phalahari chutney recipe - green chutney made for fasting or vrat.
phalahari chutney recipe with step by step photos – a green chutney made from fresh coriander leaves that i make on fasting or vrat days. there is no garlic or onion used in this chutney and is made with minimal ingredients.
the word phalahari or falahari is derived from phal or fal which means fruits and ahaar which means food or diet. so basically phalahari means a diet which consists of fresh fruits. along with fruits even vegetables, herbs, dry fruits, some cereals and yogurt is a part of phalahari diet. the word phalahari is also associated with the recipes that are made during fasting days in india.
most of the times, i prepare the phalahari chutney with coriander leaves. occasionally i also add mint leaves. green chilies are added to spice up or give a bit of heat in the chutney. however you can easily skip them or reduce their quantity.
this phalahari chutney is easy to make and an ideal accompaniment with fasting snacks like sabudana pakora, sabudana vada, farali batata vada, farali pattice, sukhi arbi or any other fried fasting snack of your choice.
if you are looking for more fasting recipes then do check sabudana khichdi, vrat wale aloo, singhare ki poori, kuttu ki roti and sweet potato halwa.
rinse coriander leaves (dhania patta) under running water for a couple of times. then drain all the water.
chop the coriander leaves. you will need 1.5 cups of chopped coriander leaves.
in a blender, add 1.5 cups of chopped coriander leaves, 1 roughly chopped green chili (hari mirch) and 1 teaspoon chaat masala powder.
next add sendha namak or rock salt as required.
lastly add ½ to 1 teaspoon lemon juice (optional) and 1 to 1.5 tablespoon water.
grind till smooth in a blender or chutney grinder. add more water if required while grinding the chutney. but don't make the chutney too thin or watery.
remove the phalahari chutney in serving bowl. the chutney will stay good upto 4 to 5 days in the fridge.
serve phalahari chutney with any fasting snack like sabudana vada, sabadana pakoras, sukhi arbi.
1. rinse coriander leaves (dhania patta) under running water for a couple of times.
2. drain all the water. i always use a colander to rinse herbs and greens.
3. chop the coriander leaves. you will need 1.5 cups of chopped coriander leaves.
4. measure all the ingredients and keep ready for making phalahari chutney.
5. in a blender, add 1.5 cups of chopped coriander leaves, 1 roughly chopped green chili (hari mirch) and 1 teaspoon chaat masala powder.
6. next add sendha namak or rock salt as required.
7. lastly add ½ to 1 teaspoon lemon juice (optional) and 1 to 1.5 tablespoon water.
8. grind till smooth in a blender or chutney grinder. add more water if required while grinding the chutney. but don't make the chutney too thin or watery.
9. remove the chutney in serving bowl. the chutney will stay good upto 4 to 5 days in the fridge.
10. serve phalahari chutney with any fasting snack like sabudana vada, sabadana pakoras, sukhi arbi.
Very useful and nice and quick recipes..
thanks for you site & its info,resourses.
Thakns Smita, it does enhance the taste.


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Q: Identifying the distribution which represents a negative binomial distribution as a compound poisson distribution
Suppose that the random variable $X$, which has a negative binomial distribution with probability $p$ and parameter $r$, can be represented as the summation of $N$ iid random variables $Y_1, Y_2, \ldots$:
$$X = Y_1 + Y_2 + \cdots + Y_N.$$
If $N$ has a Poisson distribution and is independent of $Y_1, Y_2, \ldots$, what is the probability distribution of each $Y_1, Y_2, \ldots$ and what is the value of the Poisson parameter?

I tried but have no idea. If I know the distribution of $Y_i$, I can get the distribution of $X$, which is their summation, a compound poisson distribution. But in this case, it is the reverse.

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Suppose that the random variable $X$, which has a negative binomial distribution with probability $p$ and parameter $r$,

Unfortunately there are differing conventions about what this means, so one should be explicit:
(In the case where $r$ is a positive integer) $X$ is distributed as the number of failures before the $r$th success in independent Bernoulli trials with probability $p$ of success on each trial. Thus the distribution of $X$ is supported on the set $\{0,1,2,3,\ldots\}.$ Therefore
\begin{align}
\Pr(X=x) = {} & \binom {x+r-1} x p^r (1-p)^x = (-1)^x \binom{-r} x p^r q^x \\[12pt]
& \text{where } \binom{-r} x = \frac{(-r)(-r-1)(-r-2) \cdots(-r-x+1)}{x!}.
\end{align}
With $\binom{-r} x$ defined that way, the distribution is defined even when $r$ is not an integer, and is so defined that the sum of independent negative-binomially distributed random variables with parameters $r_1,r_2$ and the same $p$ is negative-binomially distributed with parameters $r_1+r_2$ and $p.$)
I don't know a way to find the distribution of each of the $Y$s given this information, but I know how to show that it's a "logarithmic" distribution. If that had never been pointed out to me, I might never have succeeded in solving this problem.
Definition: With $q=1-p$ as above, we have
$$
\sum_{y=1}^\infty \frac {q^y} y = -\log(1-q) = -\log p >0. \tag 1
$$
Thus $\Pr(Y=y) = \dfrac{q^y}{-y\log p}$ for $y=1,2,3,\ldots$ defines a probability distribution, conventionally called the logarithmic distribution (which I think is probably a name given to it by Ronald Fisher some time around 1930 or so).
Lemma: The probability-generating function of $Y_1+Y_2$ is the pointwise product of their separate probability-generating functions, and since they're identically distributed, is just the square of the probability-generating function of $Y_1.$ Corollary: By a trivial induction, this extends to sums of more than two i.i.d. of these random variables.  Proof:
$$
\sum_{y=1}^\infty \Pr(Y_1+Y_2 = y) s^y = \sum_{y=1}^\infty \sum_{k=1}^{y-1} \Pr(Y_1=k) s^k \cdot \Pr(Y_2=y-k) s^{y-k}
$$
and this is a Cauchy product of two power series. $\quad\blacksquare$
Suppose $Y_1,Y_2,Y_3,\ldots$ are i.i.d., each with the distribution given in $(1)$ above,
and $N\sim\operatorname{Poisson}(\lambda),$ independent of the $Y\text{s},$ and let
$$
X = \sum_{n=1}^N Y_n.
$$
Let us find the probability-generating function $g$ of $X.$
\begin{align}
g(s) = {} & \sum_{x=0}^\infty \Pr(X=x) s^x
= \sum_{x=0}^\infty \operatorname E(\Pr(X=x\mid N)) s^x \\[10pt]
= {} & \operatorname E\left( \sum_{x=0}^\infty \Pr(X=x\mid N) s^x \right) \\[10pt]
= {} & \operatorname E\left( \sum_{x=0}^\infty \Pr(Y_1+\cdots + Y_N=x\mid N) s^x \right) \\[10pt]
= {} & \operatorname E\left( h(s)^N \right) \tag 2 \\[10pt]
& \text{where the last equality follows from the } \textbf{Lemma} \text{ above,} \\
& \text{the function $h$ being the probability-generating function of } Y_1\text{:} \\[10pt]
h(s) = {} & \sum_{y=1}^\infty \Pr(Y_1=y)s^y.
\end{align}
So evaluate line $(2){:}$
$$
\operatorname E\left(h(s)^N\right) = \sum_{n=0}^\infty \frac{e^{-\lambda} \lambda^n}{n!} h(s)^n = e^{-\lambda} e^{\lambda h(s)} = e^{\lambda(h(s)-1)}. \tag 3
$$
So we need to know what $h(s)$ is.
\begin{align}
h(s) = {} & \sum_{y=1}^\infty \Pr(Y_1=y)s^y \\[8pt]
= {} & \sum_{y=1}^\infty \frac{q^y}{-y\log p} s^y
= \frac{\log(1-qs)}{\log p}. \tag 4
\end{align}
Plug $(4)$ into $(3)$:
\begin{align}
& h(s)-1 = \frac{\log\left( \frac{1-qs}{1-q} \right)}{\log p} \\[10pt]
g(s) = {} & e^{\lambda(h(s)-1)} = \left( \frac {1-qs}{1-q} \right)^{\lambda/\log p}. \tag 5
\end{align}
It remains only to show that this is the probability-generating function of a negative binomial distribution.
\begin{align}
\sum_{x=0}^\infty \Pr(X=x) s^x = {} & \sum_{x=0}^\infty \binom{-r} x p^r (-qs)^x \\[10pt]
= {} & p^r (1-qs)^{-r} = \left( \frac{1-q}{1-qs} \right)^r. \tag 6
\end{align}
Finally, observe that $(5)$ agrees with $(6)$ if
$$
r = \frac{-\lambda}{\log p}, \qquad \lambda = -r\log p, \qquad p = e^{-\lambda/r}.
$$

A: Each $Y_1, Y_2, \ldots$ follows a logarithmic distribution:
$$\Pr(Y=k) = -\frac{(1-p)^k}{k\log(p)}, \quad \text{where } k\geqslant1, 0<p<1.$$
If $N \sim \mathsf{Poi}(\mu)$ independently of $Y_1, Y_2, \ldots$, then we find that $X$ has a negative binomial distribution with parameter $r = -\mu/\log(p)$ and success probability $p$.
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MAP stands for material, audience, and performer.
Successful humor requires all three MAP elements.
The audience must complement both the material and the presentation style of the performer.
Of the three points, the audience is the most important.
More astute are performers who fire round after round of observations of the audience's interest.
Once the profile of the audience has been established, the second most important point is the performer.
The audience needs to know who you are in the first thirty seconds.
The performer must present the right material to the right audience in the right way.
Only after you know your audience and the characteristics about the performer's persona that need to be consistent, are you ready to start writing material.
The material must be appropriate to the interest of the audience and it must be related well to the persona of the performer.
That's the heart of this book.
Writing humor is an all-day and all-night assignment.
New ideas can pop into your head anytime, anyplace.
To keep track of ideas and potential material, the humorist's toolbox typically includes the following items: a note pad, index cards, a tape recorder, and a computer with Internet access.
Why We Laugh
Noted psychologist Patricia Keith-Spiegel identified two primary reasons why we laugh.
• We laugh out of surprise.
• We laugh when we feel superior.
Keith-Spiegel identified six additional motivations for laughter, each of which supports the two main reasons, surprise and superiority.
• We laugh out of instinct.
• We laugh at incongruity.
• We laugh out of ambivalence.
• We laugh for release.
• We laugh when we solve a puzzle.
• We laugh to regress.
Clever wordplay engenders grudging appreciation in your peers, but surprise wordplay gives birth to laughter. We smile at wit. We laugh at jokes.
The techniques that most often trigger surprise are misdirection (when you trap the audience), and incongruity (which is most effective when the audience is fully aware of all the facts, but someone they are observing is not).
To achieve the unexpected twist, it's sometimes necessary to sacrifice grammar and even logic.
A keyword sets up the surprise. It gets the audience to assume they know the ending.
There are many ways to achieve surprise. What's important is to remember that you really can't be funny without it.
"My wife and I have many arguments, but she only wins half of them. My mother-in-law wins the other half" – Terry Bechtol
Humor often ridicules the intelligence, social standing, and physical and mental infirmities of those we consider inferior to ourselves. But those we consider superior to ourselves are not spared.
We delight in publicizing and mocking every shortcoming—perceived or real—of people who are in positions of authority, who are richer, more famous, more intelligent, physically stronger, or more admired.
The greater the prestige of the victim, the greater our desire to equalize. Humor is social criticism. The object is to deflate.
Humor has been an emotional catharsis for every American ethnic minority: Irish, Germans, Arabs, Jews, Blacks, Latinos, etc. There are few joke books on WASPs—but that doesn't mean there aren't jokes about them.
Humor also reassures the insecure. Even if we believe ourselves to be the "haves" (having power, money, knowledge, or prestige), there is tremendous insecurity about how we got it and how long we're going to keep it.
There are two ways to feel superior.
The first is to accomplish exemplary work that receives public acclaim. That's difficult.
The second (and easiest) way to feel superior is to publicly criticize the accomplishments of others.
This diminishes their prestige and focuses attention on us.
Regardless of how much the second method might be deplored on ethical grounds, the amount of time and effort exerted to belittle the work of competitors is usually far greater than the amount of time and energy expended to improve our own abilities.
Our spark of laughter is always ignited by the misfortunes of those we fear.
In a group setting, our humor is directed downward toward groups that don't conform to our social, religious national, or sexual mores.
The goal is to maintain the status quo by ridiculing deviant social behavior and reassuring the majority that their way of life is proper.
The professional humorist must always be aware that audience members are happiest when his subject matter and technique encourage them to feel superior.
The target of a roast smiles only because he knows everyone is watching for his approval.
Laughter is born and bred instinct, a phenomenon of evolution. For human beings, laughter has evolved as a substitute for assault. It's an attempt to vent our hostility when physical aggression is not practical.
Incongruity
According to the dictionary, something is incongruous when it is inconsistent within itself.
It's the clash of incompatible ideas or perceptions.
For example. whenever someone behaves in a rigid manner that is suddenly ill-suited to the logic of the occasion, these incongruous antics result in a ridiculous scenario. This comic effect can arise from the incongruity of speech, action, or character.
Ambivalence is the simultaneous presence of conflicting emotions, such as love/hate relationships in families.
Ambivalent humor covers up our guilt feelings or our foolish errors; it's an attempt to maintain dignity. Self-deprecating humor is just a device to set the audience at ease, so you can be in control.
Laughter relieves tension. We want humor to help us laugh away our anxieties.
Puzzle Solving
We are delighted by the solution to the puzzle (surprise) and we want the world to know we're very smart(superiority)
Humor is therapeutic. Urges and feelings that can't otherwise be let loose, such as the desire to act on regressive infantile sexual or aggressive behavior.
The Recipe for Humor
There are six essential ingredients in any recipe for humor.
With few exceptions, the absence of any one ingredient so disturbs the formula that the humor might not just taste off but might deflate like a ruined souffle.
These six elements are required.
Target, hostility, realism, exaggeration, emotion, and surprise.
The first letter of each element forms a memorable acronym: THREES.
The THREES formula focuses on the what and why of humor.
The what is the target, and the why is the hostility, realism, exaggeration, emotion, and surprise contained in the humor.
Humor is criticism cloaked as entertainment and directed at a specific target.
The proper selection of humor targets is not just important—it's arguably the most critical factor in writing commercially successful humor.
A humor target can be almost anything or anybody, but you need to be sure you've focused on the right target for your particular audience.
Humor is an attempt to challenge the status quo, but targeting must reaffirm the audience's hostilities and prejudices.
This means that humor is always unfair. Jokes take a biased point of view.
Successful humorists select targets with universal appeal (invoke common experiences).
Don't select a general topic rather select a specific premise. (drivers vs women). By narrowing a general target to a specific premise, you increase the likelihood of surprising the audience with the punchline.
Let's take a closer look at some of the most common targets: yourself, sex, celebrities, places, products, and ideas.
By far the least offensive (but most effective) target is yourself.
Once the audience is laughing, it's time to move on to hotter issues.
Sex is the topic of close to 25 percent of all humor, making it one of the most popular targets.
Studies have shown that men's greatest sexual concerns generally center around size, the ability to get an erection, performance, the amount of sex they're having, premature ejaculation, and impotency.
Men feel trapped by sexual stereotypes. They find themselves unable to speak openly about their sexual angers, anxieties, and desires. Many complain about the escalating pressures to initiate sex, to achieve and maintain frequent erections, to control the timing of ejaculations, and to understand (let alone satisfy) their partner's orgasmic needs.
During sex, men confuse me. They suddenly start shouting, -I'm coming. I'm coming. I don't know whether they want me there as a partner or a witness. – Emily Levine
Celebrities:
Celebrities are also popular targets.
This Halloween the most popular mask is the Arnold Schwarzenegger mask. And the best part? With a mouth full of candy you can sound just like him.
Hostility:
Our need for superiority is the motivating factor whenever we ridicule places.
The basic rule, again, is that your target is an object of annoyance shared by the entire audience.
It's easier to start backward. Begin with the punchline, but don't finalize your position until you've decided it's their position as well.
Ideas:
The list of controversial ideas that can be humor targets is lengthy. Audacious ideas can include subjects such as religion, the meaning of life and death, and politics.
We've enjoyed pricking the bloated arrogance of authority and watching it bleed.
I look up the word politics in the dictionary, and it's actually a combination of two words: poli, which means many, and tics, which means bloodsuckers. – Jay Leno
One characteristic of this hostility is that invariably we ridicule upward, attacking those we perceive to be superior (or in a superior position).
The Senate decided they will smoke-free. They ordained that all public areas in the Senate are now smoke-free. However, the senators themselves will still be allowed to blow smoke up each other's ass.
Hostile humor is usually directed upward.
Money and Business:
There's little doubt, however, that money is a constant source of irritation and hostility among both sexes.
The more money you have, the more problems.
Since everyone has personal money problems, focusing hostility on financial matters is one of the best (and least controversial) ways to show the audience you share their problems.
Business practices actually direct hostility against two subjects at the same time: economics and authority.
Financial humor targets are countless: Executives shenanigans, wages, taxes, investments, gambling, lottery awards, and credit cards are just a few.
Family affairs:
Hostility against family responsibilities, restrictions, and competing interests needs little explanation as a target of humor. Family members and household affairs like cleaning, paying bills, and cooking have all become popular targets.
Angst :
A long list of such topics includes fear of death; coping with deformity; deprivations; and neurotic symptoms such as paranoia, insecurity, narcissism, and kinky sexual urges.
Frustration and fears about rapidly growing automation.
Computers operate on simple principles that can easily be understood by anybody with some common sense, a little imagination, and an IQ of 750. – Dave Barry
Group differences:
We fear control and intimidation by people of different colors or religions; and so, by derision, we attempt to stereotype their physical appearances, ethnic mannerism, a colloquial speech-any unique characteristic we find odd.
We feel the same way about people with different social attitudes about drugs, sex, education, professions-even music, literature, and humor.
As long as we're in the majority, humor can criticize.
Realism:
Most good jokes state a bitter truth. Without some fundamental basis of truth, there's little with which the audience can associate.
But jokes also bend the truth, and the challenge is to learn how to tell the truth (be realistic) while lying (exaggerating).
The unexpected juxtaposition of the reasonable next to the unreasonable-and that creates surprise.
The basic two-step in humor is to (a) state some common problem, frequently with a cliché, and (b) create an unexpected ending or surprise.
Incongruous humor is based on the premise of two or more realistic (but contrasting) circumstances united in one thought. "Humor results from the contrast between a thing as it is and ought to be, and a thing smashed out of shape, as it ought not to be."
To be most effective, the "facts" of humor should be logical—the relationship between people should be clear and predictable, the time and the locale of the story should be familiar, the hostility should be common to all the audience members and commensurate to the irritation.
Major deviations from reality don't prevent humor, but they may reduce the payoff of uninhibited laughter. In essence, then, humor should be as realistic as possible.
Exaggeration :
Humor grants permission to expand on realistic themes with soaring imagination and unabashed metaphors.
It's the likely next to the unlikely.
Emotion:
There must be a buildup of anticipation in the audience.
A great comedic performer must be an actor with boundless energy.
The ability to generate emotion is the ability of the speaker to translate the writer's material into entertainment through voice, enthusiasm, and action.
The ability to create emotion is also experience: knowing when to pause and for how long, creating a rhythm with inflection, and sometimes nothing more grandiose than making a gesture—called a take, because it takes the right gesture.
How do you build emotion?
1. The first and most common technique for building emotion is also the simplest—pausing just before the payoff word. This pause is called a pregnant pause because it promises to deliver.
Even in Henny Youngman's classic, "Take my wife—please!" the slight pause indicated by the dash is essential to the reading of that line. (Try to read it any other way!) The pregnant pause creates tension, which is relieved by the surprise ending.
2. The second technique for generating emotion is asking the audience members a question, thereby encouraging them to become involved. This was one of Johnny Carson's favorite devices.
3. The third technique is called a build, which is a joke that leads to a joke that leads to another joke. Ultimately, the jokes work together to prepare the audience for one big blast.
4. The fourth way to build emotional tension is by working the audience—a favorite device of today's stand-up comedians. The performer walks out into the audience and throws questions at (what appears to be) randomly selected members. Tension builds in each audience member not from amazement that the comic is able to come up with toppers to every answer, but from the fear that he or she may be the next victim of the performer's ridicule.
As a new comedian you must: Create jokes from scratch.
You can start by watching people's antics in public, on TV, and in movies, and you read about them in the news stories. You use the " what if " technique to stimulate your brain.
The success of a comedy written and performed based on POW depends on the manners and inflections of the performer and on the audience's knowledge of the nuances of the language.
The most important techniques of POW:
1. Double entendre
2. Malaprop
3. Oxymoron
4. Pun
5. Reforming
6. Simple truth
7. Take-Off
Double Entenders
A double entendre is the use of an ambiguous word or phrase that allows for a second usually racy interpretation.
Double entenders make up 40% of all cliché humor because they're so easy to construct.
Two definitions in one. The public assumes a meaning; the comedian sneaks in another.
Creating Double Entendres:
The most popular double entendre is the word it, which can be used to mean a hundred different things, but is used most often in humor as a synonym for intercourse. For example, Librarians do it with books, Lawyers do it in their briefs or Bankers do it with interest.
The second most common double entendre is the word in, which also has an obvious sexual connotation.
The second meaning of the keyword or phrase of a double entendre does not have to be racy or sexual.
More sophisticated forms of double entendre make use of irony and sarcasm. Irony is a statement that is the opposite of what is intended. Sarcasm is defined similarly, but sarcasm usually has more of a bite, the sting of open ridicule.
Irony can be expressed in many ways, but it's often the result of evoking an absurd meaning from a standard phrase.
Hillary Clinton said she once got a dog for Bill. She said it was the best deal she ever made.
Given the abundance of double entendres with sexual connotations, beginning humor writers often abuse them through overuse.
The professional humorist recognizes that the problem is not to find them but avoid them.
They're just too easy a joke. Many audiences think they are adolescent and cheap—a sign of an amateur.
Malaprop
Malaprop (sometimes referred to as malapropism) is an unintentionally inaccurate statement or unintentional misuse of a word or phrase, or an accidental substitution of an incorrect word for a correct (similar) word – with humorous effect. These examples of crooked language only qualify as malaprops if the person speaking them is unaware (or appears to be unaware) of the error.
An age-old rule in comedy is never to make more than three jokes on the same subject, and some comedy writers will say that two is a lot. The same rule applies to using the same technique multiple times in a joke.
Note that malaprops give the audience a chance to mock the speaker's confusion with English, and thereby feel superior.
That restaurant is so popular, nobody goes there anymore – Yogi Berra
They misunderestimated me.
An oxymoron is a joining of two incompatible ideas in a single phrase. It can also be called a contradiction in terms.
Found missing
Alone together
Small crowd
Exact estimate
A pun is created from the intentional confusion of similar-sounding words or phrases. Puns, which overlap with double entendres and homonyms, can be used as the basis for a joke or to reform an expression or cliché. They work better when spoken or heard than they do in print because the ear transmits to the mind the most familiar interpretation of each word.
Puns are very versatile and can be used in a number of formats. They can take the form of riddles.
What does a grape say when you step on it?
Nothing. It just gives a little whine.
Asphalt, another word for rectal problems.
Reforming
An invaluable POW technique, reforming is the process of altering a word, expression, phrase, or cliché to arrive at a twist that cleverly changes the point of view.
TRANSPOSE WORDS. The first way to reform a phrase or cliché is to transpose the words to create a new related thought.
REPLACE A PEW LETTER IN A KEYWORD. The second and most frequent type of reforming is replacing one or two letters in a key word of an expression in order to achieve a surprise turn of phrase.
USE A HOMONYM. The third way to reform a cliché is to use a homonym, a similar sounding word with a second possible interpretation. Reforming with homonyms often creates double entendres or puns.
A common reforming process using homonyms is called a split-reforming. The split reforming involves separating or fracturing one word into two to get a surprise double meaning.
Split reforming can include changing suffixes or interpreting suffixes as homonyms.
The split reform also includes the separation of a compound word in two.
Some newspaper bloopers-known as typos-form serendipitous puns.
One of the most common split-reforms begins with a word that starts with the letter a (alone, around, abreast, apparent, apiece, ahead). The initial a is detached, and the second half of the word is allowed to stand alone.
Other common types of split-reform are the addition, deletion, or separation of prefix (such as-, an-, pre-, un-, and in-) from a word.
Split-reform can include changing suffixes or interpreting suffixes as homonyms (such as ize for eyes)
Another category of split-reform reinterprets an -er ending as the word her (catcher, licker, freezer, player), or capitalizes on words that begin with sound (harass). Words that contain a him, sound (vitamin, Himalayan, hemisphere) work as well.
The Simple Truth and the Take-Off
The simple truth is a technique for creating humor by considering the implications of the literal meaning of such expressions-without their context of logical assumptions.
The simple truth makes logic illogical.
I was trying to get back to my original weight—seven pounds, three ounces. —Cheryl Vendetti
The Take-off is the most traditional of all humor techniques. Like the simple truth, take-off begins with a standard expression or a cliché. But it continues with an outrageous commentary, often containing a double entendre.
I say live and let live. Anyone who can't accept that should be executed. – George Carlin
My mind wanders a lot, but fortunately, it's too weak to go very far. —Bob Thaves
One of the ways to understand this technique is to think like a child.
I went to a bookstore and asked the saleswoman where the self-help section was. She said if she told me it would defeat the purpose. —Dennis Miller
To create a simple truth, reexamine every major word in a phrase, reject its most common meaning within its context, and reinterpret it literally.
When I got divorced, I missed my husband, but I'm getting to be a better shot. —Sheila Kay
I like a girl with a head on her shoulders. No neck!
In the simple truth, we are linguistic specialists concerned with knowing exactly what the literal logic of a word conveys.
You can try visualizing a phrase or a cliché to help you move past the standard interpretation.
I like a girl with a head on her shoulders, because I hate necks. — Steve Martin
Let's illustrate the construction of a simple truth by examining the double entendre possibilities of the word join.
Join has three possible definitions: (a) to cooperate, to become a member, to enlist; (b) to unite, to bring together, to touch; and (c) to argue, to quarrel, to engage in battle.
In humor writing, the choice is always up to you. When a friend asks, "Will you join me?" the obvious understanding is that he's using the first definition ("to get together"). But if you base your answer on the second definition ("uniting"), your reply can create humor by surprise: "Why, are you coming apart?"
If, on the other hand, you're asked, "Please join me in a cup of coffee,"
The incongruity of the first definition allows you to respond, "Only if there's enough room in the cup."
In a basic simple truth construction, the first part of the sentence or paragraph is a cliché. The second part (the punchline) is an unexpected interpretation because it is literally realistic.
Doctor: I don't like the looks of your husband.
Wife: Neither do I, doctor, but he's good to the children. — Larry Wilde
Your goal is to avoid the extra words and to joke as soon as possible. Brent Forrester defined this as the humor and duration principle, which in layman's terms states that the less time you take to come up with the joke, the more fun the joke will be. Embellishing a setup or punchline lessens the funny side of a joke.
The proper setup for a simple truth joke is essential.
Research reports and statistics are excellent sources from simple-truth humor material.
You can combine simple truths as well, with toppers. A series of three or four punchlines, each related to the previous.
The length of the pause between every punchline is a matter of judgment. Knowing how long to pause separates the amateur from the pro.
Simple truths and mispronunciation :
You can collect your own mispronunciation double entendres by reading the words in the dictionary aloud. Once you find one, your cleverness must add the punchline.
Simple Truths and Non-Sequiturs:
Another category of simple truth humor is the non sequitur, an illogical statement that is humorous because of the juxtaposition of two unrelated elements.
I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got in my pajamas, I'll never know. —Groucho Marx
Store sign: "Big Sale—Last Week!" Why are they telling me this? I already missed it. —Yakov Smirnoff
The idea behind the take-off, one of the most popular formulas in humor writing, is to draw a humorous conclusion from the intended meaning of a standard cliché.
The take-off is a statement of the standard version of a cliché or phrase, followed by a realistic but very exaggerated, often double entendre, commentary.
In the take-off, the phrase or cliché can either start the joke or be the punchline, but the clihcé is typically used as an introduction, and the surprise take-off is the big payoff at the conclusion of the joke.
Let a smile be your umbrella—and your hair will be a big mess.
Where there's a will, there's a family fighting over it. —Buzz Nutley
Animals may be our friends. But they won't pick you up at the airport. —Bobcat Goldthwait
Comedy is in my blood. Frankly, I wish it were in my act! —Rodney Dangerfield
Honesty is the best policy, but insanity is a better defense. —Steve Landesberg
Whether you put the cliché first or second in a take-off depends on which ending holds surprise to the last possible moment.
You may perform the joke with the clihcé first, but remember the humor is written backward.
That means you must first find the cliché you want to work on, then build a story around it.
The trick is not to telegraph the punchline.
Dad always said that laughter is the best medicine, which is why several of us died from tuberculosis.
Make sure the joke is the last possible thought, and don't add other words to the sentence after the joke.
If you do, the audience will think that your take-off was only a setup for a topper-and they'll be disappointed when that topper doesn't pop up.
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Florida State and Auburn put on a show Monday night with a college football championship game that went down to the wire and ended with Heisman Trophy-winning quarterback Jameis Winston throwing a touchdown pass with just 13 seconds to go to bring Florida State the crown.
At one point, the Seminoles were behind by 18 points.
The final score: Florida State 34, Auburn 31.
So, the teams didn't combine for the 100 points or more that some were predicting.
But the game — the last for the Bowl Championship Series system of choosing the NCAA's Division I champion — was a thriller, as NPR's Tom Goldman said on Morning Edition.
Just consider what happened in the final 4 1/2 minutes:
— With Auburn ahead 24-20, Florida State's Kermit Whitfield returned a kickoff 100 yards to put his team back into the lead, 27-24.
— Auburn responded with a 75-yard scoring drive, capped by running back Tre Mason's 37-yard rush for a touchdown. That put the Tigers ahead; 31-27. Auburn was 1 minute, 19 seconds away from winning the championship.
— But Florida State came back. Beginning with the ball on their own 20-yard line, the Seminoles marched down the field. They won the game on Winston's 2-yard touchdown pass to receiver Kelvin Benjamin.
This morning's headlines help tell the story about last night's game in Pasadena, Calif.:
— "Grand Finale" (ESPN)
— "Magical Ending" (Sports Illustrated)
As we said Monday, next year the NCAA drops the BCS system, which has led to arguments over the years about whether the right two teams were playing for the title, in favor of a four-team playoff format. That likely means that next year the arguments will be over whether the right four teams are in the playoffs.
The Ongoing Disagreement Between Polis And Hospitals Over Reinsurance Just Boiled Over Into The Courts


Citation: C N Trueman "William III"
William III became king of Great Britain after the 1688 Revolution. William, along with his wife Mary II, was crowned on February 13th 1689 after Parliament had decreed that James II had abdicated the throne and that William should succeed him.
William was born in November 1650 the only child of Prince William II, the Stadtholder of Holland. His mother, Mary Stuart, was the daughter of Charles I. Therefore, William's credibility in England was cemented by the fact that he himself had a bloodline to the Stuarts. William married Mary, daughter of James II, in 1677. This marriage in its original state was a political union but both became inseparable as their marriage progressed.
Before being asked by senior political figures in England to land with a military force to overthrow James, William had established a good reputation in the United Provinces as a competent military commander. William had saved the United Provinces from being conquered by Louis XIV in the Franco-Dutch War (1672-79) and had helped to govern the state, along with regents. William was seen as a main protector of the Protestant faith in Western Europe and for those in England who believed that James II was pushing the country down the road of Catholicism, William was a natural replacement. It was also useful that William had a bloodline to the Stuarts. His wife Mary had made her Protestant credentials clear, especially when her younger brother was born and a future Catholic king seemed probable.
When William became king of England, leadership of the United Provinces was somewhat left in limbo as a period of 'stadtholderless' occurred when the United Provinces was governed by the Grand Pensionary led by Anthonie Heinsius.
As king of England, William wanted to continue his 'crusade' against France and Louis XIV.
Domestically, William had to somehow understand what was an alien political system to him. Before the 1688 Revolution, the Whig Party had stood as a single entity. Senior figures in the Whig Party had signed the Invitation to William. Now, in William's reign, the Whigs split in two – the Court Whigs and the Country Whigs. The Court Whigs, with its leadership known as the Junto, gave their full support to the new king. The Country Whigs remained suspicious of a foreign king and wary of the Court Whigs.
The Tories developed a tentative alliance with the Country Whigs as it was the Court Whigs who found favour at William's court. For his part, William relied on the 2nd Earl of Sunderland for advice – though it was usual for William to listen to himself. Sunderland was a non-party man who was not shackled to any of the beliefs and ideas of both the Whigs and Tories. While not a Prime Minister in any sense of the term, Sunderland was seen as the senior political figure in the country and one who served the king as opposed to allowing party politics to shape his views.
William listened to his few advisors in silence, took an age to weigh up all the possibilities while his advisors waited on – and then came to a decision. Contemporary accounts make it clear that the few advisors who attended William found the whole process – especially the long periods of silence – very disconcerting.
William himself believed that certain areas of government were too important to delegate. He took control of the Treasury, foreign matters and the armed forces. William was also the main driving force behind diplomatic matters in Europe, especially the Grand Alliance against Louis XIV. Few doubted William's work ethic and on many occasions he worked late into the night on matters of state. William took ownership of certain areas of government simply because he did not fully trust senior politicians who he believed would put a political slant on decision making.
Within government, William divided up political posts among different parties. In this way he hoped to avoid the issue of one party becoming more dominant than others. He also hoped to engender in those who worked for him a greater sense of loyalty to the country than to party or personal beliefs. William's first ministry was made up of a combination of people with a varied political background (Danby and Sunderland included). However, by 1693, he had moved more to the Whigs as they were more supportive of his European ventures as opposed to the Tories who were not. Over the next few years the Whig dominated government introduced what some have described as a 'financial revolution' – measures that have lasted until today. In 1693, a National Debt was created; in 1694, the Bank of England was created and in 1696 recoinage was introduced. These were to formally part merge the financial world with Parliament and government for the first time.
There were those politicians who were very wary about such an expansion of government power, especially one based around a standing army led by the king. These men gathered themselves around Robert Harley who founded the New Country Party out of concerned Whigs and Tories. When conflict in Europe died down (around 1697), there seem less of a demand for the reforms brought in by the Whigs and William. In 1698, William pushed to one side the Whigs who had loyally supported him and brought into his political fold the Tories who had previously opposed his foreign policy. When war in Europe broke out again (The War of Spanish Succession), the Tories were dropped and the Whigs once again admitted into government in 1701.
William's foreign policy was dominated by his campaign against Louis XIV and his supporters. In September 1697, Louis had signed the Treaty of Rijswijk in which France agreed to give up all her territories conquered after 1678 (with the exception of Strasburg) and by which Louis recognised William as the rightful king of England with Anne as his rightful heir. By doing this it appeared as if Louis had abandoned his previous support of the exiled Stuarts. However, war in Europe was reignited by the attempt by France to inherit the Spanish empire. Louis also did not endear himself to William when he announced his support for the 'Old Pretender', the son of James II, to be king of England. The War of Spanish Succession required William to formulate a new series of alliances.
He was well on the way to creating a European alliance against Louis XIV when his work was cut short. On February 21st 1702, William was riding in Richmond Park when his horse stumbled on a mole hill. The king was thrown from his horse and he broke a collar bone. His weakened body could not take the shock and William died at Kensington Palace in March 8th 1702.


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This is the fourth part of a six-part series on WiFi at events. Our next "C" of good wireless network design is congestion. Because radio frequency waves are not visible and they don't take up physical space, it seems logical that there would be no limit to the number of signals that can effectively fly around at the same time.
Unfortunately, this is not the case. WiFi has a distinct number of channels, very similar to the different channels on the radio you listen to in your car. If you have ever brought a MiFi device into a crowded trade show, chances are you had one heck of a time trying to connect to it (and stay connected). This is because there are only three non-overlapping channels on which a MiFi can transmit.
So imagine that your MiFi device is like a radio station transmitting a song and your computer is a boombox listening to the song. You will be able to pick up the song crystal clear if you are located close to the radio station's antenna and there are no other radio stations nearby broadcasting on the same frequency.
But now assume you are transmitting at a trade show, where there are DOZENS of other people transmitting on the SAME station (from here on, we'll call it a channel). Your computer will be listening for your song but all it will hear is garbled static. This is what happens with your MiFi device on the trade show floor. But fear not, there is a solution.
Without going into too much detail, older access points (including all MiFi devices on the market right now) have radios with the ability to transmit on three non-overlapping channels on the 2.4 GHz spectrum. However, newer access points can transmit on the 5 GHz spectrum with 21 non-overlapping channels If your access point has multiple radios, it's possible that each radio can be configured to broadcast on a different channel (either on 2.4 or 5 GHz).
The important take away here is that simply putting more access points with more radios into a small space is not an effective method of providing a better network. Rather, it will likely lead to more problems due to channel congestion.
Nevertheless, this strategy of haphazardly increasing the number of access points is often times what venues do when they need to increase the capacity of their network. Rather than redesigning the network as a whole to ensure the most effective use of 24 different channels, they simply add more access points, introducing interference into their own network.
In the absence of an entire investigation into the channel setup, a good question to ask your venue is whether their access points broadcast solely on the older 2.4 GHz spectrum or both the 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz spectrums (giving you up to 24 distinct channels). Doing so will ensure that even if people bring their own WiFi emitting devices, you won't all be competing for the same three channels.
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Directed by Anders Helgeson & Karin af Klintber
Nice people live in the Swedish town of Borlänge, if you believe the town's motto. But the predominantly white townsfolk are struggling to accept the growing community of Somali refugees.
Something needs to be done, so local entrepreneur Patrik Andersson embarks on a quest to use sport as a bridge to bring the town closer together. The goal: to create the first ever Somali national bandy team and make it to the World Championship in Siberia (Bandy is a fiercely competitive form of ice hockey).
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John Fetter, Lead Electrical Engineer, Receives the Charles Steinmetz Award for Technical Merit
Each year the Electric Association of Chicago's Consulting Electrical Engineers Division (CEE) selects a small number of electrical engineers from across the industry and recognizes them for their technical merit and service. Among those awards is The Charles Steinmetz Award for Technical Merit, which is awarded to the consulting electrical engineer who has distinguished himself/herself among his/her peers by innovative design of a project with greater than one million dollars of electrical equipment installed. This year, we are pleased to announce that our very own John Fetter, PE, REP, LEED Green Associate, was selected for this prestigious recognition for his dedication and work on our Chicago North Facility project.
John served as the lead Electrical Engineer on Chicago North, a 30-acre multi-phased redevelopment of an existing facility on the northwest side of Chicago. The facility is owned by Commonwealth Edison (ComEd) and serves as the northern headquarters for their operations for a large portion of the city. Planned improvements under this project include a showcase office building, a 10,000-square-foot STEM education and visitor center, an improved warehouse/supply shop building, and improved vehicle parking areas. As the electrical engineer for the project, John oversaw the complete electrical design for the warehouse and is also currently working on the electrical design for both the site power distribution, and the office, which is anticipating LEED Platinum certification.
The new site supports economic growth in the area and the creation of new jobs in the community. The final completed project will also ensure the continued delivery of safe and reliable energy for more than 1 million ComEd customers. Primera is proud to be a part of this project and of our long-standing partnership with ComEd. We would also like to congratulate John, and the other CEE Award winners, on their achievements.
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Everyone Loves Tina: A love letter to '30 Rock'
Jake Martin May 25, 2009
Television loves television and everyone loves Tina Fey. The former has been apparent at least since the first time Laura Petrie sent her hubby Rob off to work as a writer on "The Alan Brady Show," the fictional television series within a television series on "The Dick Van Dyke Show." The latter became abundantly clear last fall when Fey's trademark glasses seemed to be on every magazine cover thanks in no small part to her turn as hapless vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin on "Saturday Night Live."
So it would only seem logical that a television show about television starring Tina Fey couldn't help but be a hit, right? Wrong. For all of Fey's popularity and the Emmys heaped on her show, her brainchild, "30 Rock" remains mired in ratings mediocrity.
For those of you who have never seen the show and, apparently, that is more than a few of you, it centers on the cast and crew of "TGS," a fictional sketch comedy series in the vein of "Saturday Night Live." Fey plays Liz Lemon, the head writer, who spends the greater part of her time trying to manage the chaos of her professional life, while stumbling from one bad relationship to the next. This may sound eerily similar to the iconic Mary Richards and crew of "The Mary Tyler Moore Show," but "30 Rock" takes it as a starting point to create something: a show within a show for the new millennium.
"30 Rock" seems to revel in pilfering from a multiplicity of pop culture sources and turning them on their heads. One ingenious example occurs in an episode in which the narrative and cinematographic style of Milos Forman's "Amadeus" is mapped onto a story about "TGS" star Tracy Jordan's attempt to develop an adult video game in order to secure the admiration of his children. (Jordan is played by the absurdly talented Tracy Morgan.) One of the show's greatest strengths is this unyielding self-awareness: the show is conscious that everything it is doing has already been done before. This edgy, referential style combined with its manic pacing and swift, peppy score contribute to a feeling of detached hipness.
However, its deconstructive irony is only a veneer: the true beauty of the show lies in its fierce commitment to authentic characterizations. Unlike such structurally innovative shows as "Seinfeld," which never let its audience forget that it was in on the joke and consequently seemed to prohibit any significant emotional investment, "30 Rock" never gets bogged down in its own slickness. The writers and performers have a concern for the humanity of their characters that overrides the show's formal conceits.
All the standard character types are present: the narcissistic boss, the blonde bimbo, the Bible-belt cracker, yet the actors and writers of "30 Rock" are not satisfied with mere caricatures, as is often the case for TV comedies. Instead, the show does it the hard way, presenting a collection of fully realized personalities, who never lose an ounce of their comedic edge by virtue of their humanity.
Alec Baldwin's adroit portrayal of network executive Jack Donaghy illustrates the shows commitment to authenticity. Jack Donaghy is a role that, at first glance, doesn't need to be any more than the typical high-status buffoon on the order of the incompetent middle-manager Michael Scott of "The Office." Yet Baldwin and the writers have created a character with nuance--one who is both competent in his job (something verboten in television comedy characters in positions of leadership) and concerned about his colleagues; all the while never losing his searing wit and enormous ego. "30 Rock" finds its comedy in the truth of its characters' humanity rather than trying to create humor out of stereotypes and clichés.
Ultimately, though, it is Fey herself who is the heart and soul of the show. Fey has been a media darling for years, from her work helming the Weekend Update anchor desk on SNL, to her starring turns in the box office hits "Mean Girls" and "Baby Mama." Her Palin appearances last fall cemented her position as one of the most recognizable and powerful women in show business. Yet for all of her personal success, "30 Rock" has yet to find the same kind of popularity as its creator, writer and star.
Perhaps this is because Tina Fey, the glasses-wearing, working mom, seems to be better able to walk the line between hip self-conscious irony and human vulnerability, while "30 Rock," with all of its external gloss, jump cuts and breakneck pacing, might be off putting for a first-time viewer. This is a shame, as the show has so much more to offer than quick one-liners and snappy editing. Beneath its irreverent façade lays an honest and always hilarious account of human frailty with which all of us can identify.
Just as Tina Fey is more than just her glasses, so her show is far more than just its slick packaging.
I've never watched it....but I will now!
What a well written article by Jake! So spot on. I am a big 30 Rock fan (apparently in shorter number than I thought) and I feel Jake's accounting of it's comedic importance is incredibly accurate. Fey and Baldwin are such a dynamic duo and will hopefully solidify their ranking in the comedic company of the Honeymooner's and other greats. Thanks for the great article!
30 Rock produced the single funniest line in a television show, evah.. (Jack Donaghy to Liz Lemmon) "Never go with a hippie to a second location."
Agreed, Although I'd bring up the question of which came first the chicken or the egg (Fey or Palin)? Fey was gaining popularity as an actress and a writer before Palin. I think the (real life) character Sarah Palin was created because someone saw the public appeal of a strong business minded female entrepreneur(Fey). So who is playing who? None the less, this was a very interesting article.
Go for it, Jake Good synopsis of a talented cast and series. Hope it hangs in there, in spite of ratings.
Great article Jake! However, it all comes down to sex appeal. Tina just does'nt measure up to sweet Sarah.
This article also appeared in print, under the headline "Everyone Loves Tina," in the May 25, 2009, issue.
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Jake Martin, S.J., is a Jesuit scholastic studying at Fordham University in New York City.


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Steely Dan brought its "Rockabye Gollie Angel" summer tour to Ravinia in suburban Chicago, and it was a jazzy and classy affair. The two performances at the upscale open-air music venue featured a special set from Chicago-based jazz guitarist Bobby Broom instead of tour opener Elvis Costello and the Imposters. Broom's Organi-Sation trio, initially formed at Steely Dan's behest in 2014 to fill the opening slot on last year's U.S. trek, did a fine job setting the mood for the evening.
Steely Dan's touring band kicked off the show with a cover of "Cubano Chant" by Ray Bryant before Donald Fagen, Walter Becker, and three backup singers joined them onstage. The full ensemble treated the sold-out crowd to a delectable version of "Black Cow," and then eased into the title track from Aja.
During the spirited version of "Hey Nineteen," Becker commented on the good vibes in the venue. "Tonight, it's gonna be the zenith, the peak of the summer.... because you're here, Steely Dan fans. We're all gonna feel like we've been rode hard and put up wet," he said.


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Q: UISrcollView in IOS 6 I created a UIScrollView with some images. And I made a touch dragging on UIImageView - drag to the next page when we touch it.
I used viewDidAppear to scroll till the end of UIScrollView :
- (void)viewDidAppear:(BOOL)animated {
    [super viewDidAppear:animated];
    self.scroll.contentSize = CGSizeMake(320, 1400);
}

But when I used Swipe Gesture Recognizer to drag back UIScrollView, I cant scroll to bottom like when begin run the app. How can I solve it ?

A: You have to explicitly tell the gesture not to cancel the touches of its content view. Try this:
[swipe setCancelsTouchesInView:NO];

If that doesn't do it, try using the UIGestureRecognizerDelegate method shouldRecognizeSimultaneouslyWithGestureRecognizer:
- (BOOL)gestureRecognizer:(UIGestureRecognizer *)gestureRecognizer shouldRecognizeSimultaneouslyWithGestureRecognizer:(UIGestureRecognizer *)otherGestureRecognizer
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Geologist appeals finding that he sexually harassed grad student in Antarctica
By Meredith Wadman Nov. 28, 2017 , 3:00 PM
David Marchant, a Boston University (BU) geologist who faces termination after an investigation concluded that he sexually harassed a graduate student during fieldwork in Antarctica nearly two decades ago, appealed that finding this week. The move postpones full resolution of a case that has roiled the campus and focused attention on harassment of women at remote field sites.
"Dr. Marchant is extremely disappointed in the findings and continues to maintain that he did not engage in any sexually harassing behavior in 1999 or at any other time," his lawyer, Jeffrey Sankey, in Braintree, Massachusetts, said. Sankey said that the appeal, filed 27 November, argues primarily that BU's 13-month probe produced insufficient evidence to support its findings. The appeals process may take weeks, during which time Marchant will remain off campus on paid administrative leave.
On 17 November, BU concluded by a preponderance of evidence that Marchant sexually harassed then–graduate student Jane Willenbring by aiming repeated sexist slurs such as "slut" and "whore" at her, creating a hostile learning environment. Provost Jean Morrison announced the investigation's findings and recommended Marchant's termination in a published letter. Marchant did not respond to emails seeking comment, nor would BU comment further.
Willenbring, now a geologist at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in San Diego, California, filed her complaint with BU in October 2016, 3 months after earning tenure. She said she waited to do so for fear of reprisal from Marchant.
During the 1999-2000 field season, Willenbring was at an isolated Antarctic site with Marchant, his brother, and then–graduate student Adam Lewis. She alleged sexual slurs as well as physical abuse, saying that Marchant pushed her down a slope and blew volcanic ash laden with glass shards into her eyes. Her complaint was supported by at least three women who worked with Marchant in Antarctica in that era and also said that he mocked their abilities and verbally abused them with sex-based insults. One has filed a formal complaint against him that is still under investigation by BU.
An additional supporting letter came from Stephanie Thomas, who was in Antarctica as an undergrad with Marchant and three other male professors in 2002. After reading about the investigation in Science, Thomas, now an energy analyst with Public Citizen in Houston, Texas, wrote to BU investigators that Marchant entered her tent and told her: "I am the king, and you are my servant," and "I am the master, and you are the slave."
This picture contrasts with one painted by other women who worked with, or for, Marchant more recently, and have called him a gifted teacher and non-sexist mentor.
The investigators of BU's Equal Opportunity Office did not find Marchant guilty of physically harassing Willenbring. She calls their written report "only half-right." According to Willenbring, the investigators wrote that some witnesses were likely "contaminated" because they had read press coverage of her complaint.
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Willenbring says investigators also discounted a written statement from Lewis, now a geologist in Calgary, Canada, because of a later professional dispute with Marchant and because he and Willenbring are friends. Lewis wrote that he witnessed the ash-blowing incident and saw Marchant grab and push Willenbring. She adds that the BU report did not cite an incident alleged by Hillary Tulley, a Skokie, Illinois, teacher, who wrote in a supporting letter that during the 1998–99 field season she "was aggressively grabbed by Marchant."
Still, the investigators concluded that Willenbring's account of verbal abuse was credible because several women, including Tulley, reported similar sexual slurs from Marchant in the field around this time. "I'm happy that they saw the collective experiences of many women as enough proof," Willenbring says.
Tulley says, "I feel much better that no one else will ever have to go through that with [Marchant]. Jane's courage is going to … make things a lot safer for everybody."
BU's actions were welcomed by others.Geophysicist Marcia McNutt, president of the National Academy of Sciences and former editor-in-chief of Science, said, "I really want to congratulate BU for … taking what seems like very appropriate action."
The U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Science, Space, and Technology has also launched a bipartisan investigation into the Marchant case, noting that he received more than $5.4 million in federal funding from the National Science Foundation and NASA. Brandon VerVelde, the committee's press secretary, wrote in an email: "The troubling allegations of sexual harassment towards female researchers are now confirmed by the Boston University investigation," whose report the committee has. "Any behavior that stymies the advancement and support of women in science should not be tolerated and we will continue to seek all surrounding facts," he added. VerVelde encouraged "anyone with additional information" about Marchant or any other "improper behavior in the scientific community" to contact the committee.
Willenbring says her message to female scientists is twofold: "This sort of thing is no longer acceptable in science." Yet, she cautions: "Complaining about sexual harassment is a long, hard road full of uncertainty."
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September 11, 2008 Directed by Cukor with his trademark elegance, and proof of the filmmaker's famed ability to direct female actresses, this sparkling satire on backbiting, privileged women continues to delight.
June 23, 2006 Cukor's all-star version of Booth's stinging play is all about wisecracking cattiness of wives and mistresses (of the upper class), confirming men's suspicions of what women talk about when they are not around.
September 11, 2008 The catty banter and Wildean aphorisms (some of them contributed by Anita Loos) are delivered with impeccable timing by a cast only MGM could have mustered.
January 26, 2006 A more eccentric film than the following year's The Philadelphia Story, with which it shares a couple of faces, it's almost as fabulous.
July 20, 2007 a bitchy but endearing mix of comedy and melodrama. Norma Shearer holds the chaos together with improbable dignity.
September 11, 2008 [Cukor is] at his best with a cast that includes Rosalind Russell, Norma Shearer, Joan Crawford, Hedda Hopper, Ruth Hussey, Paulette Goddard, and Joan Fontaine.
September 11, 2008 A film that deserves to be seen (or seen again).
May 30, 2008 Picture however holds passages that slow movement down to a walk.
January 17, 2007 It's the irrevocable women's pic of the 1930s.
September 12, 2008 Isn't quite as nasty as it probably could have been, coming several years after the establishment of the Hays Code, but it's still plenty witty.