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The Efficacy of Two Potential Diagnostic Assays for Herpes Simplex Keratitis (HSK)
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|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT00357812
Recruitment Status : Completed
First Posted : July 28, 2006
Last Update Posted : January 15, 2013
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The aim of this study is to compare the safety, specificity, sensitivity and ease of procedure of two potential diagnostic assays for HSV-1 detection in the cornea. Through the use of this new diagnostic assay, correct and early intervention would not only reduce corneal scarring from HSK, but it would also allow the initiation of appropriate treatment for HSV mimicking keratitis.
HSV-1 infection of the eye can result in corneal scarring and blindness. Early diagnosis of this condition and appropriate treatment is of utmost importance. Various ocular surface conditions can mimic herpetic keratitis in their clinical presentation and can result in diagnostic confusion. Inappropriate or delayed treatment of herpetic corneal disease results in increased morbidity.
In the UK at present clinical presentation is the mainstay of diagnosis. Unfortunately these cases often present to the most inexperienced clinical staff resulting in variability in diagnostic acumen. This often results in a delay or inappropriate diagnosis of herpetic keratitis. Laboratory techniques presently available to aid diagnosis are infrequently used in clinical practice. There are various reasons for their lack of use. Historically viral culture techniques were the mainstay of investigation but were slow, requiring weeks to provide a result. PCR is now replacing culture techniques and is relatively quick, reliable and sensitive. Many clinicians within the UK are still not fully informed of these advances and are therefore not utilizing these techniques to supplement clinical diagnosis.
We propose to investigate the use of topically applied fluorescent antibody against active replicating HSV-1 in a droplet form and real time PCR detection of the virus. If successful this should increase the potential diagnostic capabilities of GPs and other less experienced health care workers. Such tests should reduce variability in diagnosis and the dependency on experienced ophthalmologists to diagnose the condition.
|Condition or disease
|Herpes Simplex Keratitis
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|Study Type :
|Estimated Enrollment :
|50 participants
|Time Perspective:
|Official Title:
|A Study to Compare the Efficacy of Two Potential Diagnostic Assays: a Fluorescein Conjugated Monoclonal Antibody in Vivo Assay and Nested Real Time PCR Assay to Rapidly and Accurately Diagnose Herpes Simplex Keratitis.
|Study Start Date :
|September 2006
|Actual Study Completion Date :
|November 2012
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|Ages Eligible for Study:
|16 Years and older (Child, Adult, Older Adult)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
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|Sampling Method:
|Probability Sample
Inclusion Criteria:
Patients over the age of 16 years in which the cause of keratitis is difficult to diagnose and in which HSK has to be excluded will be enrolled for this study
Exclusion Criteria:
Immunosuppressed patients including patients treated with systemic steroids will be excluded
To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contact information provided by the sponsor.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT00357812
|United Kingdom
|Birmingham and Midlands Eye Clinic
|Birmingham, Midlands, United Kingdom, B18 79H
|Bedford Hospital Ophthalmology Department and Acute Eye Clinic
|Bedford, United Kingdom
|Royal Victoria Hospital
|Belfast, United Kingdom
|Principal Investigator:
|Tara Moore, PhD
|Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Ulster
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT00357812 History of Changes
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|First Posted:
|July 28, 2006 Key Record Dates
|Last Update Posted:
|January 15, 2013
|Last Verified:
|November 2012
Keywords provided by University of Ulster:
Herpes Simplex Virus Type 1
Herpes Simplex Keratitis
Dendretic Ulcer
In vivo Confocal Microscopy
Nested Multi-plex PCR
Monoclonal Antibody
Glycoprotein D
Glycoprotein C
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Keratitis, Herpetic
Herpes Simplex
Herpesviridae Infections
DNA Virus Infections
Virus Diseases
Skin Diseases, Viral
Skin Diseases, Infectious
Skin Diseases
Corneal Diseases
Eye Diseases
Eye Infections, Viral
Eye Infections
Antibodies, Monoclonal
Immunologic Factors
Physiological Effects of Drugs


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Emperor Nero was emperor from 54-68 A.D. Nero is infamous for having watched Rome burn while he fiddled as the story goes. He is also known to Christian biblical historians as someone who persecuted the early Christians, blaming them for the fire in Rome. This guide is designed to show some authentic ancient Roman coins that Nero had along with telling you a little bit ofhistory about them. Towards the end of the video, Ilya Zlobin shares where the emperors ancient coins can be foudn for sale in his eBay shop, along with some of the best coin and historical books on the subject.
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Books Mentioned in the Video
- Ancient Coin Collecting III: The Roman World – Politics and Propaganda (No. 3)
- Coinage and History of the Roman Empire:2 Vol set
- Eric II The Encyclopedia of Roman Imperial Coins
- Greek Imperial Coins and Values, The Local Coinages of the Roman Empire
- Nero, Emperor in revolt
Video Course – Emperors of Rome
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- Emperors of Rome – DVD – on Amazon
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Nero 68AD Ancient Very rare Silver Roman Coin Jupiter Zeus Cult RARE i28495
Silver Denarius (19mm, 3.29 gm.), Rome, 68 A.D.
Reference: RIC 69, BMC 80, BN 239, C 123
IMP NERO CAESAR AVG PP – Laureate head of Nero right.
IVPPITER CVSTOS – Jupiter seated left, holding thunderbolt and scepter.
Nero & Statilia Messalina
Bronze 25mm (8.32 grams) of Hypaepa in Lydia 66-68 A.D.
Reference: SGI 666; RPC 2545; B.M.C. 22.111,21
NEPΩN MECCAΛEI, Laureate head of Nero left facing draped bust of Statilia Messalina right.
VΠA. / IOY. ΓP. / HΓHCIΠΠ / OC, Clutus-statue of Artemis Anaitis facing, wearing long veil.
NERO Arch Chariot & Mars 65AD Lugdunum Ancient Roman Coin Architecture i36665
Bronze Sestertius 36mm (25.42 grams) Lugdunum mint: 65 A.D.
Reference: RIC 393; Cohen 306; BMCRE 330; BN 69; WCN 414; F.S. Kleiner, The Arch
of Nero in Rome. A study of the Roman honorary arch before and under Nero,
Archaeologica 52 (Rome, 1985), 51aNERO CLAVD CAESAR AVG GER P M TR P IMP P P, laureate head left, globe at point of bust.
S C across field, Triumphal arch, hung with wreath across front and left side; above, Nero in facing quadriga escorted on right by Victory holding wreath and palm and on left by Pax holding caduceus and cornucopiae; just below the quadriga on extreme left and right, two small figures of soldiers; on left side of arch in niche, figure of Mars standing facing, holding spear and round shield; ornamental reliefs on the faces and plinths of the arch.
Nero and wife Poppaea 63AD Rare Alexandria Large Ancient Roman Coin i42112
Nero and Poppaea
Billon Silver Tetradrachm 24mm (11.40 grams) Struck at Alexandria, Egypt Year 10 = 63/64 A.D.
Reference: Milne 217
NEPΩ KΛAV KAIΣ ΣEB ΓEP AV – radiate head right.
ΠΟΠΠΑΙΑ ΣEBAΣTH, draped bust of Poppaea right, LI to right.
NERO closes Doors to TEMPLE of JANUS for PEACE 65AD Ancient Roman Coin i44127
Bronze As 29mm (9.98 grams) Struck 65 A.D. at the mint of Rome
Reference: RIC I 306; WCN 288
NERO CAESAR AVG GERM IMP, Laureate head right.
PACE P R VBIQ PARTA IANVM CLVSIT / SC, Three-quarter view of the Temple of Janus, window to left and garland hung across double doors to right.* Numismatic Note: This coin has the Temple of Janus with the doors closed, signifying peace in the Roman empire as that was the only time that the doors of the temple were closed.
NERO 63AD Serapis Alexandria Egypt Tetradrachm Ancient Silver Roman Coin i46361
Billon Silver Tetradrachm 25mm (12.31 grams) of Alexandria in Egypt
Year 10 = 63/64 A.D.
Reference: Milne 222; Koln 160; RPC 5274; Sear 5 #2001; Dattari 251
NEPΩ KΛAV KAIΣ ΣEB ΓEP, radiate head right.
AYTO KPA, draped bust of Serapis right, LI before.
Nero 65AD Seleucis and Pieria HUGE Silver Ancient Coin EAGLE i32373
Silver Tetradrachm 26mm (13.55 grams) Mint of Seleucis and Pieria
Dated Year 114 of the Caesarian era; 65/66 A.D.
Reference: McAlee 266; RPC 4191; Prieur 91
ΝΕΡΩΝ ΚΑΙCΑΡ CΕΒΑCΤΟC, Laureate head left, wearing aegis.
ETOYC . ΔIP, Eagle standing left on thunderbolt, wings spread; balm-branch before.
NERO 66AD Alexandria Egypt Tetradrachm Ancient Roman Coin Galley Ship i43282
Silver Tetradrachm 23mm (12.52 grams)
Struck at city of Alexandria in Egypt Year 13 = 66/67 A.D
Reference: Köln 184; Dattari 263; Milne 273; Emmett 121
NEPΩ KΛAV KAIΣ ΣEB ΓEP AV, Radiate bust left, wearing aegis; L IΓ (date) left
ΣΕΒΑΣΤΟΦΟΡΟΣ, galley under sail to right.
NERO 65AD Sestertius JANUS TEMPLE Gaming Token Ancient Roman Coin RARE i25127
Bronze Sestertius 'Game Token' 34mm (19.84 grams) Rome mint: 65 A.D.
Reference: C 146. BMC 319. RIC 438. CBN 73
NERO CLAVD CAESAR AVG GER P M TR P IMP P P Laureate head right, with globe at point of bust.
PACE P R TERRA MARIQ PARTA IANVM CLVSIT S – C View of the temple of Janus, door to right, decorated with garland.* Numismatic Note: This coin has been cut in half practically to turn it into a type of token, likely for gaming. Quality authentic ancient coin with fantastic portrait and the most important parts of the temple visible.
NERO Alexandria Egypt Billon Silver Tetradrachm ROMA Ancient Roman Coin i49072
Billon Silver Tetradrachm 23mm (12.44 grams) of Alexandria in Egypt, dated regnal year 5, 58/59 A.D.
Reference: Dattari 249; Geissen 141; RPC I, 5239
NEPΩ KΛAV KAIΣ ΣEB ΓEP AYTO, laureate head right.
PWMN, Roma seated left, holding victory and parazonium; date LE in field to right.
Nero as Apollo 54AD Perinthus Large Very rare Ancient Roman Coin Lyre i30606
Bronze 25mm (10.33 grams) of Perinthus in Thrace circa 54-68 A.D.
Reference: RPC I 1752; Schönert, Perinthos 249-252; c/m: Howgego 526; Moushmov 4419
NЄPΩN KAIΣAP ΣEBACTOΣ, Laureate head right.
ΠЄΡΙΝΘΙΩΝ, Emperor, as Apollo Citharoedus, advacing right, holding lyre.
Porcius Festus Jerusalem Nero Ancient Greek / Roman Coin Palm branch i36709
Procurator Porcius Festus under Roman Emperor Nero
Bronze 'Prutah' 16mm (2.45 grams)
of the Jerusalem mint 58 A.D.
Reference: Hendin 653
Obverse: Greek letters NEP WNO C (Nero) in wreath tied at the bottom with an X.
Reverse: Greek letters KAICAPOC (Caesar) and date LE (year 5 = 58/59 A.D), palm branch.
Britannicus & Nero 54AD Jerusalem Roman Coin of Claudius Antonius Felix i44947
Bronze Prutah 17mm (1.86 grams) from the mint of Jerusalem 54 A.D.
Reference: Hendin 1348 (5th Edition)
NEPW KΛAY KAICAP (Nero Claudius Caesar – son of Claudius); two oblong shields and spears crossed.
BPIT (Britannicus – younger son of Claudius) above; LIΔ KAI (year 14 of Caesar = 54 A.D.)
in fields; six-branched palm tree bearing two bunches of dates.* Numismatic Note: This is a rare type bearing the name of Britannicus, son of Claudius. Nero also has his name on it. Nero was the adopted son of Claudius by his marriage to Agrippina Jr. Rare and desirable type.
CIVIL WARS 68AD Silver Roman Coin after NERO time of VINDEX GALBA i28728
Silver Denarius 18mm (3.09 gm) Gallic mint: 68-69 A.D.
Reference: RIC 118; AM 3; BMCRE 61; RSC 359; C Galba 359; BMC 61; Martin 3
FIDES / EXERCITVVM, clasped hands.
CONCORDIA PRAETORIANORVM, Concordia standing left, holding branch and cornucopiae.
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CHESTER, Pa. (AP) — Graham Zusi had a goal and two assists, leading Sporting Kansas City past the Philadelphia Union 3-1 in the season opener for both clubs Saturday.
Oriol Rosell and Claudio Bieler also scored for Sporting Kansas City (1-0), the defending Eastern Conference champions.
Sporting Kansas City is now 12-4-2 in season-opening games, the best mark in the league.
Zusi's unassisted goal came in the 41st minute and tied it at 1.
Oriol Rosell scored in the 66th minute with Zusi receiving the assist from a free kick. SKC put the game away when Claudio Bieler scored in the 83rd minute.
The Union took a 1-0 lead on a goal by Frenchman Sebastien Le Toux, the club's career leader with 26 goals who was reacquired by Philadelphia in the offseason.


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BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) - LSU coach Les Miles says starting right guard Trai Turner and starting defensive tackle Anthony Johnson will recover from recent injuries in time to play this Saturday when the No. 6 Tigers visit No. 9 Georgia.
Both players left last Saturday night's game against Auburn, Turner with an apparent right ankle injury and Johnson with a left leg injury.
Miles says trainers determined Turner, whose ankle was stepped on, has only a contusion, which he referred to as "great news."
The coach describes Johnson's injury as "basically a bruise," adding that he is "going to be fine" and that both players will "play from first snap on." Miles describes the overall health of his team as "very good" heading into LSU's first significant road test this season.
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Attention! Monetizing Spotify Apps Is The Same As Monetizing Music
from the now-that-I-have-your-attention... dept
Recently Spotify launched its app platform, a significant step into a future where music licensing can function like an API. Which of course should have been made possible a long time ago, but corporations' loss of control was preventing that until they finally found a way to out-leverage the indies - or maybe that's just a coincidence.
So recently we've been seeing a phenomenon I like to call the Rage Against The Stream, where artists & labels have been pulling their content from services like the aforementioned. I probably don't have to point out that in a reality where everyone is competing with free, attention has become more scarce and valuable than ever before and thus the categorical dismissal of access models such as subscription services is unlikely to pay off in the long run (p.s. I love understatements).
The day after Spotify launched its platform, articles started popping up, commenting on the fact that it's impossible to 'monetize apps' and there thus being "no clear upside to developers." And that's where I grab my BS-defense-stick and start drawing the line.
No, you can't put ads in your app.
No, you can't charge for the app or create in-app purchases.
No, Spotify doesn't give you part of the revenue of music streamed through your app.
It's the same lack of creativity of coming up with innovative business models that can be seen in other parts of the music industry... what's new is that this time it's coming from the tech side. What it comes down to is the same as competing with free - and saying you can't compete with free is saying you can't compete period.
Want to make money by building a Spotify app? Build one that uses Facebook Connect for user registration, focus on building a great experience that's non-obtrusive, make it easy to share this experience and funnel that back to your main platform (that's outside Spotify) - focus on discovery and then sell the premium. The SongKick app is a good example, but it can be applied in many more ways. Since it's going to be primarily power users and music geeks using the apps for now, items like vinyl copies come to mind. Focus on gaining & holding the attention - which is scarce, then build your way towards monetization by doing something that Spotify is not.
Spotify Apps are highly monetizable, you just have to be creative. Just like with music.


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What happens when you get sick and your doctor refers you to a specialist? Sometimes you feel like you're the ball in a pinball machine, bouncing this way, then that. "Go here for this test, there for that test, then see this doctor who will send you somewhere else for more tests. And here's a referral to another doctor who will want more tests."
It's frustrating! If it will help you to know what to expect when you're referred to a rheumatologist, read on…
A rheumatologist will schedule 1-1/2 to 4 hours for your initial appointment – ask when you make your appointment how long you should expect it to take. Get a babysitter, if you have children. This is too long an appointment for your kids to have to be at the doctor's office with you.
When there's a lengthy waiting period between your PCP's referral and your initial appointment with the rheumy, you can request that the office mail the paperwork to you. You'll be happy to not have to rush through it in the waiting room. (Tip: If you take the extra time to type your answers on the paperwork, the doctor's front-office staff will be thrilled to not have to try to decipher your penmanship.)
A rheumatologist needs tons of information to make a diagnosis – that's probably true of any doctor. If you've never compiled a detailed medical history, now is the time. Once you've done it, you'll never have to search for the information again. It's worth taking the time to do it right. It took me days to gather all my information – I even wrote to aunts, uncles, and cousins for the big picture (and learned that there is a history of a few genetically-linked diseases in my family, but nobody had been telling anyone else about their doctor's appointments).
I'm on my second rheumatologists. There's very little that they didn't both ask about, and based what others have indicated, it appears that other rheumies want similar information:
Basic Info
Name, address, date of birth, and insurance information are obviously required. The RD will also need to know who referred you (not just because doctors get paid more for a consultation than for patients who decide on their own who to see). I highly recommend including your referring doctor's complete name and address. If you say "Dr. Doe" your records might end up at any Dr. Doe's office. If you say, "Dr. John A. Doe, Greatest PCP Clinic, 1234 Main Street, MyTown" there's more chance of your referring doctor actually receiving a report.
- Briefly describe your present symptoms
- Approximate date symptoms began
- Diagnosis
- Previous treatments for this problem, excluding medication (physical therapy, surgery, injections)
- Do you have an orthopedic surgeon
- Other doctors you have seen for this problem
Social History/Household
- Marital status, number or people in household, their ages
- Occupation? Number of hours worked per week?
- Do you live in house/apartment
- Do you have stairs to climb? How many?
- Who does most of the housework? Shopping?
- Are you receiving disability? Applying?
- How many cups of caffeine per day?
- Alcohol use/amount? Tobacco use/amount? Street drug use/amount?
History – Biological Father/Mother/Siblings/Grandparents
(If something significant shows up in cousins, I'd make a note of that, too)
- Cancer
- Seizures
- Stroke
- High Blood Pressure
- Anemia
- Kidney Disease
- Alcoholism/Drug Addiction
- Asthma
- Gout
- Lupus (SLE)
- Rheumatoid Arthritis
- Psoriasis
- Tuberculosis
- Blood Clots
- Heart Problems
- Bleeding Tendencies
- Kidney Disease
- Diabetes
- Goiter
- Colitis
- Ankylosing Spondylitis
- Arthritis
- Osteoarthritis
- Osteoporosis
- Other
Personal Medical History
- Date of last tetanus shot
- Date of last pneumovax
- Date of last TB test
- List previous operations type/year/reason
- Do you have a history of any of the following illnesses: Cancer, leukemia, lymphoma, seizures, epilepsy, bad headaches, stroke, blood clots, cataracts, pneumonia, asthma, diabetes, arthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, osteoarthritis, childhood arthritis, psoriasis, osteoporosis, heart problems, stomach ulcers, colitis, rheumatic fever, kidney disease, lupus, ankylosing spondylitis, jaundice, nervous breakdown, gout, goiter, gonorrhea, syphilis, herpes, Chlamydia, HIV/exposure, fractures, other significant illness or arthritic conditions
- List present medications, dose per day, taken since (date), Helped: a lot/some/not at all
- Past arthritis medications (lists of otc, nsaids, dmards, biologics, and narcotics – mark those that you've tried)
- Allergies: medication/reaction
System Review
This means that the doctor looks at how all the systems in your body are working: eyes, ears, nose, mouth, throat, neck, stomach and intestines, blood, kidneys and bladder, heart and lungs, muscles/joints/bones, skin and hair, nervous system, general…
Knowing the background that the doctor will ask about should help you be prepared to complete the lengthy paperwork required for your first appointment with a rheumatologist. This post was getting too long, so the physical exam is covered in my next post.


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Beijing airport bomber receives 6-year sentence
BEIJING (AP) — A partly paralyzed man who exploded a bomb inside Beijing's airport in hopes of winning redress over an alleged beating by public officials was given a six-year prison sentence Tuesday.
Former motorcycle taxi driver Ji Zhongxing went on trial last month for endangering public safety with a homemade bomb. Ji was the only person injured in the July 20 explosion, losing a hand. The attack drew widespread condemnation but also sympathy from many Chinese who said it shows the government ignores the powerless and marginalized.
Ji had faced up to 10 years in prison.
The Beijing Chaoyang District Court said on its microblog that the explosion inside the crowded airport and Ji's transporting of the device by public bus from his home province of Shandong constituted a major threat to public safety. But it said it decided on a lighter sentence because Ji had warned onlookers that he had a bomb and had cooperated with prosecutors.
Ji's lawyers and relatives were on hand for the verdict and sentence Tuesday. The court didn't say whether the defendant was among the nearly 40 people in attendance.
Ji's lawyer Liu Xiaoyuan said his client had hoped to attract police so he could be detained and discuss his beating in 2005 by city security guards in the southern city of Dongguan.
Ji had denied exploding the bomb deliberately, claiming it went off accidently as he was shifting it from one hand to the other.
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Ever since 405 BC, when Aristophanes, in a comedy entitled Frogs, hit upon the sublime idea of staging a literary contest in the Underworld between two dead writers who loathe each other's work (Euripides and Aeschylus), the best literary criticism has often been a form of sadistic entertainment—one that uses comedy's tools (humiliation, ridicule, exaggeration) to comment not on society but on art. There is, of course, an equally long tradition of critics who don't strive to score belly laughs as they illuminate great texts; that tradition, in fact, begins with Aristophanes' near contemporary Aristotle, to whose Poetics, written sometime in the middle of the fourth century BC, we owe the first full-scale and intellectually sophisticated attempt to analyze the nature of aesthetic pleasure and to systematize the mechanisms by which literary texts produce that pleasure. (Aristotle's own text is, it must be said, not the most fun to read: it would be hard to find a less humorous explanation of humor than "Comedy is (as we have said) an imitation of inferior people—not, however, with respect to every kind of defect: the laughable is a species of what is disgraceful. The laughable is an error or disgrace that does not involve pain or destruction," etc., etc.*)
If a work like Frogs is more fun for audiences, it's probably because the play, with its ruthless send-ups of the well-known weaknesses of each of the two contestants, satisfies a primitive pleasure that lies at the heart of all comedy: the Schadenfreude-laden enjoyment of the spectacle of someone else's humiliation and, ultimately, defeat. After a long verbal duel in which each playwright enumerates his opponent's flaws with devastating accuracy, Aristophanes provides a brilliant climax which hilariously con-flates a literal and a figurative "weighing" of one poet's work against the other's: each approaches a scale and utters a line from his work, and the onlookers peer to see whose words are weightier. Aeschylus—whose diction is famously more ponderous ("bundles of blast and boast," his antagonist spits) than that of Euripides (who prefers airy vers libre)—naturally wins, and so Euripides must remain in the Underworld, while Aeschylus is restored to the world of the living.
It is worth noting that the comic contest between the two writers is repeatedly referred to in Aristophanes' text as a krisis, a word that can mean anything from "dispute" to "decision" to "judgment"; the verb it's related to is krino, "to judge." Those shades of meaning help illuminate the nature of another derivative from krino, the English word "critic." As the culminating scene from Frogs reminds us, disputes about the values of an artist's work are decided by a kind of weighing, which leads to a judgment. The person who performs this weighing, this judging, is the critic.
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The Securities and Exchange Commission deems it appropriate, for the protection of investors and in the public interest that administrative proceedings be instituted against Dale Van Wyk ("Van Wyk" or "Respondent") pursuant to Sections 15(b) and 19(h) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 ("Exchange Act").
In anticipation of the institution of these proceedings, Respondent has submitted an Offer of Settlement ("Offer") which the Commission has determined to accept. Solely for the purpose of these proceedings and any other proceeding brought by or on behalf of the Commission or in which the Commission is a party, and without admitting or denying any of the findings contained herein, except as to the jurisdiction of the Commission over him and over the subject matter of these proceedings, and the matters set forth in paragraph II. 1. below, and the entry of the injunction set forth in paragraph II. 3. below, which are admitted, Respondent consents to the entry by the Commission of this Order Instituting Public Administrative Proceedings Pursuant to Sections 15(b) and 19(h) of the Exchange Act, Making Findings and Imposing Remedial Sanctions ("Order").
Accordingly, IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that proceedings against Respondent be and hereby are instituted.
On the basis of this Order and the Offer, the Commission finds that:
A. At all relevant times, Respondent Van Wyk was associated with an unregistered broker-dealer.
B. On September 24, 1998, the Commission filed a complaint in the United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida, SEC v. Dale Van Wyk, et al., Civil Action No. 98-1964-CIV-T-26F (M.D. Fla. 1998) (the "Complaint"), against, among others, Respondent. The Complaint charged Respondent and others with violations of certain provisions of the securities registration, antifraud and broker-dealer registration provisions of the federal securities laws, by, among other things, offering and selling $3.3 million of unregistered International Capital Corporation 2000 ("ICC 2000") investment contracts from at least 1994 through 1997 and making misrepresentations and omissions of material facts. The Commission's complaint alleged that Respondent and others had represented that a) ICC 2000 investment contracts were secure and risk-free because investor funds were deposited and maintained in bank accounts; and b) that ICC 2000 provided invested funds to "Major Brokerage Companies" as collateral for the purchase of Guaranteed Insurance Contracts. In fact, investor funds were not secure and risk free because investor funds were withdrawn from the bank accounts in which they had been deposited and used to pay off earlier investors, to pay sales commissions, and to pay for personal expenditures of other individuals involved in the sale of ICC 2000 investment contracts. No investments in GICs were every made. None of the ICC 2000 investment contracts sold by Respondent were ever registered with the Commission.
C. On January 5, 1999, without admitting or denying any of the allegations contained in the Commission's complaint, except as to the Court's jurisdiction over him and the subject matter of the complaint, Respondent consented to the entry of a permanent injunction. On April 27, 1999, the Court permanently enjoined Respondent from future violations of Sections 5(a), 5(c), and 17(a) of the Securities Act of 1933 and Sections 10(b) and 15(a) of the Exchange Act and Rule 10b-5 thereunder.
Based on the foregoing, the Commission deems it appropriate, for the protection of investors and in the public interest to accept the Offer submitted by Respondent, and accordingly,
IT IS HEREBY ORDERED, that:
Respondent is hereby barred from association with any broker or dealer.
By the Commission.
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Electrafrique Hosts Villagers Band for their Monthly Gig, Feb. 15 2014 @ Carnivore Restaurant
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Electrafrique, Kenya's number one collective that performs afro-electronic music and quality Electronic Dance Music (EDM), is hosting The Villagers Band at Carnivore's Simba Saloon for the second edition of its monthly party on the 15th of February 2014. This is following a successful January premiere in the series of parties by Electrafrique held at Carnivore every third Saturday of the month (2014).
The Villagers Band's impression of afro-fusion renowned as begenge is heavily influenced by benga, mbalax and kwela among other genres. Come and witness the perfect blend between electro/futuristic music and authentic African sounds with rich instrumentation: from horns to traditional instruments like drums and percussion.
Electrafrique is a premier dance music show, which brings together a worldwide network of artists fusing elements of African music with electronic beats finding roots in African rhythms and musical traditions. It adds a contemporary urban/futuristic electronic twist to its groove culminating into an unforgettable experience and movement that resonates with people and dance floors in all corners of the world.
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Treasure Chest Thursday September 11September 9, 2010 at 01:04 | Posted in Bits and Pieces, Carnival of Genealogy, Current Events, family history, memories, Political Opinions, Treasure Chest Thursday | Leave a comment
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This date is a horrid one for most Americans. Where September used to stand for end of summer, back to school, first whiffs of Autumn leaves and bonfires, it has now become a remembrance of the shock for baby boomers to taste a war-like scenario on US soil. Our sense of security, of world power via being loved and 'right' has been shaken. For many it has meant a long drawn out process of rethinking who we as a nation and as individuals are. This time has also seen a change in the country's economic status affecting al of us. It has also meant reassessing what is important to each of us going forward. For me, it has meant a reassessment of our countries politics and policies as well as a reassessment of our place in global issues. It has brought about a deeper commitment to spiritual values and what they should mean on an everyday basis in addition to my own personal internalizing. More importantly it has brought about a deeper appreciation for what family means to me personally as well as a deeper appreciation for what our ancestors went through in their lives.
As a child I grew up hearing stories about my parents growing up during the depression years. My mother talked of her father traveling out of town for work returning home on the weekends. She also told of their wonderful gardens where they grew much of their vegetable and herb needs. My dad told about not being in school yet but following the bigger kids as they collected lumps of coal dropped by trains to take home for family furnaces. He also told how at the same age he followed the bigger kids to bread lines and to get potatoes. His parents hadn't sent him, but he caught on quickly from other kids and knew it meant more heat or more food if he participated too! Valentino grew up in post war Italy. His family had struggled before, during, and after the war. His mom's family were farmers so they grew plenty of food whenever and wherever possible. They would work the bits of soil between rocks to plant one plant per spot if necessary. They owned several small pieces of land meaning they would work one area for one crop and go to another for another crop. It meant a several mile walk daily to tend their food supply. Recently the Publics grocery store near our home was torn apart to undergo remodeling. All of us in the neighborhood have complained that it means a drive of an extra two or three miles to the next store. Only one other neighbor and I attempt to grow any vegetables at all – and we are struggling at it! Our herbs are wonderful but we seem not to be too successful at vegetables other than tomatoes or peppers. I suspect my tomatoes grew at some sort of bargain price under ten dollars each but I might be wrong! On the other hand my rosemary is a bumper crop and I have enough to supply most third world nations with rosemary and basil! I think my ancestors would all be mortified – especially my in-law ancestors!
So as I reflect back on the 9/11 tragedies and the lives of my ancestors, I am grateful for what our family passed on to us. I am blessed we lost no one in 9/11 or the subsequent war. I am blessed that our family passed on a spiritual foundation for Valentino and I to pass on to our sons and now to our grandchildren. And as I contemplate the US and her place in the global view, I am grateful that I was raised in a nation that in spite of her faults is still a wonderful place to raise a family without fear of a knock on the door at night or worse.
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WALTHAM, Mass. - Brandeis University rookie left fielder Dave Almeida singled through a partially drawn-in infield in the bottom of the tenth inning to give the Judges a 3-2 victory over visiting MIT on Stein Diamond.
Brandeis (10-5) scored the game-winning run in the 10th thanks to three walks. Sophomore Chuck Sheehan coaxed a walk on a full count to lead off the inning and was bunted to second by senior Zach Golden. MIT (9-3) elected to walk junior Jon Winston, but Sheehan stole third and Winston moved up to second on the first pitch to junior Ben Dashefsky. Dashefsky then drew the second intentional walk of the inning. With the infield at double-play depth, Almeida worked the count to 2-2 against MIT sophomore Joseph Yurko, fouling off a couple of pitches before driving the ball between third and shortstop for the walk-off victory.
MIT had jumped on top in the fifth inning on back-to-back doubles by senior SS Greg Williams and junior Jason Witzberger. Witzberger also drove in the Engineers' second run in the top of the seventh, singling up the middle with two outs to plate rookie Steven Nunez. MIT held onto the lead by cutting down two Brandeis runners at the plate in the game.
The Judges broke through against MIT sophomore righty Jay Turner in the bottom of the seventh as rookie pinch hitter Mike Alfego drove a ball back up the middle with runners at second and third. In the bottom of the eighth, Brandeis tied the game when junior Jeff Bourdon's fielder's choice to second base with runners at first and second was thrown away, allowing Winston to score from second. The Judges had runners on the corners with just one out, but Turner induced a double-play ball back to the mound to escape with a tie game and allowing for Almeida's heroics.
Brandeis got a terrific pitching performance from senior Tim Dunphy, who tossed his 10th career complete game by going a career-high 10 innings. Dunphy improved to 4-2 by scattering eight hits and striking out four while walking just one. He allowed just the two earned runs to lower his team-leading ERA to 1.91. Offensively, Brandeis was paced by Winston, who was 2-4 with a double and a run scored, while Bourdon was 2-4 with a run.
MIT was led by Witzberger, who was 3-5 with a double and both runs batted in. Rookie Thomas Phillips and sophomore Kevin Wheeler also had multi-hit games. Turner received a no-decision despite allowing just one earned run in eight innings of work. He gave up nine hits and struck out two while walking one. Yurko fell to 0-1 on the season with the loss.


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In a few days, the 2012 presidential election will be history. Your favorite television stations will not be clogged with campaign attack ads. Your phone will no longer be ringing with political robo-calls. The talking heads will move on to talk about something else. Your Facebook friends will stop lobbying for their candidate. Don't pretend you won't be relieved.
Of course, it won't be over entirely. There must be the inevitable analysis of the election results. Invariably, somebody will bring up the issue of "the Catholic vote." This is understandable considering the many years when Catholics were a fairly consistent voting bloc for the Democrats, but it really is time for the pundits to catch up — Catholics are just as divided on political and social issues as their non-Catholic neighbors. Catholics do not vote as a bloc anymore. Regardless, in this election, Catholics in certain states may be influential.
Days after the 2008 election, the Pew Forum published on its website the article "How the Faithful Voted." The study found that 54 percent of Catholic voters cast their ballots for Barack Obama, 45 percent for John McCain. This was a swing back to the Democratic candidate — in 2004, 52 percent of Catholic voters supported George W. Bush, while 47 percent backed John Kerry (who, you'll recall, is Catholic).
Some Catholic political commentators believe that Catholics will be a decisive factor on Election Day. George J. Marlin, author of "The American Catholic Voter: 200 Years of Political Impact," told NewsMaxTV that he thinks the election will be decided in the Midwest states that once were centers of heavy industry. These states have been hit hard by the ongoing recession, and they have large Catholic populations. Obama swept all these states in 2008, but they appear to be in play now.
Frustration with the economy may cause Catholics who voted for Obama in 2008 to vote for former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney four weeks from now.
The wild card is the religious liberty issue. The bishops of the United States have asked the Faithful to stand firm against the Obama administration's assault on the First Amendment's guarantees regarding freedom of religion, but we won't know until after the election if this issue influenced Catholic voters. That may be the most interesting post-election statistic. In the meantime, let's look back to how Catholics have voted since the founding of the republic.
Catholic Federalists
In 1788, when George Washington took the oath of office as first president of the United States, the population stood at approximately 2 million, about 30,000 of whom were Catholic. Most Catholics were found in Maryland and Pennsylvania, with about 1,500 in New York and a couple hundred in New Jersey. The U.S. Constitution, with the Bill of Rights guaranteeing (among other things) freedom of religion, was still making its way through the states for ratification. Nonetheless, already anti-Catholic elements in the new U.S. government were searching for loopholes to keep Catholics out of political office. The state constitution of North Carolina, for example, barred Catholics from public office. In New York, future Supreme Court Chief Justice John Jay argued before the state assembly that Catholics should be kept from political office unless they renounced all allegiance to the pope. These anti-Catholic prohibitions lingered on into the 1840s. For the most part, however, Catholics were active in American political life, even if only as voters (a new experience for them — under English rule, Catholics had been denied the right to vote).
Charles Carroll of Maryland (his cousin John was the first Catholic bishop in the United States) had been elected to the first U.S. Congress, where he served on the first congressional finance committee. As a Federalist, he believed in a strong, centralized federal government, a sound monetary policy that included a national bank to stabilize the currency, and good relations with Britain (but not with France, which was still in the throes of the Reign of Terror). Carroll's influence among his fellow Catholics in Maryland was so strong that virtually all of them followed him into the Federalist Party.
Washington's campaign for the presidency had been subdued. In fact, he had not traveled around campaigning at all (it was considered bad form). His supporters did the campaigning for him. But after Washington left office in 1796, electioneering heated up. The two candidates, Federalist John Adams of Massachusetts and Democratic-Republican Thomas Jefferson of Virginia, were vilified in the press (newspapers at the time made no pretense of impartiality). Jefferson supporters denounced Adams as a secret monarchist. Adams' supporters said Jefferson was a criminal. Catholic Federalists stuck with their party and Adams won the election, squeaking by with 71 electoral votes to Jefferson's 68.
In the election of 1800, Catholic voters in New York and Maryland became players in national politics. Jefferson had successfully portrayed the Federalists as a political elite of wealthy, landed gentlemen (which most, if not all, of the party's leaders were, including Carroll). Although Jefferson was a member of Virginia's plantation aristocracy, his policies favored "the little guy." Catholic farmers, tradesmen, shopkeepers, and laborers in New York voted for Jefferson. They did so in Maryland, too, in spite of fervent appeals from Carroll. Thanks in part to Catholic support, New York and Maryland swung for Jefferson.
The immigrants
At the time of Washington's election, virtually all Catholics in America were of English descent, with a sprinkling of Irish, German, French and Spanish. By 1830, however, immigrants from Europe and the Caribbean outnumbered the English Catholics. The largest groups were from Ireland and Germany, but there were also French refugees from the violence of the Revolution, and Haitians — white and black — who had escaped the Revolution there. The increase in the Catholic population resulted in the building of more Catholic churches, schools and charitable institutions. Catholics became more noticeable, and anti-Catholic elements in America did not like it. The age-old hostility to Catholicism was coupled with a new hostility to foreigners and led to long delays — 14 years or more — before an immigrant could apply for citizenship. Some political extremists advocated forbidding citizenship to immigrants altogether. The extremists feared that if Catholic immigrants could vote, they could use the ballot box to alter the character of America.
These fears of Catholics and immigrants evolved into a political movement known as the Nativists, better known as the Know-Nothings. Part secret society and part political organization, the Nativists were instructed by the leaders that if anyone asked about their political platform, they were to reply, "I know nothing."
The Know-Nothings became a potent political force in the 1830s, 1840s and even into the 1850s. They dominated state and local politics in all the New England states, as well New York, Pennsylvania and even California. There were Know-Nothing mayors of Washington, D.C., Chicago and Boston. And then there were the riots: from Bath, Maine, to Galveston, Texas, Know-Nothing mobs attacked Catholic churches and institutions, as well as homes and businesses owned by the Catholics. There is no accurate body count, but at least 100 were killed and hundreds were injured in riots that flared up sporadically across America for years.
Throughout this upheaval, an overwhelming number of Catholic voters remained loyal to the Democratic Party. New York City and Philadelphia became Democratic powerhouses primarily because both cities had large Catholic immigrant populations. The Whig Party allied itself with the Know-Nothings, which disgusted a 29-year-old Illinois lawyer named Abraham Lincoln. At a gathering of Whigs in Springfield, Lincoln broke with his party's platform, submitting a resolution that declared, "The guarantee of the rights of conscience, as found in our Constitution … belongs no less to the Catholic than to the Protestant." Lawyer Lincoln's resolution was not adopted.
Meanwhile, the Democrats were cementing their relationship with urban Catholic voters by nominating Catholics for local office, such as city councilman, alderman or state legislator. With overwhelming support from their fellow Catholics, these candidates almost invariably won.
If the Nativists had been distressed by the tiny Catholic presence in the 1830s, they became panic-stricken by the 1850s. The revolutions of 1848 brought Catholics from Germany, Austria and Bohemia to America in unprecedented numbers. Simultaneously, the potato famine in Ireland drove hundreds of thousands of penniless, starving Irish to America. As a result, the American Catholic population, which stood at 663,000 in 1840, soared to 3.1 million by 1860.
The Whigs began to believe that if they wanted to become the dominant political party in the nation, they must make amends with the Catholics. After years of Whig candidates spewing all manner of anti-Catholic rhetoric, it wouldn't be easy to win Catholic voters away from the Democrats. Then, in 1852, the Whigs found an ideal candidate and the Democrats made some very foolish mistakes.
The Whigs nominated for president Gen. Winfield Scott, the hero of the War with Mexico. Scott was an Episcopalian, but he was no bigot. He sent his daughters to Catholic convent schools. During the war he protected Catholic churches in Mexico from would-be looters. On one occasion he even celebrated a victory by attending Mass.
As for the Democrats, inexplicably they alienated the Irish party faithful in Massachusetts by selecting as candidate for the governor's race an ardent supporter of the temperance movement.
Most momentous election
Arguably, the election of 1860 was the most momentous in United States history. It was widely understood that if Lincoln, the Republican candidate, were elected president, many Southern states would secede, and the result would be civil war. The Republican Party in the North campaigned hard to lure Irish and German Catholics away from the Democrats and into the Republican fold — at least for this election. But Catholic voters were not buying the sudden "conversion" of abolitionists, members of the temperance movement and Know-Nothings who tried to pass themselves off now as the friends of the immigrant and the champions of down-trodden Catholics. The Catholics stood by the Democrats, not least because they feared what civil war would mean to them economically.
While most Germans had come to America with some money, many Irish refugees from the famine had arrived penniless. For generations, their families had been tenant farmers, but with no cash to buy land out west, the overwhelming number of Irish immigrants settled in the cities. With no job skills, the Irish were compelled to take the dirtiest, most dangerous, worst paying jobs — the jobs native-born Protestant Yankees didn't want: digging canals, building railroads, loading and unloading ships' cargo, working in coal mines. The Irish weren't at the absolute bottom of the pay scale, but they were very close. Only one group was paid less — free blacks. The Irish feared that if civil war broke out, the Union would win (a safe gamble) and the slaves would be free. Overnight, the Irish would be competing for work with 4 million newly liberated black men and women. From their point of view, a vote for Lincoln was entirely against their self-interest.
After the first shot was fired upon Fort Sumter, three New Yorkers, all Irish immigrants, successfully persuaded the Irish to fight for the Union. The first was John Hughes, archbishop of New York. Hughes had been a tenant farmer in Ireland and had begun life in America as a ditch-digger. He traded up to a job as assistant gardener at Mother Seton's convent in Emmitsburg, Md. Unlike so many of his fellow Irishmen, Hughes had a little education: he could read and write, and he even had a smattering of Latin. One day, he screwed up his courage, knocked on the convent door, and asked Mother Seton to help him gain admittance to Mount St. Mary's Seminary, just a couple miles up the road. Mother Seton agreed, and through her intervention, Hughes enrolled in the seminary, was ordained and rose to be archbishop of New York. When the war began, he urged the Irish to prove their worth to their Yankee neighbors by fighting in defense of their new homeland.
The second man of influence was Col. Michael Corcoran, commander of the all-Irish militia regiment, the 69th New York Infantry. In 1860, the Prince of Wales came to New York. The city fathers planned a grand military parade up Broadway in honor of Queen Victoria's son, but Corcoran refused to lead the Irishmen of the 69th in a parade honoring the monarchy that occupied Ireland. Corcoran was arrested for insubordination and tried by court martial. The trial was still in session when the Civil War began. Corcoran issued a statement calling upon all Irish Americans to fight in defense of the Union. On the strength of that statement, the Army quashed the charges against Corcoran, restored his rank, and reinstated him as commander of the 69th. Corcoran opened a recruiting station, and the line of volunteers wrapped around the block — every Irish immigrant in New York wanted to fight with the man who had thumbed his nose at the Prince of Wales.
The third man of influence was Thomas Francis Meagher, a convicted revolutionary whom the British government had exiled for life to Tasmania. Meagher escaped to New York, enlisted with the 69th, and first saw action at Bull Run in July 1861. The battle was a debacle, with the Union army sprinting back to Washington, D.C. Corcoran's 69th, however, retired from the field in good order, covering the retreat of their comrades. Meagher concluded that if one regiment of Irishmen was this good, a brigade would be better. With the approval of the War Department and President Lincoln, Meagher established the Irish Brigade. At it's core was Corcoran's 69th.
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The valor of the Irish Brigade in battle won the admiration of both Union and Confederate commanders, and was reported in both Northern and Southern newspapers. It won for the Irish some grudging respect from the Yankees and made it easier for the Irish war to begin assimilating into American society.
The years after the Civil War also saw Irish Catholic Democrats dominate urban politics. Big city machines sprang up in Boston, New York, Chicago, Kansas City, Philadelphia, St. Louis and elsewhere. Their purpose, of course, was to get Democratic candidates elected to local, state and national office. To encourage voters to support the Democratic ticket, the machine helped immigrants find jobs; picked up the tab for weddings, funerals and other family functions; paid doctor's bills or heating bills; and even handed out turkeys to the indigent at Thanksgiving and Christmas, thereby building up the immigrants' loyalty to the Democrats in urban areas. Wisely, as waves of new immigrants arrived in America — Slavs, Italians, Jews, French Canadians — most Irish-dominated machine extended their help to the newcomers, ensuring that most of these future American citizens would be loyal Democrats, too.
By 1928, the Democrats were a "big tent" party that welcomed "wets" and "drys" in the era of Prohibition, Catholic and Jewish immigrants, as well as anti-Catholic, anti-Jewish, anti-immigrant Klansmen, advocates of social reform in the North, and die-hard supporters of Jim Crow legislation in the South. The party's nomination of Alfred E. Smith, a Catholic from New York, caused jubilation among Catholic voters, but inspired a backlash among non-Catholic Democrats. He became the target for a host of vicious anti-Catholic smears, the mildest of which claimed that if Smith were elected, he would invite the pope to move into the White House and surrender to the pontiff the U.S. government. Smith's candidacy revived the Ku Klux Klan; as he traveled by train across the country, he often saw crosses burning along the tracks. Although Catholic voters turned out in unprecedented numbers to vote for Smith, it was not enough; anti-Catholic voters also turned out in vast numbers. Smith lost by more than 6 million votes; he carried only 8 out of 48 states, and garnered only 87 electoral votes to Herbert Hoover's 444. After the results were in, Smith said, "The time hasn't come when a man can say his beads in the White House."
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Thirty-two years later, the Democrats were ready once again to see if the time had come when "a man can say his beads in the White House." John F. Kennedy was handsome, charming, witty; he came from a family of nine children; his father was a self-made millionaire and former ambassador to the Court of St. James's (Great Britain); and his mother was the daughter of John "Honey Fitz" Fitzgerald, a popular mayor of Boston; she was also noted for her piety. Kennedy was married to the stunning Jacqueline Bouvier, a bona fide American Catholic blueblood; the couple had two young children. Kennedy's campaign strategists — and his father hired the best he could find — assumed JFK could count on the Irish vote, but would other ethnic groups, especially those who were blue-collar or struggling to make ends meet, vote for a young man from such a privileged background? On Election Day, the answer was yes. JFK won 75 percent of the Irish vote, 75 percent of the Italian vote, 82 percent of the Slavic vote and 85 percent of the Hispanic vote. The election of John F. Kennedy to the presidency was a clear indication that after more than 300 years in America, Catholics had finally reached the pinnacle of success and acceptance in the United States.
The years after Kennedy's presidency saw the breakdown of the Catholic vote. Beginning in the mid-1960s and stretching into the 1970s, the Democratic Party moved toward the left, a direction that initially made many Catholics uncomfortable. The Democratic Party turned against the war in Vietnam, while throwing their support behind such volatile issues as abortion and, later, embryonic stem cell research and same-sex marriage. At the same time, Catholic voters as a group began to fragment. In the turmoil within the Church that followed the Second Vatican Council, bishops lost a great deal of the influence they had once enjoyed over the faithful. Dissenting Catholic voices became louder than ever, and even Catholics who took their faith seriously believed that they could separate their faith from how they voted.
Today, the Catholic bloc is a distant memory. Catholics can no longer be counted upon to vote for a fellow Catholic — as the liberal John Kerry and the conservative Rick Santorum discovered. Nor are Catholics as solidly Democratic as they once were. About 40 percent of Catholics identify themselves as independents, while at any given time between 21 and 36 percent of Catholics identify themselves as Republican, which means that between 24 and 39 percent of Catholics identify themselves as Democrats.
How will Catholics vote a few days from now? It is anyone's guess. The Obama administration's attempt to compel religious institutions to cover medical services and procedures that violate their religious principles has become an issue that has united both conservative and liberal Catholics. But most likely, the sorry state of the economy will be the deciding factor for Catholics and non-Catholics alike. In 1992, Bill Clinton's campaign strategist, James Carville, identified the issue most important to voters: "It's the economy, stupid." By focusing on the economy, Bill Clinton won the election — with 47 percent of the Catholic vote.
Thomas J. Craughwell is the author of "Stealing Lincoln's Body" (Harvard University Press, $17) and "Patron Saints" (OSV, $14.95).
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In the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, the barrier prompted interest from national media looking for long-term solutions to the massive storms predicted as a result of climate change.
NEW BEDFORD — Fifty years after construction of the city's hurricane barrier first started, it's still drawing attention.
In the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, the barrier, which the city celebrated Thursday with a proclamation for the Army Corps of Engineers, prompted interest from national media looking for long-term solutions to the massive storms predicted as a result of climate change.
Army Corps Cpl. Charles Samaris, the commander of the New England Region, credited the structure — 899 tons of granite — with preventing more than $28 million in flood damage in the area, including $3.5 million during Hurricane Sandy.
There are four other hurricane barriers in New England.
"We stand on the shoulders of giants," he said, calling New Bedford's system an engineering "marvel."
The barrier, which crews started building 50 years ago this month, includes three dikes and runs almost 4 miles in total, making it one of the largest manmade structures in America, Mayor Jon Mitchell said.
Its floodgates, which cross the 150-foot opening to the harbor, have been closed 570 times since it was completed in 1966 and 27 times in 2011 alone, according to Corps spokesman Tim Dugan.
"It's a huge pile of rocks but it is so important to our city and the region ... This thing really does make a difference in protecting property," said Mitchell, whose spokeswoman said the city fielded calls about the barrier after the hurricane last month. "New York City I'm sure wants to have something just like this."
Samaris, who was called to New Jersey to help with Sandy's aftermath, said the city's decision to invest in the barrier, which cost about $18.6 million in federal and local funds — more than $1 billion in today's terms — was "well worth it."
"Down in New Jersey they had a tough time. The locations along the Jersey shoreline that had a Corps project constructed ... they had minimal damage ... so the money invested was well worth it," he said.
Construction started in 1962, after hurricanes in 1938, 1944 and 1954 devastated the area, causing deaths and millions of dollars in damage to residential properties and mill buildings along the waterfront.
"We had fishing boats lying in front of Fairhaven High School," said Brian Bowcock, chairman of Fairhaven's Board of Selectmen.
At the commemoration Thursday, Public Works Commissioner Larry Worden recalled watching the boulders fall into place as he walked to and from school each day. "It was probably the single event that influenced my career path," he said.
At-large Councilor Brian Gomes said he proposed the commemorative event after a constituent brought him the paperwork from Nov. 17, 1962, when construction began. "It struck me that 50 years coming up and the barrier being there, it should be recognized," said Gomes, who said he was also one of the first to call for the barrier to be made open for public recreation.


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Your initial suggestion seems to fit the use case of manual rehashing, or rehashing upon certain conditions. We have a JIRA for it: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/ISPN-1394
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Apple Wins Patent Case Against Google, and More
What's News: Judges at the International Trade Commission say Apple did not violate Google's patent. Trustee, Louis Freeh sues Jon Corzine over his role in MF Global's collapse. Coach earnings beat and hikes annual dividend 13%. Joanne Po reports. Photo: Getty Images
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Obituary: Jacob (Jack) Calvin Felte
August 17, 2012
Jacob (Jack) Calvin Felte passed away at his home in Brockway on Saturday, Aug. 11, 2012.
Jack was born Oct. 15, 1914 in Severance, Colo. to Jacob and Amalia Felte. He married Katherine (Kay) Languille on Aug. 17, 1944 in Seattle, Wash. Jack and Kay moved to North Lake Tahoe in 1946.
Jack is survived by his wife, Kay, four sons, Kris (Kathy); Steve (Teresa); Cal (Gretchen) and Mark (Kathleen); two daughters, Ann and Katie (Jim); 15 grandchildren and 12 great-grandchildren.
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No-smell socks Manufacturers say fabric made with silver fights odor because the metal is naturally antimicrobial. But at about $14 a pair, can these high-tech socks really beat a regular cotton brand? Our testers wore the socks at the gym, then sealed each pair in a bag. A month later our textiles director performed, yes, a sniff test to see if there was a detectable difference. There sure was. The cotton socks smelled so foul, she almost doubled over. The silver socks barely had an odor. Our two favorites: EuroSock's 5K silver ($13), which also have extra arch-support cushioning, and Wigwam Unisex Socks Ultimax Silver Lite Low ($12).
No-sweat clothes Plenty of companies claim their workout gear will wick sweat away. But of the 10 brands we examined, only three delivered. Admittedly, our tests were tough--after washing the clothes five times, we evaluated how quickly water was absorbed and wicked away. Gym regulars also exercised in the garments. Results: The Brooks brand was tops. Its Revelation T ($36) is made from moisture-transfer polyester fibers that kept testers comfortable even when they were sweating. The Brooks Motion Skort ($56), which uses the same fabric technology, won raves too. Also a hit: Champion Vapor Loose Fit Tank ($32). It's made with cocona (burnt coconut shells), which translates into faster drying.
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That was the headline on a blog item posted last night about a dear friend to many of us, Ethel Gintoft, the retired associate publisher and executive editor of the Catholic Herald in Milwaukee, who died last week. (See "Ethel M. Gintoft: Remembering a Catholic Herald legend.) The tribute was written by Sam Lucero, editor of The Compass, newspaper of the Diocese of Green Bay, Wis.
Ethel meant a lot to members of the Catholic press, and Sam's tribute (earlier yesterday he was in Milwaukee for Ethel's funeral Mass) in just a few sentences captures much of why that was. You can read the rest of Sam's tribute here.
Also posting a tribute to Ethel yesterday was Heidi Schlumpf of the National Catholic Reporter. Heidi too captures what Ethel meant, writing, "At a time when women were still struggling for respect in newsrooms, she was succeeding in one owned by the male-dominated Catholic Church." Read the rest here.
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In amidst it all, there was some reading. Here are a few highlights...
- I picked up a copy of Robert B. Parker's Looking for Rachel Wallace after reading Ron Silliman's praise of it. And it does, indeed, provide plenty of interesting fodder for anybody interested in such things as gender and machismo. It's also pretty darn entertaining.
- Speaking of machismo, I picked up Richard Sellers's Hellraisers: The Life and Inebriated Times of Richard Burton, Richard Harris, Peter O'Toole, and Oliver Reed from the library because it looked like a light read and I realized I knew nothing about the actual lives of the four actors it discusses. It is, indeed, a light read, but also a depressing one -- it is nothing but stories of four immensely talented people being drunk, boorish, irresponsible, and destructive. I couldn't help thinking of a much better book, Tom Dardis's The Thirsty Muse: Alcohol and the American Writer, where the destructive effect of alcohol on the later work of Faulkner, Fitzgerald, and Hemingway is contrasted with the blossoming of Eugene O'Neill's writing once he quit drinking. Sellers makes a point of noting that Burton, Harris, O'Toole, and Reed all said they had no regrets about the effect of alcohol on their lives, but it's obvious from the book that their lives were deeply hurt by their drinking.
- I finally got around to reading Troll: A Love Story by Johanna Sinisalo (aka Not Before Sundown), which won the Tiptree Award for 2004, and which I've been meaning to read at least from the time it won the award. I should have read it then. Actually, I wish I had read it before it garnered any accolades, because I think my expectations for it pretty much ruined it for me. I expected a truly great book, and got a merely good one. And sometimes a bit less than merely good. I found the insertion of various excerpts from fictional texts tedious and obvious, the story itself at times rather silly, and the final images more goofy than affecting. I certainly would not have disliked it all as fully as I did had I come to it blind, and I expect I would have found it more surprising and more compelling if I'd had no expectations of it being of a particular quality when I began. Alas. My loss.
- James Naremore's More Than Night: Film Noir in Its Contexts was a great joy to read. Naremore wrote one of my favorite books on Orson Welles, as well as an early and perceptive little book on Psycho and, most recently, a pretty good study of Kubrick. But More Than Night may be his masterpiece -- full of insights that help make even some films I've seen many times seem almost new.
- Truffaut: A Biography by Antoine de Baecque and Serge Toubiana was illuminating about certain moments in the life of one of my favorite filmmakers, but it was on the whole disappointing because it spends comparatively little time on each film he made, so it ultimate felt to me quite thin. I'll have to give Truffaut at Work at try, since the Dartmouth Library has a copy, and Bill Krohn's Hitchcock at Work is marvelous, marvelous, marvelous.
- Perhaps my favorite book read in the last month, if not during all of 2010 so far, is Helen Merrick's The Secret Feminist Cabal: A Cultural History of Science Fiction Feminisms. It's full of insights, provocations, information. I'll be writing more specifically about it in the future, but for now, just know that if you have any interest in feminism, cultural history, and/or genre fiction, you'll get a lot out of this book.
I immediately wanted to use it in a course. But what course? I don't get to teach an African literature course, and would be hesitant to teach one at the college level, anyway, at least beyond the introductory level -- my interest in African lit is the interest of a passionate hobbyist, and my knowledge is full of gaps, ignorance, and, I'm sure, inaccuracies.
But I've been struggling to come up with a new syllabus for a course I'm teaching for the second time in the fall, The Outsider. My previous syllabus wasn't a disaster, but I'm more experienced with the sorts of students who take this course now, and I wanted to change a few things (not so much the texts, most of which actually worked pretty well, as my approach and writing assignments). The thing that I kept coming back to was the experience of teaching Nervous Conditions, a book I had had great luck with in a high school course on African novels. My Plymouth State students almost unanimously hated it -- mostly, I discovered, because they had trouble understanding it. Not the language, which is perfectly straightforward, but the cultural background. In the high school class I used the book in, by the time we got to it we had spent a few weeks learning about themes of certain similar types of African literature and the cultural situations of some of the writers. We'd had a bit of that in my first try with The Outsider, but not to an extent where it sunk in enough. College students in central New Hampshire in general education courses need to spend real time on learning about the world from which writers write if those writers are not writing from worlds that appear frequently in the students' experience of life and of media representations. Indeed, when it comes to an African country, the students need even more time to work through their knowledge, perceptions, and assumptions because so much of what they know, perceive, and assume is reductive or, often as not, flat-out wrong. Thus, Kafka made more sense to them than Dangarembga. I had not been prepared for that.
Thinking about this and about the wonderful Norton edition of Things Fall Apart , I had a eureka moment -- why not devote the entire course to African literature and perceptions of Africa in non-African writing? Surely, I could do this while also sticking to the basic idea of the Outsider course. The general course description requires only that the course look at literature and film, include discussions of the individual in relationship to society, and emphasize differences in cultures, and include such topics as "gender, sexuality, race, class, wealth, behavior, and socialization." No problem. And with a course of this level -- the most basic and general offered by the University -- I wouldn't need more than my own hugely-incomplete-but-adequate-enough-for-this-purpose knowledge.
What would happen, I thought, if we read not just Heart of Darkness and Things Fall Apart, but also The Story of an African Farm and King Solomon's Mines? And then move from there to books by post-Independence African writers? (That would also let me use another great Norton book, Modern African Drama). I immediately started making a list of possible texts -- and then realized I should probably limit myself to books currently in print, since that would make things a bit easier when it comes to making books available to 25-30 students...
Lo and behold, lots of things I wanted to use are currently unavailable. I was particularly annoyed to discover that Ngugi's Devil on the Cross is out of print. Grrr. One of the most important novels by one of the most important African novelists. Not available. And so many others, too. Not available.
But many great books are available, and I've ordered copies of some I haven't yet had an excuse to get hold of. Now I've got the excuse. I expect at least some of my posts here over the next few months will be about the books I'm either revisiting or encountering for the first time as I prepare for the course. I'm looking forward, too, to rereading Things Fall Apart, which I last read no more recently than nine years ago. First up, though, will be The Story of an African Farm, which, I'm sad to say, I've never read before.


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