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I must make a confession. I have never really liked Paul. I say this realizing that I am about to preach about Paul and that I may be risking my credibility as a Protestant minister.
But when I think about Paul, I usually focus on his major epistles. I know that his letters to the churches in places like Corinth, Galatia, and Rome are some of the most important Christian documents in existence. They tell an amazing story of faithful persistence and outline key principles of faith that define our tradition to this day. I know all of this. Still, sometimes, I just can't get past the tone of Paul's speech. I know I should get past this, but consider the introductions to Paul's letters in The HarperCollins Study Bible: Pauline experts describe Paul as "ironic and argumentative" and "bitterly polemical." First Corinthians is called "a letter of exhortation and pastoral counsel," yet the commentator states, "[Paul] reinforces his argument with reprimands, irony, threats, and (less frequently) praise." Charming, yes? I often wonder how this PAUL was able to spread the good news of Jesus Christ into the Roman world bringing so many to faith.
So I admit I was surprised as I reflected on the story from Acts--surprised to encounter a respectful, intelligent, and courageous apologist for the faith, in the Paul who preaches the good news in Athens. I had often heard the story of Paul's sermon at the Areopagus--but I had always just assumed he was bullying his way to winning another debate using clever arguments. However, my new exploration of the second half of Acts 17 changed my perspective.
At the beginning of our passage, Paul is waiting for Silas and Timothy in Athens. As Paul waits in the public spaces of the city, he is disturbed by all of the idols he sees. He begins conversations about this, first in the synagogue, but then in the marketplace with Epicurean and Stoic philosophers. In the course of these dialogues, he begins to preach the good news about Jesus. Some of the Athenians label him a babbler, while others say, "He seems to be a proclaimer of foreign divinities." Now this second charge doesn't seem too serious to us, does it? Not to us who live in a society where freedoms of speech and religion are societal foundations. However, the Athens of Paul's time was a different place. Five hundred years prior to Paul's visit a very famous Athenian, Socrates, was accused of "[proclaiming foreign divinities]." On account of this charge he was brought to trial at a place called the Areopagus. In that trial he lost his argument with his accusers and paid with his life. Paul faces the same charge...Paul is brought to the same place.
Paul isn't just engaged in light interfaith debate; he isn't condescendingly tossing verbal barbs at a crowd of locals. Paul is risking his very life, before a deadly serious crowd, to proclaim the good news of Jesus Christ to people suspicious of new teachings. When Paul leaves the Areopagus alive, AND some Athenians at that ancient court say, "We will hear you again about this;" I think it's clear that Paul accomplished something quite surprising before the highest court of Athenian public opinion.
How did this happen? The key, I believe, is in how Paul begins his sermon at the Areopagus: "Athenians, I see how extremely religious you are in every way." He then relates how he walked the city and looked carefully at the objects of their worship.
What if Paul's praise of the Athenians was genuine? What if he really was admiring their dogged pursuit of divine knowledge, their quest for a real relationship with TRUTH? Perhaps by recognizing the value of their spiritual practices, respecting their culture, and understanding their context, Paul was able to find a way to get the Athenians to receive a message about Jesus Christ. He discovered a way to make them say, "We will hear you again about this." Were they taken aback, surprised by the open and respectful engagement they encountered? Had they expected to simply butt heads with a closed-minded ideologue? Might they have been expecting irony and bitter polemics? Did they share my surprise at the Paul they met?
We Christians need to pay attention to what Paul accomplished at the Areopagus--how he engaged the Athenians. Christendom has been declared dead; Christian cultural values are no longer the undisputed norm. Mainline Protestant communities no longer dominate American political life. The fastest growing religious affiliation is "none." Can we deny that we need to develop new ways of speaking to a skeptical world? It's not hard to imagine we're in Paul's place--that we're visitors in a new city and we must learn how to proclaim Christ before a new Areopagus.
Not long ago in 2005, Pope John Paul II wrote an apostolic letter identifying the situation of the church in the world with the crisis Paul faced at the Areopagus. In his letter, "On the rapid development of technology in the area of media," John Paul II wrote about the challenges the church faces in proclaiming the gospel message in an increasingly complex world; and he specifically stated "that the first Areopagus of modern times is the world of communications, which is capable of unifying humanity and transforming it into... 'a global village.'" He goes on to write that "The communications media have acquired such importance as to be the principal means of guidance and inspiration for many people in their personal, familial, and social behavior. We are dealing with a complex problem, because the culture itself, prescinding from its content, arises from the very existence of new ways to communicate with hitherto unknown techniques and vocabulary."
John Paul II was warning that because of rapid advances in communications and the rise of the internet, the world had changed drastically. Due to this dramatic shift in the way people engage society and one another, the Church needs to find new ways to relate to people--especially those outside the faith--and new means of proclaiming the good news about Jesus Christ. John Paul's prophetic call to attention was issued almost a full year before Facebook.com (the most widely used social networking website) was available to a general public audience. Today, one in ten clicks on the internet is on Facebook.
I, for one, believe we should heed John Paul II's words--that we Christians really are facing our own post-modern Areopagus moment. In this moment--as the ways in which we communicate and relate and our notions of community, are being revised daily--the society that develops and inhabits this new world of Twitter feeds and Facebook pages, of blogs and social networks, is engaging in its own conversations about truth and meaning, about God and faith. Before this new court, Christians are asked to make a decision: Do we continue with our old ways of being, talking, relating--our ways of being church? Or dare we risk trying something new? Can we develop new ways of thinking the faith, living the faith, communicating the faith? What if we did? We can't know for sure, but consider this story that illustrates what might happen.
In 1907, North American missionaries were working to spread the message of Jesus Christ all across the Korean peninsula. The people willing to listen were mostly from the lower classes, and they suffered physical deprivation, political oppression, and social poverty. Yet, in the midst of these impoverished communities, something surprising emerged. During a revival in Pyongyang (now the capitol of North Korea), a new kind of prayer exploded among the participants. This kind of prayer--tong-seong gido or "prayer aloud together"--was a jumble of voices all praying at once, many crying out in anguish and violent throes of emotion. This cacophony of voices as prayer was unfamiliar to the missionaries, a great surprise to those "bringing and teaching the faith" to a foreign people.
Now, amazingly, instead of discouraging a practice not a part of the faith they had known, the missionaries served as witnesses to a new movement of the Holy Spirit among Korean Christians. Not shying away from what they saw--not labeling it heretical--these missionaries allowed the message of Christ to be conveyed using "hitherto unknown techniques and vocabulary." Since that time Korean prayer practices, particularly tong-seong gido, have formed the backbone of a vibrant expression of the Christian faith, providing a foundation for the explosion of Korean Christianity. Could those missionaries have imagined what was to come? Perhaps. Perhaps not. But imagine how different things might have been if they had closed off the possibility of this new engagement of Korean culture and Christian faith in prayer.
So what about us? John Paul II already laid out the challenge: How are we going to learn to spread the message of Jesus to a world that communicates, relates, and lives differently from any other before it? If we are to follow Paul's example before the Areopagus, what should we do?
I don't have all the answers to these questions. Bu, I do want to use my reflection on Paul in Athens to call for certain approaches to these challenges.
First, I believe we need to spend time understanding the residents (especially non-Christian) and the geography of this world of new media and communications. We CANNOT just do this with the aim of finding the first clever trick to recruit the residents of this new reality to our cause. Too often, Christian communities and institutions engage in the use of technology and social media only to better market themselves. We are too quick to see non-Christians we encounter only as warm bodies to bolster our declining memberships, pledging units to be tapped, targets for our message. When it comes to media, these people are savvier than we are and they can see right through us. If we want to stand a chance in conversation with them, we need to genuinely live into their world and engage them for the sake of truly understanding how they live and what matters to them.
Spend some time following the Twitter feeds and Facebook postings of those who live around, but not in, our churches. You'll find that they are paying attention to the same social issues and problems that Jesus engaged through his ministry. Read their blogs and spend time in their chat rooms--they care deeply about spiritual connection and community, even about their relationships with God. I believe that we who would represent the Church and Jesus need to be able to know the language and the lives of people outside the church well enough to be able to say, much as Paul did to the Athenians, "We see that you are extremely thoughtful and sincerely spiritual people in your daily lives. We honor that and we have looked carefully enough to know those things about which you care most deeply." Unless we get to this point, in a genuine way, how will we develop the means to convey our message about Jesus in a way they can receive? Paul communicated the truth about Jesus in a way that resonated with the Athenians' own search for divine truth. Can we follow his lead?
Next, we need to commit fully to real engagement with a world increasingly filled with "spiritual but not religious" individuals, even if it means that we might be at risk of losing the church that we know and love. Paul did not enter into dialogue with the philosophers of Athens without risk. On the contrary, the story makes it clear that Paul was willing to give his life. Even a decade ago, nearing his own end, John Paul II understood how drastically the world was changing, how radically the nature of human existence was being transformed by the rapid advance of technology and communications. His challenge to all of us, to learn new methods and new vocabularies, reveals that he knew the Church could no longer remain what it had always been if it was to become what our world, desperate for God's grace, would need in the years to come.
This is the message revealed to me in the new Paul I encountered in Acts 17: that unless we are willing to approach the context of those around us with real understanding, respect, and humility--and unless we are willing to risk all that we HAVE and all that we ARE to enter into dialogue with them--we cannot be faithful to our call to make sure that the good news of Jesus Christ is spread to all we meet. Will our primary focus of conversation remain inside our own walls, where we use language only we understand to debate issues that are of vital importance only to us? Are we content to continue simply being the church that we have been, busy with our age old practices, comforting to us but lifeless and constricting to outsiders? Can we stop being the threatening and threatened, argumentative Paul of the epistles that I used to dislike? Can we be the open, outwardly focused, genuinely engaged, and selfless Paul of the Areopagus I now admire? Can we surprise those who have been wary of us for so long?
If we can move away from closed off ways of practicing our faith, if we can move toward the outward focus and selfless conviction of Paul in Athens, I believe we can experience great new revelations of the presence of God's Holy Spirit among us today. Yes, this might mean that we have to start practicing our faith in contexts and in ways that are uncomfortable and even scary for us; and as we move into the process, we might feel like we are in danger of losing parts of who we have been or of crossing lines that we never wanted to even approach. Yet, it is critical for us to find genuine engagement with a world that is being daily refashioned through shifts in technology and communication. In doing so, I believe that just like the early missionaries in Korea who bore witness to whole new ways of being in conversation with God and an explosion in faith, we will have an opportunity in this modern Areopagus to develop new communities of conversation and discover new ways of telling the world the good news of Jesus Christ.
If we do so with the same sincerity and conviction of Paul in Athens, then I am convinced that we, too, can surprise those around us. I pray that we will have the courage to achieve a new way to proclaim Christ before this modern Areopagus and that we will move them to say, "We will hear you again about this."


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After a glittery morning filled with a quartet of Golden Globe nominations, the team from "The Kids Are All Right" are feeling pretty all right themselves.
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The granddaughter of publishing magnate William Randolph Hearst and great-granddaughter of millionaire George Hearst, she gained notoriety in 1974 when, following her kidnapping by the Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA), she ultimately joined her captors in furthering their cause. Apprehended after having taken part in a bank robbery with other SLA members, Hearst was imprisoned for almost two years before her sentence was commuted by President Jimmy Carter. She was later granted a presidential pardon by President Bill Clinton in his last official act before leaving office.
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Wine Pairing: What to Drink With French Onion Soup
We help you pick wine to drink with the food you eat.
Editor's Note: Master Sommelier Evan Goldstein joins us again with wine recommendations for our favorite Serious Eats recipes. Evan is the author of two fantastic wine books: Perfect Pairings and Daring Pairings. Looking for wine recommendations for your favorite recipe? Leave Evan a note in the comments.
I trained in the kitchens of Paris in the late 1970s. Since then, I've had a soft spot for the French comfort food so omnipresent in bistros and cafes—the food I could afford back then. After work, my colleagues and I gathered around a pichet of vin rouge and the heartiest, most gratifying, and traditional bistro cuisine that we could find. From coq au vin to French onion soup, it all hit the spot.
As the weather cools, my craving for French onion soup always resurfaces. This dish is so simple, but so good, especially if you use a rich and flavorful stock, the sweetest of slow cooked onions, a thick piece of crusty bread, and good-quality nutty Gruyere. Pairing soup with wine can be a bit tricky and it's a bit counterintuitive to match liquid with liquid, but believe me, a good glass of wine makes this meal even better.
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Here are a few basic guidelines for pairing soup with wine:
1. A more viscous wine will cling to a brothy soup nicely; don't go too light-bodied.
2. Think beyond the broth: consider the toppings and other elements in a soup. In this case, we'll focus on the nutty note of the cheese, the implied sweetness and texture of the onions, and the richness of the broth which is amplified by both the cheese and the bread as it breaks down and integrates into the broth.
3. If you're looking for a wine for a pureed and or cream based soup, select a textured and creamy wine that mirrors the soup's mouthfeel.
A red wine can work here, especially if you substitute the chicken stock with beef or veal stock. Classic Beaujolais (cru level) or another well-made Gamay wine is a good call. The bright cherry/raspberry/strawberry fruit picks up on the onion's sweetness while the soft granitic element of the terroir works beautifully with the soup's rustic nature. Gamay's inherent acidity cuts beautifully against the richness of this dish.
If you can't access good Cru Beaujolais, an Italian Dolcetto or a more rustic Pinot Noir would suffice.
While it's fine to drink red wine with French onion soup, the dish really speaks to me in a rich white voice. My top pick is a textured Pinot Gris from Alsace, Oregon, or California. These wines have an implicit waxy consistency with hints of dusty pear, candied ginger, green tea, and Meyer lemon that accent the soup nicely. Pinot Gris has enough acidity to not be flabby. You can even select one that has a little oak (but not too much) to mirror the cheese-topped crouton's buttery, toasty flavor.
Other choices: a balanced Roussanne or Roussanne blend will make a nice stunt double for the Pinot Gris. A Viognier or Gewürztraminer will bring out the sweetness of the onions: make sure you caramelize them thoroughly and slowly.
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2009 Julienas, Henry Fessy: This Beaujolais has a smooth texture with ripe cherry/berry notes and soft smoke. (About $15, find this wine)
2009 Elk Cove Oregon Pinot Gris: Easy-drinking with nice texture and pretty ripe citrus notes. (About $15, find this wine)
King Estate 2008 Signature Collection Oregon Pinot Gris: A touch of age broadens the palate, sweet citrus notes prevail. (About $17, find this wine)
Adelaida 2008 Pavanne: This blend of Roussanne, Grenache Blanc, and Viognier from Paso Robles is full bodied with rich hints of pear. ($23-27, find this wine)
Domaine Weinbach Pinot Gris Alsace "Cuvee Ste. Catherine" 2008: The added weight of this wine is perfect for the soup. I love the sweet spice and beeswax notes; this wine is worth the splurge, and turns a cozy dinner into a special occasion. (About $45, find this wine)
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NEW YORK (AP) -- Down by a run in an all-even AL division series, Joe Girardi approached Alex Rodriguez and told baseball's highest-paid player he was going to pinch hit for him.
Bold move, benching one of the game's great sluggers.
"I just had a gut feeling," the Yankees manager said. "I just went to him and I said, 'You're scuffling a little bit right now, we have got a low-ball hitter and we've got a shorter porch in right field then left field obviously -- Raul (Ibanez) has been a good pinch hitter for us, and I'm just going to take a shot.'"
The audacious decision worked.
Ibanez homered in the ninth, then again in the 12th, rallying New York to a stunning 3-2 victory over the Baltimore Orioles on Wednesday night for a 2-1 lead in their best-of-five series.
The slumping Rodriguez offered no complaint, telling Girardi: "Joe, you gotta do exactly what you gotta do."
Injured saves leader Mariano Rivera went to Rodriguez in the dugout after seeing Ibanez head for the on-deck circle.
"I told Alex not to worry, that Raul was going to hit a home run," Rivera said.
And Rivera was right next to A-Rod when Ibanez lined Jim Johnson's 1-0 pitch into the right field stands. Rodriguez threw his arms into the air and then exchanged high-fives with Rivera. When Ibanez returned to the bench, Rodriguez was the first player to greet him.
"There was no one happier than me, one of the best performances I have ever seen," Rodriguez said.
Yankees fans had been howling this week for Girardi to drop Rodriguez out of the No. 3 spot in the batting order. But Girardi was reluctant to move his fading slugger down in the lineup.
Until he took him all the way out.
"You have to make some decisions sometimes that are tough decisions. I just had a gut feeling," Girardi said.
Rodriguez has 647 career home runs -- he's chasing the record of 762 by Barry Bonds -- and is making $29 million this year. But was just 1 for 12 with no RBIs and seven strikeouts in this series when Girardi pulled him.
"It kind of caught me off-guard, hitting for a guy who's half-a-billionaire," Orioles center fielder Adam Jones said.
It was the first time Rodriguez had ever been pinch hit for in a postseason game, according to STATS LLC.
"Sometimes you've got to do what your gut tells you, and my gut told me to make the move," Girardi said. "I still have the utmost respect for Al and I still think he's a great player, he's just going through a little tough time right now."
Ibanez remained in the game and connected on the first pitch from Brian Matusz in the 12th. He became the first player to homer twice in a postseason game in which he didn't start, STATS said.
Phil Hughes will try to clinch it for the Yankees on Thursday night in Game 4. Joe Saunders will start for Baltimore.
The Orioles had won 16 straight extra-inning games, and had been 76-0 when leading after seven, before the Yankees stung them.
"It was a great experience. We do it as a team. We stay after it," Ibanez said. "I'm blessed to come up and have the opportunity like that. We do it together. It's about a team and about winning."
The brash, young Orioles appeared poised to move within a win of their first trip to the AL championship series since 1997 before the Yankees' comeback.
Ibanez hit a 1-0 pitch into the seats in the ninth, setting off a raucous celebration in what had been a demoralized Yankee Stadium crowd.
Ibanez at first didn't know who he was hitting for and was a bit startled when Eduardo Nunez told him.
"Alex is one of the best hitters of all time, and he still is," Ibanez said. "I mean, he's one of the greatest players in the history of the game. So for a minute I just thought something was going on, I didn't know what was happening, and then I just tried to put it behind me and get a good pitch to hit."
After their 10-game July lead was cut to zero in early September, the Yankees repelled every Orioles charge. The teams were tied 10 times in the final month but New York ended up atop the division.
New York won the opener in Baltimore by scoring five runs in the ninth off Johnson, who had 51 saves in the regular season. The Orioles won Game 2 and rode Miguel Gonzalez's pretty performance to a 2-1 lead in the ninth.
"Jimmy is a big-hearted, talented guy that believe me, we'd be at home watching without people like Jim Johnson," Orioles manager Buck Showalter said. "He's a special guy. We're real proud of him, and you'll see him again tomorrow night, I hope."
The Yankees limited Baltimore to one hit after 20-year-old Manny Machado homered in the fifth. Ryan Flaherty homered earlier for the Orioles.
Robert Andino was doubled off second after leading off the Baltimore ninth with a single and advancing on a sacrifice.
Boone Logan got one out in relief of Hiroki Kuroda, who gave up two solo homers in 8 1-3 innings. Closer Rafael Soriano pitched 1 1-3 innings and David Robertson went two, finishing off his outing by bumping into and tagging Andino to end the top of the 12th.
Derek Jeter tied the score with an RBI triple in the third for the Yankees. Jeter, limping after fouling a ball off his foot, came out after eight innings. He says we will be able to play Thursday.
Girardi will wait and see.
"Well, we've seen what he's been able to do in his career and how he's been able to come back," Girardi said. "Just got to keep our fingers crossed."
NOTES: Rivera threw out the ceremonial first pitch. ... Flaherty and Machado are first pair of rookie teammates to homer in the same postseason game. At 20 years, 96 days, Machado is the second-youngest player to homer in the postseason behind Yankees OF-DH Andruw Jones, according to STATS. He did it in 1996 for Atlanta, when he was 19 years, 177 days.


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Force majeure literally means "greater force." When used in a contract, the force majeure clause is one of several boilerplate clauses, which are clauses normally written using standard, universal language. Other common boilerplate clauses include arbitration clauses and entire agreement clauses.
The intention of the force majeure clause is to excuse liability of a party because of uncontrollable outside events. For example, you signed a purchase agreement for a house and before you gained ownership of it the house burned down due to a fire caused by lightning. Neither the buyer nor the seller would be held liable under the terms of the contract: the seller for not providing the property as stipulated in the contract and the buyer for not paying the balance of the purchase price.
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The language of a force majeure clause should pertain to the area of business that the contract covers. Internet companies should put in provisions for electronic failures and internet service provider disruptions. The more specific you are as to the events covered under the clause, the better the contract will protect you.
The basics of the force majeure clause have been incorporated in the Uniform Commercial Code (UCC Sec 2-615) and the Restatement of Contracts 2D (Sec 261). Under Section 2-615, "Excuse by Failure of Presupposed Conditions," a seller who is unable to deliver goods because of a contingency that makes the terms of the contract impossible to fulfill must notify the buyer of the delay or nondelivery. 2D Section 261, "Excused Nonperformance," is broken down into four areas:
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Neither party shall be liable in damages or have the right to terminate this agreement for any delay or default in performing hereunder if such delay or default is caused by conditions beyond its control including but not limited to acts of God, government restrictions (including the denial or cancellation of any export of other necessary license), wars, insurrections and/or any other cause beyond the reasonable control of the party whose performance is affected (including mechanical, electronic, or communications failure).
Courts using the interpretive rule of ejusdem generis could possibly exclude certain unforeseen events unless specifically listed in the force majeure clause. One way is to list in the contract as many of the possible uncontrollable events that might cause the terms of the contract not to be fulfilled. As an extra precaution, add the phrase "including but not limited to," as shown in the above example of a force majeure clause.
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Resources for young carers
Caring for a person with dementia as a child, teen or young adult comes with its own unique challenges. You may have less time to do things that other people your age are doing. You may feel isolated from your friends. You may be experiencing a lot of pressure and stress.
It is important to learn how to cope with the feelings you might have, such as sadness and guilt, and to know where to get help if you need it. It can also be helpful to know how others deal with being a young carer.
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Below are some resources that you might find helpful. You may also contact your local Alzheimer Society for more information and support.
- Support Matters: A Guide for Young Carers and Their Allies, a By Us For Us© guide by Young Carers Project
- Video: Young Carers Project, a documentary by Young Carers Project
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Saint James of Numidia
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Deacon in the same church as Saint Marianus, and imprisoned with him at Cirta (modern Constantine, Algeria) in the persecutions of Valerian. Tortured over several days to force him from his faith. During this torment he had a dream that showed him final triumph. Martyred with hundreds of others. His story was recorded by a fellow prisoner who was not killed.
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If you wish to show your solidarity with the University of Freiburg -- maybe you even profited from a scholarship or research grant yourself and want to give something back -- you can have a direct impact on the university's future by establishing or contributing to an endowment or by making a donation. Or you can endow an award for outstanding achievement in a discipline that is important to you. In any case, you are welcome to join one of our three funding organizations!
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|Alumni Freiburg
The University of Freiburg founded Alumni Freiburg in order to enable former students to maintain academic and personal contact with their "old" university. Its name derives from the Latin "alumnus" and means "nursling, pupil." The Alumni Office is the direct link to the alma mater for former students of all faculties, all nationalities, and all generations.
|Friends of the University of Freiburg im Breisgau
The Friends of the University Association was founded in 1925 on the initiative of mathematics professor and former rector Lothar Heffter, a group of his colleagues, and dedicated representatives of the City of Freiburg and the region of Baden. The association still holds true to its original goal: to provide support and funding for the University of Freiburg in order to alleviate the economic plight of science and its protagonists.
|The Academic Society of Freiburg im Breisgau
The Academic Society was founded in 1911 to support the construction of the new main building of the university (known today as KG I). Large-scale appeals for donations, considerable bequests, and the society's yearly membership dues have led to the accumulation of an endowment which is used today to fund research in all disciplines. To celebrate its 100-year anniversary, the society is providing funding for two visiting professorships as a contribution to the "Excellence Initiative."
|Benefactors and Endowments of the University of Freiburg
Our endowment pages provide an overview of the individual benefactors and endowments of the University of Freiburg, details on the university's base endowment fund, contact information for the endowment administration, and complete instructions on how to establish an endowment.
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Endowments Associated with the University of Freiburg
The Ungethüm Aesculap Endowment aims to "promote science and research as well as education and training" by granting scholarships to young medical students from China. In this way, benefactor Professor Ungethüm hopes to familiarize the students with German operation techniques so that they can disseminate their knowledge in Chinese hospitals upon their return.
|Rhenania Freiburg Educational Endowment
The Rhenania Freiburg Educational Endowment was founded in 2006 by members of the Rhenania student corps. According to its constitution, the corps is committed to seeing to it that its members fulfill the requirements of their studies and supporting them in their intellectual and moral development. For its founders, the endowment is a way to fulfill this commitment by making a personal contribution to promoting education and scholarship.


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On Monday, I had an important conversation with The Wife and Tax Deduction No. 1.
On Monday, I had an important conversation with The Wife and Tax Deduction No. 1. We talked about dandelions � or more specifically � the gamma ray-laden strain that are currently overrunning my yard and apparently couldn�t be killed with a flamethrower.
�Now if I cut the grass while they just have the yellow flower on top, it won�t spread the seeds when it�s cut, right?� I asked.
�They only spread when they have the poofy things on top and you blow on them,� said Tax Deduction No. 1.
�You have to dig them up by the root; that�s the only way to stop them,� said The Wife.
�Can�t I just douse the area with Roundup and kill them before they get the poofy things on top?� I said.
The poofy thing discussion went on for a few minutes with no real resolution. We decided to use the excess dandelions as pillow stuffing. Our first shipment should go out to all the organic stores in early May.
After we broke huddle, I turned on the computer and saw photos of what happened at the Boston Marathon. Within minutes, video of the explosions was all over the Internet and TV. For the rest of the night, the same information was repeated over and over again.
The following day, everyone in the journalism business was hit with a deluge of emails from public relations firms trying to grab air time or ink for their clients. Before we go any further, you should all know that I have no issue with anyone making a dollar. I believe those hippies who demanded to be let in to the Isle of Wight Festival for free should never been allowed to reproduce.
Anyone who thinks all you need is love should see the face of the usually nice woman at Kinston Public Utilities when I try to pay my electric bill in hugs.
All that being said, the crass jackassory that was on display by the media and those who feed it this week makes the coverage of the O.J. Simpson trial look subtle. The following are excerpted examples of the actual emails that were sent to members of the press on Tuesday:
Email No. 1:
Two explosions near the finish line of the Boston Marathonon Monday have resulted in deaths and injuries to runners and spectators at the event that draws crowds of 500,000.
Gregory Jantz, Ph.D. is a nationally recognized psychologist and mental health counselor with over 25 years experience who specializes in emotional counseling, depression, stress disorders and grief recovery. He is a go-to media source for commentary on national as well as international traumatic events in the news. Dr. Jantz is the author of several mental health books including, Healing the Scars of Emotional Abuse and Moving Beyond Depression.
Dr. Jantz is available immediately for interviews via phone or email if you�re interested � just let me know!
Email No. 2
Hi Jon,
In light of the tragedy which occurred in Boston yesterday, Michael Finkelstein, M.D. wanted to personally offer his guidance and counseling for any stories you might need insight on. He is camera ready and is available immediately for interview.
Camera ready? I can�t think of 10 profanities that could accurately describe the ugliness of that statement.
I didn�t make either of those emails up. Someone in an office somewhere makes their living waiting for catastrophes to happen so they can get their clients some air time and hopefully sell a few books.
Listen, I felt a bit queasy putting my own book out so close to Christmas as I don�t think the original intent of the holiday was commerce-based. After seeing these jackals at work in the wake of the Boston tragedy, I�m beginning to feel almost saintly.
Somebody somewhere needs to be slapped with a muddy shovel for allowing this sort of thing to become commonplace. Since the news is now on 24 hours a day, I guess they need something to fill the time.
Ted Turner and his mustache could probably be blamed for this non-stop news culture, but then again, maybe the people who are happy to watch the same story repeated more than �The Contest� episode of Seinfeld should be held accountable as well.
Camera ready. The doctor is camera ready. In my heart, I�ve got to believe if some twit said this to Edward R. Murrow, he�d lean over and put out his cigarette on their forehead. Then again, during a live newscast Murrow asked Liberace when he was going to find a nice girl and get married, so what do I know?
Jon Dawson�s columns appear every Tuesday and Thursday in The Free Press. Contact Jon at 252-559-1092 or email@example.com. Purchase books, music and shovels at jondawson.com.


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Living wage: Ed Miliband pledge over government contracts
Ed Miliband has unveiled plans to deliver a "living wage" of at least £7.45 per hour for millions of people, if Labour wins the next election.
Whitehall contracts would only go to firms paying the living wage, while those who paid less could be "named and shamed", said the Labour leader.
His speech came at the start of a week of events promoting the idea.
Downing Street backed firms paying a living wage, but said restricting contracts in this way could be illegal.
Others backing the wage include the Scottish government, which says all staff will get the living wage, and London's mayor, who said it made economic sense.
The living wage - which is £7.45 per hour across the UK except for London where it is £8.55 per hour - does not have any legal force, but is part of a campaign by the Living Wage Foundation and Citizens UK.
It is considerably higher than the official minimum wage that employers must legally pay, which stands at £6.19 per hour for those over 21, £4.98 for those over 18, and £3.68 for 16 and 17-year-olds.
As part of its policy review Labour is looking at ways of making the living wage the new norm, including naming and shaming companies who do not pay the wage and introducing rules forcing government contracts to only be given to those firms who pay it.
Number 10 said the government backed a living wage and "would encourage business to take it up" but warned Labour's plans to restrict government contracts in this way could breach EU procurement law.
Mr Miliband said this was "completely ridiculous" because local councils were already showing it could be done.
During his speech, Mr Miliband said: "Just as in the 1990s, the minimum wage was a signature achievement of the last Labour government.
"So in the coming years, the living wage will be central to our work.
"We need to build an economy where everyone has a stake.
"Not where millions of people feel they never have a chance for a decent life however hard they work."
Employers who have voluntarily committed to pay the living wage are expected to start paying the new higher rate within six months of the announced rise.
The Scottish government, which has been paying directly employed staff the living wage since last year, has announced it will implement the rise from April 2013. This will benefit up to 3,300 workers, it said.
Speaking at the launch of the increased London rate, Mayor of London Boris Johnson said paying the wage made "economic sense" for the city by giving employees more spending power.
'Sharing fairly'
He said: "By building motivated, dedicated workforces, the living wage helps businesses to boost the bottom line and ensures that hard-working people who contribute to London's success can enjoy a decent standard of living."
If everyone was paid the living wage, the Institute for Fiscal Studies estimates, the Treasury would save £1,000 a year for every person from less spending on tax credits and from increased tax revenue.
Barclays is one of a number of major companies already paying the living wage while 19 local authorities have been accredited as "living wage employers", including Newcastle City Council.
One of those benefiting is cleaner Marlene Brownlee, who has worked at Newcastle's civic centre for 15 years and estimates she will be about £70 a week better off.
She said: "It'll make a big difference... that little bit extra - well I'm saying little, it's a lot really - is excellent, for me and everybody else at the council."
Mr Miliband unveiled the new policy at Islington Council in London, which recently became another "living wage employer".
He said: "There are almost five million people in Britain who aren't earning the living wage; people who got up early this morning, spent hours getting to work - who are putting in all the effort they can - but who often don't get paid enough to look after their families, to heat their homes, feed their kids, care for elderly relatives and plan for the future.
"Too many people in Britain are doing the right thing and doing their bit, helping to build the prosperity on which our country depends, but aren't sharing fairly in the rewards."


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What do you do when you have one of the fastest cars in the world at your disposal? Why, you drive it of course. But if you're really creative, you build the ultimate high-speed camera car and shoot a movie with it.
The McLaren 12C is a true powerhouse of a production car. With a top speed of 207 mph, 443 lb-ft of torque, and 625 horsepower, it wasn't built for a simple milk run to the corner store. The first McLaren-designed and built production car since its epic F1 hit the road, the 12C is packed with as much raw power as it is fine detail.
So is it any wonder that it was chosen to become this beast of a camera car? To create the high-octane video Forza FilmSpeed, Microsoft turned to driver Tanner Foust and the Phantom HD camera to bend the 12C's awesome power to their will and create the world's fastest zoetrope. A perfect marriage of speed, performance, and detail, the ultimate camera car was born.
Over a two-mile stretch of road, Foust steered the McLaren as the Phantom HD snapped photo after photo of strategically placed still images. If stable enough, the camera's speed and high performance would turn those flat images into a wild ride of a race, a perfect match to Forza Motorsport 5's gameplay on Xbox One.
The true-to-life driving experience that Forza FilmSpeed offers is a testament to the powers that make up the McLaren and the Phantom Flex. The level of detail and smooth animation of the video become ten times more impressive once you realize you're looking at a majorly souped-up zoetrope. The speed is certainly expected with this kind of machine, but it's the McLaren's stability that made for a perfect union with the Phantom HD.
Case in point: The camera mount on the 12C's engine was repurposed from a helicopter and weighed more than 100 pounds. The 12C handled it like there was nothing there. This really was the only car for the job.
The McLaren 12C and Phantom Flex combined for some breathtaking visuals. Forza Motorsport 5 and Xbox One do exactly the same. Tapping into the power of this next-gen console, Forza Motorsport 5 is as immersive a racing experience as anyone can get sitting in their living rooms. It's not just the 1080p eye-candy. It's not just the fast cars. It's the fact that you've never felt more like you're in the driver's seat. Don't believe me? Check out the video up top to see more. Then click here to see more of what Forza Motorsport 5 has in store.
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Microsoft has announced a $250,000 reward for information leading to "the arrest and conviction of those responsible for illegally launching the Conficker worm" (aka Downadup) on the Internet. Redmond has used reward money in the past to track down the creators of high-profile worms, though the success of this method is debatable. The company also formed a group of technology industry leaders to implement a coordinated response to the worm by disabling domains targeted by Conficker. Microsoft's posse includes ICANN, NeuStar, VeriSign, CNNIC, Afilias, Public Internet Registry, Global Domains International Inc., M1D Global, AOL, Symantec, F-Secure, ISC, researchers from Georgia Tech, the Shadowserver Foundation, Arbor Networks, and Support Intelligence.
The vulnerability that Conficker exploits has been patched since October 2008, when Microsoft released an out-of-band security update to fix the vulnerability in the Windows Server service that's used by Windows 2000, XP, Server 2003, Vista, and Server 2008. It is generally believed that the main reason for the Conficker worm being such a successful piece of malware is the vast numbers of unpatched Windows PCs. Infections continued throughout the end of last year but just last month the malware came out guns blazing.
The versatile worm is capable of using brute-force tactics to obtain passwords, sneak into organizations via USB sticks, not to mention disable anti-malware protection and block access to Web sites of anti-malware vendors. It copies itself using computer or network resources and is capable of damaging entire networks. You can read more about the current situation at the Microsoft Security Response Center.


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Earlier this month, the artist and DullTech CEO Constant Dullaart launched a Kickstarter to crowd-source the company's first product. The DullTech media player is a product that promises to simplify the installation of single- and multi-channel video work. The device works by playing and looping the first video file found on a USB-drive on any monitor or television without concern for file format, remote controls, or syncing screens. Considering the artist's previous works, which often focused on the conditions of art viewership within online networks and galleries, the concept for this device is both humorously apt and much-needed to solve the hassles of installation.
Those who I have spoken with outside of the arts, however, have raised doubts concerning the ethics of the Kickstarter campaign and the product. Dulltech began while the artist was on a 2012 residency in Shenzhen, South China, a region known as "The Silicon Valley of Hardware." At that time, the company and product were a way for the artist to get into to an original equipment manufacturer (O.E.M.) to see the working conditions of Chinese laborers. After artists expressed excitement about the convenience of the product, Dullaart and his colleagues decided to go into actual production with the factory. Though the O.E.M. Dullaart used for this project, the Taiwanese manufacturer RealTek, does not have any reported violations, mentioning Chinese labor often elicits discomfort due to the 2010 suicides at Foxconn's Shenzhen factory and several reports by the Institute for Global Labour and Human Rights and other watchdog organizations concerning working conditions, employee exhaustion, and contract terminations due to work-related illness.
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WASHINGTON – It seems George W. Bush can take a joke — and tell one.
But before the former President sat down with Jay Leno on the Tonight Show late Tuesday, the comedian turned his successor, Barack Obama, into the brunt of his hard jabs.
Leno raked him over the coals over Obamacare.
"Better him than me," Bush quipped afterward, relieved. He's happy to be out of line of fire.
"Eight years is plenty," he said. "I don't miss the spotlight."
Bush has largely avoided it since he left the White House in 2009, and Leno couldn't help but immediately pry into the reason why.
Leno told the 43rd president that he was surprised that he agreed to appear this time. It was Bush's fourth appearance on the show.
Bush used the opening to land the first shot at the late-night host, who will go off the air next spring after 20 years on the tube.
"You're about to head out to pasture. Just wanted to see what you look like, before you got to the gate," he said to laughs.
Then came his serious answer.
"I don't think it's good for the country to have a former president criticize his successor," Bush said.
As he has often in the past, Bush said that history will judge his legacy. But he didn't appear concerned.
Historians are still preoccupied with George Washington, he said. "If they're still writing biographies of the first guy, the 43rd guy doesn't need to worry."
Leno asked him for some advice to the sitting President on dealing with tough decisions.
"You have to believe in what you're doing," he said. Family, faith and a good team helped him deal with the rest, when he was President, Bush said.
President Obama's approval ratings have taken a pounding in the wake of the technical glitches that have plagued the launch of the Affordable Care Act.
Bush knows what public scorn feels like. But he said he did not take opinion poll numbers to heart.
"The only poll that really mattered was on Election Day. My first election was a little closer than I wanted," he said, grinning over one of many moments of self-deprecation.
Retirement seems to have afforded Bush opportunities for fun and fulfilling charity work.
He and his wife Laura travel often to Africa, where the Bush Institute runs health initiatives.
Leno showed a video of Bush dancing with locals in Zambia, making them laugh, and photo of the former Chief Executive painting a clinic.
It's a good message to leaders around the world, Bush said.
"If it's OK for the President to be painting and scraping, it's OK for them to be painting and scraping."
Bush joked that he has taken up a new profession since retiring from the Oval Office.
"I am a painter," he told Leno with a straight face. Leno asked, if he would add that to his resume.
"You may not think I'm a painter; I think I'm a painter," Bush added with a sly smile.
Bush made a gift to Leno of a portrait of the comedian, which he painted himself. He has been taking lessons in Dallas, and the results show.
When he first met his teacher, Bush said he told her:
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UPDATE: Apple has now denied these rumours. Read: Apple confirms: 'We are hard at work on the next version of Logic Pro'
There may be no future for Apple's pro audio application Logic if reports that the company has 'decimated' its Pro Audio applications team turn out to be true.
Pro Tools Expert sources claim that in Europe Apple has just two pro application specialists and no plans to hire any one else.
That site claims a search on Apple's job site returned some audio related jobs relating to iPod speakers, audio in Final Cut and internal sound engineers.
The next audio application from Apple will be for the iPad, according to Pro Tools Expert sources.
Logic Pro 9 was last updated in 2009. Music Radar notes that since 2009 the DAW (digital audio workstation) business has changed dramatically. That site has contacted Logic Pro users and compiled a list of features it would like to see in Logic Pro X, should Apple ever update the software. Wished for features include: rock-solid auto-save; more Ableton-like audio warping engine; make Logic able to address more than the maximum 4GB of RAM; tighter automation; a Copy+Paste clip with/without automation option; a better and easier-to-use sampler; drag 'n' drop/plug 'n' play MIDI effects as in Ableton.
The lack of a truly up-to-date Mac Pro and the scaled down Final Cut X left many pro users concerned that Apple was neglecting its professional user base. Apple CEO Tim Cook did confirm earlier this year that a new Mac Pro will be launched in 2013, all eyes will be on Apple to see if the new product truly meets the needs of pro customers. It seems likely that the launch will happen in June to coincide with Apple's WWDC.
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Hobby Lobby Has Hearing Before Federal Appeals Court Regarding HHS Suit
Christian store's lawyer is encouraged after arguing the case before full panel of 10th Circuit judges.
The lawyer representing Hobby Lobby and its Christian owners in a lawsuit challenging the federal contraception mandate is heartened following the case's hearing before a federal appeals court.
"We were encouraged by it; we were able to make our points forcefully, and we felt the judges heard what we were saying," Kyle Duncan, general counsel with The Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, told Catholic News Agency May 24.
The arts-and-crafts retailer is one of well over 100 plaintiffs challenging a mandate issued by the Department of Health and Human Services requiring that employers provide insurance coverage for contraception, including abortion-inducing drugs and sterilizations.
On May 23, Duncan argued Hobby Lobby's case before the full eight-member panel of the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals. Such cases are usually heard by only three judges of an appellate court.
"The mere fact we were standing there before the entire 10th Circuit Court of Appeals is encouraging in and of itself. ... It's a really extraordinary thing," he explained.
Duncan said it is a "fair inference" to believe the court granted a hearing with the full panel because "they wanted to bring all the resources of the court to bear, to make sure that everyone understood, including the Supreme Court, that they were giving this very careful consideration."
Hobby Lobby is a for-profit business run by the the Green family, who are Christians and who exercise their faith through their business. They object to providing "earmarked gift certificates" for emergency contraceptives, which can induce abortions within the first week after sexual intercourse.
Both the Greens themselves, and Hobby Lobby, have brought the suit against the HHS secretary, and the oral arguments made May 23 focused on the Greens' "standing," or right, to bring the suit.
They argue that their First Amendment right to free exercise of religion is "substantially burdened" by the contraception mandate, as are their rights under the 1993 Religious Freedom Restoration Act.
Nearly 200 plaintiffs have filed lawsuits across the country, challenging the mandate on grounds of religious liberty, including EWTN, the parent company of the Register.
The Greens run their business through a trust by which they "bound themselves to have religious goals" in the corporation's work.
Much of the arguments at the hearing focused on the exercise of religion in the public and commercial spheres, and when a judge asked if you can have it "both ways," having both religious and commercial interests, Duncan replied, "It's not having it 'both ways'; it's 'both/and'" and said that religious goals are not inconsistent with business goals.
The Religious Freedom Restoration Act requires that the government have a "compelling interest" in restricting religious liberty because it is regarded as so important and fundamental in American law.
Duncan argued that the government does not have a "compelling interest" in forcing Hobby Lobby to give its employees coverage for abortifacient drugs because "it has already granted exemptions from that portion of the mandate to many religious employers."
"If the government really believed" that every woman must have insurance coverage for contraceptives, Duncan told CNA, then "it would make the mandate across the board; it would apply to everybody.
"And it doesn't apply to everybody. There are tens of millions of people who are exempted from this."
During his arguments, Duncan explained to the court that Hobby Lobby's coverage of emergency contraceptives is not "indispensable" precisely because the HHS Department has already exempted the employers of 87 million people from providing that very coverage.
The federal government has exempted churches from being subject to the mandate, as well as providing an "accommodation" to certain nonprofit religious employers.
The federal government's lawyer, Alisa Klein, responded in the oral arguments that religious exercise under the Religious Freedom Restoration Act should be applied to "churches and spiritual leaders, as a paradigm," and that only "some types of entities" have free exercise of religion.
Extending such rights to for-profit businesses and their owners would "go towards" establishing a national church and would allow churches to "extend their influence" and "branch into for-profit entities," according to Klein.
She characterized the Greens' claims as pitting their rights against the rights of their employees, saying that employees would be harmed if their employer did not pay for their emergency contraception.
Duncan told CNA that "the idea that Hobby Lobby is oppressing its employees or denying them a significant amount of benefits really doesn't measure up to the facts. Let's remember: Hobby Lobby provides generous wages, well above the minimum wage, and generous benefits to its employees."
"Hobby Lobby isn't violating the rights of its employees. Its employees are perfectly free to buy and use these drugs, even to use the generous wages Hobby Lobby gave them to buy the drugs, so we think the government has the rights question really quite backwards," he said.
He noted that the coverage the Greens refuse to pay for is "a very, very small number of drugs" within its "otherwise extraordinarily generous comprehensive health benefits."
One of the judges made a similar point during the oral arguments, emphasizing the importance of religious liberty.
When Klein acknowledged that the corporation provides wide-ranging insurance benefits to its employees, the judge asked her rhetorically, "So, if you add an objectionable mandate to a lot (of mandates) that are okay, it's not a burden?"
Duncan noted that, among the judges, there were some friendly and hostile to both sides, but that "it's not easy" and can even be "dangerous" to "try and predict the outcome of oral arguments."
While speaking to reporters outside the court room following the arguments, he said the court's decision will likely be handed down sometime in July: "We'll just have to wait and see."


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It was supposed to be normal. It was supposed to be uncomplicated, easy, and so utterly textbook-like that it was somewhat comedic. The doctor had laughed about how by-the-numbers everything had gone so far. But after about 30 minutes of struggling in the delivery room, eight words were uttered that changed everything:
"I think there's something wrong with the baby."
In the span of under a minute the room changed from a tranquil birthing room to being filled with nurses acting with military precision to rush Ashley to the operating room for an emergency cesarian. The umbilical cord was wrapped around him. His heart rate was dropping. It was not - currently - life threatening, but that would change during the birthing procedure. So we had to change our prepared, planned-for method of delivery.
And in what felt like a shorter time period than a commercial break during a sitcom, my family structure changed from being a duo to a trio.
While Ashley was being stitched up, I walked him to the nursery. Still in a daze, still in shock, but somehow able to push a cart with a newborn in it. But before the nurse took him inside, she turned and spoke seven words that changed my arms from being free to forever being full:
"Would you like to hold him, daddy?"
After a brief period of getting weighed, measured, and cleaned, he was wheeled back into our room. While still slightly loopy from the anesthetic, after nursing him Ashley asked me five words that changed me from being unsure, insecure, and uncertain if I could actually be a father. Five words that led to an action that changed me to find courage, strength, and surety to be able to handle the life before me.
"Do you want to change him?"
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I changed you, and in the process of simply being you, you changed me. Forever.
For the better.
Happy fourth birthday, Malakai.


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Bill Gross: Brace for lower returnsFebruary 27, 2013: 11:54 AM ET
Get used to lower returns on stocks and bonds, Pimco's founder and co-chief investment officer Bill Gross told investors in his monthly letter.
Gross, who oversees Pimco's Total Return Fund (PTTRX), said that investors are entering a period of what he calls "rational temperance." By that Gross means that investors should expect gains from stocks, and corporate and high-yield bonds to be more muted.
Corporate credit and high yield bonds are somewhat exuberantly and irrationally priced. "Still that doesn't mean you should vacate your portfolio of them," Gross writes. Instead prepare to see returns in the range of 3% to 4%, instead of the double-digit gains enjoyed in recent years.
Gross leads off his letter citing a famous question posted by former Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan in 1996: "But how do we know when irrational exuberance has unduly escalated asset values?"
Related: Bill Gross: Be very afraid of the markets
Reiterating that Greenspan's question quickly invokes images of the wreckage of the dot-com bust or the 2008 financial crisis. Gross offers a less ominous forecast. "On a scale of 1-10 measuring asset price 'irrationality', we are probably at a 6 and moving in an upward direction," he writes.
February's letter is also decidedly less scary than his writings just a month ago, when warned of the dangers of inflation and the flood of cheap money.
He suggests caution but not running for a bunker. "Be rational, be optimistic if so inclined, but temper it with a commonsensical conclusion that we have seen something similar to this before, and that previous outcomes seldom matched the exuberance."
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Daytona Beach, Fla. – Costa puts a new twist on a classic aviator style with its new Cocos sunglasses. Available in palladium and gold frame colors, the new Cocos features adjustable silicone nose pads for a customized, "forget-they're-on†fit, and is built from quality Monel® metal.
The sunglasses feature Costa's signature durable co-injected temples, sturdy integral hinges and heavy duty eye wire, making them nearly indestructible. Combined with Costa's lightweight, impact resistant 580P® lenses, Cocos provides incredible performance technology in an on trend metal-framed sunglasses.
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Cocos is also available in Costa's 580 Rx lens program through authorized optical retailers. The style is available now online at www.costadelmar.com. Cocos retails from $199 to $279 depending on lens customization. Rx style prices will vary.
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