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|Super easy cobbler made with fresh peaches, cinnamon sugar and a simple buttery batter.
Easy Fresh Peach CobblerCobbler has to be just about the one easiest dessert in existence, yet in its simplicity, it is both heart and belly warming. Apart from an old fashioned dumpling style cobbler, this is a basic old school batter that many of us, including me, have used for years and it works well with a wide variety of fruit. It used to be called cuppa cuppa cuppa cobbler, or 1-1-1 cobbler because it used one cup of butter, one cup of flour and one cup of sugar, though I've revised mine a bit from the original and use a method that is just a tad bit different. It's a very simple recipe and it works.
Southern Style Hissy Fit Warning: I recently saw somebody throw out the SSC again {that's Southern Shame Card} on somebody else for using canned peaches in a peach cobbler. Don't worry, 'they' do it to me all the time too - sort of like that whole so-called "authentic" southern cornbread thing. I really don't get why anybody needs to be uppity about what defines southern cooking anyway, but... there are still a few around who think they have the official rule book to dictate to the rest of us southern born folks, just how we are supposed to cook southern I guess. One of the worse side of the mouth insults you can say to a southern born and raised southerner is to say that "a real southerner" would or would not do something.
Well, you never mind them, bless their little ole hearts. There's not a thing wrong with using canned peaches for cobbler, but peak season for local southern peaches is June through September, so goodness yes, use fresh peaches when they are at peak and locally available! Sorta like that whole dried vs. fresh for hand pie thing I guess. If you love using those packages of dried fruit because it reminds you of your grandma, by all means use them! But, when fresh fruits are at peak and in season, why not use them too? {tucks away the old soapbox.}
Anyhoo.... I was gifted with a bag of white peaches that were born right here in a south Mississippi backyard! They might not be Georgia or North Carolina peaches - and I'll leave that debate to the Battle of the Best - but they're pretty darned tasty and a perfect vehicle for some cobbler if you ask me. Besides. You don't look a gift peach in the mouth, right? Okay, I'll stop, but anybody who wants to, can send me on a case of peaches and I'll be more than happy to do a taste test battle of the best between states, or heck even counties, for ya! Just sayin'.
You can make peaches easier to peel by using the same method as tomatoes, dipping them quickly into boiling water, then ice water, but honestly ripe peaches don't really take that long to peel using a soft skin peeler, or a good paring knife. You'll need about 4 cups of peeled and pitted peach halves. Coarsely chop those, and toss with 2 tablespoons of granulated sugar. You can also slice them if you prefer. Pour those into a buttered 8 x 8 inch baking dish.
Sprinkle the top of the peaches with a generous mixture of cinnamon and sugar. Whisk together one cup of self-rising flour and one cup of sugar. Be sure you're using self-rising flour, or in a pinch make up a substitute.
Stir in the butter, milk and egg; mix together until blended. Add lemon zest if using.
Pour batter over the peaches and bake at 325 degrees F for 55 minutes to one hour, or until golden brown and firm in the middle.
Scoop out a serving while its still warm, top with whipped cream, drizzle heavy cream on top, or top with a scoop of ice cream, and dig in!
Recipe: Fresh Southern Peach Cobbler©From the Kitchen of Deep South Dish
Prep time: 15 min |Cook time: 55 min | Yield: About 4 to 6 servings
- 4 cups of peaches, halved
- 2 tablespoons of granulated sugar
- Cinnamon Sugar
- 1 cup of self rising flour
- 1 cup of granulated sugar
- 1/3 cup of butter, melted
- 1/2 cup of milk
- 1 large egg
- 1/2 teaspoon lemon zest, optional
Preheat oven to 325 degrees F. Butter an 8 x 8 inch glass baking dish. Slice or coarsely chop the peaches and toss with the 2 tablespoons of granulated sugar. Place into the bottom of the baking dish. Sprinkle top of peaches generously with the cinnamon sugar mixture.
In a separate mixing bowl whisk together the flour and 1 cup of sugar. Add the butter, milk, and egg; mix together until well blended. Stir in lemon zest if using. Pour batter over the peaches and bake uncovered, at 325 degrees F, for 55 minutes to one hour, or until golden brown and firm in the middle. Best served warm with a drizzle of heavy cream, a dollop of whipped cream, or a scoop of homemade ice cream. Double in a 9 x 13 inch baking dish for a potluck or party.
Note: You'll want about 1-1/2 pounds of fresh peaches, or about 8 small to medium sized peaches. May substitute one well-drained large (28 ounce) can of peaches, adjusting added sugar as needed, depending on whether you use peaches in light juice or heavy syrup. This recipe calls for self-rising flour which is pretty much a southern staple. In a pinch you can make up a substitute by using 1 cup sifted all purpose flour, 1-1/2 teaspoons baking powder and 1/8 teaspoon salt. Click here for the Easy Homemade Vanilla Ice Cream recipe.
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Getting Pregnant After Missed Abortion
I am an ardent lover of your forum since I have been going through your forum from a long time. I think almost all the topics have been covered in your forum. This has forced me to post a question about my dearest friend who is very worried about her probable pregnancy.
My friend always has regular periods with good flow without any clots. She started planning for pregnancy in January 2012 but was unable to get pregnant till May but during the same month she contacted a gynecologist who gave her some medicines related to hormones. One of them was cyclogest syrup and some other tablets. Luckily, she conceived during June. But she got a very faint line on the pregnancy checking stick so she consulted the doctor. She was upset to know that the pregnancy is very high risk because of low implantation. She took some HCG injections too. However, after 8 weeks the doctor informed her that she has to under go D and C as the child has no heartbeat. She underwent the procedure. Next month, as she did not get her periods she contacted another doctor who informed her that there were remains of the previous D and C in her uterus so she has to undergo another D and C.
Will this affect her next chance of getting pregnant? She has recently taken Rubella vaccine. After how many months she should try again to conceive? What are the steps she should take to ensure that next time she does not get a child without heartbeat?
Pls reply. I would really appreciate it.
8th December 2012 12:50 PM #2
Hey Sarah, thanks for posting and welcome to the group!
I am so sorry to hear about your friend's loss. It is unfortunate, but it does happen quite a lot. I have had two miscarriages and it is estimated that at least 1/4 of pregnancies end in miscarriage. Do you happen to know your friends age? I ask, because failing to get pregnant for five months is usually not substantial enough for an OB prescribe medication. Even in healthy, fertile couples it can take a year or more.
It is a good sign that she became pregnant and the odd are that she will have a successful pregnancy the second time around. For now, she should focus on nutrition. If she is overweight, now is the time to lose the excess. She should be eating a healthy diet, drinking plenty of water, and exercising regularly. Preparing the body for pregnancy is very much a matter of improving overall health.
As for waiting, she should give herself a good two or three, normal cycles following the repeat D & C. She should also be taking prenatal vitamins and folic acid or eating a diet rich in vitamins like folate, this is important long before conception for best results.
As for the Rubella vaccine, it is generally recommended that women wait at least 28 days before trying to conceive following the inoculation.
19th December 2012 11:17 AM #3
Hi Sarah,
Preconception care can make a positive difference in the outcome of any pregnancy.
This is when you take about 3 to 4 months to "act pregnant" so you can "get pregnant". If you wouldn't eat it, drink it or do it while you're pregnant, then don't eat it, drink it or do it before you get pregnant.
The reason for this is because it takes about 4 months for an egg cell to develop into a fully ripe "adult" egg that can be fertilized, and it takes about 4 months for sperm to be created. It's a perfect time for husband and wife to adopt a fertility friendly diet and lifestyle in preparation for conceiving a truly healthy baby.
When you have a truly healthy egg and sperm, the baby will be healthier which means less chance of miscarriage. When mum is highly fertile and healthy going into the pregnancy, there is less chance of miscarriage or preterm labour.
I would encourage your sister to wait 4 months before she tries to conceive and the reason I say this is because of the Rubella vaccine she was given. That vaccine affected the eggs that are currently developing and if she wants to have the best chance of avoiding another miscarriage and D&C, then she's going to want her embryo to be as healthy as possible.
There's probably little you can do about where the embryo implants in the uterus but there are so many other things that can cause miscarriage that 4 months of preconception care would be prudent.
Please feel free to share these forums with anyone you feel may benefit from them. We're here to help.
Warm Regards,
18th February 2013 03:49 PM #4
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Him Mom2many and Kate!
It has been three months since my friend had taken Rubella vaccine. Her doctor suggested that she can try now. However I found it weird when I saw her tablet dublin which contained Norethisterone content. She was advised to take this from day 16 to day 25. I dont understand this. As far as I know this tablet is meant for delaying period????? Please advise me. Is she taking a safe drug which is in favor of her getting pregnant???
Worried but ensured that you will reply,
20th February 2013 04:21 AM #5
Hi Sarah,
Norethisterone is a progestogen which means that it acts similar to the way progesterone would work in the body. It is a steroid and it is synthetic so it would be good to learn all you can about the risks of using this particular "form" of progesterone. Natural progesterone can often times be effective and does not have side effects from all I've read (I've used natural progesterone myself).
The doctor may be using the Norethisterone to help support a possible pregnancy by prescribing it for days 16 to 25. The doctor may also be hoping that she will ovulate around day 14 of her cycle. If the doctor was prescribing it during the first half of her cycle, it would then act as a contraceptive and work to suppress ovulation (keep her from ovulating).
Something that can be very helpful at balancing hormones naturally is the use of acupuncture and herbs.
Hope this helps!
Warm Regards,
27th February 2013 06:01 PM #6
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Hi Kate!
Thanks for your detailed reply. It is good to know that this drug is good for her. I just spoke to her on phone. Today is her Day 20. she is taking the pills regularly. She is having severe on and off cramps on her lower back. She never has them during regular periods but she had such cramps last time when she was pregnant.
I dont know if she is having it. I think its too early to say anything but she is being hopeful. l think we need to just wait and watch. What do you say?
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Hi Kate!
My friend got her periods after four days of stopping the medicine. She visited the doc who said an ovulation study needs to be conducted. But she gave her 50 mg of Clomophine citrate to be taken from day 3 to 8. She has been called on her 11th day. I was wondering how this study is conducted??
Awaiting your response,
23rd March 2013 07:37 AM #8
HI Sarah - I am sorry to say Kate has left the forum due to her job. Unfortunately I don't know the answer to your question.
25th March 2013 05:07 PM #9
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Thanks for your reply. Anyways she has stopped going to the gynaec after she went on her 11th and 12th day and was told that there was no egg developing inside and was told to come the next day.
This frustrated her because the gynaec did not check her. It was her assistant with half knowledge who intimated her telling her she was not ovulating. This frustrated her and she decided not to go for any medicines and now she will be trying on her own to see if she gets any results.
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I have the same problem here, I was getting pregnant in june 2015 and the embryo was abort after 12 weeks. We are now trying for a baby and still I am not getting pregnant.
28th July 2016 02:32 AM #11
Hi dulmi,
Welcome to the pregnancy, birth and beyond forum.
Thank you for your post. I'm sorry to hear about your loss.
Did you have a D&C or did you miscarry naturally last year? Was it confirmed that there was a complete miscarriage?
Do you have regular periods? How long did it take you to conceive when you became pregnant last year? Please could I ask how old you are?
Are you and your partner healthy generally? Are you a healthy weight?
How frequently do you and your partner make love? Are you aware of when your fertile days are each month?
I look forward to reading your reply.
Warm wishes,
28th July 2016 04:15 PM #12
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Hi ljmarsden,
Thank You for your kindly reply.
It was naturally miscarriage and My doctor confirmed that miscarriage was completed and I was fully recovered. Of course I have regular periods. I was pregnant in June 2015 and the embryo was abort after 12 weeks.
Yes Me and My partner are healthy and also have healthy weight too.
I am 25 years old. we made love two or three times per week. I think I don't have much knowledge about fertile days. Please let me know more about it?
I look forward to your reply
Thank You,


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Another day 2 horrendous pick. This slug started only 11 games in his CAREER! Very slow (4.87-4.95) and not a great blocker. Thompson could have had him in round 6 or 7. This slug will be lucky to make the team and if he does it will be on the practice squad only. What a waste of a 3rd round pick.Hide replies
He's very slow and lacks strength and bulk, Even if he has great hands what's the point at TE ?
I wouldn't say a guy that played wide receiver at 245 and TE at 275 lacks bulk.
Try reading scouting reports from people that actually scout these guys rather than relying on your memory of what he supposedly weighed.
6-4 257
Try reading some scouting reports from people that actually scouted him rather than relying on some weight figures that were pulled from where?
6-4 257 and scouting reports do say he lacks size and bulk. Even if he would bulk up he's slower than molasses.
He is 6'4" so at 245 I would say he lacks bulk.
I'm 6'4" at 250 I don't think anyone would say I lack bulk. It may not be in the right places but
Bulk in terms of the "position" and in terms of how it is determined by people who measure these things. Yeah, it may seem silly in general terms, but we are discussing pro football here.
Looks like a Justin Harrell type pick, only two rounds later
Don't understand this pick at all. Ted T. deserves the benefit of the doubt, but Rodgers seems like someone we could have taken much later.Hide replies
Yes. Ted obviously abandoned BPA in this draft and these last two picks were big reaches.
there is almost universal agreement on that pick, except for the in ted we trust crowd. BPA ????? I think not
Total panic move. This kid will contribute nothing for two years. His strenght is his athleticism? He's slow, lacks strength, and drops passes. Major reach. No way can TT look anyone in the face and say this kid was the best player on their board. Bruce Ellington is still sitting there. Desir, Bullough, Urbin. All kinds of players that would have been a better pick here. This kid could have been had at the end of the 5th or maybe even in the 6th round.Hide replies
I couldn't find even one site that had him before round 6. Many had him as a FA. Certainly TT could have used both the third round picks to get a player who would help this year and waited until rounds 6 & 7 to get Thornton and Rodgers.
total panic reaction to the pick.
Will Aaron Rodgers have to wear an "A" now on his uniform?Hide replies
I don't think it is required.
The Packers have had 2 Joneses the last few years now.
I was thinking an S on his chest like the superman he is would do.
Not "A" but "E".
P Man: Let's just put it this way - Moses had a brother named Aaron, and he had a sister named Erin.
I'm also scratching my head. Almost seems like TT felt this comp pick warranted a big reach. There is some upside, but he is not fast, not strong, drops a lot of balls. Pretty much equates to 5th round talent. I can't figure the "draft best available player" applied here. This was clearly a reach for need. I have almost always stood up for TT, and I'm very much enthusiastic about his other picks in this draft, but this is a "what the heck?" kind of pick by every stretch. Fifth round? Ok, fine. I do like the WR we got though and considering we won the SB with no legit TE threat (and we may still end up having Finley back despite GB's conservative approach to his kind of injury) we're still looking good.
What was his weight when he ran his 40?
I like the basketball skills.
Poor man's Jimmy Graham.Hide replies
Exactly how poor is this poor man?
Hobo poor I believe.
I see a 4.53 40 time listed for Graham. That's a far cry from Richard Rodgers 4.87. Even Hammerstein had a faster 40 time than that.
Scooter: that's why Dick Rodgers' a poor man Graham. Take emphasis on the phrase "poor man's."
Sorry, I don't see it that way but whatever floats your boat. Saying someone is a "poor man's" whatever usually indicates a similarity or similar traits. I see basically nothing similar between the two. You might as well say BJ Raji is a "poor mans" Eddie Lacy then.........NOT !
Thefreedictionary.com defines "a poor man's somebody/something" as
"someone or something that is similar to a well-known person or thing but is not as good.
Example: "He was only ever a mediocre singer - they used to call him 'the poor man's Frank Sinatra."
Exactly..........SIMILAR TO........which doesn't fit this situation at all
Jimmy Graham is light years better than Rodgers. There are NO similarities in their mesurables. I'm glad you looked it up, though, since I was going to suggest that. Apparently it doesn't sink in.
It is usually used to mean that two items are quite similar except for price. Again, there is no real similarities between Graham and Rodgers except, perhaps, that they both play TE.
tank elf duke is a poor man's estus hood fan.
Scooter: Go look at Dick Rodgers' highlight films on youtube. Both Graham and Rodgers are a new breed of basketball "tight ends." Both are a far cry from your father's Ben Coates, Hot tub Chewy and/or Cowboy Novacek.
Cheesy: Back in the good of days of Sportsbubbler, the esteemed poster named Reg Dunlop called me a poor man's Norman Chad.
Yep, the only differences I see between you and Norman Chad are writing ability, rational thought, and subject matter expertise.
GB will put TE Rodgers on the PS squad where he will flounder for a year or two before getting cut
Why. This is why you trade up to get Jenkins or Ebron. Now they'll have Quarless and Bostick. Unproven guys. Just as unreliable blocking as these rookies.Hide replies
That's what I was thinking, too. TT must have felt a real need to pick up a TE or he wouldn't have reached like he did for Rodgers. Why not try to trade up for someone who would have had a lot more upside than this guy?
Illini you are absolutely correct. Rather than take two guys in the third round who will be lucky to make the practice squad, he could have used one of those picks to move up in round 2 and taken somebody better than Adams. At least get somebody who will make an immediate impact.
Exactly. We only need 3-4 quality guys. ILB, S, C, TE. TT must see something in these two, but this doesn't great now. The only thing I can think with Adams is that he may be one of the better route runners. Which is what MM and Aaron need in a WR. More than athleticism, etc.
After reading many of the posts here tonight, you might think Teddy is a nitwit at drafting players that can catch a football, be it WR or TE. That the fact that he drafted Greg Jennings in the 2nd round in 2006, James Jones in the 3rd round in 2007, Jordy Nelson in the 2nd round in 2008, Jermichael Finley in the 3rd round, also in 2008, Quarless in the 5th round in 2010, Randall Cobb in the 2nd round in 2011, must have all been sure pure luck and good fortune. If such is the case, then I have reason to hope that the sure pure luck and good fortune will continue.Hide replies
There was also Nick Perry-Worthy-McMillen-Sherrod-Green-Pat Lee-Brohm. Thompson is either hit or miss terribly with his early picks.
No argument. My point though, was that,Ted dos a pretty good job drafting TE and WR.
Most football knowledgeable people claim that it takes about three years to determine how successful a player will be. It took Nick Collins three years to become a pro bowl caliber safety. To point to players like Worthy and Sherrod to try to prove a point about Thompson's misses is just silly. As for fourth round through seventh round selections, they are ALL hit or miss and Thompson has done better than most GMs.
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When politicians claim that there is an education crisis, they generally mean that there is a science, technology, engineering, and math crisis. If we want to remain competitive in a global economy, we're told, we need more chemists and biologists, more doctors and engineers, more inventors and innovators.
But what of the humanities? Who is coming to their defense? Who is arguing that life isn't just about inventing the next smart phone but about understanding the self, that philosophical introspection, aesthetic contemplation, and historical examination are goods that can't simply be replaced by a faster computer?
Leon Wieseltier is, for one. Here is his full-throated defense of the humanities, given at Brandeis's commencement ceremonies last week. I've included his opening below:
Has there ever been a moment in American life when the humanities were cherished less, and has there ever been a moment in American life when the humanities were needed more? I am genuinely honored to be addressing you this morning, because in recent years I have come to regard a commitment to the humanities as nothing less than an act of intellectual defiance, of cultural dissidence.
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Anthony Domestico is an assistant professor of literature at Purchase College, SUNY. His book on poetry and theology in the modernist period is forthcoming from Johns Hopkins University Press.
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I am a "humanities guy." I am more-or-less predisposed to come down in agreement with anyone who defends the humanities in higher education, and am glad when anyone does it with verve.
But I'm also a "humanities guy" who is dubious of exaggerated binaries and especially the production of more "-isms," particularly when those "-isms" are overly broad. (I know that Wieseltier didn't coin "scientism," but that doesn't make his breathing additional life into that term any less unfortunate). I suppose that a commencement address may make good use of broad strokes and simplistic binaries to achieve a certain rousing effect, but at the same time doing so invites easier dismissal.
People have too many gadgets! Genetics just reduces us to nuts-and-bolts!
Well, yeah, people do have too many gadgets, and don't really use them well, And, yes, there is a tendency in the presentation of some scientific approaches to be reductive (especially when there's copy to be moved). But if you stand in front of a group of 20-somethings while wearing a tam and robe, and present things so starkly (read simplistically), then your address sounds like a harangue, and you had might as well be yelling at the kids to get off your lawn ("Old Man Yells at Cloud.")
It's a lay way out, blaming smart phones for the ill health of humanities programs. It's a kneejerk approach that, if tempered with more nuanace and attentiveness, could instead observe that technology is the co-worker of the humanities. I fear going on too long, but let me say that even whie a smart phone may draw people away from the stuff of the humanities, so it can (and does!) also enable their approach. You know, sort of like the printing press did...
A couple of thoughts on Wieseltier's premise:
I wonder if he would see a particular danger in the academic fields that are grouped under the heading of social sciences - those that attempt to elucidate human behavior by applying the tools of mathematics and science: economics, at which he takes a shot in his speech, sociology, psychology, anthropology and so on.
- It seems to me that a particular threat that science and technology poses to the humanities is in alleviating human boredom. Science and technology don't propose beauty and truth as the remedy - or at least, not in a way that seems very amenable to a mass market distribution; but gaming, texting, social media and so on surely compete with the humanities in entertaining and edifying us. (I am making the perhaps-questionable assumption here that there is something edifying about gaming, texting or social media).
I get that he doesn't like the revolutionary impact of technology on our lives, and the importance of data and computation in modern science. His speech is quite negative. What exactly is good about the humanities? He does not say very much about that. It is more an attack than a defense, and as such, it's a little disappointing. I'm all for the defense of humanities, but would like to see a better case of why humanities are important.
For one thing, the "quest for the true and the good and the beautiful" is not the exclusive realm of humanities. I'll yield on the good, because I have not seen it come into play in scientific research, but the true and the beautiful are essential for scientists too. Sometimes I think that I spend most of my time trying to figure out what is true and why. Neither is the quest for the beautiful. How often we judge that something has to be true because it is beautiful! Just because we have a different vocabulary and a sense of aesthetics that has developed in a different world view doesn't mean that it should be dismissed.
And how can neuroscience not be exciting? For the study of man, it's at a different level of detail, but it's like understanding a country by looking at its map at different scales, and surely collaboration rather than resistance is the way forward. As to the "encounter with a work of art" and the "study of the encounter", isn't it an impoverishment to refuse the help of quantitative methods for that? It's like learning a foreign language by immersion and flat out refusing to hear anything about grammar, verbs, and etymology.
I think education funding cuts have played a role in the lack of exposure to the humanities. On the other hand, as a parent and student acquiring a degree in Religious Studies, I agree the humanities are now the counterculture. But why do we need to pit the STEM against the humanities? Seems to me a liberal arts education is the breeding ground for self discovery. That said, maybe it's unfair to blame technology alone for the problems we face and seek to solve.
Claire --
He isn't against technology. He's agaisnt the misuse and distractions of technology. He isn't againt science. He's against scientism, and he says so in so many words at the very beginning. Scientism is the philosophy that everything is matter in motion and that scientific method, using math, can tell us everything that we can possibly know about matter in motion, that science can even tell us everything about being human. It can, so it claims, give us answers to the "big questions" about human life -- all those hard ones about humans as subjects, not just as objects.
For some time now, the humanists have been in retreat in academe. They have been debilitated by the dominance of scientissm, by the assumption that science can answer all the big questions. But Nagel's "Mind and Cosmos" has finally succeeded in focusing some attention on this dreadful problem. And it looks like Wieseltier has decided to join forces with him.
Yay, Nagel! Yay, Wieseltier! Perhpas the times they really are a'changin'.
You're being much too generous by reading into his speech distinctions that he doesn't really make. He undermines whatever defense of the humanities he is trying to make through a distracting pomposity. More significantly--and I think that Claire was quite right on this--he does not actually say anything about the humanities that is inviting or encouraging. Instead, he says a few things about "questions of meaning," and asking if things are "true or false, or good or evil." I imagine that if you made a talking Liberal Arts Student doll, it would say the exact same thing when you pulled the string on its back.
I was getting at this before, but what really bugs me about this is the false dichotomy he so desperately wants tro forge between technology and the humanistic endeavour. Does he genuinely think that the "questions of meaning" have all of a sudden, just over the last few decades given ground to questions of utility? Distraction and superficiality are nothing new, but the increase in access to the resources that lie at the heart of the humanities is. It's a shame that he's just too butt-hurt over the media in play to recognize the potential.
Another negative rant by Wieseltier? He's a pompous bore, imho. I feel sorry for the graduates who had to listen to him dissing their classmates who didn't choose useless majors.
Here's the link to his Amazon bash. (He failed to mention the fact that he sells his own books on Amazon.)
Whatever happened to the trivium and the quadrivium?
Jim Pauwels: on the social sciences. I don't know where Wieseltier stands on the subject, but I've always been a bit of an agnostic on the question of whether the social sciences really exist. They may indeed exist -- but then they may not. Last week I heard a talk so much devoted to the kind of theoretical model building that the social sciences are given to, with so little regard to what happens in the real world of the humanities (like real history), that I decided that my agnosticism had finally become atheism, and that I can no longer seriously believe in the existence of the social sciences. If I were younger, I might make a new career for myself as a Richard Dawkins exposing secular superstitions.
Of course in reality it's that word "science" that gets my goat, and rightly or wrongly I blame the Germans, particularly 19th century Germans, for it. Everything, history included, they turned into a Wissenschaft. Even with my weak knowledge of the language, I know (or think I know) that Wissenschaft can mean either science or it can mean scholarship. So maybe it's our fault for choosing to think of it as science, because -- well, because it seems more "scientific" to do so, rather than seeing it as soft-headed scholarship.
At two great universities, I believe that "political science" does not exist. Harvard calls its appropriate department "Government," while the more pragmatic (or cynical) Princeton calls its equivalent "Politics." Or at least that's the way it used to be.
Ann, I didn't completely believe his line about the distinction between science and scientism. I thought it was merely a way to protect himself against obvious criticism, but I did not see evidence in the rest of his text that he was careful to draw the line. I think that you would have given a much better speech!
"I was getting at this before, but what really bugs me about this is the false dichotomy he so desperately wants tro forge between technology and the humanistic endeavour."
Abe --
He does NOT offer a dichotomy between technology and the humanities. He is not against technology but is against the "technological mentality', a mentality which is too narrow to address fundamental human questions competently. There is a distinction between technology and the technological mentality, but there is no dichotomy between technology and the humanities. Students often resist the humanities because, I grant you, the humanities are not always pleasant. They are sometimes extremely threatening. They ask questions that sometimes make us look like simpletons to ourselves. Worst of all, they often shake us to our core, challenging our most cherised beliefs, including historical, sociological, and religious ones. Sometimes, people are not willing to use their thinking skills (we *can* choose to ignore reasons and experience), and they end up rigid, and narrow-minded ideologues. Some turn into skeptics, and even cynics. But in my experience most people do not.
There is no sure way to get people interested in the humanities or even make them see their utility. But without the humanities a democracy will not have a citizenry capable of critical thinking, and so the people will be at the mercy of political rhetoric, and the nation could fail. Tthe humanites enable us to think more clearly and broadly, and help us to imagine alternative answers to pressing personal questions, and they help us think far into the future as we sometimes need to do. I could go on. . .
To give up the humanities is to to force oneself to reinvent the intellectual wheel, and few if any of us have that kind of genius.
If that sounds pompous to you, that's just too bad. At least I admit my ignorance.
"I imagine that if you made a talking Liberal Arts Student doll, it would say the exact same thing when you pulled the string on its back."
Abe --
Now there's a good example of a rhetorical appeal. Not a reason.
Gerelyn --
When people used to ask me what I was going to do with my useless major (English), I'd answer, "Speak it".
But neither you nor he are actually following through and laying out a connection between the increased use of technology, a technological mentality, and what you describe as young people's fear of what the study of the humanities can confront them with.
Students often resist the humanities because, I grant you, the humanities are not always pleasant. They are sometimes extremely threatening. They ask questions that sometimes make us look like simpletons to ourselves. Worst of all, they often shake us to our core, challenging our most cherised beliefs, including historical, sociological, and religious ones.
There's nothing true in the above that wouldn't be true sans smart phones... or sans dial-up, for that matter. Or that wasn't true centuries ago, when the idea of an engagement with the humanities was unthinkable for all but the few. Wieseltier doesn't actually say anything about how people actually use technology--he just complains about how much of it they use. He says "There is no greater bulwark against the twittering acceleration of American consciousness than the encounter with a work of art, and the experience of a text or an image," but seems utterly oblivious to the fact that the technology that irritates him is what enables the opportunity for such an encounter for so many.
Claire --
I grant you Wieseltier doesn't make the point as well as Nagel, but Nagel writes a little book about it. Thanks for the compliment :-) , but I don't think I'm up to it. Do read the Nagel, though it's not perfect either.
One last question: How do you pronounce "Wieseltier"?
*mic drop*
I think his speech was short on reason and long on rhetoric, so it's the rhetoric that I'm critiquing. Rhetoric gets a bad rap, and--frankly--I think it's undervalued in comparison with reason: thus my dstaste for his cliched rhetoric. Really, in a lot of ways, my complaint doesn't go much beyond that his speech was just one extended cliche.
Where in Wieseltier's essay is the 'false dichotomy' you write of? With regard to scientism he claims:
"Scientism is not the same thing as science. Science is a blessing, but scientism is a curse. Science...what practicing scientists actually do, is acutely and admirably aware of its limits, and humbly admits to the provisional character of its conclusions; but scientism is dogmatic, and peddles certainties."
"It is true that the selfish gene has lately been replaced by the altruistic gene, which is lovelier, but it is still the gene that tyrannically rules. Liberal scientism should be no more philosophically attractive to us than conservative scientism, insofar as it, too, arrogantly reduces all the realms that we inhabit to a single realm, and tempts us into the belief that the epistemological eschaton has finally arrived, and at last we know what we need to know to manipulate human affairs wisely."
By the way, Wieseltier concludes his speech to the Brandeis graduating class (who presumably don't need to be told about the benefits of an education in the Humanities) to: "Use the new technologies for the old purposes."
"Whatever happened to the trivium and the quadrivium?"
They're buried at the crossroads.
I think Abe is right that for long millennia the humanities touched the lives of very few actual human beings, most of whom dragged out a plodding existence of ignorance and brutal hardship until an early death, as many people still do.
In the last few generations, science has improved the health, extended the lifespans, and reduced the misery of countless millions of people, giving them opportunities they never had before, including the chance to pursue the wisdom of literature, philosophy, and the arts, if they choose. They have been given the perilous gift of freedom, and I suppose we must expect a certain amount of clucking about the poor use they are making of it.
Inveighing against Now is the oldest rhetorical game in the world. When people first began to write down poems, it was, "I never see a kid these days whose nose isn't stuck in a scroll." And, "They've just wrecked that sense of community we used to feel when we all got together to hear the bards sing."
Let's all keep calm.
Rhymes (roughly) with "He's still here?"
Ann, look at what the speech says. Humanities are about "questions of meaning": true or false, good or evil; they're about "penetrating to the very principles of human life". Superior knowledge "can be acquired only over time and only by method". It consists of the "study of man", of "interpretation" instead of calculation. It's about the encounter with a work of art, the experience of a texte or an image, and the "serious" study of that encounter, and that it's the "quest for the true and the good and the beautiful". That's all he says, nothing more. (if you eliminate the negative rants).
You mention politics and citizenship, but that's your opinion, not in his speech. You hint at the power of language, but that's your view, not his. You talk about critical thinking and about thinking clearly, but that's not in his speech. In just a few comments, you've managed to suggest several ways in which humanities are important. Everything you say is more precise and more informative than his speech. You appreciate his conclusion, but you're putting your own well-defined reasons behind it, not his own vague reasons.
Why are humanities important? Here are a few suggestions.
Many of the students (and many other people) I see seem a bit lost, very unsure about the future, swept away by the rapid current of technological changes in society. In a society in which our parents' customs seem quaint and any way of life rapidly becomes obsolete, sometimes we feel we do not understand what's going on any more. Just think of the new possibilities raised by medical progress! The old ways no longer work, and we have to invent new ways. What can we hold on to give us direction and help us have good judgement? (And what is good judgment? And is there such a thing as good judgment?) Of course for readers of this blog, religion is a natural part of the answer, but in general, this is where humanities might come in. Reading the classics of literature and studying what resonates might help give some salience to life, recognize what is timeless and keep one's attention away from distractions. In fact, one might argue that the rapid rate of change makes humanities more important than ever. Humanities, to accompany technological changes!
Talking from the perspective of one who likes quantitative analysis, I am struck by the limited range of vocabulary of many teenagers I know. In my own rants, I complain that the distractions brought by modern technology and gadgets have taken time away from reading, and that the number of words they know is quite small. The sentences they form are also shorter and simpler than in the past. It shows in their speaking and in their writing. With fewer words to express nuances, their thinking must be limited. It's an obstacle. Humanities, by broadening their vocabulary, would improve their thinking.
I worry about the future because of the stress on the earth's resources and of climate change, but I think that the largest threats will first come from the resulting tensions between populations. How will nations handle shifting rain patterns and large numbers of climate refugees from other cultures? I don't know, but there will be questions of diplomacy, of taking universal human rights into account, of dealing with justified anger leading to murderous terrorism, and for that we will need more wisdom than I can imagine. Encountering the limitations of the earth as the place where humans live is a new phenomenon, and I hope that humanities can play a role there too.
Rhetoric at Notre Dame de Paris - the art of clear and efficient speaking!
No doubt there is indeed scientism of the sort that Leon Wieseltier denounces.
Nevertheless, I have to wonder what he would think of the generalized empirical method that the Candadian Jesuit philosopher and theologian Bernard Lonergan (1904-1984) works out in his philosophical masterpiece INSIGHT: A STUDY OF HUMAN UNDERSTANDING (1957).
Because Ann Olivier and other commentators here appear to be Thomists, I hasten to point out that Lonergan himself had carried out two extensive studies of Thomas Aquinas's thought before he undertook the task of what INSIGHT.
Some people in the humanities can accurately be described as technophobes. It seems to me that Leon Wieseltier might aptly be described as a technophobe.
But my favorite scholar, the American Jesuit cultural historian Walter J. Ong (1912-2003), has been described as a technophile because the technology thesis that he worked out -- for example, in his summative book ORALITY AND LITERACY: THE TECHNOLOGIZING OF THE WORD (1982) -- is basically positive about the technologizing of the word.
In our contemporary American culture today, the word is undergoing further technologizing. But Ong did not live long enough to write about all of these further ways in which the word is being technologized.
However, to this day, Ong remains the only Roman Catholic priest ever elected to serve (in 1978) as president of the Modern Language Association of American, a professional organization dedicated to promoting the humanities. Ong's professional activities promoting the humanities were numerous.
So I would urge Leon Wieseltier to study Ong's views about the technologizing of the word.
One of my children, in college, has a liberal-arts-intensive schedule this semester: theology, philosophy, art history, political science. If I had the financial independence and the time and the freedom from other responsibilities, I'd like nothing better than to spend a semester studying those topics (although the art history would be a stretch for me). I have to say that I'm disappointed that none of it seem to have lit the fuse of enthusiasm in her.
Part of it is just her, for sure. But my own experience as a student is that there is something about undergraduate level liberal arts pedagogy that can drain the delight out of liberal arts subjects. I'm sure part of it is encapsulated in the difference between going to an art museum for pleasure, vs. having to write a paper about a couple of works in the museum. But I also think there can be a latent utility that creeps into college level liberal arts courses: that the course is not just art for art's sake, or philosophy for the sake of wisdom, but to prepare the student for a job in the field - teaching or writing or whatever. That utility, the instrumentalization of education, seems to be part of what Wieseltier is criticizing.
"Education, in its widest sense, has two great purposes: the development of intelligence and the development of character." -- John W. Donohue, S.J. in 1985, quoted in America May 13, 2013.
"Education in its widest sense, has two great purposes: the development of assets for employers who hire people with degrees and the attainment of a job that will allow the hirees to pay back their student loans." -- A gaggle of contemporary governors who have hit on STEM studies as the solution to their political woes.
That is the issue. Wieseltier doesn't handle it very well, but it is the issue.
Wieseltier's speech, "full-throated" as it may have been, was not an advertisement for the humanities, imho. If anything, it revealed his own lack of familiarity with Brandeis and its driven students.
Link to majors and minors at Brandeis: http://www.brandeis.edu/learning/undergraduate/majors.html
Anyway, commencement speeches, good or bad, are quickly forgotten, if they're heard at all. And hand-wringing about the humanities is an easy way to get around writing a substantive speech.
I guess we all have pet peeves about the poor state of education. One of mine is the disappearance of Palmer Method (and of cursive writing in general). The picture of high school journalists in the NYT yesterday was a perfect example of how young people today clutch their pens so gracelessly.
The humanities can be learned at any time in life. People who major in math or science or business have a long life ahead of them in which to read literature, history, religion, etc., on their own.
NIcholas - I confess to being charmed by your curmudgeonly insistence on the non-existence of the social sciences. :-). If you are stating that there is something about the human spirit, as it makes itself manifest in human behavior, that ultimately eludes mathematical models, I'm inclined to agree with you. Nevertheless, the wages in Karachi, or the volume of the brain cavity in Australopithecus, or the therapies for anxiety, do seem amenable to math and science and seem to be helpful data points for understanding the world.
I guess we all have pet peeves about the poor state of education. One of mine is the disappearance of Palmer Method (and of cursive writing in general).
Once, when one of my children was in 4th or 5th grade, I was helping him with his spelling homework, and in the course of one of my frequent diatribes on the illegibility of his handwriting (a case of the pot calling the kettle black, but it's a parental prerogative), it struck me that he was printing his answers. I asked him why he didn't use cursive handwriting, and he replied that he had never been taught(!). At the next parent-teacher conference, I quizzed his teacher about this. The teacher admitted, apologetically, that the school district had dropped the requirement; my son's class was the first that had never learned the skill. I suppose blue book exams have gone the way of the dodo bird, but I was a little bit disconcerted. And when the kid takes a telephone message for me, it's like deciphering the Rosetta Stone.
Well played, sir :-)
Google News about cursive writing. Please note the first four items in particular.
Well, of course they do--and they should and hopefully will. But I think that this kind of thinking runs the risk of treating the humanities like lagniappe, or like a leisure activity for when the tennis courts don't beckon. The thing is, the humanities are about more than just reading stuff. The humanities are also about rigorously engaging with what is read (or heard or watched or whatever), and that means being disciplined in ways of weighing what is encountered, as well as in ways of communicating with others about what is at hand (the latter is perhaps most important). Anyone can google a Great Books reading list and have at it--and the books will be worthy enough that a lot could be gained from that. But being critically aware of how one interprets and processes the information provided by a text or nay other medium doesn't necessarily come naturally--biases, blinders, and flat-out personal tastes must be put to the test. You do not just learn from books, but from others who are also set to the same task (not to mention from experienced guides who have a fuller view of the ins-and-outs of that task).
If we're talking about educating oneself, I think students should choose courses not by the subject matter, but by the teacher. You will learn a lot from a really great teacher no matter what they're teaching; and a great teacher will make whatever it is interesting even if it's not something that normally interests you.
My personal experience with reading the "Great Books" is that they require a lot of work. I have to make notes, underline and read passages multiple times. Sometimes, I consult more that one translation. I'm just not smart enough to leisurely read say, Aquinas or Aristotle, and be able to articulate what they've said after one or two passes through passes through the text.
Gerelyn, I note this paragraph from one of the items in your search results:
New Jersey Department of Education language arts standards used to require that students be able to write legibly in manuscript or cursive by the end of third grade. But the state has since adopted the national Common Core Standards, which do not include cursive at all and put more direct emphasis on technology.
I arrive late here. Let me make one suggestion. In the study of the humanities, i.e., language and literature, history, theology and religious studies,philosophy, classics, politcal thought, etc. there is at least an implicit recognition of two sorts of evidence. One is empirical evidence that is quantifiable, subject to analysis in standard logical form, etc. Another sort of evidence has to do with qualitative judgments about relative merit. It finds expression in convictions, commitments, creatiuve metaphors, etc. This latter sort of evidence presumes a certain freedom on the part of the student or scholar, a confidence that these convictions,etc. are his or her own, not the product of some impeersonal forces, neurons, genes, physical paarticles, etc.
To the extent that the physical sciences exclude on principle the inclusion of this second sort of evidence in the rresults that their procedures yield, they can appear to be dismissive of the humanities. In fact, in scientific practice, the judgments of the scientists themselves often display features of the second sort of evidence, e.g., in the judgments of grant applications, in the encouragement they offer to prospective scientists, etc.
I haven't read Wieselthier's spech and so do not comment on it.I have to admit that I share some of Nicholas Clifford's reservations about the social sciences, especially when they seem to lust after being physical sciences.
Finally, having had the pleasure to have known a number of fine mathematicians, I must say that they, of all people, are least likely to be guilty of scientism.
If the author is arguing about the ills of extremism, as when good scientists wander into scientism, then I agree that the result on society is more negative than positive. Certainly, in any field there are extremists and purists. However, I graduated with a degree in Aerospace Engineering where half my 151 credits needed to graduate was in the humanities. I always appreciated the value of non-engineers in my brief engineering career. Hence, I question the degree of proliferation of scientism among scientists and the call for more liberal arts education as a potential cure for any-ism.
There is a needed and important space for people with a iberal arts education as well as those with a science and technology education. However, a college graduate rarely learns life by 4 years of book learning. It takes a lifetime of existential learning, interacting with people and learning how to balance a varitiy of issues in any business situation or in one's personal life. Yes, we have trends that are disturbing, but we are not all ignorant sheep following every trend to our destruction. The world is not so evil and the problems so great that dwarf the problems in past centuries. Nor is humanity lost in a sea of any-ism. There is much more hope for us than doomsayers would like us to think.
Most college graduates don't graduate with degress in science and technology. Hence, I would venture to say that many young people graduate with liberal arts degrees, and the quality of such learning varies.
Consider a practical application of liberal arts thinking and an example of "extremism", when the RCC hierarchy make assertions about human experience and the problems in this world. The Church claims that most people in Western society believe that the answers to life, and real happiness can be found in this world, through the benefits of science and technology. They claim that God does not occupy any or very little space in the lives of most (young) Catholics who live in Western secular society. The problems with low Mass attendance and the non-reception of certain teachings are blamed on the ills of Western liberalism, consumerism and captialism. These so-called issues are fueled by politicial philosophy, economic theory and social policies, among others. Are these so-called problems the improper use of the humanities and our reasoning? Or is this an example of extremism where the Church does not take any responsibilty for its role in the world? Are we all infected with some type of diabolical cancer that prevents us from grasping the truth? Is every example of liberaliism, consumerism or captialism the evil we must avoid or correct? Or are there many other reasons for low Mass attendence, non-reception and the like?
We need both scientists, engineers, lawyers, teachers, philosophers, doctors, writers and poets, anthropologists, mathematicians, and business people. They are the people who shape our socieites, some good and not so good. Do we need more education in the humanities and less in the sciences? Maybe. Or are we talking about the problems caused by those who stand on the extremes of their fields of study and vocations, where labels of scientism, clericalism, and any-ism prevail?


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Originally known for an acoustic, instrumental roots sound following a self-titled recording in 2005, this full-length debut reveals their impressive growth into an epic-rock-pop-soul train that rivals anything crawling out of Canada today. Warren C. Spicer is the veritable vocal soul and guitar hero of the group; Nicolas Basque adds more guitar crunch, bass tones and the occasional piano; and Matthew "the Woodman" Woodley can go from rolling bluegrass tempo to post-rock crash in the blink of a high-kick.
The record begins with Bye Bye Bye (also the album's first single), and Warren C. Spicer asking "What's gonna happen to you?" as if to suggest a story already in progress—as if Parc Avenue could be an epilogue to a story already told. With its choir-like chorus and horns, Bye Bye Bye could just as easily close the album, but here it draws us in, like something has been going on without us, and we're late to the game.
Filled with three-part epics like Faerie Dance (which also appeared on 2007's with/avec EP) and the anthemic New Kind of Love, Parc Avenue shares a sense of emotional urgency with Montreal contemporaries Arcade Fire and Wolf Parade. But Plants and Animals also deliver this Canadian desperation on their own terms, emphasizing musicianship and a throwback to the 70s rock and roll that was comfortable enough with itself to be a bit silly; to make you want to dance.
After all the yelps and grooves, though, Parc Avenue's greatest moments may be the simplest ones, like the all-too short Early in the Morning or the gently mounting À L'Orée des bois—a song about making the record itself. "We carried up a 24 / brought to the third floor," Spicer sings. "It was like lifting…a bull." "We realized at some point that we needed to work on shit on our own time," Spicer later explained "so I bought a Studer 24 track A80 and got some friends to help carry it up to the extra room in my third floor apartment on Parc Avenue." It's one thing to blast out orchestral might and honest desperation, and this band does that with the best of them. But Plants and Animals also capture honest wistful moments and deliver them with a subtle sweetness that's never saccharine. And that's something we haven't heard in a long, long time.
Plants and Animals have been nominated for two JUNO awards. One for Alternative Album of the Year (for Parc Avenue), and the other for New Group of the Year. The awards will take place March 29 in Vancouver. Go P&A!
"Parc Avenue is an exuberant collection of songs that hold up as an album — a novelty in 2008 — with a cohesive feel, gracefully stretched across a wide range of moods. ... Ultimately, the album exudes warmth and passion, and begs for repeated listens."
"the end result crafts a unique sound that not only stakes its place in a continuum the began with Neil Young and The Band, but forges their own sound and places Plants and Animals heads and shoulders above any other ensemble likely to be tagged a 'jam band.'"
"ust when we all thought we were sick of indie rock from Montreal (which is pretty odd and unfair in the first place, it's not like the energy in the town builds or falls based solely on the Butler/Boeckner/Krug axis), comes Plants and Animals..."
Plants and Animals' much-loved Parc Avenue has made this year's short list for Canada's prestigious Polaris Music Prize. It's the second year in a row Secret City has been represented on the list, after both Miracle Fortress and Patrick Watson (who went on to win the award) showed up on it last year.
"The Montreal scene has itself a new champion."
Though last year's too-brief with/avec EP hinted at Plants and Animals' expansiveness, it didn't fully prepare listeners for Parc Avenue, a sprawling collection of rootsy melodies, majestic arrangements, and classic rock riffs...Plants and Animals may not be the first band to put Montreal on the musical map, but, with this album's there's-no-place-like-home vibe, they are certainly the first to celebrate it so warmly.
"Mark Tuesday on your calendar. On that date, Plants and Animals will release Parc Avenue, an album with a spirit of adventure that will add the band to Montreal's growing legion of visionary rock groups..."
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The veteran editor of the daily Juba Monitor says his paper has been confiscated four times since fighting broke out in mid-December.
Former SPLM secretary general Pagan Amum says in an interview that, now that he has been released from jail, he will devote himself to restoring peace in South Sudan.
In an exclusive interview with VOA, secretary of state says US considering sanctions on people encouraging unrest, though declined to specify who might be targeted
IGAD officials say talks to restore peace in South Sudan are resuming, but UN and warring sides in the four-and-a-half month-old conflict say there have been clashes in four of the country's 10 states
The government says it withdrew its case against the four so-called 'political detainees' to help the peace process but one of the freed men says they were released because the case against them fell apart.
Officials say government, rebels both deny responsibility for attack targeting four barges on the Nile River, carrying food and fuel to U.N. base in Malakal
Justice Minister Paulino Wanawila says the four detainees, who have been in custody since mid-December, could be released as early as Friday.
President Salva Kiir sacks the army chief of staff and the head of military intelligence, days after two towns in oil-producing Unity state fell to opposition forces.
Rebels killed hundreds of people based on their nationality or ethnic origin after seizing control of Bentiu on April 15
Latrines have collapsed and water is scarce in the UN base in Bentiu, where thousands of civilians have sought shelter in the 10 days since rebels seized control of the town.
With slow-moving peace talks due to resume in Addis Ababa next week, the pro- and anti-government sides in South Sudan's four-month-old conflict swap accusations and presage more fighting for control of key towns.
The president of South Sudan calls the attack on the U.N. base in Bor, where 5,000 people are sheltering, "irresponsible"
The AU Commission of Inquiry on South Sudan will meet separately with President Salva Kiir and former vice president Riek Machar during the visit.
A spokesman for rebel forces says they have captured the town of Mayom, near Unity state's border with Warrap state.
A spokesman for South Sudan rebels denies UNMISS accusations that the opposition forces singled out and killed civilians based on their ethnicity or nationality.
Uganda has taken in more than 98,000 refugees from South Sudan, who have to share scarce resources, including water, with locals.
The United States, European countries, the U.N. Security Council add their voices to the global condemnation of the attack on a UN base in South Sudan.
Government ministers say U.N. peacekeepers provoked the attack, which left dozens dead, by firing into the air to try to disperse a large group of armed civilians who had gathered outside the U.N. base in Bor, the capital of Jonglei state.
An UNMISS official says the number of displaced seeking refuge at the U.N. base in Bentiu has nearly doubled since fighting erupted again between government and opposition forces.
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I have a bunch of motors and sensors from the original Mindstorms set. It seems a shame I can't use these with the more recent NXT set. Are there any unofficial modifications that allow you to convert the cables?
LEGO used to sell Converter Cables for Mindstorms NXT at a price of £8.99 / US$9.99 for 3 cables at their online shop, they can still be bought online from stores like Bricklink.
Considering the price of each cable converter it may be worth purchasing newer sensors/motors that are more advanced. The NXT system cables are separate from sensors and motors and come in different lengths.
Yes, you can use all RCX sensors and motors with a NXT brick. Don't forget about lamps, too.
The connections are different though, so as Ambo100 says, you will need converter cables. However, if you don't want to pay the full price for them, you can also make some yourself which isn't really that difficult.
The other thing you need to consider is how to use them with your programming environment; for the LEGO-provided NXT-G there is a special library of blocks which you can add. You can find it on the LEGO Education downloads site. The description of this library is as follows:
On a related note, if you want to use Power Functions motors and lights, you can do so by using the two converter cables (NXT-9V + 9V-PF). There is currently no NXT-PF conversion cable, but you could make one as easily as you would make a NXT-9V cable. There is also a third-party infrared link "sensor" which allows an NXT brick to control PF elements via the normal infrared receiver.


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McDonald said the incident is still under investigation by the Marlin Police department and clarified that the animals were already dead when dumped.
The site of the illegal dead dog dumping is in city council member Billie Jean Scaggs district.
Scaggs said dead dogs have been dumped at the site for more than a year and she does not think it was done by residents.
She also said she is shocked that more wasn't being done about the incident.
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I'm currently on a paleo diet which means I'm supposed to cut out sugar, however, I still chew sugarfree gum after lunch usually (Maybe 2 or 3 pieces a day). My question is this: how detrimental is this to my diet? The nutrition facts say that each stick only has 5 calories, but does chewing gum right after a meal have some other adverse effect on the way my body processes the food?
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After a quick readup of what the paleo plan is, the biggest thing I can see is that it is not plan compliant. There's a couple things to remember about "sugar free" gum and similar products:
An unbalanced diet is an effective means to lose weight, but it is not sustainable for the long term. A balanced diet will ensure you get all your protein, vitamins, minerals, and calories your body needs to sustain its level of activity.
While losing weight on my own unbalanced diet, gum--even sugarless--was a major no-no. The reason being that it caused the pancreas to secrete insulin while I was trying to stay in ketosis. While I wasn't going to suddenly stop losing weight, it could potentially slow it down.
on a personal note: If chewing a couple sticks of sugar free gum keeps you from burying your face in apple pie or some other high calorie/low value food, then go for it. I tend to get more hungry when I chew gum, but it's not the same for everyone. Gum is a low value food, but since it is usually also low calorie it's not too bad.
virtually every sugarfree gum contains aspartame which has been shown to cause an insulin response, trigger cravings, and stall weight loss. not to mention it's been proven lethal to rats and goats! http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/12/business/yourmoney/12sweet.html


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The new processing plant will produce between 200 and 300 bpd of refined fuel and Cedecorp will run the refinery for 10 years before handing it over to Cameroon. The project will be entirely funded by Texas firm Refinery Technology, although the cost of the construction wasn't disclosed.
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YAOUNDE, Cameroon -- Cedecorp S.A. will construct Cameroon's
second refinery, giving the West African nation the chance of
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An agreement between the company's representative Michael
Eppler and Cameroon's Minister of Energy and Water Resources
Basile Atangana Kouna was signed Thursday.
According to the terms of the accord, which is based on a
build, operate and transfer agreement, Cedecorp will take 30
months to construct the new refinery on an area of 500 hectares
in the Atlantic port town of Kribi, located some 300 kilometers
southwest of Yaounde.
The new processing plant will produce between 200 and 300
bpd of refined fuel and Cedecorp will run the refinery for 10 years before handing
it over to Cameroon.
The project will be entirely funded by
Texas firm Refinery Technology, although the cost of the
construction wasn't disclosed.
Cameroon exports almost all of its 21 million bbl of heavy
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The construction of this Refinery is good Direct Foriegn investment which will contribute to the Cameroonian economy and the investors. I am just worried about the 10 years BOOT, will it be enough to break-even?
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The new Refineries nowadays are involving hugh cost to bear. Is it attributable to increased energy cost or due to scarce human resource. I hope the Return on investment (ROR) will follow the same curve for the new refineries investment in the HPI.Cheers.
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The greed of Francophone Cameroon is blinding it to see the writing on the wall. The construction will be a waste of resources because they are doing so only to refine stolen crude from Southern Cameroons which they will not get after a short time from now.. With the Ekiks in Nigeria threatening to join the Free Southern Cameroons movement, the drama is just only begin to unfold. This decision alone to join the Free Southern Cameroons movement is good enough to give a new twist to the whole struggle which the international community cannot continue to afford to ignore. The success of the struggle looks promising because it is not just a simple struggle of secession but a development that Francophone Cameroon itself through negligence engineered single handedly for over forty years today. They thought they were simply ignoring a voiceless and weak minority. But nature has a way of settling the scores of a good and righteous cause.
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I'm a new club sport officer. Where do I start?
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Can teams hold tryouts if too many people want to play?
Can varsity athletes play a club sport?
I'm interested in starting a new club sport that is not yet offered. What do I have to do?
Our team is set and we're ready to play! What paperwork do we need to turn in?
There are some freshmen on our team who are still 17. Is there anything special they need to do?
Where is our stuff (equipment/uniforms) kept during breaks? How do we access it?
Can I get our uniforms washed?
How do I return equipment or uniforms?
We're planning our first away trip! What do we need to do?
It's Tuesday and our club wants to travel Saturday. Are we out of luck since we missed the 9 day deadline?
Our club missed the deadline and our motor pool request was canceled. Are our plans doomed?
I submitted my travel request and just received my motor pool confirmation! How do I pick up my vans?
Who can drive Loyola vans?
How do we pay for gas/tolls/parking/etc.?
We missed the motor pool deadline and had to use our own cars. Can we get reimbursed for gas?
I got a ticket while in a Loyola vehicle. Am I responsible for this?
I want to request vans, but I'm not sure yet when we will leave or get back. What should I do?
We are playing in a two-day tournament at a nearby school, so we aren't getting a hotel. Do I need to put in two vehicle requests for both days?
How do I book a hotel?
How can I see our team budget?
What can we spend our club budget on?
I want to order some equipment. How do I do that?
How do we order uniforms or other custom apparel?
How do I secure officials?
When is it ok to use Loyola money on uniforms?
It's the end of the year and we have money left over for a team dinner. Is that ok?
How do we deposit money?
How much do we have to fundraise?
We are doing a fundraiser and want to use an Evergreen Card Reader – how do we get that?
I noticed fines on our team budget – why?
What are these red bags we are required to carry around?
We had an injury at a game and had to use supplies from our EAP Kit. How do I get it restocked?
I was injured during a club sport game. What should I do?
I was injured during a club sport game, and had to make several trips to the doctor. Will Loyola cover my medical bills?
After an injury, I'm now ready to play again! Can I just head back out to practice?
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How do we hang fliers on campus?
What is the student activities fair?
Checks can be made out to Loyola University MD. Let the Assistant Director of Club Sport and Intramural (firstname.lastname@example.com) know to look out for it, and he will make sure it is deposited into your team account.
In the Office Suite at the Fitness and Aquatics Center. Sometimes mail will arrive for your club, or the Assistant Director of Club Sport and Intramural will put things in there that you need. It's important to check your mailbox regularly so you don't miss anything. You'll also find contact cards from students who are interested in joining your club.
Periodically throughout the semester, we will hold Officer Council Meetings at the FAC. These meetings are mandatory, so at least one officer from each club must attend. We go over important issues/questions, give reminders on policy and upcoming deadlines, etc., basically information all the clubs need in order to operate successfully. We will notify the club officers ahead of time so you know when the meetings will take place. Clubs not represented at these meetings will be fined!
First, do your homework. Call around to a few places in the area to make sure you are getting the best rate. Work with the hotel on making the reservation, then when they get to payment, ask them to fax a credit card authorization form to the Assistant Director of Club Sport and Intramural. Let the Assistant Director of Club Sport and Intramural (email@example.com) to know it's coming so he can look out for it. Once he completes the form and faxes back, CALL THE HOTEL to confirm everything is squared away. And don't forget to bring back the receipt!
The easiest way to order equipment is to send an email to Assistant Director of Club Sport and Intramural (email@example.com) that includes a link to the product and complete description - product name/#, quantity, color, etc. She can place the order and let you know when it comes in.