Mark C. Wallace

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I'm currently studying Tomiki Aikido under Dr. Yoji Kondo, although I started in Yoshinkan aikido under Helton-Sensei. I'm also studying Taiji under D. Gilmer at StillwaterTaichi I'm informally studying jo and bokken.

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2d	comment	Why were balls used on the Medici coat of arms? Yes Pills, he says, date back to roughly 1500 BC--and they were presumably invented so that measured amounts of a medicinal substance could be delivered to a patient.
May 22	comment	The Constitution of the United States: Background material for the original, esp. the Bill of Rights? I did my best to answer the history question; the rest is politics, and as I said, politics that bores me. I just did a quick google to see if I could find anythign to stimulate my memory on history. Wikipdedia is reasonable - has links to most of the other sources. Halbrook has an article that may be up your alley. Both sources are full of modern interpretations of the Founders intent.
May 22	comment	The Constitution of the United States: Background material for the original, esp. the Bill of Rights? They suppressed it because it enabled them to speak freely, and because the constitutional convention was technically treason - a meeting to replace the existing government with a new, different government. Just as an example, during the convention, Hamilton advocated that we replace the Articles of Confederation with a monarchy. Can you imagine his political career if that had gotten out?
May 22	comment	The effects of war on the workforce Checked with my girlfriend. She pointed out one interesting observation; there was a large shift of young women into the workforce - women who otherwise might have been in college or preparing for marriage. That may affect your conclusions.
May 22	comment	What role did British cartoonists play in the early 1800? No, not at all; cartoons have been a part of history for a long time A brief history of political cartoons
May 22	comment	What role did British cartoonists play in the early 1800? Do you have a reason to suspect that cartoonists played a different role in 1800 than they do today?
May 22	comment	Did the American Founders Debate on the Relative Size of the Government? Jefferson believed the federal government was too big, which is why he did his best to reduce it, shedding departments and responsibilities wherever he could. He was the original Minarch. Alas, I can't find any quick citations to support this. I suspect that you could find something in the records around the Philadelphia Mutiny - I recall that topic being discussed afterwards.
May 21	comment	The role of the two world wars in the evolution of Fordism @Arnaud is French, "Fordism" and "Regulation Theory" are French theories. I have no idea how well accepted they are outside France. I find French economics to be littered with assumptions that are alien and incomprehensible; they still seem to think that Marx has validity. I can't answer the question, but I think it is legitimate.
May 21	comment	The role of the two world wars in the evolution of Fordism Some citations would be very helpful in decoding this. Those unacquainted with fordism, Marxism and the Regulation school are likely to be confused by the question. Who said that fordism entered Europe during WWI? WHo said it was effective after WWII? Why are those two assertions incompatible? How is inequality and surproduction measured? What is the relationship between militarization and fordism?
May 21	comment	How does Argentina view the inhabitants of the Falklands? Could we focus this question on history? This strikes me as a better fit for politics, or world affairs or something.
May 20	comment	Was there discrimination against Jewish people at the entrance exams to the most prestigious universities in the USSR? I edited to remove passive voice, but it reveals a problem. The question asks whether there was discrimination; the body of the question asserts that discrimination was a documented fact. @Carlo_R., I think you're looking for independent confirmation of discrimination, but you could be looking for evidence of this particular type of discrimination. Can you clarify?
May 20	comment	Was there discrimination against Jewish people at the entrance exams to the most prestigious universities in the USSR? Thanks @Carlo_R. I upvoted and added the paper on Jewish Problems as a second source.
May 20	comment	Was there discrimination against Jewish people at the entrance exams to the most prestigious universities in the USSR? I think this question would be much clearer if the quote box were sourced.
May 20	comment	What is the origin of current indian brahmins If you could cite the results, it would help greatly.
May 20	comment	The effects of war on the workforce I'll defer to statistics and discuss it with my girlfriend. I'm skeptical that the number killed is a significant fraction of the total workforce. Prior to research, my hypothesis would be that the effect on workforce would be within the elasticity of the size of the workforce. Although the war will have an effect on the workforce, I would estimate that it would be fairly small.
May 20	comment	What is the origin of current indian brahmins Which resources do you find confusing? Brahmins are a class (Jati-varma) of scholars. They didn't invade anyone.
May 20	comment	Eastern and Southern Europe in the medieval time period? Nothing I said touches on Guelph/Ghibelline/party soldiers. OP said "I've never heard for example of Italian knights "; I merely agreed with you that prior to the invention of "Italy" in the 1870's, the knights would not have been "Italian" knights.
May 20	comment	The effects of war on the workforce Be careful and check those assumptions. As I said, my girlfriend's reasearch indicates that the increased female participation in the workforce has been vastly overstated. Women shifted from leisure and service sectors to industrial/military production sectors - but that was true of both geneders.
May 20	comment	Parable of the broken window and 1929 crisis (stack exchange chatrooms don't work for those of us with federated ID's. It requires a good half hour of work to get into a chat room)
May 20	comment	Eastern and Southern Europe in the medieval time period? You make a very important point - one of the chief reasons one doesn't hear about "Italian knights" is that there was no Italy. There were Venetian Knights, and participants from the Papal states, and the Kingdom of Sicily is well represented in the period. But there was no Italy until the 1870's. Well done.