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Fayemi, Ademola Kazeem
Department of Philosophy Lagos State University Ojo, Lagos
Fayemi, Ademola Kazeem (firstname.lastname@example.com) teaches at Lagos State University, Ojo, Lagos, Nigeria. He specializes in African philosophy. He has published in international and local journals, and most recently his work include: "Proverbism and the Question of Rationality in Traditional African Thought" in Essence: Interdisciplinary International Journal of Philosophy, vol. 7, 2008 and "Curbing the Problems of Prostitution and Female Trafficking in 21st Century Africa: An African Ethico-Feminist Perspective", and a paper read at the African Women in the Diaspora Conference held at the University of Minnesota in June 2008 in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Our main concern in this paper is to provide an ethico-sociological analysis and interpretation of the idea of human personality in the Yoruba worldview. There is an interesting pool of scholarly literature on human personality in Yoruba thought generated around the philosophical discussions and accounts of what constitute human personality in Yoruba worldview which clearly shows that scholastic concerns have overwhelmingly dwelled on issues dealing with metaphysical interpretations and explanations of destiny, human nature and the reality of human existence.1 In many of this earlier metaphysical discourse on human personality, the emphasis and focus have usually been on what constitute the nature of personality. Various interpretations such as monism, dualism, soft-determinism, fatalism and naturalism have been given by scholars. Central to this discourse on the nature of human personality in African thought is the adoption of the comparative methodological approach by scholars viz-a-viz the Western philosophical perspectives. 166 The Journal of Pan African Studies, vol.2, no.9, March 2009
While the above approach and interpretation are of a truth, of philosophical importance, our focus is to explore another philosophical dimension about human personality in the Yoruba thought system. Hence, our fundamental assumption behind this is that there are significant dimensions besides the metaphysical approach to the Yoruba concept of human personality, which are of philosophical interest, and thus an ethico-sociological appraisal of human personality, because of its promising and viable insights for understanding contemporary Nigerian society. Therefore, we argue that the concepts of Omoluwabi (good person) and communitarianism in relation to personhood are definitive in understanding what constitute human personality in Yoruba culture. And in giving an ethico-sociological interpretation of human personality, our discussion dwells and proceeds from the concepts of Omoluwabi and communitarianism.
Omoluwabi (good person) in the Yoruba Thought System
The concept of Omoluwabi in Yoruba thought probes deeply into the Yoruba understanding of characteristics features constitutive of a person. Thus, this concept is a demand for an explanation for determining a paradigm of reckoning with the social worth of a person. Via the concept of Omoluwabi from the Yoruba, there is a demarcation and perhaps a distinction between the human being in generic sense, and the human person in a specific sense. With respect to the former, it is reasonable to raise fundamental questions as what is a human? What is the nature of a human? (These fundamental questions are indeed, of biological and philosophical relevance). Where the first question- 'what is human?'- is an empirical question which may yield an answer based upon an objective description of human observable behavior the second question- 'what is the nature of human?'- is a metaphysical question inquiring into the constitutive elements of a human being (Dzobo, 1992: 123). The question of what is a human is a demand for scientific explanations of molecules that make us different from other living species. Hence, we can ask what is a person or what is the nature of a person within the Yoruba philosophical context, and more fundamental who is a person when an attempt to provide an answer is a departure from the metaphysical or empirical realms to the sociologicalnormative realm which engages an enquiry into the peoples' perception of their cultural and personal identities. Having set the tone of the discussion, the question is who is an Omoluwabi? The concept Omoluwabi is an adjectival Yoruba phrase, which has the words- "Omo+ ti + Olu- iwa + bi" as its components. Literally translated and separately, omo means 'child', ti means 'that or which', Olu-iwa means the chief or master of Iwa (character), bi means 'born'. When combined, omoluwabi translates as "the baby begotten by the chief of iwa". Such a child is thought of as a paragon of excellence in character.
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This is the popular conception of omoluwabi, but it has some ambivalence. Segun Gbadegesin identifies one when he interpreted Olu-iwa as 'God, the creator of every baby' and as every baby is an omoluwabi (2007:87). Though, Gbadegesin's interpretation is not absolute in Yoruba lingua structure, as olu-iwa could denote a dignified parent with excellent character. However, olu-iwa may create an exemplar of character or a baby as a person of dignity; yet, there is no guarantee that the baby would remain an exemplar of character like the creator of the biological father. And the ambivalence can also be seen in possibility that the child may turn out to be an Omoluwabi while not born by someone with good character.
Hence, the conception of omoluwabi by Sophie Oluwole (2007) is more semantically instructive, thought provoking and reflective of the Yoruba cultural experience which suggests Omo ti o ni iwa bi (a
child whose character takes after…) as the full rendition of Omoluabi. According to her, the phrase "Omo- ti- o ni- iwa-bi" definitely does not make a complete sense because it is a phrase that still yearns for a completion because it raises the question: "Omo ti o ni iwa bi tani?" (a child whose character takes after…who?) (Oluwole, 2007: 12). In completing this interrogative phrase, Oluwole harps Omoluabi as "Omo ti o ni iwa bi eni ti a ko, ti o si gba eko" (A person that behaves like someone who is well nurtured and lives by the precepts of the education s/he has been given). Therefore, the Yoruba word Omoluabi may thus be appropriately rendered as a conflation of three interrelated descriptions. These are: Omo ti o ni' wa bi (A person who behaves like…) Eni ti a ko (Someone properly nurtured) Ti o si gba eko (And who behaves accordingly) (Oluwole, 2007: 13) This combination thus gives us a good picture of Omoluabi in Yoruba culture wherein a person is given a deep knowledge, wisdom, and therefore be trained to be self discipline and to develop a sense of responsibility that shows in private and public actions which earns individuals social integrity, and personality in Yoruba society. And in contrast with eniyan-keyan or eniyan la-san, which means 'caricature person', and omokomo (a worthless child), an Omoluabi can also be defined as a 'good and cultured person'. Hence, it is common among the Yoruba to use the adjectival eniyan-gidi meaning 'an ideal person' as a synonym to omoluwabi, a 'good person'. And in his discussion on "Identity and the Artistic Process in the Yoruba Aesthetic Concept of Iwa", Rowland Abiodun describes "an omoluwabi as someone who has been well brought up or a person who is highly cultured" (1983: 14). Thus, when people are described as cultured or uncultured – as omoluwabi or omolasan – as the case may be, a general description is being given of personhood as to whether or not an individual is socially integrated or is a misfit or a cultural deviant within a given social setting or social organization (Oyeneye and Shoremi, 1997: 253). 168 The Journal of Pan African Studies, vol.2, no.9, March 2009
And in the same vain, in an attempt to elucidate the concept of omoluwabi (good person), Wande Abimbola makes it clear that omoluwabi is a function of exhibiting and demonstrating the inherent virtue and value of iwapele (1975: 389). Thus, Iwapele via Abimbola tells us is "good or gentle character" and it is ultimately the basis of moral conduct in Yoruba culture and a core defining attribute of omoluwabi, set as a conglomeration of principles of moral conduct demonstrated by an omoluwabi with the most fundamental of these principles include: oro siso, (spoken word), iteriba (respect), inu rere (having good mind to others), otito (truth), iwa (character), akinkanju (bravery), ise (hard work) and opolo pipe (intelligence). In unity with the above, the spoken word is highly respected among the Yoruba hence, to be categorized as an omoluwabi, one must be capable of intelligence use of language. J.A.I. Bewaji, stresses this principle of iwapele, as demonstrated by an omoluwabi when he asserts that: The demand for, and expectation of, decent, responsible and insightful use of the language is reflected in all aspects of communication, be it in verbal salutations, musical constructions, poetic performances, religious and spiritual displays and utterances, or in the negotiations of important formal and non-formal pacts, deals, treaties and business, etc. (Bewaji, 2004:159). Thus, the Yoruba accord great respect for intelligent and the expert use of language, especially via the appropriate use of proverbs, and as such, an omoluwabi is expected to exhibit/demonstrate this capacity whereas the Yoruba regards the sagacious usage of the spoken word is an embodiment of good character because they believe it is the harbinger of peace and war; the engine of culture and civility; the hallmark of conversational prudence and the epitome of intellectual maturity that may be the precursor of social, political, religious and cultural responsibility.2 Furthermore, in conceptualizing omoluwabi, we must also examine at least three other elements, the iteriba concerning respect, the Inurere concerning having a good mind or intention with others, and Iwa which representing character. First, iteriba (respect) is a salient feature for being an omoluwabi whereupon it is expected that a person must be respectful to other beings irrespective of one's age, class or social stratification (even the elderly are expected to accord due respect to the young, for respect begets respect). Such respect also implies recognizing the rights of others not only on the ground of their age, i.e. old-age, social status, political status, moral uprightness, but on the ground of their being human. Second, inurere (having good mind or intention towards others) constitutes a fundamental moral and psychological attribute a person is expected to have, along with being truthful and honest (Abimbola, 1975: 393). And third, iwa (character) makes a person more valuable or less valuable; and this is where there is a distinction between good character (iwa rere) and bad character (iwa ibaje or iwa buburu).
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Hence, when a person is known with the latter, there will be negative appreciation of the humanity of the person which explains why the Yoruba will refer to a deviant as eniyan lasan or eniyan-keyan (caricature person). It is instructive to note that iwa (i.e. good character) adds to the quality of appraisal that an individual garners; yet, it does not solely determine the humanity of the person in question, and for this reason, we can say that all human persons are human beings, but not all human beings are human persons (understood in the sense of omoluwabi). Therefore, Iwa character plays an important role in the making and passing of rights, and in the integrity of individuals because a human being without good character, though human, but is no less than eranko, an animal. The point here is that the absence of proper culture, moral probity, and integrity devalues the personhood of a person to the level of just ordinary things- eniyan lasan, lasan, or animaleranko. Thus, such a being or an individual loses the personhood of being a member of society which being human being demands. In other words, such a person would not be deemed fit, for confidence, trust or responsibility; and would not pass the gamut of being qualified as an omoluwabi in a Yoruba cultural context. Perhaps, to strengthen this view and belief of the Yoruba on iwa as the fulcrum of human personality, let us quote an extract from the Ifa literary corpus, thus in Ose Meji, verse ten, it is stated that: Inu bibi o da nnkan, suuru baba iwa; Agba t'oni suuru, ohun gbogbo l'o ni; Dia fun ori, a bu fun iwa. T'iwa nikan lo soro; Ori kan o buru n'ile Ife; t'iwa nikan lo soro. Indignation does not bring forth anything good; Patience is the best of character A patient elder has everything; The truth of this thesis is adequately demonstrated in the incidence of destiny that lacks character. Nurturing as well as exhibiting good character is difficult; No destiny is bad in prestine Ife; It is only nurturing and exhibiting good character that is difficult. The import of the above is that it is not the case that it is only ori (the guardian soul symbolic of destiny) that is solely responsible for what personality a person eventually becomes in life. Rather, it is man's character that aids man's destiny. Therefore, in knowing one's personality, whether of repute or disrepute, and the 'how' factors that are quintessential to developing human personality, the elements of good character are imperative. 170 The Journal of Pan African Studies, vol.2, no.9, March 2009
On the above premise, it is instructive to note the perspective of S. Ade Ali on the concept of omoluwabi. For him, the concept of a person, omoluwabi has biological, metaphysical, epistemological and ethical connotations, which must be possessed and actualized before a human can qualify as a person in the Yoruba cultural context. Hence, among the criteria he listed are: self-consciousness, rationality, abstraction, freedom, memory, intellectual intuition, intellectual perception, intellectual synthesis, and induction, rational language, a true power of will, a powerful analytic judgement, preservation and affection (Ali, 1997: 55). And, the qualification of being a person in Yoruba as enumerated by Ade Ali, has some implications, thus: The implication is that such people like idiots, senile, imbeciles, crating, kleptomaniac, or neurosis agents, moral outlaws, social deviants, dumb and deaf, even children (though potentially persons) are left out on the basis that they cannot fully (perhaps at the moment) fully actualize the salient characteristic features for being a person (ibid.). From the above review of Ali, we can add a caveat by positing that an omoluwabi, is for the Yoruba, a person of virtue; a well-behaved individual of almost an impeccable character who has to a considerable extent, have good anatomical, and psychological factors necessary for being a human; ha person demonstrates fairly well, the intrinsic psycho-physiological potentiality of human features as well as the normative principles of iwapele. Hence, it is the total actualization of the positive use of salient characteristic human features-mental, physical, psychological together with evidential moral uprightness, which makes a being a person, and thus an omoluwabi in Yoruba cultural context. However, an omulawabi is not a perfectly ideal or an iron cast with no flaws, because the Yoruba abhor all claims of absolutism in whatever ramifications, and belief that as humans, we can only and ought to only strive towards the ideal; because perfection and absolutism is illusionary in their thought system.
Communitarianism and Personhood
Having discussed the normative essence of personality in Yoruba worldview, let us now explore its sociological conception. One implicit assumption of this question is that the Yoruba traditional society, like other African traditional societies is an egalitarian society based on the principle of communalism. The fundamental question in this regard is: what would be the conception of personhood/personality in a communalistic society, and what was it like in the experience of the traditional Yoruba?
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There is wide array of possible answers to these related questions. For one, it is possible for people to conclude that given its emphasis on communal values; collective good and shared ends, communitarianism invariably conceives, the person as wholly constituted by social relationships. Secondly, it could be argued that it tends to whittle down the moral autonomy of the person. The implication of these implicit assumptions of communtarianism is that it makes nonsense of the normative conception of personhood earlier discussed. In other words, it makes the being and life of the individual person totally dependent on the activities, values, projects, practices and ends of the community, and consequently, it diminishes freedom and the capacity to choose or question or revaluate the shared values of the community (Gyekye, 1992: 102). In view of these assumptions, there is the need to critically examine this veracity in relation to the sociological relationship between communalism and personhood in Yoruba culture, nay African thought. In a definitional context, a community is a social-political arrangement usually made up of persons, group of persons who are linked together by interpersonal bonds, which are not necessarily biological. And therefore, community is predicated on the social being and belongingness of people with communal values, which serves as the foundational basis of communalism which define and guide social relations in the form of attitudes and behaviour that should exist between individuals living together in a community who not only share a social life but also a sense of common good (Gyekye, 1996: 35). Hence, the values include sharing resources, burden, and social responsibility, mutual aid, caring for others, inter-dependence, solidarity, reciprocal obligation, social harmony and mutual trust ((Oyeshile, 2006: 104). Whereas the basic thrust of communitarianism is that "instead of such values as individual interest autonomy, universality, natural rights and neutrality, communitarian philosophy is framed in terms of the common good, social practices and traditions, character, solidarity and social responsibility" (Daly, 1994:xvi). Given the above conception, what we call personality is defined, shaped and developed within the context of a community. Segun Gbadegesin harps on this in his conception of personality or personhood. According to him, "a person is what he is in virtue of what he is predestined to be, his character, and the communal influence on him. It is a combination of these elements that constitutes human personality" (Gbadegesin, 1992: 183). He writes further: A person whose existence and personality is dependent on the community is expected in turn to contribute his own quota to the continued existence of the community, which nurtures him and partakes in his destiny. This is the ultimate meaning of human existence. The crown of personal life is to bear fruit (beget offspring); the crown of communal life is to be useful to one's community. The meaning of one's life is measured by one's commitment to social ideals and communal existence (ibid: 184).
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The point Gbadegesin is trying to make in view of his sociological conception of a person is that human personality can develop to its fullest capacity by being immersed in the life of the group. And conversely, scholars like Edward Blyden, John Mbiti, Julius Nyerere, Kwame Nkrumah, Leopold Senghor, Bolaji Idowu and Ifeanyi Menkiti all have something to say on the relationship between communitarism and personality, especially in African thought. One common thing to these scholars is that they hold on to a radical communitarian theory of person in African thought, and for them, the community determines the social, religious, political and moral being. Thus, the various versions of their radical communal thesis can be reduced to the idea that community values take precedence over individual values and therefore the welfare of the individual must be seen from the standpoint of the welfare of the community, since the individual cannot exist without the community (Oyeshile, Op. cit.: 108). Of all these radical exponents of communitarianism, Menketi is more contemporarily outspoken, therefore, his views shall be considered in explicating the radical communitarian perspective of personhood. In his communitarian theory of personhood, Menketi (1984: 172) claims that in the African conception of personhood, as contrast to the Western understanding, the community takes priority both ontologically and epistemologically over the individual. That is, it is the community that defines a person as a person. While agreeing with Mbiti's dictum that 'I am because we are, and since we are, therefore I am', Menketi posits that personhood is achieved after a process of incorporation. The meaning of this is that in order to attain personality, one must undergo a process of social and ritual transformation until ones attains the full complement of excellence. This transformation, Menketi tells us, is determined by the community through the prescription of certain norms. Hence, he argues further that infants are not persons because they cannot be said to obey the norms of the community. Likewise, the dead are also denied personhood simply on the ground that they are no longer within the human community. According to him, "the designation "it" is used for both the infant and the dead person; and in addition, infants are denied personhood because there is no ritualized grief at their death" (Ibid.). In a critical reaction to the radical communitarian conception of personality in African thought, we have the moderate communitarian theorists championed by Kwame Gyekye and Tunji Oyeshile. The central claim of these scholars is that while personhood is partly determined by communal values, fundamentally, there are other things apart from the community which make a human being enjoy the attribute of personhood. Gyekye in particular argues that a person is endowed with certain attributes which are prior to community formation. Thus, it is these attributes, such as, rationality, the capacity for virtue, ability to make moral judgments and to choose that confer personhood on the individual (Gyekye, 1992: 111).
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Therefore, without these attributes, we cannot talk of the community, and the function of the community, in Gyekye's view, is to discover these various attributes and nurture them to maturity in various individuals. Personhood for him, cannot be achieved or acquired because since the birth of a child, he or she has automatically becomes a person. But the critical question is of what implication is this position on human personality, and does personhood automatically confers personalityhood? While these questions are unanswered by Gyekye, let us see the position of Olatunji Oyeshile. Oyeshile is emphatic on the claim that besides the community, the biological factor also determines personhood, and that a necessary relationship between the individual and community as the individual destiny cannot be separated from the community destiny and vice-versa. While agreeing with Gyekye that infants and the dead cannot be denied personhood because they have moral potentials, Oyeshile claims that the failure of having a social status (personality) (emphasis mine) does not strictly imply having no personhood (Oyeshile, Op.cit.: 106).
The discourse thus far on the idea of human personality in Yoruba worldview raises some new conjectures as to the nature of the relationship between personhood and personality. Within the gamut of Yoruba philosophical thought, it may be asked: is this relationship transitive, reflexive or symmetrical? While this is an issue worthy of further philosophical investigation, it is apposite at this point to conclusively note that human personality is not all about decoding the metaphysically shrouded notion of destiny and its close ally of material earthly success. Therefore, what we have shown in this paper is that there is a more fundamental dimension to human personality in Yoruba thought system via an ethico-sociological interpretation. Hence, the positions established in this paper are quite resonantly different and offer better explanation when compared with the popular and myopic metaphysical and ethnographical accounts/writings of earlier scholars on human personality. Conclusively, we can reasonably say that the conditions of being qualified as an omoluabi together with the demonstrative capacity of communitarianhood conjointly confer what we call human personality in the Yoruba worldview; while the individual is seen as autonomous in nature, the community is the basis for the actualization of individual values, aspirations and goals. Thus, as the community partly determines personhood in traditional Yoruba and African culture generally, so does the elements of omoluabi continually mould and nurture personhood in human personality, in the cultural milieu of the people.
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A cross-section scrutiny of the following works attest to this fact: Olusegun Oladipo, "The Yoruba Concept of a Person: An Analytico-philosophical Study", International Studies in Philosophy, XXIV/3, 1992. Bolaji Idowu, Olodumare: God in Yoruba Belief (London: Longman, 1962). Wande Abimbola, "The Yoruba Concept of Human Personality", La Notionde Personne en Afrique Noire, (Paris: Center National de la Recherche Scientifique) No.144. M.A. Makinde, "An African Concept of Human Personality: The Yoruba Example", Interdisciplinary Studies in the Philosophy of Understanding: Ultimate Reality and Meaning, Vol.7, No. 3, 1984. M.A. Makinde, "A Philosophical Analysis of the Yoruba Concept of Ori and Human Destiny", International Studies in Philosophy, Vol. XVII, No. 1. E. O. Oduwole, "The Yoruba Concepts of Ori and Human Destiny: A Fatalistic Interpretation", Journal of Philosophy and Development, Vol.2, No. 1&2, January, 1996. Barry Hallen, "Eniyan: A Critical Analysis of the Yoruba Concept of Person" in The Substance of African Philosophy, C.S. Momoh (ed.) (Auchi: African Philosophy Project's publication, 2000). O. A Balogun, "The Yoruba Concept of Person: An African Solution to the Traditional Mind-body Problem", Journal of Yoruba Folklore, No. 1, 1999. S. A. Ali, "The Yoruba Conception of Destiny: A Critical Analysis", Journal of Philosophy and Development, No. 1, Vols. 1 & 2, January, 1995.
A Detailed Consideration of these Moral Principles has been brilliantly attempted by Sophie Oluwole, using the insights from Yoruba folklore. For more details, see "The Rational Basis of Yoruba Ethical Thinking", in Sophie, B.Oluwole, Witchcraft, Reincarnation and the God-Head, (Ikeja: Excel Publishers, 1992) Pp. 55-72.
Abimbola, Wande (1969) "The Concept of Human Personality", in La Nation de Personne en Afrique Aloire Collegues. No. 544, Internation de Centre National de la Reserche Paror: Centre National de la Reserche Scientifique. Abimbola, Wande (1975) "Iwapele: The Concept of Good Character in Ifa Literary Corpus", Wande Abimbola (ed.) Yoruba Oral Tradition: Poetry in Music Dance and Drama (Ibadan: University of Ibadan Press). Abiodun, Rowland (1983) "Identity and the Artistic Process in the Yoruba Aesthetic Concept of Iwa", Journal of Cultures and Ideas, Vol. 1, No.1. Ali, A. Samuel, (1997) "Person: A Yoruba Example," Journal of Yoruba Folklore, Vol. 1.
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Bewaji, J.A.I. (2004) Beauty and Culture: Perspectives in Black Aesthetics (Ibadan: Spectrum Books. Daly, M. (ed.), (1994) 'Introduction', in Commutarianism: A New Public Ethics (California: Wadsworth Public, Company). Dzobo, N. K. (1992) "The Image of Man in Africa", Kwasi Wiredu, Kwame Gyekye (eds.) Person and Community: Ghanaian Philosophical Studies, Vol. 1 (Washington: The Council for Research in Values and Philosophy). Gbadegesin, Segun (1994) "Destiny, Personality and the Ultimate Reality of Human Existence: A Yoruba perspective," in International Studies in Philosophy, Vol. XVII, No.1. Gbadegesin, Segun (2007) "In search of Agbasanko" The Nation Newspaper, Friday, September 28. Gyekye, Kwame (1992) "Person and Community in African Thought" in Kwasi Wiredu, K. Gyekye (eds.), Person and Community: Ghanaian Philosophical Studies, Vol. 1. (Washington: The Council for Research in Values and Philosophy). Gyekye, Kwame (1996) African Cultural Values, (Accra: Sankofa Publication Company.). Menkiti, I.A. (1984) "Person and Community in Africa Traditional Thought," in R.A. Wright (ed.), African Philosophy: An Introduction, 3rd Edition (Lan ham: University Press of America). Oluwole, B .Sophie (2007) "Who are (we) the Yoruba?" A Key Note Paper Delivered at a Pre-Word Philosophy Day Conference, June 12, at the National Theater, Lagos. Oyeneye, Yunusa, M.O. Shoremi, (1997) "The Concept of Culture and the Nigerian Society", Essentials of General Studies, Vol.2, O.O.Odugbemi (et al) (eds.) (Ago-Iwoye: CESAP). Oyeshile, Olatunji (2006) "The Individual Community Relationship as an Issue in Social and Political Philosophy," in Core Issues in African Philosophy, Olusegun, Oladipo (ed.) (Ibadan: Hope Publications).
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Articles to Improve Process Safety
Analysis of independent protection layers used in three typical chemical processes
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DOI: 10.1002/prs.10486
Copyright © 2011 American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE)
Process Safety Progress
Volume 30, Issue 4, pages 346–350, December 2011
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There are schools that have implemented the practice of random drug testing, but many are yet to implement it. The schools claim that such drug testing practices are very important and highly essential to ensure the safety of the students who are subjected to the test and for the other students who attend the school as well. Apart from this, such random drug tests will definitely address some serious issues that might arise in the future. If you are interested on What You Need to Know Random Drug Testing In Schools, check out www.randomstudentdrugtesting.com/.
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Anne Arundel County CASA, Inc. Court Appointed Special Advocates
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To advocate for and support abused and neglected children in the court system to ensure their right to safe, stable permanent homes.
During FY12 (7/1/11-6/30/12), 96 CASA volunteers advocated for 122 children in the foster care system in Anne Arundel County. Twenty-five new CASA volunteers were trained, 41 new children were served, and 97% of the children whose cases closed were living in safe, stable, permanent homes.
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AACCASA serves only abused and neglected children from infancy to 21 years of age who are under the jurisdiction of the Circuit Court for Anne Arundel County and have been adjudicated as CINA (Child in Need of Assistance). CINA is the legal status that is given to children who have been abused and/or neglected and whose circumstances warrant protection and intervention by the Court. The children are directly referred by the juvenile court judges at the Circuit Court.
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Special moment at Saturday night's Flyers game. Chris Pronger joined Ed Snider in the owner's box for the Flyers' 4-1 victory over Montreal, and during the first period, the captain received a standing ovation from the Wells Fargo Center. Great to see Pronger there with his teammates while they clinched a playoff spot.
Flyers and Brayden Schenn to go to arbitration
Flyers and Brayden Schenn to go to arbitration
Barring an 11th-hour settlement, the Flyers will go to arbitration on Monday against swing forward Brayden Schenn.
The hearing is slated for 9 a.m.
The two sides are more than $1 million apart with no progress having been made over this past weekend.
"We will probably go to arbitration," Don Meehan, the agent for Schenn, said Sunday.
Flyers general manager Ron Hextall seemed to concur.
"I'm not overly optimistic," he said about avoiding arbitration.
Defenseman Michael Del Zotto filed last summer but signed without going to a hearing.
The 24-year-old Schenn is the highest-profile Flyer to get this far without signing since John LeClair back in 2000. He received $7 million — the highest one-year award ever.
By filing on July 5, Meehan assured his client will get a contract. The Flyers' qualified Schenn, who earned $2.75 million last season, on June 30.
He is a restricted free agent, who could earn close to $5 million a season on his next deal. And that's the sticky part.
Sources said the Flyers offered a two-year deal that would pay Schenn $4.25 million this coming season and $4.369 million in 2017-18 (see story). That's an AAV of $4.30 million.
Meehan wants $5.50 million, which is excessively high given Schenn's seven-year career thus far.
At the same time, if you look at the some of the RFA signings this summer, as Meehan surely has, the comparable numbers would suggest Schenn is worth slightly more than what the Flyers have offered.
Two examples here: New Jersey's Kyle Palmieri, a 25-year-old right wing, signed a five-year deal earlier this month worth $23.25 million. His AAV is $4.65 million. That's the correct ballpark for Schenn.
Schenn had his most productive year last season with career-highs in goals (26), assists (33) and points (59) while proving he can play the wing on Claude Giroux's line with Wayne Simmonds on the right side.
Palmieri had career-highs as well in goals (30), assists (27) and points (57).
Problem is, the other end of the spectrum, where Jaden Schwartz of the St. Louis Blues sits.
The 24-year-old center recently signed a five-year, $26.5 million deal as an RFA with an AAV of $5.35 million. That's far higher than Hextall wants to go with Schenn at this point.
A fractured ankle and subsequent surgery ruined Schwartz' past season (33 games played), but Blues' general manager Doug Armstrong looked at what Schwartz accomplished two years ago — career-highs with 28 goals, 35 assists and 63 points – and used that as a barometer for the future.
That deal hurts the Flyers here with Schenn.
Hextall's offer suggests the Flyers want Schenn to prove he's a $5 million player, which means show the Flyers 30 goals and 70 points this season.
Schenn finished second in goals to Simmonds (32) and third in points behind Giroux (67) and Simmonds (60) last season.
The arbitrator should be able to locate a fair medium. Expect Meehan to ask for a one-year award only.
The 38 Eagles who will take the field Monday at training camp
The 38 Eagles who will take the field Monday at training camp
As training camp kicks off Monday morning, 38 Eagles will be in attendance: quarterbacks, rookies and select vets.
All four quarterbacks will be on the field when practice kicks off at 8:40 a.m., but most of those 38 are rookies. The rest of the team will report to camp on Wednesday, followed by Thursday's full-team practice in the afternoon.
It's not hard to figure out why some of the select vets are in camp early. Cody Parkey, Nolan Carroll and JaCorey Shepherd are all veterans coming off of injuries.
This is also the first time we will see rookies Isaac Seumalo, Aziz Shittu and Byron Marshall, who were all at rookie camp, but missed OTAs because of the NCAA graduation rule.
Here's the full list of 38 who will be on the field Monday morning:
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QB Chase Daniel
QB Carson Wentz
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RB Wendell Smallwood
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Vince Velasquez feels the heat in Phillies' Sunday loss to Pirates
Vince Velasquez feels the heat in Phillies' Sunday loss to Pirates
PITTSBURGH --- Vince Velasquez wasn't able to stand the heat Sunday afternoon.
The game-time temperature was 89 degrees with humidity to match at PNC Park. The Phillies' right-hander admitted he didn't handle the weather well.
"You're going to go through various conditions, and it's something that you've got to really take into consideration -- to really lock in, stay hydrated because it can mentally drain you," Velasquez said. "It kind of took a toll on me but I have to make the best of what I've got."
Velasquez wound up pitching six innings in the blistering heat but did not factor in the decision as the Pittsburgh Pirates beat the Phillies 5-4 on pinch-hitter Adam Frazier's leadoff home run in the seventh inning, his first in the major leagues, off fellow rookie Edubray Ramos (see Instant Replay).
Velasquez had his worst of his five starts since coming off the disabled list June 26, allowing four runs and seven hits while walking four and striking out five. He threw 107 pitches, 64 for strikes.
In his first four outings after begin activated, he was 3-0 with a 1.88 ERA to raise his record to 8-2.
"Just looking at his body language, he showed that he was struggling to find the strike zone," Phillies manager Pete Mackanin said. "He didn't have his best location. He did a good job; he just made a couple bad pitches when they scored the two runs. Obviously, he wasn't at his best, but he kept us in the game."
While that kind of outing can breed confidence in a 24-year-old pitcher, Velasquez took no consolation in it. He was bothered about not being able to hold a 4-2 lead in the bottom of the sixth inning, giving up a tying two-run home run to Matt Joyce.
"I knew it was my last inning when I went out there and I have to be able to close it out there," Velasquez said. "I'm disappointed in that. I need to be better in that situation."
Joyce's blast came on pitch after Starling Marte doubled on an 0-2 pitch. That, too, annoyed Velasquez.
"That's just a matter of finishing at-bats," Velasquez said. "You've got to lock in on 0-2 counts when you're ahead. You've got to finish the at-bat. Knowing that that was my last inning, that's where you have to bear down and give it all you've got."
Ramos then gave up the game-winning homer to Frazier an inning later, the first long ball given up by the 23-year-old right-hander in 14 career outings. The Phillies wound up losing two of three games in the series and are 3-7 since the All-Star break to drop to 10 games under .500 at 45-55 through 100 games.
"It's a game we should have won but I put us in position to lose it," Velasquez said.


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A federal judge's decision Friday to undo the government's five-year-old approval of genetically modified sugar beets, from which roughly half of U.S. sugar is derived, won't disrupt supplies for at least a year, but could pose headaches for food companies after that.
The order by U.S. District Judge Jeffrey S. White—who had concluded in September 2009 that the U.S. Department of Agriculture hadn't lived up to its obligation to fully consider whether the weedkiller-tolerant sugar beets might harm the environment—effectively blocks farmers from planting the seed next spring, but leaves alone the crop already in the ground, which can be harvested this fall, processed and sold as sugar.
"In the short term, at least, we're aren't going to see any disruption in the marketing of this year's crop," said Luther Markwart, executive vice president of the American Sugarbeet Growers Association, a Washington, D.C., trade group.
However food companies that depend on a steady supply of U.S. sugar face uncertainty over where they will source their sugar beets after next year.
It is far from clear how soon U.S. sugar-beet farmers can return to planting the seeds, which are genetically modified the same way as the vast majority of the corn, soybeans and cotton grown in the U.S. The plants are genetically modified with Monsanto Co. MON 0.61 % genes that give them immunity to glyphosate-based herbicide, which the St. Louis biotechnology company sells as Roundup weedkiller.
The Roundup-resistant trait is popular with many farmers—it is present in 95% of the sugar-beet plants grown in the U.S.—because it enables them to chemically weed their fields without harming their crops, saving time and the expense of mechanical cultivation.
Monsanto licenses several sugar-beet seed companies to use its herbicide-tolerance gene in their breeding programs. The business isn't big enough to be material to the company's financial results.
The lawsuit against the USDA was filed by activist groups including the Center for Food Safety and the Sierra Club, among others. Biotechnology critics worry that the transplanted gene could spread to conventional sugar-beet plants through cross-pollination, and that the herbicide-tolerance trait permits a heavy enough use of Roundup to spur the evolution of weeds that can survive glyphosate, the active ingredient in the weedkiller.
Glyphosate-tolerant weeds are already appearing in southeast U.S. farm fields where farmers have long grown Roundup-tolerant cotton and soybeans.
Sugar-beet industry officials say it would be difficult for U.S. farmers to quickly switch back to non-genetically modified seed. Some farmers have already sold off their cultivation equipment—which kills weeds by digging into the dirt—and it isn't clear how much conventional seed is available anymore.
Genetically modified sugar-beet seed won't be legal to plant again until the Agriculture Department repeats its regulatory review process. Sugar-industry officials widely expect the USDA's biotechnology regulators—who are charged with protecting U.S. agriculture from plant pests—to come to the same conclusion and eventually re-clear the seed for planting. But getting there again will include the time-consuming process of writing the environmental-impact statement ordered by Judge White, who sits in San Francisco.
The draft environmental-impact statement that the USDA published in December on Roundup–tolerant alfalfa, for example, ran to about 1,500 pages. The USDA has estimated that completing an environmental-impact statement on Roundup-tolerant sugar beets could easily take until April 2012.
Sugar-industry officials say they believe the USDA has the authority to implement interim measures to permit some planting of the genetically modified sugar beets. A USDA spokesman said the agency was "reviewing the judge's order in order to determine appropriate next steps."
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Total Time
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Cook 15 mins
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- 2267.96 g baking potatoes, peeled and cubed
- 9.85 ml garlic powder
- 4.92 ml onion powder
- 14.79 ml sea salt
- 4.92 ml ground black pepper
- 118.29 ml butter, softened
- 236.59 ml heavy cream
- Place the potatoes in a large Dutch oven, cover with water and add the garlic powder, onion powder, salt, and pepper. Bring the potatoes to a boil over high heat, then reduce heat to medium and cook until tender, (15-20 minutes). Drain well.
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These potatoes are so good!! I loved the added seasonings to the water rather than the potatoes; it seemed to give it more flavor and DS didn't complain that the pepper was too 'spicy'. Added a little butter to the top. Will definitely be making these my go to mashed taters! Made for Cookbook Tag.
These taters are fantastic! Love the onion powder (I used onion salt and left out the sea salt). I used fat-free Half & Half for the heavy cream and added some freshly snipped and chopped parsley. Will make these for Thanksgiving! Glad you posted them! Made for My 3 Chefs-Fall 09.
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Our first cabin/lodge was rustic and old, but it was visibly not cleaned very well and we saw a nice, healthy mouse in the kitchenette. There was also evidence of insects and just plain filth through out the cabin. We moved rooms to the "hotel" and it, too, had issues in addition to its lack of cleanliness. The bathtub drain was clogged and we ended up taking a shower in shin deep water that as it turn out was full of other people's hair and God only knows what else. We ended our family vacation a day early and our money was refunded for the entire length of our stay as well as the ski rentals.
As far as the skiing...I've been to several other ski resorts and this seemed like a decent place to bring our three kids that have never skied before. The lessons are not that good and two of the three instructors I would rate as below average as instructors. (Turning was emphasised, but stopping was never even addressed during the lessons.) The snow was great, but due to a lack of staffing lift #4 was not operating and lift #3 was broken. The Poma Lift, which is billed as the "kids/practice slope", is not kid friendly and the ski instructors did not even show our kids how to use either of the lifts. Consequently, they were frustrated and we spent most of our time away from the slopes sledding and playing in the national forest.
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A soil sample obtained clandestinely by U.S. intelligence led the Clinton administration to conclude that a Sudanese plant purported to be making medicine was actually developing a key ingredient in deadly VX nerve gas, a U.S. intelligence official said Monday.
The Shifa Pharmaceuticals plant in Khartoum, Sudan, was destroyed last Thursday in a U.S. cruise missile attack at the same time that Navy-launched missiles struck at a suspected terrorist base in eastern Afghanistan. In an echo of the controversy over the bombing of a purported baby milk factory during the Persian Gulf War, Sudanese officials have protested to the United Nations that the plant made medicine, not weapons.
Under pressure to back up its claim, the Clinton administration let U.S. intelligence officials Monday discuss some of the evidence that led to the decision to strike.
One U.S. intelligence official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said the physical evidence being cited repeatedly by Clinton administration officials is a soil sample "obtained by clandestine means" from inside the Sudan plant. The sample showed traces of a substance called EMPTA, or O-ethylmethylphosphonothioic acid - a material with no commercial uses that is a key ingredient of VX.
"Once you have it, you're a long way toward the production of VX," said the intelligence official. The material apparently got into the soil immediately outside the plant "either through airborne emissions or spillage from the manufacturing process."
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: the most important spring in a watch or clock
: the most important or powerful cause or part of something
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In June we told you about a Bryan family raising money for a diabetic alert dog for their 8-year-old daughter, Libby, who has Type 1 Diabetes.
The community has jumped in to help raise the $28,000 needed and this past weekend, Libby and the family got to meet two potential Diabetic Alert Dogs.
The special dogs are trained to detect when insulin level drops, offering time for Libby to get immediate medial help.
The puppies will be in training for one year until doctors know which dog will be a perfect fit for Libby.