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- Giorgione
/jawr joh"nee/; It. /jawrdd jaw"ne/, n. (Giorgione de Castelfranco, Giorgio Barbarelli)1478?-1511, Italian painter.
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or Giorgio da Castelfranco orig. Giorgio Barbarelliborn с 1477, Castelfranco Veneto, Republic of Venicedied 1510, VeniceItalian painter active in Venice.Nothing is known of his early life. The technique, colour, and mood of his pictures suggest that he studied with Giovanni Bellini in Venice in the 1490s. His major public commission was the execution of frescoes on the exterior of the German Exchange, now known only through engravings and ruined fragments. Of the few paintings attributed to Giorgione, two were completed by other artists after his death, one by Titian. Though almost every aspect of his work is debated, including the attribution, dating, and interpretation of paintings associated with him, it is clear that he was a pioneer in the technique of oil painting on canvas and a master of creating mood and mystery, as epitomized in The Tempest (с 1505), a milestone in Renaissance landscape painting. He had far-reaching influence on portraiture; many early 16th-century artists imitated his style. See also Venetian school.* * *
▪ Italian painterIntroductionalso called Giorgio da Castelfrancoborn c. 1477/78, Castelfranco Veneto, Republic of Venice [Italy]died before Nov. 7, 1510, Veniceextremely influential Italian painter who was one of the initiators of a High Renaissance style in Venetian (Venetian school) art. His qualities of mood and mystery were epitomized in The Tempest (c. 1505), an evocative pastoral scene, which was among the first of its genre in Venetian painting.LifeNothing is really known about Giorgione's personal life except the legends reported by the biographer and Mannerist artist Giorgio Vasari in the two editions (1550 and 1568) of his Lives. Giorgione's name is given in two surviving documents of 1507 and 1508 as Zorzi da Castelfranco (in Venetian dialect); i.e., Giorgio of Castelfranco. The form Giorgione (or Zorzon), which is customarily used today, first appears in the 1528 inventory of the Grimani Collection. His name means "tall George," or "big George," implying that he was a large man. Tradition holds that he was handsome and amorous. Correspondence dated Oct. 25, 1510, between the celebrated Renaissance patron of the arts Isabella d'Este of Mantua and her agent Taddeo Albano at Venice mentions Giorgione's death as having occurred recently, probably caused by the plague that was raging in Venice at that time. Vasari's biography is the earliest. It emphasizes the artist's humble origin, his elevated mind, and his personal charm, but this characterization undoubtedly was a product of Vasari's imagination, based upon the poetic quality of Giorgione's paintings.That the young painter went to Venice to study about 1490 under Giovanni Bellini (Bellini, Giovanni), the greatest Venetian master of the day, is undeniable. The technique, colour, and mood of Giorgione's pictures are clearly related to Bellini's late style.WorksThe commission of 1507 for a painting or paintings to be placed in the Audience Hall of the Ducal Palace at Venice was perhaps never completed, since no further notice of the work is recorded. Giorgione's principal public commission was the execution of frescoes on the exterior of the Fondaco dei Tedeschi (the German Exchange), where he painted the figures on the facade over the canal. The frescoes over the street were carried out by the young Titian, perhaps under Giorgione's direction. These works, documented in 1508, are lost, except for fragments that contain faint outlines of figures.Aside from the works mentioned in specific documents, the notes on the art collections of Venice (Notizie d'opere del disegno), written between 1520 and 1543 by the Venetian patrician Marcantonio Michiel, contain references to pictures by Giorgione. This information occurs so shortly after the master's death that it is considered generally reliable. Of the 12 paintings and 1 drawing listed, 5 works have survived: The Tempest, The Three Philosophers, Sleeping Venus, Boy with an Arrow, and Shepherd with a Flute.The Tempest is a milestone in Renaissance landscape painting, with its dramatization of a storm about to break. Here is the kind of poetic interpretation of nature that the Renaissance writers Pietro Bembo (Bembo, Pietro) and Jacopo Sannazzaro (Sannazzaro, Jacopo) evoked. This feeling for nature is probably also intimately related to, though not directly derived from, the philosophical "naturalism" of the contemporary Venetian and Paduan humanists grouped around the important Renaissance philosopher Pietro Pomponazzi (Pomponazzi, Pietro). The meaning of the two people seated in the foreground of The Tempest has been the subject of numerous interpretations, none of them definitive. Michiel called them a soldier and a Gypsy. Some literary source of a romantic, Arcadian nature is generally assumed, since no Renaissance artist would include two mysterious figures devoid of meaning. The same kind of literary theme is evoked in the Pastoral Concert (c. 1510), the attribution of which is much debated.The Sleeping Venus (c. 1510) was left unfinished at Giorgione's death. Michiel stated that the task of adding the landscape background fell to Titian. The picture itself validates this statement, for the landscape, with buildings in the right distance, is repeated in other works by Titian. Giorgione's Sleeping Venus inaugurates a long series of paintings of the goddess of love in Venetian art, particularly those of Titian. None, however, achieved so fully the expression of remoteness and unself-conscious beauty as this majestic and ideally conceived figure. Judith (c. 1505), though undocumented, evokes the same concept of universal beauty; she is more goddess than avenger of her people.Few religious paintings are mentioned in the early documentary sources. The panels representing the Trial of Moses and the Judgment of Solomon are generally agreed to number among the artist's first works (c. 1495–1500). Although the figures look slightly archaic, the beauty of the landscape setting, with its soft melting distances, unmistakably reveals the hand of the painter of The Tempest. Most celebrated of his religious pictures is the Castelfranco Altarpiece (c. 1504). The composition of this painting forms an equilateral triangle in conformance with the search for geometric solutions characteristic of the Renaissance mind. Thoroughly in the spirit of the master are the landscape and the dreamy mood of the figures, who seem lost in reverie. The Holy Family (c. 1500) and the Adoration of the Shepherds (shepherds, adoration of the) (1505/1510) are of equally fine quality. The latter is particularly noteworthy for its exquisite use of colour.The Three Philosophers (c. 1510) is one of the works Michiel saw and specifically identified as being by Giorgione. He stated, however, that it was completed by the Venetian painter Sebastiano del Piombo after the master's death. The composition and colour are so fully Giorgione's that Sebastiano could only have added a few finishing touches. In addition, the dreamy melancholy of the three men—who represent youth, maturity, and old age—embodies the spirit of the master. Though the notion of three ages of man is surely implied, little agreement prevails among critics as to whether the three magi, three philosophers, or a literary source in ancient Roman legend is really intended.The Christ Carrying the Cross is widely disputed even today. Nevertheless, Vasari in 1568 specifically stated that the painter was Titian, correcting an error that he had committed in the edition of 1550 in attributing the picture to Giorgione. The canvas, much restored and repainted, possesses no more than archaeological interest. Other questioned paintings that seem to a number of contemporary critics to be the works of Giorgione rather than Titian are The Adulteress Brought Before Christ (c. 1500), the Madonna and Child with SS. Roch and Anthony of Padua (c. 1505), and the Madonna and Child in a Landscape (c. 1504).Influence and significanceIn portraiture Giorgione made a most profound and far-reaching impression. Venetian painters such as Titian, Palma Vecchio, and Lorenzo Lotto so closely imitated him in the early 16th century that it is at times virtually impossible to distinguish between them. Nevertheless, the portrait of a Youth (c. 1504) is universally considered to be by Giorgione. The indescribably subtle expression of serenity and the immobile features, added to the chiseled effect of the silhouette and modeling, combine to make the Youth an unforgettable expression of Renaissance man. The same sort of exquisite refinement and sensibility characterizes the disputed portrait supposedly of the poet Antonio Broccardo (c. 1506). Accepted by all critics is the portrait of the so-called Laura, on the back of which is an inscription giving the date as June 1, 1506, and Zorzi of Castelfranco as the painter.Giorgione's Self-Portrait as David (c. 1510), recorded in an engraving of 1650 by the well-known German engraver Wenzel Hollar (Hollar, Wenceslaus), can safely be considered a much-damaged original that has been drastically cut down in size. The artist gave his own portrait more dramatic force by the frown upon his face and by turning the body inward at an angle to the parapet. Titian adopted the same arrangement in his portrait of a gentleman in blue (c. 1512), where the initials TV (Tiziano Vecellio) establish him as the painter rather than Giorgione, as was formerly believed.Despite considerable recent research, the short-lived master from Castelfranco still remains one of the most enigmatic of Renaissance painters. Yet the quality and charm of his paintings have made him as highly esteemed today as he was in his own time—a Venetian master of poetic mood created through idealized form, colour, and light.Harold E. Wethey Ed.Additional ReadingGeorge Martin Richter, Giorgio da Castelfranco, Called Giorgione (1937), is a catalogue raisonné with complete bibliography up to 1936. Terisio Pignatti, Giorgione (1971; originally published in Italian, 1969), contains documentation and bibliography reproduced from Richter but brought up to date. Ludwig Baldass and Günther Heinz, Giorgione (1965; originally published in German, 1964), is also useful in providing more modern scholarship. Salvatore Settis, Giorgione's Tempest: Interpreting the Hidden Subject (1990; originally published in Italian, 1978), analyzes a single painting.* * *
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We had the problem of age, the problem of wishing to linger.
Not needing, anymore, even to make a contribution.
Merely wishing to linger: to be, to be here.
And to stare at things, but with no real avidity.
To browse, to purchase nothing.
But there were many of us; we took up time. We crowded out
our own children, and the children of friends. We did great damage,
meaning no harm.
We continued to plan; to fix things as they broke.
To repair, to improve. We traveled, we put in gardens.
And we continued brazenly to plant trees and perennials.
We asked so little of the world. We understood
the offense of advice, of holding forth. We checked ourselves:
we were correct, we were silent.
But we could not cure ourselves of desire, not completely.
Our hands, folded, reeked of it.
How did we do so much damage, merely sitting and watching,
strolling, on fine days, the grounds of the parks, the arboretum,
or sitting on benches in front of the public library,
feeding pigeons out of a paper bag?
We were correct, and yet desire pursued us.
Like a great force, a god. And the young
were offended; their hearts
turned cold in reaction. We asked
so little of the world; small things seemed to us
immense wealth. Merely to smell once more the early roses
in the arboretum: we asked
so little, and we claimed nothing. And the young
withered nevertheless.
Or they become like stones in the arboretum: as though
our continued existence, our asking so little for so many years, meant
we asked everything.
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Hey Drudion,
I'm finally coming down from the past fortnight of shows, knocked sideways by a cold that threatened throughout the tour and bruised as a motherfucker from shielding my bass from certain harm during my many forays into the audience. However, such wounds are as nothing if it means I can still come face to face with the beautiful ladies in the front row, and the cordless radio set came into its own at the London show, where I was able to play and sing 'Spacehopper' all the way into the balcony.
Brothers'n'sisters, I gots to say a big thank you for the excellent response to these shows. We were determined to play a lot from DARK ORGASM, but also felt sure that much of my old stuff would cut it as performed by the power trio. Doggen was a doll and guitar genius as always, but Mr E truly surpassed himself as my favourite ever drummer – his personal fanbase grows ever larger as we speak. I also have to say that choosing a different support band for each show gave each one a delightfully different air. Most impressive were the performances of Ramesses (in Brighton), Suitable Case For Treatment (in Wolverhampton) and Marzuraan (in Newcastle), but everyone gave their all and I gotta thank Lucy Brownhills for her awesome rendering of "Beyond the Valley of Look At The Fool" at Nottingham's Rescue Rooms.
After the Glasgow show, one gentleman noted that screaming "Fuck The Pope" had a far more negative effect on the Catholics in the audience than I could ever have imagined. I don't know about that, brothers'n'sisters. I'm a heathen and I don't really care. After the Manchester show, a few people asked what I meant during 'Reynard the Fox' when I described Islam as being 'The New Emo'. You probably missed my words in the chaos of the sound, but all I did was compare suicide bombers to 15-year-old My Chemical Romance fans, being similarly self-pitying, self-obsessed, solipsistic and misunderstood:
"Oh you just don't take my God seriously, I'm gonna kill myself and take you all with me!"
Bye bye, damned motherfuckers. It ain't me and my kind that's gonna get roasted come Doomsday – it's you woman-hating wimp wankers. So fuck you if you can't take a joke. And after seeing the whimsical cartoons that caused so much offense in the European press, you gotta wonder how this half-baked creed galumphed along for so long, sagging under the weight of its own self-righteousness. I'd guess they'll be similarly anguished by my forthcoming sound poem "10,000 Agonising Clitoridectomies", but that won't make the work any less true. Maybe we in the West – being separate from the revelations of the so-called Holy Land – have a very specific and totally incorrect idea of what a prophet must be. I was certainly shocked to note that William Woodruff's A CONCISE HISTORY OF THE MODERN WORLD has now reached its sixth edition without one editor noting the incorrectness of this particular statement:
""Christ, Mohammed, Luther and Marx led no armies, owned no banks, yet their ideas changed history."
Wrong Mr Woodruff, and very very wrong. Mohammed led many armies and created his Islam entirely out of warmongering, threats and the violent deaths of local populations who dared to disagree, which is why modern Muslims try so very hard to hide that violent past from our Western eyes. I've been so anti religion for so very long that I was even surprised to hear myself singing – during the middle 8 to "Robert Mitchum" – "religion please be gone". Religion is an excuse for morons to extend tribal vendettas over large swathes of land, and it taints every culture willing to employ such sleight of hand. As I sung in "She's Got A Ring On Her Finger & Another One Through Her Nose":
"Welcome to dar al-Harb, sister, Where the priests wear dresses and the God is gay."
According to the laws of Islam, we live in dar al-Harb - the hostile lands, the lands of war, outside the realm of Allah. And if the prophet himself had been down the front at one of my shows these past two weeks, he would have quickly realized that our Western women are fertile, blazingly conscious, sexually driven and clit-aware, ferociously equal and they're just too damned educated and full of nowse to put up with religious sophistry and go quietly into the burkha.
Nuff Said, motherfuckers,
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Rasmus Lerdorf, creator of the PHP language, will be in Houston in June and graciously volunteered to do a presentation to our group! Sorry about the last minute modification, but we will need to move our meeting from our usual date/time to Wednesday June 10th at 6:00pm. The presentation details below from Rasmus himself:
Architecture, Performance, Optimization and Security.
I take a look at the performance of some popular PHP applications and go
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sites. I usually like to have 2-3 hours, but I can squeeze it into less.
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We have been collecting Carlton Ware for a number of years now, and some time ago at an antiques fair we bought a beautiful bone china plate which was marked underneath Carlton China'. This site concentrates on the Tea Wares, Figures and Animals produced under the Carlton China name and not on the huge amount of crested souvenir ware which has been documented extensively elsewhere. This website is a source of enjoyment for us, and we hope it will become a reference source for others in the future. |
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2012 WCSU professor's song cycle to premiere in performance Oct. 15
DANBURY, CONN. — Inspired by the planned visit of His Holiness the Dalai Lama to Western Connecticut State University, WCSU Professor of Music Eric Lewis has embarked over the past six months on a quest for the place where poetry and music converge in a song of compassionate humanity. Lewis will share the fruits of his discovery in the premiere performance of his original composition, the "Wrensong" cycle, in a chamber music concert at the university on Monday, Oct. 15, 2012.
"World Music" will be the theme for the concert at 8 p.m. in Ives Concert Hall in White Hall on the university's Midtown campus, 181 White St. in Danbury. Admission will be free and the public is invited to attend; donations to support the WCSU department of music will be accepted.
Soprano Jennifer Caraluzzi, graduate of WCSU and the New England Conservatory (NEC) and cast member in this summer's production by the Opera Theatre of Saint Louis, will perform as lead vocalist for the "Wrensong" cycle with a chamber music ensemble of string, wind, piano and percussion instrumentalists. The six-song cycle features Lewis's musical score and lyrics drawn from the poetry of the late Raphaela Willington. The cycle, commissioned by The Judy Willington Trust, distills and sets to music six poems selected by Lewis from a collection of Willington poems titled "Elegy" soon to be published by Unbound Content LLC.
The concert will open with a movement from Gareth Farr's "Kembang Suling: Musical Snapshots of Asia" performed by WCSU Professors of Music Dr. Kerry Walker on flute and David Smith on marimba, followed by the band Timbila performing original arrangements of African music played on traditional and Western instruments. The concert will conclude with performance of Dvorak's "The American" Piano Quintet by the Prometheus chamber music ensemble.
WCSU Adjunct Professor of Music Dirck Westervelt, bass player for Timbila, noted the band has drawn inspiration from studies and collaboration with Zimbabwean musician Thomas Mapfumo and his band The Blacks Unlimited, who have pioneered adaptation of traditional African music for Western instruments. Timbila's repertoire features melodic vocals and intricate interplay of guitar, bass and percussion with southern African instruments such as the mbira, a Shona thumb piano, and timbila, a type of xylophone.
"The music ranges from hypnotic and lulling mbira songs to highly energetic timbila boogie," Westervelt explained. "Ever since the band's founders — songwriter and mbira/timbila player Nora Balaban and guitarist Banning Eyre — met in Zimbabwe in 1997, they have been adapting these traditions to create contemporary songs deeply based in tradition, but also informed by their backgrounds in folk, rock, jazz and other kinds of African music." Balaban, Eyre and Westervelt will be joined by percussionist Madeline Yayodele Nelson, founder of the group Women of the Calabash, in performance of a set of songs set to original arrangements of mbira pieces from Zimbabwe.
Lewis first made the musical connection to Willington's poetry with encouragement from Connecticut State University Distinguished Professor and WCSU Professor of Writing, Linguistics and Creative Process Dr. John Briggs, a friend and literary colleague of Willington prior to her death in 2004. Briggs and Lewis, in collaboration with representatives of the Do Ngak Kunphen Ling (Tibetan Buddhist Center for Universal Peace) in Redding, put forward the initial proposal for His Holiness the Dalai Lama's visit to Danbury and have sought to promote cultural programs on campus and in the community celebrating the historic event. Once he began to immerse himself in Willington's poetry and learn about her personal journey, Lewis said, he gained a deepening appreciation for the empathy and compassion expressed in her work — themes in harmony with the Dalai Lama's spiritual message.
"Willington's life story is very spiritually charged," he observed. "When she wrote these poems, she was suffering in many ways: Her parents had died several years earlier in a terrible accident, and she was suffering from ovarian cancer. I could hear very clearly the music in her words: life in nature, memories of her parents, her own dreams, and the revelations of her Buddhist faith."
Even as he set to work on the composition, Lewis already had decided to ask Caraluzzi, currently an instructor at NEC in Boston, to return to Western to take on the challenge of the premiere performance. In fact, he had sought an opportunity to write a song cycle for Caraluzzi since he heard her senior recital performance in 2010 of songs inspired by the poetry of Stephane Mallarme.
"The Willington poems seemed the perfect fit for Jennifer's amazing voice — a high, coloratura soprano of unique sensitivity," he said. "She has the voice of great compassion and empathy." Caraluzzi's performance of lyrics inspired by Willington's poetry "will bring together two women of great talent from different generations who have become the muses for my music."
Lewis's cycle progresses through six songs inspired by Willington's experience of the natural world, her spiritual reflections, and her observations on the human condition. The cycle begins with "Epitaph for Ashes," and continues through "Like an Animal," "Sometimes You Wake" and the title piece "Wrensong." Lewis observed that his musical score seeks to capture the varied themes of the poetry, from the reflective call to compassion of "Epitaph" to the rich instrumental tone of "Animal" and the progression from dreamlike state to consciousness in "Sometimes You Wake." Sounds of the natural world figure prominently in the song cycle, as in music recalling the singing of wrens each morning in their flower box nest outside Willington's window.
"'Wrensong' emerges from sleep and has bird song enter our thoughts, discussing the day," Lewis said. "It's really about birds from their point of view, communicating with each other."
The fifth song in the cycle, "Memory," draws its inspiration from a poem that seeks remembrance and order amid a cacophony of thoughts, reflected in dissonant but colorful clusters of chords and use of Caraluzzi's soprano timber in humming that blends with the instrumental music. The cycle concludes with "The Revelation," a song in which the poet faces her own mortality and discovers new revelations about her life and her world.
The conclusion holds special resonance for Lewis, who suffered a heart attack early this year that brought him to reevaluate his artistic work and take new directions.
"You instantly become mortal — and that's quite a good thing," he recalled of his illness. "It spurred me to action, to rediscover my persona as a composer, which I had put aside for so many years." After focusing for more than four decades on his artistic career as a violinist and chamber music performer with the Manhattan String Quartet and currently Prometheus, he said, "I need to start setting down my musical ideas on paper. I want my music to be accessible so that people can be moved by it. I want people to relax into the music and hear it for what it is."
Lewis said his approach to music composition has been revitalized by the teachings of the Dalai Lama, especially in his recent work "Beyond Religion." In this book, he observed, His Holiness "dispels much of the cynicism I had found in the intellectual and complicated music theory of the 20th century. That has made me a seeker of a new way."
"What would please me most" at the premiere of the "Wrensong" cycle, Lewis remarked, "is that the listeners feel connected to the performers on stage, using my vehicle to make them aware of their human side, sharing the same emotions and responding in the same ways. This piece is all about compassion for someone who is suffering and, through that suffering, finding our own human limits and possibilities. That's what I want them to take away from this: They should be nourished by their humanity."
For more information, contact the Office of University Relations at (203) 837-8486.
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Tuesday, December 28, 2010
Why a lack of confidence is good
The December reading of the Conference Board's measure of consumer confidence was weaker than expected (52.5 vs. 56.3). Is that cause for concern? Hardly. As this long-term chart of the series shows, monthly volatility in the index is the norm, and the latest wiggle can hardly be seen. The only message to be found in this series is that consumers are still very un-confident. This is hardly surprising, since confidence almost always lags what is going on in the real economy. For example, it took about 3 years for consumers to begin feeling better about the economy following the recession of 1990-91. Plus, consumers don't usually get depressed until recessions are well underway.
The fact that consumer confidence remains low is a good reason for investors to be optimistic, because it means there is a lot of room for improvement. The rally in equity and corporate bond prices that began almost two years ago has been driven fundamentally by the discovery that the future was not turning out as bad as everyone had thought. In early 2009, markets were priced to the expectation of a very deep depression and years of deflation. Instead, we find the economy recovering and inflation low but not negative. Positive shocks such as this (the reality turns out better than the expectation) are what drive risky asset prices higher.
By the time everyone recovers their confidence in the future, prices will be a lot higher than they are today. You can't wait for the news to turn good before betting on higher prices. The current low level of consumer confidence is also a reason to doubt the warnings being issued by a number of pundits that the stock market is over-bought and frothy.
Investors—those with real skin in the game—are usually better at discerning the state of things. This chart of option-adjusted spreads on corporate debt is a good measure of how confident investors are about the credit-worthiness of corporate borrowers, and about the future of the economy. Spreads have come way down from their highs, as investors have realized that the world was not coming to an end, but spreads are still quite a bit above where they would be if the world were back to "normal" and confidence in the future were high. I think this jibes well with the consumer confidence numbers, with both confirming that there is still a good deal of caution and fear out there. We're a long ways from seeing speculative froth or another asset price bubble.
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- Benjamin Cole said...
Forbes Headline:
Double-Dip In Housing Almost Here, According To Case-Shiller Index
Well, maybe we could use a tad more confidence. Real estate remains not in a recession, but a depression.
If we can get real estate going again, I think we see all cylinders firing. - December 28, 2010 at 10:06 AM
- brodero said...
Remember Case Shiller 20 does not include Houston and
Philadelphia which have the same number of mortgages as Phoenix,
and Las Vegas which are included in the 20 index....
Negative equity mortgages
Houston 12%
Philadelphia 7%
Phoenix 54%
Las Vegas 71% - December 28, 2010 at 11:21 AM
- brodero said...
Houston and Philadelphia combined
equal Phoenix Miami and Las vegas combined... - December 28, 2010 at 11:26 AM
- Misha said...
Yep. By this logic, let us all hope that confidence goes down a lot lower. Should be very bullish for the market.
- December 28, 2010 at 11:29 AM
- Benjamin Cole said...
Interesting stats. 71 percent of Las Vegas is underwater?
I stayed at the Sahara recently for $25 a night. It would be cheaper to live in the Sahara than to rent an apartment in LV.
Housing cheap too. My guess is that LV has great future in 20 years, when manufacturing starts migrating back to America. - December 28, 2010 at 11:30 AM
- Scott Grannis said...
Misha: yours is not a correct inference from my argument
- December 28, 2010 at 11:40 AM
- brodero said...
If you can get this it is loaded
with data... - December 28, 2010 at 11:45 AM
- Benjamin Cole said...
BTW, Marc Sumerlin, a Bush economic adviser, penned an interesting op-ed in today's WSJ.
I am heartened to see many "righties" returning to the fold of sensible monetary management. - December 28, 2010 at 12:41 PM


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Jamal Abdullah Naser stands behind the counter of the small grocery store where he works and watches for the first time a video of a wounded teenager, who he believes is his son, just before he was killed by a Navy SEAL.
His large hands dwarf the phone playing the Iraqi television footage of the teenager the day he died three years ago. His lined face is almost expressionless until a tear seeps from one of his eyes as the video shows the teenager, captured and sedated, telling the interviewer that his father beat him to try to stop him from joining ISIS.
The teenager in the video was at the heart of a war crimes trial last year. U.S. federal prosecutors accused Chief Special Warfare Operator Edward "Eddie" Gallagher of crimes, including premeditated murder, by stabbing a teenage ISIS detainee with a hunting knife in May 2017. But the trial was upended by the explosive revelation of a medic who said in court that he — not Gallagher — had killed the teenager by putting his thumb over the breathing tube.
Gallagher was acquitted on all charges except one — posing for pictures with the dead captive's body — and then was granted clemency by President Trump. In what court testimony referred to as a "trophy" photo, Gallagher, surrounded by his men, looks into the camera and clutches the fighter's hair.
The medic, Special Warfare Operator 1st Class Corey Scott, walked free. He was testifying under immunity when he confessed.
Throughout the high-profile trial and intervention by Trump, the Iraqi captive seemed almost an afterthought. His name was not on the charge sheet in which he was identified only as a "wounded male person." Andrew Dyer, a journalist who covered the trial for The San Diego Union-Tribune, says, "They never said his name in court."
NPR has asked the Navy for the name and other details of the teenager's identity. Despite a Freedom of Information Act request filed in November 2019, the Navy has kept the court records sealed.
Now, NPR has been able to identify the dead fighter based on information from Iraqi officials and confirmation from his family. Iraqi security officials named him as Khaled Jamal Abdullah.
To track down his identity, NPR last year first searched the neighborhoods of the northern Iraqi city of Mosul where the wounded fighter said he was from in the video. No one recognized the teenager.
Security officials initially told NPR there were no official files on the identity of the fighter. But NPR eventually received the name and hometown from security officials who did not want to be identified because they were not authorized to release it.
Until NPR reached his father last week, his family said they did not know what had happened to their son and had not spoken to a reporter.
Khaled Jamal Abdullah was from the Iraqi town of Shoura, about 30 miles south of Mosul. Before the United States invaded Iraq and toppled Saddam Hussein in 2003, the town was home to Iraqi army and police officers who were later dismissed from their jobs.
Naser, Khaled's father, had been an Iraqi intelligence officer under Saddam — a career that included a posting at the Iraqi Embassy in Malaysia. After the war in 2003, his salary and pension cut off, he sold cement.
At the shop in Shoura where he now works, behind a counter piled with potato chip bags, Naser studies the video twice. He says the teen looks like his son, but he wants his wife to see it to make sure.
They had been told by someone who knew Khaled that he had died while fighting but were never able to confirm it.
"A friend of his came from Mosul to my door to tell me he was killed in an airstrike," Naser says when asked what he thought had happened to Khaled. "I asked him, 'What is the proof? Please bring me his phone, or ID or some clothing,' and he never came back."
But Khaled was actually captured in Mosul, according to an Iraqi commander interviewed by Navy investigators. Maj. Gen. Abbas al-Jubouri, commander of Iraq's Emergency Response Division, which worked with the SEALS, said the teenager was the only survivor of a group of 30 ISIS fighters who had run out of food and ammunition.
In the video, the teen is lying on the ground with his head thrown back and a bloody bandage around his leg. He is wearing a faded black tank top and is so thin, his arms look like sticks. Although he is sedated, according to court testimony, he is still lucid in his answers to questions shouted at him by the Iraqi state TV correspondent.
He says he is 17 years old and joined ISIS because it praised him and told him he was doing a good job. He says his father didn't want him to join and beat him to keep him from pledging allegiance to the militant group. He gives his name as Ahmed — the name he apparently adopted after joining up to fight.
According to Facebook posts provided to NPR by his father from before and after he joined ISIS, Khaled changed his user name from "Khaled al-Madridi," after his favorite soccer team Real Madrid, to "Ahmed al-Shoura," a nom de guerre with the name of his hometown.
After pledging allegiance, the teenager removed photos of soccer, a sport forbidden by the group near the end of its reign. The young ISIS fighter's "likes" featured a supporter's page for former Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi and several pages geared to young women — with photos of fashion and slogans such as "Nothing feels the same as waking up with the one you love" — typical fare for Iraqi teenagers forbidden from mingling with girls.
In their home, Naser's wife, Fawzia Amin Ahmed, her hair covered in a rose-colored headscarf, sits down on their tiled living room floor to see the video. She says she wants to know what happened to her son — the pampered first boy born after three girls. Her youngest daughter, 9, dressed in a pink dress, and a grandson, also 9, crowd around her to see it as well.
"It's him," Ahmed says. "I recognize him from the way he looks and his voice."
Naser again has a tear rolling down his cheek as he listens to his son's last words. His wife is almost expressionless.
"We have had our fill of sadness the past three years," she says. "Whoever takes this road with ISIS doesn't come back."
His parents say Khaled was a normal teenager — a top student who spent his spare time playing video combat games and soccer with his friends. One of his friends, Wisam Raed Ahmed, says it was a shock when Khaled left to fight with ISIS in the ninth grade — they all thought he would finish high school and study engineering.
"He wasn't religious or extremist," Khaled's father says. "He was a normal young guy. He wouldn't even pray sometimes. He would be playing with his friends and I would tell him he should go pray."
When Khaled pledged allegiance to ISIS in 2016, the militants had controlled Mosul for two years, and the U.S. and Iraqi military had started the fight that would lead them to liberate the city. For being a fighter, ISIS paid him $50 a month, his father says.
"He joined at the end of the Islamic State — in the last days," Naser says. "I told him, 'Why are you joining? Look, ISIS is running away from the troops. What are you going to do against the planes and U.S. technology and all those countries?' "
His father promised to buy him a motorbike if he didn't leave. He told him joining would destroy him and the entire family. When Khaled insisted, Naser took away his ID, thinking if he didn't have it, he couldn't join. Naser confirms that he did even hit him to try to force him to stay home.
"After he joined, they took him for a month to train him," Naser says. "When he came back he said, 'Dad,' and started crying. He was a child. He said, 'I can't quit. If I quit, they will punish me.' "
In the roughly 10 months he spent with ISIS, he came home twice to recover from being wounded before he was injured the final time, his father says.
Then, in late 2016, as U.S. and Iraqi forces moved in, ISIS forced the family to move to Mosul as human shields. The police and the mayor's office in Shoura say Naser is known as an honorable man and not an ISIS supporter. But after Iraqi forces took back their neighborhood in Mosul in May 2017, Naser and his family were moved to an Iraqi detention camp where relatives of ISIS fighters were held. To be able to return home under tribalrules, Naser agreed to disown his son legally.
Khaled's parents say they had never heard of the Gallagher trial. U.S. investigators spent weeks in Iraq gathering evidence for the investigation. But Naser says no one ever contacted the family of the victim at the center of it.
The U.S. military has not responded to NPR questions about why the family was not informed.
The location of the teenager's body is unknown. The Iraqi commander interviewed by Navy investigators said he was left dead on the ground.
More than a year after Mosul was declared liberated in July 2017, NPR saw bodies of fighters amid building rubble as civilians returned. The Iraqi government and military eventually collected the bodies and dumped them in a mass grave.
When NPR tells Khaled's parents about the trial in the U.S. and that a Navy SEAL confessed to killing Khaled, they are shocked. International law considers killing or wounding combatants who are unable to defend themselves as a war crime.
"It's true Khaled was a criminal, but he was a prisoner," Naser says. "America has civilization and development and humanity. Why did they do this? He should have been taken to court, and the court would have sentenced him. He was 17. He was a child."
"It is a murder," Naser says. "We consider that they murdered him."
Khaled's town, notorious for the numerous ISIS fighters from there, is a collection of mostly unpainted concrete houses surrounded by the stubble of fallow wheat fields. A sulfur factory that used to employ townspeople is now shut. It's a poor community and, like many in Sunni areas, is alienated from the Shiite-led central government by years of neglect.
Local police commander Col. Adhal Dhiab Aziz says three-quarters of the young people in town joined ISIS.
Aziz leafs through a yellow file folder of printed and handwritten pages listing residents who joined ISIS. There are 33 pages with more than 2,500 names — about a quarter of the town's population — and he is still adding to them. Among them are long columns of young men named Khaled. He flips through the pages until he finds Khaled Jamal Abdullah.
"All of the people here pledged allegiance to ISIS," he says. "Some are dead, some are alive, others are hiding in the desert, some others are in jail."
And one ended up the unknown victim in a U.S. war crimes trial.
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Every two hours.
She's adorable, though. And if you're going to crap yourself, cuteness helps.
Here at the Lighten Up Center for Useless Information (LUCUI), we have a theory about this (of course we do). Baby animals are irresistible so that someone will clean up their poo. And put up with their wailing. This ensures survival of the species.
We have our own new little mess machine. Her name is Suzie. She's a two-month-old, mixed-breed mutt. As you can see, I put quite a bit of thought into the decision to adopt a dog:
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Puppy: Sees Dawn *YAPS!*
Dawn decides: Puppy must live with her. Now.
Puppy: *YAPS!*
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Puppy: *YAPS!*
And that? Was that. According to the husband, this is my usual method of choosing pets.
"You see a cat, you bring it home," he says. "You see a dog, you bring it home."
You'd never know Suzie is a pet. To hear all the conversations at our place this week, you'd think we had a newborn human baby:
"Did she eat yet?"
- This is very important information. Because the timing of the food is directly related to the timing of the poo. We must enforce strict schedules - Suzie doesn't particularly care where or when she makes a deposit. But I care. I care a lot.
- Again, with the schedule. The last poo is directly related to the timing of the next poo. Because sh#t happens. In Suzie's case, it happens EVERY TWO HOURS.
- What an advanced palate has our puppy! Safe to eat? Suzie says yes! Yes, please! To electrical cords, Legos, my son's underwear, flip-flops, tissues, my underwear, fingers, toes, the husband's underwear...Edible underwear? They are now.
- Getting a puppy was my idea.This comes up often. It comes up at 12 a.m., 2 a.m. and 4 a.m. Comes up EVERY TWO HOURS. She whimpers from her crate, the husband's foot creeps under the covers to my leg and...*KICK.*
I've had smarter ideas.
The Big Brown Eyes! So precious! While yapping in the crate...
The Twee Little Furry Face! So adorable! While chewing holes in socks...
The Pouchy-Pup Belly! So irresistable! While producing more poo...
Yep. Babies are cute for a reason. I've said it before, I'll say it again.
God - He's no Dummy.


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by Nicholas Thurkettle
I have known Ashley for a few years now, and I think she would agree geekdom has been a foundational pillar of our friendship from the very start. And so when she started on this topic I felt like this was a conversation in which I could participate, and she has been good enough to lend me some space on her rabble-rousing e-billboard here.
I have to confess I was, for a long time, on the wrong side of the argument she describes. I used to talk about latter-day self-labeling geeks as wearing the equivalent of fake prison ink. I am part of the last generation that experienced adolescence without the Internet being a significant presence in our lives – the year I graduated from high school, 1995, was the year in which commercialization of the Internet took off with the decommissioning of the National Science Foundation's NSFNET. At the time, I was in an economics class that played the game of investing imaginary dollars in the stock market. One of my teammates kept suggesting we throw every piece of play money at this thing called America On-Line. We didn't listen. He's wealthier than I am now.
But the difference I will have to describe to the younger generation from now on was that, pre-Internet, it really was possible to feel utterly alone in your geekdom. But for the two or three friends who could be talked into staying up all night to watch The Trilogy (there was only one back then), it was difficult to conceive that there was a vast world of us out there. And, even if we could rationally-accept that there was, it didn't do our daily sense of isolation much good.
Nowadays, of course, there is this astonishing and galvanizing sense of instant community that can be created around any obsession, and Geekdom has become a powerful nation influencing affairs all over the cultural planet. And as Ashley and many others have rightly pointed out, we ought to celebrate that, and be grateful the next spawning of lovely nerds won't share our suffering.
But until recently, I clung to the tribulational aspect of my nerd youth. It's easy to love Doctor Who now. Hop in the TARDIS and try loving Doctor Who in 1989. That's not for sissies.
As I reflect honestly on it, though, I really wasn't actively bullied much in the classic sense. It was more a sense of being frozen out, and not understood. There was this pretty, glittering party of a world that the popular people were running, and my kind just didn't fit there, and I perceived that in a million baffled looks and dead-ended conversations. But part of my maturation has been to realize that basically everyone feels left out of something; and the most successful, popular person around is, inside, probably as messed-up and uncertain about life as I am. I now realize most of the crowd ever meant any harm. And I think time grew my grievances as it can so often do.
Wasn't it our comfort in those times that the things we prioritized – imagination and the deep commitment and knowledge that comes from loving something to a truly-geeky extent – was worth more than the fleeting goose honks that passed for What Matters among the superficial crowd? I know I believed it. The key question here is – did you really believe that when you said it or not?
Because if you do, then suffering is not intrinsic to being a nerd. We don't have to be scorned for the way we love in order for that love to be valid. To hold on to that anger is, to an extent, to grant the vaporous and unslayable Thems of our past the premise we always claimed to reject – that to be this way is weird, wrong, and so rare and useless as to be vestigial to right society.
So I am relieved to come clean and say I was wrong. A positive definition of nerddom can emancipate us from old anger.
I do believe, though, that is still possible, and even defensible, to watch that these labels of geek and nerd, which we have reclaimed from derision, not be embraced too cheaply by too wide a crowd. Because then we risk them not having a definition at all.
I'll use an analogy so dated as to be almost useless, except that I know the nerdiest among you will go to Wikipedia to read about it and will probably think it's cool that you learned something today: if a hardcore Bob Dylan fan told you that you can't call yourself a REAL Bob Dylan fan unless you own the non-commercial release versions of the Newport Bootlegs, then you might well say that person was being clannish, superior, and intentionally-obscure. What I hope we are trying is to keep geekdom at large from that status.
But if you heard someone say that they were a HUGE Bob Dylan fan, and when you asked them what they loved about him, they replied that they had just heard that "let's get stoned" song of his on the radio and thought it was cool, I am saying you would be damn right to be irritated. Because that is not even the song's name, and a nerd wouldn't get something like that wrong if the word "nerd" still means anything.
I am not saying there should be barriers to entry in our big nerdy tent – anyone could be a nerd about something. But it does take at least a little bit of work, some genuine and proactive embrace of thing beyond what can be passively-digested, to earn the label.
We do agree that what makes a nerd a nerd is that he or she is not superficial about that over which they nerd. I don't want us to shy from that. I want to retain and recognize the right – if someone wants to refer to themselves as a nerd or a geek about something – to see them demonstrate that they have bothered to delve into it; even to watch/read/listen to/play it more than once (can we get a ruling on that, at least?) Any rock band will tell you that just buying a T-shirt so people can see you wear it doesn't make you a real fan, and we ought to listen to wisdom like that; because in the greatest days of rock, the best rockers were massive nerds.
If your friend bought a ticket to The Avengers, saw The Avengers, and liked The Avengers, that makes your friend a movie fan, not a nerd. And that's okay. If they call themselves a nerd based just on that, I think we nerds have earned cuffing them (good-naturedly, I now stress) over it.
Now, maybe they saw it, and felt compelled to talk to you about how they think Nick Fury is a badass. And you enthusiastically agree, but lament that movie Nick Fury didn't have the "Steranko Gun". Your friend wonders what that means. They do a little reading (you lend them a book or two, don't you?) And then they come with you to the comic store for hardback collections, because they have decided that They. Love. Nick. Fury. And they Must. Know. More. Now you are serving your friend well. Graciously welcome them to Geekdom. Find out what they nerd out about, because they probably have nerded out over something in their lives before and didn't realize that's what they were doing. Soap opera fans? Huge nerds. Also pro wrestling fans – but I repeat myself.
We have a responsibility, in being Better Nerds, not just to let go of grievances, but to articulate what makes us nerds to begin with, and what makes that a good thing to be in this blessed time for all things nerdy. If the isolation of the positive aspects of nerddom – that commitment and attention to detail and admiration for the artists who entertain us – is what will rescue it from past traumas, it can also be what protects the label from spreading out and being commoditized to meaninglessness. It is not earned by pain. But I say it is still earned.
We have an opportunity here, what with this staggering volume of delicious geek product being served to us, to show people not just how to love something cool, but how rewarding it is to love it in the way a nerd does. Just about every woman I have dated has been a nerd of some kind, and I feel lucky for it. Truly – once you go nerd, you don't go back to the herd. That commitment and joy in discovery makes for a great partner.
If there is some lingering irritation at the latecomers to our party, let's decide that it is only to protect what we think makes our ways valuable, and let it be welcomingly-simple to dispatch – you don't owe us anything. You can be a nerd too; just do as nerds do.
Nicholas Thurkettle is a member of the Writers Guild of America, and in his life has authored screenplays, stage plays, prose fiction, newspaper and magazine features, film criticism, millions of words' worth of blog posts, corporate training videos, ghost-written office dinner party jokes, and was once nearly hired to write an erotic virtual comic book, but was passed over despite that he had a fantastic story pitch for it. His blog can be found at NicholasThurkettle.com
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The K7RA Solar Update
This is a catch-up bulletin released Monday morning after the Thanksgiving holiday.
We had quite an active week on November 14-20, and today we are reporting the numbers for the following week, November 21-27, and beyond.
Average daily sunspot numbers fell from 193.3 in the earlier period to 63.6 in the latter, and in the four days since then, November 28 through December 1, the average daily sunspot number rose to 100.3.
Average daily solar flux was also off, from 166.9 in the earlier period to 130 in the latter, then in the following four days the average solar flux was 130.8.
Geomagnetic indices were quiet, except that on November 29 through December 1 the planetary A index was 8, 9 and 10. Still, these are very moderate numbers, indicating conditions were slightly unsettled.
Predicted solar flux is 130 on December 2, 135 on December 3-4, then 140, 145, 140, 135 and 140 on December 5-9, 165 on December 9-14, then 160, 155 and 145 on December 15-17, 140 on December 18-19, 135 on December 20, and 130 on December 21-24.
Predicted planetary A index is 15 on December 2, 10 on December 3, 5 on December 4-5, 8 on December 6, 12 on December 7-8, 8 on December 9, 5 on December 10-12, then 10 and 8 on December 13-14, 5 on December 15-21, then 8, 10 and 8 on December 22-24, and 5 on December 25-30.
Now that November is over, let's look at sunspot number averages. Our 3-month moving average is up following increased activity, and we now know the 3-month average centered on October (including all data from September 1 through November 30.) The three month moving average of daily sunspot numbers centered on January through October is 73.6, 80.7, 85.2, 106.4, 106.4, 97.5, 85.6, 77.4, 91.2 and 102.9.
The monthly averages of daily sunspot numbers for June through November 2013 were 80.2, 86.2, 90.2, 55, 127.2 and 125.7.
For those interested in whether recent activity is part of a second double peak in this cycle, the earlier peak at the end of 2011 had monthly averages for September through December of 106.4, 123.6, 133.1 and 106.4.
On November 27, Dean Lewis, W9WGV, of Palatine, Illinois sent this report about the fun he had on ten meters during the CQ Worldwide CW DX Contest, with a very simple indoor antenna: "Last weekend's 10 meter propagation was amazing; I worked three JAs; two on 10 meters, one on 15 meters; this may not sound like any great shakes to most, but being 'CC&R-challenged', I run 10 watts from an Icom 703 to a carefully pruned indoor end-fed 40 meter half-wave wire (full wave on 20 meters, three half-waves on 15 meters, two full waves on 10 meters with no feed line or RF ground, and a very simple small matching device). The signals were all well over S9 and no QSB; no fills, no repeats, no errors. Also worked a number of European stations, Niger, the Caribbean, and South America, plus KH6 and KL7. Ten was like the low end of 40 meters on a winter night. Don't remember when last I had to use the 500-cycle CW filter on 10 meter, but I did on Saturday and Sunday."
Dan Bates, N5TM, of Katy, Texas also enjoyed ten meters during the CQ Worldwide CW weekend: "I've never seen 10 meters with stations all the way up to 28.160 as was the case on Sunday morning of the CQWW. Propagation opened to the Far East late in the contest and my last two Qs were to China and East Malaysia on 15 meters." Dan also has restricted antenna space and operates very low profile.
For more information concerning radio propagation, see the ARRL Technical Information Service at http://www.arrl.org/propagation-of-rf-signals. For an explanation of the numbers used in this bulletin, see http://www.arrl.org/the-sun-the-earth-the-ionosphere. An archive of past propagation bulletins is at http://www.arrl.org/w1aw-bulletins-archive-propagation. More good information and tutorials on propagation are at http://k9la.us/.
Monthly propagation charts between four USA regions and twelve overseas locations are at http://www.arrl.org/propagation-of-rf-signals.
Instructions for starting or ending email distribution of ARRL bulletins are at http://www.arrl.org/bulletins.
Sunspot numbers for November 21 through 27 were 85, 51, 65, 69, 52, 47, and 76, with a mean of 63.6. 10.7 cm flux was 141.2, 142.8, 135.6, 127.1, 119.1, 115.5, and 129, with a mean of 130. Estimated planetary A indices were 3, 3, 8, 2, 2, 2, and 2, with a mean of 3.1. Estimated mid-latitude A indices were 1, 2, 6, 2, 2, 2, and 2, with a mean of 2.4.


text: The Least Religious Generation in U.S. History: A Reflection on Jean Twenge's "iGen" October 26, 2017By Bishop Robert Barron Filed Under: Commentary, Word on Fire, Young Adult Ministry, Youth Ministry Jean Twenge's book iGen is one of the most fascinating—and depressing—texts I've read in the past decade. A professor of psychology at San Diego State University, Dr. Twenge has been, for years, studying trends among young Americans, and her most recent book focuses on the generation born between 1995 and 2012. Since this is the first cohort of young people who have never known a world without iPads and iPhones, and since these devices have remarkably shaped their consciousness and behavior, Twenge naturally enough has dubbed them the "iGen." One of her many eye-opening findings is that iGen'ers are growing up much more slowly than their predecessors. A baby-boomer typically got his driver's license on his sixteenth birthday (I did); but an iGen'er is far more willing to postpone that rite of passage, waiting until her eighteenth or nineteenth year. Whereas previous generations were eager to get out of the house and find their own way, iGen'ers seem to like to stay at home with their parents and have a certain aversion to "adulting." And Twenge argues that smartphones have undeniably turned this new generation in on itself. A remarkable number of iGen'ers would rather text their friends than go out with them and would rather watch videos at home than go to a theater with others. One of the upshots of this screen-induced introversion is a lack of social skills and another is depression. Now there are many more insights that Dr. Twenge shares, but I was particularly interested, for obvious reasons, in her chapter on religious attitudes and behaviors among iGen'ers. In line with many other researchers, Twenge shows that the objective statistics in this area are alarming. As recently as the 1980s, 90 percent of high school seniors identified with a religious group. Among iGen'ers, the figures are now around 65 percent and falling. And religious practice is even more attenuated: only 28 percent of twelfth graders attended services in 2015, whereas the number was 40 percent in 1976. For decades, sociologists of religion have been arguing that, though explicit affiliation with religious institutions was on the decline, especially among the young, most people remained "spiritual," that is to say, convinced of certain fundamental religious beliefs. I remember many conversations with my friend Fr. Andrew Greeley along these lines. But Twenge indicates that this is no longer true. Whereas even twenty years ago, the overwhelming number of Americans, including youngsters, believed in God, now fully one third of 18 to 24 year olds say that they don't believe. As late as 2004, 84 percent of young adults said that they regularly prayed; by 2016, fully one fourth of that same age cohort said that they never pray. We find a similar decline in regard to acceptance of the Bible as the Word of God: one fourth of iGen'ers say that the Scriptures are a compilation of "ancient fables, legends, history, and moral precepts recorded by men." Her dispiriting conclusion: "The waning of private religious belief means that young generations' disassociation from religion is not just about their distrust of institutions; more are disconnecting from religion entirely, even at home and even in their hearts." Now what are some of the reasons for this disconnect? One, Twenge argues, is the iGen preoccupation with individual choice. From their earliest years, iGen'ers have been presented with a dizzying array of choices in everything from food and clothes to gadgets and lifestyles. And they have been encouraged, by practically every song, video, and movie, to believe in themselves and follow their own dreams. All of this self-preoccupation and stress upon individual liberty stands sharply athwart the religious ideal of surrendering to God and his purposes. "My life, my death, my choice" (a rather iGen friendly motto which I recently saw emblazoned on a billboard in California) sits very uneasily indeed with St. Paul's assertion, "whether we live or we die, we are the Lord's." A second major reason for iGen dissatisfaction with religion is one that has surfaced in lots of surveys and polls, namely, that religious belief is incompatible with a scientific view of the world. One young man that Twenge interviewed is typical: "Religion, at least to people my age, seems like it's something of the past. It seems like something that isn't modern." Another said, "I knew from church that I couldn't believe in both science and God, so that was it. I didn't believe in God anymore." And a third—also attested to in lots of studies—is the "antigay attitudes" supposedly endemic to Biblical Christianity. One of Twenge's interviewees put it with admirable succinctness: "I'm questioning the existence of God. I stopped going to church because I'm gay and was part of a gay-bashing religion." One survey stated the statistical truth bluntly enough: 64 percent of 18-24 year olds believed that Christianity is antigay, and for good measure, 58 percent of those iGen'ers thought the Christian religion is hypocritical. Dismal stuff, I know. But Dr. Twenge performs a great service to all those interested in the flourishing of religion, for she lays out the objectivities unblinkingly, and this is all to the good, given our extraordinary capacity for wishful thinking and self-deception. Further, though she doesn't tell religious educators and catechists how to respond, she unambiguously indicates what is leading this most unreligious generation in our history away from the churches. Her book should be required reading for those who wish to evangelize the next generation. Print


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Dear Georgia: "I only wish I knew how to quit you." - PaulMore than a forbidden love, UGA hoops is closer to an abusive relationship.
1960s: "Don't worry momma, Daddy loves you. Daddy needs you. I won't treat you bad. Those days of playing in front of 500 in the old gym with the pool downstairs are over. We've got a new stadium (SLAP). It's for rodeos.Every time we start to try to put our dysfunctional relationship with basketball behind us and develop a stable, healthy program, we implode the whole thing again.
(not what Naismith had in mind)
1980s: Come back fine lady. We'll build a great program together. Remember how good that Final Four felt? Remember beating Michael Jordan? Those were good times. (SLAP). Have you met Jan Kemp?
Admissions vs. Athletics
Early 90s: I'll get help, can't you see and feel my love? Remember that SEC Championship? The look on Dale Brown's face as he had Shaq, Chris Jackson and Stanley Roberts, but we won anyway. You know daddy loves you and won't treat you...(SLAP) Hang another NIT Banner woman.
Rick says, the NIT is what you deserve and you'll like it.
Late 90s: Baby, I have the fire in my soul for you. Tubby is here now. This Sweet 16 is as sweet as your lips. We'll be on top forever. (SLAP) Have you met Ron Jirsa?
Friggin Tony Cole
2000s: Darlin, you know that Ron Jirsa was an accident. You know I'd never hurt you on purpose. Here's Jim Harrick. He's WON IT ALL before. Help me learn to make you love me again (SLAP) Have you met Tony Cole?
No other school has seen the highs that UGA has seen followed so quickly by the unbelievable lows...only to build back to shaky unstable highs. What other program has beaten Kentucky 4 out of 6 times sandwiched between 10 win or less seasons?
That's why it's so frustrating for me as a fan to have listened to Felton last week complain about fan and administration support. His apology/clarification didn't make sense to me. All he said was that he never complained about the fans who actually ATTEND the games.
Well...duh. Who said he did?
He has to win to get us to sellout every home game because we've been burned before. We've seen greatness at a much more "special" level than anything he's produced so far. Only to see that flame out quickly and leave us mourning.
This will help soooooo much.
I sincerely like his building for the long term approach. His recruiting combined with the new $32 million practice facility is giving us a foundation from which the program can have a more stable future regardless of what he does professionally in the future.
The Jim "Tell Us How Lucky We Are To Have Such Mediocre Results" Donnan Approach(TM) for program building where you point to the failures of the past in an attempt to build up your own legacy doesn't work. And as Mike Floyd pointed out, Felton is dangerously close to embracing that view. Hell, even Terence Moore agrees that crapping on your boss and fans is the wrong approach to program building.
The proven model of program building that works is the Mark Richt, Bob Stoops and Steve Spurrier model. The model where you ignore everything bad that ever happened and you focus all of your efforts in talking about the positives of the past. No matter how limited those positives are. And if that's too limited than you just talk about the present or future.
And this program has HUGE upside because:
1. We have a deep, deep in state talent pool.
2. We are in a power conference.
3. We have proved under 3 different coaches that you can take this thing to very high level quickly even without quality facilities.
4. We are making a massive investment in facilities.
5. When packed, Stegeman rocks and rolls as well as any stadium in America.
That's our positive message. We need to beat it like a drum.
Dooley used to fire people in his Rose Garden. Damon ponders a good location
Felton made nice with the fans in UT comments. Smart move, and I was glad to see it. But if he continues to crap on the administration, his leash will get shorter and shorter. And right now he needs a LONG leash.
Or, as my brother said..."If he isn't be careful, he'll end up having to sleep with Don Leeburn to keep his job."
I can't quit you, baby,
So I'm gonna put you down for awhile.
I can't quit you, baby,
I guess I gotta put you down for awhile.
Said you messed up my happy home,
Made me mistreat my only child.
Yessir, you did!
I can't quit you baby.
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The importance of teaching: the schools white paper 2010
A white paper outlining the government's proposals to reform the education system in England.
Applies to England
'The importance of teaching' white paper outlines the steps we propose to take to improve education in England.
The 'case for change' document gives evidence to back up the proposals in the white paper.
The impact assessment examines the costs and benefits of the white paper's policies.
The equalities impact assessment looks into the effect that the proposals set out in the white paper will have on groups with relevant protected characteristics.
The relevant protected characteristics, identified in the Equality Act 2010, include:
- disability
- gender reassignment
- pregnancy and maternity
- race
- religion or belief


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Farmscoper is a decision support tool that allows an assessment of the cost and effectiveness of agricultural mitigation methods on multiple pollutants. It incorporates meta-models of a number of different pollutant models which have previously been used for government...
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SAGIS was developed for UKWIR, with support from the Environment Agency, SEPA and Natural England, to analyse sources of chemicals at the river basin scale and identify measures to improve river, lake and estuary water quality. National data on the source of chemicals...
SEPARATE (SEctor Pollutant AppoRtionment for the AquaTic Environment)
National scale nutrient and sediment source apportionment screening tool for England and Wales developed originally as part of Defra project WQ0223 (Developing a field toolkit for ecological targeting of agricultural diffuse pollution mitigation measures). SEPARATE...