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L7 & The Backyard: Elliewood continues to evolve
For over three decades, the little blue house at 11 Elliewood Avenue was known as Martha's Caf©, but Cantina, the tacoria that replaced it last summer, appears to have only lasted only about eight months. The owners have decided to re-name the place L7 and turn it into what Elliewood insiders are calling an "Asian noodle shop." Unfortunately, there's no phone listing for L7, and no one answered the old Cantina number during several calls, so further details on the place will have to wait.
Across the street, the old Buddhist Biker Bar spot is transforming into The Backyard, a lunch, dinner, and late night bar/restaurant scheduled to open next week, according to the restaurant's Facebook page.
The new concepts will join Coupe DeVille's, Biltmore Grill, Para Coffee, Marco & Luca, Take It Away, and Sushi Love in the Elliewood line-up.

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4 Green Stock Picks that Can Bloom in a Perilous Sector
Renewable-energy stocks suffer due to big-picture uncertainties, but prospects are better than they seem.
When you invest in a renewable-energy stock nowadays, the company's prospects are almost a secondary concern. More so than for any other sector, you have to think primarily about the big picture: What's the direction of energy prices? (Rising prices good; falling prices bad.) What's in store for U.S. energy policy? (See U.S. Energy Policy: Is Uncle Sam Green Enough? for more about that.) Will states ramp up requirements for renewable energy? Will China continue to spend on green projects like a drunken sailor on shore leave?
Uncertainty surrounding all of those questions explains why the alternative-energy sector has performed so poorly this year. Year-to-date through September 2, the WilderHill Clean Energy index, which tracks 54 companies around the world, dropped 18%. By contrast, Standard & Poor's 500-stock index lost 2%.
The dismal performance of renewable-energy stocks disguises some good news in the sector. Many green companies continue to book higher sales and profits, and their stocks will likely blossom once the financial and regulatory pictures become clearer. (The venture-capital community is still high on green stocks. See Venture Capitalists Go for Green for more about that.) Below, we describe our four favorites.
Regardless of fuel prices and government policy, many green-energy companies are thriving, says Jack Robinson, manager of Winslow Green Growth Fund (symbol WGGFX). Except for water utilities, all of the categories in renewable energy are growing by double-digit percentages annually, Robinson says, and "money ultimately follows growth."
One of Robinson's favorites is WaterFurnace Renewable Energy, a small company that is based in Fort Wayne, Ind., but trades on the Toronto Stock Exchange under the symbol WFI.TO. When we caught up with Robinson recently, he was having a WaterFurnace geothermal system installed at his Rhode Island vacation home. The company's systems take advantage of steady temperatures below ground to provide heating and cooling for residences and businesses. These geothermal systems, Robinson says, are reliable and pay for themselves in a reasonable amount of time, even without the federal government chipping in for 30% of their costs -- a benefit available for most renewable-energy systems. He figures that the money the system saves will offset the cost in four and a half years with the subsidy and seven without.
WaterFurnace generates annual sales of only $129 million, but the company is highly profitable (all numbers relating to WaterFurnace are in U.S. dollars; share prices and related figures for all companies mentioned in this story are through the close on September 2). It has averaged a 40% return on equity over the past 16 quarters, Robinson says. In its second quarter, the company's sales rose 15.5% from the same period a year earlier, although profits fell from 30 cents per share to 27 cents. WaterFurnace pays a quarterly dividend of 22 cents a share. At $24.21, the stock yields 3.6 %.
The classic case of a green-energy company that's dominant in its field but whose stock hasn't been getting much respect is First Solar (FSLR). At $134.89, the stock is basically where it was a year ago, although the price has bounced around plenty in the interim.
Analysts had predicted earnings of $1.60 per share and revenue of about $543 million for the second quarter -- estimates that First Solar trounced, with earnings of $1.84 per share and revenue of $588 million. Analysts expect annual revenue of $2.6 billion in 2010, jumping to $3.6 billion in 2011, and they expect earnings to rise from $7.37 per share in 2010 to $8.14 in 2011.
Currently, though, the company is feeling the effects of tightening profit margins and the costs it incurred to settle problems with apparently faulty solar modules it made more than a year ago. The predicted earnings for 2010 are actually down from the $7.53 per share First Solar earned last year.
But demand for photovoltaic cells is booming, so this year's setback in profits is temporary. First Solar is expanding its business in Europe, driving down the price of the super-efficient type of solar cells it makes and even opening a plant in China. If you look at the big picture, the company has clear skies ahead and will continue to be the leader in solar energy in the U.S.
Full disclosure: I recommended First Solar in the June 2009 issue of Kiplinger's Personal Finance magazine (Green Energy Rising), with the stock at about $142. I still like it, obviously.
In that issue I also endorsed Cree (CREE), another company that I am re-recommending. That stock has fared much better, climbing from $27 to as high as $83 in April. It closed September 2 at $55.62.
In that story I mentioned that the light-emitting diodes Cree made could be found in $20 flashlights sold in hardware stores. The price of those flashlights has dropped to $5, and chains such as Home Depot are beginning to stock LED light bulbs, including some that use Cree components. LED bulbs will shine continuously for six years before burning out, and they use 85% less power than an incandescent bulb and half as much as a fluorescent bulb. A 40-watt-equivalent LED bulb costs $20, but with normal use it'll last 46 years.
The boom in LEDs is lighting up Cree's results. In Cree's fourth fiscal quarter, which ended June 27, sales rose 79%, to $264.6 million, from the same quarter a year earlier, and profits zoomed 445%, to $52.8 million. Analysts estimate that Cree will earn $2.41 a share in the fiscal year that ends June 2011, up 41% from the just-concluded year. The stock trades at 23 times that estimate, a reasonable price for a company that is expected to generate earnings growth of 22% annually over the next three to five years.
My final pick may require even more patience than the other stocks do. American Superconductor (AMSC) makes electrical systems for wind farms and turbines, and the U.S. wind-turbine business is now in one of its periodic slumps. The American Wind Energy Association reports that U.S. wind-power installations fell 71% in the second quarter compared with the same period in 2009.
But by fretting too much about business in the U.S., investors are underestimating American Superconductor's global reach. Its biggest customer is Sinovel Wind Group, of China, where green energy is booming as a result of government fiat.
But selling systems to wind farms isn't what's exciting about American Superconductor. The big potential lies in the superconductor part of the business. Building massive wind farms in the Midwest, where the wind blows steadily, comes with a big problem: You lose a lot of electricity transporting that power to population centers on the coasts. American Superconductor's superconducting wire helps reduce the amount lost. The company could reap enormous revenues by supplying Chinese and South Korean grid projects, as well as the Tres Amigas Superstation, in Santa Fe, N.M., which will tie the U.S.'s three major power grids together.
Even without these deals, American Superconductor is already growing rapidly. Analysts are looking for revenues to rise 36%, to $431 million, for the fiscal year that ends next March. They expect earnings to climb 77%, to $1.24 per share, in the current fiscal year and to $1.64 per share in the March 2012 year. At $28.41, the stock trades at 23 times estimated fiscal 2011 earnings. That's a fair price for a company that is already growing rapidly, even before accounting for the superconducting kicker that could supercharge its numbers starting next year.


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Robert Pattinson, gazillionaire vampire movie star that he is, buys everything off of Craigslist. His car, for instance, is a $2,500 Chevy Silverado and he took it to weird places just like you do. What weird places? A parking lot where people watch each other having sex.
Pattinson revealed a penchant for buying his cars off of Craigslist last night on Jimmy Kimmel Live (2:10 in this video). He explained that he got his '01 Chevy three months ago for about $2,500 from a guy living with his parents out in ritzy Chino Hills. And Pattinson tried to haggle the price down $300.
The reason why Pattinson wanted a truck is that he likes to go biking, and for months he'd haul his bike to the same trailhead where he noticed a lot of guys hanging around in parked cars. Only when the police raided the site did Pattinson learn that they were dogging. That is, they were watching each other have sex.
If you starred in an insanely successful movie franchise that also turned you into an international sex symbol, you'd buy cheap cars off Craigslist and go biking at skeevy LA sex hangouts, right? You and Robert Pattinson are totally alike!
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QB Michael Vick
Despite averaging the second highest FPts/G average of his career, Vick was considered a bit of a bust in 2011. At 23.2 PPG, Vick averaged 6.5 FPts/G fewer than his monster 2010 season and it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out why. After scoring nine touchdowns on the ground in 2010, Vick found the end zone just once. However, Vick himself may have been the biggest cause for his lack of scores as he turned the ball over repeatedly, coughing up 14 interceptions and losing four fumbles in the 13 games he appeared in. Otherwise, Vick put together a solid season setting career-highs in completions (253), attempts (423) and passing yards (3,303). In 2012, his success will depend on two factors: a willingness to avoid hits and improved decision-making. Vick can still run the ball (589 rushing yards last season) and his passing is light years ahead of what it was in his younger days, although not quite on par with the upper echelon quarterbacks in the league. He seemed to get the message about avoiding hits when he returned from a rib injury in Week 14 last season, with his rushing attempts dropping from 7.2 before the injury to 2.8 after the injury. And therein lies the quandary with Vick as your starting fantasy quarterback. He needs to run the ball effectively to be a stud but that increases his risk of injury, which takes him out of the lineup. Look for Vick to improve on his 2011 fantasy production but not match his monster season in 2010, leaving him just outside the top five as a fantasy option in 2012. Keep in mind that drafting Vick necessitates grabbing an upper tier backup since it's pretty much certain he will miss time at some point in the season.
RB LeSean McCoy
After a solid season in 2010 in his first year as the Eagles starting running back, McCoy was even better in 2011, rushing for 1,309 yards and 17 touchdowns while chalking up 315 receiving yards and three more scores – good enough to finish as the 2nd ranked fantasy running back. The icing on top of that fabulous fantasy production was that he was remarkably consistent, reaching double digit fantasy points in every game until the Eagles season finale against Dallas. The question is whether McCoy can generate that production again in 2012? First off, the Eagles ran the ball more in 2011 than in previous seasons so a reduction in McCoy's rushing attempts seems to be in the offing. No issue there since the Eagles have said they plan to get the ball to him more in the passing game to reduce his wear and tear and that seems like a genuine plan given that his receptions dropped from 78 in 2010 to 48 last season. Second, the Eagles have said they plan on giving him more rest but we've heard coaches spout that off before and it seems a little disingenuous this time given the team's backups consistent of diminutive, second year player Dion Lewis (who found himself in some hot water for pulling a fire alarm in the offseason) and a pair of rookies in Bryce Brown and Carlos Polk. Finally, can we expect another 17 rushing touchdowns from McCoy given that quarterback Michael Vick scored just once last season? Probably not. Other than that, McCoy's got a sunny fantasy outlook for 2012. Nab him as a top five running back and enjoy the show.
RB Dion Lewis
The Eagles 2011 5th round pick saw precious little playing time in his rookie year, running the ball 23 times for 102 yards and a score while catching just one pass. It was a little perplexing watching aging veteran Ronnie Brown continually run into the line and go down while the Eagles had a speedster like Lewis waiting in the wings but you'll have to check with Andy Reid as to why he divvied up the playing time the way he did. This season, Lewis will enter training camp as the top backup to starter LeSean McCoy but his value as a handcuff is unknown. He will need to beat out a pair of rookies in Bryce Brown and Carlos Polk to win the role and be impressive enough that the team doesn't bring in a veteran runner like they did last year. An off-season incident for pulling a fire alarm likely didn't help Lewis' case any. On other teams, Lewis' size (5'8", 195 pounds) might be an issue but not in Philadelphia where the running back position has been owned by a pair of smaller backs (McCoy and Brian Westbrook) for the last decade. Lewis' fantasy value will be determined in training camp.
RB Bryce Brown
Philadelphia burned a 7th round pick to acquire Brown, a Kansas State product who will need to show some increased maturity in order to make the Eagles roster. Brown would have been taken much higher based on his size and ability but has barely played in two seasons. At 6'0" and 223 pounds, he brings some size to the running back position for the Eagles but that hasn't been a key concern for Andy Reid with respect to running backs. With 2nd year player Dion Lewis having done little and fellow rookie Carlos Polk a health risk, Brown has a chance to emerge as LeSean McCoy's backup in 2012. Monitor this situation in training camp.
RB Chris Polk
Polk might have been a 2nd round pick in this year's NFL draft had teams not been concerned about a degenerative shoulder condition. As it turned out, Polk surprisingly went undrafted, making him the Danario Alexander of running backs. The Eagles signed him after the draft and Polk probably couldn't have landed in a better situation. Despite going undrafted, he could end up being LeSean McCoy's backup on opening day. He was hugely productive in college at Washington and has enough size, speed and receiving ability to produce in the pros. Keep an eye on him this preseason.
WR DeSean Jackson
DeSean got paid. The good news is that we won't have to read and hear about how DeSean wants to get paid. The bad news is his high fantasy risk factor just went through the roof. Heck, high character players generally see a decline in production after getting their first big contract. Considering Jackson's refusal to go over the middle last season as well as his alligator arms routine when forced to make a catch in traffic, getting his first big deal could put an even bigger damper on his production than his pouting, me first attitude did in 2011. The guy is extremely talented and might just be the best big play threat in the league next to Calvin Johnson but he has been a one trick pony for most of his career and there aren't many reasons to expect that to change in 2012. Another 1,000 yards and six or seven touchdowns seems likely but a repeat of his 4th ranked fantasy wide receiver performance in 2009 is a pipe dream. Somebody is going to buy the dream. Don't let it be you.
WR Jeremy Maclin
Maclin overcame some preseason injury issues (a medical condition that reportedly caused him to lose a pile of weight) to have a nice start to the season but the injury bug struck at midseason causing him to miss three games and preventing him from putting together his first 1,000-yard receiving season. The Eagles 2009 1st round pick is a talented player with above average speed and a willingness to catch the ball in traffic and over the middle but there is always a lingering suspicion that his production is tied to seeing less attention than his fellow starter DeSean Jackson. It is worth noting that the two Eagles receivers have produced similar fantasy point totals over the past two seasons. What makes Maclin more appealing from a fantasy perspective is his consistency and reduced risk profile. Maclin shows up every week when he is healthy and hasn't showed himself to be a diva receiver during his three years in the league. While Maclin isn't likely to generate the ten touchdowns that made him a solid fantasy option in 2010, he should come close to that given that he is a better red zone option than Jackson. Expect him to top 1,000 receiving yards for the first time this season and rank as a mid-tier WR2 at season's end… without the headaches.
WR Jason Avant
As a football fan, you have to love Jason Avant. The guy has climbed his way up the food chain and improved every year that he has been in the league, seeing his receptions increase every year for six years. The 2006 4th round pick willingly goes across the middle and that ability helped him set career highs in receptions with 52 and yards with 679 last season. Unfortunately, the one area where he hasn't showed much progress is in the red zone. Avant has found the end zone just 10 times in his six-year career, including once in 2011. With Riley Cooper nipping at his heels and the Eagles high on rookie 6th round pick Marvin McNutt, Avant will be hard-pressed to keep his run of increasing productivity going in 2012.
WR Riley Cooper
The Eagles 5th round pick in the 2010 draft, Cooper has made some plays when given the opportunity but unfortunately not nearly enough of them. Given a decent amount of playing time last season when injuries beset the Eagles receiving corps, Cooper finished the year with 16 receptions for a nifty 315 yards and a score. Not bad. Not so impressive was his completion to target percentage which checked in at 45.7%, his second consecutive sub-50% season. Cooper's solid size and decent speed make him a good option on deep passes, hence his 19.7 yards per reception figure from last season. However, he struggles to get open on underneath routes and has a limited upside. He isn't worth drafting in standard leagues and may be usurped on the depth chart by rookie 6th round pick Marvin McNutt, rendering him a slight dynasty league prospect also.
TE Brent Celek
Persona non grata in 2010 and for the first six games of 2011, Celek reemerged as a weapon for the Eagles over the final 10 games of last season, catching 53 passes for 738 yards and five touchdowns. A lot of that production was in the screen game in order to help keep quarterback Michael Vick upright and slow down the opposing pass rush. With left tackle Jason Peters out for 2012 due to injury, Celek may end up getting plenty of targets in 2012. Or he may end up being asked to help out new left tackle Demetrious Bell. While Celek is unlikely to return to his glory days from 2009 when he finished the year as the 4th ranked fantasy tight end, he ranks as a low end fantasy starter in 2012 and one with upside given his re-emergence in the Eagles passing attack last season.


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A market leading business events company located in Central London are looking for an individual with an outstanding academic background and strong commercial experience to join their expanding events business. The company offers market leading niche b2b conferences bringing together global heads of business.
The invitation only events are tailored for C-Suite executives and are in the form of exclusive conferences, high quality seminars and private meetings.
The graduate conference producer will take on a high degree of ownership, autonomy and diversity, and includes taking responsibility for the production and project management of both established events and new launches.
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About the role
The role will report to the Head of Conference Production, focusing on bringing together the most important decision makers, executives, experts and consultants across various industries. You will build your own conference from scratch, researching the hot topics from industry, speaking with key stakeholders, creative input, and elements of marketing and budgetary management. This is a classic project management role with high financial reward through a lucrative profit share offering.
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It Just Might Work
As the old saying goes, there is more than one way to skin a cat. The method I'm using to build these windows is probably the least complicated way to do it. That also means that this method probably makes the weakest joints. I don't write this to point out that I'm making inferior windows, but rather I don't want someone to read this and think that this is the best or only way to make windows like this.
Now, I don't think these windows are going to fail any time soon, but I will be the first to admit there are better ways to do this. I chose this method because it is a nice balance between the time I can put in to the project and the skill sets I have. I get compliments on this blog regarding my carpentry skills, but really, I am no master craftsman. I accept that.
On my windows the only muntins that are solid pieces of wood are the 2 long stiles running vertically in the center. All of the rails are coped in to the stiles, and then all muntins are coped in to the rails and stiles of the frame. Rials are members that run horizontally and stiles run vertically.
There are ways to make these where the 4 main rial and stile muntins are all single pieces of wood. You could also do it where the rails and stiles of both the frame and the muntins are joined by mortise and tenons. All of my joinery is done with coping, and then secured with glue and brads. Not the strongest, but it will have to do.
Changing the bearing on the bottom gives you a different dept of cut
I used a rabbeting bit on a router to cut the rabbets where the glass will sit. It is a 1/4X1/4 inch rabbet, which I think is about as small as I could get it. You could also cut the rabbets before assembly, but that is more of a challenge. The problem with cutting them with the router after assembly is that the router leaves round corners that must be chiseled out to square.
There is a tool called a corner chisel, which I own, that will do this in one pass, but the radius left by the rabbeting bit I used is too large to work with the corner chisel I own. This means I need to work with a hammer and chisel to square up the rabbets where the glass sits. It is a lot of tedious work. On the plus side, if the coped joints I did with brads and glue hold up to the hammer and chisel I can be pretty sure that they won't fail from the door opening and closing several times a day for the years or decades to come.
After the chiseling is done I can paint the side that will face outside and oil and shellac the side that will face inside. Then it is just a matter of waiting for the glass to come in, which I ordered today. I went with the blue textured glass in the center and then red and glue chip around the edges. The guy at the glass shop told me he would have it ready by Wednesday.
If I can get the glass installed Wednesday evening then I can take it to the glass shop on Thursday to have the glazing done. I've done a lot of glazing myself, but I'm not really good enough to do it on these windows. There are 26 pieces of glass and when people knock on my front door they will be inches from it. I want the glazing to be crisp and sharp and I know my limitations.
If - and that's a big if – If I can get the windows back by Friday I can install the windows in the front doors next Saturday.


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2012 has been a busy year for me. Workings 1.5 jobs and attending school part-time online is challenging, but something that I know that I can handle. The downside to this– is I am looking at some very interesting books and wishing I could squeeze in some pleasure reading. It's true that I own more clothes than books. Think of me as the Jessica Parker from Sex in the City…only I have lots of books in my closets. If I had a permanent dwelling place…it would probably look something like the photo below…
I have a recent obsession with the New York Times weekly Book Review. Here are 5 books that I wish I had time to read.
The Loom By Sheila Gillus
Twelve Gates to the City: A Novel By Daniel Black
They Tell Me of a Home: A Novel By Daniel Black
How to Be Black By Baratunde Thurston
Black Cool: One Thousand Streams of Blackness By Rebecca Walker


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At this year's PRSA International conference in Philadelphia, a few thousand PR professionals from all over the world gathered for the latest trends and insights into the future of PR and communications.
For my part, I presented on the growing role of Content Marketing for Public Relations to a packed room of attentive and inquisitive PR and communications pros.
On top of the networking, awards and education, there was plenty of connecting with old friends. I was happy to see Shonali Burke (who is handling book PR for Robert Scoble and Shel Israel's new book, Age of Context) as soon as I walked into the venue hotel. Shortly after we connected with Richard Bagnall (founder of Metrica, acquired by Gorkana) who came over from London.


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July 1, 2011 — Medicare will keep paying for the drug Avastin to fight breast cancer even though an FDA panel has recommended that the medication no longer be sold as a treatment for breast cancer.
Medicare, in a separate issue, says it will cover costs of Provenge, an expensive treatment for advanced prostate cancer.
"We frequently cover off-label uses and have not been asked to stop paying for this one," Don McLeod, a spokesman for Medicare, tells WebMD, referring to Avastin. "The label change will not affect our coverage."
"Off-label" refers to prescribing a drug for a condition that is not specifically approved by the FDA.
Medicare and the FDA "are different agencies" and operate "under a different statute," he tells WebMD. "We are looking at the evidence. It is not automatic."
Decisions by Medicare and FDA Panel
Medicare, known formally as the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services or CMS, issued its "final decision" to cover Provenge on June 30, saying the drug "improves health outcomes" for certain men with advanced prostate cancer.
That announcement followed a June 29 decision by an FDA panel recommending that Avastin no longer be sold as a treatment for breast cancer.
The two cases had nothing to do with each other, McLeod tells WebMD, and it was "just coincidental" that the FDA panel's recommendation against Avastin came one day before Medicare said Provenge would be covered.
"It would be incorrect to say that a decision has been made on coverage of Avastin," McLeod says in an email. "So far, to this point, FDA's actions have not affected CMS's payment for Avastin. We are aware of the recent advisory committee vote as part of FDA's ongoing review. As the situation evolves we will continue to evaluate and consider our options."
Though the FDA panel said Avastin should no longer be sold as a breast cancer treatment, a final decision on whether to suspend marketing will be made later in the year by FDA Commissioner Margaret A. Hamburg, MD.
Cost of Provenge and Avastin
Provenge, made by Dendreon Corp., is estimated to cost about $93,000 per patient.
McLeod tells WebMD that Medicare will cover Provenge for certain indications.
Avastin, made by California-based Genentech, costs about $88,000 a year.
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The arrangement of a song also depends on where it fits within the scheme of the CD. If the surrounding tracks have elaborate vocals, the band may opt for a more scaled back approach. Still, there's that unifying theme throughout Ignition about people taking stock of where they are in life. When Klebe sings, "What's not to hate about love?" on "Heaven Help Me," he's depicting a guy who realizes all the fun has gone out of his relationship. "Where Will It End" includes the line, "I'm getting bored with the same old story," but the more optimistic "Wrong Idea" notes, "We hit a snag - - that's all there is to it/It'll take a little push to get through it." Klebe and the Murphy brothers believe a more complex view of love and relationships comes as songwriters mature.
"When you're young and writing songs about relationships," John Murphy explained. "It's 'I'm happy to be in love.' When you're older, it's more of a gray area - - can we make this relationship work? You're a little more beat up about it."
For the most part, the 15 songs on Ignition adhere to the melodic approach Shoes has honed over the years. Despite being regarded as one of power pop's best practitioners, they're not really sure they belong in that genre.
"We didn't know what the definition of power pop was," Klebe said. "And people would say to us, 'you are'."
"We really identify with a lot of what power pop is, but I think that's too narrow a label for us," John Murphy added.
Jeff Murphy pointed out that while The Beatles are considered the architects of power pop, songs like "Blackbird" hardly fit the description.
"No musician likes to be categorized," John Murphy contends. "I like tweaking what people think we should be doing."
In that vein, the fun and hard-hitting "Hot Mess" is a departure for Shoes. It bounces along with a Rolling Stones type of swagger while describing a woman who seems to be an intriguing jumble of contradictions. All three band members laughed when asked about lines like, "She's been payin' her dues/With her skanky tattoos/and her sensible shoes." John Murphy said he initially came up with those quick and silly rhymes just to make the other guys laugh, but some of them wound up staying in the song.
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"It's more complicated at our age," Jeff Murphy explained. "We have families and jobs. We have to work around our drummer's schedule. But performing is not out of the question."
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type LexOrder arg = [arg]Source
A lexicographic ordering for the recursion behaviour of a given function is a permutation of the argument indices which can be used to show that the function terminates. See the paper referred to above for more details.
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Column) describing how the function calls itself for that
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RecBehaviour invariant: the size must match the real size of
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fromDiagonals :: (Ord call, Ix arg) => [(call, Array arg Order)] -> RecBehaviour arg (Integer, call)Source
Constructs a recursion behaviour from a list of matrix diagonals
("rows"). Note that the
call indices do not need to be
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Precondition: all arrays should have the same bounds.
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Tries to compute a lexicographic ordering for the given recursion behaviour. This algorithm should be complete.
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739: Malamanteau
Title text: The article has twenty-three citations, one of which is an obscure manuscript from the 1490s and the other twenty-two are arguments on LanguageLog.
This comic is a reference to the large number of Wikipedia pages that start by labeling their subject matter as a "malapropism", a "portmanteau", or a "neologism". A malapropism is the use of an incorrect word in place of a word with a similar sound, resulting in a nonsensical utterance. An example of a malapropism is Yogi Berra's statement: "Texas has a lot of electrical votes," rather than "electoral votes". A portmanteau is a word made-up of two or more combined words and their definitions. For example, motel is a portmanteau, from the words motor and hotel. A neologism is simply a newly-coined word that is not yet in common use.
Here, Randall uses the word "malamanteau" which is both a portmanteau of "malapropism" and "portmanteau" and a malapropism of "portmanteau". Finally, "malamanteau" is itself a neologism. The methods used to create this new word are the very words used in the process. This is called a meta or "self-referential" joke.
"Malamanteau" was originally coined in 2007, when it was proposed by user ludwig_van on Metafilter as a term for language errors like "flustrated" (flustered & frustrated) and "misconscrewed" (misconstrued & screwed).
In response to this comic, editors at Wikipedia created a malamanteau page. It was deleted multiple times and eventually turned into a redirect to the Wikipedia page for xkcd. Malamanteau and the controversy at Wikipedia got coverage at The Economist and The Boston Globe.
The title text refers to Wikipedia's requirements of citations for a page on there to exist. It also refers to the wide range of places citations can be obtained from, showing a direct opposition due to the use of very different citations (The Language Log arguments are modern and informal, whereas the obscure manuscript is formal and much older). Language Log is a blog that posts content relating to language and linguistics, including things like malapropisms and portmanteaus. While an informal source, it has produced new linguistic terms before, such as eggcorn. Its comments sections frequently contain discussions and arguments about English, whose participants are probably the same people who write Wikipedia articles about linguistic phenomena like malamanteaux. The fact that no modern citation could be found outside of Language Log comments implies that the malamanteau is not a widely recognized or studied concept, but one invented by amateur linguists. Malamanteau did not appear on Language Log until after this strip. Malamanteau has since been referenced on the Language Log website, with a link to the comic in question. Language Log has referenced XKCD many times before, reposting the comics and linking to the XKCD website.
The citation of a document from the 1490s is a reference to the fact that linguists, like those who post on Language Log, often use old documents as evidence, possibly to prove that a construction is a longstanding feature of the language. However, if such an archaic citation is the only evidence of the term's use, then it is unlikely to be a notable feature worthy of a Wikipedia article.
Further, the title text implies that the fictional article isn't exactly the most stable inside the fictional Wikipedia's userbase, or otherwise is being subject to some severe favoritism, since "malamanteu" hasn't been used at any time since the feudal ages and its most recent citations are a borderline flame war on another website. Most articles that are only cited by a single website tend to get deleted unless the subject has achieved significant coverage in outside news media.
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- A malamanteau is a neologism for a portmanteau created by incorrectly combining a malapropism with a neologism. It is itself a portmanteau of [...the article cuts off.]
- [Below the panel.]
- Ever notice how Wikipedia has a few words it really likes?
External links
- Malamanteau at the official xkcd wiki
- Malamanteaus, a blog dedicated to the creation and proliferation of malananteaux
- Malamanteau at urbandictionary.com
- Malamanteau at wordsquirt.com
- Entries referencing "malamanteau" at LanguageLog.com
- Malamanteau Talk Page Archives 12 at Wikipedia.com
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Malamanteau
- Screen capture of the deleted history for the "Malamanteau" page from Wikipedia
- Wikipedia Log for "Malamanteau"
- Beutler, William (May 5, 2010) "Much Ado About Malamanteau". The Wikipedian
- McKean, Erin (May 30, 2010) "One Day Wonder". The Boston Globe
- R.L.G (Nov 4th 2010) "Eggcorn, mashup, malamanteau or other?". The Economonist
- July 17, 2007 "How to define this language mistake?" - MetaFilter thread with the first usage
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Neologism isn't properly defined in the explanation. A neologism can be any new word; it doesn't have to be made through a combination of other words. Also, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malamanteau redirects to xkcd's page last I checked. Wiktionary's page on it was deleted almost 3 years ago. Additionally, the description is missing an explanation for the image text (and maybe the word "portmanteau" should get a definition included). 126.96.36.199 22:03, 21 April 2013 (UTC)
- Now that you mention that the page redirects to xkcd, it's interesting to see the Revision history on it (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Malamanteau&action=history&year=2013) Saibot84 (talk) 03:24, 18 May 2013 (UTC)
- <12:44, 26 April 2013> Amalthea (Protected Malamanteau: Repeatedly recreated ([Edit=Block all non-admin users] (indefinite) [Move=Block all non-admin users] (indefinite)))
- <12:43, 26 April 2013> Amalthea (-130) (Revert to revision by Amalthea)
- <11:34, 26 April 2013> IP_77... (+130) (Undid revision by Amalthea, restored the content)
- <13:25, 20 April 2013> Amalthea (-130) (In the absence of new reliable sources that can bring this beyond a dictionary entry, I think the consensus from Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Malamanteau still holds.)
- <13:07, 20 April 2013> IP_87... (+130) (restored the content from the comic)
- <22:07, 27 September 2012 Scottywong (+18) (redirect to xkcd)
- <unknown date> Page Deleted
I have a feeling that the main point of this comic was that the words "portmanteau" and "neologism" (and maybe even "malapropism") appear disproportionately more on Wikipedia than other references. I certainly would agree with that sentiment. --Quicksilver (talk) 02:19, 20 August 2013 (UTC)
The page is still redirecting to the wikipedia page on xkcd, how long do you think it will be before the original content is restored? Whiskey07 (talk) 11:37, 21 November 2013 (UTC)
- Never. The page has now been fully, indefinitely protected. Good thing too. NealCruco (talk) 21:45, 27 December 2013 (UTC)
I tend to agree with Quicksilver's comment: not only is the comic poking fun at Wikipedia's propensity for using these words, but Randall's comic has created a page relying on almost no content _except_ these sorts of words. 22.214.171.124 (talk) (please sign your comments with ~~~~)
"and a malapropism of "portmanteau"." I'm a little confused on how that is a malapropism.--188.8.131.52 09:42, 18 April 2017 (UTC)


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It did have positive outcomes for consumers — increasing competition in local and long distance phone service, for example – but others said it led to a much more consolidated landscape. Before passage of the Act, a company could not own more than 40 radio stations in the entire country. With the Act's sweeping relaxation of ownership limits, a company like Clear Channel by 2002 was able to own 1225 radio stations in 300 cities.
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The reason? Under this Act, providers are being reimbursed not for individual episodes ("fee-for-service") but for outcomes (the long-term health of the patient population). This is real: last year for the first time, Medicare penalized more than 2,000 hospitals with excessive readmissions — one of the major red flags for poor performance. Part of the institutional change to improve outcomes is the concept of the Accountable Care Organization. ACOs are essentially consortiums promoted as a bigger, better model that manages health at the population level across a broader swathe of the healthcare specialties. So, an ACO might include a hospital, various specialty groups, surgery center, imaging, Emergency Department, even nursing homes, with all payments made to the head of the ACO (usually the hospital or large physician multi-specialty group) which then disburses to the rest of the group. So providers can't operate in a silo anymore or they won't get paid. It's now about the alignment of physicians and hospitals, working as a team.
As a result, the ACO has caused the biggest wave of consolidation that I've ever seen in the sector. What's more, in 2015, Medicare reimbursements will be reduced for physicians who haven't made inroads with electronic medical records, which can be expensive for small independent practices to install – resulting in more consolidation so providers can be compliant. Consider that a quarter of specialty physicians and 40% of primary care physicians are already employed by hospitals, up from 5% and 20%, respectively, in 2000. Some larger specialty practices are combatting this trend by merging with other practices to avoid being purchased by healthcare systems or hospitals. Nick Reed, Vice President of Professional Banking Services at Wells Fargo Bank, paints the picture: "Some independent practices are moving out of condominium office buildings and grouping together to buy office buildings. The costs of maintaining small independent space are becoming burdensome, particularly as the technological pressures on integration and connectivity are imposed." Mr. Reed sees information technology financing as an ever increasing part of medical office loan commitments. "We see a lot of IT expenditures in the $30,000 to $50,000 range, while multi-specialty groups have larger expenditures to fund."


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An essay, titled "No Shame in Apologizing," written by Lebanese columnist Hussam Itani, caught my attention a few months ago. I was reminded of it last Sunday, when I read another lengthy essay in the Sunday New York Times by Iraqi-American scholar and intellectual Kanan Makiya. In this essay, Makiya does something different from many Arab intellectuals and politicians when he apologizes or admits miscalculations and errors of judgment he made regarding American invasion of Iraq in 2003.
As a graduate student of Political Science, I supplemented my study of international and comparative politics with social psychology, and thanks to these non-political science courses I learned about attributions, cognitive dissonance, and consistency as mechanisms used by policymakers in decision-making. According to political scientists who employ social psychology in analyzing international politics, leaders tend to distort facts often because of boosting their self-esteem and satisfying egos. Regardless of the political and human costs of these mechanisms, leaders are not likely to apologize mainly because of psychological reasons. This conclusion, while intellectually popular, it remains debatable as ever among social scientists.
In "No Shame in Apologizing," Itani reasons that there is a stigma against "apologizing" in the Arab world: to apologize is to risk being called "weak" and lacking in "manhood." Regardless of what is at the root of this "manly" tradition, there are countless examples of politicians, scholars, and journalists who never express regret for their errors, not to mention blunders. Itani makes his case clearly with Jihad Makdisi, a former spokesman of the Syrian Foreign Ministry, who never apologized for all the lies he disseminated around his country and the world, especially after he defected and became safe inside the U.S. Similarly, Itani points at the many military officers who defected from the official Syrian army that became disenchanted with the Assad regime, but refrained from apologizing for what they did prior to their defection. It is inconceivable that the Assad regime was able to commit the crimes it did without the assistance of some of these defectors, Itani writes.
Kanan Makiya is an Iraqi intellectual and currently a professor of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies at Brandeis University and famous for his "Republic of Fear." To say Makiya was and is a polemical intellectual is an understatement. But I am not here to rehash the discourse on the 2003 Iraqi invasion of Iraq and the debates between Makiya and his critics; instead, I am interested in an Arab intellectual who has the courage of admitting faults and thus representing an exception among the majority Arab scholars and intellectuals who are loyal adherents to the "shame in apologizing" tradition. I am fully aware that none of what Makiya writes would comfort either Iraqis or Americans who lost loved ones in the 2003 Iraq war, something he himself admits.
In the time lead-up to the 2003 invasion, Makiya confesses to what he calls errors of judgment: "Both the George W. Bush administration and the Iraqi expatriate opposition to Mr. Hussein — myself included — grossly underestimated those costs in the run-up to the 2003 war. The Iraqi state, we failed to realize, had become a house of cards." He adds a sort of familiar line of rationalization, "We didn't know then what we know today. Some, including many of my friends, warned of the dangers of American hubris. I did not heed them in 2003."
Frankly, I am surprised that Makiya could have overlooked the fact that today's sectarianism, whether in Iraq or in Syria, does not emerge in vacuum, and thus it is one of the inevitable causes of absolutist regimes like those of Saddam, Hafez, and Bashar. Nevertheless, he admits another error, saying "my greatest misjudgment was in hoping that Iraq's new leaders would act for the collective Iraqi good." Again, this is another line of mere utopian reasoning. What in Ahmed Chalabi's past record leads Makiya to believe that this man will work for the collective Iraqi good!
Two thoughts come to mind after reading Itani and Makiya. A major concern for Itani is the future of Arab societies, not only in Syria but also in Lebanon and Palestine. For allowing the past to influence its future runs contrary to every goal the Arab Spring stands for. If the same political culture that thrived under Assad and even before is allowed to continue by reinstating defectors who lacked the courage to "apologize" for their criminal acts and subsequently escape accountability and punishment, the inevitable result would be a reproduction of the same repressive regimes in Syria's future. Thus no matter what forces sustain the tradition of considering "apology" as shame, those defectors who committed crimes they need to be held accountable, a process that is a precondition to building better societies.
When I first came across Makiya's apology, I was tempted to view it as a challenge to the stigmatization of "apology" in the Arab world, but later I realized that Makiya has been living and working in the West for a long time. So his attitude in admitting errors in judgment are not grounds for shame in Western culture but rather could further his credibility, especially when these admissions were made in the context of an opinion-analysis. Makiya may have little influence on Arab intellectuals and politicians, but he could set an example for some Arab-American intellectuals, where many of which uphold traditional attitudes toward "apologizing" for errors, very evident in advocating a culturally "defensive" discoursethan speaking their mind by emancipating themselves from archaic traditions and thus enriching Arab-American life with creative ideas.
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Common Core: At a Bookstore Near You
The Common Core State Standards have rolled slowly from the writing tables to state departments of education and on down to districts and schools. Even more slowly, they're making their way into parents' homes. If there could be a sure sign of that, it might well be this table at Barnes & Noble:
My colleague Michele McNeil caught sight of this with her trusty iPhone on a recent stroll through the Barnes & Noble around the corner from EdWeek's office in Bethesda, Md.
I wondered whether the bookstore chose its display titles for grades 4 and 5 straight from the common core's list of recommended readings (contained in Appendix B of the English/language arts standards), so I flipped open the list for that grade band. Only one—Bud, Not Buddy—was taken from that list of exemplars for grades 4 and 5 (although it's true, I can't see the other side of the display in this photograph). Another, Sarah, Plain and Tall, came from the list of exemplars for grades 2 and 3.
One interesting thing to note in this display is how the common core has ramped up reading expectations. The widely used Lexile measure is one way to get a glimpse of this.
Using the company's Quick Book Search tool (in the upper-right corner of its homepage), you can see that one of the books on the common-core display at Barnes & Noble, The Giver, is assigned a Lexile of 760.
Flipping to the Lexile-to-grade-correspondence chart, you can see that in 2009, The Giver was considered a 5th grade book. But Lexile recalibrated its levels to correspond to the common standards' college-ready expectations of increased rigor. So Lexile now places that novel at the 4th grade level.
With a Lexile of 950, Bud, Not Buddy was considered a book for 7th and 8th graders a few years ago, but now it's considered appropriate for 5th and 6th graders. Island of the Blue Dolphins used to be placed in the 8-10 grade band, but now Lexile includes it in grades 7 and 8.
Some books haven't changed levels. Sarah, Plain and Tall, for instance, is still a 2nd grade book, with a Lexile of 560.


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When Christopher Nolan first announced Bane as the villain of The Dark Knight Rises, many were nervous that whoever would take the role wouldn't be able to come close to Heath Ledger's amazing performance as the Joker in The Dark Knight. However, last August on the set of The Dark Knight Rises, I watched Tom Hardy as Bane walk onto Heinz Field in Pittsburgh and completely own the place. It was during that hot and humid afternoon that I realized Bane was going to be a kick ass villain.
During a break between filming, I participated in a group interview with Hardy on set. While he was very guarded about revealing too many secrets, he did talk to us about the costume, Bane's mask, if he has more respect for Darth Vader now, Bane's physicality, whether he had any apprehension about following Heath Ledger's Joker, what he learned working on Star Trek: Nemesis, and more. Hit the jump to either read or listen to the interview.
As usual, I'm offering you two ways to get the interview: you can either click here for the audio, or the full transcript is below. The Dark Knight Rises opens July 20.
Question: I want to ask you a question that you couldn't answer at Comic-Con–
Tom Hardy: I probably still can't answer it. [Laughs]
Do you have an accent in this movie? What are you doing for the voice?
Hardy: I can't say anything about him. I really can't say anything.
What's it like fighting Christian Bale? 'Cause he's the "Fighter" and you're the "Warrior. "
Hardy: Oh, yeah. I've only just realized! I'm always the last to know these things. I love working with Christian actually. I love working with everybody. I love working with Chris Nolan every time. Everybody in this cast is always lovely, constant professionals. There's a distinct lack of ego when you work with Chris. It's wonderful. So everybody plays to that environment which is very intimate and gentle. Does that make sense? So it doesn't feel like such a big– overwhelmingly big—experience, which it is. I've played to a crowd of a thousand people, 1,400 I think. That's The National. And then when we did Warrior, there were about 1,500 extras. And I think there's about 11,000 people out there.
Can you tell us what it's like to wear the costume?
Hardy: Hot. It's very, very, very hot. Yeah. We're all getting very hot. You think about the lads that are out in Afghanistan and Baghdad, and you think about the kit they have to wear, well then it's actually not that bad, is it? But it is hot. It's hard to breathe.
Can you talk a little bit about when you first put it on, and working with the costume department to get it right?
Hardy: You just put it on, you know? [Laughs] And then it's on, and it's hard to breathe. I can't hear anyone, and no one can see me speak. So there you go. [Laughs] And the magic begins.
Do you find yourself having to speak bigger with your arms or your eyes, things like that?
Hardy: I can't talk about magic.
Do you have more respect for Darth Vader now?
Hardy: [Laughs] I grew up with it, the original Star Wars. And Darth Vader is really cool, isn't he? Really cool.
Well David Prowse had to wear that mask and couldn't really see.
Hardy: Who wore the mask? It wasn't the same person as when the first time they take it off?
No that's a different guy. That's Sebastian Shaw.
Hardy: He was some old man. Sad.
Were you familiar with the character Bane? Did you go back and read up on him?
Hardy: I had no immediate knowledge of the world of Batman at all. I'm quite incubated. I just keep myself to myself and my dog. He's not with me anymore. And if something comes in, it's always a neat experience. So it started when I first got the part.
There is a brilliance to Bane in addition to the physical. Are we going to see that this is a smart guy, equal to Batman in intellect?
Hardy: All I can think of is you're calling me stupid. [Laughs] I kinda want to flip the table up and throw you through the window. That kinda answers your question doesn't it?
From the pictures, Bane looks larger than life. But in all of Nolan's films, he likes to ground it in reality with three-dimensional characters. How does he go about grounding this character Bane in reality?
Hardy: Well, if Nolan always grounds it in reality, then I'd have to follow suit.
The character is kind of a bad guy but a bad guy you like. Are you bringing that to Bane, or does Bane have to be completely bad?
Hardy: He's a different character. Of course, I'm playing a different character than I've ever played before. But you know way too much of this story of me. So I can't answer that.
Did you have any apprehension for being the guy that would follow Heath Ledger's Joker?
Hardy: No, I don't think absolutely. That would be putting myself in a competition with somebody who's clearly brilliant. And it's not a question of whose talent is greater or whose work is greater. It's just trying to be the best that we can be, rather then trying to be better then somebody else. I'm not trying to be better than somebody else. What he did was amazing. That's that. I've got a part I've got to play, and I want to play my part.
Can you tell us what fighting style your doing in this movie or any martial arts that you had to learn? Because I know you learned some of the MMA stuff as you prepped for Warrior. Did you learn anything new for Bane?
Hardy: I just watched Peanut over there. I've seen him wade through a few places.
Is it "Peter" or "Peanut? "
Hardy: "Pea-nut. " He doesn't look like a peanut, does he?
Can you talk a little bit about other franchises you've worked on like Star Trek? Does the experience of adding to large franchises attract you at all?
Hardy: Working on Star Trek really opened me up. I was a very young boy. I think I had only been working nine months when I got Star Trek, and it was huge. It was very overwhelming. So that opened my eyes a bit at an early age, kind of how not be frightened when walking into a responsibility of something like villain in Batman, or a Hobbit, or whatever it is. These characters belong intrinsically to a large group of people who love them. And it's a huge responsibility to deliver something important to them and to make the effort. So Star Trek was a stepping-stone towards that, this journey. I'm incredibly grateful to be playing the villain in a world which, if I really thought to hard about what I was doing, I would get very nervous about the size and the magnitude of the importance and responsibility of being a villain in the world of Batman.
Can you talk about what you're filming today?
Hardy: I'm going to talk to 2,000 people. I'm a bit nervous. [laughs] Doing my warm-up!
For more from our The Dark Knight Rises set visit:
- 20 Things to Know About The Dark Knight Rises From Our Set Visit; Plus a Recap of the Filming Including Bane's Big Entrance
- Christian Bale Talks Shooting in IMAX, Ending the Trilogy, Fight Scenes with Tom Hardy and More on the Set of The Dark Knight Rises
- Anne Hathaway Talks Fighting in Heels, Adapting to Christopher Nolan's Universe, Filming in IMAX and More on the Set of The Dark Knight Rises
- Producer Emma Thomas Talks Drawing from Comic Books, Bane, Filming in IMAX and Much More on the Set of The Dark Knight Rises


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Political Science Club
The Political Science Club is open to all students with an interest in political science. This dynamic organization was recently recognized as Monmouth University's Most Outstanding Organization.
The club seeks to raise political awareness and energizes the campus community to register and vote in national and local elections. It is active in sponsoring political debates, policy forums, and Rock the Vote campaigns, and has co-sponsored an undergraduate political science conference. It has also established a debate team and routinely debates students from other universities on the major issues of our time. In addition, the club sponsors a trip to Washington, D.C., each spring semester and is widely recognized as an organization that knows how to affect positive change on campus and in our larger community.
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JESUS AND THE WORD (1958) by Rudolf Bultmann. Translated by L. P. Smith & Erminie H. Lantero.
Rudolf Bultmann in Jesus and the Word focuses on the problem of historiography and historicism. Historiography is defined as "the writing of history based on the critical examination of sources" and "historicism is a name given to that view which regards any person, event, culture, institution. . . as capable of being explained solely in terms of its historical antecedents." Bultmann's main purpose is that, with his "weapon" of demythologization, he would get to the exact words and authentic message of Jesus by his rigorous "water-down" of the three synoptic gospels. Pitching his tent with Albert Schweitzer, Bultmann categorically asserts that no one can get to the real, historical Jesus because all accounts and stories ascertaining the life and personality of Jesus "are moreover fragmentary and legendary" (p.14).
Martin Kaehler's The So-Called Historical Jesus and the Historic biblical Christ greatly influenced Bultmann's program of demythologization. Kaehler, in his book, debunked the whole notion that we can know the inner life of Jesus through the Gospels. He averred that the Gospels are not biographical accounts of Jesus. Thus Kaehler's book emboldened Bultmann into a radical surgery of the three synoptic gospels, rejecting the Johanine Gospel as an unreliable source.
Bultmann's approach is both exegetical and hermeneutical. As an existentialist theologian, he exegetes the three gospels from the focal point of Martin Heidegger's existential philosophy. And his hermeneutical stance is embedded with suspicion.
This book is an independent study in the area of New Testament scholarship. The author's critical presuppositions are, first, that most of the words and sayings of Jesus are a projections of the early Christian community as well as a caricature of Hellenistic Christianity; second, that these "exact words" must be interpreted existentially, and, third, that Jesus did not think of himself as the Messiah, or the fact that the messianic title was accepted by him is not a historical fact but "a prophecy after the fac."
In writing the book, Bultmann employs both Form and Redaction critical methods. Briefly stated, form criticism is a method of biblical study that seeks to interpret the Bible in the context of the life and culture of the people who did the writings, while redaction criticism, in a nutshell, compares a periscope with its parallels in the other Gospels in order to have a better assessment of the message. These are the premises in which the book was written. (Bultmann was a student of Johannes Weiss, a pioneer of from criticism.)
Bultmann, in Jesus and the Word, interpreted the three synoptic gospels in existential terms. He regards the teaching and message of Jesus in these gospels as kerygmatic, which is "a call to decision" (p. 31). According to Bultmann, the kingdom of God is "eschatological deliverance which ends everything earthly" (p. 33). It is not the "highest value" since it is incomparable with anything of human value. Bultmann tells us that Jesus never calls humanity to "inner life" but a life of radical obedience, total submission to the will of God.
Bultmann maintains that the world is not evil but human beings are evil. He also notes that since the kingdom of God determines the present reality therefore God's kingdom is genuinely future. However, it is present only when human beings acknowledge the claim made upon human existence by God. Bultmann asserts that humanity is in "a crisis of decision before God" (p. 44) and people can only overcome the evil situation the moment they fulfil the requirements of God. It is either humankind decides to do the will of God or continue in disobedience. It is "Either-Or between two possibilities" (p. 96). There is no neutral stance.
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Art on campus
The Frescati campus hosts a wealth of art, including more than thirty works commissioned by Sweden's Public Art Agency (Statens Konstråd) and owned, maintained and administered by Akademiska Hus in Stockholm.
Early in the planning of the campus (in the 1960's), art was incorporated into the University's vision. The plan wasn't to merely enrich the public's spaces, but also to strengthen the role of art and even to challenge assumptions. The art was envisioned at the same time as the modernist campus's architecture and design to reflect the University's mission and aspirations.
Sculpture in the world's first national city park
The art on campus is, for the most part, openly displayed for the contemplation of the public, creating what has become a cultural archive. The sculptures, taken as a whole, create the feeling of a sprawling sculpture park. One of the bigger works is "Terrakotta" by the artists Marianne and Sivert Lindblom.
"My task is to create a form which the viewer fills with content. The form I design can be compared to a vessel. I decide exactly what the vessel will look like. The viewer fills the vessel with "experiential mass" which is forced to adapt to the shape of the vessel…. And note that there is a substantial difference between filling it with milk or sulphuric acid."
(from "Configurations: Art and architecture at Stockholm University". 2012, p. 67)
Spökslottet on Drottninggatan – Renaissance, baroque and Classical art
Spökslottet (aka "Scheffler Palace" or "Haunted Mansion") is a treasure trove for anyone interested in art and history. The building dates from the early 1700s and the collection contains paintings from the 1500s to the 1800s as well as Orrefors glass. Most of the older paintings were donated to Stockholm University College in 1884 from the Johan Adolf Berg Foundation, which Stockholm University administers.
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