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It seems like only yesterday: Technology was such a driver of industries, a changer of the world order. Many felt the gravy train could not end. Well, it has. Now, the best office tenants are those with credit — good credit, that is.
The dot-com shakeout and economic downturn have had both negative and positive effects, said J. Michael Dow, president and CEO of New York-based CRESA Partners. "The Nasdaq meltdown led to increased merger activity, divestitures and dot-com collapses, which opened up significant sublet-space opportunities," he said. "This phenomenon is expected to continue. For those in need of space, this is good news. But the corporate tenants hit hardest will need help disposing of surplus space."
Dow also predicted a glacial office development pace nationwide as a result of the dot-com collapse. "The higher-risk brought on by the advent of New Economy companies is causing investors to look for a higher, stabilized front-end return," he said. "As a result, new office development is expected to slow to a near standstill."
Since investors are warning against too much development in the major U.S. markets, many projects that have yet to break ground probably will not in 2001, Dow said. In the end, this year's development likely will be limited to projects that were either pre-approved in 2000 or preleased by a major tenant under aggressive terms, he added.
"Although the year 2000 was one of the most volatile in corporate real estate history, there is no sense that the rug will be pulled out from under us this year," Dow concluded.
Suffice to say that not every office market has been slammed by technology's fall. In fact, many markets are doing quite well, with or without a healthy technology base.
Amid the current upheaval in the corporate world, dot-com and otherwise, NREI decided to explore how several leading downtown office markets — Boston, Dallas, San Francisco and Washington, D.C. — are faring. Each has a unique story to tell.
Boston breaks out
Unquestionably, 2000 was good to Beantown.
Local CBD office rents grew by 31.3% in 2000 compared with year-end 1999, according to Jim Bostello, senior economist at Boston-based Torto Wheaton Research. The company's statistics also show that rents in second-quarter 2000 grew 16% compared with second-quarter 1999. The growth rate had slowed by fourth-quarter 2000, as rents in that period grew 7.3% compared with fourth-quarter 1999.
Overall vacancies have not experienced a radical change in the past two years. And perhaps best of all, developers held off on many of their grander plans, with little building completed in Boston in the past three years.
Statistics from Boston-based Meredith & Grew note that fourth-quarter 2000 finished with a miniscule vacancy rate of 2.2%, while net absorption in 2000 totaled a healthy 1.47 million sq. ft., of which 482,809 sq. ft. was absorbed in the fourth quarter.
Still, no market is completely immune to prevailing national trends. "The tech slowdown has had a noticeable impact on both the Boston CBD and Cambridge submarkets," said Maria Sicola, senior managing director of research and analysis at New York-based Cushman & Wakefield. "The CBD has seen a significant amount of sublease space, most of which is dot-com-related, returned to the market." This has had an impact on Class-A rents, which were in the $70 to $80 per sq. ft. range at the end of 2000, and are now in the high-$60s to low-$70s range, Sicola said.
Although leasing activity has slowed as well, the good news is that a tenant's market has yet to emerge. "A few large blocks of space are available, yet there are still relatively few options for large space users downtown," said Sicola. CBD vacancy rates may have increased by 1% to 2% over year-end 2000, but the market is still one of the country's tightest, Sicola added.
And while the rental rates may not make tenants scream with joy, the CBD does offer office space users such benefits as access to top-notch colleges and universities, and highly-educated employees. Also, "much of the sublease space now available in the market is offered at attractive 5- to 10-year terms," Sicola said.
While rents in Boston's suburbs may be comparatively less expensive than rates in the CBD, suburban rates have spiked significantly as well. Consequently, "CBD tenants, which have relatively little motivation for relocating, are not expected to flee for the suburbs," Sicola said. "The tech slowdown and pending economic downturn are expected to affect both the CBD and suburban markets alike, keeping most tenants where they are."
Certainly, 2001 promises continued change. "The year 2000 was spectacular by every measure but the lack of office supply resulted in a crisis," said Robert Kasvinsky, vice president in the Boston office of Northbrook, Ill-based Grubb & Ellis. "Slower growth should bring a return to more normal and manageable conditions for tenants."
Dallas draws on tradition
Dormant: That is the one-word description that comes most quickly to mind when describing Dallas' CBD office market. Like so many urban settings across America, Dallas suffers from the lack of a true 24/7 downtown. All things considered, though, Downtown Dallas — chock-full of traditional tenants, including firms in the accounting, finance, consulting and oil/energy industries — does not seem to be losing too much ground.
Downtown's A+ buildings are still popular, and all are around 95% occupied, according to Michael O'Hanlon, executive director of the Dallas/Fort Worth office of Insignia/ESG. "They're renewing tenants, and, when space is available, they're attracting new tenants," he said. "These are the best tenants, with the best credit, in the best buildings."
However, Dallas' CBD has not been successful in luring traditional suburban tenants, even with its abundance of available space and attractive rents. "Although downtown has diversified over the past several years, it remains largely a 9-5 CBD, with a relatively small residential and supporting retail base," said Sicola.
Many firms located in the CBD are looking to create satellite offices in the suburbs for a variety of reasons, O'Hanlon said. First, many of these companies' clients also have offices in the suburbs, and companies prefer to be closer to their clients. Also, intown housing prices are typically too expensive for a company's younger associates.
With overall vacancy rates of more than 27%, Dallas' CBD is a tenant's market and likely will remain so for a while. "CBD tenants can expect to see ongoing concessions, and with market equilibrium still several years out, rental rates are expected to remain relatively flat," Sicola said.
Mobil's highly publicized decision to relocate its headquarters to Houston, which will add approximately 1 million sq. ft. of vacant space to a Dallas market already out of equilibrium, will create even more of a tenant's market in the downtown area, Sicola noted.
So, in the final analysis, what are the big draws to downtown these days? A significant amount of available space, the implementation of DART [Dallas Area Rapid Transit] and a new sports arena [the American Airlines Arena] are some of the factors that attract companies, according to Sheryl Pickens, senior vice president in the Dallas office of Chicago-based Transwestern Commercial Services.
Also, Dallas' downtown compares well on a national level. "Downtown Dallas is the most affordable downtown of any major city in the U.S. as well as one of the most affordable submarkets in the Metroplex," O'Hanlon said. "It's the only submarket with viable public transportation to help employees get to work." Plus, the City of Dallas typically provides economic incentives for major companies that move to the CBD, O'Hanlon added.
Downtown's biggest problem has been, and continues to be, a lack of residential and retail components to foster a 24-hour environment. "Although its residential base is evolving, there is still a need for supporting retail, particularly grocery and drug store services," said Sicola. "However, there has been a tremendous focus by local developers and the City of Dallas to enhance the services available to CBD residents and corporations."
Specifically, Sicola pointed to the construction of the American Airlines Arena, the renovation and expansion of the Dallas Convention Center, and the expansion of the DART light-rail system as adding vitality to the downtown core and producing long-term benefits for the Dallas CBD.
Several older properties in the CBD have been converted into loft condos and hotels. But, "there is not yet enough infrastructure currently in place to meet the promise of work-live-play," Pickens said. "Due to the aggressive plan in place by the city and downtown property owners, Dallas' CBD should meet those needs in the near future."
As for rental rates, the skies are brightening. Class-A rates in downtown range from the high-teens to the low $20s per sq. ft., while rates in Class-A properties in the North Dallas area are in the low- to mid-$20 range, Pickens said.
"Class-A and Class-B buildings in the CBD can definitely compete with the suburbs," said Greg Biggs, senior managing director in the Dallas office of New York-based Julien J. Studley Inc.
San Francisco gets shaken
The questions first started buzzing right after the infamous April 2000 Nasdaq stock market meltdown. If the tech firms fall, what about all of that nice office space they have been renting or keeping for expansion?
Nowhere were the questions louder than in the heart of techland — San Francisco and the surrounding Bay Area. So how has the tech slowdown really affected the central office market here?
"The dot-com bust has probably had a greater impact on San Francisco than any other market in the country," said Michael Pitre, corporate managing director in Julien J. Studley's San Francisco office. "Sublease space continues to flood the market." San Francisco's office vacancy rate is around 8%, a three-year high, and rents are approximately $60 per sq. ft. for Class-A office space, Pitre added.
"It has become a tenant's market, particularly for credit-worthy tenants," Pitre said. "Good credit tenants can command a 20% discount below asking rates."
Most importantly, the office market has clearly split between direct space for lease and a whole lot of sublease space. Much of the space for sublease returned to the market when technology tenants in rehabilitated buildings in the South of Market and South Financial District areas folded.
"These will be aggressively marketed with asking rents substantially below what they were just six months ago," said Jeff Hardy, managing director of the Northern California office of Dallas-based Trammell Crow. "Moreover, they will also come with strong broker incentives to get tenants in the space. This type of sublease space is a harder sell because it is not true office space and is usually located on the fringe of core areas."
Hardy does not expect the situation to change soon. "As we see more dot-coms fail over the next few months, asking rents for this type of sublease space will drop by about 5% each month and will continue to do so until the market corrects itself," he said.
However, the San Francisco office market is still very tight, with a 2.5% vacancy rate for direct space, Hardy noted. So the upshot is that a tenant looking for CBD space and not set on a specific location, or type, will find multiple options available. For a traditional tenant looking for Class-A space in the Financial District, it's still an owner's market. According to Hardy, these conditions should probably be in place for the next two quarters.
Cushman & Wakefield's Sicola agrees. "While a large amount of Class-A sublease space has been returned to the CBD market, vacancy in the city's top buildings remains tight," she said. "Further stratification of the office market should continue throughout the year as more sublease space becomes available citywide. Although market fundamentals in downtown San Francisco are beginning to shift, a pure tenant market has yet to emerge."
David J. Churton, senior managing director in Insignia/ESG's San Francisco office, insisted that downtown San Francisco has been spared the trauma associated with other submarkets. "The greater San Francisco area is ground zero for the retrenchment in the information technology sector that is being discussed in financial capitals around the world," Churton said. "However, the effects of this retrenchment have been most keenly felt outside the CBD."
Although average asking rental rates in the financial district have declined approximately 10% to 15% from their all-time high in third-quarter 2000, the crash of the technology sector has had a far greater impact in the South of Market area, where vacancy rates exploded from less than 2% to more than 20% in less than 90 days, Churton noted. Sublease rental rates in the area have declined by as much as 50% from their peaks, he added.
While comparisons to previous years may not show it, all signs continue to point to a burgeoning, healthy downtown office market in 2001 and beyond. "San Francisco is a market in retreat, but it remains the crown jewel of the urban centers in the Bay Area," Pitre said. "No single industry is driving growth."
That seems to be the main point: San Francisco is still a whole lot healthier than its neighbors. "While asking rents in San Francisco's CBD are still anywhere between 15% to 20% higher than comparable space in the East Bay, they are now more attractive than they were just three months ago and remain attractive compared to markets on the Peninsula or in the East Bay," Hardy said.
"Even though the asking rents in suburban office markets in the East Bay are about $2 per sq. ft. less than rates in San Francisco, given a choice, many tenants would rather be located in San Francisco," Hardy added.
D.C. burns bright
For various reasons, the Washington, D.C., area is on fire when it comes to commercial office markets. According to Bethesda, Md.-based CoStar Group, the D.C. downtown office market vacancy rate stood at 5.9% at year-end 2000, with some 5.3 million sq. ft. of new space under construction. Net absorption topped a whopping 4.1 million sq. ft. for all of 2000.
"D.C. has an unusually broad base on the demand side, which has historically caused the city's CBD to outperform other CBDs in slower cycles," said Louis Christopher, managing director of the Washington, D.C., office of Los Angeles-based Cushman Realty Corp. "Remember, the federal government leases space whether or not the Nasdaq is above 2000. Rents will continue to rise in the CBD in 2001."
According to Keith Lavey, executive vice president in the Washington, D.C., office of Grubb & Ellis, the market has a strong foundation in the federal government, which will protect the local economy from any big national slowdown.
"Although not immune to the fluctuations experienced in markets such as New York, the security offered by federal spending and employment have, to some extent, protected the District's office market," Lavey said. "The federal government contracts with high-tech firms for a variety of services, and helps attract more technology firms to the area, bolstering demand in good and bad times."
According to a study by George Mason University Professor Stephen Fuller for DC Agenda, a local think tank, the federal government is the largest local customer for technology goods and services in the D.C. area. Its procurement for the region totaled $13.5 billion in 1999, representing 38% of all local technology sales. By comparison, in Silicon Valley, federal procurement totaled just $2.3 billion and accounted for only 4.7% of total sales.
The federal government's General Services Administration (GSA) is overwhelmingly the single largest tenant in the District of Columbia. According to Lavey, the District contains approximately 97 million sq. ft. of office space, of which the GSA leases 18.5%, or approximately 18 million sq. ft.
According to a recent Grubb & Ellis study, only 15% of the area's leasing activity was attributable to technology, be it e-commerce, infrastructure or software technology. The remainder was split primarily between the federal government and law firms. For these reasons, Washington's CBD is not expected to see a dramatic slowdown due to the technological slump.
Cushman & Wakefield's Sicola agreed. "Although the tech downturn has had the greatest impact on the Northern Virginia suburbs, the downtown D.C. market has remained relatively unaffected," said Sicola. In fact, initial first-quarter 2001 statistics for the CBD reveal a small decrease in overall vacancy from year-end 2000 to around 2.6%, she added.
Rental rates for direct Class-A space in the CBD are in the $40 to $45 per sq. ft. range, she added. Downtown D.C. features steady rent increases, while the suburban markets often have experienced dramatic hikes, Sicola said.
"D.C. is clearly hot," said Brett Diamond, senior vice president in the D.C. office of Transwestern Commercial Services. "Any new office construction in the past 12 to 18 months has either been leased or pre-committed, and there is not any major business migration out of the city."
Another draw is lifestyle. "Washington's downtown is becoming much more 24/7," said John Donovan, president of Washington, D.C.-based Carr Real Estate Services. "Now that there is renewed confidence in the city's solvency, and it has become complemented by more residential and cultural development, its outlook is increasingly bright."


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Bakery Product Trends Emphasize Healthier Eating
The variety of baked goods ranges from low-fat rolls, artisan breads and fiber-enriched cookies to decadent designer cakes and pastries.
The global bakery products market is forecast to reach $447 billion by the year 2017, according to a report from Global Industry Analysts. This growth largely will be fueled by new consumer preferences for conveniently portioned, easy-to-consume bakery goods.
And a few layers within that flaky croissant lies another huge trend: the emphasis on healthier eating, and specifically on increasing fiber intake.
According to the Centers for Disease Control, Americans should eat 14g of dietary fiber for every 1,000 calories. The Mayo Clinic further states that men 50 years old and younger should consume 38g of fiber per day, and older men should get at least 30g daily. For women, it's 25g of fiber for those over 50 and 21g for women under 50.
While there are a variety of fibers available for bakers to include, powdered cellulose has proven to have versatile functionality. Solka-Floc, JustFiber and NutraFiber are brands of cellulose from International Fiber Corp., North Tonawanda, N.Y., that can enhance the structure of baked goods in many ways. Depending on the fiber's polymer chain length, powdered cellulose can retain about 3.5-10 times its weight in water. This increased moisture retention can help extend a product's shelf life. Moreover, these fibers are considered gluten-free and contribute zero calories, all without negatively impacting textural characteristics and volume.
"In general, low levels — 1-2 percent — of functional fibers are recommended for product improvements, whereas higher levels — 5-8 percent — are used for fiber enrichment," states Ramakanth Jonnala, research project leader for cereal science at International Fiber.
Solka-Floc and JustFiber can act as pseudo-emulsifiers in cake and muffin batter systems he explains. "These fibers can improve the aeration process, resulting in better air cell retention and larger volume. And depending on the formulation and processing conditions, these can increase the volumes in baked goods 5-20 percent, while improving moisture retention and extending shelf life."
How sweet it is
According to the USDA, the U.S. is the world's largest consumer of sweeteners, and many Americans still have a "sweet tooth" that must be appeased. When choosing a sweetener, bakers should consider the multiple roles it will play in a product and the sweetness level the product requires.
Sucrose ("table sugar"), a fructose-glucose disaccharide from either cane or beets, represents the sweetness standard, typically rated at 100 percent. In comparison, fructose's sweetness level equals 140 percent and glucose (a.k.a. dextrose) is 70 percent.
"There is growth in products with reduced sugar in order to lower the overall caloric content," says Eric Shinsato, a technical manager for Ingredion Inc., Westchester, Ill.
For sugar-free products such as cookies, it is not so much the bulk and texture that are difficult to duplicate. "Maltitol syrup and crystalline maltitol can both be used to replace sugar in baked goods and still achieve the desired taste and textural characteristics," he says. "However, maltitol is not a reducing sugar and does not contribute to browning when baked.
Color development may come from other naturally occurring sugars or proteins or may be enhanced with natural colors such as caramel."
Stevia, the high intensity all-natural sweetener extracted from the leaves of the stevia plant, is finding applications in many product categories, and bakery is no exception. "Recent product introductions in the baked goods segment have used either stevia as a stand-alone high-intensity sweetener or in combination with other natural high-intensity sweeteners, such as monk fruit extract. However, when formulated properly, stevia can be the single source for sweetness," notes Shinsato.
High-intensity sweeteners do not provide the bulk of sugar, however, and typically need to be paired with low-calorie carbohydrates to give the necessary volume. Polydextrose is a common bulking agent, providing minimal sweetness on its own and one-fourth the calories of sugar (1kcal/g).
Sucralose has a taste profile similar to sugar and considered by the FDA to be non-caloric. It's about 600 times as sweet as sugar and maintains its sweetness over a long shelf life — unlike some other no-calorie sweeteners. It can be used to sweeten baking mixes, ready-to-eat and frozen baked goods, pie fillings, and cake frostings or icings.
Also unlike other artificial sweeteners, sucralose is heat-stable at up to 450°F, so it can be used as a replacement for sugar in cooking and baking. The major drawback to cooking with sucralose was found to be that it does not produce the browning or caramelization the way sucrose does.
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Optimum ReBound Cereal
Natures Path helps morning exercisers refuel their muscles with Optimum ReBound cereal.
Organic foods and grocery retailing in general are undergoing major changes now that Wal-Mart has started selling organic foods. The prices may be 10 percent higher than Wal-Mart's "everyday low prices," but they will be much lower than typical organic food pricing, which can be 50 percent to 100 percent higher than the non-organic versions of the same foods. Once Wal-Mart enacts a strategy, it can change the landscape for many companies due to its sheer size in the marketplace.
Consumers are purchasing organic foods for such perceived benefits as better nutritional value, freshness, healthfulness, taste and a vague connection with family farming. Produce is the most popular organic product, purchased by 37 percent of shoppers, followed by cereals, breads and pastas at 25 percent. Consumers looking for organic are most likely to make their purchases at a supermarket (48 percent) followed by an organic/natural foods store (18 percent).
In scanning the wide variety of organic products available for sale today, we found Nature's Path has been producing organic healthful cereals that deliver a number of claimed benefits to the consumer. It took an interesting step last year when it introduced Optimum ReBound. The cereal is clearly targeted at morning exercisers, with its 10g of protein per serving claimed to be capable of repairing and refueling muscles fresh from their daily workout.
Understanding the marketplace
Many consumers are looking for their food to naturally deliver health benefits instead of having those benefits engineered in. But many of us get confused by what organic means. Organic is a subgroup of natural foods. To claim organic today, a food has to meet specific standards set by the government. "USDA Organic" must have no synthetic fertilizers, few chemical pesticides, no antibiotics or hormones, no irradiation or genetic engineering, no animal byproducts in animal feed, and access to the outdoors for all livestock. For a breakfast cereal, this means the cereal is more than just healthy grains; its grains contain neither genetically modified organisms nor pesticides.
The cold breakfast cereal market was estimated at $6.84 billion in 2002 (ironically, not including Wal-Mart sales, according to how Information Resources collects data). Unit sales were down 2.2 percent. Kellogg, General Mills, Post, and Quaker have approx 84 percent of the market.
Kellogg, at a 31 percent share of the market, says 15-20 percent of its sales come from new products (according to IRI). New growth areas for cereal are expected to be in health, women's needs, organic/natural and licensed products.
The natural food retail segment accounts for less than 5 percent of the total grocery market. The organic/natural market was about $2.2 billion in 2004, according to ACNielsen. Key venues for natural and organic are Whole Foods and Wild Oats supermarkets, but these make up only 15 percent of the natural/organic food market.
Nature's Path helps morning exercisers refuel their muscles with Optimum ReBound cereal.
Nature's Path appears to be rediscovering areas of cereal that have been forgotten. One of those is protein. Every so often, protein-rich foods appear to become hyperfashionable. Either before or after a swing toward muscle-based protein (the last Atkins craze is an example), there is a movement toward non-muscle protein. Life Cereal and Special K are examples of familiar cereals developed years ago as grain based alternatives to muscle protein.
So Nature's Path Optimum ReBound, with 10g of protein per serving, needs to be clever to deliver a new message about cereal protein. Nature's Path has directed the consumer to consider repairing and refueling muscles from their daily exercise using a whole food cereal instead of supplements, powders or beverages.
Ninety percent of people who exercise consistently do so in the morning. So creating a breakfast cereal to refuel and repair muscles after exercise makes sense. Providing all this and organic too appears to be on trend and ahead of the product development curve.
Breakfast is the one meal that consumers agree is about health, we've learned from Our It!s Convenient, Crave It! and Healthy You! studies. The key attributes consumers identify for a convenient breakfast cereal are taste, good for me and price. The key attributes for a healthy breakfast cereal are taste, price, vitamins and minerals, preferences of other family members and healthiness.
Looking across these aggregated responses indicates taste is critical. Healthiness and price are second. Freshness is usually judged through flavor and textural differences.
Organic foods mix this hierarchy up a bit where healthiness of the food is ordered first and the taste is typically second. But this is for health-oriented consumers. Mainstream consumers appear to always put good taste first.
Nature's Path is blending the health concerns of new age consumers with the needs of mainstream ones for a good tasting breakfast cereal that can actually deliver on multiple promises. Some of the key benefits promised on the Nature's Path box are easily quantifiable: high fiber, low sodium, high protein, whole grain and omega-3 fats. Others, such as "muscle recovery," take some faith.
With convenience as a given, the key trends in breakfast cereals are value, taste and healthiness.
Value: Private label or store labels have improved their quality and sensory attributes. This drives name brands to higher levels of creativity and delivery of benefits to justify the price difference.
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The following Additional MSS. contain interesting Cowper data: 21154, 21556, letters; 24154, 24155, poems 17701793 and letters; 29716, chronological list of Cowpers letters, 17581799; 30801, variations from the 1st edn. of the trans. of the Iliad, trans. of Miltons poems, and Epigrams; 30803 A and B, poems 17971803; 30805, 31998, letters; 32348, views of Cowpers birthplace; 32350, portrait; 32573, Recollections of Cowper by Mitford, J.; 33964, 37059, letters; 37095, minor poems, unfinished letter of Cowper in the form of a general diary of his health, Tues. 13 Nov.-Sat. 17 Nov. [1792] and other letters.
Works. Ed. Newton, J. 10 vols. 1817.
Miscellaneous Works. With a life and notes by Memes, J.S. 3 vols. Edinburgh, 1834.
Works: his Life and Letters by Hayley, W., now first completed by the introduction of Cowpers private Correspondence; ed. Grimshawe, T.S. (With an Essay on the Genius and Poetry of Cowper by Cunningham, J.W.) 8 vols. 1835. 2nd edn. 1836.
Works, comprising his Poems, Correspondence, and Translations. With a life of the author by the editor, Robert Southey. 15 vols. 18367.
Works, comprising his Poems, Correspondence, and Translations. With a life of the author, by the editor, Robert Southey. 8 vols. (Bohns Standard Library.) 18535.
A. Collections
Poems. 2 vols. 17825 and 17826. [Some copies of vol. I contain the uncorrected lines in The Progress of Error:
With memorandum-book to minute down
The sevral posts, and where the chaise broke down;and the original passage of Expostulation, beginning: Hast thou admitted with a blind, fond trust.]
Some copies of the 1st edn. contain the preface by Newton, J.; 2nd edn., 2 vols., 1786; 3rd, 1787; 4th, 1788; 5th, with preface by Newton, J., 1793; 6th 17945. Other edns.: 1798 (two), 1800, 1803, 1805.
. With a life of the Author and observations on his writings. [1800?]
Poems [with preface by Newton, J.] A new edn. to which are now first added Olney Hymns by W.C. and translations from Madame Guion. 1806. Also 3 vols. 1806. 2 vols. 1808. A new edn. 2 vols. 1808.
. In two volumes. (Vol. III containing his posthumous Poetry and a sketch of his life, by Johnson, J.) 3 vols. 1815. New edn., with preface by Newton, J. 3 vols. 1817.
Poems, the early productions of W. Cowper, now first published. With anecdotes of the Poet collected from letters of Lady Hesketh. Ed. Croft, J. 1825.
Poetical Works. Ed. Cary, H.F., with a biographical notice of the author. 1839. A new edn. with preface by Grimshawe, T.S. 1845.
Poetical Works. With life, critical dissertation, and explanatory notes, by Gilfillan, G. 2 vols. Edinburgh, 1854.
Poetical Works. Ed. Bell, R. 3 vols. 1854.
Poetical Works. With notes and memoir by Bruce, J. (Aldine edn. of the British Poets.) 3 vols. 1865.
Poetical Works. Ed., with notes and biographical introduction, Benham, W. (Globe edn.) 1870.
Cowpers Shorter Poems. Ed., with introduction and notes, Webb, W.T. 1896.
Unpublished and Uncollected Poems. Ed. Wright, T. (Cameo Series.) 1900.
Poems. Ed., with an introduction and notes, Bailey, J.C. 1905.
Complete Poetical Works. Ed. Milford, H.S. 1905.
B. Separate Poems
Anti-Thelyphthora; a tale, in verse. 1781.
Olney Hymns. [By Newton, J. and Cowper, W.] 1779. 1781. Other edns.: 1783, 1787, 1795, 1797 (two), 1806, 1810, 1812, 1820, 1821, 1829.
Hymns on various subjects, now first collected together. 1822.
The Journey of John Gilpin [a ballad by W.C.]. [1783.] Rptd. [1810?]. (Both in chapbook form.)
Gilpins Rig; or the Wedding Day Kept, a Droll Story; Read by Mr. Henderson, at Free-masons Hall and Mr. Baddeley, at Drury Lane Theatre. Containing An Account of John Gilpin, the Bold Linen Draper of Cheapside; how he went farther and faster than he intended, and came Home safe at last. London: Printed for S.W. Fores, (No. 3,) Piccadilly. And F. Clarkson, (No. 73,) St. Pauls-Church-Yard. Price Two Pence. Entered at Humourists-Hall. [1783?]
The Diverting History of John Gilpin
. With six illustrations by Cruikshank, G. 1828.
The Task, to which are added the Epistle to Joseph Hill, Tirocinium, and John Gilpin. (Described on the flyleaf as a second vol. of poems by W.C.) 1785. 2nd edn. 1786. Also 1787, 1788, 1793, 1794, 1798 (two) and 1800. The Task. 2 vols. 1825.
Poems (I. On his Mothers Picture. II. On the Dog and Waterlily). 1798.
Table Talk, and other Poems. 2 vols. 1817.
Adelphi. A sketch of the character, and an account of the last illness of the late
John Cowper. Written by
W.C. Faithfully transcribed from his original manuscript by Newton, J. 1802.
Cowpers edition of Milton, 4 vols., ed. Hayley, W., was published 1810. He contributed a few papers to The Connoisseur in 1754, and St. Jamess Chronicle 1761; a paper on his Hares, and a letter signed Alethea, on Popes Homer, to The Gentlemans Magazine in June, 1784, and August, 1785 respectively; and a review of Glovers Athenaid to The Analytical Review, February, 1789. John Gilpin first appeared in The Public Advertiser, at the end of 1782.
Life and posthumous writings (chiefly Letters) with an introductory letter to
Earl Cowper. By Hayley, W. 3 vols. Chichester, 18034. (A supplement to this edn., entitled Supplementary Pages to the Life of Cowper, was issued in 1806.)
Life and Letters, with remarks on epistolary writers by Hayley, W. A new edn. 4 vols. Chichester, 1809. 3 vols. 1824.
Letters. A new edn. revised by
Johnson, J. 3 vols. 1817. 1820.
Private Correspondence with several of his most intimate friends now first published from the originals in the possession of [and ed. by] Johnson, J. 2 vols. 1824. 3rd edn. 2 vols. 1837.
Life, with Selections from his Correspondence. [By Seeley, R.B.] 1855.
Letters, being a selection from his correspondence: with a sketch of his life, and biographical notices of his correspondents. [1862.]
Letters. Ed., with introduction, Benham, W. 1884.
Selections from Cowpers Letters. Ed., with introduction and notes, Webb, W. T. 1895.
Correspondence of W.C. Arranged in chronological order, with annotations by Wright, T. 4 vols. 1904.
Selections from Cowpers Letters. Ed. Lucas, E.V. With notes by Milford, M.L. 1911.
Letters by W.C., chosen and edited, with a Memoir and a few notes, Frazer, J.G. 2 vols. 1912.
The Works of Horace, in English verse, by Mr. Duncombe
and other hands. 4 vols. 1767. (Cowpers two contributions are in vol. III, pp. 37, 89.)
The Iliad and Odyssey
by W. C. 1791. 2nd edn., ed Johnson, J. 1802. Other edns. 1809, 1810, 1847.
Cowpers English version of the Odyssey
with a Commentary
by O. 1843.
The Iliad of Homer, translated into English blank verse by W. C. etc. 1855.
The Power of Grace illustrated: in letters from a minister of the reformed church (Van Lier) to John Newton, translated by
Cowper. 1792.
Poems translated from the French of Madame de La Mothe Guion. To which are added some original poems, etc. 1801. Also 1802, 1803, 1811.
Latin and Italian Poems of Milton, translated by W. C. 1808.
Adam: a sacred drama, translated from the Italian of G. B. Andreini [by W. C. etc.]. Latin and Italian poems by Milton translated
by W. C. Cowpers edn. of Miltons Works. Vol. III. 1810.
Miltons Earlier Poems, including the translations by W. C. of those written in Latin and Italian. (Cassells National Library, new series, vol. LXX.) 1905.
See, also, the various introductions to Cowpers Works mentioned in sections II, III, V, ante, and bibliography of William Hayley in chap. VIII, post.
Ainger, A. Cowper. Lectures and Essays. Vol. I. 1905.
Boucher, S. W. Cowper, sa correspondance et ses poésies. 1874.
Brooke, S. A. Theology in the English Poets. Cowper. 1874. 10th edn. 1907.
Bull, Josiah. John Newton
an autobiography and narrative (compiled by Bull, J.). [1868.]
Cavit, T. E. A Plea for Cowper. Gentlemans Mag. Vol. CCXCVI. June, 1904.
Cheever, G. B. Lectures on the life, genius, and insanity of Cowper. 1856.
Cowper, W. Memoir of the early life of W. C. written by himself; with an Appendix, containing some of Cowpers religious Letters, and other documents. 1816. 2nd edn. 1816. 3rd edn. 1817. 4th edn. 1818.
Memoir of
the life of W. C
. detailing particularly the exercises of his mind in regard to religion. Written by himself
. To which are appended an original
poem and a fragment. 1816.
Narrative of the life of W. C
. Written by himself. A new edn. illustrated by extracts from The Christian Observer, and from Cowpers religious correspondence. Birmingham, 1817.
The Autobiography of Cowper, or an account of the most interesting part of his life. Written by himself. To which are added some poems copied from MS. 1835.
Cowper, illustrated by a series of views in, or near, the park of Weston Underwood, Bucks; accompanied with descriptions, and a sketch of the Poets life. 1803.
Dewar, G. A. B. Cowper the Castaway. Saturday Review. Vol. XCIX, p. 12. 1905.
Dowden, E. Cowper and William Hayley. Atlantic Monthly, July, 1907.
Elwin, W. Cowper. Quarterly Review, Jan., 1860. Rptd. in Some XVIII century Men of Letters. Vol. I. 1902.
Gearey, Caroline. Cowper and Mary Unwin. A centenary memento. [1901.]
Gill, J. Cowper the Poet. Recollections of a visit at Olney. 1890.
Greatheed, S. Memoir of W. Cowper Revised
S. Greatheed. 1814.
Hartmann, H. Über W. Cowpers Tirocinium. 1896.
Hesketh, Harriet. Letters of Lady Hesketh to the Rev. John Johnson, LL.D., concerning his kinsman William Cowper the Poet. 1901.
Hoffmann, C.W. William Cowpers Belesenheit und literarische Kritik. 1908.
Neve, J. A Concordance to the poetical works of W. Cowper. 1887.
Newton, J. The Newton-Cowper Centenary, 1907. [1907.]
Oliphant, Mrs. The literary history of England in the end of the 18th and beginning of the 19th century. 3 vols. 1882.
Olney and its associations; or, Reminiscences of the poet Cowper. 1880.
Pollock, J. M. The life, genius, and poetry of W. Cowper. 1860.
Sainte-Beuve, C. A. William Cowper, ou de la Poésie domestique. Causeries du Lundi. Tome XI, pp. 132165. 1856.
Storer, J. S. The Rural Walks of Cowper; displayed in a series of views near Olney, Bucks; representing the scenery exemplified in his poems; with descriptive sketches, and a memoir of the poets life. [1825?]
Symington, J. A. The Poet of Home Life. Centenary memories of W. C. [1900.]
Taylor, T. The life of W. Cowper, Esq. compiled from his correspondence. 1833.
Thompson, S. Cowper as a Letter Writer. Academy, Vol. LXVI. 16 April, 1904.
Tomlinson, J. Three Household Poets; viz. Milton, Cowper, Burns. 1869.
Wright, T. The Town of Cowper, or the literary and historical associations of Olney, etc. 1886.
The Loved Haunts of Cowper, being an outline of the life of W. C. with special reference to his favourite resorts in Olney and Weston Underwood etc. 1894.


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Report of the Joint National Institutes of Health/Department of Energy (NIH/DOE) Committee to Evaluate the Ethical, Legal and Social Implications Program of the Human Genome Project (HGP).
Prostate Cancer Gene Location Found on Chromosome 1
Researchers identify the location of the first major gene that predisposes men to prostate cancer.
Scientists Locate Parkinson's Gene
Researchers identify the location of the first gene associated with Parkinson's disease.
New On-Line Gene Map Will Speed Research and Enhance Public Understanding of Genetic Disease
A team of over 100 scientists from government, university and commercial laboratories around the world reveal a map that pinpoints the locations of over 16,000 genes in human DNA - about one-fifth of the estimated 25,000 genes packaged within the human chromosomes.
New Computer Light Technique Creates a Chromosome Rainbow
A new technique, called "spectral karyotyping," could prove to be extremely valuable in the diagnosis of disease based on chromosome alterations.
Genetically Engineered Mouse Provides Researchers with Tool to Study Many Aspects of Human Disease, Ataxia Telangiectasia (A-T)
Scientists have a leg up in understanding the baffling complexities of A-T.
Faster, Cheaper Methods to Read DNA Focus on Systems Integration, Miniaturization
The National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) launched its first full-throttle attempt to decipher human DNA - a process called DNA sequencing - by awarding funds to scientists at six U.S. institutions.
International Team Completes DNA Sequence of Yeast
An international consortium of scientists announced today it has finished spelling out the entire genetic code of a species of yeast valuable to biologists and commonly used by bakers and brewers.
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The National Human Genome Research Institute, a key player in the international Human Genome Project and part of the National Institutes of Health, announced today the launch of an unprecedented pilot study to explore the feasibility of large-scale sequencing of human DNA.
Human Genome Project Completes Genetic Map of Mouse DNA
Human Genome Project researchers have completed a dense "genetic map" of the DNA of the laboratory mouse (1). The lab mouse is one of the best-studied animals in genetics, and its genetic information is about 75 percent similar to that of the human.
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Now at this time Damasus who
had succeeded Liberius then presided over the church at Rome. Cyril was
still in possession of that at Jerusalem. The Antiochian church, as we
have stated, was divided into three parts: for the Arians had chosen
Dorotheus as the successor of their bishop Euzoïus; while one
portion of the rest was under the government of Paulinus, and the
others ranged themselves with Melitius, who had been recalled from
exile. Lucius, although absent, having been compelled to leave
Alexandria, yet maintained the episcopal authority among the Arians of
that city; the Homoousians there being headed by Timothy, who succeeded
Peter. At Constantinople Demophilus the successor of Eudoxius presided
over the Arian faction, and was in possession of the churches; but
those who were averse to communion with him held their assemblies
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What an honor it is to be a part of the Rapids Unified team!
Project Unify is everything that is right about sports and goes beyond the play on the pitch. It is one of the most important programs I have seen in my 13 years of working at Kroenke Sports. It is about athletes coming together, celebrating each other for who they are, supporting their teammates, improving their soccer skills and bringing smiles to everyone who comes into contact with Unified sports. For most of these athletes it is the first time they have flown on a plane and traveled without their family. They get to experience new opportunities and take risks which allow them to grow. The coaches and partners are amazing, but the Special Olympics athletes are the heart of the team.
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Vatican City, July 1-3, 2015. A high-level environmental summit on climate change titled, People and Planet First: the Imperative to Change Course, organized by heads of Catholic NGOs (CIDSE) and by the Pontifical Justice and Peace Council.[more]
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Suffering, freedom and fraternity are the central themes of the meeting. It's a dialogue that translates into concrete actions in their own cities. They are received in private audience by Pope Francis. Interview with Vatican Radio[more]
"Jesus is the greatest gift of all": with this spirit, thousands of children throughout the world remind us that "Jesus has been dislodged," and invite us to make him once again the focus of Christmas. In St. Peter's Square on 20 December, there will be a Children's Jubilee with the blessing of their statues of Baby Jesus.
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16 year old Caitlin Rowley from Houston, Texas, shares how she lives with Crohn's Disease, overcoming her fears. An experience which emanates strength and light.
Pasquale Foresi – more familiarly known as Chiaretto – the first focolarino priest and co-founder of the Focolare Movement, died on 14th June. Our memories of him are full of affection and gratitude. The funeral will be held on Thursday, 18 June at 3.30 pm (Italian time) at the Focolare Movement's International Centre in Rocca d Papa. It can be followed streaming.[more]
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Lobby firm "A" has 10 clients, all of whom compensate A $1,000 annually to lobby. A, in turn, pays compensation in excess of $500 each to one in-house and two independent contractor lobbyists who lobby on behalf of A's clients. A must register and report as both an employer lobbyist and as a compensated lobbyist. A's clients will register and report as employer lobbyists, listing A as their compensated lobbyist. A's hired lobbyists will register and report as compensated lobbyists, listing A as their employer lobbyist.
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Sony has upgraded six Vaio notebooks to include High Speed Downlink Packet Access (HSDPA) connectivity. It claims the SZ6 and TZ20 series, which consist of six notebooks in all, will eventually provide users with download speeds of up to 7.2Mbps while on the move.
Released under Sony's new Everywair brand, the technology will initially provide internet connections of up to 3.6Mbps, however a firmware upgrade to be released at some unknown point in the future will then enable users to gain connection speeds of up to 7.2Mbps.
Sony also told Register Hardware T-Mobile will be its preferred network partner. It also said the technology means users won't have to be within range of a Wi-Fi hotspot or fixed connection to enjoy broadband internet speeds. Unless, they're out of range of the 3G network, of course…
Everywair requires a network SIM card to be slotted into a bay on the laptop's side to gain network access. All six laptops each have two 3G antennae in their lids, which Sony claimed provides better connection quality in areas of marginal coverage.
The three SZ6 models range from £1300 (€1650/$2600) to £1900 (€2250/$3800). The three TZ20 models range between £1500 (€1850/$3000) and £1900. Everywair will be included as standard across all six models from 21 September, with connection prices varying according to the network provider.
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Strawberries and rhubarb are a classic spring pair, usually in pie, here in a rustic cobbler with a sweet and slightly crunchy topping that thanks to cornmeal, has slight heft, and to lemon zest, a pleasing brightness. Grown men have been known to, well, groan, over this addictive, easy dessert.
First published in 2008, such a favorite, republished 2013
"May I just say, gorgeous?!!" ~ Karen
"Who knew rhubarb could be so delish?!" Lelo in NoPo
"...delicious beyond words." Cher
'Best baseball in the country'. Such is the appraisal of hometown baseball here in St Louis. Even amid the fustle about steroids and stats, salaries and our new stadium, St. Louis fans remain Redbird-loyal, game-smart and fair-minded toward opponents.
In summer, Moms tow kids downtown for weekday day games. Grown women, mothers themselves now, remember precious hours with their fathers at the old Busch Stadium, learning how to keep score and the strategy behind bunts and beanballs.
What bodes for baseball when competition looms? During a dog-walk in Glendale last spring, a single block was a minor league Street of Fame. Two boys in just-washed Little League garb tossed a ball between them. Girls in plaid school skirts lifted bare knees to keep soccer balls aloft. Preschoolers in girly-pink and girly-purple swim suits dashed through a sprinkler. Face-masked boys lobbed lacrosse balls. Three sweaty teens leapt high to whack a tether ball.
What bodes for baseball? A new generation of savvy, stalwart and athletic fans, says intuition.
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Oven time: 25 minutes
Serves 8
- 1/2 cup (150g) sugar
- 3 tablespoons (30g) flour
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon
- 2-1/2 cups rhubarb (230g), diced very small (see ALANNA's TIPS)
- 2-1/2 cups ripe strawberries (250g), hulled, cut in pieces if large
- 1 cup flour, fluffed to aerate before measuring or 125g
- 1/3 cup (75g) sugar
- 1/4 cup (45g) yellow cornmeal (not stone-ground)
- 1 tablespoon baking powder
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/8 teaspoon table salt
- Zest of a lemon, optional but decidedly delicious
- 3 tablespoons cold butter, diced
- 1/2 cup buttermilk
Preheat oven to 400F.
FRUIT In a large bowl, toss sugar, flour, cinnamon and rhubarb. Gently stir in strawberries and transfer to a glass deep-dish pie pan.
TOPPING In the same bowl, combine flour, sugar, cornmeal, baking powder, baking soda, salt and lemon zest. With your fingers, rub in butter until a coarse meal forms. (If making ahead, stop here and refrigerate.) With a fork, mix in buttermilk just to moisten. Spoon topping over fruit.
BAKE Bake for 25 minutes or until topping is golden and fruit is bubbly.
Serve immediately with a splash of cream or a scoop of ice cream or a dollop of whipped cream.
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When you say glass deep dish pie pan, what kind of size are you talking about? Would a 13 x 9 glass pan work? I just made a lovely rhubarb cake a couple of days ago, with a cinnamon and sugar topping. I like my rhubarb straight!
Living vicariously through you with rhubarb! I grew up loving it, but my spouse grew up dreading the "gifts" of rhubarb desserts the neighbor foisted on them, that they were supposed to eat, enjoy, and appreciate. So no rhubarb in my house.
However, perhaps this late Spring is the time to introduce rhubarb to the kids--to head off their lack of childhood exposure with the good kind of rhubarb desserts?
Kir ~ Happy to expose your kids to rhubarb! Maybe now's the time?!
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for obvious reasons, this is good news. the Millennial generation has grown up online, and as such, have been exposed to so much more than previous generations. no longer will the masses be taught all they need to know in their churches. and the effect is predictable. when smart young people have questions, they can find the answers. Atheism follows.
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I remember something someone said: "The internet is the place where religions go to die". I take it that the more information is readily available (and the internet is good at this) the more people realize what religion really is.
each day brings the hope of small victories. i'm going to write a blog post today about a small victory in my own life that really made my day yesterday.
Good news! Yay!
I'm equally excited that this is great news. However, I agree with Tyler Holmstrom's post above that "simply doubting the existence of God isn't tantamount to disbelieving in anything supernatural." There's a lot of other crazy beliefs some people have that have nothing to do with a traditional type of god, i.e. spirits/ghosts, life-forces, karma, world government conspiracies, ancient alien earth civilizations, astrology, etc. Hopefully a healthy dose of skepticism about god will lead to questions and skepticism about other beliefs as well. While it's true that the internet has been a great tool in reducing religious belief, we have to remember that the internet is also saturated with any and all types of woo-woo imaginable; some of it very convincingly presented if you don't do your homework. Silver lining: even if some of these other beliefs may still linger on, at least they don't have the negative and pervasive influence on politics and social policy that traditional religions have, which to me is most important.
true, and in the end it comes down to trusted sources. there will always be crackpots, and they will have their trusted sources to back up their insane beliefs. but i think that a skeptical mind will naturally seek out information on all sides, and pick which source makes sense. ultimately this is a great trend that illustrates that this is already happening, and quicker than i would have thought.
See this is what the Christians were afraid of with the internet! Not the 'Good News' they were hoping for at all! LOL
well, that, and porn!
Based on the comments of my teen daughter's and their friends, I'd believe it! Even those who are religious seem more tolerant. Of course, I do not live in deliverance country...
We just need to hold of the crazy until these kids come of age.
I had not thought that internet could make the young atheists, but I do believe this. The varied knowledge and the exposure they get to different thoughts may make them freethinkers. This seems to be happening. Good news.
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"Apple have been processing refunds for Final Cut Pro X as complaints flood in from grumpy pros - and it seems they are taking a lenient approach. Although the iTunes/App Store terms and conditions state that 'all sales are final' [ed. note: isn't this illegal?], when an application does not meet the expectations of a user, like in the case of a 59p iPhone game, Apple have been known to refund the purchase. Now it seems they are doing so with Final Cut Pro X to the tune of $299."


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By way of a background, I passed Greek 3 (Attic) about seven years ago; over the last several months, after deciding to bring my Greek back up to speed, I've worked my way through Mounce's grammar and workbook. Koine is very hard, but easier than Attic! After getting through Mounce, I picked up Rodney Decker's Koine Greek Reader, along with Black's intermediate grammar and the short New Testament lexicon from the University of Chicago Press. I'm enjoying Decker's reader a lot; it seems like the perfect way to build up skill and confidence on the way to dealing with whole texts.
Anyway, I have a couple questions for more experienced hands.
1) Decker's reader moves from New Testament readings into the Septuagint (and then into the apostolic fathers). I'm not sure if my short lexicon will be adequate for the readings from the Septuagint. Decker's text assumes possession of the full BDAG. This brings up my real question. If I'm going to want to read lightly to moderately in the Septaugint, what will I need for a lexicon? Will the full BDAG (which I haven't yet purchased) be enough, or will I need a specialized lexicon? If so, which one? If it helps, I'm mostly interested in the Torah/Pentateuch, at least for the foreseeable future.
2) Some time over the next several months, I'd like to begin to gradually feel my way into earlier forms of Greek. I'm especially interested in Homer and Plato, although there is no major figure in Greek literature who doesn't hold at least some interest for me. But I'm also interested in synergy and (relative) ease. Which leads into my question: can anyone give me any thoughts or advice (especially recommended texts ) to move from Mounce, Black and Decker into other texts, with Plato and Homer as at least long term goals?


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Beau Brummell and His Heirs
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One doesn't come across the word "dandiacal" very often, but it's in the air at the Museum of Art Rhode Island School of Design's elegant new exhibition, "Artist/Rebel/Dandy: Men of Fashion." An adjective that means "relating to or characteristic of a dandy," dandiacal rhymes with maniacal, which adds to the strong sensation that extreme or unruly impulses have been channeled into the dandy's meticulous attention to detail.
We know a dandy when we see one. Three-piece or double-breasted suit of ineffable, enviable fit, often in rainbow-trippy tweeds, tattersalls and velvets. Pristine collar, tie and pocket square. Vivacious socks. Shoes pampered and polished. A boutonniere, hat, walking stick—or all three—as grace notes. The dandy has the disciplined vigor of a Bach fugue, the ebullience of a male warbler in spring plumage. There is no female equivalent to this virtuoso of the three-way mirror, perhaps because a dandy's display takes place within the narrow paradigm of men's attire—shirt, pants, jacket—a silhouette hardly touched by fashion trends. Dandiacal energy, this exhibition argues, is more often an expression of nonconformism, romanticism, self-invention and idealism—not to mention the aesthete's unrelenting life of the eye—than it is an act of vanity.
The RISD show commences by introducing the founding father of dandyism, George Bryan "Beau" Brummell (1778-1840). It's unusual for a tribe or breed to have such a definitive beginning, but all agree that Brummell was It. This Englishman of middle-class birth climbed into Regency-era aristocratic circles based on no more than his verbal wit and the eloquence of his dress. He quickly became the last word on fashion, so much so that the Prince of Wales (George IV, crowned king in 1820) followed his sartorial lead. Surprisingly, Brummell's style was not flamboyant at all, or rather, it was flamboyantly restrained and impeccable.
A life-size reproduction of Robert Dighton's 1805 "Portrait of Beau Brummell"—the only surviving image of the man—stands at the entrance to the first gallery. He wears lean fawn breeches and a dark, double-breasted tailcoat with a deeply rounded neckline, the better to show off his signature high white collar and white cravat, immaculate as a sacrament. Fawn gloves, black top hat, Hessian boots and a riding crop finish this ensemble, show-stopping because of its body-conscious tailoring and complete renunciation of embellishment.
Few clothes from this era remain and none belonging to Brummell, but curators Kate Irvin and Laurie Anne Brewer have found period pieces—a tailcoat, pantaloons and greatcoat—that speak to Dighton's portrait. One sees how fitted these garments were, and how the yokelike collars, when filled with white linen, created a dramatic, even heroic, frame for the chest and face, a masculine equivalent to the cameo poitrine of females.
Artist/Rebel/Dandy: Men of Fashion
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Further into the entrance gallery, prints and ephemera illustrate society's response to its newborn dandies: mockery and moralizing. Early dandies, denizens of the leisure class, spent buckets on personal style, investing hours to achieve an effect of spotless nonchalance. Carried away, they competed for highest collar, most corseted waist. The public came up with new names for these "poets of cloth." Fops. Exquisites. Robert Cruikshank's 1818 etching "A Dandy Fainting" caricatures a roomful of corseted young gents, presenting them as boneless alien forms akin to Aesop's grasshoppers, playing all day while the ants work. By the end of the century, however, the dandy was emerging as something more. Drawings of James McNeill Whistler, Charles Baudelaire and Max Beerbohm, followed by 20th-century photographs of Le Corbusier, Frank Lloyd Wright and Andy Warhol, make the case for dandyism as an aesthetic stance, the domain of artists.
"Artist/Rebel/Dandy" comes alive in the second gallery, where the suits and ensembles of legendary and lesser-known dandies from all continents are grouped according to their owner's particular path into the brotherhood. Romantics, Revolutionaries, Historians, Explorers, Connoisseurs—every section contains gems. The 1933 suit of white tie and tails belonging to Fred Astaire, so spruce, is backed by a clip of him dancing in a similar tux in "Top Hat." The red tartan lounge suit worn by both King George V and his son Edward VIII—the royal who abandoned the throne—contains a sad history of destiny interwoven with disappointment. A gray flannel suit belonging to Truman Capote is small, serious and strangely naive, while Tom Wolfe's iconic white wool three-piecer, with matching cashmere cape, is grandiloquent—Rhett Butler meets "The Great Gatsby."
A section called "Relics" will prove irresistible to many viewers. Two snowy custom dress shirts lie side by side, one belonging to Mark Twain and the other to Oscar Wilde (saved from oblivion because it was at the laundry when he died). Just feet away, Warhol's white wig and white button-downs from Brooks Brothers, neck size 16½, form a postmodern, ready-to-wear echo of the bespoke tailoring of yore.
Singular among the clothes in the show is a superbly cut black wool coat and trouser suit of 1928, made for Michael Strange, which was the pseudonym of Blanche Oelrichs, a poet who was once married to the actor John Barrymore. This ensemble alone possesses a female quality of . . . prettiness. It's the exception that proves the rule: Dandyism is not effeminacy.
Where Strange's suit is lyric-subversive, Sebastian Horsley's extravagant red velvet suit and matching top hat is subversion as satire, Lewis Carroll's Wonderland by way of Mephistopheles. Horsley never had a chance to wear the red velvet in public. In 2010, on the night his memoir, "Dandy in the Underworld," had its West End premiere as a play, he died of a drug overdose. "Being a dandy is a condition," he once wrote. "It is a shield and a sword and a crown—all pulled out of the dressing up box in the attic of the imagination."
The first stirrings of this exhibition began with another death, in 2009—that of the revered RISD painting professor, artist and self-proclaimed "professional dandy," Richard Merkin. At the very center of the second gallery—at its heart, so to speak—a space titled "An Original" is devoted to Merkin's snazzy bespoke suits and custom shirts. "Dressing, like painting, should have a residual stability, plus punctuation and surprise," he said in 1986. "Somewhere—like in Krazy Kat—you've got to throw the brick." Dandiacal, indeed.
Ms. Jacobs writes about culture and fashion for Vanity Fair.


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Joseph "Joey" Benoit, dean of The Graduate School at UND
Joseph Benoit, The Graduate School dean at the University of North Dakota, has been elected to a three-year term on the board of directors of the Council of Graduate Schools (CGS), an organization of more than 500 institutions of higher education in the United States and Canada.
Benoit is the first Graduate School dean from UND ever elected to the post. During his 10 years at UND, The Graduate School has seen record growth in enrollment and unprecedented expansion. The school enrolls approximately 2,500 masters and doctoral students, offering programs in 53 different areas.
UND is a charter member of CGS, an organization that engages in graduate education, research, and the preparation of candidates for advanced degrees. Among U.S. institutions, CGS members award more than 90 percent of the doctoral degrees and three-fourths of the master's degrees. CGS's mission is to improve and advance graduate education, which it accomplishes through advocacy in the federal policy arena, research, and the development and dissemination of best practices.
Benoit, also a professor of pharmacology, physiology and therapeutics at UND, studies the cardiovascular consequences of chronic portal hypertension, the pathophysiology of arterial hypertension and the role of the lymphatic system in the prevention of interstitial edema. He has served as a research mentor for more than 50 undergraduate students, graduate students, post-doctoral fellows and visiting scholars.
Benoit is on the executive committee of the Western Association of Graduate Schools and the accreditation council for AAALAC International (Association for Assessment and Accreditation for Laboratory Animal Care). He is also an editorial reviewer for several biomedical journals. He is a Fellow of the Cardiovascular Section of the American Physiological Society and has served as a member of the APS standing committee on education. He was recognized in 2008 and 2010 for contributions to the APS Frontiers in Physiology program for middle and high school teachers.
Benoit holds degrees from the University of Southwestern Louisiana and the University of South Alabama. Upon completion of a postdoctoral fellowship in microvascular physiology at Texas A&M University, Benoit served on the faculty at Louisiana State University Medical Center in Shreveport and the University of South Alabama. He also served as the director of basic medical science graduate programs while at the University of South Alabama.
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Mixing an Allen-Bradley ControlLogix controller with DeviceNet communications helps Lipton reduce downtime and engineering costs
Known to botanists as camellia sinensis, the tea plant bears no resemblance to the leaves you steep in boiling water and serve with crumpets, jam and sympathy. Five to six feet tall, the tea plant is an evergreen with small, apple blossom-esque buds. To turn this shrub into a steaming cup of Earl Grey is a complex process that involves harvesting, withering, rolling, fermenting and drying the plant's leaves. And that's just the beginning.
Most commercial teas are a blend of leaves from various plants, and also include other dried herbs, fruits, etc. Mixing complementary flavors allows companies to create teas that are aromatic and delicious. This is where Lipton has made its mark. Owned by Unilever, Lipton produces the world's most popular and widely sipped teas. Its products can be found on store shelves in more than 100 countries.
To keep up with customer demand, Lipton recently upgraded a conveyor chassis at its manufacturing facility in Suffolk, Va. Featuring equipment from Rockwell Automation and its encompass partner SMC Corp., the new conveyor system cost significantly less than a traditional, hardwired installation, and it took less time to bring online. Most importantly, it's a vast improvement over the tangle of wires and conduit that was previously in place.
"Since start-up, there have been no snags," says Keith Rock, lead engineer at the Lipton plant in Suffolk. "The new system has been so effective we're using it as a blueprint for upgrading three similar applications."
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Saying that you drink tea is as nebulous as saying you live on Earth. That's because there are several varieties of tea -- black, green, herbal and instant -- and thousands of options within each category. This is the reason behind Lipton's vast catalog, which ranges from blackberry-infused leaves to lemon ginseng green tea. And it helps give Lipton a global turnover of almost $2 billion.
The Suffolk facility primarily packages black teas. And since tea bags don't grow on trees, Lipton has a multi-step process in place to make sure its customers' cups are always full. To start, trucks arrive at the Lipton facility to deliver dried and shredded leaves from tea plantations around the world. The leaves are then blended, depending on the production run and specific recipe. Next, the tea blend is transferred to the plant's packaging machines that produce double chamber tea bags.
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Although the process begins and ends on the bed of a truck, there are many activities in- between that Lipton employees must coordinate so the tea can make the trek from one end of the facility to the other. Problems in any area can make the entire operation resemble a Los Angeles freeway during rush hour. Unfortunately, due to a matrix of canvas-belt conveyors, this was becoming an all-too-common occurrence.
These conveyors (a conveyor chassis collectively) transport empty boxes to the machines and transport full boxes from the machines for further processing. This can include a complex assortment of carton sizes.
"That's why it's a matrix of conveyors rather than one belt spitting boxes onto 40 machines," Rock says. "We have to make sure no machine is starving."
The challenge is to get the right box to the right packaging machine at the right time. Otherwise, the packaging machines sit idle, throughput lags and orders are delayed.
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Along with the conveyor track, the old system was comprised of metal diverters that pushed empty boxes to the appropriate machines and brake paddles that controlled the flow of boxes. Lipton also placed photo eyes before each diverter or brake. These eyes would sense cartons traveling through the chassis and manage the flow of cartons to individual machines.
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Davidson College presented diplomas to 449 members of the Class of 2012 in Commencement exercises on Sunday morning, May 20. President Carol Quillen presided over the occasion, and made a surprise announcement at its conclusion, reporting a $25-million gift from alumnus Ted Baker '57 to support the Davidson Trust. She noted that the Class of 2012 was the first to fully benefit from the Davidson Trust, and thanked them for embracing it through establishment of the annual "Dinner at Davidson" fundraiser.
The graduates represented 37 states and 11 foreign countries. 166 of the 452 received Latin honors as outstanding scholars with 101 graduating cum laude, 55 as magna cum laude, and two tying for First Honor who graduated summa cum laude. The most popular majors were political science (67 graduates), biology (45), psychology (58), English (58) and history (52).
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In addition to his responsibilities in the political science department, Shaw has chaired Davidson's Humanities Program and its First-Year Writing Program since joining the faculty in 1982. He teaches survey courses in political philosophy, and first year and advanced seminars on such topics as the thought of Immanuel Kant, Homer and Thucydides, family policy, and urban design. His survey course on the "Foundations of Liberalism" was awarded the 2010 "Spirit of Inquiry Award" from the John W. Pope Center for Educational Policy. Articles he has written have appeared in Political Theory, History of Political Thought, The Philosophical Forum, Journal of Politics, and other journals.
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