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Chinese Astrology Frequently Asked Questions
How Does Chinese Astrology Predict People's Fortune?
We simply use the Yin Yang Five Element Relationships to predict people's fortune. Since the concept of Five Elements are abstract, we convert Five Elements into Five Stars, which are Money, Career, Companion, Parent and Fame (Child) stars. In this way, it will be easy for us to understand our luck of money, career or fame.
There are four astrology cycles dominate people fortune in Chinese astrology. They are 10-year Major Cycle, Yearly Cycle, Monthly Cycle and Daily Cycle. Usually, 10-year Major Cycle and Yearly Cycle is to predict people's good or bad luck. Monthly Cycle and Daily Cycle is to predict when the good or bad luck will happen.
The symbols of the cycles are from the Stem-Branch system in Chinese astrology calendar. The first symbol is called Stem. The second symbol, which is an animal sign, is called Branch. Our prediction is not only check for the Stem Relationships and Branch Relationships, but also examine the additional Branch Relationships, the special Branch Relationships and the mixing Stem and Branch Relationships. Therefore, we are very confident on our prediction.
Predict Your Money, Career and Fame
Our prediction focus on money, career and fame, because we believe most people are quite interesting in these subjects.
Lunar Calendar or Solar Calendar?
Your birthday for our Chinese astrology is the date from solar calendar (western calendar or Gregorian calendar), no the Chinese lunar calendar.
We didn't convert your birthday to the lunar calendar, because the Chinese astrology calendar is only connected to the sun. not moon. Sun creates day, night and four seasons. Our Five Element astrology talks about Yin Yang and season changes.
Including many Chinese, people think Chinese astrology always uses the lunar calendar since thousand years ago. Actually, the ancient Chinese fortune tellers converted lunar time to solar time, because Chinese only have the lunar calendar then.
Can We Do the Prediction Without Knowing the Birth Time?
Yes. As long as you know your birthday, Chinese astrology still can give you some predictions. But without your correct birth time, Chinese astrology is unable to determine your Lucky Element right. The lucky element is the key to predict people's good or bad luck. That means Chinese astrology can tell you what will happen to you, but it cannot tell you the result is favorable or unfavorable to you.
Why is the Birth Place Time Zone is required?
It's required for only people born in the astrological hour, day or month boundaries. The Chinese hour boundary is at 1,3,5,7,9,10,11 A.M. and 1,3,5,7,9,11 P.M.. The month boundary is around on the 3rd day to 9th day in our solar months. Time Zone can adjust your birth time to the correct astrological hour, day and month.
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How Good is the Prediction?
Will our prediction always happen? We don't want to say yes, because you might not completely understand the meaning of Five Elements. For example, when Fire appears in the cycle, we just know something to do with Fire will impact to your life. Since Fire is too abstract, we use Five Stars to explain the prediction. If Fire is the Career star, then we only know something to do with your job, power, boss, police, challenge, accident, disease or lawsuit might come toward your life. It's possible that an accident happened, but the prediction just mentioned about a job pressure during that period. To you, that's different. To the fortune tellers, that's identical.
The Five Elements are changing with the passage of time. Daily Five Elements last only for a day. Monthly Five Elements last for about 30 days. Yearly Five Elements last for a year. Also, usually the Daily Five Elements are the continuation from yesterday's Five Elements. That means daily event continues the unfinished business for days before. Our daily astrology prediction doesn't check for that complicate relationships. However, everything always has the beginning. If the daily Five Elements are same to the monthly or yearly Five Elements, then that day might be the beginning point of an event. Therefore, we know monthly prediction will happen, but we don't know which day unless we examine every daily Five Elements.
In general, monthly Five Elements is more important than daily Five Elements and yearly Five Elements is more important than monthly ones. Certainly, the Five Elements in 10-year major cycles are even more important, because they last for 10 years.
Why can a fortune teller Predict Better?
If you ask questions to a fortune teller in person, then you might tell the fortune teller that you want to know your career, money or health luck first, so the fortune teller will focus on your job, investment or disease. For example, you ask for the result or duration of a lawsuit. Then the fortune teller will study the Career Star, but he or she never mention about your job pressure.
Good Chinese fortune teller studies the birth chart and cycle Five Elements first without asking people any question. Certainly, the first clue is that the person is in bad luck. After knowing which element in your birth chart is in trouble, the fortune teller can guess what is happening according to the gender and age.
For example, a mother asks her son's birth chart and the fortune teller knows the trouble is from the Career Star. The fortune teller might ask the mother, "Are your son in school now?" If the answer is no, then the child might have the health problem at home or hospital, or even at heaven. If the answer is yes, then the child might have the trouble with the law.
Anyway, the interactive conversion will help fortune tellers making a better prediction.
To Understand More About Five Stars
In Chinese astrology, the Career star means anything or anyone give you the pressure or harm. Therefore Career star might be a job giving you pressure, a disease giving your health pressure, accident hurting your body or a person giving you rules. So the Career star represents the position, job, power, pressure, competition, challenge, accident, adventure, law, reform and etc.
The Fame (Child) Star is related to anything out of you. Therefore, your body and mind expression to people is the Fame star. Whatever you give people impressions should be your reputation. So Fame star represents people's outlook, idea, expression, skill, talent, wisdom, argument, weakness, children, disease and etc.
The Parent star is connected to something or someone protect you. Anything can increase your body and mind power is the Parent star. So the Parent star stands for your parents, supporters, subordinates, education, wisdom, knowledge, reputation, relax, laziness and etc.
The Companion star stands for your siblings or relatives who have the same generation with you. People will fell much comfortable, confident, aggressive, stronger and braver when friends are around. So the competition, expansion, independence, friendship, leadership, challenge and money are Companion stars.
The Money star must be related to money, property, investment, loan, shopping, social life and material life and people who interesting on your money.
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The Daily Chinese Astrology focuses on money and career. If you are more interesting in Love Relationship, you can try for our Angel Love Match reports. Each report has the prediction on your love and marriage luck, which can help you to find your meaningful relationship, even a long-lasting marriage. We believe that the contents of the reports will meet your great expectations.
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Friday, June 26, 2009
Colette Patterns, Part Deux: The Macaron Dress
I was so excited to try this pattern because I love the silhouette, but also because it reminded me of a very expensive Nanette Lepore dress at Bergdorf's that I coveted last winter. The Lepore dress had a similar sweetheart bustier-look neckline over a tshirt-esque background and played with contrasting fabrics. I think it was over $300--yikes!
I made this in a black silk crepe de chine on top and a nubby purple cotton twill on the bottom. I wanted a discernible texture contrast between the two fabrics. The crepe de chine wasn't sturdy enough for the waistband, so I used the purple twill instead and made a small accent belt and bow with black velvet ribbon.
But the most exciting thing is that this is my debut project with an sba! (That's small bust adjustment, fyi.) It worked out so well that I want to do sbas on everything! Watch out, world! To any interested ladies, I'm working on tutorials now to do an sba to the Parfait and Macaron dresses from Colette Patterns. (If you're smaller than a C cup, you'll probably want to do one for this particular pattern line.) I'll keep you posted!
I'll definitely be making this again. I love so many details of this pattern, especially the pockets that are hidden in the pleats! I'm curious to try this dress out with a knit on the upper bodice and a woven on the rest of the dress. It would be like the comfort of a t-shirt on top with the glamour of a strapless dress on the bottom!
Also, this was the first time I've done a blind hem on a machine. The pattern suggested it, and I thought it was about time I gave it a go. (I had some help from this awesome YouTube tutorial.) Why oh why have I waited so long?
Thanks to Sarai for another awesome pattern. I don't know what I did before this pattern line came along. Next up is the Beignet skirt!
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Can't wait for the SBA tute. I've got the Parfait but I'm a bit hesitant, not much experience in alterations.ReplyDelete
But you have the experience, so I want to see what you did.
And the Colette line is soo pretty and flattering, isn't it?
I just started cutting out Eclair last night. I'm so happy to see that the dresses look amazing and fit perfectly. All of your creations look fabulous. I love your fabric choices. Thank you for sharing!ReplyDelete
Now I just need to update my blog with everything I've been sewing....
That's very pretty! Now remember, you'll only need an SBA on Colette's patterns--others not so much :-)ReplyDelete
So...how many feline sewing helpers do you have? I have three, but their participation varies.
Thanks, all! Should have the tutorials up by next week.ReplyDelete
I have two little helpers. The little one, Henry Higgins, is currently helping me by climbing up a length of wool crepe that I'm trying to steam. Ack!
- AnonymousJune 26, 2009 at 2:36 PM
I am so happy that you made this one up too! These two patterns I really like--now I am sold. You look fantastic in it. I keep thinking of fabric possibilities~! Thanks for sharing.ReplyDelete
Gertie! You look amazing in these! It's so wonderful to see the patterns come to life so beautifully.ReplyDelete
Lovely! Now I want 3 of them....grrr, household budget, grrrr! Can't wait to see your Beignet as that's the other one I want!ReplyDelete
I LOVE IT!!!! I am definitely making this dress for myself.ReplyDelete
Jeff just showed me your blog! I love it! Beautiful dresses! I will add you to my blog!
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Hi Joan! Thanks for visiting! :)ReplyDelete
I just muslined this out. Two questions for you. One, did you find that the midriff band went really high? Mine is about an inch above my natural waist. If I keep it there, I'll have to add some to the sides because it's hard to breathe. :) Two, did you find there was lots of extra fabric in the top bodice that had to be eased into the bottom bodice? On mine, there was each fabric I had to ease in. You can see the rippples on the back b/c I actually stretched my stretch twill to make it fit. I'm wondering since I'm making the size 0 if there is some funky drafting/grading thing going on.ReplyDelete
You can see the photos on my blog. Thanks!
Hi - I just found your blog via Sew Retro. I love this dress that you made. The contrast of the purple and the black looks awesome! I will definately be trying out some of these collette patterns. They look very nice.ReplyDelete
It looked beautiful! How did you make the pockets in the pleats? It looked difficult. Is it?ReplyDelete
So nice dress, You really have a good knitting, I think you should wear some beautiful jewellery to match it, It must be more beautiful.ReplyDelete


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"You ascended into glory, O Christ our God, and You delighted the disciples with the promise of the Holy Spirit. Through this blessing, they were assured that You are the Son of God, the Redeemer of the World."
—Troparion for the Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom, Feast of the Ascension of our Lord Jesus Christ
"Christ's Ascension is therefore not a spectacle for the disciples but an event into which they themselves are included. It is a sursum corda, a movement toward the above into which we are all called. It tells us that man can live toward the above, that he is capable of attaining heights. More: the altitude that alone is suited to the dimensions of being human is the altitude of God himself. Man can live at this height, and only from this height do we properly understand him. The image of man has been raised up, but we have the freedom to tear it down or to let ourselves be raised."
— Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, from Images of Hope: Meditations On Major Feasts (Ignatius Press, 2006)
Readings:"As he blessed them he parted from them and was taken up to heaven." (Lk 24:51)
• Acts 1:1-11
• Psa. 47:2-3, 6-7, 8-9
• Eph. 1:17-23 or Heb. 9:24-28; 10:19-23
• Lk 24:46-53
With these simple, matter-of-fact words, Luke describes the Ascension of Jesus, expressed even more concisely in the Creed: "He ascended into heaven." This event is so important for Luke that the Acts of the Apostles opens with a description of the same event. As the disciples looked on, Luke records, Jesus "was lifted up, and a cloud took him from their sight" (Acts 1:9). Mark's account, heard today, is equally direct and succinct: "So then the Lord Jesus, after he spoke to them, was taken up into heaven and took his seat at the right hand of God" (Mk. 16:19).
This dramatic moment has been celebrated in the Church on the fortieth day after Easter since the earliest centuries. Some of the Church Fathers, including Augustine, said that the feast had been observed since the time of the apostles, although the earliest evidence of its celebration dates to the fifth century. In the Latin Rite in the United States the Feast of the Ascension is one of six solemnities, the others being the solemnities of Mary, Mother of God (January 1); the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary (August 15); All Saints (November 1), the Immaculate Conception (December 8), and the Nativity of Our Lord Jesus Christ (December 25).
Despite being a solemnity and a holy day of obligation, the Feast of the Ascension is sometimes completely overlooked or not given much attention. Ask Catholics what is the significance of the Feast and answers aren't always immediate. The rather mysterious nature of the Feast is heightened in some ecclesiastical provinces by its transference from the sixth Thursday of Easter to the following Sunday. [1] In a way, the Solemnity bears a resemblance to the sacrament of Confirmation, the exact meaning of which is not always understood well and suffers for not being more clearly explained and comprehended.
This occasional murkiness is unfortunate because the Ascension is such a joyful event in the work and life of Jesus Christ, as well as being a vital reality in the ongoing life and mission of the Church. To appreciate this joy and vitality we should keep in mind what the Catechism of the Catholic Church states about the liturgical calendar: The Church, "in the course of the year, . . . unfolds the whole mystery of Christ from his Incarnation and Nativity through his Ascension, to Pentecost and the expectation of the blessed hope of the coming of the Lord" (CCC, 1194).
Hinted at here are revealing parallels between the Incarnation and the Ascension and between the Nativity and Pentecost. In the Incarnation the eternal Son of God took on human nature in order to save mankind. By the power of the Holy Spirit, divinity and humanity were united in one Person; the Word became flesh (Jn 1:14) and lowered Himself to the level of dust and death. The Nativity is the physical, outward revelation of this reality: the Christ Child is born and history and the world are never the same.
At the Ascension the crucified, risen Son of God returns to His Father. Having descended to dusty earth, He now returns to heavenly glory. Having conquered death, He ascends to eternal life. But He returns to the right hand of the Father not just as the Word, but as the Incarnate Word. The doors of heaven are now open and humanity can now approach the throne room of God, the way having been paved by the life, death, and resurrection of the God-man. Pentecost, finally, is the manifestation of the God-man's Church, which is both human and divine. The Church was revealed to the world on that day—fifty days after Easter—by the power of the Holy Spirit.
All of this theology is nice enough, but what does it mean for us? It means the Feast of the Ascension is a celebration of salvation won. The Catholic Encyclopedia notes that "in the Eastern Church this feast was known as analepsis, the taking up, and also as the episozomene, the salvation, denoting that by ascending into His glory Christ completed the work of our redemption." The tendency is often to think of the Resurrection as the culmination of Jesus' salvific work, but it is the Ascension that places the final stamp of approval on the sacrificial and victorious work of our Savior. This is beautifully expressed in the first chapter of Paul's epistle to the Ephesians:
May the eyes of your hearts be enlightened, that you may know what is the hope that belongs to his call, what are the riches of glory in his inheritance among the holy ones, and what is the surpassing greatness of his power for us who believe, in accord with the exercise of his great might: which he worked in Christ, raising him from the dead and seating him at his right hand in the heavens ... (Eph. 1:17-20).Now that the Incarnate Son of God has ascended into heaven and sits in the throne room of God, mankind can follow. United to the Son through baptism and deepening communion with Him through reception of the Holy Eucharist and the other sacraments, the hope of heaven is ours.
"The ascension of Christ is our elevation," declared Leo the Great in a sermon on the Ascension, "Hope for the body is also invited where the glory of the Head preceded us. Let us exult, dearly beloved, with worthy joy and be glad with a holy thanksgiving. Today we not only are established as possessors of paradise, but we have even penetrated the heights of the heavens in Christ." Where the sin of the first Adam closed the gates of Paradise, the righteousness of the new Adam has opened them wide.
Jesus promised His disciples that He would prepare a place for them (Jn. 14). Because of the Ascension, we know He has prepared a place for those who are His. Because of the Ascension, we have the hope of His return and of our future passage into glory. "The Ascension, then," Pope John Paul II explained in May 2000, "is a Trinitarian epiphany which indicates the goal to which personal and universal history is hastening. Even if our mortal body dissolves into the dust of the earth, our whole redeemed self is directed on high to God, following Christ as our guide."
Our Guide has come, died, rose from the dead, and ascended into heaven. Let us celebrate the Feast!
[1] One question that often arises about the Feast of the Ascension is why do some provinces celebrate the solemnity on the following Sunday and not on the sixth Thursday of Easter? The short answer is that the bishops of those regions believe that it makes sense pastorally to do so.
The website for the United States Council of Catholic Bishops has a page explaining some of the situation based on the norms of the Code of Canon Law. It notes that Sunday and the six solemnities referred to above are holy days of obligation. It then quotes Canon 1246¤2: "However, the conference of bishops can abolish certain holy days of obligation or transfer them to a Sunday with prior approval of the Apostolic See." Further on, the page has the following explanation:
"In accord with the provisions of canon 1246¤2 of the Code of Canon Law . . . the National Conference of Catholic Bishops of the United States decrees that the Ecclesiastical Provinces of the United States may transfer the Solemnity of the Ascension of Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ from Thursday of the Sixth Week of Easter to the Seventh Sunday of Easter according to the following procedure.
"The decision of each Ecclesiastical Province to transfer the Solemnity of the Ascension is to be made by the affirmative vote of two-thirds of the bishops of the respective Ecclesiastical Province. The decision of the Ecclesiastical Province should be communicated to the Prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments and to the President of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops. [dated August 6, 1999, Feast of the Transfiguration of the Lord]."
A reason often given for moving the day of the Feast from Thursday to Sunday is that many more Catholics (who are usually working on weekdays) can attend the holy day of obligation. It has also been suggested that this will allow priests, liturgists, and musicians to devote more time to prepare for the Feast of the Ascension.
(This article was originally published in 2004 in Our Sunday Visitor in a slightly different form.)
Related IgnatiusInsight.com Articles and Book Excerpts:
• The Dignity of the Human Person: Pope John Paul II's Teaching on Divinization in the Trinitarian Encyclicals | Carl E. Olson
• The Liturgy Lived: The Divinization of Man | Jean Corbon, O.P.
• Theosis: The Reason for the Season | Carl E. Olson
• Jean DaniŽlou and the "Master-Key to Christian Theology" | Carl E. Olson
• Creation, Salvation, and the Mass | Fr. James V. Schall, S.J.
• "The Central Event of History" | Fr. James V. Schall, S.J.
• Creation | Adrienne von Speyr
• Are Catholics Born Again? | Mark Brumley


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Friday, March 30, 2007
Acts 12.25: Did Barnabas and Paul return to Jerusalem?
EIS seems to be the best reading and most difficult reading (01 and 03, Maj, some versional support) with the alternatives both offering a smoother reading (EX: P74, 02, 33 1739 etc.; or APO: D E 614 etc.).
But commentators aren't generally very happy reading 'returned to Jerusalem' in a normal way since the logic seems to require a return from Jerusalem (cf. 11.29f).
Hence a load of possible solutions, none of which seem that plausible.
Wednesday, March 28, 2007
Minuscule Manuscript Seminar 4
Monday, March 26, 2007
Leipzig brochure on Sinaiticus
Mine arrived from in the mail pretty quickly. Some nice pictures:
Sinaiticus photos include:
Numbers 20.3-26 (Sinai, New Finds MS 1)
Genesis 23.19-24.14 (St Petersburg, MS gr 259 fol. 1)
Jeremiah 23.38-26.8 (Leipzig, MS gr 1, fol. 26v, 27r) [also on covers partly obscured]
John 21 [London, BL, Add MS 43725 fol. 260r]
Other Leipzig texts:
Psalms (P. Lips Inv. 39V; IVth Cent)
Mark in Coptic [P. Lips Inv. 323V]
Illiad [P. Lips Inv. 1161; IVth Cent]
Gospels [UB Leipzig Cod. gr. 6]
Syriac-Arabic Gospel book
New Book on Oxyrhynchus
This book is about Oxyrhynchus - the city of the sharp-nosed fish (see picture) and is a book for 'the general reader', which will 'illustrate some aspects of life in Oxyrhynchos, a Greek city under Roman rule, from the original documents'.
It has some lovely photos (of documents, mummy masks, locations etc.), and should be of interest to people interested in early New Testament documents.
Here is the blurb:
In 1897 two Oxford archaeologists began digging a low sand-covered mound a hundred miles south of Cairo. When they had finally finished, ten years later, they had uncovered 500,000 fragments of papyri. Shipped back to Oxford, the meticulous and scholarly work of deciphering these fragments began. It is still going on today. As well as Christian writings from totally unknown gospels and Greek poems not seen by human eyes since the fall of Rome, there are tax returns, petitions, private letters, sales documents, leases, wills and shopping lists. What they found was the entire life of a flourishing market-town - Oxyrhynchos ( the city of the sharp-nosed fish' ), on a side branch of the Nile - encapsulated in its waste paper. The total lack of rain in this part of Egypt had preserved the papyrus beneath the sand, as nowhere else in the Roman Empire. We hear the voices of barbers, bee-keepers and boat-makers, dyers and donkey-drivers, plasterers and poets, weavers and wine-merchants, set against the great events of late antiquity: the rise and fall of the Roman Empire and the coming of Christianity, as well as the all-important annual flooding of the Nile. The result is an extraordinary and unique picture of everyday life in the Nile Valley between Alexander the Great in 300 BC and the Arab conquest a thousand years later.
Parsons was Regius Professor of Greek at Oxford (1989-2003) and directed the Oxyrhychus Papyri Project for many years. He also once wrote me a very nice letter.
He also refers to the proceedings of the centenary conference in 1998 as forthcoming: A.K. Bowman, et al (eds), Oxyrhynchus: A City and its Texts (London, forthcoming, 2007).
Friday, March 23, 2007
Thursday, March 22, 2007
New e-list: Apparatus Criticus
There's a new e-list: Apparatus Criticus, for text critical discussions. Here's the description:
Apparatus Criticus is an academic email list which focuses on the study of manuscripts and textual criticism. This includes the study of manuscript traditions, apparatus critici, palaeography (paleography), epigraphy, the restoration of fragmentary texts, emendation proposals, and text-critical methods and applications. Other topics include major thinkers and innovators in the fields, such as A.E. Housman, Karl Lachmann, L. D. Reynolds, or relevant literature like Texts and Transmission: A Survey of the Latin Classics or Scribes and Scholars: A Guide to the Transmission of Greek Latin Literature.
The material should be limited to ancient literature of the Western World, the Graeco-Roman classics, Jewish or Christian works, the Qur'an, ancient papyri, etc... all before the invention of the printing press.
All posts should be on topic and within the scope of the stated description. The list owner expects all posts to be evidenced by facts and scholarship. A working knowledge of either Greek, Latin, Syriac, Coptic, Arabic, or other languages of the texts in question is necessary for discussion on an actual text.
As a moderated list, members are ideally professionals working in a related field. Students are welcome, and so are others interested in seriously pursuing the subject matter, but both are expected to conduct themselves with professional decorum befitting a real academic event.
A closer look at Greg.-Aland 1852
Wednesday, March 21, 2007
Shortest PhD bibliography?
The published thesis was:
J.R. Miles, Retroversion and Text Criticism: The Predictability of Syntax in an Ancient Translation from Greek to Ethiopic (Scholars Press: Chico, CA, 1985).
Does anyone know of any other contenders?
Tuesday, March 20, 2007
Erasmus 1522 facsimile
Bibles.org.uk has published the facsimile of Erasmus' third printed edition of Greek New Testament, originally published in 1522. Colophon to the Apocalypse contains the date 1522 but the Introduction says 1518. It contains both the Greek and the Latin (Erasmus' own translation) texts in parallel columns.
This is the first printed edition of Greek NT to contain the Comma Johanneum (I John 5:7-8), howbeit in a rather unusual form.
This edition was used by Tyndale for the first English New Testament (1526), by Stephanus as a base for his 1550 edition and by the translators of Geneva Bible and King James Version.
The direct link for ordering this edition is here.
Review of BHQ
Sunday, March 18, 2007
British Library "Turning the Pages" technology
Friday, March 16, 2007
The Prologue of Revelation in the Syriac Text
The Peshitta: Literature and Liturgy
Bas ter Haar Romeny, ed., The Peshitta: Its Use in Literature and Liturgy
Expected: May 2007
Monographs of the Peshitta Institute Leiden, 15; xxiv, 416 pp.
Brill blurb:
For the first time, this volume brings together biblical scholars and specialists in Syriac liturgy and patristic literature. It contains introductory essays on the Syriac versions in the liturgy, the Syriac Old Testament commentary tradition, and the challenges posed to exegetes by the different Syriac versions of the New Testament, written by the leading scholars in the field. Twenty-one further contributions discuss the patristic and liturgical evidence for the development of the text of the Peshitta and other Syriac versions, as well as the reception and use of those versions in the exegesis and liturgy of the Syriac Churches. These studies are fully updated versions of the papers read at the Third Peshitta Symposium, held in Leiden, 12-15 August 2001.
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Wednesday, March 14, 2007
Christos and Chrestos
1) What is the earliest occurrence of the full form χριστος in a Greek NT ms?
2) What is the earliest occurrence of the full form χριστος in any ms?
3) What is the earliest occurrence of the form χρηστος in a Greek NT ms? Does it even occur?
4) What is the earliest occurrence of the form χρηστος in any ms?
I think you can guess where I'm heading.
New contents to TC 12 (2007)
Holger Szesnat, "Some Witnesses Have...": The Representation of the New Testament Text in English Bible Versions
David Marcus, Doublet Catchwords in the Leningrad Codex
Christian-B. Amphoux and J. Keith Elliott, eds.
The New Testament Text in Early Christianity/Le texte du nouveau Testament au début du christianisme: Proceedings of the Lille Colloquium, July 2000 Reviewed by Dirk Jongkind
Luke Timothy Johnson, The Acts of the Apostles, 2nd ed. Reviewed by Tobias Nicklas
Adrian Schenker, Das Neue am neuen Bund und das Alte am alten: Jer 31 in der hebraischen und griechischen Bibel Reviewed by Thomas Hieke
J.-N. Aletti, M. Gilbert, J.-L. Ska, and S. du Vulpillières Vocabulaire raisonné de l'exégèse biblique: Les mots, les approches, les auteurs Reviewed by Karin Schöpflin
Tuesday, March 13, 2007
Alexandrian Error and Byzantine Re-authentication?
The difference involves more than just a change of word order, being reflected in various modern translations as either "his disciples took him by night" — indicating Paul's own disciples; or "the disciples took him by night" — indicating believers in general. The consistent pattern in the book of Acts (some 30+ occurrences) is to state "disciples" without a modifier, even when it is obvious that certain believers are a disciple of a given person (e.g. Ac 19:1, disciples of Apollos; 20:1, 7, Ephesian disciples of Paul, etc.). The only modified occurrence of the word appears in Ac 9:1, but even there it is inclusive, "the disciples of the Lord".
Metzger, Textual Commentary, admits that OI MAQHTAI AUTOU appears to be "the oldest reading extant in the manuscripts," and of course this explains the main text reading of NA/UBS. Yet Metzger immediately provides compelling reasons why the "oldest reading" -- as found among the Alexandrian witnesses -- cannot possibly be correct: "it is scarcely conceivable that Jewish converts to Christianity at Damascus would be called 'Paul's disciples'"; nor can "the genitive AUTOU" be "construed as the object of LABONTES"; nor can it be "gratuitously" assumed "that these disciples had been Paul's 'companions on the way to Damascus, who . . . had themselves come to the faith".
Yet Metzger (and, presumably, the entire NA/UBS Committee) seem unwilling to allow in this case that (for once, at the very least!) the Byzantine Textform has preserved the correct reading, AUTON. Instead, the reader of the Textual Commentary is treated to a tour de force that is reminiscent of Westcott and Hort's "Western non-interpolation" terminology:
"The most satisfactory solution appears to be the conjecture [!] that the oldest extant text arose through scribal inadvertence, when an original AUTON was taken as AUTOU" -- i. e., the Byzantine AUTON indeed is original, but not as it appears within the Byzantine Textform!
To push this conjectural envelope further, Metzger cites Haenchen on Acts, where in loc. Haenchen repeats and extends the fictional/conjectural hypothesis:
"MAQHTAI AUTOU must be an early corruption" (Haenchen, 332)
"Here AUTON has been misread as AUTOU . . . The reading AUTON in the later MSS is thus a correction [!] which — for once — is correct" (Haenchen, 332n3)!
Thus — even though all the evidence points to the Byzantine AUTON as the original reading in this location, those who reject the Byzantine text under almost all circumstances instead prefer to hypothesize a conjectural "original" reading that became totally "lost" through error permeating all earlier MSS, yet which "error" then was "corrected" by the mass of later Byzantine scribes.
Forgive me for asking, but why should Occam and his Razor not be applied in the present instance? Why engage in speculative gymnastics and textual legerdemain to defend as "conjecturally original" a reading that clearly exists among the vast mass of manuscripts? Certainly the simpler solution would be to admit "Alexandrian archetypal error" at this point.
I suppose the real difficulty is similar to the problem faced by Westcott and Hort when they could not bring themselves to acknowledge "Alexandrian non-original interpolations" at those points termed "Western non-interpolations." But even so -- if Metzger's opinion reflects that of the NA/UBS Committee, why then should they not have "conjectured" the "original [Byzantine] reading" as the main text rather than publish what appears to be held as incorrect on all counts (as cf. Ac 16:12)? More importantly, what then about all the various modern translations that continue to perpetuate this acknowledged error by reading "his disciples" in Acts 9:25? Food for thought.
Bill Petersen memorial session
Monday, March 12, 2007
Misquoting Jesus in paperback
Scholarly Reprints
The following is a much-abbreviated list of texts germane to TC which are available in reprint from Scholarly Reprints (which is a division of Good Books). I have only included authors' names and titles for the sake of brevity. In the case of the more well known authors, there are one or more books also available which I have not listed below. The books are offered at a reasonable price, and are well-bound. My only qualm is that, in the case of the editions with which I have worked, that they use only the recto of each page making the books larger than necessary. Some of these works are also available online. Just click on the title.
Old Testament
- Brodie, James. The True Text of the Old Testament.
- Buhl, Frants. Canon and Text of the Old Testament.
- Kennicott, Benjamin. Vetus Testamentum Hebraicum.
- Weir, Thomas. A Short History of the Hebrew Text of the Old Testament.
New Testament
- Bengel, Johannes Albrecht. Apparatus Criticus ad Novum Testamentum.
- Burgon, John William. The Causes of the Corruption of the Traditional Text of the Holy Gospels.
- The Revision Revised.
- Deissmann, Adolf. Light from the Ancient East.
- The New Testament in the Light of Historical Research.
- Ferrar, William Hugh. A Collation of Four Important Manuscripts of the Gospels.
- Goodspeed, Edgar. Greek Gospel Texts in
. America
- Gregory, Caspar. Die Griechen Handschriften des Neuen Testaments.
- Harris, J. Rendel. Codex Bezae.
- Hoskier, H.C. Codex B and Its Allies.
- Concerning the Text of the Apocalypse.
- Kenyon, Frederic G. The Palaeography of Greek Papyri.
- Recent Developments in the Textual Criticism of the Greek Bible.
- Nestle, Eberhard. Introduction to the Textual Criticism of the Greek New Testament.
- Ramsay, Sir William Mitchell. The Historical Geography of
Asia Minor. (Not really for TC...)
- Scrivener, Frederick. An Exact Transcript of the Codex Augiensis.
- Tischendorf, Constantinus von. Novum Testamentum Sinaiticum.
- Tregelles, Samuel Prideaux. An Account of the Printed Text of the Greek New Testament.
- Von Soden, Herman. Die Schriften des Neuen Testaments.
- Westcott, Brooke Foss; and Fenton John Anthony Hort. The New Testament in the Original Greek.
Early Versions
- Coptic (Horner, Thompson)
- Gothic (Balg)
- Latin (various, but not Jülicher)
- Syriac (Bensley, Pusey, Lewis, Gwynn)
The weblink offers no contact information except for a mail-in order form. I have found a phone number for Good Books listed on Bible Research's recommended books page.
Friday, March 09, 2007
Mice, Worms and other Animals in Textual Criticism
Schenke and Fischer offer the theory that a worm ate the AUL from PAULOS in 1 Peter 1.1 and that PETROS is an incorrect correction [H.M.Schenke & K.M.Fischer, Einleitung in die Schriften des Neuen Testaments (Berlin, 1978; 2 vols) need to check the page number (I only heard of this yesterday)]
So I was thinking that it would be a useful advance on scholarship if we could catalogue the impact of animals on biblical manuscripts. Only offerings?
Thursday, March 08, 2007
Among the papyri in Lund
On Tuesday I traveled from my hometown Örebro to Lund university (500 km). On that day I completed my final course in the PhD programme, which means that I officially earned the degree that day, although the real trial was of course the examination in December previously reported on this blog. After having earned my degree I could also apply for a research post which has been announced (and the final day for application was March 7). I had prepared the application 16 pages long. For the description of the research project (3 pages) I wrote my short proposal last weekend under the heading: "'Orthodox Corruption' Revisited: Scribal Motivation in New Testament Textual Transmission". I do not think that I will get the post, because I saw who some of the other applicants were (folks that have earned their degree during the last five years are eligible). In any case, I will write something on the subject, as soon as I have time, but I have to prepare papers for three conferences (Birmingham colloquium, SBL International and Annual Meetings). In the afternoon I went to the exegetical seminary (OT + NT), which funny enough was a presentation of a paper by professor Bengt Holmberg on Bauer's thesis with the title "Did Heresy Emerge before Orthodoxy? Walter Bauer's Thesis on the Earliest History of the Church in Later Research" (my quick translation). Two of the questions for the discussion that followed was: a) How much (justified) critique can an historical hypothesis be subjected, before it "suffers the death of many qualifiations?"; and b) To what degree does the erroneous terminology, "orthodoxy" and "heresy," affect the result of an (historical) examination?
I spent the Wednesday morning in the university library, where there is a collection of 800 papyri, which has been completely forgotten since the 30's! Back then, an interested librarian bought them for the university, and from that particular purchase, the other part of this particular lot went to Ann Arbour in Michigan so maybe in APIS some items will be reunited in the digital realm. Only 50 of the papyri have been edited. Now there is a project in co-operation with APIS to digitize the lot. I saw about 20% of the collection on Wednesday. They were brought out in boxes that contained the papyrus items mounted in glass. However, this had been done 75 years ago, and the tape around the glass had dried out, so the glass fell open, and out the very fragile fragments, some of which lay in the bottom of the box!!! I am glad that there is now a conservation project going on, but only one person is working on this project, and it will take a long time. I did not discover any Christian papyri, but some of the items contained religious language (APOLLWN, hAGIOS, MEGALOS QEOS), but no nomina sacra were spotted.
More to follow soon: new discoveries of and in manuscripts
Wednesday, March 07, 2007
Online Resources of Interest to Text Critics
Online Resources of Interest to Text Critics
Preliminary Observations
John F. Hobbins
Textual criticism is a glorious field of study whose landscape is dotted with monuments of past and present erudition. The question I address in this post is to the degree to which the field is currently navigable online, and prospects for voyages in the future. In the interests of brevity, I confine my attention to a few aspects of the question only.
A new dynamic is operative in the world of information exchange, whereby, more and more often, something new from the point of view of method or content first becomes available free of charge online and only later is repackaged for sale in a market. For this and other reasons, there are a number of online resources out there for anyone to use that lack as yet a better equivalent in the commercial sphere. This holds true for the field of text criticism as much as for any other field of study.
This is a healthy situation, unless one holds to the view that Mammon must always be king. For my part, I have a demythologized view of Mammon, with a corollary: the purpose of an information market is not to make money per se, but to provide a venue that ensures support for and dissemination of original research and tools of the trade. To ring the changes on an eternal verity, the market was, or should be, made for man, not man for the market.
The line between online resources available free of charge and those which cost a pretty penny needs to become blurrier than it is now, so that access to the former becomes a portal to access to the latter, and ownership of a paid-for resource brings with it enhanced access to resources available to all. Someday any book worth paying for will include an online dimension. Reference works will be updated electronically on a continuous basis. Examples of both, of course, are already out there.
How this works for the moment and how it should work are often two different things. An example or two may serve to illustrate.
Let's say I am interested in researching the Peshitta as a text-critical resource for the study of the Hebrew Bible and/or the New Testament, a key component of the Aramaic linguistic and literary heritage, and a magnum opus in its own right, knowledge of which is essential for an understanding of Syriac Christianity.
Ideally, in my view, I would be able to go to the site of the Leiden Peshitta Institute, access the text in the form of a tagged database free of charge, and in that context be offered other tools, both free and commercial, that will allow me to study the Peshitta in its various facets. In reality, when I go to the site, I find no more than a list of the Institute's ongoing projects and links to lists of the fascicles of the Major Edition and the monographs of the Institute which have so far appeared. The cute picture of an unidentified researcher, of course, makes up for this. But still.
At the very least, one would have wished for a link to CAL, where part of the Peshitta Institute's own database has graciously been made available to those who use CAL online. On the other hand, the OT Peshitta is not available in the for-pay version of CAL through Logos-Bible-Software. This is unfortunate.
Links to www.peshitta.org, www.assyrianlanguage.com, and so on would also have been helpful. (The music of Linda George on the first site is a nice throw-in.)
Furthermore, the purchasable items in the Institute's lists are cold, so one has to look elsewhere for a place to buy them. In this regard, a good place to start is Eisenbrauns, and if one plugs "Syriac" or "Peshitta" into the online search engine, all kinds of excellent purchasable resources pop up, but not the Leiden Peshitta edition itself! The best way to examine and purchase volumes of the Leiden Peshitta online is to go to Brill's site, and from there to its links to books.google.com via ISBN number. It is then possible to take a look at a volume's cover, peruse its table of contents and so on, and choose a bookseller from which to purchase. Here's an example of what I mean: books.google.com/leiden-peshitta-isaiah. Beyond that, an almost complete listing of the Institute's published monographs purchasable new or used is available at amazon.com-search-keywords=Monographs+Leiden+Peshitta.
One more example. Let's say I'm interested in the Septuagint for reasons like those stated above with respect to the Peshitta. Here the situation is different, thanks to the marvelous site on the Septuagint and resources in the field offered by Joel Kalvesmaki. The site is literally priceless.
On the other hand, despite what Joel says, it's not necessary to buy the Göttingen critical editions of the Septuagint via their publisher. You can purchase them at Eisenbrauns. After winning the lottery first.
I keep hoping that I will wake up someday, go to eisenbrauns.com, and discover that it has become a one-stop shop for all my needs as a biblical scholar. It's not that I'm expecting, necessarily, to find Gabriel Afram's Swedish-Syriac-Dictionary among its listings, the very existence of which warms my cockles. But it is my hope that a commercially viable way will be found for Eisenbrauns' book catalogues to become a comprehensive portal to the purchasable print and electronic resources of the fields of study they cover. I can dream, can't I?
I also keep hoping that someone will gather and introduce to the rest of us online resources available in other subfields of the textual criticism of the Bible with the same alacrity as Joel has done for the Septuagint.
If you look long enough, you can find real gems, like this. But who has time to do all that looking?
[This post is also available at www.ancienthebrewpoetry.typepad.com]


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Tuesday, November 27, 2012
I Mattered Once
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2 comments:
- Pam Morris said...
aww...I know, I have such guilty feelings when I glance over at my little punkins quietly rotting away next to the woods. I put them in the same place every year so the ghosts of previous jack o lanterns are nearby.
- November 27, 2012 at 5:10 PM
- girl6 said...
awwww...sweet little jack..
i Promise Never to forget...
- November 28, 2012 at 12:36 PM
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Armand Cabrera
John Duncan was born in Dundee, Scotland in 1866. At 11 years old he attended the Dundee school of art. In two years he began illustrating for local paper in Dundee. These assignments gave him an opportunity to go to London and work as a book illustrator. After three years in London Duncan felt he needed more training and wanted to leave illustration to pursue painting. He studied drawing and painting at the Antwerp School of Art in Belgium. After his instruction in Belgium Duncan toured France and Italy and viewed the great artists of the past. It was in Italy that he was most inspired by the Italian painters Botticelli and Fra Angelico.
Returning to Scotland Duncan met Patrick Geddes a biologist and educator. Geddes hired Duncan to paint his home and offered him a teaching position at a new art school Geddes was starting. When the school eventually closed Geddes secured a position in America for Duncan at the Chicago Institute starting in 1900 and lasting three years.
Duncan returned to Edinburgh and opened a studio and began working to create a unique voice with his work. He decided to incorporate Celtic themes and strive for better color and handling. He struggled to have his canvases reflect the images he saw in his mind. He disliked oil paints, which led him to experiment with other media. By 1910 he thought he had found his medium with tempera. His first large work with tempera was The Riders of the Sidhe, 45 x 69 inches.
Duncan was elected to the Scottish Royal Academy and began exhibiting in their annual shows. His studio became a gathering place for artists, writers and other Celtic Revivalists. In 1912 he married Christine Allen and the couple had two children.
At the outbreak of WW1 created financial difficulties for the artist and his family as his commissions dried up and Duncan struggled to make ends meet. His financial problems never recovered after the war and had a debilitating effect on his marriage and in 1925 his wife took his two children and left.
Duncan continued to struggle with his process and was never satisfied with the work he was producing. At times he would think his earlier work better and would go off and change his methods, only to be disappointed again.
Sales and commissions were few and his large tempera paintings were labor intensive and took him many months to complete. Geddes still gave him commissions and he still received some mural work for religious subjects but his popularity dwindled. In the 1930's he worked with stained glass as well as his painting. In 1941 the National Gallery of Scotland in Edinburgh put on a retrospective of his work; a first for a living artist. John Duncan died in his home at the age of 79 in 1945.
The paintings of John Duncan A Scottish Symbolist
The paintings of John Duncan A Scottish Symbolist
John Kemplay
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I often Despair, because my work does not improve. What I gain in one way I lose in another. Does one grow wiser with time or do some doors close as others open?
~John Duncan


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Perhaps you've heard of -- or even read -- the children's book "Everyone Poops". This illustrative tome explains that because everyone eats, everyone poops. Truer words, as they say, were never spoken. But this is no less true for you than for single-celled organisms like Paramecium.
The creatures in the following film are members of Paramecium caudatum, one of the species of microbial predators I blogged about last week that was capable of eating the spores of the frog-killing fungus Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis -- and one of the two species actually collected from the lakes under study. I came across this video while researching that post and thought it was interesting enough to share with you.
In the video, you can see Paramecium both pooping and peeing, although the peeing analogy is perhaps less apt because the primary function of what you will see is not nitrogen excretion. More on that in a minute. First, filmstrip time.
Here's a quick rundown of what you just saw: at :12 is a great closeup shot; note the flickering cilia -- short beating hairs that power the cell -- at the edges of the cells, particularly at the left tip of the cell in the center.
:35 is the beginning of dramatic pooping scene. If we are lucky, this is the ultimate fate of many a nasty, frog-seeking chytrid spore. Watch the upper right corner of the Paramecium for slow movement toward the exterior. The most exciting action happens at about :45.
Finally, at :51 you see a special star-burst shaped organelle called the contractile vacuole in action. Notice how the radiating collecting tubes dump their contents into the central vacuole one by one. I wonder, do they have pressure-sensitive doors that pop open once the water inside reaches a certain volume? You and I have nothing like this structure in our bodies. What is it doing for this microbe?
As you'll recall from high school biology, single-celled organisms have a fundamental problem created by freshwater: the inside of their body is saltier than the outside, so osmosis will tend to try and stuff water inside. Unchecked, they would explode like balloons. So they need the microbial equivalent of a sump pump to constantly shove that water back outside.
In Paramecium, the solution(!) to this problem is the contractile vacuole, a starburst-shaped organ that collects water and periodically pumps it outside. Recent experiments on Paramecium suggest it does this by actively pumping ions into the vacuole to make the inside saltier still than the rest of the cell's contents. Water flows in the same way it flows into the cell, then gets squeezed mechanically out.
This isn't quite the same thing as urination, though -- it's more like wateration. True urination is about getting rid of nitrogen (your nitrogen waste is excreted in the form of the urea in your urine; fish excrete ammonia, which requires plenty of water to safely dispose, and reptiles and birds excrete uric acid -- that white pasty stuff that lands on your car -- which requires least water of all), and in the process of doing their job, contractile vacuoles no doubt do excrete some nitrogen waste.
But, since Paramecium is a single celled-organism, nitrogen waste can also simply leave by diffusing across the cell membrane, conveniently located not too far from any given point in its body. So this Paramecium is peeing ... sort of. On the other hand, you could also argue that for these organisms, excess water is just as toxic as excess nitrogen is to us, and so the analogy is perfectly apt. Whether you are a human, a whale, or a Paramecium, we all must heed nature's call.


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Ancient Greek Poetry
25th Anniversary Program
Oct 4, 2011 | 6:30 pm
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This evening dedicated to Classical Greek Poetry begins with a performance of "Bracko," orchestrated by poet/translator Anne Carson and artist Robert Currie, based on Anne Carson's translations from If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho. Scholar Yopie Prins, author of Victorian Sappho and several essays on the poet, will present a talk on Homer's influence on Sappho.
6:30pm: A performance of Bracko with Anne Carson, Currie and friends
7:00pm: Passwords: Yopie Prins on Homer and Sappho
Part of Poets House's 25th Anniversary Program Series, tracing 3,000 years of poetry – from Gilgamesh to The Beats. Over the course of the 2011-2012 program year, we will present programs that examine our rich and varied poetic history, from oral traditions through early verse forms, the rise of lyric poetry and the advent of Modernism, to the myriad poetic voices that are defining the 21st century.
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LONDON, Feb. 14 (UPI) -- Oil and natural gas from onshore shale deposits in the United Kingdom may offset declines expected from the North Sea, a report said.
Accounting company PricewaterhouseCoopers said shale oil could add as much as 3.3 percent to the U.K. gross domestic product by 2035.
The report said shale oil developments may have a "major impact" on the global economy in general.
These effects are not as great now as in the 1970s when oil price hikes had severe negative impacts on major oil-importing economies, helping to push the U.K. and many other countries into prolonged periods of 'stagflation', but are nevertheless very significant," the report reads.
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Page Six reports that Jennifer Aniston and Justin Theroux are collaborating on a short film instead of a baby. They're supposedly satirising the gossip industry's fixation on their relationship - one minute she's pregnant, the next they've broken up. Apparently they're writing and directing it together because they are super clever as a couple. Like Will Ferrell and Adam McKay, only it's not really for the sake of the art since instead of posting their finished product on a website dedicated to comedy, it's to be an ad for Smartwater. Well sh-t, I can't wait. I can't wait to be told why I should buy the product being sold to me by someone who was only hired to sell it to me because she's a constant tabloid presence while she's bemoaning the fact that she's a constant tabloid presence. Awesome.
Then I started thinking about what would be an effective Jennifer Aniston commercial. Or the Jennifer Aniston commercial idea that would generate the most money. Can you imagine the mega, mega, MEGA millions she and Angelina Jolie would get paid if they agreed to appear together in an advertisement? Let's say some gaming company or whatever offered to donate $20 million - or some other crazy amount - to each of their charities of choice with a matching personal bonus for both for an ad to air during the Super Bowl. I mean, they'd have to at least consider it, right?
Here's Jen last night at the Shirley MacLaine AFI tribute. I hate this white dress. I would hate it in black too. Makes her look old and not very imaginative. Think Catherine Zeta-Jones. Or Heather Graham.


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"Petabytes allow us to say: 'Correlation is enough.'"
– Chris Anderson, Wired Magazine, June 23, 2008
The sentiment expressed by Chris Anderson in 2008 is a popular meme in the Big Data community. "Causality is dead," say the priests of analytics and machine learning. They argue that given enough statistical evidence, it's no longer necessary to understand why things happen – we need only know what things happen together.
But inquiring whether correlation is enough is asking the wrong question. For consumers of big data, the key question is "Can I take action on the basis of a correlation finding?" The answer to that question is "It depends" — primarily on two factors:
- Confidence that the correlation will reliably recur in the future. The higher that confidence level, the more reasonable it is to take action in response.
- The tradeoff between the risk and reward of acting. If the risk of acting and being wrong is extremely high, for example, acting on even a strong correlation may be a mistake.
The first factor—the confidence that the correlation will recur —is in turn a function of two things: the frequency with which the correlation has historically occurred (the more often events occur together in real life, the more likely it is that they are connected) and the understanding around what is causing that statistical finding. This second element—what we call "clarity of causality"—stems from the fact that the fewer possible explanations there are for a correlation, the higher the likelihood that the two events are in fact linked. Considering frequency and clarity together yields a more reliable gauge of the overall confidence in the finding than evaluating only one or the other in isolation.
Understanding the interplay between the confidence level and the risk/reward tradeoff enables sound decisions on what action—if any—makes sense in light of a particular statistical finding. The bottom line: Causality can matter tremendously. And efforts to gain better insight on the cause of a correlation can drive up the confidence level of taking action.
These concepts allowed BCG to develop a prism through which any potential action can be evaluated. If the value of acting is high, and the cost of acting when wrong is low, it can make sense to act based on even a weak correlation. We choose to look both ways before crossing the street because the cost of looking is low and the potential loss from not looking is high (in statistical jargon what is known as "asymmetric loss function"). Alternatively, if the confidence in the finding is low due to the fact you don't have a handle on why two events are linked, you should be less willing to take actions that have significant potential downside.
Consider the case of New York City's sewer sensors. These sensors detect the amount of grease flowing into the sewer system at various locations throughout the city. If the data collected shows a concentration of grease at an unexpected location—perhaps due to an unlicensed restaurant– officials will send a car out to determine the source. The confidence in the meaning of the data from the sensors is on the low side–there may be many other explanations for the excess influx of grease. But there's little cost if the inspection turns up nothing amiss.
Recent decisions around routine PSA screening tests for prostate cancer involved a very different risk/reward tradeoff. Confidence that PSA blood tests are a good predictor of cancer is low because the correlation itself is weak—elevated PSA levels are found often in men without prostate cancer. There is also no clear causal explanation for how PSA is related to the development of cancer. In addition, preventative surgery prompted by the test did not increase long term survival rates. And the risk associated with screening was high, with false positives leading to unnecessary, debilitating treatment. The result: the American Medical Association reversed its previous recommendation that men over 50 have routine PSA blood tests.
Of course, there is usually not just one, but a range of possible actions in response to a statistical finding. This came into play recently in a partnership between an Australian supermarket and an auto insurance company. Combining data from the supermarket's loyalty card program with auto claims information revealed interesting correlations. The data showed that people who buy red meat and milk are good car insurance risks while people who buy pasta, spirits and who fuel their cars at night are poor risks. Though this statistical relationship could be an indicator of risky behaviors (driving under the influence of spirits, for example), there are a number of other possible reasons for the finding.
Among the potential responses to the finding:
- Targeting insurance marketing to loyalty card holders in the low-risk group, OR
- Pricing car insurance based on these buying patterns.
The latter approach, however, could lead to a brand-damaging backlash should the practice be exposed. Looking at the two options via our framework makes clear that without additional confidence in the finding, the former approach is preferable.
However, if we are able to find a clear causal explanation for this correlation, we may be able to increase confidence sufficiently to take the riskier, higher-value action of increasing rates. For example, the buying patterns associated with higher risks could be leading indicators of an impending life transition such as loss of employment or a divorce. This possible explanation could be tested by adding additional data to the analysis.
In this case causality is critical. New factors can potentially be identified that create a better understanding of the dynamics at work. The goal is to rule out some possible causes and shed light on what is really driving that correlation. That understanding will increase the overall level of confidence that the correlation will continue in the future- essentially shifting possible actions into the upper portion of the framework. The result may be that previously ruled out responses are now appropriate. In addition, insight on the cause of a correlation can allow you to look for changes that cause the linkage to weaken or disappear. And that knowledge makes it possible to monitor and respond to events that might make a previously sound response outdated.
There is no shortage of examples where the selection of the right response hinges on this "clarity of cause". The U.S. army, for example, has developed image processing software that uses flashes of light to locate the possible position of a sniper. But similar flashes also come from a camera. With two potential reasons for the imaging pattern, the confidence in the finding is lower than it would be if there was just one. And that, of course, will determine how to respond—and what level of downside risk is acceptable.
When working with Big Data, sometimes correlation is enough. But other times understanding the cause is vital. The key is to know when correlation is enough—and what to do when it is not.


text: Prostate cancer: A malignant tumor of the prostate, the gland that produces some of the components of semen. Prostate cancer is the second leading cause of death of males in the US. It is often first detected as a hard nodule found during a routine rectal examination. The PSA blood test is a screening test for prostate cancer. Diagnosis of prostate cancer is established when cancer cells are identified in prostate tissue obtained via biopsy. In some patients, prostate cancer is life threatening. In many others, prostate cancer can exist for years without causing any health problems. Treatment options for prostate cancer include observation, radiation therapy, surgery, hormone therapy, and chemotherapy.


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Jacqueline's Emotional Surprise
Jacqueline talks about hearing Nicholas say "I love you" again.
This was an emotional episode for me to watch. Talking about Nick's Autism diagnosis is still very new and painful, although there's hope. My husband told the truth when he said I was very emotional. I still have my moments of weakness, but I gain my strength from those moments. The support of my husband, my family, my friends, and all those that have reached out to us have given me my strength, hope, and encouragement to keep up the fight to recover our child. Thank you for that! XO!
I need to clear up my husband's memory of what the doctor actually told me regarding my pregnancy when my son's heartbeat wasn't found. What he said wasn't really fair to the doctor. Let me explain: I had gone in for an ultrasound to check the baby's heartbeat around my 6th week of pregnancy. The doctor wasn't able to be in the room with me that day, so a technician did my ultrasound. They weren't allowed to read the results to me without the doctor being present. I had to wait to hear from him. I left for Atlantic City to shoot our first Bravo promo pictures for Season 1, where I wore that fuchsia pink dress. We were just finishing up when I got the call from my doctor telling me that they couldn't find my baby's heartbeat during my ultrasound. He told me that my hcg levels were high enough that we should have been able to see something on the monitor. It was his opinion that it looked like it could be another miscarriage. After having 5 previous miscarriages, I was devastated to hear that news again. I cried the whole way home. The doctor told me I could wait it out to see if I would miscarry naturally or come in and have them assist in terminating the pregnancy. I decided to wait it out another week and then go in to check for the heart beat once again before deciding. I prayed a lot that week. Sure enough, a week later, there was a beautiful heartbeat! My baby was thriving! We were thrilled! We consider him our miracle baby! We waited a long time for him. He is truly a blessing.
I was very excited and grateful to get the opportunity to write for Parenting Magazine for the past 6 months. It gave me a great platform to share our Autism Journey and help others. If you missed my articles, you can read them on my website www.JacquelineLaurita.com where I have them posted. I was in their magazine and also in their online blogs. The scene you saw was my first video blog. As you could tell, I wasn't used to talking openly about the diagnosis. It was still very raw and painful. I did my best. The people at Parenting Magazine were wonderful, and I thank them so much for the amazing opportunity they gave me.
At the beginning of an Autism diagnosis, it's really important to make sure that everyone involved in your child's life is on the same page and knows the roles they will have to help in your child's recovery. My husband and I make a great team. We both know our roles. I do most of the gathering of research, sifting through and organizing it all. I research everything from therapies, therapists, doctors, special diets, reading food labels, supplementation, sensory toys, soft clothing, schools, charities, going green in the house, how to deal with tantrums, sleepless nights, books, learning DVDs, you name it and I've probably researched it. If some information comes my husband's way, he passes it on to me. I deal with most of the day-to-day things with Nicholas such as dressing him, feeding him, getting him ready for and driving him to and from school, and giving Nick his supplements in the morning. Chris does the evening supplement doses. That's a job in itself. Chris drives CJ to school.I go to school classroom observations and meet with therapists. We both go to IEP meetings and doctor visits. Chris has taken over a lot in the cooking department while I take Nicholas in his daily Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy treatments. Chris handles all paperwork for insurance company billing and I make sure the therapists are paid. We both speak at Autism events and conferences to spread Autism Awareness. We both take the time to learn as much as we can from others. Our amazing niece/babysitter, Sarah, picks up all of our slack when we can't be there.
We both work hard but we always make sure that we take the time for each other. Chris is my rock! We also have to make sure we dedicate special one-on-one time with our son CJ so he gets the attention he deserves as well. With all of our new responsibilities to juggle, mixed in with our usual everyday demands, I think we do a pretty darn good job working as a team. It does get stressful at times, but we will stick it out and fight for our child. We will never give up. It's a joy and a challenge every single day!
Neither Chris nor I want to see any of our kids struggle, so it's very painful to see how hard Nick has to work everyday to reach his goals. We've learned to appreciate and celebrate Nick's accomplishments no matter how small it may seem to others. The moments that parents of typical kids often take for granted are the moments that we cherish the most. Those moments give us hope. It shows our child is progressing. It's what we pray for.I used to disappear and go upstairs for a cry during our weekend family gatherings, because it was very hard for me to see my child not interacting with our family in the way that I wished he could. I wished that he could interact and entertain our family the same way that his cousin, Joey, who is 2 weeks younger could. It was difficult not to compare or notice their differences. It broke my heart. We all were struggling with his diagnosis, and everything that came with it, in our own way. It's really hard to focus on other things when you're worrying about your child. Somehow we manage. It had become our mission to recover him and help as many others as we can.
At this point in time, Nicholas had started preschool at a typical school with an IEP in an inclusion classroom. He gets about 6 hours of therapy there. ABA, Speech and Language, Physical Therapy, Occupational Therapy, Self Help skills, Yoga, Music Therapy, Art, Gym, Library, Therapy Dog, etc. He loves school and his teachers are amazing with him.
We also have him in after school home therapy programs for 2-3 hours a day. Above and Beyond Learning Group (ABLG) (http://ablg.org/) comes to do ABA (Applied Behavior Analysis) with him. It teaches him compliance. ABA is a very effective therapy for children on the Autism spectrum.We also had been working with a woman by the name of Lisa Gold, who was referred to me by someone whom she had helped with getting their nonverbal child to speak. Lisa refers to her type of therapy as "Naturalized Autism Therapy" (http://www.theautismtherapist.com/#!lisa-b-gold-ma/c1sja). Her ways were less traditional than our other therapists. She has a very different approach that other ABA therapists might not agree with, but I will say that she did believe in our son and taught our family to defy expectations. Lisa was big on parent training! Parent training is a very important piece to your child's recovery. Make sure you ask for it if you're not getting it. She taught us to push our child a little harder and that it was OK to allow him to cry while we wait for him to request. Then, and only then, could we reward him for his efforts with a positive reinforcer that he enjoys. I believe that extra push she taught us, along with the ground work and efforts of his other home therapists, school therapies, and his special diet, helped Nicholas to bring out his first few words after many months of silence and babbling. We are grateful to her for that.
Lisa and Nick's music therapist, Jenn Goodman (aka.. Jammin Jenn)(http://www.jamminjenn.com/JJMTC/Welcome.html) both worked really hard along with my husband to get Nicholas to say, "I Love You" again. Jammin' Jenn has done incredible things with Nicholas! She is AMAZING and Nicholas LOVES music and responds to it well. Jenn used The Barney "I Love you, you love me" song as a tool to help teach him "I love you." Lisa used lollipops for positive reinforcers. That "I love you" was the sweetest and most precious gift to receive. Who cares if we had to bribe him with a lollipop? He said it! That moment was much more emotional than what you saw in that scene. To me, it meant there was hope. If he was capable of saying that and all that he had accomplished thus far, I believed he could do so much more. Since then, he continues to surprise and impress us with his accomplishments.
Nick also has a speech and language therapist Mali DeSantis from Therapeutic Services LLC. (http://www.therapeuticservicesllc.com/index.html) who has does amazing things with Nick and helps to organize our household in ways to help Nick speak.
And he takes Gymnastics from Brian's Team (http://briansteaminfo.com/home/). He enjoys that very much. It helps with his coordination, muscle tone, and to socialize. He is starting swimming lessons very soon as well. He loves the water and has no fear, so I have to make sure he knows how to swim.As far as all the RHONJ drama going on around me at this time, well, like I said, it was right up there on my priority list with bleaching my a--hole! Been there, done that, LOL, and it wasn't a place I wanted to go back to!
To hear more about our Autism journey, and other happenings in our lives, go to www.JacquelineLaurita.com.
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Best wishes to all! XOXO!


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EVERETT — An Everett metal finisher will pay a reduced fine of $24,000 after taking measures to improve the handling of toxic chemicals, according to the state.
Blue Streak Finishers, at 1520 80th St. SW, was fined $60,000 last fall by the state Department of Ecology after inspections revealed several violations of state law in the company's handling of waste.
That included a discharge of dye penetrant into the sewer system; tossing unused paint in with regular garbage; failure to designate, identify and properly handle paint and other chemicals; and lack of proper testing, labeling and inspection of waste storage tanks.
If any of the violations are repeated within two years, the company will have to pay another $25,000 for a total of $49,000, said Daylin Davidson, a hazardous waste compliance officer for the Ecology Department. Of the original fine, $11,000 was waived.
The department and the company reached an agreement after the firm addressed most of the violations and took other measures, including starting a training program for employees in handling dangerous waste. The company still needs to install new, improved storage tanks, Davidson said.
"Ecology and Blue Streak each avoid expensive litigation with this settlement, which benefits Washington's environment overall," said K Seiler, who manages the Ecology department's hazardous waste and toxics reduction program.
The state could have fined the business $166,000 for duplicate violations in different production areas observed during three inspections, officials said. State law allows a maximum fine of $10,000 per violation per day.
The company finishes metal parts for aircraft and other uses, said Reginald Booker, vice president of operations for the company.
He said he was hired last August in part to correct the way the company complies with environmental laws.
"I walked in to correct this matter, for that purpose and overall operations," he said. "We're doing business a little bit differently."
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Chicago, IL - 2018 ASCO Annual Meeting - Recipients during 2018 Grants & Awards Ceremony and Reception at the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting here today, Sunday June 3, 2018. Approximately 40,000 physicians, researchers, and healthcare professionals from over 100 countries are attending the 54th Annual Meeting, which is being held at McCormick Place. The ASCO Annual Meeting highlights the latest findings in all major areas of oncology, from basic to clinical and epidemiological studies. Photo by © ASCO/Matt Herp 2018 Technical Questions: email@example.com; ASCO Contact: firstname.lastname@example.com


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