Big Ball Research Articles

The Relationship of Running Agility and Speed with the Ability to Dribble the Student Participants in the Extracurricular Futsal Activities

Futsal is one of the many games favored by people in all parts of the world. Those who play this kind of big ball sport have a special preoccupation. Many futsal tournaments are held in regions, from student level to club level. This is of course a great opportunity for sports lovers in general and futsal in particular. Apart from clubs, futsal is also very popular among students ranging from elementary, junior high, high school to tertiary institutions in Indonesia, especially in the Palembang area. The purpose of this study is to determine the relationship of agility and running speed to the ability to dribble students extracurricular participants futsal Public Junior High School, the method used is the correlation, and the sample amounted to 20 men who follow extracurricular students. Data analysis used is simple correlation analysis for each independent variable with related variables, whereas for together with double correlation of research result between variable X1 with Y obtained rhitung = 0,586> rtabel 0,444 then H0 rejected and Ha accepted, variable X2 and Y obtained rhitung = 0.792> rtabel 0.444 then H0 rejected and Ha accepted, and variables X1, X2 with Y obtained rhitung = 0.817> rtabel 0.444 then H0 rejected and Ha accepted and value Fhitung = 17,044> Ftabel 3.59 means H0 rejected and Ha accepted. Because the three variables show a positive direction, it can be concluded that there is a relationship between agility and running speed to the ability to dribble students extracurricular participants futsal Junior High School.

The Obstacle Problem at Zero for the Fractional p-Laplacian

In this paper we establish a multiplicity result for a class of unilateral, nonlinear, nonlocal problems with nonsmooth potential (variational-hemivariational inequalities), using the degree map of multivalued perturbations of fractional nonlinear operators of monotone type, the fact that the degree at a local minimizer of the corresponding Euler functional is equal one, and controlling the degree at small balls and at big balls.

Impact of ball-milling of carbide-derived carbons on the generation of hydrogen peroxide via electroreduction of oxygen in alkaline media

Ball-milling is an effective method to decrease the size of carbide-derived carbon (CDC) grains, but milling might also affect other properties of CDC materials including but not limited to specific surface area (SSA), porosity, elemental composition and electrochemical properties. Thus, the goal of this work is to ball-mill various CDCs synthesised from silicon or titanium carbides and explore the effect of milling conditions on their physico-chemical and electrochemical properties. N 2 physisorption studies reveal that small ZrO 2 beads (0.5 mm in diameter) affect the SSA much less than bigger balls (5 mm in diameter) and the total porosity increases in the milled CDCs as compared to the initial microporous CDC materials referring to the formation of mesopores. Scanning electron microscopy (SEM) studies show that the morphology of the ground CDCs resembles that of submicron carbon powder. Slight changes regarding the total content of oxygen-containing groups on CDCs after grinding was confirmed by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS). No significant change was observed between the activity of the initial and ball-milled CDCs towards the oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) in alkaline media by rotating ring-disc electrode (RRDE) method. The ORR on CDCs proceed via 2 + 2e − mechanism: O 2 reduction to HO 2 − followed by further electroreduction of HO 2 − to OH − . • Ball-milling with small beads (0.5 mm) have drastic impact on the CDC's morphology. • High specific surface area of CDC materials is maintained if small beads are used. • The electrocatalytic ORR activity slightly improved after ball-milling of CDCs. • Pristine and ball-milled CDCs produce high yield of HO 2 − at low overpotentials.

Effects of Ball Size Distribution and Mill Speed and Their Interactions on Ball Milling Using DEM

ABSTRACT A comprehensive investigation was conducted to delineate the effect of ball size distribution, mill speed, and their interactions on power draw, charge motion, and balls segregation in a laboratory-scale mill. The mill was simulated at different critical speeds with different mill fillings. In total, 165 scenarios were simulated. When the mills charge comprising 60% of small balls and 40% of big balls, mill speed has the greatest influence on power consumption. When the mill charge is more homogeneous size, the effect of ball segregation is less and so the power consumption of the mill will be less affected. The shoulder angle compared to the toe angle is more affected by the increase in mill speed. The small balls move to the outer layer of the ball charge and interrupt the contact of big balls with the mill liners and lifters and preventing them from rising and their presence in the cataracting regime and this is exacerbated when the small ball fraction increase. The big balls mostly appear in the cascading flow region, and then more involved in the attrition breakage mechanism, and this is exacerbated when the mill speed increase.

Ur-Technical Debt

These days, everyone uses the term technical debt. It's so prevalent that we shorten it to tech debt tech debt or even just TD. Tech debt is also hacky code, code written by novices, code written without consideration of software architecture (so-called big balls of mud), and code with antipatterns flagged by static analysis tools.

How Does Universal Gravitation Arise

Great principles are simple, and looking for the essence of physics requires us to trace the roots. Binary can be arranged to combine our information world, then would the three elementary particles [1] to form the periodic table of elements? Without giving them additional attributes (such as electricity, magnetism, gravity, etc.), would they further arranged this world? This paper proved the existence of a new particle through three physical experiments. The mass of this new particle is only 10-20 of the electron, and it is named Yizi. Through the discovery of Yizi, we will reveal the cause of gravitation and expound the essence of force. Experiment 1: The gravitational force between two objects is not only related to their masses but also their ambient temperature. The force between two objects is mutually exclusive when their temperature is lower than ambient. Experiment 2: Change the temperature of the big metal ball on the gravitation torsion scale, keeping the temperature of the small metal ball unchanged, and observe the force of the big ball on the small ball. Experiment 3: Under constant temperature and vacuum conditions, the temperature of an object is related to its mass. The greater its mass the higher its temperature.

Can I Choose a Throwable Object for You? Perceiving Affordances for Other Individuals.

Throwing is an important motor skill for human survival and societal development. It has been shown that throwers could select throwable balls for themselves and ball throwability was determined by its size and weight. In this study, we investigated whether throwers could perceive ball throwability for other throwers (experimental confederates) and whether the perceived throwability for others also followed a size-weight relation. Like other types of affordances, throwability entails a scaling between the thrower and the throwing object. This requires knowledge about the thrower and the object. In this study, knowledge about the objects was gained by hefting balls of various sizes and weights; knowledge about the throwers was gained by interacting with throwers in person (Experiment 1) and by viewing videos of confederates throwing (containing kinematic and anthropometric information) or photographs of the confederates standing (containing anthropometric information; Experiment 2). By comparing observers’ perceived throwability for others using various materials, we attempted to uncover whether scaling of throwability was based on kinematic or anthropometric information. In this study, participants ranked throwability of balls of various sizes and weights for confederates of different sexes and fitness levels. In all experimental conditions, observers’ ranking and confederates’ actual throwing performances yielded linear relationships with slopes close to 1 and moderate to high r2 values. These suggested that participants were able to accurately perceive throwability and choose throwable balls for the confederates. The throwable balls followed a size-weight relation, where bigger balls had to weigh more to be perceived as throwable as smaller balls. Furthermore, there was no difference between throwability perception based on in-person interaction, watching videos of confederates throwing and seeing pictures of the confederates standing. This suggested that the scaling of throwability was likely to be based on anthropometric information. These results enriched our understanding of whether one could perceive the action opportunities for others, and extended the canonical Gibsonian concept of affordance to a social setting and thus could be important for understanding team coordination in sports and interpersonal action collaboration in general.

The sosialitation of dinamic

Basketball in Bangkalan Regency is still constrained in its development, especially at an early age level. At the early age level elementary schools become one of the agencies expected to play a high role in their development through both intracuricular and extracurricular activities in accordance with applicable curriculum regulations. In fact, none of the primary schools in Bangkalan Regency have a standard or minimum basketball court that suits the needs of young children in recognizing basketball games as stated in the basic competencies of big ball games. Conventional strategies used by teachers and sports extracurricular coaches in primary schools have resulted in monotonous and boring training models or basketball learning as suggested by the partners, namely PERBASI Bangkalan Regency. Through a small game of basketball it is hoped that it can be integrated with the introduction of basketball in early childhood in elementary school even with limited facilities and infrastructure as well as providing the latest knowledge in dynamic streching in early childhood in the form of active and passive heating that can be applied in introducing basketball to early childhood at the elementary school level. A total of 5 small basketball games, namely Tiggy line, Dribble Knockout, Team Dribble Relays (Speed ​​Dribble & Ball Handling), 4 Pass to Score, Bull in the ring. The five types of small games in Dynamic Streching for early childhood are expected to be a way out to be able to introduce basketball to early childhood in elementary school with a pleasant variation so as to avoid boredom students.
 
 Keywords: Socialization, Streching, Small Game, Basketball, Early Childhood, Elementary School.

Expert opinion on metal chains and other indestructible objects as proper enrichment for intensively-farmed pigs.

EC Directive 2001/93 requires that all pigs have access to proper investigation and manipulation materials. Intensively farmed pigs in Europe are frequently provided with a short metal chain with or without an indestructible object attached to the chain. To date authorities are regarding this as proper enrichment, perhaps with (in)direct reference to the RICHPIG model as a justification. However, it has become increasingly clear that the chains do not provide proper enrichment, and that adding an indestructible object to the end of the chain may even reduce rather than improve pig welfare. To test this hypothesis an expert survey was conducted containing 26 more or less compound questions. On a scale from 0 to 10 experts specified their level of agreement with the hypothesis, the prevalence and welfare scores of nine indestructible enrichment materials. In total 36 experts, mostly pig-welfare scientists, responded (response rate: 39%). Indestructible objects are less prevalent in countries that provide straw (like Sweden and the UK) and outside the EU (US). They are more prevalent in the Netherlands, Belgium, France and Finland, while the prevalence seems to be low in Spain. Balls, wood and pipes were provided most frequently: hard wood especially in the UK (as specified in farm assurance); indestructible balls and pipes in Germany and the Netherlands. The experts’ score for agreement with the hypothesis was only 4.6 on average (scale 0–10; n = 25). Enrichment materials, ranked from high to low welfare score, were grouped in 5 significance levels as indicated by different superscripts based on Wilcoxon signed rank tests: Branched chains (5.1a), Chain on the floor (4.4b), Hard wood (3.7bc), Pipe (3.5c), Bare chain (3.3c), Short chain (3.1d), Small ball (2.8d), Big ball (2.5d), and Chain hanging too high (1.3e). Branched chains scored significantly better than all other indestructible materials and its welfare score (5.1 on average) was close to the pre-defined level of acceptability (5.5 on a scale from 0, worst, to 10, best). The welfare benefits of adding balls, pipes or hard wood to the metal chain were marginal, and well below what the experts considered acceptable enrichment. The branched-chains design, by contrast, appears to be the most viable alternative. It involves providing a longer chain, i.e. with the free end reaching to floor level, adding ‘branches’, i.e. several short chains ending at the nose height of the pigs, and providing more chains per pen (i.e. 1 branched chain per 5 pigs). Branched chains should be implemented widely and in the short term as a first step towards, and benchmark for, providing proper enrichment to intensively-farmed pigs.

FARTLEK TRAINING LEBIH MENINGKATKAN DAYA TAHAN KARDIOVASKULER DARI PADA INTERVAL TRAINING PADA SISWA PUTRA PESERTA EKSTRAKURIKULER BOLA BASKET SMA NEGERI 1 SUKAWATI

ABSTRACTBasketball is a big ball game that requires well cardiovascular endurance. Cardiovasculer endurance can be improved using interval training and fartlek training. This study aimed to determine the effect of interval training and fartlek training on cardiovascular endurance improvement. The study was a experimental that use randomized pretest posttest design group control that does in SMA Negeri 1 Sukawati. The sample of study was students of extracurricular basketball SMA Negeri 1 Sukawati, which were 22 students that divided into 2 groups. Both groups were given different training during 6 weeks with training frequency three times a week for one and a half months. The first group was given interval training and the second group was given fartlek training. Cardiovascular endurance was measured with a multistage fitness test (MFT). The result showed the mean of cardiovascular endurance between the groups after training was 41.66 ± 2.733 ml / kg / minute in the interval training group and was 48.92 ± 2.385 ml / kg / minute in the fartlek group. The cardiovascular endurance between both groups was significantly different (p<0.05), meaningful and have improvement. The conclusion is the interval training and fartlek training are able to improve cardiovascular endurance, however fartlek training is better than interval training in improving cardiovascular endurance. Therefore, it is advisable to use fartlek training to improve cardiovascular endurance for basketball players.Keywords: cardiovascular endurance, fartlek training, interval training

MENINGKATKAN KEMAMPUAN MOTORIK KASAR ANAK USIA 5-6 TAHUN MELALUI PERMAINAN BOLA BESAR DI TK ISLAM NUSANTARA

Rough motor skills are the ability of the body to use large muscles, which involves the whole body such as the muscle activity of the hands and feet in locomotor, non locomotor and manipulative action. One of the activities that can be used is through big ball game.Based on the result of pre-research analysis, the percentage of gross motor ability of children is 27%, cycle 1 is 41%, while at the end of cycle 2 the percentage of gross motor ability improvement of children is 97%. This research is shown to be seen from the change of motor ability of roughly very good class in cycle 2. It can be seen that children are already able to develop rough motor movement through various media with balance, flexibility, children able to train the muscles of the hands and feet, the coordination of foot and eyes, and hand and eye coordination. In the process of learning, children now look very enthusiastic. As has been stated in the interpretation of the results of analysis that this research is said to succeed if there is a minimum increase of 75%. So at the end of this 2nd cycle of research is said to be very successful because the percentage of increase obtained to 97%. This exceeds the minimum limit set by researchers and collaborators. Based on these data, it can be concluded that the rough motor skills of children aged 5-6 years in Islamic Nursery Kindergarten by using a large ball game increased and the results of the process of great ball game improvement is very good.

PEMANFAATAN LINGKUNGAN SEBAGAI MEDIA PEMBELAJARAN OLEH GURU PENJASORKES SEKOLAH MENENGAH PERTAMA DI DAERAH PESISIR KABUPATEN KEBUMEN

The purpose of this research is to know the types and ways to utilize the environment as a medium of learning by junior high school teachers in the coastal area of Kebumen Regency. This research method using qualitative research approach with data technique using interview technique, observation, and documentation. The subjects of this study consist of 7 junior secondary schools in coastal areas consisting of SMP Negeri 1 Mirit, SMP Negeri 1 Ambal, SMP Negeri 2 Ambal, SMP PGRI 1 Ambal, SMP Negeri 1 Petanahan and SMP Negeri 1 Ayah and SMP Negeri 2 Ayah. The research instrument uses interview guides and photo documentation. The results of environmental research are used as a place of learning in the coastal area Kebumen District, village buildings, beaches, and roads around the school. The environment used as learning media for penjasorkes consists of paper assignment, modification of ball from coconut husk, perforated vessel made from used bucket, paint bucket cover and wood board for supporting learning. The conclusion of this research is the teacher of the coastal area surveyor Kebumen uses various ways to utilize the environment as a place of learning and learning media such as field to learn big ball game and small ball game, while beach and school access road for learning athletics

Numerical analysis of the use of clustering balls in spinning-pressing-forming a curved surface

In this paper, the spinning-pressing-forming (SPF) method is employed to form a curved surface with smooth curvature. The principle of SPF is presented briefly. Finite element models are built to simulate different forming procedures, including clustering balls spinning after pressing (SAFP), spinning and pressing (SADP), and SPF with different diameters’ balls such as big balls (diameter 5 mm), mixed balls (diameters 2.5 and 5 mm), as well as small balls (diameter 2.5 mm). Effects of diameters, loading time, and number of turns are studied through stress and strain, and correlative experiments are done. The conclusions drawn are the following: (1) the average von Mises stress of SAFP is greater and more even than that of SADP, and the average strain of SAFP is higher than that of SADP, indicating that SAFP with greater von Mises stress and higher strain is better for sheet plastic deformed than SADP. (2) Extending spinning time is more effective than extending pressing as revealed by comparison of stress and strain distributions. With increasing number of turns, much stress is released, and plastic strain is improved, which is better for forming. The experimental results are similar to numerical simulation results. Although the three forming processes exhibit differences, the results of thickness thinning have similar trends.

Self-similarity, positive Lebesgue measure and nonempty interior

In this paper, we introduce BBI spaces (“big balls of itself”), which based on the notion of BPI spaces (“big pieces of itself”) used by David and Semmes to study self-similarity. We prove that the “self-similar” construction described by BBI spaces ensures the equivalence of positive Lebesgue measure and nonempty interior. We apply this result to self-conformal sets satisfying the WSC and prove that positive Lebesgue measure implies nonempty interior for such sets. This generalizes Zerner's corresponding result for self-similar sets.

The Utilization of the Environment as a Medium Instruction by Physical Education Teacher in the Coastal

The purpose of this research is to know the types and ways to utilize the environment as a medium of learning from junior high school teachers in the coastal area of Kebumen Regency. This research method using qualitative research approach with data technique using interview technique, observation, and documentation.The research instrument uses interview guides and photo documentation. The results of environmental research are used as a place of learning in the coastal area Kebumen District, village buildings, beaches, and roads around the school. The environment used as learning media for Physical Education consists of paper assignment, modification of ball from coconut husk, perforated vessel made from used bucket, paint bucket cover and wood board for supporting learning. The conclusion of this research is the teacher of the coastal area surveyed Kebumen uses various ways to utilize the environment as a place of learning and learning media such as field to learn the big ball game and small ball game, while beach and school access road to learning athletics.

Determining the mass of gas in large collection volumes with acoustic and microwave resonances

We characterized a 1.8 m3, quasi-spherical resonator, a pressure vessel informally known as the “big blue ball” or “BBB.” The BBB will be the collection volume of a NIST-designed gas-flow standard that will operate at pressures up to 7 MPa. Using microwave resonance frequencies, we determined the volume of the BBB filled with argon as a function of pressure (up to 7 MPa) and temperature (near ambient). The measured pressure- and temperature-dependences of the BBB’s volume are consistent with the published properties of carbon steels. We filled the BBB with 220 kg of argon in weighed increments of approximately 20 kg. We also determined the mass macoust of argon in the BBB by measuring the pressure, the acoustic resonance frequencies facoust of 3 modes, and using the known thermophysical properties of argon. The values of macoust were within ±0.03 % of the gravimetrically determined masses. In a typical application, the BBB will never be isothermal. Nevertheless, the acoustic resonance frequencies quickly and accurately determine the average temperature and mass of the gas in the BBB despite significant, long-lived thermal gradients that are created by pressure changes. A theoretical model for effect of temperature gradients on the acoustic resonance frequencies is presented.

DEVELOPMENT OF INTERACTIVE MULTIMEDIA-BASED GYMNASTICS FLOOR TECHNIQUES LEARNING MODEL FOR JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS

Based on preliminary observations conducted on teachers and students of SMP Negeri in Malang Regency: (1) students can not and do not like the material gymnastics floor, and tend to like the material of big ball game (92%); (2) students state that educators have never done teaching with media in the form of interactive multimedia, 100%; and (3) students agree when done an development of interactive multimedia media for learning basic technique of gymnastic floor 100%. The purpose of this research and development is to develop an effective model of basic techniques of floor gymnastics for junior high school students using interactive multimedia. In this study is using development research methods from Borg and Gall (1983: 775), and researchers did not use the whole but only using 7 steps. The 7 steps chosen by the researchers are as follows: (1) collecting information, (2) initial product design, (3) expert evaluation, (4) trial in phase I , (5) product revision (6) trials in phase II, (7) revisions and final products. Based on the result of data analysis of the evaluation of the learning expert is very valid, the evaluation of expert gymnastics is very valid, the evaluation of media expert is very valid. From the data analysis result of small group trial is valid enough (73,1% ), while large group trial is very valid (85,75%), thus it can be concluded that the development of interactive multimedia-based floor gymnastic basic technique for junior high school student can be used..
 Keywords: Development, learning, gymnastics floor, interactive multimedia

DEVELOPMENT OF INTERACTIVE MULTIMEDIA-BASED GYMNASTICS FLOOR TECHNIQUES LEARNING MODEL FOR JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS


 Abstract
 
 
 Based on preliminary observations conducted on teachers and students of SMP Negeri in Malang Regency: (1) students can not and do not like the material gymnastics floor, and tend to like the material of big ball game (92%); (2) students state that educators have never done teaching with media in the form of interactive multimedia, 100%; and (3) students agree when done an development of interactive multimedia media for learning basic technique of gymnastic floor 100%. The purpose of this research and development is to develop an effective model of basic techniques of floor gymnastics for junior high school students using interactive multimedia. In this study is using development research methods from Borg and Gall (1983: 775), and researchers did not use the whole but only using 7 steps. The 7 steps chosen by the researchers are as follows: (1) collecting information, (2) initial product design, (3) expert evaluation, (4) trial in phase I , (5) product revision (6) trials in phase II, (7) revisions and final products. Based on the result of data analysis of the evaluation of the learning expert is very valid, the evaluation of expert gymnastics is very valid, the evaluation of media expert is very valid. From the data analysis result of small group trial is valid enough (73,1% ), while large group trial is very valid (85,75%), thus it can be concluded that the development of interactive multimedia-based floor gymnastic basic technique for junior high school student can be used.
 
 
 Keywords: development, learning, gymnastics floor, interactive multimedia

The Implementation of VOBAS Game Modification to Critical Thinking Ability in Senior High School Students

The purpose of this study is to determine the effect of implementation VOBAS game modification on critical thinking ability of students in big ball game. The method used in this study is experimental design with one group pretest-posttest design. The experiment was conducted in high school with thirty number of sample from grade X (ten) by cluster random sampling. The study passed off twelve sessions for four weeks with three times a week. Critical thinking ability is measured by using written tests of critical thinking ability with using non - parametric statistical analysis Wilcoxon test for data analysis method. The result of this research indicates no increase in critical thinking skills on a big ball game on the implementation of VOBAS game modification. The initial condition of students should be knowing and control. Implication for further research, should be involving control group and moderator variable, and maybe using a variety teaching strategies.

Introduction to "Encyclopedia Joyce": On Being Very Big

Introduction to "Encyclopedia Joyce":On Being Very Big James Blackwell Phelan (bio) and Kiron Ward (bio) Early in the schooldays of Stephen Dedalus, Joyce introduces him, and us, to the vicissitudes of totalizing thought. Studying his geography book, Stephen reflects on its description of the world and considers how humanity can be classified according to its nesting categories: "They were all in different countries and the countries were in continents and the continents were in the world and the world was in the universe" (P 15). In keeping with this, he has written in the book's flyleaf "himself, his name and where he was": Stephen Dedalus Class of Elements Clongowes Wood College Sallins County Kildare Ireland Europe The World The Universe (P 15) Stephen imagines the whole universe knowable and unified in a totalizing schema. It is a sort of encyclopedism: a complete, commensurable scale, consistent and articulable throughout, fixed in a form; the symptom of a system for transmitting knowledge of the world to the world. This special issue takes Joyce's engagement with such encyclopedic thinking and writing as its topic. Even this early in A Portrait, the outlines of a critique of encyclopedism are perceptible. Rereading "himself, his name and where he was," Stephen finds himself probing the limits of the encyclopedic picture of reality he has been taught: Then he read the flyleaf from the bottom to the top till he came to his own name. That was he: and he read down the page again. What was after the universe? Nothing. But was there anything round the universe to show where it stopped before the nothing place began? It could not be a wall but there could be a thin thin line there all round everything. It was very big to think about everything and everywhere. Only God could do that. [End Page 27] He tried to think what a big thought that must be but he could think only of God. (P 16) Only God is in a position to comprehend the totality of the world. That being so, Stephen must accept the formulation of totality he infers from his textbook and his teachers. In the impious and egotistic connotations of the repeated adjective "big" and his related inability to think of anything but God, Joyce figures how Stephen's youthful curiosity is bounded in its infancy. If it is "very big to think about everything and everywhere," then Stephen, who feels "small and weak" (P 8), must accept the idea of "everything and everywhere" taught to him by God's representatives on Earth. This is, of course, one of the kernels for Stephen's subsequent, and lifelong, rebellion—and here already, Joyce quietly lays bare the incoherence at the heart of what Stephen is taught. Upon deferring to God, he begins thinking about His names in other languages, before concluding "though there were different names for God in all the different languages in the world and God understood what all the people who prayed said in their different languages still God remained always the same God and God's real name was God" (P 16). In the encyclopedic framework into which Stephen is taught to fit the world, linguistic diversity is subordinated to a language that is more "real" than the others: English.1 How striking, then, that his friend Fleming has taken his geography book and colored the picture of the Earth on the first page—"a big ball in the middle of clouds" (P 15)—making it green and maroon, the colors Dante Riordan associates with Charles Stewart Parnell and Michael Davitt. Looking "wearily at the green round earth in the middle of the maroon clouds," Stephen wonders: which was right, to be for the green or for the maroon, because Dante had ripped the green velvet back off the brush that was for Parnell one day with her scissors and had told him that Parnell was a bad man. He wondered if they were arguing at home about that. That was called politics. There were two sides in it: Dante was on one side and his father and Mr Casey were on the other side but his mother and...