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Catholic Encyclopedia (1913)/Vatican Observatory
The Vatican Observatory now bears the official title, "Specola Astronomica Vaticana". To understand its history it is necessary to remark that the designations osservatorio or specola are not restricted to astronomy, but may mean any elevated locality from which aerial phenomena are observed. From this point of view the history of the Specola Vaticana has passed through four successive stages.
(1) The first period of the Vatican Observatory is thus described in the Motu Proprio of 1891 by Leo XIII:
Gregory XIII ordered a tower to be erected in a convenient part of the Vatican buildings, and to be fitted out with the greatest and best instruments of the time. There he held the meetings of the learned men to whom the reform of the calendar had been entrusted. The tower stands to this day, a witness to the munificence of its author. It contains a meridian line by Ignazio Danti of Perugia, with a round marble plate in the centre adorned with scientific designs. When touched by the rays of the sun that are allowed to enter from above, the designs demonstrate the error of the old reckoning and the correctness of the reform.
The first half of this narration is based upon a tradition supported by Gilii and Calandrelli (see LILIUS); it is connected with the Vatican Observatory, at least as far as the locality is concerned. The tower is 73 metres above sea level and stands over the museum and library, between the courtyards Belvedere and della Pigna. It is often called the "Tower of the Winds"
(2) The second period of the Vatican Observatory deals mainly with the person of Mgr. Filippo Luigi Gilii, whose life has been written by Lais. Gilii was born in Corneto in 1756, and died in Rome, in 1821, a beneficed clergyman of St. Peter's Basilica. He was a universal genius, well versed in physics and in biology, in archeology and in the Hebrew language . The Gregorian Tower was then in charge of the Vatican librarian, to which office Cardinal Zelada had been appointed in 1780. Zelada wished to honour the traditions of the tower by devoting its upper part to an observatory. In 1797 he obtained the sanction of Pius VI, and placed over the entrance to the tower the Latin inscription Specula Vaticana. The upper story was fitted up with meteorological and magnetic instruments, with a seismograph, a Dolland telescope, a small transit and pendulum clock, and the observatory was given in charge of Mgr. Gilii. From 1800 to 1821 Gilii made an uninterrupted series of meteorological observations, reading the instruments twice a day (after 6 a. m. and 2 p, m.), according to the programme of the Mannheim Meteorological Society. The observations of about seven years of the long series are published, while the rest are in great part preserved as manuscripts in the Vatican Library. There are also deposited astronomical observations of eclipses, comets, Jupiter's satellites, and of a transit of Mercury. Gilii's scientific activity extended beyond the Vatican Observatory and beyond Rome. The meridian line in front of St. Peter's, with the obelisk as gnomon and the readings of the seasons by the length of the shadow, is due to him; so are also the signs on the floor of St. Peter's Basilica, indicating the lengths of the greatest churches of the world, likewise the two old clocks of French and Italian style, in the front of the basilica, and finally the first lightning rod on St. Peter's cupola. Similar memories of him exist in various churches and cities of Italy. The tombstone in Ara Co li calls him a man "mitissimi ingenii, modestiæ singularis, pius". At the death of Gilii the Vatican Observatory was discontinued, for the following reason: Pius VII and Leo XII raised the standard of studies in the papal states. The latter pope, in his Apostolic letter, "Quod divina sapientia", gave instructions about observatories, publications, and intercourse with foreign scientists. In 1787 the observatory at the Roman College had been founded, under Calandrelli, and was declared preferable to the Vatican, as more accessible to students in the city, and not obstructed by the great cupola of St. Peter's (Giornale Arcadico, II, p. 407). On the advice of Father Boscovich the instruments were then transferred from the Gregorian Tower to the Roman College.
(3) The revival of the Vatican Observatory in its third period was occasioned, on the one hand, by the loss to the Church of the Roman College and its observatory in 1870, and on the other, by the exposition of instruments presented to Leo XIII by the Italian clergy for the celebration of his golden jubilee of priesthood, in 1888. The Barnabite Father Denza, well-known as founder of the Italian Meteorological Society, then proposed to Leo XIII to preserve the instruments in the Gregorian Tower, and to restore that locality to its former purposes. The plan was accepted and a series of the best instruments was procured, partly from donations by Hicks in London, partly by purchase of self-registering apparatus from Richard in Paris. From the observatory of the late Marquis of Montecuccoli in Modena, of which Denza had been director, a four-inch equatorial, a three-inch transit instrument, and four pendulum clocks with two chronometers, were acquired. Father Denza had still broader plans. The year before in 1887, Mouchez had organized the cooperation of a number of observatories for continuing Argelander's observations to fainter magnitudes by means of photography. At the second meeting of the committee in Paris, in 1889, Denza declared his intention to join in the work. For this purpose, Leo XIII ceded to the Vatican Observatory a second tower, more than 400 metres distant from the Gregorian. It is the western of the two towers remaining from the Leonine Fortress, which had been built for defence against the Saracens in 848-53. With a diameter of 17 metres and a thickness of 4.5 metres in the lower walls, it seemed large and strong enough to support the thirteen-inch photographic refractor which was ordered from Gauthier in Paris. During the four years following, the observatory remained in charge of the vice-director, Father Lais, of the Oratory who has conducted the photographic work from the beginning, all at his own expense. From 1898 until 1905 the directorship was in the hands of the Augustinian Father Rodriguez, a specialist in meteorology. Seven volumes were published during the third period of the observatory, four under Denza, the fifth under Lais, and the last two under Rodriguez.
(4) The fourth and present period of the Vatican Observatory began with the appointment in November, 1904, by Pius X of Archbishop (now Cardinal) Maffi as President of the Specola. His first step was to remedy the great difficulty caused by the separation of the two towers. According to his plans, the Gregorian Tower was to be abandoned to historical archives, and the second round tower of the old Leonine Fortress, with the adjoining summer residence of Leo XIII, was to be given over to astronomy. The two old towers were to be connected with each other by a passage over the fortification wall, with an iron bridge spanning a gap of 85 metres in length. For carrying out these plans, the author of the present article was designated in the audience given to Cardinal Maffi on 14 March, 1906, and officially appointed on 26 April. The fortification wall, a thousand years old, which extends about 400 metres, is now crowned with four rotary domes, covering the astrographic refractor in the Leonine Tower, and a new sixteen-inch visual telescope in the second tower, called Torre Pio X. A four-inch equatorial stands on a half round bastion, at the west end of the bridge, and a photoheliograph at the east end of the old wall, over the barracks of the gendarmes. The old transit instrument is mounted on a vault over the main walls of the new residence. After the material restoration of the observatory, the main problems were a library and the measuring of the astrographic plates. The rich meteorological library was consigned to the Pontifical Academy Lincei, and the old meteorological and seismic instruments were mainly sent to the observatory in Valle di Pompei, An astronomical library is now filling two rooms of the new residence; old treasures were secured to it by the loan of the scientific collection from the Vatican Library, the latter confining itself to historical and literary branches. The astrographic plates are being measured with two new Repsold machines, which are placed in a neighbouring convent, in charge of three Sisters. For nearly four years the director enjoyed the cooperation of Father Stein, S.J., by which it was possible to publish the first three numbers of the new series, besides minor essays, and the last two series of the atlas of variable stars. At the reunion of the Astrographic Congress at Paris in 1909, P. Lais presented thirty charts reproduced by himself on silver-bromide paper.
DENZA, La Nuova Specola Vaticana in Atti, Acad. Pont. N. Lincei XLIII (1889); ZAHM, The Observatory of the Vatican in The Cosmopolitan (1895), well illustrated but not exact in all details; STEIN, Restauri della Specola Vaticana in Rivista di Fisica etc., IX (Pavia, 1908); HAGEN, Vaticanische Sternwarte in V. J. S. Astron. Ges., XLV (1910); MAFFI, Specula Vaticana, Inaugurazione (Rome, 1910); PARR, The Vatican Observatory of Today in Knowledge (1911), correct, except the additions by the editors.
J. G. Hagen.


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John II of Jerusalem
John II of Jerusalem was the Patriarch of Jerusalem of the Church of Jerusalem from 386 to 417. Little is known about his activities while he was patriarch.
Successor to St. Cyril of Jerusalem, Patr. John II initiated the construction of the Sion Church in Jerusalem. In 415, he took part in the translation of the relics of St. Stephen the Protomartyr from his tomb in the village of Kafargamala to Jerusalem in cooperation with Bishops Eusthonus of Sebaste and Eleutherus of Jericho.
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The following address was delivered when Solzhenitsyn was awarded the National Arts Club Medal of Honor for Literature in 1993. It was translated by Solzhenitsyn's sons, Ignat and Stephan. The title was provided by The New York Times, where the essay was first printed.
By Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Nothing worthy can be built on a neglect of higher meanings and on a relativistic view of concepts and culture as a whole.
There is a long accepted truth about art that "style is the man" ("le style est l'homme"). This means that every work of a skilled Musician, Artist or Writer is shaped by an absolutely unique combination of personality traits, creative abilities and individual as well as national experience. And since such a combination can never be recreated, art (but I shall here speak primarily of literature) possesses infinite variety across the ages and among different peoples.
The Divine Plan is such that there is no limit to the appearance of ever new and dazzling creative talents, none of whom, however, negate in any way the works of their outstanding predecessor, even though they may be 500 or 2,000 years removed. The unending quest for what is new and fresh is never closed to us, but this does not deprive our grateful memory of all that came before.
No new work of art comes into existence (whether consciously or unconsciously) without an organic link to what was created earlier. But it is equally true that a healthy conservatism must be flexible both in terms of creation and perceptive to the old and to the new, to venerable and worthy traditions, and to the freedom to explore, without which no future can ever be born.
At the same time the artist must not forget that creative freedom can be dangerous, for the fewer artistic limitations he imposes on his own work, the less chance he has for artistic success. The loss of a responsible organizing force weakens or even ruins the structure, the meaning and the ultimate value of a work of art.
Every age and ever form of creative endeavor owes much to those outstanding artists whose untiring labors brought forth new meanings and new rhythms. But in the 20th century, the necessary equilibrium between tradition and the search for the new has been repeatedly upset by a falsely understood "avant-gardism"--a raucous, impatient "avant-gardism" at any cost.
Dating from before World War I, this movement undertook to destroy all commonly accepted art--its forms, language, features and properties--in its drive to build a kind of "super-art" which would then supposedly spawn the New Life itself.
It was suggested that literature should start anew "on a blank sheet of paper." (Indeed, some never went much beyond this stage.) Destruction, thus, became the apotheosis of this belligerent avant-gardism. It aimed to tear down the entire centuries-long cultural tradition, to break and disrupt the natural flow of artistic development by a sudden leap forward.
This goal was to be achieved through any empty pursuit of novel forms as an end in itself, all the while lowering the standards of craftsmanship for oneself to the point of slovenliness and artistic crudity, at times combined with a meaning so obscured as to shade into unintelligibility.
This aggressive impulse might be interpreted as a mere product of personal ambition, were it not for the fact that in Russia (and I apologize to those gathered here for speaking mostly of Russia, but in our time it is impossible to bypass the harsh and extensive experience of my country) this impulse and its manifestations preceded and foretold the most physically destructive revolution of the 20th century.
Before erupting on the streets of Petrograd, this cataclysmic revolution erupted on the pages of the artistic and literary journals of the capital's bohemian circles. It is there that we first heard scathing imprecations against the entire Russian and European way of life, the calls to sweep away all religions or ethical codes, to tear down, overthrow, and trample all existing traditional culture, along with the selfextolment of the desperate innovators themselves, innovators who never did succeed m producing anything of worth.
Some of these appeals literally called for the destruction of the Racines, the Murillos and the Raphaels, "so that bullets would bounce off museum walls." As for the classics of Russian literature, they were to be "thrown overboard from the ship of modernity."
Cultural history would have to begin anew. The cry was "Forward! Forward!"--its authors already called themselves "futurists" as though they had now stepped over and beyond the present, and were bestowing upon us what was undoubtedly the genuine art of the Future.
But no sooner did the revolution explode in the streets, than those "futurists" who only recently, in their manifesto entitled "A Slap in the Face of Public Taste," had preached an "insurmountable hatred toward the existing language" these same "futurists" changed their name to the "Left Front," now directly joining the revolution at its leftmost flank. It thus became clear that the earlier outbursts el this "avant-gardism" were no mere literary froth, but had very real embodiment in life.
Beyond their intent to overturn the entire culture, they aimed to uproot life itself. And when the communists gained unlimited power (their own battle cry called for tearing the existing world "down to its foundations," so as to build a new Unknown Beautiful World in its stead, with equally unlimited brutality) they not only opened wide the gates of publicity and popularity to this horde of so-called "avant-gardists," but even gave some of them, as to faithful allies, power to administrate over culture.
Granted, neither the ragings of this pseudo "avant-garde" nor its power over culture lasted long; there followed a general coma of all culture. We in the USSR began to trudge, downcast, through a 70-year long ice age, under whose heavy glacial cover one could barely discern the secret heart-beat of a handful of great poets and writers. These were almost entirely unknown to their own country, not to mention the rest of the world, until much later. With the ossification of the totalitarian Soviet regime, its inflated pseudo-culture ossified as well, turning into the loathsome ceremonial forms of so-called "socialist realism."
Some individuals have been eager to devote numerous critical analyses to the essence and significance of this phenomenon. I would not have written a single one, for it is outside the bounds of art altogether: the object of study, the style of "socialist realism," never existed.
One does not need to be an expert to see that it consisted of nothing more than servility, a style defined by "What would you care for?" or "Write whatever the Party commands." What scholarly discussion can possibly take place here?
And now, having lived through these seventy lethal years inside Communism's iron shell, we are crawling out, though barely alive. A new age has clearly begun, both for Russia and for the whole world. Russia lies utterly ravaged and poisoned; its people are in a state of unprecedented humiliation, and are on the brink of perishing physically, perhaps even biologically.
Given the current condition of national life, and the sudden exposure and ulceration of the wounds amassed over the years, it is natural that literature should experience a pause. The voices that bring forth the nation's literature need time before they can begin to sound once again. However, some writers have emerged who appreciate the removal of censorship, and the new unlimited artistic freedom mostly in one sense for allowing uninhibited "self-expression."
The point is to express one's own perception of one's surroundings, often with no sensitivity toward today's ills and scars, and with a visible emptiness of heart; to express the author's personality, whether it is significant or not, to express it with no sense of responsibility toward the morals of the public, and especially of the young, and at times thickly lacing the language with obscenities which for hundreds of years were considered unthinkable to put in print, but now seem to be almost in vogue.
The confusion of minds after seventy years of total oppression is more than understandable. The artistic perception of the younger generation finds itself in shock, humiliation, resentment, amnesia. Unable to find in themselves the strength fully to withstand and refute Soviet dogma in the past, many young writers have now given in to the more accessible path of pessimistic relativism. Yes, they say, communist doctrines were a great lie, but then again, absolute truths do not exist anyhow, and trying to find them is pointless. Nor is it worth the trouble to strive for some kind of higher meaning.
And in one sweeping gesture of vexation, classical Russian literature--which never disdained reality and sought the truth--is dismissed as next to worthless. Denigrating the past is deemed to be the key to progress. And so it has once again become fashionable in Russia to ridicule, debunk, and toss overboard the great Russian literature, steeped as it is in love and compassion toward all human beings, and especially toward those who suffer. And in order to facilitate this operation of discarding, it is announced that the lifeless and servile "socialist realism" had in fact been an organic continuation of full-blooded Russian literature.
Thus, we witness, through history's various threshold, a recurrence of one and the same perilous anti-cultural phenomenon, with its rejection of and contempt for all foregoing tradition, and with its mandatory hostility toward whatever is universally accepted. Before, it burst in upon us with the fanfares and gaudy flags of "futurism"; today the term "post-modernism" is applied. (Whatever the meaning intended for this term, its lexical make up involves an incongruity: the seeming claim that a person can think and experience after the period in which he is destined to live.)
For a post-modernist, the world does not possess values that have reality. He even has an expression for this: "The world as text," as something secondary, as the text of an author's work, wherein the primary object of interest is the author himself in his relationship to the work, his own introspection. Culture, in this view, ought to be directed inward at itself (which is why these works are so full of reminiscences, to the point of tastelessness); it alone is valuable and real. For this reason, the concept of play acquires a heightened importance--not the Mozartian playfulness of a Universe overflowing with joy, but a forced playing upon the strings of emptiness, where an author need have no responsibility to anyone.
A denial of any and all ideals is considered courageous. And in this voluntary self-delusion, "post-modernism" sees itself as the crowning achievement of all previous culture, the final link in its chain (A rash hope, for already there is talk of the birth of "conceptualism." a term that has yet to be convincingly defined in terms of its relationship to art, though no doubt this too will duly be attempted. And then there is already post-avant-gardism; and it would be no surprise if we were to witness the appearance of a "post-post-modernism.") We could have sympathy for this constant searching, but only as we have sympathy for the suffering of a sick man. The search is doomed by its theoretical premises to forever remaining a secondary or tertiary exercise, devoid of life or of a future.
But let us shift our attention to the more complex flow of this process. Even though the 20th century has seen the more bitter and disheartening lot fall to the peoples under Communist domination, our whole world is living through a century of spiritual illness, which could not but give rise to a similar ubiquitous illness in art. Although for other reasons, a similar "post-modernist" sense of confusion about the world has also arisen in the West.
Alas, at a time of unprecedented rise in the material benefits of civilization, and ever improving standards of living, the West, too, has been undergoing an erosion and obscuring of high moral and ethical ideals. The spiritual axis of life has grown dim, and to some lost artists, the world has now appeared m seeming senseless, as an absurd conglomeration of debris.
Yes, world culture today is of course in crisis, a crisis of great severity. The newest directions in art seek to outpace this crisis on the wooden horse of clever stratagems----on the assumption that if one invents deft, resourceful new methods, it will be as though the crisis never was. Vain hopes. Nothing worthy can be built on a neglect of higher meanings and on a relativistic view of concepts and culture as a whole Indeed, something greater than a phenomenon confined to art can be discerned shimmering here beneath the surface---shimmering not with light but with an ominous crimson glow.
Looking intently, we can see that behind these ubiquitous and seemingly innocent experiments of rejecting "antiquated" tradition, there lies a deep seated hostility towards any spirituality. This relentless cult of novelty, with its assertion that art need not be good or pure, just so long as it is new, newer, and newer still, conceals an unyielding and long sustained attempt to undermine, ridicule and uproot all moral precepts. There is no God, there is no truth, the universe is chaotic, all is relative, "the world as text," a text any post-modernist is willing to compose. How clamorous it all is, but also, how helpless.
For several decades now, world literature, music, painting, and sculpture have exhibited a stubborn tendency to grow not higher but to the side, not toward the highest achievements of craftsmanship and of the human spirit but toward their disintegration into a frantic and insidious "novelty." To decorate public spaces we put up sculptures that aestheticize pure ugliness--but we no longer register surprise.
And if visitors from outer space were to pick up our music over the airwaves, how would they ever guess that earthlings once had a Bach, a Beethoven, and Schubert, now abandoned as out of date and obsolete?
If we, the creators of art, will obediently submit to this downward slide, if we cease to hold dear the great cultural tradition of the foregoing centuries together with the spiritual foundations from which it grew, we will be contributing to a highly dangerous fall of the human spirit on earth, to a degeneration of mankind into some kind of lower state, closer to the animal world.
And yet, it is hard to believe that we will allow this to occur. Even in Russia, so terribly ill right now, we wait and hope that after the coma and a period of silence, we shall feel the breath of a reawakening Russian literature, and that we shall witness the arrival of fresh new forces--of our younger brothers.


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The nation's largest bank, JPMorgan Chase & Co., will pay $ 614 million and improve mortgage lending practices under a deal announced on Tuesday to settle claims that it approved thousands of unqualified home mortgage loans for government insurance and refinancing since 2002, costing the U.S. government millions of dollars when the loans defaulted.
U.S. District Judge J. Paul Oetken in Manhattan approved the deal, which calls for JPMorgan to pay the money within a month and install an improved quality control program to review loans it underwrites using a federally maintained software application that determines if a loan qualifies for government insurance.
JPMorgan said in a statement that its deal with federal prosecutors, the Federal Housing Administration, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs "represents another significant step in the firm's efforts to put historical mortgage-related issues behind it".
The New York-based company said it had already reserved the money for the settlement and any financial impact from exposure to future claims wasn't expected to be significant.
In a release, U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara said the company had for years participated in federally subsidised programs meant to make homes more affordable for millions of Americans.
"Yet, for more than a decade, it abused that privilege," he said. "JPMorgan Chase put profits ahead of responsibility by recklessly churning out thousands of defective mortgage loans, failing to inform the government of known problems with those loans and leaving the government to cover the losses when the loans defaulted."
The prosecutor acknowledged, however, that the company had accepted responsibility and promised to reform the flawed practices.
The U.S. government said the bank approved thousands of loans for government insurance or refinancing that didn't meet the requirements of federal programs and failed to self-report hundreds of loans it identified as having been affected by fraud or other deficiencies. It also regularly submitted loan data that lacked integrity because it was not based on documents or other information it possessed when employees submitted the data, the government said.
Associate Attorney General Tony West said the deal "recovers wrongfully claimed funds for vital government programs that give millions of Americans the opportunity to own a home and sends a clear message that we will take appropriately aggressive action against financial institutions that knowingly engage in improper mortgage lending practices."
In November, JPMorgan agreed to pay $ 13 billion to settle a civil inquiry into its sales of low-quality mortgage-backed securities that collapsed in value in the 2008 financial crisis. It also announced it had reached a $ 4.5 billion settlement with 21 major institutional investors over mortgage-backed securities issued by it and Bear Stearns between 2005 and 2008.
Last month, it agreed to pay more than $ 2.5 billion for ignoring obvious warning signs of Bernard Madoff's massive Ponzi scheme. Madoff, who is serving a 150-year prison sentence after admitting the fraud, squandered nearly $ 20 billion from thousands of investors over several decades.
JPMorgan set aside $ 23 billion last year to cover the settlements and other costs related to its legal troubles.


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GEMINI (May 21-June 20) -- Pretending to be able to do something that's out of your range will backfire. Honesty will lead to solutions and the chance to learn something valuable. Plan to put in extra hours.
CANCER (June 21-July 22) -- Jump up and be a participant, take on a challenge and show everyone how entertaining and creative you can be. Take time to socialize, but be sure to keep the peace if you encounter controversy.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) -- Step back and review your situation before you proceed. You will meet with opposition, demands and added responsibilities that must be handled with care. Protect your assets.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) -- Speak up, and you will capture the attention of someone interested in your concerns. Jealousy will surface amongst your peers and must be handled with caution.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23) -- Put greater emphasis on money matters and making good use of old ideas, skills and connections that could come in handy now. Opportunity knocks -- but you have to open the door.
SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 22) -- Find ways to add to your comfort and peace of mind at home. Dealing with people who can offer knowledge and insight will lead to a lifestyle change. You'll be amazed at all the helpful ideas out there.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. 21) -- Do what you can to improve your surroundings and community as well as help those in need. This will not only make you feel good, it will attract the interest of people who can help you advance.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) -- Take a serious approach to your work, and you will be given an opportunity to show your worth. An interesting offer may not bring high returns. Weigh the pros and cons carefully.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 19) -- Listen carefully, but don't be too eager to act on the information you are given. Back away from responsibilities that don't belong to you. Protect your assets and your heart.
PISCES (Feb. 20-March 20) -- Money matters will surface, allowing you to make extra cash, sign a lucrative deal or win a settlement. It's a good day to broaden your interests and explore new possibilities.


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In a personal note, NBC News Special Correspondent Tom Brokaw revealed he has been diagnosed with cancer and said he and his physicians are very encouraged with the progress he is making.
Brokaw, who has worked at NBC News since 1966, was diagnosed with multiple myeloma, a cancer affecting blood cells in the bone marrow, in August at the Mayo Clinic. His doctors are optimistic about the outcome of the treatment he is receiving, and Brokaw said he remains "the luckiest guy I know."
Throughout the treatment, Brokaw has continued to work on NBC News projects, including a two-hour documentary on the assassination of JFK; appearances on "TODAY," "Nightly News with Brian Williams," "Meet the Press" and MSNBC. He is also contributing to NBC Sports coverage of the Winter Olympics in Sochi.
Here is his full personal statement released on Tuesday:
"With the exceptional support of my family, medical team and friends, I am very optimistic about the future and look forward to continuing my life, my work and adventures still to come."
"I remain the luckiest guy I know."
"I am very grateful for the interest in my condition but I also hope everyone understands I wish to keep this a private matter."


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LAKE MICHIGAN BLACK AND WHITE - Printable Wall Art, Set of 3
"Lake Michigan Black and White" is a trio of photos taken at different times of the year at different beaches along Lake Michigan - at the Big Red lighthouse in summer, at South Haven's pier in winter, and can you guess the third picture's location? Each of these 3 pictures can be printed in the same size, or mix and match as you like!
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LOCAL STORE: Costco, Walmart, Staples, Office Depot, and Walgreens all offer printing options. It's also great to support your local mom and pop print shops!
ONLINE: There are many professional printing companies out there with affordable printing options - Shutterfly, Zazzle, VistaPrint, and many more you can find on Google. These companies can print on a wide variety of materials such as paper, canvas, or even metal wall prints.
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The set times for this Sunday's The Power of the Riff Festival at The Echo and Echoplex in Los Angeles have been announced…
Echo Stage: SPIDER FEVER: 1:00pm-1:30pm RATS EYES: 1:45pm-2:15pm SEMEN SUNDAE: 2:30pm-3:00pm THE FUCKING WRATH: 3:15pm-3:45pm LECHEROUS GAZE: 4:00pm-4:45pm NAILS: 5:00pm-5:45pm EAGLE TWIN: 6:00pm-6:45pm NIGHT HORSE: 7:00pm-7:45pm
Echoplex Stage: RIGHTEOUS FOOL: 3:30pm-4:15pm BLACK BREATH: 4:30pm-5:15pm COLISEUM: 5:30pm-6:15pm TRAP THEM: 6:30pm-7:15pm FROM ASHES RISE: 8:00pm-8:45pm REPULSION: 9pm-9:45pm GOATSNAKE: 10:00pm-10:45pm CORROSION OF CONFORMITY III: 11:00pm-12:00am
Also, Converse, who are sponsoring the event, will be giving away a free pair of shoes to the first 30 people through the door. There will also be a treasure hunt for an additional 15 pairs of Converse shoes. Clues will be on the back of the event schedule, which will be handed out at the door.
Doors open at noon. Once capacity is reached, it will be one in, one out. Ins and outs will be allowed before 6pm only. And of course RSVP does not guarantee entry.
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EWU women capture 4th straight win
Without a game at Reese Court in more than a month and seven-straight on the road during that time, it took the Eastern Washington University women's basketball team a little while to settle in on its home floor. But a strong second-half effort allowed the Eagles to grab a 58-47 victory over Warner Pacific on Saturday (Dec. 29) in Cheney, Wash.
Eastern, which has now won four games in a row, improves to 6-5 overall in the 2012-13 campaign. The Eagles will return to Big Sky Conference play next week when they host league-leading Montana on Thursday (Jan. 3), followed by Montana State on Saturday (Jan. 5) at Reese Court.
Eastern shot just 27 percent from the field in the first half against WPC, and made just 4-of-15 from beyond the arc. The Eagles had come into Saturday's game with the best field goal percentage in the Big Sky at 41.2, and the second-best percentage from three at 35.3. But some tough defense displayed by the NAIA school out of Portland, Ore., kept EWU from converting shots on its home floor.
"We did not shoot the ball well," said EWU head coach Wendy Schuller. "I was disappointed in the way we shot it from three and our effort at the free-throw line. Warner Pacific did a good job of disrupting our rhythm, and grinding us defensively. They made us play slower than we wanted to in the first half, and we just did not do a good job on either end of the floor."
The Eagles scored the first eight points of the game, but Warner Pacific charged back with a 13-3 run, which gave the visiting team a two-point advantage with under nine minutes to play in the half. The two teams traded baskets the rest of the way, and went into the locker room in a 25-25 deadlock.
The second half was better on both ends for EWU, as it shot 43 percent from the field, and held the Knights to just 8-of-33, including a dismal 0-of-7 effort from long range. Eastern found its edge by attacking the lane, as it out-scored WPC in points in the paint, 22-12. The Eagles also had 10 fast break points in the second period, compared to zero for the Knights.
"At halftime, we talked about pushing the ball more, getting down the floor and getting transition baskets," said Schuller. "We were able to get more layups and more shots in the paint in the second half, which translated into a much better shooting percentage. We just wanted to push the pace both offensively and defensively, and it was somewhat effective for us."
The Eagles scored the first seven points coming out of the locker room, and held onto that lead rest of the way. They led by as many as 14 midway through the period, but WPC managed to hang around, and cut it to eight with less than four minutes on the clock. Junior Aubrey Ashenfelter hit a three to put Eastern back up by double-digits and sophomore Lexie Nelson sealed it with a layup at the 1:34-mark.
Nelson ended up with a game-high 19 points – her 10th double-digit performance of the season. She hit three 3-pointers, while also contributing four rebounds, three assists and one block. Ashenfelter finished with five points, five rebounds and four assists.
Sophomore forward Melissa Williams recorded a season-high eight points to go along with seven rebounds. Junior Laura Hughes also had seven rebounds, as did redshirt-freshman Hayley Hodgins, which marked a career-high for the 5-10 guard out of Pasco, Wash.
Senior Carrie Ojeda had nine points, five rebounds, two assists and one steal for the Eags.


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Undergraduate Research Opportunities
The Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics seeks applications from outstanding undergraduate students to carry out research projects each summer. Successful applicants will work with Postdoctoral Fellows at the Perimeter Institute, located in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.
The successful applicants are expected to complete the projects on location at Perimeter Institute within a 3 to 4 month period during May to August. The Institute will provide desk space, IT support and a living allowance to the selected students. For students coming from outside of the Waterloo region, a travel allowance and accommodations may also be provided.
Applications are now being accepted for this year's Summer Undergraduate Research Program. Please complete this online application.
The deadline date for receipt of completed applications is February 24, 2012.
For further information please contact: undergradrecruiting[at]perimeterinstitute.ca.


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Intel officially announced its dual-core and ultra-low voltage (ULV) Ivy Bridge processors for mainstream laptops, Ultrabooks, and desktop PCs Thursday. In addition, the chipmaker released a sneak peak of upcoming Ultrabooks, as well as stricter requirements for that brand of ultrathin laptops.
The first wave of Intel's new Ivy Bridge processors, launched in April, included only quad-core parts for high-end laptops and desktops. Right on schedule, Intel released its second wave, which includes dual-core Core i5 and i7 processors. There are 14 new chips in total, eight of them laptop processors, including four that are ultra-low voltage.
Up until now, we've only seen a few gaming and mobile workstation laptops running Ivy Bridge. Expect many more new and less expensive Ivy Bridge laptops to hit retail shelves soon (although the cheapest Core i3 Ivy Bridge laptops aren't expected until the fall). It'll also soon be a good time to look for an older Sandy Bridge laptop in the clearance section.
Expect Ultrabook Announcements Next Week
Besides mainstream Ivy Bridge laptops, a new wave of third-generation Ultrabooks will be arriving on the scene next week at the Computex trade show in Taiwan. Intel says there are more than 110 designs for Ultrabook devices currently in the pipeline. More than a quarter (30) of those Ultrabooks are touch-enabled, and 10 of those sport convertible designs.
These Ultrabooks will have the same requirements for thickness (0.7 inches to about 0.8 inches), resume-from-hibernation time (7 seconds), and battery life (at least 5 hours) as Sandy Bridge Ultrabooks. Intel will add a few new specs for Ultrabooks running Ivy Bridge. These include USB 3.0 or Thunderbolt ports, built-in Intel Anti-Theft and Identity Protection technology, and also "responsive[ness] while active." That last requirement is vague, but Intel says this means the laptop will load and run favorite applications "quickly."
There's still no weight, screen resolution, display size, or price standards that would really help define the Ultrabook brand further. Hopefully PC manufacturers will follow Intel's recommended (rather than required) suggestions for Ultrabooks–touchscreens, sensors, Intel Wireless Display (WiDi), and more than 8 hours of battery life–because those seem like ideal features.
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BERLIN- The Berlin Junior Dolphins of the Salvation Army Youth League won their fifth straight game last weekend, beating the Salisbury Terps, 27-6, at home to clinch a playoff spot.
On the Dolphins' very first possession, James Mapp took a hand-off and ran 58 yards for a touchdown to put the Dolphins on top early. The score remained 7-0 in favor of the Dolphins for much of the first half before quarterback Colin Macomber hit Henry Hastings with a touchdown pass in the final seconds of the second quarter to put Berlin on top, 13-0, at intermission.
In the second half, Macomber took care of the scoring on the offensive side all by himself, running 12 yards for a touchdown to put the Dolphins on top, 20-0. Finally, Berlin's defense got in the act when Cody Bratten picked off a Salisbury pass and returned it for a touchdown to round at the scoring for the Dolphins and close out the 27-6 win.
Meanwhile, the struggles continued for the younger Berlin Cadet Dolphins although they continued to show improvement. The Cadet Dolphins lost their sixth straight last week, falling to defending champion and league powerhouse Wicomico Green Terrors, 27-12. The Green Terrors came into the contest as the league leaders with a 4-1 record, and although they ultimately won the game against the Berlin Cadet Dolphins, the final score was not indicative of just how close the game was.
Berlin scored first to take an early lead on a 12-yard touchdown run by Billy Wheatley, but surrendered an answering touchdown by Wicomico on a kick-off return. Undaunted, Berlin came right back with an 80-yard scoring drive capped off by a 50-yard TD run by Devin Daniels. Again, Berlin surrendered a touchdown on the ensuing kick-off as Wicomico took a 20-12 lead into halftime, a lead they would never relinquish as the Green Terrors went on to the 27-12 win. Other than the two special teams touchdowns by Wicomico, the Berlin defense, led by Noah Metzger and Gus Esham, was stout and helped keep the Cadet Dolphins in the contest for much of the game.
Both Berlin teams play in the local Salvation Army "Red Shield" Youth Football League, which features young players who will fill out the rosters of the Bayside Conference teams in the future. The teams are set up based on age and weight restrictions with the Juniors ages 11-13 with a maximum weight of 150 pounds, and the Cadets ages 7-10 with a maximum weight of 120 pounds.