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Zero Tolerance for Domestic Violence
Four of the eleven members of the Board of Supervisors voted to reinstate Ross Mirkarimi as Sheriff of San Francisco.
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UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Penn State's next president may face a number of challenges, but many in the University community see it as a chance for the successful candidate to promote and advance the academic reputation of the institution and take on the critical role of shaping Penn State's future.
Attendees at the first of three scheduled University forums, intended to gather community input on the search process, provided food for thought Thursday (March 21) for consultants and search committee members named to help find Penn State's 18th president.
A third forum is scheduled for 2:15-3:15 p.m. today (March 22) in Room 102 (the Foster Auditorium), Paterno Library; it also will be streamed online to Commonwealth Campuses. Additional forums for Commonwealth Campuses are expected to be planned.
Nan Crouter, dean of the College of Health and Human Development and committee chairwoman of the University Presidential Search and Screen Committee, welcomed faculty, staff and students to the inaugural University community forum hosted on the University Park campus.
John Isaacson, Michael Baer and Jackie Mildner from the executive search firm Isaacson, Miller were on hand to ask questions and listen to thoughts and suggestions shared by audience members.
Isaacson asked faculty and staff attendees to consider the question, "How pleased am I with my professional home? What are you proud of that you'd hate to lose, what would you add that would make you far more proud?"
Faculty and students alike said they appreciated the "family" feel of the University, particularly its sense of pride of place and of achievement without the tone of arrogance, which some noted is unusual in higher education.
The presidential search website, http://presidentialsearch.psu.edu, includes an online comment form for anyone to send thoughts and suggestions for candidate nominations, as well as thoughts on desirable individual qualities for candidates.
One person noted Penn State's global impact, through its World Campus as well as its research excellence. Another pointed out Penn State's "pockets of unbelievable excellence," saying that the unique combinations of high academic and research achievement is something that "you're not going to duplicate anywhere in the world." The next president can create opportunities and venues for those areas of excellence that can only multiply the effectiveness of those areas.
Another added that he was surprised at how, having come from outside the region, Penn State was previously known to him as a sports school, but he has been amazed at how incredibly strong and well-rounded it is, top-notch by any national measure. He added that the Schreyer Honors College has contributed a lot to that excellence, and he sensed that this message is not being conveyed as strongly as it could be, and hoped that candidates would appreciate these qualities.
Forum participants hoped that candidates would be identified who have the confidence to face the transitions the University is undergoing, with additional senior-level searches being undertaken right before the president's position is filled. One person noted that the static level of state appropriations is an ongoing challenge for a multi-campus operation, particularly since the University was founded on the premise as a land-grant institution and in partnership with the state.
Another attendee said he hoped the right candidates would have a pragmatic streak as well as the availability to listen to and engage with constituencies across the University, with the ability to gain consensus. He hopes for a candidate that would have an established record of achieving progress through change, and not one who "railroads through" his or her own plans. Other participants noted that the right candidate would be a "brilliant, charismatic" person who understands academia but who has decisiveness, good management skills and the ability to set the tone of accountability at the highest level and also hold others accountable.
Students in attendance also shared their thoughts, noting qualities of the University that attracted them to campus. While one said she was part of a Penn State family and had been on campus and to games before, once she enrolled she saw evidence of the qualities that are marketed to prospective students, particularly its high-quality academics and extracurricular opportunities. Another student noted that the sense of family was evident during an on-campus tour, which was very important to her. Yet another student hoped that the next leader would keep the focus on the education services provided, noting that he has heard others refer to higher education as "a business."
Isaacson, Baer and Mildner asked about the University's online education programs, wondering if they have had any impact on faculty, staff and students. Several students said they find online classes helpful, both blended classes and those wholly online.
Crouter reminded attendees that the presidential search website, http://presidentialsearch.psu.edu, includes an online comment form for anyone to send thoughts and suggestions for candidate nominations, as well as thoughts on desirable individual qualities for candidates. Online submissions will be sent directly to the search firm, without filtering from anyone at the University.
A third forum is scheduled for 2:15-3:15 p.m. today (March 22) in Room 102 (the Foster Auditorium), Paterno Library; it also will be streamed online to Commonwealth Campuses. (Information and details for participation in the live web stream have been sent directly to the campuses.) Additional forums for Commonwealth Campuses are expected to be planned.
Current President Rodney Erickson has announced that he will retire no later than June 30, 2014.
Updates on the search for Penn State's next president will be posted at http://presidentialsearch.psu.edu, where the public can offer input, learn about those tasked with finding the University's next leader and view the history of the Penn State presidency.
Faculty, staff, students and alumni also are encouraged to share their insight and make confidential nominations by emailing firstname.lastname@example.com. Other comments on the process can be emailed to email@example.com. Links to both of these addresses can be found on the new site.
Additional news about the presidential search process is available at http://news.psu.edu/tag/presidential-search.

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Givat HaMatos, an illegal Israeli outpost near Beit Safafa. Photo by Felix Black.
The new Israeli government Netanyahu-Lapid-Bennet-Lieberman coalition is set to pursue the most aggressive West Bank settlement building policies to date.
Having settlers within the government cabinet is not a new phenomenon, but the current batch of ministers marks the highest percentage of settlers, not to mention the most radical.
It represents a paradigm shift in Israeli politics that could spell the beginning of the end of the settlement issue for international negotiators. The coalition agreement between Likud and The Jewish Home included a bill, which effectively breaks apart the Netanyahu-ultra-Orthodox ideology of old and casts a new period of Israeli politics with a renewed expansionist and nationalistic fervor.
There is no longer (or perhaps there has never been) a 'left' or 'right' in Israeli politics. What existed was but differences in opinion over the direction of the Israeli state, whether it be promoting a 'democratic' ethos or making the "Jewishness" of the state supreme. In reality, the question it has always asked itself is which Jewishness it wishes to promote.
The new direction, at least for the next decade, is an identity based on a wider "Jewishness," attracting more Jews outside and formulating a "Greater Israel" through settlement expansion.
Previous governments have always promoted settlement expansion, but in a relatively underhand manner in contrast to the potential of the new government. Pro-settlement Members of the Knesset from all three parties have control over the defence and housing ministries. These ministries have ultimate power over settlement policy in the West Bank.
The ultimate power of the settlers lies in their power of veto. The Jewish Home party, steered by Naftali Bennet and dominated by West Bank settlers, has 12 seats in the coalition and can thus threaten to use its vetoing power to break up the coalition if it does not get its own way on settlement policies.
Bennet has already twisted the arm of Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu to seat Uri Ariel as Minister of Construction and Housing. Ariel has lived in settlements in the West Bank since 1975 and has served as Secretary-General of the Yesha Council, the umbrella organization for all Jewish-Israeli settlements in the West Bank. He received critical acclaim from Mattot Arim, an Israel-based settler NGO, for being the "most effective right-wing MK" in 2011.
The Yesha Council has members in several parties of the new coalition. On the eve of Obama's visit to Israel and the West Bank last March, the Council released a 9-point plan for settlement building in the West Bank entitled "Judea and Samaria – Its Jewish, Its Vital, Its Realistic." It would be no false prophecy to claim that this document could be the blueprint for the medium-term future of the Israeli state. The Council has the added benefit of having a new Defence Minister in the form of Moshe Ya'alon. Also a settler, he moves the "more liberal" Ehud Barack out of the way and thus brings the security establishment even closer to the settler project.
Aside from Ariel, Ya'alon and the power of the Yesha Council, there are two other MK's that now have total power over settlement policy.
Nissan Slomiansky, former Secretary General of Gush Emunim, a radical settler movement created in 1974, will be in charge of budgets and regulations in parliament. He can manipulate government subsidies for certain sectors of Israeli society, alongside having a strong hold on the composition of the state budget.
Benzi Lieberman, former head of Samaria Regional Council, is the director of the Israel Land Authority. This authority, in place since 1960, manages land expropriated by the Israeli government. He can affectively regulate new settlement land, pass judgements on outposts, and is generally responsible for the expansion of existing settlements.
These "Big Four" hold the reigns to the potentially galloping horse of settlement expansion.
The Sasson Report, an official Israeli document released in 2005, highlighted the extent to which settlement activity had become a gruesome part of government policy
The Sasson Report, an official Israeli document released in 2005, highlighted the extent to which settlement activity had become a gruesome part of government policy
With the shift in power moving away from the ultra-Orthodox parties, and with the mainstream Yair Lapid as Finance Minister, money will undoubtedly move away from funding for yeshiva's and internal religious issues towards more central religious-national initiatives.
However, what many political commentators fail to realize is that these individual shifts, although frightening, represent a trickle of power transfers in what is actually a monumental change in the ethos of Israeli politics and society in favor of settlement expansion in the past few years.
On-the-ground in the West Bank
Prior to 1979, settlement activity was listed within the jurisdiction of the military. Since then the government has taken partial control over the declaration of territory in the West Bank, using various ways and means to confiscate land and make it Israeli, skirting around Israeli law using a variety of methods.
The Sasson Report, an official Israeli document released in 2005, highlighted the extent to which settlement activity had become a gruesome part of government policy. It showed how multiple Israeli state bodies had been discreetly diverting millions of shekels towards the building of settlements and outposts, despite their illegality under Israeli law. Since then, the previously underhand nature of settlement construction had become official government policy.
Four criterions were created for the "legal" establishment of a settlement in the West Bank. To summarize, the government document states that an "authoritative political echelon" must take the decision to build on "state lands" with a "lawfully designed building scheme" in collaboration with the "Commander of the area."
This gradual shift towards the legal and political normalizing of settlements in the West Bank is a mechanism Israel uses across the area it controls. The latest political shift will move it even further towards the creation of common Israeli presence in the West Bank.
Yet the actual authorization of settlement construction passes through a bewildering array of the legal and political spheres in such an Orwellian manner that it is nigh on impossible to tell what is based on government authority and what is juristic. A lens through which this can be observed is the way Israeli outposts in the West Bank are consolidated into fully-fledged settlements.
International law often watches in disbelief, continually reiterating the narrative that all settlement actividt is in contravention of Article 49 of the Fourth Geneva Convention
International law often watches in disbelief, continually reiterating the narrative that all settlement actividt is in contravention of Article 49 of the Fourth Geneva Convention
Derekh Avot is an outpost located just south of Nablus. Under Israeli law, it is illegal. A report commissioned by the Israeli government in 2010 found that 60% of the land the outpost is built on is privately-owned Palestinian land, tracing back through Jordanian, British and Ottoman law.
Yet the Custodian of Government Property is set to transform the area into "state lands" based on the "uncultivated" nature of the area. Under Israeli law, if an area of land has been cultivated for 10 years or more, the farmer is the legitimate owner of the land. The Israeli Civil Administration, the sole authority over information gathering in the territory, has a legal obligation to plot land using aerial photographs and testimonies of villagers on the ground. It rarely does so.
The Israeli state has wrangled a deal with the legal authorities to assert that there is uncultivated land, in between the olive trees. It is therefore a legitimate part of state land and permissible for construction. Affectively the land will be white-washed of all three legal jurisdictions and absorbed into Israeli law almost overnight.
International law often watches in relative disbelief, continually reiterating the narrative that all settlement activity is in contravention of Article 49 of the Fourth Geneva Convention, which prohibits the transfer of the occupying powers' population into the territory that it occupies.
For Palestinians, neither Israeli nor international law truly matters in the face of the robbery.
No amount of research into the laws and legalities, the religious and historic rights to the land, the facts on-the-ground, and the ideology of Zionism can legitimize the continuing settlement activity in the West Bank and the continued robbery of the powerless by the powerful.
The notorious E-1 district is the go-to focal point for discussions on settlement activity and Palestinian livelihood, as the construction of 3,000 housing units in the area would effectively cut the West Bank into two land masses. Yet there are other settlement areas that are just as, if not potentially more destructive than the E-1, especially given the potential under the new government.
Giv'at HaMatos is currently a caravan and simple structure Israeli outpost located next to Beit Safafa in southeast Jerusalem (see picture). The government has earmarked the site for 2,612 new housing units linking it with the settlements of Gilo and Har Homa which, according to some, would form "a long Jewish continuum severing Bethlehem's urban continuum from Palestinian Jerusalem."
This has led many to claim that the construction of Giv'at HaMatos would do in the South what E-1 does in the East. It is these sites, not just the ones documented in mainstream media outlets that will bear the brunt of settlement activity in the coming years.
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NASA Scientists have tested the climate effect of what a small, regional nuclear war would do to the world and have come up with a few revealing (and quite scary) conclusions. For the purpose of the exercise, NASA termed a small, regional nuclear war as 100 Hiroshima-level bombs.
What's interesting is that the exploded bombs would kick up roughly five million metric tons of black carbon into the upper part of the troposphere and lead to a drop in temperature, which technically reverses that global warming thing Al Gore always talks about.
After a regional nuclear war, though, average global temperatures would drop by 2.25 degrees F (1.25 degrees C) for two to three years afterward, the models suggest.
Hey, that actually doesn't sound so bad! But then there's the downside of that drop in temperature. NASA says:
"Our results suggest that agriculture could be severely impacted, especially in areas that are susceptible to late-spring and early-fall frosts. Examples similar to the crop failures and famines experienced following the Mount Tambora eruption in 1815 could be widespread and last several years"
That volcano eruption led to "the year without summer", which led to famine. No summer? That doesn't sound good at all. Let's hope that even these "small and regional" nuclear wars never happen so we never have to find out if NASA is right. [National Geographic]


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Teen agrees to plead guilty after shocking video
A Manchester teenager has agreed to plead guilty to two charges of first-degree murder, ending a trial before the defense called any witnesses.
The Dubuque Telegraph Herald reports 18-year-old Isaiah Sweet agreed to the deal Monday. It was announced after the prosecution rested its case in the trial against Sweet, who was charged in the May 2012 killings of his grandparents, 55-year-old Richard Sweet and 62-year-old Janet Sweet.
Defense attorneys say as part of the deal, the sentences will run concurrently.
Sweet also admitted to operating a vehicle without consent.
During the playing of a taped interview Monday during the trial's third day, 18-year-old Isaiah Sweet says he considered killing his grandfather by poisoning his beer or using a bat but didn't want him or the teen's grandmother to feel any pain.
Sweet is charged with first-degree murder for the 2012 killings of 55-year-old Richard Sweet and 62-year-old Janet Sweet.
The Dubuque Telegraph Herald reports Sweet says he shot his grandfather first, then shot his grandmother twice when she awoke.
He kissed them and apologized before leaving.
Earlier, a judge rejected a mistrial request due to comments made by a witness Friday.


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International Scientific Theological Symposium of Saint Maximus the Confessor in Belgrade
"Knowing the Purpose of Everything Through the Power of the Resurrection":
The First Two Days
The St. Maximus the Confessor Symposium, "Knowing the Purpose of Everything Through the Power of the Resurrection," co-hosted in Belgrade by the Belgrade Theological Faculty and the Orthodox Christian Studies Program of Fordham University, has begun with opening remarks by Bishop Maxim of Alhambra and the Western American Diocese, Patristics Professor at the Faculty and a Maximus scholar in his own right. Bishop Maxim introduced the new dean of the Faculty, Professor Predrag Puzović , who expressed his satisfaction at beginning his term as dean with such a grand event. He observed that St. Maximus is the "most universal spirit of his time and probably greatest thinker in the history of the Church. He has become the focal point of reference in modern Orthodox and Catholic dialogue." The first church dedicated to St. Maximus, he noted, is in Serbia.
Bishop Maxim, chief organizer of the event, included in his welcome address, greetings to panelists and guests from His Holiness Bartholomew, Ecumenical Patriarch and His Holiness Irinej, Serbian Orthodox Patriarch.
Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, in his address, noted that "The Saints represent God's gift to the world, precious beacons within the darkness of this transient world, and an example to be followed leading us to our final goal – the Kingdom of God." Among these saints, who we commemorate this weekend, is the Confessor Maximus. Born in the sixth century and reposed in the seventh century, he, like all saints, belongs to the timelessness of the Kingdom of God, wherein we have him as a Heavenly intercessor before the Throne of Christ. The Ecumenical Patriarch highlight St. Maximus's major contributions to theology in his address: his emphasis on love as the foremost of the virtues, his staunch defense of the two wills of Christ during the monothelite controversy, his distinction between the natural and the gnomic will, and his insistence that there is no natural evil, but the negligence of thoughts, from which stems mistaken actions and, important for a consideration of the contemporary ecological problem, the mistaken use of things that results from mistaken thoughts.
His Holiness Patriarch Irinej greeted the presenters and guests with an import note that by commemorating the 1350th anniversary of St. Maximus's repose with this solemn symposium, we invoke his blessing. And truly his blessing has been invoked. Three monks from the Holy Monastery of St. Paul's on Mt. Athos arrived on the opening day of the Symposium with the incorrupt hand of the Confessor, a generous donation to the Symposium from the Igumen Partheny. The Metropolitan of Pergamon, John Zizioulas, one of the speakers over the four-day event, served for the unveiling of the relic in the Faculty chapel. The grace was evident as the Maximus's life in Christ, permeated with the Divine energies of God, manifest through his relics to fill the chapel with vivifying Heavenly grace. Hundreds of pilgrims bowed down in veneration before the Paschal mystery evident in St. Maximus.
Certainly, it is the power of the Resurrection manifest in his relics and holy prayers that make St. Maximus important not only for his theology but his witness to holiness. Over 40 artists captured the image of this holiness, which is the Divine image manifest in man, in a special art exhibit put together by Adrijana Krstić and Dragana Mašić to honor the subject of the Symposium. The art exhibit was also unveiled on the first night of the Symposium. Adorning the hallway that runs between the chapel and lecture hall, the artistry is a worthy tribute that connects St. Maximus's spiritual and intellectual gifts to humanity.
Indeed the spiritual and the intellectual are tied together by the thread of St. Maximus's witness to Christ, celebrated in this capital of the Balkans perched on a promontory above the rivers Sava and Danube. The Danube threads across Central Europe, leaving behind Proustian landscapes of cultural artifacts as it enters the Balkan Peninsula, where self-preservation coexists with transcendence. St. Maximus is a similar thread to link West and East. Here, in Belgrade, one encounters a parallel intellectual perspective threading remnants of German idealism with the lasting potency of the Byzantine legacy, which is most clearly articulated in the Logos-centered reality of St. Maximus the Confessor.
The talks of the first evening were available to all and featured the important issue of the context in which St. Maximus is received. The first to speak was Maximos, a monk from Simonopetra Monastery on Mt. Athos who is presently a theology professor at Holy Cross School of Theology in Boston. Fr. Maximos spoke on "The Relevance of His Thought Today," in particular focusing on two of what he identified as three historical appropriations of the thought and writings of the Confessor: the Maximus translations of Anastasius Bibliothecarius (ca. 800-879) and John Eriugena (ca. 815-877), whose work was closely intertwined with the cultural politics of Rome and the Carolingian court of Charles the Bald, and Maximus's popularity in the 11th century Byzantine court. Both of these appropriations illustrate different sociologies of translation that reveal how contemporary preoccupations inform our reception of Maximus. At issue are the passions of the day that, until rooted out, result in the fragmentation that is indemic to our society. This fragmentation is rooted in a spirtiual pathology for which Maximus offers a cure, if only we avail ourselves of his entire teaching and not what we think is relevant.
The 2012 winner of the Ratzinger Prize, "The Nobel Prize for Theology," Fr. Brian Daley, followed with a consideration of "Maximus the Confessor, Leontius of Byzantium, and the late Aristotelian Metaphysics of the Person." Fr. Daley is a well known historical theologian specializing in the early Church. He continued his studies of the fifth through eighth centuries on this evening, where he delved into Maximus's Christology, which culminates with Maximus's realization that Christ must himself be free as both creator and creature in one acting, free subject. By being two, a number that had heretofore signified division in God, the infinite becomes finite with so great a love for the world that He is able to save it. This is a Christology that is soteriological and that ventures beyond the traditional boundaries of metaphysics. There was a question and answer period, which Bishop Maxim said provided a "robust beginning to the conference."
As the host for the Symposium, the Belgrade Theological Faculty is also able to enrich the Symposium with its liturgical schedule.
Friday began with Orthros and Divine Liturgy, served by Bishop David of Kruševac. The first session of the morning was chaired by Bishop Porfirije of the Faculty and featured Fr. Joshua Lollar from the University of Kansas, Professor Aristotle Papanikolaou of Fordham University's Orthodox Christian Studies Program, and Adam Cooper from the Pontifical John Paul II Institute on Marriage and Family. All of the Symposium proceedings can be viewed online for 15 €, which defrays the cost of setting up remote live access to the Symposium, here: http://streaming.ni.ac.rs/a58ef6e274c
Fr. Joshua began the day with a consideration of "Pathos and Technê in St. Maximus the Confessor," which generated considerable interest in the question and answer period. His paper brought Maximus the Confessor's notion of pathos, which is the beginning of philosophy for Maximus, into contact with the contemporary and urgent question of technology and human life in the twenty-first century. Using Ambigua 6–8 and Ambiguum 45 to illustrate these concepts in relation to the state of human passivity in relation to the development of human technology for coping with an environment that afflicts that passivity, Lollar takes Maximus's understanding that pathos resides at the heart of human nature, and asks whether technological attempts to overcome human passibility constitute an altering of human nature itself.
Professor Papanikolaou followed with "Learning How to Love: St. Maximus on Virtue," which unflinchingly brought contemporary issues of soldiers dealing with Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) into dialogue with Maximus's teaching on the virtues, in particular, love, the chief virtue. According to St. Maximus, the human is created to learn how to love, and is in constant battle against that which weakens the capacity to love. Virtues are necessary for the learning and acquisition of love: "All the virtues assist the mind in the pursuit of divine love" (1.11). Papanikolaou emphasizes St. Maximus's complicated detailing of the relation of virtues and vices to the inner life of the human person and to human agency as a "progress in the love of God," (2.14), which is measured ultimately by how one relates to others, especially those to whom one feels hatred or anger.
Concluding the morning panel was Adam Cooper, whose "St. Maximus on the Mystery of Marriage & the Body: A Reconsideration," Bishop Porfirije correctly noted, demonstrates that "Christianity shows great emphasis on the body." Cooper seeked to contextualize an analysis of a few texts within the tradition of Christian thought and within Cooper's own formation and development, and within the Institute of John Paul II of Marriage (founded 1981), and the context of the confused and hyper-sexualized society of the West, especially using Centuries on Love 230 and 233.
During the question and answer period, Bishop Atansije (Jevtic), who himself speaks on Saturday, after complimenting Lollar, noted, "In Maximus's thought, his estimation of pathos, "We are under the pathos, which is neither positive nor negative, the human being as created is a gift from God, it is not negative, it is rather, a capacity of participating in communion & love, which is a sort of pathos. God's providence and Wisdom is called techniqes, it is in the realm of art." Such is the caliber of this Symposium that the world's foremost theologians are in the audience participating in an ongoing conversation with their peers on stage.
A second session chaired by Prof. Papanikolaou immediately followed. First to speak was Fr. Demetrios Barthrelos on "St. Maximus's Contributions to the Notion of Freedom." Barthrelos recounted that central to this notion of freedom is Maximus's treatment of the will, which includes both the rational and the subrational. Human will is primarily understood by Maximus as self-determination. It is a natural faculty, but its actualization in concrete acts of willing depends on the person. Barthrelos argued that Maximus described the will in its fallen state as dominated by ignorance and deliberation, but also as continuously oscillating between choices that may be God-pleasing or sinful. In its perfected state, as it appears in Christ, it is steadily and unhesitatingly oriented to the doing of the will of God. He concluded by arguing that this does not threaten the integrity and authenticity of human freedom, but is rather its fullest and highest form.
This talk was followed by that of the chair of the Department of Philosophy at the University of Kentucky, Professor David Bradshaw. A specialist in the history of philosophy, Bradshaw delved into the history of the will by asking when the concept of the will originated. He said that most scholars point to Stoicism or Augustine, but that the will is already present in Plato. Maximus's contribution to the will was formulated in his a response to monothelitism, which was a result of monoenergism, where it is clear that Maximus is interested in the form natural will takes in rational beings. His famous distinction between the natural and gnomic will is predicated on the gnomic (an act of choice) will not being a faculty (which the natural will is), but an act made possible by the natural will.
The panel concluded with Professor Torstein Tollefsen, philosophy professor at the University of Oslo, considering "Essence, Potentiality, and Activity in Maximus's Conception of Hypostasis." It is Maximus's understanding of essence that provides the basis for Tollefsen's claim about Maximus's idea of self-understanding, which revolves around Maximus's use of ousia, dynamis, and energia.
The Symposium continued in convivial fashion over lunch before returning to a session that delved deep into Maximus's notion of the gnomic will. George Varvatsoulias presented on "Ruminative Thinking & Psychopathology Issues in the Writings of St. Maximus the Confessor: An Evolutionary Psychological Perspective." Ruminative thinking is a reasoning process where individuals dwell on the same thought or theme for long time; it is characterized by focusing too much on negative appraisals about oneself. In terms of evolutionary psychology, it explains our ancestors' need to protect themselves from potential threats by adapting to and fulfilling their survival needs. Ruminative thinking literally means believing that what took place in the past, will again repeat itself. In St. Maximus's writings, rumination can be found under the concept of μηρυκισμὸς, which is not a regular term. This term is rarely found in his writings for he uses connotations to describe it, such as περιποιήσασθαι, συντηρῆσθαι, ἐπιφερομένων, τυποῦσθαι, when he talks of the conditions of the soul in terms of the maladaptive habit of the intellect towards impassioned thoughts. Tollefsen employs two existing questionnaires, 1) The "Responses Styles Questionnaire" (1987) and 2) A self-devised questionnaire composed out of St. Maximus references to ruminative thinking in order to test the hypothesis that the more individuals ruminate the more effectively psychopathological issues can be dealt with.
Fr. John Panteleimon Manoussakis, of Holy Cross (Boston), gave a recently written paper that specifically addressed a controversy in Greece right now concerning the gnomic will: "The Elected Will in St. Maximus," which is based on a dialectical relation between nature and self. However, Manoussakis avoided reductive over categorization by recalling that the person is always more than its nature. Only persons can be partakers of the communion with God that began with the world's creation and will end in the great eschaton.
Fr. Philipp Gabriel Renezes, in "The Concept of 'Habitus in Theological Anthropology of St. Maximus" insisted that there is no gnomic will in Christ even if there is an apparent change in Christ's human will. Renezes reaches this conclusion by way of his study of hexis, a problematic and unsatisfying term that expresses one of the connections between human nature and the divine. Perhaps best considered what we might otherwise call "virtue," helps us understand Maximus's notion of divinization, which is the encounter of the human person with the transforming and liberating freedom of God.
After dinner, a final panel for Friday the 19th consisted of Paul Blowers's "The Interpretive Dance: Concealment, Disclosure, and Deferral of Meaning in Maximus the Confessor's Hermeneutical Theology" and Nino Sakvarelidze's "How to Read and Understand Patristic Texts Today? Contextualization and Actualization of St. Maximus' Textual and Spiritual Heritage."
Blowers, a professor church history at Emmanuel Christian Seminary, argued for the transformative possibilities through divine revelation. It is a divine revelation manifest through the Logos, manifest through what Blowers calls the "interpretive dance" of Maximus hermeneutics. In the tradition of Origen and Gregory of Nyssa, and with aid from the Areopagite's notion of the divine "ecstatic" movement, Blowers argues that Maximus understands exegesis in some sense as an erotic interpretive "dance" in which the interpreter is being ecstatically drawn out of his or her intellectual and spiritual constraints into the deifying presence of the elusive Christ, who alone satisfies all desires.
Sakvarelidze's historical-critical essay deals with Maximus's reception in Georgia and it is a keen study of terms in order to build to the hypothesis that she tests. The paper focuses on two central questions: the contextualization of St. Maximus's traditional-synthetic and innovative-systematic thought within Old Georgian and the translation and transportation of St. Maximus' texts and thinking into the Georgian geographical, linguistic and cultural context.
Speaking of contexts, as we mentioned, Maximus is the thread tying together the intellectual and the spiritual, the cultural and the noetic. How could this be better expressed then marking the mid-way point of the Symposium on St. Maximus with an All-night Vigil and Divine Liturgy for the Confessor in the presence of his relics. Bishop David served the Vigil and Bishop Maxim served the Hierarchical Divine Liturgy with Bishop David and seven other priests concelebrating. Beginning at 8 pm, the Liturgy did not conclude until a quarter past one in the morning, although to mark such messianic moments of aeonic time with a chronometer is to distort the truth behind this synaxis of the sanctified Confessor and the struggling Faithful: this was Eternity in a continuous anamnetic reflection of the "Resurrectional present" and it was experienced by hundreds of the faithful who came together to celebrate the Eucharistic joy of our Lord and to taste what St. Maximus knows: the power of the Resurrection.


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To the outside world the small Buddhist kingdom of Bhutan is regarded as a modern-day Shangri-La. Nestled along the eastern side of the Himalayas, wedged between Tibet and India, Bhutan sees few outsiders. And the country likes it that way as it attempts to preserve its fragile culture and ecology. That has prompted Bhutan to strictly regulate tourism. But as VOA's Steve Herman reports from Thimpu, it is possible for anyone with enough money and determination to visit.
Here people call their nation Druk Yul - land of the thunder dragon. The sights and sounds of its deep connection to Tibetan Buddhism are evident just about anywhere a visitor goes.
A religious musician, playing the jaling oboe, dressed in the traditional knee-length gown and huge white cuffs worn by most Bhutanese men is just one example of why this country the size of Switzerland is so appealing to travelers.
The country is permeated with fortresses, known as dzongs, and monasteries. The air is crisp and clean, the views of mountains breathtaking. What Bhutan lacks in high-end tourist infrastructure it makes up in courtesy, safety and cleanliness, especially compared to other major regional destinations.
Yet, Bhutan remains one of international tourism's best-kept secrets. It attracts less than 20,000 tourists a year, not including thousands more Indians, here on business or holiday, who do not need a visa to visit.
The head of the association representing Bhutan's 290 tour operators, Sonam Dorji, says the myth persists that the country is virtually off-limits to visitors. Tourists have been welcomed since 1974. But Dorji says there will be no attempt to undertake a mass-marketing campaign, unlike Bhutan's neighbors against which it competes for tourist revenue.
"By not marketing we still remain exclusive and a very mysterious country," he said. "We don't have any limits of arrivals. As long as they pay $180 per night, they are welcome."
That may sound like a steep price, but it includes accommodations, meals, guides and transportation.
Most visitors come for the trekking, bird watching or just to absorb the unique culture of this deeply religious and agrarian society. Many typical tourist pursuits, however, are off-limits, such as mountain climbing or recreational fishing. Local people consider their mountains sacred and inhabited by deities. Fishing for sport also violates religious sensibilities.
Dorji, head of the Association of Bhutanese Tour Operators, says religious values cannot be compromised in the name of increasing tourism.
"Buddhist religion overall is just like to protect even the environment, the sentient beings, all living beings. And we believe that even a tree has a soul. So that's the part which has influenced the tourism policy," added Dorji.
There is a fierce determination here to protect the environment. After all, it is natural resources which provide Bhutan with its primary source of revenue - sales of hydro-electric power to its energy-hungry neighbor, India. Tourism is the top source of hard currency.
Although tourism officials say Bhutan can absorb tens of thousands more visitors per year, if they come during the off-season, there is a fear that making it less costly for outsiders to visit could easily swamp this country of less than 700,000 people.
"Being small, you cannot be careless. We cannot promote and develop normal type of tourism here because we simply do not have the carrying capacity. We have, yes, rich culture, living culture, ancient culture, but they're still very fragile," said former ambassador Lhatu Wangchuk, the director general of Bhutan's department of tourism.
Those who do visit are warmly welcomed. Wangchuk believes that is because experience with well-healed visitors, who tend to be older and highly educated, has had a "very positive" impact on Bhutanese people and their culture.
"It is the tourists who have been educating the Bhutanese. We get tourists who are well traveled, tourists who are very sensitive to other countries' culture, their way of life. And therefore we've been made more aware of the value of our own culture," continued Wangchuk.
But there is a bit of trouble in paradise. There are complaints that the modest number of trekkers are damaging Bhutan's environment, leaving behind litter and eroding habitat in a country where three-quarters of the land is unspoiled forest.
In the few cities, such as the capital of Thimpu, and Paro, where the main airport is located, packs of stray dogs wander the streets barking loudly at night and garbage disposal is an increasing problem.
But most Bhutanese, such as this elderly monk chanting Tibetan prayers on the sidewalk, remain unfazed by the modest number of outsiders and the potential benefits or problems they bring.
As Bhutanese are apt to exclaim, drawing on centuries of Buddhist wisdom, the only thing that is constant is change. They believe that their values and the wisdom of their enlightened leaders in a country now shifting from absolute monarchy to parliamentary democracy will prevail and allow their way of life to be preserved.


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London, Leeds and Northampton are the three UK areas where mobile phone owners are most likely to have their device stolen, according to a new report by an insurance company.
Protect Your Bubble, which specialises in insuring modern technology, found that in London 18% of insurance claims are for theft of a mobile phone, the highest in the UK. Leeds was second, on 16%.
Stephen Ebbett, director of Protect Your Bubble, said: "Gadget owners can never be too cautious.
"Everyday we cart around hundreds, or even thousands of pounds' worth of high-tech gear, such as smartphones, tablets, cameras and e-readers.
"This makes many of us prime targets for thieves. Should you be unlucky enough to fall victim to mobile theft, specialist gadget insurance will cover you by replacing your stolen handset.
"The good news is that we're seeing mobile thefts drop. So far, 9% of mobile claims we've received in 2014 have been for theft, compared to 11% for the same period last year.
"But that doesn't mean smartphone users should be any less vigilant. People can reduce their risk of being targeted by keeping their mobiles out of sight in public. Carry them in a pocket or bag with a zip, rather than your trouser pocket, or in your hand."
The survey covered the 30 largest towns and cities in the UK, and found that Dudley, in the West Midlands, was the safest place for mobile phone owners with less than 5% of the claims received by the insurance company being for theft. According to the data gathered by Protect your Bubble, users in their early 20s were the most likely to be victims of theft.
"Mobile users can safeguard both their data and finances by blocking their phones with their airtime provider as quickly as possible after a theft - so they don't end up paying through the nose for unauthorised calls.
"Good gadget insurance will also cover the cost of unauthorised calls," said Mr Ebbert.
According to the National Mobile Phone Crime Unit, there are more than 250,000 reported cases of stolen mobile phones each year, with the unit encouraging users to install tracking apps to help trace a device after it has been stolen.
A spokesman for the Metropolitan Police Service said: "The Met has seen significant reductions in mobile phone crime over the last year following a range of proactive prevention and enforcement across London.
"During the financial year 2013/14, mobile phone thefts fell by 14%, while robberies that involved the theft of mobile phones were reduced by 24%.
The Met's Operation Ringtone is proving its success in reducing mobile phone crime and has now extended nationally and to Europe in a new agreement of sharing intelligence about identified criminals and the volume of mobile phone crime through organised criminal networks.
"This culminated in a mass European day of action on 20 March 2014, with involvement from eight UK police forces, Europol and other law enforcement agencies. Activity continues daily however during this one day of action, officers made 120 arrests in London for offences directly related to mobile phone crime."
Under Operation Neptune, the MPS maps second-hand markets, negotiates a voluntary Code of Conduct for premises to record sellers' personal details, checks property with the National Mobile Phone Crime Unit and informs local police when stolen property comes into their possession. There are regular visits and audit checks by local officers. In excess of 1,000 retailers are signed up and engaging in the scheme across London."


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Program notes are written by Dr. Joseph Milicia.
Program notes are written by Dr. Joseph Milicia.
Born Halle, Duchy of Magdeburg, now Germany, 23 February 1685; died 14 April 1759, London.
Messiah: "Lift Up Your Heads, Oh Ye Gates"
The oratorio Messiah was composed between 22 August and 14 September 1741, and premiered in Dublin, at the Great Music Hall, led by the composer, 13 April 1742. Handel revised the score numerous times to accommodate available singers and instruments. Tonight's performance of "Lift Up Your Heads, Oh Ye Gates" includes 2 oboes, 2 bassoons, organ, strings and chorus. Duration: 3 minutes.
Tonight's concert brings back four audience favorites among the music the SSO played at the Weill Center between 2005 and 2009. Our one "new" piece, music from the film A River Runs Through It, will accompany images from Sheboygan's past, as part of our 100th year celebration.
Born Lomonosov, Russia, 17 June 1882; died New York, 6 April 1971.
Greeting Prelude.
Composed in 1955 and first performed by Charles Munch and the Boston Symphony, 4 April of that year. The score calls for piccolo, 2 flutes, 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons, contrabassoon, 4 horns, 2 trumpets, 3 trombones, tuba, timpani, bass drum, piano and strings. Duration: less than 1 minute.
Christmas Treasures, 2018
Born Rohrau, Austria, 31 March 1732; died Vienna, 31 May 1809.
Trumpet Concerto in Eb major.
Composed in 1796; first performance on record was 28 March 1800, Vienna Burgtheater, with soloist Anton Weidinger. The concerto calls for pairs of flutes, oboes, bassoons, horns and trumpets, plus timpani, strings and solo trumpet; it lasts about 15 minutes.
Born 11 December 1803 near Grenoble, France; died Paris, 8 March 1869.
Roman Carnival Overture, Op. 9.
Le carnaval romain, written early in 1844, was derived from Berlioz' opera Benvenuto Cellini, itself written 1836-38. The concert overture was first performed in Paris at the Salle Herz, the composer conducting, 3 February 1844. The score calls for 2 flutes (2nd doubling piccolo), English horn, 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons, 4 horns, 2 trumpets, 2 cornets, 3 trombones, timpani, cymbals, triangle, 2 tambourines, harp, and strings. Performance time is about 9 minutes.
Born Hamburg, Germany, 7 May 1833; died Vienna, 3 April 1897.
Nänie, Op. 82
Composed 1880-81 and premiered 6 December 1881 with the composer leading the Zurich Tonhalle Orchestra. The work calls for 2 flutes, 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons, 2 horns, 3 trombones, timpani, 2 harps, strings and chorus. Duration about 15 minutes.
Born Split, Croatia, 18 April 1819; died Vienna, 21 May 1895.
Poet and Peasant Overture
Composed 1846 and first heard in the Theater an der Wien, Vienna, 24 August of that year, the composer conducting. Tonight's performance features flute, piccolo, 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons, 4 horns, 2 trumpets, 3 trombones, tuba, timpani, bass drum, cymbals, harp and strings. Duration about 10½ minutes.
Tonight's program takes us to four very different places in musical history. Haydn's "Surprise" Symphony, written at the end of the Age of Enlightenment, is full of wit and elegance, gracefully balanced in structure. Weber's Freischütz Overture, written only 30 years later, plunges us into the heart of the Romantic Age, with scenes of gothic terror and impulsive love. Another 80 years takes us to the Impressionism of Debussy's moody sketches of the open sea (La Mer). And one more century later, at the turn of the 21st, Theofanidis' Rainbow Body mixes contemporary sounds with echoes of a medieval monastery.
Christmas Treasures, 2017
Born Nelehozeves, Bohemia (now Czech Republic), 8 September 1841; died Prague, 1 May 1904.
Slavonic Dance No. 1 in C major, Op. 46, No. 1.
Dvorak's first set of eight Slavonic Dances was composed in 1878; No. 1 was first heard in Prague at a concert for the Association of Czech Journalists, 16 May 1878, Adolf Čech conducting. The work is scored for piccolo, flute, 2 oboes, 2 clarinets. 2 bassoons, 4 horns, 2 trumpets, 3 trombones, timpani, bass drum, triangle, cymbals, and strings. Performance time is about 4 minutes. The SSO performed it 18 November 1995, Guy Victor Bordo conducting.
Born Salzburg, Austria, 27 January 1756; died Vienna, 5 December 1791.
Symphony No. 36, in C major, K. 425 ("Linz")
Written in Linz, Austria and premiered in that city 4 November 1783. The score calls for 2 oboes, 2 bassoons, 2 horns, 2 trumpets, timpani, and strings. Duration about 25 minutes. The SSO played the 'Linz' Symphony most recently with Guy Victor Bordo conducting, 17 November 2001.
This evening's concert is a second Night at the Opera, following last May's festival of overtures, interludes, arias and choruses. Tonight we will hear 17 selections from 11 operas by 7 composers, with our spotlight mostly on Italy. "Act I" begins with Mozart, then leaps ahead to Italian verismo, 1890-1900. "Act II" is devoted to Donizetti and Verdi, spanning 1835 to 1871, while "Act III" features more Verdi, flanked by epic moments in Wagner and Boito.
Born Hamburg, 7 May 1833; died Vienna, 3 April 1897.
Piano Concerto No. 2, in Bb major, Op. 73
Composed between 1878 and 1881; premiered 9 November 1881 with the composer at the piano and the Budapest National Theatre Orchestra, led by Alexander (Sandor) Erkel. The score calls for 2 flutes, 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons, 4 horns, 2 trumpets, timpani, and strings. Duration is about 49 minutes.
This evening's concert is a celebration of movie music, focusing on selections from Hollywood blockbusters from 1980 to 2012, along with one older favorite and at least one TV show that became a movie franchise. Plus, we'll hear some very famous music from a very obscure Russian film.
Born 21 September 1874, Cheltenham, England; died 25 May 1934, London.
"Jupiter," from The Planets, Op. 32.
Composed in late 1914 as part of The Planets, which was orchestrated in 1917 and premiered in a private performance at the Queen's Hall, London, Adrian Boult conducting, 29 September 1918; first complete public hearing was 15 November, 1920, with the London Symphony Orchestra led by Albert Coates. "Jupiter" calls for a large orchestra of 2 piccolos, 2 flutes, 3 oboes, English horn, 3 clarinets, bass clarinet, 3 bassoons, contrabassoon, 6 horns, 4 trumpets, 3 trombones, tenor and bass tubas, timpani (two players), bass drum, side drum, cymbals, triangle, tambourine, glockenspiel, 2 harps, and strings. The SSO played "Jupiter" at the gala inaugural concert of the Weill Center, 13 October 2001, Guy Victor Bordo conducting. Duration 8 minutes.
Born Bonn, 17 December 1770; died Vienna, 26 March 1827.
Leonore Overture No. 3.
Composed early 1806, and first performed in Vienna's Theater an der Wien, 29 March of that year, Ignaz von Seyfried conducting. The score calls for pairs of flutes, oboes, clarinets, and bassoons, 4 horns, 2 trumpets, 3 trombones, timpani and strings. Performed by the SSO most recently on 20 October, 1990, Manuel Prestamo conducting, it lasts approximately 14 minutes.
This evening's concert is a night at the opera, with overtures, arias and scenes from 15 operas by 13 composers. "Act I" takes us from Mozart to Wagner, with rousing choruses by Leoncavallo, Weber and Verdi in between. "Act II" offers four scenes in which beautiful women draw men to them -- unintentionally in at least one case. And "Act III," opening with a boisterous march and a quiet vigil, offers two of the most thrilling scenes in opera: the soaring final trio and intimate duet of Der Rosenkavalier and the public spectacle of Boris Godunov's Coronation Scene.
Born Doborjan, Hungary, 22 October, 1811; died Bayreuth, Germany, 31 July, 1886.
Born Pesaro, Italy, 29 February 1792; died Paris, 13 November 1868.
The Barber of Seville: Overture
Written in 1813 as the overture for the opera Aureliano in Palmira, but repurposed as the overture of Il Barbiere di Siviglia for ithe latter's second production, in Bologna, premiered 16 August 1816. The score calls for piccolo, flute, 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons, 2 horns, 2 trumpets, 3 trombones, timpani, bass drum, cymbals and strings. Performance time is about 8 minutes. The SSO's most recent performance was 4 February 2001, under the baton of Guy Victor Bordo.
Born Bologna, 9 July, 1879; died Rome, 18 April, 1936.
Laud to the Nativity (Lauda per la Natività del Signore)
Composed 1928-30 and premiered in Siena at the Chigi-Saracini Palace, 30 November 1930, with an ensemble led by the composer. The score calls for 3 vocal soloists, chorus, 2 flutes (2nd doubling piccolo), oboe, English horn, 2 bassoons, triangle, and piano four-hands. Performance time is about 25 minutes.
Born Eisenach, Germany, 25 March 1685; died Leipzig, 28 July 1750.
Brandenburg Concerto No. 6, BWV 1051
The six concertos Bach sent to the Margrave of Brandenburg on 24 March 1721 are presumed to have been performed by Bach's orchestra in Cöthen sometime earlier. The instruments for tonight's performance are 2 violas, 3 cellos, string bass and harpsichord continuo. Performance time is about 17 minutes.
Born Brooklyn, NY, 14 November 1900; died Peekskill, NY, 2 December 1990.
A Lincoln Portrait
Written in 1942, A Lincoln Portrait was premiered 14 May of that year by the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, Andre Kostelanetz conducting and William Adams narrating. The score calls for piccolo, 2 flutes, 2 oboes, English horn, 2 clarinets, bass clarinet, 2 bassoons, contrabassoon, 4 horns, 3 trumpets, 3 trombones, tuba, timpani, bass drum, snare drum, cymbals, glockenspiel, tam-tam, xylophone, sleigh bells, celesta, harp and strings. Performance time is about 14 minutes. Previous SSO performances of A Lincoln Portrait have featured narrators Herbert V. Kohler Jr. (2 December 1989, with Manuel Prestamo conducting the combined SSO/ Manitowoc Symphony) and Charles Krebs (16 June 2007, Andrews Sill conducting).
Walt Disney's Fantasia (1940) was a true landmark in motion picture history: a full-length animated cartoon (Disney's third, after Snow White and Pinocchio) illustrating works of classical music, with the collaboration of Leopold Stokowski and (in all but The Sorcerer's Apprentice) the Philadelphia Orchestra, originally released in stereophonic sound, a first for commercial movies. A sequel 60 years later, Fantasia 2000, featured James Levine and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Tonight's concert honors these achievements with a program derived from the two films.
Born Leipzig, Saxony, 22 May 1813; died Venice, Italy, 13 February 1883.
The six concertos Bach sent to the Margrave of Brandenburg on 24 March 1721 are presumed to have been performed by Bach's orchestra in Cöthen sometime...
Composed 1888 and premiered 28 October of that year in St. Petersburg, the composer conducting. The score calls for 2 flutes, piccolo, 2 oboes (2nd doubling...
First performed 25 May 1823 for invited guests in the composer's Berlin home, with Eduard Rietz, violin, and the composer at the piano, and for the...
Haydn's opera Armida was composed in 1783 and premiered 26 February 1784 at the Esterhazy family's Court Theatre, Haydn conducting. The Overture calls for flute, 2...
Composed between 1865 and 1868 (with the second movement making use of material from the 1850s), the German Requiem was premiered in its 7-movement entirety on...
Composed in 1880 and premiered 18 December 1880 in Moscow, with an orchestra led by Nikolai Rubenstein. Isaac's arrangement calls for 3 flutes, 2 oboes, 2...
The 5-movement suite was composed in 1927, and premiered in Sao Paolo, June 1928, the composer conducting. It calls for 2 flutes (second doubling piccolo), oboe,...
The ballet La Péri was composed in 1911, with its opening Fanfare added the next year; the premiere was in Paris 22 April 1912. The Fanfare...
Commissioned by the Oregon Symphony Orchestra, the Overture of the Season was premiered by that group on 7 October, 1978, under the baton of Lawrence Leighton...
Composed 1809-10, and first performed in Leipsig's Gewandhaus on 28 November 1811, with pianist Friedrich Schneider; Beethoven's pupil Carl Czerny gave the first Vienna performance the...
Composed to be part of a ballet evening, the Tanzsuite nach Couperin was first heard at the Vienna Redoutensaal, 17 February 1923, conducted by Clemens Krauss,...
The complete work composed in 1896 and premiered in Frankfurt under the composer's baton. The "Sunrise" section calls for piccolo, 3 flutes, 3 oboes, English horn,...
Composed 1899-1901 (the Finale in 1892) and premiered 25 November, 1901, the composer conducting the Kaim Orchestra of Munich, with soprano Margarete Michalek.
Published in 1597, and first performed in St. Mark's Basilica, Venice. The score, in this edition by Robert King, calls for 2 French horns, 2...


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In today's economy it's easier to land a temp job than a full-time position. Simply, employers are scared and don't want to face layoffs. They are tough on both sides of the table. So temps have become the new thing to do in small business. You could land a temp job or already have a temp job and might want to make it a little more regular.
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The constitutional ban on gay marriage was defeated yesterday in the House. During the debate, several right-wing congressmen revealed what God thinks about the gay marriage amendment:
Rep. John Carter (R-TX): "It's part of God's plan for the future of mankind."
Rep. Mike Pence (R-IN): "It wasn't our idea, it was God's."
Rep. Bob Beauprez (R-CO): "We best not be messing with His plan."
Rep. Phil Gingrey (R-GA): "I think God has spoken very clearly on this issue."
Not everyone believes that writing discrimination into the U.S. Constitution reflects biblical principles. The Clergy for Fairness has organized clergy members and religious leaders around the country who strongly oppose the Federal Marriage Amendment.
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BEAUPREZ: We celebrate the fact that we were all created equal by our Creator — equal, but different, and for a purpose. He showed us that purpose in the Garden of Eden, Adam and Eve.
GINGREY: This is all about marriage that results, or potentially can result, in the procreation of children. And this is what our Constitution has implied for 223 years, and indeed, what the word of God has implied for 2,000 years.
PENCE: I believe first, though, marriage should be protected because it wasn't our idea. Several millennia ago, the words were written that a man should leave his father and mother and cleave to his wife and the two should become one flesh. It wasn't our idea. It was God's idea.
GINGREY: But I do know a little bit about the sacrament of marriage, Mr. Speaker, as one of about 200 Catholic members of the United States Congress. And I think God has spoken very clearly, very clearly, on this issue.
CARTER: The reality is, marriage has always been a union between a man and a woman. Now in China, they might say a civil union. In Rome they might say a church union. But it's always been a union between a man and a woman. In my faith, I believe it's part of God's plan for the future of mankind.
BEAUPREZ: And marriage since the beginning of time, as close as I can tell, has been between a man and a woman. And if it was indeed good enough for our Creator and it was indeed our Creator's plan that we were created different for an absolute divine purpose, I think we best not be missing with His plan today.


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The Spencer S. Eccles Health Sciences Library building has now closed to allow the Ceiling Project to move forward. We, the library staff, are still here to serve our patrons' needs. Our Public Services department (the first folks you see when you walked in the front door) has moved to the Health Sciences Education Building, room 2080. The room contains a selection of open- and closed-reserve books, a copier, several computer workstations with color and black-and-white printing, and tables for group work. To request other books, journals and materials simply email the Reference desk or call. The bulk of the collection is in the basement of the library building and only accessible by library personnel. We will retrieve your materials as quickly as staffing levels and patron demand allow.
Check out our slide show of the moving process and our new digs!


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A collection of scholarly works about individual liberty and free markets. A project of Liberty Fund, Inc.
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James Harris is a Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland and the author of Of Liberty and Necessity: the Free Will Debate in Eighteenth-century British Philosophy (OUP, 2005).


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IBM Hearts Africa With New Casablanca Development Center
Every once in awhile you'll be reminded that computing and technology giant IBM has long-term interests in investing in Africa.
Today Big Blue announced the creation of what it calls a Gobal Delivery Center in Casablanca, the largest city in the North African nation of Morocco. It will create 400 jobs, the company said.
The idea is to give IBM clients in the region help with application development and to get their various systems working together. Big clients in Morocco include the national government and area universities. It will also create jobs for graduates of those universities.
If you question IBM's "long view" of working in Africa, consider this: Big Blue first showed up in Morocco in 1932, and last year expanded an existing operation in Rabat.
Last year it opened a major research center in Nairobi, the capital of Kenya.
The reasoning is simple: Many of the countries on the African continent are getting on their feet and looking for ways to modernize their economies. As you can see from the graph below (courtesy Google, using World Bank data), the gross domestic product of countries like Morocco, Tunisia and Algeria are all on the way up. Expect more investments like this as those figures increase. It's the sort of thing that companies that are more than 100 years old do.


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Escape to the Movies: A Good Day to Die Hard
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MovieBob can't quite remember what happens in Die Hard 5.
Chernobyl isn't Russian :P
I like bruce but I doubt I'll ever bother with this one. I respect that a guys gotta pay bills though. It also earns him the title of work-a-day actor which means he'll stay relevant longer than your average shooting/falling star.
It was the greatest movie of all time and you've felt empty ever since knowing you will never see a movie as good as it?
I kid, we all know it was shit...
On topic: But was Live Free and Die Hard as mind meltingly bad as the last one?
I herd this is worst than the last film, Die Hard 4. Check out Brad Jones review of the film. He reviewed it right after he saw it. Other than you take out John character this could been a whole other different movie.
I was about to mention that as well. (^-^)
Interesting to note: MovieBob's two favorites were directed by John McTiernan. Who also did Predator and The Hunt For Red October.
So, you know. Maybe there's something to the guy, making him worth employing?
This movie must have gotten very little press, because I didn't realize it was even out this week, and I genuinely love the Die Hard movies. Granted, between this and Brad Jones' review... yeah... I think I'll wait for a rental.
At the end of Die Hard 5 I was aware that I had seen a movie's worth of stuff but it didn't feel like I watched a movie, if the movie were food I wold say it was only as filling as a small sandwich. My biggest complaint is that it feels like half the movie is missing, we have build up at the beginning and an ending but the stuff in between happens too fast to mean anything. None of the characters are developed as they should be and this is especially true of the villain.
Wow, I never thought about it, but I have seen every single one of those Bruce Willis movies. I really like him as an actor, even if his stuff is mostly niche at this point. I hope I remember more than you. But there are two ways you can experience life. Or, in this case, a movie. There is the experiencing self and the remembering self. Some things are only good in the experience, other things are only good in memory. Climbing Mt Everest, for example, is famous for being a shitty shitty experience, but a great great memory. Somethings make good experiences and memories, like going on a cruise with your family. Some things are good in experience and not so good in memory. I'm hoping this film makes it into the last category. On that note, the while I remember immensely enjoying Live Free or Die Hard, I couldn't tell you the order of events that happened in that movie. I'm hoping for a repeat of that.
Uh, Bob?
...Since when is "Unbreakable" an action movie?
Aw man! Hudson Hawk is the best!
"God, I miss Communisim.
Yeah, it does seem increasingly ridiculous that they're still pretending he's an everyman at this point...
The numbers at the end are what order you have seen the movies in, right?
Die Hard 6:
They should hire me to write the next one.
This sucks, although really isn't surprising. I think my order matches up with Bob's.
There might also be something to hiring good directors that know action? Instead we get John Moore?
You'd be amazed how many people forget that. Also, at one point, an irrelevant character calls it "Ukrainia". I expect better of anyone sent to Russia as a CIA agent.
Other than that, my main thought was, "and now you all get to die horrible tortured deaths of radiation poisoning," because of the explosions near supposed crates of Uranium at the end.
The movie reaches the point of self-parody because the son gets more hurt than the father, consistently.
This movie was soo bad, i don´t really get why John Mclane was in the movie and why did he insist that he was on a vacation? And there really is something weird about Bruce Willis face in this one, he really does look like Mr Magoo (as they stated in Half in the bag back with their Looper review).
I´m pretty surprised that Bob had anything nice to say about the first car chase in this movie, i thought that was one of the first edited and messy actionscenes i had seen in ages. It´s just plain dreadful and confusing.
Yeah, the overkill with the helicopter is pretty obvious from the trailers. I guess we shouldn't have gotten our hopes up...
*puts on sunglasses*
I've been hearing the same thing, that it was largely dialed in, much like the other movies being done by guys like Stallone and Arnie. On top of that is that these guys are getting old, and that really shows a lot of the time. Not to mention that in SOME cases it's a matter where the actors in question were famous largely for doing science fiction action movies with an intrigueing premise behind them, and this is just generic "modern action" that's built around shooting people rather than having that fit into a scenario where it kind of makes sense.
That said, I think people tend to also overlook the actual high points of these movies. The premise of the Die Hard movie BEFORE this one was banal (the whole "Fire Sale" thing, based on implausible hacking), but for all it's flaws it managed to bring with it a few decent people in support. The fight scene between Bruce Willis and Maggie Q for example is fairly well known, and pretty classic, being a pretty awesome moment. While she did a lot of other stuff, that and being able to hold up a quick victim role/fight scene in "Operation End Game" contributed to her landing her own TV series as the new Nikita which is on it's third season and gives her plenty of oppertunities to show off her abillity with choreography (even if she does use a number of stunt doubles, the passing years did have an effect).
I rather like the joke when Bruce Willis appeared on the TV show Mad About You where he was making a new movie entitled "Die, Already." Apparently, that's a fitting moniker for the franchise at this point.
I was sort of hoping for a Beautiful Creatures review, simply because the Twilight reviews were sort of entertaining. Everyone and their dog knows that any new Die Hard sequel is going to be total crap.
The first I'd even heard of a new die hard movie was like... two weeks ago... and till today, I had forgotten about it.
Dear Movie Bob,
I've seen every one of those movies, save for Expendables 2 (first was an abortion, didn't wants to see a 2nd abortion of the same baby).
Overall, not a "BAD" movie, but still not as good as the last two.
Please! The C.I.A. Chief of Forward Operating Base Chapman couldn't even be bothered to have an informant searched before bringing her entire staff to debrief him personally
Die Hard 5, Die so hard... that he didn't... again...
Oh, I watched the one with Jet-Lee in, and I thought it was so pitiful (making Jet looking like the honorable good guy who's ass kicking the stupid cops around)I skipped all the die hard that came after that...
So the third act of Die Hard 5 rips off the second act of Metal Gear Solid?
It would have been awesome if, in the second fight against the HIND, a blonde-mulleted Cam Clarke showed up and screamed, "EAT THIS!" For that, I would have paid nine bucks.
And for the record, I definitely agree with Bob's ranking. One's the best, but three is damn good.
Right Bob... Bruce Willis was "kinna out of shape" in Die Hard 1... riiiiight O_0
I kind of get the feeling that Hollywood doesn't know how to do Action anymore... im still upset that 'Taken 2' sucked so hard.
Do people remember the broken glass scene in the first die hard? Where the bad guys realise JM is bare footed so they shoot out all the windows covering the floor with broken glass so he's trapped or has to run across the room slicing his feet to ribbons, which he does and in the next scene you see a floor covered in blood and John McClain in agony pulling glass out of his feet while smoking. And now we have him thrown from a helicopter through a glass window, fall through more glass celings and only get a graze.
If I saw that, I could have saved myself 6 minutes of my life...
Hudson Hawk! One of the best Bruce Willis movies of all time!
Coming Summer 2015...
Autumn Hills Retirement Community faces its toughest challenge yet.
A senile NYPD detective who single handedly saved the world five times.
Nah they'll be the order of Die Hard films, best to worst. It is the only true order; any other is wrong - and I've not even seen 5!
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I thought this dress was called the Transformer dress, which is why I have an awesome title from their cartoon theme song, but it's called the Hulk dress, which I never got into. Transformer seems more suitable, since it can be worn several ways, just by adjusting the zipper: with sleeves, without sleeves, slightly unzipped or unzipped and folded with peekaboo shoulders. I chose to wear it with a blazer and tights, because my Floridian blood makes me shiver in these newly dropped temperatures. I'm pathetic...I'm going to leave when it gets below the 50s. Miku and I will head to a tropical island.
I feel like I should invest in Spanx, because every time I wear anything body-con, I find myself blowing my stomach out - which makes no sense! I should be sucking it in! A couple of different people said they do the same thing, so I guess I'm not the only one. Does anyone have experience with Spanx? I was looking at some in Nordstrom but I didn't know what type I should get. For this occasion, my blazer saved me. After a long day, Bobby and I went to the Lori Goldstein event, where we met up with Christine, Jordana, Claire, Karen and Audrey, among others. I ate all the macarons (made by Audrey) I wanted...and then continued the festivities with guacamole and other tex mex delights. Sorry, but food always wins over fashion - especially when accompanied by friends!
Outfit Details:
Hulk Dress - courtesy of Rachel Rachel Roy
tights - Target
Felicita heels - courtesy of Nine West
ADAM blazer - Gilt
Madison Brynne bag - courtesy of Coach
Love love,
Keiko Lynn


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While Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson – who cannot properly hold a microphone – and Taylor Lautner were in New York for the MTV VMAs, back in Vancouver the wolves emerged in the city, in town to work on Twilight Eclipse. '
Kiowa Gordon, Chaske Spencer, and Alex Meraz were photographed out and about this weekend.
Twilight hysteria is extra insane right now because a new trailer for New Moon premiered last night at the VMAs. A MUCH better effort than the last trailer that featured only Taylor Lautner voice overs and some bullsh-t repeat scenes.
The film is still, as Jacek declared last night, totally balls full of cheese, but at least it looks better than the first movie, and the inclusion of the vampires with some actual character at the very least makes things less warm and fuzzy.
Speaking of the Volturi, I interviewed Michael Sheen at the Grey Goose Soho House party on Saturday night and asked him about New Moon and Twitter. That interview airs tonight on etalk. Sheen was with his girlfriend, he was lovely, and enthusiastic, and grateful about reaching a new generation of fans, but lit up when we talked shop and Frost/Nixon, acknowledging that it was the industry players who appreciated the film most, and the work that goes into an interview, even a "light" entertainment interview, that remains largely unappreciated unless you've been a part of it behind the scenes.
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