Billy has 62.0 crayons. 52.0 are eaten by a hippopotamus. How many crayons will Billy have? Answer:

This is a large bugfix update that also adds some new items while tweaking a few others.
* Depth Strider X, Feather Falling X.
* Adds 2500.0 damage to all attacks.
* Deals 500.0 less damage for every level of your Resistance.
(No extra damage dealt at level V).
* 0% movement speed while equipped.
* Adds 10000.0 damage to all melee attacks.
* Adds 3500.0 damage to all ranged/magic attacks.
* Adds 1000.0-1500.0 damage to all ranged/magic attacks.
* 20% chance to Shock enemies while you have Strength.
* Chaos damage increased to 120.0 (from 80.0).
* Now has 35% chance to inflict Curse on hit.
* Critical strike chance reduced to 30%.
* Critical multiplier increased to 20.0 (from 3.0).
- Scythe of the Sands (Iridescent) | Now deals 12.0 Chaos damage for every 20.0 gold hearts. (Up to 60.0 with 100.0 gold hearts).
- Shadowmail (Corrupted) | Now deals 1.0 Chaos damage to the player instead of 5.0.
- Charm of Deftness will now passively remove Freeze much like Rimestride and Juggernaut Boots. This affects all versions of the item.
- Changed the item description of Ambition due to reflect how it is unable to mitigate lethal Chaos damage.
- Players can now use /back in dungeon areas.
- Fixed a serious crash issue while using the /wild command.
- Fixed some typos on NPC menus.
- Fixed the Headsman not dropping from monsters.
- Fixed the Fletcher's shop displaying bow stats incorrectly.
- Fixed Sahuvar's Mind dropping with the wrong enchantments.
- Fixed Molten Strike dropping from the wrong boss.
- Fixed The Serpent's Fang not dropping from Rith.
- Fixed some grammar issues on the Turtle Shield.
- Fixed some grammar issues with older announcements.

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This week on Gracie Barra Blog we are looking at submission combination techniques and strategies.
A major part of the art of jiu-jitsu (and all combat arts in fact) is the ability to use individual attacks in combination. Just as boxers use 2, 3 and 4 punch combinations to create openings in the opponent defense and score, so jiu-jitsu guys must combine their attacks.
A good place to start developing your combinations is to look at the classic combinations that are time tested and proven to work. After, you will no doubt start to see and create your own attack combinations.
Let’s take a look at some submission combinations as demonstrated by some of the best Gracie Barra black belt instructors.
A classic submission combination from mount. Prof. Nao threatens the collar choke, forcing the opponent to expose their arm when they defend. They either will get choked or give the arm!
This is a great exmaple of how Prof, Jefferson attacks the choke first and then moves to the armlock when the opponent defends and exposes the arm.
Pay attention to how Prof. Dave Weber draws his opponent out by offering the Kimura and then takes advantage of the opponent’s reaction to attack the legs.
The collar choke attack triggers the opponent to grab the leg of Prof. Rodrigo. This commits one arm inside the leg and Prof. Rodrigo uses the situation to move to a great rear triangle.

A normal population has a mean of 80.0 and a standard deviation of 14.0.A. Compute the probability of a value between 75.0 and 90.0.B. Compute the probability of a value 75.0 or less.C. Compute the probability of a value between 55.0 and 70.0.

Who says fashion had only style and no brains? Look at Chanel now. They have just about had it with counterfeit products the world being sold through bogus sites and they took to investigating the matter and taking it to court. And they won. They won court orders against hundreds of websites trafficking in counterfeit luxury goods. Chanel can now seize domain names and transfer them to US-based registrar GoDaddy. Also, all Internet search engines and all social media websites namely Facebook, Twitter, Google+, Bing, Yahoo, and Google were ordered to de-index the domain names and to remove them from any search results. The sites were investigated through a detailed plan. The company hired a Nevada investigator to order from three of 228 doubtful sites. The orders were reported counterfeit and this allowed the judge to pass his orders. However, ordering the search engines and social networks sites to de-index raises another concern. The domain could be from anywhere in the world and not particularly only from the US. Other lawyers are also concerned that the Stop Online Piracy Act, under which this case falls, may hence not entirely be productive in the long run as ‘miscreants’ could always use domains that escape the scanner.

The origins of the Museum lay in a society known as the Warwick and Leamington Spa Phrenological Society which was established in 1834.
This society changed their interests and purpose to natural history, geology and archaeology. Hence the establishment of the Warwickshire Natural History and Archaeological Society in 1836. One of the leading men was Dr John Conolly, an eminent psychiatrist, who became the first secretary for the Society.
Initially the Society only employed an attendant and cleaner and relied on Honorary Curators in their various interests to care for and display the collections. This caused some difficulties. In 1889 the committee allowed a newly appointed attendant, an artist, to do his art work ‘if he have leisure after duly and properly attending to the necessary work of the place’.
The museum’s collection grew from gifts and donations of various kinds from local supporters. Members of the Society also actively collected specimens through fieldwork. One notable addition was an ancient Egyptian Mummy, donated in 1850 and publicly unwrapped for curiosity – something which would not happen today.
Committee reports show that the Society was very popular from the outset. They also show how the Society struggled to keep up with the costs of maintenance and increasing need for new display cases.
Phrenology claims to be able to determine character, personality traits, and criminality by the shape of the head. It was developed by a German physician, Franz J. Gall at the beginning of the 19th century, and became very popular. It has since been dismissed as a pseudoscience.
The Market Hall was built in 1670 and originally had open arches for market stalls with meeting rooms above. The ground floor arches were infilled in 1879 as the museum expanded and the whole building was taken over by the Society.
In the early 19th century there was considerable public interest in the structure of the natural world, natural science and archaeological collecting.
A group of local men decided to form the Warwickshire Natural History and Archaeological Society. At the Society’s first meeting on 24th May 1836 the foundation of a museum was identified as one of its primary aims.
The Society hired some rooms in the 17th century Market Hall in the centre of Warwick, now the headquarters of Warwickshire County Museum Service. There they displayed archaeological, natural history and geological objects, many collected locally from Warwickshire. Through field collecting and gifts from individuals, the society’s collection grew quickly. More display space was needed and by 1840 the whole of the top part of the Market Hall was in use.
The museum was initially only open to subscribers and their families, with each subscriber having the privilege of bringing a friend to the museum. Non-subscribers had to pay one shilling; a significant amount in those days. This must have excluded the majority of the local population. Eventually the museum opened its doors to the general public for free from Whit Monday 1847. The museum committee reported that ‘Hundreds of visitors conducted themselves with the utmost decorum’.
The Society collected a wide range of materials, including zoological, botanical, rocks, minerals, fossils and archaeological objects and skeletons. This was not limited to any geographical area. This policy of collecting had changed over the years to only accepting objects with Warwickshire connections.
The Warwickshire Natural History and Archaeological Society had benefited from the enthusiastic support and membership of the local gentry. It particularly flourished under the influence of the eminent geologist Rev. Peter Brodie. However, in the late 1880s its supporters were dwindling and this brought financial problems.
The museum appealed to the public for support, but the 1882 Committee reported: ‘although a recent appeal to the rich and influential residents of the County has been made, the Council regrets to say that as a result of 200 applications, only £1 and 1 shilling has been received’.
With the lack of financial and public support the museum declined. At the same time the Society lost one of its most influential Honorary Curators, Brodie, who died in 1897. From the late 19th Century, the museum was saved by the efforts of William Gibbins, a local landowner and a Quaker. He paid for repairs of the Market Hall and the redisplay of the collections. In 1932 the Society offered the collections to Warwickshire County Council. By accepting this offer Warwickshire became the first council in Britain to take responsibility for a museum service.
The county’s museum had its first permanent curator, whose task was to remove the collection from the Market Hall for refurbishment. When the Second World War began in 1939 the building was taken over by the army. The collection was then stored for the next ten years and left without proper care. Disillusioned, the curator resigned.
A new curator was appointed in 1948, and the museum began to be revived. Local support for the museum was poor. Newspaper articles were negative: one councillor commented on the museum collection as a ’tremendous lot of junk’. However, the museum did have some people fighting its corner and it was refurbished and opened again after 10 years.
From the museum’s days as Warwickshire Natural History and Archaeological Society it has developed, with its ups and downs, into the extensive countywide service it is today.
Brodie was born in London 1815 and attended the Royal College of Surgeons. His passion and fascination for natural history and geology started at an early age. In 1834 Brodie studied Divinity at Emmanuel College, Cambridge. During this period he conducted his own natural history and geological field studies of the area. It was from these studies that he later published a paper entitled ‘A notice on the occurrence of land and fresh water shells with bones of some extinct animals in the gravel near Cambridge’. This was his first publication.
Brodie was ordained as a deacon in 1838 and the following year he became a priest and lived in Buckinghamshire. In 1851 he was appointed Vicar at St Lawrence’s Church in Foleshill, Coventry and so he moved to Rowington.
His enthusiasm for geology and natural history never ceased. He joined the Warwickshire Natural History and Archaeological Society and was soon made an Honorary Curator of Geology. He founded the Warwickshire Naturalists and Archaeologists Field Club and donated many of his privately collected specimens to the Society.
Brodie died in 1897. His personal collection numbered some 25,000 specimens. Over the 30 years he was Honorary Curator for the Society he had built the geological collection up to around 10,000 specimens. Many of these can be clearly identified amongst the museum’s present-day collection.

I can see there are 44 lectures now. Just curious, does the Entire course for $675 include anything other than these 44 lectures (ie 44*10 = $440)?
They are not all ($10) and it includes the Exam preps ($55) as well, considering the full in house course costs $1970 and the videos are the entire course I think it's bloody good value myself.
ah I see. Thanks for clarifying.

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A person walking 6/7 of his usual rate is 30 minutes late. What is his usual time ?
A person walking 6/7 of his usual rate is 30 minutes late. What is his usual time ?
Answer : 3 3 hrs Explanation : Answer: C) 3 hrs Explanation: Let t be the usual time. If the usual rate is 1 unit, then the unusual rate is 6/7.Balance by the distance,1 x t = (6/7)(t 30)7t = 6(t 30)we get t as,t = 180 minutes = 3 hrs.

Before your builder lays the slab of your new home, the concrete piers have to be put in place. This involves your builder excavating a number of holes throughout the site, which will later be filled with concrete to strengthen the foundation of your new home.
The depth and width of these holes are determined by site engineers, however the depth of each pier on the site can vary depending on the amount of fill on the land. The best way to visualise piers is to think of them like the legs of a table.
Keep in mind that some builders will only give you an allowance for piering as they may not have done a soil test at the time of signing the building contract. If the allowance is minimal you may be up for extra costs once your builder has gone on site and undertaken the relevant soil tests.
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It’s a hugely important aspect of sports marketing: the implementation of the plans that have been so carefully thought out.
Implementing sponsorship well is not only a fundamental step in the sports marketing process, but also defines the way the campaign is perceived from the outset. How a sports marketing campaign passes from paper to reality can make or break it – so you’ll want, obviously, to make your implementation as effective as possible.
Put simply, what is the implementation of sponsorship? In sports marketing, we define it as the set of actions that leverage the rights acquired by a brand, put into motion to maximize the commercial and marketing impact of the sponsorship itself.
The rights acquired, of course, can consist of many different things: in sports sponsorship, we’re likely to be talking about events, the use of showcars or showbikes, the brands and logos in communication to promotional videos – and many other possible assets.
A championship victory, the breaking of a record, a new personal best – all of these can see teams or sponsored athletes hit the headlines for reasons that can be hugely positive for the brand they represent. Successes can offer a real opportunity for brand visibility, and an uplift for that brand’s ROI – but of course, communication needs to be fast, accurate and authentic. Brands, especially those in the sports marketing field, need to be prepared to be reactive in this situation. Materials such as advertising pages, social banners, promo videos and radio spots need to be prepared, or at the very least a team needs to be ready and waiting to leverage successes quickly when they happen.
For simplicity, we’ll use the following example to explain reactive communication. An athlete sponsored by our company wins the MotoGP world championship. For our brand this is an excellent opportunity to maximize visibility, leveraging an extremely positive event and one that – of course – will be covered in newspapers, sports broadcasts and on social media for the following days.
The need for a reactive communication strategy that leverages the win in a timely fashion means that we contact graphic designers, prepare materials, contact the main national sports newspapers, reserve space and send our communication to the press within just a few hours.
Despite the value of speed, there are several potential issues in this reactive path: media might be full, for example, or deadlines might have passed; contacts might difficult to track down in a timely fashion, and approvals might slow to arrive. In short, it is easy to see that reactive communication – when used alone – risks us losing an excellent marketing opportunity.
Let’s think, then, about proactive communication in sports marketing. Proactive communication involves a completely different logical path, based simply on planning in advance. In this case it is necessary to attempt to predict what will happen in the future, and to prepare a game plan well before the events occur. It means that you have at your disposal an arsenal of actions ready to be put in place once the expected event occurs. Proactive communication requires that the communications are ready, and that the spaces are already booked well before the races or events.
Reactive communication and proactive communication might be different, but they are both central to any sports marketing implementation programme. It’s difficult, though, for a brand to be able to keep track of both sides of their communication strategy. The advantages might be obvious, but it’s clear that constant knowledge of predicted results – especially for a brand that might work with dozens of athletes or teams across many disciplines across the world – can be a challenge.
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Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump smiles Saturday after taking the stage at the Jacksonville Landing along the banks of the St. Johns River in Jacksonville, Fla.
CLEVELAND, Ohio - Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump enthusiastically patted himself on the back Sunday, asserting on Twitter that, because of political pressure he applied, Ford Motor Co. has nixed expansion plans in Mexico.
But Trump appeared to be confusing two separate projects - one that Ford is moving ahead with in Mexico, despite his protests, and another here in Northeast Ohio.
The self-congratulatory tweets drew the ire of Ohio Gov. John Kasich, one of Trump's rivals for the GOP nomination. Ford's plant in Avon Lake recently began production on two lines of medium-duty trucks that had been made in Mexico.
In 2011, his first year as governor, Kasich championed tax incentives that assisted the move, which is expected to preserve more than 1,000 jobs. Ford confirmed last year that it would soon shift the F-650 and F-750 models from Mexico to Avon Lake. The first trucks rolled off the assembly line in August to great fanfare.
"Do you think Hillary [Clinton], Ben [Carson] or Jeb [Bush] could do this?" Trump tweeted Sunday, linking to an obscure blogger who credited him with Ford's decision to move a facility "originally slated for Mexico" to "struggling Youngstown, Ohio."
The blogger linked to an August story from CNN that made clear the move involved the Avon Lake plant. Youngstown, where Ford has no presence, is 90 miles away.
Regardless, Trump had nothing to do with the deal.
"Nope," Kasich's team tweeted later Sunday.
"Our country needs real leadership and not empty, false rhetoric," Kasich added in a statement emailed by his campaign. "Working as a TEAM, we brought Ford production jobs back from Mexico to Ohio years ago. That's how things really get done. Hard work and teamwork brings results for the people. Our nation needs a leader with a record of actually delivering for all of us, that's why I'm running for president."
The exchange marks the first time Kasich has tangled with Trump - a notable development in a race where he has been reluctant to indulge in Trump's antics.
Outrage from the governor's supporters grew after a conservative Ohio blogger, Nick Mascari, criticized Trump's erroneous claim. Mascari is backing Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida for president but says Kasich deserves credit for the Ford move.
So where did Trump go wrong?
A spokeswoman for his campaign did not immediately respond to a request for comment Monday morning. But it seems Trump and the blogger he parroted believe - incorrectly - that the Avon Lake trucks are being shifted from a proposed facility in Mexico that Trump has railed against on the stump. Bloomberg reported in August that Trump, speaking in Michigan, slammed Ford for "building a $2.5 billion plant in Mexico."
Ford acknowledged Monday that those plans have not changed.
"Ford has not spoken with Mr. Trump, nor have we made any changes to our plans," the company said. "We decided to move the F-650 and F-750 medium-duty trucks to Ohio Assembly in 2011, long before any candidates announced their intention to run for U.S. president. We are proud that Ford has invested $10.2 billion in our U.S. plants since 2011 and hired nearly 25,000 U.S. employees. Overall, more than 80 percent of our North American investment annually is in the U.S., and 97 percent of our North American engineering is conducted in the U.S."

This Strawberry Pistachio Tart with Sable Breton Crust is the perfect finish to any spring time special occasion.
Equally delicious and beautiful, it can be made across 2 days to help manage the prep!
The combination of the sweet strawberries with the nutty and decadent pastry cream, on a base of buttery sable Breton pastry, is just divine!
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This sable Breton dough is quite buttery and needs to be well-chilled before it’s baked.
TIP: You can make the dough the day before. Press it into a disc, cover in parchment paper and refrigerate.
You could buy the pistachio paste but I find it’s quite expensive and sometimes difficult to find. I think it’s easier and tastier to make it yourself!
Start with raw, very green, already shelled pistachios.
TIP: The best place to find pistachios, already shelled in large quantities is at your local Mediterranean or Middle-Eastern markets!
Place them in a food processor (This link goes to Amazon where I am compensated for products sold) with sugar, pulse them up and then add a little water to create a paste like consistency.
You’ll add the pistachio paste and milk to a large sauce pot.
Then bring to a simmer, shut off the flame and steep the pistachios in the milk for 20 minutes.
This will infuse the milk with pistachio flavor. You’ll add the milk to eggs and cornstarch, and cook this mixture until a pastry cream forms.
TIP: The pastry cream can also be made the day before and kept refrigerated until ready to use.
You will then roll out your pastry dough to a large circle. Press the ring of a spring form pan on top, like a big cookie cutter and trim.
You will bake the dough in the ring in order to set it. Then when you release the ring you’ll have a perfect circle.
TIP: Be sure you brush the ring with baking spray and distribute it well with a pastry brush. This will allow for easy release of the biscuit and avoid it cracking.
Bake the pastry in the ring until golden brown and set. Then release it and place on a cake stand.
Start by brushing a layer of warm strawberry jam on the bottom. This will act as a “glue” to keep the berries in place.
Place your strawberries in the center. Cut the strawberries so they are roughly the same height. You’ll want to space them out about an inch apart to leave room for the pastry cream.
Then brush the strawberries with the liquified strawberry jelly for shine.
I prefer to brush only the strawberries and leave the raspberries as is, I think they look prettier that way.
Pipe the pistachio pastry cream in between the fruit.
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Keep you tart refrigerated for a minimum of 2 hours for the pastry cream to set up.
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Poet and children’s author Ruth Dallas published more than twenty books in her lifetime. Her poetry was informed by the landscape and history of the lower South Island, as well the poet’s natural introspection and solitude. In the early 1960s she worked with Charles Brasch at Landfall and in 1968 was Burns Fellow at the University of Otago. Dallas was the winner of several major literary awards and received a CBE in 1989. She passed away in March 2008.
Dallas, Ruth (1919–2008), poet and children’s author, was born in Invercargill. Her working-class settler heritage and the closeness of her family relationships inform much of her writing. For example, her maternal grandmother (a midwife in the 1890s who provided for her family single-handedly) features both in poetry —‘Her strength seemed large and cool, as the rock in the sea / Seemed large and cool in the green and restless waves’ (‘Grandmother and Child’)—and as the model for the mother in Dallas’s popular Bush series of children’s novels.
Yet she developed a love of words that, from the age of 9, manifested itself in poems and stories, a number of which were published in the Southland Daily News’s ‘Little Pakehas’ Page’ (see Children’s Pages). Although she left Southland Technical College in 1935 with just three years’ secondary education, she never stopped reading, be it Shakespeare, ancient Greeks and Icelandic sagas, or critics like Eliot, Quiller-Couch, De Selincourt and Yeats.
Dallas chose her maternal grandmother’s name in 1946 as pen-name for her earliest published poems, ‘Morning Mountains’, which M.H. Holcroft printed in the Southland Times. Her much anthologised ‘Milking Before Dawn’—‘In the drifting rain the cows in the yard are as black / And wet and shiny as rocks in an ebbing tide’—appeared in the NZ Listener the following year, and in 1948 Charles Brasch included her poems in Landfall8, an issue anthologising six new poets whose work he considered important.
Dallas’s first collection was published in 1953 by the Caxton Press, who also produced her five subsequent volumes. The following year she left Invercargill to live in Dunedin. She continued writing poetry, and stories for adults and children, and commissioned bulletins for School Publications. From 1962 to 1966 she worked with Brasch in Landfall’s editorial office, and in 1968 was Burns Fellow at the University of Otago.
Yet Dallas’s land- and city-scapes are often empty. In ‘Deserted Beach’ (1953) there is not ‘One gull to circle through the wild salt wind / Or cry above the breaking of the waves,’ nor ‘One footprint or one feather on the sand’. If a poem is populated, its figures are reflections of the settler past, or poems about family that often are about loss: ‘Of all the tools in my tool-cupboard, / I like best those that my father used.… Bereaved daughters have to learn / To come to their own rescue, / Or be entirely overgrown’ (‘Encounter’, 1976).
From The Turning Wheel on, Dallas’s natural introspection, detachment and solitude—‘I don’t like excitement. I like calm.’—combined with her growing interest in Asian philosophies to push her already crisp and concise verse toward even greater ‘brevity and density’, along the lines of Chinese poetry and Japanese haiku. Her collection Day Book: Poems of a Year (1966), was followed by Shadow Show: Poems (1968) and, in 1976, Song for a Guitar and Other Songs: a selection made by Brasch which won the 1977 Buckland Literary Award. Walking on the Snow: Poems (1976), joint winner of the New Zealand Book Award for Poetry, was followed by Steps of the Sun: Poems (1979) and, finally, Collected Poems (1987).
Fiona Farrell comments that when Dallas observes some natural phenomenon, she ‘writes about it with images so fresh that the lens is cleared and we see her subject for the first time’ (NZ Listener, 11 July 1987). Elizabeth Caffin, however, finds her enduring romanticism, for all its intensity and lyricism, ‘increasingly isolated from the whole field of human engagement … and in particular from any contemporary discourse about poetry’ (OHNZLE).
Dallas’s children’s books take her familiar southern landscapes as their settings. The Children in the Bush (1969), The Wild Boy in the Bush (1971), The Big Flood in the Bush (1972) and Holiday Time in the Bush (1983) form a series set in the 1890s featuring a mother raising her children alone. Inspired by Dallas’s own mother’s childhood, the series depicts settler life in some detail, leavened by a fair smattering of adventure. A limited edition, Ragamuffin Scarecrow (1969), was followed by A Dog Called Wig (1970)—about a young boy coming to terms with his dog’s preference for his father. In The House on the Cliffs (1975) a young woman also comes to new self-knowledge, by coming to understand an eccentric, reclusive, old lady’s loneliness and her fear of removal to a retirement home. Shining Rivers (1979), set during Central Otago’s gold rush, tells of the relationship between a disaffected young immigrant boy and a generous old goldminer who teaches him the value of friendship.
Ruth Dallas was the 1968 Robert Burns Fellow at the University of Otago in Dunedin.
A new Collected Poems, featuring 15 recent poems, and a new collection of short fiction, The Black Horse and Other Stories were published by the University of Otago Press in 2000.
Five of the stories in The Black Horse and Other Stories have appeared in Landfall, the remainder are previously unpublished.
Dallas had a poem included in Shards of Silver (Steele Roberts, 2006), a book investigating the interplay between photography and poetry.
Ruth Dallas CBE died in March 2008. She published more than 20 books in her lifetime and her last book of poetry, The Joy of a Ming Vase, was published by Otago University Press in 2006.

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Seriously Addictive Mathematics: Maths made fun!!!
The ratio of the number of ducks to the number of chickens was 9:5. When 20 ducks and 22 chickens were added, the birds were distributed into groups of 7. In each group, there were 4 ducks. Find the number of birds at first.
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Why is Singapore Math so popular overseas?
Understand the history of Singapore Mathematics, and what is Singapore Maths. This article also tell you more about how Singapore Maths works, and their famous 3 steps Concrete, Pictorial and Abstract learning approach from Bruner.
Develop number sense to deal with maths, not memorize time tables, addition tables etc. Understanding is more important than getting merely the answers to score in exam. For many years, our teachers will ask us to memorize this and memorize that, in order to get the answer for Mathematics question. Whether you understand how to get there is not important, as long as the answer is right.
Computation Mathematics or Thinking Mathematics. Which is More Important for Your Child?
My daughter started her Singapore Maths class sometime last year. I think it's been about 6 months or so now since we enrolled her. She is really loving the class a lot and I couldn't be happier with her progress.

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Willie starts with 36.0 stickers. He gives 7.0 to Emily. How many stickers does Willie end with? Answer:

How many white dots should there be on the wings of the last ladybug?
Answer:Three. The difference between the number of black and white dots is always two. The last ladybug should have three white dots.

Diameter of a Ping Pong Ball?
Diameter of a Ping Pong Ball?
Answer : 3 40 mm Explanation : Answer: C) 40 mm Explanation: The ball with which Table Tennis is played is called Ping Pong Ball.According to the International rules, the diameter of the ping pong ball must be not less than 39.5 millimeters and not greater than 40.5 millimeters having a mass of 2.7 grams.

When you run Sysprep on a Windows 2000 computer, what happens to the user-specific information on the computer?
When you run Sysprep on a Windows 2000 computer, what happens to the user-specific information on the computer?
Answer : 3 It is removed Explanation : Answer: C) It is removed Explanation: The user-specific settings are removed by Sysprep.

India’s first multi-modal electric vehicle project has launched in which city ?
India’s first multi-modal electric vehicle project has launched in which city ?
Answer : 2 Nagpur Explanation : Answer: B) Nagpur Explanation: India’s first multi-modal electric vehicle project has been inaugurated by the Union Road Transport and Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari, along with Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis at the Nagpur Airport Complex to promote eco-friendly transport. With this, Nagpur became the first city in India to have electric mass mobility system with a fleet of 200 electric vehicles, including taxis, buses, e-rickshaw and autos.

Phoenix India Research and Development Group launched the first bio-gas fuelled bus in which of the following Indian cities keeping a flat fare of just Rs 1 ?
Phoenix India Research and Development Group launched the first bio-gas fuelled bus in which of the following Indian cities keeping a flat fare of just Rs 1 ?
Answer : 1 Kolkata Explanation : Answer: A) Kolkata Explanation: Phoenix India Research and Development Group launched the first bio-gas fuelled bus in Kolkata keeping a flat fare of just Rs 1.

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What are the benefits of getting your ducts cleaned?
Air duct cleaning also saves you money on your energy bill.
Answer: because they are dirty!

Which of the following is a secondary air pollutant?
Which of the following is a secondary air pollutant?
Answer : 1 Acid rain Explanation : Answer: A) Acid rain Explanation: Secondary pollutants include ozone, which is formed when hydrocarbons (HC) and nitrogen oxides (NOx) combine in the presence of sunlight. Whereas Primary pollutant are those pollutants that are directly emitted from their sources, like CO2, CO, SO2 as these gases are directly emitted form burning of fossil fuels. Acid rain, which is formed when sulfur dioxide or nitrogen oxides react with water, sulfuric acid etc. Hence, Acidrain is a secondary air pollutant.

When is genetic drift a major factor in evolution?
When is genetic drift a major factor in evolution?
Answer : 3 When there is no selective pressure Explanation : Answer: C) When there is no selective pressure Explanation: Genetic drift or allelic drift is the change in the relative frequency in which a gene variant (allele) occurs in a population due to random sampling and chance. When is genetic drift a major factor in evolution is* When there is low gene flow.* When there is no selective pressure.* When there is a bottleneck.

What is the major monosaccharide found in the body?
What is the major monosaccharide found in the body?
Answer : 4 Glucose Explanation : Answer: D) Glucose Explanation: Glucose is the major monosaccharide found in the body. It is absorbed directly into the bloodstream duringdigestion and a vital carbohydrate as it is a source of energy.

Gregory built seven motorcycles. He sells each for $900.00. How much money did Gregory earn selling his motorcycles?
Albert sent a letter to his penpal everyday for the entire month of January and February. How many letters did Albert send his penpal?
Answer: Albert sent his penpal 59 letters.
Calvin owns a restaurant. He pays $1,200.00 a month in rent. How much rent does Calvin pay a year?
Answer: Calvin pays $14,400.00 in rent a year.
Gina pays $80.00 for cable service a month. How much money does Gina pay for cable a year?
Answer: Gina pays $960.00 for cable a year.
If Nelson drives 55 miles per hour hour, how long will it take him to reach Miami, Florida, 165 miles away?
Answer: It will take Nelson 3 hours.
William is a chef and cooked three different dishes. He sold them to his friend Nilda for $60.00 each. How much money did William earn?

Is BOOZE a valid Scrabble word? How many Scrabble points is BOOZE worth? Find Anagrams, Scrabble information including points value, and more about the word 'BOOZE' below.
BOOZE is a valid Scrabble word worth 16 points. Scrabble uses the TWL word list.
BOOZE is a valid Words with Friends word worth 17 points. Words with Friends uses the ENABLE word list.
BOOZE is a 5 letter word containing the letters b, e, o, o, z.

Is BOOZES a valid Scrabble word? How many Scrabble points is BOOZES worth? Find Anagrams, Scrabble information including points value, and more about the word 'BOOZES' below.
BOOZES is a valid Scrabble word worth 17 points. Scrabble uses the TWL word list.
BOOZES is a valid Words with Friends word worth 18 points. Words with Friends uses the ENABLE word list.
BOOZES is a 6 letter word containing the letters b, e, o, o, s, z.

1) Give Ravi 4 units and Devi 1 unit.
2) How many units must Ravi give to Devi for them to be the same?
Answer: Ravi must give 1.5units ($48) to Devi for them to be the same.
5) Altogether, 10U -> $160.

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In this clip from “Surrender to the Blender,” I do my Justin Timberlake impression. He’s my favorite singer because he sounds silky smooth, dances real good and has no flaws as a person. The only mistake I can recall him ever making is buying Myspace. But, come on, he BOUGHT Myspace.
Justin just performed in Israel, where they named a melon after him!
Was that supposed to be an allusion to the disposable nature of pop music? I don’t care how fast the melon spoils…in my book, JT’s shelf life is the life of the shelf.

What Erdős number does Pierre-Simon Laplace have?
Answer: Pierre-Simon Laplace has an Erdős number of at most 14!
More information: According to "The Erdös number project" a path to Laplace was found by Leonid Yanushevich giving the famous mathematician an Erdös number of at most 14.

It is 37.7 miles according to Google Maps.
How far is Santa Barbara California from Oxnard California?
Answer: Santa Barbara is about a 45-50 minute drive from Oxnard.

I am a cultural historian and anthropologist at Beloit College, where I teach a wide variety of courses on the intellectual, cultural, and political history of China, Japan, Korea, and aspects of South and Southeast Asian civilization. My area of specialization is Song Dynasty China (960-1279), and the flowering of historical writing during that period. I also have deep interests in early-modern cultural and comparative history, as well as cultural theory and research methods. I have a BA degree with majors in anthropology and history from Carleton College (1985) and a doctorate from the University of Chicago’s Committee on Social Thought (1996).
When my nose is not in a dusty text, I like to spend my time cycling, thinking and reading about cycling, or watching cycling (my life shuts down every July for the Tour de France, and I follow European professional racing from February to November with an interest bordering on the obsessive). I also love to read and travel, and enjoy having my boots on dusty trails that hint of verticality. I am married to Patricia Zody, a program manager with American Councils for International Education. We live in Washington D.C., and I “commute” to work. I enjoy opera and country music (draw your own conclusions), and love poetry, chess, baseball, sashimi, and dimsum, in no particular order.
My teaching and research have allowed me to travel a great deal in the past decade, and those trips have taken me almost yearly to Japan and China, as well as to Hong Kong, Taiwan, Greece, and France. In 2002-2003, I lived in Tokyo as resident director of the Japan Study program at Waseda University, and my several trips back to Japan have inspired me to offer more classes on Japanese history and culture, to gain further proficiency with the erudite tradition of Japanese scholarship on China, and to continue my travels and language studies there.
I have also been fortunate in the last decade to be associated with two of the country’s most impressive Centers of higher education and public policy. I have spent a half-dozen stints—ranging from several weeks to several months—at the East-West Center in Honolulu, and have always appreciated the helpfulness of the staff and scholars there, the research access to Hamilton Library’s fine East Asian language materials, and the beauty of the setting in the Manoa Valley on the south side of Oahu. The East-West Center has for the last fifty years been truly a meeting ground for policy makers and scholars from all over the world, and what I have learned there has contributed mightily to my teaching and research.
I have also had the enormous good fortune to spend five different academic years as an honorary fellow at the University of Wisconsin’s Institute for Research in the Humanities. The nation’s first academic institute devoted to scholarship in the humanities, IRH celebrated its fiftieth anniversary in the autumn of 2009. I spent the 2003-2004 academic year there as a visiting fellow, where I continued my work on the culture of historiography and management thought in Northern Song China (work that is appearing now in The Emperor’s Teacher). I returned to the Institute for the 2006-2010 academic years under a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship, and have been able to present different aspects of my research on Chinese cosmology, mountain aesthetics, and French ethnographic thought.
I am currently finishing three different projects that are the culmination of several years of teaching, research, and writing. Each began in 2007, and together they represent my attempt to reach audiences at all levels of specialization—from generalists to researchers in history, anthropology, and Asian studies.
The first, which was published in November 2009, is a substantially revised second edition of a book originally published in 2003. This survey of China is a joint effort that I undertook with many Beloit College colleagues, as well as several others with whom I worked while at the East-West Center and Colby College. It contains chapters on geography, history, politics, economics, language, literature, art, music, society, popular culture, and contemporary issues, and is a testament to the talent that Beloit College’s Asian Studies program has in the area of Chinese studies.
The only real drawback is the price. ABC-Clio sells mostly to libraries, but, before I signed the contract in 2007, I said it had to be on condition that they would consider a paperback version of the volume in due time. They said they would consider it, and I have some hope that, once the library run is over, it will be available for under twenty dollars in bookstores. In the meantime…check your local library. I am very grateful to John Rapp, Warren Palmer, Shin Yong Robson, Daniel Youd, Anita Andrew, and Tamara Hamlish for showing the excellence that has marked the Beloit College Asian Studies faculty now and in the past.
I am preparing another book for non-specialists, and it has led me in fascinating directions in the last few years. The Emperor’s Teacher is a volume that presents to a management audience (by which I mean the “management” of everything from a family to a classroom to a corporation) one of the greatest managerial works in all of Chinese history. Compiled and edited over the course of almost twenty years by a scholar named Sima Guang (1019-1086) and five able assistants, the Comprehensive Mirror for Aid in Ruling was the text that leaders in China studied as they rose to the height of their ambitions and influence. I have made the argument that this is the book that “follows” study of the Art of War, the Classic of the Way, and other texts that make up the bulk of “intercultural” managerial teaching in the United States. This is the book that Mao Zedong studied intently while riding on a donkey during the Chinese Communist forces’ Long March across China. It was such a powerful influence on his “managerial” thinking that he studied it even though he disagreed with the political perspectives of its author. I always imagine, in a sort of reverse comparison, Dwight Eisenhower reading Das Kapital.
The Emperor’s Teacher is divided into five chapters that flow from one core teaching to another, and provide the reader with a perspective on management that has been lacking (from my perspective) in too much business education in the West. It begins where Sima Guang opens the Comprehensive Mirror, with a discussion of roles and hierarchy before moving on to one of the key ideas in the entire Chinese philosophical system—remonstrance, the obligation of junior members of a hierarchy to speak up in the interest of the family, the group, the corporations, as well as the concomitant obligation of leaders to listen, heed advice, and then to use their range of position and skill to exercise leadership. I have included .pdf files of the book proposal, writing sample, and table of contents below, and will update this site as the work progresses.
The most ambitious project that has occupied me is in its third full year of research, and is quickly moving through the draft stages. As part of the Millicent C. McIntosh Fellowship that I received from the Woodrow Wilson Foundation in 2006, I have been preparing a study of Chinese cosmology and French scholarship on the “ethnographic other.” That, in turn, has led me to do research on China’s five marchmounts—the cosmologically integrated mountain system linking the “five directions” in China, east, south, center, west, and north. The order is important. The early sage kings (先王) were said to have sacrificed to each mountain according to the proper seasons, thus reintegrating time and space as they created perfect rule. The Book of History contains the following excerpt about the sage emperor Shun’s (traditional date: c. 2300 BCE) early itineraries.
In the second month of the year, [Shun] made a tour of inspection to the east as far as Mt. Tai, where he made a burnt offering to Heaven and sacrificed to the mountains and rivers…He received the eastern nobles in an audience and put their calendar in order, standardized the musical notes and the measures of length and volume, as well as the five kinds of rituals…After finishing his tour of inspection he returned to the capital. In the fifth month, he made a tour of inspection to the south, as far as the Southern Sacred Peak, to which he sacrificed in the same manner as he did at Mt. Tai. Likewise, in the eight month, he made a western tour of inspection as far as the Western Sacred Peak. In the eleventh month, he made a tour of inspection to the north, as far as the Northern Sacred Peak, where he sacrificed as he had in the west. Upon his return to the capital, he went to the Temple of the Ancestor and offered up an ox (to complete the cycle of the year and the realm).
My book is intended to merge travel writing, literary study, and historical study in a blend that returns to anthropology and history something of the “experiential-analytical flow” that I have admired in a few books over the course of my education—Jean Jacques Rousseau’s Emile and Julie, Alexis de Tocqueville’s Démocratie en Amérique, and, one of the great works of the twentieth century, Claude Lévi-Strauss’s Tristes tropiques. If such an enterprise appears to lack modesty, my only response is that I wish others would have taken it up. For the most part, they have not, and there remains a troubling gap between popular and academic writing about China. I crave the fiercely intelligent book that is nonetheless written for ambitious readers beyond the academy (there is no better example of this in the last sixty years than Tristes tropiques, a lively travelogue and ethnography that might well be translated as “Ah, alas…the Tropics”). Academic writing has been rather too preoccupied with the monograph for my tastes, and it is time that a few academics stepped up (quite literally, in this case). I think of my work, in the precise meaning of the phrase, as an essay—an endeavor, an attempt… something, in short, that is worth a try.
Round and Square is so named because of the Chinese idea (seen on traditional coinage, in the smallest form, and in the Temple of Heaven in Beijing, in one of its largest) that heaven is round and earth is square. Westerners from St. Anselm to Kant have taught that round and square are opposites—never successfully to be linked. Chinese cosmological thinking has always linked them, and the traditional imperial fengshan sacrifices are among its greatest examples. Imperial travelers such as the sage emperor Shun in the quotation above, were said to have sacrificed at each mountain’s base in the proper season, climbed (or were carried) to the summit for the climactic sacrifice, and then descended the mountains—linking high and low, near and far, in an intricate dance of ritual and cosmology.
Round and Square takes the reader on a travelogue up and down the five marchmounts and around the lunar calendar—a full circuit of all of the mountains, including a return to Mt. Tai to “start time over again” in a new year. It traces not only my travels through the mountain corridors, and up the stone paths (and under the traces of two or more millennia of rock-carved poetry), but also through a changing China during a half-decade surrounding its Olympic (2008) and Expo (2010) years, 2007-2012. The choice of the years and events was never arbitrary. When I was starting the planning, I thought to myself what might be the difference between a book on, say, Japan’s mountains written in the 1990s (just an example) and one written in the mid-1960s, when Japan hosted the Olympic Games and quite self-consciously sought to make a new place in the world? I would still want to read that today. Or, to use an older example, a book on travels in Germany in the mid-1930s…or Greece in the 1890s. The years leading up to and through the Olympic Games have been transformational in China and events “on the ground” play into the mountain narrative without dominating it.
Equally important to the narrative are the echoes of Western sinologists who studied Chinese cosmology in a way that influenced several generations of Western and Chinese scholars. The central figure in this is Marcel Granet (1884-1940), and it is fair to say that I make the trip with him—carrying his writings with me and thinking them through anew on the mountains and in the months between my climbs. By extension, his teachers and colleagues also “accompany” me—especially the two to whom he dedicated his first book, Fêtes et chansons de la Chine ancienne [Festivals and Songs in Ancient China], Edouard Chavannes and Emile Durkheim. Round and Square is, then, a travelogue with characters (the pun is intentional)—some accompanying me in their books, others carved into the rock face over the centuries, and still others (living, talking, gesticulating hikers) whom I have met on the paths of these pilgrimage mountains.
This is because the book—for all of its perambulations and hidden paths—has a powerful theme running all of the way through it. Anthropology must “rediscover the text” if it is to reach to the very heart of the Chinese tradition, and not be just the mouthpiece for spoken culture. It is as though, since the publication of the first great ethnographic works in the 1920s, anthropologist of China have been searching for the Trobriand Islands in the Chinese countryside, barely noticing the oceans of text all around them. My travels up and down the mountains present me with an overflowing abundance of “fieldwork” and spoken culture, as well as thousands of stone poetic inscriptions, tens of thousands of commemorative steles and temple carvings, and hundreds of thousands of pages of texts, written about the mountains themselves over the course of three millennia. I climb—a solitary fieldworker—through a sea of text, connecting the Chinese past with a vibrant present (five sacred mountains, five Olympic rings, and five tumultuous years), returning with a message for the fields of anthropology and history.
This course examines Chinese history and culture in the context of the wider East Asian world. We begin with early Chinese history and the influence of the Yellow River valley on the development of Chinese institutions. We then examine the development of Chinese philosophical, literary, political, and economic traditions during the imperial era. The second half of the course deals with modern Chinese history and culture, paying equal attention to historical and ethnographic materials, and taking a careful look at the development of a strong Chinese state from the challenges of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Throughout the course we use examples from the Chinese language—Chinese characters and their etymologies, idiomatic phrases, and classical allusions—to analyze Chinese history and culture in linguistic context.
This course examines Japanese history and culture in the context of the wider East Asian world. We begin with early Japanese history and the influence of both Korea and China on early Japanese institutions. We then examine the development of Japan’s indigenous traditions during the Heian (794-1185), Kamakura (1185-1333), and Ashikaga (1336-1568) periods. The second half of the course deals with modern Japanese history and culture, paying equal attention to historical and ethnographic materials, and taking a careful look at the development of the Kanto and Kansai regions in modern Japanese history and culture. Throughout the course we use examples from the Japanese language—spoken phrases, the two major syllabaries (hiragana and katakana), and kanji, or Chinese characters—to analyze Japanese history and culture in linguistic context.
This seminar introduces the world of East Asian education to students through a variety of historical and contemporary materials. In particular, students work with the elementary, middle school, and high school education texts used in China, Taiwan, and Japan (in translation), and investigate the manner in which language, history, and ethics are conveyed to children and young adults in East Asia. These primary documents are supplemented by a number of contextual readings dealing with Chinese and Japanese education in the past, as well as the plethora of strategies that have been used to acculturate children in East Asia. Toward this end, the instructor makes extensive use of his own research in China and Japan on these topics. In particular, we consider the role of various levels of government in China and Japan in the educational process, and the central role of various school systems in shaping these societies.
This first-year history seminar begins with an examination of a Chinese folk classic—the Chinese almanac—that has been published annually for the past millennium and reflects the popular Daoist, Buddhist, and Confucian religious traditions that are central to an understanding of Chinese social life into the twenty-first century. Students gain a deeper understanding of the lunar calendar, key festivals, and important life cycle rituals as they work through the text of the almanac (in translation), and learn to “read” the Chinese calendar with the aid of supplementary materials. We spend a significant amount of time comparing Chinese and Japanese calendars, as well as cultural practices that are linked to them in each society. Students read a wide range of literary, historical, and ethnographic works to supplement their study of calendars and almanacs, and the instructor makes liberal use of his own field experience to give context to the readings.
This first-year history seminar begins with an examination of the management themes at the heart of the Chinese historical tradition. Running the world’s largest empire was a practical and theoretical challenge for generations of Chinese leaders, and the tradition contains some of the finest works ever to deal with organizational structure, hierarchy, and social interaction. In particular, we will examine the manner in which one of China’s most influential historians, Sima Guang (1019-1086), articulated the relationship between case studies and management action. We will also study management models in the Chinese tradition from early social organization to today’s multinational corporations. The core management texts of the Chinese tradition will be windows onto ways of understanding complex historical, social, and even cognitive issues in Chinese political and economic life.
This course explores the personal reflections of a wide variety of writers who lived and traveled in East Asia between the eighth and sixteenth centuries. We study the personal histories and memoirs of individuals in China, Japan, and Korea, as well as the accounts of travelers in each of these countries—including an occasional European in East Asia and East Asian traveler in Europe. Ultimately, our focus is upon the connection between personal memory, reflections upon one’s homeland, and contemplating “the other” in ways that will expand our understanding of history and culture.
This course introduces students to a wide range of approaches to social and cultural analysis, and gives a broad overview of the field of cultural anthropology. The course is designed to introduce students to the methods, theories, and concepts of cultural anthropology, as well as several examples of sustained ethnographic prose. Drawing on ethnographic materials from all parts of the world we investigate how people define themselves and others, make sense of their world(s), and organize their lives. We look at past and contemporary ways that anthropologists have thought about culture, and use anthropological perspectives to examine the ways in which the “culture concept” is used by a variety of people and groups. Throughout the course, we investigate the manner in which the study of other peoples (whether in the form of academic anthropology today or as part of the intellectual arsenal of peoples the world over—from the North American Northwest Coast to Papua New Guinea, and from Herodotus and Sima Qian to Marshall Sahlins and Pierre Bourdieu—shapes the identity of the observer, and look carefully at the ways in which various cultural groups relate to one another in times of peace and in conflict.
This course is designed to introduce students fully to the field of cultural anthropology. It assumes a foundation in the study of society and culture, which can be fulfilled with Beloit College’s prerequisite course, ANTH 100: Society and Culture. The prerequisite can also be fulfilled with a comparable course at another college or university or, in some cases, with the consent of the instructor. Building upon the introductory foundations students have gained, this course will focus on doing cultural anthropology—from learning to read (with great care) the seminal works in the discipline’s history to developing skill in listening, note-taking, writing fieldnotes, and crafting full ethnographic reports. Throughout the course, we will stress the importance of reading in the development of ethnographic skills. Writing fine ethnographic prose is far more than a mere matter of “gathering data” and “writing it up.” Skill in reading contributes to skills in field research, and both contribute to ethnographic writing (the redundancy here is intentional). Students will read some of the masterworks of ethnographic literature, even as they pursue their own research projects. Their work will build toward a final review essay that combines careful reading and textual analysis with their own ethnographic prose.
This seminar explores the intersection of cosmological and historiographical perspectives on the Chinese past through a lens of several classics of Chinese historical thought. Covering the Spring and Autumn period through the Former Han (the eight century BCE to the beginning of the Common Era). The course contrasts an event-by-event narrative with broader issues of cosmology that figured in a wide array of Chinese writings on nature and human history. Topics include utopian frameworks in early China, the five “sacred peaks” of early Chinese cosmology, and the combination of mythical imagery and detailed narratives in early Chinese historical works. The course provides a window of understanding of early Chinese history that will give students both a solid grounding in the events of an important millennium in the Chinese past and a sophisticated perspective on the intellectual approaches taken by prominent Chinese writers seeking to understand their own history.
An intensive introduction to premodern Japanese civilization, this course examines social, intellectual, and cultural history from the tenth through seventeenth centuries—Heian times to the founding of the Tokugawa shogunate. Topics include court life, shogunal government, gender roles, family life, Buddhism as a political and religious force, and the emergence of a warrior ethic. Students read historical as well as literary texts on the Japanese court, the lives of aristocratic women, and battlefield tales from the provinces.
This course, which is open to all students interested in historical research, begins with research methods that all historians share. After building a solid base of general research skills, the course moves toward a more direct inquiry into the specific ways that Chinese historians approach their research. By carefully studying Chinese materials, we achieve a better understanding of the challenges of historical research than we might by using a more eclectic approach. The course concludes with a series of reflections on how our investigations might help historians doing research on American, European, Asian, African, or Latin American history.
[The course was offered while Lévi-Strauss was still alive; the material below has been adjusted to reflect the present].
Claude Lévi-Strauss’s (1908-2009) career spanned a century that saw two world wars, a changing university system in France and abroad, and the development of anthropology as a discipline that examines the other even as it focuses on the anthropologist’s own society. Lévi-Strauss’s intellectual influence was extraordinary, and we will study his writings from his early works to his later work on structural anthropology and mythology. In particular, we take a historical look at the vibrant and perplexing century in which Lévi-Strauss lived and worked, and the changing ways that the disciplines of history, anthropology, comparative literature, and philosophy have engaged the study of culture.
In this advanced seminar we examine the ways in which various thinkers and travelers have articulated their journeys—from planning to careful observation and, finally, to writing about their experiences. The course examines forms of travel writing in East Asia and the West, and seek to understand the persistent allure that travel (and writing about it) has had on a number of important genres—including several within history and anthropology. Toward that end, we discuss not only travelers’ journeys but also their engagement (from varying distances) with “the other,” from Herodotus’s Persians and Sima Qian’s Xiongnu to the subjects of historical and ethnographic research in the last century.
We begin by examining “itineraries” in classical Western thought (Homer, Herodotus, and the Bible). We then turn to two distinctive French templates of a journey through a life (Rousseau’s Emile) and through a strange country filled with even stranger ideas (Tocqueville’s Democracy in America). The first half of the course concludes with two classics of historical writing, Garrett Mattingly’s The Armada and Francis Parkman’s The Oregon Trail. The second half of the course closely examines the foundations of ethnographic knowledge and questions the applicability of those models for other parts of the world. Our focus is on an area of the world that remains in popular consciousness “exotic” to this day, and (this may not be coincidental) is one of the most deeply studied areas of the world among professional anthropologists—New Guinea. We read from some of the best ethnographic material published over the past eighty years in that region, and focus on the role that place played in the development of anthropology in the twentieth century.
This seminar looks systematically at several of the key theoretical and methodological issues in the study of human society, past and present. We begin with the concept of structure and the ways that it has been interpreted by thinkers in and beyond the fields of history and anthropology. In particular, we will consider the entire oeuvre of Marshall Sahlins—arguably the most persistent and articulate theorist dealing with these matters. The theoretical and methodological focus of the seminar will give students insight that will be useful in projects ranging from history theses to research in a wide range of disciplines.
In this advanced seminar, we investigate the manner in which two “total” disciplines (each considering all aspects of human life their purview) have engaged “the other”—different cultures, social classes, and economic groupings, to name just a few. The seminar will begin with an overview of the history of significant cultural interactions from earliest times (particularly Homer, Herodotus, and Sima Qian) to the present. The bulk of the seminar is devoted to careful study of French engagement with the outside world, as well as the disparate elements of a growing and changing French countryside in the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries. Students will use the skills that they develop in their study of French anthropologie et histoire to prepare their own essays on specific traditions of engaging the other.
This seminar explores the conceptions of space, place, and landscape that appear in historical writings. How do historians configure space in their accounts? How do they portray “movement” between places? Is describing a landscape a “literary” portrayal independent of historical analysis? These are just a few questions that we discuss as we read even familiar historical works from the perspective of “imaginative geography.” Students have weekly readings on topics common to all members of the seminar. They also do independent research projects on historiographical conceptions of space that culminate in a seminar paper and formal presentation at the end of the term.
In this course we examine the way in which various cultural traditions have come to terms with the unknown—particularly the “fates” of individuals and societies—in the course of planning for the present and negotiating the challenges of everyday life. The heart of the course consists of a close reading of a number of key texts from the Chinese tradition that have been misunderstood (and even misused) by scholars over the centuries. We give context to these readings by examining a wide range of historical and ethnographic materials that analyze the language of fate and future in China and beyond. We conclude the course with a set of comparative analyses of “fate discourse,” including Greek conceptions of morality and luck and medieval European cosmology.

Are you always stuck choosing between East Coast and West Coast wines? Paradise Springs Winery, the first bi-coastal winery in the US, changes the game entirely. Jacqueline Coleman, certified sommelier, wine writer, and Coravin Guest Contributor, sat down with founder Kirk Wiles to learn about the winery’s humble beginnings and fast-growing pace.
From humble beginnings in a small cabin built sometime between 1800 and 1825 on a hillside in Clifton, Virginia outside of Washington, D.C., Kirk Wiles and his mother, Jane, built a thriving Virginia winery that would very quickly become the first bi-coastal winery operation in the United States. Now, an award-winning winery spanning two major wine-producing states, Paradise Springs has earned a place in iconic American winemaking history and has helped put Virginia wine on the map for many American consumers.
Paradise Springs Winery began as a concept in the early 2000’s after Kirk and his mother inherited a plot of agriculturally-zoned land in Northern Virginia that was originally part of a thousand- acre land grant from Lord Fairfax in 1716. The land had been a part of the family’s ancestral inheritance for generations, with a few hundred acres still in the family name at the turn of the 21st century. After graduating from the University of Miami with a business degree, Kirk decided that instead of pursuing a job in corporate accounting, he’d try his luck at building a winery operation on the family land; undoubtedly an ambitious feat for a young man who did not grow up in a winemaking family. Nevertheless, Paradise Springs began operations in 2007 as a family-owned winery, and officially opened its doors to the public in January of 2010 in an unassuming cabin with a small tasting bar and a big hope for a bountiful wine-making future.
In 2013, the Virginia wine industry began to explode with more and more boutique operations opening as consumers flocked to the charming and historical tasting rooms and vineyards around the state. Kirk’s own business began to thrive, but he soon realized that there were not a lot of opportunities to produce the quantity of quality wine he aspired to make with the current situation developing between growers and producers in Virginia. After a trip to Santa Barbara, he developed a deep appreciation for Pinot Noir from the area; a grape that is difficult to cultivate and produce in Virginia. It was then that he decided that in order to expand the Paradise Springs brand and develop new, high-quality wines, he must take his operation bi-coastal. In just a couple of years, Kirk opened the Paradise Springs tasting room in Santa Barbara, where he now introduces visiting wine lovers to his California and Virginia wines side-by-side.
His head winemaker, Rob Cox, is based out of Virginia and oversees the winemaking process on both coasts, but Kirk also works with established experts in California winemaking, such as Doug Margerum, to help him produce the best wines that express the appropriate time and place of his California brand as he navigates the industry in two very different winemaking states.
Currently, Paradise Springs’ total production is 10-12,000 cases a year out of Virginia and three thousand cases out of Santa Barbara, which makes the operation extremely boutique in comparison to the goliath California wine operations around the state, but this number is sure to grow soon. Each year, Kirk’s wines are winning awards and gaining more recognition in the industry, and with his expansion mindset, this level of success will only continue to rise as more consumers and experts discover these unique wines made in Paradise.
Whether you are tasting through the beautiful hillsides of northern Virginia or the vineyards of coastal central California, visit Paradise Springs and experience winemaking history at the first American bi-coastal winery.
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