect of my four-page Administrative Order. That order was a status report on the case. A justice should not be removed from office because of a political agenda."
The facts of the case are clear and beyond dispute. Chief Justice Moore was arbitrarily removed from the bench for a "2016 Administrative Order [that] was merely a status report of a pending case before the Alabama Supreme Court," notes Mat Staver, chairman and founder of Liberty Counsel. "The order did not change the status quo. It did not create any new obligation or duty. To suspend Chief Justice Moore for the duration of his term is a miscarriage of justice and we will appeal this case to the Alabama Supreme Court. This case is far from over," he added.
"To suspend Chief Justice Moore for the rest of his term is the same as removal. The COJ lacked the unanimous votes to remove the Chief, so the majority instead chose to ignore the law and the rules," concludes Staver.
The COJ's disgraceful actions have resulted in a tremendous backlash among both the majority of Alabama voters, as well as legislators on both sides of the aisle. This has put both the SPLC and the COJ on the defensive. In a rambling screed written for Al.com, SPLC president Richard Cohen betrays his personal vendetta against Chief Justice Moore, his lack of knowledge about the U.S. Constitution and the laws of Alabama, as well as an astounding level of anti-Christian bigotry.
"Moore attempted to put his personal religious beliefs above the rule of law," writes Cohen. "The United States has always been defined by a fundamental belief in the rule of law," he adds, evidently oblivious to the jaw-dropping level of irony and hypocrisy found within his words.
Cohen goes on to slander Chief Moore, smearing him as "intoxicated with his own self-righteousness" and maligning him as having "disgraced his office."
In fact, Cohen gets only one thing right, noting: "The court heard the case against Moore and rendered a decision it likely knew would be deeply unpopular across the state."
Indeed, it's little wonder the COJ knew its decision would be deeply unpopular. Most politically-motivated hit jobs are. Especially when they're illegal.
Still, the blowback has begun and legislators are moving to undo the damage to the rule of law committed by the SPLC and its COJ cohorts. "This group of individuals are not accountable to the voters of Alabama," observed Alabama GOP Chairman Terry Lathan in a statement. "Their charge as a body is to address and make decisions on corruption cases involving judges in Alabama. At no time has this case been about corruption," he added.
"Judge Moore was elected, twice, by the citizens of our state. In light of this, two groups who are unaccountable to the voters have overstepped boundaries in suspending a statewide elected judge. On May 21, 2016, the Alabama Republican Party passed a resolution strongly opposing the removal of Chief Justice Moore."
"On August 27, 2016, the Alabama Republican Party passed a resolution calling for the Alabama executive, legislative and judicial branches of government to enact and implement a law for the election of all members of the Judicial Inquiry Commission by vote of the people of Alabama."
"We stand by our resolution of support for Judge Moore and our resolution to call for a vote of the people regarding the election of all members to the Judicial Inquiry Commission," concluded Lathan.


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When I was on my friend Angi's blog I saw one of her cutest cards ever. I loved what she did with the spiderweb embossing folder, so I decided to case it. I'm not all that impressed with my layout or my choice of color combo, but I love the way my witch turned out, and was in a big ole hurry to finish the card. The more I use Copic's on my cards the more I see the value in having all the colors. Since that's not possible I made due with what I have, and I have to say I really, really like the end result of my little witch!
I hope you all have a wonderful weekend and thanks for looking!
this is absolutely adorable! I've got that same cuttlebug folder and am going to have to give this lay-out a try!


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John Paul II and Taking the Discipline
FATHER ROBERT BARRON
Perhaps you were startled to learn recently that Pope John Paul II regularly practiced the form of mortification called taking the discipline, that is to say, striking his body with a whip.
Apparently he hung the disciplinary belt in his closet, along with his vestments, and never failed to take it with him, even when he went on vacation. He also, we learned, sometimes slept on the hardwood floor of his bedroom as an ascetic practice, purposely messing his sheets and blanket in the morning so as not to draw attention to what he had done.
I realize that activities such as these can strike many contemporary people as bizarre, perhaps even as the fruit of psychological disorders, complexes, and repressions. Though the author who reported these things did so in order to convince us of John Paul's sanctity, some today might, because of them, actually think less of the late Pope. I thought that these revelations might be a good occasion to reflect more deeply on the typically Lenten practices of mortification and asceticism.
I would first observe that "taking the discipline" was hardly something unique to John Paul. Many of the great masters of the spiritual tradition over the centuries both practiced it and recommended it, and it was a staple of the asceticism of most of the mainstream religious orders up until the time of Vatican II. A second observation is that taking the discipline should never be confused with a wanton display of masochism: the instrument in question was usually a rope with a few small knots tied in it, and the actual physical pain involved was usually minimal. Da Vinci Code fantasies about vicious self-flagellation should be set aside.
But what precisely is the point of this unusual practice? First, it is a means of imitating Christ by participating in his suffering. The goal of the spiritual quest is to allow Jesus to live his life in us fully. St. Paul said, "it is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me." This means that we must strive to conform ourselves to Jesus' humility, his compassion, his joyful prayer, his identification with sinners, his teaching, his manner of thinking and feeling, and his vicarious suffering. By taking upon himself unmerited suffering, Jesus atoned for the sins of the world.
We can enter, however imperfectly, into this dynamic by accepting – for our own sins or those of others – some physical or psychological discomfort. Thus St. Dominic recommended that one pray with one's arms stretched out for a long period in the attitude of the crucified Lord, St. Benedict urged his monks to fast frequently, and St. Antony endured myriad hardships in the solitude of his desert hermitage. Again, this isn't masochism but spiritual participation, an attempt, as Paul put it, "to make up in our own bodies what is still lacking in the suffering of Christ." A corollary to this principle is what Charles Williams called "co-inherence," the idea that we are all, at the deepest metaphysical level, connected to one another. Because we are so inextricably bound together, we can bear each other's burdens, one person, as it were, offering his suffering on behalf of someone else.
A second spiritual reason for John Paul's practice is the legitimate disciplining of the body. As I have often argued, Catholics are not dualists or puritans. We don't think that the flesh is, in itself, sinful or problematic. However, we know that the desires of the body have become, through the fall, disordered. We experience the fact that they are no longer consistently subordinated to reason and that they can consequently appear in exaggerated form or assert themselves disproportionately.
Merton said that we fast, from time to time, from food and drink and sex precisely so as to allow the deeper spiritual hungers to surface and be satisfied.
Thomas Merton commented that the needs of the body – for food, drink, sleep, and sex – are like insistent children that pester us and demand to have their way. Just as children have to be disciplined lest they come to dominate the household, so the desires of the flesh have to be curtailed, limited, lest they come to monopolize all of one's energies. Merton said that we fast, from time to time, from food and drink and sex precisely so as to allow the deeper spiritual hungers to surface and be satisfied. Now the use of the discipline is an extreme and very pointed instance of this practice. It is a vivid reminder to oneself that the pleasure of the body is not one's determining and ultimate good.
I realize that some readers might still be balking at this point, wondering whether this particular discipline still seems rather over the top. But stop and consider for a moment the activities that go on every day in the typical work-out center. People labor away on stationary bikes, stair-masters, eliptical machines, and treadmills; they sweat their way through pull-ups, push-ups, dead-lifts, and kettle-bell routines. In all sorts of ways, they discipline their bodies so as to overcome the natural tendency toward laziness and self-indulgence. More to it, these same people most likely deny themselves all sorts of pleasurable foods, resisting powerful cravings. And all of this punishment is in service of a healthier body. Why can't certain forms of corporal discipline be in service of the far more important health of the mind and spirit?
Father Robert Barron, "John Paul II and 'Taking the Discipline'." Our Sunday Visitor (March 15, 2010).
Reprinted with permission of Father Robert Barron.
Bishop Robert Barron is Auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles. He is also the founder of Word On Fire and the creator and host of the ten-part documentary series called CATHOLICISM (www.catholicismwordonfire.org). He has produced over 350 online video commentaries which have received over 9.5 million views worldwide. See his YouTube channel here. Fr. Barron's DVDs are used as powerful faith formation tools in universities, schools, churches and homes around the country. The series includes Seven Deadly Sins, Seven Lively Virtues; Conversion: Following the Call of Christ; and Untold Blessing: Three Paths to Holiness. Fr. Barron is the author of Exploring Catholic Theology, And Now I See: A Theology of Transformation, Thomas Aquinas: Spiritual Master, Heaven in Stone and Glass: Experiencing the Spirituality of the Great Cathedrals, Eucharist (Catholic Spirituality for Adults), Priority of Christ, The: Toward a Postliberal Catholicism, and Word on File: Proclaiming the Power of Christ.
Copyright © 2010 Father Robert Barron
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Arizona dog shelter starts crowdfunding page for new van
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An Arizona animal rescue group has established a crowdfunding page in hopes of raising money to buy a new van to transport dogs.
An Arizona Small Dog Rescue (AZSDR) page on YouCaring.com is asking for donations in order to reach a $5,000 goal.
As of Sunday afternoon, more than 60 people had contributed a total of more than $1,200 — with the page set to expire in four days.
The group isn't looking for anything elaborate — such as a "Mutt Cutts" van as seen in "Dumb & Dumber" — but for a reliable vehicle that can take unwanted dogs out of homes and shelters to the AZSDR facilities.
The following explanation is written on the crowdfunding page:
AZSDR has a van that has been faithful for many years, but now (it) is on her last days. We need to buy a cargo van that will not break down in the summer; we broke down two times last summer in the dead heat and had to wait on triple A.
The group also mentions that is isn't necessarily looking for large donations only.
We are hoping that MANY will rise to the occasion and donate just $1 towards the van…but that $1 will add up so fast that the dogs at AZSDR will have a great running van in no time.
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Children's Cancer Network celebrates cancer-fighting superheroes, raises funds during September's Childhood Cancer Awareness Month
Jace Hyduchak was like most other kids in his kindergarten class: He loved to play basketball, dress up like his favorite superheroes and jump as high as his pint-sized body would take him on his backyard trampoline.


When business magnate Warren Buffett was asked about the key to success, he pointed to a stack of books, saying "Read 500 pages like this every day. That's how knowledge works. It builds up, like compound interest. All of you can do it, but I guarantee not many of you will do it." Thousands of books are published every year on the various subjects of business leadership so here is a selection of recommendations by world famous CEOs to ease your selection process.
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It's worth reading "Superintelligence" by Bostrom. We need to be super careful with AI.
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Cork Ancestral Archive
Family History Projects
Irish Citizenship & Passport Applications
Adoptions - Tracing Natural Family
Local History Projects
Families of Note
Abraham Lincoln's Colonel
William Joseph Coppinger - Union Hall
Father Stephen William Coppinger - Midleton Priest
Bishop of South Carolina
Historical Interests
George Coppinger Ashlin
Roche Brothers
Brewers & Distillers
Murphy Brothers
Coppinger's Midleton Brewery
Newspapers & Publications
Hibernian Chronicle
Hospitals and Institutions
Irish Diaspora
St Joseph's
Irish Defence Services
Roche Brothers Bank
Roche Bank, 1 Bridge Street
One of the leading lights of the Cork banking fraternity was that of Stephen and James Roche, the sons of Stephen and Sarah O'Brien, born County Limerick. These gentlemn eventually settled in Cork City. Here they established their merchant bank. Two other brothers; William and George were also Bankers, but of Limerick. Another, Richard was a Dominican priest.
The family does not appear anywhere else within this,or any orther directory, so presumably they lived above premises from where they operated their business. This fact is borne out by numerous letters and documents signed by James held at the Cork City Archives, and may be viewed by appointment only. This building still stands, situated at the corner of Camden Place, and Camden Quay, directly opposite St Patrick's bridge.
Promissory banknotes were only ever issued by commercial banks made payable to the bearer on demand who were obliged to redeem these notes for legal tender when presented at the issuing bank, and only traded at face value at local markets served by the issuing bank.This one, No 88 of the series, was issued by the Roche brothers valued at 'Nine Shillings', dated Oct 13th, 1800.
James & Stephen Roche 9 shillings Promissory Note
By 20th September 1808, the business had expanded to such an extent the brothers were able to seek to employ staff, advertising as far a field as Dublin. The alongside notice appeared, 'Saunder's Newsletter';
Samuel West's 1810 directory
Samuel West's directory of 1810 gives their address as Camden Place; an edited extract of which is shown alongside.
As a direct consequence of cessation of the Napoleonic wars, repercussions were to felt throughout the Irish economy whose merchants had up until this time provided the British Army and Navy with substantial goods and services. All contracts were abruptly ended. Many merchants and trades simply could not continue, and were eventually bankrupted. This had a dramatic knock on effect for the private banking industry; by 1820 their number fallen to only 20 throughout in the whole of Ireland. This tragedy was also experienced by the Roche brothers who business had collapsed that year.
As the 'National Bank of Ireland', the business initially opperated from South Mall.
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I send the request every time to fetch the near by places. But how can I save the places locally & display it without requesting all time if user has already visited the same place before.

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Q: Proper use of 'request' I am trying to find the best way to state the following.

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*You may need to request this information with your optometrist.

*You may need to request this information at your optometrist.

*Something else entirely.

Can anyone help me out?

A: "Request with" is not used.
Usually, you would request information from your optometrist, especially if you will ask it of your optometrist directly.
"Request this information at your optometrist" may be used in the case where you would ask for at your optometrist's office, but not necessarily ask your optometrist. You may ask the receptionist for such information.
There is also the use "request of", which generally means you are asking someone for something more tangible than information, or asking them to do something for you.
If you take a look at the following:

You see that "request with" and "request at" have minimal uses, and if you look at some of the samples, you can see that they are not used with your intended meaning.

A: I would say "You may need to request this information from your optometrist."
In general communication, both of your examples would suffice, and would usually not be mistaken to mean something else, but taken literally:

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*with would indicate that you wanted the information and a free optometrist on the side

*at would indicate that you would request the information at the location of your optometrist, but not necessarily involving your optometrist.

As Jim said, of would indicate that you wanted the optometrist to do the information.


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(VEN) - The Banking University HCMC's high-quality bachelor program (HQBP) is marking its fifth anniversary this year, celebrating its impressive achievements and looking forward to building on them.
After five years, the HQBP has more than 1,500 students enrolled in five courses with three disciplines: Finance - Banking, Accounting and Business Administration. All graduates from the first two courses are employed or pursuing higher studies abroad. They have landed jobs with banks, auditing companies, foreign enterprises like HSBC, Citibank, Price Water House Cooper's, Ernst & Young, and so on. This impressive growth showcases the trust of students, parents and society in the university's aims and programs.
Recognizing the formidable challenges posed by the international integration process and the rising need for high-quality human resources in the banking industry in Vietnam, the Banking University HCMC took the courageous initiative to launch the HQBP in 2013. Its aim was, and is, to provide top quality human resources for the country in general and the banking industry in particular.
The HQBP offers students the opportunity to lay a strong foundation for successful careers in both domestic and international business environments. It has as its core values the development of international standard expertise, the ability to self-study and self-learn, the ability to practice and apply acquired knowledge and skills, including soft skills and leadership skills, foreign language proficiency and international integration.
The program's training complies with the current regulations of the Ministry of Education and Training. It is designed for four years with eight main semesters and three summer semesters. During the first seven semesters, the learning takes place mainly in lecture halls. The final semester is dedicated to probation and working on the graduation thesis. Students can register to re-study courses in both major semesters and summer semesters to improve on their grades. The summer semesters are organized according to the needs of the students.
The program also pays a lot of attention to strengthening English and IT proficiency, and to imparting soft skills in general. At the end of the program, the student's English language proficiency must be at least at level 4 in accordance with the six-level competence framework of Vietnam, or IETLS 5.5.
To graduate, students must complete the entire program of training at average and higher levels. Assessment follows a marking scheme of 10 marks or points.
In order to make the HQBP work at its best, the university has assigned a team of enthusiastic and experienced teachers to equip students with a firm grasp of banking and finance fundamentals as well as latest developments in the sectors. "The university has a team of teachers who are postgraduates with long-term training in countries with a well developed higher education system, like the US, the UK, Australia and Germany. We also have a team of visiting lecturers from foreign and prestigious universities in Vietnam, plus experienced experts from banks, financial institutions and enterprises," said Dr. Bui Huu Toan, Banking University HCMC Acting President.
Besides, the university has concentrated on building facilities to best serve the teaching, learning and scientific activities of lecturers and students. There are two training centers in Ho Chi Minh City and a campus in Thu Duc District with a total area of 11 hectares. There are 100 lecture halls with sound systems, projectors and other equipment to facilitate seminars and other functions. The modern campus in Thu Duc District has a spacious hall with 900 seats. The university has two libraries with a total area of 2,650sq.m at the Thu Duc campus and 39 Ham Nghi. They have more than 40,000 book titles and materials of all kinds, along with exclusive modern computer systems to access the database and the internet.
WiFi coverage is provided throughout at the 56 Hoang Dieu II - Thu Duc and campuses in District 1 to facilitate teachers and students to access internet quickly for study and research purposes. New investments have been made in air-conditioned classrooms and other modern facilities, including computer labs, self-study rooms, textbooks and reference materials in English, electronic data, and so on.
"The university will continue to renovate its training programs and enhance international connectivity through signing agreements with prestigious universities in the US, Australia, the UK, etc. and improve the quality of teaching staff, service management and facilities investment. Its consistent aim will be to help students create a solid platform for successful careers in both domestic and international environments," said Dr. Toan.
Tran Thi Thanh Tam, a university alumna, said, "I always feel proud to be one of the first students to participate in the HPQB program. Thanks to the skills I learned, me and all of my classmates found the job we wanted when we were studying. A year after graduating, I find that the knowledge we acquired has been quite useful in my profession".
Building on this encouraging results that prove the effectiveness of its programs, the Banking University HCMC will continue to give its best as it trains nearly 500 new students enrolled for the latest academic year and the years to come.
Reflecting on the five-year milestone, Dr. Toan said, "No resting on laurels, the effort to improve quality is a constant part of the high quality bachelors training program."
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No need to pick a side when everybody's wrong
Grits finds it ironic that David Dow, a Houston appellate lawyer specializing in death penalty work, is claiming the Court of Criminal Appeals issued an illegal sanction against him by suspending his practice before the court for a year. Quite humorously, to me anyway, he's in essence making the same argument Sharon Keller did when the State Commission on Judicial Conduct issued her an illegal "warning" instead of a "censure." Here's Dow's main argument, as reported by the Texas Tribune:
"Even if a claim could be made that Dow's actions had interfered with the CCA's core functions, the CCA, in suspending Dow, acted without authority," Dow's petition states.
"There is no rule that allows a judge or a court to bar a lawyer who is licensed by the Supreme Court of Texas to practice law and appear before them," [Dow's attorney Stanley] Schneider said later.
Admonishments and fines, yes, he said. Bans, no.
"They can refer him to the chief disciplinary council of the State Bar of Texas," Schneider said. "They can hold them in contempt or fine him."
But, he said, they can't ban him.
So the court could jail him for contempt, levy significant fines, or try to get him disbarred, the argument goes, but they can't impose what amounts to a professional time out?
That stance reminds me of nothing in the world more than the argument made by Dow's nemesis, Court of Criminal Appeals Presiding Judge Sharon Keller, when her attorney argued to the State Commission on Judicial Conduct that the wrist slap issued to her by the commission was illegal because it was improperly lenient. They'd given her a "public warning" instead of subjecting her to "censure," which would have forbade her from sitting as a visiting judge after leaving office. In the aftermath, voters approved what the Dallas News called the "Texas Court of Criminal Appeals Presiding Judge Sharon Keller Disciplinary Case Memorial Amendment" authorizing a broader array of potential punishments.
A lot of death penalty abolitionists appear to conflate Dow the man with abolitionism itself and have rushed to his defense, viewing an attack on him as an attack on their group as a class. Myself, I see the sanction as an attack on attorneys who persistently can't get their briefs in on time -- three times in this instance.
Any three-time offender may be a candidate for some sort of sanction, but perhaps the harsh nature of this particular penalty may be explained by the fact that Dow's tardiness seems to chiefly occur when he's required to file last-minute briefs on execution day, wasting away valuable minutes the court could be deliberating while his clients are being prepped for the death chamber. Add in the reality that, in the most infamous case, he famously indulged in demagoguery after the fact to blame Judge Keller for his dilatory habits, and Grits finds himself sympathetic with the CCA majority on this one.
Do I think a lot of this is personal between Sharon Keller and David Dow? You bet. Was Sharon Keller in the wrong in the "We close at 5" debacle? Absolutely. The State Commission on Judicial Conduct said so and I agree. But that doesn't absolve Dow of a duty to file his damn briefs on time. Dow doesn't have any personal beef with Bert Richardson or Kevin Yeary, or for that matter with Judge Cheryl Johnson, who went to battle with Keller over her judicial overreach after the "We close at 5" mess but also voted with the majority to suspend Dow for a year. The Keller-Dow personality clash doesn't fully explain what's going on here.
As Grits sees it, this isn't about picking sides between David Dow and Sharon Keller. They can both be wrong.
Posted by Gritsforbreakfast at 6:22 PM
Labels: CCA, Death penalty
One thing people seem to forget about the "we close at 5" incident is that both the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit and the U.S. Supreme Court denied Dow's stay of execution that night.
How likely would it have been for the Tx CCA to grant a stay based on arguments rejected by the 5th Circuit and SCOTUS? Completely unlikely. The attitude shown by the "we close at 5" comment was revolting but it did not prevent a stay of execution... that just wasn't going to happen.
It bears noting that David Dow does not seem to have had a single significant victory in any case - certainly, other attorneys have been behind all the ground-breaking legal decisions concerning TX death penalty cases coming out of the U.S. Supreme Court. And am I the only one wondering how he can represent all those death row inmates, teach at U of H and publish a couple of books in recent years?
Grits you are partially wrong as well. Please don't become one of the Tabloid headline guys that the bark of the headline is barking up the wrong tree. In civil and criminal trials their are 2 parts. For civil cases there is liability and damages. For criminal cases there is guilt innocence. Stanley is talking about the Courts ability to assess a sanction (damages) vs. their ability to punish lawyers by not allowing them to practice before the Court. That is what the one Dissenter Alcala said in a sense as well. Stanley's argument was assuming that if the Court found "... a claim could be made that Dow's actions had interfered with the CCA's core functions, the CCA, in suspending Dow, acted without authority," Quoting Grits quoting the petition. So it is the damages or punishment phase they are discussing. You point is taken about filing briefs on time but it does not directly relate to the point. Further you don't cite any authority for Dow's punishment as Stanley says is lacking. If you are going to say someone is wrong about their point that their is a lack of authority to do anything beyond sanction and not removal from the Court, which is reserved for the State Bar to determine, then please cite that authority and don't just say file your brief's on time.
I know that Texas has a somewhat odd high court, what with it being split into civil and criminal sides but it would seem even more odd to me that a state's highest court would not be invested with the sort of disciplinary power at issue here.
To me it is simple. There is no excuse for not getting those briefs in on time. They teach you that in your first year of law school. If you were even ten seconds late at Georgetown, you failed legal writing. And they made sure we understood why the harsh punishment. Late filing = rejection by court = malpractice.
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Have any of you negative Nancies actually read the rule w/related comment he supposedly broke?
Grits, you take the peculiar position that he is wrong, period, despite the obvious literal issue at hand here - a bad example for an otherwise clearly written scheduling rule. Why so absolute?
This is the Rule. http://www.txcourts.gov/media/208124/miscruleexecution.pdf
The Rule says, you have 7 days before execution (and excluding date of execution as a day in that number), and then says as an example, you actually don't! How can the Court "exclude" the date of execution and then use in its example the date of execution? It's illiterate, and the Court knows it, and Dow presses on this issue either intentionally or due to the nature of how he receives these types of 11th hour appellate requests. You might nod your head sagely and say, "Oh but the practitioners KNOW the 'real rule' is such and such, even if the 'written rule' is so and so." In that case, you might ask, do we submit ourselves to a justice of practitioner mysticism or to clear language? In a conflict of language, when has there ever been a statutory / rule construction that emphasizes example over the rule? Perhaps the drafters of that Rule, in their haste to amend the 48-hour rule it used to be, forgot how to calculate time.
Dow takes on appeals based on incompetent counsel (notoriously, drunkards and narcoleptics), and usually at the 11th hour, pro bono. I wonder if Anon at 08:38 AM thinks it bears noting the conditions under which Dow seems to receive assignments - how / why they come to him under such conditions, I don't know.
How is it that the Office of Capital Writs and others who do the same kind of work in impossible conditions get their briefs in at a high level of quality and no question about their timeliness? Yes, Mr. Dow represents people in the hardest of cases. And for that he should be commended. But so do many others who don't seem to have the same timeliness problem.
Dow is late on purpose. It is a strategy. If the CCA can't start their work until 5pm then the 5th won't get it until 7pm and the Supremes won't get it until 9pm EASTERN because of the time zone and there is a chance this will get him a 30-day stay because of the time instead of on the merits.
Will Yablome said...
Just another pedantic law school professor demonstrating his inability to practice law in the real world.
Quoting Joshua Cottle "Dow takes on appeals based on incompetent counsel (notoriously, drunkards and narcoleptics), and usually at the 11th hour, pro bono."
Except in this case counsel for deceased inmate was anything but what Cottle claims. He was a well known lawyer who consistently gets excellent results for his clients at trial, on appeal and in writs (far better than Dow). Nevertheless, Dow threw him under the bus to save himself. Now that was offensive
3/29/2015 07:45:00 PM reply - but the CCA DID grant stays in all other capital cases until the S.Ct. ruled on that issue regarding lethal injection.
3/30/2015 12:04:00 PM - the "lateness" of the brief is questionable at best (considering the plain language of the 'rule.' Further - this is NOT jurisdictional thus the CCA could and did accept the late filing.
3/30/2015 01:54:00 PM - The Office of Capital Writs handles 11.071 writs. Once a defendant is in federal court under a 2254, the rules change significantly. And OCW hasn't handled an 11.071 §5 successive writ that I know of.
3/30/2015 03:39:00 PM - As Justice Alcala explained in her dissent - the timing of the filing of his brief DID NOT impact the CCA at all. They had sufficient time to consider it and rule upon it.
3/30/2015 06:54:00 PM - except he gives hope to defendants that other attorneys have abandoned. He provides a safeguard we should be grateful for.
Grits - I am disappointed in you. Even when PJ Keller failed to properly file her campaign financial documents - she was only fined $25,000 .. not precluded from practice. The punishment is beyond the scope of the CCA's purview. The precedent is that any court can hold an attorney in contempt and preclude them from practicing before them without going before the State Bar's Office of Disciplinary Counsel. The CCA should have filed a grievance with the State Bar through the appropriate channels. Regardless whether you think Professor Dow was "late," - The CCA's punishment is outlandish and violative of due process.
Even if all the above statements, Anon at 10:34 AM and 3:30 PM, are true, re: he threw a good lawyer under the bus / is late on purpose, that doesn't address the plain issue raised by a Rule that can't even give an example to illustrate it properly. If Dow is not a poster child for this writ of mandamus, the Rule is hardly a poster child for literacy or clarity of law.
A complete transcript of the hearing is available at the Supreme Court of Texas website as an exhibit to support the petition.
Telling for me are the questions and answers. Dow DID throw a good attorney under the bus, but that is not at all lost on the Court. It took Dow "a couple of months" from the time he was contacted by the death sentenced to the time he actually made contact with the death sentenced attorney.
In doing so he waited until a mere 39 days before execution to take on the filing, and actually OFFERED to take on the filing as he was filing in the 5th. Dow then goes on to complain he didn't have enough time to get the writ in per the rules of the Court.
Considering all comments above about Dow and the CCA, it appears that Grits was correct ... "No need to pick a side when everybody's wrong."
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"Alice's Restaurant Massacree"
For those who were young adults at the time, our rebellious side was treated to the story of Alice's Restaurant in song form, as performed by Arlo Guthrie. While it factually premiered in October of 1965, it was featured by FM radio stations across America on Thanksgiving Day of that year; a tradition that lasted nearly two decades before stations began changing to their current "screaming DJ's and advertisements"environment.
Allison Steele - "The Nightbird"
Again, for those who remember, FM radio stations had just revised their formatting; a virtually commercial free venue hosted by smoky-voiced personalties who developed a cult-like following of listeners. The music was presented without fanfare, often continuing for hours before anyone spoke again and in may ways similar to contemporary satellite music stations. Frankly, it was glorious.
How The Story Started
"Alice's Restaurant," Arlo Guthrie's beloved musical ode to garbage, small town policing, and military conscription, celebrates many anniversaries. The song – its full name is "Alice's Restaurant Massacree" – has its conception on Thanksgiving Day, 1965, when Guthrie, then 18, and friend Rick Robbins, 19, were clearing out the Stockbridge, Massachusetts, home of Alice and Ray Brock. Guthrie and other students spent much of their free time at their home, a former church. Eventually, Alice, a Brooklyn native like Guthrie himself, opened a small restaurant just off Stockbridge's main street.
Fittingly, it was a Thanksgiving feast prepared by Alice that started the events memorialized in Guthrie's song--a work that capsulized a young generation's disaffection with bureaucratic stupidity, resonated as an anti-war anthem and still captivates audiences with its simple melody, gentle narrative and infectious chorus.
On that fateful holiday, a dozen or so young guests overnighted in sleeping bags on the church's first floor sanctuary—the Brocks occupied the bell tower. Appreciating the hospitality, Arlo, on Thanksgiving break from his first (and last) semester as a Montana college forestry major, decided the least he could do was help clean up.
"The junk" the guests cleared out, according to a contemporaneous article in the Berkshire Eagle, "included a divan plus nearly enough bottles, garbage, paper and boxes to fill their Volkswagen bus." With the city dump closed for the holiday, Arlo and a friend added the trash to a pre-existing heap they saw on the side of the road. On November 29, four days later, the two malefactors pled guilty to "illegally disposing of rubbish" and each paid a $25 fine. Ordered to remove the rubbish from residential property along Stockbridge's Prospect Street, "they did so…following a heavy rain."
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Efficacy of topical 5% 5-fluorouracil with needling versus 5% 5-fluorouracil alone in stable vitiligo: A randomized controlled study
Fatima T Zahra, Mohammad Adil, Syed S Amin, Mohd Mohtashim, Roopal Bansal, Hania Q Khan
Department of Dermatology, Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College (JNMC), Aligarh Muslim University (AMU), Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh, India
Mohammad Adil
B-9, Rizvi Apartments, Medical Road, Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh.
DOI: 10.4103/JCAS.JCAS_12_20
Background: Vitiligo is a chronic disease of great cosmetic concern presenting with depigmented macules and patches. It is often recalcitrant to medical treatment. Aim: The aim of the study was to study the efficacy and safety of topical 5% 5-fluorouracil with needling versus topical 5% 5-fluorouracil alone in stable vitiligo. Materials and Methods: This interventional prospective study was conducted from July 2018 to June 2019. Total of 60 patients, with stable vitiligo of age older than 10 years, were randomly assigned into two groups of 30 patients each. Group A was treated with needling followed by topical 5% 5-fluorouracil over vitiligo patches. The procedure was performed every 2 weeks for 3 months. Group B was treated with topical 5% 5-fluorouracil alone. Clinical improvement was assessed monthly till 6 months by serial clinical photographs and grading score. Results: Initiation of repigmentation started at 1 month in 76 patches (65%) in Group A, whereas in group B, it was seen in 45 patches (38.7%), which was statistically significant (P = 0.0001). Excellent improvement (>75% repigmentation) was noted in 55 patches (47%) in Group A as compared to 5 patches (4.3%) in group B at the end of 6 months (P = 0.03). Conclusion: Needling with 5% 5-fluorouracil appears to be simple, safe, and effective treatment in vitiligo. It can be used in poor responders to conventional therapy.
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The Culture Wars Jump the Shark
Greg Lavo
The question of "social consciousness" versus "free speech" is an unsettling central battlefield in the politics of contemporary popular culture.
From the conservative point of view, it is the use of mob pressure to suppress individual freedom of expression based on the development and enforcement of taboos about race, gender, and sexuality.
From the progressive standpoint, it is a battle to cure society of its habitual oppression of groups that aren't white and straight and male. It is the leveling of the playing field, at long last — defining who we want to be as a society if we actually mean all of us are "created equal". To get to a societal and cultural plane where that sentiment isn't hypocrisy, we have to retrain our collective habits right down to the simple facets of culture.
But, in practice, this is one of several points that has been turned on its head in recent years.
It wasn't so long ago that the conservatives were the ones suppressing free expression by policing fashion, linguistic conventions, and artistic choice from a platform of traditionalism. We were all too stupid and amoral to understand why certain things were inappropriate or offensive. So, we needed the conservatives around to tell us what not to do or say.
Now, suddenly, it is the progressive movement playing the role of policing what we do and say, and, naturally, with our best interests at heart, because most of us are just too stupid or philosophically immature to know what we're supposed to be offended by.
At this point, the full scope of how this process is running off the rails is given by the experience of comedian Nimesh Patel, who was recently kicked off the stage at Columbia University for joking about race and sexuality.
The odd part of the whole situation is that the joke he told was actually extremely offensive. But that isn't why he was kicked off stage. His joke was about gay, black men and centered on the idea that being gay can't possibly be a choice because who would choose to be gay on top of already being black. "No one looks in the mirror and thinks, 'This black thing is too easy, let me just add another thing to it.'"
He was confronted on stage by the student group that hired him for the act, and then he was chastised and ushered off the stage.
It is, in fact, an extremely offensive joke because it is predicated on engaging the audience (us) to take part in celebrating our communal knowledge of how homosexuality and being black are both inherent liabilities in life. One might defend the idea that we do, in fact, need to draw certain lines, and that, perhaps, he should be kicked off the stage for that presupposition and entreaty. It soils us by tricking us into a reality where we are laughing at how obvious it is that blackness and gayness are ontologically inferior factors in life.
BUT — and this is the big point — no one who was part of kicking him off the stage ever even realized that problem.
According to the transcript, members of the student group who did the off-stage-kicking were too concerned with the fact that Mr. Patel was neither gay nor black. In other words, they were indirectly offended — worried that they might be later held responsible for someone, in the abstract, being offended because he wasn't entitled to that joke by his lack of homosexuality and skin pigmentation.
This is when you know you have reached rock bottom: The people in charge of being offended and of taking people to task for violating a norm have no idea why they should be offended in the first place, but they are no less likely to act on it in any case.
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Take a look at this sampling of William Z. Shetter's Language Miniatures,a collection of essays about language and how it works. Here I've posted a few that deal with English topics, such as verb tenses, noun compounds, the importance of context, ambiguity, and the meaning of function words like "and" or "the". I think you'll find them both useful and enjoyable.
What follows is a look at how English expresses case - that is, how English shows us what function is being performed by the words in the sentence. Other Indo-European languages do it (mainly) with grammatical endings (for instance, in Russian "psa kusaet chelovek" is "man bites dog" while "pes kusaet cheloveka" is "dog bites man" - it's the endings that tell you). English has virtually no grammatical case endings left; only a few pronouns retain them. But the meaning is conveyed. How? That's what this page (and those to come) will look at.
We'll begin with the basic distinction of Subject and Object: the Actor and the Recipient of the action.
The point is, how do you tell what "case" an English noun is in? (There's another question, which is "why do you want to?" That one's easy if you think about it for a minute: in the words of the old reporter's gag, "dog bites man" isn't news, "man bites dog" is.) So, since obviously there has to be a way to tell the biter from the bitee, what is it in English, if the words themselves don't change?
Fathers love their sons more, and mothers their daughters.
This distinction isn't as clear as it used to be - a sentence like "every night I lay down to sleep" will make some people's teeth hurt while others won't see anything wrong with it at all. Partly this is because only these verbs pair like this, and partly it's because they SOUND so much alike. "Sit yourself down" is a transitive usage of the "intransitive" sit that's fairly colloquial. "Raise" and "rise" are still distinct; you don't really hear "the price of gas raised again last week" or "he'll rise your grades if you try harder." But - espcially as "lay" is the past tense of "lie" as well as the present tense of itself, those two are quite often confused.
But for most English verbs, the transitive and intransitive forms are the same.
John broke the window. - The window broke.
John ran. - John ran a marathon.
The bird flew. - John flew an F-14 in the war.
On the other hand, some verbs have to have an object to sound right. Normally you wouldn't say "John bought" without saying *what* he bought. Verbs such as "hold, contain, hit, name" - these need objects. They're obligatorily transitive.
So, English is a fixed word order language - Subject Verb Object (doer does done-to), or "Object last". Subjects come in front of verbs and objects follow them. "John bought a book, and George told the truth." Simple.
What about "John bought George a book, and George told Susan the truth"? Not so simple, although as a native speaker of English you have no trouble telling apart the roles that each thing or person is playing in these sentences. The fact is, English has two kinds of objects, Direct and Indirect. Verbs that take both are called ditransitives. (For those of you who know other grammar systems, those are Accusative and Dative cases. For those of you who don't, don't worry about it. Direct and Indirect are fine.) What we've called the "done-to" is the Direct Object, the thing that the action of the verb is directed onto.
The Indirect Object is the "done-for", the thing or person for whom the action is done, or who receives the object.
John bought a book FOR George = John bought George a book.
George told the truth TO Susan = George told Susan the truth.
Sally sold seashells TO tourists = Sally sold tourists seashells.
As you can see, there are two ways in English to express the Indirect Object. The first is to place in BEFORE the Direct Object. The second is to place it AFTER the Direct Object AND use a preposition (usually either "to" or "for" but rarely "of"). But it is, of course, not entirely that simple.
A few English verbs, such as to describe, to distribute, to explain and to say, can take an indirect object only with a preposition.
But you'll notice that all the Direct Objects are things, while the Indirect Objects are living beings.
You'll also notice there isn't much of a way to guess which verbs are which. Why "speak to me" but "tell me"? Why "distribute to the students" but "give the students"? Why can you say "he told the police the facts" but not "he narrated the police the facts"? "He described the events to us" but not "he described us the events"? Honestly, I don't know why, and I doubt anybody else really does, either. It's not as simple as Germanic versus Latinate words, either, or you could say "He said Mary the truth", and you can't. You can certainly tell Mary the truth, but you must say (or speak) the truth TO her.
On the other hand, you can always use a preposition.
Once you deviate from this pattern, the sentences quickly become murky.
John Mary loves and George despises.
These don't always pair up by transitivity, the main difference is volition, that is, wanting to. Listen and hear, for instance: you listen on purpose, you hear whether you want to or not. "Listen" happens to be intransitive; "hear" can be either.
Got a question? Send it to me -- kmdavis@erols.com and I'll answer it.


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