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unreferenced date May 2011 Infobox Album See Wikipedia WikiProject Albums Name Riding the Wave Type Album Artist The Blanks Cover RidingtheWavecover.jpg Released 2004 Label Parody Records Genre A cappella Riding the Wave is a 2004 album by The Blanks . It features both original songs by the band and cover version s of other songs, most of which were performed on the TV series Scrubs TV series Scrubs . It also features candid recordings of the cast and production team of Scrubs marked on the track listing as CR . Sam Lloyd was written into the script for the all 9 seasons of Scrubs . The album cover jokes that these recordings are used without the cast and crew s knowledge or permission . Track listing Superman Lazlo Bane song Superman originally by Lazlo Bane 3 20 Charles in Charge theme tune from the Charles in Charge sitcom 1 01 A Little Polish They ll Never Know &ndash CR Touched Up &ndash CR Play On &ndash CR Testy Tiger Commandos Attack Good Old Days Crowded Landscape &ndash CR Holy &ndash CR Elliot in Your Cup By Mennen &ndash G major Happy Halloween The Full Monty Testy Tiger &ndash reprise What Now? &ndash CR I m in the Middle &ndash CR Facts of Life theme tune from the The Facts of Life TV series sitcom By Mennen &ndash D major Flipper Theme theme tune from the Flipper 1964 TV series TV series Speed Racer theme tune from the Speed Racer anime series The Riff Song originally from The Desert Song operetta John Fredrich &ndash CR Do You Want? &ndash CR If You Never Looked at Me &ndash CR Boing Fwip Underdog theme tune from the Underdog TV series animated series Six Million Dollar Man theme tune from the The Six Million Dollar Man TV series Testy Tiger &ndash additional reprise Love Having You &ndash CR I ll Be Seeing You from the 1944 I ll Be Seeing You 1944 film movie The Ballad of Jimmy Durante Back To You &ndash CR External links http www.theblankswebsite.com Information on the album at The Blanks official website Scrubs Category 2004 albums 2000s album stu ... more details
Here We Are is a one act play ref http www.heniford.net 4321 index.php?n Citations H.HereWeAre 1m1f Here We Are entry at Small Cast One Act Guide Online ref adapted from a Here We Are short story short story of the same name by Dorothy Parker . Set in the early 1930s in a Pullman car on a train to New York City , it explores through dialogue the already testy relationship between a newly married young man and young woman setting out on their honeymoon . As the play is relatively short, employs only one location and two actors, it is commonly used in high school and college one act play performances in the United States . References reflist Category One act plays ... more details
The Miseries of Human Life was written by James Beresford 1764 1840 and published in 1806, first as a single volume and then as an expanded two volume edition later that year. Illustrated by George Cruikshank , it catalogued in excruciating detail the petty outrages, minor humiliations, and tiny discomforts that make up everyday human existence . The Miseries were written as a series of discussions between Mr Samuel Sensitive and Mr Timothy Testy, in which they catalogue the daily injuries, insults, disappointments and treacheries of everyday life. Mrs Testy makes occasional appearances to offer Supplementary Sighs from a feminine perspective. ref Harvnb Beresford 1995 p 6 ref The Gentleman s Magazine of May 1841 described The Miseries as an extraordinary success . ref citation title Obituary Rev. James Beresford, M.A. url http www.archive.org stream gentlemansmagaz285unkngoog page n574 mode 1up magazine The Gentleman s Magazine page 574 date May 1841 publisher archive.org accessdate 4 May 2010 ref English poet Richard Henry Horne noted that the book sold like wildfire . ref citation title Exposition of the false medium and barriers excluding men of genius from the public last Horne first William Henry year 1833 publisher Effingham Wilson page 28 ref Profits for the book exceeded 5000. ref citation title American publishers and English authors last Didier first Eugene Lemoine year 1879 publisher E.L. Didier page 15 ref See also 1806 in literature References Notes Reflist Bibliography Refbegin Citation last Beresford first James title The Miseries of Human Life publisher Past Times year 1995 origyear 1806 version Abridged version by Michelle Lovric isbn 0312154259 Refend DEFAULTSORT Miseries of Human Life Category 1806 books ... more details
Dynamic testing or dynamic analysis is a term used in software engineering to describe the testing of the dynamic behavior of code. That is, dynamic analysis refers to the examination of the physical response from the system to variables that are not constant and change with time. In dynamic testing the software must actually be compiled and run Actually Dynamic Testing involves working with the software, giving input values and checking if the output is as expected. These are the Validation activities. Unit Tests, Integration Tests, System Tests and Acceptance Tests are few of the Dynamic Testing methodologies. Dynamic testing means testing based on specific test cases by execution of the test object or running programs. Dynamic testing is used to test software through executing it. This is in contrast to Static testing . See also Portal Software Testing Dynamic program analysis Time Partition Testing a model based testing methodology for the reactive test of dynamical or control systems. Daikon system Daikon , a dynamic invariant generator. References G.J. Myers, The Art of Software Testing, John Wiley and Sons, New York, New York, 1979. External links http portal.acm.org citation.cfm?id 370049.370462 Dynamic software testing of MPI applications with umpire DEFAULTSORT Dynamic Testing Category Software testing de Dynamisches Software Testverfahren nl Dynamisch testen pl Testy dynamiczne ... more details
Context date January 2011 Sonnet 140 poem Be wise as thou art cruel Do not press My tongue tied patience with too much disdain, Lest sorrow lend me words, and words express The manner of my pity wanting pain. If I might teach thee wit Better it were, Though not to love, yet love to tell me so, As testy sick men, when their deaths be near, No news but health from their physicians know. For if I should despair I should grow mad, And in my madness might speak ill of thee Now this ill wresting world is grown so bad, Mad sland rers by mad ears believ d be. That I may not be so, nor thou belied, Bear thine eyes straight, though thy proud heart go wide. poem Interpretations Edward Fox actor Edward Fox , for the 2002 compilation album , When Love Speaks EMI Classics EMI External links http www.shakespeare online.com sonnets 140.html www.shakespeare online.com Category Sonnets by William Shakespeare Category British poems ... more details
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Infobox football biography playername Cole Grossman image Image Cole Grossman MLS.jpg 200px fullname Nicholas Holland Grossman dateofbirth Birth date and age 1989 4 10 cityofbirth St. Louis, Missouri countryofbirth United States height height ft 6 in 0 position Midfielder currentclub Columbus Crew clubnumber 19 youthyears1 2007&ndash 2010 youthclubs1 Duke Blue Devils years1 2009 clubs1 Cary Clarets caps1 12 goals1 0 years2 2011&ndash clubs2 Columbus Crew caps2 2 goals2 0 medaltemplates pcupdate October 22, 2011 ntupdate Nicholas Holland Cole Grossman born April 10, 1989 in St. Louis, Missouri is an United States American association football soccer player currently playing for the Columbus Crew in Major League Soccer . Career College and Amateur Grossman is a product of Duke University , where he appeared in 70 career games starting 59 and achieved 25 goals and 24 assists. During his time with Duke, Grossman was a two time NSCAA All South Region second team pick, was named in the All ACC teams twice 2nd 2009 and 1st in 2010 . ref http www.goduke.com ViewArticle.dbml?DB OEM ID 4200&ATCLID 1088054 ref During his college years, Grossman also played with the Cary Clarets of the USL Premier Development League during their 2009 season. ref http www.uslsoccer.com teams 2009 6188469.html STATS 2009 Cary Clarets stats ref Professional On January 14, 2011, Grossman was drafted in the second round 28th overall in the 2011 MLS SuperDraft by the Columbus Crew . ref http www.mlssoccer.com superdraft tracker ref He made his professional debut on February 22, 2011 in the first leg of the Crew s CONCACAF Champions League quarter final series against Real Salt Lake . ref http www.mlssoccer.com news article crew rsl finish scoreless testy ccl opener Crew, RSL finish scoreless in testy CCL opener ref See also List of current MLS players References Reflist External links http www.mlssoccer.com players cole grossman MLS player profile http www.goduke.com ViewArticle.dbml?DB OEM ID 4200&A ... more details
Static testing is a form of software testing where the software isn t actually used. This is in contrast to dynamic testing . It is generally not detailed testing, but checks mainly for the sanity of the code, algorithm, or document. It is primarily syntax checking of the code and or manually reviewing the code or document to find errors. This type of testing can be used by the developer who wrote the code, in isolation. Code review s, software inspection inspection s and walkthrough s are also used. From the black box testing point of view, static testing involves reviewing requirement s and specification standards specification s. This is done with an eye toward completeness or appropriateness for the task at hand. This is the verification portion of Verification and Validation . Even static testing can be automated. A static testing test suite consists of programs to be analyzed by an interpreter or a compiler that asserts the programs syntactic validity. software bug Bugs discovered at this stage of development are less expensive to fix than later in the Software development process development cycle . Citation needed date July 2009 The people involved in static testing are application developers and testers. Sources Kaner, Cem Nguyen, Hung Q Falk, Jack 1988 . Testing Computer Software Second ed. . Boston Thomson Computer Press. ISBN 0 47135 846 0. http www.ddj.com cpp 205801074 Static Testing C Code A utility to check library usability DEFAULTSORT Static Testing Category Software review soft eng stub de Statisches Software Testverfahren nl Statisch testen pl Testy statyczne sv Statisk testning ... more details
Infobox Album See Wikipedia WikiProject Albums Name Ampeauty Type Studio album Artist Pungent Stench Cover Ampeauty.jpg Released 2004 Recorded May 2004 June 2004 Genre Death metal , Death n roll Length 57 29 Label Nuclear Blast Records Producer Martin Schirenc Last album Masters of Moral, Servants of Sin br 2001 This album Ampeauty br 2004 Next album Pungent Stench s sixth studio album br 2007 Album ratings rev1 Allmusic rev1Score Rating 3.5 5 ref Allmusic class album id r730151 first Eduardo last Rivadavia ref rev2 rev2Score Ampeauty is the fifth album of the Austrian death metal band Pungent Stench . It was originally released in 2004 on Nuclear Blast . The lyrical content is more sexual fetishism fetish oriented than on the previous albums, with many songs focusing on acrotomophilia and apotemnophilia . Track listing Lynndie She wolf of Abu Ghraib 6 55 the song, its name similar to the film title Ilsa, She Wolf of the SS , is presumably about Lynndie England Invisible Empire 5 59 The Amp Hymn 6 04 The Passion of Lucifer 4 49 Got MILF? 5 42 Human Garbage 5 51 Apotemnophiliac 4 06 No Guts, No Glory 5 04 Same Shit Different Asshole 4 39 Fear the Grand Inquisitior 8 20 Personnel Martin Schirenc vocals and electric guitar guitar , music producer production Testy bass guitar bass Alex Wank Drum kit drums References Reflist Category Pungent Stench albums Category 2004 albums 2000s death metal album stub de Ampeauty ... more details
Unreferenced date January 2007 Performance Testing covers a wide range of engineering or functional evaluations where a material, product, system, or person is not specified by detailed material or component specification s rather, emphasis is on the final measurable performance characteristics. Testing can be a qualitative data qualitative or quantitative procedure. Performance testing can refer to the Educational assessment assessment of the performance of a human examinee. For example, a behind the wheel driving Test student assessment test is a performance test of whether a person is able to perform the functions of a competent driver of an automobile. In the computer industry, software performance testing is used to determine the speed or effectiveness of a computer, network, software program or device. This process can involve quantitative tests done in a lab, such as measuring the response time or the number of MIPS millions of instructions per second at which a system functions. Qualitative attributes such as reliability, scalability and interoperability may also be evaluated. Performance testing is often done in conjunction with stress testing . Examples Building and Construction Performance Testing Fire protection ASTM D176 Packaging Performance hazardous materials , dangerous goods , ASTM D4169 Performance Index for Tire s ASTM F538 Personal protective equipment performance Performance test bar exam for lawyers Proficiency Testing, Performance test assessment Several Defense Standard s Software performance testing , Web testing Wear of Textiles ASTM D123 and many others. See also Test method Technical standard Physical test Usability testing DEFAULTSORT Performance Testing Category Software testing Category Engineering Category Standards Category Tests ca Prova de rendiment ja pl Testy wydajno ciowe ... more details
Infobox Film name Muqabla image caption director T. Rama Rao producer Anumolu Venkata Subba Rao writer starring Karishma Kapoor br Govinda actor Govinda br Paresh Rawal music Dilip Sen, Sameer Sen cinematography editing distributor released 14 May 1993 runtime country India language Hindi Budget preceded by followed by awards Gross Muqabla is 1993 Hindi film directed by T. Rama Rao and starring Karishma Kapoor , Govinda actor Govinda , Paresh Rawal . Other cast include Shakti Kapoor , Aditya Pancholi , Asrani , Aruna Irani , and Farha Naaz . Plot Suraj and Deepak live a poor lifestyle in a village along with their widowed father, who has always taught them to be honest. Both re locate to the city and find employment with the Police Force, while Suraj is a Havaldar, Deepak is a Traffic Constable. Suraj does his job honestly and diligently and is often reprimanded by Inspector Waghmare. Then differences arise between Suraj and Deepak when the later comes to testy in favor of an accused, Narendra Khanna, who was arrested by Suraj for killing a man. Things come to a boil when Soni s husband is brutally murdered in broad daylight, and when officers of both Shaitaan Chowki and Kala Chowki refuse to investigate nor even register this homicide, she decides to take matters into her own hands Cast Govinda ... Havaldar Suraj Karisma Kapoor ... Karisma Farha Naaz ... Vandana Aditya Pancholi ... Traffic Constable Deepak Aruna Irani ... Soni Asrani ... Soni s husband Paresh Rawal ... Communications Minister Jaganath Jaggu Mishra Shakti Kapoor ... Khanna Satyendra Kapoor ... Suraj s dad Arun Govil ... Havaldar Satyaprakash Vikas Anand ... Superintendent of Police External links imdb title 0104941 Muqabla Bollywood Category 1993 films Category Hindi language films Category Indian films Hindi film stub fr Muqabla ... more details
The illegal drug trade in The Bahamas involves trans shipment of cocaine and marijuana through The Bahamas to the United States. Lynden Pindling In 1982, a report entitled The Bahamas A Nation For Sale by investigative television journalist Brian Ross journalist Brian Ross was aired on NBC in the United States. The report claimed Lynden Pindling and his government accepted bribes from Colombian drug smugglers, particularly the notorious Carlos Lehder , co founder of the Medell n Cartel , in exchange for allowing the smugglers to use the Bahamas as a transshipment point to smuggle Colombian cocaine into the US. Through murder and extortion, Lehder had gained complete control over the Norman s Cay in Exuma , which became the chief base for smuggling cocaine into the United States. Lehder boasted to the Colombian media about his involvement in drug trafficking at Norman s Cay and about giving hundreds of thousands of dollars in payoffs to the ruling Progressive Liberal Party, but Pindling vigorously denied the accusations, and made a testy appearance on NBC to rebut them. However, the public outcry led to the creation in 1984 of a Commission of Inquiry to investigate the drug trade and official corruption in the Bahamas. A review of Pindling s personal finances by the Commission found that he had spent eight times his reported total earnings from 1977 to 1984. According to the Inquiry The prime minister and Lady Pindling have received at least 57.3 million in cash. Explanations for some of these deposits were given... but could not be verified. As a result of the Inquiry, five government ministers either resigned or were dismissed. ref Griffith, Ivelaw L. 1996 7 , Illicit Arms Trafficking, Corruption, and Governance in the Caribbean , Dickinson Journal of International Law , p494. ref References reflist Caribbean stub trade stub Caribbean topic Illegal drug trade in Category Illegal drug trade by country The Bahamas Category Crime in the Bahamas Category Drugs in the B ... more details
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Duncan Hamilton is a British author and newspaper journalist and two time winner of the prestigious William Hill Sports Book of the Year award. Hamilton won the first award with his 2007 memoir Provided You Don t Kiss Me 20 Years With Brian Clough ., ref Duncan Hamilton, Provided You Don t Kiss Me 20 Years With Brian Clough , Fourth Estate Harper Collins, London, 2007 ref an account of his time at the Nottingham Evening Post where he worked for more than 20 years. He was the paper s Nottingham Forest F.C. Nottingham Forest reporter during the club s glory years and covered both of Forest s historic victorious UEFA Champions League European Cup campaigns 1979 and 1980 for the newspaper. During his time covering Forest, Hamilton developed a close, if at times testy, relationship with the club s famously outspoken manager, Brian Clough . Some accounts even claim that Clough hated Hamilton. In Provided You Don t Kiss Me , Hamilton claims he bonded with Clough after the manager learned he, like Clough, was from the north east of England. He provides an eyewitness account of the relationship between Clough and his assistant, Peter Taylor footballer born 1928 Peter Taylor , and charts Clough s demise and descent into alcoholism. FHM called the book a superb portrait of the conflicted, contradictory man that doesn t duck his uglier aspects. ref As quoted in the book s review on http www.amazon.co.uk dp 0007247109 Amazon.co.uk ref It quickly became a bestseller and won the William Hill award against very strong competition. ref http www.williamhillmedia.com sportsbook index.asp William Hill Sports Book of the Year website ref After winning the 18,000 first prize, Hamilton wrote a column for the Yorkshire Post , where he currently works as a deputy editor, expressing his surprise and delight at the book s success. Hamilton won a second William Hill Sports Book of the Year award in 2009 for Harold Larwood , his biography of the fast bowler Harold Larwood , made famous by the B ... more details
File Oratorio dei Filippini Rome.jpg thumb tight upright 1.7 The facade of the oratory File Borromini Drawing 01.jpg thumb upright 1.3 The facade the oratory 1720 engraving File Oratorio dei Filippini clock tower.jpg thumb upright 0.9 The turret with a clock, by Borromini. The Oratorio dei Filippini Oratory of Saint Phillip Neri is a building located in Rome and erected between 1637 and 1650 by Francesco Borromini . He belonged to the Congregation of the Oratory , founded by Philip Neri in 1561. It was there that, in 1600, Emilio de Cavalieri s La rappresentazione di anima e di corpo , regarded as one of the first examples of the genre of the oratorio , was given for the first time. The oratory of Filippini is adjacent to the Chiesa Nuova , the mother church of the congregation. In front of the two sides was a small closed square, now integrated in the Corso Vittorio Emanuele II. History The congregation of the Filippini already had one of the most well decorated Baroque churches in Rome, and the order, so enthralled by the piousness encouraged by music, had planned to build an oratory, as well as a residential quarters, adjacent to the church of Santa Maria in Vallicella Chiesa Nuova located in crowded central Rome. Borromini won a competition for designing the structure against many including Paolo Maruscelli . He was employed in the task for 13 years, often a testy process. By 1640, the oratory was in use, by 1643, the library was complete. Description The striking facade adjacent to the church entrance has little regard for the structures behind. Inside the oratory is articulated by half columns and a complex rhythm of pilasters. The facade provides a summary of Borromini s characteristics of innovations style, both austere and technically rigorous. The main body is divided into five parts by pilasters following a concave curve. In the central part, a dialectic set appears between the lower level, whose curve moves outward. At the top, the Tympanum architecture ... more details
infobox TV channel name TVP HD logofile logosize 250px launch 6 August 2008 owner Telewizja Polska country Poland former names sister names TVP1 br TVP2 br TVP Historia br TVP Info br TVP Kultura br TVP Polonia br TVP Seriale br TVP Sport share web http www.tvp.pl www.tvp.pl terr serv 1 terr chan 1 sat serv 1 Astra 1KR 19,2E sat chan 1 tp. 53 10,773 GHz, pol. H SR 22000 FEC 5 6 sat serv 2 Cyfrowy Polsat sat chan 2 Channel 112 sat serv 3 Cyfra sat chan 3 Channel 12 sat serv 4 n Poland n sat chan 4 Channel 5 sat serv 5 Telekomunikacja Polska Neostrada TP with television sat chan 5 Channel 11 cable serv 1 UPC Poland cable chan 1 Channel 3 update date September 2008 TVP HD is a special High definition television High Definition version of the Poland Polish public broadcasting channels Telewizja Polska . A digital terrestrial Multiplex TV multiplex carrying the channel was available in Warsaw , Pozna , Zielona G ra , aga , Krak w , Le ajsk and Krosno from the 6 to 25 August 2008. Broadcast is 1080i video encoded with H.264 MPEG4 H.264 . It will also be encrypted on Satellite Astra 1KR at Astra 19.2 E 19.2 east , with 18 hours of daily HD content. During the 2008 Summer Olympics Olympic Games , the signal replaced TVP Polonia , TVP Historia and TVP Kultura . External links Official http www.tvp.pl hd http www.lyngsat address.com tt TVP HD.html TVP HD at LyngSat Address http www.broadbandtvnews.com ?p 5200 TVP unveils Olympic DTT HD plans Broadband TV News http media2.pl media 37176 tvp hd z naziemnych nadajnikow.html TVP HD z naziemnych nadajnik w polish http www.broadbandtvnews.com ?p 4820 TVP Encrypted on Astra http satkurier.pl news 41638 niekodowane testy tvp hd z astry.html TVP HD broadcast trials Astra polish References reflist 2 TVP Television in Poland Category Polish television networks Category Television channels and stations established in 2008 poland tv station stub de TVP HD pl TVP HD ... more details
This is a list of some notable current and former American copy editors . main Copy editing Beryl Adcock , copy desk chief of McClatchy Newspapers Washington bureau Theodore M. Bernstein , former editor of the New York Times and author of The Careful Writer , Watch Your Language and several other books on grammar and usage Sue Blair , retired copy desk chief of Time magazine and member of the American Copy Editors Society executive board Phillip Blanchard , copy editor at The Washington Post and founder of Testy Copy Editors http www.testycopyeditors.org Bill Cloud , who runs the mid career institute for copy editors at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Alex Cruden , chief editor of the copy desks at Detroit Free Press William G. Connolly , co author of The New York Times Manual of Style and Usage and member of the American Copy Editors Society executive board Hank Glamann , two time winner of the John Murphy Award for Excellence in Copy Editing and co founder of the American Copy Editors Society Rich Holden , executive director of the Dow Jones Newspaper Fund Fact date February 2007 Gerald Tim Lynch , winner of the 2006 Robinson Prize for Excellence in Copy Editing from ACES and copy editor at the Los Angeles Times Tom Mangan , copy editor at the San Jose Mercury News who blog ged on copy editing issues at http tommangan.net printsthechaff Prints The Chaff Mindy McAdams , early Web developer for The Washington Post Melissa McCoy , deputy managing editor, in charge of copy desks and design, at the Los Angeles Times John McIntyre copyeditor John McIntyre assistant managing editor for the copy desk at The Baltimore Sun , a past president of the American Copy Editors Society and author of the blog http weblogs.baltimoresun.com news mcintyre blog You Don t Say Merrill Perlman , director of The New York Times copy desks and professor at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism Pam Robinson , co founder and first president of the American Copy E ... more details
Image Fergus Suter.jpg thumb 250px right Fergus Suter, Blackburn Rovers full back, from 1880 to 1889 Fergus Suter or Fergie Suter born Glasgow , 1858. Died Blackpool , 1916 was a former stonemason and football soccer footballer in the early days of the game in the United Kingdom during the 19th century. Arguably the first recognised professional footballer, Suter was a native of Glasgow , Scotland , and played for Partick Thistle F.C. Partick Thistle and Rangers F.C. before moving to England to play for Darwen F.C. and Blackburn Rovers F.C. Blackburn Rovers . His first moves below the border into English football were with Partick Thistle, and on 1 January 1878 he played for them against Darwen F.C. at Barley Bank, and against Blackburn Rovers at Alexandra Meadows the following day. That same year he began to play for the Lancashire club Darwen. Although the game was officially amateur at the time, Suter s move to England to play for Darwen in 1879 was shortly followed by him giving up his job as a stonemason, claiming that English stone was far too difficult to work, and fuelling criticism that he was being paid to play. During the summer of 1880 he caused still more controversy by moving to Blackburn Rovers, a local rival of Darwen. The move again stirred up accusations of professionalism amid claims that Blackburn had offered him improved terms. Suter s move inflamed an already testy local rivalry, and bitter games and crowd trouble dogged future Darwen Blackburn matches for years. His career was all but over by the time the Football League formed in 1888. He made only one appearance for Blackburn Rovers in that competition, on 22 December 1888 against West Bromwich Albion F.C. West Bromwich Albion as a replacement for the goalkeeper Herbie Arthur . He appeared in a total of four FA Cup finals, and collected three winner s medals. According to the 1891 census, Fergus, now 33, had returned to playing rugby. In later life he ran the Millstone Hotel in Darwen, and d ... more details
Thoreauviana expanded Core The Service is an essay written in 1840 by Henry David Thoreau . He submitted it to The Dial for publication, but they declined to print it. It was not published until after Thoreau s death. The essay uses war and military discipline as metaphor s that, as Thoreau would have it, can instruct us in how to order and conduct our lives. Themes The Service is in part a contrarian swipe at the many pacifist writers and lecturers whose teachings on nonresistance were then very much in vogue, in part thanks to Christian anarchist and pacifist Adin Ballou who spoke on the subject at the Concord Lyceum on occasion and who founded the New England Non Resistance Society of which William Lloyd Garrison was also a leader, and a Lyceum speaker as well . Thoreau debated the subject Is it ever proper to offer forcible resistance? in a formal Lyceum debate arguing the affirmative in 1841, and surviving records of the Lyceum note that the subject came up many times in debates, discussions, and lectures. Thoreau s own views were very much influenced by these non resistants, and are often confused with them even today. When Amos Bronson Alcott resisted his taxes to protest war and slavery, three years before Thoreau would resist his taxes over the same issues, Alcott s action was explained within the context of non resistant philosophy. When Thoreau explained his own tax resistance, he took pains to distinguish his theory from theirs, titling his essay Resistance to Civil Government . In The Service , Thoreau tosses barbs at the non resistance preachers, warning his readers that pacifism can be a temptation to passivity blockquote p Better that we have some of that testy spirit of knight errantry, and if we are so blind as to think the world is not rich enough nowadays to afford a real foe to combat, with our trusty swords and double handed maces, hew and mangle some unreal phantom of the brain. In the pale and shivering fogs of the morning, gathering them up ... more details
Andrew Jackson Grigsby November 2, 1819 &ndash December 23, 1895 was a Confederate States Army officer in the famed Stonewall Brigade during the American Civil War . Grigsby was also known as both A. J. Grigsby and Arnold J. Grigsby . Grigsby was born in Rockbridge County, Virginia . He attended Washington College later, Washington & Lee University . He became a farmer and served in the Mexican American War Mexican War . When the Civil War erupted, he became a Major United States major in the 27th Virginia Infantry in the Stonewall Brigade in 1861, Lieutenant colonel United States lieutenant colonel later that year, and Colonel United States colonel in 1862. He succeeded John Echols in these higher ranks. Grigsby served under Stonewall Jackson in the Valley Campaign , fighting at the First Battle of Winchester . Then, he served under Jackson in the Seven Days Battles and Second Bull Run , being slightly wounded in the latter. Grigsby was wounded on several occasions. He led the Stonewall Brigade from August 30, 1862, to November 6, 1862, including at the Battle of Antietam , in place of Brigadier General CSA Brig. Gen. Charles S. Winder . He became acting commander of Jackson s Division during the battle when Brig. Gen. John R. Jones was wounded and Brig. Gen. William E. Starke was killed. He was brevetted Brigadier General CSA Brig. Gen. and so served, but was apparently never confirmed. Afterwards Stonewall Jackson decided not to promote Grigsby to permanent command of the Stonewall Brigade, and the colonel resigned his commission in protest when Elisha F. Paxton of Jackson s staff was promoted in his stead. One theory why Grigsby was passed over for promotion was his use of profane language, which displeased the devout and sober Jackson. Grigsby tendered his resignation in protest. Paxton was killed by a minnie ball round, on May 3, 1863 while preparing to attack the Union Army at Chancellorsville. Grigsby is reported to have had a testy encounter with Jefferson ... more details
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