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Youngsville Area News In Brief
Soup and Pie Lunch
Saron Lutheran Church is sponsoring a 'Take Outs Only" soup and pie lunch on Friday, March 1 from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. You may call 563-7662 to order your lunch. Soups available are chicken noodle and cream of potato with a variety of pies available. You may either pick up your lunch at the church or it can be delivered to you. All of this is available for only $6.
Fine Art and Vino Venue
Wine Tasting Tickets for the Fine Art and Vino Venue, Saturday, April 20, are now available at the Allegheny Artistry, Youngsville Pharmacy, Warren County Insurance, Allegheny Cellars Winery or by calling 814-730-2899. Pre-sale tickets with commemorative glass are $10 to those 21 or older, they will be $15 day of event. Please support the fund raising efforts of the Revitalization of Youngsville for downtown improvements and come out to have an entertaining afternoon with family and friends, vendor shopping, food, art and wine competitions. Admission is Free. Updates at www.artandvinovenue.blogspot.com
Breakfast at Applebee's
YHS Softball is having a pancake breakfast at Applebee's on Saturday, March 9, 2013, 8-10 am. Tickets are $6 each which includes pancakes, sausage and drink. Contact any YHS softball player or parent to purchase tickets or call 730-2592. You must have a ticket to attend the breakfast. Thank you for your support.
Books R Fun
There will be a "Books R Fun" book fair on Wednesday, March 13th from 10-3 at the Rouse Home in the recreation room. Many book and gifts at discount prices. The proceeds benefit the activities department. The public is very welcome to attend. The next scheduled book fairs will be on July 11 and October 23.
Yes, there will be a 2013 Corn Festival for 2013.
Because of the June Bicentennial Celebration in Youngsville, the annual Corn Festival celebration will be somewhat smaller than in past year's, but we feel that it will be as much fun. Plans are still being made for the games and special events, but we will have a Snowmobile show on Saturday, Aug. 17, and a car show on Sunday, Aug. 18, both held at Island Park. We anticipate that we will be working around the construction on Railroad Street that is the first stage in our revitalization plan. Watch for further information about this event.
Baskets & Bowling
All 8 baskets from the Youngsville Library "Basket Extravaganza" fund raiser will be on display at Valley Bowling from Saturday, March 2 through Friday, March 8. Each basket is valued at a minimum of $75. All donations received from this "Basket Extravaganza" will directly benefit the Youngsville Library. 10 tickets for a $5 donation or 1 ticket for a $1 donation. Basket tickets will be available at Valley Bowling from March 2 through March 8 or can still be obtained at the Library during business hours. Drawing date is Monday, March 18.
Also, on Saturday, March 2, the first day that the baskets will be on display at the bowling alley, Valley Bowling is also holding a "Couples Scotch Doubles Tournament" with two time slots: 2 and 6 pm. Proceeds from the Tournament will benefit "Give Kids the World Village," a nonprofit 'wish-granting' resort in Florida, which provides special accommodations for children between the ages of 3 and 18 who have been diagnosed with a life-threatening illness. Walk-ins are welcome or call Valley Bowling at 563-4320 with questions or to reserve a time slot.
YHS Alumni
YHS alumni interested in planning their class reunion should contact YHS Alumni Committee. The planning will be done for your reunion. The annual 2013 Alumni Homecoming events planned start Thursday, Sept. 19, with the Homecoming Parade; Friday, YHS Tour, Homecoming football game with gathering at the alumni tent; Saturday, breakfast at Richard's, Saturday evening, dinner-dance. The social / dinner (and/or) dance will be held at Youngsville Fire Hall. Tables will be reserved for classes and there is a separate room available if classes prefer to have a private area to congregate. Interested classmates or questions please contact 563-4060 or email email@example.com.
Any girl interested in playing volleyball for the 2013-2014 school year in grades 9th-12th please contact Jodi Cratty at 563-3315 or email firstname.lastname@example.com.
Fundraising events will be starting soon.
Free e-filing of Taxes
JoAn's Home VITA Site Volunteer Income Tax Assistance is a group of local independent volunteers from the Warren County area have partnered for another year with the IRS to do e-filing of taxes free for those with less than $50,000 per year income earned in PA. The IRS has provided the software and the tax law training as well as certifying the volunteers to do your taxes. Federal and state taxes will be e-filed. Tax and rent rebates, and local taxes will also be done. Do you qualify for Earned income credit, Child tax credit, or savings credit? If you are a senior, widow(er) or disabled, do you receive money from the state towards your property tax or rent payments? We help you receive all the money that is due to you. St. Luke's Catholic Church W. Main St. Youngsville is hosting volunteers for the eighth year. Make that appointment by calling 563-6383, learn of the days and times in your area.
Stromboli & Pie Sale
The Youngsville Marching Eagles are selling Jane's Stromboli and Pies. Each Stromboli is $3. Each pie is $10. See any band member to order or call Tina at 688-1980. Orders are being taken until March 2 and will be delivered on March 27, just in time for Easter. All items come frozen and need to be baked.
Outreach Dinner
The St. Francis Episcopal Church community outreach dinner will be on Tuesday, March 12, from 4 to 6 p.m. All proceeds from the dinner will go to help with medical expenses for Tim Dyer. He has been hospitalized in Erie since November from a car accident. The menu will be a spaghetti dinner with salad and dessert. Take outs for this dinner will be available. Donations will be appreciated.
Thank You
The YHS Softball team would like to thank everyone who participated in and supported their corn hole tournament. Congratulations to all of the winners! A special thanks to those who donated their winnings back to the softball team. Your generosity is greatly appreciated!
Truck Load Auction
Garland Community Center is planning three events. On Sunday doors open at noon and the auction begins at 1 p.m. The auction includes new merchandise and non-perishable food.
A raffle party will be held on March 17. There is free admission and a free chicken and biscuit dinner. Doors open at 1 p.m. and dinner is at 2. There will be raffles, Chinese auction, cash raffles, special games and prizes for the kids.
An Amateur Comedy Night will be held Saturday April 20, from 6 to 9 p.m. Admission is free and comedians are wanted. Call Cheryl at (814) 563-4374 . Cash prizes will be offered and the audience will be the judge through donations. The comedian with the most donations wins. No children or teens permitted unless accompanied by a parent/guardian. Food and refreshments will be available.


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My Special Needs Son
To The Reader's Forum:
My son on the autism spectrum is learning. Learning that having a developmental disability is code for "invisible" disability, and the world is not going to help with, see or even believe his challenges. He is learning that working harder than everyone else to fight impulses and conform to expectations of neurotypical (non-autistic) behavior is not good enough. When he fails, he will be asked not to participate. Already so isolated from his peers – he will be set aside – too much trouble to deal with. Not autistic enough to receive extra help in the classroom, too autistic to call someone a best friend. "He's normal, we can handle him," they reassure a worried parent. "Three strikes and you're out," they chastise a hopeful child. At school the books teach him to be tolerant and patient. People, on the other hand, teach him that he doesn't belong. Tolerance and patience are gifts given to people who don't cause problems. How I wish the world were kinder to my special needs son.
Unfortunately, my son is one in a growing number of children on the spectrum. Faced with issues like these everyday, our schools need to make sure these kids are learning. Learning they are perfect just the way they are and that they are accepted.
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In the summer of 2005, a few colleagues and I went to the Chautauqua Institution's week on "The Brain." We were invited by Chautauqua's Religion Department, which was focusing in that same week on the nature of love. Those two subject areas might seem, on the surface, to deal with distinctly separate realms of human reality — reason and emotion. But one of the lessons of the week was that modern science is turning up an intricate and fascinating interrelationship between them. What we are learning about "the three pound human brain," as Sherwin Nuland likes to refer to it, may compel us to reconcile western civilization's split between body and spirit.
Sherwin Nuland first translated his personal knowledge of human physiology into literature with his award-winning bestseller, How We Die. He epitomizes a phenomenon I've observed among scientists of many disciplines: he is possessed of a passion for his subject borne, perhaps counter-intuitively, of rational observation and scientific expertise. "I want others to know what I know," he wrote in the introduction to his 1997 book, The Wisdom of the Body.
After he had chronicled processes of human death in How We Die, he delved into the primary processes that support and sustain human life — how we live. Years of treating disease in the body left him in awe, above all, of the fact of health as a norm. Knowing what can go wrong, he says, has given him a tremendous respect for much more that goes right, moment to moment.
He chose as the epigraph to The Wisdom of the Body this thought of St. Augustine:
Men go forth to wonder at the heights of
mountains, the huge waves of the sea,
the broad flow of the rivers, the vast
compass of the ocean, the courses of the
stars: and they pass by themselves
without wondering.
But "wonder" for St. Augustine was a religious experience that drove back to a creator. Dr. Nuland looks within the body not only for the source of his wonder but for the driving force of his capacity for wonder itself. He makes the provocative suggestion that what we call the human spirit — our capacity for beauty and love, our drive to create balance in life and moral order in society — is an evolutionary accomplishment of the most complex organism on the planet, the human brain. Within our very beings, he says, we sense the threat of chaos, and we sometimes yield to it. But overwhelmingly, individually and collectively, we seek balance. We transcend mere impulse and reason. Sherwin Nuland has given himself over to charting transcendence rooted in flesh and blood and bone, DNA and neurotransmitter and enzyme.
I can't help noticing as I trace the line with Sherwin Nuland that I trace with all of my guests — the intersection of large ideas with concrete experience — how his personal story mirrors the development of his thinking.
He had a difficult early life, which he describes in his autobiographical work, Lost in America. In his 40's, he almost succumbed to a grave spiral of clinical depression. He lost the Orthodox Jewish faith of his childhood, but gained an animating faith in human realities that he had spent his career exploring. One of his favorite quotes, attributed to Philo of Alexandria, has now become one of my favorite quotes: "Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a great battle."
Sherwin Nuland is another voice for Speaking of Faith who does not espouse a formal religious belief. However, his ideas might richly inform many religious perspectives; and as he admits, they do not rule out the idea of a creator. We have an interesting exchange about how his concept of the spirit as emergent in human life and relationship corresponds intriguingly, in fact, with the Hebrew biblical word for "soul" — nephesh, in English transliteration. His idea of our bodies evolving our spirits could also be heard as parallel to the suggestion of the physicist/theologian John Polkinghorne. Polkinghorne believes in a God who did something "more clever" than create a ready-made world — a God who, instead, created a world that could make itself.
Our public life drives towards poles and debates and entrenched certainties on such ideas. But we at Speaking of Faith are committed to exploring the vast, fluid middle ground where theologians and scientists of many disciplines are grappling with cutting-edge insights and engaging those creatively with complex realities and deep religious and ethical perspectives. With a nod to Sherwin Nuland, let's put it this way: we'll continue to pursue the order and sense and equanimity that our spirits long for and insist is possible.


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Tampa Bay Bucs Update: Graham Officially Placed on I.R.; Yount Released
The Tampa Bay Bucs need some new insurance after losing running back Earnest "Insurance" Graham for the season with a torn Achilles. Graham's season officially came to an end Tuesday when the team placed him on injured reserve. The 31-year-old running back from UF suffered the injury in Sunday's game against the Chicago Bears. Graham earned the moniker "Insurance" because of his ability to play multiple positions, including fullback and special teams. Coach Raheem Morris joked that Graham was nearly… Read More »


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Alex J. Dziepak, 88, of Equality, formerly of Hammond, Ind., passed away at his home 4:15 a.m. Tuesday, Dec. 18, 2012.
He was born on Feb. 14, 1924, in East Chicago, Ind., the son of Andrew and Polly (Krochmal) Dziepak. He married Freddia Mae Clark on Nov. 9, 1946, and she preceded him in death on Aug. 13, 2004.
Alex served his country in the Army during World War II. He retired as a maintenance superintendent fo the Champion Commercial Industries in East Chicago, Ind. Alex was a faithful member of the St. Kateri Catholic Church, Equality Chapel. He was also a 49-year member of the American Legion Post 369 of East Chicago, Ind.
Alex is survived by two daughters, Nancy and Ronald Colbert of Equality, Christie Gutherie of Chesterton, Ind.; two sons, Terry and Mary Dziepak of Crown Point, Ind., Roger Dziepak of Equality; one surviving brother, Tony and Phyllis Dziepak of Schererville, Ind.; five grandchildren, Roger and Millie Dziepak, Mindi and Jared Abney, Jacqueline Dziepak, Kevin Dziepak, and Charles Christopher Gutherie; four great-grandchildren, Alex Dziepak, Tommy Dziepak, Cole Abney, and Cale Abney. He was preceded in death by his parents; his wife; five sisters, Julia Barsic, Lillian Cheranko, Rose DeBold, Mary Fogle and Sophie Zurawski Nesbitt; three brothers, George, Stanley and John Dziepak.
Visitation will held 10 a.m. until service time at 11 a.m. Friday, Dec. 21, 2012, at the St. Kateri Catholic Church, Equality Chapel. Funeral Mass will begin at 11 a.m. with Father Steven Beatty officiating. There will be a grave side service at Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery in Calumet City 12:30 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 22, 2012, with military rites by the American Legion Post 369. Memorials may be made to St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. Condolences may be made at the website, www.vickeryfuneralchapel.com. Vickery Funeral Chapel in Equality will be in charge of arrangements.
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Yesterday, I had the opportunity to speak about the Korea Free Trade Agreement at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington, D.C. As I told the distinguished group assembled there, the U.S.- Korea trade agreement -- which we call the "KORUS" agreement -- will strengthen not only our economic relationship, not only our vital strategic alliance with Korea, but also our deep human bond with the Korean people, who already see us as one of their closest friends and most loyal partners.
The U.S.-Korea economic relationship is one of the world's most vibrant, with two-way goods trade reaching nearly $88 billion in 2010. Korea is our seventh largest trading partner, and the United States is South Korea's third largest trading partner. Our alliance with Korea has expanded from its military roots to develop into one of the most vibrant and dynamic full-spectrum strategic partnerships in modern history.
Today's Korea stands shoulder-to-shoulder with us in peacekeeping and reconstruction efforts in Haiti, Afghanistan, Iraq, and Lebanon. Recent events with North Korea have reminded us that the alliance is a vital linchpin of not only the security of Korea and the United States, but also for the Asia Pacific as a whole.
Implementation of KORUS will signal to other Asia-Pacific nations our abiding presence in the region as a vital partner in its defense and development. It will underscore our commitment to prosperity and security in the Asia Pacific.
KORUS will re-establish U.S. leadership in shaping economic policy in the region and in crafting its emerging economic institutional architecture.
Of course, commercial ties are not only important for the U.S.- Korea relationship, but for America's prosperity. Now more than ever, America's ability to create jobs here at home depends on our ability to export goods and services to the world.
We are aggressively promoting U.S. exports to fulfill the President's National Export Initiative goal of doubling exports over the next five years. An increase at this level would support up to two million new jobs, helping to put the American people back to work.
KORUS presents an historic opportunity to increase exports, create jobs, and bolster the American economy.
We signed KORUS with Korea on June 30, 2007, but U.S. Congressional approval was not forthcoming at that time due to concerns about market access for U.S. car manufacturers in Korea.
The Obama Administration consulted extensively with U.S. stakeholders, including the business community, labor representatives and Congress, and reached a new agreement in December 2010 to ensure we created a level playing field for U.S. auto companies and auto workers in the Korean market.
Here are some of the changes we negotiated in December:
We agreed to encourage green technologies by immediately cutting in half Korea's tariffs on U.S. electric car imports, and eliminating both of our tariffs altogether in five years -- five years earlier than in the 2007 KORUS agreement.
We leveled the playing field and improved transparency by addressing ways Korea's system of automotive safety standards have served as barriers to U.S. exports, as well as ensured that new, imminent Korea automotive environmental regulations did not place a disproportionate burden on U.S. autos.
We agreed that Korea will immediately cut in half its tariffs on U.S. automotive exports, while our tariff on Korea's auto exports will remain in place for five years. This will give American car companies and their workers a chance to build up more business in Korea before U.S. tariffs come down.
Finally, to protect U.S. auto companies and their workers from harmful surges in imports from Korea, we agreed to a new special motor vehicle safeguard.
The 2010 deal has, according to the United Auto Workers and the U.S. automotive industry, addressed the concerns about the agreement's potential impact on the U.S. auto industry. This package is a better deal for America's auto industry and auto workers, and it is winning widespread bipartisan support.
These benefits are not limited solely to autoworkers, but also benefit others, including those in the steel sector, and other suppliers to the auto industry. We think this agreement will support additional jobs and growth in America, and that is ultimately the best security and benefit we can secure for American workers.
We are now ready to move forward.
To bring home KORUS' promise -- billions of dollars in exports and tens of thousands of jobs in America -- the President intends to submit KORUS to Congress and will work with Congress to secure its approval without delay.
Once Congress approves KORUS, and the agreement enters into force, the benefits will be tangible. The U .S. International Trade Commission estimates that America's economic output will grow more from KORUS than from our last nine trade agreements -- combined.
I want to re-emphasize the huge job-creating potential of this deal.
The tariff cuts in KORUS alone could increase exports of American goods by $10 billion to $11 billion annually, supporting tens of thousands of American jobs.
For example, last year, the United States provided almost one-third of Korea's total agricultural imports, valued at nearly $5 billions. KORUS is expected to boost agricultural exports by as much as $1.8 billion per year. It will do this by immediately eliminating duties on the majority of U.S. farm exports to Korea, and reducing or eliminating other duties over time.
KORUS guarantees U.S. service suppliers the right to compete with Korean counterparts on a level playing field in Korea's $580 billion services market. New rights include the ability to establish joint ventures or offices in Korea, liberalize some work rules and ease investment restrictions.
That's good news for U.S. service providers, including law firms, CPAs and financial institutions, and their workers, who account for 80 percent of U.S. employment.
And speaking of transparency, KORUS addresses corruption in international trade and investment and includes obligations for anti-bribery measures.
Led by Korea and other dynamic economies, the Asia Pacific is the fastest growing region in the world. But we risk losing our market share if we don't move fast to approve KORUS. Without KORUS, American exporters will be at an immediate competitive disadvantage -- American producers would still pay Korean agriculture duties averaging over 50 percent and non-agricultural duties of nearly 7 percent.
The Obama Administration is committed to pursuing an ambitious trade agenda that will help our economy grow, double exports and support good jobs for American workers. The Administration is discussing with Congressional leadership how we can work together to accomplish the President's comprehensive trade agenda this year -- including the Korea, Colombia and Panama trade agreements, Trade Adjustment Assistance for workers, the Generalized System of Preferences (GSP) and Andean Trade preference program, and permanent normal trade relations as Russia joins the WTO.
The commercial benefits of the Colombia and Panama agreements will be in our favor. Most exports from Colombia and Panama are eligible for duty-free treatment under our trade preference programs. Simply put, that means our exporters are the only ones paying tariffs. U.S. exporters have paid an estimated $3.2 billion in tariffs to Colombia since the agreement was signed in 2006 -- that's money Americans could have saved if this agreement had been approved.
We are on the brink of bringing home more job opportunities that can help working families in every corner of the country.
KORUS is more than about trade -- this agreement links our countries together to an unprecedented extent, strengthening a vital partnership in the Asia Pacific. Jobs will be created and lives improved by removing the barriers to a closer economic relationship between our two countries.
Stay connected with Assistant Secretary Fernandez on Facebook and Twitter.Related Content:U.S. Ambassador to South Korea Kathleen Stephens remarks on the U.S. Korea Free Trade Agreement.


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From The Director's Desk
It has been one month since I joined the team at New Canaan Library. It has been a wonderful first month and I've been astounded by the warmth of the welcome I have received. I've met so many delightful people from the New Canaan community and look forward to meeting many more in the months ahead.
I am currently focused on getting to know all the people who work in the library and learning about the services we provide to our community. There is a lot on offer: from the e-books, downloadable audio books and e-magazines available via our online space; to the regular line-up of guest speakers, programs for children; excellent electronic and print offerings; as well as Wi-Fi capacity for over 1000 visitors at a time, and a facility for members of the library to convert their old VHS tapes to DVD. We have a wide range of adaptive technologies for members with visual or auditory impairments and a range of devices available to be borrowed for those members who want to try out an e-reader.
The team at the library offer a range of technology tuition opportunities for members of the community and a full-service information desk where library users can get help with all manner of information requests.
Last week, our teen librarian hosted a digital scavenger hunt that was very well received by the crowd, while one of our children's librarians organized a Skype session with the author of a book that the children had read in their library book group. In the adult area the reference team organized "blind date with a book" wherein they covered carefully selected books in brown paper and provided a few choice clues about the contents – providing a fun way for library members to pick up a great read to take away on summer vacation.
There is a lot going on here in the heart of the New Canaan community. Stop by and enjoy.


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The need for spiritual growth is apparent in the life of every believer. We must be transformed, refined, and sharpened if we're going to break our old, wicked patterns and grow in grace and godliness. The pursuit of holiness is a lifelong battle against the world, the flesh, and the devil, in pursuit of Christlikeness.
However, the means of that spiritual growth is the subject of much debate. Is Scripture alone enough for my spiritual growth? What's the Holy Spirit's role in my sanctification? And are there activities and disciplines that will stimulate and advance that growth?
During a recent recording session, we asked John MacArthur about the biblical model for sanctification and the rising popularity of intuitive and mystical methods of spiritual formation. Here's what he had to say.
Scripture is the source of all sanctifying truth. It's the vehicle through which the Holy Spirit does His refining, sharpening work to make us more like Christ.
Tomorrow, we'll look at the steps in that process.
In the meantime, what's wrong with taking a more mystical, subjective approach to spiritual growth? How does that contrast with the biblical approach John described in the video?
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What about a pastor of an evangelical Bible church serving as a "spiritual director" of the Methodist run "Walk to Emmaus"? Should I be trusting him to pastor me in the truths of God if he engages in the weekend spiritual formation retreats? His sermons say the right things, but I wonder why the Scriptures are not sufficient for spiritual growth--what does he get or give at a WTE retreat that faithful preaching of the Word cannot supply?
What about the church obsessed with Beth Moore studies as the trusted source for women to learn how to apply the Bible to their lives? The fawning over her is idolatrous and they will tolerate no criticism of her interpretation of Scripture.
All of the churches in my small city are full of this stuff and I struggle with the command to be a part of the local church but none of the 13 churches that we have visited/been a part of, have a solid commitment to the sufficiency of the Word of God. All of them are immersed in the Beth Moore and WTE stuff.
If it weren't for the decades of the GTY ministry, my husband and I would be totally confused and chasing rainbows and looking for harbingers.
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Thank You for that explanation! It makes so much sense to me, and I can't understand why people in the academic circles find it so necessary to teach all these 'mystical' approaches to our sanctification. These mystical approaches are 'self' empowered, they detract from truth, and make us the center of what can change our sinfulness, not allowing the the Word and Spirit to do the work God intends in our sanctification. The lighting of candles, the emptying of our minds and 'centering' of our inner energies, cannot bring us into the presence of God as is being taught by so many of these different ideas. I find that repenting of sins, coming to God in reverance, thankfulness, and seeking to be holy like our Lord Jesus Christ, asking for the Spirit to penetrate every part of my being (expose any unconfessed sin, and continually convict me of change that is necessary to grow closer) allow me to understand the truth of Scripture, by the power of the Spirit, is the only method I see that is necessary to grow spiritually.
I am so thankful for the teaching of Grace to You, this is where the real "protein rich" teaching for each week comes from! I thank you also Pastor MacArthur for your dedication to bringing Truth to so many for so many years, God bless you and this ministry.
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Amen Gregory! Well said. This stuff is deception at it's finest. The Word of God is the source for ALL santification.
Thank you... our Bible Church is moving towards this Spiritual Formation with Willard's book and "Lectio Divina". The men's discipleship groups are to be reading "The Good and Beautiful God". Smith, the author was influenced and discipled by Willard, Foster, Manning and Nouwen. I am very"grieved" over the move in this direction. The elders (10 or so) have agreed to this move. They are going to use a company to "help" them in this...check out the site and share what you think. I have been praying and trusting the Lord as I seek to speak to the teaching pastor next. We went to the same seminary. His pulpit messages are right on but this plan for the church is going to bleed through in his messages. Pray for me if you would. Here is the sight: http://www.ecswisdom.org/ Check it out and give observations if you would. Thank you John for remaining faithful to God and His Word.
I second Stephanie with her suggestion to visit www.whateverispure.org. Tim Davis and his wife have done a stellar job of comparing these false doctrines with Scripture. Every pastor should be reading this comparrison as this is creeping into Churches at a rapid rate. It is very subtle and seductive.
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CHICAGO -- The Indians' luck ran out.
The club knew an '05 season that saw all five of the team's starters make at least 30 starts and the need for a spot starter arise on only four occasions was an aberration.
What the Tribe didn't know was how quickly their rotation would experience a medical setback this year.
Alas, it took all of 2 1/3 innings of the '06 season for C.C. Sabathia to be injured. The Indians had to put the ace left-hander on the 15-day disabled list Tuesday with a strained oblique muscle on his right side.
The Tribe, which called up right-handed reliever Jason Davis from Triple-A Buffalo to replace Sabathia on the active roster, is estimating Sabathia will be out three to five weeks.
"It's clearly disappointing," general manager Mark Shapiro said of the injury. "But it's also part of the game. Every team needs to prepare to handle injuries, both mentally and logistically. Part of the ability to be a championship team is how you deal with setbacks during a 162-game season."
Sabathia and the Indians have dealt with this injury before.
Last year, Sabathia suffered a very similar strain in the early days of Spring Training. He went on to miss the first two weeks of the regular season.
But if Sabathia's inexact evaluation is any indication, this injury isn't as severe.
"It actually feels good today," Sabathia said. "I've had zero pain. Last year, I had pain for a week or so. I'm coughing fine and I've sneezed a couple times, and I haven't had any pain."
Sabathia underwent an MRI exam Monday and was thoroughly evaluated before the decision to put him on the DL was made. The Indians won't need a fifth starter until April 15 in Detroit, and it's likely right-hander Fausto Carmona, who impressed in Spring Training, would get the nod that day.
In the meantime, the club has bumped right-hander Jason Johnson, who was scheduled to pitch for Class A Kinston in an exhibition against Buffalo on Tuesday, up a day in the rotation. He'll pitch Saturday against the Twins. Jake Westbrook will follow Sunday.
Sabathia isn't expected to do much of anything, throwing-wise, the next couple days.
Because of his size -- 6-foot-7, 290 pounds -- Sabathia's conditioning is often called into question. But head athletic trainer Lonnie Soloff insisted weight is not an issue with this injury. Both he and Shapiro pointed to decisively thinner players, such as Tim Hudson and, quite recently, Nomar Garciaparra, who have experienced a similar setback.


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I sure dont know if the extra mix time helped to strengthen the Buddys clone dough, but it sure seemed to. These are only the two pies made the first thing this morning, but the Buddys clone doughs were tempered at about 104 degrees F in the Hatco Unit for about an hour. The dough didnt seem to rise as much as before in the hours time, but I decided to proceed. What I found was interesting in my opinion. The dough didnt have the fermentation bubbles like before when tempered, but when the Buddys clone pizzas were baked it rose to the same height and was light and tender in the crumb. I guess what I mean to say is that the tempered dough did seem stronger. There also was no sagging under the sauce today, no matter how many ingredients I added to a Buddys clone pizzas. I really cant understand what was going on with that and it kind of has me stumped in that the dough didnt seem to rise as much while tempering, but the crust rose the same during the bake and the crumb remained tender and almost melted in your mouth. All the doughs acted the same way today when tempering and also the pizzas were the same in the crumb. I thought it was strange when everything acted the same today from morning until evening. I sure have no idea if the extra strength in the Buddys dough did have something to do with that or not.
Norma,It is always a challenge to explain specific outcomes but the decision to knead the dough more than usual reminded me of the comments I made in the first paragraph of Reply 1111 at http://www.pizzamaking.com/forum/index.php/topic,21559.msg231134.html#msg231134. In light of those comments, it would be interesting to see how a dough made like the last one would perform without salt. If that dough yields a finished crust without sagging or excessive hills and valleys, it would once again resurrect the notion that Buddy's may be using little or no salt in its dough. It would also give greater credence to the desirability of achieving a strong gluten matrix.Peter
Norma,It sounds like you have a hit on your hands with the Buddy's clone pizzas. That is good.It is up to you on where to go with the salt matter especially since you have gotten good results using salt in the most recent doughs. It is just in my nature to want to know how things work and how changes affect the results. Peter
Oh My God!!! That looks fantastic!!!
I was looking on Google to see if I could find out about a carry out Buddys pizza business at 12th and hayes, because Buddys Pizza had asked on facebook what are your favorite memories of Buddys Pizza. The one poster said she really liked the carry out Buddys pizza at 12th and hayes, but that Buddys carry out isnt there anymore. I then found this thread about Best Pizzas in Detroit. http://www.detroityes.com/mb/showthread.php?10241-Best-Pizza-in-Detroit p69rrh51 the one poster on the thread said this. As for Buddy's I have been going to the original location probably before you were born and have watch the deterioration of the product fall to the point that I cannot even think about consuming it anymore! It also interesting that they had to lie on their radio ads to the point that they had to change the wording!. I wonder what that poster meant by they had to change the wording on their radio ads. There are also other posters on the 5 page thread that commented that Buddys isnt what it used to be and other posters do like Buddys pizza.Norma
Norma, what bake temp/time are you using now?
Norma,I think you would agree with me that when you have older folks(like us ) who have enjoyed a particular pizzeria over a long period of time....the pizza is never going to be "like it was". Just the changes in the way ingredients are produced over the years is going to make that happen. I think maybe that one guy was disgruntled about Buddy's for some other reason. I don't know how Buddy's pizza was back in the day but when looking at all the photo's of "today's" Buddy's I don't see that they have turned it into something unfit for consumption.I know you feel the same. Oh well.... Bob


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Shepherd's Pie 2
- Extra-virgin olive oil, as needed
- 2 pounds boneless lamb shoulder or leg, cut into 1/2-inch dice
- Kosher salt
- 1/2 cup all-purpose flour
- 3 carrots, peeled and cut into 1/4-inch dice
- 3 ribs celery, cut into 1/4-inch dice
- 2 large leeks, white part only, cut into 1/2-inch dice
- 2 cloves garlic, smashed and finely chopped
- 1/4 cup tomato paste
- 1 cup stout beer, such as Guinness
- 3 to 4 cups chicken stock
- 2 bay leaves
- 1 bundle fresh thyme
- 2 pounds Yukon gold potatoes, cut into 1-inch dice
- 3/4 to 1 cup heavy cream
- 2 to 3 tablespoons cold butter
- 1 cup frozen peas
DirectionsWatch how to make this recipe.
Coat a wide pan with olive oil and bring to a medium-high heat. Sprinkle the lamb with salt and toss with the flour. Add the lamb to the pan and brown well on all sides. Remove the lamb from the pan and reserve. Ditch the oil in the pan and add a splash new olive oil.
Add the carrots, celery and leeks to the same pan. Season the mixture with salt and cook, stirring frequently until the vegetables are soft and very aromatic, 8 to 10 minutes. Add the garlic and cook 2 to 3 minutes more. Add the tomato paste and cook until the tomato paste starts to brown, 2 to 3 minutes.
Add the beer and cook until it reduces by half. Return the lamb to the pan. Add enough stock to just cover the surface of the lamb. Taste and season with salt if needed. Toss in the bay leaves and thyme bundle. Bring the stock to a boil and reduce to a simmer. Partially cover and simmer until the lamb is tender, about 1 hour. When the stock level reduces, replace with more to keep the meat submerged.
Place the potatoes in a medium saucepan and cover by 1 inch with tap water. Season the water with salt and bring the water to a boil. Boil the potatoes until they are fork tender, about 15 minutes. Drain the water from the potatoes and pass them while they are still hot through a food mill. In a small saucepan over medium-high heat, bring the cream to a boil. Beat the cold butter and hot cream into the pureed potatoes. Taste and season with salt if needed. The potatoes should be creamy and very flavorful.
Remove the lid from the lamb and add the peas. Simmer for 15 minutes more to allow the stock level to reduce. Taste and adjust the seasoning if needed. When done, the lamb mixture should be thick and stew-like. Remove the bay leaves and thyme bundle and discard.
Preheat the broiler.
Transfer the lamb to a wide, flat baking dish. Spread the mashed potatoes over the lamb mixture in an even layer. Place the baking dish under the preheated broiler. Broil until the potatoes are golden brown and crispy.
Recipe courtesy of Anne Burrell
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Skip to comments.Petraeus forced to quit after FBI investigation found he was cheating on his loyal wife
Posted on 11/09/2012 9:12:17 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
'Affair': Paula Broadwell and David Petraeus, pictured, reportedly had an affair that led to his resignation
CIA Director David Petraeus dramatically resigned today after allegedly having an affair with his biographer, it has been claimed. The alleged affair was uncovered after the FBI launched an investigation into the biographer, Paula Broadwell, for allegedly hacking into the former general's email, NBC News and Slate reported. Broadwell, who researched the book 'All In' for three years, had extensive access to Petraeus in Afghanistan. Yet sources told NBC it is unlikely she will face criminal charges after the alleged hacking, stressing that Petraeus himself is under no investigation. Petraeus stepped down today after confessing to cheating on his wife of 37 years, Holly - behaviour he explained was 'unacceptable' for a senior administration official.
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Don't care. Has nothing to do with Bambi's culpability.
Wonder what the FBI found on John Roberts?
She got himbedded in Afghanistan.
Obama sic'd the feds on um.
Forced to quit by The Usurper so he would not have to testify against The Usurper.
He's an ass !
What was David Petraeus thinking? What a moron.
Who's the *next* director?
Who is she?
He wasn't thinking, that's the problem.
You can look it up.
Maybe we should run a poll in Al Jazeera. Maybe the Turkish Foreign Minister would be an option.
She's got a ring on her wedding ring finger.
If nobody's facing criminal charges, what the hell is the FBI investigating?
This story is a total smokescreen. Like Helen Thomas in a Hillary Clinton mask, there's uglier stuff under this ugliness.
I'm guessing she also had a hand in his surge in Iraq.
Wasn't Betrayus' wife working for Fauxcahontas? How is that loyal in any way?
His biographer.
Per her Linkedin Profile a 1991 grad of the USMA (West Point), and a MAJ promotable to LTC, in the Army Reserves.
Of course she probably hasn't had time to update her Linkedin Profile, because I serious doubt that her gold oak leaf is ever going to take on a slivery hue.
Draw your own conclusion.
In the Medieval penitential manuals "double adultery" was the worse of all sexual sins.
"Single adultery" was next.
Just read that his wife was the daughter of the superintendent of West Point. Those (Admiral Fallon among others) who called him a shameless self-promoter appear to have been right. Let's see if he's capable of shame now.
Good riddance.
Paula Broadwell's Twitter page: https://twitter.com/paulabroadwell
Sounds like both are dumb as 'rats.
She's married to a radiologist and lives in Charlotte. They have two kids. Hopefully, Dr. Broadwell will forgive her for the sake of the kids.
I have to admit she's attractive. I am single so it doesn't matter.
Amazing! You can hack the e-mail account of a four star general who is in charge of an entire active theater of war and they won't do anything to you.
Just try and get into the Hawaii Dept. of Records though. They'll have FAST teams on you in ten minutes.
Repeating my question from another thread, I wonder if Petraeus ever convened a court martial for adultery committed by a subordinate...
Mulah Omar
Thanks. I wanted to know when she graduated. I wonder how old her children are, too. And when did she leave the military.
That's beyond my paygrade. ;-)
This seems suspicious, I think there's more than what they're telling us. A democrat having an affair isn't exactly a scandal. What are they actually covering up?
We will see if Petraeus is an American patriot. We'll see if he was forced out to avoid his testimony. If he loves this country he will tell all to the American people and no subpenas or testimony before congress will be needed. If he doesn't talk and others do his legacy could be as traitor rather than hero. Too many people were involved, too many know the truth. It will come out.
The timing of this tells us all we need to know. It's clean-up time after the cover-up.
She entered West Point in 1991...but would have graduated in 1995. Paula Krantz.
I agree. It does not matter. But not because of your reasoning.
Why wouldn't he testify before Congress after being subpoena'd?
Broadwell is a graduate of the Sandra Fluke slut academy.
I didn't book mark the page, but I recall it say she graduated in 91, and had 21 years in. If she did the minimum time on active duty, and then went to the reserves, would she be up for Lieutenant Colonel with 17 years in?
Gay? Freemason... and he has to keep his oaths to the brotherhood—one world order groupies? They have something BIG on him...they control him.
Maybe Petraeus was hired because a lot of Republicans and Centrists liked him, now that the election is over, his services are no longer needed, he served his purpose.
I forget where I read it, but MacArthur and George Marshall rarely were seen in public in full uniform. Yet, Petraeus is always strutting around like that to awe us.
But, even if he's always been a jerk, that doesn't mean that the timing doesn't stink to high-heaven.
And that is exactly what Obama wants. He wants this story to be about
An affair and Broadwell, not Bengazi. And I am sure the MSM will cover
The affair, not Bengazi.
For that matter, why would Obama ask the FBI to "investigate" Benghazi?
Isn't the FBI a strictly domestic organization?
And BTW, didn't Nixon get in trouble for trying to pit the CIA vs. the FBI to cover up his crimes?
Forgive my ignorance, but Watergate was when I was a child.
Looks to me like Petraeus had already been compromised and rolled. Security clearances are real inconvenient for our rulers. Here's why we used to take them seriously.
The general was"asked"to fall on his sword to further the cobver-up.This situation is NOT going to get any better for the Administration
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Star Chefs Teach at New York Culinary Experience
Enticing a group of Westerners to chow down on duck liver and heart might be a tall order, but for Pok Pok chef Andy Ricker, it's all in a day's work. At the sixth annual New York Culinary Experience held at the International Culinary Center in SoHo this past weekend, the James Beard award-winning chef taught participants how to make Isaan minced duck salad along with other northern Thai dishes.
"This is not fine dining," Ricker told the class, as he shared anecdotes from his travels throughout Southeast Asia, a region he has visited regularly since 1987. The chef took a studious approach to his class, with detailed explanations on herbs and the different regions of Thailand. He sprinkled Thai and Vietnamese words and phrases throughout.
"If you want to learn the flavor, you have to travel," he said. For those who can only travel for two weeks, he told Speakeasy, don't try to see a whole country and taste everything. "There's no way to get it in one shot," he said. "There's no way to get it in two shots. It's going to take a long time."
The language barrier can also inhibit your discovery in a foreign country. "You're going to end up at a place that only has English language," he said. "Most likely you're going to start seeing a whole bunch of stuff you're not familiar with, and then the stuff you are familiar with. And you'll start ordering that, and you'll think, 'I'm having this Isaan [the northeastern region of Thailand] experience.' But what you're eating is essentially the same thing you're eating here."
To bring some of that Thai flavor to the New York, Ricker introduced exotic ingredients to the class: the ginger-like galangal, a sawtooth herb and toasted sticky rice powder. For tom saep muu (spicy pork soup), balancing the flavors of salty, sour and sweet took some practice for students, and in many cases, the chef made quick adjustments—adding a bit of lime juice here or a dash of fish sauce there.
As for why Ricker tends to focus on Thai cuisine in particular, he says the food isn't the only draw—there's also the culture, climate and way of life. Ricker allows that the particular timing and nature of his first trip to Thailand may have heightened his experience. "I might be into Malaysian food instead," he said. "But Thailand is what captured me."
Elsewhere at the event, chef Ed McFarland of Ed's Lobster Bar gave an intensive one-hour demonstration on preparing clam chowder, lobster meatballs and cocktail sauce. Blueberry gimlets and lobster rolls brought in fresh from his restaurant were passed around as students took notes.
At each workstation, participants divided up some of the tasks, like soaking day-old bread in water and straining it for the meatballs, or opening clams and chopping bacon for the chowder.
McFarland also cooked two live lobsters. "Put them in upside down," he said. "Once the lobster floats, it is cooked."
In a Sunday morning session, the exuberant Michel Richard taught his class how to work with puff pastry dough, making a mushroom feuillete and an apple-pear-blueberry tart.
The chef peppered his session with jokes as he effortlessly rolled the dough into rectangles, only to fold it and roll it out again. When one woman said her husband couldn't really eat things with cream, Richard quipped, "Change your husband."
Robert McCullough, who publishes food books for Random House in Canada, stood out as one of only two men in the class. This was his first time at the event, which he attended with Caren McSherry, owner of the Gourmet Warehouse, a cooking mecca in Vancouver.
"We have friends that have come for the last five years," said McCullough, "and they talk about it all the time, so we're just thrilled to be able to come out." A spokeswoman for the event said that about 75% of the estimated 175 attendees were either return guests, or somehow connected to one. Participants paid $1,495 for the weekend.
Although McSherry had worked with puff pastry before, she said, "There are always take-aways."
That sense of culinary dedication was also evident in their instructor, chef Richard, who started cooking at the age of 7, and went on to become an apprentice at 14. "You should love it, and do a good job," he said. "Love, love, love. Just like I'm doing now after 50 years. I still love it."
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Wellek, René
René Wellek 1903–
Austrian-born American critic and essayist.
Wellek's reputation as an important critic is based largely on the theories propounded in his two most significant works: Theory of Literature, with Austin Warren (1949) and A History of Modern Criticism (1955, 1966). At the center of Wellek's theories lies a differentiation between an "intrinsic" and an "extrinsic" approach to critical analysis. Wellek maintains the necessity of viewing a work of art as an entity in and of itself rather than as the result of properties extrinsic to the work, such as the social or cultural environment in which it is created. Wellek examines qualities intrinsic to the work, relying on qualitative judgments which are based on what he calls "an internal history of the art and tradition of literature," which in turn assumes an intrinsic structure of value or "literariness" of the text. These critical viewpoints, expounded most notably in Theory of Literature, have evoked heated controversy among Wellek's contemporaries, many of whom believe that a work of literature cannot be studied without examining the sociopolitical conditions under which it was written.
A History of Modern Criticism, an ambitious, four-volume set, traces the history of literary theory from the mid-eighteenth century through the middle of the twentieth century. In this work Wellek displays his erudition by recounting and evaluating the views of numerous international critics.
(See also Contemporary Authors, Vols. 5-8, rev. ed. and Contemporary Authors New Revision Series, Vol. 8.)
W. K. Wimsatt, Jr.
["Theory of Literature"] discusses aims and methods in the expansive field of literary study. It observes and assesses both "extrinsic" and "intrinsic" avenues of approach to literature, the ways of getting at a poem, novel, or play for its own sake or for something else.
The peculiar success of the book lies in a harmony of powers often mutually restrictive: clear theoretical vision and diverse learning. There is a sense in which "Theory of Literature" may be said to recapitulate an era of revolutionary scholarship and criticism, but it is a sense which may easily be overstressed, for if properly used the book should be less a chronicle than a charter. The authors make the justifiable claim that it "lacks any close parallel." Certainly none in English comes to mind. (p. 180)Obviously [Wellek and Warren's] book transcends the immediate needs of that perhaps mythical person, the "ordinary reader" of serious literature. The authors address themselves to theory of literature as a form of knowledge the worth of which is not to be reckoned by its simplicity or its easy applications. The no doubt difficult inquiries of literary philosophy, the whole undertaking asserts, are desirable and admirable in themselves. The ultimate bearing of these inquiries on the ordinary reader—or at least their ideal and possible bearing—will scarcely be questioned by anybody who believes that reading is an intellectual activity rather than an aid to daydreaming.
Wellek and Warren are able to see literature from any number of angles and yet realize that if the term "literature" has any meaning,...
(The entire section is 664 words.)
Eliseo Vivas
[Theory of Literature contains a discussion of the quarrel between scholarship and criticism which] leaves nothing to be desired; it makes clear the way in which each is relatively autonomous and yet dependent on the other. On the conflict between the "extrinsic" and the "intrinsic" interests in literature it throws a good deal of light. The upshot cannot be an irrefragable solution of these problems, for each of them would require a book to explore with adequacy; but it is a well balanced statement of the points at issue. If the book had no other virtues its authors could justly claim to have made an important contribution. But it does more: the book is equipped with a very extensive bibliography which represents the catholic erudition of the writers. And above all, the learning displayed is controlled by a discriminating taste.
Given these virtues, why does the book fail to sustain upon study the excellent impression that it makes on first reading? The reason is, I suggest, that the authors do not really have a fully worked out and consistent aesthetic of their own. Just as the critic needs a consistent "theory of literature" if his work is to stand up under scrutiny, so do the proponents of a "theory of literature" need a controlling aesthetic. It does not seem unfair to ask that theorists be theoretical. I do not mean that they ought to have made their aesthetic explicit any more than the critic or scholar needs to make his theory of literature explicit every time that he practices his art. It could have functioned as a set of deeply implicit, perhaps even instinctive presuppositions, controlling their speculation unconsciously. All I mean is that somehow they ought to have avoided mutually incompatible assumptions and ought to have based their speculations on defensible and coherent foundations. Unfortunately limitations of space do not allow me to do more than present a rough sketch of a few of the important points at which the absence of a coherent aesthetic betrays them.
The authors' conceptions of the nature and function of literature seem to me intrinsically bewildering although I am in sympathy with the purpose that controls them and with the conclusions that they reach. The nature of literature—or "poetry" in its widest sense—is defined in terms of the poetic use of language, as distinguished from the scientific and the every-day use. And the function or use of poetry is defined in terms of its nature. This would cause no genuine difficulty if the authors had shown that poetic language involves the employment of certain devices or elements which are not found either in ordinary or in scientific language. In Chapter II, entitled "The Nature of Literature," expression, exploitation of medium, lack of practical purpose and fictionality are said to mark the distinction between poetry and non-poetry. Part IV, entitled "The Intrinsic Study of Literature" studies euphony, rhythm and meter in one chapter, image, metaphor, symbol and myth in another, and the genres of literature in a third. Now I do not doubt that these analyses constitute valuable efforts to approach the nature of poetry. But it is not sufficient to point out that we find these elements or devices in poetry. Since they are to some extent also found in practical language, in rhetoric and in the inexact sciences, it is necessary to show also that they function in poetry in a unique way, or the distinction breaks down…. What is needed in addition to what we are given is a study of the way in which the elements discriminated interpenetrate to endow the object with the organic integration and the artistic intensity that, according to the authors, give the poem its intrinsic poetic value.
Lack of fundamental coherence also vitiates the important distinction which the authors correctly...
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Mark Schorer
In these first two volumes of his projected four-volume history ["A History of Modern Criticism: 1750–1950"], René Wellek, Professor of Comparative Literature at Yale, has undertaken an enormous project for which every literary student has long felt the need but which no other has had the courage to attempt.
The only work of comparable range on this subject is George Saintsbury's three-volume "History of Criticism and Literary Taste in Europe," and the limitations of that book have, after fifty years, rendered it nearly useless. It is a work that criticism, scholarship and literary education could hardly have done without, but it is no longer so much a history of criticism as it is a part of the history of criticism.
In the fifty years since Saintsbury's work an enormous amount of European and American scholarship has gone into the exploration of the details of this whole large subject. What has been needed is a man with the linguistic skill, intellectual scope, scholarly discipline and independence of mind necessary to bring all this material together, to correct it where he should and use it when he could, and then to frame it all within his method, his interpretation and the "international perspective." Even in an age of great scholars such a man is not commonly come by….
The intellectual challenge is not only to a thorough knowledge of world literature but to that of history, esthetics and...
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David Daiches
The first two volumes of René Wellek's projected four-volume "History of Modern Criticism" carries the story from the later eighteenth century through the Romantic Age. By "modern" Mr. Wellek means criticism which is close enough to us still to have some relevance to our present way (or ways) of looking at literature. (p. 24)
I can think of no one better qualified than Mr. Wellek for the task of writing the history of modern European criticism. In the first place, he knows the languages and the literatures at first hand, and he is at home in the whole European literary scene in a way that few contemporary English or American scholars can claim to be. Whether he quotes from Wackenroder,...
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Sven Eric Molin
Professor René Wellek's A History of Modern Criticism: 1750–1950 … stands fair to become an important history of criticism, replacing its now half-century old predecessor by George Saintsbury which has long been felt to be inadequate on a number of grounds, including its excessive impressionism and its undue neglect of Continental critics. Both of these faults Professor Wellek abundantly corrects by his own practice, which is true to its announced intention of being written from a consistent point of view and which, if it errs, does so, perhaps, in the opposite direction by giving almost total credit for originality to the Continental—particularly German—critics. In addition to Professor Wellek's great...
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Laurence Lerner
Professor Wellek is perhaps the most learned man now writing on literature—he has read, it seems, all European literature (in the original languages) and all the criticism on it—and it is humiliating to read his [Concepts of Criticism]. You may have thought, for instance, that you knew what 'baroque' meant—but you didn't. After you've read his essay 'The Concept of Baroque in Literary Scholarship' you will know about the history of the term (it appears there are two separate etymologies: baroco, a type of syllogism in scholastic logic, as well as the better known suggestion of barroco, an odd-shaped pearl); the sense in which every important critic has used it; and the arguments for and...
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Monroe K. Spears
[For] more than a quarter-century Mr. Wellek has been both teacher and intellectual physician for critics, theorists, and historians of literature. Most Americans who aspire to criticism have learned from him, and many of us feel that literary studies would be in a healthier condition if we had learned more. His role has been unique and indispensable. As critic of critics, he has striven not to propagate any dogma in terms of which other dogmas are to be judged, but rather to remind those who practice criticism that their vision of the truth is partial, their assumptions and methods not forever valid but limited and imperfect. Against all varieties of parochialism, patriotism, and dogmatic complacency, he has...
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Wolfgang Bernard Fleischmann
[Confrontations: Studies in the Intellectual and Literary Relations between Germany, England, and the United States during the Nineteenth Century, a] miscellany from the study of a very great scholar, has all the virtues which collections of a similar nature tend often to lack: a lucid and readable style artfully concealing mountainous learning, consistent evidence of original thought, and, in spite of being a collection of essays and reviews written over a thirty-five year period, real organic unity.
Reading Confrontations means encountering René Wellek as a literary historian at important focal points mid-way between his work in the history of ideas, as exemplified by Immanuel...
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Robie Macauley
Is ["A History of Modern Criticism"] possible? Can even such a brave and erudite man as René Wellek put the vast and heterogeneous writings of modern literary criticism from 1750 to 1950 in an orderly historical form? Certain critics, for instance, belong more to the history of esthetics than anything else; others border on sociology, psychology, politics, or general cultural observation; and—most baffling of all—literary theory seems to coincide seldom with the kind of literature actually being written in its own time.
It is even difficult to find very many critics who will agree on what criticism is or what purpose it is supposed to serve….
Whatever the critics have lacked...
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Ronald Hafter
René Wellek's massive study [A History of Modern Criticism] has already gained wide acceptance as the best survey of its kind to be produced in our century; despite its narrow scope it is far superior to George Saintsbury's erudite but rambling History of Criticism, the only work by a single author with which it might be legitimately compared, in its incisive analysis of the grounds on which literary judgments have been made and in its dispassionate appraisals of individual critics and movements. But if it is an essential text for the student of literature it is no less so for one interested in the history of ideas, for Wellek discusses criticism within the wider context of the movement of ideas and...
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Roger Sale
In the last fifteen years, René Wellek has become established as the premier historian of modern literary criticism. Before this, though he always spoke mildly and judiciously, Wellek seemed to have an eager eye out for enemies of his favorite ideas: that criticism needs a coherent philosophical base from which to work, that impressionistic criticism and historical relativism are dangerous, and that extrinsic material is usually irrelevant in the understanding of a given work. But since he began work on his massive A History of Modern Criticism, the third and fourth volumes of which are now at hand, Wellek has slowly become convinced that he is really unopposed, and so he has ascended to a height from which he...
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Denis Donoghue
The new volumes [of A History of Modern Criticism 1750–1950, Vol. III: The Age of Transition and Vol. IV: The Later Nineteenth Century] are even wider in scope than the old, annexing America and Russia as countries of the critical mind. There is the same evidence of erudition, intelligence, concern. There is also evidence of great structural power. The new volumes are organised according to nationality; criticism in France, Italy, England, America, Germany, Russia, and Denmark (Georg Brandes the Great Dane). (p. 80)
Mr. Wellek is the most patient of scholars, but he is often irritated, it seems, by the fumbling critics, their gaucherie, playing games without learning the rules....
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J. D. O'Hara
"There is no exercise of the intellect which is not, in the final analysis, useless." The stoic, melancholy tone is that of Jorge Luis Borges, of course….
We live in a terminal ward; the air our minds breathe is sighed out by dying ideas. Ecology demands that they be sanitarily interred; piety prays that we revere them. In the history of ideas, especially literary ideas, no embalmer is more industrious than René Wellek. Discriminations is the latest in his collection of amber-tinted antiques: It includes essays on the terms comparative literature, classicism, and symbolism, and surveys of Kant's aesthetics, of English literary historiography, of genre theory, and of Dostoevsky...
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Emerson R. Marks
Wellek's book [Discriminations] is admirably named. Here again, as so often before, his astonishing erudition is put to the service of discrimination, of elucidating terms and ideas and making needed distinctions, not as a lexicographical exercise but to the end of sounder literary history and theory than we have generally had. Given such an aim, much of Wellek's reasoning is necessarily in refutation of other theorists, whose views he is at pains to expose as partial or extreme, views usually involving one or another misconception of the literary work. Among such are the attempts of some comparatists to divorce history and criticism, or to set barriers between the study of past and contemporary literature. (p....
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Martin Bucco
[While] René Wellek called for intense critical exploration of the text, he never abandoned the historical method embodied in his Kant in England and The Rise of English Literary History. His synthesis of theory, criticism, and history reflects a passionate dedication to literary studies as a humane discipline, its standards derived not from "personal" taste or "impersonal science," but from the norms of history. For Wellek, the literary work is no simple verbal construct and no mere reflection of society: it is a phenomenological aesthetic object. Thus criticism means concern for values and qualities. Understanding—adequate analysis, interpretation, and evaluation—requires theory. Adequate theory...
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A. R. Louch
Literature, you might think, is to be enjoyed, and criticism concerned with the quality and criteria of that enjoyment. Wellek's critics will have none of that. Their perspective is totally different. For them books, pictures, compositions, like the phenomena of biological speciation or the refraction of light, are objects to subsume under theory. It is not surprising that a critic with such a motive will sooner or later attack literature. After all, the exciting business is theorizing, mere imaginative writing is only the matter on which critics build. Does one remember a particular light beam, or does one celebrate Planck, Einstein, Rutherford? So, who should remember poets and novelists? But alas, critics discover...
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Kathleen Burke
Wellek is the kind of critic and theorist to whom one listens closely, even when not always agreeing; usually there is little to disagree about, because Wellek is the paramount example of a critic who's intent upon explaining simply and disinterestedly others' criticism. He takes his own positions, but only after a fair account of the subject. My particular fondness for Wellek lies in his introducing me to the Russian Formalists in his Concepts of Criticism. Not only did he discuss the Formalists, and not only did he record their views accurately, but he also agreed with much of what they said. Only a handful of critics can be found about whom the same might be said. Wellek saw the Formalists' thought as still...
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Skip to comments.Bye Bye GOP-E been NOT NICE "knowing" you.
Posted on 04/25/2012 8:06:02 AM PDT by US Navy Vet
I am "Divorcing" the GOP-E and "Republican Party" effective TODAY!
See ya at the Polls.........I'm not voting for Romney either, I'm voting against Obama.
me too, dropping the R
I will be voting for Romney. At least he understands how to run a business. Obama only understands how to run his mouth.
Thanks for your service, Navy Vet. I hope you come around, hold your nose (like me) and vote for Romney. He ain't perfect, but neither was W....and W gave us Alito and Roberts...
Yep, thanks
Same here.
He only got to where he is because of Daddy's money.
The GOP is too stupid to realize the Lib's are playing for Keeps and we aren't bluffing in pulling our support from their incompetent party.
Gawd! How long until Temper Tantrum Season is over, already?
He is EVERYTHING Obama is (ineligible, proTARP, ineligible,
proRomneyCARE) and a backstabbing shapeshifting coward
eager to be a panderer.
Worse, Milt has shown he cares NOTHING about
Constitutions or honesty. Nice job, GOPe. /s
What if large numbers of R registered voters start re-registering as independents in the coming month or two.
Will the registrar stats be public knowledge and could they impact the thought process at the convention in late August?
We can hope or make this a reality.
I am waiting for the actual convention. If the GOP does nominate Bishop Willard, then I am done with them at long last. In 32 years, I have voted FOR exactly three Republicans. President Ronald Reagan, Governor Mike Foster, and Governor Sarah Palin. All other votes were against the democrats. Too little for too long.
But I will wait for the convention.
I hear ya. But I'm going to re-register as a Conservative.
Agree with that.
That stated, the businesses he ran were highly successful. Daddy's money doesn't help with simple business mathematics.
Look at it this way...it's not a vote for Romney, but a vote against Obama.
Romney on a scale of 1-1 (10 being conservative, 1 being Lenin) is about a 4 or a 5....Obama is a 0....
Vote for Romney, work to get conservatives in the house and senate. It's the best case scenario this year.
Did that over a week ago. I'm now a "no affiliation."
I'm right behind you. I'm tired of this 'Duo-Opoly'.
Nazi black vs Nazi white
Give me a break !!
I'll vote for Romney/McCain again under diress.
But I'd vote for Linday Lohan or Spongebob Squarepants if he were on the ticket running against Obama.
Good riddance. With your inane all about me vanities you'd be more at home in the democrat party.
So YOU like Romney because he is a partner with Soros
in JET Blue.
And that he screwed company after company through
Yup. That should work this year. /s
Well, fine. If you don't vote against Obama, you're voting for his next two or three Supreme Court picks.
Good for you! I told the GOP to pound sand ages ago. It's good to see others do the same.
As if Mitt's picks will be any better.
The Paulbots taking over the state Republican party got you that bugged eh?
I'm very close to being with you.
We had to go through one civl war and we may have to go through another. The GOP are the new Whigs.
Limbaugh is complaining that Obama wants to take us back to the 1930s. Is that why the GOP picked the candidate from 1944 and 1948? How about Alf Landon or Wendell Wilkie?
Gawd! How long until Temper Tantrum Season is over, already ?
Well, you can forsake your principles and vote for Romney and every other liberal/socialist candidate foisted upon you by the party.
I won't. I am not sheep.
Only drawback: you'll now get mailings and robo-calls from Both parties.
It's worth it, somehow.
"As U.S. real output grew 13 percent between 2002 and 2006, Massachusetts trailed at 9 percent.
* Manufacturing employment fell 7 percent nationwide those years, but sank 14 percent under Romney, placing Massachusetts 48th among the states.
* Between fall 2003 and autumn 2006, U.S. job growth averaged 5.4 percent, nearly three times Massachusetts' anemic 1.9 percent pace.
* While 8 million Americans over age 16 found work between 2002 and 2006, the number of employed Massachusetts residents actually declined by 8,500 during those years.
"Massachusetts was the only state to have failed to post any gain in its pool of employed residents," professors Sum and McLaughlin concluded.
In an April 2003 meeting with the Massachusetts congressional delegation in Washington, Romney failed to endorse President Bush's $726 billion tax-cut proposal."
[Cato Institute annual Fiscal Policy Report Card - America's Governors, 2004.]
The Massachusetts Republican Party died last Tuesday.
The cause of death: failed leadership.
The party is survived by a few leftover legislators
and a handful of county officials and grassroots activists
who have been ignored for years.
Services will be public and a mass exodus of taxpayers will follow.
In lieu of flowers, send messages to Republican voters
warning them about a certain presidential candidate named Romney.
- Boston Herald, 11/12/2006
"In 2006, while Romney was chairman of the National Republican
Governors Association - a group dedicated to electing more
Republican governors - his own hand-picked Republican successor
as governor lost badly to the Democrat, despite the fact that Republicans
have held the governorship in Massachusetts since 1990. Romney largely
ignored the Massachusetts elections and spent most of the time
during the campaign out of state building his presidential campaign.
He came back and publicly campaigned for the Republican candidate
the day before the general election!
Locally, this is a rebuke to Mitt Romney and checking out within six months
after being elected and having accomplished almost nothing,
[Jim] Rappaport [former chairman of the state Republican Party]."
- Boston Globe, 11/8/2006
"Governor Mitt Romney, who touts his conservative credentials to out-of-state Republicans,
has passed over GOP lawyers for three-quarters of the 36 judicial vacancies he has faced,
instead tapping registered Democrats or independents -- including two gay lawyers who
have supported expanded same-sex rights, a Globe review of the nominations has found.
Of the 36 people Romney named to be judges or clerk magistrates, 23 are either registered Democrats
or unenrolled voters who have made multiple contributions to Democratic politicians
or who voted in Democratic primaries, state and local records show.
In all, he has nominated nine registered Republicans, 13 unenrolled voters,
and 14 registered Democrats."
- Boston Globe 7/25/2005
Romney Rewards one of the State's Leading Anti-Marriage Attorneys by Making him a Judge
Romney told the U.S. Senate on June 22, 2004, that the "real threat to the States is not the
constitutional amendment process, in which the states participate,
but activist judges who disregard the law and redefine marriage . . ."
Romney sounds tough but yet he had no qualms advancing the legal career of one
of the leading anti-marriage attorneys. He nominated Stephen Abany to a District Court.
Abany has been a key player in the Massachusetts Lesbian and Gay Bar Association which,
in its own words, is "dedicated to ensuring that the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court decision
on marriage equality is upheld, and that any anti-gay amendment or legislation is defeated."
- U.S. Senate testimony by Gov. Mitt Romney, 6/22/2004 P>
"Romney announces he won't fill judicial vacancies before term ends
Despite his rhetoric about judicial activism, Romney announced that
he won't fill all the remaining vacancies during his term - but instead
leave them for his liberal Democrat successor!
Governor Mitt Romney pledged yesterday not to make a flurry of lame-duck
judicial appointments in the final days of his administration . . . David Yas,
editor of Lawyers Weekly, said Romney is "bucking tradition" by resisting the urge to
fill all remaining judgeships. "It is a tradition for governors to use that power to appoint judges
aggressively in the waning moments of their administration," Yas said.
He added that Romney has been criticized for failing to make judicial appointments.
"The legal community has consistently criticized him for not filling open seats quickly enough
and being a little too painstaking in the process and being dismissive of the input of the
Judicial Nominating Commission," Yas said.
- Boston Globe 11/2/2006
So YOU like Romney because he is a partner with Soros
in JET Blue.
And that he screwed company after company through
Yup. That should work this year. /s
Office Depot is the result of vulture capitalism? That term was coined by Newt Gingrich, you know, the one who sat on a couch with Nancy Pelosi and has never run a business in his life....
With respect to Jet Blue...if you have a 401k and invest in mid cap stocks, chances are you are investing in a company that Soros, Romney, or CALPERS (Californian's unionized state employees) invests in. Businesses don't discriminate when it comes to borrowing money to grow the entity...as it should be....
Maybe we need a new party...and then get a mole to start a leftist new party so that will balnace us out and we can actually win our nation back.
And he grew that money because of his business sense. Why is that a bad thing? My father helped me get into college, should I be ashamed of that?
"Well, fine. If you dont vote against Obama, youre voting for his next two or three Supreme Court picks."
Party Peon math, like "one half of one third" of the government, when the GOP in fact controls one third, and the third which controls spending at that.
I think it's on a Mobius strip. When one has pretend purity, one never tires of whipping it out to make sure all can see
Obama thanks you.
Apparently, you must know of another alternative candidate who has of chance of defeating Obama? Who would that be?
Take a breath, relax.
Listen, you must vote for Mr. Romney. I know, he's not Mr. Reagan, but no one is. But Mitt is one heckuva lot better than the current occupant of The White House.
Keep your chin up. Good things are going to happen!
"How long until Temper Tantrum Season is over, already?"
If I had to guess: until Zombie Reagan declares his candidacy. Until then, the self-righteous Santorumites will keep lecturing the rest of us on "principles" and "sending a message," and the Left will gleefully gobble up their wasted votes.
Thanks for putting your head in your A-S and allowing Obummer another four years in Office.
It's the ONLY scenario, IMHO. 4 more years of the Kenyan will absolutely destroy American, make no mistake.
>>He is EVERYTHING Obama is (ineligible<<
Romney is ineligible? How so?
You know NOTHING about me! SWIVE You!
More GOP-E scare tactics.
Obama thanks you .... any vote that isn't for Mitt (like it or not), is a vote for Obama.
So when he wins; you have forfeited your right to bitch about it. All you have done, is dillute the Conservative base from a RINO to Obama's favor.
I'm sure you feel really good, having a nice temper tantrum; but I suspect your children and grandchildren will be somewhat ashamed at the results.
I hear ya. But Im going to re-register as a Conservative.
Me too. b4. Hannity often mentions that he is registered as a Conservative. I never knew that was possible.
You should fear 4 more years of Obama.
What took you so long?
I dumped the RINO party a couple of years ago.
We also see a parallel of Modern "Free VS Slave" States, of Red VS Blue, the Democrats want Puerto Rico into the Union, another solidly Democratic State and they want the Illegals to vote turning Red States Blue, soon the Republican WON'T be able to beat the Dem's in Electoral Votes, just look at California or North Carolina. We will be taxed with no Say in our own Government, a recipe for Disaster and War.
G_D Help us!
Are you kidding? The OP posts at least 2 "look at me" vanities per day.
Are you sure? If it had not been for his father's business connections and those of the SLC lds, he would have gotten nowhere. It always helps when you are being propped up by a powerful corporation who desperately wants you to be the "golden boy".
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