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Federal judge approves New Orleans police reforms
A federal judge on Friday approved a sweeping agreement between the Justice Department and the city of New Orleans designed to clean up the city's troubled Police Department.
U.S. District Judge Susie Morgan's ruling says the consent decree is "fair, adequate and reasonable." But her ruling also says the city informed her that it intends to file a motion "seeking relief from the judgment entered in connection with this order."
The nine-page order doesn't specify why the city plans to do that. A spokesman for Mayor Mitch Landrieu and a lawyer for the city didn't immediately return calls seeking comment.
The court-supervised agreement would require the Police Department to overhaul its policies and procedures for use of force, training, interrogations, searches and arrests, recruitment and supervision.
Landrieu has estimated the city will pay roughly $11 million annually for the next four or five years to implement the changes. Morgan's order says the city has committed adequate funding to do so.
The agreement resolves the Justice Department's allegations that New Orleans police officers engaged in a pattern of discriminatory and unconstitutional activity.
Morgan heard testimony about the consent decree at a "fairness hearing" in September. At the time, then-U.S. Attorney Jim Letten called it a blueprint for the "rebirth of the entire city of New Orleans."
Some critics had urged Morgan to order some changes to the agreement. Susan Hutson, the city's independent police monitor, said the consent decree should give her office a larger role in the reform process. The agreement calls for picking a different, court-supervised monitor to regularly assess and report on the department's adherence to the requirements.
Lawyers for two groups representing rank-and-file officers expressed concern that the consent decree could chip away at civil-service protections, might force officers to work longer hours without overtime pay and would bar officers from using pepper spray.
The Justice Department has reached similar agreements with police departments in Los Angeles, Cincinnati, Pittsburgh, Oakland and Detroit. But the New Orleans consent decree is broader in scope than the others and includes requirements that no other department has had to implement.


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Help! Extremely poor vegetarian in a house full of carnivores. Need cheap, simple recipes.
I just moved in with my boyfriend and his dad, who buys all the groceries. I'm currently unemployed, so I can't buy my own yummy veggie foods right now. He's a very meat-and-potatoes kind of guy, and I'm getting sick of living off eggs, spaghetti, and peanut butter sandwiches. Does anyone know any simple recipes with simple ingredients?
Tofu egg salad sandwiches
chickpea salad sandwiches
Spaghetti with olive tapenade
Spaghetti with tomato sauce - with fried red or green peppers, or mushrooms
Spaghetti with veggie parmesan
Pizza marinara (no cheese), top them with fried red or green peppers or both, mushrooms, fried onions
Veggie chili
Pasta fagioli
Lentil soup
Split pea
Stir fries served over white rice.
Fried rice
Peanut butter and jelly sandwiches are good.
Goodness, do I know what's like...do you like potatoes or yams? :) those are some of the cheaper vegetables that I know at walmart sell at like, 89 cents per pound! I'd suggest going to a discount grocery store if you can ever do odd jobs and gather money. Fiesta, Aldi, and any Asian Market usually have cheap produce and since it's summer, muchhhhh of the season produce like melons and berries are quite cheap!
Dried beans are much cheaper than canned beans, but just take a day of soaking
Store brand frozen veggies and fruit are also a good way to go (freezing is a good way to preserve a lot of your food and whole spices in general), especially for smoothies!
Also depending on your location you might want to see you have the store, "Big Lots" near you. I've bought toooon of good organic shelf food for super cheap, nuts, dried fruit, oats, cereal, crackers, trail mix/granola bars and even rice and soy milk!
I know it's hard but I hope these suggestions help jazz up your palette a bit :) I remember the days before I worked as a vegetarian, man,man those are some serious tough times!
*As far as cheap meals and recipes go, I forgot to add that:
-Rice and beans is a classic
-Melon and avocado salads (I forgot to mention that avocados are very cheap also!)
-Southwestern cowboy caviar (chopped cilantro) with tomatoes, onion, beans, avocado and corn. (If you can scrape up the extra cash to, mango is a great addition)
-Berry salads with avocado
-Green smoothie, with romaine lettuce and or spinach, a banana & non-dairy milk
-Corn tortillas with avocado, tomato and whole beans or canned vegetarian refried beans.
-Banana and peanut butter sandwich or apple and peanut butter sandwich
-Celery with peanut butter
Other than that all I can say is buy/cook in bulk and stock up on your coupons as much as possible,
I am sorry, it sounds like you are in a bind. You don't mention how much fruit/vegetables he buys but I am assuming it is the regular SAD amount, which is not that much at all.
Trish Ross wrote two cookbooks--Easy Beans and More Easy Beans. They have been out for a while and your library might have copies or know where you can get them. They are not vegan--or even vegetarian--cookbooks, as about 25% of the recipes use meat. However, that is what makes them so valuable here.
The idea behind the book is to promote bean cookery for nutritional and environmental reasons. So if you can get your hands on the book, you can show boyfriend's dad the recipe for Garbanzo Stew, which is vegan. In the introductory note, she recommends topping it with a pork chop, which is decidedly not vegan, So that might help latent allay concerns that you are trying to get everyone to eat veg, and they might be open to trying some new things.
Also, I think VRG has put out a number of cookbooks catering to college students, busy workinng people, etc. that are designed to have very simple recipes. I do not have them and don't know how good they are. Donna Klein has two books--Supermarket Vegan and PDQ (Pretty Darn Quick) Vegetarian--both of which I have, and both of which contain fairly simple recipes but might require some special purchases if boyfriend's dad keeps a very limited pantry.
Good luck!
Yow, I feel for you. I manage an very non-vegan friendly restaurant 50-60 hours a week (I'm looking for new employment) and am daily trying to make do with the limited amount of vegan ingredients available to me there. I've come to love rice bowls. Just a bowl of plain brown rice, (I bring my own) with whatever roasted or grilled vegggies I can find, along with some nuts, raisins, olives, salad greens, whatever I can find that day. Then as a dressing, I just make a mixture of chopped garlic, soy sauce, vinegar, agave or maple syrup and some water. Mix it all together... Yum! And so versatile!
I also, somtimes just sautee a bunch of veggies (Spinach, tomato, muchrooms, carrots, onions, broccoli, etc...) and mix them with homefries. (Just diced, grilled potatoes. Tasty and filling, and good with just salt and pepper and a little lemon juice.
Good luck to you sweetie! It sucks being the "lone vegan"!
Beans are very inexpensive. You can buy dry for under a dollar and just boil in water add some spices and yum. Flour tortillas are very easy to make. I would bet he has those ingredients in the house. Pair your home made tortillas up with those beans and you have burritos!
You can also make pesto. Just some olive oil, pine nuts, garlic and basil leaves. That on top of pasta is a nice change.
Good luck!
One thing you can do is figure one product into your budget each week, or 2 weeks, or month. Like spices and condiments. One per pay period won't put you away too bad, and since you only use a little each time, it will last.
Watch fruit and veg sales at your local markets. Depending on the time of year, things that are in season are cheaper. Where I live avocados are never, ever "cheap", even though we grow them here, so know your area. Lots of chain supermarkets have websites and if you visit them regularly you will see special-offer codes. Use them.
I highly recommend the book, Vegan on the Cheap. It offers menus by price per serving, most are under $2 per person. We use them a lot in our house.
Some "staples" that can be mixed together in different ways and bought for cheap are: Beans, grains, and spices. Try and find a store that has bulk spices so that you don't have to buy whole containers at once, which is pricier (plus then you're also paying for packaging and advertising costs!). Beans and grains are also much cheaper in bulk bins, but I know that many places just don't do bins. Some great combinations I have found are...
* Black Beans + Brown Rice + 1 Tomato + Cheese (if you eat it) + Cumin and chili powder OR a packet of taco seasoning.
* Black Eyed Peas + Collards or preferred leafy green + pearled barley + salt and pepper
* White Beans + Quinoa + Lemon juice and Dill
* Kidney Beans + Brown Rice + Chili Spices
* Garbanzo Beans (Chickpeas) + olive oil + barley + whatever veggies you can throw in.
You can mix and match as much as you need, but beans and grains with veggies (frozen veggies are cheap or check out a farmers market IF you can) are not only cheap but also simple to put together. Now we're not going to be winning any awards for intricate recipes, but they'll be delicious!


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Ramadan Mohammad Faisal Thawabta was killed after inhaling tear gas which had been fired by Israeli forces during clashes which were taking place nearby.
During the same clashes, three Palestinians were injured by 0.22 caliber bullets.
Earlier Friday, two Palestinians were shot dead following alleged attacks on Israelis.
Qassem Mahmoud Sabaneh was killed in Nablus after allegedly attacking a border policeman at a military checkpoint. Another Palestinian was shot and detained for his involvement in the same alleged attack.
Ahmad Hamada Qneibi, 23, died from his injuries after he was shot following an alleged knife attack on an Israeli near a light rail station in the Sheikh Jarrah neighbourhood of Jerusalem.
At least 68 Palestinians and nine Israelis have now been killed since Oct. 1.
Footage released appears to show an Israeli military jeep entering the Aida refugee camp in Bethlehem Thursday evening, with a loudspeaker, saying "you throw stones and we will hit you with gas until you all die."
"We have arrested one of you, he's with us now, we took him from his home, and we will slaughter and kill him while you watch if you keep throwing stones. Go home or we will gas you until you die."
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I played hooky much of the day Wednesday. At the invitation of a longtime Real Money reader, I attended a spring training baseball game, taking in the sunshine and baseball-related conversations, though we did touch on the markets in the aftermath of Ben Bernanke's testimony on Capitol Hill. The Federal Reserve chairman consoled markets, saying that the majority of Fed governors favored continued quantitative easing and that the practice would continue for the foreseeable future. He said that the need to support the economy outweighed the risk of creating asset bubbles down the road. He sees no such bubble at this point, apparently.
This is a hard blow for traditional income investors. Rates are going to remain low for an extended period. Low-risk, interest-paying instruments such as Treasuries, CDs, municipal and even corporate bonds are not going to pay a high enough rate to provide the income needed to support a pre- or post-retirement lifestyle for many people. I am amazed that seniors groups have not stormed the Hill to protest the changes wrought upon them by the Fed's Zero Interest Rate Policy. Money is basically forced into riskier assets, and this can put principal -- even basic financial security -- at risk.
We have to play the hand we are dealt in life, so absent an ability to change Fed policy, income-oriented investors are being forced to embrace riskier assets. Wall Street's massive marketing machine has geared up for these easy pickings, creating products aimed at income and retirement investors, and pushing blue-chip stocks that have already doubled or more. Income and dividends are the flavor of the day on Wall Street and I have never seen marketing favorites become performance leaders in my career.
Again, we have to accept the reality that doing what everyone else is doing is probably not going to provide the income and long-term growth needed to fund a retirement or income portfolio. Even income investors need to be driven by valuation and basic value investment principles. If you have a friend or relative who needs to become an income investor as retirement approaches, the best gift you could possibly give them is a copy of Benjamin Graham's The Intelligent Investor to prepare them for the challenges ahead.
In today's market, the best approach for income investors is to adopt a barbell-style portfolio. The first end of the barbell is the higher-yielding alternative income investments such as real estate investment trusts, business development companies, and select high-yielding issues that are not currently darlings of Wall Street. Although I am always a fan of "stay small and move slowly," I will modify this belief for income investors and encourage them to "stay smaller and move slower." Markets will be volatile going forward, and there will be ample opportunities to scale into income positions.
This is particularly true of one of my favorite alternative income arenas. Mortgage REITs will react to every interest rate pronouncement and piece of housing-related news. Spread compression because of lower net interest margins could spur a few dividends cuts. Mortgage REITs take advantage of market conditions to issue new equity on a regular basis, and this frequently creates short-term selling pressure in the shares. It is very important that investors never pay a premium for mortgage REITs and only buy when the shares are down.
Look at a current favorite. ARMOUR Residential REIT (ARR) has cut its dividend and recently conducted an equity offering to provide further pressure on the stock price. The shares yield 14% now and I would not fall out of my chair if ARMOUR reduced the dividend further. I would buy a little here, and if it cuts the dividend, buy a few more shares on the selloff. Over a long period, careful buying should allow for solid, double-digit, long-term returns.
Another example of buy-on-the-way-down income stocks is Pengrowth Energy (PGH). The Canadian oil and gas company is in the process of a painful transition, moving away from traditional oil and gas to thermal production. Management believes this will provide a stable, long-lasting, low-cost supply of oil and gas for the future. More importantly, from our perspective, it has committed to funding the dividend via asset sales during the transition. Trading at less than 60% of book value with an 11% dividend yield, it makes sense to buy a little and scale in on further weakness.
The keys to winning with alternative income are to always pay less than asset value, scale in on news-related selloffs, and own lots of them. I was asked how many of these high-yielding vehicles investors should own and my answer was simply as many as you can find. If you spread the risk, stay really small and move really slowly, this approach can provide some of the cash flow income investors need.
I'll address the other end of the income-investing barbell in my next column.


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Moody's Investors Service says in a new report that one positive result of Hurricane Sandy for insurance companies is that the event will likely help support price increases going into 2013.
The Moody's report says the brunt of the losses will likely be borne by State Farm, Allstate, Travelers and Liberty Mutual, an analysis seconded by officials at Fitch Ratings.
The Moody's analysts say that as "large national writers, these companies have diversified exposures and strong capital bases to withstand weather-related volatility."
Moody's says that the property and casualty industry as a whole is currently at a level of relative capital strength, with good risk-adjusted capitalization, moderate financial leverage, and earnings that have benefited from price increases and relatively low weather-related losses through the first three quarters of the year.
"So despite the negative earnings impact of Hurricane Sandy, we expect that large diversified insurance carriers can absorb the negative impact with their capital strength intact," Moody's says.
Moody's, Fitch and Credit Suisse all note that the likely losses will be in the $8 billion to $10 billion range, and Moody's notes that "…little earnings or capital relief will be gained through reinsurance covers."
The Moody's analysts say that the wide geographic spread of Sandy means that claim frequency will be high.
The Moody's report also notes, "We expect the majority of insurance losses to stem from homeowners policies, commercial property coverages and business interruption (e.g., commercial multi-peril, allied, fire, inland marine), and to some degree automobile policies."
The Consumer Federation of America yesterday challenged the idea that Sandy should lead to rate increases. In a statement, CFA said, "There is no reason, actuarially, for insurers to raise rates or cut back coverage due to Hurricane Sandy, which is a storm well within the projections of insurers' current rate schedules. Insurers have already raised prices and cut back coverage along the East Coast of America and no further price or coverage action is called for."


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Wisdom is the ability to think and act using knowledge, experience, understanding, common sense, and insight.[1] Wisdom has been regarded as one of four cardinal virtues; and as a virtue, it is a habit or disposition to perform the action with the highest degree of adequacy under any given circumstance. This implies a possession of knowledge or the seeking thereof to apply it to the given circumstance. This involves an understanding of people, objects, events, situations, and the willingness as well as the ability to apply perception, judgement, and action in keeping with the understanding of what is the optimal course of action. It often requires control of one's emotional reactions (the "passions") so that the universal principle of reason prevails to determine one's action. In short, wisdom is a disposition to find the truth coupled with an optimum judgement as to what actions should be taken to deliver the correct outcome.
- 1 Definitions
- 2 Philosophical perspectives
- 3 Educational perspectives
- 4 Psychological perspectives
- 5 Sapience
- 6 Religious perspectives
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Charles Haddon Spurgeon defined wisdom as "the right use of knowledge".[2] Robert I. Sutton and Andrew Hargadon defined the "attitude of wisdom" as "acting with knowledge while doubting what one knows".[3]
Philosophical perspectives
The ancient Greeks considered wisdom to be an important virtue, personified as the goddesses Metis and Athena. Athena is said to have sprung from the head of Zeus. She was portrayed as strong, fair, merciful, and chaste.[4] To Socrates and Plato, philosophy was literally the love of Wisdom (philo-sophia). This permeates Plato's dialogues, especially The Republic, in which the leaders of his proposed utopia are to be philosopher kings, rulers who understand the Form of the Good and possess the courage to act accordingly. Aristotle, in his Metaphysics, defined wisdom as the understanding of causes, i.e. knowing why things are a certain way, which is deeper than merely knowing that things are a certain way.[5]
The ancient Romans also valued wisdom. It was personified in Minerva, or Pallas. She also represents skillful knowledge and the virtues, especially chastity. Her symbol was the owl which is still a popular representation of wisdom, because it can see in darkness. She was said to be born from Jupiter's forehead.[6]
Wisdom is also important within Christianity. Jesus emphasized it.[7][8] Paul the Apostle, in his first epistle to the Corinthians, argued that there is both secular and divine wisdom, urging Christians to pursue the latter. Prudence, which is intimately related to wisdom, became one of the four cardinal virtues of Catholicism. The Christian philosopher Thomas Aquinas considered wisdom to be the "father" (i.e. the cause, measure, and form) of all virtues.
In the Inuit tradition, developing wisdom was one of the aims of teaching. An Inuit Elder said that a person became wise when they could see what needed to be done and do it successfully without being told what to do.
Educational perspectives
Public schools in the US have an approach to character education. Eighteenth century philosophers such as Benjamin Franklin, referred to this as training wisdom and virtue. Traditionally, schools share the responsibility to build character and wisdom along with parents and the community.[9]
Nicholas Maxwell, a contemporary philosopher in the United Kingdom, advocates that academia ought to alter its focus from the acquisition of knowledge to seeking and promoting wisdom, which he defines as the capacity to realize what is of value in life, for oneself and others.[10] He teaches that new knowledge and technological know-how increase our power to act which, without wisdom, may cause human suffering and death as well as human benefit. Wisdom is the application of knowledge to attain a positive goal by receiving instruction in governing oneself.
Psychological perspectives
Psychologists have gathered data on commonly held beliefs or folk theories about wisdom.[11] These analyses indicate that although "there is an overlap of the implicit theory of wisdom with intelligence, perceptiveness, spirituality and shrewdness, it is evident that wisdom is a distinct term and not a composite of other terms."[12] Many, but not all, studies find that adults' self-ratings of perspective/wisdom do not depend on age.[13][14] This stands in contrast to the popular notion that wisdom increases with age,[14] supported by a recent study showing that regardless of their education, IQ or gender, older adults possess superior reasoning about societal and interpersonal conflicts.[15] In many cultures the name for third molars, which are the last teeth to grow, is etymologically linked with wisdom, e.g., as in the English wisdom tooth. In 2009, a study reviewed which brain processes might be related to wisdom.[16]
Researchers in the field of positive psychology have defined wisdom as the coordination of "knowledge and experience" and "its deliberate use to improve well being."[17] With this definition, wisdom can supposedly be measured using the following criteria.[13]
- A wise person has self-knowledge.
- A wise person seems sincere and direct with others.
- Others ask wise people for advice.
- A wise person's actions are consistent with his/her ethical opinions.
Measurement instruments that use these criteria have acceptable to good internal consistency and low to moderate test-retest reliability (r in the range of 0.35 to 0.67).[13]
John Vervaeke has argued for a cognitive science of wisdom and argues that basic relevance realization processes that underlie cognition, when fed back onto themselves and made self-referential lead to the enhanced insight abilities we associated with wisdom.[18][19]
Dr. B. Legesse et al., a neuropsychiatrist at McLean Hospital/Harvard Medical School, offers "a theoretical definition that takes into account many cultural, religious, and philosophical themes is that wisdom represents a demonstrated superior ability to understand the nature and behavior of things, people, or events." He states "this results in an increased ability to predict behavior or events which then may be used to benefit self or others." He furthermore adds "there is more often a desire to share the accrued benefits with a larger group for the purpose of promoting survival, cohesion, or well-being of that group. The benefits do not result from malicious or antisocial intents or inequitable behavior. Environmental factors, such as family, education, socioeconomic status, culture, and religion, are involved in generating the milieu in which the personal value system develops. Many of these same factors also influence how a given community decides whether wisdom is present or not. This model of wisdom relies on the individual's ability to generate a mental representation of the self (cognitive, emotional, and physical), the external world, and the dynamic relationship of the self with the external world." Dr. Legesse proposes that "the neural (brain) systems critical to enable these functions are distributed but heavily dependent on those that support memory, learning, understanding other people's mental states (Theory of Mind), and assigning relative value to information." The neuroanatomy of wisdom he says depends on "the three frontosubcortical neural networks, the limbic system, and the mirror neuron system" which "are of particular importance for supporting these activities." He describes the function of this neural system as working "in concert to weigh and estimate the risks and benefits of various mentally modeled courses of action to generate wisdom." It was proposed that "the neural substrates of empathy may be conceptualized as biasing the information processing network in favor of valuing others, interpersonal communication, cooperation, and community." [20]
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Sapience is often defined as wisdom, or the ability of an organism or entity to act with appropriate judgement, a mental faculty which is a component of intelligence or alternatively may be considered an additional faculty, apart from intelligence, with its own properties. Robert Sternberg[21] has segregated the capacity for judgement from the general qualifiers for intelligence, which is closer to cognizant aptitude than to wisdom. Displaying sound judgement in a complex, dynamic environment is a hallmark of wisdom.
The word sapience is derived from the Latin sapientia, meaning "wisdom."[22] Related to this word is the Latin verb sapere, meaning "to taste, to be wise, to know"; the present participle of sapere forms part of Homo sapiens, the Latin binomial nomenclature created by Carolus Linnaeus to describe the human species. Linnaeus had originally given humans the species name of diurnus, meaning man of the day. But he later decided that the dominating feature of humans was wisdom, hence application of the name sapiens. His chosen biological name was intended to emphasize man's uniqueness and separation from the rest of the animal kingdom.
In fantasy fiction and science fiction, sapience often describes an essential property that bestows "personhood" onto a non-human. It indicates that a computer, alien, mythical creature or other similar will be treated as a being with capabilities and desires as any human character, often eligible to full civil rights. The words "sentience," "self-awareness," and "consciousness" are used in similar ways in science fiction.[23]
Religious perspectives
Some religions have specific teachings relating to wisdom.
Ancient Egypt
Sia represents the personification of wisdom or the god of wisdom in Ancient Egyptian Mythology.
Bahá'í Faith
Wisdom and the acquiring of it is mentioned frequently in the Bahá'í scriptures. According to the scriptures "The essence of wisdom is the fear of God, the dread of His scourge and punishment, and the apprehension of His justice and decree."[24] Wisdom is seen as a light, that casts away darkness, and "its dictates must be observed under all circumstances",[25] other concepts associated with wisdom and being wise are considering "the regard of place and the utterance of discourse according to measure and state" and not believing or accepting what other people say so easily.[26]
One may obtain knowledge and wisdom through God, his Word, and his Divine Manifestation and the source of all learning is the knowledge of God.[27]
Buddhist scriptures teach that a wise person is endowed with good bodily conduct, good verbal conduct, and good mental conduct.(AN 3:2) A wise person does actions that are unpleasant to do but give good results, and doesn't do actions that are pleasant to do but give bad results (AN 4:115). Wisdom is the antidote to the self-chosen poison of ignorance. The Buddha has much to say on the subject of wisdom including:
- He who arbitrates a case by force does not thereby become just (established in Dhamma). But the wise man is he who carefully discriminates between right and wrong.[28]
- He who leads others by nonviolence, righteously and equitably, is indeed a guardian of justice, wise and righteous.[29]
- One is not wise merely because he talks much. But he who is calm, free from hatred and fear, is verily called a wise man.[30]
- By quietude alone one does not become a sage (muni) if he is foolish and ignorant. But he who, as if holding a pair of scales, takes the good and shuns the evil, is a wise man; he is indeed a muni by that very reason. He who understands both good and evil as they really are, is called a true sage.[31]
To recover the original supreme wisdom of self-nature covered by the self-imposed three dusty poisons (greed, anger, ignorance) Buddha taught to his students the threefold training by turning greed into generosity and discipline, anger into kindness and meditation, ignorance into wisdom. As the Sixth Patriarch of Chán Buddhism, Huineng, said in his Platform Sutra,"Mind without dispute is self-nature discipline, mind without disturbance is self-nature meditation, mind without ignorance is self-nature wisdom."
In Christian theology, "wisdom" (Hebrew: chokhmah, Greek: Sophia, Latin: Sapientia) describes an aspect of God, or the theological concept regarding the wisdom of God.
There is an oppositional element in Christian thought between secular wisdom and Godly wisdom. The apostle Paul states that worldly wisdom thinks the claims of Christ to be foolishness. However, to those who are "on the path to salvation" Christ represents the wisdom of God. (1Corinthians 1:17–31) Also, Wisdom is one of the seven gifts of the Holy Spirit according to Anglican, Catholic, and Lutheran belief. 1Corinthians 12:8–10 gives an alternate list of nine virtues, among which wisdom is one.
According to Confucius (551–479 BCE), one can learn wisdom by three methods:
- reflection (the noblest)
- imitation (the easiest)
- experience (the bitterest)
One does not dispense wisdom oneself unless asked by another. This means that a wise man never tells his wisdom unless asked person to person.
According to the Doctrine of the Mean, Confucius also said:
"Love of learning is akin to wisdom. To practice with vigor is akin to humanity. To know to be shameful is akin to courage (zhi, ren, yi.. three of Mengzi's sprouts of virtue)."[citation needed]
Compare this with the Confucian classic Great Learning, which begins with: "The Way of learning to be great consists in manifesting the clear character, loving the people, and abiding in the highest good." One can clearly see the correlation with the Roman virtue prudence, especially if one interprets "clear character" as "clear conscience". (From Chan's Sources of Chinese Philosophy).[citation needed]
Wisdom in Hinduism is considered a state of mind and soul where a person achieves liberation.
The God of intellect (wisdom) is Ganesha and the goddess of knowledge is Saraswati.[citation needed]
The Sanskrit verse to attain knowledge is
- Om Asato maa sad-gamaya;
- tamaso maa jyotir-ga-maya;
- mrtyor-maa amrutam gamaya.
- Om Shaantih Shaantih Shaantih.
- "O Lord Lead me from the unreal to the real.
- Lead me from darkness to light.
- Lead me from death to immortality.
- May there be peace, peace, and perfect peace".
- Brihadaranyaka Upanishad 1.3.28.
Wisdom in Hinduism is knowing oneself as the truth, basis for the entire Creation, i.e., of Shristi.[clarification needed] In other words, wisdom simply means a person with Self-awareness as the one who witnesses the entire creation in all its facets and forms. Further it means realization that an individual through right conduct and right living over an unspecified period comes to realize their true relationship with the creation and the Paramatma who rules it.[citation needed]
IslamIn Islam, Wisdom is deemed as one of the greatest gifts humankind can enjoy. The Quran states :
"He gives wisdom to whom He wills, and whoever has been given wisdom has certainly been given much good. And none will remember except those of understanding."There are a number of verses where the Q'uran specifically talks about the nature of wisdom. In Surah 22 Al-Hajj (The Pilgrimage) it is said, "Have they not travelled in the land, and have they hearts wherewith to feel and ears wherewith to hear? For indeed it is not the eyes that grow blind, but it is the hearts, which are within the bosoms, that grow blind." (verse 46). In another Surah Al-'An`ām (The Cattle) it's said,
"Say: "Come, I will rehearse what Allah (God) hath (really) prohibited you from": Join not anything as equal with Him; be good to your parents; kill not your children on a plea of want;― We provide sustenance for you and for them;― come not nigh to shameful deeds, whether open or secret; take not life, which Allah hath made sacred, except by way of justice and law: thus doth He command you, that ye may learn wisdom"
The word wisdom (חכם) is mentioned 222 times in the Hebrew Bible. It was regarded as one of the highest virtues among the Israelites along with kindness (חסד) and justice (צדק). Both the books of Proverbs and Psalms urge readers to obtain and to increase in wisdom.
In the Hebrew Bible, wisdom is represented by Solomon, who asks God for wisdom in 2 Chronicles 1:10. Much of the Book of Proverbs, a book of wise sayings, is attributed to Solomon. In Proverbs 9:10 the fear of YHWH is called the beginning of wisdom. In Proverbs 1:20 there is also reference to wisdom personified in female form, "Wisdom calls aloud in the streets, she raises her voice in the marketplaces." In Proverbs 8:22–31 this personified wisdom is described as being present with God before creation began and even taking part in creation itself.
The Talmud teaches that a wise person is a person who can foresee the future. Nolad is the Hebrew word for "future," but also the Hebrew word for birth, so one rabbinic interpretation of the teaching is that a wise person is one who can foresee the consequences of his/her choices (i.e. can "see the future" that he/she "gives birth" to).[34]
In Taoism, wisdom is construed as adherence to the Three Treasures (Taoism): charity, simplicity, and humility.
- Knowing others is intelligence;
- knowing yourself is true wisdom.
- Mastering others is strength;
- mastering yourself is true power.
- Tao Te Ching, 33, tr. S. Mitchell
In Mesopotamian religion and mythology, Enki, also known as Ea, was the God of wisdom and intelligence. Wisdom was achieved by restoring balance.
In Norse mythology, the god Odin is especially known for his wisdom, often acquired through various hardships and ordeals involving pain and self-sacrifice. In one instance he plucked out an eye and offered it to Mímir, guardian of the well of knowledge and wisdom, in return for a drink from the well.[35] In another famous account, Odin hanged himself for nine nights from Yggdrasil, the World Tree that unites all the realms of existence, suffering from hunger and thirst and finally wounding himself with a spear until he gained the knowledge of runes for use in casting powerful magic.[36] He was also able to acquire the mead of poetry from the giants, a drink of which could grant the power of a scholar or poet, for the benefit of gods and mortals alike.[35]
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- ^ "wisdom." Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 10th Edition. HarperCollins Publishers. 28 Feb. 2014. <Dictionary.com http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/wisdom>.
- ^ "Charles Spurgeon". Wikiquote. Retrieved 8 March 2015.
- ^ Carney, Brian M.; Getz, Isaac (2009). Freedom, Inc. Crown Business. p. 238. ISBN 9780307462473. Retrieved 8 March 2015.
- ^ Turnbill, S (12 August 2011). "Athena, Greek goddess of wisdom and craftsmanship". Goddessgift.com.
- ^ But note that two thousand years after Aristotle, Isaac Newton was forced to admit that "I have not yet been able to discover the cause of these properties of gravity"
- ^ "Myths about Roman goddess minerva. (n.d.)". Roman-colosseum.info.
- ^ "Matthew 11:19 (KJV): "The Son of man came eating and drinking, and they say, Behold a man gluttonous, and a winebibber, a friend of publicans and sinners. But wisdom is justified of her children". Bible.cc.
- ^ "Matthew 10:16 (KJV): "Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves". Bible.cc.
- ^ "Character education: our shared responsibility". Ed.gov. 31 May 2005.
- ^ knowledgetowisdom.org, Friends of Wisdom "an association of people sympathetic to the idea that academic inquiry should help humanity acquire more wisdom by rational means" founded by Maxwell.
- ^ Sternberg, R. J. (1985). Implicit theories of intelligence, creativity, and wisdom. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 49, 607–62.
- ^ Brown, S. C., & Greene, J. A. (2006). The Wisdom Development Scale: Translating the conceptual to the concrete. Journal of College Student Development, 47, 1–19.
- ^ a b c Harter, Andrew C. (2004). "8". In Peterson, Christopher and Seligman, Martin E. P. Character Strengths and Virtues: A Handbook and Classification. Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp. 181–196. ISBN 0-19-516701-5.
- ^ a b Orwoll, L.; Perlmutter, M. (1990). R. J. Sternberg, ed. Wisdom: Its nature, origins, and development. New York: Cambridge University Press. pp. 160–177. ISBN 0-521-36718-2.
- ^ Grossmann, Igor; Jinkyung Na; Michael E W. Varnum; Denise C. Park; Shinobu Kitayama; Richard E. Nisbett (2010). "Reasoning about social conflicts improves into old age". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 107 (16): 7246–7250. PMC 2867718. PMID 20368436. doi:10.1073/pnas.1001715107. Retrieved 1 May 2011.
- ^ Neurobiology of Wisdom: A Literature Overview.
- ^ Peterson, Christopher; Seligman, Martin E. P. (2004). Character Strengths and Virtues: A Handbook and Classification. Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 106. ISBN 0-19-516701-5.
- ^ Ferrari, Michel (2012). The Scientific Study of Personal Wisdom. Springer Verlag. ISBN 978-9048192304.
- ^ Vervaeke, John. "The Cognitive Science of Wisdom". Mind Matters Conference. Retrieved 13 April 2013.
- ^ Legesse B, Price BH., Murray ED Brain-Behavior Relations. In: Encyclopedia of Human Behavior, 2nd Edition. Vilanayur S Ramachandran MD PhD(ed) Academic Press. 16 March 2012. ISBN 978-0123750006
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- ^ Lewis, C.T. and Short, C. (1963). Latin Dictionary. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-864201-5.
- ^ "About, on Shades of Sentience". Retrieved 7 August 2014.
- ^ "Bahai Reference Library". Tablets of Bahá'u'lláh Revealed After the Kitáb-i-Aqdas. US Bahá'í Publishing Trust, 1988 pocket-size edition. Retrieved 19 March 2013.
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The Seward Concert Band rehearses weekly to prepare for our concerts. New members can drop in to try our music, though drop-ins are best in the first rehearsals after a concert.
Doors are usually open at 6:30, and we encourage everyone to arrive with enough time to be warmed up and ready to begin at 6:50.
We hold a short break mid-way through each rehearsal. We share announcements and snacks, and everyone can move around and do what they need then as well.
We end by 8:50 to allow everyone time to pack up, help others if you're done early, and move on before the building locks up for the night. Staying up late? Check in with others – there are often social gatherings afterward.
Changes in the published schedule will be announced at rehearsals. Unplanned cancellations such as severe weather, etc., will be communicated via email. If you must miss a rehearsal, please email the conductor and your section lead to let them know. Please try to pass along your parts whenever possible.
Venue Details:
Sanford Middle School
3524 42nd Ave S
Minneapolis, MN 55406
Interior Directions – Rehearsal
Enter through door 4, labeled as the "Main Door". Door 4 is on the west side of the building, facing 41st Avenue South. It is on the south end of the parking lot, next to the bike racks.
From Door 4, go up the stairs to your left (behind the welcome desk) to the second floor. The band room is down the ramp to the left (about 30 feet from the stairs).
For elevator access, go past the welcome desk into the main hallway. The elevator is on the right, just past the main office. When you get out of the elevator, turn left and then head down the hallway until you see the ramp, which will be on the right.
Interior Directions – Performances
Enter through door 4, labeled as the "Main Door". Door 4 is on the west side of the building, facing 41st Avenue South. It is on the south end of the parking lot, next to the bike racks.
Move forward down the main hallway, and you will find the auditorium on the left.
Parking and Transit
For most rehearsals, the school's parking lot will have plenty of spaces for us. If the lot is ever full, here are good places to look in the neighborhood:
- 41st and 42nd Avenues – You can park on both sides when school is not in session.
- 36th Street – You can park on both sides when school is not in session.
- 35th Street – You can park on the south side of the street.
- There are bike racks outside the main door, and the school is on the 9 bus route.


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My family and I attend our local PCA church, and do dearly love the Reformed faith. I have a silly question which doesn't really have to do with doctrine. Please forgive me for asking this question. My wife and I are going around in circles with each other concerning Christmas. We were both raised being taught to believe in Santa Claus; however, now that I am a father I have some serious issues with teaching my daughter to believe in some one she can't see who doesn't exist, while at the same time teaching her to believe in some one else whom she cannot see but does exist. I'm afraid that when she realizes Santa isn't real, she may conclude that Christ isn't real either. My wife is committed to keeping the Santa tradition; thus we debate. Am I wrong for pushing the issue?
I, too, was brought up by adults who led me to think that Santa really existed. And I think my parents did this for the simple reason that everyone else did it too. So when I became a Reformed Christian and a father I, too, had to deal with this issue. So I will simply try to tell you what I did, and why.
I decided, as the responsible head of my family, that it was in fact a doctrinal issue. The issue is the biblical doctrine of truth-telling. As you know, the Bible has much to say about the subject of "speaking the truth in love" (Eph. 4:15 NIV).
"...speaking the truth in love, we will in all things grow up into him who is the Head, that is, Christ" (Eph. 4:15).
"Therefore each of you must put off falsehood and speak truthfully to his neighbor, for we are all members of one body" (Eph. 4:25 NIV).
"Do not lie to each other, since you have taken off your old self with its practices and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge in the image of its Creator" (Col. 3:9-10).
Suggestion: go through an edition of the Westminster Confession of Faith and Catechisms with proof texts (you'll find those documents on-line here) and read the many texts that insist on telling the truth and not falsehood. It was my growing conviction that God requires us to speak truth in every situation that led me to refuse to bring up my three daughters in such a way as to encourage them in any way to believe that Santa really exists.
At the same time I never saw it as necessary to forbid enjoyment of the Santa mythas a myth (that is, telling my children that it is all a made-up story). We allow other such stories into our lives, recognizing that they tell of characters who are "pretend" and not real (examples: Cinderella, hobbits, Mickey Mouse, Alice in Wonderland, etc.). I see no biblical reason to say that a made-up story is necessarily wrong, as long as it is not palmed off as a true story.
It seems to me that even the parables of Christ may be like this. I do not believe that we are required to say that the parable of the sower is a literally true story of a particular actual person who went out sowing seeds. The prophet Nathan's story about the rich man taking the lamb from the poor man in 2 Samuel 12 is obviously not intended to be taken literally, because Nathan tells David, "You are the man" (2 Samuel 2:12, NIV).
No, we have there a vivid use of something that is not literal to tell us about something that is true, but on a higher level. I'm not suggesting that there is some "higher level" truth to be learned from Santa, but perhaps we can use even that story to communicate truth by contrast.
For example, we're told of Santa that "he knows when you've been sleeping, he knows when you're awake, he knows when you've been bad or good, so be good for goodness' sake." Well, Santa is not omniscienthe cannot be, because he is make-believe, not realbut our God, the God of the Bible, is both real and totally omniscient (see Ps. 139). And the Lord our Shepherd leads us in the paths of righteousness not simply "for goodness' sake," but for his Name's sake (see Ps. 23).
So, as I see it, the issue is truth telling. The truth is that there is no Santa Claus at the North Pole. And it does not hurt children in any way to know that from day one. They can still enjoy the silly song about Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer.
Let me conclude with some words from Solomon that seem somewhat strange (even almost contradictory) at first sight: "Be not overly righteous, and do not make yourself too wise. Be not overly wicked, neither be a fool. Why should you die before your time? It is good that you should take hold of this, and from that withhold not your hand, for the one who fears God shall come out from both of them" (Eccl. 7:16-18).
We expect an inspired scripture writer to warn against being wickedand especially overly wicked. But we are startled a bit to hear this warning against being "overly righteous"! We are indeed to "be perfect ... as your heavenly Father is perfect" (Matt. 5:48 NIV), but we need to be careful not to go beyond Scripture in forbidding what is not forbidden in Scripture! But that can be a real danger. We can so easily over-react. We can so easily go to extremes. It seems to me that this is what some do with respect to the Santa myth.
May the Lord grant you the wisdom to reject what is evil completely, without being "overly righteous."
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A story is something I discover rather than diagram. The process of loading a brush with paint or picking up a marking tool is a physical act that is connected to, but separate from, visualizing things in my head. I need to submit to the physical act, "go with the flow," in order to let head and hand best collaborate. They do work together, but trying to make my hand subservient to images in my head is not effective. There are a thousand themes and stories I want to visualize, but I won't get the desired fluid, unexpected results by seeking predetermination. I may start out wanting to make one thing only to have it's execution take a nose-dive. Yet the process usually reveals something else, unforeseen, that is less contrived than what I wanted. To me, non-linearity has a greater connect to reality.
Jason Jägel, November 2010
Jason W. Jägel
Born Boston, Mass. 1971
MFA Stanford University, Stanford, CA
BFA Painting, California College of Arts & Crafts, Oakland, CA
(I'll Fly) into Your Heart, Fifty24SF, San Francisco, CA
Fate In A Pleasant Mood, Galleri Christoffer Egelund, Copenhagen, Denmark
Free Time, Galleria Della Pina, Pietrasanta, Italy
Gramophone Rainbow, AMT / Alberto Matteo Torri, Milan, Italy
Seventy-Three Funshine, Electric Works, San Francisco, CA
(Like Life, But a) Simplified Version, Richard Heller Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Paper Recording, Plane Space, Swab Art Fair, Barcelona, Spain
Paper Record, Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, WA
One Thing About Music, Plane Space, New York, NY
Flesh Of My Skin, Nathan Larramendy Gallery, Ojai, CA
Flesh Of My Skin, Queen's Nails Annex, San Francisco, CA
P's & Q's, Richard Heller Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Peripheral Listens, Queen's Nails Annex, San Francisco, CA
Funny, Richard Heller Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Even though the flowers bloom, scopeMiami, Richard Heller Gallery, Miami, FL
Boo Ya! Richard Heller Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Juvenile Theoretics , Susan Cummins Gallery, Mill Valley, CA
Hand Over Fist, RVCA, San Francisco, CA
Paper! Awesome!, Baer-Ridgeway Exhibitions, San Francisco, CA
Trace Elements, SF Arts Commission Gallery, San Francisco, CA
With Hidden Noise, David Krut Projects, New York, NY
Neither Up Nor Down, 111 Minna, San Francisco, CA
Saturday@Phillips, Phillips de Pury, New York, NY
Kick Out The Jams, The Luggage Store, San Francisco, CA
Artists of Invention: A Century of CCA, Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA
Civil Twilight, Electric Works, San Francisco, CA
Gangbusters, Plane Space, New York, NY
Scene\Seen: Recent Acquisitions from the Luckman Fine Arts Complex Permanent Collection, 1979-2006, California State University, Los Angeles, CA
"Don't Look" Contemporary Drawings from an Alumna's Collection (Martina Yamin, class of 1958), The Davis Museum and Cultural Center at Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA
Bananas!!!, 94 Prince Street, New York, NY
Paper Trails- New Adventures in Drawing, V1 Gallery, Copenhagen, DK
Close Calls, Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA
Transformers, Donna Beam Fine Art Gallery UNLV, Las Vegas, NV
Five Habitats: Squatting at Langton, New Langton Arts, SF, CA
Claw Your Face Off, Plane Space, New York, NY
Paper Pushers, Richard L. Nelson Gallery, University of California, Davis
Project Room, Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Bay Area Bazaar, Pulliam Deffenbaugh Gallery, Portland, OR
SPRAWL, Haley Martin Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Trillium Press, SFMOMA Artists Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Comic Release, Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA
San Francisco, New Image Art, Los Angeles, CA
Comics Stripped, Off the Preserve! a project of The di Rosa Preserve, Napa, CA
Comic Release, Regina Gouger Miller Gallery at Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburg, PA; Center for Contemporary Art, New Orleans, LA
Straight to Hell, Richard Heller Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
The Drawing Show, Lizabeth Oliveria Gallery, Oakland, CA
Group Exhibition, Green-Naftali, New York, NY
Kaboom!, Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Eureka: New Art from the Bay Area, San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA
Eureka Fellowship Exhibition, San Jose Museum of Art & The Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA
Looking Towards the Future, SF MOMA Artists Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Tweakville, Catherine Clark Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Bay Area Now, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
Bay Area Awards Show, New Langton Arts, San Francisco, CA