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China Unveils Three New Nuclear-Powered Attack Submarines
The Chinese Navy is preparing to commission three new, nuclear-powered attack submarines with a vertical launching system able to fire supersonic anti-ship missiles, a report from China Daily said.
The China Central Television showed satellite pictures earlier this week of the three submarines anchored at an unidentified port claiming that the new submarines are China's most advanced Type-093G attack submarines.
"The Type-093G is reported to be an upgraded version of Type-093, China's second-generation nuclear-powered attack submarine, which entered active service several years ago. With a teardrop hull, the submarine is longer than its predecessor and has a vertical launching system," according to the China Daily report.
The Chinese navy's website said the new variant is engineered to reduce noise, improve speed and mobility and fire China's latest YJ-18 supersonic anti-ship missile, according to the report.
These recent developments involving Chinese submarine acquisition is not likely to surprise U.S. observers who have repeatedly been vocal about the pace of China's naval and overall military modernization.
In fact, Navy leaders told lawmakers in February that the Chinese navy now operates a greater number of attack submarines than the U.S. military and is rapidly expanding the scope of their undersea missions and patrols.
Mulloy cited Chinese production and testing of submarine launched weapons and said that one SSBN – or ballistic missile submarine capable of launching nuclear weapons – went on a very long 95-day at sea patrol.
This development inspired many news reports and public commentary about the prospect that nuclear-armed Chinese ballistic missile submarines would have the ability to potentially strike parts of Alaska and Hawaii from various undersea locations in the Pacific Ocean.
The commission said Chinese modernization plans call for a sharp increase in attack submarines and nuclear-armed submarines or SSBNs. Chinese SSBNs are now able to patrol with nuclear-armed JL-2 missiles able to strike targets more than 4,500 nautical miles.
In addition, the Chinese are currently working on a new, modernized SSBN platform as well as a long-range missile, the JL-3, the commission said.
The commission also specifically addressed areas of Chinese-Russian military developmental cooperation, saying the two countries are working on a joint deal to build new attack submarines.
"China is pursuing joint-design and production of four to six Russian advanced diesel-electric attack submarines containing Russia's latest submarine sonar, propulsion, and quieting technology. The deal would improve the PLA Navy's capabilities and assist China's development of quiet submarines, thus complicating future U.S. efforts to track and counter PLA submarines," the commission writes.
"What they are doing with patrols is just the tip of the iceberg. It is not just the number of the ships, but within five to eight years they will have about 82 submarines in the Asia Pacific area and we will have about 32 to 34," he told Military.com last summer.
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Mohammad Abaspourqadi
They Dance in the Mountains
Mohammad writes:
"I am Taro Misaki, second to Captain Tsubasa; I am Dennis Bergkamp, second to Thierry Henry; I am a tonbak, second to the santur. I am the second. The second guy. All my life, in all stories, in all cartoons, in all events, I go nowhere near the main guy. I always look for the second guy. With all my power, I look for the second guy. I have never been the first hero in any story. I have always been the second.
"I wanted to be second. Being second was my place. Maybe even more lovable than the first. When I look back at my life, at my years of childhood, I see that never, not in simulation games, not in heroic tales, not in games of childhood, was I ever the first guy. I wasn't Tsubasa, I was Taro. In my football team, Henry astonished all but I prefered Bergkamp who was a line behind, giving assistance to the strikers.
"They once asked me to head an association at university, to be its number one person. I didn't accept. I become the deputy in the same association. When it came to musical instruments, I chose to play the tonbak, which is secondary to others. The tar and santur are the heroes in music; but I am the tonbak, that second sound, whether you like it or not."
Write to me, Mohammad.
Write to me from beyond the clouds. Just like in those days, so that I can read you, drink in your words and go over your stories again, in search of some calm. Write to me and tell me, on the other side of the long line of darkness, whether now that you, together with you gorgeous darling, are the first people, the first bright green signs in our red grief, you still prefer to be the second?
Are you still worried for your homeland? Do you still think you have left it alone? Do you remember you said you couldn't talk about your country after you left it? What a mad lover of this Iran of ours you were. What do we do now with the stones, woods and mementos that you collected for yourself from the different regions of Iran? You said these stones would be diamonds and jewels to you, wherever you went. What did they do with the stones and mementos you always carried in your luggage? This time, let me ask, on which soil did the stones fall from your lovely hands? The Persian poet Saadi says that stones cry when a beloved leaves. Where are those stones now? In which land are they crying?
Write to me, Zahra.
Write to me and tell me, what did you do with your love of seeing the world? Do you remember you said that the lines of your father's face were kind because he smiled at you so much? Tell me, what should he do now, with the deep lines of his forehead? With the constant moisture in his eyes?
Write to me and tell me, are you still clamoring for the leaves of autumn? Do you remember your last day on earth, when you said "Looking at the mountains gives me a deep feeling of suspension"? Our beautiful, beautiful mountain. When we look at it now, we are all tears. Write for me and tell me, are you still in love with the Alvand mountains? Do you remember when you wrote, "Whenever I look at Alvand, I know why my ancestors stopped here as they were passing through. They had to stay. Now that I am far from it, it is the symbol of all that I miss."
How can the mountains you loved forget the echo of Mohammad's laughter? How can the fields forget how passionately the two of you ran and jumped together? You, the kindest friends of nature.
Do you remember how, from the first day after you got your masters degree in civil engineering from K. N. Toosi University of Technology as the top student in your class, you became a professor who loved her students? Do you remember resisting all the pressure to not give anyone falsified grades? Remember how you and Mohammad decided to move to Canada to continue your work and research?
Write to me and tell me, are you still worried for the world? What days and nights did you spend researching and working to bring down energy use in greenhouses? Now your research is lying in a lab, awaiting your return. No one knows how to fill your shoes, Zahra. Maybe no one knows how to tame the greenhouses so they expend less energy. No one was surprised that you tamed the greenhouses. You tamed the world around you with your kindness.
Look now. Which greenhouse are you now? We can't even see you. How can we believe all that passion for improving the world is gone? How can we believe that of all the efforts and civil projects Mohammad did in a company in Canada, only a memento stone will stand in that company forever?
What can we do with Mohammad's letter of acceptance from Canada's engineering association? The one you got one night – before you got on that plane. How can we believe all that passion for building a better tomorrow is gone now?
Write to me, Mohammad. Write to me, Zahra.
Write for me seven years of your pure tale of love; from when you met to how you flew to the heavens, like classic lovers. A flight that broke the heart of the world. You loved life and, as Mohammad said, you preferred to be the second characters and not the protagonists of a bitter drama whose unfulfilled wishes make the story. Write to me and tell me: is love, as you experienced it, truly the elixir of content and happiness? What was the secret of content given to you and denied to us? We, this primitive tribe of grief?
Zahra, write to me and tell me, in the quietness of your kind heart, do you still knit scarves for Mohammad so he can be warmed with love in the cold of winter? Are you still made jubilant by the words of his heart that Mohammad wrote for you in a notebook?
Zahra, write to me and tell me, do you not miss greeting your favorite tree? The one you used to greet since childhood? The tree that still awaits your greeting. How about you, Mohammad? Do you not miss the scent of orange blossoms in the alleyways of Babol? Mohammad, write to me and tell me, do you still like to watch Arsenal play? Where are your precise analyses of football? You were wonderful in analysis because you had read so much. Now write to me and tell me, how do we analyze the story of your departure which leaves us in rage and confusion?
Do you remember the suitcase full of books you took to Canada? We still don't know, where is your sitar manual? The one you took with you along with your other books. Didn't you want to learn the Neynava album of Master Alizade and play it for us? Wasn't your book, which was burnt, just like our hearts, an object of interest for journalists? They burnt that too. Maybe you knew you would be the first person in the story this time. Maybe that's why you left us the tonbak, that instrument you said was like "the second guy".
Zahra, write to me and tell me, with your beautiful lover, Mohammad, where in the vast dominion of the heavens did you put down your Haft-sin of paradise so that the missiles couldn't reach it? Write for me of the day when the wild olives of your Haft-sin were burnt in the heavens. To which world did you take the spring with you? Our world didn't have a spring this year.
Mohammad, do you remember writing, "It doesn't matter how one lives; what matters is where one is buried, where one turns to ashes"? Do you know what the writings you left for us are doing to our hearts? One day you wrote, "I have willed that after my death, my body should be buried under a bitter orange tree so that its scentful blossoms can fall on my grave every spring. This will shall be credible only to the moment I die. After that, there is nothing. It doesn't matter."
That day, we could never imagine we'd have to do this in the spring of your youth. Now, at the age of 33, you will be visited by the orange blossoms.
Write to me, Mohammad. Write to me, Zahra. I am so afraid of the silence that will follow your departure…
Writer: Hamid Salimi
Translator: Arash Azizi
Editor: Hannah Somerville
With the support of iranwire.com
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Statement by Minister Flanagan on Policing operations in Drogheda and east Meath
I would like to thank the Deputy for raising this matter.
Let me begin by condemning the violent loss of life that occurred on Monday last, 4 November, in Bettystown, Co Meath. An Garda Síochána is conducting a full investigation into this matter and Deputies will appreciate that as a result I am limited in what I can say.
However I would appeal to anyone with information on this matter to please contact An Garda Síochána at the incident room at Ashbourne Gard Station or using the Garda Confidential Line on 1800 666 111.
More generally, I also want to clearly say that I am very aware of the concerns of the people in the area referred to by the Deputy. Let me be clear - I can assure the people of Drogheda and East Meath that neither the Government nor An Garda Síochána will permit a small number of individuals to continue to put local communities in fear for their safety.
The Taoiseach and I visited Drogheda in May and we were both very impressed by the robust response which has been put in place by the Garda authorities in the region under Operation Stratus.
Operation Stratus consists of high visibility patrols and checkpoints, days of action and covert policing initiatives, targeting specific parties engaged in feud-related criminality. This operation is supported by Divisional and District uniformed and plain-clothes personnel, in particular:
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Gardaí have made important progress in tackling the threat of organised crime. Gardaí also work closely with colleagues in other jurisdictions in investigating the supply of drugs and guns.
And I do want to remind Deputies that cooperation with other relevant agencies and and intelligence-led policing is producing significant results in the fight against organised criminality.
To take only one example just last week (Tuesday 29/10), Gardaí attached to the Garda National Drugs and Organised Crime Bureau intercepted a commercial haulage vehicle in Dundalk and recovered cannabis herb with an estimated value of €3.2 million, subject to analysis. Two men were arrested and investigations are continuing.
The Government has made unprecedented resources available to An Garda Síochána - €1.76 billion was allocated to the Garda vote for 2019, plus capital investment of €92 million this year. This represents a 50% increase in capital funding on 2018.
Provision for 2020 has been increased to €1.882 billion as well as capital investment of €116 million, which represents a further 26% increase.
And Garda numbers are increasing. We are on track for the Government's target of an overall Garda workforce of 21,000 by 2021.
And so it is clear that An Garda Síochána has the full support of the Government in its ongoing work and we are providing record resources to enable it to perform this critical role.
The purpose of this unprecedented funding as well as Government's support for reform is to ensure the best possible policing services are provided to communities nationwide, including in the area of Drogheda and East Meath referred to by the Deputy.
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An Garda Síochána is a growing organisation. Garda deployments in all areas of the country, including the Northern region, have benefitted from increased Garda recruitment.
Over the past 3 years and due to Government funding, Garda strength in the Northern Region has increased to approx. 1,500. These figures include, for example, the 25 new Gardaí assigned to Drogheda by the Commissioner last June. In total, there are now more than 150 additional Gardaí deployed in the Northern Region compared to the position at the end of 2017.
These Gardaí are supported by approximately 160 Garda Staff ("civilians") in the region, an increase of almost 35% over 3 years. This increase in Garda Staff means that Gardaí can be redeployed from administrative to operational policing duties where their expertise can be used to best effect.
Very significant financial resources have been made available by the Government to An Garda Síochána. The efficient use of those resources, including deployment of personnel, are matters which are by law for the Garda Commissioner.
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Adam Woodhouse joins the agency as new global mandates facilitate the need for dedicated leadership at the office.
Bleublancrouge has named a new creative head in Toronto, hiring Adam Woodhouse as its CD.
Woodhouse has been a freelance art director and creative director since 2006, touching down at agencies including Critical Mass and Infusion and working with brands including Heineken, AT&T, NHL and Air Canada.
Previously, Bleublancrouge did not have a dedicated creative director in its Toronto office. New mandates for international brands, including recently picking up work with Sotheby's International Realty on its 2019 global campaign, facilitated the need for a creative head in the city. Other recent global work the agency has picked up includes an assignment for real estate company Greystar, while the Montreal office was recently the winner of the Desjardins review.
"As a growing agency and an emerging force in the market, we need minds like Adam's to stay sharp and strong on behalf of our ambitious clients," said Wahn Yoon, president of BBR Toronto, in a release, citing Woodhouse's experience working across numerous brands both in Canada and the U.K., as well as his background in design as particular assets for the agency.
In the fall, Bleublancrouge launched Humanise, a collective of seven agencies to collaborate on projects and leverage their respective areas of expertise.


In the city where I work, commercial buildings over a certain size must have designated restrooms for both men and women.
One company that I conduct business with recently remodeled a large warehouse for their offices. They included several "single-holer" unisex restrooms (with locks on the doors) in the plan.
In order to pass final inspection and receive an occupancy permit, they had masking tape on the doors with "MEN" and "WOMEN" written in magic marker.
The inspector signed it off since it complied with the letter of the law. The masking tape was removed shortly thereafter.
There are lots of really stupid codes out there.
We still have to have a cut off switch for a dishwasher. They are usually wall mounted right over the DW, and no one ever operates them. We install ours in the deepest reaches of the sink cabinet, tucked up high next to the sink. It meets code and we have one less switch in the backsplash.
I have a similar experience: a customer has a small upholstery shop in an old building. There are 3 parking spots: he uses one, and two for occasional designer customers.
A fire destroyed his shed which was a separate small building.
Trying to build a new shed, the city, which had no record of the shop and the shed wanted him to dedicate 2 parking spaces for handicap, even though he never has such customers. They also wanted him to put a handicap bathroom in the new shed - taking up about 40% of the space in the shed.
Similar to the handicapped parking spaces at the Ballet studio?
Yes Houston, just like the ballet studio, complete with a sign "handicapped parking only", ramp and blue markings.
There hasn't been a handicapped person in this area for the past 75 years, but the city wants that enforced. Also a handicapped toilet, fully fitted for handicapped.
What do you think he did? That's right, he did exactly that.
Handicap is more than just folks in wheelchairs. In most states, anyone who has limited mobility can ask their physician for qualification to get a handicap parking permit. For example, someone with heart disease that limits the distance they can walk could qualify for a permit.
As for the ballet studio, you can't assume that only highly agile people will have reason to visit.
Here is one that has always bugged me. Gas water heaters that are in the garage must be 18" off the floor. The reason being is gasoline fumes if present, is down near the floor and the flame from the heater could ignite them. (That I understand) But they allow a gas dryer to sit on that same floor.
There are plenty of ridiculous codes out there. One of my worst experiences was when I was hired to finish construction of an owner builder project. The new owner hired me to basically finish the rough shell.
3 - Propane tank within flood plane.
Why weren't the well issues called when the original owner/builder did them years prior? Why wasn't the tank called when it was installed by the supplier, who said that ALL their tanks were installed the same way?
Another thing was that the house was on pilings, to elevate it above flood zone, good thing too, because while on the project, the river flooded and was 3' deep under the house. Where the problem arose is that the owner/builder had enclosed the underside with walls to create a garage. This was apparently done without permit, but inspectors failed to red tag the issue and force the guy to remove it. Once it got wet, then it was a big issue and the inspector was giving the full court press to the new owner to tear out the garage walls.
Now, this instance isn't really about stupid codes, it is about a failed inspection system. None-the-less, it furthers my long standing rant that the requirement of permits is NOT for occupant safety, as it should be, it is about revenue generation for the municipality. Permits are also grossly expensive, another clue that it's about the money and not public safety.
Law enforcement officers caught fake/borrowed/misused handicap cards at a local university (UCLA): they were used by UCLA team athletes and other fully able students, to park in premium parking spots.
The same is happening at post offices, shopping centers and everywhere else where parking is tight.
Fines for misusing handicap cards start at $375.
The State shouldn't be so liberal in handing out those cards.


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September 11 is listed in the "Major Disasters" section, subheading "Aircraft Disasters," of son's new almanac. It is the only hijacking in the list–the rest are accidents–and the phrasing is poor: "Two hijacked planes crashed into the World Trade Center, one into the Pentagon, one went down in a PA field." No, Almanac editors, the planes didn't crash; they were deliberately flown into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. The one in the PA field did crash, and it's due only to the heroism of the doomed passengers who did not allow it deliberately to be flown into yet another important American building full of people. I do not understand people who still insist on avoiding calling 9/11 what it was: an atrocity. It was not a tragedy, as many news outlets and politicians have called it. It was a disaster, as the Almanac calls it, but that does not give its true character: It was a cold-bloodedly planned, determinedly executed mass murder-suicide.
I hadn't before said anything to my son about 9/11. He's only seven and it happened before he was born. But he likes to read to us the lists of events and cool facts in his almanac. It really gave me a jar to hear it in a list of accidents consigned to history. Unprepared, I ended up giving him the nutshell on what happened, including the heroism of the Flight 93 passengers, but I couldn't do it without tearing up. He listened intently, but next time he wanted to read the list to us, he sternly warned me not to repeat the story of 9/11 and not to cry. He then omitted it from the list, because the fun, for him, was quizzing us on "What happened?" in each particular disaster, and he didn't want to hear the painful story of 9/11 again. At least he grasped that there was something different about that one.
In Other News, How Can I Meet This Met?
A Mets pitcher, specifically, who named one of his bats … Orcrist.
Then the NYT apparently managed to screw up the origin of the name, but they apologized, so all good.
The fact that you, Mr. Hitchens, do not personally believe in God, or any god, does not precisely give you the right to lower-case God in a Newsweek article, and the Newsweek editors who allowed it should turn in their stylebooks. The fact that you believe there is no such being as God does not negate the fact that in writing, the word God, capitalized, is used to refer to a distinct, specific entity commonly acknowledged to be the God of Judaism and Christianity, the God of the Bible.
When you start lower-casing Santa Claus, Sherlock Holmes, and Allah, Newsweek, then you may let Hitch get away with this cutesiness. Not before.
Via the headlines at Hot Air, where even Hitchens fanboy Allah doesn't lower-case God except in cases of interjectional "thank God" moments.
Update: I assumed it was obvious, but I guess it should be noted that an advanced search for "god" at newsweek.com shows numerous instances of capitalized "God." Hitchens did this to make a point and the magazine's editors supported him. But as I point out on the comments below, while other gods who fall under the umbrella of the lower-case common noun (including God) have identifying proper names (Zeus, etc.), and while God does have other proper names (Jehovah, etc.), God is his most common proper name and thus is capitalized. Hitchens could have made his point in a stylistically correct way by simply referring to "men of the Judeo-Christian god," but chose to go for the shock value and broke the rules in so doing.
…I never thought I'd have much respect for one at the Huffington Post. I read this post taking Al Gore to task for spreading the nonsense that is human-inflicted global warming climate change last week and was duly shocked that the HP ran it–shocked, surprised, and pleased.
When Ambler sent his post, I forwarded it to one of our associate blog editors to evaluate, not having read it. I get literally hundreds of posts a week submitted like this and obviously can't read them all — which is why we have an editorial process in place. The associate blog editor published the post. It was an error in judgment. I would not have posted it. Although HuffPost welcomes a vigorous debate on many subjects, I am a firm believer that there are not two sides to every issue, and that on some issues the jury is no longer out. The climate crisis is one of these issues.
Dear Associate Blog Editor at HuffPo: Bravo. Even if you only did it to stir the pot, bravo anyhow. When Arianna fires or disciplines you, I hope you decide you'd rather retain your integrity than that job.
A Letter from My Congressperson!
Thank you for contacting me regarding your opposition to government loans for the auto industry. I appreciate knowing your thoughts on this issue.
I understand your concerns with the federal government providing assistance to the auto industry, and I share your anger with the automakers' business plans' that focused on production of large SUVs and high-profit luxury vehicles instead of the fuel-efficient vehicles consumers demanded. However, in this economy, when over 1 million have already been lost this year, I believe Congress has a responsibility to protect the 3.3 million jobs GM, Chrysler, and Ford provide for American workers. In Oregon, more than 37,000 jobs are directly liked to the "Big Three" automakers.
Whew! So THAT'S the problem–huge businesses deciding, for kicks, to make a boatload of product that nobody will buy while paying their workers artificially high wages! No, wait–that's not what they were doing, that's what Congress actually wants them to do–make bicycle-shaped cars that run on hamster wheels. Should make them solvent in no time flat, yes?
Our nation is facing serious economic turmoil that has been characterized by a sharp downturn in auto sales. While I am deeply concerned about the business decisions that contributed to the automakers inability to respond to our nation's current economic crisis, I believe we should help the auto industry weather the current economic crisis. That being said, I believe any assistance should be tied with conditions, and the federal government must have broad accountability and oversight powers. These conditions should be based on the automakers overhauling their business foundations for long-term viability.
Well, thank God, as long as somebody's making concessions.
H.R. 7321 was passed by the House by a vote of 237 to 170. The bill, however, stalled in the Senate, and it now appears unlikely that Congress will enact a rescue package for the automakers before the end of the year.
Congress will likely re-consider a revised auto industry rescue when the 111th Congress convenes in January. Although we disagree on this particular issue, I will keep your concerns in mind as Congress debates further auto industry rescue proposals.
No, you won't. You refused to even acknowledge my concerns, which centered on the UAW's unreasonable contracts and refusal to make concessions. Because then you might have had to comment on them in this letter.
Thank you again for sharing your views on this issue. If you have further questions or concerns, please contact me at 503-326-2901 or 800-422-4003.
Please do not respond to this message. This mailbox is unattended. If you wish to contact me, please use my website, www.house.gov/wu. Thank you.
I wonder if ol' Wu has a staffer who gets off on sitting around, answering emails from constituents by re-stating their position in the way most disconnected from reality, or if he just wrote that one-size-fits-all piece of garbage and they mail it out to everyone who complains, no matter what's in their email? Your Congress at work! You missed an apostrophe and a few other typos, guys. In the midst of your giggling over your cleverness ("Also, this one's ticked about pork! Let's put in 'we're just as angry about public money being spent on defense rather than on the homeless as you are'!") you think you could put down the bong and do some proofreading?
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I Can Has TV Guide Gig?
When your only writing objective (and, apparently, your only task altogether) is to summarize a TV show and you can't even get the character names right, it's time to step out of line. Lester, not Larry, as a commenter helpfully notes … and as TV Guide still hasn't fixed.
Its turns out that Mrs Clinton's delay in accepting the president elect's offer to be his top foreign policy adviser had much to do with her negotiating the terms of the job and insisting on the right to choose her own state department staff and possibly even some of the plumb Ambassador postings.
Obama will have in his gift the right to appoint Supreme Court justices, possibly as many as five out of the nine: Roe v Wade, which gives a woman the right to an abortion if she chooses, would be safe.
Assignments and posts are plum, as in the good stuff in plum-cake, not plumb, as in straight. And the appointments themselves are what the president can give, not "the right" to appoint. He appoints them himself; he doesn't gift that right to anybody else.
An Englishman of my acquaintance refers to two languages: English and "an American derivative." His English appears to be slowly dying on the pages of his own country's papers.
Links via, where else, Hot Air.
NBC picks up the back half of the upcoming second season of Chuck. I had no idea that was even a question. Best. Show. On. TV.
NBC is giving an early vote of confidence to "Chuck," picking up the back nine episodes of the sophomore skein.
Skein? Where did this even come from? Were they calling seasons "threads" and then needed a fresh word, so they went to "skein?" I hate this. It doesn't make any sense. A "thread" might be borderline, since you can talk about plot threads, etc. A skein of television shows is just pure, unadulterated nonsense.
And yes, nonsense industry jargon really does make my blood boil. Yes, I know you raise your eyebrows in consternation because inappropriate word use makes my blood boil. That's why I'm an editor and you're not.
I haven't been watching the Olympics much, but I did see Phelps get his seventh, and last night I watched the frame-by-frame replay of Phelps vs. Cavic and the whole women's 50-meter freestyle.
Michael Phelps vs. Milorad Cavic. One one-hundredth of a second difference between gold and silver. Cavic glided while Phelps took another stroke and came out on top by a fingertip.
Dara Torres vs. Britta Steffen. One one-hundredth of a second difference between silver and gold. Torres glided while Steffen took another stroke and came out on top by a fingertip.
No room for coasting in the Olympics.
What up with this quote, AP?
His Olympics looking lost, Michael Phelps decided to flap those gangly arms one more time.
Lost? His whole Olympics would have been lost had he gotten only seven gold medals instead of eight? Yeah, what a loser, all right. The reporter, that is.
A plan for widespread certification rather than four-year degrees. It makes a lot of sense. I had a conversation not too long ago with an architect who went to a technical school rather than a university, and he talked about how the young college grads in his office struggle to keep their heads above water because their university courses hadn't taught them about the building codes and laws they need to know to be licensed in their state.
It makes a lot of sense for editors. Though I doubt individual employers would stop testing individual candidates on their skills as they do now, at least they would know going in what skills those candidates are supposed to have, if they're certified as having passed tests on the various style manuals, and could stop wasting their time testing everybody with a degree who thought editing looked easy enough for them to do.
Oh wait, except that's how I got into editing myself. Well, no, not really–I focused on editing as what I really wanted to do, as opposed to what I studied in college, and I passed with flying colors the test my hiring manager gave me. But still, would my employer have looked twice at me under a certification system that I had not entered yet? A widespread system of certification would make it more difficult to change careers in that way, would make it much harder to apply for a new batch of jobs and see what shook out, but then editing is somewhat unique among professions in that it doesn't necessarily require a specific degree or certification (like passing the bar, for example) but it does test you at the door. Perhaps it is one of very few professions that you can currently switch to relatively easily, as I did, and maybe for people wanting to switch to other professions, a certification system would actually make it easier, in potentially not having to go back to college before being able to switch.
Here's the reality: Everyone in every occupation starts as an apprentice. Those who are good enough become journeymen. The best become master craftsmen. This is as true of business executives and history professors as of chefs and welders.
I wish that were true, but think back to college, think of that professor whose class you knew was bogus or lightweight. What's he or she doing there? The dual-pronged BS of the college system: It confers degrees on people who might actually be ready for not much and promotes teachers who lead to the same result. A certification system would certainly require colleges to be more competitive outside the zone. That would be a good thing.


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Jeff Gordon To Drive Cadillac's New Prototype In Rolex 24 Hours At Daytona
by Pat McAssey on Thu, Dec 1, 2016 at 11:54AM
Apparently filling in for Dale Earnhardt Jr. this year made Jeff Gordon catch the racing bug again.
Gordon will be one of the drivers piloting Cadillac's new DPi-V.R for Wayne Taylor Racing in the 2017 Rolex 24 Hours at Daytona International Speedway, Motorsport.com reports. Max Angelelli, Ricky and Jordan Taylor will be the other three drivers competing alongside Gordon during the race.
The four-time NASCAR premier series champion reportedly got behind the wheel of the new prototype racer in November during a 24-hour endurance test at Charlotte Motor Speedway.
"When I announced I would no longer be competing full-time in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, my hope was that I would get an opportunity like this to compete again in such a prestigious event — with Konica Minolta and Wayne Taylor Racing — with the hopes of winning it this time," Gordon said, via Motorsport.com.
Photo via Cadillac
The last time Gordon competed in the Rolex 24 — and the last time he raced on Daytona's road course — was also with WTR in 2007. Back then, he finished on the podium with the help of Angelelli, team-owner Wayne Taylor and Jan Magnussen, father of Formula 1 driver Kevin Magnussen.
IMSA is set to host a test at Daytona, which Gordon is expected to attend, Dec. 13 and 14. Drivers then get one more opportunity to test at the track during the Roar Before the Rolex 24 from Jan. 6 through Jan. 8.
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Are your barns ready for winter?
Frost on the windshield serves not only as a reminder that colder days are not far off, but that it's time to prepare livestock buildings for winter. It's important to bring back thoughts of cold weather ventilation. There are three major challenges associated with cold weather ventilation; maintaining a healthy comfortable indoor environment, conserving energy and keeping operating cost down.
There are several things to check on hog buildings.
Checking all the controllers would be a good first step. You want to make sure the settings are right, so you aren't heating a room more than it needs to be heated.
Ceiling inlets should also be checked. You want to make sure they're loose, you might need to adjust the cables and controller to make sure they are opening and closing correctly, and you are getting that fresh air. You want air moving; you don't want some areas of the barn to get stuffy. Be sure you don't have leaks around the inlet.
Check your curtains; if there are a lot of leaky areas around the curtains, the inlet system will not perform as well as you need it to perform.
All fans should be cleaned, and the belts checked.
Heaters are also likely to need some maintenance.
The pigs can be a valuable source of feedback to help identify ventilation issues, cold drafts in the sleeping area will cause your pigs to pile, are they dunging where they sleep? These and other signs will let you know you need to adjust your ventilation settings, the combination of inlets fan and static pressure need to be adjusted.
Don't forget about the outside of your barns especially after a heavy snowfall, be sure you check for snow piling up in front of your fans and check your roofs, heavy snow loads can cause roofs to collapse.


Don't even wait, be quite still and alone.
These words, and the name Kafka were typed neatly on the back side of an index card and pinned to the wall in Herb's kitchen. Herb lived "off the grid" in a borrowed house beyond a dead end road in a brush overgrown section of Block Island Rhode Island, in a place that no day-tripping moped rider or tax-assessor would ever find. He would leave his home every day, to go to Ernie's Diner or the airport restaurant, the harbor, the post office, and once a week or so, the dump.
His house, which really belonged to an old time islander who owned the marina down at New Harbor, a man who hired him to do design work from time to time, was filled with furniture of all sorts, books, and all manner of interesting objects. Encyclopedias, dictionaries, engineering and reference books, books on art, history, biography, philosophy; old toys, strange tools, and well-oiled implements.
He had a large room filled with dressers and shelves all covered and filled with tools. Before I left the island he took me there to give me a hammer head as a parting gift. Every drawer of every dresser was filled with clean, oiled metal objects; one with files, one with rasps, another with screwdrivers, the old kind, a single spike of heavy iron with smooth rounded wood pieces fitted on either side for a handle.
Before he came to the island Herb had helped design the first shopping mall in the US, in Michigan I think, built in the '50's He still had the blueprints and laid them out for me one day. He designed a toy, called it the Ubi, for ubiquitous, but the company that bought his idea changed it to Oobi, "more friendly," they said. It was a "note in a bottle adrift in a sea of people," made of hollow plastic, the size of an egg, only flattened somewhat, with a narrow slit for the insertion of a note, and a blank flat space where the sender would write the name and city or town of the intended recipient, ideally someone who lived far away, on an opposite coast or on a different continent — not the address, just the town, and country or general area. The sender would give the Oobi to someone who was headed in the direction of the recipient, who would then pass it on to the next person who was traveling farther, and so on, hand to hand, hitchhiking. "It's not about the note," he said, "but about the conversations, the connections, the long string of strangers that would meet and pass the Oobi along." They paid him $7000 for the idea and spent another $10,000 developing it, but they didn't produce it. At the end, if the Oobi ever reaches its destination, the recipient will need to break it to get the note out. The marketing people couldn't swallow that. They didn't think anyone would buy something that had to be broken in order to be used. He showed me the mock magazine ads he made to sell the idea. a little Oobi hiding behind a rock on a photo of the moon's surface, on a VW dashboard, poking out of a hip pocket. "They didn't get it," he said, "they never understood the idea." He showed me his prototypes, a few in wood, one in plastic. They were international orange with two big white eyes outlined in black. He put them back on table, next to a collection of antique toys and puzzles he had found at the dump.
He virtually never left the island, except I think, to die. He never got the inverter. He used to point at his kitchen table and chair and radio. "I've sat in that chair for over 25 years, Dan. The same chair. Same table. The same radio. The entire Viet Nam war, happened while I sat there listening to it, on the radio.
necessarily comes to grief among so many who are not virtuous.
That quote, and Kafka's, and a 16 ounce hammer head (which I did make a handle for) have stayed with me and served me well. Thank you Herb.
I'm Herb's daughter and live in North Carolina. You probably didn't know he had a daughter, and in fact, I didn't meet him until I was 18 years old. I remember the Ubi prototypes too and always wished I had one. The sight and smells of Payne Farm will remain always alive. Thanks for sharing your impressions.
wow, this is a small but interesting thread! Karen, did you come to block island often? I lived on block island for 10 years, published a magazine called the works, and new him. I saw a game called UBI today and he came to mind right away, but it is a different UBI game..


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Almost all Des Moines teachers at Theodore Roosevelt High School (about six dozen) gathered in the library's library and cafeteria one afternoon, armed with lesson plans and lists to take notes.
Feedback on fine-tuning their lesson plans flowed, but not from peers or external experts. The suggestions came from the nearly 100 students who sat among them. The council was open. Here's how you can make a lesson that some students offer or make it easier to say: this is what you should do to help students understand the concepts they offer.
This joint professional development event between students and teachers is an integral part of an ongoing initiative at Roosevelt High to ensure that students are key players in important aspects of the school and its culture. Students are specifically encouraged to "refuse adults". They help shape the redesign of the mission and vision of the school and the introduction of a less criminal approach to behavioral offenses. Students are in favor of extracurricular activities that reflect their interests.
"If we do not get feedback from different perspectives, we can only work from what we know, and what we know is limited because it's only from a person's perspective," said Mindy Euken, one in the ninth Class working training coach with Nicole Ellis. The school's equity coach to expand the voice of the students.
The voice of the students and their participation are part of a larger school and the district's focus on justice in Des Moines. For Roosevelt, this meant engaging Ellis in the workforce to work with teachers to develop culturally inclusive practices, explore prejudice, and make sure students' identities and cultures are reflected in the curriculum.
There were already opportunities for students to analyze what is going on in Roosevelt, including a 40-member Diversity and Inclusion Council, which meets regularly with Headmaster Kevin Biggs.
The impetus to raise students' voices and improve student participation began last summer with a deep immersion in schoolwork, follow-up surveys, and meetings with students who uncovered some disturbing trends.
One was the chronic absences rate of black children in the four classes. While the average debt was 35 percent, it was 56 percent for black men, Biggs said. The school also had the biggest difference in performance between white and black students in the district.
Black students, a group that includes African American students, migrants, and African refugees, account for a quarter of the nearly 2,300 students in Roosevelt. 14% of the students are Latinos, 8% are races and 11% learn English. White students account for slightly less than half the enrollment.
The inequality in chronic absences was partly due to the discipline's recommendations, which are also examined by the school. But some students said they had missed the class because they thought the teachers did not care if they showed up. They also said that some classes have no connection to their lives, experiences and community, Ellis said.
"If the relationship was strong and sincere and they trusted the teacher and the teacher was interested in them, they were more willing to go to class and work as hard as possible," said Biggs.
This became the focus of the new school year with the specific aim of reducing chronic child absences by 20 percent in May 2019.
First, Ellis and Euken worked with the teachers to make sure they understood why the different perspectives were important.
In an exercise last summer, the teachers conducted a community walk. They got a bus ticket and met students in one of the neighborhoods. It was the first time that some teachers, many of whom grew up in small towns outside the city, took a bus to travel to Des Moines, Euken said.
"We told the staff," We really want you to think about what kind of cultural wealth the students listen to when they tell them about their life experiences, how they can navigate the systems that you can not see because of their life experiences are different or what skills or linguistic strengths they have or bring them to school? said Euken.
Teachers were also invited to choose from a menu of five practices that they could use during the school year to engage students at a deeper level, including the assignment of rigorous teaching assignments that enable them to work as co-teachers. Teachers use problems and real-world texts in the classroom as well as social and emotional learning tools.
Ellis and Euken followed in October a round table with students and teachers. The students said that the discussion helped create closer links with the teachers, but did not lead to changes in the classroom, said Euken.
At this time, Ellis had the idea to test the joint professional development of students and teachers. At the first meeting in December, most of the teachers and about 45 students focused on changing teaching practices to make class more inclusive and more cultural.
Ellis said he had tried to recruit a diverse group of students, including those in the gifted and talented program, student clubs and those who regularly skipped classes. The last group was especially difficult to attend, said Ellis.
Some students were ambivalent about participation, even though they realized that teachers should work harder to get to know them. Some teachers also questioned the extra work involved in the new initiative, while others doubted the usefulness of the comments they would hear.
This way of thinking "is a construct we want to turn upside down here," he said.
Students can not use the jargon that teachers use when commenting lesson plans, but "they will hear patterns that are considered best practices for students," said Ellis, who worked with the students. Prepare them for the session, even To practice races.
Most of the students in the last session had been invited by their teachers. They began with an icebreaker, where teachers and students offered their interpretations of a quotation from the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Junot Diaz, followed by a discussion on how students' identity can be appreciated in the classroom, and examples of how teachers do it can do.
They discussed a past lesson, discussed an upcoming class and broader conversations about what works well and what could be improved.
Spanish-speaking Kalifornia Sotelo posted short notes when two of his students, Ashawn Quinn and Shimayil Idris, 9th grade, spoke.
"Remember, you do not talk about me, you talk about the class, how they affect you," Sotelo told them. "It will not hurt my feelings.
Quinn suggested a five-minute break in class. Idris agreed that if the students knew they were planning a break, they would less likely see their cell phones. They looked for ways to spend "brain silence" and decided that Sotelo would play a music video in Spanish, while students could use their phone or use the opportunity to continue it if needed.
When Sotelo asked about the pace in class, they both said, "It's a bit quick." To help more, they told Sotelo that they like it when they speak Spanish, then it translates into English. And both said that having a PowerPoint presentation with pictures and vocabulary at the beginning of the lesson would make more sense than starting the lesson with tests.
"Many of them are quick fixes," Sotelo said later.
Idris, who does well in Spanish, said it helped to have another student at the table during the discussion.
Sotelo said he hopes that all these efforts will lead to more African American students taking AP Spanish lessons where they are underrepresented.
16-year-old Asantee Tillman, who attended the December meeting, saw in it an opportunity for teachers to listen to students who have problems at home. She said she saw teachers ignoring students who were late.
"They just think this kid is bad because it's not going to class or it's not being taught, but in fact, people have things at home," said Asantee, who was often fifteen years old. Minutes late during his second year because he brought two younger brothers to school.
In this session, Asantee worked with her economics teacher on her plans for a curriculum lesson, suggesting that she cut her introductory remarks. She suggested presenting visual examples of the curriculum that other students had created and going to class to proactively look for students who needed help but were reluctant to ask.
To his surprise, he was open to his ideas.
But Asantee said he did not see any improvements in his other classes. If the school wanted to get students into the classroom, more of those who skip the lesson should sit with the teachers, he said.
Ellis recognized the difficulty of having some separated students speak openly with teachers.
"It's hard to tell a child to come and give their opinion on the classroom if it does not feel like a valued member of the school culture and the community," he said.
Zion Freeman, 17, said he had seen more teachers creating opportunities for students to work together in the classroom and gain time to discuss what worked and what had to do with them.
He worked with his math teacher last year, and because of the collaboration, they have a better relationship. When she's late for class, her teacher asks if she has lunch, and when she's away, Zion says she's worried that her husband, who was receiving cancer treatment last year, is doing well.
To be successful, the program requires some "risk" from teachers and students.
Wooters said he appreciates the students' comments, especially because they are experts in how to best learn.
Ellis said that the transformation that the school expects will take a lot of work and time. However, they see evidence that the positive outcomes of teachers and students, if they fully embrace the initiative, are as follows.
In the last two months of last year, the decline in chronic absenteeism was reduced by 13 percent. But this year, the rate has since retreated, he said.
Ellis points to Rob Randazzo as proof that they are on the right track. Randazzo, a professor of algebra, had the highest percentage of African American men who passed grade B or higher algebra last semester. Randazzo said that this is largely because his students can choose how they want to learn: they can view the online videos they've made, review notes, use the textbook, or listen to their direct lessons.
You can also choose a combination of all options during the lesson and do so at their own pace, he said.
And students decide when they're ready to take a test, which increases their self-confidence and engagement in the classroom. So far, no one has failed a test, he said.


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If you are one of the numerous parents in Louisiana whose child was injured during the delivery process, you know all too well the impact that event has had on your life. You know full well that the birth injury did not just affect your child's life -- it affected your whole family. You may be entitled to seek compensation for your family's losses as well as for the damages experienced by your child.
Should I file a birth injury claim?
On behalf of Gaar Law Firm posted in birth injury on Friday, September 14, 2018.
Louisiana residents whose children have suffered injuries during childbirth may wonder if they can take legal action against the medical providers who were present during labor and delivery and/or the medical facility. The only real answer to that question is maybe. It may be possible to file a birth injury claim, but it is hard to know without first investigating all the facts of one's case.
On behalf of Gaar Law Firm posted in birth injury on Wednesday, August 1, 2018.
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On behalf of Gaar Law Firm posted in birth injury on Friday, July 27, 2018.
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On behalf of Gaar Law Firm posted in birth injury on Friday, July 13, 2018.
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Tragedy: Civil rights leader Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth dies at 89
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October 05, 2011|By Michael Martinez, CNN
The Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth, who helped lead the civil rights movement, has died, the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute said Wednesday. He was 89.
Shuttlesworth is among the iconic figures honored in the International Civil Rights Walk of Fame at the Martin Luther King Jr. National Historic Site in Atlanta. King once called Shuttlesworth "the most courageous civil rights fighter in the South."
President Barack Obama issued a statement honoring Shuttleworth, saying he "dedicated his life to advancing the cause of justice for all Americans. He was a testament to the strength of the human spirit. And today we stand on his shoulders, and the shoulders of all those who marched and sat and lifted their voices to help perfect our union.
"America owes Reverend Shuttlesworth a debt of gratitude, and our thoughts and prayers are with his wife, Sephira, and their family, friends and loved ones."
When the U.S. Supreme Court ruled against segregated busing in Montgomery, Alabama, Shuttlesworth rallied the membership of a group he established in May 1956 -- the Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights -- to challenge the practice of segregated busing in Birmingham.
Shuttlesworth also helped found the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, with King and other civil rights leaders.
Shuttlesworth's efforts weren't without a price: his home was bombed on Christmas Day in 1956, but he and his family were not injured.
He was, however, hurt in 1957 when he was beaten with chains and whips as he sought to integrate an all-white public school.
That same year, Shuttlesworth helped King organize the SCLC, serving as the organization's first secretary from 1958 to 1970. He later served briefly as its president in 2004.
In 2001, President Bill Clinton awarded Shuttlesworth a Presidential Citizens Medal -- the nation's second-highest civilian award -- for his leadership in the "non-violent civil rights movement of the 1950s and 60s, leading efforts to integrate Birmingham, Alabama's schools, buses and recreational facilities" and helping found the SCLC.
Shuttlesworth also protested segregated lunch counters and helped lead sit-ins at the eateries in 1960.
He participated in organizing the Freedom Rides against segregated interstate buses in the South when he joined forces with the Congress On Racial Equality.
In 1963, he was injured again when a fire hose was turned on him during a protest against segregation in Birmingham. The blast of water, directed against demonstrators by order of Birmingham Commissioner of Public Safety Bull Connor, slammed Shuttlesworth against a wall. He was hospitalized but recovered.
He was also a principal in the historic march from Selma to Montgomery in 1965, which he helped organize.
In the early 1960s, he moved to Cincinnati, Ohio, where he fought homelessness and continued the movement against racism. There, he founded and served as pastor of the Greater New Light Baptist Church from 1966 to 2006.
In the 1980s, he established the Shuttlesworth Housing Foundation in Cincinnati, which provided grants to help low-income families buy homes.
The Ohio Civil Rights Commission has placed Shuttlesworth in its Hall of Fame.
http://articles.cnn.com/2011-10-05/...rs-birmingham-civil-rights-institute?_s=PM:US
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Another sad loss of a historical figure.
R.I.P. Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth
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RIP indeed, Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth
But with respect, calling it a tragedy is a little over the top.
It's still something of an achievement to reach such a grand old age so a celebration of his long life is certainly called for, but to die at that age is just, well, natural.


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The following is javascript code for keylogging on html page.
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Westmill Co-op has 2192 members
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In the last five years over 10,000 people have visited our community owned windfarm at Westmill
Westmill Wind Farm Co-operative
Westmill is a working organic farm. The Westmill Wind Farm Co-op was the first 100% community owned onshore wind farm to be built in the south of England. The five turbine site at Watchfield, Swindon, SN6 8TH was commissioned in March 2008. In the last five years over 10,000 people have visited our community owned windfarm at Westmill.
In October 2012 a community-owned solar-farm was created on the same site. Details of Westmill Solar Co-op are here.
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The Westmill Wind Cooperative was the first 100% community owned onshore wind farm to be built in the south-east of England.
Westmill Wind Farm is open to visits from schools, colleges, community groups and members of the public by appointment.
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Westmill Sustainable Energy Trust (WeSET) is the charity set up by members of both Westmill Wind and Solar Cooperatives to spread the benefits of Westmill to the wider community. We carry out a wide range of activities, the core being educational work, local energy conservation and renewable energy initiatives and arts projects. As well as arranging guided tours of the site, once every two years WeSET organise a large event to promote community energy to the general public. Our hope is to encourage others to set up similar community owned renewable schemes.
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As well as arranging guided tours of the site, once every two years WeSET organise a large event to promote community energy to the general public. Our hope is to encourage others to set up similar community owned renewable schemes.
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Why do standard modern pianos have 88 keys?
I know that the piano contains 7 octaves plus a 4th. I also know that it accommodates the full circle of fifths (from C and back to C). But since a fifth contains 7 semitones, it only "needs" 7X12 = 84 keys for the circle. So why the "extra" 4 keys?
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since a fifth contains 7 semitones, it only "needs" 7X12 = 84 keys for the circle. Thanks for that. Before this, I would've guessed that 8 octaves is more perfect or fitting. But you only need 7 for the circle of fifths. 8 octaves would be 96 keys, and possibly add one more A so the highest scale could be completed, making 97 keys. – DrZ214 Apr 11 '17 at 1:51
Well, the piano started out with only about 60 keys, same as the harpsichord – in fact it WAS a harpsichord, except that the harpsichord maker Bartolomeo Cristofori (try saying that 10 times fast!) got the bright idea of putting hammers on one (to HIT the strings) instead of plectra (to PLUCK the strings).
So the piano was invented – this was around 1700, or maybe a little before that. Anyway, as composers began to use the new instrument they started writing more and more complicated and brilliant music for it. Pretty soon, the keyboard had to expand in both directions. By the middle of the 19th century, it had 85 notes – up to A – then finally they added the last three at the top. There's even a piano made today – the Bösendorfer Imperial Concert Grand – which has 97 keys; the bass notes go all the way down to C. It's nine-and-a-half feet long and weighs almost a ton.
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Tamara WijsmanTamara Wijsman
@Tom: The Bösendorfer Imperial has 97 keys. It has been praised by many artists of the 19th century. The added strings, weight of table, and resonance may have pleased them. There is a cache and these 9 more keys are of a different color so that they do not disturb the player too much. – ogerard May 9 '11 at 13:51
Is that site a reputable source? – MSpeed May 9 '11 at 15:26
@billynomates: Written by John M. Zeigler, Ph.D. and William Leland, D.M.A., R.P.T.; Rio Rancho, NM USA. – Tamara Wijsman May 9 '11 at 15:58
This answer is interesting, but doesn't seem to answer the actual question of why they added the extra four keys – BlueRaja - Danny Pflughoeft May 9 '11 at 16:48
This site seems to be correct. Certainly, when Bartolomeo Cristofori invented the piano (fortepiano specifically) in ~1699, it had the standard 60 keys of a harpsichord. – Noldorin May 10 '11 at 16:29
I'm no expert but the obvious answer is so to have the full seven octaves for both A minor and C major. The first key of a piano is an A and the last is a C. The importance of A minor and C major is they are the only two keys made up entirely of white keys.
And to be precise, one extra pitch is added to the top of the final octave to complete it. So a full chromatic scale is 13 pitches, 12+1. Two chromatic scales are 25 pitches, (12x2)+1, etc.
So in total there are (12x7)+1+3 = 88 keys on a piano.
Scott JeffreyScott Jeffrey
An observation about 88 notes on the piano...
You can play through the entire major key circle of fifths on the piano starting on the lowest C to the highest C; AND
You can play through the entire minor key circle of fifths on the piano starting on the lowest A to the highest A.
Interesting how this worked out perfectly!
David HoloboffDavid Holoboff
There are a lot of explanations for this, such as "The extra 4 keys allow the piano to cover the entire range of a 'standard' orchestra." However, it's probably just tradition. The human ear can't really distinguish notes higher or lower very well, but it provides more functionality than 4- or 5-octave pianos.
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The keyboard grew beyond five octaves as piano makers essentially said "Ours is better because it has more notes."
There is no particular reason why it didn't stop at 85 or keep going to 90. It could have done either. Eventually the market required that all pianos have the same number, and it just happened to stabilize at 88.
Mark LuttonMark Lutton
Do you have some article links to back up these statements? – awe May 20 '11 at 9:50
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1990 Born in Derby, England
2001 Suffered a serious injury
2002 Joined army cadets
2006 First feature film, This Is England
2009 Appeared in the television series, Skins
2007 Began dating Kaya Scodelario
2012 Dated Tulisa Contostavlos
2014 Won Chicago Film Critics Association Awards
2008 Won Fright Meter Awards
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August 1 , 1990
Born in Derby, England
Diehard fan of Derby County Football Club, Jack was born as Jack O'Connell in Derby, England, United Kingdom. He was also raised in Derby. He is British and is of Irish and English descent. He is five feet and eight inches tall.
Suffered a serious injury
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Joined army cadets
He also decided to join an Army at the age of 12 and he also attended army cadets but was not able to be enlisted in the Army because of his juvenile criminal record. He was an alcoholic and also served several charges.
He began his interest in acting since he was 13. He also took several compulsory drama classes and also joined the free Television Workshop. He made his acting debut in 2005 from the TV series Doctors where he starred the role of Connor Yates.
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Appeared in the television series, Skins
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Won Chicago Film Critics Association Awards
For starring the role of Louis Zamperini in the 2014 Angelina Jolie's movie, Unbroken, he got his first nomination in Chicago Film Critics Association Awards. He was also honored with this award that year for Most Promising Performer.
Won Fright Meter Awards
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Won National Board of Review, USA
He has been nominated in lots of prestigious awards and he has also won several of them. He was honored with National Board of Review, USA in 2014 for Best Breakthrough Performer. That year he also won New York Film Critics, Online.
In 2007, Jack began dating Kaya Scodelario. Kaya Scodelario is also an English actress. They were in love for about two years and then they finally broke up in 2009.
As a child Jack dreamed to be a professional football player. He was a striker for Alvaston Rangers and he also had trials on Derby County but had to give up football because of several injuries. He then decided to join an Army at the age of 12 and he also attended army cadets but was not able to be enlisted in the Army because of his juvenile criminal record. He was an alcoholic and also served several charges. He began his interest in acting since he was 13. He also took several compulsory drama classes and also joined the free Television Workshop. He made his acting debut in 2005 from the TV series Doctors where he starred the role of Connor Yates. Following year, he appeared in the movie This Is England. His breakthrough role came in 2009 when he began starring the role of James Cook in the TV series Skins. His net worth is expected to be in millions.