Bo Barrett came to his winemaking job at Chateau Montelena the old fashioned way – he earned it. His family had recently bought the Chateau and overgrown property, so right after graduating from high school in 1972, Bo spent the summer working in the old vineyard and picking up rocks in preparation for replanting. So, becoming winemaker in 1982 was really just the natural progression of things. In addition to his practical experience, Bo obtained a degree in Viticulture and Enology from Fresno State.
Join us today as we discuss Chateau Montelena's early years and the effects that the 1976 'Judgement of Paris' had upon this iconic Napa winery, as well as the Calistoga AVA, and what it's like to work in a family business.
How is it that the higher the profile of the wine maker is, the higher the normal guy factor is??? I feel like I just hung out with Bo for an hour and we're such good buddies I have him on my speed dial.
You know, Steve, that's exactly how we felt!
Keep sharing the wonderful people with us fans and customers! Great work. oh yea, I too like the sensitive mic sound effects. In fact I had to smile when I heard you guys pouring yourself some juice during the interview. Keep up the good work and thanks for the wonderful content.
What a great interview, I agree with Steve and Kevin, after listening to Bo's interview it seems like he and I are buddies now. It is very refreshing to know here is a person at the top of his game that is just a normal, well spoken guy willing to share some of his insight without a bunch of ego BS.
Been kinda busy lately so I threw a few shows on my ipod for a very long round-trip in my car over the weekend.
The interview with Bo was about as good a "plain talk" interview as there is. Highly informative and educational. In a lot of ways that a lot of people might not fully appreciate. I listed to it a few times over a couple of days.
I too, work for my old man so I can relate quite a bit to what it takes to work like a dog, not be afraid to say it, have fun, be real, make the best product, know WHY it's the best , be comfortable and confident and simply invite people to "just try it." Unquestionably the best so-called way to successfully "market" there is.
I've visted Montelena before but never met him. I'll make it a point to shake his hand and buy more of his wine next time I'm there.
My best to Bo and the crew at Montelena and you guys for continuing to do an outstanding job.


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La Communauté de communes du Pays de Richelieu est une ancienne communauté de communes française, située dans le département d'Indre-et-Loire et la région Centre-Val de Loire.

Géographie

Situation

Composition
Elle est composée des communes suivantes :

Historique
  : création de la communauté de communes
  : regroupement avec deux autres communautés de communes au sein de la nouvelle communauté de communes Touraine Val de Vienne.

Démographie
La communauté de communes du Pays de Richelieu comptait  habitants (population légale INSEE) au  2007. La densité de population est de 30,4 hab./km².

Évolution démographique

Histogramme (élaboration graphique par Wikipédia)

Pyramide des âges

Politique communautaire

Représentation

Présidents de la communauté de communes

Conseil communautaire

Compétences
 Aménagement de l'espace
 Développement économique
 Développement culturel et qualité de vie
 Création et gestion des services publics locaux
 Protection et mise en valeur de l'environnement

Finances locales

Projet communautaire

Identité visuelle

Notes et références

Sources
Le splaf - (Site sur la Population et les Limites Administratives de la France)
La base aspic - (Accès des Services Publics aux Informations sur les Collectivités)

Pour approfondir

Article connexe
 Liste des intercommunalités d'Indre-et-Loire

Liens externes
 Site officiel de la Communauté de communes du Pays de Richelieu
 Site préfectoral

Pays de Richelieu
Richelieu (Indre-et-Loire)

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St Mary of the Angels
Parish Ministries, Groups and Activities
History of St Mary of the Angels
Church Building Award
Ministering
Becoming a Catholic (RCIA)
Maxwell Fernie Organ
Young Angel Voices
Trust Constitution
The Trust's Role
Contact the Trust
The establishment of the Trust, as defined in the constitution, is for "the benefit of religious, charitable and educational purposes of the Parish of St. Mary of the Angels, Boulcott Street, Wellington, New Zealand and in particular, but without limitation:
the restoration of the historic Church of St Mary of the Angels, and,
the ongoing maintenance, upkeep and preservation of the Church of St Mary of the Angels, the preservation and upkeep of the Church's archives and any historical exhibition, maintenance of the presbytery and development and maintenance of the grounds and environs..
To assist with the above listed objectives the Trust will:
solicit donations and gifts (including testamentary gifts),
accept the control and custody of any assets which assist the Trust in achieving its objectives,
upgrade and restore the Church and where appropriate and necessary to renew, replace any part or parts and to add to or modify in accordance with best trade practices to a state where it is in good order and condition,
Operate a capital fund (the "Reserve Fund") from which the income may be applied to meet the on going costs of maintaining and preserving the restored historic church and in maintaining the
presbytery, grounds and environs surrounding the church,
promote and assist in the maintenance and preservation of the special character of the church and its environs.
The Trust is an independent body with its own constitution and separate from the Parish of St Mary of the Angels although its primary reason for existence is as detailed above. Whenever the Parish of St Mary of the Angels, through its Parish Priest, the Parish's Preservation and Maintenance Committee and Finance Committee decide major work is necessary they work together with the Trust when finance is required. The Trust is not necessarily the lead fund raiser or only provider of funds and the Finance Committee will also, on occasions, approach donors and organisations for funding part or all of such work as is necessary. Any funds provided or raised by the Trust are decided only by the trustees who must always consider the financial viability of the Trust at any given time.
The office of the Friends of St Mary of the Angels Charitable Trust is established at 17 Boulcott Street, Wellington 6011, New Zealand. Telephone 64-4-473-8074. Facsimile 64-4-4738066.
Email: smoamanager@xtra.co.nz
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A growing number of studies show that chocolate, especially antioxidant-rich dark chocolate, has highly impressive health benefits. The question is whether we are eating the chocolate that is really good for us.
I say cacao, you say cocoa, I say cacao. What is the difference, and is one better than the other?
The differences lie in processing - but the source is what matters.
The truth is that the everyday chocolate bars you find at your local shop don't even come into the equation. The vast majority of studies exploring links between chocolate and health benefits are focused on cacao beans, either in a raw or minimally-processed form. Your everyday chocolate barely contains these precious beans.
Both cacao and cocoa are sourced from Theobroma Cacao ('food of the gods') - one of the most loved and beautiful trees on the planet. This is where the cacao fruit grows, and inside these treasured cacao pods lie the 'golden cacao beans', which are used to create both cacao and cocoa.
The difference between cacao and cocoa is mainly to do with the type of processing involved.
Raw cacao beans are one of the most nutrient-dense foods on the planet. They contain more than 300 different chemical compounds and have nearly four times the antioxidant power of your average dark chocolate cocoa bar. Cacao is the end product of raw, dried and fermented cacao beans, which are typically roughly chopped or finely ground into cacao nibs and cacao powder – also extracted as raw cacao butter and raw cacao paste.
Cacao has endless benefits – here's the science part!
Cacao is highly vitamin and mineral rich, containing an abundance of goodies such as B1, B2, B3, B5, B9, zinc, iron, copper, potassium, and manganese, vanadium and sulfur and magnesium.
Cacao beans are absolutely packed with phenolic phytochemicals and flavonoids, which protect your cells against damage from free radicals.
Have you ever noticed how a piece of dark chocolate seems to cheer you up? It's not in your head: cacao has been shown to have a positive effect on hormonal release in the brain, encouraging the release of endorphins and "feel good" hormones, such as serotonin, dopamine, anandamide and phenylethylamine (PEA). These are well-studied neurotransmitters, which are associated with feelings of wellbeing.
Furthermore, cacao also contains chemicals called MAO-inhibitors that inhibit the recycling and digestion of the feel-good chemicals, keeping them in the bloodstream for longer without being broken down.
In addition to acting on the happiness hormones in the brain, a recent study has also implicated cacao in its ability to improve cognitive function. The flavanols released from cacao are absorbed and accumulate in the brain regions associated with memory. These flavanols increase blood flow to the brain, encouraging new neuron formation and enhancing the connection between existing neurons. Also epicatechin, the main flavonoid in cacao helps to improve various aspects of cognition.
Cacao has been shown to have an impact on improving heart health and blood vessel function - and an optimal functioning heart is at the root of living a long life. Both the flavanols, procyanidins and essential minerals and vitamins found in cacao can support healthy heart functioning by lowering blood pressure and improving blood flow and lowering LDL cholesterol. One study, in particular, confirmed the ability of cacao to lower LDL cholesterol and increase HDL cholesterol ("good" cholesterol). Together, with its function in reducing overall triglycerides, reducing blood pressure, cacao comes out as a heart-healthy food!
Cacao is impressively high in fibre, and as a result, helps fill you up, encouraging you to eat less and lose weight. Thanks to a key flavanol called epicatechin, cacao has been shown to help regulate glucose production, allowing for better blood sugar control, and preventing against insulin resistance.
Ok, the science part is over – raw cacao is really good for you!
Unlike cacao, cocoa has been processed using various different techniques, which – much like the processing of all whole foods –also removes many of the most valuable nutrients. A recent study suggested that between 60% and 90% of the original antioxidants in cacao are lost through common 'Dutch processing'. The method was originally developed in the early 19th Century to reduce the bitterness of raw cacao, darken the colour, and create a more mellow flavour to chocolate, but unfortunately too much of the deep-seated goodness with it. Cocoa powder is extremely popular in cooking and there are two types of cocoa available. The alternative is the second type of cocoa powder – a natural cocoa powder which remains in more of its natural state and has a more acidic and bitter taste than Dutch-processed powder, while also containing more antioxidants. This unsweetened variety of cocoa powder is low in calories and is abundant in minerals such as calcium, copper, iron and is an excellent source of magnesium and dietary fibre.
Most commercial chocolate bars found in your local shop aren't really a great source of cacao or cocoa as they exaggerate this kind of 'Dutch processing'. The cocoa powder used has typically been chemically processed and roasted, which is particularly damaging to the antioxidants.
So how do I source the best chocolate?
Look for certifications like 'organic', 'fair trade', 'direct', 'trade', 'Rainforest Alliance', and products that claim 'bean to bar status' is a great place to start. This ensures that you are not investing in farmer exploitation and environmental degradation and that you are protecting wildlife and the larger communities.
Choosing cacao or cocoa that has organic status is preferable. Of course, there are some excellent cacao farms producing high-quality cacao but can't afford the organic status, however with organic products you can ensure there has been no use of chemicals during the growing and processing phase of production. Also, many non-organic varieties use toxic pesticides, fumigation chemicals and genetically modified ingredients.
Always look for dark chocolate – 85-90% cacao or cocoa, preferably made with beans of single origins and from countries near the equator, like Ghana, Ecuador and Costa Rica. They have ideal climates for cacao trees and produce some of the world's best chocolate.
A less is more approach applies to both the manufacturing process and how many ingredients are written on the label. The fewer the ingredients, the less processed the chocolate is likely to be, and the better it is for you. Avoid all chocolate bars that contain additional unhealthy ingredients. The worst of the bunch are partially hydrogenated oils, milk solids, high fructose corn syrup and artificial flavours.
You might not think that adding milk to chocolate is unhealthy, but if you're trying to gain the antioxidant benefits of chocolate then stay clear of all types of milk chocolate. Milk actually inhibits the body's ability to absorb the phytonutrients, including those found in chocolate. If you decide to make your own chocolate, buy the same quality cacao or cocoa powder and mix with other high-quality chocolate ingredients such as cacao nibs and cacao butter.
If this has got you in the mood for something chocolatey then give our deliciously smooth, antioxidant-rich, Cacao + Collagen a try. This nutrient-dense chocolate brew is the perfect way to experience the very finest, organic, ethically sourced cacao and cocoa powder together in one blend!


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"That sounds like a great idea. I'm supposed to be doing homework, so maybe you can keep me on track." He let her in, and she saw that his computer was on his bed, with his headphones plugged into it—she suspected that he'd been watching a movie or some videos rather than having the headphones in to help him concentrate.
Duncan was sitting at his desk focusing hard on his computer. "Hi, Duncan," Dawn said, before realizing that he had his headphones on as well. That was fine with her—she really did need to do homework, and if Duncan was working hard, there was no reason for him to rush out of the room in embarrassment, as he sometimes did when she arrived.
Rico unplugged his headphones and set them aside, then arranged the pillows against the wall, so he and Dawn could sit on the bed leaning against the wall without too much discomfort. Dawn sat beside him and pulled out the book and notebook she was using for History of Psychology, then sighed with contentment as he settled down. She rested her head for a moment on his shoulder. He was so warm and strong and comforting. She was so glad they'd managed to meet. It was luck that had put them both in Gilkey as their freshman-year dorm—but more than luck that he'd decided to ask her out.
Studying with Rico probably wasn't the best way to stay focused, since they kept taking breaks to kiss or have a short, random chat, but it was the best way to stay fresh and keep from getting too bored. If her eyes got tired from staring at a book, she could take a break and look at Rico instead—a much more pleasant sight.
She felt bad not giving him the whole explanation, but she was pretty sure the magic professors didn't want them telling anyone what was really going on, even if they hadn't said so specifically. Anyway, she didn't want to worry him.
She headed back up to her dorm but left her bag there, eager to share her idea with Corrie. When she knocked on Corrie and Edie's door, she found both of them inside, studying.


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Transmission structure replacement work in Oahu, Hawaii.
Transmission Construction Challenges in Paradise
Hawaiian Electric is addressing aging infrastructure and has begun replacing existing transmission structures.
Garett Muranaka, Mitch Cowen | Feb 28, 2019
Hawaiian Electric Co. has nearly 1300 structures on its 28 138-kV transmission circuits that span the island of Oahu. The system is isolated with no interconnections to other utilities. A single structure failure should not cause customer outages, but the system is at an increased risk for overload and outages if additional failures occur. The 138-kV transmission structures generally are one of the following types: wood poles, steel poles, fiberglass poles, aluminum frames, and steel or aluminum lattice towers. The wide variety of structures is needed for the topography of the island, ranging from mountain ridges, valleys, side slopes and urban areas.
Steel and wood poles comprise most of the structures, typically located in the mountainous areas of Oahu. Currently, more than 35% of the transmission structures have been in service more than 40 years and nearly 20% have been in service more than 50 years. Because of its aging transmission infrastructure, Hawaiian Electric has begun replacing the existing transmission structures.
Concern Areas
When locating structures on Oahu, there are environmental and cultural concerns. Much of the mountainous areas are designated conservation districts. Structures modified or replaced in this area must be approved by the state of Hawaii.
Another consideration in locating and replacing transmission structures are species protected by the Endangered Species Act of 1973. To perform work in areas where suspected endangered species are located, a biological study must be completed prior to starting the work. Should endangered species be present in the work area, a plan to relocate or ensure they are protected during work activities must be approved by the Hawaii Department of Land and Natural Resources (DLNR).
Hawaii also has many areas categorized as culturally significant because of their ties to Native Hawaiians. These areas may have been burial grounds, sites where religious ceremonies were held or sites where items of historical significance were found. Any ground disturbance in these areas requires an archaeological monitoring plan approved by the State Historic Preservation Division (SHPD), and an archaeologist must be on-site while work is being performed.
Access and Accessibility
In addition to the environmental and cultural challenges, right-of-way (ROW) agreements can be difficult to obtain. As with most construction, the ability to acquire new rights-of-way adjacent to an existing line is preferred to ease construction restraints. However, it is becoming more problematic and costlier for utilities across the United States to purchase ROW. Imagine how much harder this can be on an island where land is held at a very high premium, essentially eliminating that option. With adjacent property difficult to procure, structures must be installed as close to the existing centerline as possible.
Outage and system limitations because of the closed transmission system require the line to be placed back in service every night. Hawaiian Electric does not have the ability to rely on another utility to help provide backup and system redundancy. To increase construction efficiency, the new structures must closely match the conductor geometry of the existing structures. During construction, this prevents phase-to-phase clearance issues and line-angle changes that could potentially exceed the design parameters of the existing structures.
To compound this further, the double- and triple-circuit structures are being split to individual parallel single-circuit lines, to decrease the quantity of outage conflicts between circuits connecting the same substations. All circuits attached to the structure being replaced require outages for the duration of construction. Renewable energy source interconnections are increasing on the transmission circuits, making intermittent curtailment a growing concern because it impacts work scheduling.
Environmental durability is a factor when determining structure types. Oahu is home to many climate zones and the same transmission line may cross through several, if not all, of them. Coastal regions with high levels of salt corrosion and shallow water tables, tropical areas with high volumes of rain and humidity year-round, dry desert-like areas with substantial levels of very fine dust and high levels of ultraviolet radiation—all these environments must be considered. Rotting wood poles and corroding steel structures long have been a problem. In addition to weather, insects are prevalent. Termites in Hawaii have a particularly aggressive appetite for treated wood poles.
After all the challenges have been addressed, crews still must get to the structures to replace them. Accessibility to transmission lines and structures is arguably the biggest factor to consider. A large percentage of transmission structures on Oahu are in remote areas that cannot be accessed by vehicles. Because of the cultural sensitivities and land rights, new roads rarely can be built. Therefore, helicopters are the primary means available to transport crews, materials and structures to many locations.
Of course, there are limitations to what helicopters can carry safely. For example, a McDonnell Douglas MD500 helicopter generally is used to ferry personnel and equipment to a jobsite when the payload is less than 1000 lb (454 kg), whereas 3500 lb (1588 kg) is the maximum weight that can be transported with a Bell Huey. The Huey typically is used for moving lighter material and foundation concrete. For many years, it was the largest helicopter available to Hawaiian Electric. Occasionally the much larger Sikorsky S-61 helicopter is brought on the island to increase construction efficiency as it can carry up to 7500 lb (3402 kg). The limitations of the helicopters dictate that any new structure must have the ability to be segmented and carried in sections as well as easily framed aerially.
Standard Structures
Having a consistent structure family—with the versatility to support a wide range of wind and weight spans that can be used anywhere on the island, regardless of accessibility—is preferred. In remote mountainous areas, topography governs where the structure is placed instead of the engineered target ruling span. Ridges and peaks are prime spots to locate the structures. However, finding areas large enough with the existing structures in place leaves few options. Structures on Oahu may see span variations as severe as 200 ft (61 m) on one side and 2000 ft (610 m) on the other side. Some also must withstand significant vertical changes ranging up to almost 3000 ft (914 m) in a single span.
With a standard structure type and family, it is easier to train crews, develop material standards and prepare for emergencies. Being in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, where it takes considerably longer to get supplies, Hawaiian Electric has to standardize and prepare differently than mainland utilities, which can obtain poles faster.
Finding a structure that can satisfy Oahu's diverse needs—be self-supporting with a small footprint, corrosion- and insect-resilient, versatile and cost-effective, within helicopter lifting capacities—all point to steel monopole structures on concrete foundations. Steel tends to corrode and rust in caustic environments such as those found on Oahu, so—in addition to hot-dip galvanizing—corrosion-resistant powder coating is applied to the steel poles to help protect against the environment. Section weights are kept below helicopter maximum lift capacity, and helicopter guides are implemented to aid construction.
The steel poles also are relatively easy to assemble, which is a requirement because new structures must be built within existing easements. Load cases with high wind, broken wire or failure containment were developed to ensure reliability and structural integrity well into the future for Hawaiian Electric's 138-kV transmission system.
Digging Foundations
The utility uses shaft foundations and micropiles for steel pole transmission structure replacements. Where locations are accessible, foundations excavated by vehicle-mounted drills are the most uniform and cost-effective. Foundations inaccessible by large vehicles either are dug by hand or have a micropile foundation. Although labor-intensive and costly, hand digging has a long history in Hawaii for the installation of structural foundations because of the steep and inaccessible terrain. Uniformity of shafts and production rates depend on the type of material encountered during excavation.
On a typical Hawaiian Electric transmission line project, multiple specialized foundation contractors are used because both accessible and inaccessible foundations are required. Using multiple contractors is cost-effective and enables Hawaiian Electric to reduce a project's length as well as the length of outages on the transmission system.
Helicopter landing zones and staging areas must be acquired during project planning. Flight plans must be submitted to the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration for all helicopter flights. The Sikorsky S-61 heavy-lift helicopter is a restricted-category helicopter because of its previous use in the military. This designation means the helicopter is not allowed to fly in or over populated areas, thereby requiring additional planning when choosing landing zones. Road closures also are required when a helicopter transporting a load needs to cross the roads. To prevent additional coordination and permitting as well as increased cost to close highways, materials are trucked to selected staging areas and then flown to the site, eliminating the need to cross roadways and populated areas.
When stringing new conductor, shield wire and optical ground wire (OPGW) are installed on the new structures, many of the same issues are encountered. Helicopters can be used to string the wire in remote areas, but the heavy conductor reels and construction cable trailers exceed the weight limits of the helicopters, so finding locations to stage and string from is extremely challenging in the remote areas of the island. Finding one location to put pulling equipment is difficult enough but finding a second location for the conductor pull cart is rare. Potential locations that will allow vehicle access for fiber splicing are scouted early in the design process. Many times, the largest reels available are used and there is barely enough OPGW left for it to be spliced and coiled at the base of the structure.
Vegetation management on Oahu is a continuous process. The tropical climate fosters plant and grass growth year-round. Coordinating vegetation management with both surveying and construction efforts requires frequent progress update meetings. In remote areas, landing zones must be cleared of such vegetation before helicopters can land safely.
Despite all the obstacles discussed, Hawaiian Electric has been able to team up with HDR to develop the groundwork to build a solid structure-replacement program. The truest test for such challenges is the ability to complete a project. Construction is ongoing, but much of the backbone transmission lines that support most of the island have been rebuilt. The Oahu power grid has benefited from a more robust and reliable transmission system that is built to last well into the future.


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Waterloo Sunrise: London From the Sixties to Thatcher
By John Davis
Princeton University Press, 2022, 600 pp.
Reviewed by Andrew Moravcsik
In this book, a leading urban historian argues that London pioneered the changes, good and bad, that have transformed all world cities over the past half century. In 1960, a fine restaurant shocked the city by admitting a single male diner without a tie. Just a few years later, multicolored male clothing, the Beatles and the Rolling Stones, and loose sexual mores made London "the most swinging city in the world"—a place seemingly without any remaining social rules. Classic urban problems followed. Smog and water pollution spread. Concrete highways, sterile housing blocks, and Brutalist office buildings sparked a preservationist reaction—but too late to save much more than Piccadilly Circus and Covent Garden. New immigrants and their British-born offspring vented frustration and anger at their exclusion and discrimination. Hordes of tourists, many of them young, flooded into town. The decline of traditional industry blighted neighborhoods and weakened the established strongholds of the Labour Party. Eventually, an alliance of conservative small-business owners and suburban homeowners began to vote for the Conservative Party, ushering in the era of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.
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American Freedom Agenda Act of 2007
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Like the experienced doctor he is, Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX) has diagnosed a major problem in America and issued a prescription. That prescription is a bill he introduced on Monday, October 15 titled the "American Freedom Agenda Act of 2007" (H.R. 3835).
In introducing this bill, Rep. Paul commented as follows:
This legislation seeks to restore the checks and balances enshrined in the Constitution by our Founding Fathers to prevent abuse of Americans by their government. This proposed legislation would repeal the Military Commissions Act of 2006 and re-establish the traditional practice that military commissions may be used to try war crimes in places of active hostility where a rapid trial is necessary to preserve evidence or prevent chaos.
The legislation clarifies that no information shall be admitted as evidence if it is obtained from the defendant through the use of torture or coercion. It codifies the FISA process as the means by which foreign intelligence may be obtained and it gives members of the Senate and the House of Representatives standing in court to challenge presidential signing statements that declares the president's intent to disregard certain aspects of a law passed in the US Congress. It prohibits kidnapping and extraordinary rendition of prisoners to foreign countries on the president's unilateral determination that the suspect is an enemy combatant. It defends the first amendment by clarifying that journalists are not to be prevented from publishing information received from the legislative or executive branch unless such publication would cause immediate, direct, and irreparable harm to the United States.
Finally, the legislation would prohibit the use of secret evidence to designate an individual or organization with a United States presence to be a foreign terrorist or foreign terrorist organization.
With the introduction of this bill, a line has been drawn in the sand. Either our elected leaders are for the Constitution, or they are not. There is no middle ground, no selective support, no obedience with convenience. Either a politician honors his/her oath to support and defend this document, or they do not.
It really is that simple.
And so, with this Act which serves to restore and secure several Constitutional guarantees which have been abused or denied in recent years, we will see where our leaders stand.
But this bill needs our support. We must get the attention of our various representatives and urge them to publicly and actively support this bill. We must hold them accountable and have them state where they stand, so as to learn if they really do support the Constitution at all times, or only when it is politically convenient to do so.
Please look up and contact your representatives about this issue. Send them a link to the bill. Demand that they take a stand on this issue and show their true colors.
This bill's importance is summarized by William Grigg as follows:
Point by point, the measure describes how the Bush Regime has made war on the Constitution — through the creation of extra-constitutional military commissions; the presidential designation of U.S. citizens as "unlawful enemy combatants" devoid of due process rights; the effective abolition of the fundamental due process guarantee, the writ of habeas corpus; the institutionalization of the demonic practice of torture; the use of "extraordinary rendition" to outsource torture of detainees to terror states abroad; the employment of presidential "signing statements" to nullify laws; the practice of warrantless wiretapping….
The Bill of Particulars presented in the act is detailed, but not exhaustive. However, by addressing those specific abuses, and reversing the policy perversions that created them, the measure would bring our nation several important steps away from the abyss. Just as importantly, by putting congressmen on record about these matters, the bill will provide the public with a priceless tutorial regarding the true nature of our national representative body. A large-scale activist campaign based on this one piece of legislation could transform the Ron Paul presidential campaign — whatever its outcome — into a peaceful trans-partisan rebellion against Leviathan.
Likewise, Naomi Wolf, author of the book The End of America: Letter of Warning To A Young Patriot, describes the situation thusly:
This is the answer both to those who say "What we can do?" and to those who claim (actually, sometimes whine) "there is nothing we can do." And if we don't act on this now we will get the democracy we deserve — which is no democracy at all.
Put aside your partisan ideal world — sometimes issues simply transcend partisanship — and if ever there is an issue that is above and separate from party politics, it is the restoration of the democratic system we inherited. There are good people and passionate patriots across the political spectrum
I urge you to take the time to review the bill, and contact your representatives demanding their open and active support as it makes its way through the House.
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10 Responses to "American Freedom Agenda Act of 2007"
October 19, 2007 at 12:35 pm #
This is an excellent thing that Ron Paul is doing. It will show just how little influence he really has over the government he wishes to rule.
Parker (brother #3)
I like how this will show whether they are for the Constitution or not. It's about time we make them vote for things that are black and white and not something that's grey.
And Dan,
Im pretty sure Ron Paul isn't planning on "ruling" over this government. If you want a ruler then vote Guliani. Im curious how you would vote on this if you were a representative (although I would never vote for you…)
(although I would never vote for you…)
Haha, I figured not. :)
Huh, Bush drew similar lines in the sand. Either you were with him or with the terrorists. Now you guys are using the same threats, either we're with you or we're against the Constitution. Exactly how are you any different than Bush?
So how would I vote on this if I were a representative? I would vote against it. It's unfortunate, but Mr. Paul chooses to respond in extreme to this extreme situation, instead of bringing things back to the norm. He would rather take this to ANOTHER extreme.
Besides which, there are substantial problems with the bill.
1. He doesn't specify or define torture. George Bush says he doesn't order anyone to torture, so any evidence gathered from detainees in Gitmo, under Ron Paul's bill will be fine, because they can argue fairly that what they do is not torture (even if it is).
2. Section Six about presidential statements is completely confusing and utterly weak and ineffectual. Come right out and remove presidential signing statements, Mr. Paul. Or are you afraid that once you become the ruler of America, if you completely close all loopholes vis a vis presidential signing statements, you wouldn't be able to use them yourself?
3. Section Seven:
intent of bringing the kidnapped person for prosecution or interrogation to gather intelligence before a tribunal that meets international standards of fairness and due process.
The Bush administration can claim they follow this to the T. Again, too vague.
4. Section Eight. Under how Ron Paul writes it, Robert Novak will not be charged for revealing Valerie Plame's identity as a CIA operative. Again, too weak.
5. Section Nine. Leaves open the use of force. Very weak, Mr. Paul.
It actually is a fairly disappointing bill.
Kelly Winterton
I have sent a letter to Hatch, Bennet, Bishop and Bush telling them that I am watching for their support of the Constitution by supporting this bill.
Huh, Bush drew similar lines in the sand.
Anybody can draw a line. The question is what the line marks. Yes, Bsh drew a line regarding his foreign policy, declaring that those who didn't support his foreign aggression and neoconservative policies were against our government, and therefore enemies.
This is a different line. The line is drawn regarding a document our leaders have all sworn to uphold and defend. In that sense, the line has already been drawn, but some have crossed over to the other side, as it were.
Now you guys are using the same threats, either we're with you or we're against the Constitution.
Threats?
No, either you're for the Constitution or you're not. Either you abide by its precepts and uphold its provisions, or you don't. If you only partially obey the Constitution, then no, you're not for it. This isn't about partisan politics. This transcends partisan politics.
It's unfortunate, but Mr. Paul chooses to respond in extreme to this extreme situation, instead of bringing things back to the norm.
Norm? What norm? Right now, the norm is anything but Constitutional. Like Orwell said, "speaking the truth in times of universal deceit is a revolutionary act."
Anything but extreme action—repealing invasive, un-Constitutional laws from recent years and radically downsizing government—will only slow down the train that's plummeting into the abyss of fascism.
1. He doesn't specify or define torture.
You skipped over the word 'coercion'.
2. Section Six about presidential statements is completely confusing and utterly weak and ineffectual.
Um, no it's not. It allows any signing statement to be challenged by our representatives in court to overturn executive rulings. Its a step in the direction of adding checks and balances to counteract executive arrogance.
Or are you afraid that once you become the ruler of America, if you completely close all loopholes vis a vis presidential signing statements, you wouldn't be able to use them yourself?
What a silly and absurd question. Obviously you haven't studied Paul's voting record or proven character. Tell me, Dan, do you make such a loose insinuation simply because he's not a fellow Democrat?
What "international standards of fairness and due process" is Bush following? Sure, this is slightly vague, but it allows an avenue for criminal prosecution in court when somebody can prove that they're not reasonably complying.
False. Read on:
…unless the publication would cause direct, immediate, and irreparable harm to the national security of the United States.
Ousting a CIA agent certainly falls in this category.
What does this section have to do with force? This simply specifies that secret evidence can't be used when designating an individual or organization as a terrorist threat.
…in your opinion. An opinion with which, of course, I disagree.
I think Dan's argument here is "If I wrote the bill, there would be no ambiguous language."
Sen. Paul is, in fact, a consummate politician; I expect that he chooses his words very carefully, for very specific reasons.
Considering the track record of the Bush-Cheney presidency, there's the chance the bill will be ignored no matter what how it's worded.
On the other hand, compared to the recently discussed California SB 777 , the "Freedom Agenda Act" seems pretty clearly worded indeed.
I think any bill that gives legal leverage, however weak, against such a machiavellian, totalitarian oligarchy, has got to be a step in the right direction.
In my opinion, there is a big difference between the (faintly high-handed) idealism of Connor, and the narcissism displayed by Bush, Cheney, and friends.
Forgive me for being a little philosophical here. An idealist says he won't compromise, but generally, he will. A narcissist says he will compromise; but he will never do so, no matter the circumstances. (How's that for "dialectic"?) The line that bush drew in the sand wasn't a line, but a lasso; he reserved the right to pick and choose however he pleased, guilty until proven guilty.
Nevertheless, the question implied in the text above, lies at the heart of the problem: "who gets to draw the line of constitutionality?" All I know is, it shouldn't be the president alone.
This isn't about partisan politics. This transcends partisan politics.
That's easy for you to say, Connor. Just don't tell the Congress!
"Mr. Paul chooses to respond in extreme to this extreme situation"
And you woudn't? That's like you falling off your house and breaking your neck, and the ambulance comes and tells you to go take a hot shower and get some rest…
You can't solve big problems with small solutions..
LDS Anarchist
I wouldn't hold your breath waiting for this bill to pass. Congress doesn't care one bit about the Constitution. You are engaging in wishful thinking.
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Q: Symfony 2 and Doctrine 2 - Using "fetch" joins returns empty array I have an Entity "BlogPosts" with yml mapping:
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But it works perfectly without a join:
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What am i missing? I am really desperate :(
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Just found out, that it returns only posts, that have replies. How can i select all posts and if it has replies, replies too?

A: So i found the problem! Instead of JOIN i used LEFT JOIN:
$query = $em->createQuery("SELECT p, rl FROM <Bundle>:BlogPosts p LEFT JOIN p.replies rl WHERE p.user = 1");
$posts = $query->getResult(); // Now it works like a charm!

So now MySQL joins the result to the blog posts! When using a simple JOIN, it tries to join the posts to the replies, in witch case the result will be empty if the post doesn't have any!

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At one point in Samuel Beckett's 1951 novel Molloy, the title character finds himself at the seaside and "lays in a store of sucking stones":
They were pebbles but I call them stones. Yes, on this occasion I laid in a considerable store. I distributed them equally between my four pockets, and sucked them turn and turn about. This raised a problem which I first solved in the following way. I had say sixteen stones, four in each of my four pockets these being the two pockets of my trousers and the two pockets of my greatcoat. Taking a stone from the right pocket of my greatcoat, and putting it in my mouth, I replaced it in the right pocket of my greatcoat by a stone from the right pocket of my trousers, which I replaced by a stone from the left pocket of my trousers, which I replaced by a stone from the left pocket of my greatcoat, which I replaced by the stone which was in my mouth, as soon as I had finished sucking it. Thus there were still four stones in each of my four pockets, but not quite the same stones.
It occurs to him that this method won't ensure that every stone is eventually sucked, and he works out a plan that will achieve this. This takes eight pages, "one of the longest and most detailed accounts of someone working at a mathematical problem in a work of fiction," according to Richard Phillips in Numbers: Facts, Figures and Fiction.
Maddeningly, in the end Molloy throws away all the stones but one, "for they all tasted exactly the same."
March 3, 2017 March 3, 2017 | Literature · Science & Math
Banishing Gloom
For his Historical Atlas of 1830, Edward Quin took a different approach than other cartographers: Rather than present history as a series of discrete moments, he illustrates the growth of knowledge by covering the earth in obscuring clouds that are beaten back from panel to panel.
"In Quin's Historical Atlas, the world is shown first in darkness, with clouds obscuring everything outside the Garden of Eden," note Anthony Grafton and Daniel Rosenberg in Cartographies of Time. "Gradually, as history reveals more of the world, the clouds roll back. Turning the pages of the atlas is a bit like riffling through a flip book, watching darkness recede and the world known to Europeans grow."
March 3, 2017 March 2, 2017 | History · Literature
"A Cheap Correspondence"
A curious story of two poor lovers, whose system of correspondence was confined to an ingenious cipher of ink-blots on the outside of the letter, is told by the Poet Coleridge. In one of his walks in the Lake district, he saw the postman offer a letter to the servant-girl at a village inn, who, after carefully looking at the address, returned the document to the postman, telling him that she could not take it in, as she was too poor to pay the postage. Thereupon, Coleridge stepped forward, and giving the postman the shilling required for the letter, handed it to the girl. To his surprise, she did not appear as pleased as he had expected; and when the postman was out of hearing, she explained the matter by confessing to the poet that the whole of the letter consisted in its address and certain exterior blots and marks, and that it was the method adopted by her lover and herself to keep up an unpaid-for correspondence in the days of dear postage.
— Thomas Hood, The Book of Modern English Anecdotes, 1872
February 21, 2017 | Literature
Little Wars
H.G. Wells played war games. In 1913 he published a set of rules for playing with miniature infantry, cavalry, and artillery, worked out with his friend Jerome K. Jerome while playing with toy soldiers after lunch one day.
He fired that day a shot that still echoes round the world. An affair — let us parallel the Cannonade of Valmy and call it the Cannonade of Sandgate — occurred, a shooting between opposed ranks of soldiers, a shooting not very different in spirit — but how different in results! — from the prehistoric warfare of catapult and garter. 'But suppose,' said his antagonists; 'suppose somehow one could move the men!' and therewith opened a new world of belligerence.
With another friend and a lot of playtesting, he worked out a set of rules by which two players contend for control of a battlefield, "little brisk fights in which one may suppose that all the ammunition and food needed are carried by the men themselves."
In two or three moves the guns are flickering into action, a cavalry melee may be in progress, the plans of the attack are more or less apparent, here are men pouring out from the shelter of a wood to secure some point of vantage, and here are troops massing among farm buildings for a vigorous attack. The combat grows hot round some vital point. Move follows move in swift succession. One realises with a sickening sense of error that one is outnumbered and hard pressed here and uselessly cut off there, that one's guns are ill-placed, that one's wings are spread too widely, and that help can come only over some deadly zone of fire.
When Wells published his rules in August 1913, the Spectator raved that "there can be no doubt at all as to the excellence of Little Wars as a game for its own sake" — "Mr. Wells describes his new game and sets out its rules so attractively, and has, moreover, added to his description such alluring photographs, that his readers will find it hard indeed not to hurry out to the toy-shop round the corner, raise the necessary levies, and fall down forthwith upon hands and knees to emulate his achievements in the Battle of Hook's Farm."
Happily, since it was published a century ago, the whole thing is in the public domain — it's available at Project Gutenberg.
February 19, 2017 February 18, 2017 | Entertainment · Literature
Through the Looking-Glass
In 2015, to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the publication of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, master sculptor Karen Mortillaro created 12 new sculptures, one for each chapter in Lewis Carroll's masterpiece. Each takes the form of a table topped with an S-cylindrical mirror, with a bronze sculpture on either side. The sculpture that stands before the mirror is anamorphic, so that the curved mirror's reflection "undistorts" it, giving it meaning:
"The S-cylindrical mirror is ideal for this project because it allows for the figures on one side of the mirror to be sculpted realistically, while those on the opposite side of the mirror are distorted and unrecognizable," Mortillaro writes. "The mirror is symbolic of the parallel worlds that Alice might have experienced in her dream state; the world of reality is on one side of the mirror; and the world of illusion is on the mirror's opposite side."
Mortillaro's article appears in the September 2015 issue of Recreational Mathematics Magazine.
February 14, 2017 February 13, 2017 | Art · Literature · Science & Math
In December 2013 a U.S. District Court decided that copyright in the fictional characters Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson had expired, but only for the characters as they're depicted in the earlier novels by Arthur Conan Doyle. Aspects of the characters that are mentioned only in the later novels — such as Dr. Watson's athletic background, first described in a 1924 short story — are considered new "increments of expression" of those characters, and remain protected.
That makes eminent sense for writers and lawyers, but what about poor Dr. Watson, anxiously stirring the fire at 221B Baker Street? Does he have an athletic background or doesn't he? The copyright law seems to apply to a version of him that does, and not to one that doesn't. Should we say there are two Dr. Watsons? That doesn't seem right.
Worse, "If an author now wants to write a new Holmes novel, but is prohibited from mentioning almost everything pertaining to Professor Moriarty (who only rose to prominence in the later work Valley of Fear), how can we say that he is still writing about the 'the same' Holmes, given how much his character was formed through the interaction with his nemesis?" ask legal scholars Burkhard Schafer and Jane Cornwell. "Does this not render any new Holmes necessarily 'incomplete,' that is lacking character traits and memories Holmes is 'known to' possess, according to the canonical work?"
Even the "public domain" Holmes seems to multiply in this light. We learn that Holmes has an older brother, Mycroft, in "The Adventure of the Greek Interpreter," published in 1893. But if Mycroft is older than Sherlock, then surely he's been Sherlock's brother ever since Sherlock's birth in 1854. Does the early Sherlock (in, say, A Study in Scarlet) have a brother?
(Burkhard Schafer and Jane Cornwell, "Law's Fictions, Legal Fictions and Copyright Law," in Maksymilian Del Mar and William Twining, eds., Legal Fictions in Theory and Practice, 2015.)
February 8, 2017 February 7, 2017 | Literature · Oddities
A harmonic progression is a progression formed by taking the reciprocals of an arithmetic progression (so an example is 1/1, 1/2, 1/3, 1/4 …). When tutoring mathematics at Oxford, Charles Dodgson had a favorite example to illustrate this:
According to him, it is (or was) the rule at Christ Church that, if an undergraduate is absent for a night during term-time without leave, he is for the first offence sent down for a term; if he commits the offence a second time, he is sent down for two terms; if a third time, Christ Church knows him no more. This last calamity Dodgson designated as 'infinite.' Here, then, the three degrees of punishment may be reckoned as 1, 2, infinity. These three figures represent three terms in an ascending series of Harmonic Progression, being the counterparts of 1, 1/2, 0, which are three terms in a descending Arithmetical Progression.
— Lionel A. Tollemache, "Reminiscences of 'Lewis Carroll,'" Literature, Feb. 5, 1898
February 1, 2017 February 22, 2017 | Literature · Science & Math
In 1965, as they were writing the first draft of 2001: A Space Odyssey, Stanley Kubrick showed Arthur C. Clarke a set of 12 plastic tiles. Each tile consisted of five squares joined along their edges. These are known as pentominoes, and a set of 12 includes every possible such configuration, if rotations and reflections aren't considered distinct. The challenge, Kubrick explained, is to fit the 12 tiles together into a tidy rectangle. Because 12 five-square tiles cover 60 squares altogether, there are four possible rectangular solutions: 6 × 10, 5 × 12, 4 × 15, and 3 × 20. (A 2 × 30 rectangle would be too narrow to accommodate all the shapes.)
Clarke, who rarely played intellectual games, found that this challenge "can rather rapidly escalate — if you have that sort of mind — into a way of life." He stole a set of tiles from his niece, spent hundreds of hours playing with it, and even worked the shapes into the design of a rug for his office. "That a jigsaw puzzle consisting of only 12 pieces cannot be quickly solved seems incredible, and no one will believe it until he has tried," he wrote in the Sunday Telegraph Magazine. It took him a full month to arrange the 12 shapes into a 6 × 10 rectangle — a task that he was later abashed to learn can be done in 2339 different ways. There are 1010 solutions to the 5 × 12 rectangle and 368 solutions to the 4 × 15.
But "The most interesting case, however, is that of the long, thin rectangle only 3 units wide and 20 long." Clarke became fascinated with this challenge when Martin Gardner revealed that only two solutions exist. He offered 10 rupees to anyone who could find the solutions, and was delighted when a friend produced them, as he'd calculated that solving the problem by blind permutation would take more than 20 billion years.
Clarke even worked the 3 × 20 problem into his 1975 novel Imperial Earth. Challenged by his grandmother, the character Duncan struggles with the task and declares it impossible. "I'm glad you made the effort," she says. "Generalizing — exploring every possibility — is what mathematics is all about. But you're wrong. It can be done. There are just two solutions; and if you find one, you'll also have the other."
Can you find them?
Here's one solution. To see the other, leave the L N F T W Y Z section in place and exchange the ends.
January 28, 2017 February 5, 2017 | Literature · Science & Math
A Friendly Greeting
On Nov. 21, 1897, Mark Twain addressed the Vienna Press Club on "The Horrors of the German Language." He spoke in German; here's his literal translation:
It has me deeply touched, my gentlemen, here so hospitably received to be. From colleagues out of my own profession, in this from my own home so far distant land. My heart is full of gratitude, but my poverty of German words forces me to great economy of expression. Excuse you, my gentlemen, that I read off, what I you say will.
The German language speak I not good, but have numerous connoisseurs me assured that I her write like an angel. Maybe — I know not. Have till now no acquaintance with the angels had. That comes later — when it the dear God please — it has no hurry.
Since long, my gentlemen, have I the passionate longing nursed a speech on German to hold, but one has me not permitted. Men, who no feeling for the art had, laid me ever hindrance in the way and made naught my desire — sometimes by excuses, often by force. Always said these men to me: 'Keep you still, your Highness! Silence! For God's sake seek another way and means yourself obnoxious to make.'
In the present case, as usual it is me difficult become, for me the permission to obtain. The committee sorrowed deeply, but could me the permission not grant on account of a law which from the Concordia demands she shall the German language protect. Du liebe Zeit! How so had one to me this say could — might — dared — should? I am indeed the truest friend of the German language — and not only now, but from long since — yes, before twenty years already. And never have I the desire had the noble language to hurt; to the contrary, only wished she to improve — I would her only reform. It is the dream of my life been. I have already visits by the various German governments paid and for contracts prayed. I am now to Austria in the same task come. I would only some changes effect. I would only the language method — the luxurious, elaborate construction — compress, the eternal parenthesis suppress, do away with, annihilate; the introduction of more than thirteen subjects in one sentence forbid; the verb so far to the front pull that one it without a telescope discover can. With one word, my gentlemen, I would your beloved language simplify so that, my gentlemen, when you her for prayer need, One her yonder-up understands.
I beseech you, from me yourself counsel to let, execute these mentioned reforms. Then will you an elegant language possess, and afterward, when you some thing say will, will you at least yourself understand what you said had. But often nowadays, when you a mile-long sentence from you given and you yourself somewhat have rested, then must you a touching inquisitiveness have yourself to determine what you actually spoken have. Before several days has the correspondent of a local paper a sentence constructed which hundred and twelve words contained, and therein were seven parentheses smuggled in, and the subject seven times changed. Think you only, my gentlemen, in the course of the voyage of a single sentence must the poor, persecuted, fatigued subject seven times change position!
Now, when we the mentioned reforms execute, will it no longer so bad be. Doch noch eins. I might gladly the separable verb also a little bit reform. I might none do let what Schiller did: he has the whole history of the Thirty Years' War between the two members of a separable verb in-pushed. That has even Germany itself aroused, and one has Schiller the permission refused the History of the Hundred Years' War to compose — God be it thanked! After all these reforms established be will, will the German language the noblest and the prettiest on the world be.
Since to you now, my gentlemen, the character of my mission known is, beseech I you so friendly to be and to me your valuable help grant. Mr. Potzl has the public believed make would that I to Vienna come am in order the bridges to clog up and the traffic to hinder, while I observations gather and note. Allow you yourselves but not from him deceived. My frequent presence on the bridges has an entirely innocent ground. Yonder gives it the necessary space, yonder can one a noble long German sentence elaborate, the bridge-railing along, and his whole contents with one glance overlook. On the one end of the railing pasted I the first member of a separable verb and the final member cleave I to the other end — then spread the body of the sentence between it out! Usually are for my purposes the bridges of the city long enough; when I but Potzl's writings study will I ride out and use the glorious endless imperial bridge. But this is a calumny; Potzl writes the prettiest German. Perhaps not so pliable as the mine, but in many details much better. Excuse you these flatteries. These are well deserved.
Now I my speech execute — no, I would say I bring her to the close. I am a foreigner — but here, under you, have I it entirely forgotten. And so again and yet again proffer I you my heartiest thanks.
Reportedly his spoken German was actually excellent (PDF), and he delivered the address without reading the text.
He'd been sparring with German for some time — his essay "The Awful German Language" had appeared as an appendix to A Tramp Abroad in 1880.
January 27, 2017 January 26, 2017 | Language · Literature
The Harcourt Interpolation
Here are two transcriptions of a speech by Home Secretary Sir William Harcourt, reprinted in the London Times on Jan. 23, 1882. At left is the column as it originally appeared; at right is the same speech in a hastily issued replacement edition. What's the difference between them?
In the column on the left, about midway down, a disgruntled compositor has inserted the line "The speaker then said he felt inclined for a bit of fucking."
The paper issued an apology and suppressed the offending edition as well as it could, but that only increased public interest, driving the price of a copy up from threepence to £5 in some areas (it would reach £100 by the 1990s). The Times' quarterly index recorded the offense:
Harcourt (Sir W.) at Burton on Trent, 23 j 7 c
———Gross Line Maliciously Interpolated in a
Few Copies only of the Issue, 23 j 7 d — 27 j 9 f
The paper tried to rise above all this, but it made a new rule: If you sack a compositor, get him off the premises immediately.
(Thanks, Alejandro.)
January 18, 2017 January 17, 2017 | History · Literature · Society
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A portmanteau word, also known as a blend, is "a word that combines the sound and meaning of two words" – such as brunch (breakfast + lunch), guesstimate (guess + estimate), banoffee (banana + toffee) and Wikipedia (wiki + encyclopedia). The combining words have to blend: if they remain intact, as in keyboard or skydive, the result is a compound.
Well, "slithy" means "lithe and slimy." "Lithe" is the same as "active". You see it's like a portmanteau – there are two meanings packed up into one word.
Many such coinages are destined to be short-lived or remain limited to certain sublanguages. Others, as we've seen, eventually enter our everyday vocabulary. One of my earliest posts for Macmillan was about so-called man-words such as mandals and mirdles, and later posts looked at webinar and slacktivism; all of these fall into the category of portmanteau words. The first two are obscure and obviously jocular; the next two have attained wider currency.
Language, as an historical accident, is poor in names for subjective states, and consequently in names for the imputed properties of objects that produce those states. Even such words as love and hate, dealing with emotions to which mankind has always paid great attention, are merely portmanteau words. Within their meanings are not only differences of degree, but differences of kind. To conclude, because the word 'beauty' exists almost in isolation, that it refers to some definite quality of objects, or that it is descriptive of some one subjective state, is to mistake a deficiency in language for a key to truth.
So a portmanteau word need not be a blend at all – though nowadays it almost always is. Language may have its philosophical deficiencies, but of portmanteau words in their familiar form we have a fantabulous admirabundance.
Nice post Stan, thanks! Worth pointing out detail that only one of the words that combines needs to be broken down for the combo to count as a blend – sometimes, one of the words remains intact, e.g. 'staycation' (= stay + vacation) 'webinar'. (web + seminar).
That's a good point, Kerry, and one I should probably have made clearer in the post. Thank you!
There's a number of things here I thought I knew but didn't. For example, I thought "portmanteau" came from portman and manteau, where a portman is presumably some eponymous object. Also, I had no idea that Humpty Dumpty (or anyone else in authority) ever actually supplied definitions for words like "slithy".
I like the idea of the contradictionary, but how would it work? You can't alphabeticise something that remains the same when paraphrased.
Adrian: Glad it informed! I think of Portman primarily as a proper name, as in Natalie, but uncapitalised it appears to have two old senses: an inhabitant or an administrator of a town.
I admit I didn't think very hard or systematically about how a contradictionary might be organised, but it would depend on what kind of paradoxes were included. Phrasal ones could be ordered as in a phrasal dictionary.
Amy: Bannoffee has no hits in COCA, but it shows up in the Google Books corpus from the 1980s/1990s onward in both BrE and AmE.
…and banoffee doesn't appear at all in the British National Corpus (circa 1990; it is quite frequent in the UKWaC corpus (circa 200os), with 58 hits in 1.6 billion woids (=36 hits per billion words of text); then seems to tail off a little, with just 257 hits in the 13 billion word EnTenTen12 corpus (with texts from the last couple of years), which represents about 18 hits per billion words. So has banoffee pie passed its peak?
Michael: Maybe it has. Another factor might be an increase in people misspelling it, as I did in my previous comment! (I meant banoffee, and this is what I checked in the corpora.) Thanks for the additional stats.
I hadn't known the origin of banoffee and will in future order my dessert with some reverence. As for "slithy" Lewis Carroll has a lot to answer for. I can't even say the word without curling my lips in distaste!
Helen: The first time I heard banoffee it struck me as a strange word and imagined it ended in 'y'; the second time, I saw it written down and figured it surely came from banana + toffee, which I later confirmed. Sounds like slithy is too close to slimy (and maybe also slither) for your liking!
Thank you very much for the quotation from J.W.N.Sullivan, both for the useful alternative meaning of portmanteau and for the overall point he is making.
It was a small disappointment to us, when we told our friends our younger daughter would be called Tove (Danish name from history and folksong), that only one inquired whether she was slithy.
You're welcome, Old Gobbo. Maybe some people thought about slithy but refrained from asking about it.
I've tweeted / blogged about the relatively recent (?) BrE pronunciation by otherwise RP speakers of brought/bought and broadcasting/boardcasting. Could the latter be considered a sort of portmanteau when used for "broadcasting about snow- and skateboarding"? Maybe not, as the words board and cast are unchanged?
Edward: I would consider boardcasting "broadcasting about snow- and skateboarding" to be a portmanteau — a boardmanteau, even. The r-dropping you refer to is a separate issue, though, and living in Ireland I have not noticed this pronunciation pattern.


Do you hide? Hide from customers, shy away from certain marketing activities, try to find excuses not to pursue something you know you really should?
We do too – especially the Chief Nudger of Nudge Village!
The Chief Nudger didn't want to be "seen" in an online format for a while. But, through some of the tips provided through Villager Barbara (http://www.bijacoaching.com), the Chief Nudger decided it was time to come out of hiding and create a couple of videos!
Now, they aren't perfect, but somewhere along the way it becomes very apparent that the only way to become better is to get out there and start doing the task that it most scary to do.
So, here you go…some thoughts from the Chief Nudger that stemmed from a Facebook Group conversation about the greatest challenges that entrepreneurs face.
This is a learning experience and if anyone should be willing to put it all out there – it should be the Chief Nudger!


Some times is difficult to me to make boy cards because we used to put bows, cute things on cards and that kind of girlish right? weel this time I use the Birthday Boy collection by bella Blvd love all the bright colors and that green frog. I put a birthday hat on his head, add some glossy accents on his eyes and fingers.
To make it woobly I use a metal spring and attached it to the back with silicone.
I made another card for this challenge you can see it here.
Super cute card! Love what you did with the frog. Thanks so much for linking up to Paper Issues!


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Opposites Attract is one of the many Quests found in Divinity: Original Sin 2.
This begins in Ryker's cellar. You can access it through his house in the graveyards East of Driftwood.
Speak with the turtle down here to learn she is in love with a nearby rat. If you speak to the rat however, he only thinks about food.
The goal here is to lure the Rat towards the Turtle using food. Leave a trail of food, starting at the turtle, and make a path all the way to the rat. It will likely take 6-10 pieces of food. The size and type of food doesn't matter. If successful, the rat will get close enough to the turtle and purple clouds will indicate they are in love.
Speak to the turtle again to complete the quest.