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Former race car driver Roger Penske went on to be a hugely successful entrepreneur by understanding how to manage risk, people and partnerships. He is the founder, chairman and CEO of Penske Corporation, a closely held, diversified, on-highway, transportation services company whose subsidiaries operate in a variety of industry segments, including retail automotive, truck leasing and transportation logistics. Penske is also the owner of one of the most successful motorsports teams in history, Team Penske. He chaired Super Bowl XL in Detroit in 2006 and today is still actively involved in Detroit's rebirth. We caught up with Penske to learn more about what drives his success.
Q: You have a saying in your company: "Effort equals results." What does this mean to you?
A: Back in the early days when I wanted something, whether it was a bicycle or a radio, my father would say, "Go out and work for it, and I'll be your partner." He instilled in me the idea that people who work hard are the ones that are successful. You might say that is a bloodline that runs through the company.
Simon Pagenaud, driver of the No. 22 Menards/DXC Technology Dallara/Chevrolet, Team Penske
Q: Team Penske has had some very good results over the years. How does the energy around the track carry over into your larger business?
A: Racing is the common thread throughout our company. It's about execution, being competitive, integrity, transparency. These are exactly the same things you have to have in your business. In racing, we have an "earnings release" every weekend, so it's a little bit different from that standpoint. But we lose more than we win, so you have to learn to be able to pick up your team and go forward. A perfect example is that we won the Indy 500 in 1994, and the next year we came back and we didn't qualify. But after that we came back and won three times in a row.
Racing is the common thread throughout our company. It's about execution, being competitive, integrity, transparency.
Q: Racing is a risky sport with great potential rewards. Do you see any correlation between risk in racing and business?
A: Obviously, there's physical risk with racing, and there's financial risk in business. And how we manage risk is by having the best people. When we go to Indianapolis we have years of experience on the team, so we've been through most of the situations that would create risk. On the business side, it's the same. I run an organization where we promote from within. Many of our top people started out driving a truck or as an assistant mechanic. One thing we found is that, over time, people get bored. They don't show it, but they do. So, we move our people around. We're in a disruptive society. Change is important.
There's physical risk with racing, and there's financial risk in business. And how we manage risk is by having the best people.
Q: DXC and Team Penske have a strong partnership, and DXC has many strategic partnerships in place to help us bring the best solutions to clients. Tell us about partnerships from your perspective; why are they important?
A: Our partnerships really helped build the company, going back to General Motors, Ford and others. They've given us great opportunities to grow our businesses. Then you look at the B2B opportunities. It's been amazing. If you look at DXC as a partner and what they're doing for us on our security, help desk, engineering and the other things that are so important to us — it's taking us to the next level. Partnerships have made a huge difference. These are not fleeting moments. These are partnerships that last 5 years or 10 years. The key is to have metrics to measure and manage them.
Q: In addition to helping Detroit attract the Super Bowl, you founded a program to help clean the city's streets and helped establish a light rail system. How important is your work in Detroit?
A: The city has made a huge turnaround. We had a very successful Super Bowl in 2006, and I think that was maybe the starting point. Some 18,000 jobs have come into the city. Real estate has really moved up in value, we've got people moving in, we've got tax money. These are things you don't really think about because you're so tied up in your own business, but it's amazing how many people give a big portion of their lives to their community, and it has been very rewarding for me to be involved.
Q: What tops your list of favorite cars?
A: A 1955 Mercedes Gullwing. That's my favorite. But when you look at my collection, it's very simple. We've won in Indianapolis 17 times, so I have each winning car and each pace car. Those 34 cars make up my collection.


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favourite restaurant told me an excellent story today.
He saw me knitting and said that I reminded him of his Nonna, his beloved grandmother.
Mauricio is the eldest child in his family, and for four years enjoyed being the only child. Midway through his fourth year, his parents proudly announced that a baby was on the way, and that Mauricio was to be a big brother.
His Nonna, an avid knitter, was thrilled, and did what so many expectant grandmothers do: picked up her needles to start making a blanket for the new arrival.
Mauricio wasn't quite so happy. As is the case for many first children, he wasn't at all sure what this was going to mean for him. He was upset.
How did he choose to express his unhappiness? He would sneak into his grandmother's room and undo her knitting...
Every day, she would make some progress on the project, and the next day, little Mauricio would undo it. Apparently, it became, in the eyes of a small boy, a rather excellent game of hide and seek: where did Nonna put the knitting today?
I can only imagine the mess a four-year-old would make...
And I can also imagine that a wise and loving grandmother would nod, smile, hug the boy - and then find a very high shelf to put the project on.
Wednesday, August 01, 2012
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- Anonymous said...
That's completely adorable. Frustrating as all getout for Nonna, I imagine, but adorable. I love four-year-old logic.
- 1:04 pm
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Also, went to Maning's in Farmer's Mall to buy some threads and yarns. Unfortunately, Red Heart by Coats Manila Bay in white isn't available so I took Monaco yarns instead and cotton threads in wonderful chocolate color.
I'm planning to make cozies or motif for these threads but I'll talk about it in another post. This week's project is a Classic Ripple Afghan from the book that I bought.
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Chapter 10 from What Happened to Sin, by Seán Fagan. S.M.
The Columba Press, 2008.
The new thinking on many of the topics touched on in the previous chapters has been a source of confusion and upset for many people since the Council. But what many serious-minded people, particularly parents, teachers and pastors, are more immediately concerned about is what is sometimes called the 'break-down of morality'. They can accept the 'sinfulness' of the 'world', but they feel helpless when faced with the seeming rebellion of the younger generation of Christians. They find it hard to understand how children of good, Church-going parents can so easily reject the moral standards they were taught at home, in school and in Church. The immediate reaction of a father or mother to a teenage member of the family on drugs, having a baby before marriage, or going for an abortion, is to ask: how did it happen, why did it happen? So often they insist: but I told them it was wrong, they know they shouldn't behave like this. Sometimes the reaction becomes an agonising self-recrimination: where did we go wrong, did we fail them in any way?
Is it so bad?
It has always been the mission of prophet and preacher to point to the sins of society, to alert people to the immorality of the times. We need such reminders. But the moralising can be overdone. It has become almost a cliché to speak of the permissiveness of today's world and complain about the Church going to the dogs. It is natural too to look for scapegoats. Some bishops blame theologians for 'confusing the people' (as though they were never confused by bishops), priests blame parents for not exercising control in the home, parents blame teachers and pastors for their failure to give clear moral principles, and everybody blames the 'world' or the 'media.'
Each group pointing a finger at a particular scapegoat should realise that there are three other fingers on the same hand pointing back at themselves. 'Passing the baby' is part of the psychology of sin described in the Genesis story at the beginning of the Bible. Adam blamed Eve, who in turn blamed the serpent. Since each one of us is, whether we like it or not, 'our brother's and sister's keeper', we all have a share in the responsibility. The failure may be unconscious, and therefore without sin, but our unwillingness to accept responsibility or to do anything about it can indeed be sinful. It is not the purpose of this chapter to point a finger in any one direction, but rather to raise questions that will stimulate reflection. As in so many other areas of Christian faith and living, perhaps there are many things we have taken for granted in the area of teaching morality that need to be looked at a little more critically.
First and foremost, the facts must be seen in perspective, without panic. It is simply not true that the world is in a worse state now than ever before. Only people who know nothing of history speak like this. We may feel that we are further off from heaven than when we were children, but this is generally no more than feeling. The myth of the golden age is as old as human history; we all tend to look back nostalgically on the past and see it through rose-tinted spectacles. A generation or two ago perhaps there was less gang violence or sexual promiscuity in our immediate neighbourhood, but it is a very large assumption to claim that the overall moral climate was better. Social conditions were different, sanctions were stronger, and for many people the possibilities for wrongdoing were extremely limited. The old sailor with little material for confession after several years at sea could give as his excuse: plenty of temptation but little opportunity. For previous generations, even the temptations were limited. The fact is that the world has changed more in the past fifty years than in all of previously recorded history. Today's youngsters have to cope with pressures far more subtle and complicated than those known to their parents, and they are faced with a vast variety of choices that were simply undreamed of in the past.
There is simply no way of comparing generations in any worthwhile way. The parent who begins a lecture with the words 'when I was your age' is liable to be told by the teenage son or daughter: 'but you were never my age'. James Michener's novel The Drifters is a graphic description of the vastness of the culture-gap between today's adults and their teenage offspring. It is no longer simply an age-gap or a generation-gap. It really is a culture-gap. Many aspects of the cultural shift are highlighted by Alvin Toffler's fascinating Future Shock, but philosophers and theologians claim that for the past few decades the human race has been undergoing one of the greatest cultural changes in its entire history. They describe it in terms of the shift from classical to historical consciousness. This change involves a whole new outlook on reality, and reaches into every area of experience. Vatican II adverted to it, for example, in the document on TheChurch in the Modern World: 'The accelerated pace of history is such that one can scarcely keep abreast of it. … and so we substitute a dynamic and more evolutionary concept of nature for a static one, and the result is an immense series of new problems, calling for a new endeavour of analysis and synthesis' (n.5).
Part of the problem in today's Church is that people talk about morality and the teaching of morality with practically no reference to this change. But the change affects both our notion of 'morality' and how it can be 'taught'. It is taken for granted that there is a revealed and timeless morality that has only to be taught or handed on, but in fact there are question-marks over both the content of morality and the ways in which it can be taught. So many people look to the past or to some revelation from above as the source of moral teaching. But it is significant that even in the area of dogmatic truth, the Vatican Council speaks of revelation as an ongoing process, continuing into the present. It says that 'Christ reveals us to ourselves and gives meaning 'to the riddles of sorrow and death' (Church in the Modern World, n.22). 'Believers, no matter what their religion, have always recognised the voice and the revelation of God in the language of creatures` (ibid. n. 36). In his self-revelation 'God spoke according to the culture proper to each age' (ibid. n. 58). Speaking of revelation as a continuing process to be newly expressed for every age in prophetic witness, it says that 'it is the task of the whole people of God, particularly of its pastors and theologians, to listen to and distinguish the many voices of our times and to interpret them in the light of the divine Word, in order that the divine truth may be more deeply penetrated, better understood and more suitably presented' (ibid. n. 44).
Changing morality?
With regard to the 'content' of morality, enough has been said in previous chapters to make clear that no moral problem can be solved simply with a quotation from Scripture or an ecclesiastical document. There is no 'package' of detailed moral truths to be merely preserved and handed on intact to later generations. The Church's function is to remain faithful to the spirit of Christ, to preach in word and deed the good news of salvation and the liberation we have in Jesus, and try to live out his commandment of love. But how the commandment of love is to be understood and implemented will depend on our understanding of ourselves and of our world in each culture. There have been radical changes in the Church's moral teaching through the centuries. There is no shortage of examples: with regard to slavery, property, usury, war, women, sexuality, marriage, responsible parenthood, organ transplants, social justice, Church-state relations, conscience, conscientious objectors, freedom and human dignity, peace. It is a false loyalty to the Church, and no loyalty to God or to truth, to pretend that the changes were all minor modifications. Changes on all of these subjects were substantial, and often radical.
Had people been aware of the provisional character of most of the Church's statements on moral matters, they would be less upset and confused when faced with change. But if the statements themselves had been presented less dogmatically there would be less need for humility in admitting that they needed to be modified or perfected. The Vatican I statement that the Pope is infallible when teaching as head of the Church on matters of faith or morals, is frequently quoted in support of a particular 'teaching of the Church', but it is seldom recognised that the Church has never made an infallible statement on a matter of morals. The point being made here is not that one can lightly dismiss the Church's moral teaching because it is not infallible, but simply that people need to understand the changeability of morality. As already explained, this does not mean a morality without norms or a private conscience cut loose from objective standards. It simply emphasises the cultural conditioning of all concrete norms, and the fact that answers from the past cannot always solve new problems.
While we can rightly claim to have high moral teaching in the New Testament, a knowledge of history should keep us from boasting too much. Only too often through the centuries the Church imbibed and reflected the prevailing values of the times, and its record in the fight against colonialism, slavery, anti-Semitism, racism or anti-feminism is nothing to be proud of. Though we can make allowance for historical context, the Church was no better than the secular state when it justified torture and the death penalty for heresy. Please God, we have come a long way since then.
Common search
When it comes to discovering solutions to new moral problems, the whole people of God, pope, bishops, theologians, priests and laity, simply have to work towards them with their God-given human reasoning power. The simple commandment 'Thou shalt not kill' will not solve the intricate problems of medical ethics, nor have we any formula of solution for the new questions arising from the population explosion, genetic engineering or brain trans- plants. In this common search it should be stressed that in a sense the whole Church is a learning Church and the whole Church is a teaching Church. Married people have a lot to teach celibates about the experience of marriage, and priests and laity can learn from each other. Likewise, the Church learns from its past, from its mistakes, from other Christians, who have their own experience of the Holy Spirit, and from the surrounding world. Bishops and theologians have special teaching functions and they collaborate in promoting faith, and both groups serve the Church.
As part of their pastoral responsibility, the pope and the bishops have a special authority in the area of teaching, though they are by no means the only teachers in the Church. For Vatican II a central teaching was the principle of collegiality, that the Church is governed by the college of bishops, with and under the pope. They exercise a shared responsibility with the pope and are not simply his delegates. In carrying out this responsibility pope and bishops have a grace of state available to them because of their responsibility, but it does not operate automatically. To access it they have to take the ordinary means of research, study, consultation and prayer to discover and formulate their teaching. But they have no access to sources beyond the reach of the body of the faithful, nor are they empowered to produce 'new teaching', to tell the faithful things they would not otherwise know. In the area of infallible pronouncements on matters of faith, pope or council can only 'define infallibly' what is already the faith of the Church. In the question of categorical morality (i.e. teaching in particular areas of morality), right and wrong cannot simply be 'decreed' and 'accepted'. It can only be preached and urged, backed up by persuasive reasoning inspired by the gospel and the tradition and experience of the Church. In this area, the support of the Holy Spirit does not guarantee the truth of the teaching, but simply prevents the Church from falling finally and definitively into error.
Teachers of freedom?
When Jesus took leave of his disciples, he commissioned them to 'Go to all peoples everywhere and make them my disciples' (Mt 28:19). Thus, he entrusted his teaching function to his Church, to the whole community of his followers, to be shared in different ways by all. There are bishops, theologians, scholars, teachers, missionaries, counsellors, parents and friends. But the most important teachers for those born into a Christian community are their parents. It is from them that we get our faith and our understanding of morality. Their work is continued by teachers in school and by priests in Church. Parents, teachers, priests, all have their part to play in the teaching of morality, and in a sense all are extensions of the teaching Church embodied in the pope and bishops. But some questions arise about the teaching process today which may give food for thought to the various teachers in the chain.
Speaking of education, the Second Vatican Council affirms that 'children and young people have the right to be stimulated to make sound moral judgements based on a well-formed conscience and to put them into practice with a sense of personal commitment' (Christian Education, n. 1). It urges those responsible for educating others to try to form 'people who will be lovers of true freedom, who will form their own judgement in the light of truth', and it stresses that 'one of the key truths in Catholic teaching is that our response to God by faith ought to be free' (Religious Freedom, nn. 8, 10). Paul frequently speaks of 'the glorious freedom of the children of God' (Rom 8:21). He urged the Galatians to 'Stand as free people, and do not allow yourselves to become slaves again' (5:1). He told the Corinthians that 'where the Spirit of the Lord is present, there is freedom' (2Cor 3:17). Jesus himself promised his followers: 'If you obey my teaching, you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free' (Jn 8:31-32).
These quotations come from a variety of contexts and would need careful explanation, but there is no denying the emphasis on freedom. The salvation we have in Jesus means liberation from the slavery of sin and from the imprisonment of ignorance and fear. A basic concern of Christian formation, therefore, should be to enable people to grow as free persons, to encourage personal responsibility and moral maturity.
Inhibited growth
But our teaching has frequently been unsuccessful in this, and large numbers of people are imprisoned by an immature conscience, live in constant fear, and have seldom experienced true freedom. This is not the place to discuss the various methods of catechesis, but a point may be raised for those who hanker after the clarity and security of the old catechism and the black-and-white absoluteness of the moral rules that went with it. The traditional catechism was largely a condensation of the theology text-book, a summary of grown-up beliefs. It was taught to children to prepare them for life, as though they were simply adults in miniature. We looked for an adult response of faith from adolescents and young children, and in many cases we took it for granted that they had such faith because they had learned the answers to our questions.
In the area of morality, we did not make quite the same mistake, because we taught them rules reinforced by rewards and punishments, which is what they understood in those early years. In the same way as they learned behaviour acceptable to the parents (toilet training, table manners, etc), they learned a list of 'sins' punishable by God in hell and good deeds rewarded by God in heaven. God was used as a cudgel to ensure that they would conform. Indeed he was sometimes used as a threat to have them conform to the social prejudices of the parents. Children were told that 'God would not like' certain things, although there was no way of knowing whether he had ever even expressed an opinion on them.
Many people outgrew the childish fear provoked by the 'God as threat' as they matured morally. But much of the Church's practice continued to rely on this fear in getting people to 'behave', and many were thus kept at a childish level of response. In the area of dogma we treated even small children as adults in the material we taught them, while in the area of morality we continued to treat grown-ups as seven-year-olds. Missing Sunday Mass was declared to be a mortal sin, punishable by hell-fire, while for centuries we did nothing to make the Eucharistic celebration a meaningful experience. For some people, it is still a matter of 'obligation'. Like any large society, the Church needs law, but the multiplicity of laws attempting to provide for every foreseeable eventuality would seem to imply that people are not to be trusted to do the right thing in a given situation. It was forgotten that people only become trustworthy through the experience of being trusted.
Less than a hundred years ago Pope Leo XIII wrote to the archbishop of Paris: 'To the pastors alone is given the power of teaching, judging and ruling; the people must allow themselves to be governed, corrected and led to salvation.' In spite of the insights and ideals of Vatican II, this paternalistic attitude is not quite dead in the Church. It is traditional Catholic teaching that parents must make decisions for their children, but they can be guilty of sinful neglect if they do not help the children to grow towards freedom and autonomous decision. This is particularly true in the area of morality. Is it not bordering on the sinful when Church practice tries to guarantee morality by pressure and sanctions, apart from those cases where sanctions are absolutely necessary? So often there is an appeal to 'loyalty' and 'obedience' to accept a particular ruling instead of an effort to convince and persuade people's conscience. Authority is too frequently substituted for reason.
Challenge from youth
People who are accustomed to having most of their moral decisions already made for them, who have been trained to think of morality in terms of obedience to rules handed down, are ill-equipped to make conscientious judgements when they are suddenly told to 'follow their conscience'. This is the dilemma of many parents at the present time when they are challenged by their teenage children. They do their best to 'hand on' the moral truths they themselves received from home, school and Church. They grew up in a society where conformity was rewarded and questions seldom allowed. But their children live in a different world.
The 'traditional teaching' can be passed on in terms of moral precepts, but it is much more important that children be taught the mechanics of moral evaluation and personal conscientious judgement. With methods appropriate to each stage of their psychological development they should be helped to see what factors need to be considered in any given situation, how they are to be balanced one against the other, and how one decides on what is morally the best thing to do. The answer cannot be given in advance. But once they leave childhood, nobody can make their decisions for them. It may be upsetting for parent, teacher or priest to see the youngsters decide on and do things we consider 'wrong' or 'sinful', but unless they have the freedom to make mistakes, whether or not they actually make them, they will not grow in moral maturity. God respects our freedom in the initial act of faith, and we must respect it in each other. The person who is prevented from ever making a mistake may also be prevented from ever growing up.
Sharing values
Parents, teachers and Church leaders may hand on the moral wisdom of the Church enshrined in commandments and rules, but the real problem is to communicate the values behind such norms. Information is not enough. Likewise, mere conformity, or obedience to an external law (thou shalt not steal, kill, etc.), is not virtue. The virtuous action is the one done out of the conviction that it is the right thing to do. But it is too easily assumed that values (like truthfulness, sincerity, justice, etc.) can be 'transmitted'. In fact, values are not personal values unless they are 'discovered' and personally chosen as worthwhile, as something worth striving for, paying for, making sacrifices for, as values one wants to live by. The challenge is to create an atmosphere and environment in which children and young people discover moral values as truly valuable.
They will not be convinced by exhortations from parents or others to tell the truth, go to Church, or be fair to others if they find those same authority figures continually telling 'white lies', being careless about Church attendance themselves, or boasting to each other of 'good' business deals which patently involved unjust practice. Even small children are highly sensitive to such inconsistency, and what they follow is not what they are told verbally, but what they see 'done' and what they think 'works'. Parents sometimes complain of the 'materialism' and 'permissiveness' of the younger generation, but are quite unaware of how much these things are part of their own thinking and how much their practical judgements are influenced by them in spite of theoretical attachment to the principles they preach. Our own double-think in many areas of morality may be partly responsible for the moral confusion or rebellion of the younger generation.
Moral development
There is a vast amount of research by developmental psychologists from which valuable lessons can be learned by those concerned with moral formation. The lessons are not only for parents forming their children, or teachers dealing with students, but also for Holy Mother Church itself helping the faithful towards the freedom of the children of God. Kohlberg and practically all the experts in this field have found a consistently direct connection between conscience and parental punitiveness. Punitive aggression by the parent leads to aggression by the child, but it does not lead to moral learning. The old pattern of lecturing, rewarding and punishing may produce conformity, which may have the appearance of virtue, but it does not lead to moral development.
Even the lecturing has its weaknesses. Parents often admonish their children for bad behaviour with the complaint: 'You should know better!' In many cases, the youngsters do know, and the gap between knowing and doing is one we all experience, and even St. Paul admitted to it. But over and above this tension, which is simply one of the effects of original sin, there is the fact that so much of our moralising is cerebral, limited to abstractions, and presented in words that are not meaningful to young children. An eight-year-old sees no connection between the principles he is taught about respecting other people's property and taking fruit from a vendor's basket. The reason why our efforts at moral training so often meet with disappointment is that they rely too much on the intellectual approach. Children are sometimes called 'little liars' at an age when they haven't the faintest idea of what a lie is in moral terms. They tell lies out of fear or as an enjoyable exercise of creative imagination, but they have no intention of deceiving anyone, much less of harming. Adults who read moral meaning into quite innocent events or insist on extracting 'confessions' under threat of punishment can be guilty of mental cruelty to children. Such attitudes not only do a great deal of psychological harm, but actually stunt the moral growth of children.
Lack of love
There is considerable statistical evidence to show that delinquents tend to come from homes where an excessive amount of corporal punishment was administered. When children who suffered in this way are old enough, their reaction to the blind, unreasoned way in which they were handled is expressed in anti-social aggression. They have not learned respect for authority and show no signs of a healthy conscience. The excessive nature of the punishment and the inconsistency of its application leaves them feeling a lack of love and of basic trust, thus depriving them of two of the essentials on which mature moral living depends.
Strange as it may seem, the children of totally permissive parents are deprived in precisely the same essentials. The parents may give them money and seemingly endless freedom, in fact everything except what the children need most of all, namely the gift of themselves and their genuine care. Such children may boast to their peers that their parents do not care how much they spend or where they go, but when they get into trouble the boast sounds very hollow. Deep down, they know that what they are really saying is that their parents don't really 'care'. Of course, it may well be that the parents do in fact care, but their neglect or ignorance of what caring really means can prevent the children from discovering and feeling their love.
It follows that some form of moderate punishment can be an element in moral training. It can help in the development of responsibility as young people learn to accept the consequences of their actions. Likewise, rules have their part to play insofar as children discover that even limitations on their freedom are for the sake of a greater freedom. But neither punishment nor rules will result in moral development unless the individual gradually discovers personally that it is good to do the right thing.
This discovery is a slow process. In fact, developmental psychologists, as was mentioned in chapter 7, have discovered at least four clearly-defined stages of moral awareness that the young person passes through from childhood to late teens. Some adults progress a further stage or two, but many never even make it to the fourth and are still stuck on a lower level. How many grown-ups still have the childish attitude: 'If only God didn't exist, what a great time I could have!' Any efforts at moral formation must take account of the gradual nature of this development, with special emphasis on the word 'growth'. Moral formation is a lifelong process of growth, not merely in knowledge, but in sensitivity, imagination and feeling, a growth in wholeness.
Whole person
The moral response must be a response of the whole person, so the formation of conscience cannot ignore the emotional and affective aspects of life. Reasoning, will and emotions are all involved. Reason is essential. Knowing the good is not just a matter of being told what is right, but of understanding and being convinced that it is right. The efforts of all educators of conscience, therefore, should concentrate on raising the level of people's reasoning in moral matters rather than imprinting rules and regulations. Many parents are at a disadvantage insofar as their own experience was largely the acceptance of rules, so they cannot be blamed when they feel helpless as they see their rules and values questioned or rejected by today's youth. It is not their fault that they were not encouraged to question or reason, that they were simply told what was good for them. A one-sided preaching on obedience, dependence and humility made them feel guilty at the mere thought of questioning. They deserve a great deal of sympathy, but they need support and help.
One of the greatest needs in the Church for many years has been for adult education, with a program whose content and methods are geared for adults, not a repeat of childhood learning. It is too easy an excuse to claim that 'people are not ready for it', that the 'simple faithful' do not want to be disturbed. It can be sinful neglect on the part of the Church to continue a policy that actually keeps people at a lower level of moral development, one that prevents them from giving more of their intelligence to God. This need is being met quite successfully at the present time and the lay men and women who respond are excited and enthusiastic in their commitment to courses. But the weakness is in Church structures which fail to take advantage of this enrichment of the faithful for the health and development of local communities. A sobering thought for church leaders is the comment of Belgian Cardinal Godfried Danneels, now 75 years old, in an interview published in the London Tablet when he said he was distressed that there are not brighter men in the Church hierarchy. He attended every meeting of the synod of bishops since 1980 and said: 'When I look at the synod assembly, so many good people are there with really pastoral hearts. They are good shepherds, But from time to time I think it would be good if 5 per cent of them were also thinkers, that don't lack hearts. We need among the bishops and cardinals some really intelligent people.'[1] One of the great advantages of Vatican II was that it had the assistance of many of the world's top theologians all during its work.
Personal values
Raising the level of people's reasoning in moral judgement is one of the essentials of moral formation. But since the reasoning will be not only about facts, but also involve a response to values, people need a community and atmosphere which will enable them to discover real values for themselves. They need a community at home, in school and in Church in which they discover for themselves how good it is to live by the principles of justice, truth, sincerity, fidelity to promises, concern for the weak, respect for persons. It is difficult for them to discover such values if they have never experienced them in a meaningful way in their own lives, or if these values are clouded or betrayed by the institutions or standards of society. The real values in our lives are the standards we live by, not the abstract ideals we verbally subscribe to.
Since the whole fabric of Christian living is simply the putting into practice of Christ's law of love, the basic value underlying all the others is love. Children and young people need to see that there is real love behind all the rules and regulations, that to search for solutions to moral problems is really to look for the best way to respect each other's rights, to love each other, and to enable each other to grow. The love in question is not conditional love, in which the parents love the child only insofar as it is an extension of themselves, reflecting their opinions and meeting their demands. It is genuine love, reflecting God's own love, in which the child is loved for its own sake, in spite of its faults.
This is the test for many parents today, when their teenagers experiment with drugs or sex, neglect or reject their religion, or become total drop-outs. A good practical definition of love is 'staying in relationship'. It calls for a great deal of selfless love and real concern to keep open the lines of communication with a son or daughter who seems to reject everything we stand for. But to reject them is to reject the future generation of the Church. To close our hearts against them is to teach them that the Church is simply a club for nice people, not the community of the followers of Jesus in which forgiveness and reconciliation can be experienced as a gift from God. Prayerful reflection on the figure of the father in the parable of the lost son (Lk 14:11-32) may remind us of the Christian ideal in this kind of situation
Maturity the goal
The purpose of this chapter was not to outline a program of moral formation, nor to criticise the methods of the past, but to draw attention to the need for a critical look at the simple phrase 'teaching morality'. It is understandable that those in authority, parents, teachers, priests and bishops, should feel responsible for those in their care, feel the impulse to guard and protect thern, and worry when they seem to drift away or show signs of becoming independent. They also feel responsible for the institution they represent, family, Church, society, and they naturally tend to conserve and protect the wisdom and traditions of such institutions. A static society tends to have a static Christianity. But in both cases there should be less concern about conservative protection and more emphasis on growth and development. If they have the emphasis in the wrong place Church leaders can too easily become preoccupied with control rather than moral influence, and imagine that they have no authority unless they have power, hence the recourse to threats and sanctions.
The differences are important and far-reaching in their consequences. Preoccupation with power and control leads to a negative, condemnatory attitude to new ideas, an intolerance of pluralism, a deadening uniformity, an oppressive centralisation, and no consultation in decision-making, all of which militate against the personal growth of individuals and communities. Too much control can stifle initiative, and power easily provokes fear. The challenge to all teachers of morality is to release the God-given potential that is in each person, to create the encouraging, supportive community in which every individual is helped to grow towards ever greater self-autonomy and self-esteem. When Paul speaks of the variety of gifts in the Church, 'apostles, prophets, pastors, teachers', he stresses that they are for the building up of the body of Christ, to enable all of us to 'become mature people, reaching to the very height of Christ's full stature' (Eph 4:13).
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I should say that there have been other entries into the series that came before. It's not a direct sequel per say, but it is the follow up. We are back with our favorite trio: Sora, Donald, and Goofy, on a journey fighting all kinds of Heartless.
The graphics in this game are phenomenal. Usually, when games are first announced with trailers, you take it with a grain of salt. You tell yourself "the game can't possibly look that good on the actual software engine." Well, this game achieved that level of excellency that is so hard for most games to deliver.
This bodes well for the game since the core component to this series is traveling to different worlds in the Disney movie universe. Each world you go to has a distinct vibrancy to it that makes it unique. For example, the 'Tangled' world is lush, forest green with lakes all around you; while the 'Frozen world is just piles of snow and trekking on mountains. The 'Frozen' world can seem lackluster in comparison, but it's beautiful in its own right.
One of the things that has been a highlight to the series since Kingdom Hearts 2 is the combat. Having the ability to change into different forms for different move sets and abilities. There was also the addition to short quicktime events during the gameplay which added variety to the fights.
Kingdom Hearts 3 expands on this in multiple ways with each Keyblade (your weapon) having a form it can transform into. In addition to that form, it can turn into another form where it lets you fight another way. An example of this is my current favorite, the 'Monsters Inc.' world Keyblade. It can turn into a pair of claw gauntlets, then after that it can turn into yo-yo's. I can fight with yo-yo's! What more do you need?
The story behind the Kingdom Hearts series has always been an experience. I personally believe that it got to be a bit too much because they've added a lot of elements to the story.
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The highlight of this game to me personally, is the music. The series has always been phenomenal when it comes to the music. From the title screen,to the opening cinematic song, and the many worlds, this game does a wonderful job with immersing you with the music and sounds.
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Sembia was a young country of considerable wealth and prosperity governed by its merchants. It was located on the north-western coast of the Sea of Fallen Stars in central Faerûn, which put it in the path of many trade routes.[6] Although they suffered over a century of subjugation at the hands of the returned Netherese Empire, with only the cities of Urmlaspyr and Daerlun maintaining their independence,[2] they once again became wealthy, independent collection of city-states following the second collapse of the imperial magocracy in 1487 DR.[7]
Sembians were not particularly war-like, preferring to pursue mercantile endeavors and work as mercenaries or adventurers.[4] Their long tradition of commerce and trade unified Sembia during their entire existence, particularly while as a vassal-state of Netheril.[2]
From the 10th to 14th centuries, Sembia was governed by the Overmaster, a leader who was elected by the nations merchant's council.[5]
As of the 1359 DR, it was illegal for an individual to receive payment for the removal of a spell's effects, if they were that spell's caster.[8]
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During the latter half of the 14th century, the military of Sembia was supplemented by the personal army of Miklos Selkirk, known as the Silver Ravens.[5]
Sembian vessels were all named after types of coin, like Bicentan Sail, Three Falcons Volant or Yulthaari Hunter.[9]
A person from Sembia was known as a "Sembite" or a "Semmite". Sembite was used more commonly in the areas north of Sembia and the Dragonreach, whereas Semmite was more common in the southern Moonsea.[10]
The people of Sembia were natural traders, haughty and sometimes cutthroat, they thoroughly enjoyed any opportunity to make a deal for power and hold onto what they earn. They religiously observed contract law and always paid their debts, with full interest. As a nation they had a young, aggressive attitude when it came to foreign relations.[1] Unfortunately the zeal of the nobles turned to intense competition with one another, and they were never truly able to unite under a singular vision of their future.[11]
Corruption was rampant in Sembian society, so as long as it did not interfere with the business at hand. Shady dealings were celebrated and the nation exhibited a vague racism, turning away outlanders that "looked different" than the lighter-skinned families that had long-established businesses within the realm.[11]
City life dominated the lifestyle of the Semmite people. Their culture was seen as superior to those of other cities from across the Realms.[11]
They did not share the lavish lives of other mercantile nations, such as Amn in the Lands of Intrigue, but its abundant wealth attracted desperate people from across the Realms, usually in the form of secret cabals or villainous cults.[11]
Food and drinkEdit
As of the mid-14th century DR, it was known that gnomes living in western Sembia brewed mint ale, which was available throughout the Realms.[12]
Those fishing in Sembian waters were required to pay the local authorities.[citation needed]
During the Netherese rule of the 15th century DR, Sembians were required to give the Shade empire a percentage of their earnings by trade, primarily done through Sembian ports.[citation needed]
Sembia did not keep a national trade outfit, but sponsored a number of large trading costers such as the Firehands, Iron Throne, Six Coffers Market Priakos and the Seven Suns to move their goods overland to both their own port cities and farther destinations such as Waterdeep to the west or the Moonsea to the north.[13]
The currency of Sembia was considered a common coinage in Faerûn as of the 15th century DR, owing to the far-reaching ambitions of its merchants.[14]
Settlers from Chondath arrived to the region where Sembia would grow in 884 DR, after gaining their independence following the Battle of the Singing Arrows.[5] The nation Sembia was founded in 913 DR by Rauthauvyr "the Raven", a human war-leader who gathered and commanded a standing army to police the roads of the fledgling human territory from the Tel-quessir of the Elven Court.[15] He formed a government led by a merchant's council, who elected an Overmaster that served 7-year terms.[5]
Despite Sembia's aversion to outright war, they did engage in a drawn out conflict with the Dalelands and Elves in Cormanthor, allied with the Moonsea city-states Hillsfar and Zhentil Keep. In the middle of the war however, they switched sides and fought with the elves against human and infernal armies alike, a shiift brought on by the leader of the Silver Ravens, Miklos Selkirk.[citation needed]
A civil war was fought in the mid-1370s which weakened Sembia considerably. The Netherese took advantage of the situation and claimed the realm as a free protectorate. By 1400 DR, the Netherese had fully consolidated Sembia into their empire.[2]
In 1484 DR, cracks began to appear in the shroud of darkness that covered Sembia. This was due to the destruction of the Ordulin Maelstrom which had covered Sembia in darkness since the end of the Twilight War.[16] After the fall of Netheril, Sembia regained its independence and swiftly began building itself back up to the economic power it once was.[7][4]
Geographical featuresEdit
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Notable locationsEdit
- Daerlun: This free city state of 40,000 souls gained its independence from the Netherese in 1439 DR due to their long-standing and strong relationship with nearby Cormyr. Rather than become a part of the Forest Nation, the Daerlunians declared themselves a free state. One of its most notable features was a magical 500' (0.2 km) tall curtain wall erected by the Netherese.[11][2]
- Ordulin: Formerly the capital of Sembia, the centrally-located crossroads city of Ordulin was obliterated when a planar rift tore away part of the Shadowfell. The area where the city stood became a swirling black whirlpool of shadow material. A Shadovar citadel on an earthmote hung over the city during the reign of Netheril.[11][17]
- Saerloon: A port city of over 50,000, this city was considered to be the least politically stable of the Sembian cities. It was home to many thieves' guilds and demonic cults.[2]
- Selgaunt: The large coastal capital, with a population of over 60,000,[2] was governed by merchant lords called the Old Chauncel, comprising of prosperous households such as the Uskevren, Foxmantle, and others.[citation needed]
- Urmlaspyr: Suffered greatly under the Netherese, the city resisted the Netherese ban on non-Sharran faiths and was brutally punished for its recalcitrance. Conditions improved since the city threw off the Netherese yoke, freedom of religious practice and commercial prosperity returned to the city, largely in thanks to Cormyr's influence.[17]
- Yhaunn: Previously a wealthy and celebrated mining-city, Yhaunn was nearly annihilated by the Spellplague when the cliffs towering over the city broke away from the land and were transformed into floating earthmotes. The Netherese rebuilt the city, using the earthmotes to create the city's exclusive Air District in the sky.[17]
- Yuthgalaunt: A settlement on Tilbaryn's Ride between Ordulin and Yhaunn.[18]
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Further readingEdit
- Novels
- Ed Greenwood (April 1994). "The Everwinking Eye: Land of Merchants". In Jean Rabe ed. Polyhedron #94 (TSR, Inc.), p. 4–5.
- Rand Sharpsword (2001-09-05). Caravans and Trading Companies in Sembia. Rand's Travelogue. Wizards of the Coast. Retrieved on 2010-10-31.
- Rand Sharpsword (2002-01-16). More Old Empires and Sembia!. Rand's Travelogue. Wizards of the Coast. Retrieved on 2010-10-31.
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 Ed Greenwood, Sean K. Reynolds, Skip Williams, Rob Heinsoo (June 2001). Forgotten Realms Campaign Setting 3rd edition. (Wizards of the Coast), p. 188. ISBN 0-7869-1836-5.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 Bruce R. Cordell, Ed Greenwood, Chris Sims (August 2008). Forgotten Realms Campaign Guide. (Wizards of the Coast), p. 176. ISBN 978-0-7869-4924-3.
- ↑ Ed Greenwood (August 1992). "The Everwinking Eye: Words To The Wise". In Jean Rabe ed. Polyhedron #74 (TSR, Inc.), p. 14–15.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Kim Mohan ed. (2015). Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide. (Wizards of the Coast), p. 13. ISBN 978-0786965809.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 Ed Greenwood, Sean K. Reynolds, Skip Williams, Rob Heinsoo (June 2001). Forgotten Realms Campaign Setting 3rd edition. (Wizards of the Coast), p. 190. ISBN 0-7869-1836-5.
- ↑ Ed Greenwood, Sean K. Reynolds, Skip Williams, Rob Heinsoo (June 2001). Forgotten Realms Campaign Setting 3rd edition. (Wizards of the Coast), p. 196. ISBN 0-7869-1836-5.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Kim Mohan ed. (2015). Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide. (Wizards of the Coast), p. 12. ISBN 978-0786965809.
- ↑ Ed Greenwood, Tim Beach (1995). Pages from the Mages. (TSR, Inc), p. 95. ISBN 0-7869-0183-7.
- ↑ Steven E. Schend (1999). Sea of Fallen Stars. (TSR, Inc), p. 15. ISBN 0-7869-1393-2.
- ↑ Jeff Grubb and Ed Greenwood (1990). Forgotten Realms Adventures. (TSR, Inc), p. 73. ISBN 0-8803-8828-5.
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 11.2 11.3 11.4 11.5 Ed Greenwood, Sean K. Reynolds, Skip Williams, Rob Heinsoo (June 2001). Forgotten Realms Campaign Setting 3rd edition. (Wizards of the Coast), p. 189. ISBN 0-7869-1836-5.
- ↑ Ed Greenwood, The Hooded One (2011-09-01). Questions for Ed Greenwood (2011). Candlekeep Forum. Retrieved on 2018-02-24.
- ↑ Rand Sharpsword (2001-09-05). Caravans and Trading Companies in Sembia. Rand's Travelogue. Wizards of the Coast. Retrieved on 2010-10-31.
- ↑ Mike Mearls, Jeremy Crawford, Christopher Perkins, James Wyatt (2014). Dungeon Master's Guide 5th edition. (Wizards of the Coast), p. 19. ISBN 978-0786965622.
- ↑ Brian R. James and Ed Greenwood (September, 2007). The Grand History of the Realms. (Wizards of the Coast), p. 109. ISBN 978-0-7869-4731-7.
- ↑ Warning: edition not specified for The Godborn
- ↑ 17.0 17.1 17.2 Bruce R. Cordell, Ed Greenwood, Chris Sims (August 2008). Forgotten Realms Campaign Guide. (Wizards of the Coast), p. 177. ISBN 978-0-7869-4924-3.
- ↑ Ed Greenwood and Jeff Grubb (April 1998). Cormyr: A Novel (Paperback). (Wizards of the Coast), p. 157. ISBN ISBN 0-7869-0710-X.


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Inventor of iconic Paint By Number brand to speak at reception for exhibition of local collections
Dan Robbins, inventor of the Paint By Number brand that indelibly shaped American popular culture, will be sharing reminiscences of the early days at the Craft Master company and how the numbered painting craze swept the nation. 20 North Gallery will be welcoming friends, fans and collectors to the free public reception on Saturday, March 24, from 4 – 7 p.m. The panel discussion will be from 4:30 – 5:15. The event will feature a complimentary hors d' oeuvres buffet and cash bar by Venue. Due to space limitations, attendees are asked to respond prior to the event via telephone: 419-241-2400 or email: email@example.com
Dan Robbins is the author of 'Whatever Happened To Paint By Numbers?: a humorous personal account of what it took to make anyone an "artist."' He will be signing copies of his book, which will be for sale at the event.
Robbins' visit coincides with the final week of the exhibition of "The Grant & Goodridge Paint By Number Collections," featuring historical canvases and memorabilia designed and painted by Robbins and Peggy & Adam Grant during their time at Craft Master, as well as selected works from the Paint By Number collection of the late Ann Goodridge, a dear friend of Peggy Grant, in tribute to her indelible rôle in this American popular culture phenomenon as one of the original designers. Some pieces have been featured in museum exhibitions of Paint By Number history, most notably the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History 2001 exhibition, "Paint By Number: Accounting for Taste in the 1950s." With the exception of a few archival items, all of the collected work is available for purchase.
Central to the exhibition is the artist proof of the Paint By Number canvas, "The Last Supper" (after da Vinci), which was designed and painted by Mrs. Grant's late husband, Adam Grant. Created in 1964, during the Grants' time at the Craft Master company, "The Last Supper "canvas became the highest selling kit in the genre of numbered painting.
In December 2017, this artist proof from Mrs. Grant's collection was accepted into the permanent collection of the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History (NMAH). "The Last Supper" will remain on view at 20 North Gallery as part of a Paint By Number historical display until its journey to the Smithsonian for induction into the NMAH collection.20 North Gallery owner Eric Hillenbrand states, 'Ever since Peggy Grant served as a consultant to the 2001 Smithsonian Paint By Number exhibit, she hoped that the artist proof of "The Last Supper" would find a permanent home in their collection. But on a larger scale, the fulfillment of this plan is recognition of the indelible impact that Peggy and Adam Grant have had on popular culture in our nation. The Craft Master Paint By Number brand has long been a "Toledo Treasure" in our local history—but now there can be no question that the Grants and their colleagues were truly creating national treasures. It is fitting that their work is soon to be enshrined in the Popular History collection of the National Museum of American History.'
The online catalogue of "The Grant & Goodridge Paint By Number Collections," containing images of all available material, is posted to the 20 North Gallery website: www.20northgallery.com
Paint By Number & Dan Robbins The cultural phenomenon of Paint By Number began in 1950 at the Palmer Paint Company in Detroit (Michigan). Commercial artist Dan Robbins based his concept on Leonardo da Vinci's practice of numbering sections of his canvases for apprentices to complete. After trial and error, Robbins' painting kits became arguably the most loved—and most vilified—hobby of the "new leisure class" of 1950s Americans.
As the business rapidly grew, Robbins hired additional designers, including Adam Grant and Margaret "Peggy" Brennan, whose artistic partnership soon evolved to marriage. Robbins became their good friend, as well as the head of art direction for Palmer Paints and, later, the Craft Master company of Toledo (Ohio).
After many years designing and marketing paintings that promoted "the art of leisure," Robbins went on to head his own Chicago-area advertising agency and became the definitive expert of the Paint By Number genre. Known as "the most exhibited artist in the world," for the thousands and thousands of canvases of his design that proudly hang in the homes of the people who bought and painted the kits, Dan Robbins spent many years lecturing, researching and archiving Paint By Number history. He was a consultant to the 2001 Smithsonian exhibition, "Paint By Number: Accounting for Taste in the 1950s" and is the author of 'What Ever Happened to Paint-By-Numbers? A humorous personal account of what it took to make anyone an "artist".' Now retired, he and his wife, a former Craft Master proofer, reside in Toledo, Ohio.
Not only popular, the kits were also highly controversial, accused of debasing the concept of original art. But the combined testament of generations of fans has demonstrated that, by making the process of painting more accessible to everyday folk, "Art," itself, became more approachable and no longer the sole province of the cultural elite. Many fans attest that, through the introduction of Paint By Number, they had the courage to later attempt their own original paintings—a proud accomplishment for Mr. Robbins and all those who grew the brand.
The display of these Paint By Number collections is part of the "The Grant Collection," exhibit featuring a variety of fine art media—painting, photography, ceramic, glass, drawings, sculpture, jewelry and mixed media acquired by the prominent Toledo-area arts advocate, Margaret "Peggy" Grant. The exhibit continues through March 31, 2018. Regular gallery hours are Wednesdays through Saturdays from noon to 4 p.m. or by appointment.
The online catalogue of "The Grant & Goodridge Paint By Number Collections," containing images of all available material, is posted to the 20 North Gallery website: www.20northgallery.com
What: "A Conversation with Dan Robbins" – Free public reception with inventor of Paint By NumbersWhere: 20 North Gallery, 18 N. St. Clair Street, (Downtown) Toledo, Ohio 43604, 419-241-2400
When: Saturday, March 24, 2018
Free Public Reception — 4 – 7 p.m. Panel conversation from 4:30 – 5:15 p.m.
Due to space limitations, attendees are asked to respond prior to the event via telephone: 419-241-2400 or email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Ongoing exhibit:
The Grant Collection – fine art and Paint By Number paintings & memorabilia
January 12 – March 31, 2018
Gallery HoursWednesday – Saturday:Noon – 4 p.m.and By Appointment
The online exhibition catalogue for "The Grant Collection" containing images of the full fine art collection and artist information is available on the 20 North Gallery website: www.20northgallery.com
For More Information Contact: Condessa Croninger (Art Director) or visit www.20northgallery.com
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Δέδυκε μὲν ἀ σελάννα
καὶ Πληΐαδες, μέσαι δέ
νύκτες, πάρα δ' ἔρχετ' ὤρα,
ἔγω δὲ μόνα κατεύδω.
The moon has set and the Pleiades,
It is the middle of the night
Time passes by
And I sleep alone.
This fragment of Sappho speaks for itself. It has been translated many times so I thought I would research some translations. Some of the translators take ὤρα in a slightly different way so it is variously translated as Time, hour, season or youth. Trypanis translates it as night-watch -presumably because the night would have been divided in watches rather than hours. I prefer the simple "time".
I've tried to attribute the translation to the author – in some cases I only have the web page. Anyway here are some translations.
The moon has set, and the Pleiades; it is midnight, the time is going by and I recline alone.
The sinking moon has left the sky,
The Pleiades have also gone.
Midnight comes–and goes, the hours fly
And solitary still, I lie.
The Moon has left the sky,
Lost is the Pleiads' light;
It is midnight,
And time slips by,
But on my couch alone I lie.
J. A. Symonds, 1883.
From the poems of Sappho by Edwin Marion Cox (1925)
From <http://www.sacred-texts.com/cla/usappho/sph49.htm>
The moon has set and the Pleiades; it is midnight, the night-watch goes by, and I sleep alone.
Constantine A. Trypanis – the Penguin book of Greek verse (not online)
The Moon is down,
The Pleiades. Midnight,
The hours flow on,
I lie, alone
Translated by A. S. Kline © 2005 All Rights Reserved
From <http://www.poetryintranslation.com/PITBR/Greek/Sappho.htm#_Toc76357055>
The moon is down;
And I've watched the dying
Of the Pleiades;
'T is the middle night,
The hour glides by,
And alone I'm sighing.
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Atlantic Essays
The moon is set; the Pleiades are gone;
'T is the mid-noon of-night; the hour is by,
And yet I watch alone.
James Gate Percival
From <http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A2001.05.0214%3Achapter%3D11>
The moon has set, and the Pleiades; it is midnight, the time is going by, and I sleep alone.
H. T. Wharton
The silver moon is set;
The Pleiades are gone;
Half the long night is spent, and yet
I lie alone
J. H. Merivale.
From <http://classicpersuasion.org/pw/sappho/sape06.htm>
"The moon is set
and the Pleiades; Middle of
the night, time passes by,
I lie alone."
From <http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/656171-the-moon-is-set-and-the-pleiades-middle-of-the>
Tonight I've watched
the moon and then
the Pleiades
go down
The night is now
half-gone; youth
goes; I am
in bed alone
From <http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/tonight-i-ve-watched/>
Well, the moon has set
And the Pleiades. It is the middle
Of the night. And the hour passes by,
But I sleep alone …….
Terry Walsh
From <http://classicalanthology.theclassicslibrary.com/2013/03/30/sappho-and-the-moon/>
Tonight I watched
the moon go down
and then the Pleiades,
night and youth
are now half-gone
and here I lie alone
From <https://soundcloud.com/little-machine/the-moon-and-pleiades>
The Moon and the Pleiades have set –
half the night is gone.
Time passes.
I sleep alone
The Moon and the Pleiades have set –
half the night is gone.
The season passes.
I sleep alone.
Diane.J.Raynor and André Lardinois
Sappho: A New Translation of the Complete Works (Google eBook)
Tonight I've watched
the moon and then
The Pleiades go down
the night is now
half-gone: youth goes:
I am in bed alone
Tonight, I've watched the Pleiades and the moon
And now…I'm in bed alone;
The night is half-gone
Jean Elizabeth Ward
The Moon and the Pleiades
have plunged, it is the middle
of the night, season, hour, youth are departing
and I lay in bed alone
By Cornelius Castoriadis
Tonight I've watched
the moon and then
the Pleiades
go down
The night is now
half-gone; youth
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The site Politico recently examined the Twitter account of businessman and U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump (@realDonaldTrump) from its inception in 2009 to the present. Politico notes the significance of the account: "Today, @realDonaldTrump is a force, a newsmaker, an agitator, an American political phenomenon that combines the high profile of a presidential candidate with the reach and velocity of social media. It has more than 7.5 million followers. It has tweeted more than 31,000 times. It is a thing."
Noting the absence of tweets from @realDonaldTrump on the topic of comics, Nothing But Comics ponders what Trump might tweet about comics, were he to take an interest.
Perhaps Trump would comment on the recent nominations for the prestigious 2016 Eisner Awards:
Maybe Trump would tweet the inspirational quotes of comics heroes, such as WWII-era superhero Captain America:
Or, since Trump tweeted a quote attributed to WWII-era fascist dictator and foreign enemy Benito Mussolini, perhaps he might tweet the quote of a WWII-era supervillain, such as the Red Skull:
Nothing But Comics would love to see Trump's comments on various comics characters, such as Green Lantern, archers Hawkeye and Green Arrow, and Wakandan king and superhero Black Panther:
Given Trump's controversial views regarding Islam, we think that he might spotlight the controversial graphic novel Holy Terror by Frank Miller; originally conceived as a Batman story but later published by Miller using a different superhero character, Holy Terror follows protagonist The Fixer as he battles Muslim terrorists that attack his city:
Given Trump's following on Twitter, we believe he would like the election concept presented in DC Comics' Prez series, a sci-fi satire set in a future America where citizens can vote for president using Twitter:
Maybe Trump would comment on DC Comics' plans to publish a comic featuring a Chinese Superman:
Would Trump express admiration for certain comics characters, such as Marvel Comics character (and 1976 presidential write-in candidate) Howard the Duck?:
Would Trump use comics references to express disdain for his political rivals?:
Maybe Trump would tweet provocative, divisive opinions about comics:
But all of this is pure speculation; although Trump uses his Twitter account to shape public opinion about various people and political topics, Trump doesn't tweet about comics. And maybe that's a good thing.
This article is a parody. Donald Trump and Twitter did not generate the parody tweets used in this article. Donald Trump and Twitter had no involvement in creating this article.
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Accession Number : AD0475288
Title : COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF PROCEDURES FOR CYCLIC INSPECTION AND PRESERVATION OF NAVY OWNED MATERIAL IN STORE.
Descriptive Note : Master's thesis,
Corporate Author : NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA
Personal Author(s) : Brown, Everett G.
Report Date : 1965
Pagination or Media Count : 77
Abstract : A vital but often ignored supply function at Navy Stocking activities is the periodic inspection and preservation of material in store in order to insure that ready-for-issue material is furnished the operating forces. The purpose of this study is (1) to examine and summarize the basic cyclic inspection and preservation procedures and the deteriorative material procedures which are promulgated by certain Navy Inventory Control Points for selected categories of material, (2) to determine and summarize the common elements in the procedures and to make comparisons of the requirements imposed by the various inventory managers, (3) to obtain local operating procedures from selected stocking activities for the purpose of determining the effectiveness of the Inventory Control Point directives, and (4) to make recommendations for simplifying and improving the present systems. (Author)
Descriptors : , (*INVENTORY CONTROL, NAVY), INVENTORY CONTROL, QUALITY CONTROL, INVENTORY ANALYSIS, INVENTORY CONTROL, PRESERVATION, NAVAL EQUIPMENT, LOGISTICS, INSTRUCTION MANUALS, DEGRADATION, STORAGE.
Subject Categories : LOGISTICS, MILITARY FACILITIES AND SUPPLIES
Distribution Statement : APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE