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Shop Rider John Noris Surf Travel Update: Rio, Florianopolis, and Argentina
Part 1: Rio De Janeiro
The days are already beginning to blend together. Talks of going to Brasil and meeting up with friends have become a reality. Its all coming at me so fast and I know that even though I've only been here for a week and a half the whole trip is going to go by like the blink of an eye. I started out my journey in Rio De Janeiro where I met up with my friend Bruno Dana. Bruno lives in Ipanema and treated me like a king! We ate fresh acai, surfed some of the fine beach breaks and wedges of Rio and had a great time, even though it was short lived. After only a day and a half, I flew into Florianopolis, not knowing if anyone was going to pick me up from the airport or what my plan exactly was. I was greeted at the entrance of the airport by Caue Wood and Pedro Husadel…Thank God! The next couple of days we surfed some insane waves at breaks called Matadeiro and Lagoinha, both wedgy a-framing beach breaks. The 5 star WQS contest at Atlantida Beach in Xangri-la was the next day so we headed down to be greeted with shitty weather and even worse waves. About this time is when Lele Usua popped his head inside our hotel room! The Grinch! Caue and I lost first heat so we took off back up to Florianopolis after a couple days of hanging out. Lele continued making heats so he stayed. Back in Florianopolis, we scored some insane waves at a place called Campeche. Triple barrels were going down and we truly had some insane sessions! The wind switched, the swell died and the surfing stopped as of this afternoon. Lele ended up making finals and getting 3rd overall, so now it's time to party!
Part 2: Floripa
Back in Florianopolis, we we're instantly greeted by perfect waves. Caue and I surfed an insane sand bottom right point called Campeche where we were getting double barrels regularly. We got two other great wedgy barreling beach breaks called Matadeiro and Lagoinha and had a great time just cruising and relaxing. We hung out with beautiful women, got good waves and got to chill with our friends Elohe and Felipe as well!
Good times in Floripa… I'm headed back in October and can't wait!
Part 3: Argentina
With the contest in Chile coming up, Lele and I decided to go hang out in Argentina for 10 days before heading over there. Upon arrival in Buenos Aires, we were notified that the contest in Chile was cancelled, so we were left wondering what to do. We decided to hang out for my birthday which happened to be on Argentina's Independence day and to say the least, Argentina rages! Nights generally don't start out until 2AM in Argentina and usually end at around 7 in the morning. The Usuna's are celebrities in Mar Del Plata and we were VIP at some of the biggest and best clubs in all of Argentina.
Everything about Argentina was absolutely amazing. The meat is the juiciest sweetest meat that you've ever tasted. The people are nice. The women- oh my God the women. The most beautiful women that I've ever laid my eyes on. Most foreign countries I joke around about falling in love, particularly because of the broken English that they seduce me with, but here there's an exception. Not are the women breathtakingly beautiful but they are kind, sincere and very intelligent people! After this trip, I'm 99% sure that I will marry an Argentinian woman…
Although we didn't get great waves, we got some fun little beach breaks and to be honest, I could care less about surfing in Argentina next time I go. I just want to find my future wife!


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Dec. 19, 2007 Empty Stocking Fund
December 18, 2007
Today's focus: Ms. P
Household members: 4
Children: 3
Special circumstances: "Ms. P" is raising her grandchildren and has no money for Christmas presents.
Her holiday hopes: For her grandchildren to have toys at Christmas.
Clothing needs: Girls shirt sizes 12 (for two girls). Girls pants sizes 12 (for two girls). Girls shoe sizes 5 1/2 (for two girls).
Toys list: Radio and dolls.
The Empty Stocking Fund is a joint effort of the Salvation Army and Freedom New Mexico. Recipients receive gifts and clothes for their children and some may receive
baskets of food with green beans, stuffing, mashed potatoes and a meat voucher from a local grocery store. Larger families may receive donated turkeys instead of the voucher. The food baskets will also go to seniors on fixed incomes.
Who's helped: Around 600 families who've asked the Salvation Army to help make Christmas special.
Donations: Can be dropped off at the CNJ, 521 Pile St., or mailed to the CNJ, P.O. Box 1689, Clovis, NM 88101. Envelopes should be clearly marked "Empty Stocking Fund."
Contributions will be forwarded to the Salvation Army office, 317 E. Second St., or gifts may be purchased for specific children by choosing an Angel tag off trees located at North Plains Mall and Wal-Mart in Clovis.
If you would like to help "Ms. P," call Capt. Tammy Ray at the Salvation Army at 762-3801.


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The zero-sum lottery
To the editor:
Several years ago, we attended a Portland State University lecture by a professor of gambling from Nevada. He presented facts that the legislature should consider about the lottery. Five percent of gamblers are addictive, an illness that leads to divorce, bankruptcy and demands on welfare. Though the state may collect proceeds from the lottery, it pays it back in child family services, welfare and Medicaid. It is a zero-sum equation with no final gain for the state and much misery for the addicted and their families.
The lottery is a regressive tax on the poor. They are the biggest gamblers. For a millionaire to win a million before taxes is hardly an inducement, so they don't gamble.
For the state to exploit the gullible and the poor with the lottery is greedy, nave and immoral. It makes losers of everyone and the state a shill.
Harley L. Sachs
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A monarch of air waves, attuned to far seeing,
It perches above us and shadows our being,
And we who are cultured and we who are proud,
It looks on as nurture, for crying out loud.
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Shortlist: Billy Reid
ELLE DECOR: Who were your clients for this project?
SHAWN HENDERSON: Chandra and Jimmie Johnson. He's a Hall of Fame NASCAR driver; she's a former model, among other things, with an incredible sense of personal style. They have one child.
ED: What did they want for the new place?
SH: Something much more modern than their home in North Carolina—something more New York and more appropriate to a brand-new building. We were introduced by a mutual friend and hit it off at our first meeting. Not only did our personalities click, but also Chandra had already pulled from 1stdibs.com a lot of images of pieces I use all the time.
ED: Did you do much restructuring of the apartment?
SH: No, we kept it pretty much the way it was. The biggest project was removing a closet at the end of the entry hall. We reassigned some of the rooms, turning one of the three bedrooms into an office, and we transformed the dining room into a media room by moving the dining table to the main room.
ED: Do you remember what the starting point was for the design?
SH: I think I fell in love with the living room sofa fabric first. It's a Loro Piana linen, and it looks phenomenal on that Edward Wormley tufted sofa. It's called a "party sofa." It's built so people can sit on the arms.
In the living room of a Manhattan apartment designed by Shawn Henderson, the sofa and chaise are by Edward Wormley for Dunbar, the 1930s armchair is from Denmark, and the floor lamps are by Hinson & Company. The curtains are of a Larsen wool from Cowtan & Tout, and the resin-top cocktail tables, credenza, and rug are custom made.
ED: And did the palette begin with the sofa?
SH: Yes. I tend to prefer variety when it comes to the forms in a room and consistency in the fabrics and other materials. This is a very versatile palette. I joke with Chandra that she's a pillow hoarder. She has the most extraordinary number of pillows, in all kinds of bold colors. And she changes them like she changes her earrings—this way she can add whatever she wants. It's part of the fun of the place.
ED: Not all the furniture in the apartment is midcentury modern, is it?
SH: It's all midcentury but not too midcentury specific. The pieces I choose are not about provenance—they have to look great and feel great too. The living room sofa is a midcentury take on a classic chesterfield. The Hans Wegner Papa Bear chair in the master bedroom, which is a favorite of mine, is extremely comfortable. I do love a sculptural armchair as an accent in a room.
ED: So the furniture is a mix?
SH: There's a lot of Scandinavian furniture, some of my own pieces, a few new custom pieces I had made for this project, and work from makers I know to be superior craftsmen. The Dunbar chaise in the living room is a piece I had never seen before, which really excited me. I mean, when you've been in the business for a while, you think you've seen pretty much everything. But I saw that chaise and thought, We have to have it.
In the master bedroom, the blackened-steel four-poster bed is custom made, the Papa Bear chair and ottoman are by Hans Wegner, and the walls have a custom plaster finish.
The Most Fashionable Rooms of the Week


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If you've always wondered what Japan's robot technology can help in making our lives better in the future, then you have to head down to Japan Creative Centre at Nassim Road to get a glimpse of these robots in action. It's a 2 week exhibition with Japanese companies such as NEC and Toshiba showcasing some of their inventions. We caught a preview of the exhibition last week and we have a couple of videos here, just in case you can't make it to the exhibition.
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DaVinci Jacob 4-in-1 Crib - Espresso
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- Converts from a crib to toddler bed, day bed and full-size bed
- Multi level mattress support
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- Dimensions: 54.0"L x 35.0"W x 35.125"H
Jacob 4-in-1 Crib is designed with attention to detail, it is an updated version of DaVinci's sleigh style cribs. Curved posts and legs accent an elegance that can be enjoyed for generations to come, especially since it comes with a toddler rail and can later be converted into a full size bed. Match this crib with our equally-elegant Kalani changer to complete the look. Available in several classic DaVinci colors to mix and match in your nursery.
- Converts to toddler bed - rail included
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Marsh's dinosaurs form the core of the dinosaur exhibition and research collections at the National Museum of Natural History (NMNH). The mounts of Stegosaurus, Allosaurus, Ceratosaurus and Triceratops on display in the NMNH dinosaur hall are just a few of the dinosaurs collected by O.C. Marsh's team for the United States National Museum (now NMNH).
Notes, dates, and museum catalogue and field accession numbers appear on many of the folders and on the drawings themselves. These notes provide many clues about the drawings' history. The words "on stone","woodcut", "engravings bought and paid for", and "L. Schierholz" (a wood engraver) are a few examples of these notes. Many of the drawings bear a stamp with a date, or the date has been handwritten on the illustration. Yale University Peabody Museum (YPM), United States National Museum (USNM), and United States Geological Survey (USGS) numbers and stamps can be found on many of the drawings.
Publication of the Marsh illustrations
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FAA wants LSA paperwork to shineFriday, June 29th, 2012
The FAA found that a few light sport manufacturers are lousy at paperwork. The airplanes are safe, say industry experts, but the light sport industry can't prove it, retorts the FAA. The agency filed a notice here. Initial media stories interpreted the FAA action as a damning one for the LSA industry–and with good reason. The initial document issued by the FAA looks unnecessarily damning. See a Bloomberg/Business Week story on the subject here. While the FAA originally announced that companies not in compliance with the paperwork will not gain approval for future models, that now looks like only one company is guilty.
There was concern that some of the LSA companies could not contact customers or were out of business. I have no idea if that complaint involves one company or many, but I am betting one to three at the worst. Another issue concerned foreign LSA manufacturers–operating in a country that does not have proper agreements with the FAA–approving their airplanes through a third-party country that has the necessary agreements with the United States. Again, it now appears that is one company.
The FAA did not provide numbers or company names, but other sources provided a broader perspective of the FAA concerns. I know of one company that is rushing to make its paperwork better–and I also know they are pretty good people. They'll make it right. If there are more, I will happily report the accurate number of companies in trouble. But right now it looks like very few.


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February 7, 2005 WIC Update
SUBJECT: E-mail from State WIC Office week of February 7 - 10, 2005
- The following information was sent to the WIC Vendors:
NOTICE: Effective March 1, 2005 - As a result of cost containment it has been noted that Dierbergs, Shop N Save, Schnucks, Save-A-Lot and other vendors may not have enough juices to meet the minimum requirement of 3 varieties of ready-to-serve juice in 46 ounce cans or plastic bottles. Effective March 1, 2005, any stores that do not have three varieties of juice are exempt for ready-to-serve juice in 46-ounce cans or plastic bottles. Stores must still maintain the 18-unit minimum but may stock only one or two varieties of this type of juice. The minimum stock requirement for frozen and shelf stable juice remains the same as before.
- Translated Exit Counseling Brochures - During the week of February 7 - 10, the State WIC office will be e-mailing you Exit Counseling brochures in different languages for your use. The State office is currently working on processing printing requisitions to make these brochures available at the DHSS warehouse. A form will be e-mailed to each LWP to determine quantity needs for each brochure and languages that your agency needs. The form will be in the e-mail with the brochures.
- Attached is the Civil Rights Training materials for teaching staff at the LWPS. This material will assist you in carrying out the responsibilities related to equal opportunity in the delivery of benefits and services under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The training should be conducted on an annual basis and documented by the date, location, agenda, presenter and persons in attendance. On page 21 is the SUPERVISOR VERIFICATION OF COMPLETION. This verification form is to be completed and signed by the supervisor of the employee completing the Civil Rights Training module. The signed form shall be retained in the agency training file as referenced in ER# 2.02100. If questions, please e-mail Rose Sipakati at email@example.com.
- The State WIC Office will be closed February 11, 2005 in observance of Lincoln's Birthday.
Have a great week.
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DSU @ Georgetown
Connected Degree Programs
Delaware State University, in collaboration with Delaware Technical & Community College, offers DTCC students who have earned an Associate Degree, the opportunity to complete a Bachelors Degree in a convenient accelerated format.
Connected degrees that can be completed on the Georgetown campus include:
- Social Work [1] (BSW)
Convenient Location
For students from Salisbury to Milford, and Laurel to Rehoboth, the DSU location in Sussex County is conveniently located on the Delaware Technical & Community College campus in Georgetown, at the intersection of Routes 113 and 404. DSU offices are located in Room 512 of the Carter Partnership Center.
Directions [2]
Students who transfer into connected degree programs receive $1000 per year in scholarship monies and may be eligible for many other scholarships, Pell grants, and student loans. With two years of transfer credit from the community college, and an accelerated course sequence, students can complete their Bachelor's degree affordably.
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Dedicated Faculty
Accomplished faculty serve the Georgetown location to help our students excel academically and to perform professionally upon graduation.
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Spring is in the air, and for many that means getting back on track with a fitness training regimen. One great way to get in shape is to train yourself to run a 5K.
Almost anyone can finish a 5K, and enjoy the experience. After having helped thousands who left the couch and finished with strength, I can say with confidence that almost anyone can do this. The training and the crossing of the finish line is often the beginning of a fitness career that improves the quality of life. In research for my book RUNNING UNTIL YOU'RE 100, I discovered that regular exercise has been statistically proven to increase lifespan.
Here is a proven program to come across the finish line in the upright position.
Walkers: Simply follow the schedule below. Walk slowly on all of the long ones.
Use A Short Stride: Whether walking or running, adjust your stride so that it is relaxed and well within a natural range of motion. It's better to err on the side of having a short stride.
Long Run. As you push back the length of the long run/walk, every two weeks, you'll extend endurance limits, improve mental concentration at the end of races, and enhance your physiological infrastructure. Longer long runs, for example, improve your cardiovascular plumbing system so that you can deliver blood better to the exercising muscles, and withdraw the waste more effectively. The endurance workout is the primary training component in a 5K program. There are more details about training, nutrition, motivation, etc. in my book 5K/10K, which is available from www.JeffGalloway.com.
Pace Must Be Slow I've developed a simple test to determine your pace for the long run. Go to a track and run very slowly for two laps. Feel free to take some walk breaks before you start huffing and puffing. If you are not huffing and puffing at the end of the second lap, take your time, multiply by 2 and add two minutes. If you are huffing and puffing at the end, multiply by 2 and add 3 minutes. The result is the fastest per mile time you should be recording on your long runs–you can always go slower.
- Example: Time is 6:00 without huffing and puffing. X 2 = 12:00. Adding 2 minutes will give you a long run pace of no faster than 14 minutes per mile
- Time is 6:00 but you are huffing and puffing at the end. X 2 = 12:00. Adding 3 minutes will give you a long run pace of no faster than 15 minutes per mile.
Run-Walk-Run: This method has allowed hundreds of thousands of beginners to finish 5K races and longer distances. By inserting a walk break from the beginning of the workout, and continuing to walk according to a plan, there is no need to produce extra fatigue, pain, or injuries. During the first week it's best to run for 5-10 seconds and walk for the rest of the minute. If all goes well, you could increase during the second week to 10-20 seconds of running, walking for the rest of the minute. On the third week, you could increase to 20-30 seconds of running while walking for the rest of the minute–if all is well. If you are huffing and puffing, experiencing aches and pains, or struggling in any way, drop back to more walking. Even at the end of the training program you don't need to run more than 30 seconds/walking for 30 seconds. If you want to run more, this is your choice.
Long Run Strategy: The amount of running and walking is adjusted for the pace per mile. Beginning runners should stay with 10-20 seconds of running every minute for most of the long runs. Those who have been running for at least 3 months could use the following:
- 18 min/mi–Run 10 sec/walk 50 sec
- 17 min/mi–Run 15 sec/walk 45 sec
- 16 min/mi–Run 20 sec/walk 40 sec
- 15 min/mi–Run 30 sec/walk 45 sec
- 14 min/mi–Run 30 sec/walk 30 sec
- 13 min/mi–Run 1 min/walk 1 min
- 12 min/mi–Run 2 min/walk 1 min
- 11 min/mi–Run 2:30/walk 1 min
- 10 min/mi–Run 3 min/walk 1 min
- 9 min/mi–Run 4 min/walk 1 min
Maintenance Workouts: Usually, the long workout is done on weekends, and the two maintenance workouts are done on Tuesday and Thursday (or Monday and Wednesday when the long one is on Saturday). These two sessions start at 10 minutes, and increase by 3-4 additional minutes each week until the time for each is 30 minutes. The pace of these can be as slow or as fast as you want to go, as long as you are recovering well from the weekend long ones.
Rest Days: When you go farther than you have gone before, your muscles, tendons, joints, etc. need time to rebuild stronger. Take the day off from exercise the day before and after a long one. On the other non-running days, you can do any exercise that does not fatigue the calf muscle. So walking, swimming, cycling, elliptical, and rowing are fine. But stair machines, leg weight work, and step aerobics are not. Also take the time to reward yourself for your efforts.
Warm Down: After your workout, don't stop. Jog slowly, using as many walk breaks as you wish for the next 10 minutes, and then walk for 3-5 minutes. Then, hit the Human Touch massage chair, which I personally love! You deserve a great massage for all of your hard work.
- The Schedule (whether walking or running)
- Week 1–Tues 10 min, Thurs 13 min, Saturday 1 mile
- Week 2–Tues 16 min, Thurs 19 min, Saturday 1.5 mi
- Week 3–Tues 19 min, Thurs 22 min, Saturday 25 min
- Week 4–Tues 22 min, Thurs 25 min, Saturday 2 miles
- Week 5–Tues 25 min, Thurs 28 min, Saturday 30 min
- Week 6–Tues 28 min, Thurs 30 min, Saturday 2.5 mi
- Week 7–Tues 30 min, Thurs 30 min, Saturday 30 min
- Week 8–Tues 30 min, Thurs 30 min, Saturday 3 mi
- Week 9–Tues 30 min, Thurs 30 min, Saturday 30 min
- Week 10–Tues 30 min, Thurs 30 min, Saturday 3.5 mi
- Week 11–Tues 30 min, Thurs 30 min, Saturday 30 min
- Week 12–Tues 30 min, thurs 30 min, Saturday 5K RACE!
You Can Do IT, so put on those running shoes and start training!


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Summer Reading program seeking prizes
The Conant Public Library announces that preparations are underway for another year of summer reading in Sterling.
Summer reading is a state funded annual family program that continually proves itself to be a community dedicated to literacy in all available formats. The program is built upon individual reading goals that are measured in time spent reading, listening to others as well as audio books count towards totals.
Goals and accomplishments remain private throughout the program. Raffle tickets and incentives are distributed throughout the six weeks of the reading challenge.
The library is in need of prizes to be raffled off at the end of both the Children's and Adult reading programs. All prizes must be new items.


text: A sixth drug "take back" box has been set up in Jackson County- the latest set up in Jacksonville at the police department. The idea is to keep unused prescription drugs from falling into the wrong hands. It also provides a more environmentally sensible means of discarding unused drugs. The service is available from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday.


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The Logo, entitled People in Communion, was designed on behalf of the Congress Committee by Martin Barlow of Portadown, Co. Armagh.
The design concept is based on the idea of people "from every nation, race, tribe and language" (Rev.7:9) being drawn together in Communion as "One Body" formed by faith in the person of Jesus Christ, the Lamb of God, and the sacrifice he made upon the cross.
As Martin Barlow explains:
"Our sense of community, belonging, celebration and acceptance is captured in the design by the graphic representation of the people with both arms outstretched.
There are two separate sources of inspiration for the design:
• Paragraph 7 of Lumen Gentium, which reads: "Really partaking of the body and blood of the Lord in the breaking of the Eucharistic bread, we are taken up into communion with Him and with one another. Because the bread is one, we though many, are one body, all of us who partake of the one bread."
• Paragraph 3 of the Encyclical Letter Ecclesia de Eucharistia of Pope John Paul II, which sums up the design, reads: The Church was born of the paschal mystery. For this very reason the Eucharist, which is in an outstanding way the sacrament of the paschal mystery, stands at the centre of the Church's life....
The end result is a very modern design through the use of colour and graphic. At times the "people" graphic can be separated from the wording, allowing it to take up an iconic form."
Listen to Martin Barlow's interview on Radio Maria about how he designed the IEC2012 logo.
Copyright notice
IEC2012 is the sole copyright owner of the logo for the 50th International Eucharistic Congress. Permission for its use in print or design is required. The logo is available in different languages. If you wish to request to use the IEC2012 logo, please contact IEC2012 by email: email@example.com
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IEC2012 website is published in English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Polish and Irish. If you want to link your web site to IEC2012 web site, you can add our web button to your page. To request the web button, please contact IEC2012 by email: firstname.lastname@example.com
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Storm is the ORM from Canonical (makers of Ubuntu.) Here is the simple implementation I have that utilizes CP 3.1 (Currently Beta) and Storms current trunk release (.11 i believe it is).
For my connection setup, here is the code.
def connect_db(thread_index):
database = create_database(cherrypy.config.get('storm.default.url')) cherrypy.thread_data.store = Store(database) cherrypy.engine.subscribe('start_thread', connect_db) In your config file you will want:
storm.default.url = "postgres://postgres:pass@server:5432/database" Here is a sample method that uses genshi, storm etc:
@cherrypy.expose @template.output('index.html') def index(self, site_id=1):
site = cherrypy.thread_data.store.find(Site, Site.site_id == 1).one() return template.render(site=site)
Instead of doing a commit on every query in every action you can allow the request handler to do the commit for you. This is very similar to the Dejavu example shown in the tools section as well. This basically attempts to do a commit and if it doesn't commit it does a rollback and spits out an error.
def do_commit(): try: cherrypy.thread_data.store.commit() except: cherrypy.thread_data.store.rollback() cherrypy.log(format_exc(), "STORM") def try_commit(): if cherrypy.response.stream: cherrypy.request.hooks.attach('on_end_request', do_commit) else: if isinstance(cherrypy.response.body, types.GeneratorType): cherrypy.response.collapse_body() do_commit() cherrypy.tools.storm = cherrypy.Tool('on_end_resource', try_commit)
Simply create the tool and then in your config you need to have
tools.storm.on = True


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When Florida Atlantic University merged with the Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute in 2007, the organization had gone from private to public and accepted a newfound responsibility to educate the community at large. Located on a parcel of 146 acres in Fort Pierce along the Indian River Lagoon, HBOI opened its lab in 1971 as a research nonprofit. Now, as part of the university system, HBOI has received not only more financial backing but also mandate to uphold the organization's long-held mission: "Explore, protect and wisely use the oceans' resources." Its goal is to share findings and help find solutions to some of the most pressing matters affecting the sea.
From uniting with FAU, HBOI has been endowed with an $8.5 million annual operating fund to help more than 160 scientists, engineers and support staff make the next great advancement in oceanographic research. As part of the stipulation behind the partnership, HBOI, along with staff, researchers, FAU colleagues and outside partners, developed a unified mission and strategic plan for 2012-2017: "Our Living Oceans: Research, Partnership and Stewardship for the Future." The plan is, in part, an extension of FAU's larger strategic plan, "Making Waves: Celebrating and Cultivating Discovery, Diversity, and Distinction," which identifies three signature themes and emphasis: marine and coastal issues; biotechnology; and contemporary social challenges.
Holding the banner for marine and costal issues, in partnership with sister campus SeaTech, the Institute for Ocean and Systems Engineering in Dania Beach, HBOI is helping lead all FAU's campuses—a system covering 150 miles of coastline—in tackling this plan and implementing the solutions for the future. HBOI's strategic/research plan is separated into two branches of targeted themes, each containing multiple areas of study and commitment, all of which stem from the organization's original mission established in 1971.
The first branch, dubbed Our Living Oceans, relies on hard science and research taken up by researchers, engineers and staff within the FAU family. The core of the plan is the "abundance of life in the oceans, and the interdependence between life on Earth and the health of the oceans," which is broken into four subthemes: ocean exploration, understanding marine ecosystem function, wise use of marine resources and innovative technology development. These points of emphasis lay out the next decade of research HBOI scientists will undertake in an effort to stem, resolve and learn from the "contemporary and emerging challenges and opportunities faced by our oceans."
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Cee Lo Green changes Lennon's "Imagine" lyrics to include pro-religion message enraging fans
Monday, January 2, 2012
New Years Eve performer Cee Lo Green dropped a bomb on John Lennon fans Saturday night after changing lyrics to his song Imagine while on live television.
The last words of lyrics 'Nothing to kill or die for And no religion too,' by the late Lennon were changed to 'And all religion's true' by the hip-hop artist who sang in New York's Times Square.
Broadcast before 2.304 million viewers of NBC's New Year's Eve with Carson Daly right before the ball dropped, Mr Green's change didn't go unnoticed and attracted immediate criticism.
Mr Green swatted off those critical responses left and right on Twitter following, in sometimes similarly obscene rebuttals, but by late Sunday morning he had removed all of the postings.
'Yo I meant no disrespect by changing the lyric guys! I was trying to say a world were u could believe what u wanted that's all,' Mr Green was seen as explaining in a tweet.
'People need to respect the very man that you're trying to honor by playing his song,' New York musician Gary Heimbauer vented in a YouTube video 20 minutes after seeing the performance.
'You just changed his lyrics and completely reinvented the meaning of the song. That's just one of the most arrogant things I've ever seen, especially to do when the whole world is watching on New Year's Eve and John Lennon was just such an important person to New York City.
'That was just horrible and I hope that there is some more outrage to that and not just my own,' Mr Heimbauer said.
In agreement, a forum on Reddit mentioning the lyrics change collected 1,150 comments by Sunday afternoon, most of them in heated agreement.
One viewer originally came to Mr Green's defense explaining, 'You know, after watching the video of the performance, it's possible that he either f--ked up the line on the spot, or that he learned the tune incorrectly,' Reddit user Chrispdx wrote.
'I don't think this is some kind of 'powerful statement regarding God and Religion', I think he just f--ked up the lyrics because he didn't grow up with the song...' he concluded.
Several other Reddit users mentioned other artists changing Lennon's lyrics in the past too.
Moments after his post, Chrispdx's updated his response, however:
'Edit: read his tweet, he meant it, f--k that guy.'
See the video of it here:


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Richard Littlemore | June 6, 2006
By Richard Littlemore • Tuesday, June 6, 2006 - 17:15
Blogger Randy Kirk, a self-described fundamentalist Christian, also attented the Skeptic Society Confernce last weekend at CalTech, and came away a little bruised by the experience. He says:
I have been attending fundamentalist churches for the last 20 years, and have gone to countless conferences during that time. I can't remember a single time when positions were taken in those meetings that were so pompous, so biased, or so lacking in humility. Those in the leadership of the Christian "right" never say that the debate is over. In this conference, that was the refrain. I think there is a problem in our scientific community. The consequence of this problem may only result in horrible science, but it could result in tyranny.
There is no apparent irony in the fact that Kirk's blog is called "The Truth About Everything."
That said, Kirk's reportage is clear and thoughtful, even if he is not conscious of the contradictions. And his analysis is also on the money: the academics at the conference presented their findings in a way that left no scope whatever for arguing, say, the Theory of Evolution.
That's as it should be given the scientific evidence debunking Intelligent Design (an earlier target of the Skeptic Society), but Kirk does a nice job representing the fundamentalist Christian position. And he brings a degree of sincerity to the task that you might miss while watching Fox News or listening to the Competitive Enterprise Institute.
Glenn Camhi replied on Permalink
Request for Randy Kirk to back up his extraordinary claim
Blogger Randy Kirk suggests that the scientists at the Skeptics Conference lacked open minds and took positions that were far more "pompous," "biased," and "lacking in humility" than anything he's heard from the Christian right and all the fundamentalist churches and conferences he's attended over the past 20 years. He further claims that the leaders of the Christian right – not to mention all the fundamentalist churches and conferences he's attended – "never say that the debate is over."
I'd appreciate it if Mr. Kirk could kindly back that up by pointing out when all the leaders of the Christian right and all the fundamentalist churches and conferences he's attended have argued that the existence of God is an open question? When have they expressed their open-mindedness to the conclusion that God might not exist? When have they taken the position that a belief in the divinity – nay, the very existence – of Jesus Christ may be totally flawed, and that the Bible may be man-made fiction to be taken no more seriously than any other historically important writing?
What Mr. Kirk might not understand is that it requires hubris to argue that something is a fact based on blind faith, whereas it typically requires open-mindedness to argue that something is a fact based on solid scientific evidence (to the extent that science labels anything a "fact").
It's worth noting that even though the eminent scientists who spoke at the conference pointed out that the scientific evidence is now overwhelming and basically uncontested in the scientific community, they were nevertheless happy to debate the issue with naysayers.
In glaring contrast, both of the big-name naysayers who spoke – novelist Michael Crichton and journalist John Stossel – refused to go onstage with any of the scientists, even though they were asked to by the conference organizers. Crichton even refused to speak about the environment in his speech, and both failed to attend any of the scientists' talks and panels all day. (If they had attended, they would have heard one of them point out that Crichton had grossly misrepresented his work in his novel State of Fear.)
This suggests that, at least at this conference, the scientists are the open-minded ones, and the non-scientist naysayers are the ones driven by bias and hubris.
As for the fundamentalists Mr. Kirk mentions? Revelation 11:18 says God will "destroy those who destroy the earth." Seems redundant to me, but I'm no expert.
randy kirk replied on Permalink
Open Mindedness
It is pretty clear that even the debate about who is open minded could go on for a bit. However, I rarely run into those who are persuaded there is "no God" reading extensively or attending conferences on the proof of God. In other words, seeking to enrich their view of the possibilities.
On the other hand, most of the Christian leadership and laity that I come in contact with are very open to hearing what the other side has to say, and many are actively reading and attending confrences that would refute the existance of God. For God you could insert evolution, embryonic stem cell worship, methods of contracption, timing of life's beginning in utero, philosophy of science as it relates to sciences impact of social norms, rules, etc.
I, personally, am totally prepared to agree that there is no God should the time come when the argument is convincing. Until today, the argument has not been made that convinces me that complexity can arise out of chaos.
Jim Lippard replied on Permalink
That's very odd, Randy, because in my experience (as an ex-born again Christian turned atheist), atheists tend to be much better informed about the content of the Bible and the history of Christianity than most Christians are. It's also my impression that atheists are much more likely to have an understanding of the reasons why they hold the views they do than Christians are.
As former president of the Internet Infidels (http://www.infidels.org/), I've repeatedly seen Christian websites refuse to link to or acknowledge the existence of critical material, while the Infidels' site makes a point of linking to the best critical sites and rebuttals.
I've certainly met a number of open-minded Christians who are willing to listen to opposing views and engage in reasoned debate (and I'd call them skeptics), but they seem to be a much tinier fraction of Christian believers than the open-minded contingent of agnostics and atheists.
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I have a houseful of
I have a houseful of relatives that will keep me from fully responding, but while I admit to painting with a broad brush, I still suspect that the average Baptist is more open to and more likely to read opposing positions than is the average atheist.
Specifically to the proof of God. Using the same proof methods as other science, I would offer:
Gravity exists. No idea how it works, but we can see the results and predict them.
God exists. You get the point
Love exists. We study all aspects of it. Hard to define, but we know it exists because almost all people experience it, and most in much the same way.
God exists. We …….
There are many more such methods of "proof" for God. There are also contra arguments for them. But the fact of contary pov does not mean the proof method is not appropriate.
Glenn Camhi replied on Permalink
Logical fallacies
Dear Anonymous - Enjoy your houseful of relatives! Return when you can.
These are old arguments, and unfortunately, their logic is flawed. I say that out of no disrespect, nor as an offhanded dismissal. I simply state a fact about logical validity.
Gravity is not a thing or entity, it is a natural force that is empirically observable, repeatably testable, and as you point out, predictable. The concept of "God" shares none of those characteristics. There are no empirically observable, repeatable, predictable lab tests for God.
Love is also not a thing or entity, it is an emotion. Emotions do not "exist," they are subjectively felt. One can certainly feel emotions about God, just as one can feel emotions about friends, imaginary friends, Greek gods or Mother Goose. Emotions neither prove nor disprove the existence of the thing the emotions are felt about. A character in the film Contact made a similarly flawed argument, in trying to compare the following two questions: "Prove you loved your father" and "Prove God exists" [not direct quotes]. The character believed that if the nonbeliever he was questioning realized she couldn't scientifically prove the emotion she felt, then she'd realize she couldn't logically ask him to prove God exists. The logical flaw here is that he drew a false parallel between an emotion and an entity. To be rational, the comparisons would have to have been: "Prove you loved your father" and "Prove you love God"; or "Prove your father existed" and "Prove God exists." Unfortunately for the character, neither of the nonbeliever's answers about her father would have shed any light on the question of God's existence. Empirical existence and subjective emotion are not logically comparable.
These are not "contrary points of view" I am offering. These are simply the reasons why the two specific arguments you posted fail due to logical fallacies.
I think most non-theists are well aware of all the attempts at logically proving the existence of God – from St. Anselm's on down. None of these attempts work rationally. Of course that in no way disproves the existence of God. Nor does it address the emotional reasons for believing in God. Nor does it imply that believers and nonbelievers oughtn't respect and listen to each other. The whole point of faith is that it does not involve logic or rationality. Any attempt to do so will fail by definition – faith is "belief that does not rest on logical proof or material evidence" (The American Heritage Dictionary). The moment something is proven, it is no longer taken on faith.
As for your suspicion that "the average Baptist is more open to and more likely to read opposing positions than is the average atheist," I am curious what makes you think that.
Believers in God are the vast majority in the U.S. (over 90% by all polls I've seen). It is rather easy for most believers to go through life not studying arguments against belief in God. Many do, but many do not. Statistically and culturally speaking, it is also rather easy for many believers to go through life never getting into a conversation with a non-believer. On the other hand, it is nearly impossible for a non-believer to go through life avoiding arguments for belief. As noted earlier, most non-believers arrive at their conclusion after intense questioning, study and weighing the evidence on both sides. Such questioning is unnecessary (and often discouraged) for a believer. Exceptions abound, but just looking at the numbers, don't you find it far more likely that the opposite of your suspicion is true?
Glenn Camhi replied on Permalink
Mutual respect / Sticking to the original claim
Most non-theists go from faith to lack thereof after extensive thought, research, discussion and debate (with themselves and others). Most keep thinking about such matters throughout their lives. I don't think one can logically compare conferences on scientific matters to conferences on "the proof of God." There is always new science to keep up with, but there are no new rational "proofs" of God. That's because belief in God is a matter of faith, not of science and research. Many non-theists do keep up with research on why people believe, and nearly all listen to what believers have to say (it's nearly impossible not to). If there were any scientifically compelling rational proofs of God, old or new, non-theists would be studying and discussing them at length.
Nevertheless, non-theists and theists continue to discuss and debate related issues such as creationism/evolution. Glance at any forum on such topics and you'll see lively ongoing discussion and debate, much of it intelligent, rational and even respectful. (There are exceptions on all sides; everyone is human.) Debate continues even when skeptics say the debate is over. What they mean by that is that the scientific evidence has met the Stephen Jay Gould threshold* of accepting something as a "fact" – e.g., the evidence that the earth revolves around the sun and not the other way around – and thus debate seems perverse. Yet of course, it continues.
I admire your open-minded ongoing quest for truth. I presume we share mutual respect for our similar quests, regardless of the different conclusions we've thus far drawn. However, your original claim was not about your own open-mindedness. Nor was it about individuals being "open to hearing what the other side has to say."
Your claim was specifically about Fundamentalist churches and the leaders of the Christian right, whom you claimed never take "pompous" positions of certainty and never say the debate is over. Yet we constantly hear leaders of the Christian (I prefer "religious") right claim that the existence of God is an undeniable fact, and moreover that they personally know what this God wants of us. It's nearly impossible to follow the news any given week without hearing such pompous, closed-minded proclamations from the leaders of the religious right. One listen to Jerry Falwell or Pat Robertson disproves your claim. That's all I was getting at.
Most skeptics I know are perfectly willing to listen to what believers have to say. If it's the same unscientific points being repeated, it feels pointless… yet still we listen and think.
BTW: I don't know of anyone who believes there is no debate over the "timing of life's beginning in utero" – except for certain religious people who feel certain that it's at the point of conception. Most everyone else feels that there is no way to define it with certainty, and thus accept that there will always be a gray area and that honest debate will continue forever.
*As you probably know, Gould famously stated: "In science, 'fact' can only mean 'confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent.' I suppose that apples might start to rise tomorrow, but the possibility does not merit equal time in physics classrooms."
Randy Kirk replied on Permalink
Thanks and Touche'
I could use a new publicist, and I would have to look far and wide to find a nicer review.
I think it is legitimate to believe that you know the truth, and still seek the truth. Does that make sense. I believe that the world and everything in it was created. I sure don't know how, and I'm constantily reading a debating those who might have alternate pov. My mind is open to change. In fact, I was a staunch Darwinist for most of my adult life.
Jim Lippard replied on Permalink
"In fact, I was a staunch Darwinist for most of my adult life."
In the United States, most people who use the term "Darwinist" are creationists, which means there pretty much aren't any "Darwinists" here, just ex-Darwinists. A notable exception is Niles Eldredge (http://www.vqronline.org/articles/2006/spring/eldredge-confessions-darwinist), who I suspect is himself reacting to creationist use of the term. The situation appears to be a bit different outside the United States, at least according to Wikipedia's entry on Darwinism, but a Google search on "Darwinist" yields mostly creationist writings.
I've never met an ex-Darwinist who was familiar with the evidence for common ancestry (http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/comdesc/) and fossil hominids (http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/homs/) on the talkorigins.org website. In my experience, they all seem to be only familiar with a cartoon caricature of evolution, and little of the supporting evidence.


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La Rochefoucauld
La Rochefoucauld 1613-1680
(Full name François VI, duc de La Rochefoucauld) French aphorist, essayist, and memoirist.
La Rochefoucauld is chiefly remembered for his Sentences et maximes de morale (1664), a collection of over 500 aphorisms on topics ranging from virtue and vice to love, marriage, friendship, bravery, old age, and death. These brief statements in the Maximes (as the work is commonly called) express harsh, often paradoxical truths about human conduct and reflect the author's pessimistic view of life. The chief motivating force of human behavior, according to La Rochefoucauld, is amour-propre, or self-love. The Maximes also demonstrate seventeenth-century society's tendency toward self-examination. While he was not hailed as a major literary figure during his lifetime, La Rochefoucauld's influence on the cultural elite of his day was considerable, and the highly polished style of his reflections is still regarded as one of the earliest and best examples of the French proclivity for carefully crafted, minimalist prose. La Rochefoucauld's clarity and simplicity of expression set the standard for other works—from the witticisms of Jonathan Swift and Oscar Wilde to the pithy sayings of Ambrose Bierce—and the Maximes continue to find favor among stylists and scholars as some of the most perfectly rendered and psychologically penetrating evaluations of human nature.
Biographical Information
Born in Paris in 1613, La Rochefoucauld was the eldest child of the fifth duke of La Rochefoucauld. Shortly after his birth he moved to the family estate in the west of France, where he was schooled in Latin, mathematics, music, fencing, and dancing. At the age of fourteen La Rochefoucauld was married to Andrée de Vivonne. In 1630 La Rochefoucauld and his young wife moved to Paris to enter the court of Louis XIII, where they both served the king's wife, Anne of Austria. In Paris, La Rochefoucauld became romantically involved with one of the queen's companions, the duchess of Chevreuse, and later with Anne's lady-in-waiting. In 1637 La Rochefoucauld was involved in a botched conspiracy against Cardinal Richelieu, for which La Rochefoucauld was imprisoned for a week. Then, in the late 1640s, after the deaths of both Louis XIII and Richelieu, La Rochefoucauld joined the Frondeurs, a revolutionary group opposed to the regency of Queen Anne and her chief minister, Cardinal Mazarin. He was badly wounded in battle in 1652 and fled to Luxembourg. In bad health, he was permitted by the young King Louis XIV to return to France in 1653, where he lived for three years at his family estate. During these years of exile in the west of France, he reflected on his life; read the works of Montaigne as well as the Latin historians and moralists Tacitus, Sallust, and Seneca; and began writing. He was allowed to return to Paris in 1656. From the late 1650s until his death, La Rochefoucauld divided his time between the west of France and Paris, though he failed to regain his previous stature in court. Much of his time was spent in fashionable literary salons in the company of intellectually and socially influential women, particularly the Marquise de Sable, a woman fourteen years his senior whose political views and literary tastes were similar to his own. It was in her company and from discussions with other women and men of letters in the salons—the dramatist Molière and the philosopher Blaise Pascal among them—that La Rochefoucauld distilled his famous maxims. It was a common parlor game among French sophisticates to engage in the pastimes of analyzing human motives and creating pithy proverbs, and La Rochefoucauld was a master of the art. With the help of de Sable, La Rochefoucauld's maxims were subsequently published. La Rochefoucauld spent his last years writing, reading, attending the salons, and enjoying Paris social and cultural life. He also became a close companion to Madame de la Fayette, on whose novels, notably La Princesse de Cléves (1678), he is thought to have collaborated. He died of gout, a condition that had plagued him for some years, in 1680.
Major Works
In 1649, shortly after he returned to Paris, La Rochefoucauld wrote Apologie de M. le Prince Marcillac. This essay explaining his actions in the political arena during the 1640s was not published until 1885, despite its being an attempt to improve his reputation. All of La Rochefoucauld's other works were written after his retirement from public life. A literary self-portrait appeared in 1659, in which the author describes his physical characteristics as well as his melancholic nature, love of conservation, lack of ambition, gentility, moderation, intelligence, and commitment to social order and the ideal of love. His Memoires du duc de L. R., a work begun in the early 1650s, also paints a picture of a man of civility and restraint and reveals a great deal about the moral and social ideals of his fellow aristocrats. La Rochefoucauld's memoirs are not strictly autobiographical in the modern sense, but are accounts of current events within La Rochefoucauld's social circle. The memoirs were privately circulated among his friends, which led to an unauthorized printing in 1662. The Memoirs are not widely read today but are interesting for their insight into La Rochefoucauld's social milieu, his belief in the necessity for greater independence for women, and his precept that written and spoken language should be clear and precise. These principles of clarity and precision, most scholars agree, found near-perfect expression in the Maximes. The aphorisms that appeared in the various editions were not originally intended for publication but were the product of an intellectual game called "sentences" played in Madame de Sable's salon. One person would contribute an idea (any topic except for religion and politics was allowed), and the group would discuss the idea, expanding upon its implications. La Rochefoucauld would spend hours honing the ideas into aphorisms. These observations were not simply personal opinions but rather earnest attempts to express universal laws regarding human nature. La Rochefoucauld's maxims were immensely popular within his social circle. In 1663 a Dutch printer published a version of the maxims without the author's consent. To make sure that only those maxims he composed were attributed to him, La Rochefoucauld published his own version in 1665. He continued to polish and revise the maxims in the five editions that appeared between 1665 and 1678. If there is a central thesis to the Maximes, it is that human nature is flawed because of the self-interest at the heart of human motivation. Reason, according to La Rochefoucauld, is powerless against this force, and even when humans believe they act from altruism or nobility, they do so out of love of self. The maxims are marked by an economy of expression. Although generally cynical, the work is not wholly negative, and the maxims often stress the need for people to overcome laziness, learn to identify their shortcomings, and see things with intellectual lucidity. Reflexions diverses, published in 1731, deals with similar topics as the Maximes. In these nineteen short essays, La Rochefoucauld makes more extended observations on society, taste, virtue, and love. They are again essentially pessimistic in their outlook, but like the Maximes point out the possibility of personal greatness when human beings look honestly at their defects.
Critical Reception
La Rochefoucauld's reputation rests principally on the Maximes. While critics recognize the prose of the Memoirs to be nuanced and lucid, the subject of La Rochefoucauld's autobiographical and other works, with their allusions to obscure figures in his social circle, are not nearly as accessible as the Maximes, and hence garner little readership. From the first unauthorized publication, the Maximes captured the imagination of readers in France and abroad. Since then, admirers from Voltaire to Swift have praised the work's precision of language and portrayal of human nature. Others have praised the work's subtle understanding of seventeenth-century mores and etiquette, its astute observation of human conduct, and its economy of expression that conveys universal ideas without relying on complex allusions or metaphors. La Rochefoucauld's detractors, among them Jean Jacques Rousseau, have found fault with his cynical view of humankind, but acknowledge the charming simplicity of the prose. Although little is written about the Reflexions diverses except in connection to the Maximes, some twentieth-century critics have argued that more study is necessary, as they offer particularly valuable insights into La Rochefoucauld's concept of the social self. While modern scholars continue to admire La Rochefoucauld's tightly crafted prose, they also show interest in discerning a philosophical system behind his observations. A number of commentators have suggested that readers should look beyond La Rochefoucauld's pessimism and consider the instructive aspect of the maxims. A particularly vigorous debate among critics centers on the concept of amour-propre, which many argue has been misunderstood. These scholars maintain that the common English translation of the term, "self-love," is misleading. Contemporary philosophers have also taken an interest in La Rochefoucauld for his observations on moral issues. While he is the subject of a great deal of scholarly discussion, La Rochefoucauld continues to enjoy a wide readership outside academic circles. His Maximes have retained their popular readership due to their elegant simplicity and ability to capture with such concision the paradoxical nature and complexity of human existence.
Principal Works
Mémoires de M.D.L.R. sur les brigues à la mort de Louys XIII, les guerres de Paris et de Guyenne, et la prison des princes (memoirs) 1662
*Sentences et maximes de morale [Maxims] (aphorisms) 1664; revised as Reflexions ou sentences et maximes morales, 1665; revised 1666, 1671, 1675, 1678
Mémoires de la minorité de Louis XIV, sur ce qui s'est passé à la fin de la vie de Louis XIII et pendant la régence d'Anne d'Autriche, mère de Louis XIV. 2 vols. (memoirs) 1688; revised and enlarged as Mémoires de M. le duc de La Rochefoucault et de M. de La Chastre, contenant l'histoire de la minorité de Louis XIV, 1700
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David Westgate (essay date October 1968)
SOURCE: Westgate, David. "The Concept of Amour-Propre in the Maximes of La Rochefoucauld." Nottingham French Studies 7, no. 2 (October 1968): 67-79.
[In the following essay, Westgate explores the concept of self-love as it was understood in the seventeenth century to better grasp La Rochefoucauld's use of this idea in the Maximes.]
Critics generally agree that amour-propre is central to the description of man in the Maximes, but not all have seen into the full sense of the term. H. Chamard writes of it as being egoism;1 W. G. Moore envisages it as self-interest;2 for A. Krailsheimer, it is the "permanent and radical...
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Maria A. Green (essay date winter 1969)
SOURCE: Green, Maria A. "Moral Assessment in La Rochefoucauld." Romance Notes 11, no. 2 (winter 1969): 355-61.
[In the essay which follows, Green argues that La Rochefoucauld's system of ethics is concerned with moral assessment rather than moral obligation, which is why he focuses on such concepts as self-deception, pride, and self-interest.]
It has often been said in one form or another that La Rochefoucauld is not to be taken in by anything within his sphere but that his sphere takes in very little. With the air of El Greco's St. Martin giving his cloak to the beggar, he strips off poor beggars' cloaks and leaves them shivering in the cold. Distrustful of man,...
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E. D. James (essay date October 1969)
SOURCE: James, E. D. "Scepticism and Positive Values in La Rochefoucauld." French Studies 23, no. 4 (October 1969): 349-61.
[In the following essay, James argues that scholars who consider La Rochefoucauld a skeptic are mistaken, insisting that the writer has a complex but positive conception of virtue.]
La Rochefoucauld's sceptical account of human motivation and conduct seemingly obscures the boundaries between virtue and vice, the self and selfishness, what is necessarily so and what is often so. The problem is posed acutely by an often discussed maxime which first appeared in the definitive edition of the Réflexions ou Sentences et Maximes...
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Donald Furber (essay date December 1969)
SOURCE: Furber, Donald. "The Myth of amour-propre in La Rochefoucauld." The French Review 43, no. 2 (December 1969): 227-39.
[In this essay, Furber analyzes La Rochefoucauld's concept of self-love, which the critic argues is at once a principle of unity and disunity in the human personality and a mysterious aspect of human nature.]
It is difficult not to accept the critical position which emphasizes the futility of searching for a system in the writings of La Rochefoucauld.1 Contradictory in their affirmations, ambiguous in their moral point of view, paradoxical in their composition, the seventeenth-century Maximes and Réflexions...
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Jonathan Culler (essay date January 1973)
SOURCE: Culler, Jonathan. "Paradox and the Language of Morals in La Rochefoucauld." Modern Language Review 68, no. 1 (January 1973): 28-39.
[In the essay below, Culler maintains that La Rochefoucauld's use of paradoxical language in exploring ethics forces readers to unravel the complex moral categories they use, and make sense of their own moral experience.]
For one man calleth Wisdome, what another calleth feare; and one cruelty, what another justice; one prodigality, what another magnanimity; and one gravity, what another stupidity, & c. And therefore such names can never be the true...
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Joseph G. Weber (essay date January 1974)
SOURCE: Weber, Joseph G. "The Personae in the Style of La Rochefoucauld's Maximes." PMLA 89, no. 1 (January 1974): 250-55.
[In the following essay, Weber studies La Rochefoucauld's personification of human traits in the Maximes.]
Moralist literature of seventeenth-century France can be characterized by what might be called a human dialectic. The dynamics of this dialectic derive from the image of person. The author is in dialogue with himself or with an aspect of his personality, or there is a dialogue between the moi and autrui, or between moral principles. One readily thinks of Montaigne and the moi universel, Pascal and his...
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Susan Read Baker (essay date January 1974)
SOURCE: Baker, Susan Read. "La Rochefoucauld and the Art of the Self-Portrait." Romanic Review 65, no. 1 (January 1974): 13-30.
[In this essay, Baker discusses an autobiographical sketch written by La Rochefoucauld, which she says is not only a self-portrait but a commentary on society, human nature, and morality.]
Je vis un jour à Barleduc, qu'on presentoit au Roy François second, pour la recommandation de la memoire de René, Roy de Sicile, un pourtraict qu'il avoit luy-mesmes fait de soy. Pourquoy n'est-il loisible de mesme à un chacun de se peindre de la plume, comme il se peignoit d'un creon?
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Robert Green (essay date December 1974)
SOURCE: Green, Robert. "Lost Paradise and Self-Delusion in the Maxims of La Rochefoucauld." The French Review 48, no. 2 (December 1974): 321-30.
[In the following essay, Green claims that La Rochefoucauld's use of the maxim to present his ideas and observations fails, in part because he stresses the importance of the concept of self-love.]
The maxims of La Rochefoucauld1 purport to reveal to the reader the naked face of man by showing him the Truth. The emblem of the frontispiece is a portrait of "The Love of Truth" ripping off a mask from Seneca's face, and the fourth edition bears the definitive epigraph: Nos vertus ne sont le plus souvent que...
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Janet Morgan (essay date January 1977)
SOURCE: Morgan, Janet. "A Reconsideration of La Rochefoucauld's Maximes." Forum for Modern Language Studies 13, no. 1 (January 1977): 47-58.
[In the essay that follows, Morgan argues that La Rochefoucauld used theological concepts to present his secular ideas because of the familiarity of those concepts.]
Recent discussion on La Rochefoucauld has tended to rehabilitate the Maximes by taking seriously the moral analysis they contain instead of reading them simply as the expression of a personal disillusionment. More serious consideration of the text seems to have resulted primarily in disagreement as to how far La Rochefoucauld is "sceptical" of...
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Philip E. Lewis (essay date 1977)
SOURCE: Lewis, Philip E. "A Problematic Work." In La Rochefoucauld and the Art of Abstraction, pp. 15-54. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1977.
[In this excerpt, Lewis offers an introduction to the problematical aspects of reading La Rochefoucauld, focusing on the difficult and ambiguous nature of the maxim.]
Just as reading La Rochefoucauld has almost always meant reading the Maximes, reading the Maximes has almost automatically entailed reflecting on the nature of the maxim, on its status as a genre or type of statement. The apparently simple question—what is a maxim?—leads into a tangle of complex problems in La Rochefoucauld's work. To...
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Vivien Thweat (essay date May 1978)
SOURCE: Thweat, Vivien. "Style, the Self, and Society in La Rochefoucauld's Réflexions diverses." French Forum 3, no. 2 (May 1978): 99-112.
[In the essay below, Thweat contends that the Réflexions diverses deserve to be studied in their own right because they offer an account of the author's concept of the social self, and provide insight on seventeenth-century social life.]
More often than not La Rochefoucauld's Réflexions diverses are considered primarily as they relate to the Maximes or as background material for the Classical concept of wit and taste. On occasion they have also been presented as proof of La Rochefoucauld's...
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Buford Norman (essay date 1981)
SOURCE: Norman, Buford. "Knowledge, Meaning and Style in Variants of La Rochefoucauld's Maximes." Papers on French Seventeenth Century Literature 8, no. 14 (1981): 19-31.
[In the following essay, Norman discusses La Rochefoucauld's treatment of knowledge, meaning, action, and motivation in the Maximes.]
Knowledge—its nature, its limitations, its acquisition, its applications—is not only one of the most important topics in La Rochefoucauld's Maximes; it is also a concern which underlies the entire work. The Maximes, through their content and through their form, are constantly seeking after knowledge of man while at the same time raising...
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Susan Read Baker (essay date 1986)
SOURCE: Baker, Susan Read. "The Reception of La Rochefoucauld's Maximes (1659-1665): A Question of Gender?" Papers on French Seventeenth Century Literature 13, no. 24 (1986): 65-81.
[In the essay which follows, Baker discusses the differences in the initial reaction to the Maximes by La Rochefoucauld's male and female contemporaries.]
The reception of La Rochefoucauld's Maximes from their inception to the present is an important topic recently broached during colloquia in France honoring the tricentenary of the duke's death.1 In the present study, I wish to further what is currently a collective critical endeavor by proposing a...
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Henry C. Clark (essay date 1987)
SOURCE: Clark, Henry C. "La Rochefoucauld and the Social Bases of Aristocratic Ethics." History of European Ideas 8, no. 1 (1987): 61-76.
[In the following essay, Clark claims that La Rochefoucauld's ideas are universal in nature and do not betray his aristocratic background. The critic goes on to explore the relationship between social participation and moral observation in the Maximes.]
One of the paradoxes in the career of the Duke of La Rochefoucauld (1613-80) consists in the almost complete absence of any overt evidence of social particularity in his literary work. In practice, he was acutely protective of every privilege pertaining to his imagined place in...
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Joseph G. Weber (essay date 1987)
SOURCE: Weber, Joseph G. "The Maximes as Theatre." In L'Image du souverain dans le theatre de 1600 a 1650/Maximes/Madame de Villedieu, edited by Milorad R. Margitic and Byron R. Wells, pp. 15-33. Paris: Papers on French Seventeenth Century Literature, 1987.
[In this essay, Weber argues that the use of personification, movement, disguises, and other elements in the Maximes are characteristic of classical drama.]
Faced with one of the more elusive and cryptic works of literature, analysts have gone to considerable length to identify, contextualize and systematize the Maximes of La Rochefoucauld. The discontinuity of the work itself is...
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Joseph Epstein (essay date June 1996)
SOURCE: Epstein, Joseph. "La Rochefoucauld: Maximum Maximist." The New Criterion (June 1996): 15-24.
[In the following essay, Epstein offers a personal appreciation of La Rochefoucauld's life and work, presenting biographical details, discussing scholarly approaches to his texts, and exploring the usefulness of his observations.]
François VI, Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) did not invent the form known as the maxim, but instead, fairly early in its history, merely perfected it. Defying any notion of progress in the arts, nobody has come along in more than three centuries who has done it better; he remains unsurpassed. "We all have strength enough to endure...
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Bradley Rubidge (essay date 1998)
SOURCE: Rubidge, Bradley. "Psychological Atomism, Amour-propre, and the Language of Generosity." In La Rochefoucauld, Mithridate, Frères et sœurs, Les Muses sœurs: Actes du 29e congrè annuel de la North American Society for Seventeenth-Century French Literature, edited by Claire Carlin, pp. 43-52. Tübingen, Germany: Gunter Narr Verlag, 1998.
[In the essay below, Rubidge argues that elements of La Rochefoucauld's views, including his criticism of generosity, have similarities with the philosophical position called eliminative materialism.]
La Rochefoucauld's eighty-third maxim exhibits some argumentative moves that are typical of the...
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Quentin M. Hope (essay date 2001)
SOURCE: Hope, Quentin M. "La Rochefoucauld and the Vicissitudes of Time." Papers on French Seventeenth Century Literature 28, no. 54 (2001): 105-20.
[In the following essay, Hope observes that La Rochefoucauld's maxims comment on all stages of life and are keenly aware of the joys and hardships of human existence.]
Many of La Rochefoucauld's best-known and most quoted maxims present themselves as timeless. That hypocrisy is the tribute vice pays to virtue, that we can all bear the misfortunes of others are observations of human behaviour independent of time and change. These are maxims that apply at all places, in all times, to all men and women. Another...
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Quentin M. Hope (essay date spring 2002)
SOURCE: Hope, Quentin M. "Humor in the Maximes of La Rochefoucauld." Dalhousie French Studies 58 (spring 2002): 3-9.
[In this essay, Hope discusses La Rochefoucauld's love of teasing, making fun, and laughter, and claims that many of his maxims should be understood as jokes.]
I have undertaken to write about humor in La Rochefoucauld fully convinced that any reader will know what I mean by humor, but also aware that the word, like other words close to it, eludes definition. In L'écriture comique Jean Sareil speaks of the "impossibilité d'arriver à une définition objective du sujet" and adds: "Qu'est-ce que l'esprit, l'humour, la...
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Further Reading
Baker, Susan Read. "The Works of La Rochefoucauld in Relation to Machiavellian Ideas of Morals and Politics." Journal of the History of Ideas 44, no. 2 (April-June 1983): 207-18.
Discusses the influence of Machiavelli on La Rochefoucauld's thought, discussing especially the concepts of fortune, prudence, virtù, and occasione that appear in both men's works.
Clark, Henry C. La Rochefoucauld and the Language of Unmasking in Seventeenth-Century France. Geneva: Librairie Droz S.A., 1994, 216 p.
Examines La Rochefoucauld's tendency to frame his observations as debunkings of what is usually...
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Hand-Cut French Fries
Recipe courtesy of Sasha Perl-Raver, 2010
- Private Chefs of Beverly Hills
- 3 large Russet potatoes, well scrubbed
- 24 ounces vegetable, canola, or peanut oil
- Sea salt and malt vinegar
- Optional seasonings:
- Crab boil seasoning (recommended: Old Bay)
- Truffle oil
- Parsley
- Freshly chopped garlic
- Hot sauce
- Grated Parmesan
- Red chile flakes
- Fresh herbs
Leaving the skin on, cut the potatoes into long thin strips and put in a large bowl of clean water to remove some starch, prevent them from sticking together, and stop the oxidizing process.
In a cast iron skillet fitted with a thermometer, or a small fryer, heat the oil until it reaches 275 to 300 degrees F. Remove the potatoes from the water and pat dry. Working in small batches, fry the potatoes until they go from shiny to matte, 3 to 5 minutes (this is also called blanching). Drain well on paper towels. Re-heat the oil until it reaches 350 degrees F and fry the potatoes again, also in small batches, until they are golden brown and crispy on the outside but soft and chewy on the inside.
Remove from the oil, drain well, and toss with sea salt and malt vinegar, or any other seasoning you prefer. You can also fry fresh herbs such as rosemary, sage, and thyme with the potatoes. Serve hot.
This recipe was provided by professional chefs and has been scaled down from a bulk recipe provided by a restaurant. The Food Network Kitchens chefs have not tested this recipe, in the proportions indicated, and therefore, we cannot make any representation as to the results.
Recipe courtesy of Sasha Perl-Raver, 2010
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