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The love I dedicate to your lordship is without end; whereof
Your lordship's in all duty,
The Argument
Lucius Tarquinius, for his excessive pride surnamed Superbus,
The Rape of Lucrece
From the besieged Ardea all in post,
Haply that name of 'chaste' unhappily set
For he the night before, in Tarquin's tent,
O happiness enjoy'd but of a few!
Beauty itself doth of itself persuade 80
Perchance his boast of Lucrece' sovereignty
But some untimely thought did instigate
When at Collatium this false lord arrived,
But beauty, in that white intituled,
This heraldry in Lucrece' face was seen, 115
Their silent war of lilies and of roses,
Now thinks he that her husband's shallow tongue,--
This earthly saint, adored by this devil,
For that he colour'd with his high estate,
But she, that never coped with stranger eyes, 150
He stories to her ears her husband's fame,
Far from the purpose of his coming hither,
For then is Tarquin brought unto his bed,
As one of which doth Tarquin lie revolving
Those that much covet are with gain so fond, 185
The aim of all is but to nurse the life
So that in venturing ill we leave to be
Such hazard now must doting Tarquin make,
Now stole upon the time the dead of night,
And now this lustful lord leap'd from his bed, 220
His falchion on a flint he softly smiteth,
Here pale with fear he doth premeditate
'Fair torch, burn out thy light, and lend it not
'O shame to knighthood and to shining arms!
'Yea, though I die, the scandal will survive, 255
'What win I, if I gain the thing I seek?
'If Collatinus dream of my intent,
'O, what excuse can my invention make,
'Had Collatinus kill'd my son or sire,
'Shameful it is; ay, if the fact be known: 290
Thus, graceless, holds he disputation
Quoth he, 'She took me kindly by the hand,
'And how her hand, in my hand being lock'd
'Why hunt I then for colour or excuses?
'Then, childish fear, avaunt! debating, die! 325
As corn o'ergrown by weeds, so heedful fear
Within his thought her heavenly image sits,
And therein heartens up his servile powers,
The locks between her chamber and his will,
As each unwilling portal yields him way, 360
And being lighted, by the light he spies
But all these poor forbiddings could not stay him;
'So, so,' quoth he, 'these lets attend the time,
Now is he come unto the chamber-door,
But in the midst of his unfruitful prayer, 395
'Then Love and Fortune be my gods, my guide!
This said, his guilty hand pluck'd up the latch,
Into the chamber wickedly he stalks,
Look, as the fair and fiery-pointed sun,
O, had they in that darksome prison died! 430
Her lily hand her rosy cheek lies under,
Without the bed her other fair hand was,
Her hair, like golden threads, play'd with her breath;
Her breasts, like ivory globes circled with blue,
What could he see but mightily he noted? 465
As the grim lion fawneth o'er his prey,
And they, like straggling slaves for pillage fighting,
His drumming heart cheers up his burning eye,
They, mustering to the quiet cabinet
Imagine her as one in dead of night 500
Wrapp'd and confounded in a thousand fears,
His hand, that yet remains upon her breast,--
First, like a trumpet, doth his tongue begin
Thus he replies: 'The colour in thy face,
'Thus I forestall thee, if thou mean to chide: 535
'I see what crosses my attempt will bring;
'I have debated, even in my soul,
This said, he shakes aloft his Roman blade,
'Lucrece,' quoth he,'this night I must enjoy thee:
'So thy surviving husband shall remain 570
'But if thou yield, I rest thy secret friend:
'Then, for thy husband and thy children's sake,
Here with a cockatrice' dead-killing eye
But when a black-faced cloud the world doth threat,
Yet, foul night-waking cat, he doth but dally, 605
Her pity-pleading eyes are sadly fix'd
She conjures him by high almighty Jove,
Quoth she, 'Reward not hospitality
'My husband is thy friend; for his sake spare me:
'All which together, like a troubled ocean, 640
'In Tarquin's likeness I did entertain thee:
'How will thy shame be seeded in thine age,
'This deed will make thee only loved for fear;
'And wilt thou be the school where Lust shall learn?
'Hast thou command? by him that gave it thee, 675
'Think but how vile a spectacle it were,
'To thee, to thee, my heaved-up hands appeal,
'Have done,' quoth he: 'my uncontrolled tide
'Thou art,' quoth she, 'a sea, a sovereign king;
'So shall these slaves be king, and thou their slave; 710
'So let thy thoughts, low vassals to thy state'--
This said, he sets his foot upon the light,
For with the nightly linen that she wears
But she hath lost a dearer thing than life,
Look, as the full-fed hound or gorged hawk, 745
O, deeper sin than bottomless conceit
And then with lank and lean discolour'd cheek,
So fares it with this faultful lord of Rome,
She says, her subjects with foul insurrection
Even in this thought through the dark night he stealeth, 780
He like a thievish dog creeps sadly thence;
He thence departs a heavy convertite;
'They think not but that every eye can see
Here she exclaims against repose and rest,
'O comfort-killing Night, image of hell! 815
'O hateful, vaporous, and foggy Night!
'With rotten damps ravish the morning air;
'Were Tarquin Night, as he is but Night's child,
'Where now I have no one to blush with me,
'O Night, thou furnace of foul-reeking smoke, 850
'Make me not object to the tell-tale Day!
'The nurse, to still her child, will tell my story,
'Let my good name, that senseless reputation,
'O unseen shame! invisible disgrace!
'If, Collatine, thine honour lay in me, 885
'Yet am I guilty of thy honour's wrack;
'Why should the worm intrude the maiden bud?
'The aged man that coffers-up his gold
'So then he hath it when he cannot use it,
'Unruly blasts wait on the tender spring; 920
'O Opportunity, thy guilt is great!
'Thou makest the vestal violate her oath;
'Thy secret pleasure turns to open shame,
'When wilt thou be the humble suppliant's friend,
'The patient dies while the physician sleeps; 955
'When Truth and Virtue have to do with thee,
Guilty thou art of murder and of theft,
'Mis-shapen Time, copesmate of ugly Night,
'Why hath thy servant, Opportunity,
'Time's glory is to calm contending kings, 990
'To fill with worm-holes stately monuments,
'To show the beldam daughters of her daughter,
'Why work'st thou mischief in thy pilgrimage,
'Thou ceaseless lackey to eternity,
'Disturb his hours of rest with restless trances, 1025
'Let him have time to tear his curled hair,
'Let him have time to see his friends his foes,
'O Time, thou tutor both to good and bad,
'The baser is he, coming from a king,
'The crow may bathe his coal-black wings in mire, 1060
'Out, idle words, servants to shallow fools!
'In vain I rail at Opportunity,
'Poor hand, why quiver'st thou at this decree?
This said, from her be-tumbled couch she starteth,
'In vain,' quoth she, 'I live, and seek in vain 1095
'O, that is gone for which I sought to live,
'Well, well, dear Collatine, thou shalt not know
'Nor shall he smile at thee in secret thought,
'I will not poison thee with my attaint,
By this, lamenting Philomel had ended 1130
Revealing day through every cranny spies,
Thus cavils she with every thing she sees:
So she, deep-drenched in a sea of care,
The little birds that tune their morning's joy
'Tis double death to drown in ken of shore; 1165
'You mocking-birds,' quoth she, 'your tunes entomb
'Come, Philomel, that sing'st of ravishment,
'And whiles against a thorn thou bear'st thy part,
'And for, poor bird, thou sing'st not in the day,
As the poor frighted deer, that stands at gaze, 1200
'To kill myself,' quoth she, 'alack, what were it,
'My body or my soul, which was the dearer,
'Her house is sack'd, her quiet interrupted,
'Yet die I will not till my Collatine
'My honour I'll bequeath unto the knife 1235
'Dear lord of that dear jewel I have lost,
'This brief abridgement of my will I make:
'Thou, Collatine, shalt oversee this will;
This Plot of death when sadly she had laid,
Her mistress she doth give demure good-morrow, 1270
But as the earth doth weep, the sun being set,
A pretty while these pretty creatures stand,
For men have marble, women waxen, minds,
Their smoothness, like a goodly champaign plain,
No man inveigh against the wither'd flower, 1305
The precedent whereof in Lucrece view,
By this, mild patience bid fair Lucrece speak
'But tell me, girl, when went'--and there she stay'd
'But, lady, if your maid may be so bold,
'Go, get me hither paper, ink, and pen:
Her maid is gone, and she prepares to write,
At last she thus begins: 'Thou worthy lord 1355
Here folds she up the tenor of her woe,
Besides, the life and feeling of her passion
To see sad sights moves more than hear them told;
Her letter now is seal'd, and on it writ
The homely villain court'sies to her low; 1390
When, silly groom! God wot, it was defect
His kindled duty kindled her mistrust,
But long she thinks till he return again,
At last she calls to mind where hangs a piece
A thousand lamentable objects there, 1425
There might you see the labouring pioner
In great commanders grace and majesty
In Ajax and Ulysses, O, what art 1445
There pleading might you see grave Nestor stand,
About him were a press of gaping faces,
Here one man's hand lean'd on another's head,
For much imaginary work was there;
And from the walls of strong-besieged Troy 1480
And from the strand of Dardan, where they fought,
To this well-painted piece is Lucrece come,
In her the painter had anatomized
On this sad shadow Lucrece spends her eyes,
'Poor instrument,' quoth she,'without a sound, 1515
'Show me the strumpet that began this stir,
'Why should the private pleasure of some one
'Lo, here weeps Hecuba, here Priam dies,
Here feelingly she weeps Troy's painted woes:
She throws her eyes about the painting round, 1550
In him the painter labour'd with his skill
But, like a constant and confirmed devil,
The well-skill'd workman this mild image drew
This picture she advisedly perused,
'It cannot be,' quoth she,'that so much guile'-- 1585
'For even as subtle Sinon here is painted.
'Look, look, how listening Priam wets his eyes,
'Such devils steal effects from lightless hell;
Here, all enraged, such passion her assails,
Thus ebbs and flows the current of her sorrow, 1620
Which all this time hath overslipp'd her thought,
But now the mindful messenger, come back,
Which when her sad-beholding husband saw,
At last he takes her by the bloodless hand,
Three times with sighs she gives her sorrow fire, 1655
And now this pale swan in her watery nest
'Then be this all the task it hath to say
'For in the dreadful dead of dark midnight,
'For some hard-favour'd groom of thine,' quoth he,
'With this, I did begin to start and cry; 1690
'Mine enemy was strong, my poor self weak,
'O, teach me how to make mine own excuse!
Lo, here, the hopeless merchant of this loss,
As through an arch the violent roaring tide
Which speechless woe of his poor she attendeth, 1725
'And for my sake, when I might charm thee so,
'But ere I name him, you fair lords,' quoth she,
At this request, with noble disposition
'What is the quality of mine offence,
With this, they all at once began to say, 1760
Here with a sigh, as if her heart would break,
Even here she sheathed in her harmless breast
Stone-still, astonish'd with this deadly deed,
And bubbling from her breast, it doth divide
About the mourning and congealed face 1795
'Daughter, dear daughter,' old Lucretius cries,
'Poor broken glass, I often did behold
'O time, cease thou thy course and last no longer,
By this, starts Collatine as from a dream,
The deep vexation of his inward soul 1830
Yet sometime 'Tarquin' was pronounced plain,
The one doth call her his, the other his,
'O,' quoth Lucretius,' I did give that life
Brutus, who pluck'd the knife from Lucrece' side,
But now he throws that shallow habit by, 1865
'Why, Collatine, is woe the cure for woe?
'Courageous Roman, do not steep thy heart
'Now, by the Capitol that we adore,
This said, he struck his hand upon his breast,
When they had sworn to this advised doom, 1900
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Welcome back!
This week we are very pleased at the announcement that Cardinal Angelo Scola from Venice has been named the Archbishop of Milan which is one of the largest dioceses in the world. Cardinal Scola has been a friend of mine since he was a priest. Blog readers will remember that when I visited Venice I stayed at his home with him.
He is a very dear friend and I am very pleased the H oly Father has called upon him to this very important ministry and I know he will give a great service to the Church in Milan. His participation in Communion and Liberation will also be a great source of encouragement to all the new ecclesial communities in the Church.
Cardinal Scola recently hosted the Holy Father on a gondola tour of Venice.
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And now, to the events of this week
Last Wednesday we attended the annual Order of Malta dinner for senior priests at the Boston College Club. Jack Joyce and Jim O'Connor of the Knights have organized this wonderful meal for our senior priests. They always bring in bagpipes and Bob Crane and the Treasury Notes sing all the oldies but goodies.
The BC Club has a spectacular view of the city of Boston. Many of our priests have studied at Boston College of course, so it's a very grand event for them.
A couple of our priests added their voices to the Treasury Notes including Father Richard Fitzgerald pastor of St. Paul's in Wellesley. The closing prayer was led by Msgr. Paul McManus who is celebrating the 75th anniversary of his graduation from BC! He has been a priest for 69 years, ordained in 1942.
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On Saturday, I attended the Family Conference which was organized by the Office of Ethnic Ministries. It took place on the grounds of Malden Catholic High School with representatives from the various ethnic groups from Asia, Africa, Latin America and Europe who make up our local Catholic community. It was a magnificent event.
During the event, many groups perform dances and singing from their respective countries
At the beginning of Mass there was a procession with the flags of all the different countries.
An African group processed in with the lectionary with the traditional ceremony that used when a king comes into their village. It is a very moving and beautiful experience.
The Haitian choir from St. Angela's in Mattapan sang the Mass parts in Latin four voice and then many other choirs sang the other songs.
There were many priests from the Cape Verdean, Brazilian, Haitian, Vietnamese, Korean and Chinese apostolates who were all part of this very extraordinary manifestation of the catholicity of the Church and of our local Catholic Church in Boston.
Father Mike Harrington was very much involved in organizing the event and Lorna DesRoses and her staff were very much involved in the preparations.
The event gave us an opportunity to publicly acknowledge the priests who are working in our ethnic apostolates and who come from all these various countries. Without their invaluable ministry we would not be able to serve these growing immigrant communities in the archdiocese.
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On Sunday we celebrated the Marriage Anniversary Mass at the cathedral.
We had over 200 couples celebrating their 2 5th, 50th, and 60th wedding anniversaries. It was also the solemnity of Corpus Christi so in my homily I tried to connect the Sacrament of Marriage with the Sacrament of the Eucharist which is the sacrament of love where Christ has made a gift of Himself to us, so giving us the strength to be able to make the gift of ourselves. This is precisely what happens in the sacrament of marriage.
I also cited the sad statistic that it has been announced this year that less than 50% of the households in the United States are comprised of married couples, so it is very important for us to celebrate marriage and the witness of love of the married couples who have embraced this vocation and whose lives are an invitation to others to seek and to embrace the vocation of becoming married people and the parents of children.
During the Mass over 200 couples renewed their wedding vows. Kari Collela and her husband Steve, together with their staff, organized all of this. This gives us an opportunity to recognize the wonderful work that is being done by so many volunteers in the Pre-Cana and other marriage preparation programs of the archdiocese.
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That evening, I participated at the Cardinal's Leadership Circle gathering at the home of Rich and Helene Monaghan in Hingham.
It was a great gathering of people who are friends and benefactors of the archdiocese.
I spoke about the training programs for the seminarians, the deacons and the lay ministers. On the same day the Globe had an article about Sister Olga so I also referred to that article during my remarks.
Father Hehir spoke about Campus Ministry and reaching out to our youth and young adults.
Rich Monaghan echoed Father Hehir's words on the importance of communicating and engaging our young people. He also thanked and encouraged all to support our works.
Father Mozer and Lyn Shields share some thoughts
Guests drove to the event in golf carts piloted by the Monaghan kids
which added to the festivity
Sharing a story with Claire and John Bertucci
and Damien DeVasto from our staff
Chatting with Linda and Jay Hooley
Here with the Vieth, Rielly, Murray and Joy couples, who are parishioners from St. Paul's in Hingham
I am always happy to express appreciation and share our initiatives with our friends and supporters.
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On Wednesday, Father Chris Marino of St. Michael the Archangel parish in Miami passed though Boston with his mother and the principal of his school. They visited the Pastoral Center and then came to see me at the cathedral. I've known him for over 30 years and he is a good friend of mine. It was his first trip to Boston and he was very impressed both with the Pastoral Center and the Cathedral of the Holy Cross.
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I was also happy to meet with Santiago Enrique, one of the children of our Pilot editor, who recently came back from spending time in Shanghai as part of his studies at Mass Maritime Academy in Buzzards Bay.
While in China, Santiago went on pilgrimage to the Shrine of Our Lady of She Shan near Shanghai and brought me back a beautiful replica of the statue that stands on top of the shrine.
A view of the Basiilica
You can see the statue standing on top of the church
He shared with me his experience in China and his love for the Chinese people.
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On Wednesday evening, the solemnity of Sts. Peter and Paul, I presided over a Holy Hour celebrating the 60th anniversary of ordination of the Holy Father at the cathedral. We have asked parishes throughout the archdiocese to offer prayers for the Holy Father on this joyful occasion.
I also sent a letter to the Holy Father on behalf of the Catholics in the Archdiocese in which I tell him we are praying for him particularly in this time that the Germans call the "Ablass Woche" which is a week of indulgences leading to Corpus Christi. I told him that during this time the Catholics in the archdiocese would be praying for him and also praying for vocations.
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Also on Wednesday, we continued our tradition with the Greek Orthodox Metropolis of inviting each other to the celebrations of Saints Peter and Paul and Saint Andrew.
Saints Peter and Paul, celebrated on June 29, are the Patron Saints of Rome, and Saint Andrew is the Patron Saint of the Greek Orthodox mother church, Constantinople. This year we hosted the event through at St. Joseph Parish in Needham and their pastor, Father David Michael together with Bishop Edyvean represented me and welcomed Father John Panteleimon Manoussakis, who represented Metropolitan Methodios at the event.
When we welcome each other to these celebrations, we emulate on the local level what is happening simultaneously half a world away: on June 29 the Holy Father in Rome also welcomes a delegation of Orthodox Christians from the Ecumenical Patriarchate in Constantinople. And on November 29 the Ecumenical Patriarch reciprocates. As the Holy Father said to the representatives a few days ago, "Your participation in this our feast day, like the presence of our own representatives in Constantinople for the Feast of the Apostle Andrew, is an expression of the friendship and the authentic fraternity which unites the Church of Rome and the Ecumenical Patriarchate, bonds which are solidly rooted in the faith received from the witness of the Apostles."
Pope Benedict XVI embraces Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew
of Constantinople in 2008.
Let us pray that the Lord may grant us the gift of full communion with our Orthodox brothers and sisters.
Until next week
In Christ
Cardinal Seán


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Long before video could go viral, antiques went on roadshows and LPs were bought for the purpose of hanging on dorm room walls, Vancouver radio host and TV personality, Nardwuar "The Human Serviette" was out pleasantly accosting your favorite musician to take part in something that was probably unlike any interview they'd ever experienced. Closer to a highly caffeinated guerilla-style episode of This Your Life where old vinyl and local restaurants replace first grade teachers and junior prom dates, Nardwuar's meticulously-researched questions and "gifts" give artists the chance to roll with the surprises and show that they're no different than their own fans when it comes to freaking out over the music, toys and pop culture memorabilia from their youth.
Now, not everyone "gets it." There are times when an interviewee's air of self-importance and aversion to throwing away the script creates a brutally uncomfortable exchange that plays out like one of those old Stuttering John red carpet bits on The Howard Stern Show. But the big difference is that even when facing off against a less-than-willing participant, Nardwuar isn't doing a character and his questions aren't shitck. The guy not only knows – and loves – music, he wants to know the stories behind the music other people love.
So with cojones of steel Nardwuar has spent the last 25 years jumping at the chance to go head-to-head with artists from any genre, independents to A-listers. But what may surprise some is that The Human Serviette's kindest reception has come from the Hip Hop community. Hip Hop is often maligned for being made up of tough-talking artists who take themselves too seriously. Yet Nardwuar's Hip Hop interviews tell a much different story. From vets like Snoop Dogg and Too Short to breakout artists like Big K.R.I.T., Kendrick Lamar and Danny Brown, Nardwuar's Hip Hop interviewees have shown themselves to be ego-free, quick on the uptake and full of admiration for the preparation, research and of course, crate digging that was required for the segment. But most importantly, from the moment the microphone gets shoved towards a face with the opening question of "Who are You" to the awkward frozen pose ending, Hip Hop has shown it has a sense of humor.
Since so much importance is placed on the artist and their tastes, favorite Nardwuar interviews are a subjective thing. With his recent partnership with Pharrell's "i am OTHER" venture and hot off a Curren$y Q&A, we decided to pay tribute. Rather than a "Best-Of" list, the following are some memorable moments – hits and misses – that will help newcomers kick off an afternoon of clicking YouTube links and repeatedly saying, "just one more."
Nardwuar vs. Snoop Dogg
With five interviews that span the course of a decade, Snoop Dogg and the man he has dubbed his "nephew from Vancouver, Mr. Nard Stay Hard Wuar" can deservedly be called the YouTube generation's "Ali and Cosell." When making offers to buy Nardwuar's signature interview gifts like a stuffed Red Foxx doll proved futile, Snoop resorted to what he has alternately called "borrowing" and "taking candy from a baby." But watching the duo bond over microwaved blunts and their love of Blowfly albums, you can't help but be moved by the sincere admiration they seem to have for each other. Snoop has said most interviewers don't come close to possessing Nardwuar's personality and courageousness. Nardwuar has in turn responded with items like Snoop's directorial debut, the straight-to-VHS, Smokefest #1 which Tha Doggfather himself couldn't find anywhere aside from a guy on eBay who tried to rip him off by jacking up the tape's price. Here's to another 10 years…
Nardwuar vs. N.E.R.D.
When N.E.R.D. sat down with "The Human Serviette" a.k.a. "The Human Napkin" in 2008 they were most likely expecting more questions like "Uh, so when's your next project due out?" not Virginia mall and skate-park talk or vinyl copies of Pharrell's first production credit, Wreckx-N-Effect's "Rumpshaker." What Pharrell calls "one of the most impressive interviews I've ever experienced in my life," N.E.R.D.'s sit down with Nardwuar taught us that everything boils down to Carl Sagan's Music of The Cosmos and Mork and Mindy's "Nanu Nanu." A fan favorite, this interview has all the elements of a classic Nardwuar encounter; impeccable research, forgotten toys, obscure records and wide eyed artists.
Nardwuar vs. Jay-Z
So blown away by this Canuck who calls himself "The Human Serviette," Pharrell Williams personally hooked up (as in repeatedly emailed, called, and texted) an interview with Jay-Z who was at the top of Nardwuar's wishlist. When it finally happened, Nardwuar's few minutes with Jay wasn't a bust of epic proportions (see: Travis Barker, Henry Rollins) but rather seemed to fizzle before it started with Hov losing interest after finding out his name was all that was necessary in response to the signature opener "Who are you?" rather than a monlogue on his ascent to greatness. The revelations that crept out between cigar puffs were minor: Jaz-O wore all of Jay's jewelry, Canadian customs sucks and people need to practice things.
Nardwuar vs. Tech N9ne & Krizz Kaliko
With artists who have as rabid a fanbase as Tech N9ne, routine interviews done during tour-stops tend to convert the unititiated rather than satisfy the cult. But a Nardwuar interview in "Vancouver, British Columbia," is an entirely different beast where ephemera and anecdotes that even the artist has forgotten are unearthed. If Jay-Z's 10 minutes were all over the place with little accomplished, Tech N9ne who joined Pharrell in declaring "greatest interview ever" had an exchange with Nardwuar that mirrored the Kansas City emcee's rhymes: head spinning efficiency topped with a twisted smile. You get the story of Tech choosing to open up for EPMD rather than attend his high school graduation followed by a discussion of James Lemonade, Mac Dre and a lawsuit from Bill Withers over sampling rights. Then there's a surprise video message from the original "Dirty Rapper" Blowfly and a K.C. Hip Hop history lesson featuring Tech's first group, Pure Dope. As if this wasn't enough Krizz Kaliko joins Nardwuar and Tecca Nina to talk The Munsters and participate in the longest recorded "ending freeze." Game, set, match, Strange.
Nardwuar vs. Nas
Sure, The Human Serviette's time chopping it up with Nas featured the usual impressive six-degrees-of-separation via toys and vinyl records but the interview deserves special mention for the cringe-inducing turn for the worse it took right near the end. Sitting there with his hands full of souvenirs that included a Pete Rock Comb, an Iron Shiek figurine and records from J.J. Fad, Main Source and MC Shan, Nasty Nas was under the impression everything was his to keep. When Narduwar broke the news that these were interview gifts, the Queensbridge legend went from "tripped out" to pissed off. What seconds earlier were heart touching items that stoked the flames of nostalgia now became nothing more than stuff from the "trick bag." After that nothing went right. The microphone was now too close and the Jimmy "J.J." Walker record with it's tie to the Jay-Z diss "Ether" could be seen as a sign of disrespect. Then came the coup de grace…the "doot-doola-doot-doo" didn't even get a "doot-doo."
Nardwuar vs. Ghostface Killah
Ghostface is the rare artist that gives people a hundred more reasons to love him just by stepping in front of a rolling camera. So when Starks crosses the border and chooses to do a Nardwuar interview over eating Tiramisu backstage, you know you're in for a treat. Once the confusion – "Apollo Kids" the 2010 album or the 1999 track – was out of the way it was nothing but Ghettofaboulous gems from Ton' Atlas. But where the aforementioned artists along with everyone else Narduwar has ever interviewed were either awestruck, confused or creeped out by this guy dressed in plaid flinging gifts and esoteric questions at them, Ghostface doesn't find any of this the slightest bit odd. Even a question like "how do I know you're the real Ghostface" receives sincere consideration and a measured response. Watching how at ease Ghost is shifting gears from Chubb Rock's rhyming skills to how his comments about Ramen have been taken too far is a miraculous thing. But don't count on a Ghostface / Chunky A collaboration any time soon. There he was just being nice.
Nardwuar vs. The Roots
Nardwuar finally met his match in Roots drummer, historian and vinyl junkie ?uestlove. For a music geek watching the pair go back and forth for nearly an hour must have been what it was like to see Miles Davis on stage riffing with Charlie Parker. The roles of interviewer and interviewee disappear over the course of four YouTube videos crammed with names, dates, and dusty out-of-print LPs. Check out the first ten minutes and you'll find out about the Black Eyed Peas as "gangstas," why sampling Sly and The Family Stone is more expensive than sampling Michael Jackson, how a last minute phonecall from Thom Yorke saved a Roots track and the definition of "celebrity" versus "respect" in relation to ?uestlove's Doo-Wop musician father and Nicole Ritchie's crotch shots. Or take a seat, grab a notebook and stay for the full hour.
Nardwuar vs. MGK
This 2012 SXSW meeting with Ohio emcee and Casualties-fan Machine Gun Kelly is important to show how Nardwuar is no longer a regional oddity but among other things a tastemaker, a titan of the World Wide Web and a journalist whose interview choices are now an indicator of which artists are gaining traction in their respective genres. Along with Curren$y, MGK is one of the few rappers that was familiar enough with Nardwuar to come prepared with his own gifts to lay at the feet of The Human Serviette. Since Nardwuar himself is a musician, playing keyboards and singing for Canadian Punk outfit The Evaporators, MGK turned the tables and presented him with a homemade T-Shirt – and rendition of "I Don't Need My Friends…" – to pay tribute to the man and his band. As evidenced by the YouTube comments, what this interview also shows is that a one-on-one with Nardwuar works as a humanizer that helps an up-and-comer win over some of the haters.
Thanks Nardwuar. Keep on rockin' in the free world and…
Michael Sheehan is HipHopDX's Production Assistant. He is a New Jersey native and has been engineering and writing about Hip Hop for several years.


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Below is a description of selected provisions in the final IDEA-Part B regulations (including certain items that have been retained, modified, or added since publication of the NPRM) that may be of special interest to parents:**
General Changes
- All notes in the NPRM have been removed from the final regulations, and have been addressed, as follows: The substance of the notes has been (1) added to the text of the regulations if it was considered to be a requirement; (2) added to Appendix A (formerly Appendix C) if it was directly relevant to the Notice of Interpretation on IEPs; or (3) incorporated into the discussion of applicable comments in the Analysis of Comments and Changes. All other notes have been deleted.
- Two "Appendices" have been included in the final regulations: Appendix A -- Notice of Interpretation on IEPs; and Appendix B -- Index to IDEA-Part B regulations.
- Three "Attachments" have been added, as follows: Attachment 1 -- Analysis of Comments and Changes; Attachment 2 -- Final Regulatory Flexibility Analysis; and Attachment 3 -- Table showing "Disposition of NPRM Notes in Final Regulations ..."
- Adding "ADD/ADHD" to "Child with a Disability."
"Attention deficit disorder" and "attention deficit hyperactivity disorder" have been added as conditions that could render a child eligible under the "other health impairment" category.
(See §300.7(c)(9).)
- "Parent Counseling and Training."
The statement, "helping parents to acquire the necessary skills that will allow them to support the implementation of their child's IEP or IFSP" has been added to the definition of "parent counseling and training."
(See §300.24(b)(7).)
- "Travel Training."
"Travel training" has been added to the definition of "special education," and defined to mean: "Providing instruction, as appropriate, to children with significant cognitive disabilities and any other children who require this instruction, to enable them to (i) develop an awareness of the environment in which they live; and (ii) learn the skills necessary to move effectively and safely from place to place within that environment (e.g., in school, in the home, at work, and in the community)."
(See §300.26(b)(4).)
Free Appropriate Public Education (FAPE)
- Comprehensive Evaluation.
The evaluation procedures in §300.532 have been amended to provide that each child's evaluation must be sufficiently comprehensive to identify all of the child's special education and related services needs, including any needs the child has that are commonly linked to a disability other than the disability in which the child has been classified.
(See §300.532(h).)
- Ineligibility -- Lack of Instruction or Limited English Proficiency.
The final regulations clarify that a child may not be determined eligible under IDEA-Part B if -- "(1) The determinant factor for that eligibility determination is-- (i) Lack of instruction in reading or math; or (ii) limited English proficiency; and (2) the child does not otherwise meet the eligibility criteria under §300.7(a)."
(See §300.534(b).)
- Services Based on Identified Need.
The FAPE requirements in §300.300 have been amended to make clear that services provided to an eligible child must -- (A) address all of the child's special education and related services needs, and (B) be based on the identified needs of the child, and not the child's disability category.
(See §300.300(a)(3).)
- Use of Assistive Technology in a Child's Home If Needed for FAPE.
On a case-by-case basis, the use of school-purchased assistive technology devices in a child's home or in other settings is required if the child's IEP team determines that the child needs access to those devices in order to receive FAPE.
(See §300.308).
- Extended School Year (ESY) Services.
Section §300.309 (ESY services) has been amended to clarify that a public agency may not limit ESY services to particular categories of disability, or unilaterally limit the type, amount, or duration of those services.
(See §300.309(a)(3).)
- Graduation policy retained; prior notice and evaluation addressed.
The final regulations retain the policy position that a student's right to FAPE is terminated upon graduation with a regular high school diploma, but is not terminated by any other kind of graduation certificate or diploma. The regulations also specify that --
- WRITTEN PRIOR NOTICE IS REQUIRED in accordance with §300.503, because graduation from high school with a regular diploma constitutes a change in placement (see §300.122(a)(3)). School districts will be expected to provide the notice "a reasonable time" before proposing to graduate a student, in order to ensure that there is sufficient time for the parents and student to plan for, or challenge, the pending graduation. (See Analysis of comments related to §300.122.)
- EVALUATION IS NOT REQUIRED BEFORE GRADUATION (i.e., the provision requiring that a student be evaluated before determining that he or she is no longer eligible under Part B does not apply if the termination of eligibility is due to graduation with a regular diploma or aging-out under state law).
(See §300.534(c).)
Children with Disabilities in Public Charter Schools
- Children and Parents Retain All Rights.
A new §300.312 has been added, which makes it clear that children with disabilities in public charter schools and their parents retain all rights under this part, and that compliance with Part B is required regardless of whether a public charter school receives Part B funds.
Children Experiencing Developmental Delays (§300.313).
- Provisions Related to "Developmental Delay."
A new §300.313 has been added to -- (1) specify the conditions that states and LEAs must follow in using the term; and (2) clarify that a state or LEA that elects to use "developmental delay" also may use one or more of the disability categories for any child who has been determined (through the IDEA evaluation procedures) to have a disability and need special education. Thus, if a child has an identified disability (e.g., deafness), it would be appropriate to use the term with that child even if the state or LEA is using "developmental delay" for other children aged 3 through 9. The regulations also make clear that a state may adopt a common definition of "developmental delay" under Parts B and C of the Act.
Individualized Education Programs (IEPs--§300.340-300.350).
- Involving all Teachers And Service Providers Who Implement a Child's IEP.
To enhance implementation of each child's IEP, the final regulations provide that public agencies must ensure that -- (1) the IEP is accessible to each of the child's teachers and services providers; and (2) each teacher and provider responsible for implementing the IEP is informed of his or her responsibilities and of the specific accommodations, modifications and supports that must be provided for the child in accordance with the IEP.
(See §300.142(b).)
- Regular Education Teachers as IEP Team Members.
The final regulations include the statutory requirements of IDEA '97 regarding regular education teachers on the IEP team (i.e., (A) the team must include at least one teacher, if the child is or may be participating in the regular education environment (see §300.344(a)(2)), and (B) the teacher must, to the extent appropriate, participate in the IEP process, including assisting in the determination of positive behavioral interventions, and of supplementary aids, program modifications, and supports for school personnel that will be provided for the child.(See §300.346(e).)
- Inviting "Other Individuals" to be on IEP Team.
To ensure that parents may invite any individual "with knowledge or special expertise" to be on the IEP team, the final regulations provide that the determination of the individual's knowledge or expertise is made by the party who invited the individual (i.e., the parents or the public agency).
(See §300.344(c).)
- Informing Parents About "Other Individuals" on IEP Team.
The final regulations provide that public agencies must inform parents relating to the participation of other individuals on the IEP team who have knowledge or special expertise about the child (i.e., the ability of either party -- the parents or public agency -- to invite individuals with knowledge or special expertise to be on the IEP team.
(See §300.345(b).)
- Considering Each Child's Performance on General Assessments.
The final regulations clarify that, in developing each child's IEP, the IEP team (in addition to considering the strengths of the child and the results of evaluations) also must consider "As appropriate, the results of the child's performance on any general state or district-wide assessments." (See §300.346(a)(1).)
- Consideration of Special Factors (Added without change from IDEA '97).
IDEA '97 required the IEP team to consider special factors related to each child. These statutory considerations, which were not changed in either the NPRM or the final regulations, include the following:
In the case of a child whose behavior impedes his or her behavior consider, if appropriate, strategies, including positive behavioral interventions, strategies, and supports to address that behavior.
(See §300.346(a)(2)(i).)
In the case of a child with limited English proficiency, consider the language needs of the child as they relate to the child's IEP.
(See §300.346(a)(2)(ii).)
In the case of a child who is blind or visually impaired, provide for instruction in braille ...unless the IEP team determines that it is not appropriate for the child.
(See §300.346(a)(2)(iii).)
"Consider the communication needs of the child, and in the case of a child who is deaf or hard of hearing, consider the child's language and communication needs..."
(See §300.346(a)(2)(iv).)
Consider whether the child requires assistive technology devices and services.
(See §300.346(a)(2)(v).)
- Parents to Receive Copy of IEP.
The final regulations provide that parents must be given a copy of their child's IEP(s), without cost and without having to request it.
(See §300.345(f).)
- IEP Accountability; Parent Right to Invoke Due Process.
The final regulations make clear that (A) each public agency, in addition to providing services, must make a good faith effort to assist the child to achieve the goals and objectives or benchmarks listed in the IEP; and (B) "Nothing in this section limits a parent's right to ask for revisions of the child's IEP or to invoke due process procedures if the parent feels that the efforts required in paragraph (a) of this section are not being made."
(See §300.350.)
Procedural Safeguards
- Independent educational evaluation (IEE).
If a parent requests an IEE, a public agency may ask why the parent objects to the public evaluation, but may not require the explanation; and "the public agency may not unreasonably delay either providing the [IEE] at public expense or initiating a due process hearing to defend the public evaluation."
(See §300.502.)
- Parental consent.
The final regulations on parental consent (1) replace "consent" with "informed parent consent;" (2) add "reevaluation" to the list of actions requiring consent; and (3) add that "A public agency may not use a parent's refusal to consent to one service or activity...to deny the parent or child any other service, benefit, or activity of the public agency, except as provided by this part." (See §300.505.) The regulations also provide that "With regard to services required to provide FAPE to an eligible child under this part, a public agency may access a parent's private insurance proceeds only if the parent provides informed consent consistent with §300.500(b)(1) [definition of "consent"]."
(See §300.152(f).)
- Mediation.
The final regulations provide that if a mediator is not selected on a random (e.g., a rotation) basis from the state's list, both parties are involved in selecting the mediator and agree with the selection of the individual who will mediate.
(See §300.506(b)(2)(ii).)
- Change of Placement Based on Hearing Officer Decision.
The final regulations provide that if a state hearing or review officer's decision agrees with the parent's position that a change in the child's placement is appropriate, the decision must be implemented at that point, even if the public agency appeals that decision. This provision, which is consistent with most of the court decisions that have addressed this question, ensures that children will not remain in inappropriate placements for prolonged periods of time while a public agency appeals a decision in the parent's favor.
(See §300.514(c).)
Evaluation-Eligibility; Least Restrictive Environment (LRE).
- Procedures for Determining Eligibility--Obtaining Parent Input.
"Parent input" has been added to the variety of sources from which the public agency will draw in interpreting evaluation data for the purpose of determining a child's eligibility under this part.
(See §300.535(a)(1).)
- LRE--Placements.
A new §300.552(e) has been added that prohibits the removal of a child with a disability from an age-appropriate regular classroom solely because of needed modifications in the general curriculum.
State Complaint Procedures
- Remedies for Denial of Appropriate Services.
The final regulations provide that if an SEA, in resolving a complaint, finds a failure to provide appropriate services to a child with a disability, the SEA must address: "(1) How to remediate the denial of those services, including, as appropriate, the awarding of monetary reimbursement or corrective action, which could include compensatory services or other corrective action appropriate to the needs of the child..."
(See §300.660(b).)
- Complaints vs due process hearings.
A new §300.661(c) has been added to clarify that - (A) if an issue in a complaint is the subject of a due process hearing, that issue (but not any issue outside of the hearing) would be set aside until the conclusion of the hearing; (B) the decision on an issue in a due process hearing is binding; and (C) a public agency's failure to implement a due process decision would have to be resolved by the SEA.
Discipline Procedures
Prior to enactment of the IDEA Amendments of 1997, the statute only specifically addressed the issue of discipline in a provision that allowed school personnel to remove a child to an interim alternative educational placement for up to 45 days if the child brought a gun to school or to a school function. The 1997 Amendments incorporated prior court decisions and Department policy that had held that -- (1) schools could remove a child for up to 10 school days at a time for any violation of school rules as long as there was not a pattern of removals; (2) a child with a disability could not be long-term suspended or expelled from school for behavior that was a manifestation of his or her disability; and (3) services must continue for children with disabilities who are suspended or expelled from school.
In addition, the 1997 Amendments (1) expanded the authority of school personnel regarding the removal of a child who brings a gun to school, to also apply to all dangerous weapons and to the knowing possession of illegal drugs or the sale or solicitation of the sale of controlled substances; and (2) added a new ability of schools to request a hearing officer to remove a child for up to 45 days if keeping the child in his or her current placement is substantially likely to result in injury to the child or to others. The Amendments also added new provisions that require schools to assess a child's troubling behavior and develop positive behavioral interventions to address that behavior, and that describe how to determine whether the behavior was a manifestation of the child's disability.
The final regulations incorporate the statutory provisions described above, and provide additional specificity on a number of key issues:
Removals of Up to Ten School Days at a Time.
- The regulations clarify that school personnel may remove a child with a disability for up to 10 school days, and for additional removals of up to 10 school days for separate acts of misconduct, as long as the removals do not constitute a pattern.
Providing Services During Periods of Disciplinary Removal.
- Schools do not need to provide services during the first 10 school days in a school year that a child is removed.
- During any subsequent removal that is for 10 school days or less, schools provide services to the extent determined necessary to enable the child to appropriately progress in the general curriculum and appropriately advance toward achieving the goals of his or her IEP. In cases involving removals for 10 school days or less, school personnel, in consultation with the child's special education teacher, make the service determination.
- During any long-term removal for behavior that is not a manifestation of a child's disability, schools provide services to the extent determined necessary to enable the child to appropriately progress in the general curriculum and appropriately advance toward achieving the goals of his or her IEP. In cases involving removals for behavior that is not a manifestation of the child's disability, the child's IEP team makes the service determination.
Conducting Behavioral Assessments and Developing Behavioral Interventions.
- Meetings of a child's IEP team to develop a behavioral assessment plan, or (if the child has one) to review the child's behavioral intervention plan, are only required when the child has first been removed from his or her current placement for more than 10 school days in a school year, and when commencing a removal that constitutes a change in placement.
- If other subsequent removals occur, the IEP team members review the child's behavioral intervention plan and its implementation to determine if modifications are necessary, and only meet if one or more team members believe that modifications are necessary.
Change of Placement; Manifestation Determinations.
- The regulations provide that a change of placement occurs if a child is removed for more than 10 consecutive school days or is subjected to a series of removals that constitute a pattern because they cumulate to more than 10 school days in a school year, and because of factors such as the length of each removal, the total amount of time the child is removed, and the proximity of the removals to one another.
- Manifestation determinations are only required if a school is implementing a removal that constitutes a change of placement.
* On October 22, 1997, a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) was published in the Federal Register to amend the regulations under Part B of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA). The purposes of the NPRM were to implement changes made by the IDEA Amendments of 1997, and make other changes that facilitate the implementation of Part B. The changes made since the NPRM are based mainly on public comments received.
** The description of changes made to specific sections of the regulations since the NPRM does not include all changes made to those sections, nor does it include all changes in which parents may have an interest. (See "Major Changes..." in the preamble to the final regulations for a more complete description.)


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The New York Times like many newspapers will not print Guenter Grass' anti-War poem, I wonder if the hatemongers are going to compare this to the Danish cartoons that were supposedly "silenced" in attacks on "free speech" as they claimed at the time?
Quite a few commenters are calling Grass an "anti-Semite" and making hay out of his being drafted into the Waffen-SS in the final two months of World War II which dented his moral authority in Germany. Grass, for his part claims to have never fired a single bullet.
An opinion article in Haaretz has termed the poem "pathetic" but exonerates Grass from being an "anti-Semite," which if anyone has read his works knows he is not.
Perhaps Guenter Grass is not the most astute individual when it comes to commenting on the geo-political intrigues playing out with regards to the war rhetoric between Israel and Iran, but it is a mistake to censor his work, not to take his points about double standards and hypocrisy seriously and to label him an anti-Semite.
Laureate accuses Israel of plotting to 'wipe out' Iran Israel to build 1,121 settler homes – Hebron squatters evicted
BERLIN: German Nobel literature laureate Gunter Grass touched off a firestorm of protest yesterday with a poem accusing Israel of plotting Iran's annihilation and threatening world peace. The 84-year-old longtime leftist activist wrote in "What must be said" that he worried Israel "could wipe out the Iranian people" with a "first strike" due to the threat it sees in Tehran's disputed nuclear program. "Why do I only say now, aged and with my last ink: the atomic power Israel is endangering the already fragile world peace?" reads the poem, which appeared in the daily Sueddeutsche Zeitung yesterday.
Grass answers that Nazi Germany's "incomparable" crimes against Jews and his own fear of accusations of anti-Semitism kept him from openly criticising Israel. But now, "tomorrow could already be too late" and Germany could become a "supplier to a crime", Grass wrote, referring to a deal sealed last month for Berlin to sell Israel a sixth nuclear-capable Dolphin-class submarine. "I admit: I will be silent no longer, because I am sick of the hypocrisy of the West".
Israel slammed the poem, which also sparked a fevered debate on German-language news and culture websites. "What must be said is that it belongs to European tradition to accuse the Jews of ritual murder before the Passover celebration," said Emmanuel Nahshon, Deputy Chief of Mission at the Israeli embassy in Berlin, in a statement. "It used to be Christian children whose blood the Jews used to make matza (unleavened bread), today it is the Iranian people that the Jewish state purportedly wants to wipe out." Nahshon said Israel was "the only state in the world whose right to exist is publicly doubted". "We want to live in peace with our neighbours in the region. And we are not prepared to assume the role that Gunter Grass assigns us in the German people's process of coming to terms with its history."
The Israel director of the Nazi-hunting Simon Wiesenthal Centre, Efraim Zuroff, accused Grass of making himself the spokesman "for anti-Semitic Germans sick of the Holocaust and seeking to rid themselves of any responsibility for its aftermath". German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle released a statement without mentioning Grass by name in which he warned against "making light of the dangers of the Iranian nuclear program". "Iran obtaining nuclear weapons is not only a threat to Israel and the entire region but also a danger for the world's security architecture," he said, underlining Germany's efforts to prevent Iran from having nuclear arms.
Grass, author of the renowned anti-war novel "The Tin Drum", shocked his admirers in 2006 when he admitted, six decades after World War II, that he had been a member of the notorious Waffen SS – a revelation that severely undermined his until then substantial moral authority in Germany. Grass said he long kept silent on Israel's own nuclear program because his country committed "crimes that are without comparison", but he has come to see that silence as a "burdensome lie and a coercion" whose disregard carries a punishment – "the verdict 'anti-Semitism' is commonly used".
Henryk M Broder, a prominent German Jewish columnist, accused Grass in light of his poem of having become "the prototype of the educated anti-Semite". "Grass has always had a problem with Jews but he has never articulated it as clearly as with this 'poem'," Broder wrote in the daily Die Welt. The country's most influential media commentators were unanimous in their criticism, saying Grass had offered up a one-sided portrayal of Israel as the aggressor and Iran as a victim of a mortal threat. "Never before in the history of the republic has a prominent intellectual waged a battle against Israel in such a cliched way," wrote the website of news weekly Der Spiegel. Only Wolfgang Gehrcke of the far-left Die Linke party defended Grass in public, saying he had the "courage" to express "what is widely kept silent".
Israel, the sole if undeclared nuclear power in the Middle East, has said it is keeping all options open for responding to Iran's program which it says is aimed at securing atomic weapons, posing an existential threat to the Jewish state. Iran, whose President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad frequently questions Israel's right to exist, has consistently denied that its sensitive nuclear work is aimed at making weapons.
Separately, Israel's government yesterday published tenders for 1,121 new settler homes as it faced settler anger over its decision to evict Israeli families from a disputed home in the Palestinian city of Hebron. Documents published on the Israeli housing ministry website showed the government had issued tenders for 872 new homes in Har Homa, a contentious settlement neighbourhood in the southern part of Arab east Jerusalem. Another 180 are to be built in Givat Zeev, just to the north of Jerusalem in the West Bank, while the remaining 69 are to be built in Katzrin in the occupied Golan Heights, the documents showed. Read rest here
The full text of the poem:
Why I am silent, silent for too much time,
how much is clear and we made it
in war games, where, as survivors,
we are just the footnotes
That is the claimed right to the formal preventive aggression
which could erase the Iranian people
dominated by a bouncer and moved to an organized jubilation,
because in the area of his competence there is
the construction of the atomic bomb
And then why do I avoid myself
to call the other country with its name,
where since years – even if secretly covered –
there is an increasing nuclear power,
without control, because unreachable
by every inspection?
I feel the everybody silence on this state of affairs,
which my silence is slave to,
as an oppressive lie and an inhibition that presents punishment
we don't pay attention to;
the verdict "anti-Semitism" is common
Now, since my country,
from time to time touched by unique and exclusive crimes,
obliged to justify itself,
again for pure business aims – even if
with fast tongue we call it "reparation" –
should deliver another submarine to Israel,
with the specialty of addressing
annihilating warheads where the
existence of one atomic bomb is not proved
but it wants evidence as a scarecrow,
I say what must be said
Why did I stay silent until now?
Because the thought about my origin,
burdened by an unclearing stain,
had avoiding to wait this fact
like a truth declared by the State of Israel
that I want to be connected to
Why did I say it only now,
old and with the last ink:
the nuclear power of Israel
threat the world peace?
Because it must be said
what tomorrow will be too late;
Because – as Germans and with
enough faults on the back –
we might also become deliverers of a predictable
crime, and no excuse would erase our complicity
And I admit: I won't be silent
because I had enough of the Western hypocrisy;
Because I wish that many will want
to get rid of the silence,
exhorting the cause of a recognizable
risk to the abdication, asking that a free and permanent control
of the Israel atomic power
and the Iran nuclear bases
will be made by both the governments
with an international supervision
Only in this way, Israelis, Palestinians, and everybody,
all people living hostile face to face in that
country occupied by the craziness,
will have a way out,
so us too
(The original German):
Warum schweige ich, verschweige zu lange,
was offensichtlich ist und in Planspielen
geübt wurde, an deren Ende als Überlebende
wir allenfalls Fußnoten sind.
Es ist das behauptete Recht auf den Erstschlag,
der das von einem Maulhelden unterjochte
und zum organisierten Jubel gelenkte
iranische Volk auslöschen könnte,
weil in dessen Machtbereich der Bau
einer Atombombe vermutet wird.
Doch warum untersage ich mir,
jenes andere Land beim Namen zu nennen,
in dem seit Jahren – wenn auch geheimgehalten –
ein wachsend nukleares Potential verfügbar
aber außer Kontrolle, weil keiner Prüfung
zugänglich ist?
Das allgemeine Verschweigen dieses Tatbestandes,
dem sich mein Schweigen untergeordnet hat,
empfinde ich als belastende Lüge
und Zwang, der Strafe in Aussicht stellt,
sobald er mißachtet wird;
das Verdikt 'Antisemitismus' ist geläufig.
Jetzt aber, weil aus meinem Land,
das von ureigenen Verbrechen,
die ohne Vergleich sind,
Mal um Mal eingeholt und zur Rede gestellt wird,
wiederum und rein geschäftsmäßig, wenn auch
mit flinker Lippe als Wiedergutmachung deklariert,
ein weiteres U-Boot nach Israel
geliefert werden soll, dessen Spezialität
darin besteht, allesvernichtende Sprengköpfe
dorthin lenken zu können, wo die Existenz
einer einzigen Atombombe unbewiesen ist,
doch als Befürchtung von Beweiskraft sein will,
sage ich, was gesagt werden muß.
Warum aber schwieg ich bislang?
Weil ich meinte, meine Herkunft,
die von nie zu tilgendem Makel behaftet ist,
verbiete, diese Tatsache als ausgesprochene Wahrheit
dem Land Israel, dem ich verbunden bin
und bleiben will, zuzumuten.
Warum sage ich jetzt erst,
gealtert und mit letzter Tinte:
Die Atommacht Israel gefährdet
den ohnehin brüchigen Weltfrieden?
Weil gesagt werden muß,
was schon morgen zu spät sein könnte;
auch weil wir – als Deutsche belastet genug –
Zulieferer eines Verbrechens werden könnten,
das voraussehbar ist, weshalb unsere Mitschuld
durch keine der üblichen Ausreden
zu tilgen wäre.
Und zugegeben: ich schweige nicht mehr,
weil ich der Heuchelei des Westens
überdrüssig bin; zudem ist zu hoffen,
es mögen sich viele vom Schweigen befreien,
den Verursacher der erkennbaren Gefahr
zum Verzicht auf Gewalt auffordern und
gleichfalls darauf bestehen,
daß eine unbehinderte und permanente Kontrolle
des israelischen atomaren Potentials
und der iranischen Atomanlagen
durch eine internationale Instanz
von den Regierungen beider Länder zugelassen wird.
Nur so ist allen, den Israelis und Palästinensern,
mehr noch, allen Menschen, die in dieser
vom Wahn okkupierten Region
dicht bei dicht verfeindet leben
und letztlich auch uns zu helfen.


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We consider the tuple.
Really, after Unit and Id, the tuple is one of the simplest data structures around. In its base for the tuple is of type
data Tuple a b = (a, b)
Tuple has two fundamental functions:
fst :: (a, b) -> a
snd :: (a, b) -> b
and that's all there is to it, and that's all there is to the tuple.
(really, the above declaration should be:
data (a, b) = (a, b)
but the typeful LHS ('left hand side') declaration being the same syntax (and I say 'the same syntax,' not 'the same semantics') as the instance definition on the RHS ('right hand side') may make some people's head hurt. That's also why I gave the list declaration as:
data list a = nil | (a, list a)
and not the standard syntax of:
data [a] = [] | (a:[a])
There is the question of programs are written to be read as well as to be executed by a machine).
So: simple.
(I believe this has become my trademark.)
Of course if you have the Cartesian cross-product of two typed values, then why not three? why not one? why not ... 'n'?
So, of course, the tuple is any number of typed values associated through their cross products, but I like to keep things simple here (and in my code), so I'll just be working with the above given definition of tuple and where I need a 'triple' (heh: 'triple') ('triple' was the term used for monads up until recently) I'll define one, or I'll simply compose tuples, for, after all, any n-relation can be reduced to a set of 2-relations, e.g.:
data Triple a b c = (a, (b, c))
data Quad a b c d = (a, (b, (c, d)))
data Quinz a b c d e = ... etc
So from tuple you have triple, or quad, or quinz, or whatever.
So: tuple.
What can we do with it?
Well, everything, actually. You see most programming languages take the tuple for granted, and call it the parameter-set of functions. Haskell does not do this. Haskell be smart. Haskell be curry(ing) the arguments to functions.
Haskell B. Curry. Geddit? No? Look it up.
So, in programming language X, where X is most likely the language of your choice you invoke a function in the 'standard' way:
foo(bar, baz, ...)
Not so with Haskell ... I mean, not necessarily so (and not even ordinarily so).
Nor even with other Lisp-like languages. When everything's a list, you get a tremendous amount of conceptual freedom and from that freedom comes power.
But ... power? Later.
So, with Haskell, you can force the tupling of arguments to a function:
foo :: (bar, baz) -> quux
But why would you want to do that, requiring all the arguments to a function to be present when you can curry them:
foo :: bar -> baz -> quux
And then apply the arguments individually as needed, building a partial function (the partial function itself being a (functional) value) until you finally apply to get the solution (in this example, the quux-typed value).
So, currying: the 'anti-tuple.'
So we showed a simple, elegant use contra the tuple, but what are the uses of the tuple.
Well, like I said: plentiful, many-ful, many-fold. Manifold.
(I love writing words.) (Bear with me.)
(which means something totally different than 'bare with me.')
One of the primary uses that come to mind for the tuple, besides freely-relating two disconnected values (which, in and of itself is a big, huge win ... ever see a list of parameters to a function where there are obviously-paired values, except they aren't paired, so the code gets all mucked up treating something that isn't as if it were because it should be?), is to 'pretend' that two values are one and then to fool everybody else with this conceit.
Where does this work?
Have you ever needed to return two values from a function?
But of course you can't because a function returns 'a,' 'one,' 'single' value. A function doesn't return two values, and you don't want to have to write a class to package those values together (because why? That's something you may have to look into yourself to answer: if two values are related, why aren't you making that relation explicit in the type system? Types makes things easier, but only when you use them), so what do you do?
Return the tupled pair.
You now have functions that return two values, well-typed, at that, and if they can return two, then can return three, or four, or ... 'n.'
That's one place where tuples shine: 'Oh, I need the value from the list, but I also need the list-index where that value was.' You tuple the index with the value, and your function now returns the data you need to proceed with your work.
But then, once you start using tuples one place, you find yourself starting to see uses for tuples in many other places you never considered before, because you just coded around two disparate values.
'Coding around' things is the algorithmic approach, tuple provides a data-centric solution. You ever notice how greatly algorithm simplifies when the right data types are used?
Of course, the fundamental data type of category theory, the map can be viewed as a list (which is a linked set of tuples (or 'pairs')) of tuples, where each tuple is composed of the key for the first value and the value for the second.
So that gives us another example: one is 'Map.Entry<K, V>' so obviously 'Tuple' I'm wondering why the Java folks just didn't name it 'Duck' since it was quacking like one.
But then ... Arrow.
Arrow captures the entirety of the function f :: a -> b, so if you look at it slightly differently, an arrow, or morphism, or function, is the mapping of all values applicable to the function f from Category A to Category B.
So, one way to look at an arrow f is simple the set of all tuples (a, b) where the 'a's are all possible inputs to f with the 'b's being the corresponding outcomes.
But there are more to arrows than that (and, fear not, this article will not be side-track to an arrow-exclusive): the primary arrow operation is 'first' (arrows are fundamentally, or minimally, defined on 'arr' (which is the 'arrow-maker' function) and 'first').
What does first do?
First supposes that the input has been split from some value a into two (tupled) values (a, a). And first takes an unit function and applies it to the the tuple's first value, leaving the second value unchanged.
So, if you have some value a, and a function f :: a -> b then
first f
does the following
first f (a, a) -> (b, a)
Or, actually, and more generally, this works for any tupled input value so:
first f (a, d) -> (b, d)
works as well.
Exercise: Given than f :: a -> b and first f :: (a, d) -> (b, d), write an implementation of first.
We mentioned before that Map.Entry<K, V> is just another name for 'Tuple<K, V>', so then, looking at it this way, either List<Tuple<K, V>> or Set<Tuple<K, V>> is another name for Map<K, V> depending on which search strategy we wish to use.
... with a significant difference: as both the K and V in the tuple are used to compute the tupled instance's identity, then both those data structures permit 'duplicate' entries: a key may be associated with zero, one or more values.
And, here is where the search strategy becomes significant: List has an explicit positional ordering: first comes the first value, next come the second value, etc. This positioning may be exploited for the inherent positional index to a tuple ... or I exploited this inherent indexing, at any rate.
Problem statement: so, have a list of values, rows from a data table that we wish to display in order.
Simple enough: we make the data table entity a comparable type, sort the section, and we're done.
The problem here is that ...
Well, there's always a 'the problem here is' when a model encounters the real world and when developed code hits production data.
This particular problem is that there are scenarios where an entity is represented by compound data, and so you need two rows to indicate one entity. In these cases, you have the same entity id, so what do we do? We can complicate the sort-criterium for the comparison for the entire entity because of this special case, or we can sort simply and handle sorting these two-row entities on a case-by-case basis.
But then we sort the list twice. Once naturally and automatically, and we don't need to think about that sort.
But how do we juxtapose two rows with the same entity id in a list? We can't change the indices on a list pel-mel, can we?
Using tuples, we can indeed do just that. If we have the mostly-well-sorted list
[Ent {13, ... Nov 20, asdf},
Ent {27, ... Aug 3, aega},
Ent {27, ... null, hjg},
Ent {34, ... null, asjkl},
Ent {34, ... Apr 26, aehe},
And we wish to have the 'null' date higher up on the list, as per customer requirements. One way to do that is to add this to the search criteria. But what if the search criteria is already based off of three values of the primary key (and this date is not part of the primary key, because it is nullable)? Do we wish to add this new criterium for these specialized cases?
Yes, we can do that.
Or, as we did in the project, we did another sort, manually. You see, the question comes up, how do we recognized that two rows represent one value, and, when recognized, how do we swap the row order for that one case where we wish to?
You can't say, 'oh, this list index is now less one and the other list is now index plus one'
Not with a straight-up list, anyway, you can't1 change the indices there. But if we make the indices explicit by tupling them with their listed data:
int index = 0;
for(Ent entity : entities) {
newList.add(OrderedTuple.pair(index++, entity);
And then, when we encounter our special case, we verify the order or correct it:
OrderedTuple<Integer, Ent> oldPair =
OrderedTuple.pair(-1, Ent.prototype());
for(OrderedTuple<Integer, Ent> pair: newList) {
Ent newEnt = pair.snd();
Ent oldEnt = oldPair.snd();
if(newEnt.id == oldEnt.id) {
if(newEnt.date == null) {
int pairKey = pair.fst();
pair.changeKey(pairKey - 1);
oldPair = pair;
// now we sort on the revised indices:
// and return that sorted entity list (sans the explicit indicies):
List<Ent> revisedList = new ArrayList<Ent>();
for(OrderedTuple<Integer, Ent> pair : newList) {
return revisedList;
And that's one way to skin that cat.
So, what's OrderedTuple? It's simply a mutable tuple with an ordering imposed on the keyed value:
public class OrderedTuple<K extends Comparable<K>, V>
extends MutableTuple<K, V>
implements Comparable<OrderedTuple<K, V>> {
protected OrderedTuple(K key, V val) { super(key, val); }
public static <KEY extends Comparable<KEY> VALUE>
OrderedTuple<KEY, VALUE> pair(KEY k, VALUE v) {
return new OrderedTuple<KEY, VALUE>(k, v);
// Comparable implementation --------------
@Override public int compareTo(OrderedTuple<K, V> tup) {
return fst().compareTo(tup.fst());
Where mutable tuple simply decorates the tuple protocol with setters:
@Effectual public class MutableTuple<K, V> extends Tuple<K, V> {
protected MutableTuple(K k, V v) {
super(k, v);
key = new State<K>(k);
value = new State<V>(v);
@Override public K fst() { return key.arg(); }
@Override public V snd() { return value.arg(); }
@Effectual public void changeKey(k newKey) { key.put(newKey); }
@Effectual public void changeValue(v newValue) { value.put(newValue); }
private final State<K> key;
private final State<V> value;
Tuples are a way of pairing or associating things that are not explicitly already paired. As we saw above, normally the indices of a list are implied, but they are there and are associated with the elements of the list. A tuple makes that implied associate explicit. Once something is explicated then it can also be exploited in ways unimagined heretofore.
Another, novel, way I've used tupling is entanglement. Something over here, an event or an object, changes, and that change is supposed to reflect throughout the system. How do we do that?
One way is to hardcode it:
if(x changed) then change y
But this is at the algorithmic level, and things happening procedurally are notoriously hard to track.
We could, instead, make this a structure and realize entanglement as a data type.
This is what I do. I associate an observed object with an action, and that action is to change a value entangled (implicitly) with the observed object.
@Effectual public class Entanglement<T> extends Tuple<T, Effect<T>> {
private Entanglement(T source, Effect<T> setterF) {
super(source, setterF);
// the point of it all: we entangle two objects
public static <T1> Entanglement<T1> entangle(T1 src, Effect<T1> destF) {
return new Entanglement<T1>(src, destF);
// when we observe an object, that act of observation, itself,
// changes the destination object via entanglement:
public Maybe<T> observe() throws Failure {
return (Maybe<T>) Maybe.nullOr(fst()).liftThenBind(snd());
A very, very simple class for a very simple concept.
Where is such a concept used?
Well, as in the above scenario with Ent types, I was collecting a set of three of the most current dates from Ent rows where 'most current' is defined as the the last update date auditing column is greatest on a particular set of entity types.
The thing is that any of these three dates could be null, so if I wholesale replaced dates with the most recent Ent row, then I found I would be nulling out already established dates.
I had to update dates on the most recent non-null dates, and this occurred on a case-by-case basis.
A further complication: one of the dates has an associated duration type-code, so every time I replaced that date, I had to update the duration code, too.
Algorithmically this turned into a nightmarish mess. Three development teams were called in to code the solution, and three teams each, eventually, threw up their hands, declaring this to be an intractable problem.
I used entanglement to solve this problem.
For the associated date-duration-code, I had one entanglement:
Entanglement.entangle(incomingRow.getDateA(), new Effect<Date>() {
@Override protected void execute(Date newA) throws Failure {
int dur = incomingRow.getDurCd();
if(dur > 0) {
For the stand-alone date, I used a simple entanglement:
Entanglement.entangle(incomingRow.getDateB(), new Effect<Date>() {
@Override protected void execute(Date newDateB) throws Failure {
Then I simply iterated up the result set of the set of entities of concern and I was able to get the correct dates for each entity row that were required.
Easy, peasy!
Using the entanglement type (which, itself, is simply a tuple of observed value and an effect) I overhauled a patchwork system, that actually wasn't working at all, of over one-thousand lines of code with a fifty line replacement that satisfied customer requirements.
My take-away here is that solving problems algorithmically leads to code bloat and complication, but when the problem is reconceptualized into data structures, the problem is simplified and modularized.
Tuple is a data type that does just that: often, in code, two values are implied to be associated, but there is no direct correlation. A tuple makes that association explicit.
κCalc: the Kappa calculus
One more point to cover on tuples.
The λ calculus can be considered to be the marriage of two dual calculi: the κ calculus, which is the calculus of composition,2 and allows functors of the first order only, and the ζ calculus, which is the calculus of application. So, in the κ calculus, values are lifted into tupled types, or dropped to the unit type. An entire calculus exists around the manipulation of tuples, and it has its own arithmetic and everything.
You can do anything with tuples! Tuples are like Tiger Balm that way.
(1) Ever hear a British-English person say the word 'can't' ...? It is to die for! But I digress, and also, in digression, have embarrassed Mr. Sh, my boss.
(2) When I read this paper on the κ calculus, I was so pleased! I had defined my morphism type to be a type that contained only the identity and the composition functions, but not application! And I had wondered if I were doing the right thing. Isn't the whole point of it all to apply a function? Isn't that what a morphism ... 'is'? And, actually, no, that's not the case at all. There do exist morphisms free of the concept of function application, and the κ calculus has arrows where elimination occurs from (de)composition, not from function application.
There exist a whole class of arrows that do no application at all. And I got that correct!
But this topic can be discussed in the article where we consider the morphism.
I suppose I'll start that article with the words: "We consider the morphism."
Hm, I wonder if the map article and the morphism article are one and the same?


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"Petroleum-contaminated groundwater is not what the wastewater-treatment facility is designed for," Metro Wastewater Reclamation District operations director Steven Rogowski said. "It isn't our ratepayers' responsibility to treat Suncor's water."
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Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment regulators have set a May deadline for cleanup of all contaminated groundwater flowing from Suncor's 300-acre refinery property.
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CDPHE environmental- cleanup specialist Rob Beierle last week pointed also to later problems under two other tanks that were fixed.
Yet toxic plumes still are spreading, and deadlines loom.
Federal health standard
By May, Suncor must prove that groundwater migrating off Suncor's property meets a state standard requiring the concentration of cancer-causing benzene to be below 5 parts per billion. That's the federal health standard for drinking water.
"The deadline to meet drinking-water standards next year is a very aggressive and challenging goal, and it is not certain that it can be achieved in this timeframe," Suncor spokeswoman Lisha Burnett said Friday in an e-mailed response to queries.
Suncor already has installed underground clay walls at the northern and western edges of its property — designed to hold back the thickest undissolved petroleum.
"Monitoring does not suggest that undissolved contaminants are escaping any longer," CDPHE spokesman Mark Salley said.
However, Beierle said some concentrated material that escaped before an underground wall was installed is still present.
Metro Wastewater officials said concentrated petroleum is approaching its construction site along with benzene dissolved in groundwater.
The latest data show benzene also is still entering Sand Creek and the South Platte — with the concentration at 145 ppb this month in the river just below the confluence. That's less than the benzene levels averaging above 200 ppb earlier in the year but still is 29 times higher than the 5 ppb federal health standard. Three monitoring wells in Sand Creek, near where the seepage was detected last fall, showed elevated benzene levels of 55 ppb, 212 ppb and 510 ppb.
Suncor's releases of contaminated groundwater into Sand Creek without a permit and discharges exceeding water- quality standards constitute a violation, according to an e-mailed response attributed to state health department water-quality-control division director Steve Gunderson.
But the state standard in Suncor's permit for benzene discharges into Sand Creek from its refinery property allowed concentrations up to 5,300 ppb, Salley said.
"Suncor has not violated the 5,300 micrograms per liter (ppb) benzene limit assigned in its refinery permit," Salley said.
However, a tougher standard set Sept. 27 takes effect Nov. 1, limiting benzene discharges into Sand Creek to a 30-day average of 5 ppb.
CDPHE's "enforcement options, including potential fines, remain open," Gunderson said.
Conflict surfacing
The spread of toxic plumes beyond the refinery is causing conflict.
Suncor last summer proposed plans to pretreat contaminated groundwater and then discharge it into Metro Wastewater's treatment systems.
"It is unreasonable to expect Suncor to begin immediately building a facility to deal with Metro's potentially impacted water until the state, Suncor and Metro have come to a joint resolution," Suncor vice president John Gallagher said in a letter to state regulators.
On June 12, Metro Wastewater directors voted unanimously against accepting such a discharge. A Metro document says CDPHE and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency officials told Metro that doing so would make Metro partly liable for the problem and says Metro's member agencies "and ratepayers would be subsidizing the cost of the cleanup."
The CDPHE backed Metro.
"The Metro Wastewater Reclamation District is an innocent third party that is not responsible for Suncor's releases," hazardous-waste division spokesman Warren Smith said.
Suncor's installation of the groundwater-cleaning machinery may resolve the dispute.
"We're confident that this facility will effectively manage any hydrocarbons, should they appear," spokeswoman Burnett said. "As we stated from the beginning, we are committed to making this situation right."
Metro officials say their equipment still will have to be used to pump toxic groundwater to Suncor's machinery.
Metro's priority has been completing its $211 million aeration project to remove ammonia and nitrates from sewage so that treated wastewater can be discharged legally into the South Platte under stiffer federal clean-water rules. The plant treats 130 million gallons a day of wastewater from 1.7 million ratepayers around the Denver area.
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