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Developers for the Water Campus, Baton Rouge’s research hub that will bring together world-class scientists devoted to finding ways to restore and protect Louisiana’s shrinking coastline, recently selected Baton Rouge-based Coleman Partners Architects and global architect firm Perkins + Will to design its first building.
The companies were chosen from a group of four teams that presented to a selection committee, based their ability to express the overall mission of the Water Institute of The Gulf and embrace the Mississippi River as its leading design component, project budget, operational efficiencies, sustainable design that reflects the ecologically sensitive nature of the project and its unique site, officials said.
According to a statement, the selection panel consisted of architects, contractors, scientists, engineers, planners and chief executives of the Baton Rouge Area Foundation and Commercial Properties Realty Trust.
“It’s an honor for Coleman Partners Architects LLC/Perkins+Will to have been chose for this project. Not only will this project be transformative for the skyline of Baton Rouge, but this building will enhance the efforts of the Water Institute of the Gulf to meet its mission to research, restore and enhance our coastal environments” said Buddy Ragland, principal at Coleman Partners Architects LLC.”
The project initially emerged from the combined efforts of the state, the Baton Rouge Area Foundation, The Water Institute of the Gulf, the city-parish and Louisiana universities. Crews will begin construction later this year on the building, which will be headquarters for the Water Institute of the Gulf, and the research and interpretive center. The approximately 45,000-square-foot, $20 million structure will house exhibit areas, an interpretive gallery, offices, research labs and meeting and conference spaces. The building will sit on the dock, along the banks of the Mississippi River.
“The building on the dock will return Baton Rouge to the riverfront, extend the revival of downtown to the Nicholson corridor and be an emblem for the future of our region,” said John Davies, president and CEO of the Baton Rouge Area Foundation.
The two companies are currently designing other Baton Rouge area projects, including LSU’s School of Engineering Patrick Taylor Hall renovation and additions. |
A state judge Thursday rejected former Southern University System President Ralph Slaughter's claim against the school for past-due wages.
District Judge Tim Kelley ruled that Slaughter, who was seeking more than $100,000 in unpaid annual leave and sick leave, "is entitled to nothing" and said he was "shocked" by what he called Slaughter's abuse of authority and power while president.
Kelley also labeled Slaughter's trial testimony "the least credible" he has heard in his 13 years on the bench and added that a "very, very dark era" in the university's history passed when Slaughter left office June 30.
Before Slaughter left the school, Kelley said, he emptied his office and the president's suite at A.W. Mumford Stadium of "just about everything that wasn't nailed down" and even some things that were nailed to walls.
Slaughter and his attorney, Jill Craft, said Kelley's decision will be appealed. Craft said she was disappointed by the judge's "gratuitous comments."
"If you're going to make your decision, make your decision," she said outside the Governmental Building. Slaughter, who maintains he took from the university only those items he paid for, said he respects the judge's ruling and looks forward to the next step in the process at the state 1st Circuit Court of Appeal.
Lewis Unglesby, who represents the Southern University Board of Supervisors, said the judge hit the nail on the head.
"He (Slaughter) should have let it pass and not filed this suit," Unglesby said after court.
Slaughter's annual compensation while president of the Southern System was $468,000: a base salary of $220,000, a $36,000 housing allowance, a $12,000 vehicle allowance and a $200,000 salary supplement from the foundation.
Slaughter was president of the Southern system from April 2006 until the end of June. |
An NOPD officer whose police dog, Phantom, fell down an open elevator shaft and died while they worked a private detail, is scheduled for trial Friday on a charge of malfeasance in office.
Sgt. Randy Lewis, 47, elected to be tried by a judge, rather than a jury. He is facing up to five years in prison and a $5,000 fine if Criminal District Court Judge Ben Willard finds him guilty as charged.
Around 9:30 p.m. on May 21, 2009, Lewis, a former supervisor in the NOPD's K-9 unit, allegedly took his police dog on a private detail, sweeping the shuttered Charity Hospital for vagrants who'd taken up residence there. The dog fell from the 17th floor into an open, partially flooded elevator shaft.
The dog's body was recovered the following day.
Though Lewis was working a private detail, he allegedly claimed on a police incident report that he was on duty and involved in a training exercise. His attorney, Eric Hessler, claimed the error was an innocent omission that does not amount to a crime.
Lewis was charged in April 2010, along with another K-9 Officer Jason Lewis. The latter, who is not related to Randy Lewis, was charged with aggravated cruelty to animals after his Belgian Malinois,Primo, died from heat stroke after being left unattended in a patrol car.
Jason Lewis pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor animal cruelty count in September 2010 and received a six-month suspended sentence. He was also ordered to pay $11,500 in restitution for the dog and was fired from the department. A state appeals court reinstated him last May, saying it found no evidence that he was negligent.
But the deaths of the two dogs caused a public uproar, largely attributable to photographs released of the car upholstery that Primo, frantic, shredded while trying to escape from the car.
The Metropolitan Crime Commission investigated the pair of incidents and used the dog's death in the elevator to highlight abuse of the police detail system.
Rafael Goyeneche, the commission's president, noted at the time that K-9 dogs are considered to be their officers' partners, and he criticized Lewis for leaving Phantom at the bottom of the flooded elevator shaft until the next day.
"To leave him at the bottom of the pit strikes at the heart," he said after his investigation.
Hessler countered that the decision was made to retrieve the dog from the flooded shaft the following morning out of safety for the officers.
Lewis remains employed by the department on desk duty. His trial is scheduled to begin Friday morning. |
Lionel Richie, Mary J. Blige, Jill Scott, Charlie Wilson, Erykah Badu and Ledisi have joined the previously announced Prince on the main stage roster of the 2014 Essence Festival in the Mercedes-Benz Superdome. The 20th anniversary Essence Fest is July 3-6, 2014.
The secondary “superlounge” stages in the Superdome’s corridors will feature 112, Amel Larrieux, Doug E Fresh, Elle Varner, Eve, King, Leela James, Liv Warfield, Marsha Ambrosius, Naughty by Nature, Raheem Davaughn, Robert Glasper, Sebastian Mikael, Sevyn Streeter and Stephanie Mills. The superlounges will also host such homegrown New Orleans acts as PJ Morton -- who, like his father, Bishop Paul S. Morton, is nominated for a Grammy Award this year -- Kourtney Heart, Big Sam’s Funky Nation and the Original Pinettes Brass Band.
Radio personality Nephew Tommy will again emcee the main stage.
The free, daytime empowerment seminars in the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center will feature Rev. Al Sharpton, Steve Harvey, Iyanla Vanzant and a gospel tribute to Yolanda Adams.
With this roster, Essence has essentially cherry-picked favorite performers from the past decade or so of the festival. Richie was a highlight of the 2009 Essence, presiding over a mass singalong of his Commodores classics and solo hits. He was just as good in 2005.
Wilson has, for the past several Essence Fests, straddled the line between old-school and new-school with a crowd-pleasing mix of his Gap Band party anthems and more contemporary R&B.
Blige is a veteran of multiple Essence Fests, most recently the 2012 festival. She is an artist who speaks directly to the magazine’s themes of female empowerment.
Scott, too, is similarly potent. Her show last year was arguably the highlight of the 2013 festival. Badu, though absent from the Essence stage for several years, delivered some memorable sets in the 1990s and 2000s.
And New Orleans native Ledisi, who grew up Uptown and in the Hollygrove neighborhood before moving with her family to Oakland as a child, rocked her set at the 2012 festival. She’s also co-authored a book with the staff of Essence magazine.
Essence has not yet revealed the night-by-night schedule. Additional performers are expected to be announced. Tickets to the 2014 Essence Fest are on sale now at Essencefestival.com |
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Outdoor Leadership School Awarded Kresge Foundation Grant
Lander, Wyo. – The National Outdoor Leadership School(NOLS) has been awarded an important challenge grant from The Kresge Foundation. The grant of $500,000 was made to the NOLS International Base Camp Initiative. This five-year, $10 million capital campaign will establish a Lander campus to support NOLS operations worldwide. The campaign has two primary linked components – construction of an international headquarters building and the renovation of the historic Noble Hotel.
Based in Troy, Michigan, The Kresge Foundation was founded in 1924 and supports a range of national and international organizations representing almost the entire breadth of the nonprofit sector. The grant to NOLS was made through the Capital Challenge Grant program to build program facilities and challenge private giving.
NOLS will put these funds to good use through the renovation of the historic Noble Hotel in downtown Lander. Built in 1918 as a respite for travelers, the Noble Hotel has provided a home away from home for NOLS students and staff for over thirty years. The support of The Kresge Foundation will not only work to modernize a touchstone for the NOLS community, but will also help to restore a Wyoming landmark.
NOLS Executive Director John Gans had this to say about the award, “Receiving the Kresge grant is a huge vote of confidence in our organization and in this campaign. We know The Kresge Foundation does one of the most thorough checks of an organization’s integrity and stability, and we are very pleased to have the opportunity to challenge our donors with this incentive.”
The National Outdoor Leadership School, a non-profit organization, is the leader in wilderness education. For forty years NOLS has offered courses in the world’s most spectacular classrooms. Through courses from two-weeks to three months, NOLS teaches leadership skills, wilderness skills and environmental studies to motivated students of all ages. |
Tips to Follow So Your Volunteer Management Plan Doesn’t Crash
Few things are scarier than a sixteen-year-old learning to drive. And it’s particularly scary when they get a car before their driver’s license.
Managing volunteers for your nonprofit may be much the same. Having a car doesn’t necessarily mean you know how to drive it. And having volunteers doesn’t mean your volunteer management team knows how to lead them. Follow the link below for a thorough guide on expertly managing your nonprofit volunteers.
Don’t Assume [The Nonprofit Times] |
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Northeastern postdoctoral researcher Asanterabi Malima, PhD’13, received the Entrepreneurial Award during Massachusetts’ celebration of Africa Week in recognition of his founding a biotech firm and developing a device that enables early, low-cost disease detection.
Post-doctoral researcher Chris Skipwith has received two prestigious fellowships to develop nanosensors that detect serotonin and other small molecules in order to gain a better understanding of their role in cardiovascular disease.
Research from University Distinguished Professor Lisa Feldman Barrett’s lab confirms what singers and filmmakers have known all along: Love is a drug. It affects our behaviors—and our brains—in the same ways as addiction.
In Tunisia, a doctoral student studying the social movements of 1968 has perfect timing — a new social revolution allowing people to express themselves freely has opened fertile ground for his research. |
NorthShore Medical Group
Board Certified Adult Nurse Practitioner
- Bachelor of Science in Nursing: University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Master of Science in Nursing: Rush University
Barb Guido is a licensed advanced practice nurse and board certified nurse practitioner who collaborates with the breast health team to provide care for patients with breast health issues. She coordinates the High Risk Breast Clinic at NorthShore and provides a comprehensive breast evaluation for women to determine their risk for developing breast cancer. She provides a personalized risk assessment and breast health care plan that helps women define and manage their personal risk of breast cancer. She works closely with a multidisciplinary team including physicians, radiologists, and genetic counselors and coordinates any needed referrals to specialists. Patient education regarding breast cancer risk factor reduction is a key component of Barb’s practice.
In addition to her clinical practice, Barb Guido has published multiple articles in peer reviewed journals and served as a preceptor for many graduate nursing students attending universities in the Chicago area. |
Check out the Music!
Michael's site has a selection
of the best of the music winemakers listen to while making
Loud and Rauccous -
Winemaking at Sineann
Sineann's Big Reds are made to
the strains of Frank Zappa
It was day two on the bottling line for Jezebel, the
wine label by Peter Rosback of Sineann and Aron
Hess of Daedalus
The thundering bass notes of ‘Morning Dew’ rumbled over
the din of the rattling bottles and hissing argon gas purging oxygen
of just filled bottles of wine. We’d listened to Rosback favorite Frank
day before so now it was the Grateful
Aron Hess, a confirmed Deadhead, was in charge of both the bottling
line and boom box. The bottling crew was getting an earful
of the Dead’s June 10, 1973 concert at the RFK Stadium in Washington
DC, a memorable concert in a year of incredible shows.
time at Sineann is a rockin’ musical affair. The house system
is moved out of the barrel room to the sorting line during crush.
Like most wineries at harvest time, a half a dozen crush crew helpers
converge with CD wallets in hand making for a heady sonic mélange.
music has to be turned up pretty loud to be heard over the roar
of the destemmer and whirring of the fork lift truck. The
winery is located at the top of the Chehalem Mountains, with all
of Yamhill County at its feet, so noise levels are rarely an issue.
When 8 tons of old vine Zinfandel roll in at 3 PM forcing a late
night destemming party, Peter Green era Fleetwood
Mac Blues Band is sure to find its way to the CD
changer in short order. Cellar master Aaron Berlin and the crush
crews dictate the ambient music more than winemaker Rosback. Berlin
leans more towards Stevie Ray Vaughn,
the Flying Burrito Brothers and Joni
Mitchell while Peter Rosback would put on Captain
Beefheart and his Magic Band in a heartbeat if he
wasn’t buzzing around tending to barrels.
Grateful Dead Rock on at Bergstrom
Deadheads can cite concert
dates and set lists like they were scripture. Josh Bergstrom of Bergstrom
Winery is one.
“The third set opener of
Dark Star on 8.27.72 at Veneta, Ore. is enough to quicken the heartbeat
of any confirmed fan of the Grateful Dead” says Josh.
older brother turned him onto the Grateful Dead when he was 12
years old along with the likes of The Who, The
Doors and Pink Floyd but
it was the Dead that made the greatest impression on his young
brain. With access to bootleg cassette tapes like the legendary
at Cornell University’s Barton Hall in Ithaca, New York,
the die was cast early.
Josh likes the story telling side of the
as well as the folk roots meets psychedelica element of their music.
The whole community that was the Grateful Dead spoke volumes to
Josh. His first Grateful Dead concerts at Autzen Stadium in Eugene,
came in the mid 1980’s with bands like Santana, Robert
Jimmy Cliff and Bob Dylan as
opening acts. If you walk into the Bergström
winery today it’s a good chance you’ll hear the Grateful
Dead, Phil Lesh and Friends or some lively Jerry Garcia
/ David Grisman bouncing off the barrel room walls.
Josh's collection of bootleg
tapes disappeared after college, but a new batch of live Dead and
Sons of Champlin arrived at crush last year, so you know the cellar
as the grapes were fermenting in their bins.
RedHawk's Blush Wine,
RedHawk Names Wines for Musical Heroes
Maybe nowhere else does music and wine
become one as it does at RedHawk Vineyards just outside
of Salem, Ore. Winemaker Tom Robinson has named a number of his wines
after rock bands
over the years.
Blush wine‘Punk Floyd’ sports
an alien punk rocker on the label, but his best
and roll wine is the blend of young Pinot Noir he calls ‘Grateful
Red’. And while the Grateful Dead is
still played on the winery sound system during open house holidays
the 120 channel satellite radio
SIRIUS delivers music the rest of the year.
Santana, Flamenco Inspire Abacela's Tempranillo
Earl Jones, owner and winemaker at the
Abacela winery outside of Roseburg, Ore. was living in San Francisco
when the whole psychedelic music scene emerged. Earl lived within walking
distance of the legendary Fillmore Auditorium while he fulfilled his
medical residency at a local hospital.
It was not the Jefferson
Airplane or Quicksilver Messenger Service that
piqued his interest, but the Santana Blues Band.
A Latin tune has been beating in his heart since he sipped his first
Spanish Rioja in 1965. It is little surprise that
today, nouveau flamenco guitarist Ottmar Liebert is
his favorite musician. Strains of impassioned flamenco waft through
the winery as Grenache,
Syrah and Tempranillo sleep in their barrels.
Ottmar and Earl trade
emails about wine and music from time to time. Ottmar’s plea
to Earl is to continue using real cork and shun alternative closures.
Ottmar hopes that continued cork use will help preserve the cork tree
habitat of the declining Iberian wolf.
Classical Music and Eclectic Sounds at
Owen Roe, DePonte
Winemaker David O’Reilly of the
Owen Roe winery in St. Paul is partial to pre-Reformation
choral music and classical music - Handel to Beethoven.
You won’t find Gregorian chants, fugues or sonatas coaxing juice
in the barrel room though. Aaron Lieberman, Owen Roe assistant and
Cottonwood winemaker along with his cellar staff controls the CD player
that resides within the lab’s computer. You might hear a mix
of Edith Piaf, Frank Sinatra, Doc
Watson or Morrissey though there
is a whole folder of Mozart on the hard drive as well.
At the DePonte
in the south end of the Dundee Hills winery owner Scott Baldwin likes
to top his barrels off listening to the classical music of Vivaldi.
also hear a bit of St. Germain, pioneer of
the new electronic music in France who plays an intriguing collage
of jazz for the DJ remix
culture. Compact discs of Bryan Ferry’s Roxy Music rest
comfortably amongst Bob Marley’s ‘Natty
Dread’ and Crosby
Stills, Nash & Young’s ‘Déjà Vu’.
DePonte's French winemaker, Isabelle Dutartre, is
a huge U2 fan.
You can feel the vibes of U2’s ‘Beautiful Day’ echoing
off the high ceilinged fermentation room walls when you walk in to
Music Defines the Moment at Brick House
The jungle drums beat steadily as you
move down the Chehalem Valley to the ‘dry farmers’ of Ribbon
Ridge. If you are listening to Miles Davis’ ‘Kinda
Leo Kottke at the Brick
House Vineyards in Newberg, Ore. you’d
be at one of Doug Tunnell’s private wine tastings.
Music helps define the moment at Brick House. Working around the winery,
be listening to B.B. King, Jimi
Hendrix or Mali artist Ali
world beat rhythms. When Doug is blending wines from different lots
and barrel, Brazilian folk singer Cesaria Evora or
the late folk/jazz torch singer Eva Cassidy find
their way onto his CD player. Some of his most successful Pinot Noir
blends have been done to these artists.
At open house weekends, wunderkind mandolin player Chris
Thile of new
bluegrass ensemble Nickel Creek or the Dixie
Chicks set a lively tone
for the winery guests.
Mixing the organic spray for Brick House’s biodynamically farmed
grapes takes its own special music. In a large stainless steel tank
the bio-agents take half an hour of vigorous stirring to completely
mix the stew. For this task Doug throws on some bluesy Jimi
Hendrix which includes the 15 minute version of Hendrix’s blues masterpiece ‘Voodoo
Chile’ from the 1968 ‘Electric Ladyland’ album. The
music echos off the winery walls as Jimi sings “I’m a voodoo
chile. Lord knows I’m a voodoo chile!” On this song, Jimi’s
searing guitar notes and Steve Winwood’s Hammond B-3 organ wash
over you like dense waves of molten lava. Late nights as the hearth
fires burn low within the Brick House winery, you might catch some
Gershwin; Yo Yo Ma’s ‘Appalachian Waltz’ or KINK
FM radio ‘Lights Out’ series as Doug returns emails on
his Macintosh computer.
You can’t be a slave to a single
disc CD player, so the radio holds sway in wineries as well. At Brick
House Vineyards, Mt. Hood college jazz station KMHD 98.1 FM and classical
station KPBS 89.9 FM share the radio dial during the week. All day
on Saturday, you are likely to hear Portland, Ore. community station
KBOO 90.7 FM where they play two hours each of country, bluegrass,
Grateful Dead, jazz and blues from 8 AM to 8 PM.
Patty Green's Non-Stop Music
Further along down Ribbon Ridge, winemaker
Patty Green and Jim Anderson of Patricia
Green Cellars have music on
pretty much non-stop during the day. A bank of CD’s put on shuffle
take you from jazzy crooner Harry Connick Jr. to Jerry
Garcia to the
Godfather of Funk – James Brown, all in the course of a half
Patty and Jim's giant wallet of CD’s
carries a huge range of musical styles from blues and bluegrass to
Ray Charles. Patty has
favorite music for different tasks. When it comes time to bottle
the latest vintage, you are sure to hear Johnny Cash singing ‘I
Walk The Line’ or Bruce Springsteen’s “Darkness On
the Edge of Town” as leaf green burgundy bottles full of wine
amble towards waiting pallets. On a recent trip to the Cook Islands
South Pacific Patty picked up a CD of Polynesian drumming that no
doubt will be in heavy rotation for punch down this year. There is
like the rhythm of drums to coax newly picked grapes to give up their
Penner-Ash Plays Coltrane
At Penner-Ash, Ron
Penner Ash prefers to get his morning started with a little John
Coltrane playing his classic opus “A Love Supreme’ during punch
down. In the album liner notes, Coltrane dedicates the record to God
as his "humble offering." The spiritual intensity of ‘A
Love Supreme’ leaves one profoundly moved and quietly ecstatic.
It’s no wonder that Lynn and Ron have been producing such deep
Beaux Freres' Music Follows the Harvest
At the Beaux
Frères winery, music
follows the energy and cadence of the grape harvest in an almost Zen-like
manner. Winemaker Michael Etzel rides the rollercoaster
of harvest via the energy of music and the spaces between. The crush
crew is relatively
small and has been coming back year after year. They pick the estate
fruit early in the morning and have the day's crush harvested by noon.
Rowdy Mexican accordion music fills the air on the sorting line as
the harvest gets underway. As the harvest progresses, the music segues
to rock veterans Tom Petty, The
Allman Brothers, Van Morrison and
The punching down of fermenting grapes
is often done in silence or to classical music. Michael wants to pay
special attention to the stages
of fermentation and the feel of the berries as they give way to the
stainless steel plunger. The fermentation room has the feel of a library
morning. The contemplative Etzel seems to be at ‘church’ as
he punches down the cap created by fermenting fruit.
Later on in harvest,
the initial filling of the barrels with juice is a quiet affair.
important to listen to the sound of the pump and the gurgle of the
filling barrels in order to sense how full the oak barrel is. Depending
on the sugar levels left over from the initial fermentation, the barrel
fermentation can be quite active and a winemaker wants to leave just
enough headroom for expansion of the bubbling juice.
At this point,
the fruit is about to settle down and develop quietly. The whispering
of the autumn wind, the cry of raptors overhead and the rustle
of leaves match the slower pace of the end of harvest. This time at
is both exciting and exhausting and the music at Beaux Freres mirrors
the stage of harvest and the crews’ energy level.
Sam Tannahill- Sampling the Entire Palate
of Music and Wine
Tannahill of Francis
in Amity, Ore. believes there is a strong parallel between musicians
and winemakers. A music album may have a dozen songs on it though you’ve
heard only one of the songs on the radio. Unless you bought the CD,
you’ve never heard the rest of the tunes. Similar to a record
album, in each harvest a winemaker may release a dozen different wines
and can only hope people sample the entire palate of his work to capture
the full expression of the vintage. You found the Pinot Noir easily
enough but you missed a few grace notes when you passed up the Côte
Rôtie inspired Syrah or the amber colored late harvest Gewürztraminer
where flavors of acacia honey, lychee, and roasted nuts explode out
of every glass.
During Tannahill's 2004 grape harvest,
ex-Byrds and Flying Burrito Brothers auteur Gram Parsons and
Costello were in heavy rotation
along with Uncle Tupelo, Radiohead, Louie
Armstrong, Emmylou Harris and Bob
Dylan. Early on at harvest Mexican polkas share space
alongside Los Angeles Latino roots band Los Lobos.
Late night punch down of fermenting grapes during crush is often done
to the smoky throated phrasing of
troubadour Tom Waits. Tannahill’s office
mate and co-owner of
Winery, Bill Hatcher bemoans
the cacophony of modern music, preferring old school Mozart and Bach to
Argyle's Rollin Soles Listens to Friend
The Argyle winery
in Dundee, Ore. has roots in wide open country, with one foot in Texas
and the other
Australia. Argyle’s connection with the Petaluma winery in
South Australia brought assistant winemaker Willy Lunn and
a rowdy blend of blues, bluegrass and Johnny Cash.
Willy grew up with jazz greats Dave
Brubeck and Herbie Mann on
his parents’ record player, though
he went a different musical direction than his folks.
Both winemaker Rollin
Soles and assistant Willy are big fans of the blues. Blues
John Lee Hooker, Muddy Waters and Robert
Johnson share the CD player
with folkies John Prine, Tom
Waits and Bob
Dylan. The volume on alternative
rock station KRNK 94.7 FM can be sometimes be deafening
as the cellar rats scramble around the fermenters. In the winery
lab you might
hear anything from Wake The Dead, a Celtic
band playing Grateful Dead tunes,
to Mo’ Horizons playing urbane lounge music from Germany to
the Seattle post grunge quartet Death Cab For Cutie.
Argyle winemaker Rollin Soles has
been friends with fellow Texan and country crooner Lyle
his college days at Texas A & M.
Rollin and his buddies used to be regulars at a pizza joint that Lyle
played in. Lyle would practice new tunes to a half empty room and end
up playing music on Rollin’s rooming house porch later in the
week. Lyle still invites Rollin to events in Texas and when Lyle is
in town, Rollin has tickets to his shows. It’s not unusually
to see Lovett’s tour bus parked at the Argyle winery in Dundee
the day after a Portland appearance.
About Michael Sherwood
Michael Sherwood is an Oregon original - your modern day Renaissance man.
He’s done more interesting jobs than most of us – FM radio personality, commercial
logger, commercial fisherman, rock band promoter, neighborhood advocate,
energy conservation expert, arts festival coordinator, software developer,
non-profit executive, beer and wine guy and land use planner.
After 10 years developing software in Seattle, Mike moved back to Portland
and was soon drafted to be the first Executive Director of the Oregon Brewers
Guild, a fledgling non-profit trade organization, which he helped turn into
one of the most dynamic small brewer associations in North America.
All the while he was managing the affairs of
the states craft brewers, he was not so secretly a wine lover and worked providing
marketing assistance to a local winery. Beverages are 'in his blood' as his
family owned a beer and wine distributorship in the 60’s and 70’s in Roseburg.
Today Mike runs a wine sales, marketing and technology
consulting business called Arbre which provides branding and sales support
for wineries large and small. He has also created the Internets first truly
virtual stealth restaurant and underground wine bar called Sub
Rosa. We liked his mix of wine savvy and irreverent humor so much,
we hired him to write for Avalon. |
NASA Earth System Science Fellowships
NASA is now accepting applications for graduate student fellowships in Earth system science for the academic year. Applications will be considered for research in any of the six focus areas established by NASA's Earth Science Enterprise: climate variability and change; atmospheric composition; carbon cycle, ecosystems and biogeochemistry; water and energy cycle; weather; and Earth surface and interior. The purpose of the fellowship program is to ensure continued training of interdisciplinary scientists to support the study of Earth as a system. Awards are made initially for one year and may be renewed annually, based on satisfactory progress as reflected in academic performance and evaluations by the faculty advisor, for no more than two additional years.
Students admitted to, or already enrolled in, a full-time master's or doctorate program in Earth system science or related disciplines at accredited U.S. universities are eligible to apply.
$24,000 per year |
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JetPens is renowned as a fabulous source of, well, pens… but they also stock a lot of great notebooks too. Brad at Jet Pens was kind enough to send me some samples for review– let’s take a look!
These 3 notebooks are give a first impression of sleekness, somehow. The covers are smooth, and they are relatively thin and flexible. They range in size from about 5 13/16″ x 8 1/4″ to 7 1/8″ x 10″. For Japanese notebooks, these actually have less odd English verbiage on them than usual! One of them says it contains “MIO Paper,” and that this stands for “Mobile Ideal Original writing paper,” but that’s about as weird as it gets. The notebooks all have a very clean, minimal design.
First we have a Maruman notebook, with a wire-o binding and plastic front and back covers. The plastic has a slight ridged texture to it. Inside, you have smooth lined paper with a micro-perforated edge for easy removal.
Next, a Kikuyo Campus notebook, again with wire-o binding and a plastic front cover. This one has a very unusual page design– it’s lined, but there are dots along the lines, so it’s kind of a hybrid between lined and dot grid and squared. You can use it for writing or as you’d use graph paper, and the cover has a sticker on it that suggests a sort of geometrical figure being drawn using the dots. The pages also feature a space for numbering and a date at the top. They are not perforated. The back cover is a light, smooth cardboard.
And here’s another Kokuyo Campus notebook, this time with a metallic silver taped binding. The pages seem to be glued in. This one also has the number and date space at the top of each page, with regular, un-dotted lines below. The notebook has a wonderfully supple feel– the pages are smooth, the notebook opens very flat, and it’s very flexible, easily bending almost into a tube, and returning to perfect flatness afterwards. But the price you pay for this kind of flexibility is that the paper is quite thin. I tested a variety of pens and found that it’s wonderful to write on, with a very smooth, “hard” surface. I turned the page and at first was shocked that there was no show-through– but then I realized I’d actually turned more than one page because they’re so thin! When you’re actually looking at the back of the page, there’s quite a bit of show-through, and really penetrating markers like my Sharpies even bled through and made spots on the next facing page.
So if you like the aesthetic and tactile qualities of a basic yet refined notebook, you’ll love these– the paper feels just heavenly with a fine rollerball pen. But they may not be a top choice if show-through really bothers you. Check out these and a variety of other journals and notebooks offered at JetPens… or you can try your luck at winning the two samples I’m giving away!
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So my day was a bit crazy. I knew it was going to be a rough one when my baby pooped in the tub. I was trying to hurry and get ready and then had to disinfect him and the tub and then me. My sister came with me and while driving to Salt Lake, someone cut us off and to avoid an accident she slammed on the brakes. My tall lamp went flying and broke in half! I was dying. We were already running a titch late as it was. We stopped at the closest Home Depot (good thing there was one at every exit) and I bought some 1 minute epoxy. We go running into the studio late and with a broken lamp. Nice. I am frazzled and trying not to hyperventilate. I was able to glue it back together and it is actually stronger than before. Everyone was really nice. When it was all over I was able to relax. I am home and all I want to do is take a nap!!!
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This is a very personal design to me and it gives me a smile everytime when I see the vase holding a little flower.
This product was inspired by a very popular children's book and one of my old favourite stories The Little Prince. I wish with this vase, a little ordinary flower could become special to you...
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It comes in a white gift box, which contains one flower vase.
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A WOMAN who has kept peacocks for 30 years has been given until the end of the month to do something about the noise they make, after neighbours complained.
Grandmother June Gibson, who is recovering from cancer, was given the birds as a gift by her late husband.
But the 68-year-old, of Cotton Mill Farm, Southwell Road, Farnsfield, was served with a noise abatement notice by Newark and Sherwood District Council following complaints by neighbours who have lived in a house next to the farm for the last two years.
Her granddaughter Rebekah Christian, 25, said the family had to apply for an extension to the notice as they needed more time to put measures in place.
They have now been given until the end of the month.
The council gave them three options – remove them completely, remove them during the mating season between March and September, or lock them away at night.
Miss Christian, of Victoria Street, Newark, said it is likely the family will have to build a large shed to keep them in.
"My grandmother has had them for over 30 years and the people who have complained have been there for two years," said Miss Christian.
"I just think it's absolutely ludicrous.
"We are thinking about getting a shed but we are not happy. It would have to be a big shed because at the moment they have got their full feathers."
A spokeswoman for Newark and Sherwood District Council said it had worked closely with both parties to investigate the problem.
"As well as speaking to the people involved and visiting the site we have used noise monitoring equipment to confirm that the noise is a statutory nuisance, which means that the council is legally obliged to do something about it," she said.
"This is our standard procedure for dealing with complaints about noise." |
A contractor designed the Squatty Potty to help his mother get closer to the squatting position on the john.
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September 28, 2012 Passionate advocates believe that squatting over the toilet is a more healthful position than sitting down on one. They say the posture can alleviate problems like hemorrhoids. One company is making stools to help people get closer to the squat.
Fire department personnel, police officers and paramedics at the scene of a fatal collision on Highway 401 in Mississauga, Ontario, in July 2011.
September 27, 2012 After Canadian doctors warned patients with medical conditions that could impair driving about the risks, there was a 45 percent drop in the annual rate of accidents for the group. But the patients also were seen more often for depression afterward and were less likely to return for care to the doctors who warned them.
September 27, 2012 Critics say the ads, created by Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota, are condescending and could have a negative effect on people who are overweight. But the company stands by the ads, saying the obesity problem is so big, they needed to take dramatic action.
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September 26, 2012 There are a lot more older people with worn-out knees, and the rate at which those people get knees replaced has gone way up in the last 20 years, too.
Just 10 to 15 minutes of counseling from primary care doctors can reduce the risk of "risky" drinking, a federal task force says.
September 25, 2012 Patients who had multiple counseling sessions lasting 10 to 15 minutes were 12 percent more likely to quit binge drinking a year later, says a federal task force. Those benefits are enough to justify primary care doctors screening all adult patients for signs of problem drinking and providing counseling, the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force says.
Sara Terry and her son, Christian, in Spring, Texas. After sequencing Christian's genome, doctors were able to diagnose him with a Noonan-like syndrome.
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September 25, 2012 Doctors used genome sequencing to put a name to the mysterious cluster of symptoms that afflicted Christian Terry, 5. He's one of many patients now getting the test, which can cost as little as $1,000, to resolve undiagnosed illnesses. Doctors are also using it to sequence cancer and target treatment at the precise genetic mutations in a tumor.
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Eric Wiltz cavorts on a trampoline in New Orleans in 2010. Everything is fun and games on the backyard attractions until someone gets hurt, a leading group of pediatricians says.
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September 24, 2012 A leading group of pediatricians is out with a sterner warning than ever about trampolines. They say the risk of injury to kids remains too high, despite some safety measures. Use of trampolines at home "is strongly discouraged."
Doctors may recommend that obese patients use weight-loss drugs to trick their hunger pangs.
September 24, 2012 Both the drugs — Belviq and Qsymia — were approved in July. They make you feel satisfied with less food — and not as hungry between meals. But there are side effects, including dry mouth, constipation and a slight tingling in fingers and toes; Qsymia can also cause birth defects.
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Evan Ciangiulli, 4, completes a warmup that teaches him the right way to lift weights.
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September 24, 2012 In the past few years, some sports medicine specialists have become convinced that strength training activities like CrossFit can be great for kids. But others worry that CrossFit trainers aren't teaching appropriate techniques for weightlifting to adults, much less kids.
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September 21, 2012 Spray-on skin, made-to-order muscle and print-out kidneys aren't just science fiction anymore. Dr. Anthony Atala and Dr. Stephen Badylak, two pioneers of regenerative medicine, talk about the latest methods for building new body parts, and the challenge of growing complex organs like the heart, liver or brain.
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September 21, 2012 New York City's Board of Health approved a controversial and first-of-its-kind soda ban earlier this month. Marion Nestle of New York University and Brian Wansink of Cornell University debate whether government regulations are an effective way to fight the obesity epidemic.
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September 21, 2012 In the British TV sensation, a servant's attempt to correct a debilitating limp with a dubious device ends in blood and disappointment. Despite tighter regulation over the years, quack devices remain a threat.
September 20, 2012 Previously, "popcorn lung" disease has been limited to plant workers exposed to flavoring chemicals. The new verdict awarded to a microwave popcorn consumer may spark a rash of similar suits, lawyers say.
Italian farmer Giorgio Fidenato picks up what's left of his genetically altered corn after anti-GMO activists trampled it, back in 2010.
September 20, 2012 Scientists question the methods and results of a new study showing harm to rats fed a diet of GMO corn and herbicide. But the debate is far from settled as interest groups call for a ban and governments ask for further studies.
September 19, 2012 Levels of inorganic arsenic found in rice worry some, but the FDA says more study is needed before it would recommend consumers change their diets. If you're worried, vary the grains in your diet and swap out sweet potatoes for rice as baby's first food, consumer groups say.
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Temporary Area Closures at Chickasaw
Drought weather combined with high summer temperatures have resulted in extreme fire weather conditions in south-central Oklahoma, including the national recreation area. Since July 1st the recreation area has received less than 1-1/2" of precipitation. These conditions have necessitated a temporary closure of the Rock Creek multi-use trail area and all recreation area hunting areas. Effective Friday, August 19, 2011 the Rock Creek multi-use trail area will be closed to all visitor use including hiking, bicycling, and horseback riding. Beginning this same date, the recreation area will begin closing all other recreation area hunting areas to visitor use for an indefinite period until fire weather conditions improve.
The Rock Creek multi-use trail area and hunting areas are located west and southwest of residential areas adjacent to the community of Sulphur, Oklahoma. An indefinite temporary closure of these areas to public use will improve visitor safety and provide a greater level of response, should fire suppression emergency response be necessary.
While the summer heat is producing record setting conditions in south-central Oklahoma, campers are still enjoying visiting campgrounds at Chickasaw National Recreation Area. Visitors can enjoy fishing or expect a cool dip in the Lake of the Arbuckles while water skiing or swimming to find relief from the summer heat. Currently, there is a temporary ban on ash producing fires for any fires utilized by visitors in park campground or picnic grills. Gas grills for cooking are still permitted. Campsites are available for camping. Visitors may also visit the Travertine Nature Center open each day from 9:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. |
Use the Activities
Putting It All Together
The following activities allow students to compare what it was like to live in Castolon with life in their own communities during the same time period. They will also get some additional practice using Spanish.
Activity 1: Growing Up in Castolon
Ask students to write a 300 word essay describing the life they would have experienced if they were their current age and lived in the Castolon area during frontier times. Ask them to take into account the following questions:
1. What language or languages would you have spoken at home? Would everyone in the neighborhood have spoken the same language?
2. How would your family have made a living?
3. How often would you have travelled to a big city?
4. What would have happened when somebody got sick? Who would the family have called to help cure the sick person?
5. If you had the choice of crossing the Rio Grande in a rowboat and walking half a mile to La Harmonia Store, or doing without sugar, salt and flour, what would you have done?
Activity 2: Learning Some Spanish
Have the students use a Spanish/English dictionary to define the following words:
cerro, sierra, harina, leche, azucar, sal, vestido, maiz, pantalon, caballo, caballero, queso, casa, rio, camisa, zapatos, sombrero.
Then hold an old-fashioned spelling bee--with a twist. Divide the class into two equal groups (if class numbers are unequal, appoint one student as assistant judge whose duty is to keep a running tally of correctly spelled and correctly used words). Have groups line up in two rows and then, alternating sides, give each student an opportunity to state the correct Spanish word when you call out the English equivalent. If there are more students than words, go through the process again, this time calling out the words in Spanish, with the students responding with the English version.
Activity 3: Comparing Castolon to the Local Community
Have the students research what was happening in their own community from 1920 to 1940. Have them investigate:
1. How the population changed between 1920 and 1940;
2. Whether there were railroads, paved roads, and electric lights, and if so, when;
3. What public schools, hospitals, and libraries existed;
4. What kinds of work people did to make a living;
5. Whether the community was ethnically or racially mixed, and the dominant languages
6. What effects the Roaring Twenties and the Great Depression had; and
7. What the city looked like--what types of buildings, what building materials, how large, what ornamentation, etc.
When research is completed, have the students prepare a tabloid-sized newspaper which provides a description of the community from 1920 to 1940. Then ask students to draw a timeline showing the comparison of their community and Castolon. |
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The Asian Longhorned Beetle: National and International Research Efforts
North Central Forest pest Workshop. p. 1-2. (2000)
Established populations of the Asian longhorned beetle, Anoplophora glabeipennis, were first discovered in New York City in 1996 and then in Chicago in 1998. Because of the limited number and size of infestations discovered in 1996, the US Department of Agriculmre (USDA) initiated an eradication program that requires cutting and chipping of all infested trees. As of September 2000, more than 4800 infested trees have been cut in New York and more than 1400 in Chicago.
Haack, Robert A.; Poland, Therese M.; Patrice, Toby; Gennrich , Matt 2000. The Asian Longhorned Beetle: National and International Research Efforts. North Central Forest pest Workshop. p. 1-2. (2000)
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Dragonflies: The Flying Aces of the Insect World -- Science Nation
Dragonflies: The Flying Aces of the Insect World
Next time you see a dragonfly, try to watch it catch its next meal on the go. Good luck! "Unless we film it in high speed, we can't see whether it caught the prey, but when it gets back to its perch, if we see it chewing, we know that it was successful," says Stacey Combes, a biomechanist at Harvard University. With support from the National Science Foundation, she and her team are using high speed cameras to help them study how dragonflies pull off complicated aerial feats that include hunting and mating in mid-air. They can fly straight up, straight down, hover like helicopters and disappear in a blur. Combes is also exploring the use of dragonflies for mosquito control.
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Boxing hero won respect from all
- From: NT News
- January 30, 2014
DARWIN'S longest-serving prison officer and boxing fanatic Paul Nuku has died.
He was 59.
Mr Nuku's work with prisoners at Darwin Correctional Centre and young people involved in boxing and martial arts made him a popular figure.
He was president of the Freds Pass Boxing and Mixed Martial Arts Club.
Good friend Brett Schroeder remembers his mate as a passionate and caring man who left a lasting impression.
"Paul did a lot for the kids from the rural area by giving them a real aim in life and teaching them the arts of boxing and martial arts," Mr Schroeder said.
"Boxing was his real passion after arriving here from Fiji some time in the 1970s and he carried that over to his life's work.
"The prisoners loved him and I reckon a lot of them will be at his funeral."
Mr Nuku was also a key organiser of the "Toughman" contests that attracted big crowds to watch the no holds barred ring fighting during the late 1990s.
"Paul got people from all over the NT and interstate to come to the Territory and fight in those Toughman contests," Mr Schroeder said.
"It was typical of the man. He was loved by his peers and respected by everyone he came into contact with.
"A quiet but very efficient achiever, Paul let his work ethic and the final product do all the talking for him."
Mr Nuku is survived by his wife Sarah and children Amelia, Paul and Anita. |
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Tomlinson, Chris Big game hunting threatening Africa, 2002 March 20
Extract Author: Chris Tomlinson
Extract Date: 2002 03 20
Loliondo GAME CONTROL AREA, Tanzania - At a dirt airstrip in rural Tanzania, a desert camouflaged cargo plane from the United Arab Emirates air force taxis up to pallets stacked with large coolers full of game meat, the harvest of a successful Hunting season.
As Tanzanian immigration and customs officials fill out documents under a thatched shelter, brand-new, four-wheel-drive trucks and dune buggies drive to and from a nearby luxury campsite, the base for one of Tanzania's most expensive - and secretive - game Hunting operations, Otterlo Business Corp.
Hundreds of members of Arab royalty and high-flying businessmen spend weeks in the Loliondo Game Control Area each year Hunting antelope, lion, leopard and other wild animals. The area is leased under the Otterlo name by a member of an emirate royal family who is a senior officer in the UAE defense ministry.
While neighboring Kenya outlawed big game Hunting in 1978, the Tanzanian government says Hunting is the best use of the land and wildlife. But villagers and herders say big money has led government officials to break all the Hunting rules, resulting in the destruction of most of the area's non-migratory animals and putting East Africa's most famous national parks under threat.
Loliondo is on the main migratory route for wildlife north of Ngorongoro Crater, east of Serengeti National Park and south of Kenya's Masai Mara National Reserve. The summer Hunting season coincides with the migration of wildebeest and zebra through the area, where they eventually cross into the Serengeti and the Masai Mara. Predatory animals follow the migration.
During the colonial era, Loliondo was set aside for European royalty as a Hunting area. Since independence, Loliondo has remained a Hunting reserve, but it is supposed to be managed by area residents for their benefit.
Local leaders, who refuse to speak publicly because they fear retribution, say they have not been consulted about the lease that was granted in 1995 by national officials in Tanzania's political capital, Dodoma. They say government officials have tried to silence criticism.
"The lease was given by the government and the Maasai landowners were not involved," said one Maasai leader. "All the resident animals have been killed ... (now) they carry out Hunting raids in the Serengeti National Park, but the government closes its eyes."
Maasai warriors told The Associated Press that hunters give cash to anyone who can lead them to big game, especially leopards. They also said that Otterlo officials have begun pumping water into some areas to attract more animals and that what the warriors call suspicious fires in the Serengeti have caused animals to move into Loliondo.
An Otterlo manager, who gave his name only as Khamis, initially agreed to an interview with AP but later did not return repeated phone calls.
In an interview with the newspaper, The East African, Otterlo managing director Juma Akida Zodikheri said his company adheres to Tanzanian law, and he denied hunters killed animals indiscriminately. He said the owner of the company is Maj. Gen. Mohammed Abdulrahim al Ali, deputy defense minister of the UAE.
While Tanzania has strict rules on game Hunting, Maasai who have worked at the lodge say guests are never told of the limits and hunt as much as they want. Tanzanian officials deny that.
Col. A.G.N. Msangi, district commissioner for Ngorongoro District, said all applicable rules are enforced. He accused the Maasai of rumor-mongering in an effort to discredit Otterlo.
The company "is following the system the government wants," Msangi said. "OBC has invested more money here than any other company in the district."
Msangi said Hunting companies request permission to kill a certain number of animals. Once the request is approved by wildlife experts at the Ministry of the Environment, the company pays a fee based on that number whether they actually kill the animals or not, he said.
"We have police and ministry people making sure they don't exceed what they have paid for," Msangi said. The tourists are also required to employ professional hunters to ensure no female or young animals are killed, he added.
Compared to the numbers in Serengeti National Park, very few large animals were seen during a three-hour drive through Loliondo. But without any independent survey of the animal population, it is impossible to know whether Msangi's conservation efforts are working.
Msangi described his main duty as balancing the needs of people, animals and conservation. He said not only does Hunting revenue finance wildlife conservation, but Otterlo, like most tourism companies, also makes charitable donations to help pay for schools and development projects and it provides badly need jobs.
Also appeared in http://www.washtimes.com/world/20020801-22110374.htm
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SLEEPY EYE - Larissa Helget was a home run away from hitting for the cycle and Laura Pelzel notched 13 strikeouts in No. 2-seeded Sleepy Eye St. Mary's 5-0 victory against No. 7-seeded Minnesota Valley Lutheran in the Section 2A North Subsection quarterfinals on Tuesday.
Helget led the game off with a triple before knocking a single in the second inning and a double in the fifth that drove in the Knights' fourth run of the game.
"That's why Larissa's there," said St. Mary's coach Wendy Owens of the leadoff spot. "She's disciplined at the plate and can come up with the big hit when we need it and it sometimes sets the tone. It's unfortunate, sometimes our girls depend on her too much to set the tone, but she did a nice job tonight."
Pelzel earned the win for the Knights (14-6, 11-5 Tomahawk) with her no-walk, 13-K seven innings of work, during which she allowed one hit - a two-out single by Karissa Schlottman in the first inning.
"She had an excellent game tonight," Owens said of Pelzel. "She definitely has come along as far as her pitching goes this year. [She has had] more confidence as this season has gone on and Bethany [Berkner] has done a nice job helping her behind the plate, calling the pitches and letting her know where the weaknesses are on the batter, and that helps too when she hits those spots."
Schlottman got the loss for the Chargers (4-18, 3-13), but did not allow the Knights to go on scoring frenzies outside of a three-run first inning and a two-run fifth.
"Karissa did great, she had a great year for us," said MVL coach David Biedenbender. "She kept a lot of teams off balance. She did a good job of changing it up with her pitches and popping girls up, grounding them out."
The MVL defense was effective in keeping the proverbial flood gates from opening at numerous points during the game.
A 7-5 throw from left fielder Kayla Perry got Ashley Helget out from advancing to third on a two-RBI single by Pelzel for the final out of the first inning. One inning later, Schlottman caught Emily Schumacher swinging that left Larissa Helget at third base after stealing a base on the first two pitches of the at-bat.
The Knights hit into a 5-3-5 double play in the fourth inning, where Johanna Kettner threw out Pelzel at first and then got Ashley Helget out on an attempt to advance to third with a throw back from Nicole Rieger at first. Schlottman got out of the inning by striking out Cassidy Smith.
Only three MVL batters reached base with Pelzel in the circle - all with two outs already recorded. Along with Schlottman's single in the first, Perry reached on an error by the second baseman in the second inning and Rieger reached second on another error by a St. Mary's outfielder in the third.
However, Schlottman grounded out in the next at-bat, leaving Rieger at second in what turned out to be the Chargers' closest shot at scoring in the game.
"After the first game, we just couldn't adjust to the speed of the pitcher in the second game," Biedenbender said. "And that hurt us."
One of the biggest mistakes a team can make at this point in the season is to overlook an opponent based on its resume coming in. That was one thing Owens tried to preach to her team in preparation for postseason play.
"We try not to overlook any team," Larissa Helget said. "Obviously you come to play every game."
St. Mary's will host No. 3-seeded Lester Prairie/Holy Trinity at 5 p.m. on Thursday in the North Subsection semifinals. From this point on, teams need to lose twice in order to be eliminated from the tournament.
"We have been hitting well the past week, so hopefully it will carry over," Larissa Helget said.
MVL 14, C/CM 4 (5 inn.)
Minnesota Valley Lutheran defeated No. 10-seeded Comfrey/Cedar Mountain 14-4 in five innings in the pigtail game that led into the Section 2A quarterfinals against St. Mary's.
Jordan Marotz came up big for the Chargers at the plate, going 3-for-3 with three RBIs and four runs. Two of her three hits were doubles.
Mary Kate Santelman tallied a game-high four RBIs with a 1-for-2 performance at the plate, during which she was walked twice. Johanna Kettner went 2-for-3 with one RBI and two runs, while Shelby Hammerschmidt drove in three runs on a 1-for-3 stand at the plate.
Cassidy Gode took the loss for the Rockets (2-17, 2-14), having given up 11 runs - eight earned - on six hits with seven walks in two innings of work. Beth Schumacher led the Rockets at the plate with a 2-for-3 stand that drove in two runs.
C/CM 100 03 - 4 6 2
MVL 382 01 - 14 8 2
Gode, Trebesch (3) and Treml; Schlottman and Santelman.
W - Schlottman (M) 5 IP, 6 H, 4 R, 3 ER, 1 BB, 3 K
L - Gode (C) 2 IP, 6 H, 11 R, 8 ER, 7 BB, 1 K
Leading hitters - C/CM: Forsyth 1-3 2 R, Schumacher 2-3 2 RBI, Treml 1-3 2 RBI, Eidem 1-2 1 R; MVL: Kettner 2-3 1 RBI 2 R 1 BB 1 K, Marotz 3-3 3 RBI 4 R 1 BB 2-2B, Maasz 1-1 1 RBI 1 R 2 BB, Santelman 1-2 4 RBI 1 R 2 BB.
MVL 000 000 0 - 0 1 1
St. Mary's 300 020 x - 5 9 2
Schlottman and Santelman; L Pelzel and Berkner.
W - L Pelzel (S) 7 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 0 BB, 13 K
L - Schlottman (M) 6 IP, 9 H, 5 R, 5 ER, 1 BB, 3 K
Leading hitters - MVL: Schlottman 1-3 1 K; St. Mary's: L Helget 3-3 1 RBI 2 R 2B 3B, Fleck 1-3 1 RBI 1 R, L Pelzel 1-3 2 RBI, Lux 1 -2 1 R. |
Month to month
As 2012 begins, January through March will continue the current trend of escalating unrest, volatile markets, and disturbing weather patterns. In a way, we have become so accustomed to the dramatically changing climate, environment, economy and social order, that change is quickly becoming the status quo.
April and the early part of May will change that, so that even those individuals who are permanently stuck in denial mode are shocked out of there complacency. And underneath it all, a current of basic human goodwill flows stronger and stronger. This is a time for optimism, even in the face of chaos.
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And while 2012 is the hinge-point of this bigger nine-year pivotal cycle, September, specifically, is the axis around which the pivot turns. For most of us, this fact will be obscured by the fast pace of things, one big news story after another. But once we are far enough removed that hindsight offers a clearer picture, we will recognize September 2012 as the month when critical mass was reached.
October, November and December don't slow the pace one bit, but for many of us, we will be heartened by the rising promise of a New World. It can all be summed up in a single, simple statement: The iron grip of the powerful is no match to the power of the meek, as our history, not yet written, will teach us. |
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Jacqueline Gran, SFQ Master Healer, SFQ Qi-ssage instructor
Jacqueline Gran has been passionate about energy and art for as long as she can remember. She has been practicing Spring Forest Qigong (SFQ) since 1999. She was certified as an SFQ Master Healer in 2009, a level two instructor in 2009, a level one instructor in 2008 and became certified as a Qi-ssage instructor in 2012.
Glori Hinck, RD, MS, DC, MET
Dr. Glori Hinck is the instructional designer/technologist for the Opus College of Business at the University of St. Thomas. Previously, Dr. Hinck was an associate professor in the College of Chiropractic and director of the Office of Educational Technology at Northwestern Health Sciences University. She holds a master’s degree in educational technology from Boise State University where she is also currently pursuing a doctorate in educational technology. She has been an affiliate graduate faculty member at Boise State where she has taught online course design and social network learning.
Dr. Hinck combines her academic and clinical experience with her expertise in educational technology to create online and hybrid educational content and programs. She has conducted research related to Facebook and professionalism and has presented both traditional and online continuing education programs related to social media.
Nicole Lange, MOm, LAc
Nicole Lange is on a mission to employ age old ideas to create radical modern change! Her love of holistic medicine and educating others led her to pioneer her unique style of TCM practice - Patient Centered Holism. At its core, this model of care is a powerful combination of traditional holistic care, an understanding of the most cutting edge research, an awareness of the stresses specific to modern life and most importantly, a respect for each unique individual's life, values, beliefs and healing process. Over the past decade, Lange has honed and expanded this model of care through extensive study and experiences in her thriving private practice - Life Healing Life. In practice, she exclusively works in the areas of infertility (subsequent pregnancies) and women's sexual and emotional health.
Inspired by the idea that a great TCM practitioner truly changes society and the intentions of humanity, Lange has made educating not only her patients, but society a focus of her work. She is an author and has spoken to over 150 audiences on various TCM topics - always with the belief and desire to convey the message that her audience can do far more for their own health than she ever could - with the RIGHT information! A wife and mother of two, Lange is also an ardent believer in practicing what she preaches, hence, this is a slow going revolution! She is a 2006 graduate from Northwestern Health Sciences University and is especially excited to share her message at the 2015 Great River Symposium.
Marlene Merritt, DOM (New Mexico), ACN, LAc
Marlene Merritt received her master’s degree in Oriental Medicine in 2000 and is a doctor of Oriental medicine. She also completed a master's degree in human nutrition in 2014 and successfully combines both in her private practice. She is certified as an applied clinical nutritionist (ACN).
Merritt is licensed both by the Texas State Board of Medical Examiners and by the New Mexico Board of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine, and nationally board certified by NCCAOM. She has a regular column in Acupuncture Today and other publications about nutrition. In addition to a full-time clinical practice, she lectures nationally to healthcare practitioners all over the U.S. and Canada on issues ranging from diabetes, endocrine dysfunction, cardiovascular issues, blood chemistry, nutrition and nutrition research.
John Pirog, MSOM, LAc
John Pirog has been a teacher and practitioner of Chinese medicine for more than 30 years. Pirog graduated from Midwest College of Oriental Medicine (Chicago, IL) in 1983 and served in an internship at Lincoln Hospital (New York), where he received specialty training in the use of acupuncture for substance withdrawal. He later completed an acupuncture clinical residency at Chengdu College of Traditional Chinese Medicine (Chengdu, China).
Pirog has taught acupuncture throughout his Chinese medical career, has lectured throughout the United States, and is the author of the widely-used textbook Practical Applications of Meridian Style Acupuncture. He is currently a professor of acupuncture and Chinese medicine at the College of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine at Northwestern Health Sciences University.
Whitfield Reaves, OMD, LAc
Whitfield Reaves is one of the leading practitioners in the field of acupuncture sports medicine. He first began clinical practice in 1981 and has specialized for more than 30 years in the field of orthopedics and sports acupuncture. Licensed in California in 1981, Whitfield earned a doctor of Oriental medicine degree in 1983. His thesis, "Acupuncture and the Treatment of Common Running Injuries," demonstrated that TCM could address many clinical issues in sports medicine. He is also the author of The Acupuncture Handbook of Sports Injuries and Pain, one of the few texts integrating traditional acupuncture with orthopedic and sports medicine.
His experience in sports medicine includes the 1984 Los Angeles Olympic Games, as well as numerous track and field, cycling and other events nationally over the past 25 years. He is the director of The Acupuncture Sports Medicine Apprenticeship Program. Reaves continues to teach seminars and apprenticeship style workshops in North America and Europe. He can be reached at his website www.WhitfieldReaves.com.
Haihe Tian, MD (China), MS, PhD (China), LAc
Haihe Tian started his medical training in 1982 at Beijing University of Chinese Medicine in China. He studied both Western and Chinese Medicine for 6 years. He earned his master's degree and Ph.D. by working with the world famous TCM expert, Professor Dong Jian-hua. He worked in the affiliated hospital of the university until 1997, and then moved to America where he has been teaching and practicing Chinese medicine for more than 17 years.
Tian served as a board member of AAAOM (American Association of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine), committee member of CCAOM (Council of Colleges of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine), and SME member. He is a site visitor and inspection specialist for ACAOM (Accreditation of Commission for Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine) and a test writer specialist of NCCAOM (National Certification Commission for Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine).
He is president of Beijing University of Chinese Medicine American Alumni Association, president of American Institute of Traditional Chinese Medicine and director of Chinese Acupuncture and Herbs Center in Florida. He has given more than 200 lectures and seminars at state, national and international conferences. He has published more than 40 professional papers and 20 medical books as an author or co-author.
Mei Wang, MMed (China), PhD (China), DiplAc/CH, LAc
Mei Wang received her Ph.D. in Traditional Chinese Medicine from Shangdong University of Traditional Chinese Medicine (China). She loves the emphasis on prevention, balance and natural healing that is intrinsic to the Chinese medical art.
She has been practicing acupuncture and TCM for 28 years and Korean Hand Therapy for 8 years. Wang is a professor at the College of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine at Northwestern Health Sciences University, where she teaches Chinese Herbal Medicine, Materia Medica, Tai Ji and Qigong.
Jinming Yue, BS (China), DiplAc/CH, LAc
Jinming Yue is from a family of acupuncture and Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) practitioners. Under the influence of his father’s success in treating patients, he chose it as his career. He loves its holistic theory of correspondence between human and the universe, natural healing and balance theory.
He has practiced acupuncture and TCM for more than 28 years and has been performing Korean Hand Therapy (KHT) since 2008. He is currently an associate professor at the College of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine at Northwestern Health Sciences University, teaching Advanced Diagnosis, Korean Hand Therapy and Tai Ji. Yue also supervises student interns in the teaching clinic.
Guoping Zheng, MD (China), MS, LAc
Guoping Zheng is a master herbalist and acupuncturist specializing in infertility and general women’s health. She has been studying and practicing Traditional Chinese Medicine for 38 years. She earned a bachelor's degree from the Fujian College of TCM in China in 1980. After two years of general practice, she attended Hubei College of TCM and received her master's degree in TCM OB/GYN in 1982. She studied and worked with the famous TCM expert Professor Huang Shengwu. In 1986, she enrolled in a doctoral program at Guangzhou University of TCM, the leading program in China studying the use of herbs in women’s reproductive endocrinology.
Dr. Zheng also had the great honor to study and work with Professor Luo Yuankai, the renowned TCM OB/GYN and fertility expert. Through her 38 years of study, research and practice - along with learning, gathering and combining many experts’ special experience - Dr Zheng has created a comprehensive treatment approach that combines acupuncture, traditional Chinese herbal medicine and cupping therapy for each individual infertility and OB/GYN patient, very often creating great results. |
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Around the Nation; Texas Officers Acquitted In Drowning of 3 Youths
Published: April 18, 1982
DALLAS, April 17— An all-white jury today acquitted three former Limestone County officers in the drownings of three black teen-agers who were in custody when a boat capsized on a Texas lake.
Kenny Elliott, a deputy, Kenneth Archie, a reserve deputy, and David Drummond, a probation officer, were found not guilty of criminally negligent homicide.
All three men had been suspended from their jobs pending resolution of the case.
The youths were arrested June 19, 1981, for investigation of marijuana possession at a celebration of Juneteenth, marking the day in 1865 when Texas slaves heard they were free. The boat capsized about 80 feet from shore as the officers were trying to ferry the youths across Lake Mexia.
Carl Baker, 19 years old; Steven Booker, 19, and Anthony Freeman, 18, drowned. Mr. Elliott and Mr. Drummond, who are white, swam to shore. Mr. Archie, a black, was rescued. |
Small-Town South Clings to Jewish History
By PETER APPLEBOME,
Published: September 29, 1991
PORT GIBSON, Miss.— There's just one sour note in the small miracle that occurred here when Temple Gemiluth Chassed, the 100-year-old Moorish-Byzantine synagogue on Church Street, was saved from the wrecking ball and lovingly restored.
Port Gibson has no Jewish community left to worship there.
As Jews around the world celebrated their heritage over the recent holidays, one of the most unusual chapters in that history was winding down in small Southern towns like Port Gibson, once home to perhaps 60 Jewish families. In dozens of small towns like it, a hybrid culture of matzo ball gumbo and kosher grits flourished and then disappeared as young people left for the cities, never to return. Years Too Late
Efforts are now being made to salvage the artifacts and memories of the Dixie Diaspora in small towns from Pontotoc, Miss., to Donaldsonville, La., to Blytheville, Ark.
"We're trying to save it before it disppears, but we're already 20 or 30 years too late," said Macy B. Hart, who heads the two-year-old Museum of the Southern Jewish Experience in nearby Utica, Miss., and whose own parents are the only Jews in Winona, Miss.
"We have many communities that are down to one or three or five Jewish people left," he said, "and they have the weight of maybe 100 years of community on their shoulders.
"So what we're moved to do is to help those communities go from extant to extinct with dignity, so we don't lose it all."
Mr. Hart is used to puzzled stares from people at the thought of Jews in the small-town South. But Jews were among the earliest settlers in the region and were integral parts of its history.
Eli N. Evans, who grew up the son of a Jewish shopkeeper in Durham, N.C., when it was a small tobacco town and who later wrote "The Provincials: A Personal History of the Jews in the South" (Atheneum, 1973), said: "Jews were not aliens in the promised land. They were blood and bones, part of the story, and they've been part of the story all along."
There is no single story of Jewish immigration to the South. Jews came from across Europe with the earliest settlers in the 1700's, landing directly in Charleston, S.C., Savannah, Ga., or New Orleans, and from New York and other Northern cities after the great Jewish migrations of the 19th century.
But if there is a dominant theme it is the story of Jewish merchants -- first peddlers and then shop owners -- who helped create a merchant class in the rural South and then saw their communities wither and die as their children left.
"The story of the Jews in the South, at least a major part of it, is the story of fathers who built businesses for their sons who did not want them," Mr. Evans said.
That story played out in Port Gibson earlier than in the region as a whole, but its outlines are familiar.
The first Jews came to Port Gibson in the 1840's from German states and Alsace-Lorraine. They were itinerant peddlers, carrying their wares in 75-pound packs on their backs. Then, as Port Gibson began competing with Vicksburg and Natchez in both commerce and the glory of its antebellum homes, the Jewish community became a bulwark of the town's economy, and newspaper advertisements were filled with names like Bernheimer, Marx, Meyer, Cahn, Traxler and Ullman. A Moorish Dome
In 1859 congregation Gemiluth Chassed, a name that can be roughly translated as House of Kindness, was formed by 22 members, meeting at the Odd Fellows Hall and Masons' Lodge. In 1889, its leaders called for the building of a temple, saying, "Our Christian fellow-citizens often ask why the Israelites have no church."
By 1892 they had built a distinctive brick synagogue with stained glass windows and an incongruous Moorish dome. It was a centerpiece of a community life that was at once discreetly separate and distinctly Southern, like a Jewish ladies' Japanese lunch at which, according to a report in the local paper in 1902, Rosa Marx was awarded a beautiful gauze fan as the most popular young lady.
But Port Gibson's population, now about 2,400, peaked around the beginning of the century. Soon the Jewish children began leaving for Memphis or New Orleans or Baton Rouge, and stores began passing out of Jewish hands.
A building on Main Street still bears a sign reading H. Frishman-Red Goose Shoes, but the building is now occupied by Mississippi: Cultural Crossroads, a community center mostly serving the town's predominantly black youth.
Mr. Hart said the disappearance of the Jewish communities reflects both the economic decline of many Southern small towns and the traditional educational aspirations of many Jews. Unlikely Saviors
The last services were conducted in the synagogue in 1978, and it was scheduled to be demolished for a parking lot for the adjacent gas station in 1987 when it found saviors in Bill and Martha Lum, he a Methodist, she a Catholic. The two, who both grew up on cotton plantations, bought the synagogue and are restoring it. Its 100th anniversary will be marked by a celebration on Oct. 20.
"It's part of the heritage of this town, and we just couldn't stand to see it destroyed," Mr. Lum said. "The Jewish heritage is deep rooted here, and that's where we all come from, after all, back to Abraham." |
Economic Scene;Good news for the down and out, or are the data misleading?
By Peter Passell
Published: April 25, 1996
WHAT'S all this fuss about income inequality? Sure, the richer are richer and the poor are eating Doritos. But not to worry, says W. Michael Cox and Richard Alm, researchers at the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas: Most Americans struggling to make ends meet are on the fast track to affluence.
They found that just 5 percent of a sample of Americans in the bottom fifth of the income distribution in 1975 were still there 16 years later. Meanwhile, 29 percent of them had managed to grab the brass ring, ending up in the top fifth. And "between opportunity and equality," they remind, "it's opportunity that matters most."
The Cox-Alm study, published in the Dallas Federal Reserve's 1995 annual report, is making big waves among the movers and shakers of the political right. Indeed, after a ringing endorsement from the editorial page of The Wall Street Journal, it has become required reading for conservatives impatient with the current hand-wringing over the alleged plight of the young and immobile.
But a close look at the new research is not confidence-building. Indeed, even a casual look suggests that something -- actually, many things -- are amiss. "Cox and Alm ask the wrong question and give a misleading answer to the question they ask," argues Peter Gottschalk, an economist at Boston College and co-author of "America Unequal" (Russell Sage Foundation).
Standard measures of income distribution amount to snapshots at a moment in time. The large and growing variations between those at the top and bottom that have been reported by the Census are, of course, cause for disquiet. But liberals and conservatives generally agree that mobility matters, too. And without exception, studies that track the fortunes of individuals or families for many years suggest that lifetime income is distributed far more equally than income in any single year.
The Cox-Alm study is in this tradition. It follows 3,725 individuals ages 16 and over who remained part of the University of Michigan's Panel Survey on Income Dynamics for a 16-year period. And their conclusions are nothing short of remarkable. Of those in the bottom fifth in 1975, 95 percent were earning enough money in 1991 to have jumped in the rankings. Poverty in the 1975 snapshot was apparently no impediment to future economic success. The average income of individuals in the bottom fifth rose by $25,322, even after adjustment for inflation.
Mr. Gottschalk, however, notes that the Dallas researchers use unconventional means to reach these astonishing ends. For one thing, they measure incomes actually earned by individuals, rather than assigning individuals some prorated share of family income. As a result, the average earnings of the bottom fifth in 1975 was just $1,153 -- far less than anyone could actually live on.
Who, then, were these people? Probably not the poorest individuals, but the ones who worked only briefly in 1975. Mr. Gottschalk guesses most of them were part-time workers with marginal links to the formal labor force: students with after-school jobs, housewives who worked at the post office in the Christmas rush, and so forth.
Sixteen years later their average incomes had risen a fantastic 23-fold, to $26,475. To Mr. Gottschalk, this suggests that virtually all the former high school and college students in the sample had full-time jobs in 1991, as did most of the mothers whose children had grown up. "I'd be surprised if my teen-ager, who now earns pocket money delivering newspapers, doesn't do equally well," he allowed.
Mr. Gottschalk says, too, that by tracking individuals over time the Cox-Alm study mingles the impact of real economic mobility with income gains linked to accumulating work experience. It should hardly be surprising that 35-year-old carpenters make more than they did when they were 19-year-old carpenters.
What does all this add up to? "We have long known that mobility partially offsets the impact of inequality," says Van Doorn Ooms, director of research at the Committee for Economic Development. "It's still unclear by how much."
One answer that probably better represents the mainstream in economic research comes from Moshe Buchinsky and Jennifer Hunt of Yale University. In a paper published this year by the National Bureau of Economic Research, they estimated that averaging family incomes over a four-year period reduced measured inequality by about one-fourth. But they also found that the rate of economic mobility -- the probability of moving from one-fifth of the income distribution to another in any given year -- had actually fallen since 1980.
"Maybe it would make sense to spend less time splitting hairs over what's happened -- and more trying to figure out what can be done for the losers," Mr. Ooms concludes. |
Restaurant Union Criticizes Riese Tactics
By STEVEN GREENHOUSE
Published: January 30, 1997
At a feisty demonstration in yesterday's cold, the Hotel and Restaurant Employees Union stepped up its yearlong labor dispute with one of New York's largest restaurant companies, the Riese Organization, by contending that it has engaged in an unusual shell game.
Union leaders asserted that Riese, which runs more than 100 restaurants in New York City, including Charley O's, Houlihan's and T.G.I. Friday's, had repeatedly closed unionized restaurants and then, a few months later, reopened nonunion ones at the same sites.
Henry Tamarin, president of the local representing 350 workers at the 18 unionized Riese restaurants in New York, said job security was the main sticking point in negotiations. The union is also demanding that Riese, when opening new restaurants, give preferences in hiring to workers laid off at its unionized restaurants.
''In the last four years, this company has closed 25 unionized shops, and 450 workers have lost their jobs,'' Mr. Tamarin told more than 200 demonstrators in front of Martini's, a Riese restaurant at 53d Street and Seventh Avenue. ''Most didn't have the opportunity to work for the company again.''
Mr. Tamarin said workers at the Charley O's in Shubert Alley feared they would soon lose their jobs because they have been told the company plans to replace that restaurant with a more upscale one.
National Restaurants Inc., the Riese Organization's restaurant arm, issued a statement saying that ''we are negotiating in good faith'' and ''we look forward to the successful resolution of a new collective bargaining agreement.'' The company added that it ''has only the best interests of all New Yorkers and its employees at heart.''
Riese also runs dozens of Pizza Huts, Dunkin' Donuts and Nathan's in New York.
Union officials said the two sides had reached an agreement that calls for a 5.5 percent wage increase over three years for waiters and an 8.5 percent increase for nontip employees, like kitchen workers, who earn between $5 and $8 an hour. The two sides disagree about whether the wage increase should be retroactive, Mr. Tamarin said.
Photo: Restaurant workers picketed outside Martini's restaurant yesterday. (Jack Manning/The New York Times) |
World News Briefs; Former Nazi to Appeal A Life Sentence in Italy
Published: March 9, 1998
ROME, March 8— A former Nazi officer said today that he would appeal his war crimes conviction and life sentence to the European Court of Human Rights.
An Italian military appeals court on Saturday upheld the conviction of the former SS captain, Erich Priebke, 85, and raised his sentence to life. He had been scheduled to be released in two months.
Mr. Priebke was found guilty of helping carry out a massacre of 335 civilians in German-occupied Rome in 1944. He was allowed to serve his sentence under house arrest because of frail health.
In an interview with RAI state television, Mr. Priebke was asked if he would take his case to the European Court in Strasbourg, France. ''Naturally we will,'' he answered.
Mr. Priebke's lawyers have said they will appeal to Italy's Supreme Court, the final appeals court for military and civilian cases.
The military court on Saturday also gave a life sentence to former SS Maj. Karl Hass, also 85, for helping to carry out the 1944 massacre near the Ardeatine Caves outside Rome. |
CRISIS IN THE BALKANS: THE LOYALTIES
CRISIS IN THE BALKANS: THE LOYALTIES; Faiths View War Scenes Through Distinct Pasts
By GUSTAV NIEBUHR
Published: April 12, 1999
The war in Kosovo is producing images of destruction that have lent special intensity to the conflict's ethnic and religious dimensions.
Members of the various religious groups touched by the war have read these images -- villages burned to the ground, women and children driven from homes, crowds herded on to trains -- as texts bearing messages, to be interpreted according to their particular histories.
They are either about the experiences of World War II, or the centuries of tension between Islam and the West, or even the long rift between the Western and Eastern branches of Christianity.
The hundreds of thousands of people routed from their homes and forced to flee, often packed into train cars, have created scenes that for some recall the Nazi attacks on European Jews half a century ago.
For others, especially Serbs and those who feel a kinship with them, the NATO air strikes yesterday during the Christian Orthodox Easter call forth memories of the assault by German warplanes on Belgrade on Easter of 1941.
Some American Muslims question how committed the West will be to defending a largely Islamic minority, the Kosovar Albanians, in the heart of Europe.
''It cuts to the core of the issue of how Islam and the West are going to be compatible,'' Salam Al-Marayati, director of the Muslim Public Affairs Council, said in a telephone interview from Los Angeles. He described the Yugoslav Army's drive against the Kosovar Albanians as ''genocide,'' and said that if it succeeded, ''then the future is very bleak for Muslims in the West and for pluralism in general.''
Helal Ahmed, who attended a small rally on Saturday in Washington in support of the bombing, said, ''I think what is happening in Kosovo is the same as what happened to the Jews under Hitler.'' Yesterday, during Easter celebrations at Holy Resurrection Cathedral in Chicago, a center of the Serbian Orthodox Church in the United States and Canada, worshipers were read a letter from Patriarch Pavle, in Belgrade, who called the NATO bombing ''inhuman.''
Marko Bojovich, who heads the cathedral's youth group, said people at the service ''feel betrayed, especially because a lot of us religious leaders called for a cease-fire.''
One of those attending, Bob Kornic, 57, an engineer from Shelbyville, Mich., noted the profound importance many Serbs attach to Kosovo, where a Serbian army was overwhelmed by invading Turkish forces in 1389. ''It would be easier for the Jewish people to concede Jerusalem than for Serbia to concede Kosovo,'' he said. ''That's our Holy Land.''
Mick Spaic, 48, an engineer from Schaumburg, Ill., said he was born into a Serbian family in the city of Pec, in Kosovo, in 1951. ''At that time, it was 50 percent Christian Serbs and 50 percent Albanians,'' he said. ''When I was a little kid, 6 years old, I could have taken a half-mile short-cut through the Albanian neighborhood. I got beaten or chased so many times. Now you're portraying the Serbians as bad boys and the Albanians as good boys.''
Recent pleas for aid for the Kosovar Albanians included full-page advertisements in The New York Times last week by the American Jewish World Service and the International Rescue Committee. It included a photograph of refugees crowding aboard a train, an image of people despised and dispossessed.
''The images are very, very powerful,'' said Rabbi A. James Rudin, interreligious affairs director at the American Jewish Committee. Among some Jews, reacting to the refugees' plight, Rabbi Rudin said, ''I've heard the phrase, 'They are us.' ''
The war, too, has called attention to an old division within Christianity, between the Western churches and their Eastern counterparts.
Despite many important efforts by leaders of both branches to heal a breach dating to 1054, when Pope Leo IX and Patriarch Michael Cerularius of Constantinople declared each other anathema, tensions between West and East have flared since the fall of Communism over Western missionaries' proselytizing in historically Orthodox nations.
And since the war over Kosovo began, expressions of sympathy with the Serbs have been evident in Russia and Greece. During Easter services in Greece yesterday, the Associated Press reported, anti-war protesters turned out and donations for the Serbs were collected.
From the start of the NATO campaign, tensions have also been felt within the World Council of Churches, which represents nearly 340 Protestant and Orthodox denominations. Without attempting to assign blame, the council has called for a cease-fire and a negotiated peace.
In a recent interview, the council's general secretary, the Rev. Konrad Raiser, said the NATO bombing had aggravated tensions between Orthodox and non-Orthodox, although how much it would do so was a matter of speculation. But, he said, ''From an Orthodox perspective, it is at least conspicuous that the main powers involved in the NATO action are, of course, powers shaped by a predominately Protestant ethos.''
''In all political conflicts, whether acknowledged or not, there is a religious undercurrent,'' Mr. Raiser added, ''because even in our secularized world, the neat separation of religion and politics doesn't work any more.'' |
FILM; For a Gentle Giant, A Big First Step
By RICK LYMAN
Published: December 12, 1999
HOLLYWOOD— WHEN Michael Clarke Duncan steps out of his Chevrolet Suburban, one of the really, really big ones, he makes it look like a Volkswagen Rabbit. At 6-foot-5 and 316 pounds, he is a human wall, and his hand, which he offers with a smile of unalloyed delight, is big enough to swallow a grapefruit.
''All my life, I wanted to come to Hollywood,'' he said. ''It was something my mother always wanted to do, but nobody pushed her.''
Until just recently, Mr. Duncan, 36, could still walk down a crowded street or work out at his local gym without people turning their heads or, except in rare instances, asking for his autograph (and most of the times that happens, he said, people are mistaking him for the actor Ving Rhames). But on Friday, ''The Green Mile'' opened in theaters all over the country. Directed by Frank Darabont, whose first film, ''The Shawshank Redemption,'' drew seven Academy Award nominations in 1995, it is also based on a Stephen King story and also set in a prison. In this movie, Tom Hanks plays a Death Row prison guard in the 1930's who comes to believe that one of his prisoners, a gentle and somewhat dim giant played by Mr. Duncan, has supernatural healing powers and may, in fact, be a kind of angel.
Not too bad for a guy who, just a few years ago, was sitting in a fleabag hotel talking to cockroaches, who once almost gave up acting to join the Los Angeles Police Department and who spent most of his years in Hollywood playing security guard and limo driver to a who's who of black actors and comedians.
''This is really like a gift from God,'' Mr. Duncan said. ''I tell people, 'It's just like a cliche, but it's true: in Hollywood, dreams can come true.' ''
Which is not to say that Mr. Duncan has put his struggling days behind him.
''I still take my camera to every premiere, to every photo shoot,'' Mr. Duncan said. ''Tom Hanks or somebody will say to me, 'Michael, you are the only actor who carries a camera.' I tell them: 'Hey, I know it's no big deal for you guys. But it's still a very big deal to me.' I mean, you know, I'll see Billy Crystal walking up and it's like, wow, Billy Crystal, so I snap a picture. I want to have something later on to prove that this really happened to me.''
Mr. Hanks allowed as how, yes, it is true about Mr. Duncan and his camera. ''He brings cameras pretty much everywhere that is connected to the movie,'' Mr. Hanks said. ''He just can't believe that he has been invited to these places. But as far as anyone ragging him about it, well, I don't know who would do a thing like that.''
Mr. Duncan was born and raised on Chicago's South Side and studied communications at Alcorn State University in Mississippi before taking a job back home for the gas company. ''I was out there digging ditches, for years, when I finally realized that if I didn't do something pretty soon I was going to be digging ditches for another 20 years,'' Mr. Duncan said.
He hooked up with the national touring company of a play called ''Beauty Shop, Part 2,'' not as an actor but as the security guard. They toured 56 cities before the play came to Los Angeles and Mr. Duncan decided, O.K., this is it. He took a room in a Hollywood hotel, as cheap as he could find. ''I was eating Chicken McNuggets every night,'' Mr. Duncan said. ''I couldn't get a job. I didn't know anybody. There were these big cockroaches on the wall every night and, after a while, I started talking to them. I was a little worried that I might be going crazy.''
Finally, he was down to his last $20. He called his mother and said he thought he might have made a mistake and was thinking of coming home. ''She told me, 'You're not going to get anything unless you give it your all,' '' he said. ''She said that if I had given it my all and it still wasn't working, then I could quit. But if I hadn't given it my all yet, I had to keep trying.'' So he stayed.
Soon afterward, he found work -- as a security guard.
He worked for Martin Lawrence, Will Smith, LL Cool J, Jamie Foxx -- most of the big emerging black actors of the time. ''After a while, I started to get cool with them,'' he said. And he got an agent, who helped him land some small roles on some of the television series starring his clients, like ''The Jamie Foxx Show'' and ''Fresh Prince of Bel Air.'' Usually he played a bouncer at a nightclub, or was featured in prison scenes, the big scary guy who gave the star a comic moment. ''I didn't mind it,'' he said. ''It was something to get my feet in.''
After a while, he was getting small roles in movies: ''Back in Business'' in 1997, playing a prison guard; ''A Night at the Roxbury'' in 1998, playing a bouncer; ''The Players Club'' in 1998, playing a bouncer, and ''Bulworth'' in 1998 playing, for a change of pace, a bouncer.
Then he landed the role of Bear, one of Bruce Willis's drilling crew in the 1998 blockbuster ''Armageddon.'' It was while he was shooting ''Armageddon'' that Mr. Willis told him about a script he had read for ''The Green Mile,'' which included a part that might be right for him. ''Bruce told me about the part and said that if I was interested, he would call the director, Frank Darabont, and tell him about me, but that from then on it was up to me,'' Mr. Duncan said. ''I told him, yes, of course, but I didn't know if he'd really do it.''
He really did it. And Mr. Darabont called in Mr. Duncan and he got the part. The shoot, he remembers, was grueling. There was take after take, often with him having to weep copiously for hours. ''I needed a lot of energy because we were doing like 5, 6, 7 takes, and then 14, 15, 18,'' he said.
The character Mr. Duncan plays in the film is huge but utterly gentle and sweet, speaking in quiet whispers much of the time. ''Which is just antithetical to the way he really is,'' Mr. Hanks said. ''He's a big man with a big personality. He was always taking every opportunity on the set to stand up and declaim at the top of his voice. He'd hop up on a table and get everyone's attention and say, 'I'd just like to thank everybody for what we did today.' ''
And now Mr. Duncan finds himself with a big movie in the theaters and the beginning rumbles of Oscar talk. He is fully prepared to sign more autographs (Mr. Hanks coached him on how to sign his name quickly, after he saw Mr. Duncan painstakingly writing out his signature in a slow, careful script) and he's excited about taking part in awards nights, if it comes to that.
But he's going to bring his camera.
''I find myself at things like that now, and there comes a moment in the evening when I think, oh, it's time for me to go get the limo,'' Mr. Duncan said. ''Then I remember, no, somebody else is doing that for me now.''
Photo: Michael Clarke Duncan is a death row inmate with healing powers and Tom Hanks is a guard in ''The Green Mile,'' which opened Friday. (Ralph Nelson/Castle Rock Entertainment) |
PLUS: PRO FOOTBALL
PLUS: PRO FOOTBALL; Hasselbeck Leads Seahawks Past Saints
Published: September 2, 2001
Matt Hasselbeck passed for two touchdowns in his first two series and the Seattle Seahawks completed their exhibition schedule with a 28-14 victory over the visiting New Orleans Saints yesterday.
Deuce McAllister, New Orleans's first-round pick from Mississippi, rushed for 108 yards on 19 carries, all in the first half, as Ricky Williams sat out the game. McAllister also had a 36-yard punt return in the second half.
Hasselbeck, who will be the starting quarterback in Seattle's opener in Cleveland, had a 60-yard touchdown pass to Darrell Jackson and a 12-yard scoring pass to Karsten Bailey in the opening period before he came out.
Hasselbeck had three touchdown passes in the first quarter in a victory in San Francisco last week.
BROWN TO MISS CLEVELAND OPENER: Defensive end Courtney Brown, the first player chosen in the 2000 N.F.L. draft, sprained a ligament in his right knee and will miss the Cleveland Browns' season opener Sept. 9 against Seattle.
Brown was injured during the first quarter of a preseason game Friday against Carolina. It is the same injury that forced him to miss last week's exhibition game against Washington.
He first sprained his right knee in practice a week before the Washington game.
The Browns were decimated by injuries last season, which led to a 3-13 record and cost Coach Chris Palmer his job. Now, Coach Butch Davis will begin his era without his best defensive player for at least the first week.
The 6-foot-4, 266-pound Brown will not need surgery, but his playing status will be determined week by week. |
Afghan Women in Political Spotlight
By CARLOTTA GALL
Published: June 26, 2002
KABUL, Afghanistan, June 25— If Afghanistan has produced a surprise of late, it is the vocal and fearless entry of its women into the traditional male domain of politics.
With the continuing discoveries of Al Qaeda weapons, violent clashes between warlords, and politics so confused that the description byzantine barely catches the complexity, it can sometimes seem to outsiders that little progress is being made in post-Taliban Afghanistan.
For women, that is not the case. Just six months ago, under the Taliban, they were not allowed to leave the house uncovered, or receive education beyond the age of 8. Now they have found their voice -- to the joy of many, and the consternation of some.
''Afghanistan has come out of a very dark and terrible graveyard,'' said Dr. Nazdama, assistant director of the hospital in the town of Gardez, southeast of Kabul, and one of the Pashtun women delegates to this month's grand council, or loya jirga, which marked the firm emergence of women in Afghan politics.
Dr. Nazdama, who uses just one name, was one of 200 women who joined 1,400 male delegates and determinedly used the platform to show Afghanistan that women want peace, not war, education, not guns, construction and jobs, not poverty.
''This is the wish of all women, that they do not hear one single more bullet,'' said Hasina Mukhles, an engineer from northern Afghanistan.
''The last 9 or 10 days have changed things a lot in the whole of Afghanistan,'' said Dr. Nazdama, referring to the effect of speeches by women broadcast over national television and radio, and therefore followed in every outlying village. ''Six months ago you would not have been able to stand here and talk,'' she noted to a female reporter. ''Nor could I have done so.''
A group of female delegates berated a group of warlords and political leaders as they sat in one of the side tents the first evening, the women blaming the men for causing so much of the suffering and destruction of recent years. They fielded a female presidential candidate and a woman was elected deputy chairwoman of the loya jirga.
Despite their gains, many of the outspoken women said they felt the strong undertow of resistance to their return to public life, and pondered how far women had to go to win equal rights in their country.
Dr. Sima Samar, the interim minister of women's affairs for the last six months, was cautious in predicting rapid change in a society where women for so long have had no voice.
''We will see the effect in a while; it takes time,'' she said.
Fatiha Serour, a senior adviser on women's issues to the United Nations special representative Lakhdar Brahimi, said women had to coordinate better in order to be effective. She hopes that a network of 40 women who emerged from the loya jirga as clear leaders will be able to make connections across Afghanistan and work on an agenda for elections in two years.
Still, the very spectacle of women jostling with men for a public microphone to make speeches from the floor at the loya jirga was a stark contrast to the disappearance of women from public life for five years under the Taliban. Women spoke, too, from the podium, and some even approached the United Nations press organizers to ask them to transmit more footage of female delegates, as people back home were complaining they could not see them on television.
Dr. Samar, one of two women ministers in the interim government, was elected deputy chairwoman of the loya jirga, beating a dozen male candidates in a secret ballot.
Now, despite facing taunts and even implied death threats for her role and her outspokenness, she has agreed to head the new commission for human rights, a post that will bring her up against many of the most notorious commanders and warlords. ''I am used to playing with fire,'' she said. ''Somebody has to do it,''
Reflecting on the nine days of the grand council, she said: ''For me all the men and women coming to the loya jirga and sitting together was a success. Me winning was a success. A woman as candidate for president was a success. No one was dreaming of this six months ago.''
In the competition for the presidency, the second-place finish of 35-year-old Dr. Massouda Jalal, a pediatrician who works for the World Food Program, behind Hamid Karzai, but ahead of two other men, was a genuine surprise. ''I think it has changed the mentality of people, for women not to be so weak, or like second-class citizens,'' Dr. Jalal said.
''Now everyone knows that Afghan women have the right and still have the courage to be president,'' said Mariah Sazawar, a journalist for the weekly newspaper Bedar, and a delegate from the northern town of Mazar-i-Sharif.
''It was very important to show from the start that women want to be considered for all the highest posts,'' said Fatima Gailani, the daughter of a religious leader, and herself one of the female delegates. ''It would have been more difficult if we had waited until the next elections.''
The newfound visibility has come at a price. A newspaper published two days before the loya jirga began on June 11 quoted Dr. Samar as saying she did not believe in Islamic Shariat law -- a misquote, she says -- and called her the Salman Rushdie of Afghanistan, intimating she deserved the same death threat that the British author earned for alleged blasphemy in his work.
Days after the council concluded, she disclosed that she had received threatening notes from the floor as she presided over the proceedings. ''They are trying to discourage me, make me angry or make me shout,'' she said of her opponents.
Many other female delegates came up against milder, but no less insidious, forms of opposition. ''Nine men and two women came from my province, and the men did not want us to come -- they were making excuses, that for example there was not good security on the roads,'' said Saleha Mirzad, a school director from Nimruz Province in southwestern Afghanistan. ''But we women said: 'Whatever the conditions, we will go.' ''
Ms. Sazawar, the journalist from Mazar-i-Sharif, was standing outside the Kabul Polytechnic compound where the loya jirga was held, lamenting its democratic shortcomings, when a policeman barged into the conversation, shouting her down. She and her female colleagues quickly moved away.
A passing male delegate, Haji Abdul Khaliq, from Helmand Province, said: ''In my opinion, rights should be given equally to men and women. They can do things equally. But from the Islamic point of view, women do not have the right to be a judge or president.''
Even Pir Gailani, a much revered religious leader, was accused by other delegates of trying to start a quarrel by bringing his daughters to the gathering, Ms. Gailani said.
''There is some pressure from our brothers who carry guns, but they cannot totally control us,'' said Ms. Gailani. ''Especially today, people spoke very strongly against warlords and guns, and they said they want educated experts in government posts. Everyone asked for that.''
Photos: Dr. Sima Samar, an advocate of women's rights, was elected deputy chairwoman of the loya jirga, beating a dozen men in a secret ballot. (Associated Press); Afghanistan's first woman to be a presidential candidate, Dr. Massouda Jalal, finished behind Hamid Karzai, but ahead of two male opponents. (Natalie Behring-Chisholm) |
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|Renewable biological systems for alternative sustainable energy production. (FAO Agricultural Services Bulletin - 128) (1997)|
|Chapter 1 - Biological energy production|
|1.2 Photosynthesis and biomass|
Photosynthesis can be simply represented by the equation:
CO2 + H2O + light ® 6 (CH2O) + O2
Approximately 114 kilocalories of free energy are stored in plant biomass for every mole of CO2 fixed during photosynthesis. Solar radiation striking the earth on an annual basis is equivalent to 178,000 terawatts, i.e. 15,000 times that of current global energy consumption. Although photosynthetic energy capture is estimated to be ten times that of global annual energy consumption, only a small part of this solar radiation is used for photosynthesis. Approximately two thirds of the net global photosynthetic productivity worldwide is of terrestrial origin, while the remainder is produced mainly by phytoplankton (microalgae) in the oceans which cover approximately 70% of the total surface area of the earth. Since biomass originates from plant and algal photosynthesis, both terrestrial plants and microalgae are appropriate targets for scientific studies relevant to biomass energy production.
Any analysis of biomass energy production must consider the potential efficiency of the processes involved. Although photosynthesis is fundamental to the conversion of solar radiation into stored biomass energy, its theoretically achievable efficiency is limited both by the limited wavelength range applicable to photosynthesis, and the quantum requirements of the photosynthetic process. Only light within the wavelength range of 400 to 700 nm (photosynthetically active radiation, PAR) can be utilized by plants, effectively allowing only 45 % of total solar energy to be utilized for photosynthesis. Furthermore, fixation of one CO2 molecule during photosynthesis, necessitates a quantum requirement of ten (or more), which results in a maximum utilization of only 25% of the PAR absorbed by the photosynthetic system. On the basis of these limitations, the theoretical maximum efficiency of solar energy conversion is approximately 11%. In practice, however, the magnitude of photosynthetic efficiency observed in the field, is further decreased by factors such as poor absorption of sunlight due to its reflection, respiration requirements of photosynthesis and the need for optimal solar radiation levels. The net result being an overall photosynthetic efficiency of between 3 and 6% of total solar radiation.
Wastes and residues currently constitute a large source of biomass (1). These include solid and liquid municipal wastes, manure, lumber and pulp mill wastes, and forest and agricultural residues. With the exception of feedstocks of low water content, most of this biomass cannot be directly utilized, and must undergo some form of transformation, prior to being utilized as a fuel. Biological processes for the conversion of biomass to fuels include ethanol fermentation by yeast or bacteria, and methane production by microbial consortia under anaerobic conditions.
Wood wastes in the paper and pulp industries and bagasse from the sugar-cane industry are examples of biomass likely to accumulate at a single site. The cellulosic nature of these biomass materials, necessitates their hydrolysis to glucose, prior to ethanol fermentation. The net energy balance for the processes involved can, however, be problematic in that energy requirements for cellulose hydrolysis and distillation, must be lower than the energy in the output ethanol.
Unlike ethanol fermentation, anaerobic digestion for methane production, utilizes organic materials containing carbohydrates, lipids, and proteins. Many species of microbes work cooperatively in an anaerobic digester, in which these polymeric materials (i.e. carbohydrates, proteins and lipids) are first decomposed to organic acids, and then to hydrogen and carbon dioxide, from which methane is synthesized by methanogens. A variety of raw materials which include agricultural wastes, municipal solid wastes, market garbage, and waste water from food and fermentation industries, are applicable as substrates for this process. Waste products derived from animal husbandry are applicable to anaerobic digestion, with the added bonus of solving the environmental issues of unpleasant odors and eutrophication. Although small-scale digesters are popularly used at both the farm and village levels, large-scale operations are still in need of considerable technical improvement and cost reduction, and thus require both microbial and engineering studies.
Methane and ethanol can also be produced from cultured microalgal biomass through anaerobic digestion and microbial fermentation processes, respectively. The economics of fuel production from microalgal biomass is however largely dependent on a microalgal CO2 fixation step similar to that required for the production of H2 and algal oils.
One of the most serious environmental problems today is that of global warming, caused primarily by the heavy use of fossil fuels. In Japan, large amounts of CO2 are released into the atmosphere from electric power plants and industry. The CO2 generated by these large point sources could potentially be recovered with relative ease through the use of an established technology such as chemical absorption. The enormity of the amounts of potentially recoverable CO2 would however necessitate the development of technologies for sequestering or, more favorably, utilizing this CO2.
Photosynthetic microalgae are potential candidates for utilizing excessive amounts of CO2, since when cultivated these organisms are capable of fixing CO2 to produce energy and chemical compounds upon exposure to sunlight. The derivation of energy from algal biomass is an attractive concept in that unlike fossil fuels, algal biomass is rather uniformly distributed over much of the earth's surface, and its utilization would make no net contribution to increasing atmospheric CO2 levels. Although algal biomass is regarded as a low-grade energy source owing to its high moisture content, through biological processes, it may be converted to modem gaseous and liquid fuels such as hydrogen, methane, ethanol, and oils.
Hydrogen is regarded as a potential energy source of the future, since it is easily converted to electricity and bums cleanly. Hydrogen is currently produced by fossil fuel-based processes which emit large amounts of CO2, and relatively smaller amounts of other air pollutants such as sulphur dioxide and nitrogen oxides. Biological H2 production has thus recently received renewed attention owing to urban air pollution and global warming concerns (2). Biological hydrogen production methodologies incorporating artificial reconstitution systems with chloroplast, ferredoxin, and hydrogenase; a heterocystous cyanobacterial system with oxygen scavengers; and an algal system in a day-and-night cycle, have been studied in
Japan. From an engineering point of view, however, bacterial fermentation mechanisms for hydrogen production under either dark or light conditions is currently of importance in terms of environmental issues and the utilization of organic wastes such as waste effluent of the food and fermentation industries, pre-treated sewage sludge, and market garbage.
The use of microalgae as sources of liquid fuels is an attractive proposition from the point of view that microalgae are photosynthetic renewable resources, are of a high lipid content, have faster growth rates than plant cells, and are capable of growth in saline waters which are unsuitable for agriculture. While the lipid content of microalgae, on a dry cellular weight basis varies between 20 and 40 %, lipid contents as high as 85 % have been reported for certain microalgal strains. Botryococcus braunii, is a unique microalgal strain, having a long-chain hydrocarbon content of between 30 and 40% (dry weight basis), which is directly extractable to yield crude oil substitutes. Both physical and chemical processes are applicable in the production of liquid fuels from algal strains of high lipid content. These processes include direct lipid extraction in the production of diesel-oil substitutes, transesterification in the formation of ester fuels, and hydrogenation in the production of hydrocarbons (3). Oily substances are also produced via liquefaction of microalgal biomass through thermochemical reactions under conditions of high pressure and temperature. |
|Food Composition Data: A User's Perspective (United Nations University - UNU, 1987, 223 pages)|
|International food composition data|
|Nutrient intake data calculated using food composition tables: factors affecting accuracy|
Materials and methods
HERNANDO FLORES and MARIA A.S.C. COELHO
Laboratory of Nutritional Biochemistry, Department of Nutrition, Federal University of Pernambuco, Cidade Universitaria, Brazil
Specific nutrient deficiencies continue to be one of the world's major public health problems, especially in underdeveloped countries. In terms of number of individuals affected and geographical distribution, vitamin A and iron deficiencies are among the most prominent . One very serious drawback for the design and implementation of nutrition intervention programmes is the inadequacy of dietary information, almost always plagued by the spectre of inaccuracy . Thus, it is not uncommon to find reports describing high iron intakes in areas where iron-deficiency anaemia appears with undesirably high prevalence [2, 9, 11], or extremely low vitamin A intakes which are not accompanied by a compatibly high prevalence of eye lesions [2, 6, 9, 11]. Similar problems exist when trying to establish correlations between the intake of other nutrients and related clinical or biochemical indicators [3,12, 18, 20, 21].
The accuracy of nutrient information depends on the methods of collecting and handling the data. Some of these have been examined [3, 8,14, 20, 21] but, in general, attempts to reconcile dietary and biochemical or clinical information from nutrition surveys are still needed. The present study was designed to evaluate the relative contribution to the inaccuracy of dietary information of both regional differences in the nutrient composition of foods and the differences between those values obtained by calculation and those obtained by direct analysis of foods as eaten.
Three recipes for the dishes most frequently consumed by the population in Northeast Brazil were selected for this study. These recipes are practically standard and appear with very little variation among users ; they can thus be considered representative of local alimentary practices. The proportion of raw ingredients and the per cent composition as actually eaten are shown in table 1. The culinary preparations, also in accordance with local practices, were as follows:
Table 1. Composition of regional dishes
(% in serving)
|Beans (mulatinho)||39.5||21. 1|
|Pork blood||39 5||39 5|
|Sweet potatoes||9.1||10 9|
|Wild cabbage||3 7||7 4|
|Green herbsa||18.8||15 0|
|Cassava flour||-||5 1|
a. A mixture, in equal parts, of green pepper, coriander, green onions, tomatoes, and onions.
- Feijoada: the beans (mulatinho type) were soaked in water for one hour, after which the beef and bacon were added. The mixture was boiled for two hours. Then the vegetables were added for a final boiling for 30 minutes.
- Sarapatel de porco: the pork blood and viscera were cooked in salted water, cut in small pieces, and boiled for one hour with the vegetables.
- Cozido: the meat and aromatic herbs were boiled in water for two hours. When these were nearly cooked, the vegetables were added. Before serving, the solids and liquid were separated, the latter to be mixed with cassava flour.
Individual servings of each preparation, in accordance with local uses , were duly homogenized with a blender, and appropriate aliquots of the homogenates were taken for the analysis of moisture, ash , fibre , ether extract , protein , calcium , phosphate , iron , vitamin A and carotenoids , and vitamin C . The minerals were analysed in aliquots of the ashes. Carbohydrates were calculated by difference. The net weight of raw and cooked ingredients and the relative contribution of the latter in individual servings were recorded. All assays were run in duplicate, using appropriate standards. Differences greater than 5 per cent between duplicates were considered unacceptable. All ingredients of the recipes were also analysed individually. The nutrient composition of the recipes was calculated using the values of the Food Composition Table of INCAP-ICCND and those obtained from our analysis of the individual raw ingredients. Hence, two estimates of the nutrient composition of each recipe were made, along with direct analysis of appropriate aliquots of each dish. All reagents were analytical grade.
Table 2 permits comparison of the values of the INCAP table with those obtained at our laboratory for the proximal composition, plus the iron, vitamin A, and vitamin C content of the 22 ingredients of the 3 dishes selected for this study. The values for fibre, calcium, and phosphate were not included in the table, as they add little to the objective of this work. It is readily apparent that agreement within a margin of + 20 per cent was obtained only in about one-third of the total number of analyses performed. Results were below 80 per cent of the table value in 38 per cent of the observations, while 28 per cent presented with differences of more than 20 per cent above the figure in the table.
In the case of iron and vitamin A, the tendency was for the INCAP table values to grossly overestimate the content of the foodstuffs analysed. Especially remarkable was the case of iron, where 90 per cent of our values were well below 80 per cent of the figure presented by the INCAP table. Most of the major differences in protein content were in foodstuffs that are unimportant as sources of this nutrient, like coriander, pepper, and onions.
Table 3 was constructed to show the practical implications of the differences in the nutrient compositions described above. A previous survey , carried out in a country village, was used as a source of data to recalculate nutrient intake using the values obtained at our laboratory. Protein consumption shows very little difference, as could be expected from table 2. Vitamin A intake, on the other hand, seems to have been slightly underestimated, and that of iron grossly overestimated, when the INCAP table values were used.
The problem of "foods as eaten" was approached by comparing the results of direct analysis of the dish with the nutrient composition calculated using the values in the INCAP table or the the values obtained by local analyses (table 2). The changes in the relative proportion of the ingredients after cooking were taken into account by directly weighing the ingredients before and after culinary processing.
Figure 1 shows that up to 22-fold differences could be found when comparing the nutrient composition of the food as eaten with that calculated from the composition of the raw ingredients ("recipe calculation"). As could be expected from the degree of "complexity" of the dishes, feijoada was the one containing the largest differences.
It should first be emphasized that our aim was not to construct a Food Composition Table for local foodstuffs but, rather, to evaluate the degree of accuracy that can be expected from nutrient-intake data calculated from a Food Composition Table for Use in Latin America (i.e. recommended for this purpose).
It is apparent that differences of up to one order of magnitude can be found between the results of our local analysis and the values for some nutrients given by the INCAP table (the vitamin C content of green pepper determined here was 20 times higher than that given by the table). Of particular interest was the observation that nearly all the values for iron content were below 50 per cent of the value given by the INCAP table. It can readily be appreciated that the use of the table leads to an overestimation of iron consumption, and to reconciling the dietary data with the high prevalence of iron-deficiency anaemia found in the region [2, 11,22]. It is also interesting to note that no value for the iron content of the 20 foodstuffs analysed here fell within 80-120 per cent of the value in the INCAP table. Equally interesting is the fact that the protein content of the so-called "sources of protein" showed little difference between the two values compared here. This might be the starting-point for suggesting that nutrient composition data could be divided into two categories: those of nutrients that show a high variation - probably attributable to regional differences (soil, climate, season, species) - and those of nutrients in some foodstuffs that show very little variation, probably insignificant for dietary evaluation purposes. Minerals and some vitamins are likely examples of the first category, while protein - being a compulsory component of foodstuffs derived from animal or plant tissues - could be a good example of the second category. Appropriate software for identifying the members of each category could be easily developed, and there are probably enough data available from various food composition tables to be used for this purpose.
Table 2. Nutrient composition of local foodstuffs, Recife
|INCAP table no.||Moisture||Protein||Fat||Carbohydrate||Ash||lron||Vitamin A||Vitamin C|
|Sweet potato, yellow||107|
Table 3. Estimated iron and vitamin A intakes using nutrient composition figures from INCAP table and analysisa
|Vitamin A, µg/d|
|(as retinol equivalents)||143.2||174.9|
a. Food consumption data are from a survey in Agua Preta, Pernambuco .
Vitamin A nutriture constitutes a problem that should be looked at - in our region - from another angle. It is apparent that the difference in the figures for consumption resulting from the use of the INCAP table and our results is not enough to explain a lack of prevalence of severe signs of vitamin A deficiency [2, 6, 7, 12] which is not compatible with the very low vitamin A intakes reported in several surveys [2, 9, 12]. One possible explanation might be that some regional fruits, with a very high carotene and carotenoids content, are consumed by the population but not reported in the surveys. We have observed that the fact that some of these fruits are not actually "bought" may lead the population not to consider them as "foods." Thus, a significant contribution to vitamin A intake may have been overlooked in the past.
The problem of regional differences in nutrient composition - and the difficulties generated by the use of food consumption tables which are, most of the time, inadequate for specific situations - is well known. Our data have only shown what the practical implication of this may be, and one way to reconcile dietary data with other indicators of the nutritional status. Our data on "dish-nutrient composition" (fig. 1) shows another very serious drawback in the analysis of survey data with the aid of food composition tables: the so-called "foods-as-eaten" problem. In theory, there has never been any reason to consider as reliable "recipe composition data," i.e. the compound nutrient composition of a dish, obtained by addition of the contribution of each single (raw) ingredient.
This approach ignores liability to heat of a great many nutrients, and losses that may result from chemical reactions as a consequence of the interaction between ingredients which are "incubated" for variable periods at 100°C or more. From a chemical view, feijoada was the dish to undergo the most drastic treatment (see recipe) and, in keeping with this, losses of 66 to 95 per cent were observed for protein and vitamin A respectively, regardless of the nutrient composition value used for the "recipe calculation." It was beyond the scope of this work to determine the actual causes for these losses, and we are first to admit that that of protein was the most intriguing. But the obvious conclusion is that food composition tables cannot continue to be used, without restriction, for calculating nutrient intakes.
The number of foodstuffs and nutrients analysed here was very modest. One should bear in mind, however, that sweet potatoes, cassava flour, sugar, beans, and a little meat account for more than 70 per cent of the daily food intake of the underprivileged in this region , as well as in most of the rest of the country. This is what we consider to be "alimentary monotony." Regarding nutrients, our contention is that emphasis should always be given to those capable of generating, by deficient or excessive intake, public health problems. These nutrients would include protein, vitamin A, and iron; the list would vary according to region, but would certainly be limited in each case.
It is becoming increasingly important to count on reliable sources of accurate data for nutrient intake evaluation in connection with a number of nutrition-related diseases.
Our data show that food composition tables do not meet accuracy requirements when the analysis involves foods that are not consumed raw, and where the presence and amount of nutrients in foodstuffs are very dependent on local conditions, mainly soil composition. This work also shows that dietary data can be reconciled with related clinical and biochemical indicators.
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2. M. Batista, N. Chaves, R. M. Varela, M. H. M. Martins, A. C. Salzano, M. O. Bazante, S. M. G. Teixeira, G. J. C. Lima, F. M. Reis, G. C. Martins, and E. R. Linhares, "Inquérito em area urbane da Zona Mata do Nordeste Brasileiro. Agua Preta, Pernambuco," O Hospital, 79: 139-155 (1971).
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4. P. V. A. S. Ferro and A. N. Ham, "Colorimetric Determination of Calcium by Chloronilic Acid. 11. A Semimicro Method with Reduced Precipitation Time," Am. J. Clin. Pathol., 28:689 692 (1957).
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7. H. Flores and C. R. C. Araujo, "Liver Levels of Retinol in Unselected Necropsy Specimens: A Prevalence Survey of Vitamin A Deficiency in Recife, Brazil," A.J.C.N., 40: 146-152 (1984).
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21. A. A. Rider, B. M. Calkins, R. S. Arthur, and P. P. Nair, "Diet, Nutrition Intake and Metabolism in Populations at High and Low Risk of Colon Cancer. Concordance of Nutrient Information Obtained by Different Methods," A.J.C.N., 40 (Suppl.): 906-913 (1984).
22. A. C. Salzano, M. Batista, H. Flores, and C. L. A. Calado, "Prevalencia de anemia no ciclo gestacional em dois estados do nordeste brasileiro, Pernambuco e Paraiba," Rev. Bras. Pesq. Med. Biol., 13: 211214 (1980).
23. R. Strohecker and H. M. Henning, "Vitamin C Determination," Vitamin Assay (Verlag Chemie, Berlin, 1965), p. 243.
24. A. L. Winton and K. B. Winton, Análisis de alimentos (Ed. Continental, Mexico City, 1957), pp. 75-79.
25. World Health Organization, Vitamin A Deficiency and Xerophthalmia, Technical Report Series, no. 590 (WHO, Geneva, 1976). |
A contingent of Hawke's Bay gymnasts brought a swag of medals home from the national gymnastic competition in Blenheim recently.
The Hawke's Bay/Poverty Bay team saw 25 gymnasts competing against more than 400 others at the 2012 New Zealand National Artistic Gymnastic Championships.
Team manager Joy Kitto said each athlete had to pass a qualifying standard and show consistency throughout the competition season.
"This is the pinnacle of the competition season with 15 provinces attending the event," she said. "Team management, coaches and parents were happy with this year's results and greatly appreciated the donation from Pub Charities which helped with transport costs."
Results from the three-day competition included a bronze from the Step 5 girls team - Amber Kingsbeer, Laura Johnson, Ruby Barnett and Hannah Cotter.
The girls had a total of six top eight placings on apparatus and the step 6 girls team had three top eight placings.
The step 7 girls team were also successful with Emily McAneney winning gold on the vault and coming 8th on uneven bars, and Keely Phillips winning bronze on floor and coming 4th on uneven bars, 6th on beam and 5th overall.
In the male competition, the level 6 boys - Harry Pittar, Levi Cox, Baylee Crago - won silver in the teams event. Harry also won bronze on vault, was 4th on floor and 7th on rings.
It has also been announced that the 2013 competition will be held in Napier at the Pettigrew Green Arena.
"This will not only bring the best New Zealand artistic gymnasts to Hawke's Bay, but the event will also feature aerobics, rhythmic gymnastics and trampolining," Mrs Kitto said. "This will bring a vast number of visitors to the region and will be a wonderful spectator event." |
December 8, 2006
LICENSED COUNSELOR CONVICTED OF MEDICAID FRAUD
General J. Joseph Curran, Jr. announced today that Gabriel W.
Adelanwa, a licensed certified professional counselor
and Medicaid provider of mental health services in the Prince George’s
County area, was convicted of Medicaid fraud in the Circuit Court
for Prince George’s County. Judge Michael Whalen sentenced
Adelanwa to five years in the Division of Corrections and suspended
all but nine months to be served at the Prince George’s County
Detention Center on home detention. He was placed on five years
of probation upon his release and ordered to pay restitution to
the State Medicaid Program totaling $366,000.00. At the time of
his guilty plea on November 20, he paid $183,000.00 toward restitution.
Operating his counseling business as Therapeutic Associates, Inc,
Adelanwa submitted claims to, and received payment from, the Medicaid
Program---totaling more than $400,000.00 within less than two years.
Of that money, $366,000.00 was determined to be fraudulent.
Over the two-year period, Adelanwa repeatedly submitted claims
for rendering as many as 36 to 51 sessions of service per day,
although each session of service is approximately 45-50 minutes.
In other instances, he billed for services that were provided
by two non-credentialed individuals. He submitted more than 2500
claims in which he ‘upcoded’ a 45-50 minute visit
to 75-80 minutes. He also billed and received payment for group
and family therapy, although there was no evidence that such
services were ever rendered. Several clients said that he saw
them no more than five times and then abandoned them, although
he billed for rendering as many as 193 sessions of services for
some of those same clients. Most of his clients were children
with significant psycho-social issues and truly needed mental
Adelanwa was suspended from the Medicaid program and as a provider
of public mental health services in July 2004. As an additional
consequence of his conviction, Adelanwa faces exclusion from
the program as a Medicaid provider for a period of at least five
The case was prosecuted by the Medicaid Fraud Control Unit (MFCU)
of the Maryland Attorney General’s Office. The MFCU conducted
the investigation with assistance from the Mental Hygiene Administration
(MHA). MHA has been working with the MFCU to root out fraud in
its programs, and several cases of possible fraudulent behavior
by MHA providers are currently under investigation by the Attorney |
Schedule of Events
That Day in May, this year being held on Saturday, May 16, packs a number of activities into one day of fun and celebration. Now in its 34th year, this special “day” has become a signature celebration sponsored by both the City of Oakwood and the Oakwood Rotary Club.
As always, That Day in May is heralded by a music concert in the Oakwood High School Stadium, sponsored by the Oakwood Fraternal Order of Police. For tickets or ticket information call 284-8212. In case of rain the concert will be held in the high school auditorium.
Saturday’s schedule, a full day of activities, is listed below:
Rotary silent auction at TDIM
Don’t miss out. “That Day In May” Rotary Silent Auction will take place Saturday, May 16, 2009 along with the rest of the day’s activities. The silent auction will take place in the hallway near the Oakwood High School Cafeteria and will run from 8 A.M. to 12:00 P.M.
There are a lot of items to bid on which include lots of gift baskets, Dayton Dragon tickets, Box at Dayton Dragons on August 2, lunch for 2 at Culp’s Café, private pilates classes, 90 minute massage, 2 rounds of golf at NCR plus lunch, gift certificates from the Oakwood Club and Pine Club as well as other local businesses, University of Michigan football tickets, I Phone (value - $600), tickets to the Opera and Human Race, handyman services, Doggie Day Care Retreat for one week, 4 rounds of golf at DCC, cash and carry items and lots, lots more. |
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LAGUNA HILLS – City Council members voted Aug. 27 to request bids for consultant services for a study of the city's police services contract with the Orange County Sheriff's Department.
The study was approved as part of the 2013-15 budget. The study will look at Laguna Hills' staffing levels compared to nine other Orange County cities in areas including expenditures for police services, demographic data, crime rates and calls for police services.
Staff warned the study may cost more than the $25,000 set aside in the budget. The project is scheduled for completion by Feb. 11.
City Council members also formed an ad hoc committee, which includes two of its members, which will examine the bids and make a final recommendation to the council.
– Megan Nicolai |
From Disney Way to Broadway and back again, singer and actress Eden Espinosa is the featured voice in Disney's Summer Nightastic.
A former student at Canyon Hills High School in Anaheim and Fullerton College, she is commonly known for her role "defying gravity" as Elphaba in the wildly popular Broadway show "Wicked." Espinosa is still defying gravity; this time her voice resonates throughout the skies of Disneyland as the soloist for the soundtrack of Magical, Disney's new nighttime fireworks spectacular.
After a day at Disneyland spent riding Indiana Jones, Pirates of the Caribbean and, of course, listening to herself sing in Magical, Espinosa sat down with Around Disney at the Nightastic! opening to share her experiences.
Question: How did you get started working at Disneyland?
Answer: I started working at the park when I was 17. My first job was in the Christmas Fantasy Parade. It was the first year they had live carolers in the parade. After that I did a few different stage shows and the atmosphere singing groups. I did the Dickens Carolers in the park, an A Cappella group in Disney's California Adventure called Group 66. I did a stage show called Steps in Time, Animazement, Hunchback of Notre Dame Festival of Fools -- I did a lot! I worked here on and off for eight years and had an amazing time.
Q: You've grown up in Orange County, so it seems like you've always had a connection with the park.
A: I've had different family members working as cast members when I was growing up. I would go back stage after the shows and just watch the shows with my eyes wide open saying, "I want to work at Disneyland!"
So when I started working here it was a dream come true for me. Once you start working here, you see other capacities - when I would see different singers in the fireworks shows or Fantasmic!, I would think, "Oh, I want to do that too." So this is another check in the box off the list of goals. It's an honor and a privilege, and I'm so happy to do it.
Q: Many of your fans recognize you from starring as Elphaba in the Broadway show "Wicked." What was it like transitioning to your new role?
A: It was amazing! I love working in New York. I did a few Broadway shows there and it was awesome to bring "Wicked" back to L.A. and my hometown so my family and friends didn't have to fly across the country to see the show. It's opened many doors for me. I don't think if I hadn't done that, I would have been asked to do this.
Q: So your role "defying gravity" in Wicked help you land the role in the fireworks?
A: Well, I think since I started working on Broadway I've gained a little more credibility, exposure, and maturity as a singer and actress. Every step builds upon the next one. That definitely led me to being here.
Q: How did the process of singing for the fireworks unfold?
A: Bruce Healey (Senior Music Producer at Disneyland) contacted me and I sent in a few clips of me singing so they could show the director, and then they called me back saying, "We'd love for you to do this if you are interested." I was like, "Are you kidding me? Yes! I'll be there!"
Q: Was the fireworks premiere on Thursday the first time you had heard yourself singing with the fireworks?
A: I had heard it a while ago when they finished it, and I listened to it a few times just so I wouldn't be a sobbing mess in front of the entire Disneyland. But yes, it was the first night that I heard it and saw it with everything, experienced it pumping through Main Street with all the fireworks.
Q: So what did you think of the whole experience?
A: It was overwhelming -- I still cried. But it was awesome, and I'm so proud and honored. I hope people come to Disneyland to enjoy it.
Photo of Eden Espinosa by Joshua Sudock. |
No sooner did Vice President Joe Biden and Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan conclude their vice presidential debate Thursday than the punditocracy weighed in on who won and who lost. But debates are not like ballgames, where the scoreboard renders a final verdict.
With that caveat, we thought the Biden-Ryan skirmish a draw. Both men fared well enough to satisfy their party faithful. But neither turned in a game-changing performance that historians will one day mark as a turning point in this year's race for the White House.
That being said, there was grist for the 46 million viewers of this year's only vice presidential debate to chew on. And not just Mr. Biden's insincere grins and calculated interruptions of his opponent, nor Mr. Ryan's seeming insatiable thirst, as evidence by the dozens of times he sipped from his water glass.
The exchange between the candidates that continued to ripple through the government and media afterward concerned the lack of security for U.S. diplomatic personnel in Libya.
"We weren't told they wanted more security there," Mr. Biden said, contradicting the testimony of two Obama administration officials to Congress a day earlier.
Indeed, State Department official Charlene Lamb acknowledged that she turned down multiple requests for increased security for the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi before the Sept. 11 attack that killed Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans.
Another ding to Mr. Biden's credibility on foreign affairs was his explanation that the Obama administration did not intervene in Syria because it "is a different country than Libya." Syria "is five times as large geographically," the vice president said, mistakenly. In fact, Libya is nearly 10 times larger than Syria.
Mr. Ryan made no glaring misstatements of fact during his dust-up with Mr. Biden, but he failed to respond effectively to several lines of attack from his Democratic opponent.
One telling exchange concerned President Obama's $833 billion economic stimulus package.
"Was it a good idea," said Mr. Ryan, "to spend taxpayer dollars on electric cars in Finland or on windmills in China? Was it a good idea to borrow all this money from countries like China and spend it on all these various different interest groups?"
Mr. Biden countered, noting that Mr. Ryan requested stimulus money for his Wisconsin congressional district.
Historically, vice presidential candidates have had little impact on the outcome of presidential elections. There was nothing said, or unsaid, during this year's debate between Mr. Biden and Mr. Ryan that will change that history. |
By On the occasion of our 20th anniversary
By Gustavo Arellano
By R. Scott Moxley
By Alfonso Delgado
By Courtney Hamilton
By Joel Beers
By Peter Maguire
By Charles Lam
Michael Rhodes, president of Modtech in Riverside County, said: "Modtech's classrooms are designed, engineered and manufactured in accordance with structural and safety regulations adopted by the California Department of General Services' State Architect Division. This includes indoor air-quality standards."
But Louis Nastro, a spokesman at the department in question, disagreed. "The gentleman's claim that we have something to do with indoor air quality is incorrect," he said. "Indoor air quality is not something that our plan reviewers inspect for."
Portable manufacturers have been making big money ever since Wilson mandated class-size reduction. Modtech's annual earnings, according to a 1996 report in The Sacramento Business Journal, have increased nearly 1,000 percent since 1996 to a staggering $127.6 million in 1998.
EWG's Bill Walker was on hand for a special Beverly Hills school-board meeting in late July, where parents raised concerns about recent tests that revealed high levels of formaldehyde in several portables. Walker emphasized that the most important step a community can take is the simplest one: don't panic. There is no question, he said, that students are at risk in portable classrooms, but he appealed to parents to be realistic. "There is cause for concern, but above all, there is the need for more information," he said. "The bottom line is that the risk for most people in most classrooms is very low. What we calculated is that we might see a lifetime cancer risk doubling or tripling. The lifetime cancer risk is measured under the U.S. Clean Air Act, and the acceptable cancer risk is one in a million. So, if we have 2.5 million kids [in portables] in California, we're talking about a couple of extra cases of cancer. The big concerns, undoubtedly, are the nosebleeds, the nausea, the asthma, the hay fever and the other sorts of things that affect people at a very immediate level."
Further common-sense steps can reduce the risks of portables: school districts need to promote awareness among employees, parents need to demand that districts provide records of routine maintenance, and teachers need to ensure that rooms are ventilated properly. Long-term fixes, Walker said, should begin with an appeal to the state to develop an acceptable standard to reduce or eliminate toxic chemicals in the construction of portables.
"We know that hospitals, nursing homes and even sometimes art galleries are using materials that are much lower in the emissions of these toxic chemicals," Walker said. "Surely our children are worth it as well, even if it is more expensive." |
By Adam Lovinus
By Lilledeshan Bose
By Gabriel San Roman
By Rachel Mattice
By Stephanie Zacharek
By Daniel Kohn
By Nate Jackson
By Mike Seeley
THE WRONG KIND OF MUSICIAN PROFILE?
Anaheimer and front woman for the jarocho-rock band ¡Aparato! Nancy Mendez (a.k.a. Cat) says that, in the early-morning hours of Jan. 10, she was pulled over by a Border Patrol agent in Laguna Beach.
The singer/guitarist was driving home when she noticed a vehicle tailing her. "A white Jeep began following me for a really long time," Mendez recounts during a lunch break from work. "We passed the downtown area and up into the hills. That's when and where he turned on his red-and-blue lights and decided to pull me over."
The white male approached the minivan and identified himself as Border Patrol. The musician says the agent, who had a badge hanging around his neck, mentioned people crossing the border at sea and landing on the beaches.
"He asked me what I was doing, and I told him I was just driving around," she says. "He asked me if I had ever been arrested before, and I said no. He then asked to see my license, and I provided it. At that point, I asked him if I had done anything wrong, and the man said, 'No, not yet.'"
Authorities note that cars park at coordinated "drop-off" spots near coastal highways and freeways to pick up incoming undocumented immigrants. According to Border Patrol spokesman Steven Pitts, a multi-agency task force—the Maritime Unified Command—was created in April 2008 in response to those activities, and the Border Patrol is one of those agencies.
As for Mendez's account, Pitts says, "I can't speak to the specific incident . . . but we do have agents in the field in areas where we see an increase in maritime smuggling, and our agents act whenever there is probable cause or reasonable suspicion."
The Border Patrol agent who pulled Mendez over let her go after searching her minivan, but the ordeal left her angry and frustrated. She contends she was racially profiled. "I'm pretty sure he got a look at me before pulling me over because he drove parallel to me in the next lane, going at the same speed, through the well-lit downtown area of Laguna Beach," the singer says.
In response to the experience, Mendez has called and left messages about the incident with Laguna Beach city officials. "I was really upset throughout the whole scenario," she says. "Laguna Beach, I love that place. . . . If I go back, I'm going to feel like people are watching me." From a Jan. 14 Heard Mentality post by Gabriel San Roman.
A BEACON OF HISTORY
The house at 173 W. Beacon Ave. in Anaheim is world-famous. It was the family home of Gwen Stefani, but it's also where No Doubt rehearsed, recorded some of The Beacon Street Collection in the garage and filmed two videos. And it just sold for about $325,000. We chatted with guitarist Tom Dumont, who confirms that not only were the "Trapped In a Box" and "Just a Girl" music videos filmed at the house, but also "much of Tragic Kingdom" was written there. Hat tip to No Doubt fansite Beacon Street Online, which suggested fans pool their cash to turn the place into a museum! From a Jan. 13 post by Vickie Chang. |
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Ohio Dominican University Welcomes New Faculty Members
Columbus, OH – Ohio Dominican University is excited to welcome the following new faculty members to help kick-off the 2012 – 2013 academic year:
Dr. Michael L. Fagge, Assistant Professor of Theology earned his Ph.D. at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. His classes will include several courses in Systematic Theology.
Erin Fenzel, MSPAS, PA-C, Assistant Clinical Professor and Clinical Coordinator with the Physician Assistant (PA) Studies program holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Biology from the University of Mississippi in University, Mississippi and a Master of Science degree in Biomedical Science – Physician Assistant Studies from the former Medical College of Ohio (Toledo).
Fenzel will teach clinical medicine and physical diagnosis courses. She is also the clinical coordinator for the clinical phase of the (PA) program, including clinical curriculum development, site visits, and the didactic portion of the clinical curriculum, which includes a board review course.
Dr. Finley Freibert , Assistant Professor of Mathematics earned his Ph.D. in Applied and Industrial Mathematics from the University of Louisville and his Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics from DePauw University, Greencastle, Indiana.
Dr. Freibert will teach Abstract Algebra, Linear Algebra, Discrete Mathematics, Statistics, and general education mathematics courses in the fall. His areas of scholarship include coding theory, discrete and applied mathematics.
Chenelle A. Jones, Assistant Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice will earn her Ph.D. in Administration of Justice in August, 2012 from Texas Southern University in Houston.
Jones will teach Juvenile Delinquency; Women, Crime, and Criminal Justice; Punishment, Sentencing, and the Death Penalty; Race and Ethnicity in Criminal Justice; and Police and Modern Society.
Dr. Blake Mathys, Assistant Professor of Environmental Science, Division of Mathematics, Computer and Natural Sciences earned his Ph.D. from Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey.
Dr. Mathys will teach General Biology: Botany, Zoology and Environmental Science; Ecology; Introduction to Environmental Science; and other Environmental courses.
Dr. W. Brad Nelson, Assistant Professor of Anatomy & Physiology earned his Ph.D. at the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida. He completed both his Bachelor of Science and Master of Science degrees in Physical Education and Exercise Physiology at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah. Dr. Nelson was raised near Seattle, WA. He has 14 publications in peer-reviewed journals and 20 published abstracts.
Dr. Nelson will teach General Biology – Anatomy and Physiology; Human Anatomy; Human Physiology; Exercise Physiology; Exercise Testing and Prescription; Pathophysiology; Pharmacology; Motor Development; and Biomechanics.
Dr. Nicole Damico Powell, Assistant Clinical Professor with the Physician Assistant (PA) Studies program earned her Ph.D. in Molecular Virology, Immunology and Medical Genetics, from The Ohio State University, in March 2006. She holds a master’s degree in Biology from Youngstown State and a bachelor’s degree in Biology from John Carroll University in University Heights, Ohio.
She will collect data and analysis for the (PA) Studies program, act as a liaison to the undergraduate pre-PA students, and teach Pathophysiology, Microbiology and Immunology, Medical Genetics, sections of Pharmacology, and coordinate other basic science courses. Additionally, she will assist students interested in research.
Shonna Riedlinger, M.S. P.A.S. is the Assistant Clinical Professor and the Academic Coordinator with the Physician Assistant Studies. She holds a bachelor’s degree in dietetics from Bowling Green State University in Bowling Green, Ohio, and a Master of Science in Physician Assistant Studies from Midwestern University in Glendale, Arizona.
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Dr. Kelsey Squire, Assistant Professor of English earned her Ph.D. from Marquette University in Milwaukee.
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Hachiko had cancer, Japanese scientists find
Seventy-five years after his death, scientists say they have determined what killed Hachiko, the legendary Akita whose story has been immortalized in his native Japan and the rest of the world.
Japan’s most famous dog — though rumors have persisted for decades that worms did him in, or that he swallowed a chicken skewer that ruptured his stomach — had heart and lung cancer, scientists now say.
Hachiko became legendary for the loyalty he showed by waiting for his owner every day at a train station — for 10 years after his master died.
Hachiko died in 1935 at the age of 13. After his death, researchers at what is now the University of Tokyo performed an autopsy on Hachiko’s body and discovered roundworms in his heart and liquid collected in his abdomen.
Using more sophisticated tests like MRI’s, the Mainichi Daily News reports, a team of scientists at the University of Tokyo team analyzed Hachiko’s preserved organs and discovered large cancers in the heart and lungs. They speculated that the cancer may have spread from the lungs to the heart. Hachiko also had filariasis (a worm-caused diseased), and it’s possible that could have caused his death as well, said professor Hiroyuki Nakayama, part of the research team.
Hachiko’s preserved organs are displayed at a University of Tokyo resource center in Bunkyo Ward, Tokyo, along with a bust of his owner. A “stuffed” Hachiko is also on display at the National Museum of Nature and Science in Tokyo’s Taito Ward. A statue of Hachiko was erected in his honor at Shibuya Station.
Hachiko accompanied his owner, a university professor named Eisaburo Uyeno, to the train station every day and watched him leave for work. Every evening the dog would be waiting for him when he returned. When Uyeno died, Hachiko continued going to the train station every day to wait for his master for about ten years.
The legend has been told in numerous forms in the 75 years since, most recently as a childrens’ book and a 2009 movie remake, re-set in Rhode Island, starring Richard Gere.
Posted by John Woestendiek March 2nd, 2011 under Muttsblog.
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In a missive from the representative of an Islamic state to a U.S. foreign minister the following was said:
“It was… written in the Koran, that all Nations who should not have acknowledged [the Muslims’] authority were sinners, that it was their right and duty to make war upon wheoever they could find and to make Slaves of all they could take as prisoners, and that every Mussulman who should be slain in battle was sure to go to Paradise.”
One could be forgiven for thinking this is a modern day statement from the likes of Osama bin Ladin or some other current radical Islamic cleric or leader. Instead it was the response given by the pasha of Tripoli, ‘Abd al-Rahman al-Ajar, to then Minister to England, John Adams way back in 1785 — Adams was trying to obtain the release of hostages taken by Muslim pirates off the coast of Algiers and to negotiate some form of settlement to stop the piracy against the newly formed U.S. Republic’s merchant shipping in the area.
This and more can be discovered in today’s When the Founding Fathers Faced Islamists, the Michael Weiss article in Pajama’s Media [h/t: the Anchoress] wherein Weiss reminds us that we have been at odds with the more militant Islamists since the founding of our nation when our shipping fell out of the “protection” supplied by the British via their paying the tribute demanded by the Islamic states. He goes on to show that talk, talk, talk and appeasement didn’t work then, just like it won’t work now — no matter how much the Obamessiah thinks otherwise.
Keep in mind that in 1785 those words were not those of homicidal religious-fanatic maniacs, but of the Islamic Ottoman Empire itself which controlled all of the Middle East, Egypt, North Africa, the Greek peninsula, the Balkins, current day Iraq and more. Here is a great animated map showing the rise and fall of the Ottomans, (1300 — 1923).
I bring this to your attention as some additional perspective for the next time you hear about the “Change” that Obama wants to bring to our foreign policy efforts which is to stop doing what works and try again something that was a miserable failure in the past. As Weiss says late in the article:
Santayana got it backwards, in fact: even those who remember history are still doomed to repeat it.
Whether we want to, or not!
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- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 3 hours, 48 minutes
- Video: Black & White / Color
- Released: October 14, 2008
- Originally Released: 2008
- Label: Great Musical Treasu
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Academy Award winner Shirley Jones hosts this celebration of the Hollywood musical, a documentary that chronicles America's love affair with showstoppers and chorus lines. Beginning with the Depression-era spectacles of Busby Berkeley, HOLLYWOOD SINGING AND DANCING traces the genre all the way to its modern incarnations such as the 2002 hit adaptation of CHICAGO.
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HOLLYWOOD SINGING AND DANCING: A MUSICAL HISTORY is perhaps the most entertaining and comprehensive film about the Hollywood musical ever produced. This celebration of song and dance begins with Busby Berkeley's exquisite black and white choreographed extravaganzas that lightened the dark days of the Depression, continues through the rousing wartime songfests into the heyday of the great MGM spectaculars, and on to the present day, exploring recent smash hits like Chicago and Dreamgirls. Hosted by Academy Award winning stage, screen and television icon, Shirley Jones, it is a wonderfully entertaining historical document illustrated by extraordinary clips and fabulous interviews.
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A collection of fifteen rare recordings by Leadbelly, Dan Smith and Reverend Gary Davis, made for the Biograph Records label. To listen to the artistry of these three consumate artists is to realize why blues and gospel music is one of the deepest and most heartfelt expressions of the American experience.
Tracks 1-6 were recorded in 1940. Tracks 7-10 were recorded in 1975. Tracks 11-15 were recorded in 1971.
Personnel: Lead Belly (vocals, guitar); Dan Tobin Smith (vocals, harmonica); Jack Hume (guitar, bass guitar); Huddie Leadbetter, Rev. Gary Davis (guitar); Dan Smith (harmonica); Nick Seeger (vocals, guitar); Bessie Jones (vocals, tambourine); Michael Cooney (guitar, banjo); Bill Vanaver (guitar, mandolin, maracas); Larry Breezer (guitar).
Liner Note Authors: Arnold S. Caplin ; Chris Albertson; Don Kent; Barbara Caplin; Joel Bernstein.
Recording information: New York, NY (06/19/1940-??/??/1975); Sherman Fairchild's Studio, New York, NY (06/19/1940-??/??/1975); Vermont (06/19/1940-??/??/1975).
Photographers: Arnold S. Caplin ; Queen O. Robinson.
Acoustic blues music cannot be denied as the root of popular music, and this compilation shows the connection. The six Leadbelly tracks from 1940 showcase the godfather of country blues in his precious glory, especially on his signature number, "Worried Blues." Then, in a quantum leap of generations, Dan Smith offers four original country blues tunes from 1975, all very well played, with a band, and in some instances, quite a revelation for this lesser-known man. Reverend Gary Davis, a true immortal of this genre, concludes the set with five of his pieces, done solo and recorded in 1971, including chestnuts "Candy Man" and the all-timer "Hesitation Blues." It's a good introduction to this style of roots Americana, left on the back shelf for far too long. ~Michael G. Nastos |
Las Vegas, NV (population: 570,083) has two broadcasting schools within its city limits. University of Nevada-Las Vegas, the highest ranked school in the city with a broadcasting program, has a total student population of 29,080. It is the 1903rd highest ranked school in the USA and the 3rd highest in the state of Nevada (#1 is Euphoria Institute of Beauty Arts & Sciences).
Broadcasting students from Las Vegas schools who go on to become broadcast technicians, reporters, news reporters, news anchors, etc. have a good chance at finding employment. For example, there are 31,220 people working as broadcast technicians alone in the US, and their average annual salary is $38,330. Also, Broadcast news analysts make on average $67,990 per year and there are about 5,820 of them employed in the US today.
Las Vegas lies in Clark county, which is one of the 8 counties in Nevada. Overall, the Las Vegas-Paradise area has 858,540 total employed workers according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, with a 1.0% unemployment rate, $19.26/hr average worker wage, and a $40,070 average annual salary.
Of the 2 broadcasting schools in Las Vegas, both of them have a student population over 10k. After taking into account tuition, living expenses, and financial aid, College of Southern Nevada comes out as the most expensive ($8,990/yr) for broadcasting students, with University of Nevada-Las Vegas as the lowest, reported at only $8,166/yr. |
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Vorgrum - By the Words of the Wise This is a great argentinian pagan/black/folk band iv found on the internet. Really good pagan metal. Myspace: myspace.com Facebook: www.facebook.com Lyrics: I hear the horde get closer Hitting the ground with his anger they will have no mercy On the way to my land they will die! Listen my words, foreign man Listen to our swords, cuting the wind We will defend this land from your conquest just listen the heretics, The words of the wise. silence your words, your empty prophecies! you can´t usurp what runs through my veins! we´ll burn the remains of your attempt to conquer our wilderness, is full of greatfull sway. severed flesh, blood stains the fields certainly, the sunset is faded in red we can only respect what we see the anger of gods, on them will fall. |
Jimmy Carter on Free Trade
President of the U.S., 1977-1981
Economic success at home is the key to success in our international economic policy. An effective energy program, strong investment and productivity, and controlled inflation will [improve] our trade balance and balance it, and it will help to protect the integrity of the dollar overseas.
By working closely with our friends abroad, we can promote the economic health of the whole world, with fair and balanced agreements lowering the barriers to trade.
Despite the inevitable pressures that build up when the world economy suffers from high unemployment, we must firmly resist the demands for self-defeating protectionism. But free trade must also be fair trade. And I am determined to protect American industry and American workers against foreign trade practices which are unfair or illegal.
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Aertsen, Jan A. 1985. "The Convertibility of Being and Good in St. Thomas Aquinas." New Scholasticism no. 59:449-470.
"In many medieval thinkers, e.g. Alexander of Hales, Bonaventure, Albert the Great, Thomas Aquinas, the statement can be found: " being and good are convertible " (ens et Comm
convertuntur).(1) That is to say, " being " and " good " are interchangeable terms in predication (converti enim est conversim praedicari).(2) Wherever " being " is predicated of
something, the predicate " good " is involved as well.
That must imply that " good " is here not a concept that adds a real content or a new quality to " being ", as a result of which " being " is restricted. For in that case there
would be no question of convertibility.(3) " Good " is an attribute which pertains to every being, it is a property of being as such, a "mode that is common, and consequent upon every being." In
other words, " good " is coextensive with " being ", it is one of the so-called transcendentie which, since Suarez, are usually referred to as " transcendentals ".
(1) Alexander of Hales, Summa I, Inq. 1, Tract. 3, q. 3, membrum 1, c. 1, a. 1, "An idem sit bonum et ens "; Bonaventure, In II Sent., d. 1, p. 1, a. 1, q. 1,
fundam. 5, "Ens et bonum eonvertuntur, sicut volt Dionysius ", d. 34, a. 2, q. 3, fundam. 4; Albert the Great, De Bono q. 1, a. 6; Summa Theol. tract. 6, q. 28; Thom. Aquinas,
In I Sent. 8, 1, 3; De Ver. XXI, 2; In De Hebdomadibus, lect. 3; Summa Theol. I, 18, 3.
(2) Thomas Aquinas, De Ver. I, 2 obj. 2.
(3) De Pot. IX, 7 ad 5: Bonum quod est in genre qualitatis, non est bonum quod convertitur cum ante, quod nullam rem supra ens addit.
(4) De Ver. I, 1: modus generaliter consequens omne ens.
(5) Comp. Albert the Great, Summa Theologiae tract. 6, q. 27, c. 3: Bonum dicit intentionem communem et est de transcendentibus omne genus sicut et ens.
———. 1985. "Der Wissenschaftstheoretische Ort Der Gottesbeweise in Der Summa Theologie Des Thomas Von Aquin." In Mediaeval Semantics and Metaphysics. Studies Dedicated
to L. M. De Rijk, Ph. D. On the Occasion of His 60th Birthday, edited by Bos, Egbert Peter, 161-193. Nijmegen: Ingenium Publishers.
———. 1986. "Transzendental Versus Kategorial: Die Zwiespaltigkeit Von Thomas 'Philosophie'? Eine Kritische Studie." Vivarium no. 24:143-157.
———. 1986. "The Circulation-Motive and Man in the Thought of Thomas Aquinas." In L'homme Et Son Univers Au Moyen Âge. Actes Du Septième Congrès International De Philosophie
Médiévale, 30 Août - 4 Septembre 1982, Vol. I, edited by Wenin, Christian, 432-439. Louvain-la-Neuve: Peeters.
"Little attention is usually paid to this divine circular motion in the interpretation of Thomas' work, even though Thomas himself says in the prologue to the first book of his
Commentary on the Sententiae that this bringing forth is the «reason» (ratio) of every subsequent process. The circulatio within God is the archetype of the work of
creation. A trinitarian interpretation of Thomas' thought, albeit unusual, finds support in this idea. And his reflections on the originating order of the Trinity could also open up fruitful
perspectives for further thought about (the problematics of) his thought.
In his explanation of the Trinity, Thomas gives a new elaboration of the concept of relation. In the divine circulatio there are relation of primordiality which are
subsistent : «In God relation and essence do differ in being from each other, but are one and the same» (S. Th., I 28, 2). Relation is not an accidental category of substance; being and
relation belong « originally» together.
This idea has remained outside of Thomas' metaphysics of creation. But it is this model of relation,which is philosophically important for arenewed reflection on created being. The
relation of the creature to God is not accidental as Thomas claimed (18), but for the creature to be is to be in relation. At precisely this point a more comprehensive notion of finite being can be
developed. There is the three-foldness in the creature: of subsistent-being, what-being, and act-being. These components agree in esse, which is a being from, through, and to God. In
relationship to the Triune-Origin there is unity.
In man the Trinity is represented in a distinctive way, viz., according to the identical character of activity (secundum eamdem rationem rationis, De potentia, 9,
9). The processes of intellection and volition are found in man. Man, who is a person, is therefore imago Trinitatis. It la in this idea that the «anthropocentrism» of medieval thought most
clearly comes to the fore.
The manner, however, in which man's movement to God is worked out by Thomas, formed a second «crux» in his thinking. Here again we find in his elaboration of the idea of relation,
possibilities for giving his penetrating intuition of the circular motion of egress and return a more integral meaning.
Man is destined to one purpose, viz., communion with God. His drama consists not so much in the natural inability to close the circle through knowing, as in the aversion from his
own essentially relational mode of existence. The circular motion thereby comes to stand in a concrete salvation history. This moreover offers the possibility of doing justice to the internal
coherence of the structure of the Summa Theologiae. In the prologue to bk. 1, 2, Thomas indicates this design: the first part deals with God, and «the procession of all creatures from Him»;
the second with the movement of the rational creature toward Him; and the third with Christ who as man is the way (via) of our tending to God. The second person of the Trinity, the Word,
became flesh in order to show mankind the way (back) to its Origin. True human-being is possible only by God's grace.
In summary: the new perspective which Thomas' reflection on the faith mystery of the divine process opens up, is philosophizing oriented to the perfection of being-itself in being
toward something else."
(18) De potentia, 3,3 ad 3.
———. 1987. "Natural Law in the Light of the Doctrine of Transcendentals." In Lex Et Libertas. Freedom and Law According to St. Thomas Aquinas. Proceedings of the Fourth
Symposium on St. Thomas Aquinas' Philosophy, Rolduc, November 8-9, 1986, edited by Elders, Leo and Hedwig, Klaus, 99-112. Città del Vaticano: Pontificia Accademia di S. Tommaso e di Religione
———. 1987. "Ockham, Ein Transzendentalphilosoph? Eine Kritische Diskussion Mit G. Martin." In Ockham and Ockhamists, edited by Bos, Egbert Peter and Krop, Henri A., 3-13.
Nijmegen: Ingenium Publishers.
Acts of the Symposium organized bt the Dutch Society for Medieval Philosophy Medium Aevum on the occasion of its 10th anniversary (Leiden, 10-12 September 1986).
[This study is a discussion of three contribution by Gottfried Martin:
(37) Wilhelm von Ockham. Untersuchungen zur Ontologie der Ordnungen. Berlin, 1949.
(38) Immanuel Kant. Ontologie und Wissenschaftstheorie. Berlin, 1950 (4th ed., 1969), pp. 115-134.
(39) Allgemeine Metaphysik. Ihre Probleme und ihre Methode. Berlin, 1965, pp. 82-89.
An outstanding place in the history of the Doctrine of the Transcendentals was attributed to William of Ockham by a study of the German scholar G. Martin (37). His thesis is that
Ockham's denial of the reality of the categories except that of substance and quality must be understood as « transcendental philosophy ». Ockham regarded quantity and relation as general conditions
that do not add a distinct reality to things, that is, as « transcendental being ». In Martin's later publications (38 and 39), we encounter again the view that Ockham was a vital link in the
tradition of transcendental philosophy from Aristotle's Metaphysics to Kant, Martin's Ockham-interpretation has hardly been discussed." (from J. A. Aertsen, Bulletin de Philosophie
Médiévale, 33 1991, p. 138).
———. 1988. "Die Lehre Der Transzendentalien Und Die Metaphysk. Der Kommentar Von Thomas Von Aquin Zum Iv. Buch Der Metaphysica." Freiburger Zeitschrift für Philosophie
und Theologie no. 35:293-316.
"In still another, more fundamental, respect the introduction of Aristotle's works in the West was of importance. The reception of his Metaphysics led to independent
reflection on the question of the proper subject of this science. Not without reason, L. Honnefelder, « Der zweite Anfang der Metaphysik. Voraussetzungen, Ansatze und Folgen der Wiederbegriindung der
Metaphysik im 13./14. Jahrhundert », in J.P. Beckmann e.a. (ed.), Philosophie im Mittelalter. Entwicklungslinien and Paradigmen. Hamburg, 1987, pp. 165-186, has characterized this
development as « the second beginning of metaphysics ». It is noteworthy that the Middle Ages did not adopt the theological conception of metaphysics that prevailed among the Greek commentators on
Aristotle. In the commentaries of Thomas Aquinas and Duns Scotus we find a decidedly « ontological » view. Against the background of this conception of metaphysics, the interest in the
transcendentals becomes understandable, for they are the universal properties of being. Metaphysics becomes scientia transcendens -- the term appears for the first time in Scotus' Commentary
on the Metaphysics (prol., n. 5)." (from J. A. Aertsen, Bulletin de Philosophie Médiévale, 33 1991, p. 132).
———. 1988. "Die Transzendentalienlehre Bei Thomas Von Aquin in Ihren Historischen Hintergründen Und Philosophischen Motiven." In Thomas Von Aquin. Werk Und Wirkung Im Licht
Neuerer Forschungen, edited by Zimmermann, Albert, 82-102. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter.
"A by medieval standards extensive systematics of DT is presented by Thomas Aquinas in De veritate, qu. 1, art. 1. This text includes an important new element, namely, the
introduction of relational transcendentals. Through this innovation Thomas departs from Philip the Chancellor's version of DT. A transcendental is not necessarily expressed by a negation, an
indivision, as Philip meant, but can also be determined by something positive, a relation. Thomas understands the transcendentals « true » and « good » in relation to the two faculties of a spiritual
substance, that is, to intellect and will. Although we possess various studies concerning some aspects of Aquinas's DT, the general significance of this doctrine for his philosophy seems to be
underestimated." (from J. A. Aertsen, Bulletin de Philosophie Médiévale, 33 1991, p. 135).
———. 1989. "Method and Metaphysics: The Via Resolutionis in Thomas Aquinas." New Scholasticism no. 63:405-418.
———. 1990. "Aquinas and the Classical Heritage: A Response." In Christianity and the Classics. The Acceptance of a Heritage, edited by Helleman, Wendy E., 83-89. Lanham:
University Press of America.
Reply to the essay by Arvin Vos: As the Philosopher Says: Thomas Aquinas and the Classical Heritage, same volume, pp. 69-82.
"Arvin Vos has written an excellent paper on Thomas Aquinas and the classical heritage. His paper shows admiration for and affinity with Aquinas's achievement. I share this
admiration; Aquinas is a great thinker. Now it is a mark of great thinkers that the content of their thought is so full and rich that one can put emphasis on different aspects. And this is what I
intend to do in my response by making some comments and raising some questions. My reflections, stressing a number of underlying ideas, are primarily meant as a supplement to what has been said.
In order to present my remarks in a systematic and coherent way, I take as a starting point a statement of Aristotle which I will develop in four steps, more or less related to the
main parts of Vos's paper: (1) the background of the thirteenth century; (2) Thomas's attitude towards Aristotle; (3) the relationship between faith and reason; and (4) the conclusion concerning the
question whether the classical heritage can be integrated in the Christian position." p. 83
———. 1990. "The Eternity of The. World: The Believing and the Philosophical Thomas. Some Comments." In The Eternity of the World in the Thought of Thomas Aquinas and His
Contemporaries, edited by Wissink, Jozef, 9-19. Leiden: Brill.
———. 1990. "Method and Metaphysics: The Via Resolutionis in Thomas Aquinas." In Knowledge and the Sciences in Medieval Philosophy. Proceedings of the Eighth
International Congress of Medieval Philosophy (S.I.E.P.M.), Helsinki 24-29 August 1987, Vol. 3, edited by Tyôrinoja, Reijo, 3-12. Helsinki: Yliopistopaino.
———. 1991. "The Medieval Doctrine of the Transcendentals. The Current State of Research." Bulletin de Philosophie Médiévale no. 33:130-147.
"An important, new development in medieval philosophy was the constitution of the doctrine of the transcendentals (DT) in the thirteenth century. The term « transcendental » - the
medievals themselves speak of transcendens -- suggests a kind of surpassing. What is transcended are the special modes of being that Aristotle called the « categories », in the sense that
the transcendentals are not restricted to one determinate category. « Being » and its « concomitant conditions », such as « one », « true » and « good », « go through (circumeunt) all the
categories » (to use an expression of Thomas Aquinas). DT is thus concerned with those fundamental philosophical concepts which express universal features of reality.
The doctrine played a prominent role in later medieval thought. The study of it is essential for our understanding of philosophy in this period, since, according to J.B. Lotz, [«
Zur Konstitution der transzendentalen Bestimmungen des Seins nach Thomas von Aquin », in P. Wilpert(ed.), Die Metaphysik im Mittelalter (Miscellanea Mediaevalia, Vol. 2). Berlin 1963, pp.
334-340] p. 334), DT is « the core of Scholastic ontology and metaphysics ». Remarkably, however, research on this doctrine has hitherto been rather limited. The observation, made by the French
scholar S. Breton [« L'idée de transcendental et la genèse des transcendentaux chez Saint Thomas d'Aquin » in Saint Thomas d'Aquin aujourd'hui. Paris 1963, pp. 45-74] p. 45) in 1963, that DT
is « classic and yet poorly known », still holds. An example of its neglect is the Cambridge History of Later Medieval Philosophy (ed. N. Kretzmann, 1982) that contains only one brief
reference (p. 493, to Ockham). In this contribution I want to take stock of the current state of research on DT, to assemble and discuss the relevant literature, to indicate certain lacunas, and to
make some suggestions for further research." (p. 130).
———. 1991. "Die Frage Nach Der Transzendentalität Der Schönheit Im Mittelalter." In Historia Philosophiae Medii Aevi. Studien Zur Geschichte Der Philosophie Des Mittelalters.
Festschrift Für Kurt Flasch Zu Seinem 60. Geburtstag. (Vol. I), edited by Mojsisch, Burkhard and Pluta, Olaf, 1-22. Amsterdam, Philadelphia: B. R. Grüner.
———. 1991. "Good as Transcendental and the Transcendence of the Good." In Being and Goodness, edited by MacDonald, Scott, 56-73. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.
In ST Ia.6.4 ("Whether all things are good by the divine goodness?") Thomas concludes that the Platonic view appears to be unreasonable in affirming that there are separate
forms of natural things subsisting of themselves; still, it is absolutely true that there is something first that is essentially being and essentially good which we call God. Hence, everything can be
called 'good' and 'being,' insofar as it participates in the first being, which is essentially good. To this conclusion Thomas still adds, however, an important remark. That every being is good
through an external cause by no means excludes each things being called through a goodness that is formally its own goodness. "And so of all things," Thomas ends, "there is one goodness, and yet many
This text can serve as a summary of our analysis, which is focused on the relation between the good as transcendental and the transcendence of the Good. I want to emphasize four
points of philosophical importance in Thomas's reflection on the good.
First, Thomas really understands the good transcendentally by establishing an intrinsic connection between being and goodness. To be is the actuality of everything and thereby a
good proper to each thing. Things are called good in virtue of an inner goodness. It is characteristic of finite things that although being and good are convertible, there is in them nonetheless a
nonidentity between being absolutely and good absolutely.
Second, because the good is transcendental, Thomas applies to it the predication essentially or by participation. This predication expresses the transcendence of the divine goodness
and the creaturely character of the goodness of other things. That which is in any way good must be reduced to what is good by its essence as to its origin. That things are good through an intrinsic
goodness is not incompatible with their dependence on that which is the good itself.
Third, from a historical point of view, Thomas effects a kind of synthesis between the Aristotelian way of thought and Aristotle's conception of the good, on the one hand -- the
good is something common and the essential forms of things are inherent in them -- and the Platonic way of thought and Plato's conception of the good, on the other hand -- the Form of the Good is
"separate" from particular goods.
Fourth, Thomas effects a synthesis in still another respect. Characteristic of Boethius's position, according to MacDonald,(29) is the creation approach to explaining the relation
between being and goodness. Aristotle's view, in contrast, exemplifies what might be called the nature approach. This approach explains what it is for a thing to be good by referring to the nature of
the thing. "The historical significance of DH [Boethius's De Hebdomadibus]MacDonald says, "consists largely in its offering an interesting account of the nature of goodness which is
possibly incompatible ... with the sort of account medieval philosophers found in Aristotle." Thomas's reflection on the claim that all things are good and on question how they are
good can be regarded as a philosophically original synthesis of the nature approach and the creation approach."(30) The nature approach explains the intrinsic goodness of things, for 'nature' says
what beings are in themselves; it always refers to an intrinsic principle. Now, it is Thomas's transcendentality claim that everything is good, insofar as it is. Things are good (in a
certain respect) in virtue of their own being. So all things owe their being good to their nature. The creation approach explains that everything is called 'good' through an external cause, for
'creature' says being-related to the Origin of things. Creation expresses that things received their being and goodness from another. Their goodness consists in their relation to the
transcendent good, that is, in their participation in what is goodness itself." (pp. 72-73)
(29) MacDonald "Boethius's Claim That All Substances Are Good." Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie 70:345-79, 1988. (See also the Introduction in this volume.)
(30) The relation between nature an creature in Thomas is the central theme of Aertsen 1988a [Nature and Creature]
———. 1991. "Beauty in the Middle Ages: A Forgotten Transcendental?" Medieval Philosophy and Theology no. 1:68-97.
———. 1991. "Natur, Mensch Und Der Kreislauf Der Dinge Bei Thomas Von Aquin." In Mensch Und Natur Im Mittelalter. Band 1, edited by Zimmermann, Albert and Speer, Andreas,
143-160. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter.
———. 1991. "Thomas Aquinas (1224/5-1274). The Natural Desire for Knowledge and Its Supernatural Fulfillment." In Bringing into Captivity Every Thought. Capita Selecta in the
History of Christian Evaluations of Non-Christian Philosophy, edited by Klapwijk, Jacob, Griffioen, Sander and Groenewoud, Gerben, 95-122. Lanham: University Press of America.
———. 1992. "Truth as Transcendental in Thomas Aquinas." Topoi.An International Journal of Philosophy no. 11:159-171.
"Aquinas presents his most complete exposition of the transcendentals in De veritate 1, 1, that deals with the question "What is truth?". The thesis of this paper is that
the question of truth is essential for the understanding of his doctrine of the transcendentals.
The first part of the paper (sections 1--4) analyzes Thomas's conception of truth. Two approaches to truth can be found in his work. The first approach, based on Aristotle's claim
that "truth is not in things but in the mind", leads to the idea that the proper place of truth is in the intellect. The second approach is ontological: Thomas also acknowledges that there is truth
in every being. The famous definition of truth as "adequation of thing and intellect" enables him to integrate the two approaches. Truth is a relation between two terms, both of which can be called
"true" because both are essential for the conformity between thing and intellect.
The second part of the paper (sections 5--7) deals with the manner in which Thomas gives truth a place in the doctrine of the transcendentals, and shows that his conception of truth
leads to important innovations in this doctrine: the introduction of relational transcendentals and the correlation between spirit and being. If "truth" is transcendental, it must be convertible with
"being". Sect. 6 discusses objections that Thomas advances himself to this convertibility.
Sect. 7 deals with a difficulty in his account of truth as a relational transcendental. Ontological truth expresses a relation to an intellect but the relation to the human
intellect is accidental for the truth of things. Essential for their truth can only be a practical intellect that causes things. In this way, Thomas argues, the divine intellect relates to all
———. 1992. "Ontology and Henology in Medieval Philosophy (Thomas Aquinas, Master Eckhart and Berthold of Moosburg)." In On Proclus and His Influence in Medieval Philosophy,
edited by Bos, Egbert Peter and Meijer, Pieter A., 120-140. Leiden: Brill.
"In this contribution I would like to investigate whether and in which way the opposition between ontology and henology took shape in medieval thinkers and was a subject of
discussion. I will focus my inquiry on three Dominicans of different generations, namely, Thomas Aquinas, Master Eckhart and Berthold of Moosburg. The last one is the least well known of the three.
Yet I want to begin with him, since we find in his work not only a justification but also a philosophical deepening of our question." (p. 122)
In my paper I first presented a medieval version of the question: "Metaphysics of Being or philosophy of the One?" - namely, the interpretation of Berthold of Moosburg. In his
commentary on Proclus [*]] he traces the opposition between ontology and henology to the different structures of thought associated with Aristotelianism and Platonism, which we have
indicated with the keywords "transcendentality" and "transcendence" of the first. I then proceeded to use Berthold's model to elucidate the thought of Thomas Aquinas and Master Eckhart. To this
analysis I would add three concluding observations.
First, we can ascertain that for Thomas and Eckhart the transcendental and transcendent approaches do not form an absolute opposition. Thomas posits a causal relation between God
and the maxime communia. Transcendentals are to be traced to God as their cause. Eckhart identifies. God and the transcendentia. That which is most general is God.
Secondly, both in Thomas and in Eckhart the doctrine of transcendentals is found to have an integrating function. That is notable, because Berthold regards this doctrine as typical
of the Aristotelian position. Now this theory certainly contains anti-Platonic elements, as we observed in Thomas, such as the emphasis on predicative generalness. But transcendentals have yet
another aspect, which Berthold does not mention, an aspect which played an essential role in the development of the doctrine. Generally, the Summa de bono of Philip the Chancellor, written
about 1230, is regarded as the first treatise on transcendentals. In the prologue of this work Philip observes that "being," "one," "true" and "good" are not only that which is most common but are
sometimes also "appropriated," that is, treated as "proper" to something. For in Scripture these names are attributed pre-eminently to God, they are also divine names. (90) The attention given this
second kind of naming is undoubtedly influenced by pseudo-Dionysius, who functions in Berthold as an eminent witness for the Platonic view. Thus we see that in the context of the doctrine of
transcendentia themselves the question must arise concerning the relation between the most general which goes through all categories, and the divine which surpasses all categories.
Thirdly, the medieval doctrine of transcendentals is pluriform. The solutions of Thomas and Eckhart diverge. Philosophically more important, however, is that in which they agree.
Characteristic of philosophy is a transcending movement. It surpasses the concrete things of experience in quest of a first, from which reality can be understood. The answer to the question of what
this first is can be sought in different directions. Berthold sketches two options: the first is the most general, which is the precondition for man's intellectual knowledge; or the first is the
cause of the being of things but is not itself of the nature of the caused. Thomas and Eckhart represent a type of philosophical thought in which the two options in question are connected. That is
their contribution to the debate about what philosophy should be: ontology or henology.
[* See note 16:] Berthold von Moosburg, Expositio super Elementationem theologicam Procli: Prologus. Propositiones 1-13 (Corpus Philosophorum Teotonicorum Medi Aevi VI, 1)
ed. by M.R. Pagnoni-Sturlese and L. Sturlese, Hamburg 1984. The first volume contains a valuable ?Einleitung' by K. Flasch (XI - XXVIII). See also A. de Libera, Introduction à la mystique rhénane
d'Albert le Grand à Maître Eckhart, Paris 1984.
(90) Philippi Cancellarii Parisiensis Summa de bono (ed. N. Wicki), Bern 1985, 4 - 5. Cf. H. Pouillon, 'Le premier traité des propriétés transcendantales. La
Summa de bono du Chancellier Philippe', Revue neoscolastique de philosophie 42 (1939), 40 - 77.
———. 1992. "The Platonic Tendency of Thomism and the Foundations of Aquinas's Philosophy." Medioevo no. 18:120-140.
———. 1993. "Aquinas's Philosophy in Its Historical Setting." In The Cambridge Companion to Aquinas, edited by Kretzmann, Norman, 12-37. Cambridge: Cambridge University
"In this chapter Aquinas's attitude towards philosophy, his leading sources, and the aims of his philosophical interest are clarified in two complementary ways. First, his writings,
which are very voluminous in spite of his relatively early death, will be placed within the historical context of the thirteenth century. An overview of his work and its philosophical relevance will
be provided in connection with the most important intellectual developments in this period -- the rise of the university, the reception of Aristotle, and the conflict between the faculties (sections
II-IV). Subsequently, Aquinas's view of philosophy and of its relationship to theology will be elaborated in a more systematic way (sections V-X)." (p. 14)
———. 1993. "Der Satz Vom Widerspruch in Der Mittelalterlichen Philosophie. Baron Von Münchhausen, Thomas Von Aquin Und Nikolaus Von Kues." In Argumentationstheorie.
Scholastische Forschungen Zu Den Logischen Und Semantischen Regeln Korrekten Folgerns, edited by Jacobi, Klaus, 707-727. Leiden: Brill.
———. 1994. "Gibt Es Eine Mittelalterliche Philosophie?" In Philosophie Und Geistiges Erbe Des Mittelalters. Symposion Zum 65. Geburtstag Von A. Zimmermann Am 9. Juli 1993,
edited by Aertsen, Jan A., Speer, Andreas and Zimmermann, Albert, 13-30. Köln: Kölner Universitätsreden.
———. 1994. "Was Heisst Metaphysik Bei Thomas Von Aquin?" In Scientia Und Ars Im Hoch- Und Spätmittelalter, edited by Craemer-Ruegenberg, Ingrid, Speer, Andreas and
Zimmermann, Albert, 217-239. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter.
———. 1995. "The Beginning of the Doctrine of the Transcendentals in Philip the Chancellor (Ca. 1230)." In Quodlibetaria. Miscellanea Studiorum in Honorem Prof. J. M. Da Cruz
Pontes Anno Iubilationis Suae Conimbrigae Mcmxcv, edited by Santiago de Carvalho, Mario A., 269-286. Porto: Fundação Eng. António de Almeida.
A revised version of this study form the Chapter Three of Medieval Philosophy as Transcendental Thought. From Philip the Chancellor (ca. 1225) to Francisco Suárez (2012),
"Our comparative inquiry does not allow any other conclusion than that Philip the Chancellor, in the introductory questions of his Summa de bono, really presents something
new. His intention of going back into the "ground of thought" by reducing our understanding of questions to the communissima results in the earliest systematic formulation of a doctrine of
the transcendentals. The doctrine is introduced as the philosophical answer to the dualism of Manichaeism. For the first time, Philip brings together four basic notions, "being", "one", "true", and
"good", and investigates their mutual relations. But his account bears the marks of a first draft; it is rather terse and sometimes little explicit.
Viewed from a historical perspective, his doctrine has an atypical aspect, insofar as it is centered in a metaphysics of the good. The context of the doctrine generally is a
conception of metaphysics, in which "being" is the proper subject of this science. Philip recognizes that ens is the first concept, but he does not say much about it. His interest concerns
"the good", a notion that is richer than (habundat) "being". Two elements of Philip's doctrine were especially directive for subsequent discussions of the transcendentals. The first is his
view of the twofold relation between the communissima: there exists a real identity between them -- they are convertible according to their supposits --, but they differ according to their
concepts. The other element concerns the order of the most common notions, which is based on the notion of "indivision". It is somewhat paradoxical that Philip does not deal separately with
unum, whereas the ratio of "one" determines his understanding of bonum and verum.
The Summa de bono was attentively read and frequently used, especially in the Franciscan milieu. The influence of Philip's account of the communissima is manifest
in two works that were composed about twenty years after his Summa, namely, in the Franciscan Summa theologica attributed to Alexander of Hales, and in De bono, an early
writing of the Dominican Albert the Great." (pp. 132-133)
———. 1995. "Ein Einziges Individuum Übertrifft Alle Universalien in Der Welt. Die Entdeckung Des Individuums Im Mittelalter." Wirtschaft und Wissenschaft no. 1:45-48.
———. 1995. "Gibt Es Eine Mittelalterliche Philosophie?" Philosophische Jahrbuch no. 102:161-176.
———. 1995. "Tendencies and Perspectives in the Study of Medieval Philosophy." In Bilan Et Perspectives Des Études Médiévales En Europe. Actes Du Premier Congrès Européen
D'études Médiévales, Spoleto, 27 -29 Mai 1993, edited by Hamesse, Jacqueline, 107-128. Louvain-la-Neuve: Fédération internationale des instituts d'études médiévales.
———. 1996. "Albert Der Grosse Und Die Lehre Von Den Transzendentalien. Ein Beispiel Der Vermittlung Von Tradition Und Innovation." In Omnia Disce. Kunst Und Geschichte Als
Erinnerung Und Herausforderung. Willehad Paul Eckert Op Zum 70 Geburstsag Und Goldenen Professjubiläum, edited by Senner, Walter, 159-168. Köln: Wienand.
———. 1996. "Albertus Magnus Und Die Mittelalterliche Philosophie." Allgemeine Zeitschrift für Philosophie no. 21:111-128.
———. 1996. "Die Thesen Zur Individuation in Der Verurteilung Von 1277, Heinrich Von Gent Und Thomas Von Aquin." In Individuum Und Individualität Im Mittelalter, edited by
Aertsen, Jan A. and Speer, Andreas, 249-265. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter.
———. 1996. "Thomas Von Aquin Und Das Corpus Dionysiacum (Das Prooemium Seines Kommentars Zu De Divinis Nominibus)." Archiv für mittelalterliche Philosophie und
Kultur no. 3:11-19.
———. 1996. "Über Das Schöne (Lect. 5)." Archiv für mittelalterliche Philosophie und Kultur no. 3:97-103.
———. 1996. "Transcendental Thought in Henry of Ghent." In Henry of Ghent. Proceedings of the International Colloquium on the Occasion of the 700th Anniversary of His Death
(1293), edited by Vanhamel, Willy, 1-18. Leuven: Leuven University Press.
"From the account of the relation between res and ens it is possible to draw a number of conclusions pertinent to Henry's way of thought and his point of
I. The first conclusion is that it is incorrect to say that in his thought there is an insoluble tension between the primacy of being and that of thing. Henry describes the relation
between the first concept, that of "thing" in the most general sense, and the second concept, that of "being," as a relation of foundation. "Something cannot have the character of being unless it
first has the ratio of thing in the sense of reor, reris, in which the ratio of that being is founded (fundatur). (46)
2. The firstness of res is not an a priori condition of knowledge, that is, a "transcendental form" in the Kantian sense. It can be an idle concept, such as an imaginary
thing. The firstness is related, as appeared from the discussion of the seventh Quodlibet, to the way in which the human intellect is "moved" by reality. The relation of foundation between
res and ens is worked out by Henry in two respects, from the angle of the theory of science and ontologically.
3. From the angle of the theory of science, the relation is that between the precognition of a quiddity and intellectual knowledge of it. At the first level, res in the
sense of reor, reris is the most general concept, the communissimum of the seventh Quodlibet. At the second level, "being" is the first and most general concept. Henry's
statement that ens is the first that is scientifically known (scita) must be understood in this precise sense.
In ontological respect, the relation between the first and the second concept is the relation between the still undetermined thing and the thing that is determined by its essence.
The quidditative being however is not determined to this or that thing, to creator or creature, to substance or accident. It is understood, Henry states, under the aspect of being that is the subject
of metaphysics. (47) Not the first mode of "thing" but the second mode is the point of departure of metaphysics.
The level of quidditative being is the level of the transcendentals. Henry's identification of res, ratitudo with ens is the answer to the question (see section 3,
above) why res is not named in Henry's account of the transcendentals. It is the concept that lies at the basis of his doctrine of being and of the most general intentiones. In
comparison to his predecessors, the novelty of Henry's doctrine is the central place he attributes to Avicenna's notion of "thing." That res, ratitudo lies at the basis of Henry's doctrine
explains the fact that he, otherwise than in the tradition, understands truth as a real relation to the exemplar.
Another distinctive feature of Henry's doctrine of the transcendentals is its being preceded by a more general concept, the cognition of "thing" in the broadest sense. For the
clarification of this relation one may utilize a distinction that emerged in post-medieval philosophy. In a study of the concept of res, Ludger Oeing-Hanhoff has called attention to the fact
that in the seventeenth century transcendental concepts were opposed to "super-transcendental" concepts, which are said not only of real but also of fictitious beings. Examples of these
super-transcendental concepts are cogitabile and opinabile.(48) Henry's notion of res may be regarded as an anticipation of such concepts." (pp. 17-18).
(46) Summa 34.2 (ed. R. Macken, p. 175): "Et tamen rationem esse nihil potest habere, nisi prius habendo rationem rei dictae a reor, in qua fundatur ratio esse ilius."
(47) Cf. Summa 24.3 (fol. 138v P).
(48) L. Oeing-Hanhoff, "Res comme concept transcendental et sur-transcendental", in: M. Fattori and M. Bianchi (ed.), Res (III Colloquio Internazionale del Lessico
Intellettuale Europeo), Rome 1982, pp. 285-296.
———. 1997. "Thomas Aquinas: Aristotelianism Versus Platonism?" In Néoplatonisme Et Philosophie Médiévale. Actes Du Colloque International De Corfou 6-8 Octobre 1995 Organisé Par
La S.I.E.P.M., edited by Benakis, Linos G., 147-162. Turnhout: Brepols.
———. 1998. "What Is First and Most Fundamental? The Beginnings of Transcendental Philosophy." In Was Ist Philosophie Im Mittelalter?, Qu'est-Ce Que La Philosophie Au Moyen Age?
What Is Philosophy in the Middle Ages?. Akten Des X. Internationalen Kongresses Für Mittelalterliche Philosophie Der Société Internationale Pour L'étude De La Philosophie Médiévale, 25. Bis 30.
August 1997 in Erfurt, edited by Aertsen, Jan A. and Speer, Andreas, 177-192. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter.
———. 1998. "Being and One: The Doctrine of the Convertible Transcendentals in Duns Scotus." In John Duns Scotus (1265/6-1308). Renewal of Philosophy. Acts of the Third Symposium
Organized by the Dutch Society for Medieval Philosophy Medium Aevum (May 23 and 24, 1996), edited by Bos, Egbert Peter, 13-26. Amsterdam: Rodopi.
"In the prologue of his commentary on the Metaphysics, Duns Scotus explains the name 'metaphysics' as transcendens scientia, that is, the science that is concerned
with the transcendentia.(1) This explanation is indicative of the prominent place Scotus ascribes to the doctrine of the transcendentals, which was formulated for the first time in the
Summa de bono of Philip the Chancellor that is datable about 1225. The connection between the object of first philosophy and the transcendentals is not in itself new, although the identity
posed by Scotus is more radical than in his predecessors.(2) Yet it is no exaggeration to say that Scotus's philosophy marks a new phase in the history of the doctrine of the
Scotus understands the concept 'transcendental' differently than his predecessors did. To thinkers of the thirteenth century, transcendental properties are communissima.
'Being, 'one,'true' and 'good' 'transcend' the Aristotelian categories because they are not limited to one of them but are common to all things. According to Scotus, however, it is not necessary that
a transcendental as transcendental be predicated of every being; it is not essential to the concept transcendens that it has many inferiors. In his Ordinatio he determines the
concept negatively: 'what is not contained under any genus' or 'what remains indifferent to finite and infinite'. (3) This definition makes possible a vast extension of the transcendental domain; the
most important innovation is formed by the so-called disjunctive transcendentals, which are convertible with being, not separately but as pairs.
The fact that the transcendental properties are not necessarily identical with the communissima is, I suspect, the reason why the expression transcendentia, which
occurs only sporadically in thinkers like Albert the Great, Thomas Aquinas and Henry of Ghent, gains the upperhand in Scotism and becomes the usual term.
About Scotus's doctrine of the transcendentals, in contrast to that of other medieval thinkers, we are well informed by Allan B. Wolter's pioneering study, The Transcendentals
and Their Function in the Metaphysics of Duns Scotus (1946). Yet there are aspects of his doctrine that have thus far received little attention in scholarly literature. One of them is Scotus's
treatment of the transcendentals 'one, 'true' and 'good,' which as such are convertible with being. In my contribution I want to show that with respect to the traditional transcendentals, too, Scotus
breaks new ground and approaches critically the views of his thirteenth-century predecessors. Because he discusses most extensively the relation between being and one, I foals on this discussion."
* The original version of this study will appear in T. Noone and G. A. Wilson (eds.), Essays in Honor Girard Etzkorn: Franciscan Texts and Traditions, Franciscan Studies 56
(1998) [pp. 47-64].
(1) Quaestiones subtilissimae super libros Metaphysicorum Aristotelis, prol., n. 18: Et hanc scientiam vocamus metaphysicam, quae dicitur a 'meta', quod est 'trans', et
'ycos', 'scientia', quasi transcendens scientia, quia est de transcendentibus.
(2) Albert the Great, Metaphysica I, tract. 1, ch. 2 (Opera omnia XVI, 1, ed. B. Geyer, 5, 13-14), who uses the phrase prima et transcendentia in his analysis of
the subject matter of metaphysics. For Thomas Aquinas's doctrine, see J.A. Aertsen, Medieval Philosophy and the Transcendentals. The Case of Thomas Aquinas, Leiden, Brill 1996, 113-158.
(3) Ordinatio I, dist. 8, part t, q. 3, nn. 113-114 (ed. Vaticana IV, 206).
———. 1998. "Being and One: The Doctrine of the Convertible Transcendentals in Duns Scotus." Franciscan Studies no. 56:47-64.
———. 1998. ""Speculum Musicae" Als Spiegel Der Philosophie." In Musik Und Die Geschichte Der Philosophie Und Naturwissenschaften Im Mittelalter. Fragen Zur Wechselwirkung Von
'Musica' Und 'Philosophia' Im Mittelalter, edited by Hentschel, Frank, 305-321. Leiden: Brill.
———. 1998. "The Philosophical Importance of the Doctrine of the Transcendentals in Thomas Aquinas." Revue Internationale de Philosophie no. 52:249-268.
———. 1998. ""Über Das Schône" - Alberts Des Groben Kôlner Vorlesungen Zu Dionysius Areopagita." In Dombau Und Theologie Im Mittelalterlichen Köln. Festschrift Zur 750-Jahrfeier
Der Grundsteinlegung Des Kölner Domes Und Zum 65. Geburtstag Von Joachim Kardinal Meisner, edited by Honnefelder, Ludwig, Trippen, Norbert and Wolff, Arnold, 417-427. Köln: Kölner Dom.
———. 1999. "The Medieval Doctrine of the Transcendentals. New Literature." Bulletin de Philosophie Médiévale no. 41:107-121.
"In 1597 Francisco Suarez published his Disputationes Metaphysicae, a work that had an incredible influence on seventeenth century philosophy. The most salient feature of
his metaphysics is the central position of the transcendentia or transcendentalia (Suarez uses these terms as synonyms) : Disp. 2-11 deal with being, unity, truth and goodness. In
comparison with Aristotle's conception of a science of being, metaphysics had acquired a « transcendental » character. As Suarez knew very well, this transformation had taken place in the Middle
In the Bulletin 33 (1991), pp. 130-147, I analyzed the current state of research on the medieval doctrine of the transcendentals (= DT), which is essential for our
understanding of philosophy in this period. In the present article I will assemble and discuss the relevant literature of the last decade, adding some older publications that were not mentioned in
the first report." (p. 107)
[The first report listed 104 titles, the current report 84].
———. 1999. "Albertus Magnus Und Seine Bedeutung." In Albert Der Grosse in Köln. Gehalten Auf Der Feierstunde Zur 750sten Wiederkehr Der Einrichtung Des Kölner Generalstudiums
Der Dominikaner Am 6. November 1998, edited by Aertsen, Jan A., 7-13. Köln: Universität zu Köln.
———. 1999. "Is There a Medieval Philosophy? I. The Case of Thomas Aquinas. Ii. The Case of Meister Eckhart." International Philosophical Quarterly no. 39:387-412.
———. 1999. "Meister Eckhart: Eine Ausserordentliche Metaphysik." Recherches de Théologie et Philosophie médiévales no. 66:1-20.
———. 1999. "Thomas Aquinas on the Good. The Relation between Metaphysics and Ethics." In Aquinas's Moral Theory. Essays in Honor of Norman Kretzmann, edited by Scott,
MacDonald and Stump, Eleonore, 235-253. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.
———. 1999. "Die Transzendentalienlehre Bei Dietrich Von Freiberg." In Dietrich Von Freiberg. Neue Perspektiven Seiner Philosophie, Theologie Und Naturwissenschaft. Freiberger
Symposion: 10. -13. März 1997, edited by Kandler, Karl-Hermann, Burkhard, Mojsisch and Stamkötter, Franz-Bernhard, 23-47. Amsterdam: B. G. Grüner.
———. 2000. "Transcendens - Transcendentalis. The Genealogy of a Philosophical Term." In L'élaboration Du Vocabulaire Philosophique Au Moyen Âge. Actes Du Colloque
Internationale De Louvain-La-Neuve Et Leuven 12-14 Septembre 1998 Organisé Par La S.I.E.P.M., edited by Hamesse, Jacqueline and Steel, Carlos, 241-255. Turnhout: Brepols.
"In the study of medieval philosophy it is customary to speak of the doctrine of the « transcendentals » (1). We have to realize, however, that this term comes from the vocabulary
of modern philosophy. The medieval authors themselves speak of transcendentia. What is the significance of this fact ? What is in those names ? By way of introduction, we consider the two
terms, « transcendent » and « transcendental », more closely in order to make clear that the interference of the conceptual language of modem philosophy with that of medieval philosophy is not
coincidental. The difference in terminology points to a doctrinal evolution. (p. 241)
"By way of conclusion, let me sum up the main results of our inquiry into the genealogy of the term transcendentia (in the sense of transcendentals »).
(i) The first philosophical account of a doctrine of the transcendentals is presented in Philip the Chancellor's Summa de bono. This work did not use the term
transcendentia, but later in the thirteenth century Roland of Cremona, Albert the Great and Thomas Aquinas applied the term to a systematic doctrine of the communissima. The origin
of the doctrine is not the Platonic-Augustinian idea of « transcensus », but rather the Avicennian tradition of primary notions.
(ii) The term transcendentia already existed before the emergence of a systematic doctrine. Albert the Great's commentaries and some texts from the Logica
modernorum strongly suggest that the term originates in logical discussions, focussing on the distinctive nature of certain (« transcendental ») terms." (p. 255)
(1) I myself wrote a book with the title Medieval Philosophy and the Transcendentals. The Case of Thomas Aquinas, Leiden - New York, 1996.
———. 2000. ""Eros" Und "Agape". Dionysius Areopagita Und Thomas Von Aquin Über Die Doppelgestalt Der Liebe." In Die Dionysius-Rezeption Im Mittelalter. Internationales
Kolloquium in Sofia Vom 8. Bis 11. April 1999, edited by Boiadjiev, Tsocho, Kapriev, Georgi and Speer, Andreas, 373-391. Turnhout: Brepols.
———. 2000. "Thomas Von Aquin. Alle Menschen Verlangen Von Natur Nach Wissen." In Philosophen Des Mittelalters. Eine Einführung, edited by Kobusch, Theo, 186-201. Darmstadt:
———. 2000. "Mittelaterliche Philosophie: Ein Unmögliches Projekt?" In Geisteleben Im 13. Jahrhundert, edited by Aertsen, Jan A. and Speer, Andreas, 12-28. Berlin: Walter de
———. 2000. "Filosofia Cristiana: ¿Primacia Del Ser Versus Primacia Del Bien?" Anuario Filosofico no. 33:339-361.
———. 2001. "Fröhliche Wissenschaft: Wahrheit Im Mittelalter." In Ende Und Vollendung: Eschatologische Perspektiven Im Mittelalter, edited by Aertsen, Jan A. and Pickavé,
Martin, 48-65. Berlin: de Gruyter.
———. 2001. ""Von Gott Kann Man Nichts Erkennen, Miner Dass Er Ist" (Satz 215 Der Pariser Verurteilung). Die Debatte Über Die (Un-)Möglichkeit Einer Gotteserkenntnis Quid
Est." In Nach Der Verurteilung Von 1277. Philosophie Und Theologie an Der Universität Von Paris Im Letzten Viertel Des 13. Jahrhunderts, edited by Aertsen, Jan A., Emery, Kent Jr. and
Speer, Andreas, 22-37. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter.
———. 2001. "Die Frage Nach Dem Ersten Und Grundlegenden. Albert Der Grosse Und Die Lehre Von Den Transzendentalien." In Albertus Magnus. Zum Gedenken Nach 800 Jahren: Neue
Zugänge, Aspekte Und Perspektiven, edited by Senner, Walter, 91-112. Berlin: Akademie Verlag.
———. 2001. "Die Transzendentalität Des Wahren in Der Mittelalterlichen Philosophie." In Bene Scripsisti... Philosophy since the Middle Ages to Modern Times: Proceedings of the
Seventieth Birthday of Stanislav Sousedík, edited by Benes, Jiri, Glombicek, Peter and Urbanek, Vladimir, 49-62. Prague: Filosofia.
———. 2002. "'Res' as Transcendental. Its Introduction and Significance." In Le Problème Des Transcendantaux Du Xive Au Xviie Siècle, edited by Federici Vescovini,
Graziella, 139-155. Paris: Vrin.
"The history of res as a transcendental term is an intriguing one: it could be described in terms of a success-story: from "nothing" to "king". In the first account of a
doctrine of the transcendentals, the Summa de bono written by Philip the Chancellor ca. 1225-28, res is not mentioned at all. In the prologue Philip states that « most common
(communissima) are these : ens, unum, verum, bonum », whose mutual relations he investigates in the next questions (1). Res is also absent in the expositions by Alexander
of Hales, Bonaventure and Albert the Great: they restrict the number of transcendentals to the four that Philip had listed in his Summa (2).
Thirty years after Philip, however, the picture changes. In his account of the transcendentals in De veritate q. 1, a. 1 -- the most extensive one in the thirteenth century
--, Thomas Aquinas incorporated res into the doctrine. He distinguishes six transcendentia, in the order ens, res, unum, aliquid, verum and bonum (3). Yet the role
of the new transcendental res in Thomas and the Thomistic tradition in general remains somewhat marginal. A good illustration offers a treatise from the 14th century, the Tractatus de
sex transcendentibus, composed by Franciscus de Prato (who was lector in Perugia from 1343-45). The treatise is an attempt to systematize the doctrine on the basis of Thomas's teachings.
Contrary to the order in De veritate, res holds the last place in this work, and its treatment is substantially briefer than those of the traditional transcendentals (4).
But in the generation after Thomas Aquinas, res started, as we shall see a splendid career. A notable reaction against Thomas's doctrine is Lorenzo Valla's philosophical
mainwork Dialecticae disputationes (first version 1439) (5) In these disputations, Valla critically inquires into the basic notions of traditional philosophy, starting with the six
primordial prin ciples (primordia) which the Aristotelians called transcendentia. They regarded these principles as the "princes of princes" or the "kings", but according to Valla a
plurality of firsts is impossible ; only the monarchy is good. He will therefore investigate which among the six is the true rex imperator, that is, the most comprehensive
(capacissima) notion (6).
Valla's conclusion is that only res can claim this title. It is evident unum is to be understood as "one res", aliquid as "another res", etc. But
how about the notion ens, to which the Aristotelians give a place honour? In Valla's view, the term does not have a universal force of its own, but its force is wholly borrowed from another,
namely from res (7) His arguments are marked by the (humanistic) linguistic turn; they are mainly philological. Ens is a participle that is to be resolved into a relative pronoun and a verb
: id quod est. Id is to be resolved into ea res, so that finally ens can be reduced to ea res que est (8).When we say, for instance "the stone is being" (lapis
est ens), the expression means "the stone is thing (res) which is". But does such a formula make any sense, when simpler and clearer to say "the stone is a res"? The words
"that which is" cannot mean that the stone is "the thing that is", because only God "is" in the proper sense (Exodus 3,14). When therefore it is said of something else than God that it is
"being" (ens), one uses an inappropriate way of expression (9).
The dignity of a transcendental was given only to res (10).To illustrate its position, Valla alludes to a story, reported by Herodotus in his Historiae (III, 86),
a work that Valla translated into Latin. Six Persians contested the empire, but when Darius managed to become the king of the Persians, the other five descended from their horses and rendered hommage
to the king. Similarly the other five transcendentals descend in order to honor res (11).
With respect to the remarkable history of "thing" I want to raise three questions: How did res come into philosophy, why did it enter philosophy and what did it bring about
in philosophy, for our understanding of "reality" (12)?" (pp. 139-141; notes renumbered)
(1) Philippus Cancellarius, Summa de bono, prol. (ed. N. Wicki, t. I, Bern, 1985, p. 4).
(2) Cf. J.A. Aertsen, Medieval Philosophy and the Transcendentals. The Case of Thomas Aquinas, Leiden-New York-Köln 1996, p. 25-70.
(3) Thomas Aquinas, De veritate q. 1, a. 1 (ed. Leonina t. XXII, 1, Roma, 1970, p. 3-8).
(4) Cf. the recent edition by B. Mojsisch « Franciscus de Prato, Tractatus de sex transcendentibus », Bochumer Philosophisches Jahrbuch für Antike and Mittelalter 5, 2000,
(5) The different versions were edited by G. Zippel in two volumes : Lorenzo Valla Repastinatio dialectice et philosophie t. I, Retractatio totius dialectice cum fundamentis
universe philosophie; t. II, Repastinatio dialectice et philosophie, Padova, 1982. [A new edition is now available: Lorenzo Valla, Dialectical Disputations, Latin text and English
translation by B. P. Copenhaver and L. Nauta. (I Tatti Renaissance Library), Harvard University Press, 2012 (two volumes).]
Cf. S.I. Camporeale, Lorenzo Valla, Umanesimo e teologia, Firenze 1972, p. 153-162. M. Laffranchi, « L'interpretazione "retorica" del linguaggio dei trascendentali in
Lorenzo Valla » in A. Ghisalberti (ed.), Dalla prima alla seconda Scolastica. Paradigmi e percorsi storiografici, Bologna 2001, p. 167-199.
(6) Lorenzo Valla, Retractatio I, cap. 1,n. 9 (ed. Zippel I, p. 11) : « Ea numero sex dicuntur : "ens", "aliquid", "res", "unum", "verum", "bonum". Que quoniam sunt altiora
principia et velut principum principes et quasi (ut istis videtur) quidam imperatores et reges (...), de his prius ordine ipso dicendum est 0. Cap. 2, n. 1 : « Iam primum non plures esse debere
imperatores ac reges, sed unum (...). Ergo quod ex his vocabulum, sive que vocabuli significatio sit imperator et rex, idest omnium capacissima (...), inquiramus ».
(7) Lorenzo Valla, Retractatio I, cap. 2, n. 12 (ed. Zippel I, p. 14) : « Quo palam est, omnem vim non naturalem habere, sed, ut sic dicam, precariam ac mutuo sumptam ».
Repastinatio I, cap. 2, n. 9 (ed. Zippel II, p. 369) : « Quare quis non videt "ens" non habere suapte natura aliquam universalem vim, sed omnem mutuari ab illo 'res' ? ».
(8) Lorenzo Valla, Retractatio I, cap. 2, n. 11 (ed. Zippel I, p. 14) : « Igitur si "ens" ita resolvitur : "id quod est", et "id" resolvitur "ea res", profecto "ens" ita
resolvetur : "ea' que est" ».
(9) Lorenzo Valla, Retractatio I, cap. 2, n. 12 (ed. Zippel I, p. 14-15) : « Quid enim sibi vult verbi causa "lapis est ens", id est "ea res, quae est' ? Quid faciunt ille
voces "ea que est", cum sit et apertius et expeditius et satius, "lapis est res' ? (...) cum presertim absurda videatur oratio: "lapis est ea res que est", sive "lapis est res que est", quasi nihil
sit proprie nisi solus lapis, aut quicquid erit illud, de quo dicemus ipsum esse "rem, que est" : que oratio de solo Deo propria est ( ...). Itaque cum de alia re quam de Deo dicitur quod sit "ens",
inepte dicitur ».
(10) Lorenzo Valla, Repastinatio I, cap. 2, n. 12 (ed. Zippel II, p. 370) : « Quo fit ut solum sit "res", quod transcendentis dignitate donetur ».
(11) Lorenzo Valla, Retractatio I, cap. 2, n. 2 (ed. Zippel I, p. 11-12) : « Apud me autem ex his sex que nunc quasi de regno contendunt, non aliter "res" erit rex, quam
Darius Hystaspis filius futurus rex erat ex illis sex Persis, qui regnum sorti permisere ». Cap. 2, n. 16 (ed. Zippel I, p. 15).
(12) There does not exist a comprehensive study on res as a philosophical concept. A good overview is offered by J. F. Courtine, Res, in Historisches Worterbuch der
Philosophie, vol. 8, Basel 1992, p. 892-901. The volume Res. Atti del III (Colloquio internazionale del Lessico intellettuale europeo, ed. by M. Fattori and M. Bianchi, Rome 1982
(Lessico intellettuale europeo, 26), contains two interesting contributions : J. Hamesse, Res chez les auteurs philosophiques du XIIe et XIIIe siècles ou le passage de la neutralité a la
spécificité (p. 91-104); L. Oeing-Hanhoff, Res comme concept transcendental et sur-transcendental (p. 285-296). See also R. Darge, "Suarez" Analyse der Transzendentalien "Ding" und
"Etwas" im Kontext der scholastischen Metaphysiktradition », Theologie und Philosophie 75, 2000, p. 339-358.
———. 2002. "Truth in Thomas Aquinas." In The Contemporary Debate on the Truth. Proceedings of the Ii. Plenary Session of the Pontifical Academy of St. Thomas Aquinas, Doctor
Communis Ii, N. S., 50-54. Vatican City: Pontifica Academia Sncti Thomae Aquinatis.
"When I was invited to comment upon the theme of the section -'Truth in Thomas Aquinas' - I pondered on the best way of meeting the request. I asked myself: What is most important
in his conception of truth? The following comments are designed to be an answer to that question and are based on Thomas's remarks in De veritate. As such, my answer does not pretend to be
definitive, but is based on personal reflections that are indebted to on-going discussions in the German academic world to which I belong. That said, I would hope that my comments possess some
general relevance to other students of Thomas. It is my view, that the salience of Thomas's view of truth can be appreciated by means of highlighting four substantive points.
1. First and foremost we should attend to Thomas's approach to the question quid sit veritas.
2. Having considered the transcendentality of the truth, Thomas then solicits an answer to the question as to what it is.
3. There is truth in things; 'truth' is also predicated of the intellect.
What, then, is the primary 'locus' of truth: the thing or the intellect?
In his reply to this question (De veritate q. 1, a. 2) Thomas advances the idea of the analogy of the true; this predicate is said of many things according to an
order of priority and posteriority, that is, in relation to one (thing) that possesses the ratio of the predicate primarily. The classical application
of the doctrine of analogy concerns the term 'being'. The novelty of Thomas's thinking here is to be seens in his application of the analogy to the predicate 'true', in order to
determine the relation between the truth of being and the truth of the intellect.
4. At De veritate 1,4 Thomas poses the question that dominates the first systematic account of truth in the history of philosophy, Anselm of Canterbury's work De
veritate: 'Is there only one truth by which all things are true?' Anselm had answered this question affirmatively; there is only one truth in the proper sense (proprie), the divine
truth. Thomas's reply is more differentiated: truth is properly found in the human or divine intellect; primarily in the divine intellect; secondarily in the human intellect. A human truth, too, is
truth in the proper sense.
The power of truth manifests itself in its claim of having absolute force; it holds without respect of persons. Thomas gives a remarkable example of that in his Commentary on
the Book Job. He interprets the dispute between Job and God after the model of a medieval disputation. But Thomas wonders whether such a disputation is appropriate, since God is far superior to
any human being. Truth does not change because of the difference of persons.
When somebody speaks the truth, he cannot therefore be defeated, irrespective of the person, with whom he disputes (cum aliquis veritatem loquitur, vinci non potest cum
quocumque disputat). (8)
In summary, four ideas are most important in Thomas's conception of truth: the transcendental character of truth; its relationality (truth as adequation); the primary 'locus' of
truth is the mind; and a human truth also is a truth in the proper sense. Seen together, they reflect the novelty of his philosophical thought and its relevance." (pp. 50-54)
(8) Expositio super Iob c. 13 (ed. Leonina vol. XXVI, 1965, 87).
———. 2002. "Die Umformung Der Metaphysik. Das Mittelalterliche Projekt Der Transzendentalien." In Prudentia Und Contemplatio. Ethik Und Metaphysik Im Mittelalter. Festschrift
Für Georg Wieland Zum 65. Geburstag, edited by Brachtendorf, Johannes, 89-106. Paderborn: Ferdinand Schöningh.
———. 2003. "Heinrich Von Gent Und Thomas Von Aquin Über Die Transzendentalien. Ein Textvergleich." In Henry of Ghent and the Transformation of Scholastic Thought. Studies in
Memory of Jos Decorte, edited by Guldentops, Guy and Steel, Carlos, 101-125. Leuven: Leuven University Press.
———. 2004. "The Concept of "Transcendens" in the Middle Ages: What Is Beyond and What Is Common." In Platonic Ideas and Concept Formation in Ancient and Medieval Thought,
edited by Van Riel, Gerd and Macé, Caroline, 133-154. Leuven: Leven University Press.
———. 2004. "La Scoperta Dell'ente in Quanto Ente." In Tommaso D'Aquino E L'oggetto Della Metafisica, edited by Brock, Stephen L., 35-48. Roma: Armando.
———. 2005. "Metaphysics as a Transcendental Science." Quaestio.Yearbook of the History of the Metaphysics no. 5:377-389.
———. 2005. "Aquinas and the Human Desire for Knowledge." American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly no. 79:411-430.
"This essay examines Aquinas's analysis of the human desire to know, which plays a central role in his thought. (I.) This analysis confronts him with the Aristotelian tradition:
thus, the desire for knowledge is a "natural" desire. (II.) It also confronts him with the Augustinian tradition, which deplores a non-virtuous desire in human beings that is called "curiosity."
(III.) Aquinas connects the natural desire with the Neoplatonic circle motif: principle and end are identical. The final end of the desire to know is the knowledge of God. (IV.) Aquinas also connects
the end of the natural desire to know with Christian eschatology, teaching that man's ultimate end is the visio Dei. This end, however, is "supernatural." (V.) Duns Scotus severely criticizes central
aspects of Aquinas's account. (VI.) As a rejoinder to Scotus's objections, we finally consider Aquinas's view on the proper object of the human intellect."
———. 2005. "Ethikbegründung Bei Thomas Von Aquin." In Ethikbegründungen Zwischen Universalismus Und Relativismus, edited by Heidemann, Dietmar H. and Engelhard, Kristina,
65-85. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter.
———. 2005. "Der 'Systematiker' Eckhart." In Meister Eckhart in Erfurt, edited by Speer, Andreas and Wegener, Lydia, 189-230. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter.
Miscellanea Mediaevalia 32.
———. 2005. "Die Rede Von Gott. Die Fragen Ob Er Ist Und Was Er Ist: Wissenschaftslehre Und Transzendentalienlehre (S. Th. I, Qq. 1-12)." In Thomas Von Aquin:
Summa Theologiae. Werkinterpretationen, edited by Speer, Andreas, 29-50. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter.
———. 2006. "The Triad True-Good-Beautiful. The Place of Beauty in the Middle Ages." In Intellect Et Imagination Dans La Philosophie Médiévale. Actes De Xième Congrès
International De Philosophie Médiévale, Porto, 26 Au 30 Août 2002 Organisé Par La Société Internationale Pour L'étude De La Philosophie Médiévale, edited by Pacheco, Maria Cândida and Meirinhos,
José F., 415-436. Turnhout: Brepols.
———. 2006. "Transcendens Im Mittelalter. Das Jenseitige Und Das Gemeinsame." Recherches de Théologie et Philosophie médiévales no. 73:291-310.
———. 2007. "Is Truth Not a Transcendental for Aquinas?" In Wisdom's Apprentice. Thomistic Essays in Honor of Lawrence Dewan, O.P., edited by Kwaniewski, Peter A.,
3-12. Washington: Catholic University of America Press.
———. 2007. "Vernunftskritik Und Offenbarung. Duns Scotus' Kritik an Thomas Von Aquin." In De Usu Rationis. Vernunft Und Offenbarung Im Mittelalter. Symposium Des Philosophischen
Seminars Der Leibniz-Universität Hannover Vom 21. Bis 23. Februar 2006, edited by Mensching, Günther, 91-101. Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann.
———. 2010. "Truth in Middle Ages: Its Essence and Power in Christian Thought." In Truth. Studies of a Robust Presence, edited by Pritzl, Kurt, 127-146. Washington: Catholic
University of America Press.
———. 2010. "Scotus' Conception of Transcendentality: Tradition and Innovation." In Johannes Duns Scotus 1308-2008. Die Philosophischen Perspektiven Seines Werkes = Johannes Duns
Scotus 1308-2008. Investigations into His Philosophy, edited by Möhle, Hannes, Speer, Andreas, Kobusch, Theo and Bullido del Barrio, Susana, 107-123. Münster: Aschendorff.
Proceedings of "The Quadruple Congress" on John Duns Scotus. Part 3.
———. 2011. "The Transformation of Metaphysics in the Middle Ages." In Philosophy and Theology in the Long Middle Ages. A Tribute to Stephen F. Brown, edited by Emery, Kent
Jr., Friedman, Russell L. and Speer, Andreas, 19-39. Leiden: Brill.
———. 2011. "The Goodness of Being." Recherches de Théologie et Philosophie médiévales no. 78:281-295.
"This essay in honour of Carlos Steel examines a fundamental thesis behind the medieval metaphysics of the good, namely the «goodness of being» thesis, according to which everything
that is is good. The basic text used is a Quodlibet disputed by the Parisian master Gerard of Bologna at the beginning of the fourteenth century, in which he discusses various determinations
of the nature (ratio) of the good. This discussion reveals the difficulties to which the metaphysics of the good can lead: is it really the case that every being is good?"
———. 2011. "Tino-Logia: An Alternative for Ontology?" In Mots Médiévaux Offerts À Ruedi Imbach, edited by Atucha, Iñigo, Clama, Dragos, König-Pralong, Catherine and
Zavattero, Irene, 729-737. Turnhout: Brepols.
"In our contribution to the Festschrift in honour of Ruedi Imbach the focus will be on the term « tino-logia ». The notion is not mentioned in the most complete
philosophical dictionary of our time, the Historisches Worterbuch der Philosophie, which appeared in 13 volumes from 1971-2007. The vocable was suggested by French scholars two decades ago
in their analysis of the genealogy of Western metaphysics and has since then found acceptance. « Tinology » is meant to characterize an alternative for the traditional ontological model of
metaphysics. Influential was an observation made by Jean-Francois Courtine at the end of his monumental study on the metaphysics of Francis Suarez : « En rigueur de termes, l'ontologie
classique-moderne devrait donc plutot être caracterisée comme une 'tinologie' »(1). The emergence of this neologism and its historical place is the first thing that calls for attention." (p. 729)
———. 2012. "Why Is Metaphysics Called "First Philosophy" in the Middle Ages?" In The Science of Being as Being: Metaphysical Investigations, edited by Doolan, Gregory T.,
53-69. Washington: Catholic University of America Press.
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Co-Author: Andreas Speer. |
Former professional wrestler Pierre
Clermont, better known by his ring name Pat Patterson, has come out
The 73-year-old Patterson, who was
inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame in 1996, discussed his sexuality
publicly for the first time during the season finale of the WWE
produced reality show Legends' House. The show follows eight
wrestling legends living in a house in Palm Springs, California over
the course of two months.
In the episode, titled Farewell my
Friends, the men share private moments of their lives as they
prepare to depart the house.
Patterson revealed he was gay and had
lived for 40 years with a partner who died of a heart attack.
“For once in my life I'm going to be
me. I survived all this being gay,” he said, a reference to a
difficult childhood in Quebec.
“I lived with that for 50-some
years,” an emotional Patterson said. (The video is embedded on
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In December a large Japanese dock washed up on Washington’s Olympic Coast and responders struggled against angry winter tides and bad weather to get to the remote beach. It’s a beach Ken Campbell visited last summer when he, Jason Goldstein and Steve Weileman set out on a three week voyage to document newly-arrived debris from the tragic tsunami and earthquake that rocked Japan in March of 2011.
Campbell: Well the Ikkatsu Project started out as an idea that a few of us wanted to go kayaking on the roadless coast looking for tsunami debris but essentially what we did was we went from Neah Bay, which is the northern end of the roadless coast.
EarthFix: The northwestern end of the country to be clear.
Campbell: Exactly. Down to Ruby Beach which is where highway 101 hits the coast again so it’s about 70 miles, 70+ miles of roadless coast. Our trip was about 110 miles because of backtracking and going out to islands and things like that, we ended up covering about 110 miles of coastline.
So a lot of the beaches we ended up going to, that we ended up surveying are really inaccessible, obviously inaccessible by car. Some of them are accessible by foot and people do hike it, but a lot of the beaches we focused on, tried to concentrate on, don’t get seen by hikers either.
EarthFix: And tell me what you were doing on these beaches?
Campbell: We were surveying these beaches. And by surveying we were using a NOAA protocol called standing stock survey where you measure out a section of beach define certain transects and then go ahead and count what’s in each transect.
EarthFix: And what were you finding?
Campbell: Lots of plastic. It is the number one form of debris - either foamed plastic or hard plastic, what we call styrofoam.
EarthFix: And you were also checking for radiation.
Campbell: Yes we were. We had a geiger counter with us and we checked everything that we came across. Didn’t find anything above normal background radiation but that’s kind of part of the process too.
EarthFix: So you’re paddling for miles every day and putting in at these remote snippets of sandy beach along the coast of the Olympic Peninsula… and then things get interesting.
Clip from the documentary: Mixed in among the flotsam that has come from other sources, the plastic bottles and the net floats, the buoys and the scraps of styrofoam, a few of the larger items that were washed to sea in March of 2011 are already here. On a windy rain-soaked stretch of sand not far from Cape Flattery, the team makes a discovery that immediately brings the magnitude of the human side of the tsunami story into clear focus.
EarthFix: OK you’ve got me. What did you find?
Campbell: That was early in the trip, not too far south of Cape Flattery we came across a beach we weren’t really surveying we just landed on the beach and were walking along kinda looking around at what was there and there was quite a bit of debris there and I started to notice lumber, milled lumber. It wasn’t too long before we were able to read some of the mill stamps on each piece of lumber, just like here, every piece of lumber has a mill stamp on it and we saw letters that indicated that it came from Japan. Our first thought was perhaps it washed off a boat, a pallet of lumber, but it had nails in it and it had obviously been put together at one point. And as we walked down the beach we found more and more and more of it until we got to the Northern end of this beach, there was a little hook there, with a big rock reef out in front of it, fairly low tide at this point. And there was a big pile of lumber at this point, intermixed with kelp and driftwood pieces, but a lot of milled sections.
We started going through it and came across a child’s potty seat, a piece of a dryer — a clothes washer and dryer. Stuff that was out of a medicine cabinet. We opened the top of these glass bottles and you could smell cherry cough syrup. There was an iodine bottle. And it slowly began to dawn on us that we were actually in someone’s bathroom. That this was a section of house that had probably drifted across relatively intact and then broken up on the reef and sure enough, as we walked out on the reef away from the pile of lumber we found the motor for the washing machine. Because it was so heavy it didn’t get carried up on the beach.
So, at that point it was less that we were looking through flotsam and more of an eery feeling of actually looking through someone’s house.
EarthFix: I think that was when it hit me in the documentary was seeing that image of the child’s pink potty training seat just sitting there on the rocks.
Campbell: Yeah, and honestly that was the one piece that really made it click - this is what we’re looking at.
EarthFix: Tell me about the other waste that you found, the other debris that you found - some of it was hazardous.
Campbell: Yeah every beach we came to in the first segment of the trip we found some container of some sort with liquid hazardous items in it. Acetone, solvents of one kind or another, kerosene, and these items even though we couldn’t carry them all with us, we did tag them all as hazardous, we did take them up above the high tide line and mark them with a GPS for later pick up.
EarthFix: Now to be clear, you’re not sure those are from Japan?
Campbell: Not necessarily. Most of them, I don’t think any of them had any English writing on them. Most of them had characters on them — whether it was Kanji writing or not, I can’t say.
EarthFix: Judging by the amount of shipwrecks that have happened along this coast over the years, if you were to try and go back with a larger vessel to collect some of this debris, since, as you mentioned, we don’t have roads to get there very easily, you’re also facing a pretty risky voyage, even today.
Campbell: Right, and honestly that’s not going to happen with some of these beaches. The way that these beaches are gonna get cleaned up, if and when they do get cleaned up, is going to be by helicopter. And the Surfrider chapter out on the peninsula has done that already. They had a helicopter clean up just last year and another one just recently and we’re hoping to do another one early in 2013, but that’s really the only way in there - you’ll have to send people in by foot to collect the stuff. The helicopter won’t land, it’ll just hover, and it’ll carry off the debris. Now it’s limited to 200 pounds a lift so last year they picked off a little over a ton, a little over 2,000 pounds. It was ten lifts going from a beach near Cape Flattery to Neah Bay and back ten times. And that’s how it’s going to have to be done and that’s not a cheap way to clean up a beach.
EarthFix: OK Ken, if you were in charge how would you be responding to the problem of tsunami debris washing up on U.S. coasts?
Campbell: If I were in charge. Well, I think the number-one thing government needs to do is admit that there’s a problem. And some places are on top of it. I think the Makah Tribe is definitely on top of it. The Quileute is on top of it for their sections of coastline. It’s difficult when it gets into places where it’s federally owned but there’s different federal organizations that are responsible for it and I totally get that. But there needs to be some kind of “OK, here’s the problem now let’s all work together to fix that.” And I don’t think we’ve gotten to that point yet.
EarthFix: There is the Marine Debris Task Force that’s multi-government agencies coming together to deal with the problem of tsunami debris. How are they doing so far from your perspective?
Campbell: It’s a whole lot better than it was a year ago, absolutely. I think that again, it will come back to funding. Right now NOAA has been able to give out $50,000 to five states, $250,000 total. That doesn’t go very far and we do have a generous donation from the Japanese government of $5 million which has yet to be allocated but that’s still going to go fairly quickly. It has to be perceived as an issue and has to be perceived as something needs to be done about it before anything is going to happen.
Ken Campbell is the director of the Ikkatsu Project. He’s written five books about kayaking.
Catch an upcoming showing of “The Roadless Coast”:
- Jan 15 - Quimper Unitarian, Port Townsend, WA
- Jan 26 - Golden Gate Sea Kayak Symposium, San Francisco, CA
- Jan 29 - Annie Wright School, Tacoma, WA
- Feb 6 - University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, WA
- Feb 13 - Grand Cinema, Tacoma, WA
- Feb 19 - Mountaineers Hall, Seattle, WA
- Mar 13 - Pickford Film Center, Bellingham, WA |
Should you pay more for your health insurance if you’re a smoker? How about if you decline to participate in program called the Health Engagement Model (HEM) that requires submitting health information about yourself electronically? The new contract that the state hammered out with its workers involves a number of changes — including a surcharge for tobacco use and extending the free use of Weight Watchers to members’ spouses and domestic partners. But the program that’s generated thousands of concerned calls and emails to union offices is the HEM.
The requirements for the HEM are three-fold: You fill out the health survey (after which you’ll get back some health recommendations); you agree to take two health-related e-lessons like this one; and you agree to take steps to try to address your health issues. You don’t have to participate in HEM but you’ll pay $30 to $45 $20 to $35 more every month if you decline to do so.
The President of SEIU 503, Linda Burgin, says members’ concerns include objections to giving out personal information about their bodies, like their specific waist measurements; the financial incentive to participate; the security of their health information; and that the information not be used to deny them coverage in the future. The Public Employees’ Benefits Board, which is administering the program, says the information is completely secure, and that the HEM is a key way to encourage members to try to reduce their risks of chronic diseases — saving everyone’s health care dollars.
Are you a state worker? Do you plan to sign up for the HEM? Why or why not? What (else) should employers and health insurers be doing to keep costs down?
- Joan Kapowich: Administrator for the Public Employees’ Benefit Board
- David Bolton: President of SEIU Local 440, which represents the Department of Consumer and Business Services |
James Montgomery Boice
John Calvin urged, "We have been forewarned that an enemy relentlessly threatens us, an enemy who is the very embodiment of rash boldness, of military prowess, of crafty wiles, of untiring zeal and haste, of every conceivable weapon and of skill in the science of warfare. We must, then, bend our every effort to this goal: that we should not let ourselves be overwhelmed by carelessness or faintheartedness, but, on the contrary, with courage rekindled stand our ground in combat."
The place to begin in preparing to stand against Satan and his hosts is with a knowledge of Satan himself, in both his strengths and weaknesses. And the place to begin knowing about Satan is with the fact that he is both real and personal.
He is real in that he is not a figment of the human imagination. He is personal in that he is not merely some vague embodiment of evil. Jesus bore witness to these truths when he referred to the devil by name (Matt. 4:10; 16:23; Luke 22:3) and when he overcame him at the time of his temptation in the wilderness (Matt. 4:1-11).
The idea of a personal devil has been denied by large segments of the Christian church and to some has become almost a laughing matter. Because of the revival of witchcraft and Satanism in recent years, it is perhaps not so much a laughing matter as before. Still, many would regard thoughts about the existence of a real devil as hardly serious. To the popular mind, the devil is a funny creature in red underwear with horns and a tail. That is not at all the image of Satan portrayed in the Bible.
The apostle Paul noted that we are not ignorant of Satan's "devices" (2 Cor. 2:11 KJV). The word device means "a trick, plot, scheme, contrivance, or stratagem." So the point is that Christians know, or should know, about Satan's tricks for seeking to blind people's minds and secure them for himself. One of these, which he uses at some points of history, is to make people believe that he does not exist.
Since the devil of fiction is so unbelievable, it is no wonder that millions discount him. But that is a mistake. According to Jesus, there is a devil, and there are those who follow him. In fact, he warned his disciples to pray, "And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from [the evil one]" (Matt. 6:13).
The devil is also a fallen being, as Jesus taught in John 8:44. Jesus showed the height from which Satan fell (he "has nothing to do with the truth") and the depths to which he descended ("he is a liar and the father of lies," and "he was a murderer from the beginning"). Jesus also said, "I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven" (Luke 10:18).
This point too is often rejected by men and women, even if they believe in a devil. Thus, rather than believing that Satan is a depraved form of what he once was, they prefer to think of him as heroic and, more or less, as the champion of fallen man. John Milton, though he did not glorify Satan, nevertheless contributed to that idea. Although it is true that in the opening pages of his great epic, Paradise Lost, Milton does describe the fall of Satan from heaven and later anticipates his final judgment, it is also true that the greater part of the first book of the epic describes Lucifer's heroic efforts to rise from the depths of hell and make something of his supposed new kingdom. Milton does this so brilliantly that it is possible to sympathize with Satan. We receive quite a different impression from Scripture.
To begin with, Satan has never been in hell and does not control hell. The Bible tells us that God has created hell, preparing it in part for the devil and his angels, and that Satan will one day end up there.
The Bible also describes Satan as at one time being "full of wisdom and perfect in beauty." It says that he was once "in Eden, the garden of God," that he was "blameless" in all his ways from the day he was created, until "iniquity" was found in him (Ezek. 28:12-15).
In Isaiah we are told of Satan's fall through pride, which expressed itself as an arrogant desire to replace God. Satan says, "I will ascend to heaven; above the stars of God I will set my throne on high; I will sit on the mount of assembly in the far north; I will ascend above the heights of the clouds, I will make myself like the Most High." God replies that, as a result of his sin, he will actually be "brought down to Sheol, to the depths of the Pit" (Isa. 14:13-15). This is not the portrait of a heroic being, but of a fallen being. It is a being from whom a person should turn in horror.
Satan has wrought havoc on the human race. He is a murderer and the author of murder, as Jesus told his listeners. The first crime following the fall of Adam and Eve was a murder; as a result of the Fall, Cain murdered his brother. We also read that Satan entered into Judas to betray Christ into the hands of his enemies so that they might kill him (John 13:2). Satan's history is written in blood.
It is also written in deceit, for he is a liar, as Christ said. Satan lied to Eve"You will not die" (Gen. 3:4). But she did die. In 1 Kings we read that lying spirits (presumably demons) went forth into the prophets of Ahab so that he would go into battle against the Syrians and fall at Ramoth-gilead (1 Kings 22:21-23). In Acts we are told that Satan entered into Ananias to cause him to lie about the price of his property, as a result of which he died (Acts 5:3). Satan lies today. Consequently, we are to regard him as dangerous, deceitful, and malicious, but above all as a sinner and a failure. He sinned when he failed to remain in his high calling.
Finally, Satan is a limited being. That is, he is not omniscient, as God is; he is not omnipotent, as God is; he is not omnipresent, as God is. If Satan is a murderer from the beginning, he is limited in the area of the ethical life. If he is to face judgment, he is obviously limited in power. Although we should beware of Satan and be warned about him, we should not get into the habit of thinking of the tempter as anything like an evil equivalent of God.
Satan is not omniscient. God knows all things, but Satan does not. Above all, he does not know the future. No doubt Satan can make shrewd guesses, for he knows human nature and the tendencies of history. The so-called revelations of mediums and fortune-tellerswhen they are not outright deceitsfall into this category. But they do not give true knowledge of what is to come. Thus, the predictions are vague and generally do not hold water. At one point, God stated this in the form of a challenge to all false gods, saying, "Set forth your case, says the Lord; bring your proofs, says the King of Jacob. Let them bring them, and tell us what is to happen.... Tell us what is to come hereafter, that we may know that you are gods; do good, or do harm, that we may be dismayed and terrified. Behold, you are nothing, and your work is nought; an abomination is he who chooses you" (Isa. 41:21-24).
Neither is Satan omnipotent. Thus, he cannot do everything he wants to do, and, in the case of believers especially, he can do only what God will permit. The best-known example is Job, who was safe until God had first lowered the hedge he had thrown up around him. Even so, God had his own worthwhile purposes and kept Job from sinning.
Satan is not omnipresent, which means that he cannot be everywhere at the same time tempting everybody. God is omnipresent. He can help all who call upon him, all at one time. But Satan must tempt one individual at a time or else operate through one or more of those angels, now demons, who fell with him.
Although Christians must never ignore or underestimate Satan and his stratagems, neither must they overestimate him. Above all, they must never concentrate on Satan to the point of taking their eyes away from God. God is our strength and our tower. He limits Satan. God will never permit Christian to be tempted above what we are able to bear, and he will always provide the way of escape that we may be able to bear it (1 Cor. 10:13). As for Satan, his end is the lake of fire (Matt. 25:41).
The late James Montgomery Boice was senior pastor of Tenth Presbyterian Church (PCA) in Philadelphia, Pa., and the author of numerous books. This article is excerpted and slightly condensed from Foundations of the Christian Faith (IVP, 1986). Unless otherwise indicated, the author cites the RSV. Reprinted from New Horizons, October 2002. |
Just as assertions made on Sept 12, 2002 before the U.N. General Assembly, where he declared that "Saddam Hussein's regime is a grave and gathering danger and to suggest otherwise is to hope against the evidence" and "to assume this [Iraqi'] regime's good faith, is to bet the lives of millions and the peace of the world in a reckless gamble", once again we're told to take Mr. Bush at his words when he blames Iran for our desperate and self-perpetuated predicament in Iraq.
Four years on, one is left with a sense of Deja vu as everyday new and unsubstantiated allegations of blame and culpability are leveled at those "up to no good" Iranians. While the same casts of characters in the Bush administration avoid the kind of "flexibility" demonstrated in the North Korean agreement reached this week, they pay only lip service to all notions of diplomacy or any meaningful dialog with Iran.
Just as Iraq was faced with the dilemma of proving a negative with regard to WMD's before invasion, Iran is being tasked with confirming that they are not enriching uranium for nuclear weapons despite full cooperation with and no evidence found by the UN watch dog International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).
So these are the questions we as citizens must now ask ourselves - Can we afford to forget the lessons of a tragic war based on fabricated and manipulated intelligence? Have we not seen enough of the repugnant outcome of the short sighted action that created the current instability in Iraq and made this a far more dangerous world to live in? And finally, will we just stand by and let this administration spend our children's and grand children's future on this and possibly another far larger conflict with Iran embroiling the entire region into pandemonium while completely squandering whatever little reverence remains for what was once perceived as the greatest democratic experiment? |
Assume your data is discontiguous in memory and making it contiguous is not practical (e.g. there is no way to make cells of a row and cells of a column both contiguous.) You have 3 options:
1) Use many small/contiguous messages
2) Allocate scratch space and pack/unpack
3) Use a derived datatype.
If you decide to use option 2 then the time your program spends in the allocate/pack/send/free and the time it spends in allocate/recv/unpack/free needs to be counted in the cost. Just comparing a contiguous vs discontiguous message time does not help make a good decision.
Whether 2 or 3 is faster depends a lot in how the MPI implementation does its datatype processing. If the MPI implementation can move data directly from discontiguous memory into the sends side adapter and from recv side adapter to discontiguous memory, Datatypes may be faster and will conserve memory. If the MPI implementation just mallocs a scratch buffer and uses the datatype to guide an internal pack/unpack subroutine, there is a pretty good chance your hand crafted pack or unpack, along with contiguous messaging will be more efficient.
I mention option 1 for completeness and because if there were a very good put/get available, it might even be the best choice. It is probably not the best choice in any current MPI but there may be exceptions.
Dick Treumann - MPI Team
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'Le Passage du Gois' is mostly under water. During spring tide it can be used from 1:45 before to 1:45 after ebb. At neap tide or bad weather, the recommendenation is only to cross exactly at ebb.
IMO, it is more a touristic attraction than a serious road.
How should this be designated? Tertiary road sounds too important and will draw navigation systems towards it (could be dangerous at night, as there is no barrier, just warning signs). |
Cowboys cut Pat Watkins
Posted by Mike Florio on August 30, 2010 10:19 AM ET
As Tuesday's initial 80-to-75-man roster reduction deadline approaches, more and more names will be trickling out.
The Cowboys have added a quasi-recognizable name to the list by cutting safety Pat Watkins, according to Jason La Canfora of NFL Network. (Technically, the new was broken on Twitter by Cowboys tight end Martellus Bennett, who called Watkins his "best friend".)
A fifth-round draft pick in 2006, Watkins appeared in 13 games and started one in 2009. He contributed primarily on special teams.
The four-year veteran was blocked from becoming an unrestricted free agent in March, due to the rules of the uncapped year. The Cowboys offered him a non-guaranteed tender of $1.176 million. |
Originally Posted by TonyR
As it is, we were only a few players away! With Megatron, we would have been one fewer player away!
The thing I don't understand is once the Megatron deal never materialized, why Shanahan didn't make a play to acquire a pick from 3-7 and bring in the best remaining playmaker in that draft. RB was the biggest need for that team and Peterson was the best available and one of the best seen in years. |
2013 ORS § 94.930¹
- • injunctive relief
(1) If the Real Estate Commissioner finds that an owner, developer or other person is violating any of the provisions of ORS 94.803 (Definitions for ORS 94.803 and 94.807 to 94.945) and 94.807 (Application) to 94.945 (Advertising regulation), the commissioner may order the person to desist and refrain from violating the provisions or requirements, or from the further sale of interests in the timeshare plan.
(2) If the commissioner finds that a developer or other person is violating, has violated or is about to violate, any of the provisions of ORS 94.803 (Definitions for ORS 94.803 and 94.807 to 94.945) and 94.807 (Application) to 94.945 (Advertising regulation), the commissioner may bring an action in the circuit court of the county where the violation or threatened violation has occurred or is about to occur, or in the county where the person resides or carries on business, in the name of and on behalf of the people of the State of Oregon against the person participating in the violation, to enjoin the person from continuing or engaging in the violation or doing any act in furtherance of the violation, and to apply for the appointment of a receiver or conservator of the assets of the defendant if appropriate. [1983 c.530 §45] |
The City of Vancouver on Nov. 29 announced a Federal Aviation Administration plan to convene in mid-December a safety risk management panel to look at safety between the two airports. No date has been set.
In the interest of safety, the FAA had made a flight rule that was to have been implemented on Oct. 1. The rule created a "Pearson box," a 1-by-8-mile stretch of airspace over Pearson and PDX. Only one airplane could be in the box at a time, and pilots using Pearson would have had to stay on the ground any time a larger airliner was approaching PDX from the west.
That rule would have severely hampered operation of Pearson. It would have forced private pilots to circle for indefinite amounts of time over residential areas. It would have made it difficult for flight schools to practice "touch-and-go" landings and takeoffs, and it would have forced Pearson mechanics to fly to other strips far from Pearson when making quick test flights.
When 100 Pearson pilots objected, the FAA agreed to delay the new rule. Many Pearson pilots said the best answer would be construction of a control tower at Pearson. It doesn't have one, and federal officials have been reluctant to spend hundreds of thousands to several million dollars to build one.
"I think it's a positive thing to see the FAA has delayed implementation of the 'Pearson Box,' which was not only unsafe but created a lot of other problems," said Pearson Manager Willy Williamson.
"The issue has gone way to the top of the FAA," said Williamson. "We think the tower is the best answer to all this, but what we want is to have safe airspace, and to have it without interfering with our ability to operate as we have for 75 years with no collisions, and no mid-air collisions."
Vancouver Mayor Tim Leavitt welcomed the FAA decision.
"Although I'm perplexed by the circumstances surrounding this concern of FAA," the mayor said. "I am feeling cautiously optimistic that this FAA safety risk panel, comprised of a wide spectrum of engaged stakeholders, will arrive at a conclusion that preserves both the historical importance and economic value of Pearson Air Field to the region and southwest Washington."
Natking Estevez, an FAA senior safety engineer, is coming from FAA headquarters in Washington, D.C. to facilitate the panel, Williamson said. The panel will include members of Pearson's Aviation Advisory Committee, flight controllers from PDX, officials from the Port of Portland and FAA members, he said.
A temporary control tower operated successfully at Pearson last year while work was being done on Portland International Airport runways. Pearson Field is the only U.S. airport of its size without a control tower and a permanent tower at Person has support from the Port of Portland, Portland air traffic controllers, the national Air Line Pilots Association and Horizon, Alaska and Delta airlines. |
During seven years as superintendent of Tigard-Tualatin schools, Rob Saxton never brought the district's two high schools into compliance with a state rule requiring high school courses to last at least 130 hours.
Saxton, now chief of all Oregon schools, ruled last week that Portland Public Schools was "deficient" for not meeting that requirement. If Portland and other districts don't add hours to their schedules by fall, the credits they issue to students will be "invalid" and they could lose state funding, he warned.
Saxton told The Oregonian Monday that he believed, mistakenly, that Tigard High and Tualatin High met the 130 hour requirement while he was in charge.
In fact, they have broken that rule for nearly 20 years, since they instituted an eight-period schedule in the mid-1990s to try to offer students enough course sections despite budget contraints from from voter-approved property tax reductions and limits.
Saxton, a former high school math teacher, said he never did the math calculations himself to test whether the high school schedules were in compliance. Had he done so (classes meet 90 minutes every other day for 170 days), he would have concluded that Tigard-Tualatin courses last less than 126 hours per year, and perhaps significantly so, once assemblies and late-start days are taken into account.
Had he realized earlier that the courses were too short, either on his own or from a whistler-blower bringing it to his attention, he would have fixed it, he said Monday. In 2012, Gov. John Kitzhaber named Saxton to be the state's first appointed schools chief, based in large part on his track record at Tigard-Tualatin.
Saxton reiterated Monday that he expects his former district's new leaders, and leaders of all other Oregon districts, to tweak their schedules if needed to ensure all high school courses meet for 130 hours beginning in September. He is serious, he said, that the 130 hour rule helps ensure students get the teaching they deserve.
"If someone had said to me we were not beyond the 130 hours, I would have said, 'Let's go to work and fix this.' It's something that can be fixed."
He said schools need to examine how many minutes they allot to pass from class to class, when the school day starts and ends, when they schedule teaching training and planning time and how often they hold assemblies, among other factors.
"I am not against assemblies. I am not for them necessarily either," Saxton said. "It is reasonable to have some assemblies but they need to be very measured, very well though out and with the return in mind."
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Keaton Otis was driving his mother's silver Toyota Corolla on May 12, 2010, when Portland officers stopped him near the Lloyd Center because he failed to signal a turn – and because they thought the 25-year-old African American man looked "like a gangster."
Police surrounded the Corolla with four vehicles. Within 10 minutes, a Portland Police officer had been shot twice and Otis was dead.
The circumstances of Otis' last few minutes -- he pulled a gun on police, and they fired in response -- seem clear cut, at least compared to other recent Portland Police shootings. Yet four years later, people still talk about Otis, still debate his death. Why?
That depends on which of his family members you ask.
Read the story of the continuing argument over Otis' death -- and what it says about how Oregonians handle race and mental illness.
Listen to Portland Police advice on how to handle an interaction with police.
Let us know what you think in the comments below. And later this week, come back to Oregonlive for live chats with Otis' mother and Jo Ann Hardesty, a former state representative who has made more civilian oversight of law enforcement one of the driving causes in her life.
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This Fourth of July was a bit anti-climactic for me—no fireworks or loud bangs, just a pleasant summer evening in the garden. As luck would have it, though, Mother Nature provided me with a spectacular light show of her own on Monday night.
It was late afternoon when the breeze picked up from the West, bringing with it some darker low-hanging clouds. Then the smell of rain hit the air, as the clouds began to pass by faster and appeared to be rolling over each other like fluffy, gray boulders. It was a half hour before sunset and the light reflecting through the storm clouds made them look eerily illuminated. Then the clouds began to swirl in opposite directions, as they constantly blended together and drifted apart like a thick liquid in a mixing bowl.
Leafy branches waved to me from every direction and some even threw their leaves to the wind, like flowers from an adoring audience. That's when the fireworks began, as a huge, long bolt of white lightning with spider-like legs flashed against the black clouds. Seconds later came a deep resounding burst of thunder that made me jump, even though I knew it was coming. The smell of fresh rain became a reality as large droplets danced off the metal roof of my house. The rain grew heavier and the lightning and thunder grew more intense, as though shaking the rain from the clouds.
As the center of the storm passed by, the dark clouds turned back to gray and a light, quiet rain fell gently on the valley. It was now only ten minutes before sunset, and the clouds above me began to part, exposing a large patch of blue sky above me. Then from thin air came a hint of color in the blue, as the large arch of a rainbow began to reach up over the treetops on the east side of the valley. I knew this would be a special rainbow, because it was so near sunset. Sure enough, as I watched the rainbow's arch grew more defined with red, yellow, blue and green. Then the sky changed slowly from light blue, to yellow gold, and the few remaining clouds turned a pretty pink. The fireworks display has yet to be made that can compare with this beautiful, colorful sky in front of me. As the day slowly turned to night and the sun slipped below the horizon, Nature's colorful sky show faded into memory.
A good fireworks display always has that little something extra at the end of the show. A fresh stillness loomed over the valley as darkness fell, and the stars began to twinkle in the cobalt sky. To top off the event, the yard and meadow came alive with the flashing, tiny lights of a thousand fireflies. It was a sight that lingered with me until bed and gave me peaceful sleep and pleasant dreams. I can always count on Mother Nature to adjust my mood and influence my perspective on life. She never lets me down. Maybe that's why she showed me that yellow-gold sky around a beautiful rainbow—to remind me that all that glitters isn't gold, but there really area treasures at the rainbow's end.
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New Delhi: The State Bank of India’s Chairman Mr O P Bhatt on bank’s HRD initiative on conscious capitalism said, “After a successful nationwide programme ‘Parivartan’ in which all 2 lakh employees of SBI were involved, employees had demanded repetition of such a programme at the organization. And as a part of which our unique programme of ‘Citizen SBI’ was launched. It has completed first phase and next three phases will be over in about two years.”
Mr Bhatt said this while delivering a keynote address, at the Conscious Capitalism summit organized by Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) and Conscious Capitalism Institute (CCI) in city today, on Large Scale Business Transformation: The ‘Citizen SBI’ Initiative.
He talked about the bank’s initiative which is a part of its Corporate Social Responsibility and aims to enhance employees’ self-awareness not only towards their work but in overall behavior and personality with inner sense.
The Information Technology (IT) sector in India has always focused on high quality delivery and hence could maintain the growth rate, said Mr S Gopalakrishnan, CEO & Managing Director of Infosys Technologies at the summit.
Mr Gopalakrishnan (Kris) while speaking on ‘Conscious Leaders – Conscious Business: Firms of Endearment in India’ at the summit said that after global economic downturn, the company is looking more at improving its manpower skills and would double the investment in training. “We have already increased the levels of training in last 12 months. That is what we have been doing since the global economic downturn. However, we have retained the growth of 30% to 35% with margins higher than the industry standards,” Mr Gopalakrishnan said.
This is because Infosys is a conscious business. He also added that the IT industry has changed the socio-economic environment as there are 2 million people employed in IT and they come from background in which about 40% of employees’ parents are not even Class 10 passed. “The total number of employed in IT and other industries in the periphery of IT is about 20 million,” he said.
Dr Shubhro Sen, Co-founder and Executive Director of the Conscious Capitalism Institute said that the institute is bringing unique innovations to leadership development in India. “We are developing the first ever conscious business management simulation game to help students and leaders to understand the implications and nuances of conscious business decisions in a compressed time frame.” This will greatly help leaders to see the differences in outcomes between “businesses as usual” versus businesses that practice conscious capitalism. In addition, ideas of conscious capitalism are deeply Indian and can be brought to other countries as they are contemporary and successful and can be found in traditional wisdom.”
Dr Raj Sisodia, Chairman of the Conscious Capitalism Institute and Professor at Bentley University said, “Effective practice of conscious capitalism is becoming essential as in a survey conducted in the US, there were hardly 2% people who said that they believed that the CEOs in general are ‘Very Trustworthy’. There is a need of building trust among entrepreneurs and society for sustainable development.” |
He could have been playing in one of the "big-time" all-star games, but Orlando Evans linebacker Ro'Derrick Hoskins was in the right place at the right time Sunday night at the Offense-Defense All-American Bowl in Houston.
Hoskins, who was a late selection for the Under Armour All-American Game but had already committed to the O-D Bowl, made perhaps the play of the game at Reliant Stadium on Sunday night with a big interception in the middle of the fourth quarter.
He nearly even returned the pick for six. Hoskins' National team would punch it in with running back Caleb Blanchard of Denham Springs, Ark., scoring from the two-yard line to take a 20-7 lead in the contest.
Hoskins National team and Orland Evans teammate WR Dominic Walker scored a 65-yard touchdown in the first half shortly after announcing his commitment to Nebraska, as the pair made a nice Orlando representation at the Houston event. The National squad won 20-9.
Hoskins intially even considered playing in both bowl the Under Armour and the O-D games, but it wasn't in the cards.
As all-American football all-star games go, there are the marquee events, and then the others. Every top-notch high school player yearns to be selected for either the Under Armour All-American Game in St. Petersburg or the U.S. Army All-American Bowl in San Antonio.
The way Hoskins saw it early this fall when he was selected to play in the Offense-Defense All-American Bowl in Houston, he was just happy to be picked.
But late in November, as the Under Armour officials began putting together rosters for the Jan. 4 game at Tropicana Field, more spots opened and Hoskins received a phone call.
At first, Hoskins committed right away to playing in the Under Armour event, but with the O-D Bowl being played on the same day that players were supposed to report for the Under Armour game, a conflict ensued.
Hoskins had already signed up for the O-D Game and would have had to pay back the money spent for airline tickets purchased in his name if he were to opt out of the Houston event. Playing in both games was also out of the question, as Under Armour officials did not want to risk a spot going unfilled if Hoskins somehow could not play due to an injury or conflict in returning from Houston.
So Hoskins stuck with his O-D Bowl commitment.
"Just to be picked as an all-American is a great thing," Hoskins said earlier this month. "There are a lot of people who don't get that chance."
After the way he played inthe O-D Bowl, Hoskins isn't likely regretting his original commitment. The Florida State-bound senior also had a pair of solo tackles in the first quarter, with the first tackle stopping a fourth-down play that forced the American sqaud to turn the ball over on downs on the second series of the game.
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My wife and I have absolutely nothing in common other than our children. We have no hobbies we share, we don't like the same kind of movies, we go to two different churches, we have very different backgrounds, personalities and philosophical approaches to life. Having said that, we have been married for 10 years and I consider us to have a very strong marriage. Neither one of us could ever imagine ending the relationship.
If someone wanted to know what the secret to our relationship is, I would just say tenacity. Neither one of us is willing to give up on it. If we have problems, we talk about them as soon as they come up, but we don't expect the conversation to fix anything at that time. We discuss it, then leave it for awhile so we can both think it over and consider the other person's position and whether we can find merit in it. For me, I knew from my wife's personality before we were even dating that she is a very persistent person. She does not give up. It can be aggravating as all heck when we are disagreeing about things or if she gets something in her mind that she wants to do, but I also know that she will go through hell and back before she would let our relationship fail. I trust her and she trusts me.
I think it is tough when you are starting a relationship to really identify objectively the traits in the other person that will work well with you. Likely you will come into it starry-eyed and emotional. It is useless trying to evaluate a relationship while you are in that stage. It takes time to effectively evaluate someone. I think it is very helpful to hold off for awhile before dating someone. If you can hang out with someone as friends for a year or two before dating, you can see what that person is like outside of sexual attractivity.
Another thing is that you have to accept that people change. Even if someone has every trait you could possibly want when you are dating, the likelyhood of them being the same person 5 or 10 years from now is nil. My 24 year old self would probably not recognize my 34 year old self and I know my 14 yr old self would never recognize my 24 yr old self. My wife went from wanting to be a working career woman to wanting to be a stay at home mom to wanting to find some employment that would be a hybrid of the two. At each stage, I never would have imagined that she would have wanted to do something different, she seemed so dead set on filling the role she was currently in. I went from protestant fundamentalist to protestant liberal to agnostic to orthodox. No one would have ever seen that in me 10 years ago. My wife stuck with me the whole way even if she disagrees with my conclusions.
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In Day Care Deception: What the Child Care Establishment Isn't Telling Us, Brian Robertson lucidly explains what's at stake in what amounts to a national scandal with a nationwide cover-up.
The United States has the highest rate of child homicide and child suicide in the world. The childhood murder rate has tripled since 1950, 7.7-million children suffer from emotional disorders; 50% of girls and 55% of boys report some form of sexual experience before age 18; and rates of sexual abuse of children are up 350% in the last 20 years.
During the same period, the number of children left alone after school has increased from 1.6 million to 12 million in the last three decades. Not surprisingly, this all coincides with the veritable across-the-board victory for the contemporary feminist movement.
This movement claims what would have been unthinkable a generation ago: Infants have no particular need for their mothers, and the traditional family is but a social construct that must be smashed, lest women be held captive by it.
Enter day care. Day care liberates mothers from the burden of childrearing. As a result, feminists have strenuously propagandized women into supporting a $13-billion industry, serving 7 million children who spend on average 39 hours a week in day care.
Read the entire article on the Human Events website. |
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Even worse transgression: no mention of the Commodore 64, the best-selling single computer model of all time, and which occupies a very large part in some of the linked diagrams http://jeremyreimer.com/postman/node/329 - it was basically the only thing really ever competing numerically with the IBM PC.
Still, I wonder how much the numbers used for those graphs are skewed for North American market - apparently ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZX_Spectrum ), the Spectrum family sold 5+ million units not counting clones; considering that C=64 sold ~15 million, Speccy should be easily visible on the graph & much more than "Other".
Oh, and no mention of the Amiga, the sign of things to come WRT multimedia for the masses.
But what really surprises me is that you, MOS6510, didn't grumble about those two omissions |
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Ostinelli&Priest, a range of ceramic animal sculptures to delight.
The aim of the work created by Ostinelli&Priest is to delight and inform through its presence and character. The subjects chosen remain consistent, although due to the incredible number of breeds, the diversity of animals used as subjects never stops growing. Even as the work continues to develop in its subjects, their form, colour and size, the basic construction remains the same.
Ostinelli&Priest have always thought of their work as a cross-over. On one hand is sculpture, with pieces created in clay and fired, and on the other is painting where the colour is applied. Bringing both of these elements together builds the character and individuality of each piece.
The work of Ostinelli&Priest has become very collectable, generating both national and international interest particularly in North America. The work has been involved in exhibitions in China, as well as being exported to New Zealand, France, Denmark, Brazil, Italy, and South Africa. The work was also short listed for The David Sherpherd Wild Life Artist of The Year Award, selling at The Mall Galleries.
The working partnership which is Ostinelli&Priest flourishes and develops simply due to the balance of understanding between the two artists. This in turn enables them to continue to create work that pleases and inspires. |
Japan has announced that negotiators of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) will congregate at the country's Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Saturday and those countries that have "completed the relevant domestic processes" will sign the agreement.
ACTA is a voluntary international treaty that seeks to provide standardised international enforcement of intellectual property (IP) rights. The agreement was negotiated in secret by the Governments of a collection of countries over the past three years.
ACTA was negotiated by Australia, Canada, the European Union and its Member States, Japan, the Republic of Korea, Mexico, Morocco, New Zealand, Singapore, Switzerland, and the United States.
Negotiations on behalf of the EU member states were conducted by the European Commission, but a nominated signatory of the agreement has still to be picked and the agreement itself approved by the European Parliament, a Commission spokesperson told Out-Law.com. This process needs to be completed before ACTA can be signed on the EU's behalf, she said.
"The EU has not yet completed its internal procedures authorising the signature, therefore it will not be signing ACTA at this event," the Commission spokesperson said in a statement. "Neither will Mexico and Switzerland, since they did not conclude their domestic proceedings."
"For the EU, the domestic process for signature is that the Council [of Ministers] adopts a decision authorising a EU representative to sign ACTA. Since this required the translation of the treaty in all the EU languages, such decision has not yet been adopted. It may still require a couple of months for the EU to be able to sign ACTA. After the signature, the European Parliament will have to vote its consent of ACTA," it said.
According to a statement from the Japanese Government the EU will have until 1 May 2013 to sign the agreement.
"On Saturday, October 1, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan will hold the signing ceremony for the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) at Iikura Guest House, Ministry of Foreign Affairs," the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a statement.
"The signing ceremony will be attended by the representatives of all the participants in the ACTA negotiations, and those that have completed relevant domestic processes will sign the agreement. The agreement is open for signature until May 1, 2013," the statement said.
The ACTA has been controversial because of secrecy surrounding its negotiation; because it operates outside of existing trade bodies the World Trade Organisation (WTO) and World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO); and because earlier drafts reportedly sought to impose measures which could interfere with individuals' rights.
Earlier this year the Japanese Government announced that the ACTA "was opened for signature" on 1 May.
The ACTA document (25-page / 231KB PDF), which has been published by the European Commission, encourages customs officers to help identify IP right violators and share the details with other countries. It also sets out that signatories of the agreement must make sure rights holders have access to "civil judicial procedures" in order to enforce their IP rights and that "judicial authorities" have the power to issue injunctions that prohibit infringers from further violation of rights.
In addition, signatories "shall provide for criminal procedures and penalties to be applied at least in cases of wilful trademark counterfeiting or copyright or related rights piracy on a commercial scale," ACTA said.
Criminal procedures and penalties should also be available "in cases of wilful importation and domestic use, in the course of trade and on a commercial scale, of labels or packaging," it said.
In January a group of 27 European law academics criticised ACTA and urged European governing bodies to reject it. The group said that ACTA's criminal enforcement measures protecting IP rights were unlawful.
"Within the EU legal framework there are currently no provisions on criminal enforcement of intellectual property rights. ACTA, therefore, is by nature outside the EU law and would require additional legislation on the EU level," the academics said at the time.
Existing IP rights frameworks exist, such as the WTO's TRIPS (Trade Related aspects of Intellectual Property Rights) agreement, but critics are concerned that ACTA does not provide the same safeguards that protect accused infringers' rights.
However, the ACTA document has stated that effective enforcement of IP rights is "critical" to international economic growth.
"The proliferation of counterfeit and pirated goods, as well as of services that distribute infringing material, undermines legitimate trade and sustainable development of the world economy, causes significant financial losses for right holders and for legitimate businesses, and, in some cases, provides a source of revenue for organised crime and otherwise poses risks to the public," the ACTA said. |
"Good evening America. I’m Chloë Sevigny"
Watch Chloe introduce you to her 'friends' and the YKM trailer!
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Maybe your inner middle schooler will cringe at the thought of paying to collect the fifty stamps in the Vintage Stamps Set ($8), curated by Angela Liguori, but she's not as self-assured as you are. You know that you want those gorgeous things because each one comes with its own unique history. They'll also help you gussy up your gift wrap and art projects by giving them a lovely antiqued look.
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Tadeusz Wyrzykowski lives in a house with a fenced-in yard in Bolinas, California. When a deer jumped into his fenced yard twice last spring, leaving Wyrzykowski with a number of injuries, the 58-year-old filed a lawsuit against the California Department of Fish and Game (CDFG).
Wyrzykowski’s handwritten court papers say the deer jumped into his yard and attacked him twice on a narrow path.
“I fell into a window pane. A shred of glass imbeded [sic] in my right foot,” Wyrzykowski wrote. Additionally, he wrote that the Department “owns that animal, manages it and is responsible for the diversified use of it.”
“CDFG mismanaged negligently its animal its claims & duties, as a direct result, I suffered trauma, pain and lasting injury, compromising my health till present.”
The damages Wyrzykowski seeks are unspecified. A CDFG spokesperson said the department has not seen the lawsuit and therefore will not comment on pending litigation. A case management conference is set for October 19 before Judge Roy Chernus in Marin Superior Court.
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MSI To Release Eclipse Plus Motherboard Page: 1
MSI To Release Eclipse Plus Motherboard
MSI are reportedly going to be releasing a hotted up version of their X58 Eclipse motherboard called the Eclipse Plus. The obvious difference that we can see between the Eclipse and Eclipse Plus are the inclusion of blue/black anodised aluminium covers on the Northbridge, Southbridge and MOSFET heatsinks. The Southbridge heatsink has also increased in size rather substantially and the SATA ports have been moved to the edge of the motherboard.
According to the source article, the MSI Eclipse Plus has the NF200 chip and it features 4 PCIe X16 slots. SLI and CrossFire are obviously supported. Pricing and a release date are yet to be confirmed, but you can expect the MSI Eclipse Plus to be hard on the hip pocket.
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Gifts for the Trend-Setting Mom
You got your sense of style from the best. Help your mom look and feel beautiful this Mother's Day with a chic new outfit. From colorful handbags and dresses to jewelry and wedges, we have what she needs to take home the best-dressed award.
We're crushing on color big time this season. Say hello to sunny days with a wardrobe full of electric blues, pinks, purples, and yellows. You’ll stand out in the best way.
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When I received these earrings to give to my mother for mother's day, I found out that one of the shells were very slightly cracked. I thought, well it must have come a long way, and it isn't that noticeable. Then when I presented it to my mother and she barely tried putting them on, one of the shells came off of the backing! Also, shell is very delicate and can get easily scratched, which it did.
- Did the color match the color displayed onsite? Yes
- Please tell us about the quality of the product. Poor
- How accurate was the sizing? Decent - nicely larger than expected |
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Warehouse Blue Calf Length Dress, Size 14 Warehouse - Blue - Calf length
Warehouse gray knee length dress, size 14 Warehouse - Size: 14 - Grey - Sleeveless
BNWT Warehouse size 14 stone sleeveless dress
Spotlight by Warehouse Emerald Green Halterneck Dress Size 16
BNWT Warehouse, size 16 berry mix print tiered dress
Warehouse Size: 14 Multi-Coloured Sleeveless Dress
Warehouse - Size: 14 - Black - Evening dress
Warehouse - Size: 14 - Blue - Knee length dress
Warehouse Size 14 Grey and Beige Floral Print Dress
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