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Ernest Hemingway: In Limbo between Sexism and Feminism
10/27/09 side note:
Hi there, lit scholars! This appears to be one of my site's most popular pages. I'm glad for you to be reading my site. I'm especially proud for people to read about my Hemingway essays, as I had the pleasure of writing several over the course of my college career. Please send me some feedback at jeff.t.brandt@gmail.com. I'd be curious to know if anyone is citing me as a source.
1/13/10 side note:
Looks like I was right to suspect people have used my research for their own papers. Evidently a high school English teacher caught a student plagiarizing this essay. Tsk tsk. No shame in using sources, but be sure to cite them, kids!
For decades, Ernest Hemingway and his writings were looked upon by scholars as valuable statements of the modern condition that unfortunately also displayed sexist leanings. For all their praise of his focus on depicting authentic stories of World War I and post-World War I disillusionment in his characteristic short declarative sentences that so concisely portray the violence dominating the twentieth century, scholars also lamented his stories' praise of masculinity at the expense of women and femininity. His male-oriented stories about hunting, fishing, bullfighting, and battle scenes alienated many a female reader. Indeed, the author of this essay felt convinced before beginning the assignment of Hemingway's certain misogyny.
Nevertheless, some quality about Hemingway's oeuvre must have kept literary scholars coming back for more, because academia still reveres Hemingway as a master stylist and spokesman for the Lost Generation. As Margaret D. Bauer writes, "I teach [Hemingway's stories] in spite of Hemingway's reputation as a misogynist and my own feminist sensibilities," explaining that she presents them to her students "not only because I recognize Hemingway's genius with the craft of the short story, but also to show students that they should not make assumptions about a writer's work based on some vague impression they have of the author's character" (125). According to Richard Fantina, other critics have even attempted to reclaim Hemingway "as almost a feminist" (85). That the same author could be regarded by some as a villainous sexist and by others a champion of gender equality makes Hemingway an interesting subject of study from a GWS perspective.
This essay will attempt to perform the same kind of levelheaded criticism that Bauer lauds, evaluating Hemingway's work itself instead of his media image as a gruff, chauvinist man's man in order to determine whether or not Hemingway is in fact a sexist. I will weigh arguments for both sides, ultimately to dispel notions of him as a pure sexist but also to raise enough concerns to disqualify him from the ranks of feminism. An eccentric author of bold statements and creator of controversy, Hemingway straddles both worlds without fitting into either, finally landing himself a place in the troublesome limbo between sexism and feminism.
The traditional feminist view of Hemingway as hateful toward women deserves exploration first. Take, for example, his story "Soldier's Home," a very early short story of Hemingway's originally published in his first ever American book: In Our Time (1925), a collection of short stories loosely based around World War I and postwar experiences. Krebs is a young man recently returned from war who finds himself unable to function properly in everyday American society, where he feels his male peers are misunderstood by the older and younger generations. A large portion of this story is spent on him watching and contemplating young women his age, with whom he felt unable to communicate since "they lived in such a complicated world of already defined alliances and shifting feuds that Krebs did not feel the energy to break into it" (112). Here Krebs seems to associate women with frivolous gossiping – a stereotype feminists can easily point out as sexist. To him, the ideal postwar life means simplicity, free of the "intrigue and the politics" that attempting to date women requires (113). He prefers the girls he met in France and Germany because "There was not all this talking. You couldn't take much and you did not need to talk," explaining earlier that "When you were really ripe for a girl you always got one. You did not have to think about it" (113). While one can sympathize with the trauma Krebs experienced on the European battlefield, a GWS scholar cannot much appreciate his view of women as commodities to be "gotten" on a whim. He seems to view women as little more than meat; no need to talk or find out if he shares interests with them before engaging in intercourse – finding them and locating a bed ought to be enough.
Krebs also employs the male gaze, as explained by Laura Mulvey in Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema. He focuses in on them almost as if they were objects, presumably while reading on his front porch. The narrator asserts that Krebs "liked to look at them" while noting the pattern created by their short hair, their sweaters, and their Dutch collars. Their patterns of behavior and of dress seem exotic and inaccessible to him, preferring the alleged simplicity of the French and German prostitutes to these Americans.
The theme of misogyny continues in the story "Cat in the Rain," also from In Our Time, in which two married American tourists visiting an Italian hotel interact in ways that make the woman seem petty. When she spots a cat outside hiding under a table from the pouring rain, she tries to find it outside, cannot, then returns inside and whines to her husband. She lists a series of requests in an annoying tirade: she wants long hair so she can pull it "back tight and smooth and make a big knot at the back that I can feel" and to "have a kitty to sit on my lap and purr when I stroke her" (131). A moment later demands fancy silver, candles, spring weather, and new clothes. She seems to be the epitome of the petty, materialistic woman. Even their names indicate an authorial preference for the husband over the wife, since the narrator individualizes the man by referring to him as "George," but creates in the woman a stock character by calling her "the American wife" and "the American girl" (130). Her title is even more troubling when one considers the fact that being just "the American wife" sets her as the standard, equating all women to her and her trivial demands.
Hemingway even evidently made disparaging comments about a fellow modernist write for being too feminine. He "apparently considered Dos Passos 'womanish' for his 'refusal to take an assertively masculine role, especially with women'" (Eaton 511). This not only degrades women by insinuating that they are all essentially the same, but it also limits the possibilities of men; his statement sets a limit on what behavior men can have. With these egregious offenses against women established, one must wonder how anyone could label Hemingway a feminist. It seems, however, that in later years and more distance from the First World War, Hemingway mellowed out and actually assumed a more liberal stance toward women.
Bauer uses Hemingway's story "Hills Like White Elephants" (1927) as an example of a case where he exalts the strength of a pregnant woman and looks down upon her naïve lover, who believes that abortion is an easy solution that can return their lives back to normal (130). Bauer writes that "Roger Whitlow calls [the story] 'Hemingway's most penetrating attack on men as the exploiter of woman," and that "Linda W. Wagner points out that . . . 'Hemingway's sympathy is clearly with the girl'" (129). Whether or not she ultimately gets an abortion remains a mystery, and is not the point of the story. The point is that the pregnant woman in the story reaches a higher level of complexity than the man and recognizes that aborting her child will be a devastating event after which her relationship to him will never return to the status quo.
In his essay about Hemingway's interest in Africa and casting off his identity as a white male author to become a genuine member of the Wakamba tribe, Suzanne del Gizzo points out that the popular media's coverage of his safari differs from his actual experience. Look magazine interviewed Hemingway and his fourth wife, Mary, just before he wrote True at First Light (written in 1953; released in 1999), and painted the couple as maintaining traditional American domestic life in Africa. Photographs only show her holding a gun once, even though she regularly hunted with Ernest, and focused more on caring for an abandoned gazelle (512). Del Grizzo claims the purpose of the photographs were to "confirm Mary's innate femininity" which people at home had brought into question. Yet they depicted the Hemingways incorrectly, because True at First Light shows that "Hemingway and Mary share a more equal relationship with each other and with the natives than was suggested by the article" (513). That Hemingway would view his wife, the Africans, and himself as equals brings into question the traditional notions of Hemingway as the author benefiting from sexism and imperialism.
Contrary to the Look article, Hemingway's relationship with his wife far transcended the bounds of tradition. In fact, an exchange recorded in Mary's safari diary documents Hemingway's openness to sodomy and sexual role reversal:
Reporter: Mr. Hemingway, is it true that your wife is a lesbian?
Papa: Of course not. Mrs. Hemingway is a boy.
Reporter: What are your favorite sports, sir?
Papa: Shooting, fishing, reading and sodomy.
Reporter: Does Mrs. Hemingway participate in these sports?
Papa: She participates in all of them.
(del Gizzo 517)
This playful conversation from Hemingway indicates that, in the privacy of the East African wilderness, he and his wife had no qualms about engaging in his homosexual fantasies of having sex with a man. He explicitly admits to sodomy and to regarding his wife's act of assuming the male role in sex as attractive to him.
Richard Pantina confirms Hemingway's interest in female-to-male sodomy and female-dominant sexuality in general by using his novels The Sun Also Rises and The Garden of Eden as examples of male submission – even masochism – toward women. He writes that "David Bourne in The Garden of Eden allows himself to be sodomized and called 'girl' by his wife" (96), and that Brett Ashley bosses the Jake Barnes around in The Sun Also Rises, acting as the dominant partner in a relationship with a man whose wound lost him his penis (93).
Hemingway's sympathy for the wife in "Hills like White Elephants," his openness to experimentation with female sexual domination, and his perception of his wife an equal on his safari score him points for the feminist side. Perhaps he regarded women lowly only in his angst-driven youth, particularly in the stories published in In Our Time, after which he gained a more GWS-friendly perspective.
It seems more likely, however, that Hemingway's work adds up to make a point about his vision of ideal womanhood. The women as shown in "Soldier's Home" and "Cat in the Rain" exhibit attributes he dislikes: frivolous, gossipy, whiny, excessively materialistic, conforming to the same pattern. He appreciates women such as Mary, Brett Ashley, and David Bourne's wife, who can prove their so-called "manly" qualities to him in the bedroom by having female-to-male anal sex and in African expeditions by hunting with the rest of the men. He cannot respect women unless he feels that they can match his masculinity. While it may be a positive feminist point that he does not demand that women submit to him, his views of women seem too binary. Either they act too stereotypically girlish, or they take on hypermasculine traits. Hemingway blinds himself to the middle ground. In the process, he oversimplifies the complexity of the situation and sets an ideal mold – a test – that few women can live up to.
I would argue with Bauer and del Gizzo that Hemingway's misogyny is far overexaggerated and that he is much more open-minded than past feminists gave him credit for, but I also believe that Hemingway's test of every woman's strength and virtue to determine whether or not he should respect them is unfair. Thus he enters the gray area between feminism and sexism; he still deserves criticism from GWS scholars but should not be demonized outright.
Bauer, Margaret D. "Forget the Legend and Read the Work: Teaching Two Stories by Ernest Hemingway." College Literature 30.3 (2003): 124-137.
del Gizzo, Suzanne. "Going Home: Hemingway, Primitivism, and Identity." Modern Fiction Studies 49.3 (2003): 496-523.
Eaton, Mark Rev. of Dos Passos and the Ideology of the Feminine, by Janet Galligani Casey. Modern Fiction Studies 45.2 (1999): 510-513.
Fantina, Richard. "Hemingway's Masochism, Sodomy, and the Dominant Woman." The Hemingway Review 23.1 (2003): 84-105.
Hemingway, Ernest. The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway. First Scribner trade pb. ed. New York: Scribner, 2003.


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8/31 - I'm still scrambling to get the site set up for football, so I'm going to dispense with today's blurb.
This morning, I released a preliminary version of the Football Assimilator with new prices, schedules, and averages for both the free TSN/SW game and the Swirve game. I plan to add Progressive Sports Challenge as an option sometime next week. And by the beginning of next week (not sure whether that means Monday or Tuesday), I hope to have Football Pickoff ready for registration and first round picking.
8/30 - The game in San Diego was obviously played at sea level, so you can't blame the altitude for the 30 runs and 30 hits in the Cardinals' 16-14 "squeaker" over the Padres. Ryan Klesko went nuts at the plate with 2 homers, 2 doubles, and 5 RBIs, good for 109 SWP and 115 SvP. That overshadowed what would usually be a "monster-of-the-night" performance by Aramis Ramirez, who had 98 SWP and 103 SvP at Milwaukee. The Brewers will be glad to see him leave town, as he pounded out 162 SWP in the 3-game series. (Klesko also has 162 SWP in his last 3 games.)
The night wasn't all hitting, however. Jason Bere snapped out of his 3-game skid with a complete game worth 161 SWP and 192 SvP. Jamie Moyer and C.C. Sabathia also posted 3-digit SWP totals. Moyer's outing moved him into the #3 ranking for total pitching SWP over the past 30 days, during which time he's averaged more than 100 SWP per start. And based on recent price changes, a lot more managers benefited from Moyer's outing last night than either of the other two pitching stars.
8/29 - Do you know who the top pitcher has been over the past month? None other than Javier Vazquez, who has virtually lapped the field with 805 SWP in his last 6 starts, an average of 134 SWP/start. Randy Johnson is second, but he's 132 SWP behind Vazquez' total. During the month, Vazquez has only one start below 100 SWP, and that was 95. Yet his SW Price is up less than $400K during that period. That may change over the next several weeks. And that probably signals the time to move to someone else. If you've got him already, though, I guess you continue to enjoy the ride. His next 2 starts will be against Philly - facing rookie Brandon Duckworth both times, in all likelihood.
Speaking of the top pitchers over the past month (if I may digress for a moment), I note that Curt Schilling ranks third (behind Vazquez and Johnson). But after that, the list isn't dominated by the household names. Maddux ranks only 36th! Clemens ranks #387, although he only has 5 starts, while many others have 6. Chan Ho Park is #75. Tim Hudson isn't even within the top 100. So it's been a month when spending a lot on pitching hasn't been very fruitful. Sometimes having a lot of wealth can be a tough obstacle to overcome.
End of digression. Back to yesterday's results.
Middle infielders dominated last night's SWP hitting, led by a pair of 65's from (listed) second basemen Carlos Febles and Frank Catalanotto (who is actually playing the outfield). Shortstop Jimmy Rollins had 62 SWP. Only Dmitri Young crashed the 60's infield party, garnering 63 SWP after missing a week of action.
Digression again. I just noticed that Sammy Sosa has been the top hitter over the past 30 days. That's absolutely no surprise, as it's well known that he's been putting up a monster August. What is surprising, though, is that even he is a few SWP behind Vazquez! Perhaps that's the best way to put Vazquez' recent dominance into proper perspective.
8/28 - On a day with only five games, there weren't many notable fantasy performances. Robert Person was the only pitcher to crack 3-digits in SWP with 138, although Greg Maddux would have done it with a more effective bullpen. On the hitting side, Richie Sexson clouted 2 home runs for 71 SWP. Barry Bonds was the only other hitter north of 50, with 52 SWP.
For those who may be making plans based on an older version of the MLB schedule, be aware that there have been changes in the Arizona/SD home-and-home series for the next two weekends. Evidently, the two series have been switched. The 3-game series originally scheduled in Arizona for this weekend will now be played from September 7-9. The 4 games originally scheduled in San Diego from Sept. 7-10 will be squeezed into this coming weekend, including a Friday night doubleheader. September 10th, which was an originally scheduled game day, is now an off day for both teams. A conflict with the Chargers on Sept. 9th appears to be the reason for the switch. Thanks the Steve Houpt for sending me a "heads up" on this.
8/27 - I'm back at home again, and rarin' to go. It will take a few days to get caught up on some routine site maintenance items that are generally transparent, but I hope to have the football Assimilator and Football Pickoff up and running by the end of the week. We're less than 2 weeks away from opening day in the NFL. So there's not much time to waste.
Keeping tabs on baseball was about all I could handle during my 2-week hiatus. Some of my teams did well, and some not so well. My midseason SW team has been doing quite well lately, and I'm at a bit of a loss to explain the success, other than perhaps not overmanaging. My biggest bungle on that team was dropping Jose Ortiz on the morning of 8/17, just in time to miss his 3-HR game. I had some spare cash that day due to some pitching moves, and upgrading to Robbie Alomar seemed like a non-stupid move. But it backfired. Oh well.
During the past 15 days, the best SW pitchers to have owned were all relatively cheap: Kelvim Escobar (407 SWP), Javier Vazquez (403), Albie Lopez (399), Roy Oswalt (336), and Keith Foulke (323). Randy Johnson ranked only 6th.
On the hitting side, the super stud was Sammy Sosa, with 499 SWP, an average of 33.3 per game. Shawn Green also averaged better than 31 SWP/G, but that still put him almost 100 SWP behind Sosa. The top cheap hitter has been Adam Dunn, whose 326 SWP rank #5 for the past 15 days. Interestingly, his price has been dropping over the past few days, but with 139 SWP in the last 2 games, the bleeding will probably stop abruptly.
Good to be back.
8/10 - I usually try to get my daily blurb posted by noon, but it is 4:15pm, and I'm just getting started. Fortunately, I call these "daily blurbs" and not "morning blurbs".
I've been busy getting the site retooled for football. I'm leaving tomorrow for two weeks of vacation, and I wanted to at least get the basics ready. For now, the sortable stats are set up for TSN/Smallworld and Swirve, based on last year's regular season stats, but with this year's prices. The Progressive Sports Challenge game will also be incorporated this year, but they have yet to complete their player listings. I'll hope to have that available as soon as all rookies have been included.
The Assimilator is not yet ready, and probably won't be until the last week of August. Ditto for the Football Pickoff game. At this point, the best place for those of you who just can't wait for football is the football message forum. With the first NFL game not until September 9th, there's plenty of time to digest the preseason.
For the next two weeks I'll be on north shore of the Marblehead Peninsula on Lake Erie, looking out at Put-In-Bay Island (or "Pudding Bay Ireland", as my kids once called it long ago.) As usual, I will keep the stats updated, although some days they may be later than normal. Daily blurbs will probably be sporadic, unless the weather keeps me indoors.
8/9 - Having a pitcher post a negative 3-digit SWP score is unusual, but it happens about twice per week, on average. Having at least two pitchers do it on the same day is rarer - but it has now happened 4 times this season, about once per month. Relief pitchers had only managed the feat twice before last night. So what are the odds of having two relievers from the same team do it in the same inning? But that's what befell Texas relievers Mike Venafro (-105) and Brandon Villafuerte (-100), as they combined to allow 13 Detroit runs while retiring only one batter between them. Truly amazing!
While the "Texas V's" dominated the southern end of the pitching point rankings, the "Chicago B's" captured the northern extreme, as Mark Buehrle and Jason Bere posted 133 and 124 SWP respectively. Buehrle has been a popular choice since his late-May surge, but Bere has not commanded much attention. That may change soon.
You'd expect that Detroit batters dominated the hitting landscape, although the Yankees and White Sox also scored in the mid-teens. Three hitters were in the SWP 70s: Damion Easley (75), Magglio Ordonez (72), and Shane Halter (70). The best Yankee was David Justice with 60 SWP.
8/8 - After a day with no 3-digit pitchers (SWP), last night provided 8 of them. Darryl Kile headed the list with 145 SWP and 181 SvP, and was also the only one of the eight with a high SW price. The only other one appreciably more expensive than $1m SWD was Mark Mulder.
Only two hitters managed to top 50 SWP. The leader was Bobby Abreu with 68 SWP, based on this busy stat linescore: 3-3, 2B, HR, SB, 2R, 2RBI. The other was Barry Bonds, who got more than half of his 51 SWP in the 11th inning.
With Hall of Fame enshrinements in the recent news, today I'm taking the opportunity to correct a recent oversight in the RotoGuru Hall of Fame. Neil MacPhee finished with the #1 worldwide ranking in last summer's SW Midseason Baseball game, and should have been listed last fall with the other 2000 baseball enshrinees. In fact, according to message forum participants with better memories than mine, Neil "blew everyone away last year." I'm happy to be able to finally accord this deserved honor, Neil. Better late than never!
8/7 - If some of you are having trouble accessing this site, the culprit is probably the Code Red virus. While the server is not infected, this hosting network has been bombarded for the past week with Code Red scans, resulting in intermittent access problems. Hopefully, this will run its course quickly, although the problem has evidently been pretty persistent for the past week. Make sure you have the message forum bookmarked, so you can get there directly if this page is inaccessible. The forum is hosted on a different server.
Even with a light schedule, it's rare to have a day with no pitchers achieving triple digit point totals. Actually, that's not quite accurate. While no pitchers eligible for the SW game broke 100 SWP, Danny Wright posted 120 Swirve points. He's not listed in SW, but he would only have had 97 SWP.
But just because pitchers were mired in mediocrity (although don't tell Charles Nagy), hitters didn't exactly light it up, either. Tops was Nomar Garciaparra with 54 SWP and 56 SvP. But lest you Nomar owners think you might have gained some ground on ARod owners, ARod was only 5 SWP behind. Johnny Damon was the top Swirve hitter, with 59 SvP.
8/6 - After Cleveland's 12-run comeback last night, and Pittsburgh's 7-run 9th-inning comeback a week ago, you wonder why Davey Lopes got upset with Rickey Henderson's SB last week when trailing by only 7 runs with three innings remaining. That was still a virtual cliffhanger!
Mark Buehrle had the top SWP outing for the weekend, piling up 164 SWP on Friday night. Roy Oswalt was a few SWP behind that, but he did post the top Swirve score with 192 SvP on Saturday. And on Sunday, Curt Schilling kept the weekend's daily pitching honors from being a clean sweep for cheapies.
The weekend's top hitter was Aramis Ramirez, who made the most of his visit to Coors Field with 140 SWP. The only other weekend hitter within 30 SWP of that was Wes Helms, who did most of his damage in a monster 101 SWP effort on Saturday.
I'm going to cut this blurb short, because I have a lot of work to do to get football stats posted by the end of the week. Ciao!
8/3 - There were a number of pretty good pitching performances yesterday. And there were a few stinkers, too.
Javier Vazquez took the honors with 8 innings of 3-hit shutout ball in Arizona, good for 146 SWP. Jason Bere would have matched that total had Ryan Klesko not grand-slammed away his 30 victory points.
At the other extreme, Kip Wells, Mike Mussina, and C.C. Sabathia all got scorched with SWP scores in the minus seventies. Judging from yesterday's price changes, Mussina inflicted the most widespread pain.
The top hitter didn't face any of those three pitchers, though. Garrett Anderson homered twice off of Bret Saberhagen to put up 81 SWP. Two other outfielders were in the SWP 60s, but in general, the hitting was pretty well dispersed.
Both Swirve and TSN launched their free fantasy football games yesterday. I haven't had a chance to review the rules yet, but will aim to have the sortable stats loaded with new prices for both games by the end of next week. Meanwhile, I'm sure the football message forum will see some activity evaluating both of these free games.
8/2 - Jason Schmidt may have discovered what he's been missing all season - a chance to face the Pirates. Last night he rectified that omission, pinning a 7-inning 1-hit effort against his former teammates. His 139 SWP topped the pitching list on a night when only three starters reached 3-digit SWPs.
In spite of the general lack of pitching masterpieces, only three hitters topped 60 SWP, and all three were outfielders. Tops was Jose Canseco's 2 homer outburst against the Royals, good for 71 SWP and 81 SvP. Doug Glanville placed second in a rain-shortened Coors Field game, and Luis Gonzalez went 4-4 in a losing effort against Montreal.
I posted the 2001 NFL Schedule in the usual format yesterday. Many Gurupies have found this format to provide a good season-long aid for schedule planning.
8/1 - August! The dog days are officially here.
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Eight pitchers reached 3-digit SWP totals last night, headed by Ryan Dempster's 3-hitter in Milwaukee (154 SWP, 192 SvP). Paul Byrd had his second straight strong outing, allowing only one run in 9 innings. And Curt Schilling returned to form after last week's negative debacle.
Todd Helton took the hitting honors, with 2 home runs leading to 68 SWP and 71 SvP. Todd has 158 SWP in his last four games, and seems to be over his recent slump. I wouldn't be surprised to see a shift in the Bagwell-Helton trade winds. Aramis Ramirez was just a few points behind Helton. His price is down more than $500K in the SW/TSN midseason game, and with a Coors visit looming later this week, it seems like a non-stupid time to pick him back up of you've already dropped him. I just held him and ate the losses, but if you want to continue to stay away, that's perfectly fine with me.
Two other noteworthy performances on the hitting side. J.D. Drew returned to action and promptly picked up where he left off, with 37 SWP. Meanwhile, Nomar managed only -6 SWP in Fenway. Those managers who dropped ARod prior to Monday's game have bagged a nice chunk of $change, but they are now 51 SWP behind. Of course, that can change anyday. But at least for now, most ARod holders are feeling just fine about that decision.
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"The current leadership needs to find a way to reconnect or we will need new leadership."
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May's leadership ratings have also nosedived, while those of Jeremy Corbyn have remained stable. May's net approval rating – when the number of people who disapprove of the way she is leading the country is subtracted from the number who approve – has tumbled from -8% in June to -24% over a turbulent political period of just five weeks.
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Many have argued that the group was doomed from the start having been set the impossible mission of becoming the vehicle for a conservative mass movement that never existed.
A visit to the Activate website returns a '404' error – while the group's Twitter account now shows only a single tweet under a revised name of "The artist formerly known as Activate".
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Q: Why do we like LFSR and PN-sequence in FPGA? Everybody has learnt that we like LFSR in FPGAs because of its simplicity, FPGA like structure. PN-sequence generator is build up from LFSRs. (So we would think that this is FPGA-like generator...)

BUT
PN-seqence generator generates a new bit in each clock cycle, therefore we have to wait n clock-cycle to get an n-bit long word.
So to get a new PN-Sequence word in each clock-cycle we need to implement a much more complicated structure. This repo contains such an "lfsr", however the implemented design wont look alike an LFSR.
My questions:

*

*Am I right? (Is this statement correct?) It isn't a trivial task to generate PN-Sequence word in each clock-cycle.

*Why does the industry prefer the PN-sequence than other random generators?

A:
Why does the industry prefer the PN-sequence than other random
  generators?

Because autocorrelation would give only one exact peak. Doing cross correlation of different PN code would give zero result, kind of selective receiving. You send  a sequence to DUT and you receive the response, used in radar, sonar, model identification,...etc

It isn't a trivial task to generate PN-Sequence word in each
  clock-cycle.

Not needed, as the transmitter sends a signal serially.
EDIT:
Let we have a boat with 4 sonars placed at sides, bow and aft. If each of them sends different PRBS, then doing cross-correlation of received signal with known code you'll selectively reconstruct the received response
EDIT2:
From your linked document, there is also a nice description of the application for these codes:

A PRBS (Pseudo Random Binary Sequence) is a binary PN (Pseudo-Noise)
  signal. The sequence of binary 1's and 0's exhibits certain randomness
  and autocorrelation properties. Bit-sequences like PRBS are used for
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A: We use LFSRs because it is a compact way of storing long sequences. The maximum length of the sequence is \$2^n - 1\$. Hence you can have a PN code of length a million that can be generated with 20 flip-flops.
For shorter codes you don't need to use LFSRs. You can just store them in memory.

A:
PN-sequence generator generates a new bit in each clock cycle, therefore we have to wait n clock-cycle to get an n-bit long word.

This is one way to do it.
It's also possible to design logic in the FPGA to generate multiple bits of the sequence at a time.
For example, if your flip flop outputs are called x[1], x[2], ... , x[5] like in your diagram, and your next output bit y[0] is given by x[5]. Let's say you want to generate two bits of the sequence at a time.  Well you know that the "future" output y[1] would be given by x[4]. So generating your two output bits at a time is easy.
But you also need to update the state by several cycles at a time.
In your 1-bit-at-a-time version, you have x[1] = x[2] XOR x[5].
To generate two bits at a time, you work out what each state bit would be after two cycles of your serial version. Instead of getting x[4], x[5] would be updated with the value from x[3]: x[5] = x[3]. And x[4] would get the value from x[2]: x[4] = x[2]. Similarly for x[3].
The first couple bits are slightly trickier. You'll take the new state of x[1] from the serial machine and shift it along one step to get x[2] = x[2] XOR x[5]. And work out what x[1] will be after two cycles, it's x[1] = x[1] XOR x[4].
Generating more bits at a time gets trickier, because you need to generate new inputs to the head of the shift register from bits that aren't even stored yet, but they can in fact all be calculated from the current state of the machine.

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How to get to Truk Lagoon (Travelling from the UK, the US or Australia)
Written by Russell in Liveaboard,Scuba Travel
To get to Truk Lagoon use a direct flight from Guam which is 1 hour 46 minutes or from Papua New Guinea is a 3 hour flight to Chuuk International Airport. A flight from the UK to Guam is 15 hours 30 minutes, from Los Angeles USA 14 hours and from Australia 6 hours 17 minutes.
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1 Truk Lagoon is a divers Mecca but how do you get to Truk Lagoon?
2 Truk Lagoon diving
3 What happened at Truk Lagoon
4 How to get to Truk Lagoon
4.1 How to get to Truk lagoon from UK
5 Flights to Truk Lagoon going west
6 The second route to get to Truk lagoon from UK
7 How to get to Truk lagoon from US
8 How to get to Truk Lagoon from Australia
9 Booking a Liveaboard trip to Truk Lagoon
The alternative route is via Papua New Guinea, where you can pickup a direct flight to Chuuk International Airport as well. This flight is 3 hours.
Truk Lagoon is a divers Mecca but how do you get to Truk Lagoon?
There are a few places around the world where the wreck diving is quite what it is at Truk Lagoon (or actually its correct name Chuuk Lagoon).
If you are just beginning to research about this iconic dive spot, please read on to find out more. Plus if you're looking into flights to Truk Lagoon, this article should help.
Whether you're travelling from the UK or from the US, Truk Lagoon isn't an easy place to get to. It's always going to be a long haul flight, or should I say a series of long flights.
Whereas if you're looking for flights to Truk Lagoon from Australia, this flight isn't such a long haul. All be it you'll need two separate connecting flights to get there from Sydney.
But before I explain more about how to get to Truk Lagoon and find flights to Truk Lagoon, let me explain a bit more about it's history and what's there to discover, and why it's has the reputation of a pilgrimage for wreck divers.
Truk Lagoon diving
Diving Truk Lagoon is a real treat if you love wreck diving. The reason for this is due to the number of wrecks to scuba dive. These wrecks are all in and around what is actually called Chuuk Lagoon. Not only that, it's the close proximity of these wrecks that makes it such a great place to dive.
Many of the wrecks individually would be a great wreck dive in their own right. But you have many great wrecks to choose from all within a short boat ride from each other.
This is what makes Chuuk Lagoon so special and is why it's on many a scuba diver's bucket list.
It will be like being in a wreck diver's sweet shop!
But more importantly, the wrecks are still mostly intact. You'll be able to safely penetrate many of the wrecks too. Most of which have some fascinating artefacts. These include both military artefacts and civilian type artefacts.
The military artefacts range from battle tanks to torpedos and gun shells to bullets. The non-military artefacts include beer and sake bottles.
But there's also a more sinister side to the wreck diving at Truk Lagoon. This is the side of Truk that belies its history. There are still human remains, like skulls or other parts of human skeletons to find on some of the wrecks. You may see leg bones or arm bones and there's even a rib bone to be seen inside the hold of one of the wrecks.
The other element to Truk Lagoon that technical divers love is the depth of the dives there. If you like or should I say if you love deep diving, then this is an added bonus. Most of the Truk Lagoon wrecks are at 30+ metres (100+ feet) deep. The deepest wreck, which is the Reiyo Maru No. 6, sits in 67 metres (220 feet) of water.
However, if you are limited to recreational diving depths, this doesn't prevent you from diving the Truk Lagoon wrecks. Although it will stop you from diving some of the more exciting ones at a depth of 40 plus metres (131+ feet).
But if you are still keen to dive Truk or Chuuk Lagoon as a recreational scuba diver, there are still 19 Truk Lagoon ship wrecks that are in 40 metres (131 feet) or less of water. This doesn't take account of the plane wrecks you can dive.
What happened at Truk Lagoon
I have written other articles about Truk Lagoon, for example: What happened at Truk Lagoon. If you are more interested in the history, this is worth a further read.
But in brief, the reason why the wrecks are sitting on the seabed at Chuuk Lagoon is as a result of Operation Hailstone during World War II.
For more details about the alternative name to 'Truk', please click on the above link on what happened at Truk Lagoon too.
Operation Hailstone was an attack by American forces. American war planes and gun ships bombed and destroyed this Japanese held naval base.
This battle lasted for three days and during which, the ships you can dive and see today were mostly sunk in February 1944.
Among these Truk Lagoon wrecks there are just three purpose built war ships, which includes a submarine I-169. The rest were cargo or passenger ships commissioned by the Japanese Navy during the war.
How to get to Truk Lagoon
How you get to Truk Lagoon depends on where you are starting your journey from. But is also dependent on which airline you prefer to fly with. But let's have a look at some of the options.
Firstly starting with how to get to Truk Lagoon from the UK.
How to get to Truk lagoon from UK
How you get to Truk Lagoon from the UK includes two routings. The first route to Truk Lagoon from the UK is begins with a flight from London Heathrow or Gatwick to Singapore (13 hour 20 minute flight). Then you take a flight from Singapore to Sydney, Australia (7 hour 40 minute flight).
This route then takes you via Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, which is a further four hours flying time. This is followed by a three hour flight from Port Moresby to Chuuk International Airport, which is in Weno.
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From Weno you then get a transfer either to your land-based resort or onto your liveaboard dive boat.
This route to get to Truk Lagoon takes a total of 27 hours of flying. But remember, this doesn't take into account the transiting times in the various airports along your journey.
I suggest that if you decide on this route to visit Chuuk Lagoon, you break your journey and enjoy time in either Singapore and/or Sydney.
Flights to Truk Lagoon going west
One further option would be to fly west from the UK and go via the United States of America. If you choose to go this route, you need to take a flight to Los Angeles and then join the route that is describe below of how you get to Truk Lagoon from the US.
One further option would be to opt for a round-the-world flight ticket.
The second route to get to Truk lagoon from UK
The other route to get to Truk Lagoon travels from London to Seoul, Korea (11 hour flight). From Korea you then fly to Guam (4 hours 25 minute flight).
It's important to note that you must have a valid ESTA before you transit through the US protectorate of Guam.
From Guam it's a short one hour 46 minute flight to Weno, Chuuk Lagoon. This route is a total of 17 hours 11 minutes flying time, which is a more acceptable time. This is still a very long-haul flight and you may choose to lay-over in Seoul or Guam to break the journey time up.
One other alternative would be to fly to Manila, the Philippines, but you will have to go via either Bangkok, Singapore or China. Which means there are a number of routes of how to get to Truk lagoon from the UK, it just depends on your choice of airline and where and if you'd like to stop and enjoy another country on your way there.
How to get to Truk lagoon from US
There are many routes of how to get to Truk lagoon from the US, many of which involve many stops along the way. All flights begin on the west coast of America, so if you live on the East Coast in for example New York, you will first need to get a flight to say Los Angeles.
Probably the most straight forward flight journey from Los Angeles would be to fly to Honolulu, Hawaii (just under 6 hours flying time). From Hawaii you can then fly down to Guam (7 hours 45 minutes flight).
Then from Guam to Truk (Chuuk) Lagoon its the same one hour 46 minutes flight as it is to fly from the UK.
This more straight forward route to get to Truk Lagoon from the US is a total flying time of 15 and half hours (plus if you don't already live in LA, your flying to to get to the West Coast of America in the first place).
Other routings to get from the US to Truk Lagoon include going via Manila, the Philippines, Hong Kong, Tokyo or Incheon, Korea.
How to get to Truk Lagoon from Australia
How you get to Truk Lagoon from Australia is fairly straight forward. As describe in how you get to Truk Lagoon from the UK, one of the routes went via Sydney.
So if you're an Australian, you first need to get to Sydney on the East Coast of Australia. Then take a flight to Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, which is four hours flying time. This is followed by a three hour flight from Port Moresby to Chuuk International Airport, Weno.
Booking a Liveaboard trip to Truk Lagoon
Now you've read a bit more about getting to Truk (Chuuk) Lagoon, your decision is then about either liveaboard boat accommodation or resort-based accomodation.
If your choices is to go the full-hog and do a liveaboard dive trip to Truk Lagoon, one of the top liveaboard companies to book through who deal with Truk Lagoon all the time is Liveaboard.com.
To see a wreck location map, please follow this link to: Truk Lagoon wreck map.
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They say defence win's championships, but you still need to put points on the board. The Spartans entered the bowl minus starting QB Webb and having committed nine turnovers in the semi-final, but still boasting the competitions best defensive unit.
The Hogs offence lead the league in scoring, while also protecting the ball, ranked first in turnovers allowed.
Would the Spartans defence fine a way to slow the Hogs, and perhaps provide their offence with advantageous field position?
The Spartans received the opening kick-off, before everything unravelled quickly, an ill-fated punt attempt resulting in a safety and points on the board before the Hogs offence had stepped on the field.
The Hogs moved the ball efficiently throughout the afternoon, stretching the Spartans sideline to sideline with their superior speed. Valles often breaking contain and moving the chains via his punishing rushing style.
Welbourn connected with Plamondon early in the first, before Valles rumbled for a 62-yard TD the following possession, breaking open the game before the main break.
The second half saw more of the same, the Hogs defence continually harassing the Spartan offence, and pressuring Van Pamelan into 3 interceptions, rarely giving up first downs.
Valles continued to run hard, giving Olive, Berrington and Plamondon plenty of opportunity to stretch the field, at one stage Oilve and Plamondon posting back to back highlight reel catches, before Plamondon scored again, leaving no doubt as to the result.
The Hogs defence continued to pin the Spartans in their own half of the field, giving their offence further opportunity. Welbourn connected with Berrington late in the 4th, the Hogs securing their 6th consecutive Bowl win.
His punishing running and hard pursuit on D meant Valles was awarded the game MVP, deservedly so.
HOGS: Welbourn 3 passing. Plamondon 2 receiving. Valles 1 rushing. Berrington 1 receiving. Olive FG. Safety.
It has been twenty-six games, 971 points and 98 days since the season started, which has led to two teams earning the right to square off for the prize of hoisting The Great Southern Bowl. Will it be a sixth-time in a row for the University of Adelaide Hogs with the impressive aerial attack, or will it be the more run-orientated Port Adelaide Spartans?
I saw my first Superbowl in 1990 and have watched live on TV ever since (except one year when I got a chance to see the game, and a power cut, up close and personal). The Superbowl features teams who have met only once, if at all, during the season; as such, the Superbowl often comes with few meetings with which to draw any conclusions about the quality of the game ahead.
The opposite is true for our dear Great Southern Bowl. A rematch of last year's epic contest awaits. The Hogs have won the last four matchups with the three games this year won by margins of 1, 1 and 7 points. With so many close games in this matchup I do have a fear we're overdue a blowout…. let us hope that's not the case!
A couple of weeks ago, I expected the Spartans to make light work of the semi and so agreed to look after the kids on that day. I started regretting that after the Eagles spoilt the Hogs perfect season. On the day of the semi-final, and with a close game, I ended up rushing north to see the final quarter (with the kids!). From what I saw and what I've read it was a defensive struggle with a multitude of turnovers. The Spartans were without QB David Webb, who they'll want back for the final if he can recover from the injury caused by this jarring tackle.
I have put together some dashboards representing the scoring from this year's games. I hope you like it and can use it to understand the strengths and weaknesses of individual teams and to see when individual players scored and then click on the link to watch that play.
Another project I have worked on are the summary videos for each team that has played its final game of the season. For each team you will be able to view a video of all their scoring plays by the type of play (e.g. Rushing, Receiving, etc..).There are also individual videos for every player who had a scoring play during this fantastic season. Videos for the Chiefs and Oilers are available on Gridiron SA's YouTube page and the Eagles, Hogs and Spartans will be added soon.
I encourage all teams to utilise these videos on their social media pages. For any sadomasochistic coaches and players out there, I have available videos combining all the plays showing how you conceded.
The All-starts were announced during the week with an even spread of Hogs, Spartans and Eagles. Big congratulations go to Jaden Valles who managed to be a two-way all-star. Our league MVP is Joshua Long who you can see pounding the rock in this highlight video (link, if uploaded). Long was also named Offensive Player of the Year with teammate Benjamin Taylor the rookie of the year. Pick-machine Brad Vegera made the team of the year at safety and was Defensive Player of the Year after a stellar campaign. The competitiveness of the Oilers during 2018 won Steve Rudd Coach of the Year. Well done, everyone!
The final 4th and Goal of the year coming soon, recapping the Bowl game and celebrating with the winners and commiserating the losers.
The Spartans entered the final minus Webb, and question surrounding their ability to score points. The Eagles arrived on a high after defeating the resting Hogs, would they be able to take advantage of a depleted Spartans outfit?
They should have! The Eagles were gifted the game, the Spartans doing their best to lose the game, coughing up the football nine times! Nine! The Eagles were unable to take advantage, instead questionable (predictable) play-calling and poor of field decisions led to them giving up 14 points in the first half, after the two-minute warning. The teams combined for 13 turnover within the game.
The Spartans continued to turn over the ball in the second half, three straight possessions resulted in turnover, but their defence was stout. A fourth turnover was too much to take, as the Eagles made a house call via Van Pamelan on route to their first score of the afternoon.
The Eagles did rally late, but Gridiron SA MVP Long was largely ineffective, in a game where Crummy couldn't string completions together. The coaches opting for a field goal late in the fourth when down by seven, a questionable decision considering the Spartans offense didn't break 100 yards passing in the contest and were struggling to move the football.
The decision meant the Eagles were forced into a Hail Mary situation with no time left, Volar putting down Crummey to secure the Great Southern Bowl rematch.
Can the Spartans get their offence on track, and reduce turnovers (12 in the last two games)? Can the Hogs face the Spartans will a full squad, injuries preventing them from doing so this season.
Should be a cracker, Riverside at 3pm, Saturday 15th.
SPARTANS: Van Pamelan 1 passing. Formentera 1 receiving. Ridington INT TD.
EAGLES: #14 INT TD. Plowman FG.
It was a tough week for the Spartans, whom playing a dead rubber, lost two quarterbacks to injury. This being the worst possible result from a game that the Spartans were dominating in all phases.
The big question is will Webb be fit for the prelim, against the Eagles whom have playmakers on offence and a little momentum after defeating the resting Hogs.
Ridington took advantage of an errant Smith pass, taking it to the house, he should get one or two more opportunities this weekend. This game will be decided by the Spartans defense, whom has twice held the Eagles to zero points this season and blocking a field goal attempt to secure a one-point win on a third occasion. Given the -49 point differential, will the Eagles be able to mount enough offence to get to the big dance? The stats say no, but momentum is a funny thing.
See you at Riverside 3pm.
SPARTANS: Webb 1 rushing. De Francesca 1 passing. Volar 1 rushing. Ridington INT TD.
The Eagles and Oilers are locked in a race to the finals, both fighting for the chance to face the Spartans in the prelim. Both QB's have struggled with turnovers this season, often giving the opposition favorable field position. Would one of these teams be able to take advantage of a turnover and seal the win (as the combined offences managed to turn the ball over 8 times)?
In a game that was difficult to watch, both sides continued to trade turnovers, with neither side being able to consistently advance the football.
The Oilers did manage to apply scoreboard pressure, but multiple fumbles deep in their own territory being their undoing, as the Eagles scored late in the 4th to secure the win. The Oilers likely needing to win out in order to overtake the Eagles and secure 3rd place and a finals berth.
EAGLES: Crummey 1 passing. Long 1 rushing. Burford 1 receiving.
OILERS: Tedmanson 2 passing. Laffin 2 receiving.


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Residents have been evacuated after a mile-long mountain fire spread into forestry and threatened properties.
Efforts to assess the extent of the fire in Betws-y-Coed, Conwy county, are still ongoing, North Wales Fire and Rescue said.
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